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Ronaldo Rump laid in his office, crying. Until now, the public had doubts about his intentions of why he made all the money he made dishonestly, but the key factor was now, since Leo the Patriotic Lion blew a hole in his alibi, with the help of the Biker Mice, the public knew Rump was a liar. To him, for the most part, lying was the order of the day and the way of deceiving the people. Rump was found guilty of perjury in a non-trial case for lying to the real judge about how his mother wanted him to go into law, except that there was no money. In many a case, Rump's statement about the Biker Mice and their fugitive ways, made on his television game show "Vigilante Vengeance" was also a lie, since Leo's actions led to the show being cancelled and all those viewers permanently turned to the radio full-time, leaving no time for TV.
Lawrence Limburger was also a notorious liar, especially towards Lord Camembert and Dominic T. Stilton (his rival other than Napoleon Brie). Mostly he lied about his progress when the high chairman questioned him, because he didn't want to suffer the wrath of his higher-upper, which he often did. Though he didn't have to suffer now because Lord Camembert had died in the electric chair in an intergalactic prison just a month ago, he still practiced the art of lying. But by his tone of voice, no one would be fooled. In fact, Grease Pit was probably the most honest of the three, since he was the stupidest. Karbunkle fell in between because he didn't understand the large, fancy language his boss liked to use.
And in the case of the Catatonians, Hairball lied the most just to boost his image. Cataclysm was dead, so he was ruled out, and Dr. Catorkian often told lies out of sarcasm, as part of his villainous brand of humor, or otherwise meant irony in what he was saying. So he wasn't really lying, but joking. An example would be in the scenario where he had Throttle prisoner after Throttle's mind was mangled with in such a way he thought he was part of a Clint Eastwood movie, and that the others were supporting characters in the movie. When Catorkian had him tied to a lab bed, preparing to inject a lethal substance into Throttle's skin, he told a joking lie out of sarcasm first, saying, "This isn't going to hurt a bit." Then he said, "Who am I kidding? This is going to hurt like you won't believe!"
To the Biker Mice, however, honesty was always the best policy. Even before they and their friends teamed up with Leo the Patriotic Lion in his network of contacts as allies to the G-52 organization, they made sure they were always telling the truth in all circumstances. And with Leo by their side, it was now more vital than ever.
On this particular occasion, it was Hairball's turn to feel the blame. Had he been honest, he would've been splitting the reward with Rump. But since he was a double-crossing liar, evident to Rump from the start, he was going to keep the entire reward for himself. Rump sensed this and said to himself, "Well, why bother with that incompetent puppet for a leader? I'll get my own reward for this. First, let's transform this wasteful city park into another water plant."
Rump turned his Regenerator on and aimed for the city park, but the Regenerator sizzled out. "Oh, no!" he exclaimed. "No reward for me! Good thing that loudmouth lion in the golden armor isn't around. I'd never hear the end of it!"
Confused yet? The reward Hairball was going to keep for himself was for his role in capturing the Regenerator and for bringing it to Rump. The reward for this was $50,000 in catfish, since Hairball had absolutely no use for cash. Rump would've kept his share of the reward in cash, but for Hairball, it was catfish.
And here's the story behind the confusion: one day, Rump and Hairball were discussing their latest plan. "I need a new Regenerator," said Rump. "And since Stoker's sent the rechargeable version to Mars, thus sealing it from us forever, all we can do now is take over this puny little planet. Do you suppose, if Stoker's still here, we can place a bounty on him? He is such a troublemaker, you know."
"I'd be happy to," said Hairball, "but this thing you call money is absolutely of no rugged use to me. I prefer fish. It's edible, and it's what we always used for currency, until it was ruled safe to eat it. Day after day of fish after fish, and it never got boring."
"Okay, then; your reward share can be in fish."
"Deal." Hairball left the conference room of Rump Plaza, then said to himself, "Fool! He fell for it! Am I going to teach him a lesson!" He then gathered up his Clawtroopers and paraded down the streets of Leo's hometown of Wildcat City, Kansas (due to him, Rump, and Limburger moving operations there after Chicago proved to be too difficult, but the bad thing was for them that Charley sold the Last Chance Garage to her sister in Chicago so she could open one in Wildcat City, and the Biker Mice have made it their base of operation ever since).
As soon as he was able to find the lost Regenerator prototype Stoker once owned, Hairball grabbed it and brought it back to Rump Plaza. Rump directed him to where the reward for catfish and cash was located, with $50,000 in each category. Hairball grabbed all $50,000 worth of catfish and headed out the door. Rump, anticipating this, dumped the $50,000 in cash (since it was counterfeit anyway so that he wouldn't lose any real money) into the trash and went back to work.
Stoker, as Super Stoker (thanks to a permanent override of body chemistry by the use of green and yellow tetrahydrocarbons over red ones), flew by the Plaza to investigate the cause of the noise. His X-ray vision revealed the Regenerator prototype and Rump's frustration. Then he noticed Rump picking up his telephone and dialing for the U.S. Patent Office.
"Oh!" he exclaimed. "He's got my prototype! Wonder if he's been spying on me again? Well, since it didn't work like he wanted it to, it's obviously out of power. The rechargeable Regenerator is already on Mars, so that's a win for me. Still, I own the copyrights and patents of that, and Rump is probably going to claim it for his own. Better warn the soldiers. They'll know what to do." He flew back to the Last Chance Garage, where the Biker Mice and Charley were waiting for him. "So, what'd you find out?" Vinnie asked.
"Rump's got my prototype Regenerator that's obviously dead since it's out of power, and he's going to lie to the public and authorities and say it's his invention, when, in fact, it's mine. I haven't had time to talk to the U.S. Patent Office about this, but one thing's for certain, if he gets there first, they'll think it's his doing. We've got to stop him!"
"I hear you, bro!" Throttle replied, racing to his bike, donning his helmet, and gunning the engine. "Helmets on, bros! It's time to ROCK…"
"…and RIDE!" everyone shouted, blasting off towards Limburger Plaza. Stoker launched himself skyward again as Rimfire joined up with the Biker Mice on his bike. Leo followed in his Patriotmobile.
Rump, meanwhile, was arguing with the authorities of the U.S. Patent Office. "But I'm telling you, I am the inventor!"
"I want proof!" the authority had been saying. "How do I know for certain this isn't another of your fibs?"
"Oh, come on; what makes you think I would lie to you?"
"Your criminal record that contains your lies to the Chicago judge and the fraud promise on that TV show of yours, that's what!" The authority hung up the phone, slamming it on its hook, then saying to himself, "I am never believing him again, even if he isn't being his old lying self!"
"Why can't anybody get me a patent on that stupid Regenerator?!" Rump exclaimed to himself in anger.
Hearing the remark, Stoker crashed through the glass of Rump Plaza, then snapped, "Because you are not the real inventor; I am!" The Biker Mice followed him in, using the launchers on their bikes, and Vinnie added, "Besides, lard butt, your alibi has a big fat hole in it!"
"If you know what's good for you," Leo called from the ground level with his booming voice that could reach 750,000 without a loudspeaker, "you'll turn yourself in this instant! Not only are the cops sick of arresting you, they, too, hate your lying! You may as well be hailed as the worst liar in the history of history!"
"Aye Chihuahua!" Rump exclaimed. "There's no respect for the rich!"
"You take that back!" Rimfire snapped, proceeding to do a karate chop on Rump's office door, then firing a laser at parts of the office. Apparently, his mission was to vandalize the Plaza in the name of justice while the Biker Mice took Rump off to jail. Stoker, meanwhile, swiped his prototype and flew it back to his lab, located inside the Last Chance Garage.
As the tower came crashing down, Vinnie tail-whipped Rump and transferred him over to the police, with Leo making sure he didn't try anything stupid.
Back at the Last Chance Garage, Stoker had better luck with the U.S. Patent Office, as he was able to get one placed on his Regenerator at last. The group then went out to celebrate with hot dogs and root beer, and Leo made a note in his journal about the event. "Rump won't be trying that lie again," he wrote. "The great general has at last received the trademark recognition he deserves."
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in japan continues to unfoed, there is more evidence that the damaged nuclear complex there is still leaking a lot of radiation. the groundwater under one reactor is now showing radiation levels 10,000 times higher than they should be. radiation in the sea water near the plant has also grown to nearly 4,400 times the amount allowed by law. the government is being pressured to extend the evacuation zone around that plant. >>> concerns about that nuclear disaster in japan are growing here in this country. traces of radiation have now been detected in milk, in cows in california and washington state. however, experts say the levels are so low that the milk is still safe to drink. as kristin dahlgren reports, that has not eased the fears of shoppers. >> reporter: at grocery stores across the country, concern today. >> i probably wouldn't trust it completely. >> after trace levels of radiation, thought to be from japan's crippled nuclear plant were found in milk in this country. >> what is trace, and what does that really mean? >> reporter: experts say it means low readings of iodine 131
in and around the nuclear facility in northern japan that was damaged in a tsunami recently. a record level of radiation has been detected in sea water near the fukushima plant. it is more than 3,000 times what is allowed by law. plant officials believe it leaking from one of the reactors there. one of the reactor that's has melted through its protective container. japan's emperor and his wife tried to console some of the thousands of displaced residents today them spent about an hour at a temporary shelter near tokyo. it was his first such visit since the earthquake and tsunami hit the area on march 11th. >>> there are more questions the security of air cargo tonight after a fake bomb troofld a cargo plane. the plane was flown from the britain to turkey two weeks ago. a u.s. official told nbc news, the incident appears to be the result of a family feud. that parts of the phony bomb were made of play-doh. the fake bomb was placed in a wedding cake box. it was supposed to be delivered to a wedding reception. a turk usual man dropped off the box at a ups office two weeks ago. the phony bomb w
as a grave offense and said the men she has accused of filing criminal charges against her. >>> in japan today, another frightening turn in the struggle to contain radiation at the fukushima nuclear complex. two more workers were drenched with radioactive water today, while making repairs at that plant. the problem is, they have to keep pouring water onto that reactor that is leaking, and that water becomes contaminated and it's piling up. lee cowan has the latest now from tokyo. >> reporter: the biggest concern right now is trying to figure out how to balance not only keeping the reactors cool, but also what to do with all that radioactive water that's been collecting. the engineers say what they still have to do is pump that water in, to keep the fuel rods from melting down completely, which is obviously would be the worst case scenario, but every time they pump it back is more water they have to pump back out in order for the workers to get back in to find out what's causing the leak in the first place. the worry is as the water builds up it might spill out and make its way into the s
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December 10, 2013|By Bob Gendron, Special to the Tribune
(Phil Velasquez Chicago Tribune)
What Pixar often accomplishes with visual animation, Andrew Bird did with sound Monday at the Fourth Presbyterian Church. Playing the first of a four-night, sold-out stand, the local multi-instrumentalist launched his annual Gezelligheid residency—intimate winter concerts coined after a Dutch term that loosely translates to "extra extra cozy"—with music couched in whimsy, imagination and wonder. Accompanied for a majority of the 110-minute show by guitarist/vocalist Tift Merritt, Bird captured the spirit of the holidays without performing a single traditional carol.
As always, the venue's gorgeous interior helped establish the mood. Bird also received an assist from the colder temperatures. Frigid weather enhanced this year's event by causing the church's interior to feel warmer than during his past installments. Wreaths, gothic arches, stained-glass windows and festive banners flanked a stage filled with more than two-dozen gramophone-style speakers. Two giant spinning double-horn speakers that Bird controlled via remote control dispersed tones in 360-degree patterns.
Combined with such surroundings and devices, Bird's graceful whistling, sonorous violin playing and looped passages allowed him to appear as the aural equivalent of a favorite childhood fantasy story. His songs served as invitations to journey on tales in which he "could taste what you were thinking" and where blended notes conveyed the sound of a singing forest, the wind blowing through trees and birds chirping in the branches. Akin to an inquisitive narrator refusing to settle for the ordinary, Bird asked philosophical questions and shot back with uncertain answers in his lyrics. Even when topics skewed toward the morose, rhymed couplets and quirky voices ensured lighthearted accents prevailed.
Afforded a freedom at Gezelligheid absent from normal concerts, Bird seized the opportunity to relax. Under no pressure to promote any particular album or lead a band, he updated songs debuted at prior Gezelligheid gigs and indulged impulses to rediscover material he admitted he no longer recognized. Rather than woodshed ideas as he has in the past, he recalled "strange times" that inspired older compositions ("Headsoak," "Darkmatter") and rearranged newer fare to reflect a sense of surprise.
For the neurotic "Why?," astonishment arrived in the forms of casual uneasiness, theatrical pauses and off-kilter humor that left Bird's intent up to interpretation. During "Three White Horses," he suddenly seemed to have an entire string section at his behest thanks to careful layering of multiple parts. With Merritt providing a steady rhythm, " Pulaski at Night" turned into a miniature jazz symphony.
The duo proved equally impressive during the second set huddled around a single microphone, armed with just two acoustic instruments and independent any delayed loops. Merritt, smiling and staring wide-eyed at Bird's nearly every move, shadowed him with high-and-lonesome vocals and strummed chords. Each shared an obvious chemistry and the desire to give back through the works of artists they admired.
While their close-harmony singing, patient pace and rustic demeanor traveled back to the frontier era, the relayed messages of comfort (the Carter Family's "When the World's On Fire"), devotion (Townes Van Zandt's "If I Needed You") and companionship (the Handsome Family's "Cathedrals") fit both the contemporary age—and the season. | http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2013-12-10/entertainment/chi-andrew-bird-review-20131211_1_andrew-bird-gezelligheid-holiday-spirit | dclm-gs1-089490001 | false | false | {
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0.018199 | <urn:uuid:c264f695-f119-469f-a728-2ad594439856> | en | 0.967355 | Comments on: C'mon, baby! Don't say maybe! Comments on Ask MetaFilter post C'mon, baby! Don't say maybe! Wed, 14 Sep 2011 09:35:35 -0800 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 09:39:34 -0800 en-us 60 Question: C'mon, baby! Don't say maybe! This is not my first baby. I am close to one week past my due date. No signs of labor. First, tell me how to survive because my first baby was here by now and I just cannot do this much longer. Second, why haven't I gone into labor yet and what if I don't? <br /><br /> First baby was born by this time in my last pregnancy. I don't know what this baby is waiting for. Good position, low down, the weather is beautiful. I've had off an on contractions for going on a month that haven't turned into anything. And I'm increasingly disappointed each time, though I am trying, in the logical part of my brain, to maintain the sense that I'm not actually overdue for another week and a half or so.<br> <br> I have pulled out all the old wives tricks I know, and unsurprisingly, the spicy food, prenatal massages, long walks, and anything else I can possibly think of haven't done a thing.<br> <br> I understand babies come when they come, but I am beyond done with this pregnancy and it's weighing on me terribly emotionally and physically. This baby needs to GTFO and soon or I will lose my mind. I don't know what, if anything, to do at this point. I am just so done and feel vulnerable and irritable and upset and tired in ways I never did the last time.<br> <br> Thankfully, I do have help with my older child, and it is affording me some much needed break time, and because I've been so tired, I've already stopped working this time as well, so those two matters are okay.,2011:site.196007 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 09:35:35 -0800 Anonymous pregnancy duedate secondpregnancy labor delivery babies baby By: michaelh Well, my wife just had a baby (not the first) and she was 13 days overdue. You sound like her. You are probably dilating/effacing over time right now with these contractions, and when the end comes it will probably come quickly, as in just a few hours. If you are like her, your fluid level is fine, so there's no danger.<br> <br> Don't worry, really. This extra time means more brain development.<br> <br> As far as your irritation, you really must relax. Relaxation means smoother labor, less pain and an obviously happier you. You don't mention whether there's a man involved but if so it's his job right now to make you, as they say, as comfortable as you were when you conceived this baby with soothing words, help around the house, rubbing your lower back, etc..,2011:site.196007-2821607 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 09:39:34 -0800 michaelh By: TooFewShoes How close are you to your due date? Have you told your OB how stressed you are?<br> <br> With my last kid I was put on bed rest for preterm labor at 22 weeks. Of course when it was time for him to actually come out he wanted to stay in. I told my doctor how upset I was and how hard it was on me and my family and she agreed to induce me.<br> <br> At the very least your doc will probably agree to induce you on or right after your due date.<br> <br> If you haven't gone for a swim you might want to. It won't bring on labor, but the water will support the weight of the baby and give your muscles and joints a break. It feels wonderful.,2011:site.196007-2821613 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 09:41:21 -0800 TooFewShoes By: brainmouse TooFewShoes: she's almost a week overdue: "I am close to one week past my due date.",2011:site.196007-2821618 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 09:43:07 -0800 brainmouse By: otherwordlyglow Have you talked to your doctor/nurse/midwife/caregiver? Depending on your condition, can't they do things like <a href="">strip your membranes</a>? At 41 weeks I think most medical professionals are willing to do stuff like that to hasten your labor, especially if you tell them how uncomfortable you are.,2011:site.196007-2821622 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 09:43:43 -0800 otherwordlyglow By: needlegrrl I have heard that there is a pressure point somewhere (near the ankle?) that some massage therapists who specialize in pregnancy massage know about, that can help induce the labor. <br> <br> Sorry I can't be more specific - the massage therapist I know who knew how to do this is now in the new mexico area, I believe.,2011:site.196007-2821631 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 09:48:32 -0800 needlegrrl By: nadawi you say you've tried old wives tricks - have you tried sex (making sure your partner ejaculates inside of you)? the doctors and scientists seem to be at odds as to whether it works or not, but in your position i'd probably try it.,2011:site.196007-2821635 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 09:49:33 -0800 nadawi By: pharm IIRC the due date has very large error bars. You're not really "over" until you're two weeks past at least.,2011:site.196007-2821636 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 09:50:28 -0800 pharm By: Omnomnom In my country, doctors induce labour after ten days overdue for medical reasons. Could you inquire after that?<br> <br> Hang in there, it's coming out one way or the other!<br> <br> Also, let me send you internet stranger hugs. My baby was early and I still felt that way!,2011:site.196007-2821663 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 10:07:55 -0800 Omnomnom By: jessamyn <small>[few comments removed - "suck it up" answers not considered helpful.]</small>,2011:site.196007-2821664 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 10:08:10 -0800 jessamyn By: jenkinsEar We had to induce one of our little guys after my wife's water broke and he still didn't want to come out; IIRC, they used Pitocin to get the ball rolling. <br> <br> Assuming you're having a hospital birth, I'd suggest talking to your OB and see what they say- I don't believe that at-home births have Pitocin available. My recollection from Lamaze class was that many OB's will induce at 14 days past the due date.,2011:site.196007-2821695 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 10:23:45 -0800 jenkinsEar By: hellochula Can you call your OB/midwife? So much can be done. Where I'm from, any day past your due date and they'd be begging to induce. My advice is to call and schedule that they help move you along. Before you go have the baby, take a nice bath, listen to some soothing music, have a favorite meal, take a nap and go in. ((Hugs)),2011:site.196007-2821727 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 10:41:55 -0800 hellochula By: jrichards Acupuncture!,2011:site.196007-2821730 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 10:43:12 -0800 jrichards By: bilabial First, you feel vulnerable because you are! You and the bun are the reasons humans are social creatures. "Sucking it up" is not the thing you need to do right now. You need peace, care, and warmth. Community. I can't tell you exactly where to go for that in your own life, but I can offer you some suggestions.<br> <br> Try some meditation. Try visualization of how your ideal birth will be. Make some contingency plans. (Myself, I'm pretty anti induction, but I can see some scenarious where it would be necessary, and when I get pregnant I will probably spend a lot of time preparing for the possibility that my birth experience may not match up to my hopes.) Visualize meeting the new baby. Make sure your partner is on board with these plans and backups.<br> <br> Next:<br> <br> Distraction. You need distraction. Something that will make the time fly. <br> <br> Have you taken care of all your nesting? Stored the summer clothes (if you are in a place with real winter? Do you have any desire to dip dye little onesies, knit booties, or choose paper for a scrap book? Do you have all the supplies you need or want? Do you have any Christmas or other holiday shopping that you could accomplish online or in shops? Are there any musicals, plays or comedy shows you don't want to miss? (The joke would be, buy tickets for them all, and the baby will come two hours before the <i>most expensive one</i>. Something like Cirque d' Soleil if there is one in your area?) <br> <br> Does your only child hanker for a trip to a museum or special ice cream outing with you? <br> <br> Are there any letters you can write to friends and family? Hand written, on fun or exquisite paper? Allow yourself to moan piteously in ink about how miserable this baby is making you. In twenty years, this baby will treasure knowing how wanted s/he was, that you wanted to get acquainted at the earliest possible moment.<br> <br> Book yourself another pre and post birth massage. Find someone who will come to your home. Book yourself some acupuncture. Book yourself a manicure. Pedicure. A great deal on a fancy hotel with just you and partner in three months time. Pencil in a dinner date for one month down the road. Ask now for the help you will want when baby arrives. Meal deliveries from friends? Someone to come over and sit with you while you nurse? Schedule all the people who say "let me know if you need anything" NOW, because your brain will be busy or mushy when the baby gets here. "Yes, I'd love it if you'd bake up a batch of those oatmeal cookies you are famous for!" or "Honestly, if you would come by on ____ and throw in a load of wash, dry it and fold it, we could sit and chat, or maybe I'll fall asleep and drool all over myself."<br> <br> Distract, distract, distract. Get caught up in things you long to do, but "never have time for." <br> <br> Now, on to the old wives' tales. Walking, but walking with a purpose. Like I said before, museums, shopping, etc. Yes, it's probably uncomfortable, but even if it doesn't work, it will keep you limber. And it might help you sleep (better) at night. <br> <br> Sex. Not so much because it will make the baby show up any sooner (though yay if it seems to) but because it might be fun and sex usually feels good. Stop if it's not fun though. Additionally, make it clear to your partner that this is a very important time for you to feel sexy and loved and honored and however you want to word whatever precedes the magic words, "Rub my feet!"<br> <br> In the same line as the letters to friends and family, write your thoughts. What <i>exactly</i> is it about this pregnancy that you are done with? Use descriptive language, metahors, colors, textures. Detail every ache and pain. Detail every inconveniencing bathroom visit. Be here now with the things you want to escape. (That's right, I just slipped some Buddhism into this answer)<br> <br> Do not edit yourself for exaggeration or hystrionics. Feel what you're feeling. Don't fight the crying. <br> <br> Next, write out all of your eagerness to meet this baby. What are you most looking forward to? Again, make it vivid. Are you hoping for a particular kind of relationship between the siblings? If you outline this now, it can be fun to return to it in a decade, or two or three and compare your hopes to the reality. Maybe they will be closer. Maybe they will take care of each other. Maybe they will be competitive. But they will definitely see your love in these writings. <br> <br> Finally, good old fashioned sitting around. Yes. You are stir crazy in the confines of your home. You are sick of looking at the wall paper or that manky carpet, certainly sick of hauling your frame past the nursery where that baby ought to be sleeping. So! Indulge in a funny pregnant lady tee shirt and find a coffee shop with a comfy couch, or some other place in your town that frees your from chasing your kid. Have a hot cup of herbal tea, or whatever you want. Put your feet on someone else's ottoman and maybe read a book or a magazine. Make up stories for people who ask nosy questions about your pregnancy. Tell them your only three months along with quintuplets. Tell them it's a litter of kittens, you're making history. Tell them whatever you like. Be really mean and tell them the baby is sleeping at home. Or be even meaner and ask, "what baby?!?!?!",2011:site.196007-2821744 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 10:47:52 -0800 bilabial By: flex Waiting is so hard. Especially if you're having contractions and every time you get all ramped up like NOW, FINALLY? NOW? YES? They say relax, but hmph, there is no such thing, not in my world there wasn't, anyway. (Anyone telling you to "suck it up" can fuck right off.)<br> <br> Can you ask about induction? Here the standard is ten days past due date for an induction. With my last two pregnancies I didn't go into true labor at all, so I said PLEASE CAN WE GET THIS BABY OUT OR I WILL LOSE MY MIND I AM NOT KIDDING OMG to my midwives, and they understood. So both were induced - the one, 10 days past due, and the other, 11 days past due. (Both were quite big babies as well. My daughter was 10 lbs.) I found induction to be, on the whole, easier than actually going through labor - less stressful b/c it's more predictable (at least for my body); also, epidural before it got really too bad; and then a fairly fast delivery once I had the epidural.<br> <br> I've been where you're at. Big hugs, and hang in there.,2011:site.196007-2821752 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 10:51:13 -0800 flex By: rabbitrabbit I'm going to 2nd the acupuncture recommendation. I had never had it before, but after both my midwife and my doula (who was also an experienced midwife) both encouraged me to get acupuncture for labor induction, I did three sessions with an acupuncturist who specialized in fertility stuff and it (probably) worked. I say probably because I had three sessions at 41w1d, 41w2d, and 41w3d and he told me I'd go into labor at 41w5d (2 days after the last treatment) and, wonder of wonders I DID. Now, it could also be argued that I would have gone into labor that day anway, but at least I felt like I was doing something, and it was so relaxing and I felt pampered too, which is a great thing to feel when you're that pregnant.,2011:site.196007-2821756 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 10:54:14 -0800 rabbitrabbit By: rabbitrabbit Also! If you're in the Portland OR area, I can recommend my fabulous acupunturist, memail me.,2011:site.196007-2821759 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 10:55:21 -0800 rabbitrabbit By: roomthreeseventeen Make really important plans that would be inconvenient to change.,2011:site.196007-2821764 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 11:00:25 -0800 roomthreeseventeen By: KathrynT I did Hypnobirthing for my second birth, and whenever I would get grumpy about labor not onsetting -- because, just like you, I had prodromal labor for AGES that kept not turning into anything real -- I would crank out the Hypnobirthing tracks and just meditate to those. It was good practice for labor, and it really helped me keep myself calm.,2011:site.196007-2821769 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 11:03:12 -0800 KathrynT By: veebs Yeah, you should really call your OB so they can at least know what is happening and schedule an induction. Hopefully things will happen soon of their own accord!,2011:site.196007-2821777 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 11:09:54 -0800 veebs By: furnace.heart (Mrs. Furnace.Heart here) Hi there, and let me very quickly say I'M SORRY! I just gave birth to our first kiddo only three days ago, and he was ten days overdue. I feel your pain. Honestly and sincerely. I was an emotional wreck on his one week-overdue date. I had a midwife appointment and burst into tears when they mentioned waiting another week for induction. At that point, my midwife looked at me and said, "Or we can induce you now." <br> <br> I had really struggled with the idea of inducing this kiddo before he was two weeks late, because I wanted things to progress naturally and wanted to let him come out when he was ready. But the midwife looked at me and said that my emotional health was 100% as important as anything else, and if I was that done with the pregnancy, then he needed to come out. <br> <br> After a minute of internal debate while sitting on the exam table, I realized that I could not handle being pregnant anymore, and I said I wanted to be induced. It was honestly the best decision I made for myself and my family. I was slightly worried about judgement by the nurses or midwives, but they were extremely supportive. Even with induction, kiddo didn't come along for another 36 hours. So, in my mind, he really did need the extra kick in the pants to get out. If I had waited until his two week overdue-date, he may have been a total of 16 days overdue. <br> <br> My advice is to do what you feel you need to do. If that means inducing him because you are just effin' sick and tired of being pregnant, then induce. If you have tried lots of other ways to cope with being overdue, and they aren't working, in my mind it's a sign that he (or she) needs some help getting it out. I would say very strongly that my fears of being "selfish" or a bad mother by inducing prior to two weeks completely and 100% went out the window when he finally got here. I was so happy to finally see my baby boy. Honestly, I had waited long enough. Hope you get through the next week one way or another. Good luck with your labor and delivery!,2011:site.196007-2821899 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 12:27:04 -0800 furnace.heart By: crabintheocean The long answer that got deleted was harsh, but you really aren't overdue at all yet (many studies say average length of normal gestation is actually 41 weeks). Some babies take a little bit longer than others, but it's also very hard to know for sure when you conceived. Medical induction is not without its own risks, especially if your waters are broken but the meds don't get things going, which can easily happen if you're just not ready. I don't think it's a question of being a bad mother, and it's your decision to make, but it can happen that choosing to induce winds up causing more health risks and complications <em>for you</em> - avoiding induction isn't just some theoretical hippy "do it the natural way" thing.<br> <br> I like Bilabial's answer, do whatever you got to do. I am pregnant too, and approaching the stage you're at (I can feel the feelings you describe creeping up on me!) and I think allowing yourself to be grumpy and frustrated, and just doing what you need to do to get through each day is the way to go. I hope it isn't as hot where you are as it is here. Oh, and just to open another can of worms, my midwife would probably tell you it's just fine to have a small glass of wine in the evening if you feel like it. Good luck!,2011:site.196007-2821917 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 12:39:21 -0800 crabintheocean By: mareli My youngest was born two weeks after his due date and I spent a lot of that last two weeks reading and even napping in the tub (full of water) as it was the only place I could get comfortable. It was so long ago I honestly cannot remember how my older two children (then aged 2.75 and 5.75) coped during that period, but they survived. <br> <br> . Good luck.,2011:site.196007-2821974 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 13:07:25 -0800 mareli By: the young rope-rider The risks vs benefits of being induced at 41 weeks are not definite. "Being induced at 41 weeks is riskier than waiting" is not a categorically true statement.<br> <br> There is evidence that induction at 41 weeks vs expectant management reduces the risk of c-section. I could cite some stuff if necessary, go ahead and memail me if you're interested.<br> <br> It is actually pretty easy to know when you conceived if you had an <strong>early</strong> dating ultrasound. Early dating ultrasounds are very, very accurate (plus or minus a few days) because the rate of embryonic development is extremely predictable. So there's practically no worry that you'll accidentally have a premature baby at 41 weeks. <br> <br> It <em>used</em> to be hard to tell, which is perhaps why so many people have stories of their mothers, grandmothers, etc. giving birth at 46 weeks or 28 weeks.<br> <br> Because the evidence is mixed, I think that <strong>induction is a completely valid option</strong>, although it might not be the right option for you.<br> <br> I highly suggest not listening to people on the internet (not even me!) and instead talking through the issue with your health care provider.,2011:site.196007-2821979 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 13:09:06 -0800 the young rope-rider By: dgran I just wanted to say that it is indeed frustrating and your feelings are normal. All three of our children were born after the due dates. At times my wife and I didn't want to go outside or answer the phone and have to hear again how that baby had not yet arrived -- as if we didn't know this already.<br> <br> Hang in there. Don't hesitate to talk with your Doctor about it, but just know that it is normal to feel frustrated during the wait. Congratulations and enjoy the special days ahead.,2011:site.196007-2821998 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 13:23:28 -0800 dgran By: wintersweet I guess this isn't helpful either, but I was supposed to be born on Thanksgiving and was born on the 8th of December--that's 2 weeks! What inadvertently worked for my mom was going to a Chinese buffet, haha. Who knows, maybe all that getting up and sitting down did it. (My mom takes buffets VERY seriously.)<br> <br> I hope you talk to your doctor and feel better and have a smooth, trouble-free (boring, even!) birth as soon as, uh, appropriate!,2011:site.196007-2822181 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 16:17:54 -0800 wintersweet By: gnutron Castor oil induction worked for us.,2011:site.196007-2822288 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 18:29:31 -0800 gnutron By: emjaybee It won't last forever, even if it feels like it. You can certainly get induced, but it does raise your risk of c/section, which comes with its own risks. But, that is your call.<br> <br> Are you all alone a lot of the time? The mental stress of thinking about this and nothing else is pretty rough at this stage. Can you get people to come over and be with you, or do you feel good enough to get out (besides with your other child, I mean?) Go see stupid movies in the afternoon, get a pedicure, a massage by someone licensed to do pregnant clients, hang out in a swimming pool, walk in the things, distracting things. Sitting in your home thinking anxious thoughts is the <em>worst</em> thing for you.<br> <br> The experience of pain and discomfort are <em>heavily</em> influenced by fear and anxiety.,2011:site.196007-2822386 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 19:53:07 -0800 emjaybee By: the young rope-rider A significant body of research shows that at 41 weeks induction reduces the risk of c-section when compared to expectant management. Here is the<a href=""> review article.</a> The key phrase is "at 41 weeks" because gestational age makes a big difference, from what I can tell.<br> <br> Any statement as broad as "induction increases c-section risk" is not giving all the information. Please don't let it scare you away from asking about induction, if you are interested. If you are not interested, that is fine too! <br> <br> Hang in there; I am in a very similar situation and I am quite over it at this point.,2011:site.196007-2822408 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 20:28:27 -0800 the young rope-rider | http://ask.metafilter.com/196007/Cmon-baby-Dont-say-maybe/rss | dclm-gs1-089500001 | false | false | {
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I have 2GB installed on my machine running Ubuntu 12.04. After some time of use, I see much of my RAM used. The RAM does not free enough even though I closed all my programs.
I included 2 screenshots. First is "Gnome system monitor" (all process) and second is "htop" (with sudo), both sorted by memory usage. From both you see, that it's not possible that all running apps takes together 1GB of memory. First 7 biggest programs sum 250, but others are much smaller (all can't sum even 100MB). The cache is 300MB (yellow ||| on htop) and is not included in 1GB used. Also 260MB is already on swap. (which actually makes 1,3GB of used memory)
If i start Firefox (or Chrome) with many tabs, it has only 1GB available and not potentially 1,5 GB (assume 0,5GB is for system). When I need more ram, swapping happens.
So where is my ram? Which program is using it? How can i free it, to be available for e.g. Firefox?
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free -g is probably the best way to tell how much RAM your system is using. See serverfault question here. If you use free -m it will give you a breakdown in Mb.
In this example, from a server with 251Gb RAM:
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 251 130 120 0 3 61
-/+ buffers/cache: 66 185
Swap: 5 0 5
Only 66Gb is actually being used, however top reports 137Gb. The RAM isn't freed from the cache until another program requests it, so if you open up another program that requires the RAM it will be allocated to that program.
Essentially I wouldn't worry about the RAM that's available, the OS is taking care of this.
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Thanks for answer. I also checked free -m. According to link from your post I see I am using "only" 882MB. But I am still pretty sure that if I would count all processes I would not sum not even past 500MB. Any more idea? It's ok, that OS is RAM manager, but maybe I can kill some things to free RAM. $ free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 2002 1282 720 0 51 348 -/+ buffers/cache: 882 1120 Swap: 2999 169 2830 – gsedej Oct 19 '12 at 22:02
Can you show the output of free -m when you think swapping is happening to see if the cache is really not being free'd or if swapping should really be happening. Swap isn't a problem if the program you are using isn't reading from it. – niallhaslam Oct 23 '12 at 22:11
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I'm having a problem with notebook screen on Ubuntu 13.04(for what i remember it happened on 12.10 too), sometimes( i think at least, mostly when playing games) the monitor just powers off, but the system seems to be running, and there's no way i can turn it on again so i have to do a hard reboot. My video card is a Second Genaration Sandy Bridge(Intel HD 3000, i965). Anyone knows something about how can i debug more and/or solve it?
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1 [leed]
verb (used with object), led, leading.
verb (used without object), led, leading.
to take the directing or principal part.
Cards. to make the first play.
a person or thing that leads.
a leash.
the principal part in a play.
the person who plays it.
the card, suit, etc., so played.
the main and often most important news story.
the act of taking the offensive.
the direction of a rope, wire, or chain.
Also called leader. any of various devices for guiding a running rope.
an open channel through a field of ice.
a lode.
an auriferous deposit in an old riverbed.
the act of aiming a gun ahead of a moving target.
Baseball. an act or instance of leading.
most important; principal; leading; first: lead editorial; lead elephant.
Verb phrases
lead off,
to take the initiative; begin.
Baseball. to be the first player in the batting order or the first batter in an inning.
lead on,
to induce to follow an unwise course of action; mislead.
to cause or encourage to believe something that is not true.
lead out,
to make a beginning.
lead the way. way1 ( def 34 ).
lead up to,
to prepare the way for.
1. accompany, precede. See guide. 3. persuade, convince. 10. excel, outstrip, surpass. 28. head, vanguard.
1. follow.
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lead1 (liːd)
vb (when intr, foll by to) (foll by with) (foll by to) , leads, leading, led
1. to show the way to (an individual or a group) by going with or ahead: lead the party into the garden
2. to guide or be guided by holding, pulling, etc: he led the horse by its reins
3. (tr) to cause to act, feel, think, or behave in a certain way; induce; influence: he led me to believe that he would go
5. (of a road, route, etc) to serve as the means of reaching a place
7. to guide, control, or direct: to lead an army
9. to initiate the action of (something); have the principal part in (something): to lead a discussion
10. to go at the head of or have the top position in (something): he leads his class in geography
11. to have as the first or principal item: the newspaper led with the royal birth
12. music
a. (Brit) to play first violin in (an orchestra)
14. (tr)
a. to pass or spend: I lead a miserable life
b. to cause to pass a life of a particular kind: to lead a person a dog's life
15. to tend (to) or result (in): this will only lead to misery
16. to initiate a round of cards by putting down (the first card) or to have the right to do this: she led a diamond
18. (intr) boxing to make an offensive blow, esp as one's habitual attacking punch: southpaws lead with their right
20. lead by the nose See nose
21. a. the first, foremost, or most prominent place
b. (as modifier): lead singer
22. example, precedence, or leadership: the class followed the teacher's lead
23. an advance or advantage held over others: the runner had a lead of twenty yards
24. anything that guides or directs; indication; clue
25. another name for leash
28. a. the principal news story in a newspaper: the scandal was the lead in the papers
b. the opening paragraph of a news story
c. (as modifier): lead story
30. a wire, cable, or other conductor for making an electrical connection
31. boxing
a. one's habitual attacking punch
b. a blow made with this
32. nautical the direction in which a rope runs
33. a deposit of metal or ore; lode
[Old English lǣdan; related to līthan to travel, Old High German līdan to go]
lead2 (lɛd)
3. swing the lead to malinger or make up excuses
6. (plural)
a. thin sheets or strips of lead used as a roof covering
b. a flat or low-pitched roof covered with such sheets
7. printing Compare reglet a thin strip of type metal used for spacing between lines of hot-metal type
8. a. graphite or a mixture containing graphite, clay, etc, used for drawing
b. a thin stick of this material, esp the core of a pencil
9. (modifier) of, consisting of, relating to, or containing lead
10. go down like a lead balloon See balloon
11. to fill or treat with lead
12. to surround, cover, or secure with lead or leads
13. printing to space (type) by use of leads
Related: plumbic, plumbeous, plumbous
[Old English; related to Dutch lood, German Lot]
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"to guide," O.E. lædan "cause to go with one, lead," causative of liðan "to travel," from W.Gmc. *laithjan (cf. O.S. lithan, O.N. liða "to go," O.H.G. ga-lidan "to travel," Goth. ga-leiþan "to go"). Meaning "to be in first place" is from late 14c. The noun is first recorded c.1300,
heavy metal, O.E. lead, from W.Gmc. *loudhom (cf. O.Fris. lad, M.Du. loot "lead," Ger. Lot "weight, plummet"). The name and the skill in using the metal seem to have been borrowed from the Celts (cf. O.Ir. luaide, probably from PIE base *plou(d)- "to flow"). Black lead was an old name for "graphite,"
hence lead pencil (1680s) and the colloquial figurative phrase to have lead in one's pencil "be possessed of (esp. male sexual) vigor," first attested 1941 in Australian slang. Lead balloon "a failure" is from 1960, Amer.Eng. slang. Lead-footed "slow" is from 1896; opposite sense of "fast" emerged 1940s in trucker's jargon, from notion of a foot heavy on the gas pedal.
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lead 1 (lēd)
1. Any of the conductors designed to detect changes in electrical potential when situated in or on the body and connected to an instrument that registers and records these changes, such as an electrocardiograph.
2. A record made from the current supplied by one of these conductors.
lead 2 (lěd)
Symbol Pb
A soft ductile dense metallic element. Atomic number 82; atomic weight 207.19; melting point 327.5°C; boiling point 1,749deg;C; specific gravity 11.35; valence 2, 4.
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Post-Polio Syndrome
Classification and external resources
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Science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke developed post-polio syndrome in 1988 after initially contracting polio in 1962.[1]
ICD-10 B91
ICD-9 138
DiseasesDB 34441
eMedicine pmr/110
MeSH D016262
The precise mechanism that causes PPS is unknown. It shares many features with chronic fatigue syndrome, but unlike that disorder, it tends to be progressive, and can cause loss of muscle strength. Treatment is primarily limited to adequate rest, conservation of available energy, and supportive measures, such as leg braces and energy-saving devices such as powered wheelchairs, analgesia (pain relief) and sleep aids.
