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Notorious Anti-Islam YouTube Video Not Mentioned in Clinton Testimony
Brent150 Wrote: Jan 23, 2013 5:16 PM
Raise your hand if you actually saw the 'offensive you tube video'. I watched it, and it was so laughably low budget, It's hard to believe anyone with a brain would be offended by it. If the religious extremists in Benghazi were going to get all up in arms over a video, Bill Maher's "Religulous" would provide a great deal more offense to them. While Maher mainly went after Christian and Catholics, he was an equal opportunity critic in his 'documentary'. Perhaps they rioted over Sam Harris' "The end of Faith" an-anti religion book he wrote as an impassioned response to the events of 9-11. or God is not Great by Chris Hitchens, or "The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins... any were better aimed attacks on Islam, and more offensive.
Dan_AZ Wrote: Jan 23, 2013 5:23 PM
Doesn't even matter. We could say for ex that their Mo sucks and their Allah is Satan, doesn't matter. 1st Amendment, if you don't like it, go somewhere where your backwards sharia laws are in effect.
UPDATE: During Clinton's testimony in front of the House Armed Services Committee Wednesday afternoon, Reps. Dana Rohrabacher, Matt Salmon and Mo Brooks mentioned the anti-Islam film originally blamed for the attack. Clinton danced around the subject by saying the investigation into what happened in Benghazi is ongoing. The best exchange was between Clinton and Brooks:
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Analysis: Gun Kata
In Real Life, gunfights often revolve around cover and lines of fire, which are dictated by terrain and thus inherently unpredictable, making Gun Kata's statistically predictable and memorizable positions and lines of fire an Awesome, but Impractical notion. Also, the dynamics of actual gunfights involve a combination of flanking, positioning, and suppression fire, which puts emphasis on teamwork and combined arms tactics, something that is completely opposed to the concept of Gun Kata.
The close range version looks more like a plausible martial art, until you realise that if one of them shot from the hip, the other wouldn't be able to reach to stop it. Depending on the gun, the recoil would probably hurt, but it sure beats getting shot. To do this part of Gun Katas what justice it deserves, there are indeed special gun holding techniques in Real Life intended to minimize a chance of said gun being kicked from one's hands (as often happens in the movies where a gun is introduced through the door about half a hour before the rest). One of those is... falling flat on your back. This actually provides you with a fair unobstructed firing position while breaking away from immediate melee contact; you can imagine how that move would screw a Cleric in the movie.
Gun Kata also ignores a very important thing about firearms: they are very loud. Even one gun discharge that close to someone's face could deafen them for life - the dozens fired off in a long fight would have them bleeding from the ears. Needless to say, this all gets a Hand Wave because of the Rule of Cool.
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Heartwarming: Marvel vs. Capcom 3
• Magneto's ending, where he uses Galactus's vessel as a new home for all the mutants on Earth. It's helped by the music being somewhat melancholic, as he finally fulfills his lifelong dream. And if you have doubts, remember: Magneto never was a true villain, but rather a Well-Intentioned Extremist.
• Hsien-Ko's ending. Hsien-Ko and Mei-Ling go to meet Doctor Strange so that he can put their mother's soul to rest and return them back to normal humans. He does so without any reluctance... And then the dialogue reveals that the ending isn't real, but is a comic book the sisters drew together to deal with their troubles. Despite all this, they're still happy with life (Or rather, undeath).
• In Ultimate, they actually meet the the good doctor — who is concerned about them and wants to help.
• Storm's ending. She has doubt over the humans on Earth that she saved because they still have discrimination towards mutants like her. But Black Panther, her husband, says that she did the right thing and as long as he has the land of Wakanda as well as Storm besides him, he could fight any threats that ever come to his land. She then says that it's their love that gives her hope and that hope will see her through difficult times.
• Super-Skrull's ending, where he turns the Skrull Empire into a force of good for the universe, protecting it against another threat like Galactus. The Skrulls are now heroes, and everyone everywhere lives a life of safety and prosperity thanks to them. Even if he is just using the power for his own use.
• Any time Felicia interacts with Amaterasu. Awwwwwww!
• For that matter, Amaterasu licking Morrigan's face in the opening cinematic.
• If Storm wins over Chris Redfield or Jean Grey, her victory quotes are...bittersweet.
against Chris: Rarely have I met a man with such a strong moral compass. My sole regret is that we had to meet in combat.
against Phoenix : I hated to do that to you, Jean. You are like a sister to me.
• Hawkeye's win quote against Captain America.
I may give you a hard time, but the truth is, there's nobody I respect more than you, Cap.
• One that sticks out is the fourth opening that serves as a Book Ends. With Ryu reaching up for someone's hand, at first it showed that there was no one really there, and he had to pick himself up again for another brutal showdown. But the second time? The man who faced him in that show down took that hand and is smiling, ready to bring Ryu back into the fight against their allied foes.
• The Hulk's ending. Especially if you ever played Resident Evil 3. He and Chris beat the ever-loving crap out of Nemesis for all the trouble it caused Jill. It's both hilarious, awesome, and heartwarming rolled into one package.
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• Acceptable Targets:
• The Dust Men are riddled with Unfortunate Implications. Making an entire city's homeless population a group of faceless mooks who murder and destroy For the Evulz feels more than a little uncomfortable. That, and their standard uniforms are garbage bags. While still having access to turrets, riot shields, and RPGS by the truckload. The First Sons were a secret society led by a Well-Intentioned Extremist, and at least The Reapers get the Freudian Excuse of being manipulated by Sasha. The Dust Men are just... bad?
• The cinematics actually do a good job of explaining this: Empire City wasn't treating its homeless well before the blast, and Alden, with his lifelong rage, tapped into something. There's still a lot of bad implications, though, especially since that basically makes Alden Hitler.
• The US government, already not very well portrayed in the first game by having bombastic, outright propaganda lie to the rest of the world about the state of the city - eventually bombing its own citizens - graduates into full-on villain in Second Son, doing things like trying to monitor all superheroes. If that wasn't blatant enough, Benjamin Franklin's oft-quoted comment on security and privacy is the game's main quote.
• Crowning Music of Awesome:
• By Amon Tobin, the whole soundtrack gives a distinct avaunt-garde urban jungle feel, but Rabble Rouser stands out amongst them all.
• Silent Melody by Working For A Nuclear Free City certainly counts too.
• Demonic Spiders:
• First Sons hunter conduits. They tend to go invisible and hit you with shotguns while laying mines all over the place.
• Turrets in general. Better be quick with those grenades.
• Flaming trash scorpions. Even though they die in one hit from anything, they're almost guaranteed to land a hit before they go.
• Ensemble Darkhorse: The Reapers seem to be the most popular gang. Cole even gets a Reaper based costume in Infamous 2.
• Evil Is Sexy: Sasha.
• Goddamn Bats:
• Snipers. You'll often find yourself peppered with gunfire from above when you're exploring an area on the ground (yet another reason to take to the rooftops) and their attacks can whittle away your health while you're trying to focus on guys with rocket launchers or Conduits.
• They're extremely annoying when you're doing something else, too - walking around, minding your own business, then BAM! A bullet to your back. The gunfire often draws in nearby mooks, too, and with Dust Men or First Sons, they'll call squads of six or more flying at you like some sort of annoyance squad.
• If you're playing Evil Cole, the rock-throwing civilian mobs can be like this, since it's difficult to tell where the rocks are coming from, the throwers don't show up on your radar as hostiles and apparently the city is stocked with dozens of people who could've made a career in the Major Leagues, hitting Cole from the better part of a block away. And to make it worse, in what seems to be a kind of glitch, if you get too close to the mob, some of the members will attack you with their fists, which has the same effect as being attacked by the civilians infected by Sasha's tar, meaning that you can't fight back or do anything other than run for several seconds.
• Moral Event Horizon: If you choose to activate the Ray Sphere a second time when given the chance, you become more powerful. However, you kill a lot of people in the process, and your Karma Meter is set to "Infamous" permanently.
• Most Annoying Sound:
• The bizarre screams the Reapers' Mad Bombers make.
• The First Sons' invisible, flying, grenade lobbing deathbots.
• Player Punch:
• That One Level: "Secrets Revealed". For God's sake, Moya, why did you ask a man on foot to chase down a goddamn helicopter?!?
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February 2nd, 2012, 05:43 AM
I was working on my resume in libre office and I have been using liberation sans as the font. I think is the default. Normally I don't sweat details like kerning, but I was really surprised how bad it looked. I noticed though that when I exported to PDF the kerning looked decent again. also if I blow it up really big in LibreOffice, it looks ok there. But at a normal size my letters in this case were touching. Any idea what causes this? I can always switch fonts but am hoping to learn what is going on vs just trying random stuff until it looks good enough to live with.
thanks in advance for any help.
This is a small screenshot of the libreOfficer version--notice how the r runs into the n.
This is a small screenshot of the pdf version showing in evince--notice that though the kerning isn't that pretty at least it isn't as bad as it is in libre office.
February 8th, 2012, 04:58 AM
February 8th, 2012, 12:03 PM
bumpMostly a question of rendering IMHO. Maybe LO isn't using the right flags (anti-aliasing?). I have no such problem on my OpenOffice (that predates your LO...), but I have see it happen in other apps.
Btw, IIRC Liberation is designed to have exactly the same metrics as Arial, so they can be replaced by each other without any impact on layout.
February 15th, 2012, 05:02 PM
Thanks for the reply ofnuts. It sounds like if I went back to OO this would possibly be fixed. I'm not sure though where the problem is and whether maybe the trick is that you are using a different version of Ubuntu. I am using 11.10.
FWIW for anyone who comes across this, I haven't been able to solve this problem. In some sense it is a minor problem, but in another sense this is at the heart of what one does with a word processor--may words look good on a page.
One thing that I have typically liked about using ubuntu is that it has encouraged me to understand a bit about what is going on underneath the hood and how to fix a problem.
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Just what is the correct response to the current financial market travails? After we've cleaned up the current spills, of course, we'd rather like to know what the system of financial market regulation should be in the future.
There are of course those who argue that there should be no such regulation at all: they might be right but they're not going to get a hearing at the moment (no matter how close some of them might be to this blog). I would certainly argue for a mix between fewer and different regulations than the ones we've had that got us to this point. I'm not sure that this view will get much of a hearing either.
The view I would like to address though is the one that we need to have more regulations. What is the fiirst one that has actually been put in place on both sides of the Atlantic? The ban on short selling of financial stocks. What's the justification for that? Truth to be told, not a lot actually. The FSA has agreed [3] that there was no coordination of rumours and short selling during the HBOS rights issue earlier this year. This last week the percentage of HBOS stock that was lent out to short sellers had fallen [4] from some 17% during that rights issue to under 3%. Even Dean Baker [5] (who would rarely agree with us but is an economist) wonders why on earth anyone is trying to ban short sales. There are many others out there, those who actually understand markets, who are similarly scratching (or banging upon their desks) their heads. Why on earth was this done?
As the FT's Alphaville [6] puts it:
Does the FSA know what it’s doing? The consensus among the financial community - excepting, perhaps, asinine bank boards and their ineffectual directors - seems to be that no, the FSA does not know what it’s doing.
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I was never married to father, who reside in NJ. However, we have a child support order and a subsequent order in place. In the subsequent Court Order, I was granted "sole, legal & physical custody of the minor child ... Defendant (father) is not seeking a parenting time schedule with the child at this time."
With that Order in place, can I move out of state without the father's consent? Do I have to write to him and advise him that we are moving out of state (he has NEVER seen our child or exercised any parenting time in over 8 years).
If I do not have anything from him, e.g. Court Order or notarized letter, allowing me to move our son out of state, can I be charged with kidnapping or any other offense?
Please advise. Your input would be greatly appreciated.
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Answered . If your Order says you have SOLE custody, it means that you have the decision-making authority for all of the child's "life-decisions." One of those life-decisions is where your child resides. It is important, however, that you not infringe upon the child's (and the father's) ability to have a meaningful relationship. As custodial parent, the State of NJ requires you to foster a healthy relationship between the child and the non-custodial parent. In light of the fact that you are the one moving away, the court MAY impose the burden upon you to facilitate parenting time. In other words, depending on how far away you move, you may have to shoulder the bulk of the burden or expense in transporting the child for visitation.
This response is provided for informational purposes only and not intended to create a lawyer-client relationship. You should consult a lawyer with any legal issues you may have.
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Answered . As the sole custodial parent, you may move with the child. However, the father should be given notice that you are planning on relocating out of state and be given an opportunity to exercise parenting time. If he does not object, you can move. If he objects to your moving out of state (which based on the information you have provided) is highly unlikely, you should consult with a family law attorney. With you alreadying having sole legal and physical custody, the burden would be on hm to petition the Court.
Kidnapping does not apply as long as you give him notice of where the child will be.
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Answered . I am a New York attorney for over 30 years who has been involved in many interstate custody cases and relocation, each state has different legal precedents administering relocation issues.
From the facts you present - there is no prohibition on your relocating to another state. You have a fundamental right to travel. I say there is no prohibition on you moving since I presume that there is no court Order or Agreement prohibiting you from relocating. A letter notifying him of your choice to move is a courtesy that might strategically be better sent after you move. It would invite him to object and seek a court order to prohibit you from moving. If a hearing were held for you to obtain permission to move it would look at whether you would interfere with his rights and opportunity to visit the child. However, since he does not visit and the order left it open, rights are not pure abstrations but only have force if exercised. By taking clear action you avoid a dispute. Be prepared to modify support to aid his visits if you move far away however, or seek innovative ways to provide access should he seek it.
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A glimpse of some of those who died:
‘‘She was going to go some places in this world,’’ Hagen told the newspaper. ‘‘This little girl could light up the room for anyone.’’
Daniel’s family says he was ‘‘fearless in the pursuit of happiness in life.’’
Days before the Connecticut shooting rampage, Rachel D'Avino’s boyfriend had asked her parents for permission to marry her.
‘‘Her job didn’t end when the school bell rang at 3 o'clock,’’ Lovetere Stone said.
‘‘I'm heartbroken. I'm numb,’’ Lovetere Stone said. ‘‘I think she taught me more about how to be a good mother to a special needs child than anyone else ever had.’’
Olivia loved school, did very well in math and reading, and was ‘‘insightful for her age,’’ said the statement released by her uncle, John Engel.
She was a child who ‘‘lit up a room and the people around her.’’ Creative with drawing and designing, she was also a tennis and soccer player and took art classes, swimming, and dance lessons in ballet and hip hop. A Daisy Girl Scout, she enjoyed musical theater.
‘‘She was a great big sister and was always very patient with her 3 year old brother, Brayden,’’ her family said, recalling that her favorite colors were purple and pink.
Olivia was learning the rosary and always led grace before the family dinner. ‘‘She was a grateful child who was always appreciative and never greedy,’’ the family said.
‘‘Her only crime,’’ he said, ‘‘is being a wiggly, smiley 6-year-old.’’
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Students rushed to the dormitory’s second floor and gazed out of the windows, in shock. Black and gray columns of smoke were rising in the air.
‘‘You need to get your students out of here,’’ he warned. ‘‘You need to hide. The mobs are coming — tonight.’’
At sunset prayers, the headmaster told everyone to collect their valuables, their money, their ID cards — and prepare to leave. He asked them to remove their head caps, Islamic dress and anything that might identify them as Muslim.
He never explained why. He didn’t have to.
‘‘If they try to destroy this place, we'll do our best to stop them,’’ he said. ‘‘But whatever happens, we will not let you die.’’
After dark, they crept deep into a swampy jungle of tall grass a block away called the Wat Hlan Taw, and the tall reeds swallowed the school’s refugees whole.
They sat down in the mud. Nobody said a word.
Soon, they heard the mob approaching — dozens, maybe hundreds of voices, a cacophony of menace and anger that grew louder by the second.
In the darkness of the Wat Hlan Taw, a teacher named Shafee with a stomach ailment reached for his wife’s palm and squeezed it hard.
‘‘If they find us,’’ he whispered nervously, ‘‘you know I won’t be able to run.’’
‘‘Don’t worry,’’ his wife, Thida, replied, cradling their 3-year-old son in her arms. ‘‘We'll be together, every step. I'll never leave you.’’
As the long night wore on, the madrassa burned down.
‘‘Come out, Kalars!’’ they shouted, using a derogatory word for Muslims.
The mobs were not far behind.
He had waited just a few seconds too long to run.
As the first rays of dawn touched Mingalar Zayone, Koko, a quiet, heavy-set 21-year-old student, peered over the compound’s thin fence and felt numb. Men clutching machetes and sticks were girding for a fight outside.
Hundreds more were gathering on a road running across a huge embankment that shadowed the neighborhood’s western edge. The embankment had always been there, but now it seemed to seal them inside the bottom of a huge, oppressive bowl from which they could not escape.
‘‘We’re trapped,’’ he thought, ‘‘like animals.’’
Some students were frantically making calls for help — to parents, to police. Some were chanting loudly. Others were scouring the property for anything they could use to defend themselves — wooden boards, rocks the gangs outside had thrown at them.
‘‘They must be wiped out!’’ one woman shouted.
‘‘Kill them all!’’ shouted another. ‘‘We must show Burmese courage!’’
Win Htein felt nauseous. He wanted to vomit. In two decades of prison and torture under brutal military rule, he had never seen anything like this.Continued... | http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/2013/07/06/impact-massacre-muslims-myanmar-ignored/0qbQOWdqL8WXBM7G5X6D7K/story-1.html | dclm-gs1-188540002 | false | false | {
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01-24-07, 04:46 PM
I got to take a 06 CTS-V home over the weekend. I see there is a 5.7L and a 6.0 engine avaliable for certian years. Is there any difference in power, or mods that are avail for these 2 engines? and what years did they come in.
Also. Is there a way to get rid of that HORRIBLE wheel hop. its almost embarrasing to accelerate infront of people hard. or with people in the car. Is there a way to eliminate this?
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(FILE PHOTO) Purdue President Mitch Daniels addresses an Associated Press reporter in the file photo from Wednesday, July 17, 2013, in West Lafayette, Ind. (AP Photo/Journal & Courier, John Terhune)
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blue2golf writes:
The Left has taken over our education system and most of our media. It is no surprise to see the A.P. ride to the rescue when Mr. Zinn's socialist and inaccurate view of American history is challenged.
I applaud Mr. Daniels for trying to replace the leftist indoctrination of students with a real education.
whywhywhy writes:
For all of the commenters on here that feel our education system and, news media, are just bastions of liberalism because that's what the "fair and balanced" network has programmed them to believe, I can only say, there is "Sum-Ting-Wong" with your media source.
Ruby writes:
It's been known for decades that graduating college students are predominantly liberal. It's not the teaching that does this but rather the result of education. Conservatives are just mad that through higher education people don't choose to align with them.
35_More_Months____God_Help_Us writes:
in response to whywhywhy:
Is it really lost on you that the reason FOX news and Conservative talk radio came into being and are so popular with free thinking people is because we got sick of the daily liberal blather? What's that old saying about, "Give people light and they will find their own way." Well, we just got sick of these lights always having filters on them.
Surely you see the inherent danger in a media melding together with one political party. Remove your blinders and "Twi-Too-Cee."
newspeak writes:
in response to Apple_Pie:
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That is true, he said that. The so called latte liberal elite believe they are so smart that they should be telling everyone else what to do. Conservatives believe in the right to self determination. There's nothing like a smart liberal elitist graduating and basically has to move back with his parents. A liberal education teaches you to work for someone else, most likely a college or the government. We are having a mass exodus of smart rich elite conservatives leaving this country because of liberals robbing them blind. When the conservatives leave you have Detroit. Colleges and universities hook young vulnerable students into programs implying future employment. We have graduating students taught by the liberal elite working in the hospitality industry at the lowest levels. Of course this is no problem for the elite they have a new crew coming in every year. The college loan system that keeps the elite in a job is headed the same way as bogus home loans. A creditor can get the house back, but what do you do with a liberal brain. When you see a person with a $100,000 loan and a sociology degree, you know there's a problem.
olddoggie writes:
What is ironic is that scientists are far more likely to be democrats or independents than republicans. The last poll I saw in Scientific American showed scientists were democrats by a margin of more than two to one over republicans.
Having more scientific degreed people would bring more democrats into teaching on a national basis. Whether this is true for Purdue I don't know. Whether a student reads Dr Zinn's book has little impact on them, if you are a scientist. Science is the search for truth. Many republicans believe money is more important than science. If they had their way evolution and global warming would not be taught in schools even though science is basis for these two issues.
I have no problem with science and technology having a larger influence on teaching-ironically I don't think many republicans agree.
Perhaps Daniels should push for more business majors in teaching-maybe this would bring in more conservatives.
olddoggie writes:
The last poll I could find was by Pew in July 2009'. For scientists, 55% dems, 32% independent and 6% repubs. Maybe Daniels needs to rethink this or maybe he has seen the light and really believes in science regardless of political affiliation.
OldSkeptic writes:
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Apple Pie, did your education fail to enlighten you in the use of "irony" in linguistic expression, such as the ironic use of "smart people"?
OldSkeptic writes:
If I were going to use Zinn's book in a class it would be to show what history is NOT.
Rats_Get_Fat writes:
I'd love to see the areas of study and degrees conferred to each of the politicians blasting liberal education. Their GPAs would be nice to boot. George W was so concerned with students being left behind with his 2.0 GPA.
OldSkeptic writes:
Navy Vet, you do understand, don't you, that it was Daniels who was encouraging using more liberal arts educated people as teacher rather than "education" educated ones?
Btw, I wonder how it was that GW Bush was able to get admitted to graduate school at Harvard where he earned an MBA with such a terrible undergraduate gpa.
Panopticon writes:
I actually agree, at least, in part, with this for reasons that have nothing to do with partisan politics. I think that teachers should be people who primarily do the things they teach. Math teachers should be mathematicians, science teachers should be scientists, English teachers should be authors or lingusts, etc. This is one among many significant changes that need to be made to our education system.
OldSkeptic writes:
Of course we don't know what Obama's grades were like, do we? Nor do we know how his education was financed nor in what name he was enrolled nor whether, like his father and step father, he was enrolled as a foreign student, (as some who remember him believed him to be.)
Nor do we know what was the misinformation that he put on his bar application which subsequently forced this acclaimed "professor of Constitutional law" to surrender his law license.
Based on such disdain of the law as he continuously displays I will be surprised at nothing we learn about him in coming months and years.
ExMeaSententia writes:
in response to OldSkeptic:
Zinn certainly was correct on the civil rights issues in the 1960's. So much so that Spelman College, the institution that fired him for his activism in 1963, gave him an honorary doctorate in 2005.
I don't agree with everything Zinn advocated or wrote. But no one with any intellectual chops and a background in academic research would summarily dismiss him, his work and his writings as invalid.
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Written on Police break up suspected crack cocaine ring:
Warden: the judge sets the bonds, not the officers. I'm sure they tested the substance, or else they would have been charged with possessing a look-a-like substance.
Written on Police slaying justified: chief:
For those few posters like dontstartisback who think it matters that that Bannister had a knife when he was shot, rather than a gun, it doesn't matter. Bannister was a serious violent felon who posed an imminent risk to citizens in a highly populated area. He had refused multiple orders to stop and had fired at officers. Even if he hadn't pulled a weapon (gun, knife, bat, anything), Officer King would have been justified in using deadly force to stop him to protect the innocent civilians in the area. There is state and federal case law that supports this.
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roman, i was thinking the same thing about dontstartisback
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doughboy: I really hope you are just trying to stir up a fire by making a post like that. Surely you can't be that stupid. If you are, go back to watching CSI and The Shield. You have no clue what you are talking about.
Written on SWAT training day storms classroom:
letthetruthbetold and Socrates: If you look at the pictures, you can tell the students knew it was a drill. They are all wearing masks to protect them from the simunitions rounds. If EPD didn't do this type of training, and there was a school shooting, you would be slamming EPD for not being prepared. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
Written on Store owner faces drug charges, officer's Taser:
awm: i believe your thinking of the liquor store next door. there was a robbery that went bad which resulted in one of the robbers getting shot & killed
Written on Sheriff: Driver flees, crashes, runs on foot:
I bet he saw too many episodes of the Dukes of Hazzard and was actually trying to use the pile of brush as a ramp. YEEEEHAWWW!!!
Written on West Sector police move out could invite crime in:
Herbeemer: The organization you are looking for IS the Jacobsville Neighborhood Assoc. They do a lot for the area. The officer gave you an answer and you ignored it. It sounds like your the one doing the brushing off, not the other way around. Maybe your time would be better spent by taking action, rather than complaining on a useless message board.
Written on Police: Theft suspect chokes K-9:
Evanspatch: Police dogs are not trained to "maul". They are trained to bite and hold. This means that they bite down on one spot and hold on until given the command to release. This only causes, at the most, four puncture wounds from the four canine teeth. The more a suspect fights, the more injuries, due to the teeth tearing the skin from the constant movement. Mauling is repetitive biting in different places. My suggestion is (as others have suggested) if you don't want to be bitten by a police dog, don't commit felony crimes.
Written on Police give sneak peek of their job:
chitown: your complaint should be with dispatch, and they ARE a separate agency from the police department (they dispatch epd, vcso, efd, animal control, ems, etc). btw, 911 tapes are public record.
Written on Party faithful applaud Obama:
Old dude: Is it that you don't have the time or that you don't have the substance to back up what you're saying. Now your talking like Obama. My mind is not closed, I just haven't made it up yet. I'm not happy with either candidate. For me it's deciding the lesser of two evils. The point of my original post is I'm tired of people being labelled racist just because they say something negative about Obama. Btw, go ahead and slam me all you want. I won't be posting anymore, gotta get to work.
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olddude: I listened, but didn't hear any strategies or plans, only open ended promises. But I'm sure you'll enlighten me.
Written on Party faithful applaud Obama:
WWTSBD: Why is it that anytime someone says they are against Obama they are automatically labeled a racist? Maybe some of us are not sure about Obama because he has not given us a single strategy on how he plans to fix any of the problems facing this country. All we have heard is "change", "a time for change", "lower taxes", "end the war" etc., etc.
Written on Fuel costs force change in EPD take-home car policy:
mr B: no they don't get OT for responding off-duty.
maclee: they have to have their radios on when driving their police car, it's policy.
dumbars & kodiak: Thank you, you guys read my mind. Bluegrass: Why don't you do a ride along sometime. You'll see that officers don't "stay behind a little on a call." For those that are always critical of the police: There's always departments that are taking applications. If you think you can do better, fill one out.
Written on Squaring off for charity:
Madison beat EPD's Jeff Taylor in one of the most exciting bouts of the night.
Written on Officers respond quickly; training tested:
Just because the c & p doesn't report the unfounded call about the second gunman then it didn't happen? Dispatch tapes are public record. Go get a copy. Did u ever consider that the two other students they were looking for weren't at school. Maybe they were at the technical ctr or went home for lunch??? You do not have all the facts and you are wrong. The lockdown ended as soon as it was determined to be safe. btw this is the last time I'm responding. I usually try not to post because I know it won't change anyone's mind. I don't know what I was thinking trying to change yours. I'm wasting my time.
Written on Officers respond quickly; training tested:
Did u even read my first post? I'll type slowly this time: They had a report of a second gunman, which ended up being false. Once they talked to the two students the suspect was texting and realized there were no more threats, they released the lockdown. Try to get your facts straight before you post. Before you accuse me of not knowing what I'm talking about: I was there, I know.
Written on Officers respond quickly; training tested:
That is exactly what the police did. After the suspect was in custody, they received a call about a second gunman, which ended up being false. They also wanted to find the two students that the suspect was texting, to get more info from them. This took some time, but once EPD knew all threats were resolved, the school was taken off lockdown and the students continued with their classes, lunch, etc.
Written on Don Mattingly's wife arrested:
treerat: The $50 was her BOND, not a fine. $50 is the bond for anyone who gets arrested for public intox. She hasn't gone to trial yet, so her find hasn't been determined.
Written on Towing company owner held on meth charges:
JaguarBaby8: The answer to your question: Mark Saltzman (sp?) and John Montgomery. Don't know Mark that well, but John is an excellent K9 handler.
Written on A crash one night:
For everyone who thinks they know the law and that the Chevy driver can't be charged with "reckless homicide": There is no charge of "reckless homicide" in Indiana. The Chevy driver could have been charged with felony criminal recklessness (or possibly involuntary manslaughter) if it could have been determined that his actions contributed to the trooper's death. Unfortunately, we'll probably never know exactly what happened. My thoughts and prayers go out to the trooper's family and friends. | http://www.courierpress.com/users/justthefactsmaam/comments/?page=1 | dclm-gs1-188750002 | false | false | {
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Where have the Republican progressives gone? And why has `liberal' become a dirty word in America?
By Barbara Tuchman, c. 1988 by Barbara Tuchman. This article is adapted from the Landon Lecture given at Kansas State University Sept. 7. / October 31, 1988
ONCE in a wild eager agitated time in the opening decade of the new century, when popular protest swelled against government being managed in the interests of the privileged class, the progressives emerged as a movement. ``Progressive'' had much the same meaning as ``liberal.'' But they were not a fringe group but important, determined men at the heart of the party, with ``Fighting Bob'' La Follette, governor of and later senator from Wisconsin, at their head. He was joined by Sen. Hiram Johnson of California, Senators Borah of Idaho, Norris of Nebraska, Beveridge of Indiana. They were followed by teachers, city councilors, legislators, writers, and most articulate of all, by the journalist William Allen White of Kansas - editor of the Emporia Gazette, which he had made famous by his 1896 editorial ``What's the Matter with Kansas?''
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``A yearning for justice was moving in the hearts of the American people of that decade,'' White wrote. ``We were conscious of the vast injustice that had come with the settlement of the continent ... we all made that part of our creed as representatives of the progressive movement in that glamorous vigorous decade when America turned the corner from conservatism and had come to a sense that [its] civilization needed recasting ... and that a new relationship should be established between the haves and the have-nots to release the burden of injustice on our own conscience.''
The progressive idea was born out of a recognized need for the legislative restraint on unbridled plunder by the plutocrats. Essentially the new idea was a call for a redirection of the Hamiltonian belief in a strong central government from its original service in the interests of privilege and property to a reversal in the interests of the underprivileged and working people who are weak in influence and needing protection.
As Republican national committeeman for Kansas, White drafted the Republican Party platform in the off-year congressional elections of 1910. His platform anticipated the New Deal by 20 years.
Enthusiastic electioneering in the spring primaries of 1910 by White and his associates brought in a band of progressive nominees for congressional and gubernatorial office and as delegates to the convention of 1910. In that year the Progressive Party was organized.
