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Definition of 'IRS Publication 510 '
A document published by the Internal Revenue Service that details how businesses are to report and pay excise taxes for certain types of products. IRS Publication 510 covers excise taxes levied on fuels, manufactured goods, heavy vehicles, ship passengers, foreign insurance and products that are harmful to the environment, such as certain chemicals and oil-based products.
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The IRS allows businesses to request credits and exemptions for certain excise taxes, such as the sale of biofuels and alternative fuels. These credits can change from year to year, and are often the focus of governmental legislation.
While businesses might be able to offset their taxes for the sale of fuel with credits, consumers are not able to. Excise taxes typically make up 10-30% of the price of gas at the pump.
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The world's fist test-tube baby, Louise Brown, has called for IVF to be made more readily available and said more people should have access to it on the NHS.
I understand more now and I just think my mum was fantastic.
I think she was just very brave but I suppose if you're told you can't have children, you'll do anything.
World's first IVF baby turns 35
The world's first test-tube baby has paid tribute to the fertility pioneers who gave her and millions of others life as she celebrates her 35th birthday. Louise Brown was born at Oldham General Hospital on July 25, 1978. | http://www.itv.com/news/update/2013-07-25/worlds-fist-test-tube-baby-louise-brown-calls-for-access-to-ivf-on-nhs/ | dclm-gs1-133330002 | false | false | {
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in response to Telia:
Believe it or not, it really happened in Wenatchee about 20 years ago. It was a disgusting incident, my Aunt was witness to it and she gave the woman what for over the incident right in the middle of the parking lot.
I don't disbelieve someone unless I know it untrue. I don't know your story. If it did happen 20 years ago, too bad, I thought most of those types of blatant idiots have surfaced in the past 10 years.
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0.033066 | <urn:uuid:99dbd35b-2a66-4f1b-99f2-90ba22851288> | en | 0.989369 | Support group helps, but it doesn't make up for absence of spouse
They stood together, children in tow, waiting for their husbands, just as they have been for the past seven months.
They look nothing alike, these women, and why should they? They are a mosaic of faces and places, seasons and regions. Young, old, East Coast and West.
But to hear them, you'd think they're a family of sisters. A large and dysfunctional one, maybe, but a loving one.
"Do you see him? Do you see him? Is that my husband?" one woman asks.
"What, that big tall man? That ain't your man," another jokes.
"Whatever, I know my husband, I know my man."
This friendly exchange goes on and on.
Floating in front of them is their common bond, what unites them, what made them a family. When USS Rainier left in November, it took a linchpin from their lives, from their family.
What they lost, they sought out and found in one another.
These are the USS Rainier Family Support Group and some of them have won the chance at a first kiss in a raffle sponsored by the group. Some have had babies while daddy was away making the world a safer place for his child. As they jostle about, it's clear they've come to know each other well.
"We're a tight group. We're a typical family of sisters and three brothers," said Arlena Dietz, president of the group and one of the first-kiss recipients.
A family doesn't typically have as many problems as this one, though. Dietz said that since the Rainier has been gone, they've helped one another through the traumas of life -- death, birth, flat tires, kids, miscarriages. Namely, the things that wear hard on a person whose spouse is gone.
On Monday, this group of women was privy to one more monumental occasion in one another's lives -- the return of their men.
Take Lori Maldonado for example. She and her husband, Omar, a botswain's mate third class, have been married for four years. They had dated since they were freshman in high school. This has been the longest they've been apart. And it's been hard, Lori said.
"I hate being away from him," she said. "But it's all worth it. He's out there, allowing us to do what we do every day, just being Americans. Knowing that makes you stronger."
And because it was so hard, she was determined to have a first kiss. She sank $175 -- about $150 more than the other winners -- into the raffle to ensure herself the honor of standing at the front of the crowd. Money raised in the raffle helps fund the group's projects, such as homecoming festivities.
It was hard on the new moms as well. Eight children were born during the Rainier's absence. On that special day when baby was born, they wanted -- needed -- to hear their husband's voice. But sometimes they had to wait 12 hours or more to get that coveted phone call.
When Carmin Sok finally got her phone call after son Khai was born, there was a poor connection.
"I didn't cry when I had him," Carmin said as she patted Khai's head. "But I cried so hard when his daddy called. I just wanted to be able to talk to him."
All this anxiety, pent up for months, turned into a frenzied stampede when the sailors were released.
Omar found Lori in no time. They lip-locked for a while before agreeing, like so many others that day, to simply go home.
What would be the first thing they would do to celebrate homecoming?
"You can't print it," joked one of Lori's friends.
Lori and Omar laughed, but didn't disagree.
"He's gonna see his baby and then were gonna do that," Lori said, laughing.
And what of the Rainier Support Group, what will become of them and their makeshift family? Will they stay friends? Maybe. But it'll be hard. As husbands get new assignments, they'll move on.
Dietz and her husband, Troy, are off to Hawaii next for a tour of shore duty. While she won't have her family of sisters available anymore, she'll finally have her real one intact. Since her daughter, Brenna, was born two years ago, her husband has been home off and on for 13 months, a little more than half her child's life.
"Now that this ship is being decommissioned, we're going to shore duty, and my husband can be a real daddy," Dietz said.
Nothing beats a real family. Not even a band of sisters.
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Does Bing’s Trending Search Terms List Reveal Its Weakness?
When I first perused Bing’s top trending search terms of 2009, I started to scratch my head.
Take a look at the list:
1. Michael Jackson
2. Twitter
3. Swine Flu
4. Stock Market
5. Farrah Fawcett
6. Patrick Swayze
7. Cash for Clunkers
8. Jon and Kate Gosselin
9. Billy Mays
10. Jaycee Dugard
Where was “iPhone” “Obama” or “Twilight?” As a nation, do we really have an unhealthy fascination with learning everything we can about deceased personalities?
Then I remembered this:
Around 45% of all searches to Bing originate from
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Tiger Woods Crashing a $1 Billion Reputation With His Silence?
In the absence of an official statement, your stakeholders will fill the void with rumor and speculation.
I’ve preached that enough times, you’d think that even Tiger Woods would have heard about it.
Apparently not:
Which is leading to this:
With rumors like that, you’d think that Woods would be grabbing the nearest TV camera and setting the record straight. Now, you might argue that Woods deserves his privacy–just like any other individual. The problem is, Tiger Woods is not just a person, he’s a $1 billion brand.
Yes, a brand.
Look, I’m not denying his right to privacy, but if he wants to continue being the face of Nike, Buick, Accenture, and such, he needs to come forward pretty soon and put the gossipers in their place.
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Venezuela’s invisible president
The public was not allowed to get so much as a glimpse of the ailing 58-year-old leader to determine whether he is incapacitated, though all signs point in that direction. Access to the hospital’s ninth floor, where Mr. Chávez resides, is tightly restricted and enforced by a phalanx of gun-toting guards. He has not been seen or heard from since he came back, aside from a few Twitter messages that hailed his arrival and then went silent.
Despite all this enormous secrecy, the evidence is that Mr. Chávez’s condition is much worse than his underlings want the public to believe and that they are either kidding themselves or the public — or both — in order to play for time.
The increasingly insistent assurances from his designated stand-ins, principally Vice President Nicolás Maduro, that Mr. Chávez was in charge and issuing orders from his hospital bed were rendered less than credible by news that his medical condition was getting progressively worse. Post-surgery complications and what Mr. Maduro called a severe lung infection did little to restore confidence in the belief that the president was truly in charge.
Meanwhile, despite still more assurances that the president would definitely return for his own inauguration for yet another term on Jan. 10, the president was a no-show. Undaunted, Mr. Chávez’s rubber-stamp parliament and supreme court concocted a ruse. The plain words of Venezuela’s constitution notwithstanding, they decided he could simply take the oath of office later, at his convenience.
Since then, Venezuela’s eroding currency has taken a severe hit in the form of a 40 percent devaluation, yet one more measure of the country’s downslide into economic chaos. All of this makes it very clear that members of Mr. Chávez’s inner circle are making it up as they go along.
As long as Venezuela’s president remains invisible, the political and economic crisis will worsen. Having Mr. Maduro or some other Chávez substitute take the reins of power would fail to satisfy the requirements of democracy, given that their legitimacy, such as it is, flows from Mr. Chávez himself, not from the voters.
Mr. Chávez won a clear mandate for another term back in October, but he assured voters that he was cured, and he wasn’t.
The only option is a new election that pits the opposition against the Bolivarian candidate of Mr. Chávez’s party in a fair and open vote. Barring that, what little claim Venezuela might still have to calling itself a democracy would be nothing less than ridiculous.
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The Voices Project
The Voices:Disability Video
Chapter 2: Disability
Chapter 1: Diversity
In Fall of 2009, Psychology instructor Dr. Alicia Nordstrom developed an experiential, service-learning diversity assignment for her Intro to Psychology course that was intended to enhance students' critical thinking and cultural competency, reduce stereotypes and prejudice towards victimized and misunderstood groups, and increase empathy and perspective taking. This assignment--called The Voices Project (TVP)--was designed with the understanding that students often have negative attitudes toward people from unfamiliar groups. In the absence of personal experience, people will form their opinions based upon society's stereotypes, media's portrayals of those groups, or things they hear from family or friends. The methodology of this project was based on the principle of "the power of one." That is, if students could form a positive relationship with one person from a group with whom they are unfamiliar or toward whom they have a pre-existing negative attitude, than the new information gained from that relationship can provide students with real information that can be used to examine and potentially revise their attitudes. To achieve this goal, students interviewed a person from a "group of difference" (as defined by a group considered by society to be outside the 'social norm') and gather information about their interviewee's life (e.g., what is it like to be them?).
Another component of the project was to help students develop empathy and expand their ability to understand perspectives outside of their own. Toward this end, students wrote a 5 page memoir for their interviewee's life from the first person perspective so that the student adopted the identity of their interviewee. Students reviewed the information that they collected during the interviews and identified 3-5 major themes that emerged in the person's story. Students wrote these memoirs using the word "I" to represent the perspectives of their interviewees.
Having a collection of life stories of people who are typically misunderstood, devalued, and/or ignored in society seemed like possessing a special gem that needs to be shared with others. Dr. Nordstrom commissed a writing team of faculty from other departments--including Dr. Allan Austin (History), Dr. Patrick Hamilton (English), and Dr. Rebecca Steinberger (English)--to excerpt and integrate the stories so that they formed a cohesive, monologue-style staged reading program. This program was presented at the end of each semester to a crowd of hundreds in Lemmond Auditorium from the campus and community.
For Dr. Nordstrom and most of her students, The Voices Project is a transformative learning experience. "If we have made just one person be more thoughtful, more willing to be accepting of someone they see as different than themselves, then our efforts have been successful," said Dr. Nordstrom. TVP was part of a larger pedagogical study created so that Dr. Nordstrom could examine whether the project succeeded in achieving its learning goals. Her data shows that students who completed TVP assignment had a reduction in negative attitudes toward the focus groups of the project, as well as an increase in critical thinking and cultural competency.
Due to the efficacy of the project, Dr. Nordstrom launched a second chapter focusing on the theme of "disability" in Spring, 2012. For more details and information on each chapter of TVP, click on the corresponding links below.
The Voices Project began in the fall of 2009 as a method for students to examine the question: what is it like to be "different"? Students in a psychology course interviewed people from different races, religions, nationalities, ethnicities, social classes, health conditions, and lifestyles to find out if the stereotypes we typically hear about these groups are true.
The following are excerpts from stories written by students as part of this project:
Man with AIDS
"If my softball friends said anything discriminating about AIDS, they did not say it to my face. Although they probably talked about my disease behind my back, I'm glad that they never said anything to me directly. I would not have wanted to know how they really felt. A year after I was diagnosed, I was hanging out with a friend of mine... We were listening to the radio, and a commercial for an AIDS walk came on. After the commercial, my friend's band member said, 'We should just take all the homosexuals and people with AIDS and put them on an island and just blow it up. That would solve this problem.' He had no idea that a man with AIDS was standing right next to him."
Muslim College Student
"I also have a job just like any other college student; I work at a clothing store. This is where I experienced my first form of discrimination. One day while the store was very busy, I was helping a customer when I heard a man yell, 'Hey, why don't you take that tablecloth off your head so you can hear me!' I simply turned to the man and calmly responded, 'No thank you, I would rather keep it on.' After an older woman heard the man say this to me, she walked over, looked me in the face, and said, 'I think you look beautiful!' While the man was leaving the store, I saw a look of embarrassment come across his son's face. I didn't let it get to me because it doesn't matter to me what others think about my hijab or my religion; it is my decision, nobody else's."
Nineteen readers--including students, faculty, deans, and community members--read the stories of the interviewees on November 5, 2009. Over 325 people attended this performance to hear the real life stories of people considered by society as “different” to learn about how their culture and experiences have affected their lives.
The Voices Project (TVP) has received several awards by teaching and social justice societies:
The project is intended to be shared by other instructors, community members, diversity educators, and/or social justice proponents to help others gain new perspectives of groups that are stigmatized or misunderstood.
A list of academic publications can be found on the Research page.
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feministefatale Fri 01-Feb-13 02:21:41
rosabud Fri 01-Feb-13 20:31:41
I've never heard of a nursing cover before! It sounds awful! One of reasons why our breasts are about 20cm from our faces is because that s how far new born babies can see - so I don't thnk, evolutionarily, so to speak, babies are meant to be focussing on what colour the blanket over their head is somehow.
MortifiedAdams Fri 01-Feb-13 19:51:52
Id have took a pen and wrote "if the purple one is used, he might catch The Gay" underneath.
Stuff like this really grips my shit.
crazycanuck Fri 01-Feb-13 19:50:04
This reminds me of when I sold ds's last 2 bikes (he's 7 so they weren't big bikes). I listed them on a local online site with photos and described them as 'child's bike'. Both were red. Every single reply I received referred to them as 'the boys bike you advertised'. Good grief it made me stabby! angry
LineRunner Fri 01-Feb-13 19:43:31
I don't even understand 'nursing cover.' Is it some sort of cape?
Kveta Fri 01-Feb-13 17:19:55
grin tethers - a CDC (crudely drawn cock) would definitely macho it up!
piprabbit Fri 01-Feb-13 17:11:28
My boy is mostly pink-coloured, with crusty brown bits round his fingers (chocolate biscuit) and crusty green bits round his nose (recovering from a cold). I guess you could use that as the basis for some sort of camouflage cover confused
feministefatale Fri 01-Feb-13 17:07:54
I see it as the mother trying to give herself some privacy, if you never used a cover you may not have needed privacy so see a cover as giving the baby in quiet?
I saw the pram as my accessory, I am pushing the bloody thing (dh's too but he works so more mine) and I really wanted a hot pink bugaboo (so sue me)... IN the end I got a sand coloured one because it was on Ebay.. but I never saw it as needing to "match" the dc. Same with car seats, they match our car... not the kids.
SaraBellumHertz Fri 01-Feb-13 16:54:09
<<realise that is missing the point somewhat >>>
SaraBellumHertz Fri 01-Feb-13 16:53:38
WilsonFrickett Fri 01-Feb-13 16:47:43
WilsonFrickett Fri 01-Feb-13 16:47:00
SolomanDaisy Fri 01-Feb-13 16:23:42
5madthings Fri 01-Feb-13 16:18:20
Oh god its madness.
feministefatale Fri 01-Feb-13 16:14:06
tethersend Fri 01-Feb-13 15:46:44
How silly.
duchesse Fri 01-Feb-13 15:43:39
BinarySolo Fri 01-Feb-13 15:38:37
At the risk of sounding thick, what's a nursing cover?
Booyhoo Fri 01-Feb-13 15:18:27
are boys different colours than girls then? confused
i dont understand people like that.
Kveta Fri 01-Feb-13 15:15:24
C4ro Fri 01-Feb-13 15:13:23
badguider Fri 01-Feb-13 15:10:09
feministefatale Fri 01-Feb-13 14:55:37
Absolutely judge needing a boy coloured one though grin
Startail Fri 01-Feb-13 13:00:32
As for nursing covers, I've never even seen one.
I just fed in a loose Tshirt.
Out doors you just wear a zip fronted fleece.
Startail Fri 01-Feb-13 12:56:03
DD had blue summer dungarees.
She was called a boy every time she wore them.
They were covered in batik flowers.
Honestly, does blue really equal boy that strongly.
badguider Fri 01-Feb-13 12:55:00
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J Biol Chem. 1999 Dec 17;274(51):36456-64.
Molecular cloning of a zinc finger autoantigen transiently associated with interphase nucleolus and mitotic centromeres and midbodies. Orthologous proteins with nine CXXC motifs highly conserved from nematodes to humans.
Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Cádiz, 11510 Puerto Real, Cádiz, Spain.
We have cloned a novel human autoimmune antigen in a patient suffering from rheumatoid arthritis with high levels of antibodies to the nucleolus organizer regions. Initially the human autoimmune serum was used to select a cDNA of 317 amino acids from a hamster expression library. Using the hamster DNA as a probe, we isolated the human homologous cDNA of 320 amino acids. Human and hamster polypeptides share a 95% amino acid homology. The deduced 36-kDa protein contains a putative amino-terminal NLS signal, nine cysteine-X-X-cysteine motifs highly conserved, and a carboxyl-terminal poly acidic region. Several homologous expressed sequence tags have been identified in data bases suggesting that orthologous proteins are present throughout evolution from worms to humans. A Drosophila expressed sequence tag was further completely sequenced for a full-length protein with 60% amino acid identity to the human homologue. Northern blot analysis revealed that this novel protein is widely distributed in human tissues with significantly higher expression levels in heart and skeletal muscle. Specific antibodies to the recombinant protein and transfection experiments demonstrated by immunofluorescence the localization of the protein predominantly but not exclusively to the nucleolus of interphase mammalian cells. In actinomycin D-treated cells the protein remains associated with the nucleolus but is not segregated, like other ribosomal factors such as upstream binding factor. In mitosis the protein was found to be associated with centromeres and concentrated at the midbody in cytokinesis. Transient distribution of this evolutionarily conserved zinc finger nucleolar autoantigen to the mitotic centromeres may provide the means for several aspects of cell cycle control and transcriptional regulation.
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Hybridization of a 3H-labeled bovine glucagon cDNA plasmid to human metaphase chromosomes revealed significant labeling of the distal portion of the long arm of chromosome 2. A large portion (37%) of the cells analyzed exhibited labeling of the 2. A significant percentage (40%) of the labeled sites on the 2 were in segment 2q36----37. Therefore, the human glucagon gene (GCG), was assigned to this segment. Localization of the glucagon gene, whose chromosomal assignment was previously not known, demonstrates the general applicability of in situ hybridization as a powerful gene mapping technique.
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Investigation into the murder of a bellboy who had worked at a high end Miami hotel leads to an underground counterfeiting ring. Due to the high number of people in town because of cruise season, the list of suspects is enormous. Calleigh investigates a woman's death after her appearance at a very special party with her husband.
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2013-02-22 16:35:00
I want to preface this column by saying that I am a proud, born-and-raised American and Californian, and that I am thankful that my life started in a nation that affords some of the greatest opportunities for self-improvement and advancement in the world.
But I find our current desire for lavish entitlements along with a steadfast refusal to pay for them exasperating. The credo "no taxation without representation" runs deep in the American character and identity. Yet it seems the belief that "I paid into it" runs equally deep.
The biggest problem is one of numbers; specifically, population growth trends.
Subsequent generations after the boomers are simply not having as many children, so there is an increasingly smaller pool of working Americans paying into an increasingly larger pool of recipients.
Perhaps the most poignant example explaining our love of entitlements is a column written a few months ago by political commentator and writer Mark Steyn, in which Steyn noted a quote from one of his friends in France who said "Americans love big government as much as Europeans. The only difference is that Americans refuse to admit it."
According to numbers from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the United States government spends $19,266 when broken down per person, while France, that supposed "bastion" of socialism, leisure and entitlements, spends only $18,866 per person.
So maybe a few hundred dollars difference in per-person government spending isn't that earth-shattering. But what is cause for concern is the gaping difference between revenue and expenditures as percentage of gross domestic product. In the United States' case, it's a staggering 17.8 percent, the largest of any major economy.
I'm not looking to throw granny off a cliff, so to speak. But before we get up in arms about politicians raising our taxes once again, maybe we need to examine our benefits and expectations of government.
We can have lavish, state-administered benefits, or low taxes, but not both. Personally, I don't mind having a little "skin in the game" to have incentive to take care of my own health, retirement and long-term planning. As it is now, I don't expect to receive Social Security in my retirement years, and even if I do, I know it won't come close to covering my living expenses.
But politicians on both sides have become conditioned to campaign on their promises to constituents about how many goodies they can bring back home from Washington. A few candidates have campaigned, and won, on a message of frugality and responsibility. But they are in the minority. And judging by the last presidential election, the prevailing national sentiment has shifted decisively in the direction of bigger, more activist government.
Let's get real, people. Do you think bigger government comes for free? Or that taxing the one percent into oblivion will pay for it? Americans are already getting a rude wake-up call in their paychecks with the expiration of the Bush tax cuts, and coming to the realization that we're all going to have to pay for our womb-to-tomb coddling by Uncle Sam.
It's time for some deep, national soul-searching about whether we want to be serfs of the state, or self-determined individuals that have a conception of what it means to be a productive member of society, and the costs involved, from both a monetary and responsibility standpoint.
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While Eusebius had been exhorting his congregation in the church of St. Mark to Christian love towards the idolaters, these had collected in the temple precincts to the number of about four thousand, all eager for the struggle. A vast multitude! But the extent of the Serapeum was so enormous that the mass of people was by no means densely packed on the roof, in the halls, and in the underground passages and rooms. There was no crowding anywhere, least of all in the central halls of the temple itself; indeed, in the great vestibule crowned with a dome which formed the entrance, in the vast hall next to it, and in the magnificent hypostyle with a semicircular niche on the furthest side in which stood the far-famed image of the god, there were only scattered groups of men, who looked like dwarfs as the eye compared them with the endless rows of huge columns.
The full blaze of day penetrated nowhere but into the circular vestibule, which was lighted by openings in the drum of the cupola that rested on four gigantic columns. In the inner hall there was only dim twilight; while the hypostyle was quite dark, but for a singularly contrived shaft of light which produced a most mysterious effect.
The shadows of the great columns in the fore hall, and of the double colonnade on each side of the hypostyle, lay like bands of crape on the many-colored pavement; borders, circles, and ellipses of mosaic diversified the smooth and lucent surface, in which were mirrored the astrological figures which sparkled in brighter hues on the ceiling, the trophies of symbols and mythological groups that graced the walls in tinted high relief, and the statues and Hermes between the columns. A wreath of lovely forms and colors dazzled the eye with their multiplicity and profusion, and the heavy atmosphere of incense which filled the halls was almost suffocating, while the magical and mystical signs and figures were so many and so new that the enquiring mind, craving for an explanation and an interpretation of all these incomprehensible mysteries, hardly dared investigate them in detail.
A heavy curtain, that looked as though giants must have woven it on a loom of superhuman proportions, hung, like a thick cloud shrouding a mountain-peak, from the very top of the hypostyle, in grand folds over the niche containing the statue, and down to the floor; and while it hid the sacred image from the gaze of the worshipper it attracted his attention by the infinite variety of symbolical patterns and beautiful designs which were woven in it and embroidered on it.
The gold and silver vessels and precious jewels that lay concealed by this hanging were of more value than many a mighty king's treasure; and everything was on so vast a scale that man shuddered to feel his own littleness, and the mind sought some new standard of measurement by which to realize such unwonted proportions. The finite here seemed to pass into the infinite; and as the spectator gazed up, with his head thrown back, at the capitals of the lofty columns and the remote height of the ceiling, his sight failed him before he had succeeded in distinguishing or even perceiving a small portion only of the bewildering confusion of figures and emblems that were crowded on to the surface. Greek feeling for beauty had here worked hand in hand with Oriental taste for gorgeous magnificence, and every detail could bear examination; for there was not a motive of the architecture, not a work of sculpture, painting, or mosaic, not a product of the foundry or the loom, which did not bear the stamp of thorough workmanship and elaborate finish. The ruddy, flecked porphyry, the red, white, green, or yellow marbles which had been used for the decorations were all the finest and purest ever wrought upon by Greek craftsmen. Each of the hundreds of sculptured works which here had found a home was the masterpiece of some great artist; as the curious visitor lingered in loving contemplation of the mosaics on the polished floor, or examined the ornamental mouldings that framed the reliefs, dividing the walls into panels, he was filled with wonder and delight at the beauty, the elegance and the inventiveness that had given charm, dignity, and significance to every detail.
Adjoining these great halls devoted especially to the worship of the god, were hundreds of courts, passages, colonnades and rooms, and others not less numerous lay underground. There were long rows of rooms containing above a hundred thousand rolls of books, the famous library of the Serapeum, with separate apartments for readers and copyists; there were store-rooms, refectories and assembly-rooms for the high-priests of the temple, for teachers and disciples; while acrid odors came up from the laboratories, and the fragrance of cooking from the kitchen and bake-houses. In the very thickness of the walls of the basement were cells for penitents and recluses, long since abandoned, and rooms for the menials and slaves, of whom hundreds were employed in the precincts; under ground spread the mystical array of halls, grottoes, galleries and catacombs dedicated to the practice of the Mysteries and the initiation of neophytes; on the roof stood various observatories--among them one erected for the study of the heavens by Eratosthenes, where Claudius Ptolemaeus had watched and worked. Up here astronomers, star-gazers, horoscopists and Magians spent their nights, while, far below them, in the temple-courts that were surrounded by store-houses and stables, the blood of sacrificed beasts was shed and the entrails of the victims were examined.
The house of Serapis was a whole world in little, and centuries had enriched it with wealth, beauty, and the noblest treasures of art and learning. Magic and witchcraft hedged it in with a maze of mystical and symbolical secrets, and philosophy had woven a tissue of speculation round the person of the god. The sanctuary was indeed the centre of Hellenic culture in the city of Alexander; what marvel then, that the heathen should believe that with the overthrow of Serapis and his temple, the earth, nay the universe itself must sink into the abyss?
Anxious spirits and throbbing hearts were those that now sought shelter in the Serapeum, fully prepared to perish with their god, and yet eager with enthusiasm to avert his fall if possible.
A strange medley indeed of men and women had collected within these sacred precincts! Grave sages, philosophers, grammarians, mathematicians, naturalists, and physicians clung to Olympius and obeyed him in silence. Rhetoricians with shaven faces, Magians and sorcerers, whose long beards flowed over robes embroidered with strange figures; students, dressed after the fashion of their forefathers in the palmy days of Athens; men of every age, who dubbed themselves artists though they were no more than imitators of the works of a greater epoch, unhappy in that no one at this period of indifference to beauty called upon them to prove what they could do, or to put forth their highest powers. Actors, again, from the neglected theatres, starving histrions, to whom the stage was prohibited by the Emperor and Bishop, singers and flute-players; hungry priests and temple-servitors expelled from the closed sanctuaries; lawyers, scribes, ships' captains, artisans, though but very few merchants, for Christianity had ceased to be the creed of the poor, and the wealthy attached themselves to the faith professed by those in authority.
One of the students had contrived to bring a girl with him, and several others, seeing this, went back into the streets by the secret way and brought in damsels of no very fair repute, till the crowd of men was diversified by a considerable sprinkling of wreathed and painted girls, some of them the outcast maids of various temples, and others priestesses of higher character, who had remained faithful to the old gods or who practised magic arts.
Among these women one, a tall and dignified matron in mourning robes, was a conspicuous figure. This was Berenice, the mother of the young heathen who had been ridden down and wounded in the skirmish near the Prefect's house, and whose eyes Eusebius had afterwards closed. She had come to the Serapeum expressly to avenge her son's death and then to perish with the fall of the gods for whom he had sacrificed his young life. But the mad turmoil that surrounded her was more than she could bear; she stood, hour after hour, closely veiled and absorbed in her own thoughts, neither raising her eyes nor uttering a word, at the foot of a bronze statue of justice dispensing rewards and punishments.
Olympius had entrusted the command of the little garrison of armed men to Memnon, a veteran legate of great experience, who had lost his left arm in the war against the Goths. The high-priest himself was occupied alternately in trying to persuade the hastily-collected force to obey their leader, and in settling quarrels, smoothing difficulties, suppressing insubordination, and considering plans with reference to supplies for his adherents, and the offering of a great sacrifice at which all the worshippers of Serapis were to assist. Karnis kept near his friend, helping him so far as was possible; Orpheus, with others of the younger men, had been ordered to the roof, where they were employed--under the scorching sun, reflected from the copper-plated covering and the radiating surface of the dome--in loosening blocks of stone from the balustrade to be hurled down to-morrow on the besieging force.
Herse devoted herself to the sick and wounded, for a few who had ventured forth too boldly to aid in barricading the entrance, had been hurt by arrows and lances flung by the idle soldiery; and a still greater number were suffering from sun-stroke in consequence of toiling on the top of the building.
Inside the vast, thick-walled halls it was much cooler than in the streets even, and the hours glided fast to the besieged heathen. Many of them were fully occupied, or placed on guard; others were discussing the situation, and disputing or guessing at what the outcome might, or must be. Numbers, panic-stricken or absorbed in pious awe, sat huddled on the ground, praying, muttering magical formulas, or wailing aloud. The Magians and astrologers had retired with knots of followers into the adjoining studies, where they were comparing registers, making calculations, reading signs, devising new formulas and defending them against their opponents.
An incessant bustle went on, to and fro between these rooms and the great library, and the tables were covered with rolls and tablets containing ancient prophecies, horoscopes and potent exorcisms. Messengers, one after another, were sent out from thence to command silence in the great halls, where the assembled youths and girls were kissing, singing, shouting and dancing to the shrill pipe of flutes and twang of lutes, clapping their hands, rattling tambourines--in short, enjoying to the utmost the few hours that might yet be theirs before they must make the fatal leap into nothingness, or at least into the dim shades of death.
The sun was sinking when suddenly the great brazen gong was loudly struck, and the hard, blatant clatter rent the air of the temple-hall. The mighty waves of sound reverberated from the walls of the sanctuary like the surge of a clangorous sea, and sent their metallic vibration ringing through every room and cell, from the topmost observatory-turret to the deepest vault beneath, calling all who were within the precincts to assemble. The holy places filled at once; the throng poured in through the vestibule, and in a few minutes even the hypostyle, the sanctum of the veiled statue, was full to overflowing. Without any distinction of rank or sex, and regardless of all the usual formalities or the degrees of initiation which each had passed through, the worshippers of Serapis crowded towards the sacred niche, till a chain, held up by neokores--[Temple-servants]--at a respectful distance from the mystical spot, checked their advance. Densely packed and in almost breathless silence, they filled the nave and the colonnades, watching for what might befall.
Presently a dull low chant of men's voices was heard. This went on for a few minutes, and then a loud pean in honor of the god rang through the temple with an accompaniment of flutes, cymbals, lutes and trumpets.
Karnis had found a place with his wife and son; all three, holding hands, joined enthusiastically in the stirring hymn; and, with them, Porphyrius, who by accident was close to them, swelling the song of the multitude. All now stood with hands uplifted and eyes fixed in anxious expectancy on the curtain. The figures and emblems on the hanging were invisible in the gloom--but now-now there was a stir, as of life, in the ponderous folds,--they moved--they began to ripple like streams, brooks, water-falls, recovering motion after long stagnation--the curtain slowly sank, and at length it fell so suddenly that the eye could scarcely note the instant. From every lip, as but one voice, rose a cry of admiration, amazement, and delight, for Serapis stood revealed to his people.
