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I think you may find this draft version of my fourth article for al jazeera
of interest. Embargoed until publication at the end of week.
*The competitive dynamic of the p2p age is Scope, not Scale!*
*(What do medieval monks, Cuban socialists, Jimmy Wales and Joe Justice
have in common?)*
The competitive dynamics of industrial capitalism are well-known, and they
are all about scale.
Following the international division of labour imposed by globalization,
the aim of the competition is to be able to produce more of a unit, so as
to drive the unit price down, and outcompete the competition. Multinational
corporations and global brands now have very complex value chains, where
various parts of a product are mass produced in different parts of the
Nevertheless, the system has obvious weaknesses. One weakness is that it
drives towards monocultures, both of the agricultural type, but also
industrial monocultures such as the dependence of the Chinese coastal
economy to exports. And the latter example highlights a related second
problem. Competition drives prices relentlessly down, so, in the 1980's,
the domimant western players changed their strategy. They abandoned the
costly western workers to precarity, moved the low-profit industrial
production to low wage countries, and expanded the IP regime to extract
rent and superprofits via patents, copyrights and trademarks. As Thijs
Markus writes so eloquently about Nike in the Rick Falkvinge
if you want to sell $5 shoes for $150 in the West, you better have one heck
of a repressive IP regime in place. Hence the need for SOPA/PIPA , ACTA'S
and other attempts to criminalize the right to share.
But there is of course a more fundamental problem: the whole system of
globalizing the advantages of scale fundamentally rests on cheap global
transportation and thus, the continuous availability of superabundant
fossil fuels. After the passage of Peak Oil, and thus the end of the era of
cheap oil and with still exploding demand from the exploding BRICS
countries, it is more than likely that the whole regime will come tumbling
down, not in one day of course, but gradually, though non-linear downward
jumps are to be expected as well. Punctuated equilibrium is indeed not just
a feature of biological systems, but of social systems as well! .This means
that competing on the basis of scale, even if it is still effective today,
is also ultimately a game that loses relevance and ultimately can only be
played by those who do not care about the destruction of our planet … What
game can the others play? Consistently increasing prices for fossil fuels
means that innovation and competition have to find another outlet.
Actually, it's about inventing another game altogether.
But first, a short historical intermezzo, as this drama of transition has
been played out before …
While the late fifth-century Romans were still fighting for the crown of
Cesar Augustus, the Germanic 'barbarians' were already at the gate, and the
Christian communities already prefigured the values of a coming era of
relocalization based not on an economy of scale, but on an economy of
scope. And what are economies of scope? As a teaser, for now, this short
definition: “"An economy of scope exists between the production of two
goods when two goods which share a CommonCost are produced together such
that the CommonCost is reduced2 <#sdfootnote2sym>.” In other words,
by producing more of a unit but through shared infrastructure costs.
But let's resume our short historical excursion.
As the Roman Empire could no longer bear the costs of its own scale and
complexity and supplies of gold and slaves became gradually more
problematic, the smarter landowners started to free their slaves, but
binding them contractually to the land as 'coloni' (serfs) while on the
other hand, the increasingly taxed and bankrupted freeholders sought
protection from the very same domain holders. Thus, one side of the
equation was pure and simple localization, since the system could no longer
bear the global scale of the Empire. But the new post-Roman system also
invented a new system of innovation, based on the advantages of scope, not
scale. Indeed, as the cities were emptying out, and with it its knowledge
system of urban libraries, elite home schooling and academies; the
Christians invented monasteries, as the new agrarian knowledge centers. But
the important thing is that while the physical system localized, the
Christian Church actually functioned as a global open design community.
Monks and manuscripts travelled, and with it the many innovations of the
worker-monks. While Europe initially decayed as the remnants of the Empire
crumbled, eventually, after the first European social revolution of
this new system created the seeds for the first medieval industrial
revolution. Between the 10th and the 13th century, based on a unified
culture of knowledge, Europe started once again blossoming, re-introduced
negative interest money which kept accumulation by elites in
doubled its population, regrew its beautiful cities many of which were run
democratically by the guild councils5 <#sdfootnote5sym>, and invented peer
to peer universities in Bologna in the 11th century6 <#sdfootnote6sym>.
This first Renaissance was all based on the economics of scope, the unified
body of knowledge that European intellectuals and artisans could build on.
The guilds may have had their secrets, but they took them with them
wherever Cathedrals were built.
The same experience was reiterated in 1989, on a national scale, in the
most dire circumstances, when isolated Cuba could no longer rely on the
advantages of scale of the Soviet system. The Cuban crisis of 1989
prefigured the current world situation because they experienced their very
own Peak Oil situation when the Soviets abruptly stopped delivering oil at
below world market prices. While initially the Cubans went back to using
donkeys and the bodyweight of the population went in decline, the rulers
took a number of interesting initiatives. First, they liberated local
enterpreneurship by granting more autonomy to the local agricultural
cooperatives; and second, they mobillized the grassroots knowledge of the
population, including of urban dwellers. But thirdly and perhaps most
crucially, they created a number of agricultural institutes with the
overriding goal of emulating and spreading local innovations. Whatever the
other faults of the totalitarian system in Cuba, this open design
experiment worked beyond all expectation. As documented by Bill
McKibben7<#sdfootnote7sym>and a number of documentaries
8 <#sdfootnote8sym>, Cuba now produces more nutritious and organic food,
with a fraction of fossil fuels, and this for the same reason as the
earlier example regarding the Christian Church in the European Middle Ages:
sharing knowledge created economies of scope. Agricultural innovations
could quickly spread across the country and be adopted by everyone.
Indeed, economies of scale work well in periods of energy 'ascent', when
periods of energy 'descent' when the overall supply of energy and resources
'scale up from one', as with today's emerging “making on demand”
infrastructure. Economies of scope is exactly what peer production ( in its
and shared designs, open hardware and distributed manufacturing, …) is all
Let's recap what is wrong with the current global system, which is
entirely predicated on economies of scale, and actually in many instances
makes economies of scope illegal.
our current system is based on the belief of infinite growth and the
finite planet; let's call this feature, runaway 'pseudo-abundance'
the current system beliefs that innovations should be privatized and
sharing of knowledge and culture a crime; let's call this feature, enforced
'artificial scarcity'
Peer production methodologies are based on the exact opposite economic and
social DNA. Peer production communities believe that knowledge is a
commons, for all to share, and hence, no innovation can be withheld from
the human population as a whole. In fact, withholding a life-saving or
world-saving innovation is seen as distinctly unethical, and this
represents a true 'value inversion'. And peer production designs for
'distribution' and inclusion, i.e. small scale, even 'personal'
fabrication. Planned obsolescence which is a feature and not a bug of the
current system, is totally alien to peer production logics9<#sdfootnote9sym>.
In other words, sustainability is a 'feature' of open design communities,
not a bug.
Again, there are historical precedents to such value inversions. The
christian communities in the Roman Empire were not competing with Empire,
they were building their own institutions, based on a different and alien
logic. While Roman elites hated work, this was for the lowly slaves,
christian monks extolled work and tried to prefigure Eden in their earthly
Cities of God. Similarly, the French Sans-Culottes of 1789 were not
competing for feudal privileges, they abolished all of them in one single
day. It would therefore be wrong to see peer production simply as a set of
'competing' techniques … In fact, these evolutions are happening on a
different plane altogether. They live and co-exist in the same world, but
they do not really belong to the same world-logic.
So what are the economies of scope of the new p2p age?
They come in two flavours:
the mutualizing of knowledge and immaterial resources
the mutualizing of material productive resources
individuals, and nobody can know everything,as a community, local or
of knowledge and 'crowd-accelerated innovation10 <#sdfootnote10sym>', now
joint production factor that is knowledge, is dramatically reduced. Take
the example of the paradigmatic Nutrient Dense Project.
This global community of agrarian workers and citizen scientists is
interested in experimenting with better nutrients to obtain better quality
Strategies that are based on privatizing intellectual property, cannot
obtain such advantages of scope, or at least, not at that level. Or take
the example of the urban homestead of the Dervaes family in Los
who succeed in producing 6,000 pounds of food annually on a tiny city plot.
Because they are sharing their productivity innovation, hundreds of
thousands have already learned to improve their own lots, but imagine the
speed of innovation that would occur if they were supported by Partner
State institutions12 <#sdfootnote12sym>, who would support and spread such
social innovations even further!
The second principle, of mutualizing physical productive resources, is
exemplified by the trend towards collaborative consumption. The general
proliferation of 'p2p marketplaces'.
Let's take an illustrative example: car-sharing. Car-sharing projects can
be mutualized through the intermediary of a private company which owns the
cars (fleetsharing, like ZipCar), through p2p marketplaces which link car
users to each other (RelayRides), or through nonprofits (San Francisco) or
are 15 fewer owned cars on the road, but not just that carsharing members
change their behaviour and drove 31% less than when they owned a vehicle.
by nearly half a million tons13 <#sdfootnote13sym>.
Imagine similar developments in every sector of production ….
So, how will the new system look like, if economies of scope become the
and social system?
We already mentioned the global open design communities, and we suggest
Local Motors and Wikispeed are proposing and which are already prefigured
by the networks of hackerspaces, Fablabs and co-working spaces. This means
we also need global material organisations, not to produce on a global
scale, but to organize our material activities so as to minimize the
'common costs' of the various networks, and not just in terms of sharing
knowledge. In other words, who will play the role that the Catholic Church
and its roaming monks played in the Middle Ages? Let's not forget, it was
not just an open design community but an effective material organisation
giving leadership to a whole continent-wide cultural sphere. Do we have a
potential p2p version of this, that can operate globally? The answer will
be for a future contribution.
1 <#sdfootnote1anc>Falkvinge is the founder and former President of the
Swedish Pirate Party, see
2 <#sdfootnote2anc>
3 <#sdfootnote3anc>R.I. Moore. The First European Revolution, 970-1250 .
Blackwell, 2000.
4 <#sdfootnote4anc>Bernard Lietaer and Stephen Belgin. New Money for a New
World <>. 2012
5 <#sdfootnote5anc>Bibliography of European Medieval Democracies, by Elliot
6 <#sdfootnote6anc>
7 <#sdfootnote7anc>
8 <#sdfootnote8anc>Megan Quinn on the Cuban experience,
9 <#sdfootnote9anc>Value inversions in peer production, an overview,
10 <#sdfootnote10anc>
11 <#sdfootnote11anc>
12 <#sdfootnote12anc>
13 <#sdfootnote13anc>
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 7:14 AM, Toni Prug <tony> wrote:
How do we run a city without accounting? A region? A state? How do
we collect contributions, as we do in the forms of tax and money
today? We ask for tax to be voluntarily donated and hope for the
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Short-sighted solution shifts responsibility from women
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The Associated Press, reporting in August from Jerusalem, noted that the ultra-Orthodox community’s “modesty patrols” were selling eyeglasses with “special blur-inducing stickers” that fuzz up distant images so that offended men will not inadvertently spot immodestly dressed women. (The stickers apparently simulate nearsightedness, in that vision is clear in the near-field.) The “modesty patrols” have long tried to shame women dressed in anything other than closed-neck, long-sleeved blouses and long skirts, but may be losing that fight. A columnist for the Tel Aviv daily Haaretz praised the eyeglasses for shifting the responsibility to men for their priggishness.
n The way it usually happens is Mom and Dad start a road trip with their children, but after a rest stop, they fail to notice that one of the kids is not on board, and they may be well down the road before they turn around. However, in June, the family member left behind at a Memphis, Tenn., rest stop was Dad, and for 100 miles, no one grasped that he was missing. The family was traveling in a van, and everyone presumed Dad was in the back. He was still at the gas station, calling his own phone (which was in the back of the van). Dad finally reached Mom in the van by posting to Facebook.
n In June, inmate Michelle Richards, 33, was about to begin her sentence at the Albany County (N.Y.) jail when guards discovered a hypodermic needle and seven packets of heroin inside her vagina. (She had been arrested for possessing a needle and heroin in her bra.) Richards’ arrest came about a week after inmate Andrea Amanatides was caught at the very same jailhouse using the same hiding place to sneak in heroin and 256 prescription pills (reported in News of the Weird eight weeks ago). (Amanatides’ stash was discovered when the bag holding it became dislodged and broke open on the floor.)
n Stores and transportation carriers are, after all these years, still unsure about which “assistance animals” they must allow without violating the federal Americans With Disabilities Act. Under the U.S. Department of Transportation’s latest draft guidelines for airlines, released in February, miniature horses and pot-bellied pigs are allowed on board under certain conditions, but not ferrets, rodents, spiders, snakes or other reptiles. Apparently there is a North American Potbellied Pig Association, whose vice president pointed out to that swine can be trained to open and close doors and to use a litter box.
Another fortuitous injury
Fortunately, 9-year-old Jacob Holdaway got hit in the head so hard during a game of kickball in Fairland, Ind., in July that he started vomiting and having severe headaches. Because his parents took him to a hospital for that head smack, doctors found a golfball-sized tumor that might not have been discovered until after it had become dangerously large. Doctors were able to remove most of it and suspect it was benign.
Another absent-minded musician
The most recent musician to carry a rare, expensive instrument on public transportation but then forget to take it with him was the person who in July left a borrowed Stradivarius violin on a train when he got off in Bern, Switzerland. Initially, the musician panicked, but the violin was eventually turned in by a good Samaritan. (The last News of the Weird report of such a Stradivarius was the one accidentally left in a New York City taxicab in 2008. That instrument, reported as worth $4 million, was also returned.)
n Attendance is still strong in tiny Shingo, Japan, where villagers are certain that Jesus Christ is buried. About 500 tourists joined the celebration on June 3 (an event first held in 1964), in honor of Jesus’ relocation there (presumably a voluntary journey from Calvary after the crucifixion). According to legend, he lived out his life in Shingo uneventfully, and a festival with dancing girls marks the anniversary.
n In July, London’s Daily Telegraph, in a dispatch from Paris, touted Jean-Charles Tastavy’s experiment feeding three cows with a fine wine for four months (in a mixture, along with their usual barley and hay). (They “loved” it and consumed it “with relish,” said the farm’s owner.) The resulting meat, labeled “Vinbovin,” is now a delicacy in Paris restaurants (despite steeper prices to reflect the increased feeding costs for the cows).
n Michael Wyatt first made News of the Weird in 1991 when foot fetishism was viewed as unfit to report in most newspapers. Several arrests (owing to his aggressiveness and threats of amputating feet) have followed, resulting in jail sentences, but Wyatt is apparently still unable to resist his urges. In July in Faulkner County, Ark., Wyatt, 51, was sentenced to a year in prison for violating the terms of a deferred sentence he had received for harassing a woman about her feet in 2011.
n William “The Hackney Mole Man” Lyttle (first mentioned in News of the Weird in 2001) died in 2010 after spending most of his last 40 years compulsively digging elaborate tunnels underneath his home in east London. By the time authorities could stop him, the hollow shafts were endangering the street and adjacent homes. He was ordered to pay the equivalent of $560,000 so that the holes could be filled, and in July 2012 the refurbished, supposedly structurally sound home was placed at auction and drew a winning bid of the equivalent of about $1.5 million.
n In July a 29-year-old man was taken into custody in Brunswick, Maine, after police found him in the bottom of a portable toilet on a golf course. Police did not release his name, but he is not the same man who was charged in Portland, Maine, in 2009 after being found inside a pit toilet. That man was much older (49 at the time) and admitted to having an “outhouse problem.”
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Coffee beans in the diaper pail reduce the smell
Kristine's hack will set you back a few (Star)bucks, but may be worth it:
When our son started eating solids, the poop -- and therefore the diaper pail -- got a lot stinkier. A friend suggested that I dump a bag of whole bean coffee in the bottom of the pail before I put the bag in. In order to contain the beans, I put them in a zip-up mesh laundry bag. I couldn't believe that it worked! At first it smelled a little bit like Starbucks in my son's room, but after about a week, we really couldn't smell the coffee, and even better, we couldn't smell the poop either.
Related: Fabric softener sheet reduces diaper pail smell
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I'm sure that that would put me right off of coffee for a long long time. At least 2 weeks!
It took me a while, but I finally hit on a combination that worked pretty well -- activated charcoal (you can get it in the fish aquarium department of pet stores) in an old stocking at the bottom of the pail, and a few drops of lavender oil on a cotton ball in the bag seemed to neutralize most odors. Also, taking the bag out at least twice a week helped.
don't store the poopy dipes! Use the pail for pee only, poops go outside immediately! You're storing poop, nothing is going to keep it from stinking!!
Good to know about the coffee. My DD is breastfed, so her diaper pail was never really stinky until about a month ago when we started solids. Now, we only use the pail for pee diapers only. The poop ones get put in the big trash outside.
I just take the offending poo and flush it. I put the rest of the diaper in the pail. :)
we mainly use cloth diapers, and are used to flushing the poops down the toilet. Even when ds is wearing a disposable we still flush the poop. It's better for the environment and an easy way to keep the smell at bay. The coffee beans is a great idea though!
I love this idea, I bet it would work well with the used coffee grounds available for free @ Starbucks too!
Flush the poop! Once the baby is on solider food, the poop should eventually become thick enough to simply roll off the diaper.
We used cloth diapers about 60% of the time (100% for me, 20% for my husband, and disposables for nighttime), and we could store all the diapers (wet AND soiled!) in an open garbage container for a week before taking them outside. But as soon as ONE poop-containing diaper entered the mix, it'd go bad within hours, it seemed.
We use the Diaper Genie II and have been really pleased on how well the poop smell is contained. We run out of room in the base long before we start smelling anything.
To all the commenters who always jump in with "flush the poop!": My son is 13.5 months old now, has been on solids of various sorts since about 7 months, and it's only been in the last 4-6 weeks that this was even imaginable. Until then, it was way too smushy, whether in cloth or disposable, to even consider scraping into the toilet. (And really, it's still dependent on him eating enough bananas each day.)
So, if you're reading these comments and thinking, "I'm supposed to...WHAT???" hang in there! Eventually it will happen, but until then, please don't feel guilty if the thought of scraping that poo is just more than you can handle.
I'm not doubting that this coffee trick works, but I would definitely check with the sniffer of someone who doesn't live in your house before considering it a victory.
It's possible that YOU don't smell the yuck, but that other people do! (Have you ever been to a house where the owners don't notice the dog smell or cat litter smell? Me too.)
Mmmmm coffee beans!! Love that smell :-)
We used a diaper genie - it was awesome because of the way you twist the bag between each diaper - it locks away the odor. Also I agree with Kate's Mom in that the base is too small to hold much... you have to empty it before the smell can get too bad.
we throw poopies out pour window to a garbage bin. solves the smell problems entirely.
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10 inspirational quotes, part 4
by Henrik Edberg
Hey, here’s another 10 inspirational quotes from people like Mahatma Gandhi, Coco Chanel and a whole bunch of unknowns. Have a great weekend!
Michael Jordan
The future depends on what we do in the present.
Mahatma Gandhi
If I could reach up and hold a star for every time
you’ve made me smile, the entire evening sky
would be in the palm of my hand.
Our life is frittered away by detail…
Simplify, SIMPLIFY.
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something
but to be someone.
Coco Chanel
Out of clutter, find Simplicity.
From discord, find Harmony.
In the middle of difficulty lies
Three Rules of Work
Barbara Walters
One who makes no mistakes never makes anything.
If you can’t win, make the fellow ahead of you break the record.
If you really put a small value upon yourself,
rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
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So I gave a bit of a hint about this project the other night on #romhacking, but now that I'm a member of the forums, this shall be my place to call SNEER's home~
Current download status: v0.15 Available (as a viewer only)
Nyxo's TODO List (in no particular order...)
• Entity Graphics
• Editing of tiles
• Support for different sizes of rooms (more specifically, allow each room to take a different amount of disk space)
• Dialogue/Text Editor
• Audio Editor
• Script/Entity AI Editor
Basically what the intention of this project is, is to allow direct editing of the SotN map files from the CD.
Each zone is composed of 2 map files, XXX.BIN and F_XXX.BIN. (There's other files too, but they're just audio stuff)
F_XXX.BIN contains the graphic for the tileset, and XXX.BIN contains EVERYTHING ELSE. This includes, but is not limited to:
• Map layouts: Foreground layers, Background Layers, and Collision Layers
• Entity spawning code: A function that runs once when you enter a room, and a function that runs once every frame
• Compressed Entity Graphics
• Entity AI code: This includes code to animate sprites, as well as movement/attacks/etc...
• Scripted sequence code: This includes dialogues, switches, etc...
A lot of this code, it seems to me, could have been written external to the map files, not only reducing the map file sizes, but making things more standardized as well as reducing in multiple copies of the exact same code. ~sigh~
Currently SNEER is capable of loading/rendering an entire SotN zone's tiles, including background tiles, foreground tiles, and collision tiles, and additionally showing markers for where all the entities are positioned in the rooms. Note that there are some zone changes that most players will not be aware of, while playing the game. Most boss fights are in their own zone, not the actual "containing zone," the warp rooms are all in a zone together, but separate from everything else, and the dream sequence is it's own zone.
Something interesting to note is that when viewing the different layers, you can definitely see different "styles" of map making being used-- this is likely because more than one person was making the maps at Konami. There are some rooms with a background layer that scrolls at a slower speed than the foreground, and that is to apply an effect of depth to the room, so that makes sense. But some maps use this same background layer and [somehow] set the scrolling speed of it to the same as the speed of the foreground layer, making it all appear as one layer. Conversely, there are some maps that instead just put everything in the foreground layer, leaving the background layer empty. Regardless of how they decided to do it tho, the foreground layer will never -actually- be empty, because the collision data is stored in the foreground layer. In SNEER the collision data is displayed as a separate layer, but in reality, it is indeed, a part of the foreground layer. The background layer is capable of storing collision data, but afaict that collision data in the background layer is never accessed by the game.
Another note about the collision data, is that there are some "special tiles" also, that define some additional collision (and non-collision) data for the game. For example, grates that you must use mist form to get thru, spikes that hurt you, and walls/floors/ceilings that are breakable. Also stored in the collision layer are the tiles that contain water, including the entire waterfall.
At this time, SNEER cannot edit/save the files back-- this will be extremely difficult at best, until I can fully understand the map file format, as there are a LOT of pointers that rely in data being positioned exactly where it needs to be in the file, to function properly.
The graphics were made possible by emulating the PSX's Video RAM in software, and graphical hardware in a pixel shader. The entity graphics will be made possible via my WIP PSX CPU emulator. Unfortunately, all entity graphics, animation, etc.. are handled by each entity's AI, making it a royal pain to try and parse, which is why it requires a CPU Emulator.
After loading a map, the Virtual Video RAM can be viewed if you'd like, but note that it's more intended for my debugging purposes, and as such, it won't show very accurate information-- it only shows the VRAM state as it is after loading the last room of the zone (each room will potentially overwrite some entity graphics from a previous room, but the tile graphics will remain unchanged)
SNEER can now load all zones and all boss zones. Only interesting notes are marked here:
Please also note that the 3d animated backgrounds seen on these maps do NOT load, nor do the entity graphics get assigned to the entities- only loaded into Video RAM
• CAT (Catacombs) - The spiked area you need to use the bat sonar to get thru actually render with green outlines. I wonder if this is an indicator to the game that sonar should bounce off of it?
• DRE (Dream) - There's actually 2 identical rooms arranged vertically, one with entities, one without.
• NO3 (Castle Entrance) - The forest Alucard runs thru at the beginning is below the castle entrance, about 1 screen's space below the useless hidden save point- it extends from about the castle door until approx the room where you first see Death
• NP3 (Castle Entrance) - This is an exact duplicate of NO3, except that there are different entities, and there is no forest section outside the gate, or "below the entrance"
• SEL (Title Screen) - There's no map data, and no map-requested entities.
• TE1 (Test1) - It's a long straight hallway. Very long.
• TE2 (Test2) - See TE1
• TE3 (Test3) - See TE1
• TE4 (Test4) - See TE1
• TE5 (Test5) - See TE1
• WRP (Warp Rooms) - Yes, all 5 warp rooms are in their own zone
• RCAT (Reverse Catacombs) - See CAT
• RNO3 (Reverse Castle Entrance) - The outside forest is still there (this time above the entrance, obviously- but some of the tiles haven't been flipped upside down, so it looks a little weird)
• RWRP (Reverse Warp Rooms) - See WRP
Short vid of loading and viewing CHI: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cgwo4XfrIOo
Screenshot of MAD:
Short vid of loading and viewing collision info in CAT: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhIn2RQ3ei4
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As a college student in Italy, C. William Weyland Jr. developed a passion for the preservation of old building.
Today, that passion has changed the landscape of downtown Louisville .
When it was founded in 1993, Weyland’s CITY Properties Group operated in the suburbs, designing communities and developing real estate. Then in 1989, Weyland scored his biggest coup to date with the purchase of the Kentucky Opera Building in downtown Louisville.
The building was older and had a historical flavor, but had fallen into disrepair. Following his passion, Weyland restored the building and transformed it into a mixed-use commercial and residential property while preserving its historical integrity.
That was just the first of many such projects for CITY Properties. It began acquiring historical buildings and transforming them into mixed-use commercial and residential properties while preserving their historical features.
The projects had their critics, and some pointed out that people were moving away from downtown, not toward it. But together with city leaders, CITY Properties took the lead, and as a result, the downtown area has been transformed from a rundown, blighted area with dilapidated old buildings into an up-and-coming area.
His projects include the Louisville Slugger Factory and Museum, the Henry Clay project and the Glassworks building, an eight-story multi-use building housing office space, residences and Glassworks, where visitors can see art glass being made and also buy it.
Weyland’s strategy has been simple: He balances his entrepreneurial eye with his professional eye, waiting until the perfect opportunity arises.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Top-seeded Kansas was on the ropes, turning the ball over about as often as it was putting up shots, and had allowed North Carolina to build a comfortable lead by halftime.
Bill Self followed his team into the locker room and, undoubtedly, delivered quite a message, even though his answer dripped with sarcasm when he was asked later to describe it.
"I told them, 'Hey, just keep doing what we're doing, we'll be fine,'" Self said with a grin.
The Jayhawks were fine indeed, but only because they flipped the script.
They played better on defense, protected the ball on offense -- making shots didn't hurt either -- and behind the impassioned play of Travis Releford and Jeff Withey, pulled away from the eighth-seeded Tar Heels for a 70-58 victory Sunday in the third round of the NCAA tournament.
"We played miserably the first half and they took us out of everything," said Self, whose team trailed the Tar Heels 30-21 at the break. "The second half, we played really, really well."
Much to the chagrin of former Kansas coach Roy Williams, whose Tar Heels were knocked out of the tournament by Kansas during its 2008 title run and again last year, when the Jayhawks advanced all the way to the Final Four.
Withey and Releford led the way, the 7-footer scoring 16 points and grabbing 16 rebounds and Releford adding 22 points. Together, the two senior starters helped the Jayhawks (31-5) outscore the Tar Heels 49-28 in the second half, pushing the Big 12 champs into a South Regional semifinal against fourth-seeded Michigan on Friday night in Arlington, Texas.
Williams has always had a fond place in his heart for his former school, but the Southern charmer was booed heavily by the pro-Kansas crowd during pre-game introductions, and the din never died down in the second half, when things were spinning out of control for North Carolina.
"We lost to another basketball team," Williams said afterward. "The fact that I coached here for 15 years is extremely important to me, but it doesn't add anything to today.
"I hurt for my kids in the locker room," he added quietly. "The NCAA tournament, the swiftness with which your season ends is dramatic, and it hurts everywhere."
It was hard to blame him for the pain.
Withey made life miserable for the Tar Heels (25-11) in the paint, and the Tar Heels' new-look, four-guard offense was stuck around the perimeter. And when those shots quit falling, and the veteran Jayhawks started to get into transition, North Carolina was powerless to stop them.
Of course, none of that was the case in the first half.
After the opening minute, the Jayhawks missed 11 straight shots, committed four of their 12 first-half turnovers and went 7-plus minutes without a field goal.
Then, it was North Carolina's turn to suffer, the Tar Heels missing 12 shots in a row.
Everything switched again toward the end of the half, with the Jayhawks clanking just about every shot they put up off the Sprint Center's cold rims, and the up-tempo Tar Heels going on a 14-2 charge that helped them carry that nine-point lead into the break.
Kansas shot just 25 percent in the first half -- just a bit better than the Tar Heels, who went at a 26-percent clip -- as the teams combined to miss a staggering 52 shots.
It certainly made a difference.
Withey got the crowd inside the Sprint Center stirring with a putback, and then after the Jayhawks had missed 13 straight 3-pointers to begin the NCAA tournament, Releford hit one from the wing to bring more than 18,000 fans -- the vast majority Kansas fans -- to their collective feet.
Withey kept the charge going by driving the lane for a dunk, and then got isolated in the post for another dunk. Releford added a putback during their tag-team effort, and Williams -- who rarely burns timeouts when teams are on a run -- was forced to finally give in.
"The first half was probably the hardest we've played all year," said the Tar Heels' Marcus Paige. "In the second half, they got out in transition, and from there it just kept going."
The half may have been summed up with one spectacular play by Withey in the waning minutes: He batted a 3-point shot into the air, tracked the ball down himself, and then got it over to Elijah Johnson, who was fouled and made two free throws.
It wasn't long before that haunting chant of "Rock, chalk, Jayhawk, K-U!" -- all too familiar to Williams, and now to his Tar Heels -- began to echo through the cavernous building, ultimately replaced by a standing ovation from Kansas' frenzied fans.
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Faster Servers, Services with FlashStore
Memory has its faults-and not only the human variety.
Hard drives, for instance, can hold terabytes cheaply. But they're slow. Random-access memory (RAM) is fast but expensive, and data in RAM disappear the instant the power goes off. Flash memory is faster than hard drives and cheaper than RAM, and it retains information. But the way it handles data writes handicaps its usefulness in server environments.
Still, the distinct advantages of flash-particularly its ability to retain data when power is off, as well as its speed-led two Microsoft Research scientists, Sudipta Sengupta and Jin Li, to develop what they call FlashStore. It's a flash-based 'bridge' between RAM and a hard drive that helps to overcome the handicaps of each while maximizing flash memory's capabilities and minimizing its weaknesses.
FlashStore operates as a key-value store and uses a 'key' to access the 'value' associated with each piece of a data record. It supports the operations of read, write, update, and deletion of such data records. A third collaborator on FlashStore, Biplob Debnath, was a research intern at Microsoft and now works for EMC, a network-storage and data-recovery firm.
FlashStore has potentially significant usefulness across a range of computing applications, from server farms to cloud applications. It already has shown it can speed up online gaming for Xbox LIVE players, as well as data-intensive server applications.
Flash memory sits conveniently in the huge gap between RAM and a hard disk in terms of both cost and performance. With its properties of low power consumption, physical ruggedness, and small size, flash has enabled new experiences with many consumer electronic devices for more than a decade. But it is only recently that flash is seeing widespread adoption in desktop and server applications, in the form of solid-state drives. New applications of flash involve different storage-access patterns from those in typical consumer devices and, because of flash's device properties, pose new challenges to its ability to deliver sustained high throughput and low latency.
"Flash is great technology, but it requires intelligent software to make the best use of it," says Sengupta, a researcher at Microsoft Research Redmond. "That's where our work comes in." Sengupta and Li have written several papers for technical conferences on intelligent software design for utilizing flash memory, one of which is FlashStore: High Throughput Persistent Key-Value Store, which appeared in the 36th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases in September 2010.
Peculiarities of Flash Memory
In FlashStore, flash 'sits' between a hard drive and RAM, acting as a high-speed holding area for frequently used data. FlashStore works by overcoming flash memory's drawbacks. These relate to the way in which flash stores and manages data. In flash memory, data is not as easily overwritten as it is on a hard drive. Flash memory starts in an erased state, then collects data in page-sized units at a time, where a page can vary in size from 512 bytes to eight kilobytes, depending on the device.
But if you need to erase data, you can't do it a page at a time. Typically, an erase block consists of 32 to 64 data pages. Li compares the way flash works to a line of water buckets.
"The write operation is like pouring water into a series of buckets," says Li, a principal researcher with Microsoft Research Redmond's Communication and Collaboration Systems group. "The cheapest flash devices are designed so that if you need to erase a bank-the block-you have to drain the water from all the buckets. You can't drain just one bucket."
To handle data writes and reads, the memory controller in a flash-memory device uses a mapping system called Flash Translation Layer (FTL), which maps the logical page address of the incoming data to the actual physical page location of the data in flash memory. If a page of data is rewritten, it is written to a new location with an updated FTL entry.
During a process known in computing circles as 'garbage collection,' the flash controller takes valid data from a memory block, as well as new data, and writes both to a new memory block. The freed memory block then can be erased for storing new data-in effect, draining all the buckets in one memory block. But this process isn't efficient, in large part because of the requirement to reclaim space with pages that are rendered invalid by such operations. In time, repeated erase cycles also degrade the life expectancy of each flash memory block.
Flash also writes only to pages-nothing smaller. Data written to a page that is less than the page size, typically 512 bytes to eight kilobytes, make poor use of that page. Any attempt to write a small chunk of data within a page means the controller will have to move the existing data to another page, along with the new data.
Flash works fine on consumer electronic devices such as cameras and digital music players, where each photo or music file is at least megabytes in size, and data are written to flash mostly sequentially.
But flash performance drops drastically when data writes are random, which is the case for many desktop computing and server applications. Even today's high-performance, flash-based disk-replacement devices experience a dramatic drop in access latencies and throughput when performing random write operations.
Then there is the cost aspect of flash memory, which is about 10 times more expensive than hard disk per GB - and about 10 times less expensive than RAM. Flash makes most sense for applications that can identify and exploit the sweet spot between cost and performance.
FlashStore Efficiency
To make flash work efficiently enough to be more attractive on the price-performance tradeoff for heavy-duty server and cloud computing, FlashStore's creators had to create a more flash-friendly data structure while avoiding random data writes to flash. They did that by giving FlashStore three important design features.
First, FlashStore introduces flash as a cache in the memory hierarchy between RAM and hard disk so that the flash memory holds a 'working set' of data-information a computer is most apt to need. FlashStore tracks data use so that, as data becomes less frequently accessed, it eventually is sent back to the hard drive so that new, fresh data can take its place. That makes better use of flash while still getting much faster retrievals than are possible with a hard drive.
Second, FlashStore is designed to eliminate random writes. It organizes data in a log structure on flash so that new data sent to flash does not lead to random writes and, hence, is not subject to garbage collection by the device. FlashStore aggregates small writes from the application into a write buffer in memory and writes to flash when there is enough data to fill a flash page. By making writes sequential to flash, FlashStore makes much better use of flash-device architecture. If the application needs strict data-durability guarantees, FlashStore can aggregate writes in memory up to a timeout interval provided by the application or when a flash page worth of data is amassed, whichever comes first.
