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Herod`s Building Projects
Thanks to support from the Romans and following bloody battles against the last of the Hasmoneankings, Herod was crowned King of Judea in the year 37 BCE. King Herod was loathed by his Jewish subjects, who saw him as a representative of foreign rule who undermined their traditional institutions and murdered their legitimate rulers, those of the Hasmonean dynasty. Talmud scholarscalled him an “Edomite slave” as he was the grandson of an Edomite, and described him in extremely negative terms. Herod made an attempt to become closer to the Jewish people, mainly through renovating the Temple, but his first loyalty was to Rome. Herod was a decisive ruler who did much to develop the Land of Israel and its Jewish population as well as its foreign residents.During his long reign over Judea, Herod erected numerous elaborate and innovative buildings throughout his kingdom which were revolutionary from an engineering stand point.
In the year 40 BCE Herod was forced to flee to Rome following a rebellion that broke out in Eretz Israel. He left his family in the Masada fortress, where they with stood the siege but nearly died from lack of water. When Herod became king, he decided to turn Masada into a strong hold that could serve him as a place of refuge if another insurrection should arise. Herod built two magnificent palaces, huge store rooms for arm sand food and water reservoirs holding some 40,000 cubic meters of water a top the mountain adjacent to the Dead Sea. This turned Masada into a unique combination of a regal palace and a fortified stronghold.
Herod erected his kingdom’s main port city along the Mediterranean shore, in an area that was only sparsely populated beforehand. He invested most of his efforts in building the sophisticated port,which was among the largest in the Roman Empire. He put up a broad breakwater topped with a wall and towers and built docks for ships,warehouses for storing goods and lodgings for sailors. He called the city “Caesarea” in honor ofthe Roman Caesar Augustus and populated it with foreigners. Herod constructed lavish entertainment facilities such as a theater and arace track, as well as a high aqueduct which brought fresh water from afar for the benefit ofcity residents, thus making Caesarea the crown jewel of Herod’s building projects.
Herod renovated and glorified the Temple and its surroundings for his Jewish subjects. He demolished the old, dilapidated Temple, which was built some 500 years earlier, in the days of Ezra and Nehemia, and erected a new magnificent Temple in its stead. He enlarged the area onwhich the Temple stood using a series of archesand surrounded it with splendid buildings. The area around the Temple Mount and the paths leading there to were renovated to accommodatethe throngs of pilgrims who visited the Temple during festivals. Sages referred to this building enterprise, saying “Anyone who has not seen one of Herod’s buildings, has never seen a beautiful building” (Bava Batra tractate, 4, 71).
When Herod fled his pursuers during the rebellion of 40 BCE he was forced to fight for his life a few kilometers to the southeast of Jerusalem. When he became king, he decided to erect a site there in which he would be buried upon his death. He called the place “Herodian” and built a round building surrounded by an artificial mountain.Herod built an enormous compound around the mountain, including palace chambers, a garden and large pool. Herod died in Jerusalem in the year 4 BCE and a grand funeral procession brought his body to his burial site at Herodian. Herod’s grave was recently discovered in archaeological excavations led by the late Professor Ehud Netzer.
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Protest Toyota suing California to stop AB1493
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Toyota joins lawsuit to keep air dirty -- Tape 1
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AB1493, chaptered as statutes of 2002, calls for a 30% reduction in auto emissions of Green House Gases ("GHG", principally CO2) by 2016.
The Auto Makers Alliance is suing the state of california in Fresno Federal Court, claiming that regulating CO2 is tantamount to regulating mpg, pre-empted by the federal government's Corporate Average Fuel Efficiency ("CAFE") standards. Of course, the federal standards are very lax, and politically cannot be made stronger (Democrrat Dingell represents the unions, who join with Republicans to defeat any strengthening of that law).
Previous attempts to regulate emissions runs into the Constitutional restriction of interstate trade regulation to the federal government. This was to prevent a patchwork of regulations that stifled trade.
There is also AB32, a new California statute that calls for lowering all GHG emissions 25% by 2020. This law is also being challenged by the "dirty duo", auto and oil company industry associations.
Prime malefactors are the Auto Manufacturers Alliance and Western States Petroleum, which have fought for dirty air for the last 20 years.
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Protest Santa Monica Toyota Tape 3
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Toyota is suing the state of California to stop us from cleaning the air. AB1493 was passed by the legislature, signed by the governor. The people want to clean up the air, but Toyota is fighting for dirty air.
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Protest Toyota Santa Monica Tape 4
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Why is Toyota suing to stop implementation of AB1493? Toyota could easily make plug-iin cars, like the Toyota RAV4-EV. As Bob Lutz points out, GM's proposed VOLT is just an EV, like the Toyota RAV4-EV, with a range-extender.
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Toyota sues California to stop implementation of AB 1493, which will force auto makers to reduce CO2 emissions 30% by 2016,
Why is Toyota suing to stop California from cleaning its own air??
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I Thought I was into Robots
Recently, whilst madly searching for the identity of a unknown robot (a failed attempt to one-up Plastic Pals), I perchanced across Cyberneticzoo.com. Forty minutes later, while I hadn’t found my robot, I also hadn’t left the site.
I’d stumbled into something awesome.
Then I got Owned
I’m very, very interested in robots & cybernetics.
Mechanically. Socially. Historically. I am that dorky guy.
Those 40 minutes of random exploration, however, were humbling. For example, I’m totally hip to the modern HAL and HULC and XOS 2 devices – exoskeletal systems are of particular personal interest, and I’ve followed those and similar projects for years. But, I knew nothing about Mizen’s pioneering exoskeleton work at Cornell…
…in the early 1960s!
Who, how, and why. I wanted to know.
Anthrobotic Presents Mr. Reuben Hoggett
Kindly, he granted Anthrobotic an interview.
Here is the man, and here’s what he says:
anthrobotic: And you occasionally dip into into the 21st century as well, yeah?
anthrobotic: Okay, if not for money or fame, why did you build it?
Walter’s Tortoise, ROSABOSOM, Vienna Turtle, Muszka’s Beetle
anthrobotic: Do you have any plans for the long-term preservation of the site?
[Sadly, Mr. Hoggett has been given a “you only have X number of years to live” prognosis, and he’s closer to the end of X than the beginning. Quite accidentally, it seems I’m doing a kind of poor man's digital facsimile of his 2009 trip.]
So, let's get back to a happier place: ROBOTS!]
anthrobotic: What was your particular fascination?
anthrobotic: For you is it robots in general, or a particular variety?
anthrobotic: And, as you mentioned, what about creating artificial life – good idea?
[Want to point out that the "Bicentennial Man" Mr. Hoggett refers to is not the one portrayed in the saccharine cheeseloaf movie from 1999.]
And that’s that.
Thanks for reading!
Oh, One Last Thing:
Can someone please draw me an awesome transforming nuclear aircraft carrier?
Navy’s Firefighting Robot: Way More Than Meets the Eye
DARPA’s James Cameron Mashup: Unsurprising, but Existentially Bananas
Leaping Across Mori’s Uncanny Valley: Androids Probably Won’t Creep Us Out
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I find myself drifting away from Firefox to Safari, but the lack of NoScript is making me a little uneasy. Is there an equivalent plugin for Safari?
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There's also JavaScript Blocker.
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"Automatic rules make it easy to block any script that isn't from the same domain of the webpage you're viewing." That sounds great. Not even NoScript can do that (I think). For example, I want to allow twitter's js, but only when on twitter.com, and not embedded on other sites. – Thilo Dec 9 '11 at 1:18
Wow, this is a really nice implementation of a script blocking extension. It's only sad that you cannot block scripts that are within a page itself. This is "a limitation of the Safari extension design". – gentmatt Mar 6 '12 at 15:41
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I'm not super familiar with NoScript, but from a quick glance at the site, I can think of two good starting points - how useful they are will depend on which features of NoScript you make use of.
ClickToPlugin is a great plugin blocker, pretty configurable, and it also has a fantastic h.264 replacement for Flash video. It substitutes h.264 video with a nice tidy player (mostly just the standard Safari player with one or two modifications) wherever it can, probably gets 80-90% of video in my experience. Makes in-browser video a lot nicer.
JavaScript Blacklist blocks 3rd party JS stuff, good for stuff like tynt.com and all those double-underlined shopping popup links in forums. Configuration options may be a bit basic for your tastes, but it's a good start.
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Rumors (WAS Clinton and the 1993 Jamboree?)
Alan Houser (troop24@EMF.NET)
Fri, 20 Sep 1996 23:43:48 -0700
Robert Morley <Rmorley@STATE.MA.US> wrote:
>I assume it is a rumor....
>Please, don't flame me. I am only repeating what I hear....
Which is how rumors continue to ripple outward in neverending circles.
If you don't know it to be true and you think it might be a rumor, the
proper Scout procedure would be not to repeat it, at least until you
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For NATO visitors: Some lessons in Chicago-style diplomacy
Whatever you do, don't forget the palm grease
May 17, 2012|John Kass
And what about the South Side church were Obama worshipped for 20 years and apparently didn't hear any of the racially charged sermons of theRev. Jeremiah Wright? According to that new Obama biography, Wright was offered a case of top-grade palm grease to keep his mouth shut.
We'll also stop along the O'Bama Miracle Walk retracing the steps of the young Obama.
Included are the exact spot along the river where he was found in the reed basket. And the magical sword "Axelrod" that the fledgling Obama drew from the cornerstone of City Hall, promising to fight political corruption in all its forms.
For a small fee you'll each receive an authentic replica of the pillow upon which Obama knelt in Springfield to beseech his political godfather, the sewer inspector and former state Senate President Emil Jones, to make him a United States senator.
And for a slightly higher fee, you'll get your very own chunk of Rezko Roots, a piece of sod just like the lush green stuff along Obama's home in Chicago, the strip of grass bought by the family of imprisoned influence peddler and Obama pal Tony Rezko.
And as a special treat, everyone on the trip will also receive a complimentary lock of the hair of imprisoned former Gov. Rod Blagojevich.
Light it, sniff it, and all your dreams will come true in about 14 years.
Quaint customs
Foreign delegations are often briefed on protocol. So while in Chicago, do things the Chicago Way.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel, our beloved Rahmfather, is your host. Other political people — some African-American, some Latino, and some etnicks — will be milling about.
So it's best you learn how to greet them. When Rahm extends his hand, shake it, say "Howyoo Dooin?" and then kiss it.
That's right. Bend deeply at the waist like some servant (or like President Obama greeting the king of Saudi Arabia) and kiss the Rahmfather's hand.
Do not make mention of the missing digit on that hand. Do not look at it or tell him that you heard it's called "The Mayoral Arby," from the time he lost part of a finger from a meat-slicer injury in his youth. Do not. I repeat. Do not.
Kiss the hand, then touch it to your forehead and press it there for no less than 10 seconds, while you consider what he'll be like when he's president. And repeat these words in a pleading voice:
"Please be my friend, Rahmfather?"
If he asks whether you're truly sincere, show him. Take his knuckles and knock three times on your forehead if you mean it.
If you're truly blessed, you will meet someone even more powerful, the lord of Madiganistan (once called Illinois). Do not dare speak his name. Let me whisper it. House Speaker Michael Madigan, boss of the Democratic Party.
If you're brought in for an audience, do not touch Madigan. Do not even look at him.
Just kneel, then put your forehead to the floor and leave it there until he tells you to move it.
If you have any property tax issues in your home country, reach into your pocket, extend the tax documents and shake them slightly.
Trust me on these things, and you will have a happy and productive stay in Chicago.
Just don't plug in your laptop without asking Lou.
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Atif is in love with cricket
/photo.cms?msid=2505626Atif (TOI Photo)Atif Aslam is the life of every party and the most sought afte even as he becomes the cynosure of all eyes.
Remember the melodious voice which took the world by storm with a his hit number Woh Lamhe , Aadat and many more.Yes we are talking about the singing sensation Muhammad Atif Aslam who was recently in the city for an event .
The singer who is famous world wide for his melodious voice, his style and looks to die for was in town recently for a live performance at Antaragni.
The power of his melodious voice could be felt when he sang his hit numbers like Mai ek Fard hoon , Hum kis gali jaa rahein hain and many more, the crowd just went berserk. The fan following of the singer was conspicuous at the event where his every performance was appreciated by one and all.
Though the world loves him for his melodious voice and his dapper look. Atif's love was something else.
The good looking Piscen is in love with cricket since childhood.When he was in grade-I he enacted the role of famous cricketer Imran Khan, the intensity of the role grew the passion of cricket in him.
Since then nothing could stop him, from playing cricket whether a scorching hot afternoon or a rainy season.
Not only that Atif was also selected as a player under 19 team.
Apart from cricket and music, Atif's also shares interest in biking and listening to a variety of music.
Atif grew his interests towards music, listening to his elder brother's music collection of more than 8,000 songs from music of all genres.
Slowly he developed an interest for music and started participating in music competitions and now he is known for his powerful voice and is a shining star in music industry. | http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2007-11-01/news-interviews/27979464_1_cricket-imran-khan-melodious-voice | dclm-gs1-238620002 | false | false | {
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What lead to Anup Soni - Ritu split?
TNN Mar 16, 2011, 06.24pm IST
(Newly weds: Anup Soni and…)
Did Anup marry Juhi Babbar because his first marriage didn't work or is it vice versa...
The low-profile wedding of television actor Anup Soni and Juhi Babbar (daughter of Raj Babbar and Nadira Babbar) came as a surprise for many. The couple tied the knot on Monday and has now apparently left for their honeymoon.
Juhi Babbar, who was earlier married to Bejoy Nambiar, divorced a couple of years ago. Anup Soni was married to Ritu for six long years and has two daughters with her. Anup never spoke about his divorce or his second marriage and always maintained a dignified silence on the issue.
Sources close to Anup were surprised when Anup and Ritu separated ways in March last year since their marital life seemed to be without any problems for six years.
While one version of the story goes that Anup got close to Juhi after his divorce with Ritu, other version says that Anup's closeness with Juhi was responsible for his split with Ritu.
"Anup and Juhi met each other while doing theatre, a couple of years ago. Over the time they became close to each other and so he parted ways from his former wife Ritu", says the source. Another story goes that Anup committed to Juhi only some time earlier this year, much after he got divorced in March 2010.
Whatever be the case, like Bollywood, second marriages have become a common phenomena in the TV industry as well. | http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-03-16/tv/29141064_1_juhi-babbar-anup-and-ritu-anup-soni | dclm-gs1-238640002 | false | false | {
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Early detection crucial to improve life of autistic kids
C P Sajit, TNN Apr 3, 2012, 07.01AM IST
COIMBATORE: As people across the globe observed World Autism Awareness Day on Monday, to create and spread awareness about autism, victims and their families continue to struggle due to lack of schools, infrastructure and coping mechanisms in the city.
For the past several years B Lalitha, a widow residing in TNHB colony in Singanallur, has been trying to admit her 11-year-old son Akshay in the school near her house, but in vain, as he suffers from Autism.
Autism is a group of developmental brain disorders, collectively called autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The term 'spectrum' refers to the wide range of symptoms, skills, and levels of impairment that children with ASD can have. Some are mildly impaired by their symptoms, but others are severely disabled.
In the case of Akshay, his mother realised her son was suffering from severe disorder only when he was four years old. "He was unlike other children, as he did not have normal responses in every day situations and behaved differently," Lata said.
As he grew older, he became violent, and many schools refused to take him. "After my husband's death, it has become difficult to make ends meet. I cannot afford to send him to schools that are far away. There are not many schools in the vicinity for children like him, so I'm in a fix," she lamented. Eventually, she was offered help from Change India, an NGO that attempted to place Akshay in a school for special children near Mettupalayam. However, Lalitha finds it difficult to stay long hours in the school.
"There are many people like Lalitha who fail to identify the problem early," said M Deepa, director of Sri Prashanthi Academy, a school for kids with Autism. She said that there is urgent need to create awareness about the disorder. Many such children are highly capable and early detection can help integrate them into the main stream.
Autism Spectrum disorders are typically characterized by social deficits, communication difficulties, stereotyped or repetitive behaviors and interests or cognitive delays. These children find it difficult to communicate both verbally and non-verbally. They generally find difficulty in sharing emotions, understanding how others think and feel and carrying on a conversation. They tend to repeat words or actions, obsessively follow routines, and play in repetitive ways.
The school began in 2006 with just three children and now there 96 children, said Deepa. Early diagnosis plays a crucial part in helping children function at their greatest capacity. She said that scientists don't know the exact causes of ASD, but research suggests that both genes and environment play a part. Though there are no short cuts to correct the disorder, there are ways to help minimize the symptoms of autism and to maximize learning.
Behaviour management therapy helps to reinforce wanted behaviours, and reduce unwanted ones. Speech-language therapists can help victims improve their ability to communicate and interact with others. Occupational therapists can help people find ways to adjust tasks to match their needs and abilities. Physical therapists design activities and exercises to build motor control and improve posture and balance. | http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-04-03/coimbatore/31280707_1_autism-spectrum-asd-world-autism-awareness-day | dclm-gs1-238650002 | false | false | {
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Discussion in 'Beer Talk' started by rjniles, Feb 11, 2013.
1. rjniles
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Was in Florida recently and ran out of my go-to IPA (Torpedo). Stopped a Publix supermarket as they always carry SN products. They were out of Torpedo. Looked at what they had and saw a 6er of S Adams White IPA for $10 and thought that I would give it a try as I had never had it. In general I like Sam Adams and will get a Boston Lager if a restaurant has nothing else.
I do not how they could call this stuff IPA. It had a barely detectible hops bite and was disgustingly sweet, reminded me of Blue Moon. Choked my way through 2 bottles and left the rest in the motel room frig. Did not look for a date code to see if it was old. Did Iget a bat batch or is stuff as bad as it seemed to me?
2. jlordi12
jlordi12 Member
Sadly, it is just not any good.
3. willbm3
willbm3 Member
It's not good. It's MARGINALLY hopped Blue Moon
4. ThirstyFace
ThirstyFace Member
New York
Sam Adams are obsessed with wits, and they are HORRIBLE at making them. I say that as someone who always has some SA in the fridge. Ain't hating
5. Bitterbill
Bitterbill Member
Not a fav of mine. Want a good White IPA? Try the Deschutes offering, if you can.
OMsweetOM likes this.
6. zac16125
zac16125 Member
South Carolina
Is this the Whitewater IPA? I actually really enojyed that beer. In fact, its the only Sam Adams offering Ive ever ranked > 4. I had it very fresh though, maybe there is a huge drop off or something. Id put it on par, or above Deschutes Chainbreaker.
7. DrStiffington
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New Jersey
It was ok at best. The Saranac white IPA was far better, although I liked last year's better (I'm cringing after typing that, picturing responses to the "last year's was better" post, but it was!).
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I'll come to the defense... I loved this beer! Maybe you got an old bottle? I loved the apricot flavor in it.
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0.019478 | <urn:uuid:925ac472-3f92-4a9a-b65c-e8c4b121ef54> | en | 0.974206 | Since my bracket bombed, although Texas vs. UNC, in the final is still possible, I feel I need to share the agony with everyone, with my very own, tournament wrap-up.
My bracket had: Duke in the Final Four and Georgetown in the Elite Eight, combined with Drake, Vanderbilt and Pittsburgh, as part of my Sweet Sixteen. Therefore, you can see what really destroyed my bracket.
I am extremely, extremely scared when March 27 & 28 come around, especially for Texas, who along with Tennessee is destined to be upset instead of upsetting.
If you predicted two, four seeds and two, five seeds to lose that is fine. However, don't say you predicted two, two seeds to lose, as well.
I won't believe you if you tell me you did, unless you made fewer than four brackets and you can prove it to me. Even then, I would have my doubts about it.
Therefore, if you think your bracket is bad, you aren't the only one feeling the pain.
Last year, Wisconsin lost to UNLV in second round, but that was predictable. Two years ago, Wisconsin lost in the first round, but remember, that was George Mason's year, everything was nuts. I mean, really, George Mason played Wichita State in the Sweet Sixteen that year.
This year, Duke was ice cold from the three-point line, versus West Virginia, which I never knew three-pointers were their whole game, until that game in Washington, D.C..
What did Georgetown not have, that Davidson did? Curry.
Drake had weak opponents, Vanderbilt got crushed by Siena, and Clemson only had the press and mid-majors against them.
CBS college basketball analyst, Billy Packer, complained that the Missouri Valley Conference had too many teams in the tourney.
As for, UConn, well, they've won too much in past, with Okafor leading way.
So, keep watching the NCAA Tournament, it really is unpredictable.
Nine times out of ten, a team will lose to a higher ranked team, but the one time it wins, could be in the tournament. That is why it is such a great event.
It sometimes isn't the best team that wins, but the one with the most clutch, who has momentum and does well under pressure.
Experience matters, as we saw with Florida in 2007 and yes, in 2006. This is why the Tar Heels and Bruins are safer choices in this year's tournament, with Tennessee and Memphis close behind.
As a final word: in an episode of "Around the Horn," J.A. Adande said the NCAA Tournament was too boring, yet he picked the Pistons and the Spurs in the NBA finals. Well, then here's how the NCAA repays an insult.
That statement by Adande, could not have been any further from the truth. This tournament has been filled with great games, many buzzer beaters, great upsets and is very unpredictable. The amazing part is, this is the beginning and not even close to the end. So, be sure to tune in for the rest of the games.
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A whiskey adventure for you and me.
1. Old-fashioned Hyperlink
2. Old-fashioned Hyperlink
Modern Drunkard had compiled a list of “The 86 Rules of Boozing.” While some of them are a bit of antiquated bullshit (really fellas, let’s ease up on the “nancy boy” rhetoric and declaring some drinks “girly,” come on now) but many are still worth rehashing:
2. Always toast before doing a shot.
32. You can have a shot of your roommates’ hard liquor only if the cap has been cracked and the bottle goes for less than $25.
37. Try one new drink each week.
3. Still frame
DETAILS: The World’s Best (and Strongest) New Cocktails »
StaggeracBase-spirit proof: 143The name says it all: NYC’s PDT supercharges the classic Sazerac cocktail with scary-strong George T. Stagg Kentucky bourbon, inflected with anise-based Peychaud’s bitters and absinthe.
DETAILS: The World’s Best (and Strongest) New Cocktails »
Base-spirit proof: 143
The name says it all: NYC’s PDT supercharges the classic Sazerac cocktail with scary-strong George T. Stagg Kentucky bourbon, inflected with anise-based Peychaud’s bitters and absinthe.
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5. Writing on the coaster
3 Old-School Bar Phrases Every Man Should Know // Details
The Angelus Hour:
"That time on Sunday afternoon…about four o’clock, when late hangovers from Saturday night come in one by one. They stay that way too, one by one. Each man makes himself into an island, standing in front of the bar, and everyone keeps a space on each side of him the way water is on the sides of islands. These hangovers feel too terrible to talk to each other for a couple of hours yet, anyway. Each of them keeps staring into the mirror in back of the bar and saying to himself, ‘Look at you, you’ll never amount to anything. You went to school and grew up and everything and now look at you, you’ll never amount to anything.’ Old veteran Third Avenue bartenders call this fighting the mirror, and they all think it is very bad for a man. The place is sad and quiet when a batch of hangovers are doing this, and so someone nicknamed this time of Sunday afternoon the Angelus."
The Snake Is Out:
"There’s a kind of medicine practiced by old veteran bartenders among old veteran drinkers along Third Avenue…perhaps it isn’t exactly medicine, but it’s medical observation, anyway. The ‘snake’ is an ordinary little vein, or maybe it is an artery, that runs along the left temple of a man’s head.…The bartender will say, but not for anyone else to hear, ‘I was just going to tell you the snake is out.’ It must be the blood pressure or something. Time and time again this happens, in a quiet way, and it seldom fails that it halts up the man that’s drinking—slows him up, anyway—when no amount of talk or lecturing could do it."
Scratch Bum:
"In this neighborhood, they call them scratch bums when they’ve got as far low as they could get and don’t even try any more to keep themselves without bugs on them. Therefore, scratch bums."
(Source: details.com)
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"Slow Drinks, Faster
Everyone enjoys a fancy and complicated cocktail from time to time, but nothing kills a buzz quite like waiting 20 minutes for your beverage to be concocted. At last, considerate bartenders have devised clever ways to speed up the process. A few of our favorite tricks: serving batch cocktails like punch (at Cienfuegos in New York City), putting mixed drinks on tap (at Sanctuaria in St. Louis), pouring barrel-aged cocktails over ice (at Tigress Pub in Austin), bottling popular menu items before bar service begins (at Canon in Seattle), and storing bottled cocktails for individual customers (at Saxon & Parole in NYC). Soon, getting up to order a drink from the bar won’t take much longer than fixing it yourself—and you won’t have to wash any dishes afterward.”
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What makes good bourbon?
The clear short answer is the more time it ages in the wood. When bourbon comes off distilled, it’s as clear as water. The color, taste, the texture all comes for it working within the wood. It’s put in extreme temperatures—very cold, very hot. The molecules as it heats up expands it and it digs into the wood. When it’s cold, it contracts and comes out of the wood. The more time it goes in and out of the wood the more flavor it picks up, and the more color it has. The longer it sits in the wood, the more it is able to touch the wood. It is more refined.
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How to “Fix” a Drink: The Art of Correcting a Botched Cocktail // Details
The single best way to fix a drink? Taste it throughout the process. “The very first tip I’d give to people is think like a chef,” says Simó. “A chef would never wait until food was plated before he tried it. Straw-taste a drink, especially as you get towards the end, and definitely before you add ice.”
Start Cheap:
"Build a drink with your cheapest ingredients first. If there’s any error, at least you’re not throwing everything out, like your expensive booze, just because you added too much citrus."
Adjust for Ice:
"Your dilution rate for a shaken, up drink needs to be perfect and it needs to be as cold as possible once it leaves the shaker. But if you’re going to do, say, a Manhattan on a rock, maybe you understir that a little. It can mellow out. You don’t want your drinks that start our really bright to get soupy on you. You would shake a Collins much shorter than you would shake a Southside."
If It’s Too Weak:
"This often happens with a highball, where you’ve poured too much soda water. Add a small amount of booze, say a half-ounce, or a little more. But remember, you already added two ounces of booze—you don’t want three or four ounces of alcohol in a highball. So add a little booze, but maybe add a little bit more sugar and a little bit more acid as well. An overly diluted drink will taste thin, which is what the sugar will correct, and it won’t taste very bright, which is what the citrus will correct. So if you add a little bit more of everything, it’ll correct it more than just adding more booze. At a summertime barbecue, if you have a bunch of boozy highballs with three or four ounces of liquor each, you’re going to fall off the deck."
If It’s Too Strong or Too Dry:
"Take an Old-Fashioned: If you don’t add enough sugar (or say you’re using a 1:1 ratio of sugar and water and you’re using a teaspoon), it’s probably not going to be enough. Sugar acts like butter. It enriches. It’s not so much about adding a lot of sweetness—sugar can help round out a sensation, gaining critical mouthfeel. Often with Daisys—margaritas, sidecars—when people make them with just booze, liqueur, and citrus, I find they are generally a little too dry. If you add a teaspoon of agave to your margarita, that’s going to give you a considerably better mouthfeel than just adding triple sec. Sometimes you can make adjustments when something tastes too boozy just by adding a very small amount of a sweetener, especially when it’s a rich sweetener, like a 2:1 ratio of syrup made with demerara, turbinado, maple, agave, or honey. It’s like adding a pat of butter to the saucepan right at the end; it just gives it this great body."
If It’s Too Sweet:
"If it’s a long or shaken drink, try adding a little more citrus. You can usually be a little more forgiving with that. But as I said, you’re better off starting a drink with the bare-minimum amount of sugar. If something is not sweet enough, you can always add a little bit more. But trying to fix "too sweet" often involves trying to fix two or three other elements and harmonize them that way, which is much, much harder. A lot of times in this case, unfortunately, once it’s gone, it’s kinda gone."
If It’s Too Bitter:
"Add a pinch of salt. Salt blunts bitterness on the palate. By adding a very small pinch of salt—I’m talking a few grains, because you can always add more—that’ll help with an overly bitter drink. Try this at home: Pour a little Campari in a glass and taste it. Then throw a little salt in it and taste it again. See how big a difference that makes?"
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A map of where to find coveted bottles of Pappy Van Winkle nationwide this holiday season.
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Start a party out with bourbon instead of wine, and it’s a party sooner. I never go into a bar anymore or sit down at a restaurant without asking what bourbon they have.
I’ve been to Kentucky; I know how beautiful the land is there, and I can taste the countryside in its bourbons. A beaker full of the warm South, indeed. Attempts to make bourbon outside of Kentucky rarely succeeded. “You’re allowed to make bourbon anywhere in the country, but if you want to sell it, you’d better make it in Kentucky,” says Ed O’Daniel, president of the Kentucky Distillers Association. | http://bookofbourbon.com/tagged/link | dclm-gs1-238840002 | false | false | {
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1. the IMDIAB Group*
1. 1Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, Rome, Italy;
2. 2Department of Diabetology, Catholic University, Rome, Italy;
3. 3Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes, University Campus Bio-Medico, Rome, Italy;
4. 4Department of Diabetology, Sandro Pertini Hospital, Rome, Italy;
5. 5Department of Medical Therapy, University Sapienza, Rome, Italy.
1. Corresponding author: Paolo Pozzilli, p.pozzilli{at}
OBJECTIVE We investigated whether supplementation of the active form of vitamin D (calcitriol) in recent-onset type 1 diabetes can protect β-cell function evaluated by C-peptide and improve glycemic control assessed by A1C and insulin requirement.
RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Thirty-four subjects (aged 11–35 years, median 18 years) with recent-onset type 1 diabetes and high basal C-peptide >0.25 nmol/l were randomized in a double-blind trial to 0.25 μg/day calcitriol or placebo and followed-up for 2 years.
RESULTS At 6, 12, and 24 months follow-up, A1C and insulin requirement in the calcitriol group did not differ from the placebo group. C-peptide dropped significantly (P < 0.001) but similarly in both groups, with no significant differences at each time point.
CONCLUSIONS At the doses used, calcitriol is ineffective in protecting β-cell function in subjects (including children) with recent-onset type 1 diabetes and high C-peptide at diagnosis.
• *A complete list of the members of the IMDIAB Group can be found in the appendix.
• Clinical trial registry no. NCT01120119,
• Received May 10, 2010.
• Accepted June 9, 2010.
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0.0186 | <urn:uuid:46dd0226-be28-44ff-8d68-144cecf76d2f> | en | 0.966524 | Misunderstanding the Old Testament
A friend of mine recently posted the following picture on Facebook:
OT NonsenseI took it upon myself to try and respond to the misunderstanding exemplified by this picture. I’ll post the response below for the benefit of anyone who may be interested in reading it. You may notice that it isn’t as detailed or as precise as my usual writing. Therefore, since I have written on these topics before, I’ll include a link to an article that I did on the book of Sirach.
Here’s my comment:
Due to time/energy constraints, I’m going to write this briefly and I’m mostly going to make biblical allusions, not quotations.
Firstly, there’s the question of how Christians are supposed to approach the Mosaic Law. Luckily for me, there is a connection between this and the question of homosexual marriage. There are some allusions to the Mosaic Law in the Gospels, but I think that the clearest references (clearest in terms of meaning) are those found in Acts of the Apostles and the Letter to the Galatians. In the Acts of the Apostles, Peter has a dream in which he sees a platter full of unclean (by Mosaic standards) animals. Then, he hears the voice of God telling him, “Slaughter and eat.” Peter refuses, saying that he will not touch unclean food. This is repeated three times, and on the third time, the voice of God says, “What I have made clean, you will not call unclean.” After that, Peter informs the Apostles of his dream and they decide to allow newly-converted Christians to eat foods that were formerly forbidden.
Why the change? St. Paul explains it pretty well in the Letter to the Galatians. Essentially, what he says is that God revealed himself gradually to the Jews, not all at once. For them, the laws served the purpose of preparing them to receive the Messiah. However, once the Messiah arrived, there was no longer any need for the Law. Upon further examination, some of which will be clarified later, it becomes clear that the laws can be categorized. Some of them expressed timeless moral truths, such as the Ten Commandments. Some were merely hygienic. Others were meant to moralize the Jews. (Which makes a lot of sense out of some of the more horrid-sounding laws, for example, that rapists be required to marry their pregnant victims. Sounds awful for the bride right? Well, of course, but this was a means of holding a man accountable for his actions. Now, instead of having a woman and a child with no economic means of support, Israelite society now has a man who will have to spend the rest of his life embracing the consequences of his actions and providing for a woman he wronged and a child he brought into the world.)
Then, there’s the question at hand. What does all of this have to do with homosexual marriage? Well, the New Testament makes very few mentions of homosexuality, and only mentions sexuality of any sort a handful of times. However, there is one passage that is very relevant here. Here is a bit from the beginning of Matthew 19 (The capital letters are quotations from the Old Testament):
Some Pharisees came to Jesus, testing Him and asking, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason at all?”4And He answered and said, “Have you not read that He who created them from the beginning MADE THEM MALE AND FEMALE,5and said, ‘FOR THIS REASON A MAN SHALL LEAVE HIS FATHER AND MOTHER AND BE JOINED TO HIS WIFE, AND THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH’?6“So they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.”7They said to Him, “Why then did Moses command to GIVE HER A CERTIFICATE OF DIVORCE AND SEND her AWAY?”8He said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart Moses permitted you to divorce your wives; but from the beginning it has not been this way.9“And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery.”
Jesus makes it clear that some of the Mosaic Laws were made out of political expediency. However, God had not intended marriage to be as it was under that law. (In other words, all of the Old Testament allusions in your photo above are irrelevant.) So then, to find out how marriage was “supposed to be” according to Jesus, what we have to do is go back to “the beginning” or Genesis. There, we find a man and a woman in a lifelong commitment. So then, according to the Christian view, as derived from the Christian approach to the Bible, a marriage is supposed to be between a man and a woman and there is to be no divorce.
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12 Responses to Misunderstanding the Old Testament
1. Thank you for sharing the meme. Beautiful photos, and a good point well made.
You see, divorce is condemned in the words of Jesus himself- and why quote Matthew, rather than Mark from whom Matthew got the words, and who gives no exemption for adultery? Some say that Jesus’s allusion slightly further on to “eunuchs born eunuchs” is to gay men, who are thereby unable to have sex with women. Some imagine that it is extremely important to have the Bible unequivocally condemning gay sex, and so deny that, I have not assessed all the evidence- but the argument is there.
So, where are the crowds protesting against divorce?
2. mattd4488 says:
As a Catholic, I believe that both Matthew and Mark wrote under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, so, on this subject, I think who got the words from whom is unimportant. Matthew wasn’t just copying Mark down rote. He had his own theological purposes. I quoted Matthew and not Mark because I was more familiar with Matthew’s presentation of this point.
I don’t think that the part about eunuchs is referring to gay men; that seems like a bit of a stretch.
I wouldn’t be surprised if there have been crowds protesting divorce when it was made easier to do in the past. However, not all Christians are against divorce (mostly just Catholics, it seems) and, since Catholics are in the minority in this country, there won’t be as many people opposed to it. Furthermore, and more fundamentally, the existence of divorce does not alter the character of marriage, just weakens it. Same-sex marriage does change the character of marriage. Furthermore, the crowds gathered in protest of same-sex marriage went to protest and unprecedented change in federal law. Crowds gather in Washington for such things all the time.
3. Your friend obviously has no concept whatsoever of the Scriptures. Following is line of reasoning, there would be nothing in the Bible that is of value. He is in effect arguing for a literalistic fundamentalism that is found only among the most strict Hasidic Jews.
4. mattd4488 says:
w00t! Thanks :) Maybe a vocation talk? Being a religious layperson.
5. thomas devine says:
You are an inspiration. The work you do in the bookstore is evangelical. How many saints were the people opening the door to visitors. You have an opportunity to advise people looking for books, CDs, etc. Good luck at CU.
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teacher: what's something that you need that you can't see or feel?
person: air
me: wifi
like there goes jesus
jesus out
even jesus is done with this shit
"2 spooky 4 me"
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All sorts of folks have been prophets... prophacy... what is the value of this "divine" revelation?
Predict enough and you'll get it right eventually.... I wrote a book, it predicted all sorts of things some may/may not EVER actually happen. What does happen tho from an investment standpoint is always price. In spite of media requests for my "clairvoyance" we only put money to work or control risk based upon price. This means that we put funds to work in the direction of the trend, up or down, this has us investing -with the mkt - this may begin with new highs or lows being broken... Our goal is to bend like the wisp of a willow that may move with the wind or the reeds of grass that writhe in the flow of the stream... to be as that feather in the opening of the movie Forest Gump. As for intelligence and clairvoyance...Like Forest, - I have none. I shorted GM in 08 based on price, Lehman based on price, Netflix initial entry on price, IBM, price, Gold, price...
Price tells us what we need to know... not prediction.
There is only amusement and entertainment in that.
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0.402462 | <urn:uuid:33130fe4-b691-45fb-8da0-406c9f1453f8> | en | 0.839256 | Date Sort in a DataGrid – the easy way
While trying to give suggestions to a post on the Flex Forum, I modified my Simple Data Grid to include a column for a Date. The poster had an issue with sorting the column with dates in it. My guess is, the Date value is actually a String object. It really isn’t very hard to create a Date from a string, just parse out the String and feed the appropriate date times into the Date object. Here is how I create the random date value.
