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post #1 of 33
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My 7 YO has started a new habit about a month ago that is driving me nuts. She has never been a big eater. In fact, she is underweight to begin with and her ADHD medicine is clearly suppressing her appetite, so I don't want to deny her food. But she eats a tiny portion (think toddler portion or smaller, especially of the protein) at dinner, then wants a second helping heated up an hour or so later. I have always been committed to hassle-free eating. But I'd love for her to eat more while sitting at the dinner table and skip the second round, mostly because it interferes with the bedtime routine (delaying her getting to bed) and sometimes there isn't dinner leftovers and then I'm making something for her to eat or she makes something to eat and a complete mess of the kitchen.
Background: Dinner is pleasant and a family ritual, she generally likes what I am serving, and may be excused whenever she asks. Our rule is that she isn't forced to eat anything she doesn't like but can get herself a substitute for disliked items. We are moderately healthy omnivore eaters. She is mostly eating a tiny dinner, a dessert (moderately healthy, again small portion) about an hour later (this is normal routine for us) and then this second dinner round about 15-30 minutes after that. I vehemently disagree with the "take one more bite" sort of thing, though I'm rethinking that, because I can't possibly know when she is full and I don't want her to ignore her body's signals. As I said, she is underweight but I am obese and I am desperate to not have her look like me. Up until now I have been entirely happy with the way we have handled food and have been known to brag on it a bit. (Karma strikes again, I suppose).
Thoughts and ideas?
post #2 of 33
Might it have something to do with what time her medication is wearing off?
post #3 of 33
What if you reserved a plate for her while serving dinner? Then that way you don't have to worry about it running out, and you can just stick the plate in the microwave later.
I'm saying this not to be overly accomodating to the child, but I have a 7 year old picky, underweight child as well. I think when they are that thin, their stomachs just can't handle that much food at once. We do eat dinner (he does the toddler portion as well, my 4 year old daughter eats more than him) and he does need a bedtime snack. As he is not a dinner fan anyway (must be coerced to eat at least some), we usually do a platter of various things at bedtime (fruit, veggies, cheese, meat, nuts, etc).
I don't have any more advice, because frankly feeding my son sometimes is very soul-draining on me, lol.
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Originally Posted by lolar2 View Post
Oh, sorry, forgot that detail. The medication is new (2nd week), the behavior started before the RX did. Though I do have some hope that maybe when we get to the right time-released meds (still easing on) that maybe this might clear up -- that maybe she is just distracted by dinner and sitting to eat a full portion is just too long for her.
post #5 of 33
I agree that it might have something to do with her medication wearing off.
It's also possible that she *is* full at dinner and then hungry again later. It can be tough for a small growing person to eat as much as they need in a single sitting, and appetite supressing medication may make it very difficult to force more bites at dinner time. I'd think you just need to work a bedtime snack into the routine, and either make extra and set aside some leftovers or stock up on things for sandwiches.
I think it's great that she's asking for more of dinner - nutritionally, that's far better than filling up on sweets or junk food before bed.
post #6 of 33
I think making a second plate that can go in the microwave later is a good idea. I wouldn't go to a lot of hassle for it, but a quick zap in the microwave can't be too bad. Plus, at seven, she's old enough to completely clean up the mess herself.
Sometimes, this is just a habit, and she THINKS she needs to eat again. But, just in case she really is hungry, at least you know she's not going to bed hungry, and she's not asking for Twinkies at bedtime.
post #7 of 33
Does it only happen with dinner? Or does she do the same thing at breakfast and lunch?
Some people are grazers - they tend to eat several small meals through the day, rather than 3 large ones for breakfast/lunch/dinner.
If eating close to bedtime is the real issue, could you adjust meal times a little? Perhaps give her something between lunch and dinner - sort of "afternoon tea" - and then serve the family dinner a little later than you are now, so that the family meal ritual is preserved.
post #8 of 33
it could also just be a change in eating style esp. if the weather is changing.
the reason i say this is coz my 7 year old dd has been doing the same thing off and on and i notice it is brighter warmer outside and the days are getting longer.
dd is comfortable cooking. so she makes herself some toast or sandwich or fries some eggs or gets herself some cereal. or fruit and cheese. i am usually doing homework.
yes it messes with our bedtime routine too - but i think i have discovered we are a family where a strict asleep by 9 pm or even in bed by 9pm has never really worked. keeping a target of between 830 and 930 has worked better.
could it also be growth spurt? dd goes thru that in summer. oh man not only does she out eat me (we dont really do big main meals but small frequent meals) but she eats more frequently.
post #9 of 33
Can you give her something healthy and quick to get ready like yogurt, a cheese stick, some lunch meat, or an apple when she asks for more food later in the night? When my dd picks at food then asks for more very quickly afterwards I offer her something that is healthy, but not necessarily her favorite food. I used to go all out and try to find the most appetizing thing, but I have found that if I don't get in the habit of serving tantalizing late night snacks she tends to eat at dinner time and not at night. The only time I make an exception to this is on dessert nights when she eats a lot of really healthy food at dinner time and is too full for dessert.
post #10 of 33
I would plan a regular snack before bed so it doesn't interfere with bedtime. Either a leftover plate as pp have suggested or an apple and glass of milk, cereal, toast, something like that. If it's planned it won't be so much of a hasle.
post #11 of 33
I agree with ollyoxenfree. What time do you have dinner? You say that she's asking for more an hour after dinner, and it's during bedtime routine. What if you pushed dinner back by 30 minutes, so you are finishing up eating just 30 minutes before bedtime routine, and then giving her a small snack earlier in the afternoon to tide her over?
This is kind of how we do it and it seems to work well for our just-turned-8 year old. She is not a picky eater at all and we always have great healthy options available that she can get herself. But we still have what we call "5 o'clock tea" with a small snack, then we have supper around 7PM. Her bedtime is 8:30 and she almost never asks for a bedtime snack, but on those rare occasions, she knows what she can have and she's welcome to get it herself and clean up the mess.
post #12 of 33
I'd probably start a before bed snack time. Save her a bit of dinner and that can be her snack.
post #13 of 33
15-30 minutes later doesn't really sound like that big of a deal to me. I would make her plate at dinner and then what she does not finish I would let her heat up later.
is she getting up from the table and then coming back. how about asking her to stay at the table and be social even if she is not hungry. that might encourage her to hit the seconds a little sooner. on the other hand maybe she feels full while sitting there and then gets up, moves around, and that is what clears the room for a little more food.
Since she does this almost every night though I would just make sure you have the seconds on the plate and ready to go before she ever asks for them. if there is often not enough left overs perhaps cook with that second helping in mind. I mean it does not matter if she eats it all at once or comes back for seconds there still has to be a certain amount of food for her. for my 7 year old I would just put the second on her plate right away and pop it in the fridge. she knows how to use a microwave.
if it is interfering with bed time move up supper a half an hour. another option is to feed her round one half an hour before supper, an appatizer sort of deal, a cup of yogurt, a few carrot sticks, a granola bar, and then have her eat supper with the family when round two of her appitite hits.
when my children need something after supper (not often) i do not let them make a messy subsitute. they may have a peice of fruit. a prepared vegetable, or a bowl of cereal depending on the need. if we ate supper early they may have any leftovers. nothign messy though.
post #14 of 33
If my son does the "I'm full" thing but it is clear he just wants to get down to play I will ask "are you sure you are full? Or do you just want to go play" Generally it is that he wants to play. In this case I tell him he needs to sit with us a few minutes longer and that he can't play right now. Because of this he usually eats more food as he has to sit there anyway.
post #15 of 33
Mine are 7 and 5, and about a year and a half ago I finally just gave up. We have dinner around 6, bedtime is around 8:30. Now, I don't even fight it - at around 8:00 I start announcing "Last call for food" and I *always* have both of them asking for a snack. I think part of it is that at this age they're old enough to realize that if they're waking up starving then having a before bed snack will take that edge off. What I've always heard is that for the average person your stomach is about the size of your fist. That gets filled up pretty fast in small children! So our kids know that they do not get things full of sugar or really any major sweets or dessert after a certain time, but fruit, yogurt cheese, certain cereals, etc. are available for them. If your DD is actually asking for more of dinner food rather than something that's a snack or treat, I think that says a lot about her actually being genuinely hungry.
I also have to say that posts like this make me realize how much I underestimate and over protect my kids. 7 year old frying eggs and using the microwave?? LOL I thought I was doing good teaching DS to use the toaster! Maybe it would be ok to start expanding his kitchen skills a bit I'm thinking!
post #16 of 33
Originally Posted by Kuba'sMama View Post
I think when they are that thin, their stomachs just can't handle that much food at once. ...
I have a skinny, underweight DH, and he's the same way. Eats about as much as my two year old, and then goes back for "second dinner" and "third dinner" later in the evening. He is genuinely full and then hungry again.
One option is to serve her "early" dinner instead of "late" dinner -- she might be ready to eat a serving of real food at mid afternoon; that way it won't interfere with bedtime and she'll still get enough.
Or as other posters suggested, planning for it by putting aside a plate at the beginning so others don't eat "her" portion at dinner. I'll do that for DH sometimes, particularly if one course is something people like and will overeat on (especially me ) instead of other courses and I know he'll be hungry for the rest of his portion later.
post #17 of 33
I often do not feel hungry at "dinner time" but everyone else is so that's when we eat. I'll eat some but then I tend to get really hungry about an hour or so later so I make myself a sandwich or have a bowl of cereal. I've just always been like that. It usually makes no difference when or if I snack either. I don't really get it but now I just go with it.
post #18 of 33
I don't always eat breakfast because it sometimes leaves me hungrier than if I skip it. It may have something to do with her blood sugar levels, and if so and you want her to eat more anyway, maybe just set a plate aside, otherwise, maybe you can feed her higher amounts of fats/proteins at dinner or give her an appetizer an hour before the actual dinner
post #19 of 33
I find my 4 yos eat a better dinner if they have a snack 1/2 to 1 hour or so before dinner. It's usually bits and pieces of what I'm chopping for dinner but if there's nothing snackable in that I put something else healthy on the table that they can munch on.
post #20 of 33
I would do that when I was a kid. Still do sometimes. I'll eat until I'm full and because my metabolism was so fast (especially when I was younger, it's slowed down some) I'd be hungry again not long after a meal and go looking for a snack or something else. I agree that creating an extra plate for her to heat up later would be a good idea or keeping some sandwich fixings or stuff along those lines on hand for her would be good. She's listening to her body and when it's telling her it's full or hungry, which is a good trait to have and encourage IMO.
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I don't really care about Bitcoin—really I don't—but I guess I'm curious about something. How is that cyber thieves were able to steal a million bitcoins from Mt. Gox? I understand that Mt. Gox had inadequate security, but I thought the whole point of bitcoin was that it was protected by its very nature: every transaction is stored in a block chain; the block chains are mirrored by thousands of bitcoin miners; and you can't screw with the block chains unless you apply galactic amounts of computing power. So even if you managed to steal some bitcoins, you couldn't get anyone else to accept them unless you could demonstrate proper chain of custody, so to speak. Since this is more or less impossible, all the stolen bitcoins are of no use to anyone.
Obviously I'm missing something fundamental here, since I assume thieves don't bother taking stuff they can never use. And yes, this is just academic interest in the deep geekery behind bitcoin. But can anyone point me to an explainer that tells me exactly how a theft like this could be successfully pulled off?
UPDATE: Judging from some links in comments, apparently the problem is that Mt. Gox had a bug in their software that allowed thieves to create seemingly legitimate transaction changes which were propagated throughout the block chains. There is a known problem with the bitcoin protocol that allows this, and Mt. Gox didn't properly protect against it:
Many exchanges use the Transaction ID to uniquely identify transactions, but as it turns out, an attacker can change the Transaction ID without changing the actual transaction, rebroadcast the changed transaction (effectively creating a double-spend) and if his altered transaction gets accepted into a block instead of the legit transaction, the attacker receives his coins and can complain with the exchange that he didn't. The exchange will then check their database, fetch the Transaction ID from it, look it up in the blockchain and not find it. So they could conclude that the transaction indeed failed and credit the account with the coins. ... A simple workaround is to not use the Transaction ID to identify transactions on the exchange side, but the (amount, address, timestamp) instead.
I don't know that I actually understand this, but then again, I'm not sure I want to. In any case, apparently it's a known bug that Mt. Gox should have handled in its internal software. But they didn't.
UPDATE 2: Emin Gün Sirer, who sure sounds like he knows what he's talking about, says that the problem above, known as "transaction malleability," is almost certainly not behind the Mt. Gox theft. Nor was it lost keys, hackers, web server problems, or US spooks.
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Jon Cohn wonders how it is that attitudes toward same-sex marriage have changed so rapidly:
The change may seem inevitable now, but it didn’t always. And it’s happened with breathtaking speed....It’s easy to assume the change represents nothing more than a generational shift....[But] pollsters have found that, over time, support for same-sex marriage has risen even within generations.
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For what it's worth, I want to suggest that attitudes haven't changed any more quickly than we should have expected. It's just a fact that social change comes pretty quickly these days. Take a look at the chart on the right, for example. Based on Gallup polling, it shows attitudes toward gay marriage vs. attitudes toward interracial marriage among whites.1 Favorable attitudes toward interracial marriage increased 28 points between 1978 and 1997. Favorable attitudes toward gay marriage increased 27 points between 1996 and 2013.
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Some bad economic news today:
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Ryan Enos and Anthony Fowler have a new paper out that tries to figure out if the Obama campaign's widely reported techno-wizardry in the 2012 election really produced a big get-out-the-vote advantage over Mitt Romney. Apparently not:
The Obama campaign of 2012 has been championed as the most technologically-sophisticated, evidence-based campaign in history while the Romney campaign was more traditional. Does this difference manifest itself in the data? Did the technological sophistication of the Obama campaign lead their GOTV efforts to be significantly more effective than Romney’s?
.... [Our] analysis, while admittedly crude, allows us to roughly compare the effectiveness of the Obama and Romney campaigns in mobilizing their respective supporters. Despite the technological sophistication of the Obama campaign and its devotion to a data-driven, evidence-based campaign, we see similar mobilization effects on both sides of Figure 2. It appears that the two campaigns were roughly comparable in their ability to turn out supporters.
Logic and conventional wisdom suggest that you should concentrate your GOTV effort on strong partisans, since these are the people most likely to vote for you. These are the voters Enos and Fowler analyze, and they conclude that both campaigns mobilized strong partisans about as well. Strongly organized precincts showed a 7 percent improvement in turnout on both sides.
Now, it could well be that the Obama campaign spent more money on GOTV and was thus able to influence more voters. It's also possible that Obama was able to perform sophisticated targeting that went beyond just the most rabid partisans. So take this with a grain of salt. But if Enos and Fowler are right, the poli-sci-driven rocket science of the Obama campaign didn't actually make much difference. The core GOTV efforts of both campaigns were about equally effective.
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From Britain's GCHQ, lamenting the images they got when they tapped into Yahoo webcam chats:
Imagine that. On a more serious note, GCHQ was tapping into Yahoo webcam chats:
In one six-month period in 2008 alone, the agency collected webcam imagery — including substantial quantities of sexually explicit communications — from more than 1.8 million Yahoo user accounts globally.
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Let's talk about something completely trivial for a bit: Arthur Chu, the polarizing Jeopardy! champion currently on a 7-game winning streak. Caitlin Dewey explains why so many people don't like him:
Since time immemorial — read: September 1984 — “Jeopardy!” has followed a simple pattern: Contestants pick a category; they progress through the category from top to bottom; they earn winnings when they, through their hard-earned and admirable intellect, get the questions right.
It's the bolded comment I'm curious about. I understand why people could be annoyed by Chu skipping around the board so aggressively. Aside from a sense that he might be taking unfair advantage of his experience vs. a pair of newbies, it makes it a little harder to follow the game at home. I also get why some people might not like the idea of playing to tie. Both of these complaints may be overstated—Chu isn't the first guy to go searching for Daily Doubles, and playing to tie only affects a few seconds of game play—but I understand them.
That said, what's up with the complaint that he tries to ring in aggressively? That doesn't even make sense. Everyone tries to ring in aggressively. Being fast on the buzzer is one of the cornerstones of the game. It might even be more important than knowing lots of answers. (Pretty much everyone who makes it onto the show knows lots of answers.)
So where does this come from? Am I missing something?
POSTSCRIPT: I myself initially found Chu a little annoying, though mostly for his affect more than his actual game play. But I've warmed to him just because he's so damn good. He's a serious buzzsaw at the game, and it's hard not to admire that. I noticed last night, though, that the other contestants were starting to mimic his strategy. I wonder if that will be his undoing before long? | http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum?page=6&%3Bsa=u&%3Bei=w6_dt_ozc4acgwey3mhocq&%3Bved=0cdaqfjagooad&%3Busg=afqjcnfouhb15fh7pa7vycg7ktacsaxyja | dclm-gs1-077450001 | false | false | {
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Release Date: Sep 30, 2011
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The film looks very cool and it is a real treat for the eyes, however the story has many holes in it and it is pretty boring and staged terribly. The film had so many genres in it and it was way confusing and annoying. The film has no substance or purpose, it is 118 minutes of special effects, art direction and different genres. Basically the film is over-stylized, over-written and so eager to please that in the end of it you feel dizzy and completely exhausted. Overall, i do not recommend seeing this film in the theaters because it is nauseatingly bad.
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This is a sci-fi film directed by Guy Moshe and stars Josh Hartnett, Demi Moore and Woody Harrelson. I did not like this film and I do not recommend seeing it in the theaters. The film had way too many genres and special effects, actually the whole film consisted of special effects and the filmmakers forgot about the characters and the plot. I also did not understand what Demi Moore was doing in the film, that is a major miscast. The music in the film was awful, I was annoyed by it and could not believe that Terence Blanchard wrote the music. Overall, the film is definitely not worth seeing.
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Rated 5 / 5 stars June 27, 2010
Hospital ending
I thought that in this ending the whole game is actually a dream after he tried to kill himself. In the dream he decides that he actually wants to keep his addiction and is happy about it. this is why the nurse asks him why he did it and why being happy helped him talk his way out of the hospital. great game though!
Rated 5 / 5 stars June 27, 2010
I really don't understand the plot. If you neglect the girl... It means that you're trying to quit drugs? and why is he in the hospital? did he *gulp* **** up the girl and try to hit some nerves...?
Rated 5 / 5 stars June 27, 2010
Amazing game
It's a shame that the metaphor is lost on most NG users. At least people have to agree, either way, this is a well put together game. Everything from the color scheme and music, to the simple backgrounds that don't distract from the story, and the seemingly simple expressions that convey so much using just a few pixels.
I believe this story is about a drug. Namely heroine, since in the beginning he said
"She wrapped herself around my left arm"-- most people are right handed, and therefore use their right hand to inject their drugs in to their left arm.
And the hospital ending
"You're lucky you didn't hit any nerves or arteries" and *As if I could be that stupid!*-- he knows how to inject drugs already, so he wouldn't miss.
It would also explain the contrast between the happy and hospital endings. Since the girl represents a drug, he was only really happy and hopeful once he was off his addiction.
And it would explain why he has such a major reliance on her (addiction). And she claims that he needs her to be happy (because she gets him high). And the part where she says
"And if they find out about me, they'll hate you for sure"
He doesn't want people to know he's a heroine-addict. People wouldn't hate him for dating some girl, but they could be distrustful of him if he did/does drugs.
His "personality is built up around her" and she makes "everything else not matter". He is a drug addict, and he uses drugs to escape from the world; from what people say about his addiction.
Wikipedia says: "As with other opioids, heroin is used as both a pain-killer and a recreational drug and is highly addictive. Frequent and regular administration is associated with tolerance, moderate physical dependence, and severe psychological dependence."
So in summary, she isn't a person at all, but a drug.
@insanityfair: If you agree with Missalij, who says the girl isn't a person at all, but a representation of a drug, WHY would you think he stabbed the drug? What would be the point of stabbing at a bag of heroine? And why would the hospital try to nurse a bag of heroine back to health?
Anyway, I could be wrong, but that's what I got out of the story. This is by far my favorite flash on Newgrounds.
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Rated 5 / 5 stars June 26, 2010
Loved it
I do agree with Missalij. Oh, yeah, I also think in the hospital he might've stabbed her.
Rated 5 / 5 stars June 26, 2010
Think of it in another perspective
Like Missalij55 said, this game isnt about some girl. It's about something you are addicted to, something you can't live without. After reading his comment I played the game again but this time I imagined the girl being a drug, like cocaine or something. The story actually made more sense from that perspective!
Of course I could be way off...
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You need to call or email Nelson he's the CEO and he might be able to do something.
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Quote: Originally Posted by ckaplan Mine went up $195. I wonder if they upgraded the basic chasis to justify the increase or was it just demand that resulted in the price increase? Or maybe they thought christmas=more money and christmas+higher prices=even more money
My laptop(which I had) went up $238. My desktop(which I'm waiting for) went up $182 It looks like AW has gift cards now. "Hello honey I wasn't sure what you wanted so I got you this $3500 gift card from AW"
Dude I owned the silver laptop but returned it. I was an owner of it. I had it for three weeks. I know the top of the laptop is metal(where the alieneyes are) and the rubber grips aren't rubber and they don't even grip.
MaDsK1LLz why don't you get a voodoo or hypersonic. If voodoo they have a watercooled system that's in your prce range. $5000-$7000.
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#!/usr/bin/perl use Sys::Hostname; sub seed { my $string = shift; my $seed; my @ascii = map ord, split //, $string; while ( <@ascii> ) { $seed += $_ }; srand $seed; } my $hostname = hostname; seed ( $hostname );
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by LanX (Abbot) on Dec 05, 2012 at 17:15 UTC
Most implementations of "srand" take an integer and will silently truncate decimal numbers. This means "srand(42)" will usually produce the same results as "srand(42.1)". To be safe, always pass "srand" an integer.
most strings will evaluate to 0 !
DB<116> srand 0 => 1 DB<117> rand => "0.17082803610629" DB<118> rand => "0.749901980484964" DB<119> srand hostname => 1 DB<120> rand => "0.17082803610629" DB<121> rand => "0.749901980484964" DB<122> 0+ hostname => 0
You need a checksum to produce a (pseudo) unique integer. You could try
$seed += ord($_) for split //, hostname
But whats wrong with the IP?
Cheers Rolf
The script has be as portable as possible. I'm not certain that the modules required to get an IP address will be available on an old version of perl that might be found on a Solaris or AIX host.
I just realized you had the same idea. But
1. The sum of two strings can be identical, try "rolf" and "rofl" and "flor"
2. for ( < @array > ) is dangerous nonsense, always do for ( @array ) without glob
3. if you wanna play save, try a system cmd to get a mac adress.
4. You could determine a unique seed at installation time and store it in a module MyProject::Seed you use later. Like this you have full control (just edit the module) and you only need to fiddle once with the OS for a unique key.
5. you could even request a unique key over web at installation time.
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Very interesting! Thanks for the new idea!
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this finishes in about 14 seconds.... corrected timing
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You are using both the -n switch and <> in the first line! This means you lose half of your lines...
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Stroke (Impact Factor: 6.16). 06/2003; 34(5):e20-2. DOI:10.1161/01.STR.0000065826.23815.A5
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ABSTRACT We sought to assess the long-term predictive usefulness of bone mineral density (BMD) for stroke incidence and stroke mortality.
The First National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey data were obtained from a nationally representative sample of noninstitutionalized civilians. A cohort of 3402 white and black subjects 45 through 74 years of age at baseline (1971 to 1975) was observed through 1992. Hospital records and death certificates were used to identify a total of 416 new stroke cases.
Results were evaluated to determine the relative risk (RR) for stroke per 1-SD decrease in BMD, after controlling for age at baseline, smoking status, alcohol consumption, history of diabetes, history of heart disease, education, body mass index, recreational physical activity, and blood pressure medication. In Cox proportional-hazards analyses, incidence of stroke was not associated with a decrease in BMD in any of the 3 race-sex groups: white men (RR, 1.01; 95% CI, 0.86 to 1.19; P=0.88), white women (RR, 1.13; 95% CI, 0.93 to 1.38; P=0.21), or blacks (RR, 0.93; 95% CI, 0.72 to 1.21; P=0.60). No association between BMD and stroke mortality was found (RR, 1.03; 95% CI, 0.86 to 1.23; P=0.77).
In a large national study, no significant associations of BMD and stroke incidence or mortality were found for whites or blacks.
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ABSTRACT: The association between bone mineral density (BMD) and myocardial infarction (MI) was investigated in 6,872 men and women. For both men and women, lower BMD in the femoral neck and hip was associated with increased risk of MI largely independent of smoking, hypertension, hypertriglyceridemia, and diabetes. The relationship between BMD and cardiovascular disease is not completely understood. The objective of this prospective study was to investigate the risk of MI in relation to bone mineral density and to determine if cardiovascular risk factors could explain this association. Dual energy X-ray absorptiometry was performed in 5,490 women and 1,382 men to determine total hip and femoral neck BMD (in grams per square centimeters) and estimate femoral neck volumetric BMD (in grams per cubic centimeters). During a mean follow-up time of 5.7 years, 117 women and 79 men suffered an initial MI. After adjustment for age and BMI, lower BMD of the femoral neck and total hip was associated with increased risk of MI for both women [hazard ratio (HR) = 1.33, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.08-1.66 per standard deviation (SD) decrease in femoral neck BMD] and men (HR = 1.74, 95% CI 1.34-2.28 per SD decrease in total hip BMD). After additional adjustment for smoking, hypertension, hypertriglyceridemia, and diabetes, the associations were slightly attenuated in men (HR = 1.42-1.88 in the age and BMI-adjusted model versus 1.33-1.77 in the fully adjusted model) while similar attenuations were seen in women (HR = 1.06-1.25 versus 1.05-1.22). Lower BMD was associated with an increase in MI risk for both men and women. Women had consistently lower HRs compared to men in all models. Adjusting for smoking, hypertension, hypertriglyceridemia, and diabetes did not distinctively weaken these associations.
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ABSTRACT: Considerable controversy exists regarding the contribution of mineral/bone metabolism abnormalities to the association between cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) and osteoporotic fractures. To determine the relationships between mineral/bone metabolism biomarkers and CVD in 746 older patients with hip fracture, clinical data were recorded and serum concentrations of parathyroid hormone (PTH), 25-hydroxyvitamin D, calcium, phosphate, magnesium, troponin I, parameters of bone turnover, and renal, liver, and thyroid functions were measured. CVDs were diagnosed in 472 (63.3%) patients. Vitamin D deficiency was similarly prevalent in patients with (78.0%) and without (82.1%) CVD. The CVD group had significantly higher mean PTH concentrations (7.6 vs 6.0 pmol/L, < 0.001), a higher prevalence of secondary hyperparathyroidism (SPTH) (PTH > 6.8 pmol/L, 43.0% vs 23.3%, < 0.001), and excess bone resorption (urinary deoxypyridinoline corrected by creatinine [DPD/Cr] > 7.5 nmol/μmol, 87.9% vs 74.8%, < 0.001). In multivariate regression analysis, SHPT (odds ratio [OR] 2.6, = 0.007) and high DPD/Cr (OR 2.8, = 0.016) were independent indictors of CVD. Compared to those with both PTH and DPD/Cr in the normal range, multivariate-adjusted ORs for the presence of CVD were 17.3 ( = 0.004) in subjects with SHPT and 9.7 ( < 0.001) in patients with high DPD/Cr. CVD was an independent predicator of SHPT (OR 2.8, = 0.007) and excess DPD/Cr (OR 2.5, = 0.031). CVD was predictive of postoperative myocardial injury, while SHPT was also an independent predictor of prolonged hospital stay and in-hospital death. SHPT and excess bone resorption are independent pathophysiological mediators underlying the bidirectional associations between CVD and hip fracture, and therefore are important diagnostic and therapeutic targets.
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ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Low bone mineral density (BMD) has been associated with increased mortality in prospective cohort studies of the elderly, but the real relationship is still controversial. We undertook a meta-analysis to evaluate the association of BMD with risk of all-cause, cardiovascular and stroke mortality. METHODS: We performed systematic searches on MEDLINE, EMBASE, OVID, CINAHL, and the Cochrane Library. Data extraction was performed independently by two reviewers. For each study, hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) per standard deviation (SD) decrease in BMD were extracted. Heterogeneity, publication bias, subgroup, and meta-regression analysis were performed. RESULTS: The analysis included 46,182 participants from 10 studies with 3991 all-cause deaths, 1479 cardiovascular deaths and 403 stroke deaths during a median of 7years follow-up (range 2.8-18.7years). Lower BMD had a significant inverse relationship with all-cause and cardiovascular mortality, a per SD decrease in BMD at all sites being associated with a 1.17-fold (95% CI: 1.13-1.22) increase in total mortality and a 1.13-fold increase in cardiovascular mortality (95% CI: 1.06-1.20). Lower total hip/femoral neck BMD was also related to all-cause mortality (HR 1.20; 95% CI: 1.09-1.31) and cardiovascular mortality (HR 1.20; 95% CI: 1.04-1.35). BMD was not associated with the risk of stroke mortality (HR 1.08, 95% CI; 0.89-1.28). CONCLUSIONS: Lower BMD is associated with significantly increased risk of all-cause and cardiovascular mortality. There is no significant association between lower BMD and the risk of stroke mortality. The relationship between lower BMD and individual mortality should be investigated further in randomized trials.
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Vehicular Technology Conference, 1988, IEEE 38th 10/2010; DOI:10.1109/VETECF.2010.5594101 In proceeding of: Vehicular Technology Conference Fall (VTC 2010-Fall), 2010 IEEE 72nd
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ABSTRACT This paper investigates the use of ATSC M/H digital television (DTV) signal for location finding. In comparison to satellite based location finding system, DTV signals have higher field strength, wider bandwidth, lower frequency band, and DTV transmission towers are pervasively available everywhere. They can be used for indoor and mobile location finding in major cities where satellite based system might not function well. The ATSC receiver can obtain the multiple transmitter impulse responses and signal arrival times using the embedded RF watermark (RFWM) signal, and then derives its geographic coordinates based on the position of ATSC transmitters. As a critical step of this process, the transmitter identification in mobile environment has significant impact on the overall accuracy of location finding. In this paper, we present extensive analytical and simulation results to demonstrate the performance of RFWM technology over mobile channels.
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ABSTRACT: A transmitter identification system for DTV distributed transmission network using embedded pseudo random sequences is investigated. Different orthogonal pseudo random sequences and their suitability for transmitter identification are discussed. Code generators are developed to study the auto-correlation and cross-correlation properties of the Kasami sequences. To speed up the identification process, the embedded pseudo random sequence is preferred to be time-synchronized with the DTV frame structure. Therefore, the length of the identification code has to be truncated before it is fitted into each field of the ATSC DTV signal. The impact of truncation noise and in-band DTV interference on transmitter identification is also investigated. It is shown that the auto-correlation and cross-correlation properties are only slightly affected by truncation. It is also found that the dominant interference to the transmitter identification is the in-band DTV signal. The signal to truncation noise ratio and signal to DTV interference ratio in the correlation output are derived, and verified via simulation. It is further recognized that in-band DTV interference can only be mitigated by increasing the code length or by time-domain averaging technique to smoothen out the in-band interference.
IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting 10/2004; · 2.09 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: Single Frequency Networks (SFNs) offer many advantages including better coverage, less interference, less power, and higher reliability. SFNs can also free up extra TV channels, resulting in more efficient use of the spectrum. The paper presents an overview of the advantages of SFNs and some basics about how to implement them. The significantly improved Signal to Interference performance and less radiated power in SFNs are derived from simple propagation models. Some potential problems that must be considered are discussed, including limitations due to receiver performance. Several simple formulas that should be helpful in quickly estimating and evaluating an SFN system are also presented. Finally, the likely implications of SFNs are covered, in particular the need for changed FCC rules and increased competition through a higher frequency reuse. The idea of the FCCs only limiting the power outside of the service area and letting the broadcasters decide on transmitter locations, number of transmitters and power levels is proposed.
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ABSTRACT: A new position location technique using the transmitter identification (TxID) sequences in the digital TV (DTV) signals is proposed in this paper. Conventional Global Positioning System (GPS) usually does not work well inside buildings due to the high frequency and weak field strength of the signal. In contrast to the GPS, the DTV signals are received from transmitters at relatively short distance, while the broadcast transmitters operate at levels up to the megawatts ERP. Also the RF frequency of the DTV signal is much lower than the GPS, which makes it easier for the signal to penetrate buildings and other objects. In this paper, the proposed position location system based on DTV TxID signal is presented. Performance of the proposed technique is evaluated and compared with other existing position location systems. Possible ways to improve the accuracy of the new position location system is discussed.
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Study points to low security for laptops, many stolen from within the company's facility
CREDANT Technologies, a data security and encryption software company, recently surveyed business professionals to get a little perspective on how secure laptops are. Perhaps not surprisingly, the numbers were somewhat dismal, pointing to unsecured devices and unsecured data. We'll let the numbers tell the story on this crime that plagues office facilities and business travelers:
29: percentage of all laptops stolen at the office
87: percentage of those laptops that had their emails on the computers
90: percentage of the stolen laptops that contained "sensitive and confidential" information
67: percentage that had other business information stored on their as well
3 out of 4: number of laptops that didn't meet regulatory compliance requirements for data encryption
21: percentage of respondents who used no security measures or data encryption on their laptops
10: percentage that used full-disk data encryption
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0.545514 | <urn:uuid:1edb8379-5d4d-495e-af43-5e9339ba47e2> | en | 0.948202 | General Motors and Honda are partnering in a renewed push to get clean vehicles to market with the two automotive giants seeking to have cheaper power-making fuel cells and hydrogen tanks ready by 2020.
The tie-up between the largest US automaker and Tokyo- based Honda is to include exchanging engineers, joint use of research facilities and shared sourcing of parts and materials, they said today in a joint statement. The goal is a common hydrogen powertrain to make the vehicles more affordable, they said, without providing price or investment details.
"We are convinced this is the best way to develop this important technology," GM Chief Executive Officer Dan Akerson said in the statement. Such vehicles can help curb petroleum dependence and underpin sustainable mobility, he said.
The allure of hydrogen as a clean automotive fuel led carmakers a decade ago - notably the former General Motors - to predict millions of fuel-cell autos would be on the road by now. While a mass market for hydrogen cars may be a decade or more away, the enticement is undiminished.
Toyota, which had a hydrogen technology alliance with GM in the early 2000s, plans to release a fuel- cell sedan in the 2015 model year that will be unveiled in November. Honda, Hyundai and Daimler's Mercedes- Benz also plan retail sales of hydrogen cars in 2015, and Bayerische Motoren Werke has said it intends to use Toyota's fuel-cell system.
Environmental rules in the US, Europe and Japan encourage automakers to sell vehicles that don't emit climate-warming gases. That has aided hybrid sales, led to lighter cars and smaller engines, and convinced Tesla Motors and Nissan to push high-volume sales of battery cars.
"Among all zero CO2 emission technologies, fuel-cell electric vehicles have a definitive advantage with range and refueling time that is as good as conventional gasoline cars," Honda President Takanobu Ito said in the statement.
GM and Honda also they'll jointly lobby for an expanded network of hydrogen fuel stations, now currently clustered in the US, mainly in California.
Battery-electric cars such as Tesla's Model S and Nissan's Leaf hatchback share technologies with fuel-cell cars, including similar electric motors to power the wheels, brakes that capture power when stopping, software and related electronics.
The difference is the electricity source. Battery cars store it in large lithium-ion packs - Tesla's weigh 1,000 pounds (454 kilograms). Fuel cells generate it in an electro- chemical reaction of hydrogen and air.
In a fuel cell, hydrogen gas passes through a stack of plastic membranes and metal plates - like syrup soaking a tower of platinum-dusted pancakes - to produce electricity.
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This is meant to be a fun and creative forum where you can tell the TED community how you would take over the world or die trying! To start off let's say you are from an upper middle class family in the United States of America. Obviously intelligence and leadership skills are given. What would be your path to world domination without destroying the whole planet in the process?