Signs and symptoms[edit]
After a period of prolonged stability individuals who had been infected and recovered from polio begin to experience new signs and symptoms, characterised by muscular atrophy (decreased muscle mass), weakness, pain and fatigue in limbs that were originally affected or in limbs that didn't seem to have been affected at the time of the initial polio illness.[2] PPS is a very slowly progressing condition marked by periods of stability followed by new declines in the ability to carry out usual daily activities.[3] Most patients become aware of their decreased capacity to carry out daily routines due to significant changes in mobility, decreasing upper limb function and lung capability. Fatigue is often the most disabling symptom; even slight exertion often produces disabling fatigue and can also intensify other symptoms.[4] Problems breathing or swallowing, sleep-related breathing disorders, such as sleep apnea and decreased tolerance for cold temperatures are other notable symptoms.[2]
Numerous theories have been proposed to explain post-polio syndrome. Despite this, there are currently no absolutely defined causes of PPS. The most widely accepted theory of the mechanism behind the disorder is "neural fatigue". A motor unit is a nerve cell (or neuron) and the muscle fibers it activates. Poliovirus attacks specific neurons in the brainstem and the anterior horn cells of the spinal cord, generally resulting in the death of a substantial fraction of the motor neurons controlling skeletal muscles. In an effort to compensate for the loss of these neurons, surviving motor neurons sprout new nerve terminals to the orphaned muscle fibers. The result is some recovery of movement and the development of enlarged motor units.[3]
The neural fatigue theory proposes that the enlargement of the motor neuron fibres places added metabolic stress on the nerve cell body to nourish the additional fibers. After years of use, this stress may be more than the neuron can handle, leading to the gradual deterioration of the sprouted fibers and, eventually, the neuron itself. This causes muscle weakness and paralysis. Restoration of nerve function may occur in some fibers a second time, but eventually nerve terminals malfunction and permanent weakness occurs.[3] When these neurons no longer carry on sprouting, fatigue occurs due to the increasing metabolic demand of the nervous system.[6] The normal aging process also may play a role. There is an ongoing denervation and reinnervation, but the reinnervation process has an upper limit where the reinnervation cannot compensate for the ongoing denervation, and loss of motor units takes place.[7] However, what disturbs the denervation-reinnervation equilibrium and causes peripheral denervation is still unclear. With age, most people experience a decrease in the number of spinal motor neurons. Because polio survivors have already lost a considerable number of motor neurons, further age-related loss of neurons may contribute substantially to new muscle weakness. The overuse and underuse of muscles also may contribute to muscle weakness.[8]
Another theory is that people who have recovered from polio lose remaining healthy neurons at a faster rate than normal. However, little evidence exists to support this idea.[9] Finally, it has been proposed that the initial polio infection causes an autoimmune reaction, in which the body's immune system attacks normal cells as if they were foreign substances. Again, compared to neural fatigue, the evidence supporting this theory is quite limited.[9]
Diagnosis of post-polio syndrome can be difficult, since the symptoms are hard to separate from complications due to the original poliomyelitis infection, and from the normal infirmities of aging. There is no laboratory test for post-polio syndrome, nor are there any other specific diagnostic criteria. Three important criteria are recognized, including: previous diagnosis of polio, long interval after recovery and the gradual onset of weakness.[10]
In general, PPS is a diagnosis of exclusion whereby other possible causes of the symptoms are eliminated.[11] Neurological examination aided by other laboratory studies can help to determine what component of a neuromuscular deficit occurred with polio and what components are new and to exclude all other possible diagnoses. Objective assessment of muscle strength in PPS patients may not be easy. Changes in muscle strength are determined in specific muscle groups using various muscle scales which quantify strength, such as the Medical Research Council (MRC) scale. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), neuroimaging, and electrophysiological studies, muscle biopsies, or spinal fluid analysis may also be useful in establishing a PPS diagnosis.[11]
The treatment for post-polio syndrome is generally palliative and consists of rest, analgesia (pain relief) and utilisation of mechanisms to make life easier such as powered wheelchairs. There are no reversive therapies. Fatigue is usually the most disabling symptom; energy conservation can significantly reduce fatigue episodes. Such conservation can be achieved with lifestyle changes, reducing workload and daytime sleeping. Weight loss is also recommended if patients are obese. In some cases, the use of lower limb orthotics can reduce energy usage. Medications for fatigue, such as amantadine and pyridostigmine,[12][13] have not been found to be effective in the management of PPS.[6] Muscle strength and endurance training are more important in managing the symptoms of PPS than the ability to perform long aerobic activity. Management should focus on treatments such as hydrotherapy and developing other routines that encourage strength but do not affect fatigue levels.[6] The recent trend is towards use of intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) which has yielded promising, albeit modest results,[14] but as of 2010 there is insufficient evidence to recommend it as a treatment.[15]
PPS increases the stress on the musculoskeletal system due to increasing muscular atrophy. A recent study showed that in a review of 539 PPS patients, 80% reported pain in muscles and joints and 87% only had fatigue.[16] Joint instability can cause significant pain in individuals with PPS should be adequately treated with painkillers. Supervised activity programs, decreasing mechanical stress with braces and adaptive equipment is recommended.[4][6]
Because PPS can fatigue facial muscles, as well as cause dysphagia (difficulty swallowing), dysarthria (difficulty speaking) or aphonia (inability to produce speech), persons with PPS may become malnourished due to difficulty eating. Compensatory routines can help relieve these symptoms such as eating smaller portions at a time and sitting down whilst eating.[17] PPS with respiratory involvement requires special management such as breathing exercises, chest percussion with a stethoscope on regular occasions for observation of the disease and management of secretions. Failure to properly assess PPS with respiratory involvement can increase the risk of missing aspiration pneumonia (an infection of the lower respiratory tract) in an individual. Severe cases may require permanent ventilation or tracheostomy. Sleep apnoea may also occur. Other management strategies that may lead to improvement include smoking cessation, treatment of other respiratory diseases and vaccination against respiratory infections such as influenza.[4]
There have been no sufficient longitudinal studies on the prognosis of post-polio syndrome; however, speculations have been made by several physicians based on experience. Fatigue and mobility usually return to normal over a long period of time. The prognosis also differs depending upon different causes and factors affecting the individual.[5] An overall mortality rate of 25% exists due to possible respiratory paralysis of persons with post-polio syndrome; otherwise, post-polio syndrome is usually non-lethal.[18]
Post-polio syndrome occurs in approximately 25–50% of people who survive a poliomyelitis infection.[19] On average, it occurs 30–35 years afterwards; however, delays of between 8–71 years have been recorded.[20][21] The disease occurs sooner in persons with more severe initial infection.[21] Other factors that increase the risk of postpolio syndrome include increasing length of time since acute poliovirus infection, presence of permanent residual impairment after recovery from the acute illness,[20][21] and being female.[22]
Post-polio syndrome is documented to occur in cases of nonparalytic polio (NPP). One review states late-onset weakness and fatigue occurs in 14% to 42% of NPP patients.[23]
See also[edit]
1. ^ Jonas, Gerald (18 March 2008). "Arthur C. Clarke, Premier Science Fiction Writer, Dies at 90.". New York Times. Retrieved 19 March 2008.
2. ^ a b "Post-polio syndrome: Symptoms". Retrieved 23 February 2009.
3. ^ a b c "Post-Polio Syndrome Fact Sheet: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)". Retrieved 30 December 2008.
6. ^ a b c d e Khan F (August 2004). "Rehabilitation for postpolio sequelae". Aust Fam Physician 33 (8): 621–4. PMID 15373379. Retrieved 24 December 2008.
7. ^ Dalakas, MC; Elder, G, Hallett, M, Ravits, J, Baker, M, Papadopoulos, N, Albrecht, P, Sever, J (10 April 1986). "A long-term follow-up study of patients with post-poliomyelitis neuromuscular symptoms.". The New England Journal of Medicine 314 (15): 959–63. doi:10.1056/NEJM198604103141505. PMID 3007983.
8. ^ "Post-polio syndrome: Causes". Retrieved 23 February 2009.
9. ^ a b Stolwijk-Swüste JM, Beelen A, Lankhorst GJ, Nollet F (August 2005). "The course of functional status and muscle strength in patients with late-onset sequelae of poliomyelitis: a systematic review". Arch Phys Med Rehabil 86 (8): 1693–701. doi:10.1016/j.apmr.2004.12.022. PMID 16084828.
10. ^ "Post-polio syndrome: Tests and diagnosis". Retrieved 23 February 2009.
11. ^ a b Silver JK, Gawne AC (2003). Postpolio Syndrome. Philadelphia: Hanley & Belfus. ISBN 1-56053-606-3.
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• Bruno, Richard L. (2002). The Polio Paradox. New York: Warner Books. ISBN 0-446-52907-9.
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Is it possible or likely that KO will increase the dividend after the split? In other words, if the stock is trading at $40 a share immediately following the split, is the current yield of 2.60% going to remain status quo?
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IRAN: Protesters fill streets of Tehran by the thousands
Video clips uploaded to the Internet are said to show crowds of protesters out in streets of the Iranian capital on the day the political opposition had called for a rally. The video clip above purportedly depicts crowds of students at a protest rally at Tehran's Sharif University on Monday. Sources told Babylon & Beyond that the gathering at Sharif University started in the early afternoon and that protesters chanted anti-government slogans and Allah o Akbar--God is Great-- before members of the Basij militia arrived at the scene to disperse the crowds.
Below, rally-goers are purportedly seen marching in the streets of Tehran while chanting anti-government slogans on Monday.
--Alexandra Sandels in Beirut
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The person posting under the name Cyrus Safdari is using that name fraudulently and is not the real Cyrus Safdari
It is not by coincidence these countries of Islam are having uprisings. It appears to be the constant internal struggle of Sunni v. Shias. The Sunni Islamic agenda is to create a Caliphate regime [orthodox] in the Middle East. The Shias are trying to create their own Islamic regime by trying to force their 12th Mahdi to appear so that the Shias Caliphate regime in the Middle East can rule instead.
What part of the same Rights and Freedoms enjoyed by a small number of Select few in Iran, does its Leadership NOT understnd that, their Citiizenry expects, deserves, and wants?
Its Leaders do not know or want what's right for their populace, but instead, like a bad habits, the only thing they know buried in the depth of their paranoia that their type Rule for power and control burdens their own Fears, because NONE of them would tolerate it in their lives, but find it easy with paid people facing poverty if they quit their jobs or worse as the eyes and ears and henchmen for its Leaders, to inflict what no good conscience would or should ever accept, approve, or allow.
Iranians wake up every day, the same as in the 1980's when I was there on more than 3 ocassions for weeks at a time facing the same insnaity practiced by Iranian government, with HOPE not SQUELCHED by Terrible Finite Rule.
COUNTRY & POPULACE. Operating with FEAR, no matter the reason why, has a FINITE LIFE fro more thn obvious reason. Like DEATH, the only ACTUAL INEVITABILITY of LIFE is "CHANGE", esp. for those of you who are well read, well researched, and in the know about topics that even Western nations use FEAR to get it's population to adhere to things that are more than questionable, & even illigegal through the practice of OMISSIONS.
Just as in Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Akgeria, Bahrain, Yemen and throughtout the World, not just the Arab world, you either are a part of the solution in the interest of the present and future of each of your Country's, or U intend to stick to the Nature by which you currently Rule with FEAR, INTIMIDATION, THREATS, & the DENIAL OF ANY AND ALL RIGHTS, rathen than the Conditions of the same Freedoms, Opportunities, Effort to fullfill the dreams and aspiration, and the stabilty and happiness of your own people, or U will saty on this FINITE PATH, showing that your actions contradict our Actions, and as recently as Mahmoud has shown, contradiction of what he says vs. what takes place in Iran.
IRANIANS citizens would rather be "ZENDAY GEE AZADI." Actual Freedom. Not empty words and false claims as though it true, when IT IS NOT.
If Democracy is not a word for other reasons, then only refert o it as Freedom.......Azadi! Practice it as your own as a country.
USE of the word "AZADI" as in the Square is an absolute contradiction against the people of Iran. FREEDOM. What Freedom?
Freedom is NOT the enemy or potential downfall of Iran or any other country, despite arguments to the contrary, any morethan the altered religious writings and deliberate omissions committed by even the Vatician under the guise that they know what's better to reveal, and what NOT TO REVEAL to its followers although some have always been In Plain Site.
Making workable CHANGES is the by far better leagcy to leave behind and be remembered by, than Thugery.
Mr pirooz it seems your spy and you are wroking for kamenei!
let these people live their lives!
An illuminati move to shift the regimes of Iran, Syria, and certainly others (China?). That's what Egypt is all about.
Those nations' governments won't be fooled, though, and have already mobilized against said indirect incursions...
The most powerful arguments are made by dictators at the end of a gun. In Iran, killing protesters even by the thousands is no big deal: Ahmedinejad thrives by terrorizing his people. The Ayatollahs replaced a corrupt, arrogant and tyrannical Shah: now they are the tyrants, and this time, they take the name of Allah to bolster their tyranny.
A very large proportion of expatriate Iranians, especially in the United States, were the former beneficiaries of the Shah's largess. They fled, some with much wealth, to the friendly U.S. where they were seen as "Freedom Refugees" (worth Millions of dollars!). These were the Iranian elites; had they remained in Iran, the Islamic Revolution would have targeted them as the Shah's stooges.
Any change in Iran will require the overthrow of a very powerful Religious hierarchy, run as a a Police State. This is a lot worse than even the worst of Mubarak's regime in Egypt. Neither Ahmedinejad or the Supreme Leaders (Ayatollahs) will yield to street demonstrations.
Other than inflicting severe economic pain on Iran, there is little the West or the UN can do. And sanctions hurt the people much more than they hurt their leaders. When economic distress and frustration eventually become too much to take, there could be an explosive revolt on the streets, as by then the fear of death in the streets will have been numbed by what the people already live through.
It is a very cruel choice: driving the Iranian people to desperation through painful sanctions seems to be the only way to bring a regime change to that tortured, ancient land.
The region abounds in despots: Syria, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, among them.
They fear the People, and suppress them as a matter of divine right. The most visible perversion of such regimes is the way they treat women.
After all, we must realize that in matters of women's rights, there are those even in the United States who promote and justify medieval principles to guide them, often quoting Scripture as well!
Judging by the evidence available to date, crowds appear to number in the low dozens and not "thousands".
wow, i see that Khamenei's trecherous and vile hasbara brigades in the basiji and among the crypto-stalinist left in the west are out in force today. i want to send a particular shout out to Mark Pyruz who goes by several names. he's basically a failed i.t. guy who is a known supporter of the islamic repugnant living in the bay area. mark, at least the basij get paid a few hundred dollars a month for licking the regime's feet. what do you get for betraying your country and serving as propagandist for evil?
Iranians who want an overall change, and I mean a change of government, the majority are in exile, with their children brought up in different countries. Not only do I want to see a change in the government, but also no more extremist Islam spreading its cancer over my beautiful country. These protestors saying 'Allah Hu Akbar', why? Don't use the arabic islam chants to protest against a filthy government. The imperial state of Iran, despite towards the VERY end of its years shutting down certain religious schools (e.g. bahai schools, places of worship) and the use of SAVAK, gave freedom to all IRANIANS regardless of their religion. Iranians were free, a nation that prospered, and a system that unforutnately was ran down by the USA and Britain, who still, today after all the executions, killing of innocent people and shootings, still do not bring about a change, do not do enough to change the DEGRADING, FASCIST, SEXIST AND RACIST ISLAMIC REPUBLIC. We Iranians who are in pain abroad, and those still trapped in the tyranny of the government. Held back from our country, a religion that had conquered Iran and had no right to do so thousands of years ago started this barbaric torture deep in Iran. I hope the REAL Iranians agree that the whole of Iran should be freed, every religion, every person, and most importantly, stop the spread of cancerous fascism and dictatorship completely ruining the beautiful Aryan land of Iran.
More power to the protesters, enough of the dictators!
Go Iran, go! Power to the Iranian people. Be brave! Don't give up! Oh please make this happen -- this would be the best progress possible. Down with oppression! Down with theocracy! Up with democracy! All the way! Change from within - it's your country, and you don't have to live this way. Take it back! Don't let them win. Peace to all protesters who desire freedom.
the US government must help the people of Iran to free their country
Bring it on people of Iran. Crush the Mullahs!!
regime change in Iran will secure peace and stability in the region
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By George Hart for the Museum of Mathematics
What is the largest geometric structure you have ever made? This giant Zometool construction contains 50,000 parts and is five meters in diameter.
As this detail image shows, Zometool is a plastic construction set with hubs and struts that provide lengths and angles for making mathematical models. The effect of elegant smooth curves results from many short straight pieces.
The sculpture was made at the Bridges Math/Art conference in Banff. Over a hundred people worked together to execute this beautiful design by Chris Kling, in memorial to him. At The Museum of Mathematics, we support this sort of hands-on building experience to convey mathematical principles in a fun, engaging manner.
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… and you gotta love the geodesic turban in the front row!
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What is every one looking at? Were they not informed that they were about to snap the picture?! :) …and the lady scratching her head! Awesome! Too bad it’s probably all over the Internet by now. :)
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What is 'Transcendental algebraic geometry'? Could you give me some good references in this field? Thanks.
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Transcendental Algebraic Geometry is the study of the algebraic geometry of a variety defined over the complex numbers $\mathbb C$ by concentrating on its undelying structure as a holomorphic manifold or variety.
This allows one to study the variety through the powerful tools of topology, analysis and differential geometry like : characteristic classes, elliptic partial differential equations, Kähler structure, ...
Serre wrote a remarkable article (always quoted as GAGA!) giving a very precise functorial correspondence between a projective algebraic variety $X$ over $\mathbb C$ and the corresponding complex analytic variety $X^{an}$: here it is.
Voisin's book mentioned by sweetjazz is indeed masterful but rather advanced.
Two good introductory, fairly reader friendly, books to that area are Taylor's textbook
and Wells's classic Differential Analysis on Complex Manifolds .
The latter book culminates in the profound solution by Kodaira of Hodge's problem of characterizing the Kähler complex manifolds underlying a projective algebraic variety.
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Transcendental Algebraic Geometry generally refers to algebraic geometry studied using techniques from the theory of complex variables, so that the results generally only apply to varieties defined over $\mathbb{C}$. One of the basic references for this area is Claire Voisin's two volume series Hodge Theory and Complex Algebraic Geometry.
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Griffith & Harris - "Principles of algebraic geometry" is also very good reference.
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A look at the QBs through one man's eyes
Can someone tell me the negatives?
My No. 2 quarterback? Christian Ponder of Florida State.
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Armando, I have to agree with you, but disagree.
The attitidue you speak of comes from confidence which comes from the ability to "process information quickly" after the snap. That cannot be measured pre-draft since the NFL game is so much faster that the College game.
That is the unknown re Cam Newton and every other QB prospect. Will they be able to process information and make decisions quickly. That and a highly accurate arm is what separated Montanana from the rest, despite his size. Same for Drew Brees, another "smallesh" QB.
once again, i have to agree with your comments on newton. the nfl game is much faster and newton will be playing against the best every week. i keep going back to the oregon game and thinking of how they dared newton to beat them with his arm. he couldn't do it. they shut him down. if they can do it, nfl teams will do the same. i'll bet a lot of teams around the league will use the oregon game to "scout" newton and use it against him. you're right. he is the best athlete at the qb postion. that's it. the best quarterback is still debatable. gabbert is a good looking qb but whether he is the best qb is still up for grabs.
I really like Smith as well. Are you proposing drafting him and moving Misi inside with Dansby. I like that idea, also because it's get Crowder off the team.
Where do we go to get our running back, dm1dolphan?
When do the cast-offs from the Dallas Cowboys start arriving?
I've been trying to figure out what QB Gabbert reminds me of the most. I've been struggling with this. The only guy I can think of so far is Jeff George. He doesn't have as quick a release as George and I don't think he's the a** that George was but he's the closest physically I can come up with so far. Thoughts?.....
well, therin is where the problem lies. if we are stuck at 15 and smith is there i don't think you have a choice but to take him. ingram will not be the impact player to warrant the #15 pick and there are no OL players that are that good to pick at the #15 spot. so, if it happens we are going to need to get a back in the 3rd. maybe demarco murray, if he is still around.
i'm not saying i like not having another pick until the 3rd rd but i wouldn't argue with them taking smith with the #15 if that was the choice. we have a good defense right now but it still isn't championship caliber. smith would put us closer to that "class" of defense. again, don't get me wrong. i understand the importance of fixing the offensive problems. all i am saying is, "if we are stuck at 15 i don't see an offensive player who is worth that pick." as far as ingram going to new england i think smith is the "ingram neutralizer."
finally, i'm hoping we pick multiple rb's in this year's draft. there's a lot of talent to be had and i hope we get some of it.
Having "it" is a stupid phrase that only can be recognized retroactively, after having success at the pro-level. If it was readily identifiable and a good predictor of success, then Tom Brady would have never dropped that far in the draft. The fact is, "it" is mostly a media creation, and it's continued existence is a result of the agendas of those in power.
Edit: *and is an attribute*
If we cant trade down (which i believe will be our 1st priority),we'll either grab Ingram or Pouncey imho. I just cant imagine Sparano picking a QB at #15,knowing that he still hasn't given up on Henne.
Personally,the only 2 QB's i like in this years draft are Gabbert (no chance we get him) and Locker.
Something else i must add....does anybody else think the Rams could take Ingram at #14 and possibly leave us the option of drafting Julio Jones?
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Hey Mando:
Quit exaggerating and check the facts. Ponder does NOT have ENORMOUS hands when it comes to QBs. His hand size (per the NFL Combine measurements) is simply average among QBs -- 9 3/8". This is the same hand size as Greg McElroy. It is actually a smaller hand size that Dalton (9 1/2"), Locker (9 5/8") and Mallett (10 3/4"). Now, Mallet has ENORMOUS hands. NOT PONDER.
Mando ... COME ON MAN!
one more thing about smith. a lot of people uncorrectly label him as a pass rush specialist. he had 11.5 sacks his first season and, despite missing some games, had 6 sacks last year. however, the most impressive stat about this guy is that he had 19 tackles for a loss as a freshman and 10 tackles for a loss as a sophmore. the other thing i like about this guy is HIS YOUTH. he is a young guy with a lot of skills that can end up being an impact player for many years in this league. he would be extremely difficult to pass up if we are stuck at #15.
@Jordan 12:51 Right on. Same applies to the term "franchise QB". One of my pet peeves is someone saying "we need to draft a franchise QB". One can only be a franchise QB after they've had success. Ryan Leaf was drafted to be a "franchise QB".
Nice article, Armando. Agree with a lot. But I'm still not on the Newton bandwagon. He will have to completely transform his game to be effective in the NFL. Is it possible? Sure. Steve McNair and Steve Young did it. They played similar type games in college. But those guys are the exceptions. The NFL is littered with guys who failed despite having freakish athletic gifts. Especially at the QB position.
He's not gonna have the luxury of going the McNair/Young route. Sitting and watching for years. He's gonna get thrown to the wolves right away. Someone is gonna have to have a lot of patience.
The Dolphins should select Dalton the QB out of TCU as their guy. The kid has "it" and is a winner. Colin Kaepernick should be next. Ponder doesn't have "it." I watch a ton of college football, I'm a junkie, and I know who will work out well.
I warned Armando that Saban was leaving for Alabama while he was with the Dolphins and Armando said he didn't notice anything, until Saban left. I warned everyone here on this blog that there was going to be a work stoppage this year in the NFL, and probably most of this season would be wiped out and we are on our way there. Armando never wrote about the labor problem all last year, because it scared the crap out of him like all of the media that covers the NFL because it means their jobs are on the line if it came through, so you never heard about it from Armando until the season was over.
Armando will ignore this advice too. Hopefully the Dolphins will not. I don't care what the physical stats are, all the Dolphins have to do is trade or sign for a free agent veteran QB, draft Dalton out of TCU, or if he is gone, draft Colin K. out of Nevada and their QB problems will be solved.
Just because Newton didn't play under center, does that mean he can't learn that in a reasonable amount of time? I believe a great athlete like him will. Ditto for reading coverages, that takes time for any rookie. It will all come together for Newton in time. After a few years in the pros with the right training, coaching, I believe he will excell at those things. I won't expect to see Newton in the Pro Bowl for the first couple of years, but I do believe he will be a serious offensive force and a dangerous QB 3-4 years down the line. To those of you saying you hope Buffalo picks him, you may be regretting that several Sundays from now.
There is Noooooooo Waaaaaayyyyy Newton wants to go to Buffalo. I know 3rd pick money is huge but he wants to play in the "bright lights, big city". I bet he tanked his pro day there.
i cannot believe what im reading, QB trumps all needs, if Mallet is there at 15 and we trade down i will lose all faith in ireland and sporano... year after year we drafted in the first round by need and it was never a QB ( jason allen - odrick- ronnie - etc) nad it never worked as it was supposed to
if we draf a QB and henne turns around its the bress - rivers debate san diego had, there is no losing.
i will rather take my chances on a QB and lose than take my chances on a RB or CB and lose
sorry if my english is bad... dolphins fan from Argentina
I'm not as sure about Newton as you are. I still need to know what this guy does to overcome obstacles before I'm prepared to say he'll be a good pro. He's never had to overcome adversity before and he'll have to in the pros. He's not going to start from day one and we'll have to see how good a student of the game he is and how his 'ego' handles not being the starter for a while. These are the great unknowns.
dm1dolphan, like I said, I really like Smith also. I still have to figure out how we're going to improvethe run game before I would commit to taking him. If only we KNEW we could re-sign Brown and someone like D'Angelo Williams, then we'd I'd be fine with taking Smith. How about we draft Smith and figure out a way to get back into the second round to get Williams or Leshoure. It may mean giving up our third and something else or maybe next year's second but I would be OK with that. I think somehow we need to come out of this draft with a good back.
Really Armando?? So I guess with that argument, you wouldn't want Peyton Manning either?
i agree with Ryan, everybody in the media nad most of the fans think you need a mobile QB as Rodgers or Ben, well i believe that the pocker passer is still the best to lead your team, brady and peyton are the best examples.
i will rather have a QB that stands tall in the pocket and waits for ots option than one that goes to the sideline as soon as presure arrives.
and pocket passers tend to learn where the blitz come faster as a defense mechanism
Craig M, none of us can really be sure about anything. I see in Newton a guy that is primed to be developed into a serious force. But...how can you say he hasn't handled adversity and obstacles??? He handled them pretty wel during the entire season. With all the constant negative national attention about him and his fathers doings, he still played well enough to bring his team from behind to beat Alabama and win as well win a Heismann.
picking a QB just by watching them in college is imposible, Newton may turn up to be the best of this draft in a few years or the biggest bust, you go with your guts.
everything i read about mallet, from his coaches and teammates, the arm that he has, and the potencial makes me think he is a steal at 15; if it wasnt for all the of the field rumors this kid would be a top 10 pick
I suppose you're right. But he got by strictly on his pyhsical merits. It's not going to be as easy at the next level and he's going to face even more adversity than he's ever faced before. There's an element of the public that just doesn't like this guy.
Don't draft a Q.B. this year. Sign a veteran and let Henne compete. Better Q.B's next year and we'll probably get a higher pick. Find a way to draft big receiver and pick up a RB in FA.
you asume we will have a higher pick next year, nevear asume anything, i belive we will be in the exact same spot, so if a good QB is there at 15 pick it
Craig, you know what I think? I think you don't need to be a genius to be a good QB. I think some learn the tempo of the game faster than others, some learn to read the defenses faster than others. Sure you do have to be a student of the game, and anyone drafting him will have to have gotten a feel on that through the personal workouts, interviews. Having superior athletic ability is a huge upside to have from the get go. All that stuff about adversity and next level, I think its overhyped, its the same for every qb coming into the pros. To my eyes he has already handled some major national adversity pretty well, he's been pre-tested. I think 3-4 years from now, if not sooner, he will be the most dangerious QB of this draft.
I am willing to assume that there will be a better QB available next year @ pick 28 than there is @ pick 1 this year.
Please do not define assume, we all know it.
0x80, i believe in what you say about every QB being in the same situation once they get into the NFL, but just how you think the athetic ability Newton has, i think tha throwing ability of Mallet, and his size, hes 6´7 and can see the whole field without the OL and DL innterferience is a great starting point as well
Newton has the arm and has the mobility. The mobility is more important than ever before due to how fast, athletic and aggressive the defenses are now.
Newton worked in a progressively more complex system and excelled last year. Besides Vince Young has demonstrated success in the league and supposedly he is dumb and lacks character.
Personnel people see what Newton can be and as a result he will be long gone by the time the Dolphins draft.
The problem for the Dolphins is that even if Cam was on the board when they draft, the bifecta chooses 4yr starters and team captains over guys with bigger upside and a degree of risk.
We don't agree....but that's OK. I think there's a huge jump from the College game to the pros. Some guys can handle it and others can't. If we look at recent history, we can look at two examples of guys who had great athletic talent and who failed....Jamarcus Russell and Vince Young. Neither one a workout warrior or a student of the game. Both frequently late to meetings, not guys who were heavily involved in voluntary workouts and realy not leaders of their teams. They quickly found they couldn't get by on their physical talents alone. Everyone talks about Manning's physical skills, and while that's true, it's his preparation that set him apart from others. I remember when he was first drafted, he couldn't wait to get the teams playbook so he could get to work. Is Newton that same guy? We don't know yet.
FYI , Cam newton scored lower on wonderlic than Henne. We don't need someone less intelligent than him. Q.B. is the brains of the offense. If you Google sample Wonderlic Test you'll see the types of questions. Remember low score (5) = Vince Young running naked in the streets with a gun, could'nt handle the pressure.
Guille I do assume we will have a higher pick . More losses = higher pick. The way it looks we will have a shorter season and we have to play the Jets and Pats and they're gonna be tougher this year. We have to many offensive problems.Sparano could not do a thing with the O line and he played and coached on the line. Yes I am assuming but I think I have the odds.
...If you are a Mallet supporter. That is fine. I'm not going to tell you you are wrong. What do I know. But even small comparisons to Marino, Brady, and Manning are streching your arguments. The only thing these players have in common is their foot speed, and arm strength.
But the above quarterbacks are much more technically sound. Mallet has yet to take a snap. So any comparisons are 1 not fair to Mallet. 2 an insult to the 3 Hall of Famers. I know that nobody is implying that Mallet is going to be of the same petigree of these 3. But people are still using the comparisons. (the lack of mobility being the biggest)
Before Mallet is even ready to compete at the next level. He will have to learn how to identify where the pressure is coming from, and how to adapt to the rush. NFL teams are going to bring the heat until Mallet can prove his footwork, and technique can hold up under diress. If he can avoid "happy feet" which leads to inaccuracy, and turnovers. Unlike the rest of the prospects. Mallet is a statue. His size may be a hinderance. How many quarterbacks with his height have been succesful long term quarterbacks? Not many. Sure his height will allow him to see over the line. But if he can't get away from the rush. It will not matter.
I don't know how Mallets career turns out. Just as I have no idea how any of the other guys will fare. My gut just says no way to Mallet. Especially on this team with a running game that is in limbo, and an offensive line that needs improvement. If your argument is, he is a project for the future, and these factors do not matter for this year. Let me remind you that we cannot aford to take a first round pick that will not be projected as a starter. And even if we do. Mallet would only be an injury away from being the guy. A nightmere scenario if I may say so.
With all due respect, both Ryan Leaf and Jamarcus Russell were big quarterbacks. Their size meant nothing to their game. A more important component is if they can move in the pocket. Neither one of those guys were able to do it. Dan McGwire, Mark McGwire's brother, was 6' 10" and never could get his footwork done. Total bust!! There's never been a 6' 7" in the NFL who's had success.
I have said this a few times and I am feeling VERY confident.
If our O-line is 50% better than it was last year, there is not way we have less wins this year than last.
There is honestly to much talent. This team is riding on a O-line that is consistant, and if some miracle the coaching actually improves.
That being said, I think we may be screwed with coaching. However our o-line issues came from injuries and lack of good depth. If that gets corrected, this team will be pretty good.
ok, first, im not comparing mallet to payton or brady or marino as we know them now, i say theres some similatiries when they were prospet too.
second, i know about russel, leaf, etc. but its also true that for every prospect you can find one or two examples of succes and failure, its the same for newton, gabbert, etc
third, at 15 if you can find a prospect that can potentialy turn out to be great, i will take my chance sin a great QB than Great safety
and last, i dont know the oods about next season record, but henne will be the same or a little bit better, and this young defense will be a year more wise and better, so i believe that if we do have a better pick it wont be a top10 next year either
Craig M @2:19...looks like we are on the same page.lol
Pennington tore his ACL. Poor guy can't catch a break, unless it's in a limb!
What has Vince Yound demonstrated in the league? He's NEVER played a full season and never had more than TWELVE TD passes in a season. He's thrown temper tantrums, quit on his team a couple of times, been late for meetings, not participated in voluntary workouts and basically been a distraction. With all that being said, he does still have upside but let's not given him too much credit.
Hell with it, draft a QB at 15. If he flops, you'll probably be in position to draft a good qb prospect in the 1st round next year anyway. LOL It could be a win win for everyone.
I read your previous post and thought the exact same thing. So if we can't tradedown, where are we going at 15, Darryl?
25 TD'S
At #15 you take the man with these stats:
3869 yds
64.7% completion
9.41 per att
89 long
32 TD's
12 int's
I could disagree more....but then I wouldn't expect us to be any different....LOL.
Vince does the most important thing of all, he wins games. And he wins games at a pretty high percentage.
Sure VY has many of the flaws you mention.
He is young though and has a chance to mature.
Dont worry the Bifecta will not take a chance on VY.
Which IMO is unfortunate.
Craig M...Good question. I still have no clue. Ingram would be the easy choice. And although I personally disagree with the choice. I understand it.
A lineman? I don't see Carey going anywhere. Are we going to give J.Jerry another year to develop? That would be fair. Jake Long is all world. So that leaves left guard, and center. Is 15 to high to select a center? Normally yes. But IMO, center is the most important positon on the line if you want consistancy from the unit. Will incognito be that guy, or will he play LG? This brings Pouncey into the argument. I like that pick more then Ingram.
And then there is the possibility that we go defense. If the best player on the board is a defender. I say take him. Aldon Smith would be a good choice. He can play 3-4 wolb. But again we have Misi, who like Jerry deserves a chance to improve in year 2.
So I haven't answered your question, because right now I don't know. I would guess if the draft was tommorow. It would come down to Pouncey, or Ingram. If we do not trade down. Also who knows how the draft plays out. There are always suprises in the first round.
VY has done some good things, but he has also quit on his team and went awol, then he quit on his coach when he disagreed.
I don't care how good he might be, I do not want a clown like that coming to the Phins. If that is how he is with fisher, how is sparano going to help the situation?
Sounds like a complete disaster.
Henne has won games too. Jay Fiedler won games for us also. None of that is enough for these fans. Do you really think VY is going to offer the fans of Miami enough to stay out of the doghouse?
I don't hate this idea, btw, Oregon, I'm just trying to reason it with you.
Craig, is it true that opposites attract?
I don't like our chances together Joe....LOL.
I think we're on the same page again. The part where we disagree is I want a tradedown. I think we could walk away with a Ryan Williams and a OL or a Leshoure and a guy like Dalton or Mallett. To me that would be better than Ingram. Probably my second choice would be Ingram, although I'd be awfully tempted to grab Smith if we could at 15. If there was a way for us to get Smith at 15 and get back into the second round to get a guy like Williams, that would make me the happiest. Maybe our third this year and something else. I'd even be prepared to give up our second next year. We've got to come away with a RB in this draft and Williams or Leshoure would fit the bill for me.
I agree. Realism & eternal optimism will always clash.
Or pessimism and realism...
The ULTIMATE scenario is to drop to the bottom of the 1st, if there are any takers, and pick up a 2nd this year & a 1 next year. We could even throw in a 4 or 5 next year to sweeten the deal.
Imagine having 2 #1's next year & the freedom it would allow us in the draft. Either in a trade up or use 1 of them in a trade down to acquire more?
That's what the Pats do & it's really hard to argue with their results. I don't know why no one talks about it. That's what we should be hoping for. If they are gonna trade down every year, tade all the way back to set yourself up the following season! Enough of acquiring 5-7th rounders who get cut 3 weeks into camp.
Craig, speaking the truth doesn't make one a pessimist. It makes them a realist. There is your free lesson for the day LOL
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John Robb on Punk Rock and Roll
John Robb
John Robb remembers life as a punk rocker in Blackpool
He discovered Nirvana, has toured the world with bands since 16 and is the ultimate authority on punk rock.
Singer, music journalist and author John Robb was born in Fleetwood grew up in Blackpool and now lives in Manchester.
He tells BBC Lancashire about his old stomping ground, life as a young rocker and the second generation of punk rock.
"Growing up in Blackpool is different from growing up anywhere else," said John.
"It certainly gives you a unique perspective on life; like being wet a lot of the time of the year and how summer was a strange time when the streets were full of bog-eyed drunks and you weren't allowed into any pubs in case your punk rock attire was a bit much for the sensitive tastes of the aesthetes that flocked to the town."
It was a revelation when he discovered the punk movement in the music Press. "Just from seeing the pictures of the bands, you knew what they sounded like; something that I and lots of other people wanted so badly. We knew they would sound young, sexy, angry and with loads of attitude and a bit different from the endless denim of most mid Seventies bands."
We could sense an escape route from a really dull life that was mapped out in front of us and we seized it with open arms.
John Robb
He added: "We missed the Sixties and the Beatles and although Marc Bolan was truly a god we needed something of our own - and here it was! We could sense an escape route from a really dull life that was mapped out in front of us and we seized it with open arms."
He wanted to be part of this new wave of music. "The greatest thing about punk was that it was DIY and the idea that anyone could create art so we jumped in feet first and found the water very inviting!"
He formed a band with his friends at 16 while at Blackpool Sixth Form College in 1977. The Membranes played one of their first ever gigs in what is now the Tache, the resort's lively alternative rock venue. "We plugged in all fresh faced and youthfully keen and played totally out of tune and out of time. It was quite magical."
His new-found love wasn't appreciated by everyone. Although the punk scene was quite big in Blackpool, the only pub to welcome him and his peers was the Criterion on Topping Street. That was until it changed its policy in about 1981 and they all went to the Blue Room on Church Street instead.
He recalls being assaulted in the streets and being chucked out of pubs for having short hair, big boots and for having trousers that weren't flapping flares. Instead, the punk rock stalwart and chums bought their clothes from Oxfam and cut their hair with a knife and fork!
But it was water off a punk's back. "Every week a brilliant seven inch single would come out and we were in love with life. We had punk rock to keep us company."
He also remembers nights of "endless tea, John Peel and playing guitars nose to nose whilst writing songs".
The Membranes
The Membranes toured the world for much of the 80s
The Membranes went on to capture the attention of legendary BBC Radio 1 DJ Peel who championed the noisy, high-energy outfit after hearing Flexible Membrane in 1980. They built up a staunch fan base and spent most of the 80s travelling the world touring. The band took a break in 1990 but John Robb is still touring today with critically acclaimed Goldblade which he co-founded in 1994.
He is relishing it as much as he did in his teens. "Playing round the world is fantastic fun. There's nothing better than getting paid good money to go and show off in a city you have never heard of."
Where does he get his alternative music tendencies from? It certainly wasn't from his parents: his father didn't even like pop. He was into classical music although John says he never discouraged him from punk rock. "He was quite liberal about all the punk rock stuff without having to understand it.
"A couple of years ago my parents came to see us play which is amazing when you consider at the time my father was 87!" said John proudly.
When fronting The Membranes he set up a fanzine 'The Rox' and started to write for music publications. He is seen as one of the leading authorities on music: he was credited with doing the first ever interview with Nirvana, coining the phrase 'Britpop' and the first journalist to chart the Madchester scene.
He worked on Zigzag in the early 80s and then Sounds magazine as well as writing for NME and Melody Maker and broadsheets such as the Guardian and the Sunday Times.
While at Sounds magazine he travelled to the States in 1989 after hearing a single from the then unknown Nirvana. He was struck by the band's sound and especially with Kurt's voice which reminded him of John Lennon. "I made it Single of the Week and we interviewed Kurt Cobain in New York and we all stayed in the same flat.
"We all slept in this tiny room - with no air con - and it was really hot and my photographer got run over by a bus! It didn't bother him much. Press photographers are a mad crowd."