IT was they, the liberals of that day, who gave the country in Theodore Roosevelt the foremost Republican president since Abraham Lincoln. Mr. Roosevelt does not necessarily qualify as a great man. He was a practical politician who sometimes adjusted principles to his personal ambitions. He was nevertheless a statesman true to the progressive thrust. He voiced the demand for reform of the spoils system of the big corporations and the price fixing by the railroad magnates and the trusts.
Lodged in Rockefeller's Standard Oil and Morgan's combine, US Steel, the first billion-dollar corporation, these were the new rulers of America. These ``robber barons'' were the predators of the age, with the same fierce assertion of their right to domineer as the barons of the 14th century. They had no concept of an ordered state; they wanted only to be let alone to make a great deal of money. They had no interest in politics except insofar as they could corrupt Congress to leave them in freedom to pursue power and riches.
But this was not what the Jeffersonian ideal of America had envisaged, nor were the pioneer immigrants who had left poverty and oppression to seek a better life in the great fresh land of freedom prepared to live under old oppressions they knew too well. | http://www.csmonitor.com/1988/1031/etuch.html | dclm-gs1-188760002 | false | false | {
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America's future wind web?
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“The purpose of our plan is to build the infrastructure to where the wind blows most abundantly,” says Lisa Aragon, director of strategic initiatives at ITC. “As an independent transmission company, we can’t favor one type of energy over another. We do favor harnessing the wind for both environmental sustainability and energy security reasons.”
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Environmentalist response
But critics have dubbed the new transmission line plan the “Green-wash Express” saying it could easily transmit as much or more energy produced by coal-fired power plants in South Dakota as wind energy.
“There’s no regulatory jurisdiction over this ‘green-power’ power line, not even a fig leaf that would require it to carry wind power,” says Paula Maccabee, counsel for Citizens Energy Task Force in Minneapolis, a group opposing the line. “It’s name is just a public relations slogan.”
Such plans, however, arrive amid a huge political push to harness wind power as one installment toward lessening US carbon emissions from energy production. President Obama has called for the United States to double renewable energy production in three years and get 25% of the nation's electricity from renewable resources by 2025. The new Obama stimulus plan includes $4 billion for a “Smart Grid” and new transmission lines.
Add to that the impetus generated as soon as next month when Congress is expected to begin weighing a new national “renewable electricity standard” that would require all electric utilities to ensure a portion of their power is from renewable sources. A draft bill before the US Senate calls for at least 20 percent of power from renewable sources by 2021 with gains in energy efficiency permitted to make up a quarter of the total.
Even without federal legislation, however, state mandates in nearly half of all states will require a significant percentage of power to be from renewable sources. In Minnesota, for instance, the state’s renewable portfolio standard calls for 25 percent renewable power by 2025.
To that end, there is CapX, a joint effort by 11 utilities that own transmission lines in Minnesota and surrounding regions to bring Dakota wind power to their city centers. Yet the new CapX line could one-day carry power transmitted from Big Stone II, a coal-fired power plant in South Dakota, documents show. And that has Jeremy Chipps, who lives near Lacrescent, Minn., where the line would run, up in arms to fight it.
Efficiency, cost, environmental concerns, and national security are Mr. Chipps’s talking points. Beside transmission line losses, the cost and potential of such lines as a terrorist target point to the need for more localized renewable power generation such as solar panels and local wind turbines, he says. And then there’s the coal-power carried on the lines.
“It really is time to deploy an energy production and smart-grid systems that are much safer, more intelligent, and much more efficient,” Chipps says. “If we do this, we won’t need massive, costly networks of new transmission lines.”
Who will pay for the lines?
Transmission costs traditionally end up paid for by rate-payers in the states that the lines cross. The Green Power Express, for instance, would cross seven states, each with its own siting requirements and ways of allocating who pays. So, how will South Dakotans feel if they end up paying higher electric rates for lines serving other states?
“To what extent do [rate-payers] have an appetite for increasing utility bills?” asks Dusty Johnson, chairman of the South Dakota Public Utility Commission. “There are some very significant geopolitical concerns when people start talking about multibillion [dollar] transmission projects.”
He agrees with Chipps that there is a “technological risk” and danger in investing in costly lines that might not be needed in the future. | http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/Responsible-Tech/2009/0218/americas-future-wind-web/(page)/2 | dclm-gs1-188780002 | false | false | {
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The world's first three-dimensional crop circle has been discovered deep in the English countryside, sparking the start of the corn circle season.
Experts have been left in awe of the intricacy of the latest sighting, which is 360-feet in diameter, on a wheat field in Oxfordshire.
The formation gives an impression of looking down on skyscrapers from above and was only spotted last week by a microlite pilot.
Steve Alexander, a crop circle photographer of more than 15 years, said: "I thought it was a groundbreaking formation. We have not seen anything like it before.
"The floor lay and the way the design appears to weave in and out has never been seen before, certainly not that I am aware.
"It is the first of its kind and is a very, very powerful thing to look at.
"There is a lot of symbolic number play at work here. The square in ancient times represented the material world.
"The move from a two-dimensional square into a three-dimensional cube might indicate that these patterns emanate from a dimension of reality we cannot access.
"Of late the crop circles seem concerned with the moving of one dimension into another. This is perhaps one of the most striking and overt expressions of that idea to date.
"The crop circle community is very excited about this event."
The site is less than a quarter of a mile from the Uffington White Horse and Wayland's Smithy, a Neolithic burial chamber built in 3700 and 3400 BC.
Slow season
Crop circles are often found near ancient sites but the significance of this particular design has been increased by the fact this has been the slowest season for more than ten years.
Steve, 34, of Gosport, Hants, added: "It has been a slow start, one of the quietest years since 1993 which makes it even more impressive.
"I have been studying them since the late eighties and it is one of the best two formations I have ever seen.
"A lot of people are getting very excited at something so unique and I cannot wait to visit it at ground level."
Some residents in the nearby village of Ashbury have claimed it to be a hoax due to the nature of the way the sighting spread across the Internet once it had been discovered.
Within hours sites dedicated to crop circles had featured it on their pages and it quickly became the talk of the crop circle community.
Steve said: "It is very difficult to say what it's purpose is and how it got there but how could somebody create such an intricate design overnight.
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I. Everybody Loves the Mango?
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Competition is good....
By NicodemusMM on 5/23/2011 1:59:24 PM , Rating: 5
... and this is a case where Microsoft cannot just assimilate the competition. Both Google and Apple are too big for MS to purchase and neither has any need/desire to merge with MS.
This is a win for consumers as MS will force Apple and Google to innovate and vice versa. Maybe this will help Google focus and get over their recent issues with Android.
~ Nicodemus
RE: Competition is good....
By Chaser on 5/23/2011 2:55:07 PM , Rating: 1
In the case of phones I don't think Microsoft is going to "force" Android or Apple to do anything, today and in the near future.
RE: Competition is good....
By Mitch101 on 5/23/2011 3:23:09 PM , Rating: 2
They dont have to what Microsoft needs to do is be their own device and leverage the things that will be exclusive to Windows Phone 7.
Sharepoint, Exchange, X-Box, Lync/Skype for starters.
RE: Competition is good....
By mcnabney on 5/23/11, Rating: 0
RE: Competition is good....
By retrospooty on 5/23/11, Rating: 0
RE: Competition is good....
By snakeInTheGrass on 5/23/11, Rating: 0
RE: Competition is good....
By mcnabney on 5/23/2011 5:00:06 PM , Rating: 1
How old are you? Must not have been conscious in the 80's and 90's.
The default monopoly of DOS (provided my IBM not thinking outside of the box) allowed MS to use the IBM PC-compatible monopoly to leverage the developing Windows platform (which ran ON MS-DOS).
Microsoft used the Windows monopoly to copy and sabotage Lotus 123, Wordperfect, and Harvard Graphics. Microsoft copied all of their competitor's features (they literally demanded their code to confirm Windows compatibililty) and tweaked the OS to run Microsoft's programs more efficiently (and reliably) than other vendors. This is perhaps a perfect example of using one monopoly to create another.
Microsoft easily crushed Novell in the server marketplace by using Windows compatibility. As dumb terminals grew into full workstations (running something like NT) it was simple for MS to break compatibility and complicate everything for Novell. The rapid integration of client-side software to support MS networking protocols and servers doomed Novell.
Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish ~ MS core philosophy
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Harvard Graphics wasn't ever a big package, sorry.
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Exactly... Thanks.
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By Smilin on 5/24/2011 9:38:16 AM , Rating: 2
I suspect you never left the 80s and 90s even though your recollections are wrong. That EEE company died in the courtroom.
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By tayb on 5/23/2011 10:38:54 PM , Rating: 2
Microsoft gaming divisions says hi.
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By rudy on 5/24/2011 1:58:28 AM , Rating: 2
You can call it something bad or good just depends on how you want to spin it. In business it is called vertical integration. Is M$ any different than any other company? You take what you are good at and use that as an advantage. The one thing you have to give M$ credit for is they keep trying.
Is apple any different they have a near monopoly on the advertising and creative arts industry they use that to sell ideas they steal from others. Take the ipod, steal mp3 player idea advertise to masses, use money and power to force music industy to allow you to sell more songs than anyone on itunes, then use itunes and ipod to force att to allow the appstore stealing the once profitable app business from the phone companies.
Sony is the same they bought up half the film studios then used that in combination with the PS3 which they sold at a loss to dominate the HDDVD and kill it for the good of blu ray. But why is it no one talks about that?
You call it monopoly creep but others call it smart long term moves. Buy up industries and products and assimilate them into a solution. You can view it as bad or good, the problem is most people pick when they want to view it one way or the other based on if they like the company or not.
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By InvertMe on 5/23/2011 3:26:07 PM , Rating: 2
Android and Apple are both ripping off the Metro interface from WP7 more and more. At least their developers are. MS interface blows iOS and especially Android (android is a clunky mess) out of the water.
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By Smilin on 5/24/2011 5:00:53 PM , Rating: 2
Meh. Nothing new. Android and iOS already ripped off Microsoft to make their current interfaces. Mind you Metro is much better than Windows 3.1 so it might be a good idea this time.
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Here is where Apple makes its money.
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If the prices stay high I don't think so.
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Are you Tony Swash's MS-loving alternate personality?
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That way everyone can do well.
That is until they realize there's no point in trying.
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Maclean's magazine, which has a fresh, new right-winginess about it since the takeover by Conrad Black's protege Kenneth White, offers "Three smarter ways to save the world" in its latest edition. The writer, Steve Maich, has rounded up some standard-issue "climate skeptics," including the self-styled "Skeptical Environmentalist," Bjørn Lomborg, but most of the article is about economics, not climate science.
There are basically two arguments: First, North America could get better and more immediate environmental value from spending money fighting noxious pollutants like sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxides, rather than working to reduce the emissions of carbon dioxide.This may well be true -- it always makes sense to treat bleeding wounds before you tackle cancer -- but it's not a very good argument for ignoring a more serious condition that is building strength in the background.
The second argument is that Canada and the United States are being asked to bear an "unfair" burden in a climate changing world. Why, goes the refrain, should Canada and the U.S. do anything noble when China and India aren't signatories to the Kyoto accord?
So, what would be fair? Canadians enjoy a per capita GDP (calculated by the CIA's new "purchasing power parity" method) of $31,500, behind the U.S. at $41,000, but well ahead of India's per capita GDP of $3,100. (All numbers from At the same time, according to the UN Statistics Division, as of 2002, Canadians were producing carbon dioxide emissions at the rate of 16.5 metric tonnes per capita per year, less than the Americans at 20.1 tonnes, but well ahead of India's production of 1.2 tonnes per capita.
If Canada and the U.S. -- two of the world's worst offenders, and both well placed economically -- take no action to address climate change, why would India or China ever come on board.
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1. I would like to speak to music education. When I was in elementary, we had not only an art teacher but also a music teacher. Many schools where I have worked in my career, which spans almost 40 years, have had music teachers, but many have not. I believe that music is also very important in the education of the young students of our nation. Through my elementary music education, I was exposed to traditional folk music from around the world as well as folk dances. If our students are truly going to be able to think globally (literally and figuratively), they need a similar background in music. Also, research shows that an understanding of music can help lead to an enhanced understanding of math and science, which are organically related. Therefore, I hope that music will be considered in any discussion of “the arts.”
2. I want balanced, creative, problem-solving citizens living in and leading this country.
A part of the solution for developing such citizens is a strong belief in arts education.
As a country, we have no choice but to support public education’s arts curriculum developmnt and delivery – to not do so will result in a nation at GREATEST RISK.
3. I haven’t read the report yet (about to) but from the brief comments that this report is only looking at data to do with what has happened in the last 10 years only, if it doesn’t mention a longer historical arc, then it’s actually not great news for the Visual and Musical arts as the Arne Duncan quote above suggests, at all. Over the last 30 years art teachers and visual arts in particular have been cut or reduced by 45% in US schools (since the 70s). These jobs, and more importantly, the time of frequent exposure to the arts for children (weekly if not daily versus quarterly on rotation- what my child receives in a very good public school but what other kids in our city do not, if at all) has suffered as a result, and has NOT been restored to those levels from 20-30 years prior to NCLB. So it’s perhaps a study that needs to be further scrutinized to get the real story. Who funded the study exactly- is it the federal govt? What is their real interest and agenda? Be careful! It may not be exactly all that positive if it’s not truly independent. None-the-less, it’s good any study is coming out because it 1) informs to a certain degree and 2) opens up the debate again. 21st century employers ARE in need of creative problem-solvers and great communicators- as an employer, we have terrible trouble finding folks who are truly competent in this but the arts help far more than any single subject as they are so multi-dimensional. And no, children should never be tested for this- what a perfect formula for killing creativity. But a great way to keep an army of bureaucrats in work perpetually…to monitor more and more… Schools and teachers really need to stand up for the children they serve. If they don’t, the least of their problems is their own personal burn out in a career they thought they wanted for live, for no really good reason other than not fighting for a better way to teach; the worst of the problems is what’s happening around the country in many, many areas, especially the poorer areas, where whole generations of children are being brought through a system as guineau pigs to see if some politician’s education experiment could work. The treasure that is our greatest resource, our creative thinking kids and their potential is being completed squandered and hindered. Wow. And they prefer to save rainforests…who do they think will come up with the idea that makes sense on how to really do that?? I shall step off the soap box now, but nothing changes unless we all do our part to facilitate that change…so how are you working on that? Thanks for writing back- I’d love to hear what solutions you have. (We employ a small army of great art teachers we send into schools around the country!)
4. Arts are so important. The creativity muscle that all business crave is formed and nurtured in the arts. More and more, science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) initiatives are discovering the “magic” happens because of creativity and more advanced programs are integrating arts into STEM programs = STEAM.
5. I was actually very excited to read that art education is staying in schools. Art education does prepare individuals for jobs and careers in the future. It aids the development of creative thinking and problem solving. Theater education teaches individuals to speak confidently and effectively to get a message across to an audience, which is a vital skill in the professional world. Theater has a unique benefit in that it can force everyone involved to start on a level playing field in a vulnerable spot. Everyone is asked to be someone else and develop that character. It is a challenge, an often uncomfortable one, and in that regard, it is greatly beneficial to preparing students for careers and future circumstances. It can also bring the group closer together because everyone is in a vulnerable situation. Art education also promotes safe outward expression. It gives students a medium through which they can say, create, be and do almost anything they feel necessary in order to communicate a message. Finding different and effective ways to communicate is not only a good quality to have but it is a form of problem solving, which is a quality we all know professionals should have. Teaching students math and science skills that they will never use again in their life or careers and then testing them on how well they retain those skills is not preparing them for their future. This is the 21st century, and the future lies in thinking outside the box, not streamlining education.
6. Someday we will look back at this era of pervasive high stakes testing and Race to Nowhere and truly understand just how incredibly damaging it has been to our kids and to public education. What a stark waste of time, money and human potential.
7. is this 21st century????? is this getting our kids prepared for jobs of the 21st century????? is this getting kids college and career ready????? schools can only do so much and if a child can’t do the basics, how can art ed fill the gap????? also if so important, why are those areas not held to the same evaluation and accountability standards as all other teachers?????
• Really, did you read the article with any kind of critical eye? And, really, you have to be convinced of the value of art, e.g., visual arts and studio arts, musical arts, theater, dance, etc.? If life is only about college readiness and career readiness, then vo-tech and training programs are for you and yours.
• Have you not read any of the articles on what employers are looking for? They want employees that can problem solve, think out side of the box, be flexible, not see mistakes but instead opportunities to change course, learn, and try again. All of those skills and many more come from the arts. The arts help us relate to other cultures, be more compassionate, and express ourselves. What a sad world we would live in if we didn’t give kids access to the arts.
I, as an art teacher, am held accountable to teach the frameworks for my state. I am evaluated just like any other teacher. Frankly it would be a sad day if we ever started testing in the arts. How can you test someone’s creativity, emotions, etc; and why would you want to? I’m assuming you haven’t bothered to enter an art room recently, but basic skills that get lost in the regular classroom because of lack of time are used daily in the art room. I constantly infuse aspects of math, literacy, science, and social studies into each lesson I teach.
• Research has shown that the arts contribute to the development of “Global Intelligence” because they engage the full brain in multi-dimensional “ways of knowing.” The artistic process integrates sensory knowing, emotional knowing, cognitive knowing and kinesthetic knowing into an afferent and co-informing whole. This signifies the height of human intelligence in action. This form of intelligence far surpasses the skills required to “take a test” and “get a job” although it enhances those capabilities as well. This is precisely what happens to our students when REAL art is made in classrooms under the guidance of a qualified art educator. I would also suggest that you give ear to the issues of teenage violence, suicide, bullying, depression, etc. and consider that the arts provide a venue through which young people can identify, reflect upon, and give organized, intelligent aesthetic voice to personal concerns. This aspect of schooling is arguably far MORE central to the individual’s education than the (also important) concerns of testing and career. It is logically more critical to educate our students’ inner selves than to place inordinately focus on their outer skills. Still think the arts do not prepare students for the 21st century?
• Becky,
This is the 21st century. Jobs in the 21st century require knowledge of the basics, but also how to create, imagine, and invent. Art education fosters those talents. If a child has a talent for drawing, how does your version of education nurture that talent? (I am not trying to be snarky, okay just a little bit.) Does your basic education include basic English grammar? Sentences begin with a capital letter and end with a single punctuation mark.
• And we know how that can trip you up in the modern workplace, loaded as it is with literati. I can just hear that future boss now: “That’s just the sort of thing up with which I won’t put!”
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I see gameplay for this game and the character looks different, it is the 360 version, and it is not armor I'm looking at; I see different Hair colors and shirt colors too.
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#2Chuck_BosworthPosted 5/31/2012 10:02:18 PM
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Every player that joins your game will get a different skin. You can't choose them.
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On the PC version you can personalize your skin with the help of some texture packs or making it yourself on certain sites.
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Publication numberUS3275418 A
Publication typeGrant
Publication dateSep 27, 1966
Filing dateOct 13, 1960
Priority dateOct 13, 1960
Publication numberUS 3275418 A, US 3275418A, US-A-3275418, US3275418 A, US3275418A
InventorsThomas F Nee
Original AssigneeAvien Inc
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United States Patent 3,275,418 APPARATUS FOR CONTAINING A NON-RIGID 0R FLUID MATERIAL Thomas F. Nee, Oakdale, N.Y., assignor to Avien, lnc., Woodside, N.Y. Filed Oct. 13, 1960, Ser. No. 62,363 2 Claims. (Cl. 23-281) This invention relates to an apparatus for containing non-rigid materials and has particular reference to a device for containing fluids wherein the position of the center of gravity of the fluid stored is maintained constant at all times with respect to the container independent of the quantity of fluid which is stored therein at any one time. 2
Storage and delivery of fluids in extraterrestrial environments under conditions of zero gravity present a number of unique problems. One of these problems is to keep the material in one consistent mass having a center of gravity with a predictable location. This problem is of particular importance to propulsion systems which require a consistent supply of propellant. The maintenance of center of gravity at controllable, consistent, and predictable positions is important for vehicle control.
It is an object of the present invention to provide a new and useful container for non-rigid materials such as fluids and the like.
It is a further object of this invention to provide a storage device for non-rigid materials such as fluids which will maintain the center of gravity of the fluid within the storage device at a constant predictable location regardless of the quantity of fluid stored within the storage device.
Another object of this invention is to provide a container for a compact. mass which container includes means for maintaining the center of gravity of the mass constant.
Yet another object of this invention is to provide an apparatus for containing non-rigid materials such as fluids having a unique ventage system for the fluid stored.
It is yet another object of this invention to provide an oxygen generator.
A particular object of the invention is to provide means for storing hydrogen peroxide.
Another object of this invention is to provide a storage means for the propellant to be used in a space vehicle wherein the center of gravity of the propellant stored may be conveniently and simply maintained at a predetermined location and wherein a shift of the center of gravity within the container due to formation of gases is conveniently avoided.
Another feature of the invention is the provision in a storage device of fluid means for controlling the location of the center of gravity of the fluid and the rate of shift of center of gravity as well as providing a means for expelling and drawing the fluid into the storage device.
In accordance with the invention, a variable volume storage device which maintains the center of gravity of fluid material stored therein includes an elastic storage container having a passage port for the fluid material, the container assuming a predetermined collapsed position about a predetermined center of gravity and being symmetrically expandable about the predetermined center of gravity. A symmetrically shaped rigid pressure vessel surrounds the container and includes means for holding the container. A resilient but porous outer backing is supported within the pressure vessel for biasing the elastic container into its predetermined condition. Fluid conducing pressure means are connected to the pressure vessel for varying the external pressure on the elastic container so as to symmetrically expand the container or contract the container and thereby control the passage of the non-rigid material through the port.
As a further feature of the invention, the elastic con-.
tainer includes a pair of symmetrical half-bladders preferably held in a symmetrically shaped vessel. Thus, if the container, i.e., the space between the two bladders, is filled with hydrogen-peroxide, the evolution of oxygen from the hydrogen-peroxide would not shift the center of gravity of the liquid as the oxygen would pass through the permeable Teflon while the resilient and porous backing would compress the bladder against the remaining hydrogen-peroxide. The oxygen may be valved off and used for human consumption.
For a better understanding of the invention, its advantages and other objects, reference should be had to the following descriptive matter and accompanying drawing wherein a preferred embodiment of the invention is described in detail.
The drawing shows, in a vertical cross-section, a liquid container and associated auxiliary means, the latter being shown schematically.
Referring now to the drawing, a rigid pressure vessel, generally designated 10, includes a pair of oppositely facing vessel forming hollow hemispheres 12 and 14, each of which is provided with a peripheral flange 16 and 18 respectively. An annular spacing ring 20 separates the hemispheres which are secured to each other, and to the spacing ring, by means of a plurality of peripherally spaced nut and bolt sets 21 passing through the flanges 16 and 18. An oxygen permeable Teflon membrane 22 is secured at its periphery between one face of the annular ring 20 and the flange 18, while a second oxygen permeable Teflon bladder 24 is secured at its periphery between the other face of the ring 20 and the flange 16. Preferably, the bladders 22 and 24 are between 4-8 mils thick. A perforated resilient silicone rubber backing 26 is secured at its periphery between the membrane 22 and the flange 18 and a'second perforated resilient silicone rubber backing 28 is secured at its circular periphery between the edge of the bladder 24 and the flange 16.
The bladders 22 and 24, as well as the backings 26 and 28, are secured at the edges against annular ring 20 to form a liquid tight container. The elastic backing serves to press the Teflon bladders into a collapsed position in theplane of the annular ring. The biasing force exerted by the resilient backing results from the deformation of the backing from its circular disc shape by fluid forced into the container (formed by the bladders 22, 24 and the ring 20) by means of an axially directed fluid conducting port 30 which is connectable to an exterior pipe by means of fluid drain 31 which extends from the port.
The backings 26, 28 are secured at their peripheral surfaces and the flanges 16 and 18 so as to form a gas seal and thereby form a pair of separate chambers with the hemispheres 12 and 14. A pair of mutually connected fluid pipes 36 and 38 are separately connected to the chambers formed by the hemispheres 12 and 14 by means of elbows 32 and 34 secured into the hemispheres. A pressure source 42 is connected to the pipes 36 and 38 by means of a pipe 40. A pressure vent valve 44 is mounted at the common junction of pipes 36 and 38.
The fluid, which may, for example, be the propellant of a space vehicle (i.e., hydrogen peroxide) is initially injected into the container formed by the bladders 22, 24 and the ring 20 through the port 30. The perforated resilient backing sheets 26, 28 which support the bladders 22, 24 are deformed symmetrically into opposite directions so that the container may accommodate the fuel injected. The pressure source 42 is regulated so that the deformation experienced by the backing 26 is limited to that degree necessary to provide suflicient volume to receive the injected'fluid. The limit of deformation is of course determined by the interior surfaces of the hemispheres 12 and 14. v 7
Thus the fluid, in operation, is containedwithin the bladders and, the bladders are supported by the resilient tension backing which controls the position and shape of, the bladders. Although the bladder backing 26,28 is shown as a flat sheet, in its preferred embodiment this flat sheet is perforated. However, the backing may assume any configuration or material such as, for example, springs. Such configurations are consideredwithin the scope of the invention. Loading of the, cell, or container formed by the bladders, with fluid extends the bladder placing the backing under tension. This tension exerts pressure on the stored fluid keeping it in a single mass at a desired location. The gases evolved permeate through? the bladders and into the pressure chambers formed by the hemispheres.
In addition to the pressures exerted by the backings26,
'28, expulsion pressures are provided by the pressure source 42 to the pressure vessel 10. It will of course be understood that the pressures within the vessel 10 and exerted by the pressure source are equal on each side of the backings 26, 28 so as to produce symmetrical expansion of the container in which the fluid is retained.
While Teflon is the currently preferred bladder, material for ;the storage of H 9 other materials may be employed for the storage of still other liquids. The.
material chosen should be :chemically resistant to the stored liquid and if the liquid evolves gases, it should be porous to the evolved gas.
The apparatus of this invention may also be employed as a source of oxygen as, for example, for human consumption under adverse conditions either under water, under groundor in space, by filling the container with an oxygen-liberating liquid such as concentrated H Decomposition of the liquid releases oxygen-which diffuses through the Teflon bladder 24 to the outer chamber from which it may be released as needed through valve 44. i
condition at a preselected pressure, ,said device comprising: V i
a relatively narrow spacing ring provided with a port;
a pair of gas-porous flexible bladder members fastened at their peripheries to each side of said spacing ring 'in confronting relationship and adapted to retain fluid in a storage area defined by said bladders and saidspacing ring;
a pair of gas-porous resilient backing members, each of said' backing members rigidly retained proximate to said ring at their peripheries in close .abutting re.- lationship to one of said bladder members, respectively, on the outward face thereof, and biasing said bladder members towards said minimal volume con- 7 dition, saidbacking members having the same; cross sectional thickness for all volumetric conditions of the storage area defined by said bladders and'said spacing ring;
a pair .ofsymmetrically shaped, rigid vessels, each of said ,vesselsrigidly retained proximate to the peripheryof one of said backing members in sealing relationship thereto;
a pressure source provided with an outlet line;
a pair of fuel lines operatively connected to said out:
let line;
each of said fuel. lines operatively connectedbtoone, of said rigid vessels respectively, and adapted to provide equal pressures to=eaeh of said rigid vessels; and
a discharge outlet disposed proximate to the juncture of said fluid pressure lines and said outlet line, whereby said gaseous decomposition products are adapted to pass through said .bladdermembersand said backing members and to be withdrawn through said discharge outlet.
2. A device as in claim 1 wherein said bladder members are formed of Teflon, and said backing members are formedof perforated resilient silicone rubber;
Self-decomposition of H 0 will take place at a slow I rate. If a .faster rate is desired, a suitable catalyst may be introduced into the container, or the H 0 may be passed through-a catalyst coated screen before introduction into the container. Suitable catalysts are well known to the art. 7
While preferred embodiments of the invention have been described in detail it will be understood that many modifications will become obvious to those skilled in theart.
What is claimed is:
1. A variable volume storage device for storage of chemically unstable fluid material in the minimal volume References Cited by the Examiner UNITED STATES PATENTS 1,337,975 I 4/1920 Frary .23252 2,597,907 5/1952 Steiner et a1. 2,627,454 2/1953 Tschinkel 23-221 X] 2,757,067 7/ 1956 Cornell'et al 23 1 2,768,405 10/ 1956 Mineah. 2,894,732. 7/1959 Taber et a1. 2,913,317 11/1959 Bovard 23-281 3,061,413 10/ 1962 Akerlof 23 221 3,075,576 1/ 1963 Herbert 220- MORRIS O. WOLK, PrimaryExaminen- MAURICE AJBRINDISI, Examiner. I. H. TAYMAN, E. STERN, Assistant Examiners.
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Ron Howard: 'Gay' Joke Will Stay in 'The Dilemma'
Ron Howard says he’s keeping the controversial “that’s so gay” quote in the upcoming film The Dilemma even though it was pulled from the trailer.
“This Ronny Valentine character (Vince Vaughn) can be offensive and inappropriate at times and those traits are fundamental to his personality and the way our story works,” director Ron Howard told the Los Angeles Times in a lengthy letter. “I believe in sensitivity but not censorship.”
Anderson Cooper and GLAAD spoke out about against Vince‘s character calling an electric car gay in the flick, out January 14.
Read Ron‘s full statement explaining his decision to keep the quote in the film after the cut…
Patrick [Goldstein, LAT entertainment writer],
I’ve been reading your posts about The Dilemma with a lot of interest. In the couple of weeks since you started covering the debate over our joke, it seems a larger conversation made up of many questions about all sorts of freedoms of expression has broken out: When’s it okay to walk off of a talk show if you disagree with the guest? Who is appropriate to cast in a movie and who gets to decide that? Should news people be held to a different standard in what they say? How risqué can a photo shoot be for a men’s magazine promoting an all-audience show? What role does comedy play in both pointing out differences and unifying us through laughter?
They’re all good questions and I’m certainly not the person who has definitive answers to all of them. The debate about what is appropriate in films and advertising has been going on since well before I started in the business — which is to say a very long time — and will never have a conclusion. But I do have some answers to the five questions you put forth in your post. I suppose you’re right that since our movie about two friends trying to do right for each other has been caught up in this larger debate, I’ll have to face these questions as we start to promote The Dilemma. I figured I’d address your questions here and maybe answer them once and not from, as you said, “every reporter with a functioning brain.” So here we go.