Finally, FlashStore is designed to use RAM efficiently by employing a specialized RAM index to access the data on flash. It uses a hash-table-based index in RAM that is designed to save space along both the vertical and horizontal dimensions - the number of slots and the size of each slot, respectively. To reduce the number of slots, it uses a variant of cuckoo hashing that achieves high hash-table load factors while keeping lookup times fast. To reduce the size of each slot, it stores a compact key signature of about two bytes in each slot instead of the full key, which could be tens of bytes or larger, depending on the application. Each slot also stores a pointer, typically four bytes, that points to the full key-value pair record on flash. During key access, the pointer to flash is followed only if the signature in the hash-table slot matches that of the key being searched. These techniques keep the RAM usage frugal - at about six bytes per key-value pair, independent of the key-value pair size-and key-access times fast, involving at most one flash read per lookup on the average.
In continuing work on a system calledSkimpyStash, a project that will be described in a research paper to be delivered during the 2011 conference of the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Management of Data, the Microsoft Research scientists have reduced the memory requirements of FlashStore even more, about six-fold, to about one byte per key-value pair. SkimpyStash reduces memory usage by making a tradeoff with key-access times and by using multiple flash reads per lookup, which is still orders of magnitude faster than hard-disk lookup times. The tradeoff choice between memory usage and key lookup times in SkimpyStash is adjustable and can be made by the application using a simple parameter.
FlashStore Performance
FlashStore's results are impressive. Server systems using FlashStore can show as much as several tens of factors of increased data throughput compared with an ordinary RAM/hard-drive configuration and existing software that is not flash-aware, such as a key-value store like Berkeley DB. When compared with simple hard-disk replacement with flash but no changes in software, as in using a flash-unaware key-value store, FlashStore demonstrated several factors of improvement in performance-underscoring the impact of using flash-aware data structures and algorithms in FlashStore. It could enable the creation of much less expensive and more power-efficient computing designs. In some cases, Sengupta says, system designers buy arrays of hard disks that remain only partially filled with data, because they need additional disk heads for higher input/output (IO) operations per second and not for disk space. FlashStore can be used to absorb the IO intensive operations at the flash layer, while leaving the hard drive to handle operations involving large data size that amortize disk-seek time overheads.
"You could replace 10 to 20 hard drives with one flash drive using FlashStore for such applications," he says. "That gives you a capital-expenditure savings, power savings, and operational-expenditure savings, as well, and you also get much faster throughput: an all-win situation on the three metrics of price, power, and performance."
Applications That Benefit
FlashStore is showing its potential in practical applications. Xbox LIVE Primetime 1 vs. 100, for example, operates a challenging computing environment-when a player initiates actions within a game environment, those actions must be logged and communicated to all other participants in a timely manner to maintain the responsiveness of the gaming experience. Game activity can scale up or down rapidly, depending on the number of online players. A game's ability to track and update thousands of player actions relies heavily on the back-end system's ability to map what the players are doing and retrieve changes in game play.
The Xbox LIVE Primetime 1 vs. 100 back end uses database servers running on hard drives to log and update game-state changes. But, Sengupta says, this results in a lot of redundant hardware-and latency issues as the drives retrieve and disseminate data. A flash-based system would be ideal, he says, because flash's speed could accelerate and improve the responsiveness of online game play. It also could hold relevant data until it is no longer needed, then send it to a hard drive for post-game analytics.
The FlashStore team replayed Xbox LIVE Primetime 1 vs. 100 game traces to test whether FlashStore could boost performance. It did-performing operations 60 times faster than a standard RAM/hard-drive configuration and five times as fast as a flash-unaware key-value store running on a top-of-the line commercial flash-based drive.
FlashStore also achieved significantly better results than a RAM/hard drive or a flash drive when tested with the task of performing data-chunk indexing for data deduplication, a method of reducing storage-capacity needs by eliminating redundant data. The FlashStore research team also has built a complete flash-assisted-storage deduplication system, called ChunkStash. The team reported its design and evaluation in a research paper entitled ChunkStash: Speeding Up Inline storage Deduplication Using Flash Memory, presented in 2010 during the USENIX Annual Technical Conference.
A FlashStore-like application also might find utility in areas such as ad-sponsored online searches, where relevant advertisements need to be summoned in response to certain queries with tight time constraints on advertisement selection and ranking. While RAM-based data processing is a choice for such latency-sensitive applications, a flash-based solution such as FlashStore could provide acceptable performance in many cases at a fraction of the hardware cost.
Flash memory has come a long way from its beginnings in consumer electronic devices such as digital cameras and portable music players. It is seeing widespread deployment in desktops and servers, spanning consumer, enterprise, and cloud applications. These developments present the computing industry with opportunities to identify new applications for flash memory-as well as challenges across the software and hardware stacks to get maximum performance at lowest cost.
"That," Sengupta says, "shows the relevance and timeliness of our efforts."
Our Comments
Here the subject is not hybrid HDD but more tiering with SSDs and HDDs,
with furthermore a technology to accelerate the transfer between RAM and
SSD avoiding some weaknesses inherent to flash chips.
FlashStore is not a product available on Microsoft's portfolio up to now but could be a valuable enhancement in next version of its OS.
Windows handles flash USB keys properly but the software giant does not have a good reputation handling flash cache on HDDs .
When Seagate and Samsung introduced hybrid HDDs in 2007, a number of
issues prevented their success with Windows Vista and ReadyBoost. In its
more recent Momentus XT units, Seagate was obliged to add more
intelligence to its controller to remove the OS, driver, and software
dependency previously required to take advantage of the integrated flash
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11-08-2006, 11:14
I just unpacked some valerian root I had purchased (the smell is so rank I cannot believe some people actually put it in sleep/dream pillows) and was filling my jar.
All five of my cats came running into the kitchen, jumping on the counters and trying to get at it. It was absolutely my own personal comedy moment - I tried to make them get down, but they were insistent on getting at it. I had to finally go into the bathroom and close the door to put it from the bag into the jar, and then throw the bag away outside in the trashcan to keep two of the most persistent from raiding the kitchen garbage can.
I know it has sedative and CNS calming effects and have no idea of what the dosage for a seven pound cat would be, so I dare not let them have any. (I always give them some dried catmint when I unpack it, but it doesn't incite near the reaction that this did.)
Anyoe else had cats take on so about this herb?
11-08-2006, 15:08
Sounds like the way they react to catnip. Maybe the cats know something about it we dont?
12-08-2006, 22:57
one of my cats goes absolutely crackers whenever i get camomile or eyebright out. lol
i was opening a package from my friend who sells herbs and the first thing that came straight out was the catnip/catmint, and i thought that everything wlse would be ok......wrong!
when i went back into the living room he had ripped open a bag of eyebright and was rolling about merrily and purring like a tiger! :D
he knows that when i go to a certain drawer in my merchants chest, then fun is about to happen......lol
15-08-2006, 06:09
I have seen cats do this with valerian often.. Its also brilliant for making you sleep. I sort of wish I had some...
15-08-2006, 07:15
I used to have a slightly valerian addicted cat - he found a bottle I had and used to try to get drops out. Most cats react strongly to valerian, but like you, I've never been sure of the safe dose so I don't normally give it to them (not that I've had any for years - valerian I mean :D).
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BUSH BUSH BUSH, Bush is the worst President EVER . Democrats are willing to be critical of Clinton, something Republican right wingers are not going to do to Bush. They are much like the German's who still backed Hitler up to the end RIGHT WING MENTALITY . Remember 4300 American's were not killed because of Carter starting a war over oil.If Republicans do not take that into consideration is because they have no value for our soldiers lives. Also no hostages died and Carter did commit TREASON like Reagan and sell Iranians weapons. McCain may consider Carter a lousy President , McCain was a lousy pilot , murdered innocents , committed adultery , was corrupt and still remains a lousy human being
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This is reposted from the GOP Tech Summit on Ning. The RNC will be collecting ideas for online activism and its broader implications (my focus here) through the end of the week -- and this is your chance to get your two cents in.
Traditional campaigns usually unfold in this order:
1. Raise money and stockpile resources so that you can afford to get your message out.
2. Spend the money to get your message out and gather support, usually through expensive mediums like TV, radio, or mail.
Barack Obama flipped this model in 2008. Yes, he was able to raise impressive sums early on from bundlers like David Geffen and Penny Pritzker. Considering how the campaign unfolded, this round of funding can be likened to angel investors in a startup: they give enough to buy the pencils and fund operations for a few months, but the company is ultimately expected to sink or swim of its own weight by selling direct to the consumer.
In this case, selling direct to the consumer meant money and volunteer hours, not just votes. Fundraising was not the province of a few bundlers or a few closely guarded lists or of a few direct mail tricks, but of an innovative campaign that fused fundraising, volunteer activity, and vote-getting.
This is what a typical McCain fundraiser in the last campaign looked like:
And this is what a typical Obama fundraiser looked like:
If you're telling yourself that was primarily a rally, not a fundraiser, you're right. The difference is that 1) the event in question was held on February 23, 2007 -- two years ago Monday -- on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin, not exactly when we're used to seeking big rallies and not exactly Iowa or New Hampshire. And 2) to get in to the event, each person had to register for tickets online. Getting someone's e-mail address is like raising $10 or $15, and in Obama's case, probably more like $35 or $40. The 20,000 people at that event probably donated $1,000,000 collectively to Obama -- and the cost of acquisition was nearly zero -- more than all but the most successful rubber chicken Republican fundraisers.
In this way, the traditional model was turned upside down: for the most part, Obama gathered political support and only then did he really kick the fundraising into high gear. This is different -- in a messier and unpredictable way, but also in a more lucrative way -- than stockpiling resources to meet a budget and shifting the focus late in the game from fundraising to grassroots. Cashflow issues aside though, I doubt that the Obama people minded much when the money came in.
The lesson here is that fundraising is not an independent variable. Fundraising is a dependent variable and the independent variable is the message. There does not exist an innate ability to fundraise independent of a strong message -- unless the candidate is fabulously wealthy and can self-fund. And in cases where there might be, all the fundraising in the world cannot overcome a poor message. If a candidate is wealthy or has rich friends, but has no message, the GOP should run -- not walk -- away from that candidate.
This is directly relevant to the RNC -- and all our campaign committees -- because they will often seek out self-funders with the thought that it might relieve the financial burden on the committee and allow it to invest in races where more help is needed. Political consultants often tend to favor this type of candidate -- because they pay. This is all well and good, if the candidate is a good candidate with a strong message, but if not, we're in trouble. And if a race really matters, the RNC or any other committee will probably pour in resources regardless. Paid media is not very leverageable and even $10 million can go to waste quickly if the force multiplier that is the message is zero.
Beyond a focus on self-funders, the all-consuming focus on early high-dollar fundraising is a direct threat to those of us who would like to a see a pervasive grassroots focus throughout the entire campaign. Hundreds of man hours are spent putting together an individual event, by which time the $2,400 check collected at the door nets you $1,500. Hours a day of the candidate's time are spent on the phone with big donors, and then we wonder why candidates are seen as insiders who can't connect with the grassroots. There is no doubt that this model can raise a lot of money. But not enough. Barack Obama shows that the alternative to this can not only raise enough money to compete -- it can utterly destroy the 100 city, $2,400-a-plate tour. Ask Hillary Clinton what it feels like to be the candidate of big donors.
The big donor, big bundler model worked in 2000 and was on its last legs in 2004, but we must now confront the reality that it just doesn't scale very well. It's important that we lay down a clear marker for future campaigns, and institutionalize this at the RNC: finding a creative way to collect 100,000 online petition signatures is now more important than the New York City finance event. I'm sorry, but it just is. It should require more executive level focus. It's more efficient and it scales better and it allows you to do everything you need to do in one fell swoop: get donors and activists all at the same time.
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Would you like cheese with your whine?
Clueless loser
According to this blog, the Republican party today is like the teenager who can't get a data. To figure out why he convenes a Tech Summit. They decide his problem is that he doesn't have the latest iPod, and he should act more like Obama and date the hot girls. The problem is: he hasn't figured out why girls don't like him. Clue: it isn't the iPod.
So suppose today's most popular Republican tries to pull an Obama. Sarah Palin announces a huge rally at the U. of T. Do you think more than 100 people would go? How many of them would eventually donate? Would they be moved by her message of (Hope and Change) Mavrickyness?
Want people to donate? Stop having Republican Governors on Tuesday say they will refuse stimulus money and on Wednesday apply for the money. Stupid inconsistency turns off donors, along with everyone else.
Patrick peddles snake oil again
If you want to increase the Republican's fund raising with the non-moneyed class, the Republicans have to decide that they are going to be a party of the middle class. No amount of e-mails, internet gimmicks, or Karl Rove tricks can make up for having bad candidates who did everything they could to trash the conservative brand for eight years.
When the Republican Party nominated a candidate who support the idea of selling citizenship to the U.S. at five thousand dollars per illegal aliens, the Republicans had to know that no middle class person would ever donate. When the Republicans ran up a five trillion dollar deficit and filled the budget with pork, they had to understand that no fiscal conservative would ever donate. when the Republicans in congress failed for six years to hold government accountable, they had to understand that the small government Republicans would stop donating. When the Republicans decide that giving no documentation mortgages to illegal aliens who were using stolen identities, they conceded the idea of fund raising, large rallies, or having the middle class care about their candidates.
Instead of worrying about e-mail lists or homepages, how about finding a way to rid the Republicans party of every failed Bush supporter, every idiot who is a former Congressional staffers; and finding leaders who actually believe in conservative ideas. Until the Republican Party decides to be something other than Democratic party lite with a big helping of religious extremism, there is no hope for elections or funding raising no matter how many internet gimmiciks are proposed by the Karl Rove wannabes like Patrick.
Patrick gets kudos from me for no more same-old, same-old
Patrick's idea that Republicans need to co-opt the Obama fund raising model would at least represent a new way of doing things. My fear is that the GOP is perfectly content to ride the natural swing of the pendulum from left to right. And really do nothing other than what has always been standard operating procedure.
The 2006 election represented a natural swing of the political pendulum which had been headed rightwards since 1980. Now it is on a 25 year swing to the left. If Republicans do nothing but be patient, history would seem to indicate that they will start their comeback around 2030.
However, history might not be a guide anymore. No one can deny that the Internet and Barack Obama have shattered our paradigms. Love him or hate him, Barack sure isn't business as usual on any level. He could come up with new ways of politicing and governing that throw the political pendulum in the garbage.
My farthest out prediction, at the extreme edge of possibility is: Barack will trade constitutional admendments with the GOP. Give us the end of presidential term limits, and we will give you an end to the natural born citizen provision. That let's your rock star, "Ah-nuld", run against our rock star.
Even if that does not happen I am 100% sure we will watch the news in the next 8 years and many times be forced to think "Well I'll be damned, that never happened before." So any new idea for the GOP is better than recycling the old ones.
art, if history is our guide
odds are we will be in some sort of authoritarian dictatorship within ten years.
Happy worldwide depression to you!
You have hit the nail on the head.
If we expect to compete in future campaigns we have to be able to compete at the same level. I too fear though that since the majority of our party are older they will not be willing to adapt to this new form of fund raising. Another point is that this same "Change" MUST apply to the way we campaign. Trashing and screaming and twisting the facts will no longer work either and you can again use Hillary Clinton as an example. Karl Rove needs to be shown the pasture along with Limbaugh the Magic Moron. His comments yesterday comparing the Dems to men who behead their wives did not garner us one vote unless it came from a nut job that does nothing short of embarrass our party. How do we get a handle on these folks? We let them KNOW we will no longer stand for it nor support it.
Thanks, but no thanks.
Thanks, but no thanks. Ahnuld isn't any dream Republican candidate. He's a moderate in terminator clothing.
Anyway, I think Patrick's on the right track with how to expend both fund raising, and gathering emails for further volunteering and marketing.
Actually the 2 methods, the rubber chicken dinner, and the populist rally, could be combined on the same day. Have the rally in the afternoon, and have the dinner at night.
One problem I've always had with rallies, is they're in the middle of the day, which means taking a whole day off of work. I personally don't want to spend a PTO day to support my candidate. That in itself raises the cost of supporting the candidate. It's cheaper for me to write a check, then to take a day off from work.
Now I did take a day off to try and see President Bush when he came to town, but for a campaign rally. When Mitch Daniels was doing his RV tour of the state, my wife and I attended several events of his. Most were either after work, or on weekends.
And the problem I have with the rubber chicken dinners is the entry price is so high. I think the last one I got started at $500 for just the dinner, then went up from there.
To hold successful rallies, you have to have a candidate/speakers who can really turn up the fire. It's both the message and the speakers. Bob Dole was dull. McCain was greatest when he was up on stage, and doing things off the cuff. His speaches weren't very inspiring though.
Rallies require supporters to be excited
Patrick refuses to discuss what issues will get conservatives excited enough to sign up for a rally and give up their e-mail addresses. I doubt that the last eight years of Republicans supported pork barrel spending is going to get people excited. I doubt that the open border and unlimited immigration policies of the every Republican since Reagan is going to get the middle class out to a rally. I doubt if capital gains tax cuts, more entitlement spending, more social engineering proposals are going to get conservatives out to rally around idiots like Romney or Huckabee.
The Republican's lack of fund raising is more due to the total lack of leadership in the Republican party, the anti-intellectualism of the Bush Administartion, and the inability of Congressional Republicans to control themselves and behave like conservatives.
No matter how Patrick spins this, people will not donate to the incomptent idiots who are at the top of the Republican Party. Until control is taken away from the former Bush staffers, nothing is going to help and no internet gimmick will have any positive effect.
Analyse the Past for Better future performance
So, the 2010 midterm elections are comming up. Yeah, it sucks, but we (the GOP especially) have to be planning what we/they are going to change to elect more Republicans to the House and Senate.
Michael Steele is off to a good start in changing the message. The House Republicans and most of the Senate are off to a good start in changing their actions. We'll see by the end of the year how they've done.
My biggest question to the GOP would be, how are you going to prevent the descent from fiscal responsibilty that occured over the last 8 years (although 2 of those years the Dem's had control of Congress.)
Speaking for myself, I don't think the intent of this post by Patrick, was to go over all the issues, but talk about the tactics of fundraising, and gathering information. And you can't tell me that in 24 pages of posts, Patrick hasn't talked about issues that will drive conservatives, and other Republicans to open their wallets, donate time, and vote in the polls.
although 2 of those years the Dem's had control of Congress
This is a golden oldie that won't fly any more. There was always a branch of either the legislature or the presidency itself controlled by democrats in the post war era that Republicans blamed their fiscal irresponsibility on. But there has never been a Republican House, a Republican Senate or a Republican Senate that has ever proposed a smaller budget than the previous year. 9 of the 10 trillion dollars of debt took place under Republican presidents, and HALF of that total took place under complete Republican control.
This is no an issue of "returning" to core principles. It's an issue of the bumper sticker sloganeering being exposed as simple falsehoods.
And if the republican rank and file really cared about any of these principles, Bush would have lost to a primary opponent. Instead he was lionized as a manly hero. It's about tribalism and power, not policy.
What's changing?
You say Republicans in Congress are changing. How? Voting against the stimulus then taking credit for it? Lying about the CBO report? What good have they done? (Hint: approval of Republicans in Congress has gone down this month while approval of Democrats in Congress went up).
These results indicate that,
These results indicate that, assuming conference affiliation does not change, an athletic fund raising practitioner should carefully track home football attendance as an indicator of fund raising contributions. A fairly strong positive relationship (r=.721) was found between these two variables. Other changeable variables of interest to practitioners in this regard are football winning percentage (r=.322) and men's basketball home attendance (r=.237), however, neither approaches home football attendance in the ability to predict athletic fund raising contributions. Business Lawyer Colorado
Message begets money; was 2008 an outlier or a harbinger?
Patrick identifies the two key inversions Obama's operation achieved.
1. Message begets money
2. Little money trumps big money
And it is important that we are analysing and evaluating the success of Obama08.
Nevertheless it remains an open question whether Obama08 truly represents a new model or was more a reflection of the particular conditions of the 2008 political moment. In order to be useful a model must be repeatable and sustainable. If the 2008 cycle was an unusual period of political engagement how confident can anyone be that Obama's message/small money success will prove out as a model when the electorate is not as charged up as it was in 2008?
Is it not too early to discount the importance of the particular circumstances of 2008? Were the circumstances more important than the campaign's message/money model? How often will these circumstances be in play?
• An unpopular war
• An unpopular President
• A charismatic and articulate candidate whose very ethnicity reinforced the central themes of his candidacy
• A candidate newly arrived on the national scene whose profile had been boosted by his very strong speech at the 2004 convention
• A candidate whose opposition to the war differentiated him from his strongest competitors on the most important early issue in the campaign
In a cycle where the appeal of the message is not so well prepared by circumstances not of the candidate's making will big money again be the difference?
If the energy of the 2008 cycle was indeed a harbinger of renewed citizen engagement in politics, it will be good for our democracy and it will indeed signal a major change in what it takes to run an effective campaign. The answer remains to be seen.
while this is true, Webb Tester and Lamont
also ran on some of the same, with a larger audience and a smaller electorate.
I tend to believe that these sorts of small donor ideas are BETTER STRATEGY as it allows parties to concentrate fire at the weakest links of the other party.
Which is better for democracy as a whole.
It's really worse that that
The real problem is Sarah Palin is the only Republican who would attract more than 100 people, who would later contribute to her campaign.
The party's postwar lies about their policy positions have been exposed by their years of control from 2001-2006. Turns out they are not the party in favor of free markets, smaller government, fiscal prudence and lower taxes (deficit spending defers and increases taxes, rather than lowering them). It turns out that the best description of Republican economic policy is using government to transfer income from the bottom 9 deciles to top decile of earners, with a special extra bonus to the top percentile.
They've also lied to the movement conservatives. I guarantee you that Jenna/Not Jenna, Meghan McCain, and Sarah Huckabee haven't practiced abstainance only birth control. Cheney's proud to have a granddaughter with lesbian parents. The party was run for four years by a guy barely in the closet, and there are at least a few closeted Republican Senators. Vitter has not been driven from office.
The people who who still buy this nonsense are the same people who see Palin as the savior of the party, and they are smack dab in the center of the party.
I can buy a guitar and sing songs about cars and New Jersey
but that doesn't make me Bruce Springsteen.
20K attendees at a rally 18 months before the general election is amazing - especially when you consider that the economy hadn't tanked yet, so those people were there to hear about things other than their immediate pocketbook issues.
Rally size.
I heard Plouffe and Axelrod speaking at a campaign post mortem panel at one of the colleges. They said that the famous "Celebrity" ad was a blessing. Obama's crowds were growing so large that the advance work and money to produce rallies was snowballing out of control. After "Celebrity" they made sure to book Obama in venues that only held 5K-10K,
After early voting began, they shifted back to larger venues, and once again drew the 25K+ crowds they had pre-Celebrity. Because every rally was GOTV in the last month. How anyone could look at the size of Obama's crowds in the last two weeks before the election, and not know what the outcome was going to be, is completely beyond my understanding.
many folks lack basic strategic knwoledge
obama was never as much about swaying the middle via poll numbers and debates -- he was about maximizing his base (which included independents and old-school republicans). very different strategy.
Despite the scholarly
Despite the scholarly interest in presidential nomination campaigns, existing research has given limited attention to the role of fundraising in these campaigns. I attempt to fill this void by developing a model based upon the hypothesized relationship between candidates' electoral success and increases in their subsequent fundraising. Using data from three recent nomination campaigns and pooled cross-sectional time-series analyses, I present results suggesting that success and media coverage have a strong impact upon the subsequent fundraising of long-shot candidates, while the subsequent fundraising of established candidates is attributable to their viability. The observed differences in the relationship are due to the expectations associated with the two candidate types. cold flu
Patrick, Patrick.
To paraphrase the inimitable Dorothy Parker at the Algonquin soirées,
"You can lead political whores to water, but you can't make them think."
All your plans here for implementing a new way of thinking for the GOP are going to be met with blank, hostile stares as the Political Consultant class, the consigliere class, the pollster and pundit industry, and the GOP candidate class are asked to throw the tried and true GOP playbook into the trash and sally forth to electoral battle as Obama Lite.
Call me when you and your new GOP get there, and be safe, K?
Patrick's meritorious idea
If every liberal on this site is coming out of the woodwork to trash Patrick's idea, then maybe he's on to something. I think Patrick's absolutely right - message is the independent variable, and you get money by having a message that appeals to people, gets them excited, and gets them to voluntarily open up their checkbooks. Before the election I read an article about this one Maryland woman who took out a HELOC in order to donate the maximum amount that she could to Obama's campaign. I thought that was simply insane - why would your average citizen go into that much debt over a mere political campaign? But it was because she was over-the-top enthusiastic about her guy. The enthusiasm came first, and the enthusiasm can only be generated by the message.
He doesn't have an idea
Patrick doesn't have an idea. He has a wish. He wishes more people would go to Republican rallies. He wishes the most popular Republican in America, Sarah Palin, was not a joke.
Great articles
The Person Is The Message
Obama was the message. His persona was the reason for the initial outpouring of support. He represented the ideal for liberals...what our very best hope for ourselves. The only other democract who could match his appeal was Hillary, but she never marshalled her army until it was too late. So you do need a candidate who has drawing power in order to use the multiplier effect of the internet and mass participation. However, the only conservative candidate that can inspire such fervor is Palin, but so far she is a fatally flawed candidate.
I hope she has capable strategists around her that will tell her that even if she won the republican nomination, she would lose badly in the general election. She is tougher and smarter than conservatives (with their over-protection) and liberals (with their scorn) and I hope she realizes her first job is to reform the republican party from a paranoid, xenophobic, rigid group to an opposition party in which Americans can take them seriously. She is the only person with the kind of clout with conservatives who could lead them away from the demographic abyss they face. Either reform and compete in 12 years or wither away and hope for new conservative party in 30 years.
Total Catch-22
So the only person capable of reforming the GOP, is not a person capable of reforming the GOP?
Palin does inspire people in the same manner that Barack's cult of personality works, albeit at a diminished level. But in terms of intellectual ability, they are not in the same universe. Barack has written more books than Sarah has read.
If we could just graft Newt's mind into Palin's body, then.....
Newt's Mind on Palin's Body
..We'll get a truly promiscuous, unprincipled, amoral Newt Palin.
Imagine you're Todd Palin? EWWWWW
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Fundraising is Not an Independent Variable
Your article is very insightful. I'm one of those "old" fund raising types. Just this past December I began resaerching how Obama accomplished raising so much money through the grass roots. Your photo of the "a typical Obama fundraiser" vs. "a typical McCain fundraiser" is THE answer to my question.
I've already sent it to some of the key people in the NY20 race. With only 38 days before our Special Election, the older model is going to prevail, but once Jim Tedisco wins I'll try to hammer the "smarter way" home, for the future.
I'll also do my best to make sure that Michael Steele reads it.
The pictures do sum it up nicely.
Try finding someone in the GOP fundraiser that is not an old, white, rich, male.
Try finding someone in the Obama fundraiser that is.
Nuff said.
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Do you know the existence of extraterrestrials ?
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Thanks quite amusing. Which brings the question what if one of the space visitors parks off to experience life on this planet in an avatar body (like the movie avatar) so that they pass as earth human, for their own research in the study life and culture to document a scientific journal or perhaps write book at the end of their time spending life, to see weather or not open contact would work out well or be a disaster, and if they were serious and open to the reason of living on this planet if any of the planet's inhabitants asked, it would be a fact that no one ever know that they were here, and would dismiss the visitor to be looney ?
Just curious, Danielle, do you actually think an avatar body is possible? or shape shifing?
Yes it is, if one can clone another human being, with an advanced enough computer, they would be able to transfer the consciousness from one original body to the clone. In the case of an avatar, one could access the body remotely. To be honest , this technology has been experimented by the military in top secret projects. Shape shifting is something that's more impossible, and I dont buy into the rubbish and disinformation of extraterrestrials where some conspiracy theorists believe shape shifting reptilians are running this planet. To accomplish shape shifting one would have to re-arrange their molecules and DNA. An illusion of shape shifting is more possible, that is creating a holographic cloak over the existing body which is crude and a poor and primitive disguise.
Sorry, but in line with my commitment to challenging outlandish claims, I would like to know your evidence for the claim that 'the military' is transferring consciousness and/or remotely accessing the consciousness of a cloned individual.
Also - how is it that you feel justified calling the reptilian conspiracy claims rubbish while simultaneously feeling it unjustified for others to call your rubbish 'rubbish'.
When you have done research and found things, including throwing in what you experienced , and see the sources of information you find, taking note that if some people are selling it or sharing it, often people who sell things for money do it for sensationalism, and make a lot of things up rather than documenting events. People who dont outsource the information often get confuse, and dismiss everything entirely and put off topic by the lunacy, dismissing the minority of genuine facts altogether. Then bringing the government into it again, they as well are selective with media and politically aprove and disprove to be in aid of a motive for the industrial military complex. for example religion and theism is one of oldest motives in manipulating people
I disagree. We already have species on this planet that shapeshifts, maybe not like Shang Tsung, but impressively enough to have you realize that this could definitely be a possibility for an extraterrestrial if you extrapolate what the cuddle fish can do.
Kings of Camouflage
Putting on a color show or assuming camouflage is hardly shape-shifting. Changing from a human into a wolf...THAT is shape-shifting.
Even in the movie Mimic, the creatures couldn't withstand close scrutiny.
It's not just a colour show, not only can they change the pigment of their skin, but they can also alter the texture of their skin dramatically, even make protrusions that extend far outward from their body to take on the appearance of coral. Now, if you extrapolate this ability to something honed by an extraterrestrial, you can only begin to imagine the possibilities. Lycanthropy would be child's play.
Yeah, well, imagination far outstrips the actual biological possibilities. Changing the texture of the skin is a far cry from changing skeletal structure.
And to be indistinguishable in all regards in social interactions? That's way beyond far-fetched.
Well, ultimately, I think these things will become congruent, the imagination and the biological possibilities, that is. The cuttlefish doesn't have a skeleton, by the way. There's the T-1000 in Terminator 2 that was an interesting concept of shapeshifting, but the way I'd imagine it working organically is that these contortions on the skin would condense enough to allow structural support in lieu of having some kind of morphing skeleton, and so you wouldn't necessarily need a skeleton.
After watching the cuttlefish and octopus videos a few years ago via NOVA, I found it very interesting to consider the existence of a parallel biosphere of creatures with highly advanced camoflage.
YES! I have seen those cuttlefish videos, and they're incredible!
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Sources tell us the Order to Show Cause (the contempt papers) claims Oksana is responsible for leaking the secretly-recorded tapes of Mel's rants during their nuclear arguments. The judge in the custody case issued a restraining order against Oksana late last month, prohibiting her from leaking the tapes. Mel & Co. believe Oksana sold the tapes for big bucks.
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Come on! It's Mel on the tapes but they were edited. I swear they've taken parts from his movies and spliced/ diced/ added/ deleted/ manipulated etc.. There are some parts that sound exactly like they were copied right out of some of the Lethal Weapons Movies! She used him and he used her and as everyone suspected, it didn't last! Even his EX is coming to his defense to say that he was a good father and she never experienced any physical or any other kind of violence in the 28 years she was with him. This girl got her hooks in him to take what she could from him and now she's acting out her final scene so she can walk away unscathed and rich and single.
1247 days ago
Jack Cook
Ha the truth is starting to surface. The dirty Russian whore skank is being exposed for exactly what she is. I would bet she threatened to take Lucia away to Russia and he would never see her again, and then edited that part out. That would enrage any caring father. She is a filthy lying greedy souless PIG who deserves everything she's got coming. I wonder what the big girls will do to her when she goes to jail for contempt of court and extortion. Maybe she will actually get her teeth broken, and that would be too good for the filthy tramp.
1246 days ago
You live with someone long enough you learn how too push their buttons..like she didn't know how??? She's talking all sweet and innocent?..Please..I don't know onw couple who don't have knock down drag out verbal arguments, and people can say some really nasty things to each other in the heat of an argument. Last time I saw Mel Gibson didn't walk on water, so why crucify him based on what is in the media when it's NOT the whole story? Oksana is no angel here, anymore than he is. They need to take a page from Rhianna and keep their troubles private. She's trying to ruin this man, does that not say something to people? It takes two to fight and unless they were vidoe taped who really knows what happened, should his entire life be ruined because of a fight? This is he said/ she said and NO ONE knows the whole truth but them, and neither one of them are going to tell the REAL truth, only their versions of it.
1231 days ago
I think that oksana definately had an agenda she is more than likely guilty of entrapment for economic gain, which in itself is a crime sex and marriage in this case would have been part of the modus operandi mel on the other hand drove a stake through his wifes' heart time and again all the money she received won't fix the damage chickens come home to roost mel you sow botterness you'll more than reap the same. as far as crimes on his part you are not judged by what you say you are judged by what you do.In the soviet communist criminal code I believe it is no. 48 you could be punished (i.e. the concentration camps)for thought crimes If you believe anything other than what they believe you are to be "terminated with extreme prejudice" what 70 or 80 million people died under that system.If mel has a track record of criminal violence toward women, and I don't mean marital arguments heated though they may be,then throw the book at him, but there is none.She is guilty of entrapment he is guilty of adultry toward his ex-wife which is worse? the things that people say may show a predisposition toward an action but this is not a communist country though there are elements in this country insidiously leading this country toward that end. Wake up this is not entertainment it's peoples lives.
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A racist term describing any Asian person looks Chinese. Very offensive.
person 1: Look at that chink! He has such slanty eyes!
person 2: That is so racist!
chink asian offensive racist racism
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26. CBS
Stands for Chronic Bored-ness Syndrome.Complete and utter boredom. Not yet a proven medical condition but should soon be classified as one. Affects mostly teens. And usually worsens in the months of summer vacation when you have nothing to do. Side affects may include but are not limited to excessively state the words "I'm bored" or long pauses in mid-conversation.
*online conversation among CBS sufferers*
Sk8rKid101:Hey wuts up hows ur summer goin
XxEmoxScreamoxX: heyy...n/m....its ok i guess
Sk8rKid101: mine 2
XxEmoxScreamoxX: thats cool
XxEmoxScreamoxX:im bored :(
Sk8rKid101: yeahh me2
**XxEmoxScreamoxX is away**
Sk8rKid101: Damn it! CBS!
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1. cbs
by anonymous August 11, 2003 add a video add an image
2. CBS
An acronym for "Casual Butt Sex".
3. CBS
Constant Bitch Syndrome.
she has been diagnosed with CBS!!!
4. cbs
stands for 'can't be stuffed'
pronounced: ceebs
mum: empty the dishwater
you: cbs
5. cb's
ridic hot chick1: wanna have sex?
burnham: cb's.
6. CBS
Quite simply, an acronym for Chronic Bash Syndrome
"you got the CBS big time today"
7. CB's
slang abbreviation for Cock and Balls.