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• Dec 30 2012: Spread rumors about joy and name yourself King Positivity, leave no stone unturned, make threats to all violent people of a cheerful takeover and if they don't comply they will be attack by kindness and bliss. Take time to meet every person on the planet and make sure that they have everything they need to survive and provide them with what they don't have. Make better effort in promoting world peace and creating laws that force everyone to give a helping hands. I still believe we need laws to control the peace and harmony and letting people know that anyone found not loving there neighbors will be subject to a lifetime of love.
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The Backup Dan
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Jacob Clifton: A+ | Grade It Now!
Runaway Snide
Exhibit B: When most people lose a parent they inherit sorrow loss and a closet full of outdated clothes but on the Upper East Side death's sad chapter comes with a silver lining or a gold one if your relatives invested wisely in precious metals.
Conclusion: Write drunk, edit sober, don't ever do coke when you're working.
Serena: "Chuck, have you seen Blair and why are you even here?"
Chuck: "No, but have you looked everywhere? Even the roof?"
Serena: "Yeah, because of that movie The Hangover that came out when we were in high school. I also climbed through an air duct."
Chuck: "Well, while you were doing that I was just lurking. Oh, a voicemail from the Empire. Seems Blair has turned up there, just as I always knew she would."
Serena: "I have her phone for some reason. And a video camera. Turns out a whole slew of technology will fit in my giant purse. I think maybe I have a problem with stealing things that don't belong to me."
Dan: "Huh? Oh sorry. Wasn't listening."
Lola: "Oh my God, are you stalking me?"
Nate: "I have fallen in love with you for literally no reason. Let me help you with the cleanup of this huge wedding and reception for which you are solely responsible."
Chuck: "Are you seriously still trying to sleep with this random girl? Doing manual labor, at that?"
Nate: "I got so stoned before Blair's wedding that I started freaking out and I figured I should just dedicate myself to a task."
Serena: "We just came down to the loading docks for no reason. But since we're here, I might as well tell you Blair is at the Empire and we're going there."
Lola: "Well, the streets are filled with paparazzi, so it might be hard to get there."
Serena: "No, they aren't. We keep cutting to the exterior of this hotel and there's nobody there."
Lola: "They are invisible. Those new wolves-on-motorcycles paparazzi. But luckily I know a shortcut for caterers."
Serena: "Chuck, knock this random girl out and we'll use her van to get to your hotel."
Lola: "I will happily drive you, because you people are insane and I want to see what happens next."
Serena: "Thanks, random girl."
Nate: "I will come along, and later on we will do it."
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ONE wonders whether, at AFL HQ, they have some scruffy little guy in there who periodically says, “I have a very cunning plan”. Shrewdly noting a lack of currently extent controversy that no one else had detected, the AFL announces higher ticket prices for some matches. Indeed, with its usual care and attention to detail, the league leprechauns are reportedly happy to bring this in starting, err, now, in season 2013, after no due discussion with, or consideration toward, the general public, and apparently because they can. The scheme will be “trialled” (meaning to be inevitably adopted the following year), on some games that haven't quite been worked out yet, via a system known as “variable pricing” (i.e. they can set the tariff at whatever they like for certain games that haven't been worked out yet), or another known as “dynamic pricing” (they can change the prices on a whim for any games they like on a weekly basis – perhaps according to how things go at Thursday work drinks – and there are no set prices whatsoever). Careful observers may note that owing to a lack of any meaningful or definable parameters, neither can technically be described as a “system”, but that's the way the ball crumbles and the cookie bounces, particularly in AFL-ville. It's difficult to put into words how thrilled football supporters will be to find out they need a Oujia board to work out the price for any given match. Think enraged mob of villagers, pitchforks, blazing torches, Castle Frankenstein.
The snoozer
THE people are certainly showing their keenness for the pre-season AFL competition by flocking in their droves to anywhere but the grounds. In particular, there was a Skoda Stadium-like feel to the undetectable turn-out to the Adelaide/Port/St Kilda three-way dance, at the former Football Park. Saw a picture of the stands from the Vic-Qld Shield match during the week, and that crowd wouldn't have been dwarfed, put it that way.
The yak attack
JUST when things seemed to be going so well in Australian sport, a problem seems to have developed in the swimming area.
How far the cherry?
SECRET of comedy timing, part 8937. Late in the Melbourne-Richmond half-pint game on Friday, Dwayne Russell, confused as to why the Demons didn't try for a “super goal” to put themselves ahead, tendered a number of viable possibilities before concluding, apparently innocently: “Maybe victory wasn't quite their priority.” Response from his Fox Footy colleagues: “Aw, don't say that!” followed by a profusion of laughter.
Bozo of the week
THE months-long, profoundly painstaking AFL tanking investigation comes up with what almost seemed like a pre-ordained conclusion that there was no tanking, (remember in this jurisdiction, as has been often declared, tanking “doesn't exist”), but that the club concerned was fined, and two of its former employees suspended for lengthy periods, presumably for not being involved with the crime that doesn't exist, which the club never committed. So who, if anyone, was the culprit? Well, at considerable risk of repetition, here's one view. If a donkey runs amok and destroys the picturesque Arabian-style public marketplace causing considerable property/personal damage, do you arrest and charge the donkey? Or do you apprehend the fellow who dangled the carrot over the donkey's head just out of reach, until the creature went berserk?
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Lynn Barber on why Alan Titchmarsh grows on you
Alan Titchmarsh is a sex god. Deep breath. Try again. Alan Titchmarsh is a sex god. Titchmarsh. Alan. Sex. God. Is... Nope. It's no good - I still can't make that leap of faith. But for all I know there might be women who believe Robin Cook is a sex god. Anyway, we have proof that Alan Titchmarsh is an SG because he says so himself and he is a far too nice a man to lie.
Just the other day, on Ground Force, he announced, 'I'll have you know I'm the sexiest man on telly after George Clooney.' He didn't actually explain the basis for this statement because he was too busy toshing up a topiary peacock at the time, but I asked him afterwards, and he said it was from some television survey quoted in The Daily Telegraph. Elle magazine put him in a list of top 20 gorgeous hunks and Woman's Own included him in a feature on 'hidden heart-throbs'. Two years ago he was mobbed by women at a Gardeners' World live show in Birmingham - and not all old biddies either. So there you go. Alan Titchmarsh is a sex god.
And he has now written not one, not two, but three novels in which quiet manly heroes stroll through life to a chorus of long-limbed lovelies going 'phwoar! Look at that sex god with the secateurs!' The eponymous hero of his first novel, Mr MacGregor, was 'a man whose looks and build would have been perfectly at home modelling rugged outdoor wear in a Racing Green catalogue.' See? Total sex god. The girls in his new novel, Animal Instincts, keep asking each other about the hero - 'Dishy?' 'Unbelievably.' 'Hunky?' 'You bet.' When one of them finally gets him in the hay, she looks at his 'broad chest, strong legs and muscular arms' and whispers, 'You're so beautiful.'
I wouldn't actually call Alan Titchmarsh beautiful, but he is catalogue-handsome like his heroes, albeit several inches shorter. And he has proper man-of-the-soil blisters on his hands, which, he says, he acquired yesterday shifting six tonnes of topsoil in a howling gale for Ground Force. He reckons it's Ground Force that has made him a sex god - that and his novels, which show his sensitive side. But it was odd for it to happen so late in life (he is 51) because when he was younger no one fancied him. He thinks perhaps he's got sexier as he's got older, or at least more comfortable in himself. While we were having lunch in a restaurant in Kensington, two fans spotted him through the window and waved at him. One was a little boy - 'You see!' he said, 'even children watch Ground Force !' - the other was a smartly dressed middle-aged woman who kept tapping on the window and blowing kisses till I thought she was demented, but she turned out to be Anne Robinson.
I reminded him that we'd met once before at the Literary Review Bad Sex awards, but this was not a very tactful subject to bring up. He won for a passage in Mr MacGregor: 'She planted moist, hot kisses all over his body. Beads of sweat began to appear on Guy's forehead as he became more entangled in the lissom limbs of this human boa constrictor. For fully 15 minutes their mutual passion heightened, with groans, sighs and liquid noises.'
Titchmarsh didn't actually win, he reminds me - Sebastian Faulks did for Charlotte Gray - but Faulks chickened out of coming to the prize giving, so Titchmarsh got the prize. But just remembering it makes him tetchy. 'Oh, you grit your teeth and carry on - the one award that comes back to haunt you. It would be easier not to bother writing love scenes at all, just leave them out, stop when the bedroom door closes, but I think that's bottling out, and anyway I quite enjoy reading it. I don't labour it or name the parts but I like showing two people getting on.'
And getting into their white fluffy towelling bathrobes, which is always the key moment in any Titchmarsh sex scene. You know it's going to be really steamy when the white bathrobes, white bathsheets and 'crisp' duvets come out - though crispness, come to think of it, is not a particularly desirable quality in a duvet. You'd imagine he'd worked all his life in a bedlinen department rather than a garden. Ah, but that's just it, he explains. 'Because I work in the muck all day, I like to be clean. Nothing grubby for me! Do you know,' he goes on, 'I hadn't realised I'd put a white bathrobe in this novel - isn't that terrible? - it just shows how your subconscious comes out. But doesn't everybody have a white towelling bathrobe?' Not necessarily - they come in all different colours. 'Oh no, it's got to be white. If you see someone wrapped up in a towel, and it's all white and clean and lovely, that's sensuous.' Not black? 'No, that's too kind of 60s isn't it? Black towel, black sheets - that's scary really.' I wondered if he associated white bathrobes with hotel sex, but he said indignantly no, he had a white bathrobe at home. And his wife, Alison? 'Er, she has a pale blue one.'
It is time to stop teasing him and admit that I do actually enjoy his novels, in a Jilly Cooperish sort of way. They are always well-plotted, with likeable characters, and they have great descriptions of landscape and nature. In his latest novel, Animal Instincts, the hero buries his father in 'the stony cliff-top loam'. Could Martin Amis give you soil details like that, could Salman Rushdie? And the moral is very sweet - that we must all cultivate our own gardens or our own patch of countryside rather than telling other people what to do. But the book will probably upset some of his fans because it defends foxhunting - Titchmarsh's line is that although he'd never want to chase and kill an animal himself, hunting is a traditional part of country life and therefore should be preserved.
Basically, though, all his novels are love stories, and it is rare to find a man writing such unabashedly romantic fiction. He says he didn't set out to do it: 'I just wanted to write stories, but the romantic side of me came to the fore. Without sounding posey, in a way you don't get to choose what you write - it comes out the way it's going to come out.' He knows he writes 'feel-good fiction' but that's fine by him - he never likes angst. 'My novels are meant to be a good romp. I know they're not intellectually challenging or seminal works!'
He has already started on his fourth novel, which he says will be about a father-daughter relationship. He writes in the winter, when the television gardening season dies down, in a hut in his garden with 'Barleywood Yacht Club: Members Only' on the door. He is incredibly prolific. Apart from presenting two television series, Ground Force and Gardeners' World, he has written 36 gardening books, and has just signed up to write some more for the BBC, as well as writing three weekly and two monthly gardening columns. He also does occasional after-dinner speaking and personal appearances, though he says he deliberately sets his fee very high so he doesn't get too many of them, otherwise he'd be opening garden centres every weekend. And, of course, he gardens every day for real, not just for television. He says that he could give up television quite easily, but he could never not garden, he needs that daily contact with the soil.
Sex god, gardener, novelist, television star. How did Alan Titchmarsh happen? I mean it's not a career he could have planned as a boy in Ilkley, Yorkshire, in the 50s because sex-god gardeners didn't exist. But he was passionate about gardening from a very early age - he built his first polythene greenhouse when he was 12. Was that normal in Ilkley? 'Oh no, it was odd. Boys were meant to kick a ball in the street or play with a cricket bat. But I had a mate in the street who was also keen on gardening, so that was good. And he said that when he grew up he was going to be a postman because you could do all your work in the morning and then garden all afternoon. But I said, "I'm going to be a gardener because that's all I want to do" - and I did . But Dad, being a plumber, hated gardening, and he told me why later - because as a child he was made to weed for his father and grandfather [who were both professional gardeners] and it put him off. I had no idea at that stage, but Dad had been the odd one out and I was just carrying on the family tradition.'
He was useless at school and felt squashed all the time - he thinks because he was 'too much of an eager puppy'. He was always leaping up saying, 'I can do that' and the teachers were saying, 'Shut up, sit down.' Also, 'I was very small at school, 4ft nothing, and always called Titchymarsh. That was OK, I didn't used to go home and sob, but I didn't enjoy it. And I knew what I wanted to do, I knew where I wanted to go and I just knew I had to do it.' So he left school at 15, with just one O level in art, and went to work for Ilkley Parks Department. He recalls the humiliation of having to water hanging baskets while his former schoolmates walked by, but also the joy of working in the nursery where he was 'blissfully happy, focused'.
Then he went to horticultural college and to Kew Gardens, where he did a three-year diploma course, and was then appointed training supervisor. It was a prestigious job, setting up training courses, and he had his own key to the gardens, and a briefcase with E II R embossed in gold. His office was King George III's dining room. But one day he found himself quietly banging his head on the wall because he was so bored. He says it was 'like a Road to Damascus experience' - he knew he was in the wrong job, and he knew he had to get out.
Soon afterwards, his boss came in with the Gardener's Chronicle open at the situations-vacant page and said, 'Who do we know who's got a literary bent?' And Titchmarsh said, 'Me.' At that stage, the only evidence for his literary bent was the English O level he'd recently taken at nightclass, but anyway he applied for the job as gardening-books editor for Hamlyns, and got it. And when someone failed to deliver a book on greenhouse gardening, he wrote it himself, and then moved to become deputy editor of Amateur Gardening magazine. Meanwhile, in 1975, he married Alison, a dance and games teacher he met through the Barnes and Richmond amateur operatic society, and had two daughters, Polly and Camilla, now 19 and 17. They lived in a tiny two-up, two-down cottage in Sunningdale and were so hard up they sometimes had to hide on Fridays when the milkman came round for his money.
So he was very pleased indeed when, in 1979, television beckoned. There was a sudden plague of greenfly on the south coast and he was sent to Margate to report for Nationwide . 'I suddenly tasted blood. It was God! Wow! Oh my God, I like this. I want to do more.' In fact, he had to wait a year for his next television summons, but soon he was spreading like ground elder, doing gardening spots for Breakfast Time , presenting Songs of Praise and a series called Open Air, and then doing his own chat show on Pebble Mill at One. For 10 years, he was the Wogan of lunchtime television - he interviewed everyone from Placido Domingo to Barry Manilow, from Bette Davis to Julia Roberts (he gave her one of his gardening books) - but I can't find anyone who recalls ever seeing any of his interviews.
Was he any good as an interviewer? 'Yes I think I was quite good. I wasn't aggressive but I hope I wasn't bland. My aim during the course of a lunchtime interview was just to make the viewer's fork pause on its way to their lips.' It sounds rather a modest aim. Was he blander than Parky, blander than Wogan? The test would be if he could give a rough ride to, say, Thora Hird? 'Ah, but then the bottom line is, why would you want to? You can ask an aggressive question that makes you look good, but if you don't get an answer then it's a waste of time. And you can tickle trout can't you?' 'Not personally.' 'I mean, you can go down to the stream with a club and blast around in the water, which is the Paxman technique and extremely good for politicians, but I think there are other techniques. You can ease things out of people without being bland.'
Hmm. It is often said that Steve Coogan's Alan Partridge was partly based on Titchmarsh, but Titchmarsh insists it couldn't be because 'I never wore pullovers like that.' But he recalls interviewing Steve Coogan several times on Pebble Mill at One before he was well known, so 'Perhaps I am like that really. I suppose he just regards me as a rather middle-of-the-road chat-show host - you're a great Aunt Sally for that kind of thing.' Victor Lewis-Smith once wrote that 'The five most debilitating words in the English language are 'Ladies and gentlemen - Alan Titchmarsh' and Titchmarsh has not forgotten it. 'The first time you get real criticism like that it wounds you for a week and you go around thinking "This is the end of my career." So I wrote off to him, and he wrote me this grovelling apology and I really thought, "Ugh, what a comeback." If you're going to say something like that, for goodness sake have the guts to stand up for it. So after that I just didn't bother.'
He doesn't think he failed as an interviewer - after all, the programme ran for 10 years - but on the other hand it didn't lead to anything. Once,Wogan's producer took him out to lunch, but there was no follow-up call. Even now, he admits, 'I watch Michael Parkinson enviously and think I'd like to do that.' But after 10 years of chat-show hosting, it was back to gardening - luckily he'd kept his hand in by writing a gardening column for the Daily Mail - and he took over Gardeners' World when Geoff Hamilton died in 1996. 'So I was back out in the garden, really quite happily, having a breath of air. And then after a year of that, Ground Force came along and it was sort of stratospheric.'
Ground Force really is stratospheric in television terms - it regularly attracts 12 million viewers and comes second only to EastEnders in the ratings. It started quietly on BBC2, but then shifted to BBC1 when the nation collectively fell in love with Charlie Dimmock. Titchmarsh once said apropos Dimmock that he sometimes felt like Prince Charles must have felt when the crowds kept asking 'Where's Princess Di?' Very galling, when he was the expert and supposedly the star. Was his nose put out of joint? 'No, you couldn't let it be, and she's such a sweetheart. But, of course, there is that initial reaction of "Excuse me!" But then you have to ask yourself, "Do I want that kind of attention? Do I want to be photographed everywhere I go." And the answer is no, actually, because that's not my bag. And you know in the days when I started watching gardening programmes there was only Percy Thrower, and it's good to have a variety of folk pushing what to me is my life's passion.'
All my serious gardening friends get very snooty about Ground Force - they loathe the idea that anyone can create a garden in two days, they hate all those 'features' and ready-grown plants. My colleague Monty Don argues that the trouble with any makeover programme is that it 'subverts and by-passes the rhythm of gardening, which is a huge part of the pleasure'. On the other hand, Monty admits that his children love Ground Force - although they hate gardening.
Then there is the pebble question. No Ground Force garden is complete without its pebble path or 'feature' and conservationists worry that people go and nick them off the beaches. It would indeed be ironic if Britain is finally flooded, not by global warming, but because all our sea defences have been removed to make pebble features in patios. But I agree with Titchmarsh that if Ground Force inspires even just one per cent of its viewers to take up gardening, it will have added to the sum of human happiness. And there is convincing evidence that it has done that - the national spend on gardening has gone up by a third over the past two years.
He believes that the English are still the best domestic gardeners in the world (though the Dutch are better at houseplants, and the French and Italians at formal gardens), but we need to work at keeping the tradition alive. That's why, much as he loves Ground Force , he believes Gardeners' World is more valuable, because it's teaching the old skills - how to dig, how to propagate, how to plant, how to prune - which are in danger of being lost. He will give up Ground Force before he gives up Gardeners' World . In fact, he hints he might give it up quite soon, maybe next year, because 'I really want to clear off while we're still at the top. I love doing it, I love enthusing people, I love showing my passion, but it takes a heck of a lot of energy, and I want to stay fresh doing it, I don't want to go off.'
His books, his programmes, his novels have now made him a wealthy man, but he and Alison still live quite modestly. Their only big extravagance was building a 60-seater theatre on their house where they give occasional shows for charity and a Christmas entertainment for the village. They also have a 38ft trawler yacht down at Chichester, which they use to escape at weekends. He recently bought himself a Mazda MX5 'for my midlife crisis' but says his Puritan work ethic would stop him buying a Jaguar. His worst extravagance, he says, is buying old books on topography and he once paid £1,000 for one, but that's as bad as it's ever got. And still his most treasured possession is the budding knife he was given on his first day at work in the Ilkley Parks Department. He still uses it on Gardeners' World . 'They don't make them any more - you can get other budding knives but they're not the same. It's perfectly balanced, it fits the hand well, it still keeps an edge, it's a proper professional budding knife. I remember being given it on my first day and it was pure heaven.'
What seems odd to me is that he hasn't bought a bigger house and garden. He calls his home 'Barleywood' on television, but it is actually number 39 Beech Road or some such address, in one of those pseudo-country Hampshire dormitory villages so beloved by Pony Club girls. And although his garden is terribly long and, of course, beautifully tended, it is basically a narrow strip running very steeply uphill behind the house and partly overlooked by neighbours on either side. It has 'features' every few yards - everything from a gypsy caravan to a Japanese water garden - but it lacks the dreamy enclosed tranquillity of a proper English country garden. He says that gardens should reflect their owners' personality, and perhaps his reflects him - it is busy, cheery, extrovert, improved to within an inch of its life, with none of those dark, mouldy Freudian patches where sinister fungi thrive.
Shyly, blushingly, like a virgin, I confessed that I have just this past year started gardening, and could he give me any tips? Yes, he said masterfully: well-rotted manure, Felco secateurs, and trust your instincts. He believes that most of us have more gardening nous than we know, 'Because it must be basic to us - it's what we did before we wore clothes, before we did anything else. But a lot of us have lost it over the years and we need to find it again. People are too frightened about planting, frightened they'll do something wrong, but there's a lovely line in Laurie Lee where he says his mother handled plants "with a sort of slapdash love" - and I think that's the thing, that sort of casualness, like a woman with 10 babies and she's giving one a bit of bread here and one a cuddle there - you need a feel for them.' And then I asked him what would grow under my oak tree and he wrote down three names - Rubus tricolor, Hypericum calycinum, Hedera hibernica - and I went home happy. What other sex god can give you that?
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0.032456 | <urn:uuid:1a4f9080-789b-4f26-b7c3-585e7ccb44bb> | en | 0.972837 | Vermont poised to elect America's first socialist senator
· Cantankerous campaigner strikes chord with voters
· New milestone nears after eight terms in Congress
Democrat Bernie Sanders of Vermont
After winning eight consecutive elections to the House of Representatives, Democrat Bernie Sanders of Vermont is set to become the first socialist senator in US history. Photograph: Alison Redlich/AP
The following correction was printed in the Guardian's Corrections and clarifications column, Saturday November 4 2006
We described Bernie Sanders as Vermont's only congressman in the article below. He is the state's only member of the House of Representatives, but it has two senators, who are also congressmen.
Amid the furious debate over Iraq and the speculation that George Bush may be a lame duck after next Tuesday's mid-term elections, an extraordinary political milestone is approaching: a cantankerous 65-year-old called Bernie looks set to become the first socialist senator in US history.
Bernie Sanders is so far ahead in the contest for Vermont's vacant seat for the US Senate that it seems only sudden illness or accident could derail his rendezvous with destiny, after eight terms as the state's only congressman. His success flies in the face of all the conventional wisdom about American politics.
"Twenty years ago when people here thought about socialism they were thinking about the Soviet Union, about Albania," Mr Sanders told the Guardian in a telephone interview from the campaign trail. "Now they think about Scandinavia. In Vermont people understand I'm talking about democratic socialism."
Democratic socialism, however, has hardly proved to be a vote-winning formula in a country where even the word "liberal" is generally treated as an insult. Until now the best showing in a Senate race by a socialist of any stripe was in 1930 by Emil Seidel, who won 6% of the vote.
John McLaughry, the head of a free-market Vermont thinktank, the Ethan Allen Institute, said Mr Sanders is a throwback to that era. "Bernie Sanders is an unreconstructed 1930s socialist and proud of it. He's a skilful demagogue who casts every issue in that framework, a master practitioner of class warfare."
"He used to sleep on the couch of a friend of mine, walking about town with no work," Prof Nelson said. "Bernie really is a subject for political anthropology. He has no political party. He has never been called charming. He has no money, and none of the resources we normally associate with success. However, he learned how to speak to a significant part of the disaffected population of Vermont."
Mr Sanders turned out to be a success as mayor, rejuvenating the city government and rehabilitating Burlington's depressed waterfront on Lake Champlain while ensuring that it was not gentrified beyond the reach of ordinary local people. "He stood this town on its ear," said Peter Freyne, a local journalist.
"I tried to make the government work for working people, and not just for corporations, and on that basis I was elected to Congress," Mr Sanders said. He has served 16 years in the House of Representatives, a lonely voice since the Republican takeover in 1994. He has however struck some interesting cross-party deals, siding with libertarian Republicans to oppose a clause in the Patriot Act which allowed the FBI to find out what books Americans borrowed from libraries.
He says his consistent electoral success reflects the widespread discontent with rising inequality, deepening poverty and dwindling access to affordable healthcare in the US. "People realise there is a lot to be learned from the democratic socialist models in northern Europe," Mr Sanders said. "The untold story here is the degree to which the middle class is shrinking and the gap between rich and poor is widening. It is a disgrace that the US has the highest rate of childhood poverty of any industrialised country on earth. Iraq is important, but it's not the only issue."
In a state of just over 600,000 people he also has a significant advantage over his Republican opponent, Rich Tarrant, a businessman who has spent about $7m on his campaign. "Sanders is popular because even if you disagree with him you know where he stands," said Eric Davis, a political scientist at Vermont's Middlebury College. "He pays attention to his political base. He's independent and iconoclastic and Vermonters like that."
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Kate has nothing to be ashamed of. Lucky Wills! She is beautiful
546 days ago
"Look at my titties." (said in a scottish accent)
546 days ago
Prince Harry had wild Vegas fun and his handlers failed if they were truly in the room watching these girls take cellphone pics. But I don't see Harry's as a big deal; it's merely his buttcheeks on display.
Kate and William had their privacy invaded while thinking they were romantically secluded somewhere.
546 days ago
Pudding Tang
Gee, maybe keep your clothes on and the pics wouldn't exist. As difficult as that may be to understand these days. ; Or 'OFF WITH THEIR HEAD', after all you are royalty. Keep the order like a real monarchy should. How dare the commoners snap pics of Philip in a skirt letting the jewels air out, Kate tanning the goods and Harry bare arsing it.
546 days ago
nice to know they are human and not a robot, let people live their lives, just because they have a title doesn't mean they are not human, oh yea they are married.
546 days ago
Princess Di had more class than to run around topless. If you don't want to be seen, cover it up.
546 days ago
Whats the big deal over this. In france most of the women go topless at the beach and its normal to look at ladies breasts. Kate had to know she was taking a chance that someone might get a picture of her when outside being topless. Someone in a plane could have flown over and got the naked breast pictures . I think she should be proud of her perky breasts and not take offense to seeing them in the news.
546 days ago
Thats just low rent tmz. Have some class.
546 days ago
On the plus side she's got killer abs.
546 days ago
And when I said in Halle Berry's story about how france is safe because the laws and I said bull**** and people told me I was wrong..
Yeah kiss my ass lol.. its still 20 times worse than here...
546 days ago
I went naked swimming with my husband and expected privacy and so should this young married couple. The papparazzi should have more respect but that's impossible to ask. I notice TMZ was chomping to get them out there.
P.S. Pudding Tang, stop screaming.
546 days ago
I suspect the photographer would have had to be trespassing on the estate to have gotten the pictures. That should make the taking of the pictures and perhaps the publishing of the same an offense.
546 days ago
northern gypsy
i'm pretty sure the duchess thought they were in a PRIVATE environment...lesson learned !!! i also agree with comments re:halle berry...perhaps it wouldn't be as intense for her as she not as high profile in europe...
546 days ago
Hey, Prince William is topless too. Why do people make such a big deal over topless women? I've seen topless men with bigger boobs than her.
546 days ago
I'm just surprised TMZ didn't publish these photos first.
546 days ago
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These are a must have for each hardcore Nintendo fan. The buckles are connecting the virtual world and the real world. Big influences of the virtual world are touching real life with these types of products. The buckles are retro video stylish and real eyecatchers. Some of them are more than 20 years old and thousands of matches were played with them.
Implications - This is the kind of product that instantly announces your allegiance to a past life. There are few easier ways of starting a conversation with a like-minded person than wearing one of these out -- so I recommend you look into one if you're a Nintendo obsessive like me or know someone would would appreciate a gift like this. | http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/nesbuckels-beltbuckels-made-recycled-video-game-controllers | dclm-gs1-078270001 | false | false | {
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Green Bay linebacker Clay Matthews (52) is slow to get up after being injured while sacking Pittsburgh quarterback Ben Roethlisberger in the second quarter at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wis., Sunday, December 22, 2013. The Steelers defeated the Packers, 38-31. (Mark Hoffman/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel/MCT)
GREEN BAY -- The Green Bay Packers lost, but they will fight another day.
The only question is whether they'll have enough players to field a competitive team.
Once again, injuries struck key players in the Packers' 38-31 loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday at Lambeau Field. And there's a chance they could be without a couple of them when they play the Chicago Bears for the NFC North title Sunday at Soldier Field.
The most serious was to linebacker Clay Matthews, who reinjured the thumb he fractured against Detroit on Oct. 6. For the third time this season, Matthews suffered an injury that knocked him out of the game while sacking the quarterback.
Matthews, who suffered a Bennett's fracture of the thumb and needed to have pins inserted to hold the thumb together, was appearing in his seventh straight game after a four-game absence. He was still wearing a modified cast on his hand to protect the thumb, but it was obvious when he hurt it that he was in tremendous pain.
"It's a similar injury," coach Mike McCarthy said.
Assuming his thumb broke away from the hand at the joint like it did last time, Matthews is likely out for the season. It's a fragile injury and if it isn't treated with surgery and immobilized Matthews could suffer permanent damage.
Matthews had 1 1/2 sacks in his last two games, but he has not been the same player since returning. The Packers used a combination of Nick Perry and Andy Mulumba to fill Matthews' spot.
Perry is dealing with a bad foot and was limited in his snaps.
In addition to Matthews, running back Eddie Lacy reinjured his sprained right ankle. The two times he sprained it -- against Atlanta and Dallas -- he was able to return to the game, but this time he was not.
Lacy had bulled his way on 15 carries for 84 yards and two touchdowns, raising his season total to 1,112 rushing yards, which broke John Brockington's 32-year-old franchise rookie record of 1,105 yards.
James Starks did an admirable job filling in for Lacy, totaling 47 yards on 10 carries and catching a 23-yard screen pass. But the Packers' offense is built around Lacy, and if he can't play against the Bears and their porous run defense, it would be a huge blow to the Packers' chances.
Linebacker Brad Jones continued to struggle with an ankle injury and was in and out of the lineup. Linebacker Mike Neal suffered a stinger but returned.
Cornerback Micah Hyde, who had the best game of his career, contributing both on defense and with 167 kickoff return yards on five attempts, suffered a shoulder injury.
Penalty time: The Packers killed themselves with penalties all game.
They finished with nine for 90 yards. It was the second-most penalties they've had in a game this season and several of them were key factors in the Steelers winning.
"Penalties and turnovers were huge," tight end Andrew Quarless said.
Said Hyde: "They were big. A couple of them were on third down, and you've got to get off the field on third down. It's tough, but in the end we had a chance to win. We all could have made some more plays."
Fortunate call: After Mason Crosby's third-quarter field-goal attempt was blocked, the Packers thought they had squandered a perfect scoring opportunity.
But after the block, the ball was bouncing around and Steelers lineman Ziggy Hood batted the ball out of bounds, which is a penalty. Steelers coach Mike Tomlin thought one of his players had possession of it before Hood batted it out, but the ruling on the field was that no one had possession.
"We ruled that the ball continued to be a loose ball throughout the play," referee Carl Cheffers said. "Batting is an intentional act. It's when you strike the ball, you cannot do that in the direction of your own goal line. So, if you bat the ball forward, it is an illegal act.
"We went back to where the ball was snapped."
The Steelers had a hard time stomaching that call.
"That was maybe the craziest thing I have ever seen in 12 years of football," end Brett Keisel said.
That gave the Packers a first down at the 2-yard line and on the next play Lacy blasted in for the touchdown to give the Packers a 21-17 lead.
Daytime drama: When he spoke after the game, the Chicago Bears had not lost to the Philadelphia Eagles, so McCarthy did not know that the Packers would still have a shot at the playoffs.
He knew that his team had blown a perfect chance. It controlled it's own destiny and couldn't do anything about it.
"I don't know about drama," McCarthy said. "You've got to control your own destiny. We let that opportunity out of our hands and we have to sit and hope Philadelphia beats the Bears.
"It's the reality of where we are in our season. We're kind of a peak and valley football team. That's the way our season has gone. We've had a lot of challenges come our way and good Lord willing, maybe the ball will bounce our way."
Mission accomplished: The Steelers had plenty of motivation after watching two AFC wild-card candidates lose earlier in the day.
"Our mentality hasn't changed," Tomlin said. "We can only control what it is that we can control, to win the games that are presented to us. We haven't done enough of that to this point in the season. We just stayed together and fought." | http://www.twincities.com/sports/ci_24780094/green-bay-packers-injuries-force-key-players-sideline?source=rss | dclm-gs1-078370001 | false | true | {
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Iraq, Chad, and Côte d’Ivoire round out bottom of Mercer's quality of life list.
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Unsurprisingly, Baghdad, Iraq, is the least safe city in the world after nearly nine years of war and over 100,000 civilian deaths in the country since 2003. Once the shining capital of the Islamic world, Baghdad has been in a state of upheaval and civil strife, and travel to the city is not advised, the survey says.
Coming in at a close second, N’Djamena, Chad, is another place to avoid. Like Iraq, authorities advise people to never go to Chad at all, but visitors are allowed under certain circumstances in N’Djamena, the country’s capital. The city played host to a battle that displaced as many as 30,000 people just three years ago, and it has been plagued by civil conflicts for nearly half a century.
Not be outdone by its African neighbor to the west, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, is the third least safe city in the world. Unlike Baghdad and N’Djamena, Abidjan does play host to tourists—albeit of the most enterprising kind. The city boasts nightlife and beaches, but the streets are generally unsafe after dark and the water on the city’s southern coast is known to be treacherous for swimmers. | http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2011/11/29/3-worst-cities-on-earth | dclm-gs1-078430001 | false | false | {
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Clinton supporters are still strong.
DENVER—A day after Sen. Hillary Clinton called on her delegates to back Sen. Barack Obama, there were still many signs around Denver and the Democratic National Convention that her fans were not going away quietly. As I walked around the downtown area, along the 16th Street Mall and close to the Pepsi Center, there were pockets of supporters still calling for her to fight tonight during the state roll call vote. The largest group of Hillary backers, pictured above, set up camp just three blocks from the Pepsi Center and about as close as anybody can get without a special pass. And along 16th Street, there were smaller groups, like the two women pictured, Elizabeth McPherson of Texas, on the left, and Maureen Morrison Long from Oregon on the right. | http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2008/08/27/they-still-love-hillary-in-denver | dclm-gs1-078440001 | false | false | {
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UC Berkeley's Randy Schekman will share this year's Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine.
UC Berkeley's Randy Schekman will share this year's Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. UC Berkeley
Two California scientists and a Yale researcher will share the 2013 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for groundbreaking work in cell transport, says the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. (Complete list).
The winners are Yale's James E. Rothman, UC Berkeley's Randy W. Schekman, and Thomas C. Südhof, an investigator at Stanford.
James Rothman, Yale. Yale University
The Nobel Committee said before dawn Monday that, "The 2013 Nobel Prize honours three scientists who have solved the mystery of how the cell organizes its transport system. Each cell is a factory that produces and exports molecules. For instance, insulin is manufactured and released into the blood and chemical signals called neurotransmitters are sent from one nerve cell to another. These molecules are transported around the cell in small packages called vesicles. The three Nobel Laureates have discovered the molecular principles that govern how this cargo is delivered to the right place at the right time in the cell."
Thomas C. Südhof, Stanford Stanford University
The Committee provided the text below to explain this year's award more fully. It is presented verbatim.
How cargo is transported in the cell
Traffic congestion reveals genetic controllers
Randy Schekman was fascinated by how the cell organizes its transport system and in the 1970s decided to study its genetic basis by using yeast as a model system. In a genetic screen, he identified yeast cells with defective transport machinery, giving rise to a situation resembling a poorly planned public transport system. Vesicles piled up in certain parts of the cell. He found that the cause of this congestion was genetic and went on to identify the mutated genes. Schekman identified three classes of genes that control different facets of the cell´s transport system, thereby providing new insights into the tightly regulated machinery that mediates vesicle transport in the cell.