The noble manhood of the god sat with dignity on a golden throne that was covered with a blaze of jewels; his gracious and solemn face looked down on the crowd of worshippers. The hair that curled upon his thoughtful brow, and the kalathos that crowned it were of pure gold At his feet crouched Cerberus, raising his three fierce heads with glistening ruby eyes. The body of the god--a model of strength in repose--and the drapery were of gold and ivory. In its perfect harmony as a whole, and the exquisite beauty of every detail, this statue bore the stamp of supreme power and divine majesty. When such a divinity as this should rise from his throne the earth indeed might quake and the heavens tremble! Before such a Lord the strongest might gladly bow, for no mortal ever shone in such radiant beauty. This Sovereign must triumph over every foe, even over death--the monster that lay writhing in impotent rage at his feet!
Gasping and thrilled with pious awe, enraptured but dumb with reverent fear, the assembled thousands gazed on the god dimly revealed to them in the twilight, when suddenly, for a moment of solemn glory, a ray of the setting sun--a shaft of intense brightness--pierced the star-spangled apse of the niche and fell on the lips of the god as though to kiss its Lord and Father.
A shout like a thunder-clap-like the roar of breakers on a reef, burst from the spectators; a shout of triumph so mighty that the statues quivered, the brazen altars rang, the hangings swayed, the sacred vessels clattered and the lamps trembled and swung; the echo rolled round the aisles like a whirlpool at the flood, and was dashed from pillar to column in a hundred wavelets of sound. The glorious sun still recognized its lord; Serapis still reigned in undiminished might; he had not yet lost the power to defend himself, his world and his children!
The sun was gone, night fell on the temple and suddenly there was a swaying movement of the apse above the statue; the stars were shaken by invisible hands, and colored flames twinkled with dazzling brightness from a myriad five-rayed perforations. Once more the god was revealed to his worshippers under a flood of magical glory, and now fully visible in his unique beauty. Again the great halls rang with the acclamations of the delirious throng; Olympius stepped forth, arrayed in a flowing robe with the insignia and decorations of the high-priesthood; standing in front of the image he poured on the pedestal a libation to the gods out of a golden cup, and waved a censer of the costliest incense. Then, in burning words, he exhorted all the followers of Serapis to fight and conquer for their god, or--if need must--to perish for and with him. He added a fervent prayer in a loud ringing voice--a cry for help that came from the bottom of his heart, and went to the souls of his hearers.
Then a solemn hymn was chanted as the curtain was raised; and while the assembled multitude watched it rise in reverent silence, the temple-servants lighted the lamps that illuminated the sanctuary from every cornice and pillar.
Karnis had left hold of his companions' hands, for he wanted to wipe away the tears of devotional excitement that flowed down his withered cheeks; Orpheus had thrown his arms round his mother, and Porphyrius, who had joined a group of philosophers and sages, sent a glance of sympathy to the old musician.
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Definition and introduction, version 1.3
By:Lars Marius Garshol
Affiliation:Ontopia A/S
This technical report defines version 1.3 of the Linear Topic Map Notation, also known as LTM. It provides both an introduction and a formal definition, the latter in the form of a complete EBNF specification given in section 3.
Please note that this document is not a formal specification from any recognized standards body, but a Technical Report published by Ontopia, a commercial company, for the convenience of all interested parties. ISO is currently finishing standardization of an alternative standardized syntax called CTM. For more information, see the CTM home page.
Table of contents
1. Linear topic map notation? What's that?
The Linear Topic Map notation (LTM) is a simple textual format for topic maps. Just like XTM, the XML interchange format, it represents the constructs in the topic map standard as text, but unlike XTM it is compact and simple. The notation can be written in any text editor and processed by topic map software that supports it, or converted into the XML format supported by such software.
The XML-based topic map interchange format is defined in such a way as to make it easy to understand for humans and to develop software for, and these purposes it fulfills very well. However, this has the cost of making it awkward to read and write for humans. Humans were not really intended to do this, of course, they were intended to use specialized topic map editors, which would insulate their users from the syntactical details of the interchange format.
Despite the existence of editors there is still a need for a simple textual format that can be used to concisely and clearly express topic map constructs in emails, discussions and similar contexts. Such a format also makes it easy to quickly create and maintain small topic maps for demonstration and personal purposes.
While you may find that this syntax provides you with a convenient and easy way to maintain your topic maps, please note that the only standardized form for interchangeable topic maps remains the XTM 1.0 syntax.
The notation has been developed by Ontopia. Steve Pepper came up with the original idea, based on the linear notation for conceptual graphs. The notation has since been refined by Lars Marius Garshol, with input from Geir Ove Grønmo, Steve Pepper, and Kal Ahmed. Useful contributions from Murray Altheim, Akio Yamamoto, Robert Barta, Michael Chapman, Thomas Flemming, Are D. Gulbrandsen, Kaj Hejer, Eirik Jensen Opland, Tom-Anders N. Røst, and Ian Meikle are also gratefully acknowledged. Lars Heuer pointed out a number of mistakes in and suggested one improvement to version 1.3.
While the copyright to both this description and the format itself is held by Ontopia, Ontopia reserves only the right to be recognized as the originator of the notation. Permission to use it in any way for any purpose whatsoever is hereby granted in perpetuity to all potential users.
1.1. Changes in version 1.3
The following changes have been made in version 1.3 relative to version 1.2:
1.2. Completeness
The following features of XTM 1.0 are not supported:
In addition, none of the new features of the upcoming Topic Maps Data Model and XTM 1.1 specifications are supported.
2. An introduction to the notation
2.1. Defining topics
The basis of the notation is the ability to define topics, which is done by writing the ID of the topic in square brackets. An example is shown below.
This represents a topic map consisting of a single topic that has the ID 'ltm', but no other characteristics. If you want, you can provide it with a base name and a sort name as well, as in the example below. The sort name is optional.
[ltm = "The linear topic map notation";
"linear topic map notation, the"]
You can even add a display name. If you have a display name the sort name is optional, but you need two semicolons to tell the parser that the second name is a display name and not a sort name. The example below shows a topic with all three name types.
[foo = "basename"; "sortname"; "dispname"]
The topic can also be typed. The example below adds the type 'format' to the ltm topic. Multiple type IDs can be listed after the colon, separated by whitespace, if the topic has more than just one type.
[ltm : format = "The linear topic map notation";
"linear topic map notation, the"]
Note that even if no topic with the ID 'format' is defined anywhere in the LTM file this reference will cause the topic to be created by the LTM processor. The 'format' topic will have an ID, but no other characteristics. Note also that LTM is oblivious to whitespace. You can add as much whitespace as you want anywhere (except inside strings) without having any effect on the resulting topic map.
LTM also supports providing subject indicators for topics, as shown below. The URL of the subject indicator is quoted and preceded by an '@' character. Any number of subject indicators can be given.
"linear topic map notation, the"
For topics which represent information resources it is not necessary to use a proxy resource (a subject indicator) to indicate the identity of the subject; it can instead be referred to directly. LTM supports this, by using a '%' character followed by the quoted URL of the resource. An example is shown below.
[xmlspec : specification = "The XML 1.0 specification"
The final construct supported by LTM for topics is scoping of names. This can be done for the base name, sortname, dispname-trinity as a whole, by appending a topic ID preceded by a slash after the name, as shown below. Multiple topic IDs are allowed, separated by whitespace.
[ltm : format = "Den lineære emnekart-notasjonen";
"lineære emnekart-notasjonen, den"
/ norwegian
Note that if this example and the previous [ltm] example were to appear in the same LTM file it would cause a single topic to be created with the union of the characteristics of these two definitions. That means that the topic would have the 'ltm' ID, the format type, the two different name sets and the given subject indicator.
Note also that there are no requirements on the order in which constructs appear in LTM files. A topic type can be used before it is defined, for example.
2.2. Defining associations
The LTM notation also supports defining associations. In the example below the LTM topic defined above is associated with a topic with the ID 'topic maps' by an association that has the format-for type. ('format-for' is of course the ID of the topic that types that association.)
format-for(ltm, topic-maps)
The meaning of this example is that LTM is a serialization format for topic maps. This should perhaps be made clearer by adding association role types. The example below does this.
format-for(ltm : format, topic-maps : standard)
Note that if the association role type is omitted the role type will default to the type of the topic (provided it has one). If the topic has more than one type, one of these will be selected at random. The rationale for this was that it is a useful shorthand for a commonly occurring construction; we urge caution in the use of this construct, however, as it can cause difficulties when topics have multiple types or when their types change.
As a shorthand it is allowed to specify a topic in the role player position, instead of just referencing it. All the constructs used when defining topics can be used here, which means that it is possible to define topics with their characteristics in the associations they participate in without defining them anywhere else. The example could therefore also have been written as follows.
format-for(ltm, [topic-maps : standard = "Topic maps"])
Associations can also be scoped, as with base names, by appending a slash followed by the IDs of the scoping topics, separated by whitespace. The example below illustrates this.
[lmg : person = "Lars Marius Garshol"]
format-for(ltm : format, topic-maps : standard) / lmg
2.3. Defining occurrences
LTM also supports defining occurrences. This is done using the notation shown below, where the occurrence information is given in curly braces. Three pieces of information, all of which are required, appear inside the braces, separated by commas. The first is the ID of the topic which has the occurrence, the second is the ID of the occurrence role type and the third is the locator of the occurrence in double quotes.
{ltm, specification, ""}
You can also specify the resource data of an occurrence inline in the LTM file, as shown below.
{ltm, description, [[A simple text-based format for topic maps.]]}
Occurrences are scoped in the same way as associations:
{ltm, specification, ""} / english
2.4. A complete example
Below is given a more complete example of an LTM topic map. Note that text appearing between '/*' and '*/' is comments.
/* topic types */
[format = "Format"]
[standard = "Standard"]
[organization = "Organization"]
/* association types */
[format-for = "Format for"]
[defined-by = "Defined by"]
/* occurrence types */
[specification = "Specification"]
[homepage = "Home page"]
/* topics, associations and occurrences */
[topic-maps : standard = "Topic maps"
= "ISO/IEC 13250 Topic Maps" / fullname]
{topic-maps, specification,
[xtm : format = "XTM Syntax"]
"linear topic map notation, the"
{ltm, specification, ""}
format-for(ltm, topic-maps)
format-for(xtm, topic-maps)
defined-by(ltm, ontopia)
[ontopia : organization = "Ontopia AS"]
{ontopia, homepage, ""}
[ : organization = "TopicMaps.Org"]
{, homepage, ""}
2.5. Variant names
Variant names are used to represent names that are alternative forms of a base name. An example of this might be:
[xml = "Extensible Markup Language"
("XML" / acronym)
("Extended Markup Language" / erroneous)]
The canonical name for XML is "Extensible Markup Language", but there are two related forms of it: "XML", which is the acronym, and "Extended Markup Language", which is an often found (but wrong) form of it. The example above represents these as variants of the base name. Note that all variants must have a scope.
Note that sort name, display name, and base name scope must come before the variants, as shown below.
[xml = "Extensible Markup Language"; "extensible markup language" / english
("XML" / acronym)
("Extended Markup Language" / erroneous)]
2.6. Reification
Reification may sound scary, but it's actually quite simple. If you have a name, or association, or occurrence, or association role that you want to say more about, how do you do it? For example, imagine that you have an association like the one below, which states that I work for Ontopia.
employed-by(lmg : employee, ontopia : employer)
What if you want to say when I started working for Ontopia? It's possible to do this by turning the employment into a topic and using two associations (one from me to the employment and another from the employment to Ontopia), but if you don't want to do that you are stuck, because topic maps don't let you put an occurrence on an association.
This is where reification comes in: you create a topic that represents the association (that is, the topic reifies the association). Then you can assign an occurrence to the reifying topic, and all is well.
The way to do this in LTM is to add ~ topicid after the construct you want to reify. The ID is the ID of the reifying topic, which you can use directly. So for the example above it would be:
employed-by(lmg : employee, ontopia : employer) ~ lmg-employment
{lmg-employment, start-month, [[2000-04]]}
Similarly, to reify an occurrence, you could do this:
{, homepage, ""} ~
last-modified-by( : modified, lmg : modifier)
This would say that I'm the last person to modify this occurrence. For names, the syntax would be as shown below.
[ltm : syntax = "LTM" / acronym ~ltm-name]
[ltm-name : name = "The name 'LTM'"]
invented-by(ltm-name : invention, steve-pepper : inventor)
Special syntax is needed to reify the topic map; for that, see section 2.7.1.
2.7. Directives
LTM has a concept of so-called "syntax directives", which are used not to represent topic map constructs, but to provide information related to processing. There are six different directives, each covered in a separate section below.
2.7.1. The TOPICMAP directive
The TOPICMAP directive is used to make it possible to reify the topic map itself. (How to reify other parts of the topic map is shown in section 2.6.) This is useful, since it makes it possible to attach metadata to the topic map using topic map constructs. What the directive does is to create a topic that reifies the topic map, and give it an ID.
Below is an example.
#TOPICMAP ~topicmap
[topicmap = "An example topic map"]
This creates a topic topicmap, which reifies the topic map. This could then be used to add metadata about the topic map, such as:
#TOPICMAP ~topicmap
[topicmap = "An example topic map"]
{topicmap, publication-date, [[2005-01-12]]}
2.7.2. The MERGEMAP directive
The MERGEMAP directive is used to merge external topic maps into the LTM topic map. The external topic maps can be in any syntax, but if this syntax is not LTM it must be declared what syntax it is. An example is shown below.
#MERGEMAP "geography.xtm" "xtm"
This directive causes the topic map at the given URI to be loaded according to the rules of the syntax it is written in and merged with the current topic map once the loading is complete. This means that topics defined in the loaded topic map will be merged with topics in this topic map when they have the same subject indicator or subject locator, but not because they have the same ID. (For this behaviour, see section 2.7.3.) Note that the URI is allowed to use any URI scheme, although there is no guarantee that an LTM processor will understand any URI schemes beyond 'file'.
LTM processors are required to recognize the syntaxes listed below, but not necessarily to support them. XTM and LTM must be supported, while the other syntaxes are optional. It is an error if the LTM processor is asked to merge in a topic map in a syntax it does not understand. Note that the syntax names are case-insensitive. If no syntax is specified, the default is LTM.
The XTM 1.0 XML topic maps syntax.
The HyTime-based architectural form syntax defined in the original ISO 13250 standard.
The Linear Topic Map Notation.
The textual syntax for topic maps known as AsTMa=.
Directives declared in the merged-in file have no effect in the parent file, except, of course, for MERGEMAPs and INCLUDEs.
2.7.3. The INCLUDE directive
The INCLUDE is very similar to MERGEMAP, the difference being that with INCLUDE the file merged in will use the same namespace for IDs. This means that topics with the same IDs in the two files will be merged (as will topics with the same subject indicators or locators).
To use the INCLUDE directive, simply write:
#INCLUDE "other-file.ltm"
Note that unlike MERGEMAP the INCLUDE directive only supports LTM files, and the same limitations on URI schemes apply. Directives declared in the included file have no effect in the parent file, except, of course, for MERGEMAPs and INCLUDEs.
2.7.4. The BASEURI directive
This directive is used to change the base URI against which relative URIs in the document are resolved. It works exactly like the xml:base attribute in XML Base, or the BASE element in HTML. Below is shown an example.
All URIs occurring after the directive will resolve against the given URI, which must be absolute, rather than against the URI of the LTM document itself. This applies to URIs in MERGEMAP, PREFIX, and INCLUDE directives, subject locators, subject indicators, and the URIs of occurrences. (More formally, it applies to all instances of the grammar symbol uri.) Note that the BASEURI directive does not apply inside any files included with MERGEMAP or INCLUDE.
Note that having more than one BASEURI directive in the same file is an error. Note also that same-document references, that is, URI references that consist only of a fragment identifier (of the form #foo) are relative to the file URI, not to the base URI set with this directive.
2.7.5. The PREFIX directive
In some cases one wants to refer to a topic using its subject indicator (or, less often, subject locator) for example because it's defined in a different file that is loaded with MERGEMAP. To do that using a topic ID you have to create a new topic with an ID and give it the subject indicator, and then refer to it with the ID. The PREFIX directive makes it possible to refer to the topic directly using its subject indicator.
Below is a simple example topic map that uses this capability.
#MERGEMAP "core.xtm" "xtm" /* load superclass-subclass and other topics */
#PREFIX xtm @""
[sentient-being = "Sentient being"]
[human = "Human"]
[giraffe = "Giraffe"]
xtm:superclass-subclass(sentient-being : xtm:superclass, human : xtm:subclass)
xtm:superclass-subclass(sentient-being : xtm:superclass, giraffe : xtm:subclass)
The PREFIX directive here declares that the xtm prefix is used for topics whose subject indicators (that's what the @ means) begin with The part after the xtm: is added to get the full subject indicator.
This can also be used for topic maps that define a lot of subject indicators, so that you could write an LTM version of core.xtm like this:
#PREFIX xtm @""
[xtm:superclass-subclass = "Superclass/subclass"]
[xtm:superclass = "Superclass"]
[xtm:subclass = "Subclass"]
These three topics would only have subject indicators and no IDs, since when declaring the topics the subject indicator is used where the topic ID would normally be.
2.7.6. The VERSION directive
This directive is used to indicate what version of LTM the file is written in. It has no particular effect in LTM 1.3, but if later LTM versions are incompatible with version 1.3 it is possible that parsers will use this information to process LTM 1.3 files with a different parser.
To make it clear that your LTM file is using LTM 1.3, just write:
#VERSION "1.3"
Note that the VERSION directive has to appear first of all the directives, if it is present. This restriction is there in case new directives are introduced in later versions.
2.8. Escape syntax in strings
Strings in LTM (that is, anything enclosed in double quotes) support two different escape syntaxes. Firstly, if you need to include a double quote in a string in LTM you can do it by writing it twice, as in the example below.
[doublequote : character = "The '""' character"]
The name of this topic will be The '"' character.
There is also a general escape syntax for all Unicode characters: \u0000. Four, five, or six hexadecimal digits can be used to give the number of the Unicode character you want to write (digits can be written in both upper- and lowercase). Thus the example above could also have been written as shown below.
[doublequote : character = "The '\u0022' character"]
The Unicode escape syntax is mostly useful for writing characters not available on your keyboard. For example, if I wanted to write 'Katakana' in Japanese, I would do it as shown below.
[katakana : syllabary = "Katakana"
= "\u30AB\u30BF\u30AB\u30CA" / native]
Below is a table containing the escape sequences for some useful characters that may be needed in LTM files.
Escape sequenceCharacter
3. Formal syntax definition
This section defines the LTM syntax using a formal extended BNF grammar. Lexical tokens are given either as single-quoted strings directly in the grammar, or as upper-case names of token types. The token types are defined separately further below.
topic-map ::= encoding? version? directive* (topic | assoc | occur) *
encoding ::= '@' STRING
directive ::= topicmapid | mergemap | baseuri | include | prefix
topicmapid ::= '#' 'TOPICMAP' WS (NAME | reify-id)
mergemap ::= '#' 'MERGEMAP' WS uri (WS STRING)?
baseuri ::= '#' 'BASEURI' WS uri
include ::= '#' 'INCLUDE' WS uri
version ::= '#' 'VERSION' WS STRING
prefix ::= '#' 'PREFIX' WS NAME WS ('@' | '%') STRING
topic ::= '[' qname (WS ':' qname+)? (topname)* subject? indicator* ']'
subject ::= '%' uri
indicator ::= '@' uri
topname ::= '=' basename ((';' sortname) |
(';' sortname? ';' dispname))?
scope? reify-id? variant*
scope ::= '/' qname+
basename ::= STRING
sortname ::= STRING
dispname ::= STRING
variant ::= '(' STRING scope reify-id? ')'
assoc ::= qname '(' assoc-role (',' assoc-role)* ')' scope? reify-id?
assoc-role ::= (topic | qname) WS (':' qname )? reify-id?
occur ::= '{' occ-topic ',' occ-type ',' resource '}' scope? reify-id?
resource ::= uri | DATA
occ-topic ::= qname
occ-type ::= qname
uri ::= STRING
qname ::= NAME ':' NAME | NAME
reify-id ::= '~' WS? NAME
The lexical token types defined below use Perl-style regular expressions for their definitions. Note that while whitespace (represented by the WS token type) is implicitly allowed between any two tokens, it is explicitly required in the 'topic' and 'assoc-role' productions in the above grammar. This is to avoid problems caused by the fact that a colon is allowed in topic IDs.
NAME = [A-Za-z_][-A-Za-z_0-9.]*
COMMENT = /\*([^*]|\*[^/])*\*/
STRING = "[^"]*"
DATA = \[\[(([^\]]+\])*|\])\]
WS = [\r\n\t ]+
The NAME token type is slightly modified compared to the definition in the XML recommendation. The colon is no longer allowed as a name start character, since otherwise a single colon could be both a name and a separator.
All tokens are case-sensitive.
Comments can occur anywhere where whitespace is allowed.
3.1. Character encoding handling
All LTM files are to be processed as if they were composed of Unicode characters. Files may be in any encoding, but if that encoding is not ISO 8859-1 it should be declared using the encoding production. If the encoding declaration appears in the file it must appear at the very beginning. Support for this construct is optional, but all processors must allow it to be present and at least ignore it.
The encoding names used are those defined by IANA, which are the same as those used by XML. The IANA character encoding identifier registry can be found at
Below is shown a simple example of an LTM file that uses the UTF-8 character encoding.
[grove : person = "Geir Ove Grønmo"]
(The name is of course Geir Ove Grønmo, encoded in UTF-8, but viewed as if it were ISO 8859-1.)
3.2. Processing and references
This section provides some clarifications for implementors in lieu of a proper specification based on TMDM.
3.2.1. Topic IDs and merging
Any topic referred to by its ID in an LTM file, but never defined anywhere by an explicit occurrence of the topic production with that topic, is automatically generated by the LTM processor. All occurrences of the same topic ID are considered to be references to the same topic.
When an instance of the topic production is found, and a topic with the same ID has already been found, the two topic definitions are merged as follows:
If two topic definitions are found which have different topic IDs, but in which the same name occurs in the same scope, no specific behaviour is guaranteed. Possible results are that the topics may be merged, that they may remain distinct and that an error may be signalled. Topics with equal subject locators or subject indicators but different IDs are merged.
3.2.2. Sort and display names
Note that although display names and sort names have a syntax that is different from the general syntax for variant names they are still considered variant names with the 'sort' and 'display' scopes from XTM 1.0.
3.2.3. The 'INCLUDE' directive
The INCLUDE directive requires special handling in the parser. What happens (during all LTM processing, whether INCLUDE is used or not) in terms of the Topic Map Data Model (TMDM) is that topic IDs turn into source locators of the form uri-of-ltm-file#topic-id. When a file is included with INCLUDE all topics in the included file get two source locators, one with the URI of the included file, and one with the URI of the file that includes. (This is what causes the merge by ID across the files.)
3.2.4. Reification
The reify-id production works as follows in TMDM terms (where id is the id given in the reify-id production):
In the example above, a topic with the id tm would be created, and have the source locator file.ltm#tm assigned to it. The topic map would have the source locator file.ltm#--reified--tm assigned to it, and the same URI would be assigned to the created topic as a subject identifier.
3.2.5. The 'PREFIX' directive
The PREFIX directive causes qualified names like foo:bar to be interpreted as references to the topic with the expanded URI (the prefix URI + the part after the colon) as its subject indicator (if the prefix declaration used '@') or locator (if '%' was used). Note that qualified names can also be used in a topic definition as below:
[xtm:superclass-subclass = "Superclass/subclass"]
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0.02622 | <urn:uuid:71473021-1b0b-4f2f-9d8f-88931d258cac> | en | 0.97515 | Joe and Nick TandyJoe Tandy's death yesterday afternoon, at the age of just 26, has removed the linchpin of one of the brightest emerging teams in British single-seater racing.
An accomplished racer in his own right, the Bedfordshire-based driver turned engineer became obsessed with motorsport from an early age and made his first foray into the sport through Short Oval Ministock racing aged 11.
A keen rugby player, footballer and swimmer during his school years, Tandy nevertheless remained undeterred from the motorsport path and won the World and National Ministox titles in 1998, aged 15, adding a further national title the following year.
Tandy graduated to circuit racing two years later, competing with moderate success in the Mini Se7en Challenge from 2001 until 2004 and in the latter days of the TVR Tuscan Challenge. Meanwhile, after finishing college and completing an engineering apprenticeship, Tandy began working as a technician for Jonathan Palmer's Palmersport corporate driving days concern.
His engineering acumen elevated him to chief mechanic by the age of 22, while his racing career continued to go from strength to strength.
The opportunity for him to test a Formula Palmer Audi single-seater at Bedford Autodrome resulted in him breaking IndyCar star Justin Wilson's then lap record. Tandy decided this was enough of an incentive to make the leap from 70bhp Mini racing, to 350bhp single-seaters.
He sold his Mini, found the budget to compete in the 2005 FPA championship and promptly won the title at his first attempt – taking six wins across the season, which included a triumph on his category debut at Oulton Park.
Tandy also made the final of that year's McLaren Autosport BRDC Award, but a lack of funds and opportunities to progress his own career prompted him to turn his attentions to younger brother Nick, who had just won the BRDC Single Seater Championship having also trodden the Ministocks and Mini circuit-racing path.
Problems with the works Ray team in British Formula Ford stifled Nick's progress mid-way through the following season and, after cutting a deal to buy a Ray chassis, Joe set up his own Joe Tandy Racing team to run Nick for the rest of the campaign.
Nick won on his JTR debut at Thruxton in 2006 and added a further triumph at the Castle Combe season finale.
That success prompted a team expansion to three cars for the following season as Nick won a further six races and finished third in the standings – firmly establishing JTR as a championship frontrunner.
JTR also became the first team to win the Formula Ford Festival on the road in a Ray chassis that year, before a safety car infringement and subsequent exclusion robbed the Tandys of their success.
In order to continue Nick's rise through the motorsport ranks, JTR purchased a Mygale Formula 3 chassis and graduated to British F3 for 2008, while also switching its emerging Formula Ford squad to running the French manufacturer's cars instead of Rays.
The Tandys went on to earn the respect and admiration of the entire British F3 paddock for turning an unfancied car into a regular frontrunner, railing against the established Dallara hordes with a small operation and a meager budget – driven by little more than fierce intellect, a straight-talking attitude and a shared passion for the sport.
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Red White
01-28-2007, 09:03 PM
01-28-2007, 09:20 PM
This will get you started...
Q: When does a player become eligible for salary arbitration?
To answer your other questions:
I think it is near the top of the list of factors and how close to the top it is depends on the greatness of the need for the player, the pressure on the GM to win now and the likelihood that putting him in the lineup sooner, rather than later, helps the team win.
As a fan of a small-market team, I'd rather see the team go slowly in bringing prospects to the big club, especially when they're likely to be great players. The more of a player's best years that the small-market team gets, the better, because they'll have to open the wallet wide to keep him if he turns out to be great.
01-28-2007, 09:35 PM
The point that I see most often confused is that service time, for purposes of arbitration and free agency, is based on the number of days spent on the active roster. (I believe that 172 days is the baseline for a year of service time.) It is not a running clock from the first day spent on the active roster, although it works out the same if the player never goes back to the minors. Nor does a player get a year of service time just for being on the active roster at some point that season.
Let's say a player was called up on June 1, 2004 and spent 60 days on the active roster before being optioned back to the minors. He was on the active roster for 12 days in 2005 and 100 days in 2006, spending the rest of the time in the minor leagues. Following the 2006 season, he did not have three years of service time, even though he's been in the majors in three different seasons. He did not have two years of service time, even though his first callup was two-plus seasons ago. He has 172 days, and therefore exactly one year, of MLB service time.
Going back to the original point, unless you're the Yankees or Red Sox and money generally isn't an object when it comes to your roster, service time is a huge consideration. Players can only be controlled for so long, they can only be cheap for so long. It has to be managed intelligently. | http://www.redszone.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-54246.html | dclm-gs1-133980002 | false | false | {
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0.025992 | <urn:uuid:7e6ea5d1-d0e8-441c-ac52-c9fbae7e21c3> | en | 0.978646 | Documentary "Inside Job" has inside track to Oscar
LOS ANGELES Fri Feb 4, 2011 2:04pm EST
1 of 3. Charles Ferguson, director of the documentary film ''Inside Job'' which has been nominated for an Academy Award, is shown during an interview with Reuters in Los Angeles, California February 1, 2011.
Credit: Reuters/Fred Prouser
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Documentary director Charles Ferguson knew he had a great global story in the 2008 financial crisis, but he still worried that "Inside Job" could fall into the category of a boring film if not jazzed up properly.
So he applied tools normally associated with feature films, like expansive cinematography and what he calls "cool music" to help illustrate how America and the world ended up in the deepest financial disaster since the Great Depression.
Hollywood took notice. Ferguson won the best documentary award last month from the Directors Guild of America, making "Inside Job" a safe bet to claim the Oscar for non-fiction film when the world's top movie honors are given out on February 27.
"I wanted the film to have good music, good cinematography, to be fast, to be funny in places, to be interesting...not a full history lecture," said Ferguson, who also directed the Oscar-nominated Iraq war documentary "No End in Sight.
"Inside Job" starts peacefully enough with the sweeping landscapes of Iceland, the tiny nation economically frozen by the global collapse of banks and credit.
Iceland, Ferguson found, was "an incredibly clear, triple-distilled example of something that happened in the United States over a longer period of time and in a more complicated way."
High drama ensues as Ferguson makes former U.S. government and Federal Reserve officials squirm and lose their cool as he skewers them about their role in the crisis, their ignoring of warning signs and conflicts of interest as economists and academics.
"Those were tense interviews," said Ferguson. "But my first film was about the occupation of Iraq and I spent a month filming in Iraq in 2006. So having a tense interview with a business school professor isn't the worst thing in the world."
But not everyone was willing to subject themselves to Ferguson's pointed questions.
"I would have done almost anything to be able to interview Henry Paulson or Larry Summers," said Ferguson. Paulson, of course, was the former Goldman Sachs CEO and treasury secretary during the worst part of the 2008 crisis and Summers, a former treasury secretary and top economic advisor to Obama.
"Both men were involved in causing the crisis and then were in high governmental positions during and after the crisis," said Ferguson, adding "I would have wanted very much to ask them difficult questions."
Ferguson also pointedly criticizes President Barack Obama for choosing an economic and regulatory team of people Ferguson believes were deeply involved in events that led to the crisis.
"The political statements that he made during his campaign made many people including me hopeful that he would actually take real action about this, but unfortunately he has not done so," said Ferguson.
Looking at the future, Ferguson says he is "somewhat optimistic" that Americans are coming to understand that the financial system is poorly run and regulated and that they will put pressure on political leaders to fix it.
As for his own filmmaking future, he's undecided. There could be a feature film or another documentary, but not another chapter of the still unspooling drama of the financial crisis.
"I think I'm done with Wall Street documentaries for the moment," he said.
