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0.028178 | <urn:uuid:23d617c6-5a7c-4921-94e1-dba0c1a4e762> | en | 0.958302 | Psst. Maybe you can tell me how much money the big banks give to all these think tanks. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg
Think tanks have proliferated, and the political left, right and center all have their idea factories spitting out policy prescriptions. Most are nonprofit organizations, supported mainly by donations.
Those donors get a tax break for their contributions. In other words, the public is subsidizing the giving. In turn, because most research groups pay little or no federal income tax, a subsidy accrues to them, too. What's more, though nonprofits do have to disclose the names of donors to the Internal Revenue Service, that information is withheld from the public.
Of course, there is a great deal to be said for subsidizing the vital work done by many nonprofits, which range from religious groups to universities to hospitals. There's no compelling reason they should have to reveal their donor lists.
Think tanks, though, don't provide spiritual solace, school the next generation or care for the sick.
So what do they offer? In theory, they enrich the conversation about public policy, thus contributing to the social welfare -- one of the tests for determining whether something deserves a nonprofit designation. But what if they're offering nothing more than paid speech? That seems to be what Warren is getting at.
If it is, a disclosure campaign might fit nicely with some proposals the Barack Obama administration is considering to change the status of tax-exempt organizations engaged in political work. The idea is to get a handle on groups such as Crossroads GPS, an organization founded by Republican strategist Karl Rove, and craft rules that clearly define limits on their political activity or make them register as political action committees (which might be what they really are).
As for Warren, her motives seem admirable: enhancing transparency. Her detractors -- Republicans and some fellow Democrats -- see her as trying to settle political scores.
Maybe it really was a coincidence, but Warren sent her letter two days after the Wall Street Journal published an op-ed by Jon Cowan and Jim Kessler, president and senior vice president for policy, respectively, at a think tank called Third Way, which according to its website, "represents Americans in the 'vital center' -- those who believe in pragmatic solutions and principled compromise, but who too often are ignored in Washington." Make that the vital center of the Democratic Party establishment, judging by the roster of people it bills as "Honorary Co-Chairs." Among the honored, Congressmen John Dingell and James Clyburn and Senators Claire McCaskill and Mark Udall.
The op-ed, titled "Economic Populism Is a Dead End for Democrats" was a catalog of woes that will befall the party if Democrats follow Warren and New York City Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio "over the populist cliff."
Getting even may be what Warren has in mind. But does it really matter? If she also is able to shine some light on America's think tanks, it might be a plus for the rest of us, too.
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"Play the kids!"
It really cracks me up when I hear people on here or calling into sports reading screaming, "Play the kids!" (As an aside, that line annoys me because I don't think I'd call an adult in the big leagues a "kid" but whatever.)
Anyway, how much do you want to bet that the vast majority of these fans:
--Could barely name any prospects by first and last name. Or if they could, I bet that they know little to nothing about them beyond their names, such as their minor league stats, what type of player they project to be, the position they play, etc.
--If these "kids" did play and failed, these so-called fans would be the same ones blasting the Sox organization on message boards and the radio airwaves for going with youth.
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By Steve Hamm This drama features Shai Agassi, a 34-year-old Israeli who started no fewer than four technology companies in the 1990s. In April, after playing the role of entrepreneur-in-residence at German software behemoth SAP for a year, Agassi was appointed to its executive board -- the first non-German to land there and by far the youngest among a sextet of graybeards who run the 30-year-old company. Agassi, with the title executive board member, now heads SAP's 1,500-person Collaborative Solutions Business Area, based in Silicon Valley, which includes its portal, e-marketplace, and collaborative software products.
While the businesses he oversees represent less than 5% of SAP's roughly $1.6 billion in quarterly sales, they're being counted on to eventually provide a lot of future growth. SAP leads the world in sales of basic applications for corporations, with a dominating 36% share, according to AMR Research. But that's a mature market, growing at about 1% a year.
Agassi's business "is a major investment area," says Henning Kagermann, Co-CEO of SAP. "These are areas where we can generate additional revenues. We think it will pay off -- breaking even in one to two years."
CUTTING ACROSS LINES. SAP co-founder and co-CEO Hasso Plattner has long been the resident visionary, but now that role is being shared with Agassi. His vision: to create a new generation of software for corporations that he calls "event-based" applications. Unlike SAP's core products, which automate specific functions such as finance, human resources, and materials planning, the new software is being designed to cut across many of these functions at the same time.
A half-dozen of this new generation of products, called xApps for cross-functional applications, are in the planning stages. This year, SAP plans to introduce software for managing corporate projects such as product development from start to finish and for managing relationships with multiple suppliers. Next year, it plans to launch products for managing mergers and handling relationships with employees.
All of these are based on standard Internet technologies. That makes it easier to pull information and data from multiple sources, such as a customer relationship management or human resources databases, and integrate the functions of a wide range of applications. Instead of being monolithic pieces of software, both SAP's existing software products and its new xApps will be components that can be mixed and matched.
SOFTWARE'S GM? "This is going to be like the auto industry, when standards emerged and manufacturers could pick parts from different suppliers," says Agassi. "We intend to be the GM of software."
That's if Agassi can thrive inside SAP and convince a long-established organization to do things quite differently. Even Agassi has his concerns. When he took the new job, for the first time in 12 years he wasn't the CEO of a company. "I felt like a deer in the headlights. I was afraid of taking risks," he says. "But then I realized that if I don't take risks, my whole value goes away."
He kept pushing for the new generation of applications, which were first explained to customers at SAP's annual user conference in June. Going forward, he expects to be SAP's "contrarian" -- offering the outsider's view.
APPETITE FOR RISK. Until now, when it came to encouraging entrepreneurship, SAP had tried to have it both ways. The company operated two wholly owned but independent subsidiaries, SAP Portals and SAPMarkets, designed to act like Silicon Valley startups and focus on new markets. Agassi came to the party in March, 2001, when SAP paid $400 million for his corporate portal software company, TopTier Software -- later renaming it SAP Portals. In January, 2002, the two subsidiaries were combined, and Agassi took charge as CEO.
Now he's in the belly of the whale -- but people who have worked with him say they believe he can keep the risk-taking spirit alive inside SAP. "Shai is in a strong position," says Peter Graf, vice-president for market strategy in Agassi's business area. "The fact that he's on the executive board shows how important this is to SAP. We hope we can become the catalyst to keep the strategy going inside."
For Agassi, being closer to the center of power is vital. He wants to have a sizable impact on the tech world. In the current harsh environment, corporations are less willing to take a chance on a startup and are turning to large, well-established companies as their trusted suppliers. "Being inside a large company gives you the ability to build things on a much larger scale," Agassi says. "You can't make sea changes in a startup anymore."
FAMILY TREE. The situation was dramatically different in Agassi's early days in business. When left college in 1990, on the eve of the Gulf War, he started up one tech company after another in partnership with his father Reuven Agassi, a former Israeli Defense Force colonel and telecom company executive. First came QuickSoft, a software distribution company, followed in 1992 by TopTier, and then TopManage, in 1993, which sold applications for small businesses. Finally, in 1994, multimedia software company QuickSoft Media was born.
Technology came naturally to Agassi. He remembers writing little computer programs in Fortran, a mainframe language, starting when he was seven years old. "Programming was the ultimate sandbox. You could control things and build things," he says.
But sometimes he got a little distracted -- and paid a price. Once, when he was 18 years old, he was daydreaming while he walked near a highway and veered into traffic. He was struck by a van and suffered a complex break to his right leg that required four surgeries. That leg is now an inch shorter than the left and causes him chronic back pain.
"A DIFFERENT COUNTRY." That's the only obvious scar that Agassi carries with him through life. Despite his Jewish heritage, he felt no discomfort when a German company approached him about an alliance, and, later, a merger. Recalls Agassi: "I said, 'We don't have a problem. It's two generations after.' You're doing business -- it's a different country now."
Agassi's family came to Israel from Iraq when Israel declared its independence. He grew up in Ramat-Gan, a suburb of Tel Aviv, which is notable for being the place where many Iraqi SCUD missiles struck during the Gulf War. They were aimed at Tel Aviv, but missed. These days, Agassi lives in much safer environs, in Silicon Valley, where he moved in 1996. His wife, formerly general manager of QuickSoft Media, takes care of their two young sons.
He still has a family connection in the software world. Agassi's father remains general manager of TopManage, which SAP bought in March. Soon, the world will see if father and son can do for SAP what the other Agassi, Andre (no relation), did for tennis -- shake it up. Hamm writes about technology for BusinessWeek from New York
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Bill George: Nonperforming CEOs
The public is outraged these days over CEO compensation, with good reason. Far too many chief executive officers get paid large sums even when they don't perform. I believe that CEOs should be well-paid when they do perform, but there is no justification for paying for nonperformance.
As a result, shareholders are demanding the right to approve CEO pay packages. Following the tradition of British companies, "say on pay" proposals on proxy statements are gaining momentum in the U.S. But under U.S. corporate law, determining the compensation of CEOs is a fundamental responsibility of the board of directors. Directors are charged with the fiduciary duty to use their "business judgment" in these matters, and the courts have consistently backed them up.
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If this were to happen, who would determine these complex compensation packages? The courts? The Securities & Exchange Commission? External governance gurus, who have no responsibility for the corporation's performance? None of these alternatives makes sense. In fact, they threaten the very foundation of our system of governance.
Taking a Toll on Employee Motivation
Is it surprising that outsized CEO pay packages destroy employees' trust? With loss of trust, employee motivation gives way to to cynicism and superior performance becomes mediocre.
The underlying cause of this problem is the failure of boards to develop their future CEOs internally. The board's most important job is to ensure long-term succession plans for the top leadership. But many boards don't take the time and expend the effort to develop seamless internal succession, and consequently they are forced to search outside the company, often yielding to investor pressures to hire a corporate savior.
No CEO Contracts at General Electric
In turn, these high-profile CEOs from outside the company who know little about the business, the company's culture, or its people, hire high-powered attorneys to negotiate multiyear contracts that guarantee their compensation, regardless of performance.
Why do CEOs need contracts in the first place? The CEOs of General Electric (GE), Goldman Sachs (GS), and Exxon (XOM) don't have them. They get paid to perform.
Executive compensation should be tied directly to the company's long-term objectives and based on building the firm's economic value, not its stock price. The best compensation programs tie up half of the executives' compensation for the duration of their tenure, so they cannot cash out when the company's stock peaks. These programs are based on a mix of short-term and long-term incentives so that no one objective can be pursued to the detriment of the firm's interests.
To ensure the CEOs' separation from the compensation process, boards should hire their own compensation consultants who do no work for management.
George, professor of management practice at Harvard Business School, is the author of two best-selling books, True North and Authentic Leadership. He writes his "True North" column every other week at
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Chapter 12
1It happened, when the kingdom of Rehoboam was established, and he was strong, that he forsook the law of Yahweh, and all Israel with him. 2It happened in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had trespassed against Yahweh, 3with twelve hundred chariots, and sixty thousand horsemen. The people were without number who came with him out of Egypt: the Lubim, the Sukkiim, and the Ethiopians. 4He took the fortified cities which pertained to Judah, and came to Jerusalem. 5Now Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam, and to the princes of Judah, who were gathered together to Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said to them, Thus says Yahweh, You have forsaken me, therefore have I also left you in the hand of Shishak. 6Then the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, Yahweh is righteous. 7When Yahweh saw that they humbled themselves, the word of Yahweh came to Shemaiah, saying, They have humbled themselves: I will not destroy them; but I will grant them some deliverance, and my wrath shall not be poured out on Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak. 8Nevertheless they shall be his servants, that they may know my service, and the service of the kingdoms of the countries. 9So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, and took away the treasures of the house of Yahweh, and the treasures of the king’s house: he took all away: he took away also the shields of gold which Solomon had made. 10King Rehoboam made in their place shields of brass, and committed them to the hands of the captains of the guard, who kept the door of the king’s house. 11It was so, that as often as the king entered into the house of Yahweh, the guard came and bore them, and brought them back into the guard chamber. 12When he humbled himself, the wrath of Yahweh turned from him, so as not to destroy him altogether: and moreover in Judah there were good things found. 13So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and reigned: for Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Yahweh had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there: and his mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess. 14He did that which was evil, because he didn’t set his heart to seek Yahweh. 15Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, aren’t they written in the histories of Shemaiah the prophet and of Iddo the seer, after the manner of genealogies? There were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually. 16Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David: and Abijah his son reigned in his place.
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Solvents that have nonpolar molecules dissolve solutes having nonpolar molecules. For example, oil has nonpolar molecules, which are dissolved in nonpolar solvent benzene.
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#11WasabeePosted 9/21/2013 7:26:12 PM
ThePrisoner06 posted...
Wasabee I do wear sunglasses when outside due to a medical condition affecting my eyes, but indoors is not cool.
I just get used to it.
Well... then close your eyes for 2 or 3 seconds while the light lasts, or look away from the tv... I personally close my eyes halfway, but again that's me :)
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#121PefrogPosted 9/21/2013 7:38:24 PM
Try turning your back to the flashy. It works sometimes.
#13ThePrisoner06Posted 9/21/2013 7:48:05 PM
Thats a good idea Dug, as I have got one of my control sensitivities set high, may just try the quick 180 turn and see if its better.
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How do I solve Quest 132?
I just can't judge it right between the gigantes not being damaged enough and dying to get the Mercy to work.
After a couple of Miricale Slashes I use Blokenspeil by the Priest 9 about 20 HP a time0 then the Ranger uses mercy. The Gigantes refuses the Mercy until it is eventually beaten. Is there a way of cutting the HP reduction down to single figures to give me more chance of succeeding?
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From: Shadowlynk 3 years ago
You're reducing its HP enough. Are you high enough level? Mercy has a better chance of succeeding if you significantly outlevel the enemy. I think you need to be at least level 40 to scare off the Gigantes.
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Publication numberUS601495 A
Publication typeGrant
Publication dateMar 29, 1898
Publication numberUS 601495 A, US 601495A, US-A-601495, US601495 A, US601495A
InventorsCiiauncey Allen Cornell
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N0. (IO/1,495.. Patented Mar. 29, 1898.
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Nd. 601,495. I I Patnted Mar. 29, 1898.
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TPatented Mar. 29, 1898', v j
- WINDING MACHINE. No. 601,495.
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No. 601,495. Patented Mar. 29, 1898.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 601,495, dated March 29,1898. 'Appliostlon filed June 12,1897- Berls-l No. 640,469. (No model.)
.To'all whom it may concern.-
Beit known that we, GHAoNcEv ALLEn CORNELL and ELMER STATES RoBIsoN, of
Pittsfield, ir the county of Berkshire and State of Massachusetts, have-invented a new and Improved \Vinding-Machine,0f which the.
follow-ingis a full,clear, and exact description.
sired length, the machine-being" durable in 'constructi'onsaintomatic in operation, and arrangedfo'r adjustment for winding up rolls of different lengths.
Our invention consists of certain features which will be hereinafter described and claimed."
tional side elevation of one of the bearings for the winding-roller, and Fig. Sis a side ele-- vation of a modified form of a driving-gearfor the feed-rolls.
The improved winding-machine is mounted upon a suitably-constructed frame A,in which is journaled a transversely-extending shaft B, carrying a frame B, formed with sets ofoppositely-arranged arms 13 B in the outer ends of which are journaled winding-up roll-- ers 0, each adapted to receive the paper D and wind the same in a roll during the time the-frame is ata standstill," as indicated ,in
the drawings.
. The frame as hereinafter more fully described, and an intermittent rotary motion is' 'gi ven to, the feed. mechanism for the paper from the Fig. 6 is a reduced plan .view of the paper-starting device for the -winding-roller. --Fig.] 7 is an enlarged see w B receives an intermittent rotary motion'in the direction of the arrow a,
same source supplying motion to the said frame, but at a different period, so that the frameB is at a standstill while the feed is and guiding roller G is journaled in the sides of the frame front of the roller F to rec'eive. paper or other material from a wallpaper-making or other machine,the said roller serving to properly guide the paper to the first set of feeding-rollers F F. A cutting device His arranged between the sets of feedrollers' EB and F F, and the paperpasses over tables I 1 between the sets of feed-rollers F- F and E E, the adjacent edges of the said feed-tables being a. sufficient distance apart for the cutting mechanism to-op'erate and cut the paper for the desired length'of roll 7 5 to be formed.
The paper after it passes through the lastfeed-rollers E E is guided downwardly bye. 1 transversely-extending bar I to pass upon the winding-up roller 0 between a'guide-baf '86" J, made segmental in cross-section, one edge" of which is adapted to press the paper in contact with the peripheral surface'of the wind;
ing-up roller 0, which latter is preferably formed with a flattened side 0', as-is plainly indicated inthe drawings. A second guide" bar K, similar to the guide-bar J, is arranged over the winding-up roller 0 and likewise presses with one edge against the paper, so
as to hold the same in contact with the said '90 winding-up roller 0 and causetheend of the" paper to pass under the second layerof paper passing through the feed-rollers between the table I and bar J upon the said roller.
- On the inside of. each winding-up roller 0, '95 isarranged a pressure-roller L, adapted 'to press the layers of paper during the windingup process, so as to insure the formation of' a tight smooth roll, the said pressure-roller being yieldingly mounted, as hereinafter more fully described, so as to move inward as theroll increases in size. The guide-bars J and K swing outwardly by the action of cams as the size of the roll increases, as hereinafter more fully described.
The frameB, the feed rollersE F, the cut- 5 ting mechanism H, and the guide-bars J K I receive their motions from avmain drivingshaft N, journaled on one side of the frame and provided at its outer end with a pulley N, connected by a belt with other machinery :0 for imparting a continuous motion to the shaft N. I
The shaft N is provided at its inner end with a gear-wheel N 2 inmesh with a pinion 0 secured on one end of the winding-up roller 0, so that the rotary motion of the gearwheel N is transmitted to the pinion G to rotate the roller 0 and wind the paper. The pinion C is in mesh with the outer side of thegear-wheel N, as plainly indicated in Fig.
2, to permit the pinion C to pass into and out of mesh with the said gear-wheel when the frame B is rotated in the direction of the arrow a. When the pinion O? is in full mesh with the said gear-wheel, as shown in Figs.
1, 2, and 3, then the said frame is. held stationary for the time'being to cause the gearwheel N to rotate the said pinion and revolve the roller 0, as previously explained.
When moving into mesh with the gear-wheel N and during the time the frame B is stationary, the pinion C also meshes with a gear-wheel E secured on the lowermost feed- 1 roller-E, so that this feed-roller is rotatedfrom the pinion'O during the time the paper is wound on the roller 0. The gear-wheel E i is in mesh with an intermediate gear-wheel E in mesh with a gear-wheel F on the feedroller F, so that the latter is rotated simultaneously with the feed-roller E to feed the paper as long as the winding-up roller 0 is rotating. When the frame B moves out of mesh with both gear-wheels N E ,-so that the pinion C is not driven and does not drive the feed mechanism, which thereby remains at a standstill-during the rotary motion of the frame B.
In order to rotate the frame B from the shaft N,we provide the latter with a pinion N, forming part of a train of gear-wheels 0 0 0 of which the'latter is secured on a shaft P, car- I rying a disk P, supporting a tooth P engagingastar-wheel P secured on the shaft B forthe frame B. The star-wheel P has as sequently each revolution of the wheel or disk P' imparts by the tooth P a greater revoluplained. The number of revolutions neces-' sary for rotating the disk P once for a number of revolutions of the shaft N can be regulated by changing the gears composing the s train of gear-wheels, so that more orlesspal per is wound upon a roller 0 to'form a'rol'lstar-wheel .1, so 'as to turn the same;
is rotated, the pinion C n .many slots for the tooth P to engage as therepresets of arms B B in the frame B, and conaccording to the desired length of paper desired for a single roll. The peripheral surface of thestar-wheel P is curved to conform between'its slots with the peripheral surface of a locking-wheel P formed on the disk P, so that the frame is locked in position during its stationary period, it being understood that the parts referred to form a locked intermittent movement' of a well-knownconstru'ction;
Thecutt-ing mechanism H is provided with a stationary knife H and a 'vertically-movable knife H adapted to cut the paper between the feed-tables I I .j ust previous to'a rotary motion being given to the frame B. The knife H is secured on a transverselyextending knife-bar H ,'adjustably secured at its ends on rods Ht, fitted to slide in-suitable bearings attached to the sides of the frame A.: The rods H are pressed on by springs H in a downward direction, and the lower ends of the said rods are in frictional contact with the' peripheral surface'of camwheels H secured on a transversely-extend ing'shaft Q, journaledin suitable bearings in the sides of the frame A.
\- In the peripheral surface of the wheels H are formed notches H timed relatively to the 7 locked intermittent movement above referred to, so that the rods H drop into 'the said notches H by the'action of the springs H to move the knife H downward and cut the paper just previous to thetooth P? en gaging Sale I shaft Q, carrying the said wheels H rotates in unison with the shaft P,and for this purpose the shaft Qiis'provided with a sprocketwheel Q, over which passes a sprocket-chain Q also passing over a sprocket-wheel Q securedto the said shaft P. The cam J 5 receives the required movement for guiding-the bars J and K, and for this purpose the guide- .bar J is secured on arms J, attached to a shaft J mounted to turn in suitable bearings in the sides of the frame A. From the arms J extends outwardly and rearwardly an arm J supporting a weight J 4 for holding the bar J in firm contact with the paper.
The arms J areadapted to be engaged by cams J secured on the shaft Q, previously mentioned, the said cams beinglshaped in such a manner as to impart a downward swing -ing motion to the arms J and the barJ as the roller C fills with paper; the said cams thus compensating for the increase in the thickness of the rolls. The'cams J also serve'to hold the bar J in a lowermost position during' the time the roller 0 with its finished roll of paper thereon swings downward. with the frame B, the said' bar J immediately returning to engage the next empty roller 0 to holdv the end of the paper thereon when starting to wind the paper on a second roller. The
other bar K is carried by an arm K, adjustably held in a rod K, pivoted-at K on the tiger side of the frame, as plainly indicated in 0n the rod K is secured an arm K in frictionall contact with a cam K secured on the rearvend of theshaft Q. A spring K presses on the arm K to hold the bar K normally in contact with the paper, it being understood that the said bar K swings gradually outward upon the increase of the thickness of theroll of paper 'bythe action of the cam K on the ,a'rm K. The cam K is so shaped that when per around the roller 0, as
afseco'nd roller 0 is moved into position for receiving the end'of the paper then the bar K immediately swings down to guide the papreviously explained. Each pressure-roller L, p'reviouslymentioned, is journaled in the ends of rods L, fitted to slide loosely in bearings L secured on spiders L attached to the shaft B, adjacent to the sets of arms B B is coiled on each rod L and presses with one end on one of the bearings L and with its other end on a .collar L secured to the rod L, so that the spring Lj presses the rod L outwardto hold the pressure-roller in contact with the winding-roller Oand the paper in'g,-but permitting of pulling it out of the same and then drawing the other journal out of the bearing of the arm B 0 is then substituted for the one removed with the roll of paper.
' The operation is as follows: When the sev eral parts are inthexposition illustrated in the drawings and the-shafc-Nis rotated in the direction ofthe arrow' b", then the gearwheel N will drive the feed-rollers, as previously described, to feed the paper uponthe winding-up roller 0, rotated from the said gear-wheel N as above explained, so that paper is'wonnd upon the said roller. At the same time the pinion N by means of the train of gear-wheels O 0' 0 rotates the shaft P and wheel P,which by itsdisk- P holds the star-wheel P locked for the time being. The
rotary motion of the shaft P is transmitted by the sprocket-wheel Q sprocket-chain Q and sprocket-wheel Q to the shaft Q, so that the cams J 5 and K cause an outward swing ing ofthe guide-bars J and K, as previously explained, as the roll of paper increases in thickness. The rotary motion of the shaft Q causes the cam-wheels H to rotate in the direction of the arrow 0', sothat finally thev notches II are brought in alinement with the lower ends of the rods 11 and the latter suddenly drop downward by the action of the springs 11 to move the knife H in a like direction and cut oi the paper-over the stationary knife 1-1. When this takes" place, the
A new roller tooth P engages a corresponding tooth in the star-wheel P3, so as to rotate the latter and cause a turning of the frame B in the direction of the arrow a, to move the roller 0, having the'paper' wound upon itself,into a lowermost position and to bring the formerly-uppermost roller 0 into position for receiving the paper. During this movement the feedrolls are stationary, as their driving-pinion C 'has moved with the roller 0 into a lowermost position, and when the next roller 0 comes into the position mentioned its pinion again establishes connection between the gear-wheel N and the gear-wheel N Inthe meantime the cams J ,K a ndH have, however, acted on their respective arms J K and rods H to cause a like movement of the' guidebars J and K and a return upward movement of the knife 11*, so that the paper is fed forward by the rollers F F as soon as the roller F is set in motion, it being understood that the knife Hjhad previously re-' I turned to its uppermost position. operation is then repeated.
The feed rollers E and F and the receiving- The above roller G may be driven directly from the shaft P, as shown in Fig. 8, insteadof by the gearwheel 0 on the winding-up roller 0', as previously described and shown in'Figs. l and 2.
,The shaft Q (see Fig. 8) carries a gear-wheel T in mesh with an intermediate gear-wheel T, driving the, intermediate gear-wheel T,
corresponding to the intermediate gear-wheel .E for the, gear-wheels E and F driving the feed-rollers E' and F. An intermediate gearwith each other to rotate the receiving-roller G. The shaft Q is driven by sprocket-wheels Q and Q and the sprocket-chain Q from an intermediate gear-wheel T and a gear-wheel T ,,secured on the shaft P.
The gear-wheel T. is minus a few teeth,-so that the feed-roller stops temporarily at the proper timethat is, as soon as the knife wheel T connects the gear-wheels F and G? drops and cuts the paper. The rollers resume Y v the feed of the paper as soon as the frame B .is'at a standstill, feed mechanism for the pape rand-means for automatically stopping said feed mechanism while the revolving frame is rotated and to actuate it when one of the winding-rollers is in position to -receive the paper, substantially as shown and described.
2. A machine of the class described, com
prising a frame carrying a series of rollers,
feeding mechanism for winding paper on said 'ffng-rollersat one'point oftheirorbitandan -i'ntermittent rotating mechanism operated] from the s'am'e source torotate the frame at .rollers, means for intermittentlv revolving tion of the roller-frame. V
the frame for bringing its rollers into operative connection with the feeding mechanism, and-a start and a stop mechanism for stopping the feeding operation during the rota- 3. A winding-machine, provided with an ,intermittently-revolvin g frame carrying a series of winding-rollers,each of which is adapted to receive paper in its turn, means for ro tating a roller at atime, to wind up a desired length of paper at thetime the frame is at astandstill, an intermittent feed for the paper .10 the said M1161; =mcans-fei-aatematically stopping said paper-feed while the windingroller frame is being rotated, and starting said feed'when awinding-roller is in position to receive aroll 'of paper, the feed-rollers being driven from-thesaid winding-roller, substan- 'tially as shown and described. 7
' 4. A winding-machine, provided with an' intermittently-revolving frame carryinga series of winding-rollers adapted to receive the paper in turn, a driving device for rotating a winding-roller atatime, and an intermittent 4 movement for connecting the said driving 7 havinga'series of winding-rollers journaled' mechanism withthe said'frame and intermittently rotating the same, to disconnect the 'saiddriving mechanism from the windingroller, substantially as shown and described.
- 5. Awinding-machine,comprising a frame therein'and itself journaled upon a shaft central to said winding-rollers fixedly-journ aled rotating means adapted ,toengage said wind- 'ating the cutting mechanism from the sa intervals; an amount equal tothe diflerence between Winding-rollers.
, 6. A winding-machine comprising an intermitten tly-revolving f ram e'carryin g aseries of winding-rollers, a driving mechanism forrowinding-roller, a guide-bar made segmental in cross -section, one edge of said bar being adapted to rest on the said roller and its ropposite edge disposed at 'a distance from the roller to guide the edge of the paper around the roller, and means for imparting a gradual swinging motion to the said bar as the roll of paper increasesin thickness on the windingroller, substantially as shown and described.
8. A. winding-machine, provided with a v.
windin g-roller,two guide-bars being arranged on opposite sidesof the said winding-rollers and each made segmental in cross-section, with one edge of, each'bar in contact with the said winding-machine, and a pressure-roller in peripheral engagement with the windingroller between the said contacting edges of the guide-bars, substantially as shown and described.
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Episode List
Season 3
10 Sep. 1977
The Bionic Dog
Jaime learns that a bionic prototype was applied to a German Sheppard six years earlier. Every defect that Steve Austin and Jaime Sommers have suffered from over the years, Maxamillion (whose bionics cost a million dollars) suffered from first. Now Max is acting lifeless and depressed and Rudy Wells is planning to put the dog down. So, Jaime takes it upon herself to prove Max still has the will to live
17 Sep. 1977
The Bionic Dog: Part 2
24 Sep. 1977
Fembots in Las Vegas
Peggy Callahan's Fembot double is remotely reactivated while in storage at the Office of Scientific Intelligence by Carl Franklink, son of it the Fembot's creator. His plan is in motion to steal a new energy ray weapon invented by the reclusive and terminally ill scientist Rod Kyler. At the same time Oscar Goldman and Jaime Sommers are also trying to contact Kyler at his private penthouse in Las Vegas.
1 Oct. 1977
Fembots in Las Vegas: Part 2
Carl Franklin has managed to launch the stolen energy ray into space and now demands that the three people he holds responsible for his father's death be handed over to him. They are: Oscar Goldman, Dr. Rudy Wells and Jaime Sommers.
15 Oct. 1977
Oscar asks Jaime to keep an eye on OSI computer expert Billy Cole who spends all his spare time competing in rodeo competitions. Cole has developed a Minerva code but has neglected to write any of hit down, and foreign powers want to make sure the code goes down with Cole during his latest competition.
29 Oct. 1977
African Connection
5 Nov. 1977
Motorcycle Boogie
Jaime is in West Germany on the trail of a stolen computer tape. She crosses the Iron Curtain with the help from motorcycle stunt man Evel Knievel, though she refuses to believe he is who he claims to be.
12 Nov. 1977
Brain Wash
Oscar's secretary Peggy Callahan introduces Jaime Sommers to her new boyfriend John at his hair salon. Jaime then overhears Callahan spilling classified OSI information while having a wash and a set. Sommers in turn tells Oscar Goldman not to trust his secretary any longer although Callahan insists she's innocent. Jaime decides to visit John's salon to find what exactly is going on there.
26 Nov. 1977
Escape to Love
Jaime is on a mission to rescue Doctor Arlo Kelso and his son Sandor from behind the Iron Curtain. Things become complicated when Sandor falls in love with her.
3 Dec. 1977
Bionic canine Max is kidnapped by foreign agents just when Jaime is incapacitated because of a bionic check-up.
17 Dec. 1977
Over the Hill Spy
Oscar Goldman asks retired OSI agent Terrence Quinn to help catch his long time Sovjet nemesis Vanovic. Jaime Sommers is brought in to accompany Quinn on his mission.
7 Jan. 1978
All for One
Jaime enrolls in college to find a computer hacker who's been raiding several bank accounts, including the OSI.
14 Jan. 1978
The Pyramid
While Oscar is overseeing an attempt to safe the ozone layer, OSI agent Chris Williams goes on a dinner date with Jaime Sommers. They both end up caught in a mysterious underground pyramid made by intelligent aliens ages ago. The sentinel has just awoken because Oscar's experiment could be harmful to his people and they in turn might retaliate against Earth.
21 Jan. 1978
The Antidote
During a meeting with Soviet ambassador Zuhkov, both he and Jaime Sommers are poisoned. As Chris Williams and Max race to find Dr. Rudy Wells, Jaime lays dying unless she reveals Oscar Goldman's top secret location.
28 Jan. 1978
The Martians Are Coming, the Martians Are Coming
Rudy Wells and fellow OSI operative Ray Fisk are abducted by a bright red flying saucer near the underground laboratory specializing in UFO sightings known as 'The Barn'. Jaime Sommers decides to investigate and runs into nosy reporter Casey.
11 Feb. 1978
Sanctuary Earth
A satellite inexplicably crashes down in a lake near Ojai. Jaime Sommers is first on the scene and discovers a young girl named Aura who claims to be from another planet. Aura explains she is a princess from the planet Zorla and is being pursued by trackers from the planet Ulo.
18 Feb. 1978
Deadly Music
Dr. Henry Klempt has isolated a frequency that makes sharks attack anything or anyone he wants. When Jaime Sommers joins a diving team that is deploying a submarine detection system, she becomes the first human test subject of this 'deadly music'.
25 Feb. 1978
Which One Is Jaime?
When Oscar learns some men are investigating Jaime, he lures her into OSI HQ under the pretense of a mission. Callahan is tasked to take car of Max at Jaime's carriage house, only to fall victim to the kidnappers who mistake her for Jaime.
4 Mar. 1978
Out of Body
Jaime's native American soul mate Tommy Littlehorse is electrocuted and left for dead during a break in at the OSI labs. Since he was one of the few people with access to the top secret Rosebud project, suspicion falls on the comatose Littlehorse. However, Jaime is certain of his innocence and begins to receive visits from Tommy's out of body spirit form.
25 Mar. 1978
Long Live the King
Middle Eastern king Kusari is visiting New York and Jaime Sommers poses as his new social secretary to foil an assassination plot. Unfortunately the foreign agents recognize Jaime and try to get rid of her. Sommers teams up with the chief of protocol Sam Sloan, who also happens to be a self indulgent lady killer. Sloan comes to think the assassination attempts are meant for him because of his gambling debts.
6 May 1978
Rancho Outcast
Jaime Sommers assumes the identify of criminal Blondie Malone to find a couple of stolen currency plates. She teams up with Petie 'The Weasel' Regan, who is the only person that can identify the culprit, Frank Boylan. Together they head for Hidalgo, a safe haven for criminals in Central America.
13 May 1978
On the Run
Jaime Sommers has decided to retire from the OSI. The powers that be go over Oscar Goldman's head and want to put her in a special compound for retired agents because they see her bionics as government property. As Oscar breaks the news to Jaime, he tells her to make a run for it. When she does, she is immediately branded a fugitive wanted by the government.
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The Wolf's Maiden Chapter 8
The Wolf's Maiden Chapter 8
Chapter 8
Annabel and Edward were lying together side by side on the rabbit fur blanket Julia had made for them. They had rested on it for a while after they had made love for the second time. Annabel had snuggled herself closely to Edward, enjoying the warmth of his hard chest, she felt safe and comfortable in his arms, breathing in the scent that she knew so well. This feeling of being so close together, of not having to worry about anything in the whole world, Annabel wanted to preserve this feeling for as long as she could, for she knew that when they woke up the next morning, the fight for survival would start anew. At least tonight, she could spend as much time as she wanted with the man she loved so much.
She pressed her face even closer to Edward. She felt safe, yet she felt so afraid. Annabel wasn’t as air headed at Edward and Julia wanted to believe. She knew that winter was coming and that their supplies would last at most a week.
“Edward,” she said. She wanted to ask him something, she wanted to speak to him, yet she had no idea as to what she wanted to say. She simply wanted to hear his voice after a period of silence.
“Yes, baby?” Edward raised his head slightly so that he could get a good look at her. Sometimes he still couldn’t quite believe how beautiful Annabel was. Even though they had been together for so many years, he still felt uncontrollably drawn to her wavy brown hair, her slim waist, and the full breasts which never ceased to grab his attention. Yet above all, what triggered tenderness he felt for her was the bright smile she would have, and every time he was together with her, no matter what had happened, he would feel more energized.
At first Annabel fell silent again, cuddling against Edward, feeling his cock rub against her soft stomach. But after some moments, she spoke.
“What will we do?”
“What do you mean, baby?”
“I mean…will we always stay in this forest? Or do you think it might be possible for us to go home?”
Home…that was the word that stopped Edward from breathing for a moment. Where was home? Home was where they had been outlawed. The whole world was open to them, but home was the only place where they couldn’t go. After all these months in the forest in a land where they didn’t speak the language, home was a word that would tug at the heartstrings.
“I don’t know,” Edward said with full honesty. “I don’t know if we can ever go home.”
With her fingers, Annabel stroked Edward’s chest. She sighed profoundly.
“But…do you think we can go outside this forest?”
“I’m sure that we can go outside the forest…but none of us can speak French, and we don’t know anyone who can speak English. Even if we did go out, we barely have any money left and nothing to sell. We would have nowhere to go.”
Annabel pressed herself tightly against Edward, hoping to find the comfort of home that she wanted to badly. This was the first time that she was away from the city where she was born. But above all, she was here because the people of her home had chased her out. Even before asking Edward, she knew that they had no home to return to.
She bit her lower lip, but she couldn’t stop the pain from rising in her chest and coming out as tears in her eyes. At first it was just a small tear that ran down her cheek, but soon she couldn’t stop sobbing. She cried as quietly as she could, trying to suppress the tears, but to no avail. At first Edward didn’t even notice the tears, but he soon hear her audible sobbing.
He said nothing. He understood the pain that Annabel felt, and he knew that there was little he could say to make it better. Instead, he offered her the only comfort he could properly give her; he put his thick arms around her shaking frame and pulled her closer. Now they we pressed together, chest to chest. So close were they, that their legs were tangles together, his cock pressed against her sex. He could feel her wetness rub against his shaft. But even though he had grown hard against, at least for the this moment right now, it wasn’t the time to slide his cock back into her. Instead, he held her close, listening to her sobs, sharing her pain.
He could not afford to cry himself. Annabel needed him. What kind of man would he be if she could not turn to him in her moments of despair? And Julia needed him too. Julia was strong willed, but she too needed to know that there was a person she could fall back on. And this gave Edward some comfort. He knew that Julia was incredibly strong. He could also rely on her if he was ever sick or injured. But above all, he had Annabel by his side. It was something every man knew, but not many men admitted; he was only half the man he could be without Annabel in his life. Having her snuggle up against him, giving him kisses and telling him that she loved him, all these things were what gave him strength.
“Shh..shh…it’s alright, it’s alright,” Edward stroked her head gently.
He could feel Annabel wiping her nose on his chest, and he couldn’t help but laugh at that. She was just like a little girl when she started crying.
“What’s so funny!” Annabel pouted and pushed herself from Edward, slightly angry that he started laughing when she was crying her heart.
“Nothing, nothing!” Edward laughed and pulled her close again.
Annabel tried to push herself away from him again, but she knew that it was no use.
“It’s just that you were like a little girl just now,” Edward chuckled, and lovingly stroked her hair. “You are so adorable, I just couldn’t help but to laugh. I’m sorry.”
Pretending to be insulted, Annabel pouted but stopping resisting Edward’s embrace. After a few moments, she caved in and snuggled herself against Edward again. She could never stay mad at him for long, never mind pretend to be mad at him. She knew that Edward knew that she was only pretending, nevertheless she enjoyed how he playfully cajoled with her to calm her down. It was a game that they only played with each other.
Edward put his arm around her again and gave her butt a light squeeze.
“You pervert,” Annabel glanced up at him, but she did nothing to resist him.
In response, Edward squeezed harder, and in the same motion pulled her closer to him, so that she could feel his erection pressed against her stomach against. With a small smile, Annabel enjoyed the feeling of Edward massaging her behind and feeling the pulsing of his hardness against her. In that moment, she felt so intimate with Edward, yet this moment was charged with sexual tension.
“Annabel…” Edward whispered, his breath shallow.
Annabel glanced downwards and she could see what he wanted. Even though they had done it two times already, Edward was as hard as he could be, his cock throbbing and rubbing against her stomach.
She looked up at him. “No,” she said with at teasing smile.
Edward gritted his teeth as Annabel’s sweet smile struck him. Against all the things in the world, the only thing he could not summon any resistance towards was Annabel’s teasing smile. Whenever she gave him that, he could not control himself anymore.
He loosened his grip on her slightly and shifted his body downwards. Then with his hands on her buttocks, he drew her close again, his hard cock rubbing against the wetness of her sex. He shifted his hips so that the his head was pressed against the entrance of her sex. Then with a grunt, he pushed upwards and buried the thick mushroom head of his cock inside her.
“Hey! Who said that you could put it in,” Annabel pretended to be displeased and poked his chest.
Without answering, Edward tightened his grip on her buttocks and pulled her even closer. Letting out a deep breath, he pushed upwards again and his entire cock was buried inside her.
“You’re so mean…you put it in, just like that,” Annabel hammered his chest lightly with a balled fist, but did not move away. She instead moved her hips upwards, and then down again, creating a little friction.
Neither of them moaned, but their breathing was heavy as they slowly fucked like that. It was different from the first two times. During the first two times, their lust ran wild, and they had fucked like wild animals, releasing their pent up frustrations. But right now, they fucked as slowly as they could, savoring the pleasure, moving at a pace where neither would orgasm, so that they could enjoy this feeling of being connected mixed with drawn-out carnal pleasure.
Side by side they lay like this, chest to chest, connected through their sexes, grinding against each other, making their slow fucking last as long as they could.
Annabel clung to Edward’s chest, enjoying of his cock rubbing inside her. She loved the feeling of being connected to him, the sensation of his full girth penetrating her. She didn’t want to let him out. While the feeling of him sliding in and out of her was something that made her mouth water, just lying like this, and feeling his cock grind inside her while barely moving was an incredibly intimate experience. Both of them were barely moving, but simply enjoying the feeling of their bodies connected, their juices sloshing together, the warmth of their breaths mixing.
Then Annabel felt Edward’s breath growing heavier. With his large hands he grabbed both of of her buttocks and squeezed until it almost hurt, yet this pain felt like bitter sweet pleasure. He shifted his hips and his cock slid out of her. However just before it was completely out, he stopped and pushed back into her. Yet, it was so different from their previous two times. He didn’t slam it back into her, but rather, he slowly slid it back in. Annabel quivered with the feeling of his thick hardness slowly filling her again. She could feel Edward’s passion for her flowing through her body, and she wanted to return this feeling to him.
Again, she felt Edward slowly exit her and then, ever so slowly, sliding back into her. Her entire body quivered with the anticipation of the pleasure, every fibre of her being begging for more.
“Fuck me…” Annabel whispered.
In response, Edward squeezed her buttocks so hard that it hurt. He then let go, put his hand on her shoulder, shifted his weight so that he was on top of her. Having found the right position, he raised his hips, and then without warning, slammed into her. The pleasure shooting through her, Annabel’s jaw hung loose and she groaned like an animal, without any care for appearances.
“Oh Annabel,” Edward gritted his teeth and continued pounding her like there was no tomorrow. Back and forth, again and again, she felt him ram his hardness into her, every time moaning his name.
She felt the mixture of their juices dripping down her buttocks, the lewd sound of their flesh slapping, the slippery noises their fucking caused. Then with one final push, Edward plunged himself into her as far as he could, and she could feel him releasing his hot semen inside her.
This sent Annabel over the edge, and at the same time she could feel her orgasm shake her entire body, her animalistic groans filling the little hut. She automatically bucked her hips, trying to drive Edward even further into her. Their orgasm was so powerful that after a few moments she could still feel Edward pumping his seed into her, as if he was desperate to mark her.
Breathing heavily, Edward collapsed on top of her. Instinctively, Annabel put her arms on to his broad back, enjoying the feeling of his sweat mixing with hers. He kept his cock plugged inside her, as if he didn’t want any of his semen to leak out. She put her legs around his hips and put a little pressure on his back so that he would inch slightly closer to her than he already was, driving his cock tiny bit further in. And just like that they lay together, in the afterglow of their powerful orgasm, his cock never leaving her.
Both of them soon fell asleep, and neither heard how the door to their little hut opened. Julia was finally home.
And that was chapter 8! I hope you enjoyed it. I apologize for the long wait for chapter 8, but I was helping a relative edit their story which will be soon published on Amazon. If you are interested, more info will be announced at chapter 9 ^^
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Posted 24 Feb 2014 00:13
Yes a good continuation. A relaxing chapter. I don't normally get into this style of story, but I'm enjoying this series.
Posted 05 Feb 2014 12:26
Another good chapter.
Looking forward to the continuation.
Out of curiosity, is Julia going to tell Annabel about Silver?
Posted 30 Jan 2014 21:04
Can't wait for the next chapter. Well done.
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Date: August 06, 2000 05:55AM
Kris, this has got NOTHING to do with 'getting on a soapbox' - it's simply a matter of giving the artist some respect! Somewhere out there is a Journey 'fan' (and I use the term loosely...) who saw it fit to put 'Arrival' on the Net A to Z - a full SIX WEEKS ahead of its official release date! That is FUCKING bullshit and it needs to stop! How would you feel if you worked on a project and someone took it away from you without your consent and showed it/played it for every Joe, Dick and Harry! - You would feel like SHIT and you'd be FUMING! Why can't people be cool enough to sit on something until it comes out, or closer to the release date anyway, instead of completely disrespecting the band just to be "Mr. badass-look-I-got-it-already"? The lowlifes that do this deserve a major beating... and people like you who support these practices should really think through what's at stake here instead of acting like overanxious fanboys. Is your life gonna suck that much if you can't hear a badly mp3'd version of 'Arrivial' RIGHT NOW?
P.S.: If Andrew previews the new Journey you can bet your life he's got PERMISSION to do so! Don't equate him with these Napster clowns!
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Journey - Arrival up on Napster 126 Ingmar 08/06/2000 01:46AM
RE: Journey - Arrival up on Napster 86 Jeff 08/06/2000 04:13AM
Thou shall not STEAL!! 78Preacherman08/06/2000 04:19AM
RE: Thou shall not STEAL!! 84Kris08/06/2000 04:57AM
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RE: You are WRONG!!! 90Kris08/06/2000 11:59AM
RE: Thou shall not STEAL!! 101 Ingmar 08/06/2000 09:39AM
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RE: Gimme a f@*#ing break! 80 F.O.R.D. 08/08/2000 04:17PM
RE: Gimme a f@*#ing break! 96 Eric 08/09/2000 02:14AM
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RE: Gimme a f@*#ing break! 87 KISSaholic 08/10/2000 05:39PM
RE: Journey - Arrival up on Napster 108 Eric 08/07/2000 11:07PM
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oh, thanks for telling EVERYBODY now............ 100 Kevin 08/06/2000 06:34AM
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2. Given that the show largely consists of the animated Gervais and Merchant sitting around a table with the notoriously round-headed Pilkington, disabusing him of one oddball notion after another, it's strange that Gervais would've chosen this show to carry his name. But true believers--or fans of "The Life & Times of Tim," whose second-season premiere follows at 9:30--may well have a yabba-dabba-do time.
3. I liked the original and also like what little I've seen of the remake so far, but won't know until it expands beyond the original stories - as American series generally must do - whether it's worth sticking with.
4. It's Shahi, whose Kate may be grumpy but who somehow gets to smile more in one episode than she might have in an entire season of "Life," who lights up the screen and makes Legal a keeper.
5. The formula may be hokey, but Traffic Light's execution of it is charming, and funny in a way that doesn't seem to be trying too hard, thanks to some happy casting and scripts that appear to have been written with real people in mind.
6. The play's conceit doesn't work particularly well on film and it doesn't help that the performance took place at the Kennedy Center's Eisenhower Theater before an unstudent-like audience. But as static as the staging sometimes feels, Fishburne is more animated than he's gotten to be in a while, delivering a performance that's as funny as it appears to be heartfelt.
7. Bower's not the most compelling hero--and Fiennes can be a bore--but the story, however twisted, remains amusing.
9. As USA dramas go, Necessary Roughness is about halfway between "In Plain Sight" and "White Collar" on the believability scale, but it's summer and I like Thorne, whose character is feisty and funny and shrill only when shrillness is absolutely justified.
10. If you're one of the people who've so far managed the suspension of disbelief required to accept that Close's Patty Hewes could yet again find a way to pull protege Ellen Parsons (Rose Byrne) back into her orbit, Season 4 shouldn't disappoint.
11. When I come back it's not because Rescue Me can be insanely funny--though it can be, particularly when it sticks close to the firehouse--but because I still believe that buried under layers and layers of Leary's nonsense, there's an actual story that's dying to get out.
13. While The X Factor may not on the surface offer anything that can't be found on "Idol," "America's Got Talent" and "The Voice" or their many cable imitators, it does have a level of showmanship that makes me want to believe again, whether it's in 13-year-olds who sing like established stars three times their age or in recovering addicts whose lives just may be about to change forever.
14. My favorite so far of the fall's two "Mad Men" wannabes and a show with more moving parts than a jumbo jet.
16. Mos Def, Colin Hanks and Edward James Olmos play characters with a religious bent in a season that doesn't yet feel as compelling as the one dominated by John Lithgow but allows Dexter to remain the way his fans most want him--alive and killing.
17. Living in the Material World finds plenty to say, though, particularly in the final two hours, when Olivia Harrison's honesty contributes mightily to Scorsese's portrait of an artist more interesting than some of us may have realized.
18. Compared with (sigh) "American Horror Story," the tale itself makes a certain amount of sense and like any good thrill ride, spaces out the scary parts just enough to make them truly scary.
19. The second series, as they call it in Britain, shows signs of strain, as creator Julian Fellowes throws one obstacle after another between his sets of star-crossed lovers (some upstairs, some down).
20. The River makes effective use of the idea that sometimes it's the things you can't see so clearly--or at all--that are the scariest.
22. Yes, you've seen it before. But, hey, you haven't seen it with Ashley Judd.
23. A big, sexy drama that doesn't take itself as seriously as "The Sopranos" or "Mad Men" and doesn't seem to expect us to, either.
24. What starts out as a seemingly generic series about an assortment of showbiz wannabes becomes more engaging over the first few episodes.
27. The Glee Project returns to Oxygen Tuesday with all the fun and frustration that marked its first round.
28. I don't know if the show I thought I was watching is actually the show she intends to make. But I'm willing to stick around to find out.
29. [Anger Management is] funny in that way where you might see the joke hanging there and even if it's a little bit obvious, you're happy enough when the actor hits it.
30. Where American Gypsies shines--and it really does shine here and there--is in the glimpses we get of the internal system of justice that's developed among a people who don't trust government, and family rituals like the "red-dress ceremony" with which the Johns family welcomes its newest member.