Joe: Dude why you always have your hand in your pants
Tom: I'm adjusting my CB's
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1. cornrows
A hairstyle, worn prominently by young black males, that braids the hair to the scalp in a series of rows, looking like a farmer's field in symmetry. Made popular by many basketball players and actors.
They wrapped my cornrows so tight I have a headache.
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2. cornrows
One of several protective methods used to prevent breakage of kinky, nappy, tightly curled or coily hair. These braiding techniques were brought to the New World by African slaves and knowledge of these traditions were passed from generation to generation whereever black Africans were enslaved.
Traditionally these hairstyles were only used by women and little girls. Presently cornrows are a non-gender specific style used for convenience and protection of kinky hair.
Measha becomes deeply offended when she hears whites and Asians refer to cornrows as just a hairstyle.
3. corn rows
hair style commonly seen worn by african americans
yo dawg, check out dem corn rows on dat girl
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4. Cornrows
A traditional African style of hair grooming where the hair is braided very close to the scalp. Often favored for their easy maintenance, cornrows can be left in for weeks at a time if maintained through careful washing of the hair and regular oiling of the scalp.
Cornrows are often adorned with beads or cowry shells.
5. cornrows
The terms cornrows, corn rows and corn rolls are often confused. Corn rolls are a baked good and corn rows are rows of corn plants in a field. Cornrows are infact the style of hair worn by African Americans. The single term "cornrows" dates back to when African Americans primarily worked in agricultural settings and refers to the similarities between the hairstyle and straight rows of corn with spaces in between. This is not the same term as Corn Rolls which refer to a baked good. Althought there does seem to be a small fraction (less than 2% of internet sites) that refer to "corn rolls" as a type of hairstyle the vast majority use the term "cornrows."
Yo check out my cornrows in my hair.
6. Corn Row
Negro's Hair Do
Yo, nigga i'am gettin corn rows 2 marrow
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7. Cornrow
Definition of the Trippout Cornrow. The man known for having one of the worst trippouts known to mankind. The name comes from a group of ghetto sages sitting on a porch drunk. The sages known as Skeet, Scoop, Devon, Snake, Veechie, and 5-Wack. Some of the above were also members of the Infamous DOA (Driven on Adrenaline)
Cornrow! Whatup! Your the BEER SAVIOUR!!.... haha! look at that tripout Go!
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12. KaZaA
ad and spyware
Quit whining and use Kazaa Lite if you don't want spyware. I swear, you moan and groan about spyware but don't do anything about it. Don't use Kazaa. Use Kazaa Lite.
by Shawn E. June 11, 2003 add a video add an image
1. kazaa
gives you more virus's than the U.S have dropped on vietnam.
it'll cost more to fix your computer than you'll save on songs
dont bother unless you have broadband and update your anti virus everyweekend
i even know a few hackers who dont even bother using kazaa for sending them.
summary: DONT BOTHER
nortan anti virus report: 22 virus's including kazza itself has virus's and spyware
2. Kazaa
A source for viruses.
<hau> I'm running low on viruses, any suggestions?
<die> KaZaA
by Jagfire March 10, 2003 add a video add an image
3. kazaa
Came into the spotlight after the fall of napster
A once mighty peer to peer file sharing program, in its peak in 2000-2002 kazaa was unmatched for free music, movies, games. Today is home to viruses, trojans, fake files, traps, and porn.
There are many losers on kazaa who Intentionally host fake/re-named files.
With kazaa today, you have to search and download carefully. Sometimes when you are trying to download A Movie, you
might be disgusted to find out its actually gay porn. Or that mp3 your downloading, is actually a fake 10 second clip that is coded to track you and play an audio clip to damage your ears and speakers.
1. Hey did you finish downloading the matrix yet off kazaa?
2. Yes, but it was actually gay porn from khazakistan
1. good old kazaa!
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4. Kazaa
Kazaa is a horrible program. On their website, before clicking the link to download this piece of shit, I read this: "No adware or spyware!" Well, after installing it there were shortcuts about casino gambling and mortgages on my desktop, as well as 6 other hidden programs in my file structure, including one that uses your pc as a component in a network for some company that does god knows what. All this stuff was on my pc right after the install- I didn't even use the program!!!!
Kazaa is in legal battles, and to financially support these has resorted to flooding your pc with ads and all sorts of junk. Here's something to ponder: Kazaa claims not to install spyware on your system, but the ads and programs that flood your pc are based on your browsing habits. If you browse cars, you'll get car ads. If you browse the net for movies, you'll get movie ads. Kazaa doesn't magically know your browsing habits- there is a program hidden in the file structure that spies on you while you are online..... If this isn't "spyware" then what the hell is their definition? They can add false advertising to their list of lawsuits.
It took me 2 hours to get rid of this crap completely. Whatever you do, do not use Kazaa. Just stay far, far away. It doesn't matter what kind of antivirus or firewall you have, trust me. If you can use Kazaa, then it is unblocked and unaffected by your firewall, and will pretty much do as it pleases. Kazaa is a joke of a program, and I will throw a party wh...
5. KaZaA
A program that slows your computer and fills it with spyware, adware, and viruses. Really it's just one big virus/adware-producing program disguised as a file-sharing program. For some reason it seems to be more well known than other better file-sharing programs.
Bob: KaZaA made me take my computer to the shop and get it cleaned out. What should I do?
Joe: Download Limewire instead.
6. kazaa
gives you more viruses than a dirty old diseases ridden prostitute from the back street's of thailand
hey joe wanna get a virus !
sure bob should we fuck a old prostitute
or download kazaa ?
both !
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7. Kazaa
A great way of downloading great software. Not only is the software free but you get a free virus with every download.
I downloaded some software off kazaa now my computer is fucked.
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7. SME
The act of working for complete morons that have the vocabulary skill of a literary genius but the common sense of kid with down syndrome that just smoked crack.
"Dude my job sucks, this is a total SME job!"
1. sme
Subject matter expert (frequently used in business, originally heard at AT&T). Original meaning was the person who was knowledgably about the subject, has now become a somewhat pejorative term for someone who just knows the facts but has no power to make a decision. (Sometimes confused with/pronounced like shmo).
(Original use:) Check with SME to find out how to get the service provisioned. (Current use:) He will not be able to get anything changed, he is just the SME.
Social Media Entitlement Syndrome.
Characterized by:
1. Feeling and behaving as if one should be granted certain privileges (event access, free products, job offers) because he/she is well-known in social media.
2. Expecting all-access to an individual’s private life because he/she occasionally posts personal items in social networks.
3. Acting like it’s acceptable and normal to piss (bombard w/comments, tweets, DMs) on someone’s social stream.
4. Demanding that people retweet your content, and resenting them if they don’t.
5. Assuming that because you correspond with someone via social media, you should be invited to every social gathering that person plans or is involved with.
"Knock it off... get a life or, at least, treat your SMES... fucktard.
3. sme
sme;Sme's;Smeed pronounced (Shmee)
1)A moronic and/or lethargic poser or goon.2)a harmless fill in for an abusive term when authority is present.
1)"OH man check out homie lazin around, what a sme"
2)"He whipped out his piece and I was like what the (at the sight of a teacher) sme"
4. SME
A small squirt of piss and shit. Kind of like a shart with the added bonus of a little peepee.
I just saw Colleen fall on her ass after trying to walk in her wedges, I laughed so hard I SMEed my pants!
5. SME(s)
small to medium enterprise(s)
small to medium sized enterprises
SME(s): Hang on tight for a tough financial year ahead
6. SME
An acronym for Shit, Masturbate, Eat.
Usually what one does after a night of work.
Aaron: Hey, upload that video
Ahmad: I will later bruh, I just got off work so I'm gonna SME.
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2. doodie bubbles
Flatus let loose from the anus
"Remember the time you put your finga where da sun don't shine to let out my doodie bubbles nika"
1. Doodie Bubble
What Bobby Brown dug out of Whitney Houston's butt.
"I've had to dig a doodie bubble out of your butt" -Bobby Brown
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5. dorf
a mode one can go into
a state of confusion/surprise/anger
i got raped by that math test, i am now in a state of dorf
last night was wild, ive been in dorf mode all day
1. dorf
To wimp or chicken out. To prefer mundane over extraordinary. A wallflower. A geek.
Did you see what Larry wore today? What a dorf!
They aren't coming over now because Bob fuckin dorfed out again!
2. Dorf
Something an idiot would say.
A Dwarf is a short man, a midget if you will. Dorf is something an idiot would say.
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3. dorf
German for "village"
the waldorf astoria is called that because it's named after a German village called Waldorf.
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4. Dorf
1.) A term used to describe a human who believes he is a fantastical dwarf.
2.) A silly nanny. An idiot. A fool.
Luffelman is such a dorf.
6. Dorf
Noun. A perpetually agitated or disgruntled dwarf.
Dude, while I was playing Lord of the Rings Online, this stupid dorf sent me off on this stupid quest and grumbled when I came back with what he wanted.
7. Dorf
Last name with German Origin. People with the last name Dorf are always beautiful, funny and talented. But are also known to be stuck up.
All those Dorf's are perfect!
You're a Dorf?! I wish I was one!
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1. intrasexual
A person that only has sexual intercourse with him/herself. They do not mate with members of either gender, rather they keep to themselves, pleasing only themselves. They are their own sex toy.
Tonette does not like men or women because she is an intrasexual and cannot be pleased by either gender.
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1. libag
accumulated grime that can be amassed by rubbing one's fingers on one's skin. usually found in places where the sun don't shine or places usually ignored when bathing.
tang ina morlak! ang kapal ng libag sa yagballs mo! parang ka yung tatay ni tito tirso na tigas ang titi!
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1. Mast
adjective (In HINDI) Meaning- of very good quality; super; cool; awesome etc.
It can also be spelt as Maaaast depending on the level of Coolness.
Hindi synonyms: Jhakkas
Mast movie hai! (Its a super movie)
2. Mast
A load of cum dried in pubic hair
I pulled down her pants and it was a mast!
3. mast
V- To masturbate, often with the aid of porn or in a circle of people masting. Usually accompanied with an "aww yehh!"
V- To ejaculate.
N- A single act of masturbation.
1- My friend and I like to watch each other mast and go "aww yeah!"
2- I masted all over her face last night.
3- I think I'm gonna get a mast in before class.
4. mast
(v)-short for masturbation.
Man look at those hot girls, mast mast mast...
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1. mwike
1. The drunken stealer of a duck.
2. To steal a duck whilst drunk.
3. To talk in a quacking voice about stealing a duck whilst in a drunken state.
"I saw him last night - that Mwike."
"I just mwiked."
"mwike mwike mwike..."
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1. razoodocks
Term used by the droogs in the Stanley Kubrick film "A Clockwork Orange". Means to make your mind up or your choice/choosing of particular things.
For example, "We were trying to make up our razoodocks what to do with ourselves for the evening."
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America's Surprising Sleepwalking Problem
Nearly a third of adults say they've sleepwalked; linked to depression, alcohol abuse, insomnia
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Ever wake up in the shower and wonder how you got there or been tracked down by your spouse as you're watering the plants in your sleep? You're not alone: Nearly a third of American adults have sleepwalked at least once in their lives, and about 3.6 percent of adults—about 8.5 million Americans—sleepwalk at least once a year, according to a new study by researchers at Stanford University.
That's a much higher number than previous estimates, says Maurice Ohayon, lead author of the report. A study 10 years ago of European populations found that about 2 percent of adults sleepwalk per year.
[13 Reasons Not to Skimp on Sleep]
"To put that in perspective, think of a disorder everyone knows—narcolepsy. The prevalence of that is about .04 percent," he says. "I think not enough people are aware of the risks of sleepwalking."
Those risks can range from the banal—bumps and bruises, sleepiness, and small accidents—to the spectacular—accused criminals have been acquitted of rape and murder committed while sleepwalking.
In a 2010 study of European subjects, Ohayon found that about 1.6 percent of people behave violently in their sleep—about a third of those people had hurt themselves or others during the episodes. Some had even reported committing unwanted sexual misconduct during their sleep.
For the first time, Ohayon and his team have been able to suggest potential disorders that can cause or are at least associated with sleepwalking, including a potential genetic link, alcohol abuse, over-the-counter sleeping pill use, major depressive disorder, and more.
[Report: Many U.S. Workers Sleep Deprived]
About 30 percent of sleepwalkers have family members who also sleepwalk, suggesting there may be a genetic component. People who get less than seven hours of sleep nightly are more likely to sleepwalk than those who get more sleep. People who have a disorder involving their circadian rhythm, or internal clocks, are four times as likely as the general population to sleepwalk, while insomniacs are about twice as likely.
People who abuse alcohol and people with major depressive disorder are about three times as likely as the general population to sleepwalk, while people with obsessive-compulsive disorder are more than seven times as likely to sleepwalk.
Four out of five sleepwalkers reported having had the condition for at least five years. Ohayon found no racial component, though people between the ages of 18 and 44 were more likely to sleepwalk than older participants.
Sleepwalking is generally considered more prevalent among adolescents, with some studies showing that as many as 30 percent of children sleepwalk at least once a year. Ohayon's study, which looked at a representative sample of 20,000 adults in 15 states, is the first of American adults since the late 1970s, when about 2.5 percent of adults were found to be sleepwalkers. Since that time, the use of antidepressant medications and sleeping pills has increased, which could have led to more sleepwalking adults.
While most cases of sleepwalking or "nocturnal wandering" are essentially harmless, Ohayon says it becomes much more dangerous when staying at a hotel, a friend's house, or other unfamiliar place.
"As long as the sleepwalking is happening in your home, you know where your furniture is, you'll have your family around so they can prevent you from having a big accident," he says. "Sure, there's the small amount of people that have big accidents, but when something like that is happening to you, it's a big problem."
Besides giving clues for what triggers sleepwalking, Ohayon says the study may shed light on possible treatments or behaviors that can be modified if sleepwalking becomes a severe problem.
"I think everyone who is sleepwalking is taking a chance—the more it happens, the more risk there is. If these people must be treated, we know what the triggers are," he says. "We can tell them to avoid using this medication, avoid using these substances. There's a lot of things that can help."
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So far, officials have only identified two confirmed cases and say the virus isn’t as infectious as SARS, or severe acute respiratory syndrome, which killed hundreds of people, mostly in Asia, in a 2003 global outbreak.
In Geneva, World Health Organization spokesman Glenn Thomas told reporters Friday that so far the signs are that the virus is “not easily transmitted from person to person” _ but analyses are ongoing. The agency said it’s too early to tell how big a threat the new virus will be since it is unknown how exactly it spreads and whether it will evolve into a more dangerous form.
“It’s a logical possibility to consider any animals present in the region in large numbers,” said Ralph Baric, a coronavirus expert at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. “Biologists now need to go into the area and take samples from any animals they can get their hands on, including camels and goats,” he said. Baric said it was crucial to find out how widespread the virus is in animals and what kind of contact might be risky for people.
Baric suggested bats might be spreading the virus directly to humans since the two confirmed infections happened months apart. “If there was an established transmission pattern from other animals, we probably would have seen a lot more cases,” he said.
WHO said it is considering the possibility the new coronavirus sickened humans after direct contact with animals. The agency is now working with experts in the Middle East to figure out how the two confirmed cases got infected but could not share details until the investigation was finished.
One patient was a Saudi Arabian man who died several months ago while the other is a Qatari national who traveled to Saudi Arabia before falling ill and is currently in critical but stable condition in a London hospital.
Earlier this week, WHO issued a global alert asking doctors to be on guard for any potential cases of the new respiratory virus, which also causes kidney failure.
Experts said knowing where a virus comes from provides clues on how to stop it.
“This means we could prevent the fire before it starts instead of rushing towards it with fire trucks and water hoses afterwards,” said Michael Osterholm, an infectious diseases expert at the University of Minnesota.
Osterholm said it was possible bats had simply passed on the virus from other animals and that there could be a complicated transmission chain that ultimately ended in humans.
“We don’t know enough about coronaviruses to predict which mutations might make them more lethal or transmissible,” Osterholm said. “But you don’t want to tempt genetic fate with microbes because you’re bound to lose most times.”
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Former President Bill Clinton believes the presidential election will end a "logjam" in Washington, and usher in years of productivity.
In an interview broadcast Sunday on CNN's "Fareed Zakaria GPS," Clinton said there's a need for "an action forcing event."
During his presidency, it came in the form of government shutdowns, after which "we began to work together and we had five good years working together," he said.
"We really haven't had an action forcing event like that. I believe the election will be that event. I expect the president to win. And I think if he does, after this happens, then you will see the logjam begin to break."
"I think it will strengthen the hand of, for example, Speaker (John) Boehner, who would make an agreement if the most right-wing of his caucus would let him. I think they will have to think about the consequences of not doing that. I think the same thing will happen in the Senate. I think you will see the gravitational forces of American politics pushing us toward an agreement on the budget and a number of other things."
While he expects Obama to win, Clinton cautioned that getting some of the president's key support constituencies to the polls could be a challenge.
In 2008, Obama "won an enormous victory among people under 30. But they are disproportionately likely now to be unemployed or stuck in part-time jobs, to be frustrated. I think for all kinds of reasons, they're unlikely to vote in large numbers for Gov. Romney, but will they vote?"
The former president also took aim at controversial measures impacting advanced voting.
He called reduction of the advanced voting schedule in Florida "an arrow aimed straight at the heart of the African-American churches, who pull up the church buses on the Sunday before the election and take elderly people who have no cars or people who are disabled to the polls so they can vote." He also cited efforts to change early voting procedures in Ohio.
Officials in both states have denied partisan motives for the changes.
Clinton also weighed in on Obama's handling of Iran, amid call from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the United States to draw a clear "red line" for Iran's nuclear program.
"I think the president's desire to keep his public options open is the correct course at this time. I think that when you say something in public, whatever it is, one of two things happens when the people call you on what you said. You've either got to do something about it and deal with, perhaps, unintended negative consequences, or you don't and people think you're weaker. Better to have them wonder what you're going to do and communicate privately in more explicit terms." | http://www.wcti12.com/news/politics/Clinton-Election-will-be-action-forcing-event-for-Washington/-/13530382/16707508/-/v78xmrz/-/index.html | dclm-gs1-227740002 | false | false | {
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europeforvisitors - 5:27 pm on Sep 4, 2007 (gmt 0)
They probably don't want to help people game the system. If, for example, you're doing half a dozen things that they regard as being shady, why should they tell which one they've picked up on their radar? From their point of view, it would be better if you removed all half-dozen shady items than just the one that triggered their attention.
Plus, they probably just don't want to instigate a lengthy dialogue with a publisher who no longer meets their requirements. (I can't help thinking of when I worked as an assistant fiction editor and my boss warned me, "Never give specifics about why you rejected a manuscript--you'll just get into an endless debate with the author.")
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ronin - 1:28 pm on Dec 17, 2007 (gmt 0)
zett, your expectations are too high, I think.
When Google launches a Beta product, it is inviting you into its testing laboratory. The product isn't finished and Google is quite open about it. (It is usable and hence "Beta" rather than "Alpha", though your idea of what makes something usable and Google's may differ).
If you imagine it should be finished and can see that it isn't then you will get frustrated.
If you accept that it isn't finished and have minimal expectations, then you will watch the product develop with interest.
The assumption held by some that everything accessible on the web should be finished has never been correct.
We used to - I'm sure you remember! - put up "men at work" signs and write "Under Construction" everywhere to try to remind people of this fact. Just because we don't do that anymore doesn't mean lots of unlabelled things are not still under construction.
At some point in 1999-2001 big corporations came along and decided (from their offline experience) that everything should remain on their hard drives until it was completely ready. They decided that the publicly accessible web was only for things that were "finished".
I have never agreed with this approach. I have no problem with people wandering into my virtual workshop while I am at work on something. I can see that Google doesn't seem to mind either.
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3Mice - 9:56 am on Oct 11, 2005 (gmt 0)
DamonDH you said
"..Probably ad-blindness and SmartPiercing(TM) will take the edge off those numbers a bit, but mid-page rectangles do seem to be effective.."
How long does it take for the SmartPiercing(TM) to take effect. Does this mean Google actually reduces your revenue if you are getting high CTRs. I've never heard of that term before (SmartPiercing)
The revenues have been holding steady for the last two weeks at $15~$16
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Jul 5, 1999, Vol. 4, No. 40 • By ROBERT M. GOLDBERG
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AS THE WHITE HOUSE GEARS UP to promote Bill Clinton's universal prescription-drug benefit for the elderly, it seems to have learned a thing or two from its historic health-care defeat of 1994. Like that earlier plan, Clinton's promise to pay for the prescription drugs of older Americans will put health care for millions more people under the control of the federal government -- in this case, the prescriptions of nearly 40 million Medicare recipients. And like the earlier plan, the Clinton drug benefit promises better care for less money, but will inevitably end up with rationing and price controls that will degrade the quality of care available to the elderly. What's changed is that the White House is even less forth-right about the true cost and character of its health-care scheme than it was five years ago.
The White House is mindful of the fact that Medicare is going bankrupt, so it claims that the new drug benefit would pay for itself. It's hard to see how. For one thing, a universal drug benefit would encourage the nearly 70 percent of retirees who already have private coverage for prescription drugs to drop it in favor of the new federal entitlement. This alone would add about $ 20 billion a year to Medicare spending. Covering the 30 percent who don't already have such coverage would add another $ 10 billion or so. Even with an additional premium proposed by Clinton -- as low as $ 10 a month -- the program would hardly be self-financing.
That's why the White House claims that increased subsidy of drugs would lead to lower overall healthcare costs. But this, too, is exceedingly unlikely. It's true drugs can be cost-effective, but only within the context of a well-coordinated effort to manage disease. And no one mistakes Medicare for well-coordinated health care. Consider one of the most cost-effective drugs there is -- aspirin. For just pennies a day, it can lower your chances of a heart attack, yet over 25 percent of seniors fail to take the drug, even after a heart attack. Similarly, older Americans barely avail themselves of the flu and pneumonia shots that are already covered by Medicare. When you consider that Medicare now reimburses for prescription drugs for hospitalized seniors, that, moreover, most seniors already have private drug coverage, and that a government survey shows fewer than 2 percent of seniors say they have trouble getting the drugs they need, it's preposterous to think that a new prescription-drug subsidy will lower health-care costs.
So how will this new entitlement be paid for? Price controls, of course. Now, the White House claims talk of price controls is propaganda from the pharmaceutical companies; the government, it says, just wants the same discount drug companies now give to health-maintenance organizations (HMOs). That sounds reasonable until you realize that HMOs don't control anything like the 60 percent of all prescriptions written that the government would pay for under the Clinton plan. The federal government would then be the largest purchaser of prescription drugs in the world, and it could indeed force drug companies to lower their prices. But the high-quality, innovative medicine Americans now take for granted would be endangered.
Democratic populists in Congress and the White House like to rail about the profits of drug companies. Well, yes, companies in a free economy make money. And if they are in an industry that depends on new and improved products for profits, they reinvest a lot of what they make. If the White House were to propose federal control of 60 percent of the telecommunications or high-technology sectors of the economy, the idea would rightly be rejected outright because it would kill innovation. But somehow the administration keeps a straight face when it proposes controlling most of the pharmaceutical market and says that such a plan won't hurt biomedical innovation.
There are further perversities that would flow from price controls. Seniors would likely be forced to use only the drugs the government wanted them to have. While the Clinton White House brags that private firms would administer the drug benefit, the list of drugs available -- as well as how and when -- would be dictated by Medicare bureaucrats. The potentially harmful outcomes of such rationing can be seen with drugs that Medicare already covers.
There is, for instance, the sadly instructive saga of erythropoietin (EPO), a biotechnology product used to reduce the anemia that people suffer when they go through kidney dialysis. Dialysis patients on EPO are healthier and live longer than those without it. In 1993, in an effort to contain the cost of EPO, Medicare did three things: It put a price control on the drug, rationed the amount patients could get, and refused to reimburse its use for patients above a certain level of healthy blood cells. Under the Medicare protocol, the number of people who died increased and people with healthy blood levels wound up getting sicker. It took five years of lobbying and administrative review to get Medicare to loosen its EPO controls. If the Clinton drug benefit is adopted, it will simply extend Medicare's mishandling of drug benefits to all prescriptions.
There is also the phenomenon Duke economist Henry Grabowski calls the social drug lag -- thanks to price caps, seniors would be last in receiving access to new medications. Negotiations with the government over prices could delay the access of seniors to most innovative medicines for years or -- if the government blacklists a company that refuses to budge -- forever.
Finally, no amount of populist rhetoric alters the fact that the Clinton plan will mainly benefit the well-off. Nearly 50 percent of seniors have family incomes of $ 25,000 or more and spend less than one percent of their income on drugs. Hence the Clinton plan will create an entitlement that will largely go to a group who can afford their drugs and their drug coverage.
Like the Health Security Act of 1994, the Clinton drug plan should be scrapped. It may seem like a panacea. But it is really a poison pill that seniors and non-seniors alike should avoid.
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Salmon fillets are versatile and delicious, but they cook quickly and require a bit of technique to get right. They are generally prepared by baking, broiling, grilling, pan-searing, or poaching them. Adding a marinade is a common way to infuse the fish with extra flavor. Whether you're a novice in the kitchen or an experienced cook, there's no reason to fear salmon.
Detailed instructions after the jump.
Makes 4 servings
• 4 salmon fillets, 6-oz (170 g) each
• 1/2 tsp (2.5 ml) garlic salt
• 3 Tbsp (45 ml) lemon juice
• 2 Tbsp (30 ml) olive oil
• 1 to 2 cups (250 to 500 ml) water (for poaching only)
EditMethod 1 of 6: Marinating the Salmon Fillets
1. 1
• You can also use a glass dish covered with aluminum foil instead of the plastic bag.
2. 2
Coat the salmon. Place the salmon in the marinade and seal the bag. Turn the bag several times to coat all sides of the salmon.
• If using a glass dish, turn the fillets in the marinade several times to coat all sides and cover the dish with aluminum foil.
3. 3
Refrigerate for 30 minutes. Place the bag with the marinade and salmon fillets in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
• Salmon, like all fish, is not as dense as meat and poultry. As a result, it does not need to be marinaded for long in order to absorb flavor.
• Remove the salmon from the refrigerator at least 10 minutes prior to cooking. Doing so drops the temperature, allowing it to cook more evenly throughout.
EditMethod 2 of 6: Baking
1. 1
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit (200 degrees Celsius.) Prepare a baking sheet with shallow sides by covering it with nonstick aluminum foil.
• Coat the pan with nonstick cooking spray if you don't have aluminum foil on hand.
2. 2
Transfer the salmon to the prepared baking sheet. If the salmon fillets have skin on them, lay them on the sheet skin-side down.
• Position the fillets in a single layer, spaced apart evenly.
3. 3
Bake for 15 minutes.[1] Place the baking sheet on the middle rack in the oven and cook the salmon until done.
• When done, you should be able to easily flake the salmon apart with a fork. The middle should also be opaque.
4. 4
Serve at your desired temperature. Salmon fillets can be served warm out of the oven or after they have cooled to room temperature.
EditMethod 3 of 6: Broiling
1. 1
Preheat the broiler. Allow the broiler to heat up for 5 to 10 minutes.
• Most broilers only have an "on" setting, but if yours has separate "high" and "low" settings, set the broiler to high.
2. 2
Transfer the fillets to a broiler pan. Place the fillets on the interior rack inside the pan with the skin-side facing down, if applicable.
• Arrange the fillets in a single layer and space them apart evenly.
• If desired, coat the rack with nonstick cooking spray before putting the salmon on it. This is usually unadvised for fatty meats, but not much will drip off the salmon as it cooks. As such, using cooking spray can drastically reduce the amount of salmon that gets stuck to the broiler pan rack.
3. 3
Broil for 10 to 12 minutes.[2] Place the broiler pan 5 1/2 inches (14 cm) away from the top heating element and cook the salmon until done.
• The salmon is done when you can effortlessly flake the fillets with a fork. The center should be opaque.
• You can turn the salmon once during cooking to ensure even browning, but it is not necessary. Moreover, flipping salmon fillets can be difficult to do and may cause the salmon to fall apart in the oven prematurely.
4. 4
Serve. Broiled salmon can be served hot out of the oven or at room temperature.
EditMethod 4 of 6: Grilling
1. 1
Preheat the grill. You can use both gas and charcoal grills to prepare salmon fillets.
• If using a gas grill, preheat the grill to 450 degrees Fahrenheit (232 degrees Celsius).
• If using a charcoal grill, spread a layer of charcoal onto the bottom of the grill and light. Allow the coals to burn and smolder for 30 minutes.
2. 2
Wrap the salmon fillets in aluminum foil. Place each fillet in the center of a piece of aluminum foil. Bring the sides up and fold them together, sealing the packet. Press any raised aluminum foil flat.
• If using nonstick aluminum foil, place the salmon fillets on the nonstick side.
3. 3
Transfer the packets to the grill and cook for 14 to 16 minutes.[3] Flip the packets once, at the 7 or 8 minute mark, using grill tongs or a heat-proof spatula.
• Checking the fillets for doneness may be difficult since the foil will be hot to the touch. You may need to wait until after you pull the fish from the grill. If the fillets do not flake easily with a fork or if the center is not opaque, seal the foil again and return to the grill.
4. 4
Let sit before serving. Allow the salmon to sit off the grill and in their foil packets at room temperature for 5 minutes before serving.
EditMethod 5 of 6: Pan-Searing
1. 1
Preheat a skillet or saute pan over high heat. The pan should get hot, but it should not begin to smoke.
• If desired, you can spray a thin coating of cooking spray on the pan or coat it in 1 Tbsp (15 ml) of olive oil before heating it. This step is not necessary if you marinated the salmon fillets or brushed them with olive oil, though.
2. 2
Place the fish in the preheated pan. Cook for 3 minutes before flipping each fillet over and cooking for an additional 3 to 4 minutes.
• Use a fish spatula to turn the fish. Do not use tongs, since the salmon will likely break apart prematurely if handled with tongs during the cooking process.
• The salmon is done when you can flake the center apart with a fork and when the entire fillet is no longer translucent.
3. 3
Allow the salmon fillets to cool slightly before servings. After removing them from the heat, you should let the fillets rest at room temperature for 5 minutes before you serve them.
EditMethod 6 of 6: Poaching
1. 1
Bring the water to a simmer on the stovetop. Place the water in a saucepan with tall sides. Heat over medium heat until the water starts to gently simmer.
• If desired, you can salt the water as it heats up. You can also add 1 chopped shallot or green onion and several sprigs of fresh dish, rosemary, or other herbs to the water for flavor. This is an especially common way to flavor poached salmon, and is actually more commonly used than marinating.
2. 2
Add the salmon fillets to the pan. If they still have skins, place the fillets skin-side down. Cover and cook for 5 to 10 minutes.[4]
• If the salmon flakes apart easily with a fork and is no longer translucent inside, it has finished cooking.
3. 3
Serve warm. Remove the salmon fillets from the heat and let rest for 3 to 5 minutes before serving.
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This is not exactly how they wrote the recipe up there, but here is a easy but delicious way of cooking salmon.
The following salmon is a popular one. Thank you
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• Experiment with the marinade ingredients as desired, using different combinations of oil, acid, and seasoning. Acids usually include vinegars and citrus juices, and seasonings can be dry or wet. For instance, you could create a marinade using soy sauce, rice vinegar, olive oil, and brown sugar. You could also use a vinaigrette dressing, which already combines vinegar, cooking oil, and seasonings.
• If desired, you can prepare a second, separate batch of the marinade and use it as a sauce or glaze. To use it as a glaze, coat grilled, pan-seared, or broiled salmon halfway through the cooking process with the mixture using a pastry brush. To use it as a sauce, thicken it on the stovetop by cooking the marinade over medium-high heat until it reduces and thickens.
• If baking or pan-searing the salmon fillets, you could also skip the marinade and coat the fish with a layer of fresh herbs, such as parsley, basil, and dill.
EditThings You'll Need
• 1-gallon (4-liter) resealable plastic bag or glass dish
• Nonstick aluminum foil
• Cooking spray
• Baking sheet
• Broiler pan
• Grill
• Fish spatula
• Skillet
• Fork
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A dense crowd flowing into Taksim Square parts to let an ambulance through on June 1, shortly after clashes between police and protestors ended. A traffic sign has been spray-painted with the phrase "Taksim belongs to us."
In the five days since police left Istanbul's Taksim Square, tens of thousands of protestors have poured into the area in ever more dense and diverse throngs, many of them engaging in protest for the first time. Bringing family, friends, cleaning supplies, and the occasional gas mask, they say they are gathering to demand a more participatory democracy, defend their rights, and protect the last park in Taksim, the city's transport, protest, and tourism hub.
Demonstrators prepare to remain for as long as it takes Erdogan to concede the park to the public.
Now called the Gezi Park Resistance Movement, or Diren Gezi in Turkish, the past week's uprising began as a series of small peaceful protests carried out over months, after the Turkish government announced it would raze the nine-acre park to build a new shopping mall. But a surprisingly brutal eviction of the park by riot police changed the dynamic last Friday. Strong winds carried stinging tear gas through nearby neighborhoods, and social media brought reports to other cities, triggering a snowball effect that has rolled swiftly across Turkey.
With solidarity movements and police clashes rumbling across the country, thousands are now sleeping in Gezi Park to defend the space and protest a spate of unilateral government development projects, social policy changes, and crackdowns on political demonstrations. In the last month alone, government directives have banned demonstrations on Taksim Square (citing an ongoing construction project as a safety hazard), threatened the availability of over-the-counter contraceptive pills, and banned retail alcohol sales after 10pm. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan presented these latter two moves as public health measures, but they were widely interpreted as pushing an Islamist political agenda. When I arrived in Istanbul in late March of this year, daily protests were challenging a scheme to tear down a historic movie theater in Taksim, to make way for yet another mall. Unlike Diren Gezi, those protests received little media exposure, and the theater is now being gutted.
Occupying the park in shifts, after work, or round the clock, demonstrators prepare to remain for as long as it takes Erdogan to concede the park to the public. Using abandoned police barricades and salvaged building materials, they have constructed a library, a veterinary clinic, numerous infirmaries, and a kitchen, all of which are stocked by donations and operate at no cost. On Wednesday a vegetable garden appeared, planted with tomatoes, eggplant, and peppers. Some of the young boys who peddle goods to pedestrians near Taksim quickly adapted to the park's gift economy, weaving among protestors to hawk "free water! No payment!" and accept donations if they are offered.
All photos by Fabien Tepper.
Young protestors hurry up the pedestrian thoroughfare Istiklal Street, to join crowds occupying Taksim Square a few hours after riot police relinquished the square to protestors, June 1.
By the morning after the police withdrawal from Taksim Square, the Gezi Park Resistance Movement has organized an immense volunteer clean-up of the garbage-strewn city center. Bags line the edges of Istiklal Street, June 2.