Docking with precision
James Rothman was also intrigued by the nature of the cell´s transport system. When studying vesicle transport in mammalian cells in the 1980s and 1990s, Rothman discovered that a protein complex enables vesicles to dock and fuse with their target membranes. In the fusion process, proteins on the vesicles and target membranes bind to each other like the two sides of a zipper. The fact that there are many such proteins and that they bind only in specific combinations ensures that cargo is delivered to a precise location. The same principle operates inside the cell and when a vesicle binds to the cell´s outer membrane to release its contents.
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polarbill 09-02-2013 3:24 PM
IT Sales????
Hey guys and gals,
I thought I would see if anybody could provide me with any advice or general thoughts about how to succeed in the IT sales industry. After working at my family's business for the last 8 years or so(with a 9 month stop selling boats) I have decided to completely change careers and have accepted a job at a large IT hardware and software reseller. Tomorrow is my first day(I feel like a kid about to go to a new school or the first day of high school or something). I took a look at some smaller VAR's but in the end my friends in the industry thought going to a larger company that will provide a ton of training(both sales and product training) was a great way to break in to the industry and establish a solid fundamental base. The company I am going to work for is called Zones and is big competitor to CDW, Softchoice, Insight and PC Connection.
I am super excited(and a little nervous at the same time) about the opportunity to get into a constantly growing and evolving industry. Again, if anybody has any advice or general thoughts about the best way to succeed(more concerned about long term success than immediate success although immediate success is fine as long as it doesn't hinder long term potential) I would greatly appreciate it.
norcalmalibu 09-03-2013 8:55 AM
Welcome! I've been in IT sales for the past six years. It's been a very interesting journey to say the least. I started right out of college working for a small 30 person var. I wasn’t making much money during that time however I took every training class available. It felt like 6 years ago training was much easier to receive and it was usually free or the manufacture would pick up the tab. I would strongly recommend skiping the sales trainings and attend the technical trainings. Learn from the engineers what challenges they are trying to solve.
The majority of the sales trainings are a joke and if you want to be successful you need to have an understanding of the technology. The days of "let me bring an engineer in" are over. Being at a var is a very challenging task especially when you don’t have a big name to back you up. While Zones might be one of the larger ones, it's still not a house hold name. When you're cold calling, which you will be doing a ton of you need to understand what you're pitching and get them to agree to a second meeting at which time you can bring an engineer on the line.
If I were in your shoes starting out fresh I would not go to work for a VAR. I would go to work for a manufacture, learn the industry have a decent base, let them teach you the industry and once you have a few years under your belt and connections go to work for a var.
Good luck and happy hunting.
annq42 09-03-2013 3:35 PM
Hey Brett,
I have been in IT sales as the pre-sales Engineer for the last 10 years. I actually use to work with Zones in my old position at Dell. They seemed to be a good company to work for. Working with your company directly and knowing the market fairly well I am not sure I fully agree with what Nate has to say. With that being said, I would do this, take the training that they tell you to take up front. But understand you will be drinking from a firehose. Dont try to learn everything upfront, because it wont happen. At the end of the day, you have engineers, you have backup, keep the relationship strong. Zones is a household name in many parts of the country, so understand you have a good name to back you up. You will learn all the aspects you need to know deal by deal. Training helps, but in a position like yours, by the time there is any good training on something it is a 6month old product. The days of bringing in an engineer are far from over, especially if you are in bigger accounts. They are your best friends, and will push the deal bigger than you could imagine, understand most dont know prices so you may have to keep them under control that way.
Understand this is 90% relationship, you have the ability to sell them whatever they want. Keep at them, they will break down with something you have that they need. Offer to quote anything to keep it competitive even if you know your not going to win, let the other companies hate you. You are in a perfect place. I have been at VARs and at Manufacturers, understand the people are the same, its the same crap, just different policies for the same problems. Vars are good places to be to learn the industry, I am not sure what Nate was referring to, but I have sold in Northern Cal before and that place might as well be in a world all its own as far as IT sales go.
norcalmalibu 09-03-2013 8:36 PM
Couple clarifying points..
Zones name recognition compared to a Netapp, EMC, Cisco. I'd work for a manufacture have them train you etc.
I carry an engineer on apt's every time. I meant in the context of dialing for dollars.
polarbill 09-03-2013 9:03 PM
Thanks for the advice guys. I have already started with Zones so I am going to take that opportunity and make the best of it. I am going to try and be the biggest sponge I can and try and absorb as much as I can. I definitely plan on spending a lot of effort getting technical training and certs as possible. I am hoping this position at Zones helps me build a great/solid foundation in the IT business to help me succeed long term. while I don't at all plan on treating Zones as a stepping stone I would love to at some point work as a rep for a hardware/software manufacturer. I have 2 friends that started at Softchoice(a competitor to Zones/CDW) and both work as reps for manufacturers(Nimble Storage and SeaMicro) as well as have a number of friends that work in sales at software companies like F5, Concur and Apptio. All these people are successful and and happy with their careers.
polarbill 09-03-2013 9:14 PM
Also, I believe that Zones vendors pay for all the training so they spend a ton of time doing product training. My buddy that works for Zones said he figures for the first year I would probably be spending an hour 3 or 4 days a week in product training. Again, I am going to make a real effort to participate in as much product training as possible as I envision myself being more successful as a salesperson that can talk the talk more so than a pure used car salesman type that is a huge BSer. I am hoping it is a good time to get in with Zones as well as they are in a huge growth period. They broke a billion in revenue last year and plan on growing quite a bit. They just hired a new CEO who came from Tech Systems for what that is worth.
I almost forgot. Do either of you guys have any thoughts on working on the SMB side or the public sector side? I am slated to start on their SLED(State, Local, Education) side instead of the SMB side. I figure margins are less on the public sector side but I hope their is good earning potential there. I think Zones has a leg up on a lot of VAR's on the public sector side because their are privately owned by a Minority. Since they can claim DBA(Disadvantaged business) status they should have the upper hand on most competitors.
norcalmalibu 09-05-2013 11:05 AM
SLED is a small portion of my business. Most of the SLED business is driven through RFP's which is essentially a race to the bottom in terms of pricing. Make sure you find out which partners you work with have a WSCA contract. It's one way to avoid RFP's.
What territory are you going to be covering? In California we have E-Rate funding which puts Government money into SLED accounts. I usually ask up front if they use E-Rate, if so be prepared for a long sales cycle. They will typically go out to bid in June/July and then received funding in October/November/December.
If you're going to be 100% focused on SLED make sure to join/ participate in MISAC as well as other organizations that focus/support SLED.
cadunkle 09-05-2013 2:37 PM
I deal with people in IT sales regularly, as the customer. To be honest, most sales reps and account managers from vendors piss me off. Maybe hearing my perspective will give you some insight.
I find it annoying getting calls weekly or even monthly to try to pry information out of me and convince me to spend money with you. If I don't need anything from you I don't want you calling or leaving voice mails. Once or twice a year is more than enough to remind me you still exist.
If I have your contact info and have not worked with your company before I will throw out a few requests for quotes as I need things. If you're pricing is not better than the vendors and reps I currently work with I'm not going to go through the hassle of getting finance and purchasing to set things up to deal with your company, this can be painful on my end so you need to make it worthwhile with either better pricing and comparable service, comparable pricing and better service, or preferably both. You get a couple chances to be competitive before I write your company off as not worthwhile.
Email is preferable to the phone unless we're working on something more open ended or unless I need you to get an engineer or someone knowledgeable about a specific product.
Calling to follow up or get more details about a larger or more complex quote or project is good, especially if you can save me money or throw in something of value. Calling 2 seconds after I ask for a quote on a small mundane order is irritating and makes me want to use another vendor if pricing is close.
If you go the extra mile on a larger or more complex order, meaning save me money, work with suppliers or manufacturers for better pricing or value added items/services, suggest changes where they make sense, point out anything I may have overlooked, expedite things if it's particularly time critical, etc. ... I will remember you for that and favor you in the future.
You exist so I can get what I need quickly and easily, make the process difficult, slow, or annoying and I will not want to work with you.
If you're in a high turnover position I don't want to speak to you or hear from you. I don't want to tell you about any upcoming projects, new initiatives, fiscal year, sales, budget and I especially don't want to tell you about the weather or how my weekend was. Next month I'll get a call from your replacement wanting to waste my time with the same questions and small talk. There's a good chance by the time I need something worth talking to you about I'll be talking to your replacement. It's nothing personal and I know it's not your fault the last few guys didn't last, but after that I view investing any time in you is a waste of my time. Since you're the new account manager or sales rep for the account you have my contact info, email me that you're the new guy and I'll reach out to you when I need something.
A few things that have REALLY pissed me off...
If I don't answer the phone or return your calls when you're not following up on something I've reached out to you for, DO NOT call from a different number to get me to answer the phone and then tell me your more local guy is walking in the front door as we speak so it would be great if I could go bring him back and have an hour long surprise powwow about how best to outsource my own job at greater cost to the company.
If you ignore the "No Soliciting" sign on the front door and convince the receptionist to get me to come up front to meet you and are then politely turned away because we don't own the product you're selling or servicing and are completely happy with our existing vendor and fairly new products that do the same thing, DO NOT continue to show up in person every 3 months and beg for business. If you did that anyway and after a few times I tell you please don't come back here and instruct the receptionist that you're not welcome, DO NOT roll up incognito in a Suburban with dark tint windows, trainee in tow, wearing black suits and sunglasses, and convince the receptionist as well as HR that you're on "official business" and need to speak to me immediately. I have your card and know how to reach you if I need to, doing these things will only ensure that if I do need your services I will not call you but instead look for another vendor who shows some respect and professionalism.
If you screw up an order and completely forget to take care of it on your end, when I ask where my stuff is and you profusely apologize and promise to get it out right away overnight, DO NOT forget about it again and leave me wondering where my order is a week later and not hearing any reply from you. It may have been a very small order but I've made some very large purchases from you previously and this small order may actually be more time critical than some of those really big ones you've gone the extra mile with. You're rapidly burning that good customer relationship you've worked so hard on.
bcoppinger 09-06-2013 8:05 AM
Take Cory's advice...it's good advice. I am in his position and can tell you everything he says is true. The more you bug me with useless crap the more I will go out of my way not to use your company.
jv210 09-06-2013 11:08 AM
Like Cory & JBC said don't be that guy. I'm in the same position as they are and can relate to every single paragraph Cory wrote. The worst of all these to me is the random drop by that get's nothing accomplished for them. Since we don't have a receptionist they are stuck in the Lobby and we have started not even going out there, just telling them to stop coming by. The next few months we'll get the same people in the lobby.
To me, when I talk to a sales guy is if they don't know the product they are pushing, they aren't getting my business. Soak up as much information as you can.
annq42 09-06-2013 1:24 PM
So I have sold into all markets, SMB, Commercial, Enterprise, SLED, Education, Healthcare, etc. Here is the Skinny on SLED vs SMB. SLED is always going to have busniess, you just have to find then fight for it. From there, your margins are going to be less, but if you get all the small cities, counties, etc to buy from you, on everything they dont need a RFP on then you will do fine. However no one got rich from selling into SLED. SMB is going to be all about relationship. As Zones you can sell anything you want, so just make sure you keep the relationship going. You do that across 100 customers and you are set. You have more upside, however you have to find your customers, its more work than moving from county to county, city to city, Police station to Police Station. But higher margins, and less budget cuts can help you move up and get noticed.
Some advice I can give is get to know your Cisco, HP, IBM, Microsoft, EMC, Dell, etc reps. They will be your best friend. I have worked at EMC and Dell, and I did more selling for Zones than the Zones rep did, only because they brought us the deal. Not only will those reps treat you well if you find them business, but they will remember it and bring you things if you can show you know what your doing.
The last point is this; remember your job is like herding cats. Some cats are going to get away, and thats ok, just keep moving forward. Its a tough job, that does get easier and has great payout at the end. Remember your smartphone is going to be your best friend when you are on the move and you need to return emails. Trash the iphone and get something that will help you manage your calendar and contacts better, for that is your life line.
Good luck, let me know if you have any large storage deals in the Carolinas I can hook you up.
polarbill 09-09-2013 8:26 PM
Thanks a lot guys. I really appreciate the advice. Cory, JBC and Neves, I also appreciate the advice from your point of view. It isn't necessarily what my sales training manager would want to hear but I completely understand your point of view and think understanding that can help long term success. I am sure the line of doing your job as a sales person and not being "that guy" is tough to walk. So if I understand you correct you don't mind someone calling in to make contact and try and start a business relationship but you don't want a potential new vendor to hound you/stock you on small items. What you look for in a vendor who is trying to increase their business with you is someone that can provide value to you in the way of better pricing and/or better service. You look for someone who can know your business enough to bring you new idea's that can solve problems? Is that fair? Also follow through and easy to deal with/buy from is important.
Thanks Ryan. I really do plan on working hard on the relationships I have with our internal experts, brand champions and vendor reps. I understand that those guys can be your best friend and help build your book greatly. Thanks for your thoughts on SMB vs SLED. I am still not sure which one I will end up in but either way I guess both are sales and will provide great experience. I am definitely working on getting in the right mindset to realize that their will be a lot more failure than success, at least in the short term, but to keep plugging along. I already have a droid and plan on setting up my work email/calendar/contacts on it although I am not sure it is as needed since I will be doing all phone sales. That said I still think customers like to be able to know they can get in contact with you and even if I am not at work I can at least send a quick email saying I got their email and will start working on it when I get to the office.
I know I have a lot to learn about myself and how I fit into the IT sales field but I would like to be the sales person who treats their customers as a friend(actually know a little about them on a personal level/as a human being instead of just a sale) as well as someone who truely has my customers best interests in mind. I plan on continuously learning and being more technical(and know how it helps my customers business) than others. I want to be a salesperson whose customers feel is honest, hard working and responsive.
peter_c 09-12-2013 6:07 PM
Buy the book "How to Master The Art of Selling" by Tom Hopkins. Read it, learn the phrases verbatim. The Ben Franklin close is awesome!
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A Vain President, or a Weak One?
Americans don't like pushovers--especially pushover presidents.
Oct 19, 2009, Vol. 15, No. 05 • By FRED BARNES
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George Will suggested last week that President Obama's self-referential speech on behalf of Chicago's bid for the 2016 Olympics may lead to his being known as the "vain" president. Maybe, but worse things have been said about a president and probably will be if Obama declines to send substantially more troops to Afghanistan and rejuvenate his counterinsurgency strategy. He'll be called a "weak" president. And the label will stick.
A weak president is vulnerable, politically and otherwise. In Jimmy Carter's case, being seen as weak in dealing with Iran and the Soviets was a major factor in his defeat by Ronald Reagan in 1980. Americans don't like pushovers, especially pushover presidents. Obama is at risk of becoming a pushover.
Afghanistan is his test. Public support for the war has fallen sharply this year, especially among Democrats. And Obama's liberal base is pushing him to rebuff General Stanley McChrystal, the commander in Afghanistan, and scale back the war effort. Reversing course on a critical issue of national security because of domestic politics--that's an act of pure weakness.
At the same time, Obama will create another problem for himself should he spurn McChrystal's request for up to 60,000 additional troops to carry out the very strategy the president adopted in March and reaffirmed as recently as August. Rejection will alienate the uniformed military, and they are more popular than the president. When the Pentagon is hostile territory, the president suffers.
A president with a more impressive record leading up to a pivotal decision on Afghanistan wouldn't be in such a perilous situation. But it's of Obama's own making. He has little margin for error. His record over nine months as president is at the heart of his problem. Three aspects in particular stand out.
The first actually goes back to the presidential campaign. Obama criticized President Bush's decision to invade Iraq, insisting it was the wrong war to fight. The right war, the good war, was in Afghanistan. This wasn't a fleeting distinction. It was a central point of his candidacy.
It raised a question: Was Obama's stand on Afghanistan merely a cynical device to make him look like a tough-minded foreign-policy strategist and up to the job of commander in chief? The answer appeared to be no when he adopted an aggressive counterinsurgency strategy in March. As it turns out, that decision was easy. Democrats were supportive. Crunch time on Afghanistan didn't come until last month when McChrystal reported that the war will be lost without more troops.
Deploying more soldiers will cost more money and could produce more casualties, and there's no telling how long the war will last. But prevailing in Afghanistan is what the Obama presidency is supposed to be about. If he flinches now, we'll know we were misled. Obama talks about defining issues. For him Afghanistan will be one, but not in the way he might have hoped.
The second aspect involves the choice facing the president between continued pursuit of his policy in Afghanistan, McChrystal-style, and concern for his political future. Infuriating his antiwar base would complicate his prospects for reelection in 2012, all the more so if the war lingers without exit in sight. Any president would worry about that.
The downside to letting personal political interests prevail is that Obama would look duplicitous and weak. He could offer high-sounding reasons for ratcheting down the war, but everyone would know the real reason--domestic politics.
A president who'd bucked his party from time to time could get away with this. But Obama's record is the opposite. As president, he's been subservient. He's yet to say no to congressional Democrats. He's carefully remained on the side of every liberal special interest. Yielding on Afghanistan fits this pattern of weakness. Caving again will underscore it.
The third aspect is his foreign policy. Had the president dramatically stiffened the effort to force Iran to give up its nuclear weapons program, had he recruited allies in this cause, had he gone ahead with the antimissile system in Poland and the Czech Republic over Vladimir Putin's objection, had he become a champion (rather than a critic) of America's interests in the world--then, the situation would be quite different.
But Obama's foreign policy has been one of complaisance. He's apologized, deferred, and backed down. Changing course in Afghanistan, under pressure, would be viewed as another instance of presidential lack of resolve. According to an old sports adage, when the going gets tough, the tough get going. Obama hasn't. | http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/017/062hairn.asp | dclm-gs1-078540001 | false | false | {
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0.035544 | <urn:uuid:6af0cfb6-997f-4581-8749-228b80e4a066> | en | 0.956745 | Could USO changes be poisoning the well? | ZDNet
Could USO changes be poisoning the well?
Summary: There must be something in the water in Canberra. After years of measured inaction, the Coalition is taking long-overdue steps towards universal broadband and working around Telstra's continued domination -- after 10 years of deregulation -- of the country's telecommunications wholesale markets.
The government will never be able to escape criticism that it's just acting now to buy votes. Nonetheless, Communications Minister Helen Coonan faces an even bigger potential problem if her latest gamble turns sour. This folly is a review of the Universal Service Obligation (USO), that legislatively enforced standard that requires Telstra provide all Australians with telecommunications at least as good as using a carrier pigeon.
Supported by an industry fund established with the initial sale of Telstra and intended to ensure services for Australians in commercially difficult areas, the USO mandates access to a serviceable telephony line, pay phones where deemed necessary, and a basic data service of at least 64Kbps (mandated under the Digital Data Service Obligation, or DDSO).
Given the increasing expectation of multi-megabit speeds, the long-standing DDSO seems positively outdated; judge this by the generally negative reaction to Telstra's saccharine vow to offer a minimum 512Kbps wholesale service at AU$59 for the next 14 years.
If I may inject a bit of perspective: in the UK, where a USO ensures BT and Kingston Communications subsidise phone services for low income earners, the minimum required data service is 28.8Kbps; this was upheld in a review last year.
So, by world standards, our USO of 64Kbps isn't necessarily horrible -- although I would venture that many residents find it hard to get 64Kbps connections when their phone lines have been rendered useless by heavy rains and Telstra's refusal to upgrade its network in many areas.
By announcing a minimum 12Mbps WiMAX wireless service for 100 percent of Australians, Senator Coonan has effectively increased the DDSO significantly. If this program can guarantee all Australians access to such a service -- as the government has promised it would -- even rural customers will be well serviced indeed.
The problem is this: Senator Coonan also announced she would be axing the DDSO, arguing that the subsidies provided under the USO are no longer relevant. "This obligation", she said in the 27 June National Press Club speech where she announced the review, "has been superseded by the Australian Broadband Guarantee -- a guarantee that every Australian can access a much faster broadband service via a government subsidy of up to AU$2,750."
That guarantee, however, is built on a premise of commercially sustainable competition rather than government regulation. That means that Senator Coonan has effectively removed any imperative for Australia's telecommunications carriers to provide any data service, at all; what is provided will be delivered under the assumption that the government's AU$2,750 subsidies will attract enough interest to deliver Australia Connected's target of 100 percent coverage.
If that coverage proves less than achievable, rural Australians will no longer have recourse to the DDSO -- or to any legislation at all.
There's one more problem with this: that 100 percent coverage guarantee is predicated on the use of wireless local loops. WiMAX, the obvious and stated way of delivering these, is great for OPEL but remains shunned by Telstra, which needs to be involved in this game to deliver the best outcome for all Australia. Telstra continues to insist that universal broadband must be fibre-based, but refuses to pay for that fibre.
Senator Coonan is taking a big chance here. There is a major difference between a mandated data minimum standard, and a subsidy-driven free-market approach to providing universal broadband. The DDSO, at least, required Telstra to find a way to provide some sort of data service to all Australians. By eliminating it and putting complete reliance on government subsidies to private operators, the government is putting its entire faith in the belief that it has finally, with Australia Connected, figured out the magic formula.
The commercial market is subject to commercial realities, after all, even with government subsidies. Fingers crossed that axing the DDSO -- and putting the fate of universal data services in the hands of that commercial market -- will deliver the stated objectives.
If not, Senator Coonan's leap of faith -- in a commercial market that has proven less than insatiable when it comes to new infrastructure build-outs -- could leave behind a poisoned legacy that would take the next government years to disinfect. And for many Australians, even a village pay phone could eventually seem like a luxury.
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• A little over the top
This article is a little over the top, considering Dial up runs at 56kbps and the USO itself mandates a telephone service.
So when you consider those two points, the DDSO is very redundant.
Also, you consider the OPEL spending, it further makes much, much more sense to drop the obligation, and certainly allow industry to prosper and fund these services (some with subsidy).
So keeping that in mind, i doubt we'll see 500 Satelitte launches into space, however, I do not doubt the outcomes from the USO review will be positive for everyone.
• USO is old news
The USO is technically past its used by date. Almost the only reason left to have a home phone is for ADSL. If you can get wireless or cable broadband, why would you keep the land line?
Country areas that currently have no ADSL or wireless can get satellite broadband right now with the government subsidy. Next G almost already covers the whole population and will offer very fast speeds soon. Opel has pretty significant plans and government subsidies to match that. If you have at least 2 operators in broadband competition across almost the entire population; what use is the USO?
• ok...
Spoken like a true city dweller Anonymous...
• Main concern is Telstra
I am also a city dweller, but as I see if the problem with dropping the DDSO is that it's the only thing forcing Telstra to keep providing any kind of data service to many rural areas. Claims that modems run at 56Kbps are great but I would welcome input from truly rural residents who are getting anywhere near that kind of speed -- which, by the way, is utterly useless for today's Internet. Sure, mobiles have picked up much of the slack -- but is everone in rural areas really that far weaned off their landlines? (I would honestly be interested to know if this was the case). And are those the same phone lines that anecdotally fail with some regularity, even in times of bad weather?
And while Opel will certainly be getting better bandwidth to many areas Any Day Now, in the meantime it seems like dropping the DDSO will eliminate any reason at all for Telstra to pretend it cares about providing data services to rural areas. Saying there are two operators in broadband competition across almost the entire population seems a little optimistic (for now at least) -- and while private enterprise may eventually fill in the gaps, dropping the DDSO now seems to be a concession to Telstra that they don't even have to keep pretences up anymore.
Or perhaps I am in fact just overstating the risk this seems to pose. Look forward to reading more opinions.
• Many not covered by the DDSO
Actually you are not covered by the DDSO unless your residence;
Is within 4Km of an ISDN enabled exchange (6Km in country areas)
Not on any PGS/conditioning equipment (Pair-gain, RIM, Loading coils ect)
Otherwise you can only get a discount on your satellite install under the SDDS.
I had my home, less than 10Km from Perth CBD, checked and could only use the SDDS as I am over 4Km from the exchange (4.4Km).
If you are not willing / unable to afford ISDN or satellite then you are only entitled to a minimum of 19.2Kb/s.
• Is this guy for real?
I doubt if this guy has ever been west of Parramatta but Optus or any other carrier other than Telstra has never provided any service in the bush. To compare us to other countries who don't have 20M people spread over 3 M square miles is bit stupid. WiMax is crap compared to Next G which just won a world carrier competition. Next G already covers 98% of the pop and will go faster than Wimax. Its dumb to pay $1B of public money to duplicate it. Fibre is the only way to go otherwise the mobile network is going to faster than the fixed! Telstra was going to build it for free.
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Glass shape influences how quickly we down alcohol
Washington: How quickly you consume down an alcoholic drink may depend on the shape of the glass you’re drinking from, a new study has suggested.
For the study, Dr Angela Attwood and colleagues from Bristol’s School of Experimental Psychology recruited 160 social drinkers aged 18-40 with no history of alcoholism to attend two experimental sessions.
During one session they were asked to drink either lager or a non-alcoholic soft drink from either a straight-sided glass or a curved ‘beer flute’.
They found that the participants were almost twice as slow when drinking alcohol from the straight-sided glass as compared to the curved glass.
However, there was no difference in drinking rates from the glasses when the drink was non-alcoholic.
Importantly, the degree of this error seemed to be associated with the speed of drinking – the participants who tended to show the greatest error in their halfway judgments tended to show the greatest changes in drinking rate.
Therefore, slower drinking rates is likely to have positive impact on the individual and also at a population level.
“Due to the personal and societal harms associated with heavy bouts of drinking, there has been a lot of recent interest in alcohol control strategies. While many people drink alcohol responsibly, it is not difficult to have ‘one too many’ and become intoxicated. Because of the negative effects alcohol has on decision making and control of behaviour, this opens us up to a number of risks,” Dr Attwood said.
“People often talk of ‘pacing themselves’ when drinking alcohol as a means of controlling levels of drunkenness, and I think the important point to take from our research is that the ability to pace effectively may be compromised when drinking from certain types of glasses,” she added. | http://zeenews.india.com/health/print.aspx?nid=18615 | dclm-gs1-078680001 | false | false | {
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;;; soundex.el --- implement Soundex algorithm
;; Author: Christian Plaunt <chris@bliss.berkeley.edu>
;; Maintainer: FSF
;; Keywords: matching
;; Created: Sat May 15 14:48:18 1993
;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
;; any later version.
;; GNU General Public License for more details.
;; Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
;;; Commentary:
;; The Soundex algorithm maps English words into representations of
;; how they sound. Words with vaguely similar sound map to the same string.
;;; Code:
(defvar soundex-alist
'((?B . "1") (?F . "1") (?P . "1") (?V . "1")
(?C . "2") (?G . "2") (?J . "2") (?K . "2") (?Q . "2") (?S . "2")
(?X . "2") (?Z . "2") (?D . "3") (?T . "3") (?L . "4") (?M . "5")
(?N . "5") (?R . "6"))
"Alist of chars-to-key-code for building Soundex keys.")
(defun soundex (word)
"Return a Soundex key for WORD.
Implemented as described in:
Knuth, Donald E. \"The Art of Computer Programming, Vol. 3: Sorting
and Searching\", Addison-Wesley (1973), pp. 391-392."
(let* ((word (upcase word)) (length (length word))
(code (cdr (assq (aref word 0) soundex-alist)))
(key (substring word 0 1)) (index 1) (prev-code code))
;; once we have a four char key, we're done
(while (and (> 4 (length key)) (< index length))
;; look up the code for each letter in word at index
(setq code (cdr (assq (aref word index) soundex-alist))
index (1+ index)
;; append code to key unless the same codes belong to
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This page explains how you can export individual Confluence pages, blog posts, entire spaces or selections of pages into a single PDF file.
Exporting single pages
You can export a Confluence page to PDF. This option exports a single page and is available to all users who have permission to view the page.
• Go to a page in the space and choose Tools > Export to PDF. Follow the prompts to export the page.
Note that the export of a single page to PDF applies any PDF stylesheet customisations, but does not apply any PDF layout customisations. To make your PDF layout customisations apply to a single page exported to PDF, use the 'multiple page' method described below to export that single page only. See Customising Exports to PDF.
Exporting a blog post
You can export a Confluence blog post to PDF. This option exports a single blog post and is available to all users who have permission to view the page.
• Go to a blog post and choose Tools > Export to PDF. Follow the prompts to export the page.
Blog posts can only be exported individually. Blogs cannot be exported at the space level.
Exporting multiple pages or the entire space
Using Confluence's space export functionality, you can convert multiple pages or an entire space to PDF.
To use the space export functionality, you need the 'Export Space' permission. See the guide to space permissions.
To export a space or selected pages to PDF:
1. Go to the space and choose Space tools > Content Tools on the sidebar.
2. Choose Export. This option will only be visible if you have the 'Export Space' permission.
3. Select PDF then choose Next
4. Decide whether you need to customise the export:
• Select Normal Export to produce a PDF file containing all the pages that you have permission to view.
• Select Custom Export if you want to export a subset of pages.
5. Select the pages you want to export.
• You have the option to Select All or Deselect All pages.
• When you select a page, all its child pages will also be selected. Similarly, when you deselect a page all its child pages will also be deselected.
6. Choose Export.
7. When the export process has finished, download and save the PDF file as prompted.
If your space uses the Documentation theme:
1. Choose Browse > Space Operations
2. Choose PDF Export from the left menu.
3. Follow the steps above to export the Space.
Screenshot: Selecting pages to export
Customising the appearance of PDF exports
You can add a title page, a table of contents and customised headers and footers to the PDF output. For more advanced customisations, you can apply Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) modifications. These customisations are specific to each space. You need the 'Space Administrator' permission to be able to apply these customisations. For more information, see Customising Exports to PDF.
• PDF exports will not handle columns created via the page layout option in the editor. If you have a two- or three-column layout, the PDF export will contain the page content in one single column. The issue is tracked here: CONF-25240 - PDF export does not handle page layouts Resolved
• Comments on the page are not exported to the PDF file. The screenshot above and Confluence both suggest otherwise, issue is tracked here: CONF-27811 - Description of PDF Export is incorrect Resolved
• Only image attachments that have been inserted into a page are included when exporting to PDF.
• To export a PDF containing international text, you need to install a Unicode font in Confluence.
• Blog posts can be individually exported, but are not included when you export a space to PDF.
• If you have 'Space Administrator' permissions, the link to customise the PDF Stylesheet is provided at the top of the page tree, as shown in the screenshot above.
• Confluence's PDF export feature is designed to handle a wide variety of content. However, on rare occasions the PDF Export process may fail due to an unrecognised customisation. If that happens the PDF export screen will indicate the title of the page in which the problem occurred, to help you diagnose the cause of the failure.
1. How do I get the comments on the page to show up in the PDF when I use the export single page icon?
1. Hi Matt,
Unfortunately, Confluence does not provide this feature currently. However, we are aware of such needs and there is an improvement request being tracked at the following link:
The improvement request above suggest Confluence to have the ability to include comments in the page PDF export. If you are keen on this improvement, please cast a vote to increase its popularity and add yourself as a watcher for future updates.
Choy Li
2. Anonymous
This would be really useful. Does anyone know if it's possible yet?
1. Hi,
You may want to give a try by using the Auto-Export plugin that is available in our Confluence Extension space:
If the above is not an option, you may want to give a try to search for other plugins in our Confluence Extension space which might meet your requirement. Hope the information does help.
Choy Li
3. If exporting to PDF, I run into problems if tables or pictures are involved. I created an issue for this on JIRA
4. Hi,
is it possible, to store the selection of exported pages for a later re-use?
1. This would be very handy. Is it possible in 3.0?
5. Anonymous
Hi there, we found that when multiple users of the wiki exported an entire space at the same time, the wiki runs very slow...logging in to the wiki just hangs....once the export is finished, speed comes back to there any way to allow space export without running into this adverse performance issue?
1. I have the same issue - needing visitors to be able to export multiple pages (a particular section of a space) as a pdf.
The best way to deal with this would seem to be by automating PDF export (with certain supplied parameters) on a regular (e.g. nightly) basis. I read in some comment here (but can't find it now) that (ro-)bot-export of spaces is deliberately discouraged by Atlassian to guard against DDOS-type attacks, but would it be possible to create a local-only bot capable of running these exports according to supplied parameters (regularity, page(s) to include, pdf filename, ...)?
Bot-exported PDFs could be saved in a certain folder with a known naming structure, and wiki pages could include links to the appropriate pdf file (perhaps via macro), avoiding the whole automatically-generated performance hit issue.
2. The space backup process consumes some extra resources, hence, it is understandable that Confluence may perform poorly if there's multiple concurrent space export.
In the context of permission settings, you can assign/drop the "Space - Export" space permission if necessary.
In regards to a single automated process, I think one can create a job plugins that runs the space export at an interval. You might be able to find better answers in Atlassian Answers.
1. Thank you for the information - a job plugin (set up to use Cron) sounds exactly like what we need. Then it's just the case of creating the plugin to export specific pages within a space (or the whole space) and save it - all according to designated parameters. Do you know if the plugin architecture allows you to specify a subset of pages to be exported in the space (like is possible in the UI)?
Another method would seem to be to use an external script using the RPC API - but right now you can only export an entire space as a PDF (but I've voted up a feature request for extra granularity here - see I found a python script that could be modified (currently exports a space as XML)...
Anyway, I will search the public forums as you suggest ... I just wanted to update this thread with these pointers. Thanks again.
6. P
We're using Confluence to create documentation and we use the PDf export mechanism to provide our customers with a PDF version of the documentation.
Now, in the spaces we use for documentation, we have several pages that have viewing restrictions on them. This can be either pages that are not yet finished or just some internal pages with comments/directions etc.
I know I can manually uncheck each single page that I do not want to have included before exporting, but I was wondering if it's not possible to run the export in such a way that it will only export what is visible to anonymous users?
1. Sure - you just need to grant 'Export Space' permission to anonymous users, and then log out before starting the export.
This will create the PDF including only those pages which are visible to anonymous users.
If you don't want to enable exports for anonymous users, then you could create a new user, make sure that the permissions are set so that the user does not see your internal pages, and perform your PDF Exports using that restricted user.
1. P
Tnx, that'll do the trick. Should have come up with that myself :-)
7. Anonymous
I'm new to confluence and need to export a group of pages to a single .pdf file. I need a table oc contents with page numbers in this .pdf. As far as I can see, I can either
* Export selected files in a space - in which case a TOC with an entry showing the page number of the start of each file is generated automatically and the title page is controlled by the configuration for the space.
* Assemble a new page using the
Error rendering macro 'include' : com.atlassian.renderer.v2.macro.MacroException: No page title provided.
macro to determine what pages to include. I can then export this file either by selecting it from within the space. In this case the filename becomes the title and there is no automatically generated TOC.
Ideally I want to use the second method as I can then generate customer specific manuals without having to remember which boxes to tick for each manual. Is there a way to extend the 'depth' of the TOC to include headers - to say down to h3 or h4. I can only find fow to turn the feature off in the dicumentation.
1. Hi George,
In order to extend the depth, you can use the minLevel and maxLevel parameters in the {toc} macro. For further information regarding the {toc} macro, you might want to read this page.
However, I would strongly advise you to use the method 1 you have described above rather than method 2 due to some of the current limitations of Confluence. I have also found out some improvement requests that could overcome these limitations in future. Here are the requests:
Please add yourself as a watcher, vote for these requests and add your own comments to these requests. For further details on how we include new features and improvements, you might want to read this page
1. Anonymous
Hi Sashi,
Apologies for the delay replying, I have had a look at the JIRA items above (and voted for those relevant to my problem), done some more reading and realise I asked the wrong question and what I really want is either:
* For the {toc} and {toc-zone} macros to include page numbers in a .pdf document or
* For the 'toc' produced when generating a pdf from multiple confluence files using the 'Export to pdf' under the Advanced tag to include entries (including page numbers) for headers (minLevel and maxLevel should be specified) in addition to the current entries for the start of each file.
