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Wish i went to ucb
Cause there are thirty thousand stupid kids and they're all brain washed into what they see
It's a college never-never land.
Dropping acid and starting bands,
Super liberal hypocrites, what the hells this hippie shit?
Berkely is my baby sparkling nice and clean. if it's such a mellow place, why do i feel so mean?
Oh, berkeley is my baby and i wanna kill it
Berkeley is my baby and i wanna kill it
Hanging out up telegraph, your waste of money just makes me laugh.
All the stores are just waiting for you to buy their sweaters and drink their brew.
There's a double dose if police to herd the homeless off the streets.
Cops and schools work hand in hand to wipe the deviants from the land.
Berkeley is my baby but i should've aborted it.
Had some doubts in the waiting room but now im stuck with it.
Oh, berkeley is my baby and i wanna kill it, berkeley is my baby and i wanna kill it.
Berkely is my baby but i shouldve aborted it.
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My first non-immediate album back in the day. There There worked from the first listen, but the rest of the album seemed boring on first hand and my teenage mind didn't expect patience to be rewarded, but through repeated listenings I came to understand what a deep and pertinent yet abstract work of art this is. You'll see imperfections at first, quirks later on, and by the crucial listen you will see charisma and strength. Expand
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Definition: Subject matter under subclasses 301.1+ with significant
No. of patents: 859
Last issue date: 02/25/2014
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6979486Multilayer ceramic capacitor
A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes ceramic layers made of a dielectric material, and internal electrodes made of a conductive material. The internal electrodes are provided with cavities which have an average size ranging from about 1.0 μm to about 10 μm and ...
6977805Capacitor element, semiconductor integrated circuit and method of manufacturing those
A dielectric layer is formed on a first metal layer, the dielectric layer is formed with many concave portions at the upper surface. A second metal layer is formed on the dielectric layer, the second metal layer is formed with a convex portion at a position correspo...
6975499Vacuum variable capacitor with energization and heat shielding bellows
A vacuum variable capacitor includes an energization bellows arranged in a vacuum vessel and having ends mounted to a movable-electrode support plate and a movable side-end plate, respectively, a heat shielding bellows arranged inside the energization bellows and ou...
6975500Capacitor having improved electrodes
Capacitor material for use in forming capacitors, is disclosed. More specifically, the invention is directed to capacitors formed from this material that have one or more discrete electrodes (314), each electrode (314) being exposed to at least two thi...
6970362Electronic assemblies and systems comprising interposer with embedded capacitors
To reduce switching noise, the power supply terminals of an integrated circuit die are coupled to the respective terminals of at least one capacitor embedded in an interposer that lies between the die and a substrate. In an embodiment, the interposer is a multilayer...
6969647Method of making single layer capacitor
A method of making a monolithic or essentially monolithic single layer capacitor with high structural strength and capacitance. Sheets of green-state ceramic dielectric material and ceramic/metal composite material are laminated together, diced into individual chips...
6970341Integrated broadband ceramic capacitor array
A monolithic capacitor structure includes opposed and overlapping plates within a dielectric body, which are arranged to form a lower frequency, higher value capacitor. Other conductive structure is located either inside the dielectric body or on an external surface...
6970342Multilayer capacitor
A multilayer capacitor configured of internal electrodes, each of which has a similar shape that is continuous and has a pair of parallel parts extending parallel to one another. First and second ends of each internal electrode are formed at different positions from...
6967827Laminated capacitor
A laminated capacitor includes a first capacitor element having a capacitance component provided by capacitance forming portions, facing each other, and an inductance component provided by the current pass between lead-out portions, a second capacitance element havi...
6965507Multilayer capacitor
A dielectric body 12 has internal conductor layers 14 arranged in it. At the far sides of the internal conductor layers 14 separated by ceramic layers 12A, internal conductor layers 16 are arranged. A length W of a side of the diel...
6961230Capacitor, capacitor equipped semiconductor device assembly, capacitor equipped circuit substrate assembly and electronic unit including semiconductor device, capacitor and circuit substrate
A capacitor includes a capacitor main body having a front surface on which a semiconductor device is to be mounted and a rear surface at which the capacitor main body is to be mounted on a first main surface of a circuit substrate, a plurality of internal electrodes...
6958899Electronic device
Terminal electrodes 11 and 12 of a main body 2 of a multilayer capacitor 1 are connected to electrode connection parts 21A and 22A of a pair of external terminals 21 and 22 formed by a metal material. At the bottom part of the electrode connection part 21A, an exter...
6955960Decoupling capacitor for high frequency noise immunity
Systems and methods are provided for an on-chip decoupling device and method. One aspect of the present subject matter is a capacitor. One embodiment of the capacitor includes a substrate, a high K dielectric layer doped with nano crystals disposed on the substrate,...
6956729Capacitor element and production thereof
A capacitor element includes a lower electrode, a ferroelectric film, and an upper electrode that are formed on a substrate. In the capacitor element, the ferroelectric film is formed by a reaction rate-determining method, and the lower electrode has a thickness of ...
6953721Methods of forming a capacitor with an amorphous and a crystalline high K capacitor dielectric region
The invention comprises integrated circuitry and to methods of forming capacitors. In one implementation, integrated circuitry includes a capacitor having a first capacitor electrode, a second capacitor electrode and a high K capacitor dielectric region received the...
6954349Metallized film capacitor
A metallized film capacitor is made by winding or laminating a both-side metallized polypropylene (PP) film and a non-metallized PP film. Limiting the heat shrinkage factor and the thickness of the PP films, the position of deposited electrodes, and the rate of the ...
6954348Tunable MEMS capacitor
Various embodiments of tunable capacitors are disclosed. One embodiment is in the form of a tunable capacitor (368) having a pair of stationary capacitor electrodes (392) that are fixed to and disposed the same distance above a substrate (388) i...
6952049Capacitor-built-in type printed wiring substrate, printed wiring substrate, and capacitor
A capacitor-built-in-type printed wiring substrate which can reliably eliminate noise and attain extremely low resistance and low inductance in connections between an IC chip and the capacitor, and a printed wiring substrate and capacitor for use in the same. A capa...
6950300Ultra low inductance multi layer ceramic capacitor
A multilayer capacitor having a low parasitic inductance includes a first electrode, a second electrode, a dielectric, a first contact, and a second contact. The first electrode is substantially rectangular and it includes a first contact finger. The dielectric has ...
6947275Fin capacitor
Disclosed is a capacitor structure and method for forming the same. This structure has a conductive substrate, conductive fins extending above the substrate, and trenches extending into the substrate. These trenches are positioned between locations where the fins ex...
6943039Method of etching ferroelectric layers
Method of etching a ferroelectric layer includes etching an upper electrode and partially through a ferroelectric layer. A dielectric material is subsequently deposited upon the upper electrode and the partially etched ferroelectric layer. A second etch step complet...
6944007Capacitor structure
A capacitor is configured by a bottom electrode BE, an inter-electrode dielectric D, and a top electrode TE. Directly under the bottom electrode BE, for example, silicon oxide (SiO2) is disposed, and directly above the top electrode TE as well, for exampl...
6944009Ultra broadband capacitor assembly
Systems and apparatuses for providing a broadband capacitor assembly. One broadband capacitor assembly includes a first capacitor operable to provide a first end of an operational band of frequencies within an operational band of a broadband capacitor assembly. The ...
6940708Electronic component
An electronic component includes: an element having a pair of terminal electrodes; and a pair of metal terminals formed of metal materials respectively and connected to the pair of terminal electrodes respectively, in which: a portion of the metal terminal that exte...
6940707Differential capacitor, differential antenna element, and differential resonator
In a differential capacitor1, first and second capacitors 1003 and 1004 are formed in substantially symmetrical positions from each other with respect to a vertical plane B-B′, on a semiconductor substrate 1020. The differential capacit...
6940706Electrode material and capacitor
It is acknowledged that an electric double layer capacitor is markedly superior in power density and cycle characteristics to a secondary battery. However, a higher energy density is required to apply it to a power supply of hybrid vehicle, electric vehicle or the l...
6939775Capacitor and method of storing energy
A method for storing energy in a capacitor includes connecting a first conductor to a first electrode. A second conductor is connected to a second electrode. The second electrode is separated from the first electrode by a dielectric layer. The dielectric layer inclu...
6939723Method of forming haze-free BST films
Described herein is a method for producing a haze-free (Ba, Sr)TiO3 (BST) film, and devices incorporating the same. In one embodiment, the BST film is made haze-free by depositing the film with a substantially uniform desired crystal orientation, for exam...
6940710Multilayered chip capacitor
A multilayered chip capacitor including a capacitor main body including a plurality of dielectric layers, which are laminated; at least one pair of first and second internal electrodes, each of which is formed on the corresponding one of the plural dielectric layers...
6940705Capacitor with enhanced performance and method of manufacture
A decoupling capacitor is formed in a semiconductor substrate that includes a strained silicon layer. A substantially flat bottom electrode is formed in a portion of the strained silicon layer and a capacitor dielectric overlying the bottom electrode. A substantiall...
6940709Storage capacitor having a scattering effect and method of manufacturing the same
A storage capacitor having a scattering effect is positioned in a substrate for use in a thin film transistor array loop. The storage capacitor is characterized by having a rough layer overlapped by a medium layer and a passivation layer. The storage capacitor furth...
6937457Decoupling capacitor
A decoupling capacitor with increased resistance to electrostatic discharge (ESD) is provided on an integrated circuit (IC). The capacitor may be single or multi-fingered. In one example, the capacitor includes first and second electrodes separated by a dielectric m...
6936565Modified carbide and oxycarbide containing catalysts and methods of making and using thereof
Compositions including modified carbide-containing nanorods and/or modified oxycarbide-containing nanorods and/or modified carbon nanotubes bearing carbides and oxycarbides and methods of making the same are provided. Rigid porous structures including modified oxyca...
6936877Integrated circuit including a capacitor with a high capacitance density
The invention relates to an electronic device provided with an electronic component which comprises an integrated circuit arrangement which has a semiconducting substrate, active components, and passive components such as capacitors with high and with low capacitanc...
6937458Selectable decoupling capacitors for integrated circuit and methods of use
Selectable capacitors are used to modify performance characteristics of functional circuit elements of an integrated circuit (IC). In one embodiment, the decoupling capacitors are implemented as additional or alternative mounting pads on a surface of the IC. At leas...
6934144Capacitor and method of manufacturing the same
To provide a capacitor capable of utilizing carbon nanotube characteristics effectively to obtain excellent electric or mechanical characteristics, and a method of manufacturing the same. The capacitor is characterized by including two opposing electrodes, at least ...
6933193Method of forming a capacitor
A carbon containing masking layer is patterned to include a plurality of container openings therein having minimum feature dimensions of less than or equal to 0.20 micron. The container openings respectively have at least three peripheral corner areas which are each...
6934143Metal-insulator-metal capacitor structure
A capacitor having an electrically/conductive plate, an electrically conductive segmented electrically conductive plate segments and a second plurality of electrically conductive plate segments, a first capacitor dielectric disposed between the plate and the segment...
6930874High current capacitors
A capacitor including an expandable part fabricated on a capacitor housing is enclosed. The expandable part is expandable by a fault that occurs within the capacitor housing, thereby extending the capacitor housing to contact with an external interrupter. The extern...
6927967Capacitor substrates made of refractory metal nitrides
Electrolytic capacitor powder substrates are provided of refractory metal nitrides to reduce instability at a substrate-oxide (as formed) interface whereby the resultant capacitor sensitivity to hear, bias and frequency is reduced. ...
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Optical network terminal power failure management
Patent 7995920 Issued on August 9, 2011. Estimated Expiration Date: Icon_subject June 22, 2030. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.
Abstract Claims Description Full Text
Patent References
Optical network terminator and optical network connection method using it
Patent #: 7369771
Issued on: 05/06/2008
Inventor: Lee, et al.
Optical network terminal power failure management Patent #: 7751711
Issued on: 07/06/2010
Inventor: Wynman
No. 12820519 filed on 06/22/2010
US Classes:
Primary: Phan, Hanh
International Class
H04J 14/00
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention generally relates to usage of a telecommunication company's fiber to the premises (FTTP) installation at customer premises and, more particularly, relates to the customer's controlling of features associated with a batterybackup unit (BBU) used for powering an optical network terminal (ONT) associated with the FTTP installation during power failures.
2. Description of Prior Art
Fiber optic infrastructure is currently being deployed by certain telecommunication companies, including the assignee of the present invention, and being operatively connected to their respective customer bases. Fiber optic telecommunicationinfrastructure offers many advantages over the old standard copper wire cabling, not the least of which is vastly increased bandwidth. The plain old telephone system (POTS) had operated, and still operates, with copper wiring. POTS is now being madecompatible with fiber optic cabling.
However, a POTS telephone system in combination with this new fiber optic infrastructure involves certain optically-related and/or other functionality not previously needed in the copper wire cabling world. For example, an optical line terminal(OLT) is needed which may be located in the central office of the relevant telecommunications company or at some other regional location (but not on customer premises). The OLT is communicatively coupled via fiber optic cable to the ONT which isnormally located immediately outside of a customer's premises (typically mounted on an outside wall some four-five feet above ground).
The ONT is powered by a power supply such as, for example, a power supply similar, or related, to that described in patent application Ser. No. 11/144,566 filed Jun. 3, 2005, claiming benefit of provisional application Ser. No. 60/576,675filed Jun. 3, 2004, its assignee, and inventor being, in common with those of this instant application entitled: "Multi-Component ONT Power Supply" and incorporated by reference herein in its entirety. That power supply is, in turn, powered by typicalelectric utility company power which is subject to power failure for reasons including, without limitation, natural disasters and terrorist attacks. During a utility company power failure, traditional POTS telephone service over copper wiring isordinarily able to continue because of POTS battery back-up infrastructure which is in place at telecommunication company central offices. This battery backup system is designed to maintain POTS telephone service for an entire community. But, thatotherwise-available emergency POTS telephone service shall not be available to a telephone customer using a FTTP system, if the ONT cannot communicate with the OLT over the fiber optic cable because the ONT lacks power due to that power failure.
To this end, battery backup has also been provided within the FTTP environment for the ONT and for customer telephone instruments connected to that ONT. But, in contrast with the central office location of POTS battery backup, ONT batterybackup is located proximate its associated ONT, generally within, or near, the telephone customer's premises. This ONT battery backup unit (BBU) can be designed to include certain customer-useful features. One example is an alarm which sounds when thebattery voltage level is low. However, an incessant sounding alarm can be an annoyance and, to compound the annoyance, the alarm is itself using battery energy when emitting sound. These features, under certain circumstances, can therefore be adetriment instead of a benefit to the customer. There is, therefore, a need for managing these features in a manner that reduces or eliminates any customer annoyance otherwise generated by these features. The present invention provides a solution tothis shortcoming of the prior art.
Embodiments of the present invention include methodology and apparatus for managing an optical network terminal under conditions of a general power failure. More specifically, the present invention relates to managing certain automaticindicators of battery-backup voltage level for the optical network terminal in a manner to allow the customer a measure of control over these indicators.
In a particular embodiment, the present invention relates to a residential fiber optic communication system powered by electricity from a utility company. The system permits communication via customer premises equipment (CPE) including atelephone in a normal mode of operation. An OLT is located remotely from the customer premises, and can be located in a central office of the telephone company associated with the customer's telephone. An ONT is located at the customer premises and isin communication over a fiber optic cable with the OLT. A DC power supply is located at the customer premises for purpose of supplying electrical power to the customer's ONT and to the customer's telephone(s) via the ONT. A rechargeable battery backupunit (BBU) is located at the customer premises and is rechargeable by the power supply. The BBU is operatively coupled to the ONT and to the customer's telephone(s) via the ONT for the purpose of supplying substitute electrical power to the ONT and tothe telephone(s) if and when the utility company electric power fails.
A battery output sensor and controller are located at the customer premises for monitoring output level, such as output voltage, of the battery being used for backup. The controller includes means for automatically signaling the ONT to go intoa sleep mode to conserve power when the utility company electric power fails and the battery output level is reduced to a first level. The ONT includes means responsive to an off hook telephone signal for over-riding operation of the automaticallysignaling means and thereby reverting the sleep mode back to the normal mode of operation to permit the customer to place a call from the telephone over the system. After the call is completed, the system may automatically go back to the sleep mode.
However, during a utility company power failure where the output level has been reduced to an emergency level lower than the first level but greater than zero, the controller automatically signals the ONT to power-down completely. An emergencyswitch is connected between the output of the BBU and the ONT and is operable by the controller to disconnect the output of the BBU from the ONT. But, before that disconnection occurs, the ONT notifies the OLT over the fiber optic cable of thepower-down signal. That disconnection stops all further power dissipation from the BBU through the ONT. However that emergency switch is also manually-operable by the customer to permit power to be re-supplied to the ONT from the BBU to allow thecustomer to make an emergency telephone call over the fiber optic cable. Typically, the customer would make that emergency call and then open the emergency switch to continue to conserve BBU energy or power.
In yet an additional feature of the present invention, an audio alarm provides an audible warning under conditions of a failure of electrical power from the utility company. Typically, this may occur when the BBU output voltage is at a lowlevel approximately equivalent to the emergency mode level, although this level may fall within a range of levels running from a non-zero level below the emergency level up to the fully charged battery output level. This audible alarm battery voltagelevel is selected by the telecommunications company which is supplying this system. But the customer also has a measure of control. An audio alarm switch, operable by the customer, is provided which shuts-off the audio alarm for a predetermined timeselectable by the customer when the BBU output level is at or below this audible alarm battery voltage level, and after which time the audio alarm automatically sounds again.
FIG. 1 depicts a FTTP communication system showing the locations of various system components consistent with principles of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a schematic block diagram showing signal paths and power paths between various system components including those of FIG. 1 consistent with principles of the present invention; and
FIG. 3 is a graph of voltage versus time showing the various levels where various events may take place consistent with the principles of the present invention.
Referring to FIG. 1, fiber to the premises (FTTP) system 100 is depicted. A telecommunication company's central office is shown at the left-hand side of the drawing, housing optical line terminal (OLT) 101. Other equipment such as switches,routers, server
On the right hand side of the drawing a schematic profile of a customer's premises is provided with optical network terminal (ONT) 102 which may be mounted on the exterior wall of the customer's premises as shown. A typical mounting would putONT 102 at about four-five feet above ground. ONT 102 may be a standard fiber optical terminal which provides a suitable terminus for fiber optic cable 103. Other system components included within or at the customer premises include ONT power supply105, BBU 106 as battery backup for ONT 102, and customer premises equipment (CPE) 107 which includes any residential-styled communication equipment such as telephones, facsimile devices, televisions, computer systems, etc. Either power supply 105 or BBU106 or both may be physically located within the housing for ONT 102, or may be located inside the customer premises. It should be understood that electrical power is brought to the customer premises by an electrical utility company (not shown).
Signals received by OLT 101 over fiber optic cable 103 from ONT 102 may be processed in OLT 101 and may be forwarded to other equipment (not shown) located within the central office for further processing before routing those signals to theirultimate destination outside of the central office. In the opposite direction, signals to be forwarded from OLT 101 over fiber optic cable 103 to ONT 102 had previously been received by the central office from a source or sources located outside of thecentral office, may have been processed by the other equipment (not shown) located within the central office and may be further processed by OLT 101 before being forwarded from OLT 101 over cable 103.
FIG. 2 is a schematic block diagram showing signal paths and power paths between various system components, including those of FIG. 1. For clarity purposes, power paths are shown in wide-bus format and the signal paths are depicted as singleline connectives. It should be understood that the thickness of the actual power cable and the thicknesses of the actual signal cables are not necessarily related to each other in the proportions shown in the drawing. Also, the spatial relationshipshown in FIG. 1 may not be strictly maintained in FIG. 2. For example, the telephone company battery backup 219 in FIG. 2 is actually physically located within the telecommunication company's central office, and the utility company's electric power,shown within FIG. 2 as block 200 for clarity of illustration, is actually brought to the customer's premises in accordance with typical power distribution from a utility company.
Power Distribution:
Continuing with FIG. 2, customer premises equipment CPE 107 comprises CPE107A (exclusively telephone or telephones) and CPE 107B (all non-telephonic consumer premises equipment such as television, etc.). Starting with the utility companyelectric power functionality 200, it can be seen that electric power is distributed to CPE 107B on power bus 215 and to ONT power supply 105 on power bus 201. ONT power supply 105, in turn, distributes power to ONT 102 over power bus 206/205 and to BBU106 over power bus 202. BBU 106, in turn, and only if utility company electric power 200 has failed, distributes power to ONT 102 through power bus 203/204/205 by way of emergency switch 210, and distributes power to audio alarm 220 through power bus207/208 by way of timer switch 211.
Power output from ONT 102 is supplied to the customer's telephone(s) 107A over power bus 217. This power is derived from ONT power supply 105 if there is no power failure, and is derived from ONT BBU 106 if there is a power failure.
In the upper left of FIG. 2, other power distribution is shown as deriving from the telephone company's central office battery backup 219, and as being distributed over power bus 218 to the central offices OLT unit 101. Therefore, if there is apower failure affecting both the customer's premises as well as the telephone company's central office, telephone company battery backup 219 substitute-powers the equipment located within the central office such as OLT 101, but does not supply substitutepower to ONT 102 or to CPE 107.
Signal Distribution:
Referring to battery level sensor and controller 209, (hereinafter "controller 209") at the lower left of FIG. 2, it can be seen that several signal paths emanate therefrom. Controller 209 includes functionality that senses the voltage leveloutput of BBU 106 via power bus 203. When there has not been a power failure for some period of time, the batteries (not shown) of BBU 106 may be fully charged by power supply 105. When a power failure occurs, whereupon BBU 106 is pressed into service,output of the batteries of BBU 106 generally declines over time. This is illustrated in greater detail in FIG. 3.
FIG. 3 is a graph of voltage output from the batteries of BBU 106 as a function of time. This discharge curve is merely exemplary, and curve depicted in FIG. 3 can assume virtually any shape having a negative or zero slope. At time zero, thebatteries are fully charged, as shown. At time T1, the batteries have discharged to a point where the discharge curve intersects, at point "A", the sleep mode level, also referred to herein as level 1. This level might be, for example, approximately75%-90% of the fully charged level, but could be virtually any percentage of the fully charged level above an emergency level, defined below.
At time T2, the battery voltage has continued to discharge to a point where the discharge curve intersects, at point "B", with the audio alarm level. The alarm level is pre-set at the telecommunications company, and it is normally intended tosignal low battery voltage, but it could be used to signal something other than low battery voltage. The settable range for the audio alarm is from just above zero to just under fully charged as shown by bracket "C". If set at just above zero, it shallgive an audio signal just as the batteries fail completely. If set at just under fully charged, it shall give an audio signal indicative of the onset of a power failure. This latter setting may be useful under the circumstances of a power failureduring daytime where no electric lights or appliances are operating and where a customer may not otherwise have been aware of the power failure. Typically, the audio alarm level can be set to be at or near emergency mode level, with which the voltagedischarge curve intersects at time T3 and at point "D."
It should be understood that the system can remain in sleep mode from point A, the level at which the sleep mode was initiated, down to point D, even though the audible alarm signifying the power outage may have sounded in the interim. Also,intermittent telephone usage may have occurred in the interim, as described below. Finally, if and when the batteries become fully discharged, at time T4, the battery voltage discharge curve intersects, at point "E", with a zero level of voltage.
Returning to FIG. 2, while also referring back to FIG. 3, when the voltage discharge curve is at point "A", at the first level (sleep mode level) of output from BBU 106, a sleep signal is sent over signal line 213 from controller 209 to ONT 102requesting that ONT 102 enter a sleep or standby mode. In the sleep mode, multiple functions of ONT 102 are stopped to conserve power. For example, the video services could be shut down within 30 seconds, and the data services could be shut down within15 minutes. ONT 102 remains in this sleep mode until one of two things happen: (1) electric power 200 is restored or (2) the customer lifts its telephone 107A off hook, whichever occurs first. The latter event sends a signal from telephone(s) 107A oversignal line 216 to ONT 102 which, in combination with the powering of ONT 102 by battery backup 106, returns ONT 102 to a fully functional unit for purposes of allowing this particular telephone call to be made. ONT 102 and telephone 107A are bothpowered by BBU 106 having initial voltage output at sleep mode level. After the customer has completed that telephone call and hangs the phone back on the hook, the batteries of BBU 106 have further discharged somewhat and ONT 102 reverts to sleep modeif power 200 has not yet been restored. But, if power was restored during that telephone call, ONT 102 remains fully functional and does not revert to sleep mode. Additional calls can be made during power failure in sleep mode, provided that thevoltage level output of BBU 106 remains above the emergency voltage level.
If the voltage level output of BBU 106 drops to an emergency voltage level, then ONT 102 can be automatically and completely turned off. The emergency level, shown as intersecting the voltage discharge curve at point "D" in FIG. 3, is a levelthat is pre-determined by the telecommunications company that supplies ONT unit 102. This emergency level provides sufficient residual energy in BBU 106 to allow, e.g., one or two phone more telephone calls of limited duration. Under these conditions,controller 209 provides a shut-off signal on signal line 212 to switch 210, which causes it to open. The power which had been supplied over power bus 203/204/205 to ONT 102 through switch 210 is thereby interrupted, whereby ONT 102 shuts off and cutsoff power to telephone 107A. However, switch 210 is also manually operable by the customer, and if an emergency phone call must be made, that switch can be manually closed, thereby over-riding the automatic shut-down signal. There shall be sufficientenergy remaining in BBU 106 to power ONT 102 and telephone 107A to allow that emergency phone call. Under these conditions, it may take a little time, perhaps ten minutes, for ONT 102 to return to operating condition before communication over thetelephone actually takes place.
Referring next to audio alarm 220, it can sound only during power failure. It can be energized by BBU 106 via power buses 207/208 through switch 211 only when there is power failure. But switch 211 has to be closed to allow power to be appliedto alarm 220. Switch 211 is controlled by a control signal over signal line 214 which is generated when the alarm level is triggered by the discharging battery voltage (Point B in FIG. 3). This level is set by the equipment supplier. However, thataudible signal, as useful as it may be to alert the telephone customer or other members of the customer premises household of the power failure, can quickly become annoying to hear. Furthermore, the audible sound itself saps electrical energy from BBU106 thereby making the batteries deplete more quickly than otherwise. The customer has capability of avoiding these problems.
Indeed, switch 211 is manually operable and it can be opened by the customer at any time which shall interrupt the application of electrical power via power bus 207/208 thereby cause the alarm to stop sounding if it had been on. This is animprovement provided to the customer which permits him/her to remove what might become an annoying sound not to mention saving precious battery power at the same time.
In addition, switch 211 has a controllable timing feature (not shown) associated with it. Switch 211 can be set by the customer for certain periods of time, for example one hour. If set to one hour, then if switch 211 is manually opened, itshall remain open for one hour. After that hour, it automatically closes allowing BBU power to be reapplied to alarm 220, thereby sounding the audible alarm. Thus, not only can the alarm be temporarily silenced by the customer, but the duration of thesilence between alarm soundings is also under the control of the customer.
While illustrative embodiments of the present invention have been shown and described, numerous variations and alternative embodiments may occur to those skilled in the art. For example, as noted, the threshold setting of the alarm ispre-determined by the equipment provider. The equipment provider could offer various models with various alarm settings if that were deemed to be a useful marketing strategy. Other variations and alternative embodiments are contemplated, and can bemade without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention as defined in the appended claims.
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When did you first start writing?
What's the story behind your latest book?
Take Her and Run is a story I call a "righteous kidnapping". After reports of abuse fall on deaf ears, the child is kidnapped to protect her from further abuse. The story was my way of dealing with the heartbreak of giving up a child to a suspected abuser.
What is the greatest joy of writing for you?
Being able to share what's on my heart.
Who are your favorite authors?
Phyllis A. Whitney was the first author that I actually took note of her name and looked for more of her material. Teri Blackstock is one of my current favorites. I've always liked mysteries.
When you're not writing, how do you spend your time?
Looking after children and animals keeps me busy. Currently I'm running a home daycare and have a foster baby.
What is your writing process?
I start by daydreaming a story. When I get a chance, I sit at the computer and type and type. I've always done continuing daydreams, where I just pick it up where I left off and continue the story in my head. I can also make it up as I'm writing. Just have to slow myself down a bit. The main thing is to just get the ideas down the best I can, and I can work on changing any parts during subsequent drafts. I can never sit down and reread what I've wrote without finding things that I can improve.
What do you read for pleasure?
I definitely gravitate to mysteries. Believable mysteries. I'm not into science fiction, although I have read some along the lines of cloning. I'll also read biographies and comedies, or preferable a comedic biography.
Describe your desk
I can occasionally see some of the surface of my desk. I'm the kind of person that likes everything I might need right close to me. Pens, papers, staple. Stacks of papers and scraps of papers, it's all there. I also have a reasonably organized small file folder for bills and receipts.
What are you working on next?
I've begun a sequel to my first book.
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What do all inmates have? Time. It's what they do with it that matters. With that time, they can reflect on their lives and improve themselves to not make those bad choices anymore. They can also read, and exercise. This stucture is basically forced upon them because there's not much else to do, and many times, the things that are forced upon us we grow to resent. so upon release, that strcture many times isn't maintained by that individual... The only way to succeed is to learn to adopt that structure for oursleves. When we take the time to read, exercise and reflect on our lives, we instantly become better and improve our odds of success in any field.
When studying to become, say, a doctor there's a certain isolation from everyday things that you have to endure because this process takes up so much time. With that isolation, you are in fact an inmate, in a good way. The "prison" structure has been placed upon you. You don't completly live in isolation, even people in prison have contact with other inmates and get visits from family, but you do want to have this stucture, and when you do, your mind becomes the prison guard that keeps you from bad choices, and propels you to the successful completion of your goals.