(Editing by Bob Tourtellotte)
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An Interview with Dr. Falletta
Starting with the first Ronald McDonald House, the success of RMHC is our close ties to the medical community. In this interview, Dr. Falletta explains the impact RMHC programs have on a child's recovery and on communities, why RMHC stands apart from other organizations and how treating children is different than adults.
Dr. John M. Falletta, M.D. is a Professor of Pediatrics, Duke University and a former RMHC Global Board Member.
1. How did you first get involved with RMHC?
My involvement with RMHC began through my commitment to help open a Ronald McDonald House in Durham, North Carolina, 30-years ago. The opportunity to provide leadership and expertise in developing healthcare delivery systems in service to children has been marvelous. Serving on the RMHC Global Board permits the application of what I know to a much broader audience.
2. In your words, what makes RMHC different?
There isn't an organization I am aware of that focuses on the whole family like Ronald McDonald House Charities. It was so innovative when it was started, and still is. The Ronald McDonald House provides support without regard for the diagnosis or kind of illness a child is fighting. Its programs helps meet an immense need of supporting the entire family in order to strengthen the child.
RMHC also has a large number of bright, committed people who have a single focus that grounds the organization globally and locally. Our charity is unique because it has the checks and balances in place with the work of the local Chapter staff, volunteers, families, and board members to allow them to develop programs that are realistic in focus and scope and will likely yield great benefit. Any one of our core programs is a result of this.
3. Your entire career has been dedicated to investigating, treating and helping others learn about illnesses affecting children. What role does family play in their recovery?
I know that both the House and Family Room provide enormous support that is often not available any other way. I have lived through the period of seeing families sleep in hallways and parents were unable to be with their child because they had no place to stay. I am delighted we no longer require that of our parents.
Also, given my experience providing care for my child when he was hospitalized and the calm and secure way in which he was able to go through recovery because we were close by, I am persuaded of the value of these programs from the standpoint of the child and parent. I don't need data to tell me the important it is to a child's recovery that he/she can wake up and know the parents are there for support.
4. Why do programs like the Ronald McDonald House or Ronald McDonald Family Room play such a critical role in a child's recovery?
The approximation of normalcy permits a child to focus energy on a calm, safe recovery, not on fear or coping with uncertainty.
5. How is treating children different than adults?
Children need more family support. Adults are more self reliant and call upon existing relationships, experiences or information resources to cope with particular situations. Children often don't have that benefit. So it is even more important that family is nearby, and they have the support of families in similar situations, to help a child manage through tough situations. When all of that support function falls on parents it can be very emotionally draining with the end result likely to be needs of a child being unmet. That is why the Ronald McDonald House and Ronald McDonald Family room is so important because it helps support the parents so they can support their child.
6. In your words, describe the Ronald McDonald Care Mobile program? What impact does it have on communities?
The Ronald McDonald Care Mobile (RMCM) is an important extension of a hospital's satellite clinics. The program permits reaching people closer to their home and makes the clinic process more human and accessible. Because of the broad range of services, families can avoid traveling to a big hospital, dealing with crowds, and waiting in an environment full of strangers. All of this happens while not degrading the quality of care.
It was a stroke of genius when it was first created. There may be other mobile health programs, but I am not aware of a program that has the range of services a RMCM provides to a community. With everything from standard medical and dental care to innovative services like blood collection in rural areas, this program fills a need. The communities they travel to are vulnerable and the families would potentially never have access to high quality health care without the RMCM program.
7. What are the critical health issues facing children today? How/why is RMHC positioned to be part of the solution?
Technology associated with modern medicine is complex enough that it isn't going to be available to everyone, everywhere. People will need to travel to get the care they need for their child. Because health care is so expensive, every effort needs to be made to minimize the cost of receiving high quality health care. Also, with more care being delivered in an outpatient setting, families will need a place to stay, such as at a Ronald McDonald House.
8. How important are the relationships RMHC has with the medical community?
Starting with the creation of the first Ronald McDonald House, the success of RMHC has been very dependent upon three broad groups: McDonald's and other corporate and individual donors; the medical community; and parents, community members and volunteers. The strength of RMHC depends on the strength of all three groups working together and has served the test of time by delivering quality, effective programs for over 35 years. The partnerships developed must remain robust to continue to benefit children and their families.
9. In what ways do RMHC and the medical community work together?
RMHC and health care providers work together in the delivery of all of the core programs. For example, the fact that the House is a safe haven where a child can view it not as an extension of a hospital room but as a place like home is a result of the medical community wanting to ensure the children had the benefit of being near the hospital with the protection of a home environment.
For the Ronald McDonald Care Mobile, the development of the program is a blend of the services available through a clinical service provider, tailored to the needs of the community.
The medical community often is a donor, a partner and an advisor. In every core program there is a commitment from the hospital for space, land, knowledge and/or services. There is a credibility that RMHC has built over the years that allows hospital administrators to have confidence in the programs, to know that best practices are being shared between the Chapters and applied to new programs.
10. In your 30 years working with RMHC, how have you seen our programs and impact evolve?
Early on we focused on developing the Ronald McDonald House program but were open to new opportunities to create more impact which resulted in the creation of the Ronald McDonald Family Room and Ronald McDonald Care Mobile program. We also are open to funding activities that are more exploratory but have potential to become another core program.
As board members, we are acutely aware that we don't' know it all. This openness allows us to consider new, scalable ideas that complement our mission. And, most importantly we rarely plan from the top down. All the great ideas come from the people on the ground. We simply try to capture the core elements that were successful.
Delivering health care is truly about tailoring treatment to an individual. We take that same approach at RMHC; our local Chapters tailor the services and programs to the needs of their individual communities. This philosophy will allow RMHC to continually evolve and create impact.
11. Why should RMHC be considered an investment on the behalf of a donor?
A. They would be involving themselves in an initiative that has strong record of commitment to health and the well-being of children and has the people, knowledge and relationships to make it all happen.
B. With the strong infrastructure and vast network of support that exists at RMHC, a donor's contributions would be multiplied.
C. They would be part of a large network of donors who are investing in an organization whose reputation is strong, both in duration and in its qualities, and has been tested, scrutinized and found to be excellent.
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Andrew Bogut and the Warriors are apparently talking about a contract extension, which would be a mistake for both the player and the team. Plus, Wesley Matthews feels disrespected, Dwight Howard puts his foot in his mouth again and more.
Andrew Bogut doesn't really have much of a filter, which is fantastic when he's not being a culture warrior. This summer, the Warriors chased Dwight Howard hard. Landing him would have meant dumping Bogut, possibly for peanuts. (You can't pay two eight-figure centers.) But Golden State didn't get Howard in the end, and Bogut's still here. And now, for some reason, it's apparently time to negotiate a new contract, even though he's signed through this season.
So, Bogut is keeping in mind that the Warriors didn't show a tremendous amount of loyalty to him. From Scott Howard-Cooper at
"[I]f I was sitting in the GM's position with the Golden State Warriors, I'd make that deal. It's a future Hall of Fame center for a guy that was banged up and struggled through a season. I can't take personally. It's a business. They're trying to get better. Obviously it does play on your mind a little bit in the offseason, but that's part of business. At the same time, if I do become a free agent, I'm going do what I can to do what's best for myself."
Emphasis mine. Remember, this is what got LeBron James into trouble: choosing self-interest over loyalty. But pro sports is the least loyal industry in existence! Most teams will do everything they can to avoid paying players who don't produce and to upgrade talent, no matter the impact on the players involved. It's part of the game. So too is free agency: there's a built-in system that gives players some semblance of free choice.
But there's still way too much emotion wrapped up in all sorts of sports decision-making, primarily from the player's side. Bogut talks elsewhere in that great interview about being willing to make concessions to stay with Golden State. Given Bogut's injury history and Golden State's very recent attempt to flip him, there should be no concessions. Bogut has one big contract left. A man stripped of emotion would grab the biggest payday possible.
It's worth noting that Bogut does openly mention that other teams are asking his agent about his plans. Isn't that reason enough not to take an incentive-laden extension from Golden State and see what a healthy season gets him on the market? He says that intriguing teams in the Western Conference have expressed interest. So, the Mavericks probably, and maybe the Lakers, Blazers or Kings. There's a lot of potential money in those teams. Why give it up now?
And if you're the Warriors, unless you're getting a screaming deal, why commit to a player who has played 44 games in the past two seasons? Golden State and Bogut both have time on their sides, so these early discussions are pretty eyebrow-raising. This is a classic case where patience could be rewarded for everybody involved.
If you haven't sat down with Flinder Boyd's longform piece on Sacramento streetballer T.J. Webster, be sure to do so today. Speaking as a local, Boyd captures the essence of Del Paso Heights well (unfortunately). And man, what a powerfully sad tale.
The best way to piss off Wesley Matthews is to rank him below J.J. Hickson and Raymond Felton, apparently. From a cool Matthews profile in The Oregonian by Joe Freeman:
Another message from another friend set his skin on fire. ESPN had released its top-to-bottom rankings of NBA players and slotted Matthews 130th, behind players such as JJ Hickson (127), Lou Williams (120) and - gasp - Raymond Felton (108).
"When they showed me the ESPN rankings, that (stuff) really (ticked) me off," Matthews said. "My friends already got me excited coming into the season with their stuff. I was already ready to get back to having that extreme hunger, like famine, like the you-haven't-eaten-in-weeks hunger. But when the ESPN rankings came out? That was crazy. That's just disrespectful. But, you know what, whatever. I've never been given the benefit of the doubt yet, so why should it start now?"
From the Orlando Sentinel:
I'm all for candid athletes (see: Bogut, above), but there are certain things it is probably best not to say when you're trying to rebuild your image after two years of unending drama. And one of those things best kept private is disappointed that your first team didn't retire your jersey number immediately upon your disastrous departure.
In that same interview, Howard commits to wear chaps, a 10-gallon hat and cowboy boots in public if the Rockets make the NBA Finals. So there's that.
Marko Jaric got waived by the Nets on Tuesday.
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The big news this week is that comedy board gaming series Board With Life released their first episode! We feel a profound kinship with these guys. Like us, they're working with no money, an awful lot of heart and they're all startlingly handsome. In fact, I like it so much I've embedded it after the jump.
Look! There's even a shot where someone puts a game component in their mouth. We've found our soulmates.
If you like these guys, give 'em a cheeky little Facebook like or a wee follow on the Twitter. In all seriousness, I think part of improving board gaming's PR problem will be coaxing the hobby into contact with other culture, which these guys are doing admirably ANYWAY games!
news aug 12 arctic
This is shaping up to be uniquely selfish Games News. See, the new edition of Expedition: Northwest Passage isn't strictly news, per se, but I've just remembered it's coming this year and am pumped like an inflatable mattress.
What you're looking at is a game of players commanding ships, searching for a trace of Sir John Franklin's 1845 expedition to find the titular Northwest Passage through the arctic ocean. And look! You can dispatch your men on tiny wooden sleds! Pretty sure cardstock that thick is illegal, too.
The game proper sounds like a mix of carefully splitting your manpower between your sled and ship, and meticulous placing of tiles to guide your ship onwards while blocking your opponents in a maze of slowly freezing ice. Could be really quite interesting. More games where mankind battles the elements, plz.
news aug 12 turtles
You know what else I think looks good? Galapagos. A game of rolling dice, and then using them to stagger around an island in the noble pursuit of collecting turtles. Lots of nice simultaneous play. Everyone rolls their dice, then whoever decides on the order of their dice first picks up a sand timer to rush the other players. Sand timers! Brilliant.
There's nothing about this game that doesn't look awesome. Roll a dice! Turn some sand. Walk onto a thing. Pick up a turtle. I don't know. I haven't been sleeping well recently. What day is it?
news aug 12 invaders
Alright, so I'm not awake enough to do my usual sales pitch. Let's look at a new announcement with a bit more pizazz.
White Goblin Games are a Dutch publisher perhaps most famous for Revolver, an asymmetrical 2 player Wild West card game. One player controls a deck representing the forces of law and order, the other plays outlaw Jack Colty, "a man so mean he’d steal a fly from a blind spider."
This week, White Goblin announced Invaders. Another appealingly asymmetrical game, but this time bigger, bolder, with an actual board and a setting where someone gets to play sexy sexy aliens, and the other plays a whole world's worth of humans.
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Paul and I have only played the sequel to Revolver, Revolver 2, and chatted about it on this podcast. Our definitive, professional conclusion: It was basically fine and we liked the alligators.
But it also didn't feel like the card game format was quite right for White Goblin. These are designers who clearly love working with really strong themes. I'm curious about Invasion because a big box board game sounds like a better fit. Give these guys a glossy board and a ton of tokens! Give them what they need to capture our imagination. Then, I think, we'll see what they can really do.
news aug 12 lake
AND FINALLY, speaking of publishers hitting their stride, wargame factory GMT games have announced the fourth title in their COIN series, which models COunterINsurgency (do you see?) and guerrilla warfare, titled Fire in the Lake. A game where 1-4 players control 4 wildly different factions in the Vietnam war: The United States and the Army of the Republic of Vietnam, taking on the Vietnam People's Army and Viet Cong.
Now, see, this just isn't fair. Last year GMT sent us a copy of the excellent Labyrinth: War on Terror, and we still haven't played enough of it for a review. Then they announced Andean Abyss, the first game in the COIN series, and I lost my shit.
news aug 12 andean
There's the board. This game is out right now and sounds incredible. A wargame modelling 1990s Colombia where 1-4 players either control the Colombian government, right wing rebels, left wing rebels or the drug cartels, each player's allegiances swapping wildly as one faction emerges as a leader.
"Oh, my god!" I shouted aloud to my empty bedroom. "We're getting Labyrinth reviewed, then getting that played immediately."
Then GMT announced Cuba Libre. COIN game #2, set during Cuban's communist revolution as US-funded gangsters struggle to keep Castro from power.
And THEN GMT announced A Distant Plain, snapping the COIN rules effortlessly onto a contemporary Afghanistan setting. And now comes news of Fire in the Lake. Are they joking. I haven't played one of these games, and now the fourth is on its way. Help.
There's only one thing for it. At some point in the near future we're doing a GMT week here on Shut Up & Sit Down. Who's with me? Paul? Matt? ...guys?
...Mr. Thrower?
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Celta: Pinto; Coira, Sergio, Cáceres, Yago (Velasco 70'); Vagner (Giovanella 85'), Doriva; Edu, Boban, Jesuli (Berizzo70'); McCarthy. 4-2-3-1.
0-1. 02. McCarthy. Received pass from Jesuli and beat Vaniek.
0-2. 32. Cáceres. Beat keeper from inside area after Boban corner.
1-2. 47. Siegl. Shot over advancing Pinto from inside area.
2-2. 57. Kotris. Header inside far post from unmarked position.
3-2. 58. Mücha. Picked up ball and shot from edge of area.
4-2. 64. Mücha. Another header from cross by Kobylik.
4-3. 89. Coira. Headed ball in after Kotris clearance came straight at him.
A Celta side full of reserves qualified comfortably for the second round of the UEFA cup. With a four goal lead from the first round this was always going to be a formality, and Víctor Fernández used the opportunity to give players such as Coira, Yago, Doriva and Benni McCarthy their first starts of the season. Benni McCarthy opened the scoring as early as the second minute after Jesuli won back the ball, and Cáceres took advantage of slackness in the defence on the half hour mark to control Boban's corner on the chest and volley the ball home.
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Sequences and Series
General Sequences and Series
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A sequence is a function whose domain is the positive integers. The value of the function at a given integer is a term of the sequence. The range of a sequence is the set of its terms. Sequences are not typically written as ordered pairs, or drawn as graphs; a sequence is most often represented by a list of its terms starting with the first term, followed by the second, and so on. A general sequence looks something like this: a 1, a 2, a 3,…, a n , where n is an integer, and a n is the n th term of the sequence. A sequence can also be written as a formula for which any integer can be the input, and the corresponding term is the output.
Here is an example sequence: a n = 2n = 2, 4, 6, 8, 10,… , where n is an integer. The formula a n = 2n is called an explicit formula for the sequence. By plugging any integer n into the explicit formula for the sequence, the n th term can be found.
When a sequence is given by an explicit formula, it is easy to find the n th term of the sequence. The desired n need only be plugged into the equation to find the n th term. Sometimes, however, a sequence is given by listing the first four or five terms, and then an n th term must be found. In such a case the only way to find the n th term is to study the first few terms and try to find a pattern, and express it in a formula. This is a form of mathematical induction, which is essentially the process of recognizing patterns. Keep in mind that more than one sequence may share the first few terms, so there is not one right answer for a problem like this. Any explicit formula for which the first given terms are correct is an acceptable formula. In fact, in some cases, the same sequence may be given by more than one explicit formula. Mathematical induction requires creativity.
It is often useful to be able to calculate the sum of the terms in a sequence. The sum of the terms in a sequence is called a series. An infinite series is the sum of the terms in an infinite sequence. A finite series is the sum of the terms in a finite sequence. To express series conveniently, we use summation notation. It looks like this: a k = a 1 + a 2 + a 3 + ... + a n . The index of summation is k . This equation might be read "The sum of the terms of a k as k goes from 1 to n ". a n is a sequence, and the summation of the sequence is a series.
The following facts are true of summation notation, where a i and b i are sequences and c is a constant:
ca i = c× a i
(a i±b i) = a i± b i
Certain sequences can be defined a third way, besides by an explicit formula or by listing the first few terms of the sequence. A recursive sequence is a sequence in which the n th term can be expressed as a function of the previous term. Such a sequence can be defined recursively by stating two things: the first term, and a formula in which a n+1 is defined in terms of a n . Two common forms of recursive sequences are arithmetic sequences and geometric sequences. They will be the topics of discussion in the next two sections.
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So can no one figure out a calculator? By the time the get done paying to get out of contracts and lawyers and everyone associated with this deal, they'll be in the negative fresh from the start. So any profit they hoped to make from the sale won't be there. To top it off, they wont have that source of taxable income to pay off the debt. What idiots are in charge here?
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News that a senior minister in Her Majesty's government didn't know his Arpanet from his elbow has ruffled some feathers among learned British Net users. A number of people have contacted The Register to say that Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, was right when he claimed yesterday that the Internet was a British invention. Surely, there's some mistake? Everyone knows that those military techies in the US invented the Net, just as everyone knows that it was an American who first set foot on the moon. "Not so," cried an uncharacteristically vocal band of Brits eager to defend one of the nation's finest technological accomplishments. "You're the one that made the gaffe -- the Net was invented in Britain to send stuff to Sweden. So there," wrote one reader, no doubt with brass knobs on. Other, more reasoned arguments, have suggested that the Net was invented by The Open University and/or the National Physical Laboratory in UK. As reader, Andrew Pitt, explained: "It does seem a little off the mark for Mr Brown to make wide assumptions about the birth of the Internet, but he does have a somewhat misguided point. "Packet Switching, the basis of transmitting information over the Internet by dividing the data into small chunks was invented at Middlesex University. The developers at the time saw great potential and contacted the Minister responsible for technology, which was Tony Benn at the time. However, the government never allocated any money and the research went abroad where ARPA was doling out large sums of money. "So, in a somewhat ironic note, it was actually the last Labour government that killed the early development of the Internet in Britain. It's a very similar story to that of Sir Frank Whittle and the jet engine -- it's a shame the establishment have a dangerous habit of ignoring these people." So, the Net was invented by Brits and rubbished by the same political party back then, that is now attempting to turn the country into a cybernation of wired junkies. Does this now mean that our American readers -- who remained strangely silent when it seemed that The Register was upholding their claim to being the country that invented the Net -- will now bless us with their views on this matter? That is, of course, if Britain and the US aren't in an all-out email blocking war by then... ®
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0.045133 | <urn:uuid:937b812c-784b-4b97-88e1-1d6665879697> | en | 0.983201 | On behalf of 2 million other military kids, thank you, too, for your service and sacrifice.
I began writing a Mother's Day note, and then realized I was writing for a million women like my mom. My message wasn't just from me, but from 2 million kids who, like me, have sent a parent off to war in the past 10 years.
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By moving constantly, it's also hard for my mom to have a job. My mom discovered that there wasn't much use for a political adviser in a small town in North Carolina. Finding a new job every two or three years is so hard that a study by Blue Star Families found that 52% of non-employed military spouses would like to work.
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I know my mom must have covered up her own grief to comfort me and my brother when we've hugged our best friends goodbye. Then it is on to the next town or country. A new house has to be found. A new school has to be picked. Everything has to be unpacked, and new connections have to be made.
Then a couple years later, everything is moved again. There's a common phrase used by military families: Home is where the family is — and it's true. After a few months the new house feels like home, but it's the spouse who makes it that way.
Many people think members of the military are the only ones who chose to serve their country. My dad wouldn't serve unless my mom supported him. When my mom chose to follow the path of military spouse, she was choosing to serve and sacrifice for her country as well.
So happy Mother's Day to all the military moms. Maybe this holiday can be a chance for more Americans to appreciate what you do.
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oh, and how is it "going around voters"? they made an appeal! and if the county says yes, then it says yes! and if it says no, then it says no! the counsel members are elected, and they will do what is in the best interest of the voters. and if there is a loophole in the system, i say use it. people use them every day. "so what, the speed limit says 65mph, but traffic is moving at 80 so i think i will too". cornerstone isnt breaking a law. last i checked, appealing something wasn't illegal.
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Am I going through withdrawal bleeding or is this something else? It's not time for my period.
I ended my birth control a week into the pack (I now know it wasn't a good idea.) I started noticing signs of ovulation in my MC however here it is almost 3 weeks since I stopped the pills and now I'm bleeding. It's not very heavy and it started brown went to pink and now it's just a bright red.It's lasted 3 days now. My cervix is pretty high and soft. I'm just really confused could this just be withdrawal bleeding or could this be Implantation bleeding?
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It had been BYU's best basketball season ever -- and the Cougars' starting center, Brandon Davies - was partly the reason. The 6-foot-9 sophomore electrified the court as one of the teams' leading scorers. But this week - BYU shocked fans by bouncing Davies off the team - not for a criminal offense, but a personal one.
"This involved a very serious infraction and it certainly was not for something very minor," said Carri Jenkins, BYU
The infraction? BYU won't say. But from sports talk shows -- to the nation's sports pages - it's been widely reported Davies was booted for having pre-marital sex.
"Players get kicked out of school all the time, but not for the things that byu players do, and theirs ends up on the front page," said Brad Rock, Columnist the Deseret News.
Now, pre-marital sex might not sound like a headline these days, but at BYU- that's a violation of the honor code - something the school considers more important than a potentially historic season.
"it's not about right and wrong, it's about commitment," said Dave Rose, BYU's Cougars' basketball coach. BYU's honor code is a reflection of the lds church - Mormons run the private university.
Not only does their code require students to "live a chaste and virtuous life" - which the school says, pre-marital sex is not - but it also insists students "abstain from tea, coffee" - and "use clean language."
"We understand that people across the country might think this is foreign to them, and they're shocked and surprised. but for us, we deal with this quite often," said Tom Holmore, BYU athletic director.
Reno Mahe learned the hard way - an honor code violation got him sidelined from BYU's football team in 1998. He went on to play for the Philadelphia Eagles and says, looking back, it was a good thing.
"You get a lot of schools that say they have codes, but i don't think anyone enforces it the way byu does," said Reno Mahe, former BYU student. Students say the message isn't intolerance of sex or caffeine or anything else -- it's about sticking to a promise - no matter the cost.
"People do get by, people do get away with bad things sometimes, but that doesn't make it right," said Scott Maddux, BYU senior. College sports may be a religion in itself -- but students know at BYU - the school practices what it preaches.
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Technology is pretty cool alright. Yep, pretty cool alright indeed. With all this technology whizzing through our every waking moment, you think we would all just stop for a moment, content with all we've done, and say " fair play lads" or some similar gesture of dues.
But no, the way the human race works, is entirely different. We're like some form of mass organized perpetual accelerator, fueled by impatience and bettering one and other. What was once fast, is now slow, in this world of never ending advancements, and it will leave you behind like a bear at a kids party. It seems as soon as a new technology is deemed new, within, what seems like, a brief moment, it is replaced by a superior technology, rendering the latter obsolete in a way. To put it into perspective, back in the 80's a micro computer was release with 16Kb of RAM, that was a lot. Now you've got computers with 32Gb of RAM. Which is 20000 times better than that of its predecessor, that's as if it almost doubled its capabilities everyday from 1980 to 2011. Im mean there's already flying cars, video games that you control with your mind, autonomous computers built into you're house and a god damned space hotel.
The speed of this advancement is, to me? fucking nuts. Compared to the how long it took for this earth to gain an intelligent conscious. We have been civilised for the most minuscule fraction of the universe's existence, and already we have redesigned the whole face of the earth into this, luxury apartment. Its like the big bold human race has donned a blindfold and began racing towards a cliff edge, who knows what’s going happen, or where we're going to end up, all we do know is, we can't see and we're going pretty fast.
I'm not saying its wrong to be impatience, cause impatience is a virtue these days, its given us faster cars, the drive-through and the electronic mail system (to name a few). All I'm saying is that we should appreciate the times we live in, forget about the recessions, the pollutions and politicians. Stop for a moment and ponder with me here, imagine 500 years from now, endless possibilities. 500 years ago, America wasn't even colonized and people would probably lynch you, just cause they like that sort of thing, thats how far we've come in such small time. So just think of the evolution to date, and try to comprehend the outcomes of this one man race we've gotten ourselves into.
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Australia becoming multi-ethnic is a good thing, and that is what Multiculturalism was originally sold on.
What Australians originally considered as mere semtantics was the fact that the term "Multicultralism" meant a lot more than that.
Now we suffer the consequences, as people are positively encouraged and rewarded for rejecting any mutual obligation or idea of commonality or universal community, and are each immigrant group is instructed to form ethnic-based communities in rivalry, and rejecting of, all others.
How stupid were Al Grassby and Malcolm Fraser? We should all be taught to consider ourselves Australian, and to work towards a common set of cultural values based on equality and to be a broad single community - not a bunch of competing racist tribes.
"Multiculturalism" is a complete failure, and hinders our successful multiethnic development!!
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I don't get to parse too much JSON code with Java because the biggest JSON source I work with is Twitter, and I always use the Twitter4J project to interact with their web services. But a few days ago while working on an Android project, I just wanted to access their "Twitter Trends" REST service, and I used Java and the Java library that comes with Android to parse the Twitter Trends JSON feed like this:
Java SimpleDateFormat example - Convert a Date to a formatted String
Summary: This tutorial demonstrates how to use the Java SimpleDateFormat class to convert a Java Date to a formatted String.
The Java SimpleDateFormat class provides lets you easily convert (a) between a Java String to a Date or (b) perform the opposite conversion, from a Java Date to a String. In this article we'll at several different ways to convert a Java Date object to a nicely formatted String object, and in another article we'll look at a couple of nice ways for converting in the opposite direction.
An AppleScript current time example
AppleScript time FAQ: Can you share an AppleScript example that shows how to work with the current time?
If you ever need an AppleScript current time example, or an AppleScript to parse and format the current time, I hope this following script will be helpful. This AppleScript script gets the current time, formats it, and then speaks the current time back to you in a human-friendly format:
A Ruby JPEG example - Use Ruby to get the date and time from a JPEG file
A few weeks ago when I upgraded my iPhone 3G to iOS 4, I hooked up my iPhone to my old Windows computer, where it was originally sync'd. Downloading my iPhone photos onto my Windows XP computer was a pain, and worse than that, in the process, the iPhone photos were pulled off the phone in some random order, so all the photos are completely out of order when I look at them in the Windows Explorer or the Mac Finder.
How do I convert a String to a double with Java?
Question: How do I convert a String to a double with Java?
Answer: Converting a String to a double requires that you first convert the String to a Double object, then convert the Double object to a double data type (Double is an object, while double is a primitive data type).
Here's the source code for an example Java program that performs this conversion:
Java String to number conversions
Java String to number FAQ: How do I convert a String to a number in Java?
You convert a Java String to a number using the methods of the class whose type you want to convert to. For instance, if you want to try to convert a String to an int, you use the parseInt() method of the Java Integer class, like this:
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Netflix agrees to delay in renting out Warner movies
Under the deal, the fast-growing DVD subscription company will wait until 28 days after a movie goes on sale before offering it to customers.
January 07, 2010|By Ben Fritz and Dawn C. Chmielewski
• Netflix workers sort DVDs at the company's Piscataway, N.J., distribution center in March.
Netflix workers sort DVDs at the company's Piscataway, N.J., distribution… (Marine Laouchez / AFP/Getty…)
Reporting from Los Angeles and Las Vegas — On Wednesday evening, Mike Chauvet opened a red envelope from Netflix and popped "The Hangover" into his DVD player.
"I try to get most of the movies I watch through Netflix," said the 30-year-old physician, who lives in Queens, N.Y.
Now he's going to have to wait for the privilege.
Warner Bros. has struck a deal with Netflix Inc. whereby the fast-growing DVD subscription firm won't offer the studio's movies until 28 days after they go on sale. Had the deal been in effect last month, "The Hangover," which went on sale Dec. 15, wouldn't be available on Netflix until Jan. 14.
"Within the home entertainment category, we're creating different times at which a product is available at different prices," said Kevin Tsujihara, Warner Bros.' home entertainment president.
Although Warner's unilateral move against Redbox has led to a court battle, Netflix agreed to the 28-day window in exchange for improved financial terms and more content for its Internet streaming service.
DVD sales declined 13.7% last year, and some studios have fingered Redbox and Netflix as primary culprits. Despite their fast growth, Redbox and Netflix rentals generate comparatively smaller profits for studios.
Other studios besides Warner have privately expressed similar concerns about Netflix, which has more than 11 million subscribers. 20th Century Fox and Universal Pictures, in a possible signal of their intentions toward Netflix, have already restricted the availability of their DVDs to Redbox.
Under the complex renewal terms finally worked out, Netflix agreed to the 28-day delay in exchange for a more favorable percentage of rental revenue from Warner Bros. discs. Netflix will use the savings to expand its stock of the studio's DVDs and triple the number of Warner catalog titles it provides through its online streaming option.
Sarandos said that Internet streaming is a key growth area for Netflix and that he hoped other studios would follow Warner's lead.
"There are all different levels of interest," he said. "Future deals will depend on timing and other studios' appetites to make a bet on that window."
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Imtiaz on his Brazilian 'Harleen'
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Says Imtiaz Ali, director of Love Aaj Kal, on why he chose a Brazilian, "I was auditioning girls from all over the country but couldn't find the right girl to play the 1965 ki gali mein rehne wali ladki, purane zamane ki."
Giselle walked into Imtiaz's office one day for the part of Saif's firang girlfriend. "She wasn't right for Jo, but I realised she was Brazil's Harleen." Giselle understood the old-world values of her small town character better than an urban Indian actress would have. "The small-town mentality in every part of the world is similar," he says.
Even when Harleen was seen in the trailers, her identity was a closely guarded secret. When she came to Delhi for the premiere of the film on Thursday last week, Giselle was available for photographs, but forbidden to say a word. At the time, the representative from Saif's production company who accompanied her refused to tell DT her name, and only said that "she plays Harleen, and she's very happy. She'll give interviews later." She did answer to her name when called by it, which was perhaps a slip at that point!