Sounds - which used to sell 60,000 copies a week before it was closed in 1992 - was the late Cobain's favourite magazine and he wore the Sounds t-shirt with pride on tour. "He liked it because it was more down to earth and about the music and not about all rubbish that went around music."
John explained the secret of the magazine's success. "It totally reflected the freelancers' music tastes. It wasn't led by market research and it was never scared to go where instinct led; that's why we covered Manchester first and Nirvana first."
From young bands releasing their first record to legends like Ozzy Osbourne, The Roses, Sex Pistols, The Clash, Oasis, Nirvana, Phil Collins - John Robb has interviewed hundreds of bands all over the world.
So who's the coolest band he's interviewed? "To be honest all the interviews have been good for different reasons. The Manic Street Preachers were brilliant talkers when they first started; they had a real battle plan and talked it up brilliantly. The Stone Roses had a sense of legend about them, Fugazi were always direct and certain of what they were trying to do, Johnny Rotten was funny and contradictory, Joe Strummer heartfelt and Kurt Cobain was very introverted but also very sure of what he wanted."
A familiar face as a TV commentator on music for shows such as 'I Love the 60s/70s/80s/90s', he has also penned several books on the history of punk rock music to the rise of Madchester and biographies on The Stone Roses and The Charlatans. As with the rise of punk rock, John was in the thick of Madchester revolution.
Do you live a rock and roll life? Musically - yes! I go out a lot and I listen to loads of music but I don't really have much interest in backstage/rock star/drink and drugs stuff. It's never really interested me a lot
What do you get the biggest buzz from: performing, writing, going to gigs or TV work? It's all great. I can't believe how lucky I am!
Any bands you're currently excited about? Dirty North, Middle Finger Salute, Guilty Pleasure, Mike Garry, Ugly, The Horrors, all the digital pirate stations I can find on my iphone that play reggae and dubstep
Describe yourself in a sentence...a lover of nature and vegan soul power brotherhood hooligan blues punk rock preacherman!
So what was it like to be part of it? "It was thrilling time with great music and characters. I saw it all and was interested to see what a youthquake actually looked like from the centre."
His new book "Death To Trad Rock" charts the history of the UK underground scene of the late Eighties. Among the 45 bands featured is his old band The Membranes who are re-forming for the All Tomorrow's Parties Festival in Minehead late in 2009. When hosts My Bloody Valentine - who used to support the Membranes in their heyday - invited them to join them they couldn't resist.
He may live in Manchester now but Blackpool is still in his heart and it infuriates him when people knock it. He wrote the sentimental yet scathing 'Tatty Seaside Town' about moving away from his hometown.
He's currently working on a project with Blackpool Council promoting to get the message across that there is 'more to the Pool than stag parties'.
He goes back every year to his college to judge the 'Battle of the Bands' competition - even though they kicked him out 30 years ago.
John Robb said: "I love Blackpool. It's where I'm from and it still means a lot to me. The seaside town faded grandeur always sets my heart racing and I still get cheesed off when people run down the place."
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The chairman of Grimsby Town's supporters trust Dave Otter says there was a certain amount of inevitability over the sacking of Alan Buckley.
The Mariners dismissed the veteran manager after failing to win any of their opening six league games of the new League Two season.
Otter told BBC Look North: "I'm very saddened but hardly surprised.
"We haven't won a league game for six months and sooner or later something had to give."
The Mariners have gained only two points from a possible 18 since the start of the season.
They are only out of the relegation places courtesy of huge points deductions to Luton Town and Bournemouth.
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He added: "There are lots and lots of people who want to manage football clubs and there will always be a long list of potential candidates, but the difficulty is getting some quality out of that."
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Democrats failed to garner the 60 votes needed to break a Republican filibuster, with 56 senators voting Tuesday in favor of proceeding with the legislation and 43 against.
Democratic senators Blanche Lincoln and Mark Pryor, both of Arkansas, voted with Republicans against proceeding. So did Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.), in a procedural tactic that leaves him the option of reviving the bill at a later date.
Republicans objected to Mr. Reid placing restrictions on amendments to the bill and also said Democrats were loading the legislation with measures not central to defense. Republicans objected to Democratic plans to vote on a limited number of amendments, including a provision allowing certain children of immigrants to obtain legal status, which many Republicans oppose.
The successful filibuster is a setback for President Barack Obama, who had promised to end the 1993 ban on gays serving openly in the military.
Unlike gay marriage, allowing gays and lesbians to serve in the military has become a less divisive issue since 1993, when the current ban on allowing homosexuals to serve openly in the armed forces was put in place. A majority of the public supports ending the ban.
The issue has gathered more attention lately, in part because of efforts by pop star Lady Gaga, who Monday attended a Maine rally to push for the repeal.
But opponents of the repeal had lobbied sympathetic senators vigorously. Republican senators also opposed taking action to repeal the ban before a Pentagon review of the policy—which is currently under way—is completed.
"This is a victory for the men and women who serve our nation in uniform—at least for now they will not be used to advance a radical social agenda," said Tony Perkins, a Marine Corps veteran and president of the Family Research Council, which has led opposition to repealing the ban.
Advocacy groups that support ending the ban on gays serving openly complained that the vote had become ensnared in campaign politics.
"It was a major setback in treating all service members the same without regard to their sexual orientation," said Aubrey Sarvis, the executive director of the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network.
More broadly in Tuesday's debate, Republicans denounced Mr. Reid for not allowing more GOP amendments. Mr. Reid said the first three amendments would be a Republican move to strip out the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" repeal; the immigration measure, called the DREAM Act; and a provision to bar secret "holds" on legislation in the Senate.
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Richard Kang: Clearly, the emerging markets theme is very hot right now, especially for those investors who have traditionally focused on the U.S. and developed world. Many investment vehicles focused on developed markets offer little yield. Returns are as volatile as they could be anywhere; for example, the S&P 500 has gone down 50% twice in the last 10 years—once when the bubble burst and the other because of the global financial crisis in 2008. All markets are related to one another. Whether you go to Japan or Europe, what's the benefit? So for many reasons emerging markets are hot. The problem with emerging markets is the practicality of investing—they're often non-transparent and illiquid. You can't short them even if you want to. Sometimes they're hard to access, like India for example, and they're expensive to access when you consider trading costs, fund fees and other considerations. For these reasons and others, ETFs have become the weapon of choice.
TER: Please explain the term "weapon of choice" in that context.
RK: Investors seeking higher returns would like to have some kind of active component in emerging or frontier markets but they believe that this category is relatively inefficient, as opposed to U.S. equity markets, which are relatively efficient. Thousands of analysts study Coca-Cola (KO) or General Motors (GM), so those prices are pretty much where they should be. There are far fewer analysts in emerging markets but investors want to access those markets and think there's a great opportunity to churn out some added return by taking an active management approach. But stock picking is difficult for maybe 90% of investors who don't spend time in India or China. That's where an ETF makes sense. It's an underlying passive strategy with an index, but it's also a tool to actively manage one's risk exposure. India versus China, energy versus industrials or utilities—those are active decisions. For many investors, an ETF is their weapon of choice for that—plus the pragmatic aspects of ETFs that deal with the issues of cost, diversification, liquidity, transparency, shorting, etc. mentioned earlier.
TER: Why not an emerging markets mutual fund?
RK: A mutual fund company would tell you: "Please don't trade our fund because it hurts us. Administratively, it adds costs to us and to you, the investor." Not just that but the regulators have said the same thing. The market timing of mutual funds was a scandal several years back. In any case, everybody's saying "Don't do it. You should buy and hold the mutual fund," and rightly so in both cases. An ETF provider, like us, says: "Please trade these. They're supposed to be traded; that's why we build them and place them on the New York Stock Exchange." Investors around the world go to the NYSE for one reason only—liquidity. If I go to a billionaire in Dubai and say, "I can build this fund for you on the Dubai Exchange," they'll say, "Please don't do that. We have U.S. dollars and we need the liquidity of the New York Stock Exchange." That's why investors go there. Further, with more volatile asset categories like emerging market equities, many investors would rather shorten their holding period. That's the reason ETFs are traded, not simply just bought and held.
TER: Of particular interest to us are your energy and mining ETFs: EG Shares Dow Jones Emerging Markets Energy Titans Index Fund (EEO) and EG Shares Dow Jones Emerging Markets Metals & Mining Index Fund (EMT). Why did you choose passive ETFs versus actively managed ETFs?
RK: When we first launched our company, we started with the energy fund and the metals and mining fund. We felt the commodity play was strong coming out of the bottoms of March 2009; but we were not certain how strong the recovery was going to be. Clearly, the recovery wasn't that strong; therefore, it has taken a while for oil and other commodity prices to come back.
Our latest fund focuses on emerging market consumers, another sector that we're big on. In September 2010, we launched our EG Shares Dow Jones Emerging Markets Financials Titans Fund (EFN). So, we have various sectors that we're bullish on; but to diversify our product lineup, we also moved to more thematic funds focused on country-specific infrastructure (specifically infrastructure funds focused on China, Brazil and India, respectively). We also have a small-cap India fund, EG Shares INDXX India Small Cap Index Fund (SCIN), which focuses on India consumers. But we are still very keen on the idea of a sector approach to emerging markets—not just a country approach.
TER: Most of the companies that your energy ETF is tracking are large oil companies with some gas exposure. You don't have any control over what you're investing in, per se. How do you determine how you set up these ETFs?
RK: Good question, and there are several answers. First, we are not the active investor. We provide the ETF as a tool for active investors. That's a very important concept with the ETF space. You won't find any ETF provider saying they're bullish on the S&P 500 or we have a short view on oil or long view on gold. It's not what we do; we provide the tool so investors can make that call.
In the case of this energy fund, it's clear. We find these companies in emerging markets, not developed markets. When we consider the index from Dow Jones, it's Dow Jones' index but we have to be mindful that there are certain portfolio management rules that regulators impose for diversification or tax purposes. So we might have to work with them to bend the index construction rules a bit; for example, let's say we built an oil fund and it was 80% Russia. Frankly, it wouldn't be easy to justify because investors would say, "I should just buy a Russia fund." And that has happened before. In Canada at one point Nortel was two-thirds of the index. People said, "I think we should cap this index," and that's exactly what they did. That's a very good example of what many index providers do for ETFs. They say we have to cap certain things so you don't have too much weight in a particular sub-industry or country.
If it's too overweighted in a particular country or subsector, investors are going to think that's not good. Let's say, for example, we came out with a consumer fund that consisted of a bunch of emerging market car companies. As much as that may be the case based on the rules, it would not be very diversified. You want something else to diversify the fund—not just durables. So when you talk with an index provider, you have to have that discussion beforehand. Afterward, you cannot change the index so simply. It's very hard to tell investors, "Oh, we're going to change the rules."
RK: That's a very good question. For us, our sector fund has an underlying index of 30 names regardless if it's the energy, financials or metals fund. Why do we do that? Because we want to make sure we're providing investors access to the most liquid names. They are, by definition, the largest names but large often means more liquidity. If I said I'm building a gadget fund that contained Apple, RIM and Nokia, there would be no fear of buying or selling shares. If I really wanted to dump these names, or dump this ETF, it wouldn't be a problem because there's going to be liquidity to sell these. Now, let's say I built a speculative gadget fund with unknown providers in Taiwan or Korea. You might not be able to get out of that fund because if you're selling, others may also be selling out of these relatively smaller names. That's a real problem. We have the top 30 names by size and assured liquidity so, if investors needed to, they could get out.
TER: How is Dow Jones determining that?
RK: We don't have analysts picking one stock over the other. We don't make those calls, but others do. We believe, for example, many who make a call in the emerging markets will have a bearish or bullish view on India versus China. But others have more of a sector view. Most investment banks or research houses are divided by sectors, like airline analysts or retail analysts. I don't think you will find a Canada analyst or a Mexico analyst as easily.
Let's look at the Russian market. Many investors think Russia is all about oil, but that's not necessarily the case. If you're buying a Russia fund, you're buying less than 50% oil. You're also buying metals, consumers and industrials. You're buying other things but you're also putting all your eggs in one basket in terms of Vladimir Putin and the political risk in Russia. So, if you're in Russia due to your willingness to accept energy-related risk, perhaps you might be interested in our emerging markets energy fund. It's heavily exposed to Russia. As of September 30, 2010, it was roughly 29% Russia; but it also has names from China, Thailand, India, Brazil, South Africa and others to make it a little more diversified than if it were all in Russia.
TER: Most of the large holdings in this fund are in the so-called BRIC countries: Brazil, Russia, India and China. You just talked about Russia and Russian oil titan OAO LUKOIL Oil Company (OTC:LUKOY) is a large holding. What are some others?
RK: Let me first state that the most common method used in indexing many sector funds is based on market capitalization. In other words, the larger the company, the greater proportional weight you'll have in the index the fund is tracking. It's just the nature of the beast. As of today, the BRIC nations have the larger companies. You won't find the larger emerging market names coming out of Poland or Indonesia; they're coming from these four nations.
One is Reliance Industries Limited (BSE:RIL; LSE:RIGD), which is a very big position in our fund and a gigantic play in India. India is where you're going to find a lot of future growth, so much growth the country has high inflation and it's been ratcheting up interest rates there despite having a hot stock market during this recent period of monetary tightening. The investment thesis is that the Indian consumer and public sector will need massive amounts of energy for infrastructure and consumerism. It's the same story in Brazil. Petrobras (PBR) was associated with the largest IPO in history this year due to the fact that investors understand there's this big deepwater oil find off the coast of Brazil that Petrobras needs to access.
The theme is very common. Huge multinationals like Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM) and Chevron Corporation (CVX) are going to the emerging markets to get hard-to-access oil. It can't all be in safe countries, such as Canada with its oil sands. That's why the emerging market energy fund is significantly focused on oil in emerging markets because they have the supply, and the demand is kind of a no-brainer.
Another one of our holdings is China's China National Offshore Oil Corp. (CEO), also called CNOOC, which trades in Hong Kong—a very liquid market. Gazprom (OTC:OGZPY), PetroChina Company Ltd. (PTR)—these are all huge names; we're talking Exxon kind of names. What's important to understand is that you can get out as long as the portfolio manager of the ETF is able to sell the underlying shares. That means each one of the underlying positions in the fund must be super liquid. That's the reason that we have 30 names.
TER: The EG Shares Dow Jones Emerging Markets Energy ETF has averaged just under 20% since it launched in May 2009. Year to date it's at 14.1%. Are those kinds of returns enough to keep your investors happy?
For those ETF investors who are long-term oriented, I'm hoping that they're ok with those returns. It's been a tough market. Oil hasn't gone up to $100 a barrel, which I think many would've guessed after such a bad recession. What concerns us most is the short-term investor; have they been able to pick up those strong bull markets and avoid any strong corrections? Have we done our job in terms of tracking the underlying index? I think that's how we best keep our investors happy.
TER: During your time as a blogger under the banner Beta Brief in 2008, you talked about ETFs being the next wave. What's next for ETFs and those sorts of beta instruments? Please give us some parting thoughts on where you see the market heading.
RK: The ETF industry is growing. It's been around since the early 1990s, but so much of the money in the industry is concentrated in very vanilla names that are liquid—very cheap but also very well understood. One exception is the SPDR Gold Trust (ETF) (GLD), which is universally known but not a typical stock index as it tracks gold bullion prices.
I think the evolution of the ETF industry will continue with greater understanding that some of these markets are relatively exotic but that the liquidity is still there. As long as I can buy or sell the underlying positions easily, we're all good in terms of liquidity.
Now the question is: What other markets are investors going to be looking for in the future? I think they're going to look for greater returns out of a frontier market. They'll look at how they can replicate something like a hedge fund; and they'll start looking at these new, actively managed ETFs that try to mimic a mutual fund. Can those be as liquid as the vanilla strategies out there in the indexing space? I think this is the future evolution of the ETF space and we'll see if that causes investors to dump their mutual funds in even greater amounts than they have in past years. If they move over to the ETF space, will they then want to move a little bit beyond indexing to something that is more like a mutual fund, which is a little bit of active management? I'm guessing that might be the case but we haven't seen it yet. We'll see.
2. The following companies mentioned in the interview are sponsors of The Energy Report: None.
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I'm working on a WordPress based website, the webpage loads fine but the CSS and JavaScript won't load in. Here's a screenshot from FireBug:
The html pages are fine. Even the Wordpress wp-admin back end thing loads fine but without the CSS.
I have access to the server. It's a Windows server running IIS7. This is an issue that's just started, it wasn't like this on friday night and nothing was changed by me (or anyone else in the company as far as I know).
As you see I'm getting the error: "The page cannot be displayed because an internal server error has occurred."
I am really stuck on fixing this, can anyone help out?
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Have you checked the IIS logfiles? – Mathias R. Jessen Mar 4 '12 at 14:44
If nobody changed it and nothing was updates, check your access logs. Maybe you had some visitors you didn't anticipate for. – Lucas Kauffman Mar 4 '12 at 15:13
Someone else managed to fix it, it was a 'duplicate mime type' or something – Adam Waite Mar 5 '12 at 11:58
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I have 4 files (2 headers, and 2 code files). FileA.cpp, FileA.h, FileB.cpp, FileB.h
#include "FileA.h"
int main()
return 0;
void hello()
//code here
#ifndef FILEA_H_
#define FILEA_H_
#include "FileB.h"
void hello();
#endif /* FILEA_H_ */
#include "FileB.h"
void world()
//more code;
#ifndef FILEB_H_
#define FILEB_H_
int wat;
void world();
#endif /* FILEB_H_ */
when I try to compile(with eclipse), I get " multiple definition of `wat' " And I don't know why, it seems as it should work just fine.
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Welcome to the world of linking.. – Richard J. Ross III Jun 17 '12 at 15:00
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I'm not going to include all of the details, but you define a global variable, wat twice in your compilation uint.
To fix, use the following:
extern int wat;
int wat = 0;
This (extern) tells the compile that the variable wat exists somewhere, and that it needs to find it on it's own (in this case, it's in FileB.cpp)
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This answer was enlightening. – Wolfer Aug 29 '13 at 18:39
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Don't declare the variable in the header. #include literally copies and pastes the contents of the file into the other file (that is, any file that does #include "FileB.h" will literally copy the contents of FileB.h into it, which means int wat gets defined in every file that does #include "FileB.h").
If you want to access wat from FileA.cpp, and it's declared in FileB.cpp, you can mark it as extern in FileA.cpp.
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That wat variable declaration is a definition that should belong in a cpp file. It is as if you would put your function bodies into the header.
You need to put extern before the wat declaration and copy your current declaration without the extern into one of the cpp files.
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You get multiple definition because wat is declared at file scope and get's visible twice in the 2 source files.
Instead, make the variable declartion extern and define it in exactly one source file.
extern int wat; // In FileB.h
int wat; // In FileB.cpp
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I found the answer now (I guess looking at the files one after another helped) The problem is that the compiler creates a FileB.o which has a definition of wat, and then it tries to compile FilB.o with FileA.cpp, while FileA.h has an include of FileB.h it will now also have a definition of wat.
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Sorry I am new to this just wondering if someone can help, I am trying to get my label to change its text every time I click the button. Not sure how I should go about it. Can anyone help me please.
private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
string[] MonthName;
MonthName = new string[12];
MonthName[0] = "January";
MonthName[1] = "February";
MonthName[2] = "March";
MonthName[3] = "April";
MonthName[4] = "May";
MonthName[5] = "June";
MonthName[6] = "July";
MonthName[7] = "August";
MonthName[8] = "September";
MonthName[9] = "October";
MonthName[10] = "November";
MonthName[11] = "December";
label1.Text = (MonthName[0]);
label1.Text = (MonthName[1]);
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What research have you done ? is this your home work ? – wcraft Jan 30 '13 at 4:12
Simon Whitehead show the fastest way to implement. But if you want to use static button captions (MonthName), you can declare them in class scope and use then in the button1_Click function – Zeal Jan 30 '13 at 5:07
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This should do the trick:
Declare the array and an int in the class
static int i = 0;
Then in the button click
protected void btnAddMonth_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
lblMonth.Text = MonthName[i];
i = (i+1) % 12;
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That was what I was after thank you – Callum James Jan 30 '13 at 12:09
you are welcome, but keep in mind the counter is static. If it was helpful could u just mark it? – A J Jan 30 '13 at 12:30
And one more thing, nect time when u post a question do a lot of research on it first, cos if u dont do that u might get banned here. So make sure u really cant get a solution by your own n then post. Good luck. – A J Jan 30 '13 at 12:31
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Might be easier to do it this way:
DateTime currentDate = new DateTime(DateTime.Now.Year, 1, 1); // Per Habib's suggestion
private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) {
label1.Text = currentDate.ToString("MMMM");
currentDate = currentDate.AddMonths(1);
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+1 interesting :). IMO, your currentDate should be new DateTime(2013, 1, 1); so that the month always starts from January. – Habib Jan 30 '13 at 4:29
@Habib Good suggestion, I will edit :) – Simon Whitehead Jan 30 '13 at 4:34
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1. Move the array initialization outside the click handler.
2. Have a hidden label that stores the counter to determine which element in the array to pick.
Something like the below code. Please mind that this is not the most elegant code, but I wanted to keep it simple as you said you are new to this.
var Months = new List<string>
private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
labelHiddenCounter.Text = "0";
if(labelHiddenCounter.Text == "11")
labelHiddenCounter.Text = "-1";
var nextCounter = Convert.ToInt32(labelHiddenCounter.Text) + 1;
label1.Text = (Months[nextCounter]);
labelHiddenCounter.Text = nextCounter.ToString();
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Why should he create another label if a simple int is enough? – Areks Jan 30 '13 at 4:59
@Areks: Without a hidden label, how will he remember the current item index across multiple button clicks? – Thimmarasu Lanka Feb 5 '13 at 8:27
Using an ordinary integer outside the button click event, for example. Your approach is 'hacky' at best. – Areks Feb 7 '13 at 2:15
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I have
class Cab(models.Model):
name = models.CharField( max_length=20 )
descr = models.CharField( max_length=2000 )
class Cab_Admin(admin.ModelAdmin):
ordering = ('name',)
list_display = ('name','descr', )
# what to write here to make descr using TextArea?
admin.site.register( Cab, Cab_Admin )
how to assign TextArea widget to 'descr' field in admin interface?
In Admin interface only!
Good idea to use ModelForm.
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You will have to create a forms.ModelForm that will describe how you want the descr field to be displayed, and then tell admin.ModelAdmin to use that form. For example:
from django import forms
class CabModelForm( forms.ModelForm ):
descr = forms.CharField( widget=forms.Textarea )
class Meta:
model = Cab
class Cab_Admin( admin.ModelAdmin ):
form = CabModelForm
The form attribute of admin.ModelAdmin is documented in the official Django documentation. Here is one place to look at.
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For simply replacing a form widget, you don't have to create your own entire form. You can just override formfield_for_dbfield on your ModelAdmin, see my answer below. – Carl Meyer Dec 2 '13 at 20:25
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For this case, the best option is probably just to use a TextField instead of CharField in your model. You can also override the formfield_for_dbfield method of your ModelAdmin class:
class CabAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
def formfield_for_dbfield(self, db_field, **kwargs):
formfield = super(CabAdmin, self).formfield_for_dbfield(db_field, **kwargs)
if db_field.name == 'descr':
formfield.widget = forms.Textarea(attrs=formfield.widget.attrs)
return formfield
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is there any downside in this compared to the selected answer? this looks cleaner to implement as we don't need to create a new ModelForm... – Filipe Pina Feb 23 '12 at 10:30
replaced formfield.widget = forms.Textarea() with formfield.widget = forms.Textarea(attrs=formfield.widget.attrs) to keep all attributes automatically generated for the TextField, Thanks! – Filipe Pina Feb 23 '12 at 10:53
I don't know why the other answer is accepted over this one; I think if all you're doing is replacing a widget this is simpler. But either will work fine. – Carl Meyer Feb 23 '12 at 15:20
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Ayaz has pretty much spot on, except for a slight change(?!):
class MessageAdminForm(forms.ModelForm):
class Meta:
model = Message
widgets = {
'text': forms.Textarea(attrs={'cols': 80, 'rows': 20}),
class MessageAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
form = MessageAdminForm
admin.site.register(Message, MessageAdmin)
So, you don't need to redefine a field in the ModelForm to change it's widget, just set the widgets dict in Meta.
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This does retain more "automatic" properties than Ayaz's answer, but any tip on how to keep the field length validation as well? – Filipe Pina Feb 23 '12 at 10:44
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You can subclass your own field with needed formfield method:
class CharFieldWithTextarea(models.CharField):
def formfield(self, **kwargs):
"widget": forms.Textarea
return super(CharFieldWithTextarea, self).formfield(**kwargs)
This will take affect on all generated forms.
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Instead of a models.CharField, use a models.TextField for descr.
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Unfortunately, max_length= is totally ignored by Django on a TextField, so when you need field length validation (such as letting secretaries enter event summaries) the only way to get it is to use a CharField. But a CharField is way to short to type 300 chars into. Hence the ayaz solution. – shacker Apr 21 '09 at 23:45
Absolutely! Thanks. – Dan Jan 26 '12 at 0:58
This isn't a good answer because it changes the database. The point of changing the widget is to change how the field is displayed, not to change the database schema – omouse Feb 14 '13 at 21:11
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If you are trying to change the Textarea on admin.py, this is the solution that worked for me:
from django import forms
from django.contrib import admin
from django.db import models
from django.forms import TextInput, Textarea
from books.models import Book
class BookForm(forms.ModelForm):
class Meta:
model = Book
class BookAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
form = BookForm
admin.site.register(Book, BookAdmin)
If you are using a MySQL DB, your column length will usually be autoset to 250 characters, so you will want to run an ALTER TABLE to change the length in you MySQL DB, so that you can take advantage of the new larger Textarea that you have in you Admin Django site.
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For new and completely revised tricks and dark corners of STL go here: Hidden Features and Dark Corners of STL
I've been using more "modern" c++ constructs for a while, but kind of superficially and not everywhere. I'm looking for open source projects to study that are good examples of Modern C++ and STL usage.
Things like what is suggested in Meyer's "Effective STL", such as trying to avoid for loops and replace them with more functional constructs, using boost::bind and boost::function, etc. These still feel a little unnatural to me, and when I have to get something done fast and working, I tend to drop back to libc and string.h (you can have my strtok when you pry it from my cold, dead, hands).
However, I've also had the positive experience of finding what would be a drastic change simplified because I've used these constructs, or being able to implement something with just a few lines of code because I had the right operators and functors lying around. In addition, I've recently been paying more attention to concurrency, and so this is becoming even more important to me.
Can you recommend some examples of well-written open source projects that make heavy use of the STL and other modern c++ techniques that I could study? I'm particularly interested in application code, browsing the boost sources has been helpful but it's by necessity very general because it's library code.
I'm interested in medium sized to larger projects, at least a few tens of thousands of lines. It's pretty easy to find examples that are a few hundred lines long but that's not too helpful.
Thank you.
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Can I take away your strtok() but give you strtok_r() in return? It's thread-safe and reentrant. – Adam Rosenfield Feb 10 '09 at 21:48
yeah, I'll give you that much.. ;) – joeld Feb 10 '09 at 21:51
I gave up strtok when I wrote a tokenizer class that returned a const_iterator from its begin() method to let me iterate through the tokens. – Daniel Earwicker Feb 10 '09 at 22:26
Boost's String Algo, Regex, Spirit, Xpressive (and even Tokenizer if you are unfortunate) will eat strok() alive. :) – J.F. Sebastian Feb 11 '09 at 5:57
I didn't mean "modern" in the general sense. Capital-M "Modern C++" is a specific programming style, described in the Alexandrescu book. And I'll take a bit of umbrage with your "COBOL" comparison -- I don't think anyone is going to be writing video games in a trendy language like Ruby anytime soon. – joeld Jun 8 '09 at 19:16
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Here, you find several interesting examples of how Boost is being used in open source projects:
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That's great! I always miss the obvious places to look.. – joeld Feb 11 '09 at 19:55
I'd rather have found one excellent example, these each use boost and Modern c++ to varying and lesser degrees, but this was the best source of real-world examples (not just snippets) that I could find. – joeld Apr 11 '09 at 1:24
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Meyers is ok, however, if you really want to push yourself, you have to read
Andrei Alexandrescu - Modern C++ Design: Generic Programming and Design Patterns Applied
It will blow your mind. What you learn in the book describes the Loki library.
One of my favourites is the int to type conversions:
template <int v>
struct Int2Type
enum { value = v };
I've used it in the past for my C++ XML serilisation library for pre-allocating vector<>'s before loading them with data:
// We want to call reserve on STL containers that provide that function,
// namely std::vector.
// However, we would get a compiler error if we tried to call reserve on
// a STL container that
// did not provide this function. This is the solution.
template <bool b, class T>
class CReserve
static void reserve(T &lst, const int &n)
{ reserve(lst, n, Loki::Int2Type<b>()); }
static void reserve(T &lst, const int &n, Loki::Int2Type<true>)
{ lst.reserve(n); }
static void reserve(T &lst, const int &n, Loki::Int2Type<false>)
{ (void)lst; (void)n; }
Notice the private specialisations above. Well if you look closely, one calls reserve(), the other doesn't. This is a template specialisation using a bool as a type.
which in tern is used by:
template <bool bCallReserve, class T>
bool STLSerializeClassType(MSXML::IXMLDOMNodePtr pCurNode, T &lst,
CXmlArchive &archive, const char *name)
} else {
T::size_type nCount(0);
CReserve<bCallReserve, T>::reserve(lst, nCount);
T::value_type temp;
temp.SerializeXml(archive, pCurNode);
To make things simple in users C++ code, I added a lot of helper definitions
#define SERIALIZE_XML_STL_CLASS(list_name, bCallReserve) \
(pCurNode, (list_name), archive, (#list_name))
so in your code you'd use something like:
std::list<CFred> fredList;
or for vectors:
vector<CFred> fredList;
Anyway, I'll stop wittering on... Thats just putting the simple Int2Type<> template to good use. There's loads of clever stuff like getting the compiler to compute a ton of stuff beforehand by clever use of enums. Truly awsome book.
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+1 for blowing my mind – rmeador Feb 10 '09 at 23:11
Why not write a template reserve function that does nothing, and then a specialization for std::vector that calls reserve on it? That way the caller doesn't have to pass a bool to control whether reserve should be called. It just figures it out based on the container type. – Daniel Earwicker Feb 10 '09 at 23:21
Yeah, I love that book. That's exactly the type of stuff that I'm trying to apply on a larger scale. – joeld Feb 10 '09 at 23:23
I got mind overflow. Does this code stop looking like "write only" after reading the above mentioned book? – Muxecoid Feb 11 '09 at 13:07
infact, you can do better than that with traits by not explicitly specifying TRUE/FALSE in SERIALIZE_XML_STL_CLASS(...), imho. – Comptrol Feb 17 '09 at 15:03
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Actually, I had a look into Google Chrome and would recommend it. Google's C++ coding guidelines are a good scaffold for large project. They are used/adopted in our team, too. Moreover, I am very happy that they are providing their C++ mocking and testing frameworks as open source projects. Very handy for large projects where you miss a lot of the nice test stuff from the Java/Managed world.
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I will check that out. I didn't realize Chrome was open-source! Thanks! – joeld Feb 10 '09 at 23:24
I looked through it, great code, great example but not very "Modern C++" style. – joeld Apr 11 '09 at 1:24
Google's coding guidelines are ancient and they are not a good example of modern C++ style. – user1203803 Jun 3 '12 at 14:29
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I'm not sure about "well written" but there are a few things out there like Hypertable and KFS that are system-level software that both use Boost and STL extensively.
I have heard some things about OpenOffice and Google Chrome but I haven't looked at their source code to know how precisely they use the STL. I've peeked at KDE but I wouldn't necessarily call that modern C++. I can tell you that some code I'm working on is doing lots of modern C++ but alas it's not open source -- although I think it's just a matter of time and patience to get the modern C++ approach out and have more open source projects adopting the idioms.
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Thanks, I'll look into those. That's been my feeling, too, that "modern" c++ gets used a lot on in-house projects but don't get a lot of more visible "public" usage. – joeld Feb 10 '09 at 23:41
i like KDE it's really modern C++ i think, using the pimpl idiom very strongly. – Johannes Schaub - litb Feb 11 '09 at 5:52
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Not really projects, but here are a couple of snippets:
Sample use of boost::thread / boost::bind:
class X { void expensive_operation( int argument ); };
int main()
X x;
boost::thread thr( boost::bind( &X::expensive_operation, &x, 1000 ) );
std::cout << "Thread is processing..." << std::endl;
std::copy, std::transform, BOOST_FOREACH:
int main()
std::vector<std::string> v;
std::copy( std::istream_iterator<std::string>( std::cin ),
std::istream_iterator<std::string>(), std::back_inserter(v) );
BOOST_FOREACH( std::string & s, v )
transform(s.begin(), s.end(), s.begin(), toupper);
The snippet will read from user input a set of strings into a vector. Then for each string in the vector it will convert to upper case and finally output the result.
Our applications make heavy use of boost::signals and boost::function to decouple classes where it is not time critical, mainly in UI classes:
class ContactDetailPanel;
class ContactListPanel {
void update();
void edit_completed( bool change );
boost::function< void ( Contact & ) >& edit_contact();
int main()
ContactListPanel clp;
ContactDetailPanel cdp;
clp.edit_contact() = boost::bind( &ContactDetailPanel::edit, &cdp, _1 );
cdp.edit_completed() = boost::bind( &ContactListPanel::edit_completed, &clp, _1 );
ui::signal_update().connect( boost::bind( &ContactListPanel::update, &clp ) );
Each panel has no information about other panels. The code that binds panels together has the flow knowledge (to edit a contact use contact detail panel, notify edit completion to contact list panel). Also, there is a global signal to notify panels of updates to the underlying model.
This is specially helpful when you need to write test code. There is no need to implement mock classes to replace working code for testing. Tests just instantiate the class and connect the functions/signals to test code without the tested class noticing, following the principle of least intrusion during tests.
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boost::to_upper(s) could replace transform(s.begin(), s.end(), s.begin(), toupper). – J.F. Sebastian Feb 11 '09 at 6:01
for_each(v.begin(), v.end(), cout << _1 << " "); or foreach (string s, v) cout << s << " "; could replace std::copy( v.begin(), v.end(), std::ostream_iterator<std::string>(std::cout, " ") ); – J.F. Sebastian Feb 11 '09 at 6:19
cout << _1 << " " - requires boost::lambda, which I have tried but do not feel comfortable enough to write a snippet out of the top of my head. I did not know about boost::to_upper(s), thanks. – David Rodríguez - dribeas Feb 11 '09 at 7:32
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Adobe has published a good deal of modern C++ open-source code in the last couple of years, which is probably worth checking out:
I believe their GIL library either has been, or is in the process of being added to Boost. their STLab contains a ton of functionality too which, from what I've seen is very clean, and very much STL-style.
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I tried to use GIL about a year ago and found it really amazing from a design standpoint, but unrealistic for real world work. Compile times were bad, it was amazingly difficult to debug, and having to any_image<> type was awkward. I'm keeping my eye on it for the future tho. – joeld Feb 11 '09 at 19:54
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Here is a snippet to concatenate vector of strings into one string:
vector<string> vecstr;
vecstr.push_back("efg"); // etc.
string concat = accumulate( vecstr.begin(), vecstr.end(), string("") );
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I've heard claims from some people that you don't need to defragment hard drives formatted as NTFS (perhaps even from Microsoft at one time), while others say it needs considerably less defragmenting than FAT.
So how often should I defragment my NTFS drives?
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Personally, I still find that defragging a drive every few months helps keep everything moving quickly. It's not as dramatic an improvement as it used to be, but it still seems to help.
I'm more curious whether SSD drives will make defragging unnecessary, since the penalty for random reads is so much lower than with HDDs.
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Defragmentation runs once a week on schedule on Vista and Windows 7, although it was also optimized to only do what's necessary as not to impact system performance (there are a few good articles in the Windows and Engineering Windows 7 blogs, containing hard data on the subject). Also SSDs can't be defragmented on Windows 7 as it doesn't do much good in terms of data access speed but does much more bad in terms of destroying your SSD (remember, Flash RAM only has a limited amount of write operations). – Joey Jul 20 '09 at 11:41
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You would think a solid Chinese GDP report would lift the Australian dollar, what with China being Australia's biggest trading partner and all.
Plenty of investors did think that - and they were proved wrong on Friday.
"Investors got all bulled up into the China numbers," says Amelia Bourdeau, director of foreign exchange at Westpac Institutional Bank. But while GDP did improve, "the outcome for the China data was already priced," she adds, so the Aussie moved lower after the report.
But Bourdeau told CNBC's Melissa Lee she thinks the Australian dollar is poised to rise again.
Stock market volatility has been low, which is usually good for the Aussie, Bourdeau says. "I think overall the backdrop to the risk scenario is constructive, and I want to go for another run up."
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The Australian Dollar falls as China rebounds, with CNBC's Melissa Lee and the Money In Motion traders.
Bourdeau wants to buy the Australian dollar on a pullback to 1.0460. "I think the market has some bids sitting around at that level that make it very interesting support," she says. She wants to set a stop at 1.0360 and a target at 1.0650, above the hard-to-break 1.0600 level.
Andrew Busch, a CNBC contributor, is more bearish. He points out that Australia recently reported a "crummy" unemployment rate, and inflation in New Zealand is very soft. "Either the Chinese numbers are priced in or bad things are happening in Australia. There's a disconnect," he says, and he wants to sell the currency until it breaks above 1.0650.
But Todd Gordon, co-head of research and trading at Aspen Trading Group, is relatively neutral. He thinks risk appetite is solid, but he is frustrated by the Aussie's seeming inability to move above 1.0600. "When this thing goes, it's going to go," he says. "But I don't know when."
The Australian dollar fell after China reported solid GDP growth, puzzling currency investors. This strategist thinks the Aussie is poised to rise again, and she has a trading plan.
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But will it be enough to push sales?
Source: Bloomberg
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I don't understand MS
By BRB29 on 6/3/13, Rating: 0
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By Motoman on 6/3/2013 11:15:28 AM , Rating: 3
"High end" tablets wind up costing more than laptops because they try to squeeze in laptop-level power into a form factor with 1/2 the space...or less.
The problem with MS is they think they can compete with Apple on product. This is the mistake many vendors make...they think that consumers are buying Apple products at incredible margins because of the Apple product itself.
They're not. Apple consumers don't buy iThings based on the characteristics of those things. They buy them because they're Apple. Apple consumers have never been concerned about quality, specs, fitness-for-purpose, and certainly not price...they're concerned about tithing to their church, and that's all.
No one competes with Apple. Either you're an Apple consumer, or you're not. Other manufacturers need to stop worrying about Apple and just engage the market on their own terms. The only company that can do anything about Apple is Apple. Either the people will one day realize that emperor is wearing no clothes and move on, or they won't. Nothing that you can do about it.
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By BRB29 on 6/3/2013 12:26:47 PM , Rating: 2
The reason why Apple came back strong is because of their attention to quality and overall package. It started with the Ipod which brought people's attention to mp3 players. At that time, apple fanboys were almost nonexistent. You can't claim Apple's loyal customers are unreasonable and will buy anything when they barely had any.
Laptops used to look like crap too. It is extremely hard to attract people to drop Windows when their OSX did not have everything people need. It was their overall package that made it appealing especially for the price given.
I understand there's a lot of apple fanboys now, but the majority of apple consumers buy it because they trust the reputation of "high quality, great customer service and it just works". Some of that may not be true anymore, but their reputation is mostly still in tact.
So saying either you're an apple consumer or you're not is inaccurate. I have OSX, IOS, Windows 7/8, Android at my house. Most people I know don't go full Apple. Most iphone users I know switched to iphone for 2 main reasons: Less crashes and longer battery life. A few wanted a smaller phone that is not crap since 4" android alternatives are cheaply made and low quality.
RE: I don't understand MS
By Cheesew1z69 on 6/3/2013 12:40:18 PM , Rating: 4
At that time, apple fanboys were almost nonexistent.
Yet again, something you know nothing about. Go figure.
RE: I don't understand MS
By Motoman on 6/3/2013 12:42:29 PM , Rating: 3
The reason why Apple came back strong is because of their propaganda that created a new social construct around their products.
Sorry BRB...not going to agree with you at all on any assertions that Apple's resurgence that came with the iPod had anything to do with product quality or anything else. They marketed themselves into a religion, and that's what drove their success. Apple products are legendary for poor quality and design, let alone ridiculously high prices. At least, amongst normal people. Apple consumers are happy to ignore the long history of awful product designs and quality.