// Create a Random Date
var randomMonth:Number = Math.floor(Math.random() * (11));
var randomDay:Number = Math.floor(Math.random() * (27));
var randomHour:Number = Math.floor(Math.random() * (23));
var randomMinute:Number = Math.floor(Math.random() * (59));
var thisDate:Date = new Date();
thisDate.month = randomMonth; = randomDay;
thisDate.hours = randomHour;
thisDate.minutes = randomMinute;
Since I insert the value into the item Object as a Date object, the sort function knows how to sort for Descending/Ascending. It might take a few more steps to convert a set of String data into objects and insert them into an ArrayCollection, but I think it saves time in the long run, because you work with each value as what they are and not a String that you have to convert to a Number, Int or Date.
Here is the DataGrid example. Not only does sorting by the column header work for the dates, I added a button to sort by the dates. The button switches between Ascending and Descending each time it is clicked.
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ArrayCollection SortOn before a Sort
// Sort the Pages based on MessageLevel and PageReceivedDateTime
acPagnationArray= new ArrayCollection(acMainArray.source);
acPagnationArray.sort = pageSort;
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'Women with money have options, women without money have babies'
This is a guest blog from Mara Clarke, founder and director of the Abortion Support Network.
What would you do if the condom broke? If your pill hadn't worked? If you had been raped? If you were faced with an unplanned, unwanted pregnancy? What would you do?
If you lived in England, Scotland or Wales, you could go to your GP or your local sexual health clinic, and get a referral for an abortion. You could do this regardless of your race, class, financial situation, or age. You could make this decision on your own, or with the support of your parents, or friends.
But what if you lived in a country where abortion was illegal? And you couldn't tell your parents? And your boyfriend threatened to paint “murderer” on your house, if you had a boyfriend? And you had no money? And no credit card, passport or photo ID?
Abortion is virtually against the law in Ireland and Northern Ireland. This is the case whether you are pregnant as a result of rape, whether the foetus has catastrophic abnormalities, if the woman involved is 14, or if, like most women having abortions, it simply isn't the right time to have a baby. But of course as we all know, making abortion against the law doesn't stop abortion from happening. It just means that, when faced with an unplanned, unwanted pregnancy, women with money have options and women without money have babies – or do dangerous and desperate things.
This is even more true for young women living in Ireland and Northern Ireland who need abortions. Because of the stigma, many of these young women aren't able to tell friends or family members. And yet somehow they need to raise the £400 to £2000 it can cost to travel and pay privately for an abortion.
Abortion Support Network is a charity that provides financial assistance, accommodation and confidential, practical information to women from Ireland and Northern Ireland forced to travel to access a safe, legal abortion. Since launching in October of 2009, we have heard from almost 1,000 women. More than 250 of those calls have been from women and girls under the age of 25. At least 30 of those were aged 16 or under.
Here’s an example of what these young women have told us:
“I can’t have this baby, I've been trying to get money together and I told the father and he left me. I'm in college and have no money. I depended on my parents and they will disown me if they knew I was pregnant. I'm getting really worried and I don’t know what to do. Anything will help. I know my time is nearly up so I'm beginning to really worry, I know I shouldn't have left it this long but this is my last option and I can’t have this baby.”
“If my parents find out I've had sex, they’ll kill me. I'm not kidding.”
A young teenager whose mother called us in desperation. The pregnancy was a result of rape and her daughter was severely self-harming.
A young teenager with medical complications that could have been compromised by continuing her pregnancy. She and her boyfriend both sold their electronics in order to raise £100.
“I'm a college student and I'm pregnant. I can’t tell a soul and I'm devastated. My parents work so hard to put me through college that I can’t drop out to have a child. Never mind afford to support a child, nor necessarily want one at this stage in my life. Is there any assistance I could have or even an ear?”
A young teenager with an abusive ex-boyfriend. He was threatening her, to try and make her continue with the pregnancy. Her family were not in a position to provide support, emotionally or financially, a family friend put herself in debt to help with the costs but was still unable to provide the full cost.
“I'm growing more desperate by the week. I'm 6 weeks pregnant with an unwanted baby that I cannot have for financial and personal reasons. My boyfriend is unwilling to help with the costs of the abortion, as are my parents and his family. I have to cover this entire cost by myself and I am an unemployed student who will probably be homeless before long. Please let me know if there is anything you can do to help.”
These young women came from all parts of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Some had support and others didn't. Many had to delay their abortions as they tried to raise the necessary funds, causing even more expense as the price of abortion rises with gestation.
But what did these women have in common?
They were pregnant.
They didn't want to be pregnant.
They were poor.
And not a single one of them thought they would ever be in a position where they would have to call a total stranger in another country to ask for money for an abortion.
Mara Clarke is the founder of Abortion Support Network, an almost entirely volunteer run charity that helps women travelling from Ireland and Northern Ireland to access a safe and legal abortion. To find out how you can help or to sign up for their monthly eNewsletter visit or follow @AbortionSupport on Twitter.
1 comment:
1. Proud ASN Supporter25 September 2013 10:46
Thanks Mara, for bringing the fight to the next generation.
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C.P.O. Sharkey
Don Rickles CPO Sharkey 1977.JPG
Sharkey winds up in a Tijuana jail after trying to bail out his men.
Format Situation comedy
Starring Don Rickles
Peter Isacksen
Elizabeth Allen
Harrison Page
Richard X. Slattery
Country of origin USA
No. of seasons 2
No. of episodes 37
Running time approx. 0:30 (per episode)
Original channel NBC
Original run December 1, 1976 – July 28, 1978
C.P.O. Sharkey is an American sitcom which aired from 1976 to 1978 on NBC.
The series starred Don Rickles as a Chief Petty Officer in the U.S. Navy. C.P.O. Otto Sharkey was an abrasive, sharp-tongued veteran in charge of a company of new Seaman Recruits on a San Diego naval base. Rickles is famous for his jokes about various ethnicities and this show provided him with a vehicle for his politically incorrect humor. The young company consisted of Daniels, a black American, Kowalski, a Polish-American; Skolnick, a Jewish-American, Mignone, an Italian-American and Rodriguez, an Hispanic-American. Sharkey's best friend on the base was Chief Robinson (Harrison Page) who was black. C.P.O. Sharkey was not Rickles' first role in that Navy position; he had played C.P.O. Ernie Schmidt in the 1961 episode "Professional Sailor" of the CBS military sitcom/drama, Hennesey, starring Jackie Cooper.
Rickles as Sharkey put his insult humor to good use with the other characters. Sharkey's assistant, Seaman Lester Pruitt (Peter Isacksen), was 6' 7" and simple-minded. His immediate superior was the smug and buck-toothed Lt. Whipple. The base commander was the female Capt. Quinlan (Elizabeth Allen), whom Sharkey never insulted to her face. In season 2, Capt. Quinlan left and was replaced by Capt. Buck Buckner (Richard X. Slattery), a by-the-book Captain whom Sharkey feels is a man's Captain, until he socks it to Sharkey "loud and clear", then he gets second thoughts on Buckner. But Sharkey was really a nice guy beneath his harsh exterior and often went to extreme measures to help his recruits with their problems.
In the first season, Sharkey's first name was never revealed until in one episode, he referred to himself as "Seymour". In the second season, he was named Otto.
The series featured an early American primetime TV depiction of punk rock, with San Fernando Valley punk rock band, The Dickies, making a guest appearance.[1]
Running gags[edit]
• The 6' 7" Pruitt would often stand right next to the 5' 6" Sharkey to speak to him. Sharkey would find it difficult to speak to Pruitt this way and would make a snide remark about Pruitt's height.
• Lt. Whipple would often lecture Sharkey about something. When he left the room, Sharkey would look in the camera and imitate Whipple's buck-teeth.
• In the second season, Sharkey had a new commander, the tough Capt. Buckner (Richard X. Slattery). Buckner would yell orders in a tirade directly in Sharkey's face making the usually verbose Sharkey speechless.
The cigarette box incident[edit]
The series is often remembered for an incident that occurred on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson during December 1976. Rickles appeared on The Tonight Show, speaking with guest host Bob Newhart. During the segment, Rickles slammed down the cigarette box Carson kept on his desk while joking with Newhart, and accidentally broke the box. When Carson returned the following night to the show and discovered the broken box, he took a camera crew to the adjacent studio where Sharkey was being taped. Carson disrupted the taping in order to tease Rickles about it, to the delight of the studio audiences of both shows. Carson imitated Rickles' insult comedy style by calling him a "big dummy" and teasing Harrison Page by speaking to him in an exaggerated jive accent. As Carson prepared to exit the stage, Rickles looked at the audience and said, "Ladies and gentleman, Johnny Carson!" With mock disdain Carson glared at Rickles and said, "They know who I am!"
The incident was often replayed in Tonight Show retrospectives and was considered a highlight of the 1970s era of the show, and the incident was also featured in the documentary Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project.
Reruns aired on Comedy Central in the early 1990s.[citation needed]
External links[edit]
Further reading[edit]
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3.3.14 TTF_SizeUTF8,
3.4.5 TTF_RenderText_Shaded,
3.4.7 TTF_RenderUNICODE_Shaded,
3.4.8 TTF_RenderGlyph_Shaded,
3.4.2 TTF_RenderUTF8_Solid,
3.4.10 TTF_RenderUTF8_Blended
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Tue January 4, 2011
Troy police enforce "distracted driving" law, issue tickets
Texting while driving
Credit C. Todd Lopez / Photo courtesy of U.S. Army
It's illegal to text or talk on the phone while driving in Troy, MI
The city of Troy, Michigan has taken the state’s “no texting while driving” law a bit further, making it illegal to talk on the phone while driving, among other things.
The city's distracted driving ordinance went into effect last July, but the city didn’t officially start to enforce it until the first week of January, 2011. According to the city's website, the following actions can cause "distracted driving":
"Such action can include but is not limited to: eating, reading, writing, performing personal hygiene/grooming, physical interaction with pets, passengers, or unsecured cargo, any of which is
Lieutenant Bob Redmond is with the city of Troy police. He describes erratic driving as "going 10 mph in a 35 mph zone, or you turn right on a red in front of oncoming traffic, or you’re weaving in a lane."
Redmond adds that simply drinking coffee in your car isn’t illegal; drinking coffee and driving erratically will likely get you a ticket, which comes with a $100 fine. If you get pulled over a second time, the fine goes up to $200.
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I'm glad you were borned. You take care of me when I'm sick AND you didn't let me tumble into the ocean (or off of the balcony) that time I had too much tequila on our honeymoon. Our games of Scrabble always ALWAYS devolve into seeing who can spell the dirtiest words. You completely indulge me when I'm giggling over absolutely nothing (which is often) or just plain being weird (which is even more often) and then you totally outweird ME and it's awesome. You act like a total girl whenever Max does something cute (I mean that in a nice way) and you're nicer to Phoebe than I am.
You help me through scary stuff and won't let me get away with saying I'm not angry even though I obviously am, which pretty much makes you the more mature one in this relationship (duh).
The future may be uncertain but at least we can wander around all confused together.
PLUS ALSO, you let me (nay, ENCOURAGE ME to) post pictures like this on the internet:
What more could I ask for? HAAAAAAAAAPPY BIRTHDAY!
1 comment:
Joe G. said...
Thanks, wife. I'm glad I was borned, too. Also, that photo is way creepier than I remembered it being. | http://killingwonder.blogspot.com/2011/02/happy-birthday-joe.html?showComment=1297802489139 | dclm-gs1-239390002 | false | false | {
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Feb 11, 2012 11:03 grammar plural
Do you think which sentence is correct when I ask for the correction on my Lang-8 entries?
1."Is there a mistake?"
2."Is there any mistake?"
3."Is there any mistakes?"
4."Are there any mistakes?"
I think the third sentence is incorrect because the verb is singluar while the noun is plural. Also, I think No.1 and 4 are both correct. I think that if a person thinks there is no mistake in his/her writing, he/she tends to say the first sentence and if he/she isn't really sure whether there are mistakes or not, then the person tend to use the fourth sentence.
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A better way to describe RESTful architectures: Richardson Maturity Model
Nov 30
Nov 27
Restful Authentication: Tokens or Cookies
What’s the best way to authenticate clients for RESTful web services?
The clients may be AJAX (or single page web applications) running in the web browser or other machine-services.
Cookies are easy to use for both native browser-based applications (HTML forms) as well as AJAXy applications.
A simple design might be:
Difficult for a single-page web application to check its authenticated state without performing a request. You necessarily incur network latency at application start even if all other resources are locally cached. > 200ms may mean the difference between instant and regular web site.
This approach works well for native browser applications (HTML forms) because the login forms can be customised (as opposed to native HTTP authentication).
Cookies are easy to implement and typically supported by web application frameworks. This approach won’t add to the implementation effort.
API Tokens
An API token is a server or client generated token that is appended to each HTTP request as part of the URI (or request body).
Machine services can consume a service easier using an API token: it’s easier to append a query parameter in HTTP libraries than to setup cookie handling.
These tokens break HTTP caching because the URL changes per session.
It is not intuitive how session management would work this approach: how do you log out?
Web applications cannot have persistent sessions (between application starts) without resorting to cookies or storing the API token in HTML5 localStorage.
This approach is the same as using cookies but shifts the burden to the developer to append credentials to each request.
HTTP Authentication
HTTP Basic and Digest authentication schemes are provided for by the HTTP specification.
These solutions don’t allow the login process to be customised and provide a bad user experience for logging on (standard forms are used). Similarly, no session management options are provided and you cannot logoff.
Ideal Solution
Pick the right tool for the job. I personally use cookies as described above for most projects, but there are times when other implementations are more appropriate (when it will only be used by machine-services for example).
This is a brief (and incomplete) summary of the issue. For more information, see the plethora of questions on StackOverflow.
Jeff Bezos and the Story of Amazon
Why Myers and DJs' Online Plans Won't Work -
Basically, consumers in the US have a “very strong catalogue culture" whereas customers of large retail stores like Myers and David Jones just walk in to browse.
Jun 18
Perfect Dev Environment for Building Single Page Web Apps.
jQuery (+ mobile), Backbone.js, Coffeescript and HAML-Coffee.
I started building a single-page mobile web app side-project on the weekend (hopefully I’ll release it in the coming weeks). I spent a couple of hours creating the perfect development environment - its definitely share-worthy so here it is.
Node.js + Express
Node and Express provide the basic compilation architecture. connect-assets is responsible for compiling and minifying all of my client-side code. This means that I can develop and use refresh to recompile.
haml-coffee is my client-side templating language. connect-assets will compile all of the templates into .js files and then automatically include them so you don’t have to worry about dependency management. stylus is similarly used for all my stylesheet needs.
Directory Structure
Your entire client-side application lives in assets. This directory is compiled for each request (basically turned into single .js files, etc).
The other important file is your views/layout.jade file. This file generates the page that you will request from the browser and that will run your code. Basically you need to make sure you include your main application file and any other assets you need. For example:
!= js("underscore")
!= js("backbone")
!= js("swipe")
!= css("style")
!= js("app")
The difference between script(src='') and != js("underscore") is that the former is loaded from an external site, while the latter is included as part of my application and will eventually be minified into just a single app.js.
Including Other Files
This workflow uses snockets (node version of sprockets) to manage dependencies. Including another file is as simple as putting a comment at the beginning of the file:
#= require ../models
Similarly, you can require a whole directory (including sub-directories) of files by using require_tree as such:
#= require_tree ../templates
Important tidbits for configuration - you need to add these lines to your file to get it to work properly.
hamlc = require("haml-coffee")
assets = require("connect-assets")
app.register '.hamlc', hamlc
assets.jsCompilers.hamlc =
match: /\.js$/
compileSync: (sourcePath, source) ->
assetName = path.basename(sourcePath, '.hamlc')
compiled = hamlc.template(source, assetName)
app.use assets()
In order to use a Coffeescript file - you should also create a server.js which is what you’ll actually run with the following in it:
To use the app simply run node server.js and navigate to localhost:3000.
That’s the workflow - it’s amazing quick to build and experiment with and let’s you nicely build single-page web apps.
A special thanks to @vrouesnel (blog) for hooking me up with this environment.
Apr 27
Using an Auskey on Mac OS X Lion
If you’re using an Auskey and you upgraded to OS X Lion you may find that you can no longer login to the ATO Business Portal.
The fix is very simple:
1. Open Java Preferences (search for it using Spotlight by pressing Apple-Space and typing it in).
2. Check the ‘Enable applet plug-in and Web Start applications’
3. Restart Safari.
You’re Auskey will now work again.
Keeping Today Clean
Never have a list of things you have to get done ‘today’ that lasts longer than ‘today’.
I use Things to store and plan tasks that I need to get done. When I first started using it, I would stack up my ‘Today’ list with aspirations - things which I thought I might be able to get done today. Then I would come back the next day. And they would still be there. And then the next, and there would even be a couple more items which I need to get done.
It’s pretty disheartening to look at a long list of tasks you should be doing every morning. It hurts even more when its not really stuff you really care about.
The list of stuff you need to get done today should not be aspirational.
By having a long list of tasks I’ll never get around to doing, it reduces the value of the list: I never get around to doing half of the stuff and it doesn’t seem to matter (because you’ll always get the important stuff done regardless). It also disincentivises me from checking it - why face this giant list that makes you feel bad?
I realized that I had to take control and stop using my task manager as an aspiration planner. Every morning I now compose a couple of ‘must complete’ items into my Today list. When those are done, I can tackle others from the ‘Next’ list. No more big hairy scary lists.
Apr 22
Different Reasons for Concurrency and Solutions on the JVM -
Really interesting slide set on managing state on the JVM and the different problems we try and solve with shared state.
Apr 21
A Better Website Editing Workflow: Word to Markdown
For the SULS website, most people prefer to submit content in Word format (docx or doc). This presents a slight problem since the website uses Markdown for content.
The solutions:
1. manually convert the word files to markdown (extremely tedious and spirit crushing);
2. teach everyone how to use markdown;
3. automatically convert the word files to markdown.
The second option seems reasonable, until attempted in practice. Markdown is an extremely simple format - and most people seem to get it really quickly. The problem is that the workflows for producing it are terrible. If people don’t use a dedicated editor on Mac, they tend to use TextEdit which spits out RTF files which have to be manually converted regardless. While software like Mou exists which is fantastic, not everyone has the latest version of OS X (which is required by Mou) or even runs Mac. On Windows, the WYSIWYG editor situation is pretty horrific as well.
Most of the Word content is actually pretty trivial (no complex formatting) - therefore automated conversion actually has a chance of working well. So, how do we do it? David on StackOverflow helpfully provides a solution:
textutil -convert html file.doc | pandoc -f html -t markdown -o file.html
This actually works surprisingly well - however it does have some minor issues converting links and other things. It does reduce a lot of the legwork out of manually converting a lot of the content.
The main shortcoming seems to be with textutil's conversion of doc to html. This could perhaps be remedied using Google Docs. One potential solution is to pull down all the website content dynamically from Google Docs as html at compile time and then convert it to md. This could provide a nice and seamless editing workflow. | http://laurence.io/mobile | dclm-gs1-239410002 | false | false | {
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A Mountain Biking video by mtbcut - 4,406 views
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Tale of the tape
1. Divisional Playoffs - Green Bay Packers v San Franciso 49ers NFL Hall of Fame quarterback Joe Montana
Tale Of The Tape: Colin Kaepernick Vs. Overpowered Video Game QB
We’ve all done it before. Created an all-99 overall player. Can Colin Kaepernick stack up with them?
2. (credit: Al Bello/Getty Images) US-POLITICS-ECONOMY
RG3′s Knee Vs. The Fiscal Cliff: Which Wintertime Disaster Will Screw Washington Longer?
3. Divisional Round: Houston Texans At New England Patriots
4. Adrian Peterson (credit: Andy Clayton King/Getty Images) (credit: Andy Clayton King/Getty Images)
Wild Card Weekend: Minnesota Vikings At Green Bay Packers
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If only shareholders were impressed. Lowe's shares fell 4.8% Monday, suggesting there is no correlation between sponsoring a Daytona 500 winner and improving a stock price. Since 2004, only three of eight companies sponsoring the Daytona winner have seen shares go up on the first day of trading after the race.
Financial analysts Monday ignored Johnson's sales pitch in their reports, instead focusing on Lowe's worse-than-expected profit forecast. A Lowe's spokeswoman didn't return requests for comment.
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Created by clairewxo173
12 terms
caused by bacteria that produce inflammation of the reproductive organs
caused by bacteria that produce a discharge from the urethra, prostate, or vagina "clap"
caused by spirochetes that produce a chance, a skin rash then damage to body organs
NGU (Nongonococcal Unrethritis)
produce an infection and inflammation of the urethra, can cause PID (pelvic inflammatory disease) it is a secondary infection, caused after STD
caused by a protozoa that infects the vagina, urethra or prostate can also be spread non sexually protozoa may survive up to 24 hours on damp towles
pubic lice
infestation with pubic lice are yellow/ gray in color, are the size of a pin head, intense itching, skin to skin contact, on the sheets, sharing infected clothing
Genital Herpes
caused by a virus can be spread even when there are no symptoms, touching can spread the virus to eyes and or mouth, cluster of small painful blisters in the genital area symptoms disappear after 24 weeks
Herpes simplex 2
on the genital regions
genital warts
viral STD spread by intimate sexual contact with an infected person. wart like growth on the genital, soft and red or pink and resemble cauliflower
human immunodeficiency Disorder
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome, results when infection with HIV causes a breakdown of the body's ability to fight other infections
Human Papilloma virus, group of viruses that cause an infection that affects the skin and mucous membranes.
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Grandma Lola
Feb 21 2011
In class Tuesday we had to share a vacation story. My frand Kayla shared a sory about her grandma. It started happy but it was very sad. Kalya’s grandma lives in Montana.
One time Kayla went to her grandmas house and they baked a cake together for her grandpas birthday. It took them a long time. Kayla ate the icing before they iced the cake because it was her favorite part but her grnadma got mad and they laughed. THen the cake was done and they took it out of the oven.
While tey waited for the cake to cool, they watched this show with a dog on it. When they came back, Kayla’s brother had eaten a part of the cake.
LESSON:: never put off until tomorow what u can do today
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for the stubborn, their forehead - comes from banging their head againest a wall
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Bobbi Palmer of Date Like a Grownup™ explains how a Bobbi Palmer of Date Like a Grownup™ explains how a We all know that dating over 40 can be a bit of a jungle with challenges, surprises and pitfalls. I'm sure you've encountered your share of Pingers, Needy-men and Players as you meet single men. I get it, and you belong to a large, loving sisterhood. But it's not only us gals who have dating disasters. Men have their fair share of icky, confusing, ego-crushing experiences too.
In my ongoing effort to help you empathize with those nutty creatures with whom we're trying so hard to connect, I'm showing you my 6 "FemiTypes": the over-40 women men date who send them running for the hills.
Previously I've introduced you to The Princess and The 18 Year Old.* Today you'll learn about The Scaredy Cat.
Deep down, The Scaredy Cat feels unworthy and afraid to receive love and attention, especially from potential romantic partners. She has been wounded by past relationships and hasn't been able to move on emotionally. While she carries these wounds below the surface and they aren't there for all to see, given the proper trigger (like a man not calling exactly when he says he will), her fear can take center stage at a moment's notice.
She operates from contradictory perspectives: "I don't deserve a good guy" and/or "There are no single good guys." Because she says she will never open up herself to be hurt again, she makes her guy jump through all kinds of hoops to prove he's okayand won't hurt her. She needs him to show interest first. But when he does show his feelings, she questions it and ups the ante or runs.
When The Scaredy Cat perceives that she's being let down, her walls go up and she overreacts. She projects her expectations into the future because this somehow helps her feel like she has some control. (She usually doesn't actually know this.) She sees problems that exist only in her mind. She can't relax and just get to know a man because she's too busy picking every moment apart and questioning everything. She picks the bad guys because she's familiar with them and (perhaps subconsciously) they prove her right.
"I ended what could have potentially been a relationship with a woman because she just wouldn't get in the game. I'd do things like tell her I had a nice time and liked being with her, and she would respond with 'Thanks.' I'd compliment her and she'd shrug or give me some bulls*t about how it wasn't true. All these ways I tried to let her know I was interested...and she just wasn't buying it.
"Then, after about four weeks of dating, I had to cancel our plans for the weekend. She hardly let me tell her what was going on before she unloaded on me. I explained this ridiculous deadline my boss had given me, and she says 'Fine…just call when you have time for me.' The attitude was like: how dare you…like I was some kind of jerk.
"She emailed me a nice note after the call, but that was it for me. I really liked her but after that attack, forget it. It was way too much work, and I'm not going to pass tests or constantly have to prove myself to anyone. I actually still think about her and wonder how she's doing. But I'm really glad I moved on."
Charles was really digging this gal and hanging in, hoping she would accept his interest. But when he canceled their plans she probably had her dating life flash before her, remembering the feelings from the hundreds of times she'd been lied to or dumped in the past. (In truth there were probably only a few times, and whether she really was being lied to or dumped is up for interpretation.) She was going to make him pay for all the men who "done her wrong."
So The Scaredy Cat unleashes on this guy. She's probably used this shoot-first-and-ask-questions-later-you-better-not-hurt-me approach ton of times before.
For sure The Scaredy Cat has dated or even married immature, selfish and/or unkind men in the past. If she's like many women, she probably had a couple real creeps early on and is just repeating the pattern. In my experience, the truth is that the real bad guys in her life add up to maybe 10; and when you're in your 40s, 50s or beyond, that's really not a lot. Yet The Scaredy Cat uses those few guys to represent the entire species.
(As a recovering Scaredy Cat, I get this big time. It wasn't until my 40s that I came to understand that real men weren't like the two jerky man-boys who broke my heart early on: one when I was a teenager and the other in my 20s. It took me many years to learn that most men were awesome…and so was I!)
Because her defenses are so sky high, The Scaredy Cat turns away good guys whom she prematurely judges to be "just like all the others." She tosses aside his compliments and attention. She focuses a very bright light on the one or two things that don't meet her expectations. She is always looking for a sign that he's slipped up and shown her that he's just like all the rest.
When The Scaredy Cat overreacts to some perceived insult or omission on a man's part, he's blind-sided by her emotions. He probably ends it as fast as he can and voila…once again she is proven right: all men are______(fill in the blank).
Then her play can start all over again with the next guy. She's living out a self-fulfilling prophecy of "I'm not good enough and all men suck."
When a guy like Charles dates a Scaredy Cat, he can feel confused or just plain uninterested. His attempts to please her go unappreciated, and his emotional generosity is one-sided. The brick wall she has erected is just too high for him to climb; and since they barely know each other, it's very easy for him to just leave. (I used to call my wall the "Wall of I Dare You!" You can read about it in my eBook.)
Men need to feel appreciated and trusted. (This is huge!) They need to know that they're enhancing your life. When The Scaredy Cat doesn't receive well, holds back emotionally, and freaks out over slight disappointments, good men go running because none of their needs are getting met.
From Scaredy Cat to Grownup
There are SO many good guys out there! I found one, and I have many clients who consistently have great dates and have found great partners! Once in a while these guys disappoint us. Sometimes we feel insecure or unsafe. But we trust ourselves and we've knocked down our walls. And we're loving our grownup partnerships. Join us!
After talking to countless men I've identified the Six FemiTypes: The Princess, The 18 year old, The Scaredy Cat, The Wow Me Woman, The Bitter Gal and the Sex Pot. I'm sharing what I've learned with you to help you understand and appreciate the men you're meeting. This empathy will surely lead you to become a more grownup, compassionate and HAPPY dater and, ultimately, life partner. | http://shine.yahoo.com/author-blog-posts/fear-rejection-getting-rejected-035000824.html | dclm-gs1-239930002 | false | false | {
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Daria, best known as "Beavis and Butt-head's" only female friend, makes her first movie. An animated half-hour sitcom about th experiences of a teenage girl who's a little too smart and a little too funny to fit in. Featuring the voices of Foo Fighters'
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Actors:Rachel Anton, Brett Barsky, Corey Block, Cindy E. Brolsma, Joseph Buoye
Director:Guy Moore
Format:Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
Number of Discs:1
Run Time:75 minutes
DVD Release Date:January 15, 2002
Average Customer Rating: based on 51 reviews
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47 of 47 found the following review helpful:
5Dry, sardonic wit at its best! Feb 23, 2005 By CreepyT "CreepyTendencies"
I used to follow this show when I was in high school, and have since mourned the loss of the cable television with which to view the reruns. My craving for cynical humor having piqued, and there being few other outlets with which to quell this craving, I was compelled to buy the two available Daria DVD's.
This DVD plays out like one long (just over an hour) episode. Is it Fall Yet? tells a story of summer hiatus from the mundane pit otherwise known as school. However, is the summer break really much of a break from prosaic servitude? Quinn is getting help from a tutor in hopes of raising her college entrance exam scores, Kevin and Brittney are attempting to survive as pool lifeguards, Jane is attending an artists colony that might not be all it's cracked up to be, and Daria's mother signs her up for a stint at the OK-to-Cry Corral as a counselor. Furthermore, Daria is attempting to make sense of her relationship with Tom, her best friend Jane's ex-boyfriend (which is a conundrum in itself). However, all will wade through their various forays into humdrum subjugation and surface having learned valuable life-lessons.
In addition to the film, two bonus episodes are included. Fire! and Dye Dye My Darling both take place before the movie. In Fire!, Daria's father accidentally sets fire to their home, causing the Morgendorfers to temporarily move into a hotel while repairs are made. This is where the sparks begin to fly between Daria and Jane with regards to Tom. In Dye Dye My Darling, Daria is forced to help Jane recognize the tiger within by streaking her hair. When the dye job is somewhat less-than-successful, Jane views it as Daria's way of trying to break up Jane and Tom's relationship.
The repartee between Daria and Jane, the sardonic humor the two exchange between one another, is absolutely smirk-inducing. I love the dialogue in this show. Though Quinn's friends, in addition to Kevin and Brittney, can be horribly wretched to listen to at times, one cannot deny the fact that similar personas did exist in high school, and continue to persist in the world today, if not quite to the same extreme. Some episodes are of course better than others, but even after five years the show never got old, and I have yet to grow out of it.
Anyone who is familiar with, and can appreciate, the cast of characters and all of their idiosyncrasies will find this a welcome addition to their DVD collection. However, that does not mean that one needs to be acquainted with the series in order to appreciate the film. As far as I know, there is no word yet on forthcoming releases of the five seasons on DVD, so I suppose fans will have to appease themselves with the two released short films and their accompanying bonus episodes for now.
14 of 14 found the following review helpful:
5One of the best things to come from MTV Mar 14, 2003 By J. C. Steuber "Kaxxar the fox"
It's a bit of a paradox to think the station that brought us such tripe as The Real World and Tough Enough could have produced such a sharp, witty and well written show. The first movie "Is It Fall Yet?" is a magnificent turning point in the series as well as a stand-alone movie-length episode.
The movie centers on each of the characters' summer activities ranging from Quinn getting a tutor for the summer, Daria being forced into volunteering for a lame summer camp and Jane taking a two month stint at an artist's colony.
Even if you're not familiar with the characters, you'll be rolling at all the jokes and dry wit that Daria and Jane spout. What makes the movie a step up from the series is that several of the characters start to grow, especially Quinn. With a little help from her tutor she finds that she doesn't have to be as shallow or dumb as her fashion club friends. Some of the minor characters don't end up doing that much (Mack, Brittany and Kevin, for example). But I defy you to try not to laugh hysterically when Mr. DeMartino snaps, pulls the sink from out of the wall and throws it through the window after all of the campers are cooped up inside.
As a little bonus on the video, there's a music video for Mystik Spiral's "Frickin Friends". I only wish I could have seen the DVD to see what other extras there might have been.
"Daria: Is It Fall Yet?" is an excellent movie packed with great wit, humor and characters. Do yourself a favor and give it a look. You won't be disappointed.
10 of 11 found the following review helpful:
5Classic. Jan 24, 2002
I have just finished watching the final `episode' of the Daria series, "Is It College Yet." Daria was hands-down my favorite show on MTV. It was smart, crude, sarcastic and socially conscious at the same time. It had a quality to it that latter MTV animated attempts like "Spy Groove" and "The Undergrads," (Remember them?) didn't. That's probably why Daria lasted for five whole years and still went out in its prime. Anyway; that's pretty much wanted to say, but I'm forced to write a review of some kind, so here I go.
"Is It Fall Yet?" Originally aired on August 27th 2000. I haven't been able to get the DVD yet, but I taped the show when it was aired commercial free. Jane's ex-boyfriend, Tom just started to date Daria, and junior year ended in a... um... bang, I guess. Jane was accepted to stay at an art colony over the summer and Quinn's PSAT scores were low, forcing her to get a tutor. The thing I love is that "Is It Fall Yet?" evaluates each and every character so well in the short time (75 Min.) that it has. It'll still keep you laughing every time you see it.
I recommend that all Daria fans should pick it up as son as you find a copy. I know I will when I see it.
7 of 8 found the following review helpful:
5Will it ever be fall gor Daria? Aug 19, 2002
This TV movie shows what the characters do during summer break. Daria volunteers at the It's OK To Cry Corral, Mr. O'Neill's touchy-feely summer camp for overly sensitive children, where his regimen of staying indoors and exploring the "inner child" is not popular with the campers. Meanwhile, the other counselor at the camp, angry Mr. DeMartino, proves much more popular with the campers and rediscovers his passion for teaching, and Daria tries to bond with Link, a lonely young boy who is just like her.
Daria also tries dating Tom for a while, but becomes alienated by the lifestyle of his super-wealthy family and starts pushing him away. Jane goes to an artists' colony in the middle of nowhere for the summer--partly to get away from Daria, whom she still hasn't forgiven for stealing Tom away--and has trouble making friends with the other artists, whom she finds pretentious. She does make one friend, Allison, until she finds Allison is actually a bisexual who only wants her sexually. Eventually, Daria and Trent pay Jane a visit. Daria and Jane finally make up for good, and Jane even suggests that Daria give Tom another shot.
Quinn decides to spend the summer getting tutored so that she can improve her PSAT score (and get into a "party college"). She starts to like learning new things, and develops a crush on her tutor, David, who doesn't feel the same way about her but tells her that she has a lot more potential than the "loser friends" she hangs out with.
Brittany and Kevin get jobs as lifeguards, and naturally can't do anything right. Jodie is forced into spending every waking moment doing extracurricular activities, and Mack gets a hellish job driving an ice cream truck to pay off a debt to his father. These circumstances make it difficult for Jodie and Mack to see each other--until Mack comes up with the perfect replacement at his job once his debt is paid off.
6 of 7 found the following review helpful:
5IS IT DARIA BOX SET YET? Aug 06, 2005 By A. James
Of course I would recommend this DVD - it contains some brilliant moments from a timeless series. I never tire of watching it - but sadly, it will only leave you hungry for more. When you're done watching, petition MTV for box sets of the full 5 seasons.
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Cocktail gets crafty ... and frisky
Then you've got all the producers of specialty liqueurs (St. Germain, to name just one) with recipe books of their own. A home bartender can get seriously ivolved with do-it-yourself bitters, homemade syrups and pickled garnishes. And the mixologists! A regiment of "behind-the-bartists" eager to show off their inventiveness.
Aphrodisiacs with a Twist, 256 pages, $24.95
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
Your place or mine?
Sangiovese vineyards outside Panzano-in-Chianti, Tuscany
On Facebook this morning I noted that an American wine writer named Tom Wark seemed to have trouble understanding: that PLACE was more important than grape variety or producer. (Here's a link to the article that caught my attention.) Why is that so hard to understand?
To which this reply, not from the author, by the way:
I'll tell you why it's so hard to understand: if there was a farm that raised three kinds of fowl, duck, chicken and goose...and then said farm went to market with a meat product called "Judy Farms Yummy Feathered Food" people would want to know what kind of "feathers" they're eating. But Judy would say "all the birds ate from the same terroir so it doesn't matter" and most people would say back "it matters to me! I like chicken but not duck!" In America we're very consumer first... We think knowing the ingredients in things comes right after "freedom of speech" in the constitution. That said, I think this 'controversy' will make this winemaker get a lot of press and conversations going.
Well, to continue that example -- there's nothing to prevent Judy Farms from selling both "Duck" and "Chicken" if they want to. Wine, on the other hand, isn't "feathered food." It's "grape food," which, unlike poultry, can be blended from different varieties. And poultry doesn't depend on soil, climate and yeast to taste like poultry. (It just tastes like chicken.)
As it happens, I've just spent five days in the zone of Tuscany that produces Chianti Classico wines from sangiovese grapes. If you add more than 10 percent of anything else, you can no longer call the wine Chianti Classico. If you grow the same grapes outside the zone, you can't call it Chianti Classico. The whole point of an appellation is to wear a name tag: Hi, I'm Ronald from Seattle. The guy over there kind of looks like me, and he's from Seattle, but that doesn't make him Ronald. That other Ronald, over there, he's from Bellevue. Close to Seattle, but not the same thing.
Now, that said, and with all due respect to the participants in the exercise, the Consorzio Vino Chianti Classico sponsored a tasting of sangiovese wines from two neighboring zones, Radda-in-Chianti and Montalcino (home of the great Brunello di Montalcino). I wrote about it over on my blog, Cornichon, because I was surprised that the differences were subtle, even indistinguishable by the enologists and wine makers in attendance.
We think we want to know. We think that wine education will set us free. But it's not always true. Sometimes all we want to do is love the wine we're with.
Monday, February 25, 2013
Citation is Oregon's best pinot noir
Rossbach with 2002 Citation
Holding the bottle--an Oregon pinot noir from the 2002 vintage--is Howard Rossbach, who launched a brand called Firesteed some 20 years ago to take advantage of a world-class growing region hobbled by a fragmented, dysfunctional marketplace. Oregon's pinot noir producers were a fractious lot; there were famous names like David Lett, David Adelsheim, and Dick Erath, but no one had enough volume to become a category leader, and the small wineries wereforced to charge high prices just to stay in business.