I hope this makes sense to you, and helps you in whatever journey you may be on.
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This week on TDR-
9:05 Rider Asst. Head Coach John Hangey joins us to update us on Rider Camps, recruits and
the looming fall. Rider is one of those small private colleges that embrace and endorse wrestling
and the values that the sport can instill in a young person. Bravo' Rider, Bravo!
9:20 Marty Morgan- Asst. Head Coach at Minnesota, the man the myth the legend. Recently
Marty has had a hand in training Sean Sherk and Brock Lesnar in their post wrestling
MMA careers, both successful. Good job Marty! He also has a tremendous class coming
in to join his stable of top drawer athletes.
9:20 Marty will stay on the line as we're joined by his uncle, Pro Wrestling Great Red Bastien
Good article on Marty's dad and uncle, Red Bastien, found on the web, from Star Tribune 1970.
(Minneapolis Tribune, Sunday, May 3, 1970) By Merrill Swanon
The hundreds of nameless faces have been swallowed up by time, but the smells, sights and sounds of the carnival fighting shows remain fresh.The smell of ripe sawdust and sweat, the sight of countless town bullies crawling through the ring ropes, the sound of fists on flesh and breaking of bones will remain forever with Jim Morgan and Red Bastien.Those two, brothers-in-law now, were carnival fighters like Ruby Robert Fitzsimmons and Jack Dempsey were before them. The two hit the carnival circuit as teen-agers in the late 1940s and saw the "athletic shows" outdraw the girlie acts. Ten years later they also saw the athletic shows wither and die.
"One of the best fighters I ever saw," Morgan said, "also was a pretty good drinker. Half the time when you had a good fight for him you couldn't find him. He was apt to have been at a local tavern and fighting the town bully out in the street instead of bringing him back to the carnival where we wanted him."
Both Morgan and Bastien found their carnival background influenced their present and their future. Morgan, who used to paint the banners on the tentfront, got out of the wrestling and boxing circuit after 10 years to become an artist for the Bloomington school system, to raise a family of boxing sons and to coach in the Golden Gloves program; Bastien, who became a carnival wrestler at age 16, is using that experience in the studios of Ch. 11 and in auditoriums and arenas around the country as a professional wrestler."The only rich we got at the carnivals was rich in experience," Bastien said. "Our pay wasn't weekly - it was weakly. But I wrestled all sizes, shapes and colors, even though I weighed only about 145 pounds at the time. Most of the carnival wrestlers were middleweights - the biggery guys, the heavyweights, super heavyweights and dreadnaughts, could get work other places."
There often would be a stable of 8 to 10 fighters in the athletic shows - either boxers or wrestlers or both, as Morgan was.Frequently, when things got dull around the midway, the wrestlers from one show would hop into a car and roar into another carnival town to challenge that show's wrestlers."If you wrestled against another carnival fighter," Morgan said, "you'd tell that promoter you'd want 50 percent. Then they'd argue and maybe you wound up with 30 percent. Or maybe you wound up laying outside the tent someplace instead of getting your money. Sometimes the worst fight was afterwards."Some of the carny wrestlers had no names or nicknames or pseudonyms by choice or necessity - like Smiling Irish (a Jewish fellow who never smiled).
Some wore masks to protect their identity, for a number of reasons. Bastien wore a mask on the West Coast when he was in the Navy and wrestled the carnival circuit - against regulations. Others were collegians who wanted to protect their amateur standing. Still others didn't want to be recognized - period.Many, however, were proud of both their names and reputations and went on to become premier wrestlers on big-time cards, men like Bastien, Bobo Brazil, Johnny Moochy, Jack Guy and Chief Littlewolf.These men often fought each other for sport and for money on the carnival circuit, but more often it was the biggest and toughest man in town who answered the challenge.
"I remember one guy who was exactly 100 pounds heavier than I was," Morgan said. "He lifted bales of paper all day, and believe me he was strong. He could have lifted me like a feather. But I just moved around behind him, got him on the mat and that was the end of it. I wouldn't let him up."The lure for the challengers varied from money to the urge to prove their masculinity and toughness. Most shows offered from $100 to $150 to beat one of the house fighters."That $100 was a come on," Morgan said. "Most guys seemed to think that they'd get the $100 for wrestling for five minutes, which was the standard time limit. But they found it was $100 if they beat the carny fighter - and beating one of those pros was doggone hard to do."Between them, Morgan and Bastien wrestled close to 1,500 challengers in tiny rings and tiny, sweltering tents in tiny towns around the Midwest. Neither one lost a single bout to a tank-towner."And it was all or nothing," Bastien said. "There weren't many rules and it got pretty rough at times.""In boxing you'd just box," Morgan said, "but in wrestling you'd never know what was going to happen. A lot of them didn't know how to wrestle and they'd as likely come in and fist-fight with you. You learned pretty fast to hold your hands pretty high and keep your chin tucked down."
"In just about every town," Bastien said, "somebody was recognized as the toughest . . . the town bully. The people would go get him when the athletic show hit town and he'd have no choice but to get into the ring. Some of them were pretty tough, but they couldn't compete with the experience and knowledge of the pros."The usual procedure was to take it easy on the first candidate on the program. He wouldn't win, but he more than likely would climb out of the ring and tell his buddy that "it ain't that bad."Then his buddy would pick up the challenge . . . and his buddy, and so on through the night.
But pity the last one on the show."You're not going to chop up the first guy," Morgan said. "But late in the night, when the crowd was getting slim, the guy running the show would say 'let's go home' and you were supposed to take the last guy out of there in a hurry."Most whipped the last opponent of the night fair and square. But there were some carnival wrestlers who were not nearly so gentle."Some of them would break a guy's finger . . . or maybe even his arm . . . to get him out of there," Morgan said. "Or they'd cut him with an elbow. But if you were traveling with the carnival a broken ear or a broken nose didn't mean you had a day off coming. You'd just keep on going."
Sometimes the victim resented the beating he took. One, Morgan remembers, pulled a knife on the carny wrestler and Jim had to sneak into the ring and disarm him from behind."It was about the biggest knife I've ever seen," Morgan said.With an unruly crowd packed into the tent so the sides bulged, the famed "Hey, Rube" - a carny's call for help - was a very real thing."I've seen it used," Morgan said, "but only as a last resort. No carnival peron would ever say it unless he really is in trouble."Toward the end of the era, gimmicks became more popular than carny wrestler vs. town bully. There were tag-team matches, pitting carnival wrestlers vs. carnival wrestler, and there were women who issued a challenge to any male in the audience."Mildred Burke (who later became the women's world champion) was one of the women who toured the circuit," Morgan said. "I saw a couplee of women in the carnivals, but I never saw them wrestle. I guess the guys in the crowd didn't dare challenge them. I don't know if they weren't sure of how to wrestle them or were afraid of being beaten."
And that gets back to pride, which more than anything kept carnival wrestling alive for as long as it was."It was a tough life," Morgan said, "but there was something about it that kept making you come back to it. I remember that one day in some town in Minnesota - it was like all the little towns we wrestled in - where I had 13 straight matches."I won every one. I didn't win because I was making that much money, but because I enjoyed wrestling and I was proud of it. I didn't want to lose."And he didn't.But after a time, town toughs found other areas in which to emphasize their masculinity; soon, girlie shows were outdrawing the wrestlers.An era of American folklore was ending. But the smells, sights and sounds remain fresh to those who were there.(ED. NOTE - The above articles centering about the early days of Red Bastien are in a "tribute" book presented to the former wrestler, now 69, by his daughter-in-law, Marla Bastien, and her daughter, Keela, at the time of Bastien's ascension to the Cauliflower Alley Club presidency in February, 2000. Some of the correspondence, in response to Marla's Internet plea for photos, clips and other Bastien career memorabilia, is included below.)
9:40 John Rizzuti of Inside Texas Wrestling joins us to discuss all that's going on in Texas
and Oklahoma
10:05 Greg Nelson- The founder, owner and head coach at the Minnesota Martial Arts Academy
in Minneapolis, Mn., Martial arts expert battles a rare and difficult cancer
Training Jacob Volkman makes his pro debut on Sept. 29, Brock Lesnar, Brock Larson
By anyone's standards, Greg Nelson is tough. The founder, owner and head coach at the Minnesota Martial Arts Academy in Minneapolis, Min., he is one of the top martial artists in the world. Greg expects a great deal from his body and is familiar with the aches and pains that come with intense training and competition.
But in the spring of 2002, Greg began experiencing pain unlike any he'd known before. It started in his back and eventually moved down his body. His physician ran him through a battery of tests. A CAT scan revealed he had advanced non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. He immediately started a six-month course of chemotherapy. After the fifth month of treatment, tests revealed his cancer had gone into remission.
Greg thought he'd wrestled another opponent into submission. But, he would quickly learn his battle with cancer was only beginning. Soon, a new pain emerged and, this time, coming up with a diagnosis and treatment required the combined expertise of a team of specialists at Mayo Clinic.
Unraveling a mystery
The new pain moved down Greg's body, and his muscles began to weaken. The 38-year-old, who just a year earlier had been winning gold medals in international jujitsu competitions, came to rely on a cane to help him walk.When Greg's pain began to spread and intensify, he was referred to Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Min., for more testing The pain became so debilitating, he was admitted to the hospital. "Greg had such severe pain that we sent him to the intensive-care unit to be sedated and monitored," says Joseph Colgan, M.D., a Mayo Clinic hematologist. "His was probably the worst pain syndrome I've ever seen."While Nelson's wife, Vee, their children, Nina and Gunnar, and Nelson's mother waited at his bedside, a team of Mayo Clinic physicians worked to determine the cause of his pain. Initial testing showed no evidence of active lymphoma.
"When our standard testing failed to provide a cause for the pain, we were stuck," says Dr. Brian O'Neill, a Mayo Clinic neurologist. "It's at that point Mr. Nelson benefited from being at Mayo. Our approach to care meant we were able to spend enough time with him to carefully analyze the problem. We had access to state-of-the-art technology to help in our diagnosis. We were able to bring together a team of specialists to work together on finding a solution to the problem. Without that, I don't believe he would have survived."During one of the team's discussions, a member suggested using a high-powered MRI machine to scan Greg's nerves for cancer. The scan revealed a faint abnormality in his upper sciatic nerve. It would take a biopsy to determine whether the abnormality was cancer; however, the nerve has important motor fibers, and the procedure involved significant risk.
"Few people dare to do this type of surgery because it's very dangerous," says Dr. O'Neill. "If something goes wrong, the patient could be paralyzed."Robert Spinner, M.D., a Mayo Clinic neurosurgeon, carefully removed a small portion of Greg's sciatic nerve for testing. The results came back positive for cancer. On Christmas Eve, physicians were finally able to tell Greg and his family what was causing his pain: a rare disease called neurolymphomatosis. It's a disease as uncommon as it is hard to pronounce. "I have only seen one other person with this disease in my entire career," says Dr. O'Neill. "There are only 33 examples of this in medical literature."
10:20 Brad Penrith- University of Northern Iowa Head Coach joins us. He's rehabbing
his shoulder after surgery, he's getting the room ready, he's solidifying his recruits
and team for the fall, he's chompping at the bit to get it going. We'll join this
recovering Hawkeye turned Panther for a state of the University interview. Should be fun.
10:40 Pat Santoro- Head Coach of the Terps of the University of Maryland. Its been said that the
Terps are one of the teams to beat this fall. Why? Coach Santoro has been beating the
bushes for the best recruits. Young men who are determined to make it to the top with him.
We'll discuss incoming freshmen and recruits. Who's the spark plug on the team? Tune in
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0.023339 | <urn:uuid:46110c22-089c-4252-abae-de5bcdefe976> | en | 0.971573 | As the museum turns 20, officials understand that the demise of those who survived the prison camps as children means looking backward in a different way.
It won't be long before no eyewitnesses remain.
You can read all the documentation of the Holocaust in the world, said Diane Saltzman, director of survivor affairs at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, "but hearing somebody's voice, sitting across the table or across the room from a human being, there's no true substitute."
"I tell my students annually that they have a special responsibility," he said. "They are the last generation that will be able to say that they personally knew survivors of the Holocaust. It is a big change, just like it was when the last Civil War veteran passed from the scene."
The Holocaust, now "perceived history," will become "received" history, Sarna said. The challenge is that it doesn't recede from memory.
Holocaust educators take heart in the many institutions and younger people committed to ensuring that future generations will know about the 6 million Jews who died; of the concentration camps, gas chambers and crematoria set up to carry out Hitler's "Final Solution"; and of the 5 million Roma (Gypsies), gay people and others murdered because the Nazis deemed them, like the Jews, unworthy of life.
"The museum stands as that eyewitness going forward," Saltzman said. "We are the repository of all that evidence, and all of those memories."
From the Washington museum to Jerusalem's Yad Vashem to smaller museums around the world, these institutions preserve history that will soon no longer be passed on firsthand. So, too, does Holocaust literature, from Anne Frank's famous diary to Night, by survivor and Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel, who will give the keynote speech at the Washington museum's anniversary Monday, alongside former president Bill Clinton.
Curriculum programs in schools introduce children in the U.S. and elsewhere to the Holocaust, and these programs will continue, even when survivors aren't part of them anymore.
"I probably wouldn't remember what I had for breakfast, but I remember all that happened to me during the carnage," said Frajman, who now lives in Boynton Beach, Fla., and has been sharing his testimony with schoolchildren for more than 30 years.
But not with young children. "The atrocities are indescribable. I can't address anyone at the elementary school level," he said. "It's too graphic."
Even in the presence of Holocaust survivors, there are people who insist the genocide never happened, Sarna said. The hope, when there are no more survivors, is that the museums and the video archives will make it "impossible for most people to accept the word of the deniers."
In the meantime, as long as he is able, Frajman will tell his story and teach about the Holocaust in hopes of preventing another one. "Yesterday it was directed against the Jews. Tomorrow it could be against Christians, the next day against Muslims — unless people heed and listen," he said.
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Everything to Lose
Sean Sullivan refuses to let his wife go without a fight. He made a mistake a year ago by suggesting they get a divorce. He only wanted to scare her into staying in town, so he gave her an ultimatum. No one was more surprised than him when she walked out the door and never looked back. Now that she's on the same continent, he plans to convince her they're meant to be together, and he's not above using sex to get what he wants. When killers target them to die, he'll use any means necessary to keep her safe. Even if he has to kidnap her and tie her to his bed to do it.
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Excerpt from Everything to Lose by Katie Reus
"How long are you here?" He took a step closer so she forced herself to stand her ground.
"A few weeks. I'm not sure... That's not important though. I came here to give you this." She held out the manila envelope and when his eyes darkened, it was obvious he understood what was in her hand. Hell, if he didn't know by now why she was here, then he needed his head examined. She'd only been sending him the same familiar packet for the past twelve months.
"What the hell is this?" He snatched the envelope from her hand but didn't open it.
"Don't start that. You know exactly what it is."
"I'm not signing these." He started crumpling and twisting the pack in his hand.
"I don't understand why not. It was your idea in the first place." She felt as if her insides were literally shaking but she managed to keep her voice even.
"Damn it, Caitlyn! You know I didn't mean it."
"Then you shouldn't have said it." She crossed her arms over her chest. Her heart pounded against her rib cage with such force she was fearful he could hear it.
"I shouldn't have said a lot of things," he murmured.
She rolled her eyes. "You're right about that." She couldn't keep the hint of anger out of her voice. She wasn't one to hold a grudge but he'd never actually apologized for the things he'd said a year ago and that just pissed her off even more. How hard was it to say the words 'I'm sorry'?
"Listen, I--"
The door flew open, causing them both to turn toward the disruption. After a cursory nod in her direction, a young man in uniform she didn't recognize spoke to her husband. "Sullivan, Captain needs to see you now. It's important."
Sean turned to her. "Wait right here. I'll be back in few minutes."
Without waiting for a response he strode from the room. If she'd had anything handy, she'd have thrown it at his retreating figure. His behavior was so typical. He didn't ask her to wait. No, he ordered her to.
"I don't think so," she mumbled under her breath. When she opened the door, the hall was empty. She half-walked, half-sprinted back down the hallway toward the elevators. Once she finally made it out of the building, she expelled a breath of relief.
She squinted against the afternoon sun and her throat tightened when she didn't see the cab. Just as she was about to panic, the bright yellow car pulled out of a parking space and picked her up at the curb. She slid into the back seat, ignoring the smell of old takeout food. She heard her name being shouted, but instead of following her instinct and turning around, she pulled the door shut and rattled off the address of her hotel.
"Uh, Miss, I think that man wants to talk to you." He motioned behind her but she still wouldn't look.
"Just go! I'll pay you extra."
That got his attention. He turned around and a second later, the car jerked to life. Before they left the parking lot, she risked a glance through the rearview window and immediately regretted it. Sean had always been in good shape but he looked leaner, as if he wasn't eating right. Not that it took away anything from his warrior stance. Nope. One hand was on his hip and the other clutched the brown manila envelope. Maybe this would get her message across loud and clear. She was through taking orders from him. | https://ebookstore.sony.com/ebook/katie-reus/everything-to-lose/_/R-400000000000000226211 | dclm-gs1-126490001 | false | false | {
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After a decade of metal where speed and fury were emphasized, Crowbar stepped into the '90s with a sound directly reacting to those ideas. Equally influenced by the robotic approach of Helmet, the razor sharp riffing of Exhorder, and the brutally slow pacing of Melvins, Obedience Thru Suffering shows a band who is not afraid to stand out with a bizarre mix of influences. The production is the roughest part of the album, robbing the riffs of their punch, bringing the bass too high into the mix, and attempting to pass the band off as a Tad-esque grunge group. But the songwriting overcomes many of the weaker moments, as tracks like "Subversion" unveil a warped take on the Sabbath sound that would later gain the nickname sludge metal. The incredible roar of Kirk Windstein doesn't hurt matters any, as his brutal vocals are one of the key elements to the record. They would follow this up with a more impressive effort and continue a successful career into the decade, but this is where the group introduced the first true recording of the Louisiana sound. Fans will want to hunt this down, and any follower of Louisiana metal would do themselves a favor by giving this a listen — it is one of the key releases in the formation of that scene.
Formado: 1992 em New Orleans, LA
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Is there a way to find what path a command has had it's output redirected to (if it has been)?
I tried using:
ps -p PID -o cmd
Thinking I could look for a > and extract the path from that, but the output doesn't have that part in it. I'm pretty sure it hasn't just been truncated.
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You can use the proc file system /proc/self/fd for this
readlink /proc/self/fd/1
for stdout or 2 for stderr.
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If you know the PID, just inspect /proc/ID/fd/1. It should be linked to the actual path:
$ watch date > /tmp/1 &
[1] 27346
$ ls -l /proc/27346/fd/1
l-wx------ 1 choroba users 64 2013-02-15 16:28 /proc/27346/fd/1 -> /tmp/1
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Use the lsof (list open files) command to see what files a process has open for writing.
For example:
$ lsof -p 31714
bash 31714 dogbane 0u CHR 136,4 6 /dev/pts/4
bash 31714 dogbane 1w REG 8,1 15 2032202 /tmp/t
The w in the FD (file descriptor) column means that /tmp/t is open for writing.
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How about it?
[root@us04 ~]# ls -l /proc/14170/exe
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Feb 15 10:36 /proc/14170/exe -> /usr/sbin/httpd
One more example:
[root@us04 ~]# readlink -f /proc/5352/exe
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I have an Amazon EC2 instance which I have been using for quite some time for deployment of a .net application. The existing instance has a large database set up already on it which is used with the application. I am trying to find a way to use elastic beanstalk to deploy changes to the site (the DB will not have to be touched at all, just updates to the site that reads/writes to it). I am having trouble finding any instructions on how to do this or if it is even possible. The application is already currently deployed as well on my EC2 instance. Sorry for being so vague, first time using elastic beanstalk. Thanks!
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This is not possible: AWS Elastic Beanstalk is a fairly unique Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering and involves various AWS products like Amazon EC2, Auto Scaling, Elastic Load Balancing etc., which all need to be orchestrated together to achieve the desired result, see Architectural Overview for details.
If you want to use elastic beanstalk to deploy changes to the site going forward, I'd recommend to migrate the application tier of your solution to an Elastic Beanstalk environment, while retaining the database tier on the current instance.
• As a welcome side effect, this will also allow you to scale both tiers up and down independently, which is usually desired anyway at some point; for example, you could use several smaller EC2 instances for the application rather than the supposedly large one implied with your current single instance to gain fault tolerance and/or cost savings via Auto Scaling etc.
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Thanks, after a bit of searching I didn't think this was possible as well. Looking into if it is cheaper to have an RDS instance and then a beanstalk instance vs just the EC2 machine which was running both. Thanks again. – njj56 May 1 '13 at 18:21
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Commonweal klatch.
Over the summer, our talented summer interns put together a program for Commonweal readers to gather in person to discuss issues covered by their favorite magazine. Like a blog comment thread, but nicer. So far we have nine such groups from California to New York. The first Commonweal Reader Community met earlier this month in St. Paul, Minnesota, at the home of Gene and Marjorie Audette.
Twelve years ago.
Blast from Archbishop Myers's past. (UPDATED)
The Diocese of Peoria, Illinois, has agreed to pay $1.35 million to settle a lawsuit claiming that Archbishop John J. Myers--who served there as bishop from 1990 to 2001--failed to remove a priest from ministry despite having evidence that he had abused a minor. (Myers, you'll recall, has come in for some criticism regarding his handling of accused priests in his current diocese, Newark.)
The plaintiff, Andrew Ward, now twenty-five, accused the late Rev. Thomas Maloney of molesting him in 1995 and '96, when Ward was eight. About a year earlier, a woman informed the diocese that Maloney had abused her sister when she was ten years old. Myers denies knowing anything about it. Indeed, if anything comes through in the 2010 deposition of Myers, just unsealed as part of the settlement, it's that the archbishop's memory is less than ideal.
For example, Myers doesn't remember much about the generous gifts Maloney gave him over the years (starting in the late 1980s, apparently). Does he recall receiving Maloney's own "precious" camera? No. What about gold coins? Sort of. The silver object so large "it could be tied around one's neck like the proverbial millstone," as Myers desrcibed it to Maloney in a thank-you note? Hard to say.
Now, it's not unusual for priests to give gifts to their bishop following confirmations. Such offerings usually amount to $1 per child, rarely totaling more than $500. But many bishops set up trusts to receive such funds for later disbursemet to charity. Myers apparently used them to cover personal expenses--including his mother's health care, his vacations, and his trips to the track. (SEE UPDATE BELOW.)
So were Myers and Maloney friends? The archbishop has trouble with that question too: "I don't know if 'friends' would — I had many other priests that I was closer to. I can say that." How many of those other priests were invited to vacation with Myers, as Maloney was in 2000? How many used their homilies to relate personal stories of their friendship with the bishop, sometimes referring to him as "Johnny"? How many were nominated by Myers to be made monsignor, as Maloney was in 2000? (Settle in, this is going to be a long post.)
When ‘allegedly prolife’ groups attack.
Pope sacks bishops after financial scandal.
At the bottom of today's Vatican news bulletin, you'll find news that two of Solvenia's top bishops have resigned, "in accordance with canon 401 para.
Where does the buck stop in the Archdiocese of Newark?
An Archdiocese of Newark pastor will be stepping down at the end of the month, after parishioners at St. Joseph's Church complained that an accused priest had been living in the rectory, just across the street from the parish elementary school. The accused priest, Fr. Robert Chabak, was removed from ministry in 2004, after the archdiocese determined that he had been credibly accused of molesting a boy over a period of three years in the 1970s (he was never charged because the statute of limitation had run). After Superstorm Sandy damaged Chabak's home, Mark Mueller reports, "the archdiocese allowed him to take up residence at St. Joseph 'out of a sense of compassion,' said Jim Goodness, a spokesman for Archbishop John J. Myers." Parishioners were not informed of Chabak's background. When several of them protested, Chabak, sixty-six, was moved to a retirement home. Why it was insufficiently compassionate to put him there first remains unclear. But what is clear is the frustration of Newark Catholic parents. Because when it comes to dealing with accused priests, their diocese is doing it wrong.
CHA OK with final contraception-coverage rule.
So what do the final rules say?
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Beyond the legal arguments, the statements made by Boehner and McConnell conveniently overlook some history; for example, Teddy Roosevelt made a series of recess appointments during a recess of less than a day (indeed, in a matter of seconds), not the 10 days cited by McConnell. The Speaker should recognize that what President Obama did was certainly not "unprecedented," and, as power grabs go in Washington, seems quite tame by comparison to, say, the Republicans making a majority vote mean 60% rather than 51% (that's so 2009) by filibustering as often as they have breakfast. In the Senate 60 votes are required to shut off endless debate. In all fairness, Democrats have gone filibuster-crazy in the past too, though not as crazy as the current Congress.
Perhaps most importantly, the entire purpose of the recess appointments clause in article 2 cannot be defeated by the sham of a "pro-forma session," which is designed strictly to prevent that which the Constitution explicitly authorizes, and which ensures something that would've been quite objectionable to the founding fathers—surely they would not have wanted a "tyranny of the minority," anymore than a "tyranny of the majority," or for that matter, anymore than they, or any American, would want a tyranny of any kind.
And let's not forget what this fight is all about.
The CFPB was created in 2010 as the centerpiece of the Dodd-Frank financial reform act. Its job is to be "the" single-focused consumer protector in the financial services area consolidating powers of seven (count 'em—seven) regulatory agencies that kept falling over each other for decades and never fully protected the interests of the American people.
That sounds pretty subversive.
Circumventing the American people, eh? To quote Jack Ryan in Tom Clancy's masterpiece Clear and Present Danger: "How dare you sir!" But maybe it's me.
[Article: The Most DisCREDITed Ideas of 2011]
"I've talked to a lot of people about whether they like the freedom to be cheated on credit cards, to be cheated on mortgages, to be cheated on overdraft fees, and I found that was not really a freedom they valued," Rep. Brad Miller (D-N.C.) said on the House floor during debate over the legislation. "They don't really value that any more than Americans 100 years ago valued the right to buy rancid beef."
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Next two weeks are a bigger test
1. CowboyFan4Eva
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I want to add........we have yet to prove we can play on the same field competitively with the elite teams in the nfl. ......... We haven't been able too In a long long time........even the 14 -2 season , i didn't think they played allthat "tough" ....... It's a process to get there. .......but .....i see hope.....
2. nake
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I hate to be the one to break this to you, but the Cowboys have never had a 14-2 season.
3. CowboyFan4Eva
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13 3 .....my bad. I think it was 13 3. The last good season we had. When we lost the home playoff game to the giants.......
Sorry if people didnt understand that was a mistake...
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parity I presume......
5. Tass
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I think Dallas beats Denver. We are going 12-4 this year.
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6. CowboyFan4Eva
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Lol. That's a very insightful observation .....well done.
......sheese.... In a day and age when we all type emails , txts, messages incessantly, day in and day out........
and on a football forum no less......nazis !!!! Autocorrect and iPad typing.....it gets me . And sometimes, its true,,,,,,i just mess up.
My deepest apologies for the errors which has caused people to take time and actually point them out....
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The SD game is the biggest game of the year. We'll find out if we're a contender or just another mid-table team.
8. Toruk_Makto
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The biggest game of the season is always the next one.
The season is hard enough. It is long enough. There will be enough trials and tribulations.
There is no benefit in creating artificial milestones.
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No, you were supposed to be thinking San Diego but had the Broncos on your mind, which is why you typed that. I was like "When the heck did the Broncos sign Freeney?!" A serious post fail. You finished strong but let's face it, the damage had already been done. LOL.
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You know, in today's NFL it sometimes seems like 'parody' is an appropriate term, too.
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Indeed ... defensive DVOA is 27.3%, which is rather pedestrian and ranked 31. The only defense that is worse belongs to RG-III and friends. However, offensively they are at 28.1% [3rd] so they will certainly present problems for a resurgent Dallas defense.
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You know, I've never actually looked at it that way. I think you may be right.
13. CowboyFan4Eva
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Lol......im taking all kinds of hits here. Coming from everywhere! ......It is kinda funny. Parody may turn out to be the correct term!
Just the way i planned it!!! :)
But it is a league where good teams are going to lose. Play real close games that they get lucky to win,
If i were coach. I woud practice that two minute end of game scenarios constantly...!!!!
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whose the girl in your signature?
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I never got why people say they should be 3-0. Why should they have beat Houston? They squandered a 21pt lead midway through the 3rd quarter. At home.
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SD was in control for 3/4 of that game and just blew it. I am not saying they should have won, but they should have not lost :)
I am not sold on the Texans either, don't think they are as good as billed. They just got hot in the 4th and SD got cold, but SD was the better team that night.
That being said, SD doesn't scare me, we play well against them, especially in Southern California.
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Cañón del Pato (Spanish: Duck Canyon) is on the Rio Santa (Santa River) at the north end of the Callejón de Huaylas (Corridor of Huaylas) in north-central Peru. The mostly rocky canyon walls are too steep and arid for cultivation, and in only a few places are the slopes of the imposingly rugged canyon suitable even for grazing domestic animals. The canyon was formed by the river where the north end of the Cordillera Negra range (to the west) converges with the Cordillera Blanca mountain range (to the east). These two Andean ridges run generally parallel for nearly 140 km from south of the city of Huaraz northward to the Cañón; the Cordillera Blanca continues northward for another hundred kilometers or more. The Callejón de Huaylas is the valley between the two cordilleras averaging about 16 km (measured on a map from the crests of the two ridges) in width but in places as much as 25 km in width.