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Onam in Neeravil is a bit different
TNN Aug 28, 2012, 04.40AM IST
KOLLAM: Neeravil village, like in the previous years, is celebrating Onam differently. This tiny hamlet near Thrikadavoor has been celebrating the festival differently for the past two decades under the aegis of the Navodayam model village library.
Indigenous competitions like 'thondu thallal' (beating retted coconut husks), 'kayarpiri' (spinning coir) and 'olamedayal' (plaiting of coconut leaves) may seem a little weird to outsiders, but for the villagers, it is yet another chance to experience the long lost traditional way of life their ancestors led.
Hundreds of villagers joined the celebrations at Adumbuvila Kayalvaram on the banks of Ashtamudi Lake on Sunday, the flash rain adding fervour to their spirit.
MLA P K Gurudasan, who joined the people in the celebration, said it was a unique way of celebrating Onam. "The competitions conducted here recall the revolutionary spirit of the villagers. The village has in the past witnessed numerous strikes by coir labourers for their rights. The competitions will recall those days of social unity and integrity. This is like a walk down the memory lane for many of the elderly in the village," he said.
While the elderly participated in majority of the competitions, the younger generation cheered them on and tried to pick up the basics of the art.
The celebrations concluded with the distribution of 'Onappudava' to the elderly mothers of the village.
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0.024736 | <urn:uuid:0edd2bde-fbf6-4be7-b8f7-ba613f386cdf> | en | 0.961306 | NHL Free Agency: 15 Free Agents Who Could Still Make a Difference in 2012-13
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The summer months have all but come to a close and the hockey season is closer to starting. Even though there is a lockout pending, there are players who are still looking for a team.
These players may not be the most effective or the cream of the crop but they are the top remaining free agents and they are solid players who can fill a role that could make a difference for a team during the 2012-13 season.
Sergei Samsonov
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Sergei Samsonov last played in the NHL during the 2010-11 season with the Florida Panthers and Carolina Hurricanes. During that season, Samsonov tallied 13 goals and 27 assists for 40 points in 78 games. He is a former 75-point performer who usually hovered in the 40-to-50 point range.
Samsonov is only 33 years old and the time off from action will give him fresh legs. He has talent to be a decent secondary performer in the NHL.
Tomas Holmstrom
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Tomas Holmstrom is still a free agent and he only wants to sign with the Detroit Red Wings. He is a player who can still make an impact. Holmstrom is a power play specialist who loves to camp in front of the net.
All but one of Holmstrom's 11 goals in 2011-12 came on the power play and most of them were stuff-in shots in front of the cage . Bringing Holmstrom back for another year will definitely have an impact on the Red Wings and their power play.
Petr Sykora
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Petr Sykora was a huge surprise for the New Jersey Devils last season and it is a huge surprise that they haven't re-signed him.
He scored 21 goals and added 23 assists for 44 points in 82 games and he only made $650k.
Adding Sykora as a veteran and in a secondary role is a wise move based on how he performed last year and how much of a bargain he proved to be.
Sykora is still a skilled skater with decent hands so it wouldn't be surprising to see him hit 40 points again in 2012-13.
Kurtis Foster
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Speaking of former New Jersey Devils, Kurtis Foster is an offensive defenseman who has had ups and downs during his NHL career but he still would be able to make a difference for an NHL team in 2012-13.
Foster has good offensive instincts and has shown that he can put up 40 points in a season.
Foster's offensive abilities and potential could be enough to draw interest from teams that are seeking a bottom-pairing offensive defenseman.
Jason Arnott
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Jason Arnott is another former New Jersey Devil that could make an impact for a team in 2012-13.
Arnott is a veteran who hasn't received a contract offer for 2012-13 but he could still make an impact next season.
Arnott is a Stanley Cup champion power forward who still has a lot left in the tank. He is a decent bottom-six center who can still win faceoffs and kill penalties. Adding a veteran like Arnott would really add experience and depth to any team in the NHL.
Andrei Kostitsyn
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Andrei Kostitsyn is a player who can be productive in the right situation and it is possible that he could have an impact in 2012-13.
He is a skilled offensive player with defensive zone deficiencies but with the right coach, Kostitsyn could turn his game around.
If teams are willing to put his past curfew suspension aside, Kostitsyn could go down as a bargain UFA signing.
Michal Rozsival
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Michal Rozsival is a solid bottom-pairing defender who can eat up a lot of minutes and that is why he is a defender who could make a difference in 2012-13.
He isn't the most offensive or physical defenseman, but he still has some value in the league. Rozsival is a veteran and a good teammate and that is something that every team would want to add to their locker room.
Pavel Kubina
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It is hard to comprehend that Pavel Kubina is still on the market after considering the teams that were after him at the trade deadline.
Kubina is a puck-moving defender who will eat up second-pairing or third-pairing minutes and he will add some offense.
He is a defenseman that has experience and it could really help teams that are looking for that extra piece to become a deep playoff contender.
Jochen Hecht
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Jochen Hecht is a player who is looking to rebound in 2012-13 after an injury-ridden 2011-12 season.
Hecht could have an impact in 2012-13 because he is a defensive bottom-nine forward who kills penalties and wins faceoffs.
Although Hecht has regressed significantly and isn't the same player he was in his prime, he has the intangibles to make it work on almost an NHL team.
Chris Campoli
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Chris Campoli has battled injuries the past few years but now that he is healthy, he is a defenseman that could make a difference in 2012-13.
Campoli is a defenseman who excels when it comes to puck possession and the offensive side of the game. His speed makes him a mobile defenseman and that makes him valuable enough to overlook his defensive deficiencies.
Nonetheless, Campoli would be a welcome addition to any team's bottom pairing because of his shot and offensive qualities.
Dominic Moore
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Dominic Moore has played for multiple teams throughout his NHL career and it seems that he can never stick in one spot.
Moore will find a job for the 2012-13 season because is a solid bottom-six player who will win faceoffs, play in the dirty areas of the ice and he will chip in some secondary offense from time to time.
Moore has the experience so it will be a matter of time before he finds a team to call home for the upcoming season.
Daymond Langkow
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Every team in the NHL could use a veteran forward that can play a versatile role and Daymond Langkow is one of those veteran forwards still looking for a job. He is no longer a spry 20-year-old but the 35-year-old forward can still kill penalties and chip in 30 points of offense a season.
Langkow is also a solid two-way center and a superb defensive forward who will contribute offense in spurts, but he brings intangibles and veteran leadership.
Andrew Brunette
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Andrew Brunette is a veteran forward who can have an impact as a secondary scorer as long as he has enough ice time.
His stint with the Chicago Blackhawks rendered him almost useless because he didn't have enough opportunities to contribute.
Brunette is only a couple years removed from his stretch of 50-plus point campaigns where he was in a top-six role.
If Brunette is paired with the right linemates, there is no reason why he can't return to his 50-point form.
Brian Rolston
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Brian Rolston is a player that would fill a niche role on a team in 2012-13 and he would be worth adding. Rolston could be acquired just for his power play prowess and his booming heavy shot.
If teams wanted a veteran that has experience and other intangibles, Rolston is the man for the job. Although his best days are behind him, he still has one of the heaviest shots in the NHL.
Shane Doan
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Shane Doan said he will make a decision by September 15th and the clock is ticking. He has waited as long as he possibly can for prospective owner Greg Jamison to get the necessary funds together so he can buy the Phoenix Coyotes and keep them in Glendale.
Doan currently has a few offers on the table so it will be interesting to see when and where he signs.
Wherever he does sign he will have an impact because Doan is a veteran leader who can play in a top-six role and he will score at least 20 goals while contributing 45 points or more.
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Answer’s in Genesis is “an an apologetics ministry, dedicated to enabling Christians to defend their faith and to proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ effectively.”
It’s also the source of the following video depicting a white kid aiming a loaded gun at the camera while some man states that “if you don’t matter to God, you don’t matter to anyone”:
The message, of course, is “if it weren’t for my firm belief in the existence of Hell, I’d shoot your ass”, which is a rather common brand of fuckwittery amongst Christian apologists and extremists.
1. EvilGod:
What a brilliant example of the confused state of the average christian. If the Jesus they all think existed, the way he was portrayed in the bible, was to see this he would wonder why the hell he was sacrificed for these idiots.
2. Justice:
Was that the message? The message I got was “Terrorists, we.” | http://bligbi.com/2009/04/16/there%E2%80%99s-a-bullet-with-your-name-on-it/ | dclm-gs1-134910002 | false | false | {
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0.040684 | <urn:uuid:fc8d3fe1-5bfe-478c-a38e-e2bb9a9866f5> | en | 0.947006 | On nature versus nature: A neuroscientist knee-deep in diapers reflects
Posted by: Tedblogguest
By Daniel Colón-Ramos
I could not have designed a better experiment if I had tried.
I am a neuroscientist and I am the father of two-year old triplets—two identical and one fraternal. As a professor at Yale University, I spend most of my time designing experiments, researching or teaching about the brain and the nervous system. The rest of my time I spend surrounded by my three daughters. To understand the dynamics in my household, think terrible-two’s, and then cube it.
In the quiet sanctity of my lab, we study how the nervous system forms during development. In all animals, from humans to the tiny worms that we use for our experiments, neurons connect to each other and form circuits that underlie behaviors. Genes (made of DNA) underpin many aspects of development — from how our brain forms to the color of our eyes.
James Watson: How we discovered DNAJames Watson: How we discovered DNAMy identical twin daughters look identical because they share all of their DNA; they are essentially clones of each other. They teethed exactly the same day, and their funky hairstyle is not the result of a visit to a stylist, but of genetics. Their personalities, however, are not identical. Not even close. The twin’s personalities, which share 100% of their DNA, are curiously more similar to their fraternal sister than to each other.
That certainly came as a surprise to me. After all, argue all you want about nurture, but behaviors do have genetic underpinnings in the animal kingdom. Take reptiles; soon after hatching from its egg, a baby crocodile can hunt dragonflies with the same dexterity that its parents can hunt antelopes. Who taught the baby crocodile to hunt? Genes.
I reflected about this a lot as I held my newborn daughters in the nursery room of the hospital. Human brains, at birth, do not appear nearly as impressive as a reptilian brain. For crying out loud, the tiny nematodes we use in the lab for our experiments can move around better at birth than a human baby! Newborns appear as blank slates. Are we really a “tabula rasa”? What are the roles of nature (genes) and nurture (our environment) in the development of our brains, in making us human?
Alison Gopnik: What do babies think?Alison Gopnik: What do babies think?My epiphany came with the first visit to the pediatrician. She closely monitored our daughters as they met, in unison, one developmental milestone after the other. As a neuroscientist, I knew what this timely emergence of complex behaviors meant: it is a hallmark of pre-programmed brains. But our pre-programmed brains are not for hunting dragonflies. The evolutionary pressures that have shaped our brains are different from those that have shaped the brains of swamp-bound reptiles.
We are born into complex societies and quickly have to learn to negotiate our place within them. My three kids, the ones playing with my iPhone, are the same species as my ancestors, who 40,000 years ago were figuring out how to sharpen a rock and fit it into a spear. The Homo sapiens brain is wired in a very particular way: to allow us to connect to other human brains.
Our home is testament — a cross between the Tower of Babel and a Univisión soap opera. It is filled with sound, from the tonal Chinese my wife has taught the triplets, to the slurred Puerto Rican Spanish they have learned from me. During the past two years I have witnessed how each of my daughters have masterfully decoded the complex rules of language and social interactions, in three very different and overlapping cultural contexts, and simultaneously. They confidently navigate between languages in a way that sometimes neither my wife nor I can follow. Chatty conversation and festive giggles are only one disagreement away from despair and temper tantrums over a train-set, a Crayola or a dinosaur shirt. But most melt-downs end with hugs, sometimes all three at the same time, as they can’t wait to make up.
Patricia Kuhl: The linguistic genius of babiesPatricia Kuhl: The linguistic genius of babies My daughters’ desire to connect is not just cute, it’s a matter of survival. So important is our need to connect to other human brains that extreme cases of child neglect have resulted in developmental problems not unlike those seen for mental retardation. These extreme cases tell us something profound about the brain. It tells us that even in cases in which normal genetics prime the brain to connect to other brains, the absence of human input cripples brain development. Our brains need other brains to develop properly.
These seemingly delirious thoughts of a sleep-deprived scientist are neither new nor original ideas. Today it is broadly accepted that trying to separate nature from nurture is as asinine as trying to debate if a cake is made out of milk or flour. But this is important beyond a mere academic debate. In science, extreme cases are used to understand concepts. If no human contact during critical developmental periods can cripple brain development, what are the consequences of reduced stimulation due to a defective and underfunded educational system? The United States incarcerates more of its youth than any other country in the world — what are the consequences of growing up in a prison? We are social and co-dependent animals — what are the hidden costs to our society when we ignore the “nurture” part of the human development equation?
The human brain has over 100 billion neurons — there are more neurons in a single human brain than stars in the Milky Way. When a parent stares at the lost, unfocused gaze of a newborn child, they are literarily staring at a constellation of possibilities, at a brain primed through evolution to connect to other brains, to devour information, to adapt and to reach its potential. In truth, I’m highly trained, but not that special; we are all born scientists, and our brains are molded by our favorite subjects of study, other humans. And I have the perfect experiment to prove that — my brain, which has been transformed by my daughters.
Daniel-Colon-RamosDaniel Colón-Ramos is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Cell Biology and the Program in Cellular Neuroscience at the Yale school of Medicine, and is a Public Voices Fellow with The OpEd Project. Watch his talk from TEDxSanJuan, “Lost in Translation: The value of basic research in medicine,” below.
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• brian lang commented on Jan 29 2013
Nature vs Nurture is by far a mind boggling question. Genetics play a huge role in how you will be. Like everything in life it can change. Weather the change is environmental or your culture it will change. Example Americans have become taller over the past century because of a spike in people living a healthier life. When a baby is born it has several natural instincts but after just a short time it goes away because they have already realized that they dont need that side.
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Very interesting….no wonder ultimately it is the environment which shapes us more than the genes and not vice versa….even genetical handicap -can be handled in a different way by different people due to their up bringing.
• commented on Dec 12 2012
Reblogged this on Albert Street.
• Anaele Ihuoma commented on Dec 12 2012
Quite fascinating and, for that reason, a little disturbing, speaking personally. I have a five year old boy with speech challenges. Instead of answering the most basic questions (where is mommy) he echoes the question at you. Things would look up if I thought that nurture could come to the rescue, but if it’s all down to nature (genes) then that tends to leave us helpless, doesnt it? Or , as the Bible says, from whence cometh our help? | http://blog.ted.com/2012/12/11/on-nature-versus-nature-a-neuroscientist-knee-deep-in-diapers-reflects/ | dclm-gs1-134950002 | false | false | {
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Former Herzl Herald editor Lisa Heilicher had a secret hidden under the "Z" heading in an encyclopedia she owned: a poem written by Bob Dylan in the summer of 1957.
The poem, called "Little Buddy," was published in the Herzl Camp newspaper.
Dylan, who was known as Bobby Zimmerman at the time, must have been a lonely, depressed camper. His poem tells the story of a sad child mourning their dead dog. What a skippy little camp poem topic, right?
The poem, handwritten on white paper, will be auctioned off next month. It is expected to sell for up to $15,000.
The poem will be up for auction on June 23 in a Christie's auction. The money will go to the camp in Webster, Wis.
Here is an excerpt from the poem:
"A drunken man got mad at him / Because he barked in joy / He beat him and he's dying here today / Will you call the doctor please / And tell him if he comes right now / He'll save my precious doggy here he lay / Then he left the fluffy head / But his little dog was dead / Just a shiver and he slowly passed away."
The funny part of this whole ordeal: Heilicher doesn't really even like Dylan's music:
Dylan's nieces and nephews work at the camp and told him about the auction. His response? "Do what you want with it."
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0.018985 | <urn:uuid:05f5e01e-3db0-484c-ba23-b3d64571877d> | en | 0.962744 | As Silent Spring's 50th anniversary nears, what would Rachel Carson be saying now?
By: Paul R. Ehrlich
Published: 6-25-2012
Environmental Health News
Carson was properly concerned about the problems of unknown interactions among mixtures of novel chemicals in the environment. Today, with the potential for millions of possible synergisms among the tens of thousands of compounds already released, just identifying the culprits would be an enormous challenge. And if they were identified, removing them from the environment could be an even more monumental task, or most likely prove impossible.
What should be done? In my view there are two basic solutions to situations where the activities of a segment of the human population, often an industry, present a clear and present threat to the human future as once the manufacture of chlorofluorocarbons did in threatening the ozone layer. One answer lies in society finding ways to alter the behavior of the industry to minimize the impacts on those involved. Society needs energy, but it can no longer afford to mobilize it by burning fossil fuels. John Browne had the right idea when he changed British Petroleum Corporation into BP Corporation and gave it the slogan “Beyond Petroleum.” Society needs some synthetic materials, but it can no longer afford to manufacture and distribute them as incautiously as it now does.
Browne’s approach didn’t last at BP, but perhaps converting the toxics producers to “green chemistry” could be a permanent step forward. The idea would be to make the basic ingredients of American prosperity less toxic or non-toxic. This would shift the environmental issues in molecular design upfront. Green chemistry has great promise as a path toward inherently safer materials, but it faces serious impediments. One of the biggest and most immediate is that the field lacks the capacity, in terms of trained people, to ask the right questions and generate workable solutions. At a time when American science education is on the wane and when U.S. industrial jobs are fleeing overseas, this scientific industrial revolution could breathe new life into a sector of industry that may otherwise be doomed to obsolescence and decay.
In an era of exploding populations and escalating resource scarcities, the pressure to produce many substances with known or possible toxicities will probably grow, and grow much more rapidly than scientists can even estimate the risks. This is especially so in view of the myriad potential but unknown synergies possible in the global stew of toxic substances. One solution is to invoke the precautionary principle, by prohibiting all discharge of persistent organic pollutants and rapidly phasing out production of the most dangerous classes of compounds, such as organochlorines. This would shift the burden of proof from having to demonstrate that a chemical is dangerous to requiring it be shown to be safe, although admittedly, criteria would be difficult to establish.
The second and more fundamental answer, I believe, is that the global system needs to be rescaled. It is now in serious overshoot, with more than one Earth now required to support just today’s population indefinitely. Humanity seems to be moving fast away from sustainability, and symptoms of collapse are becoming common. To see that, one need only compare the first oil well that went down 69.5 feet from Earth’s surface to strike oil with Deepwater Horizon, which started a mile under the sea and drilled a couple of miles deeper. A gradual, humane reduction of human population, and a reduction in over-consumption by the rich, would greatly alleviate pressure on the chemical industry to keep churning out dangerous chemicals. I imagine that Carson, with her population-oriented discussion of pesticide problems, would be very sympathetic to such a rescaling. “Populations are kept in check by something the ecologists call the resistance of the environment," she noted, "and this has been so since the first life was created.”
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Crash avoidance
Cycles are typically viewed as consumer products rather than road vehicles with much less attention to design and maintenance issues than received by other road vehicles. As yet, there is no EU-wide whole vehicle type approval system for vehicle design which is covered largely by national regulation.
The role of reflectors and better lighting?
In many countries it is mandatory for the cycle to be fitted with a rear reflector, and reflectors on the wheels. A Dutch study estimated that more than 30% of bicycle crashes in the Netherlands occurring at night or in twilight could have been avoided if bicycle lighting had been used [131]. In Denmark, requires the fitment of lamps and requires their visibility at a distance of 200m. The quality and use of lights can be improved by enabling the storage of separate light systems or by designing the lighting into the cycle frame [3].
The role of better braking?
Studies of bicycle impacts indicate that there are large differences in component strength and the reliability of bicycle brakes and lighting. In the Netherlands, for example, the failure of components such a sudden crash or brake failure causes 10% of all cycle collisions [131].
Crash protection
Can bicycle helmets save lives?
Bicycle helmets can reduce the risk of head and brain injuries by between 63%and 88% [143][144][133]. A meta-analysis of studies on the benefits of bicycle helmets indicated that wearing a helmet had an odds-ratio efficacy of 0.40, 0.42, 0.53 and 0.27 for head, brain, facial and fatal injuries, respectively [9].
Legislation requiring the use of bicycle helmets has been introduced in several countries, including Australia, New Zealand, Sweden and the United States. In countries which do not require the use of helmets by law, the wearing rate is normally less than 10%. Monitoring shows that rates of helmet use tend to be higher among younger children, as opposed to teenagers and adults.
Can cars be made more forgiving?
Research and development to date in Europe has been aimed primarily at improving vehicle design to protect pedestrians in the event of a crash. There is an urgent need for research into how cars can be made more forgiving for cyclists.
Can side guards on trucks help?
When trucks and cyclists are side by side and the truck turns into the direction of the cyclists, the cyclist is at risk of being run over by the motor vehicle. Side guards close off the open space between the wheels of the truck. While fitment is common in several European countries and there is national regulation, no EU-wide requirement yet exists.
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Freelance at Emarketing Manager
22 October 2008 09:18am
Anthony Leaton
I read somewhere that if you send an email that is entirely image based [sliced into parts], that comes from one domain and the email that comes from another was more likely to be picked up by spam filters.
To illustrate: I send email from mycompany.com. I have pictures on a totally different server and not a subdomain. outsidecompany.com. Thus when the email is opened outsidecompany.com gets a request to serve the image.
I cannot seem to find an article on this matter. I wondered if other people did this what experiences they had?
2. G M
Manager at Any Org
21 January 2009 13:16pm
Are you referring to the 'click here to download images' message that can be seen at the top of an email when you open up an image based email?
If that isn't what you are referring to then it is news to me...
However if this is what you are referring to then it isn’t anything to do with hosting it is standard behavior for 99% of email programs to block images. This then leads on to the whole marketing v’s design issue of finding the balance between text and images and getting recipients to add you to their white list (which will allow images to be downloaded automatically).
Does that answer your question or just create another 20 questions?
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Risk assessment consists of an objective evaluation of risk in which assumptions and uncertainties are clearly considered and presented. Part of the difficulty in risk management is that measurement of both of the quantities in which risk assessment is concerned - potential loss and probability of occurrence - can be very difficult to measure. The chance of error in measuring these two concepts is large. Risk with a large potential loss and a low probability of occurring is often treated differently from one with a low potential loss and a high likelihood of occurring. In theory, both are of nearly equal priority, but in practice it can be very difficult to manage when faced with the scarcity of resources, especially time, in which to conduct the risk management process. Expressed mathematically,
R_i=L_i p(L_i)\,\!
R_{total}=\sum_i L_i p(L_i)\,\!
Risk assessment from a financial point of view.
Financial decisions, such as insurance, express loss in terms of dollar amounts. When risk assessment is used for public health or environmental decisions, loss can be quantified in a common metric such as a country's currency or some numerical measure of a location's quality of life. For public health and environmental decisions, loss is simply a verbal description of the outcome, such as increased cancer incidence or incidence of birth defects. In that case, the "risk" is expressed as
R_i= p(L_i)\,\!
If the risk estimate takes into account information on the number of individuals exposed, it is termed a "population risk" and is in units of expected increased cases per a time period. If the risk estimate does not take into account the number of individuals exposed, it is termed an "individual risk" and is in units of incidence rate per a time period. Population risks are of more use for cost/benefit analysis; individual risks are of more use for evaluating whether risks to individuals are "acceptable".
Risk assessment in public health[edit]
In the context of public health, risk assessment is the process of quantifying the probability of a harmful effect to individuals or populations from certain human activities. In most countries the use of specific chemicals or the operations of specific facilities (e.g. power plants, manufacturing plants) is not allowed unless it can be shown that they do not increase the risk of death or illness above a specific threshold. For example, the American Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulates food safety through risk assessment.[3] The FDA required in 1973 that cancer-causing compounds must not be present in meat at concentrations that would cause a cancer risk greater than 1 in a million lifetimes. The US Environmental Protection Agency provides basic information about environmental risk assessments for the public via its risk assessment portal.[4] The Stockholm Convention on persistent organic pollutants (POPs) supports a qualitative risk framework for public health protection from chemicals that display environmental and biological persistence, bioaccumulation, toxicity (PBT) and long range transport; most global chemicals that meet this criteria have been previously assessed quantitatively by national and international health agencies. [5]
How the risk is determined[edit]
Food risk assessment nomogram
In the estimation of risks, three or more steps are involved that require the inputs of different disciplines:
1. Hazard Identification, aims to determine the qualitative nature of the potential adverse consequences of the contaminant (chemical, radiation, noise, etc.) and the strength of the evidence it can have that effect. This is done, for chemical hazards, by drawing from the results of the sciences of toxicology and epidemiology. For other kinds of hazard, engineering or other disciplines are involved.
2. Dose-Response Analysis, is determining the relationship between dose and the probability or the incidence of effect (dose-response assessment). The complexity of this step in many contexts derives mainly from the need to extrapolate results from experimental animals (e.g. mouse, rat) to humans, and/or from high to lower doses. In addition, the differences between individuals due to genetics or other factors mean that the hazard may be higher for particular groups, called susceptible populations. An alternative to dose-response estimation is to determine a concentration unlikely to yield observable effects, that is, a no effect concentration. In developing such a dose, to account for the largely unknown effects of animal to human extrapolations, increased variability in humans, or missing data, a prudent approach is often adopted by including safety factors in the estimate of the "safe" dose, typically a factor of 10 for each unknown step.
3. Exposure Quantification, aims to determine the amount of a contaminant (dose) that individuals and populations will receive. This is done by examining the results of the discipline of exposure assessment. As different location, lifestyles and other factors likely influence the amount of contaminant that is received, a range or distribution of possible values is generated in this step. Particular care is taken to determine the exposure of the susceptible population(s).
Finally, the results of the three steps above are then combined to produce an estimate of risk. Because of the different susceptibilities and exposures, this risk will vary within a population.
Small subpopulations[edit]
When risks apply mainly to small sub-populations, there is uncertainty at which point intervention is necessary. For example, there may be a risk that is very low for everyone, other than 0.1% of the population. It is necessary to determine whether this 0.1% is represented by:
• all infants younger than X days or
• recreational users of a particular product.
If the risk is higher for a particular sub-population because of abnormal exposure rather than susceptibility, strategies to further reduce the exposure of that subgroup are considered. If an identifiable sub-population is more susceptible due to inherent genetic or other factors, public policy choices must be made. The choices are:
• to set policies for protecting the general population that are protective of such groups, e.g. for children when data exists, the Clean Air Act for populations such as asthmatics or
• not to set policies, because the group is too small, or the costs too high.
Acceptable risk criteria[edit]
The idea of not increasing lifetime risk by more than one in a million has become commonplace in public health discourse and policy. It is a heuristic measure. It provides a numerical basis for establishing a negligible increase in risk.
Environmental decision making allows some discretion for deeming individual risks potentially "acceptable" if less than one in ten thousand chance of increased lifetime risk. Low risk criteria such as these provide some protection for a case where individuals may be exposed to multiple chemicals e.g. pollutants, food additives or other chemicals.
In practice, a true zero-risk is possible only with the suppression of the risk-causing activity.
Stringent requirements of 1 in a million may not be technologically feasible or may be so prohibitively expensive as to render the risk-causing activity unsustainable, resulting in the optimal degree of intervention being a balance between risks vs. benefit. For example, emissions from hospital incinerators result in a certain number of deaths per year. However, this risk must be balanced against the alternatives. There are public health risks, as well as economic costs, associated with all options. The risk associated with no incineration is potential spread of infectious diseases, or even no hospitals. Further investigation identifies options such as separating noninfectious from infectious wastes, or air pollution controls on a medical incinerator.
Intelligent thought about a reasonably full set of options is essential. Thus, it is not unusual for there to be an iterative process between analysis, consideration of options, and follow up analysis.
Risk assessment in auditing[edit]
For audits performed by an outside audit firm, risk assessment is a very crucial stage before accepting an audit engagement. According to ISA315 Understanding the Entity and its Environment and Assessing the Risks of Material Misstatement, "the auditor should perform risk assessment procedures to obtain an understanding of the entity and its environment, including its internal control."<evidence relating to the auditor’s risk assessment of a material misstatement in the client’s financial statements. Then, the auditor obtains initial evidence regarding the classes of transactions at the client and the operating effectiveness of the client’s internal controls.In auditing, audit risk includes inherent risk, control risk and detection risk.
Risk assessment and human health[edit]
There are many resources that provide health risk information.
The National Library of Medicine provides risk assessment and regulation information tools for a varied audience.[6] These include:
The United States Environmental Protection Agency provides basic information about environmental risk assessments for the public.[9]
Risk assessment in information security[edit]
IT risk assessment can be performed by a qualitative or quantitative approach, following different methodologies.
Risk assessment in project management[edit]
In project management, risk assessment is an integral part of the risk management plan, studying the probability, the impact, and the effect of every known risk on the project, as well as the corrective action to take should that risk occur.[10]
Risk assessment for megaprojects[edit]
Quantitative risk assessment[edit]
Quantitative risk assessments include a calculation of the single loss expectancy (SLE) of an asset. The single loss expectancy can be defined as the loss of value to asset based on a single security incident. The team then calculates the Annualized Rate of Occurrence (ARO) of the threat to the asset. The ARO is an estimate based on the data of how often a threat would be successful in exploiting a vulnerability. From this information, the Annualized Loss Expectancy (ALE) can be calculated. The annualized loss expectancy is a calculation of the single loss expectancy multiplied by the annual rate of occurrence, or how much an organization could estimate to lose from an asset based on the risks, threats, and vulnerabilities. It then becomes possible from a financial perspective to justify expenditures to implement countermeasures to protect the asset.
Risk assessment in software evolution[edit]
Studies have shown that early parts of the system development cycle such as requirements and design specifications are especially prone to error. This effect is particularly notorious in projects involving multiple stakeholders with different points of view. Evolutionary software processes offer an iterative approach to requirement engineering to alleviate the problems of uncertainty, ambiguity and inconsistency inherent in software developments.
Criticisms of quantitative risk assessment[edit]
Barry Commoner, Brian Wynne and other critics have expressed concerns that risk assessment tends to be overly quantitative and reductive. For example, they argue that risk assessments ignore qualitative differences among risks. Some charge that assessments may drop out important non-quantifiable or inaccessible information, such as variations among the classes of people exposed to hazards. Furthermore, Commoner and O'Brien claim that quantitative approaches divert attention from precautionary or preventative measures.[11] Others, like Nassim Nicholas Taleb consider risk managers little more than "blind users" of statistical tools and methods.[12]
Risk assessment in shipping industry[edit]
In July 2010, shipping companies agreed to use standardized procedures in order to assess risk in key shipboard operations. These procedures were implemented as part of the amended ISM code.[13]
See also[edit]
1. ^ RFC 4949
2. ^ Lacey, Peter (2011). "An Application of Fault Tree Analysis to the Identification and Management of Risks in Government Funded Human Service Delivery" (pdf). Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Public Policy and Social Sciences. Retrieved 2013-07-09.
3. ^ Merrill, Richard A. "Food Safety Regulation: Reforming the Delaney Clause" in Annual Review of Public Health, 1997, 18:313-40. This source includes a useful historical survey of prior food safety regulation.
4. ^ EPA.gov
5. ^ Szabo DT, Loccisano AE, (March 30 2012). "POPs and Human Health Risk Assessment". Dioxins and Persistent Organic Pollutants 3rd (Edition): John Wiley & Sons. doi:10.1002/9781118184141.ch19.