Was it in the script or was it a Vince Vaughn ad lib? Vince is a brilliant improvisational actor, but in this case It was always in the script. The Dilemma is a comedy for grown-ups, not kids. It’s true that the moment took on extra significance in light of some events that surrounded the release of the trailer and the studio made the decision to remove it from advertising, which I think was appropriate. I believe in sensitivity but not censorship. I feel that our film is taking additional heat as an emblem for many movies and TV shows that preceded it that have even more provocative characterizations and language. It is a slight moment in The Dilemma meant to demonstrate an aspect of our lead character’s personality, and we never expected it to represent our intentions or the point of view of the movie or those of us who made it.
Will comedy be neutered if everyone gets to complain about every potentially offensive joke in every comedy that’s made? Anybody can complain about anything in our country. It’s what I love about this place. I defend the right for some people to express offense at a joke as strongly as I do the right for that joke to be in a film. But if storytellers, comedians, actors and artists are strong armed into making creative changes, it will endanger comedy as both entertainment and a provoker of thought.
And what do you have against electric cars anyway? Nothing! We have a couple of them in our family including the one I primarily and happily drive. Guess what that makes me in the eyes of our lead character? But then again, I don’t agree with everything Ronny Valentine says and does in this comedy any more than Vince Vaughn, the screenwriter or any member of the audience should for that matter.
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# 1
This is not right and I hope the film bombs. It looks bad anyways.
People are homophobic b/c its perpetrated everywhere that being gay is something not cool.
Whatever the film sucks anyways.
# 2
Isn’t like 90 percent of Hollywood gay anyway? Now, “that’s so gay.”
# 3
Susie Warden @ 10/30/2010 at 1:13 pm
This is being blown way out of proportion. This is a comedy for adults. This is not a documentary or an educational film for school children. If we censor everything offensive to someone, we might as well live in China. I don’t see anyone complaining about the Jackass movies, or I could name many others that are full of what I would say is “offensive” humor. If you don’t like the premise or content of a movie, don’t go see it.
# 4
Good for you Ron Howard….Anderson Cooper should mind his own business. I am so sick of these people bowing down to ******** like Anderson Cooper. As Ron explains it has nothing to do with bullying so Anderson and the rest of you do what you do best and keep out of the movie business
# 5
@Miles: Are you that stupid? I’m amazed.
Since when was a phrase deemed inappropriate? “That’s so hot”, were good-looking people offended by Paris Hilton’s phrase? I don’t mind homosexuals speaking out due to the bullying right now, but there’s a limit. It’s like when a black person uses the race card every 10 seconds, it’s just annoying.
This film is an adult comedy, if you can’t be an adult, get the hell out.
# 6
who cares? it’s not gonna hurt anybody. it’s a film for adults and they know better. If something is gay why not comment on it
# 7
Cristobal @ 10/30/2010 at 1:26 pm
Ok. I’m gay and can careless at this point about that. Get over it.
# 8
oh for God’s sake! stop behaving like a child and get a life!! if the film upsets you; don’t go. but you do not have the right to determine what i, as an adult, can or cannot see.
# 9
TRUTH HURTS. @ 10/30/2010 at 1:27 pm
Well you won’t get my $9.00. Enough is enough. Boycott this movie.
men who screw other men in the ******* are so “sensitive” they must be protected from mean people and silly jokes or they jump off a bridge and ruin your life.
as usual the thumbs don’t work!
I agree it is annoying when black people use the race card for every freaking problem they encounter even though they have the same rights as everyone else in the country and are treated the same way. You can’t use your race as a excuse when the freaking president is black!!!
But the problem is that gay people in America don’t have the same rights as everyone else and when a portion of our society sees gays as being inferior, now that is a problem that needs to be addressed. Making fun of gay people isn’t going to help us gain any credibility when it is the ADULTS in our society who have a problem with it. So while the movie is targeted for mature adults to have some fun, it’s just another situation in which they can laugh at the concept of being gay and not see that we’re more then just a joke or some stupid drama queen on bravo!!!! Anyways just thought I would contribute :)
bravo ron howard, bravo free speech. let’s just hope this pc thing takes a rest, it’s gotten so out of hand. why is the word ‘gay’ deemed unsuitable when it’s a moniker for a large proud segment of our population and will remain such. i just don’t understand what’s happened and why but it seems pretty stupid. I once said i thought butafuko was a funny last name and i was called a racist. seriously, it is a funny last name. Pity…it seems the more comfortable we become with all people the more intolerant we’re becoming. I just don’t understand, it’s such a waste of time.
beetlejuice @ 10/30/2010 at 1:35 pm
And what is a person to do when you play the entitled straight white boy card? Nobody disses you about being straight…ever been bullied because you were straight. I know your chain gets pulled because you leverage your whiteness, but heck that’s how you were born, you just got silly when you tried to behave as though it doesn’t give you a kind of a “pass” for the rest of your life. And I will just bet in the past 300 hundred years as slaves were being slaughtered by whites on a Sunday afternoon filled with lynching black folks, crying for help probably fits your idea of playing the race card every 15 minutes…would like a magic wand and could tap you on the should and for 15 minutes make you gay or black or maybe both…and see what tune you sing?
Who Cares @ 10/30/2010 at 1:37 pm
@Dan: You sophistries make me barf. “Gay” is a synonym for stupid, weak, and laughable in that context. People are dying because of this kind hate-speak. It has nothing to do with Paris Hilton. Are you serious?
I don’t think it’s being blown out of proportion. People may say it everyday, but that doesn’t make it right. I’m not gay, but using the word gay to describe something as bad or unacceptable is offensive.
Who Cares @ 10/30/2010 at 1:38 pm
@kAITLIN: I will use my free speech to say that Katilin has no idea what she is talking about and sounds pretty stupid.
Who Cares @ 10/30/2010 at 1:39 pm
@missy: I tried to thumbs down you a bunch of times and it finally worked!!
Privileged white straight folks. You guys have no idea what minorities go through in being discriminated against. If you look back to your history you would know alot of the world’s problems like slavery, racism, homophobia all came from you. Shame on you and even today you are still fighting us. One day soon you will be a minority and then you will know. Race card please. I bet if this was 1930 and people were still fighting for the end to racism you would be here arguing for why black people should just shut up and not fight.
@Miles: Other than marriage what are other rights Gay’s don’t have?
@Dan. … Your silly arguement about race and sexual orientation proves your fundamental lack of knowledge and understanding about tho issue… Then again how could you as a while I assume straight male you’ve always been in the majority in most situations…. It was just 40 years ago that blacks matches on washington with mlk .. My mother was 20… We’ve come along way true but instition
I’m with Ron on this one. This is a movie for grown-ups, who should realize that movies are fictional.
And whether it’s right or wrong, people in real life say “That’s so gay” ALL THE TIME. Both kids and adults. It’s common. To take it out of the movie would’ve been trying to deny reality.
I think it’s actually a good thing that it’s come to people’s attention, so society might be able to have a meaningful conversation about the topic. Keep it in the movie, but let’s discuss it. Let’s face the facts that sometimes we unattentionally say things that insult others. Let’s talk about what is and isn’t acceptable. That’s more important than trying to bully a director into removing dialogue from HIS movie.
i agree completely. but here’s the problem. on friday, i caught almost all of my grade 10 students watching this trailer over and over on their Ipods. these kids know how to convert film for use on these things. my students all said just about the same thing. if the “idiots didn’t want us to download the trailer and play it then they would not have made a big deal about it”
by now it’s probably made its way all through the school. i’ve also heard from the civics teacher that when he told his students why the phrase is inappropriate many of the students challenged him on that. one very intelligent student said out loud “all i have to say to that is first amendment, first amendment” the boy spent the rest of the class time demanding to know why people like anderson cooper are telling him what he can and cannot hear in America.
i know exactly what is going to happen on Monday. i and other teachers are going to have to deal with students saying “that’s so gay” at every opportunity. i can’t tell you how “thrilled” i am at that prospect!! a group of students saying the same thing over and over like parrots.
People don’t seem to comprehend that in censoring language, no matter the content, we are taking further steps to curtailing all the freedoms we hold so dear in the U.S.A. Personally, I’ve always been slightly miffed that the homosexual community hi-jacked the word “gay” to refer to themselves and their lifestyle. It once was a word that meant ‘happy and carefree’. It was a joyful word that focused on a lively feeling, not a word limited to mannerism associated with any particular group. In my opinion, the word still belongs to ALL PEOPLE, and we should have the right to use it freely and liberally.
Ron Howard acknowledges that in the context of the movie, he realizes that the word is being more narrowly applied, but I believe he acquits the comment satisfactorily with his intelligent analysis of the character and his understanding that comedy is necessarily broad & sometimes takes liberties in order to have us turn the spotlight back on ourselves to determine how we actually behave…. and are perceived by others. His ‘joke’ in this movie may actually help people NOT use the phrase in that context, rather than encourage people to be insensitive to the feelings of others.
It’s all a tempest in a teapot, and a foolish discussion. It just is one more indication that people who wish to find offense can always do so. Yes, it behooves all of us to be kind and sensitive in all we say… but you can’t have the thought police lobotomize everyone who doesn’t comply with your ideas of what’s acceptable.
That’s so gay is just like saying that’s so ghetto. It’s just a say. If one has a problem with that…that person sure has a “problem”.
Everyone who commented on my comment, you must be in denial. Gays only have one less right than the normal straight man: they cannot get married. Oh, so people bully you at school for being gay? Um… people bully anyone at school for anything: being smart or being dumb, being black or being middle eastern, being fat or being short or blind or small eyes or bad breath, the list goes on and on. Cry me a damn river about people bullying gays in school, obviously some get bullied because who are the harsh ones in school? The boys. I’ve hardly seen lesbians get bullied, trust me, I knew my fair share who were friends. Boys can go to extreme lengths to alienate each other, so the real problem isn’t homosexuality, it’s the male population and the immature ones at that.
If you want equal rights, more power to you, but don’t cry about a movie using a phrase “that’s so gay”. First off, gay means happy, or in slang it means lame, and when referring about sexual orientation, it means homosexual. If you take it out of context, there’s an issue, but I don’t see why you would. When someone says “F You” do you think they’re actually trying to have sex with you? NO. Otherwise you might take that as a compliment.
Everyone wants to use things to strengthen their own cause, but this isn’t one of them. Stop trying to use every piece of ammo you can dig out of the trash can for your equal rights, if you really have a problem, go to the damn source.
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Critic score distribution:
1. Positive: 17 out of 21
2. Negative: 1 out of 21
1. Reviewed by: Ken Fox
What's suspenseful - and so troubling - is seeing exactly how far the "progressives" of GCS are willing to go to put a decidedly unpopular candidate back into office, regardless of what it will mean for the future of the country and for Bolivian democracy itself.
2. Reviewed by: Ty Burr
It’s a galling and provocative experience to viewers of any political persuasion, and a reminder to the left of how easily idealism can run amok.
3. A fascinating glimpse at the perils of ''exporting'' democracy.
4. 80
Our Brand Is Crisis manages to be remarkably suspenseful.
5. Reviewed by: Laura Kern
Boynton's Our Brand Is Crisis, which chronicles the entire election-strategizing process in scrupulous detail, will pack a punch with even the most informed viewer.
6. Reviewed by: Jessica Letkemann
This unlikely pairing of relentless U.S. pollsters and a Bolivian election is a fascinating glimpse of the Americanized marketing of international politics (and vice versa).
7. 75
Rosner works for famed Democratic strategist James Carville, who stops just short of dry-humping the camera lens in his hunger for the spotlight here. Our Brand Is Crisis is full of strangely resonant parallels to American politics.
8. Our Brand Is Crisis well demonstrates the international efficacy of the methods used to twice elect Bill Clinton. Unlike in "The War Room," the charismatic Carville makes but fleeting appearances in this docu, and it suffers as a result.
9. 70
If the fascinating, if disconcerting Our Brand Is Crisis teaches us one thing, it's that consultants, handlers, lawyers, and middlemen can always find a job.
10. 70
What makes Boynton's film stand out amid the current crop of political documentaries is its rigorous reportorial fairness, and its refusal to simplify material in order to score facile ideological points.
11. 70
Rachel Boynton's painfully timely film is actually a full-court tragedy - the sorry tale of a battle won and a war lost; of a country decimated by 500 years of colonialism and poverty; of globalization and America's losing battle to export market democracy to the developing world.
13. Reviewed by: Ronnie Scheib
Proves as entertaining as the earlier "The War Room," which also featured Carville, but is more somber.
14. Political junkies will love this movie.
15. 70
Among other things, Our Brand Is Crisis is about the failure of good intentions--a potent American theme at the moment. As the movie suggests, this failure, born of American arrogance, embraces liberals as well as neocons.
16. 70
An evil twin to "The War Room" (1993).
17. Proves, unhappily enough, how U.S.-style media politics is spreading around the world.
18. Reviewed by: David Edelstein
It's hard to know whether to marvel or weep when James Carville goes into his Bill Clinton–meets–Looney Tunes act in Rachel Boynton's knockout documentary Our Brand Is Crisis--the context is so morally topsy-turvy.
19. Clintonistas may want to look away when Carville and his colleagues lay out their political philosophy for Lozada, or, as he's affectionately known, "Gani." It's pragmatic in a way that defies the needs of the impoverished majority of Bolivians.
20. Never more than a dull and confused film about Bolivia's 2003 presidential election.
21. Reviewed by: Kyle Smith
Boynton isn't interested in telling a story, only in the atmosphere of political consultancy.
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 5 Ratings
User score distribution:
1. Positive: 2 out of 3
2. Negative: 0 out of 3
1. DavidKing
Jun 20, 2006
If you're already cynical about politics and the campaign world, this movie will feed right into your impulses. The Carville team gave a film crew deep access to discussions with "Goni," as the 2002 presidential campaign heated up. Much of the advice is exactly as we teach it: find a message, keep it simple, stick to it, define your adversaries, and so on. Carville's team was coming off of victories in England, Ireland, Israel and Germany... and their formula -- for the most part -- works. But was it best for Bolivia in the long run? The movie falls short in several areas. First, viewers are left with no clear picture of Bolivia as the lovely country that it is. The movie could have been made almost anywhere, but what ultimately "matters" in the movie is the fact that the Carville devices did not match Bolivia's history or needs. Would have been much better if viewers were given a sense for what that history was... Second, the role of the MNR party in Goni's election is entirely missing -- and that fact makes Carville's efforts seem more important than they really were. Third, Evo Morales is portrayed as a frightening populist -- which misses the point that Carville and friends should have noticed. Namely that the greatest deficit in Bolivia is not fiscal but moral -- and that Evo Morales touched the soul of the nation. Full Review »
2. MikeG.
Apr 11, 2006
I saw this at the Philadelphia Film Festival last weekend and was underwhelmed. The subject matter was certainly very intriguing but the filmmaker couldn't seem to decide whether to center her documentary on Bolivia's problems or on GCS. The result is a sometimes disjointed movie that doesn't do a very good job explaining what, exactly, Bolivia's problems are, who Evo Morales is, or why the United States cares enough to comment on Morales through its ambassador. There are a couple of telling scenes in the film - Gani shaking his head and saying "ours is not to question why, ours is just to do or die" when he's being pulled around by the nose by the consultants - but there aren't enough of these moments. I would like to have known what the Bolivian poltical culture thought of GCS and seen more of a comparative thrust. The movie didn't have this and, as a result, lacked balance. Full Review »
3. SoniaC.
Mar 27, 2006
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1. Andre
Dec 18, 2008
DAG is a graduate of Yale Drama. If your IQ is to low to process this show then your missing out. This show is Frasier of sketch comedy. This is not the Chappelle Show. Chappelle had some great skits, but they were hit and miss just like all skit shows. The people that are trying to compare these shows have no idea of what real comedy is. The viewers that clam it isn't funny are the ones that want to laugh at a skinny jackass who will do a black crack head skit and a black Klan leader, rather then one who can have a wide range of characters. If you notice no matter how crazy DAG's characters are, they always end on a positive note.Chappelle lacked ingredients of a true comedy.He was more of a minstrel show. He always harped on racial togetherness, but all his skits where on black stereotypes and he complained about whites all the time. Interesting how is best friend and co-writer is white, but yet he acts like they are the DEVIL. DAG has skits from school principles to porn stars . His commentary covers all groups. If you do something dumb then he is going to call you on it.DAG covers all bases. Chapelle used the N word every other second, how is that funny? As an African American male I was tired of hearing it. Why do you think Bill Cosby and the other powers that be wanted him off the air. I think both shows have their place, but if you don't get it then turn the channel. I never liked the show Friends, but loved Seinfeld. To different shows that were both sitcoms that you cant compare. Chappelle and Chocolate News are both sketch shows that can't be compared. Expand
2. DwightB.
Oct 23, 2008
As funny, if not funnier than Chappelle Show. Just as powerful as "I'm Rick James, b***h!", people are going to sing and hum Phat Man's 'No Child Left Behind' for months to come. The first two episodes were flawless. Shows like Frank Tv highlight Frank's ability to do impersonations, but I've gone countless episodes without cracking a smile ( He was a lot funnier on Mad TV). David Alan Grier is a Comedic Genius! Can't wait for episode 3! Expand
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Oct 31, 2008
Solid comedy by David Alan Grier, who has been an underrated talent. It can only get better as he settles into the format.
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Jan 28, 2009
I have always loved D.A.G. and I am hapy he has finally found the proper forum for his tremendous and versitile talent. I absolutely LOVE this show. So much so that I have watched the episodes again on On-Demand. Keep up the good work!!
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This is social satire, and Grier's job is to make a mainstream audience see race and power in new ways. That often involves shock.
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Credit Grier for trying, credit Comedy Central for adding another voice to the mix, and keep hoping that a show like this eventually hits its stride.
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My baby is almost 8 weeks old. I EP, and at the beginning I had a lot of problems with my supply, so we supplemented with formula. Over this time I have built up my supply to the point that we have been able to slowly phase formula out. She's gone the last 48 hours with no formula at all, for the first time since she was 2 weeks old.
I don't know if it's related or not, but the last week she started becoming very fussy, which has escalated to the point that she is screaming and inconsolable off and on for 30 minutes at a time. Then she'll nap or eat, and when that's done she's back to fussing. Also, today she has had diarrhea all day, and I'm sure that doesn't help put her in a better mood. My husband feels that the lack of formula is the correlation, and wants to start giving it to her again. I just can't imagine why a baby exclusively eating breastmilk would NEED formula to settle her tummy? Isn't breastmilk supposed to be everything she needs?
I have tried generic gas drops from Wal-Mart, but I see no difference. I don't know if there's anything else that would help. I feel terrible for her, she was so happy and easy-going until this past week. Any suggestions or advice would be GREATLY appreciated!
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Troubleshooting with you here so bear with me. How do you know that your baby has diarrhea? Is it possible that you are confusing the look of BF poop with diarrhea now that the formula is out of her system? BF poop is very runny but that is completely normal. If she really does have diarrhea than breast milk is absolutely better for her belly than formula. BM is much easier for her belly to digest.
With the fussiness I would look at your own diet to see if there is something in your diet that could be bothering her tummy. Mt DD was sensitive to dairy through my breast milk and it made her fussy and gassy. I dropped the dairy for a couple months and then slowly started adding it back and she has been fine since.
Good luck!
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Well, I was under the impression that while BF poop was more runny than formula poop, it would have a "seedy" quality to it. This is just complete liquid, and it's very thin.
I have heard a lot of people talk about dropping dairy from their diets while BF-ing, and while I'm only taking maybe 2 servings of dairy in a day at this point, I can drop it completely if need be.
Also I just had an epiphany...I started the mini-pill this past Sunday, which seems to have made me start my period today. Would that have any effect on her tummy?
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Yes, it can be seedy but as your DD is getting her digestion settled I imagine it could have different appearances. We had an unfortunate run-in with a stomach virus when my DD was 6 months old and I can tell you that I knew true BF diarrhea because of the smell. YUCK!
I am far from an expert but I also wonder if you may have a foremilk/hindmilk imbalance to get worked out as your supply regulates. That could contribute to the different appearance of her poop.
As for dairy, that was an easy food for me to eliminate and it helped DD very quickly. I tested it a couple times by adding it back in and her problems would return quickly. I would experiment with your diet and see if you can find out what is bothering her.
I'm not sure about the mini-pill but I would guess that could contribute although I would imagine that some of the foods are a more likely problem.
Good luck, Mama. I hope some more, wiser people here can offer you some advice.
post #5 of 9
Hi Mama! I'm sorry to hear about your challenges.
DD who is 6 months now, started having tummy trouble at about 3 weeks old. She was having terrible tummy pains and gas. Her poop wasn't really strange, but has never gotten the thick, smooth consistency of my first. Nothing worked for DD except for bicycling her legs and gripe water. Those two things seemed to help, but it is just something that took some time to work out. I did try eliminating numerous things from my diet, but finally realized that what I was doing didn't seem to be helping. I think she was through that phase at about 2.5 or 3 months and now she is a really sweet, easy baby. I know it is tough, but I wish you the best. I really don't think that reintroducing formula for your lo will help, but I don't know. I'm just speaking from my experience.
Good luck and hang in there. You are doing great!
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You may also wish to post here in the breastfeeding forum, it may get more replies.
I found this info on the kellymom site:
Any hormonal birth control may cause fussiness in the baby (not reported in the literature but often anecdotally by mothers). This may be due to the hormones causing a minimal decrease in the protein/nitrogen/lactose content of the milk. Some mothers have reported marked improvement in their baby's degree of fussiness once they come off hormonal birth control.
I also read on the site that oral contraceptives can cause a decrease in milk supply.
All of that said, perhaps the pill is not related to the fussiness.
As PP mentioned it could be a foremilk/ hind milk imbalance. Oversupply, as well as switching sides often. can result in too much foremilk being consumed. This will cause indigestion as the foremilk goes too quickly through the small intestine for all of the lactose to be broken down.
Block feeding on one side for several feedings will help baby to receive more of the rich fatty hindmilk versus a lot of foremilk from switching breasts often. Even just allowing baby to set her pace and finish feeding on one breast completely before thinking about switching (which isn't always neccessary). Baby will let you know, watch her cues she'll let you know if she is still hungry.
Foremilk has a lot of lactose. Lactose is great for brain development, in fact human milk has more lactose than any other species due to the size of our large brains and the growth needed. However, when baby receives too much foremilk and insufficient hind milk, baby is getting too much lactose and not enough fatty hindmilk. The hind milk is the milk that is mixed with the fatty globules upon 'let down' and is very satiating too.
The fussiness and very watery stools (even more so than normal BM stool) may be indicative of too much foremilk, a change in breast feeding pattern may be a first step to see if it helps. Good luck, no worries you will figure it out soon smile.gif
Link about balancing foremilk/hindmilk: http://breastfeeding.hypermart.net/toomuchmilk.html
post #7 of 9
Breastmilk poop is not always seedy. It can vary from yellow, to yellowish brown, yellowish green, or even orange. It can be runny, or seedy, or thick like peanut butter. So it being runny doesn't make it diarrhea. My kids' poop varied a lot, depending on the kid, the day, what I was eating, how often they were eating, how long they were sleeping between feeds, and sometimes for no reason I could see. But a lot of mamas inexperienced with exclusive breastfeeding will assume baby has diarrhea-- a breastfed baby poops so frequently, and it is often just really really liquid, liquid enough that it pours out the side of the diaper and up the back.
It is possible, though, that if the change is recent, and accompanied by a lot of fussiness, that she's come into contact with her first virus. In which case it's self-limiting, and you only need to just keep on nursing. But I can say from experience that true diarrhea, in the breastfed baby, is genuinely nasty, stinky, green, and disgusting stuff. You'd likely KNOW.
FWIW, too, two months old is a common stage for a growth spurt, which can lead to fussiness, sleeplessness, and a desire to nurse very, very often. This is normal, and the correct way to handle it is to follow baby's cues and nurse as often as baby seems to want.
A foremilk/oversupply problem would show up as frothy, really GREEN poop. A dairy intolerance usually shows up as green poop, sometimes with a little blood in the stool, and with baby seeming to be in pain.
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My daughter's breastmilk poop was almost always liquid - sometimes foamy, sometimes more like a thick paste. I wouldn't worry about that too much.
The mini pill, which is is progesterone only ( the same hormone that is elevated in our bodies naturally while we BF) is not supposed to cause a reduction in supply - it has been studied for over two decades and proven not to. However, there are always concerns when it comes to subjecting an infant to an elevated amount of steriods. I have read a ton of stories from mamas who were on the mini pill and claimed that their babies were not just fussy, but down right screamers - after taking themselves off of the pill, in a few weeks the little ones started calming down. Many of those mamas reported that they were also negatively affected by taking the pill - headaches, tenderness, tearfulness, etc and decided to stay off the pill and go another route for birth control.
I would keep a food journal for a week - write down everything that you ingest (food/drink/supplements/medications) and see if you can link the fussiness to any of the things that you eat. I know there were certain foods that would make my LO more amp'd up at times.
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I'd give it more time, to be sure. She might still be working the formula out of the system, and getting used to the sensation of a smooth-moving digestive tract (formula slows everything down). She may need to be fed more often too, are you feeding on demand? When in doubt, feed?
After formula poo, breastfed poo might not seem "seedy." It is super liquidy, and does not smell bad ... it's actually a little sweet smelling, like overripe fruit. Exclusively breastfed infants' cloth diapers can go straight into the washing machine without rinsing -- it's that liquidy.
It helped us a TON that baby's Dad & I had allergy testing (blood testing, not scratch tests, the name had something about ELISA and IgG, or IgA ...). I didn't totally cut out his Dad's big two (whey and chicken egg) and DS started having bigtime spit-up around 2 months. A few weeks later he started seeming a little colicky.
Hyland's Colic tablets helped a TON (the gas drops from Wal-Mart do nothing for us), and we still use them often when there is unsolvable fussing. But when I finally cut out the foods to which his Dad is allergic, we made major headway.
Diarrhea happened around 6 weeks I think ... we're talking explosive and foamy (we'd see the foam coming out the leg of the diaper), and green. That seems to have been an oversupply issue which was resolved by block feeding (which reduces milk supply).
Have you gotten a second opinion from a different lactation consultant, about whatever prompted you to use formula? Perhaps it was a latch and not a supply issue?
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I have a 2.5 week old and I'm wondering if anyone has any information about what can happen from not supporting a newborn's neck adequately.
I also have a three year old.
I know that their head doesn't snap off and roll across the room if it isn't supported completely, but how would you know if their neck got hurt?
I ask because my 3 year old has experimented with trying to pick up the baby a couple times. (*GASP*). The baby hasn't cried or seemed hurt, but it freaks me out. I guess I'm just looking for reassurance that so long as baby seems fine, no damage was done.
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I've always wondered this myself. Sometimes watching a Baby Story or something, I freak out, cause I see whoever caught the baby lifting it up by it's armpits without supporting the head, and that's *immediately* after the birth. With my lil brother (I was 7 when he was born), you'd think his head would have fallen off if I hadn't supported it, and for the longest time I thought that permanent damage could be done by not supporting the head. But I'd really like to know too. I guess that's a long way of saying I"m lurking on this thread.
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Just bumping this up higher to see if there are any ideas.
I also pick up my baby under the armpits, her head doesn't seem to fall when I do it.
Hmm. Weird topic.
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yeah, I've been wondering this too - a friend came over and picked up my DD - she is a big baby and I think my friend thought she was older than she was (3.5 months at the time) and she sort of hoisted her up onto her hip like you can do with an older baby and DD kinda flopped backwards. She started crying but I think it was mostly from fright - made me terribly anxious (and mad - this friend of mine is a physician's assistant in a mother-baby health clinic!). NOthing seemed to be wrong with her neck in the long run. I watched her vigilantly afterwards.... I don't think she was hurt but I'm curious to know what I might've watched for.
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This isn't exactly an answer to your question, but it is kinda related....
My son had shoulder dystocia and some *minor* birth trauma - to his neck, right shoulder and right arm. His head DRAMATICALLY tilted/flopped to teh right, and his right arm had a "lag" in comparison to the left.....The medical professions said it was "just" an inflammed nerve and that nothing could be done about it, maybe some physical therapy in teh future if the lag presented any sort of "problems" - Hello, the lag is a problem, isn't it?!
At a month old, I took DS to the chiropractor and thank goodness I did!! The top vertebrae, the one the head sits on and pivots on to look around - was dramatically out of place, tilted out and sideways!!! Made so much sense as to why his head was so tilted, why his arm didn't work right, why he hated nursing if he was laying on that side.... After teh first adjustment - WOW what adifference! He was happier, nursed on that side, and was turning his head around. He was even moving his arm normally!
Of course teh medical doctors NEVER picked up on the trauma to his neck (despite doing Xrays on his neck/shoulders afre birth) - just the lag with his arm - *I* had to point out the funny floppy head thing he had going on, of course to be told nothing was wrong....
I REALLY encourage you to take your little one to see a family chiropractor - everything is moving as they grow, and it is SOOOO important to have those bones in the proper places as they are growing and muscles are developing.
And honestly, I would be really careful about letting your 3 yrold hold/pickup the baby - while I am sure your baby is PERFECTLY FINE I don't think *I* would personally allow it. Holding while sitting on the couch, propped up by pillows is one thing but picking up is quite another! There isn't any support for the baby's fragile neck muscles, and there is a possiblity that the baby coiuld be dropped. My nieces are 8 and 9 and they still have to sit on the couch to hold my son....My SIL did the same thing when the youngest was born (who is almost 3 now)
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As the Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 lifted off from LAX, 954 nautical miles from our destination of Sea-Tac Airport, I sat back in the seat, closed my eyes for a few seconds, then looked out the window. I'm not going to see this place for more than a week, I thought. And when I return, it won't be in a jet, but a Lotus Evora. Which won't have traveled the direct route through three states, but rather the roundabout way, traversing eight. I hoped my camera wouldn't break. The Lotus, too. I glanced over at photographer Brian Vance, who had quickly struck up a conversation with a lovely brunette coed. Because they were right across the aisle, I was forced to eavesdrop. The usual is-this-a-sign-or-just-a-coincidence chitchat led Vance to explain why he was on his way up to the Pacific Northwest: "I work for Motor Trend, and am picking up a Lotus in Bellevue. A video guy, a writer, and I are driving it to Missoula, and then following the Continental Divide Trail down to Santa Fe, before heading back to L.A." Smooth. Four years ago, Vance and I partook in a similar adventure in an Audi R8, driving the mid-engine monster 3100 miles along the Pacific Crest Trail that stretches from Mexico to Canada. One of eight National Scenic Trails, the PCT is the westernmost of the NST's Big Three, which include the Continental Divide Trail in the middle and the Appalachian Trail to the east. So when Lotus PR rang and offered an Evora, Vance and I immediately thought, sequel! The Continental Divide, an 8000-mile geological uplift that forms the spine of North and South America, spans from Alaska to the tip of Patagonia, splitting the land into two humongous watersheds: To the west, water drains to the Pacific Ocean; to the east, the Atlantic. (In Alaska's Seward Peninsula, the Divide lies between the Pacific and Arctic Oceans.) The Continental Divide Trail, which closely follows the geographical divide, is essentially America's giant pitched rooftop, zigzagging 3100 miles from Glacier National Park in Montana, down through Yellowstone in Wyoming, along the Rocky Mountains in Colorado, and then south into the Chihuahuan Desert in New Mexico. Our sequel would feature the Evora, Vance, and yours truly, as well as video producer Jim Gleason, who would capture every memorable moment on his Canon 7D. Thinking about the impending red-carpet premiere got me excited, prompting the cup of LAX Starbucks to tell me it was time for a stroll to the back of the plane. I headed down the aisle, passing Gleason's seat before reaching the lavatory. He was sound asleep, with headphones on, mouth agape, and cheek against the window. Great, we haven't even turned a wheel, and he's zonked. Bladder relieved, I shuttled back to my seat. Not hearing Vance's voice, I looked over his way, only to find him snoozing too, with his hoodie up, shades on, and arms crossed. Maybe he and Gleason had the right idea. Best to rest. Once we landed, it was go time. And we had a divide to conquer.