The Apple of old became the Apple of new due to genius propaganda and a gullible populace eager to purchase things that would make them cool.
RE: I don't understand MS
By BRB29 on 6/3/2013 2:15:14 PM , Rating: 2
Apple didn't have money back then. They couldn't market themselves like they can after the initial success. Ipod was the first product to create a whole package so that users dont have to figure out anything. No learning curve or instructions are needed. I had a Nomad that was technically superior in every way except "ease of use", continuing support and ecosystem was not there. Sure, it easy for me but I can see most people wouldn't want to deal with it.
Itunes was also the first ecosystem that a company is willing to fully support. The product itself is not impressive but the overall package is.
They used the same philosophy in every other product they launched.
That was a quick search. I am just basing my thesis on my own observations and knowledge of business.
I don't know how you can say that Apple does not have quality. The quality is there. They have a better track record than most companies. Their customer service is pretty good every time I had to deal with them.
Like I said before, they've fallen lately with quality and support. Given that competitors have caught up, they are using their reputation and marketing more than actual quality in products. Their high prices are harder to justify now.
RE: I don't understand MS
By Motoman on 6/3/2013 2:33:11 PM , Rating: 4
Apple's track record on quality and design is horrible. It's amazing how people love to forget the vast numbers of awful product defects and poor engineering that go into Apple products.
The general cycle at Apple is this:
1. Introduce product as "OMFG teh best evar + MAGIC"
2. People point out design and/or quality flaws
3. Apple ignores them.
4. Apple blames the user.
5. Apple issues a fix or workaround of some kind, never having admitted anything was wrong in the first place.
Rinse and repeat. iPads that don't work outside, iPhones that blow up, all manners of screen issues, yellowing cases, iPhones that can't make phone calls, so on and so forth. Not to mention the fact that iThings sell like people's lives depend on them even when missing blindingly-obvious functionality, like no copy & paste on an iPhone or the ability to swap a battery.
The internet is awash in information about how horribly bad Apple engineering, product design, and quality is. It's also awash in people who love to forget that information, or pretend it doesn't exist.
RE: I don't understand MS
By BRB29 on 6/3/2013 3:33:52 PM , Rating: 2
All the problems you listed are real and they were eventually fixed. Blaming the users does leave a sour taste in some people.
You're right on the marketing part. They HAD a very a good marketing team. But to be fair, they did not have that at first. Now I feel like Apple is half surviving on its reputation and marketing.
The simplicity of their products and missing features is their design choice. It's also the choice of consumers to not purchase it.
Nobody forgot about Apple's blunders, there's just so many others every week with other companies. Since there are as many haters as fanboys for apple, anything bad will be blown up also. Just like anything good will be disproportionally exaggerated.
RE: I don't understand MS
By EnzoFX on 6/3/2013 2:15:26 PM , Rating: 2
How ignorant. It's just as bad as being on the opposite side shouting Apple Rules! You are no better by spewing ignorance. To say Apple's products has no merits whatsoever...
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Only Mactards try to pretend any different.
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By timothyd97402 on 6/3/2013 6:30:58 PM , Rating: 2
BULL! I work on a lot of computers, laptops, even tablets. I sell them too. Nearly 100% Windows & Android passing through my business.
I own an iPhone 4s. It is quite simply the highest quality piece of gear that I own. The Android devices (mostly) don't compare on build quality. Don't even get me started on the plastic pieces of crap that are the vast majority of Windows laptops.
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RE: I don't understand MS
By Argon18 on 6/3/2013 3:51:49 PM , Rating: 1
I don't think you understand the Apple market too well. Its nothing to do with "tithing to their church". Making such a claim takes all credibility out of your argument.
Apple invests a metric buttload of cash into user interface R&D. Plus they design both the software, and the hardware, from the ground up, so they're very tightly integrated. The end result is a super polished feeling product.
Buy a Microsoft PC, and the OS came from one vendor, and the hardware from another. Plus a bunch of 3rd parties have their hand in the pot, in the form of bloatware. The hardware is usually bottom dollar cheap stuff too. It's often times clunky to use, non-intuitive, and unreliable.
You've got to examine the whole package here, hardware + OS + value added software. You can't just look at the OS and proclaim "Windows > OSX" because that's only one piece of the puzzle - a piece that most non-techie consumers don't give two craps about.
RE: I don't understand MS
By BRB29 on 6/3/2013 3:59:52 PM , Rating: 2
Not so much the hardware anymore though. Although they designed their software specifically for the hardware instead of a wide range of compatibility.
so much attention on RT...
By xti on 6/3/2013 10:50:38 AM , Rating: 2
...when they could be pushing PRO tablets to be cheaper, most in the limelight, etc...
x86-compatible iPad killer is something i cant see failing...yet they are trying hard to prove me wrong...
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Here's why it would fail: it doesn't exist.
How about $100?
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Jeffery Johnston was a 22-year veteran motorcycle officer. He also pleaded guilty in October to possession of a firearm in a drug-trafficking crime and was sentenced on Monday.
U.S. Attorney John Walsh said in a statement Tuesday the fact that Johnston was involved in trafficking illegal drugs while also serving as a law enforcement officer was "particularly disturbing."
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Getting worse every week! - FarmVille - Facebook Application Infotainment
Newest Review: ... plant will wither if you forget to harvest them, most of the time you will have to start again plowing these plots and lose the coins you ... more
Getting worse every week!
FarmVille - Facebook Application
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FarmVille - Facebook Application
Date: 20/08/12
Advantages: Good social game
Disadvantages: Too many technical issues
Farmville is one of many facebook games I have played over the years since I joined the site. I find myself coming back to it from time to time but soon getting sick of it again.
When the game starts you are presented with a farm, it is your job to place plots to grow fruit, vegetables and flowers. You are to plow the land, plant the seeds and then harvest them when they are ready.
You also buy animals and trees and harvest them when they are ready. The time animals, trees and seeds take to harvest varies depending on the species, for example strawberries can be harvested after 4 hours and watermelons take 4 days.
You can add neighbours and visit their farms to gain coins and experience and sometimes find gifts. You can send and request gifts to and from your neighbours. You now have the ability to add neighbours without having to be friends with them on facebook.
You progress to a higher level by gaining experience points. There are many ways to gain experience points (XP's) and here are a few examples:
Plowing a plot of land costs you 15 coins and gains 1 XP. You also gain XP's for planting seens, the amount of XP's varies depending on the harvest time ranging from 1XP to 10XP.
Each crop, tree and most animals have mastery rewards. For example if you harvest 200 plots of one type of plant you will reach mastery level 1 and receive a generous XP and coins reward, harvesting 500 will get you to level 2 and bigger rewards and harvesting 1000 will get you to mastery level 3 and larger rewards again. Seeds you plant will wither if you forget to harvest them, most of the time you will have to start again plowing these plots and lose the coins you spent on the seeds. Occasionally you may find an unwither spray which you can use to unwither crops and harvest them as normal.
The mastery levels also apply to trees and most animals although these will not wither.
You also gain XP by completing missions which are on the left hand side of the page, there are usually 2 or 3 requirements to complete a mission. One element of the task may require you to publish a request asking for an item. You will need neighbours to click these requests to give you the items you require. Another part of the task may require you to harvest a certain breed of animals so many times and another element may require you to harvest a certain amount of plants.
When the mission is completed you will receive coins XP's and a reward (this could be an animal or a decoration).
When you first start farmville the quickest way to increase your levels is by gaining ribbons. There are lots to get. Each type of ribbon has 4 levels.
You gain ribbons for the amount of neighbours you have, how many coins you have, coins spent, trees harvested, plots plowed, crops harvested, fertilising neighbour crops, the amount of animals you have, buying and placing decorations, placing fences, opening mystery eggs (found in neighbours' chicken coops) and many more. For each ribbon you achieve you will receive coins and lots of XP's.
You can either start a job yourself or join one which a neighbour has start. These jobs require you to set up a team and harvest a required amount of crops in a time limit to gain medals. For completing these jobs you receive coins, XP's and some kind of reward.
This is quite a new feature. There is a leaderboard for each task which changes weekly. You are to compete with your neighbours to reach the top of the leaderboard and receive XP's and rewards for moving up the leaderboard. The task could be to harvest a certain plant, to harvest the most trees, feed the most baby animals or craft goods in your workshop.
You will start with quite a small farm, but you can expand this as you go by paying coins or asking neighbours for help in expanding. You will also need to collect parts to create storage buildings to save space on your farm. There are many types of buildings now including a horse stable, dairy farm, chicken coop, orchard, duck pond, zoo and more.
You can also buy a tractor, seeder, harvester or combine harvester which is good for large farms as it allows you to seed and harvest multiple plots in one go.
You will receive bushels from harvesting plants and trees which will go to your workshop and market. This allows neighbours to buy bushels from you and you can buy bushels from your neighbours. You will need a combination of bushels to create goods in your craftshop. These goods can then be converted to fuel to use in your machinery.
I enjoy the game but the problem I have is that they have tried to add so much to the game to improve it and it's just too much to do. With these added features came more glitches and I frequently have to refresh the page as it freezes or something goes wrong.
You now not only have your home farm, you also have an english countryside farm, Lighthouse cove farm, Jade falls farm, winter wonderland and Hawaiian paradise. Each land is a new farm with different scenery and animals and you can either pause these while you are on another farm or let them running so you could have plants growing in every land.
When they added the first couple of farms I thought it was a good feature as I would use one for my trees, one for animals and one for crops. Now there are too many, sometimes it takes a while to travel between farms and it's too time consuming.
Another negative in this game is it is difficult for people with few neighbours to complete many of the tasks. Also some of the items in the market can only be bought with farm cash (FC). You receive 1 FC every time you reach a new level. Others use a credit/debit card to purchase FC so it would be very hard to catch up with your neighbours' level if they are spending money on items.
Overall I found it fun at first and tend to go back to it to kill boredom now and again but normally end up giving up again because it is either too slow or freezing up.
The application is also available as a mobile app for phones or tablets so you can tend to your farm on the go. I don't use this as my make believe farm isn't of that much importance to me.
I think this started out as a fun game and I used to enjoy competing to reach a higher level than my neighbours, but I think they have tried to add to much to the game which if anything has made it worse.
Summary: Worth a look to decide for yourself
Variety of features: Variety of features
Reliability: Reliability
User friendly: User friendly
Installation: Installation
Update possibilites: Update possibilites
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So why is the Democratic contest still perceived as a competitive race? Turns out it's our fault:
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Church attendance in recessions
No rush for pews
A counter-intuitive finding from the pollsters
See article
Readers' comments
As prevalent organizations with penetrating branches in nearly all corners of a city, churches can be considered as a functional social indicator. what a church provides are mainly two, namely social support and entertainment.
Social support is obvious that when you encounter difficulties or being in deep water, you would find your friends to talk to and seek advice from them. a church is a place where you can find your back-up when you are seriously troubled by economic downturn, family disharmony and torturing physical illnesses.
Entertainment, though neglected by most, is likewise crucial. The leadership of a church would hold various activities for members like, hiking, football match, outing and so on. Going to church is a pastime in some sense. For instance, during school days I go to church once a month whereas I go once a month during summer vacation.
would the unemployed visit church more frequently? it lies to be investigated.
Because of the dominant influence of evangelical Protestantism in the United States, the Americans tend to equate religion to the Bible-belt type of Christianity with its homophobic, creationist and jingoistic nonsense.
The fact remains that the largest religious denomination even in the US is not any Protestant denomination but Catholicism (which by the way is actually more progressive than many evangelical denomination), and that outside of America many mainstream religions have been secularized and made acceptable to any sort of secular state. Therefore I appeal to all atheists, stop your vitriolic attack on people practicing their religions.
seathanaich When I came to the same faith as my father, I pracitised it very differently and by so doing, I became liberated from the coercion and persecution that you mention. I would ask those who have found religion to be soul destroying to take a very long and careful evaluating look at it and try it out with the true spirit and meaning of it or the BEST they can find in it. Liberating beyond belief, it was when I did that. Did you know that whilst St. Paul urged women to be obedient, although we should ALL be giving way to one another more readily, MEN were called in the same part of St Paul to SACRIFICE themselves for their wives as Christ sacrificed himself. Interestingly enough, some people attend church more when things are going well. Their back has not gone and they can afford a car to take them and the children are not all down with something. Makes sense really.
As religion loses the powers of persecution, coercion, and ostracism, more and more people can objectively evaluate it. When they do so, stripped of parental and societal indoctrination, they can see the creation and afterlife myths for what they are - fairy stories from a time when human imagination exceeded human knowledge. Yes, we don't want to die, but wishing death away doesn't make us immortal. Once supernatural superstition is discarded, very little culturally is actually lost by discarding religion; atheists, though not perfect, are free of the harmful effects that religion creates. Church attendance in the US is at 20% weekly (10% in other English-speaking nations). This hasn't changed, and won't soon. But those who don't go will eventually all be like Scandinavians - non-believers who are no longer forced to mumble along with rituals they know are empty.
Any claim that people turn to religion in an economic recession is similar to the "no atheists in foxholes" claim - propaganda unsubstantiated by any objective data.
And when considered dispassionately, not very flattering to those making the claim. The existence or not of a deity, and any consequent obligation to worship it, would surely be independent of what is happening to the Dow Jones or the NASDAQ.
As for "shrill voices" ...
There may be a distinct decline in religion in America. No longer is it culturally advantageous to claim membership in a church. Religion is hopeless. Many have left the pews and returned to Pew. Others have found hope and new life in their desperation - and not just for life to come.
Though I might use the same language and hazard to call the spiritual economy a growing market, I think MicCalifornia's comment is disingenuous. There is more than one church--and to blur all together their various flaws and virtues (which there are many, from a secular standpoint even), not to mention lumping them with palm readers and con men, is a typical and painfully myopic rhetorical strategy.
In fact, an increasing amount of Americans checking the “no religious preference" box while church attendance remains steady is a phenomenon that can be explained by religious pluralism. We are in an era when many different venues for spirituality are available, and in the public arena at least, coexist neutrally due to institutional secularism. It does not provide evidence of the decline of religion in the US, aside from the increasingly shrill voices of atheists.
I think that the option of turning to scripts written at a time when less than 1% of today's knowledge was known should be seen as a last resort.
The Church is a business selling an invisible product.
I think psychics, palm readers and con men of all stripes are feeling the pinch of this recession.
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Economics focus
Dismal ethics
An intensifying debate about the case for a professional code of ethics for economists
See article
Readers' comments
re watchingchina Paul Krugman is not promoting a structural deficit he pleading for a cyclically neutral budget rather than the pro-cyclical contractionary budgets the country as a whole has in place. Krugman's has an economic philosophy that assumes straight forward basic truths such as 'business cycles do exist' and 'people do not behaviour in a purely rational way', as behavioural economics continues to show to be irrefutable.
Your economic philosophy requires assumptions that are simply, provably inaccurate, and are promoted by economists who know them not to be true but espouse them anyway to be popular to those they want to like them. This is the reason economics so desperately needs a code of ethics because most arguments are between classical economists who know their asumptions are false and the rest of us.
Well, if all you read was the article, there really isn't much to say about professional ethics in economics because there isn't much of a definitiion of ethics.
Can we at least distinguish arguments of competence (Krugman and the like) from arguments of conduct? And later in the article, positions of economists employed by organizations on the free market side, supposedly subservient to free market arguments, a black-white view of the private sector that could only come from socialists. Even Krugman himself is employed by a NYSE organization (however unprofitable), going to put him in the dock as well?
So it looks like this ethics argument is simply a stalking horse for professional arguments-by-other-means. In which case, sure, put an "ethical" strait jacket on a subset of professional opinions. Wouldn't be the first professional organization demoted to rank of cheer-leader for the progressive future, nor the last.
It is hightime econonists had a code of conduct. This will professionalizid economics. On the issue of biased reporting due to affiliation,the potential code of conduct will stand as a guard against misconduct. Ethical issue is a human problem and not just an economic issue.
There is another, greater difficulty with the presumption that full disclosure of financial ties to industry allows us to make better judgments about economists' conclusions: too many people automatically assume that advocating less regulation is in the interests of a given corporate client. In fact, I suspect the reason for the lack of a discernible difference in regulation advocacy between those with industry ties and those with no ties is that certain regulations are favored by large industry players, since they know that regulations create barriers to entry and prevent smaller competitors from gaining as much ground. So the automatic conclusion of ethical purity, which some might reach when an economist with financial ties to Wall Street (e.g.) favors this or that regulation, would (in many cases) be fallacious.
Would it be too much to ask of a scientific society that they seek out some empirical data on the effects of professional codes of ethics before they proceed?
Peter Price
Well because economics permeates all levels of society, from politics to socail dynamics, it was inevitable that it would become a moral question as well.
I'm dubious of what a proffesional code of ethics would do, and believe more research should be done on the professional code of ethics influence in other professions, before essentially imposing them on economists.
I also believe the article is perhaps misleading in suggesting that economists are heavily influenced by their financial relations. Similar to historians I am sure that regardless of one's beliefs you must consider and analyse credible alternatives, particularly when it's a nationwide affair such as the economy.
That economists have no code of ethics is not huge news. I suspected that for years. That they are considering one is. Hopefully, they will choose to join other respectable professions with strong codes of ethics and adopt one that makes a difference.
From the book "AN AUTISTIC WORLD (1)"
We have built our increasingly complex world on the shoulders of knowledge and trust, and challenging any of those facts can cause us astonishment and disappointment. The quest for reaching a satisfactory result, thanks in great manner to the developments of science and technology, has made us forget the essence of our intelligence; which is to be aware that there is a space between each step that we take. What makes a society special, is the ability of its individuals to materialize new ideas, finding solutions to emerging problems, accepting in the process the realization of conflict.
He (Socrates) supported a state of virtue and justice where the citizens were informed of the advantages of finding and defending the truth over their own personal interest. To him, the community must strive to be righteous towards the individuals that form its body, and it mustn’t censure or scorn those that could help. To achieve that end, Socrates states that: “The easiest and noblest way, is not to be crushing others, but to improve yourself.”
chris macrae
My resarch of 40 years of dad's writings in The Economist shows that the humbling question - what is the purpose of economics? - is worth asking in 2 parts. 1) Originally did the forefathers of economics, including Adam Smith and James Wilson, see the main purpose of economics as aiming to advance the human lot by investing in next generation. 2) Did the purpose of Economics in the West turn in an opposite direction during the 3rd quarter of 20th Century. Depending on how you profile yourself on this 2 by 2 grid a lot of consequences follow - including whether we will seize the opportunity to make the net generation the most productively free and most valuably goal oriented ever. http://worldeconomist.net One segment of this grid is launching a new journal next month out of Glasgow University where Adam Smith's archives are still treasured.
Theoretically, a code of conduct is always associated with professionalism. And it wouldn't harm the "dismal science" to receive the long overdue recognition as a professional field...
Dr.Ramesh Singh CIVILS INDIA
Such situations are obvious- economists playing double or triple roles! The very loyalty of the expert is having the chances of getting influenced even more since most of the economists suggest incentives to the workforce. The world is witness to the Swine Flu controversy where the panic button was pushed by the WHO board members and it was found that many of the board members were on the boards of the private medicine companies producing flu vaccines! So we have a world with worhty knowledge capable of getting even Nobel Prizes but the very 'ideology of time' has given us a life style devoid of ethics! The search for a better world still continues!
Good article.
I doubt though that disclosure is the greatest of the problems dealing with economists. I believe the real problem is ideology, particularly political.
For example, looking at the US-China trade balances:
If you consider the basic economic facts, the RMB exchange rate plays a very small part in that equation. The largest factor is that the US has so completely de-industrialised itself that it has little to sell that China wants to buy. And the things China does want, the US labels as 'strategic' and refuses to sell.
A second part is that a substantial part of China's surplus is due simply to the import/export accounting system, where China imports $50 of parts for Apple, adds $10 of assembly, and Apple exports the item at $250. China is charged with the entire amount as a 'trade surplus' - which of course it is not.
There are other factors, but you get the idea.
And even a first-year economics student already understands that when a country has structural defects, like the US does, these cannot be addressed through exchange rates.
In any case, for the past 35 years the US has consistently run trade deficits with more than 60 countries and the total today is more than 90 countries. So it isn't just a "China Problem".
But many US economists, Paul Krugman as one foolish example, ignore the incontrovertible facts and appear to be guided solely by their political ideology (or perhaps patriotism).
Krugman, for e.g., ignores the 90+ deficit countries and paints the entire picture as a bilateral problem. And he blames virtually the entire problem on China's RMB exchange rate, suggesting it should appreciate at least another 25% to 40%. He knows that won't help the trade deficit. He knows there is no example of such a result. He knows that Japan's Yen doubled in only two years and yet its trade surpluses with the US only continued to grow. He knows that China's RMB appreciated by almost 25% and the deficit only increased.
We can excuse US politicians for either their patriotism or ignorance, but Krugman has no such ready defense. His position on the US trade deficit would serve only to destroy China's continued growth - and he knows that better than any of us.
Ahd there's no question he's being consciously misleading and dishonest. Krugman has repeatedly and consistently bitterly accused China of maintaining its currency value at an artificially low level. And then, lo and behold, the US begins their quantitative easing program - in which of course, the US would be doing precisely what they accuse China of.
And Krugman refuses to address the issue, preferring to write on political matters. His only reference to the printing of money was a short paragraph buried in a political article. I told him that was really quite a cowardly thing for him to do, that given his incessant vocal attacks he should have had the courage to face this - and to face his readers. He chose to avoid it altogether.
To me, this is a serious issue of professional ethics - a man with wide knowledge, stating facts as they truly are (when it's to the advantage of his country), but then dissembling with those identical facts when they go against the US.
In my mind, THAT is what we need less of, and where the real ethical problems lie. I don't believe this will change because nobody with political leanings will sacrifice them just for the sake of the truth.
Should economists reveal their affiliations etc. which I think they should thus helping to bring more transparency, How would the Economist deal with its policy of nondisclosure of article bylines?
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Put them back on the Federal Budget
The latter assumption is important. Support for one future path for the GSEs—total privatization—can be based on the notion that the government should just stop providing so much support for home ownership. That's a defensible argument, but I take it that's not the point of this question. The current degree of support for housing makes many economists cringe, but there aren't many successful politicians who are going to run on a platform of reduced policy support for housing. Economic policy has many higher priorities than trying to persuade voters to lower government support for this sector. Most, though not all, analysts believe these supports were not a principal reason for the housing and credit bubble.
If there is going to be some degree of government support for housing finance, Fannie and Freddie should be brought onto the Federal budget as agencies that guarantee conventional mortgages and create a secondary market for them by securitising these mortgages. This avoids an investment portfolio for the GSEs, which produced the massive losses that the taxpayers are now covering. Any support for an economic sector should be run through the Federal budget to assure the normal disciplines that go with the budget and appropriations processes. Any alternative should clear a high threshold.
Various proposals for hybrid arrangements fall short of this threshold. These would privatise the companies but give them an explicit government guarantee, which the companies would pay for. Simply put, it's hard for a private company to serve both shareholder and policy interests. That was one lesson of the financial crisis. Also these proposals raise many political economy risks—regulatory capture, political influence buying, “corporate mission creep”—that characterised the status quo ante.
Unfortunately in the policy world the “on-budget” option has been labeled (by its own advocates no less) as "nationalisation". That's a good analytical description and it characterises next steps, but it shows a tin ear to the political debate. This option just restores Fannie Mae's status prior to 1968, when LBJ, to prevent the Vietnam War from pushing total Federal spending above critical levels, moved Fannie Mae off budget and created the government-sponsored enterprise. | http://www.economist.com/economics/by-invitation/guest-contributions/put_them_back_federal_budget/print | dclm-gs1-091200001 | false | false | {
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Google Launches Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab
Google Launches Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab
Quantum computing promises to dramatically accelerate important computational tasks in ways not seen before in traditional computers or supercomputers. Traditional computers use binary arithmetic for their logic, while quantum computers replace binary arithmetic with the laws of quantum physics. Quantum law applies to all physical systems at the atomic scale. Because a quantum computer can require fewer steps to achieve a result compared with a conventional computer, it can achieve much faster performance than a conventional computer.
A Google spokesperson declined to comment further about the lab when contacted by eWEEK.
Google has actually been involved in other quantum computing initiatives in the past, including previous collaborations with D-Wave and NASA.
The search giant is involved in many research fields in computing.
In February, it announced its first-ever Google App Engine Research Awards to seven projects that will use the App Engine platform's abilities to work with large data sets for academic and scientific research.
Google is active in providing resources for research and educational projects in many areas. Also in February, the company announced its ninth annual Google Summer of Code contest, which invites college students to learn about the world of open-source code development. The program has involved some 6,000 college and university students from more than 100 countries since its start in 2005.
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Two Sons (One Circumcised and One Not), a Scottish Presbyterian Husband, and Me (the Jewish Mother)
March, 2000
I hoped that I wouldn't have a boy. A girl would be so much easier — no brit.
"But why circumcision?" asked my quiet, red-headed, polite, of-Scottish-descent — in other words, not-Jewish — husband. As well he should, since we hadn't circumcised our first son when he was born.
Me: "But I wasn't involved in the Jewish community then. I'm in it now, we're raising our kids to be Jewish, they attend Jewish schools, we celebrate the Jewish holidays."
Him: "It's unnecessary, cruel and barbaric. Judaism's supposed to be so ethical, moral and civilized. Who's going to check, anyway?"
Me: "It's a way of welcoming a new male person into the tribe. It's a communal thing. Jews have done it for thousands of years. They're not any more violent or traumatized than anybody else."
Him: "This tribal stuff, that's the whole problem. It's the cause of so much violence, religious persecution, war, torture, suffering, inquisitions. My tribe's better than your tribe, so I'm going to kill you."
"We wanted him to look like his dad, of course," one friend said.
"It has to do with cleanliness," said another.
"My parents insisted," another friend explained.
Would I still be a good Jew if I didn't circumcise my son? The circumcision of the infant is the father's obligation. If there is no father or the father is unwilling, it is the obligation of the beit din (rabbinical court). And what if there is no beit din, but only a very tense, hysterical mother? I comforted myself with the idea that if I can't do this one mitzvah, there are 612 others.
There was something about Jewish ritual that commanded that you actually do it, not sanitize it or spiritualize it. Certainly one can think about commandments and study and pray and question, but the thing itself has to be done, whether it's tzedakah (giving charity), lighting Shabbat candles or brit milah. In fact, brit milah really symbolized a quality that I craved in my spiritual searches — the bridging of the bitter and the sweet, heaven and earth, being and doing. It's the charoset (Passover dish of apples and honey) and the horseradish, the sweetness of birth and the pain of the brit milah.
What I began to realize was how Jewish my life had become. Even married to a Presbyterian, I felt I was living as rich and full a Jewish life as I could. I was managing this incredible balancing act. Part of what helped was belonging to a wonderful, Modern Orthodox shul (synagogue). What also helped was that we did not live near my husband's family (they were involved only peripherally in our lives, and they knew nothing of our dilemma).
"Everyone's circumcised now, it's not a symbol of being Jewish anymore," my husband added in amazement and perplexity as it seemed that I would not compromise on this one.
"We're living Jewish lives, this will make it easier for him as he grows up. I want this for him," I answered.
As it turned out, the decision seemed to be made, somewhat mysteriously, through God's grace, or our love for one another, or through sheer exhaustion. My husband acquiesced, not totally understanding, not knowing why, but I would have to attribute his decision to the strength of his love for me and our children and this sometimes strange entity that is our family.
So we have two sons, one circumcised, one not, a father who is not Jewish but is circumcised, and we are a Jewish family. Sometimes I relish this experiment that is our Jewish family, sometimes I wish it could be easier.
Laura Abby Lipman
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Back when I was a kid, all you did was flick on the TV and sit and watch sports.
You were moved, inspired and driven to be just like those guys, those athletes who dazzled you with their brilliance.
They were role models — or so we thought — because all those athletes were great talents, engaging with their followers and giving an image of being the perfect person.
Back then.
This is probably the point where I sound like I’m slipping back to that forbidden land. I sound like I’m reenacting my grandfather’s “You kids have it so easy” speech before talking about how he walked 10 miles to school, uphill both ways.
But, that’s not it. Everything has changed dramatically.
When I was young, my idol was Rocky Colavito, the right fielder for the Cleveland Indians. That’s who I wanted to be.
I wanted to play right field, which was a blessing to my Little League coaches. With my limited athletic skill set, that’s exactly where they wanted me to play. I volunteered to basically stand out of the way.
As I grew up, I was a huge fan of other athletes. I had man-crushes (or at least boy-crushes) on the likes of George Brett, Michael Jordan, Wayne Gretzky, Larry Bird and John Havelick along the way and admired guys like Cal Ripken Jr. as I reached adulthood.
Those were the days.
But the good ol’ days are gone for good, or so it seems.
Nowadays, when you flick on the TV, the chances of seeing a game — a really good game — are about 50-50. There are so many games being beamed, the quality either fails or you have to be very specialized in your tastes.
And then there’s the other part. You turn to watch sports and you get the athletic version of a car wreck. All that stuff you don’t want to see, but can’t help staring at.
This week, there were two of those incidents.
First, Lance Armstrong admits that he blood doped while competing as a cyclist.
As it turns out, he was a recyclist. He took out blood to be used later, to help him dominate his sport.
Now, after years of rejecting the injection question, Armstrong decided it was time to end his deflections.
The second was the saga of Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te’o, the Notre Dame linebacker who was duped into believing a woman he conversed with on social media was his soulmate. A very convoluted story tells how he was a victim of a hoax in which he developed an emotional connection with a “girlfriend” he never met, who “died” before he laid eyes on her. | http://www.latimes.com/sports/hm-parasiliti-we-build-athletes-up-then-tear-them-down-20130120,0,4541223.story | dclm-gs1-091580001 | false | false | {
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Music and Lust II: Jaden's Homecoming
Music and Lust II: Jaden's Homecoming
Jaden comes home to Philly for a concert and reunites with his best friend, Giselle.
A deep sigh left Jaden Dennis' mouth as his plane landed at Philadelphia International Airport. He couldn't hold his smile in even if he tried because he was home. Finally, after almost a year—after eight months he was home. He was there as one of the acts playing at Power House on Sunday, but at the moment, he couldn't care less about all that.
It was Monday, so that meant he had a week back home and he was going to savor every minute of it. He was back in the real world, where he wasn't Jaden, the R&B star, but Jaden Dennis, the man. He was going to get some rest and relaxation while chilling with his family and friends.
"Glad to be home, I see." His manager AJ said with a smile.
Jaden grinned like a cat, "Ahh, you know it."
"Well, there's a car waiting outside. . ."
"Along with a flock of reporters," Jaden interrupted.
AJ laughed, "That too, but make it short and brief with them 'cause you know your family's waiting on you."
Jaden nodded, "Yeah, I called Shateira and she's all ready at the house."
"You can't wait to go home, huh?"
"I can't wait another second," Jaden said before blotting toward the plane's exit.
He waited for the stewardess to open the door and when she did, his hazel eyes were hit with the flashes of what seemed like a hundred cameras. AJ came up from behind him and put a supportive hand on his shoulder. Jaden gave her a nod and took his first step off the plane, reporters crowding around and shouting questions.
"Welcome back! How does it feel to be back home, Jaden?"
"Where's your first stop going to be?"
"Is there anyone special you've come back to see?"
Jaden smirked at all the questions asked of him. He knew a lot of nosey people in his life, but no one was nosier than reporters.
"First off, it feels great to be back home in Philly." he began, walking down the steps. "There are a lot of special people I'm trying to see and if you all excuse me, I'm off to my first stop—home."
The driver of Jaden's car opened the passenger side door for him and AJ to get in as the reporters kept shouting questions. Jaden rolled his window down, so they could get their fix of him, waving and flashing the peace sign.
"Peace and love, y'all, but I got to go home!" he shouted just before the car sped off for Sharpnack and Upsal Street in the Hood of North Philly.
The drive from the airport was a good half an hour. All through it Jaden still couldn't believe he was home. He pinched himself a few times to see if he wasn't dreaming and when he arrived in front of his old house; he pinched himself so hard that he bled a little. Stepping out of the car, the driver handed Jaden his travel bag that he slung over his shoulder.
He smiled bright at his house, "Home sweet home."
"Isn't it," AJ said before giving him a side hug. "Well, what're you waiting for, Jay?"
"Nothing," Jaden said as walked onto the porch and rang the doorbell.
The door instantly opened as Shateira answered. After pushing the door open, she pulled her little brother into a hug.
"Hey, baby boy." she said hugging him tightly while kissing his cheek and forehead. "I missed you so much."
"I missed you too, sis."
"Mom and Dad here?" Jaden quizzed as brother and sister separated.
"Yeah, they're in the backyard." she said while giving AJ a knowing look behind his back.
"Let's go then. I know Ma's been waiting on me." Jaden said rushing past her into the house.
Jaden made a beeline straight for the backyard, but was stopped dead in his tracks by his family and friends yelling, "Surprise!"
Shateira and AJ hugged both sides of him suddenly as a few tears fell from his eyes. His eyes looked up to see a huge "Welcome Home Jaden" banner with balloons everywhere along the smell of his favorite foods that he knew his mother cooked. Wiping the tears from his eyes, Jaden composed himself and stepped outside. He hugged his mother, Janet and shook hands with his father, Wayne.
"Hey, Jay-Jay." His mother said after kissing him square on the lips.
"Hey, Ma."
"Why didn't you give a brother some warning, Shateira?"
Shateira shoved him playfully, "'Cause it's called a surprise party, stupid."
Jaden smirked, "Well, I'm definitely surprised, sis."
"When you see who's here than you'll be even more surprised."
"I bet," Jaden said to himself and his certainly was as he met up with people he hadn't seen in years.
He was amazed so many of his family members and friends were there. His former B4L band mates were in attendance along with neo-soul diva, Kayla and Atlanta's hottest rapper, Sean Major.
"Yo, Sean, what're you and Kayla doing here?" he asked giving Sean dap.
"C'mon, it's you're homecoming, Jay, like we'd miss it. Plus we're playing Power House too."
"We're going to turn that place up and out." Sean added.
"You know it," Jaden said with a laugh.
"Mmhm, I'll talk to you later 'cause I see a fine piece of ass coming this way."
Jaden laughed, turning around to see the eye candy Sean was checking out and his eyes widened as he let out a low gasp. The chick they were both staring at was drop dead sexy. She had long black, wavy hair with brown skin colored in the sweetest shade of apple-butter. The woman's body was curved in all the right directions with a slim waist, a plump, juicy backside, and 38DDs.
Sean was drooling with his mouth hanging open while Jaden and the woman's eyes stayed on one another as the woman was Giselle Williams. Three years had passed between them, but they could have spotted each other anywhere like needles in a haystack. Jaden could never forget Giselle since she was his best friend since they were little kids and while they never truly dated, she was his high school sweetheart. Even though they hadn't seen each other physically in three years, they kept in contact through Facebook.
"Damn . . . just damn, Jay. Please tell me you know her, so you can hook me up."
Jaden smirked, "I know her, but no."
"C'mon, Jay. I came all the way from the ATL for this. A guy's got needs,"
"I feel you, but no. Find another chick to bed. She's off limits,"
"Damn, you got history with her?"
"A whole lot, Sean."
"Good or bad?"
"All good,"
"So, why didn't y'all get together?"
"We were placed on two completely different life paths, but can you find somewhere to be 'cause I don't need a wingman for this."
"A'ight, man." Sean said with a nod, giving Jaden departing dap. "Handle your business and I'll check you later."
Sean left Jaden standing there as he came face to face with Giselle, who looked stunning in the red and yellow sundress she wore. Jaden couldn't help, but stare at her for a minute.
Giselle's hands found her wide hips, "So, are you just going to stand there or are you going to make me beg for a hug, Jay-Jay."
Jaden wrapped his arms around her and inhaled the sweet smell of cinnamon—Giselle's signature scent.
"I'd never make you beg for anything, Giselle." he told her, hugging her tight.
As the two friends disconnected, Jaden caught Giselle slyly giving him a once over and she liked what she saw, licking her bright pink lips suggestively. Jaden knew he looked good from the moment he finished getting dressed that morning. He wore white Adidas sneakers, dark blue denim jeans, and a black t-shirt with an open red flannel button-up shirt over it. It was simple, but it accentuated his muscles while bringing out his bronze skin and the tattoos on his right arm.
"I know there's a party going on, but do you think we could get away and talk?" Giselle suggested.
Jaden smiled, "Since you're my best friend and all, I don't think anyone will mind."
"Where can we go?" Giselle quizzed.
"Ma's going to kill me, but how about my room?" Jaden joked.
Giselle laughed, "I think that'll work."
Moments later, Jaden and Giselle walked into Jaden's old bedroom and while Giselle sat on his bed, Jaden took in his surroundings because his parents hadn't changed one thing since he left to pursue his music career. His room was still painted sky blue with his pictures of Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson, and Stevie Wonder hanging on the wall. His urban fiction books were stacked neatly on his bookshelf while on his dresser sat his first place science fair trophies along with pictures of him and Giselle from his prom and high school graduation.
Giselle stood up, picking up one of his old trophies, "Do you even remember how much of a nerd you were, Jaden?"
"Yup, every time I just randomly start researching stuff on the internet."
Giselle giggled, "You still do that? You're such a nerd."
"Hey, my curiosity just peaks at times, but you're one to talk miss R.N. saving people lives . . . I'm proud of you, girl."
"Not as proud as I am of you, mister New Breakout Artist. I was watching the VMAs. I damn near jumped out of my seat when you won."
Jaden laughed, imagining her reaction to him winning his latest award.
"Yeah, I can see you doing that."
"Shut up," Giselle replied with a hand wave. "Seriously though, you did it, Jaden. You went after your dreams and succeeded."
Jaden pulled Giselle towards him, wrapping his arms around her. "Well, I would have never left if it hadn't been for you. You were my biggest supporter back then, Giselle."
"Back then? I still am. I was wondering why you didn't talk to me about your scandal with AJ."
"I didn't want to drag you into all that. The tabloids are monsters. They don't care who they hurt as long as they get a good story out of it."
"I know, but I'm just glad you came out of it all right. You know I worry about you."
Jaden's hands slid down Giselle's back and they rested on her backside, "You're always worrying about me."
Giselle moaned as Jaden squeezed her booty, "I really don't have a choice when you keep putting yourself in dumb situations."
"Like when Chris and his friends used to pick on you or when you tried to stand up to your dad. Or. . ."
"I get it," Jaden cut her off. "You were always there for me though, baby girl."
Jaden and Giselle's lips locked together quickly in a passionate kiss. Giselle moaned as Jaden's tongue slipped into her mouth. Three years had passed, but the love between them was still there. It had been there since both of them hit puberty. Their love was like a flame. You could put it out for awhile, but when it was ignited again, it burned just as bright as before.
"Damn, y'all two are still at this?" Shateira's voice suddenly asked, making them break their kiss. "Will y'all please just get married all ready!"
"You can't knock, Shateira?" Jaden asked, annoyed.
"The door was wide open, Jay. Just be happy it's me and not Ma."
"You've got a point there, but can you give us a minute."
"Yeah," Shateira said with a smirk before walking away from the lovebirds.
"Um, so, why don't we head back outside, huh?" Giselle said awkwardly as she was still in Jaden's arms.
"Yeah," Jaden said with a nod. "At least I know you still love me."
Giselle kissed Jaden softly, "I never stopped, but at least I know that you still love me too."
Jaden returned the kiss with one filled with his passion, "I see you've got jokes, but I never stopped either."
"We should probably stop kissing, Jay-Jay."
"Mmhm, we both know we don't want to."
"We have to 'cause people are going to wonder where the guest of honor is,"
Jaden broke his hold on Giselle and let her rejoin the party. He grabbed the picture of him and Giselle together at their high school graduation, smiling. He gave his old bedroom a scan with his eyes. Just like his room, nothing had changed with Giselle. She still held his heart. She'd been holding it forever, but it wasn't until twelfth grade and the night after Jaden's graduation party that he finally got to truly show it.
Jaden remembered the night well as it was the night he and his father's relationship changed—the night Jaden chose to follow his dreams.
Three Years Ago. . .
It was ten 'o clock at night and the fun atmosphere from Jaden's graduation party had been swallowed by the tension of the heated argument between the Dennis men in front of the Dennis women.
"Really, Jaden?! You're still trying to pursue this music bullshit?!" Wayne yelled.
"It's not bullshit, Pop! It's my dream. They offered me a recording contract and everything." Jaden countered, angry at his father's stubborn ways.
"This music thing, son, there's no future in it. There's no pension, no 401 (k) plan. . ."
