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It must be noted that the actual title of the original manga is Hakaba Kitarō (墓場鬼太郎, Hakaba Kitarō?), literally meaning "Graveyard Kitaro". "Ge Ge Ge..." only applies to the anime. However, the manga was later republished under the anime title. In January, 2008, the original manga was finally adapted into an anime, running in Fuji TV's Noitamina slot.
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Why Britain welcomes foreign takeovers
Even London's 300-year-old stock exchange is up for sale, but few seem concerned.
By Mark Rice-OxleyCorrespondent of The Christian Science Monitor / May 19, 2006
It's an observation often made over a bowl of strawberries among Wimbledon's sumptuous tennis courts: The tournament may be British, the venue undeniably so, but virtually all the major players are foreign.
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Now it seems, the same arguments have migrated to a far broader field: British business. Once off-limits to foreign owners, British companies are now being swallowed up at a prodigious rate. What's more, no one seems to mind.
"The attitude is if a bunch of Spaniards want to own the airports, why does that matter?" says Professor Karel Williams of Manchester University, referring to a Spanish group's hostile bid for BAA, the company that runs most of Britain's big airports.
And that's only one of several major foreign deals in play right now, which economics commentator Will Hutton estimated at $100 billion in a recent article, "UK for sale, one careless owner."
Russians are stalking the largest energy utility; Americans are interested in nuclear operations. Even the 300-year-old London Stock Exchange itself is fending off bidders from Europe and America. Virtually no one in Britain has quibbled. And few have protested at the bid for BAA by Spain's Ferrovial.
That attitude stands in stark contrast with Americans' views on the matter. While no one in Britain seemed to flinch when a Dubai firm bought British shipping group P&O earlier this year, the deal generated an uproar in the US because it meant the Arab company would inherit P&O's operations in sensitive US ports.
But the "Wimbledonization" of British business raises two key questions: Is literally everything for sale, or are there certain assets that will remain off limits for reasons of security or political accountability? And why are the British so blasé when most of their big trade partners, America included, prickle at the thought of foreigners making off with the crown jewels of their economies?
Financial commentators and academics say that when it comes to foreign takeovers, Britain has perhaps the most open capitalist model of any big economic power. Margaret Thatcher's privatization drive made shareholder capitalism extremely popular, and firms are thus very widely held - by pension funds, institutions, and countless private individuals. They can easily be bought by simply appealing to one instinct: the desire to book a profit.
"To sell a company at a big profit is regarded a success," says Peter Buckley, director of the Centre for International Business at Leeds University. "British companies are on the whole publicly quoted, more widely held, and more easily available. But in the French and German systems, companies are often more closely held - by family members or regional bodies. It can be harder to win them over."
Professor Williams adds that the financial imperative has smothered sentiments of patriotism and introspection, causing the government to defer to "the City" - London's equivalent of Wall Street. "The government doesn't draw the line any- more," he says. "Now you have a system known as 'City-knows-best': If someone offers you a good price for anything, you sell it." | http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0519/p06s01-woeu.html | dclm-gs1-222600000 | false | false | {
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A new BIS working paper by economists Gabriele Galati and Philip Wooldridge concludes: "The liquidity and breadth of euro financial markets are fast approaching those of dollar markets, and as a result the euro is eroding some of the advantages that have historically supported the preeminence of the US dollar as a reserve currency."
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Nevertheless, the dollar has maintained its place as the dominant official reserve holding of central banks. Public data on such holdings is often incomplete and secret. But the BIS paper estimates that the share of euro- denominated reserves has risen to 25 percent in 2005-06, up from 20 to 22 percent in 1995-96 for the currencies of the nations that subsequently joined the euro system.
Foreign central bankers hold dollar assets in their reserves because they can be sold easily in emergencies to defend the value of their own currencies on foreign-exchange markets. The market for dollar assets in the world's financial system is huge. Bankers aren't so troubled about whether those assets (usually short-term US Treasuries) lose value in terms of their own currencies. Finance ministries, with their political concerns, may see declining dollar assets with more distaste.
Overall, however, the US dollar lost only about 4.5 percent in value last year against a basket of foreign currencies selected and weighted by the value of US imports and exports.
Since the end of what is known as the Bretton Woods international monetary system under President Nixon, the value of the dollar on foreign-exchange markets has fluctuated. But according to one expert, the dollar's purchasing power, compared with other currencies, has changed little since 1971.
The US is the world's largest debtor nation. So when the dollar depreciates, foreigners see the value of their dollar assets decline in terms of their own currencies. They continue to be paid interest on those American debts, but they are "robbed" of some of their value, should they sell them.
Such losses worldwide could total many billions of dollars. China alone holds more than $700 billion in its reserves. A 10 percent drop in the value of the dollar against the yuan would mean a $70 billion loss for China.
The US benefits when foreigners use the dollar because Washington gets first use of that money, and after production costs, it's free, called seigniorage.
In an ideal world, says John Williamson, a veteran economist at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, there would be one international reserve currency rather than a national currency, such as the dollar, acting as an international reserve currency.
"It's not healthy for one country to have a monopoly," he says.
But Special Drawing Rights, a currency system created by the International Monetary Fund in 1969 as a substitute for the dollar and for gold, have not caught on among central bankers. They have merely a minor role in world finance today.
As for the future of the dollar, the view of economists differs.
Commerzbank's Mr. Pietsch, though seeing the euro as a continuing competitor to the dollar, expects its value to slip to $1.27 by the end of the year.
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0.025216 | <urn:uuid:69c7eca4-0727-4114-914f-24aa27c6669b> | en | 0.991078 | Richard Widmark, who made a sensational film debut as the giggling killer in "Kiss of Death" and became a leading man in "Broken Lance," "Two Rode Together" and 40 other films, died at his home in Roxbury after a long illness. He was 93.
"It was a big shock, but he was 93," Blanchard said.
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Widmark earned an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actor for his role in the 1947 thriller "Kiss of Death." He played Tommy Udo, who delighted in pushing an old lady in a wheelchair down a flight of stairs to her death. It was his only Oscar nomination.
Actress Shirley Jones, who appeared with Widmark and James Stewart in "Two Rode Together" and became a good friend, said she was devastated about Widmark's death.
"He was a down-to-earth guy, and I respected him for that," Jones said in a phone interview from Los Angeles. "He was a real guy, but he was such a wonderful actor."
A.C. Lyles, a producer with Paramount Pictures, worked with Widmark on the 1975 western "The Last Day."
"Dick was just one of the nicest guys I ever worked with: very, very professional, very, very prepared and he couldn't have been more cooperative," Lyles said.
"He would have little comments to make during rehearsal about a scene and it was never a suggestion that would enhance him," he said. "It was always to enhance someone else in the scene and I thought that was very courageous of him."
"Like most small-town boys, I had the urge to get to the big city and make a name for myself," he recalled in a 1954 interview.
"I was a movie nut from the age of 3, but I don't recall having any interest in acting," he said.
Rejected by the Army because of a punctured eardrum, Widmark began appearing in Broadway plays in 1943. His first was a comedy hit "Kiss and Tell." He was appearing in the Chicago company of "Dream Girl" with June Havoc when 20th Century Fox signed him to a seven-year contract. He almost missed out on the "Kiss of Death" role.
"The director, Henry Hathaway, didn't want me," the actor recalled. "I have a high forehead; he thought I looked too intellectual." The director was overruled by studio boss Darryl F. Zanuck, and Hathaway "gave me kind of a bad time."
An immediate star, Widmark appeared in 20 Fox films from 1957 to 1964. Among them: "The Street with No Name," "Road House," "Yellow Sky," "Down to the Sea in Ships," "Slattery's Hurricane," "Panic in the Streets," "No Way Out," "The Halls of Montezuma," "The Frogmen," "Red Skies of Montana," "My Pal Gus" and the Samuel Fuller film noir "Pickup on South Street."
In 1952, Widmark starred in "Don't Bother to Knock" with Marilyn Monroe. He told an interviewer in later years:
"She wanted to be this great star but acting just scared the hell out of her. That's why she was always late — couldn't get her on the set. She had trouble remembering lines."
After leaving Fox, Widmark's career continued to flourish. He starred (as Jim Bowie) with John Wayne in "The Alamo," with James Stewart in John Ford's "Two Rode Together," as the U.S. prosecutor in "Judgment at Nuremberg," and with Robert Mitchum and Kirk Douglas in "The Way West." Also: "St. Joan" (as the Dauphin), "How the West Was Won," "Death of a Gunfighter," "Murder on the Orient Express," "Midas Run" and "Coma."
"Madigan," a 1968 film with Widmark as a loner detective, was converted to television and lasted one season in 1972-73. It was Widmark's only TV series.
He also was in some TV films, including "Cold Sassy Tree" and "Once Upon a Texas Train."
In later years, Widmark appeared sparingly in films and TV. He explained to Parade magazine in 1987: "I've discovered in my dotage that I now find the whole moviemaking process irritating. I don't have the patience anymore. I've got a few more years to live, and I don't want to spend them sitting around a movie set for 12 hours to do two minutes of film."
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#21ExentrykPosted 3/19/2013 2:47:56 AM
The Wii U game from SE looks like Deus Ex -
If this FF6 remake is indeed true, perhaps it'll get shown at a different event?
Veni, Vidi, Dormivi.
#22UltimaXOmegaPosted 3/19/2013 3:21:36 AM
I swear I will rage if FFX HD for the PS3 and Vita is canceled for a WiiU release.
It should stay on PlayStation.
Also I want a link or source.
#23MajorZeroPosted 3/19/2013 4:28:08 AM
Nope sorry just deus ex and hitman, nothing more....(maybe sleeping dogs)... a full on remake of an long big budget game would not re coup the funds on one system alone let alone the WiiU..
#24Rose_of_MayPosted 3/19/2013 5:25:24 AM
Should this *new info* be on the WiiU board?
#25iambashoPosted 3/19/2013 5:57:59 AM
TC, shut up. Nobody believed you last time, nobody will believe you this time. Give it a rest.
#26BIG_C_4_LIFEPosted 3/19/2013 6:30:30 AM
Aryllies posted...
And yet, 2 of those things ring true. ;)
Both you and TC are full of ****. Give it up already
#27PainsPerceptionPosted 3/19/2013 6:52:40 AM
off topic thread!!!!!
but the only way to really learn is to get your ass beat a bunch. Such is Tekken, such is life. - Triguns Vash
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#28Asd202Posted 3/19/2013 6:56:34 AM(edited)
theofficefan99 posted...
EscaSyra posted...
Bye forever.
lol, absolutely none of this sounds even slightly believable.
The tri-ace part makes sense they did work on XIII-2 and SE could not have enough people to spare for LR with FF XIV so hearing that LR is mainly developed by Tri-ace makes a lot of sense. Well to be fair the FF VI for WiiU sounds so far fetched that if it's true this guy is really legit :P.
#29sirauron15Posted 3/19/2013 7:34:36 AM
so not true
Where is the sense in all this? Braska believed in yevon's teaching and died for them , Jecht believed in braska and gave his life for him.
#30marko7Posted 3/19/2013 7:52:17 AM
This was a funny read.
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Does Dead rising 2 have a demo?
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From: RPG-Unit 4 years ago
There is a prequel for $5.00 on Xbox live, I'm not sure if there will be a demo for people who don't shell out the five bucks, or people on PS3/PC.
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i know and when it come out not full game but if there r a demo then when cus ive made up mah mind im GOING to buy this but long w8 : ) cant wait no no no (gun to head) no i must but demo please :P or mayb they trying to put mp in demo buteh as long as FULL game comes out im ok
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They are going to release a "prequel" that will explain the events between DR1 and DR2. It is not yet known whether or not this will be something "playable" or if they are going to release a demo similar to the one they did for DR1. You'll just have to wait and see.
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Jes jes demo came out 2 days ago (and 4 the h8ter jes jes is like yes but with j so jea :P)
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Dear God could you people at least TRY to write legible posts? this not a demo this is a seperate piece of DLC that explains the events leading up until DR2. There is a free trial version of Case Zero which could be considered the demo of the full game, however.
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As said, Case Zero is a seperate, mini prologue game that costs 400 Microsoft Points.
It contains exclusive content so is a demo of the general gameplay - it's set roughly 3 years before the full game. Character progress you make in it will be passed over to Dead Rising 2 when you first play.
The game includes a trial mode that gives you roughly 15-30 minutes free gameplay, but you don't get to do much other than have fun killing zombies on your way to the first objective, then you'll have to pay the 400 points to continue further.
Case Zero is about 1-2 hours worth of gameplay, and like the full game is replayable due to the time management system, so it's not a bad deal, and worth it if you want to know a little more about the story.
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While filming, Bernardo Bertolucci tried to explain the point of the film to Marlon Brando, suggesting that his character was Bertolucci's "manhood" and that Maria Schneider's character was his "dream girl". Brando later maintained that he had absolutely no idea of what Bertolucci was suggesting or even talking about.
When informed that director Ingmar Bergman had said that the film only made sense if it were about two homosexuals, Bernardo Bertolucci responded that he accepted all criticisms of his film as valid.
According to his autobiography "Brando: Songs My Mother Taught Me", the reason why Marlon Brando refused to do a full frontal nude scene was because his "penis shrank to the size of a peanut on set".
Alain Delon and Jean-Paul Belmondo turned down the role of Paul.
According to Maria Schneider, the famous "butter scene" was never in the script and improvised at the last minute by Marlon Brando and Bernardo Bertolucci without consulting her. Though the sodomy act was faked, her real tears in the film clearly testify her state of shock.
The idea of this movie grew from Bernardo Bertolucci's own sexual fantasies, stating that "he once dreamed of seeing a beautiful nameless woman on the street and having sex with her without ever knowing who she was".
The story Paul tells Jeanne about his mother, about how she taught him to appreciate nature, which he illustrates with his reminiscence of his dog Dutchy hunting rabbits in a mustard field, is real, based on Marlon Brando's own recollections of his past.
When Marlon Brando arrived for the first day of shooting, he had on makeup "two centimeters thick" according to Bernardo Bertolucci. Brando, who had applied his own makeup, didn't understand the natural, low-light conditions cinematographer Vittorio Storaro was going to work with to get the look of the film. Bertolucci had to remove much of the makeup from Brando's face with a handkerchief.
According to Maria Schneider, Marlon Brando's lines were routinely taped to her naked body because of his dyslexia and reluctance to memorize his dialog.
The movie's line "Go, get the butter." was voted as the #67 of "The 100 Greatest Movie Lines" by Premiere in 2007.
The original screening version of the film was over four hours long.
Marlon Brando improvised most his dialog for the film because he felt that some of the dialog wasn't to his liking.
The film was originally to revolve around a passionate, homosexual relationship, but this idea was scrapped when the French actor for whom the idea was conceived, backed out of the film.
When Marlon Brando was asked what the movie was about during his 1979 Playboy Magazine interview, he responded, "Bernardo Bertolucci's analysis."
Jean-Louis Trintignant and Dominique Sanda were both approached for the leading roles. Sanda withdrew because she was pregnant.
When Paul puts on the Colonel's kepi (the French military hat that had belonged to Jeanne's father) and says to her, "How do you like your hero? Over easy or sunny side up?"; Marlon Brando - the author of most of the film's English dialog - is using egg imagery because the gold braid on an officer's hat is referred to as "scrambled eggs" in the U.S. military. Brando attended Shattuck Military Academy (from which he was booted out) and failed his physical for the U.S. Army during World War Two due to a bum knee hurt playing high school football.
Banned in Spain, the town of Perpignan on the French-Spanish border was besieged with visitors crossing the border to see the film.
Argentine Tango composer Astor Piazzolla was going to write the music for the film and had actually submitted demos to director Bernardo Bertolucci. Bertolucci instead chose famed jazz musician Gato Barbieri as the film's composer because he felt that his saxophone playing would give the film a more rich and sultry feel for the film.
Almost ten years after its original release, United Artists re-released the film in 1982 with an R-Rating and not the infamous X rating it had obtained in 1972. The film was only a couple of minutes shorter than the preferred Director's cut.
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In protest against the film only receiving a minor cinema cut in the UK, a private prosecution was brought against United Artists in January 1974 by 69 year old Edward Shackleton, a Salvation Army member and leading member of the executive committee of the pro-censorship Festival Of Light party. Although the case went as far as the Old Bailey it collapsed when it was ruled that the Obscene Publications Act did not, at that time, apply to films.
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Created considerable controversy in Canada. The Ontario Board of Film Censors passed a cut version of the film to be shown in theaters. Upon release, the board received over one hundred complaints from the public from the Toronto area alone. In Nova Scotia, the film was rejected outright and the film board attempted to lay obscenity charges on the distributor.
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Such was the controversy over the film that the print was smuggled into the USA for its debut in a diplomatic pouch from Italy. The film was due to have its premiere at the New York Film Festival where tickets were going for $150.
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Trans American Corporation insisted on having their name removed from the United Artists logo as they were so offended by the film's content.
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Yes! The end of the world is nigh. . . again
The doomsayers are back but will they get it right this time, wonders Paul Melia
And so the end of the world is nigh. Again. Prophets of doom plan a year-long party because come next December, life as we know it will cease to exist.
But it won't be climate change, or nuclear apocalypse, or the outbreak of an unknown virus that will kill us all.
Instead a rogue planet -- known to the authorities but which is being kept secret from us all -- will crash into Earth, ending humanity's brief time here.
How we all die is beautiful in its simplicity, and based on ancient knowledge and discovery.
The ancient Sumerians, who lived in southern Iraq, discovered a planet called Nibiru, which is hurtling towards Earth and is due to hit next December.
In perfect symmetry, the Mayans -- who came from Central America -- predicted the end of the world on December 21 when its so-called 'Long Count' calendar comes to an end, hailing the 'end of days'.
They didn't actually mention the planet Nibiru -- but that hasn't stopped worldwide apocalyptic alarm.
And luckily for the doomsayers there are even two fragments of writing found in Mexican ruins which refer to Bolon Yokte, a Mayan god associated with war and creation, which probably say (the fragments are broken so are difficult to read): "He will descend from the sky."
So that's that then. That was our last Christmas.
It's been a while since such a doomsday scenario has captured the popular imagination, with bookseller Amazon currently offering more than 170 titles dealing with the Mayan Long Count.
Such was the excitement that NASA was forced to step in last month to counteract the claims, saying if Niburi existed it would now be visible with the naked eye and everyone would know of their impending doom.
"Nothing bad will happen to the Earth in 2012", the space agency said. "Our planet has been getting along just fine for more than four billion years and scientists worldwide know of no threat associated with 2012."
But conspiracy theorists, doomsayers and other believers have no need for scientific evidence. The end is nigh and that's enough. And their predictions aren't a new phenomenon.
Some 20,000 people fled London in January 1524 after astrologers predicted a great flood, while Halley's Comet's arrival in 1910 caused widespread panic that humanity would be wiped out by noxious gases in its tail. In 1919, meteorologist Albert Porta said a rare conjunction of planets would cause magnetic currents "that would pierce the sun, cause great explosions of flaming gas and eventually engulf the Earth".
A rogue planet crashing into us, a 'killer' solar flare or geomagnetic reversal -- where Earth spins out of control -- are just some of the ways we might meet our makers, however despite hundreds of years of apocalyptic warnings none has come true.
But serious science loves a good doomsday theory. Last September the annual Ig Nobel prizes were awarded in Harvard University's Sanders Theatre to honour scientific achievements "that first make people laugh, then make them think".
The winner of the psychology prize was a Norwegian researcher for trying to understand why, in everyday life, people sigh.
The mathematics prize for "teaching the world to be careful when making mathematical assumptions and calculations" was shared by six people who all predicted the end of the world using a mathematical formula -- Dorothy Martin, who was told by aliens the world would end in a great flood in 1954; TV evangelist Pat Robertson, who predicted judgment day in 1982; and Elizabeth Clare Prophet, who reckoned nuclear war would kill everyone in 1990. All were American. Also honoured were Lee Jang Rim of Korea, Credonia Mwerinde of Uganda, and Harold Camping, also of the US.
Of course, none turned out to be accurate but it's not the predicted end of days we need to worry about. There's been five major extinction episodes in Earth's history which probably took every living thing on the planet by surprise.
They include the Permian extinction about 250 million years ago which finished the dinosaurs and which may have been caused by a meteor crashing to earth.
We'll never know, but here's a cheery thought -- we could go at any time.
Space is inhabited by millions of asteroids, many in Earth-crossing orbits, and one the size of a house could destroy a city. As Bill Bryson notes in his Short History of Nearly Everything, in 1991 one was spotted after it had missed Earth by just 170,000km -- "in cosmic terms the equivalent of a bullet passing through one's sleeve without touching the arm".
And there's hazards on the planet too. Yellowstone National Park in the US, home of geysers and bubbling mud pools, is in fact a 'supervolcano' -- a mighty simmering cauldron of magma almost 70km wide. It erupts about every 600,000 years. It last went 630,000 years ago, showering much of the US and Canada with ash. It's overdue.
However, there's no point in worrying. We do have the certainty of knowing the world will end in about four billion years when the sun has depleted its supply of hydrogen and it swells like a balloon. Then Earth will definitely be toast.
That's a comforting thought.
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Companies use the corporate umbrella and the company's credibility when launching new products and services because the corporate umbrella helps transfer brand value to sub-brands. While consumers may be unfamiliar with the sub-brands and associated products, they will recognize the corporate umbrella brand.
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0.022275 | <urn:uuid:fea3e379-fb6b-4225-b06d-ee2fa1d84042> | en | 0.932879 | > > > Comparison > Honda Civic Si vs. Nissan Sentra SE-R Spec V Head to Head
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It's draft day and you're on the clock. On the board are highly prized recruits from two noted powerhouses. Though your lottery pick is way up there, your salary cap is restricted to roughly $23 grand. You can take only one, so choose wisely. Both prospects are front-engine, front-drive, four-door sport sedans from programs with storied traditions in this category. Though Honda has been building the Civic Si since 1986-five years before Nissan made its first SE-R-it's never done a sedan. Nissan has been making SE-R sedans since 2002, but the tale of the tape reveals no significant advantage for either rookie. In fact, from mundane to exotic, whatever parameter you measure, the cars are nearly identical. Each vehicle's wheelbase, width, and front and rear track are all within an inch of the other's. Both vehicles come equipped with six-speed manual gearboxes (standard) and helical-type limited-slip differentials (a $400 option on the SE-R Spec V). The largest physical disparity is under the hood, but even that's a bit of a wash (197 to 200 horses). Sure, the Si is down a half liter and 41 pound-feet to the 2.5-liter Spec V engine, but the Honda also weighs about 150 pounds less than the Nissan. Our tarmac combine reveals similar performances as well. Toe to toe and blow for blow, both click the stopwatches within tenths of each other. The extra torque provided by the SE-R's displacement advantage means it sprints to 40 mph one tenth of a second quicker than the Si, but they're tied at 50 mph. By 60 mph, the Si has pulled ahead by a tenth and holds this lead through the quarter mile. And though the Civic manages to stop three feet shorter from 60 mph and pull 0.01 g higher on the skidpad, it's still too close to call. How is it then, that when the selection clock runs down, one of these bluechippers will distinguish itself as a future Hall-of-Famer, while the other will seem destined to ride the pine? Well, some of it has to do with what coaches and draft pundits call "intangibles," but the key differences are apparent from the very first throttle blip. Southern California's Montezuma Valley Road is the perfect place for a private workout session for these twins. Bombing up and down this 12-mile, 40-plus-turn, desert highway is an exercise fraught with anxiety, especially when your rearview mirrors are filled with the Si's sloping snout. Though only 2.6 inches taller than the Si, the way the Spec V leans over in corners makes it feel much larger in the tight canyon confines. But it's not slow; switch places and the Spec V can hang with the Si-if only just. The problem is, doing so generates a whiter-knuckle grip on the steering wheel and beads of sweat in the corners.
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I love Nissan but I'm willing to test out the Civic Si... I drive a base Sentra but I want to get one of these. The torque is what's getting me, I love revving it up high but I feel like that might get tiresome quickly when I want to get power just to merge on a slow day
Hmm. Drove both and had to go with the Nissan.
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0.028492 | <urn:uuid:0d6af9ae-5960-4337-8c5c-655fcb34de89> | en | 0.957788 | Israel Will Keep Fighting, General Says
A convoy of Israeli tanks. Credit: AP Photo/Ariel Schalit. i i
hide captionA convoy of Israeli tanks prepares to enter southern Lebanon near the northern Israeli village of Avivim.
Increased diplomatic efforts are unlikely to bring a quick end to the week-old war between Israel and Hezbollah militants. An Israeli general says the fighting could continue at least another week, if not longer.
This is MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm John Ydstie, in for Steve Inskeep.
And I'm Renee Montagne.
Israeli planes are still bombing areas of Lebanon. Today's attacks killed dozens more Lebanese civilians. And more Hezbollah rockets fell on Haifa in northern Israel.
There are increased diplomatic efforts to stop the fighting, but as NPR's Eric Westervelt reports there's little prospect that those efforts will lead to a quick end to this latest conflict in the Middle East.
Despite some early diplomatic maneuverings, there are few signs the fighting will stop anytime soon. Israeli Major General Udi Adam, head of the northern command, told Army radio yesterday that the air attacks had significantly degraded Hezbollah's fighting ability. But there's more fighting ahead, he said, adding, I think we should assume that it will take a few more weeks.
Shlomo Brom is a retired Brigadier General and the former head of strategic planning for the Israeli Army. He says the air war has inflicted far more damage on Hezbollah, particularly in the south, than is readily apparent.
Mr. SHLOMO BROM (Brigadier General, Israeli Defense Forces, Retired): You don't see the damage to Hezbollah. The media cannot see the rocket launching groups that are hunted and killed. And this kind of organization, that is a guerrilla organization, is consistent of many small groups of combatants that have to be intercepted, one by one, and killed. And it takes time.
WESTERVELT: The civilian death toll in south Lebanon may be greater than current estimates. Reuters reports that 12 civilians including several children were killed in an overnight air strike in the southern village of Screfa(ph). More than 270 people, mostly civilians, have been killed in Lebanon so far. Twenty-six people have been killed in Israel, 13 of tem civilians.
On the diplomatic front, there are doubts in some corners, that the Lebanese Army is a credible option to enforce any potential ceasefire in the south. Some European Union members in the U.N. are pushing for international peacekeepers, perhaps backed up the Lebanese army.
U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan Tuesday, said any U.N. force should be larger and have a wider mandate than the current U.N. force, UNIFIL, which has been in south Lebanon since the late 1970s, and has been largely ineffective.
Itamar Rabinovich, the former Israeli Ambassador to the U.S., says UNIFIL's abysmal track record has turned many in Israel against the idea of any U.N. force.
Mr. ITAMAR RABINOVICH (Former Israeli Ambassador to the United States): UNIFIL, I'm afraid, is a joke. They have been there for 26 years. Since then there have been so many skirmishes, so many wars, and, you know, UNIFIL has not been effective, and yet nobody bothered to recall UNIFIL. So, I'm not sure that the magic word of, let's send an international peacekeeping force to south Lebanon and take care of the problem, is going to take care of the problem.
WESTERVELT: Potentially, that leaves the Lebanese army as the main stabilization force. Israel's Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, Tuesday, reiterated that there would be no ceasefire until two captured Israeli soldiers are released, Hezbollah is disarmed, and Lebanese army forces moved in to enforce the disarmament.
But Israeli air strikes have also pounded at least Lebanese army bases or outposts, and radar sites, weakening the very force that might be used to disarm Hezbollah. General Brom said Israel is walking a tightrope, trying to take out only those Lebanese forces seen as operationally supporting Hezbollah.
Mr. BROM: When some elements of the Lebanese military are being in cahoots with Hezbollah, is cooperating with it - they are punished.
WESTERVELT: In addition to its armed wing, Hezbollah is also a political and religious movement, and Itamar Rabinovich says when the fighting stops, Israel's biggest challenge will be dealing with the future of Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Mr. RABINOVICH: Extending the real sovereignty of the Lebanese state, all the way to the border, is not going to be easy. Because, you know, you are dealing with the Lebanese government that has two Hezbollah ministers in its ranks. So you need to be sure that the government is solidly behind it and capable of doing that.
WESTERVELT: But the continued fighting underscores just how far away those challenges are right now. Yesterday, Israeli military officials said the number of Hezbollah rockets fired was down in the last few days. Just a few hours later, a new barrage hit ten cities and towns across the north.
A 37-year-old factory worker in the coastal city of Nahariya had just hurried his family into a bomb shelter, when a Katyusha landed, killing him instantly. This morning, more rockets hit cities across northern Israel, wounding several people.
Eric Westervelt, NPR News, Jerusalem.
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Check out the details of SB 1381, including how it would phase in over several years and how it might create a new, two-year kindergarten program.
A new age for kindergarten?
Kindergartners in Danielle Zavala's class at Horace Mann Elementary School use the "quiet " sign while waiting to go out to recess recently.
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As I watched my son standing at the end of the kindergarten line -- flapping both his mouth and his arms -- I knew I had made the right decision.
Even then -- when kindergarten still had a play kitchen in one corner -- it was asking a lot of a 4-year-old. Students spent a week studying the letter "A." They traced it and glued rice to outline its shape. On Friday, they ate apples.
It's about time.
In Danielle Zavala's class at Horace Mann Elementary School in Anaheim, kindergarten feels like postgraduate work for preschool.
Apples still get a lot of attention -- but not as the letter of the week. Apple is a word in a sentence.
They build sentences starting with "I," (the "high frequency word" of the day; there are 29 more.) They read it and write it - "a stick" with "a hat" and "shoes." Each child then chooses from the list to complete sentences that begin with the words "I see..."
Irwin Mancilla reads his finished paper: "I see a red car."
"Very good," Zavala beams. "You're reading."
"Usually," Zavala notes, "the students with challenges have a fall birthday."
It's intense – and this is only day 27 for this kindergarten track.
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0.037139 | <urn:uuid:0948e355-7968-4d3e-90c0-5a877c75927b> | en | 0.955936 | Oxfam International reaction to Peter Mandelson's speech on trade in Berlin
Published: 23 January 2006
In a speech in Berlin on January 23, European Union (EU) trade commissioner Peter Mandelson blamed countries such as Brazil and India for blocking a world trade deal, but he raised the prospect of new moves by the EU on the contentious issue of agriculture if Europe gets access to the markets it most values, according to Reuters new agency.
Mandelson said, "The blockage in the round is not in Brussels, but in those countries failing to come forward with an offer on industrial tariffs and services that goes anywhere near responding to the seriousness of our offers in all sectors of the round." Europe was making real sacrifices in farming but it stood to gain no significant access to markets such as Brazil and India for high-value industrial goods like cars or chemicals made by European companies, he said.
Luis Morago, Head of Oxfam International's Brussels Office, responded:
"It is 2006 and yet we are still hearing the same excuses, the same unreasonable demands as last year. Now is not the time for blaming or deflecting blame. Rich countries must change their tune, redesign their policies and do everything they can to refocus these negotiations on the needs of developing countries, otherwise the result can only be failure.
"All developing countries need the space and time to decide on their own policies – as rich countries had before them. This round was launched in 2001 to rectify the imbalances in the world trading system but at this rate it is in danger of exacerbating them.
"Europe's offers on agriculture not only do not go far enough but come with potentially devastating demands for reciprocation in other areas that could more than outweigh the benefits of minor agricultural reform. Both the EU and US need to offer more and stop asking for so much in return.
"The EU's demand that developing countries liberalize their services and industrial markets in return for movement on agriculture is unacceptable: this round of talks was not meant to be about horse-trading but about unlocking the benefits of trade for poverty reduction.
"Europe's insistence on differentiation between developing countries is disingenuous: many the world's poorest people live in the countries that Mr. Mandelson targets as 'major economic players'. Just because their economies are growing does not mean they should be forced to make potentially devastating reforms before they're ready."
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HBO’s reign as the king of serialized drama may be drawing to a close, what with the end of The Sopranos looming near, the finale of Six Feet Under almost a year behind us, and only reflected glory yawners like Big Love arising in their place. Then there’s the plethora of captivating stories being told on networks elsewhere—many owing a debt to both of those shows—which reinforce the idea that HBO, once an innovator, has been upstaged by its own legacy. With the abrupt cancellation of Carnivale and the expensive period piece Rome taking two years to produce between each season, only the Western drama Deadwood is left to carry the torch.
Now, as it turns out, Deadwood too might be headed for Boot Hill, as HBO began the summer by announcing that the show’s third season, beginning June 4, may be its last. For detractors who never got into the show’s black-hearted take on the American West, its complex web of character interplay, or—more likely—its dense vocabulary of anachronisms and liberal application of the word “fuck” this is hardly a surprise. But for those who have taken the time to appreciate its oily charms, the subtle shifts in dynamics between the show’s unreliable heroes and villains, and its unparalleled ensemble of character actors, Deadwood is one of the most arresting and original series in TV history.
Centered on the machinations and complex power struggles taking place in a small mining town in the Black Hills of South Dakota circa 1876, what may sound dully educational is actually grittier than your average Sopranos episode. Characters speak in a fit of purple prose, fiery invective, and a command of vulgarity that can make the (frequently used) word “cocksucker” sound positively Shakespearean. They solve problems the old-fashioned way, by shooting them in the gut and dumping the bodies off with Mr. Wu, a local “celestial” who feeds them to his pigs. In between they pound shots of whiskey and frequent the whores while plotting against each other, often delivering seething monologues while some poor painted-up tart works diligently at their fly. These are not the John Wayne cowboys of yesteryear, nor are they a Ken Burns vision of ordinary men forging an extraordinary path to tomorrow; our ancestors, as Deadwood tells us, were just as brutish, nasty and mean as the rest of us.
In the show’s second season, the camp is moving towards annexation, with all that implies. Becoming a recognized part of the U.S. territories would mean prestige and riches for those who would help to orchestrate it, but at it also spells an end to the lawlessness and autonomy that made those men powerful in the first place. While occupying much of the season’s time with almost incomprehensible maneuvering against outside inspectors, the wrest for control takes its most satisfying shape between newly-minted sheriff Seth Bullock (Timothy Olyphant) and menacing saloon owner Al Swearengen (Ian McShane), with their frequent boil erupting in the very first episode into the fight scene that all of season one seemed to be building towards. With both men beaten badly and licking their wounds, they are equally surprised at the arrival of Bullock’s adopted son and wife, whom he took as his own some years back as a gesture of honor to his fallen brother. This naturally spells the end to the burgeoning romance between Bullock and the widow Garrett, whose gold claim meanwhile is yielding the sort of returns that make less scrupulous men salivate and the notorious Pinkerton agency suspicious. It also means that now Bullock has more at stake than ever. Swearengen, naturally, finds ways to work this to his advantage, simultaneously taking up against new rival Cy Tolliver, a criminally weak but conniving player who all too frequently lets his emotions or smug self-satisfaction get the better of him.
The underrated Powers Boothe plays Tolliver with every line ending in a shark-toothed sneer, but he also allows a hint of vulnerability that lets the pitiful need for acceptance shine through, particularly in his scenes with his ex-employee and right hand Joanie Stubbs (Kim Dickens), who leaves him to start a whorehouse of her own. That whorehouse becomes the scene of a startling reveal when Francis Wolcott, a mysterious scout for millionaire George Hearst, arrives and begins frequenting their parlor; Garret Dillahunt, who played Wild Bill Hickok’s murderer in the first season, returns as Wolcott, lending that character a similarly mannered menace that develops into one of the more surprising arcs of the season.
Along the way there are alliances and betrayals, deaths and dismemberments, troubled romances and doomed proposals—plus the comically slithering charm of hotel proprietor E.B. Farnum (William Sanderson), made honorary mayor out of pity and yet boasts of it to great comic effect—all against the backdrop of an emerging nation. Frequent nods are made to the encroaching of developing technology—and with it, outside influences—on the untamed wilderness, such as the introduction of the town’s first bicycle (and its subsequent implication in a character’s death, of course). Early on, Swearengen looks out at workers erecting telegraph poles and remarks disgustedly, “Messages from invisible sources: what some people think of as progress.” To Swearengen, the approaching future means the end of his gleefully lawless life; to Deadwood fans, it’s possible that that near future means the end of one of the richest dramas on television, with only a smoking bullet hole in its place.
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5 stars The return of the English pleasant land.
In England's green and pleasant land, you still get some albums that resonates between the villages and hills in England. An album that paint pictures of the English landscapes, the people and the village lives...... anno 1920. This is such an album.
With vocals that reminds me about A-Ha's Morten Harket and is that good. But where Morten Harket goes take on me and the sun always shines on tv, Autumn Chorus vocalist Robbie Wilson returns into one of England's cathedral and joins one of their many young men choirs in their chorals. His vocals is unearthly excellent and can make satan himself attending church on a regular basis. Robbie Wilson does get help from some female vocalists too and the end result is heavenly godly throughout this album.
The vocals are supported by a post rock like music with a lot of strings, organs, guitars and the traditional instruments. The sound is excellent. The music relies heavily on the vocals, but the instrumental bits is still excellent in it's own right. The music is pastoral post rock which feels like has been produced in an for a cathedral and in a cathedral. The music is in short almost religious and hymn like. But a lot better, I have to say. Sigur Ros is an obvious reference.
The music is excellent throughout and really takes the listenener on a fantastic journey through the pastoral landscapes of England. It also takes the listener back to baroque music, although with a post rock soundscape.
This album is nothing short of sensational. It is not in the same category as Genesis masterpieces, but it is not far away. English prog rock has found a new masterpiece in The Village to the Vale. No doubts.
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Israeli border security takes no chances when it comes to protecting citizens from sinisterly smug technology.
According to Engadget, the border police were so spooked by the smooth lines and the shifty smugness of a shiny Macbook that they riddled it full of bullets.
As you might expect, the machine belonged to an American tourist who apparently had not heard of any terror threats and thought that the West Bank was a place you deposited cash.
She had just arrived from Egypt, which has, since ancient times, tried to smite Israel a bit and so was considered a bit of a threat.
She showed up at border security and they told her to put down the mac and her bag while they asked her a few questions.
Unfortunately leaving a bag unattended at an Israeli airport is not the best of ideas, particularly if you have just flown in from Egypt. Another guard saw the evil Macbook and shot it three times before it stopped moving.
Fortunately the hard-drive was saved because the bullets bounced off a fragment of Steve Jobs' ego which is automatically installed in every machine. Thus the woman's Coldplay collection is safe and installed in another machine. | http://www.tgdaily.com/technology/45089-border-security-nails-terrorist-macbook | dclm-gs1-223510000 | false | false | {
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DNA: a perfect match ... almost
Breakthrough research by an English geneticist 25 years ago revolutionised the investigation of crimes and the prosecution of the perpetrators, but DNA profiling is not foolproof.
Breakthrough research by an English geneticist 25 years ago revolutionised the investigation of crimes and the prosecution of the perpetrators, but DNA profiling is not foolproof. No one knows if Archimedes really did run down the street of his hometown shrieking "eureka" - Greek for "I have found it" - after discovering his celebrated law of buoyancy. What is certain is that in science, such moments are rare indeed. Most of the time, the frontiers of knowledge advance at a glacial pace, with researchers finding that - in the words of the American Nobel-Prize-winning physicist Murray Gell-Mann - their most valuable tool is the wastebasket.
Small wonder, then, that scientists are this month celebrating a genuine eureka moment, which took place exactly 25 years ago. On that September morning in 1984, a 30-something geneticist at the University of Leicester in England by the name of Alec Jeffreys was examining the DNA of three members of the same family. As expected, he found many similarities; what stunned him were the many differences. It seemed as if certain parts of DNA might act as a kind of genetic bar code, unique to everyone except identical twins.
Dr Jeffreys quickly realised such a "DNA profile" would have a host of applications, allowing scientists to identify people from minute traces of the genetic molecule. Within six months, DNA profiling was put to use on its first case, resolving a dispute about the paternity of a boy involved in a UK immigration application. But the power of DNA profiling first entered public consciousness in 1987, when it was used to investigate the rape and murder of two teenage girls in a small village just down the road from Dr Jeffreys' laboratory.
A 17-year-old had confessed to the double murder, and police decided to use the newly patented DNA technique to confirm his guilt. To their astonishment, the samples of DNA found at the crime scene showed no similarities to those from the teenager. Realising that he was a vulnerable attention-seeker, police released him - the first of hundreds of people to have their innocence confirmed by DNA evidence.
With the culprit still at large, detectives then announced that DNA samples would be taken from thousands of local men in an attempt to track down the killer. Among them was a 27-year old bakery worker named Colin Pitchfork, who persuaded a friend to take the test for him. When the deception was uncovered, police obtained a DNA sample from Pitchfork - which revealed his guilt. He is now serving a 28-year prison sentence.
A more spectacular showcase for the powers of DNA profiling is hard to imagine. Sure enough, the technique began to acquire an almost mesmerising reputation for its ability to implicate or exonerate. It is an image underpinned by the fact that DNA profiles seem able to put precise odds on the innocence of the accused. Forensic scientists began presenting juries with DNA evidence that they claimed showed that the chances of the accused being innocent were just one in a million, or even less.
In fact, and contrary to what even many scientists believe, DNA profiling can do no such thing. What it actually gives are the odds of getting so good a match as that found, on the assumption that the accused is innocent. Yet a moment's thought shows this is quite different from what juries are supposed to assess, namely, the odds of the person being innocent, given the DNA evidence. Confusing the two is akin to a doctor believing that the near-certainty that patients will have spots given they've got measles implies the near-certainty of having measles, given the presence of spots, which is patently not the case.
The only way to resolve this mix-up - known to statisticians as the prosecutor's fallacy - is to take account of any other evidence relevant to the case. And if there is none, even apparently compelling DNA evidence can be utterly undermined. Despite repeated warnings by experts, it's far from clear that most juries - or lawyers, for that matter - yet understand the precise meaning of DNA evidence. Worse, surveys suggest the sheer size of the odds presented in DNA cases may lead juries to ignore other forms of evidence, unaware of the dangers of doing so.
There is an even more pernicious problem with DNA evidence: human error. Over the years, there have been many cases of compelling DNA evidence implicating people who simply could not have been involved in the crime. In 2003, an Australian woman found herself being questioned for the murder of a toddler when her DNA profile was found to match crime scene samples, with the odds against a fluke apparently less than one in 100 billion. The absence of any other evidence linking the woman to the crime prompted police to investigate further. They found that she had herself been the victim of a crime investigated years earlier by the same forensic laboratory - and that her DNA had contaminated samples of clothing belonging to the toddler held in the same lab.
Perhaps the most shocking DNA blunder emerged this year, when police in Germany finally solved the mystery of the female serial killer dubbed the Phantom of Heilbronn. Suspected of up to six murders and dozens of other crimes dating back to the early 1990s, the Phantom had been identified via the DNA she left on a host of crime scene samples, from cars to a kitchen drawer. Despite the wealth of evidence, police could not identify the culprit. In March, the reason became clear: the female serial killer did not exist. The "Phantom" is now believed to be nothing but the result of wholesale contamination by DNA on the cotton swabs used by investigating officers.
There is no doubt that DNA profiling is the single biggest breakthrough in forensic science since the development of fingerprinting more than a century ago. Since Professor Jeffreys's eureka moment 25 years ago, it has brought thousands of criminals to justice around the world. It has also brought justice to thousands wrongly accused of crimes, including some facing capital punishment. Arguably, one of the biggest injustices surrounding DNA profiling is that it has yet to bring Professor Jeffreys a Nobel Prize, an omission that may yet be rectified when the latest prizes are announced next month.
Even if he does win this ultimate scientific accolade, we can expect the famously self-effacing geneticist to continue to stress the importance of wielding his discovery with care. "When DNA profiling was first commercialised, I was shocked to hear that one of the companies involved was describing the technology as infallible," he recently told an interviewer. "There is always room for human error."
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john kerryAs the President and First Lady jaunt off to Copenhagen — on separate planes — to push for Chicago hosting the 2016 Olympics, Democrats in the U.S. Senate are trying to get ready for another meeting in Copenhagen: the UN Climate Change Conference in December. While the Obamas were working to maximize their “carbon footprint,” Senators Barbara Boxer and John Kerry were introducing legislation that is ostensibly aim at eliminating everyone else’s.
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The plan aims to cut carbon dioxide and other pollutants by encouraging broader use of solar, wind and other renewable fuels in place of dirtier ones such as oil. It also would invest U.S. funds in finding cleaner ways to burn coal and other fuels.