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Our $79,255 Laser Blue Evora awaited us at Park Place Ltd. motors in Bellevue, about 20 miles from Sea-Tac. If you're wondering why we had the car delivered here and not Montana, where we'd officially kick off our CDT journey, well, the closest Lotus dealers to Missoula reside in Salt Lake City and, yep, Bellevue. Salt Lake is about 50 miles farther, so it lost. With a scattering of dealers around the country and none especially close to our CDT route, the possibility of any mechanical problems left me a wee bit worried. But what could go wrong with a hand-built British sports car? I stopped fretting and focused on the task at hand: getting us and our gear to Bellevue. Seeing that we were a trio this go around and there was no way we and all our stuff would squeeze into a 2+2 Lotus, we figured why not also take delivery of a brand-new long-term minivan? So that's what we did. Enter a $43,790 Nissan Quest LE fitted with nav, Bluetooth, USB inputs, power doors and hatch, heated seats, two sunroofs, and 108.4 cubic feet of cargo room. Quest loaded, we took the indirect route to Bellevue via downtown Seattle to ingest a quick pick-me-up courtesy of Espresso Vivace. With strong caffeine shots slugged, we made our way to the Lotus dealer, where Park Place GM Ryan Vanderwel greeted us and gave a quick refresher on the car. He pointed to the tires. "Got those Dunlop Winter Sport 3D snow tires installed." (When Vance and I road-tripped the R8 back in 2007, a blizzard near Crater Lake, Oregon, nearly buried us, mostly because the Audi was wearing summer tires. The experience was akin to running around an ice rink in Ferragamos. We weren't going to make the same mistake twice, considering weather forecasts were calling for freezing temps and snow for parts of Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado.)
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The quickest, most direct line from Bellevue to Missoula is Interstate 90, so that's the 470-mile route we took. With my trusty Escort Redline radar detector mounted, I tucked the Evora behind the Quest and set the cruise control to 75. This leg would be the second-longest of the trip, after the 848-mile jaunt from Santa Fe to L.A., and provided our first glimpse of highway life in the Evora. (Of the 1547 miles we drove along the CDT, only 81 were consumed on Interstate highways.) The day-long trip to Missoula required two fill-ups and revealed generally laudable traits. The Recaro seats proved supportive and comfortable, although my bum wished for a cushier bottom. With a low cowl, the Evora provides a great, expansive view of the road ahead. The same cannot be said of the view out the tiny back window, however, which is more or less a keyhole. Surprisingly, room for my head, shoulders, and feet was plentiful, keeping me happy enough to not get too annoyed with the hard-to-read dash buttons, which I quickly burned to memory and operated solely by touch. The ride was superb, always compliant, never harsh; and noise, whether wind, engine, or tire, was kept to a minimum. Highly rated road-tripper? So far. Had we had more time, we would've begun our trip at the CDT's Lower 48 start-point in Glacier National Park, where abundant grizzlies were even more abundant back in 1805, when Lewis and Clark set foot on the Divide on their way to the West Coast. But our busy calendars dictated Missoula. After enjoying coffee and pastries at Bernice's Bakery, we snapped photos to mark the trip's official start, and then headed toward Bitterroot National Forest. We hurdled Lost Trail Pass at 7014 feet, dipped into Idaho for a mile or so, and crested Chief Joseph Pass at 7264 feet, our first crossing of the CDT. We then took a break at Big Hole National Battlefield, where in August 1877 Chief Joseph led his Nez Perce in a fight against the U.S. Army. Standing in the visitor parking lot, the three of us, all alone, scanned the surroundings, taking in the grand Pioneer Mountains, the moody skies, raging Ruby Creek, and an overall sense of calm. Imagining the chaotic scene here 134 years ago brought about a feeling of uncomfortable surrealism. Time to scoot. At around 7 p.m., the Montana sky appeared to be the same hue as our Lotus' Laser Blue skin -- no wonder it's called Big Sky Country. And like the Evora's curvaceous and chiseled body, the Treasure State's sky has depth. You can just stare at it for minutes, enjoying the subtle, complex beauty. At dusk, the heavens turned from Caribbean Sea to deep purple, displaying even more layers, thanks to a brilliant moon illuminating the strata of white and gray clouds. Cruising along Hebgen Lake, a long, narrow body that served as a full-length mirror for the night's lustrous light, we couldn't help but notice that we were the only ones on the road. Hebgen felt like our private pool, a really giant one sitting about 10 miles north of the Divide. It's near this point of the CDT where Hell Roaring Creek twists and turns, forming the distant headwater of the Missouri River, some 4200 miles from the Gulf of Mexico.
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But a Cayman R would take a much more costly toll for a long trip like this. Why would anyone take a track-tuned car stripped of its coddling features for grand touring?Kiino, I think either you schedule is too busy in the summer, or manufacturers like to torture you by giving you these cars for snow traversing. An adventure, but still torture. Thank you for at least let us know they still work in the white stuff, though.
Lord for that money you could get a Cayman R with less weight and 50 more horsepower.
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Bookaboo Tue 01-Oct-13 19:27:16
The surveyor recommended that we take out indemnity insurance on the property we're buying in case of any damage to a drain that the extension is built over. the drain is sealed and there are two access points in case of any blockages.
the surveyor didn't seem to think this was a major issue,but it's causing me some worry because i'm struggling to find an insurance company that will provide this cover.
have told solicitor about it to see if they can advise, but in the meantime while i fret about whether this might turn out to be a dealbreaker, does anyone have any experience of this?
just as i thought we were smoothly approaching exchange!
husband is no help - i reckon he thinks i'm always looking for stuff to worry about!
thanks in advance.
fiorentina Tue 01-Oct-13 20:01:58
Usually your solicitor can recommend the company to offer the relevant indemnity insurance, perhaps ask them if they can?
WhatWillSantaBring Tue 01-Oct-13 21:20:23
This is worrying me as this is what all three builders have said we have to do, as the fall isn't enough to route the drain around the extension. They're happy as long as the drain is plastic (not clay? I think?)
Bookaboo - what about speaking to some builders and see if they have concerns. maybe its your surveyor worrying unnecessarily? Wonder what pigletjohn has to say?
Bookaboo Wed 02-Oct-13 23:16:27
Solicitor's view was that it's all fine because the extension has building regs and it's not a public sewer. Seemed to think that surveyor was just really covering his arse. Suggested I go back to surveyor to query some more. Surveyor told me that indemnity insurance was something my solicitor should advise on! Aaaargh!
Spoken to two more major insurance companies and still no joy.
Anyone else?
Many thanks
icravecheese Thu 03-Oct-13 09:29:57
We had exactly this when we moved into our house in 2005 - we had to take out indemnity insurance because (a) side extension had been built over drains and (b) they'd knocked lounge through to dining room and not gotten proper something-or-other. Indemnity insurance cost virtually nothing - £35 for each point (from memory) and I believe our solicitor sorted it all.
Whats more, the drain thing has never been much of an issue in the 8 years we've lived in our house - drains have actually blocked twice (due to neighbour, not us) and we had a company put camera down the drain (from access point in back garden, all the way under extension and up through access point in front drive). Turns out we just have VERY old drains (house built in 1910) and pipes just needed a flush through.
I would press back onto solicitor, ours sorted it all out. Although whole insurance / cover your arse environment is very different today to what it was just 8yrs ago. But don't fret - it honestly sounds fine and pretty normal to me.
Bookaboo Fri 04-Oct-13 19:27:48
Thanks icravecheese, I am reassured by what you say. I think what actually concerns me more though is how much it may deter other potential buyers if we want to sell in the future.
Still waiting for solicitors to get back to me and have spoken to other insurers in the meantime, even a specialist indemnity broker who had never heard of such a thing!
icravecheese Fri 04-Oct-13 20:57:37
Ok, have had a rummage in our filing drawers (which DD3 has completely rearranged and re-filed in only the way a 2yr old can do!) and have managed to dig out our indemnity insurance paperwork. Its with a company called 'Guaranteed Conveyancing Solutions' and it cost £240 (one off cost) for the planning permission and building regs (couldnt work out quite what wasn't covered by these 2 things, but we have a side extension that has been built over the mains drains - which also feed in from our neighbours house, built 8yrs before we moved in, so something to do with this).
The website for the company is: http://www.gcs-title.co.uk/
I think we were initially concerned when this came up on our survey 8 yrs ago, but solicitor was really reassuring and said it was nothing to worry about & indemnity insurance was cheap & readily available & would cover it no probs. I fear, however, that things have changed massively since then - housing crash / surveyors covering their a**ses with crazy surveys (I've read friends house purchase surveys in the last few yrs and they're so mental, covering every possible eventuality), that people panic about these things.
Look up the company - they might be able to help....and don't panic! GOod luck.
Talkinpeace Fri 04-Oct-13 21:27:33
sorry, I must be thick
your house drain runs under part of your house
well no shit sherlock, so do the drains in every Victorian terrace or semi whose back bathrooms have been connected to the street drain ....
we had our drains turned from front to back in the 90's
but were in a house with access to a rear drain
my current house only has access to one drain and part of my extension sits over part of the house pipe
askasurveyor Fri 04-Oct-13 22:24:01
Hello bookaboo. Im a surveyor. This really is not a problem. It is perfectly normal for drains to run under an extension. Indemnity insurance is a waste of time; your normal buildings insurance should cover you if there is a problem with the drains in the future. As long as access has been provided to clear blockages there shouldnt be any problem but if you are concerned about the curent condition a drains test (usually no more that £200) will give you a definitive answer. The surveyor is indeed covering himself and one of many that give us a bad name!
askasurveyor Fri 04-Oct-13 22:25:17
Current, not curent! Fat fingers syndrome!
Bookaboo Sun 06-Oct-13 20:40:29
Thanks. I've had a look at some insurance policies. they do cover costs of unblocking drains, which isn't really what i'm worried about as this doesn't seem it will be a problem. if the drain fails at some point, I imagine they will say it's not covered because it would be classed as wear and tear ( but who on earth ever decides to replace their drains??!)
plus it's a sixties house and I read that a material called pitch fibre was sometimes used in drain construction at that time, apparently it's poor so i hope it's not that either!
Then again, i've also read some magical things they can do with drain repair that doesn't involve excavation either .
Bookaboo Mon 07-Oct-13 19:49:47
So, i tried GCS as recommended by icravecheese. They only take business direct from solicitors, so i have passed details on.
Is askasurveyor around to talk some more about drains?
Do i have to get a survey done to find out what the drains are made of? (To establish that they are not pitch fibre?)
Will the solicitors drainage report show the exact location of the drains?
I never knew i could think so much about drains!
Unfortunately it looks like i've now delayed the exchange date and buggered up everyone's plans.
Bookaboo Wed 09-Oct-13 18:47:27
Ok. So i decided to go with the drain survey. drain company has been round today - they couldn't access the drain. There is only one access point when there should be two. Vendor has requested a quote to see how much it would be to access the inspection hatch underneath the kitchen floor (presumably through the slate floor they have, through the chipboard, through the floorboard... Then whatever else is beneath that ) Aaaargh! My panic station has now gone into overdrive. we have definitely delayed completion now.
icravecheese Wed 09-Oct-13 20:11:11
can they not go from the access point on your driveway/street/ pavement out front? I recall our drain people put a camera down the access point on our patio and fed it all the way under the extension, through to access point on our driveway.
I guess they already considered that tho', so sorry, I'm not much help other than to say I'm really sorry to hear you're having such a nightmare at such a late stage in proceedings shock
Bookaboo Mon 28-Oct-13 08:43:52
just thought i should update this thread in case anyone looks up a similar issue in the future. turned out the original company had got it wrong (apparently they have a bad reputation anwe yway). got a second opinion; the drains are fine and there is access to unblock if ever needed. so we decided to go ahead.
it turns out we may have been barking up the wrong tree. now in the property we found the roof leaks! it's just one thing after another.
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Abortion has become the flashpoint in the health care debate. NPR's Julie Rovner talks to host Melissa Block about who is using these services, how the services are paid for, and what would change under the language approved by the House in the health overhaul bill it passed late Saturday night.
And I'm Melissa Block.
The latest chapter in the health care overhaul saga has raised big questions about controversial language on abortion. It was added to the House bill last weekend.
To help us answer some of those questions, we're joined by NPR health policy correspondent Julie Rovner. Hey, Julie.
JULIE ROVNER: Hey, Melissa.
BLOCK: And, first of all, Julie, there's a disagreement about what the language added to the House bill on Saturday would do. Can you help us set us straight there?
ROVNER: Yes. It really has two separate parts and they both affect health plans in the new insurance marketplaces that would be created in the bill called health exchanges.
Now, the first part would ban all abortions performed directly with public money in the new government-sponsored public plan. This is basically making permanent the so-called Hyde Amendment, which since 1977, has been renewed by Congress every year to ban federal funding of abortions except in limited cases: rape, incest, life of the woman.
The second part bans abortions in private health insurance plans for women receiving public subsidies. This is where the dispute is. Backers of the amendment say insurance companies could still offer plans that provide abortion as a benefit to people who buy policies with their own money. But opponents say there are other provisions in the bill that would make that basically impossible. So, the net result is that there would be no plans in the insurance exchanges that offer abortion coverage at all.
BLOCK: Julie, if you are a woman, say, who has private insurance now, switching over to the exchange to buy a policy with your own money, what would the implications be if you have abortion coverage in your insurance right now?
ROVNER: Well, of course, many women do have abortion coverage right now. There are studies that differ, but basically it's somewhere between 50 and 80 percent. So, obviously if you were to go into this exchange and not get it anymore, you know, many people say it wouldn't make that much of a difference. There's a disputed statistic about how many abortions are directly billed to insurance. It's something like 13 percent.
But there's really a distinction here between first trimester abortions and second trimester abortions. The vast majority of abortions are done early in pregnancy in the first trimester. They're normally done in abortion clinics. They're fairly inexpensive, a couple of hundred dollars.
But while there's no statistics specifically on this, I talked to a number of people today, and they say that probably most of the insurance coverage used for abortions are for later abortions that are done for probably for medical reasons, either fetal abnormalities or pregnant women with health problems. Those are abortions that are usually done in hospitals and cost thousands of dollars. Those are the ones that you want probably the insurance for and there is no provision in these - there's no exception. Those would be banned, too.
BLOCK: Under the House bill.
ROVNER: Yes, under the House bill.
BLOCK: Julie, talk a bit about how the language came to be in the bill in the first place.
ROVNER: Well, this was controversial in and of itself. There was originally what was thought to be a compromise that kind of froze the status quo - no federal funding, direct funding for abortion. But late Friday night, the Conference of Catholic Bishops, which didn't like that language, was in Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office trying to cut a deal. They couldn't.
By then, there were so many conservative Democrats who were siding with the bishops that Speaker Pelosi had no choice but to allow this language that was ultimately adopted to be offered. That infuriated the pro-choice Democratic women in the House. They even complained about the Catholic Church with its tax-exempt status doing direct lobbying.
Here's what the chairman of the House Rules Committee Louise Slaughter of New York, who was the one who had to allow the amendment, had to say about it.
Representative LOUISE SLAUGHTER (Democrat, New York; Chairman, House Rules Committee): ...Episcopalian, and I was stunned to find out how much effect the Catholic Church has on my beliefs in my life.
BLOCK: And, Julie, this now goes to the Senate. What kind of abortion language is in the Senate bill now and what's likely to happen there?
ROVNER: Well, again, the Senate bill just has that language that would ban direct federal funding of abortion. There are already some pro-life Democrats who are talking about adding this House language. And, you know, the president has already come out and said that he doesn't like the House language. It violates what he was saying, if you like the coverage you have, you could keep it. There are 40 House pro-choice Democrats who say they won't vote for final bill unless this language is taken out. It's going to be tricky. They're going to have to find a compromise.
BLOCK: Okay. NPR health policy correspondent Julie Rovner. Thanks so much.
ROVNER: You're welcome.
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When you start thinking that you're smarter than your client, and that you can know what they want before they do, you're on very dangerous ground.
Well, that's not what I said. You're right: it's dangerous (and basically always wrong, for all intents and purposes) to think that you are smarter than your clients. But that doesn't mean you should assume that they are smarter than you. What I meant to describe was more of a partnership. They are going to know the subject matter better than you. That's basically a given. You are going to know how to develop software better than them. That is also a given.
That's the point, really... if you get into the business of letting your clients design your (as in your and theirs, remember: it's a partnership) software, alone, with you as a passive requirements-to-code translator, that's where the problems start. When saying that you will see the scope creep coming before they do, what I mean is: you have experience developing software, and they don't. If you really understand what the client wants, and you have any experience with similar situations, then this will give you a heads-up to potential issues. Use that forewarning of danger as an opportunity to avoid it. When you encounter those watch-signs, ask questions that the client never bothered to give you the answers for in advance (because they, lacking your experience at software development, will not have thought of all the potential issues).
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While ESPN won on journalism, MLB Network kept up the far more tolerable chatter.
Steroid fatigue is a real thing, I think, among baseball fans. We've been doing this -- with the hunting down and the testifying before Congress and the lying and eventual suspensions -- for nearly 10 years. Given that, it's hard to blame any fans who cannot work up any outrage about Ryan Braun's "admission" and suspension for what MLB called "violations of the Basic Agreement and its Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program" in a press release for their apathy.
I think that very real fatigue is where you might see some of the criticism of various media personalities in their reaction to the suspension. I believe it's really, really difficult for the average fan to be as disgusted and indignant as Buster Olney or Curt Schilling or Kevin Millar were on Monday night. And that's probably appropriate, because those three men (and various others) have a stake in the industry of baseball. We don't; we're just the followers who support it and enjoy it. There should be a disparity between how I feel about Ryan Braun and how Barry Larkin does.
That's a shame, though, because there is something in this story worth being angry about for the common fan: Ryan Braun's statement. You've all seen it 100 times on the news already, but let's post it here just for reference.
This statement, in which Braun never actually admits to being "not perfect" and never any actual wrongdoing, is an astonishing amount of workshopped, lawyered bullshit. He should be ashamed of himself for no other reason than allowing this statement to be his lone public representation in the matter. I have a hard time getting too aggravated over steroid use, but the least Braun could have done was meet fans and the media halfway, or at least face to face.
The statement, however, took a backseat in the media's coverage of the story to what was more or less its face value: Ryan Braun clearly took steroids, lied about it, and made a deal with MLB after investigators discovered his connection to Biogenesis. While Fox Sports 1 waits to get on the air, and NBC Sports Network's lone sports talk show (The Crossover with Michelle Beadle) was on hiatus, it largely left ESPN and MLB Network as the lone sources capable of sorting this whole thing out.
Both networks can come away with a measure of victory, but the MLB Network came out ahead of The Worldwide Leader overall in this one. The league-owned channel came out with some heavy hitters (Brian Kenny, slowly morphing into baseball's version of the fictional Newsroom character Will McAvoy, hosted) and talked about it in a manner that was reasonable and measured. It was often an uncomfortable discussion -- naturally, it had to be -- but never for the reason's sports television is often uncomfortable (i.e. yelling).
Kenny, Tom Verducci, John Hart, and Al Leiter went through not just the present, but the past of steroid use and investigation. Leiter's revelation that MLB's testing policy essentially ignored guys who didn't appear obvious users was stunning for a network owned by a league. Verducci brought journalistic credibility to the proceedings, and Hart brought an executive perspective. They also had an edge over ESPN in that they sent a reporter -- Jon Morosi -- to the ballpark. MLB Network has its foibles, and it still trips and falls over a lot of this "old school vs. new school" debate nonsense, but I felt like MLB Net was speaking to me like not only a baseball fan, but a reasonable adult.
Conversely, there was ESPN. Now, there are parts of this story that ESPN is to be commended on, particularly the work of reporter TJ Quinn. ESPN's journalistic credentials -- often so expertly showcased on the soon-to-be-dumped-to-ESPN2 Outside the Lines -- were on full display Monday. However, much of ESPN's faux-outrage, "Embrace Debate" worst was also there for all to see.
The network spent much of the night (which was already fully staffed due to a Yankees-Rangers broadcast) channeling what I can only imagine is the rage they assumed everyone had about it. Karl Ravech is as good as Kenny when it comes to hosting and presenting the facts clearly, but it was almost as if analyst Barry Larkin wasn't listening to him.
Larkin, a Hall of Famer in his third season at ESPN, took a somewhat similar position to the one I espoused earlier -- that Braun's statement was not satisfactory -- but went about it in the wrong way. He demanded "answers" and "specifics" seemingly dozens of times. He seemed completely baffled by the entire situation, and he sounded in over his head. Curt Schilling similarly was gasping for air, but spent much of his time railing against Braun for his misdeeds. One man repeatedly calling for specifics, and another just being angry, doesn't make for good or compelling television.
Then, perhaps worst of all, you had Ravech's one-on-one with ESPN reporter Buster Olney, who more or less spent his time on the air making a laundry list of people and entities that Braun needs to apologize to. Everyone from the Arizona Diamondbacks (whom Braun, it appears, performed against in the 2011 NLDS while on PEDs) to people in Milwaukee who had eaten at Braun's restaurant.
Olney was going for the kill and it was the wrong approach. To just yell about various sources that Ryan Braun should apologize to is an inappropriate response insofar as engaging the viewer. If you're just going to name things and people he should apologize to, you're going down an endless rabbit hole of slippery slope arguments. It's things like this that get ESPN compared, unfavorably, to the worst of cable television's political punditry.
A more reasoned opinion that expressed anger came from analyst Rick Sutcliffe. Sutcliffe, calling the Yankees-Rangers game for ESPN, was emotional, but never rose his voice to the point of shouting. He had spoken to Braun face-to-face in the offseason and had been flat-out lied to. He had every right to call Braun out for not being forthright, because he had been lied to on a personal level. He, perhaps as much as anyone Olney listed, deserved an apology.
There will be more of these postmortem broadcasts in the days to come. Alex Rodriguez's penalties are going to be a whole 'nother can of worms. I hope both networks will stick to the best of their instincts (MLB Network's approach from the studio and on-site analysts, mixed with ESPN's journalistic integrity) when that -- and supposedly more and more of these cases -- are revealed. Steroid fatigue is a real thing, but it doesn't mean that this subject can't be covered the right way.
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Mobsters act out shooting of a different kind
July 22, 2004
Dissatisfied with the way Russian television serials depict the underworld, real-life mobsters shot their own show, which a television channel is broadcasting.
The program, called Spets, was shot by Vitaly Dyomochka, the owner of a shady car market who was sentenced several times for his activities. Everything in the show is designed to be genuine, with gangsters playing their own roles. Only the police are played by professional actors.
To make sure everything was true to real mob life as he sees it, Dyomochka wrote the script, produced the show, shot it, played the leading part and even composed the score.
The serial tells the true story of how gangsters a few years ago robbed a train cargo of Japanese cars that passed through Ussuriisk, a city of 150,000 near the Pacific port of Vladivostok.
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These animal rights advocacy ads come from, which is a group that works to protect animals from a variety of risks. They also have a program that helps to find homes for stray dogs.
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0.030972 | <urn:uuid:5324c6c0-fc68-48cb-bae2-1d1b326ec448> | en | 0.983082 | Wenger insists Arsenal always chasing new signings
Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger insists he tried right to the final minute of the summer market to bring in new signings.
"If you push that too far, there are no rules any more," said Wenger.
"Once you get to the prices mentioned on the TV or in the newspapers, where is the logic? There is too much destabilisation.
"What is worrying for me is that a player signs somewhere and then the next day he does not even know where he has signed. You cannot say that is a good trend.
Wenger continued: "Football is not a supermarket, we have to all understand that.
"You cannot come out and say 'we pay £250,000-a-week to Ronaldo and £135million', when the player has a six-year contract with Manchester United. It is not possible or acceptable.
"There is money in the game, and I take it in a positive way - but the football bodies have to make sure that money is ruled properly and used well for the ethics of the game.
"I always did fight for my whole life for the players to make as much money as possible, but you also have to respect what football is.
"It came out from the roots of the country through local communities who identified themselves with their team, and we have to be careful not to destroy that."
Wenger insists Arsenal worked hard to bring in at least one more player before the window closed.
As well as Xabi Alonso, rated at £16million by Liverpool, Rennes midfielder Stephane M'Bia and Juventus youngster Sebastian Giovinco were both reported targets.
The Gunners boss said: "It was not just down to money.
"With some players, their clubs said they would not be ready to sell the player. That is the basic rule of the game."
Wenger added: "The problem I have at the moment is to convince people that the players I have will develop and that every day we are a stronger team."
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0.040339 | <urn:uuid:a5de49cf-e953-4b84-9918-9a2feba592ec> | en | 0.979123 | Listen to a portion of Northwest Flight 188's audio transmission
For more audio and to read transcripts, visit the FAA.
When the pilots of Northwest Airlines Flight 188 finally responded to attempts to make radio communication, they weren't long on explanations.
"Ah, roger, ah, we got, ah, distracted, and we've over flown, ah, Minneapolis," one of the Northwest pilots said, according to transcripts released Friday by the Federal Aviation Administration. "We're are (sic) over head Eau Claire and would like to make a one-eighty and do arrival from Eau Claire."
The Airbus A320, carrying 144 passengers, was flying from San Diego to Minneapolis-St. Paul on Oct. 22 when air traffic controllers lost radio contact. The plane flew past its destination at full speed and at a high altitude, and was out of communication for about 75 minutes.
Once an air traffic controller did make contact with the flight at about 8 that evening, the controller asked, "Do you have time to give a brief explanation of what happened?"
The Northwest flight responds, "Ah, (just) cockpit distraction, that's all I can say."
Capt. Timothy Cheney, 53, and First Officer Richard Cole, 54, have had their pilot's licenses revoked by the FAA and they are suspended from their jobs with Delta Air Lines, the parent company of Northwest.
Later in the Oct. 22 transcripts, when they're asked again about the distraction, one of the pilots says, "Ah, we're just dealing with some company issues here, and that's all, ah, that's all ... I can tell you right now at this time."
As the plane turned around to head back to the Twin Cities, an air traffic controller is heard saying, "I just have to verify that the cockpit is secure." The pilot responds, "It is secure. We got distracted."
Controllers on the ground were concerned about the worst-case scenario — that the plane had been hijacked and that the pilots weren't really in control.
To be safe, flight controllers asked the pilots to execute a series of turns on their way back to the Twin Cities. Fighter jets were being prepared to scramble and check out the plane in flight when contact was finally made and the plane turned around.
Ultimately, the plane landed safely at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, about an hour past its scheduled arrival.
The air traffic controllers' attempts to call the aircraft, and the response from Flight 188 once it was reached, "was kind of what I expected," said Craig Boehne, president of the air traffic controllers union in the Twin Cities. But he added that "it was kind of unusual that he said there was a cockpit distraction and he wouldn't elaborate."
Several aviation experts initially theorized that both pilots had fallen asleep, though Cheney and Cole deny that.
After the flight, Cheney and Cole told investigators they were both on their laptop computers, looking at Delta's new scheduling software for pilots, discussing that and other changes related to the recent merger of the two airlines.
A preliminary report from the National Transportation Safety Board noted that the pilots said they didn't monitor calls from controllers "even though both stated they heard conversation on the radio."
On Oct. 22, before Twin Cities air traffic controllers regained contact with the plane, they radioed controllers in Denver, which Flight 188 had gone over.
"Were you working that Northwest 188 that was nordo (no radio)?," the Minneapolis controller asked. The Denver controller said he had just sat down and had not worked the Northwest flight.
Minutes later, air traffic controllers in Sioux Falls, S.D., and the Twin Cites also were talking, trying to figure out what was happening with the flight, the transcripts show.
"I just don't know what, what their procedure is if they don't, if they can't talk to anybody. Do they just hold over the airport?" the controller in Sioux Falls asked.
"No, I don't know. I don't know. You can't reach him at all. That's crazy," the Twin Cites controller said.
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Most endeavors develop a vocabulary all their own. Computers and the Internet are no different. Here are some terms that you may encounter as you use the Web.
To use computer code to place something, such as a YouTube video or song, on a Web site or blog. When a video or song is embedded on a page, the user can watch the video or listen to the song without having to leave that page.
Web 2.0
The term refers to the new breed of Web sites and Web services that focus on social networking and user-generated content, such as Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, Wikipedia and blogs. Web 2.0 also describes the shift to Internet-based applications, such as Google Docs, which is a free, Web-based word processing program. With Web 2.0 sites and services, the users are active participants because they post articles, videos or photos instead of just reading what has been written.
Internet meme
Pronounced "meem." Refers to an idea, concept, phrase or other unit of information that spreads quickly from one person to another through the Internet. Some well-known Internet memes include the Numa Numa Dance (a video of a teenager dancing to a pop song), a hoax e-mail about Bill Gates willing to pay money for forwarding the e-mail and a Web site showing hamsters dancing to music.
Flash memory
A kind of storage for camera memory cards, computers and other devices that does not include a traditional hard drive. Because there are no moving parts, flash storage is seen as more durable than traditional hard drives. IPods, other MP3 players and key-chain USB thumb drives all use flash memory, and more laptops are being made with flash memory as storage.
Digital SLR
Stands for "single-lens reflex," a camera design that allows the user to view directly through the lens for more accurate framing and composition. The design also makes it easy to change lenses if you want to use a specialty lens. These specialty lenses are larger, so the overall cameras tend to be heavier. The cameras are more expensive and, as an added benefit, they typically do not have a long lag time between shots.
A device that plugs into a laptop computer, typically through a USB connection or PC card slot that uses a cell phone signal to provide high-speed Internet access. The devices allow users to have Internet access without relying on Wi-Fi hotspots. They are sold by cell phone companies, and they require a monthly service plan. AirCard is a registered trademark of Sierra Wireless.