31. Though I sense the show is treading water a bit as Prohibition drags on and the operations of the black market become increasingly contentious, there's still plenty to see on the Boardwalk, thanks to the show's secondary characters.
32. Ben and Kate has great sibling chemistry, a cute kid (Maggie Elizabeth Jones as Kate's daughter, Maggie) and an appealing premise.
35. Plenty of new challenges await the survivors, led by Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln), whose performance as a man who's had ruthlessness thrust upon him continues to be a series highlight.
36. The plotting of the pilot is a bit too pat at times, but two subsequent episodes bolster the argument that Underemployed deserves a shot at going full-time.
37. Not everyone's going to like this or other aspects of Sister Jude's story, which essentially does for nuns what the first season did for real estate agents. But it's the kind of cliché meant to appeal to parochial-school survivors of a certain age of which, yes, I'm one. And Murphy another.
38. Though Ethel can't possibly be construed as a tell-all, much less the work of an impartial observer, it's great that someone finally got her to talk at all.
39. This feels very much like the show I've been watching all along.
40. Golden Boy works as a decent cop show. But an epic one? Not yet.
41. In the light of Monday morning, a lot of what goes on in Red Widow is probably going to seem pretty silly. But shows like this are all about the chemistry, and the chemistry between Mitchell and Visnjic is everything you'd want in an essentially unequal relationship between a recent widow and the megalomaniacal drug dealer who can end her life at any moment.
43. No one should base a term paper on it, but Da Vinci's Demons is at least an entertaining lie.
44. At least one aspect of Stef's relationship with her ex (Danny Nucci) seems unlikely, and Lena works at the most beautifully sited school in America, which all the kids happen to attend. But there's heart here, and a message about not throwing away children that belongs on a network that puts "Family" in its title.
45. Tenney and Romijn make fun partners, and the pilot by executive producer Shane Brennan follows an intriguing course that might have seemed far-fetched only a week ago, before we learned that truth might be stranger than "Person of Interest."
46. No, it's not as unpredictable as "Mad Men," but at least it packs enough of a punch to keep the conspiracy theorists at bay.
48. An entertaining romp with strong performances, it seems a good fit for Lifetime.
49. That small towns aren't immune from the same problems that plague big cities isn't an original idea, and having the people living in them face some overwhelming menace isn't new territory for King. But the dome's a little different, and certainly a welcome break from zombie apocalypses.
51. Who cares who runs the law firm? The petty office wars are where it's at.
52. In four subsequent episodes I've seen, the stories and characters get to breathe a bit. [MacDowell's] Olivia's just headstrong enough to stay interesting.
53. I can't fault the emphasis on some other characters' stories--including Nucky's valet, Eddie Kessler (Anthony Laciura), and nightclub operator Chalky White (Michael Kenneth Williams)--or the additions of Jeffrey Wright, Ron Livingston and Patricia Arquette to a cast that's already one of the strongest in television.
54. They're [Andy Samberg and Andre Braugher] good together (even if I don't completely buy Samberg yet in the role), but the show's strength is its note-perfect ensemble.
55. What Mom lacks in bite, it makes up for in balance, with a dependable number of laughs and a strong ensemble that includes French Stewart and Nathan Corddry.
56. The adult cast is superb... but it feels as if the young actor playing Adam (Sean Giambrone) might have been kidnapped from a more conventional TV family.
57. The show's still playing with the balance between work and home, but that's what the time's for. And what's there right now is definitely worth watching.
58. As an eccentric genius, Williams is in familiar waters, and he's found a playmate in James Wolk, who's somehow able to keep up with an actor whose streams of consciousness can be Class V rapids. Gellar's playing it straight, but a scene in which she has to sing in front of Kelly Clarkson suggests she's game for anything.
59. Together Bridges and Martindale pretty much steal the pilot from everyone around them.
60. There are aspects of Coven that are stylish and clever, and others that are just "Carrie" on steroids. The cast, of course, is tremendous.
64. The show's action-packed and wildly improbable, but Helfer looks as if she might be having fun, and if you don't think too hard (and wouldn't rather be watching the gunplay in "Justified"), you might, too.
66. I don't know that Looking starts out being very good at what it thinks it is, either. But it's intriguing enough to be worth a second or third date before deciding.
67. The scenery in Klondike ... really is impressive, the performances are solid and though the dialogue's sometimes less than natural, the added-for-TV touches mostly make the story more palatable, if no less sad.
68. Driver's at her funniest in scenes where she and Marcus revel in their oddness, but "About a Boy" left me less sure of who Marcus is: He veers between painful naivete and canny opportunism with alarming speed.
70. There's something faintly retro about a show that tackles fears many thought died with the Cold War.
71. [It] so far boasts characters more intriguing than their interactions.
72. If you watch "Shark," it's going to be for those Woods-ian rants and for the sheer exuberance he brings to them.
73. The pilot for "Twenty Good Years" has some genuinely funny moments even as it makes no apparent effort to reinvent the form.
74. [3 Lbs.], as medical shows go, is pretty, full of the kind of light-show graphics the "CSIs" and "House" have led us to expect.
75. As much fun as it might be for some of us to start our Wednesday nights watching a shirtless Taye Diggs get out of bed - just as it was once fun to watch Agents Mulder and Scully chase goblins and ghosties and things that go bump in the night - these TV conspiracies have a way of ending badly.
76. While there's nothing groundbreaking happening in "My Boys," there is something a bit fresher than we saw in any of the many "Sex and the City" wannabes that popped up a few seasons ago.
77. Martin kills as a 12-year-old who is old beyond her years. I might watch just for her. As comedies go, Californication is a bit of a downer, and not just to fans of "The X-Files."
78. An overly complicated pilot had me feeling that I, too, would like to time-travel, if not actually fast-forward, but a more straightforward second episode made me decide not to cancel my subscription just yet.
79. Samantha Who? could easily be a complete mess. That it isn't is almost entirely due to Applegate, who brings sweetness, sarcasm and a steely edge to this story of a woman doing everything she can not to become the person she's always been.
80. I can't say I was riveted by either of the episodes I watched, which largely consisted of interviews with the girls and their parents, together and separately, interspersed with scenes from extracurricular activities and parties. But if there are parents who can actually get their teens to watch with them, it might get a conversation going.
81. The comedy's broad, the characters broader--Chris Parnell plays a control freak of a vice principal, Brooke Burns the former homecoming queen from Becky's year who's just joined the faculty--but there are moments when you can see it turning into something watchable.
82. I'm thinking most of these kids seem way too old to be headed back to high school from the Hamptons. It's not so much the actors--it is their characters, who've morphed over the summer into people whose world-weariness is palpable and their genuine problems so few that the writers needed to manufacture some truly outlandish ones to keep things interesting.
84. Across the pond, wisecracks, sexual tension and some broad shots at Britain's class system make for a predictable two hours with some pleasant scenery.
85. Ball's done an entertaining job of turning Harris' stories about life in a small Southern town after vampires "come out of the coffin" into something adults who wouldn't dream of reading her books might be caught dead watching.
87. Thank goodness for Danny DeVito, whose total commitment to this insanity often makes the unbelievable just believable enough to be funny.
88. What's bad for Seattle Grace isn't necessarily bad for Grey's, which needs all the medical drama it can muster to distract its doctors from their (mostly) dreary love lives. Guest stars don't necessarily hurt, either.
89. Certainly Swayze, as undercover FBI agent Charles Barker, is better than his material. If The Beast, which turns on the relationship between the experienced and not exactly by-the-book Barker and the young agent, Ellis Dove (Fimmel), he's supposed to be training, is more rooted than reality than, say, Fox's "24," it can't be by much.
90. Parts of tonight's episode and next week's also focus on the Dubois offspring and their own burgeoning psychic abilities, yet another growth opportunity for a show that keeps finding a way to survive in an ever-tougher world.
92. I gradually lost interest during the agents' first case together, which takes them on the road. Here's hoping the assignments get better. Because the warehouse itself is packed to the rafters with (sorry, Syfy) geeky fun.
93. As Cycle 13 of America's Next Top Model gets under way, some of the stories seem sobbier than ever, though the young women telling them are shorter than usual.
94. I found the first episode of "Survivors" incredibly depressing and began to think longingly of rewards challenges and hidden immunity idols. But a subsequent episode, though devoid of tribal councils, did provide enough heart and even occasional flashes of humor to make survival - and the continuation of "Survivors" - seem like a fate considerably better than death.
97. Strahan's not yet up to his cast mates' level and the writing's uneven in tonight's back-to-back episodes--producers need, for instance, to figure out just how serious Weathers' character's forgetfulness is meant to be--but there are a few great moments.
98. Nothing very important is happening here, but if you love "24" for its silliness rather than its sometimes muddled message, "Human Target" might just hit the bull's-eye for you.
100. That for those of you who love True Blood for its soapy mix of sex and horror--and occasional flashes of humor--nothing important is missing from the three episodes I've seen of the new season.
101. As for Scoundrels, it is, like its characters, far from perfect, but probably far better than you expected from a scripted network show in the summer.
102. AMC's likely earned a little rope with a small but passionate audience. Whether Rubicon manages to establish more than an edgy mood will probably decide how long even the most masochistic of those viewers sticks around.
103. I might not believe for a moment that any of these people actually exist in nature, much less Pennsylvania, but Big Lake, with its wink and a nod to a format that always required suspension of disbelief, is at least more than willing to own its silliness.
104. Chase is a very competent action-adventure with a heroine who's so far not as interesting to me as, say, the deputy U.S. marshal Mary McCormack plays on USA's "In Plain Sight." That could change, though, if I gave her a chance, and for adrenaline junkies who appreciate the professionalism Bruckheimer's company brings to just about everything it produces, this is certainly a better way to spend an hour than wishing that guy would stop talking so you could get a better look at Hawaii.
105. Now it's a talky but straight-ahead ensemble cop show whose cast includes Michael Imperioli ("The Sopranos") and James McDaniel ("NYPD Blue"). Think "Southland" in Detroit.
106. Maybe there are superheroes who specialize in improving organic-farming methods or eradicating bedbugs, but they probably won't be getting network shows any time soon. Shows that parents might be willing to watch with their kids--and kids with their parents--remain few and far between, so it's too bad that the so far ordinary but at least well-meaning No Ordinary Family is facing off this fall against the phenomenon that is Fox's "Glee."
107. If Harris, who's clearly meant to steal every scene he's in, seems a little too cool to be hanging out with the brothers from Omega Sigma, whose deficiencies haven't yet been fully cataloged, it's still not nearly as cool as he's going to need to be if he's to lead this slightly tired toga party right into "Conan's" waiting arms.
108. Not every TV show has to leave you wishing for a Ph.D. in physics and total recall of Philosophy 101, and V, which seems to have embraced the cheesy goodness of the original, strikes me as a bit more fun this season.
109. Southland, which seems to be at pains to give each of its characters and their stories equal weight, may just be a little too evenhanded for its own good.
110. The premiere of Mr. Sunshine feels more forced at times than it needs to be, as if the writers mistrusted Perry and company's ability to wring humor from real-life situations and felt compelled instead to send in the clowns--with axes--to get the job done.
111. Little of this stands up to close scrutiny, but there's a nice twist at the end of the pilot, and it looks as if every episode will begin with a fiendishly clever prison break by someone viewers might actually hope to see caught.
112. I found myself more drawn to the part of next week's episode where we see Jo with her fellow physics grad students--think "Big Bang Theory" with "American Idol's" Kevin "Chicken Little" Covais--and wondering if a slightly less seductive Georgia (at any weight) might not have a better shot at being the funny girl.
113. I can't disagree with those who insist the show passed its sell-by date a few years back, but it doesn't mean I'm not still fond enough of these guys to keep watching.
114. Way over the top but potentially a guilty pleasure for those with the time to pursue it.
116. It doesn't yet feel like just another cop show.
119. Interesting enough to justify six hours? Probably not. But for those who watch "Game of Thrones" and "Spartacus" for the high body counts, it offers plenty of action.
120. Silly doesn't even begin to describe most of what goes on in the first few episodes....And yet, like an addiction to free-range hemoglobin, there's something undeniably compelling about the characters, human and otherwise, in a series whose plotting grows more twisted every year.
121. Between their personal history and their decidedly different approaches to running the place, they're dealing with plenty of built-in conflict, but if the show's a hit, I wouldn't be surprised if they eventually united, just as Perry and his fellow "Friends" stars once did, to demand an end to (or at least a dialing back of) the monkey business.
122. While I'm intrigued, I'd prefer to be carrying something stronger than a candle before I head too far down this particular rabbit hole.
123. People who like their procedurals with punch--there's plenty of punching, not to mention kicking, in the pilot--might like CBS' period cop show just the way it is. But if I'm going to stay with Vegas, I'm going to need to be wooed a little.
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124. The World According to Dick Cheney has some chilling moments, from his dispassionate description of waterboarding ("It creates a sensation of drowning") to his 9/11 narrative, in which he takes responsibility for having authorized the shooting down of Flight 93 if it approached Washington. What it doesn't have is a lot of navel-gazing.
126. As the series goes on and takes a deeper interest in the multitude of characters he's gathered around him, Mr. Selfridge begins to come into focus. Whether you'll find it as engaging as "Downton Abbey" may depend less on any single performance than on how invested you can become in the rise of the modern perfume counter and off-the-rack dresses.
127. No matter how beautifully the dead bodies are staged--and, like Dr. Lecter's dinners, the corpse presentations in Hannibal could be ripped from old issues of Gourmet magazine, if Gourmet had featured cannibalism--they're still meant to represent once-living people. So, if I'm less amused by this than whoever chose to title those episodes "Aperitif," "Amuse-Bouche," "Potage," "Coquilles" and "Entrée," call me a party pooper. Still, it's a gorgeous party, with hosts that include "Wonderfalls" star Caroline Dhavernas as a colleague of Will's and Laurence Fishburne as Will's boss.
129. McKenzie may look like Russell Crowe's younger brother - while playing nearly a decade below his own age - but for all the James Dean comparisons being bandied about, he's a character straight out of Dickens: a little bit Pip, a little bit David Copperfield. [4 Aug 2003, p.28]
130. I'm reluctant to lose my heart again, much less encourage anyone to follow me down what could be a dead end. And yet I'm intrigued.
131. Based on the few, non-consecutive episodes I've seen, it does seem willing, though, to pose some hard questions, including whether it's reasonable to expect that the people we pay to lie down with dogs won't ever wake up with fleas. Or worse.
132. It's hard enough keeping track of the aliens in Falling Skies, but the first few episodes introduce so many new challenges and mysteries it makes my head hurt thinking about them.
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133. It's hardly groundbreaking, but if you are documentary-challenged, or don't know much about Lee Harvey Oswald (Will Rothhaar) and his Russia-born wife, Marina (Michelle Trachtenberg), you might learn something. Also: Lowe's Kennedy hair is truly amazing.
134. I don't mind seeing actors like Ed Burns, Milo Ventimiglia and Robert Knepper in nice suits, acting the way bad guys in old movies are supposed to act. I'm even happier to see Jon Bernthal all cleaned up and zombie-free. I just can't quite tell, after two episodes, whether their stories can compete with their setting.
135. For all their macho posturing, you've got to wonder sometimes whether Leary and Tolan didn't spend their younger days watching soaps. [13 June 2007, p.43]
136. You don't have to have lived through Watergate to know that it's the cover-up that gets you, but there's much more happening in The Red Road, maybe too much to be contained in a six-hour first season, and some of it more interesting than what's going on between these two men.
138. Whether you'll want to go the distance with "Big Day" will probably rest on how close you feel to the family.
139. Much of what's swept up in "Dirt," from gay action stars to sad sitcom actresses, seems more dusty than dirty.
140. Their efforts to better their lives through grand larceny feel forced, not to mention doomed.
141. I just couldn't buy in.
142. I don't want to beat up on Meyers here. He does justice to Hirst's Henry, if not entirely to history's, and being young and good-looking is hardly a crime. But like Tony Soprano, Henry VIII brings more to the table than charisma: Corrupted by absolute power, he's a bit of a monster.
143. The first hour left me a bit cold, but the second, which arrived yesterday, filled in enough of the blanks to take me as far as Monday.
144. Like so many current serials, [it] requires viewers to buy into the idea that its heroes have no choice but to do very unobvious things.
145. In January or February, I might not have found room in my own schedule for a combination murder mystery and teen soap. I certainly would have wondered more about setting a show about adolescents among the ancients of Palm Springs. Now I'm just inclined to appreciate the little things.
146. In Tim Gunn's Guide to Style, it feels as if he's sometimes forcing himself to emote for the cameras.
147. There's a distinct "Alias" overtone to her initiation into the dark side of the force. If I'd liked "Alias," this might have me all excited. But I didn't, so I'm not.
148. Kranz does look like a writer, for what it's worth. But if he's really as good as they say, he'd have written something better than this.
149. I should probably feel bad, too, about finding all this silliness passably amusing, especially after having trashed its evil stepsister on ABC. But somehow I don't.
150. I'm ashamed that a wounded Marine, about to be discharged after 15 years in the service, needs help from an entertainment show to find and afford civilian housing for himself and his family.
151. McCormack, a rangy actress who looks more comfortable in Mary Shannon's tank tops and casual jackets than she ever did in the lawyerly business suits she wore way back on "Murder One," manages to make all this crankiness intermittently endearing.
152. It probably wasn't their intention, but the producers of The Principal's Office have succeeded in capturing one reality of high school life that's often been overlooked on shows like "Gossip Girl" and "One Tree Hill"--the sheer tedium of it all, from the petty rebellions to the sometimes even pettier responses.
153. MacLaine, who apparently decided not to bother to attempt a French accent, isn't served well by a script that essentially has her introducing flashbacks.
154. Truth is, there's not terribly much to dislike about Opportunity Knocks, a kinder, gentler version of Fox's "Moment of Truth" in which families win by having their members answer not unreasonable questions about one another. There's not much to get excited about, either.
155. It's a subject that was explored more deeply, and even a touch more believably, in BBC America's "Jekyll," a nail-biter of an update in which James Nesbitt inhabited both personalities so completely they barely even looked alike. Slater, by contrast, just seems like a guy in need of a good night's sleep.
156. Defoe's ambitious bachelor is transformed into an ardent husband and father, whose memories of his previous life are so tinged with romance they include falling rose petals. I kid you not.
157. Teddy's impulses are undeniably good ones, but tales of African corruption are nothing new and often cited as a cause of viewer fatigue. And though Teddy's expected to range far and wide, it remains to be seen whether The Philanthropist, and its debonair title character, have anything new to do--or say--about the problems he'll encounter.
160. Cassidys aside, the Ruby pilot, at least, feels more Disney Channel than ABC Family, with a sitcommy pace that doesn't allow for much in the way of plot or character development.
161. How much you'll actually care about any of them may decide whether you're ready to embrace the new Melrose Place.
162. So far, though, there's nothing on The Jay Leno Show that's worth losing sleep over.
163. Gross, who couldn't look (or act) less like Jack Nicholson and is the No. 1 reason you should run out right now and rent the Canadian series "Slings & Arrows," is a happy bit of casting that could add a little zing to this warmed-over dish.
165. For sci-fi fans, the new V, like a Visitor, clothes itself familiarly, with actors from "Lost," "The 4400," "Firefly" and "Smallville," but until we see something we haven't seen before, we should probably go easy on the devotion.
166. I hated more how little I even giggled at Running Wilde, whose pilot doesn't quite live up to its pedigree.
167. It's Los Angeles, a city that's all too familiar a location to viewers the world over, and with all due respect to Detective Winters' tired-but-gorgeous brown eyes, there's not nearly enough here to distinguish the transplanted Law & Order from its aged parent or, for that matter, from plenty of other L.A.-based cop shows.
168. I think Hines' heart is in the right place, but I'm tired of seeing people in need used as entertainment to get help they're actually entitled to as Americans.
169. Those who still dream of making a killing on "Antiques Roadshow" might conceivably get a kick out of watching a bunch of guys try to outmaneuver one another for the right to take home whatever's behind Door No. 3, but if there's an acquisitive bone in your body, you should probably steer clear, lest you find yourself the subject of yet another cautionary tale on A&E's "Hoarders."
170. It's lighter than "Heroes," but also less coherent. Still, fans of Summer Glau (you know who you are) probably won't be able to resist.
171. So what we have here is another show in which pretty, mildly tortured people perform deeds of medical derring-do while trying to figure out how they, and various parts of their individual anatomies, might fit together.
172. Plopped down in Baltimore, the loose-living adolescents in MTV's seemingly line-for-line version don't actually feel American, no matter what their accents are, and the plots that always struck me as more teen movie than teen reality seem no more realistic than, say, "Gossip Girl."
173. There being few original ideas in television, execution matters. And though "Couples" fields a good cast, including Kyle Bornheimer ("Worst Week") and Mary Elizabeth Ellis ("It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia"), the two episodes I screened mostly felt forced and formulaic.
174. This is Mad Love, which takes a good cast--however tired I am of Labine playing the same guy--and forces them to try to make themselves heard over people who seem to think everything they say is hilarious.
175. If you don't care for Criminal Minds, Whitaker, Garofalo and company probably aren't going to be enough of a reason for you to tune in. Their characters may get to be interesting from time to time, but the crime's always going to be the main focus.
176. It's a happy mix of childlike wonder and mildly adult humor--too mild for "Two and a Half Men," but maybe too adult for Saturday mornings--that allows Reubens to be timeless and yet topical. But again, only mildly so.
177. Breckin Meyer and Mark-Paul Gosselaar go the buddy-comedy route in Franklin & Bash, a new lawyer show the network's calling an "offbeat drama"--though it's hard to think of something whose beats are this predictable as off-anything.
178. Like Durant's ideal route, the five episodes I've seen of Hell on Wheels tend to meander a bit.
179. There are a fair number of character quirks packed into that first hour, more, perhaps, than I remember from early episodes of "Bones," which built up its own quirky world a bit at a time.
180. I'm not hooked, but I'm not yet planning my escape, either.
181. There's a germ of a good idea in the massively overproduced Fashion Star.
182. If you're moving on with The Killing, you're either a sucker for punishment or a hopeless fan of Detective Sarah Linden (Mireille Enos) and her Scandinavian sweaters.
183. Best Friends Forever is better than a blank screen, but beyond setting what I think might be a 2011-12 season record--0 to vagina joke in 15 seconds--it doesn't do much to break through the sitcom clutter.
184. It offers tantalizing glimpses of other movies it might have been.
185. NBC's Saving Hope, another of those Canadian imports with which frugal networks pad out their summer schedules, plays like a very special episode of Grey's.
186. [Larry Hagman's eyebrows] are the most contemporary thing about the "new" Dallas, which otherwise looks and feels like a chunk of the '80s trapped in amber.
187. The Newsroom is both wonderful and terrible.
188. This is more soap opera than satire, an intermittently entertaining but not exactly subtle look at the private and public lives of one extremely colorful family.
189. The first two episodes are so full of clunky explanations that it's impossible to forget for a moment you're watching a TV show.
190. This one tries so hard to set up its premise that at times it ends up feeling more like a PSA than a comedy, which can be annoying if you're already on board with same-sex marriage and gay parenting.
191. Frankly, it's a dispiriting season and I won't miss the show nearly as much as I'll miss Blake Ritson's charming turn as Sir Hallam's royal friend, the Duke of Kent.
192. Hard-core lovers of historical drama who've made no other TV appointments this fall might find the time.
194. The set-in-the-White House comedy starts off more annoying than funny in its Monday debut, overwhelmed by a single character, first son Skip (Josh Gad), a perennial college student and first-class screwup. Over the next couple of episodes the show becomes a little less grating and, occasionally, mildly amusing.
197. What's a little messy about Hemlock Grove isn't so much the corpses as the oddly paced story and the sometimes eye-rollingly silly dialogue, which occasionally leaves a more than competent cast looking less so.
199. The cops, led by Marc Lavoine, are an interesting mix, and the scenery's great. If only the crime itself didn't seem so drearily familiar.
200. If you didn't like Sorkin's politics before, I doubt you'll be any happier with them this season.... Technology continues to be a bugbear for Sorkin (maybe that's why he was so prescient last season about the NSA stuff?), but stupidity in general seems more evenly distributed this season.
201. As intrigued as I am by Sutter's willingness to bite off something bigger than his character's tongue to tell a story about the true costs of SAMCRO's business dealings, I'm not sure this is the time, or the place.
202. If Ironside is going for more than cop-show-with-a-gimmick, it needs to go even bigger.
203. There's nothing terrible about the pilot of NBC's Welcome to the Family, but nothing that explains how it attracted Mike O'Malley, Mary McCormack , Ricardo A. Chavira and Justina Machado.
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post #1 of 7
Thread Starter
My son has recently started at a new preschool and seems to be having a bit of a rough time. I don't really know what to make of it.
For example, when I pick ds up from school, I ask him "how was your day?"...he usually responds with "not so good, Johnny stuck his tongue out at me" or "Suzy wouldn't let me help pick up the blocks."
He'll then go on in length about how that made him really mad and upset and that he doesn't have any friends and nobody likes him.
I'm trying to help my son not be so sensitive, but I don't know if I'm going at it the right way. When a kid sticks their tongue at him, I said "just laugh and tell them that that's a funny thing to do...why would you stick your tongue out?" or if someone won't let you help them with something just say, "wow, thanks! now I can go do this instead!" When I tell him these things he'll either laughs about it or cry and yell about it...there's no telling. I'm also trying to teach him that he can just walk away and ignore things. He tends to like to hang around until things escalate.
He's always been a pretty much all around sensitive kid, but I'm worried that his sensitive responses to the smallest of insults will put a target on his back so to speak when around other school kids.
How do you help your 4 yo not take offense to what seems like every little thing?
post #2 of 7
If you feel he's too sensitive you might respond
to him with statements about your own day that
describe little things that you manifest don't really
bother you much at all as if to say, "I hear you, I've
got tiny annoyances in my life too. No bigee."
He might be responding to you to test your reactions.
Maybe you could also ask the preschool teacher(s)
how he does during the day.
post #3 of 7
I would agree with the suggestion that you not give much weight to the situations that brings out your 4 y/o's sensitivity. I've been known to say things to my DS1 as flippant as, "You know kids do lots of silly things for no good reason." I've also given him lots of instruction in, "just ignoring it." When he was 4, it seemed like too much discussion of motivations or possible responses could just escalate his anxiety ("Well, if I say that, he might say...", etc.)
But, mostly, I got on here because your subject line got my attention. My DS1 was *super* sensitive and very anxious about social situations and the status of friendships when he was 4... 4 years old seems like a very tricky year for sensitive kids. So I'm very happy to report that super-sensitive 4 y/o is now a 6 y/o who just started school for the first time and is shocking me every day with how well he's "rolling with the punches."
I don't think I would have believed 2 years ago that he could become the easy-going kid he is today. You're doing a great job and I'm sure he'll find these situations easier with time... (But even as I write that I know all too well how stressful it can become in the meantime...)
post #4 of 7
Thread Starter
Thank you for the responses!
I'll try to just give general supportive responses instead of specifics.
He does seem to really respond well when I tell him about my own social experiences when I was 4. He mostly just likes to hear the stories and get a good laugh to ease his nerves.
Every day this week he came home in tears saying "nobody likes me...I have no friends". Totally breaks my heart. I plan on talking to his teacher on Monday to find out what's going on during the day.
Often times when I arrive to pick him up, he just starts sobbing and will say it's over something very small, but I think it's more of a stress relief when he sees me, you know what I mean? I'll stand inside the school and watch him play outside (they're outside playing when we pick them up) for a few minutes before I walk outside where he can see me, and he appears to be having fun and doing fine...but then once he sees me, something inevitably happens that causes him to break down in tears.
It's rough!
Anyway, thanks again and keep the suggestions coming! I really have no idea on how to deal with this.
post #5 of 7
I was a little like this as a child. I can't give you advice, but I can give you perspective. A kid like this might be able to walk away but he *cannot* ignore it. I don't know what made letting go impossible for me, I just know it was. It might have helped if my mother didn't brush off my over-sensitivity. Definitely talking about it without judgement would have helped. Perhaps after years of this I might have eventually learned to not have it bug me in the first place. But there it is. Perhaps it can be dealt with, but it cannot be ignored.
post #6 of 7
A couple of random thoughts:
He JUST started a new preschool and so he's probably very tired at the end of the day. He's been 'keeping it together' in a somewhat strange situation all day (all morning?) without you. Even if things went swimmingly all day, he'll have stress. His picking out small details to cry over might be his 'excuse' to cry, but not the real reason. It's OK to cry to relieve stress. Maybe all you 'need' to do is hug him and love him through it.
'Friend' has a fairly vague definition at this age -- usually it means 'someone who I played with or want to play with'. So, I would definitely talk to the teacher and see if she can pair him up with some likely kids who share some of his interests. My slow-to-warm-up, highly sensitive son did really well with kids who were slightly more outgoing that he was, but liked the same stuff. He was too reticent to seek them out, but if they sought him out, it was heaven. His best friend is still a boy he got to know at 2 in daycare. They bonded over playing garbage truck. This boy is a bit more outgoing than ds, but highly imaginative and interesting.
One thought for getting him to see that it's not that big of a deal is to ask him questions. So, if X stuck out his tongue at him, you can say "Oh, that's not very nice is it. Did he stick out his tongue at anyone else?" "Was anyone else helping Suzy pick up the blocks?" What you hope to build up over a period of time is his ability to see that this behavior isn't directly only at him. It's not OK behavior and the school should be dealing with it, but at any given moment, your average 4 year old can do something fairly rude to another kid without realizing the full impact. They're learning to use the power of language and gesture, and they're a bit like Bullwinkle (they don't know their own strength).
Ask the teachers to watch to make sure no one is excluding him.
I'm not sure that anything other than time will help him 'roll with the punches'. My 7 year old is still working on that. (Funny, she was a really happy-go-lucky toddler, and did OK in daycare. But as she's gotten older and her sense of what's right and wrong has matured, it's very hard for her to get past slights (a.k.a. perceived injustices) that she's suffered.)
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Thanks again everyone!
LynnS6, you've nailed my son to a tee.
I talked with his teacher this morning and she said that he's doing great throughout the day. It's just at the end of the day, right around the time I come to pick him up, he seems worn out and is much more quick to tears. I think he's still just adjusting to the new schedule. His old school he went from 8:30am until noon, and at this school they go until 1pm. That extra hour seems to really make a huge difference for him. He eats his lunch at school, but he is very easily distracted so I asked the teacher to keep an eye on him to make sure he's actually sitting and eating during lunch. Hungry and tired are an awful mix.
I agree that crying is a good way to relieve stress and that I'm sure this is what my son is doing. I'm ok with him crying and saying that he's tired or hungry or upset, but I'm not ok with him blaming other people for his feelings, you know what I mean? I know this is a very complicated thing for a four year old, and I don't expect him to be able to recognize his feelings right away and express them in an appropriate way...but we have to start somewhere and I want to continue to work with him and give him the tools he needs to be happy and at ease in social situations and to know when he needs a break and to just step away.
Thank you, SweetSilver for your insight. It's very helpfu to sometimes reflect back on our childhoods and try to remember how we felt during those rough times and how we dealt with them. I would never ask my son to ignore his feelings, what I meant was to try to ignore the situation and walk away if it's bothering him...I just want him to have a better way of dealing with things, but I can see how he may perceive me saying that as asking him to ignore how he's feeling. Thanks for pointing that out, SweetSilver. I too am a very sensitive person and I still struggle with letting things go. My mom did a pretty good job about validating my feelings and she would usually give me good one liners to say which I think helped me a lot. I would usually be so flustered I wouldn't know how to respond, so knowing the appropriate words to use was quite helpful.
Thanks again everyone! After talking with his teacher this morning I'm feeling much better about things. It seems to be mostly a tired and hungry issue, so that's easy enough to resolve.
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Junkets for Jesus
The C Street Family goes global: How congressmen travel the world to preach to dictators on the taxpayers' dime.
| Mon Sep. 27, 2010 3:00 AM GMT
Nigeria had become a pariah nation by then, and the Clinton administration had condemned Abacha's coup. But its oil continued flowing to the US despite occasional warnings that Congress, or the administration, might impose an embargo. By the time Inhofe, winner of a lifetime service award from a petroleum industry group, went to Nigeria, analysts worried that the signal Abacha was getting from Washington was that the sanctions threat was all but dead.
"If Jesus had adopted the philosophy of the Family," observes one Baptist pastor critical of the organization, "he would have taken Pontius Pilate to lunch."
If Inhofe's religious mission in Nigeria had dovetailed with his political agenda, other African trips put religion front and center. By 2003, Inhofe was using his access to foreign leaders to push a Family initiative known as Youth Corps. Endorsed by former Secretary of State James Baker and Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, Youth Corps doesn't lead with Jesus—its official brochure doesn't even mention his name. But an internal Family document sets out the vision: to target promising young leaders overseas, "training them on how to live like Jesus and share Him with the poor of their country." The document lays out how:
A) A congressman and/or Senator from the United States will befriend the leader of another country and tell him/her how Jesus and His teachings will help his country and its poor. B) U.S. leader and foreign leader will select 5 men (mentors) from the foreign country to commit to learn about Jesus and how He will help themselves, their country and the poor.
The five would then be matched with American support teams that would cover their costs for travel to the US. The men would not be asked to convert outright—in fact, the Family believes, it'd be better if they continued to call themselves Muslims, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, or whatever the customs of the land dictated; as "followers of Jesus" who also still adhered to their religion, they could serve as spiritual double agents. To those who were ready, however, the true leader would be introduced: "We will teach the mentors to confess their sins (known or unknown) and to ask the Holy Spirit of Christ to live in them, and to teach them how to live, what to think and what to say. We will teach them to ask the Spirit of Jesus to teach them as they read God's word."
It's a new variation on the idea Abraham Vereide began with in 1935: Win the leadership, win the nation. Only instead of trying to persuade a man like Abacha to come over to its side, the Family is seeking to build the next generation of rulers. A 2004 Family budget for Inhofe's Youth Corps work includes $375,000 for a total of 11 African nations: Benin, Burundi, Congo-Brazzaville, Côte d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Mauritius, Rwanda, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. For each country, the local liaison is listed in the budget document. In all but Ethiopia and Mauritius, it is the president. Then the US leader: Inhofe.
"We know Senator Inhofe," David Bahati, the author of Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Bill, told me. "We respect him." Bahati considers his anti-gay bill (which Inhofe didn't see fit to condemn until after it started making headlines in the US) a prime example of Inhofe's teachings: "When he says 'political philosophy of Jesus,' I think he's responding to politics as the management of society according to Jesus."
Bahati says he remains in touch with Inhofe's office through the senator's director of African affairs, Mark Powers, a part-time staffer who also is a missionary in the Assemblies of God church. Bahati claims half a dozen US congressmen have signaled their quiet support for his anti-gay crusade, explaining that they can't speak out more boldly in the US because of a powerful gay conspiracy. When I asked if Inhofe was one of them, Bahati merely giggled and said, "Inhofe is a great man."
WHEN MARK SILJANDER was elected to Congress at age 29 in 1981, he wasn't just a conservative—he was an ideologue so zealous he made the Reagan White House uneasy. He was red-haired, red-faced, and obnoxious. He claimed to be the boldest voice against homosexuality in Congress, and to prove it he announced through his pastor that he was seeking a God-fearing woman—Siljander's standards, the pastor warned the ladies, "are very high." His greatest success in Congress was legislation restricting American foreign aid from funding abortions. After losing his reelection campaign in 1986 (despite a plea that constituents "break the back of Satan" by sending him back to Congress), Siljander stayed in the orbit of Washington, creating a firm called Global Strategies Inc. to help companies in "effectively penetrating new overseas markets" and finessing government obstacles related to oil, telecom, and aerospace.
Siljander has mellowed a bit since he left office, on one issue more than any other: Islam. Credit goes to the Family. "As the humiliating final days of my last term were whimpering to a close," he writes in his book, A Deadly Misunderstanding, Doug Coe came to him with a way out of the angry fundamentalism of his past. Look at the world through the lens of love, Coe said. There are no enemies, just opportunities.
The real subject of Siljander's book, which became a definitive Family text, was what he calls his "quest to bridge the Muslim-Christian divide"—by escorting Muslims over to the Christian side. The head-on approach of traditional fundamentalism—insisting on the unquestionable superiority of Christianity—was a dead end when it came to the "kings" the Family considers its specialty. For them to convert would be political suicide. Siljander laid out an alternative approach, simplified into a PowerPoint presentation by a Family-affiliated group called the International Peace Organization. "What do we want?" one slide asks. "To convert Muslims to Christianity," it continues, and then, "NOT." Instead, the goal for Muslims is "a personal relationship with God through Jesus." The last words of the PowerPoint: "The Qur'an points to Jesus."
Muslims, writes Siljander in his book, can keep their religious affiliation so long as they bow before Jesus. "They make every effort to be as normal as possible and not stand out," Siljander writes, the idea being that these "Messianic Muslims," not unlike Jews for Jesus, will be able to pass as Muslim Muslims and thus win the support of their countrymen. The Family doesn't require public loyalty; it wants back-channel connections.
Siljander took those connections further than most. In 2008, the Justice Department indicted him on counts of money laundering, conspiracy, and obstruction of justice. The government says Siljander helped redirect USAID money misappropriated by one of his clients, the Islamic American Relief Agency (PDF), to support Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, whom the State Department lists as a "Specially Designated Global Terrorist." In his defense, Siljander argued that Hekmatyar—a drug-dealing Afghan warlord and former CIA-supported mujahideen fighter—was really working for US intelligence. He later admitted that he'd covered up the fact that the IARA had hired him to try to get its name off the US government's terrorism list, and that he'd funneled its payments through the Family.
By then, Siljander had traveled all over the world on behalf of the Family: "Being an ex-congressman opened all sorts of doors," he wrote. He met with the Muslim leaders of a West Saharan independence movement fighting the Moroccans and told them Jesus wanted their surrender. He and Inhofe met with President Mathieu Kérékou of Benin—a former Marxist military dictator who found Christ (and allies in Washington) after the Soviet Union collapsed—and Kérékou in turn set up a meeting for Siljander with Libya's Moammar Qaddafi. The State Department scotched that idea, though, so Siljander had to settle for Qaddafi's foreign minister.
In 1997, Siljander and Family leader Coe went to see the Sudanese dictator Omar al-Bashir in Khartoum. "He's my prayer partner," Siljander would later boast on a Trinity Broadcasting Network show. "I love Bashir. His heart was changed, and it sure wasn't by my good looks. The Holy Spirit came into the conversation we had and melted his heart."
And that, in turn, melted Siljander's heart; he became an advocate for lifting sanctions on Bashir's oil-rich regime. As for the mass murder and enslavement that Bashir's regime condoned or participated in—targeting, in many cases, Sudan's Christians—Siljander acknowledged that "they realize it got away from them." Lifting sanctions, he argued, would "incentivize" Bashir to stop the killing. (The sanctions remain in place.)
"If Jesus had adopted the philosophy of the Family," Chuck Warnock, a Baptist pastor critical of the organization, observes dryly, "he would have worked with Herod, and taken Pontius Pilate to lunch."
This past July, Siljander pled guilty to obstruction of justice and to acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign power. He faces up to 15 years in prison.
*Correction: This story originally referenced the Oklahoman as being based in Tulsa. We regret the error.
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WHY do we dream?
Some say dreams let us fulfil our subconscious fantasies. Others say they help us to hold onto memories, or keep our minds active in preparation for the emotion of the day ahead.
But no one really knows the real function of dreams. Though we do know they're very, very strange.
Here are six fascinating facts about how we dream, rounded up by The Huffington Post .
"Sweet dreams" isn't a thing.
Most of our dreams tend to be bad ones. Our dream experiences are negatively biased, according to a 2008 study.
"The 'default' dream is basically the bad dream," Dr. Ross Levin, a psychologist and sleep disorder specialist at Yeshiva University in New York City, told Reuters.
Some studies argue we've evolved to dream about scary situations more than positive ones so we'll be prepared for survival in case we come across a threat in real life.
Bad dreams can be a "warning sign" of health problems
And "any infection increases the amount of slow-wave sleep we have," Dr. Patrick McNamara, a neurologist from Boston University Medical School, told the International Business Times.
This "delays the starting point of when we enter dreaming sleep, so dreaming sleep starts late, and can erupt into consciousness", which can lead to vivid dreams and strange hallucinations.
Women have sexy dreams too.
It's not just guys having all the fun. Some 37 per cent of women reported having had a night-time orgasm, according to a 1986 study of university students. While it might be more obvious when men climax during their dreams, women are also having them too.
Dreams paralyse you - but only temporarily
During rapid-eye movement (REM) sleep, our muscles become paralysed - which prevents our bodies from acting out and going for a little sleep walk. Two powerful brain chemical systems work together to paralyse skeletal muscles, so we stay relaxed (and still).
You see more than you hear
Most often our dreams are silent - we see vivid moving images but with no sound.
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Iron Dome helps Israel fend off Hamas rockets
Iron Dome
The radar technology used with the Iron Dome allows it to quickly calculate the flight path of incoming missiles or rockets. Source: Supplied
ISRAEL says its new missile-defence system, Iron Dome, is a game changer that has intercepted hundreds of rockets fired at the Jewish state by Gaza-based militants.
In five days of fighting against Hamas, Israel says its newly-developed missile-defence system has intercepted hundreds of rockets fired at densely-populated civilian areas.
Produced by Israeli-based Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, Iron Dome is meant to shoot down rockets and artillery shells with ranges of up to 70 kilometres and has been operational since 2011. Officials claim it has a roughly 80 percent success rate.
Iron Dome
The Iron Dome system only detects missiles that will hit residential areas or other sensitive targets. Source: Supplied
The system's radar detects launches of rockets or mortar shells and quickly determines their flight path. If the projectile is headed toward populated areas or sensitive targets, it fires an interceptor with a special warhead that strikes the incoming rocket within seconds. Rockets headed toward open areas area allowed to land.
The system consists of mobile batteries or units which each have a radar to detect rockets as well as a portable missile launcher. It only takes a few hours to move and set up each each unit.
Iron Dome explosion
The interceptor missile hits its target mid-air. Source: Supplied
The missile is three-metres long and weighs around 90 kilograms with each warhead weighing in at around 11 kilograms for shells that fire at targets from 4 to 70 kilometres away.
Currently, five Iron Dome batteries are deployed in Israel, though officials told the BBC that they plan to have another 8 units operational within the next year.
Israel's missile defense system that protects its people and cities
Each Tamir interceptor missiles cost around $60,000 a piece. In 2010, the US provided $192 million to expand development. Additional funding is currently being considered, with $67.5 million already allocated for the 2012 fiscal year.
The system is part of what Israel calls its "multilayer missile defense''. It is meant to protect against the tens of thousands of short-range rockets possessed by militants in the Gaza Strip and Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon.
Israel has also deployed its Arrow missile defence systems for long-range threats from Iran. The military says its new David's Sling' system, being developed by Rafael to stop medium-range missiles, will be activated by 2014.
The system, while largely successful, isn't perfect as it detected only six out of seven missiles fired from Gaza at Israel in August 2011, The Washington Post reports. That undetected rocket then hit a residential area and reportedly killed at least one Israeli, according to media reports.
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A peek but still no clear policy on using force against U.S. citizens
February 6, 2013
A memo that became public Monday purportedly lays out the Obama administration’s legal justification for using force against certain U.S. citizens involved with al-Qaida.
The unsigned and undated Justice Department document offers important insight into the legal architecture of the overall U.S. effort against terrorists but hardly answers all the questions. In a way, the memo addresses only the easy case, that is, an American serving as a senior al-Qaida leader actively involved in plotting terrorism against the U.S.
The memo sticks mainly to well-accepted concepts of self-defense, such as the requirement of an “imminent” threat. Furthermore, it says the U.S. must show capture to be “infeasible,” something which is more of a law enforcement concept than something adversaries in the midst of war necessarily have a legal right to expect.
In fact, the memo seems to be more oriented toward a human rights law approach than what international humanitarian law – called the law of armed conflict in the U.S. – might require. Under the law of armed conflict, there is no obligation prior to using lethal force to find that enemy combatants are about to strike, nor is it legally necessary to try to capture them. Yet the memo imposes such restrictions.
In armed conflict, combatants can be attacked at any time and wherever found. And status as a “senior operational leader” is not a targeting requirement, either. For example, foot soldiers can be lawfully bombed even as they sleep in their barracks away from their weapons.
Ironically, as the memo notes, the United States has long insisted it is in an armed conflict with al-Qaida – something, incidentally, al-Qaida has never denied. Under the law of armed conflict, this means that those members of an organized armed group like al-Qaida who are involved in continuous combat – including plotting terrorist acts – can be struck without warning, just like any other combatant in war.
Accordingly, it would have been better if the memo had clearly set forth the independent arguments that separately exist under the law of armed conflict and international human rights law and to have better separated what law requires and what is merely wise policy.
Those who believe that imminent threat is required before killing a combatant in war will complain about the memo’s seeming broadening of the concept of imminence. However, in light of the kind of threat 21st century terrorists present, the memo’s incorporation of the relevant “window of opportunity,” the need to limit civilian casualties, as well as the gravity of the threat all seem to be reasonable factors in making the determination.
The memo’s analysis of domestic law is plausible but depends upon a clear understanding of exactly what “al-Qaida and associated forces” means today, as used in Congress’ authorization to use force. Terrorists don’t necessarily organize themselves in neat diagrams, and that complicates determining precise relationships with finality. While the president has the authority to act in the nation’s self-defense, this does make the analysis under domestic law more vulnerable to debate.
Critics will also complain that U.S. citizens who take up arms against this country should somehow be more legally privileged than lawful combatants in war who happen not to be U.S. citizens. Actually, if you become a combatant against the U.S., the courts have generally held you are subject to the same consequences – including lethal attacks – to which any enemy combatant is subject, regardless of citizenship.
All in all, the memo is helpful, at least as far as it goes. It plainly contradicts the accusation that these attacks are being conducted without any legal analysis. But any legal memo is only as good as the facts applied to it. We will continue to see arguments about access to, and the sufficiency of, the supporting evidence, and whether there is adequate vetting and oversight of it.
Moreover, the administration’s piecemeal approach of revealing its legal rationale for strikes against various terrorists is problematic. Public comments by a variety of senior officials, as well as the disclosure of documents like this, seem aimed at retaining some measure of official deniability, depending upon public and international reaction.
What is now needed is a formal, detailed and very comprehensive U.S. legal position. This recent memo could be a part of that, but there needs to be something that addresses the full range of terrorist threats, not just those posed by those American citizens serving as senior al-Qaida operational leaders.
Charles Dunlap Jr. is a Duke Law School professor and the executive director of Duke’s Center on Law, Ethics and National Security. He is a former deputy judge advocate general of the U.S. Air Force.
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How come my Compaq freezes up?
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If I leave the CD drive open for too long, the whole laptop freezes up. Why....
And on another note, whenever the wireless internet cuts out, the blue switch/on light for the wireless card flickers for just a moment...if that means anything. lol.
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It's confirmed about the wireless internet thing, whenever the net dies it is at the exact moment that the power indication for the wireless card flickers!
Note: I have a Presario V4000.
Help is very gladly appreciated!
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1) Update BIOS...
2) Update Wireless firmware...
3) Update Drivers...
4) Check for a virus... run Microsoft Anti-Spyware, Adaware, Spybot Search & destory...
We can go from there...
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1) How do I update my BIOS? How do I even find out what version I have...etc lol
2) Same question really, how do I update my wireless firmware?
In relation to the above, what if that screws up the laptop? I can hardly bring it in and say fix it on the warranty because I screwed it up.
3) My drivers are up to date
4) I use Adaware SE and NAV05, no viruses.
Forgive me for sounding like a total newbie
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1 & 2) You can download the files from the HP/Compaq websites... Also do the CD rom drive firmware... If there is more than one listed for your exact number we will have to figure out which on you have...
Well it should only mess up if the system gets turned off before its done... If your still under warranty i recommend sending it to HP/Compaq... They will fix it quickly for you...
If you call them and talk to them about this, they may ask you to do what i have asked and if something happens its there fault...
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Perhaps this will be helpful to other owners of Acer laptops with builtin SmartCard reader.
I recently decided to look at my Event Log in Windows XP and noticed that System log contains several error messages like this:
The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( O2SCBUS ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The following information is part of the event: , IOCTL POWER failed with status 0xc0000014.
As you can see it fails to respond to power control commands. This might be the cause of other problems you might have: failure to go into standby mode, slower startup/shutdown, etc.
I almost thought that it could be hardware failure.
Then I decided to plug in SmartCard. It went all the through without any resistance or click as it should be when it settles in. I pushed further and released it. It popped out. Subsequently, it started operating as it should. And error messages never appeared again in the log.
Since this is the first time I plugged the card in this laptop, that is how it came from the factory. Someone there plugged card and then pulled it out improperly (To properly get it out, you have to push it until it clicks, unlocks, and then automatically pops out), so the adapter thought that the card is still in while the slot was actually empty.
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RE[7]: Goodbye Novell
by IanSVT on Thu 11th Oct 2007 02:25 UTC in reply to "RE[6]: Goodbye Novell"
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Well, I'm afraid you've been out of the loop. Customers do not want a choice of two kernels - they want to know what Novell is selling. Customers have been jumping ship for quite some time, hence Novell's somewhat dire financial results and a new round of layoffs apparently.
I know Windows has been dominating NetWare market share since the late 90s before Linux was a blip on the radar, and it continues to this day. Neither your nor I really know if a dual kernel approach during a phase out of the NetWare kernel has any impact whatsoever on that outside of anecdotal evidence.
No, they didn't. Novell went and did that of their own accord, and they thought that's what customers wanted. You have to get the meaning from what customers say, not what they actually. Rather like women! Who in their right mind thinks that customers want to choose a kernel?
Well, probably the customer with an installed base of NetWare servers, who need(ed) time to plan a proper migration and get their staff properly trained. You can't get all customers on board with a new product 100%. Microsoft can't even do that with moving users off of XP onto Vista. It just isn't realistic. Some customers welcome change, some resist. You can't alienate one group. I know I want the choice to run either in our server room.