The main south-north highway through the Callejón de Huaylas existed as a narrow dirt track prior to construction of the highway through the Cañón. Construction of the highway's northward extension began in 1952 at the town of Caraz, about 30 km south of the Cañón. The highway penetrates and traverses the Cordillera Negra. Eventually it descends westward and continues to the Pacific Ocean port city of Chimbote and northward to the city of Trujillo, providing motor vehicle access to the Pacific coast from the Callejón. A typical highway journey from Caraz to the Cañón is about 4hrs round trip. The highway from Caraz to Trujillo covers a distance of 184 km. From Caraz the highway is in the Callejón valley until it crosses a concrete bridge to the west side of the river. Here the highway leaves the valley floor, veers northwest onto the eastern face of the Cordillera Negra, and eventually pierces through to the western face of the mountain. The highway along this entire route is unpaved and has 35 one-lane tunnels before it emerges onto the western face of the Cordillera Negra high above the town of Huallanca. The river from this same bridge goes generally northward through the Cañón itself and eventually its water powers the turbines of the hydro electricity plant at Huallanca.
At approximately the same latitude as that of highway tunnel 18 the nearby (eastward) river's natural banks are as close as 6m apart; the crests of the two cordilleras loom above, at places as high as 6000m above sea level. A short distance north (downstream) of this constriction in the Cañón is a diversion dam that deflects measured amounts of the river's water into a man-made tunnel. From the diversion dam to the Huallanca powerplant the tunnel is about 11 km long. It descends in altitude from the diversion dam to a place about 103m directly above this hydroelectric facility. Diameter of the tunnel was established to accommodate small dump-trucks that removed rock and debris during construction. At the tunnel's north end the water plunges down into one or both turbines a hundred meters below. The powerplant is entirely within a huge manmade cavity a hundred meters inside the rock of the mountain on the east edge of Huallanca. From Huallanca the river flows westward and furnishes water for irrigation of large banana plantations in the arid coastal plain; just north of Chimbote the river empties into the Pacific Ocean.
The earthquake of 1970 caused so much damage to the railroad bed, that this railway connecting Huallanca and Chimbote was abandoned and has not been in use since.
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Gene Peacosh (born September 28, 1948 in Sherridon, Manitoba) is a retired professional ice hockey player who played 367 games in the World Hockey Association. He played with the New York Golden Blades, New York Raiders, New Jersey Knights, San Diego Mariners, Edmonton Oilers, Vancouver Canucks, and Indianapolis Racers.
Gene Peacosh was one of the best hockey players to come out of British Columbia during the late 1960s and early 70s. Despite being born in Manitoba, he grew up in the Okanagan Valley in British Columbia, and that is where his hockey career began. As a junior, Gene quickly established himself as a prolific goal scorer. He was drafted into major junior hockey and continued to top team and league scoring statistics. Gene eventually ended up playing for the infamous Johnstown Jets in the EHL. Of course Gene had no way of knowing that the team he was playing for would one day be used as a model for the Hollywood blockbuster movie Slap Shot, starring Paul Newman. In four seasons Gene scored almost 200 goals and accumulated over 400 points, and served as the team's captain. It should go without saying that the Hollywood version of the team had little resemblance to the real Jets, except in as much as hockey was a much rougher, nastier sport in those days, and a talented player like Gene had to keep his head up at all times if he was interested in keeping it on his shoulders. Of course he did receive help from a man named "Dick Paradise", who would pummel anybody that crossed any lines with one of their star players (or was unwise enough to make fun of his name) and later the infamous tough-guy Ted Scharf. In the movie Slap Shot a character is featured by the name of Olgie Ogelthorpe, which was a kind of sloppy anagram for a goon Gene encountered only too often by the name of Bill "Goldie" Goldthorpe. After turning down a contract from the Montreal Canadiens franchise, Gene decided instead to play in the now defunct World Hockey Association (a professional hockey league designed as direct competition to the NHL, which featured such stars as Bobby Hull, Gordie Howe, Mark Howe, Derek Sanderson, and many more). Gene's scoring touch remained constant as a pro, averaging approximately a goal every other game. He occupies a high position in the WHA record books.
Career Achievements: 1967 Won the BCHL (BCJHL) scoring championship with 94 points, while playing for the Penticton Broncos. Gene led the team to win both the regular season championship and Fred Page post-season championship as well.
Wherever he went he scored goals. Frequently players moving from junior to pro are unable to continue scoring, but Gene did not miss a beat scoring 37 goals as a rookie in the WHA. He did suffer from the dreaded sophomore jinx, scoring only 21 goals the following season, but then registered two very impressive seasons with the San Diego Mariners scoring 43 and 37 goals respectively. Gene was still putting the puck into the net in 76-77, despite being moved from San Diego to the Edmonton Oilers, and finally to the Indianapolis Racers (the two latter teams would shortly see Wayne Gretzky added to their roster).
1966-67, Penticton Broncos, BCHL, 51g, 43a, 94pts.
1967-68, Swift Current Broncos,WCJHL, 52g, 48a, 100p.
1968-69, Johnstown Jets, EHL, 44g, 43a, 87p.
1969-70, Johnstown Jets, EHL, 49g, 66a, 115p.
1970-71, Johnstown Jets, EHL, 51g, 66a, 117p.
1971-72, Johnstown Jets, EHL, 43g, 64a, 107p.
1972-73, New York Raiders, WHA, 37g, 34a, 71p.
1973-74, New York Golden Blades/New Jersey Knights, WHA, 21g, 32a, 53p.
1974-75, San Diego Mariners, WHA, 43g, 36a, 79p.
1975-76, San Diego Mariners, WHA, 37g, 33a, 70p.
1976-77, Edmonton Oilers/Indianapolis Racers, WHA, 27g, 30a, 57p.
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While there have been a few characters from varying grades have been depicted in recurring minor roles, the students in the fourth grade—including central characters Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski, Kenny McCormick and Eric Cartman—receive the primary focus of the series. The fourth grade class is taught throughout most of the series by Mr. Garrison, with a hiatus between seasons 4 and 6 when he is replaced by Ms. Choksondik. These students also attended class under Mr. Garrison during their previous time as third graders during South Park's first three-and-a-half seasons.
Main class[edit]
Bebe Stevens[edit]
Butters Stotch[edit]
Main article: Butters Stotch
Leopold "Butters" Stotch, voiced by Matt Stone,[6] is cheerful, naïve, optimistic, and more passive than the show's other child characters, and can become increasingly anxious, especially when faced with the likelihood of punishment by his parents. He is often treated poorly by other characters and put in painful or humiliating situations. Though he is treated with slightly more respect by Stan and Kyle in later seasons. As a result of his increasing popularity with the show's staff and fans, Butters was given a more prominent role beginning with the show's fifth season (2001). He sometimes takes the place of Kenny as Cartman's sidekick.
Clyde Donovan[edit]
Craig Tucker[edit]
Craig Tucker, voiced by Matt Stone, commonly characterized by his blue chullo hat and nasal monotone voice, is one of the more prominent members of the children's classroom. Cartman once claimed that Craig was the "biggest troublemaker in [their] class",[8] and parents of his classmates have cited him as a "bad influence".[9] In a running gag during the show's earlier seasons, establishing shots of Mr. Mackey's office would feature Craig waiting outside. But his activities were never seen.[10] In the first several seasons, Craig has a habit of giving people the finger,[11] a trait the show's official website attributes to his learning the behavior from his family, all of whom frequently use the gesture as well.[8][12] This trait was last seen in the season 6 (2002) episode "Fun with Veal".
Craig dislikes the four main characters and rivals them in several episodes. Craig is a pragmatist[13] and has no wish to become involved in any extraordinary adventures the other main characters on the show customarily experience.[14] In the season 12 (2008) episodes "Pandemic" and "Pandemic 2 - The Startling", Craig repeatedly castigates the main characters' propensity for engaging in schemes that catastrophically backfire upon them. He also complains that they just seem to blindly accept that these things happen to them. He decides that he will no longer participate in such schemes, and walks away from the one in which they find themselves in the latter episode. However, by taking this action he fulfills an ancient prophecy, by stepping on a mysterious platform that allows him to defeat the giant guinea pig monster responsible for that story line's conflict. He concludes from this that just because there are things in life that cannot be controlled does not mean that one should accept them without protest.
Eric Cartman[edit]
Main article: Eric Cartman
Eric Cartman, voiced by Trey Parker,[6] is commonly referred to as just Cartman. He is one of the show's four main characters and one of the most popular and iconic. He is obese, obnoxious, racist, homophobic, anti-Semitic, and practically sociopathic in his attitude. Most other students are alienated by Cartman's insensitive, often misogynistic, and bigoted behavior, though they are occasionally influenced by his obtrusive, manipulative, and propagandist antics. He often tricks Butters.
Jimmy Valmer[edit]
Jimmy first appears in the season five (2001) episode "Cripple Fight", in which he moves to South Park from a neighboring town and antagonizes Timmy.[15] Parker and Stone initially intended for this to be Jimmy's only appearance, but decided to include the character in subsequent episodes.[17] Now portrayed as a South Park resident, student, and good friend of Timmy, Jimmy has been a recurring character ever since. Jimmy's parents had made fun of handicapped children in high school, and believe that Jimmy's disability is a punishment from God. The season eight (2004) episode "Up the Down Steroid" ends with Jimmy addressing the issue of anabolic steroid use in athletic competitions, declaring it as "cheating" while suggesting that professional athletes who use steroids voluntarily reject the accolades and records attributed to them.[18] The episode also reveals that Jimmy has a cute girlfriend named Nancy. Melanie McFarland of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer describes Jimmy and Timmy's capabilities and portrayal in the show as Parker and Stone declaring their opposition to political correctness as social restriction.[19] When praising the show for both its depiction of Jimmy and Timmy and its coverage of disability-related issues, The Seattle Times columnist Jeff Shannon, a quadriplegic, describes Jimmy and Timmy as "goodwill ambassadors".[20]
Kenny McCormick[edit]
Main article: Kenny McCormick
Kyle Broflovski[edit]
Main article: Kyle Broflovski
Kyle Broflovski, voiced by and based on Matt Stone,[6] is one of the main four characters in the show. He is distinctive as one of the few Jewish children on the show, and because of this, he often feels like an outsider amongst his friends and classmates. Kyle is also the child who clashes the most often with Cartman.
Pip Pirrup[edit]
Phillip "Pip" Pirrup, voiced by Matt Stone,[6] was featured mostly during the first few seasons of the series. He was later relegated to being a background character after his role in the show was replaced by Butters. Pip is originally from England, and shares his name with the main protagonist of the Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations. Wearing a bow tie and flat cap, he was often teased by his classmates.[21] While largely passive, the only thing that would drive him to anger is when fellow students mistake him for being French. The show's official website has noted that this is in reference to the animosity shared between some natives of Britain and France.[22] A similar gag is seen in South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut, in which The Mole, a young French boy, is called "British" by Cartman. Pip is the central figure of an eponymous episode during the show's fourth season. The episode, which does not feature any of the show's other characters, was a comedic retelling of Great Expectations, with Pip assuming the role of his character's namesake.[23][24] After this titular episode, Pip became a background character with only two further speaking appearances—as a candidate for the new fourth boy in "Professor Chaos" and then being a background character for the rest of the sixth season - until season eleven when he disappeared completely from the series. Three seasons later, Pip made his final appearance on the show in the episode "201" to beg the Mecha-Streisand to spare South Park; the mecha responds by crushing him to death with her foot as he tried to run away.
Stan Marsh[edit]
Main article: Stan Marsh
Stan Marsh, voiced by and based on Trey Parker,[6] is the most level-headed and convivial of the four boys. Stan is generally kind, honest, smart, well-meaning, assertive, and often shares with his best friend Kyle a leadership role as the main protagonist of the show. Stan is portrayed as the everyman among the show's four central characters.
Timmy Burch[edit]
Timmy Burch, voiced by Trey Parker,[6] is a mentally and physically handicapped boy who uses a motorized wheelchair. He is based on an elementary school acquaintance of South Park art director Adrien Beard.[25] Timmy's exact condition has never been specified in the show, though South Park's official website describes it as "a strange combination of palsy and Tourette's".[26] Timmy's spoken vocabulary is mostly limited to the enthusiastic shouting of his own name which could be conduction aphasia.[20][27][28]
Timmy first appears as a minor character in the season four (2000) episode "The Tooth Fairy Tats 2000". Parker and Stone had to push hard for the inclusion of the character, as Comedy Central was originally reluctant to allow the show to feature a character with a cognitive disability.[29][30] The duo asserted their intention of portraying other children as treating him as an equal,[30] while stressing the importance of both including a mentally impaired character who is "happy to be [himself]", and representing him "as part of the gang and not as the subject of cruel schoolyard humor".[31] Two weeks after his debut, Timmy was a central figure in the episode "Timmy 2000", where doctors and school faculty erroneously attribute his behavior to ADD in the show's condemnation of the rampant diagnosis of the disorder.[20] "Timmy 2000" also shows his parents, Richard and Helen, to have similar disabilities including being confined to wheelchairs and their vocabularies mostly limited to their own names.
Timmy quickly became a fan favorite, and was once voted "The Greatest Disabled TV Character" in a poll conducted by a BBC-sponsored webzine named Ouch!, where he was more popular among disabled voters than among non-disabled voters.[20] IGN ranked Timmy second in a list of the "Top 10 South Park Peripheral Characters", stating that "South Park's most controversial character may be one of the funniest and most enduring".[32] Parker noted that soon after Timmy debuted, fans he encountered began mimicking the character's exclamation of "Timmy!" as opposed to their earlier habits of impersonating Cartman and repeating the show's other popular catchphrases.[30] When the handicapped Jimmy was introduced in the season five (2001) episode "Cripple Fight", Timmy becomes jealous of Jimmy's newfound popularity with the main characters, and the two later got into a violent brawl in a parking lot. The two make amends, and are depicted as good friends in subsequent episodes.
Token Black[edit]
Hector "Token" Black (previously Williams), voiced by Adrien Beard, was the only African American child in South Park until the introduction of Nichole in "Cartman Finds Love" in season 16.[15] His name is a reference to tokenism. He is not only the only black child in South Park, but also the wealthiest. He is not rude, self-obsessed, or spoiled, and desperately wants to fit in with his peers. [33][34] The name has been interpreted as an example of the anti-political correctness attitude of South Park[15] and as an implication that the tokenism phenomenon is outmoded enough to be a laughing matter.[34] Despite the role that his name implies, Token will sometimes play a significant part in an episode, and has been a recurring character since his first major role in the season four (2000) episode "Cartman's Silly Hate Crime 2000". His next came in the season five (2001) episode "Here Comes the Neighborhood", where he is picked on for being rich. He invites several other wealthy families to move to South Park (who all happen to be black), leading the townspeople to refer to them as "richers". He also plays a role in "Christian Hard Rock" [season 7] (2003) as a bass player and got annoyed when Cartman's racist theories were correct.
Parker and Stone had originally taken turns providing their voices for the few lines Token had as a minor character.[37] Token is now voiced by South Park art director and co-producer Beard.[38] When trying to find a new voice actor for Token during production of "Cartman's Silly Hate Crime 2000", Parker said he recruited Beard "because he was the only black guy we had in our building at the time".
Tweek Tweak[edit]
Tweek Tweak is a boy characterized by his hyperactivity, paranoia and anxiety,[39] due to his mass consumption of coffee.[40] His strained voice is provided by Stone,[41] and he tends to scream, "Oh God!", "Oh, Jesus, dude!", "GAH!",[39] and "Too much pressure!". His name is taken from a slang term referring to recreational users of methamphetamine, as well as hyperactive or dysfunctional people in general.[citation needed]
While Tweek's parents—who run a coffee shop—attribute his hyperactivity to ADHD predominantly inattentive, it is actually a result of giving Tweek coffee too frequently to "calm him down."[26][42] This has the effect of increasing his caffeine levels and worsening his mental state.[39] As a result, Tweek is constantly shaking or twitching and is always depicted with spiky, disheveled blond hair and an incorrectly buttoned shirt.
Tweek is introduced in the season two (1998) episode "Gnomes", and is as prominent as one of the four main characters throughout the middle portion of the sixth season (2002). The character Kenny is absent during the majority of the season, which allowed the show's creators and writing staff an opportunity to provide larger roles for both Tweek and Butters,[43] both of whom were growing more popular with both the viewers and staff of the show.[44] Kenny ultimately returns in the season finale "Red Sleigh Down", and though Butters has continued as a significant presence, Tweek had very few lines until The Stick of Truth.
Wendy Testaburger[edit]
• Damien Thorn (voiced by Matt Stone) is the eponymous character of a first season episode. Inspired by Damien Thorn from the 1976 horror film The Omen, Damien is Satan's son, who briefly attended South Park Elementary before moving from South Park. He later makes cameo appearances in "Professor Chaos", "The Death Camp of Tolerance", "Dances With Smurfs", "Funnybot" and the movie "South Park: Bigger, Longer, & Uncut".[46]
• Dog Poo Petuski (or DogPoo[47]) (voiced by Trey Parker) is characterized by his lack of personal hygiene, and resembles Pig-Pen from Peanuts.[47] Dog Poo is almost exclusively used as a background character, his only speaking roles coming in the episodes "Professor Chaos" and "It's a Jersey Thing". He still occasionally appears in the hallway.
• Jason (voiced by Trey Parker) is visually modeled after Jason McHugh,[48][49] an actor who starred in the movies Cannibal! The Musical and Orgazmo, both written by South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone. Jason has brown hair and wears a purple coat with a dark gray collar and a pair of blue jeans. He only appeared in class in "South Park is Gay!"
• Kevin Stoley (voiced by Matt Stone) is characterized by his preference to bring along his Star Trek-related toys, much to the annoyance of other characters who are participating in role-playing games not associated with Star Trek. In Conjoined Fetus Lady, it is revealed that Kevin is of Chinese ancestry.[51][52] In "Fatbeard", he plays a bigger role where he becomes part of Cartman's pirate crew. Kevin has black hair and wears a light blue shirt.
• Bradley Biggle (voiced by Matt Stone) is a background character who speaks occasionally, making his first appearance in "Rainforest Shmainforest". His character is finally developed in the "Coon and Friends" story arc, when he plays superheros with the other boys.His superhero handle is Mintberry Cruch. For his choice, he is riduculed by Cartman and discouraged by the other kids who play Superheros. In the third episode, he unexpectedly takes center stage when he is revealed to be not only the younger brother of Henrietta, but also an extraterrestrial with actual super powers, Gok-zarah, from the planet Kokajun.[53]
• Red (also known as Bertha[54] and Rebecca[55]) (voiced by Eliza Schneider, Mona Marshall and April Stewart) is a girl who, as her name suggests, has dark red hair. She is frequently featured as Bebe and Wendy's friend.[56][57]
• Annie Faulk (voiced by Mary Kay Bergman, Eliza Schneider and April Stewart) is a background character who speaks occasionally. Despite never having a significant role with the exception of Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playset, she has appeared in every classroom scene since the first episode of the series.
• Lola is a background female character voiced by April Stewart. She wears a dark green sweatshirt and has long brown hair in which one strand is near her left eye, while wearing a plastic headband. She is paired up with Token for Mrs. Garrison's assignment in "Follow That Egg", one of the only episodes where her name is mentioned, the other being "The Hobbit" where she says her name during cheerleader role call. Her first appearance is "Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playset".
• Heidi Turner is an occasional female classmate of the four main characters with dull brown hair. Her first speaking roles were in the back-to-back episodes Do the Handicapped Go to Hell and Probably, where she was referred to as Marcy. She made a few more speaking roles in the episodes, Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playset and Follow That Egg, the latter where she was paired up with Cartman for a class assignment, much to her disgust. Her first major role was in the episode Marjorine, where she hosted a slumber party consisting of all of the school's popular girls. Oddly, throughout the show's run, Heidi has had a different set of parents.
• Gordon Stoltski reads the announcements at South Park elementary until he is killed in a double-homicide/suicide perpetrated by a distraught cuckold in "Dances with Smurfs", who mistakes the child for a 40 year old truck driver from Chicago.
• Tammy Warner is a 5th grade girl who made her first appearance on the season 13 episode, "The Ring," as Kenny's girlfriend, though it is later revealed that she gave another male student a blowjob at T.G.I. Friday's, and eventually does the same to Kenny, causing him to die of syphilis. She is a particularly huge fan of the Jonas Brothers.
• Jenny Simons ia a youngest and shy girl. She has a violet bow on her black straight hair and wears blue coat. Her first appearance is "The List"
Students from other grades[edit]
Ike Broflovski[edit]
Fillmore Anderson[edit]
Fillmore Anderson is a kindergartner who is sometimes featured in small roles in a variety of episodes, particularly where younger students are featured. He sometimes an antagonist, like in "Trapper Keeper" where he bullies Ike.
Goth kids[edit]
The Goth kids are a group of stereotypical goths composed of four members: Michael, a tall, curly-haired sixth-grade boy who sometimes walks with a cane; Pete, a boy with black hair with dyed red streaks who constantly flicks his long bangs out of the way when it gets in his eyes and appears to be a fourth grader; Firkle, the youngest member and a child who appears to be a kindergartner, and Henrietta Biggle, an overweight girl who also appears to be in fourth grade. In season 14, they were finally added to the title sequence of the show after making several appearances since season 7. The Goth kids were first introduced in the episode "Raisins" from season 7 and Stan briefly became the fifth member of their group, his nickname being "Raven". The Goth kids frequently stereotype everyone else and display double standards in their talks about conformity;[54][59] however, they are also often portrayed in a sympathetic light.[60][61] The Goth kids are easily provoked [60] and are very protective of their image. However, they have been seen to be open about welcoming new members to their group, such as Stan, and on one occasion, offered Butters a chance to join. The Goth kids find it annoying to be confused with the Hot Topic "vampire" kids from the episode "The Ungroundable" in season 12.[60][61] and even more frustrating to be compared with emo kids. The Goth kids were seen taking part in a talent show in season 9 performing a song about never taking part in a talent show. Michael was in Stan's dance crew in "You Got F'd in the A" and he was also seen in the episode from season 15 "T.M.I." when Cartman attended an anger management class. The Goth kids are never seen attending school lessons but it is indicated by Pete that they do as he complained about going to P.E. class. The Goth kids are usually seen listening to goth music, writing or reading Gothic poetry, drinking coffee and smoking.[60][62] All the Goth kids appeared as followers of Cthulhu in "Mysterion Rises", though they became disillusioned in the following episode because Cthulhu had not lived up to their expectations. Both Pete and Michael were seen in the episode Goobacks during the "Work for a better future" song when they were helping clean up litter. The Goth kids are prominent characters in the episode "Goth Kids 3: Dawn of the Posers" where the Goth boys are shocked to discover that Henrietta has become an emo after having been sent to a special camp by her parents. The episode demonstrates the loyalty and close friendship between the Goth kids, as they go to extreme measures to ask their sworn enemies (the vampire kids) for help. All the Goth kids appear to have a liking for video games as in season 9 they were some of the first in line to purchase the Sony PSP when it first came out. They were also more recently seen in season 17 when they sided with Stan during a games console battle between Stan's side (who favored the PlayStation 4) and Cartman's side (who favored the new X-Box console) about which console was the best and who was going to be the first in line to purchase their favorite.
In other media[edit]
Wendy and Pip were multi-player characters in the video game South Park. The preceding two characters, along with Tweek, Bebe, and Damien were playable in South Park Rally. All aforementioned characters with the exception of Damien, along with Craig, Clyde, Token, Jimmy, Timmy, and Red are unlockable characters along with Butters Stotch and Professor Chaos (only available as an exclusive Downloadable Content code) in South Park Let's Go Tower Defense Play!.
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5. ^ Saunders (2006-07-17). "At 10, 'South Park' still bites". Rocky Mountain News. Retrieved 2009-05-03. [dead link]
28. ^ "FAQ Archives: Has Timmy ever said anything but "Timmy" or "Gobbles."". South Park Studios. 2001-05-21. Retrieved 2008-11-03.
50. ^ FAQ. South Park Studios. Retrieved on 2011-11-14.
58. ^ "Two Guys Naked in a Hot Tub"
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The Philippine economy grew by 7.8% in the first three months of 2013, surpassing every single analyst estimate and putting it just above China as one of Asia’s fastest growing economies. The torrid growth, the best in nearly three years, is especially impressive given that exports declined 6.2% as electronics shipments collapsed.
So how is it growing so fast?
1) Infrastructure
2) Domestic Demand
If foreigners aren’t going to buy your goods, you better hope the locals are. Domestic demand in the Philippines has been very strong, driven by private investment and consumer growth in a way that China must envy. Manufacturing growth is up by 9.7% due to demand for food, appliances, communication and transport, and construction was up a whopping 32.5% in the first three months of the year. Services expanded 7%.
“Initially, this was led by infrastructure spending from the government,” the National Economic and Development chief Artemio Balisacan told the Philippine Star. “By the second half of 2012, private construction started to rebound.”
3) Remittance Payments
Underpinning domestic demand is a raft of remittance payments that make their way to the Philippines each year from its vast diaspora—over $5 billion in the first quarter of 2013. The cash transfers have long helped the Philippines pay off foreign debt and boost domestic consumption.
Can it continue?
“There’s a disconnect between the economy and the valuation of the market,” a Manila-based trader told Bloomberg. “While overseas investors say they like our economic fundamentals, they find valuations to be stretched.” The Philippine stock market is one of Asia’s best performing bourses, up 41% in the last year, but traders are clearly worried about whether there is an asset bubble in the making. The Philippines has strengths China doesn’t, but building roads and pushing up the budget deficit is not enough when it comes to a long-term strategy.
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Is Suresh Raina's CSK background keeping him in the team?
What makes Raina immune from being axed? If a match-winner like Yuvraj can be dropped on performance, why can\'t Raina be shown the door on similar grounds?
Whispers questioning Suresh Raina's presence in the Indian team are now growing into shrieks, as he continues to fail in producing the goods but still keeps his place among the best cricketers in the country.
Raina's discomfort against the short ball isn't hidden but him being persisted with despite regular failures is now also making apparent his association and closeness to Chennai Super Kings (CSL) as a strong reason for his immunity.
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Though Raina was not the only underperforming batsmen during the ODIs in South Africa and the two defeats in New Zealand so far, he is easily the weakest link in the batting, whose skills on fast and bouncy tracks is more than questionable.
So without going into statistical details, the selectors need to be asked 'On what grounds is he better than Yuvraj Singh? Is he a bigger match-winner than Yuvraj? If Yuvraj can be dropped on performance, why not Raina?' This doesn't mean Yuvraj deserves to be in the team, but that Raina should also be shown the door. There's no room for double standards while selecting the national team, or any team for that matter.
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BCCI president N Srinivasan controls the CSK and he also controls the BCCI, and to a major extent world cricket as well. And Raina happens to be a CSK man, one of the few 'elite' players who have never played for another franchise in the IPL. Raina also holds the unique distinction of not having missed a single match for CSK and being the highest scorer in the IPL history. Incidentally, Raina was one of the five players CSK decided to retain before the IPL auction scheduled for February 12. And he continues to be part of Team India as well, no matter what.
Is that a mere coincidence? Doesn't seem so.
Raina's proximity to Srinivasan and CSK is further highlighted looking at the list of BCCI contracted players. While Raina is in the Rs 1-crore bracket in Grade A, India's best batsman (along with Virat Kohli) at present - Cheteshwar Pujara - is in Grade B. On current form and recent track record, Pujara not only deserves to replace Raina in Grade A but also in the ODI squad, especially overseas.
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Hundreds of bereaved parents are facing a "lifetime of uncertainty" about what happened to their baby's remains.
Parents of still and newborn babies who had died were lied to by staff at the council-run Mortonhall Crematorium in Edinburgh and told there were no ashes to scatter.
However, in what the head of a inquiry into the practices there called a "great tragedy", it transpired the remains had been buried or scattered for decades without the knowledge of families.
Former Lord Advocate Dame Elish Angiolini on Wednesday presented a 600-page report into what went on at the Mortonhall Crematorium between 1967 and 2011 and what happened to the remains of 253 babies.
The report said: "The outcome of this investigation will cause more pain and distress for most of the parents of the 253 babies who are the subject of this investigation.
Bereaved mother Dorothy Maitland
It added: "The great tragedy of these events over many years is that many parents will now be left with a lifetime of uncertainty about their baby's final resting place."
When the scandal erupted in December 2012, Edinburgh Council informed families that their infants' ashes had actually been buried in a garden of remembrance at the crematorium.
However, the report found the only baby remains that were definitely in the garden were those of the non-viable foetuses buried together in 2013.
The report made 22 recommendations including that Edinburgh Council should review the way the crematorium is managed and ensure a tougher system of inspection.
Bereaved father Gary McDougall
Dorothy Maitland, Operations Manager of the Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Society (SANDS), is among parents who were lied to.
Following the death of her daughter Kaelen she was told there were no ashes to hand over.
It was 26 years later that she was told that Kaelen's ashes had been scattered at Mortonhall without her knowledge.
She told Sky News: "You're grieving for your baby. You're grieving for the fact you've let her down, because especially as a mother you should make things right for your children."
Gary McDougall's son Fraser died at birth and was cremated at Mortonhall.
Since discovering that ashes existed 18 months ago he has been given three different versions about what was done with them.
Mr McDougall told Sky News: "They gave us a piece of paper saying they'd been interred.
"We were then told that the ashes were scattered, and then we were told they were laid in the rose garden. Who do you believe?
"Three different versions of what they’ve done. Again, more lies."
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Michael Bloomberg just gave New York’s politicians a timely lesson on the minimum wage — even though he was talking about cigarettes.
This week the mayor introduced yet another measure to curb smoking. He’s asking the City Council to pass a law that would mean no one could charge less than $10.50 for a pack of cigarettes, which is designed to raise the price for some discount brands. The economic assumption is straightforward: Make something more expensive and people will buy less of it.
Given the undeniable health risks from smoking and the widespread public disapproval of the habit, this Bloomberg bid is likely to find more favor than his soda ban. For argument’s sake, we’ll leave aside the complication of the thriving black market in cigarettes — created by high city and state taxes that already make the cost of smokes higher here than in other states.