Written by liberal Senators Barbara Boxer and John Kerry, the proposal would achieve a 20 percent reduction in smokestack emissions by 2020 from 2005 levels. That is greater than the 17 percent cut set in a bill passed by the House of Representatives but less than what the European Union says it will achieve.
While the environmental benefits of the proposals contained in the 800-page Boxer-Kerry bill are dubious, at best, the economic ramifications are nowhere near as subject to doubt: a substantial financial burden will hit every American home in the form of increased energy costs, and also an increase in the cost of goods and services because of the legislation. Among other expenses will be a new round of “sticker shock” at the gas station; again, according to the Reuters article: “American Petroleum Institute President Jack Gerard predicted the legislation would make gasoline prices shoot up to as much as $5 per gallon, about twice their current level.”
Even liberal Democrats cannot be counted on to back the radical Senate “cap-and-trade” bill; Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) “called the proposal a step in the wrong direction with goals that are ‘unrealistic and harmful.’” Given the importance of coal to the economy of West Virginia, Rockefeller’s response is not that surprising: economic reality has a way of intruding itself time and again into the environmental debate. As the environmental facts are proving not to conform to the computer models developed by environmental extremists, the attempts to justify such radical measures such as the ones being proposed by Boxer and Kerry appear more and more disconnected from reality.
As the Copenhagen Conference draws nearer, the only “global warming” Americans can expect to witness will be in the wild rhetoric thrown around by the environmental fringe. Despite the efforts to delegitimize and silence critics of “climate change,” brave individuals such as EPA research analyst Alan Carlin and Czech President Vaclav Klaus are continuing to boldly draw attention to the disparity between environmentalist rhetoric and environmental fact. Happy thoughts about the future of alternative energy sources such as wind and solar power do not address the present economic realities of the American and global economy. The memory of the recent “cash for clunkers” debacle hasn’t faded away, yet — what did the economy or the environment really gain from throwing around billions of dollars in borrowed money so that Americans could buy vehicles for which they are already having a hard time keeping up the payments?
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But then, we already know the answer to those questions, don’t we?
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0.026049 | <urn:uuid:ba63bad8-2725-475f-95ce-b1311f031b86> | en | 0.938989 | Reports: PS3 hackers banned from PSN after Sony warning
Wednesday, 16th February 2011 17:11 GMT By Stephany Nunneley
Don’t do it, kids. This is what happens.
Geohot, hot, hot
Geohot takin’ on the Sony, yo.
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1. pukem0n
are they saying you should remove pirated software immediately?
so in other words, they have no way of detecting it yet or what? ^^
#1 3 years ago
2. Suikoden Fan
i wonder if sony will go after foreign acc holdeers?
#2 3 years ago
3. Detale
Or maybe they’ve got a way of detecting it, and are giving you the chance to remove it before they boot you off PSN?
#3 3 years ago
4. Kaufer
It probably means they’ll start banning the console itself from PSN rather than per game basis as it was with COD.
#4 3 years ago
5. TheWulf
Did… did Stephany catch the intellectual dishonesty in their statement? I’m impressed, Steph. Good on ya. Really.
The thing is is that it’s not a ‘device’, it’s a piece of software, they’re trying to put this in the same camp as a modchip, which is (once again) a physical modification. The thing is is that they have no idea how to deal with this because nothing involved in the changes is physical at all, it all happens on the software level, and apparently this is proving very confusing to Sony and their lawyers.
It’s proving so confusing that the poor sods have had no recourse than to compare a software application with a mod chip, which potentially requires wires, soldering, and physically opening the PlayStation 3 (which would invalidate the warranty). Of course, eggheads and boffins alike are going to be amused by this correlation.
It’s kind of like saying that you need a Piracy Card to install Linux on a PC. :P We might get to the point where DRM is that insane, but that isn’t the case right now, thankfully. Nor is it the case that the PS3 requires any tinkering with the physical side of things in order to actually bust it wide open.
This is the problem with the other side of this argument (including Sony), that they have so little understanding of software (as a business entity) that they have to correlate it to physical objects like the dunces they are. This is much like Crysis’ comparison of encryption keys to house keys. Statements like that have me facepalm so violently that I worry I’ll end up with more brain damage.
Sony should get their geeks to explain it instead of their lawyers, but the problem is is that their geeks likely wouldn’t have a problem with what GeoHot did. It’s very unlikely for a person to be a geek and actually see an issue with what GeoHot did, what fail0verflow did, and especially how they went about it.
They’ve already revealed all their cards in that regard and it’s been dealt with. Sony were very stupid to pull the ace from their sleeve so quickly, but what can you do? I suppose they figured that they could keep switching things around like Microsoft in order to keep banning people, but due to the root key being exposed, they can’t do that.
To think, if they’d left in Other OS then none of this would have happened. Silly Sony, this is what happens if you step on someone’s rights, they don’t like it. Of course they don’t like it.
#5 3 years ago
6. SpartanNuke
makes me so happy :) good job, Sony.
#6 3 years ago
7. SpartanNuke
uh oh. i cannot edit my comment.. :/ damn.
I meant, yay go Sony…
#7 3 years ago
8. ManuOtaku
@5 Very spot on comment, nice read 8D
#8 3 years ago
9. dandan123
does this mean movies which we have downloaded from the internet?
#9 3 years ago
10. psybass
ohhhh so, Sony asking like a cute babies do not install the hacking device? what a losers. if the pirates like the device they definitely won’t delete it, and the piracy will grow on ps3 just like pc and xbox
#10 3 years ago
11. Kerplunk
#5 If things get classified as software then the consumer has far fewer right to jump around saying “I own it, I can do what I like with it” as, with software, the consumer never buys the software itself just a licence to use the software under terms outlined by the actual owners of the software itself. Unauthorised modification of the software? That’d be a no-no.
#11 3 years ago
12. Nozz
Sony’s ninjas are in full effect!
#12 3 years ago
13. Sorvin
Poor Back_up…. I guess by next week he’ll switch side and call all PS3 owners for hackers and proclaim Xbox as the “bestess console”
#13 3 years ago
14. ManuOtaku
@11, well thats exactly what activision, THQ, EA are saying and trying to implement with the pre-owned war agaisnt the consumers
#14 3 years ago
15. Erthazus
@13, nope, when you say something about: PS3 is piracy
he will say that PC hackers did this and some other crap :D
#15 3 years ago
16. Mike
As far as I’m aware, Sony doesn’t have the authority to demand this.
#16 3 years ago
17. Nozz
@16 Hey by all means challenge their authority, post your results!
#17 3 years ago
18. Aimless
@16 Why not? You aren’t entitled to use their online services and that is all they are talking about revoking.
#18 3 years ago
19. Cygnar
Lawyers in the entertainment industry, and especially in copyright law, are not stupid. The “device” language almost certainly refers to USB keys used to circumvent security measures before the release of the encryption key. Regardless of whether Sony thinks it can detect software-only circumvention in addition to hardware circumvention, and notwithstanding its choice of words in its public statements, it’s obvious that “device” refers to devices.
It is wonderful that you do not think anything should be wrong with circumvention of security measures. However, our opinions do not determine what the law says, or what our contracts require of us. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act makes it illegal under U.S. federal law to circumvent software protection that effectively controls access to copyrighted works, and makes it illegal to distribute tools or information that enable others to do the same. The act of circumvention itself is illegal under §1201; the law does not care whether or not users have good intentions when they do so. Please refer to the statutory language below, and read it before making a decision about what you think the law says.—-000-.html
There are exceptions carved out to §1201, outlined by the U.S. Copyright office. Please find these linked below. The “iPhone” exceptions for “homebrew” software apply only to telephones, not to home computers and gaming consoles.
I am sure that there are many “geeks” who have no problem with Mr. Hotz or the “fail0verflow” group, but no one has to convince “geeks” of anything–the bounds of the law are determined by judges, legislators, administrative agencies, and skilled lawyers. These are the authorities to which we must appeal to determine what is legal, not our intuitions and gut reactions of fairness.
As for Sony’s alleged trampling on the rights of its users, please refer to the Playstation EULA, linked below.
Sony does not give its users any more rights in its software than Metallica gives its fans ownership rights in its lyrics. The terms of the contract are unequivocal: users agree through their very use of the software that they “do not have any ownership rights or interests in the System Software.” The software on a user’s Playstation is not hers to circumvent, sell, decompile, reverse-engineer, or modify. This is a standard practice in software EULAs. If you do not like these contracts, do not accept them.
In short, Sony has legal protections from any circumvention of its copyright protection under U.S. federal law, it has done nothing illegal in its contract drafting, and it has not breached its contracts with its users. You may not feel that any of this is fair. But your feelings do not determine what the law is, says, means, or requires. If you are a U.S. citizen, I recommend that you write your representatives about your feelings; if you are not, I would like to ask you to stop complaining about law that doesn’t apply to you–this is a U.S. case determined by U.S. law, not by the feelings of video game blog users.
#19 3 years ago
20. Mike
Seems to me they’re asking people to remove any and all unauthorised software from the machine. Whether it be a ripped game or XMBC. They can’t, however, do a thing about it and have no right (again, as far as I know) to stop me or you DL’ing something onto a USB and playing it/using it on the machine.
Nothing they can do about it. At all. And they have no right to demand it.
#20 3 years ago
21. Gekidami
Why not? What do you think Microsoft does if they detect a system has a flashed drive? Exactly the same thing; They block the system from using their online features.
Sonys saying ‘remove that stuff or lose the abilty to conect to OUR online systems, that you, the customers have no ownership of’.
#21 3 years ago
22. psybass
TheWulf and Cygnar seriously you need to be a book writers. ><
#22 3 years ago
23. Michael O’Connor
@20 You’re write. They can’t legally stop you from downloading the stuff and using it.
They can, however, stop you for using their online services entirely at their own discretion.
#23 3 years ago
24. Michael O’Connor
#24 3 years ago
25. raganwind
Sony can scan your PS3 for data on your hard drive, as long as you are connected to PSN.#19 is right, but his last statement isn’t. This is for US and EU branches of Playstation, not just US. Depending on your country, you must obey that country’s laws. Neither country allows you to circumvent security measures. Also, as far as I know, the PS3 Jailbreak is a USB flash drive, rather than a program.
#25 3 years ago
26. ManuOtaku
@19, ok so according for what i read this do also apply when sony took away the O.S capability, of my ps3, because if i didnt want to loose this application, that did came with the product in the first place, when i paid it,i cannot play any new games because it did ask me for an updated.
#26 3 years ago
27. chipvideo
@25 You wrote “Sony can scan your PS3 for data on your hard drive, as long as you are connected to PSN”
That seems kind of illegal to me. Sniffing your HDD for data. Much different than what msft does. They sniff the physical MOD, not your HDD software.
#27 3 years ago
28. Gekidami
^ They dont scan your HDD, but they can see what programs are being ran on your system.
#28 3 years ago
29. chipvideo
So they are scanning your memory then?
#29 3 years ago
30. Gekidami
The system sends a log of applications you’re ran. They arent “scanning” anything.
#30 3 years ago
31. Dr.Ghettoblaster
Do they know if I’m surfing for porn…?
#31 3 years ago
32. chipvideo
Is that legal? How should they demand to KNOW what I have been using on a system I bought. I wonder how this would go over with the Consumer Privacy Act.
#32 3 years ago
33. chipvideo
To be clear I am in favor of them banning consoles from the service. Its how they go about it is what I am concerned for. Alot of this has to do with consumer rights. Major implications down the road. Seems as though as time goes on we get less and less rights. Looks like America is heading backwards in the Land of the Free.
#33 3 years ago
34. Gekidami
Yep, a live feed of your porn is sent straight into Kaz Hirai’s office.
No but seriously, they can see the browser app was activated but not what it was used for.
Seeing as both Sony & Microsoft do it i guess it is. Consoles arent PC’s, everything you run on one is meant to be officially lienced.
#34 3 years ago
35. chipvideo
Problem is msft is showing a physical mod while the sony solution is showing a software mod. I think Sony will have a hard time in court over this.
#35 3 years ago
36. MushroomStamp
Not a huge loss. In my 4 years having a PS3, the only thing I needed online for was updates. Which don’t mean a lot really. Don’t like the online community for the PS3… well, what they call a community anyway. It doesn’t foster communication… the multi-player games, meh, never enjoyed any multi-player on the PS3, primarily because of lack of voice support. yes it has voice, but 80% of players don’t use it because they dont’ have a mic.
*sigh* I regress, the point being while I do NOT have a modded PS3, it wouldn’t bother me in the least to lose online so I’m sure the ones that Mod dont’ really care either.
#36 3 years ago
37. Cort
Sorry Mike, but Sony has every right to demand PS3 users remove the offending material from their hard drive. And PS3 users have every right to completely ignore the demand and carry on using it. But if they do, Sony will ban them from using their online services. So, you see, Sony can do plenty about it.
#37 3 years ago
38. Hunam
Punishment for not buying games is met with losing the ability to buy games?
#38 3 years ago
39. Gekidami
^ How does not being able to connect to PSN stop you from buying games?
#39 3 years ago
40. Dr.Ghettoblaster
I would like to hear Cygnar’s response to #32 and #33. Just because I have come to value his/her’s seemingly knowledgeable legal input.
#40 3 years ago
41. GwynbleiddiuM
Well, I’m worried about “Back_up”, it’s a shock too see he made no comments on this matter. Guys, we broke him bad he might have committed suicide! We are evil as he would say…
#41 3 years ago
42. spiderLAW
You are so lame.
“It doesn’t foster communication” – Where the hell do you get that bullshit from? My friends list is twice the size of my Xbox’s list and i would say with much more mature people as well. I can video chat, text chat, message, join them in Playstation Home, play games with the, play games in PS Home with them. Of course the list of friends depends on the user of the system as i am not saying the same amount of friends is not capable with the xbox, just that your statement stinks with bull shit.
I have 3 mics (1 bluetooth and 2 usb) that work great but i hardly use them for online play on PS3 (and I have 2 for xbox that I hardly use for the same following reasons ) because 1) i dont want to chat with 12yr boys that just yell nigga nigga nigga dick *ss**le, f*** the whole damn time for no other reason than just to hear their own voice. 2)Because sometimes playing a game means getting away from all the crap you hear from everyone all day. Relaxing time for us in the work force 3) do you really need a mic to coordinate? I dont think so. smart enough players do fine without one. Suer it helps, but it isn’t necessary.
4) you contradict yourself in your statement. Its lacks voice support but it does support voice??? You read your shit once over?
Lets make this clear again. The only thing that xbox live supports that PSN doesn’t is cross game chat. Don’t say “well party chat too” cuz for fucks sake, you can party chat on PS3 too, just not while playing separate games.
I swear, you fan boys love to twist the truth in your favor all the time.
If you have both consoles, enjoy them. If you don’t like one of the consoles, don’t buy it. If you are going to lie about it, keep your mouth shut or your fingers away from the keyboard.
Both consoles have great online support. Asshat.
#42 3 years ago
43. XxT_I_K_IxX_PR
People just read the official agreement and done… lol who reads that?
#43 3 years ago
44. XxT_I_K_IxX_PR
But yeah, ban them =P
#44 3 years ago
45. MushroomStamp
@SpiderLaw, fuck off, it’s my opinion get off your system loving pedestal because I didn’t even mention any other console. I see voice communication as imperative to online multi-player. I find in the online multiplayer games I played the VAST majority of people did NOT have voice. I prefer when someone can say “look to your left”, or even communicate a strategy on how to attack. You have your OPINION, I have mine. Name calling is unnecessary and unwarranted when all someone does is express opinnion. I purposely didn’t even mention another console becasue I knew some PS3 lover would need a new tampon, I guess that was you. Pardon me for having an opinion. The simple fact that EVERY SINGLE 360 is sold with a mic means just about everyone has one… which is the total opposite of the PS3. I never stated anythign about capabilities, just about what every person can observe for themselves. The majority of people do not purchase a Mic seperately, thus making a community with communication non existant on the PS3.
My opinion is based solely on fact and observation. You just want to paint a terd a pretty color.
#45 3 years ago
46. spiderLAW
you are a moron if you think that all you stated was opinion.
Heres how it works so that its easier for u to understand.
Your Opinion: “I don’t enjoy online gaming on PS3.” Great, that is indeed an opinion and it’s cool.
Not an opinion, just a mislead observation thus misleading others when making the statement: “It doesn’t foster communication” “lack of voice support. yes it has voice, but 80% of players don’t use it because they don’t’ have a mic.”
I didn’t attack your opinion. I simply observed and pointed out that observation, that you falsify information to justify your beliefs.
“System loving pedestal”? I own both, play both (you are on my fucking friends list on xbox), and i also had a wii that I played 60+ games on it before selling it and if anything, I’m a PC gamer and always will be.
“Every single xbox360 is sold with a mic”? Are you serious? The new Slim 4gb does not come with a mic and either did the arcade (arcade at first. Not sure about later Skus).
“The majority of people do not purchase a Mic separately, thus making a community with communication non existent on the PS3.”? So messaging, texting, etc. is not a form of communication…. where the hell did you go to school? Besides those obviously being a form of communication, Bluetooth is a common device everywhere and PS3 uses any Bluetooth headset. People have the mikes, they just choose not to hear people like you yammering, “look over there! He’s gonna get you” in their ear. Lets not forget also that you can video chat on PS3 with the PSeye without the need for a headset and that costs a little $30 or comes bundled with Move.
You know, I wouldn’t even bother arguing with you ever but you have become the new xbox loving fanboy moron around here. Jumping in on threads to say “O the online on PS3 sucks”, “Xbox live is perfect”, “this game looks better on Xbox360 (judging b the demo)”, etc etc etc.
Go ahead and glorify your xbox, but don’t trash other systems to glorify your preference.
#46 3 years ago
47. spiderLAW
@MushroomsStamp (= M.S. initials M.S. also meaning Microsoft and Microsoft being the manufacturer of Xbox…am i reading to deep into it? lol)
You are right about the name calling though. That was very immature of me and I apologize for that. I am sorry.
#47 3 years ago
48. MushroomStamp
@SpiderLaw Yes, too deep.. a MushroomStamp is the mark left behind after you pull the c*ck out of someones mouth and smack it on their forehead.
Apology accepted.. and I apologize for using an antagonizing comment “what they call a community anyway”.
I think we are just both passionate gamers and sometimes consideration of others slips.
#48 3 years ago
49. MushroomStamp
Ps. “fanboy loving moron”.. umm no, but thanks for the name calling again.. like you I have all systems. I never have been or will be a loyalist. To buy something just because of a name brand is retarded. I evaluate all purchases equally. I have never said the PS3 sucks no that Xbox live is perfect… In fact I never made those comments you tried feed into my mouth. I prefer the 360 on 2 major points, I find the community better and #1 is the controller. I despise the PS controller as the worst controller I have ever used. Other than that I could care less about exclusives. If a game is multiplatform I will go with the one that has the best graphics (for example, I bought FF13 on PS3 and RDR on the 360). just like to reiterate, I am a gamer, not a consoler… the only “system” i really bash is the Wii because well… there isn’t enough space to cover that topic.
#49 3 years ago
50. tmac2011
you might own the system but you don’t own the rights to the software even if you buy the game, you dont own the programming and the data and w/e else. ruining games like call of duty 4 and people having to cheat at modern warfare 2, why dont they try to just get better at a game and stop hacking it upo for other great players….
#50 3 years ago
51. Kaufer
Im reading the related forums and people are getting banned as of a few hours ago. There are already some in the comments that are updating to official firmware. So i guess sony’s plan works.
#51 3 years ago
52. MegaGeek1
Oh shucks, looks like a small percentage of “gamers” are going to be forced into BUYING games like the rest of us normal human beings.
#52 3 years ago
53. back_up
they should be put in jail
#53 3 years ago
54. xino
well doesn’t really do much, because you can simply create another PSN account.
Sony needs to ban the console, though they can’t do it unlike Xbox 360, because Xbox Live is fully integrated with the Xbox 360+dashboard.
it would only effect you if you use it on an account with lots of trophies
#54 3 years ago
55. Kerplunk
@54 Of course you can block the console. Take a combination of known IP address and the MAC address of the machine and that’s it.
#55 3 years ago
56. Patrick Garratt
@51 – Do you have any links to forum posts saying people have already been banned?
#56 3 years ago
57. mojo
#57 3 years ago
58. Patrick Garratt
#58 3 years ago
59. Kaufer
I tried posting the link before but i guess it got filtered?
#59 3 years ago
60. Kaufer
I tried posting the link before but i guess it got filtered? My post wont show.
#60 3 years ago
61. Kaufer
I tried posting the link but none of my post are showing.
#61 3 years ago
62. mojo
link to hackerforum and cfw stuff. remove if needed.
#62 3 years ago
63. Kaufer
Ill try it again. ps3news(dot)com/PS3-Online/sony-addresses-ps3-circumvention-devices-piracy-and-psn-bans
#63 3 years ago
64. mojo
whats so difficult in pasting a url? :)
#64 3 years ago
65. mojo
nice selfown!
#65 3 years ago
66. mojo
ups, nice selfown.
indeed its not possible to post a “ps3news(dot)com” url..
#66 3 years ago
67. Blerk
Really? Let’s try:
#67 3 years ago
68. Kaufer leads to a different site. If post nothing happends.
#68 3 years ago
69. Kaufer leads to a different site. If i post “ps3news(dot)com” the proper way, it wont get posted.
#69 3 years ago
70. mojo
yeah i got that.
hence my comment #63
#70 3 years ago
71. Patrick Garratt
No idea why the URL-pasting thing’s weird. Thanks for you help with that, chaps.
#71 3 years ago
72. xino
@55 they can’t ban console if it’s not connected online
#72 3 years ago
73. TheWulf
Meh. Everyone with any sense already knew about Sony’s shenanigans and have prevention measures in place to prevent the console from connecting at boot time.
Though I can’t understand what this actually does? I mean, consider… this is just Sony saying that if you’ve installed Other OS and you’re a completely legitimate customer who wants to spend their money on the PSN, then too bad, Sony doesn’t want your money.
Doesn’t that encourage piracy?
I… don’t even know what to make of that. Is Sony stupid, is that their problem? Sometimes there are just no words, and only an aghast look of disgust and horror will do.
Yes! Let’s encourage piracy! That will stop the pirates!!
#73 3 years ago
74. Michael O’Connor
#74 3 years ago
75. raganwind
#74: It would actually discourage pirates if they required entering serial numbers to play games and it was restricted to one serial number per game with no transference like with windows. People have used that to steal another person’s license for Windows before.
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When in Rohmer
The French New Wave movie director could teach Hollywood a few things
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The one thing American moviegoers are likely to know about the great French director Eric Rohmer, who turns eighty this month, is Gene Hackman's dismissive comment in Arthur Penn's 1975 film Night Moves. In turning down an invitation from his wife to go see My Night at Maud's, Rohmer's notoriously philosophical film, Hackman says, "I saw a Rohmer film once. It was kind of like watching paint dry."
It's true that there are no explosions or gunshots in a typical Rohmer film. The excitement is not forced by editing or music (there is no music, except where the characters hear it too). But Rohmer's understatement is an excellent way of clearing the palate after Hollywood junk food. The Frenchman gives us something not only more exciting but closer to real life -- real real life, the life of men and women and work and holidays and love and loneliness. Most of his films are not difficult or intellectual. They only seem that way, because you have to pay attention.
Not a frame of a Rohmer film is wasted. His devotion to his craft is refreshing, as is his shyness (he once put on false whiskers to receive an award on television). Like most of the New Wave directors of his generation, he idolized Hitchcock (he collaborated on a book about him), and he became a master of plotting. With Hitchcock the plot is central because, in a murder mystery, it leads to the moment of revelation. But Rohmer, whose characters live in an everyday world where murders seldom happen, does not make it so obvious. His characters do ordinary things like going out to dinner or taking a walk or having an argument, but you soon realize that the order in which they do them is crucial. At least, you do if you have been following along. People's lives and happiness depend on order as much as they do in a Hitchcock film.
In giving prominence to the daily life of the French bourgeoisie -- particularly those younger than himself, who are not nearly so conscious as their parents were of being bourgeois -- Rohmer breaks with French postwar culture. As he told Jean Narboni in the interview-introduction to The Taste for Beauty, a collection of Rohmer's journalism,
My authors are Balzac and Victor Hugo. Balzacian, yes. That is, anti-existentialist, against the new novel, against people like Moravia, Sartre, and Beckett. In Balzac's novels, one finds content in conversations. But in twentieth-century novels, there are conversations but no content. Their sense exists between the lines; the characters' sentences are flat. Second, in twentieth-century novels, things occur, one is subjected to them, but there's no plot. The plot is something which is completely outdated.
No one has done more than Eric Rohmer to shake off the blight of this existentialist gloom, whose pop-cult version so captivated Arthur Penn back in the 1970s. Between 1963 and 1972, Rohmer made "Six Moral Tales": La Boulangere de Monceau (which appeared in America as "The Baker's Girl" or "The Girl at the Monceau Bakery"), La Carriere de Suzanne ("Suzanne's Career"), Ma Nuit Chez Maud ("My Night at Maud's"), La Collectionneuse ("The Collector"), Le Genou de Claire ("Claire's Knee"), and L'amour L'apresmidi ("Love in the Afternoon" or "Chloe in the Afternoon"). These films doubtless earned him his reputation as an aloof moralist, because they were so spectacularly contrary to the spirit of that decade. But all six are now available on video, and to watch them these days is to realize their worth: Though they are all informed by a sophisticated moral sense, they are never preachy. Rohmer is always much more interested in the way people maneuver around moral obstacles than in arguing about the morality itself.
Above all, he is interested in the self-deceptions into which love leads. Even My Night at Maud's -- which does have serious philosophical overtones and an implied commentary on Pascal -- ends up being much more about the down-to-earth business of deception in love. Both the last two films in "Moral Tales" are meditations on masculine self-deception. The portrait of Jerome in Claire's Knee -- a man who rationalizes his infatuation with teenage female flesh as the expression of a disinterested romantic ideal -- is painful to watch. There is a kind of endearing childishness about Jerome when he freely acknowledges that, in love, "All my successes came by surprise; desire followed attainment." But the surprise comes from his lack of self-knowledge, which is of a sort to make any man ashamed of his sex.
Francois and Lucie follow the couple to a lawyer's office, and when they can get no more information, they retreat to a neighboring cafe to wait for them to come out. Though Francois solemnly informs her that "life is not a novel," Lucie asks, "What would Sherlock Holmes do?" and expounds her theory that the blonde is the aviator's wife ("That's why they look bored"). They are seeing the lawyer about getting a divorce so that he can go to Anne. She advises Francois not to kill Anne. "It's her neck you want to twist," she confidently pronounces. "But it's more noble to kill your rival."
Before leaving with a request that he write and tell her if she was right in her conjecture, Lucie casually gives Francois a lesson on the view of love from age fifteen: "Girls always choose," she tells him -- a young girl's insight that contrasts almost tragically with the twenty-five-year-old Anne's inability to choose. Meanwhile the male of twenty tells Lucie almost angrily that he chose Anne before she even knew he was there. It's here that Lucie affords an insight. When Francois tells her that "Anne doesn't know what she wants," Lucie replies: "Yes she does. She just hasn't found it yet -- and it's not you."
Then there is an immensely touching scene between Francois and Anne. She has come home from work and gone straight to bed, but he forces his way in to have a serious talk. She sends him away. She calls him back. He stands up, then he sits down. He gets up to go, then he comes back. She lies down, then she sits up. The choreography is the very image of indecision. It is comic but at the same time reveals Anne's inability to go far in any direction. Earlier in the film, she says that she needs to be alone, that if she marries she will expect her husband to allow her a separate establishment. And yet she cannot do without people. Lucie was right: Anne's problem is that she doesn't want what she has and is too frightened of being alone to get rid of it.
To Francois she says that she hates glue or anything sticky -- and there he is clinging to her. She doesn't want to see anybody, least of all Francois, and she says all sorts of hurtful things, things calculated to wound the sensitive masculine pride of a twenty-year-old. But she can't let him go, and every time he is on the point of leaving she calls him back. "Why do I keep doing things no one forces me to do?" she asks herself. "I'm too kind." This is a comic line, but we realize that she is right: She allows herself to be pushed into relationships and entanglements that leave her feeling that her life is no longer her own. She finally allows him to come to the bed and comfort her in his clumsy, youthful, and rather absurd fashion (it is all very chaste), whereupon the facts about the aviator are sorted out, including the fact that his walk in the park and to the lawyer had been with a sister. Francois learns that his suspicions were not true -- but has a hard time grasping that something worse is true.
So Lucie's romantic conjectures and Francois's suspicions both turn out to be wrong. But the three versions neatly correspond to the three ages: romance at fifteen, doubt at twenty, and business at twenty-five. As Francois ponders the mistakes of the day, Anne asks him what he is thinking. "Don't you ever think of nothing?" he asks. "No," she says. "You can't think of nothing." And she ought to know.
In La Femme de l'Aviateur, Francois is always placed between: between the comic playfulness of Lucie and the tragic self-contradiction of Anne, between childhood and adulthood, between promiscuity and faithfulness, between innocence and experience. The film is typical of the way in which the director, like a surgeon, always anatomizes love: its pleasures and self-deceptions, its will to believe and its ineradicable suspicions. Arthur Penn and Gene Hackman have it wrong. For anyone who has ever been in love, Eric Rohmer's movies are immensely exciting to watch.
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British paper details confrontation with UK spies
Wednesday - 8/21/2013, 6:50am ET
Associated Press
He said the paper has other copies of the same material located elsewhere.
Rusbridger spoke as disquiet continued to grow over the detention of Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald's partner, David Miranda, who was held for nine hours at London's Heathrow Airport on Sunday as he was ferrying material related to the Snowden story between filmmaker Laura Poitras in Germany and Brazil, where Greenwald is based.
Legal commentators have questioned the legality of Miranda's detention, which civil liberties groups have decried as an abuse of power aimed at sabotaging Greenwald's coverage.
Experts have suggested the government's case is dicey. The piece of legislation used to stop Miranda -- Schedule 7 of the 2000 Terrorism Act -- is especially contentious because it allows police to stop people for passing through airports for up to nine hours without suspicion they have committed an offense.
British legal blogger David Allen Green said Schedule 7 could only be used to determine whether or not a person was a terrorist -- and not, as he put it, "a fishing expedition for property."
"If the questioning, detention, and search of Miranda was for a purpose other than to determine if he was a terrorist, then it was unlawful," he said.
David Lowe, a former police officer and academic at Liverpool John Moores University, said in a telephone interview that he believed the government was acting in good faith, although he said he could understand why journalists might be concerned.
He argued that the Snowden leaks could contain details of intelligence operations against groups such as al-Qaida, which he said was where anti-terror laws could come into play.
"It's a thin connection," he acknowledged.
British Home Secretary Theresa May took that line of argument in her comments Tuesday.
The role of American officials in the Guardian saga has remained a matter for speculation.
Americans have acknowledged getting advance warning about Miranda' detention, but when White House spokesman Josh Earnest was asked Tuesday whether the U.S. would ever order the destruction of an American media company's hard drives, he said it was "very difficult to imagine a scenario in which that would be appropriate."
Jill Lawless and Sylvia Hui in London and Julie Pace in Washington contributed to this report.
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Anti-virus update can freeze your computer London: Computers running the 64-bit version of Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system could be rendered unusable if users install the latest anti-virus software update from AVG. The company has now withdrawn the product.
The problem affects the most recent free update for AVG 2011, which was made available to users Dec 1.
AVG has acknowledged that the patch can send some 64-bit Windows 7 machines into a crash cycle, forcing a reboot of the computer from which it never restarts. The anti-virus company has withdrawn the update, reports the Telegraph.
The problem is caused by one particular virus database update, which automatically forces the computer to reboot in order to let the update take affect. Upon restarting, the computer will register an error and will not complete the boot cycle.
The software update is no longer available to users, but AVG has released a guide for those customers who have already installed the update and are experiencing problems.
The step-by-step instructions tell how the update can be disabled, by running an AVG "rescue CD".
AVG apologised to users for the software glitch. The company has also recommended an alternative recovery method for those users who no longer have, or cannot create, a "rescue CD". | http://zeenews.india.com/print.aspx?nid=674041 | dclm-gs1-223820000 | false | false | {
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and cbs. in many states we have higher ratings. the difference between us and them, it's under the same category, is the language. we transmit in a different language, however, now we're changing that. >> what do you mean? >> we're changing that now because now we have the joint venture with abc and we are going to be doing the same thing that we're doing but do it in english so we can make sure we have all the market. the special thing about that is it's not only for that sector of latinos who is more english dominant and prefers to speak english, but i think it actually contributes to the society and to democracy in this country so that everyone who speaks english in this country understands who latinos are, what are the issues that affect us. maybe they need to know what's going on with their neighbors south of the border. you know, here you have this continent that sometimes it seems that people in the north don't like to look south and they don't realize that we are one continent and that there's, what, over 300 million people that speak spanish and that affects us economically dir
. >> sreenivasan: the investigation into the killing of the u.s. ambassador to libya took new turns today. cbs and abc news reported american officials in libya had asked for more security personnel, but the state department refused. meanwhile, libyan officials said president obama's top counterterror advisor, john brennan, will be in libya tomorrow to discuss the investigation. a warning from congress today: u.s. companies should stop doing business with china's top two telecommunications firms, huawei technologies and z.t.e. the house intelligence committee reported both have close ties to the government of china. it said using their components in u.s. computer networks could let them steal trade secrets or even shut down vital systems in a time of crisis. the two firms denied any such association to the chinese government. venezuela's leftist president hugo chavez will serve another six years after winning reelection sunday. his margin of victory was ten points, the narrowest in his 14 years in power. it was a bitterly fought race against challenger henrique capriles, who conceded defeat. c
. >> not to get into markets and academics and polls but there was one poll done by cbs of independents. and uncommitted voters. that was their entire sample. after the debate. and biden won 50-31. >> woodruff: just independents. >> just uncommitted, people who were supporting a candidate but said they could switch, could leave that candidate. and so biden did-- i didn't find, i mean joe biden's default facial expression is a smile. i mean if he's irritated he smiles. he's got great teeth, i don't blame him for smiling. but if he's happy he smiles. if he-- if he is a little nervous he smiles. i didn't find it to be-- i mean he did interruption but i didn't find it to be so over the top. >> woodruff: you didn't think it took away from the substance. >> i think that you could certainly on a split screen if you would prefer it that he hadn't done it the way he did it. and there were occasionally some sounds of displeasure. but i thought at no point did paul ryan express, or manifest other than the one time he raised the question, and i thought it was perfectly appropriate on his part, wher
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You Just Get it!
True story. Two pastors were on their way to Alanta, Ga. for a large Christian mens gathering. One of them had never been in the south before. After staying in a motel overnight, they stopped at a nearby restaurant for breakfast. When their meal was delivered, the pastor who had never been south before saw this white, mushy looking stuff on his plate. When the waitress came by again he asked her what it was. "Grits", she replied. "Ma'm I didn't order it and I'm not paying for it". "Sir, down here you don't order it and you don't pay for it, you just get it." How like the grace of God! Ray Raycroft | https://bible.org/illustration/you-just-get-it | dclm-gs1-223840000 | false | false | {
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On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 04:18:30PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> direction, but I don't think that's very helpful.
Just a comment on this, since you seem to be mentioning me a lot, both
in your platform and in campaign discussions. Which, BTW, I find
entirely appropriate: I'm standing for reelection so it's only fair to
bring "compare and contrast" points in the discussion.
I won't mind specific examples of things people think I've been doing
wrong, both coming from candidates and non-candidates. It will be a
chance for me to explain why I did something in a specific way, in the
case that I haven't done so at the time. It will also make this
discussion more concrete and less hand-wave-y.
Since you've repeatedly mentioned my "bureaucracy" and "procedures" (not
to mention "bureaucrat" referred to my person, which doesn't feel as
nice, at least in popular connotations :-)), I'd like to point out that
procedures are just a mean to an end. They are incentives. They are
implementations of changes that we think are good for the project. Just
a few of concrete examples:
- I've been routinely asking delegates to provide a sort of "tasks
description" before renewing, or creating from scratch, delegations.
All those descriptions have been stored under (or at the very list
indexed from) http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/ . Is that bureaucratic?
Yes. But it allows to find out what is the scope of a delegation
rather than relying on folklore. And *that* is very useful in conflict
solving (been there).
- I've been routinely asking sprint participants to document their
sprints under http://wiki.debian.org/Sprints before asking for budget
approval and of sending public sprint reports before asking for
reimbursements. Is that bureaucratic? Yes. But is useful in many ways:
1/ it shows what we do with money and it helps in attracting sponsors
(see recent thread on -project); 2/ it dispels the risk of "cabals
meeting in secret on Debian money" (we have been there already, we've
had enough) and gives transparency on how Debian money are used; 3/ it
provides a flow of information about what is going on in various areas
of the project, increasing the permeability among teams.
Just examples, I'll be happy to provide similar rationales for every
single procedure I've encouraged.
On the other hand, procedures might have bugs, feel free to report them!
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Boris Goldowsky boris at infoplease.com
Fri Mar 19 21:08:56 CET 1999
I'm trying to set up mailman to run on a Solaris 2.5.1 system with sendmail
8.9.3. The configure, build, and creation of a test mailing list worked
without errors.
However, when I send any message that tries to use the wrapper function, I
get the following error in syslog:
Mar 19 14:43:51 spaceheater sendmail[18681]: OAA18681:
to="|/opt/mailman/mail/wrapper mailowner mmtest",
stat=Operating system error
(line breaks added for clarity) There is no other indication that I can
find of what the error might be. There is nothing in mailman/logs/error,
for instance.
This does not appear to be a wrong-GID issue, since when I manually execute
mail/wrapper I see a very different error message, which includes the
expected and actual group ids.
Can anyone explain this error to me?
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Antoon Pardon apardon at
Mon Mar 6 11:08:17 CET 2006
In a number of cases I have a program that looks like the following.
for case in all_cases:
except Exception, ErrInfo:
The idea is to get as much information as possible when something
goes wrong but at the same time treat as many cases as possible.
Then one day things broke. The reason was that in some circumstances
treat would decide that things were beyond control and called sys.exit
However sys.exit doesn't return to the O.S. immediately but raises
SystemExit, which was caugth by the code and the loop continued.
I then took a look at
which describes the exception heirarchy as follows:
+-- SystemExit
+-- StopIteration
+-- StandardError
| +
| + All kind of error exceptions
| +
+ All kind of warnings
and came to the conclusion, that it would be better to write my code
as follows:
for case in all_cases:
except StandardError, ErrInfo:
Unfortunatly this doesn't work either because a lot of the error
exceptions in the stdlib (if not all) inherit directly from
Exception instead of from StandardError. The documentation also
seems to suggest this use for users exception.
Now I was wondering if it wouldn't be better that for exception
that indicate some error condition that these would inherit
from StandardError and that this would be indicated in the
documentation and reflected in the stdlib?
Would it break much code to make this change? My first impression
would be no, but I could be missing something.
Antoon Pardon
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Hello! Well, I got the idea of this drabble while I was sketching out the plot of another FB fic of mine, and it seemed so funny I just couldn't resist writing it!! Well, anyway, I'll stop talking and let you get on with it. Enjoy!!
Sex Change
Kyo looked worriedly at Haru as the latter thought of a question to ask him. He, Haru, Yuki and Tohru were grouped around on the floor, and a plastic bottle was lying between them. Kyo didn't even remember how he got talked into playing Truth or Dare with this bunch. The bottle was lying between him and Haru now, and Haru was the one who was doing the asking here. Of course, Kyo had been stupid enough to pick the Truth.
'Can't I take a dare instead?' he asked, meekly; the expression on Haru's face really worried him.
Haru shook his head. 'Nope; you took your pick, and the choice is final,' he said firmly, and Kyo winced. Haru, then, grinned and slammed his fist against his open palm. 'I got one!!'
Yuki rolled his eyes. 'About time you did,' he muttered; he had been forced into playing, too.
'Go on, Hatsuharu-san!' Tohru said enthusiastically.
Haru chuckled. 'Alright, Kyo, are you ready?' he asked, and Kyo nodded slowly, wondering what he would have to deal with. Haru smiled mischievously. 'Let's just pretend...that Yuki got a sex change and he's now a very pretty girl. Would you be attracted to him?'
All three stared at him, bewildered. Tohru was looking shocked, and Kyo was looking absolutely appalled. Yuki, on the other hand, had turned into a deep shade of red and was looking positively beside himself with anger.
'Haru...' he said warningly.
'It's just a pretend question; don't be mad,' Haru replied, smiling sweetly at him.
Kyo finally found his voice. 'You can't be serious!! I'm not gonna answer that question!!' he exploded. 'It's ridiculous!!'
'You will answer the question. No arguments...or else you'll have to take the penalty,' Haru reminded him, and sweat broke over Kyo's forehead as he remembered the penalty Haru had set; strip naked before the group. He nodded in defeat, and Haru beamed at him. 'Okay...so I want you to take a good look at Yuki, imagine that he's had a sex change and he's a pretty girl now...and tell me what you feel. Go on...don't be shy; let your imagination run wild...'
Kyo slowly turned around to face Yuki, who was looking extremely livid by now and was shooting death glares at Haru. He cringed, and Haru just smiled encouragingly at him. Tohru was still sitting by, looking absolutely shocked.
Kyo took in a deep breath. 'No. If Yuki was a girl, I wouldn't be attracted to him,' he said in a flat tone. He reached for the bottle. 'So, let's give this bottle another spin, shall we?'
Haru looked suspiciously at him, but said nothing. Kyo spun the bottle and again it landed between him and Haru. He cried out in frustration and Haru grinned truimphantly. 'If Yuki was a pretty girl and you were a boy, would you be attracted to him in any way?' he said rapidly. 'Answer me!!!'
Kyo was taken unaware. 'Yes...I mean, no!! I mean...I didn't want the Truth this time, too!!' he protested.
The damage was done, though.
Yuki shook his head. 'Ugh, so vulgar,' he muttered.
'Shut up!!!'
A/N: (laughs) Okay, I know it's rather silly, but I needed to get this one out of my system, or else Haru would be nagging me, saying, "Do the Sex Change! Do the Sex Change!", (and by Sex Change I meant the name of the story) till I got it written. Well, anyway, I'd really appreciate the reviews, okay? Ja ne!!
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0.032201 | <urn:uuid:03198e0d-0702-46c7-b7b5-118f2758c8ce> | en | 0.981807 | Forty-three percent, respectively, voted that Roy Gardner was a Gilbert wannabe, or else, going to die if one of the voters met him; while the other twelve percent agree that Roy is a pouf. (Fortunately, the option "Anne's One True Love" was left blank.) The new poll inquires as to your top two favorites of the "Anne" books.
If you've seen the second movie, and have looked at the chapter title, you already know exactly why you'll enjoy this final installment!
Chapter Thirty: Pitching and Mooning
"I feel as if I had opened a book and found roses of yesterday, sweet and beloved, between its leaves."
-L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island
"How do you think a mother would feel if she found her child tattooed all over with a baking powder advertisement?" queried Anne. She sighed, a long, deep exhalation that blew over her entire being, ruffling the lace on her blouse and causing the petals of the flowers in her basket to quiver indignantly. "I love my story, and I wrote it out of the best that was in me." Anne's limpid, huge eyes searched Gilbert's face, eager for encouragement or at least solace.
Poor Anne, thought Gilbert sympathetically, as he led Braveheart patiently along behind them, it's no wonder she's so anxious. She's been tossed about by crowds and had pencils and pamphlets flung in her face all day, and I guess it must be embarrassing to know that people think the best you could get to publish your story was an advertisement for baking powder, of all the prosaic nonsense. "Ah, you're just tired," he reassured her, putting a friendly arm around her shoulders.
Anne stiffened and sped up, causing Gilbert's arm to fall limply back to his side.
Nothing daunted, Gilbert continued, "Besides, why should you care? A hundred dollars is more than either of us would make in two months' teaching, anyway!"
"Blood money," groaned Anne. "And Josie Pye and Tillie Boulter can't wait to pounce on it."
"They're spiteful old cats!" Gilbert scoffed. "You're just the first person in poky old Avonlea who's tried anything like that." To make his point…as he had done several years ago as Anne limped around the corner of the Spurgeon house…Gilbert squeezed her elbow…
And Anne moved away again! She knelt in the side of the road, heaping lilacs into her basket…which was very odd. Anne was not fond of lilacs.