Firesteed was born as a "virtual winery" in 1992, and for ten years used a facility in Rickreall (in Oregon's Eola Hills) to produce its wine, a careful but unassuming pinot noir blended from grapes grown under contract at vineyards throughout Oregon. Eventually Rossbach bought the winery outright, and began farming its 90 acre himself. He went on to purchase another 200 acres nearby, and continues to buy both grapes as well as outside wine (but only if it's better than what he's already got).
Firesteed has gone on to produce other varieties (notably chardonnay and barbera d'Asti), but Rossbach has a personal fondness for the pinot. The best stuff goes into barrel for 16 to 18 months, then sees up to seven years of bottle-aging. The result is stunning: unlike the pubescent, fruit-forward Oregon pinots we've become accustomed to, the 2002 Citation is a wine that's almost fully mature, the sort of wine you cannot imagine if you've never visited Burgundy and had the opportunity to taste from a private collection of Grand Cru wines. There's tobacco and bramble in the nose, an earthiness on the palate, a voluptuous mouthfeel. The winery started with 6,000 bottles, 80 percent of which has already been sold.
Older wines like this, unfortunately, don't do particularly well in competitions because they're so far from the mainstream, years behind the showy bottles that win shiny medals and fuel the media frenzy over Oregon pinot. But a wine like this might make you want to exclaim, like Scarpia, "Tosca, you make me forget God!"
Yet all you have to do is go to Metropolitan Market and pay $70, or travel to the tasting room along Highway 99 15 minutes west ot Salem, where you only need to plunk down $60. Either way, it's a lot less expensive than flying to France.
Friday, February 1, 2013
Be still: how to make Big Gin
Let's begin by reassuring the State Liquor Board and the federal revenuers that the "still" in the photo is for show-and-tell only, acquired from so that Ben Capdevielle could demonstrate how distillation works. The botanicals in the boiling retort are real, though. It's a dog-and-pony show that Capdevielle took on the road this week for a class in gin-making. The real still, inside a grey clapboard house in Ballard, is a 100-gallon copper job from Vendome in Louisville, KY, a part of the country where distillation (licit and illicit) is an industry with a cultural history as important as, say, aerospace is out here.
The product of the legal effort (legal since the state gummint eased up on craft distilleries in 2008) is called Big Gin, produced by Capdevielle and his gang under a corporate umbrella named Captive Spirits. Big Gin is an aromatic spirit that falls into a category of gin generally referred to as "London Dry." That is, it's not overly sweet even with lots of juniper and orange peel in the nose. Compared to, say, Bombay Sapphire, it has nowhere near the perfume; it has none of the rose-water and cucumber aromatics of Hendricks. Captive spends more than other local craft distillers on its clothes: its gin is hand-bottled and sports an elegant label (by Chris Jordan of Shipwreck Design). All those botanicals, not cheap, either.
Captive will shortly release a second gin, aged in used bourbon barrels. The aging--a typical technique of a gin category known as "Old Tom"--mellows the flavors a bit and adds a hint of golden color. But the feds won't approve labels for gin that even suggest "aging," so the label will read, simply, Old Tom.
Capdevielle teamed up with the folks at Seatown (Tom Douglas's tourist-oriented snack bar at the Market) for the cocktail class. And using the show-and-tell still, with its juniper berries and botanicals bouncing happily in the retort, he explained that craft distillers use neutral, industrial-strength corn-based ethanol and infuse it with flavors. The orange esters, for example, dominate the first part of the distillation; how prominent should those flavors be? Each distiller's "recipe" (how much of this, how much of that) remains a closely guarded secret, even as their trade association, the Washington Distillers Guild, works with the Liquor Board to expand access to out-of-state markets.
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Tequilas at Cactus
Saturday, December 15, 2012
No Yquem for you!
Pouring Chateau d'Yquem for a tasting. 2006 photo.
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Tatoosh Bourbon Debuts at F.X. McRory's
Tatoosh founders at F.X. McRory's
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Does MSDK Encoder support Multithread and Multitask?
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I would like to know whether MSDK Encoder supported Multithread Processing? How about Multitask Encoding?
If it supported, does it mean I can encoded several input stream at the same time, without reducing the speed and efficiency? Does it use all cores thoroughly and balanced?
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Ritratto di Petter Larsson (Intel)
Hi Joyah,
Media SDK certainly support processing of multiple streams simultaneously. The HW and SW codec components will use the available resources to the greatest extent. This means that if you just encode/decode one stream you will get the very high throughput since the full processor or HW acceleration resources are used for the workload. This is illustrated in the asynchronous samples (encode, decode, transcode etc.) provided with the SDK. If you instead want to process several streams concurrently, the effective single stream throughput will be lower since it shares the processing resources with the other concurrent workloads.
Regards, Petter
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Nick Offerman and Bo Burnham Both Have New Books Out Today
It's a big day for comedy books, as there are new ones out from Parks and Recreation's mustachioed civil servant Nick Offerman and from comedian Bo Burnham, star and co-creator of MTV's unjustly-canceled Zach Stone Is Gonna Be Famous. It's the first book for each of the two authors. Offerman's is a humorous self-help tome called Paddle Your Own Canoe, while Burnham's is a book of poetry, writing, and illustrations called Egghead Or, You Can't Survive on Ideas Alone that's earned blurbs from Jack Handey, Conan O'Brien, and Judd Apatow.
Mrs. Peniston and the Hilarious Vulgarity in Edith Wharton's House of Mirth
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2013 Thurber Prize Finalists Announced
Named after humorist James Thurber (pictured), the Thurber Prize for American Humor is the highest honor awarded for print humor writing, and the 2013 finalists were just announced. The 2013 finalists are Shalom Auslander for his novel Hope: A Tragedy, Dan Nevin for his memoir Dan Gets a Minivan: Life at the Intersection of Dude and Dad, and Dave Barry and Alan Zweibel for their novel Lunatics. This year's judges are Lisa Birnbach, Laurie Notaro, and Nate DiMeo. The prize will be given out on September 30th at Carolines on Broadway in NYC.
Check out a full list of past Thurber Prize winners below:
Why Do We Suck The Humor Out Of Education?
Abraham Lincoln was funny. Dante’s Inferno was funny. Chaucer was funnier than that one story involving a poker in the dude’s butt which your teacher had no choice but to admit approached funny because, I mean, poker in the butt.
But why don’t we teach these things? Specifically to younger students –- the ones who could benefit most from knowing that Moby Dick is packed with intentionally weird sitcom-y moments between the narrator and the crew. The ones who might study a little harder if they knew that Andrew Jackson was a smartass. The ones who would try harder to understand Shakespeare if they understood his insults.
Why are [...]
Gary Oldman Brings the Appropriate Gravitas to R. Kelly's Memoir
And so it was written: "We'll just let it do what it do." It's a shame Gary Oldman (aka the anti-Henny Youngman) chose to read this excerpt from Soula Coaster in his fancy British voice instead of his often-used villainous British voice. Or maybe he could have read it as Sid Vicious! Or whatever that voice was in The Fifth Element! There are just so many great options! This better be a weekly segment, Gary and Jimmy. | http://splitsider.com/tag/literature/ | dclm-gs1-239990002 | false | false | {
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when setting up a socket via dgram.createSocket('udp4'); and NOT binding it to a specific port I do receive broadcasted packets which were sent to But when I'm binding the same socket to the specific IP of my interface this.server.bind(67, host); I will NOT receive these broadcasted packets. Is this a normal behavior?
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The Javadoc for java.net.DatagramSocket says:
In order to receive broadcast packets a DatagramSocket should be bound to the wildcard address. In some implementations, broadcast packets may also be received when a DatagramSocket is bound to a more specific address.
This is a pretty clear indication that the behaviour is platform-dependent, so Javascript sockets would be afflicted the same way.
According to my testing, Windows Vista 64 does not behave as described in the second sentence (i.e. does not receive broadcasts unless bound to INADDR_ANY).
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-1 since this question is has nothing to do with Java. – Rob Raisch Sep 22 '12 at 2:54
@RobRaisch And a merry -1 to you too. If you had read my answer properly, you would have seen that I was citing the Javadoc as evidence that the behaviour is platform-dependent, and that it therefore affects Javascript as well, and indeed all other languages equally. Shame you didn't get it the first time. – EJP Sep 22 '12 at 6:11
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Yes, this is expected behavior because, without a port or interface, dgram.createSocket() will:
bind to the "all interfaces" address on a random port (it does the right thing for both udp4 and udp6 sockets).
-- from the dgram API documentation on nodejs.org
which allows you to capture broadcast packets to any port on any available interface.
Proving both an interface and port to createSocket() restricts you to only capturing packets that have been broadcast to the network bound to the specified interface on the specified port.
You should note that to receive broadcasts to a specific interface, they will need to be sent to the broadcast address on/for the network which that interface serves.
So if your network is:
with a netmask of:
which is also: (CIDR notation)
the correct broadcast address is:
Given your network address and netmask, tuxgraphics.org's "Network and IP address calculator" is a tool you can use to identify the correct broadcast address for your specific network.
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The behaviour is platform-dependent actually. See for example Stevens, Fenner, & Rudolf, Unix Network Programming, Vol I, 3rd edition, p. 532, and #3.3.6 of RFC 1192 which 'takes no stand' on the issue. – EJP Sep 22 '12 at 6:35
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I would like to clear cache for a XSLT using Sitecore API's. Is there any way i could do that?
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Yes, there is a way to clear the cache from the API for a specific website. Use this code to clear the xsl cache for a specific website.
SiteContext mySite = Sitecore.Configuration.Factory.GetSite("mywebsite");
XslCache xslCache = CacheManager.GetXslCache(mySite);
Keep in mind that if you have a environment with a CMS-server and (multiple) frontendservers, clearing the cache this way only clears the cache on the particular server and not all servers.
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Hi martijn, thaks for the reply. is there any way i can clear a particular xsl..? – sbmandav Sep 20 '12 at 9:42
I think publishing that xslt would be one of the solutions i guesss... though it sounds little crazy and weird. – sbmandav Sep 21 '12 at 15:40
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I am writing an own swt widget. Now I am ready with the functionality an trying to style the widget.
What is the default strategy to get the actual colors/styles, which are currently chosen by the OS?
How can I mimic the OS Style in my own widget?
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You can access all the predefined colors of SWT using the following:
Color color = display.getSystemColor(SWT.COLOR_RED);
Of course this holds for all the colors defined as SWT.COLOR_*.
The OS's default list background color can be accessed via:
As for the mimic question:
As long as you don't extend one of the default widgets, this will be quite hard to achieve. Please add some more detail to your question.
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I thought, that maybe there is a default colorset, which is used by the OS widgets. Like lightblue for default WidgetBG in Windows... This is waht I men by mimic the OS – Skip Sep 26 '12 at 15:07
@Skip No, there isn't. You will have to get the colors from the widgets, i.e. if you want the light blue from windows, SWT.COLOR_LIST_BACKGROUND should be the one. – Baz Sep 26 '12 at 15:12
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Use following Colors for your widget. You will get OS specific background and foreground for your custom widget.
* System color used to paint foreground areas (value is 21).
public static final int COLOR_WIDGET_FOREGROUND = 21;
* System color used to paint background areas (value is 22).
public static final int COLOR_WIDGET_BACKGROUND = 22;
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I have a standard URL e.g.
I am using javascript in riak for map reduce and would like to only extract www.test.com. So...the domain and the subdomain.
What is the most efficient method to do this in js since I will have millions of records?
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Tricky, you almost need a database of known domain name extensions because, what happens if you have a url like... example.co.uk? ... A list like this: mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/netwerk/dns/… – Tim Joyce Dec 9 '12 at 10:25
Well...in python I did this. remove http:// and split by /. This the domain was the first element. Just need something in JS. – Tampa Dec 9 '12 at 11:28
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Look at this answer: http://stackoverflow.com/a/8498629/623400
var matches = url.match(/^https?\:\/\/([^\/?#]+)(?:[\/?#]|$)/i);
var domain = matches && matches[1]; // domain will be null if no match is found
Sophisticated domain matching is kinda tricky, but all this is covered quite well in the linked post.
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Try this:
var url = "http://www.test.com/test1/test2.html";
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I'm trying to set up a website using Silex Bootstrap. I've put it in my folder with other web projects and changed the DocumentRoot in the Apache config.
<Directory /folder/to/silex_projects/web>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
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allow from all
But I can't open the index page of the framework, Apache gives:
[Mon Dec 17 21:10:52 2012] [crit] [client] (13)Permission denied: /folder/to/silex_project/web/.htaccess pcfg_openfile: unable to check htaccess file, ensure it is readable
I've chmod'ed the whole project folder with chmod a+r -R. Other projects in the same folder are working fine with the .thaccess file. How can I solve my prolbem.
O, and the .htaccess file does exists/
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chmod 755 -R /silex_project/ solved my problem. I still don't know why Apache needs write permissions to work.
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This is probably because the user running Apache doesn't have eXecute permission on the directory. It is also needed to read the files within it. chmod a+rx /silex_projectR would probably have solved your error.
Your chmod 755 -R doesn't solve this by also giving write access, but because this just happens to add the eXecute also.
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I have a 'legacy' XP application which writes files in the [ProgramFiles]\[Application] folder, and writes registry keys in the HKLM\Software\[Application] path. When running the application in Windows Vista or Windows 7, the files and registry entries are written in the Virtual Store instead. That's fine; it doesn't break anything, yet.
Now, we've re-written the application in .NET. It only reads and writes files in "safe," user-scoped locations, and we use an application manifest with requestedExecutionLevel specified, in order to disable registry virtualization.
When users upgrade to the latest version, we would like to maintain compatibility with our old application, by importing settings from the previously-virtualized files and registry settings.
So, the question: Is there a way to access the files and registry keys in the Virtual Store from an application that has requestedExecutionLevel specified in its manifest?
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Obviously one option is to write a migration app that also runs virtualized so that it can read from the old and write to the new – David Heffernan Jan 10 at 19:48
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I wish to put some text on a page and hide some data in that text. Does anybody know of any methods / patterns that have been used in the past to solve this problem?
Example: I have the following text: "The cat sat on the dog and was happy."
I also have the number 123. I want to hide this number in that sentence such that the sentence can be placed on a web page and only someone in the know would be able to find the data.
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HTML makes it quite easy to do this, actually. No need for really cunning amounts of steganography, etc. Let's see:
This sentence embeds 123 and then stops embedding.
This sentence embeds 0102 and then stops embedding.
(We'll have to see whether it actually works in markdown, but I suspect so.) Admittedly it's pretty obvious if you know that there's something to look for, but I think you'll agree it's not obvious to casual observers.
I've left it as a little puzzle to work out the scheme, but add a comment if you want it to be explicitly explained.
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Be sure to enable compression on your HTTP server if you do this! – Ryan Fox Dec 6 '08 at 8:24
Yes, if you're transmitting significant amounts of data it could get somewhat unwieldy. – Jon Skeet Dec 6 '08 at 8:29
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Of course this can be done.
What you are describing is in a broad description called Steganography.
For instance, you might encode a number in such a way that you count the number of words until you see the letter B, in which case 123 could be encoded as:
You belong to the beautiful group of people being elite.
The thing is, the person wanting to decode your message must know your algorithm.
Edit I notice that my numbers are off by one. Start counting at 0 and you'll see the number 123.
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I think at a high level what you are talking about is steganography. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography
The section on modern techniques should get you started: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography#Modern_steganographic_techniques
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I think what you're looking for is something called Steganography. Corinna John has an excellent collection of articles on the subject up on CodeProject.
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To add.. if you follow the links at CodeProject, you'll get to her homepage.. which seems focused on Do-It Yourself Steganography... binary-universe.net – torial Dec 6 '08 at 5:52
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There are very complicated approaches to this problem, however you can probably go with a very simple one. E.g. define an adjective for every number:
0. beautiful
1. harmless
2. evil
3. colorful
4. weird
and so on. Now select sentences of your choice and put place holders into the sentences where adjectives belong.
"The {adj} cat sat on the {adj} dog and the {adj} cat was happy."
Your number is 123, so your sentence is
"The harmless cat sat on the evil dog and the colorful cat was happy."
A parser can easily take the sentence, split it up into words, find adjectives on the table above, and convert them back to numbers.
The -> ?
harmless -> 1
cat -> ?
sat -> ?
on -> ?
the -> ?
evil -> 2
at the end you have 123 again.
As soon people know that there is information hidden in the sentence, the algorithm is easily broken. You can make it harder to break if you add variation by defining multiple adjectives per number. Instead of
1. harmless
you can define
1. harmless/stupid/blue/fashionable
when you need to encode 1, randomly pick any of the words above. As these all map to the number 1, the reverse parser won't care which of the words is printed there, the result will always be one. This randomization will make it harder to reverse engineer the algorithm.
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Here is a prototype convert encrypted data to "natural" text message.
Convert source text like "See U at east door of University, tomorrow 8 am" to short text message looks like spam.
"Best house ever! you should never miss it. 1000-3000 square ft. $15-80 per square ft. Call 123-456-7890".
The algorithm is you just create a grammar diagram, and create a candidate table for each word. Just like BASE64, but index table is changed according your predefined context.
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Well, you could try something like this...not sure if that's exactly what you're looking for, though.
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There may be an algorithm that can turn that sentence into 123, but I think in general you're going to need to accept some modifications to the text if you need to store any possible numerical value!
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If the 'text' was actually an image, then you could hide data in that using steganography - the data is hidden in the binary image file without affecting the way the image looks.
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Hiding data in images is just one branch of steganography. – Bill the Lizard Dec 8 '08 at 14:55
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According to this thread:
Prof. Mikhail Atallah et. al. here at Purdue did a lot of research on watermarking text.
The approach uses TMRs (Text Meaning Representation) of phrases to encode bits by performing minor transformations positioning the TMR at a certain distance from a defined canonical form.
(another method to watermark text is presented here)
It may be another way to hide text within text, along with the Steganograph method described in the other answers.
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The approach Jon Skeet mentioned is very similar to Matthew Kwan's "SNOW" approach. Both of them hide small amounts of arbitrary information in text without adding, deleting, or changing any of the words in the source text. Both encode the secret message in normally-irrelevant, normally-invisible whitespace -- extra space and tab characters between words and at the ends of lines.
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I want to limit what cards show up in greenhopper views to epics. Is this possible?
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Every object has its own public override string ToString(){ return string; } method. But we can achieve the same with a custom method. Then why have a separate override string method?
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For debugging purposes, I've found the DebuggerDisplay attribute to be more useful than ToString() principly because there are so many different places that ToString() is used for different purposes. – Bevan Mar 18 '11 at 23:56
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If you want to have some string method in your own classes but you do not need this method working on other classes, please, do not EVER use ToString() for that purpose. It will be a nightmare when you somebody will try to find why some particular ToString methods are overriden and have smth like :
override string ToString()
return "Some very cryptic text";
It won't be easy to guess why cryptic text should be returned here and where it is used. So do not override ToString for production purposes. Only for debugging/testing.
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Because it is part of the Object class' public interface. Library designers can always assume that there is a ToString() method for an object and use it if needed. For example, if you want your type to provide formatted text inside of a combobox you need only override ToString() and it will be displayed when you add your object in. The author of that control would have no reasonable way of calling your custom method. It's just a way of guaranteeing that every type can provide a string representation of itself.
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To my knowledge it is not part of any interface. It is defined on the object class itself. IFormattable provides a ToString method, but that takes an IFormattingProvider argument and is therefore not the same ToString method. – Morten Mertner Mar 18 '11 at 23:50
interface here probably means a class interface which is a set of all members exposed by class – Snowbear Mar 18 '11 at 23:51
I am not sure ToString() is spec'd to provide output pretty enough for end-user display purposes, such as formatted text in a combobox. It is mostly for debugging purposes, I believe. Of course, in some simple cases it happens to be completely sufficient for display, but your mileage may widely vary, and localization for example should not be done by ToString. – Thilo Mar 18 '11 at 23:54
@Thilo, +1, debug only. And even for debug there are more suitable solutions. – Snowbear Mar 18 '11 at 23:57
@Morten Mertner: The term "interface" does not necessarily refer to the interface keyword in C# as Snowbear pointed out. Most languages don't have an interface keyword, it is conceptual. – Ed S. Mar 19 '11 at 0:34
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ToString is simply a built-in feature for converting an object to its string representation. It is something that every object therefore supports. You have the choice of overriding this if you want to provide a better representation that what the framework provides for you.
It is sometimes useful to keep ToString short or decorated with internal values, as the value is displayed by the debugger. In these situations it might make sense to add a different method to return a string for use in other scenarios.
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There are lots of places where an object's ToString() method automatically gets called. Some of the more obvious ones are debugger watch expression, composite string formatting (String.Format and Console.Write), UI controls like ListBox. While you can certainly override the way they format and invoke your custom method, it is just easier to override ToString().
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A DataGrid for instance can assume that every object that is put into it has the ToString method, that enables it to display any class. It uses that to display it. If you override it you can control what is being returned. Same goes for debugger windows, it calls ToString to display whatver you;re looking at.
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Because it's virtual -- so even if, for example, all you know is that it's an object, you can still call .ToString() and expect your custom override to be called. For example:
object o = new MyClass();
Where MyClass is the class where you overrode .ToString(). You can call:
And it will call your method. If however you defined your own method, like .MyToString() then o.MyToString() will result in a compiler error since it's not defined on object.
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Gridlock And Reconciliation
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Location: Washington, DC
Mr. SPECTER. On many occasions, the majority leader has been compelled to file a cloture petition, which is well known on this Senate floor. I don't believe it even has to be explained to C-SPAN viewers, even though it is technical and arcane, because it has been used so often. But in case anyone new is watching C-SPAN2--or perhaps I should say in case anybody is watching C-SPAN2--just a word of explanation. If a Senator places a hold on a nomination, that is a signal for a filibuster.
Unfortunately, we don't have filibusters. I have been in the Senate now since being elected in 1980 and I have been part of only one real filibuster. Had we utilized that procedure, perhaps there would be fewer holds and fewer moves toward filibuster. People really had to stand up here and argue, as Senator Thurman did historically once, for some 26 hours. But when the majority leader is compelled to file a cloture petition, cloture is invoked, and then some 30 hours must be consumed where the Senate can take care of no additional business, the two lights are on, there is a quorum call, and it is a colossal waste of time.
I am going to recite the facts in five of these cloture petitions to demonstrate that there was never really a controversy. Christopher Hill, Ambassador to the Republic of Iraq, had a cloture vote. Yet his vote in favor was 73 to 17--hardly controversial. Robert M. Groves, of Michigan, to be the Director of the Census, the cloture vote was 76 to 15--not really a contest there at all. Nobody seriously contested his confirmation. David Hamilton to be a judge of the Seventh Circuit, 70 yeas, 29 nays. A cloture petition was filed on Martha N. Johnson to be Administrator of General Services. The vote was 82 to 16. The nomination of Barbara Keenan to be a circuit judge in the Fourth Circuit, 99 to 0.
Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to have printed in the Record the details of these cloture motions and confirmations following my remarks.
(See exhibit 4.)
Mr. SPECTER. So the stage is now set where we have gridlock on the issue of comprehensive health care reform. In this situation, we have had the bills passed by both the House and the Senate, and we are now looking to use reconciliation, a procedure which has been employed some 22 times in analogous circumstances. Illustrative of the analogous circumstances are the use of cloture to pass Medicare Advantage and the passage of COBRA, the passage of SCHIP--health care for children--and the passage of the welfare reform bill in 1996.
In a learned article in the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Henry J. Aaron, an expert on budgetary matters, had this to say:
[reconciliation] can be used only to implement instructions contained in the budget resolution relating to taxes or expenditures. Congress created reconciliation procedures to deal with precisely this sort of situation. .....
And he is referring here to what we have with the Senate-passed bill and the House-passed bill.
Quoting him further:
The 2009 budget resolution instructed both Houses of Congress to enact health care reform. The House and the Senate have passed similar but not identical bills. Since both Houses have acted but some work remains to be done to align the two bills, using reconciliation to implement the instructions in the budget resolution follows established congressional procedure.
I ask unanimous consent to have printed in the Record the full text of this article following my remarks.
(See exhibit 5.)
Mr. SPECTER. So what we have here, essentially, is gridlock created by the composition of the two Houses of Congress. We have a situation where not one Member on the other side of the aisle voted in favor of the health care bill. In the House of Representatives, the vote was 176 to 1; that is, among the 177 Republicans voting, only 1 out of 177 in the House voted in favor. It is hard to see a more precise definition of ``gridlock'' than what appears here.
It would be my hope that we would be able to resolve the issue without resorting to reconciliation. If there is any doubt about the procedure, our institutional integrity would be enhanced without going in that direction. But if you have to fight fire with fire and since it is a legitimate means, then we can use it.
Five years ago, in 2005, the Senate faced a somewhat similar situation when the roles were reversed, when it was the Democrats filibustering judicial nominees of President Bush. And we find that so often it depends on whose ox is being gored as to who takes the position. Some of the most
vociferous objectors to the use of reconciliation on comprehensive health care reform have filled the Congressional Record with statements in favor of using reconciliation in analogous circumstances when it helped their cause. But in the year 2000, it was the Democrats stymying Republican judicial nominees. During the Clinton administration, it was exactly reversed--it was Republicans stymying Clinton's judicial nominees. Fortunately, in 2005 we were able to work out the controversy. We were able to confirm some of the judges, some of the judges were withdrawn, and we did not move for what was called the nuclear option, which would have confirmed judges by 51 votes.
The procedural integrity of the Senate is very important. Without going into great detail, it was the Senate that saved the independence of the Federal judiciary when the Senate acquitted Supreme Court Justice Chase in 1805, and it was the Senate that preserved the power of the Presidency on the impeachment proceeding of Andrew Johnson in 1868. Congress sought to have limited the President's power to discharge a Cabinet officer in the absence of approval by the Senate. Well, the Senate has to confirm, but the Senate doesn't have standing to stop the President from terminating the services of a Cabinet officer. And there, the Senate saved it through the courageous vote of a single Senator--a Kansan, I like to mention, being one originally myself.
So it would be fine if we could find some way to solve the problem, but absent that, this Senate reconciliation procedure is entirely appropriate. We have gotten much more deeply involved in the research and analysis as this issue has come to the floor on comprehensive health coverage.
The gridlock that faces the Senate and the country today has profound implications beyond the legislation itself. It is hard to find something more important than insuring the millions of Americans now not covered or to find something more important than stopping the escalating cost of health insurance, driving many people to be uninsured and raising the prices for small businesses where it cannot be afforded. But the fact is, this gridlock is threatening the capacity in this country to govern--really threatening the capacity to govern.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was before the Subcommittee on Foreign Operations of the Committee on Appropriations, and I asked her about this issue. I asked her about the President not being able to:
..... project the kind of stature and power that he did a year ago because he is being hamstrung by Congress. And it has an impact on foreign policy which we really ought to do everything we can not to have partisanship influence.
Secretary of State Clinton replied as follows:
Senator, I think there is certainly a perception that I encounter in representing our country around the world that supports your characterization. People don't understand the way our system operates, they just don't get it. Their view does color whether the United States is in a position--not just this President but our country--is in a position going forward to demonstrate the kind of unity and strength and effectiveness that I think we have to in this very complex and dangerous world.
She continued a little later:
We have to be attuned to how the rest of the world sees the functioning of our Government. Because it's an asset. It may be an intangible asset, but it's an asset of great importance and as we sell democracy, and we're the lead democracy in the world, I want people to know that we have checks and balances, but we also have the capacity to move too.
So what we find is a diminution of the authority and stature of the President, a diminution of the authority and stature of the Presidency, and ultimately a diminution and reduction in the stature of our country unable to deal with these problems. So it would be my hope we could yet resolve this issue with a little bipartisanship. It would not take a whole lot, but at the moment there is none, with 40 Senators voting no, all those on the other side of the aisle, and 176 out of 177 Republicans in the House voting no. That simply is no way to govern.
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The History of Bulgaria
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Now an Eastern European leader in the fields of science and technology, a nation with impressive renewable energy production capabilities and an extensive communication infrastructure, as well as a top exporter of minerals and metals, Bulgaria has grown both economically and politically over the past two decades. "The History of Bulgaria" examines the country's development, describing its cultural, political, and social history and development over 13 centuries. The modern era is particularly emphasized, including Bulgaria's role in World War II, the long tenure of Communist leader Todor Zhivkov, the role of Aleksandur Stamboliiski and the Bulgarian Agrarian National Union, and the myriad changes in Bulgaria's post-Communist period. The author also highlights significant individuals in Bulgarian history, such as Dimitur Peshev, the Deputy Speaker whose actions saved 50,000 Jews from the Holocaust.
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Brain functional connectivity and sEEG signal processing
Functional connectivity is defined as the “temporal correlations between spatially remote neurophysiological events” (Friston et al., 1993a). Effective connectivity is defined as “the influence that one neural system exerts over another either directly or indirectly” (Friston et al., 1993b). Comparing functional with effective connectivity is crucial to understand the difference between descriptions of patterns of neural activity and possible explanations of their origins. In particular, functional connectivity reduces to testing the null hypothesis that activity in two regions shares no mutual information. Mutual information is a statistical description of the degree to which two regions demonstrate similar behaviour or statistical interdependence (Cover and Thomas, 1991). By contrast, characterising brain activity in terms of effective connectivity involves detecting causal interactions among neural elements. A straightforward approach to assess effective connectivity requires perturbing a subset of neurons and detecting the response to this local perturbation in the rest of the system (Paus T). Measuring functional connectivity only requires observing the spontaneous activity of the brain and is generally more practical, on the other hand, the presence of temporal correlation does not always grant that two groups of neurons are interacting. For example two groups of neurons, A and B, may share mutual information just because they receive a common input by a third group of neurons C. However, in this case, perturbing A would have no effects on B and effective connectivity would be null. The aim of the present work is to explore the relationships between functional connectivity and effective connectivity in the human cerebral cortex. To accomplish to this task we are working onto sEEG resting state potentials and iEEG registration sessions over patients affected by drug resistant focal epilepsy.
Stereo-electroencephalography (sEEG) is an biological signals acquisition methods that relies on intra cerebral electrodes implanted into the brain that record deep neural potentials. sEEG allows to avoid volume conduction and to obtain an excellent Signal to Noise Ratio recording activity directly from the grey matter of the human brain. Using sEEG recordings can be useful to compare functional and effective connectivity. The acronym iEEG stands for intra-cerebral electroencephalography stimulation that is a highly invasive technique that aims to evaluate the influence of a stimulation in a specific brain region over the entire cerebral cortex.
Indeed, functional connectivity can be measured applying mutual-information technique or Granger causality directly on segments of resting state sEEG activity. Effective connectivity, instead, can be measured applying a perturbational approach using sEEG synchronized with electrical intracerebral stimulation. This two techniques can be cross-validated a posteriori and mutual information of resting-state, once validated using perturbational approach, could be used to obtain an interactive 3D atlas map of human brain.
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Cowboys fans can't wait for training camp to start! - Jayne Kamin-Oncea-US PRESSWIRE
With less than three weeks to go until things kick off in Oxnard, we offer you a training camp primer, packed with insight into what NFL coaches look for during camp.
In less than a fortnight, I'll be flying to Southern California to join the Cowboys on Oxnard's sun-drenched, ocean-breeze-cooled practice fields to witness our heroes up close and in action. And I do mean up close: there are two fields at the River Ridge complex; the closer of the two is perhaps ten feet from the short fence where fans gather, making it possible, for example, to hear every word the assistant coaches say to (or yell at) their players when they break up into position groups. During goal line drills, the ground literally shakes beneath the fans' feet.
From that vantage point, priority one will be to bring you as much clarity as possible about what, exactly, is happening with the team we spend so much time following. This occurs on both microcosmic and macrocosmic levels; on one hand, I will try to focus on individual players and plays (taking into consideration issues of technique, route running, speed and quickness), on the other, I hope to monitor more global issues, like the developing story at critical position battles, who will man each starting unit, and which players are likely to make the 53-man roster.
In 2007, Marc Trestman, who was recently hired to be the Bears new head coach, wrote an article for Sports Illustrated (no link; its no longer available online) in which he offered a "how to" primer for watching training camp practices the way that NFL coaches do. Want to study the team instead of merely watching it? Here are Trestman's ten tips for watching training camp like a coach by looking for the things they consider important:
1. Protect the QB
Most head coaches will tell you that as much as they want tough, physical practices, their most important job during practice is player safety. The CBA and salary cap makes an injury to a starter, and especially a starting quarterback, a catastrophic event that can ruin a season. Coaching staffs, Trestman reports, try hard to instill what he terms a "common respect" in players and demands they make a conscious attempt to avoid a situation that could lead to a teammate's injury.
And this starts with the quarterback. Defensive coaches must communicate to all pass-rushers, including blitzing Linebackers and DBs, that they must avoid the QB. This avoidance relies on several key precepts:
• The quarterback should always be allowed to complete the entire throwing motion on every play in practice.
• Defensive players must avoid "ducking" in front of the quarterback, because the QB could get his hand caught in a passing facemask or shoulder pad.
• A defensive player should run by the QB if the defender gets free.
• Defensive lineman shouldn't be pushing offensive linemen back into the signal caller with a "bull rush," as it can expose his legs to injury.
Hey, Tony Romo and Co. wear different colored jerseys in practice for a reason, right?
2. Players should be finishing
This is "so big in NFL practices," Trestman reports. All players should be going as fast as they can until the whistle. As one example, when a pass is completed in practice:
• All eleven defensive players must run to the ball, taking the appropriate pursuit angles to the ballcarrier.
• Offensive linemen must turn and run to help the ballcarrier get a block (and to be in position to cover a loose ball). This is a time when you may hear Bill Callahan or Frank Pollack yell, "cover!"
• All other downfield players "go to the ball" to get that key block to spring the receiver free.
• The ballcarrier must explode and score, running the length of the field with intensity and purpose.
Both Jimmy Johnson and Bill Parcells asked players to work so hard during the week that, by comparison, Sundays were a bit of a reprieve, and I know Jason Garrett wants to create as close to such a situation as the CBA will allow. I'll be looking to see how effectively this is accomplished.
3. The ball should stay off the ground
Trestman avers, "An NFL quarterback should be able to properly locate the ball 100 percent of the time in practice." When he uses the word "locate," he's referring to accuracy. Tony Romo should throw the ball in an optimal location for his receivers to make the reception and, on crossing routes, get yards after the catch. He and Kyle Orton should keep the receivers' bodies between the ball and the defender. Responsibility for keeping the ball off the ground doesn't fall exclusively in the QBs laps, however; receivers and running backs need to catch the passes that are thrown to them; when they do, Trestman notes, it signifies a high level of focus and concentration in practice - which will be important a week to ten days in, when the players get physically and mentally fatigued.
4. Its all about tempo
One of Garrett's primary watchwords is "tempo." Indeed, the first thing he changed once he became head coach was to ratchet up the tempo during in-season practices. No longer were players standing around, watching other guys run, block and catch; now, everybody was involved, all the time. There are a couple of key advantages to up-tempo practices: 1) it keeps players on their feet, moving and thinking quickly, and maintaining a high energy level; 2) it asks players to practice at the same tempo (and levels of effort and concentration) that they will need in games; 3) players thus work on their timing at game speeds; 4) it cuts down on wasted time, therefore allowing players to get more out of less practice time.
How can we determine whether practices are up-tempo? Trestman offers some clues:
• Once the whistle blows, see how quickly the coaches get their players to the next play. In training camp, coaches coach "on the run." This is a term used to describe the fact that the tempo or pace between plays isn't generally stopped for a coaching explanation. Rather, points are hit on quickly and then discussed at length in post-practice film reviews.
• See how quickly the ball boys have the ball spotted for the next play
• Do the players run to the ball?
• Notice how quickly the next drill starts. This speaks to how well the coaching staff has organized the practice and communicated a sense of urgency and expectations to their players. The only time there should be a delay, Trestman notes, is if the coaches allow a break for the heat.
5. Watch for pre-snap penalties
NFL players are taught that pre-snap penalties cannot be tolerated. Unlike other kinds of penalties, which tend to result from physical situations (and are subject to an official's interpretation), pre-snap penalties are the result of mental lapses and lack of focus. And, as we know, the Cowboys were plagued by these last year, especially early in the season. So: are players jumping offsides? jumping the snap count? Are defensive linemen (or OLBs) being drawn offsides? Are receivers in motion heading upfield before the ball is snapped? Are quarterbacks pulling out early? Centers snapping the ball late? A focused squad will have very few of these unforced errors.
6. Look carefully at match-ups
The level of intensity is at the highest when players of equal ability are practicing against each other, as that gives the top players their best chance to improve. So: are starters working against starters? Is Miles Austin lining up against Brandon Carr? Tyron Smith against DeMarcus Ware? Is Sean Lee covering Demarco Murray out of the backfield? If so, how are each of these men faring in his specific matchup? In particular, watching the best-on-best matches gives us the clearest idea of how well (or poorly) a given player is likely to perform on Sundays.
7. Watch the turnover battle
During the season, its fairly certain that whoever wins the turnover battle wins the game. So, Trestman suggests that observers "grade the practice" on how well the team handles the ball. Some questions to be asked:
• Were there any center-quarterback exchange problems?
• Were there any ballhandling errors between quarterbacks and running backs? Does the quarterback look the ball all the way in to the ballcarrier's hands, and do ballcarriers have the ball securely tucked away?
• Did the quarterback ever expose the ball to the defense in the pocket? If the coaching staff is coaching their charges to avoid turnovers, Tony Romo should have two hands on the ball and should never drop it below his waist. Both of these "don't do"s expose the ball to oncoming and blind-side rushers, resulting in a much greater potential for turnovers.
• When in a crowd, do players cover the ball with two hands?