Do you know if this is might be included any time soon?
1. Anonymous
Hi Sashi.
There is a way round this by placingan entry in the pdf stylesheet. The following will add page numbers to text produced by both {toc} and {toc-zone} macros when printing to .pdf. (provided you get the classname correct) - The classname (rbtoc followed by a 13 digit number which seems to be a 'hash' if the filename) is generated by confluence and can be found by converting to .html and looking at the source. Unfortunately an entry in the pdf stylesheet is needed for each file to be converted. Do you know of an easier way?
1. I found a nice work-around for this.
I used the "class"-parameter in toc-zone:
Then the following pdf stylesheet works when generating PDF:s from all pages:
One disadvantage was that style=none stopped to work so I could only have bullet lists as toc, but that could be solved by adding the following to the pdf stylesheet and the global stylesheet (depending on that class=toczone is defined in the toczone-macro):
1. Mattias thanks for that - it is more elegant than the way I did it - just shows, I really should read the Notation Guide :-)
8. Anonymous
The "warning" for the PDF exports says this:
Due to the hierarchical manner in which a space is exported, Confluence will modify the <hN> tags to generate a uniform appearance for the entire space export.
This seems to indicate that the space is first exported to a HTML file (with the said transformation) and then converted into PDF. My question: Is this HTML file available afterwards - it is exactly the feature I have been looking for for some time. I do not want the HTML in a package of separate files but in one big HTML file. This would be great!
Thanks & regards
1. Anonymous
Yes, it's located on the in the temp directory of the Confluence installation
9. when export single page to PDF, a link to other wiki pages is still a link.
I think this is a bug in terms of choice for default behavior (think anyone that uses confluence as *Intranet* and wants to publish content to outside source) how to I solve it?
I looked into a link macro that might have a "nolinkOnPrint" property but cannot find it.
10. How do I get the page numbers on the pages on the PDF export?
When I print a whole site (or single page with all its children), the export process gives me this nice little TOC. The unfortunate thing is that the pages themselves have no page numbers. It's great that the TOC tells me that the item I'm looking for is on page 231, but if that's out of 425 pages a TOC doesn't help much.
Maybe I'm just missing an obvious option someplace?
1. Hi David,
You can include page numbers by editing the PDF Stylesheet for the space. Instructions are here.
11. Anonymous
Is there a way to export a PDF using SOAP or some other remote service?
I'd like to call that service from my maven build, so that I can include the last documentation in my build.
Thanks a lot for any hint.
12. How can I create an easy link on a Confluence page that will allow them to Export as PDF a select set of pages? I don't want to make new intranet users figure out the multi-step process... How would a URL of this type be structured so that they could just click on my link to accomplish this task quickly and easily? I see that each page/set of pages has a value associated with it, I just don't know what parameters are being passed after I select the pages and then hit the Submit button. Can someone give an example of this?
13. Like Meg, I'm also looking for a way to provide users with exporting to PDF via a link I put on a page. Anyone?
14. Anonymous
Haven't seen this aspect of printing/exporting covered: When you click a "label" you get a nice listing view of all the pages tagged as such. Is there a way then to export or print those pages ... en masse? Thank you.
15. Anonymous
Is ist possible to tag part of the content like ("customer" or "internal") within a page and then just export the "customer-tagged" content of the page into the wished format?
Tank you
- miriam
16. I am exporting multiple pages to PDF. Each page contains subsections marked by h4 and h5. Generally, I would expect the table of contents to pick up on these. However, this is not the case. Is there a way in the stylesheet to tell the PDF table of contents to include these subsections? I have no interest in including
macros on each page in the documentation just the main Table of Contents page after export.
Any assistance is greatly appreciated.
17. Anonymous
I need to export not only a large space, but also any attachements that have been added as part of the site. If i export the file to a pdf it doesnt appear to export the attachedments but mearly make a link back to their original location on the server within confluence. How do i export everything?
18. Anonymous
I cannot believe that a user has to have special permission just to achieve the simple task of printing a multi-page article.
19. Anonymous
I totally agree with previous comment. I was looking for this functionality and I was surprised that I had to bother the wiki administration for this kind of rights..
1. Hi there,
If you'd like to pursue this idea, why not create a feature request on our issue tracker for the Confluence developers?
I hope this helps.
Best Regards,
Edwin Dawson
Technical Writing Team Leader
20. Anonymous
Is it possible to embed a watermark on each page when doing a mult-page PDF export?
Dale O.
1. Anonymous
as system administrator you can create/modify a css stylesheet where you can probably do so.
21. Because of insoluble styling problems with HTML export (see HTML export with CSS) I'm having to export individual pages as PDF for upload to a Virtual Learning Environment. This is easy enough, but I have to do it one page at a time which is tedious. Is there a way of export a bunch of pages as individual PDF files, rather than as one big PDF? I suspect not as I can't see any options for this, but if you don't ask you don't get and maybe there's an obscure macro that can do this.
22. Anonymous
We want to exclude one column from the pdf but still have it display online. Any idea if that's possible? The column contains links that are irrelevant in print, but, more than that, cover up other text when sent to a pdf.
23. In the PDF export image little bit zoomed. How to get the same image size as in browser and in PDF?
24. Anonymous
How can I export the whole space into doc format instead of pdf?
1. Anonymous
I would also like a bulk Word Doc export...
2. Anonymous
my impression is that the .pdf translator is more robust than the .doc translator.
I had tried both for a while, and noticed various rendering problems in the .doc output while the .pdf output was usually fine.
So I'm a bit surprised about the question and would suggest to keep using pdf.
If your question is for edting content, up to version 3.5 you can find this under tools, but I believe this doesn't exist for 4.x anymore.
1. Anonymous
oh, I may have missed your point. I did save as .html, and then opened the result file using MS-Word.
As mentioned, the result of doing so was not perfect.
25. Is it possible to export multiple pages to multiple pdf, so that I get a single pdf for each single Wiki page?
I don't see any way to do it, I suspect there isn't a standard way.
26. Anonymous
Everyone can use "Print to PDF" feature of the internet browser to export to PDF including comments.
27. With several different sections of a space, doing an export of the content hanges some part of the way through, on a specific page. The progress bar stops, the time elapsed goes up and the time remaining follows it. Removing the offending page allows the rest of the pages to be exported. I haven't been able to figure out what it is about the offending page – are there any size or content restrictions that are known to cause this kind of failure?
(And should this have been reported here, or under Get Support, or Report a Bug, or Get Answers?)
1. Use 'Get Support'.
The Support Engineers will be able to work with you to identify the root of the problem causing the failure, give you a workaround if possible, identify the steps needed to reproduce the failure, and raise a bug for the developers if necessary.
28. Anonymous
Is it possible to display date/time in header/footer when PDF was generated?
29. Anonymous
As Fred mentioned above, we want to export each page as it's own PDF, not the entire space into one massive PDF.
Looking at our Confluence site/space through webdav I see that each page has an @export folder that contain a PDF of the page.
Is there an easy single step way to download every .pdf from the @export pages? I tried sitesucker but the links through webdav have all turned to localhost:8090, so sitesucker can't follow the links to find the pdfs.
1. Anonymous
We are also interested in this. Have manually copied data from the Export site to PDF page, tweaked it in Excel and Word to produce a list of URLs to extract the individual PDFs from the @export area(s). I don't want to have to do that every time though.
The PDFs are already there!!! Why isn't there a simple button to export the lot/selected sections of a space? ARG!
30. Hi All,
I see that there are many questions on Export to PDF. I'm from itext Software and we are also very satisfied Confluence and JIRA users. We also would like to do more with Export to PDF like for example in EUROPE a lot of Official Documents, like contracts, need to be Digitally Signed with certificates, Electronic ID cards etc...
The tool that is used by Atlassian Support is iText, our PDF tool. But the version that is used by Atlassian is a very OLD version of iText and it does not contain all the features that are common in 2012, so best is that Atlassian Upgrades to our new version of iText and add the featurs to Confluence, JIRA so that it is a standard feature of Atlassian Products rather than using a Third party Plugin which could cause problems with later updates of Atlassian Products. Feel free to contact us about it. :
31. The notes say "Blog posts are not included within the PDF export" and cites a feature. We are using 4.3.1 and blog posts are being included in our space PDF exports! Only glitch is there is not currently a way to turn blog exports on or off via the custom export controls.
1. Hallo Tom
Thanks for reporting that, and for commenting on the issue (CONF-5599) too. It's very odd. I've just tested the PDF space export in Confluence 5.0-m9 and in Confluence 4.3.3, and it does not include the blog posts in either of those. Perhaps Confluence 4.3.1 is special!
Cheers, Sarah
1. Anonymous
Other special feature on Confluence 4.3.1 seems to be, that excerpt text blocks (on the original page) are shown on pdf documents as heading 1 size font. Is this a style related tweak (can I fix it myself) or could it be bug on plugin? I haven't yet found any reported issues about this, but I have not used much time to search either.
Cheers, Tommi
32. Hi,
I have a page where I get info into menus from database and then the run button displays some charts according to the values chosen from that menus
when I try to export the page with the charts to PDF, I got all menu items listed (not only the chosen items) and no chart on the PDF file.
can anybody please help me with that ?
33. Anonymous
I've got a problem with the version 3.5.13 and with PDF export. For some reason when I try to export a page that's actually an included page all the contents inside code-blocks are missing in the final PDF. Is this a feature or a bug?
34. Anonymous
Two questions:
1. In Confluence 5, when I export to PDF, all the icons in Note, Tip and Warning boxes are missing. Why is this?
2. We want to automatically include a page break in the PDF for every H1 and H2. I've added this to the style sheet, but it hasn't worked:
page-break-before: always;
Does anyone know why not?
35. Anonymous
It doesn't make sense to me that I need to be given special "Space Permissions" to export pages to PDF for pages within a space that I created. Shouldn't the creator of any page be able to simply export that page?
36. Can I forbid to export only one page?
37. It appears that you have to be a Space Admin to view the Export PDF page (on top of having Space Export permissions. Is that true?
Then, how do we allow readers to export a tree or the entire space?
I saw a comment about allowing Anonymous users to Export Space, but how do they get to the Export PDF menu if they can't open the Space Admin page?
38. Anonymous
Can i customize how checklists are exported to PDF? right now the check-box disappears and finished tasks are only slightly grayed. I would prefer striked through or to have the check-box in the pdf.
39. Anonymous
How can you include current date and wiki revision on the title page?
40. Anonymous
I would also like to know how to include current date and wiki revision on the title page. thanks!
41. Anonymous
How can I export to PDF/Word one or more pages that contain iFrames and links to sub / related pages? We want to leverage the benefits of Confluence and at the same time satisfy our regulatory obligations of providing a complete printable point in time document.
42. Anonymous
How can the Title page not be displayed when the page is exported to pdf?
43. I've got a space with dozens of pages. Is it possible, using either PDF Stylesheet or Layout, to include the title of each particular page in the generated title page of its PDF export?
44. Anonymous
The design of this website is really help me. Besides this information about pdf file is extra ordinary for all. One more website is available which is that gives us easy convert pdf to word.
45. Anonymous
Just to recall a previous question that we have also come up with :
46. Is there a way we can disable exporting on page level the same way as we can control space level export?
I need the export option to be available only to Administrators.
47. Anonymous
Thank you very much keep this information I read that Post and got it fine and informative.
48. Hi I wonder can you help - I'm exporting a doc to PDF and some pages contain Gliffy Images with links to internal pages within the doc. HOwever, when I export to PDF the links don't work anymore. Any way around this or is there another plugin I need?
49. Hello,
I need to export my space which has two separate tables. The problem I am encountering is that the first table's right border does not print and the data is cut off. It does appear to be wrapping the text, but not fully
Ex. Sentence
"This will allow for use.
PDF shows
The second table however, exports perfectly.
The first step I took when trying to export this originally was to change the orientation to Landscape. It worked great. More data was then added to the table. I then encountered this problem. I have followed the suggestions that have been posted here and in other sections of this page from table{table-width: 100%} to table{table-width: auto} and so forth. I did change the margins to .1in and at one point 0.0 in and padding 0em, with no improvement, words are still dumped.
Any assistance is appreciated.
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Religion has been a powerful political force throughout American history. When race enters the mix the results have been some of our greatest triumphs as a nation--and some of our most shameful failures. In this important book, Mark Noll, one of the most influential historians of American religion writing today, traces the explosive political effects of the religious intermingling with race.
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Mark A. Noll (Ph.D., Vanderbilt University) is Francis McAnaney Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is advisory editor for Books & Culture and subeditor for the new Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart.Noll's main academic interests concern the interaction of Christianity and culture in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Anglo-American societies. He has published articles and reviews on a wide variety of subjects involving Christianity in modern history. Some of his many books include The Civil War as a Theological Crisis, Is the Reformation Over?, The Rise of Evangelicalism: The Age of Edwards, Whitefield and the Wesleys and The Old Religion in a New World.
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Excerpt from God and Race in American Politics by Mark A. Noll
This book offers a simply stated thesis about an immensely complicated history. First, race has always been among the most influential elements in American political history, and in many periods absolutely the most influential. Second, religion has always been crucial for the workings of race in American politics. Together, race and religion make up, not only the nation's deepest and most enduring moral problem, but also its broadest and most enduring political influence.
Yet how race and religion have interacted to shape politics has differed dramatically over time and by community. Before the Civil War, religion drove abolitionist assaults upon slavery even as it undergirded influential defenses of slavery in both the North and the South. After that conflict, religion and politics worked very differently for African Americans than for the white majority culture. On the one side, church life opened a limited space for black social organization and intellectual improvement, even though the political effects of that opening would not be evident for another century. On the other side, the political effects were immediate. A Christianity mostly bereft of its antebellum social vitality played a major part in sanctioning systematic white discrimination against African Americans. In turn, the racially defined polity that religious forces helped to create became a fixed reality of American politics into the 1960s and a precipitate of much political change thereafter. For the recent past, complexity continues. African-American religion helped spark the civil rights movement that left immense political and cultural changes in its wake, but the broader effects of that movement also keyed a politically conservative countermovement inspired by a different kind of religion. The political realignments of the last forty years, which are the most thorough of such realignments in American history, were by no means caused by religion alone, but religious factors have been everywhere evident in their development.
In other words, rather than any specific configuration of race and religion, it has been the general interweaving of race with religion, along with a discernibly religious mode of public argument, that have pervaded the nation's political history. The religious note in American political discourse has been a source of foreign comment from before de Tocqueville to the present.1 It is rooted in the United States' broadly Calvinist-evangelical heritage that bequeathed a style of public discourse that continues to exert great influence, even for many who have passed far beyond the religious convictions of earlier Americans. An earnest moral concern for how governments should conduct themselves, a compulsion to sermonize about the duties of citizens and the state, and a frequent recourse to Scripture for grounding or garnishing political positions have been consistently present in American history, from nineteenth-century debates over slavery, war, and Reconstruction to recent controversies over civil rights, economic opportunity, right to life, and the ordering of families.
No short history can fully encompass such complicated themes and such complex events, but it does possess the advantage of portraying different American eras as parts of a continuous story. In addition, a short history may allow for a sharper understanding of how interconnections among politics, race, and religion have developed over time than can be provided by the detailed studies of individual periods and events that I have relied upon so gratefully in putting together this synthesis.
* * *
There are, alas, any number of incidents, statements, or situations that could be used to introduce this kind of history--although "alas" is far too simple an interjection for the complexities of the story from Nat Turner to George W. Bush. To treat broad and weighty subjects in short compass means that I will be presenting something more like a cartoon than a real history. But even cartoons can offer a few moments of sharp focus.
One such moment occurred in July 1863, the climactic month of the nation's most enduringly significant crisis. Earlier in July, crucial victories at Gettysburg and Vicksburg turned the military tide of the Civil War in favor of the North; a week later federal officials in New York City began to carry out the draft that Congress had authorized in order to meet the war's escalating demands for manpower. On Saturday, July 18, Sgt. Robert Simmons, an African American from New York City who had enlisted in the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment of Col. Robert Gould Shaw, was killed during the Union assault on Fort Wagner, South Carolina. His death occurred only days after antidraft rioters in New York City, hell-bent on attacking the city's Negro population, had destroyed Simmons's family home and lynched his nephew. The riots, as a protest against the draft in general and especially the provision that allowed men of means to hire a substitute, were fueled by the rage of poor white immigrants and left hundreds of African Americans dead. The day before Robert Simmons's death in far-away South Carolina, Maria Daly, a white diarist, had expressed fears that the New York mob would attack the block in which her home was located, since it was situated near tenements below MacDougal Street, where a band of African Americans had taken refuge on a rooftop. On that rooftop this black contingent was collecting firearms for self-defense and singing psalms for divine protection.2
Only a few years later, a conservative Catholic periodical in Munich published a long article by Father Paul Joseph M?nz on the subject "Christendom and Slavery," which included full discussion of events in the United States. This journal, the Historisch-politische Bl?tter f?r das katholische Deutschland, had earlier provided extensive coverage of the War between the States, most of it blasting the North for hypocrisy (since northerners condemned slavery while they profited from the slave trade and the economic fruits of slavery). The journal also defended the Catholic Church as a perennial guardian of the humanity of Africans while attacking Protestants for their inability to agree on what Scripture taught about slavery. M?nz recapitulated these criticisms while also asserting unequivocally "the incompatibility of slavery with the basic conception of Christianity." He closed his report with a chilling prophecy: "The North can free the slaves with force, but it cannot civilize them and deliver them from contempt and mistreatment. Here no one can help except the Church, whose main task is precisely this concern."3 In 1868, when this article was written, what would prove to be the long history of American contempt and mistreatment of former slaves was barely under way. In fact, it continued until "the church" did do something about it, although it was not the Roman Catholic Church that led the way.
In November 1900 the nation returned President William McKinley to office for a second term in a comfortable Republican victory over his Democratic challenger, William Jennings Bryan. During the campaign, Bryan had distributed a pamphlet by the Negro National Democratic League that attacked U.S. oppression of the Filipino people in the name of those who knew firsthand what it meant to suffer from official American subjugation.4 Bryan's support for black causes could not be too aggressive, however, since he needed the electoral votes of the Democratic Solid South, where the process of black disenfranchisement begun shortly after the Civil War was now nearly complete. In that presidential election, voter turnout (as a percentage of a state's population) ranged as high as 41% in Colorado, while the ratio in most northern and western states averaged between 20% and 33%. (In this period before female suffrage, these figures represented a reasonably high turnout.) But in most of the states of the former Confederacy, with their large black populations, it was another story. African Americans were almost entirely excluded from the polls, and whites had little incentive to vote in the general election, where the outcome was foreordained in favor of Democratic candidates. Thus, the turnout in these states was abysmally low--10% or less of state population in Arkansas, Alabama, and Florida; 5% or less in Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and South Carolina.5
In the immediate wake of the election, the Rev. Francis Grimk? presented a notable series of lectures to the Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C., over which he had presided for more than twenty years. Grimk? was a former slave who had studied at Lincoln University, Howard University, and Princeton Theological Seminary before beginning his long pastorate in Washington. On November 20, 1900, he lectured on the subject "Discouragements: Hostility of the Press, Silence and Cowardice of the Pulpit." The address singled out the South for special rebuke but also spoke implicitly of the whole nation:
Lawlessness is increasing in the South. After thirty-three years of freedom, our civil and political rights are still denied us; the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution are still a dead letter. . . . The determination to keep us in a state of civil and political inferiority and to surround us with such conditions as will tend to crush out of us a manly and self-respecting spirit is stronger now than it was at the close of the war. The fixed purpose and determination of the Southern whites is to negative these great amendments, to eliminate entirely the Negro as a political factor. . . . If he dares to think otherwise, or aspires to cast a ballot, or to become anything more than a servant, he is regarded as an impudent and dangerous Negro, and according to the most recent declaration of that old slave-holding and lawless spirit, all such Negroes are to be driven out of the South, or compelled by force, by what is known as the shot-gun policy, to renounce their rights as men and as American citizens.6
A week later Grimk? continued his series by lecturing on "The General Government" and "Political Parties" as "Sources from Which No Help May Be Expected." Here the national focus of his indictment was explicit: "The white people in the South, and the white people in the North, as well, who sympathize with the Southern estimate of the Negro, had just as well understand, once for all, that the Negro is a man and an American citizen, and that he will never be satisfied until he is treated as man, and as a full-fledged citizen."7
A full lifetime after Grimk?'s lectures, on February 18, 1965, Jimmy Lee Jackson took part in a nighttime voter-registration march in Marion, Alabama. The march was designed to proceed from the Mount Zion Baptist Church to the Perry County jail, which was located only a block from the church. Jackson at twenty-six was the youngest deacon at Marion's Saint James Baptist Church; already he had tried to register to vote on five separate occasions, but to no avail. Earlier in the week the Times-Journal in nearby Selma had published an advertisement sponsored by the local Citizens Council that linked the Voting Rights Act of 1964 to an earlier plan for racial equality published by the American Communist Party. The February 18 march was led by the Rev. James Dobynes. It was stopped at some distance from the jail by a large contingent of Alabama state troopers. When Rev. Dobynes knelt on the street to pray before returning to the church, he was assaulted by troopers and then dragged by his feet toward the jail. The remaining policemen waded into the column of marchers and sent participants scattering in all directions. Jimmy Lee Jackson, along with his mother and his grandfather, eighty-two-year-old Cager Lee, took refuge in a nearby caf?. Troopers pursued them into the caf?, where they beat Jackson's mother to the floor and also struck his grandfather. When Jackson tried to shield his mother, he was shot twice in the stomach and then hustled by troops out the door, where he collapsed. Jackson was taken to a hospital in Selma, where on Tuesday, February 23, the head of the Alabama state police personally served him with an arrest warrant.8
Jackson died on February 26. That night at Brown Chapel in Selma, James Bevel of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference preached a memorial sermon to a mass meeting. His texts were Acts 12:2-3 ("He [Herod] killed James the brother of John with the sword; and when he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to arrest Peter also") and Esther 4:8 ("Mordecai also gave him [the king's servant] a copy of the written decree issued in Susa for their [the Jews'] destruction, that he might show it to Esther and explain it to her and charge her to go to the king to make supplication to him and entreat for her people"). These passages allowed Bevel to identify the biblical kings, Herod and Mordecai's Ahasuerus, with Alabama's governor, George Wallace.
In 1965 the Fourteenth Amendment had been the law of the land for nearly a century. It defined American citizenship as belonging to "all persons born or naturalized in the United States," and it stipulated that no state could "deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." In 1956 there were in Alabama about 500,000 unregistered African Americans of voting age. In the presidential election of 1964, when Lyndon Johnson's name was kept off the ballot in Alabama because of his support for the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the state's total vote was just short of 690,000 (that vote was divided 69.5% for Barry Goldwater and 30.5% for an unpledged slate of Democratic electors).
In the wake of the civil rights movement in which Jimmy Lee Jackson was murdered, African Americans finally won their own enfranchisement and began significantly expanded contributions at all levels of electoral politics. But racially defined voting remained almost as strong as in the day of Sgt. Simmons, the Rev. Grimk?, and Jimmy Lee Jackson. In 2000 white evangelical Protestants supported George Bush over Al Gore by 68% to 30%. In 2004 the white evangelical vote went to Bush over John Kerry by 78% to 21%. In 2000 Al Gore won 91% of the black Protestant vote; in 2004 John Kerry captured 86%.9 Early in 2004, polling by Stanley Greenberg divided the core constituencies of the Republican and Democratic parties by variables featuring race, religion, wealth, region, gender, and age. Of all groups differentiated by these variables, the largest advantage in party identification was found among blacks, who favored the Democrats by 78 percentage points. The next largest was among white evangelical and fundamentalist Protestants, who favored the Republicans by 49 percentage points.10 In light of these dramatic partisan differences keyed to race and religion, it is pertinent to remember one more fact documented by a wealth of polling--that the two identifiable groups within the American populace standing closest to each other on questions of religious belief and moral practice are white evangelicals and black Protestants.
These snapshots from 1863, 1868, 1900, 1965, and the early twenty-first century outline the terrain covered in this short history. It is a terrain defined by the intersection of politics, religion, and race. By race, I am referring primarily to the dynamic relationship between whites and blacks, though fuller attention to this subject would also show how religious factors have affected the American political history of southern Europeans, Jews, the Irish, Hispanics, and Asians as well.
For three out of the four great transformations in American history, potent combinations of race and religion were the engines that drove political change. Those transformative periods were the antebellum years from 1830 to 1860, when slavery came to overwhelm all other issues on the political landscape; the postbellum years from 1865 to roughly 1900, when the nation gave up on the project of equal rights for all and left African Americans unprotected in the civil sphere; and the recent past from the 1950s into the early twenty-first century, when the battle for civil rights was fi nally won, but with unanticipated spin-off effects and ironic consequences. The one exception to the rule that race in league with religion drove American political transformations was the 1930s, when economic pressures arising from the Great Depression changed American politics in ways only marginally affected by race and religion.
This short history offers an interpretation of the other three transformations in which I try to show how the concerns of race have combined with the interests of religion to decisively shape the course of American politics. It also tries to show that, although race and religion combined differently in each of the three transformations, the successive combinations have constituted a single, continuous narrative from the slave revolt of Nat Turner in 1830 to the reelection of George W. Bush in 2004. Defining the political transformations and trying to explain how race and religion dictated the shape of their development are the major concerns of this book.
Naturally, I am aware that many of the issues and incidents canvassed here fairly cry out for moral evaluation. For the most part, however, I have tried harder to describe than to judge. Especially in our era that has become so alert to discrimination of all sorts, it may be more valuable to show how a continuous history developed than to provide a continual evaluation of that history. Yet because the ties among race, religion, and politics have been so intimate in American history--and because these ties have produced such momentous consequences--I do pause at the end of the historical exposition to attempt a broader religious interpretation. That interpretation makes use of Calvinist theology, a strand of moral reasoning that has been well represented in both black and white American churches, and in secularized forms more broadly in the society. As I bring my history to a close in this way, I am fully aware of the irony that what I present as a response to the great racial-religious-political entanglements of American history has been itself one of the chief contributors to the moral predicaments created by those entanglements.
* * *
This book is based on my own research on the Civil War period and on twentieth-century white American evangelicals, combined with appreciative reading of the splendid scholarship that now exists for the years of Reconstruction and the modern civil rights era. While I was finishing an earlier study that dealt at length with the intensive debates over the Bible and slavery that galvanized much of American society before the Civil War, I was asked to propose a lecture series at Princeton University.11 At the time I was also reading David Chappell's Stone of Hope, with its forceful arguments about the key place of African-American religion and white southern Protestantism in the civil rights movement.12 In addition, I was being exposed to provocative work by Dennis Dickerson and Thabiti Anyabwile that charted the relatively neglected history of African-American religious thought,13 and I was reading an outstanding new textbook on the Civil War and Reconstruction.14 Moreover, this reading and writing was taking place in Washington, D.C., at the Library of Congress during the academic year 2004-05, when all Washington was abuzz about the "values voting" of white evangelicals that carried George W. Bush to victory in that November's presidential election.
When these disparate trajectories began to intersect in my mind, it seemed immediately obvious that they made up not only an interesting series of parallel case studies, but a single connected history. The lectures at Princeton in the fall of 2006 and this "short history," which expands on those lectures, try to justify that initial impression. During my work on this book, the intensively researched three volumes of Taylor Branch's history of "America in the King Years" headed an ever-growing list of outstanding titles on relevant subjects from which I harvested much information and many insights.15 Authors of these studies, many of which are acknowledged in the notes, have labored diligently to rescue the history of the Civil War era, postbellum American history, and the civil rights movement from romantic mythmaking on the one side and cynical debunking on the other. None of the scholars on whom I relied is responsible for how I have used his or her work in forming my own judgments about the general importance of race in American political history, or about the critical role that religion has played in making race so salient in politics. Yet the cumulative result of their insights, added to the findings of my own research, drive the conviction developed in this short history--that race and religion have acted together powerfully not only to shape the nation's political history, but also to define the nation's central moral problem. | https://ebookstore.sony.com/ebook/mark-a-noll/god-and-race-in-american-politics/_/R-400000000000000165362 | dclm-gs1-078780001 | false | true | {
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Bug Music is a tribute to the music of the Raymond Scott Quintette, the John Kirby Sextet and Duke Ellington, headed by the remarkably versatile clarinetist Don Byron. Raymond Scott's legendary compositions feature eccentric song titles (including, on this set, "Siberian Sleighride," "Tobacco Auctioneer" and "War Dance for Wooden Indians"), complex and thoroughly composed arrangements (all of which were originally memorized rather than being written out) and unique melodies. Kirby's brand of swing, which is quite complementary to Scott's novelties, often utilized themes from classical music and had solos, but were also tightly arranged (even "St. Louis Blues" and "Royal Garden Blues"). The CD begins and ends with four Ellington/Strayhorn pieces that fit well into the idiom (particularly "The Dicty Glide" and "Cotton Club Stomp"). In addition to Byron, the key players on the project include altoist Steve Wilson (one of the best of the younger swing stylists), trombonist Craig Harris and pianist Uri Caine, in addition to four other horns and several rhythm sections. Other than a silly rendition of Ellington's "Blue Bubbles" and an adventurous interpretation of "Snibor," the selections are played with respect and great understanding of the somewhat forgotten style. None of the modern musicians sound as if swing were only their second language, making the continually surprising set a major success.
Nato(a): 08 novembre 1958, New York, NY
Genere: Jazz
An inspired eclectic, Byron has performed an array of musical styles with great success. Byron first attained a measure of notoriety for playing Klezmer, specifically the music of the late Mickey Katz. While the novelty of a black man playing Jewish music was enough to grab the attention of critics, it was Byron's jazz-related work that ultimately made him a major figure. Byron is an exceptional clarinetist from a technical perspective; he also possesses a profound imagination that best manifests...
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Captain Beefheart was known to playfully admonish fans shouting out requests at his shows by saying, "You know I'm gonna do exactly what I want." No one has documented Rickie Lee Jones saying the same thing, but in the course of a recording career that's just entered its fourth decade, she's made it clear that she shares the same philosophy, and she's bravely followed her muse wherever it chooses to go, rather than rehashing the sound and style of Rickie Lee Jones and Pirates, the acclaimed early recordings which made her a star. Jones certainly hasn't lost her love for the blues and jazz flavors that dominated her best-known work, but on 2009's Balm in Gilead (the title is drawn from a traditional spiritual), there's significantly less flash and swagger in her music; instead, these performances speak of an intimacy and warmth that befits the lyrics, which concern themselves with love, family, friendship, and the stuff that makes up everyday lives (something of a switch after the broadsides of The Evening of My Best Day and the spiritual mysteries of The Sermon on Exposition Boulevard). Jones duets with Vic Chesnutt on two numbers, the country-influenced weeper "Remember Me" and a spectral gospel variant, "His Jeweled Floor" (which also features Victoria Williams), and these two gloriously idiosyncratic talents bring out the best in one another, discovering a compelling mystery in their rural inflections that's an ideal match for the material. Ben Harper also lends his talents to this album, and his duet with Jones, "Old Enough," is a blues-infused tale of a busted romance that has a bit of the sass of "Chuck E.'s in Love," but half a lifetime's added depth and subtle detail. Jones opens the set with "Wild Girl," a song written for her daughter, and it's one of the most heartfelt and simply affecting moments on this album, along with "The Moon Is Made of Gold," a sweetly swinging lullaby that was written by her father when she was just a girl. And if songs like "Bonfires," "Eucalyptus Trail," "The Gospel of Carlos, Norman and Smith," and "Bayless St." don't lend themselves to simple categorization, they're all quietly beautiful and filled with a gentle passion that never sounds anything less than fearlessly honest. Rickie Lee Jones sounds less like a Hipster Chick and more like an Earth Mother whose experience has brought her plenty of wisdom on Balm in Gilead, and that's clearly just the way she wants it; Jones' faith in her own creative judgment is well-founded, and this is a work whose modest scale belies its emotional strength.
Nacido(a): 08 de noviembre de 1954 en Chicago, IL
Género: Rock
Once touted as the natural successor to Joni Mitchell, singer/songwriter Rickie Lee Jones proved no less idiosyncratic or mercurial; like Mitchell, Jones experienced significant commercial success at the outset of her career, but a restless creative spirit — combined with a stubborn refusal to fit comfortably into...
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Spear, Boar
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Wisdom’s Call
1Does not wisdom call out?
Does not understanding raise her voice?
2At the highest point along the way,
where the paths meet, she takes her stand;
3beside the gate leading into the city,
at the entrance, she cries aloud:
4“To you, O people, I call out;
I raise my voice to all mankind.
5You who are simple, gain prudence;
you who are foolish, set your hearts on it.#8:5Septuagint; Hebrew foolish, instruct your minds
6Listen, for I have trustworthy things to say;
I open my lips to speak what is right.
7My mouth speaks what is true,
for my lips detest wickedness.
8All the words of my mouth are just;
none of them is crooked or perverse.
9To the discerning all of them are right;
they are upright to those who have found knowledge.
10Choose my instruction instead of silver,
knowledge rather than choice gold,
11for wisdom is more precious than rubies,
and nothing you desire can compare with her.
12“I, wisdom, dwell together with prudence;
I possess knowledge and discretion.
13To fear the Lord is to hate evil;
I hate pride and arrogance,
evil behavior and perverse speech.
14Counsel and sound judgment are mine;
I have insight, I have power.
15By me kings reign
and rulers issue decrees that are just;
16by me princes govern,
and nobles—all who rule on earth.#8:16Some Hebrew manuscripts and Septuagint; other Hebrew manuscripts all righteous rulers
17I love those who love me,
and those who seek me find me.
18With me are riches and honor,
enduring wealth and prosperity.
19My fruit is better than fine gold;
what I yield surpasses choice silver.
20I walk in the way of righteousness,
along the paths of justice,
21bestowing a rich inheritance on those who love me
and making their treasuries full.
22“The Lord brought me forth as the first of his works,#8:22Or way; or dominion #8:22Or The Lordpossessed me at the beginning of his work; or The Lordbrought me forth at the beginning of his work
before his deeds of old;
23I was formed long ages ago,
at the very beginning, when the world came to be.
24When there were no watery depths, I was given birth,
when there were no springs overflowing with water;
25before the mountains were settled in place,
before the hills, I was given birth,
26before he made the world or its fields
or any of the dust of the earth.
27I was there when he set the heavens in place,
28when he established the clouds above
and fixed securely the fountains of the deep,
29when he gave the sea its boundary
so the waters would not overstep his command,
and when he marked out the foundations of the earth.
30Then I was constantly#8:30Or was the artisan; or was a little child at his side.
I was filled with delight day after day,
rejoicing always in his presence,
31rejoicing in his whole world
and delighting in mankind.
32“Now then, my children, listen to me;
blessed are those who keep my ways.
33Listen to my instruction and be wise;
do not disregard it.
34Blessed are those who listen to me,
watching daily at my doors,
waiting at my doorway.
35For those who find me find life
and receive favor from the Lord.
36But those who fail to find me harm themselves;
all who hate me love death.”
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Eleve Osirian chapter 6 . 1/7/2010
I must admit that you are a good storyteller. Your story is one that managed to grab my attention and though I only read three of the chapters, I find myself wanting to return (once I’ve gotten some sleep) to keep reading. Good job with the hook!
The Preface was helpful, in the fact that you explain what certain words mean at the very bottom. However, I think that you could have explained what they were in the story itself; after all most novels/stories might include such a list, but on top of the list, explain in the story as well. I didn’t notice you doing that in the first three chapters.
On to the prologue: I like the imagery here. One sentence that I especially liked was, “That was the night I felt for the first time the morbid chill, of what it feels like to stand on the line which separated life from death.” To me, this sentence builds up a lot of tension for the next event, and leads the reader onward with a good push. It's fair to say that you are good with enticing your readers.