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We’d sure like to hear them explain how the same laws of pricing that will reduce cigarette sales won’t, when it comes to a higher minimum wage, take the form of employers hiring fewer workers, reducing the hours of the workers they have or hiring workers off the books.
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$xp$ is not a hermitian operator and hence doesn't represent an observable. Then, how can we interpret the expression
$$ \langle x p \rangle \text{,} $$
the expectation value of position times momentum?
How to interpret the expectation value of a hermitian operator, say $p$, is clear: make several measurements on identically prepared systems and get the expectation value from the measured quantities.
But now we are talking about the expectation value of an operator that doesn't represent an observable. The discussion above hence isn't valid. However, computing $\langle x p \rangle$ knowing $\Psi$ according to the mathematical definition can be done, so $\langle x p \rangle$ can clearly be deduced if we know the wave function - but how can we interpret the quantity we get?
(The question arises from a line in my textbook - "in a stationary state, $\frac{d}{dt} \langle x p \rangle = 0$, ..." without further explanation - why is this obvious?)
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"why is this obvious?" Hint: a stationary state has a simple time dependence: $\Psi(t)\rangle = e^{-iE_{\Psi}t/\hbar}|\Psi(0)\rangle$. – Alfred Centauri Jul 16 '12 at 17:07
The expectation value of $xp$ is $i\hbar/2$ plus a real number because $xp-i\hbar/2 = (xp+px)/2$ is Hermitian. It's hard to construct a "device" that measures $xp$ or equivalently the Hermitian $xp-i\hbar/2$ but such "devices" exist in principle. What's the problem here? What do you exactly mean by an interpretation? An observable is an observable that may be in principle measured and its expectation value is the average of many measurements in the same state. And no, the measurement of $xp$ can't be reduced to a measurement of $x$ and $p$ separately - the latter two don't commute. – Luboš Motl Jul 16 '12 at 17:22
But the fact that $xp$ can't be measured by measuring $x$ and $p$ isn't anything special about $xp$. $J_z$ may also be written as an "operator function" of $J_x$ and $J_y$. In particular, $J_z=(J_x J_y - J_y J_x)/i\hbar$ but that doesn't mean that one should or could measure $J_z$ by measuring $J_x$ and then $J_y$. That's not possible as those two don't commute and one measurement would distort the state. But that doesn't mean that $J_z$ can't be measured, does it? – Luboš Motl Jul 16 '12 at 17:25
Otherwise, the expectation values of all quantities should be constant in a stationary state, by definition of a stationary state. ;-) – Luboš Motl Jul 16 '12 at 17:50
The device to directly measure $xp$, as well as $[x,p]$ for single photons turns out to be quite simple and is described here – straups Jul 17 '12 at 6:03
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Here is how you interpret: the expectation value in a state $|\Psi\rangle$ of products of Hermitian operators like $x$ and $p$ (corresponding to observables) quantifies how correlated (quantum mechanically entangled) the two observables are in that state.
Therefore, the statement $\frac{d}{dt}\langle xp\rangle=0$ in English reads: "the extent to which the two observables 'position' and 'momentum' are entangled correlated does not change with time". Now since stationary states are independent of time (up to a phase), it should be pretty clear that the correlation should not change with time (i.e. it is fixed).
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While the expectation value $\langle xp\rangle$ does describe a correlation, it is incorrect to say that the observables are entangled. States can be entangled in quantum mechanics, as well as show non-classical kinds of correlations, but observables can't. – Emilio Pisanty Jul 16 '12 at 23:39
@EmilioPisanty, I completely agree, but the partition of system on subsystems is determined by localy accessible observables (arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0308043). However, the statement in this answer is still incorrect :) – straups Jul 17 '12 at 5:55
@EmilioPisanty OK, but if the word "entangled" isn't used, it's still correct to interpret <xp> as how correlated the two quantities are? – Carl Jul 17 '12 at 19:03
I have corrected the answer to reflect the well-justified objections. – QuantumDot Jul 18 '12 at 4:25
The line from your textbook you're puzzling over is in fact quite a bit easier: in a stationary state nothing changes apart from phases that cancel out in any expectation value, and therefore $\frac{d}{dt}\left[\textrm{anything} \right]=0.$
You're right to point out that $xp$ is not a hermitian operator, but that does not mean that the expectation value $\langle xp \rangle$ is meaningless. Specifically, take the uncertainty relation $xp-px=i\hbar$ and substract $xp$ twice: you get $$xp+px=-i\hbar+2xp,$$ which you can rearrange into $$\langle xp\rangle = \left\langle \frac{xp+px}{2}\right\rangle+i\hbar.$$ The expectation value is now of the hemitian operator $\frac{1}{2}(xp+px)$, and you can see that your original expectation value has a trivial imaginary part.
If it's a physical interpretation for this quantity you're after, try this question.
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Nice argument there :-) – David Z Jul 16 '12 at 23:49
Yes, d/dt(anything)=0 for stationary states is (and should have been to me) clear, was just puzzled by the (anything) being something I couldn't interpret. – Carl Jul 17 '12 at 19:04
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I'm curios what happens to the size of the host image after an invisible watermark has been inserted. I'm guessing the size will increase but by how much?
For example, the cover image to be inserted is 1kb and the host image is 2kb. Since your adding additional information the size will be 3kb after the embedding process?
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Depends on the compression algorithm. – iccthedral Apr 28 '12 at 12:33
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I think it depends on the algorithm used for inserting the watermark. If the watermark is inserted without any quality loss, it is likely that the file would increase by at least 2KB.
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I'm using DCT and will embed the watermark in the middle band coefficient. The watermark that will be inserted is a gray scale with the size of 123 x 123. – stbb24 Apr 28 '12 at 15:12
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I am looking for a way to send and receive keyboard information regardless of what app has focus. I remember back in College seeing a presentation about an old Windows API that let you change the cursor position and send right clicks and such.
Besides User32.dll is there a way to do this with the .net framework?
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AFAIK, there's no way to capture the GLOBAL keyboard & mouse events. But there are a few articles on CodeProject which demonstrate the creation of .NET class wrappers for the same.
You can check them out here:
1) Processing Global Mouse and Keyboard Hooks in C#
2) Global Mouse and Keyboard Library
EDIT: BTW, I had created a SMALL keylogger in C# using the 1st library :)
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Some months ago, I used C# to create an app that read from a wii nunchuck and move the mouse. My first option was to use the cursor Class to move the mouse like this
Cursor.Position = new Point(Cursor.Position.X + 10, Cursor.Position.Y + 10);
All was fine, but did't work when playing games because they manage the mouse in a different way, so at the end I used the Global Hooks that Kirtan mentioned here (+1). Based in my experience, I recomend you to use Global Hooks.
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How can i vanish out the odd string like � in php?
i already use like html_entity_decode php function but it's still not works.
anyone can help ?
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This is an encoding problem. Do you have a <meta charset that is consistent with what your server sends? – PhpMyCoder Jul 17 '12 at 3:56
This is usually caused by mixed character encodings. Make sure the page's character encoding is the same as the server. – pyrokinetiq Jul 17 '12 at 3:57
fix the problem not the symptoms – Dagon Jul 17 '12 at 3:58
FYI, the character '�' is U+FFEF, "REPLACEMENT CHARACTER". – Keith Thompson Jul 17 '12 at 4:02
posting some relevant codes might help – deex Jul 17 '12 at 4:03
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Try to add these line in your db config file.
if (!$con)
mysql_select_db("db_name", $con);
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that's make my day... – Gunslinger_ Jul 17 '12 at 6:28
You might want to consider upgrading to PDO -- the old style SQL functions are horribly insecure. Bound statements are not only quicker and more efficient, but they transparently quarantine inputs so you don't have to worry about injection attacks. Little Bobby 'Drop Tables' loves playing games with old-style SQL commands. – RonLugge Jul 17 '12 at 20:08
� isn't just one symbol -- it's the symbol used to replace a symbol that your browser can't make sense of. Usually this is caused by encoding issues -- you set the wrong encoding, or someone is using a symbol from a different encoding.
You can't just magically strip it out, because it isn't just one character. Simply put, encoding is one place where you can't just wave a magic wand -- you have to decide on an encoding, and then enforce it.
If you're taking user input, I honestly don't have any clue how to help with the issue. You can check for common causes (curly quotes and dashes as distinct from hyphens are where I run into this the most), and force a manual replace on them, but if a user wants to enter in a badly-encoded character, there's not a lot you can do.
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+1 because you mentioned "you have to decide on an encoding, and then enforce it." you are absolutely right about this. – JRSofty Jul 17 '12 at 6:28
Try changing your <meta charset to iso-8859-1 like
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If your content is in ANSI encoding use
you can check the encoding of your files using a editor like ( NOTEPAD ++ )
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In Sendgrid, when viewing the recipient lists, it shows the open and click rates of each of the individual lists. Is there an API I can use to get those values? I tried using the Stats API but it shows per day, not per list. So is there an API to show the rates of each list?
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No, there's not currently a way to do this through the API. Your best bet to get this one the roadmap is to start a discussion on our community board (http://community.sendgrid.com/).
You can also always reach out to our support team for questions like this!
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I have a text that I want to linkify (identify URLs and convert them to HTML links). The text could be multi-line, and could contain multiple urls like the example below.
My current actionscript code looks like this
import mx.controls.Alert;
import mx.rpc.events.FaultEvent;
import mx.rpc.events.ResultEvent;
private function init():void {
var str:String = "@stack the website for google is http://www.google.com and gmail is http://gmail.com";
txtStatus.htmlText = linkify(str);
private function linkify(texty:String):String {
//return texty.replace("/[A-Za-z]+:\/\/[A-Za-z0-9-_]+\.[A-Za-z0-9-_:%&\?\/.=]+/g",function(m):String { return m.linkify(m);});
//return texty.replace(/[A-Za-z]+:\/\/[A-Za-z0-9-_]+\.[A-Za-z0-9-_:%&\?\/.=]+/g, function(m):String {return m.linkify(m);}).replace(/(^|[^\w])(@[\d\w\-]+)/g, function(m2):String{return '@<a href="http://twitter.com/' + m2.substr(1) + '">' + m2.substr(1) + '</a>'; });
var match:String = pattern.exec(texty);
return texty.replace(pattern,'<a href="' + match + '">' +
match + '</a>');
The problem with the above script is that it recognizes the first match and uses that across. Also how do i do it for @?
Any help is highly appreciated.
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ooph ... why does everybody use regex these days, to accomplish super simple tasks? also, you forgot, that "+" is a valid character for URLs, as a replacement for space, and even an awful lot of other characters may be used, so your pattern would not even match accordingly ...
well, anyway, have a look at AS3 regex metacharacters ... that'll GREATLY improve your expression's readability and is much more robust...
i'd go with something like this, really:
var r:RegExp = /(?:http|https):\/\/\S*/g;
trace(str.replace(r, function (s:String,...rest):String {
return '<a href="' + s + '">' + s + '</a>'
} ));
but the actual point, was the global flag ...
good luck then ... :)
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I am trying to make a WP7 app and I'm facing an issue on how to add a white space after a part of text. I know that this thing can be done in HTML by inserting a   char but in my RichTextBox this can't be done.
This is my code:
<Run>This is a </Run>
<Bold Foreground="Red">test</Bold>
I want the output to look like "This is a test" but the last whitespace is ignored so the output is "This is atest" .
Can you please help me with this.
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I have found what was the issue , in designer the output was the wrong one ("This is atest") but at run-time it's displayed ok.
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i develop application for calculation of calories burn by walking for that i use SensorEventListener (ACCELEROMETER) i get three value from that X,Y,Z. my question is how to calculate foot step using that three X,Y,Z. this is my code for getting X,Y,Z value. i use GPS also. but i required count step using Pedometer in Android guyzz PLZ help me.
package com.mxicoders.prashant;
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import android.widget.Chronometer;
import android.widget.ImageButton;
import android.widget.TextView;
import android.widget.Toast;
public class MyWorkout extends ActivityGroup implements SensorEventListener {
ImageButton btnfacebook, btnstartwalk, btnstopwalk;
Chronometer mchoronometer;
Intent getintent;
String _getname, _getage, _gethight, _getwidth;
TextView txtx, txty, txtz;
private SensorManager sensorManager;
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
txtx = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.txtview_steps_myworkout);
txty = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.txtview_distance_myworkout);
txtz = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.txtview_calary_myworkout);
btnfacebook = (ImageButton) findViewById(R.id.imgview_facebook_myworkout);
btnfacebook.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
public void onClick(View v) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
Intent inn = new Intent(getParent(), MyworkoutFacbook.class);
WorkoutTabGroupActivity parantActivity = (WorkoutTabGroupActivity) getParent();
parantActivity.startChildActivity("MyworkoutFacbook", inn);
btnstartwalk = (ImageButton) findViewById(R.id.imgbtn_start_myworkout);
btnstartwalk.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
public void onClick(View arg0) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
sensorManager = (SensorManager) getSystemService(SENSOR_SERVICE);
sensorManager.registerListener(MyWorkout.this, sensorManager
Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Start",
btnstopwalk = (ImageButton) findViewById(R.id.imgbtn_stop_myworkout);
btnstopwalk.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
public void onClick(View v) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
public void onAccuracyChanged(Sensor sensor, int accuracy) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
public void onSensorChanged(SensorEvent event) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
if (event.sensor.getType() == Sensor.TYPE_ACCELEROMETER) {
float x = event.values[0];
float y = event.values[1];
float z = event.values[2];
txtx.setText("X: " + x);
txty.setText("X: " + y);
txtz.setText("X: " + z);
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closed as not a real question by casperOne Sep 20 '12 at 11:41
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My suggestion is that you should track variations in Global Z axis (your body up/down movement). You cannot guarentee that the user will hold the mobile in a specific orientation, so you will have to rely on experimenting. Also, you may need to monitor the speed of movement (so as not to translate car movement to foot steps for e.g.).
What I would do is:
1- Create a text file on the Mobile and record the values of X, Y & Z (in addition to GPS speed) while I am walking, with the mobile in different orientations (in my pocket, in a belt pouch, ...etc). Also, keep track of the number of steps I performed.
2- Based on this data in step one, form a formula to convert this data to number of foot steps.
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Mohamed_AbdAllah i not get what you say. i just want calculation of walking if any other way it possible without using SensorEventListener. you haveany ideaabout that. – Prashant09 Sep 18 '12 at 13:36
What I am saying is that you need to experiment to translate Sensor changes to food steps by logging and analysing your log. You can do it with GPS changes (convert travelled distance to foot steps by dividing it by an average foot step distance of say 15 cm) – Mohamed_AbdAllah Sep 18 '12 at 13:40
Mohamed_AbdAllah ok i got but you can you give me any code or demo for that... – Prashant09 Sep 18 '12 at 13:45
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StreamReader and HttpClient can't access network share path. Is it possible to access a file on LAN network from Windows Store app?
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Yes it's possible.. do you have code that you can show as to how you are trying to access it it also sounds like a permissions issue as well here is a Link that you can access to get you started with many different things that you can do in regards to accessing Storage Folders msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh967755.aspx – DJ KRAZE Oct 10 '12 at 16:13
Checkout this link as well msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/xaml/… – DJ KRAZE Oct 10 '12 at 16:16
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A Windows Store app has two ways to access a network file:
1. Use HomeGroup to access the pictures, music, and videos libraries. As long as you have declared the capabilities, you can perform this without user input. But it is limited to these libraries. You can also access the documents library, but it is heavily policed in the store certification.
2. Use the FilePicker to ask the user to pick the file. This requires user input but allows access to any file that the user can access.
The article Quickstart: Accessing HomeGroup content has a few more variations of these options.
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I'm trying to copy a file to iCloud using the follow code:
NSError *error;
//My Image Source file
NSURL *sourceURL = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:[[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"_219" ofType:@"jpg"]isDirectory:NO];
NSLog(@"source: %@", sourceURL);
NSFileManager *fileManager = [NSFileManager defaultManager];
//Discovering iCloud URL
NSURL *iCloudDocumentsURL = [[fileManager URLForUbiquityContainerIdentifier:nil] URLByAppendingPathComponent:@"Documents"];
NSLog(@"iCloudDocumentsURL: %@", iCloudDocumentsURL);
//Setting destination URL
NSURL *destinationURL = [iCloudDocumentsURL URLByAppendingPathComponent:@"image.jpg"];
NSLog(@"destination: %@", destinationURL);
//Copy file to iCloud
BOOL success = [fileManager setUbiquitous:YES itemAtURL:sourceURL destinationURL:destinationURL error:&error];
if (!success) {
@throw [NSException exceptionWithName:[error localizedDescription] reason:[error localizedFailureReason] userInfo:nil];
When I run this code I have the following result:
2012-12-31 15:15:30.888 iCloudTest[10614:907] source: file://localhost/var/mobile/Applications/B2202406-BEB8-41B6-A3C4-2327EFB85E54/iCloudTest.app/_219.jpg
2012-12-31 15:15:31.108 iCloudTest[10614:907] iCloudDocumentsURL: file://localhost/private/var/mobile/Library/Mobile%20Documents/xxxxxxxx~com~gazapps~iCloudTest/Documents/
2012-12-31 15:15:31.110 iCloudTest[10614:907] destination: file://localhost/private/var/mobile/Library/Mobile%20Documents/XXXXXXXX~com~gazapps~iCloudTest/Documents/image.jpg
2012-12-31 15:15:31.122 iCloudTest[10614:907] *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'The operation couldn’t be completed. (Cocoa error 513.)', reason: '(null)'
*** First throw call stack:
(0x38c312a3 0x32f1897f 0xbb617 0x3a31058d 0x3a350d71 0x3a34cae5 0x3a38e1c9 0xad241 0x3a351ad1 0x3a35165b 0x3a349843 0x3a2f1c39 0x3a2f16cd 0x3a2f111b 0x371295a3 0x371291d3 0x38c06173 0x38c06117 0x38c04f99 0x38b77ebd 0x38b77d49 0x3a34847d 0x3a3452f9 0xacff9 0x3627cb20)
libc++abi.dylib: terminate called throwing an exception
Looking at documentation, Cocoa error 513 means:
NSFileWriteNoPermissionError = 513,
So basically I'm without access to write stuff on iCloud... Looking at https://developer.icloud.com, everything seems to be ok (the documents folder is there).
What I'm doing wrong ?
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iCloud has been working intermittently since December 30/31, even though everything may look good on developer.icloud.com. There's a discussion going on at the developer forums here:
It's hard to diagnose iCloud issues at this point since it may just be problems on Apple's iCloud server. Some people have noted (on the discussion thread) that iCloud seems to be working better today than prior days so it may be worth testing your app again now.
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Thanks for the information! A lot of developers having problems with iCloud... – Sebastian Jan 5 '13 at 1:51
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Is the schema for a table and the owner for a table the same in oracle? If not what is the difference?
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As Tom says:
You should consider a schema to be the user account and collection of all objects therein as a schema for all intents and purposes.
A table created by a user - and therefore owned by that user, as the owner in all_tables for example - forms part of that user's schema. So yes, the owner and schema are the same.
Also see this earlier question, which references the same AskTom post, and also highlights this line from it:
for all intents and purposes just consider user = schema = user = schema = the same thing
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In Oracle, schema and owner of a table are technically identical.
If you talk about a schema you usually refer to all objects owned by a user, but when you say user it often means only someone who can connect to the database. But this is just language use - again, technically user is the same as schema.
People coming from other databases will often equate schema with database, since often all the tables are in one schema. This can make matters a bit muddled when talking about Oracle with SQL-Server people, for example.
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I am in search of how to include the Boto library in an Elastic Beanstalk instance. I was under the impression I had to specify it in .ebextensions. Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to work (see below).
Flask: []
Boto: []
...AWS key redacted...
import boto
from boto.s3.connection import S3Connection
from boto.s3.key import Key
Error message: ImportError: No module named boto
Am I missing anything in the config file? Is there additional things I need to do?
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The package name of boto is lower case in fact, so adjusting that might already solve your problem.
Alternatively you might want to try the apparently recommended way for Customizing and Configuring a Python Container via the typical requirements.txt file and pip instead, see 2):
Create a requirements.txt file and place it in the top-level directory of your source bundle. A typical python application will have dependencies on other third-party Python packages. In Python, pip is the standard way of installing packages. Pip has a feature that allows you to specify all the packages you need (as well as their versions) in a single requirements file. For more information about the requirements file, go to Requirements files. The following is an example requirements.txt file for Django.
So in your case that might currently be:
This is also illustrated like so in Deploying a Python Application to AWS Elastic Beanstalk Using the Elastic Beanstalk Console.
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The library 'boto' is installed by default on beanstalk's AMI.
If you're using the default elastic beanstalk role (IAM), then you need not put those sensitive-information like keys on your config.
Something like this just works directly:
# .ebexetensions/boto-testing.config
command: python -c "import boto;boto.connect_s3().get_bucket('my-private-bucket').get_key('secretfolder/secretfile.txt').get_contents_to_filename('/path/to/save/it');"
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Can you tell me if anything and what can go wrong with this C "function macro"?
#define foo(P,I,X) do { (P)[I] = X; } while(0)
My goal is that foo behaves exactly like the following function foofunc for any POD data type T (i.e. int, float*, struct my_struct { int a,b,c; }):
static inline void foofunc(T* p, size_t i, T x) { p[i] = x; }
For example this is working correctly:
int i = 0;
float p;
It can handle things like &p due to putting P in parentheses, it does increment i exactly once because I appears only once in the macro and it requires a semicolon at the end of the line due to do {} while(0).
Are there other situations of which I am not aware of and in which the macro foo would not behave like the function foofunc?
In C++ one could define foofunc as a template and would not need the macro. But I look for a solution which works in plain C (C99).
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Out of curiosity, why would you want to use a macro when foofunc will be inlined? There wouldn't be any performance benefit despite running risks with pointers. – Dai Dec 27 '13 at 1:50
foofunc only works for exactly on type T, thus one needs one definition per type. If I want foofunc for int, float* and my_struct I would need foofunc_int, foofunc_floatptr, foofunc_my_struct. The macro works with any type. – Danvil Dec 27 '13 at 1:57
That's what templates are for. Just stick template <typename T> before your function definition and it'll work like you want it to. – parkovski Dec 27 '13 at 2:02
@parkovski: This question is about C, not C++. So no templates :( – Danvil Dec 27 '13 at 2:03
@OliCharlesworth mentions a good point with weird parameters actually getting compiled. If you pedantically parenthesized then that should fix all the possible parameter issues (at least the ones I can imagine) (i.e. have your macro be (P)[(I)] = (X)). – Cornstalks Dec 27 '13 at 2:37
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The fact that your macro works for arbitrary X arguments hinges on the details of operator precedence. I recommend using parentheses even if they happen not to be necessary here.
#define foo(P,I,X) do { (P)[I] = (X); } while(0)
This is an instruction, not an expression, so it cannot be used everywhere foofunc(P,I,X) could be. Even if foofunc returns void, it can be used in comma expressions; foo can't. But you can easily define foo as an expression, with a cast to void if you don't want to risk using the result.
#define foo(P,I,X) ((void)((P)[I] = (X)))
With a macro instead of a function, all you lose is the error checking. For example, you can write foo(3, ptr, 42) instead of foo(ptr, 3, 42). In an implementation where size_t is smaller than ptrdiff_t, using the function may truncate I, but the macro's behavior is more intuitive. The type of X may be different from the type that P points to: an automatic conversion will take place, so in effect it is the type of P that determines which typed foofunc is equivalent.
In the important respects, the macro is safe. With appropriate parentheses, if you pass syntactically reasonable arguments, you get a well-formed expansion. Since each parameter is used exactly once, all side effects will take place. The order of evaluation between the parameters is undefined either way.
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Good point with the comma expressions! int i; int*p=&i; if(foo(p,0,5), i==5) { /**/ } would only work for foofunc, not for foo. – Danvil Dec 27 '13 at 13:28
The do { ... } while(0) construct protects your result from any harm, your inputs P and I are protected by () and [], respectively. What is not protected, is X. So the question is, whether protection is needed for X.
Looking at the operator precedence table (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operators_in_C_and_C%2B%2B#Operator_precedence), we see that only two operators are listed as having lower precedence than = so that the assignment could steal their argument: the throw operator (this is C++ only) and the , operator.
Now, apart from being C++ only, the throw operator is uncritical because it does not have a left hand argument that could be stolen.
The , operator, on the other hand, would be a problem if X could contain it as a top level operator. But if you parse the statement
foo(array, index, x += y, y)
you see that the , operator would be interpreted to delimit a fourth argument, and
foo(array, index, (x += y, y))
already comes with the parentheses it requires.
To make a long story short:
Yes, your definition is safe.
However, your definition relies on the impossibility to pass stuff, more_stuff as one macro parameter without adding parentheses. I would prefer not to rely on such intricacies, and just write the obviously safe
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I'm looking for a key/value store meeting the following requirements:
1. Open Source
2. C API (C++ okay too)
3. ACID
4. Some level of crash recovery
5. High [storage] capacity per file
6. Both key and value are arbitrary binary data
7. Embedded (like DBM, SQLite, et al.)
GDBM looks particularly attractive. Per the fact that the datum struct uses int dsize; clearly key and value sizes are limited to 2GB, which is fine. However, my problem with GDBM is that I can't find any documentation on the limit to the database file sizes. For example, Berkeley DB provides database files up to 256TB. If this is large enough, then GDBM would be perfect.
Does anyone know the GDBM file size cap? Failing that (or if it's too small) what other suggestions can you make? Does such a beast exist?
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If you're using GDBM on a 32-bit (i386) system, the maximum database size is 2GB. If you're using it on a 64-bit system and you compile your app 64-bit, then the maximum database size should be limited by your filesystem.
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Can anyone confirm this? – Chris Jan 22 '10 at 16:43
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I am using Cufon in Firefox, it has a slight delay of converting fonts to images when I F5 but not if I click on the URL bar and hit enter.
Any idea why? And it wasn't originally like this, I tried to add a line replacing another selector and then this happened. Then I undoed but the problem remains.
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I assume this is because pressing F5 forces a reload of all attached scripts as well, which prolongs the time until the cufon replacement is processed (while the layout is already being rendered).
When entering a page normally, or reloading it by entering its URL again, the embedded scripts are not reloaded.
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how can I get currently used database name in Kohana 3.2?
I've got app(store) with multiple db's and I need to debug whole app if it's working properly.
Kind regards Mark
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When you debug Database::$instances or Database::$instances you'll see all instances and the protected property _current_databases, maybe this helps
If this doesn't work, you chould execute a query directly to the DB with the MySQL command
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I want to fake a file uploading form, e.g
<form action=upload.php method=post enctype='multipart/form-data'>
<input type=file name=userfile>
<input type=submit>
Normally you will have to click on the userfile object and select a file.
Now, is it possible to fake the content of that input? I mean, I've encoded file contents in javascript, and I don't want user interaction, just use the pre-defined value when the browser try to read the "fake file"
Is that possible?
I already tried Cross Domain AJAX posting with HTML5, but that would require CORS enabled on server side.
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Why is it all of a sudden cross domain? You won't be able to modify the input: stackoverflow.com/questions/5632629/… – Ian Mar 5 at 15:24
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All file uploads must be user-initiated to prevent malware from sending unauthorized files. You many need to base-64 encode your file and send it via AJAX + POST.
See: Send a file with XmlHttpRequest: Streaming?
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You cannot do that in javascript. Inputs with type="file" are read-only for security reasons.
I suggest you to encode your file to base64 and put content of it in hidden input.
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I know how to make nested master pages in webforms but is it also possible in MVC2? I know how to do it with markup only though.
I would like to set it from code depending on a criteria. Is it possible with some code in the controller to define the nested master page and master page?
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Duplicate of stackoverflow.com/questions/947134/… – Ahmad Jul 23 '10 at 9:26
Bit harsh, this is a valid question. SO is not a forum where posters are insulted for not falling in line. @Nyla. There is a wealth of information on nesting master pages in MVC 2. What requirements do you have that makes things different for you? – David Neale Jul 23 '10 at 11:10
Thank you David. I am looking for how to set a nested master page from within my controller. – Nyla Pareska Jul 23 '10 at 11:27
@Nyla: Does the linked question help you with what you need? If not, you'll need to edit this question to provide more detail about what you're trying to do. If it does, I'll go ahead and close this one. – Bill the Lizard Jul 23 '10 at 12:32
@Bill, I changed my initial question as apparently it was not clear enough. Thank you for your time. – Nyla Pareska Jul 23 '10 at 12:51
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" Is it possible with some code in the controller to define the nested master page and master page?"
Nope. The default view engine only lets you define one level of MasterPages.
See: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.mvc.controller.view.aspx
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Well there is no way of doing that in the controller, afaik. However what is stopping you from passing in a ViewState variable and quering that in your view to determine what your masterpage should be ?
Something that might help you: templated partial view
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The child page will look like a regular child master page.
The view page will inherit the child page.
place 'Inherits="System.Web.Mvc.ViewMasterPage"' in the top line, and point the MasterPageFile to the parent master page.
The content placeholders will be chained: i.e., the top master page will have ContentPlaceHolder sections with an ID, and the subordinate master page will have a Content section with a ContentPlaceHolderID set to the ID of the superior ContentPlaceHolder in the parent page.
The key is that the view engine will substitute the innermost text into the next level up placeholder until all placeholders are filled with html content.
I am preparing the MVC Music Store sample application with this method and it works fine for me.
This allows the programmer to follow the Dont Repeat Yourself rule and not repeat code from one master page to another. You can define a top-level master page with site navigation and basic formatting common to all pages, and then use a child master page when there are differences in page rendering that are unique to a specific set of views rendered by a specific controller.
I know this is an old post, but the concept is worth commenting on even today.
I am using MVC2 because that is what is currently authorized on my computer at work.