Members of a bagpipe orchestra march up Istiklal Street to Taksim Square, in support of the Gezi Park Resistance Movement, June 2.
A watermelon vendor watches a bagpipe orchestra march across Taksim Square to support the Gezi Park Resistance Movement, June 2.
A man playing a zurna, a Central Asian folk oboe, marches with a bagpipe orchestra in support of the Gezi Park Resistance Movement, June 2.
An onlooker watches as volunteers find ways to absorb water and automotive fluids pooled on the street beside a city bus protestors had used to blockade Gezi Park from a police return, June 2.
Donations of vinegar, lemons, water, and a milky antacid are collected at one of several points along the edge of Gezi Park on June 2, to treat victims of tear gas.
Inside Gezi Park, volunteers clean gutters and gather trash on June 2, in the aftermath of the earlier day's uprising.
A clean-up volunteer pauses beside a brick retaining wall used as a transfer point for donated food and cleaning supplies in Gezi Park, June 2.
After a night of protest and police clashes, a volunteer digs a layer of dirt out from between paving stones in Gezi Park on July 2, to dislodge any glass shards that could hurt the feet of animals.
Two clean-up volunteers in Gezi Park applaud a speech by a fellow protestor, June 2.
A girl picks up free juice and cookies at a table of donated food in Gezi Park, June 2.
A crowd of protestors in Gezi Park clap as they demand the resignation of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, June 2.
A protestor in the park shows patriotic support of the Gezi Park Resistance Movement, with a freshly dyed beard, June 2.
Protestors have attached key supplies to trees throughout Gezi Park, by June 2: garbage bags for keeping the park clean, and bottles of antacid for treating tear-gassed eyes.
Two friends sleep on a park bench as dawn breaks across Gezi Park on June 3.
Gezi Park occupiers sleep beneath a sapling and a sign reading "Temporary autonomous zone," June 3.
Protestors pause in a street near Gezi Park which is littered with with police water, tear gas canisters, torn-up paving stones, and a makeshift barricade, as a night of police-protestor clashes continues into the morning of June 3.
A few blocks away from Gezi Park, police fire tear bombs and water cannons at protestors to keep them away from Prime Minister Erdogan's Istanbul office on June 3.
A volunteer helps organize medical supplies donated to the Gezi Park occupiers, inside a park structure on June 3.
Medical students who have covered the night shift at the Gezi Park Resistance Movement's infirmary take a break as the rest of the park wakes up on June 3.
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Summer weather has come to the zoo this month, and it has become important for us to make sure that all the animals are able to cool down on hot days.
Meerkats With Ice
In last month's diary I explained that we had sheared all the alpacas and sheep in Animal Adventure, in preparation for the warmer months. Now that it has got a lot hotter it is important to also make sure that all the other animals on the section are able to deal with the heat.
Providing shade areas and cool dens for the animals to rest in is essential at this time of year as animals, just like people, can over-heat quickly.
Some animals such as our New Zealand Kunekune pigs are also susceptible to sunburn, as they don’t have very much hair. The pigs use mud as a natural sun cream, so we have to ensure that their wallow is kept wet and muddy so they can roll around in it whenever they want to cool off.
Enrichment methods have also been changed so that the animals are having enjoyable ways of cooling down. A few of our animals including the pigs, alpacas and also the red pandas like being showered with cold water from the hose when they get really hot.
Alpaca Shower
A couple of the alpacas are particularly funny as they will stand in their water trough as they are hosed, to get as wet as possible!
Not all animals like to be showered however, as it seems to be an acquired taste. So for everyone else we have to think of some other cool treats to provide. For a lot of the species kept on Animal Adventure, we have been making ice lollies.
To make these we choose each animal’s favourite foods and freeze them overnight in cups of water. The lollies can consist of anything from fruits for the meerkats to mixed vegetables for the goats, or we can just freeze a flavour, such as mint or cinnamon into the water.
Ice lollies are proving to be popular with the meerkats and also with the coati group, which are South American raccoons.
As a result, all the animals on the section are enjoying the summer weather, and most of them can be seen lazing around in their enclosures making the most of the sun.
More next month.
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Previously, he has warned that the desire for a rapid U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq should be balanced with a recognition that, in his view, "if Iraq descends into all-out civil war, millions could die," Iraq's Sunni region "could become a base for al Qaeda," Iraq's Shia region "could be seized by Iran," Kurd tension "could destabilize Turkey" and "even the broader Middle East could be drawn into conflict."
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Rudy Giuliani, the former New York mayor who led the city through the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, raised $15 million, and Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who is making his second presidential run, raised $12.5 million.
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If there was another official way such as in http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1353, should all Apple authorized reseller use this page as their basis ?
1. When did this page released with the inclusion of the late 2009 iPod touch lineup ? http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1353#iPod_touch_late2009
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The "third" generation 8GB iPod touches are the same hardware as the second generation (all sizes). Whether or not iOS 4.3 (or even all of the features of iOS 4.1) came out for the real third gen (32GB/64GB), the second generation (including the one claimed to be third) should not have gotten the update. I'm not trying to sound negative, but I think that the difference shouldn't matter unless the seller mislead you to believe that it matched the hardware of the true (32GB/64GB) third generation iPods. – Andrew Larsson Jun 28 '12 at 3:58
Welcome to the site everyone that's new. It looks like there is a ton of history here and I would just ask that you try to keep the questions focused more on facts (what models exist - how to tell them apart) and less on what is just or correct. When something stinks, everyone can see that, but throwing around "punishment" and implications of lying makes this more about two people (buyer/seller) and not really a good fit for the worldwide nature of this site. Thanks and welcome to the site. – bmike Jun 30 '12 at 16:33
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I see that both of us may have a similar problem. Let me tell you my own story :
I brought this problem back in January 2012 to my local Apple Authorized store. They played dumb (I guessed) with me and insisting that the product was indeed a 3rd Gen 8GB iPod. I didn't have any proof at that time, so I went to Apple support website and asked some guys there. Several days later, I came back to the Authorized store and presented them with the evidences. Finally they admitted it and they gave me a free iPod touch 4th Gen 8GB White :) in return of my effort (but they still let me keep the bogus 3rd Gen as a mementos). They also admitted that there were some false advertising everywhere around the world but Apple never made an official statement for the problem. So I think this is a strict consumer-store issue.
I see that you have 3 questions to support your position, I'll try to answer it as simple as possible.
1. From the press release, well, Apple never stated anything about MC model, you may look into this page : http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2009/09/09Apple-Introduces-New-iPod-touch-Lineup.html
It was also stated in Pricing and Availability that all three of them were considered new iPod models NOT 3RD GEN MODELS. If your local store advertised that the MC model as the 3rd Gen model, they were wrong.
However, specifically speaking, Apple did mention in the press release that the 32 GB and the 64 GB model was 50% faster (from the 8GB model, so this should gave you a clue that the 8GB model would be somehow weaker than its siblings). If the store told you that they were the same even before the release of iOS 4, the store might be lying. I don't know if the guy at your store is a fool or what, but I think that by letting you know that the 32 GB version is stronger than the 8GB one, the store might have gained more profit by selling you the 32GB instead of the 8GB one.
Your local authorized reseller should've known the fact since the time of the release. But it's possible that your store didn't read carefully the press release which ended up misleading customers. (It's not their fault 100%, but they were still guilty)
1. I don't know what kind of method they used since all 4th Gen iPod is a MC model (so how does they distinguish 3rd Gen and 4th Gen ?) But a legal and official way to distinguish between generations is indeed the http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1353. Otherwise, according to my local authorized reseller, it's wrong or not official.
If you look at the back of the casing, you should see A1288 on your iPod. But on the true 3rd Gen, A1318 was printed. There was no way to find out this number unless you opened the case and see the unit for yourself.
If they were a Authorized reseller, why wouldn't they use an Authorized system as depicted in support.apple.com ? Even my local store use the support website as references in order to let customers and the store communicate in the same frequency. You should clarify that your local store is indeed an Authorized or not.
1. When I asked the my local store, they claimed it to be updated several hours after the press released. Although I'm not so sure about this fact, I guessed that Apple should have updated the page within 6 months of the release (I bought the unit in February 2010). As you can see in the address, Apple did not write the link as HT1353#iPod_touch_3G as in HT1353#iPod_touch_4G but rather as HT1353#iPod_touch_late2009 (see that apple designate the 3rd Gen as the iPod touch late 2009). What my local store explained that Apple only released 3rd Gen or the late 2009 model in 32 & 64 GB (the MC model has its own classification). This is the root of our problems, many stores (especially the non-authorized ones), classified the MC model as the 3rd Gen model.
Finally, the MC model is indeed a MC model (it's neither 2nd Gen nor 3rd Gen). Should the authorized store claimed it to be a 3rd Gen, they were totally wrong. They should advertise it as Refurbished 2nd Gen 8GB or as what some sellers at amazon did : "3rd Gen 8GB MC model (OLD MODEL). I guess the OLD MODEL designation was used because in the press release, "The 8GB iPod touch is now available for just $199, along with new models which deliver twice the capacity for the same price, with the iPod touch 32GB model for $299 and 64GB model for $399". New model designation is given only to the 32GB and 64 GB while the 8GB excluded from the designation.
Summary : I'm sorry that my answers weren't as simple as it would be, but I thought that it'd be great to help someone else with the same trouble. Go to your Authorized reseller again and show them these evidences. I guess that they might realized that they were wrong and I hope you might as well get your own 4th Gen iPod (you might wanted a full-fledged iPod from the date of the purchase, not the one which has been expired.)
Hope it helps :).
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I don't know what you're about to do with the your local reseller, but I got into the same hole. I guess what you're asking if your local store gave you fraudulent information, isn't it ?
I bought the same iPod 3rd Gen 8GB from my local premium reseller for US$199 at January 2010. The premium reseller advertise this as a ipod touch 3G with MC086XX part number. They convinced me that this is a real 3G iPod because it has MC written on it. But I knew from the http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1353#iPod_touch_late2009, only 32&64GB ipod were released. So I asked for their supervisor to clarify the product.
The supervisor came and explained to me that recently Apple released ipod 3G 8GB and she claimed that all three models will be having the same features. Then I purchased the unit and used it for 6 months until the release of iOS 4. It was a great disappointment in me when the multitasking didn't work on the ipod.
Then, I brought it back to premium reseller. The same supervisor came to me and explained that the premium reseller didn't know anything about it and put her blame onto Apple and me for not looking into the net for more info. But in the end, they offered me free iPod 4G similar capacity as Apple never gave off official refund for products.
Want to know what I did to convince them ?
I showed them the apple support web and I checked the serial number in front of the supervisor and then she admitted that the premium reseller had wrongly advertised the product. Furthermore, I showed her http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1353#iPod_touch_late2009 and then she admitted that the model number is the official and reliable way to distinguish iPod touch's generation.
I might not be directly answering your questions, but I guess this is what you should tell to your local store if they did sold you a 2G iPod MC model but advertising it as a 3G iPod. So right now I got 2 iPods, one the 4G and I still keep the 2G to let me remember how a Premium Reseller ever misled a customer.
One other thing you should know. Currently, this is a worldwide issue which means there are a lot of misled customer who purchased iPod 3G MC086XX because they were told it was a new 3G iPod but still it wasn't. Actually, I preferred that this product was advertised by New 2G MC iPod. Well, Apple, your guys at marketing should do better at advertising.
The point is why would an Authorized reseller made a wrong advertisements and statements or even misled by itself ? Did Apple itself didn't make things clear with its reseller ?
Since I can't answer those myself, I recommended that you shouldn't push your local reseller to much by asking for refund (Apple never authorized any refund) but rather ask for iPod 4G compensation. I agreed with Badboyz31's 80% discount, but getting the iPod for free might be better.
Good luck
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Wow, there's actually a discussion here. My brother was the one who had the unit but now he already get a 4th generation unit. I accompanied my mother to an authorized store in Thailand, January 2010. My mother wanted to buy an iPod as a present for my big brother who just finished studying abroad back in December 2010 (I was 14 at that time).
We went to the store and a seller there showed me a brochure. There was 8GB/32GB/64GB capacity under iPod touch 3rd Generation. My mom bought the 8GB version considering that the price was the cheapest of all and the seller guaranteed that all 3 versions were different only in the manner of capacity. After the purchase, the seller offered us to register the product in apple website directly under my mother's name.
Now, strange thing happened, when the seller put in the serial number, the apple website showed that my Apple was a 2nd generation unit. Unfortunately, my mother didn't realized what was happening. But I asked the seller, how was that possible ? The seller assured us that since 3rd generation was just launched, the 3rd generation name wasn't used yet. We trusted his words and received the unit back. Then the iPod become my brother's.
He used the ipod comfortably until the release of iOS 5 in 2011. He was confused why would his ipod won't update to iOS 5. So he brought the unit back to the same authorized reseller (again accompanied by me). Another seller came to us and my brother explain his problem. The seller immediately identified the ipod as a 2nd generation MC unit. My brother was surprised to hear that and asked why did they said the unit was a 3rd generation one. The seller explained to us that they didn't know that ipod touch 8Gb 2nd generation would be re-released and as you all might expected, a lot of people bought the wrong model, believing that the 2nd gen MC unit was indeed a 3rd Gen unit.
Since the seller acknowledged that it was partially the marketing mistake, he asked his manager to talk with us. My brother again explained to the manager what was going on. The manager said that, in the press release, apple never said that the new ipod released was indeed the 3rd gen. The 3rd gen naming only came out on apple support page. He also didn't know why would apple only release 32&64GB 3rd generation ipod.
I asked the manager immediately, "Sir, is there any compensation for us, since your store has sold us a product that wasn't what we were asking for ?" He said that he would discuss the matter with his superior and took our unit for inspection. 2 weeks later, the manager email-ed my brother to come to the store and took back his ipod unit. After receiving back the ipod, the manager said that there wasn't anything they could do since Apple too told them conflicting stories.
Apple even accused us for not knowing that there was a statement in the press release that the sentence "The 8GB iPod touch is now available for just $199, along with new models which deliver twice the capacity for the same price, with the iPod touch 32GB model for $299 and 64GB model for $399" means that the new model were intended for 32 & 64 GB only (they were really new since the 2nd generation 16&32GB were improved with twice the capacity). Also in the sentence "The 32GB and 64GB models also include up to 50 percent faster performance and support for even better graphics with OpenGL ES 2.0" also indicates that the 8GB model was intended to be different from the 32&64 GB models.
Then, the manager apologized for not knowing the matter and granted my brother a complimentary 4th gen 8Gb ipod. Hope this helps you too.
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I've just resolved this matter 3 weeks ago with a local premium reseller in KL, Malaysia. The guys there were great because they still took my matter into their account. In December 2009 they didn't advertised the 2G iPod MC model as a 3G iPod 8GB model but as a New ipod. It's logical to think 2G MC model is a newest 8GB at that time, but the problem came when a marketing guy who sold the ipod to me misinterpreted the meaning. For your information, I bought the ipod in March 2010 at the same reseller but I noticed the product to be wrong in June 2011.
Basically after a 2G ipod, 3G came out isn't it ?
But it wasn't, a quick serial number type-in at apple website shows that MC086 is definitely a 2G ipod, hence, it had to be advertised as such.
This is what I dislike from Apple, for every press release, it didn't explain what kind of product they were releasing. I think Apple loves fine texts too, because almost all proves which tell how a 8GB MC model was different from its brothers. And this point was missed by a lot of authorized and premium reseller.
Jonathan, you should know that maybe it wasn't the store's fault for selling you the wrong product but rather a marketing guy's misinterpretation when he was selling you the product. I don't care if the store DID KNOW THE FACT OR NOT, BUT a MAN's FAULt IN REPRESENTING HIS STORE IS PUNISHABLE BY HEAVY COMPENSATION.
I was fortunate to have quick responses from my local premium reseller since they acknowledged their mistake and offered me free 8GB ipod touch 4G white edition with the purchase of a ipod touch 4G case. It's still fair considering that the true usage of ipod 2G officially died with the release of iOS 4.2.1 so the users only have 8 months of full usage before it ran out of apple support.
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What do I mean by Heavy Compensation ? Even if the store gave me a free iPod touch 4G for my hassle, they're still generating revenue. But it's fair enough considering it's been more than 2 years using the fake 3G model – VAd3rz_28 Jun 29 '12 at 23:55
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1). Things should be as clear as quoted by L0n3Sheep :
I believed that many stores have no idea in what way a 8GB model would be different "under the hood", but they should've figured out the "difference in performance" as mentioned earlier.
2). Yes, when I called 1-800-APL-CARE, that's what apple said. If other Authorized stores used part number, they should take full responsibility for misleading a customer.
Only buy Apple product directly from an authorized reseller to be assured.
3). Only apple that would be able to answer that question. But i guessed it should've been there quite a long time. For your information, iPod 4G were included there almost instantly after the release.
My personal advice : demand a compensation from the store since it has misled you, a free or huge discount (75%-95%) should be fair enough.
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Re: Interlink 94 (The Campfire Ashes)
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It would seem that from the recent Emails, I have have received that
The Campfire Ashes, tradition is quite popular.
My the Scouts in my Troop received their ashes yesterday, I wonder if
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September 14, 2001|The Morning Call
This was supposed to be the week that Congress was to wrestle with President Bush's defense budget requests. The concerns were whether the nation could afford the expense without further dipping into the shrinking budget surplus, whether enough money was being appropriated and whether the nation could afford a missile defense system.
The horrible events of Tuesday have profoundly changed the debate. Concerns about the budget surplus seem trivial compared to the challenge this country faces today. What is money compared to the security and the future of democracy and freedom that this nation is and represents to the world?
And yet, we live in a real world, and the effectiveness of the way we confront the insidious threat of a war of terrorism depends on how we marshal what resources we have. Those who perpetrated this horror did so with far less than what the United States has at its disposal. So we must be even smarter and craftier in combating their evil.
Yesterday, President Bush requested $20 billion in emergency funding for the military to strengthen its ability to fight terrorism in what Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz described as a long, sustained campaign. "One thing is clear, you don't do it with just a single military strike, no matter how dramatic," said Mr. Wolfowitz. "We're going to keep after these people and the people who support them until this stops."
This isn't an effort that will need missile defenses. It is an effort that will take all this nation's intelligence and technical ability. It is an effort that will require manpower, and the nuts and bolts of national defense that is in dire need of attention.
Just a week ago, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was advising President Bush to veto any defense appropriation that cut back on funding for a missile defense system. Senate defense appropriators had trimmed $1.3 billion from the President's $8.3 billion anti-missile shield request. But as Tuesday proved, the immediate and most real threat to this nation's security isn't the eventual ability of potential enemies to lob missiles our way at some time in the future. It's the ability of terrorists to wreak havoc and mayhem -- right now.
What's needed to prevent this is better intelligence, and not just the sort provided by so-called technical means. Spy satellites and the like can accomplish only so much. It's estimated that the federal government spends about $30 billion a year on intelligence-gathering, but for the last couple of decades the support of this nation's intelligence community -- the people who actually do the work -- has not been a budget priority.
There have been recent instances where the intelligence community has prevented disaster. And it's reassuring that investigators have been able to identify about 50 people they believe were involved in Tuesday's horrendous events, and that all but about 10 of them are accounted for. But this is after the fact, and the nation cannot tolerate another similar atrocity.
Missile defense? Transfer most of the funds to more immediate needs. We are in a fight that requires cooperation from our allies, old and new. One of those is Russia which wasn't convinced of the wisdom of a missile defense system. We need its help and cooperation now more than we need an uncertain protection from a future threat.
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Mayawati sings a new tune in ad blitz
Ashish Tripathi, TNN Feb 21, 2012, 05.57AM IST
(Uttar Pradesh chief minister…)
LUCKNOW: A young girl thanks Behenji for raising the quality of higher education and putting a check on education mafia and providing students opportunities in UP.
A relaxed housewife sends her to college, saying, "Ab hum din ho ya raat, bina kisi chinta ke aa ja sakte hain, koi chhedkhani ka dar nahi. Dhanyawad Behenji (Day or night, now we can venture out without any fear. Thank you Behenji)."
A Muslim youth says 'shukriya' (thanks) to Behenji for providing a 'secure' atmosphere in UP where minorities can live with self-respect.
These are visuals from a new series of short TV ads the BSP started airing from Monday, marking a shift in the message the CM is trying to get across. So far, the BSP had focused on long-format ads, listing the work Maya had done for dalits, the marginalised, urban poor, minorities and the memorials she had built. The central theme of the earlier campaign was 'sarvsamaj' - trying to convey that Mayawati's rule did justice to all. But midway through the polls, and with the confidence level rising in the SP camp, the BSP is not trying to focus on what Maya supposedly wrong in Mulayam's regime. The new ads point out that girls were not safe on roads and campuses during the previous regime. They are also reminders about extortions, kidnappings and communal conflicts during Mulayam's rule.
Also, for the first time, the BSP is reaching out to the urban middle class, particularly women. While BSP leaders described it as a clever move by Behenji, pundits said these were clear signs of nervousness. "I think Mayawati has taken a lesson from SP. The SP election campaign this time has been positive. Their leaders have not made any negative comment against any personality," said Deepak Kabir, a social activist.
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I have tried to set the GAPCOSTS Parameter:
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Tories to sell-off entire Royal Mail if they win power
The Daily Mail reports:
A Conservative government would press ahead with plans to privatise Royal Mail and the party believes there would be more bidders if the striking Communication Workers Union is defeated.
The Tories are keen to sell off the entire service, rather than just the 30 per cent stake that Business Secretary Lord Mandelson wants to off-load.
It has emerged that Ken Clarke, the shadow Tory business secretary, had met potential bidders for Royal Mail and is said to be ready to include plans for full privatisation in the first Queen's Speech after a Tory general election victory.
The Tories are also looking to introduce measures that would ban strike action that was not supported by a majority of all workers being called out on strike.
Monday, October 26, 2009
Forensic Science Service set for sale
The Mail on Sunday reports:
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Poor Casualties of the new Cold War
Fron The Sunday Express, 25th October 2009.
THE second biggest power supplier in Britain is due to announce bumper profits next month.
Scottish and Southern Energy, which has nine million customers, has already forecast that pretax profits for the six months to the end of September will be significantly higher than last year’s £303million.
Speculation is rife that the company could announce profits for the period of nearly £600million. But with average annual household energy bills standing at £1,239 after a 42 per cent rise last year, any rise will enrage consumers.
Power suppliers, many of them foreign owned, say they need to make money to invest in new infrastructure but price comparison website believes there is plenty of scope for another price cut. said household bills have fallen by only four per cent from last year’s high, despite energy on the wholesale market being relatively cheap all year. Experts at energy consultancy McKinnon & Clarke have branded the situation “scandalous” and say that the energy companies have a stranglehold on the market.
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Britain a democracy? You're having a laugh
This article, by CPO co-founder Neil Clark, on the pro-privatisation policies of Britain's three main parties, appears in the Morning Star.
The reality is that the Britain of 2009 is to all intents and purposes a one-party state. Labour, the Conservatives and the Lib Dems are merely wings of the "capital party" - the same capital party which has governed Britain since 1979.
Hungary shows us the way.
The company's spokesman has complained and has threatened legal action, but it won't get much sympathy from local residents, 94 per cent of whom support the mayor's stance. The mayor of Pecs acted because the local people had had enough. It's time we followed their example. Don't get angry, get even, the old adage goes.
Working together to fight privatisation is essential. The battle our postal workers are fighting to save the 350-year-old Royal Mail as a public service is one which should involve all of us. The RMT's fight for a publicly owned railway is our fight too. Never forget that we are the many. The pro-privatisation spivs are the few.
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Conservatives may privatise the Met Office
The BBC reports:
A Conservative government would consider privatising the Met Office, shadow defence secretary Liam Fox has suggested to the BBC.
The Tories are committed to reducing Ministry of Defence costs by a quarter and this could include selling assets such as the Met Office.
Mr Fox told BBC One's Andrew Marr Show there was a "very strong case" for looking at offloading MoD assets.
He disputed suggestions that 22,000 MoD jobs could go as costs are cut.
Mr Fox said the Conservatives' policy had to be "about giving things to the front line", adding: "We can't afford to have 16% of the whole civil service in the MoD."
'Do these deliver?'
Asked how a Tory government would make savings, he said: "It's also big structures like the fact the MoD owns the Met Office, with all the costs, salaries, pensions."
Questioned about privatising the Met Office, Mr Fox said: "There's a very strong case to look at the assets of the MoD and say do these deliver anything for the front line?"
The Met Office, which provides the UK's weather forecasts, was established in 1854 as a small department within the Board of Trade and later became part of the MoD.
CPO co-founder Neil Clark comments: It seems that Labour and the Conservatives are trying to out-do each other over who will flog off most publicly-owned assets after the next election. Even though opinion polls show clearly that the British public want public ownership, not further privatisation.
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Privatisation on parole
This article by CPO co-founder Neil Clark, on the fightback against privatisation in Hungary, appears in the New Statesman.
Opposition to privatisation is high, so, with a spring election looming, even neoliberal politicians are having to change their tune: in June, Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai said he would prevent privatisation of the water supply. Multinationals may not like it, but 20 years on from capital's conquest of eastern Europe, public ownership, not privatisation, is the vote-winner.
Sunday, October 11, 2009
CPO Press Release on the Government's Fire-Sale of state assets
Saturday, October 10, 2009
The Pillage of the Post Office
Martin Kelly writes:
News Corporation (prop. K. R. Murdoch, OA, KCSG, PORNO) has thrown down the gauntlet and issued an ultimatum that the Royal Mail must 'modernise or privatise'. The British economy has been thoroughly modernised and privatised over the past 30 years - they've sure modernised and privatised the hell out of us. Let's see where we are.
One would have thought that the areas in which private economic activity is highest is reflected in the madcap freneticism of advertising. If this contention holds true for the modern United Kingdom, then the only things we are doing all day long are buying car insurance and calling telephone directory enquiry services. If I see another smug, self-satisfied mouthbreathing bastard vacantly chanting about the wonderful deal they got through, their tongues almost lolling in ecstasy, or another Slavonic sock puppet of a type that who wouldn't have been funny if it had been put beside Basil Brush or Charlie Cairoli on children's TV circa 1978, the controls might go through the TV.
The real scandal of the Royal Mail is how nobody, absolutely nobody, seems to be focussing on how its pension deficit is the result of a botched Tory law which enabled its management to take a 'contribution holiday', in other words to unilaterally exempt itself from its contractual obligations to its staff, between 1990 and 2003. The 'contribution holiday' was one of those business-friendly botched Tory mechanisms for ensuring that those and such as those do not have to feel that 'we're all in it together'. Whilst encouraging, the Labour conference's motion that the public purse should bail out the deficit is unlikely to make much headway, not if the recent history of the Labour Party is anything to go by. Too many bankers' pensions to pay.
Thursday, October 8, 2009
The Deliberate Destruction of the Royal Mail
By Martin Meenagh, co-founder of the CPO. The article also appears on his blog.
You don't need conspiracies in England. Things just happen.
So, for instance, a government decides that the Royal Mail needs to be privatised. It's about to leave office, those champagne and guacamole parties have to be paid for, and the economy has been ruined. Things would look better from the seat of a privatised company board after the defeat, and it would serve the country to sell off that postal pension fund and pretend the outcome is revenue too.
It goes without saying that your opponents agree with you, since we all have the same economic ideas, and anyway, we're in a crisis, and, well, you can't treat the taxpayers as though they were bankers and subsidise them. That would suggest that they were, well important. Foolish idea.
But, oh, those foolish lobby fodder in the commons for once represent the views of the people and don't go along with you, so what can you do? Provoke industrial action? Replace large numbers of trained and dedicated staff with new people on shorter contracts and encourage them to lie? Run down the service from an efficient, morning-delivery one to some rubbish parody (which, admittedly, you were doing for ages anyway), and then charge people for a fraction of the old standard? Provoke a strike that wrecks small businesses and damages those stone age people who still pay bills by cheque? Trash major deals?
Yes, that'd work. You wouldn't even have to plot it. Motivated by depression, in some bizarre and counter intuitive way--because they didn't get the sense of satisfaction that comes with trousering other people's money and undermining staff that motivates many British managers when your privatisation bill was withdrawn--the administration of the service will do it automatically.
Then people would be so sick of the Royal Mail no-one would oppose a sale. Champagne all round, I think.
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Voting for Homeschool
With the girls and Matt at Chess Club, I've sat myself down to do some voter research for upcoming state and local elections.
Unfortunately, my research got stopped cold when I made to just quickly double-check that I knew who I was voting for in the state school superintendent race: the Republican dude who's run the public schools into the ground for the past four years, stymied its kiddos with huge testing burdens, and tried to punish teachers who are less successful at force-feeding context-less standardized testing information into their students' brains for years on end without a break, or the Democratic chick who has the support of the teachers' union, and wants to basically spend her term undoing all of the current superintendent's requirements concerning high stakes testing and teacher evaluations?
Simple, right? Just let me check on one tiny detail, first...
Crap. Looks like she hates homeschooling.
It's common knowledge here that Indiana's public schools are struggling (Is that common knowledge for every state? I have no idea). Our governor has taken funding from them and added a bunch of standardized tests, and from what I can gather he and the superintendent have acted like assholes to the public school teachers, because all the ones whom I know personally hate them.
With all this turmoil, and all these miserable voters who teach in or have kids in the public schools, you'd think that both candidates would want to focus entirely on these glaring concerns, these many issues. Homeschooling families are a small population, and they're not complaining that their kids are illiterate, or that they don't have access to foreign language study and music programs, or that they're being over-stressed by yearly standardized tests.
But here's what the challenging candidate, Glenda Ritz, nevertheless has to say about homeschooling: it needs regulation.
Seriously? I mean, she knows that it IS regulated, right? She knows that homeschooling families are required to school for a certain number of days each year, and are required to maintain curriculum standards at least comparable to the public schools, and that these requirements can be checked on? So that if families actually were pulling their children out of school just to serve as caregivers for their grandparents (Seriously?), the homeschooling regulations already in place could be used to stop them?
So either she's ignorant about homeschooling but still willing to trash it for applause (and thanks for THAT, teachers in attendance at that discussion--I try to vote in support of y'all!), or she knows the regulations but is willing to lie about them in order to give evidence that they need to be changed.
Should I vote for the dude who's trashing the public schools but has basically left homeschooling alone for four years, or should I vote for the chick whom the public school teachers support but who may trash homeschooling, and trust that the teachers, if called upon, would not applaud further regulations but would instead support my rights the way that I supported theirs?
No, really. I'm asking you.
kirsten said...
sseriously. who do you vote for at all?
anyway, this is random, but you and several other bloggers have talked about 'story of the world' recently, specifically the audiobooks. we tried the books a few years back for one year and weren't too happy with them. i thought the audiobook might be a good/fun supplement + car entertainment. And can I say? I hate that guy's voice!!! hate it!! his cadence and intonation are just weird and grating to me. and the boys were bored. oh well. we did like the audiobook of 'story of US' though, have you tried it?
(please do not dissect for grammar mistakes. they're there, I know. ;)
julie said...
I STILL don't know which superintendent I'm voting for. I'm pretty sure that Ritz would be better overall, but I just don't know if I can bring myself to vote for her, knowing how she feels about my specific population. BUT I also voted to raise my own property taxes to support our county public schools after Bennett and our governor, Mitch Daniels, ran them into the ground and took away all their money, so Bennett's poor management is still affecting me, even if he is leaving homeschoolers alone. Ugh!
I feel the same way about the narrator of the Little House audiobooks that you do about Jim Weiss, the guy who does Story of the World. On a positive note, I actually have reconciled myself to the Little House narrator, but only because Sydney is OBSESSED with audiobooks, constantly has one playing, and I've heard that specific voice so many times that I've just gotten used to it, I think.
I'll try Story of US--thanks! That might be good for the road trip that I'm taking the girls on next month. We're going up the East Coast a bit, across Virginia and D.C., and I was thinking about how to get some knowledge of the Revolutionary and Civil War and colonial history into their heads without "studying" it.
Unknown said...
I would seriously ask you to consider voting for Glenda Ritz. I'm a teacher who has considered homeschooling myself (one of my children has Down syndrome and the other is gifted). I know, without a doubt, that I could homeschool and do a great job of it. I also know (as do all teachers), that many homeschool parents do an awesome job.
The problem is, at least in my area, many of the students withdrawn from our schools to "homeschool" are actually dropouts. They sign up for homeschool and never follow through with it. We're in a rural area with high poverty . . . homeschool is used as a way out of the schools without having any accountability.
I personally know of several parents who have withdrawn their children for "homeschool" and the parents themselves don't even have a GED (and wouldn't be able to pass the GED test if they tried).
Thank you for taking the time to read my post.
julie said...
I'm going to vote for Ritz this time, even though I'm profoundly against further homeschool regulation. The regulations already in place would, if authorities bothered to enforce them, prevent drop-outs from pretending that they're homeschoolers, and I am NOT for preventing parents without GEDs from homeschooling; homeschooling simply isn't the kind of top-down, "information goes from my brain into yours" set-up that traditional schools are, and I am not okay with the assumption that adults who lack a formal certification cannot mediate their children's educational experiences. If they do a bad job, and their children are not receiving instruction equivalent to their grade level then, again, there are regulations already in place to deal with that.
Anyway, parents whose children are in public schools have convinced me that they are in dire straits with Bennet, and I plan to vote for a person whose views on homeschooling I don't support solely to help the public school kids. But if Ritz fixes public schools and then starts trying to regulate my homeschool, I am going to be so pissed, and I am going to fight her.
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Totally out of touch
This is David Willetts, Minister of State for Universities and Science and, in my own humble opinion, a complete and utter cunt.
Willetts thinks that people in their 60s should go back to university to retrain because they will be expected to work for years longer before retirement. He thinks that older people who do this will be more employable and valued by their employers. He's living in complete cloud cuckoo land.
Firstly, having worked for 40 odd years, are we not entitled to take our hard earned cash and settle down to a bit of R&R in our twilight years? Apparently not, because having made provision for our retirement, the government has slashed interest rates to the point where we've fuck all left to live on.
Secondly, has Mr Willetts not noticed that companies these days are being run by hungry young twenty and thirty somethings working hard for their first burn out? Ageism might be illegal, but you try getting one of these little bastards to offer a job to an old fart. Let's face it, the old fart can do their job better than them and they know it.
Thirdly, having become an expert at what I do because of the many years experience I have gathered, why would I want to retrain to do something entirely different in which I have no experience at all. Would this not make me less employable rather than more employable?
Fourthly, he wants us to 'go back' to university. Does he not realise that many of us never went to university in the first place. Just because this silver spooned toffee nosed Tory twit got himself a degree, why does he assume that we all got one?
And then there's the question of tuition fees. You remember them Mr willetts? After all your government increased them.