8. Look for grabbin' and pullin'
Players should avoid grabbing and pulling other players' jerseys. At first glance, this would appear to be a penalty issue, especially along the offensive and defensive lines. To avoid holding penalties in games, coaches shouldn't allow any kind of holding in practices. But Trestman points out that getting handsy extends to the integrity of the practice. If defensive players grab the opposing ballcarriers' jersey, for example, they prevent both units from "finishing" the play. Other defenders cannot establish correct pursuit angles, nor can they adopt proper tackling position. Offensive players can't "finish" (see number two above). Lastly, this figures as a safety issue; grabbing a players jersey when he is running free is tantamount to a horse collar tackle, and a potential source of leg injuries.
9. Players should be off the ground
When players are on the ground, that's when leg and shoulder injuries are most likely to occur, as another player falls on them when a leg or arm is extended. Veteran players should know how important it is to keep their feet moving until the whistle blows, to avoid leg injuries, and to stay off the turf. Along these lines, Trestman declares, we'll see some things in practices that we won't in games:
• We won't see a lineman executing any kind of cut block or blocks below the waist. If he does, and endangers a teammate, he might just get his walking papers that afternoon.
• When wideouts block downfield, we won't see them block below the waist.
• Receivers or pass defenders should not leave their feet to dive for the ball. Awkward landings must be avoided at all costs.
• Similarly, players shouldn't dive or pile up to retrieve a fumble.
10. Training camp fisticuffs
When it is hot and players get cranky and tired of hitting each other play after play and day after day, its easy for tempers to get short and guys to lash out if his opponent plays after the whistle or gets his hands up under the facemask. What was formerly an annual training camp rite of passage (and was often orchestrated by coaches to test their players) is now seen as another opportunity to damage an organization's expensive goods. As Trestman puts it, "If your $6 million-a-year left tackle breaks his hand, who will replace him?" The answer: Darrion Weems. Yikes.
If a lot of these precepts seem geared to injury concerns, its because they are. While Jason Garrett and Co. want to install their systems, work diligently on technique, learn to execute precisely and to compete hard, they do so while negotiating a constant fear that a key player, a Romo, Ware or Jason Witten, will be lost for an extended period of time and, as a result, the season will be in jeopardy before it ever gets going. Its this concern that kept so many players on the sidelines during OTAs and minicamps, nursing the smallest of dings; the same concern will govern many of the team's decisions during the preseason. Guys will be sidelined for injuries they would almost certainly play through during the regular season.
For coaches, its a two-edged sword: think back to training camp in 2010, when the first week of salty practices came to an abrupt halt when Dez Bryant went down with a leg injury. The coaching staff immediately dialed down the intensity level, and the team practiced without focus or tempo for the rest of the preseason. They went into the regular season soft and unprepared, and lurched to a 1-7 record. To my mind, that's worse than losing one of the stars for ten games. With that in mind, the watchword in Oxnard must be "balance": the team must strike a delicate equipoise between ferocity and safety.
I don't know about you, but July 20 can't come soon enough...
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Post Election Reflection: The Task Before Us. Our Hope is in Jesus Christ
The outcome of Tuesday's election does not bode well for life and family
On the surface, there is little cause for hope. But we don't live just on the surface, do we? Was our hope placed in a candidate for president, or is it in Jesus Christ, the Way, the Truth and the Life?
FRONT ROYAL, VA (Catholic Online) - With a few days' perspective since the election, we can see things a bit more clearly. We should be honest about the situation for the pro-life community as we can best understand it.
The outcome of Tuesday's election does not bode well for life and family -- that is, for our most vulnerable brothers and sisters at the beginning and near the end of life; and for the natural, foundational institution of every society.
That this administration has made it a priority to attack both is well known, as is their sustained assault on the freedom of religion. Just as sadly, judging by exit polls, many Catholics do not appear to be concerned about these facts, but have bought into some understanding of "justice" that allows for the wholesale destruction of unborn human beings, the erosion of fundamental liberties and the elevation of destructive and sinful conduct to the level of a human right.
On the surface, there is little cause for hope. But we don't live just on the surface, do we? Was our hope placed in a candidate for president, or is it in Jesus Christ, the Way, the Truth and the Life? The Glory of God is not diminished in the least by the darkness that a slim majority of our nation has unwittingly chosen. It will be obscured for sure, but that is where we come in.
As it always has been, we have to bring Christ to the world. Dead is the idea that we can live with a middling "go along to get along" kind of faith, and many of our more confused brothers and sisters are starting to wake up to this fact. We need to be there for them, and we need to get more serious as well.
It is fine to hope for an improved political and financial situation -- we have to. We also have to as Christians act to bring these about with our votes and by making our case to family, friends and in public. But our hope, unless it was misplaced, was never in these mere transitory things.
Brothers and sisters, this is no time to put our tails between our legs and run in fear. Christians are not cowards. We have hope not because of a rosy political and economic outlook, but because the One who is Hope has promised to be with us, and has invited us to be with Him for all eternity.
If we understand this basic truth of our faith, if we truly place our hope in Him, it takes on a whole different aspect of our lives. As Pope Benedict so beautifully put it in Spe Salvi, it becomes performative, that is, it changes everything and moves us toward greater virtue and trust in Him.
We have seen this in the saints, haven't we? One cannot read the lives of the saints and then look around at the truly precarious situation we find ourselves in and lose hope! This has happened before, and it will happen again. But we continue to fight.
For Human Life International and our supporters this means we continue to oppose the anti-life juggernaut that spends billions every year killing unborn children and trying to convince the world that children are an obstacle to progress.
We work in solidarity with our brothers and sisters in Africa who still love life and family enough to resist the seduction of the "reproductive health" salesmen, who tell us that "health" means no reproduction.
We joyfully stand with Latin America, where faith is still recognized by most as essential to the identity of nations, communities and families.
We pray that Europe might still recover its Christian soul and return to a culture of life, just as we pray and work to see that Asia turn back from its embrace of the culture of death and its more dynamic economies might also become genuinely pro-life societies.
And here in the U.S. we have to be beacons of hope and light and show the world that not everyone here has given up on God and on freedom.
That is, we do what we have done, but with greater fervor, hope and joy! We must get better at making the case for life and family, but let our own faithful lives be the true argument. Let those who thought they could buy the infertility and loyalty of the world see in us a loving and courageous force that has no intention of standing down.
Let them ask, "Don't these people ever give up?" while our lived "Of course not!" comes from joyful voices and an unchecked resolve to proclaim the Gospel of Life.
We are far from done, even if our desired political outcome is unrealized. If you are struggling with despair over the election, you need to refocus your hope where it should have been all along. This is an opportunity for all of us to get serious and get to work. We might even be grateful that the choice is that much clearer as we redouble our efforts to grow in holiness and to fight for life and family.
Fr. Shenan Boquet is the President of Human Life International.
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1. Paul-Emile Leray
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Very well done, both the video and the written article above. Courageous and strong. It is good to be a little crazy (in the good sense, a "fool for God") in a world of crazies to win over the true crazies. And? ENJOY it. What else is there to do? Life would be BORING without all these challenges. One way to win is to let the devil dance his dance OR to spin the record player faster and faster until you dizzy him up so much that he drops dead from his foolishness. Let the devil dance his dance, in some cases, as one Archbishop put it many years ago. (he was referring to scruples, most probably, but even if taken out of full context it still has its place with some expounding to preserve intellectual integrity) This does not mean to remain silent nor does it mean to fall into indifference or inaction. It simply means to see reality as it is. Then? Then, plan and act accordingly. In this case, the devils are dancing. Spin the record player and change the scripts and stages so that the mob goes into violent revolutions within for peaceful revolutions outwardly to demand new actors for new plays inside new theatres. How? A change of hearts: St. Paul. If men are to change, they must first change their hearts. True? True. NO political ideology or system or structure or legal system or bureaucracy or administration or organization can control the hearts, spirits, souls inside men. NONE. Which is why the old Shoguns of Japan once feared Christians, in part, because deep down they knew that true Christians bowed to NO MAN. Clear? Good. Obama is "future worm food", (ref; Jesuit writer and scholar) as are all of us. Human. Not God. Not Jesus. Not God Incarnate (Jesus). A man. Obama is a man. Period. Like them, like us, like you, like me, like every single human on the planet. BOW TO NO MAN, PERIOD; unless out of nothing but superficial courtesy and politeness and custom, like a well trained maniac and robotic dimwitted dumbed down politically correct braindead frightened out his wits imbecile with no capacity for independent rational critical thinking and objectivity. Do people still read the US constitution these days? What in the world are people doing putting politicians up on pedestals? In a democracy such as America's, you ought to be RIVETTING THEM MERCILESSLY. Rivet them (politicians) so their heads are steeple-headed, button-headed, countersunk, or coneheaded. But be sure to rivet. Enjoy it! Become a master in the lost art of rivetting, receive a journeyman ticket in the art of rivetting. A fine trade! One of the best. It's a great feeling turning ignorant politicians inside-out to see their hearts, spirits, souls, minds, overhauled on the lawn to then re-assemble them; even better when done publically as Jesus did with the Pharisees. I openly DESPISE the SOPHISTIC power and control hungry deceptive con artists! Are the people asleep? Washington ought to be frightened out of their wits that the Americans themselves don't overthrow the entire political system and governments, as some wise ones often did in Europe over centuries long in the his-story books. After all, as some great writers once put it, "revolutions often occur for good reasons". If I was a politician or judge or lawyer, I would be walking silently on egg-shells the WORLD over right about now. Use the internet, use technology, peacefully, to RIVET the living daylights out these manipulative fools! Sometimes when light doesn't enter the soul from the outside, one must place it inside the depths of the soul to then pull the pin from far away and have it ignite and blow up inside according to The Holy Spirit's timing and will. Only The Holy Spirit can give light, but we can assist Him in the process through prayer which takes place in many shapes and forms. Horses that are dehydrated still might not feel like drinking fresh water. Then what? Immerse them in water! (haha!) And if some of them drown, all the better! (might as well have a sense of humour given the state of the world) Sometimes a good teacher knows how to place the teachings inside the depths of the soul to then quickly plug all the holes in the ears, nostrils, and mouth for fear of anything leaking out! Carry at least 5 rubber plugs on you at all times, for the head. Bath-tub sized configurations are not necessary except for perhaps the mouth. How has that Freedom 55 golf club membership and roasted sunburned lobster dream beach image been working out for the baby boomers who are losing their retirement investment portfolios as I write this? What a great optimistic altitudinal platitudinal feeling it is, isn't it? Now, go and buy another self help book from some Hollywood maniac who knows everything about money and marketing and NOTHING about spirituality and helping who? YOU, the public. NO human, no system, no ideology, no government, no thing or material possession, can make anyone fully happy. Degrees of happiness may be increased or decreased from people and things. True happiness? Your best friend ought to be Jesus. NO human, given original sin, given the fallen nature of man, given many things, ought to be fully trusted all the time and no human ought to be burdened with the expectation of making another fully happy all the time. How selfish to expect another human to "make you happy". What a pile of SAPS, our modern cultures have become. Emoters, opiners, whiners, and weak emotionally low EQ (often high IQ) SAPS. Entitlement mentalities. Get lost. I am SICK of many people, even many Catholics. (whining crying weak kneed egotistical maniacs, some of them) I hope more priests, such as this apparent fine one in the video, continue to rise with calm yet firm focus while remaining rooted in The One. Turning politicians inside-out and outside-in and back and forth and making them dance like the PUPPETS they are, is what? Fun! I openly, in WRITING, despise them. I LOVE reading the newspapers and obituraries of politicians. (even though their short biographical accounts are often disastrous to the eyes) Make them dance for most will say, do, and practically jump to any tune (even country music crying about lost cattle and broken down farms and the neighbor's calf having been roasted on the barbed wire electric fence) if it means staying in power and maintaining control on YOUR taxes. Fools look up to them. Take them seriously, in the sense of how much damage they can do. If they were saints and geniuses, unless there are a bunch of St. Thomas More types inside there, let me just say this to finish by quoting Einstein, paraphrased: he didn't think he had the people skills to be a politician. Most of them just like giving speeches at BBQs and attending rodeos and sports stadium gatherings, etc. Give them a crowd to crow to and they are often happy. They'll practically say anything for power or their reputations, so as a democracy simply put the words in their mouths and write the scripts for them. After they are dead, if the scripts were accurate then they'll be thanking you from heaven since their names might just be seen in a good light inside the his-story books instead of laughed at everytime a his-story book gets opened up. (a subjective interpretation of events written by subjective emotionally filled his-story-ians often close to events and further subjectively interpreted by subjective readers since readers are also what? Human, therefore flawed.) Look at the Cadaver Synod. For the rest of time and as long as mankind exists, the world will laugh at that episode in his-story. Placing a dead corpse on trial? That takes the cake and all the candles on top. And having another person answer for the dead corpse on trial, that was what? Tragic comedy as its finest hour. Even Shakespeare or Blaise Pascal couldn't possibly have dreamt up anything as ridiculous as that. There is one potentiality that could have been better. Formosus could have remained dead while on trial. Then, the other Pope questionning could also have been dead. And, instead of someone answering for Formosus the same person could have been answering for both the Pope on the trial chair plus the Pope doing the questionning and persecuting. That would have been an even better tragic comedy. But Formosus will have to do. That is as good as it got. I must be satisfied with this, for anything more than what happened would risk having me die from laughter and a heart attack. And the only light Hitler ever saw was when he finally shot himself! Too bad he didn't do it sooner! Over 10,000,000 innocents might have been saved. And what is King Henry the VIIIth, another blood thirsty half witted maniac doing these days from wherever he is? And how about the "let them eat cake" lady in France, another egotistical maniac! Confessions are great. And so are what? FUNERALS! I love them. It makes me realize with great humility where I too will end up one day. Inside the wooden box, toes upwards with my eyelids hopefully closed and let nobody forget to close my mouth unless sticking a bouquet of flowers inside there. (just a little comedy to keep people on their toes!) Why don't some characters (the good ones) be placed facing the onlookers while inside the coffins, while the bad characters be placed facing downwards in shame with their backs to the public while inside the casket during the funeral? Just an idea. It doesn't cost anything to put it forth. And put ice on the bottom and on top of the bad characters and fill the entire coffin with ice before sending it to the hearse! And let the grave be filled with ice too before the two scoops of raisin bran and buckets of gravel get dropped on it. It'll be the last time some feel "cool and hip" before roasting on the coals of hell! What is hell and where is it? Exactly where is it located? If anyone out there has the answer, let me know. I can't find it on the atlas or with my limited perception of the universe. Where is hell? Some of it is inside people. Some of it is right here right now. Degrees of heaven and hell and purgatory and elements of it are possibly right here right now. A fore-taste, in potential part, possibly in the speculative sense exists right here right now. And what are those lively taste buds telling us? Is there one toe already in heaven, purgatory, or hell? God given free will and proper understanding and implementation thereof can increase degrees of elements of heaven right here right now on planet earth. What is so difficult about this to understand? It is simple. The blueprint is already there for us. Good! We don't even have to design the blueprint. Simply, living it. Doing it. Being Christian and Catholic. Living it out. Living it in, first. In-out, out-in, in-out; a little like a game of inner tennis inside our own souls. I have another dangerous fun idea. What about a stick of dynamite placed inside the mouth of a politician who did not lead properly, with a fuse burning as the eulogy is being read, with everyone rushing to bury him or her to then have it explode underground just after the lawn has been placed on top of the burial spot? If that doesn't please some, then lengthen the fuse to have it blow up long after the sandwiches and coffee session and mourning period are over with at the hall. Here's another dangerous idea. How about a graveyard with 2 sections? One, for the wise and humble of heart and spirit. Another section for the fools and arrogant and ignorant. Why place people together in terms of families or genetic groupings? Why not in terms of WISDOM as properly defined? Just playing with ideas, after all they are what? Free! And many of them are dangerous, which explains in part why ideologies don't work. Ideologies? Well, now I have to build a house filled with cats and mice. And according to my plans, it will be a happily ever after story....after all the mice have been eaten! Natural laws. Obey them, or risk turning red in the face while our own eulogies are being read. Some of them might be so shocking if the TRUTH were told, that it might bring back some to life right on the spot! When will unemployment in Spain and Greece reach 30%? And the leaders are enlightened? Please. Don't insult all of our intelligence, we mere poor saps and citizens. Didn't most of those bright lights go to Harvard, Princeton, Yale, the London School of Economics, La Sorbonne, Oxford, Cambridge? Oh my, what geniuses they produce! For anyone unaware of this, Shakespeare was a theologian first, a philosopher second, a writer third, and a dramatist fourth. In that order. Period. And most PHD academics at universities who teach Shakespeare are not aware of this fact. No wonder most of our students are clueless, the teachers themselves are nuts. It's nobody's fault, since the teachers of the teachers were likely nuts and insane and ignorant as well. And round and round the world spins, on the 23.5 degree axis on which it spins. How is everyone's voyage through space and time going? Having fun? Enjoy it, because one day you'll be dead. Don't like this fact? Don't blame me. I am only human. Take the issue up with God. I, for one, am super happy I am simply a mere human (all it is and all it is not) for I sleep like a rock in peace while resting in the arms of Jesus after a wise man and friend told me in writing to "rest in the arms of Jesus". How comforting. I don't feel safe politicians are apparently running many things "of" this world, the more of them there are the less safe I feel! Less is more. The more dependent one becomes on Jesus the less dependent one becomes on people, things, and things "of this world". Often (usually) empty illusions, the things "of this world". And baby-boomers? Your ideologies were often nuts and your kids are often more clueless, which is in part why I hate teaching at present. The monster parents are more stupid than their children! There you have it, IN WRITING. No, all your kids are not saints and let them do something BEFORE classifying all of them as geniuses and mystics in your entitlement mentality unionized bureaucratic ideological "no child left behind" programs. No child left behind? If they don't do their homework, they'll be left behind no matter how much spoon feeding you give them and how many motivational stupid cassettes you plug into their tiny peanut brains! The less I have to teach in the future, the better. The kids are often great, just kids. The parents? Kids with bigger bodies and less hair and more fat and a few more wrinkles, in most cases. Sometimes a little tiny teaspoon of vinegar goes well with a larger spoon of honey to attract flies and keep them nice and aligned and disciplined. Only honey? It risks attracting so many flies that the honey-giver might just drown in fly droppings! St. Francis de Sales didn't tell us that part, did he! I am not about to drown in the droppings of flies and know from experience that sometimes a barrelful of vinegar stuns the flies into appreciating the honey more whenever they get it. Keep a barrel of honey in one hand, but with a jar of salted vinegar in the other in the event the flies try beating the honey giver over the head with the honey barrel before flying away after having eaten all the honey!
Paul-Emile Leray
2. Debbie
1 year ago
As a Catholic that is Pro-Life and believes that marriage is between one man and one woman I am finding that those with similar beliefs in my parish are becoming fewer and fewer. There are so many in my parish at attend Mass weekly, and are very loving, giving, active members in my community, and they are Pro-Choice/Contraception and/or support same sex marriage.
Out of frustration, me and others in my parish have been distancing ourselves from our parish for some time. While some may take us to task and criticize that we are not loving our neighbor as ourselves, and our actions are not healthy. For me at least I do understand this: The same message I hear every week at Mass is the same message heard by those that hold opposing beliefs on the church teachings. I cannot change their hearts and minds just like they cannot change mine. Therefore, I have found more peace in giving my time, money and talent to those that hold the same beliefs as mine.
Our Bishops and Priests have their hands full, I'm not sure how we arrive at unity within the church? Especially when there is not unity among our Bishops and Priests, there are those support abortion, use of contraception, and same sex marriage, just as there are those that do not. These are beliefs, and are held as the truth, because these beliefs were developed through the teachings of our church.
I do believe that the Holy Spirit will continue to lead us and we will continue to grow strong, for some of us that will develop outside of our home parish.
3. Tom McGuire
1 year ago
Why do you assume that those who did not choose to vote for Romney-Ryan are in favor of mass killing of innocent babies? If we want to build ecclesial communion the true effective witness of Christ among us, we must find a way to dialogue with people of different political views. Judgment of the person is for God, judgment of actions is for humans to struggle with. If Catholics are serious about the Good News of Jesus Christ for all citizens of the world, the need for dialogue with those who differ in their understanding of the most basic moral principles is a necessity.
4. Kathy Welhouse
1 year ago
This was a very well written article, and gives me hope for America. Thank you.
5. John
1 year ago
Great and very informative article.. We have a lot of work to do as christians. First, do not call yourself catholuic (christian) just because you had your head washed in baptism. Christianity is more and more than that. To call yourself practicing catholic, youi Must hee3d the words of Jesus Christ and His Church. God Bless America and nmay God be the center of our lives.
6. mike robertson
1 year ago
Wonderful article, Father. Bless you.
Catholic democrats must be held accountable for accepting an evil platform in exchange for an arrogant claim to have a monopoly on compassion. How? By claiming that leading us and our children into a Greek-like economic collapse brought about by an endless, unsustainable array of "social justice" programs. The only way Catholic democrats are correct is that they are making us all equal-that is, all equally poor and miserable.
We must also not be afraid to acknowledge that, although only God knows our hearts, we have not been afraid to call others evil-David Duke, members of the Klan, George Wallace (when he was a segregationist), the former South African apartheid-era leaders, etc. Therefore, I am not ashamed to add the present occupant of the White House to that list. He favors infanticide even after the baby survives the attempt to kill her in her mom's womb. He claims that he is right and God is wrong as to what constitutes Holy Matrimony and he is presently threatening the Church and her institutions with his "healthcare" mandates, etc.
Lastly, we can all make the error of worshiping false gods. Too many Christians have made a false god out of race-voting for an evil platform because a candidate's father was born in a certain place.
So, Catholic democrats, continue voting for an evil platform. As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
7. Cab
1 year ago
Here's the thing to understand. People need to understand why Catholics voted for Obama despite his obvious anti-life stance. If you are a Black Catholic you see the republicans as taking stanses against them personally and thus racist. My evidence? Just look at the redistricting games republicans play just to get 3 white districts to one black district. Or voting in Black districts had less booths the whites in states with Repuclican governors. This list goes on. If you are a Latino American you see the republicans taking hard stances against them personally. Just look at Arizona law, right or wrong. Just look at Mitt Romeney's position of "self deportation" and his willingness to send children of illegals who have grown up American for more than 5 years and speak English back to Mexico to go where? If you are a women you see the republicans say rape if not an exception to use a morning after pill and they should accept the child asGod's will. I mean these folks didn't see Mitt Romney. They also saw the meaness of people like Trump and Limbaugh.
8. Dr.A.Celestine Raj Manohar M.D.,
1 year ago
In an election, one wins and the other has to lose! If we strongly believe that it is God who makes and unmakes leaders and rulers, we need not feel scared about the aftermath of the elections. we must pray that God should bring about a change of heart in those in authority and many things will take care of themselves. why to worry about the morrow when today has enough of its own? let's hope goodness and righteousness triumphs ultimately and God's plans will succeed no matter how human history changes!this calls for Christians to stay unified in the Lord and to pray with a renewed spirit and fervor from the heart so that the days to come may not be as scary as they seem to be!
9. abey
1 year ago
Two thousand years since Christ died & resurrected, it is not past the time for hope to give way to the Faith since hope is not for an ever but Faith is.
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The Twelve Songs Of Christmas Series: Song #11
#11 - The Harry Simeone Chorale "The Little Drummer Boy" (1958)
Click above to hear "The Little Drummer Boy"
Timeless. Definitive. Classic. Traditional. How does a song or a recording of a song attain the status where those descriptive terms are appropriate? There are many factors, many reasons, but what takes a song from a composition to a recording to a tradition enjoyed by generations to follow after the initial release or premiere? There is no right answer, rather it becomes a combination of factors that ultimately determine those pieces of music that are in fact timeless.
One of those recordings is The Little Drummer Boy, as recorded by The Harry Simeone Chorale and released in 1958.
It’s amazing to listen and think the recording dates to 1958, and the song itself from 1941. It sounds for all the world like a traditional chorale which had been sung for several hundred years.
Where did it originate, how did it develop, what was changed or revised to create the definitive recording of the song itself?
Katherine Kennicott Davis
The song was composed in 1941 by a composer and music teacher named Katherine Kennicott Davis. Having studied music and composition at Wellesley, she also studied at the New England Conservatory among others, winning various awards and prizes for composition. She would go on to teach music at various academies and private schools for girls, including one in Philadelphia. As she taught and continued to compose, she saw a lack of chorale and choir pieces composed not only for girls but also for untrained singers, and she began to write and arrange her own compositions to fill that void. She would eventually write six hundred compositions, among those a piece called “Carol Of The Drum”, and all of the profits she saw from her catalog of music would be donated to Wellesley’s music department, a trust which continues to fund music education to this day.
“Carol Of The Drum” was based on a Czech carol, the specific music on which it was based has never been positively identified, however the Czech “Rocking Carol” as collected and published in 1928 is the best guess according to sources. The lyrics, according to Davis, came to her as she was nodding off to sleep, and all but wrote themselves. The song was published in 1941.
"Carol Of The Drum" by The Trapp Family Singers sheet music
The first recording to introduce the song to the public’s attention was released in the mid-50’s by “The Trapp Family Singers”, who were indeed the von Trapp family, subjects of “The Sound Of Music”. It enjoyed some success and some attention, and inspired at least one subsequent cover version a few years later, but again nothing on a large scale of popularity.
Harry Simeone
Enter Harry Simeone. Harry was an arranger and conductor who had worked with Fred Waring, among others. As he was contracted to record a Christmas album, his friend Harry Onorati who had worked on the arrangement for the Jack Halloran version recommended the song “Carol Of The Drum”, and Simeone rearranged it even further, taking cues from the von Trapp’s version as well as the Onorati arrangement by the Jack Halloran Singers. Adding several elements and reworking or revising others, he recorded the new arrangement with the group he had assembled and called “The Harry Simeone Chorale”, eventually releasing the song and album on Dot Records in 1958.
And it became a perennial classic, a timeless classic.
What made Harry Simeone’s version stand out? For one, the song itself is brilliant in its simplicity. Just as Katherine K. Davis had identified and tried to fill the need for songs appropriate for untrained singers, as well as female groups, the song has little harmony and an easy to sing melody…which also creates a song and melody which those listening can easily remember, if not sing along after just a few listens. It is wholly in the tradition of folk music, and the folk process in general, as well as some of the more traditional Christmas carols which were designed to be easier to perform and sing, as well as less challenging and more memorable for the audience, encouraging them in fact to participate and sing along.
The recording and arrangement done by Simeone is again brilliant in its simplicity, yet Someone (and Onorati) managed to add a few touches which transformed the song from the earlier versions. If we consider the Trapp Family‘s version, they obviously are a smaller vocal group, but are basically following the same melody and lyrics. The female voices carry the lead, while the male bass voices carry the drum-like rhythmic pulse, based on parade-like snare drum rhythms. However, the male voices singing the “drum” parts do not stray from the tonic bass note, in fact for most if not all of the recording they stay on a pedal tone of sorts, delivering a monotone, single-note rhythm which pulses underneath. The rhythms they sing are also more simple, and less layered, than subsequent versions.
Simeone‘s recording, on the other hand, added a melodic element to those bass voices, as well as offering more complex and layered rhythm figures as the song develops, closer to a full orchestral percussion section. They are transformed from emulating a snare drum into a full drum section, with bass, snare, and the key addition: Tympani-like voices. With those strong melodic elements in the bass voices, they act as both the rhythmic foundation acting as the “percussion” as well as providing a strong and memorable melodic counterpoint to the main melody.
The first sound you hear on the record is the bass voices providing the drum beat. Eschewing what many arrangers would think of when charting a song about a drummer, there is no actual percussion on the record. Except, that is, for a well placed triangle, chiming accents on beats three and four after each vocal phrase is sung by the high voices. It punctuates each phrase, as well as adding an almost reverent chime or bell-like effect to the performance. Again, an addition brilliant in its simplicity, and a simple triangle part which speaks with more power than a full line of actual drums in this context.
The record was first issued in mono, then given a stereo mix. I’d recommend listening to the stereo mix, not only is it the most familiar at this point, but there is a certain power to the separation of the voices which the stereo enhances. Listen on a system capable of reproducing bass frequencies well, and by all means turn it up loud enough to hear the “rumble” created solely by a vocal group. Technically, for not only 1958 standards but also modern bass expectations, the song sounds massive - and thus we may find some of the power of the recording itself, why many if not most consider the Simeone version the definitive recording and arrangement of the song. The advancing recording and mixing technologies of the late 1950’s made it possible to add that element - not only the sound itself but the way it is captured and reproduced - to create a classic.
The power and success of any recording needs to start with the song itself. Everything on top of the song is window dressing, ultimately, no matter how much a certain element of the process enhances it. With “The Little Drummer Boy”, a.k.a. “Carol Of The Drum”, Davis succeeded in creating a song simple enough to be performed by choirs both trained and amateur, with a lyrical theme that is universal and compelling.
The story is of a musician, a boy with a drum, wanting to offer a gift surrounded by others offering lavish gifts but himself not able to give anything as lavish or expensive, saying “I am a poor boy too“. But his gift is of music, of his talent as a musician, saying essentially I have no gifts to give but I’ll play for you, not only will I play but I’ll play my best on this drum. I’ll give something of myself, not in the form of a material gift but in the form of music and sharing my talent and gift.
When placed in a certain context, hearing those lyrics, those sentiments, surrounded by a powerful yet sparse and simple musical arrangement…it’s enough to make some of us sentimental types well up or choke up just a bit…and it’s a beautiful sentiment found in a beautiful song.
How fitting, how almost perfect is it that the royalties and profits earned in part from this song have been donated not only by Davis’ estate but also by Simeone’s estate to fund music education, through scholarships and grants valued at millions of dollars?
Thursday, December 12, 2013
The Twelve Songs Of Christmas Series: Song #12
On the twelfth day of Christmas, my true, it's not that kind of scene. Please enjoy a series of twelve essays, reviews, and musical musings on twelve classic and semi-classic Christmas songs, courtesy of Classic Studio Sessions! This is not a "Best Of" list, nor do the numbers signify a ranking of any kind. Rather, these songs seem to stand out above the rest every year, and strike an emotional chord with me in some way...or at least enough to inspire a few pages of commentary. All comments, questions, and seasonal well-wishers are both welcome and encouraged. Please enjoy the first entry in the series, and "follow" the blog for future entries.
#12 - Burl Ives: "Have A Holly Jolly Christmas" (1965)
(click the link above to hear 'Have A Holly Jolly Christmas')
There are records which we hear so many times without noticing certain key elements until perhaps the 37th or 49th or even 100th listen. There are also musical or sonic elements of those records where the question becomes “What makes that one stand out?”, or in musician terms, “What’s the hook?” that draws you in every time and makes it a classic. In the case of “Have A Holly Jolly Christmas”, the 1965 version by Burl Ives, I’m including it here on the strength of a single 12-string acoustic guitar part which I failed to notice, really notice, for years, as well as the way some skillful Nashville country pop production techniques and a group of legendary musicians transformed a song from a television soundtrack with all the appropriate orchestral accompaniment into a hit single which has become a Christmas classic.
How many songs can claim their introduction into popular culture as delivered by an animated, singing, banjo-strumming snowman named Sam? I doubt there are many who have not seen the Rankin-Bass classic “Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer” at least once. Burl Ives, the folk singer, of course played the part of Sam, and also served as the visual inspiration for the character’s animation. A perfect fit, perfect casting. What’s not as widely known was that the character “Yukon Cornelius” was originally written to sing a few of Sam The Snowman’s songs, including “Holly Jolly Christmas”. Again the decision to have Ives and his narrator snowman character instead sing the song was one of those production decisions which transformed what could have been a throwaway soundtrack song into a standout classic. Can you imagine Yukon Cornelius singing it instead of Burl Ives?
The Rudolph special premiered on television in 1964, and Burl Ives would revisit and rerecord this song in time for Christmas 1965, recording an album’s worth of songs during studio sessions in February 1964 and May 1965. In what seems to have been an attempt to cash in on the popularity of both the special itself and the song his character became known for (along with ‘Silver And Gold’), this full-length Burl Ives Christmas album was built around “Holly Jolly Christmas” as the lead single and album title, and released on Decca/MCA in October 1965.
The song was written by Johnny Marks, who as a songwriter can also claim on his songwriting resume classics such as “Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer“, “Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree”, and “Run Rudolph Run”. Marks’ brother in law, Robert May, wrote the original poem which created the character Rudolph.
Songwriter Johnny Marks with Burl Ives, Rudolph, and Sam The Snowman
The producer of the album was Milt Gabler, a veteran producer with successful hits and bonafide classics in several genres, among them Billie Holiday’s landmark recording “Strange Fruit” in 1939 and “Fine And Mellow”, Bill Haley and the Comets‘ “Rock Around The Clock” and “Thirteen Women”, and popular hits ranging from Lionel Hampton’s “Flying Home” to the Andrews Sisters’ “Rum N Coca Cola”, Brenda Lee’s “I’m Sorry”, and many more. Going from an independent label to a major like Decca, a bit of trivia here, he handed over his indie label Commodore to comedian Billy Crystal’s father, Jack. Side note: Billy Crystal in recent years released a compilation of Gabler’s classic recordings called “The Milt Gabler Story”, well worth checking out.
Producer Milt Gabler (center) with Billie Holiday
The album credits list Owen Bradley as having directed the orchestra and chorus, but in modern terms we might consider Bradley more of the actual hands-on producer than Gabler’s role would have been in 1965. Owen Bradley was one of the most legendary figures in Nashville and country music history, from the 1950’s onward. Recording most of his sessions in a military surplus Quonset hut, then later replacing the hut with a barn which became known as “Bradley’s Barn” in Nashville studio lore, Owen was as much responsible for the sounds of crossover country in the 50’s and 60’s as anyone else. His group of studio musicians at that time were Nashville’s version of the Wrecking Crew or the Funk Brothers, and had an instantly identifiable sound which created hit records for everyone from Elvis to Brenda Lee to Patsy Cline to…well, name any other country act of that era who hit the pop music charts and chances are one or more of Bradley’s crew is on that record. These musicians included brother Harold Bradley, Grady Martin, Bob Moore, Floyd Cramer, Hank Garland, Boots Randolph, Buddy Harman, Pig Robbins…etc. Like the other studio crews, Wrecking and otherwise, these musicians cranked out hits like a well-oiled machine.
Owen Bradley with the console from his legendary Quonset Hut studio in Nashville
Onto “Have A Holly Jolly Christmas”, the record. The actual session information, personnel listings, and other details are impossible to find. I cannot say with any authority who is playing on that record, where it was recorded, or anything more about those sessions which produced it…other than it has many if not all of the trademarks of a mid-60’s, Nashville-based, Owen Bradley production. In other words, it has the “Nashville Sound”. And short of someone finding and sharing the actual session information, that’s what I‘m content to assume is the case. (All corrections welcome)
So how did they turn a Rankin-Bass soundtrack song into a Christmas radio classic? Listen to the groove, the overall sound, and the foundation being created by those musicians. It sounds and feels like a hit “Nashville Sound” record, everything from the vocal chorus’ wordless interjections treated with heavy reverb, to the light country swing in the drums, to the rhythm guitar accenting beats two and four with the snare, to the vibrato-ed guitar strumming the chords, leading up to the piano’s solo fills in between the bridge phrases. And, of course, Burl Ives’ smooth and folksy voice singing lyrics that are a universal invitation to enjoy Christmas, riding atop and driving the heavily reverb-ed studio band and chorus.
But what stands out for me, apart from the interesting backstory surrounding some of the people involved, is that amazing 12-string acoustic guitar. I’d really, really like to know who played that guitar. Was it Harold Bradley, Grady Martin, or another famous or semi-famous Nashville studio picker? I have no idea.
What I do know, without hesitation, is that it is one of the most unique and best-played acoustic 12-string guitar leads I’ve ever heard. The part can be described as a guitar solo that lasts the entire record. Apart from some obviously written parts, it sounds for all the world like they just let the guy rip on the session, and add whatever he felt like playing in between the written phrases. It’s terrific country guitar playing, not a single bad note in the entire lot, not a single fluffed or muffled mistake, not a single stray noise or out of place phrase on the entire guitar track, and incorporating everything from string bends (on a 12-string no less…), to unusual melodic phrases and octave runs more often heard in jazz.
And how about the part itself…it’s an advanced guitar part, played flawlessly by an obvious studio professional who could not only play technically but also play with feeling and groove, and playing phrases which never crowd or distract from the lyrics, yet manage to stand out. And using the classic Nashville studio effects, they slammed the part with extra reverb and a terrific tape delay for even more punch. In short, it‘s a brilliant part, flawlessly executed and expertly recorded..
And to think, for years, I either ignored, overlooked, or simply did not pay attention to what has become one of my favorite guitar parts on any record. It’s a crucial part of making that record jump out of the speakers, and a terrific sonic “hook” which takes it from soundtrack to radio hit to perennial Christmas favorite. Apart from the feel-good lyrics, and Burl’s broken-in yet warm voice, that guitar nails it.
The next time you hear it played, wherever that may be, take a moment to listen…really listen…to the parts of that record like the 12-string guitar, and you may hear some of the magic that put a smile on my face when I first noticed that guitar on a record I had heard dozens of times if not more.
Have a Holly Jolly Christmas this year, indeed…with 12-string guitar, of course.
Stay tuned for song #11...
Friday, August 5, 2011
Musician's Hall of Fame Video
Sadly the Musicians' Hall of Fame in Nashville is closed and looking for somewhere to re-open right now, but all that great recording studio memorabilia is not completely lost, because they've been putting up some great videos featuring some of the great studio musicians. Here's a clip about Lyle Ritz and the bass he played on numerous hits. Be sure to check out the Hall of Fame's channel on YouTube for much more.