Somewhat daunted this time, Gilbert was also less confident about his encouraging Anne. "All pioneers are considered to be afflicted with moonstruck madness," he said lamely.
"I'm mad," came a voice from somewhere in the middle of the lilacs' heady, cloying scent, "to think I can write anything better than a baking powder advertisement! This has dampened any spark of ambition…! I shall never write another story again!" Anne, who had risen and now stood with her back to Gilbert, sounded dangerously close to tears.
"Well, I wouldn't give up altogether," persisted Gilbert. "Maybe…if you just let your characters speak everyday English…instead of all that high-faluting mumbo-jumbo…?"
Anne turned to face him, looking like the muse of tragic poetry…if there was one. Wasn't there? Gilbert couldn't remember. "You think my story's full of faults, too, don't you?"
"'Wilt thou give up thy garter, o fairest of the fair?'" Gilbert quoted at Anne…who flushed, either from embarrassment or from surprise that Gilbert remembered the story well enough to quote. "Anne, nobody speaks that way."
Inspiration struck. "Look at that sap, Percival, who sits around mooning the entire time! He never even lets Averil get a word in edgewise." Gilbert shook his head over the vagaries of old-fashioned heroes, probably clothed in knee breeches and tights, and armed with blunt epées. "In real life she'd have pitched him."
"His poetry would win any girl's heart!" hissed Anne, stalking away in a manner that suggested Gilbert was having very bad luck with hers.
The deuce—not AGAIN! Gilbert was so mad he didn't even realize he had cursed, even mentally, for the first time where Anne was concerned. Striding quickly after her, he sputtered, "Well—if you want my opinion, Miss Shirley, I'd write about places I knew something of, and people who spoke everyday English—instead of these—these—silly schoolgirl romances!"
"I don't share your opinion!"
Now Gilbert and Anne had both developed a habit, over the past few years of friendship, of whacking the other with whatever came to hand if they were being ridiculously irrational—or irrationally ridiculous, for that matter. At this moment Gilbert had his riding crop in his right hand; and, aiming for her shoulder, dealt Anne a whap upon her…er…Gilbert recoiled visibly as Anne screeched to a halt and whirled to face him, her eyes ablaze.
"I am not your horse, Mr. Blythe!" she shrieked indignantly.
"I was just trying to give you a bit of friendly advice!" Gilbert protested.
"Is that so?" asked Anne sarcastically.
Gilbert ignored her scathing query. "Take the hundred dollars, and write a real story—about the people you care about—right here in Avonlea!"
"Well, you certainly wouldn't be one of them!" cried Anne, flinging herself down upon a convenient tree stump and beginning to cry dismally.
Gilbert barely had time to stand around awkwardly—unsure of what to do—before Anne sat up abruptly and turned to survey him. "Pitching…? and mooning?!
"You know," she continued between sobs, "you're about as intellectual as Charlie—and Moody—and—and FRED!"
Gilbert was really alarmed now. He sat down next to Anne.
"—and all the rest of the boys, who only think of finding some silly girl to marry and keep house for them!" finished Anne tragically.
Gilbert lost his temper now. What kind of person did Anne think he was?!...Oh, that's right. Unintellectual. He certainly thought of a great deal more than winning Anne's hand in marriage…he had thought of her, up until now, as far above the ranks of a silly girl…or even of building a home of dreams with—not delegating the task solely to—Anne!
"Well, you can cry and feel sorry for yourself all you want," he snapped. "But it won't help you write a better novel."
And then Gilbert's eyes met Anne's tear-stained ones; and she was looking at him so sorrowfully that his heart melted despite himself.
He sighed. "Will you still come with me to Fred and Diana's engagement clambake next Tuesday?"
But the mention of Fred seemed to anger Anne again. She sniffled, stiffened and shook her head, a firm no.
"Listen, Anne…" Gilbert got off their perch and onto his knees on the dirt road, touching Anne's hand, a shamed knight beseeching pardon from his fair queen. "I'm sorry. Will you let me walk you back?" Receiving no reply, he flung the question out of his way and went on. "I was just trying to be helpful! You know you get my back up sometimes," he added, half-smiling.
Anne stared hard at him as if to say Me? Get your back up? Ha!, but remained silent.
Gilbert squeezed his best friend's hand. "Listen, I'm sorry! What else can I do?!"
It happened in a heartbeat: The next thing Gilbert knew, he had been hit very hard in the face with…something…his precarious position squatting on the ground caused him to fall over backwards into the dirt. Breaking his fall with the palms of his hands, Gilbert peered up at Anne, who had risen and was standing over him, empty basket in hand—her weapon? Well, the flowers were strewn half-way across the road—looking for all the world like an avenging angel who had misplaced its fiery sword, but certainly not its seething fury. "Let ME get a word in EDGEWISE once in a while before I PITCH YOU!!"
"Bit late for that," muttered Gilbert ruefully, gingerly inspecting his face for cuts, breaks or abrasions; finding none, he realized Anne was halfway to Green Gables.
He couldn't just let her go like that. Gilbert scrambled to his feet and charged off in the opposite direction to mount Braveheart.
Despite the assistance of his faithful steed, Gilbert galloped up to Green Gables yelling "Anne! I'm sorry! What about—" before she had stumbled, outraged, inside, slamming both doors behind her.
In his frustrated state it took Gilbert a moment to notice that, not only was Marilla sitting on the porch swing, peering alarmed after Anne's angry escape, but…Gilbert's own father was just before Gilbert at the gate, perched atop the wagon and looking from Gilbert to the still-quivering door in amused interest. Gilbert shrugged off his father's questioning look, feeling a surge of anger: How could his father laugh at a time like this?
And then, "The apple doesn't fall far from the tree, I see," chuckled John Blythe. "G'day, Marilla."
And Mr. Blythe motioned the wagon-horse on, leaving Gilbert on Braveheart no choice but to catch up, Braveheart trotting a little to keep level with the wagon.
"…Dad?" queried Gilbert quietly, after they were out of sight of Green Gables.
"Yes, Gilbert?"
"What did you mean…back there? About apples and trees?" Gilbert asked hesitantly. He knew what the saying meant—like mother, like daughter.
But Anne and Marilla weren't related.
Mr. Blythe took a long time to answer. "Well, you see, Gilbert…when I was a little older'n you are now, Marilla Cuthbert and I were best friends—had been best friends since school. We went everywhere and did everything together." He sighed. "Everyone thought we were bound to end up married."
"And you?" asked Gilbert, quietly, but surprised. Marilla and his father! "What did you think?"
"I thought so, too." Gilbert's father frowned, removed his hat and ran a hand through his hair. "I was in love with her, and I wanted to marry her."
"Was…was Marilla in love with you, too?"
His father smiled ruefully. "I never found out.
"One day we were quarreling over something—something so trivial, so silly, I can't remember what it was about, nor even who started the fight. Next thing I knew she'd fled the scene, so I went home, furious.
"The next week found me in a more penitent mood, and I returned to Green Gables, desperate, not only to apologize, but to tell her how much I really cared. Her mother told me Marilla'd locked herself in her room and never wanted to speak to me again, and to please come back, because Marilla was just being headstrong, we both knew how she could get, etc.
"And I was going to go back to Green Gables someday soon. But first I took Jennifer Pearce for a buggy ride, in the hopes it would get round to Marilla and make her jealous. One ride became two, three, ten…and I eventually married Jennifer instead."
Gilbert was having a bad night of it.
At dinner, he had sat, not hungry, at his place at table, furtively scrutinizing Jennifer Pearce Blythe, his mother.
It was not that he did no love his mother any more. Of course he did. He had always loved his mother; she was a very kind, friendly, warm, motherly person.
But he could not help but imagine what if Marilla Cuthbert was my mother?
Marilla isn't a very motherly person. But mightn't she have been—once—before my father…forgot about her…?
No wonder she is all angles and lines.
Would we have needed a hired boy, with me around? If we did, and Anne came by mistake—which was what the story was about Anne's precipitate arrival in Avonlea—wouldn't we have lived under the same roof?
Gilbert chuckled a little over that last revelation. If he and Anne had been thrown into the same household, it was doubtful that he would still be alive at this moment in time!
"Gil?" Someone touched his hand.
Gilbert jumped, staring wildly at his mother. Of course it would be his mother, wouldn't it?
"Gil, you're not paying attention to what I was saying—"
"I'm sorry," Gilbert interrupted, rising and pushing back his chair, "but I feel ill. I think I'll go to bed. Forgive me."
At seven o' clock in the evening, he had retired early, under pretence of illness—well, it was true, just not in the way his mother assumed, not physically.
The small clock on Gilbert's bedside table ticked quietly away, its ink-black hands now indicating a quarter to midnight; he had lain gazing at the ceiling for close to five hours.
Gilbert sat up in bed, pushing his tousled hair back from his forehead, and stared at his reflection in the mirror. The curls were a little longer and easier tamed these days; the cheeks still maintained the vestige of baby fat which had taunted him ever since he was too old to have it; the eyes were become more discerning and serious; the mouth more thoughtful and less cocky, and still with the uneven quirk on one side that suggested the eyes did not believe what they saw.
Six years ago, Gilbert had trotted off to Avonlea School for the first time in a long time, unknowing that that day he would have a slate cracked clear across his head by the new girl in town…never dreaming that he would spend the nest few years hopelessly in love with her…oblivious that the girl he fell in love with would evade even his advances of friendship for a long time…never thinking that their friendship would be so turbulent.
Gilbert stuck a hand under his mattress and drew out his old copy of Pride and Prejudice. Opening it at the bumpy place, he lifted from the book a dry, yellowing, white rose, which he had once rescued after it had fallen from Anne's coiffure; her dance card, from the Christmas dance; and a pink tissue rose, the most important one, which Gilbert had taken from Anne's hair…at her consent…at Miss Lavendar's wedding.
As he settled back into bed, Gilbert's face and pride still stung from the blow Anne had dealt him earlier.
"You mean, hateful Boy—how DARE you!"
"Oh, why don't you get off your high horse?!"
"These flowers are indeed lovely, but I am afraid I cannot accept them. Good day, Mr Blythe."
"Well, it's kind of risky, don't you think, Anne?"
"Gilbert Blythe would stand on his head for me if I asked him to."
"Well then, the fact is, I've rescued you."
"Why don't you figure it out, if you're so clever?"
"It was never about you, Josie Pye—if that's what you're implying!"
"Aren't you afraid? I'm liable to break another slate over your head…"
"I was thinking about how despite the years that have come and gone since you came here you are as much of a little girl—dreaming and playing and imagining—as you were before."
The snatches of dialogue, born of Gilbert's more poignant memories to do with Anne, danced about his head like frenzied leaves in an autumn wind. So did questions, arranged in a list like a test:
How do you feel about Anne Shirley?
What will you do if she does not return your love?
What do you need to do right now?
And suddenly Gilbert remembered sitting in Miss Lavendar's garden, beside the yellow roses, as Anne and Charlotta the Fourth went berrying:
"I mean I have seen Anne's temper—occasional flashes of it—and I know that she is just like I was in that respect. Don't give up on Anne. No matter if she gets very mad at you, no matter if she refuses your proposal the first time…"
Gilbert rolled over onto his side and smiled a little. In a very few minutes his eyelids dropped and his breathing came slow and even. And across the Avonlea main road the white curtains of the east gable window with the green roof quivered in the breeze.
FanFiction presents
My stupid mouth
Has got me in trouble.
I said too much again
To a date over dinner yesterday
an L.M. Montgomery fanfiction
And I could see
She was offended.
She said "W
ell anyway..."
Just dying for a subject change.
Oh, it's another social casualty
Score one more for me
How could I forget?
Mama said "think before speaking".
No filter in my head.
Oh, what's a boy to do?
I guess he better find one
Story by Morte Rouge
We bit our lips. She looked out the window
Rolling tiny balls of napkin paper
I played a quick game of chess with the
Salt and pepper shaker.
Illustrations by White-Lily-Blossom
And I could see clearly
An indelible line was drawn
Between what was good, what just
Slipped out and what went wrong.
and based upon Lucy Maud Montgomery's novels
Oh, the way she feels about me has changed.
Thanks for playing, try again.
How could I forget?
Mama said "think before speaking".
No filter in my head.
Oh, what's a boy to do?
I guess he better find one…
Anne of Green Gables (1908)
Anne of Avonlea (1909)
I'm never speaking up again. It only hurts me.
I'd rather be a mystery than she desert me.
Oh I'm never speaking up again.
Starting now…
in conjunction with
One more thing.
Why is it my fault?
So maybe I try too hard
But it's all because of this desire
Kevin Sullivan's movie adaptations
I just wanna be liked, I just wanna be funny.
Looks like the joke's on me
So call me captain backfire
"Anne of Green Gables" (1985)
"Anne of Green Gables: the Sequel" (1987)
I'm never speaking
up again. It only hurts me.
I'd rather be a mystery than she desert me.
Oh I'm never speaking up again
I'm never speaking up again!
I'm never speaking up again…
Starting now…
Credit Song: "My Stupid Mouth" by John Mayer
Thank you, everyone, for reading my story, and for reviewing, but let's not go into that. I know you lurkers!
Blythe Spirit was published on a whim back in February, but has grown into a real project for me.
The illustrations, plus a sneak peek at Unromantic Ideal, can be found at blytheauthoress . livejournal . com
See you on 31 August! | https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4059295/30/Blythe-Spirit | dclm-gs1-224020000 | false | false | {
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Sounds of trains coming and going from the station filled the air, drowned out by the chatter of passersby and screeching sirens heralding arrival and departure. For some people, they were visiting family. For others, simply coming in for work.
In the case of himself and Yugi however, it was just a vacation. The week long break between year two and year three of classes had finally arrived; and while Seto and Mokuba were in the USA for business reasons, he and his friend would be visiting Shizuka and the others in Osaka. "I'll be back in a few days," Yugi was telling Anzu for the moment, Katsuya looking around the station as he stood by the open train door. "We'll still be going to that one place right?"
Anzu giggled a little, nodding and giving her friend a hug. "Yep! Be sure to take pictures though, I've never seen Osaka! Also," she continued, "There's something I need to tell you, so-"
The boy nodded, as Anzu spoke, before another loud siren like noise belted through the air. "AH-" He turned. "Sorry Anzu! You'll have to tell me later!" Despite the obvious disappointment in response to that, he headed for the train. "I'll email you!"
"Yugi! Hurry up, we'll miss it!"
"Ah- Y-YEA!"
Doors soon closed and from the window Yugi could see Anzu waving, apparently having troubles abandoning the discomfort of not being able to share what it was she'd hoped to share for the sake of a proper good bye. As it was, it wasn't long before the train pulled out of the station... And soon enough Yugi was walking down the hall to where Katsuya sat. "Hahhhh... I almos' thought y' didn' make it!"
Yugi laughed, taking the second of three seats. "It wasn't that bad!"
"Ahh, well, we got four hours now. What was it tha' Anzu was going to say anyway, felt like somethin' important..."
The boy turned, blinking. "Eh? You think so?"
He stared off a moment, shrugging in the end. "Well, it can't be anything that won't go in an email right?"
"Well, we got good seats at least," Katsuya decided, leaning against the seat. "We should get a shot 'f Fuji fr'm here, an' the train route through Kyoto's not too bad either..."
"Ah, is it?" Yugi leaned over, peering around his friend briefly before leaning back himself. "I'll have to show the Other Me later, when he comes back."
What- "Eh? Comes back?"
He nodded. "Y-yea," he admitted somewhat uneasily. "We decided- rather, the Other Me decided, to test our distance limit..."
"...An' tha' means?"
"He's still at the station."
"WHA-" The blond hurriedly choked down his shouts as people around began to look over, waiting for them to turn back before speaking. "Th' hell's he doing at th' station still?!"
"We figured that it would be the quickest way to test it," Yugi explained. "The bullet train won't take too long to reach our limit I would think."
"Th' hell's gonna happen 'f it stretches all th' way t' Osaka..."
Errrr... The boy's face went rather blank despite the smile, and he laughed. "Hahahaaaaa. I- I suppose a 'switch' would bring us back to the same spot."
Would that even work? "So- So I guess we'll find out in abou' an' hour huh..." There was a bit of uneasy nodding at that, before the boy pulled out his deck.
"Y-Yea... Hey, you want to duel while we wait?"
"Heh! Sure!"
For the week of free time between one term and the next, there were a fair number of travel plans underway. Aside from Yugi and Katsuya, the Kaiba siblings were currently plane-bound to the United States for matters concerning business. Bakura was spending some time with his father- as was Otogi. Honda had little more than a walk however, same as Anzu.
And in the end, regardless of who was going where, there was a silence for a fair span of time. After about an hour of travel duels were stopped for the sake of other things. Mount Fuji was indeed spotted- the two briefly stared at the window at the sight, but being who they were found themselves quickly bored again. Food was also pulled out before the two hour mark; simple lunches of rice and canned drinks, and in the end they were back to what one normally did when all options were exhausted for boredom.
Sit, and stare off in silence. For Yugi, this meant sorting through his deck. Cards were soon sitting on the sidearm between himself and his friend, a few others in his hands. For Katsuya himself, he simply stared out the window, watching as sights switched between fields of rice to the occasional tree and eventually sights of a city.
'Now approaching station,' a voice chimed from above, Yugi briefly looking up as a sound Katsuya had long forseen echoed through the air. 'We repeat- now approaching station. Any who intend to disembark,' it continued, Yugi's cards slowly placed back to the side as he listened, 'Please gather your things in an orderly manner and await a full and complete stop.'
"Ahh, Kyoto already," Yugi started. "And still no-" He froze, Katsuya blinking as his friend's expression began to twist and contort.
"Sgggg..." The boy curled up, grabbing at his head. "Shhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa..."
"'te 'te 'te 'te 'te," he muttered to himself, his friend unable to keep from looking mildly amused. "My head," he hissed, standing from his seat and moving to head toward the train's washroom. "Aaaaaah..."
"Ah- Y-Yugi, you alright?"
There was no response, but in the end he sat back down, shrugging as he waited for his friend to return. Well. Guess they knew the limits of Yugi and his other half's 'connection' now.
"A-An- Ano..." Katsuya blinked, watching as someone else came from the opposite end of the hall. "I-If you don't mind... Is the third seat here available?" Ahhh?
The blond stared for a moment. "Ah- You're tha' girl fr'm Battle City!" he realized, the girl in question jumping somewhat.
"Mn- I-If you don't want me to sit here, th-h-that's fine..."
Shiiiit. For Haga's sister, this girl was- "It's fine! What w's yer name again, Haga..." First name first name, he wasn't gonna feel right using Haga all day-!
"S-Sen! H-Haga Sen!" She bowed, moving to take the seat closest to the aisle. "Th-Thank you very much!"
"Don' mention it!"
"Eh?" At that moment Yugi appeared, hair mussed up in the typical fashion that came with the presence of the 'darker' side. "Someone's sitting here?"
Sen appeared to shrink somewhat, Katsuya nodding in the meantime. "Yea! She's th' girl I ran int' a Battle City; Haga's sister!"
This resulted in a fairly owlish stare as the girl continued to shrink against her seat. "...Haga's sister?"
"H-H... Hello! I- M-My name is S-Sen! Pleased to meet you!" Err...
There was a little more staring, before the boy slipped past to take his seat. "I didn't realize Haga had a younger sister."
"Ah- A-Actually, I'm o-older than him... I-It's only by a m-minute or so, admittedly, bu-but..."
Once again there was a bout of staring, Katsuya scratching his cheek a moment. "Righ' well at any rate-" Wait. "...Hang on, th's the Kyoto stop."
Yugi blinked, before quickly realizing what his friend meant by that. "Aah- if you're Haga's sister, wouldn't that mean you live in Tokyo?"
Sen nodded. "T-that's right... However, a few days ago I moved to Kyoto... My oldest sister was supposed to house-sit for a friend there, but I offered to go in her place... Th-That way, I wouldn't have to worry about rent while I go to school!" she added, the others briefly raising their eyebrows at the statement.
"Nn. If you just moved," Yugi began, "Why are you on the train to Osaka?"
"A-Ah, th-that is..."
"...Yer visitin' Haga righ'?" The 'right' was more of an add on really- he knew exactly what the reason was. However, the less who looked at him oddly, the better.
At any rate, the girl nodded, clutching the bag she'd brought on the train close. "Y-Yes!" She smiled, continuing. "K-Katsugi moved to Osaka with his friend... I wanted to visit, s-so I've been saving up some money for the trip!" The smile dimmed, and she looked down. "A-And.. I know that my sisters wouldn't want to... S-So, I want to see how he is at least..."
The boys shared a look, silent. It felt like they were missing a fair bit of what was going on to be honest. Even so.
"Um..." They looked back, Yugi staring as Sen awkwardly held a small note pad out. "S-Sorry but... You're 'Mutou Yuugi', r-right?" He nodded, and Sen's smile grew. "Aaah... I heard that you're considered 'best in Japan' right now, r-right? I was wondering..." Eyes turned back to the notepad. "If you could s-sign..."
"Ah-" He stared, an awkward silence falling over the three. "...Very well."
The train trip from that point on wasn't quite as awkward as the meeting, thankfully.
Katsuya however couldn't help but grin inwardly at the idea of one of Haga's relatives going to Yugi for an autograph- even if she didn't ask the blond for one as well.
"Tch. What's he doing here?"
"Hahahahaaaaa. I could ask the same."
The situation at the station was tense, though thankfully not as much as it could have been. As Ryuzaki groaned quite audibly, smacking his face with his hand, the girls both watched in silence- one with a broken smile, the other looking quite uncomfortable.
As it was, it would have been one thing if it was just himself and Haga- but Haga hadn't been talking about the blond, and having the 'Other Yugi' here instead of the 'normal' one wasn't going to help matters at all.
'Yugi' snorted. "Ohh? I can't visit friends?"
It looked as though Ryuzaki was going to make a response to that first, but quite sadly, it was Haga who opened his mouth first. "Hmph! As though you'd associate with anyone within my circle," he spat, 'Yugi' merely shrugging as he smirked.
"I wasn't aware you even had a circle, let alone one that overlapped."
"Hey, you know, we went through this at Christmas," Ryuzaki grumbled from behind his hand, only for Haga's ego to again squash whatever hopes of peace there were.
"I don't know that it does overlap!"
"Are you saying these aren't your friends then?"
"I'm saying they're not yours!"
While Ryuzaki merely groaned and rubbed his head, Shizuka glared at her brother, hissing. "Nihan," she warned, her brother merely glancing back.
"Nihan. Do something." she insisted, her brother shrugging at the request.
"Like what?" he whispered back as he looked to the crowd. The girl from the train- Haga's sister- was currently and unsuccessfully muttering 'please stop fighting' in an attempt to quell things, but the lack of confidence she had next to the others drowned her out quite entirely. Katsuya gestured to Ryuzaki, snapping the boy from his quiet groaning. "And how come he can't do anythin', he's the one who knows the guy!"
"Yea I know him enough to deal with when you're here," Ryuzaki countered, "But you decided to bring YUGI FUCKING MOTOU with you!"
"I said I w's bringin' a friend!"
"I figured it was one of the guys who showed up over the summer, not the fucking champion!"
"He's my best friend and you thought I'd let championship stop tha'?"
"No I figured Haga's past experiences would, it's fucking school break, not summer vacation!"
"P-P-Please stop fighting!" Sen reiterated, again lost in the sea of bickers as Shizuka found herself struggling to mediate. "A-Aaaaah..." Her unease led her to wander around the group, panic set in her face as she wiped her brow. "P-Please... Um-" She cut herself short, eyes drawn to the side of the station where a small raffle could be seen. "N-Neh, wh- why not try that over there? That's- Um..."
Shizuka as well turned, and catching what the girl was attempting to do, looked back to the group and spoke clearer. "Katsuya-nihan!" she started with a somewhat sugared tone, "Look, a raffle draw!"
"A raffle?" Ryuzaki repeated, only to find himself half blown over as the blond looked around him. "G-OH-"
"Oh sweet, free raffle draw!"
"Mn? Jonouchi?" 'Yugi' asked in the meantime, looking back from his own argument.
"Hey-! Don't ignore me, bastard!"
"Oiii, Jonouchi, what is it!" the duelist instead called out, running after.
"WHAT- I said don't ignore me!"
"N-Neh, O-Otouto-"
Haga's words quieted as his sister approached, and after a bit of grumbling he wound up following with the others to watch as Katsuya rolled his sleeves for the draw. "Tch, these things are always rigged," he muttered, rolling his eyes. "Who could possibly get worked up about this?"
"K-Katsugi, it's still f-f-un right?"
A dismissive snort was the response, and for the most part aside from an amused glance from Shizuka, and rolled eyes from Ryuzaki, it was ignored. "Heheheeee... Time to show you just what happens to rigged games when I play 'm then!" Katsuya laughed as he glanced back, the others responding with their own flat stares.
"Wasn't the last time when I..." As 'Yugi' began to trail off, a loud disembodied 'shh!' followed, the teen quite suddenly growing white as Katsuya turned back.
"Time when you what?" Haga asked somewhat suspiciously, Ryuzaki muttering something along the lines of 'not asking' while the bespectacled boy narrowed his gaze.
"Doesn't matter!" Katsuya decided, shoving his arm into the raffle bucket with a grin. "Just watch! I'll prove ya wrong!"
More rolled eyes, this time from Haga as he grumbled about something he could have been doing other than this, and in the meantime the others merely waited. The papers lay piled and scattered along the bottom, and yet for the size of the barrel it seemed to Katsuya that he was reaching into nothingness. That what he should have easily grazed the bottom of was far out of reach, his arm groping through the darkness at nothing as he attempted to grasp a single ticket.
"Ah-" Then at last they managed to connect with something. A single folded piece was pulled out, and as he unfolded it he froze. "I-"
"Tch! I told you didn't I?" Haga snorted, turning on the spot.
"I can'-"
There was something in the tone of Katsuya's voice that had Haga glance back, eyes narrowed as the others stared. "Hey, what is it, it's just a blank ticket right?"
The ticket was turned around, and from its unfolded envelope they could see taped to its paper a brilliantly coloured travel brochure, Katsuya still half choking on his words. "Gran' prize..."
"H-Hehhhh!?" Shizuka sputtered, slowly developing a grin in the place of her shocked expression. "Tha- That's great nihan! I mean, the chances of that!"
"You didn't think you'd win did you," Ryuzaki laughed lowly, Katsuya growling at the jibe.
"Sh- SHADDUP!" he roared, 'Yugi' coming over to take the paper and look it over.
"A trip to 'India'?" he started, looking back to his friend. "Whe-"
"India?" Shizuka cut in, unknowingly sparing the other Yugi an awkward issue of explaining how he had never heard of the place. "That's an odd thing for a raffle prize," she murmured, the other Yugi quite swiftly making it seem as though he knew exactly what she was talking about.
"It says 'all expenses paid for'," he stated.
The others stared, and as Ryuzaki leaned over to look he choked. "WH- It says six people for this WEEK!"
"I won a free pass for six of us to take a vacation th's week!?" Katsuya shouted, the others merely gawking.
"This week?" Haga remarked incredulously. "It can't be real if it's this week-"
"S-Six people means that w-w... We could all go, r-right Otouto?"
"Why would I want to go at all!?"
"It- It sounds like fun, we're a-all packed too-"
"Yes Haga, why so quick to turn it down? Afraid of a little charity?"'Yugi' quipped slyly, the boy seething in response.
"Other me, that was a bit of a low blow..."
"Mn?" The spirit merely frowned, an unspoken 'what!' merely coming in response as Yugi sighed.
"Aw man th's the greatest timing," Katsuya was cheering in the meantime, "Six 'f us, free vacation, an' we'd still get back 'n time!"
"Nihan," Shizuka warned, "Katsugi-kun still has a point about this."
From beside her, Ryuzaki nodded. "Yea. Hate to break it to you, but it's probably a scam."
"Scam?" Katsuya snorted. "Th' heck would they be getting', me?" He grinned, adjusting the bag he'd brought with for the week. "We're all packed, an' there's a plane trip with our name on it! C'mon Shizukaaaaaaa!"
"If it's a scam, it won't be any trouble," 'Yugi' added, his partner fixing him with a disbelieving expression as the others stared.
"What are you going to do," Haga 'asked', "Duel him into submission."
"Better than you."
"We'll jus' ask mom if it's alrigh' Shizuka, c'monnnnnn!"
His sister frowned, and he persisted.
"Please?" he tried. "...Pleasepleaseplease?"
"He's not gonna stop," Ryuzaki added with a yawn, his friend merely crossing her arms with a frown.
"C'mon what do I have t' do t' get yah to agree!?"
"Well you're certainly going to need another two people regardless!" Haga scoffed from the side, only for his sister to turn to him with a torn expression.
"A-Aah... B-B-But it's free, and h-he said we could come..."
'Yugi' blinked. "Did we say that?" he asked quietly, his other half merely looking to him with a frozen stare.
"Other me, we're talking later."
The fact that the two switched in that moment likely told a few of the others that something was going on between them, but it was with perhaps a little more relief than typical that Katsuya was able to confidently tell himself that Haga wouldn't be asking why Yugi suddenly seemed to have neater hair than typical.
Though in hindsight it was entirely likely that Haga just didn't want to see the bizarre shift in attitude that was typically reserved for duel tournaments as anything but a two-faced facade.
It wasn't a scam in the end.
Perhaps that had been his mother's assumption nonetheless; after finally relenting in giving Shizuka permission to go herself, and making sure she was getting a call every day they were there, it seemed somehow that she didn't expect it to be real.
Yet it was, and so there they were on the plane.
It was a small plane; nice enough, but small, and private. Probably associated with whatever made the prize in the end, that was the theory at least. There had been a bit of argument before they left; not a very audible one mind, given that it had been between Yugi and his other, evidently still curious self, on the topic of 'how far can we drift before snapping'. Any questioning from Haga (not to mention his horribly confused sister) was cut short by the pilot's own arrival- they were loaded onto the plane, luggage included, and after a short briefing on the safety exit and life vests they were off and in the air.
And slowly, conversation arose.
"Keichi's great aunt is in India right now too isn't she?" Shizuka asked idly as they flew, Haga looking out the window with a sour frown as his sister turned to nervously join the conversation.
"Ah- she is?" she asked quietly. "D-Do you think we'll s-s-ee her?"
Ryuzaki snorted, Yugi and Katsuya briefly looking from their short duel to listen in. "Tamae-ba? Hah! Not likely," he laughed. "She's supposed to be off looking at some ruins with a collegue; something about fossils being where they shouldn't," he added.
"Where they sh-shouldn't?"
To their surprise it was Haga who continued the conversation, as opposed to the others. "What is it, an ancient museum?" he asked somewhat sarcastically.
Shizuka shrugged. "It's happened before," she noted. "They found a palace full of artifacts from all sorts of different eras didn't they?"
Another shrug. "Eh, whatever it is, not what we're dealing with," Ryuzaki decided, turning as a loud sigh came from Yugi's spot.
"Hmmm... At least you know roughly where she is," he lamented. "Grandpa didn't even tell me where he was going."
"Your grandpa?"
A nod from the two of them, and as the duel had come to its end they packed their decks back into the holsters on their sides. "Grandpa used to do a lot of traveling when I was little," Yugi explained calmly, "And even more before I was born. My mom said that he was a bit of a game hunter actually," he laughed, rubbing his head uneasily. There seemed to be a twitch of recognition from the Haga twins in the back, but both remained silent with a mix of dislike and unease holding their mouths shut. In the end, lest things become too awkward between the group, Shizuka decided to change the subject.
"Ahh... Sen-chan?" she asked curiously. "I was wondering- if Katsugi-kun came from Tokyo, why did the ticket on your bag say Kyoto?"
"Ah-Ah... Y-Yes well," she started, her brother merely turning back to the window, "A friend of my o-oldest sister asked... I- I was supposed to look after a h-h-house there until she was done in the u-u US... A-Apparently another friend of theirs is ou-out of the country..."
"Oh?" Shizuka commented, those already aware of the story more or less drowning it out. "A friend in the states... Well, I suppose it worked out at least!" she decided with a smile.
"Y-Yes!" The girl beamed. "I've e-even got a place in a s-school there!" she added, her brother jumping somewhat in response. Though Sen didn't question the reaction, she did briefly turn to him curiously, only for her brother to resume his stare through the window. It was harder to pull his haughty defense when among 'friends', or so it seemed to Katsuya. Whatever connection he had to Shizuka and Ryuzaki was certainly different than whatever he was used to, or so it seemed- it was probably to be expected, but Haga's current friendship with the two was probably the first friendship he'd ever had.
If at least for a long while.
Dueling was a good way to pass the time while they traveled over the sea, but in the end they were soon flying over Asian land once again. "Ahh, nihan!" Shizuka shouted once they were, "Come see! It's so different from Japan!"
"Eh? Is it?" he asked without thinking, Yugi laughing quietly from the side.
"It's a different country so..."
"MN- There's... There's so much green!"
"Ah-" Him too!?
That seemed to be about what Yugi was protesting back to his other half, but to no avail, and soon enough they found themselves subject to the curious spirit's questioning of how different other countries were. "I thought China was supposed to be full of people and cities!"
"Yea but China's a heck 'f a lot bigger th'n Japan," Katsuya answered with a slight yawn, leaning back in his seat. "They've got fields, an' farms, an'-"
"Nihan, so does Japan."
"Well yea, but not tha' much-"
"Who are you even talking to!?" came a sudden snapping shout, Katsuya fumbling in shock from his seat while the others turned.
Haga's annoyance was more than clear, and while his sister ducked under the shout to cringe, he paid it no mind. "That's right, not everyone here-"
"Other me," Yugi warned quietly, Ryuzaki letting out a long breath as he slowly looked away. "Stop."
This failed to help the situation much, and Haga merely continued to glower. "Are you just crazy?" he snapped. "Is this some kind of joke!?"
"Because I'm sick of it!" he snarled. "Maybe I can put up a face," the boy went on lowly, "But at least I'm not stupid enough to just play nice right after I drop it!"
"Oi!" Katsuya growled in response, standing from his seat. "If you think Yugi an' th' Other Yugi are some kinda game, then I got one hell 'f a less'n for yah," he warned, Haga briefly flinching before holding his ground.
"Nihan!" Shizuka shouted in protest, Yugi as well standing to come between the boys.
"Jonouchi-kun!" he started, "It's not like it's the first thing-"
"Not the first-" Haga faltered, shaking his head. "What are you TALKING ABOUT!?"
"Yugi's got an ancient gold artifact with a dead king stuck in it and they've been switching bodies since probably before Duelist Kingdom," came the bored response from the front, those who already knew turning to him with dry frowns as the others gawked. Ryuzaki blinked, looking up from the book he'd taken along with him and shrugging. "What."
"How th' hell did y' manage t' sum it all up like tha'," Katsuya muttered, Ryuzaki raising an eyebrow.
"Wait I got the Duelist Kingdom thing right? Sweet," he muttered to himself, moving to go back to his book as Haga shook himself.
"It's a 'magic puzzle'?" the boy scoffed, shaking his head. "Really? That's what you're going with?!"
Before Katsuya could do more than growl and glare at him again, Ryuzaki's words again came over the air. "Didn't see you complain when we told you Jonouchi got future visions did we?"
Silence fell, with Sen looking uneasily from Katsuya to Yugi, as though they were both from a separate world entirely. Haga's face burned with embarrassment, but he remained silent, and in the meantime the other Yugi took the moment to hover near Katsuya with raised eyebrows. "...He knows you get visions?"
"I kinda had one in th' middle of th' hall on New Years," he admitted grudgingly, his friend staring blankly at the confession.
"On... New years?" Yugi repeated blankly, Haga flashing a rather vicious smirk.
"Oh? He didn't tell you?" he laughed. "Dropped five trays of food and stared blankly at the wall for a full four minutes!" While the others, Katsuya included, merely looked to him with a slight glare, the boy continued. "Of course if it's the future then it's obviously not going to be much!" he sneered. "Seeing how I heard him say-"
"Hold on!" Katsuya roared, turning on the boy as he stiffened. "You w're eavesdroppin!?"
"Katsugi-kun!" Shizuka protested, simultaneously sparing her friend from a potential beating. "That was supposed to be a private conversation, why would you do that!?"
"How abou' because he was bein' a rat!?"
"A rat? Don't compare me to the likes of rodents!" Haga hissed. "And no matter what I am, it's still better than a stupid, idiot dog-"
"DOG!?" Quite suddenly Yugi and the Other Yugi both, the latter finding it quite fortunate that he could even get a grip on his friend's arm, found themselves holding the blond back as he roared. "Y' prick! F'rget a duel, I'm gonna throw you off th' plane!"
"Oh please, as if-"
"Nihan, calm down!"
"You'd actually throw me out of a plane? We're thousands of miles in the air, and you'd risk everyone's lives?"
"I swear to fucking god if y'r alive by th' end of th's plane trip-"
"You're the one who invited me along!" he laughed, the sound reverberating as it was joined by another.
"L-L... Loud," came a quiet, squeaking sound in the seats, cutting Haga's laughter quite abruptly short. "It's t-to-too loud," Sen wept, her voice scarecely more than a whisper. "Ple-pl... Please don't... Please don't fight," she managed to force out, shaking herself as Haga looked back. "Please. D-Don't..."
While Haga looked back, Katsuya relaxed, his friends releasing their grip while the other two on the plane watched. "Tch." The blond glowered, before moving toward the back of the plane where the restroom was. "Y' should be glad we're in a plane," he snarled, "'F it was anyone else, y' pro'ly wouldn' even be here!"
He vanished into the restroom and in the silence that settled Haga looked back to those on the plane, mixed expressions being his response. A cool frown from Yugi that seemed mixed with a disappointment that put a spark of anger in his chest, enough that he prepared to snap a defensive remark against the one who was now returning to his seat. Ryuzaki had no expression- he was already reading again, albeit likely muttering incredulous curses under his breath. And as for Shizuka-
She looked to him with a somewhat betrayed expression, and it was this which doused the flame and froze it solid. In silence, he went back to his seat beside Sen, staring out through the window as China's fields and settlements passed beneath them. He would not speak for the next number of hours.
Perhaps that was for the best.
When he returned to his seat he did not even spare Haga a glance, instead taking one of the few empty rows and looking out through the windows himself. They were still flying over China at the time- the plane trip was to be over eight hours in the end, and that was hardly something that could be called 'quick'. Laying back in his seat, the plane was still eerily silent, the Other Yugi back inside the puzzle somewhere, and the others either busying themselves with quieter hobbies, or, in the case of Yugi himself, and the girls as well, merely sleeping.
That wasn't a bad idea in the end, he figured. It was night (or at least seemed to be), and he was tired; whether the earlier argument was the cause of that, who knew. Regardless, he was tired, and sleep was more than welcome to him.
Perhaps he should have known to suspect that welcome feeling.
It was a repeat dream, in a sense. Back in the tunnels beneath the village 'he' called home, the village locked away behind stone cliffs the size of mountains, rocks with dragons hide that was worn by the sands and winds of time, steps carved and guarded by tall walls and vicious watchers above.
For there was none who wished for the village to lose what safety it bore.
In the doorway of the home he stood, speaking to a woman with greying hair and greyer eyes. "What do you want?" she demanded, the goat herd before her folding his arms behind his back. "You've had your year with my son," she continued. "Do you not know now if he will live or not?"
He merely bowed his head. "I have not come to bargain this time," he said quietly, and before him the woman snarled.
"And why should we?" she spat. "It is bad enough that you come here- but this?! Not a day after you left we suffered a raid," the woman growled.
"I know."
"Do you then!? And do you know who died?"
"There were none who died in the raid," he answered confusedly.
"No," the woman laughed bitterly. "Not that you should have known anyway! This isn't normal," she warned, "This is a curse! And you've spread it to this village with your feet! Or did you not realize," the woman snapped, "That there is one less child playing near the well?!"
He did not speak, merely looking to her in silence.
"How many more must die?" she wept, shaking her head as she broke down. "How many more must die!? TELL ME!"
Was he crying? His face felt wet but he could not tell but as he looked to the woman he shook his head, breath ragged as he moved to speak. "Everyone," he answered, and it was then that shouts began to enter the air. It was then that the watchers above the rocks were shot down by unknown forces formerly locked away from mortal hands, as an army of King's Soldiers swarmed the streets in droves far unlike the pathetically small parties which would occasionally attempt to bring 'justice' to the village's sacred grounds.
These were his last words to her as he was snatched from behind, forced into a line as the woman screamed in terror. They were his last words as he heard the men behind him shout to gather 'only those with unnatural hair and eyes!'
'Kill the rest.'
The blood stained the ground and their clothes both, without argument he was led down to be remet with a vision he'd already seen (oh but had he?), had already experienced (Now now, he couldn't have possibly), had already-
(He couldn't have possibly died twice after all.)
"GH... Lk..."
The blade tore through his middle (this already happened though), and it was pulled out just as quick.
His insides were severed and bleeding and the blood was staining his already filthy tunic and the ground below- he stumbled back, and he tumbled into the fresh dug pit beneath him, as screams above met his ears and as visions of more victims-
But wait.
His eyes flashed and instead of the people of the village who had been singled out for slaughter he now saw fire. Fire blazing and water twisted, metal screaming and crunching beneath the force of the merciless earth. Engines cutting short, a man skinned and impaled by glass-
Katsuya jolted awake and in his panic immediately grabbed for the life preserver beneath his seat. "Mn- Nihan?" came a groggy voice from the side, the blond's panic slowly rousing the others.
"Get up!" he shouted seemingly without reason, hurriedly throwing the vest over himself as he ran to get Yugi awake. "C'mon get up, grab a vest, go!"
"Ngh-" As Yugi blearily opened his eyes the others followed, staring confusedly. "What-"
"Jus' get a vest an' get f'r th' door!" he shouted, grabbing one of the others and roughly forcing it on his friend's being as the boy was jolted awake by the force. The others seemed to only slowly move and he continued to grow pale, running to grab his sister. "Don' jus' stand there, c'mon! We're gonna-"
Sirens blared and without warning water splashed up against the sides of the plane, knocking him from his feet and down the hall. The screeching sound of metal and screams again filled his mind as stars filled his vision, and in the crushing force of steel, and earth, the stagnant and sickening taste of bloodied water came into his being, the darkened slate of the lake blinding his eyes.
They blinded his eyes and filled his lungs, and for an instant he watched the others experience the same, all but one-
And for an instant in his dazed confusion he thought for sure he was mistaken, as glittering gold and glass met with his gaze before reaching to pull him toward the door of the plane and away from the roof his life vest carried him up against, and as a pale hand wrapped around his wrist.
For an instant that was what he saw.
And in an instant more, there was naught but darkness. Darkness, sinking steel, spiraling waters and the burning need for air, air, AIR his lungs screamed but his dazed mind could not move his body and so it was only the weak pull of a younger boy and the floating nature of the vest which did so for him.
His mind did not clear when he broke the water, even as he gasped for air and choked on what water and blood had entered his throat. It did not clear as he was dragged onto shore, and as the others gathered, huddled and cold and wondering what had occurred.
When it did however- when his vision finally ceased to blur and spin, he was met with fire once again. Fire warm and bright and alluring, his sister laying with Ryuzaki not far from the side, and Yugi- both spiritual and not- sitting with him.
"Ah- You're up!" Yugi whispered in relief, his other half visibly relaxing in the same way.
Katsuya merely groaned, holding his head as he sat up. "Ugh... Y-Yea... We all get out?" he added, both Ryuzaki and Shizuka turning their heads from where they were as the Other Yugi shook his head.
"All but the pilot," he stated curtly, though his tone gave away his distaste. "...Dead on impact," he added, having likely floated down through the water itself to check.
The blond nodded, looking to the fire a bit. "...Well at leas' we all got out," he murmured, only to frown. "Wai'..." His last memory was of being slammed back by the force of gravity, of metal clashing against his skull and knocking him into a half-witted daze. So then- "How did I-"
"Haga," Yugi responded, voice quiet as they looked across the fire pit that had been made, to where the boy was holding his sister close. "I hit my head on the plane," he admitted, "So while the others got out, Ryuzaki helped me get through the door. But I didn't see Jonouchi-kun," he went on, swallowing. "Not until Haga went back..."