As Dot Gibson, general secretary of the National Pensioners Convention, told the Telegraph: "Older workers still face the barrier of age discrimination. It's difficult to see how building up a debt of nearly £30,000 in university fees is going to help them get a job."
Let's face it - it's not much of an investment at our age is it?
Anonymous said...
So that's work till 65, then 3 years at Uni oops no 4 had to redo the last year, no council tax, all fees paid as am only on state pension, just who is going to employ the 70 old newbie, never mind pay to insure me whilst I work? Then only pay some back if I get over 21 grand.
Only thing is the bstards will probably nick me house when I'm away! Talking of houses that's probably what they will do for the fees, nick if off your kids.
Dioclese said...
I agree, anon.
Basically it's a con. If you go to Uni then you're not claiming a pension - although by then you probably won't be getting one until you're 70 anyway - and you not on the unemployment list.
Labour tried something similar the other end of the scale by convincing school leavers to stay on for further education, it made the unemployment stats look good. At least it did until 3/4 years later when they ended up with a load of unemployed graduates and the ripple effect caught up and made the figures look even worse. But that was OK because by then they knew they were going to loses the next election anyway!
BilloTheWisp said...
I have a dark suspicion that this pillock is actually practising to be a stand up comic.
When somebody (please anybody!) realises he hasn't got a ****ing clue perhaps he can seamlessly warp into his new role.
The trouble is.... he isn't funny either.
Anonymous said...
Here in South Africa, education standards are taking a dip anyway. For instance, a medical student can pass a subject by scoring a mere 50% Scary thought to say the least... Other "students" achieve a business degree and now expect to walk into a top management position. The lack of experience is sickeningly apparent as they refuse to acknowledge that the theories they tried to understand whilst studying, are seldom applicable in real life.
The company I work for employ youngsters simply because they can pay them less. And when they leave for a higher salary, they employ another at the original salary scale, thus actually saving money... How is that possible? Because somewhere there is always an older fart that will fix things when they (inevitably) go wrong...
There - I said it :-)
Dioclese said...
I agree, Billo. He's not funny - although he is sort of funny looking.
I just wonder at what stage this government is going to wake up to the fact that it's the grey generation that does the voting and stops taking the piss out of us. I'm voting UKIP next time and fuck 'em all.
Dioclese said...
Anon, good to know that things over there are just as bad as over here!!
My Dad was a Woolworth director (Yeh I have been to SA and now that Woolies there is not the same as the one we use to have here but back in the 60s it was a major high street retailer to be reckoned with.)
In his day, everyone in the company started with the same job - stockroom lugging boxes for the boys, sales assistant for the girls. They worked their way up through the company and knew it from the bottom up. No exceptions.
He reckoned that the shit started to hit the fan when they started bringing people in from outside. He also reckoned that they avoided bringing in graduates because it took three to four years to untrain them.
Seems nothing much changes...
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Deck import code: 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4vc 4vc 4vi 4vi 4vj 4vj 4vj 4vj 4vj 4vk 4vk 4vk 4vm 4vm 4vm 4vo 4vo 4vp 4vq 4vq 4vq 4vq 52n 52n 52p 52r 52s 542 542 542 5c6 5c6 5c6 5c8 5c8 5de 5de 5de 8pj
Strategy Edit
The general idea of this deck is to fill your field with a lot of monsters; then start healing with Empathic Bond and using them as mutation fodder to create more powerful monsters.
If the opponent keeps this deck from being able to setup it's main strategy, well then it's GG, of course once it has been setup it's very hard to take it down. The deck is pretty versatile in how it can set itself up, too.
Different options include:
1. Boneyard + Schrodinger's cat
2. Boneyard + Pandemonium
3. Boneyard + Plague
4. Aflatoxin on one of your own monsters
The above examples are how you'll be able to get the army you need. This deck has some other niceties to deal with different situations.
1. Butterfly Effect to deal with dangerous permanents.
2. Chaos Seed to deal with strong monsters the opponent might have.
3. Forest Scorpion for some reliable damage output.
You should have the perfect amount of towers, along with enough novas to speed you along when you're just a quanta or two away from finishing the setup.
Additional Notes Edit
You could definitely swap out a couple cards for something like Steal or Purify if you really wanted to; maybe even more Bone Wall. The deck is decently flexible, so you can do a little tweaking without compromising it's core function. The main benefit from having both skeletons AND malignant cells at your disposal is that skeletons turn into a random monster when targeted with reverse time, rather than be sent into your deck.
Comments Edit
From testing this deck on Level Threes, it has too many variables and takes too long to set up a win condition for the player. The opponent can typically completely lock you out of winning. I would suggest completely rethinking this deck's manner of winning; I don't personally think that you could win an elemental mastery with a Schrodinger deck. Does anyone else agree or disagree with me?
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The atomic matter piles were energy-production components utilized in Federation starship propulsion systems.
In 2254, Starfleet officer Ben Finney, while serving aboard the USS Republic, accidentally left a circuit open to the atomic matter piles, a mistake which could have resulted in the destruction of the ship. This oversight was logged by Finney's old friend, Ensign James T. Kirk, who subsequently closed the switch, and Finney was moved to the bottom of the promotion list as a result. This led to a rift in the friendship between Kirk and Finney. (TOS: "Court Martial")
When this episode was written in the mid-1960's, an atomic matter pile was defined in the real world as a ...type of nuclear reactor whose core consisted of layers of graphite block interspersed with uranium, designed to create a sustained fission reaction. [[1]]. An example of a nuclear pile reactor was the Chicago Pile-1 which, in 1942, produced the first self-sustaining nuclear reaction.
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"Mona Lisa of the Galilee". Part of a mosaic floor in Tzippori.
Tzippori (Hebrew: צִפּוֹרִי), also known as Sepphoris, Diocesaraea (Ancient Greek Διοκαισάρεια) and Saffuriya (Arabic: صفورية, also transliterated Safurriya and Suffurriye) is located in the central Galilee region, 6 kilometers (3.7 mi) north-northwest of Nazareth, in Israel.[1] It lies 286 m above sea level and overlooks the Beth Netofah valley. The site holds a rich and diverse historical and architectural legacy that includes Assyrian, Hellenistic, Judean, Babylonian, Roman, Byzantine, Islamic, Crusader, Arabic and Ottoman influences.
In later Christian traditions it is believed that the parents of the Virgin Mary, Anna and Joachim, were natives of Tzippori.[2]
Notable structures at the site include a Roman theater, two early Christian churches, a Crusader fortress that was renovated by Daher el-Omar in the 18th century, and upwards of forty different mosaics.[3]
After the end of Judaea, following the Bar Kokhba revolt of 132–135, Tzippori served as a center of Jewish religious and spiritual life in the Galilee and took in many Jewish refugees; remains of a 6th-century synagogue have been uncovered in the lower section of the site. In the 7th century, the town came under the rule of the Arab caliphates like much of the rest of Palestine. Successive Arab and Islamic imperial authorities ruled the area until the end of the first World War I, with a brief interruption during the Crusades.
Until the eviction of its inhabitants by Israeli forces in 1948-1949,[4] Saffuriya was an Arab village. The Israeli moshav Tzippori was established adjacent to the site in 1949. The area occupied by the former Arab village was designated a national park in 1992. Moshav Tzippori falls under the jurisdiction of Jezreel Valley Regional Council, and in 2006 had a population of 616.
Early history[edit]
Although the date of the city's founding is a point of some dispute, it is at least as old as the 7th century BCE, when it was fortified by the ancient Assyrians. It subsequently served as an administrative center in the region under Babylonian, Hellenistic and Persian rule.
In 104 BCE, the Judean priestly dynasty of the Hasmoneans conquered Galilee under the leadership of either Alexander Jannaeus or Aristobulus I.[5] The city was called Tzippori, a name derived from the Hebrew word for 'bird', tsippor, perhaps because of its bird's-eye view the hilltop provides.[6] Sepphoris came under the direct rule of the Romans in the year 37 BCE, when the Roman client king Herod the Great captured the city from his rival Mattathias Antigonus, reportedly at the height of a snowstorm (Josephus, Ant. 14.414-6).[7]
After Herod's death in 4 BCE, Sepphoris became the center of one of several Jewish rebellions against Roman rule. The Roman army moved in under the command of the Roman Governor in Syria, Varus.[citation needed]After burning the city, the Romans sold many of its inhabitants into slavery and crucified 2000 Jewish rebels (Josephus, Ant. 17.271-87; War 2.56-69).[citation needed] After Herod's son, Herod Antipas was made Tetrarch, or governor, he proclaimed the city's new name to be Autocratoris, in honor of the emperor (called Autocrator in Greek) and rebuilt it as the "Ornament of the Galilee (Josephus, Ant. 18.27)."[citation needed] An ancient route linking Tzippori to Legio, and further south to Sebaste-Samaria, is believed to have been paved by the Romans around this time.[8] The new population was loyal to Rome.
At the time of Jesus, Sepphoris was a large, Roman-influenced city. It has been suggested that Jesus, while living in Nazareth, may have done business there.[9] Archaeological investigations at the site have led to numerous debates about the influence of this town on Jesus, and shed light on differences within Galilean society.
The inhabitants of Sepphoris did not join the rebellion against Roman rule in the First Jewish–Roman War of 66 CE. The Jerusalem-ite Josephus, a son of Jerusalem's priestly elite, who believed the entire country was loyal to the priesthood and Temple, had been sent north to recruit the Galilee into the rebellion's fold, but he failed. According to archaeologist Zeev Weiss the city reflected "continuity, life and peace. It chose to open its gates to Rome and to continue to exist- there was exposure to the Other. There was a willingness to accept things that came from outside."[10]
Around the time of the rebellion Sepphoris had a Roman theatre - in later periods, bath-houses and mosaic floors depicting human figures. Sepphoris and Jerusalem may be seen to symbolize a cultural divide between those that sought to avoid any contact with the surrounding Roman culture and those who within limits, were prepared to adopt aspects of that culture. Rejected by Sepphoris and forced to camp outside the city Josephus went on to Jotapata, which did seem interested in the rebellion, - the siege of Jotapata ended on July 20 67 A.D. Towns and villages that did not rebel were spared and in Galilee they were the majority.[11]Coins minted in the city at the time of the First Revolt carried the inscription Neronias and Eirenopolis, "City of Peace".After the revolt, symbolism used on the coins was little different from other surrounding pagan city coins with depictions of laurel wreaths, palm trees, caduceuses, and ears of barley.[citation needed]
Just prior to the Bar Kokhba revolt, the city's name was changed to Diocaesarea. Following the Bar Kokhba revolt in 132–135, many Jewish refugees from devastated Judea settled there, turning it into a center of Jewish religious and spiritual life in the Galilee. Rabbi Yehuda Hanasi, one of the compilers of the Mishnah, a commentary on the Torah, moved to Tzippori, along with the Sanhedrin, the highest Jewish religious court.[12] Before moving to Tiberias by 150, Jewish academies of learning, yeshivot, were also based there. Diocaeserea, so named in honor of Zeus and the Roman emperor, became not only a center of spiritual and religious study, but also a busy metropolis of trade because of its proximity to important trade routes through Galilee.
Diocaesarea was destroyed by the Galilee earthquake of 363, but rebuilt soon afterwards, and retained its importance in the greater Jewish community of the Galilee, both socially, commercially, and spiritually. Jews and pagan Romans lived peacefully alongside one another during the Byzantine period, and the city welcomed a number of Christians as well.
Islamic conquest and the Crusaders[edit]
Ya'qubi noted that Saffuriyyah was taken during the first conquest by the Arab armies in Palestine,[13] in 634.[14] The city was incorporated into the expanding Umayyad Caliphate, and al-jund coins were minted by the new rulers.[15] Saffuriya was engaged in trade with other parts of the empire at the time; for example, cloaks made in Saffuriyya were worn by people in Medina.[16] Umayyad rule was replaced by Abbasid rule, and Arab and Islamic dynasties continued to control the city, with a brief interlude during the Crusades, up until its conquest by Israel in the war of 1948. Throughout this period of time, the city was known by the Semitic name Saffuriya.[17]in fact - Arabization of the previous Hebrew and Greek name.
Modern history[edit]
Sefurieh - Plain of Buttauf, Palestine, 1859.jpg
Sefurieh, 1859
Saffuriyya is located in Mandatory Palestine
Arabic صفورية
Sub-district Nazareth
Coordinates 32°45′10.4″N 35°16′46.2″E / 32.752889°N 35.279500°E / 32.752889; 35.279500Coordinates: 32°45′10.4″N 35°16′46.2″E / 32.752889°N 35.279500°E / 32.752889; 35.279500
Population 4,330[19] (1945)
Area 55,378[19] dunams
Date of depopulation 16 July 1948/January 1949[20]
Cause(s) of depopulation Military assault by Yishuv forces
Secondary cause Expulsion by Yishuv forces
Current localities Tzippori and the village land was distributed between Kibbutz Sde Nahum, Kibbutz Heftziba and Kibbutz HaSolelim[20][21]
Crusader/Ottoman Fortress, the upper part was used as a school from the early 1900s (decade) until 1948.[22] Note doorway constructed under Daher el-Omar.
Saffuriya (Arabic: صفورية, also transliterated Safurriya and Suffurriye), along with the whole of Palestine, came under the rule of the Ottoman Empire after it defeated the Mamluks at the Battle of Marj Dabiq in 1516. An Ottoman firman of 1572 describes Saffuriyya as one of a group of villages within the sanjak of Safad, which was part of the Qaysi faction, and that had rebelled against the Ottoman authorities.[23] At the end of the 16th century, the population was recorded as consisting of 366 families and 34 bachelors, all Muslim. Saffuriyya was larger than neighboring Nazareth but smaller than Kafr Kanna.[24] A number of important scholars came from the village during this period, including the qadi, al-Baq'a al-Saffuri (died 1625) and Ahmad al-Sharif (died 1633), a poet and qadi.[25]
It is reported that in 1745 Daher el-Omar, who grew up in the town,[26] built a fortress on the hilltop above Saffuriya.[14] In the early 19th century, the British traveller J. Buckingham noted that all the inhabitants of Saffuriya were Muslim, and that the house of St. Anna had been completely demolished.[14][27]
In 1944/45 a total of 21,841 dunums of village land was used for cereals, 5,310 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards, mostly olive trees.[14][30] By 1948, Saffuriya was the largest village in the Galilee both by land size and population, which was estimated at 4,000 Arabs.[31]
On July 1, 1948, during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, the village was bombarded by Israeli planes.[31] On 16 July it was captured by Israeli forces along with the rest of the lower Galilee in Operation Dekel. The villagers put up some resistance and managed to destroy several armoured cars in an ambush.[32] Following the collapse of the resistance all but 80 of the villagers fled. Some made their way northwards toward Lebanon, finally settling in the refugee camps of Ein al-Hilwa, Sabra and Shatila in Lebanon. Others fled south to Nazareth and the surrounding countryside. After the attack, the villagers returned but were evicted again in September 1948.[4] On January 7, 1949, 14 residents were deported and the remaining 550 were resettled in neighboring Arab villages such as 'Illut.[4] Many settled in Nazareth in a quarter now known as the al-Safafira quarter because of the large number of Saffuriyya natives living there.[29] As the Israeli government considers them absentees, they cannot go back to their old homes and have no legal recourse to recover them.[33]
The area remained under Martial Law until 1966.
The site of the Arab village was planted with pine trees.[31] On February 20, 1949, the Israeli moshav of Tzippori was founded southeast of the former village.[31] The pomegranate and olive trees were replaced with crops for cattle fodder.[34]
Archaeological sites in the National Park[edit]
The history of Tzippori as presented in the modern day national park mainly covers the periods up to Roman and Byzantine rule, with mention of the Crusades, the period of rule under the Arab caliphates and the Ottoman Empire and British rule.
The Crusader/Ottoman tower sits high atop the hill, overlooking both the Roman theater, the majority of the Jewish city and the destroyed Palestinian village. It was built in the 12th century, on the foundation of an earlier Byzantine structure. The tower is built as a large square, 15m x15m, and approximately 10 m. high. The lower part of the walls are built of reused antique spolia, including a sarcophagus with decorative carvings. The upper part of the tower and the doorway were constructed by Daher el-Omar in the 18th century. Noticeable features from the rebuilding are the rounded corners which are similar to those constructed under Daher in the fort in Shefa-'Amr. The upper part of the building was converted for use as a school during the reign of Abdul Hamid II in the early 1900s (decade), and used for this purpose until 1948.[35]
Offering of fruits and grains, the Nile House Mosaic
A modern structure stands to one side of the excavations, protecting the remains of a 5th-century public building, with a large and intricate mosaic floor. Some believe the room was used for festival rituals involving a celebration of water, and possibly covering the floor in water. Drainage channels have been found in the floor, and the majority of the mosaic seems devoted to measuring the floods of the Nile, and celebrations of those floods.[37]
Dionysus Party
The centerpiece of the mosaic floor, however, at least for the archaeologists, is an image of a young lady, possibly meant to be Venus, which the researchers have dubbed "The Mona Lisa of the Galilee." Smaller mosaic tesserae were used to allow for greater detail and a more lifelike result. The image is certainly more lifelike, and more detailed (as in the shading and blush of her cheeks) than most expect mosaics to be.[37]
Zodiac Wheel Mosaic in the great synagogue of Tzippori, 5th century
The remains of an ancient Tzippori Synagogue have been uncovered in the lower section of the city. It was built in the late 5th or early 6th century, at a time when the town's Christian population was increasing and the strength of the Jewish population was diminishing. Measuring 20.7 meters by 8 meters wide, it was located at the edge of the town.
An Aramaic inscription reads: "May he be remembered for good Yudan son of Isaac the Priest and Paragri his daughter Amen Amen"[38]
See also[edit]
2. ^ Eric Meyers ed. (1999). Galilee, Confluence of Cultures. Eisenbrauns: Winona Lake, Indiana. pp. 396-7
4. ^ a b c Benny Morris (2004). The birth of the Palestinian refugee problem revisited. Cambridge University Press. pp. 417,516–517. ISBN 978-0-521-00967-6. Retrieved 28 August 2011.
5. ^ "Sepphoris". Virtual Religion Network. Retrieved 2006-07-03.
6. ^ Talmud Bavli, Megillah, 6, 81
7. ^ "Zippori". The Department for Zionist Education, The Jewish Agency for Israel. Retrieved 2006-07-03.
8. ^ Richardson, 1996, p. 133.
9. ^ PBS Frontline - December 15, 2009 PBS Frontline
10. ^ Zeev Weiss, speaking on Searching for Exile,Truth or Myth?, Ilan Ziv's film, screened on BBCFour, 3 November 2013 [1]
12. ^ PD-icon.svg "Diocaesarea". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. 1913.
13. ^ le Strange, 1890, p.32
14. ^ a b c d e Khalidi, 1992, p. 351.
15. ^ Melissa M. Aubin (2000). The Changing Landscape of Byzantine Sepphoris. ASOR Publications.
16. ^ Crone, 2004, p. 102.
17. ^ Chancey, 2005, p. 102.
19. ^ a b Hadawi, 1970, p.63
20. ^ a b Morris, 2004, p. xvii village #139
22. ^ Petersen, 2002, p. 270.
23. ^ Heydn, 1960, pp. 83-84. Cited in Petersen, 2002, p. 269
25. ^ Khalidi, 1992, pp. 350-353.
27. ^ Buckingham, 1821, p.90
28. ^ Conder, Claude Reignier and H.H. Kitchener: The Survey of Western Palestine. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. (1881) I:279-80. Quoted in Khalidi, 1992, p. 351.
29. ^ a b Laurie King-Irani (Autumn, 2000). "Land, Identity and the Limits of Resistance in the Galilee". Middle East Report. No. 216 (216): 40–44. JSTOR 1520216.
30. ^ Hadawi, 1970, p.110
31. ^ a b c d IIED, 1994, p. 97.
33. ^ Kacowicz, 2007, p. 140.
34. ^ Benvenisti, 2002, p. 216.
35. ^ Petersen, 2002, p. 269, 270
36. ^ Bar-Am, Aviva (January 25, 2010). "Ancient Tzipori". Jerusalem Post.
37. ^ a b c Tzipori National Park pamphlet (in Hebrew)
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Q&A with Bill Draper, on venture capital, startups and Skype
January 21, 2011: 2:05 PM ET
There is lots of competition for the title of most influential venture capitalist of all time. But there is no disputing that the Drapers are the industry's first family.
William Henry Draper launched the first Silicon Valley venture firm in 1959. His son Bill co-founded Sutter Hill Ventures and later created the first U.S.-India venture capital partnership. Bill's son, Tim, is one of the founding partners of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, a Silicon Valley shop with affiliates all over the world. And there even may be a fourth generation, as Tim's son Adam is VP of business development at a new private company exchange called Xpert Financial.
But back to Bill. He recently wrote a book called The Startup Game, which reads like a first-person history of the venture capital industry. It includes lots of exposition for those not familiar with venture capital, a generous dose of advice and anecdotes that range from making a $20 bet with Fidel Castro to not understanding why his partners were so amused after being pitched by a high-end vibrator company (Draper assumed they made vibrating chairs).
We spent some time on the phone in advance of the book's release, and what follows is an edited transcript:
Fortune: Why did you choose to write the book?
Draper: I believe venture capital is one of the world's most importantly economic driving forces, so I wanted to tell the story of venture capital as it started and unfolded through three generations. To my knowledge, we're the only three-generation family in the industry. The people I want to reach are entrepreneurs thinking about starting up a company, VCs trying to do a better job or those thinking about venture capital as a career.
The book is largely structured as autobiography, with specific events in your life used to illustrate larger points.
Yes, but I tried to be very careful not to write an autobiography. Maybe someday I'll write a whole other book about my UN days or something like that. But I did want to use my life where it was important, like meeting with Deng Xiaoping, who did more for entrepreneurs than any other man in history, by opening up China. And the same goes for Manu Singh in India. Those stories show where a leader at the top can make a huge difference. Indira Gandhi and that family had a stranglehold on India for 40 years, and kept entrepreneurs from openly and aggressively growing. Now that has changed.
Median venture capital returns have been negative or around break-even for more than a decade. Are you concerned that it won't be considered a legitimate asset class for much longer?
My take on venture capital's problems is that there has been so much money thrown at it that it's been overwhelming. There just haven't been enough Facebooks and Skypes.
So the old 'too much money chasing too few deals' paradigm?
Yes. In the early days of VC, the returns were so attractive that they got Wall Street's attention. But then perhaps it was too much attention. On the other hand, I really want to stress that this has been good for the overall economy, because it has meant more entrepreneurs could get started. If there were many fewer venture capitalists, perhaps a company like Facebook or Skype wouldn't have been created in the first place, or been able to get funding.
Is it possible that part of the VC return problem is that there are too many lousy VCs?
No. I really take issue with those who disparage the quality of the people in venture capital. Most of them are really fine, competent and direct people. I know lots of them, and they are extraordinarily talented. Obviously there are some real devils to avoid, but my overall point is that even if lots of great people are searching for the next big thing, there might not be enough great big things to go around.
You mentioned that there are some devils. What's your advice to an entrepreneur who might have multiple funding options?
My advice to the entrepreneur is to be sure that you have sophisticated support that will back you as times get rough. I'm not talking about stupid money – the best VCs don't throw good money after bad – but smart money coming from a competent team of VCs with a good record who seem compatible with you. Don't just go to Sequoia or Kleiner Perkins, because it may not be the best fit for you or your particular company.
Also, it's important to identify the person at the VC firm who will be working with you. A great firm name isn't worth much if the actual partner on your board isn't very good.
Your story mostly focuses on Silicon Valley. Why do you think that venture capital has thrived there, in ways that it hasn't in other places, like Boston, where it's been around for just as long?
I think there's just lots of structural support in Silicon Valley. It's the old west mentality, where people take risks and failure is just considered experience. Get back up on the horse and keep riding. In the east, there's a bit less encouragement and risk-taking appetite.
We obviously have Stanford, but Boston has MIT and Pittsburgh has Carnegie Mellon. There are environments growing around those centers of high tech, but Silicon Valley is a little like the mother church.
You've spent lots of time investing in China and India. If you were to target a new country, what would it be?
I think Brazil. It's the biggest country in Latin America, has good infrastructure and its political direction seems to be encouraging to free enterprise.
You were one of the original seed backers of Skype. What are your thoughts, now, on the sale to eBay – which your son opposed – and its new plans?
Now it's really a new beginning, and I'm optimistic. I really believe Skype has the ability to become the next AT&T, or better. It's a marvelous communications system. Like with most companies, it will come down to management. Good management early on is why it was successful in the first place.
Do you plan to write another book?
Maybe. Completely depends on how you review this one.
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0.144765 | <urn:uuid:34f11235-a3cd-4804-8a42-81825a5aad0a> | en | 0.919864 | [SoundTrace PIC] JavaArt Chapter 5. Program Sonification
This chapter does not appear in the book.
Program sonification (also called auralization) is the transformation of an executing program into auditory information. I'm not talking about an application playing a sound clip, but the entire program becoming the clip or piece of music. The motivation for this unusual transformation is the same as for program visualization - as a way of better understanding what's happening inside code, to aid with its debugging and modification.
Music is inherently structured, hierarchical, and time-based, which suggests that it should be a good representation for structured and hierarchical code, whose execution is also time-based of course. Music offers many benefits as a notation, being both memorable and familiar. Even the simplest melody utilizes numerous attributes, such as sound location, loudness, pitch, sound quality (timbre), duration, rate of change, and ordering. These attributes can be variously matched to code attributes, such as data assignment, iteration and selection, and method calls and returns. Moving beyond a melody into more complex musical forms, lets us match recurring themes, orchestration, and multiple voices to programming ideas such as recursion, code reuse, and concurrency.
A drawback of music is the difficulty of representing quantitative information (e.g. that the integer x has the value 2), although qualitative statements are relatively easy to express (e.g. that the x value is increasing). One solution is lyrics: spoken (or sung) words to convey concrete details.
I'll be implementing program sonification using the tracer ideas discussed in the last two chapters (i.e. employing the Java Platform Debugger Architecture (JPDA), specifically its Java Debug Interface (JDI) API). The resulting system is shown in diagram at the top of this page.
When a method is called in the monitored application, a word is spoken (an abbreviation of the method's name), when Java keywords are encountered in the code, musical notes are played, and when the program starts, ends, and when a method returns, sound clips are heard.
Sound generation is managed by the SoundGen thread, which reads messages from a queue filled by the tracer. The generator utilizes three sound APIs: java.applet.AudioClip for playing clips, the MIDI classes in the Java Sound API for playing notes, and the FreeTTS speech synthesis system (), which is a partial implementation of the Java Speech API 1.0 (JSAPI).
Two short examples of the output from SoundTrace are included in the Downloads section below.
I'll start this chapter by explaining the three sound subsystems for playing clips, notes, and speaking. These are of general use outside of sonification; for example, the Speaker class (implemented with FreeTTS) can be used to pronounce any string, using a range of different voices.
Dr. Andrew Davison
E-mail: ad@fivedots.coe.psu.ac.th
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0.042012 | <urn:uuid:1f30734e-b854-434b-a441-02acc634d02a> | en | 0.964464 | Green Energy Program Lost $6.6 Million in Questionable Reimbursements
IG report finds failure to properly supervise project
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A government green energy program paid more than $6.6 million in questionable reimbursements to project recipients who violated conflict of interest rules and improperly expensed meal and alcohol purchases, according to the Department of Energy’s (DOE) inspector general.
A Sept. 27 audit of the DOE’s Hydrogen and Fuel Cells program questioned $6,638,409 in reimbursements through the program, which supports research and projects to promote alternative energy like fuel cell vehicles and hydrogen buses.
The program, which has spent more than $1 billion over the past 5 years, is designed to “promote the widespread use of hydrogen and fuel cells, the stated purpose being to help build a competitive, secure and sustainable clean energy economy.”
The IG reviewed 10 project recipients, finding nine had potentially unallowable costs.
“We found the Department had not always effectively managed the financial aspects of the Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Program,” the IG said.
“We identified questionable costs related to unsupported recipient and subcontractor expenditures, travel and meal expenses and an inaccurate indirect rate calculation,” they said.
For example, one recipient broke conflict of interest rules by subcontracting a $1 million project to two companies owned by their family.
“The recipient charged over $211,000 to the project for labor hours worked under a service agreement with a company owned by the recipient’s family,” the report said. “In addition, the recipient provided over $800,000 for design and fabrication work under another service agreement with a different company that was also owned by the recipient’s owner and his family.”
The IG questioned “a number of procurement practices involving potential conflicts of interest and lack of competition that, as demonstrated by the actual or potential impact on cost, were not in the Government’s best interest.”
Eight of the recipients reviewed got reimbursed a total of $43,000 for improper expenses unrelated to their projects, including alcohol purchases.
“Included in these costs were lodging and meal expenses that exceeded prescribed limits, local meals and refreshments for recipient employees, Department representatives and other visiting guests, unnecessary car rental insurance, alcohol purchases, and other travel and meal expenses that lacked sufficient supporting documentation,” the IG said.
Another recipient billed the government $700,000 in “indirect costs” for a personal legal battle.
“Specifically, between 2007 and 2009, the recipient included over $528,000 of legal and professional expenses that supported a legal challenge to the ownership of the company, nearly $30,000 of what the recipient identified as business meals and entertainment costs, and bad debt expenses of over $140,000—costs that were either potentially or specifically unallowable,” the IG said.
The audit also found many instances where invoices were not properly documented, with no hours, labor rates, or number of employees listed.
The IG recommended that the DOE more closely monitor projects to ensure taxpayer dollars are not wasted.
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Peter Palumbo
I saw this on Jessica Ahlquist’s twitter feed a few hours ago:
State representative Palumbo called me an “evil little thing.”
Just now I was about to google for details preparatory to doing a post, but JT Eberhard got there first.
Peter G. Palumbo, the Democrat in the RI House from the Cranston district, has no rebukes for the Jesus-loving liars, bullies, or thugs. He has nothing negative to say about the people who felt they were above the Constitution and lied to subvert it. He did, however, have something to say about Jessica. According to Palumbo she is “An evil little thing.” That may have bee said sarcastically, but the line “I think she’s being coerced by evil people” was most assuredly not.
I urge you to listen to him say that. It’s the first soundbite on the page, and it’s just a few seconds. Don’t listen if you have high blood pressure or a stomach ache. It’s disgusting – two grown men sneering at a high school girl who had the audacity to uphold the Constitution.
JT says it more better:
Palumbo’s email address is [email protected]. His office phone number is (401) 785-2882. Spread the word and inundate him. Our leaders should respect the constitution, not snipe at those who have been been confirmed to have fought in its defense. Palumbo has just sided with dishonesty and bullies.
Drop him a line.
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1. 1
JT did say it well but no one says anything “more better.”
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Ophelia Benson
It was slaaaaaaaaaaaaang for cryin out loud.
Mo’ better? Y’know?
3. 3
Improbable Joe, bearer of the Official SpokesGuitar
Mo’ bettah buttah?
We need to finish up the scholarship drive, and start the “fund Palumbo’s (more liberal) opponent” drive.
4. 4
'Tis Himself
I’ve sent a snotgram politely worded email to Palumbo.
5. 5
'Tis Himself
no one says anything “more better.”
True. Ophelia should have said “more betterer.”
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7. 7
C. Mason Taylor
If anyone knows a serious, progressive, independent candidate that wishes to run against him (assuming he does not quickly, humbly, desperately apologize, and beg forgiveness), I’ll be happy to donate free web design and video editing efforts to the cause.
8. 8
Jafafa Hots
I saw on his bio he graduated from that school. So that explains a lot of it.
He’s a product of the culture she’s fighting.
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JT Eberhard
Thanks Ophelia. That kind of praise from you means quite a lot.
And thanks everybody else for piling on. One thing Jessica has unquestionably done is help unite our movement into something that better damn well be paid attention to.
10. 10
I sent him an email yesterday. This thug has no business in government. Shame on him!
11. 11
Dear Rhode Island,
As a lifelong Democrat, I am disgusted by the behavior of this thug. His public characterization of a 16 year old child who evidently knows the Constitution better than he does as an “evil little thing” is disgusting. This child is living with threats of rape and violence as a result of her bravery, and in no way deserves some feeble minded godbot piling on & fanning the fire. If that little girl or her family is hurt, their blood will be on Palumbo’s hands. Shame on him, and shame on you for allowing this kind of language from one of your elected representatives.
If he is not able to provide an immediate, heart felt, abject apology to this teenager, he should be removed from office. Based on his inability to tell the truth, he would be no loss:
Glendale, AZ
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Theo Bromine
So, Jessica deserves to be called an “evil little thing” for using rational discourse and the US legal system to make a point? When was the last time that a state representative used language that strong about highschoolers who physically, verbally, and emotionally bully their GLBT classmates (sometimes to the extent of suicide)?
BTW: Ophelia, if the Anons out there don’t like “more better”, might I suggest this accolade instead (from a spam comment I recently saw on one of the B+W threads for which I have an email subscription):
Continue to maintain up the superb operate.
(Somehow, I think it deserves to be followed by something like “until all their base are belong to you”.)
13. 13
Eamon Knight
IIRC there was a British pol got in trouble a year or so back for tweeting something far less nasty about Scientology (and rightly so — public officials have to represent all their constituents, including those they disagree with, and do not enjoy untrammeled free speech in the sense of being able to shoot their mouths off in whatever way happens to cross their tiny minds).
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Ophelia Benson
Theo, you certainly might; that’s a great one! It’s right up there with
15. 15
Tim Groc
Typical ignorant and bullying remark from a Republican. To think that these people are in positions of power. Frightening. They won’t be satisfied until the U.S. is a fundamentalist theocracy.
16. 16
Giliell, professional cynic -Ilk-
Typical ignorant and bullying remark from a Republican.
Problem of course is that he’s a Democrat.
Explains so much…
17. 17
As an outside observer from the UK may I make an observation? When one looks at the various countries of the world, it is apparent that the less religious a country is, the better the standard of living is. The countries with the lowest economic differences, the lowest crime rates, the best educational standards, the best health care, etc. are also the least religious.
If you want to find the countries that are totally screwed up then you have to look at the highly religious countries in Africa and the Middle East.
There is only one highly religious country in the entire world that bucks this trend, the US of A. I wonder why the USA does not suffer from the horrendous dysfuncion that other highly religious societies have to endure? The reason is that they have a constitution that protects them from the evil effects of religious belief, as well as couragious people who are prepared to face down the hostility of the mindless religious sheep to uphold that constitution. Peter Palumbo, upholding that constitution is supposed to be your job, maybe if you actually did it, school girls wouldn’t have to do it for you.
18. 18
Stoneyground, I love your last line. Genius.
19. 19
“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction” – Blaise Pascal
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Here’s a home made vaporizer we can really get behind.