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I've a page that show data inserted in a mysql db; I'd like (if it is possible) that this view page automatically update when a record is added to the db (data are not inserted from the same page or may be inserted from another user).
thanks in advance ciao h.
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Yes it's possible, what is your question? – Viper_Sb Aug 5 '10 at 13:56
I'd like to have an example or a suggestion on how to do it, thanks again – haltman Aug 5 '10 at 14:00
@Viper_Sb, I'd also be interested to see your method. Short of having the page refresh or make an AJAX request for updates at a fixed interval I don't know how you would do this. – blcArmadillo Aug 5 '10 at 14:22
You have to check every x amount of time, I doubt you want to put in a method to automatically do this. I didn't mean doing it right when the data was inserted. – Viper_Sb Aug 5 '10 at 14:41
@blcArmadillo this is an interesting project ajaxpatterns.org/HTTP_Streaming and something that could solve the problem also. – Viper_Sb Aug 5 '10 at 14:48
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First way (easiest but annoying):
Add a meta refresh to the page and the full page refreshes every x amount of time.
Second way (AJAX):
I'm assuming this is what you want.
• Load default HTML page etc... lets call it index.php
• On above page create a <div> element with style display:none like this
<div id="mydata" style="display: none;"></div>
• Create a PHP page that retrieves and formats the database data and prints it out in x format, i.e a table or p tags. no headers or page specific stuff just data and simple tags
• On index.php put something like this
<script type="text/javascript">
function update() {
url: 'http://www.example.com/getData.php?q=latest',
success: function(response) {
// .ready function
$(function() {
// do setup stuff here, I think there is a refresh timer or something
// that you'd use to trigger it every x amount of time
// i.e something like this
EDIT: AJAX HTTP streaming forces data out to users
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I know sure on the best method to do this, but and quick-and-easy solution would be to get the total number of rows in your table on page load. Then every x seconds use an AJAX script to re-check that table's row count. If it has changed you could have extra logic that then fetches the new rows.
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I think storing the timestamp of the last request, and then checking if there are newer messages makes more sense than checking the total amount of messages (what if someone deletes a message f.e.?) – Jasper De Bruijn Aug 5 '10 at 14:39
Indeed, that's another way of achieving the above. Just simply query the database for any rows after [last update time] if you're storing a time stamp with records. – Martin Bean Aug 5 '10 at 15:15
I was thinking about this last night and realized that node.js (http://nodejs.org/) might be perfect for this if you're looking for an event driven system. There is a good tutorial on getting started using node.js at http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/javascript-ajax/learning-serverside-javascript-with-node-js/.
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Once my Rails 3 app is loaded, a user can click an item which needs to then load a dynamic subnav.
My thinking is (since it needs to be dynamic) is onClick to make a jQuery AJAX call to the server and then to inject the HTML response into a DIV on the page...
What I'd like your advice on is how/where the subnav logic should live in the rails app, as I don't have a navigation controller or view... But maybe I should have one?
Do I create a navigation controller? Or use the application controller? I also have a pages controller that I use for the landing page, about, contact, etc...
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For me, I would use a navigation controller rather than the application controller as the application controller growths extremely complex easily.
This should create a view folder in app/views/navigation. I would also put all my navigation templates here (including you main nav).
So there might be those files:
_main_nav.html.erb # made it a partial file for including in other pages
subnav.html.erb # or subnav.js.erb if you don ajax call and return scripts
and in your layout files, where you want the main nav, you just render it.
So even tomorrow you suddenly want two or three different navigation menus, and there ajax calls, you have a centralized place to handle them, instead of putting them all inside the application controller.
Another more suggestion is, generate the navigation controller under some scopes. Like app/controllers/page_structures/navigation_controller.rb, so your views will be in app/views/page_structures/navigation/
In this way, you could put all your page structure related things like sidebars, custom headers, banners, etc inside the same scope page_structures.
===== UPDATE =====
Since your AJAX calls seems relatively static, I would suggest your paths use some kind of direct match.
If my guess correct, your top navigation have some items, and each item has their own sub-menu. So you will want to load the sub-menu one by one but not all. (If actually it's all, then you could just include them all in rendering...)
/page_structures/:top_nav/:sub_nav_template_name # So in here I assumed you will have many navigations and sub-nav to load.
then we match this path to the following action:
def get_sub_nav
# checks both params[:top_nav] and params[:sub_nav_template_name] exist and not pointing to some other dangerous place. (I don't know if this work if the input is './' or '../' these kind of things
render "page_structures/navigation/#{params[:top_nav]}/#{params[:sub_nav_template_name]}"
By this simple action, whenever you added more navigation / navigation items, you just need to create the corresponding AJAX response template. in this way, you are doing the minimal things!
Of course, if some how you have some items will need to return some other data as the response, such as responding sub-categories, you may need to create other routes to let you pass your parent category id.
You could think like that: my suggestion is for the default relatively static centralized sub-nav But if you need some specialized sub-nav, which need other data to process, for each one you will have to create a route and an action in the navigation controller to accept your category id, product id, etc. But still, these template file could following the same filing way.
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Very cool, I'm going to try that now... What do you suggest for the route, since I'm making an AJAX call to get the subnav? /page_structures/nav/subnav/ ? – AnApprentice Sep 26 '10 at 3:09
Since those AJAX call paths are usually for internal use, not open for public (and most likely post request), I at least don't mind how's they appear. Using ugly & difficult to guess path could increase slightly security issue... – PeterWong Sep 26 '10 at 14:57
For simplicity (as your calls looks like just getting the template, not saving or destroying anything), so I would suggest some direct-map to minimize effort. Please see my update...... – PeterWong Sep 26 '10 at 14:59
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i have an object 2/19/2011 12:00:00 AM. i want to convert this object to 19/2/2011. please give me the most possible answers
convert datetime to string format.
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Is it object a DateTime? By convert, you mean you want a string formatted? How do you define the "the most possible answers"? – The Scrum Meister Feb 19 '11 at 10:02
Do you want string formatting, or do you want just the date? – Jean Hominal Feb 19 '11 at 10:04
Please make your question much, much clearer. Read tinyurl.com/so-hints – Jon Skeet Feb 19 '11 at 10:05
I'm really not a person to complain about laziness (I'm myself lazy way too often), but this is clearly a case of not looking before asking, just look at how many related questions exist, with even the exact same date format string (and I have no doubt that this is what aswathi is after) – ntziolis Feb 19 '11 at 10:09
I think she meant "Best possible method" – Ananth Feb 19 '11 at 13:13
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DateTime dt = DateTime.ParseExact(yourObject.ToString(), "MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss tt", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
string s = dt.ToString("dd/M/yyyy");
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what about if user enter any format. like 14 jan 1988 – SANDEEP Sep 4 '13 at 6:12
Sandeep, then you'll have to use the DateTime.TryParse() method. – MCattle Sep 9 '13 at 15:04
First of all, you don't convert a DateTime object to some format, you display it in some format.
Given an instance of a DateTime object, you can get a formatted string in that way like this:
DateTime date = new DateTime(2011, 2, 19);
string formatted = date.ToString("dd/M/yyyy");
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As everyone else said, but remember CultureInfo.InvariantCulture!
string s = dt.ToString("dd/M/yyyy", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture)
OR escape the '/'.
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What is the purpose of InvariantCulture here? – user166390 Feb 19 '11 at 10:17
Not all the cultures use the / as a date separator. Some write dd-MM-yyyy. The framework converts the / in your format string to the date separator of the current culture (current at the time of execution). But you want to always use the / separator. The second option (OR escape...) is to "escape" the /, so that ToString doesn't consider it as a date separator but as a "fixed" char. You escape with '\', so it would be @"dd\/M\/yyyy" (the @ is because otherwhise you would have to escape the \, so "dd\\/M\\/yyyy"). All of them are quite unreadable, so it's better to fix the CultureInfo. – xanatos Feb 19 '11 at 10:21
Here is a method, that takes datetime(format:01-01-2012 12:00:00) and returns string(format: 01-01-2012)
public static string GetDateFromDateTime(DateTime datevalue){
return datevalue.ToShortDateString();
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It's simple--tostring() accepts a parameter with this format...
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DateTime.ToString("dd/MM/yyyy") may give the date in dd-MM-yyyy format. This depends on your short date format. If short date format is not as per format, we have to replace character '-' with '/' as below:
date = DateTime.Now.ToString("dd/MM/yyyy").Replace('-','/');
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If you want the string use -
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You can use the ToString() method, if you want a string representation of your date, with the correct formatting.
DateTime date = new DateTime(2011, 02, 19);
string strDate = date.ToString("dd/MM/yyyy");
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I'm using the Input Simulator library to simulate input to another application using C#, this uses the SendInput API calls. Does anyone know if there is a way I can monitor the windows message queue for the external application to see if those messages have been processed?
For example, let's say I want to send the keystrokes for the word "Hello" to notepad, but I don't want my application to continue until notepad has received and processed the input and the word "Hello" has appeared in the notepad window. We'll know this has happened once the keypress messages are no longer in the message queue for notepad, but I can't work out how to find that out.
I was using the .NET SendKeys class and using SendWait, but this seems unstable and causes occasional freezes in the external application, so after weeks of trying to fix that I'm looking for a new method.
Many thanks
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You can't. Calling SendInput ultimately results in posted messages which are delivered asynchronously.
Why fake input to Notepad when you can send the text direct to the edit window? Not only would it be way simpler it would be robust and synchronous.
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Notepad was just an example app. I'm using this as part of an automated testing process, and want to simulate things at the highest possible level making sure all events that should be fired are fired. Therefore I'm simulating mouse movement, mouse clicks and I'd like to get this working properly too. It sounds like I might just need to stick in a Thread.Sleep() though. – Will Calderwood Mar 10 '11 at 18:49
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Feel free to ask for more context if you're wondering why this is necessary, or want to suggest a better way to solve the bigger problem. (It involves laying out a bunch of building floor plans onto a campus map and finding the absolute location of certain things that are in those building maps; more detail was bogging the question down.)
The short version is that I want to take an SVG file that has <image xlink:href="something.svg" /> references and merge it into one big file with each referenced SVG being embedded with an <svg> and inline SVG XML content.
So, my top-level source file (composed in Inkscape) looks like this:
<image xlink:href="floorplans/bldg1.svg"
width="165.52684" height="107.10559" y="-1937.7657"
x="2507.1565" transform="matrix(0,1,-1,0,0,0)" />
And my attempt at a merged version to inline all the vector data:
<svg x="2507.1565" y="-1937.7657" width="165.52684" height="107.10559"
transform="matrix(0,1,-1,0,0,0)" viewBox="0 0 1224 792">
<g id="surface0">
<path style="fill:none;stroke-width:0.72;stroke-linecap:round;stroke-linejoin:round;stroke:rgb(0%,0%,0%);...
So, basically I'm using a script to replace <image> with <svg> and paste in the contents of the root <svg> of "floorplans/bldg1.svg". (Copying attributes from the <image> to the <svg>, and copying the viewBox attribute from the original <svg> to the new one.)
This technique worked for things that aren't rotated, but Chrome seems to be saying this particular element is off the top of the viewport. I'm new to SVG, but I'm thinking the order of the transformations isn't the same on the <svg> as it is on the <image>. Did I make a dumb mistake I'm not spotting, or is there more involved in converting an <image xlink:href="something.svg" transform=... /> to an <svg> with inline XML?
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The transform attribute doesn't apply to the <svg> element according to the SVG specification. You can put the transform that was on the <image> element on the <g> element either outside or inside the <svg> instead.
The reason for transform behaving this way is that the <svg> element sets up the coordinate system, and the transform depends on that (a question that would arise if it did apply is "should the transform be interpreted in the coordinate-space before or after the svg coordinate system is setup?")
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Aha, I hadn't thought about that, or read the spec that closely, but you're right and it makes perfect sense. I added a <g> with the transform, wrapped around the <svg>, and it looks right now. Thanks! – Joey Hewitt May 9 '11 at 2:05
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This is somewhat specific scenario, but I'm having trouble around this. In my current project this is the first time I'm applying everything I consider good practices; so there is MVC/MVP for UI, DDD Onion Architecture at core, IoC, everything is currently unit / integration tested. But consider following: when Exception bubbles in my controller, I want to show that to the user in a special made form so to unit test this one way would be of course to have my controller take another view dependency via constructor (cumbersome for every controller) so I have a global screen repository where I can call:
Problem is, you can't really mock singletons, but here I would say they are clean design in a way. What I am missing is a architectural concept of how would you organize your code to solve this problem. I can again rephrase the question to make it clear: how to unit test this, and by unit testing how to adjust architecture for that? (I strongly believe that unit testing adjusts my architecture to a much better design, so please no comments like don't let tests rule your code or something...
What my IoC does now: wiring of controller & views, repositories and such, so I could say that I have a central place for calling IoC.Resolve<ISomeController>().
Edit: I don't use mocking frameworks that could expect a call on not-virtual not-interface methods...
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In your specific case where you want to inject the dependancy to all controllers I would have a BaseController which will have a property of type IScreenRepository
public class BaseController
private IScreenRepository _screen = NullScreenRepository.Instance;
public IScreenRepository Screen {get { return _screen; } set { _screen = value; } }
You can set you IOC to inject the property dependency for all your controllers. It's also good to have a NullScreenRepository to make sure if you dependency is not injected it won't break code that instantiates controller directly and not from the IOC container (like unit tests).
This way you will be able to use it in all controllers without worrying where it came from. And you can mock it and fully test your controllers.
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I'll accept this for the sake of the idea, although I still haven't decided yet on this ... Thx – Denis Biondic Jun 20 '11 at 12:44
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I having small doubt in generating mouse event from C program. I am writing a program to generate mouse events from a C program in linux. I have implemented mouse click,drag. .. etc using xlib. But dont have any idea about generating mouse scroll event.
Operating System : Fedora 15
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X11 has two mechanism to report scroll events. The old-fashioned way is to treat the scroll wheel as two extra mouse buttons: scroll up is reported as button 4 and scroll down as button 5 (or vice versa, I don't remember). The modern way is to report them via the XInput2 extension, which allows things like horizontal scrolling and smooth scroll and suchlike.
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When specifying a date format for the jQuery UI datepicker YY is a 4 digit year and Y is a 2 digit year:
YY = 2011 Y = 11
See http://docs.jquery.com/UI/Datepicker/formatDate
Was curious why this is.
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closed as not constructive by Second Rikudo, Andomar, David Thomas, PHeiberg, mu is too short Dec 31 '11 at 0:33
You'd probably want to ask them. – Second Rikudo Dec 30 '11 at 22:24
While I've offered an answer to this question I'm also voting to close as 'not constructive' since it solicits opinion, and without someone from the jQuery datepicker team answering the question, speculation and opinion is all we can offer. – David Thomas Dec 30 '11 at 22:26
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All of the single character variations (d, m, y) are the short version. Double is long version. Since the short version of a year is two digits, using yy specifies the long version, which is four digits. The format is not directly related to the number of digits that the date outputs. Just as M (single) means: "Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr", and MM (double) means: "January, February, March, April". The same goes for all of the format chars.
This is unlike the standard format for PHP, which may confuse some.
The chosen format was to meet the web standards (RFC)s for date formatting.
See: RFC-822
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Which web-standards RFCs? Often I have seen "YYYY" as the long form and "YY" as the short form, although I could see an argument -- for symmetry -- against this, as per the post. Dates like IOS8601 are actually defined in terms YYYY for the 4-digit year (or +-YYYYY extended). – user166390 Dec 30 '11 at 22:38
Source: ietf.org/rfc/rfc822.txt – Highway of Life Dec 30 '11 at 22:46
In RFC822, the only thing I can find is a "Military Date" (or Little-endian form date): DD MON YY, where YY is only two digits. While still common for [web server] log files, I wouldn't consider it a modern [1982] web-standard. ISO8601, and the small common subset of it, is much less ambiguous and variants thereof are used most systems... in any case, the question is about choosing YY/Y instead of YYYY/YY to designate the format, and I can see merit with the argument for why it was chosen (so +1). However, I do not agree with the rest :) – user166390 Dec 31 '11 at 0:04
Okay, unfortunately, more things use RFC822 than that ... I being slightly facetious about it not being a "current standard". In any case, RFC822 only specifies a 2-digit year and is otherwise not related to the the YY/Y question. In RFC822, date = 1*2DIGIT month 2DIGIT ; e.g. 20 Jun 82. – user166390 Dec 31 '11 at 0:12
Presumably because they wanted to keep things such as option/variable names brief; in this usage it seems clear that Y indicates the short-form, whereas YY clearly indicates the long-form, of the date format.
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I am researching how to implement a persistent "remember me" type cookie for a site. I was just wondering is using a GUID for a security token as secure an an md5 hash of username and password?
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A GUID is more "secure", because there's no possibility of information disclosure in a random identifier. Otherwise, were the username to be known, the password could be extracted using a per-username rainbow table or a concerted attack since you did not add salt before hashing. NB: MD5 is a rather weak hash at this point.
Long story short, if you don't need to store private information in cookies for really really good reasons, don't. Use a random token instead.
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So it would be good practice to use a GUID for a security token in persistent cookies? – chobo Jan 29 '12 at 1:34
@chobo Yes, that's fine. So long as you don't give access to anything based solely on the cookie... Obviously you can't set a stay-logged-in-forever cookie and maintain security, because the cookie could be stolen. This is how sessions work: cookie stores a random ID, random ID is associated with a server-side database. – Borealid Jan 29 '12 at 1:36
I was planning to store the guid token in the same table as the username and password and do a lookup on both username and token, if they match (user is authenticated) and I would generate a new token and update the cookie and token fields in the database, so it would be a one use token. – chobo Jan 29 '12 at 2:04
@chobo I don't see anything wrong with that. – Borealid Jan 29 '12 at 2:20
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• Advanced platforming: Not only can you jump and run, but you can rotate the world in 90 degree intervals, as well.
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시스템은 말보다 영상으로 보는게 이해가 빠른편이다.
그리고 조잡하게 얼기설기 얽힌 누더기 같은 그래픽을 보고 있자면, 정이 떨어져야 정상이지만,
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초기 인디게임들답게, 특이한 게임성 특이한 그래픽 경험 삼박자를 선물해주기 때문에 ,
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And Yet it Moves is a platforming game that had quite the unique control scheme when it came out. With WASD you control your character, and with the arrow keys you can control the world. Using a mixture of your own movement along with rotating the world, you pass through varied environments to reach your goal.
The platforming in this game can be very difficult at times, and some sections feel like they come down to luck, especially when you have to rely on a swinging platform, which don't automatically return to their position after you fail. There are plenty of checkpoints scattered through the levels, so at least when you do fail you can get back to where you were pretty quickly.
I found the music to be really grating, and I turned it off after a bit. The graphics look pencil drawn, which can be impressive when done well, but I didn't find them to be all that attractive.
World manipulation was at one time pretty unique, but now it seems it makes its way into almost every platform game. While this was a good gimmick upon release, it doesn't really hold up years later when its so common. There is not enough else to hold this game together. Add the poor music, visuals, and the fact that I got a little dizzy after making the world spin around, and I wouldn't recommend this game.
Grade: C-
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1.0 시간 기록
게시 일시: 2014년 7월 23일
Puzzle platformer with a clever mechanic that allows you to determine and turn the screen that will affect where the gravity will pull your jumping hero. Can't think of any other games that have this as a game mechanic so overall it's a nice refreshing little game to play, however it's doubtful if it can hold the interest of a gamer for a long time. There is also nothing else for this game but the turning screen mechanic, all revolves around it so it can get old very fast. Maybe a better fit as a mobile game to play in short sessions.
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0.3 시간 기록
게시 일시: 2014년 11월 5일
Surprisingly good.
I seriously didn't expect such a good game when I decided to give it a try, without knowledge about the game at all, with the excepting that it was a puzzle platformer.
It is in my opinion one of the most overlooked indie games I have played, that totally deserves more attention from puzzle platformer fans.
Overall, very good game.
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4.5 시간 기록
게시 일시: 2014년 8월 13일
Rating: 7.5
Quite a good puzzle game: solve riddles while moving your visual upside down.
PRO: Originality - Balanced level of difficulty - Many checkpoints
Defects: Controls are not 100% accurate - A gamepad is highly recommended
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7.1 시간 기록
게시 일시: 2014년 8월 13일
And Yet It Moves is a flippy, tippy, topsy-turvy 2D puzzle platformer based almost entirely around the idea of revolving the world around you to solve puzzles and complete platforming challenges. Its ease of play, requiring only a jump button and three types of world rotation (Left, Right, and 180 degrees), makes it a cinch to pick up and understand. The mileage the developers got out of such simple mechanics is pretty amazing. From start to finish, you're presented with tons of unique challenges and brain teasers to sort out, with ideas hardly ever repeating aside from making sure you're mastering the fundamentals. And Yet It Moves is always throwing something new at you, which makes it easy to wanna try "just one more level" before you finally either shut it down for the night or complete it.
The only real issues with the game crop up with the sometimes wonky physics. At times it's hard to gauge when a fall will kill you and other times objects in a stage can react a little inconsistent creating some scenarios that will lead to multiple deaths, or on in one case I encountered, leave you stuck completely, which required a stage restart.
That said, the bad doesn't in any way outweigh the good, and if you're into puzzley platformers then you definitely need to give this one a spin.
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5.1 시간 기록
게시 일시: 2014년 9월 17일
And Yet It Moves is a quirky little platformer with the interesting mechanic of rotating the level to progress. While some games have used it as a gimmick for a single level or area, none have really explored the mechanic in the way that AYIM does. The entire world rotates around the player-character, quite literally, and not only does the rotation effect his gravity, but that of the physics within the world. The game uses this shifting gravity to require the player to solve not only platforming puzzles, but puzzles where the physics of in-game objects need to be manipulated through a maze, or a flame needs to be pointed in a certain direction.
Unfortunately, for all its uniqueness, And Yet does have a few glaring flaws that can make it difficult to enjoy. Sometimes it's unclear where to travel next, requiring the player to just hurdle himself around the level trying to figure it out. Some areas feel unfairly trial-and-error-based, killing the player with a hurdle that they couldn't possibly have known about, requiring them to go back to the checkpoint and retry now that they actually know what's expected of them. The second act in the jungle comes to a screeching halt when the player is required to navigate platforming challenges that use bamboo stick trampolines with clumsy timing. The player needs to gain enough air before rotating in order to make it to the next platform, but the game doesn't do a very good job of indicating when the jump button is meant to be pushed. This leads to a lot of trial and error where even when getting it right, the player can still be left confused as to the timing needed.
Over-all though, it's a unique gem in a sea of copycat wannabes. For all it's flaws, I still give this game a recommendation simply out of its uniqueness. While the game does admittedly drag for the second act, it makes-up for it in the third act. The game is at its weakest when it wants the player to fumble about with clumsy physics like in Act 2, but it's at it's absolute best when it's exploring ways to challenge the way the player needs to think around the rotation physics to navigate through an area. That's why Act 3 really shines; it keeps the physics light, and instead focuses on requiring fast thinking while the player navigates through some well-designed obstacle courses.
And Yet It Moves is far from perfect, but chip past the slog of the levels that don't work that well, and it can be easy to see the diamond hiding behind it all. If you're the kind of gamer who doesn't like dealing with the bugbears of an inexperienced developer, then it might be better to move on, but if you're someone who's willing to let unique gameplay excuse a few poor design choices, then this is a game that cannot be missed. You'll be hardpressed to find another like it.
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7.5 시간 기록
게시 일시: 2014년 11월 11일
Very original idea and quite a good game in the rest of its aspects.
But I completely refuse to positively rate this game for the lag in its controls (especially jumping) and the paraplegic character moves. I just had enough of "indie" being synonym of crappy controls 90% of the times. Nowadays, originality does not make up for bad controls, it is not acceptable!! We are in the noughties, not it 16-bit Donkey Kong's era, a game should not be released unless it has really been well-polished. It's a fact, nofrickingbody enjoys playing a game with your rear itching.
This doesn't but give a bad name to the indie catalog, which holds some true jewels in it.
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0.7 시간 기록
게시 일시: 2014년 12월 21일
Awkward platformer with a somewhat lame gimmick of being able to rotate the world.
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3.7 시간 기록
게시 일시: 2014년 12월 24일
The premise is interesting but overall as a game it isn't very fun or pleasing to look at. You can flip the world around at will so you can turn a long pit into a sideways hallway and so on and aside from simple puzzles thats really about it. The graphics are not very pleasing and I think its mainly due to the contrast with the player character. Had the player looked different or more consistant in some way with the enviroment it would actually make sense.
I mainly judge games mainly based on its price with the logic being, if each rehash of COD was 10 dollars in my mind each clone would be totally worth it. The asking price of $10 is not worth it and would only recommend if you can get it under $2.
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0.5 시간 기록
게시 일시: 2014년 12월 3일
This is one of those games that seemed groundbreaking in the early years of indie development. Its unique (at the time) play style was appealing for a short while. The game lacks sound. Although a few sounds effects pop up from time to time the game still feels empty and dull. I feel this game would be better suited on a mobile or tablet device as it just doesnt have enough content to pull its weight in the PC title wars.
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0.9 시간 기록
게시 일시: 2014년 11월 30일
While it has a somewhat novel mechanic driving the game, and it does show some inventive uses throughout the game, it fails on a visceral level. Nothing feels particularly good about this game, from the stilted controls to the unsatisfying sound effects to the uninspired layouts. It tries to be arty with its minimalism, but often it feels cheap and hokey.
Maybe if you watch someone else, it could be entertaining, but to actually experience it is bereft of joy.
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0.4 시간 기록
게시 일시: 2014년 10월 16일
And Yet It moves is a enjoyable game. I've died about 100 times or so. Even though the game is hard, its still more fun than you think.
My Rating: 9/10.
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7.7 시간 기록
게시 일시: 2014년 10월 17일
Ignore the Mixed or Negative Ratings on this one. This is a really great platforming game and the unique graphic style works. Just play a few levels and if you're not hooked by then... Well then you just won't be.
I'm one of those people that has a very poor attention span and I am extremely surprised to see this game has a Mixed Rating. I was thinking it would have VERY POSITIVE at WORST.
This game is fantastic and has quite an eerie and deep atmosphere to it.. The further you get into the game the more eerie it gets. The puzzles are fantastic but I would say more of a Platforming Skill type of puzzle.
The music is also somewhat creepy in a weird funky trip out of a way. It just feels like something odd is around.
The physics are fantastic and give a real feel of height.
This game was awesome. One of the few games I played through.
For what it is I give it a 10/10.
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7.4 시간 기록
게시 일시: 2014년 12월 21일
One of the most creative, thoughtful titles I've played in a long time. Personally, I don't understand why anyone wouldn't like this game unless you just are not into platformers. Challenges are well thought out, game doesn't overshare about how to do things/it leaves a lot up to the player to figure out (this is a good thing). Going back to play more. Seriously amazing game if you are on the fence.
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5.5 시간 기록
게시 일시: 2014년 10월 12일
42/10 got pushed back by a flying iguana only to have a boulder fall on me
Best drug simulator ever
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0.4 시간 기록
게시 일시: 2014년 9월 4일
Its like maplestory...but with rocks.
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4.8 시간 기록
게시 일시: 2014년 10월 31일
Why I bought the game: Bundle
What I liked about the game: It's simple art style, and eerie music gave me a soothing atmosphere. It's a puzzle game, but it's not that hard - being able to rotate the world was fun, and left me slightly dizzy at times(in a good way).
What I didn't like about the game: When you rotate the camera the character does pause, making it feel easier to me, but this may be apart of the game as you can finish a stage without moving or jumping.
Would I buy at current asking price of 9.99? No, bundle or sale for sure.
I would like to state all changes made by the developers of the game after this review could potentially make this entire review irrelevant.
The current date of review 10/31/14.
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3.0 시간 기록
게시 일시: 2014년 10월 24일
The games title is indicative, significant and meaningful all in its own. Even though the art style is awkward and freakish, the game mechanics simple and soon repetitve, it still keeps moving. It isn't a good game And Yet It Moves.
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0.2 시간 기록
게시 일시: 2014년 9월 28일
You'll play it once, find it charming and then avoid playing it again since it was so boring. Wait for it to be in a bundle again.
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I have setup a router as server with openwrt. I have added the Dynamic DNS configuration.(I created an account with noip)
When I try to connect through openvpn (in a free wifi) , I am using my domain as gateway,it shows connected to my vpn but I have no internet access.
From the DNS configuration (noip) I am using
Host type: DNS(A)
Is there something else I must do/check?
I also have already done on router:
config 'rule'
option 'target' 'ACCEPT'
option 'dest_port' '1194'
option 'src' 'wan'
option 'proto' 'tcpudp'
option 'family' 'ipv4'
The route -n after connected:
79........... UGH 0 0 0 wlan0 U 0 0 0 tap0 U 9 0 0 wlan0 UGH 303 0 0 lo UGH 303 0 0 lo
The 79... is correct(my external ip). I don't know what is though.
My route -n before connecting to vpn:
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface UG 0 0 0 wlan0 U 9 0 0 wlan0 UGH 303 0 0 lo UGH 303 0 0 lo is routers ip.
I also tried to put in gateway port (at optional settings at network manager)'1194' but this doesn't work either.
Also , I noticed that resolv.conf before connecting to vpn is:
domain lan
and when connected:
Is that right? I tried to put
nameserver myhostname ,but still the same.
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after connecting, what is the output of "route -n" on the vpn client ? – aseaudi Jan 10 at 22:30
@aseaudi:Hello,I updated my post.I think I must find a way to inport the port 1194 to network manager.. – George Jan 11 at 10:16
1. after you connect to your router, can you ping the lan hosts behind your router? – aseaudi Jan 11 at 13:28
2. your default route is pointing to your vpn server router, remove it and add another default route to the wifi gateway instead, also try to use another subnet for your vpn i.e. – aseaudi Jan 11 at 13:29
@aseaudi:For your first question I can't test it because I have 1 desktop and it can't access signal.The laptop ok.For the second question can you please give write me the instructions?Because I am not sure..You mean "route del" and "route add" ,while I am connected to vpn? – George Jan 11 at 13:55
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Try to assign a different subnet for the vpn.