The silence that followed was almost stiffening. Stiffening, and all at once chilled in a strange sense. Rather than break the silence however, he found himself slowly leaning back against the chair he'd been propped against, looking away. There were a few things he could foresee, and a few things he could come to expect.
To have been rescued by Haga, when only 6 hours ago he had threatened to end his very life, was very far from one of those things. And as the fire burned, small portions of their luggage recovered from the wreckage, they one by one fell into an uncomfortable sleep...
Never once realizing, as they drifted to the comfort of their minds, that they were not as alone as they thought.
AN: I'm alive! I'm alive I swear to god I'm alive-!
Just got stuck on a scene here and wound up dragging my way through school and other stories- (OTHER STORIES? USAGI...)
Oh, I was made the head mod of a Dreamwidth game too, fun stuff.
At any rate, you've probably guessed by now that there's no real set schedule on updating, but just a reminder: I will never, EVER, put this on Hiatus, Discontinue it, or simply Delete it. NEVER.
So you know.
I wonder how many of you are screeching and screaming now that you know for sure what this arc is, HMMMM... I guarantee you'll enjoy what twists I've pulled with this (particularly given how long it took to make the plot even remotely tolerable...), so sit back and enjoy the ride!
I'll be trying to update a bit faster at least ahhaha...
Speaking of updates and fanfiction however! How many of you like 5Ds (or zexal)? And... How many of you have a tumblr?
You can find my account on the latter with the same username as usual; 'usagisquared'. You'll also find all the ficlets and aus I've been typing at in the downtime there, and while not as super-long as Skin by far, it's certainly worth looking at!
Also worthy of mention, is the contest!
During the coming Doma Arc, it's been decided that the main cast will need to travel from San Francisco to some unknown destination on the East Coast, preferably one within close range of a Navy Base. Or at least docks with navy boats on 'm. You'll find out why in the end. I'll be gathering entries with the next update, but right now I have to dig through to find a fair number of them...
Speaking of digging!
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Oh, another new one- Pleased to meet you Somebody! I'm so glad you enjoyed the fanfic thus far, and I hope you enjoyed this chapter as well despite the delay- thanks so much for reviewing as quick as you did! (Given the rush for the phone I mean, ahahah)
And just following that, Guest! WAIT YOU RE-READ-
someone make a trophy for this anon, ah-
I hope you enjoyed this chapter! And aaaaah I'm so glad you enjoy the art! (Perhaps I should find a way to incorporate it more into my class work...)
Usagi's Manga & Japan Guide/Corner
The section that's not entirely sure why her plane suddenly lacks a pilot. UH.
Thicker Than Water! What a wonderful title, but what does it have to do with-
How odd, what was Anzu going to say...
You'll have to wait until the vacation's over I suppose ehehehe. Or at least until she shows up again.
Side note, recently I looked into a rough timeline of DM-GX-5Ds. Dangerous, I know.
However using Ushio's rough age (45 is about what I'd say), and the fact that if you look at certain adverts in the 5Ds series, the number '2021' can be seen (YEA IT'S NOT THAT FAR), we can do this!
Zero Reverse in the series happens 17 years prior episode one, making Ushio about 27-28. Now recall that GX is ten years after DM; in otherwords, about when Ushio himself should be perhaps in grade 11-12. Assuming he's roughly 16-17 during that series, we can actually say that GX ends within the very year Zero Reverse occurs.
In other words, Juudai leaves, Domino goes boom. YAY.
Regardless. Assuming the adverts are right, going back 17 years from there would take us to 2004. Not bad, seeing how I'm pretty sure GX was supposed to take part in the early 2000s.
Even better? Going back 13 years from 2004 (Because GX takes place over 3 years, the standard for highschool in Japan), we're at 1991! Yu-Gi-Oh DM was first published in 1995, so that's not actually an unbelievable date!
Back on topic, think about where technology sat in the early 1990s. Now look at everything the series gave us. WOW.
The only issue with this theory is that according to GX itself, Juudai enrolled in 2004. With that in mind, it would boost DM's date up to, go figure... 1995. So at least those guys were accurate. In hindsight, it's entirely likely the adverts for '2021' seen in 5Ds were referring to some sort of engine thing. Who knows! Regardless; we're not that far off on 5Ds even with this knowledge. If we kept on going with the theory that Zero Reverse happens soon after Juudai leaves, we can safely say that Yuusei takes off for Neo Domino in 2024. ...Twenty... More years... After the last series.
Either way- makes for an interesting contrast to Skin, which is currently actually in the year 2013.
There are actually really great reasons why these two are experimenting with distance (potentially involving battles with giant snakes), but until then enjoy Yugi with a headache.
Sen returns! Get used to her face, she's going to be all over this arc you guys. As for her decision to get an autograph, it wasn't on screen, but she actually assumed that Haga would want a top duelist autograph!
Haga's probably going to sell it when he gets home.
PLAY NICE. This coversation took AGES to write; it's actually what held up the chapter for so long! In the end it came however, and we're all good now...
Poor Sen.
The Other Yugi doesn't know about India?! Usagi what are you doing!?
Think back to the time our dear Pharaonic spirit is from. Think back to how much of the world outside the capital he likely saw (And recall that this is about 5000 years ago). And more importantly, realize this: the main reason India is the focus of Capmon, most likely, is because of Alexander the Great's failure there. He invaded in 326BC, and was eventually forced to turn back at the demand of his troops; soon after he died in Babylon and the empire fell apart, but regardless! The point is, the LEAST number of years following Atem's reign that this could possibly take place, is 700; because 3000 years from now brings us to around 1000BCE. (And it's here that I remind you I always say '3000 BCE in approximation' in the fanfic, which is, fun fact... 5000 years ago! Dub got it right for once.)
So yea enjoy that bit of headcanon.
Who is that friend of Haga's eldest sister? Who knows! As for the third friend? Well that's up to you to figure out isn't it.
On a more serious note, hello Haga, take a step into your character development box shall we?
I just had so much fun with his defensive attitude toward Yugi, ridiculous as it was. And when you look at it, it shows a strange bit of improvement too; it's really, really not easy for Haga to trust anyone, let alone openly admit something like a bond. The fact that he's 'claimed' Shizuka and Ryuzaki both as his friends is actually rather astounding. And of course most wouldn't give it much thought in that way, because most wouldn't... Have that issue with friends, one would think.
But Haga does, and likely always has, and overall there's going to be lots of Haga development in this arc.
Speaking of Haga! It was fairly interesting getting everyone on the same boat here; it was already likely obvious that the 'Osaka three' (Shizuka, Ryuzaki, Haga) knew something about Jou's mind-thing. Shizuka would likely be the only one to get the entire thing though, and lets face it, it was jarring. He literally experienced death in that vision. Maybe he'd have kept quiet if no one saw him in the hall, but even so. He'd be questioned, and likely stick to telling only his sister.
Meanwhile of course, does Haga know of the puzzle? Hell no he doesn't. But you can bet that Ryuzaki has, since possibly the first duel on the Airship. So yea, fun with secrets and the lack thereof.
Enjoy Ryuzaki and his lines of snark.
Oh yea have I mentioned that 'Four' is the number of death in Japan due to the whole 'Shi' (four) and 'Shi(-ne)' (Die) thing?
FOUR MINUTES. Hahahaha yes.
Oh hello trust issues. Jou's already having a bit of an issue trusting Haga- key words, he doesn't. But he trusts his sister, and he actually does, for fanfic-obvious reasons, trust Ryuzaki. So he actually did not think that Haga would have been listening. He just didn't. So it's one hell of a blow for that to come out (hence the rage), and for the others? Well, just see how Haga reacts. These are his first friends after all.
He doesn't want to lose those.
Where the fuck is the pilot in all this!?
He actually can't hear them. On another note, one would wonder how the ticket got to them regardless... But hey, answers for later.
Oh look drowning.
Oh look HAGA?! What's Haga doing, saving the day? (Also how did he pull JONOUCHI out?)
Well, think of it this way. Once upon a time, your friendly author Usagi qualified as a lifeguard (this has expired though, so I can now go to pools without fear). Lifting someone UP in the water is hell. I can say that without issue after the brick tests. Technically, pushing and pulling is the same, however if you have enough momentum behind you, it's not AS difficult. That's where Haga has the advantage; he could have been kicking off plane seats as he went. Hard, but it works.
And then of course he has the advantage of the lifevest and it's immediate pull upward, hahaha.
Oh and Jou bit his tongue, if you were wondering why there was blood in his mouth. No internal bleeding here!
Hey look, more relevance to the title... OR IS IT?
Alas, I'm too much of a jerk to say just yet...
Fan Art and My Art Section
Sadly I didn't get to actually make much art for Skin this time, partially because the artistic drive was spent on either classes or other writings...
Or on me crying over my inability to write the scene I was stuck on in this chapter HAHAHHAAaaaaaa.
At any rate, to keep the jar from being completely empty, I've linked to you the (occasionally used) art tag on my tumblr.
Sadly I have a bad habit of not tagging things...
Oh well!
Side note, but the very start of the url has been giving me issues for sticking on in spaces here, so sorry about that! The page should load without it though. It's been giving issues with lots of things to be honest; hence the brackets and words and such.
Usagi's Art Tag Which Doesn't Actually Have All Her Art (sorry) – usagisquared. (tumblr) . com (slash) tagged / Usagi's %20Adventures %20in %20Art
Musical Notes
None this time around! ...Mostly.
While hardly integral to the chapter's typing, I absolutely must recommend you visit this page here: terriblefate . com
Very good music, and VERY FREE!
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Disclaimer: I no ownie 'Buffy' or else she would have at least done this.
Rating: T
Setting: After 7.02
A/N: Was a full blown one-shot. Too much rambling. Cut rambling. Had drabble. Deal with it. :P
He has a soul.
He has a soul and he has draped himself over a giant cross.
He has a soul and he doesn't seem to feel his skin sizzling.
It registers that somehow this has all been her doing. He has turned her world upside down - and not in a good way. Now, she is completely overwhelmed and bizarrely humbled.
It feels wrong to leave him there to weep and burn. So she gently pries him off the cross and he only slides to the ground, gazing, blinking through tears as if she could be salvation.
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Jessica Tata was sentenced November 20, 2012 to 80 years in prison for the death of one of four children killed in a 201 fire at her in home day care.
November 20, 2012 9:39:59 PM PST
It had been Jessica Tata's dream to run a day care.
She was soon in over her head, caring for too many kids and taking chances by leaving them alone to run errands. The young woman's actions ultimately proved fatal: Four children died and three others were injured when a fire broke out at her home day care after she had left them alone to go shopping at a nearby Target.
On Tuesday, jurors sentenced the 24-year-old woman to 80 years in prison for the death of one of the children, 16-month-old Elias Castillo. She still faces charges related to the rest of the children.
"Nobody wins in this situation," Elias' great-grandmother, Patty Sparks, said after the sentence was announced. "My heart goes out to the Tata family and those precious mothers and fathers who lost their babies."
Tata, who was only a few years removed from her teens when she started her day care, worked alone most of the time. Investigators said the February 2011 blaze happened when a pan of oil she had left cooking on the stove ignited while she was out shopping.
The same jury that decided her sentence had convicted Tata last week of one count of felony murder. The jury could have sentenced her to anywhere from five years to life in prison. Prosecutors had sought a life sentence, while defense attorneys asked only that jurors not give her an excessive sentence.
She will have to serve 30 years of her sentence before she is eligible for parole. Tata also was ordered to pay a $10,000 fine.
Jurors deliberated her punishment for seven hours over two days. The former day care owner had no visible reaction after the sentence was announced.
Tata's attorneys contended she was a good person who loved children but made a terrible mistake.
Prosecutors argued she was an irresponsible day care owner who had doomed the children when she left them alone. They said Tata had repeatedly left kids she was responsible for unsupervised and it was only a matter of time before her actions led to tragedy.
"The sentence is not going to fix things. It's not going to make anybody feel better later on. But the jury has spoken. That's their sentence," DeGeurin said.
Tata's family and friends, who declined to comment after the sentence was announced, had testified she had changed since her troubled teenage years, when she had pleaded guilty to arson for starting two fires at her high school on the same day.
Jurors declined to speak with reporters after the sentence was announced.
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It's just a toy. Evolving cellular automata with a behavioural DNA 1k instructions long (4k instructions in the neural versions) and a mutating fitness function. Which is to say the fitness function itself mutates depending on the contents of cells at twelve hotspots, an idea I got from Jeffrey Ventrella's Earth Day CA.
Feel free to go in and tamper the variables. Most of the important ones are constants, like the dimensions and size of the DNA. (Neural version wouldn't be hurt by going up to 32k or more.) There actually are no settings or arguments. You can save the whole population with PgDown. Copy the ca-ga.whole-pop.dna and .brain file to ca-ga.whole-pop.load.dna and .brain for loading later with PgUp. Or, you can hit 'x' to just export a few strains. Copy one to ca-ga.load.dna to load (hit 'l'). OK... Hit 'h' in the window to print help on stdout.
PgDwn saves your whole population to ca-ga.whole-pop.dna and (in the neural version). ca-ga.whole-pop.brain. Move these to ca-ga.whole-pop.load.dna and (in neural version) ca-ga.whole-pop.load.brain respectively, then hit PgUp to bring them in. Hitting PgUp without the *.load.* files in place will probably result in a crash. I can't remember. Good luck! flamoot
OK I got the new ones ported to Windows. I've been working on the "stim" version a lot lately, that's the one you should try first. It has multiple views and sound channels and some controls for moving around em, I just broke savefile compatibility in stim though to get four-byte generation counts. Ahh. It's real good. Evolves a grid to sound like a target wav (just replace brone.wav with something if you want) and has self-modification and drugs. Try it out. Cheers flamoot
(I don't know if brone.wav's over 10 seconds will work. I'm using one now by not playing it at the start, which I think is where it'll break. Of course Windows users don't have this option unless they recompile it themselves with MinGW. Playing the target wav first lets you make sure it's the right speed etc. So I have to leave that in. Just use short recordings if you have to but if you find out you can use a long one without sound playback breaking let me know ok. I should just try it myself maybe I will oh god)
sources (for linux, require sdl) (rev 4.99.99, synapse addresses in genes now modulo'd by living brain size not max brain size, more dynamic. i didn't update the version number after this change because 4.99.99 is really the last one. there will be no more silent updates so you can feel pretty safe using this version until 5.0 is ready. before: saveall/loadall added (untested in linux!), changes to remove neuron/synapse reverted. last version before 5.0 ... rev 5 will have a tiled multi-view display, crash-proof resizing and switchable fights. self-modification, spatial brains w/ neurotransmitter hydrodynamics, switchable child rebooting and networking are slated for 5.5)
ca-ga.c -- pure genes (neuronless) version, the app you [probably] want. strangely beautiful. DNA was reduced to 2KB so they actually run it all in non evolutionary time. (Since rebalancing this version they only seem to execute 512 bytes even after 2500 generations so, to avoid gigabytes of wasted copies, I've reduced the DNA in this version to a paltry 512 bytes. That's only 256 instructions, ever, but it's faster and less wasteful than copying long DNA's they never use 3/4 of. You can always change DNA_Length yourself. Use multiples of 2 [4 in neural version]) brainfile build error removed >:/ i think this would make the crazy art i saw in revision 2 if i removed the fight opcode so i will probably add a switch for it in 5.0
ca-ga-fightless.c -- in fact here's a version of the above with fights hacked out. probably they're not a good idea anyway in the non-neural/pure-genes version. blank Fights View is the only wart. high hopes for this one (it may produce the wacky, organized biological art i blame revision 2 for later [revision 2 didn't have Fight that's why I did this, arg]... ok i've evolved with this for a while now and it makes too many stripes. I think the pure-genes fight version, ca-ga.c above, comes closest to making the art I saw before. (Note no, it's too cold, stays mostly blue, you can search "fade" and set it even higher than .99 if you want, just not higher than 1, anyway, I just set the Linux versions of these first two sims to be warmer, fade of .99, so this fightless version should make decent art now and hopefully not just stripes anymore but I still have to see. I also changed them both back to box dimensions instead of ropy ones))
ca-ga-fightless-box-no-wrap.c -- well i did like 10,000 generations in this one, where the edges don't wrap, and it is a box, and you don't really see the lines I was weirdly getting in the box shape ever since revision 2, right... and I got really good animals that like, breed and poke, they might have multicellularism. And I guess I don't see those lines anymore. So check this one out and I'll port it to Windows when I can.
ca-ga-ann.c -- neural version, experimental, but probably i'll move the whole thing to this for rev 5 if it works out... DNA instructions are twice the length in the neural version, so the genomes are 16k (DNA isn't rebooted in the ANN versions so any length will eventually get executed)
ca-ga-ann-brainfuck.c -- secondary fitness function (reference Avida's 'resources' where stepped energy rewards were available for implementing logic ops) proof of concept, replacement for sound version, has neurons and brainfuck. evolves cellular brains to look at a brainfuck program and predict its memory/state after 1k cycles. writes ca-ga.log itself as a bonus
ca-ga-ann-brainfuck-brainview.c -- ok i modified that one to be only like 50x50 which is faster with three times the mutation rate to compensate and, you can see the neuron potentials in the top cell's brain instead of the dna's, in this. it's compatible with ca-ga-ann-brainfuck populations its just a different size. linux only yet
ca-ga-ann-bf-bv-wave.tgz -- ok here's a version of the brainview one that can read a wav file and make sound, just change the filename at the top of the program. you need the two small wavs in the tgz to be in the current directory, ok. then it should evolve to sound like the wav you specify. Add -lSDL_mixer to compile
stim.tgz -- [someone had my password and rolled this version back a bit. it doesn't have the multi view of every view and you can't use all the views as sound sources in it, anymore. Use stim for windows instead, it's got the features this one doesn't anymore, and I can correct the Linux version when I get back home to be as good as it by mid-July I hope. Aaargh!] use this instead you can change sound sources with 'j' its, the above with drugs added bye
windows (sources and binaries, for ninjas and wimps)
stim-mingw.rar -- [This link was dead for a while, someone had my password. There were other bugs like added or something and it seems to crash after a while. I'm hunting down the crash, but it runs long enough usually to converge on target.wav which is not brone.wav in this, it's just this alarm sound from the Kismet wireless sniffer. It converges super fast like in a few minutes but then crashes still and I'm trying to find out why. God damn...] ok I think this is the best neural version. It tries to create a sound wave like a target by training the potential on a neuron that votes for samples of audio. It's got self-modification and contagious drugs. It shows their brains, not their DNA, (Y toggles synapse view) and makes a sound wave. You can change brone.wav to something else if you want. Hit 'J' to toggle sound types, I'll have it so you can do any view as sound later. Comma and Period adjust volume. It still has to learn to read brainfuck, lol
ca-ga-ann-bf-bv-wave-mingw.zip -- same as stim, above, just without drugs and self-modification in case you dont believe in those
ca-ga-ann-brainfuck-brainview-mingw.zip -- silent version of bf-bv-wave. no sound fitness function in this. it's also from before self-modification and drugs but it deserves to have them added. I'll put them in this but I've been busy with the stim one lately. It's the best
ca-ga-ann-brainfuck-mingw.zip -- should be the same as the last one but it shows DNA not brains. just the neural version with brainfuck added. needs drugs and self-mod put in too
ca-ga-ann-mingw.zip -- neural version no brainfuck. needs self-mod and drugs
ca-ga-fightless-box-no-wrap-mingw.zip -- OK so this is a non-neural version, purely genetic, it's way faster and makes fascinating patterns but is also way simpler. I disabled fights because the DNA's are dumber than the neural nets and I disabled wrapping at the edges so it's not a torus and I think this is the best pure-genes version so far. But I will make another no-wrap one with fights put back in, later.
ca-ga-fightless-box-mingw.zip -- Same as the above but back in a torus shape (edges of the grid can wrap)
ca-ga-fightless-mingw.zip -- Same as the above, toroidal and fightless, but wide and ropy, not a box, I think
ca-ga-mingw.zip -- Basic pure genes version, in rope dimensions, with fights, for Windows
ca-ga-box-mingw.zip -- Basic pure genes version as box with fights for Windows. How will you choose?! Take my advice, use stim ^-^
rev2-mingw.zip - revision 2 from Old Versions, buggy but made great art sort of, for windows. i think fightless-box-no-wrap is almost as good as this in terms of the art it makes in the energy view, now. but stim is the highest tech
what a mess
They're all worth trying on their merits but when I get a new place to cook, I'll get some version evolved out past the ten hour mark and condense the options to the best ones. Really sorry about that just pick one. Linux users actually have it easier here particularly since they can go in and hack it. Search for "fade" in the source to address the board's 'temperature', if you want to. I think fading in two places, like in Linux's revision 2, was better than in one place, like in Windows', but I can't figure out why yet
Note that using 'L' or 'PgUp' without a ca-ga.load.dna or ca-ga.whole-pop.load.dna file to load, respectively, still results in a crash. I'll get that in for 5.0 meanwhile just man up
plot-ca-ga-log.sh -- graphs cell behaviour over evolutionary time using logged ca-ga output and gnuplot
graph-all.py -- calls plot-ca-ga-log repeatedly to display some useful charts
graph-all.py -- same for ann version
random-dna.py -- writes a random 8192-long ca-ga.load.dna, for loading into inbred populations
random-dna-ann.py -- same for ann version
sound-feeder.sh -- a script to read /dev/dsp for the sound version (predicts, not makes sound, though i have a pretty good idea how to use votes from neighbourhoods assigned positions in a quarter-second of 8khz audio to make sound, later, wow.)
only in 'old versions'
ca-ga-sound.c (no rev 4 yet, see 'old versions' below) -- reads /dev/dsp for a crude real world fitness function where cells have to predict another byte in the audio stream when given some as inputs...
ca-ga-tiny.c (no rev 4 yet) -- just much smaller dimensions and dna, more updates between draws... for experimenting with new opcodes etc
gcc -o ca-ga ca-ga.c -O3 -lSDL -g0
When making the sound versions, wave or stim, add -lSDL_mixer
You may also want to set -march but don't have to. The same command line works for all the Linux sources. Try -ffast-math, -funroll-loops, and the profiling options in gcc as well if you like
If you change the dimensions and get a segfault, it's just a failure of drawgrid. Change them again, very slightly
networked future
I want to let you assign an IP address to each edge, to stream populations across at some resolution for distributed evoution. If I work on this much more, I'll add it soon
something cool
You can change the grid into a diamond arrangement where the cold spots are at one side of each region, rather than at the corners of the board. This changes how DNA and brain designs propagate and might be better for smaller board evolution.
Find the following two lines in ca-ga.c or a sister program
newcell -= 2*(abs((signed int)(i-y))/(y2));
newcell -= 2*(abs((signed int)(j-z))/(z2));
And change the divide ("/") by y2 and z2 to a modulo, "%". This also appears in the comments but I thought I'd repeat it here. If it proves to rock, I'll switch
ramdisk for rev 2 sound thing
ca-ga-sound requires sound-feeder.sh to be writing to a ramdisk on /mnt/rd so google those if you don't know how to set one up and want to do that, ok
old versions
In case for some reason you want one of these
rev 1 - ca-ga.c.old ca-ga-sound.c.old
rev 2 - ca-ga.c.old.2 ca-ga-sound.c.old.2 ca-ga-tiny.c.old.2 these ones have bugs but look awesome and are crazy fast
rev 3 - unavailable
rev 4.2 - ca-ga.c.old.4.2 ca-ga-sound.c.old.4.2 ca-ga-tiny.c.old.4.2. i'd really try rev 2
You may have to change the filenames to have the extension .c for the compiler to accept them
extensions and commentary
In the new ANN versions, there are 80x80 cells, a population of 6400, and 16 kilobytes of DNA per cell, as well as 254 neurons available per cell and 16 synapses available per neuron. Which is remarkable because this makes 100MB of DNA and 100MB of neural net, 2 million neurons... the cells can communicate with their neighbours so they should be able to pool their neural resources to function as organisms with an arbitrary number of them. Each DNA is being evaluated one instruction per unit of sim time but rather than ordering actions on the grid like in the original version, it operates on the living neural nets with feedback from them. Copies and breeds of DNA are resumed at the father's instruction pointer and the state of its brain is cloned across, so brains are actually evolving even among genetically identical organisms who are clobbering each other without mutating. If you were to use 100MB of DNA as a single genome, evaluated in a serial fashion until it produced a neural net which was also 100MB, then test that neural net for suitability to some task, mutate the DNA (in any of a hundred million positions!) and repeat, I'm pretty sure it would take eternity. Here the DNA is granular and evolving modularly. It is varied throughout the ecology and hill-climbing in competition with itself in miniature. I have to evaluate all the neurons in parallel still but by comparison to the monolithic approach I described I only execute one DNA instruction per cell per epoch. Every time you run 6400 genetic operations, and evaluate the populations' neurons one time, you also fitness-test 6400 candidate components of the finished system. In this way, by breaking it into cells, I expect to be able to evolve this 200 megs of noise into one or more biologically inspired software controllers with an intelligence of n... in which case the CA will have come through at last. Thank the grid (and Conway)
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"Pentagon to Merge Next-Gen Binoculars With Soldiers' Brains":
...That prefrontal cortex, ...allows the brain to pick up patterns quickly, but it also exercises a powerful impulse control, inhibiting false alarms. EEG would essentially allow the binoculars to bypass this inhibitory reaction and signal the wearer to a potential threat. In other words, like Spiderman's "spider sense," a soldier could be alerted to danger that his or her brain had sensed, but not yet had time to process. | http://blog.geekpress.com/2007/05/pentagon-to-merge-next-gen-binoculars.html | dclm-gs1-224290000 | false | false | {
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When I was in China, these video sites were great for getting chinese material to watch. Ever since I came back though, these sites are too slow to watch anything.
Why are these so slow and is there a way to make them download faster?
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closed as off topic by Cocowalla, BertR, NS.X., xiaohouzi79 May 29 '13 at 4:08
Hello! Welcome to this site! I won't down-vote this question but I think it's not quite a question about Chinese language. I guess(just guess) you are slow because the server-end is designed not to respond to the request from overseas rapidly. When someone in China uses proxy to access to overseas sites, he would find he could not access some domestic sites. – Huang Jan 8 '12 at 6:33
I'm in China. Yet Youtube is far faster than youku. Just have to make do with it. Youku sucks. – Alex Su May 28 '13 at 13:52
I won't down-vote this question but I want to down-vote the up-vote. To the up-voter: this is not a BBS! – NS.X. May 28 '13 at 22:10
The topic seems to be off topic, but I think the answer gets up-voted because it provides a good source of learning Chinese. – Paul Allen May 30 '13 at 10:17
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The great firewall being between you and the servers doesn't help, but the main reason is that they only have servers in China, not a distributed content network (CDN) like most of the sites you might regularly access (Google, Youtube, Facebook etc) so that the distance between you and the nearest server is quite great.
You should also be aware that they are progressively locking down content on these sites from overseas - they don't want people accessing illegal content from abroad - so long term they aren't your best bet for getting learning material
Check out sites like CNTV - it seems to load fairly quickly for me at least, and they are actively promoting it to international users as part of the 'soft power' aspect of growing China.
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Two friends and I had lunch at this lovely,quiet spot just off the Piazza Navona and had a wonderful starter which we remember as a Courgette Tortino with Parmesan Sauce. Has anyone had it and if so, is there a recipe to be had? We asked but they were unwilling to part with it. Please help. It is amazing!!!
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1. Can you describe it a bit? Was it custard like? Like sformato?
1. Those tortini have been appearing on menus for some years. A web search of tortino di zucchine gets many hits, but in Italian. You can also search salsa di parmigiano. | http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/738004 | dclm-gs1-224390000 | false | false | {
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The way you act with money goes a long way toward defining your lifestyle. Recognizing your financial strengths, weaknesses and tendencies can help you to make smarter choices, identify blind spots and improve your sense of control over money matters.
Intuitive Bridge identifies these four money personality types:
* Money Martyrs. They’re generous to a fault, have trouble accepting assistance and don’t place much of a value on themselves. They can help themselves by being more assertive when negotiating wages and paying themselves before they help others.
* Money Burners. These free spenders think they’re entitled to everything that catches their eye and don’t realize where their money goes. They can counteract their impulses by instituting a strict budget that allows for plenty of discretionary buys.
* Money Ostriches. They stick their heads in the sand, pretending their financial woes don’t exist until their problems have grown so much that they’ve reached disaster levels. Ostriches need to force themselves to survey their financial landscape and take action.
* Money Freaks. Freaks are so focused on the intricacies of their finances that they fail to enjoy the benefits of their responsible behavior. This type of person tends to live a scrimping, miserable existence before leaving a ton of money to their heirs. Freaks need to detach, break some rules and find a way to enjoy doing so.
The post names a fifth type, the generally perfect Money Maven, who is responsible with money but immune to any of the above tendencies. I’m not sure such a type exists. I think most people see themselves as Money Mavens but they’re actually closer to one of the other four types. To find out which money personality is yours, forget about your own opinion and ask someone who knows you well.
How You Do Money is How You Do Everything: The 5 Money Patterns [Intuitive Bridge via Budgets Are Sexy]
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1. Blueskylaw says:
Don’t you have to have money in the first place in order to have money problems?
More money, more problems.
No money, no problems?
2. yellowdog says:
Hoo boy – Money Freak here.
Can’t spend a dime on discretionary things without agonizing over it. And once I buy the item, I have buyer’s remorse for days. Got no debt aside from the mortgage, true, but sometimes I wish I could just cut the heck loose and, I dunno, buy something cool without thinking.
I think it’s because I’m forever worried about my job going away. It’s happened twice in my working career, and no doubt it’ll happen again.
• azgirl says:
My solution to that was to set goals-generous goals- like 3 months salary in the bank, then 6 then 12 etc. I am frugal with all my regular day to day purchases, but can then allow myself luxury items when I have hit or exceeded a goal nicely. I dont make it a habit to splurge, I raise the set points often… but then that guilt doesn’t linger when I get the item.
I also shop obsessively to get the best price on said item. It really has helped.
• bluline says:
Happening to me tomorrow (job loss). Second time. Took me 16 months to find a job last time it happened. I’m 58 now, so it’s going to be darn near impossible. But I’m also like you in that I can’t spend money on fun things without feeling guilty. Maybe that’s why I have zero debt!
3. dolemite says:
I think I’m a Money Maven. My wife is a Burning Ostriche.
4. Zydia says:
I think money freaks (just the obnoxious kind) should only hang out with their own kind for a year.
I guess the other types would benefit from the same thing, too, but their tendencies are nowhere near as annoying to me.
5. MonkeyMonk says:
Luckily my wife and I are both Money Mavens — although if I had to pick a leaning I would say I lean towards being a Money Freak and she leans towards being a Money Martyr.
6. I just blue myself says:
I’m a money martyr but I’m working on it.
7. j2.718ff says:
none of these remotely describe me
8. Sean H says:
The more you have, the more you want. The more you want, the more you spend. The more you spend, the more you need. The more you need, the more you have to have.
In Togo, Africa they live on 2 dollars a day, can’t afford much other than the essentials. They grow their food, and have zero luxuries. They, overall, live happily because that is what they know.
• ceriphim says:
Statements like this get kicked around a lot, which really annoys me. What’s the logical conclusion of your statement? People would be happier if they lived on $2 a day? Not anywhere in the U.S. that I’m aware of, so they should move to Africa? That’s a non-starter for any number of reasons.
I couldn’t live on $2 a day, not being able to obtain the necessities to fulfill my job duties means demotion or unemployment. Without a job, I can guarantee you trying to live on $2 would be absolutely miserable. My solution is to live the best life I can, with what I can get. What’s your solution?
9. DevsAdvocate says:
I’m a Money Maven… I keep up on my finances, carry out savings plans for future purchases, hunt for the best deals, and splurge a little sometimes.
10. Bort says:
I know boatloads of people who would be eternally grateful to be in any of these 4 categories, unemployment, severe underemployment, homelessness and no options for employment are too familiar vs these five patterns
11. BradenR says:
Definitely money freaks but at least we are a matched pair, no arguments that way. Perhaps it’s rebellion but the kids are definitely worry another day types. Good thing we have everything locked up in dispersal trusts or they would be broke a week after we are gone. | http://consumerist.com/2012/03/08/identify-your-money-personality-and-eliminate-your-weaknesses/ | dclm-gs1-224470000 | false | false | {
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Gadfly Studios
Mike and Christina discuss what kind of ed talk to expect from the presumptive nominees as we near the general election.
As with any program, implementation in AP really matters, so it's disappointing that Tom Stanley-Becker doesn't say more about how history is taught at his school. Was the AP class his only recent exposure to American history? I have fond memories of my own AP history experience, years ago, because it was precisely what he says he's missing--we read only essays, and the classes featured roundtable discussions of big and interesting issues. But this was possible because we had all taken the basic American history class the year prior, consuming dates, people, and events in order to free us to talk more about ideas in the second year. I could easily see it being impossible to do both well in a single year, and if that's happening it's the fault of the school, not the program.
1. Bills proposed by Florida lawmakers to allow teachers to caveat their teaching of evolution have, for the time being, fizzled out.
2. Cool video on how the eye, that amazing bit of complexity that's often proffered as proof of intelligent design, likely evolved:
3. And a very funny parody of Ben Stein's anti-evolution film Expelled:
Jeff Kuhner
The Catholic Church is not the only institution facing a sex abuse crisis. The Los Angeles Unified School District has an ugly scandal of its own--and teenagers are again the victims. Richard Winton, a reporter at the Los Angeles Times, has written several incisive articles on the burgeoning crisis involving a former L.A. assistant principal, Steve Rooney. According to the Times, Rooney is alleged to have had a sexual relationship with a then-15-year-old female student at the Foshay Learning Center.
The Foshay student says she told a school administrator that she was having an affair with Rooney, in which she lived with him at his downtown apartment for some time. Rather than report the improper--and illegal--relationship, the student alleges that the administrator urged her to "recant" her statements. Why was the administrator, whose name has not been divulged, so determined to cover up for Rooney? Because the student feared that the revelations would result in Rooney being criminally charged for committing lewd acts with a minor and going to jail.
Hence, Rooney was never discharged, suspended, or even investigated by the LAUSD--even though law enforcement authorities had conducted a criminal probe into accusations by the Foshay student's stepfather that Rooney threatened him with a gun for demanding the relationship be terminated. Instead, Rooney was transferred by school district officials to Markham Middle School in South Los Angeles last year. During his tenure at Markham, Rooney is alleged to have molested two female students, one a 13-year-old,...
Greg Anrig is smart, eloquent and likable, as was his dad, whose memory I cherish. (His mom is pretty terrific, too.) But he's overhasty in declaring that the voucher movement has "stalled" and not until you get to the end of his long piece does he acknowledge the larger point, which is that school choice in its infinite variety is accelerating and that the voucher movement is largely to thank for that.
A majority of U.S. students now study either in bona fide ???schools of choice??? or in neighborhood schools that their parents chose with a realtor's help. That's an amazing change since I was a schoolboy in the fifties and a very positive one. The pity is that the girls and boys with the least access to decent education options today are poor and minority youngsters trapped in wretched urban school systems.
Those are the kids being helped by vouchers in Milwaukee and D.C. and Ohio--and who would be helped in myriad other places if Greg and his friends would allow this to happen (and if a bunch of states would repeal their nativist, anti-Catholic "Blaine Amendments").
I surely do not suggest that vouchers are the only worthwhile form of school choice, much less that the mere existence of vouchers leads to improved student achievement. The schools have to be worth attending, too, places where quality teaching and learning occur. That's true of many but not all private schools, just as it's true of some...
Birthday-boy Coby beat me to the punch, but here you go.
Regarding the Absent Teacher Reserve controversy, Randi rants:
"The chancellor should stop his grandstanding. The chancellor's ideology of simply wanting to fire people at whim-regardless of fairness, reasons for displacement or statutory/contractual obligations-have gotten him into this mess. To pretend the union hasn't tried to offer solutions is just wrong."
How fitting that Randi admits in her own statement that "statutory/contractual obligations" might be related to something other than fairness (otherwise, why mention them both?). And speaking of fairness, what's not fair is that taxpayers have to keep paying the salaries of people who don't work and probably can't teach. Maybe those taxpayers should get some "contractual" protections of their own.
* Last week's here.
Education Sector just released a new survey, Waiting to be Won Over, by Farkas Duffett Research--a top-notch policy research firm that's done great work for Fordham in the past (and is working on a teacher survey of our own, due out later this year). It looks at teachers' views about various reform ideas and includes some interesting (and generally depressing) trend data. The top-line findings are that unions are ascendant (54 percent of teachers view them as "absolutely essential" vs. 46 percent in 2003) and that merit pay (at least via test scores) has taken a bit of a beating (support is down four points to 34 percent).
Still, there are plenty of findings to hearten reformers, including strong support for "hardship pay" for individuals willing to serve in tough schools (8 in ten teachers support it) and, at least among newcomers, extra pay for shortage subjects like math and science (almost two-thirds of newbies support that).
These data are illuminating, and no doubt the survey's authors are correct that "independent public opinion research that investigates what teachers think about various issues is a necessary contribution to the national conversation on education policy and reform."
Still, as Rick Hess would say if he had a blog (Rick, no one reads books anymore), the views of current teachers (even new ones) shouldn't be the last word on how tomorrow's teachers might react to various workplace reforms. The point of merit pay, for...
Liam Julian
??Donnelly also notes:
Sounds familiar.
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Vaishakha (Marathi: वैशाख) or Baisakha (Hindi: बैसाख) (Nepali: बैशाख) is a month of the Hindu calendar that corresponds to April/May in the Gregorian Calendar.[1] In the Indian national calendar Vaisakha is the second month of the year. It is the first month of the Nepali calendar (the Vikram Samvat) and the Bengali calendar (where it is called Boishakh).[2]
In the Hindu solar calendar, Vaisakha begins in mid-April in Bengal, Nepal and Punjab. In Tamil Nadu, it is known as Vaikasi and represents the second month of the Tamil solar calendar. In the Hindu lunar calendar, Vaisakha begins with the new moon in April and represents the second month of the lunar year. The name of the month is derived from the position of the Sun near the star Vishakha.[3] In the Vaishnava calendar, Madhusudana governs this month.
The month of Boishakh also marks the official start of Summer. The month is notorious for the afternoon storms called Kalboishakhi (Nor'wester).[4] The storms usually start with strong gusts from the north-western direction at the end of a hot day and cause widespread destruction.[5][6]
Pohela Boishakh celebration in Dhaka
The first day of Baishakh is celebrated as the Pôhela Boishak or Bangla New Year's Day.[7] The day is observed with cultural programs, festivals and carnivals all around the country. The day of is also the beginning of all business activities in Bangladesh and neighboring Indian state of West Bengal. The traders starts new fiscal account book called Halkhata.[8][9] The accounting in the Halkhata begins only after this day. It is celebrated with sweets and gifts with customers.[8]
The harvest festival of (Baisakhi) is celebrated in this month.
Vaisakha Purnima is celebrated as Buddha Purnima or the birthday of Gautama Buddha amongst southern Buddhists or the Theravada school. Purnima refers to the Full Moon. Known in Sinhalese as Vesak, it is observed in the full moon of May. Jallianwala Bagh massacre took place on the Punjabi New year day in Vaisakha Sukla Padyami.
Shukla Paksha Krishna Paksha
1. Prathama 1. Prathama
2. Dwitiya 2. Dwitiya
3. Tritiya 3. Tritiya
4. Chaturthi 4. Chaturthi
5. Panchami 5. Panchami
6. Shashti 6. Shashti
7. Saptami 7. Saptami
8. Ashtami 8. Ashtami
9. Navami 9. Navami
10.Dashami 10.Dashami
11.Ekadashi 11.Ekadashi
12.Dwadashi 12.Dwadashi
13.Thrayodashi 13.Thrayodashi
14.Chaturdashi 14.Chaturdashi
15.Purnima 15. Amavasya
See also[edit]
2. ^ Boniface Mundu (2013). The Silent Short Stories: A Word of Truth. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. ISBN 9781492173311.
3. ^ "Another New Year,Another Resolution". Retrieved 1 June 2014.
4. ^ Rajib Shaw, Fuad Mallick, Aminul Islam (2013). Disaster Risk Reduction Approaches in Bangladesh. Springer. p. 98. ISBN 978-4-431-54252-0.
5. ^ "Kalboishakhis - Bangladesh's deadly storms". 29 April 2014. Retrieved 1 June 2014.
6. ^ S.M. Imamul Huq, Jalal Uddin Md. Shoaib (2013). The Soils of Bangladesh. Springer. pp. 15–16. ISBN 978-94-007-1128-0.
7. ^ Om Gupta (2006). Encyclopaedia of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Gyan Publishing House. p. 1904. ISBN 9788182053892.
8. ^ a b M H Haider (8 April 2014). "HAL KHATA TIME-BOUND, YET TIMELESS". Retrieved 1 June 2014.
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See Gaius Claudius Marcellus for other men of this name, or Gaius Claudius Marcellus Maior for his cousin, consul of 49 BC.
Roman Republic in 50 BC
Gaius Claudius Marcellus Minor (88 BC–May 40 BC) was a Roman Senator and Consul. He was a member of the distinguished Claudius family. He was a friend to Roman Senator Cicero and an early opponent of Julius Caesar.
Descent & Family[edit]
He was a direct descendant of consul Marcus Claudius Marcellus. His father was also named Marcus and his mother was named Junia.
From his first unnamed wife, Marcellus had a daughter who married the Roman Senator, Sextus Quinctilius Varus who served as a Quaestor in 49 BC.[1] He was a grandfather to the Roman General Publius Quinctilius Varus and his three sisters.
He married in an arranged ceremony Octavia the Younger, a great-niece of Julius Caesar and sister of Octavian. Octavia bore Marcellus three children a son, Marcus and two daughters, both named Claudia Marcella born in Rome.
Opposition to Julius Caesar[edit]
In 54 BC the great-uncle of Octavia, Julius Caesar was said to be anxious for Octavia to divorce Marcellus so that she could marry Pompey, his rival and son-in-law who had just lost his wife Julia (daughter of Caesar and thus Octavia's cousin once removed). However, Pompey apparently declined the proposal and Octavia's husband continued to oppose Julius Caesar, culminating in the crucial year of his consulship in 50 BC when he tried to recall Julius Caesar from his ten-year governorship in Gaul two years early, without his army, in an attempt to save the Roman Republic. Failing this, he called unsuccessfully upon Caesar to resign.
He also obstructed Caesar from standing for a second consulship in absentia, insisting that he should return to Rome to stand, thereby forgoing the protection of his armies in Gaul. When Caesar finally invaded Italy in 49 BC, Marcellus, unlike his brother and nephew, did not take up arms against him. Caesar subsequently pardoned him.
Later Years[edit]
In 47 BC, he was able to intercede with Caesar for his cousin and namesake Gaius Claudius Marcellus Maior, a former consul of 49 BC, then living in exile. He died in May 40 BC, five months later his wife Octavia, married the Roman Triumvir Mark Antony.
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Preceded by
Marcus Claudius Marcellus and Servius Sulpicius Rufus
Consul of the Roman Republic
with Lucius Aemilius Lepidus Paullus
50 BC
Succeeded by
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Nine-banded armadillo
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Cingulata
Family: Dasypodidae
Subfamily: Dasypodinae
Genus: Dasypus
Species: D. novemcinctus
Binomial name
Dasypus novemcinctus
Linnaeus, 1758
Common Long-nosed Armadillo area.png
Nine-banded armadillo range
The nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus), or the nine-banded, long-nosed armadillo, is a medium-sized mammal. It is found in North, Central, and South America, making it the most widespread of the armadillos.[2] Its ancestors originated in South America, and remained there until thousands of years later when the formation of the Isthmus of Panama allowed them to enter North America as part of the Great American Interchange. The nine-banded armadillo is a solitary, mainly nocturnal[3][4] animal, found in many kinds of habitats, from mature and secondary rainforests to grassland and dry scrub. It is an insectivore, feeding chiefly on ants, termites, and other small invertebrates. The armadillo can jump 3–4 ft (91–122 cm) straight in the air if sufficiently frightened, making it a particular danger on roads.[5] It is the state small mammal of Texas.