They are right to do so. There are a multitude of possible bad things that could exist on that soldering iron, or the adhesive you use to fasten things to it, that you probably shouldn’t breathe. That soldering iron is what drew us to the project in the first place though! It’s a hack! Shame on us (maybe we’ll tackle pressure rated PVC next). It is like drinking beer through a lead pipe.
So, why would someone want to use a vaporizer? It is slightly healthier. You’re not burning all the plant material and inhaling it, you’re heating it to the point that the thc and magic goo inside boils and makes vapor, which you breathe. We don’t know exactly how much healthier it is, but it has to be at least marginally better than burning things and inhaling it.
A very popular device for this is the Magic Flying Launch Box or MFLB, a portable vaporizer that retails for around $100. People have figured out that the thing is quite simple. A wire mesh is heated to roughly 360F (180C) degrees or more by shorting out a battery. That’s it. You might be thinking , couldn’t I use an E cigarette? Well, probably not, they don’t get hot enough. It would be a cool hack though.
When building something like this, you need to do a little research and make absolutely sure the materials you are using aren’t going to kill you. Some wire meshes are coated in zinc or other chemicals. Solder obviously needs to be considered as well. You weren’t seriously going to use treated lumber for this were you? What are you, stoned?
Many people have done DIY versions of the MFLB. Some are super quick and trashy, some are more detailed in their build, and some are even solderless.
1. All the people bitching about this hack need to chill out and vape some green.
2. Adam Bertil Cesar says:
Screw you. I am going to start my own Hackaday, without the hookers and booze.
3. Just a little edit, it’s Magic-Flight Launch Box (not Flying*). Happy Hacking.
4. Joeblowguy says:
I know people who’ve used vaporizers and I can say they look much more medicated when they’ve smoked a joint. Plus they are much cheaper :)
5. Interesting how cannabis related topics always have the most comments here ;-)
6. Ha ha, trolls are funny..
Commence to 3d printing pointystick.stl
(Laughs haughtily in basement)
7. Vaporizor? Magic Flying Lunch Box? Damn you guys kill me hahhahaha
8. I love the use of the word “Medical..” lol
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If not nearly as lucrative, my own contract with Hodder in 2007 was still quite a leap of faith. On the strength of a four-page proposal and no sample chapters (let alone a finished manuscript), I agreed to write a trilogy of books about an Anglo-African soldier called George Hart who fights in the wars of the late Victorian period. My only previous stab at fiction was in the late 1990s when my then agent, having read the first two chapters, told me not to give up the day job.
So what was different now and why was my editor at Hodder prepared to take the risk? A key factor was the runaway success of Alison Weir's debut historical novel, Innocent Traitor, about the brief 16th Century reign of Lady Jane Grey....
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"I know this isn't gonna end well, but the middle part is gonna be awesome."
- Nick Miller
When Patrick thinks that people on Omegle video actually want to talk to him. and is surprised when there is only penises.
still laughing. but also scarred for life. lol
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1. young--simba said:OMG HAHAHAHA
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Seeing the big picture in Pusan
Last week, during the 7th Pusan International Film Festival, I was in the lobby of the Daeyoung 2 Cinema, which was about to screen Jang Sun Woo's "Resurrection of the Little Match Girl," and ran into Donald Richie, this year's jury chairman for the New Currents Award. "We're going to watch the movie that almost brought down the Korean film industry," he said jocularly.
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Stand-out films from the Pusan International Film festival include "Too Young to Die" (above) and "Oasis."
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Four years in the making and costing $10 million -- the most expensive Korean movie ever -- Jang's film hasn't done well since it was released domestically in July. Fashioned as a role-playing computer game with "Matrix"-like special effects, the film's subject is the little match girl of the fairy tale who dies of cold and hunger. The object of the game is to guarantee she dies the way she's supposed to, which means fighting off "villains" who want to save her while at the same time making her fall in love with you.
While entertaining, the movie doesn't make much sense, and that may be the point. Jang is the acknowledged bad boy of Korean cinema. His past films include "Timeless, Bottomless Bad Movie" and "Lies," whose graphic scenes of, respectively, teenage drug-taking and sodomy were reportedly not simulated. Jang is happy if people think they were meant as provocations. So it's possible that Jang's purpose in making "Match Girl" was, in fact, the destruction of the Korean film industry.
That won't happen, but if someone with Jang's reputation can attract huge backing for a movie like "Match Girl," then more power to Korea's national film industry, which is acknowledged as Asia's most vital, anyway. "Match Girl" was assisted by the Pusan Promotional Plan, which brings together Asian directors and potential producers. PPP is separate from PIFF, but they're held simultaneously. Past films that have benefited from PPP include international award-winners such as Shunji Iwai's "All About Lily Chou-Chou" and Jafar Panahi's "The Circle."
This year's PPP took place in the beach resort area of Haeundae. Rumors circulated during the week that next year PIFF would also move to the beach, which was extensively developed for the 2002 World Cup and Asian Games. While waiting for the Haeundae shuttle bus in Nampo-dong -- the funky Shibuya-like harbor district that's PIFF's main venue -- a TV reporter asked my opinion of the "problem" of having the festival split between two areas, since some of the screenings this year were also at the beach. I said it was inconvenient, but also that I thought it was a great festival. The reporter was disappointed, as if he didn't understand how a festival with logistical demerits could be good.
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"Unknown Pleasures" (above) and "Resurrection of the Little Match Girl."
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I do think PIFF is a great festival in both scope and purpose; and for that reason I hope it doesn't move to the beach. Nampo-dong may be crowded, cluttered and noisy, but in that regard it's also more typically Asian. It's easy to see why the organizers want to take advantage of the shiny new facilities Haeundae offers, but PIFF, the premier Asian film festival, would lose its identity there. It should be held in a place that reflects the values contained in its films.
Of the 226 movies screened this year, almost two-thirds were Asian. Among the nondocumentary features were 13 world premieres, including the eagerly awaited Japanese movie, Junji Sakamoto's "Bokunchi," and a whopping 69 Asian premieres, including new movies by Atom Egoyan, Claire Denis, Amos Gitai, Patrice Leconte, Aki Kaurismaki, Manoel de Oliveira, Ken Loach, Pedro Almodovar and Michael Winterbottom.
The emerging pan-Asian sensibility was best represented by Taiwan. One of the special programs was a retrospective of Taiwanese cinema since 1982. Through the work of directors like Edward Yang, Hou Hsiao-hsien and Tsai Ming-liang, one could trace the gradual development of the Asian art film.
As Hou and Tsai noted at a press conference, Taiwan ignores its domestic cinematic output. Filmmakers there are almost totally dependent on foreign backers. Still, the new product remains impressive. Alex Yang's "The Trigger" and Teng Yung-shing's "Love at 7-11" use the experimental narrative devices developed by Hou to explore melting-pot themes in new ways. The boldest new Taiwanese film was Cheng Wen-tang's "Somewhere Over the Dreamland," a diffuse meditation on identity with two diverging storylines; one about a middle-aged man trying to recapture his aboriginal heritage, and the other about a young Taipei man studying to be a sushi chef.
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A scene from Kim Sik's film "Roadmovie."
If the consistent high quality of Taiwanese cinema is a function of its commercial limitations, the reason for Korean cinema's continuous mainstreaming is its quota system, which dictates that theaters run domestic product for a minimum number of days per year. A hot topic was the Korean government's recent request to the World Trade Organization to liberalize "its cultural sector," in order to make it easier to export Korean films. A group of artists is protesting the request, which will necessitate the abolition of the quota, thus opening the Korean film market to the Hollywood promotional juggernaut. (Tellingly, only one U.S. feature film was screened at this year's PIFF.)
The art-movie directors who benefited from the quota in the '90s have since graduated to the big time, with predictable results. "The Coast Guard," directed by Kim Ki Deok, who received international attention a few years back for his erotic shocker, "The Isle," was the festival's opening film. It's a typical big-budget potboiler disguised as social commentary. Superstar Jang Young Gyu plays a gung-ho soldier who, while on patrol, mistakenly kills a civilian and then descends into guilt-driven madness. Once hailed as a gritty innovator, Kim has turned into Joel Schumacher.
Hong Sang Soo, whose deadpan humor and loose regard for narrative integrity in movies like "The Day the Pig Fell into the Well" pegged him as the peninsula's Jim Jarmusch, moves closer to the middle of the road with "Turning Gate," a study of an unsuccessful actor whose self-image is challenged by a series of romantic encounters. Even Im Kwon Taek, who started in the 1950s, seems ready for the multiplex. Im earned international acclaim for his 2000 film, the epic "Chunhyang." His latest movie, "Chihwaseon," which won the director's prize at Cannes, is just as visually sumptuous, but also hackneyed in the way it presents a real figure, the 19th-century painter Jang Seung Up, as an artist tortured by demons and drink.
The one Korean director who has gone deeper into his art is Lee Chang Dong. His 1999 movie,
"Peppermint Candy," prefigured the reverse-time structure of "Memento," and his new film, "Oasis," which won the director's prize at Venice, is similarly characterized by a formal gimmick. A shaggy-dog love story involving an ex-con with abominable social skills and a severely disabled young woman, the film moves indiscriminately between reality and the woman's visualized thoughts. But the movie's real strength is its bold take on human relations. Like John Cassavetes' best work, the hilarious and appalling "Oasis" maintains a high dramatic pitch and a naturalistic tone. It is an exhausting experience, yet amazingly devoid of sentimentality.
"Oasis" is so successful as drama that it obviates its social agenda. The two most talked-about Korean movies at the festival, Kim In Sik's "Roadmovie" and Park Jin Pyo's "Too Young to Die," were defined for most people by their perceived social agendas. "Roadmovie" was named Best Korean Film by the Asian movie promotion group, NETPAC, for "portraying the social demands on a man who has to face up to issues of homosexuality, career and family." Centered on a homeless saint, the disgraced stockbroker he protects and secretly lusts for, and the prostitute who loves him, it's the kind of overwrought, lower-depths melodrama in which every character attempts suicide at least once.
"Too Young to Die," on the other hand, is willfully modest. Barely exceeding 60 minutes, the film won the FIPRESCI (foreign critics) award and a special mention in the New Currents competition, and has already caused an international sensation with its realistic presentation of elderly sex. The love scenes, shot in all their messy glory with a camera that never moves, are clinical. The docudrama's power is in its depiction of a universe that consists of only two people, both of whom happen to be over 70. The sex would be merely topical if it weren't countervailed by a heated, tear-filled argument that is just as credibly re-created. It's a personal film in the most literal sense; any social inferences the viewer takes away are his affair.
China's best movies transcend their social themes. In "Missing Gun," a small-town policeman loses his pistol, an infraction worthy of severe punishment. More beholden to Guy Ritchie than to Kafka, director Lu Chuan forces the hapless law enforcer to run a gauntlet of bureaucratic and community idiocy before he achieves salvation.
While the impression "Missing Gun" makes is that Chinese films have moved beyond the monocultural platitudes expressed by revered Fifth Generation directors, Jia Zhangke's "Unknown Pleasures" makes it clear there's no turning back. The followup to his Proustian epic, "Platform," "Unknown" is an up-to-the-minute portrait of dispossessed youth. Commenting fearlessly on everything from China's WTO membership to its persecution of religious cults, and developing characters who represent the hopes and fears of the next generation, the movie is staggeringly assured in its visual sweep and narrative drive.
"Platform" was a project of PPP, where Jia connected with Kitano Office, the production company of Takeshi Kitano. "Unknown" was also produced partly by Kitano, whose newest work, "Dolls," was the closing film at this year's PIFF. The benefit of networking is more than financial. It helps create a community in which members encourage other members whose ideas appeal to them. Sometimes, of course, bad ideas get encouraged. Fruit Chan's latest film, "Public Toilet," another PPP project, bounces from Beijing to Pusan to New York to the Ganges in a confusing attempt at globalism. Chan's films were more universal when they were limited to his beloved Hong Kong slums. Like PIFF, he serves his audience best by staying true to his roots.
"Oasis" and "Too Young to Die" will be shown with English subtitles at Tokyo FILMeX, Dec. 1-8. "Unknown Pleasures" will also be screened, but without English subtitles.
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Listening to a guy moan is also incredibly hot.
If Macklemore wins any rap-related Grammys I’m going to start a coup d’état
if he does, the GRAMMYS are done
Y’all really expect Mackelmore to not win ANY rap…
The 206 aint full of rich people runnin around prada and michael kors and kickin it with gates or shultz like most people might think. In response to the previously posted question about what Thrift Shop is all about, the town is full of value villages and good wills st. vincent depauls n mom n pop thrift shops that have been around for generations and some are bigger than your typical boutique crap. to put it plainly seattle is full of broke folks tryna look good and keep clothes on they families back. don’t let the tourist brochures get shit twisted. we’ll rock hyperdunks we copped at buffalo exchange for 25 bucks and that armani suit someone once copped for like 50 while we got a zip lock full of saved bus transfers in our pockets tryna figure out how the fuck we gonna have something better than top ramen for lunch for the fuckin 6th day in a row at a job that pay minimum wage and dont even cop you for a free meal… guess you gotta be from round here to get it. it doesn’t help you get two white boys to get the word out but whatever, most us too busy tryna get these bills paid and these mouths fed to spend the energy to give a fuck. westside. | http://jbtheivin.tumblr.com/ | dclm-gs1-229130002 | false | false | {
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1. Mac or PC?
Mac - MacBook Pro Laptop, iPhone 4s, iPod (ancient) and soon iPad Mini. Currently Mac is better in engineering, design, support and training. Having the same platform also makes them all work better together. There's nothing I need to do on a PC that I can't do on my Mac and I don't worry about viruses (although I do have an anti-virus program just in case) or the horror of the blue screen.
2. How plugged in are you and why?
More than I need to be. Adapt or be left behind. In all areas of computers from soft wear to hard wear from gismos to gadgets from Powerpoint to Grinder. Just to remain current you need to use and understand everything or else you'll not be able to talk or hook up with the hot guy or you nephew or nieces or even read a book or magazine.
3. What would do if you were completely unplugged for a month?
This doesn't include TV, right?! I actually think I could die without TV. As for the internet, I'd do fine but I wouldn't like it, mostly for not knowing what was happening locally or in the world. i.e.: Sandy, 9/11.
The exhibitionist in me would love it. Actually, it's a good thing I do hate how I look in pics because that keeps me in check. (sorry Ray)
5. FaceBook is....
Evolving. FB is not what it started out to be and like almost everything else, especially technology based, it's vulnerable to new ideas and trends. FB is a great way to reconnect and stay in touch with family and friends and now you almost need to have it to get shopping info or specials. I'm not on FB because I have a very small social and family circle, however, I'm not against it and I'm not saying I wouldn't use it in the future. I just don't have a real use for it now.
Yes. I view FB and most other social media like talking with friends at dinner or a party, as long as it is used conversationally. However, once you start using social media to broadcast your view points and messages to a fan base (fans, constituents, employees, customers) Or you suddenly find yourself with a fan base, then you need to edit. If you wouldn't want it broadcast on the news, then don't put it on social media. I also think there should be a statute of limitations of 5-10 years and most anything before 22 years of age of what you can be held accountable for writing.
1. Blogger
2. Tumblr/Twitter - to learn and support the blogs
4. Pandora
5. Kindle
6. Foresquare
7. Nike Running
8. MyFitnessPal
9. Various Photo Apps
10. Various travel Apps - NY Subway, LIRR, DC Metro
What question did you think of that could have been asked?
I added #6 and RJ (see comments) had three very good suggestions. Question #6 and RJ's three were more of what I had in mind when I first conceived the idea for TMI: Social Media but because I didn't write it down, I kinda lost it.
TMI Questions
Post and answer the questions on your blog or tumblr page and then post the link in the comments so that others can read your answers, visit your website and get to know you too. I post my answers on Thursday.
Uncy Carl said...
What??? No Grindr, Growlr or Scruff on your apps?
Blobby said...
1. Both. Work supports PC. My home life is all about the Mac.
2. Very. Work a lot, but even then I'm on the road a LOT - and I gotta stay connected to blog daily and face time when I'm gone.
3. I'm assuming this doesn't include work. I can't go off the grid due to work. But I am not sure I could go off anyway, or want to, truth be told.
4. I'd be unhappy about the WalMart thing. I'd be ok w the Tap that Guy. I'd be ok w the Hot or Not, as long I wasn't in the 'not' category.
5. Ok. It's not the end all be all anything. I resisted for a long long time. I just make shorter inane comments than I do on the blog.
6. I think everyone should be able to post their opinions in either category - but I think they should be well reasoned and not so off the cuff and filled with stupidity and non-truths.
7. Facebook. LinkedIn. Does Words with Friends count?
Ray's Cowboy said...
Sean, would still love to have a full length picture of you. My Birthday is coming up..
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If you look in your mouth, you should find 3 different kinds of teeth - incisors for biting and cutting, canines for tearing and piercing, and molars for chewing and grinding.
Like you, some animals have several different kinds of teeth. Others have only one kind. Others don't have any teeth at all. Different types of food require different teeth because food must be broken down into smaller pieces so it can be digested. Animals' teeth give you clues about what they eat.
These animals eat a variety of food, including meat and plants. In some animals the canine teeth are not so prominent and the back molars are more flat than jagged.
The most noticeable feature that characterizes the teeth of insect eating animals is the structure of the molars. They are squarish, with sharp points that are excellent for tearing up the bodies of insects.
Flesh eating animals have three kinds of teeth. The incisors, located in the front of the mouth, are used for biting and holding. Next to the incisors come the long, sharp canines, used for fighting their enemy or killing prey. Behind the canines are jagged molard, used for cutting up food.
Some plant eaters have no incisor teeth in the upper jaw. The incisors are replaced by a horny pad. When feeding, the animal grinds the plants between the lower theeth and the upper teeth by moving its jaw in a circular motion. Most rodents are herbivores. Their molars are broad and flat with ridges for grinding. They also have long chisel-like incisors for gnawing grass and twigs.
On these two pages there are some skulls of animals at the Brandywine Zoo. See if you can identify what kind of animal it is and what it eats. page1 and page 2.
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I'm sure it's only a temporary hiatus from the bipartisan why can't we all just along and split the difference Barack Obama but the President in a rare but welcomed departure from established form chose to assail the GOP for its obstructionism first over the weekend in his weekly address and then again today.
The New York Times provides coverage of today's Rose Garden berating of the GOP:
President Obama called on Congress on Monday to pass an extension of unemployment benefits, and leveled a sharp critique against Republican senators who have stopped passage of a bill that would give some relief to out-of-work Americans.
Under pressure in an election year to reduce the unemployment rate, now at 9.5 percent, Mr. Obama also urged the Senate to approve a package of tax cuts and an expansion of lending to small businesses. “We all have to continue our efforts to do everything in our power to spur growth and hiring,” Mr. Obama said at the White House.
Senate Democrats are expected to bring the unemployment insurance bill back up on Tuesday, after they swear in another Democrat, Carte Goodwin of West Virginia, to be the interim successor to Robert C. Byrd, who died last month. Mr. Goodwin will provide Democrats with the 60th vote they need to close debate and pass the measure.
An estimated 2.1 million Americans have seen their unemployment benefits expire in recent months as they waited for an end to the impasse in the Senate over extending the payments once more to the long-term unemployed. Most Republican lawmakers have balked at extending the benefits without offsetting spending cuts, saying they do not want to add to the budget deficit and the national debt.
Some Republican politicians have also argued that continuing to extend unemployment benefits offers a disincentive for the jobless to find work.
Mr. Obama, appearing before reporters in the Rose Garden flanked by three Americans who have had difficulty finding work, took aim at that argument. “That attitude reflects a lack of faith in the American people,” Mr. Obama said. “They’re not looking for a handout. They desperately want to work.”
Mr. Obama sharply criticized Republicans who have several times in the past month voted against bringing an unemployment extension bill to the Senate floor.
“After years of championing policies that turned a record surplus into a massive deficit, the same people who didn’t have any problem spending hundreds of billions of dollars on tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans are now saying we shouldn’t offer relief to middle-class Americans like Jim or Leslie or Denise, who really need help,” Mr. Obama said, referring to the three people who stood with him in the Rose Garden, brought to Washington by the White House to help illustrate the president’s point.
It's not that he doesn't have accomplishments of note, he does, and it's not that he isn't capable of the task, because he is an immensely talented individual and a gifted politician who brought down the House of Clinton but it is almost as if he is going through the motions when it comes to tackling the number one problem in the way that Washington works - the unrelenting politics of obstructionism from an unhinged GOP. There are voices of sanity in the Republican party but they are overshadowed by the radical ideologues that want not just to undo the New Deal but the entire 19th century. I don't know about you but as much I love reading about the Enlightenment I don't want to live in 1789.
Tags: Barack Obama, Obama Administration, US Unemployment, US Labor Markets (all tags)
RE: Barack Gets His Partisan Groove Back
I was shocked yesterday to see that the official description of the speech at was "The President blasts Republicans."
by Nathan Empsall 2010-07-19 04:52PM | 0 recs
Brought down the house of Clinton?
Uh, I do not see where Clinton should factor with his current issues. The Clintons are doing just fine in my eyes. The President needs to at least be preparing a campaign strategy to deal with the Republicans or someone could be writing how the REpukes brought down the House of Obama. In short, there is no Hillary to fight against now...just Republicans. Let's keep the focus on the GOP and not get caught up in nostalgic moments of the past.
by Check077 2010-07-19 06:13PM | 0 recs
More beatings, please
The topic of why Barack Obama pursued such a bipartisan approach in the face of so obvious perils is the topic for books, not blog comments.
But perhaps he got his 60 votes and he doesn't need them anymore?
I'm not complaining. If he keeps this up, the November may not be so dark.
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A year after government intervention in the financial crisis, is Wall Street better off?
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The US government has killed the goose that lays the golden egg!
• The problem appears to be a forgetful attitude on Wall Street. It wasn't the bankers generating profit that was the problem, it was the CDO Market. However to create the CDO Market it took quite q few people, many of whomm are still employed and being paid fat bonuses. Government intervention is not a good thing, unless you are about to go broke. Listening to the current raft of positive earnings by the banks which have come via combinations and layoffs of lower level employees it is hard to be so anguine about high level bonuses being paid to traders who are making money for the banks. Couldn't some of these billions be put to better use by employing more people, thus boostng the economy ? After all a $1MM bonus equates to 10 $100K employees or 20 $50K employees. If one of those employees becomes a superstar you have easily made back your investment. But I fear short-sightedness will throw us back into the next "financial crisis". Call the Treasury and the Government then.......
• FDR saved capitalism from the capitaists - Obama/Bush saved the banking industry from the bankers
• All the government did was postpone the inevitable correction that will have to take place. The problem was that the crisis was created by a massive injection of liquidity and money printing but the Obama experts claim that 'solution' is supposed to come from more and bigger injections of liquidity and money printing. In a free market system governments are not supposed to force banks to make loans to poor people to satisfy political goals and banks that make bad loans are not supposed to be bailed out by taxpayers. Of course, there is no room for central bankers in a free market but that is a subject for another post. From what I see Bush/Obama made the same mistakes that Hoover/FDR did because what they understood about economics was totally wrong. Given the fact that Americans are unlikely to ever elect a president who understands economics and is willing to make difficult choices I am forced to conclude that the US will keep sliding towards the abyss until it goes over the edge. Sadly, we are very close and after the next bout of volatility the Federal Reserve Note should resume its loss of purchasing power as its value heads towards zero. It is time for Americans to start to act prudently and use pull-backs as opportunities to buy real (not paper) gold.
• yes, it is better, at least for now. the crash & burn that took place was like any other disaster where people temporarily slow down and reflect, a cleansing of sorts. but, then the insane part of human behavior will probably rear it's crazy head again. my favorite definition of the word insane is.......doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different outcome. going forward, the outcome may have different strips but we will still recognize the results..................... you have to love folly
• Yes, its better, at least better than if AIG went down.
How many AIG CDS counter-parties would have been forced into asset fire-sales or bankruptcy protection, in the first month? And THEIR counter parties? It would have been a financial bloodbath.
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If the Obama White House decides that reorganizing the 17.1% of the economy that the U.S. is likely to spend on health care in 2010 is a first-year priority, then Mr. Baucus's bill will be the place they start. Americans need to learn what they'd be paying for.
First, Democrats want the government to create a national insurance exchange, or marketplace, in which all comers could buy into a range of heavily regulated private policies at group rates. These private plans would then "compete" with a new public insurance option, i.e., a program managed by the government and modeled after Medicare. Lower-income earners would get subsidies to make coverage "affordable." Businesses that didn't cover their employees would pay a tax on some portion of their payroll.
The last cog is the "individual mandate." This requirement that everyone buy coverage has grabbed most media scrutiny of the Baucus plan, because Mr. Obama opposed it during the campaign. But the many moving parts don't work together unless the young and healthy foot the bill for care of the older and sicker -- one reason Hillary Clinton kept nagging Mr. Obama about the individual mandate during the primaries.
The irony is that the public option -- not the mandate -- is far and away the most radical part of the plan. Green eyeshade objections are obviously out of favor in modern Washington, but the reality is that the Baucus-Obama plan would be extraordinarily expensive as it slowly but relentlessly grew the government's share of health spending. The draft doesn't include an exact cost, though casually notes the ballpark "investment" could run as high as $150 billion a year.
Even those huge outlays are likely conservative, considering that subsidies would go to families earning up to 400% of the federal poverty level. According to the Census Bureau, that would apply to 61.5% of the American population, or about 184 million people -- less those already on Medicare and Medicaid.
Some financing will come from the "pay or play" tax on businesses, but because Mr. Baucus is no more omniscient than anyone else, the tax rate is left undefined. If it is too low, companies will have every incentive to "cash out" their employee liabilities and pay the tax instead. Then workers will flood the public option.
The Baucus plan expects to make up more of the money with nips like better health technology and tucks such as "a national focus on wellness." But those don't come close to adding up to $150 billion -- or the health system would have made them already. As for the claim that centralizing health spending will lead to more "efficiency" . . . well, that is the triumph of hope over evidence.
Now the Democrats want to double down with the public option, apparently on the theory that the bureaucracies fail only when they're too small. Even without the new program, Medicare and Medicaid costs are rising substantially both as a share of the economy and the federal budget. The nearby chart tracks the historical behavior of government health spending and the Congressional Budget Office's post-2007 fiscal scenario in the absence of reform. Today, health entitlements account for 4% of GDP but will rise to 7% in 2025 and about 15% in 2062.
Not that the current level of benefits will ever be paid. According to the Medicare trustees, the program's excess costs over the next 75 years -- that is, the difference between expected outlays and revenues -- is more than $36 trillion, which even they acknowledge is several trillion too low given current trends. Even if Congress doubled all individual and corporate tax rates, it still wouldn't raise enough revenue to pay for Medicare and Medicaid.
The Obama-Baucus solution to this slow-motion catastrophe is to add tens of millions more people to the federal balance sheet. Because the public option will enjoy taxpayer sponsorship, it will offer generous packages to consumers that no private company could ever afford or justify. And because federal officials will run not only the new plan but also the "market" in which it "competes" with private programs -- like playing both umpire and one of the teams on the field -- they will crowd out private alternatives and gradually assume a health-care monopoly.
Many proponents of plans similar to Mr. Baucus's openly cite this as one of their goals. Eventually, the public option will import Medicare's price controls into the private sector as it tries to manage the inevitable cost overruns. When that doesn't work, Congress will deal with the problem by capping overall spending and rationing care through politics (instead of prices) -- like Canada does today.
Either Senator Baucus and President-elect Obama are making promises that can't possibly be kept. Or they're not being honest about their plans for U.S. health care.
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Another week in Athas, under the mountains, and in an ancient tomb. Wandering monster check reveals tribe of hejkin (4-40). Combat ensues. That pretty much sums it up, but to expand, we had our 4 returning PCs Yuka, Jarvix, one of the Barcan Twins, and Kindrock. In addition, we got to welcome two new players to the game, one of whom came in as Castri the elf ranger, and the other played the warlock Vinara (from free RPG day.) I briefly described the basic rules of the game, the setting, the adventure, and the previous encounter.
The evening began with some role playing, first to establish how the elf ranger showed up. There was a large crack shown on one corner of the map, which I described as actually being in the ceiling, and it led to a small pit of quicksand on the surface, into which Castri had fallen. What I didnt tell him, was that after Castri was left for dead after encounter 4, he had been hopelessly trying to catch up with the party, and now he finally had. Then the party lit two torches, both of which were to be carried by the sorceress.
They were in one chamber of the tomb, and a long slanting hallway led to the next. Each end of the hallway was barred by a locked portcullis, however, the party had found two heavy bronze keys amongst the remains of their last defeated foe. Jarvix thought the keyrings would make a nice pair of earrings.
Kindrock the brute and Yuka the athlete strode toward the portcullis. Yuka held a key, Kindrocks hands were empty until he grasped the bars and pulled. With all his might he strained, until finally with a sigh, he relents and steps back, defeated. Yuka struts forward and cracks his fingers, loosens his muscles and finally bends and peers intently at the lock before shrugging and slipping in the old bronze key. It turns with a click, and Yuka steps back with a smile. With a frown, Kindrock steps forward and grasps the bars once again. Not even Yuka hears the whispered curse the half giant mutters before throwing his weight into the test of strength again. Ancient chains rattle, hinges creak and with a loud noise the portcullis rises.
Only one more portcullis to go! Halfway down the hallway they pause as one of them hears a rumbling of deep voices ahead. Just back from a successful hunt, they argue in their deep rumbling voices over their kill. Only Yuka, who knows dwarvish, can understand them, though he can tell by their voices they are no dwarves. There is also a very dim light – cast by a small campfire made to roast bits of meat.The party creeps forward to spy six of the strange bony, angry creatures. They were furry, clawed, and scowling, and a couple of them had a tracery of electricity dancing acrost their fur.
Six hejkin, of three types. It was an extremely well rounded encounter, but it was hard to differentiate the three types of essentially the same creature. The sparky ones were electrically easy, but the other, the controllers and brutes, were harder to separate, so I described them as having stripes matched to the semi-random minis I was using. Grey savages for the brutes, axe-weilding beastoids for the controllers, and other smallish pummellers. Sometimes it is hard for me, as DM, to keep the monsters separated, especially if they are similar. These hejkins were especially difficult.
At this point, the party had the opportunity to gain a surprise round. Or they could try and draw the hejkin to them and attack from range with the portcullis between them. They listened a moment longer but the arguing showed no sign of slowing. They decided to take the surprise round. In the end it was the better choic, though they knew it not at the time. The hejkin, like Bugs Bunny, have the ability to quickly burrow through rock.
Kindrock spent his surprise action for the group and easily opened the now unlocked portcullis. Yuka and Castri each charged the nearest pair of hejkin. The hejkin reacted with angry curses and claw attacks. Jarvix and the Sorceress ran into the room and lined up shots. Vinara was late to the party, having just come through the same sand-chute as Castri, and he arrived at the end of the surprise round at the doorway.
The battle continued as party threw all they could at their foes. Also, Jarvix lit sconces along the walls to provide lighting. Two sides of the room had regularly spaced alcoves along their length holding coptic jars, or large ceramic urns, most are broken but two jars appear intact.
The controllers retaliate with their big earthquake blasts, which I described as a rumbling in the ground at their feet turning into a shaking of their bones causing massive damage. Ouch. oh, and it blasts you back three squares and knocks you prone sucka! A few PCs were hit by these great attacks of the hejkin. Castri was surrounded and had to use his healing surge with an action point, and it was joked howthe dm was an elf killer, specializing in rangers. I like to think that three of the enemy surrounding the elf was due to him being the nearest foe from their perspective.
The Sorceress on her turn fired a flaming blast that struck three of the enemy and created an area of flaming territory. This was a relief for Jarvix, who is normally targeted by her. This flame would cause the enemy an additional few points if they moved out of the area, and blast it, all three of them got hit by the adder. It was the gift that kept on giving. The next round she strode forward and blasted another one of them to smithereeens with her fury.
Meanwhile the warlock curses and eldrtitch blasts the enemy. He is caught in the next huge 5 square blasts of thunder damage. It begins as a low song that the hejkins chant until it grows louder and then explodes outwards with thunderous power. Jarvix was hit, but he retaliated with his mental thrust and parry to great effect, even dealing his back draft damage.
One by one the hejkin fell while the PCs always managed to regain their footing, no matter how badly they were knocked about. If only there were a river of lava nearby, the encounter might have ended differently. As it was, the party survived the battle and each of them contributed valiantly to the success of the encounter. Their reward was 6 days of survival rations taken from the hejkins recent kill and 50 gold worth of semi-precious trade jewels. Oh, and in the coptic urns a pair of healing fruits. These were described as once luscious and ripe, they had been mummified. While ancient, cracked, and dried up now, there was still a slimy black mummified center that would provide the same affects as a completely fresh healing fruit. Wonder of the ancients! The ability to store healing fruits indefinitely has been lost to the ages until now.
And so we come to the end of another episode of the tales of the Dark Sun Days of Athas. What further mysteries will be found within the remaining 6 encounters? I know. And so will everyone else reading the thrilling tales of adventure contained herein. For now and until next time I bid you adieu.
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0.018663 | <urn:uuid:a8d4b260-bc06-436b-b587-4369547f43b2> | en | 0.910479 | Study plunges standard Theory of Cosmology into Crisis
May 5th, 2009 in Physics / General Physics
“Maybe Newton was indeed wrong”, declares Professor Dr. Pavel Kroupa of Bonn University's Argelander-Institut für Astronomie (AIfA). “Although his theory does, in fact, describe the everyday effects of gravity on Earth, things we can see and measure, it is conceivable that we have completely failed to comprehend the actual physics underlying the force of ”.
A detailed study of these stellar agglomerates has revealed some astonishing phenomena: “First of all, there is something unusual about their distribution”, Professor Kroupa explains, “the satellites should be uniformly arranged around their mother galaxy, but this is not what we found“. More precisely, all classical satellites of the Milky Way - the eleven brightest dwarf galaxies - lie more or less in the same plane, they are forming some sort of a disc in the sky. The research team has also been able to show that most of these satellite galaxies rotate in the same direction around the Milky Way - like the planets revolve around the Sun.
Contradiction upon Contradiction
The physicists do belief that this phenomenon can only be explained if the satellites were created a long time ago through collisions between younger galaxies. “The fragments produced by such an event can form rotating dwarf galaxies”, explains Dr. Metz, who has recently moved across to the Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (German Aero-space Center). But there is an interesting catch to this crash theory, “theoretical calculations tell us that the satellites created cannot contain any ”. This assumption, however, stands in contradiction to another observation. “The stars in the satellites we have observed are moving much faster than predicted by the Gravitational Law. If classical physics holds this can only be attributed to the presence of dark matter”, Manuel Metz states.