For example set the ip address of the vpn server to and vpn client to
On the router, there is a file /etc/config/openvpn:
option 'server_bridge' ''
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Cold Peace
The history of the Israeli-Egyptian peace accords of 1979 and their legacy today.
Last Modified: 27 Oct 2009 12:22
Thirty years ago, on March 26, 1979, Egypt became the first Arab country to officially recognise Israel by signing a peace treaty.
In two special hour-long documentaries Al Jazeera charts the history of this accord, the controversy it sparked at the time and its continued viability in the light of events such as the recent war in Gaza.
Going it Alone
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History was made in Washington DC on March 29, 1979 when, in the presence of the US president Jimmy Carter, president Anwar Sadat of Egypt and prime minister Menachem Begin of Israel signed a peace treaty - the first ever between an Arab country and the state of Israel.
But despite two sworn enemies making peace after 30 years of Arab-Israeli conflict, the deal signed in the garden of the White House was far from perfect.
"It left a lot of things unresolved," says William Quandt, a member of the US National Security Council, who was involved closely in the negotiations.
"Had it been possible to get a comprehensive Arab-Israeli peace agreement at that time I would have felt much happier and I would have been able to say 30 years later I am proud of what was achieved."
With the bilateral treaty Egypt recovered its land occupied by Israel, but many felt it had betrayed the Arab cause.
"We were trying to involve the Palestinians and Jordanians and other countries in the peace process," says Boutros Ghali, the former Egyptian foreign minister.
"Because we know quite well that there will not be real peace between Egypt and Israel without a solution of the Palestinian problem."
Agreeing to peace proved a long and difficult process. A process that at times broke down over some of the region's most sensitive issues, which remain unresolved to this day.
Testing Times
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In March 1979, Anwar Sadat, the then Egyptian president, and Menachem Begin, the then Israeli prime minister, ended over 30 years of war between their two countries by signing a peace treaty.
The treaty they signed still holds to this day but sustaining peace between the two countries has proved as difficult as the arduous negotiations that preceded it.
Sadat paid the ultimate price - on October 6, 1981 he was assassinated by Islamists who, during their trial, claimed they had killed their president because of his role in the peace deal.
Begin attended the Cairo funeral of his partner in peace, as did three former US presidents and numerous other leaders and dignitaries from the West.
In contrast, there were hardly any Arab leaders in attendance and the Soviet Union did not send a delegation.
The event highlighted Egypt's new political orientation - close to the West but distanced from the Arab world.
With Sadat dead, questions arose over whether the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty would expire with him.
This episode of Cold Peace, Testing Times, recounts how the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty has been put to the test in the years since its signing in March 1979.
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Anime North tomorrow so excited.
followed by
Everything I have ever remembered reading or watching before.
1. BECK: Mongolian Chop Squad
You should watch this.
2. Baccano!
Some unique pacing and an interesting story.
3. Fullmetal Alchemist
Travis Willingham as Roy Mustang is amazing.
4. Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood
5. Fullmetal Alchemist: Conqueror of Shamballa
6. Fullmetal Alchemist
7. Spice and Wolf
8. Spice and Wolf (Light Novel)
9. Mobile Suit Gundam 00
10. Mobile Suit Gundam Wing
11. Mobile Suit Gundam Seed
12. Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Destiny
13. xxxHolic: A Midsummer Night's Dream
14. xxxHOLiC
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16. Tsubasa RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE
17. Tsubasa Chronicle the Movie: The Princess of the Country of Birdcages
18. REC
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20. Gurren Lagann Parallel Works
21. Escaflowne
22. Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
23. Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG
24. Ghost in the Shell
25. The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
26. The Melancholy of Haruhi-chan Suzumiya
27. Bleach
28. Bleach: Memories of Nobody
29. Bleach: The Diamond Dust Rebellion
30. Bleach
31. Cencoroll (2009)
32. My Bride is a Mermaid!
33. Eden of The East
34. Darker than BLACK
35. Yu-Gi-Oh!
36. Yu-Gi-Oh!: Duel Monster GX
37. Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's
38. Pokémon
39. Pokémon: The Movie 2000
40. Pokémon: The First Movie
41. Vexille
42. Sword of the Stranger
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44. Grave of the Fireflies
45. Princess Mononoke
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0.076752 | <urn:uuid:0c886471-5c75-42f5-a8bf-ff2b7277d7ff> | en | 0.979184 | Amitabha, ( Sanskrit: “Infinite Light”) also called Amitayus (“Infinite Life”), Japanese Amida, Chinese Emituo FoGreat bronze Amida (Daibutsu) at Kamakura, Japan, 1252Asuka-en, Japanin Mahayana Buddhism, and particularly in the so-called Pure Land sects, the great saviour buddha. As related in the Sukhavati-vyuha-sutras (the fundamental scriptures of the Pure Land sects), many ages ago a monk named Dharmakara made a number of vows, the 18th of which promised that, on his attaining buddhahood, all who had faith in him and who called upon his name would be reborn in his paradise and would reside there in bliss until they had attained enlightenment. Having accomplished his vows, Dharmakara reigned as the buddha Amitabha in the Western Paradise, called Sukhavati, the Pure Land.
Devotion to Amitabha came to the fore in China about 650 ce and from there spread to Japan, where it led in the 12th and 13th centuries to the formation of the Pure Land school and the True Pure Land school, both of which continue to have large followings today. Depictions of Amitabha’s Pure Land and of Amitabha descending to welcome the newly dead are beautifully expressed in the raigō paintings of Japan’s late Heian period (897–1185).
Amitabha as a saviour figure was never as popular in Tibet and Nepal as he was in East Asia, but he is highly regarded in those countries as one of the five “self-born” buddhas (dhyani-buddhas) who have existed eternally. According to this concept, he manifested himself as the historical Buddha Gotama and as the bodhisattva (“buddha-to-be”) Avalokiteshvara. His colour is red, his posture one of meditation (dhyana-mudra), his symbol the begging bowl, his mount the peacock, his consort Pandara, his family Raga, his element water, his sacred syllable “ba,” or “ah,” his skandha (element of existence) sanjna (perceptions of sense objects), his direction the west, his sense perception taste, his sense organ the tongue, and his location in the human body the mouth.
As a bestower of longevity, Amitabha is called Amitayus, or “Infinite Life.” In China and Japan the two names are often used interchangeably, but in Tibet the two forms are never confounded, and Amitayus is worshiped in a special ceremony for obtaining long life. He is depicted wearing ornaments and a crown and holding the ambrosia vase from which spill the jewels of eternal life. | http://www.britannica.com/print/topic/20850 | dclm-gs1-128510001 | false | false | {
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axiom of choice, sometimes called Zermelo’s axiom of choice, statement in the language of set theory that makes it possible to form sets by choosing an element simultaneously from each member of an infinite collection of sets even when no algorithm exists for the selection. The axiom of choice has many mathematically equivalent formulations, some of which were not immediately realized to be equivalent. One version states that, given any collection of disjoint sets (sets having no common elements), there exists at least one set consisting of one element from each of the nonempty sets in the collection; collectively, these chosen elements make up the “choice set.” Another common formulation is to say that for any set S there exists a function f (called a “choice function”) such that, for any nonempty subset s of S, f(s) is an element of s.
The axiom of choice was first formulated in 1904 by the German mathematician Ernst Zermelo in order to prove the “well-ordering theorem” (every set can be given an order relationship, such as less than, under which it is well ordered; i.e., every subset has a first element [see set theory: Axioms for infinite and ordered sets]). Subsequently, it was shown that making any one of three assumptions—the axiom of choice, the well-ordering principle, or Zorn’s lemma—enabled one to prove the other two; that is to say, all three are mathematically equivalent. The axiom of choice has the feature—not shared by other axioms of set theory—that it asserts the existence of a set without ever specifying its elements or any definite way to select them. In general, S could have many choice functions. The axiom of choice merely asserts that it has at least one, without saying how to construct it. This nonconstructive feature has led to some controversy regarding the acceptability of the axiom. See also foundations of mathematics: Nonconstructive arguments.
The axiom of choice is not needed for finite sets since the process of choosing elements must come to an end eventually. For infinite sets, however, it would take an infinite amount of time to choose elements one by one. Thus, infinite sets for which there does not exist some definite selection rule require the axiom of choice (or one of its equivalent formulations) in order to proceed with the choice set. The English mathematician-philosopher Bertrand Russell gave the following succinct example of this distinction: “To choose one sock from each of infinitely many pairs of socks requires the Axiom of Choice, but for shoes the Axiom is not needed.” For example, one could simultaneously choose the left shoe from each member of the infinite set of shoes, but no rule exists to distinguish between the members of a pair of socks. Thus, without the axiom of choice, each sock would have to be chosen one by one—an eternal prospect.
Nonetheless, the axiom of choice does have some counterintuitive consequences. The best-known of these is the Banach-Tarski paradox. This shows that for a solid sphere there exists (in the sense that the axioms assert the existence of sets) a decomposition into a finite number of pieces that can be reassembled to produce a sphere with twice the radius of the original sphere. Of course, the pieces involved are nonmeasurable; that is, one cannot meaningfully assign volumes to them.
In 1939 the Austrian-born American logician Kurt Gödel proved that, if the other standard Zermelo-Fraenkel axioms (ZF; see the table) are consistent, then they do not disprove the axiom of choice. That is, the result of adding the axiom of choice to the other axioms (ZFC) remains consistent. Then in 1963 the American mathematician Paul Cohen completed the picture by showing, again under the assumption that ZF is consistent, that ZF does not yield a proof of the axiom of choice; that is, the axiom of choice is independent.
In general, the mathematical community accepts the axiom of choice because of its utility and its agreement with intuition regarding sets. On the other hand, lingering unease with certain consequences (such as well-ordering of the real numbers) has led to the convention of explicitly stating when the axiom of choice is utilized, a condition not imposed on the other axioms of set theory. | http://www.britannica.com/print/topic/46212 | dclm-gs1-128520001 | false | false | {
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I happen to have enjoyed it, though admittedly, not until the second issue.
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Also, I thought the bit where he killed the Watcher was hilarious.
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#1 Posted by Sammo21 (3574 posts) -
I would be very surprised to see a PS3 bundle with The Last of Us, but I could be wrong. Hard to say as bundles can be a dime a dozen. Look around and see if there are any that catch your eye with a particular game. Remember to buy an HDMI on amazon when you get one. You should be able to get a high quality HDMI for under $5.
#2 Posted by Sammo21 (3574 posts) -
@phrosnite: because she has an interesting back story and she's just as good as other characters if you bother to flesh her out.
Not sure how people made such bad decisions in the last part of the game. If Miranda took a bullet to the head then that means she was put in charge of the strike team guarding the door...seriously...why would you do that anyway?
#3 Posted by Sammo21 (3574 posts) -
@LaserLambert: its random and in a pack, so the chances that you get something similar is incredibly low. Also, as I said, you can spend 120 microsoft points or you can play 3 games on silver. Not a big deal.
#4 Posted by Sammo21 (3574 posts) -
@Jayzilla: What does this have to do with the multiplayer...I don't want this thread hijacked with more BS about the "on-disc DLC/Day one DLC" garbage...that's an entirely different argument and beast all together.
#5 Edited by Sammo21 (3574 posts) -
@fox01313: and that's actually gross. You are spending money on items that effect a COMPETITIVE game that gives you an edge over real people because of your laziness and something others at the same skill and level wouldn't have access to through normal play.
#6 Edited by Sammo21 (3574 posts) -
@andriv: Except they don't block off the in game currency by trickle feeding it to you like they do in League of Legends, Super Monday Night Combat, or anything else. They give them to you rather liberally.
@Jake_K: Huh? High prices? 120 points is a high price for someone to pay for their laziness?
@MikkaQ: You are paying for a risk reward, just like with in game currency. IF someone is stupid enough to think they need to spend $10 on the stuff, like Jeff did, then it is their fault. Jeff is the same guy who acts very...loosely with his money. Skylanders...'nuff said.
I think its weird to have an attitude that something that doesn't effect ANYTHING gets so much hate from people.
#7 Posted by Sammo21 (3574 posts) -
@andriv: if anything it says more about the players who spend the money on these things that the company providing the service. Again, if you play 2-3 games on silver and you have more than enough in game currency to buy these things. I don't think it cheapens anything or makes it feel like a "phone game". Also, when the game isn't competitive multiplayer buying packs that give RANDOM items doesn't change the game at all.
#8 Posted by Sammo21 (3574 posts) -
So after listening to the last 2 podcasts and several supplemental things it seems like Jeff thinks negatively of the fact you can use Microsoft points to purchase the loot packs, but you can use the easily obtained in game currency to buy those...Why is it a big deal? Personally, I had about 180 or 190 random points I was tired of always showing up on my balance so I used them for 2 spectre packs but I didn't feel like I ever needed too.
Does anyone else feel that this optional ability to purchase in game content for you multiplayer characters is that dastardly or sickening? I don't see the big deal.
#9 Posted by Sammo21 (3574 posts) -
I've wanted a portable version of the stuff since ME1....I don't care about the questing stuff so much as the information.
#10 Edited by Sammo21 (3574 posts) -
Helping sick kids is great. Still whining like an entitled brat is not. I'm going to say this is bad as well. Get the hell over it and go read a book, and the ME books don't count.
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Publication numberUS3533095 A
Publication typeGrant
Publication dateOct 6, 1970
Filing dateJan 2, 1969
Priority dateJan 2, 1969
Publication numberUS 3533095 A, US 3533095A, US-A-3533095, US3533095 A, US3533095A
InventorsJames Collins
Original AssigneeJames Collins, Carl Boyer
Export CitationBiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan
External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
Inflatable pad with alarm
US 3533095 A
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Oct. 6, 1970 COLLINS I "3,533,095
BATTERY CHARGER BATTERY BUZZER fATTORNEY United States Patent 3,533,095 INFLATABLE PAD WITH ALARM James Collins, Florence, Ky., assignor of one-half to Carl Boyer, Hamersville, Ohio Filed Jan. 2, 1969, Ser. No. 788,576 Int. Cl. A01k 45/00; G08b 13/10; G08r 21/00 US. Cl. 340-272 a 3 Claims ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE An inflatable pad which is designed to assist the owner of a mare, who is about to deliver a foal, by warning, audibly and visually, the owner of the displacement of the weight of the mare upon the inflatable pad at delivery time, so that said mare may be assisted in the delivery.
My invention relates to alarm mechanisms and more particularly to a mattress alarm for use in a stall maintained on a horse farm.
My invention also relates to an alarm mechanism which may be used in rest homes or hospitals, Where patients or occupants may indicate, by change in position, the need for attention.
The principal object of my invention is to provide an alarm system where reactive forces on a pad or mattress cause an alarm to be sounded when an animal such as a mare lies down on this mattress.
Another object of my invention is to provide an inflatable pad or mattress, having a valve connection so calibrated that the displacement of the weight of a standing mare will cause an activation of an alarm system connected within the system.
Another object of my invention is to provide an inflatable pad, placing it in a stall so that when a mare, who is about to foal, lies down a buzzer system will be activated so that she may be assisted.
Another object of my invention is to provide an alarm system which is adapted to detect reactive forces upon a mattress.
Still another object of my invention is to provide an alarm system which will be operable for an extended period of time even though a power failure occurs.
In general, my invention consists of an inflatable pad to which is secured a pressure switch maintained in a line connected to a source of power such as a battery a battery charger unit connected to said battery and an indicator light and buzzer system connected in the circuit, which buzzer and indicator light are activated upon the closing of the circuit when the pressure switch plunger is advanced.
Specifically, a mare who is standing upon the mattress displaces the weight when she lies down, thus causing the air within the mattress to force the piston in the pressure switch to move to close the circuit.
Other objects, in details of construction, will become apparent in the description and the accompanying drawing, wherein I show, in:
FIG. 1 is a view of the mattress with the pressure switch and circuitry controlling the alarm mechanisms.
Referring now to the numbered parts of the drawing, I show a mattress or paid 10 having means such as 11 for securing it to the floor of a building or stall.
A check valve is indicated at 12 and is secured to the inflatable portion of the mattress 10. This valve 12 is bled when a particular animal or object is upon the mattress in a predetermined position. In the case of a mare, this would be in a standing position.
3,533,095 Patented Oct. 6, 1970 Subsequently, when the mare lies down the displacement of her weight will cause air from the mattress to expand into connection 13 into the pressure switch mechanism 14, to cause a piston 15 to move to a position, intermediate terminals 16 and 17, to close a circuit to a buzzer or other alarm device indicated at 18, through leads 19 and 20. Leads '19 and 20 are connected to a battery 21. Similarly, the closing of the circuit between terminals 16 and 17 by positioning of piston 15, activates a light or other warning device 22, by closing of a circuit through leads 23 and 24, connected to terminals 25 and 26 of the battery, which terminals also connect leads 27 and 20.
I provide a manual switch 28, which is connected between terminal 17 and battery connection 25, which acts as a manual control device. A source of power enters through terminal 29 and may be such as is ordinarily supplied to a structure by a commercial utility, and is carried through lead 30 to a battery charger unit 31, which is connected by terminals 32 and 33 to a battery, preferably 12 volt, with connections 25 and 26.
In operation, changes in position of an animal upon the mattress causes a change in the pressure exerted upon the air, which change in the position of the animal, or other object, upon the mattress forces the air outwardly to activate the pressure switch to set forth an alarm system which I have constructed as a dual system, comprising both an auditory and a visual warning system, to advise the mare owner of the change in position of the mare so that she may be assisted.
My experience, particularly in the field of race horses, is that about six out of 40 foals are lost because there is no one to assist the mare at the time of delivery.
Having thus described In invention, what I claim is new and useful and desire to secure by United States Letters Patent is:
1. Au alarm system for use in the delivery of foals from a mare comprising an inflatable pad, a check valve connected to said inflatable pad, a diaphragm type pressure switch connected to said inflatable pad, means for moving said diaphragm type pressure switch by displacement of the weight of the mare upon said inflatable pad, a circuit, said circuit connected to a power source, an audio signal means connected within said circuit, a visual signal means connected within said circuit, whereby said circuit is closed when the air is displaced in said pad and said audio and visual signal means are activated.
2. The device in claim 1 wherein the power source is a 12 volt battery.
3. The device of claim 2 wherein the battery is electrically connected to a battery charger unit so that a failure of power will not disable the audio and visual signal systems.
References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 2,644,332 7/1953 Ulrich 200- X 2,998,817 9/1961 Armstrong 128-376 X 3,325,799 6/1967 Farris 340-272 X 3,439,358 4/1969 Salmons 11-1965 DONALD I YUSKO, Primary Examiner S. F. PARTRIDGE, Assistant Examiner US. Cl. X.R.
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U.S. Classification340/573.3, 5/707, 119/526, 119/518, 5/940, 5/904, 200/85.00R, 600/534, 5/905, 340/666, 600/588, 119/28.5
International ClassificationA61G7/043, A61D17/00
Cooperative ClassificationY10S5/904, Y10S5/905, Y10S5/94, A61D17/008
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0.028708 | <urn:uuid:92483a40-1e35-4d36-bb51-9aa9e94af652> | en | 0.972692 | SAN ANTONIO — Enrollment for the Affordable Care Act started with a whimper and closed with a bang.
Despite all the technical glitches with the health website, brutal mockery and fierce partisan antagonism, more than 7.1 million people have signed up for health insurance through the law.
That surpasses original federal estimates before the website rollout woes. It's an impressive feat given the rocky start.
But wait, there is more. That enrollment number will grow. It doesn't include those who started the sign up process but couldn't finish before the enrollment deadline — a change that drives critics crazy, but is appropriate given the website's early issues and the crush of potential enrollees at the deadline.
The enrollment figure also doesn't include people with special circumstances. Several states still have open enrollment. In Bexar County, there were more than 47,000 enrollments, local officials have said. That exceeds the goal.
Republicans have been fighting the Affordable Care Act since 2010, even though the U.S. Supreme Court upheld it.
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz continues to rail against Obamacare, vowing for a full repeal, deriding it as an assault on liberty.
His comments play well with his base. He has cloaked his fight in freedom from Big Government. But in essence, he is saying he would rather Texans be uninsured or underinsured. We already have enough of that.
Last we checked, nearly 6.2 million Texans do not have health insurance. This could change if the state were willing to expand Medicaid.
Under the Affordable Care Act, states have the option to expand Medicaid programs to cover low-income uninsured adults.
Texas, of course, opted not to do this, despite a favorable funding formula. The federal government provides 100 percent funding for three years and then the state's share is capped at 10 percent.
There are many details we still need to know about the 7.1 million people who signed up for health care. How many were uninsured before the law? How many have paid their first month's premiums? In many ways, these details are more significant than the enrollment numbers.
But for now, the big takeaway is this: demand for quality health care in this country is strong. Tellingly, for hours after the official cutoff for healthcare .gov, more than 100,000 people at a time were using the website.
Health coverage is going to make a huge difference for millions of Americans.
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0.060455 | <urn:uuid:794f86c0-a6eb-4ccf-b1d8-987bbb48c6b4> | en | 0.972778 | A View Of Debt Ceiling From The House's Right Side
Rep. Bill Huizenga of Michigan attended the meeting between President Obama and House Republicans at the White House this week. Host Scott Simon speaks to Huizenga about the GOP's perspective on the debt ceiling negotiations.
SIMON: We have two views on the debt crisis this morning - from a House Republican who attended the White House meeting, and a Senate Democrat. We'll hear from Senator Michael Bennett of Colorado in a few moments. First, we're joined now by Congressman Bill Huizenga of Michigan in our studio.
Thanks so much for being with us.
Representative BILL HUIZENGA (Republican, Michigan): Hey, my pleasure. Good to be with you again.
SIMON: You attended that meeting at the White House...
SIMON: ...between the president and House Republicans. How do you feel after that meeting? I mean did it make you feel that a deal's at hand?
Rep. HUIZENGA: No. I'll give you the two points that I think made it most productive. One, was the ancillary issues. There were some other issues that were brought up about, you know, drilling permits and some different things like that, dealing with EPA and some other issues that some of the other members were having. And the president said, hey, you know, let's look at that. We want to work with you, we want to try and make some progress. So I think that was helpful.
The other thing is I think for the president to sit there and have 190-plus heads nod when Paul Ryan is talking about his plan in cutting down on the demagoguery or that our desire is to actually work with him and to try to find solutions on a lot of those things. Hopefully, it backed up the leadership a bit when they're saying those things in private.
SIMON: Now the bond rating agency Moody's said this week that it might downgrade U.S.s AAA bond rating if Congress doesn't make some progress on raising the debt ceiling. Does that affect your thinking?
Rep. HUIZENGA: Sure. That adds to that conversation about what needs to be done. My fear though, Scott, is that we aren't going to be making the really true tough decisions, that we're just going to be making short-term decisions that aren't really going to solve this and we're going to be right back to where we are now. Whether it's Moodys or Fitch, or for any of the rating agencies.
Its really what's important is what does the market feel and whats the confidence in the market. And I had somebody back home whose money manager say me, he said, you know, if you guys aren't willing to make the tough decisions, the market will and the markets decision are going to be far more harsh than any decisions you make.
SIMON: When Secretary Geithner though, says that a default on the debt ceiling would inflict - I think he even used the words catastrophic - didn't he? Might have used it with you. I mean is that much of a choice? If the short-term damage is catastrophic you have to attend to it anyway, don't you?
Rep. HUIZENGA: Well, we have to attend to it. The question is how do we attend to it? How do we avoid that? And the only answer literally that Secretary Geithner has is raise the debt ceiling. And he was asked, what's your backup plan? And he said raise the debt ceiling. And the backup to the backup plan is raise the debt ceiling. And I think there's a number of us that are looking at that saying okay, we understand that, but what else are we going to do to change that trajectory of spending?
SIMON: It sounds like you are amenable to a deal that would raise the debt ceiling if theres some spending cuts made.
Rep. HUIZENGA: I want significant...
SIMON: A lot spending, I'd say. Yeah.
Rep. HUIZENGA: I want significant change. And it's not just the cuts. I want to look, that's a kind of a short-term, you know, get through 2012 kind of a thing. We didnt get into this overnight. We are not going to get out of it overnight. We are so deep in the hole it's going to take some time to get out of it.
SIMON: Could you see yourself voting against raising the debt ceiling?
Rep. HUIZENGA: Yes. I could. This is a significant point I think in a crossroads in the history of America. And I believe we have to push forward with some very difficult decisions. I dont want this to dissolve into chaos. I'm not convinced that it will be quite the chaos that the secretary has laid out. I've talked to a lot of people up in New York as well and other people internationally and back home, who believe, again, you have to look at what we're doing. We take in plenty of money to service our debt. We do. Now the question is is, what are those programs that we're going to have to set aside to pay that debt and to pay our obligations? And that is, you know, youve heard sort of the demagoguery about, oh, so, you know, I can oh, hear the, you know, the radio ad already. You know, Bill Huizenga decided to pay the Chinese before he sent out Social Security checks. You know, I mean that kind of stuff is going to be out there.
SIMON: That was going to be my next question.
Rep. HUIZENGA: Yeah. Well, but here's the flipside to that.
SIMON: Yeah.
Rep. HUIZENGA: So, what, Bill Huizenga decided to raise the debt ceiling and borrow more money from the Chinese to go pay for those Social Security checks and every other program? I mean we are continuing to go more and more in hock. And it's to the wrong people. You know, we're, the percentage of our debt that we hold as American people has shrunk dramatically over the past 25 years. You know, it used to be five percent was foreign help. We're now at 47 percent. And that's, when we flip that around were really in trouble. And it's Pollyanna-ish to think that it's not going to affect our foreign policy.
SIMON: Bill Huizenga, Republican Congress from Michigan. Thanks so much.
Rep. HUIZENGA: Oh, my pleasure. And its always good to see you, Scott.
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Single-Payer Plan Provides Best Health Choice; The Sunday Checkup
Published: November 16, 1993
To the Editor:
The reason that health care does not follow the law of supply and demand is that demand is so elastic. There is no level of supply that demand will not rise to meet, provided the price is right -- which is why President Clinton's program for managed care is doomed to failure.
When you have a health-care system that you can go to even for viral upper respiratory infections, the symptoms of which are treated by over-the-counter medications, the demand will rise to meet that supply. Why not go see your physician and hear, "It's just a cold" if it won't cost you anything?
In my practice with a large health maintenance organization in Los Angeles (in which a monthly pre-paid premium covers as many visits as the patient desires), it is a Sunday ritual for certain patients to stop by after Mass "for a checkup."
One week it's the ears that are bothersome, the next it's a "scratchy throat." Some seem to enjoy sitting in a crowded waiting room watching television with fellow sufferers.
The best solution to the health-care crisis is to require only that all Americans possess insurance against catastrophic illness. Such insurance could be available for a tiny fraction of what this country spends on health care. Because of proved cost-effectiveness, certain preventive care would also be covered (like pap smears and blood pressure checks).
For all other care, payment would be out of pocket. This would reintroduce the concept of value to the transaction. If patients learn it will cost, say, $25 to be told that their runny nose needs only drugstore medication, they will soon learn it is more cost-effective to go right to the pharmacy. Short televised public education messages could be run to help patients know when certain symptoms may be serious. A public health spot could tell you that a recent cough with by a runny nose is far different from a persistent smoker's cough.
Some of the chronic coughers would deny the potential seriousness of their illness and not come in for evaluation, especially if there was a cost involved. But these patients were already in denial when they continued to smoke despite many public health warnings, and one doubts that cost would have delayed their coming in.
A bonus of a public-health orientation in television commercials might also be to restore a sense of caring throughout the community and country, no small accomplishment in itself. GEORGE TYNDALL, M.D. Los Angeles, Nov. 7, 1993 | http://www.nytimes.com/1993/11/16/opinion/l-single-payer-plan-provides-best-health-choice-the-sunday-checkup-419093.html?src=pm | dclm-gs1-129070001 | false | false | {
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Is R&D going down the tubes in the U.S.?
Pundits have taken to bemoaning a retreat by U.S. industry from basic research. And indeed, it's easy to find research labs whose glory days have come and gone -- Bell Labs comes to mind. But consider this: IBM, Microsoft Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co. collectively spend $17 billion annually on research and development.
That's right: $17 billion.
While much of that is for product development, hundreds of millions flow into areas like computational biology and nanotechnology, which may take years to bear fruit, if they ever do.
It's significant that all three companies have recently seen major changes like these in their research labs:
• In July 2007, IBM named a new research director and announced plans to invest more than $100 million in each of four long-term research projects.
• A month later, HP brought in a new research director and launched a strategy based on five mega-areas of IT research.
• And this year, Microsoft announced that it would greatly expand its research campus in Beijing and open a new lab in Cambridge, Mass.
Although their research agendas are strikingly different, the three have one important thing in common: They're all increasingly reaching out to collaborate with universities, customers and other companies. With that comes a new openness that can enrich and speed the flow of ideas into the marketplace.
"R&D is basically seeking out new knowledge, and the question is, Where are the good ideas?" says Henry Chesbrough, executive director of the Center for Open Innovation at the University of California, Berkeley. "After World War II, the good ideas were loaded up in a small number of large companies." Universities generally disdained working with industry, instead relying on the government, which was eager to fund research that might help win the Cold War.
But once the Cold War was won, much of the federal largesse dried up. "Product markets got more competitive, and those big companies couldn't sustain the long-term investments in research that they could in the earlier period," says Chesbrough.
Into the breach stepped smaller technology companies, universities, companies in Europe and Asia, and even customers. "So today, no one has locked up the really good ideas," Chesbrough notes.