"401 (k) plan?" Jaden cut his father off. "This coming from a man, whose family lives off of food stamps and an SSI check. Dad, I can change all that. For all of y'all. You say there's no future, but I know I can make it."
"There's no future in that except if you're looking to sell your damn soul to make money, Jaden."
"Y'all always said that I was a good writer and a great singer. I love doing it, so why not get paid to do what I love?"
"Jaden can sing, Daddy." Shateira interjected.
"Will doing what he loves guarantee food on the table, no, Shateira!" Wayne roared, silencing his daughter.
Wayne turned back to Jaden, "Back to you. Why can't you just go to college like your mother and I want?"
"They offered me a deal and I'm taking it. It's my life not yours!" Jaden shouted, getting in his father's face.
Janet and Shateira gave each other concerned looks as it looked as if the men were about to come to blows.
"All right, that's enough." Janet spoke up, standing from her seat and getting in between the men. "Calm down, y'all."
Janet hugged her son and kissed his forehead, "Look, baby, your Dad just wants the best for you."
"No, he doesn't, Ma. He wants what's best for him not for me," Jaden told her. "This isn't just about my music. It's about Dad's lack of respect for me and what I love. I'm doing this for the family, so we'll never have to struggle with bills or worry about food when we use up the last bit we have on the Access Card."
With that Jaden went to his room, slamming the door shut only to reemerge a few minutes later with his jacket on and book bag over his shoulder.
"Where do you think you're going, boy?" Wayne quizzed enraged.
"Out," Was all Jaden replied with before walking out the front door as his father didn't know where he was going, but he along with Janet and Shateira knew exactly where—to Giselle's.
A quick walk up the street and around the corner led Jaden straight to Giselle's. When he made it to Giselle's house, he found her standing outside waiting on him after he called her before leaving his house.
"Come in, but you've got to be quiet." Giselle said as she led Jaden into her bedroom.
"Is your mom here, Giselle?" Jaden asked nervously.
"No, my mom's not here, but she will be in a while and you know she'd kill me if she knew you were in here, Jay-Jay."
She went to her bedside table and retrieved a pillow and blanket, so Jaden could sleep on the floor. They'd done this many a time before. As the more Jaden dreamed of a music career, the more he and his father argued, forcing him (secretly) to spend the night at Giselle's.
"We've been best friends since first grade. Your mama knows me and I know to be gone before she wakes up." Jaden said, sitting on the floor and leaning up against Giselle's bed.
"So, what's the matter? Is it your dad again?"
"Yeah, we got into another fight about my music again and I got so mad that I stepped up to him." Jaden explained.
"Y'all didn't fight did you?" Giselle questioned, sitting beside him.
"Naw, my mom got between us. He says there's no future in my music, but I know I can make it."
Giselle put a supportive arm around him, "He couldn't have said that. Look at all his favorite artists. Marvin Gaye made it. Sam Cooke made it."
"He said it straight to my face. You know what, I don't even care. I can't understand why he's so fucking close-minded."
Jaden let out a sigh, "I haven't told anyone yet, but remember that talent show I did a while back?"
"Well, this talent scout named Alexis offered me a contract to sign with her label, A&B."
"What?!" Giselle asked with a stunned look on her face.
"She's trying to put this Jackson 5, New Edition type group together and she wants me in it. I'm ready to sign and get out of Philly. If I sign I'm moving to New York."
"So, what are sitting here for, Jaden? You better sign. This is what you've been wanting. You better go after it."
"I know wanting my family's approval and all that, it's really been me just buying time. I'm only here for you anyway. I know with my music and you going to college, we're going to lose each other."
Giselle shook her head at Jaden's last statement, "Uh-uh."
"Giselle, you're going to Penn State. I don't know what I'm going to do without you."
At Jaden's words, all Giselle could do was hug him. She hated to admit it, but he was right. They were going in two different directions and there was no meeting in the middle of it. Both teens' emotions were running high and as they ended their embrace, their emotions spilled over into a passionate kiss started by Jaden which Giselle reciprocated instantly. The kiss was hot, long, and before the two knew what was truly happening, they found themselves naked in Giselle's bed.
The two friends slept together this night, but it would turn out to be their last night together since Jaden signed with A&B the following day and was gone by the next week. So, from then on, both kept the memory of this night in their hearts, but never brought up it. They never needed to. They loved one another, but their life paths separated them and they wouldn't even let love stop them from achieving the goals they'd set for themselves.
The Present. . .
Jaden went back to the party and enjoyed himself, but all he could think about was being alone with Giselle again. The party started outside, but quickly moved all over since it was mid-January and it was a brisk day. People were inside the house and out. Jaden missed his mother's home-cooking and having his personal life blend with his professional under genuine circumstances was nice. The whole day was cool except for when Jaden let everyone listen to the demo of his newest unreleased single and Wayne walked out of the room. It pissed Jaden off, but support from his mother, sister, and Giselle quelled the situation before anything could start.
"How long do we have you, Jay-Jay?" Janet asked as everyone sat outside.
"Just a week, Ma. I'm performing at Power House on Sunday with Sean and Kayla then I got to head back to New York. I'm just trying to rest up really. The concert Sunday is actually the first one of a ten-city tour. Touring's not easy and I'm just glad I get to chill before it all starts."
"Lord knows you need it, too."
"Once we hit the road though we're going to light the country on fire." Sean spoke up, giving Jaden a pound.
"I've got a few rehearsals for Power House, but other than that I'm free."
"Good, so at least we've got time to catch up." Giselle said putting an arm around him.
"Didn't y'all do that all ready?" Janet asked, giving them a look. "Y'all were in the house for a whole half hour."
"We talked for a little, but that was just a quick stroll down memory lane." Jaden spoke up at his mother's gaze.
"Yeah, we got interrupted and had to cut it short." Giselle added.
"Aww," Shateira cooed. "I know how close y'all were growing up. Don't mind us. Head in the house and keep at what y'all were doing."
Jaden and Giselle glanced at each other a minute, because Shateira knew what they were about to do. Earlier she busting their chops for it, but now she was giving them an out. Since they kissed each other earlier, there was only one thing on both of their minds. Knowing it could be there only chance to be alone again though, they took it.
"Thanks, sis." Jaden said, standing up.
"Don't mention it," Shateira said giving her brother a knowing wink.
Once again, the high school sweethearts were back in Jaden's room, but things weren't jumping off like each thought it would. The two friends stood close, strolling back down memory lane, talking about prom, being nerds and how unpopular they were in school. After a joke though, Giselle broke out laughing.
Jaden smirked at her, "What? The joke wasn't that funny, Giselle."
"No, it's not that. It's just- -I know why we're here, Jay-Jay, but it's funny 'cause last time we were like this we were in my bedroom and now we're in yours." Giselle explained. "Plus your mom didn't change it, so it feels kind of feels like fate or something. I never forgot that night."
"What night, Giselle?" Jaden quizzed, feigning like he didn't know what she was talking about.
"C'mon, Jay-Jay. Please don't tell me you forgot." Giselle said wrapping her arms around Jaden's neck. "Are you that--Was--You don't remember?"
"You came over after that fight with your dad," Giselle said, starting to plant gentle kisses on Jaden's face, the memories of their night together fueling her actions. "It was us, we--you don't remember under my girlie bed sheets."
With each new kiss, she began caressing Jaden more and more. "You don't remember having your tongue in places. . ."
She was silenced by Jaden kissing her back. "Yeah, I remember it all, baby. I was just playing. I could never forget it. I told you that I loved you that night and since we all ready christened your bed, why don't we do the same to mine."
"Hmm, I've wanted to do that since I knew you were coming home."
Jaden kissed Giselle again and again. He honestly couldn't stop. He swore her thick lips were sweeter than he remembered though her body was even more intoxicating. He couldn't help, but feast on her mouth while he peeled the top of her dress down.
"Oh, Jay-Jay. I can't tell you how much I've missed you," Giselle panted, yanking the flannel off of him then ripped his black t-shirt away like it was made of paper. She nibbled at the corners of Jaden's lips, raking her fingers down his back.
Jaden reached down and cupped both of her ass cheeks, giving them a good squeeze causing her to quiver and gasp. They disconnected as she reached for the front clasp of her bra and unsnapped it, presenting her tits to him and Jaden's mouth watered at the sight of them. Giselle leaned forward to kiss the tip Jaden's nose and brush her large, full breasts against his muscular chest. He reached out, squeezing and pinching her chocolate nipples until they were the size of marbles.
"Oooh, shit, baby. Bite them,"
Doing as he was told, Jaden dipped his head, sucking on her nipples into his mouth. Giselle gasped, moaned, and squirmed. It felt like the night in her room all over again. As Jaden went to work on her body, the rest of their clothes came away. After what seemed like an eternity of kissing, caressing, and breast munching, Jaden finally eased Giselle onto his bed. His hand found its way in between her legs and found that Giselle was soaking wet and ready for him. He was just as horny though as his dick was so hard that he thought he'd poke a hole in the bed. Jaden kissed and licked down her body, feeling a fire burning within him something fierce. He positioned his love's legs east and west before plunging into her balls deep with one stroke.
Giselle reached out and clawed at his chest, "Aw, shit, baby."
The feeling of erotic ecstasy fell over them as Giselle's eyes rolled to the back of her head at Jaden's strokes while Jaden's eyes did the same at the feel of Giselle's vaginal muscles squeezing and pulsing around his manhood. It was as if their bodies were made for fucking each other as they instantly found a slow, gentle rhythm to groove to until Giselle started playing games by squeezing and relaxing her womanly muscles on purpose.
"You like that, baby?" she whispered as Jaden's breathing came out in short gasps, which she just smiled at and rocked her hips.
Jaden let out a laugh as Giselle had changed up the rhythm on him.
"Ahh," he groaned, grabbing her hips, trying to change the tempo back, but Giselle wasn't having any of that.
She had set her own rhythm, rocking back and forth while squeezing Jaden's pipe tighter and tighter.
"Ooooh, baby. I missed this dick so much, Jay-Jay." she moaned, her pussy slurping and popping as if co-signing to what she was saying. "This is the best dick I've ever had. Let me show you how much I missed you, Jay-Jay."
The next thing Jaden knew he was flat on his back and Giselle was on top of him with his dick still inside her, maintaining her mean pussy grip. Jaden was trying to savor this moment and last for as long as possible, but Giselle wanted his nut like a junkie needing their next high. She was fiending for it. She rode him fast, slow, then grinded on his cock. She would pull up slowly then slide back down and swivel her hips like the figure eight, making Jaden's spine tingle and his back hunch.
"Damn, girl. You feel so good," he moaned and hissed.
"You like how I do this, Jaden?" Giselle cooed against his ear.
"Hell, yeah." he replied, grabbing her ass and spending a wave of pleasure through her by dipping a finger into her tight asshole.
"Oooooooh!" she moaned at being penetrated, tossing her head back and thrusting her titties forward into her lover's face.
Jaden began lapping her chest up with his tongue as they were both fucking and sucking in perfect harmonious bliss, but the heat only got turned up even more. Jaden locked an arm her Giselle's waist, scooted near the foot of the bed, and put her on her back. He threw her legs over his shoulders and pounded the pussy with his ten inches until it sounded like his dick and her vagina were holding a conversation. Giselle whimpered and moaned, but took everything Jaden had to give her and then some, thrusting back with equal force.
"Oooooh, yes. Fuck me harder," Giselle begged. "Show me how much you want this pussy. Aaaaaah shit, baby. Fuck me, Jay-Jay!"
Jaden pulled out, but a second later, he was hitting Giselle doggy-style. It made have been a brisk day outside, but inside it was like an inferno in Jaden's room as sweat was pouring off their bodies.
"Ooooh, baby. That's my spot," Giselle panted. "That's my motherfucking spot. Oooooh! Shit, I'm going to cum."
Jaden grabbed hold of her shoulders, "Then cum, baby. Give Jay-Jay all you've got."
In the next second, a giggle from Giselle turned into scream as her warm creamy, juices gushed all over Jaden's dick and the sight of it was all it took for Jaden's orgasm to hit him too. He popped his top like a champagne bottle, spraying his nut inside her. Jaden and Giselle collapsed on the bed, Giselle instantly cuddling up beside her love. A twinge of sadness hit her and it showed in her eyes.
"What's wrong?" Jaden asked.
"Do you really only have a week back home, Jay-Jay?"
"Yeah, unfortunately. I wish I had longer than that, so we could spend some more time together. I've only got rehearsals tomorrow and Thursday. Maybe we could hook up then?"
"I've got to work tomorrow, but Thursday I'm off."
"Cool, 'cause I'm not trying to leave you like I did last time. You know, without a real goodbye."
"Hey, I understood when you left so soon. The music industry works quickly and you've got to keep up or get left behind."
Jaden kissed her lips, "Yeah, but I'm going to give you a real goodbye this time, Giselle. Are you coming to see me perform, Sunday?"
Giselle kissed back, "Yeah and it's not a goodbye Jay-Jay, but 'See you later'."
"Hmm, so I'll see you later Thursday and Sunday, mama."
"I all ready can't wait."
Jaden and Giselle held each other close. Even though they didn't want to admit it, they both wanted to be with the other so bad, but just like back when they were teens, they weren't going to let love stop them from going down their chosen paths or force the other to give up their life to be together. In another space, in another time, they would have gotten together, but as it stood right then—they were content with being best friends and after just transpired, part-time lovers.
Sunday Night: The Power House Concert
Jaden stood backstage hopping in place, getting himself hyped up for his performance. He smiled watching Sean on stage doing his thing. He stopped hopping when a pair hands began massaging his shoulders.
"Hey, AJ." Jaden said, not even looking over his shoulder.
"You ready, baby boy. It's about to be your stage in a minute,"
"I know and I'm going to give them a new song, AJ."
"A- -A new song? Why didn't you tell me before, Jaden?" AJ chastised him.
"It's all good, AJ. I practiced it with the band on Thursday. Is Giselle out there?"
"Yeah, why?" AJ quizzed.
"'Cause I wrote it for her. I know she's going to like it,"
Sean finished his set and came backstage.
"Yo, Sean, you did your thing out there, man." Jaden praised him while giving him dap.
"Mmhm, Just make sure you do your thing out there, Jay." Sean replied as the Emcee began to announce that Jaden was about to perform.
"You know I will,"
"Give them the business, man."
"He was the youngest member of B4L, but like the name of his new solo album, he's own his own." the Emcee continued. "I want all y'all to make some noise and show some fucking hometown love for Jaden Dennis!!!"
The people erupted into thunderous applause, whistles, and screams as Jaden stepped on stage. He stepped to the microphone as the band started the music of the song he wrote. His eyes scanned the crowd, finding Giselle sitting in the front row with Shateira and pointed to her, but all the other women in the crowd thought he was pointing to them. He waited for the cheering to die down a bit before he spoke.
"I know y'all want to hear my hits and I'm going to give them to you, but first I'm going to give y'all something new." he began. "I call this new one "O, Precious One" and I hope y'all enjoy it."
His words set the crowd off again into wild frenzy while he and Giselle shared a knowing glance, Giselle knowing the new song was about her.
<a href="">Music and Lust II: Jaden's Homecoming</a>
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Ha! I loved your imagery...This story has an excellent plot and a super sensual love scene. I'm ready to read the next chapter...Phenomenal work, my friend!
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I really enjoyed your story. It was really erotic and exciting to read. Lovely. 5
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They only care about their horse and saddle but a cowboy dosn't keep a steady girl
The cowboy's rope and ride and drink hard liquor they gamble givin' lady luck a whirl
They hit town well they ain't never stayin' cause a cowboy don't keep a steady girl
Cowboys ain't suppose to love one woman cause cowboys all got women by the score
Well if cowboys ain't suppose to love one woman I don't want to be a cowboy anymore
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Well I've been ridin' herd for oh so long now
I've been gone on fourteen years and maybe more
But I've finally found a filly full of sunshine so I don't want to be a cowboy anymore
Cowboys ain't got time to raise a family cowboys don't work jobs or mine a store
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I don't want to be a cowboy anymore
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This is the script for my first chapter. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out--cliches and all. Like usual, foul language and such are below.
DarkWings Chapter 1 script
The story opens with Blitz waking up to another bright morning. As he steps out of his apartment he puts on a pair of extremely dark sunglasses—to protect his sensitive eyes from the sun's unforgiving rays. He is on his way to school.
“My name is Blitz Takuyama. Go ahead and laugh—I don't fucking care. The nuns at the orphanage gave it to me. That means I was abandoned—if you haven't already caught on. I'm a worthless piece of shit with no family to speak of.”
Blitz waits at a crowded intersection. He takes advantage of the situation and reaches into his pocket for his phone. He has one new text message. It reads: YOU BETTER BE ON TIME TODAY. He grimaces before replying: NO SHIT. I DON'T WANT TO DIE.
“The text message was from a friend of mine. Yes I do have friends—but not a lot. I don't need a lot. Anyway, her name is Kiki. She's this huge bitch who loves to control my life like she's my fucking mother.”
The light above changes to red, and Blitz steps out onto the street like everyone else.
“The school I go to is apparently a big deal—to people who care. It's some prestigious High School that only rich kids get into. I'm not rich, so don't even think for an instant that I'm stuck up and shit. I'm just your typical ass-hole with a horrible personality. I got in because the principle wants my dick, or something like that. […...] That was a joke by the way. I got in because of my grades. I'm a fucking genius, audience.”
The large gate that surrounds the school finally comes into view, and Blitz scowls.
“Bright Wings Academy—my own personal Hell.”
The school is extremely fancy. The gate appears to be made out of pure gold, and two [obviously expensive] fountains are placed symmetrically on both sides of the opening. The school itself is white with a brown roof and matching window sills. It doesn't look like a typical High School. It looks more like an office building—an expensive office building. The moment Blitz steps through the gate, a bubbly brunette haired girl runs up to him and latches herself onto him. He appears to be indifferent, rather than annoyed.
“The girl practically rubbing herself against me right now is Mimi—another friend of mine. She's special.”
Mimi: Good morning, hero! [8D]
Blitz: Stop calling me that. […..] Good morning.
Mimi: How did you sleep last night? [rub, rub, rub]
Blitz: Can you stop grinding into me like some hooker looking for extra cash. And I slept fine, if you must know.
Mimi: [O:] I know you love it. But that's good.
Blitz: People are beginning to stare.
Mimi: Good! [>:3] Let's show them that our love cannot be penetrated by their hateful stares!
Blitz: Stop being stupid. Or better yet, if you don't stop I won't treat you to ice-cream tonight.
Mimi: [>:?] But you already owe me and Kiki some ice-cream for losing that bet.
“Mimi's memory is like a fucking elephant's.”
Blitz: Whatever. Just stop humping me like some horny dog.
Mimi: I thought I was some hooker looking for extra cash? [>:]]
Blitz: Same difference.
Mimi removes herself from Blitz's tall frame and places herself right beside him. She then loops her arm with his and proceeds to drag him toward the school's entrance.
“Remember when I said Mimi was special? And no, it isn't what you're thinking. It's because she's the principle's daughter.”
Blitz turns to look down at Mimi as they walk. She's too busy humming some shitty song to notice.
“She's also extremely slutty—but strangely innocent at the same time. Innocent as in stupid. If it weren't for me she'd be dead, but that's another story—and not to mention a boring one.”
Proceed with flashback.
“Fuck you.”
Blitz is pummeling the shit out of some guy. It doesn't matter who the guy is—his life holds no meaning or value. After the guy falls to the ground—barely alive—the pink haired boy turns to look down at a somewhat conscious brunette. She is clutching a small bag full of money, or something.
Blitz: Are you dead?
Girl: ...No.
Blitz: What a shame. Next question. Aren't you a little too young to be selling your body for sex?
Girl: …
Blitz: Times up. The correct answer is YES.
Girl: Stop acting like you're some hot shit. I don't see a fucking badge on you, so leave me alone.
Blitz grimaces. He then bends down and scoops the girl up. She's resisting, but he doesn't notice it because she's about half his size.
Blitz stops suddenly and drops the girl. He just drops her onto the concrete. He then turns to glare down at her.
Blitz: Don't ever fucking call me that again.
Girl: C-Call you what?
Blitz just growls and turns away. He takes his anger out on a poor, unsuspecting garbage can. The girl watches in both fear and awe. It takes a few minutes for Blitz to calm down.
Girl: ...You're really strong.
Blitz: What?
Girl: You broke that garbage can in half.
Blitz: So what—it wasn't like I was trying.
Girl: Seriously??
Blitz: Well...yeah.
And just like that the two began to have a completely random conversation. To Blitz's surprise, he didn't hate it. He actually enjoyed talking to someone for once.
After sitting in silence for a few awkward minutes, the girl turns to Blitz and places a hand on his arm. He tenses up and turns to look at her.
Girl: Want to be friends?
Blitz: Not really.
Girl: I'll stop doing this if you agree to be my friend, Blitz.
Blitz: Shit. You just trapped me.
Girl: I did. [:3]
Blitz: Fine. We'll be friends.
Girl: The best of friends?
Blitz: The best of friends.
“And here we are—a year later. Mimi stopped doing her little 'extra cash on the weekends' thing like she promised, and we became friends. Unfortunately, that's how I ended up meeting the queen of all bitches.”
Now inside of the school, Mimi is dragging Blitz toward their classroom. She stops however to turn to her right—a bright smile reaches her face and she starts to flail her arms like one of those inflatable men you see outside of car dealerships. A raven haired girl spots Mimi's flailing display and turns in her direction. A typical bitch scowl is weighing down her lips.
“Remember that text message? Yeah. This should be interesting.”
The girl approaches both Blitz and Mimi. She looks pretty pissed off—like how Blitz normally looks—but worse. She also looks identical to Mimi—despite the long black hair.
Mimi: Kiki! [8'D]
Kiki: Sister.
Blitz: Huge bitch.
Kiki: Lollipop.
Blitz grimaces. Per usual, he begins to pull at his own pink locks. He does this when he's extremely bothered—or confused, or annoyed. Mimi starts to laugh, and Kiki turns to glare at Blitz.
Kiki: I see you're on time today.
Blitz: [is too busy pulling out his hair to respond]
Mimi: He was actually early! I sort of stopped him this morning to give him one of my usual greetings. [;]]
Kiki: I told you not to do that in publiK.
Mimi: You're emphasizing your letters again, dear sister. [:P]
Kiki: Oh hush!!
“Kiki likes to emphasize the letter 'c' when it makes a 'k' sound. It's one of her many weird—not to mention annoying—quirks.”
Kiki: Whatever. Let's just get to Klass.
Mimi: Okay. [:3]
Mimi turns to grab Blitz by his arm, but he's too fast for her [epic ninja skills and all] and dodges her.
Blitz: I can walk myself to class, thank you very much.
Mimi: Hmph! [>:[]
Kiki: Can we just get going already?
Blitz: After you, your Highness.
The three proceed to their first class of the day—homeroom. After role has been called the students separate and head to their individual subjects. Kiki will be heading off to Calculus—Blitz and Mimi have P.E. together.
Blitz takes a seat at his desk, which is conveniently placed in the back corner of the room beside the window, while Mimi takes a seat to his right. Kiki's desk is located in front of Blitz's. The three begin to converse while they wait for the teacher to arrive.
Mimi: So, like, seven guys asked me out yesterday. It was so embarrassing! [>:/]
Blitz: I doubt that.
Kiki: I hope you refused them all.
Mimi: Of course I did! I know what all guys want when they look at me, and it isn't my pretty face. [D:<]
Blitz: How tragic. I feel for you—I really do.
Mimi: Jealous. [>_>]
Blitz: As if.
Kiki: Okay both of you shut up. The teacher finally decided to show up.
An older man with a chin covered in scruff strolls into the room with a cup of coffee in his hand. Almost immediately he turns to look at Blitz.
Teacher: It's good to see you on time today, Mr. Takuyama.
Blitz: Nice to see you too, John.
Mr. Deere: That's Mr. Deere.
Blitz: Yeah whatever.
Mimi: Mr. Deere! HI! [8D]
Mr. Deere: ...Hi, Mimi.
Role is called and the class disperses. Mimi waves goodbye to Kiki before she vanishes into the hallway, and Blitz is stuck waiting for the detention slip he received only minutes before.
Mr. Deere: Did you really have to flip off Caine?
Blitz: He deserved it.
Mr. Deere: He probably deserves worse.
Blitz: Heh.
Mr. Deere: Unfortunately, per usual, I'll have to give you a detention. Just show up and I'll dismiss you—lesson learned?
Blitz: Lesson learned.
Mr. Deere: Good. Now hurry to your next class.
Blitz takes the detention slip from his teacher and makes his way toward Mimi. She makes an inappropriate gesture with her hands, and he bonks her on the head for it.
Blitz: You have a sick mind.
Mimi: Hehehehe. [>:3]
“The rest of the day dragged on like usual. I had to fend off like seven guys during P.E. because Mimi decided to wear her shorts a little too high. I swear adolescence is a disease.”
Blitz is at his locker—which looks like a mini tornado had been blowing inside of it all day—and is grabbing some things from it. Bags of chips, some rags, and a liter of soda. His locker was like Mary Poppins' fucking purse.
“I can't recall the rest of the day after P.E. I usually fall asleep after lunch—which was amazing—so I digress.”
Blitz is now walking home—Mimi and Kiki are nowhere to be seen.
“Mimi and Kiki live on the other side of town, where the rich people like to separate themselves from the common folk. I usually walk home alone during the week. Like I said before, I don't need any company.”
The sun has set and the streets are strangely quiet. Blitz lives in the Industrial District of the city, so normally people would be out and about working or socializing. But tonight the air was still and stagnant. It was a familiar sensation—the sensation of being watched. Blitz stops and drops his schoolbag on the road beside his feet. He glances over his shoulder and catches a glimpse of something rustling within a nearby shadow. His eyes narrow.
“There's one thing I forgot to mention. It isn't important or anything, but notable nevertheless.”
A large creature lunges at Blitz from the shadows. It is the size of a small rhinoceros—its head takes up most of its body—with a dozen eyes and several rows of sharp teeth. Blitz turns around to face the incoming behemoth with an indifferent expression. He sidesteps the first swipe, counters with his next step, and sends the creature flying down the street with a strong kick.
Blitz's arms transform into oversized claws—black in color—which he uses to grab the creature and tear it right down the middle. Purple blood is splattered all over his lithe frame—staining his white shirt and pale face.
“I'm a monster, or something.”
05-31-2011, 09:29 PM
I like it, the charecters are very original have that charm to em! I lol'd at “She's also extremely slutty—but strangely innocent at the same time."
05-31-2011, 10:26 PM
thanks. I worked a lot on them.
that quote made me "LOL" while writing this thing.
06-03-2011, 04:22 PM
Do you have any pages sketched out?
06-03-2011, 10:19 PM
there isnt much I can do with a mouse, so no not yet
06-04-2011, 02:32 PM
Your writing style and your character are really awesome, and you ended the first chapter in a great way, there's not much i can say, this can turn into a great manga if you keep it up like this... i really want to read the next chapter now...
06-04-2011, 07:01 PM
^ well, just for that, I'll work on the next chapter script right now.
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0.276684 | <urn:uuid:fdd1e477-ec80-492e-9cb4-b6a7a1380af1> | en | 0.891244 | My secret work weapon: James Bond, Clive Woodward and the importance of positivity
Justin Skinner, vice-president of marketing, Cineworld
Justin Skinner, vice-president of marketing, Cineworld
It's a quote from 'The Spy Who Loved Me', where Bond is told a survival strategy: to 'have a positive mental attitude'. It's more of a life weapon, but I apply it to work.
As a marketer, I represent the customer, and in the leisure industry, it's about having fun and a positive experience. We're going through a customer-first programme, asking how to make our customers feel special and take the stress out of the cinema experience. So, a positive mental attitude is helping drive that strategy through.
Also, I try to bring my own energy and enthusiasm to my team. The positivity needs to be felt. In Sir Clive Woodward's book Winning, he writes about his mantra, that everyone is part of the team, and he didn't want any 'sappers' to take away energy and positivity.
Our end goal is putting the customer first and making Cineworld the favourite cinema in the UK. That positive thinking acts as a principle of success.
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Critic score distribution:
1. Positive: 20 out of 22
2. Negative: 0 out of 22
1. Well beyond just another competent racing game. It’s absolutely one of the pinnacle examples of simulation racing.
3. Despite improvements in areas like rain effects and bystander depiction, the Gmotor engine is beginning to look rather tired. Crude shadowing and reflections, primitive vegetation modelling, deserted pit lanes... none of this stuff matters that much when weighed against the superlative handling models, strong audio, decent AI, and robust MP, but it does mean I can't bring myself to award this very fine racing game more than a Nascar-mocking 8.
4. It's lacking graphical glamour, but it more than makes up for it with superb sound effects and music – not to mention deep customization and solid multiplayer. It may be running on an old engine, but it's got life in it yet.
5. For hardcore racing nuts, Race 07 is probably equal to a second coming. It's detailed, intense, has multiple racing league licenses, and features racing both online and off. However, gamers who are used to having their disbelief suspended for a bit while their Ferrari does 250MPH down a city street and drifts perfectly around the block are in for a bit of an ass-kicking. The difficulty level in 07 is brutal.
6. Race 07 is an amazing simulation that pushes the PC to the limits.
7. With no fuss and no nonsense, this is a title pulling off into the distance, watching its rivals fluff and flounder in its mirrors.
8. The most enjoyable PC racing simulation to date.
9. 85
The game will pay for itself many times over for the hardcore sim fan who treats these games as an investment in a sim racing career. But a title like this is not as likely to win over a casual racer, because little was done to cultivate new hardcore sim racing fans here.
11. Visuals aren’t the main attraction of the game, but the sound effects are great and the assortment of tracks and vehicle classes, as well as almost flawless playability, will keep the player engrossed for many hours.
12. RACE 07 is a charming racing game that won't fail to appeal to enthusiasts. You have to applaud the effort that's gone into making the game authentic but also accessible, and at any level, it is always a joy to play.
13. 80
14. Race 07 certainly does appeal to the enthusiasts of the serious racing genre, but does a lot to make the game playable by those who aren’t quite familiar with the proper procedure to take a turn without spinning wildly out of control.
15. Unfortunately, things like the AI, graphics and crash damage, as well as the Porto track, still could do with some more tweaking. And in comparison to its big brother GTR 2, it's still most definitely a lap or two behind.
17. Games that are this good out of the box are relatively rare. Add in the fact that the game can be found for $20 and it's a absolute steal. Race '07 is a exemplary game that will provide many hours of racing bliss at a superb price.
18. Its fortunes rely on satisfying a burgeoning community of simulation racers, for whom authenticity is the top priority, and in that respect it’s a success. [Dec 2007, p.94]
19. Great immersion, good graphics and awesome sounds... and absolutely fun to play! In the other hand, not much evolution compared to earlier Simbin games. Still no real-like rain (like in GP4) and still too low damage sensitivity and too simple damage model. Two formula cars are welcomed add-on, however their drivability and grip feel should be better. I hope these formula cars are profecy of F1 racing game from Simbin in future. Again great game for sim veterans and normal players. [Nov 2007]
20. Functional graphics belie an exciting and sophisticated racing title with plenty of under-the-bonnet tweaks, since last year's effort. [Dec 2007, p.60]
21. Race 07 may not reinvent the genre, but for $29.99, you won't find a better new PC racing option this year. [Holiday 2007, p.74]
22. Much better than last year's effort. The improvements come through broadening the experience rather than heightening the quality. [Dec 2007, p.62]
User Score
Universal acclaim- based on 154 Ratings
User score distribution:
1. Positive: 25 out of 27
2. Negative: 1 out of 27
1. KK
Oct 16, 2009
2. VictorF.
Jul 12, 2009
3. HuggieP
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100 point score based on reviews from various critics.
5 point score based on user ratings.
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Grades 5 and Up Ages 9 and Up
Ecological principles come alive in Star Wars®: The Gungan Frontier as your students try to create a balanced ecosystem on a barren moon. This simulation mirrors real world population dynamics, ecosystems, life cycles, regulation and behavior. Developed with scientists and teachers, tools like an interactive food web, glossary of ecological terms and population graphs lead to a better understanding of how small changes impact an environment over time.
Develop Skills
Scientific Inquiry and Systems Thinking
Key Features
- 360-degree, 3D views of the environment and its life forms in multiple zoom levels.
- Over 80 Star Wars creatures and plants are at your disposal.
- Life-like creature animations and sounds.
- Over a dozen missions based on real-world ecological concepts test your knowledge and skill.
- Create-a-Critter mode lets you design millions of creatures and plants, each with their own unique attributes.
- The Kresch, a living encyclopedia, provides high-resolution images and detailed descriptions of every creature, plant, and Gungan bubble building.
- Extensive graphic food web with species specifics, including diet, sounds, and terrain.
- Detailed population graphs give you feedback to better manage your ecosystem.
- Beginner and advanced modes provide challenges both engaging and complex.
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As a hero of the Battle of Naboo, you've been called before the Gungan High Council to handle a critical mission. Their city is threatened by overpopulation, and you must establish a new colony on a nearby moon. The Gungans need you to create a new world filled with fantastic Star Wars creatures and plants from across the galaxy. You must discover how these alien animals and plants interact and how they depend on each other to live. Only when you have an ecologically sound environment can a new Gungan city truly thrive. The fate of an entire civilization rests in your hands because, on the moon of Naboo, the most powerful force of nature is you.
In this first ever Star Wars simulation designed for players age 9 and up, your goal is to transform the barren moon of Naboo into a thriving, balanced ecosystem and help the Gungans build a new underwater bubble city. From your transport ship, you control the release of Star Wars creatures and exotic plants into the empty landscape. Creatures move and interact in life-like, 3D animation and digital sounds. Monitor population levels, manage the food web, consult your online encyclopedia, and harvest valuable resources that can be used to build the new Gungan city.
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Reverend Moon postcard
A postcard the Rev. Sun Myung Moon sent Annie Choi in the mid-1960s. Courtesy of Samuel Park
Choi stayed in the United States to be near her son, who was born Samuel Pak, but went by Jin Kyung (a combination of the name Moon requested and the character "Jin," often used in Moon family names) or the American name Sam Park. At the time, not even the Pak children knew Sam was not their biological brother.
Choi dropped by periodically and lavished the child with affection. When Park was in elementary school, she also began inviting him for dinners and sleepovers at her place, a colonial-style townhouse on a quiet Northern Virginia cul-de-sac. But Moon took pains to distance himself from Park. While he regularly visited the Pak home, especially after moving to the United States in 1971, he avoided conversing with the boy. "He never asked me anything: How old are you? How's school going?" Park recalls. "It was as if he was making a point of not showing an interest."
Along with raising Moon's son, Bo Hi Pak—a former Korean military officer with Korean Central Intelligence Agency ties—oversaw much of Moon's US empire, and promoted the Korean messiah's grandiose goals of vanquishing communism and uniting all nations and faiths under Moon's dominion. Pak was founding president and publisher of the Washington Times, which launched in 1982. He also headed Unification Church International (now UCI), the holding company for a constellation of Moon-owned companies that were collectively worth billions. And he directed several of Moon's influential political groups, including CAUSA International, which aided anti-communist rebels in Latin America and promoted Moon's theology as an antidote to communism among congressional staffers.
When Park was about 13, Choi finally told him who his parents were. "When she said it, it made so much sense," Park recalls. "Of course, she's my mother! How could I not have seen if before?" Park continued living with the Pak family, but gradually Moon's 13 other children began to figure out that he was their half brother. Not all of them took it well; Park says that the eldest of Moon's sons, Steve, once pointed a gun at him and threatened to rape and kill his mother. (Steve, who had a taste for cocaine and high-caliber weapons, was famously prone to violence. He would die of a heart attack in 2008, at the age of 45.)
But Moon's second oldest son, Heung Jin, who was about Park's age, embraced him as family. During his high school years, Park regularly visited Heung Jin at the Moons' estate in New York's Hudson Valley, where the pair spent their days hiking and talking about girls (a forbidden subject). Park, who longed for acceptance by the Moon family, recalls this as the happiest period of his youth.
In the winter of 1984, Heung Jin, who was then 17, smashed his car into a jack-knifed semi on an icy New York road and died. Park was so crushed he could barely pry himself out of bed—even today, he breaks down crying when the topic arises. "It was probably the most devastating thing that ever happened to me," he says.
Choi and Han in Seoul
The Rev. Sun Myung Moon's lover, Annie Choi (right), and his wife, Hak Ja Han (left), at the airport in Seoul just before Choi's departure to the United States in 1964 Courtesy of Samuel Park
Shortly before Heung Jin's death, Park had moved in with his mother. Most of Moon's followers still believed that Park was the Paks' son. To avoid raising questions, Park and Choi kept largely to themselves. "I let very few people close to me," Park says. "There were ramifications for a lot of people if I didn't maintain that identity. It shaped how I related to others in that I became guarded and private." Initially, Bo Hi Pak continued playing the father role; he bought Sam a car and paid much of his tuition at George Washington University, where Park earned a bachelor's degree in history. Park, meanwhile, clung to the hope that Moon would one day acknowledge his existence. "I remember Sam saying, 'I just want him to recognize me publicly as his son once before he dies,'" recalls one member of the Pak family, who confirmed many details of Park's account.
Park says his marital woes destroyed what was left of his faith. "Suddenly, the blinders came off," he recalls. "I could see how strange life inside the movement was—the things we did, the way we thought. When you begin to break free from that kind of brainwashing, it's almost like an out-of-body experience." Eventually, Park's marriage crumbled. In 1999, he and his wife divorced (a taboo in Unificationist circles). Afterward, he left his firm and moved with his mother to Arizona. Park began period of soul searching. "He was looking for a father figure," says Donna Orme-Collins, a former church member and close friend of Park's. "He would get overly excited by different schools of thought that would help him find peace."
By this time, changes were afoot in Moon's movement. With the collapse of global communism in the late 1980s, Moon's focus shifted increasingly to promoting family values. He launched the American Family Coalition, which quickly became one of the nation's leading religious conservative organizations. And he worked with religious conservative leaders and the lobbying group Christian Voice on a grassroots campaign to nudge the Republican Party toward social conservatism. These efforts, and his political largess, earned him plaudits in high places. Speaking on the Senate floor in July 1993, Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) urged fellow lawmakers to celebrate True Parents Day—a holiday honoring the Moons—in the name of family values. "It is in the interest of society and government to adopt policies strengthening and sustaining fathers and mothers," he said. The following year, Congress passed a bill designating Parents Day a national holiday.
While lawmakers were lauding Moon's family values message, his own family was unraveling. In 1998, his ex-daughter-in-law, Nansook Hong, published a devastating expose of Moon family life, which claimed that her husband, Steve, blew huge sums of church money on cocaine and beat her during her pregnancy. Hong and Moon's estranged daughter, Un Jin, went on 60 Minutes, where they presented a litany of allegations about drugs, sex, and corruption inside Moon's church. They also disclosed that Moon had an illegitimate son named "Sammy."
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Starting from pole position, Alx Danielsson (Comtec Racing) did not give his rivals the slightest chance in the first race of the weekend. The Swede made the victory his own at the end of an impressive solo effort. Andy Soucek (Interwetten.com) finished in second to reclaim the championship lead from Borja Garcia (RC Motorsport), who abandoned the race. Alvaro Parente (Victory Engineering) put an end to his run of bad luck to make it back onto the podium.
Alx Danielsson got off to a dream start from pole position. Borja Garcia tried to attack Alvaro Parente on the brakes into the opening bend, but he was forced to slot back into fourth behind Soucek. Further back, Ben Hanley (Cram Competition) took a detour via the gravel trap and Alvaro Barba (Jenzer Motorsport) abandoned the race. Ryo Fukuda (Tech 1 Racing) also only managed to crawl back into the pits to abandon.
Danielsson completed the first lap in the lead, ahead of Soucek, Parente, Pavlovic, Garcia, Perrera, McIntosh, Montanari and Aleshin, who was soon to be passed by his teammate Zaugg.
Zaugg continued his comeback to take eighth place away from Montanari (lap four). In the main field, Pastor Maldonado was also on a comeback after starting from the second-from-last row of the grid: he had made it into sixteenth with five laps gone. Tristan Gommendy (Pons Racing), who'd been lapping in the midst of the field, then came into the pits.
While Danielsson, Soucek and Parente may each have opened a significant gap over the other, fourth place was still up for grabs. Borja Garcia proved just that when he passed Milos Pavlovic at the start of lap seven. The Yugoslavian then dropped back several more places ending up in tenth. At the end of the straight, he lost control of his car and went into a spin. His car flipped up over Celso Miguez's (Comtec Racing) front wheel and went into a spectacular multiple roll. Fortunately, Milos was able to climb out of the cockpit, shocked but unharmed.