Novell are doing that fine, I'm afraid. The key here is decisiveness. Novell should have announced that they were moving away from Netware, but should have come up with a clear migration plan and tools and a clear incentive for customers to move to the new Linux offering so that it was as damn near a drop-in replacement as possible - with tons of added goodies to keep them. There's simply no reason for any Netware admin today to move to the Linux version of OES, simply because it's different, there's nothing compelling to move to it for (other than Novell can't keep up with hardware support for Netware, which is not a customer's problem) and it's simply a Linux version of something that does what Netware does, except arguably worse in his eyes with nothing extra. Many organisations are simply moving to Windows servers completely to manage their networks.
Novell customers have known since OES1 came out that NetWare's development was on the decline. It was not only an obvious scenario, Novell outright said it. You're off base on your comment about hardware support. If you want to continue to run NCP/eDirectory/NSS volumes/iPrint and so on, hardware support it very much is a customer problem in addition to Novell's. Beyond that, if a hardware vendor won't make drivers available for NetWare, what can Novell do? Moreover, third party support for Linux is far and away better than NetWare, especially in the enterprise sector. If those aren't clear reasons for a customer to move, then clearly IT isn't critical to them.
Errrr, no, because one's a mail server and one's an OS.
The mail server is a service, and the other is a series of services. eDirectory is not an OS, it's a service. iPrint is not an OS, it's a service. iFolder is not an OS, it's a service. SLES is the OS, NetWare is the OS, OES is the services coupled with the OS.
We have one big Netware using client, and they've already...
What do they use NetWare for then?
You need an awful lot more incentive than the ability to run Netware services on new hardware if you're going to move to something new. If you're moving to new hardware then you might as well just move to Windows, or Red Hat, and that's the view many companies are taking.
I don't need any more incentive than that. If you're using those services I mentioned above, then you want to have and OS that will run those services and be supported on current hardware. You can't tell me that moving to OES Linux is harder or more of a hassle than ripping up your directory services and replacing it with Active Directory, replacing your entire mail system with Exchange, moving all of your printers to a wholly different management suite. RedHat doesn't even have proper equivalents in many of these service areas. You're incorrectly trivializing the costs of these processes. Migrations from NetWare(or from any other server OS including Windows) is not driven by a "hassle" factor. It's driven by service needs. People move to Windows to run Exchange, NOT because Linux is too hard. If that's all it takes to move from NetWare, I can't honestly tell you why you(as in a customer) were even using NetWare in the first place because it couldn't have been for much.
That sounds just like Novell themselves. The open source company.........that isn't. Because they need to prolong the life of their OS and their services in another operating system, that operating system is open source, and one of the benefits of Novell using Linux and open source software is shared development and Netware services usage increasing.
I can't disagree with that. But you didn't answer the question. Where is the benefit? Are you assuming that the open sourcing of eDirectory would automatically drive development for it? If Hula was any indication, just because you open source something, doesn't mean there is any interest in it out there in the community.
To sum up, you don't seem to put much value in the services that run on OES NetWare or OES Linux and in turn seem to extrapolate that general feeling onto customers as a whole. You also discount 3rd party support and hardware support. You discount the time it takes to plan a migration, secure the funds, secure the hardware, and train your staff. You also say that Novell should rip and replace NetWare and that there is no incentive to move. Well, if you want to continue to run Novell's services, clearly OES Linux is your best choice since NetWare is going to be EOL'ed.
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It shouldn't matter. Can you post a test case that demonstrates that it does?
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The Council Revolt
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Created, Written, GM'ed and Produced by Yagerbomb
The setting of this story takes place in a fictional region called Harnendor in the Early Renaissance time period. Map is featured below. All technology is that of the early Renaissance Era. The official time marked for the beginning for the Role-play is Late Spring (around May) of the year 1478, although past event described in the plot may be in previous time frames.
Location description:
Quick note: Ethir _____= Large River
Dor-En-Ernil is a frigid, mountainous tundra where plant and animal life is scarce. For plants, mosses and lichen are the only common plants, however some types of hardy bushes are adept to survive in the area. For animals, Caribou are the dominant herbivore in the province, yet over-hunting has reduced their numbers. Bison, Mountain Sheep and Wolves also exist in the area, to complete the ecosystem. The life in Dor-En-Ernil is filled with hardships, and the people who live there are mostly in poverty. The lifestyle there is based on hunting, and the more animals you have killed hunting, the more respected you are. However, the animals hunted do not go to waste. The people of Dor-En-Ernil pride themselves on using every part of the animal to use. The villages in Dor-En-Ernil are small, and the buildings are made out of straw and sometimes rock. The culture of Dor-En-Ernil is similar to the Mongolians, with the exception that the people of Dor-En-Ernil are not nomadic. The Capital of Dor-En-Ernil is Lond Ernil, which is a fortress surrounded by twenty-foot walls and contains the largest prison in Harnendor, the Ernil Keep. The people of Dor-En-Ernil, or Ernilian, are usually big, husky and hairy. The island of Tolfalas is part of the province as well, the island hosting a large population of seabirds.
The province of Anduin is comprised of the regions of Lebennin and Ithilien. The borders extend from the Laer Galadrin Mountain Range in the south to the Town of Limbir in the west. The Province of Anduin is a cold, large grassland. Short grasses grow in the area, and some shrubs and a handful of trees are found in Anduin. For animals, Caribou and Bison are the main herbivores, although burrowing animals such as rats, moles, and burrowing owls etcetera are in the area. Wolves and snow leopards are the top predators in the Anduin Province. The people in Anuduin are very similar to those of Dor-En-Ernil, except that Anduinians are able to focus on farming as well and are generally more well-off. Anduin has produced many phenomenal minds in the past, such as Carzikal, who invented the wheel, Viktel Farro, who developed an operational irrigation system and Hannik Requer, who proved that the Earth is not the center of the universe, and is currently researching a concept called " Gravity". The villages in Anduin are similar to Dor-En-Ernil, although Anduinian villages are bigger and have lower poverty rates. Anduin's capital is Pelargir, a larger version of any Anduinian village.
Harondor is the second largest Province in Harnendor, only Khand is bigger. Harondor contains the region of Haruzan, which is where the Capital City of Harondor, Gobel Ancalimon resides. Gobel Ancalimon is a sprawling port city, and is a major trade city for the Harnendor area, bringing in traders from the Deserts of Arysis to the tundra’s of Dor-El-Ernil. Harondor stretches its borders from the Laer Galadrin Mountains from the North, to the Ephel Duath Mountains in the North East, to the Dune Sea Mountain Range to the South, and the Chelkar River mouth to the east. The region of Harondor is a temperate forest, where trees, grasses and shrubs vegetate the area, while Deer, Elk, squirrels, beavers, falcons, owls, finches, hummingbirds and amphibians reside, along with predators like bears, wolves, cougars, jaguars and tigers are found. There are many resources in the Harondor Province, such as animals, lumber, rock and metals and fish. The small villages and towns in Harondor are styled similar to renaissance Italy, except for a few small villages that are suited either for hunters or miners. The exception to the general town structure in the Harondor Province is the City of Ramlond, which is a large castle city. The Harondorians are the richer people of Harnendor, and have more citizens and money available. As you get closer to the Ethir Harnen, farmland becomes more prominent. Harondorian culture is that of early renaissance Italy, mixed with Medieval Europe.
Khand is the largest Province in Harnendor, encompassing an enormous landmass. The Province of Khand is made up of Upper and Lower Khand, Chelkar, Pezarsan, Lurmsakun, Arysis and Kajbah. Khand is mostly an enormous desert, although the regions of Chelkar and Pezarsan are near rivers, so they are suited for farming and a wetter climate. The borders of Khand are far apart, spanning from the Chelkar River in the west to the Ephel Duath Mountains to the North West and the Dune Sea to the South. Lurmsakun has giant stone, marble and iron deposits, making it a coveted area. Kajbah is very mountainous, and has been known as a hiding spot for many run-aways. The Capital of Khand is the largest City in Harnendor, Sturlurtsa Khand, a sprawling city with gigantic markets and spectacular palaces and monuments. For plants and animals, both are scarce. In the farming areas of Pezarsan and Chelkar, the natural habitat has been demolished to counter Khand’s rising population, so natural life is extinct in the river regions, or “West Khand”. In the massive desert areas of Khand, moisture is rare, so plants and animals are rare. You can find Cacti and some shrubs in the desert; along with Scorpions, Armadillos, Camels and species of lizards manage to survive in the deserts. The villages and towns in West Khand are small farming communities, except for Amrun, which is a large port City. The villages and towns in the Desert are small, walled communities designed to keep sandstorms and invaders out. The culture of the Khand people is similar to that of the Arabians of the late-medieval times. Some of Harnendor’s greatest historical figures have come out of Khand, including Deskyr Al Khand, who ruled Harnendor for eighty-one years, and inventor Tykir Un Shalee, who created the idea of refining metals, and Tykir’s son, Hamm Un Shalee, who invented forging these metals into tools. Much other historical significance has come out of Khand.
Umbar is a mysterious region, and is found south of Harondor. The Nen Umbar Bay, which the Province of Umbar is surrounding, closes in the Province with a large Mountain range. The terrain in Umbar is very mountainous and treacherous, and as cliffs descend into the Ocean. There are very few plants in Umbar, most of them being shrubs and mosses. For animals, sea and land birds dominate the area, although small land animals can be found like shrews, mice and otters. The big predator in Umbar is Dragons, which are selectively unique to Umbar. These Dragons are divided into different groups, which will be discussed later. The Capital of Umbar is a city called Umbar, which a bigger version of any Umbarish village, small and made out of caves and rocks.
Nothing much is known about Nurn, other than it is impossible to reach from any part of Harnendor, and that once every two thousand years, someone leaves Nurn to the rest of Harnendor.
Five years ago, the year 1473, the Deity of Harondor, Excalus, died at the age of eighty-four. The Nation of Harnendor was shocked at the loss of their Deity, as Excalus was thought to live forever. Having Excalus living forever would have worked out for the People of Harnendor, as Excalus was a fair and just ruler. There was one problem though: Excalus did not have a child ready to take the throne. So, Excalus’ council, which consisted of Gijer Sol Khand, from the Khand Province, King Jesfer of Harondor, Chieftain Heikman from Dor-En-Ernil, Noble Farris Fon Falkhi from Anduin and Fallpula from Umbar, decided to rule Harnendor together. Things went smoothly for the first while, no disputes. But then, in the winter of 1477, King Jesfer was assassinated. Confused at the murder, the Nation of Harnendor went into shock. The once powerful Council was falling. After investigation, the Council wrongly placed charges on Noble Falkhi, who was executed. Hearing of this, Chieftain Heikman and Fallpula organized an assassination attempt to kill Gijer Khand, who was believed to be behind both the Jesfer killing and the Falkhi execution. Khand however, found out this plan and the two were assassinated. After this string of killings, the Nation of Harnendor began to crumble. Dor-En-Ernil secluded to the North, Anduin proclaimed indepedency, as did Umbar, leaving Harondor and Khand set up for a big war for control, even though Giher Sol Khand had control over Harnendor. So, Khand and Harondor declared war. However, the cycle of Nurn came along and four people came to Harnendor. This was a key event, as the Nurn people could change the war. The Nurn people headed to Umbar, for safety. The Nurn people allied with the Umbar Province, providing Umbar with extra power. Umbar quickly reached an Alliance agreement with Harondor. However, two of the Nurn people escaped to Khand, and joined Gijer’s army. Soon, Anduin allied with Harondor, and Dor-En-Ernil allied with Harondor too.. It is now Khand versus the whole kingdom of Harnendor, now called the forces of Harnendor. Some now questioning how Gijer got his power. The war now lies in the Nurn people and their abilities.
You can sign-up for different roles. You can be a Nurn person, although those spots will be judged and the best four will be accepted. The other roles are non-Nurn characters fighting in the war. You can be the King of Harondor, who leads the whole Harnendoran army, or a normal soldier fighting with the Harnendor Forces or the Khand Empire. The non-Nurn spots are first SU fully done, first serve. Beware; you never know what could happen.
Other stuff to talk about:
Dragons are only available to Nurn characters and Umbar citizens. ( If you plan on being Umbarish, please tell me first, and Umbaran’s can’t be with Khand) There are four kinds of dragons, here they are:
- Ice Dragons: Can use Ice Magic
- Fire Dragons: Can use Fire Magic
- Light Dragons: Have the ability to conjure light magic
- Dark Dragons: Harness the power of Darkness.
As I said, if you want to be a Nurn character, complete the SU form and I will judge and select the best SU’s on a certain date. Nurn characters can use all types of magic ( See dragons for magic types). Non-Nurn Characters cannot harness any magic. Nurn characters are VERY important in the story.
Name: (Duh!)
Gender: (Insert cheap joke here)
Age: (150-2500)
Side: (Harnendor or Khand)
Appearance: (Pic or words)
Personality: (Tell me about your character’s personality)
Weapon: (What do you use to channel your magic)
Others: (Anything else?)
1. I am the GM, my decisions are final
2. If you didn’t get the spot you wanted, try for a different spot!
3. No God-modding
4. No bunnying unless permission is given
5. Minimum five sentences per post
6. No back-and forth posting, use a joint post instead
7. You can post maximum three time a day
8. Post at least once every three days
9. Follow PC and RP Corner rules
10. Have fun, don’t fight each other in the OOC
11. I will be playing as Gijer Sol Khand, don’t ask
SU for Harnendor/Khand Character:
Name: (Obvious)
Age: (15-40)
Gender: (Insert cheap joke here)
Side: (Harnendor or Khand)
Appearance: (Pics or words)
Personality: (Tell me about your character)
History: (What has happened to your character)
Weapon: ( What is your weapon of choice)
Others: (Anything else)
Spots Available:
1. Reserved for Elite Killer
King of Harondor ( Leads the Harnendor forces):
Harnendor forces:
Khand Emperor:
1. Taken by Yagerbomb - Gijer Sol Khand
Khand Empire
Try to keep the ratio of Harnendoran- Khand even
My SU:
Name: Gijer Sol Khand
Age: 37
Gender: Male
Side: Khand - Emperor
Personality: (Tell me about your character)
History: (What has happened to your character)
Weapon: Scimitar
Others: (Anything else)
Have fun, and hope to see you sign-up!!!
RP's I am In:
New World Order as Arro Malthesis
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Most U.S. Republican presidential hopefuls -- with the exception of Sen. John McCain -- and cable television anti-immigration crusaders on CNN and Fox News are deceiving the public with their claim that they are only against "illegal" immigration.
* Myth No. 1: "We are only against illegal immigration. Undocumented immigrants should get in line for visas." That's deceptive because you can't demand that people get into line when, for the most part, there is no line to get into.
While the U.S. labor market is demanding 1.5 million mostly low- skilled immigrants a year -- and will demand many more in coming years, as the U.S. population becomes increasingly educated -- the current immigration system allows into the U.S. an average of 1 million legal immigrants a year and most of them are already here.
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In other words get over the incest part of it if you are trying to make a sensible comment as to why my post is wrong or whatever it is you feel. | http://www.reddit.com/r/AdviceAnimals/comments/1iyggu/meanwhile_in_yemen/cb9gmns | dclm-gs1-073040001 | false | false | {
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[–]justmystepladder 7 points8 points ago
Someone kicking my car isn't small stuff. I've worked my ASS off to have my cars and to have them in the shape that they're in. If someone was enough of a dick to kick one for something like the OP's or the above story -- I'd haul off and kick their teeth in too. You do NOT disrespect people and their property like that.
Honestly, the reason things like this happen so much is because of this mentality of "no repercussions" that we have today. The stop bullying campaigns (I see the positives, but there are drawbacks as well) and all the frivolous lawsuits have made people simple and weak. Forgive the cliche -- but when I was growing up, if you talked shit you got hit. And when someone pushed you around or hit you (and you weren't doing anything to deserve it) you kicked their ass. These situations are no different when it's adult vs. adult. A LOT of people in the 18-25 age bracket [i apologize for generalizing so heavily] have zero respect for others (that I've noticed in my personal experience) and unluckily for them, there are those of us out there who don't have to and will not put up with their shit.
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EDIT - made some ninja edits where necessary. Usually in parentheses.
[–]TheMathNerd 1 point2 points ago
People love to pull out the frivolous lawsuits thing, but have you actually seen the burns from the famous McDonalds Coffee lawsuit, where the elderly woman was taking the lid off her coffee to put cream and sugar in as the passenger in a parked car and received 3rd degree burns because of the temperatures corporate policy specified and had received many complaints before ? Take a watch of the movie Hot Coffee and you will see how much of the frivolous lawsuit stuff is manufactured.
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Not the types I was referring to. But a good point none the less. I meant more of, "robber breaks into house, breaks leg, sues homeowner." Kind of frivolous. | http://www.reddit.com/r/AdviceAnimals/comments/1mka61/i_wanted_to_kill_them_both/cca56x4?context=3 | dclm-gs1-073050001 | false | false | {
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This is a piece on a guy who was already fairly well off saying that interns shouldn't be paid because he had no issues with not being paid.
I understood it slightly differently: Companies shouldn't be forced to pay interns because there are people who are willing to do it unpaid. | http://www.reddit.com/r/nottheonion/comments/16bcvw/minimum_wage_bad_idea_says_unpaid_intern/c7ujxmx | dclm-gs1-073060001 | false | false | {
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[–]betteropportunities 15 points16 points ago
1.2 pixels
[–]Lucas753Lucast31 3 points4 points ago
And how many pixels does that ps4 have?
[–]betteropportunities 4 points5 points ago
350 they're coded right into the metal circuits
[–]Lucas753Lucast31 -2 points-1 points ago
Checkmate "pcmasterrace" /s
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Not even one pixel, when will the pc elitists learn. | http://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/1nsl0i/peasant_claims_it_will_cost_2400_to_get_a_pc_as/ccltnzj | dclm-gs1-073070001 | false | false | {
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[–]JustPlainRude 0 points1 point ago
racial obligation
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[–]Happerz 0 points1 point ago
The great deku tree!
[–]Psilocynical 0 points1 point ago
Repost already?
[–]mamamaMONSTERJAMMM 0 points1 point ago
Ernest Scared Stupid
[–]sagara12 0 points1 point ago
Is it just me, or does anyone else want to cut this bitch down?
[–]Cheongshim 0 points1 point ago
Is it weird that even as an adult whenever I see a sweet ass tree like this it gets me excited with all the tree house ppossibilities?
[–]the_antipop 0 points1 point ago
[–]b00ndoggle 0 points1 point ago
We have a 300-350 year old tree in our front yard. I'm debating getting metal beams to support some of the large spanning limbs. Anyone know good places for advice on this?
[–]kurisu7885 1 point2 points ago
At times you wonder if you're on middle earth or something.
[–]Fishystuff -1 points0 points ago
Wow, bet you could make a lovely table or two out of that.
[–]tootysterling 0 points1 point ago
that tree has seen some shit
[–]Lumn8tion -1 points0 points ago
Maybe some Scout leaders can chop it down so the kids will be safe.
[–]HonestOP 0 points1 point ago
Really? No ones afraid of Slenderman anymore? never forget.
[–]w3bCraw1er 0 points1 point ago
It is not 350 yo. It is about 350 yo.
[–]aGeordie 0 points1 point ago
How can you tell the age of a tree without cutting it down?
[–]sugashack 0 points1 point ago
almost looks like a painting
[–]Boot9135 0 points1 point ago
Ticket Oak?!
[–]K1NGAlexander 0 points1 point ago
I've upvoted this before and I will upvote it again.
[–]runs_with_airplanes 0 points1 point ago
Ticket Oak!
[–]stfcfanhazz 0 points1 point ago
These tree is actually a famous actor. He played the tree in the sex scene in Avatar. But you all thought he was just a tree, right? Behold; the unsung hero of 2009 cinema!
[–]nihilive 1 point2 points ago
350-year old repost.
[–]JadePrince33 0 points1 point ago
Crazy to think about how that tree is older than the United States
[–]UncagedBeast27 1 point2 points ago
Thats some Sleepy Hollow shit
[–]hurgledurgle -2 points-1 points ago
Cut down in 10 years. Make wooden boxes - OakBox 360.
I'll see myself out.
[–]sgryspeerdt -1 points0 points ago
The tree of life in New Orleans!
[–]JohnnyRage90 -1 points0 points ago
I wish America could learn about nature in school and how trees works instead of being the dumbest assholes on planet earth.
[–]OldWoodenFap -1 points0 points ago
"No one knows what exactly happened that night, but one thing is for sure. Ichabod never crossed the bridge"
[–]NYCPakMan -1 points0 points ago
probably could get a whole Bedroom set and some decent chairs from that...
[–]fishbone105 -1 points0 points ago
I want to climb on that one so bad
[–]turpidyripkick -1 points0 points ago
hehe...tree crutches
[–]ghost7562 0 points1 point ago
From what i can tell, this is the E.A. McIlhenny Oak at Avery Island's Jungle Park.
[–]wickman69 -1 points0 points ago
Great pic.
[–]wkdravenna 1 point2 points ago
How do you know its 350 years old. Serious question.
[–]Kings_Gold_Standard 0 points1 point ago Soul Train #165 - Morris Day "The Oak Tree" 1986
[–]gettothechoppa1 0 points1 point ago
I saw in earthporn that the city,town maybe the state wants to cut the tree down and put in a parking lot.
[–]herrgibbs -2 points-1 points ago
So much experience... Just ready to be taken...
[–]Huntomly 1 point2 points ago
This tree began its life in 1663...3 years before the great fire of London...holy shit... I know there are many trees far older than this but when you think about one even just this age its pretty weird.
[–]Mudface68 1 point2 points ago
Arboriuos octopusian
[–]sad-optimist 0 points1 point ago
I read a book, 'Six Frigates' and they went and looked for this type of oak tree for key parts of the ship. Strength. USS Constitution.
[–]caffeine47 0 points1 point ago
654 year old The "Bartek" Oak, Poland.
[–]MOONGOONER -1 points0 points ago
350 for a live oak isn't that old
[–]kaiaer 0 points1 point ago
It's the mana tree!
[–]atlasthetitan -3 points-2 points ago
This is a repost from about a month ago (and probably many times before that as well)
Here is the link
[–]Weynard_Muldrake -2 points-1 points ago
It would suck to chop one of these down in Minecraft.
[–]Miseducated 2 points3 points ago
Trees like this always remind me of the Whomping Willow.
[–]Julie6100 -1 points0 points ago
that "old" tree could outlive us all
[–]GoodAndBluts 6 points7 points ago
Just a comment for tree lovers (I am one) - The speed of growth of a tree varies enormously based on climate (especially the amount of sunlight and water) - Trees in the southern USA (like the one pictured) grow really quickly because the summer is so long.
Trees in europe dont get all that much sun (because of the latitude) grow slowly, which is why a 1000 year old tree in England looks smaller than you might expect.
Then again, trees in warmer places often live fast and die young, succumbing to the harsh realities of a warm climate - viruses, insects and more-extreme weather
[–]Byzant1n3 6 points7 points ago
Would you mind telling me where this picture was taken? This looks so much like the tree in my parent's backyard, background trees and limb placement included, that I'm almost positive this is the same tree. I live in Louisiana.
[–]Desdinova2036 0 points1 point ago
WHOA!! That's one of the coolest things ive ever seen!! I bet touching it'll give you poetic genius. Just sit under it for a while, I could write for days!!
[–]knightsofrnew 1 point2 points ago
more like 350 year old repost
[–]enjoynick -2 points-1 points ago
World Tree! We found it!
[–]spevak -1 points0 points ago
I want to climb that tree
[–]pramodc84 0 points1 point ago
400 year old Big Banyan Tree in Bangalore, India , single plant covers 3 acres (12,000 m2 )
[–]wife_of_bmacnz 1 point2 points ago
Was pleasantly surprised to see it not cut down. Beautiful tree, wish I had something similar in my yard that my kids could climb. I spent many a summer day in a tree with a book! Good memories!
[–][deleted] 1 point2 points ago
Old trees always have the most serene look about them. It's odd and hard to explain.
[–]uprick -2 points-1 points ago
Woah, it is older than me.
[–]Thegamingrobin -2 points-1 points ago
I swear I saw this post a few weeks back....
[–]TripleTownNinjaBear -2 points-1 points ago
That's a satisfyingly old tree.
[–]CUZLOL -2 points-1 points ago
That tree reminds me of some scary movie, movie started with a girl hung, rope attached to that big branch to the right, forget the name of the movie.
[–]Iandrasil 4 points5 points ago
I can imagine disney tarzan sliding over those branches.
[–]poolwater 1 point2 points ago
anyone else wanna climb that bad boy?
[–]Crikel 1 point2 points ago
This so just became my next desktop background! I love picture's like these! Thanks for sharing!
[–]nitiger -1 points0 points ago
Not as old as Grandmother Willow.
[–]TheRealJiraiya -1 points0 points ago
That is a magical tree
[–]dbranes 24 points25 points ago
[–]Belac85 10 points11 points ago
That's one tree?
[–]hobbitqueen 17 points18 points ago
Banyan trees are known for sending down 'sky roots', roots extending from branches down to the ground. For this reason they are known as 'living temples' and are sacred in the Hindu religion.
[–]DuexFlam 30 points31 points ago
King's Oak in Denmark- between 1400 and 2000 years old.
[–]brokenfury8585 5 points6 points ago
someone cut it down
[–]MrGMinor 0 points1 point ago
The smokey-sweet transvestite from transssssexual treevania.
[–]thatmink 23 points24 points ago
"..kill me...."
[–]Kattzalos 0 points1 point ago
[–]G0PACKGO 4 points5 points ago
Looks dead
[–]skintigh 1 point2 points ago
It's said oaks take 300 years to grow, 300 years to live and 300 years to die so it's on schedule.
[–]fromnochurch 1 point2 points ago
I always upvote trees.
[–]AFellowOfLimitedJest 69 points70 points ago
[–]keith_HUGECOCK 3 points4 points ago
Whomping Willow
[–]imasunbear 2 points3 points ago
Whomping Oak
[–]kurisu7885 2 points3 points ago
Territorial Oak. [I honestly doubt anyone will get that one]
[–]Fjohurs_Lykkewe 0 points1 point ago
Do I get a PSI caramel for recognizing the reference?
[–]Tomiswedd 9 points10 points ago
People like you make the world go round.
[–]IndieGal_60 -2 points-1 points ago
Middleton Place?
[–]Bart_Zuckerfuck -3 points-2 points ago
Let's cut it down and count the rings!
Please don't do that.
[–]Deddan 1 point2 points ago
"Wow, would you look at that. Turns out it was actually 50 years older than we thought! Cool."
[–]andywade84 0 points1 point ago
This tree, is older than the United states.
[–]6F6A9O9 -1 points0 points ago
So is your mom.
[–]andywade84 0 points1 point ago
She's not, she died 3 years ago at the ripe old age of 61. How do you feel now!
[–]6F6A9O9 0 points1 point ago
Not to bad. Sitting on the toilet checking Reddit. How do you feel?
[–]andywade84 0 points1 point ago
I'm over it now, at the time I cried a bit.
[–]6F6A9O9 0 points1 point ago
About me pooping?
[–]andywade84 0 points1 point ago
Exactly, it was one of those ones that smelt spicy.
[–]6F6A9O9 0 points1 point ago
It was. REAL spicy.
[–]andywade84 0 points1 point ago
That's what you get for having an exclusively taco bell diet I'm afraid.
[–]6F6A9O9 0 points1 point ago
Are you hacking me!?
[–]Lambodiddley -2 points-1 points ago
As soon as I saw the tree automatically imagined Tarzan "surfing" the branches
[–]Sazew 2 points3 points ago
Reminds me of this magic card
Just needs more hangman's knots.
[–]Marlonius 3 points4 points ago
wow that seems OP
[–]frogdude2004 1 point2 points ago
Eh it never really saw serious play.
[–]chinesespiders 0 points1 point ago
Radiohead's King Of Limbs album is named after this tree.
[–]abacuslemon 5 points6 points ago
4-5000 year old yew.
this oak aint got shit on some trees around the world.
[–]Beerbelch 178 points179 points ago
This is before a troop of obese scout leaders heaved the tree over and then talked about how the branches could have fallen off and killed a child.
[–]RExOINFERNO 0 points1 point ago
And this is why the boyscouts are a fucking joke
[–]seven_seven 0 points1 point ago
That video is going to turn out to be a Jimmy Kimmel stunt. Mark my words.
[–]Genjek5 3 points4 points ago
1.) Stereotypes 2.) When I was in scouts there was a firm policy of not harming any living plants. It's basic Leave-No-Trace. 3.) When there are "widowmakers" the policy is to just make sure you don't pitch a tent below them.
Please don't over generalize about things you obviously have no idea about. It's offensive and not true. It may be you had an encounter with such a troop of obese scout leaders in the past, but recognize that that's only a tiny fraction of scouting and that most of scouting would seriously frown on such actions as it is against our values
[–]MetalSeagull 10 points11 points ago
I believe he's referring to he boy scouts who deliberately toppled a rock formation, then claimed they were protecting children instead of just being douchbags.
[–]Genjek5 5 points6 points ago
Dear god, I saw that video but didn't look into the details. Were they really scouts? (at a quick glance I thought they were just drunken idiots) If so, those idiots broke a great many of the organization's rules too.
[–]seven_seven -2 points-1 points ago
TIL that some Boy Scouts are married.
[–]gudnbluts 16 points17 points ago
Oh, God. I did some work for an American private school here in the UK, and they'd cut down many, many old oak trees on their grounds for exactly that reason.
[–]horsenbuggy 2 points3 points ago
I'm not in favor of what you posted but I thought I would add a little insight. Where I live there are at least two cases each summer of a tree (not just a branch, a whole tree) falling on and killing someone, often while they're in a car. We recently had a case of a child (well known on Facebook now) who had a branch fall on his head at a private daycare place. This kid now has a brain injury and will never be the same. You just never know when something odd and horrible is going to happen.
[–]cocoa020 0 points1 point ago
Do trees fall really fast? I feel like it would take a little bit (enough to get out of the way) for the deep root system to be ripped up. Also. Oxygen.
[–]offramppinup 0 points1 point ago
They do. My husband is a consulting arborist and has to deal with issues like this all the time. If the owner of a property has an old/diseased/unstable/sketchy looking tree looked at by an arborist (or suggested to them to do so in a formal letter by an outside party), and it is deemed dangerous, they are responsible for the damage it causes if it fails. There is a codified system for risk assesment here which is weighed towards risk to life (how likely is it for a person to be under it when it fails).
One option for some trees depending on the severity and type of damage is installing a cabling system to provide support for limbs and reduce the risk of injury.
Obviously, laws vary on this, but for the most part, if you own a property with a dangerous tree and have been told by an arborist that it is a high risk to fail and cause harm, you are liable if it does. It is no longer solely an act of God. This obviously affects (effects?) insurance a great deal and that causes a lot of old pretty trees to come down or be heavily pruned.
[–]horsenbuggy 1 point2 points ago
Also, the main problem with oaks, at least live oaks around here, is that they don't have deep root systems. The roots are super shallow and pop up through the top of the ground. But I do think that the majority of deaths by whole tree are from it falling on a car stopped in traffic. No good warning with windows up and radio on and no way to move car.
[–]peetee32 3 points4 points ago
I giant limb can crack and fall at any time
[–]LovelyLittleBiscuit 10 points11 points ago
What an awful shame. I went to a primary school in a rural area of the UK, if you'd chopped all the old trees down on the school land there'd probably be no trees left.
[–]mr_administrator -1 points0 points ago
If you chopped down all the trees anywhere there would be no trees left.
[–]LovelyLittleBiscuit 11 points12 points ago
All the old trees. You missed out a fairly important part of my sentence.
[–]Ourous 60 points61 points ago
Fuck them and their hypothetical lives.
[–]BunBunFuFu 0 points1 point ago
Keep up the good work.
[–]uberfrog 19 points20 points ago
[–]frogdude2004 2 points3 points ago
That's what I thought when I saw it.
[–]AxelCaprio 1 point2 points ago
Me too! :O
[–]ZarquonsFlatTire 1 point2 points ago
Looks just like the tree my sister had her wedding under. Live oak right outside The Citadel in Charleston.
[–]NYC19893 13 points14 points ago
Angel Oak: Neither of the trees appear to be Angel Oak. Seen it a few times and it has a few branches that have grown underground in parts.
[–]seven_seven 0 points1 point ago
Came in here to post this. If you go to Charleston, SC this is a must visit. Staggeringly huge and beautiful.
[–]dmrowley 1 point2 points ago
Here's my HDR photo of The Angel Oak
[–]Sam_I_Am_I_Is 1 point2 points ago
Glad to see someone got his one in already. I remember seeing it in elementary school on a field trip. Absolutely amazing!
[–]GraysonVoorhees 4 points5 points ago
Had to scroll a long way down to find a reference to Angel Oak. Drove out to see it one time on a visit to Charleston after seeing a photo of it on a postcard in a giftshop. Was not disappointed. Amazing tree.
[–]rysliv 0 points1 point ago
Still not as impressive as the few trees that were thousands of years old, which were in the end taken down by humans...
[–]Fansworn -2 points-1 points ago
Did this tree give you a pokedex
[–]igbrainbrad -2 points-1 points ago
Jenny taught me how to climb, and I taught her how to dangle.
[–]rwhite2366 5 points6 points ago
like 2 weeks ago, right?
[–]TheLegendOf1900 19 points20 points ago
Looks like louisiana
[–]Twotest 8 points9 points ago
I've seen this tree, it's on Avery Island, the same place they make Tabasco. Very cool place to go.
[–]TheLegendOf1900 1 point2 points ago
I was right??
[–]Twotest 1 point2 points ago
[–]TheLegendOf1900 0 points1 point ago
Funny, I work offshore so I drive down to Grand Isle from New Iberia every month and I always slow down as I drive past these trees and marvel at them. Having only lived in LA for about 6 months, they are still new and incredible to me.
[–]BONER_PAROLE -1 points0 points ago
*350-year-old Oak tree
[–]blackstarx 4 points5 points ago
Looks like the tree from the movie Ernest Scared Stupid
[–]cabell17 -1 points0 points ago
Crest Lake Park?
[–]Suckin_on_fartz 15 points16 points ago
Callin all New Orleanians: Tree Of LIFE!! right behind Audubon Park
[–]MOONGOONER 0 points1 point ago
You think so? I thought this looks too small, I was thinking of one in city park
[–]Twotest 2 points3 points ago
It's on Avery Island. The trees in Audubon park are bigger
[–]nomoneystillproblems 4 points5 points ago
Ha. Came here thinking this might be that tree. Great spot.
[–]Sounds_Logical 0 points1 point ago
Yeah! This tree looks pretty small compared to some of the trees pre-Katrina.
[–]guy_lovejoy -2 points-1 points ago
What if I told you age and size do not always correlate when considering more than one species.
[–]Cordycepsd 1 point2 points ago
He's not talking about trees of other species. I live minutes away from Audubon Park and the big trees are all live oaks. The same is true for 99% of very large trees in this city. There are some cypress in parts of the state south of here that get really big, though.
[–]guy_lovejoy 0 points1 point ago
True Oaks are different to American Oaks.
[–]tumadreporfavor 8 points9 points ago
Reminds me of Fern Gully
[–]The_Doct0r_ 9 points10 points ago
I want very badly to sit under that tree and smoke from a pipe.
[–]dpflug 0 points1 point ago careful, ok? Not saying you would do this, but....
[–]Downvote_Gatherer 0 points1 point ago
Freaking stoner.
[–]BloteAapOpVoeten 4 points5 points ago
Freaking finger-pointer.
[–]niomosy 3 points4 points ago
[–]seven_seven 0 points1 point ago
Admit it, there is weed in there.
[–]niomosy 1 point2 points ago
There could be but anyone spending over $4000 on the pipe I linked is probably not going to put weed in there.
[–]3581_Tossit 123 points124 points ago
[–]Geegld 2 points3 points ago
Came here for the Major Oak! Did not disappoint.
[–]Platypuskeeper 3 points4 points ago
[–]Silencerfart 0 points1 point ago
Can we just call that the knuckle tree?
[–]pisdrunxrich 1 point2 points ago
Is this at Sherwood Forrest? Robin Hood and his band of merry men supposedly used to chill inside this tree
[–]Modini 0 points1 point ago
Yes and yes.
[–]LeWhisp 0 points1 point ago
Is that in Essex?
[–][deleted] 2 points3 points ago
ah the major oak
i still find it weird seeing local landmarks on here
[–]Decyde 4 points5 points ago
Tree? That is no tree! That is an Ent!
[–]Dus-Sn 5 points6 points ago
You're a one-upper in real life aren't you?
[–]NerdyMatt 2 points3 points ago
I must climb it :)
[–]ninemarrow 41 points42 points ago
That tree's seen some shit. Edit: '
[–]sweetnamebro 15 points16 points ago
Here you forgot this '
[–]StripedOtter 45 points46 points ago
T'hat trees seen some shit.
[–]PrincessDickFart 64 points65 points ago
That was anticlimactic.
[–]AppleDane 18 points19 points ago
It gets worse as they go really old.
Here is an 1500-2000 year old oak.
"Kongeegen" - Denmark.
[–]Phoenixeye0 4 points5 points ago
"Happy birthday, Jesus!" - Kongeegen
[–]UtaKO808 2 points3 points ago
Maybe a picture of this tree in the summer time would help the dead look that tree seemed to have
[–]AppleDane 2 points3 points ago
[–]aspiringvoiceactor 9 points10 points ago
Tree crutches.
[–]kingoftown 5 points6 points ago
Made out of its children
[–]3581_Tossit 50 points51 points ago
Just a tree innit.
[–]StickyWicky -2 points-1 points ago
Just a-treein' it.
[–]Musicmans 12 points13 points ago
Robin Hood was said to have hung out at that tree
[–]Chetchap 7 points8 points ago
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[–]Klang_Klang 0 points1 point ago
So, the ticks put the heavy metals in you? I thought they just removed blood?
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[–]skyhamster 385 points386 points ago
Same in Scotland. It is known as the "Right to Roam".
[–]andytb 249 points250 points ago
The code can pretty much be summed as 'don't be a dick' - don't camp in someone's garden, don't trample their crops, don't disturb their livestock or put it as risk by leaving gates open. Take your litter away and do your business away from water sources.
[–]bug_eyed_earl 164 points165 points ago
Don't fuck up million year old rock formations.
[–]badtwinboy 46 points47 points ago
So basically no American hicks...
[–]Hatguy115 49 points50 points ago
No people from the city thinking the country is a trash can.
[–]rbrawney 4 points5 points ago
Yes, Americans are the only ones who do this. Fuck Americans. wank wank wank
[–]MrRandomSuperhero 9 points10 points ago
I love this law because it shows that some people can still trust others to act like proper adults.
It's a nice and rarifying thing.
[–]checksumfail 42 points43 points ago
And you can camp anywhere that won't clearly piss someone off!
Great law to have in such a beautiful country.
[–]AlrightWallOfChina 8 points9 points ago
Finland also has the Allemansrätt, or "Jokamiehenoikeus".
[–]riskybizzle 77 points78 points ago
Came here for this. Scottish Outdoor Access Code. The way it should be IMO.
[–]Khnagar 22 points23 points ago
The same in Norway.
[–]MassiveClusterFuck 16 points17 points ago
Possibly one of the best laws we have, being able to just go for a walk nearly anywhere you want gives you such a great feeling of freedom
[–]SocraticDiscourse 10 points11 points ago
I thought it was a British law that also applied in England, rather than just a Scottish one?
[–]lumpytuna 29 points30 points ago
Nope. The only thing that England has that is comparable is a huge network of public pathways.
[–]Uptkang 26 points27 points ago
England and Wales do have a Right to Roam, it's juts more limited than the Scots one.
[–]JB_UK 15 points16 points ago
England and Wales have the Countryside Right of Way- basically, the right to roam is limited to 'Access Land', which has to be specially designated. You can see the maps here (as long as you don't mind the unutterably shit interface):
In many parts, these are scraps of land here and there, elsewhere huge swathes are covered, particularly in low-population areas, for instance Northern and Central Wales, and Northern England.
There's also a really excellent footpath system (these are usually public rights of way that go across private land). For instance, here's somewhere near me, the red, blue and green dashed lines are public footpaths.
Edit: Oh, also, trespass in the UK is not traditionally a criminal offense. The law was amended a decade or two back, but I think only to include aggravated trespass, for instance if you're holding a rave party, or vandalizing the property.
[–]InscrutableTed 7 points8 points ago
Doesn't England have the Country Code, which allows you to cross farms as long as you follow certain rules?
[–]JB_UK 5 points6 points ago
I don't think that has legal force, they're just public guidelines.
[–]gogoplata91 17 points18 points ago
Commies! I'mactuallyquitejealous
[–]Reads_Small_Text_Bot 12 points13 points ago
actually quite jealous
[–]MashuVariety 12 points13 points ago
I knew it.
[–]micge 247 points248 points ago
Similar law aplies in Finland too called "jokamiehenoikeus" or "every mans right". You can hunt small game, pick berries/mushrooms, hike or camp anywhere, with only some of these rights limited in national parks, unesco nature heritage areas and all of them revoked within eyesight of dwellings.
EDIT: There's no point in me repeating here, what is available on the internet. Take heart, your Average Joe wont march on your land and start shooting at animals. The right to hunt wild game is dependant on having the permits/licences.
[–]White_pants 104 points105 points ago
‘Allemansrätt’ means "every mans right" in swedish and has pretty much the same rules.
[–]ccookkee 128 points129 points ago
In Norway we have the same thing but call it 'allemannsretten', because that's how you spell properly. Take that, swede!
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[–]guy_from_sweden 185 points186 points ago
This so many times over.
Let's put it like this -
Amount of Gustavus Adolphus the Greats leading your country at some point in history:
Norway - 0
Sweden - 1
The only reason you norwegians has become cocky the last century or so is because of your petty 'oil'. Well, too bad oil evidently can not buy you butter!
[–]ccookkee 73 points74 points ago
Oh, I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of how much money we are making.
[–]disembowelment 117 points118 points ago
That's alright, I've seen your beer prices. Too bad you can't get a buzz from oil, huh?
[–]Schmoopykins 36 points37 points ago
Oil? No. Öl? Yes.
[–]planeturban 5 points6 points ago
Where are zhe Germans when you need them?
[–]1norcal415 65 points66 points ago
As an American, this thread has been hilariously entertaining. Thank you.
[–]nexustab 22 points23 points ago
As a non-American, be careful Norway they know about your oil now.
[–]JonathanRL 7 points8 points ago
If you are making all that money, why the fuck are you buying your food so cheaply in Sweden?
[–]White_pants 28 points29 points ago
Ha! Stop singing and then you will be able to pronounce stuff correctly, but let denmark keep the potato in their mouth.
(And we will stay drunk!)
[–]aarghIforget 29 points30 points ago
I love it when you guys fight.
[–]DefinitelyNotANinja 3 points4 points ago
No Finns around yet? K I'll cover.
"You guys better shut up or you'll wake Simo Häyhä again, then you'll be sorry."
[–]White_pants 14 points15 points ago
My father once told me a story about a finn and a swede.
''So its a wonderful spring day and a finn and swede go out into the forest to drink. After finding a stump, they sit down with their backs to each other and start drinking. After 45min the swede turns around and says 'skål', the finn answers 'did we come here to drink or did we come here to talk?'
[–]rheus 2 points3 points ago
I don't sing! I'm from the west, and I speak proper Norwegian!
Not that swedish-danish hybrid they speak in the south east.
[–]octahexx 7 points8 points ago
dont make us come over there and "unify" us again under the swedish flag!
[–]AlexanderGson 5 points6 points ago
You know that cool song from kollektivet. Åäö, or maybe it was Äöå. Använd de bokstäverna då! :)
[–]space_donut 3 points4 points ago
Shots fired!
[–]SwedishPrince 3 points4 points ago
Too bad your written language is only 100 years old
[–]AmericaLLC 26 points27 points ago
Yep, I understand the law to be almost identical in all Fennoscandian nations. The concept is actually pretty radical for, say, Americans. As long as you're not within a certain distance (I think it's something like 200 meters) of a building in use, there's no such thing as trespassing ! There are probably exceptions to this rule, but nonetheless, the law gives the average citizen an incredible freedom to travel and utilize renewable natural resources!
[–]cccrazydog 17 points18 points ago
Upvote for Fennoscandia.
[–]the_ovster 7 points8 points ago
200 meters? I think it's closer to 15-50meters but there is no exact measurement to go by, it depends on how close a dwelling is to a communal road, how much 'insyn' it is from the public and so forth. But our laws regarding private property is very different from in America where you own property and do with it what you will everybody else can just fuck off, our laws are more of a 'floating' kind where your and other people's rights are dependent on the situation and mostly based on need. If necessity like survival is a stake your property means nothing.
[–]themagnificentsphynx 6 points7 points ago
So there are no designated hunting areas? So a person might be hunting where I'm walking? D:
[–]FinnishHippo 14 points15 points ago
If you are in Finland and walk in a forest during hunting season, wear something red (ie. hat or a jacket) and you'll be fine.
[–]Mugros 29 points30 points ago
Like this?
[–]FinnishHippo 2 points3 points ago
But what do you say while wearing that?
[–]MithrandirTheIstari 2 points3 points ago
[–]annoying_whistler 9 points10 points ago
Well there are hunting seasons: different times for different game. Shooting will not happen near dwellings as it is prohibited by law. Granted shooting accidents will still happen and you can find them from your newspaper every once in a while. There are actually safety vests (a lot like reflective vests) you can wear if youre truely worried about getting shot during hunting season.
[–]glazjoon 6 points7 points ago
In Sweden the hunting rights are given to the owner of the land. Meaning you can lease the land from the owner.
[–]I_CATS 6 points7 points ago
Yes. Try your best to not look like a moose.
[–]mac 54 points55 points ago
If anyone is interested this doc(pdf in English) gives helpful guidance on how Allemansrätten works in practice.
[–]Poposhka 449 points450 points ago
It's actually one of the harder things I had to acclimatize to when moving to the United States - how protective people are of "their land".
Of course Allemansrätten doesn't mean you stroll through people's back yards, walk into wheat fields, etc.
[–]Solna 32 points33 points ago
It is interesting to note that this is not written in law, but follows from ancient custom; the constitution briefly states all are allowed to roam freely in accordance to the allemansrätt, but it has not been found necessary to explain what it means.
It follows from unwritten custom (which is sometimes a source of law) that you are not allowed to hurt the economic interests of the owner, infringe on the private sphere, or damage nature.
[–]atetuna 11 points12 points ago
You are correct. Of course you mean the Swedish constitution, not the constitution of the USA, since you said it's in accordance with "allemansrätt".
Instrument of Government
-Chapter 2
--Article 18
There shall be access for all to the natural environment in accordance with the right of public ac-cess, notwithstanding the above provisions.
Also this.
[–]bushwhack227 37 points38 points ago
using the phrase "ancient custom" was also a dead giveaway he wasn't talking about the US.
[–]Berkbelts 49 points50 points ago
Ha my Swedish friends got the police called on them for trespassing because they were skateboarding in a church's parking lot at night. The cops let them go with a warning but it was funny to talk to them afterwards. The Swedes didn't understand why it happened. All us Americans were like "Duh, you were trespassing."
[–]Chokkiss 2 points3 points ago
I really doubt it actually was trespassing, more like someone was scared they'd damage something or doing other illegal activities. Unless they were actually climbing high fences with locked gates, they weren't trespassing. The fact that the police then told them to leave the area is just what happens here. The police doesn't really have that kind of authority without reasons or provocation. But us Swedes have a tendency to do what we're told by cops.
[–]Xo0om 22 points23 points ago
If it was only people's property I wouldn't mind so much. But we saw with the government shutdown that we couldn't even walk in the park if it was federal land. That is just absurd.
[–]scobes 167 points168 points ago
It amuses me how many Americans define freedom as the freedom to deny stuff to others.
Edit: Wow, you guys sure are sensitive.
[–][deleted] 4 points5 points ago
Hey now. England started basic property law in the 15-16th centuries. We're just following them...
[–]zwirlo 3 points4 points ago
This is from one of my recent comment explaining this.
Our constitution is a negative powers constitution, which sounds bad, but means that you have the right to do anything not specifically mentioned as illegal. Constitutions in European may have more defined rights, but those are defined and you have no more, and the bill of rights is more of a way to say what we can't make illegal than to define our "privledge".
TL;DR We can do anything but what they say we can't do.
[–]curt_schilli 18 points19 points ago
Or the freedom to protect what's yours...
[–]veiron 9 points10 points ago
"protect" ...Damaging stuff is still illegal in sweden you know.
[–]mexicodoug 73 points74 points ago
As a mountain biker and hiker, that's for sure!
Landowners of ranches in the US freak out when you use a dirt road or pathway to get to a nice lake or mountain top if it's on the land they "own."
The landowners in most lands outside the US figure that they own the land for what it produces, like crops or whatever, and as long as you're not messing up what the land produces you're welcome to pass through.
Like, you can ride your bike through, or make love under a secluded tree, but you can't hunt the deer.
Americans are all weird about how their property is "sacred" and your very presence on their property is some kind of violation of their religion.
[–]atetuna 15 points16 points ago
I can understand if they had their land properly posted and had a gate across their road, but it's ridiculous when they get irate when there's little way to know that road is private.
[–]AU36832 33 points34 points ago
If you knew how many lawsuits a landowner in the US can get slapped with if someone gets hurt on their land then you wouldn't be so hard on them. Also Farmers and ranchers break their backs to make a living off of land that they payed for and continue to pay taxes on till the day they die. 99% of the time landowners care about their land far more than anyone just wanting to explore could understand.
Oh yeah. A lot of farmers also hunt so it is really not a good idea to just let people wander around without asking permission.
[–]reid8470 13 points14 points ago
As you said, a huge chunk of it is the potential for legal issues. Was helping my uncle build a farm one summer and I saw some kids climbing a dead tree up the hill a few hundred feet (rural area). My uncle somewhat panics and yells at them to get out of it and get off his property, then says to me "If one of those branches broke and a kid fell with it, their parents would sue the hell out of me."
[–]preteensextoy 33 points34 points ago
Your legal system must be completely fucked up then. The possibility to sue somebody for this (or the chance of actually winning the case) defies common sense.
[–]greywindow 2 points3 points ago
Most farmers are cool as shit too. I've never had a farmer deny me access to there land to hunt or ride through.