Thursday, August 4, 2011
We're Back!
Here we have a photo from an unknown session, at an unknown studio. But who better to have playing your session? In addition to being a fine jazz guitarist, Howard Roberts played plenty of pop sessions. To the right is Tommy Tedesco, with pianist Al DeLory popping out from behind. Ray Pohlman's in the shades and Lyle Ritz is on string bass.
Check out the great lineup of Fender Amplifiers. Have these ever been bettered? Note that Pohlman is playing a double-cutaway Danelectro 6-string bass. This is responsible for the tic-tac sound on a lot of records, or just for giving more definition to a bassline. He's playing it through a Bassman, which was actually considered a bass amp at the time.
Interesting to note also that there seem to be two pianos on this date, set up side by side; it doesn't seem to be a mirror-image.
We hope to bring you more regular content from now on, so watch for it! We also would like to ask anybody with an interesting story, photo, or question about 60s recording studio culture to contact us -- we love learning new things about this topic!
Thursday, July 29, 2010
A Classic Session At Gold Star, 1966
I’d like to preface this article by offering a very special “Thank You” to Don Peake, legendary guitarist/composer and member of the Musician’s Hall Of Fame who graciously took the time to help identify and provide information about this film and the people in the film during my research. As someone who was there, and as a guitarist and musician whom I have considered an influence and have been a fan of for years, it was a thrill for me to be able to speak with Don and hear him talk about those sessions. From his time as Ray Charles’ guitarist, to his work on classic recordings with producers Phil Spector and Sonny Bono, from his role as arranger on those awesome early Mike Nesmith productions for the first Monkees albums, to his work on the Jackson 5’s “I Want You Back” and other Los Angeles-based hits with Marvin Gaye and other Motown artists, and finally from his soundtrack work writing and playing for shows like “Knight Rider” up to his current projects, Don is a legend in every sense of the word. I encourage everyone to visit his website for great information, photos, links, and clips, as well as Myspace, and YouTube Thank You, Don.
In November 1965, a reader named Carla sent a letter to “Beat” magazine asking the following: “Can you please tell me who plays background on the Sonny and Cher records; The music is great.” This was the answer she received: “Dear Carla, The people who play the background are session people. Professionals who just work on certain records.”
Session people…an interesting phrase, but I’m guessing that was not quite what Carla was hoping to read. I hope this article helps answer Carla’s question in more detail, if she happens to find and read it, some 41 years later.
For every piece of modern popular musical history literally at our fingertips which we are able to enjoy, preserve, and pass on to future generations, there is obviously so much which has not been recorded nor documented, and has been thought lost to time. Yet in many cases the simplest, random acts of taking a photograph at a recording session, choosing a more stable medium on which to record a rough mix or a demo, or just telling the story-behind-the-story could have ensured that those same future generations would be able to access that information for their own enjoyment and preservation. That aspect alone is what makes a discovery or a rediscovery of something like a photograph, recording, or even an old reel of rough mixes from a classic song such an exciting opportunity for those interested in that part of modern music history. It is like breathing new life into a subject which may not have been considered for years.
With that spirit, we offer our first article for “Classic Studio Sessions”, a discussion and analysis of film footage shot in early 1966 during a Sonny and Cher recording session at the legendary Gold Star studios in Los Angeles. First, however, a bit of the story-behind-the-story is in order.
The origins of this project happened several years ago during separate discussions Josh and I had about recording sessions for “Wouldn’t It Be Nice” by The Beach Boys. Having collected nearly everything official and unofficial around the recording sessions for that song, and after gathering as much information about the recording of that song as probably existed at that time, specifically equipment and personnel details, we wondered if any photo, film, or other visual documentation existed of the actual studio session at Gold Star, which would show exactly how what we were hearing was put together in the studio. Our searches found nothing new. The rediscovery of these images from early 1966, shot within weeks of the Wouldn’t It Be Nice session at Gold Star based on all the evidence I could find, can shed some new light on what *could* have been the setup and layout in that room, and shows the now-classic and long-gone studio as a living, active room.
The problem in researching these sessions is there was just not that much film taken of those sessions - period - especially in the mid-60’s. For those bands whose image relied on fans thinking the people pictured on the album covers and 45 sleeves were the people playing the instruments on the recordings, it would be earth-shattering and potentially career-shattering news to discover that was not the case. Aside from contract photographers like Guy Webster and Jasper Dailey whose photos were sold to various teen magazines and record company publications, and the occasional article in Look or Life documenting a recording session, there was no sense of urgency behind documenting what was going on outside of those involved in the daily process of making the records, as the medium in general was still regarded as “pop”, a disposable format which delivered music to the kids. The musicians in most cases had to remain anonymous, and did for the most part remain anonymous outside of the music community until recently. Finding a newsreel which captured a session at United, or Gold Star, or Western in the mid 60’s is possible and a precious few do exist and are available, but beyond those who knows what survives and what was lost.
Fortunately for us in this case of Sonny and Cher at Gold Star, there was a fledgling newsreel-based syndicated program called “Hollywood Backstage” whose staff was carrying mobile cameras and film crews around Los Angeles documenting the happenings, premieres, and Hollywood glitz, then editing them into primitive but neat vignettes (some with sound, some silent with voiceover narration) which were finally syndicated and sold to television stations around the country. This was the nascent “Entertainment Tonight”, a primitive “Extra”, and an early “Insider” all in one, much like Scopitones of this era was a primitive version of MTV. The stars of the show were the film clips themselves, which could be an on-location interview, a walking tour, footage of a movie premiere, or anything related to Hollywood happenings. Someone decided to film Sonny and Cher recording at Gold Star, as they were considered “hot” at that time and would make several more appearances on the show…unfortunately, for us, the footage of the studio session is silent while other clips from the same show have full audio. I’m not complaining, just commenting…and nearly every piece of footage I’ve been able to see from that series is fascinating, if only to get a look at what Los Angeles pop culture looked like in living color during the mid 60’s.
To put the approximate timing of this film into even more historical perspective, consider just *how* hot Sonny and Cher were as an entertainment entity at that time. Consider the time from late 1965 going into March and April of 1966, when the album they were supposedly working on in the film was released. By January of 1966, they were just finishing up a tour (which also included a lawsuit from Gene Pitney claming they missed earlier dates as his opening act after they became big stars…), and were working on two albums: One became a Cher solo project eventually named “The Sonny Side of Cher”, produced as always by Sonny, and the other became “The Wondrous World of Sonny and Cher”. They were basically playing two roles in their musical lives at that time, both as duo and a solo act, and releasing what today would be a staggering amount of material in that time frame under both labels. Along with that, Hollywood was calling with requests for a motion picture, and on March 14 1966, Sonny and Cher began filming a movie with future Oscar-winning director William Friedkin which became “Good Times”, and which Sonny also co-produced and wrote much of the film’s score and some of the dialogue. On top of all of that, the duo was asked to design an original line of clothing, which they did, based on their own unique and at that time controversial casual style. And the Vice President’s office asked them to work on a short film encouraging kids to stay in school! In the middle of everything, in March 1966, Cher also came down with a bad case of what was called a form of the Asian Flu, which had been hitting some Hollywood circles and put her out of commission for a time during all of this chaos.
The voiceover mentions that the duo were being filmed working on the album “The Wondrous World of Sonny and Cher”, which was released in April of 1966, to be followed soon after by Cher’s solo album. Coincidentally, tough as it is to track down television listings for syndicated shows like “Hollywood Backstage” since every regional market stuck those shows in a different time slot and usually not consistently, there is a listing for an April 29, 1966 broadcast of “Backstage” featuring Sonny and Cher, Lorne Greene, Herb Alpert, and Nancy Wilson. I’m betting this was the original approximate airdate for the syndicated show, and it would match up nicely for promoting a Sonny and Cher album which had just been released that same month. The sessions for the albums were being held in early 1966 and continued into March, so at any time during those three months of off-and-on sessions, the film crew could have shot the footage at Gold Star. The exact timeline, unfortunately, is more speculation than fact until more detailed info is found. And perhaps the session itself was for a solo Cher session rather than Sonny and Cher…again, without exact information we can only assume for now.
Onto the scenes in the film…This is indeed the classic Gold Star studio, the Robin’s Egg Blue painted room where all the magic happened and all those incredible and groundbreaking sounds were captured for posterity. Strip away everything else, and it was a 35x28x12 room where musicians recorded songs…but actually seeing those musicians, in color, working that magic in that specific room can be overwhelming to those who love that music, also adding a new visual element to the music, a visual that perhaps only existed in the mind of a fan as they were listening for the 1,000th time to a record which had been cut there. Watching these musicians at work, seeing the instruments and the vintage equipment and the various inner workings of what many consider a mystical process being done in a magical room with an amazing group of people…it is breathtaking, and refreshing at the same time.
As much as producers and engineers were willing to experiment with studio layouts and how instruments were placed and mic’ed, there was also a certain consistency in how they set up their sessions. If they got a sound from a certain setup which yielded an international hit, they’d naturally try to stay close to that setup for the artist’s next project. My thought on this setup is how close this arrangement probably was to Sonny Bono’s and Stan Ross’s “regular” layout for Sonny’s sessions, and how something close to this is how the studio may have looked for a record like “I Got You Babe”, recorded in the same room with many of the same musicians. Not knowing exactly what song is being worked on in the film clip or even what album they were working on despite what the voiceover says, again it is an educated guess rather than a documented fact.
The issue of the validity of these scenes captured in the film has been raised, with a suggestion that it was perhaps staged for the cameras and the layout would not be seen on an actual session. I agree with the staging to a point, because obviously having the stars Sonny and Cher in the middle of the room singing into an open RCA 44 creates a much better visual for the average fan rather than showing them in an iso booth or inside an empty room cutting vocals after the musicians had gone home. Likewise, the unidentified person sitting behind the drums is joking around and gesturing with his arms rather than actually playing the kit (According to Don Peake: ‘It definitely isn’t Hal!’). And Cher would probably not have gone over a harpsichord part with Mike Rubini, as she was not the arranger or producer - they were acting for the camera and playing for laughs. But, that room and those musicians are set up for a real session, there is no doubt. And whether this film was taken before or after or during the actual session, those musicians would not have been set up in the studio like that only to film a short vignette for a newsreel crew, with baffles/gobos and the various mics around them.
This is a diagram of the layout seen in the film. I’ve tried to show the approximate placement of each musician as well as the baffles used to isolate various instruments as shown in the clip. Equipment identifications are noted wherever microphones and instruments were visible in the shot; Some are educated guesses based on previous interviews and articles describing what was used at that same time at Gold Star. In the case of items like the Shure 55 mic’ing Cliff Hils’ upright bass, it is an odd choice for that instrument and in this case a guess based on a poorly-lit camera angle showing what looks like a 55 placed at knee-level outside the f-hole on the bass, but Josh has suggested it probably is a Shure 55, since a more detailed photo of bassist Jimmy Bond playing a Spector session shows a similar setup at Gold Star with the 55. Likewise, Josh thinks the overhead shown above the drums could be a Sennheiser 421 rather than a U67, again due to the film quality it is very difficult to see. If anyone can see these details better, or knows the facts and wants to take a guess, please add your opinions! (Note: Click on any image to enlarge)
It is interesting to compare and contrast this layout with still photos of various other sessions in this same room, like those showing Phil Spector’s “Christmas Gift For You” sessions and others he cut in this, his favorite room. Sonny and Stan have a U-shaped layout with space in the middle, where Phil and Larry Levine in several photos had the drums in that center space, guitars back left (from the booth), horns back right in front of the Altec A7, bassists front right, and pianos and keyboards against the glass directly outside the booth. Again, each engineer and producer had their own formula and would change the setup plans, but would still remain somewhat consistent. In nearly every photo, the one constant has been the grouping of instrumental sections, and how the guitars were sitting together with other guitars, bassists together, keyboards together, drums and percussion together, etc. Remember too that this room was literally an empty room when the first people walked in to set up a session, and that setup could change up to 5 times each day depending on the schedule. The placement of the musicians is usually given less weight then the gear in the “how did they get those sounds!” discussions, but that setup and the way the instruments reacted to the room’s acoustics was perhaps as crucial for the sound of any given record as the type of mic they were using. This aspect of the process can also be one of the true “lost art” elements of the way those records sound, since recording 4 guitars, 2 basses, and three keyboards playing live in the same room very soon became outdated as more tracks were available to use.
The musicians pictured in the film were and are among the best in Los Angeles, and some faces which would later become familiar outside of the session scene were present. Most notable and/or surprising has to be Mac Rebbenack, better known as Dr. John, seen here playing guitar where he’d more often be seen at a keyboard. One of the backstories I’ve heard is that Dr. John was in Los Angeles by way of Harold Battiste, pianist and arranger who can briefly be seen at the piano behind Cher in one very quick camera edit…and who worked often with Sonny and Cher at this time. The story is that Harold helped introduce Mac to Los Angeles around 1965 after Mac had some troubles in New Orleans, worked him into the session scene, and then “borrowing” extra studio time from Sonny Bono’s session bookings, Battiste and Rebbenack began recording tracks which would create the “Dr. John” persona, bringing the grooves they knew and played in New Orleans to a wider audience on Dr. John’s “Gris Gris” album. In this case, it is interesting to see Mac and Harold on the same date, specifically with Mac playing guitar when most people associate him with the piano.
Naturally there are websites with much more background information about these musicians than can be listed here, and I would suggest doing a simple web search for some of these names to get more information on them, especially those who are not as well known to the general public. The great thing about a film like this is putting an image to a name and having that image come from a time when these players were involved with what we would call “classic” recording sessions. There is no substitute for seeing everything set up exactly as it was and seeing these people playing the same instruments through the same gear as we hear on so many classic records, putting a face to a name to the sounds. It is unfortunate that until projects like “The Pet Sounds Sessions”, “The Funk Brothers” documentary, and projects like “The Wrecking Crew” documentary, these names existed without a face to connect the actual musician to many in the general listening audience who loved the records but had no idea who was playing on them.
A big mystery of the film remains unsolved: Who was the drummer, and why wasn’t he on camera? The man joking behind the kit also remains unidentified as of this time, and we can only guess by the album credits that the drummer on this date could have been Hal Blaine, Earl Palmer, or Frank Capp, who are listed as playing on Sonny’s sessions at this time. Unfortunately the baffle on the studio floor blocks the drum kit, so we can’t ID whose kit it was by make or model, and we still don’t have a firm session date for this film to match names on the contract with the date of the film. It could be any of those three drummers or even someone not credited elsewhere, and why he wasn’t there to be filmed will remain a mystery as well. The percussionist who was positioned next to the drum kit is also unidentified because there are just no clear shots of his face - the only thing you can see in the film is that they were using an RCA 44 to capture whatever he was playing. Could it be Gene Estes, Emil Richards, or someone at the studio that day who was enlisted to play tambourine or maracas as Sonny had done at Phil’s sessions? It’s anyone’s guess until a positive ID is made. It is also interesting to see a young Jim Gordon at work on the mallets during this date, well before his most visible drum work with Clapton, and here at the early part of his run as an influential session drummer. Like Dr. John and the piano, we associate Jim more with the drums than percussion/mallets and seeing him playing the vibes here is an interesting change. Perhaps he was the mystery drummer???
The guitars show a relatively standard setup for the kind of multiple guitar arrangements producers like Spector, Bono, Wilson, etc. were using on sessions at that time. The only one missing from the usual lineup here would be the Danelectro bass, for the muted “tic-tac” doubling of the bassline. Maybe that was what Dr. John was doing here, since we really cannot see what he is playing, although the shape of his guitar could be that of a Rickenbacker 360/12 12-string, another instrument and sound very popular at this time.
Don Peake was lead guitarist, and is shown playing his modified 1951 Fender, a now highly-collectible guitar which he had converted into a Telecaster by adding the neck pickup! You can see Don playing this same awesome Fender model on several film clips and photos from this era, including a live film of a Jan and Dean concert and earlier footage of when Don was touring with the Everly Brothers in the early 60’s (along with Jim Gordon). You cannot see an amp in the shot, but I’m guessing it was something like a Fender Deluxe, 4x10 Bassman, or brown Vibroverb, those standard models which are pictured in nearly every mid 60’s studio session around LA. Barney Kessel is shown on this date playing acoustic rhythm on an arch top, a role which both he and Tommy Tedesco were apparently doing often on sessions at this time. The guitar Barney is playing and in one scene hiding behind has a fascinating history, and was actually owned by Don Peake! According to Don, that was a 1930 Gibson L-5 which he had acquired from Howard Roberts, and a guitar which can be heard on classic recordings like “America The Beautiful” and “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling”. Notice a young Mike Post - The same Mike Post who would later win Grammy and Emmy awards, at age 23 arrange the Mason Williams classic “Classical Gas” featuring Jim Gordon on drums, and most famously compose familiar award-winning themes for film and television like “Hill Street Blues” and “The A-Team” among others - wearing his shades and playing a folk-approved Gibson 12-string acoustic guitar with capo.
The bassists were off to the left of the room, and again as was standard for sessions, there were both upright and electric basses playing the parts. It is interesting for me as someone who is most familiar with Brian Wilson’s sessions of this time to see Lyle Ritz playing a Fender Precision electric, since Brian always had Lyle playing his upright bass parts while Carol Kaye or Ray Pohlman played the P-Bass. Lyle played some of Brian’s most famous acoustic basslines like “Good Vibrations” and some amazing parts in “Heroes And Villains” including some bowed sections which got mixed out or cut out of the final mixes. Seeing him play Fender bass through the classic 4x10 Bassman amp here is neat, next to Cliff Hils on upright, and surprisingly it is the second session for Sonny Bono where I‘ve seen Lyle photographed playing that bass. The mystery here remains the microphone on Cliff’s bass, as mentioned earlier. If that is a Shure 55, why use that dynamic mic, most often associated with live vocals and PA systems, on acoustic bass? Or is it a ribbon mic of some kind, like an Altec? It’s too dark and grainy on the film to see.
On keyboards, Michel “Mike” Rubini is playing harpsichord and Harold Battiste, who also served as Sonny’s arranger for various sessions, is on piano. This is a scaled-down version of what Spector and Wilson were doing with layering sometimes 4 or 5 different keyboards and pianos on a live session date, instruments which could include on any given session piano, upright (usually tack) piano (one which can be seen covered up in the back of the room in the film, against the wall between the Altec monitors), some kind of Hammond organ, electric piano, harpsichord or celeste, etc., all of them playing together in the same room. It is easy to forget the need for live musicians and live instruments like those multiple keyboards when sampling and instrument modeling has been the standard for several decades.
The shots of the control room are awesome, however I wish less time were spent showing the Ampex tape machine and more time was allowed for various close-ups on the people and the equipment in that booth! Beyond the obvious, notice there is a shadowy figure standing behind Sonny and Stan Ross at the board - He has been identified as Phil Spector, decked out in shades, cap, and overcoat! Dropped in for a visit, I guess… Also notice those shots of the Ampex tape machine: The thought is that this machine (rather than being the recorder as suggested in the narration) was actually serving as the tape delay. The Gold Star method from Phil Spector’s “Wall Of Sound” with Larry Levine was to send the live sound from the board through the tape delay, *then* into the chamber, then mixing it together with the live sound on the way back, which was the reverse of how most would be doing it and one of the keys to that whole huge, pulsing sound which on certain tracks sounds like it could explode into feedback at any moment. Interesting, if that machine was the one responsible…in conjunction with those echo chambers, of course.
I love seeing the color shots of the board. Obviously Stan Ross isn’t actually running anything as he’s filmed with his hands on some random control, but aside from the famous shots of Spector at or near that board usually in black and white, seeing it in full color with the multi-colored knobs and the groovy 60’s Woodgrain paneling detail is cool. I always like seeing those rotary knob boards like the modular boards at United/Western with the 610’s and a few switches, and whatever Wally Heider built from those for his famous live board. There is something very “natural” about the signals going into and through those boards, and something organic which perhaps in my own mind contributed a lot to the pure sounds of those records. I still think the guitar and bass recordings on those mid-60’s sessions from Gold Star and Western rank among the best and most true recordings of those instruments as have ever been done. Try to search out any session tracks from Gold Star where you can hear them raw, before they were mixed down and mastered for singles and AM radio play, and you’ll be amazed at some of the sounds, especially the clarity of the guitars.
Other mysteries of the film are the folks in the control room, among them a man seated in the waiting area in front of the board, and a blond woman sitting next to Cher reading a magazine.
Were these friends, assistants, managers, etc.? Anyone’s guess…Also, notice the staff member in the blue shirt setting up microphones and adjusting stands on the studio floor. He is in several shots, and seems to be doing the same studio assistant job as Winston Wong was doing at Western in similar period photos. Anyone know this man’s name, or whether he appears in any credits?
Finally, a look at the microphones and monitors. The usual models and placements seem to be shown, specifically the EV 666 on the vibes, a choice which can be seen in other mid-60’s Gold Star sessions where vibes were being recorded. Obvious use of the RCA 44 for vocals, and although the shot was clearly staged for the film, that would have been the main choice I’m sure for vocals, along with the RCA 77 ribbon. The RCA 44 is also being used on percussion, which I found interesting…and not as surprising they have what looks like a U67 as an overhead above the drum kit. Unfortunately there are no clear shots of the other mics or what they were using on various instruments. We can only guess from other sources and interviews that Shure and EV dynamics were used quite often for guitars and amps, as well as mics like the Sennheiser 421 on piano and perhaps Sony C37’s somewhere a large condenser was needed. The ubiquitous Altec “Voice Of The Theater” A7 monitors are visible in their usual position, as they are in nearly every photo of Gold Star in the mid 60’s.
We have heard the records for decades: Now we can see who was creating those incredible sounds, in their working environment, and associate a face with a name we’ve perhaps only read in reissue liner notes and various rock history books. As a piece of film which I once had in my collection but lost over the years in an out-of-control stack of unlabeled VHS tapes, I was thrilled to see it reappear and even more thrilled to be able to answer some of the questions and use the resources we have available to gain even further insight into what was going on that day inside Gold Star. Oh, to have been there for one of those dates…film like this may be the closest we’ll get visually to the experience of a session.
And for that fanzine reader named Clara who wrote the letter wanting to know who played on Sonny and Cher records 41 years ago, I hope we helped answer your question.
-Craig R. Clemens, 2010
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Bruins host the Islanders tonight.
This was the game that the DOY staff fought over not going not. Don't get us wrong -- we love going to any games we can, but if you have the option of seeing a vs. Capitals, Flyers, Canadiens game or a vs. Islanders game, the choice is pretty darn easy. Fists were thrown. The bond of friendship was tested. We survived.
And hopefully the Bruins will survive this trap game.
How bad are the Islanders? Well, they're worse than the Leafs and Devils for starters.
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Speaking of Stuart...
Mark Stuart out with hand injury
Matt Kalman over at the was the first guy we saw tweet this, several hours before everyone else. We just are too lazy to dig through the tweets to find it.
"It was sore," Stuart said of his hand last Thursday. "We took X-rays after Thursday's game and they were negative. So we just decided to see how it felt, then look at it in a couple days. It was sore, so I taped it up for Toronto and it wasn't feeling good. So we actually planned to get X-rays again after the game on Tuesday. My third shift, all I did was make a pass and it just caved in. It was just hanging on by a thread, I think."
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Failure of Genetic-Programming Induced
Trading Strategies: Distinguishing between
Efficient Markets and Inefficient Algorithms
Shu-Heng Chen1 and Nicolas Navet1,2
AI-ECON Research Center, Department of Economics, National Chengchi
University, Taipei, Taiwan 11623, chchen@nccu.edu.tw
LORIA-INRIA, Campus-Scientifique, BP239, F-54506 Vandoeuvre, France,
Summary. Over the last decade, numerous papers have investigated the use of Ge-
netic Programming (GP) for creating financial trading strategies. Typically, in the
literature, the results are inconclusive but the investigators always suggest the pos-
sibility of further improvements, leaving the conclusion regarding the effectiveness
of GP undecided. In this paper, we discuss a series of pretests aimed at giving more
clear-cut answers as to whether GP can be effective with the training data at hand.
Precisely, pretesting allows us to distinguish between a failure due to the market
being efficient or due to GP being inefficient. The basic idea here is to compare
GP with several variants of random searches and random trading behaviors hav-
ing well-defined characteristics. In particular, if the outcomes of the pretests reveal
no statistical evidence that GP possesses a predictive ability superior to a random
search or a random trading behavior, then this suggests to us that there is no point
in investing further resources in GP. The analysis is illustrated with GP-evolved
strategies for nine markets exhibiting various trends.
1 Motivation and Introduction
Computational intelligence techniques such as genetic programming3, with
their continuous advancement, persistently bring us something positive to ex-
pect, and incessantly push the application domain to more challenging issues.
However, sometimes, the costs and benefits of using these advanced CI tech-
niques are uncertain. Usually the benefits are not assured, while the costs are
immediate. On the one hand, the CI techniques are frequently used as in-
tensive search algorithms, which are inevitably computationally demanding,
and take up a great amount of computational resources. On the other hand,
Although, in this paper, we solely focus on genetic programming, the general
ideas and some specific implementations should also be applicable to other com-
putational intelligence techniques used to induce trading strategies.
2 Shu-Heng Chen and Nicolas Navet
whether or not there is a needle in the haystack remains dubious. For exam-
ple, in the financial application domain, the lack of such a needle may be due
to the efficient markets hypothesis or the no-arbitrage condition. Certainly,
if such a needle does not exist at all, then all efforts are made to no avail.
Given this asymmetry between costs and benefits, it would be economical, at
the first stage, to test for the existence of such a needle before a fully-fledged
version of the search is applied. We refer to this procedure as a pretest.
The pretest procedure proposed here is in a sense similar to the pretests
used in econometrics where the estimator of an unknown parameter is chosen
on the basis of the outcome of a pretest [9]. Pretesting, also known as “data-
snooping” in finance, classically serves to select the right model that will be
used later on for forecasting purposes (see [5, 20]). More broadly, pretesting
can be considered to be a practice of a sequential decision-making process,
which is used when the decision involves a great deal of uncertainty, and the
costs of making a wrong decision are huge4 . In this case, at the first stage,
we would like to expend some limited resources on probing into gaining some
initial information, e.g., the distribution of a very uncertain environment,
while in the later stages, we will make our decision based on the gauged
The reasoning behind prestesting is very intuitive, and [11] is the first to
apply this idea to the financial application of genetic programming (GP). [11]
proposed a measure known as the η statistic. The η statistic is a measure
of predictability obtained by comparing the predictions regarding the actual
data and the shuffled data5 . Basically, by using a simple (vanilla) version of
GP, one can first gauge the predictability based on η. When η is low or close to
zero, it indicates that there is nothing to forecast. So, the use of fully-fledged
GP is not advised. The virtue in doing this is to distinguish two kinds of
possibilities when we see the failure of an initial attempt based on simple GP.
First, the series itself has nothing to forecast; second, GP has not been used
appropriately. Understanding this distinction can result in big differences in
our second stage of the decision. In the former case, we may simply give up
any further search to avoid wasting resources. In the latter case, we should
keep on exploring different deliberations of GP to search for potential gains
before a final conclusion can be reached. In either case, we have a clear-cut
situation. However, when a pretest is absent, we become less conclusive: we
are no longer sure whether the problem is due to the non-existence of the
needle, or the improper use of GP.
The problem of sequential decision making under incomplete knowledge has been
studied by researchers in various fields, such as optimal control, psychology, eco-
nomics, and game theory.
The η statistics make use of surrogate data, that is, the data sharing statistical
properties of the data under study but not the property that is tested for. Here, the
property investigated is temporal dependence and, thus, by shuffling the original
time series, the temporal dependencies, if any, are lost. The interested reader
might refer to [16] and [18] for a good starting point on the use of surrogate data.
Failure of Genetic-Programming Induced Trading Strategies 3
Unfortunately, in most financial trading applications of GP, a pretest has
been largely neglected6 . We think that this negligence may give rise to many
inconclusive results. Typically, what happens is that the results from using
GP are not very convincing, but the investigators always suggest directions
for further improvement, leaving the actual conclusion regarding the effective-
ness of GP undecided. Therefore, this study attempts to provide a practical
pretesting procedure aimed at reducing the number of cases where the con-
clusion is inconclusive.
Needless to say, there are various ways of implementing different types
of pretesting. For example, the η statistic mentioned above can be used as a
pretest, as [11] did, but that is mainly applied to forecasting time series. That a
series is to a certain extent predictable does not necessarily imply that we can
develop profitable trading strategies. For example, the predictability horizon
might be too short, the fluctuation might not be volatile enough to cover the
round-trip transaction costs or, simply, the right trading instrument might not
be available (e.g., no short selling in a downward oriented market) or else they
are some regulation and rules (e.g., the “uptick rule” makes intraday trading
with short selling more difficult). Consequently, the literature on forecasting
with GP (e.g., [12, 17] and [6]) and the literature on trading with GP (e.g.,
[1, 14, 21] and [4]) are usually separated. Therefore, in this paper, we attempt
to develop pretest procedures that are more suitable for trading purposes.
However the correlation between the predictability7 of a time series and the
profitability of GP induced rules, and more generally of any trading strategies,
is an intriguing and still open question, whose answer8 constitutes, in our view,
a major step towards efficient market timing decision tools.
This may not be completely so. In fact, most earlier studies selected a risk-free
investment (e.g., treasury bills) or, most often, the buy-and-hold strategy as the
benchmark. However, the conclusion that “GP performs better than buy-and-
hold in a bearish market and worse in a bullish market” is often found in the
literature. However, nothing different can be expected since buy-and-hold is the
worst possible strategy in a steadily decreasing market and the best possible
strategy in a steadily increasing market. This shows the limits of choosing buy-
and-hold as a benchmark.
Numerous metrics, emerging from the fields of information theory, the study of
dynamical systems and algorithmic complexity or statistics, have been devised
to quantify the predictability of a system observed by the data it produces. One
can mention the Lyapunov exponent, which is a measure of the rate of diver-
gence of nearby trajectories and thus an indication of the short-term predictabil-
ity, the Shannon entropy which measures the diversity of the data produced or
the Grassberger-Crutchfield-Young statistical complexity which informs us of the
amount of information which is relevant to the system’s dynamic. The reader
interested in predictability measures can refer to [2] and [19] for a comprehensive
Of particular interest is the work of [10] which is a significant step in that direc-
4 Shu-Heng Chen and Nicolas Navet
More precisely, we will propose here several different styles of pretests,
which when put together can help us decide whether there are hidden patterns
to be discovered and whether GP is properly designed to do the job. The
essential idea underlying all proposed pretests is to compare the performance
of GP with random trading strategies or behavior. However, as we shall see
in Section 2, just making trading strategies or trading behavior arbitrarily
random is not sufficient to provide a fair and informative comparison. To do
so, some constraints are expected, and the interesting point is how to impose
these constraints properly.
formulation of the four pretests. The first three are concerned with the trad-
ing strategies, whereas the last one is concerned with the trading behavior.
Normally, trading behavior comes from trading strategies, and they cannot
be separated; however, when randomness is introduced, differences between
the two may arise. In particular, in the vein of algorithmic complexity, ran-
dom trading strategies can imply trading behavior actually using knowledge,
while random trading behavior presumably excludes such a possibility. We,
therefore, intentionally distinguish between the two by referring to the former
as zero-intelligence strategies, and the latter as lottery trading. Section 3 dis-
cusses how to use these proposed tests together to make a better judgment
given the initial results we have. Section 4 illustrates the proposed pretests
based on the real data and the experimental designs detailed in the appendix.
Section 5 gives the concluding remarks.
2 Pretests: description and rationale
In this section, we describe a series of 4 pretests and discuss their purpose and
implementation. Of the 4 pretests, we highlight 2 that are of particular interest
and, as shown in Section 3, enable us to gain complementary knowledge on
the data under study and on the efficiency of the GP’s implementation. In the
following, we consider GP with a validation stage before the actual testing of
the out-of-sample data. Validation means that the best rules induced on the
training interval are further selected on the unseen data, i.e., the validation
period, before being applied out-of-sample. The validation step is a device
to fight overfitting that has been widely used in earlier GP work (see for
instance [1, 15]).9 Note that our proposals, except for pretest 1 which explicitly
requires validation, remain valid as they do for GP without the validation step.
2.1 GP versus equivalent intensity random search
The basic idea here is to compare the outcome of GP with an equivalent
intensity random search. We say that two search algorithms are equivalent in
The actual effectiveness of validation in this context is, however, still an open
question. See [4] and [3].
Failure of Genetic-Programming Induced Trading Strategies 5
terms of search intensity if their execution leads to the evaluation of the same
number of distinct trading strategies for the training data. For instance, let
us consider GP with the parameters chosen for this study: a population of
500 individuals evolved over 100 generations. In the first approximation, the
equivalent random search (ERS) would consist of evaluating 50,000 randomly
created solutions. In practice, search algorithms sometimes rediscover identical
solutions over the course of their execution. This can simply be detected by
keeping track of all created individuals since the beginning of the execution,
and in doing so useless fitness evaluations can be skipped, which actually
saves computing time when the fitness function is rather time-consuming.
Since, computationally speaking, what is preponderant in our context is the
fitness evaluation, we impose the restriction that our definition of equivalent
search intensity only accounts for unique individuals, i.e., individuals that
require evaluation. We consider two solutions to be distinct if their expression
is syntactically different 10 , in our GP context, if the trees representing the
programs are different.
The three following pretests compare GP with a random search both with
and without a training and validation stage. In random search, the biologically
inspired evolution process of GP is simply replaced by the creation of solutions
at random. Since with random search the strategies do not benefit from the
“intelligence” resulting from the evolution and learning process11 , we dub
randomly created solutions as zero-intelligence trading strategies.
For each pretest i, we formulate the null hypothesis Hi,0 that GP does
not outperform the technique it is compared with at pretest i, where the
alternative hypothesis is denoted by Hi,1 . The experiments will provide us
with the answer to whether Hi,0 should be rejected in favor of Hi,1 or not.
As usual, the chosen significance level of the test enables us to finely control
the probability to falsely reject the null, that is in our case to come wrongly
Two individuals can be syntactically different while being equivalent in the sense
that they always lead to the same trading decisions, and the equivalence could
thus also be defined in terms of semantics. With symbolic simplification using
rewriting rules and interval arithmetic on the function arguments, we could detect
that some syntactically different individuals are in fact semantically identical.
However, there is no way of making sure that all duplicates will be detected and
the implementation of this procedure would be so complex and time consuming
at run time that, in our opinion, a definition based on semantics would be of
little practical interest. Alternatively, the equivalence in search intensity could be
defined in terms of equivalent running time. However, there is such a difference in
complexity between a fully-fledged GP implementation and random search that
it is hard to imagine how we can ensure that the two implementations have been
optimized in a similar manner, while a better implementation of GP may for
instance may lead us to come to an opposite conclusion.
Comparing GP with random search informs us regarding the effectiveness of
the GP operators. Further meaningful information regarding this issue could be
obtained by comparing regular GP with an implementation that would favor
crossover among the less fit solutions (“breed-the-worst”), as suggested in [13].
6 Shu-Heng Chen and Nicolas Navet
to the conclusion that GP is more effective than the technique it is compared
Pretest 1: GP versus equal search intensity random search - both
with a training and a validation stage.
The implementation of the random search strategy is straightforward: pa-
rameters of GP are set in such a way that only the initial generation, where
individuals are created at random, is used. The size of the initial population
is adjusted so that the resulting search intensity is identical to the one for the
regular GP.
• Hypothesis H1,0 cannot be rejected: the first explanation that can
be envisaged is that, GP or not, there is nothing essential to be learned
from the past. In that case GP would strongly “overfit” the training data,
possibly explaining that in the same cases its out-of-sample performance
is worse than that with a random search. This can be due to the market
being efficient or because the training interval exhibits a time series pattern
which is significantly different from the out-of-sample period12 . Another
explanation is that the GP machinery is not working properly, for instance
due to a wrong choice in the composition of the function and terminal sets,
because the parameters controlling the GP run are inappropriate (e.g., a
search intensity that would be insufficient), or the genetic operators are
unable to create better-than-random individuals.
• Hypothesis H1,0 is rejected in favor of H1,1 : there may be some-
thing to learn from the past and GP, with the chosen parameters, may be
effective in that task.
Rejecting H1,0 is of course a first indication of the efficiency of GP but, as we
will see in Section 3, further investigation may provide additional information
to answer that question and rule out mere luck.
Pretest 2: GP versus equal search intensity random search with a
training but without a validation stage.
Here, the best solutions found at random over the training interval are ap-
plied directly to the out-of-sample period. With regard to pretest 1, pretest 2
could give us some insight into how effective validation is as a device to fight
against overfitting. However, since overfitting is unlikely to occur with random
search, the rationale for using pretest 2 is unclear and it will not be further
In [4], experiments have consistently highlighted that when training and out-of-
sample data sets are very “dissimilar”, for instance if the market exhibits opposite
trends, then there is little chance that GP will perform well out-of-sample.
Failure of Genetic-Programming Induced Trading Strategies 7
considered in this study. A more direct and effective way to evaluate the ef-
fect of the validation stage is simply to compare regular GP with and without
validation13 .
Pretest 3: GP versus equal search intensity random search both
without a training and without a validation stage
In pretest 3, the selection of the strategies for the training set is removed:
a large number of random strategies are created and applied directly out-
of-sample. The performance is evaluated as the average performance (e.g.,
average total return) over the set of random strategies. Comparing the out-
come of pretest 3 with regard to pretest 1 and regular GP tells us something
about how effective the selection process is, and the extent to which a top per-
forming rule on the training and validation sets will keep on performing well
out-of-sample. If strategies selected by GP or random search on the training
and validation intervals have some predictive ability out-of-sample, this will
provide us with evidence that there is something to learn from the past. It is
worth pointing out that the randomness of the strategies here is constrained
by the GP language: rules can only be made with GP functions/terminals or-
ganized according to the constructs of the language and its typing scheme. For
instance, it may happen that the GP language is not sufficiently expressive
to define a rule consisting of buying and selling every other period14 . In the
remainder of this study, we will consider pretest 4, presented in Section 2.2,
that is similar in spirit to prestest 3, but is more random in the sense that it
does not possess the bias in randomness induced by the GP language.