The main point of interest in the closing stages of the race was the duel between Borja Garcia and Franck Perera (Interwetten.com) for fourth place. And it was a story with a twist in the tail as Borja Garcia ended up abandoning due to a mechanical problem!
This allowed Franck Perera to move up a place and bag some precious points for Interwetten.com, who thus take a major step towards securing the Team title! In the drivers standings, the situation is even closer than ever with Soucek back on top (101 pts) ahead of Danielsson (98 pts) and Garcia (97 pts). By finishing eleventh, Maldonado (85 pts) remains in with a slim chance of the title, as does Parente (81 pts).
Alx Danielsson: "It's superb! If someone would have told me after Spa that I would be in with a shout for the title in the last race of the season, I would never have believed it. But we've put together a good series of results thanks to some impeccable work by the team, which has given me a car which is both fast and easy to drive."
Andy Soucek: "Alx drove a perfect race here today. I couldn't hope for anything better than second. All the same, I attacked just as hard as I could! I have reclaimed the lead in the Championship, but above all I'm focussed on winning on the track. It's only my first season at this level, I'm still young and I have high hopes for the future."
Alvaro Parente: "I didn't get off to a good start and the race wasn't easy in general. I had to fight to hold onto third. It's good to be back on the podium after being out of the points in the last five races."
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Bioinformatics. 2009 Mar 1;25(5):621-7. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btp036. Epub 2009 Jan 28.
Fragment-based identification of druggable 'hot spots' of proteins using Fourier domain correlation techniques.
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The binding sites of proteins generally contain smaller regions that provide major contributions to the binding free energy and hence are the prime targets in drug design. Screening libraries of fragment-sized compounds by NMR or X-ray crystallography demonstrates that such 'hot spot' regions bind a large variety of small organic molecules, and that a relatively high 'hit rate' is predictive of target sites that are likely to bind drug-like ligands with high affinity. Our goal is to determine the 'hot spots' computationally rather than experimentally.
We have developed the FTMAP algorithm that performs global search of the entire protein surface for regions that bind a number of small organic probe molecules. The search is based on the extremely efficient fast Fourier transform (FFT) correlation approach which can sample billions of probe positions on dense translational and rotational grids, but can use only sums of correlation functions for scoring and hence is generally restricted to very simple energy expressions. The novelty of FTMAP is that we were able to incorporate and represent on grids a detailed energy expression, resulting in a very accurate identification of low-energy probe clusters. Overlapping clusters of different probes are defined as consensus sites (CSs). We show that the largest CS is generally located at the most important subsite of the protein binding site, and the nearby smaller CSs identify other important subsites. Mapping results are presented for elastase whose structure has been solved in aqueous solutions of eight organic solvents, and we show that FTMAP provides very similar information. The second application is to renin, a long-standing pharmaceutical target for the treatment of hypertension, and we show that the major CSs trace out the shape of the first approved renin inhibitor, aliskiren.
FTMAP is available as a server at http://ftmap.bu.edu/.
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Ooops!! Didn't realise there was a whole section here about this issue... I've made a bit of progress so far. Got balanced cables connecting the 1814 to my desk. That's taking most of the nastiness away, but there's still some noise coming through the speakers... the good thing is that this does not get louder as you increase the volume. I'm going to try som DIs with ground lifts to see what happens there... Some cool posts in this thread, very helpful!!
I've seen the two prong solution... but surely there must be some sort of replacement power supply you can get?? the ground loop isolator isn't an option really... I'm using multiple outputs, and even when I've the computers channel on the desk deactivated, your still getting interferance through the speakers...
ok, so in the end I went for an Inspiron. Great machine... until you hook it up to your soundcard!! I get horrible interferance/background noise when using the AC adaptor... When you run from batteries, it's cool, but I'm still trying to find a solution to this. On the Dell forum, people are suggesting Ground Loop isolators etc. I'm really disappointed that 1. Dell seem to have these issues across the board. 2. Future Music magazine seemed to overlook this when...
I've been looking at the Asus W3V... any comments on that? I know it sounds superficial, but if I'm paying bucks, I don't want a big ugly thang. I'm very tempted by the Inspirons, 6000 and 9300 - but i don't understand why Dell doesn't stretch that extra inch in the aesthetic department... Some interesting comments so far, thanks guys!
Ok. I've been looking through the forums and there's some useful info, but it's scattered. My budget is $1500 - $2000 (living in Ireland, but the Dollar seems to be on a par wth the Euro - with notebooks anyhow...). I have a desktop PC, which I use for everything - but i want a dedicated music system for modest studio use, and some ambitious live work. I'll be running Ableton and Reason, with an M-audio Firewire 1814 and various midi controllers... I also have an...
I'm wondering if the heat issues on the W3V comparable to a Powerbook. Powerbooks get quite hot indeed... any comments?
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Who knows? I'd love to find out. Comment away!
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sbergman27 Member since:
"It's ready when it's ready" is more often an excuse for poor release management practices. By poor release management practices, I mean things like:
1. Vague definition about feature goals.
2. Unrealistically ambitious feature goals.
3. Inability to say, or difficulty in saying, "No" by key managers.
4. Lack of anyone with enough authority to make the big decisions.
5. Unwillingness, or not having anyone with the authority to drop features which turn out to be best left to the next release.
This is not to say that Debian does not stand for quality. But from what I've seen, there is plenty of room for improvement regarding discipline in Debian's release management plans. Injecting proper discipline, etc. into it's policies could improve both the predictability *and* the quality of Debian releases.
4. Development freezes which become development "slushes".
Reply Parent Score: 10
segedunum Member since:
As far as I can see, and as far as most of Debian's developers are concerned (read the replies to Marks mail, phew!) it is absolutely none of Ubuntu's and Canonical's business how Debian's developers run their project. Indeed, Debian's developers can argue that Ubuntu hasn't given a shit about Debian over the years with the removal of many developers and resources. What gives now?
I might personally agree that Debian's long winded development and release schedule isn't terribly conducive at times, but that's their prerogative and you don't go about changing it by attempting a coup of a project by the back door where the wider development community learns of what is happening through their own press releases.
Reply Parent Score: 3
emilsedgh Member since:
This is really crap. KDE released 4.0 when it wasnt ready and people are still complaining. Debian, releases when its ready and you are saying its because they cant manage their schedule?
People: stop bashing these projects. If kde was released when it wasnt ready from YOUR point of view, it doesnt matter. KDE has a community and they all know better than you about when to release KDE.
Also, stop bashing about Debian. It has a community and they know how things work better than anyone else.
If you think debian sucks because its not released when you want, it doesnt matter. It doesnt mean Debian was/is doing wrong.
People jumping from middle of nowhere and telling how big upstream FOSS projects suck is stupid. All of such decisions in these projects are made by their community, not a single person; You really think all those people involved were wrong and you know best?
Reply Parent Score: 7
l3v1 Member since:
You got a 6 score, yet Debian is still one of the best distros there is. Stable gets on every server I lay my hands on, and testing is always very good on a working desktop. Everything else - release schedules, other distros' release schedules, funny people's "feature" requests, etc. - just doesn't matter. It's working, it's good. EOL.
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Using old mason jars to hold bathroom supplies like q-tips, toothbrush, etc.
Finally made one of these canvases! :)
Write a note to your baby and put it on her lampshade. i think this is such a cute idea!
this is such a cute idea for a bed!
this is pretty cool. | http://www.pinterest.com/cheerjm94/home/?page=2 | dclm-gs1-092040001 | false | false | {
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Home: boleroom
mud...rooms! and laundry spaces.
like stacked washer/dryer and really like amount of hanging room and counter space
nice setup!
really like the idea of a place to clean shoes, boots, dogs, equipment inside without getting everything irreparably muddy.
bright color (would probably prefer warmer, happy yellow or orange) but nice sink and cabinets. Would probably stack washer/dryer for increasing storage space/counter area, maybe put in hanging space/drying rack
really like slightly taller washer/dryer so don't have to stoop so much! cabinets, storage, light!
multipurpose mudroom, incorporate a laundry area, extra bathroom, desk or storage for pantry items, and/or gardening clean-up area
your main point of entry and exit, it needs to be practical. If space allows, add two sets of shallow floor-to-ceiling cabinets or bookcases and place a cushioned bench between them. Slide a bin under the bench for shoes and boots, and hang hooks above it for jackets, coats and bags. Stock open shelves with baskets for hats, scarves and umbrellas, and paint a bold color on the wall behind to add visual interest
A private entrance leads from the exterior to the mudroom, where guests can strip off outerwear and clean up before entering formal gathering and living spaces. Slate tile flooring, and a cubbyhole space for things that should be easy-to-grab
mudroom boasts floor-to-ceiling, locker-style maple cabinetry that houses outdoors equipment, outerwear and accessories - don't like the lighting, would want a lot more, but like the pegs for hanging coats and specialized equipment, and the storage and flooring
houses the laundry room, craft room and home office. Concealed by a double-door workstation, the washer/dryer unit stays hidden unless it's mid-cycle, making the room feel less like a workroom and more like a fully functioning space
don't like the gray, but a laundry room that also doubles as a mudroom, recycling center, craft zone, gardening spot, and an organized catchall for shoes, scarves and coats sounds like a very good idea
have shoe cubbyholes in mud room/entryway for a little extra shoe storage and to prevent mud tracking/dirt over house
mud room/laundry room with a dog washing area on the left :) | http://www.pinterest.com/eurystomus/home-boleroom/ | dclm-gs1-092050001 | false | false | {
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How Peanut Butter is made... I'm STILL laughing!
I laughed much too hard at this. I'm ok with it.
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0.040031 | <urn:uuid:0c1c2417-9bd6-4f1f-b6f3-fdf366a962bb> | en | 0.911734 | Leishmania induces survival, proliferation and elevated cellular dNTP levels in human monocytes promoting acceleration of HIV co-infection.
Department of Biomolecular Genetics, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America.
PLoS Pathogens (Impact Factor: 8.14). 04/2012; 8(4):e1002635. DOI:10.1371/journal.ppat.1002635
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ABSTRACT Leishmaniasis is a parasitic disease that is widely prevalent in many tropical and sub-tropical regions of the world. Infection with Leishmania has been recognized to induce a striking acceleration of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 (HIV-1) infection in coinfected individuals through as yet incompletely understood mechanisms. Cells of the monocyte/macrophage lineage are the predominant cell types coinfected by both pathogens. Monocytes and macrophages contain extremely low levels of deoxynucleoside triphosphates (dNTPs) due to their lack of cell cycling and S phase, where dNTP biosynthesis is specifically activated. Lentiviruses, such as HIV-1, are unique among retroviruses in their ability to replicate in these non-dividing cells due, at least in part, to their highly efficient reverse transcriptase (RT). Nonetheless, viral replication progresses more efficiently in the setting of higher intracellular dNTP concentrations related to enhanced enzyme kinetics of the viral RT. In the present study, in vitro infection of CD14+ peripheral blood-derived human monocytes with Leishmania major was found to induce differentiation, marked elevation of cellular p53R2 ribonucleotide reductase subunit and R2 subunit expression. The R2 subunit is restricted to the S phase of the cell cycle. Our dNTP assay demonstrated significant elevation of intracellular monocyte-derived macrophages (MDMs) dNTP concentrations in Leishmania-infected cell populations as compared to control cells. Infection of Leishmania-maturated MDMs with a pseudotyped GFP expressing HIV-1 resulted in increased numbers of GFP+ cells in the Leishmania-maturated MDMs as compared to control cells. Interestingly, a sub-population of Leishmania-maturated MDMs was found to have re-entered the cell cycle, as demonstrated by BrdU labeling. In conclusion, Leishmania infection of primary human monocytes promotes the induction of an S phase environment and elevated dNTP levels with notable elevation of HIV-1 expression in the setting of coinfection.
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ABSTRACT: Among parasitic diseases, morbidity and mortality caused by leishmaniasis are surpassed only by malaria and lymphatic filariasis. However, estimation of the leishmaniasis disease burden is challenging, due to clinical and epidemiological diversity, marked geographic clustering, and lack of reliable data on incidence, duration, and impact of the various disease syndromes. Non-health effects such as impoverishment, disfigurement, and stigma add to the burden, and introduce further complexities. Leishmaniasis occurs globally, but has disproportionate impact in the Horn of Africa, South Asia and Brazil (for visceral leishmaniasis), and Latin America, Central Asia, and southwestern Asia (for cutaneous leishmaniasis). Disease characteristics and challenges for control are reviewed for each of these foci. We recommend review of reliable secondary data sources and collection of baseline active survey data to improve current disease burden estimates, plus the improvement or establishment of effective surveillance systems to monitor the impact of control efforts.
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ABSTRACT: Leishmaniasis, a neglected tropical disease, has strong but complex links with poverty. The burden of leishmaniasis falls disproportionately on the poorest segments of the global population. Within endemic areas, increased infection risk is mediated through poor housing conditions and environmental sanitation, lack of personal protective measures and economically driven migration and employment that bring nonimmune hosts into contact with infected sand flies. Poverty is associated with poor nutrition and other infectious diseases, which increase the risk that a person (once infected) will progress to the clinically manifested disease. Lack of healthcare access causes delays in appropriate diagnosis and treatment and accentuates leishmaniasis morbidity and mortality, particularly in women. Leishmaniasis diagnosis and treatment are expensive and families must sell assets and take loans to pay for care, leading to further impoverishment and reinforcement of the vicious cycle of disease and poverty. Public investment in treatment and control would decrease the leishmaniasis disease burden and help to alleviate poverty.
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ABSTRACT: A thorough understanding of the transmission mechanism of any infectious agent is crucial to implementing an effective intervention strategy. Here, our current understanding of the mechanisms that Leishmania parasites use to ensure their transmission from sand fly vectors by bite is reviewed. The most important mechanism is the creation of a "blocked fly" resulting from the secretion of promastigote secretory gel (PSG) by the parasites in the anterior midgut. This forces the sand fly to regurgitate PSG before it can bloodfeed, thereby depositing both PSG and infective metacyclic promastigotes in the skin of a mammalian host. Other possible factors in transmission are considered: damage to the stomodeal valve; occurrence of parasites in the salivary glands; and excretion of parasites from the anus of infected sand flies. Differences in the transmission mechanisms employed by parasites in the three subgenera, Leishmania, Viannia and Sauroleishmania are also addressed.
International Journal for Parasitology 09/2007; 37(10):1097-106. · 3.64 Impact Factor
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0.508265 | <urn:uuid:d03a77b1-d059-4fd6-ba64-75da223e7eda> | en | 0.975854 | I've got a script which I'm using in a CRON job that shouldn't be accessed by anyone except for me. I know that if I put it outside of my public_html folder, nobody on the web can access it. The only downside is that to make it easily accessible in terms of uploading changes, it would have to be in a folder inside my public_html. Can I achieve the same level of security if I add an .htaccess file with "deny from all" in my public_html subfolder that contains the CRON job as if I had it outside the public_html folder? | http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?991445-outside-of-public_html-versus-deny-from-all&p=5342879&mode=threaded | dclm-gs1-092200001 | false | false | {
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Lieutenant Colonel Robert Workman was shot dead on the doorstep of his village home in Furneux Pelham, Hertfordshire
A convicted murderer has been found guilty of gunning down a retired army officer in cold blood.
Christopher Docherty-Puncheon, 33, shot Lieutenant Colonel Robert "Riley" Workman, 83, on his doorstep in Furneux Pelham, Hertfordshire, in an "execution-style" killing in 2004.
Docherty-Puncheon, from nearby Stocking Pelham, denied murdering his former employer Lt Col Workman but jurors at St Albans Crown Court found him guilty following a four-week trial.
Docherty-Puncheon confessed to killing Lt Col Workman to two cellmates while he was on remand over a separate murder charge, describing himself to one of them as a "modern-day hitman" who killed people for money. He had worked as a pest controller for Lt Col Workman, known by many as "The Colonel", and the court heard the pair also had a sexual relationship.
On the evening of January 7 2004, he rang Lt Col Workman's doorbell and then retreated before shooting him with a sawn-off shotgun from between 11 and 13 feet away. The colonel was found on the doorstep of his home, Cock House, Causeway, by his part-time carer Josette Swanson the next morning.
Docherty-Puncheon is already serving a life sentence for the murder of Fred Moss, 21, in late 2004. Moss was described as being killed in an "execution-type" manner, with Docherty-Puncheon shooting him in the head, then cutting up his body and burning it in an incinerator.
Docherty-Puncheon, who was convicted of Mr Moss's murder in 2006, claimed his cellmates made the confessions up. He also told the court that claims that he had a sexual relationship with the colonel were made up and a product of village gossip, like something out of TV detective drama Midsomer Murders.
Justice John Saunders sentenced Docherty-Puncheon to life imprisonment, with a minimum jail term of 32 years before he can be considered for parole.
He said: "Colonel Workman was 83 when he was shot down. He was unarmed and in poor health. He had neither the capacity nor the opportunity to defend himself.
"It was a terrible crime and people living in that rural community were shocked by the gunning down in cold blood of one of their elderly neighbours. I cannot say for certain what the reason for the attack was. Several have been suggested during the evidence but none have been proved to my satisfaction. Maybe we will never know."
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I know this sounds weird, but I just bought a new Asus HD 6670 and a new Lepa N 500 power supply to run it on my Asus computer, since my old card went to that giant junk heap in the sky. It works fantastic...a little -to- fantastic. While playing games my video moves like an old sped up talkie from the golden era of movies. Everything moves comically fast, making it practically impossible to strike anything on my FPS'. Is there any way to slow this down? I jacked everything up on the video for Mass Effect 2, and while it looks gorgeous, it's still an issue. Any ideas?
As said above V-Sync will cap the FPS at 60. You should install a monitoring program that shows what FPS you are actually getting.
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I wen't into game, and with a little snooping, found the programming for vsync. It appears to be on. I looked on the card itself under my control panel, and while I found plenty of things to alter, none of them vsync. Is there somewhere special I'm not looking?
Could it be that the game is now running at the proper speed and before it was lagging so much at 2 FPS the game was at half speed so it could run at all.
Try watching some videos of your game and this could prove my theory. | http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/381280-33-graphics-card-running-game-video-fast | dclm-gs1-092420001 | false | false | {
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0.14003 | <urn:uuid:90ab9a1f-bb8b-4f5d-ae1d-f1260fd609ab> | en | 0.925204 | This t-shirt from Dynomighty Design may not protect you against a hail of bullets, but it does look pretty cool! The Bulletproof Vest T-Shirt is a screen replica of a bulletproof vest on a black tee.
Since the design is printed on an American Apparel shirt, the look is supposed to be worn snug to the body.
If you live in a rough area, I’d opt to actually wearing a real bulletproof vest, instead of this fake one! | http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/bulletproof-vest-t-shirt | dclm-gs1-092440001 | false | false | {
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It can be a real pain when you're on the iPhone while it's charging, which is why the iFusion iPhone dock would be helpful in that situation. This gadget is essentially an old school phone with a compartment holding and charging the iPhone while you talk on an actual handset. The iFusion also has a speakerphone, built-in Bluetooth technology and a patented ergonomic design for superior voice quality.
The iFusion iPhone Dock supports the iPhone 3G, 3GS and 4 and will be available in April 2011. | http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/ifusion-iphone-dock | dclm-gs1-092450001 | false | false | {
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0.021955 | <urn:uuid:8f1f7536-d727-439e-8ce6-31b85bc48ffb> | en | 0.969995 | The Lanvin Spring 2014 menswear show in Paris focuses on how the collection looks on screen and how it photographs. With this collection, Lanvin is looking for wearable clothes; things that men can actually wear on the streets, to work and on the town.
However, one cannot help but notice that these apparels can go both ways. Each garment features clean lines, silky materials and the models’ bodies are not particularly ample, allowing women to possibly sport these wears as well. Each garment has a very basic design paired with high quality materials. Some suits are oversized, some are more clipped and fitted, and a lot of these items appear in women’s fashion as well. Even the colors appear to be fairly unisex, including bright fuchsia jackets. | http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/lanvin-spring-2014-menswear | dclm-gs1-092460001 | false | false | {
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I bought a bike computer (Bryton Rider 40) from Merlin Cycles and live in Australia.
I discussed what would happen in a warranty situation with them up front. They informed me that I would have to return it to them and they would handle the warranty side.
Unfortunately the power button failed on the unit I was given and a return was required. True to form, they turned it around and a brand new computer was sent to me.
The things of note. They didn't inform me they had received it. I happened to email basically right when they had received it. I expect I would have been notified when the replacement unit was sent. (That happened)
The return cost me $18 AUD. If I only have to return this once, this still works out cheap compared to buying locally.
Merlin picked up the tab for the return postage. *thumbs up*
The only thing I'd like to see would be the ability to demonstrate a faulty product via say a Youtube video to save the postage. I'd even love to post a "smash the faulty item" video. :-)
I'm assuming this is not realistic due to manufacturers warranty requirements sadly. Smash videos would be awesome.
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0.023634 | <urn:uuid:5d1e6ca5-5b9c-417e-9050-91ce1c50cc45> | en | 0.971352 | Green Bay Packers general manager Ted Thompson celebrates after the Packers’ 31-25 victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers in Super Bowl XLV at Cowboys
As a result of general manager Ted Thompson's long-standing draft-and-develop philosophy, the Green Bay Packers enter the off-season in a different fraternity from the Seattle Seahawks, San Francisco 49ers, Carolina Panthers and New Orleans Saints.
The Packers' roommates are teams like the Oakland Raiders, Jacksonville Jaguars, Cleveland Browns and Miami Dolphins.
It is especially so if you have one of the best quarterbacks in the game signed to a long-term deal, a ton of offensive talent and three consecutive division titles in the bank because it means you didn't earn the salary cap room by being one of the worst teams in the NFL.
The Seahawks, 49ers, Panthers and Saints are better teams than the Packers, but because all of them have very limited salary cap space, Thompson has a chance to get the jump on them this off-season. As has been the case every year the Packers have been loaded with cap room -- five of the last eight years they've had $17 million or more -- it's what you do with it that really matters.
This off-season, the to-do list isn't centralized around two star players but rather around 17 unrestricted free agents, eight of whom were preferred starters last season.
The Packers were not able to sign any of those free agents to extensions during the '13 season and in many cases they didn't even try because they plan to elevate recent draft picks into their spots. As a result, they will carry $9.8 million of leftover cap space from '13 into 2014.
According to a source with NFLPA salary information, the Packers have about $108.5 million in charges committed to their 2014 cap, so if the cap limit comes in at $126.3 million, the figure league officials projected late last year, their '13 leftovers will be added to roughly $18 million of space.
How did the Packers get there?
And they have avoided writing a lot of bad contracts.
"There is no question that we are primarily a draft-and-develop team -- we use the draft as the main vehicle to add players to our roster," Packers president Mark Murphy said on the team's website recently. "We use other means to acquire players, including signing undrafted free agents, 'street' free agents and unrestricted free agents.
So while they have lots of cap space, maybe their passivity in free agency is a reason the Packers have not risen to the top of the NFC since winning Super Bowl XLV -- something they did with the help of two key free agents, Charles Woodson and Pickett.
It's pretty unlikely Thompson will re-sign Finley given he wouldn't medically clear safety Nick Collins, who had the same neck injury. If he can't get Shields signed to a long-term deal, he can put a franchise tag on him for approximately $10 million. And if he can sign Shields, he could use the franchise tag on Raji for maybe $9 million.
Thompson doesn't have a lot of tough decisions to make this off-season; his biggest ones -- besides what to do with Shields and Raji -- are draft-related. Some scouts have described the draft this year as very deep and with the 21st pick in the first round, Thompson needs to stack a very good one on top of the '13 class, which has a chance to be among his best.
"We know we have to make tough decisions," Seahawks general manager John Schneider said during Super Bowl week. "Everybody does. But we're a young football team. We like our guys and we're going to keep drafting and trying to get ready for whoever has to depart."
The 2012 NFC champion 49ers had a similar one in '11, when they drafted linebacker Aldon Smith, Kaepernick, cornerback Chris Culliver, running back Kendall Hunter and fullback Bruce Miller.
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English Translation: "White-Sausage"
1. n. type of German sausage, usually colored a light pink or white.
2. n. slang term used to describe the penis of a white male humanoid; usually used in conjunction with other German words and phrases.
Meine weisswurst ist groB! (My white-sausage or penus is large!)
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Coordinates0.375°N 9.417°E
Located inEstuaire, Gabon (1500 - )
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The area was inhabited by the Mpongwé tribe long before the French acquired the land in 1839. In 1846, L'Elizia, a Brazilian ship carrying slaves for sale, was captured by the French navy near Loango. The slaves were freed and founded Libreville (French for "Freetown") in 1848. It was the chief port of French Equatorial Africa from 1934 to 1946 and was the central focus of the Battle of Gabon in 1940.
In 1910, French Equatorial Africa (Afrique équatoriale française, AEF) was created, and French companies were allowed to exploit the Middle Congo (modern-day Congo Brazzaville). It soon became necessary to build a railroad that would connect Brazzaville, the terminus of the river navigation on the Congo River and the Ubangui River, with the Atlantic coast. As rapids make it impossible to navigate on the Congo River past Brazzaville, and the coastal railroad terminus site had to allow for the construction of a deep-sea port, authorities chose the site of Ponta Negra instead of Libreville as originally envisaged. Construction of the Congo-Ocean Railway began in 1921, and Libreville was surpassed by the rapid growth of Pointe-Noire, farther down the coast.
Libreville was named in imitation of Freetown and grew only slowly as a trading post and a minor administrative centre to a population of 32,000 on independence in 1960. It only received its first bank branch when Bank of West Africa (BAO) opened a branch in 1930. Since independence, the city has grown rapidly and now houses nearly half the national population.
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Horde 32 Sharing the Land
StartAhmo Thunderhorn
EndAhmo Thunderhorn
Level6 (Requires 4)
Reputation+250 Thunder Bluff
Rewards[Thunderhorn Cloak]
1Silver 25Copper
NextThe Restless Earth
Objectives Edit
• Palemane Gnoll Kill Credit slain (15)
Description Edit
<name>, there are many conflicts that wound this land. It is my hope that you will not bear witness to as many of them as our elders have. Yet there is one that I would ask you to seek. It will give you some sense of how terrible, if left unchecked, even a small threat can be to the land.
Words are no longer the answer.
Rewards Edit
You will receive: 1Silver 25Copper
Inv misc cape 10
[Thunderhorn Cloak]
Progress Edit
If the Palemanes had respected the land and its inhabitants more, this conflict would have never occurred.
Completion Edit
<name>, it is good you've taken the task seriously. Respect of the land and its creatures is important. Death and life are a circle... a necessity. One cannot exist without the other. Take time to ponder this and do well to never forget it.
Quest progression Edit
1. Official horde mini-icon [6] Sharing the Land
2. Official horde mini-icon [7] The Restless Earth
Patch changes Edit
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This file is intended to contain a few notes about writing C code
within GCC so that it compiles without error on the full range of
compilers GCC needs to be able to compile on.
The problem is that many ISO-standard constructs are not accepted by
either old or buggy compilers, and we keep getting bitten by them.
This knowledge until know has been sparsely spread around, so I
thought I'd collect it in one useful place. Please add and correct
any problems as you come across them.
I'm going to start from a base of the ISO C90 standard, since that is
probably what most people code to naturally. Obviously using
constructs introduced after that is not a good idea.
For the complete coding style conventions used in GCC, please read
String literals
Irix6 "cc -n32" and OSF4 "cc" have problems with constant string
initializers with parens around it, e.g.
const char string[] = ("A string");
This is unfortunate since this is what the GNU gettext macro N_
produces. You need to find a different way to code it.
Some compilers like MSVC++ have fairly low limits on the maximum
length of a string literal; 509 is the lowest we've come across. You
may need to break up a long printf statement into many smaller ones.
Empty macro arguments
ISO C (6.8.3 in the 1990 standard) specifies the following:
If (before argument substitution) any argument consists of no
preprocessing tokens, the behavior is undefined.
This was relaxed by ISO C99, but some older compilers emit an error,
so code like
#define foo(x, y) x y
foo (bar, )
needs to be coded in some other way.
Avoid unnecessary test before free
Since SunOS 4 stopped being a reasonable portability target,
(which happened around 2007) there has been no need to guard
against "free (NULL)". Thus, any guard like the following
constitutes a redundant test:
if (P)
free (P);
It is better to avoid the test.[*]
Instead, simply free P, regardless of whether it is NULL.
[*] However, if your profiling exposes a test like this in a
performance-critical loop, say where P is nearly always NULL, and
the cost of calling free on a NULL pointer would be prohibitively
high, consider using __builtin_expect, e.g., like this:
if (__builtin_expect (ptr != NULL, 0))
free (ptr);
You weren't going to use them anyway, but some otherwise ISO C
compliant compilers do not accept trigraphs.
Suffixes on Integer Constants
You should never use a 'l' suffix on integer constants ('L' is fine),
since it can easily be confused with the number '1'.
Common Coding Pitfalls
errno might be declared as a macro.
Implicit int
In C, the 'int' keyword can often be omitted from type declarations.
For instance, you can write
unsigned variable;
as shorthand for
unsigned int variable;
There are several places where this can cause trouble. First, suppose
'variable' is a long; then you might think
(unsigned) variable
would convert it to unsigned long. It does not. It converts to
unsigned int. This mostly causes problems on 64-bit platforms, where
long and int are not the same size.
Second, if you write a function definition with no return type at
operate (int a, int b)
that function is expected to return int, *not* void. GCC will warn
about this.
Implicit function declarations always have return type int. So if you
correct the above definition to
operate (int a, int b)
but operate() is called above its definition, you will get an error
about a "type mismatch with previous implicit declaration". The cure
is to prototype all functions at the top of the file, or in an
appropriate header.
Char vs unsigned char vs int
In C, unqualified 'char' may be either signed or unsigned; it is the
implementation's choice. When you are processing 7-bit ASCII, it does
not matter. But when your program must handle arbitrary binary data,
or fully 8-bit character sets, you have a problem. The most obvious
issue is if you have a look-up table indexed by characters.
For instance, the character '\341' in ISO Latin 1 is SMALL LETTER A
WITH ACUTE ACCENT. In the proper locale, isalpha('\341') will be
true. But if you read '\341' from a file and store it in a plain
char, isalpha(c) may look up character 225, or it may look up
character -31. And the ctype table has no entry at offset -31, so
your program will crash. (If you're lucky.)
It is wise to use unsigned char everywhere you possibly can. This
avoids all these problems. Unfortunately, the routines in <string.h>
take plain char arguments, so you have to remember to cast them back
and forth - or avoid the use of strxxx() functions, which is probably
a good idea anyway.
Another common mistake is to use either char or unsigned char to
receive the result of getc() or related stdio functions. They may
return EOF, which is outside the range of values representable by
char. If you use char, some legal character value may be confused
with EOF, such as '\377' (SMALL LETTER Y WITH UMLAUT, in Latin-1).
The correct choice is int.
A more subtle version of the same mistake might look like this:
unsigned char pushback[NPUSHBACK];
int pbidx;
#define unget(c) (assert(pbidx < NPUSHBACK), pushback[pbidx++] = (c))
#define get(c) (pbidx ? pushback[--pbidx] : getchar())
which will mysteriously turn a pushed-back EOF into a SMALL LETTER Y
Other common pitfalls
o Expecting 'plain' char to be either sign or unsigned extending.
o Shifting an item by a negative amount or by greater than or equal to
the number of bits in a type (expecting shifts by 32 to be sensible
has caused quite a number of bugs at least in the early days).
o Expecting ints shifted right to be sign extended.
o Modifying the same value twice within one sequence point.
o Host vs. target floating point representation, including emitting NaNs
and Infinities in a form that the assembler handles.
o qsort being an unstable sort function (unstable in the sense that
multiple items that sort the same may be sorted in different orders
by different qsort functions).
o Passing incorrect types to fprintf and friends.
o Adding a function declaration for a module declared in another file to
a .c file instead of to a .h file.
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Jean-Paul Calderone exarkun at
Mon Nov 28 04:58:32 CET 2005
On 27 Nov 2005 19:49:26 -0800, Paul Rubin <""@nospam.invalid> wrote:
>Robert Kern <robert.kern at> writes:
>> Use cases are the primary tool for communicating those practical
>> needs. If you can't think of a single use case, what's the point of
>> implementing something? Or rather, why should someone else implement
>> it if you don't know how you would use it?
>I can't think of a single use case for the addition (+) operator
>working where either of the operands happens to be the number
>0x15f1ef02d9f0c2297e37d44236d8e8ddde4a34c96a8200561de00492cb94b82 (a
>random number I just got out of /dev/urandom). I've never heard of
>any application using that number, and the chances of it happening by
>coincidence are impossibly low. But if Python were coded in a way
>that made the interpreter crash on seeing that number, I'd call that
>a bug needing fixing.
If you seriously believe what you just wrote, you have failed to
understand the phrase "use case" (and possibly a lot of other
things related to programming ;)
However (fortunately for you) I suspect you don't. If you really
did, you may want to pick up one of those platitude-filled XP books
and give it a careful read. You may find there's more there than
you were previously aware.
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Disclaimer: I own at least Elizabeth, possibly not so much Harry.
Thank yous: orlin, Miss Anonymous hp, im no muggle, crescomellonnin, Goddess of Gorgeousness, RoschLupin-Black, LiLy MaLfOy13, and Beth5572.
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Chapter 19: The One where the Babies Come Home
Sirius was curled up on his side in the hospital bed watching his two little children sleep. Visiting hours were over and even though he didn't want to leave, James was dragged out of the hospital leaving Sirius alone with the twins.
Harry James and Elizabeth Serena Danielle Potter. The new Potter generation. The new generation of rule breakers, mischief-makers. Marauders. Well, that was what Remus had said, he had become a lot more mischievous now they had left school and he wasn't quite as reserved and quiet as he used to be either.
Sirius figured the change in his friend's personality was probably because he was in love, he had found somebody who couldn't care less if he was a werewolf or not and wanted to marry him.
Sirius was still quite sore from the birth, the doctor said it may take a few days for the soreness to completely heal, but with potions it may be quicker. His stomach had shrunk back down now, but it hadn't gone back to its original flatness much to Sirius's disappointment and he still had some excess weight, he had already decided on an exercise regime for when he got out of hospital.
Sirius yawned and snuggled down under the blankets, he soon drifted off to sleep, he had a feeling this would be the last full night's sleep he would be able to get.
When James got home he fell down on the couch and covered his eyes with one arm and let his other hand stroke Max's head when the dog rested his chin on his stomach. He felt like such an ass right now, even after spending a couple of hours with Sirius and the babies he could tell that Sirius wasn't that happy with him.
But it really wasn't his fault, Eston never passed the message on to him and before one of the last classes James had gone to the staffroom for a cup of coffee and Eston was there. The man hadn't said a word to him, except for a few cutting remarks, which James had retaliated.
Even so, he was blaming himself as well, he really wanted to have been there for Sirius through the births, he had promised he would be there with Sirius but he wasn't. James just hoped Sirius would forgive him.
James was going back to the hospital the next morning to pick Sirius and the twins up and take them home. The babies' room was completely finished now, it was warm and it was within easy access from their bedroom.
James pulled himself up, he went to the kitchen to make himself some dinner and feed the dog. After that he went upstairs to bed, knowing this would be the last proper night's sleep he was likely to get for months.
The twins, surprisingly enough, slept through the entire night in so giving Sirius a very restful sleep.
Sirius woke up around 9am the next morning, he yawned and stretched before rolling onto his side and looking through half open eyes at the crib holding the twins. He nearly had a heart attack when he realised there was only one baby in there. Sirius sat up in horror and then his eyes rested on James sitting in an armchair with a baby in his arms, the only little Potter who was awake.
Sirius sighed a breath of relief, "Man, I thought one of them had been kidnapped."
James smiled apologetically, "Sorry, she woke up and I didn't want to wake you up."
Sirius smiled and settled back against the pillows closed his eyes again; "I am still so tired."
James carefully stood up, the little bundle that was his daughter still in his arms, and he went over to the bed and sat down on the side. He pressed a kiss to Sirius's forehead. "When we go home, I can take them to my parents for a little while and let you get some more sleep?"
Sirius cracked open his eyes; he reached a hand up and stroked his thumb over James's cheek. "I know you still feel bad about not being here yesterday but stop it. I'm not angry at you, I know it wasn't your fault."
James frowned slightly, "Are you sure? You seemed pretty upset yesterday."
Sirius smirked, "I had just given birth, Jamie, I was in too much pain to be really happy and I was exhausted." James nodded, he still looked a little unsure. Sirius pulled James' head to his and pressed his lips to James's. The kiss was short but meaningful. When Sirius pulled away, he kept his hands on the sides of James's face. "But, I will take you up on that offer of more sleep."
James smiled; he turned his head to kiss the palm of Sirius's handed the gurgling little girl to him as Harry woke up.
Two hours later, Sirius was dressed and the doctor had just discharged him. He and James took a baby carrier each and left the hospital with their two beautiful new-borns.
Sirius was still quite sore and blatantly told James that he was never going to give birth to a child through his arse ever again. "You know, I think after giving birth, you're never going to have to prepare me before we have sex again."
James snorted with laughter, "Thanks for the visual." He put an arm around Sirius's neck and kissed him on the forehead. "You mean you are willing to sleep with me again, even after this?"
Sirius smiled and nodded, "I'm fine unless I take another fertility potion. Which needless to say, I won't be. You can do it next time if you want anymore kids."
James nodded and kissed him, it was a slow and passionate and short lived because one of the twins started crying and the chain reaction started with the next one causing their parents to grumble and pull apart.
James watched in interested as Sirius went over to the babies who were in their carriers on the table and cooed over them, after a bit of quiet, gentle talking they stopped crying. James, in all honestly was terrified; he had absolutely no idea what he was meant to do and how to look after them. But Sirius, it had been less than a day since he had given birth and he was acting like a natural at the job.
Sirius looked over his shoulder at James as he got the twins settled down again, "You all right?"
James met Sirius's eyes with his slightly fearful hazel ones, "I-I don't know what to do. I mean, I don't know anything about raising a child, I just-I'm scared."
Sirius smiled, he made sure Harry had gone back to sleep before turning back to James and placed his hands on his shoulders. "I'm scared too and if it's any consolation I have no idea what I'm doing either."
"But you seem so confident."
Sirius squeezed James's shoulders lightly; "It's my paternal instinct. If we both just spend a lot of time around them we'll learn, your parents reassured me that the paternal instinct would set in soon… Don't worry, we're in this together, and we have their grandparents on call if we need help."
James moved forward and rested his head on Sirius's shoulder, with his eyes on the twins. Sirius stroked his hair and hugged him. "I'm still scared I'll screw up, and I don't feel very paternal."
Sirius smirked and kissed James on the neck, "Jamie, its ok. I'm here as well. I mean…look, just take as long as you need to get used to it, there's no rush. I guess it just comes easier to me because I gave birth to them…I'm their mother." He heard James laugh quietly against his neck. "But like I said, don't worry. You'll be great… You'll be a great father, I know you will."
James smiled adoringly. Sirius knew all the right things to say, that was one reason why James loved him so much. "God I hope so."
"I know so," replied Sirius, he pulled away and looked at James. "Are you all right now?"
James nodded, "Yeah, I'm still scared shitless but its nothing I can't handle."
Sirius smiled, "You can stare Aragog down yet babies frighten you? …Interesting."
James pulled a face, "Aragog's a spider…they're…little people. Its different."
Sirius leaned against the table and raised an eyebrow in amusement. "Think of it this way, these two are just going to scream and cry and demand lots of attention, whereas Aragog will talk you into staying in his den and then he'll most likely let his children eat you alive. Tell me honestly, which is scarier?"
James pointed, "Them."
A little while later, Sirius had encouraged James to continue with his plans of taking the twins to his parents for a few hours so Sirius could get some sleep.
Sirius got a glass of water from the kitchen and then headed upstairs to their bedroom, there were clothes strewn all over the floor and the bed was unmade.
"Typical of James," said Sirius to himself. He put his drink on the bedside table and began stripping off his clothes leaving himself completely naked. When he was alone Sirius quite often wandered around the house naked. He yawned and stretched, arching his back as he did so, then he sat down on the bed and climbed under the covers, he took a drink and then settled down on his side curling up slightly.
It still seemed so unreal, he and James had finally gotten together when they were sixteen and now they were both only a few months shy of turning twenty and they already had two gorgeous children and they had still only been together about three years this month.