One could argue that there is “purple prose” to be found here; a type of writing that goes TOO overboard with "flowery" language. I noticed that this continued into the next chapter, which thankfully is a bit longer (I like reading long chapters versus a bunch of short ones). An example is this:
“Brakmar, the caliginous warlord, shrewdly bollixed his unholy gavel over the blacklands known as Sidimote.”
While it lends credit to your vast knowledge of the English language, your common reader is not going to know what bollixed or caliginous mean. It would be my suggestion that if you want to use this type of language, that you find a way to give the meaning of the word somewhere close by so that people get the jist of the idea. Here, you kind of did that unintentionally I think by having the words “warlord” and the description of Brakmar using his “unholy gavel”. For me personally, I like this style of writing, because it does give so many details, but at the same time, can't stomach parts of it because it does get tiresome of reading details that are not pertenent to what is happening. Of course, this is just my opinion, and isn't the end all, be all. If it is your style, then it is your style.
The last part of this chapter is what slowed me down, because the big blocks of text and the listing of who is who and who does what. Perhaps if you broke it down into smaller sections it would be easier to digest so to speak. While there is information there that should be read, because its important to the story, I daresay most people would just skim over it rather than read it word for word because it is so thick.
I was glad to see in chapter four a bit of dialogue. Remember, however, that with each new speaker should come a new paragraph; don’t lump it all together.
Overall, I think there are some things you could improve on to make it even better than it already is. You have a great foundation of a story here; I'd like to see you use that to your complete advantage.
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Kyon came home that night to find her asleep on the couch. She was wearing a far too big and long strapless black dress. Though the dress was more like a blanket on her, and the room kind of cold, she slept quite well. Her chestnut hair was put up in a messy bun with a little tiara placed chop center.
The site made him smile.
I almost forget how cute you are when you sleep, He thought, before wondering who did her makeup that evening. Then, he thought about why she was wearing what she wore. It was true that, he did leave her to go to the dance with someone else, even when she begged him not toHowever, he didn't know she'd make that big of a deal about it. Well, at least I can do one thing for you this evening. He thought as he gently put his arms under her body, and thinking about before he left...
"Please don't go!!" She said, well, half sobbed.
"I'm sorry, but I have to." He replied.
"Do you love her more than me now?" She asked, pleadingly, hoping to rise some guilt in him. He instead, went to her and gently placed his hands on her shoulders. "What about mmme?"
"You know I love you more than anyone or anything in this world. " He said, somewhat reducing the tears in her eyes, but a still sad look stayed.
"Are you gonna come back for me?" She said, playing the dress she was wearing.
"Of course I'm going to come back silly." He said playfully, "How could I not come back to you." He looked at his watch. "I love you." He said, kissing her forehead and then leaving.
As he carried her, he was wondering how much she meant to him. She was the one who made him , "Kyon" She was also the one who made little notes all over his homework and the one who picked up the phone and called someone, revealing how much he really liked her. But, she was always there for him. They'd known eachother, yet never really understood what eachother was thinking. I wonder when she fell asleep. He wondered, slowly reaching up to her room, and taking off her dress.
He had dressed her in her pajamas and tucked her in, knowing that she'd probably be a little explosion come morning. But he didn't care because, it was these moments that made him truely appreciate her. Then, since what he thought was forever, he kissed her on the cheeck and placed her bear next to her. "I said I'd come back for you, hime"
"You never call me that, Kyon." He turned around to find the other girl in his life standing in the doorway.
"How long have you been standing there? " He whispered. And how did you get in my house?
"Long enough." She came into the room and snaked her arms slightly around his waist. "She really is a sight to see when she sleeps." She said sweetly, before grabbing something out of her jacket pocket and taking pictures
"What the-WHat are you doing?" He almost broke his whisper barrier by trying to take away her camera. "She's asleep! It's not right!"
"You didn't mind Mikuru taking your picture in your sleep." She taunted.
"But that was a long time ago." He said with the same amount of taunt, then they saw that the reigning sleeping beauty, wasn't asleep anymore.
"What's going on?" the newly awake girl asked still sleeply. She yawned and fell back asleep as they were trying to contemplate an answer.
"Well, I better walk you back home." He said.
"Why do you have to walk me?" She asked.
"Because I can" He answered.
"Okay, but we better not leave your princess waiting." She pouted. Kyon almost laughed.
"Haruhi, are you jealous?" He asked mockingly. "Because, she might be my princess, but " He snuck up in her ear, "But you're my queen."
"Don't make me throw up" She mock threatened, then joined their lips. They stayed like that until about maybe eight to ten seconds. Then the clock struck midnight. "Well, let's go then."
"Whatever...Cinderella." He said, making her pout again.
"Hey, I'm no damsel in distress."
"No need to disagree there." They left for the door.
"Well, I guess I can share my prince..." She agreed. Then paused and sighed in somewhat defeat
"Even if it is with his sister."
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0.164144 | <urn:uuid:9c6c08a8-39a5-44b2-860c-248343205f86> | en | 0.980677 | A/N: So the funniest thing happened. I sat down to write my story, turned on my music, and got a paragraph written before the song for this came on and I suddenly could no longer focus. It was a like a switch had been flipped and my imagination was shouting, "Write this, write this, write this..." I, being the oh-so-lovable author, had no choice but to give in or face the wrath of being unable to continue my story for a longer time yet and have this blocking everything else. So! Here we are :P it's rather depressing for the most part, but I promise it's not so bad at the end :3 The entire thing just jumped out at me within the first few lyrics of the song. Inspiration strikes us at the strangest times, eh? Anyway, the song is Wait It Out by Imogen Heap if you wanna go listen to it. I just love her voice *.* So heartbreakingly beautiful...
Disclaimer: I do not own Final Fantasy XIII or anything to do with, nor do I have any affiliation or ownership to Imogen Heap's awesome music.
Just A Moment
Where do we go from here?
How do we carry on?
I can't get beyond the questions
Lightning sat and stared at the photo of Fang and Vanille from years past, clutched in a gentle grip within her hand. She ran her fingers, almost reverently, over the rough surface. In the picture, Vanille was her spunky self, all smiles. Fang looked happy as well, despite how uncomfortable and unhappy she must have been to be taking a picture anyway. Tears pooled momentarily within azure eyes before they were angrily dashed away.
Clambering for the scraps
In the shatter of us collapsed
It cuts me with every could-have-been
Memories arose and suffocated Lightning's attempts to stifle her tears. She didn't want to remember the nights she spent with her, all the times that they talked, laughed, kissed. She didn't want to be reminded of the empty void within her heart. But she especially didn't want to think of all the times they could have had. All the times they could have talked, could have laughed, could have kissed, hugged, cuddled. The whole thing spun around her mind and dragged on the already strained strings of her heart.
Pain on pain on play, repeating
With the backup makeshift life in waiting.
She suddenly thrust the picture away from her, unable to stand to stare at the heartbreakingly beautiful face that was hers. She never wanted any of this - no, she had just wanted to get Serah back and build a life with her, a life that would be filled with a family she could call her own. Something she had so desperately wanted for a long, long time. But that was impossible now, in spite of everything she had done, everything she had given.
Everybody says time heals everything
But what of the wretched hollow?
The endless in-between
Are we just going to wait it out?
Standing on shaky legs, she walked out of her room and through the house. She ignored Serah's call after her, hearing only the sounds and seeing only the sights of that wretched day. The day she had been taken away. As she rushed outside in an urgent need to get away, all she could remember was the look on her face, the emotions behind her eyes on that awful day. She wanted to fall to her knees and scream to the heavens of the injustice of it all, demand they give herback. She wanted to throw things around, slash something to bits, pummel the life out of whatever got in her way, curl into a ball of misery and stay there...
There's nothing to see here now
Turning the sign around;
We're closed to the Earth 'til further notice
She began running, forcing her emotions to carry her through her legs. The world fell away from her as she threw herself onto the long, winding road leading to her. More memories flashed behind her eyes like a bad movie and she forced herself to go even faster, as if she could outrun them if she could only go fast enough. Faster, get away, faster faster faster...
A stumbling cliched case
Crumpled and puffy faced
She could no longer feel the burn in her lungs, the stitch in her side, the pain radiating from her feet and legs combined. The sound of her wheezing breaths fell on deaf ears as she looked up at the towering pillar still so far away in the distance yet so clearly visible. She stretched out a hand as if to try and touch it, the empty space in her heart growing bigger and bigger with each step she took.
Dead in the stare of a thousand miles
All I want, only one, street level miracle
Nothing made any sense anymore. Things had been torn away from her in a moment's notice twice in her life, the second having left her with virtually nothing. She stumbled and fell, tumbling to the ground with a choked sob. Her heart felt like it was bleeding its life out slowly, dying with each breath she took without her by her side. The world came crashing back to her as a single tear rolled down a dirt-stained cheek, azure eyes turned up at the pillar. So many things she wanted to say, to apologize for, to plead, to beg for..
I'll be an out and out
Born again, from none more cynical
Taking a deep breath, she placed a hand over her chest. She didn't know how much longer she could live without her, the lifeline she had clung to when she'd had no one else. She missed her smile the most - not that wonderfully cheeky, cocky grin. No, she missed that genuine smile reserved only for her, only for the best of moments. And her eyes.. Those deep emeralds that would suck you in and spin you around and around and around.
Everybody says time heals everything
All in the end
But what of the wretched hollow?
The endless in-between
Are we just going to wait it out?
That husky accent; the long, bronzed limbs. The wildy beautiful mass of dark hair. The sense of humour that always sent her into a laughing fit. The obvious ways she showed she cared.
And sit here cold?
We will be long gone by then in lack luster
In dust we layer on old magazines
In the first days that she had been gone, Lightning had waited in high spirits. Hopeful. Sure she would return and have a good laugh over it all. But then the days had turned to weeks, weeks to months, months to years...
Fluorescent lighting sets the scene
For all we could and should being
In the one life that we've got
Today marks the sixth year that has passed and Lightning has lost all hope. So much time spent just waiting, waiting for her to come back and make everything ok again; to be held in her arms, to be comforted, to be loved again. She didn't think she could wait anymore. Her heart was too tired of going on alone, having found the completion it had not known it had wanted until she came along and gave it lovingly without having to be asked.
In the one life that we've got
She closed her eyes to the slowly darkening sky above and the glittering crystal of the pillar. A small smile finally graced her face as she allowed the happiest memories to surface and suppress the pain of everything else for just a single moment...
Everybody says time heals everything
But what of the wretched hollow?
The endless in-between
Are we just going to wait it out?
"Fang," she whispered, voice filled with the deepest love imaginable. In this single moment, she felt that maybe, just maybe, waiting for a little while longer wouldn't be so bad...
And sit here, just going to wait it out...
And sit here, cold, just going to sweat it out
Underneath the setting sun and the sparkling resting place of Fang, Lightning sighed blissfully for a single moment, just a moment, with a deep joy. In a way, she thought she could feel Fang's loving presence nearby, showering her with the love and security she needed to continue on. "I'll wait for you, Fang. I'll wait for as long as I can, and then wait some more..."
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Jace used both of his hands to feel her breasts. They were a good size, he decided, not huge, but not tiny either. He traced kisses down her neck, lingered at her collarbone, and then finally moved down and took her fleshy pink nipple in his mouth. Clary squirmed in delight and moaned. He let his tongue flick at the bud, and bit down gently with his teeth. He could feel the nub hardening in his mouth, and then he realized that he was hardening as well. He tried to calm himself, but he heard Clary let out a small gasp. She had felt his erect manhood press against her inner thigh.
"Is that…" Clary asked timidly, the thought that she was still a virgin suddenly springing into her head.
Jace looked embarrassed and a bit apologetic. "I'm sorry… we don't have to do anything you don't want to, Clary."
Clary swallowed the lump in her throat. "No, it's okay." She took another deep breath. "I'm ready. I decided a long time ago that if I was going to do it with anyone, it would be you."
Jace was startled by her words. "But we're – ''
"Shhh… I don't care." Clary didn't want this moment to be ruined by the inevitable thought that they were related; she just wanted to be with Jace, to do this with him.
Jace lowered his mouth again and trailed butterfly kisses along her breasts. Then he pressed his mouth in the valley between them, while his hands played and pinched the nipples. He let his tongue slide out of his mouth, and licked across her flat stomach until he reached her belly button, where his tongue traced the rim. Clary squirmed underneath him with pleasure and moaned his name. Jace melted at the sound of her saying his name so intimately. He continued down to the band of her pajama pants. His body was between her legs, with his head just above her most private area.
"It's okay," she whispered. He could hear the shakiness in her voice.
"I'll be gentle," he said softly.
With that, he started on removing her pants. He tugged them down carefully, letting his fingers linger on her hips. She giggled nervously, and he could feel the vibrations underneath him as she did so. Once the pajamas were gone, all that was left on her body was her light blue underwear. He couldn't see much in the dark, but he could smell the faint sweet scent of her arousal, and his manhood pulsed with impatience. He couldn't control himself as he practically tore her underwear off, revealing a small patch of reddish brown hair, and the intoxicating scent of her wetness wafted into his nose.
Experimentally, he took one finger and ever so lightly, touched her folds. She buckled with pleasure, and let out a whine, begging him to go on. He stroked harder now, feeling the soft, fleshy folds of her vagina. Clary had never felt anything so good. She was caught in pure bliss and never wanted it to end. Carefully, he inserted one finger up into her. She gasped loudly, and writhed around, trying to get more friction. Sensing her need, he inserted another finger, and began to move them in and out. The moisture collected on his fingers, and he placed them into his mouth, tasting her delicious juices. Jace bent in, and let his tongue slip out of his mouth and lick her, sending a shockwave all throughout Clary's body. He pursed his lips around her sucked on her swollen clitoris. He explored all around her opening with his mouth, and thrusted his tongue in and out of her. He brought up two of his fingers again, and inserted them, the second finger stretching her wet inside out in combination with the first while his mouth was busy tasting all around.
Jace sensed she was near. Abruptly, he stopped everything. Clary was on the edge and bucked her hips wildly towards him when he removed his fingers; she needed the friction for her release.
Jace shifted upwards and kissed her open mouthed, so that that she could taste herself. Now in position, he grinded his clothed manhood against her entrance. Her hands grasped onto his butt and pressed him harder against herself, she needed it so much she was about to lose her mind.
"Jace… don't make me wait any longer. Just do it, I need you," she managed to force out in between her sounds of satisfaction.
"Okay, okay. Hold on," he said, struggling to remove his pants, as well as his boxers. In her desperate need, Clary reached over and searched around on his abdomen for the top of his boxers, her hands coursing over his defined and well-toned muscles. She finally found it, and yanked down his boxers, revealing a fine trail of blond hair, and his manhood.
She couldn't really tell how large he was, but when she timidly felt for his penis, her breath drew in sharply at the size of it. She wasn't even sure it would fit.
Jace groaned at her touch. "Clary," he said with urgency, "please… touch me. Make me feel good."
Reluctantly at first, Clary moved her hand up and down his shaft, from the base to the tip. However, when he uttered her name a number of times, she began to stroke harder, determined to pleasure her as much as he had done for her. She could feel the warmth of it in her hand, and it pulsed and twitched as if it were alive.
"Ah… Clary… I can't wait any longer!" he finally exclaimed, and leaned down to position himself at her entrance. "Are you ready? This might hurt, but I promise I'll try my best to go slowly at first."
She nodded, and in a whisper that was barely audible, she said, "I'm ready Jace."
He brought his head down and sucked on the skin at the base of Clary's neck. While she was distracted, he glided into her with one swift movement, and broke the membrane inside.
Out of all the women he had been with, Jace had never felt anything as good as the heat and tightness of Clary. He had to do everything he could to stop himself from coming right there on the spot.
Clary whimpered in pain, and quickly brought a hand to her mouth to muffle her scream. Tears welled up in her eyes, and overflowed down her cheeks.
"I'm sorry it hurts," Jace said. He looked at her lovingly, and used his thumbs to lightly wipe the tears away. He kissed the hand that was covering her mouth, and then tenderly planted kisses all over her while he was still inside of her, letting her get used to his size.
After a few moments, Jace felt the inner muscles surrounding his shaft relax a bit, and Clary's eyes had dried up. Soundlessly, she gave him a reassuring nod, and he began to rock in and out of her.
At first the sensation was strange for Clary. She felt extremely full, like she was being filled up down there. But after a while the pumping began to feel good, and soon enough, she was falling in rhythm with Jace, their bodies pressed close together, the smells of sex drifting around them. Jace's back was sheer with a thin layer of sweat, and Clary found it difficult to grab onto him as he grinded into her. She let out countless moans, and bit her lip viciously as her sounds came. Her hands roamed all over his body, as did his with hers, and they kissed passionately over and over again.
All of a sudden, Jace groaned loudly, and yanked Clary into a different position. He was now on his back, with Clary riding on top of him. He began to thrust faster than ever before, and Clary felt herself nearing her climax.
"Clary… Ah… I'm so close…" Jace panted, putting all his energy into one final thrust. He pulled out completely, and then jammed his manhood back into Clary, and she screamed – whether in pleasure or pain, even she didn't know.
He released inside of her at the same time she came, their fluids mixing. They both went limp, and Clary fell on top of him. Jace felt all the muscles in his body go weak, and as he slowly pulled out of her, he rolled around and hugged Clary tightly to his chest. The bed sheets were damp with sweat and all sorts of other liquids, but Jace pulled up the covers around them anyway.
Exhausted, Clary tangled her legs with his, and draped her arms around him. Jace laid beside her slowly stroked her hair.
"Goodnight, Jace," Clary stifled a yawn. "I… I love you."
Jace was silent, but Clary didn't even notice as she fell fast asleep. He lay there for a while, treasuring the moment. A very little light filtered into the room past the edge of the curtains, just enough to show the outline of her face. Jace tried his best to memorize those features, the features of the girl he loved.
He knew he had to leave her. He pulled himself out of bed, tucking her covers back up against her neck, and dressed himself. He found a piece of paper and a pen, and began to write.
Despite everything, I can't bear the thought of this ring being lost forever, any more than I can bear the thought of losing you forever. And though I have no choice about the one, at least I can choose about the other.
He finished up the letter, and removed the Morgenstern ring that hung from a chain around his neck. He placed the ring on the nightstand beside the bed, and then the letter on top of it. He bent over and kissed Clary, his sister, on her forehead for what seemed like to him the last time. He loved her with all his heart, flesh and blood or not.
Filled with sorrow and determination, Jace walked out the door of Amatis's house, and headed for the Hall of Accords.
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am using the sendmail to send an email and configure it as the following :
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after that i run the following command :
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$ makemap hash authinfo < authinfo
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and test it with :
/usr/sbin/sendmail -v mabdalmahdi@gmail.com < body.txt
but still cant receive any email ?? and i got the following error
Deferred: Name server:smtp-server-name: host name lookup failure <br>
i tried i can ping to the smtp server , and i run the command dig smpt-server-name
i cant see any thing wrong ... why i got this message and cant revise an email.
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The Heisman Gets Defensive Minded, But It's Not Enough
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The Heisman Trophy, with its outstretched hand and the kind of running posture that seems preconditioned to promulgate the myth of its own offensive man of action, is modeled after Ed Smith, a little known running back from New York University who happened to be the man of the moment in 1934 but has, through the arc of football history, no true significance.
This revelation might say more about the award than you think.
Most of the criticism rests in the provincial hands of the voters, who keep the award as the luxuriant claim of offensive talent, and not necessarily the players, whose achievements, just by virtue of the process, are usually great.
Consider the fact that two ends have ever won the award—Larry Kelly, Yale, in 1936, and Leon Hart, Notre Dame, in 1949.
Fullbacks have been selected four times during an era when the position was fastidiously used in the offensive scheme.
Since the advent of modern football in the 1960s, the award has almost exclusively been the domain of running backs, which includes a 12-year winning streak for the position between 1972 and 1983, and quarterbacks.
Only Desmond Howard in 1991 and Charles Woodson in 1997 have recently bucked the trend.
The NFL MVP award advocates only slightly more amenable habits.
Ever since the award was instituted in 1957, it, too, has been dominated by running backs and quarterbacks, while Alan Page (DE) in 1971, Mark Moseley (K) in a strike-shortened 1982 season, and Lawrence Taylor (LB) in 1986 have abrogated the rule.
Then again, the NFL MVP award occupies the strange world in which a kicker has won but a wide receiver hasn’t. However, history attests to the fact that we have always been enamored with the two skill positions in the backfield that dominate the ball. It is not necessarily the recent engine of fantasy football or marketing.
People are obsessed with giving awards, even if they can’t stand the process. But the ideological spirit of football seems interminably resistant to the very idea of crowning an outstanding player.
In basketball, it’s possible to compare positions. For instance, you can weigh a center’s diminishing point total against his dominance on the boards.
In baseball, pitchers and hitters are rightly spared from comparison by the divide that separates their own respective awards.
But in football, how do you attempt to weigh the value of a guard’s block against that of a quarterback’s throw?
There does seem to be an agreed upon set of principles: A tackle is logistically more valuable than a center, and a quarterback is the leader of a team, even if his success is contingent on the blocking array of the offensive line before him.
If football is an ad agency, then the skill positions are the creative team.
Consider the Minnesota Vikings, who lost five of six games last year by a touchdown or less. In a sport where a single play can change the game, the elevation of quarterback skill alone may be worth entire wins.
The same does not entirely hold true for most other positions.
Yet it’s hard to imagine the inclusion of Nebraska in the Big 12 championship game without the dominance of its defense, which only stands behind Alabama nationally in scoring—and Ndamukong Suh is the indomitable anchor of that defense.
How do we consider his stats? The standard metrics can’t quite measure efficacy, drive-killing plays, momentum, and impact.
What we do know is this: Though only ninth nationally in sacks per game, nobody put more pressure on the other team: 21 QB hurries, 10 batted balls, three blocked punts, and more tackles, both solo and assists, than any defensive lineman in the country.
During the biggest game of the season, fellow Heisman nominee Colt McCoy was held to one of his worst—55 percent, 184 yards, and three INTs—while Suh had his best. It is not often that one Heisman hopeful directly dims the hopes of another.
It’s difficult to gauge Suh’s impact without watching all of his games, which most Heisman voters don’t do, since he may have had a hand in disrupting as many as a dozen offensive plays a game.
Both Toby Gerhart and Mark Ingram had impressive years*, and yet the system seems unnecessarily stacked against a player like Suh, who took his team like a dirigible and steered it along its proper course.
The myth that the winner has to be a junior or senior on a top five team is already beginning to fracture, but defensive players are still left out in the dark.
While I understand that the most prestigious running backs and quarterbacks during any single year will always be invited, must there be the talent of a Lawrence Taylor before we will consider them?
How valuable or outstanding must they be to equal the worth of a quarterback?
It doesn't seem to matter because the voters are almost resigned to the very idea that Suh cannot win.
The most disappointing thing is that so few people are willing to challenge the ill-begotten tradition and the self-perpetuating bias.
The definition of “outstanding,” like “most valuable,” may have been instituted in order to inspire independence and creativity amongst the voters, but the anarchy that has resulted ensures a voting body that is past-reliant and slow to change.
Because no one wants to rethink the nature of the award, the problems compound.
The Heisman Trophy ennobles and enshrines its recipients, but the actual significance of the award seems hollow, a historical footnote that looks good on Wikipedia pages and highlight reels without offering the revelation of a player's ability.
Without the pomp and press, the position awards have always had more credibility since the voters can directly compare linemen to linemen and receivers to receivers.
College football is a game of contradictions and inverses anyway. We remember great players and significant moments but not necessarily awards and championships.
But if the Heisman is going to remain an important icon and not atrophy, we must try to make it equitable for all.
* Stats: Both Gerhart and Ingram nearly had the same number of total yards—Gerhart had 1,736 rushing and 149 receiving, and Ingram had 1,542 rushing and 322 receiving—but Gerhart had 26 total TDs to Ingram’s 18.
If you compare opponents, then Alabama played against an average defensive rank of 51st, plus 1-AA Chattanooga, compared to 59th for Stanford. In their final games, Ingram had 209 yards and three TDs against the fourth-ranked defense, and Gerhart had 256 yards and four TDs, one of which was a passing TD, against…well…Notre Dame.
I say that, if the competition came down to either, Gerhart would be my choice, but Ingram is a worthy winner.
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Dutton Children's Books, 1999 - Juvenile Nonfiction - 240 pages
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Henry Morgan, who was born in Wales in 1635 and died in Port Royal, Jamaica, in 1688, was an unusual sort of leader. Inspiring the respect and admiration of his fellows, he led them to undertake daring raids on Spain?s possessions in the New World; yet he commanded neither an army nor a navy. Nor was he a political ruler, although his exploits affected the power politics of Europe and earned him a knighthood. In plain language, Henry Morgan was a leader of thieves, a ?prince? among a group of outcasts, desperadoes, and failed gentlemen known as buccaneers.Though movies and novels have romanticized them, the buccaneers were in fact a ruthless group who got their way by brutal means. Their motives were pure self-interest, yet they operated with the permission of certain European nations in order to break the Spanish monopoly in the West Indies. Vividly outlining the political and economic circumstances that allowed the buccaneers to flourish, and freshly evoking both life at sea and life in the colonies in the seventeenth century, Albert Marrin shows how Henry Morgan was a particular response to forces that are still with us. War, poverty, greed, bigotry, and oppression play themselves out, albeit differently, in our lives today.Albert Marrin is the chairman of the history department at Yeshiva University, and he has written many award-winning nonfiction books for young adults, including Commander in Chief: Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War (Dutton).
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This book tells a story of a man who lived a pirates life with England's blessing. The adventures of Henry Morgan are interesting and learning about the way life was back in the 1600's was also very ...
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Great description of the pirate's life and the times they lived in. Included the politics of the day without boredom. Made for a little younger readers but I still enjoyed it greatly. Vivid depictions throughout.
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Albert Marrin is the author of over two dozen awardwinning nonfiction books for young people. He lives with his wife, Yvette, in Riverdale, New York.
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With the exception of Hilary Rosen on Meet the Press, did the news shows bother to book a gay person whose life and rights are directly affected? Pffftt...silly liberal!
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Rhubarb pie
A slice of rhubarb pie
Type Pie
Place of origin UK
Variations butter, flour, rhubarb, sugar
Rhubarb pie is a pie with a rhubarb filling.
Besides diced rhubarb, it almost always contains a large amount of sugar to balance the intense tartness of the plant.
Rhubarb pie is particularly popular in those areas where the rhubarb plant is commonly cultivated, including Finland, Sweden, the United Kingdom, Ireland and the New England and Upper Midwestern regions of the United States.
In Canada and the United States, strawberry rhubarb pie is a popular late-spring pie, generally combining the first strawberries of the season with the last of the rhubarb.
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I am wondering how evolving algorithm works in the game. Does it pay of more to buy lots of weak creatures evolve them and then buy more of the weak creatures or will that end up costing more money than buying couple of more powerful creatures and evolving them that way.
What is the better strategy to get the best power/money ratio.
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I want a python script that tells me the Xmin, Xmax, Ymin, and Ymax of a polygon. (I guess this is finding the extent of a polygon?)
My current script gives me the correct the Xmin and Xmax, but it gives me the Ymin and Ymax of the data frame. I want the Ymin and Ymax of a polygon.
Here is my current code:
# Specify the shapefile
shapeFile = "C:/Big_Creek_MapUnits.shp"
# Use the describe function
desc = arcpy.Describe(shapeFile)
# Print stuff out
Anyone have any solutions or tips?
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Thank you. I mean polygon. – user1191849 Sep 18 '12 at 7:16
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Answered here: How to get the extent of each polygon in a shapefile?
rows = arcpy.SearchCursor(inFeatures)
shapeName = arcpy.Describe(inFeatures).shapeFieldName
for row in rows:
feat = row.getValue(shapeName)
extent = feat.extent
print extent.XMin,extent.YMin,extent.XMax,extent.YMax
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Java No Cash Cow for Oracle
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In a recent article, Oracle's Java Problems, Lee Gomes questions whether Oracle can make money off of the Java platform it inherits from the Sun acquisition. At best, Java was really just a PR and marketing vehicle designed to "cause investors to perceive Sun much more as a software company than it really was," according to Gomez. He continues to add that:
...Despite being at the very center of the Java Web bubble, Sun was never able to make money with the software. Nor could it continue to use Java to disguise the fact that it hadn't been able to successfully shift from one hardware business model to another. What reason is there to think Oracle could possibly fare any better?
Java's ubiquity no doubt stems from its openness and the community innovation that has propelled it forward. Sure, Sun could've made Java proprietary for the sake of profit, but this would surely come at the cost of the pervasiveness that the language enjoys today. Moreover, would Oracle really care to acquire a new hardware business and some nondescript language named after a coffee bean?
A multitude of business models have emerged around Java in the last decade and the marketplace of tools, servers and services it has spawned would certainly indicate that Java is profitable. Oracle will surely figure out a way to financially capitalize on its new Java investment; hopefully, without too much collateral damage to the evolution of the platform.
What do you think? Is Java doomed for an Oracle retrofitting that renders it irrelevant? Will JavaLobby need to be renamed to LarryLobby?
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Otengi Miloskov replied on Fri, 2009/05/01 - 12:15pm
Calm down people!, Oracle == Java; If Java == fucked up then Oracle == fucked up.
Bob Smith replied on Fri, 2009/05/01 - 12:24pm
Sun *does* make money off Java. Java billings for Sun were something along the lines of $80 million in the last year.
More proof that the genuises on Wall Street who got us into the current financial mess don't know what they're talking about much of the time.
Anonymous Coward replied on Fri, 2009/05/01 - 12:59pm
It amazes me how widly held this myth myth is considering they've broken the amount out in the earnings reports for almost a year. Your figure is actually a typical quarter btw - Sun booked around $220 million of revenue from Java for fiscal year 2008 and that's just the licesning recenue. Service revenues for the year were $5.2bn which is nice.
Mike P(Okidoky) replied on Fri, 2009/05/01 - 2:17pm
Oracle can provide complete enterprise solutions, which now includes them providing the actual JVM too now. A one stop shop. Java is *hugely* important for Oracle.
I think what we all really need is for Oracle to approach us, and make some commitments, and provide some reassurances. Oracle needs to know if they can rely on all of us to keep Java reaching out in places, and we need to know if we can rely on Oracle providing the foundation that we ride on.
Bad would be utter silence. So far, I'm seeing utter silence. I'm nervous. Perhaps JavaOne will make me feel better. All I can do I guess, is twiddle my thumbs.
Ray Walker replied on Fri, 2009/05/01 - 4:39pm in response to: Anonymous Coward
Thanks for pointing this out. I had fell to the myth, as well.
Dmitri Trembovetski replied on Fri, 2009/05/01 - 8:05pm
Java on desktop alone is supposed to bring close to 250m this year (this is _excluding_ licenising).
Joshua Marinacci replied on Sat, 2009/05/02 - 12:34am
Keep in mind that both Sun and Oracle are *legally required* to keep silent and continue competing with each other until the deal is finalized and passes regulatory approval. In the mean time, JavaOne is going to be great this year. We are going to have some really good stuff to show you.
Robin Bygrave replied on Sat, 2009/05/02 - 6:33am
Purely my opinion of course but... to put another spin on it... Larry loves to compete against Microsoft. Said another way - I would suggest that for some time Oracle has seen Microsoft as their strongest long term competitor.
The way I see it, Java has been so succesful in the enterprise area (and with linux and apple getting stronger) people may have forgotton how strong Microsoft was 10 yrs ago. Microsoft have been lifting their game and I'd say they are still at the fore front of Oracle's long term plans. Ensuring Java's success continues is a mechanism to keep Microsoft out of the enterprise and that has a lot of long term value to Oracle that can't be counted in dollars.
So I see investing in ... JVM, Java, JavaFX/Swing/Nimbus, OpenSolaris etc ... as a long term strategic move against Microsoft. In that sense it even makes sense to get as much involvement from the likes of IBM and the Java community as possible. Keeping *nix / jvm dominant in server land... and attacking the UI/Desktop/Mobile/RIA world with JavaFX/Swing/Nimbus etc.
I think its Larry's best move yet.
Raw ThinkTank replied on Sat, 2009/05/02 - 7:08am
Since there are no Java Processors by Sun, there is no cash from Java. And since world is not mad about Java due to those missing Java processor. They cannot charge license on mobile for running those programs on mobiles java chips.
So Oracle must make Java processors and kill intel M$ both at the same time and win mobile too.
Martin Wildam replied on Sat, 2009/05/02 - 4:50pm
Thanks to the article and all those very good comments!
I think that now Java will get even more important with the rising amount of users switching from their Windows desktop to something else like Mac or Linux.
And since I started with Java, I also feel very comfortable with the large community of smart people. Thanks to you all!
JeffS replied on Sun, 2009/05/03 - 10:36pm in response to: Bob Smith
Forbes writers know nothing about technology. So why should we take what they say about Sun's Java business seriously?
Sun did make money on Java - to the tune of $250 Million + a year (according to the financials posted by Schwartz in his blog). Thing is, compared to the multi-billion dollar hardware, this isn't all that much. Also, compared to the JEE App server business that IBM and Oracle/BEA (and to a lesser extend JBoss), which is a market in the billions, Sun's Java revenue looks puny.
And the ROI probably was never that great, considering how much R&D money Sun poured into Java.
Jeroen Wenting replied on Mon, 2009/05/04 - 1:07am
ROI on Java itself was probably not that great indeed, but consider that Sun probably sold quite a bit more hardware and services around that hardware (and the associated Solaris licenses) than they would have sold without Java, and the picture starts to change.
Of course such effects are extremely hard (if not impossible) to put into numbers, which is why they don't appear on earnings sheets as such.
And because they don't appear on earnings sheets, many in the corporate analysis sector (which is where Forbes move) don't take them into consideration. I've myself seen departments closed down, projects cancelled, because they didn't themselves turn a profit. That the existence of that product helped sell other products (or in the case I was most involved in helped draw business to offices that otherwise would have ended up with competitors, which was the core purpose of the project) is often completely overlooked by those making the decisions about whether a department or project is to be scrapped.
In part that's because they have tunnelvision and don't look beyond the immediate quarterly earnings which dictate payouts to shareholders, in part it's because the people making those decisions often don't know what a project is all about. All they see is that department X deploys Y people and has a profit of Z. That's below the corporate standard so it gets axed.
Jose Maria Arranz replied on Tue, 2009/05/05 - 2:41am
I agree with Jeroen, without Java (and web), IBM, Oracle and Sun would be very small companies trying to survive in small niches in a world dominated by Microsoft and Intel, we have forgotten the pre-Java time, when Windows and SQLServer, alongside Intel processors, were aggresively eating market to IBM-Oracle-Sun with no hope for them. Then came out Java and web to save the non-Microsoft/Intel industry.
In summary Java is a "industry saver" and has made tons of money indirectly to many including Sun.
In essence this has not changed, furthermore, Java and web are today the dominant platforms and you can pick your preferred database engine no longer attached to a specific processor and operating system.
john green green replied on Mon, 2009/10/26 - 3:27am
More proof that the genuises on Wall Street who got us into the nike shoes russiacurrent financial mess don't know what they're talking about much of the time.
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Even films that are explicitly merry don't always succeed in spreading cheer
With Christmas upon us, theaters are overflowing with movie options. All the key categories are checked off the list — from big productions (Les Miserables) to independent sleepers (Amour) to family holiday films (Rise of the Guardians). In such a crowded cinematic season, it's not unusual for well-meaning holiday fare to fail — as this list of Christmas-themed flops from years past reminds us. Here are some of the worst stocking-stuffers from recent decades:
1. Fred Claus (2007)
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What it's about: Vince Vaughn stars as a man struggling to find his way as a responsible adult. His brother, who happens to be Santa Claus, steps in and ships Vaughn's character to the North Pole, where he has a hard time adjusting to the lifestyle.
Box office take: $97 million
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Why it failed: Even though it made a decent amount of money, critics labeled Fred Claus silly, bland, and derivative of films like Bad Santa, a 2003 fan-favorite.