He says HP, IBM and Microsoft are all demonstrating a move toward "open innovation," which means that good ideas come from both outside and inside and that companies take the fruits of those ideas to market via both internal and external paths.
HP Labs: Five Big Bets
IBM: 'Collaboratories'
MSR: Academic Model
Microsoft Research Director Richard Rashid makes no secret of his operating model: "The work we do is not that different from what you'd find at Stanford or Berkeley or Carnegie Mellon, in the sense that it is publishable basic research that is peer-reviewed. Our research may have a short-term impact on the product groups," he says, "but that's not why we do the work; it's a consequence of the work."
Because Rashid's philosophy is to first do good computer science and then see where it might fit, he focuses first on people. An example is the new Cambridge lab. "You don't establish a lab without the right person to do it," he says. "We had a great researcher, Jennifer Chayes, and she was really excited about a lab in that area. If it wasn't for her energy and initiative, it probably wouldn't have happened."
To be sure, many of the 272 research projects named on the MSR Web site are designed with major product lines like Windows or Xbox in mind. But many seem to have no likely application in anything the company sells today.
"We are growing outward into areas where computer science intersects with other disciplines, like AIDS research, computational biology and the environment," says Rashid. "We are increasingly engaged where computer science is making a big difference in the way other sciences are done."
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Life In His Hands
Peter Goldsworthy, reviewer
April 11, 2008
The story of the relationship forged between neurosurgeon Charlie Teo and his patient, pianist Aaron McMillan.
Neurosurgeon Charlie Teo and his patient, pianist Aaron McMillan.
Neurosurgeon Charlie Teo and his patient, pianist Aaron McMillan.
Susan Wyndham
Memoir, Biography
While waiting for the report of the scan that first reveals his brain tumour, the young pianist Aaron McMillan overhears a nurse, looking at the images, ask another. "When did this one die?"
Not the best way to hear the bad news, however exaggerated, but there was better news to follow from the neurosurgeon Charlie Teo, or news, at least, that could be digested with a mix of hope, stoicism and denial.
Susan Wyndham's Life In His Hands is the story of the relationship of the flamboyant Teo and his young patient. It's an insider's story; granted intimate access to both men, Herald journalist Wyndham becomes a friend to both. Her story, then, is affectionate, but still honest in its discussion of character failings - it's no hagiographic duet.
At first glance it's difficult to imagine two more divergent personalities: the penniless but generous free-floating music-obsessive who managed just 28 per cent in his year 10 chemistry exams before giving up school, and the coolly objective, highly trained and focused neurosurgeon who drinks no caffeine or alcohol to maintain a steady hand.
Yet we find they have much in common. Both work as hard with their hands as their minds; their chosen careers require tremendous mental and physical stamina. Both are larger than life; both take a crash-through-or-crash approach to problems; in difficult surgical fixes Charlie Teo likes to ask himself, alarmingly, "What would John Wayne do?" Both are also formidable self-promoters; both have plenty of self to promote.
Both also like to argue that their attention-seeking serves a noble cause: raising money and the profile of neurosurgery on one hand, and of music - his own and others - on the other. Charlie Teo emerges as the more complex of the two - being older he has had time to accumulate more layers of complexity - and is therefore, finally, the more interesting. His superficial eccentricities (he has a black belt in karate, plays the bagpipes dressed in a kilt, rides a powerful motorbike and "loves speed") are layered upon a core of restless, complex drives. He flirts with nurses, sometimes too much. He is "boastful in a specialty full of large egos".
Perhaps it's the medico in me that is riveted by the battles of this brash arriviste back from the US with the local neurosurgical establishment. I don't know the statistics, but he gave McMillan years more life than the few weeks offered by others.
"Heroic" such surgeons were called when I worked in hospitals, and it wasn't necessarily a term of praise. As an American colleague of Teo says, "if I needed to cross a minefield ... I'd push him ahead because he'd set off all the mines." But I think I'd let him mess about inside my head if I ever needed it.
The same neurosurgical colleague describes Teo's 12-hour operation to remove McMillan's brain tumour as "the reverse of building a ship inside a bottle; he had to dismantle it inside", and in the end, says that Teo has only one flaw: "That incessant John Denver music. I used to like John Denver before I knew Charlie."
The book is full of such novelistic character details, but Wyndham has also done her research on the technical side, painstakingly. She must have spent days standing flat-footed and masked through interminable fine vessel cauterisings and skull trepannings, or just hanging around surgeons' tearooms listening to the chatter.
If I can't get Charlie Teo to remove my brain tumour or subdural haematoma when the time comes, I might do worse than ask Susan Wyndham to scrub up - assisted perhaps by Ian McEwan.
The story ends, as we know it must, with bad news. "I knew the book I was writing had changed when I came home ... to two messages," Wyndham writes at the beginning of an Epilogue. One message is from the pianist, the other from the surgeon. Both are urgent, and both have the same news: the recurrence of the malignancy. But while one is still bravely optimistic, the surgeon's message this time is darker.
Wyndham, who has invested much in Teo's powers and McMillan's hopes, parts with her own illusory hope: "I realised that Aaron's experience was now a more realistic case study of the neurosurgeon's work."
"Goodnight, sweet prince", his mother often told Aaron at bedtime, but perhaps the next lines Horatio speaks at the end of Hamlet are more apposite after the triumphs and trials of a short life: "And choirs of angels sing thee to thy rest."
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Old Big 'ead returns to Forest today as the club he inspired pay their respects
More than six years have slipped by since Brian Clough cashed in his chips as a football manager at Nottingham Forest. Now it seems his old employers have a seven-year itch, for today he will be back at the City Ground when the club will honour Clough by unveiling a bust of him in the main entrance to the ground, then renaming their Executive Stand the Brian Clough Stand.
On the face of it, there is no surprise in this. Clough specialised in managing clubs a rung or two below England's big-city top six and taking them far above their station, if not quite transforming them into giants of the game. Clough took Derby County from Second Division also-rans to League champions, but he trumped even that when he switched to nearby Forest.
Consider it ... Nottingham, with a population of just 284,000 to support two League clubs, were nowhere near the biggest club in the Midlands, never mind in England. Clough's two League titles were magnificent reward in themselves, but he made the quantum leap to European champions - twice. PSV Eindhoven managed it once, drawing on a smaller city population than Forest but they are one of Holland's biggest clubs from one of that nation's biggest cities and backed by a multi-national sponsor.
Later in his career, 64-year-old Clough's achievements were somewhat tarnished by waning powers and his involvement in the Teddy Sheringham 'bung' transfer investigation. Whatever he may or may not have done away from the dug-out, Clough's achievements in that two-year window of European domination from 1978-80 make today's ceremony utterly merited. But how did he do it?
Alan Hansen still remembers his bemusement when Clough, following him down the dressing-room tunnel for the half-time break in the 1978 Liverpool-Nottingham Forest European Cup tie at the City Ground, kept mischievously prodding his foot against the back of his leg. However, Clough's own players were subjected to this antagonistic streak far more than anyone else, which helps to explain why Forest prevailed over Liverpool in that first-round clash (when Liverpool were the holders) and went on to win the trophy for the next two years.
None of his 1979-80 Cup winning players is invited today, but for two of his key men, goalkeeper Peter Shilton and schemer John McGovern, it is a pity that the memories of what he achieved could not also be marked by the presence of his late assistant, Peter Taylor.
That, of course, would have been unrealistic, even if Taylor were still alive, because the two men fell out later in their careers. But as McGovern says, to understand why Clough was able to get so much out of his Forest team, it is necessary to appreciate how Taylor - the straight man in the double-act - complemented him.
Taylor was regarded as a better judge of the technical ability of players than Clough, while Clough had the stronger personality and a more potent motivational style. In the latter respect, Clough has not been the only manager to be aware of the advantages of players being het up, as reflected by the aggressive, abrasive management style of Sir Alex Ferguson. With Taylor beside him to help control his eccentricity, Clough was also a provocation-game master.
Shilton recalls his irritation with Clough before the 1980 European Cup final against Hamburg, when trying to get the manager to provide grass train ing facilities for him at Forest's base in Majorca. Shilton became so desperate he even tried to practise on a traffic island. When Clough was reminded of this some time later, he smiled. 'Oh, he told you what we did to him did he?' Clough was even happier about his team-talk for that game, when one player at the back of the room muttered: 'We all know what we have to do. Fucking shut up.'
'That's the state the lads were in after ten days in my company,' Clough once told me, proudly. 'We could have taken on two German teams that night, not just one.'
The fact that Clough treated every player the same meant that nobody was spared his penchant for put-downs. Shilton says that on the rare occasions he made a bad mistake, Clough would remark: 'Your moneybags must be wearing you down.'
McGovern, who also played for Clough previously at Hartlepool, Derby and Leeds, says: 'People thought I was his favourite, but I got more stick from him than anybody. I was a 15-year-old apprentice at Hartlepool when he came there, and the first thing he said to me was: "Stand up straight and get your hair cut - you look like a girl." Even at Forest, I went through the whole spectrum of being compared with his grandmother - you know, his grandmother could kick the ball harder than me, run faster than me, head the ball better than me. I nearly said to him once: "Who was it your grandmother used to play for?"
'The point was that there was almost an element of truth in his criticisms, and he knew that you would take it on board and try to prove him wrong. He wanted to get a reaction from you.'
Clough could be as supportive as he could be antagonistic, though, and the players could all trust him. One of Shilton's clearest memories of Forest's 1979 European Cup success was the semi-final first leg against Cologne at home, when the Germans made it 3-3 with a shot which went under his body. 'He could easily have said that it cost us the game, but he didn't. His whole attitude was: "Well, we can still go there and get a result".' Forest won 1-0.
As for Forest's triumph the following year, Shilton also remembers Clough's comments to him before the 1980 final against Hamburg. 'I can't believe it,' Clough told him. 'A reporter has just asked me whether I think Hamburg have the edge because they have Kevin Keegan and we have lost Trevor Francis [through injury]. I said to him: "We've got a better goalkeeper than them. We have the best goalkeeper in the world. Isn't that just as much of an advantage as Hamburg having Keegan?".'
During his pre-match team-talk, Clough said: 'You lads don't have to worry about Keegan - as soon as he comes into our box, Peter Shilton will knock his block off.' Shilton then produced one of the best goalkeeping displays in the competition's history.
'The main thing about Clough was that you never knew what to expect from him,' says McGovern. 'He believed in keeping you on your toes. The best way I can describe his style of management is to liken it to somebody driving a car with his foot flat down on the accelerator all the time, and expecting everybody else to do the same.'
Indeed, while Forest had immensely talented players - apart from Shilton, others who spring readily to mind are Kenny Burns and Francis - their greatest strengths were their intelligence, discipline and sense of unity. Of all the teams he faced in Europe with Liverpool, Hansen looks upon Forest as the one who were the best at denying the opposition space and clear scoring chances.
Not surprisingly, because of the dangers of familiarity breeding contempt, Clough did not get as close to his players as he might have wished.
'He kept all his players at arm's length,' McGovern says. Despite being the Forest player who had worked with him the most, the only time McGovern spent any time in Clough's company socially was when the player had retired and was living in Tenerife. Forest made a close-season trip there, and McGovern, in addition to joining the players for dinner, took Clough home with him - at Clough's request - to watch a John Wayne movie.
Shilton, who arranged a meeting with Clough some time before joining Forest - to ask for his advice on his career - also went to see him a couple of months ago.
'He was in great form,' Shilton says. 'I only intended to visit for half an hour, but was there for three hours.' He adds: 'I don't think the side people saw of him as Forest manager was the real Brian Clough. To a great extent, it was an act. Deep down, he's a very loyal, caring and thoughtful person.'
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I'm writing this from experience. My name's Simon Jordan, I'm a millionaire, and I use casinos
It's a lesson in spin. In the five months before January, Wayne Rooney lost £700,000. In the same five months he earned £1.5million after tax and hasn't gambled since. How to splash that on a tabloid? 'Roo's £700,000 bets debt - England camp's turmoil...' There are some big emotional problems here, but they're not Wayne's. Two months before the World Cup, another excruciatingly lame, limp-wristed slap at England by a British paper, revealing nothing, motivated by circulation and defended as 'public interest'. There's a 'secret dressing-room gambling ring' panted the Sunday Mirror, then billed it 'world exclusive'.
It's a seedy, nerdy sort of self-abuse. Alex Ferguson's reaction was totally right, calling Rooney 'manna from heaven' for the tabloids, another Best or Beckham to build up, then pick at. It's a familiar pattern: a story based on nothing, three months late and spiced up by tacking on a 'bust-up' - this one a spurious 'rift' with Michael Owen. And even if there was a rift over their shared bookie, Teddy Sheringham and Andy Cole proved well enough you can hate your team-mate and still win the Treble. It comes down to fitting a weak story to a saleable headline, and it happens again and again and again. The rest of Europe must lap it up.
What's even harder to take about this example is the pseudo moral angst. The press, following up the story last week, alluded constantly to 'football's gambling culture' as you might to priests' 'altar-boy culture': something to be ashamed of, something sick. You just have to look at where this moral line is coming from to test its value: British journalists - gambling, smoking, drinking, drug-taking, Auld Slapper-shagging (for all I know) hacks, whose papers promote gambling to their readers every day of the week. Those readers can afford it a lot less than millionaire footballers.
What it comes down to is a fundamental, wilful misunderstanding of gambling as a diversion as opposed to an addiction. A spokesman for Tony Adams' clinic joined the coverage last week, doing no harm for his organisation, saying: 'Gambling is the largest addiction within football... It's accepted, tolerated, condoned and supported by clubs and managers.' A stunning skew on the reality. Gambling is only a problem for people with a predisposition to addiction. Linking Rooney to 'problem gambling' over a five-month phase is no cleverer than saying Coleen's dangerously addicted to handbags or Burberry. If you stay within your means (which Rooney undeniably did) and know when to get out (which he also did), you have no problem. Chelsea's squad lost £500,000 at Cheltenham; Jonathan Woodgate spent £1.8m in two years - and won £1.65m back; Michael Owen turned over £2.2m before he was 23. None of these guys is in the gutter, and none of them needs to sit on Tony Adams' knee.
I'm writing this from experience. My name's Simon Jordan, I'm a millionaire, and I use casinos. They're a diversion, not an addiction. It's not about money, it's about winning, beating the house. If the stakes are within your means and you don't chase losses you're OK. The casinos I've used are full of footballers, and most know what they're about. Eidur Gudjohnsen lost £400,000 in one three years ago, admitted he'd been an idiot and stopped. That's how the process works. You're either born with moderation or you learn it. Wayne learnt it. End of story.
But as bad as the substance of the original article was the insinuation in the follow-ups that Rooney was let down by everyone around him. People have cried about how 'the boy' (aged 20) wasn't given the right advice. An 'insider' told one of the papers: 'Nobody discouraged him from chasing his losses.' OK, with his front-line adviser being Paul Stretford I wouldn't expect much - but what control can an employer, any adviser, have over how a young adult spends his spare cash?
Yes, parental, peer and professional guidance is all important, but it's about long-term advice, not hand-holding. The majority of Rooney's wealth will be in long-term investments and property. Robbie Fowler, another casual gambler and horse owner, has an 83-property portfolio, making him a good financial role model. At Palace, we're working on introducing advice on every aspect of finance, and doing it at the earliest stage, with lifestyle management for graduating youth-team players, advice on how to manage money, their first mortgage, investments, pension plans and life insurance.
But that's as far as it should go. The media's big thinkers spent last week intimating that Rooney's case exposed a structural flaw, that players like him need even closer supervision. How do you do that without stunting emotional development? Wayne doesn't need intervention - he got through his mug-punter phase himself, and that's much more effective, much more enduring. The FA's response to the story, typically ridiculous, was to say Sven will be offering Rooney some advice. That's Sven, offering advice on morals and being frugal. Wayne doesn't need it from him, or from anyone.
As a role model, Rooney's getting there. His public mistakes in the past two years have been largely insignificant or overblown, and he's maturing. He's also one of the world's top football talents. So slag him off, or support him? With eight weeks till the World Cup, the tabloids need to fight their instincts and drop the self-serving, daft double standards. If the Queen can punt her bollocks off, as they say in the trade, why can't Wayne?
The only red top that cut Rooney some slack last week was the Sun, for their own personal reasons. They've spent the past two months going comically soft on him, trying to dissuade him from pressing ahead with a libel action brought over their false claim that he'd slapped Coleen last April. The case was due to be heard five weeks before the World Cup, raising the prospect of England's 'official paper' being sued by England's official wonderboy. The Sun's way out was to reverse their natural approach and press for an early settlement with a series of cloying, cuddly stories like this: 'While Wayne Rooney's been busy perfecting his ball skills, fiancee Coleen McLoughlin has been honing her perfect size-8 figure...' Sadly, it worked.
Their reaction to the settlement when it came last week was awesome. Relief, big love and, lacing all that together, a sense of pride that three years of chipping at, harassing and abusing Rooney had made him a better person. 'We wish Wayne and the England team every success in Germany,' said a statement, 'and look forward to welcoming them back with the World Cup trophy.'
It's simple. If it all goes well out there, it was the Sun wot won it.
Now it's personal
Big week for the FA compliance office. Last Monday my appeal against their fine for 'improper conduct' was rejected by two votes to one. On Tuesday, engorged, they sat down to assess Paul Jewell's comments about referee Phil Dowd. 'He's incompetent. Someone told me before the game he's the worst referee in this league, and they weren't wrong. It was a nonsensical performance.' Their verdict? 'Jewell will not face any formal disciplinary action.'
I'd be half-entertained if I wasn't involved: they're genuinely enforcing their censorship based on mood. There's no frame of reference, no consistency - and, yes, it's personal. It amounts to me not being able to say a referee is incompetent while others can, using the same language. Seriously, I have to have a problem with that.
I stand by what I wrote and the basis for writing it, and we're now considering taking this through the courts. Any legal action I take won't be about wasting time or resources on a petty point of principle - it'd be an attempt to see the whole thing unravel.
Serious business
Heart-warming to see my pearls of wisdom about Birmingham paid off for them. David Sullivan apologised to his squad for his comments, they beat Bolton and drew with Wigan. I was expecting a bottle of champagne, but instead I had David Gold calling me 'immature', and saying: 'In time he'll learn this is a serious business.'
Gold's hint that what happens in football should stay in football is worth answering. All the issues I've raised in these columns this season - dildo-toting owners, corruption, agents, racism, salaries - need to be open. They need debating because underneath all this 'serious business' is a sport, and people, worth protecting.
Geoff Thomas's restaged 1990 FA Cup final held at Selhurst earlier this month sums that up better than anything. The event - part of Geoff's inspirational fight against leukaemia - showed what football can be. Fifteen thousand fans paid to be part of it, United fans donated an extra £700, Lance Armstrong backed it, Alex Ferguson and Steve Coppell gave up their time, along with most of the original players. Mark Hughes, Bryan Robson, Brian McClair, John Salako, Neil Webb, Geoff and others all shone. Andy Gray showed he's still got it by hitting a free-kick through an executive box, Ian Wright scored the best goal I've seen this season, and I was a revelation. I'd sign me tomorrow. (And thanks to the crowd for the 'one Robbie Savage' chant - no, I'm not changing my haircut, it's dandy.)
What I took from the night was massive relief from the cynicism that working in this environment builds. Yes, if Gold's 'serious business' means corporate bullshit and self-serving imbeciles, then football's bloody serious, and he's the most serious man in it. But it's also a fantastic sport, based on real, decent people. Geoff raised over £170,000 for research. You can contribute at
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Parents called for help after one-year-old girl fell ill hundreds of miles from Mexican coast during round-the-world sailing trip
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Eric and Charlotte Kaufman with their daughters, Lyra, who fell ill, and three-year-old Cora. Photograph: AP
A US navy vessel has rescued a family with a sick one-year-old child from a damaged boat hundreds of miles off the Mexican coast and is heading to San Diego to take the girl for medical treatment.
The girl, her parents and three-year-old sister were helped on to an inflatable raft and then taken aboard the USS Vandegrift, where the ill toddler was in a stable condition, the US Coast Guard said.
Charlotte and Eric Kaufman were two weeks into their trip to sail the world when their daughter Lyra developed a fever and a rash covering most of her body.
Their 36-foot boat Rebel Heart lost steering and communication abilities about 900 miles off Mexico. They sent a satellite call for help to the coastguard on Thursday.
A California Air National Guard crew parachuted into the water and reached the boat on Thursday night. The crew stabilised the girl and stayed with her until the ship arrived.
Lyra had suffered salmonella poisoning before the family set out, but doctors had given her a clean bill of health to travel, her aunt Sariah Kay English said.
English initially was in daily email contact with the family but realised something was wrong when the communication stopped several days ago. English said she was told the vessel took on water every time the motor was turned on.
But English said the couple were always careful. Eric Kaufman is a coastguard-licensed captain who introduced sailing to his future wife during one of their early dates.
"They were not going into this blind. I knew they were doing this wisely," English said. The couple made a network of friends who travelled around the globe with children, and always stocked the boat with more food than they needed.
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In her native England, singer-songwriter Laura Marling, who just turned 22 in February, has often been described as an old soul, wise beyond her years. Her work is indeed preternaturally mature in its worldview and self-assured in its execution, but -- as her third album and Ribbon Music debut attests -- it's equally informed by a youthful sort of fearlessness. On A Creature I Don't Know, Marling is forthright about her emotions, frank about her desires, and she's not above having a bit of fun before the going gets too rocky. For example, the album's final track, "All My Rage," has a purposely misleading title: it's an exorcism, a celebration, dancing away accumulated trouble on the disc's liveliest arrangement, a disarmingly upbeat climax to an engrossingly candid journey.
While so many artists of any age attempt to locate their inner child, Marling, with a sometime steely gaze, measures the prerogatives of youth against the looming realities of adulthood: the spectre of mortality, the betrayals of love, the balm of sex, the yearning for companionship, the need for independence. Of late, England has produced some impressively sophisticated young pop artists like Adele, James Blake and the XX, but the folk-oriented Marling remains in a class of her own. As the Times Of London recently posited, "Who else is making music as ambitious, as haunting, as centuries-straddling, as thought-provoking and artistically tenacious as this? And the answer is: nobody. No, really. Not a soul."
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Gar’ouya Jareth Kodobeign is often seen as a loudmouthed, abrasive, Cruel, crude, demeaning and often violent woman. While these traits are acceptable to her species, even Orcs find themselves somewhat disgusted by her ‘need’ for chaos, bloodshed, alcohol and tobacco use; often seen with a flask of some sort of hard liquor, or a rolled cigarette in her hand. Gar’ouya ( pronounced Gar-ooh-yah) acknowledges that she doesn’t seem to have the ability or the built in ‘passiveness’ that Orcs of the day posses, looking upon those of her species that take on a ‘ Sindorai’ way of life as if they are not Orcs at all. She looks down on those green skins who embrace fancy clothes over armor, who speak without guttural sounds, and don’t even know what ‘Lok Tar Ogar’ means, much less would shout it on the battlefield. While you might catch her wearing a tribal robe time to time, She refuses to shame herself by wearing anything made of silk or other soft materials, save the one white undershirt she owns, most of her ‘ civilian’ clothing are made of rough leather or animal furs. Trusted by few and even fewer call her friend, ‘Gar’ finds herself hated, adored, hunted, loved, and looked as both a force to be reckoned with, and easy prey all at once.
Gar’ouya is much shorter in stature than the average Orc female, at only five foot two inches tall, or 62’. With this stunting of her growth comes bodily adaptations, her muscular system tight packed, giving her a ‘built like a brick wall’ appearance. Her skeletal system is also a bit thicker than the average woman of the species, her stout, strong bones making her appear almost husky, stalky. However, Gar’s body contains very little fat content, barely a centimeter or two of cellulite culled into a small pooch below her navel, a reminder of her one successful pregnancy. Her stomach could be akin to a tower shield, her abs perfectly chiseled, flexing under her taunt olive green skin. Her body is covered in battle scars of long past, slash marks, arrow wounds, bullet dents, and criss-crossing marks over her shoulders and back. With these are faded tribal tattoos, most notable are two black inked serpents, starting tail first down her arms, the heads resting at her wrists a few inches from her palms. Across her chest near the collar appears to be some sort of bird, Eagle or Condor, wings outstretched, head downward, red ink coloring its eyes, talons facing to the sides. Under this is the most notable scar she has, an impacted bullet-wound of some sort, recent enough to still be slightly pink against her green flesh. No matter what she wears, at least a portion of this particular scar remains visible.
Appearing to be in her mid thirties, Gar’ouya has the telltale signs of aging, though slight. Under her eyes are crows-feet wrinkles, giving her a matured appearance, and frown creases at the edges of her almost always pouting lips. Jutting from her mouth are two pairs of lower jaw fangs, the outer set larger than the second, clean and sharp. The second set is smaller, recessive, barely showing over her bottom lip. On the right side of her face is a long, jagged scar, leading up into an old wound of an empty eye socket, covered with a simple brown leather patch. Her remaining eye is bright piercing blue, almost shimmering. Her hair is cropped short as if cut on her own, the color grey with pepperings of white and black. It appears as if she does dye her hair time to time jet black, the color of her youth, but it always ends up fading back to near snow white, and she lets it. Of her body features her chest is the most prevalent, the large ‘rack’ making her appear top heavy. However, it does not seem to impede her movement in any way. Her face is slightly gaunt with age, her cheeks almost looking hollowed, and yet an uncanny beauty shapes her features. Gold rings pierce her nose and ears, created from ‘Space Goat tail rings’ she’d tell you if asked.
Please Note that none of this should be known in Role-play unless a topic of conversation arises or she has already told you.
Much mystery shrouds the story of Gar’ouya, as from her telling of it and by Horde historians, with what has happened to her, she should be much older than she appears. Gar claims that she was born on Draenor with the name ‘Krei’tara Hawltalon’, given to her by her parents Grol’mosh, a Mok’nathal shaman, and Yavi, an orcish drake-rider. She also says that she found this out when she had an out of body experience, and walked upon the ‘Celestial Plains’, where her ‘true’ parents revealed themselves to her. From what is known, Gar was raised by Tauren nomads of the Kodobeign tribe, Yarik and Kari, two elders who later served Cairne Bloodhoof when Thunder-Bluff was instituted. The Orcess claims that the two elderly Tauren found Gar as a toddler, wandering the barrens alone. History does report that a band of Centaur attacked a clan of Orcs on their journey to Durotar at this time, and no survivors were reported. Gar claims to be the only one left, and that she was only three years of age at this time. The truth in this is that there are records of Yarik Kodobeign, and that his profession was Advisor and Master Herbalist to the Chieftain.
History claims that she was given the name Gar’ouya by Kari Kodobeign, who after saving the small child from a pack of ravenous plains wolves couldn’t get her to stop ‘howling like a little animal’. Therefore, the babe was named Gar’ou’ya, which in the Taurathe tongue means ‘tiny wolf’, Gar being the short of Garou meaning wolf, and Ou’ya loosely translating to ‘small’. As the story goes, Gar lead a happy life under the wings of her bovine adopted family, Yarik and Kari being too old to have any other children, this small Orc was their pride and joy. The two taught her how to tell the time by the sun, how to predict when the rains would come, how to track prey, and how to hunt game much larger than her. By the age of seven, Gar’ouya was bringing home giant tallstriders, huge and hairy kodo bulls, and three wolves at a time. At ten, Gar traveled into what is now the forest of Tendrasil, riding into the thicket on a kodo yearling, and bringing back a large grizzly bear as her prize. With the ursine catch came a small cub, which she gave to her father with the spoils. Proud of his daughter, Yarik gave Gar’ouya the cub, telling her to take care of it as if it here her own child. She did so, and now the large, burly bear serves at her side as friend and protector for many years, carrying the name of Benvolio.
As a teenager, historians report that Gar fought in the ‘ First War’ between the Humans and Orcs, Taking the side of her own species to repel the ‘pinklings’, eventually causing the retreat of the humans to Lorderon. Gar also claims that she was a prisoner at the infamous internment camp Durnholde Keep for three months, whence a young Orc named Thrall escaped and found his way to Kalimdor. As stated before, Gar would have to be at least in her fifties in order to have been there at this historic time, but Strangely enough, her name does come up in the official records as one of the Orcs that made their escape with Thrall. Gar’ouya attributes her longevity to the Naaru, mythos stating that the magnificent other worldly beings promised her father Grol’mosh that his progeny would not die until the fate of the Orcs was truly set, and the world was finally at peace. Whether this is true or not, Gar’ouya is much older than she appears, the aging process seeming to have stopped at 36. By no means Immortal, Gar has been killed numerous times by Alliance enemies and those who wish her gone within the horde itself. It is rumored that Gar’ouya also fought in the second war as well, though little of that is known.
Also a veteran of the third war, Gar’ouya is noted to have marched alongside Tyrande Whisperwind, Malfurion and Illidan Stormrage, and Jaina Proudmoore. In this skirmish which seemed to have lasted forever and echoes still, Gar’ouya earned the rank of Commander after a daring attack on a large camp of Grom Hellscreams tainted fel Orcs. Though Thrall had commanded that the daemon led Orcs not be touched, Gar’ouya took a small army of Night elves, Blood elves and Orcs, marching against the murderous beasts after they had attacked a small human outpost. After driving back and near exterminating the red skinned brutes, it was determined shortly after that had not Gar acted, the capture of Grom Hellscream would not have been so easy, and there would have been many more needless deaths. After this, Gar’ouya rose through the ranks, Becoming ‘General Kodobeign’ right before the last skirmish leading to the attack on Archimonde and his forces. After witnessing the destruction of the hulking eredar at the hands of Shan’ do Stormrage, Gar’ouya saw the destruction of the World Tree, and actually felt the immortality of the Night elves slip away. After the war was over, Gar’ouya returned to Orgrimmar, finding that the short alliance between Durotar and the Eastern Kingdoms was short lived indeed, both factions tossed back into a grizzly warzone once again. Sick of constantly fighting, Gar moved to the Blood Elf city of Silvermoon, created on the destruction of the high elves ancestral home, Quel’thallas.