Sirius smiled, he had a proper family at last, well, he had one when he ran away to the Potters, but James and the twins were his own family – the love of his life and their own flesh and blood.
Sirius closed his eyes and soon fell asleep.
Sixteen year old Sirius groaned in pain as he woke up, he was in a bed and when he opened his eyes he realised he was in an unfamiliar room with a pounding headache. He turned his head to the side and saw a boy with messy black hair fast asleep in the armchair beside the bed.
Suddenly the events that ended him up in this bed came back to him. He remembered being beaten and almost left for dead by his father, all because he refused to be his whore anymore. Sirius had taken his broom that night while his family were eating dinner and took off to the Potters, he remembered knocking on the door and seeing James before everything went dark. He figured he must have fainted.
Sirius looked to the bedroom door when it opened and saw Mrs. Potter come in. "Ah Sirius, you're awake at last."
Sirius nodded, "H-how long have I been out?"
"Coming up to three days," replied Irene, "We were really beginning to worry you wouldn't wake up at all, and this one here," She nodded to James's sleeping form. "Hasn't left your side since you arrived. I think this is the first time he's slept since the other night as well."
Sirius looked back to his sleeping best friend and felt a new wave of affection go out to the boy. He must really care about me.
"He cares a great deal about you, you know?" said Irene, she handed a goblet full of a potion to Sirius and put a glass of water on the bedside table. "Here, drink this, it should help ease some of the pain and then I'll bring some dinner up for you." Sirius nodded. "Just out of curiosity, when was the last time you ate? James mentioned that you look a lot thinner than the last time he saw you."
Sirius rubbed his forehead, "I don't know, maybe a week or so? They stopped letting me eat and they put wards up on the kitchen and pantry so I couldn't sneak down and get something at night."
Irene nodded, "I was worried you might say that. Any requests for food?"
Sirius shook his head; "I could eat just about anything right now."
Irene nodded, "OK." She headed towards the door. "Oh yes, when James wakes up, tell him to have a shower, he hasn't seen a bathroom for the last few days either."
Sirius laughed. After Irene left, Sirius looked at the goblet he was holding and sniffed the potion, it smelt awful but he quickly gulped it down and took a big drink of water before settling back down on his side facing James.
He already had a massive crush on his best friend, he had done for the best part of half a year, but now, knowing just how worried James had been for him, Sirius could feel something more. Was it love? Sirius figured it could very well be, he already loved James as a friend but now he loved him as more, but he didn't think he would ever be able to say that to the handsome Gryffindor.
Sirius soon became aware of the hazel eyes looking back at him, he saw James smile.
"Hey, you're awake at last," said James sitting up in his chair properly and stretching. "How are you?"
Sirius smiled, "I'm fine…I heard you haven't left my side since I got here."
James nodded, "Its true …I was worried about you, mate, I mean, when you turned up you were covered in blood and bruises and then you just collapsed… What happened?"
Sirius curled up, still facing James but he moved his gaze away from that gorgeous face and sighed deeply, "…My dad beat me up…"
Sirius knew he couldn't tell James the real reason so he just lied a little, "Well, you know my family, they hate me…I guess I must have pissed him off somehow."
James reached out and tentatively pushed Sirius's fringe out of his eyes, "Well, you look much better for wear now, and mum and dad said you could stay here as long as you want."
Sirius looked back to his best friend, "Really?"
James smiled and nodded, "Yeah, they like you Padfoot and so do I funnily enough. We want you to stay and my parents want to make sure you're out of harm's way."
"I knew I befriended you for a reason," said Sirius grinning slightly.
James rolled his eyes, "No, no, I befriended you cause you looked scared and weedy back in first year." Sirius grabbed a pillow and whacked James in the face with it. "Ow…"
"I was not weedy," grumbled Sirius failing to hide a smile. "Oh by the way, your mum told me to tell you to have a shower when you wake up cause…yeah just go have one, you can come back when you smell pleasant."
James huffed, "That's all the thanks I get for catching you when you fainted? I'll be sure to keep your gratitude in mind." He stood up and headed to the door and then looked back to Sirius. "I'm glad you're ok now. You had me really worried there for a while." That said, James left the room and headed presumably to his own for a shower.
Sirius settled onto his back again and rested his hands on his stomach and stared up at the ceiling, he suddenly felt quite lonely, and he wanted James to come back and talk to him.
End Dream/Flashback
"James, support his head. It could break his neck if you don't," said Irene noticing how her son was holding his son.
James did just that and pulled a face, "I'm a horrible parent…"
Irene shook her head while she was holding her granddaughter, "Honey, you've been a father for less than twenty four hours, you still have a lot to learn, you'll be fine. Although, I think you should read the books I gave Sirius, you shouldn't be completely unprepared."
James smiled, "I will then…Tell me honestly, should I be more scared of raising kids than I am of spiders?"
Michael raised his eyebrows, "I've had nineteen years to get used to it and I'm still scared."
"Shut up," said Irene shaking her head. "It's perfectly normal, you're allowed to be afraid. Now, you've been here a while, don't you think you ought to get back to Sirius now?"
James furrowed his brow; "You want to get rid of me?"
Michael sighed, "What I think your mother means is, your favourite aunt is coming around soon and you ought to leave before she gets here to save the insults."
James looked a little let down, "Oh, ok." He stood up and carefully put Harry back into one of the baby carriers, while his mum did the same with Elizabeth. "But don't you want to see her reaction when she finds out I have kids?"
"It would be amusing but perhaps not today. Wait until those two are old enough to tell her themselves," replied Michael nonchalantly.
James smirked, "Maybe we will." He picked up the twins' carriers. "See you later."
When James got back home he decided to put the twins down to sleep in their cribs. While he was at his parents he had learnt how to tell whether the milk was too warm or not, both twins seemed to like it warm, his parents told him it wasn't necessary to warm it up but most babies prefer it. After that, they had shown him how to burp the babies and then bathe them.
After tucking them into their cribs and making sure they stayed asleep, he turned on the musical mobile above the cribs and then headed out the room and down the hall to see if Sirius was awake. He had seen his husband's sleeping form when he was walking down the hallway to take the twins to bed.
Sirius murmured something in his sleep and turned onto his back when James entered. James crawled onto the bed and pressed a soft kiss to Sirius's slightly parted lips, when he pulled away a pair of slightly confused blue eyes were looking back at him.
"How long have you been gone?" asked Sirius rubbing his eyes.
James looked at the alarm clock, "About three and a half hours and I feel much more confident now."
Sirius smiled and tapped his face, "I knew you'd come around." He yawned and stretched, arching his back as he did so. "God, I feel even more tired, maybe I shouldn't've gone to sleep."
James shrugged, "It doesn't matter, they've been fed, burped, bathed and put to sleep." He saw Sirius raise his eyebrows. "Mum insisted on showing me the more simple points and I found out I'm allergic to baby soap." He held his left arm out at Sirius's skeptical look and showed him the red patch on the inside of his forearm. "It might not be all baby soap, just the one my mum conjured."
Sirius nodded, "Oh, ok." He felt a bit useless now. "What are we going to do until they wake up?"
James shrugged and tucked one leg under himself, "I don't know…we could watch a movie or something."
Sirius raised an eyebrow, "Wow, you didn't even suggest a blow job, I'm impressed, Jamie." He ruffled James' hair and had his hand batted away. "I'm up for watching a movie…um, can we bring the TV and everything up here? Its just, I don't want to be too far away from them."
James nodded, "Yeah sure, I'll go bring it all up."
One Month Later
It was 3am and James was sitting in the rocking chair in Harry and Elizabeth's room in just his boxers as he tried to get Elizabeth back to sleep. She was dry, he had offered her milk and she had refused to drink it, he figured it must just be one of those times they wanted to cry for no reason at all.
James rocked on the chair gently, "Sh, come on baby, please go back to sleep, daddy needs to rest as well." He was getting desperate.
There had been times in the last month where James and Sirius got absolutely no sleep at all, those were the nights where they had resulted in calling James's parents for help. Other nights they had gotten about six hours of sleep between them. The babies were waking up and wailing for food, a nappy change, a cuddle and sometimes nothing at all. Their nineteen-year-old parents were dead on their feet; they were falling asleep all over the place and being jolted awake by wailing.
This lifestyle was fine, in short bursts, but when either James or Sirius thought about the fact that they had to raise these kids for the next eighteen years, they nearly cried. Especially knowing these late night/early morning wake up calls were going to last for a long time.
"You know," said James in the most soothing voice he could muster to his sniffling baby daughter, "If you keep this up, Uncle Moony and Auntie Dani are going to have to baby-sit you again so mummy and daddy can get some sleep. Now you know how they feel about babies."
A few days ago, Dani had volunteered for her and Remus to baby-sit the twins for a few hours while James and Sirius got some sleep. But when they got the twins back, Dani mentioned wanting to get her tubes tied before she had a chance to get pregnant because she didn't want to have to suffer this torture, if her and Remus decided to start a family. James and Sirius had tried telling them it wasn't quite as awful as it seemed.
"It's not that bad really," said Sirius stifling a yawn. "I mean, sure, you hardly get any sleep and you have to change their dirty diapers every few hours and feed them at the worst times of the night and of course, their crying wakes you up all the time…but it is worth it. I mean, just knowing you created them is such an incredible feeling, it really is. I wouldn't change this for the world."
Dani was nearly convinced until James spoke grumpily.
"He's that sleep deprived, he actually believes what he's saying," he said yawning.
Sirius glared at him, "Ignore him."
James continued to rock the chair talking soothingly to Elizabeth or Lizzie, as she had become known as.
The sleep deprivation had definitely strained their relationship a bit, they found themselves snapping at each other and bickering far more than they used to. If this was what happened after one month of having babies, he wasn't sure he wanted to know what could happen between now and the twins leaving home.
James lifted up Elizabeth's little arm and admired her teeny, tiny fingers as she started to quieten down, he felt her little hand curl around his thumb as she started to slip back into sleep. James smiled, "There's a good girl, Lizzie." He whispered as he carefully stood up trying not to startle her and wake her up again, he gently kissed her on her nearly bald head and then placed her carefully in the crib next to her brother's. "Night Lizzie."
Before leaving the room James checked to make sure Harry was still fast asleep, he was, thankfully. "Night Harry."
James turned and left the room to head back to bed, he crawled back under the covers next to Sirius, he flicked off the bedside lamp and slumped onto his stomach.
"What was wrong?" mumbled the voice next to his ear.
James wiggled about to get comfortable, "She just wanted a cuddle, I think." He felt Sirius's arm move and rest over his bare back
"For what?"
Sirius sniffed, "For snapping at you so much."
James turned his head so he could just make out Sirius's silhouette in the half moon lit room, "Don't be. I've been doing it as well." He kissed Sirius on the forehead, or what he thought was his forehead. "Let's just blame it on the lack of sleep, yeah?" Sirius mumbled an affirmative. "Night Siri."
The two lovers had nearly fallen back to sleep when…
"Oh fuck it. I went last time."
Sirius grumbled and rolled out of bed and cursed all the way to the twins' room.
A/N: I hope that wasn't too tedious…
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0.48173 | <urn:uuid:97280c22-2d8d-4bfa-a02f-bbcfcb2ff753> | en | 0.991382 | Title: Orpheus Drowning
Rating: NC-17
Characters: Dean/Sam (Wincest)
Genres: Angst, First Time, Hurt/Comfort
Summary: Sam has to come to grips with the deal Dean made. Dean has to deal with a broken Sam. Secrets are kept, admissions are made, all in the name of finding a way to break their pattern of each trying to die for the other. (Spoilers for Seasons 1 & 2)
Disclaimer: So not mine, if they were I would have better things to do then write about them.
Author's Notes: A/N: First time writing in this fandom. I just started watching the show and second season finale, of course, did me in. So I had to write something. This story is what came of it. Might be a chapter fic, if people like it, cause I definitely have a plot bunny in here somewhere with all the angsty porn. Thanks for reading, hope someone enjoys!
Sam is silent on the way to the motel. Every now and then he turns to look back at the headlights of Bobby's car as he and Ellen follow them. It's like a nervous twitch. He's waiting for something to attack the cars. He has images of giant bird like demons flying off with the only friends, the only family, he has left. He shudders hard and feels his stomach reel.
And that thought, always that thought, makes him turn his head just enough to watch his brother in his peripheral. Dean has the music cranked loud, the window open so that the chill night hair sends Sam's hair flying in all directions. His arm is out the window, beating the door of the Impala to the beat of Kansas' Carry on Wayward Son. He looks- happy, content. There's no fear in him; he doesn't check the rearview window or look to the sky for would be enemies, or even look sideways at Sam to make sure he's still there. Dean was goddamned Orpheus, bringing people back from the dead, only without the need to look back, to make sure.
He wants to say something. No, he wants to hit something. He watches Dean, openly now. There's still blood on his face from when the damned demon had thrown him and there's dirt on his hand as it grips the wheel of the Impala. Sam looks for something; some sign of the countdown that began just yesterday, the countdown to the end. But he can't see anything. Sure, Dean looks battered and not a little tired, but that's nothing more than usual after a job. Especially not after this, not after tonight.
All of his surety; that he could find a way out of this for Dean, that he could save his brother for once, is gone. There had been something in Dean's eyes when he said it, something more that Dean wasn't telling him.
His fury is near a boiling point. But it's more than that. There's an ache in his chest he can't make go away, a pain that makes it nearly impossible to breathe. He feels every minute, every second that passes.
"How could you?" He asks loudly, angrily, straining to be heard over the music. And he's shocked at how quickly the relaxation in Dean's face flees. How quickly his brother's features break again.
"Please, Sammy. Don't." Is Dean's broken reply. And Sam shuts his mouth, stiffens his jaw. He can't deny the plea in Dean's voice, because it's not something he hears often.
So Sam says nothing for the rest of the ride, says nothing as Bobby and Dean get rooms. He says his goodnights to Ellen and Bobby, giving them fierce hugs, knowing they'll be heading out in the morning and knowing he probably won't see them for a few days, maybe weeks.
And Sam is silent again after that. He follows Dean into their shared room, and sets a small bag on the table in the corner of the room. It's not a bad room; one bed that's more than large enough to share and Sam can't honestly say he minds sharing tonight, no matter how angry he is at his older brother, a TV against the wall, a large bathroom that Dean disappears into immediately, and the table that Sam is standing near. It's painted in light colors and something about that soothes Sam. He takes out the bandages and the peroxide from the bag and sits at the chair, staring at the items. He can hear the shower running in the bathroom.
When Dean comes out of the bathroom just a few minutes later he's wrapped in a towel and glistening wet. He stands in the doorway, staring at Sam for a long moment. Sam blinks heavily, but meets his brother's gaze. There's something in it, something he can't read, but desperately wants to. His chest seizes and he has to fight the urge to stand and take Dean in his arms. Instead he nods his head towards the bed. Dean nods his head once and goes to sit down.
Sam brings over the bandages and the peroxide. Dean is watching him, quiet and somber now, all traces of victory gone from his features. He looks paler somehow, weaker, and that terrifies Sam. What if this is how it happens? Dean taken away from him a little bit more every day until a year is up and there's nothing really left of the Dean he loves. Sam tries to push the thought away and kneels in front of Dean.
His hands are shaking as he cleans Dean's head wound, and by the time he's bandaged and taped it he can't keep them steady no matter how hard he tries. Dean's eyes don't leave his face, and in the soft light of the motel they are more green than hazel and Sam can't deal with that at the moment. There are tears blinding him and burning his eyes. And as he kneels in front of his brother he closes his eyes and lowers his head until it rests on Dean's still shower damp knee.
"Sammy." His name is hardly a breath; it doesn't even stir the air at all as it leaves Dean's lips. A hand rests lightly on his head, the fingers tangling in his hair.
The tears fall loose then, because he doesn't know how to stop them. But he doesn't want them either. He's shaking and breathing has become a task he can't seem to complete. He's shuddering and gasping and his vision is so blurred he can't see anything. It's all a blur. And then he's pushed and prodded a little and without knowing how they're both on the floor and he's wrapped up in his brother's arms, resting against his chest, Dean's legs bent, and surrounding him like a barrier from the rest of the world.
It's a strangling mix of rage and sorrow and hopelessness that claws its way up his throat. It escapes his lips in a ragged scream. And he's pounding his fists on Dean's chest, hitting as hard as he can, which isn't hard considering how badly he's shaking. And Dean just takes it, whispers his name, and touches him; hands brushing his hair back, touching his shoulders, grabbing his face. But he never blocks the blows and Sam loses count how many times he hears the solid thud of his fists hitting his brother.
It isn't enough. Nothing is ever going to be enough.
"How could you do this to me? You selfish, stupid, stubborn son of a bitch!" Sam screams, but it's strangled and barely coherent. A retched sob escapes his lips. His eyes are red ringed and swollen from his tears, and his jaw is clenched tightly. "You dragged me back into this. You came and got me and it was supposed to be you and me and how the fuck am I supposed to do this without you, Dean?" He snarls, but the sound is so weak, so broken that it physically hurts Dean to hear it.
He manages to wrap his arms around his struggling younger brother and pull him closer than he already is. He presses a desperate kiss to Sam's temple, and he tastes Sam's sweat and his tears and the faint copper of Dean's own blood that's somehow been smeared on Sam's temple.
He's shocked by how hard Sam shoves him away. And he's more surprised by how quickly Sam is up on his feet, long legs untangling, so that he towers over Dean. He stares down at him, and Dean is honestly scared of the light in his eyes. Not scared for himself, but for Sam.
He thinks, for the first time, that maybe he really did underestimate just how badly Sam would take this. He'd known he would be upset; angry, guilty, sad, terrified, all those things that Dean had felt when their dad had done this for him. But he wasn't expecting this; this total breakdown, this desperate madness, the helplessness that bleeds off of his little brother in drowning waves. It's suffocating Dean, and he can't imagine what it's doing to Sam.
"Sammy." He says softly.
Sam stumbles away as if he's been shot. He slams hard into the wall and leans precariously there, wipes his face on his shirt sleeve. He's staring at Dean, but he's not seeing.
"Sammy, please." He tries again, his voice is a ragged whisper; it's harsh to his own ears. It's hard to breath.
Sammy's eyes focus back on him, and his face crumples again, lips pulling back in something that is half grimace, half sob.
"I couldn't let you die!" Dean shouts. He gets off the floor, slowly, because he's lightheaded and not a little sick to his stomach, and there isn't a muscle in his body that isn't shaking. The towel is hanging precariously on his hips, but he doesn't notice. "I'm supposed to take care of you, damn it. That's my job. My job! It's always been my job; since before the fire, before mom, before all the fucking demons. Dad never had to tell me, if he'd never said anything I still would of known; you were mine and I was supposed to protect you!" He advances on Sam, who seems like he's trying to find a way to just meld into the wall.
"Fuck you." Sam grates out between clenched teeth. He's shaking so hard, so hard, and Dean can see it as he comes closer. His heart hurts, worse than it did when it was dying. This is all so much worse. "Fuck you and your job. It's my job too. You think I don't feel the same damn way, Dean? How am I supposed to- how can I-?" Sam's anger seems to slip away, just like that, and his face, his beautiful face, is breaking again.
He's sliding slowly down the wall, back towards the floor. Dean steps quickly and grabs him, wrapping him up in his arms, and keeping him up. He gets him standing again, and then backs away just enough to grab Sam's face in his rough hands. He leans forward and presses his forehead against his little brother's. With Sam slumped against the wall they're nearly even height.
"You got to live for me, Sammy. You have to. I need you to be alive." He says fiercely. He lets his hands move to tangle in the hair at Sam's temples, to pull his brother's face up just an inch so that they are breathing in each other's breath. "Only thing that's ever mattered is that you lived." Then he presses his mouth to his brother's, firm but soft, hesitant and yet not. He knows Sam won't push him away. It's just a question of how close he'll let him get.
A sob escapes past Sam's lips, bubbling thickly out of his throat. He sounds like he's dying. Dean pulls his lips back, stares into Sam's eyes, which are mere shades lighter than his own.
"I've got to save you." Sam whispers brokenly. He leans forward and lays a desperate kiss on Dean's lips. He pulls back a moment later and his hands have moved up lay flat over Dean's bare chest. "Can't let you die, Dean. I can't do it." He lets his head fall onto Dean's shoulder. Dean wraps him in his arms, holds him so tight he knows it must hurt, but he doesn't care.
"You can't save me, man." And Dean thinks it would hurt less to tear his own heart out then it does to say the next words. "That's part of the deal. If I try to get out of this- you- you-." He stops because he can't swallow around the words. He can feel Sam struggling again, trying to pull away from him, but Dean won't let him. And he's still got at least a few years more of training against Sam's exceptional height and size. "You'll die, Sam. Drop right dead at my feet. And you can't do that." Sam stops struggling, practically goes limp in Dean's arms.
"No hope then." He says softly, voice like a spirit, against Dean's neck. His breath on Dean's damp skin makes him shiver. "Dean." His name is a high, keening noise in his brother's voice.
He lowers his face, nudges at Sam's until Sam lifts his face enough for Dean to kiss him again. Sam's hands trail down his chest to rest on his hips, digging in hard as he opens his mouth to Dean. Dean's moan is swallowed by Sam's eager, fucking perfect mouth, and Sam's tongue is tasting and teasing. He lets Sam back him up slowly, moving step by careful step until the back of his knees hit the motel bed and he falls back onto it, with Sam falling heavily on top of him.
It should be harder to do this, to cross this unspeakable line. But it isn't. It's easy as breathing to run his hands down his brother's muscled body, feel the hitch of his breath in the sudden movement of his chest. It's easy to kiss his full lips fiercely, feel the life and the pulse of blood in his veins as he licks his way down his neck. It's easy and it's impossible.
He's breathing hard, and he can't seem to catch his breath. Dean is barely covered by the motel towel, but Sam can't help but grind his hips into his and try to get them closer. Dean makes a low noise, a sound that lands somewhere between a hiss and a moan. Sam raises his head to kiss it from his lips. Dean's hands tangle in his hair and pull hard.
"Dean. Dean, please." He doesn't even know what he's begging for; Dean's hands on him, his mouth, his life, the beat of his heart for more than a god damned year, all of it.
Dean flips him over easily, and he's got Sam's shirt off in one smooth motion. He lies down over Sam so that they're bare skin to bare skin. The feel of it, the heat of it, makes Sam's eyes roll back in his head and a desperate moan leave his lips. Dean's hands are slow and steady, not shaking the way they were before, against the wall. Sam keeps his eyes closed; he can't stand to look at Dean right now. He tries to concentrate on the feel of dry, somewhat calloused, hands as they run over his skin, and remove the rest of his clothes.
"Dean." The desperation is bubbling back up and it makes him shake twice as hard as before. "I can't- you can't- god, don't leave me, Dean. Please. I need you." Dean kisses him hard, but his hands are still gentle.
"Shut up, Sammy. I love you, but you have to shut up because I can't- I can't listen to your voice anymore, man." Sam opens his eyes and looks at Dean above him; his eyes are dark and clouded, still wet and glistening with tears. And that does shut him up, because he doesn't know what to say to that face.
Dean kisses his neck, nipping and licking over the sensitive skin. His hands move lower and his mouth bites the line of his collar bone. Sam bites his lip hard because he doesn't trust himself to stay quiet. He's so hard it hurts, and every sweeping brush of Dean's hand over his hips and down his stomach makes his cock jump. He can feel Dean's pressing into his thigh as they rock together.
It's too much, all this contact, everything laid bare, the tears between them. Sam can't keep his mind of any one thing and he can't, just can't get his breath back, or seem to stop shaking. Dean puts just enough space between them to look up at Sam, and Sam forces himself to watch his brother's face.
Dean reaches a hand up, softly tracing the lines of Sam's lips until Sam opens them slightly, sucks one long finger into his mouth. Dean's eyes flutter close for a minute and Sam sucks just a little bit harder, letting his teeth graze his brother's skin. Sam watches, fascinated and silent now, as Dean pulls his finger from Sam's mouth and brings that same hand back down his body, almost but not quite brushing over Sam's straining cock, before dipping down between his spread legs.
When Dean's finger enters him, slowly and carefully because they don't have lube or anything else to help ease the way, he cries out and bucks against Dean. He's torturously slow in prepping Sam, careful and easy, as if Sam were the one living on borrowed time. By the time he has three fingers in Sam, Sam is thrashing on the bed; moaning through gritted teeth, his hands clawing at Dean's shoulders because if he can't get closer to Dean soon he's going to lose his mind, or maybe die all over again.
"Dean, fuck, now, damn it." He growls out, reaching out to grab Dean's neck and pull him in for a kiss that's more violent than passionate but still seems to get the point across. Because the minute he lets Dean's lips free Dean is pulling his fingers out and reaching to the floor, to his jeans, where even Sam knows a condom is waiting. He grabs Dean's hand and stops him. He glares at the questioning glance Dean gives him. "No. Just you." Dean opens his mouth to argue. "I don't care, damn it, and you owe me. I want you, just you. And I don't care what fucking comes of it." He fights back the sob that closes off his chest, tries not to let the tears fall, but even as he closes his eyes he can feel them leaking past his lashes.
He doesn't actually expect acquiescence, but Dean doesn't fight him on this. He just wipes away Sam's tears, still silent except for his ragged breath and the occasional moan. He reaches between them again, and Sam opens his legs wider for him. He feels the head of Dean's cock against his ass and moans, biting hard on his lower lip and tasting blood.
And its heaven and hell and every single dimension in between when he starts pressing in, because he's bigger than his three fingers, and it's just not easy going. But it's worth it when Dean is finally buried deep inside him, body shuddering above him, breath coming in short, high gasps. He looks wild, looking down at Sam, and that would scare Sam a little except that Dean has never scared Sam and never could.
"Okay, Sammy?" Dean asks in a breathless whisper, the first words he's spoken since he told Sam to shut up. Sam closes his eyes, let's his brother's voice wash over him. "Sammy? I need to know you're okay."
"Just move. Need to feel you." He manages to get out. He moves his hands from Dean's shoulders to his face, his long fingers brushing over the high cheekbones, the almost roman nose, over his perfect lips. "Dean." And that's all the encouragement that Dean needs.
They move together after that and even though it's painful at times for both of them it only makes the pleasure all the more sweet. Every ache and burn let's Dean know they are alive. He can see the slight winces in Sam's features, the flaring of his nose, the tensing of his jaw, but whenever he slows the rolling motion of their hips the hands that run ceaselessly over his back and shoulders, pulling him closer, find their way to his face. And there's no mistaking the message in his little brother's eyes. The pain is the cost, those green eyes say, and it's a price Sam will pay.
Dean would stop to wonder if this means they are sincerely fucked up now, if the pleasure will ever be without the pain, but he doesn't want to think about anything other than Sam and the smell of his sweat, the taste of his skin, the feel of his tight heat wrapped around him.
He presses in deeper into Sam and leans forward to rest his forehead against Sam's. And then he can't shut up. He's close and no orgasm has ever felt like this one. Sex has never felt like this. And he can't shut the fuck up about it although he really wishes he could. But he needs Sam to know, needs him to hear.
And so, as Sam shoots hot and sticky between them, and as his ass seems to milk Dean dry so that he comes mere seconds after his brother he can only repeat, over and over again, against the flush skin of his brother's forehead, his lips, his neck;
He knows that the same words roll desperately off of Sam's lips. And it's all that matters, all that can ever matter from here on out.
For hours they doze; wrapped together, Sam around Dean's warm body and bundled under the blankets. It's quiet and peaceful, just for this precious stretch of time; the universe giving them an all too brief break.
When Sam wakes there are just a few streaks of light in the sky. It's too cold outside of the blankets and too warm underneath, they're sticky and he aches in places he never even imagined, but he doesn't care. He wants to stay in his brother's arms; Dean's grip seems to have only tightened as they slept. But his mind is working over time.
He already has several ideas forming in his head. Some of them he thinks might be good; some of them he knows are suicidal. All of them though, he knows, he can't tell Dean about. The way Sam figures it, Dean's the one who made the deal. So fine, Dean can't try to find a way out. And just to be safe Sam is assuming that means he can't knowingly let Sam try either. But that just means that Sam's going to have to be able to pull off the hardest scam he ever has.
He has to let his brother think he's accepting his death. And he needs to find a way to stop it.
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Title: Ike's Faux Pas
A/N: Again, written for the FE Drabble comm on LJ. I anticipate hate. I guess it can kind of count as a continuation? But...not really? I'll stop.
It was a joyous day for Elincia and the rest of the Greil Mercenaries: Ike had arrived from where ever the hell he'd gone off to for the past eight months. The Queen of Crimea instantly held a feast for Ike and his friends.
Shinon didn't go, saying that he and Gatrie would not be attending the banquet held in "your stupid honor" because "I don't want to be hanging around you, all those sub-humans and royals".
Though, Ranulf was the only 'sub-human' that was attending. …And Elincia was the only 'royal' in the first place.
After doing this really weird head movement, Shinon left. The blond knight considered ditching his best friend (there were some fine lookin' ladies in that room), but he pretty much abandoned that plan when Shinon told him to, quote: "Get your ass over here!"
So here they were now, seated at the very long (extra long) table, a whole meal spread out in front of them. Ike had started to reach for a drumstick, but Titania slapped his hand before he could.
"Good to have you back, Ike." Lucia said…well, she had to yell, since he was halfway across the room.
The table was really long.
He grunted, but she didn't hear it, so he nodded his head. Sadly, she couldn't tell. So he simply screamed: "Glad to be back!"
They all began to eat after that, and Ike described to everyone the…'tournament' he'd been in.
No one actually cared. Well, Geoffrey kind of did.
Ranulf looked up thoughtfully at the ceiling. "I heard that there was a tropical storm off the coast of Kilvas…"
"Hah!" Came a drunken cry from outside the palace banquet room. "Serves them feathered half-breeds right!"
"Shiiiinnoon! You shouldn't be saying thingssss like thaat."
"Anyway," Ranulf continued, ignoring the unseen archer's outburst. "It really caused some damage, but there were no casualties reported." And then he grinned over at their 'Guest of Honor'. "King Tibarn said that it kind of reminded him of our boy Ike over here."
Mist giggled, "That's funny…I can so see that too! It looks powerful, but doesn't do anything!"
Ike gave her a look. "One, Mist, that didn't make any sense. And two…" He looked around, staring into everyone's eyes one-by-one (well, not so much Oscar's), "That storm is nothing like me."
Boyd snorted, "Why not?"
Ike looked at him, and in the most uninspired voice ever, "Because I fight for my friends. It doesn't."
A heavy silence hung in the air: a very…awkward silence. A drunken laugh came from the other side of the door, and also the sound of Shinon (or Gatrie) dropping a glass on the floor.
Ike shrugged, "What's wrong guys?" Again, his voice held no inspiration at all. "Everyone back at the…'tournament' gave me the same look too. …Guys?"
Ike's 'friends' all stood and quickly exited the room; when the door opened, there was Shinon and Gatrie laughing themselves into a coma. Soren stayed, though, and simply shook his head.
"I don't get it, Soren. Everyone acts as if saying that is the biggest faux pas ever, or something."
"Because it is, Ike."
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Where was he? The place wasn't the garage; it wasn't the hanger down below. Nor was it the living space. This place was dark, cold…definably not a friendly area. But it was familiar…like he's been here before. So why was it so familiar? The male cat stared at his form, seeing his clothes torn but otherwise in tack. His back hurt, his tail felt limp and one of ears felt odd. Where was he? Where was his partner…With a frown, he glanced around once again stopping dead in his tracks. That monster villain, those eyes that sound, that voice…!
"Get back to work!"
A loud crash erupted from somewhere in the garage, his lean body jerking into sitting position fingers gripping onto the sheets. His face was pale, his breath coming in rough gasps for breath staring at the wall in front of him. That dream…Jake dragged a hand roughly threw his fur, claws tugging at the loose strands as he struggled to calm his rough breathing. It has been a reoccurring dream for the past week, one that keeps haunting him every step he took. Yet, the lean cat couldn't figure it out the reason or the meaning.
A groan escaped his lips rubbing his eyes furiously before glancing at the alarm clock next to him flashing ten am. Did the alarm sound and thats what jolted him awake? Or was his partner up and about and already working on a car? Jake gave a groan glancing at the clock. He shook his head before he slowly stood to his feet, cracking his back. Speaking of…He paused, grabbing a fresh pair of clothes as he headed into the bathroom, looking at his reflection.
"Katz, I look like a ghost." Jake narrowed his eyes at the sight of him knowing this reoccurring dream was driving him mad and to the point of exhaustion. But there was no way he would mention it to Chance. Hell that would be the worst thing he could do. Jake sighed, quickly freshing himself up so to speak. He paused, shirt off glancing at his back in the mirror. Nothing. Not even a scratch. "This lack of sleep is starting to affect me. Just great." He muttered, pulling the shirt back over his head, along with the rest of the clothes. Making sure he looked somewhat normal, he headed out, following the hall and the sound of another clang of metal against metal.
"Chance?" He called, pausing inside the garage doorway, scratching an ear as he waited for a response. The rusty car rested with the hood opened, the smell oil and grease in the air. He snorted, rubbing his nose with the back of his paw. Walking forward, he noticed a pair of legs underneath the car, twisted to the side. "What are you doing?"
A growl escaped the other underneath twisting back to lie on his back. Shoving back to roll from underneath, the slight chubby cat sat up to glance at his partner giving a snort. "What does it look like? Fixing a car. Well, trying to see what the problem is actually. Everything of this piece of metal seems to be the problem…" He snorted, dragging himself to his feet, looking over the other in front of him. "You're awake late." He added, raising an eyebrow.
"Mm yeah, rough time falling asleep. I'll be alright, don't worry." Jake waved him off, rubbing his eyes to remove the rest of the sleep. Sure, he wasn't completely alright but he would keep up the act. At least he was well enough to work and help protect the city right?
"Right. Let's see if we can figure out the problem before our other job calls us, hm?"
With Chance going back under, Jake checked the hood, leaning over to glance at the damage. There other job, yes. The double life of a hero and a mechanic was always calling. It never made their life dull that was for sure. In fact, it was always pretty thrilling. Jake blinked out of his thoughts, turning his attention back to the car in the need of repairing. Maybe he needed more sleep then he thought. His mind was wandering a lot lately.
Jerking, the other nearly dropped the wrench from his grasp. He turned his head looking at the cat next to him. The stare he was receiving…did he trail off in thought again? He blinked, grip tightening just a little.. "Yeah?"
"You were completely lost in thought. Katz maybe you should go back to bed. I called you like, twice already and you didn't notice."
"Sorry, distracted."
Jake paused, opening his mouth to comment and argue but was stopped by the familiar alarm ringing. Turning his head quickly, Chance quickly darted toward the alarm, slamming his paw against the call, hearing the feed come alive. What can it be this time?
"Ms. Briggs?"
"Swat Katz, listen we got an huge problem here, and when I mean huge, I mean huge! Dr. Viper's plants and Dark Kat's creeplings are attacking MegaKat Tower!"
"What! Both of them?" The two Swat Kats exclaimed at the same time, both completely surprised that the two villains seemed to be working together once more.
"Yes, both of them! Believe me, I'm just as surprised as you are! Ack, I have to run. Hurry guys and be careful!"
As the communicator clicked off, the two Swat Kats rushed into the hanger and wasted no time in getting dressed in their flight suits. Nor did they waste an second in getting into their jet and headed into the sunny sky's. It was plain that the two hero's felt an sense of dread as they headed toward the tower. Both of them knew this was not going to be an easy issue to resolve. | https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8968362/1/ | dclm-gs1-092960001 | false | false | {
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SMcKinney07, aren't you just the sweetest! To the OP, please post a picture of your cake and I'll see what I can do to help (if someone doesn't beat me to it)!
No I don't think buttercream icing is unprofessional at all. I use both buttercream and fondant in my bakery, and honestly, I get the same comments you have heard about people not wanting the taste or the additional cost of fondant on their cakes. I actually book a lot of cakes because I will do them in buttercream when other local bakers are insisting on using fondant. I think when you hear the comments like: "I can't believe that is buttercreme" "I...
When I was still in the "hobbying" phase I would try a new cake recipe and decorate it every Sunday, and take it to work on Monday for my co-workers. One weekend I was running short on time and just baked a boxed cake mix and decorated it. Monday morning - everyone RAVED over my cake telling me "this is the best one yet!"
Ummm, I don't know that I would say that exactly. To me, that's leaving the door wide open to her wanting money back after the fact. "Something wrong" can get pretty loosely translated when the client is already suffering from buyer's remorse. I would ask why her why she's nervous about paying. If it's related to execution, do you have any online reviews or previous customer testimonials that you could share with the client? That might calm her "nerves" a bit. ...
To add, I have found that if you go to the client's bank and the check is no good, you can always take it back another time and try to re-cash. I have even had tellers that would tell what day the client normally deposited money. And even though I it has never reached this point for me, I understand that you can take a bad check to your local courthouse and have a warrant issued for their arrest. I did "threaten" a client with this action once, and she she ponied up...
Personally, unless it was a structure you think you'll get multiple uses out of, I would just build the cost of the structure into the price of the cake. But, if you DO want it back, the best way is to let the customer know up front, and actually hold a deposit until they return it. I think multiple uses are fine as long as you can clean and sanitize it properly.
Candy clay is just modeling choc made using candy melts. MC would work just as well.You'll definitely want a center dowel rod for this cake!!
Agree 100%!
I cut my cake humps off with a big serrated knife after they've cooled a bit. I think it might be hard stacking 5 or 6 tiers of cake when each tier has a big hump on it. You wouldn't build a house on a humpy hill would you? You would want a nice level surface to start with, I would think.
I don't use SPS, I just use bubble tea straws and dowels. I transported a tiered cake this weekend that was over 3 feet tall. It was 4 tiers with a 3inch riser in between each tier. I had to leave the top tier off, but that's only because it wouldn't fit in the car with it on.
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The bleaching process has been known for millennia,[1] but the chemicals currently used for bleaching resulted from the work of several 18th century scientists. Chlorine is the basis for the most commonly used bleaches, for example, the solution of sodium hypochlorite, which is so ubiquitous that most simply call it "bleach", and calcium hypochlorite, the major compound in "bleaching powder". Oxidizing bleaching agents that do not contain chlorine most often are based on peroxides, such as hydrogen peroxide, sodium percarbonate and sodium perborate. While most bleaches are oxidizing agents, some are reducing agents such as sodium dithionite and sodium borohydride.
Bleaches are used as household chemicals to whiten clothes and remove stains and as disinfectants, primarily in the bathroom and kitchen. Many bleaches have strong bactericidal properties, and are used for disinfecting and sterilizing and thus are used in swimming pool sanitation to control bacteria, viruses and algae and in any institution where sterile conditions are needed. They are also used in many industrial processes, notably in the bleaching of wood pulp. Bleach is also used for removing mildew, killing weeds and increasing the longevity of flowers.[2]
The earliest form of bleaching involved spreading fabrics and cloth out in a bleachfield to be whitened by the action of the sun and water.[1][3] Modern bleaches resulted from the work of 18th century scientists including Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele, who discovered chlorine, French scientists Claude Berthollet, who recognized that chlorine could be used to bleach fabrics and who first made sodium hypochlorite (Eau de Javel, or Javel water, named after a quarter in Paris where it was produced) and Antoine Germain Labarraque, who discovered the disinfecting ability of hypochlorites. Scottish chemist and industrialist Charles Tennant first produced a solution of calcium hypochlorite, then solid calcium hypochlorite (bleaching powder).[1]
Louis Jacques Thénard first produced hydrogen peroxide in 1818 by reacting barium peroxide with nitric acid.[4] Hydrogen peroxide was first used for bleaching in 1882, but did not become commercially important until after 1930.[5] Sodium perborate as a laundry bleach had been used in Europe since the early twentieth century, but did not become popular in North America until the 1980s.[6]
How bleaches work[edit]
Antimicrobial efficacy[edit]
The broad-spectrum effectiveness of bleach, particularly sodium hypochlorite, is owed to the nature of its chemical reactivity with microbes. Rather than acting in an inhibitory or toxic fashion in the manner of antibiotics, bleach quickly reacts with microbial cells to irreversibly denature and destroy many pathogens. Bleach, particularly sodium hypochlorite, has been shown to react with a microbe's heat shock proteins, stimulating their role as intra-cellular chaperone and causing the bacteria to form into clumps (much like an egg that has been boiled) that will eventually die off.[9] In some cases, bleach's base acidity compromises a bacterium's lipid membrane, a reaction similar to popping a balloon. The range of micro-organisms effectively killed by bleach (particularly sodium hypochlorite) is extensive, making it an extremely versatile disinfectant. The same study found that at low (micromolar) sodium hypochlorite levels, E. coli and Vibrio cholerae activate a defense mechanism that helps protect the bacteria, though the implications of this defense mechanism have not been fully investigated.[9]
In response to infection, the human immune system will produce a strong oxidizer, hypochlorous acid, which is generated in activated neutrophils by myeloperoxidase-mediated peroxidation of chloride ions, and contributes to the destruction of bacteria.[10][11][12]
Classes of bleaches[edit]
Chlorine-based bleaches[edit]
Chlorine-based bleaches are found in many household cleaners. The concentration of chlorine-based bleaches is often expressed as percent active chlorine where one gram of a 100% active chlorine bleach has the same bleaching power as one gram of chlorine. These bleaches can react with other common household chemicals like vinegar or ammonia to produce toxic gases. Labels on sodium hypochlorite bleach warn about these interactions.