Web widget
A piece of computer code used to create an item on a Web page, such as a poll, advertising, search box, news headlines or photo slide show. Widgets are embedded on Web pages. Yahoo, Microsoft and Google also offer desktop widgets, which have similar functions. (Microsoft and Google call them "gadgets.")
An Internet meme where funny captions are placed on pictures of cats. The captions typically include misspelled words and bad grammar to give the appearance of how a cat might speak. The most popular source of Lolcats is the site I Can Has Cheezburger (
A computer program that is added on to enhance an existing program, such as a Web browser or e-mail program.
Common plug-ins are media players for Web browsers, such as Adobe's Flash player.
"Short Message Service," technology for sending messages back and forth between devices, especially cell phones. Sometimes used interchangeably with "text message."
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What Second Life should learn from Myst
Summary: A lot of people ask me what I think about Second Life. I'm not going to pull any punches.
I'm not going to pull any punches. It's boring.
[Here comes the hate mail]
The reason it is so boring is that I believe it owes a lot about what it means to be immersive from the original CD-ROM game Myst, without learning any of the lessons Myst taught us. Now I'm sure a lot of gen-xboxers will think that I'm crazy comparing some boring old game where there are no guns and you can't blow anything up to this new "live" environment where there are no rules and everything can be whatever you want it to be. But then again, you probably have forgotten how much computer technology has changed since it first debuted 14 years ago (yes that's right...it didn't originally come out in 2003). What hasn't changed in that time is the one thing that makes all virtual worlds worth exploring...a great story (Halo anyone?).
In 1993 I popped the first version of Myst into the CD-ROM drive of my Macintosh IIvx, turned out the lights, put on some headphones, and...
I had never been so completely immersed in anything...not books, not music, not film. For the first time I was brought into something where I controlled the narrative...I was not just an observer...I was the story.
Just to give you some context to how different things were then, here's some excerpts from a 1994 Wired article by Jon Carroll:
"Myst is a phenomenon like no other in the world of CD-ROM. That's not a remarkable statement; CD-ROM is too new to have already had many phenomena. Mostly it's had complaints and dire predictions -- it's too slow, it's too expensive, it's too clunky. Junk has been hurled onto the market; every fast-buck artist with a pressing machine and access to fancy graphics has been throwing stuff against the wall and hoping some of it turns into money. As of the end of 1993, there were only about 3.5 million CD-ROM drives in private hands, according to InfoTech, a market research firm in Woodstock, Vermont. The Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous Cookbook is just not the computer application America is interested in..."
"...The textures in Myst are important: light reflecting off dull metal; door handles and wall hangings; the grain of the wood; the deep shadows in narrow passageways. There is lots of animation, but mostly it does not dazzle; it is like careful writing, always furthering the plot or the mood. There are no dialog boxes, no reminders of the hand of the creators. There is only the creation..."
"...People do not die in Myst, nor are they killed; yet it is sometimes a very scary game. There is no way to get trapped in Myst; yet it can induce uneasy feelings of panic in the unwary. It's as harmless as a walk in the woods, which is to say, not harmless at all..."
What made Myst revolutionary is that it brought an exploration of space, with an emotional attachment. Who was I? Why was I here? It presented me with a mystery that only I could solve. It had purpose. At times, it was able to fill you with a sense of dread...without showing the monster in the darkness. Like all great scary movies...the scariest part...is what lies within your own mind.
And while we have the power to explore and discover in Second Life...Second Life has no narrative. It has no soul. It is an unruly chaos without any mythology...without a real story that I can wrap myself around in. With all of its residents...and all that they've built...it feels very empty and leaves me feeling cold and detached.
And the thing is...I really want to like Second Life. Alternate reality is something I've dreamt of since I read my first Philip K. Dick book when I was a teenager. But it currently lacks an emotional quality, and that keeps me disconnected from it.
Myst changed the way we thought of interaction and what it meant to be immersive. It changed the way we thought about design, narrative, sound, and video. It inspired my life, and I'm sure countless other programmers, designers, and illustrators. It wasn't just how it looked...it was that it made you "feel." Like the mashups we create today, Myst was a mashup of the technologies available at the time. There were no tools built to accomplish what they set out to do...yet they created a realistic virtual world from whatever they could piece together at the time (I hear it was bailing twine and spit).
But beyond the technical aspects of what they accomplished, it was the artistic aspect of Myst that I still feel influences a lot of what we see today. Myst taught us that interaction had to have emotional depth...and this is the problem with Second Life.
While there are no "rules" and the world is largely capable of anything the users wish it to be or do...it is that lack of structure that makes me not care. It simply isn't enough to buy a piece of virtual land and put something on it. Without story, without mythology, without a living and progressing narrative...without goals and dreams...what's the point?
Buying a giant virtual penis for your avatar is not the same as a narrative that removes us from who we are and explores who we might be... through mystery, a quest, or a challenge.
I owe a lot of my career to Rand and Robyn Miller (the creators of Myst). We've never met, I've never spoken to them...but they changed my life in a profound way and set me on a path that I follow to this day. And what I learned from that experience has stuck with everything I've done for the past 14 years. So it makes me wonder...how did Linden Labs miss this?
And maybe in time this will all be moot...maybe the Lindens will change that world...will work together to build something I can care about, but for right now...it just feels like an emotionally void space in need of a good narrator to tie it together and give it all meaning. Where are the Bradbury's of Second Life?
I think Jon Carroll may have said it best in that 1994 Wired piece when he wrote:
"Moral co-evolution; that's one thing that's happening. Like others before them (Dante, Milton, Blake), the Millers encountered their dark sides even while searching for the light. They discovered the fascination of danger and disgrace. The universe of Myst may be miraculous, but it is not benign. The tale embedded in the game of Myst has several endings; the official "right ending" represents the triumph of The Good Father, but it is ultimately not very interesting. The "wrong" ending is much more fun and much more cathartic. Soon there will be another world to create, and the lesson of Dante will still apply: Paradise can get tiresome; Inferno is where the action is. Was there art in Eden before the apple was eaten? Maybe not."
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• Excellent observations.
Somehow I've found myself immune to the supposed allure of such things as Second Life. I spent probably 10 minutes in it and left yawning. But I know [i]exactly[/i] what you're talking about with regard to Myst. It provided that full immersion experience that leveraged multimedia (particularly sound!) to bring that emotional attachment. I, too, turned off the lights when I popped in the CD... then I played it three days straight until I finished it. No point in working.
One of the factors I think is essential for virtual [i]anything[/i] is that it be better than real life. Myst provided that with a surreal fantasy world that was nonetheless credible.
In the late 90s I was shown a virtual world that a colleague of mine was working on. It was a virtual art museum. Huge galleries with paintings on the walls, etc. My criticism at the time that it didn't improve on a real art gallery; in fact it was measurably worse. If you're dealing with 2D art, then a 3D environment adds nothing. There's no advantage to having to walk in real time down a long virtual hallway over scrolling a list of thumbnails or popping directly to a webpage as a result of a search. Even with sculpture, having to walk around a piece isn't better. I have to do that in a real museum. To improve on reality, I'd be allowed to pick the item up and examine it while an arbitrary number of other people do the same thing. No waiting. So a 3D Quicktime scan is just the ticket. I'm not sure my colleague really appreciated the criticism, but he did at least put in hyperlinks for "teleportation". (I note that the URL is still in use with a more traditional web design.)
For similar reasons I seriously don't see how Second Life improves on reality. Merely substituting for reality isn't enough by half. I can think of countless more abstract but better ways to handle personal interactions, moving products, or playing games.
Can they fix that? As long as they attempt to model another world instead of a better one, I'd say no.
• Misleading Assumptions about Second Life
I think you are missing the point on what Second Life really is. Second Life is not a
game. It's a platform.
Linden Lab is building the backend of a network. Just like the internet was built.
If Second Life is boring to you, it's not any different to say that an operating
system is boring without applications.
Second Life is not about creating narratives, it's about creating the core of a main
stream metaverse infrastructure open to developers to build on. It is yet a
primitive stage for a fully elaborate game to be created within SL but you could
very well see an entire Myst World within Second Life by the end of the decade.
Just don't expect Linden Lab to create it, it's not the company's mission.
• He didn't miss the point at all
SL has about as much soul as current RL; which is to say, little to none.
That's not to say that it might not evolve a soul. But if it's used just as a venue for advertising or politicing, well, thanks, but it will be yesterday's news tomorrow.
• What Alan Graham Should Learn About Storytelling
Alan makes some interesting observations but has missed the basic understanding of what Second Life is. Second Life isn't a game to be compared to Myst or any other game wherein a story is told, or rather an interactive story is told that the reader can participate in.
Second Life is the blank page on which people write their own stories. The alphabet of Second Life is the program that Linden Lab provides (singular lab by the way Alan). The language is the fabric of reality that residents created prior to your arrival in world. It's up to you to write the story or to simply interface with the language provided and "play" as you did as a child.
In my case I turned my attention to creating and running a successful sub-continent of sims where those SLers who love sailing and golf can come and play out their dreams and exercise their skills to play golf and race sail boats.
They say a good story has character arc. Believe me, my character has been developing an arch of successes and failures for two years now that keep him coming back for more. They say a good game should provide a goal that is attainable but only with great effort. Will my Holly Kai Golf Courses succeed to become one of the truly profitable businesses in Second Life that doesn't involve land sales or sex? I don't know. But I can tell you that I sure as hell am not bored as I watch this facinating story unfold before my eyes on a daily basis.
Like Alan I was blown away when I first played Myst in a beta release in 1992. Subsequently I have listed Myst as one of those games that changed computer gaming. It was a watershed. However to compare a blank page to a watershed story is to miss the mark. Alan, bring your avatar to Holly Kai. Meet some of the people. Play some golf. Get involved in someone else's life. Find other incredible stories being written on this 21st Century electronic tabula rasa. This isn't about mining gold or looking for McGuffins, it's about life, your SECOND life. I can't wait to see where mine takes me next.
• Friction in narrative
Interesting post! It got me thinking about the role of "friction" in satisfying narratives.
Narrative is a tool with which we construct our identity through time, in relation to the world around us. People have traditionally constructed those narratives within a world that imposes very material limitations upon them; yet it is in the often arduous process of transcending those limitations that we find wisdom, authenticity and fulfillment.
So for me, it is as much the lack of narrative friction as the lack of a ready-made "?ber narrative" per se that makes Second Life seem so empty, despite all of its surface complexity and invention.
• Depends on the virtual world
There's one virtual world with over 8 million subscribers and counting and that's real money, not people trying out 2nd life for a day.
The reason World of Warcraft offers all that Second Life doesn't is due to it being more interesting than mundane real life - not a vapid low-res clone. The highpoint of second life is that some people are making money out of selling virtual real estate - exciting isn't it?
WoW on the other hand offers an immersive, interesting, varied and very beautiful virtual world that offers multiple motivations (and multiple games) for playing. It's so good people are worrying about it being addictive. Unlike the real world, it depends solely on your skills and intelligence and it's designed and updated by very creative people with a monthly revenue that must be around $100 million.
So if you really want a virtual world, try WoW - fantasy is always a little more interesting than reality.
There is one immersive virtual world with over 5 billion players - each of whom is constantly on-line and constantly playing the game. The physical and communication interfaces are integrated and completely natural. The physics-based animation is 3-D, real-time, and consequential. The game rules are stiff and unforgiving - you get only one "life" to play the game; you die - the game is finished. The style of the game is a combination of every role-playing game ever created or ever to be created or can never be created. Interactions between avatars can have a wide variety of consequences for the actors and bystanders - concrete, subtle, intellectual, emotional, spiritual, inspirational, depressing, heroic, cowardly, deadly, life-giving, or in any combination.
The problem with Second Life is that it is such a pale imitation of and an inadequate substitute for First Life. Second Life is not worth the effort required to give it content, ambience, and richness. Second Life offers nothing more than the induced delusions portrayed in Matrix.
Myst - for all its artistic and entertaining achievements - was never intended to be more than a temporary diversion (albeit, an engaging one).
This is not a flippant "Get a life!" It is a soulful petition to take the time, energy, and creativity poured into Second Life and put it into First Life - which is, truly, the only Life.
• Therapeutic value of Second Life?
I have just returned from a conference held by OCTIA (Online counselling and therapy association) where Second Life was discussed. Some of the delegates are big fans argueing that Second Life can offer therapists and clients an interactive space to work. Clients can play with identity via the creation of avatars; therapists can create 'safe'and I have to admit, very beautiful spaces in which to carry out the work. There are some ethical issues - for example confidentiality and the lack of encryption in the chat spaces, but netherless some are very excited. Some have begun to buy real estate in order to sell/rent to other counsellors. Others have set up virtual training spaces.
I have yet to be convinced. It certainly wouldnt work with most of the people we support (mainly children and adolescents for whom second life is a real no go area...safeguarding alerts abound) and unless you are a seasoned gamer I dont think it would work for many counsellors either. There is also the issue of verification too; how can clients be sure that their therapist is qualified?
But there are positive lessons we can draw from the platform too. I have some ideas of my own. But I am interested to know what others think....do you think that SL is or could be a perfect place to carry out therapy and counselling?
• Totally Agree....
I tried Second Life and I found BORING!. After I got there, my question was: Now what do I do?
Myst was, and still is, one of my all time favorite games. Second Life may get interesting later, but when? A post above says in a decade or so, but who wants to wait that long?
Unless Second Life does get a life of it's own, it will remain an impressive, but boring world to not play in.
linux for me
• Why Second Life Is Boring, one reason
Part of the reason Second Life is so boring is that the virtual world might be because it is being invented by boring people.
I spent a few hours in Second Life on a few occasions. I found it tedious and boring. In my experience, your typical techno-gaming geek is not a particularly creative nor deep person but tends to fall in love with anything new for the sake of it being new and techno-geeky.
I think the people who seek a Second Life may well be inept at their first life and so hope to fill that gap by creating a second life for themselves.
The thing is, if one is weak at living one's first life, cannot find anything creative and intense about real life and seeks refuge in an imaginary world, it is not all that likely that their Second Life will be any more profound or interesting than their first life.... the one they seek to escape virtually.
I doubt that Second Life will amount to much but a novelty for geeks to mess with unless it become real easy to use.. and so compelling that some truly creative and "deep" people take up residence.
As it stands now, it is boring.
• What is Second Life
Second life is not a game nor does it have a pre set story line. Second life to me is like the movie the Never Ending Story, It is a place to create your dreams and live out your adventure. You might like Myst and that is fine but with Second Life you make your own adventure and create your own world to go with the story that you wish to play. Second Life is not about playing it?s about creating.
There are some who goto Second Life to play and get disappointed very fast but many more go to create something and they love what they can do. If you?re the type of person who just want?s to visit a place and expect to have fun then Second Life may not be for you but if your looking for adventure Second Life might be what you are looking for, there is so much to do and see you just have to find the right places to visit which makes the adventure all that much more fun.
• Second Life is not a game
However there are games within the virtual world, SL as a whole is not a game, but rather a vast virtual space for residents/users to create the content that exists within this space. SL along with other virtual worlds that allow users &/or developers to fully create content will be the next evolutionary step of the internet as the technology allows developers to create and host their own simulations. Second Life is only as interesting as "you" make it. So being bored within Sl is very telling of an individuals lack of creativity.
• I am new to Second Life, and...
so far, it has been pretty boring. I haven't spent the time to learn the navigation yet, and I haven't figured out the chat commands, so I can't go anywhere or do anything.
Naturally I find it boring. Anyone would. Once I learn to interact with others, I expect my interest will spike.
As it is, I feel a little bit like I have regressed to childhood, specifically in a "Mom, I'm bored, there's nothing to do!" sort of way. If I knew anyone who played that could walk me through the early stages, I suspect it would make it much more likely that I would spend more time at it.
The concept of a user created world is very exciting to me, actually.
Myst, by contrast, was very very boring, though pretty to look at, to me.
• Second Life Sucks!
I am waiting for the non-comericial version. The one that is not owned by a big company selling add space to everyone. I would also prefer to have "rules" this "no-rules" version is not safe. We need to have the same code of conduct jacked in as when we are not jacked in.
• Myst was an adventure
Myst was a compelling adventure... a relly cool island that was fun to
explore. Second Life is more like my nightmares, at the same time
boring... I won't be going back.
Robert Graham
• Myst was an adventure
Myst was a compelling adventure... a really cool island that was fun to
boring... I won't be going back.
Robert Graham
• SL is the MEDIUM, not the CONTENT
Yeah, that's swell...so what you are saying is that Linden Labs should have spent years and years and tons of dollars creating CONTENT? The idea is that the Lindens created the "Player"...and that the participants create the content. You, by saying what you say, are akin to someone who complains about the content of a PDF file by saying that Adobe didn't create Acrobat to be entertaining enough.
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• You provide the story
In any roleplaying environment, the point is not to get through a predetermined plot spoon-fed to you by the game's creators, but to devise one of your own. That said, boring and unimaginative fellow players can ruin a good roleplay on any platform, and by all accounts there are plenty of those in Second Life. Maybe you just need to find the right people to play with.
• Myst Online: Uru Live: Ha, you can only dream about flying.
Quoting people who liked older Myst games doesn't make the current version of
Myst any better; it just shows that you're stuck in the past.
I've been reviewing Myst Online: Uru Live for the last week. It's a disgrace.
Second Life scares the weak and the unimaginative. You can do anything, create
anything, and your success or failure is always public. But it's not a closed-minded
world. It's not a dictatorship like Myst. It's not a sterile, lifeless, void like Myst. In
Second Life, you can actually do something other than the trivial one programmed
course forward.
That makes it all worthwhile.
• What Myst needs to learn from Second Life, There, and Activeworlds.
I loved Myst. I loved Riven. But I just tried out the latest incarnation of the system. Uru Online. This is supposed to bring together Myst and the online world. I guess you'll be able to cooperate on solving puzzles or something.
It's fully 3d, like modern MMORPGs, but your movement is restricted just as much as in Myst... you can't climb a waist-high wall, or jump it, you have to solve a puzzle to get past it... but you still have to navigate as if you were in a genuinely 3d environment.
The graphics quality is good, but it's not blowaway beautiful as it was in the original Myst... it can't be, they still can't do real-time ray-tracing. Even the simple puzzles are harder, because you have to maneuver around using a user interface designed for a completely different game.
And even though you're "online", you can't interact with anyone except bots without buying a subscription.
The point of an online game is to be online. Without being able to interact with humans, you simply can't tell if the game's going to be good or bad. A trial period that puts you into an environment that's less attractive than the original Myst? I spent three hours downloading and waiting for stuff to load and wandering around the desert... and my impression? They owe me those three hours back. | http://www.zdnet.com/blog/web2explorer/what-second-life-should-learn-from-myst/343 | dclm-gs1-190680002 | false | false | {
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HTC glory days: Remembering the first phablet and Windows hybrid
Summary: The Mobile World Congress had a lot of shiny goodies, and they triggered a trip down memory lane. Most people don't remember that years ago HTC brought us the first large phone and the first Windows hybrid computer.
HTC has been struggling of late, trying with one Android phone after another to recover its former top position in the smartphone space. It isn't working for the company so far, but looking back at past innovation from HTC, don't count them out yet.
Shift and Advantage
HTC Shift and HTC Advantage (Image: James Kendrick/ZDNet)
What most folks don't realize is that HTC gave us not just the first phablet, it also commercially produced the first dual-booting Windows hybrid. Both the HTC Advantage and HTC Shift were released years ago, long before similar products started appearing on store shelves.
For the record, I dislike the term phablet but use it here to avoid confusion what the Advantage set in motion.
HTC Advantage - it's a phone, it's a PDA, it's a phablet
HTC Advantage (Image: HTC)
The year was 2007 and the entire smartphone craze hadn't happened yet. It's the year the iPhone was first announced, and Apple engineers were no doubt scrambling to make the thing work as well as Steve Jobs promised it would.
Until that time, all phones were small things that were used primarily for making phone calls. There wasn't any talk of data nor apps, it was all about talking and texting.
Windows Mobile Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) had been around for a while, but they were not phones. They were small handheld devices with touch screens. The smartphone would eventually kill them off, but at that time Palm and Windows Mobile were selling quite a few of these PDAs.
HTC released the Advantage (known as the Athena in some parts of the world), and it created a lot of buzz. It established several firsts in the burgeoning mobile space, which shows just how innovative it was.
It was the first 5-inch PDA with full phone hardware inside. We all joked about how goofy it was to use a phone that large, as all phones to that point were 3 inches or smaller. It didn't have phone audio capability, so to use the phone you had to do so with a headset. That's exactly what some folks did, setting the Advantage on the table and making/receiving phone calls on a Bluetooth headset.
The HTC Advantage had true 3G, in the form of EVDO. This made it a real data machine before that was commonplace. The handheld could do just about anything that could be done on a computer at that time, as far as connectivity goes.
The integrated GPS in the Advantage turned this little device into an outstanding navigation system.
To make this 'huge' screen work to advantage, HTC sold it with a thin QWERTY keyboard that was truly innovative. The Advantage attached to the keyboard by a magnetic connection, forming a stable little laptop. The keyboard had no battery and was automativally activated when the magnetic connection was made with the Advantage. The thin keyboard acted as a cover for the screen for transport. It connected magnetically for this use, too.
Similar solutions weren't seen commercially for years until third-party keyboards started appearing for the iPad. HTC was way ahead of the curve at the time the Advantage was produced.
I used my HTC Advantage with its cool keyboard for a couple of years, and found it to be very advanced compared to competing products at that time. It was a fantastic Windows Mobile PDA that could be used in a pinch for phone calls, and while the keyboard was very small it was better than other solutions for mobile devices of that period. The persistent 3G connectivity turned the system into a mobile workhorse.
The HTC Advantage didn't gain much traction in the marketplace due to its high price and the fact most consumers weren't open to such a large handheld device. Enthusiasts were willing to put up the cash to buy one but not anyone else.
HTC Shift - it's a laptop, it's a tablet, it's a PDA
HTC Shift
HTC Shift (Image: HTC)
Shortly after impressing pundits with the HTC Advantage, the company decided to pull out all the stops and totally break new ground. The HTC Shift rolled out and impressed nearly everyone who saw it, given all of its unique features.
At first blush, the Shift was a small (7-inch) laptop running Windows Vista. When fully opened, the little keyboard and screen worked together as a real laptop.
The HTC Shift was a slider, meaning the screen 'slid' over the keyboard to assume the laptop position, It could also slide the display to cover the keyboard, turning it into a tablet. This was years before other Windows sliders would appear, a first for HTC.
Windows Vista drove the laptop and tablet functions of the Shift, but it didn't handle touch very well. HTC chose to get around that by also putting Windows Mobile inside the Shift. That turned the device into a 7-inch PDA that had an advantage over Windows solutions.
Windows Mobile, a true mobile OS, was much gentler on the battery than Windows Vista. Battery life was not very good in those days, so having the ability to switch to Windows Mobile on the Shift made it possible to run for hours longer than other products. The Shift could be used for email and PIM functions in Windows Mobile, making the device handy for communications.
HTC also added a feature not seen before on a Windows laptop. The Shift could be set to have the Windows Mobile side periodically check for email while the device was in standby. This was a good use of the device battery and good for the professional user. Wake the device and have new email waiting. It's commonplace today but unheard of in the time period of the Shift.
First phablet, first hybrid: When will HTC bounce back?
HTC has long been a leader when it comes to innovation in the mobile space. That's evident from its producing the first big phone, the first little tablet with persistent connectivity, and the first dual-booting Windows hybrid. While neither of the two devices shown here were commercial successes, it proves the company could think ahead. Now that hardware has evolved, both types of devices are now becoming commonplace.
The HTC Advantage was a capable handheld device. It yielded functionality not found in any gadget that preceded it. While tame compared to phones and tablets of today, there's no telling how it might have evolved if HTC had been able to continue the line.
When you think of the HTC Shift you must think of innovation, as it was as unique as any mobile device ever built. The ability to switch from laptop to tablet in a 7-inch form was a real feat at the time, and having two OSes was a sign of things to come.
What's most impressive about HTC's foresight with the Advantage and Shift is that both types of devices are common now. Large phones and small tablets are all the rage, and hybrid Windows laptops are coming on strong. HTC's first products in these areas predated others by years, a testament to the innovative design team at the company.
With such a track record for pushing the envelope, it's hopeful that HTC will do so again. Just producing more Android phones is not helping the company's financial situation. Maybe it will surprise us in the future as it has in the past, and show us something we don't expect. Something that breaks new ground as it's done in the past. A new gadget with that HTC flair. One can only hope.
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• I dont think its lack of innovation
its just marketing, timing and luck. The HTC One has consistenly been called "the best smartphone". Look at samsung galaxy- are they better than HTC one? Certainly not.
• Word of mouth has
Always been the most effective marketing. So, it's pretty apparent that what tech geek thinks is "best" and what Joe Sixpack, Megan Mom, and Molly the Teen think is "best" is significantly different. Here's a hint: Mr. Tech Geek is addicted to feature porn. Normal people like fun and easy to use.
• "Normal people like fun and easy to use."
No. So called normal people like word of mouth. Most decisions are irrational and based on impressions of others. Why do you think we had megapixel and megahertz races? "Normal" people had impression (true in some cases BTW) that more meant better. For technical person "more" comes with a lot of fine print. For "normal" person "my friend said" is all he/she needs to make the decision.
• Don't think so.
Word of mouth only works if lots of people like the product. That's why it's effective. Your friend recommends something he/she likes, and you know that you like a lot of what he/she likes, so you go ahead and buy it, too. If you also like it, you also recommend it. Now your mutual friend has two recommendations, which carries even more impact. If the product appeals to a large number of people, you get a snowball effect. You get what others enviously call fanbois.
The Megapixel/Megahertz races were an attempt to differentiate your product with a meaningless metric. And it's usually the tech types that fall for it. Witness the people on these forums that actually think a 400 PPI display is better than an Apple Retina display on a smartphone even though your eye cannot tell the difference.
• completely agree and disagree.
Word of mouth doesnt replace a solid marketing spend. Only a few brands have truly suceeded with wom only. Having said that, htc was #1 in the us back in 2011. They lost alot of their momentum with bad wom that had many htc fans abandoning them. This led to reduced marketing as their cash flow dried up and the vicious cycle continues. Htc is a shadow of their former selves, mainly due to poor executive leadership, abandoning the brand that made them great (leading edge tech made for YOU) and poor product decisions until the launch of the One, which was too little too late by that point.
• I wish well to HTC
I'm on my 3rd HTC smartphone and I really like their products and wish to be able to keep on buying them for a long time to come.
I started with an HTC Touch Dual running Windows Mobile 6.1 and loved it.
I then switched to an HTC Incredible S running Android 2.2/2.3, HTC Sense really is the best interface added to Android, I can't stand Samsung's Android interface (Touchwiz I think). Besides HTC Sense I can only tolerate straight Android (Nexus).
I'm now on an HTC 8X running Windows Phone 8 and like it.
• HTC Advantage
Wow Jim! This article covering the HTC Advantage brings back memories. That was when I first started following your posts. I still have my Advantage with extra battery and Windows Mobile 6.5!!
• Or not.
I hope they can pull it off. Innovation is good but not always rewarded.
Treo, which had WinMobile and PalmOS phones going back to 2003 was bought out by Palm (with its own innovative history) which was subsequently bought out by HP (which has had a number of innovative products). But ultimately Palm and Treo both died.
OQO, which introduced the 5" Windows XP/Vista laptop (with a slider keyboard and Wacom stylus) that weighed a pound and could fit in your pocket. Models were available with mobile data (but no voice). Nobody bought the product and it's now dead too.
Unfortunately the masses respond better to innovative advertisements than they do to innovative hardware.
• A lot of people answer well to innovation
until they see the price tag that comes along with a first generation item of an innovative design. Most people end up going for the next generation at an affordable price, even if when that comes along the company with the original innovation is dead.
• Being able to deliver something cool at a reasonable
price is also innovation.
• ooohhh...
... the old purple, wiggly screensaver!
... need ... him ... back ...
• reliability and upgrades!
I've owned a couple of HTC phones in the past. I always liked what they built. Including the fact that they were one of the first to start using normal USB connectors for charging and data transfer.
But...the hardware was not the most reliable, as measured by a two year service contract, and they were terrible about providing timely (if any) software upgrades and even bug fixes. Why would I want to repeat that experience?
• I've been using the words "data on a phone" for so long...
... that I guess these devices were never that impressive to me. I had the Kyocera QCP-6035 back in what... '01 or '02? And a raft of Windows CE and then Windows Mobile phones after that before I finally discovered the Palm Pre (now THAT THING was AMAZING for its time, and the developer and user communities were incredible) and later, the iPhone which wrapped it all up nicely.
I'll admit that as a user of the ZaggKeys Cover for the iPad mini, realizing the truest vision of what these devices set out to accomplish allows me to enjoy the mini (which I'm typing on right now) SO much more fully than I ever would with the device just hanging out in front of me all by itself. But other than that, the rest didn't seem that impressive to me. Perhaps it did and I just don't remember.
• Back in 1998
I thought adding a phone to the Psion series 5 would be great -text and email and WAP would have been amazing. Sadly, Psion died after creating The netbook. Nokia took up the banner and created the 9500 line of communicators, and Jobs is said to have owned one, but it took Jobsian cash to have one back then so it too died. Innovation succeeds when you have scale to bring it in at the same cost or less of your less innovative competitors. The next line of innovation will be always on unobtrusive devices that listen in to you and conversations and reads your texts and emails and organize your day and communications like an assistant that shadows you. It may be an inside the ear device that talks to a smartphone. | http://www.zdnet.com/htc-glory-days-remembering-the-first-phablet-and-windows-hybrid-7000026809/ | dclm-gs1-190700002 | false | false | {
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Studio album by Gwar
Released September 11, 1988
Recorded 1988
Genre Hardcore punk
Length 38:31
Shimmy Disc Records
S.010.CS (Cassette)
SDE 8910/CD 08-025221-10 (CD)
Metal Blade Records
3984-14004-2, CDZORRO 35 (Remastered CD)
Producer Mark Kramer
Gwar chronology
Scumdogs of the Universe
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 3/5 stars [1]
Hell-o! is the debut album by Gwar. The album was released in 1988, on Shimmy Disc Records.
Gwar's angle on the album is that of a morbid punk band (a la The Mentors, The Misfits, Butthole Surfers) obsessed with debauchery, violence and toilet humor. The songs generally support the theme of the group quite well, expanding the band's concept to comic proportions and supporting the back story.