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2. Deck the Halls (2006)
What it's about: Two neighbors (Matthew Broderick and Danny DeVito) compete to out-decorate each other when installing lighting displays at their respective homes.
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Box office take: $47 million
Why it failed: People simply didn't want to see grown men trashing the holiday spirit in a contest of egos.
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3. Unaccompanied Minors (2006)
What it's about: Kids run amok in an airport during the holiday season after their flights are canceled.
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Box office take: $22 million
Why it failed: Audiences young and old were unmoved by the ensuing shenanigans. Plus, it's the adults in the movie who end up looking the most juvenile.
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4. Surviving Christmas (2004)
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What it's about: Seeking to recreate the family Christmases of his youth, Ben Affleck's character hires another family to pretend to be his for the holidays. His plans, naturally, go awry.
Box office take: $14 million
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Why it failed: It seems audiences couldn't quite get their heads around the inane plot. And, of course, at the time, every movie (the since-resurgent) Affleck touched turned to coal.
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5. Christmas with the Kranks (2004)
What it's about: A couple (Jamie Lee Curtis and Tim Allen) decide to forgo Christmas for a cruise, but run into unexpected trouble when their daughter comes home at the last minute. An improvised, last-minute Christmas is enjoyed by few.
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Box office take: $96 million
Why it failed: Not only only was the film thin and unfunny, it opened just weeks after Surviving Christmas had tanked; audiences who'd been burned once stayed away.
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6. Jack Frost (1998)
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What it's about: After Michael Keaton's character dies, his spirit enters a snowman in order to spend more time with his son.
Box office take: $34 million
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Why it failed: The story is annoyingly high-concept, and the circa-1998 special effects weren't slick enough to convince dads to leave their living room recliners.
7. Trapped in Paradise (1994)
What it's about: Nicolas Cage, Jon Lovitz, and Dana Carvey star as three brothers who have to hide out in Paradise, Pennsylvania, after a bank heist. The warm and trusting folks of Paradise help these three criminals figure out what really matters in life.
Box office take: $6 million
Why it failed: Critics and fans complained that this comedy simply didn't deliver the promised laughs, which is all they really wanted for Christmas.
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When Paul Bass took over the Edmond Santa Fe girls basketball program, his mission was clear. He said he was hoping to build a foundation that was based on qualifying for the state tournament.
Soon reaching the state tournament wasn't enough. The Wolves reached the championship game in 2006.
And when the influx of talent that has come through in the last few years started to mature, the gold ball was all that mattered.
It all culminated two weeks ago when the Wolves became the first girls basketball team in Edmond Public Schools history to win a championship, knocking off No. 1-ranked and previously undefeated Midwest City.
“These girls just play so well together,” Bass said. “They share the ball and they all have tremendous character. That's something we've prided ourselves on.”
The Wolves celebrated the girls title victory Friday afternoon in an assembly in the gym, unveiling the championship banner that will hang in the gym.
“That was awesome. It was great to see that and know all the hard work was worth it,” sophomore Cameerah Graves said.
Also recognized in the assembly was the school's robotics team, the boys basketball team and members of the boys track team. Track members Alex Skinner, Gunnar Nixon, Travis Hinton and Korey Eakers were celebrated for their performance at the New Balance Indoor Nationals in New York.
On the same day the girls were winning the gold ball, the four achieved all-American status at Nationals. Nixon also won the pentathlon, setting a national record in the process.
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"We will seek more from [the] domestic market than international. "We are raising our target issuance of domestic retail bonds to 20 trillion rupiah ($2 billion) from 15 trillion previously; likely in October," Robert Pakpahan told reporters after a parliamentary hearing on state budget revisions.
Indonesia has kept its fuel prices low by aggressive subsidies. Its fuel subsidy bill has become a key driver of the country's ballooning budget deficit in recent years. As part of efforts to limit the deficit, the government wants to hike the price of low-octaine gasoline 44.4% to IDR6,500 a liter and diesel 22.2% to IDR5,500 a liter.
Earlier in the day, newly installed Finance Minister Chatib Basri said that the government aims to cap its 2013 budget deficit at 2.5% of gross domestic product, higher than the 1.65% previously set, but significantly lower than an estimated 3.8% deficit if fuel prices aren't raised.
If the government raises fuel prices by June, domestic inflation may jump to 7.2% by the end of the year from 4.9% estimated previously, officials said. That would push yields of domestically traded bonds higher, making it more expensive for the government to pay its debts.
Mr. Pakpahan said Tuesday that a budget deficit of 2.5% of GDP means an addition of IDR60.8 trillion ($6.2 billion) in net bond issues.
"We'll issue a global sukuk in September or October and introduce dollar bonds for domestic market in October. We're also looking at issuing another global bond somewhere in the second half," he added.
Indonesia in April issued 10-year and 30-year dollar-denominated global bonds, raising $1.50 billion from each tranche after receiving $12.5 billion in total orders.
Mr. Pakpahan didn't elaborate on the size of the dollar bond issuances.
He added that Indonesia won't be tapping the Japanese market. "We're not issuing Samurai bond this year" due partly to [the] weaker yen, he said referring to yen-denominated bonds issued by foreign entities which target Japanese investors.
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Paul Ryan doesn't look like the menacing sort. He's amiable in a familiar Midwestern way, his disposition varies between cheerfully earnest and wry, and he uses words like "gosh." Yet to hear Democrats tell it, the 41-year-old Republican congressman is the evil genius, the cruel and mad budget cutter who threatens grandma's health care, grandad's retirement, and the entitlement state as we know it.
What are they all so afraid of?
What's the White House political calculation behind its budget? "The fiscal strategy is to hang on to all the government we've grown, and hopefully rhetoric will get us through the moment. It strikes me as a posture or position to keep the gains of the last two years in place—the bump up in discretionary spending, the creation of these new entitlements—to lock in their gains, bank their wins, and then hang on through the rest of this year. And they believe they have the flourishing rhetorical skills to navigate the politics in the meantime," Mr. Ryan says.
He adds he was hoping for more, counting on at least some leadership on Social Security, but "we've seen triangulation in rhetoric, not in substance."
.Would he prefer if the president sat down to talk seriously about Social Security, Medicare or tax reform? "Oh, gosh, yes," he says. "I think that would be great. It would be good for the country." He resists details about how far he'd be willing to compromise with Mr. Obama—save to rule out a payroll tax increase—but he says he's more than ready to talk details.
Paradoxically, however, he says the president's budget has helped Republicans. By failing to lead with such a loud thud, Mr. Obama has helped the cause of reformers within the House GOP. Some in the leadership had been wary of taking on entitlement reform—that's Medicaid, Medicare and perhaps Social Security—but this week tipped them over the edge.
He rolls out a chart comparing the debt trajectory under Mr. Obama's fiscal 2010 budget (a line shooting almost straight up) and the GOP alternative he offered last year (a relatively flat line sending it back down from its Obama peaks). "That's the chart that always gets them," he says. Reforming Medicaid alone won't get the deficit and debt on a downward path, he says. You have to tackle Medicare too.
"The freshmen have been the best thing going for us," he adds. They pushed for more cuts in what's left of the fiscal 2011 budget, "and that was fine with me." He says these new members are fiscally better overall than the class of 1994, a lot of whom "went native."
Being freshmen, however, they also haven't experienced the full fury of the entitlement state backlash—AARP's demagoguery, the Democratic attack ads, the media amplifying those attacks, and the fair-weather deficit hawks (including ostensibly conservative columnists) who will run for cover and blame Mr. Ryan for trying the minute the polls turn. Could Republicans be walking into a political trap?
"That's what everybody says, but I don't really spend much time thinking about it because I don't really care. . . . All the political people tell us this. Even the Democrats tell us this. That it's a trap, it's rope-a-dope. . . . It doesn't matter," he says.
"The way I look at things is if you want to be good at this kind of job, you have to be willing to lose it. Number two, the times require this. And number three, if you don't believe in your principles, and applying those principles, then what's the point?" He mentions limited government and economic freedom. "I believe these are the best solutions. I believe they will result in growth and opportunity for the country."
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"Politically, I also believe it's going to be the right thing to do. People want conviction politicians. People want the problem solved. People turn on their TV, they see the European debt crisis. They see California, New York, Illinois. They understand there is a sovereign debt crisis popping all over the place," he says. "And to see a president duck and punt, and then try to use it as a political wedge against the opposing party to manipulate his re-election is not going to fly in this kind of climate."
I told you Mr. Ryan was an optimist. "Traditionally," entitlement demagoguery "would work," he concedes, but the times are different. "It didn't work in 2010. Ask the 87 freshmen who had this stuff thrown at them. And given the crisis we are in, and given that we are going to have a year and a half or two years of straight talking to the American people about how serious this is, and how we need to head it off at the pass, I like our chances."
The seven-term congressman can point to his own political success as a precedent. I first met him nearly 20 years ago when he worked for Mr. Kemp, and later for then-Kansas Congressman Sam Brownback. The lawyer's son returned home to Janesville, in southeastern Wisconsin, to run for a seat long held by the late Democrat and former Defense Secretary Les Aspin. It's the definition of a swing district, with closely divided party loyalties and one of the highest union populations in the country. John McCain lost the district with 47% of the vote in 2008 while Mr. Ryan was winning 64% despite his firmly conservative voting record.
Mr. Ryan knows House Republicans won't be able to get their most ambitious reforms through a Democratic Senate, much less past Mr. Obama's veto. But his goal is to honor the GOP's 2010 campaign promises while framing a 2012 choice for voters between two visions of the future.
One is the path Mr. Obama has set for the past two years. The other is a future of reformed entitlements, limited government, reduced debt—all in service to the goal of faster growth and more economic opportunity. Mr. Ryan figures the 2012 contest could turn into a "realignment election," in which voters declare which party's vision they prefer and give that party control of the entire government. The Republican thinks his party needs to offer such a choice because if Mr. Obama wins a second term, his health-care reform won't be repealed and will set the U.S. on Europe's path of excessive debt and shrunken destiny, perhaps irretrievably.
In reforming entitlements, one challenge for the GOP is making the case for growth, not merely budget austerity for its own sake. "We can't use the pitch fork and torch approach," he says. In 1995, Newt Gingrich famously said that traditional Medicare would "wither on the vine" under GOP reforms, and he seemed to welcome a debt-ceiling showdown. Democrats used both to portray the GOP as radical and turn public opinion against reform.
"It's important that we're the growth party, and cutting spending now is really not pain and root canal. Wait until we don't do that and what happens later. The question we have for ourselves in this country is, do we reform government, reform our entitlement programs, get these programs that were written in the 20th century to work in the 21st century, and have pro-growth policies to help our businesses that make us internationally competitive?" he explained recently, in another interview I did with Mr. Ryan hosted by the e21 website and the Manhattan Institute.
"That's growth. What austerity is, what pain is, is doing nothing, staying on the path we're on. And then having our own debt crisis and having our own European kind of fix where you're cutting everything and raising taxes." He calls this a future of "managing decline."
All of which invites a question: If the stakes for the country are so large, and the 2012 election is so critical, why doesn't Mr. Ryan run for president himself? Weekly Standard Editor Bill Kristol has nudged Mr. Ryan to run, and emails arrive often in my inbox suggesting that Mr. Ryan do so.
"My head's just not there," he says. "I want to be at home for the weekend" with his wife, two sons and daughter, ages six, seven and nine. (He sleeps in his office when he's in Washington during the week.) "If I could do it from Janesville," he quips. Later, after I press, he adds, "You've got to really, really want to be president, and you've got to have the belief that no one else could do it. . . . I think there are other people who could do that."
Such personal groundedness is admirable (and rare) in a politician, but about his last point, I am not so sure. The current GOP front-runners either don't share Mr. Ryan's convictions (Mitt Romney, Mr. Gingrich) or haven't yet shown they can combine fiscal reform with a pro-growth, optimistic message (Tim Pawlenty, Mitch Daniels).
Perhaps one of those or others will adopt the Ryan message, the way Ronald Reagan so fortuitously absorbed Jack Kemp's in 1980. But don't be surprised, as the 2011 budget fight unfolds and the presidential campaign heats up, if more Republicans begin to ask why they shouldn't get the chance to vote for the Janesville original.
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Last October, I got into an argument with Jim Cramer because he asked me to remove my article about how Cramer’s company (TSCM) was a “Sell” based on the framework in Cramer’s own books (See the emails in “Sorry Cramer … We Will Not Bow Down“). If TSCM was an exception to Cramer’s iron-clad rules because late 10Qs and bailing executives somehow didn’t raise concerns like in every other case, it seems someone more important than both of us is concerned with the inner workings of TheStreet.. the SEC.
Zero Hedge has broken the not-so-surprising news that Wednesday TheStreet filed a Form 12b-25 with the SEC which presses the ultimate “Sell, Sell, Sell” button on Cramer’s circus play station:
OK, Cramer. Now, please explain to me this time why TSCM wasn’t the biggest “Sell, Sell, Sell” stock on Mad Money Wednesday night? I’ve bought all your books and been on your show, so maybe you can explain why every last bag-holder, I mean shareholder, of TSCM shouldn’t liquidate their position and move on to much brighter, less criminally investigated pastures?
As we shake our head at yet another Cramer bomb (as his bankrupt picks are affectionately called by pro traders), I leave you with a legendary piece of Cramer’s journalism (which he spins is out of context because he was talking about Bear Stearns' bank accounts rather than the stock — but “Bear Stearns is fine” means the company “is fine” for both account holders and shareholders, or at least it does to real analysts, independent researchers, and now the SEC):
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Comment: Re:Population is not a real issue here (Score 1) 625
by TheCount22 (#44590063) Attached to: Aging Is a Disease; Treat It Like One
I noticed that everyone quickly jumped to the population problem. In fact this is not an issue at all.
Everything that grows exponentially has a doubling rate. One could easily argue that the real problem is in the newer generations since they will always represent significantly bigger population than the previous one. So the issue is not people not dying quickly, the problem is people being born. If everyone stopped having kids and would magically become biologically immortal the growth rate would be negative or 0% (due to the fact that people die in accidents).
Oh and by the way the only sustainable growth rate is exactly 0% not more. Anything more would mean it has a doubling rate. It's basic math.
It's true that population is not a big issue. But I am afraid the corrupt would use it to maintain their status indefinitely.
+ - Java concurrency is orders of magnitude harder than people think->
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An anonymous reader writes "A user on StackOverflow claims to have lost $12 million of equipment due to a seemingly obscure behavior with concurrency in Java. A commenter on Hacker News writes
How can anyone program sanely in the presence of this: currentPos = new Point(currentPos.x+1, currentPos.y+1); does a few things, including writing default values to x and y (0) and then writing their initial values in the constructor. Since your object is not safely published those 4 write operations can be freely reordered by the compiler / JVM. [...] I'm not anywhere near smart or careful enough for that... I think I'll stick with Haskell.
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+ - Syrian Electronic Army has proven one thing about the cybersecurity community
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Jeff Peters writes "From an editorial at HackSurfer describing the problem with cybersecurity that has emerged following the SEA hacks:
The state of the cybersecurity profession today, as well as the software industry it drives, is best described by using a religion analogy. Our business leaders are dependent on a largely crowded, confused, splintered, factious, self-righteous community of “holier than thou” experts and engineers convinced of the supremacy of their 10 billion differing points of view. If you've worked in the information technology industry as I have for 20 years (recovering software engineer), you may not admit it openly, but you know exactly what I’m talking about. One of my closest friends, a name most of you would recognize in the IT industry, once described most system administrators by saying:
“They’re either completely terrible or they’re self-righteous dicks. I always choose the dicks because at least I’ll be a little safer.”
Kinda captures it for me. “Sharing” and “plays well with others” not anywhere in the definition. I won’t even repeat his sentiments on most CISSPs."
+ - Media Campaign Against Snowden?->
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sl4shd0rk writes "With Snowden living somewhere in Russia, and the US having very little course of action in way of damage control, it would seem the best US option would be to attack Snowden's credibility. Perhaps muddy the waters with something germane to System administration, yet somehow easily construed into a criminal act. According to Reuters, Snowden "began downloading documents" related to illegal US spying programs perhaps as early as April of 2012. Of course, the sources of this claim are "U.S. officials and other sources familiar with the matter" which roughly narrows it down from Gen. Michael Hayden to just about anyone who blogged on it. Fact of the matter is, without more details, Snowden could have accessed documents simply by performing backup routines or investigating file system issues. Things which happen quite regularly during the daily course of system adminstration. Without more specificity on the method in question, one is left with an impression from the headline, one of a nefarious circumstance."
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President Obama: "We also have federal judges that we’ve put in place who are not subject to political pressure,” Obama said at a news conference in June. “They’ve got lifetime tenure as federal judges, and they’re empowered to look over our shoulder at the executive branch to make sure that these programs aren’t being abused.”
Not so much, Mr. President."
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+ - Rare 388-Year-Old Bonsai Tree Survived Hiroshima Atomic Blast-> 1
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Rebecka writes "According to a report from TwistedSifter.com, one in particular, a rare Japanese White Pine from Miyajima is not only 388-years-old, but also reportedly survived the Hiroshima blast in Japan on Aug. 6, 1945. The bonsai, currently on display at the National Bonsai & Penjing Museum at the United State National Arboretum in Washington, D.C., has been deemed a “Hiroshima Survivor.”
The bonsai which was originally created in 1625 and owned by the late Masaru Yamaki, a bonsai master and longtime member of the Japanese bonsai community, was reportedly caring for the specific tree among others the day of the Hiroshima bombing. According to the National Bonsai Foundation the tree survived even after the bomb exploding less than two miles from their family hom"
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Comment: It does matter (Score 2) 479
by TheCount22 (#41791423) Attached to: Does Coding Style Matter?
When writing code everything matters.
Forcing people to follow a style I think is counter productive. It prevents the styles from evolving. In recent years for example people have been moving towards using better naming rather than commenting.
Strict rules prevent creativity and for that reason I disagree with the conclusions of the article to require one. Requiring anything more than just to follow a style no matter what that style may be and to try to maintain the existing code in the style that it was in is about as much as you can do.
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I have a property in a Django Model that I'd like to expose via a TastyPie ModelResource.
My Model is
class UserProfile(models.Model):
_genderChoices = ((u"M", u"Male"), (u"F", u"Female"))
user = Models.OneToOneField(User, editable=False)
gender = models.CharField(max_length=2, choices = _genderChoices)
def _get_full_name(self):
return "%s %s" % (self.user.first_name, self.user.last_name)
fullName = property(_get_full_name)
My ModelResource is
class UserProfileResource(ModelResource):
class Meta:
queryset = models.UserProfile.objects.all()
authorization = DjangoAuthorization()
fields = ['gender', 'fullName']
However all I'm currently getting out of the tastypie api is:
gender: 'female',
resource_uri: "/api/v1/userprofile/55/"
I have tried playing with the fields property in the ModelResource, but that hasn't helped. Would love to understand what is going on here.
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don't miss the 'u' :return u"%s %s" % (self.user.first_name, self.user.last_name) – dzen Feb 22 '13 at 13:01
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You should be able to define it as a field try:
class UserProfileResource(ModelResource):
fullname = fields.CharField(attribute='_get_full_name', readonly=True)
class Meta:
queryset = models.UserProfile.objects.all()
authorization = DjangoAuthorization()
fields = ['gender',]
You also have to include: set readonly=True on your CharField, or TastyPie will try to set its value on insertion or update.
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there is a way to order by this field? – anacarolinats Mar 6 '13 at 21:02
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A full example with dehydrate:
class UserResource(ModelResource):
fullname = fields.CharField(readonly=True)
class Meta:
queryset = auth_models.User.objects.all()
resource_name = 'user'
def dehydrate_fullname(self, bundle):
return u"{first_name} {last_name}".format(
first_name=bundle.obj.first_name, last_name=bundle.obj.last_name)
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France Wakes Up To A Socialist Reality: Will America?
cathi2 Wrote: Feb 10, 2013 4:39 PM
No, the Socialist motto was From each according to his Abilities, To each According to his NEED. Some people need a lot, and can or will produce nothing, and some work hard, and produce a lot, but only until they figure out that most of what they made gets taken away and redistributed, then they quit putting out so much effort. Socialism removes the incentive to work.
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Railway Express Agency
Yesterday's Federal Express
By George H. Drury
Published: June 5, 2006
One enduring symbol of railroading's past is the red-and-white diamond herald of the Railway Express Agency. Today one finds reminders of REA only at museums or old depots, but it once was a major element of the American scene - the FedEx of its day.
Formation of the REA
Express service is the prompt and safe movement of parcels, money, and goods at rates higher than standard freight rates.
It is generally considered to have been started by William Harriden, who in 1839 began regular trips between New York and Boston carrying such items. Other early names in the express business are those of William G. Fargo, a New York Central freight clerk at Auburn, N.Y., and Henry Wells, a leather worker at Batavia, N.Y., who organized Wells Fargo & Co. in 1853; Henry B. Plant, who formed Southern Express; Alvin Adams; and John Butterfield.
The express business flourished in the latter half of the 19th century, and by 1900 there were four principal express companies: Adams, Southern, American, and Wells Fargo. In 1913 the Post Office introduced parcel post, the first major competition for the express companies. Express business continued to climb until 1920, then remained stable for a decade.
During World War I, the United States Railway Administration took over the nation's railroads. Under the USRA, the four companies were consolidated as American Railway Express, Inc., except for the portion of Southern Express that operated over the Southern Railway and the Mobile & Ohio (and that came into the organization in 1938).
In March 1929, the assets and operations of American Railway Express were transferred to Railway Express Agency. REA was owned by 86 railroads in proportion to the express traffic on their lines - no one railroad or group of railroads had control of the agency.
How it worked
REA's arrangement with the railroads was that they provided terminal space and cars and moved the cars at their expense; REA paid its own expenses and divided the profit among the railroads in proportion to the traffic. Express service in Canada and Mexico was operated directly by the railroad companies.
Express revenues remained at profitable levels into the 1950's, albeit partly because of rate increases - express volume dropped substantially after World War II. The railroads began to view express service as expensive business.
REA negotiated a new contract in 1959 which allowed it to use any mode of transportation, and it acquired truck rights to allow continued service after passenger trains were discontinued. It tried piggyback and containers, but without much success.
In 1969, after several years of deficits, REA was sold to five of its officers and renamed REA Express. By then only 10% of its business moved by rail and its entire business constituted less than 10% of all intercity parcel traffic.
REA sued the railroads and the United Parcel Service for various reasons and became involved in suits and countersuits with the clerks' union, and the Civil Aeronautics Board terminated REA's exclusive agreement with the airlines for air express. REA Express terminated operations in November 1975 and began liquidation - which was complicated by trials of its officers for fraud and embezzlement.
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ipad - Why can't I scale a wallpaper on iOS 7?
• nwinkler
When selecting a photo from my photo stream as the wallpaper (on my iPad 4 with iOS 7), the wallpaper is shown as a preview, allowing me to scale and move the visible area. Unfortunately, this doesn't work for most images, e.g. ones that I downloaded to the device from the web.
Using the two-finger pinch to scale the image doesn't work at all, and moving the visible area is very slow, if it works at all.
This behavior results in weirdly cropped and scaled wallpapers - the same was working fine on iOS 6.
Is this a known bug? It seems to be related to the size of the photo - the stock wallpapers coming with iOS work fine.
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• Millie
Don't know why it is happening but I use the app #nocrop (it's free) to make the pictures smaller before using them as wall paper. You might also want to try switching reduce motion on/off in Settings > General > Assessibility > Reduce Motion. Hope this helps | http://www.appleqa.co.uk/q/answers-why-cant-i-scale-a-wallpaper-on-ios-7-103165.html | dclm-gs1-080240001 | false | false | {
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The name Umi means sea in Japanese and it is a word with a huge influence in the Asian community. However, it is a logotype of a hotel in London (Umi London) which acts as a synapse-joining staff, guests and nationalities allowing a constant flow of communication through everyone who comes into contact with the Umi brand.
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Wolves winger Michael Jacobs says the strength of the squad makes them think they can win every game they play.
Jacobs, 22, got both goals as second-placed Wolves beat Notts County to record their fifth straight win in League One and keep their bid for automatic promotion on track.
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For the chances we create, we should really score more and I think, one day, some team will get a pasting
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"When you look at the standard in the squad it's a joke (it's so good)," Jacobs told BBC WM.
"We're looking to win every game and that's what we'll try and do."
Jacobs joined Wolves permanently in January from Derby County, after originally arriving at Molineux on loan last November.
And he is currently part of a side that is on an excellent run of form that has lifted them to within two points of leaders Brentford - who they meet in a top-of-the-table clash at the weekend.
"It's strong and settled side at the moment," Jacobs said.
"But it's good that you've got boys there that are putting pressure on you for your place, so you know if you don't perform on a Saturday there's someone who will take your place. It's up to you to go and do well."
In their five successive victories, Wolves have scored 12 times and only conceded once - against Bristol City on 25 January.
And Jacobs acknowledges the part the defence are playing in the team's success.
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"It's a big effort from the boys at the back. If we can get the goals, then we're going to win games."
Wolves can go top of the table if they can win at Griffin Park and Jacobs is confident.
"We're both going into the game in decent form. We haven't lost in five and I think it'll be a fantastic game," he said.
"I think [whoever wins] will come down to who 'turns up' on the day, hopefully we can keep up the momentum.
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15 The eye of the adulterer1 watches for dusk;2 he thinks, 'No eye will see me,'3 and he keeps his face concealed. 16 In the dark, men break into houses,4 but by day they shut themselves in; they want nothing to do with the light.5 17 For all of them, deep darkness is their morninga; they make friends with the terrors6 of darkness.b7 18 "Yet they are foam8 on the surface of the water;9 their portion of the land is cursed,10 so that no one goes to the vineyards.11
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that wildly tossing crest the reason of this fury. The blood was pouring from his left eye, penetrated by the last bullet; the bull was blinded! A terrible revulsion of feeling, a sudden sense of remorse that was for the moment more awful than even his previous fear, overcame him. He had done that thing! As much to fly from the dreadful spectacle as any instinct of self-preservation, he took advantage of the next mad paroxysms of pain and blindness, that always impelled the suffering beast towards the left, to slip past him on the right, reach the incline, and scramble wildly up to the plain again. Here he ran confusedly forward, not knowing whither—only caring to escape that agonized bellowing, to shut out forever the accusing look of that huge blood-weltering eye.
“Now, then, blank it all, will you get up and come along, or do you reckon to keep the train waiting another hour over your blanked foolishness?” said Gildersleeve savagely.
“’Twould have served ’em right to have gone and left ’em,” muttered Benham vindictively.
In two hours more they had overtaken the train, already on the march, and were in the midst of the group of outriders. Judge Peyton’s face, albeit a trifle perplexed, turned towards Clarence with a kindly, half-tolerant look of welcome. The boy’s heart instantly melted with forgiveness.
“Well, my boy, let’s hear your story. What happened?”
Clarence cast a hurried glance around, and saw Jim, with face averted, riding gloomily behind. Then nervously and hurriedly he told how he had been thrown into the gully on the back of the wounded buffalo, and the manner of his escape. An audible titter ran through the cavalcade. Mr. Peyton regarded him gravely. “But how did the buffalo get so conveniently into the gully?” he asked.
“Jim Hooker lamed him with a shotgun, and he fell over,” said Clarence timidly.
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• Design: 7.0
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The good: The Asus VivoBook V551L is a thin, attractive, and seemingly well-constructed laptop. Its midrange discrete graphics card and 4th-gen Core i7 processor give it overall very good performance and battery life. And it has a 1TB hard drive and DVD burner.
The bad: For the V551LB's near-$1,000 price, the screen is pretty disappointing, as is its slow-spinning hard drive. Also, its keyboard is not backlit, which, again, for the price it should have.
With the Asus VivoBook V551LB-DB71T, you get approximately the look and feel of the higher-end Asus Zenbook UX51VZ-DH71, but for a lot less money.
However, if you look closely at the specs and construction of the two, it's easy to see why the V551LB is much less of a notebook than the UX51VZ. Screen resolution and quality, for example, are sacrificed on the V551LB and, although it has a 1TB hard drive for plenty of storage, it doesn't have a solid-state drive or secondary flash memory to help boost performance.
Those things might not be deal breakers for you, but for its price of around $1,000, we've come to expect a bit more. It's not a bad deal, but it's not a great one, either.
Design and features
The V551LB is an attractive notebook. That might not be a priority for everyone, but it's nice that it's not an ugly, plasticky mess, nonetheless. The lid's brushed-metal finish gives it a premium look and the whole body seems well constructed. The bottom of the system is a single piece of polycarbonate, with just a small fan vent and two slits near the front for its stereo speakers.
Though the laptop is relatively thin (it measures 15 inches wide by 10.2 inches deep by 0.9 inch thick), it isn't exactly lightweight at 5.8 pounds. With its small power adapter, the travel weight tips the 6-pound mark. Depending on how strong you are or what else you have to travel with, for a daily commute or carrying around campus, that might be a bit too much.
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Lift the lid and you'll find a large touch pad with no discrete buttons for right and left clicks; there is, however, a vertical line at the bottom so you don't have to guess. It's set up for multitouch use, for things like two-finger pinch-to-zoom and scrolling and three-finger swipes for showing open applications or the desktop. Fingers glided smoothly on its surface and it generally didn't misbehave if a palm accidentally landed on it.
It has a full keyboard with a number pad and Asus managed to keep all the important keys large enough for comfortable and accurate typing. Considering how shallow the body is, the keys of the chiclet-style keyboard have very good travel. Plus, there's plenty of room below the keyboard to rest your wrists (though the left side could use a bit more).
It is not backlit, however, and at this price it really should be. Also, there's a key just right of the Backspace key that launches a VivoBook interface for doing things like seeing system information, turning on a power save mode, adjusting audio quality and display color, and learning about gesture support, among other things. It's nice to have, but really easy to accidentally hit instead of the Backspace key and since it actually takes over your screen, it can be frustrating.
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Price (as reviewed) $999 $1,199 $999.99
Display size, resolution 15.6-inch, 1,366x768 touch screen 15.5-inch, 1,920x1,080 touch screen 15.6-inch, 1,366x768 touch screen
Processor 1.8GHz Intel Core i7-4500U 1.8GHz Intel Core i7-4500U 2.4GHz Intel Core i7-4700MQ
Memory 8GB 1,600MHz DDR3 SDRAM 8GB 1,600MHz DDR3 SDRAM 12GB 1,600MHz DDR3 SDRAM
Graphics 2GB Nvidia GeForce GT 740M 1.8GB Intel HD Graphics 4400 2GB Nvidia GeForce GT 740M
Storage 1TB 5,400rpm hard drive 1TB 7,200rpm hard drive 1TB 5,400rpm hard drive
Optical drive DVD burner None DVD burner
If there is one thing that would keep me from recommending this laptop, it's the screen. For starters, its pedestrian 1,366x768-pixel resolution is typical of more budget-friendly 15.6-inch laptops like the Acer Aspire E1-572-6870. Like that laptop's, the Asus VivoBook V551LB's display doesn't get all that bright and the screen is very glossy. Trying to work on it outside in daylight or in bright indoor lighting may leave you struggling to see what's onscreen or, at the very least, regularly adjusting your screen angle.
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Color is decent for casual use, but washes out some when you're viewing from the sides. Similarly, colors invert when the screen is viewed from above or below. If color accuracy or off-angle viewing is critical to what you need day to day, it's probably time to start looking at other laptops.
The V551LB's built-in speakers aren't great, either. They don't get terribly loud and they sound a bit hollow. They're passable for casual listening, but they don't match the quality of Asus' higher-end laptops. For regular use, you'll probably want to hook up some external speakers or headphones.
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Audio Stereo speakers, headphone/microphone jack
Data 2 USB 3.0, 1 USB 2.0, SD card reader
Networking Ethernet, 802.11n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth
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On a more positive note, the V551LB offers a good amount of ports and connections spread out on both sides of the system. On the left you'll find an Ethernet jack, an HDMI output, and two USB 3.0 ports.
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All the remaining connections are on the right along with an SD card slot and, yes, a DVD burner.
Performance and battery life
As mentioned earlier, the V551LB-DB71T has a 5,400rpm 1TB hard drive. If you're looking for the fastest performance these days, you'll want a computer with either a solid-state drive or a hybrid drive that combines a small amount of flash memory with a larger hard drive. That said, a hard drive offers more storage space for your money, so if that is what is most important to you, the V551LB's 1TB is ample, and Asus throws in an additional 32GB of cloud-based Asus WebStorage for three years.
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• RAM installed size 8 GB
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The hapless workers trying to trap the rat are still at it. They pour water down its tunnel to drown it, but it swims with the current and gets out. It bites through some electrical cable. They get a dog to chase it, but the lights go out. The rat kills the dog and they run away.
Eppy has devised even smaller anti-grav devices: small disks. He slices the bottom of his feet open and inserts the disks, numbing his feet with drugs. He takes more Grendel, and hallucinates some more, dreaming that he is sacrificing himself for the world, like Christ, but for the Devil's sake.
Cross finally becomes cognizant, having fed on human blood; he's been animalistic until now. Kierch and Zebra wake up as new vampires. This is the beginning of a vampire infection that eventually grows worldwide; Innocent had always been very controlled about it, so this is a big change. Cross leaves, and Kierch and Zebra feast on random townspeople. These turn into vampires, and they feed on more people, and so on. Cross looks for Eppy at the Grendel-drug battle arena, but he's not there. Cross turns all the spectators into vampires.
Eppy uses a robot he built to gain access to the Tower. He seeds the braziers in the church with the Grendel drug, so it will affect everyone during the service.
Cross remembers Eppy's address. When Eppy returns home, Cross is waiting for him. Cross sees the vampiric bloodlust as a gift from God, so they see themselves on opposite sides of God and the Devil. Eppy finally manages to knock Cross out with a bowling ball. Then he flies out to the Tower.
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Fearing new federal laws and regulations, a state legislator wants to provide legal cover for Arizonans who do not want to obey them -- and penalties for federal officials who try to enforce them.
The proposal by Rep. Steve Smith, R-Maricopa makes it illegal for any public servant to enforce "any act, law, statute, rule or regulation'' of the federal government relating to personal firearms or accessories as long as they remain within the boundaries of Arizona. And it defines public servants to include not just state and local employees but legislators, judges, jurors, witnesses and consultants who perform government functions.
Another provision puts the same prohibition on federally licensed firearms dealers.
But HB 2291 contains no penalties for either public servants or dealers. Smith said it instead would provide a defense of sorts for those who believe the Second Amendment precludes any new rules.
That, however, is not the case for another provision which would make it a felony, punishable by a year in state prison, for federal employees or officials who try to enforce those same laws or regulations.
The move comes as the president has asked Congress to approve new restrictions on assault-style weapons as well as limits on magazine capacity. And Obama also laid out 23 separate executive orders related to gun safety.
Smith said his legislation, if approved, would pave the way for legislative lawyers to determine if there's "wiggle room'' to ignore both those statutes and any regulations.
Rep. Ruben Gallego, D-Phoenix, chided Smith for pushing such a broad-based state ban even before any of what is in the president's orders has been flushed out to see how they would work -- and before Congress has yet to act on anything.
But Smith's proposal also is raising some concern by Todd Rathner, a board member of the National Rifle Association, albeit for different reasons.
"I like the message he's trying to send,'' Rather said Monday. But the Tucson resident said he has "real concerns'' about how such a state law would affect federally licensed firearms dealers who would be put in a position of whether to obey state or federal laws.
And the issues, Rathner said, are more than academic.
Dave Kopp, a lobbyist with the Arizona Citizens Defense League agreed with Rathner that he likes the concept. But Kopp said it remains to be seen whether such a measure, were it to pass, is legal, predicting a court battle.
Smith conceded that, in a straight test between federal laws and state laws, the former is likely to prevail. Where he said his measure may be more effective is on any action the president takes on his own.