Chemical interactions[edit]
Mixing a hypochlorite bleach with an acid can liberate chlorine gas. Hypochlorite and chlorine are in equilibrium in water; the position of the equilibrium is pH dependent and low pH (acidic) favors chlorine,[13]
Cl2 + H2O \rightleftharpoons H+ + Cl + HClO
Chlorine is a respiratory irritant that attacks mucous membranes and burns the skin. As little as 3.53 ppm can be detected as an odor, and 1000 ppm is likely to be fatal after a few deep breaths. Exposure to chlorine has been limited to 0.5 ppm (8-hour time-weighted average—38 hour week) by OSHA in the U.S.[14]
Sodium hypochlorite and ammonia react to form a number of products, depending on the temperature, concentration, and how they are mixed.[15] The main reaction is chlorination of ammonia, first giving chloramine (NH2Cl), then dichloramine (NHCl2) and finally nitrogen trichloride (NCl3). These materials are very irritating to the eyes and lungs and are toxic above certain concentrations; nitrogen trichloride is also a very sensitive explosive.
NH3 + NaOCl → NaOH + NH2Cl
NH2Cl + NaOCl → NaOH + NHCl2
NHCl2 + NaOCl → NaOH + NCl3
NH3 + NH2Cl + NaOH → N2H4 + NaCl + H2O
The hydrazine generated can react with more chloramine in an exothermic reaction to produce ammonium chloride and nitrogen gas:[13]
2 NH2Cl + N2H4 → 2 NH4Cl + N2
Atmospheric carbon dioxide and water react with bleaching powder (CaCl(OCl)) to release hypochlorous acid which gives a characteristic smell to the bleaching powder. Hypochlorous acid decomposes readily to atomic oxygen. This atomic oxygen acts as bleaching agent through oxidation.[citation needed]
2CaCl(OCl) + H2O + CO2 → CaCO3 + CaCl2 + 2HClO
HClO → HCl + [O]
2HCl + [O] → H2O + Cl2
However, the place of atomic oxygen in accounting for the formation of chlorine is not as plausible as another theory based on the so-called 'chloride system' employed in modern hydrometallurgy to dissolve ores with weak acids in highly ionic and concentrated salt solutions.[citation needed] Salts particularly effective, in this regard, include MgCl2, CaCl2, FeCl3 and, to a less extent the mono-valent NaCl. This is, in effect, an application of the non-common ion theory, or as discussed in Wikipedia under Solubility Equilibrium as the 'salt effect'. With respect to Bleaching powder, which has been described as a compound salt of the form Ca(ClO)2.CaCl2.Ca(OH)2.xH2O, the presence of CaCl2 in very concentrated solutions can greatly increase the 'activity level' of weak acids. So, in this particular proposed application, H2CO3 from CO2 and moisture on the Bleaching powder, acts on the CaCl2 to release some HCl which acts on the HClO releasing Chlorine:
HClO + HCl → H2O + Cl2
or, the increasing acidity creates more HClO which moves the following known (and old, see Watt's Dictionary of Chemistry[citation needed]) equilibrium reaction to the right:
CaCl2 + 2 HClO = Ca(OH)2 + 2 Cl2
Now, the strength of the particular application of this theory is that a similar release of Chlorine is not as easily observed with concentrated NaClO solutions[citation needed] (which it should be if one subscribes to the action of atomic oxygen on HCl). As the latter Chlorine bleach also contains NaCl, and as the NaCl is not quite as effective as previously noted as, for example, with CaCl2, the ionic strength is not as great for noticeable Chlorine formation.
Sodium hypochlorite[edit]
Sodium hypochlorite is the most commonly encountered bleaching agent, usually as a dilute (3-6%) solution in water. This solution of sodium hypochlorite, commonly referred to as simply "bleach", was also one of the first mass-produced bleaches. It is produced by passing chlorine gas through a dilute sodium hydroxide solution[16]
Cl2 (g) + 2 NaOH (aq) → NaCl (aq) + NaClO (aq) + H2O (l)
or by electrolysis of brine (sodium chloride in water).[16][17]
2 Cl → Cl2 + 2 -e
Cl2 + H2O ↔ HClO + Cl + H+
The dilute solution of sodium hypochlorite is used in many households to whiten laundry, disinfect hard surfaces in kitchens and bathrooms, treat water for drinking and keep swimming pools free of infectious agents.
Moreover, due to transport and handling safety concerns, the use of sodium hypochlorite is preferred over chlorine gas in water treatment, which represents a significant market expansion potential.[18]
Calcium hypochlorite[edit]
Calcium hypochlorite, also known as chloride of lime, is made by reacting chlorine with calcium hydroxide:
It is used in many of the same applications as sodium hypochlorite, but has the advantages of being more stable and containing more available chlorine. Calcium hypochlorite is the active ingredient in bleaching powder or "chlorinated lime", which is usually a white powder containing calcium hypochlorite, calcium hydroxide and calcium chloride. A purer, more stable form of calcium hypochlorite is called HTH or high test hypochlorite. Bleaching tablets contain calcium hypochlorite plus other ingredients to prevent the tablets from crumbling. A supposedly more stable mixture of calcium hypochlorite and quicklime (calcium oxide) is known as "tropical bleach" .[19] Percent active chlorine in these materials ranges from 20% for bleaching powder to 70% for HTH.
Chlorine is produced by the electrolysis of sodium chloride.
2 NaCl + 2 H2O → Cl2 + H2 + 2 NaOH
Chlorine is used to prepare sodium and calcium hypochlorites. It is used as a disinfectant in water treatment, especially to make drinking water and in large public swimming pools . Chlorine was used extensively to bleach wood pulp, but this use has decreased significantly due to environmental concerns.
Chlorine dioxide[edit]
Chlorine dioxide, ClO2, is an explosive gas and must be used where it is made or shipped and stored as dilute aqueous solutions. Despite these limitations it finds applications for the bleaching of wood pulp, fats and oils, cellulose, flour, textiles, beeswax, skin, and in a number of other industries. It can be prepared by oxidizing sodium chlorite with chlorine
2 NaClO2 + Cl2 → 2 ClO2 + 2 NaCl
but more commonly it is prepared by reducing sodium chlorate with a suitable reducing agent like methanol, hydrogen peroxide, hydrochloric acid, or sulfur dioxide[20]
2 NaClO3 + 2 HX + "R" → 2 NaX + 2 ClO2 + "RO" + H2O
where "R" is the reducing agent and "RO" is the oxidized form.[21]
Peroxide-based bleaches[edit]
After chlorine-based bleaches, the peroxide bleaches are most commonly encountered. Peroxides are compounds that contain an oxygen-oxygen single bond, O-O. This is a fairly weak bond so reactions of peroxides often involve breaking this bond, giving very reactive oxygen species. Most peroxide bleaches are adducts of hydrogen peroxide. They contain hydrogen peroxide, HOOH in combination with another material like sodium carbonate or urea. An exception is sodium perborate, which has a cyclic structure containing two O-O single bonds. All peroxide-based bleaches release hydrogen peroxide when dissolved in water. Peroxide bleaches are often used with catalysts and activators, e.g., tetraacetylethylenediamine or sodium nonanoyloxybenzenesulfonate.
Hydrogen peroxide[edit]
Hydrogen peroxide is produced in very large amounts by several different processes. Its action as an oxidizer is why it is made and used in such large quantities. It is used by itself as a bleaching agent, for example to bleach wood pulp, hair and so on, or to prepare other bleaching agents like the perborates, percarbonates, peracids, etc.
Sodium percarbonate[edit]
Sodium percarbonate is produced industrially by reaction of sodium carbonate and hydrogen peroxide, followed by crystallization. Also, dry sodium carbonate may be treated directly with concentrated hydrogen peroxide solution.
2Na2CO3 + 3H2O2→2Na2CO3.3H2O2
Dissolved in water, it yields a mixture of hydrogen peroxide (see above) and sodium carbonate. It is generally considered to be an eco-friendly cleaning agent.
Sodium perborate[edit]
Sodium perborate, Na2H4B2O8, is made by reacting borax with sodium hydroxide to give sodium metaborate (NaBO2) which is then reacted with hydrogen peroxide to give hydrated sodium perborate.[22]
Na2B4O7 + 2 NaOH → 4 NaBO2 + H2O
2 NaBO2 + 2 H2O2 + 6 H2O → [NaBO2(OH)2 x 3 H2O]2
Sodium perborate is useful because it is a stable, source of peroxide anions. When dissolved in water it forms some hydrogen peroxide, but also perborate anion (B(OOH)(OH)3-), which is activated for nucleophilic oxidation.[23]
Miscellaneous bleaches[edit]
Peracetic acid and ozone are used in the manufacture of paper products, especially newsprint and white Kraft paper.[24] In the food industry, some organic peroxides (benzoyl peroxide, etc.) and other agents (e.g., bromates) are used as flour bleaching and maturing agents.
Reducing bleaches[edit]
2 NaHSO3 + Zn → Na2S2O4 + Zn(OH)2
Reaction of sodium dithionite with formaldehyde produces Rongalite,
Na2S2O4 + 2 CH2O + H2O → NaHOCH2SO3 + NaHOCH2SO2
which is used in bleaching wood pulp, cotton, wool, leather and clay.[25]
Environmental impact[edit]
Industrial bleaching agents can also be sources of concern. For example, the use of elemental chlorine in the bleaching of wood pulp produces organochlorines and persistent organic pollutants, including dioxins. According to an industry group, the use of chlorine dioxide in these processes has reduced the dioxin generation to under detectable levels.[27] However, respiratory risk from chlorine and highly toxic chlorinated byproducts still exists.
• The OSHA highest allowable peak concentration (5 minute exposure for five minutes in a 4-hour period) is 200 ppm,[30] twice as high as the reported highest peak level (from the headspace of a bottle of a sample of bleach plus detergent).
Further studies of the use of these products and other possible exposure routes (i.e., dermal) may reveal other risks. Though the author further cited ozone depletion greenhouse effects for these gases, the very low amount of such gases, generated as prescribed, should minimize their contribution relative to other sources.
Sodium hypochlorite solution, 3-6%, (common household bleach) must be diluted to be used safely when disinfecting surfaces and when used to treat drinking water. When disinfecting most surfaces, 1 part liquid household bleach to 100 parts water is sufficient for sanitizing. Stronger or weaker solutions may be more appropriate to meet specific goals, such as killing resistant viruses or sanitizing surfaces that will not be in contact with food. See references for more information.[31][32]
In an emergency, drinking water should be treated by boiling for 1–3 minutes, longer at higher altitudes. If boiling is not possible, water can be chemically treated with a ratio of 2 drops of plain liquid household bleach (5-6% sodium hypochlorite solution) per liter of water or 8 drops of bleach per gallon (3.79L) of water; 1/2 teaspoon bleach per five gallons (19L) of water. Do not use powdered bleach, or bleach with scents, cleaners or other additives. Do not collect water for treatment from flood waters or other potentially contaminated sources. If water appears dirty or cloudy, let it settle and/or filter the water before adding the bleach. Let treated water stand covered for 30 minutes. If water is still cloudy after filtering, double the amount of bleach used. If the water is very cold, either warm it before treatment or double the treatment time. Treated water should still have a slight bleach odor after treatment. If it does not, repeat the treatment. If no bleach odor is evident after a second treatment, discard the water and find a better water source.[33][34][35][36] Inappropriate dilutions of bleach can endanger your health.
A 1-in-5 dilution of household bleach with water (1 part bleach to 4 parts water) is effective against many bacteria and some viruses, and is often the disinfectant of choice in cleaning surfaces in hospitals (primarily in the United States). The solution is corrosive, and needs to be thoroughly removed afterwards, so the bleach disinfection is sometimes followed by an ethanol disinfection. Even "scientific-grade", commercially produced disinfection solutions such as Virocidin-X usually have sodium hypochlorite as their sole active ingredient, though they also contain surfactants (to prevent beading) and fragrances (to conceal the bleach smell).[37]
Treatment of Gingivitis [38]
Diluted sodium hypochlorite at a rate of 2000-1 (0.05% concentration) may represent an efficacious, safe and affordable antimicrobial agent in the prevention and treatment of periodontal disease.
Color safe bleach[edit]
Color safe bleach is a chemical that uses hydrogen peroxide as the active ingredient (to help remove stains) rather than sodium hypochlorite or chlorine.[39] It also has chemicals in it that help brighten colors.[40] Hydrogen peroxide is also used for sterilization purposes and water treatment, but its disinfectant capabilities may be limited due to the concentration in the colorsafe bleach solution as compared to other applications.[40]
See also[edit]
1. ^ a b c "Bleaching". Encyclopaedia Britannica, (9th Edition (1875) and 10th Edition (1902) ed.). Retrieved 2 May 2012.
2. ^
4. ^ L. J. Thénard (1818). "Observations sur des nouvelles combinaisons entre l'oxigène et divers acides". Annales de chimie et de physique, 2nd series 8: 306–312.
6. ^ Milne, Neil (1998). "Oxygen bleaching systems in domestic laundry". J. Surfactants and Detergents 1 (2): 253–261. doi:10.1007/s11743-998-0029-z. Retrieved 8 May 2012.
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Bowl of Hygieia
Bowl of Hygieia is one of the symbols of pharmacy. Hygieia was the Greek goddess of hygiene, and the daughter of Aesculapius. Aesculapius' symbol is his rod, with a snake twined around it; correspondingly, Hygieia's symbol is a cup or chalice with a snake twined around its stem and poised above it.
Usage of symbol by pharmaceutical associations[edit]
The bowl of Hygieia has been used as a symbol of the pharmacy professional at least as far back as 1796, when it was used on a coin minted for the Parisian Society of Pharmacy.[1] It has since been adopted by many more pharmaceutical associations worldwide, such as the American Pharmacists Association,[2] the Canadian Pharmacists Association,[3] the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia,[4] and the Doctor of pharmacy Association,[5] Conseil de l'Ordre des Pharmaciens in France[6] (where is written in law with an other symbol green greek cross[7]).
Bowl of Hygeia Award[edit]
The Bowl of Hygeia Award is an award given by Wyeth to recognize pharmacists who have provided outstanding community service, as nominated by their pharmaceutical associations.[1] The award was first given in Iowa in 1958.[1] From there, it expanded to cover all 50 US states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and all 10 provinces of Canada.[1][8]
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5. ^ Doctor of pharmacy Association
6. ^ "La protection de la croix verte et du caducée - Nos missions - Ordre National des Pharmaciens" (in (French)). 2012-06-14. Retrieved 2013-04-26.
7. ^ "Code de la santé publique - Article R4235-53" (in (French)). Legifrance. 2004-07-29. Retrieved 2013-04-26.
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Raufoss church
Raufoss is the municipal centre of Vestre Toten, a municipality in the county of Oppland, Norway, 10 kilomenters south of the larger town Gjøvik. It has approximately 6,000 inhabitants. The largest employer is what was earlier Raufoss Ammunitions factory, now split into several sub companies. These include Nammo, Hydro Aluminium and Raufoss Technology. The community has an active sports community pivoting around the sports club Raufoss I.L. where the football team has been the most prominent part of the club. Raufoss Fotball currently plays in Norwegian 2. division. In addition to sports, Raufoss have an active music community which has fostered musicians as Ronni Le Tekrø of rock band TNT (band). In 2007 a mall was built, called Raufoss Kjøpesenter.
Raufoss railroad station
Raufoss is also one of the stops on Gjøvikbanen, the second to last stop. The station also has a local bus service.
The name[edit]
The village is named after a waterfall in the river Hunnselva. The first element is raud ("red"), and the last element is foss ("waterfall"). (The color red indicates traces of iron in the river bed.)
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The two most common types of TLDs are calcium fluoride and lithium fluoride, with one or more impurities to produce trap states for energetic electrons. The former is used to record gamma exposure, the latter for gamma and neutron exposure (indirectly, using the Li-6 (n,alpha) nuclear reaction; for this reason, LiF dosimeters may be enriched in lithium-6 to enhance this effect or enriched in lithium-7 to reduce it). As the radiation interacts with the crystal it causes electrons in the crystal's atoms to jump to higher energy states, where they stay trapped due to intentionally introduced impurities (usually manganese or magnesium)[1] in the crystal, until heated. Heating the crystal causes the electrons to drop back to their ground state, releasing a photon of energy equal to the energy difference between the trap state and the ground state. The electrons can also drop back to ground state after a long period of time; this effect is called fading and is dependent on the incident radiation energy and intrinsic properties of the TLD material. As a result, each material possesses a limited shelf life after which dosimetric information can no longer be obtained. This varies from several weeks in calcium fluoride to up to two years.
It can be used both for environmental monitoring and for staff personnel in facilities involving radiation exposure, among other applications.
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If I’ve learned anything over the last week, it’s that there are two opposing factions that slaver at the bit to attack us feminists for different kinds of slip-ups — or perceived slip-ups, rather. There’s the “free speech” crowd who think that freethought means you should be free to use whatever racial, sexual or other slurs you want while making your arguments, who will scream and yell and build controversy over your banning them as disingenuous asses. There is, at the same time, another faction who will taunt and misconstrue and manufacture controversy over any perceived instance of being “mean”.
People like me — people who both condemn folks for using sexist slurs repeatedly and with impunity, but at the same time are willing to call people names when I get emotional — are stuck in the middle of both groups. I look like a tasty target to both sets of people because I appear to be a hypocrite. And surely I am! I mean, how could I possibly advocate not using certain insulting words when I’m willing to use other insulting words?
It’s rather easy to sort this out, of course. Though it does take a bit of intellectual honesty. And probably more patience and empathy than a certain class of reader has to hir credit.
I will readily admit that I can be a hothead. I say things that are rather impolitic, too often for my own good. In this way, I will on occasion accidentally incur splash damage to folks I really want to support. I do try to limit these occasions, but they still happen. They will continue to happen. And I will correct and amend as necessary. I am human, after all. I have emotions too. And no matter how new to this game I am, it’s my own job to win people over to my causes, and in that way, I can be my own worst enemy. Of course, there are certain folks who really want to amplify any self-inflicted damage, and who would never be won over to the specific causes I advocate, but at the same time, I’m no saint. So I can’t complain, only attempt to improve.
The concept of splash damage is a term of art both for warfare and for gaming. When you throw a grenade at a target, if your allies are near that grenade when it goes off, they’ll be damaged too, even if they weren’t the intended target. In Dungeons and Dragons, big spells or dragons’ breath will do more damage to more people than just the focal point because the attacks have range to them. People on the outskirts of that range will take less damage — “splash” — than they would if they were at the epicenter. Video games imported the concept pretty heavily, and RPGs like World of Warcraft will often include area of effect attacks that do splash damage to people semi-distant from the centre. A few games make sure that this splash damage was also done to your allies. This is why in debating we refer to accidentally hurting one’s friends instead of one’s enemies as “splash damage”.
When this happens — as it did so recently when, by my rather oblique suggestion that DJ Grothe’s bringing up his homosexuality as a shield might actually be a tell that he thinks he can’t possibly be a bad ally to women, I unintentionally stepped on the meme that “homosexuals are more likely to be misogynist” (the tl;dr of this controversy is right here) — I will readily apologize and refocus my original attack.
The reason that I do this is, while I do not under any circumstances want to retract the original statement — in this case, that DJ really needs to walk back his claim that harassment victims merely “regret” their “sexual exploits” — I likewise don’t want to hurt others (e.g. gays) in general. Homosexuals were absolutely not my target, nor would they ever be under any circumstances. I am neither a homophobe nor a pig-fucker, regardless of what accusations some trolls trump up. My arguments about DJ, and those arguments about the intersection between his treatment of women and his sexuality, are separate and distinct, and I recognized that I only had the appropriate position to make one observation and not the other. That is why I apologized, and what I apologized for.
Trolls latch onto this sort of thing though. It’s all too easy to read “he apologized for one thing, but continued attacking on another” as a not-pology — a way of saying “I’m sorry that you felt that way” rather than “my behaviour was incorrect and I’ll correct it now”. It doesn’t matter if that’s a wild misinterpretation that takes someone already primed to be uncharitable to perceive. So, the trolls attack and mischaracterize, and “big names” who believe the original argument to be incorrect for other reasons (like antipathy toward feminism) amplify — because they see it as proof that there is no actual argument to be had.
These trolls tend to think that because the person making the argument is angry, they have the upper hand in the fight — that one could easily dismiss someone who got passionate about something as being irrational. They think they can derail the situation over and over again. They want us to be talking about ANYTHING but my original point. But as I said in that apology post’s comments, I’m actually okay with their derail strategy. It gives me a chance to repeat my arguments.
But there’s one thing that’s true, no matter how much the trolls go after me. When I advocate for social change, when I advocate that certain behaviours are terribly antisocial and the people engaging in those behaviours despite repeated requests to stop should be excluded from the dialog, and yet I’m willing to use base, non-gendered, non-slur insults like “douchebag” in the course of my arguments, I am actually being entirely consistent. Sure, one set of trolls or another will ebb and flow, either dismissing me for being too mean, or taunting me that this is what I get for my nuanced view of what you should and shouldn’t say.
The thing is, it’s never been about “being nice”. My refusal to put up with people who make sexist slurs or gay slurs or racist slurs as a matter of course in “adult discussion” about topics does not undercut my ability and my right to get really angry about topics that matter — it was never a milquetoast demand that we all just get along. When I need to rhetorically slap someone in the face whom I think is normally reasonable but has a terrible blind spot, as I feel with DJ Grothe and his treatment of women working to make the movement less safe for harassment, and his terrible inability to communicate (yes, despite his use of only polite words), I will absolutely use non-oppressive terms like “douchebag”. No group of people is undercut by it save those I’m actually targeting, and the term does have a specific meaning: a douche is a device intended for use for “cleaning” vaginas, despite the fact that no such cleaning is necessary, and we have good evidence that it actually hurts the owners of said vaginas. As a commenter pointed out, it’s not even limited to those folks who have vaginas, as an anal douche, meaning it applies across all sexes, genders, and cis or trans status. My use of the term “douchebag” is only oppressive to people who think they’re doing certain underprivileged classes — like women — a favour, but are in actuality hurting them. It is widely used in feminist discourse in this manner. It is, also, a very apt descriptive for what DJ is doing.
Don’t get me wrong. I don’t think DJ is intentionally misogynistic — I don’t think he fits the dictionary definition of “hates women”. I believe he has a personal bete noir in feminism, which is why he so readily threw feminist bloggers under the bus as provoking fights and being intentionally controversialist and trying to tear the skeptical movement apart (as though no one but feminists were required for that). I believe he is absolutely terrible at communication, in that he cannot simply answer specific points made by specific people but instead has to ramble on and on, turning comments into essays worthy of top-level blog posting and doing all sorts of splash damage himself. I believe that DJ has a huge blind spot to the fact that his one axis of underprivilege does not inform him on other axes of privilege, considering how dismissive he’s been of women’s concerns and how intractable he’s been on this point. And I especially believe that nuanced argumentation has its place in discourse.
I also believe that when someone over a very long time frame refuses to engage those nuanced arguments, the use of non-oppressive insults is fully warranted.
I believe all this because I understand that the revolution will not be polite, so I have no misapprehension that I need to be polite to do damage where it needs to be done. I will not “be nice” when people are douchebags to women in general, no matter how good of people they might be otherwise. I will be furious. I will mix my argumentation with exactly the amount of vitriol I feel. It is part of my honest reaction. I wouldn’t ever argue so long and so hard about something if I wasn’t passionate. One must NOT always be nice. One must take care not to do damage to people that are not your targets, but one must not try to civilly and cooly debate the issue that a whole class of people have been dealt an attack.
To that end, I reiterate: DJ Grothe, you’ve acted like a douchebag to women.
You asked why they weren’t coming to TAM, and speculated that it was because of all those terrible nasty female bloggers scaring people away. You went on to call the women reporting harassment engaging in “locker room talk” and “regretful” of “sexual exploits”. These are actively damaging, bullying and diminishing sentiments. They have no place in this discourse and absolutely merit the label of “acted like a douchebag to women”.
If you are insulted by my assessment of these actions, perhaps you could consider the fact that I and many others would desperately love to see you apologize to all the women bloggers and all the harassment victims that you expressly did NOT apologize to for those remarks. Yes, I’m aware that you apologized to Rebecca Watson, but you doubled down on all the rest by maintaining that there are people expressly trying to foment controversy.
Here I am, then. I’m fomenting controversy.
If that’s what it takes to get your attention, here’s the controversy right here. DJ, apologize for being a douchebag to women. You’ve apologized to Rebecca, surely you can apologize to others. That action would do very much to build bridges and repair the fallout from this situation.
Here’s what an apology looks like, for reference. State what you did wrong, why it was wrong, and apologize for those actions. If you want to refocus your attack, that’s fine. Just don’t refocus it on these people who do not deserve it. Refocus it instead on those people who are driving this war against the very idea of having a harassment policy.
I, and others, have at great lengths told you what you did wrong, and how you failed miserably at apologizing for those wrongdoings. If you have any intention of building bridges, of being the better person, apologize for those transgressions.
The moment you do, I’ll apologize for not being nice.
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Just wanted to say: This summarizes my opinion on the whole situation nicely. Everyone screws up. I’ve screwed up, you’ve screwed up, my parents have screwed up, my siblings have screwed up, my friends and extended family have all screwed up. If I have kids, they’ll screw up. I don’t know a single person who can honestly say, “I’ve never screwed something up.”
The trick is not in not screwing up, it’s in how you deal with it. And the best way I’ve found is this: Admit your fault, apologize, and learn.
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Improbable Joe, bearer of the Official SpokesGuitar
But it is really ALL about distracting from the real issues, when it comes to the trolls, tone- and otherwise. Everyone who is correct on this issue …I was going to type “everyone on one side of the issue” but there’s not really another side to it, just hateful shit-weasels being hateful… has been attacked from contradictory angles. You’re too rude in your language, AND you’re too politically correct about the language other people use. You’re too authoritarian, AND you’re a fucking lefty liberal socialist hippie. You’re a homophobe AND you irrationally support gay rights. You’re “fomenting controversy”, and I’m going to try to turn as many people as I can against you for doing it.
It isn’t a position or an argument in any real sense, it is simply howling at the moon in anger and fear with the hope of drowning out any real discussion.
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Steve Schuler
Sure, everyone has probably said or done things that they later regreted. Some people own up to their poor behaviour, some don’t.
In any event, I think that you have gone beyond the point in this mini-debacle where it would be fair to say that you are your own worst enemy, and I don’t have a dog in this fight.
I’m not trying to ‘troll’ you, just offering my opinion for what it is worth.
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Jason Thibeault
Thank you steveschulers. Considering a lot of the other stuff that’s still pending in moderation from you on other threads, that was a hell of a nice sentiment.
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Steve Schuler
No problem, bro.
As per my comments in moderation, it’s not that big a deal to me if my thoughts are published or not. I’m glad you read them as you were the intended recipient of what I had to say, not the world at large. I don’t care one way or another if they are ever published, what I said is neither something I am particularly proud of or ashamed of so…whatever.
Peace to Ya’, Bro
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Grothe has receded into his turtle shell and will not emerge for some time, I suspect. That is, if he ever finds it important enough to deal with this.
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Jason Thibeault
I don’t doubt you’re right, kagerato, but if DJ intends to treat this the way Dawkins did after “Dear Muslima”, that’s pretty telling too. He’s been explained why it’s wrong, without rampant swear words. If he refuses to “get it” now, I can’t help but think he doesn’t WANT to get it.
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Illuminata, Genie in the Beer Bottle
FWIW, I think you’re giving waaaaaay too much credit to the “free speech!!”/”be nice!!!” crowd that pop up every time this subject comes up.
The entire reason they use those two ridiculous non-arguments is because they can’t, in any reasonable sense, defend what they really want to defend – the ‘right’ of every man to treat any woman like his own personal petting zoo. That’s why they pout about imaginary censorship and/or tone troll.
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Giliell, professional cynic -Ilk-
Don’t bother
I already said this today over at Pharyngula: Those who hate you and FtB can’t even agree on why they hate you. they obviously do so for completely contradicting reasons.
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Jason Thibeault
Illuminata and Giliell: I did this not to give these people any credence, but to build a strong argument for why the trolls shouldn’t be believed. There are a lot of people whom I like and respect who got completely suckered in by their nonsense.
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Jason Thibeault
Plus, like I said, it gave me yet another chance to reiterate my original argument. I notice the trolls aren’t picking THIS one apart or complaining about my mean-ness!
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George W.
As I’m sure you know, I still don’t think you needed to apologize. I got the context of the comment. So did anyone else who wanted to find it. This is coming from someone who has apologized on the internet more than once.
Douchebags are called douchebags because, well…they act like douchebags. It’s a description, not an insult. An apt one, at that.
Just like Vacuous Shitbag Trolls. They are vacuous. They are trolls. Not every Vacuous Troll is a shitbag, but certainly vacuous trolling is a popular pastime among shitbags- so I’d say vacuous trolling is a symptom of shitbaggery. If the shitbag fits…..
Different people have different ways of expressing ideas. Some are downright nasty, some are harsh, some are even-handed, some are wishy-washy. The internet is a big place, and if you don’t like how people are saying things, you are free to find a different place to visit. I don’t hang out in slime pits, for example. I don’t get all holier than thou at ERV.
I don’t bitch about “tone” over at Pharyngula- though I sometimes find those threads harsher than necessary.
You know what I do? I just don’t comment. I move on. I go to a blog that suits my style and argue the EXACT same issue with people I can tolerate. Or even–or even–I blog about it myself! Can you believe that?
Ahh, novel ideas….
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'disengenuous asshole'
Jason: You are a coward and a bully. You block people who comment here for no good reason and continue to levy personal attacks at the blocked people (and DJ). While I appreciate people who blog and believe they can contribute to ‘the movement,’ I take great issue with you banning church/state activists fighting for the civil rights of atheists, taking a public stand in lawsuits, etc and dismissing them as trolls.
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Jason Thibeault
Bawwwwwww. I’m very sad that your present shitty actions had repercussions that overshadow your past laudable ones.
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Steve Williamson
Right – the pair of you. ENOUGH!
As I have said previously – fight the issue – not each other. Both behaving like children TBH. You are obth adults – start behaving like adults, and cut the blog vs blog backbiting crap.
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George W.
Can I assume from the link @14 that Justin has decided to chime in?
Listen Justin- You gotta stop this. If you don’t like the tone that Jason uses then just go find a bunch of wishy-washy blogs to follow and comment on. Everyone is not obliged to follow rules of ettiquette that you dictate. You are not, contrary to your obvious illusions of grandeur, the Pope of the Intertubes.
There are people more even-handed than Jason. There are people more harsh than him, too. Nobody forces you to read posts on Lousy Canuck, or Almost Diamonds, or any other blog. “Tone” is a preference- one that the blogger gets to control. If his tone isn’t popular- he’ll get less hits. He’ll end up with a cheering section of five that tells him how right he is all the time.
After a cursory look at your blog, I can tell that you are an egotistical, self-important jackoff. You are so sure that your opinions are important- are meaningful.
Deep down, below the surface of your abject arrogance, I think you know that they are empty.
Why else would you have to mold reality to make yourself look good? Facts aren’t malleable. They are facts. When you go on about the Vacuous Shitbag Troll label- you act as though everything was peaches before you twisted Jasons comment. You were a vacuous troll long before that- and you know it.
The word “vacuous”- since I have to assume that you don’t understand large words- means “empty”. Did you know that?
Empty is a pretty good discriptive word for your responses in the comment section of that post. They didn’t address the issue at all. They didn’t add to the conversation. They were speaking to hear your own voice. That, dear Justin, is “vacuous”.
“Troll”, in internet usage, is someone who comes into a thread to deliberately derail the topic and make people angry. You came into a thread, deliberately derailed the topic, and made people angry. Thus, you are a troll.
“Shitbag” is something that is more of an opinion that piggybacks off of the factual descriptors “vacuous” and “troll”.
Are you a shitbag? I am at the point where I think I can say with confidence that you are. When I think of a “Shitbag”, I imagine a sack, stinking up every place it inhabits- oozing feces from various orifices. I imagine Shitbags are filled with nothing of value, I imagine their presence ruins otherwise good spaces. I think that they spew substance, but it is the kind everyone would rather do without. You, Justin, are a Shitbag.
DJ is a douchebag, you are a vacuous shitbag troll- and those are not just rude opinions. They are descriptors for people who meet the factual requirements for their useage.
There are blogs out there that will discuss this issue without calling a spade a spade. I suggest you go find those blogs and enjoy your time there, though I bet you wouldn’t be interested in that kind of blog either. That blog is having a measured on-topic conversation. You seem unable to grasp what a “topic” is.
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Jason Thibeault
Steve Williamson: Well, the important thing is that you’ve found a way to feel superior to us both.
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Gasp! Someone called someone a douchebag on the internet. Let’s burn the whole system down and start over.
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@disengenuous asshole (#14):
Guwah ? Yes, I see. If we can’t harass women freely in public, that means we will soon be ruled by a theocracy. Makes perfect sense. Are you literally incapable of addressing the problem? Was this sort of dishonesty brainwashed into you from an early age, or do you just enjoy it?
@smhll (#19):
Yes, because if I can’t rule the Internet, no one can. >_<
Private property? Free speech? Fuck all that. Harrassing women is so much more important!
Seriously, mockery is the only thing left at this point.
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Perhaps if Grothe does apologise you shouldn’t apologise for not being nice. No one should apologise for something they did deliberately to lay down offence. Im pretty sure apologies don’t work like that. Equally, unless Grothe actually recognises that he has made an error he shouldn’t apologise either. An apology cannot be demanded if it is to have any meaning.
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George W.
Justins comment @14 betrays the whole problem he has.
Behavior doesn’t get a pass because it comes from someone who is otherwise respected. DJ has, to my knowledge, been an otherwise effective advocate. He said something epically stupid though, and that behaviour should and is being criticized. He doesn’t get a pass.
Richard Dawkins, too, has recently made comments that prompted criticism. He is among the more respected atheists in the movement. He said something epically stupid, and that behaviour should be and was criticized. He doesn’t get a pass.
Just because you are right most of the time does not mean that your words and actions are raised above criticism. When you troll a blog- and I don’t care if you are Martin Motherfucking Luther King, when-you-troll-a-blog…..people are going to call you a troll. Why?
Because you are being a troll.
That may not be the defining characteristic of who you are- but it is an honest description of your actions at that moment.
People know who DJ is- he holds an important position within the atheist community. People know who Dawkins is- he has earned a place of respect. They still get called out when they do something unbelievably idiotic.
So excuse me if I’m less than moved when some guy from a small and insignificant atheist advocacy group(that may have at some point done something positive for the advancement of human rights)comes into a conversation trying to derail the discussion-then expects us to search the backwoods of the intertubes to investigate why his word is Gospel and his actions are infallible.
If people who are honestly important-in that place we call reality outside of their own mind- don’t get a pass for bad behaviour, why on earth do you?
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To belabor the gaming metaphor a little more, Justin seems to think that good deeds build up, like, a karmic shield around the good-deed-doer. That when you do a lot of good deeds, then it gives you license to do the occasional bad deed without taking any damage from it. It just knocks your shields down a bit, and you can recharge them by doing more good deeds, or apologizing, or something.
But that’s not the case. Doing good deeds is great, but it doesn’t grant you the ability to then go and do a bunch of stupid/bad stuff without incurring damage. It means we hold you to a higher standard, and that when you screw up, it hurts more because we expect better of you.
Keeping in game terms, good deeds give you experience points. After awhile, you level up. But as your level increases, so do the stakes and the difficulties of the challenges. One would hope that someone of DJ’s high level would be up to those challenges, but it looks like “thoughtful communication” was his dump stat.
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Jacqueline: I would love to promote that to a full post so it gets read more widely. With full attribution, of course. You mind?
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Jacqueline S. Homan
Please do so Jason, you are most welcome. Thank you.
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What the defensemen need to work on, if they aren't already, is making those long passes up to the forwards, often through traffic. I'm not crazy about the whole cherry picking thing, but it will get the other team's forecheck all over the place. The response from them should be to fall back into the neutral zone and plug it up there, but that's why they need to practice making the long passes with lots of traffic, quickly, so they can't really get a chance to get setup in the NZ. The other option for them is to go the other way, and play very aggressively on the forecheck, which leads them to not be as able to cover the streaking forward(s).
Breaking out of the zone can be literally impossible to stop if one team has enough of a speed and structure advantage.
(I'd also take an offside over getting an icing call, should the pass fail to be received, and icing is not waived off)
Brewer might be the best passer on the team, but he gets it that way by slowing everything down and biding his time. He's taking the time to do it right, but he's got it, and now needs to speed that up.
Or, at the very least, start carrying it through the neutral zone himself.
Same thing with Ohlund when he returns.
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Let $F$ be a $100 \times 100$ DFT matrix, and $U$ be a diagonal matrix with its diagonal entries being all positive, denoted by $U=\mathrm{diag}(u_1, u_2,\cdots, u_{100})$. My question is:
Under which conditions on $U$ will the resulting matrix $FUF^\ast$ be circulant (where $F^\ast$ is the conjugate transpose of $F$)?
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There might be; the Fourier transform of a diagonal matrix has nice structure, being complex-symmetric and constant along its antidiagonals (Hankel)... – Ｊ. Ｍ. May 9 '12 at 3:16
Well, it is not too hard to show that if $U$ is diagonal with real elements, then $F U F^*$ is real iff all diagonal elements of $U$ are exactly the same, ie, $U$ is a real multiple of the identity. – copper.hat May 9 '12 at 5:22
...and you have $$\mathbf U\mathbf D\mathbf U^\ast=\begin{pmatrix}0&-\frac12-\frac{i}{2\sqrt 3}&-\frac12+\frac{i}{2\sqrt 3}\\-\frac12+\frac{i}{2\sqrt 3}&0&-\frac12-\frac{i}{2\sqrt 3}\\-\frac12-\frac{i}{2\sqrt 3}&-\frac12+\frac{i}{2\sqrt 3}&0\end{pmatrix}$$ – Ｊ. Ｍ. May 9 '12 at 6:18
I might be wrong but I think that every circulant matrix is diagonalized by the DFT matrix so something like $F_n C F_n^* = D$. Using this I'm thinking that you can assume that the result of your computation will be circulant as well and hence you have essentially $n$ (=100) terms to compute. In J.M.'s example, the matrix is circulant. [c0 c1 c2; c2 c0 c1; c1 c2 c0] – tibL May 9 '12 at 8:33
I think that, up to a normalisation, the (a,b) element of the product is the DFT of u at a-b. – dmuir May 9 '12 at 9:18
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After seeing this article, I see that one can in fact easily build a circulant matrix, given its eigenvalues, and vice-versa. (In short: $\mathrm F \mathrm U \mathrm F^\ast$ is always circulant.)
Briefly, given the eigenvalues $u_1,u_2,\dots,u_N$, one simply needs to take the inverse discrete Fourier transform
$$a_{1,j}=\frac1{N}\sum_{k=0}^{N-1}u_{k+1}\exp\left(\frac{2\pi i(j-1)k}{N}\right)$$
to yield the first row of the circulant matrix $\mathbf A=\mathrm F \mathrm U \mathrm F^\ast$, after which the successive rows of $\mathbf A$ are easily generated. Conversely, the eigenvalues of $\mathbf A$ are generated by taking the DFT of the first row of $\mathbf A$.
Here's a Mathematica demonstration:
n = 100;
vec = Sort[RandomReal[{0, 30}, {n}], Greater];
ma = NestList[RotateRight,
InverseFourier[vec, FourierParameters -> {1, -1}], n - 1];
Eigenvalues[ma] - vec // Chop
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Thanks! It is very clear that a circulant matrix can be diagonalized via DFT, and vice-versa. – John Smith May 9 '12 at 15:19
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