6. ^ "Risk Assessment and Regulation Information from the NLM". NLM. Retrieved 9 June 2013.
7. ^ "Databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health, and toxic releases". TOXNET. NLM. May 2012. Retrieved 9 June 2013.
8. ^ "Household Products Database". U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services. January 2013. Retrieved 9 June 2013.
9. ^ "Risk Assessment Portal". EPA. 13 May 2013. Retrieved 9 June 2013.
10. ^ Managing Project Risks - Retrieved May 20th, 2010
11. ^ Commoner, Barry. O'Brien, Mary. Shrader-Frechette and Westra 1997.
12. ^ The fourth quadrant: a map of the limits of statistics [9.15.08] Nassim Nicholas Taleb An Edge Original Essay
13. ^ "ISM CODE - Amendments from 1st July 2010 Risk Assessment".
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As I recall first taste of lemonade
from tall, cold glass Mom served from patio
when I swung high in cool and leafy shade
of tree where she once played long years ago,
I smile. I’m thankful for her gentle care.
The years were rolling silver dollars spent.
My mom and I both lived so unaware,
it seemed, that change could come without a hint–
one day it happened instantly in time.
How strange! I did not notice right at first–
when hands of kindness ceased their pantomime,
and shook until my world collapsed, then burst.
When bands of angels flew from Heaven’s shade,
they took the one who poured sweet lemonade.
c Copyright, 2012, Freeda Baker Nichols
7 comments to Laughter and Lemonade
1. [...] poems on David Harrison’s blog and (grab your hankies) for the tear jerker on Freeda’s blog. I’m so not putting my Halloween poem up in its current state after reading the Halloween [...]
2. This is so beautiful it blurs my vision, Freeda. The depth of feeling and the smooth rhythm are sublime.
3. Reading a poem such as this reminds us to not take each day for granted, i think everyone does at times. Really makes a person think how fast time does go by.
• Writing this sonnet with memories of my mother was both challenging and rewarding! The white china pitcher she used for lemonade and Kool-aid has now been handed down to a granddaughter.
4. letstalkaboutlit says:
Thank you for this lovely reminder of how we express and feel love through the everyday things. A glass of lemonade and so much more! Im going to take special note of all the glasses of lemonade given to me.
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0.713306 | <urn:uuid:00f9cd5e-21b7-4aed-81c5-86c7887df110> | en | 0.98629 | I was helping ym firend with a quest and he ended up going to Vizunah Square but it wouldn't let me throught the gate, I thought that I had all the areas on the map, so I pulled up the map and sure enough Vizunah square was on my map. So I maped to it and looked for my friends but he wasn't there and we were both in the same channel. Anyways we found out that one is Vizunah Square (Local Quareter) and the other is Vizunah square (Foreign Quarter). Why is this happening why can't I get to the local quarter and why can't he get to the foriegn quarter? The only thing I can think of is that I am currently out side of the states, but that doesn't make since that it would change my map when i leave the states does it? On the map I am looking at I dont eve see the foreign quarter.
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Troubleshooting Serial and Parallel Ports (Windows 98, ME, and XP)
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Use the steps in this document to fix serial and parallel issues by enabling, or resetting the serial and parallel ports.
Step 1: Enabling the ports in the BIOS
A parallel or serial port has to be enabled in the Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) before it can function properly. Many parallel devices also require that ECP mode be used. Use the following steps to enable the ports and ECP in the BIOS if they are disabled:
1. Turn on the PC and press the F1 key repeatedly when the first screen appears. On some Presario PCs the key to enter setup may be F10 .
2. Press the RIGHT ARROW key to select the Advanced menu screen.
3. Use the UP and DOWN ARROW keys to select I/O Device Configuration and press the ENTER key.
4. Use the UP and DOWN ARROW keys to select the listing next to Serial Port A.
5. If it is not already set to Enabled, press ENTER to select Enabled.
6. If the listings next to Base I/O Address and Interrupt Request (IRQ) for Serial Port A is the same as the listing for Serial Port B, then select the Base I/O Address number and change it to a different number. The default numbers for most computers are 3F8H/IRQ 4 for serial port A and 2F8H/IRQ 3.
7. Select and enable Serial Port B and the other Parallel ports in the same way.
NOTE: There is a mode setting for the parallel port. Many parallel scanners and multifunction devices do not work unless this mode is set to Extended Capabilities Port (ECP) mode. Enter Mode and make sure that this is set.
8. Press the F10 key to save the settings and exit.
9. Connect a serial or parallel device to test the serial or parallel port. If the serial or parallel device fails, go to the next step.
Step 2: Reinstall the ports
Remove and reinstall the serial or parallel ports to force Windows to reset the information for the ports. When Windows discovers the ports again it will look for open IRQ numbers and re-assign a new IRQ and Base Address for the port. Use the following steps to remove and reinstall the ports in Windows:
1. Restart the PC and press the F8 key repeatedly, every second, until a menu is displayed.
2. Select Safe Mode and press the ENTER key. Windows will open with Safe Mode displayed in the corners of the desktop.
3. Right-click the My Computer icon, and click Properties .
4. In Windows XP, click the Hardware tab and then click Device Manager .
In Windows 98 and Me, click the Device Manager tab.
5. Click the plus (+ ) sign next to the Ports (COM & LPT) device.
6. Right-click a serial or parallel port, and then click Uninstall or Remove .
7. Click OK to confirm the removal of the port.
8. Continue removing the ports until all serial ports or all parallel ports are removed.
9. Restart the PC.
10. When Windows opens, it automatically finds and configures the ports.
11. Connect a serial or parallel device to test the serial or parallel port. If the serial or parallel device still fails, then try the following items:
1. Use a different cable to connect the device.
2. Use a different port to connect the device (serial).
3. Check the Web site or documentation for the device that is using the port. The device may require special settings in order to operate correctly.
4. If an extra parallel card was installed, make sure that the hardware jumpers on the card are set to different IRQ and Base I/O Address numbers than those used by LPT1 in the BIOS. Refer to the documentation that came with the card or card manufacturer's Web site.
5. Remove support for serial key devices from Windows accessibility options, if you are not using any serial key devices:
1. In Windows XP, click Start , and then Control Panel .
In Windows 98 and Me, click Start , Settings , and then Control Panel .
2. Double-click Accessibility Options and then click the General tab.
3. In Windows XP, remove the checkmark from Use Serial Keys if necessary and click OK .
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Eliza Hurwitz
The nursery rhyme, “There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe” inspired today’s gallery. I thought if a little old lady can live in a shoe, what else can people live in? And I discovered some pretty amazing, albeit peculiar, homes from all around the world.
Although I’m not sure of the benefit of living in a home shaped like a toilet, for instance, I do know that all of these houses are creative, innovative and unique. And I’m pretty sure they were created with love and care.
I think if I could live in any one of these homes I would choose the one built like a spaceship. I would make it like an E.T. shrine, with a ton of E.T. stuffed animals, Reese’s Pieces candy and other props from the movie. I would most likely live alone.
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More Candid Conversation about Masturbation
I believe godly sexuality in marriage is focused on one another. If masturbation supports mutual intimacy, it can have a role; if it's self-focused, not so much. But read on. Julie and I continue our conversation about masturbation today with more Q&A.
To try to keep our answers straight, I have labeled myself “HH&H" this time and Julie Sibert simply “Julie."
Is there such a thing as “too much” masturbation?
HH&H: Yes, of course! First of all, if you're touching yourself right now as you read this, stop it! Now! (Just kidding.)
All too often, though, masturbation is a substitute for being vulnerable with your spouse, taking the necessary time to learn one another's bodies to achieve orgasm, and engaging in intercourse. Moreover, masturbation is often tied to pornography – a definite no-no.
Listen, no spouse wants to be married to someone with his hand in his pants half the time. So how much is too much? If you're asking that question, you may have crossed the line.
Anytime something has become an idol on your heart or an obsession or an addiction – well that’s too much!
Open. Honest. Dialogue.
HH&H: Express that you are concerned about your spouse's masturbation. Don't make judgmental comments; those bring out the armor and shield defenses. Ask why your spouse is masturbating. Are they not fulfilled in your sex life? Do they want greater sexual frequency? Are they unable to reach climax together? Is masturbation related to a pornography problem?
At the end of the day, however, remember that the only person you can control is yourself. So if your spouse is masturbating and won't cease, there isn't much you can do. Your part is to be sexually engaged and supportive and to pray.
One more thing related to masturbation that wasn't asked: Have you ever wondered about the etymology of the word “masturbation”? Well, I'm like that – wanting to know about words and language and stuff. So I looked it up! The word seems to derive from two Latin words meaning “hand” + “defile or shame; or sexual intercourse.” Sure enough, how you interpret that second part tells a lot about your own philosophy of masturbation.
Thanks again to my wonderful friend, Julie Sibert. If you do not regularly read her blog, I suggest subscribing to Intimacy in Marriage. She writes wonderfully and openly about God's blessing of sexuality in marriage.
1. my wife and i masturbate alone or together we are ok with it for the last 40 years .....if i want to stay up and wacth tv i say to her have fun and she does and so do i ...just tell each other when you do keep love in the air .
2. Here's a poser for ya. So the talk happens, the wife asks, "Why?", thinking she is open to talking. The husband answers, "frequency". The response by the wife is, "Why? Don't you love me enough to control yourself and wait?" All of a sudden it is an issue of self-control for the husband. And you know what? Most times there is a ring of truth there. But how do you get back to an open discussion where both sides change?
1. Don't you hate those "if you loved me, you would..." statements?! Ah, we are so prone to use those with our mate because we simply don't understand what's like to be them.
I'll try to translate her statement: "Isn't sex really about being with ME and not simply a physical release of tension for you?" Of course, I don't know your wife so I could be way off, but it is typical for women to want to feel like sex is something more relational and romantic.
As far as both sides changing, you can't wait on her to change. If masturbating is causing serious problems in your marriage, and you are getting sex--even if less frequently than you want--then I'm sorry to tell you, man, but you may need to hold off to make the point that you are willing to go above and beyond. Will your eyeballs nearly explode? Maybe. But marriage isn't about "I'll do this once you do that." It's doing the tough stuff to show your love to your mate, and while that isn't the reason you're doing it, you have far greater chance of getting what you want out of that deal.
Should you wife listen? Should she try to understand your situation? Does she not get how much hubbies desire sex? Yes. And if she were here, I'd address that. But you have to do what YOU can do. I hope this helps. I really am pulling for your marriage and your sex life!
3. I've started a couple times to comment, but can't gather my thoughts into a concise statement. I shall try again :)
And this relates to other posts of yours, but my husband does have a folder labeled "For Your Eyes Only" of photos I've taken of myself to surprise him, as well as a few he's taken of me, too. I know in our relationship that they don't take my place by any stretch of the imagination, and he doesn't have a porn problem, and so I am happy to have provided him with a visual reminder of what he's missing and longing for when we are apart.
In my experience masturbation can be a selfish thing, keeping you from really becoming one with your spouse. It can also be a way to learn what you like and need so that you can show your spouse, when you are open to each other. And it can be a way to meet your needs when you can't be together, as long as your loved one is aware it's going on. It's a difficult subject, with many variables, and I applaud you in tackling it.
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The Ratio Eight, a coffee machine designed to automate the pour-over coffee making technique. It carefully heats water to the proper temperature for the brew, pours water over the grounds allowing them to bloom and pours additional hot water to complete the brewing process. The manufacturer is currently accepting preorders (for the low, low price of $395). This looks intriguing. via Hypebeast. Check out an interview with creator Mark Hellweg here.
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Why, in recent days, has the American media focused so much more on Mandela’s capacity for reconciliation than his demand for truth? Perhaps it’s because, all too often, America wants reconciliation without truth itself. Americans want Iran to give up its nuclear weapons program, halt its support for terrorism, and embrace democracy, but when President Obama acknowledged America’s role in subverting Iranian democracy during the Cold War, conservatives flayed him for apologizing for America. In 1995, the Smithsonian was forced to cancel an exhibit on the bombing of Hiroshima when politicians and veterans’ groups called it unpatriotic. In 2010, Obama slipped an apology to Native Americans into that year’s Defense Appropriations Act but didn’t hold a public event to announce it or even issue a press release, presumably because he feared the political consequences of being accused of running down America again.
Andrea Elliott (NYT). From Invisible Child, her heartbreaking five part series on a homeless child and her family in New York City. It’s an extraordinarily well-balanced piece that explores the parental and institutional dysfunction that jeopardize the young woman’s future. Check out the NY Post for the Scrooge like counterpoint.
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Genetically bred and specifically reared to become the supreme military commander of the Planet Krypton, General Zod was encased in an enormous dildo and exiled to the Phantom Zone for waging a civil war on his home world, which he did for some reason. Among Zod’s crimes was the killing of scientist Jor-El just after he’d launched his infant son Kal-El into outer space, which he did for some reason. The son of Jor-El landed on planet Earth, where by virtue of an evolutionary fluke Kryptonians enjoy tremendous powers such as flight and invulnerability. Alas, Kal-El was forbidden to use them, for some reason. Consequently Kal-El wandered the earth in existential malaise before discovering a Kryptonian spaceship which had crashed on Earth thousands of years earlier, for some reason, and unwittingly activated a beacon which alerted the since freed General Zod to his presence. Ultimately Kal-El revealed himself and discovered that, for some reason, Zod planned to eradicate all life on Earth and terraform it into a new Kyrpton. Now known as Superman and collaborating with human agents, Kal-El bravely defeated the forces of General Zod. However, in so doing, Superman triggered some kind of Kryptonian tech support failure which, for some reason, ensured that no more Kryptonians could ever be born. The genocide of his entire race being quite literally the worst case scenario for someone specifically charged with protecting it, General Zod became upset. In a violent final battle in which both Kryptonians expressed a breathtaking disregard for human life, General Zod was murdered by Superman.
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Smart housewife!
Another few days go by, and it's raining pretty hard. The wife finds a leak in the roof. She says, "Honey, there's a leak on the roof! Can you please fix it?" He says, "What do I look like, Bob Vila?"
Friday, December 6, 2013
Here are some signs and notices written in English that were
discovered throughout the world. You have to give the writers an
'E' for Effort. We hope you enjoy them.
In a Tokyo Hotel:
person to do such thing is please not to read notis.
In a Bucharest hotel lobby:
regret that you will be unbearable.
In a Leipzig elevator:
In a Belgrade hotel elevator:
should enter more persons, each one should press a number of
wishing floor. Driving is then going alphabetically by
national order.
In a Paris hotel elevator:
Please leave your values at the front desk.
In a hotel in Athens:
Visitors are expected to complain at the office between the
hours of 9 and 11 A.M. daily.
In a Yugoslavian hotel:
The flattening of underwear with pleasure is the job of the
In a Japanese hotel:
You are invited to take advantage of the chambermaid.
In the lobby of a Moscow hotel across from a Russian Orthodox
You are welcome to visit the cemetery where famous Russian and
Soviet composers, artists, and writers are buried daily except
In an Austrian hotel catering to skiers:
Not to perambulate the corridors in the hours of repose in the
boots of ascension.
On the menu of a Swiss restaurant:
Our wines leave you nothing to hope for.
On the menu of a Polish hotel:
Salad a firm's own make; limpid red beet soup with cheesy
beef rashers beaten up in the country people's fashion.
Outside a Hong Kong tailor shop:
Ladies may have a fit upstairs.
Source: Internet
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
Tricky old lady!
Once there was this man whose car broke down. He realized after looking for help for 10 minutes that there was a small farmhouse with an old lady sitting on the porch. He told her his unfortunate story and she gladly let him in. But first she told him, ''I have three rules that you mustn't break or I'll see to it that you meet justice! But since talking hurts my throat so much, I won't tell you my rules.''
She let him sleep in the laundry room. He found himself a comfortable pile of old wool sweaters. After puffing his "pillow" he realized that a pair of pants were hanging down from a clothes line over top of his new bed. Seeing that it was no big deal he pulled them down. Instantly the old lady darted into the room and said, ''YOU BROKE MY FIRST RULE!''
He was sent outside to sleep in the donkey's stable. Right beside him was a tiny donkey kicking him so much that he slapped it. In a flash grandma was there: ''You broke the second rule. Watch out.''
He was sent onto the porch to sleep. All of a sudden a big, ugly cat came along and started rubbing all over him. Being allergic to cat hair, he shaved it bald. Here came the grandma. ''You broke the third rule,'' she starts, ''I'm calling the cops.'' The cops came and requested a description of what happened.
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By: Gail Carson Levine
If every time you spoke, a jewel fell out of your mouth, would you be happy? It all began when Rosella went to the well to fetch water. There was a thirsty old woman there, so Rosella gave her a drink. Since the woman was the fairy Ethelinda, she gave Rosella a reward. Every time Rosella spoke, a jewel fell out of her mouth. When her sister, Myrtle, saw this, she ran to the well looking for the old woman. All she saw was a knight. Since he was actually the fairy in disguise, and Myrtle treated him poorly, Myrtle was cursed. Every time she spoke, a reptile or insect fell out of her mouth. She soon learned how to use this to her advantage. If a shopkeeper didn't give her what she wanted for free, she spoke.
Meanwhile, Rosella was in the garden singing when the Prince came. He told her he wanted to marry her. Unfortunately, it was just for her jewels. Every time she spoke, her maids would jump for the jewels. Then the Prince told her he wanted a new castle and that she would have to fill five large chests with jewels. When she tried doing this, she fainted and became very ill. Then, Myrtle switched places with Rosella and yelled at the Prince. Also, while yelling at the Prince, reptiles and insects came out of her mouth. That scared the Prince. Will this affect Rosella and the Prince's relationship?
Rosella: A calm young woman who is given a reward (that turns out to be a curse) because of her kindness.
Ethelinda: A kind fairy who attempts to give Rosella a reward and to curse Myrtle.
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American Government: Why Government?
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"Without government," Thomas Hobbs wrote in the 17^th Century, "life would be a war of all against all." He described life in such a situation as being solitary, poor, nasty, broodish and short. I once had a professor, who that describes very well.
If you think about it, all societies throughout human history have formed governments. I've never much thought about why and perhaps you haven't either. Why don't we have live and let live, you do your thing, I do mine and let's just leave it at that? We Americans love to complain about government. There's an old saying that that government is best which governs least. Another old saying that nobody is safe while the legislature is in session. President Reagan used to talk all the time about getting the government off our backs.
A lot of people have thought for a long time about the question of why have government, and they've pointed out, like Hobbs, that people don't always get along, that conflicts arise. The strong may abuse the weak. There may be irresponsible people, who do only what they want and create havoc and destroy things that we all like. How do people resolve these conflicts? How do they deal with this kind of tension?
Well, throughout human history, people have formed governments. They've created institutional structures to give them the power to resolve conflicts. The creation of government, in this sense, may be one of humankind's most wonderful and important creations.
Now, to talk about resolving conflicts is one thing, but we have to think about how that occurs. Thomas Hobbs talked about a dictatorship. He talked about a great leviathan, a master ruler, who would make sure that the peace was maintained. In the United States, though we don't have a dictator, we have a different vision of how government works and it's based on a notion of a social contract. This was an idea prominently put forth by John Locke in the 17^th Century, and what he suggested is that we all get together and we give up certain things we like to do for the common good, that we agree to give up some of what we want to make things better.
Another proponent of this was Jean-Jacques Rousseau, writing about the time of the American Revolution. He was a French-Swiss philosopher and he said that the idea of a social contract was the notion that individuals made an implied contract - it's not something you wrote down, but an agreement with each other, with your friends, with the people with whom you lived that you would obey the laws and, in exchange, society would protect you.
Now the founders extended Rousseau's and Locke's ideas, the founders of the U.S. Constitution, these ideas of a social contract, and they put them in the words of the preamble to the U. S. Constitution. And let me read that for you. They wrote, in part, "In order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty, this Constitution was written."
Now, we can use a preamble merely as a guidepost to think about the role of government in American society. Government has many different roles. People, of course, disagree; you and your friends probably do. But there seems to be core agreement on at least three roles: first and foremost is maintaining order and security. We don't want Hobbs' war of all against all, we don't want this world of anarchy. I don't want, I'm sure you don't want vigilante justice, people taking the law into their own hands. So what governments can do is provide law, provide peace. John Locke strongly influenced the founders of this country, the framers of the Constitution. He talked about government as protecting life, liberty and property. This very phrase ended up in the Constitution in two places, in the Fifth Amendment and the Fourteenth, where government is prohibited from depriving us of life, liberty or property without due process of law.
Now a second role of government that most everyone thinks is appropriate is providing for the common defense. National defense is the responsibility of the national government. It makes no sense for you and I to have our own tank or jet bomber plane. And it even doesn't make any sense for the states to do that. It's inefficient and we probably don't want that. In the 1970s, there was a rather colorful governor of New Hampshire and he demanded that the state be given nuclear weapons. Why? He said that New Hampshire's tiny coastline along the Atlantic Ocean was being threatened by what he called the imperialist encroachments of the Socialist State of Maine. Probably don't want New Hampshire to have nuclear weapons, or any other state.
Now a third role of government might be to promote the general welfare. The question, of course, is what actions do that? And here you and I perhaps, you and your friends, may disagree. One possibility is to provide public goods and services that businesses are unlikely to furnish on their own. Highways, for example, national parks, maybe even public schools, police and fire protection. Businesses are unlikely to this, because it costs too much. It costs a fortune to build Interstate 80 across the United States, for example. No business is likely to do it.
There's a related problem known as the free rider problem. And the idea behind the free rider problem is what is rational for any individual to do is irrational for the society. Now, I bet you care about clean air. You'd like our air to be cleaner, I know I would, but you may not buy a car with really terrific emission controls. Why not? Well, it costs a lot of money and second, you know that your buying that car isn't going to make any difference, unless everybody else does. So you won't do it. I won't do it either. No one else will and we'll have dirtier air. You need someone, some institution to step in to solve this problem. Government can do this.
Now, the role of government in providing these kinds of goods has always been controversial. Many countries around the world do do it. They run airlines, telephone companies, railroads, television and radio networks. Many countries provide medical care. In the U.S., we don't do so much of this, although we do do more than you might realize. Some electric utility plants are owned by the government, some transportation systems, our subway systems. For example, the interstate highway is built by government, airports and so forth. Indeed, the U.S. Government plays a central role in promoting economic growth through taxation, through spending, through the Federal Reserve banks, which set interest rates and control the money supply. Indeed, in the U.S. something like about one-third of economic production is directly related to governmental expenditures.
Now there's even more disagreement on whether regulation of business promotes the general welfare. Some people say that government needs to step in to prevent monopolies, to solve disputes between governments necessary to support the common good. But other people say that this is not what government should do, that it's inefficient, it's counterproductive, it creates bureaucracy and red tape, what we need to do is get the government off our backs.
There's also a disagreement on whether redistribution of income promotes the general welfare. Now governments may use the tax system and the spending power to redistribute income from some groups to others, and you can think of lots of examples. Progressive income tax, for example, Social Security and Medicare. What about tax credits to certain businesses? What about Welfare? Now supporters say these are important for providing the common good. They help businesses do things they wouldn't do ordinarily that are good for us all, and Welfare helps poor people live full lives. Opponents say, "No, no, no, this is not appropriate at all. This leads to inefficiency, to dependency and ought not to be done."
Finally, particularly in the U.S., there's disagreement on whether promoting a equality and individual freedom is a way of ensuring the blessing of liberty and protecting the general welfare. Now in the U.S., we believe in protecting individual liberty and freedom through the rule of law. We believe in making sure that all persons are treated equally. In some other countries, that's not the way the government acts. There's another notion of the general welfare, which is not individual freedom, but collective good and more emphasis is put on the collectivity and not the individuals. But even in the U.S., we disagree on what promoting individual liberty is about and whether it's appropriate. I'm sure you and your friends have had these kind of debates about drug laws. Should drugs be legal? Should you have to wear a safety belt or not? Should a woman have a right to an abortion? Should I be able to say whatever I want, no matter how harmful it is to somebody else? You can think of other examples. We also disagree on what equality means. Do we mean equality of opportunity or equality of results and outcome?
Now if we think about this, we might ask, "Is government a necessary evil?" Well, it certainly seems necessary and, at times, government can clearly be evil. But government has a great potential to make life better for all of us. Think about what life would be like if we didn't have a government. You probably got to school today on a road that the government built. You probably ate some food today and you knew it was safe, you knew it wouldn't poison you, because government inspects it and ensures its safety. If you get arrested, you have the protection of the law, you are innocent until proven guilty and you'll have the right to have a jury of your peers decide on that guilt. If you have any money, and I hope you have some, put it in the bank and government plays a role to make sure it's safe. It'll be there when you need it. All of these activities, activities that matter, are influenced by government.
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Born in Odessa in 1879, Jacob Weinberg was a talented and prolific Jewish composer, who sought to preserve and promote his Jewish heritage through his music. He is survived today by three granddaughters, and one of those granddaughters, Ellen Mausner, is working to revive and foster her grandfather’s legacy. As apart of that effort, Mausner is producing an hour-long concert version of Weinberg’s opera, The Pioneers, on Monday, August 20, in Manhattan. Moment was able to talk to Mausner to learn a bit more about her grandfather and the relationship between music and Judaism.
Can you tell me a bit of background about your grandfather?
He was a trained concert pianist and composer. He composed many works that have been published. In 1924, he wrote an opera called The Pioneers, or Chalutzim in Hebrew, that won an international composition contest. With the prize money of $1,500 he was able to bring his wife and son to New York City from Israel. He then joined the music faculty of Hunter College for many years.
How did he become interested in music?
I know he took piano lessons sort of as a cultural enrichment sort of thing, but he really loved it. And that became his life instead of following in the law practice his family had. I know he had an uncle, Peter Weinberg, who was a translator and a well-respected scholar. If you go on YouTube, there’s a clip of a young woman in Paris who was playing the clarinet in a recital and doing one of my grandfather’s pieces. I emailed her, and she was so excited that his relatives were still alive.
Were any of his pieces performed during his life?
He got several productions of The Pioneers concert version. It was performed at Carnegie Hall in 1946 and 1949 and at City Center in the 1930s when it was called the Mecca Temple. It was also performed in Jerusalem and in Berlin in the 1930s by a group called Kulturbund. The cast of the full production is actually a large cast, so it was more economical to just do the highlights. But The Pioneers have not a revival since 1949.
Why did you decide to put on a performance of the opera?
My father passed away a few years ago, and I’ve been looking more and more into his father’s work almost as a way of getting closer to my father and preserving his legacy. I feel closer to my own past. I’ve also been doing some genealogy research online. It’s only in the last few months that I even found out where my grandfather was buried because my parents never mentioned it. But I went to visit it at Westchester Hill Cemetery.
How did you go about putting together the performance?
I got a score of The Pioneers. We had auditions, and I hired four opera singers and a musical conductor, Cynthia Hiltz. We’re doing a concert version—no set, no props, just highlights. I’ll be the narrator.
Can you tell me about the opera itself?
The music is very beautiful. There are some comic numbers, love duets. It’s basically a tribute to Palestine. When people first left Eastern Europe to escape the pogroms they went to Palestine and lived on kibbutzes. That was the beginning of the State of Israel. The opera is 223 pages long. And this is just one of his many works. He was a brilliant man. He wrote a lot of fugues and rounds, and the way they blend is just beautiful. He also wrote the words, which are all in English. There’s a love story in the opera, sort of a Romeo and Juliet plot.
How have you been trying to publicize your grandfather’s work?
I’m hoping to get enough interest in this, so people will want to do a full production of it. I sent copies of the scores to the Israeli opera company. I’ve been in touch with the Milken Archives, which records classical Jewish music and honors composers of Jewish heritage. They’ve already recorded two CDs of Jacob’s music. I spoke with the director to see if he would do a recording of this opera. This music needs to be heard. It’s very enjoyable and catchy. We want to revive and promote this work so that Jacob Weinberg’s name lives on. The world can always use beautiful music. He has written so many wonderful things in addition to this opera. A lot of his clarinet songs are popular around the world. There’s so much that still hasn’t been recorded. It’s been published, but not recorded. They didn’t have the technology we have back then.
Did you receive your grandfather’s musical genes?
I do love music, and I’ve taken singing lessons, but I’m not an accomplished pianist. My father used to give me lessons, so I can play a little. I do acting and standup, and I played a psychiatrist on the Sopranos. My stage name is Ellen Orchid and you can see clips of some acting I’ve done on I’ve written some plays. One of my plays is a solo piece called Rest in Pieces. It’s a stand-up tragedy about the story of my father’s death told as a dark comedy. I use my grandfather’s music in it.
Why do you think music is important to Judaism?
Jewish music, the music that is part of the services, Passover, Sabbath, etc., all of the songs and traditions and the cantorial music is unique and beautiful and has unique musical features. Jacob used the traditional folk tunes and melodies of services, and even Hatikva, the Jewish national anthem, is included in The Pioneers. He wanted to preserve the uniquely Jewish music so that the music would be preserved and appreciated. What was unique to Jewish music is exactly what he wanted to promote by writing original music that included these folk tunes. He also wrote three different compositions of music for the Sabbath service as well as multiple Jewish hymns.
What is your next step after putting on this opera?
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But the passage of the budget is likely to clear the way for the opposition to step up their campaign to oust unpopular Prime Minister Naoto Kan, who has drawn criticism over the government's response to the magnitude 9 earthquake and subsequent tsunami on March 11, including its handling of the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
The extra budget, which totals ¥4.015 trillion and is the first of a planned series of spending packages to deal with the aftermath of the disaster, doesn't involve additional government borrowing as it will be financed by funds previously earmarked for other spending.
"We will work hard to swiftly implement the budget to help the disaster-hit area get back on its feet," Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda told a news conference following the budget's passage.
The budget will be used for measures such as removing debris, building temporary housing and repairing infrastructure, as well as providing financial support to businesses affected by the disaster, which has left more than 25,000 dead or missing and is expected to cause the economy to contract in the first half of this year.
Despite more than a year of political standoff, the opposition, led by the Liberal Democratic Party, joined hands with Mr. Kan's Democratic Party of Japan, allowing the budget to pass the opposition-controlled upper chamber Monday after just two days of discussions in the chamber. The DPJ-dominated lower chamber endorsed the bills Saturday.
The move was in stark contrast to the fierce clash between the opposition and the ruling parties before the earthquake, when everything from campaign-financing scandals to differences over economic policy delayed the passage of the regular budget for the fiscal year that started in April and prevented the enactment of related legislation, including a crucial bill for issuing bonds, which has yet to clear parliament.
The government will now shift its focus to drafting a broad postquake reconstruction plan as well as a long-term blueprint to overhaul Japan's tax and social security systems by the end of June.
The government will then compile a second extra budget to fund other quake-related measures, ministers have said.
"We need to present a source of financing in order to come up with a second supplementary budget," Economics Minister Kaoru Yosano told a separate news conference Monday.
While Mr. Noda has offered little hint on the potential size of the budget, other ministers have said it would likely be financed by new bond issuance.
The prospect of more deficit spending has led international investors to pay greater attention to the second extra budget, as such steps would further worsen Japan's battered finances, possibly making Japanese government bonds less attractive. Standard & Poor's Ratings Services last week lowered its outlook on Japan's sovereign rating to negative from stable, citing the risk of a downgrade if the earthquake causes the country's fiscal situation to deteriorate substantially more than expected.