Obama announced he will be issuing executive orders dealing with background checks, doing studies on gun violence and taking steps to what could be new safety standards for weapons. Smith said in those cases, a state law would have more effect than anything the president would do on his own, or any regulation a federal agency enacts without a specific law mandating it.
"I don't know that an agency can arbitrarily change a rule so dramatically without congressional approval,'' he said.
Smith said it would be one thing if the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were making a technical change, like a fee increase.
"We're fundamentally changing the scope of the Second Amendment in many people's eyes,'' he said. "And I don't know that an agency can do that.''
Smith said he is sending a message to the president and Congress.
"Here's a line in the sand: Thanks, but no thanks. Stay out with your federal regulations you're going to impose on us,'' he said.
Smith acknowledged the problem his legislation could create for federally licensed firearms dealers. That's because his prohibition against enforcing federal laws and rules would extend to them.
That would mean dealers who comply with state law would be risking the loss of their federal license and right to sell guns.
But he said that, without a specific penalty, firearms dealers fearing federal sanctions could ignore the state law without fear of state penalties.
Rathner, however, said that provides little comfort.
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Update: It's for all AT&T subs, not just the kids from the Shore.
Update 2: AT&T just sent us a statement about the settlement -- the carrier wants to highlight that it's the old ETFs that are involved here, and not the new pro-rated ones that we hate just as much. Check it:
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How come people loathe Chris Brown and Mel Gibson, but still love Charlie Sheen—who has constantly been beating up his wives and girlfriends?
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First of all, Sheen is not "constantly" beating up women—only occasionally, you know, shooting or threatening them. Most of the time he's way too busy dropping sick knowledge on you trolls.
As for "loving" Charlie Sheen, I have some news for you:
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You're wrong about that.
Yes, people have flocked to Sheen's Twitter account in drooling droves, and they've shelled out an amazing 20 quid for T-shirts that read "Duh, winning."
And some members of the so-called Sheen Cadre—for that is what Sheen calls his possibly imaginary army of adorers—have actually booked time in their calendars for Sheen's live shows, coming to Detroit and Chicago so far.
Both are sold out, in fact.
But do not confuse such interest with adoration.
Exhibit A: A sharp 23-year-old woman named Caitlin Madden. Madden recently moved to Los Angeles from Colorado. Madden has applied for a position as Sheen's "winning" intern, a gig that has been much sought after and publicized since the actor announced it March 7.
So why does Madden want this job? Does she venerate Sheen and want to be his next goddess? Not exactly.
"I wouldn't say that I love him," Madden explains, "but I do love how honest he is about the things that he does."
Such as threatening and shooting and making thinly veiled anti-Semitic remarks? That kind of honesty?
"I wouldn't be dating him," Madden points out wisely. "I think that the relationship would be so much more different than that dynamic. I wouldn't be married to him, I just want to do social media for him, which is what the internship is."
PHOTOS: Charlie Sheen is quote machine!
As for why exactly she went for it:
"I applied to the internship on a whim. I thought it would be sort of funny. I think I would really regret not following through with it."
(And, yes, as of this moment, Madden is still in the running toward that internship.)
Exhibit B: Leo Braudy, who has written a book all about how fame really works.
"I'm reminded of the people who went to see Judy Garland when she was on the edge," Braudy explains. "I've had the same feeling about the people who went to see Janis Joplin. People want to see how long the star can keep the balls of their own sanity in the air."
Fair point.
But then again, when Mel Gibson acted out, many fans stopped giving him their money. Consumers are still, in one form or another, giving Sheen their money. So what's the difference?
"People are responding as if Sheen is the kinder, gentler character he played on Two and a Half Men, as opposed to the more dangerous person he really is," Braudy suggests.
The theory makes sense.
But again, none of this equates love or even acceptance. Beyond the goddess-stocked Sober Valley Lodge, America really doesn't like Sheen overmuch these days.
In 2010—the year that Sheen copped a plea stemming from a Christmas attack on his then-wife Brooke Mueller—pollsters tell me that dislike of Sheen skyrocketed by 133 percent.
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Well, next gen is here in the form of a shiny new Xbox "One". So, how does the next gen look? Well, at least for Microsoft, it looks like a big black box. But at least it's a quiet box. In fact, its nearly silent unlike any of the previous generations consoles.
Its not About Power This Generation
As far as "power" the new Xbox is not great in terms of CPU/GPU when compared to a high end PC but it does has enough memory, bandwidth and processing power to support true multitasking of games and other applications (apps). And the game performance can keep up a mid-range PC. I am disappointed with the power ceiling of the Xbox One and PS4 after such a long previous generation but I think I know why both companies did not step up the performance. One reason is diminishing returns for the typical 1080p display. The other reason, of course, is the serious cost savings using less powerful hardware. PCs are different and need more graphical power because the screen resolutions are typically more than double 1080p. PCs will continue to "wow" PC enthusiasts with there higher resolutions and better graphics so PC fans can continue to rejoice. Keep in mind, this is cumming from a console enthusiast who no longer plays PC games. With this limitation in mind, it makes sense to build the console with just enough power to drive 1080p and no more (less in fact) . Until TVs move to 4K, which won't happen in time for it to be a selling point, the Xbox and PS4 have just enough power to make great games at 8 feet away on a 1080p display.
I Still Don't Need (or Want) Kinect
While I am a bit more impressed with the 2.0 Kinect I still just don't feel comfortable using voice commands and I don't need or want to use them. Fist of all, they don't always work. You have to keep you voice up and clear for this to work and it often just does not respond or responds incorrectly. While this will certainly improve, even if the voice commands were 100% accurate I just don't like the experience of barking commands at my TV. The only good news here is that the new interface "pins" make it so that all my favorite things are just one or two clicks away. The whole Kinect experience is like a feng shui nightmare. Its big and ugly and makes you act loud and obnoxious to get things done. Seriously, I can't say how much I still dislike the Kinect and voice commands in my gut. Sure, voice commands are kind of "cool" at first but I quickly realized that for every time I had to figure out what to say, how to say it, and have to say it twice, I could have done much more with a remote and it could have been done in silence which is golden.
There is Not Much To Do (Depending on your Tastes)
There are simply not that many games that I want to play or pay $60+ dollars to play. In fact, I struggled with deciding what to buy since I was not looking forward to most of the launch offerings. Forza? Love the graphics but I never play Forza for more than a few hours. Dead Rising? Didn't like the first two, not going to get the third. Killer Instinct? I am not into fighters. Ryse? This looks to be an average brawler with great graphics but I will wait for a price drop. So, I ended up picking up NFS Rivals because I really enjoyed NFS: Hot Pursuit and I liked the idea of seamless multiplayer. I have played for a few hours and I certainly enjoyed it but there is nothing "next gen" about this game. So now, I am left with a bit of post-purchase depression but I am still looking forward to the games that will certainly be coming in the upcoming months.
The Good News for the "One"
Even though I am waiting to be impressed with games, overall, I am impressed with the Xbox One...
• For the first time, I don't hate the GUI and there is one main reason for that; a customization page (i.e. pins). Just don't put adds on this page and I will be happy.
• Plays all your disc based media without any fuss.
• The System is fast enough to switch tasks and do downloads in the background. The GUI is also snappy.
• Kinect still has potential. Its more accurate and could do cool things. I am crossing my fingers on this one.
• The controller is great with only one minor improvement needed. The shoulder buttons are just a bit too stiff and I suspect this can and will be fixed by MS with a tweak to the design.
• Apps run better and have huge potential.
• 8gig memory and more bandwidth should improve load times significantly over last gen. Unsurprisingly, most of the launch games do not seem to fix the load-times but I believe they did not have time to truly optimize these early games.
Keep the 360 Connected for Now
With GTA V still in progress and Diablo III characters to play, I have plenty of gaming left on the 360. And its a good thing because, I don't see a lot of games coming that I really want to buy other than Watch Dogs which looks like 4+ months away or more. So, I sit and wait on the new games.
Tired of the Negative Xbox One Press, Getting the Xbox One Regardless
• The Xbox One controller looks to be the absolutely best controller for gaming EVER! Seriously, its a refined version of the best controller for the current gen. Even most PlayStation fans will admit that the Xbox 360 controller is one of the best console controllers of all time. The controller is the thing that makes a game system. Its your interface to all games, all the time. Its like the speakers for an audio system. No audio system is great without great speakers because they are the interface to the sound. I feel the same way about the controller.
• The Xbox 360 had the best online experience. Why forget that? So, they are likely to have the best online tools, voice, chat, etc for the next gen. People seem to be very willing to skim over this fact but it certainly more likely that Xbox will improve on all aspects of online network play and chat.
Mostly its that I want that Xbox One controller. I am lucky enough to be able to get a PS4 later, if it turns out the Xbox One messed up the design/performance on the Xbox One. I also feel that all this PS4 hype is simply not as deserved as the current press would imply. But if the PS4 turns out to be seriously superior, I have no problem changing consoles. I have no "brand loyalty" and I think both systems will turn out pretty good. Since they may be the only consoles for the next 10 years, I just want to be sure I get one on release day.
Also, I don't plan on buying any Blu Ray discs. I am going 100% digital. So, it bummed me out how the Xbox One had to trash some of their plans but whatever... I know digital distribution is just a matter of time. I will be holding on tight to my 360 game collection as it is likely to be my last!
P.S. I hate the Kinect! I wish I did not have to pay for it etc. This almost made me switch to PS4. The Kinect has potential but its just not been realized and may never reach it. I still highly doubt it will be anything more than a paper weight after the initial launch.
P.P.S. I immediately regret my decision :)
Microsoft's Opportunity Lost: Digital Distribution
I think the biggest mistake of Microsoft and the Xbox One, was to focus attention on disc based DRM instead of just focusing on the transition to full digital media. Its like getting into a war when the war is all but won. Sure, used game trading will have an impact for the next few years but all that time, a large percent of gamers, at least the adults who actually pay for the games, could transition to a Steam-like full digital distribution model. Instead of getting into the physical media used game war, they should have gone the Sony route and just left it up to the publishers. Why be the bad guy if its not even your job to do so? Instead, creating a great infrastructure for digital games would have been much more productive. For example they could have presented how much better things will be in this "future" model for both gamers and publishers by providing a digital distribution network that would support amazing features:
• Fastest way to get games without trucking to the story and putting it in boxes (go green!)
• Allow publishers s to have sales and specials over time (aka Stream) and create revenue where none existed.
• Create ways to both "turn in" digital licenses for a discount on your next digital purchase (support used games!)
• Create ways to "transfer license" to a friend for a discounted "re-activate" price (support game trades!)
• Support an independent digital store and allow "digital self publish" (support indies!)
• Plan to provide an "Xbox Classic" service to play 360/Xbox Original games. this could be done with cloud gaming like "On Live" and you could even provide a discount to classic game access if the user had the original disc (future proof compatibility)
All of these things and much, much more could have been done by MS to move to a new age of digital publishing. Instead, all they did was present the negative side of things and explain how they would kill the current one. And all its doing is getting people upset and letting Sony play the innocent and get all the good press. Way to miss a great opportunity :)
Ken and 2K ruining Bioshock Infinite?
One of the things that was so compelling in Boishock was that you had no idea the motivations and relationship the Big Daddy and Little Sister, yourself, the world under the sea, Andrew Ryan, etc. And there was a great sense of discovery playing through the game. By just listing to a few interviews with Ken Levine, I feel I already know way too much about this sequel. I still avoid the videos but if you really want the best experience, I guess you have to be diligent and avoid all media about the game (not to mention headlines, images, etc).
While, I know you can avoid media about a particular game, its not all that easy. Especially if you like to keep up on gaming in general. I think its a mistake for 2K to give too much away or starting the media blitz way too early as I think Infinite has. I think the net effect may be a negative one in that many people playing it will just not have that same sense of wonder because they kind of see it coming. I wonder how much this will take away from the magic of this game. There's just nothing like playing through a game and discovering everything for the first time in-game.
Of course, Infinite does seem to be shaping up as an amazing game, but It would be even more so if nobody knew that already :)
E3 2011 Microsoft Kinect Focus :(
The MS press event was about as dull as I thought it would be. And way too much Kinect stuff and not much else. I just don't understand MS focus on the kinds of motion gameing that the core gamers will only see as a distraction. If motion gaming was the right direction, the best Wii games would not be games that barely use motion controls (or not at all). Also, having a weapon customization interface that works on grand Kinect gestures?! What are you supposed to do, put down the controller while you config your weapon? Sure you could probably do it with the controller in your hand but at that point, just use the controller. It will be faster, easier, and less prone to errors. So, I can't get excited about MS in 2011/12 other than the great games that are coming. Halo anniversary and Halo 4 were fine but not all that exciting.
Basicly, MS E3 focused on the one aspect of Xbox that I could just not care less about, Kinect. I guess if you are a Kinect fan, you will be very happy since they are still touting the features of this device.
Razer Onza Review
There is a lot of negative feedback on youtube about this new controller but most of the negativity is due to the fact that the reviewers expected it to work much like the standard controller. The shape of the triggers bothers them, the shorter throw buttons bother them, etc. I will say that it takes a bit to get used to, but some people (like myself) will really like the differences that this controller has to offer. Also, many of the reviews are for the premium version with the variable tension and a lot of people don't like that feature because it makes the sticks (at higher stiffness settings) more spongy. Since I was not interested in that feature anyway, I ended up getting the less expensive basic version which is pretty much the same except the sticks are not adjustable and there is no backlight on the buttons. I would have liked to have the back-lit buttons but it turns out, I like the standard sticks just fine.
Why I like it....
Re-mappable Bumpers: I have mapped the stick-click to the extra bumper. I have always hated using the thumb stick click for most functions in games. Its just unconformable to me. With the onza. You can also map A/B/X/Y to either button as well as start/select and bumpers. Although it would have been better if you could also map the d-pad and not be Left/Right side limited (you can only map left stick click to the left side for example) it does open up a number of possibilities. And for game that let you chose different mappings you can fix quite a few of those games where you just don't like the one button. That is of course if you like the idea of two-bumpers. Takes a bit getting used to but I do like it better than using the click-stick buttons so that is a definite plus.
Stick Movement: I like the feel of the sticks better on this controller. It feels a bit smoother and less jerky then the Xbox sticks. The tension seems a bit lighter but it still has a definite spring back to center that feels right. I even used the FPS Freeks on the sticks to extend them and they still had a nice feel.
Fast Action Buttons: These are quite different from the standard controller. They have a very short throw and fast but light click response. Not at all mush like the 360s. However, I though the Xbox 360 buttons were pressure sensitive (the original Xbox were) which is why they were mushy but apparently this is not the case. That explains why I can't think of a game since MGS2 on the original Xbox that used pressure sensitivity anyway. So, I found with these buttons I was navigating quicker and able to hit the buttons much faster with less fatigue.
The 4-Button D-Pad: The D-Pad is ok for many game that use it for weapon select or just use 4 directions but if a game does use it as an 8-way pad its a bit rough. However, most shooters only use it for weapon select and even games that use it with 8 selections (like oblivion) I could not use all 8 directions with the standard pad either. So, I pretty much prefer the Onza d-pad. But I am sure for some games (fighting games) it may not be good. But I don't play those so for me, the d-pad is also a plus. The d-pad buttons are also in a true up/down direction unlike the standard controller which points sort of toe-in. The idea is that when you move you thumb its moving in an arch so up should be a bit to the left but I prefer a 100% straight up/down direction relative to the controller and not the arch of my thumb.
Things that could be better...
Why not wireless?: I don't mind the wire too much but its a shame that MS seems to not license out the wireless tech to 3rd party control makes (or its too expensive). Its nice to have to have batteries for at least on controller but its hard to get used to after using wireless for 5 years.
Full button remap: There are a number of odd limits on the L/R side buttons must map only to the same side. It would be better if you could map them anywhere. Being able to map all 4 bumpers would also be nice. Being able to map the d-pad too. Basically fully re-mappable 4 bumpers would be just one step better.
Triggers: These are not as comfortable as the standard triggers. I like the lighter throw on the triggers and I like that they extend out a bit more but because the extended part is thin and just a tab, it makes the trigger feel cheap and a bit uncomfortable. Basically, the trigger should feel like a single well-rounded trigger, not a trigger with a nub on the end. But this is by no means a deal-breaker. The triggers are good, just not as good as they could be.
Rumble: Rumble feel was not as good as standard controller. Better rumble with maybe a bit heavier weights would give it a better feel.
Enclosure: The plastic feels a bit cheap on the basic model. Maybe just a bit too thin and light.
I really like the base model. For 39$ its a very nice 3rd party controller with some extra features. If you don't like the extra bumbers you could just map the standard bumpers to both and you would still have a very nice controller. Its generally has a lighter pressure feel and is more responsive on all fronts (buttons, triggers, and sticks) and the dpad is certainly no worse. From what I hear, most people don't adjust the tension up on the pro-version so you may want to just go with the base model. Also, if you like to use the FPS Freeks definitely go with the base model because they don't fit well on the pro model. I really like this 3rd party stick and I highly recommend it to anyone looking for a controller with a lighter more responsive feel than the original.
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Boxee is a Bust HTPC Still Not Ready for Prime Time
Well, I did end up with the Boxee Box but after only a few weeks, returned it. It was pretty much 50% broken for watching internet content which was the main reason for getting one. So, look like the perfect internet media streamer for you TV is still no where to be found. All of the current contenders Apple, Google, Roku, Boxee, etc all have major issues.
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Google TV makes TV..... Complicated. I am getting a Boxee
Just saw a demo on the Google TV and I have to say, there is no way soccer moms and dads are going to use this thing. Its too complicated to get working with your cable box or satellite system and relies to heave on the browser interface. The whole thing is a half backed mess. I just don't see this thing becoming part of TV the way it is advertised. They are expecting this thing to be put directly into TVs, cable, and set top boxes? I don't see it.
For myself, I have been playing with (and even putting together an app) for the Boxee. This thing is cool. And even though I don't see this thing being too big, it has huge potential because, unlike the other internet streaming boxes, it is very easy to add all your RSS feeds to it and even write apps. Sure there are problems with licensing network content etc but once the providers realize that incorporating the ads into the stream itself is the only way to get people to watch it, they will do just that and these streaming players will take off in the popular market. Its already taking off as Netflix has already stated that they are now for all intent a video streaming service that just happens to rent physical DVDs.
And no one wants to have 10 different set top boxes for watching 10 different streaming services providers. Using a single, low energy streaming box that can provide multiple networks is the way of the future. I think Boxee is a first glimpse at doing it right. It will probably flowder and fail to sell but its a great piece of software that is closer to anything else at being able to provide many diffrent and changing internet TV channels in a simple and easy to understand way.
Xbox E82: Everything New is Old Again
E82. What is that? Do a Google search on "E82 Xbox" and you will quickly find out. Its a common error code on the new Xbox 360-S model. It basically means that there is a hardware error and that you Xbox 360 is now a big black brick! Sadly, I was foolish enough to think that the new 360 model would improve on the reliability issues that plague the Xbox but, for me, that is simply not the case.
I have owned 5 Xbox 360's. Four of which have succumb to hardware failures. I take excellent care of all my hardware. In the same period of time, I have owned only a single GameCube, one PS2, and two PCs, and numerous pieces of home entertainment equipment. The only other piece of hardware I had any where near as much trouble with is the Apple Mac-Mini. That crap PC died after about 3 months and its replacement (under warranty) died just after a year. I also had one PS3 that died after about 3 years.
So, now my new 360 Slim has died after only about 3 months of use. How do I feel? Disappointed to say the least. The only good news is that my last model, a Frankenstein 360 Arcade unit with an Elite 120G HDD is still alive and back in service under my TV. As loud and obnoxious as ever.
Man, I really like the S-Model. Its so quiet and has tons of space. Maybe after I return it for service, the replacement or repaired unit will last just a bit longer. Heck, the oldest one they can send me is 4 months old because its only been manufactured for that long. After 5 years of making the Xbox 360, you would think Microsoft would figure out how to make this thing. Sure, its made cheap but with all the die-shrinks and after losing what may be 1 billion dollars on all the RROD repairs and replacements you would think they could put their "best men" on creating a model that lasts more than a year. Certainly more than 3 months.
There is simply nothing left to say. The Xbox 360 is simply a piece of crap when it gets down to it and the S-Model is certainly no better, and maybe worse in terms of reliability than the earlier models. If you do that search "E82 Xbox" you will find a bout 180,000 results in 0.10 seconds. Just because I was curious I did a few more specific searches to see if I could find a trend....
+E82 +Xbox = 124,000
+E82 +Xbox +slim -arcade -elite = 12,500 (Slim Model has been out for 4 Months!)
+E82 +Xbox -slim +arcade -elite = 2,530
+E82 +Xbox -slim -arcade +elite = 4,500
Well, there may be nothing really evident here other than Google is a kick-ass search engine but I was shocked to see so many hits specificly against the Slim model since its been on the market for such a short period of time. Of course I suppose Google's search data may drop off after a while and old hits against the older models may just no longer be indexed. But still, these numbers are pretty scary for a console so young.
Anyway, I am still a fan of the Xbox and can't wait to get my Slim back from the repair shop. But I think we all just have to face it. Owning an Xbox is simply a heart wrenching experience. Its more expensive, time consuming, and frustrating to own than any other game console in history. That is simply a sad fact.
P.S. The PS3 is not that much better. The first PS3 was DOA from the store. The next one lasted 3 years (not terrible) and I now own the PS3 Slim.
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Today, I Give Up on the Wiimote
That's not to say there are not standout games on the Wii, but I have just finally come to the realization that even my favorite Wii games would be more enjoyable with a more comfortable controller and I can't take it anymore. The motion controls are actually not that bad and the pointing is decent. But the shape of the controller with hard edges that does not fit in your hand and lousy position and feel of the buttons... Its just horrible design. It sounds like this game tried to get away from that by using horizontal controls but then when you have to switch back to pointing that is clunky etc.
NOTE: This is not about Other M. In fact, the controls for that game are probably relatively good. My issues with the Wii controller go back a long way and using "Other M" to represent the last straw was probably not a good choice due to its non-conventional controls. And its not mentioned as a deterrent that often in the initial reviews. Later reviews will probably be a bit more critical. But my dislike of the Wiimote is as strong as ever and this game just made me think about it more.
Just played "Other M" for a little while. All I can say is, I was right, I don't like these controls one bit. The controls are certainly troublesome. Switching between the d-pad and the first person may be smooth as far as the graphical transition but its not that smooth in terms of the immersion of the game. It completely takes you out of the game and make you think about nothing but controls. I'm sure after a while it is less jarring but I was certainly annoyed by the controls in the first hour of play. But besides that, this game just feels clunky and not like the prime series to me. The story is so lame. You can't use your weapons because you're going to respect the implied order of a commander even though you are not part of the command and more than that, you are looked down upon by that group? WTF? You are a bounty hunger. So, story starts out pretty lame if you ask me. Also, the world and controls just make it feel like a brawler not an adventure game which I feel metroid must be. Anyway, that game may be polished but I must say, I am glad I did not buy this game because I feel like I may not even get into it.
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How state regulators design a carbon market to reach California's climate goals will be especially important to low-income and minority communities because they are disproportionately located in industrial areas, the study said.
For example, if oil refineries are allowed to buy carbon permits to avoid cutting emissions, there will few health benefits to the areas that need it most, the authors found. The same would be true if a cement plant paid money to plant trees in a forest hundreds of miles away as a way to continue current emission levels - a scenario envisioned by state regulators.
"Some polluters may maintain or increase their emissions, creating localized dirty-air hotspots even if there are regional greenhouse gas reductions overall," the authors wrote.
The report suggests California could cut harmful pollutants along with greenhouse gas emissions by doing one of the following:
• Require the plants that release the most greenhouse gases and other pollutants to cut their carbon emissions at that location.
• Limit trading of so-called carbon credits within certain dirty-air zones and neighborhoods.
• Impose a higher price for carbon credits in highly polluted neighborhoods so industries located there have more incentive to cut emissions.
• Give neighborhoods with the dirtiest air or significant socio-economic problems a share of the money generated from carbon fees. In turn, that money could be used to reduce air pollution even further, the report says.
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0.025487 | <urn:uuid:65c4d1fd-0f3a-4fdb-899a-20ab9f9be045> | en | 0.916384 | OPINION: Do accountants count too much in UK business?
There are certain enduring truths about business, and one of them is that for all the talk about cross-functional dialogue, the world can still be divided into the bean counters and the business builders.
There are certain enduring truths about business, and one of them
still be divided into the bean counters and the business builders.
Inside the latest edition of The Marketing Society’s journal, Market
Leader, there is an article setting out seven questions a marketing
director should ask the finance director and vice versa. The two
protagonists are Andrew Marsden, marketing director of Britvic Soft
Drinks, and Robert Lerwill, executive director of finance for Cable &
Wireless. It makes for depressing reading.
Depressing, because it reaffirms the fact that accountants still have
little clue the world has changed, that looking inward at costs is no
longer enough, and that organic growth does not come about through
busily counting your beans.
Sounds unfair? Here is the (slightly embellished) essence of the
questions the finance director had for his marketing counterpart:
Wouldn’t it be better to outsource marketing, because then the company
would have access to quality marketing advice -and probably better than
yours - at less cost?
How do you justify your activity? We accountants look for the
incremental revenues that result from projects. You marketing people, on
the other hand, try to snow us with ’proxy’ measures like market share
and awareness, which we then have to reconcile with our measuring
systems. Are you really responsible and accountable enough to grasp the
implications of what happens if we did put brands on the balance
The marketing director, Andrew Marsden, asks the finance director: What
are your plans for changing the way the company reports its results,
rather than carrying on with the same old accountancy measures? Are
accountants, who focus solely on tangible assets, the last of the
Just maybe it’s time accountants began to undergo the same sort of
scrutiny their marketing colleagues have been subjected to. A global
manufacturing study covering nearly 900 executives in 35 countries,
carried out by Deloitte Consulting, shows that companies described as
’customer-centric’ are 60% more profitable and more likely to exceed
their goals for growth and shareholder value and have lower operating
Customer-centric is more than a vague desire to satisfy customer
According to the study, companies which qualify set definite objectives
for customer loyalty and retention, and track performance. In other
words, customer-centric companies focus as much on external information
as internal.
Perhaps this obsession with bean counting to the exclusion of all else
is more of a UK-thing. As Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harvard Business School
professor, points out in the same issue of Market Leader, American
companies are financially managed just as tightly as those in the UK,
but in the UK the tendency has been to equate management with
accounting. Historically, the acquisition of financial expertise has
been considered the only real and worthwhile business training.
Companies where the bean counters rule, however, keep their eyes focused
on the costs of everything while understanding the value of nothing. And
that’s too bad because, inevitably, they end up with no beans to count
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• Movies
For 3,633 reviews, this publication has graded:
• 46% higher than the average critic
• 3% same as the average critic
• 51% lower than the average critic
Average Movie review score: 59
Highest review score: 100 Days of Being Wild (re-release)
Lowest review score: 0 People Like Us
Score distribution:
3,633 movie reviews
1. In what is surely a tribute to the dazzling mediocrity of director Luis Llosa, the real jungle looks as bland as the fake jungle.
3. A twisted, but not particularly clever, black comedy.
4. In its nearly two-hour running time, in its always lugubrious pace, in its almost complete absence of laughs, The Prince & Me is a comedy that plays like a tragedy. No stricken bodies, though, unless you count the ones in the audience slumped back in their seats -- perchance they slept.
5. Okay, it's just a movie, but his "reward" just doesn't cut it, even on a basic storytelling level. A crooked casino and a nephew's experiment with drugs are not enough justification for the hero's violent acts of vengeance.
6. The United States of Leland has a resonance of "Elephant" without the visual poetry or structural sophistication, or "American Beauty" without the leavening comedy, but it's neither an insightful nor well-made film.
8. An overemphatic revenge fantasy devoid of even a trace of excitement or wit.
9. The plot's not so hot -- it feels like it was jotted down by someone on an after-dinner napkin.
10. The net result is a few shaky laughs and one unwavering sensation -- that The Terminal is interminable.
12. With the performers given zilch to perform, the result is a picture that's all chassis and no engine, or, in the parlance of the genre, a bunch of pointy hats in search of a transporting broomstick.
13. There, in its midst, stands a freeze-dried Arthur -- stripped of his legend, shivering in the cold and wondering, like the rest of us, where in hell the magic went.
• 36 Metascore
• 38 Critic Score
The finale just seems hypocritical, even nonsensical in a comedy that derives its few laughs from a farting dog and an accidental gynecological exam. This book is better left closed.
14. A vigorously cross-marketed product, with comics, collectable cards, games and a television series.
15. The devil is back in Exorcist: The Beginning, and he is more disgusting than ever. Not more scary, just really yucky, in a kind of maggots-on-a-pizza-slice way.
16. A crashing bore.
17. Very little of it works.
19. [Law] talks straight to the camera like the young Michael Caine, but this time our hunk has got zilch to say. That's because a bastard's candour is off-limits in today's politically correct market — it just wouldn't be polite.
20. It's the perfect sort of movie to have playing on a television in the corner of a rec room during a low-key beer and pizza party.
21. They are singing the jingle in the bath, in bed, in the car, ready to send you, like George, smack into a tree.
22. Dull Blade just doesn't cut it.
23. The countdown begins with the first negative integer — an amped-up score that overpowers the proceedings like a bad band at a high-school dance.
24. It's possible to insult even a teenager's intelligence.
• 49 Metascore
• 38 Critic Score
26. Is Kazaam racist? In effect, yes. But it'sracism linked to bad marketing: You can't really mix a black-pride rap film with a revamped version of "Free Willie" and expect them to magically jibe.
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missing cover art
Published by
Developed by
100 point score based on reviews from various critics.
5 point score based on user ratings.
Art Style: light trax Credits
light trax Staff Credits
Executive ProducerSatoru Iwata
ProducersKensuke Tanabe, Hiroshi Suzuki
SupervisorsYoshihito Ikebata, Kazuyuki Gofuku
DirectionKeita Etoh
ProgrammingYasuo Kuwahara
Graphic DesignMasahiro Yasuda, Yohei Kikuchi
Sound DesignHiromichi Fujiwara
Planning AssistanceHiroaki Ishibashi, Jun Sasaki
Programming AssistanceFumihiro Kanaya, Yoshikazu Fujita, Katsuaki Miyata
Graphic‑Design AssistanceKayoko Ito, Kouichi Mikado
Sound‑Design AssistanceKazuomi Suzuki
CoordinationToshihiko Okamoto, Norihide Sasaki
Project ManagementKeisuke Terasaki
Product ManagementSayuri Yajima, Miki Tashiro
Technical SupportYoshito Yasuda, Hironobu Kakui
ArtworkTakanao Kondo, Yoshinori Oda, Kazuma Norisada
North American Localization
Localization ManagementLeslie Swan, Daniel Owsen
LocalizationMichael Barry, Bill Hutchens
DebugNOA Product Testing
Other Games
Satoru Iwata, 287 other games
Leslie Swan, 149 other games
Kensuke Tanabe, 87 other games
Hironobu Kakui, 84 other games
Keisuke Terasaki, 57 other games
Yoshito Yasuda, 49 other games
Hiroshi Suzuki, 40 other games
Daniel Owsen, 30 other games
Yoshihito Ikebata, 26 other games
Takanao Kondo, 14 other games
Toshihiko Okamoto, 13 other games
Yoshinori Oda, 13 other games
Yasuo Kuwahara, 12 other games
Norihide Sasaki, 12 other games
Kazuma Norisada, 11 other games
Keita Etoh, 10 other games
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Yoshikazu Fujita, 9 other games
Sayuri Yajima, 9 other games
Masahiro Yasuda, 8 other games
Kazuyuki Gofuku, 8 other games
Hiroaki Ishibashi, 7 other games
Fumihiro Kanaya, 7 other games
Kouichi Mikado, 4 other games
Katsuaki Miyata, 4 other games
Orbient, a group of 22 people
Dotstream, a group of 17 people
Rotohex, a group of 15 people
Soundvoyager, a group of 15 people
Boundish, a group of 14 people
Coloris, a group of 14 people
Super Smash Bros.: Brawl, a group of 8 people
Chibi-Robo!: Park Patrol, a group of 8 people
Mario vs. Donkey Kong 2: March of the Minis, a group of 7 people
Pushmo, a group of 7 people
Chibi-Robo!: Plug into Adventure!, a group of 7 people
Star Fox Assault, a group of 7 people
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, a group of 6 people
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D, a group of 6 people
Metroid Prime, a group of 6 people
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, a group of 6 people
Pilotwings Resort, a group of 6 people
Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards, a group of 5 people
Mario Kart 7, a group of 5 people
Geist, a group of 5 people
Custom Robo Arena, a group of 5 people
Pokémon Stadium 2, a group of 5 people
Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!, a group of 5 people
Super Paper Mario, a group of 5 people
Wii Sports, a group of 5 people
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This weekend, it's time for the Copenhagen dealmakers to hear from… you.
| Fri Dec. 11, 2009 6:29 PM GMT
Nearly two decades after writing a book that popularized the term "global warming," MoJo contributing writer Bill McKibben founded 350.org. He is chronicling his journey into organizing with a series of columns about the global climate summit in Copenhagen. You can find the others hereCheck out MoJo's live stream of collaborative Copenhagen coverage here.
The various parties to the climate change debate have been staking out their positions over the last week. They go something like this.
The US: We're not going to do much, and China better do a lot.
China: Wha??
In the midst of this potential trainwreck, a moment of deep sanity arrived yesterday, when the Alliance of Small Island States, which is an association of small nations surrounded on all sides by water, and the water is rising, introduced a draft of a real treaty that would actually do something about climate change. It called for swift action to reduce carbon levels in the atmosphere to 350 ppm—which would be hard as hell to accomplish. It would require putting the planet on a wartime footing, and spending twenty years devoting most public effort to speeding the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy. It would require diverting money from other things, like, say, military budgets. And all we'd get in return is what we already have, or used to: a working planet.
It's such a sensible idea that it will probably be enough to unite China and the US and the other "great powers" in stamping it out—there are already hair-curling rumors of the kind of pressure and enticement being put on small nations to cave before they embarrass the carbon culprits.
But before that happens, there is one more party staking out its position that weekend, and that's civil society. The rest of us. People.
The media will focus on the big march in Copenhagen today, which is expected to draw tens of thousands. (I spent the other night at the art warehouse that 350.org is running on the edge of town, and can predict that the parade is going to look very cool, though I can also predict that the media will focus all its attention on how many folks show up in black hoodies to fight with the police).
But the more important mobilization is going on in thousands of places around the world. A coalition of groups—Tcktcktck, Avaaz, 350, Oxfam, and so on—has been organizing candlelight vigils in every corner of the world. They're a way for people to express their incredibly deep hopes for progress from these talks, hope that I hear in dozens and dozens of emails a day from every point of the compass. And it's a way to send a message to the delegates here. If you're a brave nation, we've got your back—Tuvalu may lack an army but for the weekend it's got one spread out across the earth. If you're a "leader" that's passing the buck, we notice. We may not be able to stop you, but we understand what's going on, and exactly what it means.
By Monday we'll have young people holding hundreds of images of those candlelight vigils inside the conference hall. Maybe they'll cast a little reflected glow in the gathering gloom.
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There are no moving parts in cpu so there is nothing to wear down.
I gotta go with seagate. Their reliability is top notch, although the preformance might not be high as some other drives. Hitachi, which previously was IBM seem to be making good drives now after the deathstar problems, but I still dont trust them. Maxtor and WD are meh, they've made improvments since but the reliablity still sucks IMO. Though they do have high throughput and low latency drives like the Diamond Max and Raptor series. The most important thing im my book is...
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Image formats like jpeg, gif, and png are independent of the operating system the are created on. Have you tried using gimp to convert the to one of the image formats. The only reason I can think of for an image upload to fail is because the file your uploading is not really in one of those formats. I know in PHP you can obtain the meta information of the file and get the actual format regardless of what extension it is. So if all your doing is renaming the ending...