The nine-banded armadillo evolved in a warm, rainy environment, and is still most commonly found in regions resembling its ancestral home. As a very adaptable animal, though, it can also be found in scrublands, open prairies, and tropical rainforests. It cannot thrive in particularly cold or dry environments, as its large surface area, which is not well insulated by fat, makes it especially susceptible to heat and water loss.[6]
The current (circa 2009–2010) range (shaded red), and predicted future range (shaded pink) of the nine-banded armadillo in the USA
The nine-banded armadillo has been rapidly expanding its range both north and east within the United States, where it is the only regularly occurring species of armadillo. The armadillo crossed the Rio Grande from Mexico in the late 19th century, and was introduced in Florida at about the same time by humans. By 1995, the species had become well established in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida, and had been sighted as far afield as Kansas, Missouri, Tennessee, Georgia and South Carolina. A decade later, the armadillo had become established in all of those areas and continued its migration, being sighted as far north as southern Nebraska, southern Illinois, and southern Indiana.[7] The primary cause of this rapid expansion is explained simply by the species having few natural predators within the United States, little desire on the part of Americans to hunt or eat the armadillo, and the animals' high reproductive rate. The northern expansion of the armadillo is expected to continue until the species reaches as far north as Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, and all points southward on the East Coast of the United States. Further northward and westward expansion will probably be limited by the armadillo's poor tolerance of harsh winters, due to its lack of insulating fat and its inability to hibernate.[7] As of 2009, newspaper reports indicated the nine-banded armadillo seems to have expanded its range northward as far as Omaha, Nebraska in the west, and Kentucky Dam and Evansville, Indiana in the east.[8][9][10] In 1995, armadillos were only seen in the southern tip of South Carolina, and within two to three years, they had swept across most of the state.[6] In late 2009, the state of North Carolina began considering the establishment of a hunting season for armadillo, following reports that the species has been moving into the southern reaches of the state (roughly between the areas of Charlotte, North Carolina and Wilmington, North Carolina).[11][12] Outside the United States, the nine-banded armadillo ranges southward through Central and South America into northern Argentina and Uruguay, where it is still expanding its range.[6]
Nine-banded armadillos are generally insectivores. They forage for meals by thrusting their snouts into loose soil and leaf litter and frantically digging in erratic patterns, stopping occasionally to dig up grubs, beetles (perhaps the main portion of this species' prey selection), ants, termites, and worms, which their sensitive noses can detect through 8 inches (20 cm) of soil. They then lap up the insects with their sticky tongues. Nine-banded armadillos have been observed to roll about on ant hills in order to dislodge and consume the resident ants. They supplement their diets with amphibians and small reptiles, especially in more wintery months when such prey tends to be more sluggish, and occasionally bird eggs and baby mammals. Carrion is also eaten, although perhaps the species is most attracted to the maggots borne by carcasses rather than the meat itself. Less than 10% of the diet of this species is composed by non-animal matter, though fungi, tubers, fruits and seeds are occasionally eaten.[13][14]
Nine-banded armadillo in natural habitat (near Memphis, TN, 2010)
Nine-banded armadillos generally weigh from 2.5–6.5 kg (5.5–14.3 lb), though the largest specimens can scale up to 10 kg (22 lb). They are one of the largest species of armadillo.[15] Head and body length is 38–58 cm (15–23 in), which combines with the 26–53 cm (10–21 in) tail, for a total length of 64–107 cm (25–42 in). They stand 15–25 cm (5.9–9.8 in) tall at the top of the shell.[15][16] The outer shell is composed of ossified dermal scutes covered by nonoverlapping, keratinized epidermal scales, which are connected by flexible bands of skin. This armor covers the back, sides, head, tail, and outside surfaces of the legs. The underside of the body and the inner surfaces of the legs have no armored protection. Instead, they are covered by tough skin and a layer of coarse hair. The vertebrae attach to the carapace.[17] The claws on the middle toes of the forefeet are elongated for digging, though not to the same degree as those of the much larger giant armadillo of South America.[6] Their low metabolic rate and poor thermoregulation make them best suited for semitropical environments.[17] Unlike the South American three-banded armadillos, the nine-banded armadillo cannot roll itself into a ball. It is, however, capable of floating across rivers by inflating its intestines, or by sinking and running across riverbeds. The second is possible due to its ability to hold its breath for up to six minutes, an adaptation originally developed for allowing the animal to keep its snout submerged in soil for extended periods while foraging.[17] Although nine is the typical number of bands on the nine-banded armadillo, the actual number varies by geographic range.[17] Armadillos possess the teeth typical of all sloths, and anteaters. The teeth are all small, peg-like molars with open roots and no enamel. Incisors do form in the embryos, but quickly degenerate and are usually absent by birth.[17]
Nine-banded armadillo on its hind legs
Armadillo burrow
in Nuevo León, Mexico
Nine-banded armadillos are solitary, largely nocturnal animals that come out to forage around dusk. They are extensive burrowers, with a single animal sometimes maintaining up to 12 burrows on its range. These burrows are roughly 8 inches (20 cm) wide, 7 feet (2.1 m) deep, and 25 feet (7.6 m) long. Armadillos mark their territory with urine, feces, and excretions from scent glands found on the eyelids, nose, and feet. Females tend to have exclusive, clearly defined territories. Males have larger territories, but theirs often overlap, and can coincide with the ranges of several females. Territorial disputes are settled by kicking and chasing. When they are not foraging, armadillos shuffle along fairly slowly, stopping occasionally to sniff the air for signs of danger.
If alarmed, nine-banded armadillos can flee with surprising speed. Occasionally, a large predator may be able to ambush the armadillo before it can clear a distance, and breach the hard carapace with a well-placed bite or swipe. If the fleeing escape fails, the armadillo may quickly dig a shallow trench and lodge itself inside. Predators are rarely able to dislodge the animal once it has burrowed itself, and abandon their prey when they cannot breach the armadillo’s armor nor are able to grasp its tapered tail.[6] Due to their softer carapace, juvenile armadillos are more likely to fall victim to natural predation and their cautious behavior generally reflects this. Young nine-banded armadillos tend to forage earlier in the day and are more wary of the approach of an unknown animal (including humans) than are adults. Known natural predators of nine-banded armadillos include cougars (perhaps the leading predator), maned wolves, coyotes, black bears, red wolves, jaguars, alligators, bobcats and large raptors. By far the leading predator of nine-banded armadillos today is humans, as armadillos are locally harvested for their meat and shells and many thousands of armadillos fall victim to auto accidents every year.[18][19]
Mating takes place during a two- to three-month-long mating season, which occurs from July–August in the Northern Hemisphere and November–January in the Southern Hemisphere. A single egg is fertilized, but implantation is delayed for three to four months to ensure the young will not be born during an unfavorable time. Once the zygote does implant in the uterus, a gestation period of four months occurs, during which the zygote splits into four identical embryos, each of which develops its own placenta, so blood and nutrients are not mixed between them. After birth, the quadruplets remain in the burrow, living off the mother’s milk for approximately three months. They then begin to forage with the mother, eventually leaving after six months to a year.[6][17]
Nine-banded armadillos reach sexual maturity at the age of one year, and reproduce every year for the rest of their 12–15 year lifespans. A single female can produce up to 56 young over the course of her life. This high reproductive rate is a major cause of the species’ rapid expansion.[6]
Effect on the environment[edit]
The foraging of nine-banded armadillo can cause mild damage to the root systems of certain plants. Skunks, cotton rats, burrowing owls, pine snakes and rattlesnakes, can be found living in abandoned armadillo burrows.[6] Occasionally, the armadillo may threaten the endangered gopher tortoise by aggressively displacing them from their burrows and claiming the burrows for themselves.[13] Studies have shown the fan-tailed warbler habitually follows armadillos to feed on insects and other invertebrates displaced by them.[20]
They are typically hunted for their meat, which is said to taste like pork, but are more frequently killed as a result of their tendency to steal the eggs of poultry and game birds. This has caused certain populations of the nine-banded armadillo to become threatened, although the species as a whole is under no immediate threat.[6] They are also valuable for use in medical research, as they are the only other mammal susceptible to the human disease leprosy.[17] In Texas, nine-banded armadillos are raised to participate in armadillo racing, a small-scale, but well-established sport in which the animals scurry down a 40-foot track.[6]
Hoover hog[edit]
During the Great Depression, the species was hunted for its meat in East Texas, where it was known as the poor man’s pork,[21] or the "Hoover hog" by those who considered President Herbert Hoover to be responsible for the depression.[22] Earlier, German settlers in Texas would often refer to the armadillo as Panzerschwein ("armored pig").[citation needed] In 1995, the nine-banded armadillo was, with some resistance, made the state small mammal of Texas,[23] where it is considered a pest and is often seen dead on the roadside. They first forayed into Texas across the Rio Grande from Mexico in the 19th century, eventually spreading across the southeast United States.[22]
• Dasypus novemcinctus aequatorialis Lönnberg, 1913
• Dasypus novemcinctus fenestratus Peters, 1864
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• Dasypus novemcinctus novemcinctus Linnaeus, 1758
North American subspecies exhibit reduced genetic variability compared with the subspecies of South America, indicating the armadillos of North America are descended from a relatively small number of individuals that migrated from south of the Rio Grande.[17]
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Procedural default is a concept in American federal courts law that requires a state prisoner seeking a writ of Habeas Corpus in federal court to have "present[ed] his federal law argument to the state courts in compliance with state procedural rules. Failure to do so will bar any attempt to present that argument to the federal courts on collateral review. A petitioner may evade this bar only by showing 'cause' and 'prejudice' for the default -- that is, by stating a good reason for not presenting the federal claim to the state courts, and by showing that the federal error worked to the petitioner's 'actual and substantial disadvantage.'" [1]
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From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 05:24:46 -0800
Message-ID: <4922C21E.3010201@metalab.unc.edu>
To: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
Cc: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>, public-html <public-html@w3.org>, www-tag@w3.org
Henri Sivonen wrote:
> This means that agents that do not support scripting may use a different
> object model. For example, it's conforming to implement a no-scripting
> agent with XOM as the internal object model. The Validator.nu HTML
> Parser even supports XOM out-of-the-box.
As you point out XOM instead of DOM is not a big leap. They're both tree
model after all. I'm more concerned about more radical changes like SAX
or other streaming APIs or document specific data bound models or even
stranger things. Is it plausible to extend the HTML 5 parsing model to
cover this?
I also strongly question the wisdom of locking in one of the absolute
worst APIs we have. If there's one thing that needs replacing in the
HTML ecosystem, it's DOM. Sooner or later DOM will be replaced, and if
HTML 5 is standing in the way when that day comes, then HTML 5 is going
to come up the loser. Were the object model separable from the syntax
and semantics, then the sensible parts of HTML 5 would have a better
chance of surviving the transition.
Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@metalab.unc.edu
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Consider $G = GL_n( \mathbb{Q}_p)$ and $K = GL_n( \mathbb{Z}_p)$, or more favorable replace $ \mathbb{Q}_p$ by a non archimedean field and $\mathbb{Z}_p$ by the ring of integers.
Note that the space $G //K$ is discrete, since $K$ is open and closed in $G$.
Given a Haar measure on $G$, I can prove that there exists a unique (discrete) measure on $G//K$, such that $$ \int\limits_{G} f(g) d g = \sum\limits_{x \in G//K} w(x) \int\limits_{K \times K} f(k_1 x k_2) d k_1 d k_2 .$$
How can $w$ be expressed, if we pick a representative $x = diag( w^{k_1}, \dots, w^{k_n})$ for a uniformizer $w$?
Perhaps easier, but equivalent what is the ratio: $vol_G (K xK)/ vol_G(K)?$
(More out of curiousity: How is the Plancherel measure related to this?)
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You are dealing with the integral formula for the Haar measure on $G$, associated with the Cartan decomposition $G=KAK$. Since the Plancherel measure lives on the dual object $\hat{G}$, I don't see any obvious relation between the two. – Alain Valette Dec 17 '11 at 22:05
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The measure of $KxK$ is a classical computation that may be found in: Macdonald "Symmetric Functions and Hall Polynomials" (Oxford Mathematical Monographs), more precisely in Chapter V: The Hecke ring of ${\rm GL}(n)$ over a local field.
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This is very useful, thank you. I will delete my response as obsolete. The final answer is (2.9) on p.298 of Macdonald's book. – GH from MO Dec 17 '11 at 18:05
My copy of Mc Donalds (1979) has it on pg. 162! Thanks to both of you. – Marc Palm Dec 18 '11 at 10:02
Depending on taste, one might also find appealing or helpful the description of this in terms of the Iwahori-Hecke algebra, with affine Weyl group and affine cartan decomposition $G=\bigcup_w BwB$ where $B$ is the Iwahori. Among other features, this does give a way to inductively determine the measure of $BwB$, once the measure of $B$ is normalized, because there is a precise cell-multiplication rule $BwB\cdot BsB=BwsB$ when the length of $ws$ is strictly greater than that of $w$, and $s$ is one of the affine reflections generating $W$. That is, the length in $W$ is equivalent to knowing the measure of the Iwahori coset.
(Inevitably, surely MacDonald's discussion does something equivalent to this, but I don't remember, and I don't have a copy accessible to me.)
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I checked the other answer, because it directly answers my question, but your suggestion seems a lot more suitable for my purposes than the ``naive'' KAK decomposition I was aking about. Do you have a reference for this? Thanks a lot for mentioning this. – Marc Palm Dec 18 '11 at 10:04
@pm, In my "Buildings and Classical Groups" book, (math.umn.edu/~garrett/m/buildings/book.pdf) chapter 5 exactly treats this: it is simply the BN-pair (with corresponding Bruhat decomposition, etc) attached to the affine building. Probably any book on buildings mentions this at some point. In some sources, the cell multiplication rule is an "axiom". In my chapter 5 I prove that it follows from the building properties. – paul garrett Dec 18 '11 at 15:01
So just to confirm that I understand what you are saying notationwise: In your notation $B$ is the pullback of the Borel subrgoup $B'$ in $GL(n, o/p)$ along the projection $GL(n,o) \rightarrow \GL(n, o/p)$ and $w$ runs through the normalizer of all diagonal matrices $M$ (=affine Weyl group $MW$?). This is called affine Cartan decomposition? What is $N$ in the $BN$ pair, if $B$ is the Iwahori? ($N=MW$?) I am rather fine with using axioms, but it usually gives me a headache to verify that they hold for specific examples. – Marc Palm Dec 18 '11 at 16:53
@pm: Yes, in this situation, $B$ can be described as the inverse image in $GL(n,o)$ of the Borel in $GL(n,o/p)$. Yes, the affine Weyl group is normalizer of diagonals, modulo diagonal unit matrices. In my book/notes I verify (as did Bruhat and Tits ages ago, maybe it's in Bourbaki Lie ch. iv-...?) that the affine building for $SL(n,k)$ can be constructed via homothety classes of lattices. Then the building properties prove an abstracted Bruhat decomposition. One can also prove, following Tits, that the Coxeter-group property follows from the building set-up. – paul garrett Dec 18 '11 at 18:22
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Devil’s Advocate: Xbox One’s Policies would have helped Gaming
onPause writes:
Guess what, having an always connected console would have allowed for some cool implementations like having your entire family share games that you purchased without trading a disc – ever. Sure there are the drawbacks of having to be always connected but this is something we have never seen in this capacity. Not even Steam offers this feature as of now. (Xbox One)
malokevi + 554d ago
Funny how much positive sentiment there is for this stuff, now that its OFFICIALLY GONE!
I officially hate the gaming community. To all you whiney kids who couldnt be bothered to shut the hell up and let a good thing happen...
GamersRulz + 554d ago
Let a good thing happen?!
WOW....OK give me your car, your home and your console and games . you seem like someone who doesn't want to own anything!
malokevi + 554d ago
What a ridiculous statement.
When I buy videogames, I have one expectation: that I can play them as much as I want.
I dont want to sell them, I don't care to hold it in my hand, I have no interest in throwing it against a wall or handing it to a friend. When i spend 60 dollars on a game, my expectation is that I can enjoy it for a few years. THAT is all the value I could possibly ask for.
What about holding a disk is "ownership"? Who cares? How many of you "own" starcraft II? Whats with the ridiculous double-standard?
Just another stupid excuse to complain, and a complete misrepresentation of my stance. Its sad that you would need to resort to such blatant manipulation to make such a il-conceived argument.
kalkano + 554d ago
But you WOULDN'T have been able to play, whenever you wanted. There was a built-in dependency on Microsoft servers. Those servers go away (inevitable, at some point), and your games are useless.
malokevi + 554d ago
Again... if in 10 or 15 years the games stop being supported, its basically guaranteed that I will have moved on.
Furthermore, who are you, or anyone BUT microsoft, to say if or when the console will stop being supported? Its not like they couldnt have removed these restrictions AFTER THE FACT, just like they will be doing with the update on launch day.
My Xbox360 has been connected in perpetuity for the past 7-odd years. My internet has gone down once in that time... and I didn't feel like gaming, anyways. Plus it was less than 24 hours. The Xbox One will be no different.
So, yes, I would buy my games for 60 bucks, and get years and years of entertainment, and probably endless entertainment.
You will come up with any hypothetical, pessimistic scenario to make DRM and always on seem bad... but they were going to be awesome. There is no sound argument against it.
Not one based in reality, anyways. Just what you suspect might be the worst-case-scenario in your head. Hence the endless complaining by people who dont understand what they are talking about. And hence MS being forced to back down on forward-thinking policy because of ass-backward thinkers like you.
dantesparda + 554d ago
Wow! you've just gone full retard. And p.s. you're whining, stop whining. And the gaming community salutes you back!
Ha ha, butthurt fanboy!
malokevi + 554d ago
Funny, when I supported MS's decision I was a "delusional, butthurt fanboy".
Now that they have changed their stance, and I havent, I'm a "butthurt fanboy"
Your a one-note pony. Get a clue.
edit: btw, u deserve this.
Thanks for having a meaningful response to my one-page argument.
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GamersRulz + 554d ago
Your statement tells me that you don't actually understand MS DRM, because it actually contradict your statement. let me explain
You NEED internet connection in order to play X1 games, no interent means no access to the console whatsoever.
You might trust your internet provider, but do you trust MS servers?
Can you take your X1 to internet free places (Picnic..etc) ?
Can you sell your games on X1?
anyway, it seems like you are the type that "I have internet, I have money so fuck everybody else"
your opinion and I understand that.
malokevi + 554d ago
Its pretty obvious that you didnt read anything I wrote, gamer, because I covered everything you said.
Thanks for the same re-hashed retarded arguments that I've heard and addressed 10000 times. Your an asset to your species.
dantesparda + 554d ago
Get a clue kid, you are much better off without these bullsh!t a$$ draconian DRM policies. And you should be thanking your lucky stars that they are gone. There is nothing that could be done before that MS couldnt still do now, Sony lets you share games, so MS could to if they wanted to, but they dont want to, cuz that was just some bullsh!t they came up with to ease the anger over their DRM, as for the automatic updates, that can still be done. On the PS3 you just set a time and the system can turn on and update itself on everything from save files, to game updates to system updates and more. They could always make it so you can select to connect to games that want a always on connection. And so on, so stop fvcking complaining and whining like a little b!tch, cuz you're looking real stupid right now, crying over DRM
GamersRulz + 554d ago
Wow.. malokevi
I can't believe you said " Your an asset to your species"
pretty strong words there. I know we both are passionate about gaming but no matter how fanboy I sound sometimes or how defensive toward certain company other times. I wouldn't allow myself to insult a certain gamer with such words, I might hate on MS, I might mock Nintendo, but personally attacking someone else is something I wouldn't do, ever.
mcroddi + 554d ago
I think some of these features WOULD have been cool but obviously the trade off was too much for now. Look at Steam, iOS, Android, no one owns anything physical on those platforms.
kalkano + 554d ago
The only game I own on those systems, is Skyrim (Steam), and I play it without Steam. I didn't just become against these things, with the announcement of X1's policies.
Tapioca Cold + 554d ago
Well if DRM and no used games helps everyone let's just ask.
Do you want to be able to play games offline? Do you want to be able to lend, sell or gift a game you have purchased?
Just because you like to controlled by Microsoft doesn't mean everyone else does. right?
it's not hard to understand.
mcroddi + 554d ago
Yup, 5 years of waiting :/
Speed-Racer + 554d ago
They couldn't have done it the way they planned. Forcing too much at this stage won't help.
Donnieboi + 554d ago
They should never force any of it on us, at any point. Not even 100 years from now. I wanna be an old man, kicking back with some 100 year old aged wine, and watch my great, great, great grand-kids play my old game collection without restrictions of DRM, anti-used games crap or family plan crap. I just wanna put the game in their hands, and let them play.
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Grave + 554d ago
What!? You mean have actual control of things you actually own ... no sir, not in this world.
mcroddi + 554d ago
I would have liked an 'Opt In' program at least, allow me to use the cloud, etc OR allow me to make an offline device... I am sure they could have found a happy medium.
jmac53 + 554d ago
Wow. I love how all these people are coming out of the woodwork to defend it now. Where we're your balls the last few weeks when their policies were universally derided? This is good news because consumer rights was protected. MS didn't have to get rid of the family share but they did as an F you to the gamers because they now have egg on their face.
mcroddi + 554d ago
If you aren't requiring an internet check, there is not really a way to verify these things. Sadly.
justicizms2099 + 554d ago
I have played adout every game console that has been out since the 80's and enjoyed all of them. Mostly what we play for as gamers is to have a good game experience, it really doesn't matter what console or gaming platform it comes from as long as I can have fun while I am doing it.
mcroddi + 553d ago
I fully agree, the debate about DRM, etc sort of blurred this a bit. Sadly. Even playing field now.
justicizms2099 + 554d ago
So far I am the most impressed with the Xbox One exclusives as they seem to have many new IPs that I would more than consider playing. Ryse, Quantum Break and Titan Fall. PS4 has Infamous which looks cool but it reminds me too much of Prototype 1 and 2. That 1800s game looks cool but I would not shell out 60 dollars for it.
Shoul + 553d ago
The overturn explains everything - if it was a good and widely excepted idea, then they wouldn't have had to do a 180. At least they have realised.
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Three rounds in the shootout didn’t solve anything. Six rounds? Nope.
Finally, in the eighth round, the Nashville Predators came away with a 2-1 shootout victory over the L.A. Kings Thursday night.
Sergei Kostitsyn scored the fourth goal of the breakaway competition for the Predators, turning Kings goalie Jonathan Quick inside-out with a plethora of moves, eventually going to the forehand.
The win snaps a three-game losing skid for Nashville.
Joshua Cooper of The Tennessean tweeted that Predators goalie Pekka Rinne took “the previous three losses hard.”
Dustin Brown scored his first of the season for the Kings, although head coach Darryl Sutter still isn’t happy with the offensive output of his team.
“We’re still not getting that goal out of players we need to score,” Sutter told the L.A. Times.
“It comes down to details.”
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Comment: Re:Practical certs like GIAC help and hold value (Score 1) 317
by Minupla (#48552261) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Are Any Certifications Worth Going For?
+1 to CISSP, I had essentially the same experience as the OP, and decided that IS manager tedious. I went and wrote my CISSP, got 'lucky' a couple of times with breach issues and poof, 5 yrs later I'm a Sr Infosec Manager.
While it doesn't have a practical component, I've met very few people who honestly say they left the exam knowing if they passed or failed. Most nerve wracking test I've ever sat for anyways. And most of infosec (absent specialties such as pentest, and even then arguably) is 90% thinking anyways. Very seldom is it important to know what command to type. Much more important to know the theory like the back of your hand.
All that having been said, if you don't like handling people, infosec is likely a poor fit. You'll top out soon if you can't have a coherent argument with someone that doesn't degenerate into "Because I said so".
Comment: I've hired people with misdemeanors before (Score 4, Informative) 720
by Minupla (#48542609) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Can a Felon Work In IT?
I've hired people with misdemeanors before.
Be honest about the crime, don't have it be a surprise that I find out during the background check part of the hiring process.
I also know other managers who've done the same. Its tough to find good people. A drug offense 5 yrs ago, with proof of a completed drug treatment program for instance isn't going to stop me from hiring a good IT worker.
Comment: Re: Check your local community first (Score 1) 112
by Minupla (#48395405) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Who's the Doctors Without Borders of Technology?
I did YKnet around the same era then, out of Whitehorse. Set up an 8 line dial up pop in Old Crow, using bound analog sat channels.
I also did a stint down in the Eastern Carribean. I remember the bribes, favors, etc required to get a UPS from the dock to our building, and members of our team blocking off the main drag in town while we used the (borrowed) cargo forklift from the docks to lift the UPS up the side of the building. While we were discussing how to get it in the window the forklift driver disappeared, leaving the UPS balancing on top of a power pole. Driver was asleep under the lift. Waiting for the ex-pats to make up their minds.
Cricket games were something else too!
+ - Silk Road 2.0 Seized By FBI, Alleged Founder Arrested In San Francisco
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blottsie (3618811) writes "The FBI has arrested the online persona "Defcon," identified as Blake Benthall, a 26-year-old in San Francisco, who the agency claims ran the massive online black market Silk Road 2.0. Benthall's FBI arrest comes a year after that of Ross Ulbricht, also from San Francisco, who's alleged mastermind of the original Silk Road and still awaiting trial.
The largest of those reported down is Silk Road 2.0. But a host of smaller markets also seized by law enforcement include Appaca, BlueSky, Cloud9, Hydra, Onionshop, Pandora, and TheHub."
Comment: Re:Just ask your bank to send you (Score 2) 126
by Minupla (#48306573) Attached to: Flaw in New Visa Cards Would Let Hackers Steal $1M Per Card
proper Faraday cage has to have no gaps,
Acutally not quite accurate - a faraday cage that blocks at all wavelengths would need to have a very small mesh. Rule of thumb is you want your mesh to be less then 1/4(c/freq) m.
Since freq in the case of NFC is 13.56 MHz, that will yield us with 22/4=5.5 meters (excuse the rounding, you get the point) so anything you can wrap around your wallet is going to do the trick.
Google NFC blocking wallets for some selections.
Source: I attend hacker conferences. All my credit cards are NFC enabled. I don't want to have conversations with my CC company that starts with "I was at Defcon when..." - those don't end well!
Comment: Re:Good luck with that. (Score 5, Interesting) 558
by Minupla (#48238167) Attached to: Rite Aid and CVS Block Apple Pay and Google Wallet
Actually, post Chip+Pin (and RFID interact flash for that matter) this sort of attack isn't possible. That's because the chip inside the card creates a unique one time approval for the transaction. The approval is un-replayable,
At worst, attack wise, you might be able to perform a turnstile attack on it (Interac flash reader, taped to a turnstile say), but transactions over Interac flash are capped at under 100$ and every 5 transactions you have to re-auth with a full chip and pin, so the banks' risk is pretty limited there.
Disclaimer: I've not done an indepth analysis of the security controls myself. I know there were some weaknesses in the Euro implementation around not signing the list of allowable transaction verification mechanisms or somesuch (look up the blackhat talk if you need to know) but it's a LOT more difficult these days then inserting a skimmer on the terminal and video recording the pin. (Interac was always two factor, until interac flash).
Comment: Re:Until we upgrade the dumb bunnies (Score 1) 384
by Minupla (#48202743) Attached to: Ebola Does Not Require an "Ebola Czar," Nor Calling Up the National Guard
World wide 2013 air crash fatalities: 29
World wide 2010 traffic crash fatalities 1,250,000 (est)
So unless you're going to argue that I'm 4310300% more likely to walk away from a fatal car crash, we're better off spending money there, looking at it from an objective point of view.
Fear drives us to make poor decisions. I fly a lot, but I understand that I'm just as dead from making an error at 70 mph as I would be asleep in my seat when the back end falls off my 737. Just 4310300% more likely to experience the former then the latter.
*disclaimer: Yes, I know, I mixed statistics from 2013 and 2010 above. I was too lazy to go back and find 2010 air crash statistics, but I seriously doubt it impacts the statistical analysis any more then the rounding error in the world wide traffic fatality stat.
by Minupla (#48202647) Attached to: Ebola Does Not Require an "Ebola Czar," Nor Calling Up the National Guard
On traffic safety, agreed, long term, autonomous cars are the way to go. Some of the answer there is time and market forces, but I suspect a billion or two from the war on terrorism could move that along nicely. Faster technology evaluation and approval pipeline, more money for NSF funded core research, etc. But nearer term there are technologies that exist in high end cars that would lower traffic fatalities tomorrow if available in all cars. Blindspot object detection, lane departure alerts, etc. If the concern is about an objective attempt to lower the number of people who die each year, a dollar spent in this area is going to save more people than a dollar spent in airport security.
On diseases, if you're talking about a billion dollars to paradrop a few thousand doctors into africa to do contact tracing, then you have my support. If on the other hand you're discussing mobilizing the national guard to protect North America from Ebola, not so much, spend the money on the flu, which kills many more people world wide. If we do the right things in Africa, Ebola will never be more then a hideous way for a couple of people to die in the US. This is one of those situations where the "Protect the Homeland" mantra is worse then useless.
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§24.1.1/3 from C++03 Standard reads,
For input iterators, a == b does not imply ++a == ++b. (Equality does not guarantee the substitution property or referential transparency.) Algorithms on input iterators should never attempt to pass through the same iterator twice. They should be single pass algorithms. Value type T is not required to be an Assignable type (23.1). These algorithms can be used with istreams as the source of the input data through the istream_iterator class.
I couldn't understand the bold text in the above quotation. Can anyone help me understanding this?
Also, what does the following statement (italicized text in the above quotation) mean? How is it related to a==b and ++a==++b expressions?
Equality does not guarantee the substitution property or referential transparency.
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The properties referred to are:
Substitution Property
For any quantities a and b and any expression F(x), if a = b, then F(a) = F(b) (if either side makes sense, i.e. is well-formed).
Referential Transparency
Informally, it means that there is no difference between a value and a reference to this value (thus how the term was coined).
In imperative programming it is a difficult concept to get, because we are used to modify our variables. Rick Hickey (behind Clojure) gives a nice talk about the distinction between Identity and State that may help you. The gist of it is that a variable is an Identity. At any point in time an Identity refers to a State. A State never changes, however an Identity may be altered to refer to another State.
Input Iterators
The substitution property violation is "obvious" here, if we define F(x) in the above to mean ++x, then we have that if input iterators verified the substitution property, the following would hold a == b => ++a == ++b.
This is not true, however, because incrementing an input iterator may invalidate all other input iterators from the same source. From table 107 in n3290 (page 831, just above the paragraph you quoted):
pre: r is dereferenceable.
post: r is dereferenceable or r is past-the-end.
post: any copies of the previous value of r are no longer required either to be dereferenceable or to be in the domain of ==.
That is, when we perform ++a, then b may become invalid, and therefore ++b itself will be undefined behavior.
This is a direct violation of ++a == ++b, therefore the substitution property does not hold.
The referential transparency is a bit more evident here. If Input Iterators were referentially transparent, it would mean that they would be indifferentiable from the value they point to. Clearly this is not the case, as applying ++ does not increment the value, but the iterator.
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+1. Nice post, Matthieu. :-). Last paragraph is very cogent. – Nawaz May 10 '11 at 15:59
By the way, I found an interesting explanation in wikipedia : "Because of this they lack referential transparency, i.e. the same language expression can result in different values at different times depending on the state of the executing program." – Nawaz May 10 '11 at 16:22
@Nawaz: yes, in general you need purity for referential transparency of expression (that is, no reading from some global state and no writing to global state). For example, i = rand() cannot (and should not) be memoized, while i, RandState = rand(RandState) could be, because the state is now explicit. – Matthieu M. May 10 '11 at 17:37
@MatthieuM. Could you elaborate on That is, when we perform ++a, then b may become invalid, and therefore ++b itself will be undefined behavior. I don't see how b may become invalid. – newprint Oct 6 '13 at 20:08
@newprint: Imagine that you use an iterator over the bytes of a buffer. When you point to the last byte of the buffer with a and b and execute ++a, it may signal: "I am done with this, bring the next one", at which point b could be a dangling pointer. – Matthieu M. Oct 7 '13 at 6:26
For Input Iterators, incrementing an iterator invalidates copies of the same iterator.
auto a = istream_iterator<whatever>(something);
auto b = a;
a == b; // true
++a; // b is now invalid
++b; // undefined behavior, I think, but in any case not guaranteed to
// result in anything sensible.
So certainly ++a == ++b is not guaranteed. That is, a == b does not imply ++a == ++b.
I think the "substitution property" means "anything you do with the value of a has the same result as doing the same with the value of b", or similar - there are various versions of substitution that it might refer to, but something along those lines. I think in this context it must mean "later doing the same with b", since if a == b and I haven't done anything invalid yet, then it doesn't matter which of a and b I use, they refer to the same point in the stream. But when I increment, I do have to pick one and lose the other, hence the difficulty with ++a == ++b.
"Referential transparency" means that different objects are independent, i.e. they're not references/pointers to or aliases of each other. In combination with "substitution property" this means:
Later? There is no earlier or later since operations don't have global side-effects. If you can't substitute "later" then you can't substitute
Input iterators in the same sequence typically refer to the same "actual data", like a file handle or whatever, which itself contains mutable state. Since a and b refer to the same file handle, and their value is dependent on its state, you don't have referential transparency. This lack is why substitution fails.
Forward iterators typically also refer to the same underlying data (like a container), but as long as you use them read-only (and don't otherwise modify the container), they don't betray this fact, at least not until you start comparing the addresses of the values they return. So they have a limited kind of referential transparency of their own value, that input iterators don't. They're still references themselves, so the things they refer to are still aliased.
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While true, is that really what the paragraph is specifically talking about? – Lightness Races in Orbit May 10 '11 at 9:04
@Steve: That doesn't explain what I've asked. Also, is this code valid in C++03? – Nawaz May 10 '11 at 9:07
@Tomalak: I believe so. The paragraph is talking about input iterators working for a single pass only, and to me, "increment invalidates copies" is the simplest way to express that. It also explains in simple terms why a == b doesn't imply ++a == ++b (since it provides a counter-example). No doubt there are other explanations possible, some of them also simple :-) – Steve Jessop May 10 '11 at 9:07
@Nawaz: no, I'm using auto because I'm too lazy to duplicate the type or even write a typedef. If it's virtuous not to be that lazy, feel free to earn a place in Heaven by editing my code! – Steve Jessop May 10 '11 at 9:08
@Nawaz: I've now attempted to answer your second question in addition to your first. – Steve Jessop May 10 '11 at 9:28
As the explanation says: “They should be single pass algorithms.”
The point is that an iterator on an input stream represents a transient state. Once the iterator is changed, that state no longer exists; all other iterators representing that state are invalidated: once you increment a, the iterator b becomes invalid.
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Input iterators define a sequence which can only be read once; input from a keyboard or a pipe would be a good example. Incrementing an istream_iterator effectively means reading further in the istream, extracting characters, so other istream_iterator on the same stream will no longer be valid with regards to their position. Imagine a stream of characters "abcdefg..." (the alphabet, in sum), with two istream_iterator<char> pointing to the 'a'. Incrementing one of them will cause the 'b' to be read from the stream, and no other iterator can ever see it.
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Consider that an input iterator could be connected to a stream reading from the keyboard. Incrementing the iterator means reading the next character.
Also incrementing a copy of the iterator does not mean reading the same character.
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If you open (not save) a Word attachment in Windows Mail, then it will open the document up in Microsoft Word. This is saved somewhere, and you can edit the file and save it (i.e. no "save as" dialog appears). If you then close Word without explicitly saving the file somewhere, how do you then find the edited file? (Assuming that it can be found, and isn't automatically deleted).
Windows Search does not find the file (presumably because it's in the folders that are excluded from search).
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It's probably either in the Windows temporary directory, which is by default in "C:\Windows\Temp", or in the user's temporary directory which is in "C:\Documents and Settings\user name\Local Settings\Temp\".
If you're looking for a good file-search engine, and if your disk is formatted as NTFS, see the Everything search engine.
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If it can help someone, it was in temporary internet files. (I wonder why no answer has been picked by the author.) – Etiennebr Dec 15 '11 at 19:02
First, whenever you discover you edited and saved an email attachment, try not to open it from your mail application again. Doing so, might overwrite the edited file with the version from the email message, which will discard your edits. Fortunately, most often a newly opened file will get stored in a different temporary folder, so this might be your lucky day.
Windows Explorer will not show the true contents of the Temporary Internet Files folder. Hence, if you know part of the file name, you need to use the command prompt:
• Hold down the Windows key and press R (this opens the Run dialog)
• Type: cmd
(and hit Return to run it)
• Type: dir c:\filename*.* /s /a /od
Above, filename is the start of the file name, followed by an asterisk (wildcard) to find all possible combinations of the name. The dir-command will scan your whole hard disk and might run a long time. When it's done, it lists all files that match that name, with the newest file at the bottom of that list. That's most likely the file you want.
• To copy the results from the command prompt, you might first need to click the top-left icon of the command prompt window, and select something like "edit » mark". Then, select the output using your mouse, and when the result is selected, press Return to copy it to your clipboard.
• Paste just the filename you found into Windows Explorer, and if all is well, Office will open it. Now use File, Save As to move it to a better place.
• If copying and pasting the results did not work, type 'cd' followed by the directory in the command prompt, this will display the items in that particular location. Now type 'start' and the file name with extension to run your lost document. For example 'start amanda.doc'.
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Senator Lisa Murkowski today filed an amendment to require a comprehensive analysis of the environmental and economic impacts of genetically-engineered fish by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The legislation would mean the same NOAA analysis and standards in place for federal fisheries would be required before the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approves genetically-modified salmon.
The FDA is presently evaluating the scientific and biological risks of so-called "Frankenfish" -- but the agency is not required to evaluate how a worst-case scenario of fish escaping into the ocean ecosystem could adversely impact the seafood industry. Senator Murkowski's amendment (attached) would require NOAA's research staff to prepare a review of potential drawbacks of genetically-engineered salmon becoming a reality, using the public review process Alaska's fishermen are used to.
"We need to look before we leap here, and make that a long hard look," Murkowski said. "This means that we not only make sure that genetically-engineered salmon is healthy to put in our bodies and doesn't endanger our fishery resources, but also that it is healthy to our coastal environments and economies. Alaska produces over half of the nation's seafood, and constructing fish in a lab is a science experiment that adds a new variable to the equation -- we need to fill in all the blanks before we put Frankenfish on our plates."
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It's superficial, but it's a reality — people look at you, and in an instant you are judged based on the way you look. You could be rich as hell, but if you're dressed like a bum, mustard stains and all, you will be perceived accordingly. That's why it is important to look your best whenever you go out or have company.
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There's just no excuse for missing a shower when you wake up, before you go out for the night or after a workout. Water, soap, towel. Simple.
Check your face
You don't necessarily have to shave, but at least ensure that your face is clean and free of "debris." A quick look in the mirror to check for nose hair, stuff in your beard or crust in your eyes doesn't take more than a few seconds, and is well worth the effort.
Groom your hair (ear, nose, chest, head, etc.)
Hair growth happens with regularity, so make trimming and upkeep part of your routine. Wash and condition your hair every day (or every other day, depending on your hair type and length). Set aside one day a week (preferably a Saturday or Sunday, when you have more time) to tend to ear, nose and chest hair.
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In the business world, handshakes can make or break you; in the dating world, a woman expects to see nice hands. So all you have to do is cut your nails regularly, scrape away the dirt with a "nail cleaner" or a nailbrush (which you can keep in the shower to save time), wash your hands frequently (to avoid sweaty, sticky hands), and use lotion on occasion (to keep them smooth).
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There is nothing worse than looking at chapped lips, and trust me, no girl will want to kiss them. Find a good lip balm and use it regularly. Just don't put too much on, or it will end up looking like lip gloss. And if you don't like applying it in public because of the unmanly look it portrays, then do it in private when you go to the bathroom.
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0.023195 | <urn:uuid:6109e33e-220c-45f6-9c5d-4e31fbb195a4> | en | 0.973979 | Yes, it is true that there was no al-Qaida in Iraq when George W. Bush took office. But it is equally true that there was essentially no al-Qaida in Iraq remaining when Barack Obama took office.
Which makes Bush responsible for the terrible costs incurred to defeat the 2003-09 jihadist war engendered by his invasion. We can debate forever whether those costs were worth it, but what is not debatable is Obama's responsibility for the return of the Islamist insurgency that had been routed by the time he became president.
The result? "A sovereign, stable and self-reliant Iraq." That's not Bush congratulating himself. That's Obama in December 2011 describing the Iraq we were leaving behind. He called it "an extraordinary achievement."
Which Obama proceeded to throw away. David Petraeus had won the war. Obama's one task was to conclude a status-of-forces agreement (SOFA) to solidify the gains. By Obama's own admission -- in the case he's now making for a status-of-forces agreement with Afghanistan -- such agreements are necessary "because after all the sacrifices we've made, we want to preserve the gains" achieved by war.
Which is what made his failure to do so in Iraq so disastrous. His excuse was his inability to get immunity for U.S. soldiers. Nonsense. Bush had worked out a compromise in his 2008 SOFA, as we have done with allies everywhere. The real problem was Obama's reluctance to maintain any significant presence in Iraq.
He offered to leave about 3,000-5,000 troops, a ridiculous number. U.S. commanders said they needed nearly 20,000. Such a minuscule contingent would spend all its time just protecting itself.
The result was predictable. And predicted. Overnight, Iran and its promotion of Shiite supremacy became the dominant influence in Iraq. The day after the U.S. departure, Maliki ordered the arrest of the Sunni vice president. He cut off funding for the Sons of Iraq, the Sunnis who had fought with us against al-Qaida. And subsequently so persecuted and alienated Sunnis that they were ready to welcome back al-Qaida in Iraq -- re-branded in its Syrian refuge as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria -- as the lesser of two evils. Hence the stunningly swift ISIS capture of so much of Iraq.
Hezbollah, Iran and Russia helped the regime survive. Meanwhile, a jihadist enclave (including remnants of the once-routed al-Qaida in Iraq) developed in large swaths of northern and eastern Syria.
Faced with a de facto jihadi state spanning both countries, a surprised Obama now has little choice but to try to re-create overnight, from scratch and in miniature, the kind of U.S. presence -- providing intelligence, tactical advice and perhaps even air support -- he abjured three years ago
His announcement Thursday that he is sending 300 military advisers is the beginning of that re-creation -- a pale substitute but the only option Obama has left himself. The leverage he forfeited will be hard to reclaim. But it's our only chance to keep Iraq out of the hands of the Sunni jihadists of ISIS and the Shiite jihadists of Tehran.
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Shattered: Stevie Jivani, 19, had dreams of becoming a teacher
One day last April, Dr Naz Jivani picked up the photograph on his desk of his two daughters, Stevie and Lauren, and took it down the corridor at his GP practice to his wife, a practice nurse.
‘I handed Maureen the picture and I clearly remember saying to her, “How lucky we are to have two such beautiful, healthy daughters”,’ says Dr Jivani, 47, who lives in Bookham, Surrey.
‘Stevie, then 19, was in her second year at Birmingham University, studying to fulfil her dreams of becoming a teacher.
'She and her boyfriend Todd, whom she met when they were both 13, were looking forward to a bright future together.
'Lauren was just about to turn 18 and we were busy organising the celebrations for her party.
‘At that moment, I felt like the most fortunate man in the world.’
Just over a week later, as Naz and Maureen began a weekend break in Portugal, Naz’s mobile phone rang and the number flashed up for Kingston Hospital.
‘That’s not unusual, as I work closely with the hospital,’ explains Naz.
‘But when I answered, someone I didn’t know was asking me if I was Stevie Jivani’s father. I said yes, and when they then asked if someone was with me I felt physically sick. I knew it must be very bad news.
‘Then I heard the words “Stevie” and “resuscitation”. I managed to ask if she was on a ventilator.
'They said no, that they were still trying to bring her back. I suddenly had the most terrible realisation that our precious daughter was, at that instant, dying.
‘I dropped the phone and heard myself screaming. Maureen was next to me and I could see the fear on her face.’
Stevie was out with her friends when she complained of chest pains (pictured with her younger sister Lauren)
Stevie, a straight-A student and talented dancer and performer, had been out with her friends in Kingston the night before when she’d complained of chest pains.
In A&E she’d had X-rays, an ECG to check her heartbeat and blood tests.
The hospital found nothing but suspected a blood clot and so kept her overnight for observation.
Stevie rang her younger sister to say she’d be back in the morning.
But the following day, at around 11am, Stevie was chatting to a nurse when she suddenly collapsed. Her heart had simply stopped beating.