The band play sooth-sayers to the United States ("Americanized" and "Ollie North") and modern human civilization in general ("Slutman City"), who have come to torture and enslave Earth for their own perverse sadistic pleasures ("Time For Death", "Bone Meal", "War Toy", "I'm In Love (With a Dead Dog)" - a tender episode in canine-alien relations). Like Superman, Gwar seem to enjoy superhuman powers on Earth, having their way with anyone and everyone they come across. However, they are not without enemies - a character known as Techno-Destructo has followed the band to Earth to recruit (or enslave) them to serve "The Master" in a holy jihad against the universe ("Techno's Song"). Don Drakulich plays Techno on the album (the part would soon be taken over by Hunter Jackson). Other songs follow similarly crazy themes - the "Gwar Theme" is a car-eating anthem, "Je M' Appelle J. Cousteau" features famous aquanaut Jacques-Yves Cousteau in a Dada-esque romp, and "AEIOU" disputes whether the English alphabet is the property of Satan or Gor-Gor (another Gwar character who would later surface in the song/video of the same name). "Rock N' Roll Party Town", the first song ever written by the band, concludes the album in scenes of rock debauchery vaguely reminiscent of Kiss (of whom the band, with their showmanship and larger-than-life personas, seemed to be an 80s underground version). The original vinyl album contained a comic book about the band, featuring artwork parodying Picasso's Guernica (renamed "Gwarnica" here) and poking fun at the "this is your brain on drugs" commercials ("This is your brain on Gwar..."). The album's cover art features the band gleefully terrorizing Earthlings (particularly skinheads, who would attend the band's early shows and harass them with heckling, violence and throwing food, such as toast, onstage) and bulldozing their bodies into ditches (a reference to the Nazi concentration camps in World War II).
The album is a divisive point among fans of the band, who generally love it or hate it. Hell-O is the least-frequently played album in concert and discussed by the band in interviews, although this could be because the band's line-up has changed to the point where no one from this period is still in the band (save lead singer Dave "Oderus Urungus" Brockie). "Gwar Theme" and "Pure As The Arctic Snow" are the two songs most often played live (though they are rare in appearance), and occasionally, the band will play a medley of songs from the album, ranging anywhere from 3 songs to (more recently) 12 songs, which is more than half the album.
Musically and conceptually, the record fits in with and came from the arty 80s noise rock or "scum rock" scene (Butthole Surfers, Pussy Galore, early Ween) with similarities to grunge (Tad, Mudhoney), funny punk (Meatmen, Angry Samoans, Dead Milkmen, Happy Flowers, Nig-Heist), punk (The Mentors, The Misfits, Black Flag, Samhain), hardcore (Dead Kennedys, Bad Brains, Ministry) and heavy metal (M.O.D., S.O.D., Slayer). This last genre would be where the band would move on later releases (similar to the transition Suicidal Tendencies underwent between first and second albums). As such, when the album was released on CD, it was remastered (possibly remixed) to bring out the bass and make the production smoother. However, the original vinyl release finds the band squarely in the punk or indie rock universe. In this context, producer Kramer's work on the album makes sense.
On the other side of the fence, detractors of the album criticize its raw production. Chuck Varga, who played The Sexecutioner, recently posted on Gwar fan page Bohab Central that he was so disgusted with the sound quality of the recording that he walked out of the session after hearing a few tracks. "I know the band's music and it sounded much better than it did on Hello," he said, going on to say that producer Mark Kramer "didn't care how Gwar sounded" and "gave us one of the most embarrassingly recorded LP's in history." The [low] quality of the production is further indicated by the length of the recording session - the course of a single weekend. However, consensus across the board is that the album wasn't as bad as We Kill Everything (an album especially reviled by Dave Brockie and Michael Derks).
Shimmy Disc released "Hell-O!" on cassette and on vinyl 33 format. The vinyl album was produced in regular black vinyl and a limited rare red vinyl. The rare red vinyl album was limited to 500 copies. The European Shimmy Disc release of Hell-O! features a bonus track, "Black And Huge," found on Gwar's next album, Scumdogs of the Universe. The song found on some copies of Hell-O! is an earlier version (originally recorded to be released as a single on Sub Pop records), and is the first Gwar song to feature Michael Derks as a member (having replaced Stephen Douglas as BalSac The Jaws of Death). The remastered Metal Blade release of the album does not feature this song. This version of the song fits in with Hell-O! more than it does with Scumdogs, as the guitars are not tuned down a half-step, and the tempo is faster (and Oderus' vocals are more of the singing style from this album). A video for the track was also filmed and included on the TVD and The Next Mutation video collections.
Track listing[edit]
No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. "Timè for Deäth" Dave Brockie 2:44
2. "AEIOU" Brockie/Douglas 1:25
3. "Americànized" Brockie/Douglas 1:36
4. "I'm in Löve (With a Deåd Dog)" Brockie/Dewey Rowell/Mike Bishop/Steve Douglas 2:32
5. "Slütmañ City" Brockie/Unknown 3:49
6. "World O Filth" Brockie/Bishop 1:14
7. "War Toy" Brockie/Rowell 2:22
8. "Cåptain Crünch" Brockie/Rowell/Bishop 3:52
9. "Püre as the Årctic Snôw" Brockie/Unknown 2:27
10. "Je M'Appelle J. Cöusteaü" Brockie/Rowell/Bishop 3:07
11. "Gwar Theme" Brockie/Douglas 2:26
12. "Bône Meal" Brockie 0:42
13. "Öllie North" Brockie/Bishop 1:55
14. "Techno's Song" Hunter Jackson/Brockie/Douglas 3:44
15. "U Ain't Shit" Brockie/Douglas 1:19
16. "Rock & Roll Pärty Töwn" Brockie/Douglas 3:10
17. "Black and Huge" (Import versions) Brockie/Douglas 2:16
• When the beginning of the song "Öllie North" is played backwards, the actual beginning of the song happens to be a slurred rendition of a part of the bridge to Careless Whisper.
• The Dutch release of this album contains the bonus track "Black & Huge" as track 17. Early cassette & the vinyl releases also include the song "Black & Huge".
• Originally this album, Scumdogs of the Universe and America Must Be Destroyed were the only Gwar albums to be released on vinyl. This changed with the recent releases of Lust in Space and Bloody Pit of Horror on picture discs.
• In 2004, this was supposed to be re-released with Scumdogs of the Universe on DRT, but that never came to pass.
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From "The Confederate Voice" Issue 1-2
The SLRC strongly believes this case should continue. The facts start in 2003- 9 years ago, the lawsuit itself was filed in 2006- it has gone to the 4th circuit twice - now probably for the last time. Basically Candice wore several innocuous Confederate heritage shirts to school in both Middle & High School - never caused a disruption - but she was repeatedly targeted, suspended, including being punished for wearing dissent or protest shirts with no Confederate flags on them.
The precise reason for the length of time this case has taken is simple: Judge Tom Wooten, a judge mentored by Strom Thurmond, will not follow the law or facts in the case - he will rule for the school every chance he gets - even if he ticks off the 4th Circuit in doing so.
We hit the school and the judge pretty hard at the 4th Circuit - and got the Judges bad decision reversed because Wooten embarrassingly forgot to rule on the protest shirts - ( shirts the school banned that had NO Confederate flags on them). The 4th Circuit did all it could - sent it back to Wooten to rule on the protest shirts - we had another hearing in Florence and Wooten did as we predicted - dismissed everything this time.
Now it ALL goes back to the 4th Circuit - a circuit that has ruled favorably for us before and favorably in one other Confederate flag case. We have excellent facts, NO disruptions caused by the Confederate flag ever since 2003, and very minimal racial problems - for any reason - facts conceded by the Defendants. Their whole position boils down to:
"It's just racist and because of racism & segregation 50-60 years ago and because it is so controversial in SC we just can't have it at school." That's it - that's really all they have.. That is their major argument! A secondary argument that is growing in other circuits is: "Any racial problems, even unrelated to the Confederate flag - is enough to ban the Confederate flag." Several other circuits have ruled this way.
What's more, the National association of School Boards is asking the courts to hand their judicial authority over to school principals on (and only on) Confederate flag cases - this is the scariest part of what our opponents are up to, and why they must be stopped.
If we do not appeal - Wooten's lousy decision becomes the law for South Carolina schools.
I will also say that if there is a case that should go to the US Supreme Court - this may be it. There is a lot at stake here.
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Chapter One: Máscara de Ayano
Ryoo High School stood on the flat ground with a cool interior contrasting the warm courtyard heated by the sun. Despite the newly repaired air conditioner one student remained warm, Ayano Minegishi. Brushing aside the lightly orange hair from in front of her ear, the teacher's lecture remained as indecipherable blurs. Any urge to take notes left her weakening hands. The source of such peculiar behavior arose from the target of her shining blue eyes and the mother of her blush.
It was Misao Kusakabe, a brown-topped, tanned girl who yawned serenely at the end of Ayano's sight, the morning sun beams hitting her from the side of the windows. Her half-written notes symbolized her affection for the Edo Period the teacher upfront spoke of. As her mouth opened widely, letting a sigh pop out, her petite fang stuck out like a lightning bolt from a cloud. Ayano peacefully gazed at the form of her bored friend, the one adorable fang making her face redder.
"And the Edo Period ended when?" Nanako Kuroi asked, now leaning on Ayano's desk, smiling at the unwary student's frightened squeal. "I'm afraid eek! Isn't the answer," Kuroi-sensei remarked, walking victoriously back to the front of the class. "I'm sorry" Ayano apologized as she retrieved her fallen pencil. "Oh, that's okay! I just to need to scare you guys once in a while!" the teacher laughed, waving her hand to show forgiveness. Misao naturally looked at Ayano, her fang traditionally hanging out from her small mouth. Turning to look back at her friend, Ayano smiled and quickly turned back, leaving Misao in bafflement. Ayano had caught sight of the precious fanged tooth and felt as if a ghost had suddenly grabbed onto her heart simply in the presence of it.
"I have to focus," Ayano calmly instructed herself, taking a deep breath before returning to her empty notebook. Kuroi-sensei paced back and forth while she read from the book and nearly hit the front desk once. Ayano couldn't help but observed the small fang that poked out of her teacher's mouth either yet she found no attraction or admiration if it. The orange-head smiled and plopped back in her seat. "It's Misao."
A sharp ringing sounded through the school and the students rose from their seats. Ayano packed her books into the small orange backpack she carried before exiting the room. She looked around after standing up but Misao was nowhere to be seen. Any chance to hear her speak or hold a conversation had vanished. A sigh traveled through Ayano's body before she left the classroom, the cooking class was waiting for her.
She took her usual seat in the middle, making sure to place her notebook next to her so it wouldn't fall into the sink that each cooking desk came with. The stool's flat surface launched itself against Ayano, creating a disk of pain underneath her. This was not what truly bothered her about this class. Her teacher quickly walked into the room, her usual expression of joy apparent. "Good morning class!" she cheered. The class returned the favor with unexpectedly the same joy. "Today we will learn how to bake cakes but due to limited supplies we will have to work in pairs. Everyone find a partner!" The teacher clapped her hands together and the students rose from their stools in search of friends, inviting each other through waves and calling. Ayano however did not participate. She silently sat in her seat and allowed fate to deal her a partner. Unfortunately it was the same kind of partner she always received. "Hi, I'm Namamoto Aizkara," the brunette boy introduced. Ayano nodded as he made himself comfortable on the stool, his smile becoming a harbinger for his hidden plan.
"You're Ayano right?" he asked, attempting to break the ice. Everyone knew her name in the class. "Ok boys and girls. The first thing to do is check your ingredients. Make sure you have milk, eggs, sugar, extract, flour, the proper dishes, and some frosting," The teacher explained. Ayano double-checked but everything was set. Namamoto made sure to use this opportune moment to make eye contact with her, making himself blush and move back in the process. "You have…really pretty eyes," his cracking voice said.
"It's happening again…." Ayano thought to herself. "Another boy flirting with me. Why do I attract them so much?"
"Okay, now you can crack your eggs and let the insides fall into the bowl. Don't make a mess," the teacher said. Ayano reached for the eggs only to have her partner grab them first. "Don't worry, I cook all the time at home. Let me show you how I crack eggs," he bragged. He threw an egg into the air and caught it. A gooey, dripping sensation filled his hand, pouring from the cracks between his fingers.
"Well….I'm sure we can still use this…" he laughed. "He's trying to play it off…." Ayano moaned. He was about to pour the filthy core of the egg into the bowl. "Stop," Ayano calmly said as the yolk nearly dripped out. "Those eggs won't do. Let me crack some new ones. Go wash your hands." She made sure to keep her smile on. He nodded, happy to hear her talk. Ayano decided to use this chance to make most of the cake herself. "I'm not going to let him ruin Misao's cake."
She quickly cracked the eggs and stirred. Pouring in the milk happened almost instantly and further stirring was not far off. She whipped out the various extracts and additional ingredients to make the cake taste more refreshing and feel softer. By the time Namamoto returned from cleaning the egg goo off his hands it was too late. Ayano had already preheated the oven. She simply gave an innocent smile as he sat down in complete shock. "Sorry," she said. "I just love to make cakes."
"It's no problem. I understand how you feel." Irritation continued to grow within her. "Now he's trying to seem understanding and forgiving…." The young boy's behavior was predictable only because it was similar to the boys before him who no longer wished to be her partner. "So…do you like movies?" he asked, seemingly forgetting about the lesson. Ayano just grinned, closing her eyes so she wouldn't have to see the sudden change she would inflict upon him. "Sorry, I have a boyfriend already."
His usual smile drooped further and further until it warped into a frown. He was no longer the happy-go-lucky boy he was only seconds ago. "Oh….okay," he muttered, turning away from her in utter disappointment. "I hope you find a nice girl," Ayano attempted to cheer. She only had apathy. "Yeah…" Ayano looked up at the clock and felt a blow of relief and excitement. "At least I get to see Misao in Chemistry next." She grabbed the plastic knife off the table and cut a large slice of cake, wrapping it in plastic to keep the freshness. "Aren't you going to eat your cake Minegishi?" one of the girls asked, snacking on the black blob she called food. "Oh…no…I'm going to give it to my boyfriend. He loves my cooking," Ayano said. She claimed herself lucky the bell had rung seconds later so they wouldn't ask anymore questions. Their wide eyes showed curiosity and she didn't want to make a lie into a scandal.
Ayano quickly grabbed her book bag and the cake, leaving the cooking class in a rush. She traveled through the hallway, worried she wouldn't be able to talk to Misao during the short break due to the crowds. Slithering through them was impossible and now she worried she might not even make it to class on time. Suddenly an opening appeared and she dashed for it. Chemistry class was now only a few doors down.
"Hey Ayano," Misao cheerfully greeted, leaning back on her desk. "Ooh! That looks tasty!" Ayano was pleased that she liked it; it made her next action even sweeter. "It's for you," Ayano said, handing the cake to the brunette. "Really? This whole thing?" Misao asked in disbelief. "Why do you keep making me all these delicious foods?"
"I just like to cook," Ayano smiled. "Well thank you," Misao politely said, grabbing the plate Ayano handed to her. "I'll be sure to eat this during lunch. Oh! I almost forgot. You wanna go to the movies later?"
A large pulse echoed throughout the carrot top's heart. Ayano felt as if her soul tried to breeze itself out of her body, the feeling so overwhelming that she didn't feel the sweet warmth reach her soft cheeks. "The…movies?" Ayano asked. "Yeah but we'll have to go alone I guess. Everyone else is busy," Misao sighed.
"Busy? So you asked everyone else first?"
"Yeah…but it's alright if you don't go. I don't want to force you or anything," Misao said. "Oh….that's how it is," Ayano muttered.
"Yeah. What? Got something better to do?" Misao teased. Ayano's heart was stopped it's throbbing but she managed to give a fake laugh. "Oh no, of course not. I can come. What time is the movie?" Misao pulled out a slip of gray paper from her pocket. Her golden eyes skimmed across the black printing. "The newspaper says 5 at the GoldenCinema. Is that okay with you because I wanna go see that monster movie they just released."
Ayano nodded, any movie at any time was fine. "Great, oh, looks like class is about to start. I'll talk to you later. Thanks for the cake." Misao walked back to her seat, unaware of the now obvious smile on her friend's face. The red head walked to her desk and pulled out her notebook from her bag. She couldn't help but smile uncontrollably. A night alone with Misao was always the most pleasurable thing in the world for her. Misao kicked her legs to and fro in her chair as she usually does, ignorant of the joy a simple outing gave to Ayano. More specifically, what an outing with her gave to Ayano.
The evening sun arrived earlier than usual, painting streaks of orange and purple across the cloudy sky. Misao kept her hands warm in her pocket while she distracted her feet with a rock on the ground, rolling it around until it fell into the street. Misao sucked her teeth now that her toy had vanished. Ayano had yet to arrive and it was already four forty. Plopping back onto a pillar, she sighed and watched as the clouds seemingly drifted towards the horizon, entertaining her wonder.
Inconveniently Ayano speedily walked to the scene, happily greeting her friend with a wave of her hand and a twirling peach dress. "Wow, you're overdressed," Misao said, looking up and down Ayano's body. "I'm sorry…I couldn't decide what to wear," Ayano smiled, feeling embarrassed by the disapproval. "Well then, let's go in. I already bought the tickets," Misao said. "But what if I didn't come?" Ayano asked, following Misao as the two headed into the theater.
"What? You always come. You're never late." She opened the door, walking into the lobby, the cold air gusting into her jacket and touching her chest. "Wow, it's cold in here!" Misao shivered, wrapping her herself in her arms. "You can borrow my jacket," Ayano said as she already began placing it on Misao's shoulders. "I don't feel that cold at all."
"I don't know…" Misao squinted. "Getting a jacket from a girl. Seems a little odd." Ayano giggled, feigning obliviousness. "It doesn't matter does it? I don't have fleas."
"Well thank you," Misao said. The conversation didn't need to be pushed any further. Misao decided to appreciate the common kindness Ayano had offered her as she usually does. "She always takes care of me. I feel kind of bad since I don't do that much for her…" Embarrassment had struck Misao as she realized how nice she has been treated since childhood.
"Oh, how much do I owe you for the tickets?" Ayano asked with her hand in her purse. "Oh, never mind about that. You gave me that cake and this jacket anyway," Misao chuckled, knowing there really was nothing funny to laugh about.
The two walked up to Theater Eight and checked their tickets. "This is it," Misao said. Both stepped into the already darkened room and found seats in the middle row, Misao's favorite spot. Ayano preferred the high row but never really complained, instead she found joy in seeing Misao excitedly rush to the seats to watch an oceanic monster level an entire city. "Hurry up," Misao whispered. "You're going to miss the previews." Ayano traveled down the row, taking the seat to the right of her friend.
Apparently the two had made it just in time as the room became pitch black save for the lights above and around. A bright light emerged from the screen and Misao began enjoying herself already. "It must have been a long time since you've been to the movies," Ayano said. "Yeah, there hasn't really been any movies I liked this whole year," Misao explained.
"COMING THIS FALL!!" the narrator loudly said. "Ryou Makanaki is your average high school student…but what if his grandfather was the world's most perverted but powerful wizard and he had to inherit the role? Love Mage the epic! Coming this fall."
"Another pervert movie…I think I'll pass," Misao said. Ayano nodded in full agreement, their shared tastes at least had some basic foundation. As more previews came Ayano tried her best to peek at her friend without being caught. Her blue eyes admired the golden ones next to her, her light skin tried to touch the tanned that rested on the armrest. Whatever movie before her no longer held any importance. Misao innocently laughed and adored every preview without knowledge of the sneaking eyes of the girl next to her. "How doesn't she notice?" wondered Ayano. "Everything I do…right now."
The experience was composed of displeasure and pleasure. The girl she could see but never touch, the girl she could hear but never smell, the girl she made happy but could never hurt. Silence filled the room and Ayano swiftly turned her head back to the screen. She didn't want to get caught peeking at her friend, Misao was smarter than others believed. "I hope this is good, "Misao said, leaning back in her chair. Ayano smiled once more, faking normality. "Does she know? Does she just ignore it?"
"Do I have any effect on her?" Such thoughts began to flow through her head even as buildings collapsed and people screamed as a monster stepped over them. Ayano noticed Misao jumping a few times in her seat; the movie must have been scary. Isolation was seen in Ayano's eyes as they grew dim in thought. "She…can she have feelings for me? What if…I tell her? How would she react?" All possibilities scared her, even the most happiest. If Misao did indeed have a similar affinity to her why did she hide it? For the same reasons as Ayano
"Misao…" Ayano quietly said. "Hmm? What is it?" Misao asked, poking her head up but keeping her eyes on the screen. Ayano noted this behavior, believing even the movie held more focus than she could ever engender. "Never mind."
Screeches echoed from the actors but their cacophony produced no reaction in Ayano. Her mind was separated from this the theater. "Why can't I just enjoy the time I spend and the relationship I already have with her? She does." At a random glance Misao could be seen tapping her hands against the armrest and swinging her head left and right, the background music was sort of catchy. "She likes this kind of music?" Ayano wondered. Every thought trailed off into another, ideas became problems but problems became trivia. She felt as if nothing was organized, there were too many questions and only one thing could truly ever answer them all. Ayano nearly felt the burning temptation to do something ridiculous, something completely out of line. All to answer this one question.
Ayano shook the idea out of her head, it was pointless. "I can't do something like that to poor Misao. What if she doesn't like it and…she wants to end what we have? I can't risk our long term friendship because of something like that…"
Suddenly a warm object came under her hand. Ayano pulled back, learning that her hand was on top of Misao's. "Sorry…"
"It's okay," Misao said. "Here, we can share it." She scooted her hand so it only took half of the armrest, allowing Ayano to rest her hand on it. The orange haired girl did so in order to hide any problems that could be seen. "Thank you."
Ayano pulled out her cellphone minute later, shocked to see that only thirty minutes have passed. "I'm such a wreck like this." A mysterious noise than appeared. It sounded similar to a small snort. Ayano turned to Misao and saw her sleeping. "Misao? Are you up?"
No answer. "Why is she sleeping? She can't be bored with this movie. Misao must be tired…" Ayano leaned over the sleeping girl and pulled the jacket from behind her shoulders, warming Misao who seemed to curl up in the small blanket. Ayano kept a gaze on the pigmented beauty, cherishing the cute way she slept and the adorable face that made her both happy and worried. Misao gave out a small snort again but Ayano treasured it as well. "I must seem crazy to other people if they knew I enjoyed hearing her snore too."
"Oh!" Ayano noticed her hand was on Misao's again and retrieved it back to her lap. Then an idea came to her. She slowly pulled her arm out and hung it over Misao's hand. "Maybe…"
She lightly brought it down, holding her breath to stay calm. Concentrating fully on this task she felt a wave of joy as her hand now laid atop Misao's, the warmth alone from the union making her blush. "I did it." Ayano sat back in the seat, gleeful that Misao didn't wake up. It felt better than she thought just to stay attached to her. Now all she had to do was keep an eye on Misao to see if she would wake up, this wasn't a problem either. What threatened everything was Ayano herself….who contemplated doing more. To go as far as to touch her face with hers, to learn her scent or caress her cheeks would provide nearly endless bliss. Ayano wondered "Would she get caught?"
Author: Hello, I'm back into the Lucky Star fanfic business with my latest installment and new couple. I wanted to try something different and practice my novel writing so please give me any and all constructive criticisms. I mean it. I need it. And don't worry, I haven't forgotten about Lucky Future and the soon to be released Moé Café. I'll give you a hint, Valentine's Day. Pretty obvious huh? | https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4059637/1/Mascara_Sonreindo | dclm-gs1-190880002 | false | false | {
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0.138042 | <urn:uuid:3312fe03-d7d0-495c-93bb-4deadfb812ca> | en | 0.983049 | It was around 2:00 on a Wednesday afternoon. The fluffy white clouds rolled across the blue sky, complimented by the sun, dazzling its rays across Ayakashi Kan.
Inside the mansion, a tall man was sporting a grey tuxedo, a crimson red, button-down shirt, a plain black tie and polished black shoes; his hands were covered with black gloves that stopped right below his thumbs. His messy black hair fell on the sides of his face and cupped his cheeks a little too perfectly.
Miketsukami strolled through the hallways rolling the food cart down the corridor with his mistress's afternoon tea and snack. It was a fun job, having the opportunity to make multiple trips between Ririchiyo's room and the kitchen. Whenever the young girl would call him requesting for a snack, his heart would leap up to his throat, overjoyed at the fact that he would see her again. Trips like these made to her room meant that she either wasn't feeling well or had too much work to bother going all the way downstairs. Sometimes she would get held up if Kagerou or Zange were in the lobby as well.
Nevertheless, Miketsukami would undoubtedly enjoy the trips to the lobby where he would meet her and serve her favorite cakes and tasty delights. Even if his schedule was interrupted and he had to put off his work, he always looked forward to these little visits. If it was for Ririchiyo, he'd do anything.
He stopped in front of a maple door at the end of the hallway and lightly knocked on the door.
"Ririchiyo-sama," Miketsukami called. "It's time for your afternoon tea." When he didn't hear a response from the other side, he turned the knob and entered the room, rolling the cart in front of him.
Bookshelves lined the right side of the grand room, which reached to the ceiling. On the far side of the room was a large window, covering 3/4 of the wall, granting the resident a gorgeous view of the property and the rest of the town. In front of the window was an oak desk, topped with a sea of colorful letters and envelopes. The trash can underneath it was overflowing with said papers and spilling over the edge onto the floor. Sitting in the black chair behind the desk was Ririchiyo.
She was writing furiously at a green, natured-theme letter, occasionally sparing glances at another letter for reference. After a few more moments of writing, she placed the pen down and reorganized her desk in order to make room for her snack. Once she stacked papers on both sides of the desk, Miketsukami took that as his cue to put her tea and snack on the table.
"I brought you a raspberry cheesecake with some Earl Grey Tea. I hope you enjoy it, Ririchiyo-sama." Miketsukami set the tea cup in its saucer on the table and poured the steaming tea into it, adding 1 gram of sugar, just as Ririchiyo liked. He set the plate with the slice of cheesecake in front of Ririchiyo along with a fork, and stepped back behind the chair, leaving her to her snack.
"Thank you," she replied in a small voice. A light pink hue traveled across the expanse of her cheeks and she immediately lowered her head so her hair would fall around her face. She didn't want Miketsukami to see her blushing just because he served an afternoon snack.
Ririchiyo studied the cake before taking the fork to cut off a small piece. Pink Icing with bits of raspberries covered the top part of the cake while there were layers of the same icing inside the cake. She stuck the fork in her mouth and relished the overwhelmingly delicious and mouth-watering flavor and texture of the cake, making sure to lick every inch of the fork covered with icing. After she swallowed it, her eyes widened slightly. "I-It's delicious," she murmured under her breath, though Miketsukami picked up on it.
"Oh, Ririchiyo-sama! I am honored that the cake is to your liking!" Miketsukami cried, a light tint of pink spreading across his own cheeks. A warm hearted smile formed on his lips as his eyes traveled down to meet Ririchiyo's in a brief glance. She soon whipped her head to the other side to avoid Miketsukami seeing the mad blush she was probably wearing at this point.
"Ha, don't let it get to your head. It's pretty decent for someone in your position," she quickly retorted, her sarcastic smile taking its place on her lips.
A few minutes later, Ririchiyo finished the last piece of his cake and placed his fork back onto the plate.
"Miketsukami, come here," Ririchiyo demanded in a firm tone, though she faltered a bit at the end. She didn't face the demon as she addressed him; she simply stared at the door on the opposite side of the room, too embarrassed by what she was about to do. Miketsukami, upon hearing his master's request, walked until he was standing next to Ririchiyo's chair.
"Yes, Ririchiyo-sama?" the SS Agent asked. Before he could even blink, Ririchiyo caught hold of his tie and forcefully brought him down, crashing their lips together. Miketsukami's eyes were wide, but only for a split second, before they slowly closed. As Ririchiyo wrapped his arms around her partner's neck, Miketsukami brought his hand up to gingerly caress Ririchiyo's cheek, rubbing his thumb in circles across the silky skin.
Miketsukami softly bit down on Ririchiyo's bottom lip, causing the girl to gasp, giving Miketsukami access to freely explore her mouth. Ririchiyo boldly took advantage of the intrusion and clashed her tongue against Miketsukami's, and before long, their tongues intertwined in a furious dance, curious to taste the other. Miketsukami could taste the sweet lingering's of the raspberry cheesecake in Ririchiyo's mouth and it of course tasted like the most scrumptious delicacy in the world. He could have remained like this forever, tasting his young and innocent mistress, but he wasn't expecting the sudden lack of sweetness against his lips as Ririchiyo pulled away.
Her face was pale and was draped with a veil of bright pink. Her eyes were hazy, as if she desired more. Well, that wasn't a lie. But her vulnerable face was soon replaced with her normal façade. She coughed, as if to bring Miketsukami back to reality.
"Ririchiyo-sama…" Miketsukami started. He didn't really know where to start the conversation. His partner had suddenly kissed him out of the blue and then broke it. What was he supposed to say now?
"It was too sweet," Ririchiyo started. Miketsukami looked down at the girl in the chair with a confused expression.
"Pardon, my Lord?" Miketsukami asked, scrunching his brow. Ririchiyo looked up at the confused demon and specified.
"The cake. It was too sweet. I know I requested for something sweet but that was too much." By the time Ririchiyo ended the sentence, she was smirking up at his butler. Miketsukami's eyes softened and then he grinned, finally understanding the intent behind the cake.
"Well then, Ririchiyo-sama, maybe I should just continue to make it too sweet for you, seeing as your reaction towards it was greatly to my satisfaction," Miketsukami countered, his innocent face plastered on.
"Hm. Maybe you should." With that, Ririchiyo pulled Miketsukami down for another passionate kiss.
PLEASE REVIEW! :D If there were any mistakes, please tell me cuz I literally only spent about 15 minutes on this story XD
This story is pretty much the same as my Kuroshitsuji story "Sweetness". I was faaaaaaaaaaaaar too lazy to think up of a new plot and I've been dying to write an InuxBoku story.