X264 is a codec you can use to encode its a free open source version of H.264. As for encoders check out the ones that are made for PSPs they are made to encode to mpeg4 and H.264 though they are for the psp they might still work for ipod video. Im also sure that within the next few weeks there will be encoders written specificly for the IPod just like the PSP.
Pentium M processors are some of the best mobile processors on the market now. They are designed to run with less power then desktops and gives you longer battery life. Turion are good processors too designed along the same lines. However, i think with centrino branding, that's intels marketing scheme to give odms discounts on hardware if they buy most of the componets intel. Pentium M systems are sometimes cheeper. As for programming any laptop you buy will prolly be...
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E17 is freakin awesome. The visual effects they have are pretty amazing espcially since they dont use the composite extension. I'm partial to fvwm2 myself, but it takes a while to get it looking pretty. Once you do tho, it can emulate the functions of any of wm pratically.
have you tested the laptops on other wireless networks to make sure its not your routers fault? Also how many computers are we talking about? I there might be a limit on how many wireless connections can be established on a single access point. I think cisco stuff is limited to 32 concurrent connections, but i dont know about DLink.
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Let us know if you decide to upgrade to Mini PCI WiFi Adapter at the same time as the processor upgrade. pir
The main difference between the eMachines M6805/M6809 versus Compaq R3000 is the Chipset+Video Adapter. The M680x laptops will run circles around the R3000 in video performance, the nVidia GeForce 4 (CPQ R3000) is outdated and will not handle DX9 applications like the Radeon 9600 Adapter in the M680x notebooks. R3000 ------ Pros: 1) Touchpad Ergonomics, your palms will always remain somewhere on the laptop . If you use the notebook on your lap, your hands will...
Wow! Nice Laptop...Very Nice Indeed. Pir
How are the new rubberize palm wrests? I borrowed my friends M6805 and using the touchpad (while laptop was sitting on lap), my wrists started aching as if no where to rest my wrists on the edge of the laptop bezel... Do the new palm wrests server for functional purposes? pir
My local BB has several in stock TODAY (04-16) for $1649 w/-$100 rebate.
WereShark modded his 6805 using a 3400+ DTR Processor, yes, I can see something like this performing badly due to thermal reasons. I'd like to see real benchmarks from someone using a 6809, my local BB has several in stock today.
Now to find someone that's replaced the wifi card with a 802.11g (Intel or Dell) to see if it works properly. pir
One last question, what is your opinion of the lcd panel? did yours have any dead pixels - this laptop has everything I've been looking for...and them some! =) Thanks, Pir
What was your wait time on this laptop? I'll order one immediately if it's less than 2-weeks... nice pricing for a high-end system. Thanks - Pir
http://www.synaptics.com/support/downloads.cfm#drivers - for the latest synaptics touchpad drivers. pir
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I have been described as "eccentric" and "data-shaman". I suppose this means I don't quite fit in this world.
I've always been an introvert who defines his existence by his own terms rather than generally-accepted categories. This also means that I still have issues with narrow-minded and normative people even though I now tolerate and understand them much better than a decade ago.
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In Autumn 2012, I semi-accidentally established something quite improbable for this era, a paper-based magazine focusing on computational subcultures. It still doesn't pay my rent, however, although I believe it will in a year or two.
Most of my online fame comes from the algorithmic art I'm involved with (demoscene) as well as some artistic trolling projects of the past. In some circles, I'm regarded as a genius, but I'm unsure whether I should agree with this diagnosis.
My current ambitions are at developing a public voice, especially by writing. I've spent a great deal of my entire life thinking and philosophizing, but I still haven't found a good way to present my deepest ideas to larger masses.
I'm also planning to downshift my life even more by increasing the portion of self-sufficiency.
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I don't define myself or other people by cultural preferences. Still, my preferences tend to be rather strange, and my style of cultural consumption is sparse but deep.
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- What kind of fractals sound catchiest when interpreted as music, and how can I find them?
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- Why is it fun to imagine sci-fi settings when walking in the wilderness even though Nature surely is fascinating enough on its own?
- Is it possible to develop "superhuman" mental abilities with specifically tailored video games or constructed languages?
- How much is it possible to reduce the size of the overgrown material economy while increasing people's well-being at the same time?
- Is there anything that our Western civilization can learn from how squids and octopuses experience the world?
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Melanoma Differentiation-Associated Gene 5 (MDA5) Is Involved in the Innate Immune Response to Paramyxoviridae Infection In Vivo
• Leonid Gitlin equal contributor,
equal contributor Contributed equally to this work with: Leonid Gitlin, Loralyn Benoit
• Loralyn Benoit equal contributor,
Affiliation: Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
• Christina Song,
• Marina Cella,
• Susan Gilfillan,
• Michael J. Holtzman,
Affiliations: Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
• Marco Colonna mail
• Published: January 22, 2010
• DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1000734
The early host response to pathogens is mediated by several distinct pattern recognition receptors. Cytoplasmic RNA helicases including RIG-I and MDA5 have been shown to respond to viral RNA by inducing interferon (IFN) production. Previous in vitro studies have demonstrated a direct role for MDA5 in the response to members of the Picornaviridae, Flaviviridae and Caliciviridae virus families ((+) ssRNA viruses) but not to Paramyxoviridae or Orthomyxoviridae ((−) ssRNA viruses). Contrary to these findings, we now show that MDA5 responds critically to infections caused by Paramyxoviridae in vivo. Using an established model of natural Sendai virus (SeV) infection, we demonstrate that MDA5−/− mice exhibit increased morbidity and mortality as well as severe histopathological changes in the lower airways in response to SeV. Moreover, analysis of viral propagation in the lungs of MDA5−/− mice reveals enhanced replication and a distinct distribution involving the interstitium. Though the levels of antiviral cytokines were comparable early during SeV infection, type I, II, and III IFN mRNA expression profiles were significantly decreased in MDA5−/− mice by day 5 post infection. Taken together, these findings indicate that MDA5 is indispensable for sustained expression of IFN in response to paramyxovirus infection and provide the first evidence of MDA5-dependent containment of in vivo infections caused by (−) sense RNA viruses.
Author Summary
The innate immune system possesses an array of sensory molecules which are purposed in detecting viral nucleic acids. Our understanding of how these molecular sensors detect viral nucleic acids continues to evolve. Herein, we demonstrate that MDA5, a member of the RIG-I-like receptor family, is involved in the detection of paramyxovirus infection in vivo. Specifically, MDA5 appears to trigger antiviral cytokines that inhibit paramyxovirus replication. In this regard, mice that are deficient in MDA5 are unable to express sustained levels of these cytokines and thus succumb to extensive viral propagation and disease. Our findings are largely discordant from previous in vitro studies using cultured cells, where it has been shown that RIG-I and not MDA5 is involved in the innate response to negative sense RNA viruses. Thus, our data provides strong evidence of MDA5-based detection of negative sense RNA viruses, and furthermore underscore the importance of organism-based analysis of the innate system.
Innate pathogen sensors detect viral products and respond by initiating a signaling cascade that leads to rapid anti-viral response involving secretion of type I IFNs (i.e. IFN-α and IFN-β) and inflammatory cytokines (i.e. IL-6 and TNF-α) [1]. In particular, type I IFNs restrict infection by inhibiting viral replication within cells and by stimulating the innate and adaptive immune responses. Once induced, secreted IFN-α and IFN-β bind to the IFNα receptor on the cell surface in an autocrine or paracrine manner. Activation of this receptor initiates the JAK/STAT signal transduction pathways [2],[3] and the expression of IFN-inducible genes [4]. These gene products increase the cellular resistance to viral infection and sensitize virally-infected cells to apoptosis [5]. In addition, type I IFNs directly activate DC and NK cells, and promote effector functions of T and B cells, thus providing a link between the innate response to infection and the adaptive immune response [6],[7].
Several viral sensors have been identified that belong to the Toll-like receptor (TLR) and RIG-I like receptor (RLR) families [8]. TLRs are expressed on the cell surface and/or in endosomal compartments [9]. TLR3 recognizes double stranded RNA (dsRNA), a molecular pattern associated with replication of single stranded RNA (ssRNA) viruses as well as the genomic RNA of dsRNA viruses [10]. TLR7 and TLR8 recognize ssRNA [9],[11],[12], whereas TLR9 recognizes unmethylated CpG-containing DNA [13]. RLRs are cytoplasmic proteins that recognize viral nucleic acids that have gained access to the cytosol [14][19]. The RLR family consists of three known members: retinoic acid-inducible gene I (RIG-I), melanoma differentiation-associated gene 5 (MDA5), and LGP2. RIG-I and MDA5 both contain a DExD/H box helicase domain that binds dsRNA, a C-terminal domain and two N-terminal caspase recruitment domains (CARDs) that are involved in signaling [8],[17],[20],[21]. LGP2 contains a helicase domain but lacks the CARDs, and its precise contribution to antiviral signaling remains ambiguous [17],[22].
Though RIG-I and MDA5 share common downstream signaling via activation of IPS-1 (also called MAVS, VISA or Cardif) and IRF3 [23][26], these helicases exhibit distinct substrate specificity. In this regard, RIG-I has been shown to preferentially recognize ssRNA that is phosphorylated at the 5′ end [27],[28] and dsRNA molecules which are relatively short [29][31]. In contrast, MDA5 recognizes long dsRNAs but does not discern 5′ phosphorylation[30],[32],[33]. This distinct ligand preference has been shown to confer specific recognition of individual viruses: RIG-I has been shown to detect Influenza A and B viruses, paramyxovirus, vesicular stomatitis virus (all (−) ssRNA virues) and some Flaviviruses ((+) ssRNA viruses including Japanese encephalitis virus, Hepatitis C virus and West Nile virus)[16],[33],[34]. In comparison, MDA5 has been shown to selectively detect (+) ssRNA viruses including picornaviruses (encephalomyocarditis virus, Mengo virus and Theilers virus) [32],[33], Caliciviridae (murine norovirus-1) [35], and Flaviridae (West Nile Virus and Dengue Virus) [34],[36]. Accordingly, it is believed that the presence of different classes of sensors may reflect the need for multiple mechanisms to effectively control the wide variety of viral pathogens.
Paramyxoviruses are (−) ssRNA viruses that are responsible for a number of human diseases including those caused by measles, mumps, parainfluenza virus and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). Importantly, infections caused by paramyxoviruses are the most frequent cause of serious respiratory illness in childhood and are associated with an increased risk of asthma [37],[38]. Sendai virus (SeV) is a murine parainfluenza virus which causes an acute respiratory disease in mice that resembles severe paramyxoviral bronchiolitis found in humans following RSV infection [39]. To date, RIG-I is the only dsRNA sensor that has been implicated in the veritable detection of paramyxoviruses [33],[40]. The importance of RIG-I in the containment of SeV infection is underscored by capacity of SeV C proteins to directly antagonize RIG-I signaling [41] in addition to their ability to inhibit IFN signal transduction [42],[43]. However, paramyxovirus-encoded V proteins are known to directly interfere with MDA5 function by blocking binding of dsRNA [14],[44], thus implicating MDA5 in the containment of paramyxovirus infection as well. In addition, SeV defective interfering (DI) particles have been shown to engage MDA5 in vitro [45], though the in vivo relevancy of this detection mode is unknown. Thus, to determine whether MDA5 functions during natural infection with paramyxovirus in vivo, we assessed mice deficient in MDA5 (MDA5−/− mice) following respiratory tract infection with SeV.
Infection with SeV causes increased morbidity and mortality in MDA5−/− mice
In order to assess an in vivo role for MDA5 in containment of paramyxovirus infection, we infected MDA5−/− mice with Sendai virus (SeV). Mice on a C57BL/6 (B6) background were selected for these experiments as the 129 strain is lethally susceptible to SeV at extremely low inocula [46], thus prohibiting assessment of loss of MDA5 function on this background. A dose of 200,000 pfu was administered to mice by intranasal delivery, an infection method that typically results in acute, non-lethal bronchiolitis in B6 mice. As a gross determinant of virus-induced morbidity, % body weight for infected WT and MDA5−/− mice was monitored for 2 weeks post infection (PI). Though essentially identical % weight loss values were observed up until day 8 PI; onwards, weight loss in MDA5−/− mice was significantly more severe (p<0.05) (Figure 1A). Correspondingly, histological analysis of lung sections obtained from day 12 PI MDA5−/− mice revealed consolidation of the lung parenchyma as well as notable PAS-positive airway cells, an indication of mucus hyper-secretion (Figure 1B). Severe histopathology was not observed in the lung sections obtained from control mice at this time point. In addition, we compared survival following increasing inocula of SeV (Figure 1C). Though MDA5−/− mice were not susceptible to the 200K pfu SeV dose, MDA5−/− mice fully succumbed to 400K and 600K pfu SeV, between 9–14 days PI. In contrast, control mice were fully resistant to the 400K pfu dose, though 40% mortality was observed for controls infected with the 600K dose. Thus MDA5−/− mice exhibit enhanced morbidity and susceptibility to SeV infection relative to control mice.
Figure 1. Infection with SeV causes increased morbidity and mortality in MDA5−/− mice.
WT and MDA5−/− mice were infected with 200K pfu SeV and assessed for A) loss of body weight over the PI period and B) mucus production (PAS reactivity). C) WT and MDA5−/− mice were infected with 200K, 400K and 600K pfu SeV and assessed for viability. N = 4–16 mice, error bars refer to SEM, * P≤0.05.
To more fully assess SeV susceptibility, we extended our analysis of the histological changes seen in the lungs of SeV-infected MDA5−/− mice. H&E stained sections obtained from day 2 PI (not shown) and day 5 PI (Figure 2A) lungs demonstrated similar patterns of bronchiolitis, though peribronchiolar lymphoid cuffing that formed in the lungs of control mice appeared moderately thicker and more densely populated than those of MDA5−/− mice (Figure 2A). FACS analysis of lung-derived leukocytes at d2, d5, and d8 PI revealed no significant differences in lymphoid and myeloid subpopulations (neutrophils, cDC, macrophage and alveolar macrophage; data not shown). Significantly, at d5 and d8 PI, FACS analysis revealed equal relative numbers of lymphoid subpopulations (CD3+, CD19+ and NK1.1+); CD69 expression profiles on these subsets were comparable between strains (data not shown). By d8-9 PI, significant pathology was observed in the lungs of SeV-infected MDA5−/− mice (Figure 2A), despite the fact that comparable numbers of SeV-specific CTL were generated in both strains at this time point (Figure 2B). Grossly, lungs dissected from SeV-infected MDA5−/− mice exhibited enhanced areas of hemorrhage relative to control lungs (data not shown). Microscopic analysis revealed epithelial cells that were notably hyperplastic with abundant micropapillary projections. Additionally, severe bronchointerstitial pneumonia was observed, with alveolar walls adjacent to affected airways thickened and congested with chronic inflammatory cell infiltrates and hyperplastic type II pneumocytes, a lung injury pattern consistent with SeV susceptibility [46],[47]. In comparison, sections obtained from control mice at these later time points exhibited moderate changes to the airway epithelium and mild interstitial infiltration (Figure 2A).
Figure 2. Increased histopathology in MDA5−/− mice.
A) H&E micrographs of lung sections obtained from WT and MDA5−/− mice infected with 400K pfu SeV on d5, d9, d12 PI. B) FACS analysis of lymphocytes derived from the lungs of WT and MDA5−/− mice, uninfected (top panels) and d5 post infected (bottom panels) stained with anti-CD8 and H-2Kb: FAPGNYPAL pentamer.
MDA5−/− mice demonstrate increased susceptibility to SeV propagation
As susceptibility to SeV infection correlates with increased viral burden [48], we next assessed viral replication in wild type and MDA5−/− mice using a combined approach of real-time PCR analysis and specific staining for SeV antigens. Initially, at d2 PI, IF staining of viral antigens in lung sections appeared comparable between the two strains. By d5 PI, SeV antigens exhibited restrained expression in the airways of control mice (Figure 3A top of panel). In contrast, the bronchioles of MDA5−/− mice remained notably positive for SeV antigens at this time point (Figure 3A bottom of panel). More striking however, was the observation that parenchyma tissues proximal to infected airways stained conspicuously for SeV antigens in MDA5−/− mice at d5 PI. In SeV resistant strains of mice, SeV infection is typically restricted to the mucociliary epithelium of the conducting airways, including the trachea, bronchi and bronchioles [49],[50]. Viral replication that extends to the alveolar spaces is a feature commonly seen in susceptible strains of mice [51]. Accordingly, this pattern of infection supports a role for MDA5 in controlling the replication of SeV during in vivo infection.
Figure 3. SeV replication is enhanced in MDA5−/− mice.
WT and MDA5−/− mice infected with 200K pfu SeV were assessed for A) SeV replication by IF detection of SeV antigens and by real time PCR analysis of B) SeV genome and C) SeV N gene expression. N = 4, error bars refer to SEM, * P<0.05; ** P<0.005.
To confirm this finding, we measured viral RNA levels from WT and MDA5−/− mice infected with 200K pfu SeV using real-time PCR analysis. Assessment was made using primer/probe sets designed to amplify SeV genome (3′ untranslated region) and SeV N gene (genomic and transcript) (Figure 3B and C). Using this strategy, an approximate 5 fold increase in SeV genome copy number/Gapdh mRNA was detected on d5 PI, though significant differences were also observed on d2 and d8 PI. Analysis of N gene revealed ~2 fold increase in expression on days 2 and 5, though there were no significant differences by d8 PI. Thus it appears that MDA5 contributes in part to the containment of SeV replication in vivo.
Cytokine response to SeV infection is altered in MDA5−/− mice
Though SeV is a potent inducer of type I IFN in the mouse, functioning via several distinct pathways, it possesses several mechanisms by which it can counteract the IFN response. Despite this property, induction of IFN expression [14],[52], particularly type I and II, is critical in the containment of SeV infection in vivo as underscored by the profound SeV susceptibility seen for mice deficient in STAT1−/− mice [53]. As MDA5 is known to induce expression of type I IFN in vitro in response to polyI:C stimulation and viral infection [17], we sought to directly assess the ability of MDA5−/− mice to express IFN in response to SeV infection. In this regard, WT and MDA5−/− mice were infected with 200K pfu SeV and subsequently assessed for cytokine expression by real-time PCR analysis over the acute period. While both strains demonstrated comparable mRNA levels at d2 PI, type I IFN expression was dramatically dampened in MDA5−/− mice at d5 PI (Figure 4A and B). Unexpectedly, significant decreases in expression of Ifn-γ, Il-28b (Ifn-λ3) and Tnf-α mRNA were also observed in the lungs of MDA5−/− mice compared to the WT cohort, with the most dramatic difference observed for Il-28b mRNA expression (Figure 4C, D and E). In contrast, Il-1β, and Il-10 mRNA levels were not significantly different across strains, though the levels of Il-6 mRNA was markedly increased in MDA5−/− mice following infection (Figure 4F, G and H). Accordingly, MDA5 appears to control the expression of SeV-induced anti-viral cytokines, particularly type I, II and III IFNs, during the late acute period (d5 PI), but does not appear to be involved during the immediate early response. Importantly, the decrease in IFN expression coincides with expanded viral propagation in the MDA5−/− mice, suggesting that reduced IFN expression during this time point accounts for the corresponding increased viral burden.
Figure 4. MDA5 is required for sustained expression of cytokines in response to SeV infection.
Real time PCR analysis of whole lung homogenates obtained from WT and MDA5−/− mice infected with 200K pfu SeV for expression levels of A) Ifn-α2, B) Ifn-β, C) Ifn-γ, D) Il-28b, E) Tnf-α, F) Il-1β, G) Il-6 and H) Il-10 mRNA. N = 4, error bars refer to SEM, * P<0.05, ** P<0.00001.
Induction of IFN expression transactivates expression of a number of IFN response genes through a signal transduction cascade involving JAK/STAT activation. MDA5 and RIG-I are among the genes induced by IFN signaling in vitro [20]. To determine the expression profile of MDA5 and RIG-I in the airways of mice infected with SeV, mRNA was measured by real-time PCR analysis from whole lung homogenates obtained from WT mice infected with 200K pfu SeV. Expression of Mda5 and Rig-i mRNA was significantly increased at d2 and d5 PI, though the levels began to decline by d8 PI (Figure 5A). Lastly, to determine the tissue distribution of MDA5 expression, lung sections from d5 PI mice were stained with anti-MDA5 polyclonal antibodies. Visualization of MDA5-specific staining was performed using tyramide-based amplification. IF microscopic analysis of affected airways revealed a pattern of MDA5 expression that was primarily restricted to the airway epithelium, though expression was also detected in cells of the proximal interstitum, in particular, in cells that appeared to resemble type II pneumocytes and alveolar macrophage (Figure 5B). Sections from MDA5−/− mice did not stain for MDA5, confirming the specificity of anti-MDA5 staining. Accordingly these findings indicate that MDA5 is induced following SeV infection and that the lack of expression in MDA5−/− mice accounts for the phenotype described at the later time point.
Figure 5. Infection with SeV results in induction of antiviral sensor expression.
A) Analysis of Mda5 and Rig-I mRNA expression in WT mice during the acute SeV infection period as determined by real-time PCR analysis. B) Micrographs taken of lung sections obtained from WT and MDA5−/− mice infected with 200K pfu SeV and stained for MDA5 expression. N = 4, error bars refer to SEM, * P<0.05.
Our understanding of innate immune factors that recognize and respond to pathogens has greatly expanded over the last decade. A major component of the RNA virus detection system in mammals involves members of the RLR family, including RIG-I, MDA5, and LGP2 [1]. Elucidating a role for the RLRs in virus-induced IFN production has been facilitated by the availability of RIG-I−/− and MDA5−/− mice [32],[33]. Initial observations using embryonic fibroblasts and bone marrow derived DCs generated from these mice revealed striking phenotypes including a failure to produce IFN in response to a wide cross-section of viruses and nucleic acids, and an inability to contain viral replication. Specifically, MDA5 was found to be the sole receptor for picornaviruses and caliciviruses ((+) ssRNA viruses) [32],[33],[35], whereas RIG-I was described as the receptor for (−) ssRNA viruses such as paramyxoviruses and orthomyxoviruses, as well as for (+) ssRNA viruses belonging to the Flaviridae family [16],[33]. However, our understanding of these virus recognition systems in vivo is limited, in part because RIG-I−/− mice die perinatally.
The precise molecular patterns of virus replication recognized by RIG-I and MDA5 are still not fully clear. Initially, a mimic of viral dsRNA, polyI:C, was found to bind and activate RIG-I. However, ensuing research identified 5′-triphosphate-linked ssRNA as the major RIG-I inducer [27],[28]. Furthermore, in vitro data obtained using knockout mice suggested in fact that MDA5, and not RIG-I, recognizes polyI:C, thereby formulating a recognition model whereby RIG-I recognizes short 5′-triphosphorylated RNAs, while MDA5 recognizes dsRNA structures irrespective of the 5′ cap [8], [30][32]. However, more thorough dissection of the helicase binding function and activation process has recently determined that the picture is indeed more complex than previously thought [29],[40]. In this regard, both helicases have been shown to recognize dsRNA, in a manner that is likely dependent on its length, while RIG-I demonstrates the added ability to respond to 5′-triphosphate ssRNA products. To complicate these paradigms, there is increasing evidence that viruses have evolved various properties aimed at antagonizing or degrading viral sensors. Thus, our understanding of viral recognition by the RLR helicases is evolving.
With respect to molecular sensing of paramyxovirus infection, both 5′-triphosphorylated ssRNA and long dsRNA species are likely present in SeV-infected cells, thereby implicating both MDA5 and RIG-I in the antiviral sensing process. However, in vitro studies concur that cultured embryonic fibroblasts and bone marrow-derived DC cells detect SeV RNA chiefly through RIG-I, whereas MDA5 and TLR3 are dispensable [33],[34],[41],[54]. TLR7 and TLR8 in myeloid cells have also been shown to recognize SeV RNA in vitro as well [55]. Regardless, it cannot be excluded that in vivo, other RNA sensors, including MDA5, may contribute, at least in part, to anti-SeV responses. Indeed, a recent study by Yount et al. has demonstrated that MDA5 can detect SeV DI particles in vitro [45]. The relevancy of this recognition system in vivo is uncertain; certainly in our hands, using SeV/52, which has a limited ability to form DI particles, as per PCR-based analysis (data not shown), MDA5 appears to exert a significant effect on viral containment. Most importantly however, SeV encodes a V protein that specifically binds to and blocks MDA5 signaling in vitro [14],[44]. Thus, it is possible that MDA5 does, indeed, detect SeV in vitro, but that it is functionally curtailed by the V protein in this circumstance. Interestingly, in our hands, in vivo infections using SeV with V protein deletion resulted in no real effect on mortality or type I IFN induction across strains (data not shown), likely explained by the fact that deletion of V protein in SeV markedly attenuates virulence and pathogenicty in vivo [56].
While initial characterization of MDA5-deficient cells has not supported a role for MDA5 in containment of SeV, these studies have been limited to observations made in cultured embryonic fibroblasts and in vitro-derived dendritic cells; populations which are not primary targets for SeV replication in the course of the natural infection. Rather, SeV replication mostly occurs in the airway epithelium of the conducting airways [49],[50]. For these reasons, we hypothesized that SeV propagation would be sensitive to the MDA5 status of the host in the context of an in vivo infection. Indeed, the epithelial cells constitutively express MDA5 at low levels and subsequently up-regulate expression in response to SeV (Figure 5B), a finding that supports the relevance of this RNA helicase to SeV and other airborne infections. Interestingly, MDA5 deficiency did not influence the composition of the inflammatory infiltrate (data not shown), implying that the immune defect is largely restricted to the airway epithelium, the site of viral replication. This is compatible with our earlier findings using STAT-1−/− chimeras, wherein we observed that loss of IFN response in the stromal compartment alone accounted for the immune deficiency to SeV [53]. We therefore sought to further assess the significance of MDA5 in the control of SeV infection in vivo. In this regard we have demonstrated that MDA5 controls SeV replication and spread through induction of type I IFNs, but that this effect appears late (d5 PI), as IFN gene transcription is not impaired on d2 PI (Figure 4). It is likely that the initial IFN response is sufficient to initiate a range of immune responses, such that the late reduction in IFN transcripts results only in a 2–3 fold change in LD50 (Figure 1). Whether this specific IFN pattern remains true for other viruses as well remains to be tested. This surprising collapse of the host type I IFN response at d5 PI is accompanied by parallel decreases in the level of Il-28b and Tnf-α expression (Figure 4), and, curiously, decreased Ifn-γ transcript levels. This later observation may reflect a selective role for MDA5 in the induction of IFN-γ expression by NK cells. Lastly, the MDA5 status does not appear to influence the levels of IL-1β, or IL-10 or the ability of the host to mount a virus-specific CTL response. However, the levels of Il-6 mRNA in whole lung homogenates derived from d2 and d5 PI MDA5−/− was markedly increased, suggesting the induction of compensatory mechanisms in the context of MDA5 deficiency that could potentially account for the enhanced morbidity and mortality seen in the MDA5−/− mice.
An additional concern raised by these data is the relative contribution of MDA5 and RIG-I in the response to virus. In light of the existing literature [33],[40], it seems likely that RIG-I is responsible for the normal IFN response to SeV early in the infection. Indeed, as depicted in Figure 5A, RIG-I is strongly induced early on during infection. Why the later IFN response depends on MDA5 is not known. MDA5 is encoded by an IFN-upregulated transcript, and it remains possible that it is the accumulation of MDA5 that allows for the subsequent MDA5-dependent IFN response on d5 PI. Yet other IFN-induced genes, notably RIG-I, are also upregulated by IFN, which should provide additional antiviral protection in vivo. Interestingly, SeV encodes a nested set of C proteins that have been shown to impede IFN signaling through direct inhibition of STAT signaling [41],[42] and which are also known to strongly antagonize RIG-I function [41]. Furthermore, SeV-V proteins have been shown to have direct inhibitory effects on both MDA5 and RIG-I signaling [41],[44]. Thus it remains possible that the effects of SeV V and C proteins have an accumulative effect on RIG-I function that essentially overwhelms this sensor at d5 PI, and that in this context, MDA5 plays an essential role in containment of SeV. Since assessment of the relative contribution of RIG-I and MDA5 in containment of SeV infection in vivo is not possible, a possible next step in assessing the importance of MDA5 function would involve assessment in MDA5−/− and IPS-1−/− strains.
We envision several possibilities that could potentially explain this dramatic effect of MDA5. The first is that, in the absence of MDA5, the balance between virus replication and the IFN response is disrupted sufficiently, such that by d5 PI, virus replication has overwhelmed the response in a qualitative fashion –presumably through direct cytotoxic effects or via the overproduction of immunosuppressive C proteins. This possibility is supported by the fact that SeV is replicating to higher levels in the MDA5−/− lung already by d2 PI (Figure 3B). Indeed, in support of this hypothesis, we observe a striking increase in SeV replication that spreads extensively into the interstitium of MDA5−/− lungs compared to controls. Another possible explanation, which we have not assessed, is an apoptotic response potentially mediated by MDA5. In this scenario, MDA5 would instruct or sensitize infected cells to commit suicide so as to shut down viral replication in infected cells. Indeed, ectopic expression of MDA5 in a melanoma cell line has been shown to inhibit colony formation, presumably through induction of apoptosis [20], and IPS-1 overexpression induces cell death, as well [57]. In fact, SeV-dependent apoptotic signaling requires IRF3 [58]. In the case of MDA5 deficiency, loss of pro-apoptotic activity could lead to a robust increase in viral replication and enhanced IFN blockade through overexpression of SeV C proteins. This possibility is favored by the fact that, despite a normal IFN response on d2 PI (Figure 4), the virus is found to be replicating at higher titers (Figure 3B).
It seems likely that the inability of the MDA5−/− animals to sustain an IFN response leads to increased viral replication and dissemination on d5 PI, thus causing significantly higher morbidity and mortality in the knockout cohort (Figure 1). It is important to note, however, that the effects of MDA5 deficiency on SeV replication are much milder than expected if MDA5 were the sole target of the V protein. Indeed, SeV V mutants (SeV-ΔV) are severely attenuated; replication is demonstrably abrogated in the lungs by d2 PI [56]. IRF3 deficiency of the host restores SeV-ΔV pathogenicity, suggesting that the mutant virus acts by blocking IRF3 signaling [59]. Yet disease caused by SeV in MDA5−/− mice is milder than the disease seen in the IRF3−/− animals. Consequently, we believe that the V protein must have additional targets besides MDA5. In this regard, it has recently been demonstrated that Lgp2 encodes a helicase epitope that is akin to the MDA5 helicase, the portion of MDA5 that binds paramyxovirus V proteins [60], thereby suggesting that LGP2 may be an additional V protein target. In this case, a MDA5-LGP2 double knockout mouse may potentially phenocopy the IRF3 mutation in its response to SeV infection.
Taken together, our findings demonstrate that MDA5 significantly contributes to the response to paramyxovirus and constitute the first in vivo demonstration of MDA5 activity against a negative-strand virus. As such, it appears likely that MDA5 has a wider specificity as a viral nucleic acid receptor than initially believed, and that the initial clear-cut cases of either MDA5 or RIG-I being the sole receptor for a given virus will prove to be exceptions rather than rules when studied in the context of in vivo infections.
Materials and Methods
Mouse generation, maintenance and infection
Control C57BL/6J (B6) mice used in these experiments were purchased from JAX. MDA5−/− mice [32] were backcrossed onto the B6 background to 99.9% congenicity. For in vivo SeV infection, Sendai/52 Fushimi strain was instilled intranasally into deeply anesthetized mice and at the indicated time points, mice were humanly sacrificed for harvest of lung tissue. Virus was purchased from the ATCC and subject to two rounds of in vitro plaque purification in Vero cells to eliminate the presence of DI particles. A clone thus identified was then subject to a single round of amplification in embryonated chicken eggs following inoculation of ~1000 PFU. 24–36 hr post inoculation, SeV was isolated from the allantoic fluids and diluted in phosphate-buffered solution to generate a viral stock that was subsequently characterized on the basis of in vivo infectious properties. Calculation of PFU was performed by standard plaque assay using either Vero E6 cells or LLC-MK2 cells. Importantly, propagation under these conditions does not favor the formation of DI particles, a process that occurs most frequently when virus is repeatedly passaged at high MOI. Indeed, PCR analysis of stock virus indicated the absence of DI genomes. The methods for mice use and care were approved by the Washington University Animal Studies Committee and are in accordance with NIH guidelines.
Single cell lung suspensions were made from minced lung tissue subjected to collagenase/hyaluronidase/DNAse I digestion. Staining of surface markers was performed using FcR block and fluorochrome-conjugated mAbs. To immunophenotype the immune infiltrate, specific combinations of mAbs were chosen which discern granulocytes (Ly6G+), macrophages (F4/80+), cDC (CD11c+F4/80Siglec-H), pDC (Siglec-H+ CD11cmid), NK cells (NK1.1+NKp46+), T cells (CD3+CD4+/−CD8+/−) and B cells (CD19+). SeV-specific PE-labeled pentamer Kb:FAPGNYPAL (NP 324-332) was purchased from Proimmune; cells were stained with CD8 and counterstained with propidium iodide, F4/80 and CD19 to eliminate background. Activation status was determined using specific mAbs for MHC-II, NKG2D and CD69. Samples were acquired on a FACScalibur (BD Biosciences) and analyzed using Cellquest software.
Analysis of mRNA and virus-specific RNA
RNA was purified from lung homogenate using Trizol Reagent (Invitrogen). RNA was treated with RNAse-free DNAse I (Ambion) to eliminate genomic DNA. RNA was converted to cDNA using the High-Capacity cDNA Archive kit (Applied Biosystems). Target mRNA and viral RNAs were quantified by real-time PCR using specific fluorogenic probes and primers and the Fast Universal PCR Master Mix system (Applied Biosystems). Primer sets and probes for mouse Ifn-α2 (Mm00833961_s1), Ifn-β (Mm00439552_s1), Ifn-γ (Mm00801778-m1), Il-28b (Mm00663660_g1), Tnf-α (Mm00443259_g1), Mda5 (Mm00459183_m1), Il-1β (Mm00434227_g1), Il-6 (Mm00446190_m1), Il-10 (Mm00439616_m1) mRNA and SeV genome and Gapdh mRNA were purchased from Applied Biosystems. Samples were assayed on the 7500 Fast Real-Time PCR System and analyzed using the 7500 Fast System Software (Applied Biosystems). Levels of specific gene expression were standardized to Gapdh mRNA expression levels.
Lungs were perfused and fixed with 4% paraformaldehyde. Tissue was embedded in paraffin, cut into 5 um sections and adhered to charged slides. Sections were deparaffinized in Citrosolv (Fisherbrand), hydrated, and in the case of IF-microscopy, treated to heat-activated antigen unmasking solution (Vector Laboratories, Inc). H&E and PAS sections were visualized by brightfield microscopy. Expression analysis was performed by IF using chicken polyclonal anti-SeV (Jackson ImmunoResearch Laboratories, Inc) and rabbit polyclonal anti-mouse MDA5 (Axxora Life Sciences, Inc). Biotinylated secondary antibodies were purchased from Vector Laboratories, Inc). SeV and MDA5 expression was visualized using tyramide-based signal amplification with Alexa Fluor 488 or 594 fluorochromes (Invitrogen). Slides were counterstained with DAPI mounting media (Vector Laboratories, Inc). Microscopy was performed using an Olympus BX51 microscope.
Statistical analyses
Real-time PCR data was analyzed using an unpaired Student's t-test. If variances were unequal, Welch's correction was applied. Charted values represent mean ± SEM. Survival statistics were determined using by Kaplan-Meier analysis of paired cohorts. P values below 0.05 were regarded as being significant for all analyses. Experiments were repeated a minimum of three times.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: M. Holtzman, M. Colonna. Performed the experiments: L. Benoit, C. Song, M. Cella. Analyzed the data: L. Gitlin, L. Benoit, M. Holtzman. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: L. Gitlin, M. Cella, S. Gilfillan. Wrote the paper: L. Gitlin, L. Benoit.
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