[–]Grandiose_Claims 8 points9 points ago
Yeah, they are paranoid about it because:
1. Illegal activity allowed on their land can often end up being their responsibility, so if some dumbass decides to grow pot / seduce a minor / smoke weed / assault someone at a field part on a farmer's land, guess who can be found both criminally and civilly liable? The property owner. It can and does happen, despite how stupid the law is regarding these matters.
2. People can and often are inconsiderate of people's land, leaving trash, starting fires by accident, etc.
3. Strangers aren't always friendly. Every now and then, one of them ends up being someone who's out to assault / rob you, and while that's rare, people shouldn't have to be constantly guessing when some vagrant is passing through and squatting on their land.
On a side note, it's part of the culture in America. We are one of the most individualistic and private nations in the world, and many of us don't have a problem with that. Want to hike/camp/bike? There is an incredible wealth of parks, reserves, etc for that in every state, most counties and towns.
[–]Ihmhi3 5 points6 points ago
And there's plenty of people who have large chunks of land that wouldn't mind your passing through or even camping there - just so long as you ask.
There's some real asshole ATV and dirtbike enthusiasts that completely tear up private land. There's been a few incidents where they've been warned to stay off the land and the owner ended up shooting at them because they didn't.
[–]MasterRoshii 18 points19 points ago
Where do you like living better, U.S.A.or Sweden?
[–]Boner4SCP106 208 points209 points ago
Sweden of course. He's a Redditor after all.
[–]sukritact 33 points34 points ago
Låt oss alla flytta till Sverige.
[–]Sm0kinyoface 20 points21 points ago
Nej, snälla stanna där ni är...
[–]sukritact 4 points5 points ago
Det är för sent; invasionen har börjat. Sverige kommer att bli Konungariket Reddit!
[–]Aitch86 11 points12 points ago
Yes, I would like to hear your thoughts on your state(which is?). I know a man who moved here from Sweden and just couldn't talk enough about it. It made me want to go there really bad and explore.
[–]White_pants 48 points49 points ago
My parents moved from Sweden to the US in 1990, i was born in 1991.
My parents love the US, they became naturalized citizens in 2002 when sweden allowed duel citizenship (I was born with it). In my eyes they have become Americans. My brother and I live in Sweden (I study, he works) after having lived in the States for 17 and 13 years (respectivly). Most Swedes if you ask them in the street will say they love the USA, maybe not the politics, but the whole USA way of life. Many of the things you have beeen accustomed to dont exist in the same way. Shops close at 6 and earlyer on week ends, people are not as open as they are in the US, and there is pressure to make you think that you are not anything more then normal. These just name a few of the things that I see as differences between the USA an Sweden.
(sorry i am drunk, yay uni life)
[–]JibesWith 13 points14 points ago
I would say swedes value humility over confidence and find any kind of swagger distasteful, but that's just using nicer words. You have huge freedom to be a loner, so it's not super-conformist in all ways.
[–]MasterRoshii 16 points17 points ago
You and I have been redditing for the same amount of days /r/mildlyinteresting
[–]X019 15 points16 points ago
Your account is older by 9 hours 44 minutes.
[–]Ricekrisper 19 points20 points ago
and suddenly, /r/notinteresting
[–]CAT_WILL_MEOW 1 point2 points ago
I think he is neutral on which he likes more
[–]AliveInTheFuture 5 points6 points ago
It's sort of depressing, actually. Every time I make a road trip along a major highway, I think about the possibilities if I were to just stop my car and walk straight into a field, a tree line, a mountain slope...and 90% of the time, there's a barbed wire fence there, keeping me out, surely owned by someone, if not the government itself.
[–]ukepriest 2 points3 points ago
Wait, so how do you distinguish between a back yard and say, a couple acres of woods behind someone's house? Where do you draw the line?
[–]JeffersonTwighlight- 10 points11 points ago
I live in Northern Sweden and my house is situated on the edge of a forest and I "own" a small 10x20m patch of forest just at the start.
I have dogs so I have a small fence around and also one of these fences ( But the woods are unfenced.
In winter people often take a short cut over my land to access the woods for skiing, I jokenly pretend to be angry about it to my wife but really I don't mind at all. Often you can clearly distinguish where a property ends and everyone is cool for the most part, that or they bitch about it to their village friends.
[–][deleted] 2 points3 points ago
If people don't want you on their land, they'll build a fence and/or post signs. If neither of those are present, you're good to wander unless someone with a gun shows up and tells you to leave, at which point you'd probably better do it regardless of whether it's actually their land.
[–]bunker_man 2 points3 points ago
If you can't easily see their house from where you are.
[–]Haran999 10 points11 points ago
So, do they chase you off their land or what? I think I would just go about as I normally would and just apologize with an european accent if someone stopped me.
[–]Smilge 34 points35 points ago
I'm having trouble understanding exactly in what situations you'd be wondering around on someone's land. Are we talking someone's front yard? Or more like pulling over on the side of the road where there are no houses and hiking around? If it's the latter, people would usually call the police, and the police would let you know you're trespassing and you have to leave. But usually private property will have a fence around it to keep livestock in, and/or "Private property - No trespassing" signs every 100 feet.
[–]TheMasque 26 points27 points ago
My friend owns a house on the Scottish isle of Arran, this house has several acres that extend to a beach several hundred metres away. Many people would incidentally roam there, as it's his land but it's not closed off. Technically speaking you have every right to walk on this land, in order to enjoy the sights and make the most of Scotland's scenery.
The general rule is that if you can be concievably accused of property damage from "roaming", then you'll be done for vandalism or breaking and entry or some such thing. If there's not a fence around it, you can go there if you like. Climbing a fence is a no-go when legally roaming.
A lot of our paths and sites, belong to the National heritage, but many paths up hills, or scenic rivers actually belong to large country houses near by and the families who have owned the area for generations.
But really it belongs to everyone. They just have the right to build a fence.
[–]Platypuskeeper 9 points10 points ago
I don't know how it works in Scotland, but in Sweden you're allowed to pass a fence. You can put up a fence around your house, with limitations (e.g. it's unlikely you'd be allowed to fence off 'your' part of the shoreline on a property that's on the water). But for land in general, you're explicitly prohibited from putting up a fence on your property for the sole purpose of keeping people out. You can put one up to protect grazing animals, or to keep wild animals out and some other reasons, but you can't e.g. put a fence around your piece of forest just because you don't want people there. And people have a right to climb your fence if it's blocking access to land covered by allemansrätten. (Naturally you're still responsible for any property damage your behavior might cause)
[–]unkorrupted 6 points7 points ago
have the right to build a fence
Driving around Florida, I've noticed a distinct trend. Farms with Irish & Scottish names tend to have really low fences that seem designed to keep the cattle in with minimal effort. Farms with more English sounding names have like, eight-foot tall inverted walls wrapped with barbed wire.
[–]TheMasque 9 points10 points ago
Swear to God a lot of fences I see in Scotland consist of a single strand of half-heartedly barbed wire at chest-level just so that cows can't figure out how to get past.
[–]Mamadog5 12 points13 points ago
A fence is only a psychological barrier to a cow. Trust me, those suckers can jump six feet from a standing start. They are also strong. They can easily break most fences, they just don't know they can.
I used to keep my cows in with a single hot wire. It was about nose high to a cow so they could see it. Worked perfectly.
[–]Ihmhi3 3 points4 points ago
Cows are either really chill or really lazy.
"Aw fuck Bob, there's a wire. I guess we could, maybe, duck under it? Or jump over it? Fuck it, I'ma eat some grass. Ooh, check out that heifer! AY GURL!"
[–]Peanutking 2 points3 points ago
Well... I just learned a new word, thank you.
[–]unkorrupted 1 point2 points ago
McSomething Farms & Irish Acres etc.. in rural FL don't even use the barbed wire, just a plank of wood below chest-level.
On the other hand, I've had friends get shot at with salt rock for trying to pick mushrooms after finding a wide hole in a tall chain-link fence.
Not a lot of consistency in the states, and it's usually safe to stay well back.
[–]Guilty_Pleasure 2 points3 points ago
I think that's more confirmation bias than a trend...
[–]SUM_Poindexter 4 points5 points ago
got any good stories of people protecting their land from you?
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[–]Silverkarn 2 points3 points ago
This kind of crosses over into eavesment. Also, the adverse possession are not the same in every state, in some states the property remains your property no matter who uses it for however length of time.
EDIT: I just checked Wisconsin, my state. Adverse Possession requires 20 uninterrupted years before you can sue for ownership of the land, and it must be proven.
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[–]kjartanbj 12 points13 points ago
Same in Iceland.. and even better , you can drive around the highlands in the wintertime when there is snow nearly everywhere, there are only a few exceptions in the summertime you are only allowed to drive on marked tracks , no offroad , but you can walk everywhere , even over farmers land with the exception if its being used growing crops or harvesting something
In for example Norway you are not allowed as best I know to drive on snow where ever you want like here In Iceland, Im not sure how it's in Sweden, but I think it's the same as in norway, correct me if Im wrong
[–]eye_sick 21 points22 points ago
Urban explorers use this law to their advantage and Sweden isn't the only place with such laws.
[–]DonTago3 139 points140 points ago
Part of the reason that this sort of law would never work in the States is that if, for instance, a kid went mountain-biking on a private piece of land way out in the woods because it was not adequately gated off, and if the kid were to severely hurt himself during this excursion, the owner could be sued by the parents of the kid under the law of Premises Liability.
While Premises Liability is generally used for instances of people lawfully being on your property [delivery man hurting himself], sometimes even a trespasser can sue a homeowner for injuries on your property. To make out a case for liability for negligence a plaintiff must show that the owner owed a duty of care to the injured person; that the owner breached that duty and that that breach was the proximate cause of the injuries [maybe not properly gating off one's private property]. Whether there is a duty of care in particular situations is a matter of law and depends upon fairness and public policy. The standard of care an owner is required to observe differs depending on the status of the person injured. Higher standards of care exist for persons invited to be on the property while lower standards exist for person just permitted to be on the property and even persons trespassing on the property.
So, therefore, in the States, people would be less than enthused if all of a sudden anyone could walk onto their property at any given time, but that owner could also be liable if those people hurt themselves. I am not sure how Premises Liability works in other countries, but unfortunately, it would prevent a thing like 'The Right to Public Access' from existing here.
Edit: typo
[–]Naga67 104 points105 points ago
I believe that allemansrätten makes it completely/nearly impossible to sue someone if you hurt yourself on their land
[–]Solna 36 points37 points ago
It would follow from core legal principles that you couldn't seek damages for that, it has nothing to do with allemansrätten.
[–]Zoesan 20 points21 points ago
logical principles
[–]AmateurSanta 78 points79 points ago
Being in Sweden makes it completely/nearly impossible to sue someone.
[–]swedishguy90 41 points42 points ago
Not really, it's just that the amounts that you can actually sue someone for is a fraction of what you can in the US.
[–][deleted] 24 points25 points ago
I believe you also have to prove that the person you are suing was in some way responsible, either through intent or gross negligence. IE - You couldn't successfully sue someone just because you tripped over a root in the woods behind their house just because it's technically their property, but you could if they dug a pit and then failed to make any kind of indication that there was a pit there.
[–]CutterJohn 12 points13 points ago
You'd honestly not get away with that here in the US as well. Obviously there are the rare exceptions, but we hear about the 0.01% of ridiculous suits that succeed, not the other 99.99% that are tossed out.
[–]SippantheSwede 17 points18 points ago
[–]peter-pickle 16 points17 points ago
And that's why building skateboarding ramp half pipes is such a pain in the ass.
[–]Solna 19 points20 points ago
Is there no requirement for adequate causality between some sort of negligence and injury? Is it considered negligent simply not to fence off your land, i.e. people can't be trusted with nature?
[–]jonny360 46 points47 points ago
Yes. In the states if you have a swimming pool or lake and someone sneaks in and drowns you can be sued if it wasn't gated off well enough. This is due to the attractive nuisance doctrine.
[–]Zoesan 126 points127 points ago
That is fucking retarded.
[–]TheMasque 29 points30 points ago
Do you know what's more fucking retarded? A good lawyer could play both sides of this case and win.
[–]Neebat2 29 points30 points ago
Either side. No matter how good the lawyer, they're still forbidden from playing both sides.
[–]el__duderino 15 points16 points ago
In the same case, yes, but I don't think he meant that
[–]ca_fighterace 16 points17 points ago
As a swede living in the US I have a hard time with the law allowing something like this too. But then this country is run by lawyers for lawyers. It's all about the money here ;)
[–]Weentastic 20 points21 points ago
You can make snide remarks all you want about fat, stupid Americans, but this is the thing about America that I really don't like. We are a litigious people.
[–]Gwindor1 29 points30 points ago
We more or less make jokes about your litigation culture here in Sweden. "Haha, if this was the US I'd sue you!"
[–][deleted] 18 points19 points ago
"And if this was Sweden, I'd eat all your berries, jackass!"
[–]Colalbsmi 5 points6 points ago
If you have a dirt pile in your yard and a kid kills himself while playing in it without your permission, you're liable, which is why you should put a tarp or temporary fencing around it.
[–]gvsteve 4 points5 points ago
Could we just pass a law that overturns attractive nuisance doctrine?
[–]Technobebop 6 points7 points ago
Causality has to do with the nature of the injury-ie, your poorly maintained path caused me to fall of my bike. This is a duty issue, and the question of duty in land ownership depends upon the relatiobship between property owner and injured. Llike /u/dontago said, there are only 3 classifications of guests under the English common law: business guests, social guests, and trespassers. I'm sure under Swedish law there is another category for "wanderer", to whom no duty is owed.
However, i believe that this has more to do with different cultural approaches to property than tort liability. Liability here rests upon the existence of the property rights, not vice versa.
[–]Solna 4 points5 points ago
I agree the difference in approach to property is important. To illustrate, in a recent case one of the judges of the Supreme Court wrote that "ownership in Swedish and other Scandinavian law is of old considered a relative term". To take one example, possession matters more than ownership for protection against creditors, and transfer of ownership isn't always the same as transfer of risk either.
It should be said though that Swedish law is more restrictive in awarding damages in general. For example we would normally place the bar higher for how adequate the causality has to be, even when there is a strict liability similar to this one which is rare.
A more important difference that is not directly relevant here but can be interesting to point out nonetheless is that we don't have punitive damages, it is endeavored to put the wronged party in a no worse or better position than had the wrongful act not occurred, and sometimes not even that, if the damage goes far beyond what could be expected in a comparable situation.
Admittedly somewhat strange, perhaps, is that you sometimes only have to pay what the wronged party wasn't insured for, and sometimes you don't have to pay if it is expected that the wronged party should have been insured.
Also we don't award damages to third parties to contractual relationships, which does sometimes screw third parties over, but I don't know how this works elsewhere.
[–]Neebat2 5 points6 points ago
I'm sure there's no such thing as "to whom no duty is owed". You have a duty not to set camouflaged pit traps for anyone.
[–]Kaghuros4 5 points6 points ago
But that's not negligence, that's malice. Malice is criminal. Well, maybe negligence if they were animal traps...
[–]ataraxic89 5 points6 points ago
I disagree with that reason.
What I mean is that we could simply change the law to the allemansrätten way. I mean, we could change the laws to make it legal.
What wouldnt work is that americans have a much more selfish sense of ownership. It is not only theirs to use, it is theirs to prevent others use.
Also, we simply dont have the crime levels that would allow this. In the norselands crime is so tiny that a person is far less likely to be casing your house for robbery, or preparing to murder you than in america. If I found someone near my home I wouldnt trust them, regardless of it being my property.
[–]Xo0om 37 points38 points ago
Liability laws in the US are absurd. Common sense doesn't apply.
[–]HasFactsVotingYES 18 points19 points ago
i think you mean the "I am not responsible for my actions" laws
[–]Livingliver 3 points4 points ago
Thats too bad. I'm on the east coast and we don't have nearly as many parks as the west. So the camping looks like a parking lot mostly. I wish it were okay for me just to go camp on the edge of someones farm and enjoy the view and stars. Too much to ask for I guess.
[–]Mamadog5 4 points5 points ago
Why don't you try asking? When I had a farm, I let people fish and whatnot all the long as they asked first so I knew they were there.
[–]skintigh 7 points8 points ago
Yes, a trespasser can sue. Anyone can sue anyone, the question is will a trespasser win? Short of setting boobie traps for trespassers, I imagine it would be rare if not impossible to win that case.
[–]meatwad75892 2 points3 points ago
So the burglar falling through a skylight scenario in Liar Liar could totally happen?
[–]hamolton 2 points3 points ago
You can change multiple laws. It's not like our government is that limited.
[–]snacktonomy 49 points50 points ago
Since a lot of people are saying that this would be unheard of in the US... true. But there are a lot of trails that pass through private lands. You can gather berries on a large tract of land, as long as you are not causing damage, leaving trash, or being a dick. It's a matter of people not being dicks.
You know why the national parks were closed during the shutdown? It's because people are dicks. If you don't regulate, you get illegal ATV riding, hunting, trash, beer cans thrown around, etc.
TL:DR: people are dicks. Dicks.
[–]garlic_cereal 2 points3 points ago
it's not unheard of. I live in VT and in this state I have the legal right to hunt/hike/shoot/fish whatever on any land, public or private, that is not explicitly posted with "no tresspassing signs" every x number of feet around the entire boundary
[–]Mr_Weebles 18 points19 points ago
My wonderful state of New Hampshire has a similar law. Unless the land is posted, you can hunt, fish and recreate on the property.
[–]dickpicaday 2 points3 points ago
What do you mean by posted?
[–][deleted] 12 points13 points ago
If you see a big sign that says "POSTED: NO TRESPASSING. PRIVATE PROPERTY." Then it's best to stay clear.
[–]Grindstone50k 5 points6 points ago
So that's why the signs have the "POSTED" part of the warning! I always kind of wondered why they bothered adding that.
[–]HasFactsVotingYES 1 point2 points ago
That's exactly how it should be!
[–]brokendownandbusted 14 points15 points ago
I believe they don't have trespassing laws in Norway. Would that be similar to this situation?
[–]Herax 26 points27 points ago
Yes, we have the same law. You cannot deny others access to your land unless it is with their safety in mind.
But on the other hand the law forbids disturbing the owners privacy, as well as camping for more than 1 night, or causing harm to his land.
[–]rsharvey 25 points26 points ago
We have the same in Scotland, since land reform in 2003. In fact it also extends to camping, canoeing, mountain biking etc.
It's a really important civil liberty if you want a populace who feel ownership and responsibility over their collective territory. It's especially important in the highlands where, in reality, huge tracts of the hills and glens, which were depopulated by deadly force a few hundred years ago, are owned to this day by a small handful of immensely rich Lairds. Despite all our grumbling about being more socialistic than they are 'down South', we have one of the biggest wealth disparities in Europe.
[–]themagnificentsphynx 1 point2 points ago
Is that like the Russian Oligarchs, just... Nice people?
[–]tjtoml 5 points6 points ago
say "Lords" with a scottish accent.
[–]rsharvey 2 points3 points ago
Some of them are absolutely oligarchs.
Traditionally they were the clan chieftains, who become Scotland's gentry when the agricultural reforms of the 1700's saw the socialistic clan system broken up, and the people relocated to small towns and villages, built for the purpose, to create a more feudal system of land ownership, more in line with England and the lowlands of Scotland. This was to allow for the modernisation of farming, but it is the reason why so many highlanders and Islanders had to emigrate to the US and Canada.
But in the last half century or so, the gentry have fallen on hard times, and about half of the 'old money' have been forced to sell their estates. This means that, for example, 50,000 acres of Ross-shire is owned by the CEO of LEGO, the toy company. Other parts are owned by rich people from Dubai, Egypt, Hong Kong, America etc.
But the old Lairds, for all their wealth and social separation generally feel a burden of patriarchal responsibility to care for the land they own. The foreign landowners don't generally feel that burden.
[–]claeskjellberg 5 points6 points ago
Here's a PDF in english from the swedish ''nature protection agency'' Naturvårdsverket
I dont think i've ever met a fellow swede who dislike this. This is what I consider ''a free country''
the 5 biggest swedish lakes and the coastline is open for fishing, but for the rest of our lakes you need a permit. also all hunting require a permit.
as for wild berries and such, only 1% of swedish blueberriers get picked by humans, the rest just rots away or get eaten by animals. i'd say you might as well keep it free for anyone
[–]PFisken 2 points3 points ago
There is a rather vocal right wing group of people on SvD who regulary cry and moan about how we live in North Korea and should either kill or curtail "Allemansrätten".
[–]Galdive 21 points22 points ago
This is something that most Swedes take for granted, the ability to just go out into the forest and gather blueberries,wild raspberries,blackberries and of course tasty mushrooms like these and these without getting in trouble for trespassing on owned land.
[–]bICEmeister 20 points21 points ago
Don't forget cloudberries and lingonberries!
[–]Galdive 5 points6 points ago
sadly no cloudberries can be found reliably where I live and I only pick lingonberries in small amounts to make rårörda lingon(crudely mashed lingonberries and sugar) when im having some game meat for dinner.
[–]StevenSongtime 7 points8 points ago
I had grand visions of hiking the hillsides in Sweden, and then I read OP's username.
[–]Marqhuitannes 17 points18 points ago
If it makes you change your mind, here is a picture from Sarek National park in Lapland, Sweden. And don't mind OP behind that rock.
[–]atomnight 6 points7 points ago
This is really cool when I went to Sweden with boy scouts our group from Sweden just picked a spot and said we're going to stay here
[–]huormis 4 points5 points ago
Same in Finland too.
[–]SpookySP 10 points11 points ago
Same in Finland. It's called Jokamiehenoikeus. Basically means you're free to travel pretty much any place unless it's fenced off. You are also allowed to gather berries, camp etc.
[–]sajhe 11 points12 points ago
The concept of NOT having this law as a swede is realy hard to comprehend.
[–]Anarcho_Capitalist 7 points8 points ago
So In Sweden public land actually means public land.
[–]THE_BOOK_OF_DUMPSTER 2 points3 points ago
You have this freedom on certain kinds of private land as well though.
[–]Exium 2 points3 points ago
Serious question, does this still exclude being able to just set up camp and eventually build your own stuff there?
[–]swedishhouserazzia 5 points6 points ago
Yes, you are not allowed to leave any lasting changes on the environment.
[–]roomer21 12 points13 points ago
You always hear that Sweden is an amazing place. Does anyone know of the downfalls to living/being in Sweden, is there a dark side?
[–][deleted] 16 points17 points ago
All your furniture requires an allen wrench that's too small to turn the screw.
[–]ajabaja 40 points41 points ago
It's cold, dark and damp.
People are more reserved.
We bend over for American corporations and their goverment (FRA and CopySwede laws in particular).
We have a problem with integrating refugee immigrants, which started decades ago. A whole can of worms.
[–]Stimzz 17 points18 points ago
And the second highest tax pressure in the world after Denmark.
[–]MuffinFactory 2 points3 points ago
To be fair, you get "discounts" and "free" stuff by paying those taxes, like medical care and dental care etc. all the stuff you buy is also "tax-free"
[–]YOU_ARE_A_FUCK 18 points19 points ago
That's just a good thing. Well, it's one of the best things really - as long as the government isn't corrupt, which they aren't in Sweden. It's a democracy which actually works.
[–]imevul 13 points14 points ago
Don't be naive; all governments are somewhat corrupt. I do agree though, that the Swedish government may only have a tiny amount of corruption.
The last few years of political events have proven that some corruption exists. Otherwise, the American corporations wouldn't have much to say about Swedish laws for example.
[–]YOU_ARE_A_FUCK 7 points8 points ago
Well, I can agree that a small amount of corruption may exist as I don't have any evidence for one or the other. Though I feel your example is pretty bad, especially if you're hinting to the piratebay case? I really don't think that was as much about corruption as it was fear from mr. world police. This is also hard to prove one or the other, I just felt I needed to write my thoughts down.
[–]imevul 7 points8 points ago
Not only that, but other weird things as well. For example:
• The Assange case.
• The practice of trying to get laws passed while lots of politicians are known to be on holiday.
• Having negotiations in secret and trying to pass laws that the people have been kept in the dark about.
• Trying to sneak laws into completely unrelated trade agreements and such.
I would post links to these things, but it's late and I'm lazy.
I guess it also depends on how you define corruption. Letting another country control yours like a puppet (exaggerated, I know,) definitely sounds like corruption. Fear of the world police is no excuse. There are probably people on payroll from the US government or corporations as well, with the specific task of influencing the Swedish government from within. Considering the US is having their dirty hands in everybody's business, the likelihood of this occurring is pretty high.
[–]you_donkey_ 5 points6 points ago
What is weird about the Assange case?
[–]tasty_pathogen 7 points8 points ago
It is weird because in other parts of the world it is ok to have sex with a woman even if she resists and says no.
[–]pissdrinker2013 5 points6 points ago
[–]my_own_evidence 9 points10 points ago
Ice. Cold.
Very, very dark winters.
Cabin fever.
[–]deviaatio 3 points4 points ago
To be fair, summers are nice and worm. I rather have four seasons than one. The dark period without snow is pretty lame though.
[–]Sarria22 6 points7 points ago
So as a Washingtonian I'd feel right at home.
[–]my_own_evidence 5 points6 points ago
I'm not talking metaphorically.
[–]themagnificentsphynx 1 point2 points ago
Ice. Cold.
You mean... No big spiders, ever?
[–]spock_block 2 points3 points ago
Hm let's see:
1. Nope, there are no downsides Sweden is best and you should feel bad.
[–]AwesomeSauce2000 4 points5 points ago
Classic Sweden, do what you want as long as you don't interact with stranger danger
[–]ericzbd 9 points10 points ago
I remember hearing a Native American guy in a movie say something to the effect of "if you are going to sell the land, why not sell the sky?" For some reason this stuck with me to the point of making me feel as though land ownership is a farce to some degree
[–]beaverfan 10 points11 points ago
Do we really ever own land in America?
If you don't pay taxes on the land you'll lose ownership, and if the city, county, state, or federal governments to build something on our land, eminent domain means you have to sell it to them. If you want to build something on the land you have to get permission first, in the form of a permit, which you pay for.
[–]Grindstone50k 7 points8 points ago
Nope, we rent it from the government.
[–]waffleninja 8 points9 points ago
This wouldn't work in the US because idiots would come and wreck rock formations that are hundreds of thousands of years old.
[–]daho0n 24 points25 points ago
The rocks in Sweden are younger? Or don't they have idiots?
[–]jbisinla 2 points3 points ago
Technically speaking, the rock formations are still hundreds of thousands of years old, the idiots just accelerated the erosion process by a few millennia.
[–]divsky 8 points9 points ago
Nice try, Swedish Tourism Board.
[–]infinis 4 points5 points ago
So I can't even shoot any trespassers?
[–]garychencool 1 point2 points ago
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Making a Good Decision
Before we list the solutions we've heard and some process recommendations, we'd like to suggest a set of questions the CAC and JPA could ask themselves as they go about making a thoughtful decision. We refer you to An Approach to Ethical Decision-Making and Thinking Ethically, Appendices 3 and 4. These questions are well-grounded in ethical theories.
Specifically, for each proposed solution, we would suggest you ask:
1. Will it lead to the best overall consequences short-term and long term? Does this alternative produce the greatest good for the greatest number, and the least harm?
2. Does it protect the moral rights of people who will be affected? Does it safeguard their privacy? Free consent? Freedom of conscience? Freedom to choose?
3. Will it help us be consistent in the way we treat people? Does it distribute benefits and burdens reasonably equally among the members of a group unless there's some moral reason to treat some members differently? "Need" would be one such reason.
4. Does it allow us to accommodate everyone's interests in a reasonable manner? We are not always able to satisfy all interests, but does this help us pay attention to all the interests in some way? In other words, does it advance the common good?
5. Finally, does this solution help those making the decision to be people of integrity, compassion, responsibility, etc.?
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0.019553 | <urn:uuid:403e94a5-e184-44f0-8166-0e04003b7a6d> | en | 0.985922 | William Edward 'Billy' Sing
William Edward 'Billy' Sing
IN GALLIPOLI, Billy Sing was known as the "assassin", with 150 confirmed kills and claims of twice that number with his Lee-Enfield rifle.
He was a decorated war hero who died in a Brisbane boarding house at the age of 57, still suffering from the wounds he suffered in the Dardanelles and on the Western Front.
During the Iraq war, an Australian sniper team in Baghdad named their post the Billy Sing Bar & Grill in tribute to their forerunner.
Yet it's possible Sing was only allowed to enlist in Queensland's 5th Light Horse because he knew the recruitment officer. Australians of Asian descent were not considered fit for service at a time of strong anti-Asian sentiment in the country.
Sing was born to a Chinese father and an English mother and grew up on the land, honing his shooting skills as a stockman. "He could shoot the tail off a baby pig at 25 paces," said George Fry in 2005. Mr Fry's father had married Sing's sister.
Racial restriction was quietly put aside in the bush if enlisted men appeared to be of good health and knew the local recruiting officers. "There were a few hundred Asians in the defence forces at the time, at least a couple at each battalion," said Nick Fletcher, a historian from the Australian War Memorial.
At Gallipoli, Sing developed a reputation as a deadly marksman, eliminating nine Turkish infantrymen in a single day. Stung by the toll Sing was inflicting, the Turks put a marksman of their own, "Abdul the Terrible", onto the job of killing Sing.
His exploits were telegraphed across the world, and he was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal, the second-highest military honour after the Victoria Cross and, for his courage on the Western Front, the Belgian Croix de Guerre.
His official citation for the first award reads: "For conspicuous gallantry from May to September, 1915, at Anzac, as a sniper. His courage and skill were most marked and he was responsible for a very large number of casualities among the enemy, no risk being too great for him to take.”
During the war, Sing sustained three bullet wounds and gas poisoning. After returning home he sank into obscurity and died in 1943 childless and almost penniless, aged 57. His medals were not found among his belongings.
Sing was all but forgotten, until he was rediscovered by an army arms expert, the late Alby Smith.
Bill O'Chee, a former National Senator from Queensland said: "Billy's legacy is as relevant today as ever, because he gives our Chinese community a real and tangible link to the Anzac legacy. Through him, they own a piece of Anzac."
Mr Sing is one of many forgotten Chinese-Australian Anzacs. Records show that Chinese-Australians served in the Victorian Mounted Rifles as early as 1901.
Sam Tongway, a Ballarat-born ex-serviceman and a teacher who passed away in 1988 aged 94, said in a book: "I took as my stand that I was a citizen of the country. I was prepared to fight for the country and should work for the country as well. It's been my practice to enter into the community wherever I've been placed. I always had a keen interest in learning. I made myself an educated citizen of Australia."
He served in the Army Medical Corps during the World War I and was active in the Victorian Teachers’ Union, the RSL and Rotary.
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Unfortunately, for Philly residents, this may soon be their reality. On its Web site, the Free Library of Philadelphia announced: "We deeply regret to inform you that without the necessary budgetary legislation by the state legislature in Harrisburg, the City of Philadelphia will not have the funds to operate our neighborhood branch libraries, regional libraries, or the Parkway Central Library after October 2, 2009."
WTF? How is that possible? How can our country (and its individual states) not have enough money to operate a city's library system? Well, we are talking about the same country that doesn't believe health care should be a universal right.
If the state legislature doesn't pass "enabling funding legislation," the following will happen on Oct. 2, 2009:
--All branch and regional library programs, including programs for children and teens, after school programs, computer classes, and programs for adults, will be canceled.
--All Parkway Central Library programs, including children programs, programs to support small businesses and job seekers, computer classes and after school programs, will be canceled. We are exploring the possibility of relocating the Philadelphia Author Series programs to other non-library facilities.
--All library visits to schools, day care centers, senior centers and other community centers will cease.
--All community meetings at our branch and regional libraries, and the Parkway Central Library, will be canceled.
That's deep. What a message to send to young people. We don't need libraries. But jails? | http://www.theroot.com/blogs/books_on_the_root/2009/09/all_libraries_in_philadelphia_may_close.html?wpisrc=root_lightbox | dclm-gs1-073320001 | false | false | {
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The same restaurant known for its $25,000 dessert does indeed serve such a luxury burger, complete with cucumber slices and sour cream, for a mere $17.50 US. While it isn't the exact burger pictured here, I'm sure the concept is not lost.
With this opulent dish being a reality, it remains to be seen whether this idea will become marketed as the new Western sushi, or the Asian burger.
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0.019135 | <urn:uuid:a40a02b4-3e0d-4a5a-876d-25b09715a9ad> | en | 0.928195 | Pedro Oliveira has portrayed celebrities Angelina Jolie, Morgan Freeman, Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, and Rihanna using bright and engaging colors that seem to take your eyes hostage and hold them for ransom.
Pedro Oliveira’s Technicolored technique does not take away from the familiar faces, but instead complements the faces which are seen everywhere in our culture, from checkout lines to TV screens.
Implications - Artists have always used celebrities as muses; this photographer took an unusual spin on this phenomenon by using neon colors and hyperrealistic illustration techniques. Companies can take advantage of this opportunity by infusing marketing materials and ad campaigns with vibrant hues to shock viewers and grab their attention. | http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/pedro-oliveira | dclm-gs1-073350001 | false | false | {
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0.167194 | <urn:uuid:f212b5fa-cd1d-4b1f-9365-dd10dfdc58d4> | en | 0.978716 | Bree: I try to hold my head up and smile and just bake more pies for the church social. But now your ex is camped out on our doorstep like I'm hosting some kind of morman slumber party. And I do not know how I'm going to bake my way out of this one!
Orson: Darling, I'm gonna get Alma out of that house. I don't care if I'll have to live up to my reputation and strangle her!
Bree: (with great relief) Oh, you are a good husband...
Orson: She kissed me goodbye, what was I supposed to do slug her?
Bree: You went over there to read her the riot act, instead it looked like you were reading her a bedtime story.
Bree: Well, I'm sure that she must have lots of other houses to show you.
Edie: Nope, Alma took one look at the Applewhite house and "BAM" it was love at first sight.
Bree: What?
Alma: We're going to be neighbors!
Bree: No! (pause) I mean, I mean, no. Alma, you can't buy this house!
Alma: Why not?
Bree: Well, are you aware of its history? The previous owner was harboring a murderer.
Edie: It was her son. And say what you like, she was a great mom.
Bree: They had a dungeon in the basement! And people say they still hear groans coming from the house at night.
Edie: (quietly, to Bree's ear) There's going to be groans coming from your house if you don't zip it!
Ian: The other day? You saw Mike?
Bree: Right, just like you knew Alma was dead.
Ian: I thought we had an agreement.
Susan: We do. Can we talk about this later?
Susan: When? After your next conjugal visit?
(Alma enters.)
(The ladies stare at Bree, then at Alma.)
Bree: What are you watching?
Gloria: Home movies.
Bree: It's fun looking back at the past, isn't it?
Gloria: Well, it's one way to kill time while you're waiting for death.
Bree: We also have cable.
Bree: What in the world?
(Bree and Susan see Mike being arrested.)
Susan: Oh, my God! What's going on?
Mrs. McCluskey: They just arrested Mike for murder.
Susan: What?!
Mrs. McCluskey: They're saying he killed that woman on the news, that Monique person.
Bree: Oh thank God!
(Lynette and Gabrielle are getting ready for a poker game and Bree joins them)
Lynette: Guys, why's it been so long since we played poker? I really need this.
Bree: Oh, me too there is nothing more relaxing than an afternoon of finger food and girl talk.
(Susan walks in and joins them)
Susan: Hi ladies.
Lynette: Hey, how you doing?
Susan(to Bree): So did you tell the police that you think Orson killed Monique?
Gabrielle(in shock): What?
Bree(stunned): No I did not, and I don't plan to.
Susan: But Mike's in jail, and you said yourself you thought Orson did it.
Bree: I said I had concerns, concerns that have disappeared now that Mike has been arrested.
Susan: What are you saying? You think Mike is guilty?
Lynette: Hey, why don't we start that girl talk?
Gabrielle: I'll get the ball rolling, anybody have a yeast infection?
Bree(to Susan): They found Monique's blood on the wrench that Mike was trying to dispose of, I mean that hardly screams "INNOCENCE".
Susan: Her teeth were pulled, you don't think that's worth telling the cops she was messing around with a dentist?
Gabrielle(to Lynette): Orson was slipping it to the deck chick? (Lynette makes a weird expression)
Susan: Mike is innocent I know that in my heart.
Bree: We all have convictions Susan, I believe Mike's last one was for manslaughter. (Smirks)
Lynette: Ok, ok we've all made some excellent points in blowing off little steam, wooh, let's play some cards. (Smiles)
(Weird pause)
Susan(to Bree): If you're so sure that Orson is innocent why don't we go through his things? Where is his desk?
Bree: At his office, and what did you think you'd find there anyway?
Susan: I don't know a blackmail letter, a necklace made of teeth.
Lynette(to Gabrielle after both gave up): We're not gonna play cards are we?
Gabrielle(eating): no.
Susan: Well I'm certainly not playing with a woman that is willing to let Mike take the fall for her psycho husband.
Bree: Well needless to say I won't be cooking dinner for Ian's parents.
Susan: Fine, I'll cook myself.
Bree: Good, let me know if there are any survivors. (Smirks)
Susan: And if you take Orson back, you do the same. (Smirks back and leaves)
(Bree is throwing Gloria Hodge out of the house.)
Bree: We've rented you a condo in a lovely retirement community. It's our Christmas gift to you.
Gloria: So you're cutting me off from my new grandchildren?
Bree: That's our gift to them!
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2. Robinson's elbow: Michigan senior quarterback Denard Robinson has two 200-yard rushing games this season, so the Gophers have to force him to throw -- especially because Robinson injured his right (throwing) elbow last weekend. Robinson also leads the Big Ten with nine interceptions.
3. Turnover factor: The Gophers only forced one turnover against Purdue -- Michael Carter's interception that he returned 43 yards for a touchdown -- but had chances for probably a half-dozen. They'll need to take advantage of every opportunity to beat Michigan.
5. Gray time: There's a chance junior A.J. Barker, the Gophers' leading receiver, will be out with a right ankle injury. So senior MarQueis Gray, a former quarterback, will likely need to have his best receiving game since 2010. Barker had 135 yards and two TDs last week.
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look up any word, like hipster:
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Everybody is getting confused because tip drill is used a couple ways: (1) using the tip of the penis in the crack of a woman's ass without penetration, and (2) the type of woman who who do the act - has a big ass and is a freak, but not necessarily a pretty face (see Nelly's song "Tip Drill"). It's analogous to calling someone a chicken head, except instead of performing oral, they perform ass grinding.
"Toot that ass up mama put that dip in ya back and let me tip drill just let me tip drill" and "see now i wanna let you ride but the rubber might slide you's a tip drill girl you a tip drill".
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look up any word, like sex:
When you have doggy style sex with a female, you stick your finger in her ass, remove the finger, then stick the finger in her mouth.
I was having vigorous doggy style sex with Patti and I stuck my finger in her ass. Then I put it in her mouth and she sucked my finger like it was a dirty french fry
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By ANNE GEARAN and JULIE PACE, Associated Press
David Cohen, Treasury undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, said the toll taken by sanctions on Syria is "mounting day by day."
"The Assad clique will end up, ultimately, in the dustbin of history and the people of Syria will have the chance to determine their own destiny," McDonough said. "When that happens, it will also be the most profound strategic setback that Syria's closest ally, Iran, has faced in decades. That is surely why Iran has provided material support and advice to the regime in brutalizing the Syrian people."
Speaking to a Brookings Institution forum in Doha, Qatar, McDonough pointed to what he called a recent "stunning" admission from Iran that its armed forces were joining the fight in support of the regime in Syria, and said Iran had tried to backtrack and "cover up" the announcement.
He blamed the Assad regime squarely for the massacre of 108 civilians last weekend in the town of Houla, and said claims that the killings were carried out by unaffiliated roughnecks are "a lie." Assad's associates pay the pro-government gunmen known as the shabiha, he claimed.
"Our objective is straightforward: Starve the regime of the resources it requires to pay the army, and deprive Assad's cronies of the money they need to buy the shabiha's brutal conspiracy."
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• Revision slug: Querying_Places
• Revision title: Querying Places
• Revision id: 131213
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• Comment executeQuery instead of executeQueries
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Most information from the Firefox history and bookmarks system ("Places") comes from executing queries on the history system (nsINavHistory.executeQuery/executeQueries). This will give you a nsINavHistoryResult object which will contain a tree structure of the results. The definitions of these structures is in {{template.Source("browser/components/places/public/nsINavHistoryService.idl")}}
Executing a query
There are two parts of a query: a list of one or more nsINavHistoryQuery objects, and an nsINavHistoryQueryOptions object. You first need to fill out these structures with the parameters you want. Use nsINavHistoryService.getNewQuery and nsINavHistoryService.getNewQueryOptions to retrieve empty objects. These objects typically have empty values for each possible field, so using them in their initial state will give you all of history in a flat list:
var historyService = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/browser/nav-history-service;1"]
// get all history sorded by ascending visit date
var options = historyService.getNewQueryOptions();
options.sortingMode = options.SORT_BY_DATE_ASCENDING;
// no query parameters will return everything
var query = historyService.getNewQuery();
var result = historyService.executeQuery(query, options)
Result types
The query options structure nsINavHistoryQueryOptions has an attribute resultType for the type of the results that you want. It is important to understand the differences between these:
• RESULTS_AS_URI: This is the default, and means that you get one result node of type RESULT_TYPE_URI for each URI that matches the query. The visit date for each node will be the last visit date for that URL. You will definitely want this when showing bookmark folders.
• RESULTS_AS_VISIT: This means that you want one entry for each time a page was visited matching the given query. Therefore, you may get duplicate entries for URLs, each with a different date. The nodes will be of type RESULT_TYPE_VISIT which will give you access to a session ID for each visit. This session ID is the same for all pages that were reached by clicking links. A new session starts when the user types a new URL or follows a bookmark. It is used to compute the dividing lines in the places history view.
• RESULTS_AS_FULL_VISIT: This is the same as visits but the results will be of type RESULT_TYPE_FULL_VISIT and will have additional information about the visit, such as the referring visit, and how the transition happened (typed, redirect, link, etc). This information is typically not needed and causes the result nodes (of which there may be many) to be larger, which is why it is a separate option.
The named constants are properties of nsINavHistoryQueryOptions, for example Components.interfaces.nsINavHistoryQueryOptions.RESULTS_AS_VISIT.
Query parameters
Note: The query object interface is subject to change. In its current form it is not very expressive. Implementing a better interface is {{template.Bug(317830)}}.
You can pass one or more nsINavHistoryQuery objects to nsINavHistoryService.executeQuery/executeQueries. Within one query object, all parameters are ANDed together. The conditions for different query objects are then ORed together. This allows for a simpler implementation and interface than a full logical operation with nested clauses while still being expressive.
Example of querying for any pages I've visited that contain the word "firefox" in the title/URL or that I've visited today from mozilla.org.
// first query object searches for "firefox" in title/URL
var query1 = historyService.getNewQuery();
query1.searchTerms = "firefox";
// second query object searches for visited in past 24 hours AND from mozilla.org
var query2 = historyService.getNewQuery();
query2.beginTimeReference = query2.TIME_RELATIVE_NOW;
query2.beginTime = -24 * 60 * 60 * 1000000; // 24 hours ago in microseconds
query2.endTimeReference = query2.TIME_RELATIVE_NOW;
query2.endTime = 0; // now
query2.domain = "mozilla.org";
var result = historyService.executeQueries([query1, query2], 2, options);
Note: Keyword searching doesn't work correctly across OR queries. The current behavior does the normal query and then selects keywords from the first query and filters all the results. (In other words, the keywords from the first query are ANDed with all queries.) Keywords from subsequent query objects are ignored. This is {{template.Bug(320332)}}.
Bookmark queries
The contents of bookmark folders can be retrieved by setting the "folders" member in the query object. This item is an array of folder IDs from the bookmark service. Typically, you will only have one folder ID in this list, which will given you the contents of that folder. You can set multiple folders and the result will be the intersection of all the folders.
Generally, you want to set the grouping mode in the options to GROUP_BY_FOLDER for bookmarks queries. This will result in a hierarchical structure containing the bookmark folder hierarchy rooted at where you requested.
Note: This doesn't actually have any effect in the current implementation. The query system always assumes GROUP_BY_FOLDER for bookmarks queries. See {{template.Bug(324579)}}.
For sorting, you will generally want to use SORT_BY_NONE (the default) since this will return items in their "natural" order as specified by the user in the bookmarks manager. Other sortings will work, however.
For bookmark queries you will generally want no query parameters to retrieve all items from the requested folder(s). When you specify exactly one folder, GROUP_BY_FOLDER, and no query parameters, the system will be more efficient querying and keeping the results up-to-date since this maps to exactly one bookmark folder.
var bookmarkSvc = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/browser/nav-bookmarks-service;1"]
// |options| is an object created in the previous section
options.setFolders([bookmarkService.toolbarRoot], 1);
options.setGroupingMode([options.GROUP_BY_FOLDER], 1);
var result = historyService.executeQuery(query, options);
Serializing queries
Normally, query and options objects are represented in terms of objects. However, it is possible to serialize these objects using queriesToQueryString, and deserialize them using queryStringToQueries. The result will be a string starting with "place:" which you can store or bookmark. When a "place:" URI is bookmarked, it will expand to the results of the query when it is opened by the user.
You should never manually construct "place:" URI strings. The format is subject to change. If you need one, create the proper objects and call the history service to serialize it for you.
Be careful, queryStringToQueries may not return any query objects if the string was empty. Your code should handle this case. There will always be an options structure returned. If no options were specified, it will have the default values. If there were no query parameters specified but the input string was not empty (there were options) you may get one query object returned, containing the default query values.
Example of serializing and deserializing two queries and an options object:
var queryString = historyService.queriesToQueryStrings([query1, query2], 2, options);
var queriesRef = { };
var queryCountRef = { };
var optionsRef = { };
historyService.queryStringToQueries(queryString, queriesRef, queryCountRef, optionsRef);
// now use queriesRef.value, optionsRef.value
Using the results
Note: Be careful when accessing nodes and do not keep references to them around. Notifications sent to the result from the history and bookmarks system, as well as commands executed by the programmer such as sorting may cause the structure to change and nodes may be inserted, removed, or replaced.
The nsINavHistoryResult object returned by executeQuery/executeQueries contains the list of matches to the given history or bookmarks query. These results are contained in a tree structure made up of nodes. A node's type can be retrieved using its type attribute. This type tells you what interface you can QueryInterface the node to in order to get at more detailed information:
• nsINavHistoryResultNode: Base class for all nodes. Contains URI, title, and other general info.
• nsINavHistoryVisitResultNode: Derived from nsINavHistoryResultNode, contains session information.
• nsINavHistoryFullVisitResultNode: Derived from nsINavHistoryVisitResultNode, contains information about how the user navigated to this page. Note: currently unimplemented, see {{template.Bug(320831)}}.
• nsINavHistoryContainerResultNode: General container node giving access to its children. Derived from nsINavHistoryResultNode.
• nsINavHistoryQueryResultNode: A type of container representing a query of the history system. It allows you to get the query options and parameters.
• nsINavHistoryFolderResultNode: Derived from nsINavHistoryQueryResultNode, this represents a special type of query mapping to the exact contents of one bookmarks folder. It gives easy access to its folder ID, and also updates itself more efficiently than a general query.
Example of detecting the type of a node
var Ci = Components.interfaces;
case node.RESULT_TYPE_URI:
dump("URI result " + node.uri + "\n");
case node.RESULT_TYPE_VISIT:
var visit = node.QueryInterface(Ci.nsINavHistoryVisitResultNode);
dump("Visit result " + node.uri + " session = " + visit.sessionId + "\n");
var fullVisit = node.QueryInterface(Ci.nsINavHistoryFullVisitResultNode);
dump("Full visit result " + node.uri + " session = " + fullVisit.sessionId + " transitionType = " +
fullVisit.transitionType + "\n");
case node.RESULT_TYPE_HOST:
var container = node.QueryInterface(Ci.nsINavHistoryContainerResultNode);
dump("Host " + container.title + "\n");
var container = node.QueryInterface(Ci.nsINavHistoryContainerResultNode);
dump("Remote container " + container.title + " type = " + container.remoteContainerType + "\n");
case node.RESULT_TYPE_QUERY:
var query = node.QueryInterface(Ci.nsINavHistoryQueryResultNode);
dump("Query, place URI = " + query.uri + "\n");
// note that the folder is also a query and so has a query and an options structure
var folder = node.QueryInterface(Ci.nsINavHistoryFolderResultNode);
dump("Folder " + folder.title + " id = " + folder.folderId + "\n");
Containers hold lists of other containers and result nodes. Each result has a container representing the root of the query. It can be retrieved using the root attribute of the result. For general queries, this root container is a nsINavHistoryQueryResultNode with the query parameters and options that you supplied in the original query. For queries mapping to one bookmark folder, this will be a nsINavHistoryFolderResultNode.
Containers can be open or closed. This corresponds to the open and closed state in a tree view, and can also be mapped to showing and hiding menus. To get at a container's contents, you must first open the container. Most container types populate themselves lazily, so opening a container actually corresponds to executing the given query. While a container is open, it will listen to the history and bookmarks systems' notifications and modify their contents to keep themselves up-to-date. For this reason, it is best to close a container as soon as you are done with it, since it will give better performance. If you close a container and re-open it before any history or bookmark change notifications come, the results will generally still be there and this operation will be fast.
Example of traversing a container:
var cont = result.root;
cont.containerOpen = true;
for (var i = 0; i < cont.childCount; i ++) {
var node = cont.getChild(i);
dump(node.title + "\n");
cont.containerOpen = false;
The result view interface
Note: this interface is not in the Firefox 2.0 alpha1 release. It is {{template.Bug(329546)}}. If you are using the alpha release, you can QueryInterface the result object directly to nsITreeView to attach to a tree.
If you are mapping a result into UI, you can implement the nsINavHistoryResultViewer interface and attach it to the result with the nsINavHistoryResult.viewer attribute. This viewer will be called when the result tree changes, either as a result of user action or as a result of notifications from the bookmarks and history systems. Your implementation would then reflect these changes in the UI.