2.2 GP versus lottery trading
We refer to lottery trading as a strategy that would consist of making the in-
vestment decision randomly on the basis of the outcome of a random variable.
In its simplest form, the random variable would follow a Bernoulli distribution
where the parameter p expresses the probability of taking a long position and
1 − p the probability of closing a long position or staying out of the market.
In our context, this requires refinement since we are interested in prof-
itability and profitability takes into account transaction costs. Therefore, in
order to allow a fair comparison with GP, we should make sure that the ex-
pected number of transactions for lottery trading is the same as for GP. We
refer to the expected number of transactions per unit of time as the frequency
of a trading strategy. Another important characteristic of a trading strategy is
what we term its intensity, i.e. the number of periods where a position15 “in
For instance, as in the case of [4] and [8].
Period refers to the granularity of time used for trading, for instance, one second
or one day.
Implicitly, we consider here the trading of a single instrument, e.g., an index,
where two positions are possible at each point in time, i.e., be in or be out of the
8 Shu-Heng Chen and Nicolas Navet
the market” is held, over the length of the trading interval. We should also
enforce lottery trading to have the same expected intensity as GP to avoid
misleading results, for instance, in the case where, given its frequency, the
intensity of lottery trading is not sufficient to cover the transaction costs with
the volatility of the market under study.
We denote by FGP and IGP , respectively, the average frequency and av-
erage intensity observed for the set of GP-evolved rules applied to the testing
interval over all GP runs, and NGP is the number of transactions leading to
FGP . For the experiments made in the following, a sequence of investment de-
cisions SLT resulting from lottery trading is generated at random according
to the following procedure:
• the intensity for lottery trading, ILT , is uniformly chosen in [IGP · (1 −
α), min(1, IGP · (1 + α))] where parameter α (0 ≤ α ≤ 1) introduces a
controlled randomness.16 In the first step, SLT is made of the ‘0’ positions
(i.e., out of the market) followed by the block of ‘1’ positions (i.e., in the
market) corresponding to ILT ,
• the number of transactions NLT is uniformly chosen in the set of integer
values that are even17 in interval [NGP · (1 − α), NGP · (1 + α)]. The
block of ‘1’ is subdivided at random in NLT /2 sub-sequences and each
sub-sequence is inserted at random inside the block of ‘0’. This design
avoids the problem of overlapping among the ‘1’ sub-sequences that may
occur with other schemes.
We formulate the pretest comparing GP and lottery trading and denote by
H4,0 the null hypothesis that GP does not outperform lottery trading while
the alternative hypothesis is H4,1 .
market if short selling is not possible, or with short selling as implemented in [4],
holding a long position or a short position. These concepts can be extended to
the case where there are three possibilities in each time period: holding a long
position, holding a short position or staying out of the market. Similarly, intensity
and the frequency of a strategy can be instantiated for each traded instrument.
Parameter α is intended to reproduce the variability of intensity and frequency
observed over the sample of GP runs that lottery trading is compared with. In
the simplest form presented here, this is implemented as a parameter α which is
unique for intensity and frequency. It is of course possible to refine this scheme
by individualizing the parameter for intensity and frequency, or by drawing at
random the values of ILT and NLT according to the empirical distributions of
intensity and frequency encountered over the sample of GP runs. This latter
procedure is especially meaningful when the empirical distributions of intensity
and frequency in GP significantly differ from the uniform distribution that is
implicitly assumed here.
NLT has to be even since a “buy” transaction is followed by a sell transaction
and no positions are left open.
Failure of Genetic-Programming Induced Trading Strategies 9
Pretest 4: GP versus lottery trading.
Obviously, if GP is not able to outperform lottery trading, it gives strong
evidence that GP will not be good at evolving effective trading strategies
with the data at hand. In Section 3, we shall discuss this point in more detail.
3 What do the pretests tell us ?
The outcomes of the pretests provide us with answers to the following two
questions: Is there something essential to learn on the training data that can
be of interest for the out-of-sample period? Does the GP implementation show
some evidence of effectiveness in that task? Clearly, before actually trading
with GP evolved programs, these two questions must be answered with rea-
sonable certainty; the rest of this section explains how pretests may help in
that regard.
3.1 Question 1: Is there something to learn ?
The null hypothesis H4,0 corresponding to pretest 4 has been presented in
Section 2.2. We introduce pretest 5 that will be used in conjunction with
pretest 4.
Pretest 5: Equivalent intensity random search with training and
validation versus lottery trading.
Here, we compare lottery trading to a random search with training and vali-
dation, and a search intensity equivalent to the one used for GP in pretest 4.
The null hypothesis H5,0 is that the equivalent intensity random search does
not outperform lottery trading for the out-of-sample data. Depending on the
validity of H4,0 and H5,0 , we can draw the conclusions that are summarized
in Table 1:
H4,0 H5,0 Interpretation
case 1 ¬R ¬R there is evidence that there is nothing to learn
case 2 R ¬R there may be something to learn (weak certainty)
case 3 R R there is evidence that there is something to learn
case 4 ¬R R there may be something to learn (weak certainty)
Table 1. Information drawn from the outcomes of pretest 4 and pretest 5 (¬R
means that the null hypothesis Hi,0 cannot be rejected while R means that the
hypothesis is rejected in favor of the alternative hypothesis).
In case 1, the best solutions for the training intervals, obtained with 2
different search algorithms, do not perform better than lottery trading for the
10 Shu-Heng Chen and Nicolas Navet
out-of-sample period. This suggests to us than there is nothing to learn. In case
2, GP outperforms lottery trading but random search does not; it is possible
that there is something to learn, but that the selected random rules do not
have a sufficient predictive ability. In any case, this leads us to a less certain
conclusion than in case 3 where both search techniques outperform lottery
trading. Finally case 4 is a special case where random search performs better
than lottery trading but GP does not. The whole evolutionary process of GP
has thus a detrimental effect and a possible explanation is that GP-induced
solutions strongly overfit the training data despite the validation stage.
3.2 Question 2: Is the GP machinery working properly?
The second question we ought to ask is whether GP is effective. Of course,
this cannot be answered with the data at hand if pretests 4 and 5 have shown
that there is nothing to be learned (case 1 in Table 1). In addition, in case 4
of Table 1, we already know that GP is not efficient since, by transitivity, it
is outperformed by the random search-based algorithm. Thus, the only two
cases where one really needs to proceed to further examination are case 2
and case 3. The validity of the null hypothesis H1,0 , which can be tested
with pretest 1, gives a helpful insight into the answer: only if H1,0 should be
rejected can we conclude that GP shows some real effectiveness. We would
like to stress that rejecting H1,0 is far from implying profitability, but beating
a mere random search algorithm on a difficult problem with an infinite search
space is the bare minimum one can expect from GP.
4 Experiments
The aim of the experiments is to evaluate the extent to which the pretests pro-
posed are reliable. The methodology adopted here is to check if the outcomes
of the pretests are consistent with results already published in the literature.
We call the software used in [4] GP1, which will constitute our benchmark,
while GP2 is the GP implementation developed for this study. Although both
programs have been developed by members of the AI-ECON Research Center,
they have not been written by the same persons and do not share a single line
of code. Furthermore, GP2, which is based on the Open-Beagle C++ library
(see [7] and http://beagle.gel.ulaval.ca/), makes use of strongly-typed
GP on the contrary to GP1. The GP2 control parameters, as close as possible
to the ones used in [4] for GP1, are summarized in Table 1 (Appendix A).
The traded instruments are the indexes of 3 stock exchanges: the TSE 300
(Canada), the Nikkei Dow Jones (Japan) and the Capitalization Weighted
Stock Index (Taiwan). They have been chosen among the 8 markets studied
in [4] because they exhibit the main price evolution patterns that can be
found in the set of 8 markets. The aim of GP is to induce the most profitable
strategy, measured by the accumulated return, for trading the stock exchange
Failure of Genetic-Programming Induced Trading Strategies 11
index. The use of short selling is possible. We adopt what is done classically
in the literature in terms of data-preprocessing and use normalized data that
is obtained by dividing each day’s price by a 250-day moving average.18 In
a way similar to what is usually done, we subdivide the whole data set into
three sections: the training, validation and out-of-sample test periods. For each
stock index considered, 3 different out-of-sample test periods of 2 years each
(i.e., 1999-2000, 2001-2002, 2003-2004) follow a 3-year validation and a 3-year
training period. In the following, the term market refers to a stock exchange
during a specific out-of-sample period. For instance, market Canada-1 (C1 for
short) is the TSE 300 during the out-of-sample period 1999-2000. Hypothesis
testing is performed with the Student’s t-test at a 95% confidence level. The
samples for statistics are made up of the results of 50 GP runs, 50 runs of
equivalent search intensity random search with training and validation (ERS)
and 100 runs of lottery trading (LT) with parameter α = 0.2 (see §2.2 for the
definition of α). The following results were obtained with GP2:
• In 4 out of the 9 markets (i.e., C3, J2, T1, T3), there is evidence that there
is something to learn from the training data (case 3 in Table 1 - GP2 and
ERS outperform Lottery Trading). This is consistent with [4] where GP1
performs outstandingly in these 4 markets (respective total return: 0.34,
0.17, 0.52, 0.27).
• In markets C1, J3 and T2, pretests 4 and 5 suggest to us that there is
nothing to learn (case 1 in Table 1 - neither GP2 nor ERS outperform
Lottery Trading). Except for C1, GP1 also performs poorly (−0.18 for J3
and −0.05 for T2).19
• Finally, in the 3 markets where GP2 is shown to beat ERS (H1,0 is rejected
in favor of H1,1 for J1, J2 and T1), the GP results are very good: both
GP1 and GP2 produce positive returns and outperform the buy-and-hold
Although more comprehensive tests are needed, the experiments conducted
here on 9 markets show some preliminary evidence that the proposed pretests
possess some predictive ability. Indeed, when the outcome is “nothing to
learn,” the two GP implementations perform very poorly (except in one case).
On the contrary, when the pretests suggest that there is something to learn,
at least one GP implementation does well.20
See [4] for a discussion on how non-normalized data affects the performance of
The two markets that are not listed, i.e. C2 and J1, correspond to cases where
“there may be something to learn.” Precisely, they both belong to case 2 in
Table 1, that GP beats LT but random search does not beat LT.
In all 4 such cases (C3, J2, T1, T3), GP2 beats LT, but in 2 cases where the
market is bullish (C3 and T3) the returns earned by GP2, which are 5% and
-4%, respectively, are far less than those of Buy-and-Hold, which are more than
30% during the out-of-sample period. As a result, one cannot say that GP2 is
performing superbly. However, in those 2 cases, GP1, which seems in general to
12 Shu-Heng Chen and Nicolas Navet
When pretests suggest to us that a market is efficient, we cannot conclude
that there is no way of making consistent profits in this market, because the
concept of efficiency is of course relative to the investors considered. What can
be concluded is that a group of investors making their investment decisions
by running GP2 on the past price time-series will not be able to consistently
outperform the market. It is also worth noting that the efficiency of a market is
variable over time; for instance, pretests suggest to us that T2 is efficient while
T1 and T3 are not. As highlighted in [4], GP not being efficient is often due
to the training interval exhibiting a time series pattern which is significantly
different from the out-of-sample period (e.g., “bull” versus “bear”, “sideways”
versus “bull”,. . . ). Thus, a first way of making improvements that can be
investigated is to rethink the data division scheme.
In light of the pretests, we should also conclude that our GP implementa-
tion (i.e. GP2) is more efficient than random search (GP2 outperforms ERS
in 3 markets while ERS never beats GP2 with statistical significance). How-
ever, in our experiments, searching trading rules at random, with the same
set of functions and terminals as used in GP, is usually enough to come up
with trading systems that outperform lottery trading when GP does as well.
This suggests to us that GP2 may only be able to take advantage of “simple”
regularities in the data.
5 Conclusions
The main purpose of this paper is to enrich the earlier research on Genetic Pro-
gramming (GP) induced market-timing decisions by proposing pretests aiming
to shed light on the GP results. In actual fact, in the literature, the results
of applying GP for market-timing decisions are typically not very convincing,
but the investigators always suggest the possibility of further improvements.
If the investigators can first be convinced that there is something to learn and
that GP is suitable for that task, then their conclusion would be less vague
and uncertain. We propose here a series of pretests, where GP is tested against
a random behavior (lottery trading) and against strategies created at random
(zero-intelligence strategies) that aim to answer these two crucial questions.
Of course there is the risk of getting a wrong pretest result and the possible
reasons why GP may have failed should be thoroughly investigated before
drawing a conclusion. But, in the end, analyzing the results in light of the
pretests should help us to draw more fine-grained conclusions.
be the best implementation, happens to be very efficient (only a few percent less
than buy and hold).
Failure of Genetic-Programming Induced Trading Strategies 13
This research was conducted when the second author (Nicolas Navet) was a
visiting researcher at the AI-ECON Research Center, National Chengchi Uni-
versity (NCCU), Taipei, Taiwan. The financial support from the AI-ECON
Research Center, INRIA, as well as NCCU is greatly acknowledged. The au-
thors would also like to acknowledge the grant from the National Science
Concil #95-2415-H-004-002-MY3.
A Genetic programming settings
Program GP2 implements strongly typed GP with the set of functions and
terminals described in Table 1. The parameters here are basically identical to
the ones in [4] (program GP1) except when fine-tuning GP2 has highlighted
that better results may be obtained with different parameters. Precisely when
we make use of more elitism, the size of the tournament selection is set to 5
and numerical mutation is implemented.
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Sometimes you can't wait for the crowd or rely on anyone else. Sometimes you are the only one with the passion, the energy and the determination to address a particular problem. Sometimes you just have to do it yourself.
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Exclusive Tatia Rosenthal, $9.99 Interview by Paul Fischer.
We have a family of three, with Jim who might just need his karma checked for encountering really antagonizing moments involving death, and his two sons Dave (Samuel Johnson) and Lenny (Ben Mendelsohn), the former being unemployed and is found to be central to the narrative, and the latter being a Repo-man finding himself falling, and obsessing over the love by new neighbour and supermodel Tanita (Leeanna Walsman), who has a fetish for a hairless body. Then there's a lonely old man [Barry Otto] who finds the world constantly passing him by with nobody interested in hearing him talk a bit finding a companion in an angel, whom he asks incessantly about Heaven. Then there's a boy who has a friend in his piggy bank, and a couple on the verge of being married having to fall out because one of them refuses to grow up. $9.99 is based on the short stories of Etgar Keret, one of the leading voices in Israeli contemporary literature. The film is the first Israeli-Australia coproduction, and the film has been getting quite the buzz for its originality. Rosenthal talked exclusively to Paul Fischer.
QUESTION: It seems that the animation industry in Australia is doing rather well at the moment. And in the space of one year, we have two very interesting animated films, both of which I've seen - yours, and Mary and Max. Why do you think that is?
TATIA ROSENTHAL: You know, it's funny. I get the same question, but as referenced to animated features that came out of Israel as well this year, along with Waltz with Bashir, $9.99, and - I think specifically for the two countries, it's probably coincidental. But I think globally, because the means of production have become a little more affordable and more desk-top-y, that more animators and filmmakers worldwide are able to bring the costs down to make independent animated work. I think the fact that two of them came out of Israel and two out of Israel is more coincidental.
TATIA ROSENTHAL: The script is based on six short stories of Etgar Keret's, and the script was co-written with him. And we've been working on getting this financed. It was seven years before it got picked up. So really, the themes are all from the short stories, and very much from the world of Etgar. And for me, directing them in stop-motion really creates a complementary world to his intellectual world, in that physical sense.
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TATIA ROSENTHAL: Almost. I think that - absolutely, five years ago would have been far harder, and more expensive. And then the week we finished - literally the week we finished, Canon came out with a camera that would have greatly simplified one of our major processes. So, now it's even easier, if anybody were to start now. Technology's really moving exponentially on this. And - you know, sometimes specifically to accommodate stop-motion, and sometimes just generally, and stop-motion people find a way to use it.
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TATIA ROSENTHAL: I don't know that I had any specific expectations to be honest, it having been my first feature.
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Published March 23, 2010
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You've probably heard it a lot lately:
OBAMA: I received one of those letters a few days ago. It was from our beloved friend and colleague Ted Kennedy.... "What we face," he wrote, "Is above all a moral issue. At stake are not just the details of policy, but fundamental principles of social justice."
I'm just full of hate and I want to stop justice!
Here's someone who took my advice: Barack Obama.
Rev. Wright's church teaches "economic parity" and claims that God is not pleased with "America's economic mal-distribution." Progressives are good at changing words — for instance:
"Federal assistance" has replaced the word "welfare"
"Welfare" replaced the word "handout"
"Subsidy" has replaced the word "self-reliance"
"Bailout" has replaced the words "corporate accountability"
The "stimulus bill" becomes the "jobs bill"
They do this over and over again.
When you are in church sometimes it's not so easy to see it. But here's a simple rule of thumb: Make sure your church puts God first and politics and government last. Here are the clear warning signs: "social justice" or "economic justice" or "ecological justice."
I want to make this clear: Some people look at social justice as going out on mission and going out and doing good works for God. That's great — as long as it's Jesus and the church or your synagogue or whoever is who you are serving, not a government-bloated program.
For example: If your church is preaching social justice and education, your church is doing it, great but remember the Defend Education rallies that happened recently? Of course everyone wants to "defend education." But if you go to the National Day of Action to Defend Education Web site, you'll find a list of endorsers and you'll realize that you've just entered a hot-zone of activist, progressive, socialist groups trying to hijack another movement.
If you go to Jeremiah Wright's United Church of Christ Web site, it looks fine and dandy. But check out the "related links" page and you will be recommended to visit the Ella Baker Center. The Ella Baker Center — why does that sound familiar? Oh that's right, it was co-founded by Van Jones, the communist.
The left understands that if there is a wall you can't get around, then go through the cracks like a mist — infect it and use it for yourself.
Americans are a moral people; we care, we have big hearts. So if there's a problem — say, global warming — you've got to sell it to people: You don't want to hurt the planet, do you? How do you fix it? Ecological justice. What is ecological justice? Cap-and-trade: The United States — a country with a lot of wealth — will go to a country with no wealth... and we'll buy their air. Wow, that sounds like socialism or the forced redistribution of wealth, which is Marxism.
Health care: Don't you just want to help people without health care? Yes, I do — I don't want to see anyone hurt. I want to help. Well, they can't afford it — we need economic justice to fix it. Now wait, that sounds like socialism or the forced redistribution of wealth, which is Marxism.
Education: Who doesn't want to help people get an education? Some people didn't have an opportunity to get an education. It's just about social justice and balancing the scales. No, it actually sounds like socialism which is the forced redistribution of wealth, which is Marxism.
Let's hear what the FCC's diversity "czar" Mark Lloyd has to say about social justice:
MARK LLOYD, FCC: We're in a position where you have to say who is going to step down so someone else can have power.
It's a moral thing to do! It is social justice.
But what if you're a Marxist and you really want the forced redistribution of wealth? Let's call it socialism? No, that doesn't work. How about we call it "social justice"? And we use a topic like education and we can sell it to people because they are moral.
We can't sell socialism, but we can sell "economic justice." And we can point out that it's about health care, because they are moral — they'll serve God.
Notice what they all have in common: Taking from one and giving to another. The second half of that equation — giving to another — is charity. But then President Obama's spiritual adviser says this:
Voluntary charity doesn't go far enough? Give to the poor by taking from the rich? Unfortunately that means theft.
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1. Chezwick_Mac says:
Quran 5.58 refers to "most" Jews as "evil doers". 5.60 insists Allah will be "transforming them into pigs and monkeys".
This is as dehumanizing as any hate speech I've ever heard. I personally don't believe in restricting speech of any sort (excepting libel and explicit calls to violence), but Geert Wilders is absolutely correct, if you ARE going to restrict hate speech, the Quran is an appropriate place to start.
• Calling fellow humans pigs, dogs and monkeys is not libel? And doesn't the Quran contain explicit calls to violence? I rest my case.
• Chezwick_Mac says:
Well put.
• A Moslem once wrote "Evolution says we humans have a common ancestor with apes. So why then do you complain if the Kooran says the same?" Of course unless one believes the creation story of the Bible. As much as I disagree with Islam, should we who oppose this "religion" not find a way to counter the argument rationally? After all Muslim might argue that this verse is a scientific fact for the accuracy of the stoned-god allah. I myself have no good answer myself to this problem yet.
• Chezwick,
Context. You are missing it. God also destroyed many other nations, this is in reference to one tribe of Jews who did not hold the covenant of the Sabbath, and thus were destroyed…no descendants, no further procreation, no more life, the end of their story…a single sea side village.
It does not mean "all Jews" only those specific Jews in that one village.
• praiaflamego says:
I can't help thinking after reading any of these Koranic verses that rant against Christians, Jews or Kafirs in general: 'this sounds like it is referring to Muslims'.
2. Andres de Alamaya says:
There is an awful lot here that makes no sense. To begin with, in this piece in a general sense Mr. Spencer gives us a bit of Jewish Paranoia. Yes, Muslims hate Jews because they are closer to them and statistic show that murder within families is more common than the murder among strangers. But hate of ALL non-Muslims is the very foundation of Islam so in this case Jews can't be categorized as the specially chosen. There is probably more hate among the various sects within Islam than they have for Jews or the rest of the world's non-Muslims. If you grow up in a culture in which you are weaned on hate your targeting becomes universal. The great tragedy of our time is that the West has allowed vast numbers of Muslims to settle in our midst – in England this year the single most name registered for new infants was Mohamed and its various spellings. If their majority settles in as all other immigrant groups have done to become citizens of their adopted countries, there we may look forward to peaceful future. But it seems that their principal legacy, hate, surfaces among Muslims born in the West and this will lead to an eventual bloodbath where the more primitive elements in our own culture will take to the streets in riots to blow up mosques and ravage resident Muslims, naturally with a good number among them who were not radicals and who wanted like the rest of us to simply pay for a roof over their heads and an education for their children. That will be the price they will pay for not having stood up against their radical, lunatic members.
• Chezwick_Mac says:
On the contrary, the very existence of Israel on what was previously the territory of Darul Islam has accentuated the Muslim hatred of Jews to a level unique among the supposed "enemies of the faith". This is why Jews and synagogues are much more frequently targeted for acts of violence and vandalism in Europe than those of other faiths. The fact that you would go out of your way to contest this reality is curious.
• dhimminology says:
It's not Jewish Paranoia. In Islam, Muslims are supposed to hate and consider ALL non-Muslims as beneath them, even subhuman and akin to dogs. But the foremost nation/people that they target for their hatred are the Jews. Then followed by Christians. Then finally by others called 'pagans' and 'idolaters'. The first to fry in Islamic Hellfire in the afterlife will be Jews, followed by their 'allies' -Christians, and then the other 'pagans'. Spencer is correct – the main target of Muslim terrorists is the Jew. But we Gentiles don't rest on our laurels. We are just as useless and to be treated just like merchandise in Islam too. So, we non-Muslims, whether Jews or Gentiles, whether religious or irreligious, etc. should unite against this common enemy of ours.
3. SHmuelHaLevi says:
Excellent diplomatic tack.
Today the monsters assaulted a Church in Baghdad murdering about 50 worshipers. Regretfully the US keeps wasting time in the Iraqi cesspool endangering soldiers w/o a purpose.
The same diplomacy suggested for the Yemen gruesome islamic sewer must apply for the Iraqi Osama Bin Laden beasts.
Iran's Ayatholas must also receive that diplomacy.
• How many US troops sacrificed their lives to bring Iraq into the modern age? Iraq is still a very violent and horrible place. what a tragedy. what a waste of young lives, of billions of dollars…all to see the same muslim madness go on indefinitely. what was the iraq war for? any answers?
• SHmuelHaLevi says:
Rage. When I hear barbarities such the one in that Church, yes I feel rage as a human being. In am Jewish but to me it is equally repulsive when my Christian family is assaulted. Sunday Mass time carefully selected to do that.
The cult of Islam must be rolled back before it is too late.
They will never stop because their Koran orders them to do that.
As to the war in Iraq. I have no idea what was the intent but I was a Senior-Fellow Engineer Military Avionics DoD Programs during the original Gulf War and learnt first hand the lack of true desire to solve the problem.
Nothing changed since then. On the contrary.
What a mess.
4. American_Flag says:
# 2 sounds good in theory, but our sick twisted liberal left leaning values would not permit it. It would OFFEND THEM, and be AGAINST THEIR WILL….they HAVE RIGHTS TOO….oh brother…and SAVE THE WHALES too while you're at it.
What a bunch of ninnies we are!!!!!! Sad.
5. dhimminology says:
I agree. I think, ultimately, we have to war with the Muslim world. We all don't want war, but Islam's fierce determination to subjugate us non-Muslims will leave us with little choice. Too bad we non-Muslims are so fragmented and are bickering amongst ourselves while the enemy grows stronger by the day and slowly inflitrating into non-Muslim countries – both Western and non-Western nations – like a cancer or parasite slowly killing its host. I fear that it may be too late for us to stop outcome #1 where our identities and cultures will be completely annihilated into a new stone age one-world dystopia.
6. duh_swami says:
'Muslims, in the US, have a right to practice their religion like anyone else'…Obama…
The problem is that 'anyone else' does not consider it their sacred duty to kill Jews…
7. American_Flag says:
This is all cah-cah. They are testing the waters…just like they did with the disruptive imams at the airport a few years ago. They have us running around checking every tissue box that gets shipped through the mail, and this insanity will continue for maybe a month or two, then Janet she-man Napalitano will stand up and praise her department for a job well done (post haste?). Then we will all go back to our stupid lazya$$ selves, just like pre-9/11.
SAD SAD SAD. We are led by true idiots of the 21st century.
8. CommonSense says:
Selective reporting. Here's what is left out: US. and British intelligence officials say that Hanan al-Samawi was a victim of identity theft. The Saudi government (uh, all Muslims!) tipped off the U.S. to the bombs. Otherwise, they would have gotten through. U.S. and British intelligence officials now say the intended targets were the cargo planes. To all Muslims (except terrorists), Jews are the People of the Book and are to be accorded respect. Buy why let facts get in the way of a good tirade?
• Facts, you say? Where in the Koran does it say that "Jews are the People of the Book and are to be accorded respect". Have you ever read the Koran? Doesn't sound like it. Islam is not a religion. It is a complete way of life, and it's goal is World Domination. These "devout Muslims" are not peaceful in any sense of the word! They not only murder those that are not Muslims, but they savagely murder and maim their own people. We are at war, and all these bed wetting sissy liberals in this country are more concerned with offending somebody when they should be standing up and screaming, "We will not allow this under any circumstances". If these same people are so unhappy with the USA, why don't you pack up and get the hell out. Let us know how you like it when you get to where ever its you think is better. try France, England, Spain, oh hell go anywhere in Europe
• dhimminology says:
No…the liberals should be sent to Saudi Arabia, Iran and better still – live with the Al-Qaeda people. Then only will they understand their folly and fallacy.
• RUSerious,
Here, you most likely won’t understand, and these are out of context for the greater part, but these touch lightly on the subject of respect, guidance, acceptance, even marriage:
Aal-e-Imran, 3:64, 3:75, 3: 119, 3:199,
Al-Maeda 5:5, 5:19, 5:77,
All over the Quran the People of the Book are spoken of in dignity and honor for those who obeyed God and kept their covenant…but the majority of human kind does not fall under that good description, do they?
There are a number of Hadiths that also speak well of the People of the Book from the past, and also many that do not.
The question is, which category do you fall in? Do you only focus on those People of the Book who disobeyed God, or do you, as I, revel in the remembrance of those who followed Noah, Abraham, Lot, Isaac, Ishmael, Moses, Jesus, and Mohammad?
I revel in the remembrance of them all.
• dhimminology says:
RUSerious understands. So do I and many others who speak against Islam.
Your 'obey God' means 'obey Islam's God-Allah' isn't it? Problem is the Jew's God is Yahweh and the description of Yahweh in the Torah contradicts that of Islam's Allah. Jews(at least the orthodox ones) believe Yahweh is God of all mankind, and so does Islam. But Yahweh is not Allah(based on the differences between them in the Torah and the Quran). Either Yahweh is true, or Allah is true or both are false. Either the Torah is true and the Quran is flase or the Torah is false and the Quran is true or both are false. Hence, your argument falters because you use the generic term 'God' but the 'God' Jews believe is of a totally different character from Allah.
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• dhimminology says:
To Abdullah….continuation…
So, do you mean to say that Jews who obey Yahweh(for Yahweh is Elohim = 'God' ) will not be the ones killed under Jihad? I think not. Islam's history proves it not. I won't go into detail about Muhammad's life here but his was a life of deceit and treachary towards non-Muslims. Surah 9:29 states fight the people of the Book who are against Allah and Muhammad. Jews are automatically against Allah and Muhammad because they reject both Allah and do not consider Muhammad as a prophet. Christians(at least those still true to their faith) reject Allah and Muhammad as well because many teachings of the Quran contradict the Bible. Hence, Surah 9:29 bsically means ALL People of the Book who remain true to their faiths. Because if they obey Allah and Muhammad, then they would have left their faiths and CONVERTED to Islam. So, your allusion that those 'People of the Book were spoken of well in the Quran if they believed God' is deceptive because that meant those who left their faiths and became Muslims.
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• dhimminology says:
To Abdullah….continuation…
The word 'God' is generic, hence the fallacy of your argument. Islam's God is NOT the same as Judeo-Christian God although both claim to be the true God. Hence, the generic term 'God' and obeying such a nebulous terminology cannot be used as an excuse for those surahs I have mentioned in my earlier posts.
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• dhimminology says:
To Abdullah….continuation….
Why are Muslims so against the Jews and Christians? Well, for one, I think it is ENVY….envy of the material(and perhaps even spiritual?)successes of the Jews and "Christians" of today. The other is Muhammad started this racialistic(against the Jews) and categorical(towards Christians and pagans) hate in the first place because he considered his religion as THE TRUTH and by default all other TRUTH-CLAIMS(i.e. other religions , philosophies) are false.
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• dhimminology says:
In the Torah, Isaac was chosen over Ishmael. Ishmael was given prominence in Islam. Jesus was believed to be the Son of God and actually God Incarnate. That doctrine is denied and accursed in the Quran. Hence, it's actually either Islam has the true description of those characters or Judeo-Christianity have true description of those characters(except Muhammad)- they both can't be true. Hence, your argument falters again…..
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• dhimminology says:
Hmmmm…I have posted many more but they seem to have gone missing. I don't think I am going to re-posts them. I think one can come up with a rational conclusion in my replies to "Abdullah". Agree with the principle of abrogation in Islam as explained by Dragomir.
• kafir4life says:
That you abdullah mikey? They let you back in? You still head bangin' for that made up moon doggie?
• dhimminology says:
What facts? If you are a non-Muslim -your post only betray your ignorance. If you are Muslim, we are not unaware of your taqqiya(deception).
Let's see some of your 'facts':-
Really? NOT according to the Quran. A True Muslim will hate all Jews who refuse to submit to Islam(i.e. to convert to Islam).
Disbelieve what? Disbelieve Muhammad and his 'religion'. So Jews, even though they are 'People of the Book" but disbelieve in Islam are considered 'the worst of created beings'. So much for 'respect'!
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• dhimminology says:
Another one for you:-
(Quran 9:29)
Islam has respect for the "People of the Book"? Obviously not!
Cursing the Jews and Christians came from Muhammad's 'Allah':-
(Quran 9:30)
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• dhimminology says:
So much for Islam's 'respect' for the 'people of the Book'. I would say that Muslims who don't hate the Jews and Christians and 'idolaters' and wish to subjugate and dominate non-Muslims are not COMPLETELY following the teachings of Muhammad. The 'Islamic terrorists' are the followers of the 'pure' teachings of Muhammad.
"Buy why let facts get in the way of a good tirade? "
That 'question' is more apt for the hate-filled book called the Quran – a book filled with 50-60% tirades against non-Muslims; a book filled with plagiarism of other faiths(Judaism and Christianity); a book filled with a mumbo-jumbo of truth, deception, inaccuracies.
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• dhimminology says:
"Hanan al-Samawi was a victim of identity theft." So? Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri is suspected to have made the bomb. Whatever it is, it came from Yemen and highly likely has links with Al-Qaeda or similar organizations. The common denominator is this: ISLAM.
"The Saudi government (uh, all Muslims!) tipped off the U.S. to the bombs."
That's taqqiya(deception). So what? Sacrifice a willing martyr(or martyrs) so that the world thinks that Saudi Arabia is not part of the problem. Saudi Arabia is THE problem. Islam was borned there and what better way to use that religion to control the minds of more than a billion adherents? A potential army that can take on the non-Muslim world one day.
• The "people of the book" verses are among those which were abrogated,so while it is fine that they are still included in the book by the stoned-god allah , they have no real importance. They are only there to cloud the issue, or create a smoke-screen.
For Islam to be a real religion of peace, they had over 1300 years to prove it, NO? After all the Islamic Society is the BEST allah will bring forth on this planet. I don't see the "best" society here anywhere. Especially if in Islamic countries people are being murdered, raped, and all other crimes committed like anywhere in the world.
9. American_Flag says:
The idiots on parade will come up with a brave new idea…they will make everyone who ships something sign a realease form or a pledge that asks:
After the proper signatures are obtained, the said packages will continue on their merry way…everything will be safe – so says Janet he-man Napalitano…But in reality, these weapons of mass destruction will be on course to blow up a plane, train or ship.
But that's OK. Obamma and co. pledges to fight terrorism…yeah right!~
What a kick in the ahrse this all become. Sad sad sad.
10. I think there is a psychological "ism" that describes it, but don't weak-minded people portray their worst traits on to others? When I read this in the article:
it seems to me that it factually states the traits of Islamists … Not Jews. But these Islamists attribute their nasty traits to Jews nonetheless.
• American_Flag says:
One of the tactics in the Koran is to use deceit to convert or kill your enemy. Also, it tells you to play the role of THE VICTIM, to gain sympathy from the enemy. These are the perfect tactics to use againt us in the 21st Century. We live in a world today where the mass media falls right into their PLAY BOOK, and the left leaning libs suck it all up.
HENCE THE DILEMA. Flush the libs first and foremost. Then dump the Hollywood elites followed by all the democrats. With those 3 groups removed from the equation, only then might we have a chance to save the future…otherwise we are going to go down in flames…..
11. All non Islamic societies must place a POLL TAX on Muslims, to offset the tremendous security costs that their belief system places on our societies.
All who believe Mohammeds words, in some way support the terrorist activities in the world.
Mosques that foster the negative concepts must be closed.
A simple test is ask if a muslim believes Mohammeds words. Mohammed demands Warfare on all non believers.
12. Jim Johnson says:
Who designs their terror bombing program? Could it be Dr Evil from the Austin powers movie?
It is not the CIA,FBI or Mosad that saves us from Al Qaeda. Rather it is Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula own incompetence.
The only success they had was igniting their own under ware.
13. The argument goes this Obama wants to contact a demographic that wouldn’t readily vote in midterm elections with regard to the candidates performed screeching, off-key addresses of Whitney Houston sounds. Wasn’t it just the other day that the media appeared to be slamming Obama for “demeaning” the office in the President of the us by appearing on that Daily Show? I can’t wait for you to hear what the pearl-clutchers while in the media have to say with this latest GOTV effort from the President.
14. For over 3000years Jews have been expelled, persecuted, wandering the earth, living in the Wilderness, in exile, an exodus, refugees and immigrants – landless & homeless… what makes one think that they are going to see PEACE now? They are cursed, and this is so, because of their tactics, their mischief and because they are scornfully arrogant. They have been expelled from every single EUROPEAN country (over 100, including England). http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/expelled.htm
Now, the Goy is aligning with the ANTICHRIST – the games never ended! The Jews are at it again…it will all end in tears, and it's going to backfire (again!)
16. dhimminology says:
Hence, the conclusion is:-
1. Your argument is fallacious because you use the generic term 'God' which assumes that the God in Islam and the God in Judaism and the God in Christianity 'are the same'. They are not. So, the term 'obey God' is meaningless because one cannot 'obey Islam's God ' and also 'obey Judaism's God'.
2. Similarly your argument regarding the prophets mentioned. It's like I have two witness claiming to know one James. One says James is a 48 years old clerk in the year 2010. Another says James is a 3 year old kid in the year 2010. They cannot be the same James. Analogous to the discrepancies between the Quran and the Bible describing these prophets.
3. Hence, one can logically deduce that those Surahs against People of the Book who are against Allah and Muhammad mean ALL Jews who do not convert to Islam and all Chrsitians.
• dhimminology says:
Also, TRUE that according to the Bible, those who do not believe in Yahweh will be punished – but it's Yahweh Himself who will punish. Except for certain instances in the Old Testament where the Jews were commanded by Yahweh to punish unbelievers, Jews and Christians are never commanded by Yahweh to kill or fight unbelievers – they leave that to Yahweh's sovereign judgment. Regarding those Old Testament passages in which Yahweh used human agents(Jews) to inflict punishment on unbelievers, they were all historical and are not to be repeated. Old Testament laws were also meant for Jews and not Gentiles.