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The government has estimated direct damage from the earthquake and tsunami at ¥16 trillion to ¥25 trillion.
The smooth passage of a second extra budget is also hardly assured. With many voters signaling frustration with the Kan administration's handling of reconstruction work and the crisis at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi plant, the political cease-fire won't hold, observers say.
A survey released Monday by the major Japanese daily newspaper Asahi Shimbun showed that 55% of respondents have low expectations for the Kan government's reconstruction efforts.
The opposition has also said the prime minister lacks the leadership to pull the country out of the disaster, and even some members of Kan's ruling party are pressuring him to step down.
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Mr. Putin, who turns 61 next month, made the comment in a back-and-forth with former French Prime Minister François Fillon at a conference of international policymakers and journalists Thursday in Valdai, Russia.
Mr. Putin asked Mr. Fillon if he planned to run for president in France. "I would not answer that question, because you did not answer it," the former French prime minister replied, pointing out that the Russian president had evaded a similar question earlier in the day.
"It was asked? I didn't hear it," Mr. Putin said. "If I answer, will you answer?"
"We'll see," Mr. Fillon said.
"I wouldn't exclude it," Mr. Putin said.
"Me neither," Mr. Fillon replied.
This isn't the first time that Mr. Putin has suggested he will run in Russia's next presidential election, which takes place in 2018. Asked the same question by foreign newspaper editors in March 2012, Mr. Putin said: "It would be normal, if things are going well, and people want it."
Russian law doesn't limit the amount of time a president can be in office, but presidents cannot serve more than two consecutive terms. Ruling out a re-election bid would have turned Mr. Putin into a lame duck years before the end of his term.
The question of presidential ambitions was raised several times with other senior Russian officials who attended this year's conference in Valdai, including Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Kremlin Chief-of-Staff Sergei Ivanov. They all evaded the question or demurred.
Mr. Putin served as Russia's president for two consecutive four-year terms from 2000 to 2008, before becoming Prime Minister from 2008 to 2012, during his ally Dmitry Medvedev's four-year presidency.
While Mr. Medvedev was in office, he signed into law a bill that extended the length of Russia's presidential term to six years from four. Subsequently, in 2012, Mr. Putin won his third presidential term.
Were he to win Russia's election in 2018 and serve more than four years of his term, Mr. Putin would become the country's longest-serving leader since Josef Stalin, outstripping Leonid Brezhnev, who led the Soviet Union from 1964 to 1982.
Mr. Putin's reply Thursday was a "safe answer," said Nikolai Zlobin, a political analyst for the Washington, D.C.-based Center on Global Interests, who posed the same question to the Russian president earlier in the day but didn't receive a clear reply.
"The fact that Putin isn't ruling out such a possibility is so obvious," Mr. Zlobin said in comments to Russia's Interfax news agency. "The elections are a long ways away. How can he rule it out?"
In a speech in 2012, Mr. Putin said he would support an amendment to Russian law that would institute a two-term maximum for presidents-so long as the rule doesn't apply to him.
"I think it makes sense," he said at the time, but he noted that such a law wouldn't affect him because it "wouldn't be retroactive."
—Stephen Fidler in Valdai, Russia, contributed to this article.
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This package provides the core Python applets:
* animal-farm : Various animals tell your fortune.
* bandwidth-monitor: Displays information from network.
* battery-applet: This applet displays your computers current power status.
* cairo-clock: Displays an analog clock.
* comics: View your favourite comics on your desktop.
* cpufreq: Monitors and controls the CPU frequency.
* dialect: Manages keyboard layouts.
* feeds: A Python feed launcher.
* file-browser-launcher: Launches the user's file manager or opens bookmarks.
* hardware sensors: Displays information from sensors.
* mail: The Mail Applet lets you check your mail from AWN.
* media-control: This applet displays album art in a awn dialog while
allowing you to control your favorite media players.
* media-player: Plays any media files you drop on it.
* mount-applet: Displays mounts from /etc/fstab and allows one to
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* quit-applet: A simple gnome-quit launcher.
* stack: Provides a convenient location to place commonly used files.
* thinkhdaps: Displays the status of HDAPS.
* todo: Manage a simple To-Do list.
* volume-control: A fancy volume changing applet that works much like the
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* weather: This applet downloads and displays the current weather conditions
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Hamlet One of the most unique elements of the Hamlet character is that he is so human. Many types of readers can identify with him. Hamlet is imperfect, and he is fretful. Hamlet has human properties, and it is his humanity that I intend to explore. Indeed it is these human qualities and imperfections that make his story so tragic. Another tragic part of the play is the plays irony.
Irony is an important tool in the hands of the playwright to achieve both comical and/or dramatic effect. There is usually little reason for a tragedy to be funny, so Shakespeare has used this tool to add more tragedy to the play. I will investigate the nature of this irony. Also, I will investigate the types of conflict that play a major part in the play and the relationships between Hamlet and the two people who have been closest to him; Ophelia and the Ghost. Hamlet cannot share his strong feelings and emotions with his mother or his girlfriend.
While his mother is literally sleeping with the enemy, Ophelia has chosen the side of Claudius because of her father, Polonius. It is especially difficult for Hamlet to talk to Ophelia. The only other woman in his life, Gertrude, has betrayed his father by marrying Claudius. Hamlet may be obsessed with the idea that all women are evil, yet he really does love Ophelia, because when he finds out Ophelia has died, he cries out, "I lov'd Ophelia; forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum."(Act V, Scene 1) The ghost provides Hamlet with a dilemma. In Shakespeare's plays, supernatural characters are not always to be trusted; think of the three witches in MacBeth, who are instrumental in his downfall.
Hamlet does not know whether the ghost is telling the truth or not. If Hamlet had killed Claudius solely on the ghost's advice, he would certainly have been tried and put to death himself. There would probably have been a war to choose the new king. Being the humanitarian that he is, and taking account of his responsibilities as a prince and future king, Hamlet most likely would want to avoid civil war. Even though Claudius is a murderer, and probably not as noble a king as Hamlet's father was, he is still a king. He brings order to Denmark.
Hamlet does not wish to plunge his country into chaos. He realizes that this will happen when he kills Claudius. Hamlet is unable to combine the spiritual world (in the form of his father's ghost) with the tangible, every-day world that surrounds him. There is much irony throughout this play. One occurrence of irony I found particularly striking was the fact that Hamlet effectively maneuvers himself into the same position as Claudius.
Claudius had attacked and killed a man who did not have the opportunity to defend himself, but when Hamlet kills Polonius, is he not guilty of the same? It is intriguing that both Claudius and Hamlet have killed fathers. It is interesting to see how these two completely different characters deal with this problem in different ways. Other interesting parallels I found are the numerous deaths by poison. Hamlet's father was murdered by Claudius with poison. In the final act, the queen is the first to be poisoned, by drinking from Hamlet's cup. Then, Hamlet is wounded by the poisoned tip of Laertes' sword.
When they change swords, Hamlet gets the upper hand and Laertes is poisoned. When the queen dies, Laertes explains all to Hamlet, before he dies. Hamlet then kills Claudius before dying himself. It is ironic that, as Claudius is poisoned because of his own plotting, he had already signed his own death warrant when he killed Hamlet's father, the first tragic action of the play. There are only three people in this play who don't die by poisoning: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern meet their deaths in England, after being outsmarted by Hamlet.
The third is Ophelia, who is drowned. There are three types of conflict I can identify in the play: 'man versus man', 'man versus nature' and 'man versus himself'. Hamlet's fight with Laertes in Ophelia's grave and the subsequent duel would both easily classify as 'man versus man' conflicts. Man also struggles with nature in this play, most notably in the form of Ophelia's drowning and Hamlet's crossing the sea to England - although the latter conflict plays more of a background role. The 'man versus himself' conflict is most directly exposed in Hamlet's famous soliloquy, where he is wrestling with his conscience.
The realization he comes to in this soliloquy is that we are afraid to kill ourselves because we do not know what is to be found after death. Another 'man versus himself' conflict is Claudius' inability to pray. He cannot really justify his past deeds. For him this is actually another step into darkness. Hamlet may be a thinking man; however, this does not mean he actually likes to think.
Although he might have liked to think in the time preceding the play, when the time has come for him to take action, he cannot because of this urge to contemplate. His capacity of thinking becomes a handicap rather than an advantage. And this is not even the most painful or tragic part of the Hamlet character. The biggest problem is that he is aware of this. Not only is he incapable of acting without thinking, he knows that this is the case, which makes the burden even heavier. Hamlet cannot face reality. It is already a traumatic experience for him when he has to believe the words of the ghost, and actually the ghost's demanding him to act on this information is too much for him.
Hamlet is however, a man of decision. But he is also contemplative. He needs to think in order to justify his actions, and his intellectual characteristics are the major difference between Claudius and himself. Hamlet is very aware of the relationship between action and reaction and realizes that he has to proceed very carefully. In the play, Claudius is the decisive character, and the man of action.
He takes the first action, the action that sets the story in motion - the poisoning of Hamlet's father. He also instigates the final action, the poisoning of the blades and the cup; an action that will backfire and cause his own death. In the play, there seems to be a constant shift of action, where only one party can act at any time. These two parties are of course Hamlet and Claudius. When Claudius has taken the action that secures him the throne, he allows Hamlet to become the man of action.
But Hamlet procrastinates. The only action Hamlet takes is staging the play, which seems more to serve the purpose to establish that Claudius is indeed guilty of his father's murder. He does this for himself and for Horatio. Then he proceeds to kill the eavesdropping Polonius. Hamlet is given the chance to avenge ''this foul and most unnatural murder'' when he sees Claudius praying.
Hamlet, being a Christian prince, cannot bring himself to kill Claudius while he is praying, as this would secure his place in heaven. Hamlet wants to make sure Claudius will suffer in the afterlife, just as his father did. Hamlet leaves just before Claudius gets up, declaring he cannot pray; "My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go" (Claudius, Act III, Scene 3). Had Hamlet known Claudius was unable to pray, then he could have had his revenge right then and there, instead of waiting until the end, and taking everyone else with him. Most of the other characters would probably have acted much quicker than Hamlet if they were in his position.
Imagine Polonius in the situation Hamlet found himself in. He would not procrastinate as much. It would have most likely been off with the head of the murderer! Any other character in the play would not have stayed as quiet as Hamlet does (confiding only in his best friend, and even keeping the truth from his mother until the end of Act III). Although not every one of them might have come to killing Claudius. But Hamlet does not seem to do anything.
Again, he thinks too much. But why? Hamlet is self-conscious, while the majority of characters that surround him are not. This explains why he feels inhibited to act. Hamlet resembles a real person more than any other character in the play, which might be another reason why he still remains a subject of discussion, and why the play remains so popular. Hamlet is one of the most interesting characters in English fiction because we can identify with him, and understand, although not always agree with his actions. Hamlet is also set apart by his elusiveness. Many of the characters in the play can be categorized within minutes of their introduction. I'm not calling them caricatures, but there is definitely a caricature-like side to some of them. The pompous Polonius and the deceitful and thick-headed Guildenstern and Rozencrantz come to my mind.
However, this does not hold true for some other characters, such as Laertes and Ophelia. The character of Hamlet refuses categorization. Interesting with regard to this is his love of theater. He is particularly interested in the idea that things may seem different from what they really are, just like the people that surround him. His mother is no longer his father's wife, but his uncle's, his girlfriend is no longer there for him, and Guildenstern and Rosencrantz are no longer his friends.
Also, he is aware that he will have to disguise himself and his real motives and goals in order to attain them - this is why he fakes his madness. It is not until he picks up Yorick's skull in the beginning of Act V that he finds out what is real and what not. In the end, when the truth is revealed and everyone's "masks" are removed, death is all that is to be found.
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Solid State
State of matter in which the substance has a fixed volume and shape. (Ice)
Liquid State
State of matter in which the substance has a fixed volume but no fixed shape. (Water)
Gaseous State
State of matter in which molecules move by translation and only interact through chance collisions. (Water Vapor)
Molecular Motion
Conversion of a liquid to a gas below the boiling point.
Conversion of water from the vapor to the liquid state.
Energy of moving molecules.
Direct measure of the average kinetic energy of the molecules that make up a substance.
Having two poles.
Method by which objects may be located in the ocean.
Hydrologic Cycle
System of 7 process that moves water from one reservoir to another.
Residence Time
Amount of time a water molecule stays in a particular reservoir.
Standard Seawater
Rule of Constancy of Composition
Concentration of a single major constituent can be measured to determine the total salinity of a given water sample.
Measure of how closely packed atoms and molecules are.
Total amount of solid material dissolved in water.
Surface Tension
Tendency for the surface of a liquid to contract owing to intermolecular bond attraction.
Kinetic Energy
Energy of motion. Increases as the mass or velocity of the object in motion increases.
Ionic Bond
Chemical bond resulting from the electrical attraction that exists between cations and anions.
Electromagnetic Spectrum
Boiling Point
the temperature at which a substance changes from a liquid to a gas at a given pressure.
Freezing Point
the temperature at which a liquid turns into a solid.
Arctic Circle
66.5 degrees north latitude.
Antarctic Circle
66.5 degrees south latitude.
Tropic of Cancer
23.5 degrees north latitude.
Tropic of Capricorn
23.5 degrees south latitude.
Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ)
Region between the tropics where the trade winds converge.
Jet Stream
Trade Winds
Masses of air that move across Earth's surface from the subtropical high-pressure belts towards the equatorial low-pressure belt constitute.
Polar Easterly Winds
Cold air masses that move away from the polar regions toward lower latitudes.
Westerly Winds
winds that flow poleward as a result of earths rotation
Greenhouse Effect
Heat Budget
Equilibrium that exists on the average between the amaounts of heat absorbed by earth and that returned to space.
Coriolis Effect
Changes the intended path of a moving body. Causes moving objects on Earth to follow curved paths.
Water layer with a large change in salinity with depth.
A layer of water in which there is a rapid change in temperature with depth.
A rapid change in water density with depth.
Adiabatic Cooling
The cooling of a gas that happens when the gas expands with no way of getting more energy.
Warm Front
Contact between a warm air mass moving into an area occupied by cold air.
Cold Front
Contact between a cold air mass moving into an area occupied by warm air.
Tropical cyclone in North and South America.
A large floating mass of ice detached from a glacier.
Sea Ice
Frozen sea water.
Ice Floe
Shelf Ice
Thick floating sheets of ice formed from edges of glaciers.
High Pressure Cell
an area of high pressure, usually has pleasant weather
Low Pressure Cell
Created when warm, less dense air rises.
A stratus cloud that forms when air is cooled to its dew point near the ground.
Sea Smoke
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The Tastycat plug.dj room.
The “Tastycat” plug.dj room
But yesterday a Radio Survivor reader tipped me to a social media music service that takes YouTube to a new level: plug.dj. Plug.dj is a lot like turntable.fm. (it has been called a tt.fm knockoff more than once). As with Turntable, it allows you to create avatars, construct listening rooms, and DJ the rooms with your avatar-powered friends. But plug.dj also lets you search from YouTube, which turntable.fm has hesitated to do. TT.fm’s Billy Chasen explained this reasoning in a Tuesday blog post:
Apparently users have also been begging tt.fm to allow SoundCloud searches for a while. Advantages include avoiding play limits and annoying 30 second cutoffs imposed by DMCA rules. As of Chasen’s post, TT.fm now allows for SoundCloud searches, but YouTube still appears to be off the table (so to speak, although there is the unofficial Turntable Tube plugin).
So if you want a Turntablesque experience via YouTube, plug.dj is the place to go. The effect is very dramatic. plug.dj reverses the turntable.fm room presentation. Instead of facing the deejays, you face the avatar audience and the avatar deejays face them too. The YouTube music videos are positioned up on top of the room, sort of like the vids that you see on stage above the bands during rock concerts.
My Hybrid Highbrow plug.dj room; nobody but me there so far [sniff].
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I plan on setting up Claims FBA using the AD membership provider, but I would like to use a AD Domain that is remote (not the domain that the SP Farm lives on). Is this possible? Is it any different (other than the connection string) from using the local AD as the user store? Perhaps I need a trust defined between both domains?
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Social Media for Restaurants
Restaurants are unique and their online presence should reflect that. People love food and drinks; we love to talk about food, see pictures of delicious meals artistically presented and exotic drinks to temp our taste buds. The internet is the most powerful and dynamic platform for restaurants to showcase what makes them special…and their customers are eating it up.
Most people will take the review of a restaurant they see online seriously. Restaurant owners and managers need to be aware of the impact online reviews could have on their business. Savvy restrauteurs realize that they can build a powerful brand and customer loyalty using the tools on Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Yelp.
Our restaurant program is highly individualilzed to the need of each establishment. The design of the program is intended to take the heavy demands of frequent online interaction off the shoulders over very busy owners and managers. While the restaurant will collaborate on the content going out online, they will no longer have to manage these platforms themselves. The value we bring to restaurants:
1. Effective social media/inbound marketing strategy
2. Regular and frequent posting on the identified platforms
3. Timely engagement with their audience on these sites
4. Real-time Tweets of events and specials
5. Promotions, coupons, and specials
6. Customer loyalty programs
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I need to create an event listener to see if the search engine button got hit.
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What "search engine button"? If you mean the search built in to the web browser, you can't. Best you could do would be to handle the "unload" event. – Pointy Mar 2 at 20:49
Welcome to SO. Please read the FAQ for how to ask a good question. Your question is too open ended with not enough detail, and no sign of what you already tried. – j08691 Mar 2 at 20:50
Thank you....for example, if i got a web site and has a search engine and i want to create and event listener to the search button if got hit – Tareq Abufayad Mar 2 at 20:56
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If the id of the search button is mySearchButton , you could write the javascript code as
document.getElementById('mySearchButton').addEventListener("click", function(){alert('button clicked');});
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thank you....i am ordering to program an apps on Facebook, so how could i know the id of the search button for the Facebook – Tareq Abufayad Mar 2 at 22:12
well,the class of the search box is inputtext DOMControl_placeholder – harsha Mar 2 at 22:21
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Heavy Deadlifts start with a strong grip - it doesn't matter if your arms and legs have the strength for Deadlifting heavier weights, if your grip can't hold it, the bar will stay on the floor. A strong grip is therefore crucial for heavy Deadlifts.
As a 500lb raw Deadlifter at 165lb body-weight, here are the 7 quickest ways that I've found to build massive grip strength for Deadlifts.
1. Grip The Bar Correctly.
2. Use White Knuckling.
Meaning you grab the bar as hard as you can until your knuckles turn white. Here's why: the bar is less likely to move in your hand, AND gripping the bar hard by itself boosts strength. So start gripping the bar as hard as you can on all exercises, not just Deadlifts, and don't be lazy about it.
3. Use Chalk.
Less callus formation, no more sweaty hands. It's not uncommon to see a 30lb increase on Deadlifts just by introducing chalk. If your gym doesn't allow it, get an eco ball (it leaves no dust). Best is to chalk up once the weight gets too heavy to Deadlift without it, because as Andy Bolton says:
- Andy Bolton, 1008lb Deadlifter.
4. Use The Mixed Grip. With the normal grip you have 8 fingers on one side of the bar, and 2 thumbs on the other side. So when your grip gives out, it starts with your thumbs. The mixed grip - one palm facing you, one facing away - puts 5 fingers on both sides which creates an instant strength boost: you'll be able to Deadlift the weight that didn't want to leave the floor with the overhand grip.
Which hand should be facing up? Elite Deadlifters Andy Bolton and Konstantin Konstantinov always pull with their right hand facing up. So do I because I feel strongest using this grip (I'm right-handed). So dominant palm facing up, weak facing down like Bolton in the picture below. Don't waste your time alternating which hand is up on each set to prevent imbalances, just follow tip #5.
5. Pull More Overhand.
Don't start to Deadlift every single set using the mixed grip now that you've read tip #4. You should pull your warm-up sets overhand-style and only Deadlift using the mixed grip on your last heavy sets. Using the overhand grip as long as possible will boost your grip strength.
Personally I don't use chalk until there's 315lb on the bar. Then I chalk up but keep pulling overhand until I hit 375lb. Only when I'm past 400lb and my hands can't hold the bar anymore will I start using the mixed grip.
6. Do Static Holds.
Let's say your work weight is 285lbs on SL5x5 - pull all your warm-ups with an overhand grip, then use the mixed grip and chalk for 285lb. After you've finished your 5 reps, stay standing with the barbell in your hands for 5 to 10 seconds before returning it to the floor.
7. Stop Using Straps.
Don't let small hands serve as an excuse. I might have big hands even though I'm only 5'8", but StrongLifts Member Jake (18y, Canada) has small hands and yet he Deadlifts 600lb. The fact is that any guy can accomplish a 400lb Deadlift, even if he has small hands, and without doing any kind of specialized grip work. Only at the highest level do details like hand size matter. Keep it simple.
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1. Dan says:
Great tips! I’m still a pretty skinny guy, 5’9″ and 160lbs, and I had started having trouble holding on to 225lb deadlifts even with a mixed grip. After each workout as I walk the 45lb plates back from the bar to the rack, I would stand still and hold one in each hand until my grip was about to give out before finally putting the weight on the rack. So after having already deadlifted it was really hard. I’m up to a 265lb deadlift 1×5 with an overhand grip, and my grip feels significantly stronger than before.
2. Gaz Pengelly says:
Good, useful information on here, as always.
+1 on the chalk, too. I find it invaluable. My grip used to be my limiting factor, leaving me stuck at about 242lbs. Since using it, grip’s been a non-issue. Now I’m pulling 335lbs for 6 reps and my grip is the last thing I worry about.
3. Iuri says:
Great tips Mehdi.
Thanks again.
4. Jorick says:
I basically do the same!
I lift with overhand grip till I cant hold it. Then I use chalk. If I cant hold it then, I start switching to mix grip.
Only thing I don’t agree on though is that although I’m right handed, it feels 10x more comfortable to have my right hand overhanded. I think that’s very personal.
5. Tony says:
I’m an olympic lifter and I wondered if you ever use a hook grip when deadlifting?
6. Karl says:
Hey Mehdi,
I’m surprised you haven’t mentioned those bar widening grips like LynxGrips or FatGripz. They thicken the bar without compressing, so your forearms have to work harder during the lift, and they aren’t made of spongy material that screws with your grip. They seem to me to be the opposite of using straps.
Your friend Eric Cressey from T-Nation, seems to be a fan of them according to his “Are You Doing Stupid Stuff At The Gym” article.
I have yet to try them but I’m interested to know if you think they’re worth it.
You’ve mentioned in another article that gloves weaken your grip by thickening the bar, but I think the problem is more an issue of their sponginess making the grip less solid and stable, than that they obstruct the bar. It’s the same issue essentially as deadlifting in running shoes, except for your hands.
7. Lee says:
Good tips!
I really appreciate you’re site Mehdi and your stronglifts 5×5 program. I’m 132 lbs and was able to do 185 lbs 5×5, not much but still going there. My deadlift is at 205 lbs now but somehow my grip isn’t that strong anymore I guess I’ll have to try the mixed grip or chalk but would want to actually stay overhand with no chalk.
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Stop Having a Boring Life
By Matthew Yglesias on January 9, 2010 at 8:31 am
"Stop Having a Boring Life"
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The Slap Chop is a textbook example of an attempt to sell you a device that solves absolutely nothing. If you want to chop stuff, you should chop it with your knife. If for some reason your knife doesn’t chop stuff, you should buy a better knife. The advertisement, however, is a brilliant piece of performance art:
But whatever criticisms you might make of the product, the refrain “stop having a boring tuna, stop having a boring life” is something I can embrace. People shouldn’t eat boring stuff.
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It’s eat or be eaten for four cellmates in a German youth prison in “Picco,” a grimly realistic tale that slowly but surely wades into don’t-have-lunch-before-you-watch-this territory. Tyro scribe-helmer Philip Koch emphasizes how the daily grind of life behind bars slowly wears people down to their basest survival instincts. Despite the recent glut of strong prison pics, including “A Prophet” and “R,” this soberly shot and straightly acted downer should be able to corner some Euro niche action after strong fest play.
Though it shares some similarities (and thesp Frederick Lau) with Dennis Gansel’s 2008 Sundance entry “The Wave,” which sold more than 2 million tickets in Deutschland, Koch’s feature debut is more of an arthouse item, and will most likely appeal to auds slightly older than its under-25 protags.
Aloof Kevin (Constantin von Jascheroff)is placed in a cell already occupied by bully Marc (Lau), sensitive pill popper Tommy (Joel Basman) and go-getter Andy (Martin Kiefer). The arrival of the newcomer, or “picco,” puts the hierarchy of the cell’s microcosm again up for discussion, and Kevin and Tommy in particular need to battle for every inch of respect from their peers.
One-on-one sessions with the prison shrink (Jule N. Gartzke) — the only female present, as the boys crudely note — and the occasional visit from outside throw some light on the troubled histories of these kids, though the reason for each boy’s imprisonment goes unmentioned, essentially making them equals. Their at-times animalistic behavior as they try to establish a workable pecking order often proves more illuminating than any precise thing they say.
Koch’s screenplay slowly lets things come to a boil, with the rather dull daily routine of the pic’s first half initially only peppered with silly pranks and verbal abuse. But things grow progressively more violent. A prison rape witnessed by Tommy and Kevin sets the stage for a cascading series of events in the pic’s final 45 minutes that becomes increasingly unbearable to watch, though at the same time, von Jascheroff’s constantly riveting and surprisingly nuanced performance makes it hard to look away. As Tommy, Basman shows real range for the first time, while the characters played by Lau and especially Kiefer are more one-note.
The brutal ending is literally ripped from the German headlines, though the characters are fictional, with Koch using his protags to explore the poisonous effect of prison life on young criminals. Content-wise, pic doesn’t really add anything new to the prison-movie genre, though with a whopping 80% relapse rate in Germany for jailed young offenders, it does highlight a particularly pressing problem in a way that might serve as a wakeup call.
Technically, the film is modest but precise. Filmed in a recently closed prison that guarantees authenticity, Koch alternates fixed shots in the boys’ cell with Steadicam shots down the corridors and in the courtyard, underlining the fact that there is not a lot of room for movement anywhere. Consistently drab gray-green palette adds to the austerity.
A Rezo Films release (in France) of a Walker + Worm Film presentation and production, in association with 40 Grad Filmproduction, Philip Koch Filmproduktion, HFF. (International sales: Rezo, Paris.) Produced by Philipp Worm, Tobias Walker. Co-producers, Claudia Enzmann, Andre Bendocchi-Alves, Koch. Directed, written by Philip Koch.
Camera (color), Marcus Eckert; editor, Andre Bendocchi-Alves; production designer, Jan Jericho; costume designer, Theresia Wogh; sound (Dolby Digital), Gunnar Voigt; stunt coordinator, Erhard Brehm; assistant director, Daniela Kerscher. Reviewed at Cannes Film Festival (Directors' Fortnight), May 17, 2010. Running time: 111 MIN.
Constantin von Jascheroff, Joel Basman, Frederick Lau, Martin Kiefer, Willi Gerk, Jule N. Gartzke, Thomas Loibl.
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A Runaway Ego is Barack's Blind Spot
By James Lewis
Every political campaign has its weak spot. Every human being has his own blind spots. In politics and war, it's those blind spots that eventually make for victory or defeat. When an opponent discovers that weak spot, he just needs to hit it over and over again to win.
In Iraq, Al Qaida's blind spot was its penchant for bloody random killing of innocent civilians. It turned the tribes against AQ. Every time they car-bombed another peaceful marketplace they made more mortal enemies. That's why they lost.
For Barack and Michelle Obama, the biggest blind spot is Ego Tripping -- the temptations of boastful grandiosity. It's Obama's need to be seen as Jesus Christ Superstar. They have to "remake the world," "stop the rise of the oceans," "we are the change we've been waiting for." The Obamas keep getting drawn into that blind spot, even when it's not smart politically. Arrogance is their Achilles' heel
That's why the PR rally in Berlin drew them so magnetically.
"People of Berlin,
people of the world,
this is our moment.
This is our time..."
A Nuremberg-style mass rally in Germany is not exactly the natural stage for an American presidential candidate to strut his stuff
It's exactly the opposite of the usual politician's schtick in America. "I'm just a little ole country boy" assures the voters that you don't have the swelled head.
Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Jackson, Jimmy Carter, even an egomaniac like LBJ knew that much. But the Obamas don't seem to care. The temptation of Ego Tripping overwhelms their common sense.
That is more than a little bit bizarre. It's completely out of touch with her own external reality. Ninety-nine percent of the American people would be thrilled to have Michelle's opportunities in life.
Obama's two (count 'em, two!) autobiographies are all about his sense of inferiority. "Dreams of My Father" really has to do with the ego crunch of being abandoned by one's idealized father; it's a tough thing for any kid. Obama's mother was also an intermittent presence, and abandonment is the overwhelming theme of his early life. "What's wrong with me that my parents aren't here?" That's what abandoned kids end up asking themselves.
Only Barack's grandparents and a series of father figures made up for that yawning gap, and that was never enough. So Obama discovered his (made-up) racial identity as a solution -- he would Save His People to fill that hole in his soul.
Obama is a mixed-race man who has no American slavery in his family past; growing up in Hawaii he never encountered Jim Crow segregation. But Obama chose the identity of American black victimhood in spite of his very favored life.
Obama's messianic persona, his need to Save His People, was his way of filling that childhood hole in his soul.
Barack's run for President is his big chance to make up for those haunting feelings of self-doubt and worthlessness. So for the Obama campaign, grandiose ego display is the answer to persistent feelings of being small and insignificant.
Barack is constantly trying to convince himself that he is OK. The outside world is just a crutch to prop up his self-esteem. But the US Constitution says nothing about the Presidency serving as psychotherapy.
All of us feel small at times -- certainly when we are little kids. We spend the first decade of our lives literally looking up at adults, and wondering about their amazing powers. So we all have the seeds of feeling small and weak. If we are lucky we outgrow those self-doubts in a healthy way. If we're not so lucky, those feelings of helplessness can haunt our adult lives.
One of the deep perversities of Leftist ideology is to seek out those sad and helpless feelings we all encounter and reinforce them, so that the worst emotions begin to dominate the lives of Leftists. That's what "Black Liberation Theology" is all about. It aims to take feelings of inferiority and redirect them into rage and hatred at the enemy, real or imagined. The new pastor of Obama's Trinity United Church, Rev. Otis Moss IV teaches his congregation that
"Blacks had a skin diseease. They had a skin disease. They had a skin disease. The lepers lived in a ghetto leper colony. The lepers were segregated from everybody else. ... Even though they were trying to destroy you, they end up blessing this small congregation of people with a skin condition."
Telling people that their natural skin is diseased, or is perceived to be diseased by the majority of Americans, is the essence of destructiveness. Talk to any teenager cursed with pimples, and you can see how it hurts. The Rev. Moss is the trained successor to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, and this is standard BLT.
Hitler appealed to a defeated Germany, feeling immensely inferior after losing a generation in World War I, punished by the Versailles Treaty, aggravated by the Depression, hyperinflation and the breakdown of the German middle class. Hitler's slogan One Land, One People, One Fueher was a formula for fixing Germany's self-esteem. You drown your personal identity in those three supra-individual identities, and you'll end up feeling stronger and more confident.
But you have to give up personal autonomy and individual judgment in the process. That's the danger of substituting race-gender-class victimhood for one's own inner strength.