A prepackaged view interface for a nsITreeBoxObject is provided that manages the complex view requirements of a tree. This object's interface is nsINavHistoryResultTreeViewer (a descendent of nsINavHistoryResultViewer) and can be created using the contract @mozilla.org/browser/nav-history/result-tree-viewer;1.
var treeviewer =
result.viewer = treeviewer;
mytree.view = treeviewer.QueryInterface(Components.interfaces.nsITreeView);
Both the result and the tree will register themselves with the viewer object using result attribute and the setTree method respectively. Do not set these explicitly.
Remote containers
Remote containers are a way for extension authors and others to provide content for containers in a places query result. First, you should create a component that implements nsIRemoteContainer. Then you create a bookmark folder associated with your component by using nsINavBookmarksService.createContainer. The type parameter is a string containing the contract ID of your component. The bookmark service and other components will call CreateService using this contract ID to get your nsIRemoteContainer implementation.
Once your service is associated with a folder, it will get notifications when the folder is moved or deleted, or when a container result node representing your container is opened or closed. In response to these operations, your service should update any bookkeeping information associated with the folder. Your service can also declare whether your service's containers have read-only children or whether they can be modified like normal bookmarks.
There are two modes of operation that remote container implementations can use. First, it can act like a bookmarks provider and create real bookmarks inside a regular bookmarks folder. An example of this is the {{wiki.template('Named-source', [ "browser/components/places/src/nsLivemarkService.cpp", "livemark service" ])}}. The livemark service reads a feed and creates bookmarks in a folder corresponding to the items in that stream. These bookmarks are managed by the bookmarks service so the livemarks service does not care when containers are opened and closed. It only needs to handle the cases when a folder is moved or deleted (to update the information that associates a feed with the folder) and declares that livemarks are read-only.
The second mode of operation is more active. Such services can respond to container open and close operations and populate the results at runtime. They can therefore generate more dynamic content at the time it is shown. When a folder with a container type is opened, the service will be notified and given the container result node. The service can then create children in that container using appendURINode, appendFolderNode, etc. Of special note is appendContainerNode that can be used to create more remote containers. These remote containers are not associated with any bookmark folder (use appendFolderNode for that). For example, a file browser could be created that dynamically creates containers associated with subfolders. Keep in mind that each container has a property bag that can be used to associate random information with the node such a path.
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3Do what is right and fair; that pleases the Lord more than bringing him sacrifices.
4Wicked people are controlled by their conceit and arrogance, and this is sinful.
7The wicked are doomed by their own violence; they refuse to do what is right.
8Guilty people walk a crooked path; the innocent do what is right.
9 # Si 25.16 Better to live on the roof than share the house with a nagging wife.
10Wicked people are always hungry for evil; they have no mercy on anyone.
14If someone is angry with you, a gift given secretly will calm him down.
16Death is waiting for anyone who wanders away from good sense.
17Indulging in luxuries, wine, and rich food will never make you wealthy.
18The wicked bring on themselves the suffering they try to cause good people.
19Better to live out in the desert than with a nagging, complaining wife.
23If you want to stay out of trouble, be careful what you say.
25Lazy people who refuse to work are only killing themselves; 26all they do is think about what they would like to have. The righteous, however, can give, and give generously.
27 # Si 7.9 The Lord hates it when wicked people offer him sacrifices, especially if they do it from evil motives.
29Righteous people are sure of themselves; the wicked have to pretend as best they can.
31You can get horses ready for battle, but it is the Lord who gives victory.
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daithi4377 chapter 38 . 3/5
Kind of a sudden at the end...would like to have seen more of a splash with harry showing just how he managed to screw with the wizarding world. Passing NEWTS a year and a half early,his marriage, rubbing Moodys face into the fact he wasn't the wimp everyone thought. Dumblenuts. Should have been publicly humiliated and sued fortheft and possibly line theft as well with the marriage contract. That and really offhandedly killing Voldie then walking away would have been perfect. Afterall a sixteen year old through one curse and did what no one else could do and he didn't even break a swear doing it lol.
daithi4377 chapter 35 . 3/5
So poor ron ended up getting a detention for nothing.
daithi4377 chapter 34 . 3/5
The goblins have the proof of his stealing also of all the others too, and you know that all it would take would be one small sentence to have it bundled and sent to the Ministry.
daithi4377 chapter 33 . 3/5
Luna would be best, with her seer abilities it would make more sense and she has always backed harry.
daithi4377 chapter 32 . 3/5
Hmmm I know that both dumbledick. And mad eye can see through invisibility clocks well normal ones, but since harrys cloak is the click of invisibility would that make it impervious to both of them especially since he is so much more powerful than they are?
daithi4377 chapter 29 . 3/5
LOL I like the idea of dumbledick being sued. I would also come to think of, to see Mad eye get egg on his face when he finds out just how powerful and slytherin harry is.
daithi4377 chapter 26 . 3/5
Even if he wrote the contract up it wouldn't be legal since Harry is emancipated and last of his line dumbledick has lost all his control right?. Not only that but isn't their a law stating nothing can interfere with a soulmate bond which both harry and Ginny have with Sev and Draco?
daithi4377 chapter 24 . 3/5
Such sneaky little slytherin ol
daithi4377 chapter 15 . 3/5
There was no "almost" about it Sev he got you good lol.
daithi4377 chapter 14 . 3/5
LOL somebody guessed right when they thought there just might be some bad blood between the boys lol.
daithi4377 chapter 12 . 3/5
So far they haven't figured out yet that Harry has taken control of the purse strings or that he is emancipated. So secluding him and turning him against everyone else is going to be one of those hindsight is 20/20 deals. In others words the whole they are digging is fast being inescapable. For them, ain't it grand.
daithi4377 chapter 11 . 3/5
I thought they had put off him going to Grimmault by another few weeks lol.
daithi4377 chapter 9 . 3/5
LOL I kinda like this Severus, will be interesting to see what happens when they find out what happened to the broom.
daithi4377 chapter 8 . 3/5
I'm surprised all that was done by gringotts was done on a mere say so in a letter. Obviously they don't learn their lesson as all the thievery was done on a written say so in the first place lol.
rose51794 chapter 38 . 12/30/2013
Great story! Couldn't stop reading it! Even when I was tired and wanted to go to bed! _
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0.07133 | <urn:uuid:8e746fdf-f043-449a-9a70-fbdb1820895d> | en | 0.984267 | A/N: Part of the Pieces series which is a series of (unconnected) one-shots, written in a self-imposed challenge of chronicling every pairing in the CM universe. This one is set not long after 3x09 – Penelope.
You're lying on her couch. Her head is resting against your chest. She's fallen asleep watching the movie again, and you can't blame her. You've watched this movie eighteen times in the last eleven days. Eleven days is how long it has been since she was shot by Jason Clark Battle. By now, you know every scene, every event that leads up to an increasingly tiresome finish. You persevere though. You're here for her, not for yourself.
You nudge her awake as the credits roll. You know that leaving her asleep on the couch will only aggravate the still healing wound. But you're not going to leave her alone. The wound to her heart is much deeper – it will still be mending long after she's physically fine. But that's okay. That's what you're here for.
'You want dinner?' you ask. You know what the answer will be. Dinner has been the same thing every night for those eleven days. It's as though she is unwilling to take risks, unwilling to try something else, something new. Trying something new is what got her shot in the first place. You suspect that that is part of the reason you've seen the same movie eighteen times. It's still too soon for anything else.
'Yes please.' You get out an onion, some mince. Spaghetti is a relatively simple meal, the kind that won't throw you for a loop, won't deal any surprises. You don't make any changes to the established recipe; she almost freaked out when you added a little bit of oregano last time. You know that the changes have to be made slowly.
She's never had to deal with this type of thing before. She's always been on the other side of the wall; the technical support to your field agent. She is the last person you would have expected to get shot, and you know she isn't trained to deal with it. She's strong, you don't deny that. But she is not as accustomed as you to as the horrors that you see every day. She still feels every blow, mourns every death. You love that about her. At the same time, you know you would have let yourself die a thousand times before seeing her hurt. You would have taken a thousand bullets before seeing that betrayal in her eyes.
She had thought she had found someone special. Someone who could look past the physical imperfections. She's too heartbroken now to believe that anyone ever will. You know that's not true. You know that's not true, because it was never about physical beauty to you – you do find her beautiful, but that's not the point. To you, the most treasured aspect is the beauty of her soul. The way she can still feel each death. The way she can still feel the horror of the things that she sees.
She teases you, flirts with you. This is a friendship that you've come to rely on. It brings you out of the darkness, stops you from ever fully being swallowed by the depravities of your everyday life. You know that without her, your life would be a great deal more depressing.
You thank the God that you've only recently reacquainted yourself with that He chose to let her live. You thank JJ for giving that bastard what was coming to him. You thank the rest of the team for being there in your time of need – in her time of need. But most of all, you thank her, for being there full-stop.
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0.311307 | <urn:uuid:c56d20ca-f4e4-436a-9c96-a17e82f6c44c> | en | 0.98042 | TITLE: "Like Pennies" (1/1)
AUTHOR: Marie-Claude Danis
EMAIL: mc@fangy.net
SITE: http://fangy.net
ARCHIVE: My site, list archives, those who already have my stuff. Otherwise just ask.
PAIRING: Spike/Buffy
SUMMARY: Superheroes need to eat, too.
NOTE: More domestic bliss for Our Heroes. Find the gratuitous 'Say Anything' quote and win a cookie. Thanks to Alex, who's up as late as I am.
* * *
"You're kidding me."
"Count Chocula?"
"You think that's funny?"
"Not particularly."
"Then why--"
"Makes the milk go all brown. S'disgusting."
"And so you purchase a family-size box of it."
"I love you."
Spike smiled triumphantly and tossed the box in the cart, over the crunchy oatmeal-y things she liked to pretend were edible (and she had just raised a knowing eyebrow when he had commented on that, purposely steering away from the age-old Wheatabix debate).
Buffy pushed the cart down the aisle; the front left wheel protested, skidding sideways, grating on the dirty linoleum. Spike kicked it.
"Sodding... thing."
"Stop that."
"It's making that, that NOISE!"
"Deep breaths."
"Why can't we get one of them little baskets then? Handy, those. And they don't do that."
"Because every time we do, it's the same thing, and we end up looking like idiots. We fill the little basket till it can't hold anymore, then we walk around with so much crap in our arms we can't even HOLD the little basket, and then you trip and the manager makes us pay for things."
"That was the one time."
"And I learn from your mistakes. Hence, cart."
"Grab that, you're taller than me."
"Ew. No."
"Come on, Spike. This is taking forever."
She leaned across the handle with both arms folded over it, and her flimsy top gaped open a little, just enough to let his eyes follow the hollow curve of her collarbone. He reached out - not much, he was never all that far from her - and traced the exposed flesh with a chipped nail. It was chaste, not all that inappropriate for a grocery store, even less so for this time of night, but she swallowed thickly and wrapped her fingers around his hand, pushing it away.
"Not here."
"What, not here? There's no one in here. It's the middle of the bloody night."
She just stared at him, then smiled, just a little tug of her lips he didn't quite get. She pushed the cart forward and he followed.
"You know, for a pretty girl, you eat a lot of crap."
She looked at him pointedly. "Yes, and I'm taking flack from Mr. O-neg here."
"I mean, look at this! Frozen pizza. Double-Stuffed Oreos. Mac and Cheese. *Skittles ice cream*? There's no food in your food. Well, except for that granola crap. And the jury's still out on that one."
"You used to complain I didn't eat enough. Now I eat. Be quiet."
He ducked his gaze. "You're right. I'm sorry."
They walked along the empty aisles a bit more, plucking various items - some for him, most for her - off the shelves with deliberate silence. Spike followed her with his eyes in quiet contemplation. She didn't seem upset at him. But he was right, had been all along, about how her beauty really did shine through better when she had a little flesh on her bones. There had been a time where he'd watched her melt to nothing - because of her mum, because of her sister, because there was always something - wanting so very badly to sit her down and feed her things he'd cook himself like he would've learn to, for her sake if nothing else.
He watched her look at the display of olives and cleared his throat, breaking the silence hesitantly. "You're beautiful, you know."
She barely turned, looked at him from over her shoulder, most likely wondering why he said things like that, awkward sappy things, while he would utter such truly magnificent words to her in the dark.
"I mean it, Buffy."
"I know."
Had the store been any busier - or busy at all - he wouldn't have heard her quiet reply. He just nodded and they both turned away, busying themselves with this futile task they had taken on doing every Wednesday night, late, when it became Thursday.
It was later, with half of their list checked and even more food selected at random, and in front of the bulk spices, that he slid both arms on each side of her waist and locked his hands on the handle, effectively trapping her in an inescapable cart/Spike hold.
She pretended not to notice how his body hovered a hair's breadth away from hers, making her skin, underneath the layers, warm up to him, oddly, like she found it always did when he stood behind her.
"What are you doing?" she laughed lightly, and it dissipated the rest of the uneasiness her earlier comment had created between them.
His cold nose buried itself in her hair, under her ponytail. "Nothing. Just ignore me."
"Can you really eat all this? All the real-people food?"
"Sure I can. You know this."
She fingered the wrinkled list in her hands, looking down at it. "But I mean... can you taste it?"
"I can taste some things. Other things I just like the texture of. Some, both."
"And that's enough for you?"
His hands left the handle and slender leather-clad arms wrapped around her waist, tugging her to him. He reached up to tuck the label of her blouse back in, then put his lips to the same spot, his tongue flicking at her salty skin. He let the taste roll on his tongue briefly, before flicking it against the roof of his mouth, where it tasted like old pennies.
"It's more than enough." | https://www.fanfiction.net/s/489215/1/Like-Pennies | dclm-gs1-073670001 | false | false | {
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0.268833 | <urn:uuid:84b13ff1-8c10-4811-8953-b53515359d12> | en | 0.994647 | It started with a simple one.
It was a plain, blunt, honest, one lined note that was slipped into his bag. He didn't know when, and he didn't know how, but leaving your book bag on the ground during class probably had something to do with it. But those details didn't matter.
What did matter, was who, and why. That's all that the little student needed to know. It had to be somebody who sat next to him in classes, or they wouldn't have gotten their hands anywhere near his roughed up black pack, and that certainly narrowed the choices down for him. All the classes in his school had generally the same seating arrangements, save a few random seats for the floater students here and there.
So as our little teenager wearily stared on during his final class, Geometry, he pondered on who could send him the little note.
There were eight possible people. The three students in the front, the two on his sides, and the last three at his back. Up in front sat a blond girl –Namine- who he hardly knew, Kairi, the school slut, and Riku, his brother's best friend and steady boyfriend.
Yeah, they were all crossed out on his mental list. Kairi could've been a possibility, if not for the fact that she didn't exactly prefer the male gender.
So then there were the two people on either of his sides. There was some stoner kid that had dirty blonde hair and wore a beanie all the time, but he had a boyfriend. He was some big muscular kid with a speech problem. On the other side was a tall, red headed, anorexic looking kid who was the class clown and also his worst enemy.
God, he hated that bastard. He was always disrupting class, always making fun of his dedication to studies and lack of social enthusiasm. So what if our young man was a little on the quiet side? His brother made up for his anti-social personality by making himself doubly outgoing.
But no, he was on a mission to find who kept slipping letters into his bag. It was so infuriating to not know who was having a nice little mind game with him. It had started as a one line, "I like you a lot." Then they escalated into poetic writings about his eyes, or the shape of his lips. They were sappy, and way too beautiful to be placed into some crappy public high school kid's bag.
Right, back to his clever process of elimination.
The only choices left were the three other students behind him. They were his brother –god, no!-, his best friend with messy blonde hair and a fascination with camouflage and the kid with the beanie, or his bitch of a cousin Larxene.
'Well….,' his mind drawled, 'Let's review today's session.'
Kairi is a lesbian. Nope.
Riku was his brother's boyfriend. But hey, some people aren't perfect… still, big ol' fat no.
Beanie kid was taken, and too high to notice him anyway. Nuh uh.
Hayner was his best friend, but he was smitten with the blond druggie. Crossed off he was.
Sora needed NO deliberation.
Larxene was his cousin for god's sake, not even she was that sick and deprived.
Namine…well, Namine might've done it. But she seemed a little too reserved to take and chance and risk getting caught stuffing notes into his bag. She remained as a maybe.
Red headed anorexic guy was a possibility. Maybe he was just trying to build him up and stand him up on a date or something.
Then….then…it hit him. It was the perfect, logical explanation to all of this. That stupid asshole was purposely trying to get the shy kid out of his shell, try and make him see that the world was oh-so-great and then let him fall back into his 'despairing hole of a life.' Well. That certainly called for revenge.
And oh, revenge was sweet. Suddenly, the boy snapped back into normal life, the teacher's irritated callings finally reaching his mind.
"Mr. Aiden, perhaps you would like to join Mr. Hotaru in the counselor's office!" the short brunette man barked. Before he could even start to respond, his angry instructor was already scribbling away on a yellow pass paper. God dammit. He rose quickly from his chair to retrieve his pass to the office, scowling at both his teacher and his newfound companion. Of all people, he had to get sent out with that ass hole. And the jerk had the nerve to smirk at him. Smirk.
So as he was dragging his feet behind him in the hallway, it was needless to say he wasn't in the best of moods. In fact, he was pretty damn pissed.
But then, he remembered his discovery during class. Ah, this would be the perfect time to take revenge. A dark smile crossed his face and he repressed one of his rare, yet horrific evil laughs as he turned toward the other student.
"So, the big bad bully is gay, huh?" he asked, voice laced with mock curiosity. The reaction he got was unexpected…there was no reaction.
"Yep. Have been for a while now." It was a simple answer. It really shouldn't have stunned him as much as it did. But oh well, he was on a quest of ultimate terror right now.
"And, you do realize that I have no reason not to spread it around the entire school that not only you're gay, but you're in love with me?" he snickered, eager to make the boy realize his mistake. "Your plan to make me feel uncomfortable has backfired, and now you are going to PAY, you antagonizing asshole!" He was grinning manically now, turned full on toward the red head and sticking a thin finger in his direction.
But his rival still remained unfazed. There was no fear, remorse, anxiety, there was absolutely nothing registering in his emerald green eyes. It was unsettling.
"Kid look, you've hated me for years. Just let it go," he mumbled, tone robotic and forced. Oh no, he was not going to let it go. The coward was trying to talk him out of humiliating him, after he'd done it so many times to himself? No. No way in hell.
"Like hell I'm going to just 'let it go!' You've tortured me for years, and you expect me to pass up an opportunity to return the favor?" he barked, enraged.
There was a deafening silence now, and he realized that they had stopped walking a long time ago. It didn't matter. But still, the taller male was quiet as the he fumed. But after the first few seconds, his anger turned to ecstasy.
It was working. He was getting to the sneaky bastard. His tiny, obsolete mind was crumbling with his words. The fear was destroying his mind, and it was fascinating to watch. But then….then…
He broke the silence.
"Only one problem with your ultimate plan, kiddo." He blinked, stunned. How dare he insult his perfect plan to destroy his reputation and social life?
"Oh yeah? What's that, dumbass?" he asked, still convinced that there could be no flaws in the plan.
"Your plan is to humiliate me by telling everyone I love you. It won't work," he drawled lazily.
"And why not?" This was just insulting. He wasn't stupid, you know.
"Because I'm proud to love you."
Yeah, okay, maybe he was stupid. He obviously couldn't have heard right. But he stopped his inner monologue for a minute to keep listening to the absurd voice talking.
"I know we've fought for years, but you know how some mom's say that the boys tease the little girls because they like them? Yeah, I didn't grow out of that until freshmen year. And by then, it'd be too weird if I suddenly walked up to you and said,' Hey, I like you. Wanna catch a movie?' You'd still think I was jankin' your chain," he confessed quietly.
"I always liked how you were quiet, but you still were nice and polite. You never had many friends, but you preferred it that way because you didn't like big crowds. And I don't care what people might tell you, you are beautiful. Your hair doesn't look retarded, it looks pretty and soft….By the way, sorry for unloading a bunch of sap on ya. Just kinda happened," he shrugged sheepishly.
Now, understand a few things about the main character here.
One, he had an extreme soft spot for mushy romantics. Two, he'd….always found the red head sort of…attractive. Well, okay, super hot. In addition to his sexiness, he'd always harbored some feelings for the boy, but he'd generally locked them up because of their renowned rivalry.
And this was exactly the kind of shit he LOVED to watch and read about.
So needless to say, he leapt at the chance to have a paperback novel romance. Literally.
No, really, he threw himself at Axel and wove his arms around the man's child bearing hips. There was a pause before the embrace was returned full on. He smelled wonderful, like black cherries and fresh cotton. As he inhaled, his following exhaled breath was used to speak.
"Axel, I swear to god if you're fucking with me Sora'll sic Riku on you," he smiled. Axel's chest bobbed up and down with his chuckles. A hand ruffled through his hair softly, almost as if it were caressing his head.
"Don't worry Roxas. I'll never fuck with you without your permission," he laughed, squeezing the tiny body tighter and pressing his lips down to the boy's forehead. | https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6235968/1/Romance-in-it-s-Simplest-Form | dclm-gs1-073690001 | false | false | {
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0.316205 | <urn:uuid:fa634755-20b8-4abb-8913-87fffeb5ef59> | en | 0.989447 | In reply to your requests:
ArtemisisSymmetrical - I think I could add a chapter about sex toys, but that will probably be in one of the later years. You'll see why.
usamisaftw - Well then, this chapter is for you ;)
Saphirelilies - I could do the part with the BL novels, but please keep in mind that this isn't a crossdressing/cosplay fic. I'm not going to make Misaki wear too many weird outfits.
lv90047 - Still not a crossdressing/cosplay fic, and you know how I feel about nekos...I'll see what I can do.
Appeasement - A date sounds perfect, although I suck at making a list for a date xD You'll see some more of Fuuka.
random reader - I like your idea, but I don't really understand what you want me to write about. Could you perhaps explain it to me?
AnimeWolfGirl1996 - There won't be a Christmas chapter in every year, but the next one will be in year 4, so you'll see the Santa costume then...I promise ;)
- Year III -
Chapter 21 – words
"I'm going to die at this rate..."
It was almost the end of Misaki's first year in junior high, and yet the teachers that it was necessary to give their students loads of homework. Misaki was already getting quite used to spending the entire afternoon doing homework. However, the assignment he had received that very day was going to be a challenge.
When the brunet thought that it couldn't get any worse, Hirase-sensei suddenly decided that everyone had to write a romance story. Misaki wasn't a very creative person, and his Japanese wasn't as good as it should be, so he instantly started worrying about the assignment.
As the young teen sighed, his could feel his cell phone vibrate in his pocket and fished it out, flipping it open. There was one new message in his inbox. As he pressed the button to read it, he noticed that it was a text from Akihiko.
Hello Misaki,
I was wondering if you want to come over after school. It's been three weeks since we last saw each other and I miss you.
Just let me know if I have to pick you up.
- Akihiko
It was rather awkward to see the author's first name on the screen, even though Akihiko did that every time he sent Misaki a text message. It was simply because the boy was far too used to the name 'Usagi-san', and he often even forgot that it wasn't the man's real name.
Shaking the thought off, Misaki re-read the message, feeling a little disappointed. He wished he could go over to Akihiko's place, but it was more important to finish that stupid story first. With a loud sigh, Misaki typed a message in reply, politely declining Akihiko's invitation by explaining the situation.
Barely a single minute later, a new message appeared in his inbox, and Misaki was surprised by how fast Akihiko could reply. 'Well, he's probably sitting on the couch with his cell phone right next to him,' the brunet thought, knowing that the other was probably bored out of his mind. Rolling his eyes at the thought, Misaki opened the message.
If you're having trouble writing the story, you can just come over and ask for help. I'm a novelist after all, so I'll definitely be able to help you out.
Akihiko had a point there, but due to Misaki's selfless personality, the teen was having his doubts. He didn't want to be a bother to Akihiko, but the man probably offered his help so they could spend time together. That did sound like a good idea, even though Misaki was sure that the author would try to pounce on him.
Since Akihiko's house was pretty nearby, Misaki just continued to walk until he reached the condo. A friendly old lady greeted him as she stepped out of the elevator, and Misaki smiled as he waited patiently. He always wondered why Akihiko had chosen to buy the entire top floor; no matter how much room there was, the man still managed to make a mess out of the condo.
Pressing the doorbell gently, Misaki stood in front of the door. His body jerked as Akihiko opened up within a few seconds, and his eyes darted up to meet the other's.
"So you came after all," the author spoke, his gaze softening, "You didn't have to walk all the way...I offered to give you a ride."
"It wasn't exactly a long walk, so it was unnecessary." Misaki shrugged as he spoke these words and slowly stepped inside, struggling to get his shoes off without having to kneel down. He could hear Akihiko chuckle softly as said man watched him. "Stop laughing at me!"
"How can I when you're acting so cute?" Akihiko replied, a faint smile evident on his face. He started leading Misaki to his office, glancing over his shoulder as they reached the door. "What kind of story do you have to write?"
"A romance story." For some reason, Misaki felt his face heat up as he said the word 'romance'. "I-it's just a normal romance story about a boy and a girl in high school. It has to be a story of at least eight hundred words." Once inside, Misaki closed the door behind him, and was met with a surprisingly tidy room. The sight of this caused his brows to furrow in confusion. "Did you clean up the room?"
"No," Akihiko answered truthfully, "My editor came over a few days ago to pick up the manuscript, and she said that I couldn't work properly in such a messy office, so she helped me rearrange all of my books."
Misaki blinked in surprise as the author mentioned his editor. He had never met the lady before, but she sounded like she really tried to get Akihiko to do his job properly. 'I wonder what she looks like. Perhaps I'll be able to meet her someday.' As he sat down behind Akihiko's laptop, the other got a chair and sat down next to him, gazing at the brunet.
"All right then, let's start with the protagonists of the story," Akihiko suggested, clicked the mouse button to open a new text document, "How old should the characters be? They're both in high school, so they must be teenagers."
"Y-yes, I was thinking about a 16-year-old girl and a 17-year-old boy." Misaki cursed under his breath as he heard himself stutter. Why was he so nervous all of a sudden?
"What about their personalities? Describe the girl first."
"Uhm...the girl is kind, pretty, caring, polite—" Misaki was abruptly cut off when Akihiko placed a finger on his lips and shook his head in a mocking manner.
"You should never create a protagonist with only positive characteristics. Humans aren't perfect and neither are fictional characters." His tone was alarmingly serious. "Tell me something about her bad qualities."
Not used to such sudden demands, Misaki had to think for a minute before he could answer. The way Akihiko talked to him intimidated him a little, because the man almost sounded like a teacher. "I-I guess that she is rather clumsy and dense...and that people often bully her."
Akihiko nodded in approval, although he felt that he had offended Misaki in some way. "What about the boy?"
"The boy is really smart and good-looking, but he doesn't have a lot of friends. He acts pretty distant from his classmates, and he isn't a sociable person."
"Is he shy?"
"...I think so," Misaki said hesitantly, not sure if that was the answer Akihiko wanted to hear.
Sighing loudly, the author tapped his fingers on the desk. "This is your story Misaki. Don't be so uncertain about your own ideas."
"I can't help it! You're making me feel uncertain!"
Akihiko cocked an eyebrow. "How so?"
"You're constantly mocking me. How am I supposed to get inspiration if you keep being so mean?" Right then, Misaki looked down at the keyboard, a sad expression decorating his eyes. Maybe asking Akihiko for help wasn't such a good idea after all. Sure, the man knew a lot about writing, but was Misaki capable of handling his harsh criticism?
Noticing the pained look, Akihiko leaned back and scratched the bridge of his nose in mild frustration. "Look, I'm only trying to help you out. It shouldn't take hours just to come up with two characters if you're not going to write a long story about them. However, personalities do play an important role—that's what I'm trying to tell you."
Instead of replying, Misaki remained silent and started at the empty document on the screen. This only got Akihiko more frustrated and as the man lost his patience, he cupped Misaki's face with one hand and pulled the brunet into a fierce, yet sweet kiss. Pulling away quickly, Misaki knew that his face was reddening, and he glanced up at Akihiko in both shock and confusion.
"What the heck?" he practically yelled, as if to scold the other for his shameless act.
"That was meant to cheer you up," Akihiko stated plainly, "Come on, we need to move on to the plot."
Misaki wanted to protest, but he realized that they had already wasted fifteen minutes of precious time, and he was sure that Akihiko still had work to do. Resting his fingers on the keyboard, he started typing. Akihiko took his glasses and put them on, unable to read the words on the screen. The younger one noticed this and looked back at him in surprise.
"Do you wear glasses, Usagi-san?"
"Sometimes, but actually I only need them when I have to read something. I hardly ever wear glasses in public anymore." Reading the plot Misaki had come up with, Akihiko was surprised to see how similar it was to their first meeting.
The boy is walking down the street and sees a girl who is bothered by some tall guys. He saves her and offers to take her home, but the girl feels that she needs to repay him and the two go on a date. They eat lunch together and then go see a movie, where the boy takes the girl's hand. At the end of their short date, the boy brings her home and kisses her.
"That's a pretty clichéd date you've come up with," Akihiko concluded, studying his beloved carefully.
"Well excuse me, but I've never gone on a date before!" Misaki spat, his tone angry and irritated. The palms of his hands lay flat on the desk as he glared at the other.
Chuckling, Akihiko ruffled the brunet's soft locks. "I think you should name the girl 'Misaki' and the boy 'Akihiko'."
A single long finger pointed at the screen. "Read the plot thoroughly. Can't you see that the way the boy and the girl meet is almost the same as the way we met? When I first saw you, you were being bullied by some classmates, and I helped you by scaring them away. After that, we introduced ourselves and I offered to bring you home."
"B-but we didn't go on a date after that! Our first meeting wasn't romantic at all."
"Well, we did make love at my place—"
Feeling embarrassed as he remembered his first time, Misaki cut the other off. "There's nothing romantic about s-sex! You can't compare it to going on a date." As he looked into Akihiko's eyes, Misaki realized that he had dug his own grave.
An attractive yet perverted grin decorated the author's face. "You're so adorably clueless, Misaki," he spoke in a low, sultry voice, "In fact, sex can be very romantic, as long as you set the mood." His hand slowly crept towards one of Misaki's hands, which was still resting on the wooden surface. "I'd be more than happy to prove it to you."
The only thing Misaki could feel was his heart skipping a beat as Akihiko gazed at him lovingly. As a cold hand caressed his, he felt a shiver run down his spine at the sudden change of temperature, but it was a comfortable, pleasurable shiver. His eyelids fluttered shut as the thumb of Akihiko's other hand ran over his cheek.
"Misaki, look at me." The man's voice was gentle, making it impossible for Misaki to refuse. A smile tainted Akihiko's lips when emerald eyes gazed at him, and he softly kissed the tip of Misaki's nose, intertwining his fingers with his own. Throughout the years, he had thought of himself as a romantic person—despite the novels he wrote—but if his angel wanted that…he would try to grant his wish.
Beautiful green eyes started to water slightly, and Misaki had no idea what was happening to him. Akihiko's behavior was so unusual; he was even more loving than he normally was. The feelings inside were almost too much for the teen to bear, and he averted his gaze in order to put himself together.
"What's the matter?" Akihiko asked, his tone still sweet and calm as he caressed the skin just behind Misaki's right ear.
"It's just…embarrassing. I'm not used to all of this."
Again, Akihiko couldn't stop his smile. "I'll help you get used to it," he promised and carefully turned the boy's head back. Moving forward, he claimed Misaki's velvety lips and kissed them sweetly. He was pleased to see the teen's eyes close slowly and did the same. Still, he couldn't stop himself from peeking through his eyelashes and watching Misaki's face flush to a shade of scarlet.
Because of the tender, almost imperceptible feeling of Akihiko's lips, Misaki applied a little more pressure, urging to feel more of that familiar mouth. He moaned quietly through slightly parted lips as the other's tongue traced his lips in slow gestures. Opening his mouth some more, he allowed the organ to slip inside and feel the inside of his mouth.
Akihiko noticed how much his young love was enjoying the kiss and placed his hands on the brunet's back, pressing him against his broad chest. Misaki responded approvingly by grabbing the man's strands with barely any force. It was obvious that Misaki was trying to be just as gentle as Akihiko was.
As the kiss continued, the older one rose from his seat, holding Misaki securely, and walked over to the couch. There he laid the teen down and pulled away, causing eyelids to flutter open.
"Usagi-san?" Misaki questioned, not sure what Akihiko was about to do to him.
The author remained silent and kissed his hot cheek, then trailed his lips down his neck, showering the skin with kisses. With each kiss, he captured a small patch of skin between his lips, but made no move to leave any marks. Misaki could hear the buttons of his school uniform come undone.
"Are we—" the boy asked, swallowing, "—going to do it here?"
Slowly, Akihiko moved back to stare into Misaki's eyes. "Is there something wrong with that?" he asked, the usual cynicism not present in his voice, "Would you rather continue this elsewhere?"
Completely overwhelmed by the man's sudden compliance, Misaki sat up. Normally, Akihiko was the one who decided where they did it and how, but this time he was giving Misaki a chance to choose. While it made the young teen happy, it also embarrassed him to no end.
"N-no, we don't have to go somewhere else…"
Nodding in understanding, Akihiko pushed the jacket off Misaki's shoulders, his gaze meeting the light green shirt underneath. His hands slipped inside the fabric, fingertips touching the smooth skin of Misaki's belly. In slow movements, he started massaging the younger one's torso.
"Mnn…" Misaki bit back a moan, but felt his willpower being drained by the captivating stare Akihiko was giving him. The author had a kind, beautiful smile on his face, one that he only ever showed to Misaki. Merely the sight of this was enough to make the boy blush harder.
"I love you." Akihiko moved his lips to Misaki's ear and kissed down his jawline.
Surprised by Misaki's response, the man froze, breathing against the skin of the other's chin. He knew what Misaki wanted to say to him, but how long would it take before those words left those addictive lips? How long would he have to wait for a confirmation?
Misaki's mouth opened and closed again, but he couldn't speak the words that he wanted to say so desperately. He had his feelings sorted out—unlike the last time they had been together—but he couldn't convey them to Akihiko. There was a fight between his shame and his affection towards a certain bunny hovering over him.
Noticing the dilemma, Akihiko concluded that Misaki needed encouragement and kissed the same way back up to his ear. "I love you Misaki," he whispered lovingly, his fingers teasing the nubs underneath the teen's clothes, "I love you so much."
"Usagi-san," Misaki whimpered, "I-I lo—"
The sound of footsteps echoed through the condo.
"Someone's here!" the brunet panicked, unable to finish his confession as he crawled out from under Akihiko's body and quickly hid behind the couch, clutching his jacket. He was just in time; the door swung open and a fuming redhead entered the office.
"What the hell are you doing?" Aikawa shrieked, stomping towards the author on the couch, "You were supposed to go to a meeting today!"
"I didn't feel like going. Besides, I have a story to work on." Akihiko pointed at the laptop on his desk, smirking in amusement as his furious editor approached it. Aikawa's eyebrows flew up as she read the plot Misaki had written down before her gaze returned to Akihiko.
"This isn't a new BL novel?" Confusion was easily noticeable in her large eyes.
Akihiko shook his head. "Misaki needed some help with the story, so we were having a brainstorming session."
Meanwhile, Misaki was eavesdropping as he quietly put his clothes back on, wondering if the woman in the room was Akihiko's editor. He could hardly imagine that it was really her—wasn't Aikawa a sweet and caring lady?
"What? Is he still here? Why didn't you tell me he was coming over?!" Aikawa sounded like she was having a panic attack, but Akihiko already knew that she was just overly excited. She had found out quite a lot about Misaki and was desperate to meet the young boy.
Taking the risk, Misaki carefully peeked over the backrest, his gaze meeting the editor's instantly. A loud gasp came from Aikawa's bright rose colored lips and she shot towards him.
"Oh my, you're so cute!" was her response, even though she had only seen Misaki's eyes and his chocolate locks of hair. She placed her knees onto the couch, sitting right next to Akihiko as she smiled at the teen. "My name is Aikawa Eri. I'm Usami-sensei's editor."
"It's nice to meet you, Aikawa-san," Misaki replied politely, flashing a sweet smile as he showed himself to her, "I'm Taka—"
"I know who you are. Sensei has told me quite a lot about you."
"A-ah, did he?" The brunet's face reddened as he glanced at Akihiko, who was too busy glaring at Aikawa. "He's mentioned you a couple of times as well."
Still smiling, Aikawa closed her eyes and hummed happily. "I'm very happy that we've finally met," she said truthfully, "I hope that we can become friends."
Knowing that his editor would probably keep rambling for another thirty minutes, Akihiko sighed and laid his hand on Misaki's head. "This is not the time to socialize," he spoke sternly, "Misaki and I have to finish the story, so we need you to leave."
"I'm not going anywhere!" Aikawa exclaimed, crossing her arms to show her determination, "Since you know nothing about editing someone else's story, you're going to need my help as well. I will make sure that Misaki can hand in a flawless story." She looked at Misaki, who nodded in agreement.
"Thank you, Aikawa-san."
Akihiko sighed in defeat, knowing that Misaki had already made up his mind. He couldn't send Aikawa away anymore now that she had persuaded his young love.
They would have to continue their sweet lovemaking some other time.
Aikawa ruined the moment. Yeah, so Misaki knows that he loves Akihiko, but when will he say it? :P
Tomorrow (April 20) is my birthday, so I wanted to give you guys this update as a present from me to you. That doesn't make sense, does it? Also, I can probably go back to updating every weekend. Surprise!
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When customers try to checkout through my Zencart store using paypal express, they get auto returned to my shopping cart upon submitting their order in paypal without the order being recorded by paypal. Sometimes Zencart gives the error that there is not enough order quantity in the Zencart shopping cart page it auto-returns to, other times is just auto returns to the Zencart shopping cart page with no error message displayed. In any case, it never allows the customer to purchase or bill their card. Can you fix this? Open to generous flat rate offers...
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istədiyin sözü axtar, məsələn: sex:
1 definition by Jordan F
Too long; Didn't read.
used a lot in www.pbnation.com smalltalk.
I went to the house with bobby and we partied and then went to jimmys at 9 and then sarahs at 10 while we all went to the movies and jimmy was like etc.
TL;DR: I hung out with my friends and we went to the movies.
Jordan F tərəfindən 02 Avqust 2006
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David McLellan - Interior of a ward on a British Ambulance Train in France during World War I
During the twentieth century, women of the whole world became indispensable in the war efforts. In many countries the need for female participation in the First World War was seen as almost necessary, as unprecedented numbers of men were wounded and killed. In the Second World War, the need for women arose again. Whether it was on the home front or the front-lines, for civilian or enlisted women, the World Wars started a new era for women's opportunities to contribute in war and be recognized for efforts outside of the home.
Women's role before World War I[edit source | edit]
Before the First World War, the traditional female role in western countries was confined to the domestic sphere, though not necessarily to their own homes, and to certain types of jobs.
In Great Britain for example, just before World War I, of the approximately 24 million adult women, around 1.7 million worked in domestic service, 800,000 worked in the textile manufacturing industry, 600,000 worked in the clothing trades, 500,000 worked in commerce, and 260,000 worked in local and national government, including teaching.[1] The British textile and clothing trades, in particular, employed far more women than men and were regarded as 'women's work'.[1]
While some women managed to enter the traditionally male career paths, women, for the most part, were expected to be primarily involved in "duties at home" and "women's work". Before 1914, only a few countries, including New Zealand, Australia, and several Scandinavian nations, had given women the right to vote (see Women's suffrage), but otherwise, women were minimally involved in the political process.
The two world wars hinged as much on industrial production as they did on battlefield clashes. With millions of men away fighting and with the inevitable casualties, there was a severe shortage of labour in a range of industries, from rural and farm work to urban office jobs.
During both World War I and World War II, women were called on, by necessity, to do work and take on roles that were outside their traditional gender expectations.[1] In Great Britain this was known as a process of "Dilution" and was strongly contested by the trade unions, particularly in the engineering and ship building industries.[1] For the duration of both World Wars, women did take on jobs traditionally regarded as skilled "men's work".[1] However, in accordance with the agreement negotiated with the trade unions, women undertaking jobs covered by the Dilution agreement lost their jobs at the end of the First World War.[1]
World War I[edit source | edit]
The United States Navy began accepting women for enlisted service during World War I
Home front[edit source | edit]
By 1914 nearly 5.09 million out of the 23.8 million women in Britain were working. Thousands worked in munitions factories (see Canary girl), offices and large hangars used to build aircraft.[1] Women were also involved in knitting socks for the soldiers on the front, as well as other voluntary work, but as a matter of survival women had to work for paid employment for the sake of their families. Many women worked as volunteers serving at the Red Cross, encouraged the sale of war bonds or planted "victory gardens".
Not only did women have to keep "the home fires burning" but they took on voluntary and paid employment that was diverse in scope and showed that women were highly capable in diverse fields of endeavor. There is little doubt that this expanded view of the role of women in society did change the outlook of what women could do and their place in the workforce. Although women were still paid less than men in the workforce, women's equality were starting to arise as women were now getting paid two-thirds of the typical pay for men. However, the extent of this change is open to historical debate. In part because of female participation in the war effort Canada, the USA, Great Britain, and a number of European countries extended suffrage to women in the years after the First World War.
British historians no longer emphasize the granting of woman suffrage as a reward for women's participation in war work. Pugh (1974) argues that enfranchising soldiers primarily and women secondarily was decided by senior politicians in 1916. In the absence of major women's groups demanding for equal suffrage, the government's conference recommended limited, age-restricted women's suffrage. The suffragettes had been weakened, Pugh argues, by repeated failures before 1914 and by the disorganizing effects of war mobilization; therefore they quietly accepted these restrictions, which were approved in 1918 by a majority of the War Ministry and each political party in Parliament.[2] More generally, Searle (2004) argues that the British debate was essentially over by the 1890s, and that granting the suffrage in 1918 was mostly a byproduct of giving the vote to male soldiers. Women in Britain finally achieved suffrage on the same terms as men in 1928.[3]
Canadian Women during World War I[edit source | edit]
During World War One, there was virtually no female presence in the Canadian armed forces, with the exception of the 3141 nurses serving both overseas and on the home front.[4] Of these women, 328 had been decorated by King George V, and 46 gave their lives in the line of duty.[4] Even though a number of these women received decorations for their efforts, many high-ranking military personnel still felt that they were unfit for the job. One notable adversary of the effort was Col. Guy Carleton Jones, he stated that, “Active service work is extremely severe, and a large portion of R.N.’s are totally unfit for it, mentally or physically.” [4] Although the Great War, had not officially been opened up to women, they did feel the pressures at home. There had been a gap in employment when the men enlisted; many women strove to fill this void along with keeping up with their responsibilities at home.[4] When war broke out Laura Gamble enlisted in the Canadian Army Medical Corps, because she knew that her experience in a Toronto hospital would be an asset to the war efforts.[5] Canadian nurses were the only nurses of the Allied armies that held the rank of officers.[5] Gamble was presented with a Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class medal, for her show of “greatest possible tact and extreme devotion to duty.” [5] This was awarded to her at Buckingham Palace during a special ceremony for Canadian nurses.[5] Health care practitioners had to deal with medical anomalies they had never seen during the First World War. The chlorine gas that was used by the Germans caused injuries that treatment protocols had not yet been developed for. The only treatment that soothed the Canadian soldiers affected by the gas was the constant care they received from the nurses.[5] Canadian nurses were especially well known for their kindness.[5]
Canadians had expected that women would feel sympathetic to the war efforts, but the idea that they would contribute in such a physical way was absurd to most.[4] Because of the support that women had shown from the beginning of the war, people began to see their value in the war. In May 1918, a meeting was held to discuss the possible creation of the Canadian Women’s Corps. In September, the motion was approved, but the project was pushed aside because the wars end was in sight.[4]
On the Canadian home front, there were many ways which women could participate in the war effort. Lois Allan joined the Farm Services Corps in 1918, to replace the men who were sent to the front.[6] Allan was placed at E.B. Smith and Sons where she hulled strawberries for jam.[6] Jobs were opened up at factories as well, as industrial production increased.[6] Work days for these women consisted of ten to twelve hours, six days a week. Because the days consisted of long monotonous work, many women made of parodies of popular songs to get through the day and boost morale.[6] Depending on the area of Canada, some women were given a choice to sleep in either barracks or tents at the factory or farm that they were employed at.[6] According to a brochure that was issued by the Canadian Department of Public Works, there were several areas in which it was appropriate for women to work. These were:
1. On fruit or vegetable farms.
2. In the camps to cook for workers.
3. On mixed and dairy farms.
4. In the farmhouse to help feed those who are raising the crops.
5. In canneries, to preserve the fruit and vegetables.
6. To take charge of milk routes.[7]
In addition many women were involved in charitable organization such as the Ottawa Women’s Canadian Club, which helped provide the needs of soldiers, families of soldiers and the victims of war.[6] Women were deemed ‘soldiers on the home front’, encouraged to use less or nearly everything, and to be frugal in order to save supplies for the war efforts.[6]
British Women during World War I[edit source | edit]
During World War I; many women were able to participate on the home front supporting the men who had gone out to fight. They were given the opportunity to help as nurses, teachers, textiles makers, coal miners and clothing, but the largest area in which the women worked was in the munitions factories. Munitions factories were there to produce supplies for the men on the front including tailoring, metal trades, chemical and explosives, food trades, hosiery and woolen and worsted industries.[8] The reason for so many women joining the munitions factories and other parts of the war effort was mixed between the sense of patriotism felt for working and helping their fathers, brothers and husbands fighting, or they joined because the wages received were doubled of what they had previously made (although was still less than that of a man’s). The women working in these munitions factories were called Munitionettes and the work in which these women did was long, tiring and exhausting as well as dangerous and hazardous to their health.
The women working in munitions factories were from mainly lower-class families[9] and were between the ages of 18 to 30 years old.[9] A lot of the work these women did consisted of making gun shells, explosives, aircraft and other materials that supplied the war at the front[10] which was dangerous and repetitive work because they were constantly around and encased in toxic fumes as well has handling dangerous machinery and explosives. They were to handle these explosives and chemicals with little training, yet expected to make them quickly and efficiently so the weapons could be shipped off to the men at war.There were different groups in which were essential to the production of getting the weaponry out to the men. Each group was important in the making of munitions as each had their own particular job such as putting the cordite into the shells, another group was to put together the fuses and so on. This was very repetitive work and it was important to be very careful when handling these because explosions and unexpected gun fire was at all times possible putting themselves and others at risk.
Not only was the work stressful and dangerous but the amount in which the women worked contributed to the difficulty of their jobs. The women would work long twelve hour shifts, six or seven days a week[11] and at times would be expected to work over night. These long days in the factories were difficult on the lives of the women because it affected their home lives, especially those with children at home and were expected fulfill their wifely duties. This could be considered double work as they would work all day, to go home and maintain the house, this was exhausting and the women got very little sleep and were worked very hard. The lack of sleep was supplementary to the harms of the chemicals of the factories took a toll on the health of the women.
The factories all over Britain in which women worked were often unheated, deafeningly noisy, and full of noxious fumes and other dangers,[11] therefore the conditions in which they worked under were not exactly benefiting their health. The factories also had very little ventilation for the chemicals and fumes to escape from trapping all of the chemicals in and creating a very toxic environment. Explosives and guns rely on chemical reactions to work, therefore if the women because dealing with many chemicals and hazardous materials in order to create these weapons being exposed to the harshness of these chemicals without being properly protected increased the chances of illness.
Being enclosed in the chemicals some of the common diseases and illness which occurred were drowsiness, headaches, eczema, loss of appetite, cyanosis, shortness of breath, vomiting, anaemia, palpitation, bile stained urine, constipation, rapid weak pules, pains in the limbs and jaundice and mercury poisoning.[12] In [1] book On Her Their Lives Depend: Munitions Workers in Great War” there is a picture of a firewoman who is carrying a munitions worker out of a building who had passed out from the fumes and Smokey conditions in which she had been working. This kind of reaction to the fumes and smoke in munitions factories was common as there was very little ventilation and fresh air. Jaundice was caused from working with sulphur which was used in the making of explosives because it is found in TNT and other such explosives. Jaundice with along with other affects makes the skin turn into a yellowish hue, this yellowing of the skin created the term canary girls[13] Canary girls which was a popular name for the women working in munitions factories because many had jaundice as a result of jaundice. Another discoloration of the skin found from working in the factories is cyanosis; this is the ashen gray and livid color of the lips.[12] Although the women were at a high risk of getting diseases and illnesses, the women would go home at night to their children and would have these chemicals on them and attached to them carrying them home and putting their families at risk of health problems as well, especially to those women who were either pregnant or breast feeding their babies.
Along with health issues there were many obvious dangers of working in munitions factories such as the shells exploding or the fire-arms shooting when they were not supposed to, this was dangerous and many women had died from such instances. They women had to be very careful that nothing that was not supposed to enter the shells and explosives because if even a small amount of dirt was entered and the chemicals were added the reaction could be set off and harm the many working in that factory. This was critical to their safety and the women had to work carefully and hard knowing that anything bad could happen, a slip of the hand when drilling into a shell or the simple misplacement of a fuse could have drastic and deadly consequences. The munitionettes were brave and hard working women, they knew their lives were in danger yet they worked through the illness and the dangers to do their part in the war and increased the women’s role in society and gave women a new face proving their abilities to society and proved that they were capable of doing a man’s work.