Or one must assume that some basic fundamental principles of physics have hitherto been incorrectly understood. “The only solution would be to reject Newton´s classical theory of gravitation”, says Pavel Kroupa. “We probably live in a non-Newton universe. If this is true, then our observations could be explained without dark matter”. Such approaches are finding support amongst other research teams in Europe, too.
More information:
Source: Bonn University
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Created by RPBELT
6 terms
George Washington Dixon
The first white performer to
establish a wide reputation as a
"blackface" entertainer.
Thomas Dartmouth "Daddy" Rice
White actor born into a poor family
in New York's Seventh Ward. As a
blackface performer, he introduced
the "Jim Crow" character.
Virginia Minstrels
A minstrel troupe led by the white
banjo virtuoso Dan Emmett; their
show introduced more lengthy
performances featuring a
standardized group of performers.
They first appeared in 1843.
Stephen Collins Foster
Composed around two hundred
songs during the 1840s, 1850s, and
early 1860s; regarded as the first
important composer of American
popular song. He was probably the
first person in the United States to
make his living as a full-time
professional songwriter; he wrote
"Oh! Susanna," "Old Folks at
Home," "My Old Kentucky Home,
Good Night," "Jeanie with the Light
John Philip Sousa
The most popular bandleader from
the 1890s through World War I; was
known as America's "March King."
The son of a trombonist in the U.S.
Marine Band, Sousa eventually
became its conductor and later
formed a "commercial" concert
band, which toured widely in
America and Europe. He composed
popular marches such as "El
Capitan," "The Washington Post,"
and "The Stars and Stripes
Scott Joplin
African American composer and
pianist; the best-known composer of
ragtime music. Between 1895 and
1915, Joplin composed many of the
classics of the ragtime repertoire
and helped popularize the style
through his piano arrangements,
published as sheet music. Scott
Joplin's first successful piece was
"Maple Leaf Rag" (1898).
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5 terms
the combination of physical, mental/emotional and social well being. Striving to be the best you can be at any given time.
An overall state of well being or total health. It requires an ongoing life long commitment to physical, mental, and social health.
refers to a person's capacity to learn about and understand basic health info and and services and use these resources to promote his/her health and wellness.
Healthy People 2010
is a nationwide promotion and disease prevention plan designed to serve as a guide for improving the health of all people in the United States.
health education
the providing of accurate health info to help healthy people make wise decisions.
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0.018361 | <urn:uuid:97d4f588-784f-4bba-90d0-4a2291232542> | en | 0.953731 | Court Cases
Created by lex12345
25 terms · court cases that should be known for ap exam
Marbury v. Madison (1803)
Supreme Court created for itself the power of judicial review when it declared a section of the Judiciary Act of 1789 unconstitutional
McCulloh v. Maryland (1819)
Decision upheld the right of Congress to create the National Bank using the elastic clause and further ruled that a state did not have the consitutional right to tax a branch of the bank in its state
Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)
This case involving a state monopoly to a steamboat company solidified the federal government's power to have exclusive control over interstate commerce
Schecter Poultry Corp v. U.S. (1935)
Declared the National Industrial Recovery Act unconstitutional because the federal government had exceeded its authority under the interstate commerce clause. This decision, along with the Butler ruling declaring the AAA unconstitutional, triggered FDR to propose his "Court Packing Plan."
Ruled that Congress could use the interstate commerce clause to regulate labor relations by upholding the Wagner Act (National Labor Relations Act). Decision signaled a change in Court's attitute toward support of New Deal
West Coast Hotel v. Parrish (1937)
Upheld the Washington state minimum wage statute. Another decision showing change in Court's attitude.
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
Roger Taney decision that ruled that Congress did not have the authority to ban slavery anywhere in the territiories. Also stated that African-Americans, whether slave or free, were not citizens.
Civil Rights Cases (1883)
Ruled that the 14th Amendment does not compel private citizens to refrain from discrimination.
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
Ruled that the segregation was allowed when the court upheld a Louisiana Jim Crow law regarding railroads. The principle of "seperate but equal" was established.
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Landmark case which overturned Plessy and ruled that segregation in public schools is inherently unequal and therefore a violation of the 14th Amendment
Heart of Atlanta Motel v. U.S. (1964)
this decision overturned Civil Rights Cases by upholding that Congress could outlaw segregation in private facilities with the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Regents of the University of Cali v. Bakke (1978)
Landmark case involving the concept of affirmative action in which the Court took a middle ground by upholding the general concept of affirmative action but ruling that the specific type of quota system used was unconstitutional violation of the 14th Amendment
Schenck v. U.S. (1919)
Court ruled that Schenck's freedom of expression was not protected in this case because his position against the draft during WWI presented a "clear and present danger." This case is considered particularly damaging to the cause of free speech because the opinion was written by one of the most liberal justices of the time of Oliver Wendell Holmes
Texas v. Johnson (1989)
Landmark symbolic speech case in which the Court protected burning the American flag as form of symbolic speech
Griswold v. Conn. (1965)
Although the facts of this case dealt with a state law banning the sale of contraceptives its significance lies in the fact that the Court ruled that the right of privacy does exist even though it is not explicitly stated in the Constitution.
Roe v. Wade (1973)
Landmark case allowing abortion on the grounds of a woman's right to privacy.
Mapp v. Ohio (1961)
extended the exclustionary rule (evidence obtained illegally cannot be used against a defendant at a criminal trial) to state as well as federal cases
Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)
guaranteed the right to an attorney even if too poor to afford one.
Miranda v. Arizona (1966)
if a person is not informed of their rights anything they say can not be used against them at trial
Engle v. Vitale (1962)
Court ruled that a New York State Board of Regents prayer could not be used in public school even though it was non denominational and voluntary; still violated establishment clause.
N.Y. Times v. U.S. (1971)
this case stemmed from the publication of the Pentagon Papers, a secret study of the Vietnam War, that was given to the times by an employee of the Pentagon. The Court refused to allow an injunction against publication taking a strong stand against prior restraint and arguing that the government had not proven that publication would harm national security.
Baker v. Carr (1962)
The Court ruled that federal courts do have jurisdiction over state legislative reapportionment. In 1964, the Court furthered this decision in Wesberry v. Sanders by establishing the principle of "one man, one vote." These two cases made it a requirement that House of Representative districts be drawn so that each representative represented the same number of people.
U.S. v. Nixon (1974)
This case was a result of the Watergate Scandal, specifically whether Nixon had to turn over to Congress tapes of conversations in the Oval office. Although accepting the principle of executive privilege, the Court ruled that it did not apply in this matter because investigation was part of a criminal Prosecution.
Tinker v. Des Moines (1969)
Landmark case involving a student protest of the Vietname by wearing an armband. The Court ruled that neither students nor teachers lose their rights at the schoolhouse gate.
N.J. v. T.L.O. (1985)
School search and seizure case in which the decision favored the school authorities arguing that the school only needs reasonable suspicion to conduct a search.
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0.39297 | <urn:uuid:db04399d-dee0-4015-b2da-e53ef9ff9a12> | en | 0.976593 | History - Chapter 5 Main Ideas
Created by Bryce0404
21 terms
The ________ lived a primitive lifestyle in the Calcasieu Parish area. Other tribes described them as cannibals. Their name beams "eaters of flesh".
The primary village of the ______ people, called Grand Village was located on the eastern bluffs of the Mississippi. They had an unusual social structure. Their class system consisted of common people, called stinkards, nobles and chiefs. Everyone in the society, both men and women, wore tatoos showing their status. Their ruler was known as the "Great Sun".
The ________ was the name of a specific tribe, but the French appplied it to a group of tribes. The Red River marked the home of these Indians. In 1835, they sold one million acres of land for $80,000, part in cash and part in trade goods in a treaty with the United States.
The ________ were the second largest tribe in the southeastern United States, occupying an area thet includes present-day Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. Their milia fought the British in the American Revolution and with Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans.
The primary village of the _______ Indians was near the river at Angola in West Feliciana Parish. Driven into the swamp and marsh, they learned to hunt, fish and trap. The live today mainly in Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes. They are recognized by the state of Louisiana as a tribe but not by the federal government.a
The ________ Indians were great traders. After settling in central Louisiana they located their settlements near major waterways, taking advantage of an excellent trade route. They became major distributors of salt, a valuable trade good.
The name of the ________ Indians means "people altogether red." They were ruled by one male chief who had charge over all the villages. In their closed society, a child belonged to the clan of the mother and the birth clan established the child's social class. Important rituals were conducted in the dance house. For a boy's rite of passage to manhood, he fasted and sought a vision to help him direct his adult life. They are the only Louisiana Indians known to live presently in their ancestral homeland.
The ________ Indians lived in clans made of many families. Each family had its own animal totem.They tried to stay neutral in the conflicts between Spain and the United States so they moved frequently along the border between Louisiana and Texas to avoid clashed between the two coutries. The crafts of the tribe included weaving beautiful cloth, rope and saddle blankets.They still maintain their native language.
Poverty Point
_________ is built by the Neo Indians and is that culture's largest earthworks. The large complex of mounds covers more than a square mile, about 400 acres. The huge design consists of six semicircular ridges, one inside the other, divided by four aisles. It contains 30 million loads of dirt.
Social Class
Many American Indians lived in villages that were organized according to ________.
Clothing was usually simple, made from available materials and suited to the ________.
_______ was the main food crop. Bear oil was valuable for cooking and was often traded.
The religion of each tribe was based on the concept of sacred harmony. Harvest festivals were religious ceremonies.
The ________ Indians are the oldest known tribe in Louisiana. The name of the tribe means "ancient".
The ________ Indians adapted their weapons for smaller game. They did not move around as much a previous tribes so they built more permanant housing.
Learning to make ________ marks a big change in the lives of early Indians and marks one of the prehistoric periods.
Bow & Arrow
The development of the ________ around 500 A.D. made hunting deer easier.
Early Neo
The ________ Indians made more elaborate ornaments than people from earlier tiime periods and they traded for many items.
Late Neo
The _______ Indians switched from gathering to farming. By this time, they may have lived in one place year-round, so they could plant and harvest crops.
________ involved plantingt two or more crops with different harvest times in the same plot of land.
Tribes had war chiefs and ________ chiefs. Some tribes included women in their governments.
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Created by missshell
15 terms · PSY130 Glossary
A contingency of power pertaining to the degree and nature of interdependence between the powerholder and others.
A group that attempts to influence people outside the group by pooling the resources and power of its members.
Countervailing power
The capacity of a person, team or organisation to keep a more powerful person or group in the exchange relationship.
Impression management
The practice of actively shaping our public images.
Any behaviour that attempts to alter someone's attitudes or behaviour.
Any attempt to increase liking by, or perceived similarity to, some targeted person.
Inoculation effect
A persuasive communication strategy of warning listeners that others will try to influence them in the future and that they should be wary about the opponent's arguments.
Legitimate power
An agreement among organisational members that people in certain roles can request certain behaviours of others.
Machiavellian values
The beliefs that deceit is a natural and acceptable way to influence others and that getting more than one deserves is acceptable.
Organisational politics
The use of facts, logical arguments and emotional appeals to change another person's beliefs and attitudes, usually for the purpose of changing the person's behaviour.
The capacity of a person, team or organisation to influence others.
Referent power
The capacity to influence others on the basis of an identification with and respect for the powerholder.
A contingency of power pertaining to the availability of alternatives.
Upward appeal
A type of influence in which someone with higher authority or expertise is called on (in reality or symbolically) to support the influencer's position.
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Another white-girl-as-drug pun here, on “whipping it” in an S&M context and “whipping” cocaine into crack
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0.02248 | <urn:uuid:67948b36-dd65-482c-bec3-298131f5d279> | en | 0.939908 | Dead Space: Extraction review (Wii)
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This story-focused on-rails shooter is a worthy follow-up to Dead Space that delivers the same sorts of thrills, chills, and kills, but in a whole new way.
Most on-rails shooters are modeled after their arcade counterparts and deliver nothing but the bare minimum of story required, last shorter than a roll of quarters, and reward often-mindless spray-and-pray tactics. Not so in Dead Space Extraction, which has been built from the ground up to offer a more strategic, story-oriented experience that acts as a second meaningful entry in the Dead Space universe. Extraction pulls no punches and delivers an uncompromised horror experience, complete with the series' famous strategic dismemberment, spooky atmosphere, and intense action.
6230685Necromorphs can come from just about anywhere, so you've got to keep vigilant.none
When the miners on the remote planet Aegis VII uncover and activate an alien artifact referred to as the marker, they unwittingly set into motion a chain of events that proves to be their end. As the colony tears itself apart due to the relic's maddening effects, four unlikely allies band together to fight their way free from the planet and the horrific monsters known as necromorphs that begin to appear. As you follow their escape to apparent freedom aboard the USG Ishimura mining ship, you roam its familiar, haunted corridors and unearth all manner of intriguing information about the events that took place there, the truth about the marker, and the cult-like Church of Unitology. Though there are a number of in-game cutscenes for conversation and exposition, action is always just around the corner.
The hideous necromorphs are ceaseless in their single-minded desire to consume and convert living flesh, and unlike with traditional zombies, headshots don't always take them down. Instead, necromorphs have to be dismembered, and lucky for you, a mining colony and its mothership are chock-full of tools just waiting to be misused for intentional industrial accidents. Most of the weapons from Dead Space return, and they're joined by several newcomers, including the P-SEC pistol, the arc welder, and the rivet gun. Necromorphs tend to be slow and deliberate in nature, and because their limbs are your targets, you must match their careful pace. Every shot count, because while you can have up to four firearms at any time, only the relatively weak rivet gun--your default weapon--has unlimited ammo.
Dead Space: Extractionscreenshot
This looks awful familiar...
Aiming is as simple as pointing your Wii Remote at the screen, which displays a targeting reticle crammed full of information, such as your weapon's attack spray pattern and how much ammo you've got left in your current clip. While this is all generally useful to know, the cursor unfortunately has the habit of concealing what you're trying to shoot at, particularly when you're aiming at specific limbs on enemies in the far distance. A more minimal approach would have been welcome. Beyond mere aiming, Extraction takes advantage of the Wii's motion controls by using them in ways that make sense and don't come off as gratuitous. For example, the only remote waggling you'll be doing is to brush off a necromorph currently in the act of eating your face or to activate a glowstick in a dark hallway. Each weapon has an alternate-fire mode that's activated by simply rotating the controller onto its side, and even the controls for the ripper--a saw that thrusts forward a controllable, rotating metal blade--are intuitive.
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The first step in creating your accessible website is to make a careful and honest assessment of your resources, available technologies and objectives. Goals that are defined, agreed and understood right from the start by everyone involved in the project have much greater chance of success.
The level of support and willingness of the people involved to adopt new ways of doing things is critical to success. If you have researched, planned and built an accessible website, the only way to make sure your efforts aren't undermined and eroded is to be confident that your whole team buys into the "accessibility habit" and supports the new processes you have put in place.
Accessibility goals such as conformance level, timelines, responsibilities and testing mechanisms need to be an integral part of the design and build process, so that accessibility is an important consideration right through the project.
Decide on your conformance level
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines* offer three levels of conformance. To choose which conformance level is right for your site, you'll need to understand a number of factors such as your competitors, target audience, resources, budget and timelines.
Research your competitors and target audience
It's worth reading the accessibility statements* on sites similar to yours to find out what (if any) conformance level they aim to achieve. Knowing which accessibility standards similar organisations are following will help you to decide what level to aim for.
Most organisations aim for double-A conformance, unless they're targeting user groups with particular disabilities, in which case including the triple-A criteria affecting those disabilities may be the way to go. For example, if your main target audience is users with hearing problems, then you may choose to include the triple-A criteria around video captioning and sign language.
Once you've chosen a conformance level, create a checklist (Excel, 144KB) that'll provide clear guidance to developers, designers and content producers.
We'd recommend you have us carry out a Surf Right and WCAG2 audit, which enables you to display an RNIB accreditation logo and a WCAG2 conformance statement once any issues we've flagged up have been fixed. We can work with you throughout the project lifecycle to ensure that everything from your wireframes to the finished product is accessible.
Intranet accessibility
You need to use a slightly different approach when building intranets and Content Management Systems (CMS). Ensuring your intranet is accessible is as much a legal requirement as for your public facing websites, but some of the accessibility issues are different. As well as outputting accessible content, A CMS needs to be accessible for its authors and publishers who'll be adding content.
On the plus side, however, you're likely to know a lot more about the technologies (browsers, access technologies* etc) that people inside your organisation are using and be able to build your website to work with those particular technologies.
Examine your building blocks
Your approach to accessibility will depend on whether there are any constraints on the suite of technologies you'll use to build the site.
• If you're writing the code from the ground up then creating accessible, standards-compliant code won't be too much of an issue.
• If you're planning to use a web creation tool or CMS but haven't chosen one yet, you'll save a lot of development time by doing some research to find one that both fits your business need and generates accessible mark-up.
• If you're tied to a particular tool or CMS, it's worth taking time to research any accessibility issues discovered by other developers or organisations and how they resolved them.
Budgets and timelines
Working within your budget and timelines may mean that you can't do everything at once. You might need to prioritise accessibility requirements and group them into stages. Your priorities might look something like this:
1. "Win-win" issues that can be easily fixed and instantly have a high positive impact on your site's accessibility.
2. Issues that aren't too difficult to fix but have a lower impact.
3. Issues that, although still necessary, are more complex and may take a little longer.
On the Build page later in this walkthrough, you'll find basic and more complex examples of issues you might come across, as well as recommendations to help you fix them.
Training and awareness
You'll likely need to develop training material, presentations and/or awareness sessions for the people who manage, design, develop and author your website, to be delivered at key stages throughout the project. For example, your designers may need training on the importance of clear fonts, good colour contrast and flexible layouts before the design phase begins, and your developers might benefit from a web accessibility training course or having regular accessibility research time added to their calendars.
Document your accessibility work
Once you've identified and prioritised what needs to be done to make your site accessible, the decisions you've made should be documented. This document usually evolves into an ongoing plan for testing your site as well as a reference for post-launch fixes, maintenance and updates. This document should be an integral part of the design and build documentation and treated as part of the process rather than a discrete element.
Redesigning sites
The process of taking an existing website and "retro-fitting" it for accessibility is slightly different from planning a new build site. The site is likely to have a number of inherited issues, especially if it has existed for a long time, and even more so if it has had a lot of people working on it.
The first step in redesigning an existing site is to evaluate how accessible it is currently, which should include getting feedback from your users. This usually leads to an iterative design, build and test process.
It would be a valuable exercise to have a benchmarking Conformance Overview performed to establish current levels of accessibility and flag up content or techniques that should be corrected.
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Pay-to-play Crafting training
on this wiki
This guide will help you train Crafting in various different ways, from level 1 to 99. This guide is intended for members, but free players can also do some of these actions.
Weaving loom at a clan citadel is great exp at any crafting level.
Crafting level requirement Details XP/hour Profit/XP Other requirements
Level 1-8 Leather armour
You can make leather armour such as boots and gloves which sell very well. To make armour just get a cowhide and take it to the tannery, then use a needle on it with thread in your inventory.
Level 8-10 Clay bowls
Clay can be purchased for 204 coins each at Grand Exchange and used to produce clay bowls. Alternatively, you can mine clay directly south of Gunnarsgrunn.
• Purchase the clay and head to the Edgeville bank. Fill your inventory with 28 pieces of clay.
• Alternate between the bank and the well just outside, using the clay on the well to turn the clay into soft clay.
• Once all of your clay has been turned into soft clay, head to Gunnarsgrunn to turn the soft clay into a bowl and fire it. Return to Edgeville and repeat. Also another good place to go is draynor village. (If you have a high enough agility level to cross the log near the Northern bank, Ardougne is a good location to train crafting since everything is near the bank)
• Purchase soft clay for 286 coins each instead of clay or use a Bracelet of clay (so you don't spend the time adding water to the clay to turn it into soft clay)
A great place to create clay pieces is in Burthorpe where the starting quest area was recently released. Directly outside the mine that contain clay at a high respawn rate there is a well, a potter's wheel and a pottery oven. Happy clay-making!
9,075 Coins 3 -3.4
Level 8-10 Gold amulets
A way to make a small profit and still train crafting is to make Gold amulet (unstrung) on a Furnace with Gold bars and an Amulet mould. Granting 30xp per gold bar, it is much faster than spinning bowstrings. So for those who want something faster than spinning flax but don't want to lose too much money, this method is very useful. The best furnace is the one in Edgeville, but the closest furnace to a bank is in Port Phasmatys. Easily accessible by Ectophial teleport. (Ghosts Ahoy quest completion required) gold bracelets are most likely a better choice as the 25 exp per bracelet is more than made up by the extra profit you make.
40,000 Coins 1 0.3
Level 10-16 Bowstrings
A common way for members to train crafting is to spin bowstrings on a spinning wheel, which requires flax. It is popular because it is has a low level requirement of 10 crafting and fairly fast way of training crafting up for low to medium level crafters and earns quite a bit of money as the bowstrings are highly desired by fletchers. Each Bowstring grants 15 Crafting experience when spun. Spinning wheels a short distance from a bank can be found in Lumbridge Castle, Seers' Village and Neitiznot (requires starting Fremennik Isles quest). Players who choose to pick their own flax may also find that the field in Taverley is very efficient, as there is a spinning wheel on the short route between it and the bank. Some players may choose to spin bowstrings until level 50+ due to the profit it gives. For example, if you were to buy 1k Flax (31000gp) and spin it all into bowstrings you would earn 338000gp, making a great profit. Spinning at Lumbridge is the most efficient, a round trip takes ~65 seconds and can be done in as little as 11 click with no camera movement.
21,000 Coins 5 22.5
Level 16-28 Unstrung symbols
Unstrung symbols can be made for 50 experience points each, meaning a full load of 27 symbols yields 1350 XP. Silver bars can be bought for 201 coins each at the Grand Exchange, and smelted in Al Kharid furnace. The resulting unstrung symbols can be sold for 56 coins.
Unstrung symbols can be strung for an additional 4 Crafting XP and blessed by Brother Jered in the Monastery, provided the player has 32 prayer. Brother Jered will bless all symbols you carry at once.
Holy moulds are sold at the crafting store in Al Kharid for 5 coins.
40,000 Coins 2 -2.9
Buy silver ore for 111 coins each and smelt them into silver bars before crafting them into unstrung symbols. 40,000
Plus 5,600 Smithing experience
Coins 1 -1.1
Level 28-38 Hard leather body
Craft for 35 XP each. Cowhides can be bought for 368 each, lower than the price of hard leather (460 coins), or they can be obtained by killing cows in Lumbridge cow field, or Gnomecopters site. Obtaining the cowhides yourself will cost more time, but when selling the hard leather bodies will give some profit. The quickest place to tan cowhides is at Ellis's tanner shop in Al Kharid, which is located near the bank. Remember, soft leather costs no coins to get tanned, but hard leather costs 3 coins, dragon skin and snakeskin cost 20, so if you're tanning dragon/snakeskin, keep that in mind. Thread and needle are needed to craft the Hard leather bodies. You can also use a Sacred clay needle to double the crafting experience. The thread is used up every 5 bodies crafted, though stackable. These two items can both be bought at the crafting shop.
50,000 Coins 5 -9.3
Level 38-54
or Level 38-63 (cheaper but slightly longer)
Craft for 37 XP each. Cowhides can be bought for 368 each, not much lower than the price of soft leather, or they can be obtained by killing cows in Lumbridge cow field, or near Beefy Bill. The quickest place to tan cowhides is at Ellis's tanner shop in Al Kharid, which is located near the bank. Only Needle is needed to craft the coifs. Items can be bought at the crafting shop. The GE price of a coif is 58 coins but you can sell them to the Scavvo's Rune Store at the Champions' Guild for 60 coins.
A cheaper way of training with leather coifs, with sufficient combat skills, is by killing cows at the small farm located just south of the Burthrope lodestone.Take the hides and tan them directly at Jack Oval. Then directly craft them into coifs and sell them back to him for 60 coins each. Assuming you fill your inventory within 5 minutes, it results in 12,000 crafting experience, about 10,000 combat experience (can vary) and 19,440 coins an hour.
50,000+, possibly a bit more (applies only to the actual crafting phase, not tanning hides)
12,000 if killing cows yourself (Update*) Crafting coifs does not require any threads
Coins 5 -11.6
(Coins 1 1.6)
Level 54-57 Elemental battlestaff
At level 54, Players may start making Battlestaves. Players would need a battlestaff that can be bought from Zaff, get them from monster drops, or from the Grand Exchange and other players. Players would then need an elemental orb, depending on the type of staff they wish to make. Players may earn some money if they buy battlestaves from Zaff, charge their own Unpowered orbs, attach the orb to the staff, and then sell it on the Grand Exchange. Note that only 100 battlestaves can be bought from the Grand Exchange every 4 hours. Please note that only a limited supply of battlestaves may be bought from Zaff in one day (8 to 80 depending on your level of completion of Varrock Tasks).
Level 57-84 Dragonhide armour
At 57 crafting and onwards, making dragon leather armour is a great way for experience. For optimal experience rates dragonhide body should be crafted (requires at least Level 63 Crafting for Green D'hide body). Approximately 1200 - 1300 dragonhide bodies (3600 - 4000 dragon leather) can be made per hour. The products can be sold back but you will lose a lot. Alternatively, Players may cast High Level Alchemy on these finished products to earn some magic experience, but to minimise loss, it is recommended to sell your products. A needle and some threads are also required. Players may also substitute a needle for Sacred clay needle or a Volatile clay needle as they give 100% and 120% bonus experience, respectively. The Sacred clay needle is recommended over the Volatile version as it does not revert back to its regular state once 10% of its charges are used up, while only giving 20% less bonus experience.
186,000 - 258,000 Coins 5 -19.2 (Green bodies, sacred clay needle)
Coins 25 -38.4 (Green bodies, regular needle)
Jewellery making Edit
Jewellery making is a common way to train crafting. Making amulets with gems consists of several steps, considering:
1. Buy or obtain gem,
2. Buy or obtain gold bar
3. Cut the gem
4. Smelt the gem and gold bar in a furnace.
5. Use ball of wool on the amulet to string it,
6. Sell it.
For jewellery other than amulets, step 5 is omitted, for pure gold jewellery, step 1 and 3 are omitted. You can make up to 1,100 gemmed pieces of jewellery per hour, depending on your level of concentration and speed with a few miss clicks.
Buying or obtaining gemsEdit
Gems can only be obtained in a few ways for players: Purchasing from the Grand Exchange, buying from shops or players, mining (randomly from normal rocks or Gem rocks), stealing from safes, monster drops, the Gnome Restaurant activity, the sapphire spawn in deep wilderness or if you have the Summoning level for it, and magpies, who forage gems and rings. Uncut gems can be cut for crafting experience, but cut gems are much cheaper. Below is a list of cost of buying uncut and cut gems at GE: (The Amulet of Glory and the Ring of Wealth increase your chance of getting gems while mining ore.)
Gold SmithingEdit
Gold bars can be obtained in two ways: smelting gold ore which requires 40 smithing or directly buying from the GE. The current prices of gold ore and gold bars are 375 coins and 90 coins respectively, which gives purchasers a distinct advantage, since the difference in the GE price is determined by so-called Goldsmithing for members. With goldsmithing gauntlets obtained from the quest Family crest, a very large portion of smithing experience is gained, but this doesn't change the fact of major loss. One way to Greatly lower money loss is to free the Rogue in Rogue's Castle, this requires Summer's End to be completed for the Upgraded Jennica's Ring. He will be in the small home with a range near the small Varrock bank. He will buy any unenchanted Jewellery and pays the low alchemy value for it, based on the cost of gold ore and the low alchemy price of Gold Bracelet you will lose a little over 180 coins, this will effectively earn both Smithing and Crafting experience as well as greatly lowering the amount of money you lose per gold bar, you can also sell them noted to him to save time.
Cutting GemsEdit
• Information This is the quickest, but most expensive, method of crafting experience. With a chisel in your tool belt, merely left click the gem to cut it. All amounts approximate. Assumes 4,000 gems are cut per hour.
Requirement: Level 20 Crafting
Gain: 50 experience
Experience per hour: 200,000
Profit per hour: Coins 10000 -6,324,000
Profit per experience: Coins 25 -31.62
Requirement: Level 27 Crafting
Gain: 67.5 experience
Experience per hour: 260,000
Profit per hour: Coins 10000 -9,804,000
Profit per experience: Coins 25 -36.31
Requirement: Level 34 Crafting
Gain: 85 experience
Experience per hour: 340,000
Profit per hour: Coins 10000 -15,756,000
Profit per experience: Coins 25 -46.34
Requirement: Level 43 Crafting
Gain: 107.5 experience
Experience per hour: 430,000
Profit per hour: Coins 10000 -22,912,000
Profit per experience: Coins 25 -53.28
Requirement: Level 55 Crafting
Gain: 137.5 experience
Experience per hour: 550,000
Profit per hour: Coins 10000 -25,648,000
Profit per experience: Coins 25 -46.63
• Onyx (Not realistic profit margins as onyx and uncut onyx generally buy for the price of an amulet of fury)
Requirement: Level 67 Crafting
Gain: 167.5 experience
Experience per hour: 670,000
Profit per hour: Coins 10000 259,780,000
Profit per experience: Coins 250 387.73
Smelting jewelleryEdit
A close furnace should be chosen to mass-produce jewellery. The best furnaces to use are Edgeville or Port Phasmatys. An amulet mould, necklace mould, bracelet mould or ring mould is brought along with equal number of gold bars and cut gems, although these should already be on your toolbelt. A detailed experience table can be seen in the Crafting article. Rings require the lowest level to craft, necklaces originally gave the best reward of cash, which is now surpassed by buying gold bars at the current Grand Exchange price of 90 coins each and making them into gold bracelets. These can then be sold to the Rogue in Varrock, as he will always buy them at the low alchemy price of 220 coins each - it is almost always possible to double your money depending on gold bar prices. Although it is possible to make a lot of money with this method, it does also entail its cons as the experience is also slow.
Bracelets can be High Alched if you have Level 55 Magic or higher, for 330 gp. This actually gains more profit (with a fire staff), and generates Magic experience.
Due to the low price of Dragonstones, High Alching or sometime selling Dragonstone bracelets that you made is profitable. Making Dragonstone bracelets at Edgeville with Pack yak gives up to 150k experience per hour.
Amulets bear maximum experience and highest requirement, while carrying some inconvenience as stringing is needed. Unstrung amulets can be sold on the Grand Exchange to players wishing to train magic via the String Jewellery spell under the Lunar Magicks.
A player can buy cut sapphires or emeralds, cosmic runes, and gold bars and smelt them into sapphire necklaces or emerald rings. Then they can enchant them and sell the finished games necklaces or rings of duelling for a profit, while gaining valuable crafting and magic experience.
Stringing amuletsEdit
Ball of wool can be bought at GE for 194 coins each, or using spinning wheel to spin wool. Casual players can take advantage of Fred the farmer's farm, where sheep inhabit the area alongside a spawn of shears. The closest spinning wheel from the farm is on the first floor of the Lumbridge castle.
At level 80 magic the spell String Jewellery can be cast to automatically string all amulets in a player's inventory. This is much more expensive than using a ball of wool, but is a good way to train Magic and Crafting quickly.
With sufficient magic level, jewellery with gems can be enchanted. Although this gives magic exp, it does allow you to make a profit from the jewellery you make. Currently, emerald rings are one of the best types of jewellery to enchant.
Glass makingEdit
Main article: Molten glass
Members will also find useful making molten glass and crafting it into different items with a glassblowing pipe. Entrana is the best place to start it out, since Fritz the Glassblower teaches how to make molten glass and also all the items needed for making glass are available in the island. Members can level up within Entrana from level 1 to 30, crafting a variety of glasses that give a decent experience compared to regular crafting. For further convenient glass making, players should complete Hand in the Sand, so Bert gives 84 buckets of sand daily, buy Seaweed from Arhein in Catherby and cooking it to get Soda ash, and using Port Phasmatys or Edgeville furnace to speed up the glass making process, alternatively, a player who has completed the Lunar isle quests, and has level 77 Magic, could use the spell Superglass Make which not only saves time having not to cook the seaweed, but also has the chance of producing extra molten glass for free. Glassblowing can be a decent training tool well into the 90's with 52xp per orb and a possible 90k xp per hr.
Yaks Edit
Make Yak-hide legs. Making legs gives 32 exp (the same amount of experience as bodies), but uses only 1 hide rather than 2.
Elemental battlestavesEdit
Crafting elemental battlestaves is one of the fastest crafting experience available. However, it is more difficult to obtain mass quantities of battlestaves due to the limit for them on the Grand Exchange (100 per 4 hours). Keep in mind that up to 80 battlestaves may be bought from Naff with the elite Varrock Tasks done, and another 20 from Baba Yaga on Lunar Isle daily. In order to obtain battlestaves faster, one may choose to buy them in bulk from players on the Runescape Forums.
Assuming the player has the battlestaves and charged orbs ready, it is possible to craft around 2,200 battlestaves per hour.
The table below shows approximate amount of xp gained per hour, and the profit/loss per battlestaff assuming the player buys the charged orb and battlestaff from Grand Exchange for market price.
Type of battlestaff Crafting level XP/battlestaff XP/hour Profit/XP Profit/battlestaff
Water battlestaff 54 100 220,000 Coins 5 -18 Coins 1000 -1,800
Earth battlestaff 58 112.5 247,500 Coins 5 -13.3 Coins 1000 -1,492
Fire battlestaff 62 125 275,000 Coins 5 -19.2 Coins 1000 -2,400
Air battlestaff 66 137.5 302,500 Coins 5 -22.9 Coins 1000 -3,144
Below is a table when buying the battlestaves from Naff. Keep in mind that the money you save is offset by the time taken to buy and bank the staves.
Water battlestaff 54 100 220,000 Coins 5 -12.3 Coins 1000 -1,226
Earth battlestaff 58 112.5 247,500 Coins 5 -8.2 Coins 250 -918
Fire battlestaff 62 125 275,000 Coins 5 -14.6 Coins 1000 -1,826
Air battlestaff 66 137.5 302,500 Coins 5 -18.7 Coins 1000 -2,570
Dragonhide bodiesEdit
Creating dragonhide bodies is a decent alternative to those who do not have the ability to obtain mass quantities of battlestaves, although the experience is slower.
Below is a table showing the production costs for each dragonhide body.
The table below assumes you are buying the appropriate Dragon leather.