As the resuscitation team fought to save her, Naz and Maureen rushed to the airport to fly home.
‘Twenty minutes into the drive, the phone went again,’ says Naz.
‘It was an emergency department consultant, who asked me to pull over.
'She then told me she was so very sorry but that, despite all their efforts, Stevie was gone.
‘I looked at Maureen and we put our arms around each other and sobbed.
'And then we had to pull ourselves together to ring her sister Lauren, who was waiting at home with my father for news.
‘That was the most horrific phone call I could ever make.’
At 6.30 that evening, the devastated and shocked family, including Todd, gathered at the hospital morgue to say goodbye.
‘Stevie looked so peaceful, as if she was asleep,’ says Maureen, 53.
‘I kept kissing her, thanking her for all the happiness she had brought us. We all had tears pouring down our faces.
‘Just a few hours earlier, Stevie and I had been chatting on the telephone.
'Now she was dead and we had no idea why.’
The results of the post mortem revealed an aortic dissection, a catastrophic rupture of the aorta (the main blood vessel from the heart).
‘I was utterly shocked when I heard the results,’ says Naz.
‘I had come across aortic dissection in older people but I had never heard of it in a 19-year-old. I couldn’t understand it.’
Left to right: Stevie with her father Naz, mother Maureen and sister Lauren. 'The four of us were really close,' said Naz
Every year there are around 600 sudden cardiac deaths in young people. Most, as in Stevie’s case, occur without warning.
Usually, the cause is arrhythmia, where electrical faults in the heart disrupt or stop its beat, explains Sanjay Sharma, professor of Inherited Cardiac Diseases and Sports Cardiology at St George’s NHS Trust.
In some cases, the death is caused by aortic dissection, the vast majority of which occur in people aged over 60.
The wall of the aorta weakens, either through an internal blockage (such as a build-up of fatty deposits) or a genetic weakness in the cartilage.
As it is so close to the pumping heart, blood in the aorta is under high pressure. This causes the weakened wall to balloon. It can occur gradually over many years or within a few hours.
Around 500 deaths a year are caused by aortic dissection.
In young people, it is most often due to abnormality in the cartilage.
This is typical of a condition called Marfan Syndrome, says Professor Sharma, a spokesman for the charity Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY).
Here, a faulty gene affects the connective tissue (particularly in the aorta), part of the eyes and the ligaments holding joints in place.
Often this makes patients ‘very gangly, with over-long limbs and fingers’, explains Professor Sharma.
It can also lead to eye conditions, such as dislocation of the lens, or heart problems.
‘If you suspect in any way that you or any members of your family have Marfan-like symptoms, you should get checked out by your GP and then by referral to a specialist in genetic medicine.
'You should be given an echocardiogram — an ultrasound that forms a 3D picture of the heart and surrounding arteries — and probably a CT scan, too.’
If Marfan is diagnosed, the aorta is monitored, usually with yearly checks. Medication can reduce the chances of a rupture.
If a rupture is likely, surgeons can put a man-made graft over the weakness or a stent (a tiny tube) inside the aorta to prevent it.
But if the aorta does tear, the mortality rate is high.
‘This is why early monitoring is essential,’ explains Professor Sharma.
‘As long as the condition is picked up and managed correctly, the life expectancy of a young person with an aortic weakness is not much less than normal.
‘If any young person presents at a hospital or a GP’s surgery with severe chest pains it should always be taken very seriously.
‘An X-ray, which is two-dimensional, or an ECG, which measures electrical activity, will not necessarily pick up aortic widening. An echocardiogram or a CT scan will.’
Although Stevie showed no clear symptoms of Marfan, her chest pain indicated a sudden widening of the aorta prior to tearing.
Experts believe little could have been done to save her. But Naz is haunted by the belief that had he spotted something his daughter would still be alive today.
‘I am a doctor — I am meant to save people,’ he says tearfully.
‘How could I not save my own daughter? The four of us were really close, always there for each other. Now our family is shattered.’
The Jivanis are determined to help others avoid similar tragedy by raising awareness of sudden cardiac death and screening.
‘If anyone in your family has died from a sudden death under the age of 35 you are entitled to this screening on the NHS.
'The charity CRY is constantly carrying out screenings around the country for anyone between the ages of 14 and 35.’
To raise funds for the charity, the family is hosting an evening of poetry and music at the Rose Theatre in Kingston on June 6, the day after Stevie’s 21st birthday.
The results of a national adult and children’s poetry competition in Stevie’s name will be announced, with a first prize of £1,000.
‘Perhaps we can save other beautiful young people from dying needlessly and other families from the pain we are going through,’ says Naz.
‘That would be a fitting legacy for our daughter.’
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Q: In a recent answer to a question about the rain affected Roses match you said: "Rain affects matches - not much that can be done about it." Unless you're Worcester or Kent, apparently, judging by your nonsensical decision. How can you justify allowing one game to be replayed when so many clubs have lost so much time and so many points due to the weather? Are you going to extend this to all the other clubs? - I'm sure my club, Yorkshire, and the other clubs at the top who are scrapping for every point would welcome the chance to have another chance to play the many hours that have been missed.
A: The exception circumstances surrounding the Worcester decision have been outlined in our media statement - please see ECB statement: Worcs v Kent
Q: How do Scottish players such as Dougie Brown, John Blain etc first get the opportunity to play County Cricket. Is it normal for players to approach the clubs for a trial or do the clubs approach selected players?
A: Can't comment on individual cases; but a bit of both; plus Scottish players playing in England at club and youth level and progressing through the ranks in a variety of ways. Good players from Scotland, Ireland and across Europe are potential signing targets for counties
Q: How (and who) decides which teams are played against twice in the round robin stage of the 20/20 competition, as teams only play 8 games when there are 6 reams in each division ? Also on the 20/20 - I know which teams are guaranteed home advantage in the Q.Finals, how is the draw completed, is it a draw, or is the away opposition pre-selected ?
A: Fixtures are composed by ECB in conjunction with the counties. The draw for the quarter-finals will take place on Friday after the final group matches.
Q: The twenty 20 quarter finals are scheduled for 17 / 18 July when will the home teams be declared so that tickets can be applied for? I am assuming the home ground will sell the tickets.
A: Draw will be made on Friday after final round of matches.
Q: Please advise me what a COLPAC player is. Thanks
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Q: can you tell me how many tickets have been put a side for each county that reaches the 20/20 semi final at edgbaston,thanks.
A: It's 1500 tickets for each semi-finalist
Q: Where is the2008 Twenty 20 Cup finals day being held and when is it? James Dowling, Southampton
A: Not been confirmed yet
Q: Why does the STATS section of County Cricket not include Rana Naved ul Hasa in the Sussex batting and bowling averages for 2007. He has taken 25 wkts so far this season but is not included. Is this an error on the website? Dave Smith
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Q: to whom it may concern,i arrived in england on 1st january 2007,and while being over here i decided to start playing cricket,but in this period i have been told that i am not aloud to play as im classified as an overseas player,im not here trying to play professional al i want is to play cricket for a club,the team i would like to play for is in the surrey championships they are a saturday 2nd team in third devision,why am i not able to play???
A: Please see Directives - Work Permit Criteria for full details. The Surrey Championship will be aware of these directives and be able to explain how they apply to you
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Ballet Rahmbert
The gossip surrounding the president’s chief of staff is getting out of hand
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If Obama fails what people all over the world expecting might for associates like Rahm Emmanuel in the White House. Once Obama starts
his real work for the peaceful world, which might be supported by the billions but guy like Rahm, may fight back. So, its better all including Rahm should leave not only from white House but also from any kind of decision making forum of President Barrack Obama.
Included in this article is a more specific explanation of the plan beyond the one I gave below, which I don't think was nearly vague enough to invite your "long on promises and short on details" jab. Perhaps you should examine it for yourself before you jump to criticism, and yes the CBO's impression is discussed. I'm not trying to sell a miracle, just a better alternative form of health care reform which I think we all agree is needed.
The fact is that we are 12 trillion dollars in debt, an amount too great to even pretend to understand. Instead of exacerbating our economic situation with a flawed bill, I thinks its time for congress to draft a renewed one with fiscal sustainability. Otherwise I think its likely Republicans will win a majority in the next election and will hopefully take a shot at it themselves.
Mr O'Neill you are long on promises and short on details. Claiming something to be true and it actually being true are very different. What does the CBO say about Mr Ryan's plan and where was he a year ago. Does Mr Ryan also have a plan for winning the Vietnam war?
China accounts for less than 10% of our debt. California cannot peform the same functions as the fed, so they are very different. The CBO said that yes costs would go up under the Obama plan because PEOPLE WOULD LIVE LONGER!!! This is a good thing, not bad.
Look up Republican Paul Ryan's alternative plan, the Economist did an article on it a few weeks ago. He proposes that the government gives tax credits to employers that provide health care to employees, along with giving health care vouchers to help the retired and unemployed pay for private insurance. This would be more efficient cost-wise given the lower overhead costs, better investigation of fraud, and more efficient bureaucracy of private insurance companies in comparison to the federal government's performance with Medicare and Medicaid. In addition to that new rules and regulations for private insurers can get rid of rejection of coverage to people with preexisting conditions. Democrats won't touch these alternatives or pursue incremental reform as they instead want to save face with a bill which is by now a distortion of its former self, which was already fiscally questionable.
While it would be easy to have the government pick up the tab on everything Americans have to pay for, the overextended status of California serves as an example for the rest of the country of the consequences of that kind of spending, especially when China pulls the plug on our debt spending.
valwayne, talk about corrupt. I think if you tried harder you could sound more ignorant. Maybe you should try Access Hollywood, I hear they don't deal with facts either.
Is isn't enough that Obama has put hundreds of billions of corrupt deals into the massive corrupt healthcare bill to buy votes. He's sent his Chicago Way enforcer over to the House to bully and intimidate lawmakers, in the nude, to vote for healthcare. At least if you beleive Congressman Massa from that corrupt Swamp that Nancy Pelosi Runs! Any bill that requirs this much corruption to get it passed is too dangerous to ram down the throats of the American people. Rahm may be Obama's nude enforcer, but if the stories are true he's the only one offering Obama sane advice, which of course, Obama is ignoring!!!
If Rahm poked any Politician from Asia/South America he would be clobbered. Funny he can get away with this in America.
It is all about stretching the art of the possible. Obama may be said to be maximizing on his chief of staff in so far he is stretching his chief of staff beyond where he has been. It is probably a learning experience to both of them. Obama needs to stretch beyond others imagination of the possible since that is what he promised, because that is what he sees his role to be.
Politics SUCKS!!
It's all about mud-slinging, finger-pointing, blame games, passing the buck, rampant hypocricy, irrational sanctimony, unwarranted moral indignation & of course LIES GALORE..
The truth, the whole truth & NOTHING BUT LIES!
"Let me tell you a story about Rahm Emanuel."
He is the hand of the government that really controls the United States. He is selected before the president is.
Virtually anyone that considers health care in the US realizes there needs to be changes. Simply stated, the "reform" proposed will not solve any of the problems - it is change simply for the sake of change.
And it comes with a huge price tag. Many people won't review the fact that this program is a boondoggle - and it may very end up costing us trillions just to prove those people wrong.
In the same way Bush was dismissive of those that disagreed with his approaches, Obama does the same.
Quaid, you said it.
Unfortunately Americans got hooked on health insurance, another unsustainable ponzi scheme. Now the progressives in the White House want to make the ponzi scheme part of their social justice agenda. Personal responsibility is the first casualty of liberal ideology.
"Who wants to live forever?" And be cared for cradle to grave?
" We're not playing games. It's time for the government to give us this free university degree without sinking us in to student debt so that we can secure a job for ourselves in the middle class. We're saying that, hey, if we're abiding by the laws of this country, you need to secure us a job in the middle class. Another socialist value is human right, we believe in the human — we believe that it is a human right to a job that will secure us a place in the middle class. There's a lot of misinformation out there about socialism and anarchism and different, you know, "-isms" or ideologies.We also believe that there is a food right. We believe in — we believe that people have a right to food.
We believe that there's a food right. We believe that there is a housing right.
We believe that where you live you own, that you have a property right to a home and that it cannot be taken away."
Roman Shuster
Chaos? Chaos Marshabar?
Are you threatening some type of chaotic response if this bill passes
i shudder at the thought, but i guess that's what all the gun wackos have been planning for huh?
Society still has a few "functional niches" for those with psychopathic personality traits. Though not predominantly filled with such personalities, military, law enforcement, acting, sales, attorney and leadership work present havens for higher functioning psychopaths.
The Democrats are Terrible!!!
When Bush left office we had a huge budget surplus, a booming economy, no war and a well-oiled healthcare system.
After Obama came in, the economy crashed, we have trillions in deficit, two wars and a healthcare system eating all our money.
Let's vote the Republicans in and in 2012 have Sarah Palin as president. She has a lot of commonsense, is a straight-talking woman and an American (like all of us), not a foreigner like Obama.
Is it really appropriate for the most powerful adviser to a nation's chief executive to be a dual citizen? How is it that this potential conflict of interest is never discussed?
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The economy is not a big election issue, but it badly needs cooling down
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Fahrettin Tahir
Greece is ahomogenous country with a stagnant population and economy. She is subsidised to the tune of hundreds of billion dollars by the European Union. Under those conditions she has been stable since 1974. Do not forget the civil war of the 1940ies and the dictatorship of the 1970ies.
Turkey has a highly heterogenous population, who come not only from all countries of the Ottoman empire on three continents but also refugees from many countries beginning with Spain in the West and Manchuria in the east.
Some live in the 21st century other are barely out of the stone age.
The population has tripled in 50 years. She is undergoing a dramatic and rapid industrialisation process.
Her allies have supported a thousand billion expensive dollar civil war in an attempt to stop her economy. Now they support the AKP which American diplomats (wikileaks) think does not understand the world.
It is the AKP which by leaving Ataturks road has brought the country to the verge of civil war. There you are right.
Ahmet Tekelioglu, Cypriots would stay on topic if Turks stayed in their country, to fix their problems as opposed to invade, destruct, kill, ethnic cleanse, divide, colonize, and pretend that everything is ok.
Get out!
Remember, there is essentially no difference between the rights of an ethnic minority in Cyprus to those of a like-sized %-wise ethnic minority in Turkey.
Inevitably, solutions will be similar. It is in Turkey Minor's best interest to agree to a sensible solution in Cyprus either unitary or a federation solution. Because, that identical solution is coming home to Turkey Minor.
Freethinker, assume that it is 1974, you are Turkey's prime minister and you have just received the news that a coup inspired by Athens aims to unite Cyprus with Greece. What are your options, which one will you pick and why?
You ARE already here, remember? Turkey invaded in 1974 and has been illegally occupying Cyprus since then, after killing 7000+ people and ethnically cleansing 200,000 Greekcypriots from their ancestral homes.
You mean the occupied part (which is a huge military zone) of Cyprus, or the free part?
Freethinker, forget the Aegean islands. If Turkey does go bust, we'll all come to Cyprus instead. The government of Cyprus is likely to be more tolerant of an influx of jobless Turks. And on weekends we can cross over to the Greek side for a cuppa with you chaps.
ahmet tekelioglu you say " The only thing that changed between the seventies and the nineties is that Greece joined the EU. Had we made that mistake, and remember we have applied to join, we would be in the same mess as the Greeks right now."
if the big boys in the EU, germany, france etc really thought that we would be like greece 20 years after joining they would have accepted turkey with open arms. on the contrary they are scared that turkey , with its large population and manufacturing base, would be like germany and compete with them. this is what they don't like, they just want small countries in the club so that they can sell them cars etc. no free market there..
Enjoy the boom (and the articles about it) while it lasts!
After June, boom no more - just bust...and then you will be on the boats going illegally to the Aegean islands...
Hubris...for now - Nemesis, to follow...
Ozden and friends
Greece may default but the real losers are the major bond holders like Germany and Switzerland, like Argentina she will bounce back buoyed by a strong tourist sector and shipping industry, I would save your worry and sarcasm for Turkey with her mega high unemployment rate and derisory “minimum wage”, not to mention the country outside Istanbul and Aegean strip is third world and on the verge of civil war. Turkey has decades before she is even as developed as Greece, politically and economically, maybe this is the cause of your ire?
(B-) is not a good rating at all. Personally I am convinced that the EU alone is to blame for Greece's economic ruining. That the Greeks cheated with its statistics is irrelevant. If they were dishonest with statistics in the nineties then they must have been dishonest in the seventies as well. Besides, in the EU they are all frauds. How many EU countries are still observing the Maastricht criteria? Not many, I can tell you. The only thing that changed between the seventies and the nineties is that Greece joined the EU. Had we made that mistake, and remember we have applied to join, we would be in the same mess as the Greeks right now.
standard & poors reduced greece's rating to B-
i have just checked the rating list. greece will have to go to
CCC- , CC- ,C- and then D- which is "Payment default on financial commitments"
i don't think that will ever happen. let us not worry ourselves with things which are not considered to be problems. let us talk about the killing which was supposed to take in 1915, nearly 100 years ago. i am sure it is a more pressing subject. but meanwhile the greeks are suffering economically so much so that they may go hungry or not have money to buy petrol for their cars or even not have any petrol in the country at all.
well they could always eat tomatoes..
Freethinker / Antifon
What do you expect will happen on election day?
Do you have anything to say on Turkey's economy at all?
As one who is very much opposed to Turkey's bid for EU membership, I would like to draw everybody's attention to the contrast between Greece and Turkey. Back in the seventies, Greece's economy grew as fast as our own. As a matter of fact, Greece had a higher per capita income, too. After joining the EEC, Greece became an economic basketcase. The situation in Ireland, Portugal, Spain et allia would suggest that the problem was with the EU and not Greece. Therefore if Turkey had been admitted in the club along with Greece, then Turkey would join Greece in making rounds with a begging bowl, instead of being the object of envious speculation about economic overheating. Symphoneite?
"He points to the decision to keep fiscal and monetary stimulus going for too long. He reckons that nominal wage growth has hit 18% a year, domestic demand is rising by as much as 25% and credit growth is some 30-40%. Such numbers look unsustainable."
According to these numbers the adjustment will be harsh, especially as European economy, Turkey's main exports client, slows down. I would not bet on a strong Turkish lira...A yoy rise of domestic demand of 25% due to credit growth supported by external financing is very prone to collapse and is definitely not sustainable. The reason why there is such a tremendous external financing as many in these comments ask, is that the yields are too good for an OECD country. On the contrary, a brutal change of external investors stance towards Turkey should not be expected in the short to mid term as the population grows fastly, the market has great potential, the political environment is investor friendly and there are not so many alternative investment opportunities in the OECD countries.
Yavuz Otar
Mr Antifon said: "Some questions are rhetorical. They simply must be asked. Perhaps to put on display the nakedness of Turkish arguments?"
Rhetorics eh? Not only "some" questions, but "all" questions put forward by you are rhetorical. Then, allow me to give a rhetorical answer to your rhetorics:
Some answers are rhetorical. They simply must be answered. Perhaps to put on display the fogginess of Mr Antifon's arguments?
"even though some voters fret about its autocratic ways"
Neo-orientalism at its best. As long as neo-liberal policies ("trimming minimum wage") are implemented by the government The Economist does not give 2 cents about the autocatic ways of the ruling party...
British are coming!
we have to thank Mr Tekelioglu who at least was able NOT to corroborate the "stories" that Cypriot women were used as bait to lure Turkish soldiers to ambushes!!!
as I said in an earlier post, Cypriot women were too busy hiding or running away from the rapists after them (dressed in Turkish invading army uniforms)...the Cypriot men (civilians included) also had no time for ambushes, as they were being executed on the spot by the Turkish army...
Strange - none of our Turkish friends has mentioned Attila Olkatz's own admission on Turkish TV how he executed in cold blood a captive 18 year old Cypriot soldier!!!
Mr Tahir conveniently forgets that it was the Young Turks (including his hero Kemal) that inspired Hitler's Final Solution, by their (original, have to say) own solution of the Armenian genocide 1915, followed by the dershim massacres 1938, the Istanbul Pogrom 1955, the Cyprus invasion 1974, the Kurdish persecutions since 1980's etc...
It seems there is a continual pattern here,,,resembling Nazism...
By the way, in 2-3 weeks we will have Mavi Marmara II...interesting to see what happens...
Fahrettin Tahir, just yesterday you wrote this about Turkey Minor and its democratic deficiencies "big brother listening to telephones, taping what people do in their homes, government controlled press, internet censorship, police manufacturing evidence, people spending years in jail without knowing why, Kurds rioting without an end in sight ..."
Why are you accusing Cyprus of Nazism? If anything Turkey Minor seems to fit the bill perfectly by your own admission.
In Cyprus there are Cypriots, Greek speaking and Turkish speaking, both with their own unique Cypriot dialects.
Neither gCypriots nor tCypriots want you there.
Get out!
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Someone to watch over me
The bail-out law brings more oversight of the Fed and the financial system
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In your October 11th-17 issue you did not mention any of the "pork barrel" additions to the "Bail Out Bill". With all the rehtoric for "change" from both candidates for president, I would have expected John to have voted nay for the bill. But, I hope it's not evident but it smells like "Politics as Usual". Respectfully and Sincerely KeokeSS.
g. Anton
An Ounce of Prevention Is Worth Much More Than a Pound of CureA year or so ago I predicted the present economic situation, and my prediction of the timing and of the severity were perfect. My prediction wasn't based on technical acumen, as I don't have any. But I am a big believer in KARMA, and Bush's karma was and is perfectly bad. (Why is his karma bad?--because the man is a moral and spiritual derelict). He was always talking about how good the economy was, and a little later (when thhe economy was obviously less than "good"), how the foundations of the economy were very sound, So obviously I predicted that the catastrophe would hit at the worst possible time for Bush, i.e. right before the US presidential elections. And here we are. For the same reason (Bush's bad karma), I now predict that the efforts of the fearless three (George Bush, Hank Paulson, and Ben Bernanke) to resurrect the US and world economy will be a dismal failure and do much more harm than good.So what about the fearless three-some, Bush, Paulson, and Bernanke? Can you trust them? As stated above, for some time now, I've been hearing from them phrases like: "the economy is good", the foundations of the economy are basically sound", etc., etc.. As an example, let's look at fearless Ben's track recordAbout six months ago, Bernanke told the congress, "The Fed stands ready to take additional actions as needed to provide liquidity and promote the orderly functioning of the markets". What "liquidity" and what "orderly funtioning of of the markets"?In October of 2005, Ben Bernanke that told the congress that they didn't have to worry about the housing bubble busting because the increases in housing prices was based on "very strong economic fundamentals".Now, all of a sudden, all three of the fearless ones are shouting "Surprise! Surprise! We are in a tremendous financial crisis, and if you don't give us $700 billion immediately, THE WORLD WILL END!"None of the recent fearless three US economic actions has done any good, and their farcical "THE WORLD WILL END" scenario certainly contributed to recent record plunges of world and US stock markets. To me, it is very obvious that their magic "cure" of our economic ills is no more than whistling in the dark. What is Paulson going to do with $700 plua billion? The mortgage-backed debt of Freddie and Fannie alone is 5.3 TRILLION dollars, and of the overall US market, it is 11 TRILLION dollars! Enough said? And before this is all over, real estate values in many areas of US will fall to between 30 to 50% from their recent highs. As an afterthought, while spending $700 billion plus the cost of other recent Fed and Treasury actions is probably irrelevant to the mortgage mess rectification, this spending will cause serere inflation, it will damage the dollar, and it might even cause a crash of the dollar. Also, all this might cause short term cosmetic improvement and good feelings on Wall Street; but it's not the fall that hurts, it's the sudden stop.
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After Lisbon
The European Union is likely to choose weak leaders. It needs strong ones
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Have the editorial desk of The Economist been tricked by the federalist power grabbers inside the EU machinery?
A “strong” Council President will expand the power of the office and set a process in motion with increasing demands for a directly elected president. A directly elected president would have much larger democratic legitimacy. This would be the final steps toward the monster super state that would engulf the remaining sovereignty of the nation states and transfer all substantial power to Brussels. Then we can kiss freedom and self determination goodbye.
Another consequence of a directly elected EU President is a dramatic increase in the weight of the large EU countries such as Germany and France. A popular EU wide election campaign will try to please the German and French voters first. In an election with 100s of millions of voters the real influence of smaller countries such as Denmark or Estonia will be negligible.
PS. There is no need for a narcissist Blair style movie star in the office. Once appointed, the Council President will have the institutional power to speak for the EU and be considered a peer by the US and China.
The UK as a 'central player part' of an EU which is structured as: an aligned- TO VARYING DEGREES AND LEVELS- association of independent, sovereign nations would be but one of many international bodies in which the UK can, in the future, maintain and improve its historic constructive role worldwide...
But, a UK as part of a 'Lisbon Treaty facilitated' 'EU superstate', made up of surrender monkey, amalgamated 'former-nation-states' would eventually end up being trammeled by Continental ego's and memories-of-empires aspirations run-amok...
The EU was not conceived to eventually become a 'superstate political body', striding the international stage as a 'lock-step unit'- made up of amalgamated nations...
Its main purpose was intended to be, as a group of loosely, and to varying degrees aligned nations*, that by its existence, acted as an obstacle to a repeat of the worst of Europe's past:
- never ending wars;
- ethnic and racial intolerance/pogroms; and
- subjugation of/inappropriate profiting from overseas peoples via badly administered colonies and Empires...
* in social, economic and legal policy areas...
Unfortunately, should the UK allow itself to be part of the intellectually dishonest lie that is the Lisbon Treaty- GETTING OUT LATER WOULD NOT RETURN TO THE UK THE HIGH STANDING AND BROAD INFLUENCE THAT IT NOW HAS...
A 'superstate' EU will loose the most productive functional characteristic that has been a prominent part of the various EEC/EU models existing until today: the abilities of INDIVIDUAL EU MEMBER NATIONS to counterbalance each other and to act as checks and balances to stop less than desirable policies/laws from coming into force and/or to amend them...
Amalgamation of EU member nations' militaries- as the Lisbon treaty is leading towards- is unnecessary and in many ways represents an improper and overreaction by those with slighted egos to the 'world order' results of WWII'...
Constructively coordinating EU member and other nations' militaries can be and is regularly done capably through NATO...
Once the 'base' 'political unit' of the EU changes from what it has been for over 5-decades: 'individual member nations' to 'individual adults'- ALL member nations will have allowed themselves to be subjugated to a political governance structure that, down the road- could legislate or act in ways that would not be agreeable to or in the best interests of individual 'member' nations' peoples- and not in the world's best interests- but nothing will be able to be done by the EU's respective 'member' nations- other than damagingly attempting to get out of the 'superstate EU'...
The EU needs leaders who recognize the immense dangers to the world represented by a 'superstate EU'- and who are ethical enough to publicly acknowledge that there is more than one potential structural-model for a future EU...
The betterment of EU member nations' citizenry ought to be the paramount objective of 'EU leader'... not the scoring of 'international points' by a superstate EU!!
There ought to be an EU- but not an EU that by its existence extinguishes the sovereignty and world-role of its member nations...
Roderick V. Louis,
Vancouver, BC, Canada
We don't need show-offs like Tony Blair. We need a person who represents the European Social Model not the free for all capitalist models found in Britain and the USA.
A 'president' appointed through popular vote would have no more power than under the present situation. After all, it is the heads of member states who call the shots. This job is comparable to that of a public company secretary. Why someone totally unacceptable as Tony Blair would want it remains a miracle. The only reason I can think of are the perks associated with it, the travelling expenses and another 'bestseller' at the end.
It's worth bearing in mind Stephen Reynold's letter in the FT on Nov.4, which points out "the two possible meanings of the French term “président”. It can of course refer to a head of state, with all the powers that this implies, in which case the correct English translation is indeed 'president'. However, the term is also used to refer merely to a chairman, for example of a board of directors.
Having consulted the relevant section of the Lisbon treaty in French (the language of its progenitor, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing), it seems clear to me that it was this second sense of 'président that was intended: the role and powers are very similar to those of the chairman of the board of a French company. Unfortunately, the English version of the treaty falls straight into the faux ami trap and uses the literal translation 'president', with all that this implies for the power and prestige of the job.
If the job had carried the less glamorous but more accurate title of “Chairman of the Council of Ministers”, one cannot help but wonder whether we would have had all this fuss." After all, the real power will be in the hands of the EU Foreign Minister.
An Smaointeoir
Election by popular vote is not all its cracked up to be (witness the roots of the financial crisis). it favours short-term popular thinking rather than the longterm necessary. It offers binary choice - with imperfections.
In any case which EU country picks their Prime Minister?
Maybe the fact that the EU commissioners are not elected is a strength. they can push ahead with the unpalatable, something popular democracy has failed to do.
Unknown candidates seem more desirable precisely because they are unknown. but they are a gamble at best. Lets go for the known rather than the unknown, the inspired rather than the bland, for teh statesman rather than the functionary.
Blair is a leader & a statesman if obnoxiously self-satisfied (qualities that often go hand in hand - poor Gordon is an example of the opposite: brilliant but definitely not a leader). A bland president will make us all more dissatisfied with the EU. This is what has happened the UN.
While there is much to improve in the EU it has done pretty well - there is a lot to be proud of and grateful for: economic strength, good balance of social/economic; fall of the iron curtain (would it have happened with out a strong europe?).
Its too easy to pick one or two items to 'prove' something is flawed. Lets take a bold step and pick a real mover and shaker.
and as for the UK being a great country in the 21st century? sorry its past its best. just as america will be in the not too distant future. Just as the UK gave us parliamentary democracy and the US gave us the idea of the rights of man, let EU have the leaders that will provide an example for future generations
I repeat once more the old joke about the proud father watching a military and saying his son was the only one in step. All the others were not.
That's how I feel.
This leader and a few previous comments show the misconceptions about the European Union.
Let me condense my views on it:
-The EU is being built not by politicians and fudge producing
institutions but by the European peoples who, for a few decades
now, have intermarried, interbred, inter traded, inter made
friendships, inter whatever you do in a normal life.
-As such, the EU doesn't suffer from a democratic deficit as many
professional commentators and politicians claim. Institutions come
after events not before and are shaped by a vague but firm overall
-The EU is a completely new experiment in human History. It is
ambitious too: to bring peace to a continent torn by violence in
the past, a free, reasonably just and with a minimum of solidarity
to avoid pockets of destitution.
-The vast vague undefined majority of the EU citizenry will not
tolerate the EU being another power block or a menace to the
existing ones. They'll be happy to look at the rest of the world as
a source of culture, a collection of nice places to visit, a source
of materials not obtainable in Europe or, at the most offending,an
export market.
So the rules applicable to current politics almost everywhere are also almost useless. USA (or even Canadian) citizens don't have to fear loosing their hegemony. The European Union, sorry editor, does neither need strong leaders that can can pick phones to talk to world grandees nor assertive ideologues.
The best guess for, and from what I've seen at citizen's level, the most wished for European future is a large and, if possible funnier, Switzerland.
A no nonsense, decent, honest citizen with as much star power as the one year only Swiss Confederation Head of State will do us nicely, thank you.
Both for president and head of diplomatic services (I haven't yet had time to learn their correct titles. Have you?).
And just a final thought: have you ever thought that all the above can be the explanation for the lack of interest in European elections? Our institutions are just being shaped by an "cloud computing" consensus. When they will have real power- it'll be some decades before they do - then we'll take European elections seriously.
Sorry, in my previous post a "neither needs" was written the wrong way round. It should have been "needs neither" as you will notice. If you have the patience to read it all.
Throw the Eurosceptics a bone. Elect an EU parliament and President. Then, with elected power, federalise away.
Where is the bone? The EU parliament is an elected body, the 'President' is not. But then he has no real power. Where is the problem?
There is something incongruent in The Economist's mantra of having an internationally renowned grandee (T.B.) to provide flair and gravitas to the EU taking its place as a recognised player in the world. This line of thinking weaves into the job description for the office just being created a desire for almost visionary qualities that go far beyond the formal powers of that post.
If TE feels so free to imbue the new post with powers envisioned only by itself why is it such a stickler to form and procedure when it comes to other, arguably equally weighty matters? Such as whether a small, miserably informed minority in a small country, Ireland, should have the veto on the EU progressing from a laughably imperfect status-quo based on a hackneyed treaty bartered in Nice to at least moving forward from that low base for its many millioned citizens?
If the externalities of the "président" office suffice to make the editors salivate so grandly why the niggard nitpicking over the form in which a huge majority of Europeans made their assertive voices heard over, in comparison, a negligible mass of wilfully mislead nay-sayers?
Maybe it is that The Economist has its own agenda when it comes to Europe. I just suspect the motives and I cannot suare the enthusiasm it shows to fill the president post with such allure while it denigrates almost all else that goes with a united Europe in the EU. Maybe one has to hail from England to understand the schism. Or be the voicepipe for conservative America that The Economist has fallen over itself to become.
"[...] the voicepipe for conservative America that The Economist has fallen over itself to become."
Really? I'm not an expert, but I definitely don't think so.
The President is not the problem, s/he will be a figurehead and can be a monkey for all I care as I do not recognise the legality of the Lisbon Treaty/EU Constitution. Of course they will want a weak figure particularly one that is in it for the perks, as that will reflect and validate the reason why the rest of them are there.
nothing better to do
The issue for The Economist is more simple than becoming the voicepipe of conservative America. The issue is that TE doesn't know what it stands for any longer and its approach to the EU best illustrates that. Over and over again TE berates the EU for not doing enough to combat energy security, climate change etc etc but then opposes every effort to give the EU the powers it needs to combat such issues.
TE has an instinctual dislike of the EU like most English people because the UK does not have a dominating influence on the EU (as per the Germans and French). The UK is cut out of the core decision making of the EU - not least because it has tried to undermine the EU at nearly every turn.
But much more importantly for TE is to work out what it stands for in general and not just in relation to the EU. America's domination of world politics ended soon after the new millenium and is starkly illustrated by the ongoing Iraq War.
TE hasn't worked out a world view for itself since this transition began. It is long overdue for TE to figure out what it stood for and why so that it can begin to make logical and consistent analysis of current global issues rather than passing off weak and contradictory analysis that is based on an old world order and old world order tastes....
...small, miserably informed minority in a small country, Ireland, should have the veto on the EU progressing...
May be this 'small miserably informed minority' in Ireland instinctively knows oppression when it sees it. What about those 'small and miserable' countries of France and Holland who rejected the EU constitution, which was then rejuggled and renamed the Lisbon Treaty? Had the Lisbon Treaty been put to the vote of all member states the outcome would have been quite different. The EU could not have nobbled all the countries who would have rejected it as they did in the 2nd referendum in Ireland and the Czech Republic for that matter(or could they!?) I must be missing something about when and how 'a huge majority of Europeans made their assertive voices heard' over the form of the EU, the Lisbon Treaty or the President. And by the way, in all the years I have read the Economist is has never been anything other than pro EU. Of course, criticism is not something that got the EU where it is today as can be seen by videos of EU parlamentarians walking out when they hear something that does not suit them.
City Slicker
We certainly do not need Tony Blair in europe because:
1. Blair is a failed labour politician that has got lucky. He did not achieve what he set out to do. New Labour already oozes irrelevance given the new circumstances. It set out to believe in monetarism and free market capitalism, and by now these intellectual crutches are suffering.
Tony's right wing brand of politics seems to not be right enough for the average brit judging by how the Conservatives are likely to be the next government in the UK although theya re the intellectual fathers of this crisis. It was the great idea of deregulation that brought about the financial crisis.
Increasingly the excesses of the right wing ideologues like Tony Blair (no mistake here) stemming from the time of Reagan have pushed the emergence of a feudal flavour of capitalism to be found in economically prosperous but culturally and democratically backward and stifling states like Malaysia or Singapore. Note that corruption is endemic in this sort of regime. Its a fusion of tame consumer/citizens, propaganda, really low quality of democracy and essentially a well disguised oligarchy with some democratic traits (yes it sounds quite like china or malaysia).
Because there are no ideas or ideals in the debate, the debate becomes irrelevant. People don't vote so the extremists get bigger and bigger shares. Also a public fed a diet of tabloid news is likely to be far more susceptible to extremist politics. The stifling consensus where whatever one votes they get the same policies has brought about stability but also an erosion of democracy and brought about the politician who is popular not because he wants to do things that you as a citizen agree with, but because you like his dress sense, or you would like to be as rich as him. Berlusconi is in that mould at least partially.
Ironically globalisation and competition is now forcing European and American states to lose any flourishes of democracy and free speech they developed in the past to revert to gameshow host type of leaders (e.g. Berlusconi, Zapatero, Blair, Bush). The citizen is economically free (kind of because corruption and priviledge is playing its part to skew even this). But policy is strictly set and permanent and not something that an elected leader can change. The countries that this is entrenched in the most are the US and the UK.
Does anyone else see the irony in having the EU capital in Brussels and its first president a Belgian?
The country can barely keep itself unified, yet will lead a unified Europe.
If member nations don't like the way the EU appears, its structures or its heading-in-the-superstate-direction as a consequence of the Lisbon Treaty, there are more alternatives than only leaving the EU...
Moving to get rid of the very structure that most threatens to facilitate the creation of a superstate- the elected EU Parliament- is one of them...
Another is reverting the EU Parliament's structure back to its pre-1990's format so that EU MP's weren't elected, & instead were again appointed by their respective member nation governments, with ALL EU member nations allocated equal numbers of EU MPs- perhaps (10) or so.
The primary 'political base-unit' of the EU for more than 50 years has been 'individual EU member nations'.
For most of its history, individual country's belonging to the EU & its precursors, such as the European Economic Community (EEC) were the only enfranchised 'bodies' that were enabled to vote on EU legislation-like issues (laws, directives, standards, etc)...
While this structure existed, it functioned- however indirectly- to prohibit the formation of an EU superstate.
Once an elected 'EEC/EU Parliament' was formed in the 1990's- with its primary political base-unit the 'individual people' living within the EU's member countries- it opened the door to- & unavoidably encouraged the slide towards- an EU superstate...
By its existence, an elected-by-EU-member-nation-citizenry EU Parliament is fundamentally & irrevocably in a dangerous conflict of interest (competing roles) with the other primary political unit of the EU: its member nations' governments...
More to the point, the EU Parliament (having authorities over & effects on member nations exercised by its MPs votes- who are separated-from-their-respective-member-nations'-governments control or direction) will (through votes) make decisions on issues that- by their nature- put the EU Parliament into an oppositional relationship with EU member nations' governments & their positions on issues...
The unavoidable result will be the EU Parliament- & its extensions such as EU civil servants & the like- continually (bluntly, or surreptitiously or illicitly) attempting to shift the balance of power within the EU's structures so that the EU Parliament can take primacy over member nations' governments... and 'win' against member nations (or their extensions, like cabinet ministers/civil servants, etc) whenever there are differences over issues between the EU Parliament/'Commission' aka 'cabinet'& member nations' governments...
Shifting the power balance in the EU Parliament's favour can only be done by reducing the powers & authorities of member nations'/their governments, which is unequivocally represented by the highly surepetitious Lisbon Treaty (aka 'EU constitution')...
Whether or not there ought to be a referendum in the UK (or any other EU member nation) on the constitution-in-disguise Lisbon Treaty- is not as important as UK politicians/stakeholders & their counterparts across the Continent planning cohesively- for strategies for how to deal with its aftermath...
In reaction to the Lisbon Treaty, leaving the EU might be an obvious impulsive objective for some EU member nations, such as the UK- but this would be short sighted & counterproductive...
Instead, working with Continental allies, disseminating a succinct, easy to understand proposed alternative future EU structures would be constructive...
To be sellable widely across the EU, an alternative EU structure ought to describe a 'legitimately simplified', palatable but still functional EU...
This could be defined as an EU without its own Parliament or at least without an elected one, & an EU in which member nations are guaranteed- in a codified treaty- their integrity & basic nation-state decision making apparatus, & not to be penalized for opting out of things such as the Euro, foreign policy positions, etc...
An EU without the moderating, rationalizing and constructive effects of the UK at its centre would be far more of latent threat to world stability than an EU in which 'an independent, sovereign UK' plays a central role...
Roderick V. Louis,
Vancouver, BC,
you are mixing up countries with personalities. 'Belgium' is not running the EU, and New York is not running the world (although trying hard) because the UN is located there. Bush was an idiot but you cannot blame the whole US. Whether Blair is the right choice or not, the UK is the most sceptical member state and can thus have no leading role.
Mr Louis, you have some interesting thoughts but they are bypassing reality. Once the Lisbon treaty comes into effect (soon enough) there will be no change to the existing structure of the EU for quite some time. With a large number of member states and unanimity no longer required, attempts by individual members to change the ball game will not work. When the Lisbon treaty will eventually have outlived its parameters all current politicians will have gone, and public opinion will have changed according to experiences made. Therefore, to propose anything different at this point is a waste of time, and nobody in charge would be listening anyway.
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"The Hero In The Hold": Part 2 of 2
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Fun Trivia : Quizzes : 'Bones'- Season 4
The Hero In The Hold Part 2 of 2 game quiz
"This was one of my favorite episodes. Booth usually got to ride in and save the day. I liked that Booth got to be saved this time."
15 Points Per Correct Answer - No time limit
1. What was used to set off the explosive charge Teddy and Booth made?
Booth's 'Cocky' belt buckle
One of Booth's cuff links
Booth's watch from Parker
A piece of the ship they were on
2. Why was the ship that Booth was trapped on going to explode?
It was being turned into a reef
It was being used as a military exercise
'The Grave Digger' set explosives on it
The ship was already half sunk due to damage
3. The navy could not turn off the detonator on the ship because Booth had disconnected it when he tried to use the timer to send a signal.
4. What type of injury did Heather Taffet have that revealed her as 'The Grave Digger' to Bones?
Rib injury
Leg injury
Arm injury
Head injury
5. What process did Hodgins recommend Jared do to find out what Taffet was hiding so they could rescue Booth?
Open house
Spring cleaning
Dirt finding
Clean sweep
6. Who hit Heather Taffet with a briefcase after they figured out where Booth was being held?
7. Why did Jared not go with Bones to save Booth?
He was handling Taffet's arrest
He was afraid to fly on the helicopter
He was arrested by MPs because he brought Vega's body to Bones
He was still mad at Booth for telling him to stop drinking
8. What did Teddy want Booth to tell Claire?
That he would always be with her
That he was sorry
That he loved her
That he wanted her to move on with her life
9. What did Bones buy Booth after he was rescued?
A copy of her latest book
A new watch
A new 'Cocky' belt buckle
A new flashlight
10. Bones spoke to Teddy.
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• As far as I have seen, the movies and the games have somewhat a close relevance but not the same story. And with Resident Evil Retribution just around the corner, I'm please to say that at least certain things caught my attention. Ada is seen for the first time, as well as other characters, but I'm slightly bothered by the person that plays the Leon paper. The guy looks like an abusive alcoholic, which somehow would explain Leon & Ada's odd relationship.
One thing I also noticed is that Wesker didn't die, and with the last movie assuming he died in the explosion, I say something's up. Why? They wanted to kill Wesker because in Resident Evil 5, he "supposedly" died. So, if in the movie he didn't die, I have the strangest deja vu saying he isn't dead yet in the Game series.
• They're not connected. Wesker only seemingly died in the movies because he died in Resident Evil 5, but then Paul realised he had nowhere to go from there. So he threw in the parachute out of the explosion at the end of Afterlife.
Don't get me wrong, I'd love to see him come back and it's not like it'd be impossible to write. Wesker dies all the time. It's just a minor inconvenience for him now. But they seem pretty focused on the Ada card for RE6 which is good, because she's a character we never really learn a lot about.
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The highest price paid in Great Britain for a painting was paid yesterday by Sir Joseph Duveen, well known Anglo-Jewish art dealer.
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Manziel, who is 20 years old, is seen holding a bottle of Dom Perignon champagne at the Avenu Lounge in Dallas in the photos posted by TMZ.
The nightclub states on its website that patrons must be 21 and older to get in, which is the legal drinking age in Texas.
On Sunday, the Heisman Trophy winner responded to his life in the spotlight, saying:
It's tough knowing that everything you do is watched pretty closely, because I'm doing the same stuff I've always done. It's just now people actually care what I do.
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The World on Our Stage
There is beauty large and small when individuals gather to celebrate a culture. Rows of dancers create geometric patterns, costumes vibrate with color and texture, rich sounds fill the air.