British World War One Poster Campaign[edit source | edit]
Propaganda in the form of visual poster’s to entice women to join the factory industry in World War one did not represent the dangerous aspects of female wartime labour conditions.[14] The poster’s failed to represent an accurate account of reality by creating a satisfactory appeal for women who joined the workforce and did their part in the war. Designed for women to persuade their men to join the armed forces, one propaganda poster is a romantic setting as the women looks out an open window into nature as the soldiers march off to war. The poster possesses a sentimental and romantic appeal when the reality of the situation is that many women endured extreme hardships when their husbands enlisted.[14] It was this narrative of a false reality conveyed in the visual propaganda that aimed to motivate war effort. The Edwardian social construction of gender was that women should be passive, emotional, and have moral virtue and domestic responsibility. Men on the other hand were expected to be active, intelligent, and provide for their families. It was this idea of gender roles that poster propaganda aimed to reverse. In one war propaganda, titled “These Women Are Doing Their Bit” a woman is represented as making a sacrifice by joining the munitions while the men are at the front. The woman in this particular persuasive poster is depicted as cheerful and beautiful, ensuring that her patriotic duty will not reduce her femininity.[14] These posters do not communicate the reality that munitions labour entails. There is no reference to highly explosive chemicals or illnesses due to harsh work environments. The persuasive images of idealized female figures and idyllic settings were designed to solicit female involvement in the war and greatly influenced the idea of appropriate feminine behavior in the wartime Britain. As a result, many women left their domestic lives to join munitions work as they were enticed by what they thought were better living conditions, patriotic duty and high pay.[14] According to Hupfer, the female role in the social sphere was expanded as they joined previously male-dominated and hazardous occupations (325).[14] Hupfer remarks that attitudes regarding the capabilities of women through the war effort sank back into the previously idealized roles of women and men once the war was over. Women went back to their duty in the home as they lost their jobs to returning soldiers and female labour statistics decreased to pre-war levels. Not until 1939 would the expansion of the role of women once again occur.[14]
Military service[edit source | edit]
Nursing became almost the only area of female contribution that involved being at the front and experiencing the war. In Britain the Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps, First Aid Nursing Yeomanry and Voluntary Aid Detachment were all started before World War I. The VADs were not allowed in the front line until 1915.
More than 12,000 women enlisted in the United States Navy and Marine Corps during the First World War. About 400 of them died in that war.[15]
Over 2,800 women served with the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps during the First World War and it was during that era that the role of Canadian women in the military first extended beyond nursing.[16] Women were given paramilitary training in small arms, drill, first aid and vehicle maintenance in case they were needed as home guards.[16] Forty-three women in the Canadian military died during WWI.[16]
The only belligerent to deploy female combat troops in substantial numbers was the Russian Provisional Government in 1917. Its few "Women's Battalions" fought well, but failed to provide the propaganda value expected of them and were disbanded before the end of the year. In the later Russian Civil War, the Bolsheviks would also employ women infantry.[17]
World War II[edit source | edit]
In many nations women were encouraged to join female branches of the armed forces or participate in industrial or farm work.
World War II involved global conflict on an unprecedented scale; the absolute urgency of mobilizing the entire population made the expansion of the role of women inevitable. The hard skilled labor of women was symbolized in the United States by the concept of Rosie the Riveter, a woman factory laborer performing what was previously considered man's work.
With this expanded horizon of opportunity and confidence, and with the extended skill base that many women could now give to paid and voluntary employment, women's roles in World War II were even more extensive than in the First World War. By 1945, more than 2.2 million women were working in the war industries, building ships, aircraft, vehicles, and weaponry. Women also worked in factories, munitions plants and farms, and also drove trucks, provided logistic support for soldiers and entered professional areas of work that were previously the preserve of men. In the Allied countries thousands of women enlisted as nurses serving on the front lines. Thousands of others joined defensive militias at home and there was a great increase in the number of women serving in the military itself, particularly in the Red Army (see below).
In the World War Two era, approximately 400,000 U.S. women served with the armed forces and more than 460 — some sources say the figure is closer to 543 — lost their lives as a result of the war, including 16 from enemy fire. Women became officially recognized as a permanent part of the armed forces with the passing of the Women's Armed Services Integration Act of 1948.[15]
Several hundred thousand women served in combat roles, especially in anti-aircraft units. The U.S. decided not to use women in combat because public opinion would not tolerate it.[18]
Britain[edit source | edit]
Women in the Workplace[edit source | edit]
When Britain went to war, a previously forbidden job opportunity opened up for women. Women were called into the factories to create the weapons that were used on the battlefield.[19] Women took on responsibility of both managing the home and became the heroines of the home front. According to Carruthers, this industrial employment of women significantly raised women’s self-esteem as it allowed them to carry out their full potential and do their part in the war. During the war, women’s normative roles of “house wife” transformed into a patriotic duty. As Carruther’s put it, the housewife has become a heroine in the defeat of Hitler (235).[19] The roles of women shifting from domestic to masculine and dangerous jobs in the workforce made for important changes in workplace structure and society. During the Second World War, society had specific ideals for the jobs in which both women and men participated in. When women began to enter into the masculine workforce and munitions industries previously dominated by men, women’s segregation began to diminish. Increasing numbers of women were forced into industry jobs between 1940-1943.[20] As surveyed by the Ministry of Labour, the increase of women in industrial jobs went from 19.75 per cent to 27 per cent from 1938-1945.[20] It was beyond difficult for women to spend their days in factories, and then come home to their domestic chores and care-giving, and as a result, many women were unable to hold their jobs in the workplace.[20] Britain underwent a labour shortage where an estimated 1.5 million people were needed for the armed forces, and an additional 775,000 for munitions and other services in 1942.[20] It was during this ‘labour famine’ that propaganda aimed to coerce people into joining the labour force and do their bit in the war. Women were the target audience in the various forms of propaganda because they were substantially paid less than men.[20] It was of no concern whether women were filling the same jobs that men previously held. Even if women were replacing jobs with the same skill level as a man, they were still paid significantly less due to their gender. In the engineering industry alone, skilled and semi-skilled female workers increased from 75 per cent to 85 per cent from 1940-1942.[20] According to Gazeley, even though women were paid less than men, it is clear that women engaging in war work and taking on jobs preserved by men, reduced the increase of industrial segregation.[20]
A woman machinist talking with Eleanor Roosevelt during her goodwill tour of Great Britain in 1942
Pte Elizabeth Gourlay transmitting a radio message during the Second World War
In Britain, women were essential to the war effort, in both civilian and military roles. The contribution by civilian men and women to the British war effort was acknowledged with the use of the words "Home Front" to describe the battles that were being fought on a domestic level with rationing, recycling, and war work, such as in munitions factories and farms and Men were thus released into the military. Women were also recruited to work on the canals, transporting coal and munitions by barge across the UK via the inland waterways. These became known as the 'Idle Women', initially an insult derived from the initials IW, standing for Inland Waterways, which they wore on their badges, but the term was soon adopted by the women themselves.[21] Many women served with the Women's Auxiliary Fire Service, the Women's Auxiliary Police Corps and in the Air Raid Precautions (later Civil Defence) services. Others did voluntary welfare work with Women's Voluntary Service for Civil Defence and the salvation Army.
Women were "drafted" in the sense that they were conscripted into war work by the Ministry of Labour, including non-combat jobs in the military, such as the Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS or "Wrens"), the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF or "Waffs") and the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS). Auxiliary services such as the Air Transport Auxiliary also recruited women.[22] In the early stages of the war such services relied exclusively on volunteers, however by 1941 conscription was extended to women for the first time in British history and around 600,000 women were recruited into these three organizations.[23] In these organizations women performed a wide range of jobs in support of the Army, Royal Air Force (RAF) and Royal Navy both overseas and at home. These jobs ranged from feminine roles like cook, clerk and telephonist to more masculine duties like mechanic, armourer, searchlight[24] and anti- aircraft instrument operator.[23] British women were not drafted into combat units, but could volunteer for combat duty in anti-aircraft units, which shot down German planes and V-1 missiles.[25][26] Civilian women joined the Special Operations Executive (SOE), which used them in high-danger roles as secret agents and underground radio operators in Nazi occupied Europe.[27]
Propaganda and British Women's Patriotic Role[edit source | edit]
British Women’s Propaganda was issued during the war in attempts to communicate to the house-wife that while keeping the domestic role, she must also take on a political role of patriotic duty.[28] Propaganda was meant to eliminate all conflicts of personal and political roles and create a heroine out of the women. The implication with propaganda is that it asked women to redefine their personal and domestic ideals of womanhood and motivate them go against the roles that have been instilled in them.[28] The government struggled to encourage women to respond to posters and other forms of propaganda. One attempt to recruit women into the labour force was in one short film, My Father’s Daughter. In this propaganda film a wealthy factory owner’s daughter begs to do her part in the war, but her father carries the stereotypical belief that women are meant to be caretakers and are incapable of such heavy work. When one foreman presents one of the most valuable and efficient workers in the factory as the daughter, the father’s prejudices are eliminated. The encouraging message of this short film is, “There’s Not Much Women Can’t Do.” [28]
Common Roles for Women[edit source | edit]
The most common role of women in active service was that of a searchlight operator.[29] In fact, all of the members of the 93rd Searchlights Regiment were females (Harris). Despite being limited in their roles, there was a great amount of respect between the men and women in the mixed batteries.[29] In fact, one report states, “Many men were amazed that women could make adequate gunners despite their excitable temperament, lack of technical instincts, their lack of interest in aeroplanes and their physical weaknesses”.[29]). While women still faced discrimination from some of the older soldiers and officers who did not like women “playing with their guns”, women were still given rifle practice and taught to use anti-aircraft guns while serving in their batteries. They were told that this was in case the Germans invaded…however if that were to ever happen, they would be evacuated immediately.[29]).
Three quarters of women who entered the wartime forces were volunteers, compared to men who made up less than a third.[23] Single or married women were eligible to volunteer in WAAF, ATS or WRNS and were required to serve throughout Britain as well as overseas if needed, however the age limits set by the services varied from each other. Generally women between 17 and 43 could volunteer and those under 18 required parental consent.[23] After applying, applicants had to fulfill other requirements, including an interview and medical examination; if they were deemed fit to serve then they were enrolled for the duration of the war. WRNS was the only service that offered an immobile branch which allowed women to live in their homes and work in the local naval establishment.[23] WRNS was the smallest of the three organizations and as a result was very selective with their candidates. Of the three organizations, WAAF was the most preferred choice; the second being WRNS. ATS was the largest of the three organizations and was least favoured among women because it accepted those who were unable to get into the other forces. ATS had also developed a reputation of promiscuity and poor living conditions, many women also saw the khaki uniform unappealing and as a result caused women to favour WRNS and WAAF over ATS.[23]dress
Women's Limitations[edit source | edit]
Women were limited in their roles-they were allowed to do almost anything except fire the guns. This meant that they never got to capitalize on the training they received.[29] This was the most common sexual distinction between men and women during the war: women went through the same military training, lived in the same conditions and did almost the same jobs as men, however were restricted from actually killing anyone.[29] This small but important distinction meant that women were not eligible for any of the medals of valour or bravery, because they were only awarded for “active operations against enemy in the field”, which women could not take part in.[29] Women were also distinct because of the titles by which they were addressed in the army: corporals were known as bombardiers and privates were known as gunners. They were also required to wear their designations differently on their uniforms, further distinguishing them from their male counterparts.[29] Discipline differed as well, as women were not allowed to be court marshaled unless she herself chose to be. The women in the service were also under the authority of the women officers of the ATS, instead of the male officers they served directly under. This meant any disciplinary action was difficult.[29]
Opportunities to Enlist[edit source | edit]
Despite their obvious distinctions from men, women were eager to volunteer. Many of the servicewomen came from restricted backgrounds; therefore they found the army liberating.[29] Other reasons women volunteered included escaping unhappy homes or marriages, or to have a more stimulating job. The overwhelming reason for joining the army, though, was patriotism. Like World War I, England was in a patriotic fervour throughout World War II to protect its island from foreign invasion.[30] Women, for the first time, were given the opportunity to help in their native land’s defense, which attributes the high number of female volunteers at the beginning of the war. Even Princess Elizabeth was a driver for the Second Subaltern Windsor Unit, having joined to do her part in the protection of the country.[30] Despite the overwhelming response to the call for female volunteers, some women refused to join the forces; many were unwilling to give up the civilian job they had, and others had male counterparts that were unwilling to let them go (Crang 384). Others felt that war was still a man’s job, and not something women should be involved in.[30] Similar to the men’s forces, women’s forces were mostly volunteer throughout the war.[30] When women’s conscription did come into effect, however, it was highly limited. For example, married women were exempt from any obligation to serve unless they chose to do so, and those who were called could opt to serve in civil defense (the home front).[30]
During the war, approximately 487,000 women volunteered for women’s services; 80,000 for WRNS, 185,000 for WAAF and 222,000 for ATS.[23] By 1941 the demands of the wartime industry called for women’s services to be expanded so that more men could be relieved of their previous positions and take on more active roles on the battle field.[23] Of all the women’s services, ATS needed the greatest number of new applicants, however due to ATS’ lack of popularity, they were unable to gain the estimated 100,000 new volunteers needed.[23] To try and change women’s opinions on ATS, living conditions were improved and a new more flattering uniform was made. In 1941 the Registration for Employment Order was introduced in hopes of getting more women enrolled.[31] This act could not force women to join the forces, but instead required women ages 20–30 to try to find employment through labour exchanges and provide information on their current employment and family situations.[31] Those who were deemed eligible were persuaded into the war industry because the Ministry of Labour did not have the power to force.[23] Propaganda was also used to persuade women into the women services. poster By the end of 1941, ATS had only gained 58,000 new workers, falling short of expectations.Ernest Bevin then called for conscription and by late 1941 with the National Service Act it became compulsory for women ages 20–30 to join military service.[23] Married women were exempt from conscription, but those who were eligible had the option to work in war industry or civil defense if they did not want to join one of the women services.[32] Women were able to request which force they wished to join but most women were put into ATS because of its need for new applicants.[23] The National Service Act was repealed in 1949 but by 1944 women were no longer being called up for service because relying on volunteers was thought to be enough to complete the required tasks during the final stages of war.[23]
Women also played an important role in British industrial production during the war, in areas such as metals, chemicals, munitions, shipbuilding and engineering. At the beginning of the war in 1939 17.8% of women made up employment in these industries and by 1943 they made up 38.2%.[33] With the start of the war there was an urgent need to expand the country’s labour force and women were seen as a source of factory labour. Before the war women in industrial production were exclusively on assembly, which was seen as cheap and undemanding work but during the war women were needed in other areas in the production process that were previously done by men such as Lathe operators.[34] The Ministry of Labour created training centres that gave an introduction to the engineering process, and by 1941 women were allowed entrance as the importance of the engineering industry grew and became a large source of female employment.[34] Areas such as aircraft manufacture, light and heavy general engineering and motor vehicle manufacturing all saw an increase in female employment during the war.[33] Aircraft production saw the largest rise in female employment as it rose from 7% in 1935 to 40% in 1944.[34] At the start of the war men who were already in engineering were prevented from going to war because engineering was seen as an important industry to war production but in 1940 there became a need for more female workers to supply the necessary labour for factory expansion.[32] By 1941 with the shortage of skilled labour the Essential Workers Order was introduced which required all skilled workers to register and prevented workers from quitting from jobs that were deemed essential to the war effort without agreement from a National Service Officer.[32] The Registration for the Employment Order in 1941 and the Women of Employment Order in 1942 also attempted to get more women into the workforce. The Women of Employment Order required women ages 18–45 to register for labour exchanges and by 1943 the maximum age was raised to 50, which brought an additional 20,000 women into the workforce. Aircraft production was given the top labour priority and many women were diverted into it with some even being transferred from agricultural production.[31]
Sky Spying[edit source | edit]
One of the most important roles within the forces that women occupied during the war was that of interpreting aerial photographs taken by British spy planes over Allied Europe.[35] There was equality in this work that was not found anywhere else during the war: women were considered equal to men in this field.[36] Women played an important role in the planning of D-Day in this capacity-they analyzed the photos of the Normandy Coast and decided which beaches the troops landed on and which sections. Women as photo analysts also participated in the biggest intelligence coup of the war-the discovery of the German V1 flying bomb. The participation of women allowed these bombs to be destroyed.[36]
Although many women were doing jobs that men had previously done during the war, there were still pay distinctions between the two sexes. Equal pay was rarely achieved as employers wanted to avoid labour costs. Skilled work was often broken down into smaller tasks and labelled skilled or semi-skilled and then paid according to women pay rates.[34] Women who were judged to be doing ‘men’s work’ were paid more than women who were thought to be doing ‘women’s work’ and the employers definition of this varied regionally.[31] Women were receiving closer wages to their male counterparts, however despite the governments expressed intentions, women continued to be paid less than men for equivalent work and were segregated in terms of job description, status, and the hours they put in.[31] In 1940 Ernest Bevin persuaded engineering employers and unions to give women equal pay to men since they were taking on the same tasks that men previously had, this became the Extended Employment of Women Agreement.[33] Generally, pay increases depended on the industry; industries that were dominated by women before the war, like textiles and clothing, saw no changes in pay. However the gap between male and female earnings narrowed by 20-24% in metals, engineering and vehicle building and by 10-13% in chemicals, which were all deemed important to the war effort.[32] Overtime hours also differed, with women getting 2–3 hours and men 9-10 a week. Women’s hours were still regulated because of their responsibilities to take care of their family and household.[33]
British Women Postwar[edit source | edit]
Postwar, women were returned to many of the mundane jobs they occupied before the war started. Where once the army represented an escape from domestic life and liberty, it now returned to the male-dominated field it was before the war.[37] Women who served in the batteries as gunners and searchlight-operators were suddenly being demeaned to secretaries and clerks, taking away any opportunity these women may have had to capitalize on their training.[38] 'Demob was a big disappointment to a lot of us. It was an awful and wonderful war. I wouldn't have missed it for anything; some of the friends we made were forever.” One female recounted after being dismissed from service to return to her normal job. Married women were released from service sooner at the end of the war, so they could return home before their husbands to ensure the home was ready when he returned from the front.[39] Despite being largely unrecognized for their wartime efforts in the forces, the participation of women in World War II allowed for the founding of permanent women’s forces. Britain instituted these permanent forces in 1949, and the Women’s Voluntary Services are still a standing reserve force today.[40]
Canada[edit source | edit]
Women replaced men in many of the roundhouse jobs during World War II. Photo taken January, 1943.
When war began to look unavoidable in the late 1930s, Canadian women felt obligated to help the fight. In October of 1938, the Women’s Volunteer Service was established in Victoria, BC. Soon, all the provinces and territories followed suit and similar volunteer groups were emerged. “Husbands, brothers, fathers, boyfriends were all joining up, doing something to help win the war. Surely women could help as well!” [4] In addition to the Red Cross, several volunteer corps had designed themselves after auxiliary groups from Britain. These corps had uniforms, marching drills and a few had rifle training. It soon was clear, that a unified governing system would be beneficial to the corps. The volunteers in British Columbia donated two dollars each to pay the expenses so a representative could talk to politicians in Ottawa. Although all of the politicians appeared sympathetic to the cause, it remained ‘premature’ in terms of national necessity.[4]
In June 1941, the Canadian Women’s Army Corps was established. The women who enlisted would take over
On July 2, 1942 women were given permission to enlist in what would be known as the Canadian Women’s Auxiliary Air Force. Lastly the Royal Canadian Navy created the Women’s Royal Canadian Naval Service or the WRENS.[4] The WRENS were the only corps that were officially a part of their sanctioning body as a women’s division. This led to bureaucratic issues that would be solved most easily by absorbing the civilian corps governed by military organizations, into women’s divisions as soldiers. According to the RCAF the following are the requirements of an enlisted woman:
1. Must be at least 18 years of age, and younger than 41 years of age
2. Must be of medical category A4B (equivalent of A1)
3. Must be equal to or over 5 feet, and fall within the appropriate weight for her height, not being too far above or below the standard
4. Must have a minimum education of entrance into high school
5. Be able to pass the appropriate trades test
6. Be of good character with no record of conviction for an indictable offence[4]
Women would not be considered for enlistment if they were married and had children dependent on them. Training centres were required for all of the new recruits. They could not be sent to the existing centres as it was necessary that they be separated from male recruits. The Canadian Women’s Army Corps set up centres in Vermilion, AB and Kitchener, ON. Ottawa, ON and Toronto, ON were the locations of the training centres for the Canadian Women’s Auxiliary Air Force. The WRENS were outfitted in Galt, ON.[4] Each service had to come up with the best possible appeal to the women joining, for they all wanted them. In reality, the women went where their fathers, brothers and boyfriends were.[4] Women had numerous reasons for wanting to join the effort; whether they had a father, husband, or brother in the forces, or simply felt the patriotic duty to help. One woman blatantly exclaimed that she could not wait to turn eighteen to enlist, because she had fantasies of assassinating Hitler. Many women aged 16 or 17 lied about their age in order to enlist. The United States would only allow women to join that were at least twenty-one. For their young female citizens, Canada was the logical option. Recruitment for the different branches of the Canadian Forces was set up in places like Boston and New York. Modifications were made to girls with US citizenship, having their records marked, “Oath of allegiance not taken by virtue of being a citizen of The United States of America.” [4]
Women were obligated to conform to the same enlistment requirements as men. They had to adhere to medical examinations, and fitness requirements as well as training in certain trades depending on the aspect of the armed forces they wanted to be a part of. Enlisted women were issued entire uniforms minus the undergarments, which they would receive a quarterly allowance for.[4]
To be an enlisted woman during the creation stages was not easy. Besides the fact that everyone was learning as they went, they did not receive the support they needed from the male recruits. To begin with, women were initially paid two-thirds of what a man at the same level would make.[41] As the war progressed the military leaders began to see the substantial impact the women could make. In many cases the women had outperformed their male counterparts. This was taken into account and the women received a raise to four-fifths of the wages of a man.[41] A female doctor however, would receive equal financial compensation to her male counterpart. The negative reaction of men towards the female recruits was addressed in propaganda films. Proudly She Marches and Wings on Her Shoulder were made to show the acceptance of female recruits, while showing the men that although they were taking jobs traditionally intended for men, they would be able to retain their femininity. .[4]
Other problems faced early on for these women were that of a more racial stature. An officer of the CWAC had to write to her superiors regarding whether or not a girl of “Indian nationality” would be objected for enlistment. Because of Canada’s large population of immigrants, German women also enlisted creating great animosity between recruits.[4] The biggest difficulty was however the French-Canadian population. In a document dated 25 November 1941, it was declared that enlisted women should ‘unofficially’ speak English. However, seeing the large number of capable women that this left out, a School of English was stabled for recruits in mid-1942. .[4]
Once in training, some women felt that they had made a mistake. Several women cracked under the pressure and were hospitalized. Other women felt the need to escape, and simply ran away. The easiest and fastest ticket home however was pregnancy. Women who found out that they were expecting were given a special, quickly executed, discharge.[4]
The women who successfully graduated from training had to find ways to entertain themselves to keep morale up. Softball, badminton, tennis, and hockey were among popular pastimes for recruits. .[4]
Religion was of a personal matter to the recruits. A minister of sorts was usually on site for services. For Jewish girls, it was custom that they were able to get back to their barracks by sundown on Sabbath and holidays; a Rabbi would be made available if possible. .[4]
At the beginning of the war 600,000 women in Canada held permanent jobs in the private sector, by the peak in 1943 1.2 million women had jobs.[42] Women quickly gained a good reputation for their mechanical dexterity and fine precision due to their smaller stature.[42] At home a woman could work as:
Women also had to keep their homes together while the men were away. “An Alberta mother of nine boys, all away at either war or factory jobs – drove the tractor, plowed the fields, put up hay, and hauled grain to the elevators, along with tending her garden, raising chickens, pigs, and turkeys, and canned hundreds of jars of fruits and vegetables.” [42]
In addition to physical jobs, women were also asked to cut back and ration. Silk and nylon were used for the war efforts, creating a shortage of stockings. Many women actually painted lines down the back of their legs to create the illusion of wearing the fashionable stockings of the time.[42]
Finland[edit source | edit]
Much like in the United Kingdom, the Finnish women took part in defence: nursing, air raid signaling, rationing and hospitalization of the wounded. Their organization was called Lotta Svärd, where voluntary women took part in auxiliary work of the armed forces to help those fighting on the front. Lotta Svärd was one of the largest, if not the largest, voluntary group in World War II. They never fired guns (a rule among the Lottas).[43]
Germany[edit source | edit]
The Third Reich had many roles for women, including combat. The SS-Helferinnen were regarded as part of the SS if they had undergone training at a Reichsschule SS but all other female workers were regarded as being contracted to the SS and chosen largely from concentration camps. Women also served in auxiliary units in the navy (Kriegshelferinnen), air force (Luftnachrichtenhelferinnen) and army (Nachrichtenhelferin).[44][45][46][47][48]
In 1944-45 more than 500,000 women were volunteer uniformed auxiliaries in the German armed forces (Wehrmacht). About the same number served in civil aerial defense, 400,000 volunteered as nurses, and many more replaced drafted men in the wartime economy.[45] In the Luftwaffe they served in combat roles helping to operate the anti—aircraft systems that shot down Allied bombers. By 1945, German women were holding 85% of the billets as clericals, accountants, interpreters, laboratory workers, and administrative workers, together with half of the clerical and junior administrative posts in high-level field headquarters.[49]
Germany had a very large and well organized nursing service, with four main organizations, one for Catholics, one for Protestants, the secular DRK (Red Cross) and the "Brown Nurses," for committed Nazi women. Military nursing was primarily handled by the DRK, which came under partial Nazi control. Frontline medical services were provided by male medics and doctors. Red Cross nurses served widely within the military medical services, staffing the hospitals that perforce were close to the front lines and at risk of bombing attacks. Two dozen were awarded the iron Cross for heroism under fire.[44] The brief historiography focuses on the dilemmas of Brown Nurses forced to look the other way while their incapacitated patients were murdered.[50]
Hundreds of women auxiliaries (Aufseherin) served for the SS in the camps, the majority of which were at Ravensbrück. In Germany women also worked, and were told by Hitler to produce more pure Aryan children to fight in future wars.[51]
Italy[edit source | edit]
The Italian Social Republic had similar roles for women. In the 1944 the Women's Auxiliary Service (Servizio Ausiliario Femminile) were regarded as part of the RSI military formations. The commander was the brigadier general Piera Gatteschi Fondelli.
Poland[edit source | edit]
A grave of three Polish female soldiers who were killed during the Invasion of Poland, 1939, among their colleagues interred at Warsaw's Powązki Cemetery
In occupied Poland, as elsewhere, women played a major role in the resistance movement, putting them in the front line. Their most important role was as couriers carrying messages between cells of the resistance movement and distributing news broadsheets and operating clandestine printing presses. During partisan attacks on Nazi forces and installations they served as scouts.
During the Warsaw Rising of 1944, female members of the Home Army were couriers and medics, but many carried weapons and took part in the fighting. Among the more notable women of the Home Army was Wanda Gertz who created and commanded DYSK (Women's sabotage unit). For her bravery in these activities and later in the Warsaw Uprising she was awarded Poland's highest awards - Virtuti Militari and Polonia Restituta. One of the articles of the capitulation was that the German Army recognized them as full members of the armed forces and needed to set up separate Prisoner-of-war camps to hold over 2000 women prisoners-of-war.[52]
Soviet Union[edit source | edit]
Klavdiya Kalugina, one of the youngest Soviet female snipers (age 17 at the start of her military service in 1943)[53]
The Soviet Union mobilized women at an early stage of the war, integrating them into the main army units, and not using the "auxiliary" status. Some 800,000 women served, most of whom were in front-line duty units.[54] About 300,000 served in anti-aircraft units and performed all functions in the batteries—including firing the guns.[55][56] A small number were combat flyers in the Air Force.[57]
Yugoslavia[edit source | edit]
Tito's Yugoslav National Liberation Movement claimed 6,000,000 civilian supporters; its two million women formed the Antifascist Front of Women (AFŽ), in which the revolutionary coexisted with the traditional. The AFŽ managed schools, hospitals and even local governments. About 100,000 women served with 600,000 men in Tito's Yugoslav National Liberation Army. It stressed its dedication to women's rights and gender equality and used the imagery of traditional folklore heroines to attract and legitimize the partizanka.[58] After the war women were relegated to traditional gender roles, but Yugoslavia is unique as its historians paid extensive attention to women's roles in the resistance, until the country broke up in the 1980s. Then the memory of the women soldiers faded away.[59][60]
United States of America[edit source | edit]
More than 60,000 Army nurses (all military nurses were women at the time) served stateside and overseas during World War II. They were kept far from combat but 67 were captured by the Japanese in the Philippines in 1942 and were held as POWs for over two and a half years. One Army flight nurse was aboard an aircraft that was shot down behind enemy lines in Germany in 1944. She was held as a POW for four months.[61][62] In 1943 Dr. Margaret Craighill became the first female doctor to become a commissioned officer in the United States Army Medical Corps.[63]
The Army established the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) in 1942. WAACs served overseas in North Africa in 1942. The WAAC, however, never accomplished its goal of making available to "the national defense the knowledge, skill, and special training of the women of the nation.".[64] In 1942, Charity Adams (Earley) became the first black female commissioned officer in the WAAC.[65] The WAAC was converted to the Women's Army Corps (WAC) in 1943, and recognized as an official part of the regular army. More than 150,000 women served as WACs during the war, and thousands were sent to the European and Pacific theaters; in 1944 WACs landed in Normandy after D-Day and served in Australia, New Guinea, and the Philippines in the Pacific. In 1945 the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion (the only all African-American, all-female battalion during World War II) worked in England and France, making them the first black female battalion to travel overseas. The battalion was commanded by MAJ Charity Adams Earley, and was composed of 30 officers and 800 enlisted women.[66][67] WWII black recruitment was limited to 10 percent for the WAAC/WAC—matching the percentage of African-Americans in the US population at the time. For the most part, Army policy reflected segregation policy. Enlisted basic training was segregated for training, living and dining. At enlisted specialists schools and officer training living quarters were segregated but training and dining were integrated. A total of 6,520 African-American women served during the war.[67]
Asian-Pacific-American women first entered military service during World War II. The Women's Army Corps (WAC) recruited 50 Japanese-American and Chinese-American women and sent them to the Military Intelligence Service Language School at Fort Snelling, Minnesota, for training as military translators. Of these women, 21 were assigned to the Pacific Military Intelligence Research Section at Camp Ritchie, Maryland. There they worked with captured Japanese documents, extracting information pertaining to military plans, as well as political and economic information that impacted Japan's ability to conduct the war. Other WAC translators were assigned jobs helping the US Army interface with our Chinese allies. In 1943, the Women's Army Corps recruited a unit of Chinese-American women to serve with the Army Air Forces as "Air WACs." The Army lowered the height and weight requirements for the women of this particular unit, referred to as the "Madame Chiang Kai-Shek Air WAC unit." The first two women to enlist in the unit were Hazel (Toy) Nakashima and Jit Wong, both of California. Air WACs served in a large variety of jobs, including aerial photo interpretation, air traffic control, and weather forecasting.[68]
Air Evacuation Nurse Verona Savinski
More than 14,000 Navy nurses served stateside, overseas on hospital ships and as flight nurses during the war. Five Navy nurses were captured by the Japanese on the island of Guam and held as POWs for five months before being exchanged. A second group of eleven Navy nurses were captured in the Philippines and held for 37 months. (During the Japanese occupation of the Philippines, some Filipino-American women smuggled food and medicine to American prisoners of war (POWs) and carried information on Japanese deployments to Filipino and American forces working to sabotage the Japanese Army.[68]) The Navy also recruited women into its Navy Women's Reserve, called Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES), starting in 1942. Before the war was over, 84,000 WAVES filled shore billets in a large variety of jobs in communications, intelligence, supply, medicine, and administration.[61][69][70] The Navy refused to accept Japanese-American women throughout World War II.[68] USS HIGBEE (DD-806), a GEARING-class destroyer, was the first warship named for a woman to take part in combat operation. Lenah S. Higbee, the ship's namesake, was the Superintendent of the Navy Nurse Corps from 1911 until 1922.[71]
The Marine Corps created the Marine Corps Women's Reserve in 1943. That year, the first female officer of the United States Marine Corps was commissioned; the first detachment of female marines was sent to Hawaii for duty in 1945. The first director of the Marine Corps Women's Reserve was Mrs. Ruth Cheney Streeter from Morristown, New Jersey. Captain Anne Lentz was its first commissioned officer and Private Lucille McClarren its first enlisted woman; both joined in 1943. Marine women served stateside as clerks, cooks, mechanics, drivers, and in a variety of other positions. By the end of World War II, 85% of the enlisted personnel assigned to Headquarters U.S. Marine Corps were women.
In 1941 the first civilian women were hired by the Coast Guard to serve in secretarial and clerical positions. In 1942 the Coast Guard established their Women's Reserve known as the SPARs (after the motto Semper Paratus - Always Ready). YN3 Dorothy Tuttle became the first SPAR enlistee when she enlisted in the Coast Guard Women's Reserve on 7 December 1942. LCDR Dorothy Stratton transferred from the Navy to serve as the director of the SPARs. The first five African-American women entered the SPARs in 1945: Olivia Hooker, D. Winifred Byrd, Julia Mosley, Yvonne Cumberbatch, and Aileen Cooke. Also in 1945, SPAR Marjorie Bell Stewart was awarded the Silver Lifesaving Medal by CAPT Dorothy Stratton, becoming the first SPAR to receive the award. SPARs were assigned stateside and served as storekeepers, clerks, photographers, pharmacist's mates, cooks, and in numerous other jobs. More than 11,000 SPARs served during World War II.[72]
In 1943, the US Public Health Service established the Cadet Nurse Corps which trained some 125,000 women for possible military service.
In all, 350,000 American women served in the U.S. military during World War II and 16[dubious ] were killed in action. World War II also marked racial milestones for women in the military such as Carmen Contreras-Bozak, who became the first Hispanic to join the WAC, serving in Algiers under General Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Minnie Spotted-Wolf, the first Native American woman to enlist in the United States Marines.[73]
The Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP), created in 1943, were civilians who flew stateside missions chiefly to ferry planes when male pilots were in short supply. They were the first women to fly American military aircraft. Accidents killed 38. The WASP was disbanded in 1944 when enough male veterans were available.[74]
American Home Front[edit source | edit]
U.S. women also performed many kinds of non-military service in organizations such as the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), American Red Cross, and the United Service Organizations (USO). Nineteen million American women filled out the home front labor force, not only as "Rosie the Riveters" in war factory jobs, but in transportation, agricultural, and office work of every variety. Women joined the federal government in massive numbers during World War II. Nearly a million "government girls" were recruited for war work. In addition, women volunteers aided the war effort by planting victory gardens, canning produce, selling war bonds, donating blood, salvaging needed commodities and sending care packages.
By the end of the World War I, twenty-four percent of workers in aviation plants, mainly located along the coasts of the United States were women, and yet this percentage was easily surpassed by the beginning of the World War II.[75] Mary Anderson, director of the Women’s Bureau, reported in January 1942 that about 2,800,000 women “are now engaged in war work, and that their numbers are expected to double by the end of this year.”[76]
Female factory workers in 1942, Long Beach, California.
The skills women had acquired through their daily chores proved to be very useful in helping them acquire new skill sets towards the war effort. For example, the pop culture phenomenon of "Rosie the Riveter" made riveting one of the most widely known jobs. Experts speculate women were so successful at riveting because it so closely resembled sewing (assembling and seaming together a garment).[77] However, riveting was only one of many jobs that women were learning and mastering as the aviation industry was developing. As Glenn Martin, a co-founder of Martin Marietta, told a reporter: “we have women helping design our planes in the Engineering Departments, building them on the production line, [and] operating almost every conceivable type of machinery, from rivet guns to giant stamp presses”.[78]
It is true that some women chose more traditional female jobs such as sewing aircraft upholstery or painting radium on tiny measurements so that pilots could see the instrument panel in the dark. And yet many others, maybe more adventurous, chose to run massive hydraulic presses that cut metal parts while others used cranes to move bulky plane parts from one end of the factory to the other. They even had women inspectors to ensure any necessary adjustments were made before the planes were flown out to war often by female pilots. The majority of the planes they built were either large bombers or small fighters.[79]
Although at first, most Americans were reluctant to allow women into traditional male jobs, women proved that they could not only do the job but in some instances they did it better than their male counterparts. For example, women in general paid more attention to detail as the foreman of California Consolidated Aircraft once told the Saturday Evening Post, “Nothing gets by them unless it’s right.”[80]
Two years after Pearl Harbor, there were some 475,000 women working in aircraft factories - which, by comparison, was almost five times as many as ever joined the Women's Army Corps.[79]
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scottso May 29, 2007 08:32 AM
I stayed at two very high end resorts in New Mexico last week. I also live in NM and write about, where to eat in the state. I overheard countless bad recommendations about where to eat, coming from both concierges' lips. It seemd to me, like they had a list of "recomendations" since the same names kept coming up, no matter what the guest requested. One of them recommended a very pricey (and not very good) place to someone looking for a moderately priced local place. Neither of the concierges had ever heard of Chowhound and knew nothing about the local food scene.
In your experience, are hotel and resort staffs just clueless? (or perhaps just here in New Mexico)? Do you think, they're on the take, and give only tipped tips? What's your experience with hotel professionals around the world, when it comes to giving advice?
A friend that works in a hotel, told me that there is even a test that concieges are required to pass? Is this really true?
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Bite Me May 30, 2007 08:32 PM
I believe that some concierges and restaurants share a referral relationship. But, that doesn't mean that the referral will be bad. The best concierges I've ever enjoyed were at the Four Seasons in San Francisco. My cousin used to be a concierge at a five star hotel, many years ago, and she was tipped well because there was nothing she couldn't arrange, including parties.
I think it helps to be informed and also to be detailed with the requests for what type of places you're looking for, and ask lots of questions about the recommendations so you can make a decision. They usually have the menus to review.
We always tip our concierges, too.
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scottso May 31, 2007 07:11 AM
I agree and never go anywhere without scouring CH and other helpful sites for information and, am always very specific with my requests. Why are those menu books so out of date? The book I saw last week listed places that had closed two years ago and some of the menues had prices from the last century.
While at a conference at a Roc Resort up in Keystone Colorado (which is a tiny tourist town near three other tiny towns), I gave the concierge a list of nearby places he had never tried or even heard of. He reported back that one was a block from where he lived and he loved it. Amazing!
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valerie May 30, 2007 07:34 PM
I rarely ever take restaurant recommendations from hotel staff. I was always under the assumption that restaurants and hotels are often in cahoots with each other and there are some sort of kickbacks involved.
I always do my homework on Chowhound and other food sites before we go away, and we (almost) always have good food. Even in nice hotels, I don't want to waste a meal on a recommendation from the concierge. I just don't trust them when it comes to food. My husband laughs at me, but he's also thankful when we have great food!
When in a foreign country, however, I will have them make reservations for us, but at restaurants that we have chosen.
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mojoeater May 29, 2007 11:51 AM
I knew a former concierge who had worked at hotels in both NYC and LA. He always had free dinner certificates for expensive restaurants. When I asked how he managed to get them all, he said that the hotels had made deals with those places. If their concierges recommended those restaurants, they received free meals. And if someone at the resto wanted a place to stay, they recommended that hotel.
1. Midlife May 29, 2007 11:39 AM
You'd think that a quality hotel would insist that their concierge staff be educated about the local restaurants they are surely asked to recommend regularly. I'm not so sure one should expect a 'review' from them (unless the review is backed up by fairly unanimous documentation), but they should have a good idea of price, atmosphere, dress code, menu...... the things people want to know.
I'm located in an area near three very high end hotels and I know for a fact that many of the local restaurants invite those concierge staffs to dine there as a way of becoming more familiar with them. There's also a local restaurant 'menu' magazine that organizes events where the concierge staffs 'network' with the restaurants that advertise in the mags.
All that said, I guess there can also be the case where a 'newby' is placed at the concierge desk without proper training or where specific restaurants do their "PR" work better than others and create an automatic recommendation that's not deserved.
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Discussion in 'NFL Zone' started by Hostile, Oct 10, 2004.
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If you would like to pick your spirits up a little go check out the wailing on our rival's forum. :eek:
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You know the shame is that they have a decent defense this year for the first time in ages.
However their offense is reaching epic suckitude. It's pretty obvious now that Portis was a system back. I mean who in the hell is Reuben Droughns and how was he able to put almost 200 yards against the Panters? It's because Denver has a system that could get my dead grandmother 100yards a game.
Then we have Mark Brunell who they gave a huge signing bonus and a 3rd round pick for. He's just awful. I mean Vinny isn't great but he looks like Johnny U. out there in comparison.
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I was following the game thread at Extremeskins, trying to drown my own pain in their hysterically funny misery.
But when Brunnell threw that duck that Deion picked off....the comments were so freakin hilarious, I just had to get some perspective on this weekend.
Both our teams, and head coaches sucked today. And we're all flat out nuts. :p
So be it. We'll do better next week.
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When framing a wall is it really important to have the crown of each stud in the same direction?
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Yes it is. If all your studs are oriented the same way, you'll have a gentle bow to the wall (either in or out) that is more or less consistent across the width of a wall.
On the other hand, if you have them so that one stud curves in and the next curves out, you're going to have irregularities in your wall that are the twice the size of the curvature of the studs, and that will be much more noticeable.
Here's an article that explains it well.
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Depends on how much the studs crown, but I would say yes. If the studs have a lot of crown to them and they are going in different directions, it can make for a wavy wall and some messy finish work later on.
How much a wavy wall really matters depends on what you are doing with it as well. In a simple drywall wall, you probably wouldn't notice if it was slightly wavy. However, if you put a countertop against it, or try to tile it, even small deviations can be quite noticeable.
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U.S. Route 58 marker
U.S. Route 58
Route information
Maintained by VDOT
Length: 508 mi[1] (818 km)
Existed: 1931[1] – present
Major junctions
West end: US-25E / SR-32 / SR-383 at Cumberland Gap, Tennessee
US 23 in Duffield
I-81 in Bristol
I-77 near Hillsville
US 220 near Martinsville
US 29 in Danville
I-85 in South Hill
I-95 in Emporia
US 460 in Suffolk
I-64 / I-264 / I-664 in Chesapeake
US 13 in Norfolk
East end: US 60 in Virginia Beach
Counties: Claiborne, Lee, Scott, Washington, City of Bristol, Grayson, City of Galax, Carroll, Floyd, Patrick, Henry, Pittsylvania, City of Danville, Halifax, Mecklenburg, Brunswick, Greensville, City of Emporia, Southampton, City of Suffolk, City of Chesapeake, City of Portsmouth, City of Norfolk, City of Virginia Beach
Highway system
SR 57 SR 59
U.S. Route 58 is an east–west U.S. Highway that runs for 508 miles (818 km) from U.S. Route 25E just northwest of Harrogate, Tennessee to U.S. Route 60 in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Until 1996, when the Cumberland Gap Tunnel opened, US 58 ran only inside the commonwealth of Virginia. It was then extended southwest along a short piece of former US 25E, which no longer enters Virginia, to end at the new alignment in Tennessee.
State Route 383 is overlaid on U.S. Route 58 in Tennessee.
The segment of highway between Emporia and Suffolk was known as The Suicide Strip due to the high number of fatal accidents that occurred along the roadway when it was a two-lane road. The number of accidents lessened significantly when the route was upgraded to a divided highway, separating traffic in the early 1990s.
U.S. Route 58 is the longest numbered route in Virginia.[2]
Route description[edit]
US 58 begins at a trumpet interchange with US 25E, just south of the Cumberland Gap Tunnel. The route travels northeast through the outskirts of Cumberland Gap before crossing into Virginia.
US 58 in Tennessee carries the designation State Route 383.
US 58 enters Virginia and travels east to Jonesville, where Alternate US 58 branches off and travels to the north. East of Jonesville, US 58 intersects US 421, and the two routes stay concurrent through Duffield (where the concurrency also picks up U.S. 23), Gate City, Weber City (where the US 23 concurrency ends), and Bristol, where US 58 begins a concurrency with Interstate 81. The two routes stay concurrent until I-81 exit 19 in Abingdon, where US 58 resumes its eastward journey close to the Virginia–North Carolina state line. The route is signed as the J.E.B. Stuart Highway and the A. L. Philpott Memorial Highway. Much of the highway through the region features hairpin turns, steep grades, and load-zoned bridges.
US 58 begins a concurrency with US 221 in Independence, and the routes stay merged through Hillsville, just past the interchange with Interstate 77. Continuing eastward, the route crosses the Blue Ridge Parkway in the unincorporated community of Meadows of Dan before winding its way to Martinsville, where US 58 and US 220 share a southern bypass of the city.
Approaching Danville, US 58 once again follows an expressway bypass to the south of the city, while a business route enters the city itself. The southeastern half of this bypass is shared with US 29. East of Danville, US 29 continues north, while US 58 picks up US 360 (which begins in central Danville) and resumes its eastward journey. The routes stay cosigned until South Boston, where US 360 resumes a more northerly route to Richmond, while US 58 travels eastward to Clarksville and crosses Kerr Lake.
The route crosses US 1 and Interstate 85 in South Hill, followed by Interstate 95 in Emporia. Near Franklin, an expressway bypass carries US 58 (and, for one stretch, US 258) south of the city, while a business route enters the city. A bypass also carries traffic around Suffolk, where US 58 begins concurrencies with US 13 and then US 460. The three US routes stay merged until an intersection with the Hampton Roads Beltway at the confluence of Interstate 64, Interstate 264, and Interstate 664. US 58 travels inside the beltway and through Portsmouth and into Norfolk via the Midtown Tunnel. The route crosses I-64 once again, and continues to Virginia Beach, roughly paralleling I-264 to its south. US 58, designated Laskin Rd. in Virginia Beach, ends at US 60, Pacific Ave. Historically, US 58 continued for one additional block to the east, ending at Atlantic Ave., which once carried US 60 and then Business US 60.[3]
Much of the western section of US 58 is part of The Crooked Road: Virginia's Heritage Music Trail.[4][5]
Alternate route[edit]
U.S. Route 58 Alternate
Location: Abingdon-Jonesville
Existed: early 1950s–present
An alternate route of US 58, known as U.S. Route 58 Alternate (US 58A), splits from the main route in Abingdon, Virginia and travels northwest (signed west) as the "Trail of the Lonesome Pine" to Coeburn. From there, US 58A travels in a southwesterly direction (signed west) through Norton, Big Stone Gap and Pennington Gap before rejoining the main route in Jonesville.