Soon after settling in to her new home, Gar met a Tauren druid by the name of Mua’toki SharpClaw. The young Tauren fell in love with the battle scar covered Orcess, and eventually after much vying for her attention, she fell for him as well. As she said, “I don’t know if it’s the grey fur or the yellow eyes... Maybe it’s those hooves. I just love Toki.” Gar and Toki conceived a child, naming him Samuel. Shortly after, Toki asked Gar to become his life mate, to which she accepted. The half-breed baby was classified as a T’orc, having the attributes of both; Green skin, light grey fur, a short muzzle, Orcish fangs, Tauren hooves and a tail. The boy was like his mother, undersized, and had health problems due to his conflicting genetics, but he was loved and cared for by a zealously protective mother and a proud father. Gar made a few friends, Dielsa and Arentil Redhawk, Mirson the Bastard, Manako (Mugar), Mondo, Throm’ka and Solandis Lightwarder. Dielsa aided Gar’ouya when Sammy became deathly sick, pulling from her demonic sources to create life once again in the infant at the sake of her left eye in return to the dark forces. Arentil stood by Gar as a friend and confidant, Mirson gave her ‘moral’ support as best he could while ogling her behind her back, and Solandis in his youthly way just wanted to help, healing the Orcess when she needed it. With these allies there to give her assistance and friendship, Gar’ouya, Toki, and Sammy prospered.
However, it was not meant to last. The time came when Toki would have to enter the Emerald dream, a magical resting place where Druids went to gain wisdom and strength, sleeping away literal centuries. Promising to not be gone long, Toki vanished, leaving Gar to tend to her son alone. A full year passed before any sign of the Tauren was seen, and it was not a happy reunion. By this time, Gar had in her desperation for contact had romantic relations with the fledgling paladin Solandis, and was engaged in a relationship with him. Mua’toki sought out his mate, made insane by the Emerald Nightmare and stuck in his bear form, unable to morph back into his true self. He attacked Gar right away, clawing at her and trying to maul their year old son. Gar fought back savagely, using her first opportunity to load her rifle. Two shots rang out through Eversong woods, and Mua’toki dropped to the forest floor, bleeding from his chest. Gar ran to the large beast’s side as it shrank back into the body of the Tauren she loved; only to find him deceased.
Months later, a messenger brought Gar some news that broke her heart further. It appeared that her father and mother were dead, as well. Taking the first Zeppelin to thunder bluff, the bodies of Yarik and Kari Kodobeign lay on a pyre, ready for cremation. The bluff watchers told Gar that her parents were killed by Venture Co. workers after protesting the digging up and removal of several acres of precious and rare herbs from the plains. Now with nothing left but her son and Solandis, the three became a family unit, with Sammy calling the paladin ‘daddy’. They soon moved to Nagrand, and lived a pretty normal existence. However, like most things in her life, it did not last. Solandis and Gar’ouya separated, and the Orcess sought out a way to destroy the guilt, sadness, and depression she felt without the paladin beside her. This answer came from the demon known as Naz’ora Baelthean, a woman masquerading as a blood elf, openly stating what she truly was.
Naz’ora told Gar that she could take away every negative feeling, giving power and the ability to seduce in its place. The Sayaad demon gave to Gar a chance, and she took it. With the help of the warlock Easton, Naz pulled one of her own kind from a swirling vortex and gave Gar’s body as a shell to the demon. The being known as Kris’tanya entered Gar’ouya, taking her over, heart and soul. From then out, Gar became a rather promiscuous, caring neither for her life nor the wellbeing of her son, causing Arentil to take the boy from her at one point. After taking back what was rightfully ‘hers’, Gar took a job from the Argent Dawn, traveling to Lights Hope chapel. Given the mission of destroying Baron Rivendale at the ruined human city of Stratholme, Gar left Sammy in the careless hands of the humans at the small outpost and left without even saying goodbye to the crying boy. Gar was gone for almost two weeks, not much is known of what she actually did in that time span, but reports say that she did in fact complete the mission. On the first of the third week, Gar returned to Lights Hope to reclaim her son, only to find out that He had toddled off into the eastern plaugelands, and was kidnapped by a Gargoyle, the flying sentries of the scourge. The soldiers searched for Sam, but he was long gone by the time Gar arrived. Suddenly, the real Gar’ouya came to the surface, and the panicked mother took a small battalion of troops north with her, to the uncharted lands of Northrend, since the Gargoyle was seen flying north.
Months later, a water logged ship made port on the edge of Dragonblight. The only occupant trudged forward through the severe winds and snow, broken and bruised from battle. The soldiers had abandoned Gar to her hopeless mission, and she was truly alone in a strange, cold land. She continued forth, dragging her sword behind her, her trusty bear friend trying to guard her from the howling wind with his own body. Eventually, she fell to her knees at the foot of Icecrown, the frozen throne. Gar screamed out at the sky “Where is my son?!?” as the scourge surrounded her. A single Gargoyle toddled up to her, coughing and hacking. The gray beast spat something out on the snow before her, and backed up. Gar reached out with frostbitten fingers for the object, and took it into her hand. It was a scrap of red corduroy material. She unfolded it, and found that it was a small red hat, the same red hat she’d given Sammy for his third birthday.
Rage welled up inside the half dead Orc as she stood, rearing her axe from her side with amazing strength. She charged the undead with a battle cry that echoed off the mountains, Benvolio running at full speed before his friend. Her axe cleaved into the skull of a ghoul just as she was swept off her feet by another Gargoyle. She screamed in bloodlust as she struggled to not fall from the beasts grasp, climbing onto its back. Her fist met hard skull repeatedly, causing trauma rather quickly. She gouged at the abominations eyes, blinding it as it began to fall from the sky, taking Gar with it. She grabbed the edges of its wings and curled them inward, shielding herself as the Gargoyle made impact with the frozen ground.
Darkness came over her, and she froze to death, her blood seeping from her wounds. Into her head came words, simple, commanding, gentle. It rang through her entire broken body.
“Ah... So the wolf finds herself in the hunters trap, Gar'ouya... I must admit... You had me worried that I would not be able to destroy you... Commander Kodobeign. Great heroine of the Argent dawn... Puh! You gave it one hell of a go, M'lady... Kidnapping your son to bring you to me was such a simple plan... But it worked, didn't it. And now... You will stand at my side, mighty wolf... You will be my hand of destruction... The world will fold to my will... And you will be the greatest of my death knights. Rise, M’lady Gar... Rise."
And so, Gar awoke to undeath. It did not last long, but during the short time she was a Death knight, all of those that once called her friend tried in vain to make her remember who and what she was. Not long after, the paladin Narinthei called upon every ounce of power he could and cleansed the battered and torn Orc, forcing her back to life.
Now she lived, without her son to love, and Solandis had become a man of the cloth, leaving her to follow the teachings of Lord Fordring. However, his chaste ways did not last, and Gar found herself romantically evolved with him again and again, nearly wedding once, and actually becoming man and wife for a short time. During all this drama, Mirson, king of the bastards, had vied for Gar’s attention as well after his wife disappeared, and somehow, Gar found herself unable to resist the charming scoundrel that everyone hated. After all, it was he that gave her the bullet to the chest, and he that looked at her as if she were something beautiful. Gar gave in once more, leaving Solandis for Mirson. However, things did not last long, and as usual, Mirson requested that the two remain friends, instead of in a relationship.
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The odds that all the passengers on a flight have properly turned off their phones are infinitesimal.
Fear is a powerful motivator, and precaution is a natural response. Regulators are loath to make policies less restrictive, out of a justifiable concern for passenger safety. It is easy to visualize the horrific consequences should a phone cause a plane to crash, so the FAA imposes this inconvenience as a precaution.
Once a restriction is in place, though, removing it becomes a challenge because every day without a gadget-induced accident cements our belief that the status quo is right and justified. Unfortunately, this logic is little better than that of Homer Simpson, who organized an elaborate Bear Patrol in the city of Springfield and exulted in the absence of bear sightings that ensued.
We are not suggesting that people should disobey the current rules. But we believe strongly that policies like the FAA's ban should be based on evidence rather than on fear. The evidence shows that nearly every flight must have some phones and gadgets on, and those flights have not been falling out of the sky.
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Salman Khurshid on Friday expressed remorse over the mass rape of women allegedly by an army unit in North Kashmir`s Kunan-Poshpora villages in 1991 and said he is ashamed that such an incident happened in the country.
Reinvestigate Poshpora mass rape case: Court to police
A court in Jammu and Kashmir`s Kupwara district directed police to reinvestigate the 22-year-old Kunan Poshpora mass rape case. | http://zeenews.india.com/tags/Poshpora-mass-rape.html | dclm-gs1-129770001 | false | false | {
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In fact, let's cool it on Cuba. Robert Kennedy did the opposite. He was angry, and embarrassed that his brother had been embarrassed by the Bay of Pigs. So his response, when he saw this disaster, was not to hit, see a yellow light and slow down, or a red light and stop. It was to see a green light and hit the gas. He assembled, or had assembled, an immense covert operation.
Castro Assassination Plots?
ABCNEWS: Did these covert actions against Cuba include assassination plots against Castro?
Thomas: I think it's clear that when Bobby really took over the Cuba account in the fall of '61, they did consider assassination. They started talking about it, thinking about it. But Bobby never wanted to get too close to it. It's, in that realm of deniable. Things that policy makers don't want to know too much about.
So Robert Kennedy made a lot of noise about get them, get them, get this guy, get rid of this guy. And the CIA took that as an order to reactivate the Mafia plots. I don't think initially they told Robert Kennedy they were doing it. He found out later, through a series, almost Keystone Cops series of coincidences. He found out that they were doing it later. But I think initially they didn't tell. They did it because of the pressure he was putting on them, but to preserve plausible deniability, they didn't tell him about it.
ABCNEWS: Do you think President Kennedy knew of these assassination plots against Castro?
Thomas: I'm pretty convinced based on fragmentary and circumstantial evidence that President John F. Kennedy discussed assassinating Castro. He kind of uneasily went along with the idea that, but always had reservations. And one reason why was pushed down the ranks, and pretty well-hidden, was because he didn't want to know too much, and I think had qualms about it.
I think that, that there were glancing conversations, probably in the Oval Office, about getting rid of Castro. But I'm pretty sure that President Kennedy made it clear at the time that he was uncomfortable with the idea of assassination. He understood instinctively that it was a two way-street, and a dirty thing you shouldn't get into. I don't think he ever said don't do it. He didn't want to know too much, and it was a subject that made him uncomfortable. And it was a subject I think they kept away from him as much as possible.
Preserving JFK’s Image as Noble President
ABCNEWS: Why didn't Robert Kennedy play a greater role in the official investigation of his brother's death?
Thomas: It is a little odd that Robert Kennedy didn't help the government commission to find out who killed his brother, but there's several reasons for it. One is just denial. He didn't wanna know. His wound was too raw. But the bigger reason is that he didn't want the government poking around into what he, Robert Kennedy, had been doing. He did not want an official government investigation into Robert Kennedy's plots to get Fidel Castro.
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Spaniards call them Bin Ladens, and at the height of financial crisis in the fall 2008, it was the Bin Ladens that saved the day, says the former banknote chief for the European Central Bank.
Bin Ladens are the €500 banknotes. The joke about them being Bin Ladens surfaced in Spain four years after the euro banknotes were introduced in January 2002.
It played on the fact while everyone in Spain had heard about the big bill, nobody supposedly had seen one — even though it was reported that roughly a quarter of all €500 notes in the euro area circulated in Spain.
The joke has become outdated due to the snuffing out of Osama bin Laden. However, the debate whether the €500 bill should be eliminated lives on. The reason: critics say it is a boon to drug traffickers, money launderers and tax evaders.
The logic is simple. For $1 million in cash you need ten thousand $100 bills. With the €500 note, you need only about 1,450 banknotes for the same amount in cash at the current exchange rate. Handy if you need to store or transport big amounts of illicit cash. Thus the €500 should be withdrawn, goes the argument.
The debate is as old as the €500 note itself, recalls Antti Heinonen who was present at its creation. Mr. Heinonen chaired in 1996-1998 the EMI’s subcommittee which was tasked with creating the euro banknotes. EMI was the European Monetary Institute, the forerunner of the ECB.
From 1998 to 2008 he served as Director of Banknotes at the ECB, and was the point man at the introduction of euro banknotes in 2002.
The merits of high-value notes were debated in planning sessions, Mr. Heinonen said last week at the launch event for his new Finnish language book about the history of the first euro banknotes.
There were six countries with banknotes whose value exceeded €200: Holland, Belgium, Italy, Austria, Luxembourg and Germany with the most valuable high-denomination bill of them all, the 1,000 Deutsche Mark banknote valued at about €510.
As Mr. Heinonen recalled, representatives from these countries became upset when it was suggested that the high value banknotes helped the underground economy.
Defenders of the €500 note said that in some countries people preferred to keep savings in cash because they trusted it more than banks, Mr. Heinonen said.
That settled it. As for the legitimate uses for the €500, Mr. Heinonen mentioned one: a stabilizer during a financial crisis.
After the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008, public’s faith in banks wavered in many countries, sending people to exchange their savings for cash. Demand for the euro banknotes surged in and outside the euro area. “We could have not handled it without the €500 note,” Mr. Heinonen said.
For this reason the euro area central banks decided to increase their reserve stockpiles of the €500 notes in case similar situations arise again, Mr. Heinonen said.
He also told how euro area central banks engaged in minor deceit when they co-ordinated their effort to keep the public supplied with euros.
As people were hoarding euros, some central banks estimated that they could run out some denominations even though the overall stockpile was sufficient, Mr. Heinonen said.
Therefore, if somebody asked about banknotes, the central banks agreed on a common response stating there would be plenty of banknotes available in all circumstances with the qualification that local shortages could occur in certain denominations.
When the ECB’s President Jean-Claude Trichet learned about this measure, he personally intervened and ordered the qualification dropped, Mr. Heinonen said.
“I asked [Mr. Trichet] what we would do if we ran out [of money.] He said, ‘Nothing. We simply tell [people] that there is enough money.’” Mr. Heinonen said, adding that this was what the euro area central banks did with no problems.
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Pollos Mario in nearby Brentwood for Columbian.
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+1 on Branchinellis and Maureen's kitchen.
Branchinellis (the servers pronounce it like tree "branch") has your entire party wait in line until you get to the front, and you can watch the kitchen pumping out pizza etc.. Looks longer than it actually takes. I'm not up on the best of LI currently, but the Sicilian slice, grandma slice, and eggplant parmigiana fulfilled all my NY Italian needs. If you ask , they give you a giant pour of complimentary red wine.
1. Cafe La Strada is excellent.
Zar's in St James has fabulous Persian food.
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Marvel Universe
Real Name
No dual identity
Kamar-Taj, Tibet; resident alien in U.S.A.
Place of Birth
Kamar-Taj, Tibet
First Appearance
Strange Tales #110 (1963); (name revealed) Strange Tales #147 (1966)
Doctor Strange #75 (1986)
Wong is the descendant and look-alike of Kan, a Chinese monk who lived roughly one thousand years ago and was a student of the occult. Kan was also a teacher and a healer, and though his order of monks was devoted to the ways of peace, he was also a skillful warrior who would fight when necessary.
One day Kan discovered a strange temple. Exploring it, Kan was drawn against his will through a mystical black mirror into an otherdimensional realm. There Kan met Jehan, king of Siridar, his sister, Princess Shialmar, and their court magician, Vung, the one who had cast the spell drawing Kan through the mirror. Jehan persuaded Kan to lead his people in a war against the Wizard Kings who ruled this otherdimertsional realm. Kan agreed to do so. During his time in this realm, Kan and Shialmar fell in love with each other.
Ultimately Kan led his forces to complete victory over the forces of the Wizard Kings, and all but one of the Wizard Kings were killed. But Kan did not realize he was a pawn in Vung's secret plans. Vung captured both Kan and Shialmar and prepared to sacrifice them to the demonic race he secretly served, the N'garai. Shialmar offered, the N'garai her own soul, in exchange for power. The N'garai complied, transforming Shialmar into the Shadowqueen, a sorceress of great mystical power who was nearly incapable of love. The Shadowqueen slew Vung and sent Kan back to China.
Back on Earth, Kan returned to the life of a priest. Kan deeply regretted aiding Vung in defeating the Wizard Kings and sought to atone by devoting his life and those of his first-born male descendants to the service of mystics who themselves serve the forces of good. Ever since then, the firstborn males of Wong's family have carried on this tradition. For the ten generations preceding Wong's, the first-born males have served the Ancient One, the former sorcerer supreme of the Earth dimension. The last of the members of Wong's family to serve the Ancient One was Wong's own father, Hamir the Hermit, who remained with the Ancient One up to the time of the latter's death.
Wong was the first-born son of Hamir, and thus his life was dedicated to the Ancient One from earliest childhood. When Wong was four years old, Hamir presented him to the Ancient One. Subsequently, Wong was sent to a remote monastery to receive training in how to serve a master sorcerer. Wong's relatives were allowed to visit him on occasions. Shortly before Wong's tenth birthday, Hamir brought a young couple to the monastery to visit Wong and made a marriage pact with them, betrothing Wong to their as yet unborn daughter. During his training at the monastery, Wong mastered certain Oriental martial arts. He remains highly adept in the martial arts, although since actually becoming a servant he no longer practices them as much as he once did.
When Wong reached adulthood, the Ancient One sent him to the United States to his disciple, Doctor Steven Strange. Wong was the first member of his family to come to America. Wong has now served Strange loyally and well for many years. During that time Strange has succeeded the Ancient One as sorcerer supreme of the Earth dimension.
Strange's secretary, Sara Wolfe, became strongly attracted to Wong, who began to reciprocate her feelings. However, Wong put an end to what might have become a romance with Wolfe when he was notified that Imei Chang, the woman to whom he was betrothed, had at last come of age to be married. Currently, Imei Chang lives in New York City, and the relationship between Wong and Imei appears to be proceeding well.
At one point Wong was abducted by otherdimensional sorcerers to the realm that was still ruled by the Shadowqueen. Doctor Strange followed Wong there and rescued him from the Shadowqueen's dungeon. Wong helped Strange battle the Shadowqueen, who finally perished.
Wong and the empath, Topaz, were both abducted to another planet by the alien sorcerer, Urthona, when the latter used his magical powers to steal Doctor Strange's house and the mystical talismans and books it contained. Urthona even viciously mutilated Wong's face while holding him prisoner, Strange defeated Urthona and rescued Wong and Topaz. Back on Earth, Topaz used her healing powers to restore Wong's face to normalcy.
In order to rescue Wong and Topaz, Strange had found it necessary to unleash mystical forces that, he believed, destroyed the mystical talismans and books that Urthona had stolen, thus preventing Urthona from using them for evil purposes. (In actuality unknown to Strange, the books and talisman, wire not destroyed but were instead spirited away by the mystical entity, Agamotto. The disappearance of these talismans from the Earth dimension broke certain ancient spells holding various mystical menaces in check.
Strange subsequently cast a spell causing the population of the world, including Wong and Sara Wolfe, to believe him dead. As a result Wong and Wolfe perceived Strange as a man named Stephen Sanders. Strange made Wong and Wolfe the joint administrators of the Stephen Strange Memorial Metaphysical Institute, an institution for research into the occult. Strange then embarked on a long quest during which he succeeded in defeating a number of the menaces that the disappearance of the talismans had unleashed, most notably Shuma-Gorath.
Following the defeat of Shuma-Gorath, Strange returned to New York City and released Wong and Sara Wolfe from his spell. Realizing that Strange was not dead, Wong and Wolfe warmly welcomed him back. Since then, the general populace has also learned that Doctor Strange is still alive and Strange has regained his missing talismans and books.
Wong continues to act as Strange’s loyal servant. Although Wong is as yet unmarried and childless, he has stated that his first-born son will follow the family tradition of serving a mystic devoted to good.
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In this citizen journalism image provided by Lens Young Homsi, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows buildings damaged by fighting between rebel fighters and Syrian government forces, in Homs province, Syria, Tuesday, June 18, 2013. Syrian warplanes bombed rebel positions near a contested military air base in the north of Syria on Tuesday, activists said, while President Bashar Assad's forces nearby pressed ahead with an offensive against opposition fighters in the country's largest city Aleppo. (AP Photo/Lens Young Homsi)
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BEIRUT (AP) — Heavy clashes erupted Tuesday between unknown gunmen and followers of a radical Sunni cleric in south Lebanon, security officials said, killing two people in the latest apparent outbreak of violence between Lebanese factions supporting opposing sides in the civil war in neighboring Syria.
Automatic rifles and rocket propelled grenades were used in the fighting in an eastern suburb of the port city of Sidon, marking the worst violence in the area in years.
In Syria on Tuesday, activists reported clashes between Syrian President Bashar Assad's forces and rebels in the country's largest city of Aleppo and its surroundings, while warplanes bombed rebel positions outside an embattled air base. An unexplained explosion in a rebel-held village killed 20 people, they said.
Lebanon has been on the edge for months. The country is deeply divided along sectarian lines, with Sunni Muslims largely supporting their brethren in Syria, who make up the majority of the rebellion against President Bashar Assad's regime, and many Shiites supporting Assad, whose regime is dominated by Alawites, an offshoot sect of Shiite Islam.
The polarization has deepened in recent weeks after Lebanon's Shiite Hezbollah group openly joined the fight in Syria on the side of Assad, helping his troops crush rebels in a town just over the border in Syria earlier this month.
The hardline Sunni cleric whose followers were fighting in Sidon, Sheik Ahmad al-Assir, is a vehement critic of the Hezbollah and has threatened to clear apartments occupied by the group's supporters in the mostly Sunni city. Officials believed the gunmen fighting al-Assir's followers to be Hezbollah sympathizers.
Tensions have been building in Sidon since Monday, when followers of al-Assir said a soldier verbally harassed one of them as he went to a local mosque to pray.
The clashes erupted Tuesday after several people attacked the car of Amjad al-Assir, the brother of the hardline cleric, throwing stones at his car and breaking its glass, the officials said. A statement from al-Assir's office said he was not driving it at the time.
Lebanese army troops deployed in the area of the fighting, the officials said. They spoke anonymously in line with regulations.
Earlier Tuesday, Lebanon's official news agency said unknown gunmen shot and wounded a Syrian man, whom it said was believed to have been involved in a deadly attack on four Shiite youth in Ras Baalbek, a Hezbollah stronghold located in a volatile area near the border with Syria.
The Syrian uprising began more than two years ago with peaceful protests against Assad, but later grew into a civil war that has killed 93,000 people and probably many more, according to the U.N.
Millions of Syrian fled their homes and sought shelter in neighboring countries with Jordan and Lebanon hosting the bulk of them, further fueling fears that Syrian conflict's sporadic spill overs across the border into the Arab country of four million people will turn into a full blown war.
Lebanon is still recovering from its own 15-year civil war that ended in 1990.
In Aleppo province north of Idlib, warplanes also struck rebel positions near the Kweiras military air base, activists said, but there was no word on casualties. Rebels have been trying for months to take Kweiras and two other military air bases nearby without success.
Assad's regime has relied heavily in the past year on its air force to neutralize the opposition's territorial gains. In the last year, rebels have been able to capture much of the area near the Turkish border, several districts in Aleppo, the whole city of Raqqa and even dams on the River Euphrates. But they have had difficulty running these areas effectively because of the threat of attack from the air.
There were no immediate reports of casualties from the Kweiras airstrike or from clashes inside Aleppo. The regime announced an offensive in Aleppo, the country's largest city, to build on the momentum from its victory at Qusair.
Associated Press writer Bassem Mroue and Sarah El Deeb in Beirut contributed to this report.
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My fiance and I aren't having a baby yet, but we're trying to conceive and have already decided that we don't want to find out the sex of the child until delivery. I have a lot of family and friends who will likely want host a baby shower for me, but I'm not sure how to convey the idea of gender-neutrality to them.
I hope to have a shower that doesn't include gender-based games (boys vs. girls, blue and pink, soccer star or ballerina, etc;), but I'm pretty sure all of my family and friends will think this is a crazy notion. I'm committed to providing a peaceful, neutral environment for my future child grow into an individual, free from gender-based indoctrination, and for said family and friends to know that it is important to me.
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In the Abyssal Ruins in Black 2, If I were to obtain all of the items and sold them off, how much money would I earn?
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So If I were to find all of the treasures in the Abyssal Ruins in Black 2, then sold the treasures off to the Billionaire Maniac how much would I earn? If I did the same thing yet sold the goods to a Pokecentre or Pokemon Market, how much would that earn, and what would be the difference between the 2 amounts?
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I'm pretty sure any relic items cannot be sold at the Pokemon Centre or Pokemon Market, they can only be sold to maniacs. But of course, all the relic items in total will sell at a very high price:
7 relic gold - 70000 (pokedollers)
6 relic silver - 30000
6 relic copper - 6000
3 relic statues - 600000
4 relic vases - 200000
5 relic bands - 500000
1 relic crown - 300000
total - 1706000
answered Sep 28, 2013 by Grumpy_Granbull
selected Sep 28, 2013 by !Barx101!
I must truly say this is an excellent answer, you have quite the explanation skills!
I'm quite flattered. Thanks a lot :)
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In Abbysial Ruins, you find items that you can find no where else in any game. (Except the plates). You cand find a series of rare Relic Items to sell to the Maniac who lives in the Villa west of town. You can also find Arceus plates there, which change its types according to the plate. The Relic Items can be sold for unspeakable prices and are a great way to make fast money in the game. If you were to get every single Relic Item, the price would total to 1,706,000 PokeDollars.
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Is it necessary to have the partitions that makeup a software RAID 1 array be aligned?
This guide states
"Software RAID: Although one needs to pay attention to correct alignment here as well, this is not explicitly necessary as at least 64 KB-sized blocks are used."
I don't understand how Soft RAID changes the performance hit / write amplification issue given the underlying SSD controller is still staggering file system pages across more than necessary flash pages.
Here is one of my drives, I believe that the partition starting at LBA 63, means I'm not aligned. Partitions were created via CentOS 5 installer.
Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 63 610469 305203+ fd Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sda2 610470 16996769 8193150 fd Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sda3 16996770 25189919 4096575 fd Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sda4 25189920 234436544 104623312+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 25189983 234436544 104623281 fd Linux raid autodetect
Thank you so much!
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It is not necessary, everything will work and probably still much faster than spinning metal based drives, but better alignment will further improve performance particularly for write operations.
Newer installations get this right out of the box automatically (current Debian/Stable certainly does, no doubt newer CentOS variants will too) because recent releases of fdisk, lvm, mdadm, and related tools have been updated to account for best practise on these newer drive technologies, but for older releases you need to set your partitions up more manually to get the best out of your SSDs.
It should be possible to realign in-place but it would be much safer IMO to backup the data on the machine and rebuild - in either case the downtime involved might make this not worth the hassle for you.
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link at the bottom says: "LVM and Software RAID: Although one needs to pay attention to correct alignment here as well, this is not explicitly necessary as at least 64 KB-sized blocks are used. This doesn't make sense to me. If the partitions underlying the array aren't aligned, won't soft RAID 1 still run into this problem? This seems to say not really. Thanks David! – charles s Apr 30 at 15:32
If the block devices (whole disks, partitions, RAID volumes) your PVs are hosted in are correctly aligned, then all the LVs in the VGs using those PVs will be correctly aligned too as everything LVM does is done on 64KiB or 1MiB boundaries within those containers. If the block device holding a PV is misaligned though, everything in that PV will be misaligned. – David Spillett May 1 at 11:58
I read that quote as: "Software RAID or LVM obviates the need for partition alignment due to their internal workings", whereas, I believe you are saying "as long as your partitions are aligned to the disk's physical storage boundaries, RAID ON TOP of those partitions will be aligned b/c they deal in multiples of 4k, as such always align to physical pages on the physical device." Correct? – charles s May 1 at 17:14
That is correct - even if they put there metadata at the start of the block device alignment of the volumes they provide is maintained, but they don't know the underlying physical device so have to just assume that alignment is fine to start with. – David Spillett May 3 at 10:17
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elrendermeister (832437) writes " is reporting that the EFF has responded to Exxon's media intimidation at the site of the Mayflower, Arkansas tar sands oil spill, ExxonMobil has now taken to sending Cease and Desist letters to local Little Rock television stations into canceling the airing of a satirical but cutting advertisement critical of their business practices."
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With that logic, you as head of Adobe would continue to test Photoshop 4 against current windows updates then wouldn't you. At some point you just expect HTML to render don't you?
For web application developers this attitude is unreasonable. You can't possibly test your development code and every previous release against every browser variant every night. The other point you seemed to miss is that Mozilla's bug BROKE CODE THAT WORKED WHEN IT WAS RELEASED.
The point of this whole discussion isn't that there was some new release, but that Mozilla was actually nimble enough to respond as quickly as they did.
You keep trying to turn this into some ugly flame war over who has better development practices. Take a valium.
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elrendermeister (832437) writes "For the longest time I have been searching the internet for news of BluRay equipped MacBooks and the common thread in all the various discussions has been that the price point for the drives remains the barrier for introduction of MacBooks and MacBook Pro's with BluRay RW drives. Not long ago a vendor surfaced offering slot loading BluRay RW drives for the MacBook for $995, but that seemed a little bit absurd.
But now I can go to and order a complete 15" notebook with a BluRay RW drive and ripping fast Nvidia graphics for as little as $1098 (that quickly becomes $2000 once I add memory and a decent HD and some other gravy).
So what's taking Apple so long to get BluRay drives into their portable devices? I have put of purchasing a replacement for my now aging G4 laptop for months and now I'm actually considering just buying the Sony."
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