We asked four Bay Area News Group photojournalists to shoot the same location Mission between 16th and 24th Streets at the same time, as the sun was setting and the nightlife was heating up. We wanted to capture the energy and attitude of Mission Street through the photographers eyes, in four different ways.
The architectural diversity, a "Plumed Serpent," and the sounds of Downtown San Jose are captured with just a pencil and paper.
Jim Gensheimer
The 49ers new $1.3 billion home is open, spacious and stark. Seen through the lens of a camera, geometric shapes and graphic patterns emerge in unlikely spots.
Doug Duran
Summer's spectacle -- where adults can feel like kids again, and kids can return to simpler times. We captured familiar moments from unfamiliar angles to showcase the whimsy, the chaos and the quiet of the fair.
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9.5 #247 (WDW Qual #6404
Jul 24, 2011 7:20 PM WDW Talk Land
We should make a list of all abbreviations so everyone, even new ones to MW know what they are. Such as what is RAK?
MW - Mouse Wait, WDW - Walt Disney World, AK - Animal Kingdom - crazy4mickey 9.5 #247 7:26PM
RAK= random act of kindness. MK: magic kingdom AK: animal kingdom DHS: disneys hollywood studios CM: cast member MW: mousewait BTMRR: big thunder mountain railroad HM: haunted mansion GMR: great movie ride RnRC: rock n roller coaster ToT: tower of terror EE: expedition everest @username: sort of tagging a user in a post/comment, so they know what your are saying is directed to them and not everyone/poster Not entirely an abbriviation, but the name Michael almost always refers to UppityEmpressakaMichael (hahaha ). TSMM: toy story midway mania SGE: stitchs great escape TTA: tomorrowland transit authority PeopleMover Pop: pop century hotel WDW: walt disney world DL: disneyland DCA: disney california adventure park Thats all i can think of off the top of my head. - C-Ticket 38.5 #108 7:28PM
THANK YOU C -TICKET. THAT'S AWESOME - crazy4mickey 9.5 #247 7:31PM
Welcome theres prolly more, ill add as i think of it. - C-Ticket 38.5 #108 7:32PM
@ c-ticket wow you were a busy typer! But I think you covered all of it. I can't think of any you might have missed. - Schramke 458.3 #16 7:35PM
Well theres abbriviations for various users, like Indy=Indyandmarion, or Tink3=tinkinktink, Tangled=TangledNdinseY. - C-Ticket 38.5 #108 7:37PM
Thought of one DTD Downtown Disney - crazy4mickey 9.5 #247 7:43PM
DDP-Disney Dining Plan - crazy4mickey 9.5 #247 7:47PM
FP- fast pass - Schramke 458.3 #16 7:49PM
Emh- extra magic hours - Schramke 458.3 #16 7:50PM
DTD - downtown disney - Ms.Mouseketeer 1005.7 #157 7:59PM
DQ: disneyquest WPF&M: waterpark fun and more MW FL: mousewait florida BB: blizzard beach PotC: pirates of the caribbean - C-Ticket 38.5 #108 8:37PM
Poly:polynesian - C-Ticket 38.5 #108 8:43PM
I feel so special that I'm included in this. Thanks C-Ticket! - TangledNdisneY 324.7 #20 8:49PM
Welcome, Tangled ;D - C-Ticket 38.5 #108 8:53PM
HM - Hidden Mickey - crazy4mickey 9.5 #247 9:09PM
A correction to C-Ticket. ToT is actually Theater of the Stars (ToTS) and for Tower of Terror its Tower. Prevented confusion for Sunset CMs. (and believe me it happened) - IndyandMarion 1265.4 #1 7:09AM
@indy every time someone has used ToT it was tower of terror. I have never even heard of Theatre of the Stars. And @crazy4mickey HM is haunted mansion. There isnt and abbriviation for hidden mickey. There should be tho. Maybe HdnMcky? Idk - C-Ticket 38.5 #108 7:26AM
Theater of the Stars is where Beauty and the Beast is performed. (I'm looking at it from a CM point of view. But I've all ways called it Tower even before i worked at WDW.) But that's just me. - IndyandMarion 1265.4 #1 7:29AM
Cticket that was good! I didn't know tta I thought it was the ticket center maybe - Polynesiangirl 98.4 #63 9:09AM
What's ASMc? - crazy4mickey 9.5 #247 9:10AM
@crazy I think all star music resort - Polynesiangirl 98.4 #63 9:16AM
@indy then isnt it technically TotS, not ToT? - C-Ticket 38.5 #108 12:38PM
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DVC: disney vacation club - C-Ticket 38.5 #108 12:53PM
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Plus, the load I mention is actually very light. We've restricted the requests for the test. In a full-scale production system, we expect at least two orders of magnitude more requests.
The 40,000 figure I used took that 2-orders increase into account.
You are right that 36 servers is overkill, but we have a large setup of servers designed to handle very large loads and it was easier to put our software on these servers than to design a smaller system.
I can understand the motivation for re-using an existing setup if it is lightly loaded.
That said, the whole problem becomes significantly easier to program by utilising SMP shared memory to hold the budgets; And much easier to guarantee if a dedicated machine handles it rather than relying upon excess capacity on the other systems where spikes in the other applications might break this applications latency requirements.
I'd be tempted to try and concentrate the other application(s) onto 34 boxes and filch 2 to dedicate for this application in a primary + hot failover setup.
Of course, I know nothing of the other applications or the internal politics involved that likely make that impractical.
In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.
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Owen the baby hippo stares adoringly at his new mum / EPA
Pining for his lost mother, Owen quickly befriended a giant male Aldabran tortoise named Mzee - Swahili for "old man".
Haller Park ecologist Paula Kahumbu said the pair were now inseparable.
"It is incredible. A hippo has adopted a male tortoise, about a century old, and the tortoise seems to be very happy with being a mother," Ms Kahumbu said. "The hippo follows the tortoise the way it follows its mother.
"The hippo was left at a very tender age. Hippos are social animals that like to stay with their mothers for four years." Officials are hopeful Owen will befriend a female hippo called Cleo, also a resident at the park.
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Aman, Montenegro
Montenegro will be the first European country to have a hotel by Adrian Zecha, the man who reinvented luxury hotels in the 1990s with his Eastern-inspired Aman brand. By late August the first of three Aman hotels will open on the 15th-century island of Sveti Stefan, which used to be a favourite of film stars and royalty until war in the Balkans ended the party. The hotel's name hasn't been finalised, but for celebrities and style victims this will be 2008's most exciting opening (
Amirandes Hotel, Crete
This 214-room resort boasts an Olympic-sized saltwater swimming pool, plus free-form lagoons, while many of the suites have private pools. Near Heraklion, it has a vast Ayurvedic-based spa, plus a kids' club and a long sandy beach with copious watersports on offer - this is a serious resort hotel. The five restaurants and two bars are partly supplied by the hotel's own organic farm. Decor-wise, Amirandes mixes global chic with more than a touch of Miami Beach glitz (the palette of creams and white is daring for a hotel that aims to attract a significant family trade). Doubles including breakfast cost from €300 a night (00 30 2897 041103,
Hotel Tel More, Dubrovnik, Croatia
Croatian hotels have failed to excite the style set with their retro-style attempts at glamour, but the Hotel More may change that. An uncompromising cube set into the hills above the Lapad peninsula, this 35-room hotel looks as sleek as an ocean liner. Glass balconies make the most of the views, and there's a spot to swim in the sea within a short stroll. There are regular buses into Dubrovnik. Croatian Affair (020 7385 7111, offers doubles at £165 a night.
Demeure Loredana, Corsica
On the edge of the beguiling Corsican harbour town of Saint Florent, this new 18-room hotel promises to be strong on sea views and style. Bringing a sense of culture lacking in many beach hotels, the owners have blended grand pianos and a library of books (mostly French) with antique screens from India. Each room has a large balcony or patio, and there's a shared pool. It may be boutique-sized but the hotel houses a Turkish hammam, there's a lunchtime menu of local organic produce, and it's an easy walk to Saint Florent's cafes and restaurants. Simpson Travel (0845 811 6502, has three nights at the Demeure Loredana for two starting at £745pp, including flights and car hire.
Falconara Charming Resort, Sicily
This 65-room hotel, set alongside a private beach, offers a near-certain guarantee of tranquillity. In the southern part of Sicily, on the road from Agrigento to Ragusa, it has accommodation split between a low-slung main building and a Norman castle, which allows modernity and ancient walls to coexist in considerable harmony with marble floors and four-poster beds in a delightfully rugged environment. Active types will appreciate the tennis court and pool. Design Hotels (00 800 3746 8357, offers rooms at the resort (which reopens on 1 May) from €100 a night. | http://www.theguardian.com/travel/2008/feb/24/hotels.montenegro | dclm-gs1-228350000 | false | false | {
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0.026784 | <urn:uuid:d1706ba8-587d-425b-a9aa-e99bf3e6c893> | en | 0.986605 | Driver buckles up beer, not child
An Australian motorist has been fined for putting a seatbelt around a case of beer instead of a five-year-old passenger.
Police who pulled over the man's car on the Ross highway, near the outback town of Alice Springs, found the child sitting unrestrained in the back of the vehicle.
Constable Wayne Burnett said he and a colleague were carrying out routine searches on vehicles entering Aboriginal communities, where alcohol is banned under a government crackdown as part of an attempt to stamp out child abuse.
"I really haven't seen something like this before," Burnett said. "Sure, we get beer out of vehicles that is being taken into restricted areas but this is the first time that the beer has taken priority over a child."
Burnett issued the driver with a $750 fine for failing to ensure a child was wearing a seatbelt and for driving a car that was unregistered and uninsured.
Four adults were in the car, two in the front seats and two in the back. The carton of beer, which contained 30 bottles, was strapped in between the two adults in the back. "The child was sitting in the lump in the centre, unrestrained," Burnett added.
Superintendent Sean Parnell, of Alice Springs police department, said: "This serves as a timely reminder to all drivers to ensure they wear seatbelts and ensure, as is their responsibility, that all passengers in their vehicle are secured in the appropriate manner." | http://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/may/14/australia | dclm-gs1-228370000 | false | false | {
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Here There Be Dragons: Or Sometimes Not.
Q: When is a dragon not really a dragon?
A: When you are looking at the tiles in a mah-jong set.
When I started my research into mah-jong in anticipation of writing Thirteen Orphans, I looked forward to learning the answer to a question that had puzzled me since the first time I’d looked at a set of tiles.
Why is the Red Dragon tile inscribed with the character that means “center”? What does “center” have do with dragons?
The answer is that “center” has absolutely nothing at all to do with dragons. In fact, even the idea of dragons entered mah-jong terminology fairly late in the development of the game.
In the earliest surviving sets of mah-jong tiles, there are only six “honors” suits: the four directions (or winds) and two tiles with no set association of any sort. One of these is usually labeled “center” and the other is usually left blank.
Experts still argue when the final honors suit—now called the Green Dragon—was added, but certainly it had appeared by the late 1800s, as it is included in a set purchased in either 1889 or 1890.
Just as the Red Dragon tile is actually “center,” the late added Green Dragon tile is labeled with the character meaning “get rich.” The White Dragon very well may have begun life as a blank replacement tile or a joker. However, as time passed, the White Dragon became a standard part of play. The tile was now sometimes labeled with “B” or “P”, the first letter in the word “bai” or “pai” (depending on your transliteration system) meaning “white.”
When the White Dragon became standard for play, additional tiles were added to serve as replacements or jokers. This is why in some sets you have both tiles that are blank and tiles labeled “B” or “P”. Sometimes the spare tile has a border around the edges. If there is a pure white tile and a bordered tile, it’s up to house rules which tile serves as the White Dragon.
But how did center, get rich, and white become three dragons, adding richness to the imagery of the game, and contributing to any number of poetically named limit hands?
Likely the transition had to do with the game’s acquiring Western players. Western players would not recognize what the inscribed characters “center” and “get rich” meant, and a blank tile is just plain confusing. Someone sought for something to call those three odd honors tiles, and settled on the symbol almost universally associated with the mystic Orient. This is, of course, the dragon.
Moreover, because these tiles were often printed in red, green, and white, you ended up with three colors of dragons.
It is quite likely that the direction tiles had been associated with winds for a long while. Therefore, the honors tiles became known as Winds and Dragons, creating poetry where none had been initially, once again transforming a mere gambling game into something that inspires not only enjoyment, but strange twists of the imagination.
Please note: This is the fifth post I’ve written about various aspects of the game of mah-jong. Rather than repeat myself, you can find them here, here, here, and here.
1. Jei
I've been enjoying your posts about mah jongg. I play the National Mah Jongg League's version with friends on a (mostly) weekly basis. I have a friend who plays one of the Chinese versions & another friend who plays the Wright-Patterson version as well. My daughters & grandsons have learned to play. We always play at least one game when they come to visit.
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2. heresiarch
So this intriguingly mysterious appellation which Westerners find so fascinating came about because Westerners wanted an appropriately exotic name to go with their exotic game? Hm.
3. bookfoldbrewcineaste
I learned how to play Mah Jongg when I was living in Japan back in the early 90's. A wonderful Japanese couple, who were very generous to my wife and I during our stay in their city, taught us the game, and even presented us with one of their sets of tiles when we left.
I can't remember now if the husband--who had a wonderful sense of humor--referred to the red and green honors tiles as dragons, but I'll always remember what he called the blank white tiles. Whenever he drew one that he couldn't use, he would sigh and discard it with the dismissive exclamation, "Tofu!"
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4. janelindskold
I thought I posted a response to this thread...
I guess I punched the wrong button.
In any case...
"bookfold" you got me... I'm never, ever going to be able to look at the "White Dragon" without thinking "Tofu"!
Thanks for the laugh...
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Mountain goats in Glacier National Park. Photo by jessicafm via Flickr.
From the Arctic to the Rockies to the Mediterranean, species large and small are changing their migratory patterns and seeking more hospitable homes. Why? Climate change affects weather conditions, hunting grounds, and the availability of water and favored food supplies. Those that can up and move are the lucky ones--for now--but each relocation affects food chains and habitats, often in ways we can't yet predict. These nine critters are just a few of those being rousted from their regular watering holes by global warming.
1. Mountain Goats Running Out of Room
Mountain goats in the alpine reaches of the Northern Rockies may have gone as high as they can go in search of summer grazing areas, as the snowfields that provide water for the plants they eat melt more and more rapidly. Reports Sierra magazine: "In recent years these tough, resilient creatures have been losing ground in much of their traditional range, dwindling in many places to populations in the low double digits."
2. Barn Swallows Seen on Banks Island
Barn swallow photo by brendan.lally. via Flickr.
Common in more southern climes, barn swallows have been spotted on Banks Island, the westernmost point in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago as temperatures there warm up. Local Inuit hunters and trappers also report seeing robins and catching Pacific salmon and herring, none of which are normally found in the area. Warming and earlier thawing on the island are additionally thought to be causing earlier births of muskox and earlier egg-laying by geese.
3. Pacific Coast Butterfly Performs Disappearing Act
Edith's checkerspot butterfly photo by Anauxite via Flickr.
Historically found from Baja California to British Columbia, the Edith's checkerspot butterfly has been disappearing from the southern parts of its range and from lower elevations where the climate is becoming warmer and dryer. A survey conducted by a researcher from the University of California, Santa Barbara, showed that Mexican populations of the black, orange, and white-winged insect were four times more likely to be extinct than ones in Canada. In another study, 22 of 35 European butterfly species were shown to have shifted their ranges northward as the climate warmed over the past century.
4. Sea Ice Slipping Away from Walruses
Pacific walrus photo copyright Corbis.
Like ill-fated revelers at an overcrowded rock concert, thousands of Pacific walruses were stampeded to death in 2007 after disappearing sea ice forced them into close quarters on the shoreline above the Arctic Circle. Walruses generally use sea ice as a rest stop on their ocean-going journeys, but warmer weather and changes in ocean currents and winds are diminishing the amount available, causing the animals to move farther north each year. Two years ago, the Associated Press reported, "walruses came ashore earlier and stayed longer, congregating in extremely high numbers, with herds as big as 40,000 at Point Shmidt, a spot that had not been used by walruses as a 'haul-out' for a century."
Find More Ways Climate Change Has Animals Running for Their Lives on page 2.
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Nate: Hey, what are you doing here? Get back to your party.
Tripp: I was hoping you'd still be here. I wanted to thank you for the sacrifice you made on that stage tonight. For me.
Nate: Hey. I was happy to. I believe in your. And apparently New York does too.
My name is Nate Archibald. I'm Tripp van der Bilt's cousin. I know there's a lot of buzz going around about what happened this morning at the Hudson River, and it saddens me to tell you all that the story about it being a hoax ... it is true. However, my cousin, Tripp van der Bilt, had no knowledge whatsoever of it being a setup. My cousin is not only the most moral, honest and courageous guy I know, he's still a hero. And how do I know this? Because I'm the one who set it up.
Chuck: What the hell is wrong with you?
Serena: Right now? Thirst. I need a drink. She called me a prostitute.
Chuck: Why do you think she did that?
Serena: I'm not sleeping with Patrick. You of all people know what a prostitute does.
Chuck: The reason Blair attacked you is because she misses you. After 18 years, you can't read Waldorf subtext?
Serena: I shouldn't have to. If that's how she feels then she should just tell me. It's the mature thing to do.
Chuck: This coming from someone who just pushed their best friend into a cake.
Chuck: Look, you think your friendship is going to take care of itself. You're not kids anymore. You can't say you hate each other and then make up an hour later on the MET steps.
Serena: You tell her that.
Chuck: I'm telling you. And you should be careful. Because one day you're gonna find yourself telling people about Blair Waldorf. The girl who used to be your best friend.
Chuck: Look, ladies, please, this is supposed to be a classy event, not a sample sale at an outlet mall.
Blair: Chuck. You'll never believe what Serena did, she had my friend kicked out of the party!
Chuck: The call girl? Security just told me.
Chuck: Look, I don't know what's going on here, but if the girl's still here I'll find out what's going on and get to the bottom of it, okay?
Blair: Thank you, Chuck. And who's the one getting paid to date her clients, anyway?
Chuck: That's enough, Blair.
Blair: [to Serena] No! If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck ... the only prostitute here ... is you. Come on Chuck. I want some cake. [S shoves B's face into cake]
Gossip Girl: Blair and Serena at war again! Yummy.
I know I'm an enemy of the state right now, but what happened to you Nate? The guy I used to call my friend ... had a moral compass.
Serena: Where is he?
Blair: Don't worry. I took care of it. I had him taken up to a suite.
Serena: What? Why?
Blair: He's bombed. He's drunker than Paula Abdul during Hollywood week.
Serena: Are you really that jealous that he's here with me?
Blair: Look, S. You know wasted better than most of us having been in that state so many times yourself. Looks like you just met your match.
Did my son just walk out before playing the Q on a double letter? That is so not the Humphrey way.
Serena: Well I can't wait for you to meet Patrick. He's over at the bar getting me a drink right now. I feel SO lucky. He's so attentive.
Blair: It doesn't take much, does it? What. No one's ever accused you of saying no.
Nate: Certainly a step up from the Columbia dorms.
Chuck: Most penthouses are, Nathaniel.
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Blair: I can see he's starting to doubt himself.
Serena: Why wouldn't he? With the bad press, the protesters, the Daily Intel says he's thinking of stepping down.
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Congressional GOP Memo on Moving Gitmo Detainees to Illinois
1:26 PM, Dec 15, 2009 • By JOHN MCCORMACK
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Republicans on the Hill are circulating this memo on Obama's decision to move Gitmo detainees to a prison in Illinois:
Having failed to bring the Olympics to Illinois, President Obama will give Illinois an odd replacement gift just in time for the Holidays-al Qaeda terrorists from the Guantanamo detention facility. In announcing this decision, there still remains no explication of how closing Guantanamo makes America safer. Quite to the contrary, unnecessarily importing al Qaeda terrorists into the United States 1) gives them more legal protections, including Constitutional rights, than they have now at Guantanamo, 2) increases the chances they may be released into the country, and 3) in exchange for these significant costs, does not appease the Democratic base, and certainly will not appease al Qaeda.
Importing terrorists from Guantanamo into the United States likely gives them more legal protections than they have now.
It is admittedly unclear precisely what additional legal rights al Qaeda terrorists gain by their presence inside the United States, as opposed to their detention at Guantanamo, but the gain likely is not zero. The Supreme Court has held that "[i]t is well established that certain constitutional protections available to persons inside the United States are unavailable to aliens outside of our geographic borders." The Congressional Research Service (CRS) has observed, "non-citizens held in the United States may be entitled to more protections under the Constitution than those detained abroad." When Guantanamo detainees are moved stateside, they will likely assert broad protections under the Fifth Amendment Due Process Clause, to cover various conditions and elements of their confinement. They may also raise statutory claims regarding religious practices.
Voluntarily bringing Guantanamo terrorists into the United States increases the chances they will be ordered released into the country.
One of the most dangerous possibilities related to the transfer of Guantanamo detainees into the United States is that it may give judges the opportunity to order their release into the United States. Where detainees have sought a court order of release into the country, the main case denying that order turned on the fact that the detainees were outside the country. In that case, a Guantanamo terrorist cleared for transfer asked a federal judge last year to order him released into the United States, which the judge ordered. Thankfully, an appellate judge corrected that error on the grounds that a judge could not order the government to accept someone into the United States from outside the country. It is not clear that the same result obtains once the Administration has voluntarily brought Guantanamo detainees into the country.
Even though the President has confidently declared that he will not release detainees into the United States, he may be confronted with a court order directing just that once the Administration voluntarily brings al Qaeda terrorists to the United States. The bottom line is, even though Democrats state that President Obama would never release a terrorist into the United States, it is no longer exclusively his choice once he voluntarily brings them here. It makes no sense for the political branches to subcontract to the courts the issue of controlling U.S. borders and administering the admission of aliens, especially enemy aliens.
Creating Guantanamo in Illinois will not appease the Democratic base.
It appears that the Thomson correctional facility will be modified to a level of security that is "beyond supermax." Given this description, it seems highly unlikely that those opposed to the Guantanamo facility will accept law of war detentions of al Qaeda terrorists at another facility other than Guantanamo. For example, Michael Ratner of the Center for Constitutional Rights has characterized the President's detention proposals in the past as "closing Guantanamo physically, but repackaging it" elsewhere. The ACLU of Colorado has called Supermax "simply another form of torture."
Creating Guantanamo in Illinois certainly will not appease al Qaeda.
Today's announcement once again raises the canard that closing Guantanamo will remove an al Qaeda recruiting tool, as if al Qaeda would not continue to target the United States for terror attacks once Guantanamo is closed. This argument is belied by all experience with Islamist terrorists, given that the allegedly motivating factor of Guantanamo did not exist at the time of the following:
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, the first lady of the united states reminds us she can duggy better than laura bush ever did. that clip, later in the show. live at 5:30 a.m., you are at 30 rock. violent protest against the united states. at the u.s. kons late in benghazi, at least one american staff member was killed after they stormed the compound and burned it down. looking at the scene, you can hear gunshots going off. the attackers were armed with automatic rifles and grenades. libyan forces stationed there were said to have done little to stop the violence. in egypt, protesters scaled walls destroying the american flag, ripping it to shreds and replacing it with a black, islamic banner. the diplomatic staff had been evacua evacuated. both incidents in reaction to a little known akture movie produced in the u.s. po ridicule the profit mo hammed. the same guy that triggered deadly riots in afghanistan by threatening to burn the koran. the american embassy prepared a statement reading the united states embassy condemns the efforts of misguided individuals to hurt the feelings of muslims. respect for religious belief
included reports of a bin laden terror cell present in the united states at that point. he claims white house officials were dismissive of the information. he writes some of the administration considered the warning to be bluster. an intelligence official told me in interviews the neoconservative leaders were warning the white house that the cia had been fooled. according to this theory, bin laden was planning an attack to distract them from saddam hussein who they saw as a greater threat. intelligence officials protested the idea of bin laden conspireing with mr. hussein saying it was ridiculous. the neoconservative suspicions were carrying the day. the cia prepared an analysis to accept the danger from bin laden was real. that exert in the new york times. he'll join us on "morning joe" to talk about this piece and his book, "500 days." we'll ask how he came across this and how it stacked up against other terror warnings that came across the president's desk at that time. >>> we were reminded on the eveover 9/11 that terrorist continues. al qaeda's number two leader in yemen was killed
internet movie they find offensive that was produced in the united states. the government repeated they have no affiliation with the movie. president obama had a blunt late night phone call with egypt's new president, morsi. president obama warning it could be jeopardizes if they don't take a stand against american attacks. too little too late. morsi asked for $5 billion in loans from the inf telling egyptians it is their duty to protect our guests. in yemens a mob scene. they evacuated to a safe location and no embassy staff was injured. there was still plenty of damage as you can see in the pictures. hundreds of protesters tore through the security wall and smashed bullet-proof windows and torching cars. yemen's president immediately apologized to president obama for the attacks. >>> new developments on the attack in benghazi. we'll get the latest on that. first, we go to cairo. jim is standing by. what is the latest there? >> reporter: hi, willie. it's getting quite noisy here now. several hundred protesters who were setting up camp overnight on tahrir square tried to make anoth
is occupied by the president of the united states? a iowa couple shows up and the leader of the free world is hogging the place. an explanation, later. let's get to the news live at 5:30 a.m. at 30 rock here in the city. >>> this morning, we have new numbers in ohio and virginia. a new fox news poll shows among likely voters president obama opening up leads, seven points in both of those states, ohio and virginia. meanwhile, in florida, the president has a five-point lead according to fox news. it's impossible for romney to win the votes he needs without florida, which carries 29 of the votes. a cnn poll shows the president leading romney by eight points in the state of michigan. romney will be campaigning in sarasota. last night in miami, the republican candidate held his first public rally in five days and the first since the hidden camera remarks about the 47%. that took him off his campaign message. a gallup poll says more than half of independent voters, the comments did not make a difference. 29% say they are less likely to vote for romney. 15% of americans say they are more likely t
of the united states. >> reporter: julian moore earned best actress in a miniseries or movie for "game change." >> i feel so validated because sarah palin gave me a big thumbs down. >> reporter: "hatfields & mccoys"' kevin costner won best actor. make it ten years in a row for jon stewart and company. even if jimmy fallon did all he could to keep him from accepting. mark barger, nbc news. >>> nbc's education nation is in full swing. they're participating in the three-day summit aimed at improving education in the united states. nbc's danielle leigh reports. >> cody, you can do it. come on. >> i don't get it, mom. >> reporter: many of the nations' parents say they feel like the parents in this movie, "won't back down". >> we are taking back our schools. >> reporter: it features parents fighting for their children's future in a school system that is failing. >> we are falling further and further behind. as a parent i want the best for my child. >> reporter: this texas mom came to new york looking for better solutions. they're out there. >> i know a lot more stuff than i did last year. >> report
diplomatic security. remember, we reported yesterday president morsi had tough words about the united states. secretary clinton met with the presidents of libya, pakistan and to hold talks with benjamin netanyahu. yesterday in new york iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad looked to stoke an already tense situation in the middle east during his remarks at the general assembly. he declared that israel is bullying the united states over iran's alleged threat of a nuclear weapon. ahmadinejad said he's not worried about the threat of an attack on his country, the impact of international countries against his country are "not that bad." says we're doing fine. >>> mitt romney schorpening his attacks when it comes to the president's handling of foreign policy. in pueblo, the republican candidate keyed in on this phrase he used during his "60 minutes" interview, anti-unrest around the world. >> align ourselves with democracy, universal right, a notion that people have to be able to participate in their own governance, but i was pretty certain and continue to be pretty certain that there are going to
clinton says the united states government has now opened a new inquiry into the attack, an attack libya insists was preplanned. president obama says it's still unclear whether al qaeda was involved. meanwhile, in benghazi, the late ambassador chris stevens and the three other americans killed were remembered at a memorial servi service. >>> well, it's the moment so many consumers have been waiting for, the iphone 5 finally debuts today. people have been lining up for days all over the world for the latest smartphone from apple. the very first of the new handsets was sold in australia to cheers. iphone 5 presales alone topped 2 million according to the company. let's take an early look at the markets as we get all up in your business this morning. cnbc's karen in new york. >> it's going to be getting to the front of the queue because the queues are long. as you mentioned australia, asia and europe is going to be selling the device in the united states later on today. but many people, in fact, won't get to see the device probably till october as the company plays catch-up with the amount
around. we have a campaign which is tied with an incumbent president of the united states. i've got a very effective campaign that's doing a very good job but not everything i say is elegant. i want to make it very clear, i want to help 100% of the american people. >> republican governor scott walker meanwhile of wisconsin, said he'd like romney's campaign to recapture the same energy it had after paul ryan was first announced as the running mate. >> i want to see more passion. certainly in part it is a referendum on this president there is no doubt. but i think in most americans there's a lot of independent swing voters they want to know what's wrong with this president, but they want to know what's right and what's going to move them forward. i want to see fire in the belly. >> governor scott walker. while they're crisscrossing through ohio voters in the buckeye state will see a ad from president obama. it references the personal taurns romney released on friday showed he paid a 14% tax rate in 2011 although he gave a ton of money to charity, the tax rate is
. the obama campaign has also responded. it's shocking that a candidate for president of the united states would go behind closed doors and declare to a group of wealthy donors that half the american people view themselves as victims sbientitled to hando and are unwilling to take personal responsibility for their own lives. it's hard to serve as president for all americans when i have disdainfully written off half of the nation. that's exactly what mitt romney has done here with this statement behind closed doors. for months on this program, i have asked, will the real mitt romney stand up? we saw the real mitt romney. he did behind closed doors. he doesn't give a damn about those who needs assistance in this country and that we are a society, we are a country of compassion. we want to help people who are downtrodden. we want to help those who were dealt a tough deck of cards, whether it be in the economy, or whether it be health care, as of no fault of their own, or circumstances put on families that are totally out of their control. mitt romney wants to do away with those. he views those
you think about what jay carney said in regards to the notion na the government of the united states can tell speakers, here or abroad, they don't like what they're saying they respect their right under the u.s. constitution to speak, but rather some of the people stop speaking in a way deemed offensive to muhammad and adherence of islam. >> i agree, we need to be responsible, some people need to connect their tongue to their brain. they play the game of extremists on the other side. instigators, maybe they don't do it thinking that it will instigate something or violence will erupt. but what they're doing is something simple, they put something so offensive to certain people they cannot handle it. they start grasping democracy. after the arab revolution we had people raised, born under dictatorship. free election, free society it will take time. when you have terry johns and people saying freedom of expression and then you offend millions of people in their belief, and from the other side, it's used, it's used and manipulated by extremists to have political leverage. it's a disaster
jobs, i'm creating jobs. i'm fighting to improve schools in the united states of america. i'm not fighting on behalf of rich values or poor values or 53% value. i'm fighting for american values. he's fighting for american values. but the other candidate, the man behind the mask, he's offering us a budget that takes care of the rich but leaves everyone else in the dust. >> show me your budget. i'll tell you what you've got. let's take a look at their budget. why are they doing it? well, they are doing it because they have to. and here's the reason they have to. they cannot possibly, possibly continue to add to the tax cuts of the super wealthy. >> that's what is behind the romney mask. that's what the next 39 days to the election are all about. and a special thank you to our fake president and mitt romney for helping us to predict this election. joining me now unmasked is krystal ball, co-host of "the nik kell" on msnbc and dana milbank. thank you both for being here this evening. >> thank, reverend. >> krystal, let me start with you. romney is falling behind not because he's
on the united states embassy. >> i know there are some who ask why don't we just ban such a video. and the answer is enshrined in our laws. our constitution protects the right to practice free speech. i accept that people are going to call me awful things every day. and i will always defend their right to do so. and we must agree, there is no speech that justifies mindless violence. >> in the last couple of weeks, he pointed out those are probably not the result of a video and were coordinated. he also delivered in his remarks a stern warning to iran over its nuclear ambition. >> let me be clear. america wants to resolve this issue through diplomacy and we believe there is still time and space to do so. but that time is not unlimited. we respect the right of nations to access peaceful nuclear power. but one of the purposes of the united nations is to see that we harness that power for peace. make no mistake, a nuclear-armed iran is not a challenge that can be contained. it would threaten elimination of israel, the security of gulf nations, and the stability of the global economy.
. >> and when i become president of the united states. >> i'm going to win pennsylvania and i'm going to become the next president of the united states. >> we'll be talking with our political journalists about all that in just a moment. today there's reaction and a rare reversal from u.s. intelligence official on what happened in libya. officials now admit they got it wrong. the director of national intelligence office says "we revised our initial assessment to reflect new information." and the intelligence community now believes it was a "deliberate and organized attack" which left the u.s. ambassador and three others dead. now members of congress from both parties are demanding answers. on the ground in benghazi, investigators can't even get to the scene. nbc's mike viqueira is joining us from the white house with more on this. mike, how big a deal is this reversal? >> reporter: well, it's very controversial and potentially a big deal. the question all along is ever since those september 11th attacks what caused them, what was the motivation for the people who killed four americans including
the president of the united states who signed his initials saying, nfl fans on both sides of the aisle, hope the refs lockout is settled soon. the settlement became a bipartisan issue and it brought out none other than packers' fan and union busting wisconsin governor, scott walker, who two weeks ago had nearly all of his infamous anti-collective bargaining law struck down by a wisconsin judge. he chimed in on twitter writing after catching a few hours of sleep, the packers game is still painful, #returntherealrefs. mitt romney chimed in saying, i'd sure like to see some experienced referees. with nfl experience come back out to the nfl playing fields. that was after his running mate, paul ryan, also of wisconsin, used the monday night football debacle as a convenient political metaphor. >> did you watch that packer game last night? i mean, give me a break. it is time to get the real refs. you know what? it reminds me of president obama and the economy. if you can't get it right, it is time to get out. >>> all of the pressure and not necessarily from politicians helped bring about a deal bet
for president of the united states, for god's sake. what are you going to do? >> david gregory, they just went round and round and round. and it was like jell-o. he could not get mitt romney to stand still on anything except to promise tax cuts without in any way specifying how they were going to get paid for it. >> yeah. exactly. i'm not going to raise taxes on the american people. >> are we being too tough on these two guys, or were they really, really general in your eyes, too? >> they continue to amaze me, both the principles romney and ryan and their staff, they come to these shows with no news to me. and so the news they're going to make is news that's negative from their point of view. i thought, you know, they know what questions they're going to get. one thing we haven't discussed yet about romney is his answer about why he didn't mention the troops in his speech at the convention. he got asked about it and gave a very weak answer. >> he was also asked -- >> he was asked again and gave an even weaker answer. >> somebody who is really facing this unemployment crisis head on. and again,
slack. >> at least for 24 to 48 hours until you have a dead united states ambassador come back home. i think that was the unbecoming thing. >> but the egypt mistake is an interesting mistake and i think deserves some scrutiny. >> it was an interesting mistake. i think we can get past it. i think it is very good news that the president spoke with president morsi and let him know, this is not acceptable. this is not how you guys behave. and john, from all the report s i've read, the egyptians said message received. the muslim brotherhood, even, said message received. we're going to pull back. why is this important? this is so important for so many reasons in the middle east. the least of which not being israel and trying to keep -- trying to keep israel safe. >> well, you think about it, you know, the historic u.s. allies in that region, all of those relationships are somewhat more tenuous and trfragile than just few years ago, whether it saudi arabia. you want to have that relationship be strong. i think the president was speaking the truth which is that it's a government in transition.
of the united states of america, and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. [ applause ] >> boy, she just looked great, didn't she? >> she did. you can imagine, the amount of therapy and hard work. >> oh. >> that she's had to endure to climb back from being -- she was literally shot in the head. >> in the head at close range. >> close blank range. that was a pretty pivotal time in the nation's conversation about where we stand and the tone of things. >> it was. >> what a symbol of hope she is. that was incredible. >> it was a very moving moment. >>> all right. coming up he nominated his dad, last night for another term as vice president, bo biden, the attorney general of delaware, joins us ahead here on "morning joe." former pennsylvania governor ed rendell, nbc news political director chuck todd and later maryland governor martin o'malley. up next mike allen is here with the politico playbook. but first, bill karins with a check on the weekend forecast. >> good morning to you, mika. let me help get everyone out the door thi
was subsequently arrested his case known as plessy versus ferguson went to the united states supreme court. the court ruled in 1896 set forth a precedent that would take decades to overturn. it wasn't until 1954 brown versus board of education that we saw it overturned. you may have heard of the plessy v ferguson case, separate but equal. the majority for the court found that a statute which implies a distinction between the white and colored races has no tendency to destroy the legal quality of the two races. let's make this clearer. not only did the ruling separate people by race. it also narrowly defined them based on society's construct of what race is. you see, plessy himself, was the sort of man that you might look at and assume that he was white. so when the court was not only saying in this case that black and white are separate, they were also saying that the one drop rule is the definition of american blackness. but that was then, right? because we've moved beyond the definition and separation of race being inscribed into law. right. and race is no longer a construct placed on ot
of the united states. i've got a very effective campaign. it's doing a very good job. but not everything i say is elegant, and i want to make it very clear, i want to help 100% of the american people. >> in back-to-back interviews on "60 minutes," both candidates laid out their vision and admitted mistakes. romney said he spoke inelegantly. the president admitting he hadn't changed the culture in washington. >> i'm the first one to confess that the spirit that i brought to washington, that i wanted to see instituted where we weren't constantly in a political slugfest but were focused more on problem solving, you know, i haven't fully accomplished that. >> here's the brand-new politico/george washington university battleground poll. the president has a slight lead over romney, and barring a major event, the window may be closing for romney to make inroads in those key battleground states. let me bring in real politics reporter erin pike and politico's alexander burns. good morning to both of you. erin, not only did mitt romney say his campaign doesn't need a turnaround, yet he said i want to be
the next president of the united states will appoint several justices to the supreme court. that often is the most lasting legacy of an entire presidency. i find it strange, given the amount of coverage that citizens united has got, i found if i'm traveling or speaking to groups reporting, among progressive folks, everyone knows citizens unite and hates them. everyone knows the court gave us citizens united, the court upheld the piece of legislation not just for this president but probably democrats of the last 30 or 40 years. yet, the court is nowhere in the election so far. jeff, you wrote about this yesterday. what is your take on why we are not hearing about the court on the campaign trail. >> because, i have asked political professionals this question repeatedly. democrats and republicans say the same thing. they say the people who really care about the supreme court are committed to their party anyway. the people who want roe preserved are going to vote for the democrats those who want it reverses are going to vote republican. the swing voters don't care even if they are pro-choi
by how scared the president of the united states looked, how disoriented he looked, how it seemed like they did not know where they were going. and i just want to do a hat tip right here, which, again, in this environment you probably aren't supposed to do. you know what? while george bush looked scared and disoriented that day, that day only, rudy giuliani stepped up. and he became america's mayor on that day. and he kept people advised of what was going on and was a great leader for that time. >> it was one of the great acts of spiritual and popular leadership that we'll ever see. and, you know, mayor giuliani is a big churchillian. but he was reading and looking at in those days and weeks a book by john lucash called "five days of may" in may of 1940 between churchill and chamberlain and halifax. and it was a marvelous case of leadership of being there. >> well, and like churchill and we're not comparing him to churchill, but for that time, though, like churchill, part of it was leadership, part of it was a great act. telling people, and by the way, that's what kept the british peop
showing the iphone could impact the entire united states domestic product. >> reporter: that's right. analyst jp morgan says it could boost the gdp by a half percentage point. answers should be later this morning when we find out what is at the center of this apple core. jay grarks nbc news, san francisco. >>> here is your "first look" at headlines around america. in florida, a dramatic end to a high speed chase after a car smashed into the back of another car before coming to a rest along i-95. two men and a teenager took off running. the trio may be linked to a series of burglaries. >>> in utah, a breach of earth -- strong thunderstorms were too much for the dike. the flooding forced evacuations. >>> in pennsylvania, heartless act of vandalism. the target, animals. a goat and horse were separate painted over the weekend. they are sitting on the farm. the owners think they tagged mailboxes. finally, could this be the future of our military? the pentagon backed darpa program has robot dogs. it could lighten the load for our troops. gps keeps them moving in the right direction. now, f
judicious in what you say. anytime you run for the president of the united states, you are on. >>> jesse ventura is floating the idea he may run for president. he mentioned radio host howard stern as a possible running mate for an independent ticket. >>> orrin hatch of utah is being called an old guy by his opponent. the 80-year-old hatch might retire or die before his term is through. the hatch campaign called the comments outrageous and offensive. >>> blt steak is running a presidential poll based on burger orders to be decided in two weeks. the mitt romney burger features a utah style and the other has kobe beef hawaiian style. >>> mr. obama talked about the florida pizza ria owner who lifted him off the ground in a bear hug last week. remember that? the president said quote, i think he fixed something in my back. that's your morning dish of scrambled politics. >>> here is your "first look" at how wall street is going to kick off. the dow closed at 13,564 after adding 11 points yesterday. the s&p lost one. nasdaq was down a fraction. in tokyo, the nikkei jumped over 108 points. it was
's the governor who presided over the farrest reaching health care plan in the united states today. i don't know what to say. i'm speechless. >> he clearly did know what he was talking about on morning joe there and he worked enough on the issue in massachusetts to know what he was talking about. and that appearance on "morning joe" was at the beginning of this presidential campaign. he knows then that he's going to be running for president. so he's giving a campaign answer then which he can no longer give, apparently. but as the governor just mentioned, one of the things that you can get at the emer emergency room is a very, very big bill that can put you into bankruptcy, isn't it? >> the emergency room is a great place to get patched up, if you have a true emergency, a heart attack, but it takes only a few hours in the emergency room to run up a bill not just in the thousands of dollars. there are very few people who can pay that. the bills get very expensive, people can't pay it and the cost gets passed on to the rest of us in the form of higher taxes or insurance premiums. nobody knows that
committee in the senate. >> they balanced their family budgets only to find out that the united states senate on the democratic control will not even bring a budget plan to the senate floor. people should know that the republican-led house, on the other hand, met its obligations. most significantly it passed a budget to rescue america from a debt crisis. >> this is an election year. you hear a lot of hyperbole. you can't find one sane economist that doesn't say if they don't do something about that fiscal cliff, the raising of the tax rates, cutting of government spending it will not lead to something close to an economic catastrophe not only here in washington and in the united states but worldwide. here's another bit of good news. they're going to come back after the elections, after november 6 in a lame duck session and try to do something about that. thomas? >> michael, we talk about this continuing resolution so it gets us into march of 2013. there's a potential it could go six months beyond that, correct? >> well, sure. i mean, they always like to give a new congress a couple of
of the united states is an awesome figure merely to share the platform with him on equal terms is the gain in stature, good performance will be gauged even better. why would any president agree to participate in an event that ultimately -- the -- because it's become now a demand, president obama suddenly bailed on debates. then, you know, he would be seeming like a poor sport. and also these debates are agreed upon long before the fall season, they're everything from the podium to the lighting, everything is worked out between the parties. >> do you think the presidential debate has ever changed the course of an election? >> i definitely do, i think we just talked about 1960, i think it changed it. i think in 1976, in 1980, i think also one could argue in 2000, it would al gore's kind of a robotic performance against george w. bush that cost him a lot. - >> rolling his eyes and -- >> the lock box that nobody understood what he was talking about. and the way -- even the way his makeup looked. one of the problems of these debates anymore, it's not just substance, people are looking at eye ro
you. god bless the united states of america. >> here's allen west's interpretation of that ad for his audience at the republican jewish coalition in bow contaca florida last night. >> they want to bring out an old soviet marxist theme called forward. >> yeah. yeah. you heard them. allen west had the full approval of his audience with that. including the members of the audience who are currently being kept alive by a socialist program called medicare. but allen west wasn't there just to tear down the president and decode his soviet marxist soviet socialist messaging. he was there to give republicans their marching orders. >> we are going to go forward. >> what? allen west just finished explaining that the word forward is a soviet markist soviet socialist something or other and then he used that very same word in telling his audience what to do? of course, his audience immediately jumped out of their seats are you crazy how do you expect us to listen to you. and of course the republican jewish coalition bouncers must have thrown him out of the room and told him to never insult their int
for the president of the united states and commander in chief, as mr. romney is? >> it's inconceivable to me, al, that the american people would take romney seriously after what he did at the convention. because the american people, the first job of the president, is to make the american people safe, to defend the country, to protect the country. and for him to come up there and not even talk about what's going on in a whole bunch of places, whether you want to talk about syria or libya or all the places that the president has had to stand up, make decisions and stand behind those decisions and come out beautifully on most of them, i -- i think that romney is afraid that he can't do it. that's why he doesn't say anything about it. there's no other explanation except that he's afraid. he knows he ought to be talking about it. >> now, richard, romney's team, 17 of his 24 advisers served under the bush administration. and the reason that becomes relevant today is kurt eichenwald in the new york times came out with intelligence briefings in 2001. may 1st president bush was informed. june 22nd, attac
and affects the relations with the united states and the iran situation because you have netanyahu clearly hasn't said this but clearly we can all say he prefers mitt romney to be president and actions and words probably designed to help romney. on the other hand, you have barack the defense minister trying to help obama with the public words and statements. >> i think brack -- >> how will that dynamic be affected by the november election result here? >> i don't think it will be very -- i mean, it might affect the jewish population vote more or less but i don't think ehud barack, the defense minister endorsed -- >> when you have netanyahu going out of the way to talk about -- present the image of strained relations and then choosing to go public and say israel's never had a better friend in the white house than barack obama. that seems -- >> when you are prime minister, you have the upper hand. you're the voice of the country. you are the most important man. you know, when jimmy carter used to say, israel has no morn policy and only domestic policy. this time in history we see somebody int
pennsylvania and i'm going to become the next president of the united states. >> okay. just to clarify, the romney campaign is running no ads whatsoever in pennsylvania. mr. romney is down 12 points in "the new york times" poll this week. pennsylvania is not in play. i guess that's why tonight he'll head up to battleground massachusetts. yes, another fund-raiser. this time with the president of the new england patriots, son of the patriots owner. good thing that strike is over. could be a bit awkward collecting 75 grand a plate. if you're wondering why mitt romney isn't complaining in, say, florida, it may be that mitt romney never, ever wants to cibo se see boca raton again. case in point, vice president joe biden in boca raton this afternoon who had a quite different view of the 47%. >> these people are fighting back with every single thing they have. i don't sense any sense of dependency. they're just looking for a little opportunity, a level playing field, a fair shot. my dad used to say, joey, i don't expect the government to solve my problems but i do expect them to understand my
? that makes sense. one of the least controversial things you could possibly imagine the united states government agreeing to. well, a bill to adjust that payment for the cost of living was brought to the senate floor last thursday. it was expected to go ahead, no muss, no fuss. who is going to argue with that? but it was blocked by someone in governor romney's party. an unnamed republican senator has put a hold on the cost of living adjustment to the surviving spouse's and children's payment for soldiers killed in the war. the same hold is also affecting the disability payments to soldiers who are wounded in the war. some republican senator is blocking this. we don't know who. governor romney, here's a place to start. you are now the leader of the republican party. i realize you're having a hard time getting the training wheels off when it comes to nation 58 security. but here's an easy one, should that senator from your own party lift that hold on the cost of living adjustment to the payments to those people who we sort of owe it to? should a republican senator who is holding this up
properly appreciated the gravity of the house crisis in the united states, and putting -- fixing that in a way that people could either try to save their homes, refinance, even if their home value is underwater, but they had equity in it. so i'd say this more as preemptive, and since congress is so unpopular, doesn't hurt to blame them. >> and here's the thing with housing, lynn, not to get off on a tangent, but one of the things that's rarely addressed is a lot of the folks who desperately need to refinance their homes, their credit has taken such -- it's been battered so badly during the crisis, they don't qualify for the refi. >> well, and i'll do this quickly. that's my point. if you talk about why people might hone in on this issue and why obama's focusing on this, before the debate, where it is likely a reasonable thing to guess that it might come up, is that he realizes that this is a vulnerable area, achilles heel, and now trying to shift the blame ahead of time to congress. i say this is a little bit of setting the stage for obama vulnerability that people can relate to.