If you listen practically every single Sunday (as Obama once claimed he did) to Rev. Jeremiah Wright telling you how bad you really are, you end up having all your self-doubts reinforced. You are weak and helpless, and without your saviors you are nothing. It keeps the Revs. Jeremiah, Jesse, Otis and Al in business.
Feminist demagogues drum the same message into teenage girls, gay demagues do the same to gays, it's all standard Marxism 101. If you didn't start off feeling worthless, you'll end up feeling that way after 20 years of weekly sermons. That's around 2,000 sermons. And you'll know exactly who the enemy is that you need to beat and humiliate to recover your stolen self-esteem.
It's the most successful con-job in history. It's worked in one way or another throughout human history.
The question is: Will Obama's amazing arrogance be noticed by the American people?
I think that, very quietly, they know by now.
James Lewis blogs at
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My side projects are:
Apologetics (with a heavy emphasis on Atheism)
My YouTube channel
Atheism, Venomous Snakes, Slippery Eels and Richard Dawkins
As for Atlas of Creation; the score to date is:
Richard Dawkins: 3
PZ Myers: 1
Harun Yahya: more than 696
Philip Johnson writes,
Harun Yahya notes:
1. How this [following the money] relates to science, biology, the Darwinian theory of evolution or creationism is lost upon me.
This is funny coming from somebody who does exactly this himself!
The criticisms of the substance of the book aren't so frivolous as you want people to believe. His "model" of an ancient caddis fly is a fishing lure, complete with hook! (here)
An honest and more thorough examination of the issue can be found here, in case anyone is actually interested in the substance of the case.
The basic argument that fossils similar in appearance to contemporary organisms "prove" that evolution never happened are fatuous, especially when you compare a contemporary species with a plastic fishing lure.
2. MaskedMarauder,
I will consider your comments to be in jest as the performance of professors of biology Richard Dawkins was no less than pathetic.
3. Incidentally,
Anyone reading these comments really should read the post at the link provided above in order to see that MaskedMarauder also does not understand the difference between questioning the funding of the book that Dawkins cannot refute on the one hand and poiting out that books and DVDs are being sold about the finds (fossil or manuscript) on the other.
Mariano .
4. One mistake in more than 700 pages! No joking! Maybe there is something to this book.
This is grossly misleading. The mistakes are legion. And to call the one in question just "a mistake" is like calling WWII just a skirmish. Yahya's opus is a monumental and profound aberration. Confusing an eel with a snake, or a crinoid with an annelid is like taking your broken lawn mower to a gynecologist to be repaired.
Adnan Oktar (aka Harun Yahya) is a buffoon and/or a fraud. That Mariano defends him speaks volumes about the heart and soul of christianity today and slack-brained religion in general.
The hypocrisy Mariano peddles here is blatant and profound to the point of being openly dishonest. Imagine what Mariano would say if Dawkins had a criminal record and was publishing under an assumed name. Imagine what Mariano would say if Dawkins gave away 10,000 copies of one of his books for free to teachers and schools at a personal expense of hundreds of thousands dollars. Imagine what Mariano would say if Dawkins made such factually absurd statements as that the biblical Jerusalem was in Fiji and Jesus rode a Harley. Oktar's record is just that bad. But still Mariano stands by his man, defending laughable error from truth.
Mariano could have taken the day off or written a responsible opinion on a substantive issue, but instead chose to write another lengthy snarling diatribe defending the scholarship of a buffoon. Not by arguing that Oktar is correct, because even Mariano knows that is a lost cause, but by trying to make Dawkins look mean or lazy.
What needs to be kept in mind is that even IF Dawkins were the meanie Mariano wants us to believe he is, Oktar is still a buffoon, his book is still a crock and Dawkins' scathing criticism is still just.
I am aware of the difference: there is none. The root question, no matter how you try to obfuscate it, is: cui bono? Who benefits?
In the one case Mariano insinuates, without evidence, that the scholarship on Ida is tainted because some of the people involved in the research might profit from their significant and acknowledged achievement. In the other case murky money is bankrolling a drive to inject fake scholarship of no merit into schools. The directions of monetary flow are opposite in the two cases, but underneath that superficial difference lies the same implication that entanglement with money matters in evaluating their respective claims.
I have no problem with that. In fact, I agree. Big bucks in science is always a reason for concern. It should be in religion too, but that appears to be asking too much from people who pride themselves on being like sheep.
But at the end of the day, no matter who makes or loses money in the Ida affair, the fossil is still an authentic and significant contribution to primate paleontology that many people will be eager to read about and pay to see. And Mariano's intellectual mentor Yahya's book is still a steaming heap of baloney he has to give away.
5. Given the egregiousness and inanity of the errors, just how many errors should Dawkins and Myers have pointed out? If I were to send you a 700 page picture book about how all the Catholic Popes were really space aliens and you look at a page at random and it shows a picture of Alexander Pope opposite a picture of Michael Rennie, you really wouldn't need to look much further, now would you?
Also, since it is obvious that the book is NOT a real attempt at science, it is reasonable to assume that there is a social, political or financial motivation for sending the book. So, questioning the motives behind the author is quite valid.
6. Haven't they put HaHa Yahoo in jail as yet? Maybe while he is in there he could complete his education. After all he failed to complete his course in Interior Design.
He has no qualifications in science (zilch, zero, nada, none) so perhaps this is something he could rectify as well.
7. Adnan Oktar is indeed in jail, for trying to blackmail a woman into having sex with her.
Dawkins would wiped the floor with Oktar's naive book. It isn't even Oktar's work, but that of his lackeys. Oktar was trying desperately to become some sort of messiah figure to the Islamic world, but so far has succeeded only in showing;
1. That he knows nothing about evolution.
2. that he is too lazy to write the books attributed to him.
3. That he is a delusional megalomaniac.
Anyone that thinks Oktar has demolished evolution should really take lessons in molecular biology.
Eyup Erdogan.
The only kindergarten here is Oktar's childish conceptions of creationism.
Since you haven't read it at all Dawkins has the edge over you.
If you think that Oktar's ignorant book may have something in it after Dawkins has shown the lack of BASIC biological and zoological knowledge in it, I must assume that you are still in kindergarten as far as common sense is concerned.
By the way your critique of dawkins was a real howler. You suck at criticism.
Eyup Erdogan.
9. "JAMSHED MOIDU said...
Harun Yahya Rocks.........."
I find it edifying that someone is naive and ignorant enought to side with such a huge loser as Haha Yahoo.
But then again sad losers need someone to emulate.;)
10. JAMSHED MOIDU said
Harun Yahya sucks...
There Jamhead fixed it for you. By the way I hope your messiah is holding up well in prison.
13. Mein Kampf was also instrumental in people coming to believe or to grow in the faith, the faith of Aryan supremacy. They too mistook absurd mythology for great wisdom that would lead to salvation. And that great wisdom manifested itself in Adolf Hitler.
Mein Kampf was horsehit too. Just because somebody finds a myth appealing, uplifting or empowering doesn't make it true.
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One of the disputed islands, in an image released by the Japanese Maritime Self-Defence Force on 15 September 2010 The row concerns eight small islands or rocks in the East China Sea
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Ties between China and Japan have been repeatedly strained by a territorial row over a group of islands, known as the Senkaku islands in Japan and the Diaoyu islands in China.
What is the row about?
At the heart of the dispute are eight uninhabited islands and rocks in the East China Sea. They have a total area of about 7 sq km and lie north-east of Taiwan, east of the Chinese mainland and south-west of Japan's southern-most prefecture, Okinawa. The islands are controlled by Japan.
What is Japan's claim?
Japan says it surveyed the islands for 10 years in 19th Century and determined that they were uninhabited. On 14 January 1895 Japan erected a sovereignty marker and formally incorporated the islands into Japanese territory as part of the Nansei Shoto islands.
After World War Two, Japan renounced claims to a number of territories and islands including Taiwan in the 1951 Treaty of San Francisco. The Nansei Shoto islands came under US trusteeship, being returned to Japan in 1971 under the Okinawa reversion deal.
What is China's claim?
China says that the Diaoyu islands have been part of its territory since ancient times, serving as important fishing grounds administered by the province of Taiwan. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said that this is "fully proven by history and is legally well-founded".
When Taiwan was returned in the Treaty of San Francisco, China says the islands should also have been returned. But Beijing says Kuomintang leader Chiang Kai-shek did not raise the issue, even when the Diaoyu islands were named in the later Okinawa reversion deal, because he depended on the US for support.
Separately, Taiwan also claims the islands.
How have they pressed their claims?
Japan controls the islands, and its coast guards patrol the surrounding waters. But actions by nationalist activists on both sides have repeatedly exacerbated tension.
In September 2010, Japan seized a Chinese trawler and its crew after it collided with two coast guard vessels near the islands, sparking a serious diplomatic row. Small anti-Japanese protests were held in several cities in China. In the end, Japan released the trawler's crew.
In April 2012, a fresh row ensued after outspoken Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara said he would use public money to buy the islands from their private Japanese owner.
Amid visits to the islands by Japanese and Hong Kong activists, the Japanese government then reached a deal to buy three of the islands from the owner in a move to block Mr Ishihara's more provocative plan.
The move angered China, triggering small protests and hitting the operations of some Japanese firms in China. Since then, Chinese government ships have sailed in and out of what Japan says are its territorial waters around the islands on many occasions.
Has the row been limited to spats at sea?
No. Both sides have taken their dispute to the air, rolling it into a broader regional power struggle.
Japan has complained of Chinese unmanned drones flying near its airspace and has scrambled jets as a deterrent.
Japan's Defence Ministry appeared to float the idea in October 2013 that it had the right to shoot down foreign drones approaching its airspace, sparking an angry reaction from Beijing.
Periodic crises have also been caused by Chinese government planes straying too close to the disputed islands for Japan's liking.
The area covers the airspace above the disputed islands, and also overlaps with Japan's claimed air-defence zone. Japan labelled the move a "unilateral escalation".
What is the role of the US?
The US and Japan forged a security alliance in the wake of World War II and formalised it in 1960. Under the deal, the US is given military bases in Japan in return for its promise to defend Japan in the event of an attack.
This means - in theory - that if conflict were to erupt between China and Japan, Japan would expect US military back-up. Some US analysts, however, have pointed out that intervention in any Japan-China islands clash is not in America's interests.
The US continues to express vocal support for the Japan-US alliance and - on the islands row - has called for cool heads to prevail, warning of the high stakes involved in any potential escalation.
What next?
The Senkaku/Diaoyu issue complicates efforts by Japan and China to resolve a dispute over oil and gas fields in the East China Sea that they both claim.
It also highlights the more robust attitude China has been taking to its territorial claims in both the East China Sea and the South China Sea. And it poses worrying questions about regional security as China's military modernises as the US embarks on its "pivot" to Asia.
In both China and Japan, meanwhile, the dispute has a tendency to ignite nationalist passions on both sides, putting pressure on politicians to appear tough and ultimately making any possible resolution even harder to find.
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So the Bulls aren't completely immune to laying an egg, but it's still very rare. And though they've managed to handle similar circumstances better in the past few weeks, it's still on a back-to-back on the road in front of a comparably-good team. The Hawks played the night before as well, but still: though (as Jay pointed out) Sam Smith may not recognize it yet, they are a good defensive team, currently 5th in the NBA.
And Atlanta had a couple important matchups to take advantage of Saturday night, both stemming from an athleticism and quickness gap. The frontcourt of Horford and Smith did a lot of damage in attacking Carlos Boozer, and as a team Atlanta completely owned the rebounding edge (32% ORR, 84% DRR).
At PG they also had an edge with a multi-headed attack of Jeff Teague and Lou Williams, the latter starting for the first time this season. Hinrich was probably given too long of a leash when it was apparent all he could really do defensively was foul, though the Bulls smaller guards didn't fare much better. And though the Bulls tried to use a more traditional SG to get a size edge on the other end, it had very sporadic results and thus ended up as a net negative.
The Hawks started the game out just as sloppily as Chicago, but a huge 36-16 second quarter was powered by those advantages plus a 3-pointer run by one Kyle Korver (who finished with 13 points on 8 shots). Stacey King was hoping all night that Luol Deng would be part of the Bulls advantage on the wings, but though he started the game fairly hot he finished 5-14. After the game Deng admitted his shoulder (injured the night prior in New York) was bothering him and led him to avoid contact. And indeed, Deng took just 5 of his 14 attempts in the paint, and only had a single free-throw.
The Hawks were able to go small with Teague/Williams, yet also had a big lineup at times with Josh Smith moving to the SF spot alongside Horford and Zaza Pachulia, both looks giving the Bulls trouble for different reasons. Luckily things got so out of hand that even Tom Thibodeau showed reason in pulling the plug early, as no starter played in the 4th quarter, and later Taj Gibson was given a rest himself on a likely still-sore ankle. It was only the second time this season the Bulls were in a laugher of a defeat, so I'm comfortable in saying they earned the rest.
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Nature's Government: 'Nature's Government' is a daring attempt to juxtapose the histories of Britain, western science, and imperialism. It shows how colonial expansion, from the age of Alexander the Great to the twentieth century, led to complex kinds of knowledge. Science, and botany in particular, was fed by information culled from the exploration of the globe. At the same time science was useful to imperialism: it guided the exploitation of exotic environments and made conquest seem necessary, legitimate, and beneficial. Drayton traces the history of this idea of 'improvement' from its Christian agrarian origins in the sixteenth century to its inclusion in theories of enlightened despotism. It was as providers of legitimacy, as much as of universal knowledge, aesthetic perfection, and agricultural plenty, he argues, that botanic gardens became instruments of government, first in Continental Europe, and by the late eighteenth century, in Britain and the British Empire. At the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, the rise of which throughout the nineteenth century is a central theme of this book, a pioneering scientific institution was added to a spectacular ornamental garden. At Kew, 'improving' the world became a potent argument for both the patronage of science at home and Britain's prerogatives abroad. 'Nature's Government' provides a portrait of how the ambitions of the Enlightenment shaped the great age of British power, and how empire changed the British experience and the modern world. Richard Drayton was born in the Caribbean and educated at Harvard, Oxford, and Yale. A former Fellow of St. Catharine's College, Cambridge, and Lincoln College, Oxford, he has also been Associate Professor of History at the University of Virginia.
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What this article doesn't tell you, is that Obummer is cutting military salaries 1% while RAISING federal salaries (including Biden's). Where are all the Libs that keep saying Democrats support the lower class? I'm sure there are plenty of lower class people in the military trying to better their lives!
Obama cannot pass a balanced budget, and he doesn't understand that you don't spend your way out of a debt crisis. Obama the failure.
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Bumbling idiots! A robbery? Was it worth it at all. In a mall? Why not Wells Fargo or something? At least try to make the crime pay off.
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Director: Filipe Abranches
Producer: Nuno Amorim, Animais AVPL
Script: Filipe Abranches, Pedro Moura
Photography: Joana Amorim
Editing: Filipe Abranches, Joana Amorim, Nuno Amorim
Music: Miguel Mocho
Sound: Miguel Mocho, Nuno Amorim
Animation: Osvaldo Medina
Animation Technique: Drawing on paper
Main Actors: Luís Elgris, Maria Zamora
A dance or a fight of two bodies opens internal dances under their skins. Two lovers curling into each other in the act of love, their fingers fondling tattoos, initiating a mechanism that will allow us to go to the other side of these tattoos, these images, as if we were Alice facing a mirror-door.
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Silk Screening Tutorial
In this demonstration I print on the resist and then let it dry before painting in the color with acid dyes. You may do it this way using resist or you can also print using pigments that are designed for screen printing. You can color or dye the silk beforehand if you like so that you have a colored background on which to print.
I use the Drawing Fluid/Screen Filler method here. With this method you don't need any light tables to expose your screen as in the Photo Emulsion method. It's more direct and needs less studio equipment.
1. Step 1 1
Make a black and white line drawing onto paper. You will trace this picture onto the screen so make sure it's nice and bold!
2. Step 2 2
Take a screen that is a few inches bigger all around so that your image fits inside with lots of border around it. You will need this border for the ink to rest on later.
Place it over your drawing with a little space between the screen and the paper. I use little plastic bottle caps on each corner to elevate it so the drawing fluid doesn't stick to the paper. You can use anything as long as they are all the same size and keep the screen horizontal. The screen should be about 110 size mesh. Contact your supplier and he'll know what to get you.
3. Step 3 3
Then trace the image onto the screen with a fine brush with the drawing fluid. I use the Speedball brand here. The drawing fluid and the screen filler are a pair that have to be compatible so get both in the same brand just to be safe.
4. Step 4 4
The screen should look like this when you are finished drawing on it. Let the fluid dry completely. It has a shiny smooth texture to it.
5. Step 5 5
So now you are ready to apply the Screen Filler. In the photo below I show where I have poured out the filler onto the top part of the screen. Make sure that you tape it underneath there to avoid the filler going right through the screen. It is surprisingly runny and I find that keeping it in the fridge helps thicken it a bit so it's easier to apply. Then you take your squeegee and spread the filler evenly as you can over your drawing. Try to do this only ONCE! If you re-apply you risk the chance of the drawing fluid coming off where you don't want it to. You have one chance and if you don't get it then you can work with it and fix it later or just re-do the whole thing.
6. Step 6 6
So now you have to let the filler dry completely. This may take a day or a few hours depending on the humidity level in your house. Don't use a hairdryer or anything to speed it up as it might damage the screen. A fan is good or just a warmly heated room will speed up the drying time nicely.
After it is completely dry you need to wash the screen under cold running water. A hose works fine or a shower head does okay too. The more pressure the better but not too much as you might loosen some of the filler. Cold water is definitely better too. The drawing fluid should wash off easily and you can use a brush or rough spongey thing to help you get all the blue stuff off. You should be able to see through the parts where the blue stuff was now. In this photo I have it leaning up against my patio door window so you can see it clearly. Check to see if there are any open screen parts that you didn't mean to leave open. You can fill those with nail polish or paint on some filler with a brush or put some tape there.
7. Step 7 7
As you can see there is a big white space all around my drawing. You need to fill that with screen tape. You can use duct tape too or packing tape but the screen tape will last longer and is more water resistant. It's actually called "screen printing tape" and your supplier will know what it is.
Tape on the underside of the screen: the flat side, not the side where you will be putting the ink. If you put the tape on the wrong side then it might catch in the squeegee and cause trouble.
8. Step 8 8
Now you need to prepare your fabric for printing. I use silk and stretch it on a frame like the photo below but you can use whatever you want. It does need to be stabilized somehow though. You can staple gun it to the table or use pins or duct tape or whatever works for you. The table should be a bit cushioned under the fabric so that there will be good contact between the fabric and the screen. Make sure that the fabric is stable enough so it doesn't stick to your screen when you lift it up after printing.
9. Step 9 9
Also in this step I make my registration marks so that I can align the image with the fabric. This is very important with wall hangings because you want them to hang straight without folds or wrinkles. Depending on what you are making you will need to line it up somehow and there are many ways to do that.
10. Step 10 10
Now it's time for printing! Pour a good amount of ink or pigment or whatever you are using. The consistency should be quite thick so as not to pass too quickly through the screen and run all over the place. Use the same amount as you used for the filler and spread evenly with the squeegee. You might have to make a couple of passes depending on how thick the ink is and how wide your mesh is. Try a couple of test ones to get the hang of it. Stack or hang them to dry and you're done!
11. Step 11 11
Here is the silk screened result in black and white.
12. Step 12 12
Here is the finished product with color added.
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Yesterday, as I was picking up my lunch at Dad’s Sandwiches I overheard two people talking about SB1221. These people were, according to their conversation, in favor of the bill and possibly on the lobbying team in support of it, which is contrary to my position on the bill. I also had to explain this particular issue to my aunt and mother this past weekend, because my aunt has a close friend who is in support of the bill and who was one of the 150 people to go speak at the hearing on June 26th (compared to the 7,000 who showed up in opposition). What I want from you guys is for you to understand the bill, why it is a threat to all hunting, and why you should write your Assemblyman and the Committee members. And to try to clarify some of the misconceptions surrounding the bill.
SB 1221 is a bill that would ban hunting bear and bobcat with dogs. Right now it just passed the Assembly Water, Parks, and Wildlife Committee in a second, closed-session after an overwhelming outcry and attendance by the hunting and hounding community and a no-vote on Tuesday. It has already passed the Senate (by 2 votes). Next it goes to the Appropriations Committee, then the Assembly floor, then the Governor. This bill is something that is attempted every few years in some form of restricting use of dogs for hunting, but has gained momentum this year because of political posturing regarding the Fish and Game commission president legally harvesting a mountain lion in Idaho. I tried to find an unbiased article still up, it was a little tough. For the record, Commissioners are appointed by the Governor, and make no more than $500 a month. They are not legislators. They are in place to provide independent oversight to the Department of Fish and Game in regulatory matters.
Why is SB 1221 bad? Well, here are the reasons. The bill is based on emotion and perception, not science. The funding behind the bill is the Humane Society, which has stated, point-blank, that they want to ban all hunting in California, and then move on to other states to do the same. That alone is enough for me to not support it, because it is based on emotion, on a well-funded minority agenda, and not on science. There is the actual wording of the bill if you are like me and want to read it for yourself.
It is also based on one group of people wanting to impose their will onto another group of people. If you don’t like hunting, that is fine. But until you have gone out and experienced it, you do not have anything to base an opinion on except your perception. Personally, I don’t like noodling , but I am not going to try to tell those of you that like it (or want to try it) that you shouldn’t. I have never done noodling. I would not find anything enjoyable about wading around muddy water trying to get a fish to bite my fingers, or shoving my fist down a fish’s mouth. But hey, if that’s how you want to spend your Saturday, who am I do try to stop you? If you’re reasonable, you are nodding your head in agreement. Where have all the reasonable people gone??
These are the facts: The bear population is California is exploding (for biological reasons, and an increase tag limit would help), and the bill takes away the most effective tool for managing the bear population. And the state makes money by allowing it. Not to mention the thousands of families and people that earn a living running hounds. End of story! If this bill passes, then the state is going to be on the hook for hunting bears that become public safety hazards, AND those bears legally cannot be consumed, the carcass HAS to be destroyed, by law. Does the state have extra money laying around to pay people to hunt bears, when people are PAYING to do it now? No, last time I checked it doesn’t.
How to hunt bear and bobcat with dogs: Hounds (think Where the Red Fern Grows) are trained to scent bears and bobcats, then, as a pack, chase the animals into a tree, baying and howling to alert the hunters to where the pack is. It is in these dogs’ nature to chase and ‘bay’. In this day and age a lot of hunters put radio collars on their dogs, so they can find the dogs. And not just when the dogs have treed an animal, but when the dogs get lost (which happens regularly) or when the dogs are picked up on the road after getting lost. I have heard stories of dogs being kidnapped and the hunters tracking the dogs to the people’s house to retrieve the dog. And these are not cheap dogs, mind you. Good hounds are just like other good hunting dogs, and can command prices over $1500. Times that by at least 4, and usually 6 dogs in a pack. That is a pretty hefty investment for a past time, not to mention the vet bills, the FOOD, gas to drive to the field, etc.
Why hunt bear with dogs? Several reasons. When I lived in Humboldt I worked and played in bear country. I worked on timberland and worked and socialized with foresters and timber biologists. I saw a few bears in the field, but more often I heard them, crashing through the brush moving away from me, unseen. Where the bears liked to be were areas not very accessible, and if you wanted to hunt bears there, you used hounds. Because of the steep canyons, dense underbrush, and sometimes hazardous terrain due to timber harvest, just hiking around is very hard, and if pursuing game, is basically impossible. Bear hunting is nothing like the ‘ideal’ scene of a deer or elk hunt, where the animal stands broadside to you on the edge of a meadow where you have no trees, bushes or shrubs in the way, you can clearly identify the animal and if it is legal, and have a clear line of sight. When you bear hunt, you do not have a clear line of sight, essential to identifying your prey and taking a clean shot. This is why dogs are used, to find the bears, and to tree them. Bears’ natural defense mechanism (like porcupine’s quills, or opossums playing dead) is to climb a tree. They do not run up trees because they have no other escape, they do it because it’s what they do. Our hunting methods have developed in response to the prey’s natural methods of evasion. Bear hunting with dogs, or any hunting with dogs for that matter, has been occurring since we domesticated dogs.
Bears are also responsible for up to 90% tree death in some timber harvest plans in Del Norte and Humboldt County. I have seen this with my own eyes. Bears can reach a density of up to 5 bears per square mile and this results in a shortage of forage for the bears to eat. So, as a result of starving, they have started stripping the sugar-dense cambium of the inner layer of bark of redwood and other valuable trees. The timber companies are not able to keep the bear populations down enough to prevent this, even with houndsmen on staff and running dogs, not just for hunting, but for hazing bears away from trees. SB 1221 would prevent the timber industry from using houndsmen to control bear populations, and more depredation bear hunting would take place (which, again, results in the meat not being used). Consumers would see a steep rise in the price of redwood for our decks and raised beds.
The author and supporters of the SB1221 are using the following arguments:
We are not closing hunting for bears: You just won’t be able to use dogs to hunt, so you can hunt them just like you hunt everything else, taking 200-300 yard shots like you do with deer or elk or any other large mammal.
In reality, you are making it virtually impossible to hunt bears, because the people that are effective at hunting bears use hounds to do so in areas where the bear population is high. Hunting bears without hounds will significantly reduce hunter success, and therefore increase the bear population. You will see people just stop hunting bears altogether, not switch to other hunting methods. In addition, when you tree a bear, you are able to look at it from 20-40 yards away before you shoot it, so you are able to tell if it is male or female, and if it’s a female if it has cubs, if it is a young animal or mature, and you have excellent shot placement, which results in almost instant death for the animal most of the time. Contrast that with a 200-300 yard shot, where you don’t have the ability to sex the animal, you have a higher chance of missing or misplacing your shot (so increase chance of maiming or wounding the animal), and it is harder to tell how big an animal is the farther away it is, so you could be shooting a yearling bear instead of a fully mature one. There is no way to see if the bear is a mother with cubs from so far away also. There is also an increased chance that once you shoot the animal and get over to where you think it was when you shot it that you loose its trail, the animal dies slowly in pain, or gets an infection and dies several weeks later, or dies and you cannot find the carcass. All unacceptable things to an ethical hunter, and ineffective as a population control tool.
It’s cruelty to animals: The bears run up trees because they are terrified, which is cruel, and the dogs get maimed, bit, and clawed by the bears defending themselves. The dogs are not well cared for and are overwhelming animal shelters. Also, you are shooting the bear out of the tree, so when it’s shot it tumbles helplessly to the ground. Hunting with dogs is a form of torture, because you are chasing the animals instead of just shooting it where it stands.
First off, I would like to make the point that wild animals live with the threat from other animals daily. So the stress that we, as humans, associate with being ‘hunted’ in the typically safe environment we live in is an unreasonable comparison. Also, animals do not react to stressful situations in the same way we do. In my opinion, a bear is more annoyed by the dogs than frightened. You have to understand, bears rule the woods in California. Even our ‘small’ Black bears in California are not afraid of mountain lions, and chase lions off their cached deer kills every day (one of the reasons the deer population is on decline btw). Bears do not have anything to be scared of in the woods. So, hungry mountain lion versus pack of barking dogs…. which do you think a bear associates a greater threat to? So the assumption that bears are running up trees because they are terrified and have no where else to go is unfounded, especially when you are familiar with the ecology of bears and their avoidance strategies, like running up a tree.
Houndsmen pay upwards of $1500 a dog, and hounding is not effective unless there is at least 3 dogs in the pack, more is better. I cannot say that every hunter treats their hunting dogs like I do (SPOILED is the word, sleeping on the bed, treats and love all the time, boiled eggs every day, etc) but after reading some of the posts by houndsmen I can say that there are hound dogs that are getting the royal treatment, just like my bird dog. Of course, when looking at the spectrum, there are going to be the good and the bad. But at $1500 a dog, most houndsmen are going to take very good care of their dogs.
It’s not sporting, and it’s trophy hunting: The bears are hunted with dogs so the hunters can take the largest, biggest trophy bears, and the bears are shot at point-blank range out of the tree. The dogs have radio collars so the hunters know where the dogs are at all times, so that is not ‘fair chase’.
Most of the bears taken using hounds are bears used for meat. California is not known for it’s ‘trophy’ bears, so this argument is invalid. Plus, the use of ‘trophy hunting’ makes people think that you are just taking the skin or head, and in fact, bear meat is very tasty and makes great sausage! Hunters hunt bears for meat (amazing, I know!) and population control, so just the use of ‘trophy hunting’ is uncalled for.
Also, the bears are not shot at point-blank range. I have yet to see a hunter climb up into a tree to shoot a bear within arm reach. Yes, the shots are taken at a shorter range that most other hunting is done, but that is an ideal situation. The closer a hunter can get to the prey, the better the shot placement, and the easier it is to clearly identify the individual animal and its particulars, such as sex, size, lactating or not. As one of the houndsmen said on the 26th, hunting bear and bobcats with dogs is the only form of ‘catch and release’ hunting.
The idea that hunting this way is not ‘fair chase’ represents a complete difference of opinion. I have not hunted bear this way. So I defer to my friends that have. According to them, hunting bears with dogs is not ‘easier’, it’s just more exact. There is still the chasing of the baying dogs into canyons and out of valleys, through dense brush and forest. Using collars on the dogs does not prevent this. Without the dogs putting pressure on the bear to get into a tree there would be no way for a hunter on foot to catch up to a bear, let alone have the chance at a clear shot when the animal is calm enough to hold still. Hunting bears would become incidental. An animal not moving, close enough to identify clearly, and calm enough for a good shot placement is an ideal situation. It leads to a quick, relatively pain-free death.
Other states have banned hunting bears with dogs: California is behind the times, 14 other states have banned hunting bears with hounds, so we should be progressive and ban it too!
The other states that have banned hunting bears with dogs that the HSUS cites are: Montana, Colorado, Washington, Pennsylvania, and Oregon. Washington has it banned for hunters, but when they have to do any bear work, they use Karelian Bear Dogs. I know this because I trained in WA for animal restraint, and it was awesome watching these dogs in action. According to the representative from Oregon, as a result of the banning of bear hunting with dogs the state has had to hunt and kill over 300 bears that became public safety issues, compared to 3 before the ban. The other states have grizzly bears. Seriously. Look at this map please. You don’t hunt bears with dogs in states that have grizzly bears. Well except Pennsylvania, I don’t know what’s going on there.
How it is Supposed to Work: DFG Biologists do monitoring surveys, collect data from hunter take surveys, do research in the field and in the library, and write papers and reports. Program managers take that science, and other science conducted by other reputable biologists and synthesize (oooh buzzword!) it with the management goals of the program and the department, and try to prioritize that with budget constraints and legislative mandates. They set seasons and bag limits, hunt zones, method of take, and author new regulations or change existing ones, based on SCIENCE. Then those changes are reviewed and approved (or not) by the Fish and Game Commission, a group of people appointed by the Governor.
BUT, if this bill passes, just like Prop 117, it takes away the ability of the Department of Fish and Game to manage the species that fall under its mandate. If you are going to allow the legislature to regulate how wildlife is managed in this state, what you do you need a Department of Fish and Game for? No one is listening to the scientists about HOW to manage game species, and groups like the HSUS are using the emotions and sympathies of uninformed people to support their cause and agenda. Which, make NO mistake, is to END hunting, and eventually ownership of animals.