The corridor across southern Virginia was part of the initial 1918 state highway system, in which it was State Route 12. It generally followed the present U.S. 58 from Abingdon to Virginia Beach, while present US 58 west of Abingdon was part of State Route 10. These routes deviated from present US 58 in the following places:[6][7][8]
Major intersections[edit]
County Location Mile[10] Destinations Notes
Claiborne Cumberland Gap 0.0 US-25E – Tazewell, Harrogate, Middlesboro, KY Western terminus; trumpet interchange
TennesseeVirginia state line
Lee Jonesville 33.36
US 58 Alt. east (Trail of the Lonesome Pine) – Pennington Gap
US 58 turns east onto June Street
42.51 US 421 north – Pennington Gap West end of concurrency with US 421
Scott Duffield 53.26 US 23 north – Big Stone Gap West end of concurrency with US 23
Clinchport 57.93 SR 65 east – Dungannon
Gate City 67.42
US 23 Bus. south / US 58 Bus. east / US 421 Bus. south (Daniel Boone Road)
US 23 Bus. north / US 58 Bus. west / US 421 Bus. north (Kane Street)
Weber City 71.19 US 23 south – Kingsport East end of concurrency with SR 23
71.45 SR 224 south (Wadlow Gap Road) – Kingsport
Washington No major intersections
Bristol 95.67 I-81 south / US 421 south (Gate City Highway) – Knoxville, Bristol East end of concurrency with US 421; west end of concurrency with I-81; I-81 Exit 1
98.11 I-381 south – Bristol I-81 Exit 3
99.50 US 11 / US 19 (Lee Highway) I-81 Exit 5
101.63 Old Airport Road / Bonham Road I-81 Exit 7
Washington 106.40 To US 11 / US 19 (Lee Highway) I-81 Exit 10; unsigned SR F-310
107.39 SR 611 / Lee Highway I-81 Exit 13
Abingdon 109.39 SR 140 to US 19 – Abingdon I-81 Exit 14
111.46 SR 75 to US 19 – Abingdon, South Holston Dam I-81 Exit 17
113.95 I-81 north / US 11 south – Roanoke, Abingdon I-81 Exit 19; east end of concurrency with I-81; west end of concurrency with US 11
114.25 US 11 north (Lee Highway) – Glade Spring East end of concurrency with US 11
Damascus 124.73 SR 91 north (Douglas Drive) – Glade Spring US 58 turns south onto Douglas Drive; west end of concurrency with SR 91
125.72 SR 91 south (Mountain City Road) – Mountain City, TN East end of concurrency with SR 91
Grayson 150.72 SR 362 north (Grayson Highland Lane) – Grayson Highlands State Park
Volney 158.47 SR 16 north (Troutdale Highway) – Troutdale West end of concurrency with SR 16
Mouth of Wilson 162.46 SR 16 south (Jefferson Highway) – Jefferson, NC East end of concurrency with SR 16
SR 93 south (County Line Road) – Sparta, NC
Independence 175.15 US 21 (Independence Avenue/New River Parkway) / US 221 south – Wytheville, Sparta, NC West end of concurrency with US 221
177.90 SR 274 north (Riverside Drive) – Fries
186.58 SR 94 north (Riverside Drive) – Fries
Galax 189.71 SR 89 south (Main Street) – Lowgap, NC
Carroll Hillsville 199.98 I-77 – Wytheville, Charlotte I-77 Exit 14
US 52 (Main Street) – Wytheville, Mount Airy, NC
202.80 US 221 north (Floyd Pike) – Floyd East end of concurrency with US 221
Floyd No major intersections
Patrick Meadows of Dan 222.09
US 58 Bus. east (Jeb Stuart Highway) – Blue Ridge Parkway
US 58 Bus. west (Jeb Stuart Highway) – Blue Ridge Parkway
Cruzes Store 234.87 SR 8 north (Woolwine Highway) – Woolwine West end of concurrency with SR 8
Stuart 236.88
US 58 Bus. east / SR 8 south (Blue Ridge Street) – Winston-Salem
East end of concurrency with SR 8
237.74 SR 1025 (Johnson Street) Diamond interchange
US 58 Bus. west (Blue Ridge Street)
Henry 260.87
US 220 north (William F. Stone Highway) / US 58 Bus. east (A.L. Philpott Highway) – Martinsville, Roanoke
West end of concurrency with US 220; partial cloverleaf interchange
SR 641 (Joseph Martin Highway) Partial cloverleaf interchange
US 220 / US 220 Bus. (Greensboro Road) – Martinsville, Greensboro
East end of concurrency with US 220; partial cloverleaf interchange
267.01 SR 650 (Irisburg Road) Diamond interchange
US 58 Bus. west (A.L. Philpott Highway) – Martinsville
Partial trumpet interchange
Pittsylvania 285.06
US 58 Bus. east (Martinsville Highway) – Danville
Partial trumpet interchange
287.57 SR 1260 (Oakridge Farms Road) Diamond interchange
Danville 292.32
US 29 south / US 29 Bus. north – Danville, Greensboro
West end of concurrency with US 29; partial cloverleaf interchange
Corning Drive Westbound exit, eastbound entrance
293.44 Elizabeth Street Extended Right-in/right-out interchanges in both directions; no access across US 58 / US 29
296.07 SR 86 (Main Street) – Yanceyville, Chapel Hill Diamond interchange
297.92 Goodyear Boulevard Partial cloverleaf interchange
River Park Drive – Dan Daniel Memorial Park Diamond interchange
US 29 north (Danville Expressway) / US 360 west / US 58 Bus. west (South Boston Road) – Lynchburg, Danville
Full cloverleaf interchange; US 58 exits onto South Boston Road; east end of concurrency with US 29; west end of concurrency with US 360
Pittsylvania 304.53 SR 62 south (Milton Road) – Milton, NC
Halifax 311.33 SR 119 south (Calvary Road) – Semora, NC
South Boston 327.16 US 501 (Huell Matthews Highway) – Lynchburg, Durham
327.86 US 360 east (John Randolph Boulevard) – Richmond East end of concurrency with US 360
Mecklenburg 344.38 SR 49 south – Virgilina, Charlotte, NC West end of concurrency with SR 49
Clarksville 345.64
US 58 Bus. east / SR 49 north (Virginia Avenue)
East end of concurrency with SR 49
347.10 US 15 – Clarksville, Oxford, NC Partial cloverleaf interchange
John H. Kerr ReservoirRoanoke River
US 15 north / US 58 Bus. west / SR 49 north – Clarksville, Chase City
Boydton 358.72 SR 92 – Chase City
Midway 364.51 SR 4 south (Buggs Island Road)
368.74 US 1 south – Norlina, NC West end of concurrency with US 1
South Hill 371.89
US 1 north / US 58 Bus. east (Danville Street)
East end of concurrency with US 1
US 58 Bus. west to US 1 west / SR 47 north – Chase City
375.69 I-85 – Petersburg, Durham I-85 Exit 12
Brunswick Lawrenceville SR 46 (Christanna Highway) – Alberta, Valentines Diamond interchange
Greensville No major intersections
Emporia 410.74 I-95 – Petersburg, Rocky Mount I-95 Exit 11
US 58 Bus. east (Atlantic Street)
411.58 US 301 (Main Street) Partial cloverleaf interchange
412.22 SR 614 (Reese Street)
412.71 SR 611 (Davis Street)
US 58 Bus. west (Atlantic Street)
Greensville No major intersections
Southampton 436.82
US 58 Bus. east (Meherrin Road) / SR 35 – Courtland
US 58 Bus. west (Jerusalem Road) – Courtland
US 58 Bus. east (Camp Parkway) – Franklin
SR 671 (Armory Drive) – Downtown Franklin Diamond interchange
US 258 south (Smiths Ferry Road) / US 258 Bus. north (South Street) – Franklin, Murfreesboro
Diamond interchange; west end of concurrency with US 258
SR 714 (Pretlow Street) Partial cloverleaf interchange
Suffolk 450.81 US 258 north / SR 189 south (Great Mill Highway) – Smithfield, Windsor Partial cloverleaf interchange; east end of concurrency with US 258; west end of concurrency with SR 189
452.00 SR 272 south (South Quay Road)
456.17 SR 189 north (South Quay Road) – Holland East end of concurrency with SR 189
US 58 Bus. west (Holland Road) – Holland, Franklin
Westbound exit, eastbound entrance
US 13 south / SR 32 south / US 58 Bus. east (Holland Road) – Ahoskie, NC, Edenton, NC
US 13 junction is a trumpet interchange; US 58 Business terminus is at intersection; west end of concurrency with US 13
467.03 SR 604 (Pitchkettle Road) Diamond interchange
US 460 west / US 460 Bus. east (Pruden Boulevard) – Downtown Suffolk, Petersburg
Partial cloverleaf interchange; west end of concurrency with US 460
469.84 SR 10 / SR 32 (Godwin Boulevard) – Smithfield, Newport News Partial cloverleaf interchange
471.71 SR 642 (Wilroy Road) Partial cloverleaf interchange
US 58 Bus. west / US 13 Bus. south / US 460 Bus. west – Downtown Suffolk
Westbound exit, eastbound entrance
Chesapeake 479.88 I-664 north (Hampton Roads Beltway) to I-64 west / I-264 east / US 13 north – Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Newport News, Hampton I-664 Exit 13; Partial cloverleaf interchange
480.52 US 13 north / US 460 east (Military Highway) / SR 191 north (Jolliff Road) East end of concurrency with US 13 and US 460; west end of concurrency with US 460 Alternate
Portsmouth 484.03 SR 239 (Victory Boulevard)
SR 337 / US 460 Alt. east (Portsmouth Boulevard)
East end of concurrency with US 460 Alternate
485.71 US 17 (Frederick Boulevard)
486.62 SR 141 east (London Boulevard) / Harbor Drive south US 58 turns onto Martin Luther King Freeway; partial trumpet interchange
487.39 SR 164 west (Martin Luther King Freeway) Directional interchange
Toll gantry - cars $1 peak/$0.75 off-peak with E-ZPass
Midtown TunnelElizabeth River
Norfolk 489.20 SR 337 east (Hampton Boulevard) / Brambleton Avenue west Partial cloverleaf interchange; west end of concurrency with SR 337
490.29 SR 337 west (Brambleton Avenue) US 58 turns north onto Duke Street
490.77 US 460 (Monticello Avenue)
491.47 SR 168 (Tidewater Drive)
492.96 SR 405 south (Ballentine Boulevard) / Ballentine Boulevard north
495.19 US 13 (Military Highway) Diamond interchange
495.98 SR 165 (Kempsville Road)
Virginia Beach 498.24 SR 190 (Witchduck Road)
499.35 SR 225 (Independence Boulevard)
504.37 SR 279 north (Great Neck Road) / London Bridge Road south
US 58 Bus. east (Virginia Beach Boulevard) / I-264 west (Virginia Beach Expressway)
Eastbound exit to and westbound entrance from US 58 Business; Westbound exit to and eastbound entrance from I-264
508.48 US 60 (Pacific Avenue) / Laskin Road east Eastern terminus
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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Related U.S. Routes[edit]
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When Nani felt like a kid
'Eega' actor Nani talks about his experience meeting idol Kamal Haasan while filming for the remake of Bollywood film 'Band Baja Baaraat'
When Nani felt like a kid (© Filmysouth)
Chennai: Telugu actor Nani, currently shooting here for southern remake of 'Band Baja Baaraat', had an opportunity to run into actor-filmmaker Kamal Haasan, and says he felt like a kid waiting for his autograph.
Nani and Kamal Haasan were shooting on adjacent floors. Kamal was filming for upcoming multilingual thriller 'Vishwaroopam 2'.
Nani, however, couldn't believe when Kamal welcomed him graciously.
Nani, known for Telugu films such as 'Ashta Chamma' and 'Ala Modalaindi', rose to stardom with critically acclaimed Telugu revenge-drama 'Eega'.
He is also busy shooting for Telugu action-drama 'Janda Pai Kapiraju'.
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חפשו מילה כלשהי, כמו lumpatious:
Used in England, instead of saying very very very very very very cool.
Omg, this is so totally awesome!
I know! It's like double cool with knobs!
מאת PeachyKeen 9 ביולי, 2003
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Words related to double cool with knobs:
cool deceased embalmed females knobs
To be very very very cool; a shorter and cooler way to say 'very very very cool'
"Hey man, did you see the new Star Wars movie?"
"Yeah! It was double cool with knobs!"
מאת Rebecca Dakai 25 באוגוסט, 2005
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very cool, expressing extreme coolness.. started with gay little english school girls, but there pussys so we took their word,..and..brought it to..america.
"These shoes that so happen to be covered in pink unicorns, are double cool with knobs
מאת Maxine 20 במרץ, 2005
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Used in midwestern United States mortuaries to describe long deceased but yet to be embalmed females.
The client on this gurney is double cool with knobs.
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THURSDAY, May 15 (HealthDay News) -- Scientists have found that normal cells and cancer cells that acquire the ability to use long dormant pathways to migrate through the body may gain properties of adult stem cells, including the ability to self-renew.
The finding helps researchers better understand adult stem cell creation -- knowledge they hope will lead to developing healthy stem cells for regenerative medicine and target-specific cancer drugs.
Research published online May 15 in Cell shows that cells that undergo an "epithelial-to-mesenchymal" (EMT) transition, in mice or humans, acquire many important stem cell characteristics. The study also shows that normal, naturally existing stem cells and tumor-seeding cancer stem cells share characteristics with these post-EMT cells.
"This for us is a very exciting discovery, not only because of its unexpectedness, but because it offers a route by which one could in principle generate unlimited numbers of stem cells committed to create a specific cell type," researcher Robert Weinberg, a professor of biology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said in a prepared statement. "One could imagine, for example, that if one takes skin cells and induces them to undergo an EMT, they could become skin stem cells."
Epithelial cells, which make up most of the human body, bind in sheet-like structures. In embryonic development, the EMT process disrupts this adhesion and changes the cells into more loosely associated mesenchymal cells. In the context of cancer development, some cancer cells within a primary cancer may undergo EMT, migrate through the body to their end destination, and then undergo a reverse conversion back to their original epithelial form.
Inducing the EMT process can produce cells with many characteristics of cancer stem cells, the researchers discovered. This finding could help solve why tumor cells spread into different sites and multiply enough to form a new tumor.
"If you take a population of human cancer cells that normally form a tumor very inefficiently and induce an EMT, their tumor-initiating abilities increase by about a hundredfold, so that it takes about 10,000 cells, rather than a million cells, to form a tumor," co-lead author Wenjun Guo, a postdoctoral researcher in Weinberg's lab, said in a prepared statement. "This suggests cancer stem cells are using preexisting normal stem cell machinery to propagate their own self-renewal and therefore their tumor-initiating ability."
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0.025973 | <urn:uuid:cff5f8ef-9702-4f8c-8439-55dd4f3173a0> | en | 0.944333 | Submitted by UnRated 346d ago | opinion piece
Call of Duty is the new Pokemon
The Call of Duty franchise has been under attack and heavy criticism for the past few years for its lack of innovation and stagnant visuals by many gamers. While the franchise might deserve some of the flack it gets, it receives it with no punches pulled. However, we as gamers, tend to turn a blind eye on many game series which do the exact same. (3DS, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, Culture, Nintendo DS, PC, Pokemon X and Y, PS3, Xbox 360)
mamotte + 346d ago
Pekolie + 346d ago
I think they mean as a brand.
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Black-Rock-Shooter + 346d ago
So you are saying
New Weapons = New Pokemon
A new Region = New maps.
Pekolie + 346d ago
jakmckratos + 346d ago
This title should DIE
ApolloTheBoss + 346d ago
venom06 + 346d ago
Y_5150 + 346d ago
fatalis95 + 346d ago
nah cod has more kid players XD
NastyLeftHook0 + 346d ago
ooh burn! lol.
plaZeHD + 346d ago
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NastyLeftHook0 + 346d ago
my little pony lol
azshorty2003 + 346d ago
contradictory + 346d ago
there isn't a new pokemon every year
but other than that i can see it..
neither series really goes anywhere with new releases
and they are both kinda casual games
although there's nothing wrong with that IMO
CommonSenseGamer + 346d ago
What!?! COD is now considered casual? Since when was walking through an airport gunning down civilians casual?
Please explain how a game like COD is casual, because its easy to get into or because its played by millions? I simply don't understand how the gameplay mechanics are much different from any FPS over the last decade.
Linsolv + 346d ago
Compared to Counter Strike, the go-to example of "popular non-casual," there's less focus on competitive and semi-competitive play, there's less recoil, guns are generally easier to aim, the game encourages an aggressive mindset that creates an easy pick-up and play experience (a positive) but at the same time discourages tactical thinking (a negative).
Super Meat Boy did a similar thing with their ability to quickly respawn--they used it to offset the frustration of having to try many times on one level. The TDM/Demolition respawn settings can work, but they're best used to offset some sort of problem (for example, an asymmetrical game mode, which allows the underdog team to respawn). Otherwise it just comes off like potato chips: Easy to just pop them in your mouth over and over again, but looked down upon by the general populous.
CommonSenseGamer + 346d ago
OK, based on your response it means that Kill zone, Halo, Resistance, BioShock are all casual games.
mamotte + 346d ago
You're mixing "casual" and "mature". A game like COD is casual because you can just take the controller, start playing, and be killing people in less than 10 minutes. Hell, I've seen people in my country entering COD tournaments, and winning just because they run and shoot like crazy, or are plain lucky.
Now, Pokemon: You can get a decent pokemon for a tournament only after playing, like, 30-40 hours. That if you dont care about EV's points and stuff.
That said, from a technical standpoint, since you need a lot more effort and time to become a "professional Pokemon gamer", then, Pokemon is (in theory) more "hardcore" than COD. Now, you dont get blood in Pokemon, but, who cares?
contradictory + 346d ago
it's just pick up and play gamestyle
and CoD games are very easily approachable
keeping it simple while still being enjoyable
and as was cited by mamotte
you're mixing up Casual and Mature games here
Scorpio018 + 346d ago
Two points. If I am to take the route of the argumentative gamer, I would like to point out that with Pokemon there are at least some changes, excluding the addition of new pokemon in and of themselves. New battle types, new things on the side to do etc.
Now if I am to take the route of the adult gamer. Whether Call of Duty, Pokemon or any other franchise - Don't buy every entry of the series, or at the very least, don't do it at every release point. That way you will be less likely to become disillusioned with your game of choice. I still enjoy CoD somewhat, because I play maybe one out of every three entries.
For every one gamer sick of yearly entries of a franchise, there are ten for each of them that love them and their yearly releases. Do what is right for you as a person and as a gamer.
Linsolv + 346d ago
I'd debate that somewhat in Pokemon's case. Usually there's enough time between titles that all but the most fanatical fans put the game down for a while, so when they but the next title, it's fresh again with the relatively minor tweaks to keep things varied.
GABRIEL1030 + 346d ago
Not only COD series, Battlefield also with the new game the same graphics, animations, vehicles, enemies and the same helicopter flashback, disappointing.
IaMs12 + 346d ago
Not yet at least.
Moonman + 346d ago
I pre-ordered the upcoming Pokemon. I don't buy Call Of Duty. Get my point?
Y_5150 + 346d ago
I never bought a Call of Duty game, I'm proud of that.
Hufandpuf + 346d ago
Shame. Go by CoD4 and see why people are so upset at what Acti has made of the franchise.
Its like tony hawk and guitar hero all over again
Y_5150 + 346d ago
I'm not a fan of Call of Duty, never was. I played the first one though, it had it's moments. I noticed what Acti has done to the series and I don't need to play the game to see that.
Majin-vegeta + 346d ago
*Facepalm*Never ever compare COD to Pokemon. Unlike "CHILD'S ONLINE DAYCARE".Pokemon try's to introduce new things with every game release.
P.S. competitive Pokemon battles take more skill than COD does.
Donnieboi + 346d ago
Personally I could nevet see the appeal of either of those franchises, and i've owned pokemon red, blue, gold, etc AND COD mw 2, bo, and mw3.
I kept buying them out of hype, and hated them.
In my eyes, Persona/SMT games are better than Pokemon. And battlefield is better than COD.
But I guess that's just me...
Scorpio018 + 346d ago
I see where you are coming from, but that is an unfair comparison. Aside from the Monster/Demon collecting and the subsequent battling with them, SMT/Pokemon are two entirely different games, geared for greatly differing audiences.
Pokemon is a great starting point for RPG beginners due to it's simple mechanics and light hearted formula. That being the case, it is still in depth enough for experiences rpg players to enjoy it. (Such as with the online battling, EV training, breeding. Etc.)
SMT is geared more toward the hardcore RPG players. The gameplay is generally harder and losing is much more punishing. I'll not go into detail into just how in depth the SMT series is because anyone who has played those games will know.
Point is, the two games are on the complete opposite ends of the RPG spectrum from one another.
Donnieboi + 346d ago
Yeah to be fair i guess they are not EXACTLY the same. But as I got older, i felt a little silly playing pokemon after having played persona 3. I liked the challenge and adult themes in p3 more. I can't relate to the generic story of a generic boy who traps little animals in balls to have fights in the streets. Kinda seemed pointless. The only joy came from chasing yet another pokemon, and once u got it it was over. In persona, i can fuse persona's, thus mixing and matching their abilities to create my own custom "fighter".
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1nsaint + 346d ago
Well said, i think a lot of people dont know about the dept pokemon games have.
For example most people know about breeding, but not that you can pass down moves of the father pokemon and IV stats of the mother pokemon.
Same goes for a lot of things in the pkmn games.
I havent played pokemon in a long time untill recently when i played emerald on my phone.
And it was way different as when i played it as a kid.
Looking of some stuff on the wiki shows how complex some parts of the games are, using math, crazy formulas.
And i only just found out there is something called STAB moves, which means that if you use a fire move with a fire pokemon it will do 1.5x damage.
I never knew that while i've played since red and blue.
Oh and in reply to the title: at least pokemon will have a new engine this year.. :p
bigdaddy4247 + 346d ago
i guess COD is pokemon, i wish i could catch my teammates or throw them out to attack.
at least that would take some more skill than COD actually has.
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gillri + 346d ago
Never playd a pokemon game in my life I guess cause im 29 Its just not my generation
oh and btw I only buy a COD every two years and only play it inbetween my SP games, im certainly not a COD whre asd I havent played one in over a year now
cany deny they arent fun games to play tho
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hadouken182 + 346d ago
Call of duty is main stream trash. /discussion
shackdaddy + 346d ago
Pokemon is the new pokemon
glennco + 346d ago
Boring generic rubbish aimed at casual gamers.
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Don Gammill: Adding instructors as examiners should help driver test crunch in Oklahoma
By Don Gammill Published: November 26, 2012
A new law allowing instructors at driver's education schools in Oklahoma to give the driving exam may be a big help. It won't be without its critics. No new law is, it seems. But give it some time.
House Bill 2367, which took effect Nov. 1, may be just the right medicine to help an ailing program, made sick by budget cuts. If all goes as intended, this law should give our state a boost in training and licensing new drivers and cut down on some frustrations for those who have found themselves in long lines at, or having to make return trips to, the exam centers.
We've all heard the horror stories about young people and other prospective drivers waiting for hours to take the driving exam because the state Public Safety Department didn't have enough examiners to handle the load — due to reduction in numbers of examiners through money cuts.
With limited numbers of workers, in turn the number of tests that could be administered were cut. I recall one story about a young lady who three times showed up at an exam center to take a driving test, waited in a long line, then made it to or near the door before being told there wouldn't be an opportunity that day.
Meanwhile, she had become late for school or late for work, another frustration. Opportunities for such individuals should be better now.
A major concern through the years for using driving instructors to handle the testing has been potential favoritism. Would instructors favor their students, those who paid them large fees to learn to drive?
Consider this. Isn't it more likely that these instructors are going to be more aware of the abilities or shortcomings of potential new drivers, thereby watching closely before allowing an unprepared driver to be licensed?
If the training is appropriate and of good quality, the results should be as well.
That's certainly no slam at our DPS examiners, but rather an added advantage of the new system.
As stated in a recent editorial in The Oklahoman, the instructors, “don't stand to gain from licensing boys and girls who really aren't prepared to drive.”
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FLIR (FLIR) is one of the leading developers and manufacturers of Forward Looking Infrared Sensors for use by the military, law enforcement and an expanding civil market. For most of its history it has relied on the U.S. Air Force and Army as its traditional customers but with the predicted cuts to defense spending upcoming the company is trying to broaden its market base.
In early February the company reported earnings that were above analysts by 4 cents at 49 a share compared to the consensus 45 cents. Like many defense contractors it did this with declining revenue which fell to $405 million for the quarter a drop of $29 million compared to last year. This is the second quarter in a row that earnings have been above predictions. For the year FLIR had sales of just over $1.5 billion below guidance but above 2010's performance.
FLIR is experiencing the same trends as many defense contractors, large and small, with improving earnings on declining revenues. Much of this has been done through cost cutting but only so much of this may be done. For 2012 management is expecting potential further contraction in government spending and contracts which could cause it to be "challenging". The company also increased its dividend to 7 cents a share which is a vote of confidence in itself.
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by devphaeton (#46021431) Attached to: Linus Torvalds: Any CLA Is Fundamentally Broken
Google Groups has all but destroyed Usenet unfortunately.
That said, I still tolerate it when reading a few groups.
As for the grandparent poster- A bunch of musician friends and I got fed up with Harmony Central and created our own private, invite-only forum where we discuss music and gear and perpetuate our own memes.
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Not an appliance, but I just repaired my 19" Acer LCD a couple of weeks ago. It had a few bad caps so I replaced all of them, and now it's good as GNU^H^H^Hnew.
Total cost was around $5 in parts, though the bummer was $6 shipping. But what can you do? $11 is still cheaper than a new LCD.
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by devphaeton (#45998317) Attached to: Stop Trying To 'Innovate' Keyboards, You're Just Making Them Worse
The only thing I would ever want from a laptop is a keyboard that's in the ergonomic 'split' style. Yes that would be butt-ugly and probably make the laptop itself the size of an elementary school desk, but with RSI issues I can't type on a standard keyboard for very long. Yes you can plug a standard ergo USB keyboard into a laptop, but that setup requires a desk as it is too big for my lap. Since I'm desk bound with that, I just use the desktop computer I already have.
Meanwhile, I'm noticing that decent ergo kbs are getting scarce for desktops too. Back 10 or 15 years ago there were dozens of brands and all of them cheap and good, now there are only 2 or 3 to chose from with crappy key layouts and they last about a year or so.
+ - Groklaw is shutting down->
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devphaeton writes "Groklaw's pj writes: "The owner of Lavabit tells us that he's stopped using email and if we knew what he knew, we'd stop too.
What to do?
What to do? I've spent the last couple of weeks trying to figure it out. And the conclusion I've reached is that there is no way to continue doing Groklaw, not long term, which is incredibly sad. But it's good to be realistic. And the simple truth is, no matter how good the motives might be for collecting and screening everything we say to one another, and no matter how "clean" we all are ourselves from the standpoint of the screeners, I don't know how to function in such an atmosphere. I don't know how to do Groklaw like this."
Groklaw is a pillar of the Internet Community. It is a sad day when we lose such giants who have fought for truth and goodness in our favour."
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by devphaeton (#42343307) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How Would You Build a Microsatellite?
With this business philosophy, one could have regional offices that collect this knowledge and store documents of it in little cannisters. When someone in one region needs to access the knowledge from a different region, they could send a request and have that cannister (with the relevant document inside) sent along a pneumatic piping system, just like at the bank teller window. One could call this business The National Tube Service, or simply The Tubes(tm).
Comment: Here's the Apocalypse in Motion (Score 0) 450
by devphaeton (#42267797) Attached to: North Korea's Satellite Is Out of Control
On 12/12/12, the wheels were set in motion for the 12/21/12 Apocalypse.
A chain reaction of low-orbit and geostationary satellite collisions cause flaming satellite debris to rain down from the sky in a cataclysmic event. Now that Twinkies have been phased out, not even cockroaches have survived.
Comment: Even 15 year old stuff is hard to keep going now (Score 1) 338
by devphaeton (#42210555) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Old Technology Coexisting With New?
I've had several collections of 'throwaway' computers, with my last 486 and P100 going to that big recycling heap in the sky a few years back.
Right now, I've got nothing super old, but I've been keeping an AMD K6-II alive through the ages. It was my first IBM-compatible machine (after a C= plus/4) and I still use it regularly as a development box (Debian Stable in console mode all around. vi, gcc, perl, ssh, ftp, lynx. What more do you need?).
It is fortunate to have 2(!) USB ports on an add-in interface, so I can still plug a MS Ergo 4000 keyboard and modern optical mouse. Most of the hardware is original and all works, but the three things I've had to replace periodically are the optical drives (several), cpu fan (twice) and memory (twice). Up until about 5 years ago, compatible parts were plentiful from old computers, but I haven't seen the right sized fan or any SDRAM for the picking in ages, and it's now getting harder and harder to find IDE anything, even used.
I still enjoy the hell out of my i5 (and other smatterings of computers lying about) but I'll be sad when I have to put the ol K6 down.
+ - Buyer's remorse for iPad 3 owners, as iPad 4 released only seven months later->
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devphaeton writes "Jason Schreier writes: "Surprise! Today, October 23, Apple revealed the iPad 4. "Look how shiny it is!" Apple's executives preached to a crowd full of cheering fans and press. "New processing chip! Double the graphics power! You want one!" Nowhere did Apple mention the iPad 3, the machine that was touted oh-so-passionately just seven months ago as the next big thing. Seven months ago. It's like a Simpsons parody of how often companies release new iterations of their hardware.""
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Comment: Re:iPads! Clouds! LinkedIn! (Score 1) 152
by devphaeton (#41316837) Attached to: Intel Confirms Decline of Server Giants
"The Cloud" is only good as secondary backup if you don't care that it becomes public.
Encrypt it all you want. Access to your data is the hardest hurdle and by using the could you give it away.
But.. but.. but... smartphones and virtualization and...and...and...free community wireless internet over dark fiber!!!
(Yes, I'm just being silly. Having a slow day at work and the free coffee sucks)
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I'm using a table to represent a rota and I want to use RSpec to test that the date is appearing:
describe "Checking the rota" do
let(:service){ FactoryGirl.create(:service)}
before{ visit root_path } #this is where the rota is displayed
it{ should have_selector('td', date: service.date) }
As far as I can tell the application itself is working fine as the rota is displaying perfectly when I visit the page myself. I'm curious as to why the test is failing though. The factory script I'm using is:
factory :service do
date Date.today
leader "Bob"
singers "Mr T"
soundAM "Thor"
soundPM "Wobbles"
Finally the stub I'm using to render the rota:
<% if(service.date < Date.today) %>
<% service.destroy %>
<% end %>
<td><%=link_to service.date, edit_service_path(service.id) %></td>
<td><%= service.leader %></td>
Thanks for any help in advance.
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I think the right line is:
it{ should have_selector('td', text: service.date) }
Depends if you're using Capybara or Webrat
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I'm somewhat new to XCode and am very accustomed to using Visual Assist with Visual Studio. In XCode, I see the function menu above the text editor but can't seem to find a keyboard shortcut to pop it down. It seems to require a mouse click. It would be nice to have as this is yet another tool for better code navigation and is easily accomplished with Visual Assist using Alt-m.
Anyone know the magic incantation for XCode?
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up vote 2 down vote accepted
Control 2
should do the trick
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Ctrl + 6 opens the function menu for me.
Take a look under View > Editor for some related shortcuts. (See note below)
Unsurprisingly, you can start typing the name of the function to select it, instead of using the arrow keys.
I'm using Xcode 4, by the way.
NOTE: The program CheatSheet (available for free from App Store) lets you see a list of all keyboard shortcuts in the current program by holding down the command key (⌘) for 2 seconds.
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Too bad that app is not available anymore, or not in my country maybe? – Rafa-Nadal Jul 17 '13 at 21:48
You can get it here. – kaka Jul 18 '13 at 8:23
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1. I have a form_for mapped to a model called List.
2. List has attributes: name, id, receiver_id, assigner_id.
3. I want the user( or list assigner) to be able to choose a list receiver.
4. I want the assigner to input an e-mail, rather than the receiver's id.
1. I am not sure how to use a form to receive an e-mail address, run a "User.find_by_email(xx).id" query using that e-mail address, and then assign the returned id to the List's receiver_id attribute.
Current Code:
class ListsController < ApplicationController
before_filter :current_user
def new
@list = List.new
def create
@list = List.new(params[:list])
@list.assigner = @current_user
#@list.receiver = User.find_by_id(:receiver_id)
redirect_to @list
def show
@list = List.find(params[:id])
def update
@list = List.find(params[:id])
<%= form_for @list do |f| %>
<%= f.label :name, 'Name'%>
<%= f.text_field :name %>
<%= f.label :receiver_id, 'Receiver ID'%>
**I want this to be the e-mail input, rather than the integer id.**
<%= f.text_field :receiver_id %><br />
<%= f.submit :submit %>
<% end %>
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User creates new list, with him as the assigner. In that creation process there must be a receiver too. Did I get this right?
I think the receiver should be selected from a list of possible receivers (maybe a select box? this will depend on the number of possible receivers though, wouldn't want to list 1000+ users in there - if there are many users you could do an ajax search when the user types a few letters)
The assigner then selects a user (with the corresponding id as the value) and everything should be ok.
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Thanks Andrei that would work. Do you see any solution that might involve using a fields_for box? Something like <%= fields_for @list.receiver do |receiver_fields| %> ? – Michael Chase Pell Oct 2 '11 at 22:00
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The answer to my question is "Virtual Attributes..."
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Congrats on the solution. When you are able, please add a little more detail or a link to a resource, and make sure to mark your answer as 'accepted' so that others might learn from your success. Cheers~ – Andrew Kozak Dec 21 '11 at 19:14
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$("body").delegate('area[id=area_kontakt]','mouseover mouseleave', function(e){
if (e.type == 'mouseover') {
} else {
Why this code doesn't work in IE7? In IE8, FF, Ch everything is OK. Any help?
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Try changing 'area[id=area_kontakt]' to 'area[id="area_kontakt"]' -- The IE is really pendantic sometimes. – Smamatti Nov 14 '11 at 12:04
Why not use #area_kontakt instead of an explicit id attribute selector? – Frédéric Hamidi Nov 14 '11 at 12:06
insted of area[id=area_kontakt], why can't we use like this "#area_kontakt"? This is not solution, just doubt... r u using multiple ids with same name? – Naga Harish Movva Nov 14 '11 at 12:07
No. The 'area_kontakt' element is unique! – parzol Nov 14 '11 at 13:01
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Having examined your site, I've found the cause of the problem.
Nobody could have worked this out without seeing the site, because the problem had nothing to do with the code you've provided in your question.
In functions.js, you have this a few times (I've trimmed it down):
top: 50, //<---
/*onOpen: function (xxx) {
The problem is that trailing comma; it breaks IE7 and older.
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..and if you don't have multiple elements with the same id, just ignore me :) – thirtydot Nov 14 '11 at 12:47
I ignore You ;) – parzol Nov 14 '11 at 12:59
Oh well. Do you have a live page demonstrating the problem? Or can you make a jsFiddle or JS Bin demo? – thirtydot Nov 14 '11 at 13:01
Thanks a lot! Awesome! :) – parzol Nov 14 '11 at 13:46
+1 for the pic ;) – gion_13 Dec 30 '11 at 14:41
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I'm pretty sure it's because IE7 doesn't support atrribute selectors: [id=area_kontakt], You'll have to use a class name/Id name for IE7 to support it inside your jQuery.
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No. No effect :( – parzol Nov 14 '11 at 13:06
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Mohan Babu exclusive interview TOI
In an exclusive chat with Hyderabad Times, actor Mohan Babu opens up about acting with his sons in his upcoming venture
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Ambareesh and Mohan Babu, friends forever TOI
Mohan Babu met his friend Ambareesh at a city hospital on Sunday.
Prosecution vows to go for Mohan's jugular TOI
Incidentally, this is the third case that Beary, a retired judicial officer, has tried which has resulted in death penalty to the accused.
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The Fourth Additional District and Sessions court here on Tuesday held Mohan Kumar, 50, also known as Cyanide Mohan for his alleged modus operandi of killing his victims’ using the poison, guilty in the murder of Anitha of Barimaru, in Bantwal taluk.
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Fourth additional district and sessions court sentences Cyanide Mohan to death in three out of 20 cases. Judge B K Naik opines case false in rarest of rare category to warrant death sentence.
B R Mohan Rai, 80, former India fast bowler, passed away here on Monday following brief illness. Mohan represented India in first class international matches against New Zealand in India and Ceylon in 1956.
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A local court has dismissed three complaints against tennis star Sania Mirza for allegedly showing disrespect to the national anthem.
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Actress-producer Dia Mirza is thrilled to wrap-up the shooting of her upcoming Vidya Balan starrer 'Bobby Jasoos' in 51 days.
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"You try to outdo yourself every year. But you have to put it behind with new season starting. So I am looking at fresh start," Sania Mirza said on Saturday.
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Second driver helped many passengers exit burning bus TOI
Many more lives would have been lost in the bus accident near Manor had the second driver Hemant Darekar not opened the emergency exit and helped evacuate passengers.
Homeless man flashes German woman, held TOI
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8 killed as luxury bus collides with tanker on Mumbai-Ahmedabad highway TOI
Eight people were killed, most of them charred beyond recognition, after a speeding luxury bus collided with a diesel tanker near Manor on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad highway early Wednesday, the third such mishap on NH-8 in the last 10 years.
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For the last 15 years Jen Lewin has been creating large, immersive, interactive art pieces for the public. From interactive sound and light sculptures that inspire people into play, to woven fiber video curtains that reflect movement, or giant, robotic, ethereal moths that dance based on human touch. Lewin’s ability to utilize technology as a medium is rare and unprecedented. She brings an organic, feminine quality to her electronic work that leaves viewers enchanted and surprised.
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Speaker Boehner: Where Are the President's Spending Cuts?
Location: Washington, DC
"Mr. Speaker, last week, Republicans made a serious offer to avert the fiscal cliff, and most of it was based on testimony given last year by President Clinton's former chief of staff, Erskine Bowles. And as Mr. Bowles himself said on Sunday: "we have to cut spending.'
"Well he's right. Washington has a spending problem. Let's be honest - we're broke. And the plan that we've offered is consistent with the president's call for a "balanced approach.'
"A lot of people know that the president and I met on Sunday. It was a nice meeting, it was cordial. But we're still waiting for the White House to identify what spending cuts the president is willing to make as part of the "balanced approach' that he promised the American people.
"You know, where are the president's spending cuts? The longer the White House slow-walks this process, the closer our economy gets to the fiscal cliff.
"Well here's what we do know. We know that the president wants more "stimulus' spending and an increase in the debt limit without any cuts or reforms. That's not fixing our problem. Frankly, it's making it worse.
"And on top of that, the president wants to raise tax rates on many small business owners. Now even if we did exactly what the president wants, we would see red ink for as far as the eye can see. That's not fixing our problem either -- it's making it worse and it's hurting our economy.
"I think the members know, I'm an optimist. I'm hopeful that we can reach an agreement. This is a serious issue and there's a lot at stake. The American people sent us here to work together towards the best possible solution, and that means cutting spending.
"Now if the president doesn't agree with our approach, he's got an obligation to put forward a plan that can pass both chambers of the Congress. Because right now the American people have to be scratching their heads and wondering, "when is the president going to get serious?'"
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Top 10 Ways Corporate Food Is Making Us Fat and Threatening Our Food Supplies
It all starts with the collosal power that organized businesses have over Congress.
While it is much better than the fascisms of the Right and the Left, one of the big drawbacks of corporate democracy is that the people are often outgunned. Large corporations account for half of the national economy and pay more for lobbyists to write and pass laws in Congress favorable to themselves than they do in Federal taxes. The way in which the Congressional committees that are supposed to watch certain industries actually become beholden to them is called ‘legislative capture.’
For this reason, I don’t entirely trust the US government any more to look out for our health. We are increasingly exposed to thousands of chemicals that haven’t really been tested (plastics are full of them). We’re not even given the courtesy of knowing which foods are genetically modified so we can make a market choice for the natural ones.
Here are the top ten disturbing news stories about our food that have come across my screen in recent days, and which inspire a certain amount of alarm in me.
1. Sugary, i.e. non-diet soft drinks make you fat, especially if you are genetically at greater risk of being fat. According to a study about to appear in the New England Journal of Medicine, teens who had genes that disposed them to put on weight easily were twice as likely to be obese if they drank a lot of soda pop. Pre-modern human beings who lived in conditions of food scarcity probably tried to bulk up when they saw a drought becoming prolonged, and there would have been a survival advantage to being able to put on weight quickly when you were trying. So likely those teens’ bodies thought all the sugar they were being fed was a sign of famine coming, and obliged by storing a lot of fat to get through it. For a certain percentage of the population, extra calories are actually subject to a multiplier effect inside their own bodies. (It can even happen to Lady Gaga.)
Soft drinks have like 160- 180 calories per can and nobody can afford all that in their diet even once daily.
In other words, not only is Mayor Bloomberg’s policy of banning supersized soft drinks in New York justified, actually people should just never drink sugary soft drinks.
2. Here’s the kicker. It isn’t just the sugar that puts some people at risk of obesity. It is bisphenol A or BPA, a chemical used to coat the aluminum cans in which soft drinks come (as well as soup and other cans) so as to prevent them from rusting. A recent study in JAMA found that the one fourth of the thousands of children and adolescents in their study that had the most BPA in their urine were twice as likely to be obese as those in the one fourth that had the least BPA. So I guess if they were drinking sugary sodas out of cans, they were really doomed to be obese. BPA has been implicated in other studies in “diabetes, cardiovascular disease, reproductive disorders, and obesity in adults.”
Think you can get away from BPA by avoiding cans and going to plastic bottles instead? Think again. It is widely used in the making of clear plastics, and there is evidence that it seeps into us from them.
Glass is better.
When exactly will the US government have enough evidence to ban BPA? When we’re all 400 pounds?
3. The Consumer Union has found concerning levels of arsenic in American-grown rice. Apparently much rice in the US is grown in the Southwest and West on land that used to be used for cotton, on which arsenic-laden pesticides were used for decades. Arsenic can cause cancer. Me, I never like to hear the phrases “arsenic” and “in your food” in the same sentence.
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All integral instant products have a timing layer that kicks in roughly 2 - 5 minutes after the pod bursts and this brings the pH down which shuts off development.
All instant products, just like all normal photo products are temperature sensitive and the results vary with temperature.
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Sheetfilm, though having trouble w/ sources in the past has supposedly worked through those issues. whole plate film ASA 25, 25 sheets for 34 euros is a great deal. Think of this as Ilford's special order process but much much cheaper. Along the same lines, it will probably take about 2-3 months for the orders to be filled, so do not expect the boxes to be in your hands until around Christmas time...a good present in my book!
Also, if still interested in whole plate here is a great site by RJ:
I ordered about 8 boxes and will wait patiently for their arrival.
BTW just read in here somewhere that using film in a plate holder has some unique challenges...meaning how do you keep the film still in a slot made for thicker glass. 1) cut a metal (aluminum most likely) the same size as the glass, used to fill the space. 2) Use honey/jam as a "glue" to bind the film to the metal sheet. MAKE sure non-emulsion side is stuck to metal.
On the above honey/jam glue never tried it but seems to be a common practice, ymmv.
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Robert Harting, an equipment specialist with the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Research Development Command, goes for a spin in his "Critter," a three-wheeled lightweight vehicle that he drives to work whenever the weather permits.
Is it electric' Is it a boat' Where's the rest of it'
Drivers and pedestrians may have noticed an odd shaped vehicle motoring around Aberdeen Proving Ground lately.
The small, white, low-to-the-ground contraption that resembles a car is actually a motorcycle owned by Robert Harting, an equipment specialist who commutes from Laurel, Md., every day.
Harting came into possession of the vehicle labeled the Critter in 2002. He said it was invented in 1990 as a prototype for a commuter vehicle.
"The inventor made three of them and then changed the body to make it more aerodynamic," Harting said. "Most people think that I built it but I can't take credit for it."
Plans for building a similar vehicle can be found on the Web site, www.rqriley.com, Harting said.
"There's no kit, you have to buy the plans and build it from the ground up," he said.
Harting's Critter is a three-wheeled two-seater, light-weight at just over 1,200 pounds with a 100 horsepower Subaru station wagon motor, a five-speed transmission and dual Harley Road King mufflers. It has a fiberglass body with no doors, a Corvette windshield and removable Plexiglas windows.
Averaging just over 40 mpg, Harting said that the mileage, while decent, is not the main reason he enjoys driving the vehicle.
"The great advantage is that it's a motorcycle, but you don't have to abide by motorcycle rules," he said, adding that since he's had the Critter he's been pulled over three times - the first for having only one license plate; the second for not wearing a seat belt and the third for not wearing a helmet.
"Motorcycles only have one tag," he chuckled. He said that although the Critter has seat belts he doesn't have to use them because motorcycles aren't equipped with seat belts and that he's not required to wear a helmet because of the Critter's enclosed cabin.
Even though it looks like a car, because it only has three wheels, two in the front and one in the back, the Critter is officially registered as a motorcycle, Harting explained.
"But I do keep the registration handy," he said.
He calls the Critter "a very basic vehicle" with few frills.
"I only drive it when it's not going to rain because it was made for California weather, so it leaks," he said. "It has no heater so I don't drive it in the winter, and there's no air conditioner either."
He said he does all the maintenance on the Critter but has been a little pressed for time with the recent move.
"It's not in the greatest shape," he said. "It just needs a little T.L.C."
An employee with a branch (C2D) of the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center that was formerly located at Fort Belvoir, Va., Harting's job relocated to APG over the summer due to Base Realignment and Closure.
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Hi. Over the last couple years I've picked up some used speakers here and there and put together the following system:
Fronts: Boston Acoustics VR-950 (Black)
Center: Boston Acoustics VR-12 (Black)
Rears: Boston Acoustcs CR6 (Black)
Sub: AV123 X-Sub (Cherry)
I like the sound of everything I have, but, being second-hand speakers, they look less than pristine. The looks hardly bother me, but my girlfriend sort of has opposite tastes. She doesn't care how they sound, but she would like them to match and fit the decor. The VR-950's sock-body is particularly troublesome. ;-)
Now, I'm not about to roll over and throw this set out, but I'm no stranger to compromise either. If I could put together a better looking affordable set with comparable sound, then maybe I could switch and sell off all the Bostons. In the least, I need to move on to a black subwoofer. I may be able to press my luck to keep the rest for a few years. :-)
Not having heard a lot of consistent speaker setups, I have a hard time judging speaker quality based mainly on internet reviews. The main thing I'm having trouble with is comparing the quality of a used set of mass-market stuff like mine with some of the internet companies like HSU, SVS, and AV123.
Since I've been looking at a subwoofer upgrade, I've ended up staring a lot at Hsu's VTF-2MK3/HB-1/HC-1 package and SVS' PB-10NSD/SBS-01 set. Should I expect a quality sound from these types of packages that is similar to my current set? Could it be better or worse? I really have no idea.
I use my set for 50% music and 50% home theater, but I'm much more concerned with the musical sound.
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Orange flavoured biscuits topped with bright orange icing and a simple chocolate icing. These easy biscuits will make you smile.
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1. For the biscuits, beat the butter and sugar and orange zest together in a bowl until light and fluffy.
2. Lay out a sheet of cling film on a clean work surface.
3. Add the egg to the mixture and beat together. Add the flour to bring together as a dough.
4. Wrap the dough in cling film and refrigerate it for at least 15 minutes.
5. Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4.
6. Flour the work surface and then roll the dough gently, using a floured rolling pin, until about 0.5cm/¼in thick.
7. Cut out the biscuits using biscuits cutters of your choice.
8. Transfer to a baking tray using a palette knife, ensuring the biscuits are well spaced apart. Bake for 10-15 minutes, or until lightly golden-brown.
9. Remove to a wire rack to cool.
10. For the icing, sift the icing sugar and divide it between two bowls. Sift the cocoa powder into one of the bowls.
11. Gradually add the liquid to each bowl, a teaspoon at a time, until the icing is thick but runny. If it is too runny, add more sifted icing sugar.
12. Add a drop of orange food colouring to the white icing.
13. Put the icing into two separate piping bags. Pipe orange and brown patterns onto the biscuits. Leave to harden to serve.
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Boddingtons Pub Ale - Boddingtons
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1,944 Ratings
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Ratings: 1944
Reviews: 1025
rAvg: 3.2
pDev: 20.63%
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United Kingdom (England)
Style | ABV
English Pale Ale | 4.70% ABV
Availability: Year-round
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Photo of dnichols
2.03/5 rDev -36.6%
I poured a pint from a nitro-can into a challis.
A: This is a very, very light straw yellow with a pure white head. The head lingered deep into the experience and reminded me of whipped cream.
S: Hardly any aroma was discernable. There was a whiff of alcohol and otherwise the only order was of yeast.
T: Bland. Nothing spectacular or even notable. There is a hint of malt and a bitter aftertaste that fades quickly after each swallow.
M: Silky smooth with a bit of bitter edge that leaves a sour residual in my mouth.
D: I had a difficult time finishing even half a pint. I could drink this beer all night long
but why do it.
Comment: Another unremarkable product from our friends across the pond. Despite my love of ales I guess when consuming products from the empire the sun never set on I will stick with fish and chips.
Serving type: nitro-can
09-17-2007 02:20:17 | More by dnichols
Photo of francisweizen
2/5 rDev -37.5%
I had a bad pint of this at the Goose in Brixton. The lines were obviously not cared for at that establishment and you can tell as this murky beer with no head arrived. The aroma was sour and bad, as was the taste. The mouthfeel was still creamy, but that did not save the drinkability at all on this one!
Serving type: cask
11-04-2003 05:33:24 | More by francisweizen
Photo of thehooksman
North Carolina
2/5 rDev -37.5%
Pouring this out into a glass is an exciting experience. It pours a cloudy beige color that cascades down in the glass and settles to a clear weak tea color with a thick white creamy head. It smells of sweet honey and mild hops. You'd think this beer was going to be awesome. It looks like a million bucks... but no. Based on the aroma the flavor is extremely disappointing. It tastes like stale water with a touch of bitter. The body is water thin with no carbonation or cream. Poured it out.
On a second tasting, I tried it warm (never in fridge) and it was an improvement... barely. So if you like warm, flat beer, this is for you.
Serving type: nitro-can
10-07-2011 01:55:18 | More by thehooksman
Photo of skillerified
1.98/5 rDev -38.1%
Brought to the table looking a little paler than most English Pales I've sampled, but not a bad color. A little orange and tan. Decent one finger head with equally decent retention.
Scent was weak. A slight favoring of malt, but little else.
Taste was also weak. Again, a slight malt flavor, but little else. Thoroughly lacking that mineral quality that I've come to expect of these hard water British beers. No complexity, no depth. Just a slight sweet malt.
Mouthfeel was particularly bad in my opinion. The body has only a slightly higher consistancy than water. Just not appealing at all.
Goes down easy doesn't necessarily taste bad, but there's nothing to make me want another either.
Serving type: on-tap
05-29-2006 20:21:29 | More by skillerified
Photo of adamette
1.98/5 rDev -38.1%
Poured into a 16 oz. clear glass at Winking Lizard in Mentor, Ohio
A Creamy, thin bubbled head remained for at least 60 seconds, interesting at least.
S Mild, Barley. Not much smell really
T Creamy, acidic, then taste of lake water (echhh!) followed by a fairly pleasant after taste. All tastes (except for the mid taste of lake water) are subtle. This is not a tasty beer.
M fine
D poor. I will not seek this one out again.
Serving type: on-tap
04-09-2008 03:18:15 | More by adamette
Photo of KeefD
1.98/5 rDev -38.1%
The appearance score is high on this one only because the "nitro-can" effect is entertaining to watch for a few seconds. When it's over, it's all downhill from there.
I just don't enjoy these nitro-can beers. They're flat. That's all there is too it. You gotta have at least some carbonation in a beer or just tastes like old, lifeless skunk beer.
The taste on this beer isn't bad. I actually like the hints of maltiness and decent fruity-hop background. Just wish there was some carbonation here.
Full-bodied to be sure, but just missing too much.
Probably would not drink this again.
Serving type: nitro-can
04-15-2008 05:36:27 | More by KeefD
Photo of biglite351
1.98/5 rDev -38.1%
A - clear golden with an amazing stout lasting foam.
S - smelt Luke cheap domestic.
T - super lite. Almost watery. The bar maid was wrong on this one. She must like very lite brews.
M - almost unnoticed. Bland.
D - like glasses of water, why bother? This is easily drinkable, but not worth paying for.
Serving type: on-tap
03-15-2010 22:21:32 | More by biglite351
Photo of jmich24
1.98/5 rDev -38.1%
A: Poured from a nitro can. Obviously huge head, dense off white two fingers once setelled. Great lacing. Light amber color very clear.
S: Sweet carmel malt and yeast.
T: Very bland. some yeast and sweet malts again. Very earthy hopiness.
M: Not as think as expected. Somewhat thin and wet.
D: This was not drinkable because the taste is unpleasant to me.
Drain Pour. Never Again.
Serving type: nitro-can
09-14-2010 03:16:24 | More by jmich24
Photo of mwilbur
1.98/5 rDev -38.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 1.75
Poured from can into pint glass.
A: Pours a clear gold with 1 inch creamy/foamy head. Good retention.
S: Mild malt and even milder hops. A bit off here.
T: Wow...horrible. Like water, but only worse. Absolutely bad.
M: Light body. Watery. Creamy feel from the nitro is the only saving grace here.
D: Very, very bad. Don't waste your time. So many better beers to enjoy...
Serving type: nitro-can
12-30-2013 05:44:51 | More by mwilbur
Photo of stumac
1.95/5 rDev -39.1%
This can exploded when i opened it. Not much to say about this beer. Gold in color. nice white head though. smell has very faint hops. taste is ugly bitter. Too watery for me. All in all, i would rather hump the hell out of a yak's sweet ass and then lap up the hot sweat dripping off of its scrodum.