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• dhimminology says:
However, in Islam, Allah uses human agents(Muslims) to fight, kill, punish, subjugate and dominate non-Muslims. In fact, as I have proved, Surah 9:29 and others COMMAND such acts. Of course, Allah punishes unbelievers in the afterlife but even in the present life they are not to be spared by Muslims.
Islam is basically an ethnic religion created by Muhammad for the Arabs for the Arabization of the world.
• dhimminology says:
Whereas, punishment of unbelievers via human egents commanded by Yahweh were historical, one-off incidents never to be repeated or to continue(Jews and Christains who continue to do so obviously disobey Yahweh if they were to truly believe the Bible) in Islam Muslims are commanded to carry on punishing and dominating unbelievers. "Good things spoken off regarding the People of the Book" in the Quran are abrogated as explained by Dragomir.
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18. it is sad that name of Islam is being mixed with these inhuman, hateful act. But belive me majority of Muslims are peaceful. those who do such acts they can call themselves muslims but they are not. Islam teaches love for all human beings, whether jews or christians or hindus or bhuddists or agnostics or any others. Jihad is for self defence only. Biggest Jihad is sefl purification and supplication to God Almighty. As anyone can tell that this indeed is a biggest struggle against ownself, against own petty desires, and total submission to the will of God, which is worshipping Him Alone. Once we start doing this, practical part comes next which is taking care of the people around you who are creations of God, people of sick, of illhealth, travellers, needy, poor, and disabled or anyone who needs help. Islam came just to do this. But unfortunate clergy and mullahs brainwashed the teens and young population and poised their innocent but very receptive minds to commit crime against humanity.
19. i believe that our job in the west is to educate the next generation of Muslims who are here. and one key of education is to train their teachers or clergy in our universities. Just like we have system of educating the Rabbi's and priests, we should enforce by law that all the mosques should have a US or european trained scholars ( masters in Islamic studies ) as their imam, not imams from their own countries. and Such degree programs can be made with the help of moderate educated muslims who are already in here. This way the training material should be made through comparative religious study. Quran is a book that is very vast in knowlege. Understanding Quran is the main thing. For example in Quran God says" who are blind in this world will be blind in the next world also". literal meaning is that if somebody is blind here will remain blind in the next world. but underlying meaning is the those who are spiritually blind in this world, did not percieve God in this world will not be able to do so in the next life also, they will remain spiritually blind. Because all physical ailments will be not be there with you in next life becuase it will be a different dimension. for details go to http://www.alislam.org
20. Someone could make a killing, no pun intended, in selling vials of dried pig's blood for a deterrent against Muslim's demands. General Pershing knew a secret. Some say it was a legend, but it still works. When i mentioned it to Muslims they accused me of promoting WMD'S.
21. The best bombs are those constructed not of lead, explosives or radioactive materials, but of words crafting a moral argument and denouncing the Koranic contributions to terrorism and asserting the superiority of the "self evident" American ideal that "all men are created equal." However such rhetorical bombs are rather impotent unless delivered by an articulate head of state.
22. SHmuelHaLevi says:
Good idea if we are determined to complete the job. The Islamics will not stand by and they must be brought to understand how the game has changed. The hard way.
The terrible PC era must be changed to a solid self assertive era where Islam will be returned to be in their traditional locations. That means that the OIL factor is removed from the setting…
23. Spirit_Of_1683 says:
True,. Whilst our children are watching Barney and the Teletubbies, Muslim kids are putting on mock bomb vests, assault rifles and practising for their future roles – that of becoming terrorists out to murder infidels in cold blood.
24. SHmuelHaLevi says:
No doubt about it. Rethoric weapons are effective at some point, yet, as someone that lives about 3/4 mile from four islamic villages, in constant contact with the inhabitants, I know better.
I will not risk talking about percentages, but while I keep good relations with some there, the vast majority do not understand rethoric. They do understand display and use of raw power. And that only if relentless and w/o solution of continuity.
Either we internalize Islam as it realy is and address it for their understanding…or we are doomed.
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Vatican suspends 'Bling bishop' over luxurious lifestyle
Bishop of Limburg Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst is accused of spending about $42 million renovating his residence.
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The Vatican said Wednesday that it had suspended a German bishop known for his excessive spending.
Bishop of Limburg Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst, 53, also known as the "bishop of bling," is accused of spending about $42 million renovating his residence.
How does a renovation on a relatively small home (pictured right) incur such costs?
Well, when you put in a $20,000 bathtub or $34,000 conference table, it begins to add up quickly.
Not to mention a private chapel that reportedly cost $4 million.
Many people in Germany pay a church tax to the state, which raised over $6 billion last year. Protests around the bishop's residence calling for his resignation began in earnest when the news broke.
More from GlobalPost: 'Bling bishop' called to explain himself to pope
The bishop's suspension comes just two days after he met with Pope Francis to discuss the scandal.
He apparently flew to Rome on Ryanair, a discount airline.
A Church commission has been established to rule on the matter but it is unclear when the decision will be made.
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Dozens sickened by pungent toilet fumes at Berlin airport (VIDEO)
Fifty-three people are made ill by exceptionally potent lavatory—sickness is attributed to ammonia fumes
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Beware the lavatory: fifty-three people at a Berlin airport were sickened by an exceptionally pungent toilet on Saturday, causing the shut-down of an entire terminal and an investigation into the source of the fumes.
Victims of the fumes reported nausea and eye pain—and fire fighters who rushed to the scene at Tegel Airport to assist them also found themselves feeling decidedly ill, says NBC.
The Local reports that investigators eventually pinpointed the source of the trouble: an extremely high level of ammonia was found in the washroom in question.
The bathroom and the now noxious terminal were thoroughly aired out, according to authorities, and the airport was able to re-open.
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Death-by-toilet-fumes is, worrisomely enough, not entirely unknown: last year, one person died and nine others became seriously ill when a McDonalds toilet in Georgia began to emanate a pungent chemical odor. Among the ill were fire fighters responding to the call, says the Daily Mail.
Perhaps more creepily, the gas dissipated very quickly, making it hard for researchers to figure out what it was, says ABC News—though cleaning chemicals were the likely culprit.
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Supercite employs a number of heuristics to decipher the author's name based on value of the ‘From:’ mail field of the original message. Supercite can recognize almost all of the common ‘From:’ field formats in use. If you encounter a ‘From:’ field that Supercite cannot parse, please report this bug using M-x report-emacs-bug.
There are a number of Supercite variables that control how author names are extracted from the ‘From:’ header. Some headers may contain a descriptive title as in:
Some ‘From:’ headers may contain extra titles in the name fields not separated by a title cue, but which are nonetheless not part of the author's name proper. Examples include the titles “Dr.”, “Mr.”, “Ms.”, “Jr.”, “Sr.”, and “III” (e.g., Thurston Howe, the Third). Also, some companies prepend or append the name of the division, organization, or project on the author's name. All of these titles are noise which should be ignored. The variable sc-name-filter-alist is used for this purpose. As implied by its name, this variable is an association list, where each element is a cons cell of the form:
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where regexp is a regular expression that is matched (using string-match) against each element of the ‘From:’ field's author name. position is a position indicator, starting at zero. Thus to strip out all titles of “Dr.”, “Mr.”, etc. from the name, sc-name-filter-alist would have an entry such as:
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After a hectic day at college and a scrumptious dinner, I was lying on the bed, listening to to the cine songs playing in my mobile speakers.When the song Kannalane from “Bombay” started playing my brain quickly started to run down memory lane and gather all the memories associated with this song.
Down memory lane
I was five years old then; I used to have an extremely lovely chocolate-pink dupatta with a golden border. I used to play this on my tape recorder and then wear that dupatta over my head just like Manisha Koirala would in the movie and go crazy dancing. Dancing to this song was my entertainment. My grandparents too enjoyed watching me dance.It’s funny to think about now, but sweet too. The memory of those innocent days, when words like sorrow, sadness, fear and stress hadn’t entered my dictionary (it was full of “happy-happy” words) made me feel blissful.
Songs aren’t just a tune but also a perfect referencing agent to many incidents and memories. Some songs bring to your mind the forgotten facets, lost deep within one’s memory. A few remind you of the fun you had while playing Antakshari with your dear ones. Another song will remind you of the first time you bunked class to go for a movie. A certain song will take you back to the college days, while another will remind you of your board exams.
Reliving the past
For sure, everyone has some memories that are triggered when a song hits the ears. Songs even recap an untoward incident of life, but nevertheless a best indicator of times and moments. They have the ability to go down your memory and make you relive the past.
P. GOMATHI SARNYA, Final Year, M.Sc. Electronic Media, Anna University
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Chapter 1 - Rice morphology
For many of you, this will be your first exposure to rice as a plant. This chapter provides a brief introduction to the physical parts of the rice plant - what botanists call the morphology It is intended to be neither highly technical nor comprehensive. A basic understanding of the physical characteristics of the rice plant will facilitate your understanding of the rice growth cycle and should prove useful in many aspects of cultivation.
I. General Information
Rice (oryza sativa) belongs to the family of cereal grasses, along with wheat, corn, millet, oats, barley, rye, and numerous others. The grass family provides the world with over 60% of its caloric intake and over 75% of the protein for developing nations.
The rice plant is an annual grass (it normally grows for only a year and then dies) with round, hollow, jointed culms (stems), flat leaves, and a terminal panicle (flower cluster). It is the only cultivated cereal plant adapted to growing in both flooded and non-flooded soils. Grown under a wide range of climatic and geographical conditions on all five continents, it serves as the staple food throughout much of the world.
The parts of the rice plant may be divided as follows:
- roots
- stem and leaves
- reproductive organs
- grain
II. Roots
As the underground portion of the plant, the roots serve as support, draw food and water from the soil, and store food. They are fibrous and consist of rootless and root hairs. The embryonic roots, or those which grow out of the seed when it germinates, nave few branches. They live for only a short time after germination. Secondary adventitious roots (i.e. roots appearing in an irregular pattern) emerge from the underground nodes of the young culm and replace the embryonic roots. Although a few adventitious roots grow straight down to a depth of over 15", most spread out under flooded conditions into the shallow oxidized soil layer near the surface to form a broad, dense network.
III. Stem and Leaves
a) Stem
The role of the stem (or culm) is to support the leaves and reproductive structures, and to transfer essential nutrients between the roots, the leaves, and the reproductive structures. The stem is made up of a series of nodes and internodes in alternating order. The node (corresponding to the "joint" between two sections of the stem) bears a leaf and a bud which, if it is on the lowermost node, may grow into a tiller, or shoot. The mature internode is hollow and finely grooved. Its outer surface is hairless. It varies in length, generally increasing from the lower to the upper internedes. The lower internodes at the base of the stem are short and thickened into a solid section. The internodes have the capacity to elongate in deep water in order to keep a portion of the plant above water to carry on photosynthesis.
b) Leaves
The leaves function as the principal organs of photosynthesis and respiration (i.e. they contain chlorophyll-containing cells which convert sunlight to chemical energy and synthesize organic "fuel" compounds from inorganic compounds). The leaves are borne at an angle on the stem in two ranks - one at each node. The blade, or extended part of the leaf, is attached to the node by the leaf sheath. The sheath envelops the internode toward, and in some cases even beyond, the next node. On either side of the base of the blade are pairs of small, earlike appendages known as auricles. Just above the auricles is a tissue-like, triangular structure called the ligule. Rice plants have both auricles and ligules and a ligule at every internode; this characteristic is often helpful in differentiating between rice and grassy weeds, which can have auricles or a ligule but not both.
The uppermost leaf below the panicle, the flag leaf, provides the most important source of photosynthetic energy during reproduction.
Fig. 1: Stem and Leaves of Rice
III. Reproductive Organs
a) Panicle
The panicle, or flower cluster, contains the reproductive organs of the rice plant. Borne atop the uppermost node on the stem, the panicle is divided into primary, secondary, and sometimes tertiary branches bearing the spikelets. The branches may be arranged singly or in pairs. The panicle stands erect at blooming, but it usually drops as the spikelets fill, mature, and develop into grains. Varieties differ greatly in the length, shape, and angle of the primary branches, as well as in the weight of the overall panicle
Fig. 2: The article (partly shown)
b) Spikelet
Each individual spikelet contains a set of floral parts flanked by the lemma and palea. The flower consists of six stamens and a pistil. The stamens (which contain pollen, or "sperm") are composed of two-celled anthers borne on slender filaments. The pistil consists of the ovary (containing the ovule, or "egg"), the style, and the stigma. During reproduction, the stigma catches pollen from the stamens and conducts it down to the ovary, where it comes into contact with the ovule and fertilization occurs.
Fig. 3: The Spikelet
V. Grain
The grain is the seed of the rice plant, a fertilized and ripened ovule containing a live embryo capable of germinating to produce a new plant. It is composed of the ripened ovary, the lemma and palea, the rachilla, the sterile lemmas, and the awn (not always present). The lemma and palea and their associated structures constitute the hull or husk. The embryo lies at the ventral side of the spikelet next to the lemma and contains the embryonic root. The rest of the grain consists largely of endosperm (the edible portion), containing starch, proteins, sugar, fats, crude fiber, and inorganic matter.
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Esther J. Cepeda
Esther J. Cepeda
Of course, my relatives in both Ecuador and Mexico would get a good laugh at this because just to look at me, or hear me speak, it's as plain as day to them that I'm a gringa.
Stateside, it's not so cut and dried.
Last spring, when The Pew Hispanic Center published "When Labels Don't Fit: Hispanics and Their Views of Identity," I made waves across the social media sphere by simply observing that I'm a minority-within-a-minority; I happen to identify with the just one-in-five people of Latin American descent who say they use the term "American" most often to describe their identity.
Based on this -- and my previous columns bemoaning the tiresome back and forth about whether "Hispanic" should be used versus "Latino" (according to Pew, more prefer the term "Hispanic," as I do) -- I'm probably the wrong person to speak about how dumb it would be to create a Hispanic race on paper.
Don't worry, that won't stop me.
Forget about the reflexive teeth-gnashing that follows any discussion about whether Brazilians, with their Portuguese mother tongue, can be considered Hispanic, or Spaniards, with their European conqueror history, should be allowed into the Latino category. These days the desire to be separate, unique, and oh-so-special practically calls for a separate census form for everyone.
For instance, the number of Amerindians -- a blanket term for indigenous people of the Americas, North and South -- who also identify themselves as Hispanic has tripled since 2000, to 1.2 million from 400,000, according to The New York Times.
Now, you need only look at pictures of my Ecuadorian father and grandparents to see there's probably some indigenous Quitu in my blood -- and hooray for that. But to claim myself as Native American on the census -- the main tool used by the government to set policy and determine investments in infrastructure -- wouldn't be very helpful or particularly accurate.
Yes, the guy who was played by Ben Affleck in the hit movie "Argo." After the movie hit big, he bore witness to a Hispanic uproar because Affleck had the audacity to cast himself as the hero instead of finding a Latino to play the role.
Last week Mendez spoke out on the controversy, shocking many by telling a journalist that his family has been in the U.S., in Nevada, since the 1900s and "I don't think of myself as a Hispanic. I think of myself as a person who grew up in the desert."
But, I've digressed -- this identity issue isn't just a Hispanic thing.
If all Americans could change the census' identity designations, you'd see a form where you could mark yourself as a Trekkie or Star Wars fan, vegan versus omnivore, or a dog/cat person.
For this you can thank the mantra which every person under 35 has been hearing from every adult throughout the entirety of their lives: You're unique and special -- everyone is!
notblind 11 months ago
Hispanics should definitely be separately identified instead of hiding under the "white" label. Here is an example from the prison population stats. Whites 59.4% Blacks 37.2 Other 3.4
That's how the stats are displayed. PC to the core. They do have a separate ethnicity box that has one entry in it - Hispanic - 34.9%. Hmmm. Subtract this number from the "White" number and you get a true breakdown by race.
Blacks-------37.2%--------13.1% of population------------------------------------------------------ Hispanics---34.9-----------16.7------------------------------------------------------------------------- Whites-------24.5-----------63.4------------------------------------------------------------------------
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0.082828 | <urn:uuid:0a3c0e83-83f7-4d45-90ce-9d348f102bc8> | en | 0.967055 | Street Fighter X Tekken Falls Short
Published:3:18 pm EST, March 23, 2012| Updated:3:18 pm EST, March 23, 2012|
Capcom is in a position that few companies must envy. They single-handedly created the modern fighting genre and everyone still follows Street Fighter II's lead; sure we've gotten variations to the formula, but pretty much every character in any fighting game has fireball or uppercut motions in their arsenal. As a result, Capcom has developed an intense following, especially among those who engage in virtual fisticuffs. Which is both a blessing and a curse.
Street Fighter X Tekken
Street Fighter X Tekken
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Due to their need to keep their hardcore users satisfied, Capcom has created increasingly complex and obtuse sequels and follow-ups. Sure there have been attempts to make things differently, for those who don't drink the Kool Aid, but it's never really worked. Street Fighter X Tekken represented a chance for them to finally break loose and experiment, but sadly, it's the first real example of how truly stale and stagnant the formula has become.
The game itself plays just fine, with emphasis on the word “just". Following the same mold established by previous Vs. titles, you control a pair of characters in tag team competition. But there is one key difference: even though both characters have their health bars, if one is completely depleted, both lose the round. A concept borrowed from Tekken Tag Tournament, one of the new ideas to be embraced by Capcom unfortunately.
The biggest problem is how the Street Fighter characters play just like Street Fighter characters, and the Tekken characters control just like Street Fighter characters. This wasn't a problem in Marvel Vs. Capcom, since Spider-Man and company didn't have previously established moves from other fighting games. Tekken is a different story; everyone's major moves have been retrofitted to fit the Street Fighter style. Sometimes it makes sense; sometimes it's totally awkward. Worst of all, most were left far behind.
It would be totally unfair for Street Fighter's crew to have 5 or 6 specials each, and Tekken to have 15 or 20 like normal. Yet, a creative solution could have been reached, and it honestly feels like such avenues were not even explored. And given how much time this particular game was spent in development, that's ridiculous. As a result of this, the Tekken characters feel like second-class citizens.
Not helping is how without all the different, nuanced move sets, many Tekken characters are completely stripped of all their personality. He was on shaky ground to begin with, but Bob seems even sillier now. Then again, it’s not like many of the Street Fighter 4 faces are all that awesome either. Speaking of, the cast of available characters is barely serviceable. Some of the best ones are being reserved for later down the road, even though the data is on everyone's game discs already.
Control-wise, things feel pretty spot-on and the audio is nothing worth writing home about, so not much else to say here either. Graphics are another story. It builds upon the esthetics that were established in SF4, which I personally find ugly, but at least it’s different than almost anything else out there. I will say, I love the "liquid-y" feel to supers, which is somewhat a nod to the "painterly" look they have in SF4. And the backgrounds are filled to the brim with all kinds of neat references to games from both companies.
The other point of contention is the Gems System. Colored stones enable special attributes in characters if certain conditions are met (usually if your health gets to a certain point). This is Capcom's latest attempt to make the game approachable to newbies, and it just doesn't work. Eventually the totally perfect combination of gems will be discovered, and those who are not Street Fighter masters and are struggling as is (and whom the gems are primarily aimed for) will be TOTALLY screwed.
But also, for something that is again supposed to entice new players, it's overall implementation and execution leaves a lot be desired. There have been complaints regarding the online experience, as it pertains to lag. During my time with both the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions, I experienced almost none. Luck perhaps.
In the end, Street Fighter X Tekken, even with all the new characters and attempts at making it approachable to a wider audience, is just the same old, same old. And in the process, actually makes certain problems worse. One can't help but wonder if their desire to appease such a customer base is making them blind to all the possibilities out there. At least new fighters are constantly stepping to the forefront and advancing the genre. Something Capcom could honestly care less about. PS3, Xbox 360, PC, Vita
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0.233138 | <urn:uuid:cb551fe0-7fab-418d-b0c6-a866d1bde5f5> | en | 0.924786 | Why We Do Not Use Any Mercury "Silver"Filling
FACT: "Silver" or amalgam dental fillings contain from 48-55percent mercury, 33-35 percent silver, and various amounts of copper, tin, zinc, and other metals. Since mercury is the major component of the material, any representation of the material should include the word "mercury". Thus we refer to them as mercury dental fillings.
FACT: Mercury is a powerful poison. Published research has shown that mercury is more toxic than lead, cadmium, and even arsenic. Furthermore, there is no known toxic threshold for mercury vapor and world renowned mercury toxicologists have stated that no amount of exposure to mercury vapor can be considered totally harmless.
FACT: Scientific research has demonstrated that mercury, even in small amounts, can damage the brain, heart, lungs, liver, kidneys, thyroid gland, pituitary gland, adrenal gland, blood cells, enzymes and hormones, and suppress the body's immune system. Mercury has been shown to pass the placental membrane in pregnant women and cause permanent damage to the brain of the developing baby.
FACT: Mercury is continually released from mercury dental fillings in the form of mercury vapor and abraded particles. This process is stimulated and can be increased as much as 15- fold by chewing, brushing, hot liquids, etc. The World Health Organization recently concluded that the daily intake of mercury from amalgam dental fillings exceeded the combined daily intake of mercury derived from air, water and food (including fish).
FACT: The mercury vapor released from mercury dental fillings is absorbed very rapidly and thoroughly in your body, primarily by inhalation and swallowing.
FACT: Mercury causes normal intestinal micro flora to become mercury resistant and antibiotic resistant. Mercury resistant bacteria causes mercury in the intestinal tract to be converted back into vapor and recycled back into the body. Antibiotic resistance is becoming a major medical concern.
FACT: Recent scientific research has shown high levels of mercury in the brains of individuals dead from Alzheimer's disease (AD). Other research is demonstrating mercury can cause similar pathological effects in the brain, as that seen in Lou Gehrig's Disease (ALS) and AD. Laboratory studies of spinal fluid from ALS and AD patient’s has confirmed that mercury inhibits key brain detoxification enzyme systems.
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The American Dental Association and various agencies of the US government still support the use of amalgam dental fillings. They claim they are safe based on 150 years of use despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
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Hatteberg's People - Dean Holbert
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On Hatteberg's People, if you just 'live' life, that can get a little boring. But if you really LIVE life like Dan Holbert of rural Concordia, Kansas, then everything around you holds a story and a tale. Dean Holbert holds on to things past.
"People are interested, so if they are interested -- that's the main thing."
That's Dean Holbert, he's headed to this little building that he built on his farm near Concordia. He built it because he collects stuff.
"Just never throw anything away, our folks didn't, our grandparents didn't, my wife's folks didn't, so we just have a collection of everything we've had. Nobody gets rid of anything."
He loves cars and one of his favorite things is this 1931 Ford Mail truck.
"We found 18 in the U.S., the Smithsonian has one if their collection of Post Office stuff."
"People bring us stuff when they see something, we have something you don't have, would you like to have that, oh yeah we'll take it, we'll take anything...then my wife kinda scowls."
Apparently the scowls continue because everywhere you look, Dean has created this little private museum, well-known in the Concordia area.
"This thing is to sharpen a sickle."
Then there is this gas powered saw.
"Instead of having an electric motor on it and a power cord, it's got a gas engine on it."
"This was a pan I was born in. It's a birthing pan."
And in a little room that looks like a kitchen, more history.
"That was my wife's first bought dress in '49. You see the other side of the family kept stuff too."
He insists that most things we use were invented years ago and some are even more convenient than what we have today.
"When your hands are full and you come to your refrigerator you just step on that little lever and...
Open the door. Pretty convenient!
"My wife says I'm strange. (laughs) I don't know?"
In the front that looks like an old gas station, he's got all kinds of things like a cigarette holder...and medicines that were purchased for their alcohol content.
"There are (were) testimonials about what it has done for you but it's 14 per cent alcohol. The government or somebody wasn't smart enough to catch the people selling that but the guy sold a lot of it."
Outside, the old dog waits patiently for Dean -- who is not only a collector of history...but a teacher as well.
"I just like old stuff...something different."
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While debating the issue of ESPN signing up only British voices for their World Cup match coverage on the most recent American Soccer Show, I found myself arguing more strenuously against the problem of American soccer appropriating English/British football culture than the actual announcers themselves.
This is a pervasive problem (and if you have an issue with my characterization of it as a "problem", you're more than welcome to disagree in the comments) that extends not only to the soccer fanatic's general preference for English announcers, but to more widespread issue of taking our cultural cues from the Old Country.
This all stems, of course, from the common language. Without it, England would be just another football-mad country that cares about the game way more than we do, no different from Spain, Italy, Germany, etc. But because information flows freely across the Atlantic without the need for pesky translation, Americans absorb the English game and opinion on it naturally and without effort. It's why the English Premier League has so many fans here, and why a strong streak of inferiority runs through too much of American soccer's fan culture. Still, it would be amazing if we didn't defer to our colonial progenitors in some way.
Which is why I struggle with the larger question of just how much of an imperative there should be for American soccer to develop its own identity. And by "American soccer" I mean less the youth team machine, which is a major part of any discussion but remains oddly detached from the highest levels, and more the appreciation of the professional game; we have our own leagues, we have a pretty good national team, and we have a history. So why then should the English version of things have such an impact on how we view ourselves?
I'm generalizing, of course, because it's the easiest way to paint the picture and the simplest way to convey my thoughts. There are many, many, Americans who can both appreciate the English and Scots, enjoy their brand of football, and listen to them pontificate without turning their noses up when their Yank counterparts get in on the act. But there's also a large segment of the American footy-loving populace that refuse to believe Americans capable of much when it comes to the game, be it playing it, announcing it, or otherwise. This attitude holds America back from developing its own unique soccer culture, one that sets it apart from our Anglophone cousins while properly recognizing the strong connections that exist between us.
We're conditioned, as fans, to believe British is better. ESPN's decision on their World Cup announcers is just another example that the media decision-makers understand that fact; add that the country's highest profile/most popular soccer radio show is hosted by Brits and that Brits populate the analyst chairs on our studio shows, and we're it's clear that as a soccer nation we struggle to assign credibility to those with American accents. The inevitable consequence is that aforementioned inferiority complex; not only do we defer to the British on matters of opinion, we begin to feel anything done by Americans is inherently less valuable. This sense of inferiority colors how many of us view any domestically-bred soccer, including our nascent top-flight club competition, the efforts of our national team, Americans as players, coaches, etc.
If it's American, it's can't possibly be good.
Back to that pesky ESPN World Cup announcer for a moment. How much of the backlash I've received for my stance on ESPN's decision is related to conditioning? I believe that people are being honest when they say that the choices are good because "there are no good American announcers", but the cynic in me finds it hard to accept that that at face value; American announcers are held to such a different standard than their British counterparts that I wonder if fans aren't simply deferring to the accent rather than objectively assessing the abilities of the announcers in question.
Any criticism of Martin Tyler is anathema, of course, so I play with fire as I type.
But focusing on the individual comparison (i.e., Martin Tyler v. J.P. Dellacamera) misses the point; the issue isn't "who's better", but rather why an American network is turning wholesale to foreign voices. Again, the common language makes it easy, but that doesn't mean that there's not room to question the cultural (strictly in terms of soccer) implications. The continued appropriation of English football culture for a burgeoning American soccer culture does this country no favors as it grows with the game.
The English invented the game. They took it around the world, spawning soccer-mad cultures in nation after nation. Those countries made the game theirs, developing their own unique flavors and idiosyncrasies that make the sport the world's game not just because it fit in so many cultures, but because those cultures made it fit them. In a time before instant communication and where language was a serious barrier, the Italians, Germans, Brazilians, Argentines, and others were able to create their own soccer bubbles where an organic cultural growth wasn't hindered by the expansive shadow of the English originators. In terms of a more popular American sport, this is similar to the growth of and development of baseball in Japan; the game is the same, but the culture, approach, and style is something different.
The modern world of television and the Internet might mean we'll never escape that English shadow. A distinct, separate, and unique American soccer culture will always be slow to develop as long as the English loom just over the horizon, ready to critique and influence everything we do. Fans here might always defer, always see themselves as more inclined to the British game and voices, always unsure that Americans can fill any of the roles as competently. If we've passed to point of no return on becoming hopelessly conditioned to English football over American soccer, it's probably too late.
Elitism, combined with the sense of inferiority, has too many Americans ashamed of their nationality when it comes to the sport of soccer. It's not enough to love the game, appreciate it in all its forms, and accept that things here will be just a little different. The uphill battle to respectability for our leagues, our players, and our media (announcers included) will be a long and difficult one as long as Americans can't see value in soccer being American, and that being just fine.
I realize that I've probably offended a few people with this, or that it might come off as jingoistic (it's not). All I would ask before you lambaste me via the comments (which you're certainly allowed to do) is to think critically about what I've put forth here; if you have never questioned why you might prefer English to American, now might be a good time for self-examination. And with that being said, I'll admit to my own prejudices, and note that my opinions here are born somewhat out of my own desire to understand the phenomenon as it relates to my soccer appreciation.
There's nothing wrong with preferring English accents, or identifying English soccer as better (of course it is); there is something wrong in my mind, however, with preferring English over American to the full exclusion of the American.
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1. The movie is good; the game is not, so save yourself the heartache, the pain, and a few hours. I, on the other hand, was not so lucky, but that's life.
2. 42
I hesitate to say that Iron Man is dumbed down for the Wii, PlayStation 2, and PSP, since hardware limitations likely necessitated such a distinct iteration, but the resulting experience is a by-the-numbers affair unlikely to rouse most action fans.
3. This is every bit the under-developed movie tie-in. [Aug 2008, p.63]
4. How Sega thinks it can get away with this utter detritus is beyond us. [July 2008, p.101]
5. Even fans of the comic won’t have fun with this piece. At the beginning, the permanent explosions are quite entertaining, but soon they get as boring as the monotony of a firing machine gun. No, thanks!
6. A depressing, boring, frustrating mess, 'Iron Man: The Official Videogame' is nothing short of abysmal. Wait for the film to come out on DVD.
7. If Iron Man Wii looked better and played smoother it would at least be bearable. But it doesn't and it isn't. [Issue#23, p.62]
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Mixed or average reviews- based on 8 Ratings
User score distribution:
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2. Mixed: 0 out of 2
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1. JacobH.
May 7, 2008
Game rocks! love playing it.
2. PeterJ.
May 7, 2008
I rented this for my son for the Wii, and I was not expecting much. But it was even worse than I expected. I should have just downloaded the free demo on our PS3 and just let him play that. Full Review » | http://www.metacritic.com/game/wii/iron-man/critic-reviews?sort-by=most-active&dist=negative&num_items=100 | dclm-gs1-241890002 | false | false | {
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1. Incredibly, it works. [Nov 2009, p.104]
2. Dead Man's Bones isn't perfect, but it's often fascinating and nearly always charming--and Shields and Gosling wouldn't have it any other way.
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Dead Man's Bones turns out to be a decidedly beautiful thing. [Nov 2009, p.93]
4. So many ways for it to go wrong, but instead it's a unique, catchy and lovably weird record, with highlights that could hold their own with the best indie singles of the year.
5. Dead Man's Bones is a rickety exemplar of daring amaturism, in step with the duo's ineer-city-music-program pasts. [Fall 2009, p.57]
6. Dead Man’s Bones is about death, right, and about love, testing where one touches the other, flirting with sensations similar and enduring the inability to confront or frankly deal with that intimacy. Had this record a thicker dramatic arc or something less confining than a spreadsheet of rules, then maybe the songs wouldn’t so inevitably miss their obvious marks.
7. How you respond to this cloying, gothic preciousness will have everything to do with your personal tolerance level for things like rough-hewn songcraft and small children chanting about zombies. [16 Oct 2009, p.59]
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Feedback on DKIM draft (long)
2005-07-14 16:21:11
[I initially sent my feedback via private mail, but by good adivce,
was asked to also send it to the ietf-mailsig list.]
General Comments:
* There is definitely some duplication of effort going on with this draft
and with things like Meta-Signatures, <>.
The problem with differing digest/signing specs is implementators
have to deal with all these variants vs implementing a single
algorithm that can be applied to multiple applications.
I hope that NIH syndrome is not the main cause of having different
digest/signing algorithms.
Draft-specific Comments:
* Section 1.1
You mention a trusted third party is not required. However, is
should be allowable, and I do not see anything in this draft that
supports a trusted-third-party system. For example, the support
for X509 certificates of signing keys should be allowed.
* Section 3.2:
Is there any reason that tag=value syntax does follow the parameter=value
syntax defined in RFC-2045? I.e. Are implementors required to
implement another "tag" parsing scheme?
I can guess at the reasons for the variation you came up with, but
it may help to explicitly state why the scheme was adopted versus
leveraging existing (standard) schemes.
It may also be worth noting why something like RFC-2184 was not
Note, quoted-printable tends to have a bad (mostly undeserved)
reputation, so it may help to avoid using it, especially when its
use has never been applied to header data (at least to my knowledge).
* Section 3.3:
There is unnecessary information here, and information that can
lead to ambiguous implementations.
When it comes to cryptography, you should reference cryptographic
standard where appropriate since those standards are very explicit
on algorithms and processes. For example, you should explicitly
specify RSASSA-PKCS1-V1_5 signing and verification method must be
used (which is defined in PKCS#1).
Avoid "re-describing" algorithms unless you plan to use a custom
signing method that is not defined in the PKCS specs, or other
cryptographic-related standards.
The term "native binary form" is ambiguous and riddled with problems.
From a cryptographic perspective, ASN.1 DER rules are used for
encoding all data, allowing for portability (another reason why
crypto specs should be referenced).
* Section 3.4:
- IMHO, the "nowsp" algorithm is questionable, especially from
a cryptographic perspective. You mention to ignore all SWSP
in the body. I think this leaves to too much unnecessay data
variation to still permit a valid signature verification.
I.e. "Hello World" is the same as "HelloWorld". Or do
I misunderstand the algorithm?
Here is the canonicalization algorithm I recommend (based upon
existing work -- OpenPGP and S/MIME -- and common misbehaviors
of mail software):
The canoncicalization process will be different for header
fields vs message bodies. First, let's use the following base
WSP = HTAB / SP
; white space character
HTAB = %x09
; horizontal tab
SP = %x20
; space
LWSP = *(WSP / CRLF WSP)
; linear white space (past newline)
which are extracted from relevant RFCs.
For header fields, the following should suffice for canonicalization:
1. Strip all WSP characters at the end of each line of a header field,
before any unfolding is done.
2. Unfold any fields that are folded.
3. Convert multiple WSP characters into a single SP character.
4. Convert all WSP characters into SP characters.
(See Note below about step 4.)
5. Convert field names to lowercase.
6. Concatenate each field value together, inserting a CRLF sequence
between each field value (according to RFC-2822, the
CRLF is not considered part of the field).
NOTE: Step (4) may be ommitted, but I have encounted software that
refolds and changes some whitespace (e.g. spaces to tabs). Since
whitespace modification is definitely abhorent, you may not want
to entertain trying to deal with it.
For message bodies, I recommend the following canonicalization process:
1. All EOL sequences MUST be converted to CRLF (the canonical EOL
specified in RFC-2822).
2. All trailing WSP characters of each line of text MUST be removed.
3. All trailing LWSP characters at the end of the body MUST be removed.
If the digest will include the combination of header fields and
message body (or message body parts), a CRLF must be included
between each component during digest calculation.
From an implementation perspective, such canonicalization processing
can be done efficiently and be done stream based. I.e. As
the data is read, the canonicalization process can be done before
fed into the cryptographic digest procedures. Cryptographic
libraries (like openssl) support incremental digest computation,
so canonicalization data is very temporary and can be limited
to a well-defined buffer size in memory.
- I would add a comment that "simple" is not recommended since
failure rate can be high. Also, the current algorithm for it
violates semantics of RFC-2822. RFC-2822 states:
Each header field should be treated in its unfolded form for
further syntactic and semantic evaluation.
-- RFC-2822, Sec 2.2.3.
At a minimum, the "simple" algorithm should require unfolding
of header fields. If you choose not to require unfolding, you
should add a note about why this is done in violation of
RFC-2822 semantics.
From a performance perspective, I do not think "simple" buys
- I find it odd that the header field that will contain the
signature (DKIM-Signature) must also be included in the
signing/verification process.
Why isn't the signature data provided in its own separate
header field to avoid having to extract out the sig data
first and dealing with ambiguities of whitespace? For example,
is the whitespace before and after the "b=" tag also removed,
or only the whitespace after (or before)?
I'd recommend two header fields, one for the meta-information
and one just to contain the signature. This way, no unique
processing is required for the meta-information field, it
can be processed like all other header fields:
DKIM-Spec: ...
DKIM-Signature: ...
I am speculating that the rational to put everything in one field
is to make multiple DKIM-Signature fields possible without
the problem of knowing with signature applies to which DKIM-Spec
field. I think this problem is solvable.
- For greatest flexible, the digest should be separated out, and
it, along with meta-information is what is signed. Meta-Signatures
takes this approach.
* Section 3.5:
- The ordering restriction of trace header fields (mainly Received)
is explicitly defined in RFC-2821, not in RFC-2822.
Note, since DKIM fields are to be handled like trace fields, then
splitting the signature from the meta-info can be done, with the
field order in the header defining the which field goes with which
in case of multiple signatures.
- IMHO, the "v=" tag should be required. It always better practice
to be explicit when possible. For example, if the "v=" is missing,
could it be due to an error by the signer? Data corruption
during transit?
- IMHO, I would not support have header fields listed in "h=" unless
they are present during signing. Otherwise, when a header field
is missing, one does not know if this was intentional or a header
field got dropped in transmission (either accidently or by filters)
before verification. Unless there is a clear reason to support
listing fields that are not present, why allow it?
How are multiple same-named header fields handled? Are they
listed multiple times in "h="? You appear to answer this
in section 5.2.2. It should be mentioned here. For brevity,
you may want to support a "count" indicator to reduce space:
- Why is "i=" need to be quoted-printable? Goes back to earlier
comment about qp. Require "i=" value to be a quoted-string.