So please, get active, get involved in your local shooting or hunting chapter, write your representatives. Because when they are done with us hunters, they are coming for you farmers.
Hunting 102: Where the Wild Things Are, and Are Not
Next time: Hunting 103: Habitat, Schmabitat
Hunting 101: The Good, The Bad, and The Bloody
Why are you reading this blog entry? Seriously. Have you thought about it? Most of you have had the opportunity to ask yourself this question, but for the rest of you I will pose it now: Why, in the name of everything that is holy, would you want to start hunting?
I ask this in all seriousness. We, in our infinitely-advanced socially-conscious society, have the ability to raise all the meat our diet requires. We can (and sometimes) do so in a humane, controlled environment designed to raise the healthiest, happiest, disease-free meatsacks known to the history of Man, outside of Eden. And we don’t even have to be involved in the process. All we have to do is fork over a couple $2.99/lb debit charges to have someone we don’t even meet raise, kill, clean, butcher, and store our protein for us. You do not even have to get your hands dirty, let alone bloody and gross.
So why do you want to learn how to hunt? Do you have an answer yet? It absolutely boggles my mind, in America, that this is something you need to have, but it is. Because, as some of you have come to realize, even if you are not bothering your fellow Man with your activities, your activities might, in fact, bother them. Vehemently.
I want to use this blog to teach you DIYers all about hunting (and fishing too!) in California and elsewhere, about the mechanics, method, and art of it. But I also want to use it as a way to educate you about what is going on in the world of wildlife science & management, wildlife legislation, and how hunting is, for lack of a better phrase, a way of life worth saving. I also want YOU to educate ME about what this new generation of hunters needs, in the way of support, education, and connectivity. Because without it, without you caring and advocating, I fear our children will have no choice but to buy their meat in pretty packages, and the joy of homemade elk sausage and wild pheasant raviolis will be lost.
Most of you are familiar with this concept, because of your choice to be an active participant in your food-shed, however big or small that may be. Hunting… , should you choose to accept this mission, is going to take you to a whole other level (past 11!). What I am getting out of this is if I can educate and inspire even ONE of you, I can die happy. But I’d be lying if I wasn’t hoping for many more. And if you’re just interested in increasing your zombie apocalypse skill-set, by all means, I will cover that as well.
So, back to it. Your reason for hunting? Do you have it, is it firmly in mind? Maybe write it down. If you have more than one that is even better. Here are some examples:
• I want to be an active participant in my food-shed and hunting is the next progression in that.
• I want to eat the free-est range, most organic meat possible!
• I learned valuable lessons from hunting, and want to continue that with my children.
• If God didn’t want us to eat animals, he wouldn’t have made them out of meat, or so delicious.
• I want to hunt because animals have evolved with humans over the past 40,000 years and it’s our responsibility to manage their populations so that future generations can enjoy consumptive and non-consumptive use of our wildlife.
I will give you one guess what my reason is. Well, it is ONE of the many reasons I hunt. But it is the biggest reason as to why I chose my career.
So WHY is having a reason important? Because, at some point you will have to defend your choice to do so. And to make matters worse, the ability to hunt is not a right. I want to make that clear. It’s like having a driver license. Or, apparently, growing your own food. The privilege of hunting can be taken away. By the Grace of your Legislators do you retain the ability to go forth and harvest your own wild meat. This is why I spoke of advocating earlier. Because we are coming to a point in California, when the ability to hunt is being questioned, and certain groups are actively trying to insure that you lose this privilege. The future of hunting in America is, literately, in your hands.
Next time: Hunting 102: Where the Wild Things Are, and Are Not.
Catching some Levain (aka Sourdough Starter)
Cajun Spiced Crab Cakes
Every Christmas Eve we have a crab feed at my house. This year was a bit different because Tom and Junior actually went out and caught the crab for the dinner table. They had great luck catching 6 rock crabs and 6 large Dungeness crabs. More than enough for 5 people, one of which wasn’t interested in eating any crab. Eventually we’ll get Junior to enjoy it.
Th first few that were caught
Every year, even when we buy crab, we always have some left over. This year was no exception. My mom always made crab cakes the next day with what was leftover, but of course she’s in Ohio so it was my turn to try my hand at them. Having never made them before I was a bit nervous. But in the end I was really happy with them. So here’s how you can do it too.
1 lb Dungeness Crab meat
1 Egg
2 tsp Cajun Seasoning
1/2 cup Mayonnaise
1 tsp Hot Pepper Sauce
1/4 cup Oats
1 Tbs Lemon Juice
3 Tbs Safflower Oil
Remove all the crab meat from the shell. Grind the oats up. I like to use a coffee grinder as it gets them fairly fine. Add everything except the oil in a bowl.
I made the mayonnaise from scratch. I find that the commercial stuff is a bit too strong when I add it to stuff. I’m not sure what the strong flavor is, but I don’t much care for it. The homemade mayo is much milder and what is left you can use to make an accompanying aioli. Also feel free to add more hot sauce if you wish. A teaspoon doesn’t add much heat at all but rather just builds on the flavor profile.
I was surprised when I mixed this all together just how runny the batter was. Because it had egg in it though it should be able to bind well.
In a hot skillet add the oil over medium high heat and drop spoonfuls of the “batter.” Flatten them with the back of the spoon and then cook until browned. Gently flip and continue to cook until the other side is browned.
Pull the crab cakes out and place on paper towels to allow to drain. Keep them in a warm oven while you cook the rest of the cakes. Serve the crab cakes with any sauce that you would prefer. We like to eat ours with more hot sauce.
The Perennial Plate – Seaside Foraging
The Perennial Plate Episode 68: A Tale of Three Seasides from Daniel Klein on Vimeo.
I’m super excited about this episode because it includes my hunter-gatherer hero, Hank Shaw. I have yet to meet him, but hopefully in the future I will.
Let’s hit the ocean ’cause it’s AB SEASON!
Abalone Diving… Yep.
- Visibility. Best when the ocean is calm or it hasn’t been raining.
Belgian-Style Mussels
Today, I just want to talk about mussels.
…wait, you can EAT those things?
Delicious? You bet.
Sunchoke Chowder
Enter the sunchoke.
Sunchoke Chowder
makes 12-14c soup; serves 6-10
4 Tbsp butter
5 Tbsp all-purpose flour
1/2 large yellow onion, diced
3 large carrots, cut into rounds
2 c turkey stock
1 c vegetable stock
3/4 cups half + half
1/2 teaspoon dry mustard
Salt and pepper, to taste
1 sunchoke, peeled and julienned
1 carrot, matchsticked
chervil leaves (or flat leaf parsley), chopped
Orange Braised Fennel
Orange Braised Fennel
2-3 Tbsp sunflower oil
6-8 small bulbs fennel, greens removed
1/2 c fresh-squeezed orange or grapefruit juice
1 tsp orange zest
1 c water
1/4 c vodka
2 pods star anise
salt and pepper to taste
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Dr. Vojislav Kostunica, president of FRY, addressed the nation
Serbia On Path Towards Democracy
"Now, Serbia will first set off towards a new future with friendly nations in Europe, with nations who understood us, the Greeks and the French, with the Norwegians, and other nations," Dr. Vojislav Kostunica said
by Beta
Politika, Belgrade, FR Yugoslavia, October 6, 2001
Millions of citizens of Serbia were yesterday in the streets to confirm with a decisive, loud and forceful action their own will expressed in the elections of September 24, that the leader of the Democratic Opposition of Serbia, Dr. Vojislav Kostunica, take over the leadership of Yugoslavia. Mass protests in Belgrade that included several hundreds of thousands of citizens from both the capital and the provinces were the stamp on the demand that democratic changes be recognized. Two persons dies in clashes with the police and about seventy were hurt. The Army and the Police promised not to intervene. Many media companies, including the RTV Serbia, started to objectively inform the public about dramatic events. Last night, three transport planes, according to the reports of news agencies, left Belgrade from the Batajnica airport, but so far nothing else is known about those flights. The newly elected president of FR Yugoslavia thanked voters for their trust and said that Serbia has set off on the path towards democracy. The public expression of the popular will was met with overwhelming support everywhere in the world, with repeated promises of the European Union that sanctions will be abolished.
Pride Because of Trust
President of FRY, Dr. Vojislav Kostunica, called yesterday on the residents of Belgrade to stay in their city and to continue to gather in squares all over Serbia.
Beta news agency provides the speech of Vojislav Kostunica in full.
"Dear liberated Serbia, Belgrade,
Belgrade is today Serbia, and not a small Serbia, but a glorious Serbia. The whole country has risen to make one man, Slobodan Milosevic, leave. Serbia has stopped until that man leaves, and when he leaves, Serbia will move, and she will do better. But Serbia is not forcing that man to leave, the way he led Serbia and our people by force. We ousted him in elections.
And because of that, because of your votes cast in the September 24 elections, I am proud. I am proud to be a citizen of Serbia and Yugoslavia, I am proud to belong to our holy Church, I am proud that you have given me your trust. And I am proud that you have chosen me for president of FR Yugoslavia.
I feel like a president and I am the president, thanks to your votes, thanks to the basic rule of democracy that popular will is crucial in it. And that is the way it was in the September 24 elections. And the whole Serbian nation went to those elections with one thought - peace.
Peace among us, peace between Serbia and Yugoslavia and the whole world, peace between Serbia and Montenegro. But one man has for years been introducing unease, uncertainty and fear into this nation. This man has unnecessarily led Serbia to wars and now wants to start a war against his own people because of lost elections.
But, let me ask you - who stole those elections, who violated the Constitution, who illegally changed the Constitution, who wanted these elections if not Slobodan Milosevic?
He wanted these elections and he had them. They were held according to his rules, he used the media to mislead the population, to say the worst about his own people on his television. We told him to choose the rules, to choose his weapons. His weapons are lies and violence, our weapons are the truth and non-violence.
Every Vote Must Count
And that is why we participated in these elections. But we told him at the same time - only until then will you be allowed to lie and mislead. After that day our rule will apply - every vote must count, there must be no vote rigging.
Those who do not live among the people, who do not dare talk to the people, who do not know suffering of the people, have condemned themselves to lack of freedom. We know what freedom is. We fought for freedom in these elections, and freedom, peace and order triumphed in these elections.
But he refuses to acknowledge that. He has decided to steal. He stole votes and found yet another method for vote rigging. In Kosovo he decided to have ethnic Albanians vote for him even in those places where there were no polling stations.
He has made a mistake yet again. Had he called the ethnic Albanians to participate in the elections, all of them would have participated and voted for him. If someone implemented anti-Serb policies, pro-Albanian policies in the recent past, if someone allowed Albanians to get within striking distance of an independent Kosovo, if someone brought so many foreign soldiers to Kosovo, to our land, that man is Slobodan Milosevic.
He is the man who always cared about everything else but his own people, who implemented other policies instead of the Serb policy. Can someone who was more concerned about others than about his own people still lead our nation?
He has recently accused us of working for NATO. But I tell you - Slobodan Milosevic is the most likely candidate for a NATO hireling in Serbia. I do not know whether he does that out of interests, but I do know that there would be no NATO troops on both banks of the Drina river if it weren't for Slobodan Milosevic.
But let me tell you one more thing. I do not absolve of guilt those who bombed us. They are also criminals, but one man provided conditions for their crimes. We must not forget that.
And then, he decided to engage in vote rigging in these elections. He found his own Federal Electoral Commission in which both mathematicians and directors of the Federal Statistics Institute do not know how to add numbers.
He stole and when he realized that his theft would be revealed, when he realized that there was no way out, then he decided to use yet another one of his institutions, filled by people without honor and integrity - the Federal Constitutional Court. And that Court is everything but a court. He decided to use that institution to annul the rigged elections, to annul the first round of elections and to hope that some other round of elections would come. There will be no second, nor any other round of elections.
Serbia Running Victory Lap
Serbia is at this moment doing a victory lap. But Slobodan Milosevic is not there. Now he is again trying to deny reality. He would like to tell us that those elections that he wanted and that he rigged did not exist after all. He would like to continue to rule Serbia for months, falling back on some old mandates. Serbia will not let him do that.
Serbia has set off on the road towards democracy, and democracy does not agree with Slobodan Milosevic. For ten years that man had time to learn what democracy is, for ten year he had opportunities to look his people in the face, to talk to them. He was not capable of doing that. He treated his political opponents, the opposition, as enemies.
He was capable of talking to even our worst enemies abroad, he could negotiate in Dayton, but he did not talk to his own people. And that is why there is no place for him here anymore. Serbia has risen and ranks around Slobodan Milosevic are increasingly thinning out. The SPS is disappearing, crossing over to the other side. In the state apparatus there are no more people who are prepared to back him up, including the military and the Police. All of them support the people. And those who are against the people, a handful of them who are making threats with an empty rifle named Slobodan Milosevic, are on the other side.
Our actions today are history, history created by this people on its own, without anybody's help. We do not need anything, we do not need Moscow or Washington. Serbia has risen!
And now Serbia will first set off towards a new future with friendly nations in Europe, with nations who understood us, the Greeks and the French, with the Norwegians, and other nations. Serbia will be what she has always been, but without Slobodan Milosevic - a part of Europe.
Because, today it is clear, just as Serbia cannot survive without Europe, as she has always been a part of Europe - this is the most European part of Europe - Serbia - thus similarly Europe cannot go on without Serbia. But only if Slobodan Milosevic goes first. And Serbia will become a part of Europe and Europe today sends us a message that she cannot be complete without Serbia and we send a message to Europe and the democratic world - democracy has arrived in Serbia, raise your voices, raise your hands - sanctions must be abolished.
Today, that is our message for Europe and the democratic world. No more sanctions for Serbia in which the people with its own will, in dishonest Milosevic's elections, won. That is democracy!
Electoral Victories Must be Defended
It is unusual that something won in the elections must later be defended. That is happening because we still live in the last moments of Milosevic's Serbia, but we shall defend our rights. Because, in my travels to all parts of Serbia, I noticed one characteristic - there were many of us when the time was to cast our votes and vote for the DOS, but there are even more of us now when it is necessary to defend our victory. Now, there are even more of us and that is why we shall defend our victory.
We shall defend it in the same way we went to these elections, using our weapons against theirs, non-violence against their violence, truth against their lies, and persistence and faith, and we shall defend it because we shall never give up. They ask me about the message for today and I say - to the end!
At this spot, and everywhere else in Serbia our numbers must grow. We must stay together until victory. We know how communism was defeated elsewhere - by the popular will, liberated people against the communist violence. And it's only a matter of time when we shall have our victory.
Dear Serbia, we shall not go to Dedinje. We shall stay here. We shall stay here where national institutions are, where our parliaments are, because those parliaments are ours. And he can go to his, stolen, snatched away from rightful owners. And when new Serbia comes all of that will be returned. And there will be no thievery, no poverty. We shall have laws instead of thieves. Money will not be smuggled out of this country but will stay here and we shall get financial support from our compatriots living abroad.
Belgrade, Serbia, I thank you for the trust you have placed in me. Thank you for staying with us to the end. Let us stay together. You stay with me and I shall stay with you. Cheers!"
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0.027439 | <urn:uuid:9d01eea3-6637-40ac-8265-b44550535df1> | en | 0.868198 | 3 Easy Steps To Create Healthy Frozen Yogurt
Looking for a quick snack you can whip up at home? Want some delicious after-mealdessert without feeling guilty?
If you (1) like eating ice cream (2) are lazy to make it and (3) are calorie conscious, I have the perfect solution for you. Being a calorie conscious individual, I’m particular about eating high calorie foods. Imagine my exhilaration when I found this simple kitchen hack that not only lets me prepare ice cream with absolute ease, but allows me to eat without worrying about calories. Each serving is only 100 calories. Get ready to enter ice cream haven :D .
What You Need
Just 3 things: (1) Yogurt (2) Freezer (3) Spoon (for eating later). It can’t get any easier.
Step 1: Pick your yogurt
Do you like your ice cream plain? Or do you like fruits in it? Nowadays yogurt comes with fruit variants such as blueberry, apple, peach and strawberry. I always pick the fruit variants because it gives added crunch and flavor to the ice cream. My favorites are mango and peach, strawberries and mixed berries flavor.
Brands like Yoplait, Danone and Marigold will have more than enough options for you to choose from. They are about 100 calories per cup, which makes for a delicious low calorie ice cream :) You can even have 2 if you want, though I find 1 is sufficient whether as a appetite filler or after-meal snack.
Step 2: Put it in the freezer for 2 hours
Typically yogurt is placed in the refrigerator to keep it chilled. Since we are making yogurt ice cream, we’re putting this in the freezer. Depending on the size of your container and type of yogurt, this’ll take at least 2 hours.
In the meantime, go surf around lifehack.org and check out the past articles.
Step 3: Get your delicious ice cream
Check if the yogurt has hardened into ice cream by squeezing the container. If it can be squeezed, put it back in the freezer for a while longer. If it can’t, that means it has hardened into ice cream.
If so, remove the seal. Use a spoon to poke into the ice cream. If it’s too hard, leave the yogurt at room temperature for about 15 minutes for it to soften first.
Enjoy your delicious yogurt ice cream :D . Go ahead and have one snack every day of a different flavor. Since it’s a healthy food and only 100 calorie per serving, there’s no reason to limit it in your diet. This is a kitchen hack I use almost every day and I love it.
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Aunt Tiger DVD
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Title:Aunt Tiger
Starring: Annie Wu , Lin You Wei
Aspect Ratio:Full Screen 4:3
Media Format:DVD - NTSC
Region Code:All Regions
Running Time:89 Minutes
Production: 2005
Price: US$9.95
Shipping Unit: 1
Audio Spec:Dolby Digital Surround
Subtitles:Traditional Chinese
Who is the murderer?
Or…the murderer is not a human being?
Sixty years ago, clouds blocked the red moon at night. Some people said children have been eaten by Aunt Tiger in the village. Sixty years later, the same case happened again on the same night, at the same house…!
Is it possiblt that Aunt Tiger has appeared again…?!
Meanwhile, a crazy woman Ming-Yue turns herself in and declared as a murder. Accidentally, the officer Yong- Pin and her boyfriend Li-Ren found out some wired clues in the process of suspension…
What is the relationship between the transmigration of revenge and the case? Does Aunt Tiger exist? Who is the murderer? Or...the murderer is not a human being?
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ObtuseAnginaPosted 4/19/2013 3:06:25 AM
I find it difficult with how precise you have to be with everything, its like if you hit a button like a millisecond before or late it counts as a Miss. The game otherwise is great, I love the art and the music but its too difficult. I made it to the third world so far
Also is bee boss from the demo, in the full game?
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Petey_MeanisPosted 4/19/2013 3:16:17 AM
You need better rhythm skills. If you're not musically/rhythmically inclined the game will seem hard.
chameleonsoupPosted 4/19/2013 3:31:38 AM
It's not just down to rhythm though. Some of the things you need to hit are but the drums at least are not. You definitely have to jump after you've hit it, not in time with the music. I cannot complete the final level at all. All the jumping and hitting is more in keeping with a platformer than a rhythm game in my opinion. Still love the game though.
And yep, the bee from the demo is in the game.
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AceGamer11xPosted 4/19/2013 3:34:43 AM
I dunno, It wasn't very difficult for me...
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PokeMasterPosted 4/19/2013 7:28:12 AM
The game is easy.
No problems with timing or the rhythm.
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lizard81288Posted 4/19/2013 9:23:25 AM
The only hard thing about that game were the bosses. They had instant kill moves and to gold rank them, you need a perfect, whilst on other stages, you can make some mistakes.
And yes, the bee boss is in. That fight is pretty tough, but I like how the battle was choreographed.
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Temporary stay will allow 'telemed' abortions to continue in Iowa
November 5, 2013
By Rod Boshart, The Gazette, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Nov. 05--UPDATE: Planned Parenthood of the Heartland won a preliminary victory Tuesday in its effort to stop an Iowa Board of Medicine rule that effectively would curtail doctors' ability to dispense abortion-inducing pills via a video-conferencing system at the private provider's clinics in Iowa.
Polk County District Judge Karen Romano granted Planned Parenthood's request for a temporary stay that blocked a board rule that was slated to take effect Wednesday. The judge's stay order will be in place while the issue of whether to permanently allow or bar the proposed rule to decided by the court.
"Our No. 1 priority is the health and safety of our patients," Planned Parenthood of the Heartland President and CEO Jill June said in a statement. "Allowing the rule to be ineffective during litigation will ensure that Iowa women can continue to receive safe health care, without delay, from the provider they trust."
June said there have been no complaints from more than 5,000 women who have utilized Planned Parenthood's telemedicine delivery system for medication abortion at 15 health centers. She added that there was no medical evidence or information that questioned the safety of her agency's system or indicated that the board's ruling was based on the health and safety of Iowa women.
Mark Bowden, the board's executive director, disagreed, saying the court's decision to stay implementation of the rule perpetuates what state regulators believe is "inadequate health care and treatment" for Iowans who seek medical abortions.
"The board believes that a physician must establish an appropriate physician-patient relationship prior to the provision of a medical abortion," Bowden said in a statement. "The physician's in-person medical interview and physical examination of the patent are essential to establishing that relationship."
In her 16-day ruling, Romano said she acknowledged the board's expertise in regulating the provision of medical care in Iowa, but was not entirely persuaded that the board's proposed rule achieves its stated goal of ensuring the safe and healthy administration of health-care services.
"With respect to the lack of an in-person meeting, it is peculiar, as petitioners point out, that the board would mandate this for abortion services and not any other telemedicine practices in Iowa," Romano wrote. "There is simply no evidence the court can rely on to come to the conclusion that the telemedicine abortion procedures, which have been offered for five years without issue, do not 'protect the health and safety of patients.'
"Further, the court strains to understand how decreasing the number of apparently effective and safe abortion services offered to Iowa women pending the resolution of this case supports the public's interest in receiving 'adequate' healthcare," she added.
"If anything, the opposite is true; women who would be unable to attend one of the five remaining clinics that could maintain chemical abortion services despite the implementation of (the proposed rule) would not receive adequate healthcare as they would likely be unable to access those services," the judge wrote in her stay order.
Romano said that denying access to telemedicine abortion would increase the need for surgical abortion which, she concluded, would be much more invasive and risky.
"Women may even choose to self-terminate their pregnancies if they are left with no other option, which is undoubtedly the least safe method of abortion," the judge wrote. "In light of the hardships such woman would face, the court is not convinced that the public's interest in promoting safe, healthy, and adequate medical services in Iowa is furthered by (the proposed) rule."
The board, which oversees and regulates physicians and medical practices in Iowa, voted 8-2 last August to adopt a rule that effectively would stop Planned Parenthood clinics from dispensing abortion-inducing pills via a video-conferencing system.
A majority of the board members cited concerns over the medical care being provided to rural women. The proposed administrative rule would establish standards of practice for physicians who prescribe and administer abortion-inducing drugs. The revised rules would require in-person meetings between doctors and patients along with direct after-care services.
Proponents say Planned Parenthood's practice -- implemented in 2008 -- is safe and patients get the same level of care as those who see a doctor in person. They contend telemedicine procedure was thoroughly researched to ensure it was in full compliance with Iowa law and service helps women in remote parts of the state.
Abortion opponents asked the state board to block the program, saying it violates state medical standards and poses a health risk to women because it doesn't entail a face-to-face meeting with the doctor.
Jenifer Bowen, executive director of Iowa Right to Life, said there is ample medical evidence to indicate that telemedicine abortions are unsafe. She contended the Food & Drug Administration has documented 2,207 adverse events involving U.S. women who have had medical abortions, including 14 deaths and 612 hospitalizations.
"It is devastating that Judge Romano and the abortion industry in Iowa are ignoring the health and well-being of women to push their own agenda and continue to make this about abortion access, and about politics," Bowen said in a statement. "These abortions, where a woman never physically sees a doctor, who goes home to hemorrhage for days and ultimately deliver her dead baby, is not empowering women," she added. "Today's decision by Judge Romano is simply one more difficult, heart-wrenching step in the battle we are ultimately going to win."
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Abbey Court
Dublin, Ireland
The hostel was clean and adequate. Luggage storage is underneath the bed in cages. You can rent a lock for €8 but you only get part of that back. Many of the cages are actually broken in how you affix the lock, so if yours is - go downstairs and ask for a chain to secure the luggage. There is additional luggage storage behind the desk. I couldn't get the wifi to work, but I saw other people using it with no trouble. The road is a bit noisy until abt midnight, but then it is easier to sleep
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Using the luggage storage downstairs for my extra bags was nerve-wracking because literally any of the guests could have stolen my things. I wish there was some way to make sure that only I could remove my luggage from the room. | http://www.hostelworld.com/profile/13397467/reviews | dclm-gs1-137580002 | false | false | {
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While trying to find some car thieves, the team gets a lead that takes them to a local high school. Ponch knows the shop teacher at the school, a car thief, whom he busted and who's on parole. Ponch goes to see him and asks him to keep his eyes open but the guy thinks that Ponch is singling him out. They send Bruce to the school, undercover and gets close to a girl who knows the ones they're looking for.
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Adele Song Wakes Girl From Coma
Is there anything Adele can’t do? The eight-time Grammy Award winner is being credited with waking a 7-year-old girl from a coma.
The Telegraph reports that Charlotte Neve, 7, suffered a brain hemorrhage in April. She was taken to the hospital and had two operations before slipping into a coma. Charlotte was in her coma for about a week and Leila, the girl’s mother, was starting to give up hope.
Leila said:
Leila said that the little girl started smiling when she heard the song and that the nurses encouraged her to keep singing.
Leila said:
“Charlotte started smiling, and I couldn’t believe it… It was the first time she had reacted to anything since the hemorrhage. The nurses were astounded and told me to keep singing, and she smiled again. The nurses said it was like I ‘unlocked her’ and from that day she started getting better and better.”
Over the next few days Neve began talking, laughing, and eventually got out of bed. Since hearing Adele’s song, the little girl has returned to school and has resumed her dance classes.
Leila said:
“A day or two after the Adele incident … she literally went from smiling and being giddy to standing up in bed. It was a miracle.”
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Neighbours, for better and for worse
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Ever since the end of the 19th century, everything Swedish has been the antithesis of Danish", and defined who "we Danes" are. Throughout the 20th century, aspects that came to define Denmark – the cooperative agricultural movement, Grundtvig, democracy and individualism – were set in relief with examples from Sweden.
Prior to 1930, Sweden was a backwards, outmoded society. But once Swedish industry began to take off, the country made enormous progress and began developing a welfare state. After 1930, comparisons between Denmark and Sweden were used to illustrate how Danes risked losing their individual rights if the country became too modern.
"Us and them"
Starting in the mid 1980s, and especially after Sweden joined the EU in 1995, Denmark and Sweden have developed along much the same path. For a number of years Sweden appeared to be losing its importance for our self-conception. However, discussions about refugees and immigration that began after 2002 show that "the other" is still someone we both can use to define ourselves. Denmark and Sweden have an interesting history together, and that history has had enormous influence on the development of both countries' national identities.
The battle for Scandinavia
Relations between Denmark and Sweden stretch back far further than the end of the 19th century. Although that phase of our histories has little to do with our identities, the events that transpired then explain to us why our borders came to lie where they do, and how we came to be independent states.
The coronation of Gustav Vasa as king of Sweden in 1523 signalled the definitive end of the Kalmar Union. Instead, two centres of power in Scandinavia emerged. One controlled the agricultural settlements on the shores of the Sound, and collected taxes on trade in and out of the Baltic Sea. The other was centred on the Mälaren region, and was oriented towards the east, across the Sea of Åland, and was rich in deposits of strategic metals. The political and geographic situation in the Baltic area meant that conflicts of interest between the two were unavoidable. War was only a matter of time.
Eternal struggle
Hemmed in by the territory of the Dano-Norwegian king, and Kronborg Castle at the mouth of the Sound, the kingdom of Sweden's access to the world market was controlled by Denmark. If his country was to be able to trade more, the Swedish king needed to fight his way to a solution. However, the Dano-Norwegian king was just as determined to make sure that nothing threatened the balance of power in Scandinavia.
The conflict resulted in open hostility on a number of occasions. The first two – the Northern Seven Years War (1563-1570) and the Kalmar War (1611-1613) – both ended without any borders being redrawn, but from there on out the situation changed rapidly. The involvement of Denmark's King Christian IV in the Thirty Years War (1618-1648) proved fatal for Denmark. In 1625, his army was defeated near Hannover, greatly reducing its fighting capacity. After the Torstensson War (1643-1645), Christian lost the Norwegian territories Jämtland and Härjedalen, Danish islands Gotland and Øsel. The king was also forced to transfer Halland to Swedish control for a period of 30 years.
Farewell to Scania, Halland and Blekinge
In 1657, Christian's son, Frederik III, sought revenge but failed. Sweden's Carl X Gustav marched his army from Poland, up the Jutland peninsula, to the newly established fortress at Frederiksodde (Fredericia), and there proceeded to destroy it. Thanks to an unseasonably icy winter, Denmark's waterways froze solid, and the Swedish army was able to march directly to the gates of Copenhagen. British and French envoys stepped in and forced Frederik to sign the Treaty of Roskilde on 26 February 1658. Under the terms of the treaty, Denmark surrendered its Swedish provinces of Scania, Halland, Blekinge, the Baltic island of Bornholm, Ven island in the Sound, as well as Norweigan possessions Bohuslän and the Trondheim province.
The siege of Copenhagen
Carl X Gustav soon regretted that the had not ousted Frederik completely. In August, a Swedish army landed near Copenhagen, and before long the capital was surrounded. The Swedes established a fortified camp, Carlstad, but throughout the summer Frederik had reinforced his defensive positions around the capital, and before long he had encouraged people living outside the city's walls to resist the Swedes. One of the most famous of rebels was Svend Poulsen Gønge. And on Bornholm, a popular uprising resulted in the death of the Swedish commandant, and the island's voluntary reunion with Denmark.
Foreign powers played the decisive role in the outcome of the war. Poland and Brandenburg sent armies to Jutland, and a Dutch fleet helped break the Swedish siege. A Swedish assault on Copenhagen was turned back.
The Netherlands, Britain and France all watched the situation with concern, and met to find a proposal that would end the hostilities. Both kings rejected the Treaty of Roskilde as the foundation of any new agreement. But Frederik dropped his resistance as soon as he was made a promise that some of the lost territories would revert to him. The death of the Swedish king made mediation possible, and with the signing of the Treaty of Copenhagen (1660), Trondheim again became a part of Norway. Bornholm was also returned to Denmark, but the king was required to compensate the Swedish crown (the Bornholm Tax). Much to Frederik's disappointment, the borders in the Sound region remained unchanged. But although the Sound continued as an international waterway, Denmark was still permitted to collect tolls on ships passing Kronborg Castle. The wars of 1657-1660 drew the political borders in Scandinavia that we still recognise to this day.
Even though a peace had been signed, both countries continued to build up their militaries. A number of conflicts occurred, with both sides claiming occasional victories. However, neither the Scanic War (1675-1679) nor the Great Northern War (1700-1720) led to boundaries being redrawn. Stronger powers, who had an interest in ensuring that no single state controlled the Sound, made sure they used their power to prevent it from happening. Denmark, for that reason, today rules one coast of the Sound, while Sweden rules the other.
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