Serving type: nitro-can
03-10-2008 21:16:07 | More by stumac
Photo of rudolphjacksonm
1.9/5 rDev -40.6%
A - Golden color with a few bubbles here and there. Very thick, creamy white head. 3.0
S - Strong sour apple/fruit notes. Not too impressive otherwise. 2.0
T - The taste is very light and brief. It's disappointing; considering the creamy texture of this beer you'd think it'd be full of flavor, but instead it's only a flash in the pan. Has a mild, sweet malt flavor mixed with a sour, metallic taste in the beginning which dissolves into a bready, grain alcohol taste. Barely any aftertaste at all except maybe more bread or yeast. 1.5
M - Really creamy and buttery, especially if you sip just the head at the beginning. The texture is really nice. It's light and easy to drink, but also creamy and filling. 3.5
O - I think Boddington's has its place as a beer to drink at the pub on a warm summer day. It's cheap, easy to drink and tastes...good enough. But I think compared to other cheaper brews, it falls far short on flavor. This may be due to the fact that it's been imported and didn't survive the trip, though I won't be able to say until I make another trip over to the UK and try it on-tap. 2.0
Serving type: can
02-10-2012 19:49:50 | More by rudolphjacksonm
Photo of granite
New Hampshire
1.88/5 rDev -41.3%
Nitro-can into a pint glass
A--- Poured a pale straw with a typical nitro head.
S--- Acetaldehyde and solvent-like aromas.
T--- Metallic tasting with mild bitterness. A little malt emerged after it warmed up a little.
M--- Thin to medium bodied. It would be watery if it was not for the beer gas.
D--- To much cane sugar in the grist most likely caused the cider aroma and thinned out the body. The metallic taste could only come from the can so I'm not sure if the aluminum was exposed or just a poorly crafted can. Honestly, it was just awful
Serving type: nitro-can
01-23-2007 14:32:14 | More by granite
Photo of kjyost
Manitoba (Canada)
1.88/5 rDev -41.3%
Poured into a pilsner glass
Pours clear and a little darker than straw yellow with the thick foam head you have come to expect from a widget, and therefore laces heavily. I know some people hate nitro, but the cascade is beautiful...
Aroma is hard to detect at first (I always find nitro head does that), but comes through as much more vegetal than I expect, disgustingly so.
Taste is cooked vegetal and canned corn along with a hint of honey, apple and a bit of earthy bitterness.
Finishes clean and smooth, but is almost bland as there isn't enough carbonation left in the beer.
Overall: Why did I go and try this beer again? Why? I thought that I had enjoyed it before, but now that I have tried so many that are so good I know better... Sigh. Why must I no longer like a crap beer?
Serving type: nitro-can
03-28-2011 02:47:35 | More by kjyost
Photo of chumba526
1.85/5 rDev -42.2%
Appears an orange like golden color with a thick full bodied white head.
It smells metallic, of oats, sugary, and mildly of toffee. Does not smell bad but I don't like the metallic smell.
It really does not taste like much. There is a metallic taste, a sweet mild biscuit tasting malt flavor and that is it. It is unforgettable and bland. It's the kind of beer that could put you to sleep in the middle of a sip.
There is a slight creamy texture and a low carbonation.
It drinks like water as there is not very much flavor to the beer. I however don't want to drink another one of these because it is so boring.
Serving type: nitro-can
11-13-2010 01:00:40 | More by chumba526
Photo of SigEp
1.8/5 rDev -43.8%
Nice to look at, I guess, pours a very see-through gold color with the nitro-head. Smooth mouthfeel due to the nitro and no real carbonation, which works for guiness because of the richness of the brew, but here just points out the places where this one truly lacks. Slightly sweet flavor, very little hops, in the nose or on the palate. The after-feel in the mouth is slightly chalky, like drinking dust. Tastes like a flat, bad, near-macro. Not impressed.
Serving type: bottle
11-05-2003 19:19:05 | More by SigEp
Photo of rousee
1.78/5 rDev -44.4%
This beer has a cascading settle to it very similar to that of Guinness or Caffreys but the color here is very very gold-yellow. Crayola used to have a crayon color called maize which might describe the color better. There was a time when I used to like a Boddingtons-Guinness black and tan and I am sure glad those days are over.
I tried this beer yesterday (8/21/04) in some taste tournaments of the various beers that were available on tap at a downtown Boston pub. The others we compared and tested (there were 3 of us) were Pilsner Urquel, Harpoon IPA, Smithwicks, Sam Adams blue label, Sam Adams Summer Ale, and Bass. I really thought this was the worst beer of all. Each other beer had something going for it except this one. My friends felt the same way. Bitter and a woody finish but woody in a dirty piece of wood way. Nothing to like about the mouthfeel or drinkability either.
Serving type: on-tap
08-22-2004 17:18:36 | More by rousee
Photo of ggroller
1.78/5 rDev -44.4%
You better be standing outside or near a sink when you crack this one. The un-tapped can is an explosion waiting to happen. I drank this beer several times over the course of a couple of years because I am trying to see what my buddy sees in this crap. In my opinion, it's no different than any of the light beers I have ever tasted. Miller, Keystone, Coors, etc.,etc. This stuff is awful. The only enjoyment I get out of this beer is watching the cascade after I pour it into a glass. The color is clear straw, the smell is faintly fruity, the taste and mouthfeel are lacking, and the finish is clear and clean to the point of it being water.
Boddingtons. I just don't get it.
Serving type: nitro-can
01-11-2005 23:25:14 | More by ggroller
Photo of satchmo91
1.78/5 rDev -44.4%
First off, the can exploded. I found this beer at my local supermarket in a four-pack of tall cans. My friend opened one before the rest of us and warned us that his exploded all over him, so we were cautious, but the damn thing blew up on us too! The next day, we let our other friend have the last one...explode.
This beer is dangerous.
A - Crystal clear orange-brown with creamy, very white head.
S - Very wheaty. Smelled to me like a typical American adjunct lager with a slight sweetness character.
T - Very watery and thin tasting. Very similar to a BMC. Some of my friends who reviewed with me said that it was actually tasteless.
M - Light-bodied, thin and watery.
D - The finish brought out a wheaty flavour with time, but never really improved the taste. This beer is decently drinkable if you aren't looking to have a ton of flavour, just something cold. Overall, not very impressed.
Serving type: can
09-13-2010 23:20:15 | More by satchmo91
Photo of MusicmanSD
1.75/5 rDev -45.3%
Boddingtons, when you get down to it, is just downright nasty. It looks good. Pours an awesome crème' head with a sort of horse piss looking body. The smell is interesting, a little buttery, but not much else. Taste is just $#@%#^T awkward! Its creamy, offensive, and bitter at the same time. I keep giving it chances to win me over, but every time I try before I finish a pint it hits my yacking mechanism. Its much better to start out drinking this, because if you have any other beer before this, it reminds you of milk. The mouthfeel is typical nitro flat fluff. The drinkability is just gross, I still can't get used to it. Don't know how the Brit's drink it, but I gotta hand it to them blokes for staying with it!
Serving type: nitro-can
08-14-2006 03:55:27 | More by MusicmanSD
Photo of kegger22
1.75/5 rDev -45.3%
I first tasted Boddingtons Pub Ale about 5 months ago. I held off reviewing this beer in order to try to gain some perspective. I believe that I have.
My overwhelming impression is that this is one weak-ass beer. Water has considerably more flavor. Wait, there is a taste, but it is like dissolving a gram of sugar into a five gallon jug of water. It pours a cascade of foam out of the nitro can and quickly resolves itself into a clear, dark yellow with a very respectable head. There is no appreciable aroma to the common man. Mouthfeel falls right into line with taste. The highlight of this beer is it's drinkability; I could detect no alcohol and could drink this all day...but why would I want to? Boddingtons Pub Ale is not so much a "drain pour" as a "why bother." It is not, however, the worst beer I have ever tasted.
Serving type: nitro-can
09-25-2009 20:03:12 | More by kegger22
Photo of AltBock
1.73/5 rDev -45.9%
1 pint nitro can. The can itself is a bright yellow color with a black bottom. The word Boddingtons is in a horseshoe aorund their symbol, a barrel with gold rims and around those rims are honey bees. I guess their queen or honey is in that barrel, I don't know. The back of the can had some info about the brewery, info about the beer, info about their DraughtFlow system, correct serving temperature, and correct pouring procedure.
When I first popped the tab, it sounded like a snake hissing. HISSSS!! After I gained control of the flow, I poured it into my Brooklyn Brewery pint glass. The beer was this clear amber color with a massive head of white and creamy head of foam. The head of foam still remained during the duration of the beer. Every time it receded, it left plenty of lace in its tracks. Very Nice!
The aroma only had the slightest faint smell of bitter spicy hops and some fruit in the background. Not much going on in the aroma department!
The taste was EXTREMELY watery! That was the initial taste and after that there was only a slightest bit of flavor of just very little malt and very little hops. Sometimes it felt that I was drinking hops flavored water. It wasn't too awful, except for the fact there was nothing going on in the taste.
The mouthfeel is just what I guessed after the taste, very light and very watery. Granted there was a slight bitter aftertaste in there, but only very slight. It's not that noticeable.
Drinkability: Since there was little flavor in this, You can probably chug a couple down if you wanted to. Everything except for the appearance, was just bad. I won't spend another $2 for this beer again.
Serving type: nitro-can
04-05-2006 19:12:03 | More by AltBock
Photo of randyw41
1.73/5 rDev -45.9%
Paid out way too much for this stuff. Bland, almost flat tasting. Came in a four pack, was charged Bud Beer case prices. Would not purchase again, even if on sale.
Pale in appearance.
Not much carbonation too speak of.
Very flat tasting, not pleasant on the palate.
Serving type: can
01-16-2010 15:26:27 | More by randyw41
Photo of SchmoTerp
1.7/5 rDev -46.9%
A - Poured from a nitro-can into a pint glass creating a dense foam from bottom to top. Once settle, a nice thick head of foam that lingered for a few minutes. Looks really interesting.
S - ??? Can you review something that isn't there? I gave it a 2.0 simply because the beer did cause one to gag.
T - Bland. Flat. I can't even pretend to pick a flavor out.
M - Horrible. I'm not gagging, but my mouth is much closer to a frown than a smile.
O - I suppose this is what you get when you hear a beer name on a rerun of Friends. This beer will not be permitted in my fridge, even for temporary storage. Rarely does a beer get poured out....but this one isn't even worth finishing.
Serving type: nitro-can
04-14-2011 04:44:09 | More by SchmoTerp
1.68/5 rDev -47.5%
The beer looked great. The formation and retention of the head was nice to look at. Unfortunately the liquid was seriously devoid of any recognizable flavor. No hops, no malt, not even a bad flavor, just very,very bland. I have never been a big fan of nitro cans. These were a freebie from a friend so I am not out anything. I am going to try the other two 16oz cans later, if the taste changes I will revise my review. If not I will just look forward to trying something new!
Serving type: nitro-can
05-07-2005 04:15:55 | More by MUSHROOMCLOUD
Photo of erz316
1.68/5 rDev -47.5%
A - poured from the token black and yellow can a perfect head, as per usual, and has a lighter amber colour. not relevant to the style, however.
S - aromas...hmm. Well, I might say that I could blame smelling nothing on my sinuses, but I remedied that problem. I guess then I would say it has, if much of anything, a slight metallic ambiance from the can.
T - very smooth, the head is thick, and I have to agitate the beer in my mouth to effect a stronger bitterness from the hops.
MF - the lack of taste and carbonation leave me wanting to chug the whole glass, as I am thirsty. However, the wateriness is off putting to me, and should not be a characteristic of a beer of this sort, though, their tm 'smooth and creamy' does ring loud, but not to any good effect.
D - very drinkable as mentioned above, but again, too drinkable. It is very much chug-able like a similar nitro-can stout I know and disdain.
Serving type: nitro-can
01-04-2009 22:54:08 | More by erz316
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Phones That Do It All Except Make Coffee
Personal Business: WORKING FROM HOME
So you've decided to get out of the corporate rat race and start your own
business at home. But you're used to all those wonderful support services back at headquarters--receptionists, voice mail, fax machines scattered about, conference calls. And although you may want to scrap the daily commute, you're not keen about customers and suppliers thinking you're some fly-by-night operation run out of the back bedroom.
Well, the good news is it's easy to create the illusion that a one-person, home-based operation is a much larger company. And you don't have to shell out thousands of dollars on integrated personal computer/telephones and sophisticated telecommunications equipment. In most regions of the U.S., home workers can get office-like phone services for an additional $10 to $12 a month from the local phone company.
You may already subscribe to one or two--call waiting or voice messaging, for example. But, say phone company marketers, it doesn't take long for home-office users to realize they could be much more efficient with a few more, such as call forwarding, caller identification, three-way calling, and call blocking.
Even the most popular services can be embellished for business use. Take voice messaging. Most subscribers use this at-home version of the voice-mail service found in large offices as an answering-machine substitute. But in almost every state you can add features that will forward a message to your beeper, allow you to set up several mailboxes for other family members or co-workers, or send a message to another number to be delivered at a future date. Pacific Bell is testing a Daily Reporter service that gives voice-message subscribers information on more than 100 topics, such as the latest news from Washington and Wall Street, while Bell Atlantic just introduced a feature in Montgomery County, Md., that allows users to broadcast a message to every other subscriber in the county.
Once you've got a fancy voice-message service, you might want to think about caller ID. Available in every state except California, it displays the phone number of an incoming call on a screen located on the phone or an attached computer monitor. Caller ID rates range from $4 to $7.50 a month, but to use it you must invest at least $50 in a phone with an LCD screen. Also, it has generally not worked for long-distance calls, but as of this month, a Federal Communications Commission ruling requires long-distance carriers to start passing calling information to the local phone companies.
As consulting group BIS Strategic Decisions notes, caller ID combined with a PC and special software "can allow for a variety of never-before-imagined capabilities and benefits." For example, your PC can be programmed so that a file on regular customers pops up before the call is answered. U S West can combine call waiting, caller ID, and voice messaging: When you hear the call-waiting tone, you can identify the call and either take it or forward it to voice mail.
MORE LINES. Once you've got all these services, you're probably going to need extra phone lines, especially if you are running a fax and sending data out from your computer. At that point you might want to install an integrated services digital network line. An ISDN line is essentially three high-speed digital phone lines rolled into one, allowing you to simultaneously send and receive voice calls, faxes, and computer data, all at much higher speeds than a standard analog phone line. The cost of ISDN installation is high--from $80 to $250, depending on the provider--but the monthly charge is usually about the same as two standard phone lines.
Besides, by adding ISDN and the like, you might start feeling like you've got all the advantages of the corporate setting again--without the rat race.
Who Needs a Receptionist?
There are plenty of local phone company services that can make the plain-vanilla handset at your home-based business work like a corporate telecom system
VOICE MAIL Some carriers offer more sophisticated features, such as pager
notification and separate mailboxes for each household member.
AUTOMATIC Press a code, hang up, and your phone will keep dialing a busy
REDIAL or unanswered number. When a connection is made, your phone
will ring, signaling you to pick up.
THREE-WAY Lets you add a third person to a call, allowing on-the-fly
CALLING conferencing; especially helpful to connect clients with your
contract workers in faraway cities.
CALLER ID This feature displays the number of the incoming call on the
screen of a specially equipped phone or can be linked to your
PC, allowing you to greet customers by name or instantly
access their customer file.
ISDN LINE A high-speed phone line that can send and receive voice,
faxes, and computer transmissions simultaneously.
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More organizations are using a visitor survey tool on their Web sites lately. Not so long ago, when running workshops I'd asked how many people were running surveys on their sites. Maybe 20 percent of the attendees would put their hands up. These days, it's probably about 50 percent. That crude survey is indicative of the wider adoption of visitor feedback mechanisms as part of the digital analytics toolkit.
Why the increased adoption? First, online survey capabilities across all levels of sophistication are more available. These surveys have become more productized, making them easier for organizations to buy and deploy. Examples within the customer satisfaction measurement space include 4Q, a limited but free survey tool, and ForSee Results and iPerceptions, more enterprise-level products.
Second, organizations realize they can't measure their digital marketing strategies' effectiveness by looking only at clickstream data. Web analytics tools can tell you what happened in terms of visitor behavior and when it happened, but they aren't necessarily the best tools for telling you who did what and why they did it. Survey data can provide this different perspective. By asking people questions about themselves, why they do what they do, and what they think, it's possible to fill in some of the blanks left by the volumes of clickstream data at our disposal.
As with all measurement and analysis tools and systems, the amount of thought and preparation put into configuration and deployment pays dividends later on in terms of the data's quality and robustness. Survey tools are no different. There are various approaches that an organization might take to developing and launching a survey.
First, it may choose to outsource the whole thing to an agency to manage on its behalf. The agency would be responsible for designing the questionnaire, scripting the questionnaire in whichever survey tool they use, deploying the survey, collecting the data, and analyzing results. Most organizations take this approach when doing offline market research, and there's nothing wrong with using the same approach online. The organization's main concern is to ensure the research objectives are clear and aligned to its business objectives, and to ensure the survey is fit for purpose and holds up to brand values. This last point is particularly important, as evidence suggests poorly executed online surveys can damage the brand whether they live on the site or are sent via e-mail. I've been on the receiving end of some surveys where the survey's style was completely at odds with the brand.
Alternatively, an organization could choose to design and manage the survey itself. Today, there is no end of free or cheap survey tools that allow you to run surveys of varying complexity. Quite often a provider will offer a free or low-cost basic version that has limited functionality and data capture and will offer a more expensive, higher-end tool that allows more complex questionnaires to be designed and more responses to be captured.
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Comic Vine Battle of the Week RESULTS: Guardians of the Galaxy vs. X-Force
What happens when these two teams fight? Come see who won and why!
Brian Michael Bendis' Guardians of the Galaxy or Christopher Yost's X-Force? The community had all week to think about this brawl and now only one side is left standing. One team kept a moderate lead the entire time, but the poll did fluctuate to some degree and there was never too large of a gap between the two sides. Well, after five days of discussion and voting, the winner is clear: the Comic Vine community sides with the Guardians of the Galaxy.
The combination of skill, firepower and powers gave the Guardians of the Galaxy a decent lead over Wolverine's team. The group of aliens earned 54% and X-Force took 40% of the votes. 6% believe this one is too close to call.
The Viner arguments and Corey 'Undeadpool' Schroeder's post are crazy long this week, but they're also extremely entertaining. The first post is incredibly confident the Guardians will dominate the battle and the other two explain how they think the fight would play out in out in a very, very fun way. So, let's just go right ahead and jump into these detailed posts.
Viner Argument of the Week for the Guardians of the Galaxy is by Oy_the_Billy_Bumbler
"Here's why The Guardians absolutely destroy X-Force. This is a no contest in my honest opinion. Several of the Guardians could solo all of X-Force without even breaking a sweat.
X-Force is full of a bunch of Street Level characters to just above Street Level. Sure, they pack a little extra in healing factors and probability manipulation. They can stomp most of Earth based street level teams with ease. They aren't taking on Earth based heroes in this though. The Guardians are characters that were busy saving the universe every day while the Earth based heroes were in the middle of a "Civil War" over a law that was, in the grand scheme of things, very insignificant.
Take Tony Stark for example. Tony Stark joined the Guardians, because he wanted to see what more was out there. Tony Stark has arguably the best tech on Earth. Tony Stark has admitted that he is at least a generation behind what the rest of the universe has to offer in tech. The Guardians have some of the best tech in their weaponry, which puts them even further ahead of even the Iron Man Armors. Rocket Raccoon repeatedly embarrassed Tony and made fun of how primitive the Iron Man armor was in comparison to even the simplest of what Rocket could do with his weaponry, which brings me to Rocket Raccoon.
Rocket Raccoon could blow the entire team away with one shot. There is no debating that. Going back to DnA's great run that established the Guardians, they spent a lot of time trying to keep the Cancerverse from overtaking the 616 universe. In one such occasion, they were battling the Universal Church of Truth. The UCT was trying to bring the Cancerverse into the universe to help resurrect their savior (Thanos). Anyways, they brought a massive Cancerverse creature through the portal. Adam Warlock and Phyla-Vel tried to push the creature back through the portal. Their combined powers were too weak to perform the task. That's why the Guardians have a genius strategist/weapons specialist in Rocket Raccoon. Rocket's grenade packed enough punch to hurt the creature and push it back through the portal. His grenade packed more punch then the combined power of Adam Warlock and Phyla-Vel, who are high tier cosmic level beings.
Staying on Rocket, he is also a master strategist. He was engineered on halfworld to have a genius intelligence for strategy and tactics by the humans who left him to protect the loonies. He also trained to become the sole protector of the loonies on halfworld, which is why he is so dangerous today. Starlord has traveled the entire universe. He has encountered people like Captain America, Tony Stark, Reed Richards, and even Thanos. Starlord has claimed that Rocket Raccoon has the best tactical mind out of everyone he has ever met in the entire universe.
Rocket was the brains behind dropping the babel spire when Ultron and the Phalanx conquered Hala, the homeworld of the Kree. Rocket came up with a plan to have Groot and Mantis take out all of the forces within the babel spire. This is a good time to talk about how easily Groot could destroy X-Force with ease by explaining his powers.
To topple the Babel spire, Groot rooted himself in the structure of the tower. Groot grew so he was as large as the Babel Spire. That's how big he can get when he wants too. That's the Empire State Building size, if not bigger. Groot also gained the ability from Mantis through her pyrokinesis to let Groot manipulate his sap at a molecular level so he can become flammable at will. In case you didn't know, Groot is fireproof, which is one of the first powers he demonstrated way back when he was a villain and has demonstrated recently in his mini-series with Rocket Raccoon. Anyways, Groot burnt down the entire babel spire, and regrew himself from a sprig. This was the decisive move that toppled Ultron.
Groot's size manipulation through growth give him an excellent healing factor. I would argue it is much faster then both Wolverine and X-23's. It is getting better by the day too. If you have been a long time Guardians fan like myself, then you would know that Groot used to be able to talk normally. Now he is only able to say, "I am Groot!". That's not because of him being dumb like most people think. It's because his species wood grows more and more durable as they age. Groot is actually a genius at Reed Richard levels. Maximus explained this to the Guardians, and this was later proven when Rocket traveled to Planet X. Anyways, Groot has become so durable that he has tanked shots from Thanos on two separate occasions and has been left without any damage. Even if Groot is damaged, he can instantly regrow his damaged limbs.
Groot's age has also given him immense strength. I would put his strength quite a bit above a base line savage Hulk. There is plenty of proof to back this up too. Groot has hit Thanos with enough force to make his body fold in half from pain. Groot, more recently was the member picked between both the Avengers and Guardians to put the beat down on Thanos. This roster included the Hulk. Groot puts a pretty impressive beating on the Mad Titan that Hulk has never been able to do to the same effect. Another of Groot's strength feats is killing the Monster of Badoon. The Monster of Badoon has fought the Thing, and beat Grimm in their fight. Groot, however not only beats the Monster of Badoon, he hits him so hard it knocks his head clean off. The Thing is well above a 100 tonner, and Groot hit with strength much higher then the Thing ever could.
Groot could also use his Dendrokinesis for a very easy win. Groot has the power to absorb, and control anything made of wood. He has the power to build a net of trees that is strong enough to carry a village through space, without killing the people in the village from the effects of space, and all the way to his home planet on Planet X. Groot can turn any piece of wood on the battlefield into a living weapon. Groot can also drop sheds of himself, that are basically small dupes of himself. He can create an army of mini-Groots to fight for him. This is one of the reasons why Groot is arguably immortal also. In Groot's current age, he has the power to instantly change his size at will. He can grow from a sprig, to a ten story giant in the matter of seconds. If Groot is destroyed, one of his sheds can grow and get back in the fight.
Another member of the Guardians with a healing factor that is even better then Wolverine and X-23's when combined with her natural durability is Gamora. Gamora has survived the burning of the sun and healed from it. She has intentionally submerged herself in burning lava and acid so she could kill her opponent by dragging him with her. She came out of the lava and acid with absolutely zero damage to her body.
Gamora is more then just a healer though. She was trained by Thanos to master more martial arts styles then even Batman. Batman may have mastered every fighting style on Earth, but he is limited to Earth based fighting styles (unless I'm mistaken and Batman knows some Alien styles too). Gamora has earned her title as the deadliest women in the galaxy. She has fought Ronan the Accuser to a stalemate. Ronan the Accuser has stopped characters as strong as Black Bolt in his tracks and has absorbed Black Bolts power with no damage, but he still had trouble with Gamora. Gamora could easily destroy all of X-factor on her own with her enhanced physicals, healing factor, and far superior skills (sorry Wolverine).
The other mean and green member of the Guardians is Drax. While he is not quite what he used to be as a cosmic level threat, he still is more then enough to dominate X-Force level characters. Drax is easily a 50 tonner, and is said to have a healing factor. To be honest, I don't know if he has a healing factor, because he has never taken any damage. Drax has gone up against an entire army of Annihilus forces when he was abandoned on a planet overrun with the opposing army. Drax was able to fight his way through an entire horde of the Annihilation Wave before making his way to Annihilus ship, where he kills Thanos.
Last but not least on the Guardians is Starlord. Starlord, while not without his own share of impressive feats, is not always the one dealing the huge blows like the rest of his team can. Starlord instead uses his expert leadership to put his team in the right place to win. Included in Starlord's victories by leadership and/or strategy include, the Annihilation Wave, the Phalanx Conquest, and Thanos outwitted on three separate occasions. Starlord always looks like he is flying by the seat of his pants, but he excels at this. He also always has a hidden agenda unknown to anyone but himself. He keeps himself three steps ahead of even the genius that is Thanos at all times. He's proven this time and time again. Batman better watch out, because Starlord is moving in on the title of Prep-Master. If three wins over Thanos because of prep doesn't earn him that title, it definitely puts him as a pretty close contender.
So one of the best leaders in the universe is taking a squad of characters that tackle cosmic level Universe ending threats on a monthly basis to take on a team of Earth based characters that are just above street level at best? Ya, I'll take the Guardians in a 10/10 no contest win here."
Viner Argument of the Week for X-Force is by AustinCY
"Two of my all-time favourite Marvel teams. This is honestly the closest battle I can possibly imagine. Having read Yost's & Remender's X-Force and both Abnett's & Bendis' Guardians of the Galaxy, I'm going to break down what each character contributes to this all out battle:
X-Force: Wolverine is the charismatic and experienced leader who has led many X-Men teams and knows how to fully utilize his team mate's strengths. The X-Force is comprised of cold-hearted killers who are maneuverable and stealthy, which gives them an advantage in this given scenario. Note that, since Wolverine and X-23 having healing factors, they will last longer throughout the battle, in addition to Warpath being extremely resistant to injury. Domino is a wild card because of her probability manipulation which will be troublesome for her to die. Archangel has his metallic feathers that are laced with poisonous chemicals that will paralyze his opponents. Wolverine & X-23 are exceptional hand-to-hand combatants, especially with their adamantium. Warpath is a powerhouse tank that relies on his brute strength and speed. Domino is the clever marksman that will try to pick off the enemies. Archangel will be used to isolate one of Guardians via flight & grab, and will fight one on one somewhere else (as shown in the Dark X-Men series against Bullseye).
Guardians of the Galaxy: Star-Lord is a knowledgeable and crafty leader who is the most familiar with his team mates and what they are capable of doing. However, his leadership skills are not demonstrated as skillfully compared to Wolverine. The Guardians are best shown when fighting individually as opposed to as a team. This will be their greatest downfall. Gamora is the deadliest woman in the universe equipped with a healing factor. Drax the Destroyer is also a powerhouse tank who relies on his brute strength and speed. Both Gamora and Drax are superb killing machines. Rocket Raccoon is the most resourceful with his array of weaponry, explosives and jet pack. Groot is a mighty creature capable of regenerating and expanding his size. The Guardians of the Galaxy are mainly used to fighting lots of alien armies and solving catastrophic galactic problems. Battling the X-Force will offer them a unique challenge.
The Battle:
The fight would begin with the X-Force splitting off into the darkness in which Wolverine has assigned which of his team members would battle who based on the Guardians appearances, weaponry, size, and his limited knowledge on the Guardians. Star-Lord will start making quirky remarks on how mutants are usually friendly and then Rocket Raccoon would join in the chattering. Joking aside, his leadership will not be taken seriously from Drax and Gamora, and would therefore split off from the team to hunt the X-Force down by themselves. Both are very proud warriors who are confident in their fighting skills. Groot follows orders tentatively and stays with Star-Lord and Rocket Raccoon. However, out of nowhere, Archangel shoots his metallic feathers towards the three, forcing them to separate in which Archangel would swiftly swoop and take Rocket Raccoon out of the battle. Star-Lord would try to use his element gun to stop Archangel but it is shot out of his hand by Domino and luckily shatters into pieces due to a weakpoint in the gun. Meanwhile, Warpath would challenge Drax and test each other's might. Both wielding knives in each hand. However, Warpath's knives are bowie knives that are composed of Vibranium which gives him the advantage in this dual. Spectacular battle of knives and muscle but Warpath would end up besting Drax through multiple stabbings. X-23 would sneak attack Gamora from within the shadows but Gamora would deflect that attack. Both combatants are extremely and heavily trained fighters both with a healing factor. Bloodiest dual ever. In the end, Gamora will claim victory and stays true to being the deadliest woman in the galaxy. Wolverine will naturally test Star-Lord's wits and engage in battle but Groot would unexpectedly swipe his woody arm against Wolverine's small stature and send him flying, hitting a nearby building. Without the element gun, Star-Lord is vulnerable and takes cover so that he can think of a strategy to get his team out of this situation. Domino is assigned to taking out Star-Lord and exits the building in which she was sniping from.
Meanwhile, Archangel drops Rocket Raccoon, only to notice that the clever creature strapped his jetpack to Archangel before getting dropped. The jetpack is then detonated as the furry raccoon drops midair. The explosion badly damages Archangel as he spirals to the ground, forcing him to take cover while shooting his feathers. Similarly, Rocket Raccoon will be taking cover, shooting, and talking smack about how he was chosen to get isolated from the team. In the end, Rocket Raccoon will outsmart the Apocalypse Horseman strategically through means of various blasts of weaponry accurately aimed where Archangel cannot protect himself. However, Rocket Raccoon would have to return back to the battle without any transportation. Wolverine fights Groot head-on and manages to take apart Groot piece by piece. Wolverine is a swift samurai who can outspeed Groot's predictable attacks. In the end, all there would be left of Groot would be a splinter of wood. Domino would eventually hunt down Star-Lord but to her surprise, Star-Lord manages to catch her off guard and disarms her weapon. Star-Lord would begin to flirt his way out and mention that his element gun was his favourite weapon. Although Domino would be flattered, she would agree to fight him hand-to-hand combat seeing that she destroyed his element gun and wouldn't mind to fight fairly. A very interesting fight would occur. In the end, Wolverine would show up and slash Star-Lord from behind, terribly wounding him from continuing to fight. Wolverine would say something about how he lacks the respect from his team and the leadership to execute the battle. Star-Lord would smile and say something about how he was wrong about mutants being friendly. To make things short, Wolverine, Warpath and Domino would take on Gamora. X-23 would unexpectedly attack her and Gamora would be defeated by all four. Afterwards, they would hunt down the lone Rocket Raccoon. He will use up all of his ammunition and explosives to defend himself to the best of his ability, but his weapons would eventually deplete and would be taken out by the X-Force.
Ultimately, X-Force would win under Wolverine's cunning strategic leadership, stealth, and bloodthirsty mentality."
Corey 'Undeadpool' Schroeder, Comic Vine Writer
"I still don't see how it's any of our business what a bunch of earthbound mutants get into..." Gamora scoffed, circling at the back of the group, her rifle raised, but contempt obvious in her voice.
" extraterrestrial parasite infects some of the deadliest mutants on the planet...and heroic ones, no less...we get involved." Quill muttered, his eyes darting back and forth, his breaths coming in quick, measured moments.
"The tree and the rodent being here ain't helping our incognito status, evacuation or not..." Drax pointed out, emerging from one of the many desolated structures.
"What'd you call me?! WHAT DID YOU CALL ME?!" Rocket broke formation and strode up to the man three times his height, lowering the massive launcher on his shoulder.
"I AM GROOT!" intoned the massive wood man.
"That's right! And...wait, what?" Rocket spun from Drax, looking up, "Oh damnation!" he readied his weapon and fired at the shape. The rocket exploded nearby, sending him crashing to the ground next to Groot. He righted himself, his metallic wings firing bladed feathers in a cloud, embedding themselves in the tree's hide. He underestimated how fast the not-ent would be, though, finding his neck clutched in unyielding hands that squeezed with incredible force.
"Eyes open! They're likely to-" Gamorra was cut off by a the sound of glass breaking, followed by a strange smell and finally small figure leaping from a rooftop and tumbling through a doorway with her just as it began to rain. The strange thing was, the bottle hadn't come from outside her group... Drax readied himself as, predictably, another shape leapt from the shadows on him, massive knives clashing against his own as he rolled back, righting himself and readying as an animalistic shape leapt on Raccoon, but the smaller Guardian evaded him, leaving an unexpected gift stuck to his back in the form of a silver disk.
"What?!" the disc exploded, driving thousands of needles downward, sending Wolverine to one knee, twitching and growling.
"It's called a nanoplague! Picked it up a galaxy and a half away. Should override your healing factor AND kill whatever's got your brain in such a tiz-" Raccoon had either underestimated Wolverine's healing factor or the plague was a little too slow-acting as Wolverine rose up and stabbed him through the stomach, "Oh, you little upstart..." he coughed and slumped forward just as Logan lost consciousness.
While this was happening, Gamora and X-23 had separated in the sewer, both circling one another. "Listen, little wolf, you might be the deadliest woman on this planet, but I'm the deadliest woman in the gal-" Laura screamed and leapt forward, popping her four hand claws and slashing Gamora across the stomach and arm. Her armor prevented the wound from going too deep, but she shoved X off, snarling herself and taking quick stock of her situation. When Laura pounced again, she found both her arms paralyzed as Gamora struck her vital nerve clusters. "Enough! Enough of this! Is anything of you still left?!" she needn't have asked as she saw the red, vacant look behind Laura's eyes and she lunged, both of her arms useless. Gamora expected a kick, but not the blades that extended, embedding themselves in her side and neck. They stuck in her skeleton, however, and X-23 had no idea of Gamora's healing factor as she grabbed the smaller fighter, forcing her head into a recently formed puddled, choking off her breath as she inhaled a breath of water and lost consciousness, Gamora staggering back, pulling her from the water before slumping over.
Drax and Warpath fought without verve nor finesse. Two warriors merely fighting in its purest form, knives sinking into flesh, fists striking bone, knees and boots cracking against bodies and voices growling in determination. A mutual headbutt ensured neither would be getting up for an our nor seeing straight for a week. Back where it all started, Archangel's wings sliced Groot's arm off, but the tree man was unfazed, grabbing the flier's ankle and slamming him into the ground. He turned, sending another flurry of metallic feathers.
"Enough! Enough of THIS!" still another flurry reduced Groot to kindling, but Archangel sensed there was still life in the fragments. Before he could formulate a solution for the problem, Quill had already fired several rounds of his rifle into the back of the dark angel's head. He began to adjust the gun to properly kill him when he heard a noise behind him. Four had been dealt with, but wasn't there a fifth? He turned in time for a vicious roundhouse to the side of his head, knocking him off balance and sending him staggering back. He fired wildly, but the shot went wide and Domino advanced nonchalantly, punching him in the stomach. He chuckled, pulling a pistol from his waist and firing. Domino fell to one knee, gritting her teeth and trying to right herself on numbed legs. The gun had been set to incapacitate, so he made a slight adjustment to ensure a kill and grinned down at his target. His grin reversed when he pulled the trigger and the gun exploded in his hand, sending him staggering back, clutching the burnt limb. He fell to his knees in confusion as Domino shook her head, holding a strange device to his head. "Now THAT'S unlucky...for you, I mean." She pulled the trigger and an ear-shattering noise filled Quill's head as he collapsed, a strange, silver worm crawling out of his ear.
Domino sighed and tsked loudly before training her weapon on the slithering being and bombarding it with sonic waves until it burst, "Next time, Quill," she said as he passed out, "skip the detour to Seti-Alpha 6."
Here's a teaser for next week's battle. Is that Squirrel Girl vs. Stilt-Man? Or could it be Armless Tiger Man vs. Condiment King? Have fun guessing below and check the homepage on Monday to see who the combatants are!
Previous 'Comic Vine Battle of the Week' results
Want to suggest a Battle of the Week? Feel free to comment below or send it to Gregg via Twitter. Keep in mind, it doesn't have to be Marvel or DC only, but it must be comic related!
Edited by The Stegman
WOW I applaud ALL viner of the week arguments. Very detailed and well spoken.
Posted by patrat18
Too long.
Posted by 2cool4fun
Next one seems like it has green lantern.
Posted by dondave
The teaser on the right is Colossus
Edited by Oy_the_Billy_Bumbler
Wow, I'm surprised I got a pick for a comment after reading the other two by @austincy and Corey. That was like reading the script for the next story arc. Nice job. Great write up by @k4tzm4n as always too.
Posted by frozenedge
That was amazing though I was rooting for X-Force to win. Next battle looks like it'll be featuring Colossus
Posted by BritishMonkey
Can't I vote DnA's Guardians of the Galaxy instead of Bendis'?
Posted by Deranged Midget
Dayum, now those are some commendable arguments for both sides! Well done duders!
Edited by arw1985
I didn't know too much about the GOTG, so I bowed out of this one. I'm a little shocked at the results. It's good to know that "The awesomeness of Wolverine!!!" didn't help X-Force win this one.
Posted by kidman560
@deranged_midget: oh man if DM is complimenting than they really did do a good job...
Edited by Oy_the_Billy_Bumbler
@dondave: You could tell that from his shoulder. lol. That's impressive!
Who do you think the other side is? It almost looks like it could be Radioactive Man.
Posted by Deranged Midget
Lol dude, I'm not above anyone else. Just a regular guys who appreciates wicked debates and from what I've read, these guys definitely know what they're talking about! :)
Posted by kidman560
@deranged_midget: lol I know but you happen to be very good at debating and compliments from you carry some weight because of your reputation (I was being serious with a bit of joking in there man. I meant this but I thought my first comment was funnier)
Posted by Deranged Midget
Ha, well I really appreciate the kind words dude regardless of whether I agree with them or not.
I still you a debate one of these days though, just have to find time ;)
Posted by CheeseSticks
It's Colossus vs someone i'm sure i saw that picture but i can't remember.
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Posted by kid Apollo
hmmm i disagree. but oh well, thems the brakes
Posted by kidman560
Edited by GraniteSoldier
I must say I'm with the majority on this one, I think the Guardians should edge the victory. The ease of which I'm not sure, but I think they'd pull the win overall.
Posted by OreoAssassin
@k4tzm4n: Awesome Battle! (Forgot to say that last week)
Edited by Jonny_Anonymous
Reallllllllllllllllllllllly looking forward to DnA returning to the Guardians of the Galaxy for the anniversary issue
Posted by Fallschirmjager
@dondave: Teaser on the Left is X-O Manowar
Posted by k4tzm4n
@fallschirmjager: @dondave: Oh man, that would be a pretty cool match-up, wouldn't it? It's just too bad those images look nothing like the teaser, amirite?
Posted by Fallschirmjager
@k4tzm4n: I claim temporary bout of insanity for ever thinking it.
Posted by k4tzm4n
Posted by laflux
@dondave said:
The teaser on the right is Colossus
Seriously man, how are you so good at these things.......
Posted by Ostyo
Can't beat the universe's best team.
Edited by redhoodx
X-O Manowar VS Cable
Posted by _Genesis_
Sweet X-O Manowar vs Colossus
Posted by dagmar_merrill
@k4tzm4n said:
Posted by Life_Without_Progress
Posted by k4tzm4n
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x-force get the nod to me but it would be a great battle indeed
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The law took effect at 12:01 a.m. today
Michigan is another state that passed a similar law last month.
Source: Reuters
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Common Sense
RE: Common Sense
RE: Common Sense
Desperate job seekers don't have much power.
RE: Common Sense
RE: Common Sense
But I brought enough wooden footstools and borscht for everyone!
RE: Common Sense
By Paj on 1/2/13, Rating: 0
RE: Common Sense
Sh!t like this is why unions are needed.
RE: Common Sense
RE: Common Sense
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RE: Common Sense
Why have a facebook account?
By wavetrex on 1/2/2013 1:45:15 AM , Rating: 3
What I don't understand from all this nonsense of employers asking for facebook accounts... is why would anyone want or need a facebook account?
Seriously, what is it's purpose? I've been using computers for quite a long time, and been on the internet since the days of 14.4kbps dial-up modems, and had "accounts" on countless online services. For example, I have a Google account because it gives me e-mail and personalized search results.
Yet, I simply can't find ANY use at all for a facebook account. (or any other "social network" account for that matter).
Or maybe it's that today people really have "no life", and they supplant that with having "online friends". How sad. What a bunch of sorry ass loosers we are, humanity.
By Omega215D on 1/2/2013 6:20:35 AM , Rating: 2
Sadly if you don't have a Facebook account you are seen as anti-social and have something to hide. Sometimes the people in charge need a good beating, preferably in public.
RE: Why have a facebook account?
By cyberguyz on 1/2/2013 7:59:30 AM , Rating: 2
Welcome to the 21st century. As the previous respondent pointed out if you do not represent yourself in social media (i.e. facebook, linkedin, twitter, etc) you are considered antisocial and not a desirable employee. Desirable employees are those that are interested in networking with their peers in the various industries.
I think employers asking for passwords to personal media is an invasion of digital privacy. However laws will not stop employers from demanding it and making the careers at their firm for those that do not miserable (there are ways to do that without invoking that law).
Note: I have been in the computing industry since long before IBM trademarked the term "PC" and the Internet existed.
RE: Why have a facebook account?
By vXv on 1/2/2013 8:10:31 AM , Rating: 2
I don't have a facebook, twitter nor linkedin account and I didn't have any problems with that. People sometimes do ask me why I don't have such an account the simple answer like "I don't need it" and/or "due to privacy concerns" have been sufficient so far.
While the real reason has nothing to do with privacy (it just makes people shut up). The point is ... I don't need the service they offer so why would I sign up there?
There a lot of more direct ways to connect to / communicate with the people I do want to interact with.
RE: Why have a facebook account?
By wavetrex on 1/2/2013 9:05:24 AM , Rating: 1
Well the 21st century is really weird then.
What happened to going out to a concert and starting to talk to the people about the performances?
What happened to simply talking to a stranger in a train and discovering that they are a friend of a neighbor you had 10 years ago.
How about actual friends you go out in the city with every Friday (or more often)
Hey, let's be modern and use technology. CALL your friend on the phone and ask how is he/she feeling.
Nowadays everyone sticks their nose in their touch-enabled gadgets, ignoring everything else that happens around them, and clicking "Like" to all the internet crap that they are not really interested in.
Anyone remember the movie Wall-E and the people on the Spaceship riding their hover-chairs ?
Someone said recently: "We live in the age of smart phones and dumb humans"... how true !
Facebook and others like it don't make you more social. They make you totally ANTISOCIAL, unable to meet people and talk properly with them in REAL LIFE.
RE: Why have a facebook account?
People still do all of those things.
By euclidean on 1/2/2013 9:30:39 AM , Rating: 2
Not to be rude, but you sound like someone who was 'burnt' by having a Facebook (etc.) account, or you had a hard time getting past 5 friends....
Not everyone is 'addicted' to Social Media. I find it useful to capture my memories and share them with friends/family when appropriate. But that does not stop me from going out, taking trips, talking with strangers, or even - gasp! - calling someone up and talking to them. There's much more to Social Media than just leaving the real-world behind to fall in a 'tough' game of Farmville (or whatever the current FB game is...).
Note: Since we're adding these notes - I don't have a Facebook account either - I use G+. Much more useful being integrated with my Google account.
RE: Why have a facebook account?
By Jeffk464 on 1/2/2013 10:15:50 AM , Rating: 2
Just set up a "I love me" facebook account. Post a few positive things about yourself and don't worry about it.
RE: Why have a facebook account?
By Scannall on 1/1/2013 9:07:23 PM , Rating: 2
Regardless of these new laws, if you're looking for work it'd be a really good idea for you to keep a very well groomed and scoured Facebook.
Use it to present whatever you want prospective employers to see, and not for pictures of you passed out at a party.
RE: Regardless
By schmandel on 1/1/2013 11:00:53 PM , Rating: 1
Facebook accounts are for losers. Just say no.
If I were still in the placement business a candidate having no social media baggage or fixations could definitely set themselves above the rest.
RE: Regardless
By Dr of crap on 1/2/2013 10:35:38 AM , Rating: 2
Think back to the year 2000 -
No facebook
No social media
An employer asks you to bring in photos you took over the last few months for them to look over. Or to have you record the next few months of phone calls and then let them hear what you had to say in the calls.
See any difference there?
Nope they are the same thing as asking for your Facebook sign info. They have no reason to ask for it! And you should not have to give it.
RE: Regardless
By dark matter on 1/2/2013 5:31:21 PM , Rating: 2
Actually, it would be a better idea in your interview to keep a well groomed LinkedIn account.
That way you can easily skirt around your utterly debauched Facebook account by claiming "I don't have a facebook account, I find it unprofessional and a bit of a time sink. Which is why I use LinkedIn."
Accessing personal acounts
By Fujikoma on 1/2/2013 10:25:42 AM , Rating: 3
I don't see how this isn't illegal in the states, since it's already illegal to ask about religious and political affiliations for a (non-governmental) job anyway. Facebook has all sorts of stuff that an employer couldn't legally ask a job candidate, so it seems odd that no one has fought it on that level.
By ksherman on 1/2/2013 11:16:20 AM , Rating: 1
Nice of them to pass this silly law than to spend time dealing with the ridiculous pension situation in Illinois. The politics in my state are driving me crazy!
No tech is bad tech, right?
By schmandel on 1/2/2013 11:58:06 AM , Rating: 1
Someone inflicts a world-class Bad Idea on so many levels like Facebook on us and we must immediately accept it as a given and accommodate its properties. Why is this?
The appropriate course of action to take with regard to intrinsically dishonest and pernicious entities such as Facebook is to bury them in an unmarked grave. Harass their operators, destroy their assets, take no prisoners.
...but they can still fire you!
By Beenthere on 1/2/13, Rating: -1
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"You can process information more quickly."
Sony has proclaimed the benefits of 3D gaming to its hardcore fans, saying it provides a "competitive edge".
During a presentation at the Develop Conference yesterday Sony Computer Entertainment Europe senior director Mick Hocking described in detail why playing PS3 exclusives Gran Turismo 5, MotorStorm: Apocalypse, Killzone 3 and LittleBigPlanet 2 in 3D is better.
"With something like a racing simulation, this gives us greater accuracy," Hocking said.
"You can judge or brake a distance to a corner that much better than you could before. You can position your car on a track with greater certainty. You can judge relative speed to the other cars or relative speed to the track better than you could before."
On upcoming arcade racer MotorStorm: Apocalypse, Hocking had this to say: "We can throw particles through the screen at you. We can make the building feel like it's going to collapse down on top of you. It helps to enhance the sense of speed and scale and excitement in the game."
He added: "You can also process information more quickly. With a game like WipEout, where you're racing very fast down a track, it's twitch control mechanics. You've got to be very precise and quick about changing the direction of the ship or you hit the wall.
"With this [3D] your brain can pick up more cues from the digital image because there's more information there, because we have depth. We find that players can play this a bit more accurately than they could before."
On Killzone 3: "We have particles flying past them. You can see projectiles coming towards you. You can judge just how far you need to throw a grenade because you can see how far away the enemies are.
"We can have things collapse on top of you, or you can be reaching down into a ditch to pull a comrade out. 3D helps bring greater immersion to these types of action experiences."
And, finally, Media Molecule's LittleBigPlanet 2, which, Hocking reminded us, has Z-depth.
"In 3D we found it was much more intuitive to judge where Sackboy was in the level. We found we could traverse the level rather than falling off the platforms quite so often."
Essentially, Sony reckons 3D will help PS3 owners be better gamers.
"For our hardcore, this could mean a competitive edge. Racing simulations, if you can get a better lap time, in shooters, if you can get more kills, this all appeals to our hardcore gamers. Anything that gives them a competitive edge is worth having."
Hocking's comments come as no surprise. Sony is putting plenty of eggs in the 3D basket, and hopes it'll convince millions to fork out their hard-earned cash on the tech that enables it.
"We think 3D is now here to stay," Hocking said.
"There are many different parts of media now supporting 3D with a vested interest in seeing the success of 3D. Not only the film studios and film creators; games, broadcasters, photography, camcorders and phones of the future. All of them will be looking at 3D.
"We are the only company that has the entire hardware and content chain of 3D within our core business."
With an installed base of 36 million PS3s, and with firmware updates that enable the console to play 3D games and Blu-ray discs in the wild, Sony is confident of success.
The Japanese company predicts that by 2014 more than 40 per cent of tellies will be sold as 3D ready.
Last week Ubisoft UK marketing boss Murray Pannell went one further by predicting that a 3D-enabled telly will be in every living room in just three years time.
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What's the point?
Have I a purpose?
Why am I here at all?
lazycrazybasket lazycrazybasket 46-50, M 3 Responses Nov 20, 2011
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I've learned that true happiness comes from within. Nothing external can truly make you happy. External factors such as people, places or things can temporarily fulfill the emptiness some may feel. But the feeling will wear off at some point as soon as any negative situation occurs. Life is a gift. It's our perception of that gift that determines our state of mind. When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at will change.
I've seen this happen, especially this year.
Hi Lazycrazybasket. I don't think our paths have crossed prior this, but I'll share with you what I believe. I'm not saying that you have to agree with me either, as some people don't like what I have to say but others do. So here goes...
The Point - The Purpose - And Why: I Believe is This:
The Purpose: God created humankind to have a relationship with Him.
The Point: So He could fellowship with us and share His glory and love.
The Why: Because He has so much to give and wants to give to us and love us.
He wants us to want Him. So basically, I believe, it's about "us" not being robots but exercising our free will in desiring a relationship and walking with the Lord.
One way to look at it. Not my way. But, a way.
I agree, I just wrote this from the point of view of someone who's down and out. I am a writer.
Why not?
A purpose for life? That is a question that I guess we all ponder. Hard to find a reason for fighting traffic every morning to get to a job that just barely pays the bills. Seems like I am no different that the squirrels that collect nuts for the winter. I have the life and liberty thing down. However, I am struggling with the pursuit of happiness.
I'm seeking happiness too.
What makes you happy?
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