of the united states. the polls he showed president obama up eight points in that state. now suffolk university poll shows the president at 46%. the president reminded what was said. >> i have always said that change takes more than one term or more than one president. it takes more than one party. i can't happen if you write out half the nation before you take office. >> i don't know how many of you out there will be voting for me. but, i'll be fighting for you no matter what. i'm not fighting to create democratic jobs or republican jobs, i'm fighting to create american jobs. >> today the obama re-election campaign released it's third add hitting mitt romney for insulting and lying about 47% of americans. >> 47% of people will vote for the president who are -- believe that they are victims believe the president who are -- believe that they are victims believe that government has the responsibility to care for them and believe that they are entitled to health care and housing and you name it. my job is not to worry about those people. >> rush limbaugh is still struggling to find an honest way t
of the united states of america. and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. [ cheers and applause ] >> that's just an incredible moment. you hear it in here, tears in people's eyes, people clapping at 5:30 in the morning. >> and much deserved. >> john, thanks so much. we'll talk to you in just a minute on "morning joe." still ahead on "way too early" when we come back to charlotte. in sports, the nationals are great, the cubs are just horrible. last night they brawled. we'll show you, ahead in sports. >>> plus -- >> when america needed it most, who got us rolling again on the road to recovery? >> whoo! former michigan governor jennifer granholm gives a speech that is quite literally still ringing in the ears of those in the convention hall. that can't-miss clip and a check of weather when we come back from charlotte. ♪ >>> the shooting took place while shackure was on his way to a party following the mike tyson fight. the 25-year-old rapper was in the back seat of a black bmw, part of an informal convoy of ten cars, when la
? ♪ >>> welcome back to "way too early." it's 5:43 in the morning. a live picture of the united states capitol building. let's get a check on your weather from nbc meteorologist todd santos. todd, good morning. >> good morning to you, willie. a quiet setup across a good stretch of the country for today. your monday travel should be fairly easy, especially after what we dealt with early saturday with those two tornado touchdowns near the new york city area. the issue itself is that frontal boundary leaving us with mostly clear skies. the piece that's going to be most noticeable as you step outside, the could toler temperatures. 61 degrees at this point. 58 in hartford. will see a few patches of light frost tomorrow morning up around old forge, central portions of new york state. some of the first areas generally to see cooler temperatures in the northeast. that's kind of that first sign that maybe we start to begin that transition of seasons. for the most part today fairly quiet. may see a few pockets of light showers. some of those towards the capitol district. albany getting in on some of tha
united states must be outrage. >> the administration sent mixed signals to those who attacked our embassy in egypt and mixed signals to the world. >> reporter: the world waits to see who will be held responsible for the death of a diplomat. >> reporter: even some republicans criticized romney for jumping in while events were still unfolding. mara. >> right now there are reports of protestsers storming the u.s. embassy in the yemeni capital. once inside the compound, the mob brought down the u.s. flag and burned it. witnesses say security forces have opened fire on the crowd. >>> well, when it comes to what many see as mitt romney's missteps in the aftermath of the attack, last night on "politics nation," they spoke about what romney needs to do in response. >> before you make statements, get your facts straight. at night with the crush of other events going and i'm sure people running in and out telling this is happening, that's happening, let's get a statement out, they did it wrong. they didn't get their facts straight. he should take it back and he should express condolence to the dipl
, a remarkable suspension of joint operations between the united states and our supposed partners in afghanist afghanistan. what does the breakdown in that relationship mean for the future in the
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the election but becoming confident about the fate of the new york marathon. >> charlie gasparino? >> there firms are sponsors they tell me the new york city marathon they believe is canceled. do we have confirmation? we do not. there has been an uprising in the city. personally i think they should have it. at some point* we have to get back to normalcy but is hotly debated. in the financial community people are hearing it is done in. it one not have been. you often do it. >> i have run it go but it kos his days causes massive gridlock it is hard enough to get around. >> and is probably the distinctly impossible. the trading desk is usually right. of the mayor's office has not commented but the trading community affirms our sponsored so they have good intelligence. i heard that tiger woods was making his comeback but how did i get that? he has sponsors on wall street. they are generally good. liz: it goes over the bridge than other bridges and first avenue, the entire length then through harlem and down fifth avenue and central park we already have a dangling crane causing reebok.
should be expecting tomorrow. we head into tuesday, we've got the elections. still neck-and-neck depending on which poll you start looking at. at this point right now it is somewhat positive or encouraging to see that what we've been through so far this week, the two days off, relatively quiet day yesterday. it seems like the dust has settled, and the money is starting to come slowly back on a short-term basis into this market here. liz: let's hope so. but it's slowly but surely. kevin down at the cme, you know, you can look at things from gasoline and oil inventories, which surprised at least -- [inaudible] -- for oil inventories the expectation was to see a build of 2.3 million barrels, what we got was a drawdown which should be bullish for prices of about 2 million, and what do we see in we do have crude just up slightly, nothing too dramatic. what was the trading feel today? >> yeah, i think when you look at commodities in general, and particularly what happened earlier in the week you saw a little bit of money coming off the side lines. i agree with your last guest
one before the election. >> that could have a big impact. but there's another thing we haven't really thought about here, wednesday is end of month. you can't keep these things shut for that long. we have end of month and jobs report. we will have to start getting things back on-line very soon. sandra: what do traders want to see ultimately the exchange do as far as trading is concerned? >> we would like to be open. it is also a good advertisement for open outcry, we're standing out here with these funny color jackets on but we want to make sure the public knows we're here and open for business. sandra: that's it. energy is still trading on the globe-ex electronically. only 45 minute break between 5:15 and 6:00 p.m. eastern time, that's still plan as scheduled. trading will begin in energy and gold market tonight. that is if the cme doesn't change things between now and then. we will keep everybody updated on that. liz: thank you very much. neil cavuto will have those globe-ex trades coming up tonight at 7:00 p.m. we have some breaking news. brand new video in from new york city's tal
that area. going forward into the elections, we have other things other than just the storm that's going to affect the price of crude and rbob gasoline. i think gasoline, if we get a spike, i don't think it's necessarily due to the storm. if we get a drop, it isn't due to the storm as well. i think that will cancel each other out. ample supply. liz: stay safe. i assume you will be back on the floor if they open it. thank you very much for joining us. mike mcpartland there in edge water new jersey. we have breaking news on a day where the markets have been closed and a lot of companies are postponing their earnings report. disney dropping a pretty dramatic headline here. cinderella is going to be best buds with darth vader? yes, it appears that disney is going to buy lucas film, the owners of the star wars franchise. here's a disney chart over the past year. it's been doing extraordinarily well up until recently where it pared back just a bit. let me look at the headlines for you. disney says star wars episode 7 is targeted for release in 2015. they want a part of that. again, disney in a
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but taking away some of the tax deductions used by the top 2% of wage earners. the president answered, not enough revenue unless you end charitable deductions, et cetera, less rooempb equals more cuts in education, et cetera. i'm joined by gloria borger now. >> how about that et cetera? >> you like the et cetera. they got two very different proposals on the table right now. >> they're speaking past each other. they seem to be really living in different universes or one on mars, one on venus, whatever you want to call it. look, it's very clear. one of the republicans want more entitlement cuts up front. and the democrats want these tax increases on the wealthy up front. the irony here to me watching this is in the long term, the second part of this, everybody seems to know what needs to be done. they know you've got to fix entitlement spending. they know you've got to reform the tax code to make it simpler and to make it fairer. the big problem they've got is how you get from here to there. and right now, in order to get over this hump, they sort of are in the position of putting every
be disastrous for us to use the debt ceiling as a cudgel to try to win political points on capitol hill. so we're not going to do that because the justice department has formally unveiled its $1.5 billion settlement with the swiss banking giant ubs for the company's role in the manipulation of the london interbank offered rate, or libor, which provides the basis rates on trillions of dollars in transactions across the globe. on wednesday, the assistant attorney general said ubs had played a key part in the reckless attempt to manipulate rates for profit. >> the banks conduct was simply astonishing. hundreds of trillions of dollars, credit card debt, student loans, financial derivatives and other financial products worldwide, are tied to libor. which serves as the premier benchmark for short-term interest rates. in short, the global marketplace depends upon all of us relying on an accurate libor. yet ubs, like barclays before it, sought repeatedly to fix libor for its own ends. in this case, so ubs traders could maximize profit on their trading positions, and so the bank would not appear to be
you in, harris. thank you for joining us. "america live" starts right now. >> fox news extreme weather alert on the deadly storm that has caused major problems from texas to the northeast the storm is now blamed for a total of 15 deaths. whipping up tornados in the south, strong winds and rain along the atlantic coastline and dumping heavy snow from the plains to new england. the northeast getting hammered today. some areas are seeing more than a foot of snow while others deal with a heavy wind-swept rain leading to big airport delays in ohio, more than a thousand trucks are sent out, some getting heavy police escort as winds cause zero visibility. drivers say the situation is awful. >> i have seen 10 cars in an accident. i have saw a lexus fly into a ditch. i saw a semi-truck jackknife. all kinds of stuff. >> i have lost count of the number of cars i've seen in the ditch. i saw a jackknifed tractor-trailer. i saw a horse trailer that was turned over. so i think people are just not really driving slow enough for the conditions. >> pretty rough. we've seen a lot of accidents thus far in
is what we are after. peter doocy live in washington with more. peter, tell us first, speaker boehner -- the big problem right now with the white house proposal that was just presented. >> jamie, speaker boehner says he was flabbergasted when the treasury secretary geithner came to capitol hill and told him what the president wants. and this is why. >> the president is asking for $1.6 trillion worth of new revenue in ten years. twice as much as he has been asking for in public. he had stimulus spending in here that exceeded the amount of new cuts he was willing to consider. it was not a serious offer. >> reporter: secretary geithner says the white house $4 trillion plan has 2 to 1 ratio of cuts to spending increases. but everything we heard from speaker boehner suggests the $1.6 trillion in new revenue the white house wants is too much. especially since boehner does not want to increase tax rate at all. he wants the revenue from the closed loopholes and limited deduction. >> put a new deal on the table but tim geithner, does he say specifically where he sees the tax rate for the top e
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've gotten us into, bring a balanced budget to the table to grow this economy for the long term not the short term. >> there you go. for the long term, not the short term. >> there you go. i'm don lemon. happy new year to you. jooirksz . >>> hello, i'm don lemon and this is cnn's top 10 of 2012. we look at the stories that captured our attention, what we see as the biggest stories of the year around the world, in crime, money, weather and even the biggestscandals and later this hour, those stories chosen by you. anchor of state of the union, candy crowley, with the top ten political stories of 2012. >>> like finding your favorite grain of sand on the beach. impossible number of possibilities. catch phrases become boomerangs. >> if you got a business you didn't build that. >> i like being aable to find service members. >> i'm an american woman who uses contraception. let's start there. >> it's like an etch-a-sketch. you shake it up and we start all over again. >> i'm not going to shut up. it's my turn. >> i think it's called romneysia. >> if i were to coin a term it would be obamaloney. >> the
into effect. that could take a painful toll on the u.s. economy. let's go to capitol hill. our senior congressional correspondent dana bash is standing by with the latest. dana? >> reporter: well, wolf, the vote that the speaker calls plan b is about an hour away. we're told that republican leaders at this hour are still twisting arms, republican arms to make sure that this passes. there's a weird sense here, a weird atmosphere that things are moving fast but stalled at the same time. the fiscal cliff impasse is so surreal, democrats are resorting to movie analogies, calling republicans thelma and louise. >> rather than face the reality of what lies ahead, they hit the gas. that's what we're hearing from speaker boehner now. >> reporter: don't blame us, say the republicans, it's the president. >> he's doing everything within his power to take us over the cliff and he is set on dividing us. >> reporter: adding to the sense that congress is in an alternate universe, instead of negotiating to avert the fiscal cliff, the house will vote on the gop plan b, a bill to keep tax rates in place
from washington to tell us what this all means. first off, is there anything, joe, to read in to this morning's silence coupled with friday's silence on this issue? >> honestly, nothing at all. they could still decide later in the week, quite frankly. they could decide next week. this is a thing about the court. they really don't send a lot of signals or messages to do something and we have been telling people all along that, you know, there's potential for this to come later on. they can still go in march with this. and we could still get a decision around june. so, don't read anything in to it. that said, you know the broad legal question the supreme court considers of equal protection. basically do same sex couples deserve the same rights and benefits as all other americans? we don't know if the court wants to hear the case. it could be a much narrower case about the defensive marriage act, it could be limited to considering whether couples in states where same-sex is legal and eligible for benefits and not a sweeping decision. the other parameter, of course, proposition
for watching us this morning. i'm carol costello. "cnn newsroom" continues right now with ashleigh banfield. >> thanks so much, carol. hi, everyone. i'm ashleigh banfield. it's 11:00 on the east coast. 8:00 on the west coast. how does this sound to you? >> me and my friends here, we met across the street and we smoking weed and we're on our feet and ain't handcuffed and ain't worried about the boys. i got the toys fired up. >> fired up. talk about fired up. for thousands of people in seattle and all across washington state, this day could not come soon enough. it is day one of legal recreational marijuana use. courtesy of the voters who passed a landmark referendum last month. from this day forward, if you are old enough to drink, you can consume as much as one ounce of pot in washington state but you still can't grow it and you still can't sell it. technically, you still can't buy it and you're not supposed to light up in public either. what are you all doing out there at that party? my colleague was there. he was on the not so mean streets when the law took effect. i'll be interested to f
. >> pastor rick, happy holidays. >> thank you very much. merry christmas. >> that's all for us. merry christmas. christmas. >>> from cnn world headquarters in atlanta this is "early start weekend." what do you want to tell congress about the fiscal cliff? we'll have your video messages. >>> the woman accused of pushing a man in front of a subway is now being charged with a hate crime. now she's saying why she did it. >>> wow, a plane crash caught on tape, the story. hind this dash cam video of an exact moment a jet slammed into an overpass. >>> it's sunday, december 30th, good morning, i'm allisison kos. randi kaye is off today. we're going to start this morning in washington where all eyes on capitol hill as lawmakers try to work out on a deal to avoid the fiscal cliff. the deadline is less than 48 hours away and as to whether they can get it done, the president says he's hopeful. >> i'm modestly ll lly optimis an agreement can be achieved. let's make sure that middle class families and the world economy aren't adversely impacted because people can't do their jobs. >> both houses of
state, this day could not come soon enough. it is day one of legal recreational marijuana use. courtesy of the voters who passed a landmark referendum last month. from this day forward, if you are old enough to drink, you can consume as much as one ounce of pot in washington state but you still can't grow it and you still can't sell it. technically, you still can't buy it and you're not supposed to light up in public either. what are you all doing out there at that party? my colleague was there. he was on the not so mean streets when the law took effect. i'll be interested to find out what the absentee rate is at seattle workplaces today, miguel. >> reporter: i think most people are going to work here. it's not quite as crazy as that. it's cold and rainy. puts a damper on things. there were a lot of parties across the entire state and a lot of those issues you raised will be taken care of in the near future. last night was a night for celebration for these folks. >> four, three, two, one. >> reporter: the moment recreational pot, anything less than an ounce no longer illegal in washingt
2004 to 2010. and not just football. conditions happen in the u.s. each and every year. martha: belcher is not the first nfl player to recently take his life. junior say oh and dave diewr on both died of self-inflicted gunshot wounds. we'll talk to jim coming up in the next hour. >> 6 minutes past the hour. former president george herbert walker bush waking up in a houston hospital. said to be in stable condition being treated for a bronchitis-related cough. he's 91 years old. he has been visited by several of his children including former president george w. bush. hopefully he will be going home very soon. martha: there are around the clock demonstrations in egypt as president morsi and the muslim brotherhood push through a hard-line islamist constitution. morsi supporters blocked them from entering the courthouse in order to give a ruling on this constitution. steve harrigan joins us from there. where do we stand now with this constitutional court having no ability to rule at this point? >> reporter: the most unusual situation in cairo where you have egypt's top court whose judges now
much. >> that's it for us tonight. it's been an extraordinary year. thank you for watching. >>> tonight the biggest names in politics. >> word peace is something almost become fashion. >> headline makers. >> if the president didn't know what happened, he sure as hell should have. >> candidates. >> i was the perfect candidate for america. >> what if mitt romney isn't the best person? >> the idea that somehow making a business profitable is different than helping people. >> it's ridiculous for people to purchase a gun. >> did you get up this morning and have a quick -- >> i probably did, i probably did. >> "piers morgan tonight: the newsmakers" starts now. >>> good evening. one of the great things about my job is that every night i get to sit down with movers and shakers, the men and women at the center of the biggest stories of the year. what do they have in common? they're all utterly fascinating. tonight you'll hear from some of my favorite guests. we'll begin with the big man himself, governor chris christie. he found himself in a bit of hot water for making nice with president obama
. explain what is going on there. are people camped out and are they using loudspeakers to make their point? what are they doing? >> reporter: of the two competing protestors these are the people in tahrir square who are angry with mohammed morsi. they set up loud speakers and tents and they say they intend to stay here until they can drive him out of power. it's hard to see what kind of leverage they have. it's hard to see whether they will be able to maintain the momentum. we saw a peak of 200,000 people last tuesday but it's been a steady decline now just few thousand behind me. >> gregg: steve, thanks. >> heather: israel announcing it is withholding hundred million dollars to the palestinian thovtd after successful palestinian bid for non-member observer state status at the united nations. david lee miller has the latest. >> israel says it is withholding the hundred million dollars because the palestinian authority owes israel state electrical company some $200 million. israel collected this money on behalf of the palestinian authority for taxes and customs duty. palestinian authority b
the first responders or police. we don't know that either. authorities do tell us they have taken into custody some people they think have knowledge of the situation, so they're trying to figure out how this bizarre scenario unfolded, if this was a trap. the police chief did say in the press conference that of course there will be questions about whether or not an assault rifle was used. he said at this point he does not know and he doesn't know if it was one gun or multiple guns. this is still very much developing, but a tragedy on christmas eve. >> absolutely. thanks, poppy harlow in new york. just as i said, i realize knowing so little, we didn't know if it was a man or a woman. we'll continue to follow that. >>> to texas, two people have died after a car chase ended in a shootout. the pursuit started after a bel air texas police officer tried to pull over a driver who refused to stop. the chase ended up in an auto parts business parking lot where police say the driver shot and killed the officer. and also a bystander. the driver is listed in critical condition at the hospital.
, but the regime surrounded it completely cutting us off from the world, nothing was allowed in and out. even water and bread was cut off. today we obtained dough. >> reporter: they were able to open a bakery around 1:00 p.m., and the rockets struck just hours later. as nearby hospitals quickly filled up, activists began pleading for help. >> we are joined by the reporter from beirut. this looks crazy. it looks crazy to me. do we know who is responsible for this? >> reporter: suzanne, it is absolutely horrific, and just so many grizzly details started to emerge in the hours after the attack. now, the residents in that town that we spoke with said that they believed they were targeted because that town had been liberated by the free syrian army because there's a lot of anti-regime sentiment there. they believe they were targeted deliberately by the syrian regime. syria's government, however, today posted a statement on their syrian news agency website in which they blamed this on the actions of terrorists. that's the terminology they use for rebel fighters, opposition fighters in syria. they say tha
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The celestial sphere with the zenith and almucantar marked in red, the horizon in green, and the path of a star or the Sun in blue.
An almucantar (also spelled almucantarat or almacantara) is a circle on the celestial sphere parallel to the horizon. Two stars that lie on the same almucantar have the same altitude. The term was introduced into European astronomy by monastic astronomer Hermann Contractus of Reichenau, from the Arabic word al-muqantarat, meaning "crooked, bow-like."
Almucantar staff[edit]
An almucantar staff is an instrument chiefly used to determine the time of sunrise and sunset, in order to find the amplitude and consequently the variations of the compass. Usually made of pear tree or boxwood, with an arch of 15° to 30°,[1] it is an example of a backstaff.
This is a drawing of an almucantar staff. There are three vanes - the horizon vane (A), the shadow vane (B) and the sighting vane (C).
The sun casts that shadow of a vane (B in the image at the right) on a horizon vane (A). The horizon vane has a slit or hole to allow the observer to see the horizon in the distance. The observer aligns the horizon and shadow so they show at the same point on the horizon vane and sets the sighting vane (C) to align his line of sight with the horizon. The altitude of the sun is the angle between the shadow vane and the sighting vane.
Solar almucantar[edit]
The almucantar plane that contains the Sun is used to characterize multiple scattering of aerosols. Measurements are carried out rapidly at several angle at both sides of the Sun using a spectroradiometer or a photometer. There are several models to obtain aerosol properties from the solar almucantar. The most relevant were developed by Oleg Dubovik and used in the NASA AERONET network and by Teruyuki Nakajima (named SKYRAD.PACK).
• Adelaide Observatory: Almucantar graphs of hour angles, Adelaide, R. E. E. Rogers, Govt. printer, 1927.
• Chandler, Seth Carlo, (1846–1913): The almucantar, Cambridge, J. Wilson and Son, 1887.
• Dubovik, O. and M. D. King, 2000: A flexible inversion algorithm for retrieval of aerosol optical properties from Sun and sky radiance measurements," Journal of Geophysical Research, 105, 20 673-20 696 pdf version
• Nakajima T, Tonna G, Rao RZ, et al.:Use of sky brightness measurements from ground for remote sensing of particulate polydispersions, Applied Optics 35 (15), 2672–2686, 1996
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Donald Sidney "Don" Reid (born 1945 in Staunton, Virginia) is the retired lead singer and main songwriter of the American country music vocal group, The Statler Brothers.[1] He wrote or co-wrote 40 of the Statler Brothers' 66 songs that made the Billboard country chart, including the No. 1 hit "Do You Know You Are My Sunshine."
In the early 1960s, Reid replaced Joe McDorman at lead vocals in a quartet that was changing its name from the Four Star Quartet to the Kingsmen. They would go on to become the Statler Brothers. McDorman had formed the group in 1955 with Lew DeWitt and Don's older brother Harold Reid while the three were teenagers.
Since the Statler Brothers' retirement in 2002, Reid has pursued a second career as an author, with seven books to his credit: Heroes and Outlaws of the Bible, Sunday Morning Memories, You'll Know It's Christmas When..., O Little Town, The Statler Brothers: Random Memories, which was co-authored with his brother, Harold Reid, One-Lane Bridge and The Mulligans of Mt. Jefferson. He, along with fellow ex-Statlers Harold Reid and Phil Balsley, are elders in their local Presbyterian church.
1. ^ "The Statlers: Out of fashion and loving it". The Vindicator. January 8, 1994. p. B8. Retrieved 24 September 2011.
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Laticauda schystorhyncha in Niue
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Hydrophiidae
Genus: Laticauda
Species: L. schistorhynchus
Binomial name
Laticauda schistorhynchus
(Schneider, 1799)
The katuali or flat-tail sea snake (Laticauda schistorhynchus) is a sea snake, related to the sea krait, found only in the waters of the Pacific Island nation of Niue. It grows up to 1 metre in length, and is highly venomous, making it one of the most dangerous creatures on the planet. It has a fin-like tail, helping it to swim better.[2][3] | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laticauda_schistorhynchus | dclm-gs1-229040000 | false | false | {
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On mass transports generated by tides and long waves
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For small-amplitude barotropic wave motion in a shallow fluid, Moore (1970) found that the associated mean mass transport is geostrophic, but otherwise arbitrary in the absence of friction. We show how weak friction, or starting the motion from rest, determines the mass transport by restricting circulation around closed geostrophic (f/h) contours. The resulting transport is quadratic in oscillatory quantities and depends on the friction type, but not on its (weak) magnitude. Comparison is made with earlier results in particular geometries. A tendency for anticyclonic circulation around shallow regions is found, and extends to large-amplitude oscillations where particle excursions exceed the topographic length scale. We suggest that numerical schemes for calculating tidal residuals should conserve mass and vorticity.
(Published Online April 20 2006)
(Received November 3 1979)
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Dahlman Rose came out with an important upgrade of the oil services industry late yesterday. I think this will provide important support to this sector. Dahlman Rose cites several factors behind its view.
• It projects North American E&P revenues will rise over 10% in 2013 which should mean at least a 5% increase in oil services spending based on historical norms.
• The analyst firm also says the recent rise in natural gas to $3.85 mmbtu is hugely positive to the E&P sector.
• Finally, it sees rig utilization rising to 85% by yearend 2013 compared to the current 77% utilization.
Here are two oil services firms highlighted in the report that I think are good value plays here as well.
Nabors Industries (NYSE:NBR) is the world's largest land drilling contractor owns and operates approximately 500 land drilling and approximately 750 land workover and well-servicing rigs in North America.
4 reasons NBR provides solid value at under $14 a share:
1. The stock is selling at just 68% of book value and it has an A- rated balance sheet.
2. The median price target on NBR is $17 a share by the 19 analysts that cover the stock. S&P has a "Buy" rating and an $18 a share price target on the shares.
4. NBR has a minuscule five year projected PEG (.49) and sells for less than 4 times operating cash flow.
Precision Drilling Corporation (NYSE:PDS) provides contract drilling as well as completion and production services to oil and natural gas exploration and production companies. As of year end 2011, the company operated 188 land drilling rigs in Canada and 143 land drilling rigs in the United States.
4 reasons to buy PDS at just over $7 a share:
2. Like Nabors, PDS is selling for less than book value (87%) and has a very small five year projected PEG (.38).
3. The mean analyst price target is north of $9 by the 7 analysts that follow the shares.
4. The stock is selling at around 3x operating cash flow and just over 9x forward earnings.
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Comment: Re:*sips pabst* (Score 1) 337
by Tom (#48666041) Attached to: Ars: Final Hobbit Movie Is 'Soulless End' To 'Flawed' Trilogy
he was dragged kicking and screaming into directing it
And at no point did he have the option to say "no" and walk away, I'm sure. Because he's not living in a free country and he is so poor that he would starve if he did that.
When you burn out in life, you'll understand.
No, when you burn out in life you walk away from everything that causes you trouble and find a place where you are safe and can recover.
Comment: miscreation (Score 3, Insightful) 337
by Tom (#48665989) Attached to: Ars: Final Hobbit Movie Is 'Soulless End' To 'Flawed' Trilogy
I've seen the first two so far and they didn't convince me for the 3rd. I'll probably go because my GF wants to.
The problem is that The Hobbit is an entirely different book compared to LOTR. It's a childrens book, a soft introduction to Middle Earth, not an epic fantasy tale. It should've been dealt with in a different way, not as a "we made a shitload of money, so let's make more LOTR movies" prequel. It basically fell into the same trap as the Star Wars prequels - the attempt to replicate a success by doing more of the same, completely missing the idea that maybe the first was a success exactly because it was not more of the same, but stood out from what else was on offer at the time.
And omg were they filled with crap that had nothing to do with story or book and was only added to complete some Hollywood recipe.
They should've made it one move, for a younger audience, made by a different director, without trying to make it a prequel and "foreshadowing" everything we've already seen.
Comment: Re:Metadata (Score 4, Interesting) 36
by Tom (#48658967) Attached to: How a Wildfire Helped Spread the Hashtag
Because they are a hack. Twitter wasn't designed to include any metadata except author, date, etc. - certainly not topics, tags or keywords.
The problem is feature creep. Of course users want tags and keywords and topics and threading and circles and access levels/restrictions and grouping and two hundred other features. But if you give them what they want, they will complain that it's all too complicated and move elsewhere.
Comment: Re:the rules changed, that's why the manual contro (Score 1) 90
by Tom (#48658631) Attached to: Google Unveils New Self-Driving Car Prototype
Who said emergency? An emergency is probably exactly when you want a computer to be in control, simply because it can process more information more quickly, and the decisions to be made are trivial and minimal (aka "bring vehicle to a safe stop, right now").
But I would want manual controls on my car of the future because on some weekends I drive into the countryside and I drive on small dirt roads that may or may not be on the map. Or to festivals or other big events where at the end you park on a field. Or you drive through a really crowded street where the computer will most likely just stop and stand because there's always someone in front of the car.
There are plenty of non-emergency situations that I'm not sure the automatic driver can handle.
Comment: Re:News Flash : All Corporate IT security is a jok (Score 1) 234
by Tom (#48656125) Attached to: Anonymous Claims They Will Release "The Interview" Themselves
Security is a cost vs benefit equation for a business.
In the textbooks, it is. In the real world, humans make decisions, and they are not purely rational. The whole marketing industry is based on the fact that the free market doctrine of the rational buyer is nonsense.
The board have to do what it feels is best financially for the shareholders
There, highlighted the keyword for you. Thank you for supporting my argument so strongly, that exactly is the point.
Comment: Re:News Flash : All Corporate IT security is a jok (Score 4, Insightful) 234
by Tom (#48648935) Attached to: Anonymous Claims They Will Release "The Interview" Themselves
The problem isn't just stupid C*Os, though they certainly exist. The problem is also our inability to communicate properly with them. Me personally, guilty as charged, btw. -- it took me many, many years to understand how the C-level thinks and how to talk to them to get what you want. And even then you often don't because of some under-the-radar corporate politics that's going on right then.
No, this hack will in no way change anything. None of the previous public hacks did.
One of the main problems is that C*Os are right that a lot of security money is totally wasted on bullshit, like security awareness trainings for an audience that doesn't give a fuck, shouldn't have to give a fuck, and will forget everything they accidentally heard over their playing Farmville or bullshit bingo while you were talking in front, wasting their precious office time. Or on technically cute systems that are as fascinating as they are useless. Or on trying to convince a C*O that he needs military-grade security without explaining him why he should consider himself a military man.
For about 10 years now the security industry has - at the speed of a turtle - realized that it doesn't take human factors into consideration nearly enough. We've all thrown the mantra of the stupid user around as if it would explain anything, and explained our consistent failure to complete our mission by pointing fingers at others, just like you do above.
Guess what? Everyone in a company has too few resources, executives meddling in their things and idiot managers fucking things up, but the others still manage to largely accomplish their goals.
Comment: Re:Conservatives mostly don't like the involvement (Score 1) 218
The reason this hasn't happened is because it is fucking illegal.
In your stupid backwater country.
They've gone so far as to pressure local city councils to forbid century link to operate in the area.
You elected the fuckers, stop whining.
So no. Frankly I am just offended that you cited experience before as justification for your argument when you're so ignorant of what is going on.
Because armchair politics on /. beats industry experience.
How fucking dare you.
Look, troll. I worked for 10 years in a company that owned a city-wide telecom network and had a couple million phone and Internet customers. The people who do the switching in those grey boxes on the street corner worked one floor below me (I was in IT, not networking). The last mile issue is real and that some corrupt city council in some 3rd world country whose primary industries are advertisement and entertainment pass some silly laws is a tiny drop in the ocean of the telco industry. If you had a solution to solve the last mile problem that is feasable, affordable and legal, you could be rich faster than you can spell out your account number.
But since you've returned to ad hominem attacks after a short interlude of actual arguments, I'll leave you here to celebrate your "victory" all alone. Bye.
You'd roll it out as it became convenient. Things need to be replaced.
This transition will take several decades, as those cables are not in need of much maintainance. But it could be done.
Who would pay for the change, though? I doubt the ISPs are going to do it, the current system works for them. The house owners won't, for the same reason.
Yes, it can be done. I wouldn't bet on it, though. Most likely, by the time this transition is over, all the cables are obsolete. That's one of the reasons nothing like this has happened so far - the players in the field are afraid that their investment will be outdated before it is amortizied.
by Tom (#48643409) Attached to: Single Group Dominates Second Round of Anti Net-Neutrality Comment Submissions
However, if another company wants to lay cable on that street... what is the problem?
That tearing up a street is expensive, inconveniences a lot of people and these costs to both the parties involved and those around the event far outweigh the benefits. It's the same reason that we have one publicly owned street and not 20 parallel roads owned by different companies competing for your car to drive on them. It's stupid, that's why.
With telcos, the only reason we have the last mile problem at all was because initially telecommunication was built as a public service, like roads. Then someone decided to make it all private, because free market magic. The proper decision would have been to keep the last mile as public property, but it wasn't made, because idiots.
You're basically just saying
That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying that visions are a dime a dozen. Realizing them is the hard part, and it takes more than a few "look, a three-headed monkey" sentences to do that.
by Tom (#48640631) Attached to: Single Group Dominates Second Round of Anti Net-Neutrality Comment Submissions
identified as belonging to the house.
This is not how property works in any western country. Someone dug up the street years ago, bought the copper, and paid to have it put into the ground. They own that cable. You cannot just go around and declare someone else is owner of it, without compensating the current owner, and probably even that would be challenged in court as the "give to the house owner" doesn't even fall into eminent domain.
And then switching from one provider to another would mean going to the gray box and unplugging a wire from provider "A" and plugging it into the box for provider "B".
Which would be a step back from the current system, where most provider changes are done by switching, not by mechanically unplugging wires. If someone needs to actually drive to a gray box and change wires every time someone changes ISPs, the costs for doing so would go up considerably.
ou're trying to prove me wrong instead of trying to understand the issue. It isn't helpful.
You're painting a picture of a fantasy world, ignoring the status quo. Yes, in a perfect world, if we would start from scratch on empty fields, maybe it would be better to do it that way this time around. But we don't start, we inherit a world where certain things are the way they are, like it or not. If you want to change something, you can't just paint a fantasy utopia, you need to show how to get there from where we are now.
So you want to change ownership of the last mile? Might be a good idea, show how to do it. Explain how to buy all the cables and grant or sell them to house owners. Come up with solutions for all the situations in the real world, with multi-story houses, houses with multiple outgoing connections, office buildings and private homes. A solution that works both for dense cities and isolated farms. That will not die trying due to resistence by the ISPs, the old cable owners, the house owners or the two dozen laws involved.
It's easy to say "this ought to be so". Everyone can do 10 of those in one minute. Cars ought to be pollution free. Ebola ought to be defeated. World peace should be achieved. Any of these statements just make you one of seven billion people with a vision. Being able to show step-by-step how to actually get there is the hard part.
Comment: board and cardgames (Score 1) 120
by Tom (#48639335) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Resources For Kids Who Want To Make Games?
Forget programming. Sit down with him and make a few board and card games.
Too many game designers these days look at the technology and the graphics and the monetarization and all the other crap and forget that first and foremost, there needs to be a game.
When you limit yourself to the bare essentials, you see the game for what it is, and learn to make games by focussing on what makes a game.
Cable between the street and the house might have be redone.
Yes. But the cable doesn't connect to the street, that's just how we say it. It connects to that grey box on the corner, which means after the garden it runs underneath the street and/or sidewalk for typically a few hundred meters.
What is more, the cabling between the house and the street might be owned by the home owner.
Can't say for other countries, in my country almost never.
We could set up a junction box at the street that links into the home's network./quote
We not only could, this is what we do right now. But those boxes serve an entire block, not one house. Theoretically we could change the whole network layout and install such a box at the edge of every property and terminate there, but there are reasons why the system is the way it is, and changing it would require changes in the system, maybe even a partial redesign of the local loop.
Your experience has clearly made myopic and unable to think creatively about the issue.
Of course. If you disagree with someone, it must be that the someone is an idiot. It's not possible that maybe you are wrong.
There's no point having a discussion on this level. People who have arguments don't need to use personal insults.
Comment: Re:I'd expect Fawkes masks to start making stateme (Score 1) 218
by Tom (#48624793) Attached to: Single Group Dominates Second Round of Anti Net-Neutrality Comment Submissions
So you switched from nationalisation of certain industries to taxpayer-funded cronyism?
I don't know all the details, but basically, yes.
The Deutsche Bahn was a state-owned monopolist for long-distance rail transport (both goods and people). During the privatization craze of the 90s or so, the government decided to turn it into Deutsche Bahn AG - a private company, listed at the stock exchange.
After a short transition, the C level started to think and act like C levels do, and - with a little help of big consulting companies - decided that public transport isn't all that interesting and profitable and that they would simply use it as leverage to become a huge, global, logistics company. You can already see where it all went wrong.
In order to raise capital, the government planned to sell its shares. But to make it interesting to buyers, the company first had to become profitable. So all that I've described happened. People in small towns suddenly found out that they were not using the train enough, so train service was discontinued and the station closed. Of course, now they had to use cars more which meant more traffic, roads maintainence costs increased, more roads had to be built - as a singular entity, the government before had included all those factors and decided that train service to this town was the right decision, even if the ticket sales by themselves didn't cover costs - but if you figure in the costs of not having a train service, suddenly it does make sense. As a private company, the Deutsche Bahn AG only considered the side of the equation it owned, and that didn't show a profit.
This happened to hundreds of train lines and stations.
Total damage to the german economy - unknown. Some estimates I've read are in the billions.
Comment: Re:I'd expect Fawkes masks to start making stateme (Score 2) 218
by Tom (#48624743) Attached to: Single Group Dominates Second Round of Anti Net-Neutrality Comment Submissions
The reasons they were privatized and the like was that the other wasn't sustainable
Get a clue before you enter a discussion. Many of the companies that were privatized were doing as good or even better than the private companies that replace them today. That doesn't always mean they are or were profitable - for some things such as public transport or universities or garbage collection maybe the benefit to society should be the important factor and not ROI and shareholder value.
You are repeating the ignorant blabbering of typical right-wing americans who think that anything that's not cut-throat capitalism is automatically communism. The thought that a world inbetween the extremes could exist has never crossed your mind, has it?
The strange truth is that the very america that had McCarthyism was very interested in and actively promoting the social market economy model of western europe, because they realized that if they had attempted to install the no-hold-barred brutality of pure US capitalism, most of post-WW2 europe would have become communist by free choice.
That economic model was the synthesis (to use philosophy terms) between the two equally wrong extremes. It gave us all the advantages of free markets, free choice of jobs, private companies and competition while at the same time protecting those areas where pure capitalism does more harm than good, like health care, public transportation or natural monopolies.
Sadly, the two competing extremes didn't fail at the same time to the same degree, so we've now been janked towards the "winner", and all the advantages are slowly evaporating in favor of higher stock prices and an economy based on bubbles and bullshit.
I'm not in favour of communism at all - had capitalism failed first, the same would have happened in the other direction and we'd be equally bad of. But on almost every metric you choose, western Europe was in a better condition 30 years ago.
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I want to create a set of classes that are very similar and can be cast to each other types. My idea was that I would create an Interface object and implement it through a base class. Then create additional classes that inherit from my base. I could then use the Interface to work with the common (base) methods and cast an object from the BASE object to a custom type.
interface ImyInterface {
public class MyBase : ImyInterface {
public class MyCustom1 : MyBase {
public class MyCustom2 : MyBase {
// in helper class
public static MyBase GetGeneralOjbect() {
// get a generic base object
return new MyBase();
// How I'm trying to use this
MyCustom1 obj = GetGeneralOjbect() as MyCustom1;
This seems to work except for the casting of the object statement. MyCustom1 is always null even though the static helper GetGeneralOjbect returns a good MyBase object. Maybe this can't be done or I'm not doing it correctly. Any input would be appreciated.
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This is because you can cast a MyCustom1 or MyCustom2 to MyBase, but not necessarily the other way.
When you create a MyBase via MyBase b = new MyBase();, b is a MyBase but not a MyCustom2, so casting b to MyCustom2 will fail.
What you can do is:
MyBase b = new MyCustom2();
MyCustom2 c = b as MyCustom2();
What you can't do is:
MyBase b = new MyCustom2();
MyCustom1 c = b as MyCustom1();
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I suspected this was the case. Thought I would try it out for this particular situation I was doing but wasn't sure if it was correct. Thanks for your input. – Darren - Apr 4 '12 at 14:43
Well...you can do it...it will just crash and burn at runtime. MyCustom1 c = new MyCustom2(); won't even compile, even with an explicit cast. – Servy Apr 4 '12 at 14:47
Yes, you can do it, but as the OP noticed, the result of the second cast will be null. – Thorsten Dittmar Apr 4 '12 at 15:07
The "as" keyword says "if this object which is statically typed as MyBase has a runtime type of MyCustom1, then give it back to me statically typed as MyCustom1; otherwise, give me a null reference". The object you are casting has a runtime type of MyBase, not MyCustom1, which is why you are getting a null reference.
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Basically you can cast up an inheritance chain but not down it. Say you had the following class heirarchy:
public class A {
public class B : A {
public class C : B {
If you instantiated a new instance of type B you could cast it to A but not C.
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Have you considered using Factory Pattern?
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An instance of MyCustom1 can be used whenever an instance of MyBase is expected, but MyBase cannot be used when MyCustom1 is expected.
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