Dragonhide colour Crafting level XP/body XP/hour Profit/XP Profit/body Profit/hour
Green d'hide body 63 186 240,000 Coins 25 -38.4 Coins 1000 -7,149 Coins 10000 -8,936,250
Blue d'hide body 71 210 262,000 Coins 25 -37.1 Coins 1000 -7,797 Coins 10000 -9,746,250
Red d'hide body 77 234 292,000 Coins 25 -42.6 Coins 1000 -9,977 Coins 10000 -12,471,250
Black d'hide body 84 258 322,000 Coins 25 -34.5 Coins 1000 -8,889 Coins 10000 -11,111,250
Royal d'hide body 93 282 352,000 Coins 25 -39.6 Coins 10000 -10,221 Coins 10000 -12,776,250
While crafting Urns at the pottery station in Ardougne, one can make approximately 420 urns per hour, using two soft clay per urn. While not spectacular experience, these urns can then be used in training other skills as well, so it's a win-win. To figure out the xp/hr of an urn, multiply 420 by the total experience gained by crafting the urn [420 * (XP from Forming + XP from Firing)]. For example, the xp/hr of a Decorated Mining Urn (requires 59 Crafting) is 420*95, which is 39,900 xp/hr.
While crafting Urns in the Crafting Guild using a Pack Yak, a Skills necklace and a banking jewellery such as a Ring of duelling, Ring of kinship or TokKul-Zo (the latter two being preferred for their unlimited charges), you can craft up to 560 urns per hour, so if they are Decorated cooking urn the xp per hour is 72800. You also can make some profit depending on the price of Soft clay and urns, while training Crafting. Alternatively, if you do not have a high enough summoning level to use a Pack Yak, or simply do not wish to waste any money, you can also use a Clan Vexillum and a Ring of Kinship to get the job done.
Another place one might want to consider is the east bank in Varrock. Just south of the bank is both a potter's wheel and a pottery oven, as well as a water source nearby.
Weaving (Clan Citadel)Edit
Weaving at the loom in a Clan Citadel can be tremendous experience, usually 120k/h for a total of about 200k xp each week. The amount of experience gained is dependent on your level in crafting, usually around double the level. Although it is slightly slow and much attention is needed, it's free, no items are required and you can gain hundreds of thousands of experience for completing your cap every build tick (once a week). In addition to this experience, you can also earn a Bonus experience good towards any of the skills for which the citadel currently has plots (which can be used for bonus crafting exp during regular training) and fealty experience from the Clan cloak for skilling each week once you have reached fealty rank 3.
See alsoEdit
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A mobile sales app in itself is pretty common, but it's how an app evolved at Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust (PREIT) that landed Helane Stein as one of our finalists. As vice president of IT at PREIT, Stein turned a mobile sales app gap into a conversation about how to improve overall business operations. The application inspired the company to swap out desktops for iPads, change its software vendor partnership RFP to include a "must have a mobile version" clause and created a new business opportunity whereby competitors and peers asked to use the app or purchase it. Read on to learn about the biggest IT challenge that Stein, a finalist for our business value award, faces today, and a common mistake she sees up-and-coming IT leaders make.
Number of years in IT: 20-plus
Revenue: $458 million
From the judges
"Clear partnerships and ongoing support that doesn't require constant IT attention."
Number of employees in the company: 650
Number of employees in IT: 14
Educational background: A bachelor of science degree in information science from the University of Pittsburgh and a master's degree in business administration from Saint Joseph's University.
First job: Before college -- camp counselor. After college -- programmer.
LinkedIn: Helane Stein
What's the best advice you've ever received? My mother insisted that I take at least one computer course when I was in high school and that led to my career in technology.
In the movie of your life, who would play your character? Meryl Streep, of course.
If you could have just one superpower, what would it be and why? Mind reader. This would ensure our deliverables exceeded our customers' expectations.
What's your favorite app on your smartphone or tablet device? Anything news- or weather-related.
Where do you fall in the iPhone versus Android debate? I have an iPhone and it is our company-standard device. But I believe it's a personal choice, like chocolate or vanilla ice cream.
Describe the best technology decision you ever made: To be an early adopter of iPhones and iPads. The ease of use has been a game changer with technology adoption.
Was there ever a technology that you thought was a gimmick but now couldn't live without? If not, which current technology is a gimmick or overly hyped? There are many examples of technologies of the past that were not adopted at the time either because they did not have the right marketing strategy or were just ahead of their time. The touchscreen tablet from the late 1990s is not that different from the iPad of today.
From the nomination
"Helane has proven her leadership by leveraging existing systems to identify opportunities and monitor risk, improve business processes to maximize efficiency and develop innovative solutions to meet changing business needs and support new initiatives."
What's the biggest challenge you face in IT today? Consumerization of technology has led to an expectation that all software, including enterprise software, should be as easy to use as an app on a smartphone. For the enterprise, the challenge is in creating applications that are easy to use yet complex because of their need to provide tight integration of information from multiple sources.
Which role and/or internal partner do you rely upon the most? I believe it is important to interact with all resources within the company. In today's world, all IT employees need to understand what drives the business and partner with all areas to leverage technology effectively and create innovated products and solutions.
What's your prediction for the next big technology? We are beginning to see the next big thing: the fully connected world and the Internet of Things. For example, apps where you can interact with devices in your home such as security systems and DVRs.
What's your favorite nonmonetary benefit or perk of your job? Technology and the business needs of the company are continuously changing, and keeping pace is crucial. The company encourages employee participation in user groups, conferences and training sessions.
What is the biggest problem you see with corporate cultures today? Each company has a unique corporate culture that possesses both strengths and weaknesses. The key is to find an environment that matches your individual preference and style.
What are "rookie mistakes" that you see in up-and-coming IT leaders? They speak too much about the technology and not about creating business value.
Describe your leadership style. Leading an IT department requires a diverse skill set. First, it is essential to be a genuine business partner, conversant with each aspect of the company's business. I need to understand the technology, yet not get bogged down in details or micromanagement. That requires hiring the very best people for each position. I also have to be looking past the current technology to what is heading in our direction.
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0.0391 | <urn:uuid:4806cfed-215a-4f8d-9c5f-991a88c63223> | en | 0.85144 | Secrètes de Paris A glimpse into Heather's endless hunt for the Secrets of Paris! Thu, 25 Jul 2013 12:02:16 +0200 All Rights Reserved The Blog Has Moved!! (Secrets of Paris) Wed, 19 Apr 2006 15:28:48 +0200 This blog is now hosted on the <a href="" target="_blank">Secrets of Paris website</a>. Enjoy browsing around the archives here, then come see what's new! The Hash in the French News (Secrets of Paris) Leisure Mon, 10 Apr 2006 23:30:00 +0200 <div style="text-align: center"><img src="" alt="medium_hash.3.jpg" style="border-width: 0; margin: 0.7em 0;" /></div><br /><br />Last Sunday a journalist and photographer from the French daily Libération came to the <a href="" target="_blank">Sans Clue Hash</a>. Funny article (particularly the translations of the Hash names). <a href=" " target="_blank">Check it out here </a>if you can read French. Bonus points for anyone who guesses which Hash name is mine (my real name isn't mentioned in the article). I'm in the photo, too, the one in white fleece and black pants behind the guy drinking -- mostly wearing -- the beer. Around Aligre... (Secrets of Paris) Around Town Sun, 09 Apr 2006 23:20:00 +0200 The weather has picked up a bit in Paris. Less rain, more sun, tons of wind. Spring, actually. Here are some pics from a stroll through down the Faubourg St-Atoine and the Marché Aligre.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center"><img src="" alt="medium_passage.jpg" style="border-width: 0; margin: 0.7em 0;" /></div>One of the many passages of the Faubourg where you'll still find Parisian furniture makers.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center"><img src="" alt="medium_flowers.jpg" style="border-width: 0; margin: 0.7em 0;" /></div>A bit of Andalucia in Paris...the yellow forsythia is in bloom.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center"><img src="" alt="medium_fish.jpg" style="border-width: 0; margin: 0.7em 0;" /></div>Fishmonger humor at the Marché Aligre. A Great News Show... (Secrets of Paris) Sat, 01 Apr 2006 12:02:06 +0200 Listen to this well-balanced look at the issues with the French labor market on the<a href="" target="_blank"> BBC World Business Review.</a> More Strike Photos (Secrets of Paris) Around Town Fri, 31 Mar 2006 12:00:00 +0200 A <a href="">CNN anchor compared Paris to Tiananmen Square</a> (and then another CNN journalist <a href="" target="_blank">called the statement "regrettable"</a>). <br /><br />In any case, the protests continue, I just saw a bunch of students march through Place d'Italie with their horns and signs. But they're gone now, and the intesection is back to normal. I'm still getting emails from people freaking out about their safety in coming to Paris. <br /><br />How many times does one have to say: stay away from the marches and you won't have any problems!<br /><br />Even on Tuesday's "Big Strike", all of the public transport was working at 75% of it's regular service, and unless you were on the march rout between Place d'Italie and Place République, you wouldn't even know anything is going on in Paris. Really. <br /><br />I was listening to NPR (Diane Reams show, sorry if that's misspelled) and Diane was interviewing some French pundits and American journalists covering the protests and she asked, "But how do you know where the riots will be?"<br /><br />As the guests replied, it helps to know a bit of French. All demonstrations are announced in advance, along with their routes, so everyone in Paris knows exactly what parts of town will have traffic problems. The protests are separate from the "riots", or the window-breaking/car-burning idiots from the suburbs who come into town anytime there are big gatherings in order to cause trouble. They're called "<a href="" target="_blank">casseurs</a>", or smashers. This is who thepolice are fighting with, and in many cases they're actally helped by the marchers themselves, who are the ones who are getting hurt from their clashes (again, the damage is happening under the "cover" of the large crowds during the marches; there aren't "rioters" roaming loose around Paris torching random cars). Many of these thugs have already been arrested and fined, in some cases sent to prison for a year (the idiot who set a car on fire that accidentally set a Gap on fire). <br /><br />There's another strike andmarch planned Tuesday the 4th, FYI. <br /><br />And here are some photos of Place d'Italie from last Tuesday.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center"><img src="" alt="medium_strike1.jpg" style="border-width: 0; margin: 0.7em 0;" /></div>No, not a burning car, just the flares of the union marchers.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center"><img src="" alt="medium_strike2.jpg" style="border-width: 0; margin: 0.7em 0;" /></div>As usual, the marchers have trashed the square. <br /><br /><div style="text-align: center"><img src="" alt="medium_strike3.jpg" style="border-width: 0; margin: 0.7em 0;" /></div>The stinky food vans arrived at 10am to feed the masses. Whining builds up a big appetite, apparently. <br /><br /><div style="text-align: center"><img src="" alt="medium_strike4.jpg" style="border-width: 0; margin: 0.7em 0;" /></div> If you couldn't read, you might think this was a Mardi Gras parade. Look at the purty balloons! Protest against the Strike (Secrets of Paris) Around Town Tue, 28 Mar 2006 11:58:32 +0200 When I walked the dogs this morning at 10am, the Place d'Italie was already full of news vans, big banners against the CPE, and even a snack truck in preparation for today's march that starts here (and ends at République) at 230pm. <br /><br />I have a tour today, and have no idea if the people will show up (although 75% of the public transport is still running in Paris). Mostly I'm glad I won't be here at home working because it's IMPOSSIBLE to work when they're out there blasting their music and chanting for three hours. <br /><br />They're basically keeping me from working. As if the entire world is made of of evil bosses and slaving workers. Some of us work for ourselves and would like to get that work done, thank you!!!<br /><br />So since I can't vote in national elections (being a foreigner), I'm going to join the ANTI-BLOCAGES (anti strike) march on April 2 at 3pm, Hôtel de Ville. <br /><br /><div style="text-align: center"><img src="" alt="medium_strike.jpg" style="border-width: 0; margin: 0.7em 0;" /></div><br /><br />There is a growing movement against the people who are taking advantage of the strikes to cause trouble (the idiots burning car, for example). I'm all for political activism, but violence and refusing to even talk (the unions won't talk to De Villepin) is wrong.<br /><br />Look <a href="" target="_blank">here </a>and <a href="" target="_blank">here</a> (sign the petition). Tuesday General Strike (Secrets of Paris) Around Town Mon, 27 Mar 2006 02:24:27 +0200 On Tuesday March 28 there's a semi-general strike scheduled by the people opposed to the new student labor laws. Expect 50% service on Metro and RER lines. For more info call the free (really!) RATP hotline: 0800 15 11 11<br /><br />The RATP would like everyone to know:<br /><br /><blockquote>La direction de l’entreprise précise que la RATP n’entre pas dans le champ d’application de la loi qui met en place les CPE et qu’elle poursuit par ailleurs une politique dynamique de recrutement, de qualification et d’insertion de 2000 jeunes par an. </blockquote><br /><br />It basically says that the RATP isn't affected by the new laws, and actively recruits more than 2000 young workers each year. So why are they participating in the strike? Well, the weather sure is nicer now...good day for a walk/protest march. | http://secretesdeparis.blogspirit.com/index.rss | dclm-gs1-229840002 | false | false | {
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I have a Barracuda Web Filter 210 that was stored away in our vast IT junkyard about two years ago by previous IT. I recently came across it and wanted to put it to use but found that it's subscription hasn't been renewed since its removal.
I called and got all the necessary details but Barracuda wanted me to pay for those two years that its been sitting on a shelf before extending my subscription for updates and my boss pretty much called me retarded for considering paying it. He called it a "ransom".
So, before I go throwing it in a dumpster, I wanted to see if its useful at all to use the web filter for a guest network or something without it's updates. Will it still function within a decent threshold or is it just a piece of junk at this point?
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An old Barracuda Web Filter is way more useful than an old out-of-warranty Barracuda Spam Filter.
Try loading it and seeing how well things work. The proxying functions will work. The basic web category and URL blocking will will work. You simply won't have access to the OS (firmware) updates or updates to content categories. E.g. services like Spotify were added in recent revisions. An old Barracuda unit would not be aware of newer services.
I'd consider paying for support or trying to negotiate a hardware replacement if you need Barracuda protection. You will be forced to pay for the lapsed warranty time. A new unit is probably a better deal, as the hardware has been revised recently with faster CPUs and quieter fans.
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Thanks for the answer ewwhite. I'll try setting it up and giving it a test run, at this point I don't think I can convince the boss to pay for a renewal but he might pay for a replacement if the thing works well. Thanks again for the insight. – user72593 Jan 14 at 4:41
Barracuda cares about software, licensing and subscriptions. The hardware is an afterthought. They do have a cloud web filtering solution which is quite cheap (if you don't mind defining proxy servers on your desktops). That's available at a much lower price point than an Web Filter 100/200/300 unit. – ewwhite Jan 14 at 4:44
Great, i'll have a look and see it would work well with our users. – user72593 Jan 14 at 4:49
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"You Don't Want GTAV Bringing Your Kids Up"
We're not entirely sure how to deal with this one given that we usually spend time criticising zero-science studies about video game and violence. Apparently the guys paid to act in GTAV don't think that GTAV's violence is a bad thing... let's find out more.
We'll reiterate however, that Ned Luke, who plays psychopath Michael de Santa, Steven Ogg, who plays psychopath Trevor Philips, and Shawn Fonteno, an ex gang member who plays psychopath Franklin Clinton in GTAV were all asked about the violence. Ned Luke posed this: "You definitely don't want GTA raising your children," he went on:
"As an actor, I got to go out and do all these crazy things and then go back home to my wife and my son and go out in the back yard and throw a baseball around like a normal all-American dad. I think that's what these games are. People who take them too seriously and go, 'Oh, this is life.' No, this isn't life. This is imagination. It's just fun. You definitely don't want GTA raising your children. But it's not a bad release from them, when you need to get away."
Franklin, sorry, Shawn Fonteno, looks to the parents: "People already have it in their mind that GTA is for kids because it's a game. Then they hear about the violence and they're instantly going to attack because it's a game. Now, if it was a movie it would be a different story and these same people would be out there supporting it. GTA V is like a movie. Once they get the game in their hands, they'll see. It says it big as day--Mature. It's not for the kids to go get. It's for Mature audiences only. If kids get it, then that's on their parents."
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Trevor also has a take, "It just sets the wrong focus. Why not talk about gun control? Why not talk about parenting? Why not talk of lack of family values? There are so many other things to talk about. Look at what's on TV. Breaking Bad had that episode where Giancarlo got his face blown off. There's a lot of intense stuff out there. Video games are just an easy scapegoat. My nephew plays this game. I asked my sister if she was worried because there's some pretty nasty stuff in there and she said, 'I know he's not going to go to school tomorrow with a gun. He's not like that.'"
What's your opinion? Tell us in the comments.
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Games: Grand Theft Auto V
sonny barton 9 Oct 2013 19:31
Well not for kids But its learning the life in the world. 18+ but kids want the game so much so they could make a lower version of it because
my son wants it and he's only 9 so ask them to make a lower version
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Obama and his administration, if given 4 more years, will "help" this country right over the cliff and into oblivion. Knowingly "investing" money with a negative return is only something our government would do. The rest of us out in flyover country who are busy "building" businesses know better than to invest a $1 to get back cents. Why do so many have so hard a time understanding such obvious tenets of economics? | http://townhall.com/social/usercommentprint/5031485 | dclm-gs1-230100002 | false | false | {
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How to Save Your Trip from Disaster
Vacation is supposed to be a time for rest and relaxation. At least once a year, we scrounge up a few extra dollars and plan an escape from all the stresses of our daily lives. Before heading out the door, we double check to make sure we've packed enough socks, a toothbrush and a phone charger. But what most people don't prepare for are the calamities that can ensue. Sure, we hear travel horror stories on the evening news, but no one ever imagines that something bad will happen to them. Unfortunately, it's that mentality that leaves many travelers woefully unprepared for the worst. Before your next vacation, check out our list of some of the nastiest travel dilemmas and how to handle them.
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If Your Flight Gets Cancelled…
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Over the past several months, flight cancellations put quite a wrench in vacations up and down the East Coast, with some travelers stranded for at least several hours (and, in some cases, days). Anyone who's experienced a flight cancellation can tell you what a costly trial of patience this can be, especially since the Department of Transportation does not require that airlines compensate passengers for the disruption. Although there's not much you can do to get a plane off the ground, you should note that there are several ways in which you can prepare for a cancellation and expedite a solution. It's a good idea to read your airline's "contract of carriage," which details stranded passengers' rights.
Here's What You Do
The quickest way to resolve being stranded is to tweet. Many airlines -- including JetBlue and Delta -- now use Twitter to post cancellations and to provide help to stranded customers. According to Michelle Higgins of the New York Times, the microblogging site's viral nature ensures that "customers who reach out to the airline via Twitter may get a quicker response than they would by phone or another communications channel as airlines attempt to quell any negative publicity." In many cases, consistently posting updates to your Twitter feed about your situation and directing them to the airline's account has proven more effective (and less time consuming) than calling the airline directly.
If the Airline Loses Your Bags…
One of the most nail-biting parts of a trip is the waiting game at the baggage carousel. And there's nothing worse than arriving at your destination sans clean clothing. But keep in mind that checked luggage must navigate a labyrinth of conveyer belts and baggage carts before it reaches your plane. And no matter how frustrated you may be, the baggage-claim attendants are not to blame -- this is a situation where remaining calm and following protocol is necessary to ensure a positive outcome.
Here's What You Do
To pre-empt this fiasco, you should first label your bags inside and out, and it's always a good idea to pack a few essentials in your carry-on. Also, keep in mind that there's a lesser chance of lost luggage if you check in for your flight early, which leaves ample time for your bag to reach the cargo hold. If you do find yourself standing at the carousel empty-handed, don't panic. Airlines have developed a very advanced tracking system and are usually able to locate your belongings within a few hours after you've reported them missing. The Department of Transportation also advises that you insist on obtaining a written statement from the baggage claim attendant confirming your report, "even if they say the bag will be in on the next flight. Get an appropriate phone number for following up (not the Reservations number)." If your bag is declared permanently lost, you only have about 30 days (depending on the airline) to file a valid liability claim, so make sure you act quickly.
If Your Wallet or Passport is Stolen…
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It's easy to get caught up in the surroundings of a new city. Oftentimes, pickpockets take advantage of bright-eyed tourists, robbing them blind in broad daylight. And while having your wallet stolen is bad, having your passport nicked in a foreign country can be much, much worse. Without a passport, you won't be able to return to the U.S.
Here's What You Do
This is where the Boy Scout motto, "always be prepared," holds true: There are ways to ward off theft before even leaving home. While you're out goody-shopping for your trip, consider picking up a money belt or a hidden wallet -- sure, they're not exactly fashionable, but you can rest at ease knowing that your valuables are protected. Then, keep digital copies of your passport ID page and any relevant visas saved on a secure online storage site (like Google Docs) so that you can access them from any computer. These copies will help you provide proof of identity and U.S. citizenship. Also, consider stopping by your bank and obtaining a back-up debit card that you can activate on-the-go in case of an emergency; this way, you won't be stranded without cash while away. If your wallet and/or passport are nabbed while you're on vacation, cancel all your cards immediately and file a police report. Bring that same police report to the U.S. Embassy to get an emergency passport that will allow you to fly back home.
If You Have a Medical Emergency…
There's nothing worse than feeling under the weather while on vacation, especially if you are out of the country. For minor bugs, bring along some basic pain relievers and cold medication, which will speed up your recovery. But what about when it's more than just a slight sniffle? While facing a medical emergency in a strange place can be scary, rest assured that you don't have to go it alone.
Here's What You Do
Before you take off (especially to a different country), it's important to do a thorough once-over of your health insurance; some plans don't cover foreign medical care. If necessary, consider purchasing a temporary plan that will have your back when you leave the country. Make sure to pack any prescriptions in their original bottles so that they can be easily identified, and don't forget your insurance ID card and a claim form, just in case. If you do get sick or injured, call the nearest U.S. embassy or consulate. Officers there can direct you to the best local care, inform your family and your doctor of your situation and help you transfer funds to cover medical expenses. The International Association for Medical Assistance to Travellers is another excellent resource, providing health-care tips and listings of English-speaking doctors in other countries.
If You Get Arrested…
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If you are incarcerated abroad, we're sorry to say that you will be subject to that country's legal process (not America's) and will be held under its jurisdiction. Believe it or not, this situation occurs more frequently than you might expect. What might be considered legal or a simple minor infraction in the United States can lead to jail time elsewhere. For example, the Department of State claims that over one-third of U.S. citizens arrested abroad are held on drug charges: "Some countries do not distinguish between possession and trafficking, and many have mandatory sentences. … A number of Americans have been arrested for possessing prescription drugs, particularly tranquilizers and amphetamines, that they purchased legally elsewhere." Other common reasons for incarceration include photographing security-related institutions, displaying affection in public places and even purchasing antiques (which are sometimes believed by customs authorities to be national treasures).
Here's What You Do
Before you travel you should brush up on local customs and laws to avoid cultural misunderstandings. However, if you are apprehended while out of the country, rest assured that the U.S. State Department works around the clock to monitor conditions of foreign prisons and to ensure that American detainees are treated as well as possible. If you do violate the law while traveling (even without meaning to), contact the U.S. embassy or consulate immediately. According to the State Department, "We stand ready to assist incarcerated citizens and their families within the limits of our authority in accordance with international law. … Within this framework, U.S. consular officers provide a wide variety of services to U.S. citizens arrested abroad and their families."
If There’s a Natural Disaster…
Unfortunately, there's one thing that no one can prepare for when traveling, and that's the weather. Sure, sun-seekers pack sunscreen and cold-weather fans grab a hat, but when it comes to large-scale natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina, last year's earthquake in Haiti or the recent tsunami in Japan, you're going to need more than tanning lotion and an umbrella.
Here's What You Do
Start with a plan. Read up on the types of issues to which your destination is prone (DisasterAssistance.gov is a good starting point). Having a basic understanding of the causes and effects of different natural disasters will help you become better equipped to handle them. Then, be sure to leave a travel itinerary and a list of contact and personal information (Social Security numbers, passport ID numbers) with a trusted friend or family member. Once you've gotten to your destination, you should designate an easily accessible meeting spot with your travel companions. This way, if you get separated, you won't have to rely on telephones (which may not be working) to find people. If you are out of the country, do everything you can to inform the nearest U.S. embassy or consulate of your location and situation. If this isn't an option, choose the nearest English-speaking consulate; given the circumstances, officers there will do everything they can to help you. In the meantime, remain calm and (if you can), stay on top of updates posted on the State Department website.
If a State of Emergency is Declared…
Ramy Raoof / Wikimedia Commons [more photos]
Political unrest can occur at any time and take its toll on a vacation. And like natural disasters, it's difficult to predict a state of emergency, even in regions -- like the Middle East, Africa and Asia -- where the political climate is often erratic. However, this is a situation where a little prior research and preparation can make all the difference.
Here's What You Do
Before your vacation, take some time to peruse the State Department website, which provides meticulous up-to-date travel advisories. Also, consider signing up for the State Department's Smart Traveler Enrollment Program (STEP), which can provide you with the most recent news and warnings while abroad. Keep your STEP profile updated -- it makes it easier for the U.S. embassy to contact you in case of an emergency. The State Department also says that your choice of hotel can help protect you in case of violence: "As much as possible, plan to stay in larger hotels that have more elaborate security. Safety experts recommend booking a room from the second to seventh floors above ground level -- high enough to deter easy entry from outside, but low enough for fire equipment to reach." Check in regularly with the nearest U.S. embassy or consulate to let them know exactly where you are and how to contact you. If you're caught up in a situation as dire as the one Egypt experienced, avoid public transportation, taxis and popular tourist destinations, as those are often popular targets of attack.
You might also want to consider leaving major cities in favor of smaller, quieter towns. If that is the case, check with the State Department (as well as on the U.N. Department of Safety & Security website) for any new updates and inform the embassy or consulate of your departure.
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A handsome work that makes up in skill and honesty what it lacks in originality.
For helmer Moussa Toure, journeys are more interesting than destinations. His sophomore pic, “TGV,” was set on a long bus ride, and his third feature, “The Pirogue,” largely takes place within a crowded boat (the title refers to a flat-bottomed vessel common in Western Africa). Unsurprisingly, the men and one woman facing the dangerous sea voyage from Senegal to Spain risk far more than most coach passengers, and Toure crafts a handsome work that makes up in skill and honesty what it lacks in originality. Smooth sailing can be predicted at fests and in Francophone territories.
News channels in Europe broadcast stories at least once a week about ill-fated crossings between Africa and “the Old World.” Thousands die yearly of drowning, exposure and starvation, yet the sheer scale of the crisis means that most reports feature depersonalized images and numbing numbers. “The Pirogue” counters cold statistics with a range of flesh-and-blood characters whose desire for the brass ring of life in the West leads them to take risks that few, apart from the absolutely desperate, are willing to try.
At home in Senegal, the seas have been overfished, opportunities are nonexistent, and the only money coming in is from compatriots who made it abroad. Fisherman Baye Laye (Souleymane Seye Ndiaye) knows the dangers involved, but agrees to captain a pirogue full of men so he can earn some decent cash for his family. The trip is organized by Lansana (Laity Fall), a fast-talking shyster with nothing but money on his mind. Thirty-one people, including stowaway Nafy (Mame Astou Diallo), the lone female, are packed into the bottom of the boat for the seven-day crossing to Spain.
On board are an assortment of people from Senegal and Guinea who start off with hope in their eyes and concord in their hearts. As hardships mount, differences in language and religious conviction take their toll, exacerbated by the claustrophobic quarters. When a massive storm destroys the engine and food supplies, the journey turns into a nightmare.
Toure claims to have been influenced by “Master and Commander,” especially evident in an impressive if overdone storm sequence that flings the small boat around and terrorizes the passengers, most of whom can’t swim. An affecting closing shot provides some immediate comfort without lessening the tragedy at the pic’s heart.
The Pirogue
A Rezo Films (in France) release of a Les Chauves-Souris, Astou Films, Arte France Cinema, Appaloosa Films, Royal Pony Film, Studio 37 production, with the participation of Le Centre National du Cinema et de l'Image Animee, Canal Plus, Cine Plus, TV5 Monde, La Banque Postale. (International sales: Memento Films Intl., Paris.) Produced by Eric Neve, Oumar Sy, Adrien Maigne. Directed by Moussa Toure. Screenplay, Eric Neve, David Bouchet, based on an original story by Abasse Ndione.
Camera (color, widescreen, HD), Thomas Letellier; editor, Josie Miljevic; music, Prince Ibrahima Ndour; production designer, Oumar Sall; costume designer, Fatou Cisse; sound (Dolby SRD), Martin Boissau, Agnes Ravez, Antoine Baudoiun, Thierry Delor; special effects, Les Versaillais, Mac Guff; assistant director, Demba Dieye. Reviewed at Cannes Film Festival (Un Certain Regard), May 20, 2012. Running time: 87 MIN.
Souleymane Seye Ndiaye, Laity Fall, Malamine Drame "Yalenguen," Balla Diarra, Salif "Jean" Diallo, Babacar Oualy, Mame Astou Diallo, Saikou Lo, Ngalgou Diop, Limamou Ndiaye, Mohamed Fall, Bachirou Diakhate, Moctar Diop "Tino," Alioune Ndiaye, Mamadou Bobo Diallo, Amadou Ba, Yatma Thiam, Ousmane Seck. (Wolof, French, Fula dialogue)
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Friday - 7/27/2012, 12:57pm ET
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Quvenzhane Wallis portrays Hushpuppy in a scene from, 'Beasts of the Southern Wild.' (AP Photo/Fox Searchlight Pictures, Jess Pinkham)
A little movie you will soon be hearing a lot about
Jason Fraley, WTOP film critic
Jason Fraley, WTOP film critic
WASHINGTON - Did you wait to see "The Artist" or "Slumdog Millionaire" after they won Best Picture?
The next indie tidal wave is coming -- and here's your chance to get in on the ground floor.
There's a little film just starting to trickle into theaters that you will soon be hearing a lot about. It's already taken the festival circuit by storm, winning the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance and the Golden Camera at Cannes. Yet for all its acclaim, the film is so unique, so poetic, and so oddly magical amidst such real conditions, that even those who reject the "artsy" will eat it up.
"Beasts of the Southern Wild" thrives off the powerhouse performance of its 6- year-old star, Quvenzhane Wallis. She plays the equally tough and adorable Hushpuppy, who lays out her mission, and the basic plot, in simple narration: "In a million years, when kids go to school, they're gonna know that once there was a Hushpuppy and she lived with her daddy in The Bathtub."
The Bathtub is the loving nickname of her southern delta home, where folks live in third-world conditions on the "wrong side" of a levee. To them, it's the right side, because it's all they know. In their eyes, those who live on the dry side are babies. Thus, they ignore calls for evacuation and forgo modern amenities in a self-reliant existence, preferring to be set on fire and sent down a river than to be plugged into a wall at a hospital or nursing home.
The community is metaphorically at world's end, where adults tell children doomsday scenarios of the South Pole melting, unleashing a great flood and freeing prehistoric beasts known as Aurochs. As Hushpuppy says, "If it weren't for the Ice Age, I wouldn't even be Hushpuppy. I'd be breakfast."
The fantasy creatures are clearly the stuff of child imagination, and there is no insistence that these mythical beasts actually exist. They're the tall tales we believe as kids, inspiring our actions and shaping our growth. In truth, they're simply a metaphor for her own growth into a "beast," whether she can learn to stare down the childish fears of her youth.
Hushpuppy's "coming of age" journey hinges on two primal urges: searching for her long-lost mother and coming to terms with her father.
The former is a quest for identity, seeking a mother so hot she never had to light the stove; the water would boil on its own. This mother left when Hushpuppy was a child, and now the young girl talks to a knockoff Michael Jordan jersey with her mother's face drawn on top, like Tom Hanks' Wilson volleyball.
The latter is a quest for acceptance by her intense father, Wink (Dwight Henry), an ailing alcoholic with a mysterious disease, but whose love for his daughter is never in doubt. He expresses it with such simple acts as strapping on water wings as a storm approaches, or challenging her to an arm-wrestling contest and screaming, "Who's the man?" to which she yells, "I'm the man!"
We Chesapeake Bay folks may connect most with a crab feast scene, where Wink tells Hushpuppy to skip the traditional way of picking a crab and eat it like a beast. With the entire room chanting "beast it," she rips the crab in half, sucks out the insides, and stands on the table, fists clenched and roaring.
She is the beast of the southern wild.
Wallis' tour-de-force performance should go down among the great child performances in history, from Elizabeth Taylor in "National Velvet" (1944) to Haley Joel Osment in "The Sixth Sense" (1999).
I wouldn't be surprised if she's nominated for an Oscar, but unlike Anna Paquin's Best Supporting Actress win for "The Piano" (1993), Wallis will be competing for Best Actress. If the Academy gives the statue to a 6-year-old over its older leading ladies, I'd be pleasantly and beautifully shocked.
"She was so focused and poised and just was fierce," director Benh Zeitlin tells IMDB. "She wouldn't do just what I told her to do. She questioned what I was saying. She'd say, 'I don't like this word,' and she'd delete it. I allowed her to own the words and understand what they meant."
The film is Zeitlin's feature-length debut, receiving support from the Sundance Labs and the NHK International Filmmakers Award. His vision is gritty and hand- held with high exposure, the work of cinematographer Ben Richardson, who won the Cinematography Award at Sundance. The film's childlike wonder may feel as real as it does because Zeitlin met his co-writer Lucy Alibar in a summer camp as teenagers. He also knows a thing or two about overcoming adversity, having suffered a shattered hip and dislocated pelvis in a car accident on the way to the South by Southwest in 2008.
Shot on actual post-Katrina locations with non-actors, "Beasts" follows the Italian Neorealist approach of shooting in real places and casting real people without Hollywood glitz, glamor and effects. Hushpuppy and her father might as well have been the father and son in "Bicycle Thieves" (1948), two non-actors giving incredibly real performances. What a treat to nail both ends of the film spectrum in back to back weeks, last week seeing Hollywood popcorn moviemaking at its best with "The Dark Knight Rises," and this week seeing gritty independent filmmaking at its finest in "Beasts."
Both will undoubtedly be on many "Best of 2012" lists at the end of the year. Like "The Artist" last year, "Beasts" is still waiting to get its full, nationwide release, but you can catch it at a handful of local theaters. In Maryland, head to the Landmark Bethesda Row in Bethesda or the AFI Silver in Silver Spring. In Virginia, head to the AMC Lowes Shirlington 7 in Arlington. And in D.C., head to the Landmark E Street Cinema near Metro Center. Despite its young central performance, the film is PG-13 for some strong language and "life and death" scenarios. My advice would be to see it once yourself before taking the kids. If you think they can handle it, glue their butts to the seats.
Tightly constructed with a bit of magic in each scene, the 1 1/2 hour runtime will fly by. I lost myself in it, and by the end, I was wiping my eyes as Hushpuppy said, "Don't cry," with a single tear down her own cheek. As the music swelled and the end credits hit, I recalled Hushpuppy's words, spoken with the allegorical weight of Linda Manz in "Days of Heaven" (1978): "The whole universe depends on everything fitting together just right. If one piece busts, even the smallest piece... the whole universe will get busted." I feel the same way about this film. If one piece busted, even the smallest piece, the entire whole may not have worked. Thankfully, everything in the film's universe fits together just right.
★ ★ ★ ★
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