- For "l=", the term "octet" should be used instead of "byte."
Octet appears to be the preferred term used in mail-based
Why is the hash part of the length?
Because of security implications (which you note) you should
probably drop this tag. It is not needed.
- For the "t=" tag, why not use ISO date/time format. For example:
Unix second time format is, well, to unixy. For email, such
OS-specific type formats should be avoided. I recommend using
well-defined standard date format for all dates.
Plus, the ISO format is more readable by humans.
- "z=" is a mess, and can eventually lead a DKIM field that is
longer than 988 octets (RFC-2822 limit).
You mention that verifiers should not use copied header fields
for verification. I do not agree with this.
This leads to a discussion about when signing is done. There is
an implication that the sender MTA should do this, right before
transmitting to final destination. Well, this does limit when
signing can be done and who can do it.
It also does not protect from potential address re-write rules.
I.e. Even if the initial signing MTA does signing after
rewrite rules, intermediary ones may still do address re-writing.
One benefit of saved headers is the verifying agent could utilize
them for signature verification, bypassing any re-write rules
that may happen by MTAs.
It would be more flexible to have a signing method that is
not dependent on where the signing occurs (e.g. an MUA could
do it vs an MTA).
We can discuss further if you like. As of now, "z=" should be
eliminated or the concept of saved header fields should be
* Section 5.2.2:
RFC-2822 is mistakenly referenced for trace order restrictions, when
it is RFC-2821, section 4.4.
* Section 9.2:
- The discussion here implies that signing can be done at the MUA
level, which ties into my comments above about saved header fields
and address re-writing cases.
- The need key revocation policies is implied here, which is
touched upon in Section 9.6. Key management is critical for
the system to be secure and trusted by users, therefore, it
definitely should be spelled out, potentially in a separate
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0.025804 | <urn:uuid:fcf34c0c-0e50-4233-a516-8851d44285ae> | en | 0.962554 | To Jawaharlal Nehru
November 13, 1945
My dear Jawaharlal,
(1) The real question, according to you, is how to bring about man's highest intellectual, economic, political and moral development. I entirely agree.
(2) In this there should be an equal right and opportunity for all.
(3) In other words, there should be equality between town dwellers and the villagers in the standard of food and drink, clothing and other living conditions. In order to achieve this equality today people should be able to produce for themselves the necessaries of life i.e. clothing, food-stuffs, dwelling and lighting and water.
(4) Man is not born to live in isolation but is essentially a social animal independent and inter-dependent. No one can or should ride on another's back. If we try to work out the necessary conditions for such a life, we are forced to the conclusion that the unity of society should be a village, or call it a small and manageable group of people who would, in the ideal, be self-sufficient (in the matter if vital requirements) as a unit bound together in the bonds of mutual co-operation and inter-dependence.
Blessings for Indu.
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Iron Man
It has good music, which is rare in NDS games, and the character is fun to use, overall. He’s a flying tank with many bells and explosive whistles (which rhymes with “missiles!”). He can take a hit and hit back harder. You take too many and power down, but after you get it back together, you can resume the metallic carnage. You rarely feel as though “this is impossible.” It’s somewhat predictable, which is the nature of making a game based on a hero — not to mention a major motion picture. I wasn’t expecting tic-tac-toe mini-games to unlock when I blow up a weapons depot. No gimmicks or shortcuts, but some lackluster action with a character of such potential. What could have been done to make it better? If I knew that for sure, I would be making the game instead of writing about it. Just think, in inevitable sequels, Mr. Stark won’t likely be the only playable character (see comments in Difficulty).
While Iron Man's latest foray on the DS is not the usual movie tie-in shovelware, its basic gameplay keeps it from becoming a truly super title. The action proves to be both fast-paced and challenging but the many design flaws in the awkward gameplay will ensure that you only get minimal enjoyment out of Iron Man unless you are under the age of ten. Awful camera view, clunky controls and repetitive missions makes this one DS title that doesn't live up to the superhero that it promotes.
Iron Man no escapa de la maldición de los juegos basados en películas. Sólo para fanáticos.
In the end Iron Man is nothing more than a graphically superior version of arcade classic Robotron, which wouldn't be so bad except we've just encountered much the same thing in the recently released Geometry Wars and last year’s Monster House. Its real flaw though is in its linear and repetitive gameplay and although the game starts out 'on-foot' and progresses to flying there are not nearly enough earth-bound sections in the mix. The developers have done little to extend the game’s replay value and given that the 'One Man Army' section is simply an extension of the game’s main theme you are unlikely to be revisiting it once you have completed it. Only for huge fans of the movie and anyone in need of a Robotron fix.
Finally, there's the fact that Iron Man can easily be beaten in less than five hours. I blew through my first time in just a little over three, and there's very little reason why you'd want to play through this adventure again. There are some bonus combat levels, but the game is so boring anyway that these will likely be completely ignored by anyone who bothered to reach the end of this game. If you're a huge fan of Iron Man, this version of the game might be worth a rental. But, if you're just looking for a solid action title on the DS, this is not the game for you.
Tout comme le soda gazeux qui accompagne votre séance de jeu d'Iron Man, les souvenirs de ce jeu vont perdurer dans votre esprit grâce au magnifique rot que vous aurez fait après avoir terminé votre boisson. Malheureusement pour ceux qui n'ont pas un petit truc qui fait roter quand ils jouent, ils ne risquent pas de ce souvenir longtemps d'Iron Man sur DS. Sympa mais sans plus.
Those final scuffles come a lot sooner than expected, however. With only eight missions, players can breeze through the game in three hours or less (though a handful of bonus One-Man Army survival stages unlock after the credits roll). Still screens from the film and bits of voice acting give the DS version additional flair, but the potential of the experience is undermined by the short length, repetition, and cramped control scheme. Developer A2M gets a thumbs-up for effort on this focused iteration, but Iron Man's on-the-go heroics are largely average in practice.
Ni bon, ni franchement mauvais, Iron Man sur DS remplit sa mission paresseusement et laisse les joueurs sur leur faim. A réserver aux inconditionnels du shoot.
En tout cas, les courageux qui réussiraient à passer outre la monotonie de l'aventure et la frugalité visuelle trouveront un challenge plutôt élevé qui nécessite vite une bonne dextérité et des réflexes presque dignes d'un shoot'em up old school. S'il se révèle donc moins raté que ses cousins sur console de salon, cet Iron Man est loin de nous embarquer dans une aventure mémorable. Mais sait-il le faire ?
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Warning: Vicious raccoons will eat anything including cobbler. Each with their own Lone Ranger mask you can't prove anything. They have heard the Trophy Room is going AND they know your Davy Crocket hat is synthetic too they will probably just borrow it to carry more goodies. We hope you enjoy your stay here at the Disneyland Resort and have a magical evening.
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Uh... Sorry? hehe uh here have a - GrumpyPirateDad 1263.7 #77 3:54PM
Thanks! Here's a spiked Dole whip float! LOL - MrsSchnooks 2261.9 #37 5:53PM
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Racoons are mean but I bet these one have been Disney-fied to just steal food!!:D - secretagentangel 1015.1 #111 4:14PM
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I love Meeko but I'd so be running the other way if I saw them lol - mickeyat 942.2 #122 8:53AM
Omg!! Scary!!! 😳😁😩😱😨🏃🏃💨💨💨💨 - annamichelle 230.9 #1379 8:20AM
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For your safety please keep arms, hands, feet and legs away from the vicious raccoons. (Hint: This area is currently washed out and closed to the public) - GrumpyPirateDad 1263.7 #77 3:40PM
I still don't know... - MXPrincess399 540.8 #262 6:05PM
BTR - MrsSchnooks 2261.9 #37 8:07PM
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Wow a whole gang of em....!! - carminaire 362.2 #486 5:06PM
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I see three and they aren't cat chases them off. - DarthSkellington 5.8 #11521 10:40AM
Cool pic also I have never seen them in the parks. Thanks - DarthSkellington 5.8 #11521 10:42AM
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Meh. 😜 You can also find them at Jungle Cruise haha! - IDVandalSkipperCM 1612.4 #63 11:13AM
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Eeesh! I no like raccoons! I'm surprised they let them in without a pass! - MeridaFan 2444.7 #34 8:17PM
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Oren Lavie (Hebrew: אורן לביא) (born 1976) is an Israeli singer, songwriter, playwright, and theatre director. His music video for "Her Morning Elegance" earned a 2009 Grammy Award nomination for "Best Short Form Music Video". On March 10, 2009, Oren released his debut album, The Opposite Side of the Sea, in the United States. He revealed on his Facebook page that he has a second album in the works. Contents 1 Life and career, 2 Dramatic works 2.1 Directed by Oren Lavie, 2.2 Others, , 3 Discography, 4 References, 5 External links, Life and career: Lavie was born in Tel Aviv and spent his youth in Israel. In 1997, his play Sticks and Wheels and his production of it were awarded the main prizes at the Acco Festival of Alternative Israeli Theatre. The production played in Tel Aviv during 1998. In that year he went to London to study theatre directing at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA). After his graduation, two of his plays were produced in various London theatres. They already contained several songs written and composed by him. In 2001, Lavie moved to New York where he directed several workshops on his plays, and gradually shifted his focus to songwriting. In 2003, he relocated to Berlin and began recording his first album, The Opposite Side of the Sea, which he self produced. The album was released in Europe in January and February 2007, and in the United States in March 2009. In 2009, his stop motion style music video, "Her Morning Elegance", featuring Shir Shomron, an Israeli-born actress/model, achieved significant popularity on YouTube, receiving over 20 million views. Lavie produced and co-directed the video, which was shot in 48 hours without a break. Celebrating the Grammy nomination, the video was broken down to the original still frames, which are now exhibited online at www.hmegallery.com. He appears on Chimes of Freedom: Songs of Bob Dylan Honoring 50 Years of Amnesty International, covering 4th Time Around. Dramatic works: Directed by Oren Lavie: 1997 - Sticks and Wheels (Première: Acco Festival, Israel), 1999 - Lighting the Day (Première: Bridewell Theatre, London Stage Company), 2000 - Bridges and Harmonies (Première: Bridewell Theatre, London Stage Company), Others: 2006 - The Empty Princess, German: Die Prinzessin mit dem Loch im Bauch (Première: 2007-05-25 at Staatstheater Oldenburg)
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Oh thats right, when the first amendment is treated like the second amendment, which has 20,000 useless laws, making a crime triply illegal, 95% created in the same one incident justifies punishing all the innocent citizens in the fashion the anti gun zealots are so fond of, they get their panties in a bunch.
Even more hilariously, they cant even form a cognizant thought much less a sentence in words how the doctors first amendment right was even infringed upon.
"Owning a firearm is not the root cause of a disease or violence" and there is no LOGICAL need to document such a question. If by chance a doctor insists that a gun is a root cause of a disease or violence, then we should have ample evidence on that belief alone that the doctor should be committed to a cuckoo farm for demonstrating schizophrenic symptoms. You know, they hear vocies from an inanimate object and must obey those commands to commit a violent act eh?
The judges ruling, did not state the law was unconstitutional, she claimed it did not affect the patients rights and used that as her basis for her ruling.
But we wish to thank the judge and the BWADDY BUNCH for being such dufus fools for stepping into the legal trap.
Just like Heller & McDonald were overruled in the lower courts, the pro gun movement followed such minor setbacks with a writ of ceritori and had the case brought before the US Supreme Court. Geez, how did those rulings turn out einsteins?
Legislature, working to create jobs, ROTFLMFAO, ROTFLMFAO, ROTFLMFAO, ROTFLMFAO, ROTFLMFAO, they only work to secure their repeated election to stay on the teat of suckling the citizens dry!
Business creates jobs, government taxes and sucks the life out of business, especially small business owners with over bearing regulations and costs, so please save your drug induced fantasies of what legislators are supposed to do, as we live in the real world!
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President Barack Obama followed in the footsteps of past U.S. leaders with a speech on Wednesday at Berlin's iconic Brandenburg Gate, where he said he would ask Russia to join the United States in slashing its supply of strategic nuclear warheads.
"We may no longer live in fear of global annihilation, but so long as nuclear weapons exist, we are not truly safe," Obama said in the city that symbolized the East-West divide in the decades after World War II.
"After a comprehensive review, I've determined that we can ensure the security of America and our allies -- and maintain a strong and credible strategic deterrent -- while reducing our deployed strategic nuclear weapons by up to one-third," he said. "And I intend to seek negotiated cuts with Russia to move beyond Cold War nuclear postures."
Obama's speech made repeated references to Berlin's post-war history and the resiliency of its people. He called on them to manifest the same spirit that helped bring down the Berlin Wall to now take on broader challenges facing the modern world.
"Complacency is not the character of great nations," said the president, who perspired openly despite removing his suit jacket when he started speaking to a sun-drenched crowd. "Today's threats are not as stark as they were half-a-century ago. But the struggle for freedom and security and human dignity, that struggle goes on."
Repeating his campaign themes of equal opportunity and freedom for all, Obama said such ideals can provide the prosperity sought by all nations -- especially longtime allies such as the United States and Germany.
In the city rife with Cold War history, Obama also heralded democratic values that helped end communist control.
"Because millions across this continent now breathe the fresh air of freedom, we can say here in Berlin, here in Europe: Our values won," he said to cheers. "Openness won. Tolerance won. And freedom won."
Obama's speech took place almost exactly 50 years after President John F. Kennedy delivered his "Ich bin ein Berliner" -- or "I am a Berliner" -- speech of solidarity with West Berlin near the dividing line with the Soviet-occupied east on the other side of the Berlin Wall.
Berlin is also where President Ronald Reagan delivered a famous line to the Soviet Union in 1987: "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"
When Obama referred to Kennedy's speech and repeated the famous phrase, the crowd cheered. He also quoted from Kennedy's speech by calling on people to look "to the day of peace with justice, beyond yourselves and ourselves to all mankind."
Taking on another major issue, Obama called for a new global effort to address climate change, citing threats such as "more severe storms, more famine and floods, new waves of refugees, coast lines that vanish, oceans that rise."
"This is the future we must avert," he said to cheers. "This is the global threat of our time. And for the sake of future generations, our generation must move toward a global compact to confront a changing climate before it is too late. That is our job. That is our task. We have to get to work."
Analysts said Obama's speech sought to entrench a presidential legacy of leadership on global issues, especially after the lofty expectations in Germany and elsewhere for the candidate who spoke in Berlin five years ago have given way to the realities of the Oval Office.
"It was a president who wanted to kind of put down a stake and say, like JFK, like Ronald Reagan, I share their values as an American president and these are the things I feel like I need to talk to you about today as an American president," said CNN Chief Political Analyst Gloria Borger.
Historian Douglas Brinkley called it a "healing speech," but said "let's not confuse this with Kennedy's very important Cold War talk in Berlin or Ronald Reagan's fighting words about 'tear down this wall.'"
"This was not a moment that's going to be a gold star on history's calendar," Brinkley told CNN.
Beyond New START
Obama's latest proposals on nuclear stockpiles come two years after New START -- an agreement between the United States and Russia -- went into effect. New START, which stands for Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, calls for each country to limit its nuclear warhead arsenal to 1,550 by the year 2018.
If fully implemented, his proposals on Wednesday would reduce both stockpiles by another one-third -- to roughly 1,000 warheads for each country.
"At the same time, we'll work with our NATO allies to seek bold reductions in U.S. and Russian tactical weapons in Europe," he said.
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Science : Canada's cracking plate feels the Earth move
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A CHUNK of the Earth's crust off Canada's west coast is in the middle of a disappearing act, says a report from American geologists. The fragment, known as the Explorer plate, is fusing with its neighbours and cracking to form a new plate boundaryit will cease to exist as an independent plate in less than a million years. This is the first time that geologists have been able to catch a boundary formation in the act.
The tectonic plates making up Earth's rigid outer shell are in constant motion, grinding past their neighbours at transform boundaries or diving beneath one another in regions called subduction zones. A rarer and shorter-lived event is where a new boundary is born and another dies. Geologists know, for example, that California's famous San Andreas Fault formed 20 million years ago when a plate cracked as it was being gobbled up beneath the continent of ...
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The Women of Algiers by Eugene Delacroix
Orientalism is the study of Near and Far Eastern societies and cultures, languages, and peoples by Western scholars. It can also refer to the imitation or depiction of aspects of Eastern cultures in the West by writers, designers, and artists. The former has come to acquire negative connotations in some quarters and is interpreted to refer to the study of the East by Westerners influenced by the attitudes of the era of European imperialism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. When used in this sense, it implies old-fashioned and prejudiced outsider interpretations of Eastern cultures and peoples, allowing frequent misunderstanding of their cultural, ethical, and religious beliefs. However, with the rise of a global economy and communications, greater understanding and exchange are taking place between both Eastern and Western cultures, leading to the promotion of a one world family and contributing to a lasting peace in the world.
Meaning of the term
Orientalism derives from a Latin word oriens meaning "east" (literally "rising sun"). This is the opposite of the term Occident. In terms of the Old World, Europe was considered to be "The West" or Occidental, and the furthest known Eastern extremity was "The East" or "The Orient."
Over time, the common understanding of "the Orient" has continually shifted East as Western explorers traveled deeper into Asia. From as early as the Roman Empire until at least the Middle Ages, what is now considered "the Middle East" was then considered "the Orient." In Biblical times, the Three Wise Men "from the Orient" were probably Magi from the Persian Empire or Arabia which are east relative to Israel. Westerners' location of "The Orient" continually shifted eastwards, until the Pacific Ocean was reached, the region which is now known as "the Far East."
However, there still remain some contexts where "the Orient" or "Oriental" refer to older definitions. For example, "Oriental spices" typically come from regions extending from the Middle East through the Indian sub-continent to Indo-China. Also, travel on the Orient Express (from Paris to Istanbul), is eastward bound (towards the sunrise), but does not reach what is currently understood to be "the Orient."
Furthermore, the English word "Oriental" is usually a synonym for the peoples, cultures, and goods from the parts of East Asia traditionally occupied by East Asians and Southeast Asians, categorized by the racial label "Mongoloid." This would exclude Indians, Arabs, and other more westerly peoples. In some parts of America it is considered derogatory to use "Orientals" to refer to East Asians. For example, in Washington state it is illegal to use the word "oriental" in legislation and government documents.[1]
History of Orientalism
It is difficult to be precise about the origin of the distinction between the "West" and the "East," which did not appear as a polarity before the oriens/occidens divided administration of the Roman Empire under Diocletian. However, sharp opposition arose between the rising European Christendom and Muslim cultures to the East and in North Africa. During the Middle Ages Islamic peoples were the "alien" enemies of the Christian world. European knowledge of cultures further to the East was very sketchy, although there was a vague awareness that complex civilizations existed in India and China, from which luxury goods such as woven silk textiles and ceramics were imported. As European explorations and colonizations expanded, a distinction emerged between non-literate peoples, for example in Africa and the Americas, and the literate cultures of the East.
In the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, thinkers sometimes characterized aspects of Eastern cultures as superior to the Christian West. For example Voltaire promoted research into Zoroastrianism in the belief that it would support a rational Deism superior to Christianity. Others praised the relative religious tolerance of Islamic countries in contrast with the Christian West, or the status of scholarship in Mandarin China. With the translation of the Avesta by Abraham Hyacinthe Anquetil Duperron and the discovery of the Indo-European languages by William Jones, complex connections between the early history of Eastern and Western cultures emerged. However, these developments occurred in the context of rivalry between France and Britain for control of India, and it is sometimes claimed that knowledge was associated with attempts to understand colonized cultures in order to control them more effectively. Liberal economists such as James Mill denigrated Eastern countries on the grounds that their civilizations were static and corrupt. Karl Marx characterized the "Asiatic mode of production" as unchanging due to the narrowness of the village communities and the productive role of the state, hence he stated that the system of British colonialism unconsciously prepared future revolutions in India by destroying this mode of production.
The first serious European studies of Buddhism and Hinduism were undertaken by scholars such as Eugene Burnouf and Max Müller. In this period serious study of Islam also emerged. By the mid-nineteenth century Oriental Studies was an established academic discipline. However, while scholarly study expanded, so did racist attitudes and popular stereotypes of "inscrutable" and "wily" orientals. Often scholarly ideas were intertwined with such prejudicial racial or religious assumptions.[2] Eastern art and literature were still seen as "exotic" and as inferior to classical Graeco-Roman ideals. Their political and economic systems were generally thought to be feudal "oriental despotisms" and their alleged cultural inertia was considered to be resistant to progress. Many critical theorists regard this form of Orientalism as part of a larger, ideological colonialism justified by the concept of the "white man's burden." The colonial project, then, is not imagined as a process of domination for political and economic gain; it is figured as a selfless endeavor carried out to rescue the Orientals from their own backwardness and self-mismanagement.
Orientalism and the arts
Imitations of Oriental styles
Edward Blore's Alupka Palace (1828–46) was one of the earliest intimations of the Victorian taste for Moorish Revival architecture.
Orientalism has also come to mean the use or reference of typical eastern motifs and styles in art, architecture, and design.
Early use of motifs lifted from the Indian subcontinent have sometimes been called "Hindoo style," one of the earliest examples being the façade of Guildhall, London (1788–1789). The style gained momentum in the west with the publication of the various views of India by William Hodges and William Daniell and Thomas Daniell from about 1795. One of the finest examples of "Hindoo" architecture is Sezincote House (c. 1805) in Gloucestershire. Other notable buildings using the Hindoo style of Orientalism are Casa Loma in Toronto, Sanssouci in Potsdam, and Wilhelma in Stuttgart.
Chinesischer Turm in the Englischer Garten of Munich. Initial structure built 1789–1790
Chinoiserie is the catch-all term for decorations involving Chinese themes in Western Europe, beginning in the late seventeenth century and peaking in waves, especially Rococo Chinoiserie, ca 1740–1770. From the Renaissance to the eighteenth century Western designers attempted to imitate the technical sophistication of Chinese ceramics with only partial success. Early hints of Chinoiserie appear, in the seventeenth century, in the nations with active East India companies such as England, Denmark, Holland, and France. Tin-glazed pottery made at Delft and other Dutch towns adopted genuine blue-and-white Ming decoration from the early seventeenth century, and early ceramic wares at Meissen and other centers of true porcelain imitated Chinese shapes for dishes, vases, and teawares.
After 1860, Japonaiserie, sparked by the arrival of Japanese woodblock prints, became an important influence in the western arts in particular on many modern French artists such as Claude Monet. The paintings of James McNeil Whistler and his "Peacock Room" are some of the finest works of the genre; other examples include the Gamble House and other buildings by California architects Greene and Greene.
Depictions of the Orient in art and literature
Depictions of Islamic "Moors" and "Turks" (imprecisely named Muslim groups of North Africa and West Asia) can be found in Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque art. But it was not until the nineteenth century that "Orientalism" in the arts became an established theme. In these works the myth of the Orient as exotic and decadently corrupt is most fully articulated. Such works typically concentrated on Near-Eastern Islamic cultures. Artists such as Eugene Delacroix and Jean-Léon Gérôme painted many depictions of Islamic culture, often including lounging odalisques, and stressing lassitude and visual spectacle. When Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, director of the French Académie de peinture, painted a highly colored vision of a Turkish bath, he made his eroticized Orient publicly acceptable by his diffuse generalizing of the female forms, who might all have been of the same model. Sensual depictions of the erotic Orient were acceptable; a Western scene dressed similarly would not be. This orientalizing imagery persisted in art into the early twentieth century, as evidenced in Matisse's orientalist nudes. In these works the "Orient" often functions as a mirror to Western culture itself, or as a way of expressing its hidden or illicit aspects. In Gustave Flaubert's novel Salammbô ancient Carthage in North Africa is used as a foil to ancient Rome. Its culture is portrayed as morally corrupting and suffused with dangerously alluring eroticism. This novel proved hugely influential on later portrayals of ancient Semitic cultures.
The use of the orient as an exotic backdrop continued in the movies (including many of those starring Rudolph Valentino). Later the caricature of the wealthy Arab in robes became a more popular theme, especially during the oil crisis of the 1970s. In the 1990s the Arab terrorist became a common villain figure in Western movies.
Edward Said and "Orientalism"
Léon Cogniet's 1835 depiction of Bonaparte's Egyptian Expedition expresses Western perception of "The Exotic Orient."
Edward Said, American Palestinian scholar, is best known for describing and critiquing "Orientalism," which he perceived as a constellation of false assumptions underlying Western attitudes toward the East. In Orientalism (1978), Said described the "subtle and persistent Eurocentric prejudice against Arabo-Islamic peoples and their culture."[3] He argued that a long tradition of false and romanticized images of Asia and the Middle East in Western culture had served as an implicit justification for Europe's and America's colonial and imperial ambitions. Just as fiercely, he denounced the practice of Arab elites who internalized the American and British orientalists' ideas of Arabic culture.
Both supporters of Edward Said and his critics acknowledge the profound, transformative influence that his book Orientalism has had across the spectrum of the humanities; but whereas his critics regard his influence as limiting, his supporters praise his influence as liberating.
Criticisms of Said
Critics of Said's theory, such as the historian Bernard Lewis, argue that Said's account contains many factual, methodological, and conceptual errors. They claim that Said ignores many genuine contributions to the study of Eastern cultures made by Westerners during the Enlightenment and Victorian eras. Said's theory does not explain why the French and English pursued the study of Islam in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, long before they had any control or hope of control in the Middle East. He has been criticized for ignoring the contributions of the Italians and the Dutch, and also of the massive contribution of German scholars. Lewis claims that the scholarship of these nations was more important to European Orientalism than the French or British, but the countries in question either had no colonial projects in the Mid-East (Dutch and Germans), or no connection between their Orientalist research and their colonialism (Italians). Said's theory also does not explain why much of Orientalist study did nothing to advance the cause of imperialism.
Supporters of Said and his influence
Said’s supporters argue that such criticisms, even if correct, do not invalidate his basic thesis, which they say still holds true for the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and in particular for general representations of the Orient in Western media, literature, and film.[4] His supporters point out that Said himself acknowledges limitations of his studies in that they fail to address German scholarship (Orientalism 18–19) and that, in the "Afterword" to the 1995 edition of Orientalism, he, in their view, convincingly refutes his critics (329–54).
Eastern views and adaptations of the West
Ravi Varma's Woman Playing the Veena
Recently, the term Occidentalism has been coined to refer to negative views of the Western world sometimes found in Eastern societies today. For instance, derogatory or stereotyped portrayals of Westerners appear in many works of Indian, Chinese, and Japanese artists. In a similar ideological vein to Occidentalism, Eurocentrism can refer to both negative views and excessively positive views of the Western World found in discussions about "Eastern culture." Some Eastern artists adopted and adapted to Western styles. The Indian painter Ravi Varma painted several works that are virtually indistinguishable from some Western orientalist images. In the late twentieth century many Western cultural themes and images began appearing in Asian art and culture, especially in Japan. English words and phrases are prominent in Japanese advertising and popular culture, and many Japanese anime are written around characters, settings, themes, and mythological figures derived from various Western cultural traditions.
1. Engrossed Senate Bill 5954 Leg.wa.gov. Retrieved September 20, 2007.
2. J. Go, "'Racism' and Colonialism: Meanings of Difference and Ruling Practice in America's Pacific Empire," in Qualitative Sociology, Vol. 27, No. 1, March 2004.
3. Keith Windschuttle, "Edward Said's "Orientalism revisited," The New Criterion, January 17, 1999. Retrieved November 14, 2007.
4. See Terry Eagleton, Rev. of For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists and Their Enemies, by Robert Irwin (London: Penguin, 2003). ISBN 0-7139-9415-0
• Davies, Kristian. 2005. The Orientalists: Western Artists in Arabia, the Sahara, Persia and India. New York: Laynfaroh. ISBN 0-9759783-0-6
• Crawley, William. 1996. "Sir William Jones: A Vision of Orientalism," Asian Affairs, Vol. 27, Issue 2 (Jun.), pp. 163–176.
• Halliday, Fred. 1993. "'Orientalism' and Its Critics," British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 145–163.
• Irwin, Robert. 2006. For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists and Their Enemies. London: Penguin/Allen Lane. ISBN 0-7139-9415-0. As Dangerous Knowledge: Orientalism and Its Discontents. New York: Overlook Press, 2006. ISBN 1-58567-835-X
• Jersild, Austin. 2002. Orientalism and Empire: North Caucasus Mountain Peoples and the Georgian Frontier, 1845–1917. Montreal: McGill–Queen's University Press. ISBN 0-7735-2328-6. Paperback (2003) ISBN 0-7735-2329-4
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Written by Drew on .
From the Slam! Sports Blog...
"I thought it was dirty. If he throws his shoulder into his body, it's a hit. But he's in a vulnerable position, and (Cooke) goes at him. I don't think he elbowed him, but he went towards his head area when he easily could have gone to the body and taken him out of the play."--Jason Williams
Here's what your head coach had to say:
"Crosby said it best. So I'm just going to quote him. 'We've been talking about it and talking about it -- it's time we made a decision about it instead of just talking about it. Is that a legal hit or an illegal hit? These players all have got families and wives at home, and all want to be safe on the ice. I think it's important we look after one another, and the way to look after one another is simply have the fine and suspension long enough that they don't do it."--Mike Babcock
Ah...using the NHL's own golden boy to try and force their hand...crafty, Mike. Very crafty.
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Santa Ana inmate who asked to go to juvenile hall sent to isolation
Eddie Quiñones' bizarre journey through Orange County's juvenile-justice system already reads like something out of a Kafka novel. And it's getting worse.
A few weeks ago, the Santa Ana jail inmate missed a crucial hearing that might have gotten him out of jail three months ahead of schedule. Instead, Quiñones spent Nov. 7, the day of the hearing, in his cell. There's still no explanation for how that happened, leaving open the possibility that jail officials or tough-on-crime prosecutors feared that Juvenile Court Commissioner James Odriozola might grant early release to Quiñones, an ex-gang member serving six months for carrying a pocketknife. (See "Where Is Edward Quiñones?" Nov. 17).
Contacted by the Weekly, the Orange County public defender's office could not explain why Quiñones wasn't transported to his hearing. "We're in the process of getting him back on the calendar and have him present in court for possible early release," said Anthony Mesa, a supervisor with the public defender's office.
Quiñones' weird time in jail has been well-documented by the Weekly—perhaps more thoroughly than he would like. Just hours after the appearance of an article detailing his nonappearance in court—at 2 a.m. on Nov. 17—Quiñones' life took another strange turn. That's when a female corrections officer woke him up by shining a flashlight in his face. The officer told Quiñones to pack up his clothes for the trip upstairs to the Santa Ana jail's isolation ward—what inmates call "the hole."
According to Quiñones, the female officer had opened his cell with a remote device and was standing at least 20 feet away from him. As he acknowledged in a Nov. 21 jailhouse interview with the Weekly, he got angry and cursed the officer, calling her a "fucking bitch" and a "puta [whore] . . . I got mad because she holds a grudge against me, even though I have always used my manners around her," he said. "That's when I hit the wall with my open palm."
The officer called for backup. Within seconds of Quiñones' angry outburst, six corrections officers were inside his cell. When one of them held a canister of pepper spray in his face and ordered him to lie down, he did so. According to Quiñones, the officers nonetheless proceeded to beat and kick him, even stepping on his back after he had been handcuffed.
When officers lifted him from the ground, they did so by pulling on his arms, which were handcuffed behind his back. Quiñones claims an operation last year left his shoulders particularly sensitive. He says he winced and shouted from the pain. As he was led away to isolation, one of the male officers looked down at him. "Don't tell me you're going to cry like a little bitch," he allegedly told Quiñones. "Take it like a man."
The following night, Quiñones' mother, Cindy Quiñones, arrived at the jail with Josie Montoya and several other Anaheim community activists. They spent several fruitless hours trying to see a watch commander to ask whether Quiñones would be given medical attention. They say they were forced to wait outside in the cold; shortly after midnight, they gave up.
Cindy Quiñones and Montoya finally got their meeting with jail officials on Nov. 20. They were told that the female officer who woke Quiñones called for backup because she "feared for her life." They confirmed that Quiñones would be kept in the hole for 15 days, when jail officials would decide whether to send him back for 15 more.
Santa Ana jail officials never returned the Weekly's telephone calls for this story. For his part, Quiñones said he was allowed to see a jail nurse the day after the incident. "She saw me for one and half minutes and said she saw no sign of abuse on me," Quiñones said. "The only reason they gave me medical attention was because of my mom.
"I'm just mad because I wouldn't even be in this situation if I went to court," said Quiñones. "I just feel that I was cheated out of my release. I could have gotten my time reduced because I was doing well."
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Top message: Nothing about this seems "Latest and Greatest" by bluecoyote Jul 1, 2009, 2:56 PM
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Just to play devil's advocate...
Who really needs mass storage out of their phone? Like... really? On your phone?
Why do people keep complaining about the lack of SD cards with more than sufficient internal capacity, in which you can store much larger (and more stable) amount of apps/games?
Whats the deal with people digging physical keyboards? I feel like it's wasted hardware. I'm paying for a keyboard when I have a touch screen phone? Bah! F that noise.
Why do we care about the replaceable battery? The battery lasts better than most phones (including my G1, which I honestly kinda regret buying).
Who cares how small the lense is, it works damn well, and it has taken more than decent photos since the beginning.
What's wrong with iTunes? It's a pretty damn good app. To use a blackberry on your comp, and transfer things back and forth, you have to use a BB program... same thing. And the BB app sucks ass on a mac (I use mac, so that's my bias opinion).
How many people print BT files anyway? I mean... really...
In the end, I just feel it's always silly to compare things like that in phones and say one is better than the other. I could do the same thing with the iPhone compared to the N97. Not having mms is just silly on a device like that, I agree! But in the end, all the things that apple HAS done with their phone, has been done WELL and not halfassed. From the reviews of this device all over the place, there is a general disappointment with how it was put together. Everyone was expecting gold, they got bronze.
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Photographs by Dana Popa.
Autograph Books, 2009. 96 pp., 44 color illustrations, 6½x4¾".
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Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Moldova is one of the main trafficking source countries for women and children. It is estimated that between 200,000 and 400,000 women have been sold into prostitution abroad - up to 10% of the female population. In Moldova, Popa worked with the International Organisation for Migration Shelters and Winlock International where she was given access to photograph and document the experiences of 17 women who had been trafficked.
In 2008 Autograph ABP commissioned Popa to return to Moldova where she began to collect the stories of the disappeared and photograph the families, the homes and in some cases the children who have been left behind. Finally, Popa returned to the UK where she documented the spaces where trafficked women work as prostitutes in the brothels of Soho, London.
'Behind the fancy facades of the cosmopolitan capitals of Europe, hundreds of rooms became exile spaces for myriads of bodies objectified for male fantasy. While most of them are squalid and cold, many of the others appear familiar and warm. Mirrors, red lights, posters, the list of services on the bedside - all of these little attempts at humanising these rooms, at imbuing them with a kind of homeliness, speak for the girls' need to survive.' - Natasha Christia, photography writer and curator
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But it's not only the crews that are examining the vehicles. Before they start kicking up the dirt in the first practice session, the tech crew is looking at each vehicle to make sure that the drivers within will be as safe as possible. Then, during the race weekend, things will be checked before and after sessions to make sure each vehicle is in compliance with the rules.
“Mainly on Thursday, it's about safety. That's all we really worry about,” says series tech director Gary Lane. “We check all the trucks and make sure they've got all their required safety equipment. If we do see something [out of compliance] that's pretty obvious, we'll mention it to them. But 99 percent of it is safety.”
At a recent event, the series had just implemented a new helmet net rule. At Thursday tech inspection, that was one of the things Lane's crew was checking, to make sure that every one is interpreting the rule correctly.
“Some of the nets are a little bit wrong, but that happens every time. It takes a little while to get everybody on the same page. You and me both have a different idea when we read something, how it's supposed to be. It just takes a little bit of time to figure it out,” Lane explains.
On Thursday, Lane has six people. But as the weekend progresses, he loses half of the tech squad to on-track work. That leaves three people, including him, for pre- and post-session compliance checks.
“We try to surprise them every once in a while with something out of the usual. They're always trying to beat us, and we're trying to catch them. All these drivers and crew chiefs, they're really smart people. They're always trying to outsmart us and we're always trying to catch them.”
Lane (RIGHT) notes that it's not so much teams trying to cheat, but push the envelope just a bit; sometimes, they push hard enough to rip it. “A lot of times we'll run 'em over the scales, make sure the weights are right and the percentages [front to rear] are correct. That's one of the main things we throw at them, because that can be a really big advantage, if they have the percentages not where they're supposed to be,” Lane says. That's one of the things that can change pre- to post-session.
“The way the rules read, they have to be legal before the race and when they come off the track,” he adds.
Sometimes, perhaps most of the time, he says, any rules infraction is just a goof-up. “They flat didn't check it,” Lane says. “That's why we check it, to remind them that they have to check it to be right. If you check it, you never have to worry about it again. It'll always be right. If you find something in one of the classes that didn't fly, everyone will be checking that.”
There are times that the tech crew will check a particular item in response to rumors and accusations flitting about the paddock. Most of the time, Lane says, the rumors turn out to be completely unfounded. In reality, the tech inspection area is mostly a drama-free zone. When they find things, it's almost always the result of human error – something a hair too wide here, an inch short there, the weights a little off. Only occasionally is an infraction the result of a team really trying to get away with something.
“It's a great group of people,” Lane says of the Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series family. “All the guys want to win. They‘re very competitive and we just try to keep it as even as possible. If we check too many things, they holler. But then if we don't check anything, they holler.” | http://www.racer.com/lucas-oil-off-road-racing-series-spotlight-keeping-the-playing-field-level/article/210274/ | dclm-gs1-242440002 | false | false | {
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