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By Lark Pien (Author) , Lark Pien (Illustrator)
Age Range: 6 - 10
Pub Date: Nov. 19th, 2009
ISBN: 978-1-934706-44-2
Publisher: Blue Apple
Long Tail Kitty narrates five episodes of his daily life. First he introduces his house and his town, including landmarks from each of his tales. He picks flowers, finds they can talk and plays chase with a bee. In winter he slides on the ice and has cocoa with Good Tall Mouse. He hosts a food fest with friends and refrains from eating all the Choco Crispy Doggy Discs. Finally, he spends an activity-filled day with buddies from outer space. Pien, the colorist for the Printz Award–winning American Born Chinese, liberates her character Long Tail Kitty from his mini-comics in her first solo work for a young audience. The watercolor sequential art on creamy paper in mostly pastels and neutrals is full of action and dry, slight humor—especially the gatefold page of all 70 games LTK plays with his alien friends. That said, the stories meander despite their brevity. The “bonus pages” showing how to draw LTK and his many moods are a plus. Despite its charm, however, this is not a first purchase. (Graphic fiction. 6-10) | https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/lark-pien/long-tail-kitty/print/ | dclm-gs1-191010002 | false | false | {
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spying directed at companies with ties to military technology, but energy, finance, and other industries have also been hacked over the past five years. senior correspondent john miller is a former fbi assistant director. john, good morning. how widespread? >> this is pretty widespread charlie. when you take an nie, national intelligence estimate this is really the consensus of all 16 intelligence agencies on a problem, so this is going to be a fairly authoritative document that's sounding the alarm that china -- well, picture this. two giant aircraft hangars full of military people who work 24/7 hacking into u.s. government databases, private corporation databases. >> you mean those are chinese hackers doing that. >> yes yes. and they're working for the government. these aren't guys doing it for entertaining. here's the difference. we do that too. all countries do that. the difference -- i think the alarm the report sounds is china does it not just for political and military secrets, they're stealing trade secrets to get china ahead. >>> obviously the
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Thanks to a good night and great comments on the previous project (http://dribbble.com/shots/850381-Beergusto-logo-project), here is a new one. Seems the glass is not perfectly rounded, will fix this later if I'm feeling good with this one.
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Sultanate of Laheg
سلطنة لحج
Map of the Federation of South Arabia, with Lahej at bottom left
Capital Al-Hawtah
Religion Islam
Government Sultanate
Historical era Aden Protectorate
- Established 1728
- Disestablished 1839[1]
Lahej (Arabic: لحج Laḥij), the Sultanate of Lahej (Arabic: سلطنة لحج Salṭanat Laḥij), or, sometimes, the Abdali Sultanate (Arabic: سلطنة العبدلي Salṭanat al-ʿAbdalī), Was a Sheikdom based in Lahej in Southern Yemen. The Sheikdom was officially abolished in 1967.
Guest House of the Sultan of Lahej,
from an 1898 photograph by Henry Ogg Forbes.
18th — 19th century[edit]
Lahej was sultanate of the 'Abdali dynasty . In 1740 the 'Abdali sultan became independent.[2] The Sultanate of Lahej became an independent entity, from 1728 to 1839.
The Sultanate of Lahej lost its independence to the British, after the Royal Navy Aden Expedition attack in 1839. The Sultan signed several treaties with the British.[1] The 1863 opening of the Suez Canal caused the formation of the Aden Protectorate
The sultanate was one of the original "Nine Cantons" that signed individual British protectorate agreements with Great Britain, that in 1869 were joined together to become the Aden Protectorate. The Suez Canal also opened in 1869.
20th century[edit]
During World War I, the Ottoman Empire maintained control.[1]
Lahej typically enjoyed good relations with the British, despite the accidental killing of Sultan Fadhl ibn Ali al Abdali by British troops in 1918 who mistook him for an enemy Ottoman Turk soldier. In 1948, the Subayhi tribal area was absorbed into their sultanate.[1]
However, in 1958, Britain was worried that the sultan at the time, Ali bin Abd al Karim al Abdali, an Arab nationalist, would refuse to join the British-sponsored Federation of Arab Emirates of the South, and had him deposed. Lahej ended up joining the Federation and later the Federation of South Arabia in 1963.
In 1967 the new Communist regime expelled the Sultan. The Sultanate of Lahej was abolished with the founding of the Socialist state of People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (1967 - 1990).
The former territory has been within the Republic of Yemen since its unification in 1990.[1]
British Empire[edit]
The Sultanate of Lahej and others surrounding the Port of Adan had economic influence by supporting the important trade economy of the British Empire from South Asia. Early 19th century industrial Britain, with its rapidly expanding economy, needed improved and reliable communication with British India and the East India Company operations.
The 1863 opening of the Suez Canal intitiated further British trade protection strategies, securing the port of Adan and surroundings to serve the Red Sea shipping routes using its new canal. The Sultanate was part of an effort of the British Empire to protect the East India Route, the sea route between the Mediterranean Sea and India, in and through the southern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
As of 1920, the Lahej region was producing salt, from salt mines owned by the Ottoman government, that passed therough the Sultanate for shipping.[3]
See also[edit]
1. ^ a b c d e "'Abdali sultanate". Encyclopedia Britannica. I: A-Ak - Bayes (15th ed.). Chicago, IL: Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc. 2010. p. 18. ISBN 978-1-59339-837-8.
2. ^ Encyclopædia Britannica, 1984 Edition, Vol. I, p. 11
3. ^ Prothero, G.W. (1920). Arabia. London: H.M. Stationary Office. p. 97.
External links[edit]
Media related to Colony of Aden at Wikimedia Commons
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U.S U-20 women finish fourth
MOSCOW -- The United States finished fourth at the FIFA Under-20 Women's World Championship, losing 6-5 to Brazil on penalty kicks after a 0-0 tie in the third-place game Sunday.
After Maurine converted Brazil's eighth penalty, Amanda Poach's kick was saved by goalkeeper Barbara. It marked the first time the Americans finished out of the top three in 10 FIFA's women's tournaments.
U.S. goalkeeper Val Henderson saved Erika on the seventh kick but, with a chance to win it, Amy Rodriguez missed her shot. Swedish referee Jenny Palmqvist, who officiated the 2004 Olympic final, got confused and whistled the game over as Brazil celebrated, but after consulting with the assistants and fourth official, Palmqvist continued the game.
North Korea won the final 5-0 over China in heavy rain. China defeated the United States 5-4 on penalty kicks in Thursday's semifinal after a 0-0 tie.
Poach, Henderson and Danesha Adams were picked for the tournament all-star team, and Adams won the Bronze Ball as third-most valuable player at the tournament.
China's Ma Xiaoxu won the Golden Ball as MVP and the Golden Shoe as top scorer with five goals and two assists. China's Zhang Yanru won the Silver Ball, while North Korea's Kim Song Hui (five goals, one assist) won the Silver Shoe and Germany's Anna Blaesse (four goals) won the Bronze Shoe.
The third-place game went straight to penalty kicks after 90 scoreless minutes in rain on a muddy field.
Daiame converted the opening kick for Brazil, and Carrie Dew tied it for the United States. Renata Costa then missed, and Allie Long's shot was saved. Aliane, Francielle, Monica and Fabiana converted kicks for Brazil, while Jordan Angeli, Tobin Heath, Adams and Stephanie Lopez made shots for the United States.
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Hi, my name is Anjali, I'm 31, and I live in Manchester, UK. I've participated in this community before and am doing so again as I don't have any family - just assholes I share genes with - and most of my friends don't even live in the same country, much less the same city, as me.
All I ask when it comes to this list is that people don't say they will do something and then not follow through on it. This has happened to me way too many times now and given the general state of my life, I can't deal with more disappointment.
One last thing before I get to the list - thank you to all who have granted me holiday wishes in the past, and thanks to everyone who has ever made someone else's holiday season a little brighter by granting a wish.
Without further ado:
No cost:
1. Sign up to be an organ donor. And make sure that your family, the people who will have to sign the papers, know that it is what you want. And even if you cannot sign up, for whatever reason, spread the message and encourage others to sign up to be potential lifesavers.
2. Art - graphics(esp. wallpapers)/fanart/pixels...
To help out with subject matter...
Wallpaper: Derek Jeter, New York Yankees, CSI: NY, Teddy Bears, Space, Cute Animals - esp. Otters.
Pixels: Bears, Sheep, Hedgehogs, Otters, Owls.
Low Cost:
3. In lieu of a card, a donation equivalent to a card and postage to charity. I don't mind which charity you choose so long as it isn't:
- a religious one,
- one that is known to have bigotted views towards certain groups, or
- a women's cancer charity that indulges in pink-washing.
(In case anyone wants some ideas, I support the following: Amnesty International, Greenpeace, WWF for Nature, Ehlers-Danlos Support UK, Cystic Fibrosis Canada - Vancouver Chapter, CF Trust (UK), RNID (UK), Equilibrium (UK), Macmillan Cancer Support (UK), National AIDS Trust (UK). Local versions of these would be fine.)
4. If you live in a city or town that is cold this time of year, buy (or make, if it suits you) a pair of gloves, a pair of thick socks, a scarf or a woolly hat. Give the item/s you bought to a local homeless person.
Not particularly expensive:
5. Goldfish Crackers. Whilst we do have something similar over here in the UK, and they do taste good, I still love Goldfish Crackers more.
6. Pretty much anything Yankees related - books, DVDs, merchandise. (If you want to check to see if I have something already, you can email me.)
7. Amazon gift cards. I'm really bad at keeping my wishlist up-to-date so I thought this would be easier. Even small amounts are cool.
8. Crochet stuff. I love crocheting - and to a lesser extent, knitting - and would love anything related to that people want to send my way, but most especially yarn and patterns.
(With regards to yarn, I find working with acrylic yarn difficult as it causes irritation of the skin on my hands.)
Could happen:
9. I collect baseball bats and have been trying to get a game model DJ P72 for ages. However, Louisville Slugger don't accept orders from outside the US, so I'm adding it to my wish list in the hope that someeone will take pity on me.
I really DO wish, but maybe there is someone reading who can do this:
10. I'd totally love to get something signed by Derek Jeter. I'm not really fussed what the item is - a baseball would be cool but even if it was a postcard, I'd be happy.
I can be contacted at shaneadelic/at/gmail/./com if anyone needs to do so.
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Why I really hate QR and tinyurl’s Mon, 12 Mar 2012 04:36:19 +0000 So some source material.
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Well that’s interesting, and I am not clicking on those. Mon, 21 Nov 2011 21:20:38 +0000 Anti-Sec strikes again,
Anon has hit a big fish.
Just remember that ToR is good, but there has been proven attacks from time to time to break it’s security.
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Cyberwar – Part 2 Sun, 26 Dec 2010 03:10:09 +0000 So what do you call one or more unorganized groups engaging in a conflict?
Thing is Cyberwar is used to describe something, and I like what it’s used to describe.
So what do we have going on mostly right now on the Internet between groups like anon and other hacking groups or persons?
I think the best term to describe what is going on is Guerilla warfare, I think adding the term cyber to these actions is a waste of time. The combatants and targets all exist in the cyber arena so adding the term to is is redundant.
Guerilla warfare is a perfect term,
“a form of irregular warfare and refers to conflicts in which a small group of combatants including, but not limited to, armed civilians (or “irregulars”) use military tactics, like ambushessabotage, raids, the element of surprise, and extraordinary mobility to harass a larger and less-mobile traditional army, or strike a vulnerable target, and withdraw almost immediately.”
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Cyberwar – Part 1 Sun, 26 Dec 2010 03:02:39 +0000 There is a lot of terms that really poor choices, but I think my personal top is Cyberwar.
Everything is cyberwar, a DOS attack, a DDOS attack, or skype goes down for a day CYBERWAR!
Is it really?
Forget the ‘Cyber’ part, does this look like war to you? a DDOS? Thats like everyone jumping queue in front of you for coffee. Is it annoying? yea, war? not so much. Really the term war is referring to two or more organized groups participating in organized conflict. In the terms of the cyber acts people are talking about there is hardly more then one organized group (the target), if you are lucky, most targets are hardly considered organized. Also the groups doing the attacking a either a single bot net controlled by one party or something like anon does.
So I think it’s time for another phrase to describe what is going on.
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RE: Review of new HTTPbis text for 303 See Other
From: Larry Masinter <LMM@acm.org>
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:46:22 -0700
To: "'Pat Hayes'" <phayes@ihmc.us>, "'Richard Cyganiak'" <richard@cyganiak.de>
CC: "'Roy T. Fielding'" <fielding@gbiv.com>, "'Jonathan Rees'" <jar@creativecommons.org>, "'Julian Reschke'" <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, "'HTTP Working Group'" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>, <www-tag@w3.org>
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This conversation is filling my mailbox. Some general
the dialog unpleasant. I don't think Richard is being
silly, intellectually dishonest, bloody arrogant, or any of the
other terms you've used, please refrain.)
It's the nature of standards discussions that people speak
their point of view; doing so isn't arrogant.
It is the nature of technical specifications that it is frequently
necessary to take normal English words in particular technical
way; it is not intellectually dishonest to do so.
It is good practice for technical specifications in standards
groups to say as little as possible in order to meet the
needs of interoperability and the purpose for which the
specification is being written.
It is not necessary or even possible for a technical specification
to answer questions that may be fundamental for applications
and traditional for standards specifications to "not answer"
questions because answering the question isn't necessary
for the purpose for which the standard was written.
It isn't necessary for the proper functioning of the web and
to accomplish interoperability of web clients and servers
for that purpose, it isn't necessary to answer the question
of whether a HTTP URI can identify a person.
It may be necessary to answer the question in a technical
specification for the semantic web and in the RDF
specification -- but the answer more likely
belong in those specifications and not in the
IETF HTTP specification.
It may be necessary for the IETF HTTP specification
be edited in a way that made it clear that it didn't
contain the answer to this question, but I'm not
sure where to draw the line of describing things
it doesn't answer.
It's easy to imagine a system in which a URI is used
to identify a person for the purpose of that system.
But I can't see how IETF, W3C, or continued discussion
on any of our mailing lists are going to converge
any time soon on answers to the philosophical questions
that have been with us for millennia. What is it
that "Pat Hayes" identifies, anyway? Can I use
mailto:phayes@ihmc.us as a URI to identify you?
Well, that's a question outside of the "mailto:"
URI spec, I think.
Perhaps there needs to be a better way of distinguishing
the statements "this specification does not limit the scope
of applicability" and "this specification applies in all
be clear the former was meant rather than the latter, I
think that would be helpful.
does not mean that it is appropriate to "matter" in
the context of the HTTP spec.
It is an important design principle for developing
specifications to keep specifications orthogonal: for the purposes
of the HTTP protocol, it does not matter what resources
are exactly. For the purpose of resource identification, it should
not matter what the protocol is; tying semantic web
interpretation to a particular error code in the HTTP
protocol seems like bad design to me.
The idea that the HTTP working group should care about the
semantic web and change its specification to meet some
semantic web requirement for use of HTTP URIs in semantic
web applications -- well, that raises several red flags
for me, that we're building specifications that are not
sufficiently orthogonal that things that *shouldn't* matter
are taken as important questions that *must* be answered.
There continues to be some confusion in the discussion between
I think sometimes statements about one are attributed to the
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Tannehill changing how he attacks deep throws
This can go one of two directions now.
The question is can Tannehill make a much more significant improvement.
Big Ben can wing it.
Can Tannehill match those numbers? Impossible to tell.
Hi Mando
Love your work - I think the word you might be looking for is "stalag" WW2 German POW camp reference ?
Good job Armando.
Tannehill should spend five minutes watching the Dan Fouts highlight film on YouTube ...
THAT is how you throw the deep ball ...
let 'er rip!
It's not as bad as Armando makes sound like. Check out the bleacher report on this issue. It's not all on Tannehilll.
This is what I believe to be true. It's overthinking. Anyone who saw the 4th down throw to Rishard Matthews vs Baltimore knows he can make any throw. The reason he was able to make that one was it was all or nothing and he HAD to just let it rip. I think the losing streak and the failure to get on the same page with Wallace have made Tannehill tense in those long ball situations.
At some point Tannehill has to learn to trust his gut and not try to overthink if he wants to play with the big boys for a long time.
Much ado about nothing.... A ship sailing away, not likely to be seen again after this season. Chad Henne Jr.
Being conservative on the football field is a matter of confidence not accuracy, and Mr Tanne has neither. You can beat this thing to death but in the end Tanne isn't the franchise QB. He simply doesn't have the talent, he's not real smart. I mean, how many times does he have to get sacked because he holds the ball and won't throw out of bounds? Why doesn't he know when to run? This game is to fast for him and he's not making any progress, he's worse this yr then last. One TD pass to Wallace in 10 games is rather telling. At 5-5 maybe its time to sit him down and let him see whats going on. The Dolphins might have a grip but it aint on the playoffs, thats to funny to be taken realistic. " Oh boy we're 5-5 and off to the playoffs " DuuuHHH.
Spot-on again, Mando.
Just the fact they are talking about it between Philbin and T-hill shows they are working on the problem. I would think it would be something they would work on daily until it improves either at practice or after. Just 5 passes a day and maybe some with coverage. Let these guys work it out...that's one thing we are seriously lacking on offense is explosive TD plays from the running game and passing game.
I agree with DrgonFly34 and his previous post. T-hill was a stretch where he was drafted. Others would have drafted him one might indicate, well they are elated they did not draft him now. There are things that you can not teach. Wes Welker and Steve Smith WR quickness out of the break to create separation can not be taught. Accuracy, relaxing and confidence are so hard to develop. Why are the Dolphins working on something one would have addressed in college? T-hill did not have the college experience needed. Everyone knew he was a project and now the project might be more than an NFL team is willing to deal with at this level. The jerks on this site have blamed Wallace but it's clear that the delivery guy has the issue. DB's will pick up on this to cover closer knowing that they will have T-hills lack of accuracy to assist them.
It was reported in training camp that the coaching staff didn't put any extra emphasis or practice time into Tannehill throwing deep to Wallace. Another miscalculation by the coaching staff. But I'm wondering why the 2 parties don't get together on their own and practice the deep throw and timing of it. How do you think Manning was so proficient with Harrison and Wayne? They were out on the field on their own time getting better. Not that difficult to figure out. Unless your associated with the Phins.
You take a project QB when you and your scouts and your OC that has coached him believe he has the potential to be our best QB since Marino.
Who would we have if we didn't draft him? Orton? Flynn? Some other back up rarely good enough to be a back up?
So he has some flaws. The QB position takes time. Just ask Brees. Most positions take time.
Most of you have no perspective season to season how things work. All draft picks should be pro bowlers by year to or you are ready to cite them as busts.
For all you Matt Moore fans - he tested the open market. Not one of the other 31 teams were considering him as a starter, so he stayed here.
So forget your argument that Moore is better. If 32 GM's don't think he is starter material, a long term solution, then he ain't. 1 GM can be wrong. 5 can be wrong. 32 can't be wrong. Certainly no bloggers opinion trumps theirs.
Tannehill did have one perfectly thrown ball that would have gone for an 80 yard TD against Cincy but the DB tackled Wallace in desperation after he got behind him.
The resulting pass interference call got us about 30 yards or so but the TD would have been much nicer.
Ian your premise is wrong therefore your conclusion is wrong. Matt Moore accepted money and greater security for him and his family to be the backup QB over the opportunity to win a starting job. Moore with less talent on the team and given the opportunity was the 12th rated passer in the NFL. What is T-hills NFL rating. Moore is NOT the long term answer for the Dolphins but the phins have a good enough team to possibly make the playoffs if they do not have a guy giving the ball away on turnovers and missing wide open receivers deep....
Big Ben did it by extending plays breaking tackles. henceforth Wallace wide open because the DB became distrcted.
Wallace had dropped more passes that hit his hands than Tannehill has missed bombs.
On the "GO" pass "GO-GO" run subject Tannehill did make progress against San Diego. We passed after a "GO-GO" as often as we ran.
If Wallace makes those mid range passes that he drops, we'd be saying wow, he is a great WCO receiver as well.
henne had the same problem. both tanne and henne are afraid of making mistakes downfield. all good QB's put air under it and throw as far as they can. its up to a speedy receiver to go get it. its not that difficult.
I agree with your first post Ian, but disagree with the second. 31 GM's passed on Kurt Warner....twice. He went to the arena football league once. Then, after the Giants cut him, he signed with the Cardinals, and took a franchise that had never done anything to the brink of a Superbowl win. Since he retired, they are back to their old ways.
That said, I think Tannehill has the potential to grow into this. My concern is he lacks a certain intangible: That certain "gamer" quality that Moore seems to have when he gets into games.
Really Ian what about all the fumbles, interceptions, high passes so the safety out of the play has an opportunity to intercept....Opportunities for the opposing team to win the game. A better team than the Chargers will exploit T-hill.
Ok,Thill,Wallace,and the entire team has had numerous OTA's,training camp,five pre-sason games,and ten regular season games,and they are still trying to figure things out? Huh? This coaching staff is pathetic. With all of the talent on this team we will be lucky to finish at 500,and you can chalk it up too poor coaching,game planning,game day adjustments,etc.
When the season is over everyone can jump on tanne's back. Go ask the Rams what they think of Sam Bradford? First pick overall and he is avg at best!!!
I have been critical too of Tanny, but let's see a little more. The game this week will be decided by a big play or two. A deep td to Wallace would be nice.
Once he hits one like that the feel for the pass will be stored in muscle memory and also as a mental picture.These people know if they do it once they can do it again or thats how they approach it.
Wow, I must be some kind of Illuminati or something. I've been saying this for 2 months here, but Nobody listened. When you get the ball in your hands, IMMEDIATELY throw it deep to Wallace, he'll run under it. If not, you try it again. Tou'll hit 1 or 2 more of those throws that way than what's been happening up to now.
The kid is spooked about throwing picks. He throws a deep ball next week and a Panther picks it off, the usual suspects will be demanding his scalp.
That said, the key is practice, and to listen to the Dolphins, you'd think this isn't a focus at practices.
Everyone was saying the same thing and doubting
Drew Brees his first THREE seasons, then he took off.
Tannehill has the potential, be patient, and let
him develop.
None threw more picks than Brett Favre, however he also completed some amazing Game winning plays. He's a HOFer, no shame in that at all.
It's "stalag" mando.....lol.
Mark in Toronto....
Since you don't believe me....will you NOW take the coache's words from his own mouth....or better yet....will you listen to Tanne...
There is NO STAT for what your eyes tell you what is happening on the feild...
belive what you see....save the box score for Fantasy Football....
This is not a dig @ Tanne....
but with his helmet on....he looks like a football player...
but every time I see him without his helmet...All I can think abot is Stiffler fro "American Pie"....
The resembelence is uncanny....
This I have been saying also but for a longer time, since last year's pre-season Game when I saw Tannehill make a play. Ryan T is NOT a disciplined, methodical QB, he's naturally a gun slinger, just as Favre was. He DOES have the intelligence to adapt to whatever they require of him, but inborn, he's an attacking, let's go get it now Guy.
I don't agree with tat statement (Gun Slinger)....
Gun Slingers can be reined in...but never fully controlled...they are NATURAL improvisers....
The ONLY comparison I will make with Tanne and Henne...is that they both (while coachable)....seem to lack the improvisational part when things don't go as planned IE...fetal postion sack...when the pocket breaks to soon...
Guys that think on there feet (no pun intended)...Newton...Wilson...they see the man get beat before it happens...anticipate it if you will....and sometimes...even move in or out of the pocket in a way that helps the struggling OL man...and still keep their eyes down feild....
Tanne has scrambled on occasion...and found Hartline...but it seems more of a pained practice...then a natural thing....
The crew the usual suspects are all major a**-h***s on this site, they know who they are right Oscar Dashi Mark in Toronto. Bottom line #17 until proven otherwise can't throw the deep ball period !!
I'm told Tanne is fast....alo I have never witnesed it first hand....
If it is true he is fast...that should be a strength that the we play to...and force the Defense to accout for him...it can open up recievers a bit more as well...
I'm not sayinmg RG3 him...but certainly John Elway him....
make it know that if he gets the edge (and is close to the sideline....that he will run....and make them respect that....
Well, I didn't want to say this, Kris, but you force me to it. Tannehill's intelligence is light years ahead of both Henne and Favre combined, therefore Ryan is more adaptable to coaching.
You have to have a clean pocket to throw deep accurate passes. Deep throws are more about footwork than anything else.
Wallace is giving Miami exactly what was wanted- double coverage on many plays and keeping safeties from cheating up in the run game. Unfortunately, the offensive line play has been so bad that there has been little-to-no opportunity for the Dolphins to take advantage.
However, expecting Wallace to be the same as he was in Pittsburgh was bad thinking. Equally bad is to think he will become something different in Miami.
Tannehill will not make the plays that Roethlisberger made famous; nor will the Dolphins offense resemble the Pitt offense that made Wallace seem like a great player. Further, Wallace has no incentive- with $30M guaranteed- to become anything other than the long ball threat fans cheer for.
This should have been resolved in training camp! I recall Mando's notes from camp indicating the Tannehill/Wallace combo failed to connect on many attempts.
So...everyone knew it was a problem then, and here we are at week 11 and it's still a problem.
...and Tannehill is talking like he was just made aware of it yesterday???
Mando hit the nail on the head with this comment:
If Tannehill had the inate talent to throw the long ball it would have been present day one in training camp.
Now every corner this side of CA will be keying on Wallace, knowing Tannehill will be heaving out a least 3-4 long attemtps to Wallace per game to prove to everyone he can connect with him.
Even a blind squirrel finds a nut every now and then, and eventually Tannehill/Wallace will connect and it will most likely be the result of the CB slipping on the coverage.
IMO. This is a combination of failures from the O-line, coaching and even the fans. Going back to the class of 83,there was Marino, Elway, Kelly O'Brien. We as fans keep comparing him to Luck, R.G III, Wilson and looking to him as a Marino replacement, he is overplaying his talent and having no o-line does not make it easier. The coaching staff needs to bring in players and set a game plan to develop his talent and in doing so it will boost his confidence. Right now with the sacks, fumbles and interceptions he is playing without any confidence. A lot of what Philbin did was exploiting the defense, looking at this year looks like the running game, slot receiver and TE are the only positions that have had a little success. Not enough time being given for the deep routes to open up. All in all an unconfident, nervous QB.
This blog would be easier to read if posters (Armando included) could spell, use proper punctuation and grammar, form complete sentences, etc. I am the grammar Nazi.
That being said, I think Tannehill will be a very good QB, above average at worst. His deep passing issues are correctable, but he clearly needs to work on his pocket awareness (especially with such a crappy line). Keep in mind that even the great QB's miss some deep throws. I just wish Tannehill would overthrow, rather than under throw. Wallace needs to do his part by catching whatever hits his hands and be more willing to fight for the ball.
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billcale, if that's the case (that Wallace is giving Miami what they wanted) then that's another HUGE indictment on the GM. First off, Miami has loads of 3-and-out's. So for all the double-teaming he's getting, the offense STILL sputters far too frequently. Second, if he's keeping safeties from cheating up, and the run game is STILL horrid, then again, the GM didn't think out the plan too well if that was his goal.
I happen to disagree. Wallace was given all that money for one reason and one reason alone, to increase the chunk plays and add quick TDs to the offensive weaponry. And that didn't play to the strengths of the QB. And that's why things aren't working. However, per Mando's stats above, Tannehill improved by 16% in deep passes this year, and only needs to improve 16% more to equal Big Ben's stats. So we'll have to wait and see if Tannehill can make that jump in year 3.
Thill overall has a -7 TD's created to turnover ratio, one of the worst over the last two years amongst QB's with 25 starts.
The deep ball problems will always stop Wallace from getting into the game, which is a crying shame.
His mechanics are truly poor when throwing the deep ball. He never steps into those throws, thus they always end up short. Thills footwork is also suspect to say the least. Thills abilty to move around in the pocket and keep the play alive is also weak.
However against the Chargers and at points in the Bucs game Thill threw very well on the run on those rollouts.
Thill also has a very accurate quick hit ball out in the flats and the 10-15 yard zone. He floats the ball deep so often and Im starting to believe it may be confidence rather than his arm strength.
To give evidence of deep ball accuracy one could site the deep ball to Gibson against the Ravens that went for 46 yards.
Thill may have the arm but not the self belief. Either way if its not sorted out by the end of the year, we have to look at a young prospect with the arm and confidence required to use Wallace and take us to the next level.
Don't get me wrong, we as fans have every right to express our concerns about our team and it's strengths and weakness. I come on this site every day and read through all the legit opinions and agree or dis agree but
then again some of us are thick skinned and some are sensitive. Tannehill might be the sensitive type, and all the negativity is getting to him.
Yes, 32 GMs can be wrong. Remember, the entire world thought the earth was flat...
One this is for sure, Moore throws a beautiful deep ball.
We should be encouraged by an article like this. Admitting you have a probelm, is the first step to fixing it. I am surprised Philbin actually answered the question and went into detail. Philbin basically said, what I said earlier in the week. Tannehill just needs to throw the ball a hard as he can and let Wallace try to catch it, this method will produce better than a 17% completion rate
Posted by: Mr. Titman | November 21, 2013 at 06:58 AM
Yeah, that's pretty close to what I was thinking. Here we are with 6 games left and NOW it's a concern?
If this doesn't wake up the Philbin apologist, I don't know what will. Zac Taylor is your QB coach, really?
I have to blame Tannehill a little too. He had the greatest QB of all time offer to help but he refused. What a opportunity!
The way Wallace is being used by Sherman also makes it hard to get him deep. Those screens and underneath routes take forever to set up. The Pats fire them off so much quicker and use them, as do the Broncos and Bears.
For a guy that has played in this offense for 5 years Thill seems slow to react to the plays and struggles to find his second read.
If we get a new GM, he will bring in a new coach and OC. Thill will have to start over in another system. Thats the end of Thill as the starter unless he can turn his game around.
Opti, I don't buy that. They are saying the same about RG3 here (that this is the first time has been vilified, etc.). Please, I understand these are kids, but this is a professional sport. And they're being paid millions. If you're THAT sensitive, then you'll never make it in the NFL (a la Jonathan Martin) and it's better to weed you out now.
I don't see Tannehill as being sensitive at all. I think he just isn't as skilled in certain areas as other QBs. He either never will be or has a farther way to climb to get to where he needs to be. I seem him as a middle-of-the-pack QB right now. I think you stick with him another year (maybe 2) as long as he continues to grow, but don't resist drafting another QB if there's one tempting enough to take. It's better to have too many QBs than too few.
And before anyone whines about that tactic since we need so much, I am NOT advocating taking a QB 1st round this upcoming Draft. I want the best lineman we can find with our 1st pick (and maybe 2nd and 3rd too).
I know Ryan T. Is an easy Target when it comes to completing passes to Mike W. I have watched every single play this year and in my opinion Mike is a very big disappoint all by himself. I hear everyone say he was brought in to be the speed guy but guess what, a 60 million dollar contract requires more. I don't see a whole lot if heart when it comes to challenging DB's for the ball. At least try to knock it out of the DB's hands if the pass is under thrown. Can Mike jump, I have yet to see him reach to the highest point on a deep ball to make a play. His hands are always around his chest waiting for the ball to land there like a loaf of bread.
Give some serious effort and I'm willing to bust T' s chops.
Yes Thill has many apologists like Mark in T et al. They all cry foul play as we show Thill's many weaknesses over his period behind center for us.
Philbin and friends really have handcuffed the offense for much of the season because of Thill's limited skills. When he does go deeper than 20 yards, I just hold my breath as the balls look like the old MarcWilson rainbow flutter.
Realistic make a solid point...Wallace is not fighting for the ball like most Alpha receivers do.
The label of him being a one trick pony seems to be accurate and I'd take Brandon Marshall over Mike Wallace ANYDAY!
Where is Thill when he gets drops ??? He should be in the recievers face and give it to them.
Thills leadership skills are non existent. Can anyone show me an occasion where Thill has given a reciever even a look after a drop ? When has Thill gone into a ref for an awful call ? He doesn't have that competitive streak.
Brady for example torn the ref a new one on the last play aginst the Panthers. Earlier in the year he got stuck into his young recievers.
Sure he is a vet now, but he has had that fire early in his career, as Marino did and even Matt Moore has.
In all fairness to T-hill by comparison...anybody know Big Bens #s on 41yd+ passes his first 2 years in the league?
Marco, you want to ask me out on a date? You keep mentioning me here, what's your deal???
And why is Failbin just now addressing this issue, and why does e have to get involved. He is pathetic and his choice for QB and WR coaches is pathetic!
C'mon. Totally my friend. Its Thill Forward Fast all over again. The talent is here to go to the playoffs, but with the coaching and a certain Thill at the helm we can't close anyone out cleanly.
Looking over the season our D has had to go back into the game after so many 3 and outs. I'd like to see the stats on how many we have had only for us to give up TD's.
Our inability to convert on 3rd and short has been a disgrace.
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It should be noted that Risk Factors don't necessarily mean that Adobe's business is being hurt by any potential issue. The Risk Factors section of an SEC filing is meant to inform investors that there are certain market conditions that, depending on the outcome, could have a negative effect on a company's bottom line. Sometimes those risk factors are extremely specific and likely to happen, while other times, they can be very broad and unlikely to occur.
But Adobe's decision to add the iPhone and iPad to its risk factors is awfully telling. Steve Jobs has made it clear that his company is waging a war against Flash. And as Adobe points out, the more ubiquitous the iPhone and iPad become, the greater the chance that Flash will lose some of its market share online. That, it seems, is what's making Adobe run a little scared.
In a blog post written in January after Apple announced the iPad, Adobe made it clear that it wasn't happy that Apple had left Flash out of its tablet equation. Adobe group manager Adrian Ludwig said at the time that "there's something important missing from Apple's approach to connecting consumers to content" on the iPad.
"It looks like Apple is continuing to impose restrictions on their devices that limit both content publishers and consumers," Ludwig wrote at the time.
Of course, Apple doesn't agree. During a question-and-answer session following the announcement of iPhone OS 4.0, Apple CEO Steve Jobs was asked if the software would support Flash. His answer was succinct and telling of his company's relationship with Adobe.
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I have done a lot of work on this but couldnt find the answer for larger test cases
Problem statement
In mathematics, binomial coefficients are a family of positive integers that occur as coefficients in the binomial theorem. C(n,k) denotes the number of ways of choosing k objects from n different objects.
However when n and k are too large, we often save them after modulo operation by a prime number P. Please calculate how many binomial coefficients of n become to 0 after modulo by P.
The first of input is an integer T , the number of test cases.
Each of the following T lines contains 2 integers, n and prime P.
For each test case, output a line contains the number of \tbinom nks (0<=k<=n) each of which after modulo operation by P is 0.
Sample Input
2 2
3 2
4 3
Sample Output
• T is less than 100
• n is less than 10^500.
• P is less than 10^9.
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i have completed this by using remainder theorem in binomial coeffecients
#C(n,m) mod p
#then C(n,r) mod p=0 when (t<s or t=0)
inp1 = raw_input()
for i in range(N):
inp = raw_input()
a, b = [long(x) for x in inp.split(' ')]
for i in range(N):
print result[i]
above condition is satisfied for small numbers
sample test case
p= 177080341
my output is
expected output is
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After a first computation of my own, I tend to agree with your result. – MvG Aug 8 '12 at 15:44
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Your formula's off.
You're calculating l * (p - t - 1).
This formula doesn't work if there are factors of p^2, p^3, etc. This would occur when l > p (and possibly if m > p too).
For small numbers, try n = 10, p = 3 to see what I'm talking about. Your calculation would return 3 values of r where 10 C r mod 3 = 0, but in fact, there are 7.
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buddy thanks i got it – user1585003 Aug 9 '12 at 13:14
I'm curious as to what the actual formula is. I tried to figure that out before posting, but didn't. – Michael Aug 10 '12 at 4:34
Just call the function again <pre> def fun1(a,b): if a>=b: j=0 t=a%b l=a/b j=l*(b-t-1) return j+((t+1)*fun1(l,b)) else: return 0 inp1 = raw_input() N=int(inp1) result=[] for i in range(N): inp = raw_input() a, b = [long(x) for x in inp.split(' ')] j=fun1(a,b) #n=lp+t result.append(j) for i in range(N): print result[i] – user1585003 Aug 11 '12 at 13:57
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You can look at it from the other end: How many nCr are not divisible by p? There's a rather simple formula for that.
The binomial coefficient nCr is given by
nCr = n! / (r! * (n-r)!)
so the multiplicity v_p(nCr) of p in nCr - the exponent of p in the prime factorisation of nCr - is
v_p(nCr) = v_p(n!) - v_p(r!) - v_p((n-r)!)
The multiplicity of p in n! can be easily determined, a well known way to calculate it is
v_p(n!) = ∑ floor(n/p^k)
k > 0
If you look at this formula considering the base-p expansion of n, you can see that
v_p(n!) = (n - σ_p(n)) / (p - 1)
where σ_p(k) is the sum of the digits of the base-p representation of k. Thus
v_p(nCr) = (n - σ_p(n) - r + σ_p(r) - (n-r) + σ_p(n-r)) / (p - 1)
= (σ_p(r) + σ_p(n-r) - σ_p(n)) / (p - 1)
nCr is not divisible by the prime p if and only if the addition of r and n-r has no carry in base p.
Because that is exactly when σ_p(a + b) = σ_p(a) + σ_p(b). A carry in the addition occurs when the sum of corresponding digits of a and b (plus possibly the carry-in if there was already a carry produced for less significant digits) is >= p, then the corresponding digit in the sum is reduced by p and the next more significant digit increased by 1, reducing the digital sum by p - 1.
We have a carry-free addition n = r + (n-r) in base p if for each digit d_k in n's base-p expansion, the corresponding digit of r is less than or equal to d_k. The admissible choices of the digits of r are independent, hence the total number is the product of the count of choices for the individual digits.
The number of nCr not divisible by the prime p is
ND(n,p) = ∏(d_k + 1)
where the d_k are the digits in n's base p expansion,
n = ∑ d_k * p^k
Since there are n+1 (nonzero) binomial coefficients nCr for a given n, the number of (nonzero) binomial coefficients nCr divisible by p is
n + 1 - ∏ (d_k + 1)
with the above base p expansion of n.
Using Michael's example n = 10, p = 3,
10 = 1*3^0 + 0*3^1 + 1*3^2
so there are (1+1)*(0+1)*(1+1) = 4 coefficients 10Cr not divisible by 3 and 10 + 1 - 4 = 7 divisible by 3.
def divisibleCoefficients(n,p):
m, nondiv = n, 1
while m > 0:
nondiv = nondiv * ((m % p) + 1)
m = m // p
return (n + 1 - nondiv)
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brilliant explanation....could u give some pointers to materials discussing divisibility,primes,pollards rho etc...btw the result u just derived is a corollary of lucas' theorem – enjay Aug 11 '12 at 6:16
thank you for your answer! I found this paper, might be useful to someone math.ucsd.edu/~lni/math140/Suppl0.pdf – Ivor Prebeg Dec 8 '12 at 15:42
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what about creating a table[n+1][n+1] and storing all binomial coefficients using DP approach and then finding how many values in table[n][i] , where 0 I tried it , but it failed for the larger test cases . Anything i am missing here ?
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or maybe it is running out of memory since n<=10^500 , maybe , just a guess – saurav Aug 26 '12 at 22:30
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hello I'm on the finishline of writing a chat script. The only thing left is to compare how many messeges had the user seen with the total number in the database. Now the following line doesn't seem to work and I've been staring at it for an hour and can't find the cause.
$count = mysql_query('SELECT COUNT(id) as total FROM konsultaciq WHERE cat = "'.$_SESSION['key'].'" ');
echo count(total);
The echo gives me a value of "1", when there are 8 entries in the database under that "cat"
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Have you fetched the result? – Yogesh Suthar Jul 29 '13 at 4:18
First, total should either be defined as a constant or it should be $total. In either case, you aren't assigning a value to it. Secondly, the MySQL extension is deprecated. Stop using it right now and use PDO or MySQLi instead – Phil Jul 29 '13 at 4:18
Shouldn't that be echo $count(total); or echo $total;, or echo $count;? Try one of those. You have $count as your variable but not echoing it correctly. – Fred -ii- Jul 29 '13 at 4:19
You need to fetch the array $result = mysql_fetch_assoc($count); and then echo the value echo $result['total']; – Sean Jul 29 '13 at 4:23
@Fred None of those will do anything with the above code. In fact, $count(total) is a syntax error – Phil Jul 29 '13 at 4:24
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Change your code as below.
echo $res[0]; // it gives actual value of total
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$arr = mysql_fetch_array($count);
echo $arr['total'];
Use above code. As you have not fetch the data by using mysql_fetch_* and if you will use the count function then it will show the 1 because of it is fetching one row.
count function is used to count the number of elements in array in PHP and there will be only one element.
so use $arr['total'] to get the value of total count of the query.
NOTE: mysql_* has been deprecated in the PHP's latest version. So use the mysqli_* or PDO.
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It's better to use mysqli() or pdo, since this extension is deprecated. – mattosmat Jul 29 '13 at 4:29
@mattosmat yes I know it. I used the PDO. but OP is asking in mysql that's why give the answer in mysql_*. and why downvote. – Broken Heart ღ Jul 29 '13 at 4:31
@BrokenHeartღ I agree with you and have a point about the OP's question being MySQL related, as the OP did not ask for MySQLi alternative. – Fred -ii- Jul 29 '13 at 4:35
@Fred Ok, I will addedd a note in the answer to use the mysqli or PDO. – Broken Heart ღ Jul 29 '13 at 4:36
@BrokenHeartღ You're quite welcome, cheers. I'm in the learning process (DB), and will not be using MySQL, but MySQLi or PDO as strongly suggested from the answers I see here on SO. – Fred -ii- Jul 29 '13 at 4:40
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You should not be using the MySQL extension. Here's an example using PDO instead
$pdo = new PDO('mysql:host=localhost;dbname=your_db_name;charset=utf8', 'username', 'password');
$stmt = $pdo->prepare('SELECT COUNT(1) FROM konsultaciq WHERE cat = ?');
$stmt->bindParam(1, $_SESSION['key']);
echo $stmt->fetchColumn();
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In FreeBSD, for getting TCP socket options (in tcp_ctloutput() in tcp_usrreq.c), it needs to do lock with INP_WLOCK(inp) as setting socket options does. Since getting TCP socket option only read some data from tcp control block and does not change data, I am curious why we do not use read lock with INP_RLOCK(inp) for a better performance.
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If you don't put a write lock on it, the options could possibly change while reading it, producing bogus results.
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1. They are incorrect on a lot of things, unfortunately. The OMN is No. 1906 Peerless, the AKA is "Frost Crystal." Heacock first printed some original information on the pattern in his ruby stained b...
2. quite welcome. I don't know how to post photos in a comment/reply or else I'd see if I can post some of that catalog for you.
3. This isn't the celery vase. Looks like the sugar missing its lid. The celery vase in this pattern is just about 7" tall and has a scalloped edge and is pinched inward or flared by being hand tooled. ...
4. It's Tarentum Glass Company's No. 1906 Peerless pattern. I've seen it misprinted as No. 1900 before. Don, what reference did you use? Just curious how far the error has spread. I am looking at an ad i...
5. Not Chippendale. It's closer to Indiana Glass Company's "Quadruped" but the handles are a bit different. U.S. Glass made a very similar pattern known as "Evangeline."
6. L.G. Wright had this pattern reproduced. They called it "Sweetheart," but it was not reproduced in opalescent glass.
7. At least one original Imperial Glass Company catalog refers to this design as "Persian."
8. Cashews was actually made by Dugan. It appears in Butler Brothers assortments with other known Dugan patterns.
9. This particular pattern also appears in a Monongah Glass Co. catalog, so I would assume those pieces would not be marked.
10. Cheers!
11. You're welcome. I've been at this for over 25 years, collecting and researching. Photographic memory sure helps!
12. You're welcome, one of my 'random acts of kindness' for the day :)
13. you're welcome!
14. Welcome, Don. Hope you've been well!
15. Pretty sure that base is Indiana Glass Company's "Rosepoint Band" aka "Clematis" from the teens.
16. Bryce's Wreath was introduced in the mid-1880s. There is no indication it was continued when Bryce joined US Glass in 1891. A few random pieces appear in early USGCo. catalogs, but this was probably o...
17. L to R: Federal's Columbia, L.E. Smith pebble rim I believe this is called Melba; Fostoria's Romance etching.
18. First plate is Federal's Rosemary next to Sharon aka "Cabbage Rose." Last photo is Hocking's Princess.
19. Imperial Glass Company, 1930s...if memory is serving me correctly Hazel Weatherman named this "Landberg." Been a long time since I referenced that book.
20. Saw you ask for help in another post. First photo l to right, Royal Lace by Hazel Atlas; Princess by Hocking. Second photo, small s&p in foreground by Hazel Atlas. These also come in clear and cobal...
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22. Don, Though we still are not certain which company made this pattern, you can comfortably place the date of production in the mid-1880s. The pattern is found in amber, blue, canary, apple green, and ...
23. Jefferson made this pattern, not Northwood. It is shown in jobber catalog assortments among other known Jefferson patterns.
24. Pattern is "Frances" by Central Glass. It came in a host of shapes and colors, so you can add to this if you like. It's Deco design attracts a lot of admirers.
25. Hi TC, Neither Depression or cut...pressed glass considered EAPG (Early American Pattern Glass). It is J.B. Higbee's Alfa pattern, introduced for the 1908 market. After the company closed in 1918, ...
26. This cream pitcher was originally made by Westmoreland in the early 1900s. Was in and out of production for many years. Originals should have just a number moulded on the bottom. Later ones marked ...
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29. The vase is a reproduction of Duncan and Miller's "Homestead" pattern. Not sure who made your vase, might have been Smith.
30. Pattern is Petal, was originally made by Federal Glass Co. When they went out of business in the early 80s (I believe), Indiana Glass Co. acquired many of their moulds. So this could be either Feder...
31. Google search showed one that was on eBay at some point, wouldn't pull up.
32. Think you mean Silver Crest
33. Wondering if this was something Indiana made for Tiara. It looks like their Chantilly Green.
34. PS, yes there is a matching diamond shaped creamer to go with this set.
35. Indiana's Sandwich pattern in milk glass dates ca. 1950s to 1970s
36. Wright's Sweetheart repros were not done in opalescent colors, so these bowls are from the original production.
37. Fostoria and other companies made these vases in the early 1900s. It is handpainted--over a line transfer. Made things go a little faster on the production line, a very common technique in this era.
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40. Don, Fostoria's American was introduced in 1915.
41. Let me know if you need any help. I may have some scans of original catalogs that show this type of caster
42. Welcome!
43. Andy, These are European, most likely Czech from the 1950s-1960s era
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The Brood
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Wolverine is running through an alien jungle landscape, and he knows that he's dying. He gets ambushed by a plant-creature which blasts him with hallucinogenic pollen and falls into a daydream.
In the dream he is riding with Mariko Yashida - they share a tender moment, but then Wolverine notices large birds coming towards them, and on instinct tries to send her riding away. She gets blasted anyway by some sort of ray and disintegrates!
This and some banter by the Brood hunters snaps Wolverine back to reality. He dives down into the underbrush to evade them, and when that fails he takes the fight to the closest one. The others come quickly, but Wolverine is better even than Brood warriors - until he makes a misstep and plummets down through the canopy. He hits a gigantic web hard, and passes out.
Dawn finds Wolverine still in the web, but finally with a clear view of where he is. He sees a humongous corpse, resembling one of the Brood's living starships, but unbelievably huge, its ribs reaching above the breathable atmosphere of the planet. Its partially decayed, the natural decomposer's unable to degrade anything that big quickly. Its corpse is being used by the brood as the structure for a city, with gleaming transparent domes dotted along the opened rib-cage.
Wolverine then hears creatures coming to investigate the web, and starts to try and free himself - but he feels a sharp pain in his head and falls into a flashback of how he got there. He's on the Shi'ar starship Z'reee Shar, and he recounts the banquet and ambush.[1] When he recovers consciousness, he sees Brood all around him, and tries to alert the others, but they don't seem to notice. Suddenly, he's seeing Shi'ar and a banquet instead of Brood. His senses and his intellect conflict over which is reality. Wolverine keeps flipping back and forth between the different versions, and then the main ceremony of the Shi'ar banquet begins. The X-Men each go up in turn to receive something from an incredibly tall Shi'ar woman. Each of the X-Men receive a hug from her, until its Kitty's turn, and she suddenly reacts in horror! But Wolverine can't seem to act, and then its his turn, and just before its all over, he realizes that 'tall Shi'ar' is actually the Brood Queen!
Wolverine awakes from the flashback in time to fend off scavengers moving in on him. He escapes as the scavengers turn on the ones Wolverine has weakened or killed, and he climbs up onto a large branch. None of the combats he has fought have done much damage, but he's weak, worn out. He puts his head back and waits to die.
He has yet one more flashback. Its last night. He awakes in what appears to be a room on the Shi'ar home world but looking out the window confirms he's somewhere else. He creeps out of his room to find Storm, and tries to clue her in, but she dismisses his worries out of hand. He 'nerve pinches' her, knocking her unconscious, so she doesn't alert their captors. Deciding he's on his own, he makes only one stop before escaping. He wants to take Kitty with him, but decides she's better off where she is - and gives her a kiss on the forehead goodbye. He promises himself he'll get her out of there safe, but his mind is seeing him popping his claws through her chest as the light fades from her eyes. He shakes away the disturbing image and leaves.
While leaving, Wolverine stumbles upon Fang (one of the renegade Imperial Guard) begging for his life. Suddenly he begins to transform, and the Brood disclose he was implanted with a Brood embryo, an embryo that is now hatching! He transforms into a Brood warrior, and Wolverine cries out in anguish - he realizes he and all the X-Men have also been implanted! The Brood warriors hear his cry, and the chase is on.
Wolverine comes to on the tree branch. He sees a lone Brood patrolling the area and ambushes him, ultimately forcing the brood to carry him back to the brood city. Wolverine has decided to go down fighting. However, he has another attack, and the brood takes advantage of this to drop him amongst other warriors. The fight is on, but Wolverine is the best he is at what he does. The fight over, Wolverine's implanted embryo starts to hatch. He fights - it can't remold his adamantium skeleton, and he uses that as an anchor. They both scream.
Sunrise comes again. Wolverine wakes up - his healing factor has helped defeat the embryo. Its dead. Wolverine summons up his resolve - he can't save his friends the way he saved himself - if need be he'll kill them to stop this horror. And then, its the Broods turn.
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The Record-Courier identifies the pilot as Carson Valley philanthrophist Robert H. "Budge" Brown, who owns a winery.
The flight should have only taken 45 minutes. Radar shows the plane flew over the Sierras toward Tahoe before turning south, possibly to avoid thunderstorms. Brown was last tracked east of Sacramento, where the mountains are 6,000 to 7,000 feet.
Brown's family says he’s the owner of the plane and an experienced pilot, having flown that route 200-300 times.
The Civil Air Patrol is using a plane for the search, and the Sheriff’s Office is using a helicopter to search gullies and crevices.
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1236724_eggs_on_whiteThere are many things that I am thankful for this year, and one of them is having the Google search engine. Some people joke that they can’t cook or even know how to boil water. I thought making hard boiled eggs was something everyone knew how to do except me!
However, when I searched for “How to make hard boiled eggs,” I was surprised at how many different ways there are to do it confirming my notion that it is not as simple as it sounds. However, I did find a really simple, and relatively, fool-proof way to make hard boiled eggs and I haven’t had any problems with it. What’s your technique?
Here’s the one I’ve stuck with
1. In whatever size pot that fits your eggs, start with filling it with COLD water then add your eggs (I usually cook 3-4 at a time, they’ll last up to 5 days in the fridge when cooked.)
2. Bring the pot to a boil (salting the water helps decrease the boiling temp, so they say – I happen to do it out of habit.)
3. When the water boils, turn off the heat and cover the pot with a lid.
4. Let the eggs hang out in the pot for another 10-12 minutes.
5. Rinse the eggs with COLD water.
6. And like magic (more like science) your eggs should be hard boiled and edible (and you can easily remove the yolk to avoid the heavy cholesterol but still have the protein.)
Oh the amazing, incredible edible egg it is!
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• Machelle
Yep. That’s exactly how my mother-in-law taught me to boil eggs. And…if you are peeling them all at once, drain the water out, leave the eggs in the pan, hold the lid on tightly with both hands & shake the devil out of it! The shells ALMOST fall off the eggs! I saw this on Rachel Ray. It works!
• Dustin
Actually salting the water(ie, adding a lower vapor pressure solute to a solvent) raises the boiling point. The added salt lowers the vapor pressure thereby requiring more energy for the state change to occur. Depending on the amount of salt, altitude, etc, the change in temperature is somewhere in the range of 100C to 103C. The converse is also true-that salt will lower the freezing point. | http://www.dmu.edu/dose/2010/01/egg-cellent/ | dclm-gs1-192800002 | false | false | {
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1. 1 lb yukon gold potatoes or 1 lb other yellow-fleshed potato, peeled
2. 4 cups medium broccoli florets
3. 1 leek, white part only, thinly sliced
4. 1/2 cup low-fat milk ( 1%, or milk of your choice)
5. salt & freshly ground black pepper
6. 4 teaspoons unsalted butter
7. 1/2 teaspoon ground mace
4. Drain the potatoes and place them in a deep bowl.
8. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
10. To serve, spoon the smashed potatoes into a serving bowl.
12. Drizzle the butter, letting it pool in the hollows.
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this pirate daily deal is crazy!!!
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PSA: I just noticed that the first two Monkey Island games can be bought together for 3.75 during the deal. Just look at the store page for one of the individual games. They're about equally good, so it's worth it. Personally, I wish the third game was on Steam, as I already played the first 2. | http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/916373-pc/67283504?page=2 | dclm-gs1-192950002 | false | false | {
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0.022692 | <urn:uuid:850e7f56-7e1f-43bb-b1d8-072ca42fefa1> | en | 0.953867 | Review by Mike_Gnz
"A blast from the past, though less of a bang and more of a zoom."
Sonic the Hedgehog 4 is the newest Sonic game, a collaboration between Sonic Team and Dimps, the development team behind the Sonic Advance and Sonic Rush series of games, as well as the designers of the Wii and PS2 versions of the daytime levels of Sonic Unleashed. Your first thought would be the Sonic cycle, but you're wrong. Sonic 4 is a solid title and, while not good enough to be considered the second coming of Sonic, is still a solid game.
Story: 6/10
The story, though not described in-game, has Sonic taking a vacation after the destruction of the Death Egg from Sonic 3 and Knuckles. That's right; this is a direct sequel to Sonic 3, taking place before any of the other games. Sonic learns that Eggman is up to no good, and thus our hero is off on another adventure, without Tails or Knuckles backing him up. I wish it could have said it in detail instead of having you require to read it elsewhere, but the story isn't important.
Gameplay: 9/10
The game will have you racing through an island, a large sprawling casino area, a deep labyrinth, and a large system of pipes and cogs as Sonic races to stop Dr. Eggman from, once again, turning animals into robots in order to take over the world. The old powerups from Sonic 1 and 2 make a return, including the Speed Shoes, the Shield, and Invincability. Old enemies also return, including Grounders, Slicers, Skullcrushers, Sols, and those damned starfish, Asterons. As with most Sonic games, getting hit once means you lose your hard earned rings, but this time around, you can recover up to 32 of them on the rebound, which is quite handy if you're in a pinch.
The game is composed of four Zones. Splash Hill is a nice spring-themed Zone, harkening back to the Green and Emerald Hill Zones of old. The Casino Street Zone brings back the bumpers and pinball pushers of Sonic 2's Casino Night Zone. The Lost Labyrinth Zone is an obvious callback to the Labyrinth Zone of Sonic 1—and yes, the Sonic drowning music makes a return. The Zones look very good on a TV screen, and the graphics are very well done all across the game, and the enemies are recognizable now as they were before…and just as annoying, too. As in Sonic 1, having 50 or more Rings at the end of an act will make a golden ring appear, jump into it to reach the special stages. Here, you rotate the stage using the d-pad, or you can opt to use a tilting method, tilting the Wiimote to turn the maze. Once Sonic gets to the Chaos Emerald at the end of the stage, it's yours. Once you get a Chaos Emerald in an Act, you can't use that Act to get another Emerald, which makes sense, as it wouldn't exactly be proper to replay Splash Hill Zone 1 over and over to unlock the Emeralds too early.
Each Zone is composed of three Acts and a Boss Act. The boss acts in each Zone are also throwbacks to the original Sonic games, with each of the four bosses retaining some major element from a previous Sonic boss. As nostalgic as it is, the predictable patterns make it easy for Sonic veterans and for those who even have a little bit of experience with gaming in general, even with the desperation pattern the bosses use before they go down. The boss fights are disappointing, but a nice callback nonetheless.
Music: 8/10
The music can be hit and miss. Obviously, the music was meant to recall the old games not just through graphics and sprites, but through music and sound effects. And for the most part, it doesn't disappoint. Many classic Sonic sound effects are present here, and the music, for the most part, does its job well of providing good background music as well as reminding me of the good old Genesis sound. The primary boss theme is an unused track from Sonic 3D Blast, and the special stage theme is a slower arrangement of the theme from Sonic 1, as well. However, the final zone and boss themes leave something to be desired.
Control: 9/10
Control wise, the game handles very well. On the PS3 and 360, you use a controller while on the Wii, you hold the Wiimote sideways. Sonic is responsive to controls and there's no delay between pressing buttons and Sonic reacting to those presses. The homing attack works effectively too, though the targeting reticule likes to lose track of its target without notice, causing you to instead get a minor jump boost, which doesn't always work in your favor. You can use the homing attack in certain areas to hit a chain of enemies, usually with another path or a monitor waiting at the end, or just as a way to boost your score. The spindash returns with no changes from before, as well.
While Sonic responds well to the controls, the biggest complaint I have has to be in momentum and physics. That is to say…there's barely any. If you're not holding the direction you want to go after hitting a boost, Sonic will stop dead in his tracks after moving a few feet, and in mid-air, unless holding down the direction you want to go, Sonic will fall like a lead brick. The old games had momentum and Sonic could roll to a calm stop even without a button being pressed, but if you're not expecting it, you could have to redo a jump or be attacked if you expected to keep moving without holding down left or right. It's not a big problem, but it takes some getting used to. It's something I hope Dimps and Sonic Team rectify before Episode 2 comes out.
Final Verdict: 8/10
All in all, I rate Sonic 4 Episode one a solid 8/10. Except for out of place music at some points, and the apparent lack of momentum, it's a solid entry into the title and it proves once again that Sonic can still rock 2D very well, and with Sonic Colors on the horizon, without any swords or werehogs in view, Sonic may still be able to redeem himself before the year is out. 15 dollars worth of Wii Points is worth the price for Sonic's return to 2D console gaming.
Reviewer's Score: 8/10 | Originally Posted: 10/18/10
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abredeson@islandpacket.comSeptember 2, 2013
Brien Kurtz is photographed outside his Hilton Head Island home.
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Brien Kurtz has wanted to be an engineer since he was a little boy. Now 21, the Hilton Head Island native is well on his way.
A mechanical engineering student at the University of Notre Dame, Kurtz just returned from a seven-week internship in China, where he gained valuable experience in his field.
Kurtz was selected, along with four other Notre Dame students, to represent the school's Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering in a joint program with Worcester Polytechnic Institute. The students stayed at Tsinghua University in Beijing and worked with American-based company Johnson Controls on improving the cost-effectiveness of its car seat frame design.
Kurtz said they were specifically working on seats for a class of vehicles Johnson Controls sells to Chinese manufacturers.
"The task that they gave us was to make the seat cheaper to produce," Kurtz said. "That seemed like a pretty simple idea -- just make it cheaper. How hard could that be? Turns out it's really hard."
He said engineers have spent years designing and optimizing the seat design to make it as cheap as possible for Chinese consumers.
"To ask several undergraduate engineers to just step in and in seven weeks make it cheaper -- no small task," he said.
Kurtz said he and the other students traveled to Johnson Controls headquarters and manufacturing plant in Changchun, where they watched the seats be made from start to finish.
"That sounds dreadfully boring for normal people," he said. "But as engineers we were fascinated. It was like an episode of 'How It's Made.'"
Kurtz said in order to figure out how to make the seats cheaper, the students looked at all the different parts of the seat to see what was necessary. They found that for the most part the company already does a good job putting the seats together using sheet metal. They researched to see if there is a different material they could use that might make it cheaper and still meet all the safety requirements.
The students found that the company was using complex parts that require a lot of machining for the basin of the seat.
"We thought, 'Why can't we replace this by an injection mold for plastics so it's one step?'" he said. "You have the dyes. You inject it. You mold it. It comes out in one step. ... That would reduce manufacturing costs because it's just one step instead of 10 to do it."
They still had to figure out what kind of materials to use that would be strong enough. They found that polymer matrix composite would reduce the cost.
Kurtz said the company was impressed. They said the students did a good job and they would look into their solution further.
"They gave us what was essentially an almost impossible task," Kurtz said. "The fact that we got something that was promising and the fact that they indicated that was a pretty proud accomplishment for us."
Notre Dame engineering professor Dr. Bill Goodwine said his students were successful in coming up with a cheaper way to produce a car seat. He said the analysis and the final design were very good.
"He's sort of enthusiastically immersed himself in all the various dimensions of this project and program," Goodwine said about Kurtz. "He'll be a successful engineer, and hopefully this experience will add a dimension to his education."
Kurtz still has three years left to complete the five-year program at Notre Dame. He said he is looking forward to working as a student assistant for the school's Environmental Change Initiative.
"I know I'll be going back to Notre Dame with a completely renewed vigor for everything that I'll be doing," he said.
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