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Posted: July 03, 2014
CONVICTED sex trafficker Robert Spence will spend more years in prison than his teenage victim had been alive when he lured her and pimped her for cash, a Philadelphia judge ruled yesterday.
After denying a motion to delay the sentencing in Spence's case, which dragged on for five years after his 2009 arrest, Judge Robert P. Coleman slapped the 46-year-old pimp with a sentence of 17 to 34 years for crimes including human trafficking, sexual exploitation of children and promoting prostitution of a minor.
Spence was convicted at trial earlier this year. Coleman also ordered that he register as a tier-three sex offender - the most serious classification - under Megan's Law.
Spence met his young victim in 2008, when she was 15 years old and living on the street after running away from home, according to Assistant District Attorney Rochelle Keyhan, who prosecuted the case. He lured the girl into his operation, threatening to kill her if she left or reported his misdeeds, and forced her to have sex with men for $150 per trick and give him all of the profit, she said.
In sentencing Spence for his crimes, Coleman said he didn't believe the defendant's claim that he was unaware of his victim's age, citing a letter Spence had written from jail acknowledging the girl's young age and giving someone outside instructions on how to run his sex-trafficking business in his absence.
Defense attorney Rania Major-Trunfio requested a sentence of 30 months, with credit for time served, arguing that Spence's victim had "misled" him.
"This girl didn't come here with clean hands," Major-Trunfio argued. "This girl needs to take a role."
Coleman didn't see it that way.
"She is so young, I'm not even buying your argument," he said. "My blood just boils."
Turning to Spence, he added, "Clearly, you're accepting no responsibility for what you were doing. You scare me."
In Spence's jailhouse letter, he wrote of his victims: "The little bitches, it's two of them, they was some nice joints, to [sic]. That's why I was making so much with them when I was charging $150 a piece. But they don't really want no money they was just trying to f--- all day every day," according to Keyhan's sentencing memo to the judge.
She called Spence's actions "horrifying."
"The flippant way he describes finding 'his bs,' already forgotten, in the shadows of society, like runaway minor children . . . shows he is the very form of predator most dangerous in our society," Keyhan wrote in the memo.
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If I want an editor that accepts "points" of a minimum of three (a triangle) and I just add some points first, like this:
enter image description here
how can I mathematically connect these corners (points) into an object of multiple triangles? so amount of triangles looks like something like this, by connecting nearest point:
enter image description here
and then later render this and also being able to define what it is and check for collisions on this ground, so I can create more than Rectangle based "bricks" on a Platformer for example. Also being able to texturize the whole object without it looking ugly.
Any ideas? Or what is this called in game programming?
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What you are describing looks to me like a triangle strip. Riemer has a tutorial for creating these in an efficient manner. So if user adds a point you just add one along the bottom of the shape and then create the triangles using the points in a clockwise manner, but the tutorial covers this quite well.
EDIT: For collision detection between points you can linearly interpolate between them and check the height value of your object and the interpolated points.
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@Deukalion Did this solve the problem? If not, just leave a comment on what is needed for this to be a solution and I'll see if I can help... – Mikael Högström Aug 6 '12 at 9:49
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Bojar, K. ; Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, Swietokrzyska 21, 00-049 Warsaw, Poland ; Nieniewski, M.
In the current research in the field of analysis of mammograms by means of image processing tools the task of malignancy and spicularity assessment is investigated extensively. Early detection of malignant masses may significantly lower the risk of metastasis. It is known that malignancy is closely related to the shape of a mass (existence of spicules emanating from the center of the mass). Therefore the tasks of malignancy and spicularity analysis are very often treated jointly. In this paper we introduce a new set of features useful in performing this task. For a contour of a cancerous mass a sequence of dilations is computed, the number of pixels on the outer contour of each dilation is counted, and this number is plotted against the size of the disk-shaped structuring element. Next, the linear trend is removed, and after denoising, the proposed features are calculated. The crucial point is that the proposed features are zero iff the input contour is circular and that all the features are invariant under translation, rotation, and scaling. These distinctive properties ensure successful classification irrespective to location, orientation and scale of the mass with the Az values of the ROC curve higher than for features given in the literature. The additional advantage of our approach is the relative simplicity of the proposed features. In contrast to many traditional features, no sophisticated algorithms are employed, so reimplementation of the new features is easy.
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Does anyone have a choice anyway? And I don't see any reason to wait
at the airport. The length of delays seems to be measured more in days
than in hours. Might as well go home, or back to your hotel, etc., to
wait it out.
Christina Websell wrote:
Well, here's a choice
1. Fly through volcanic ash and die as your plane comes down
2. Wait getting irritated at the airport as there is a delay.
No brainer.
"Granby" <spaz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
That was on TV the other night. The people that are getting mad because
they won't fly through and of that stuff just amaze me.
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---MIKE--- wrote:
There was a reader's digest story many years ago about a 747 that flew
through volcanic ash and all four engines stopped. It had to glide
(over a mountain range) to reach a place to land. Also, the ash abraded
the windshield so it was almost impossible to see through it. The pilot
did manage to restart two of the engines. This was a true story.
I saw that plane on the ground at Heathrow Airport after that, I think it
was 1983, all the front widows were opaque and a lot of the paint was
stripped off. I really had to admire the pilot for landing safely.
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Comment: Re:Old (Score 1) 622
by west (#48643071) Attached to: What Happens To Society When Robots Replace Workers?
With each technological iteration, we have fewer and fewer who can find productive use of their talents in society. Both physical, and now mental talents are being superseded by machine. Take a look at the total workforce participation, and yes, you will find with each passing year, more and more people are driven out of the workforce because they possess neither physical or mental skills that cannot be reproduced by a machine.
Here's a graph from the Federal Reserve of male (to avoid discrimination effects in early years) from 1950 to present:. Drops from 87% to 69% from 1950 to present.
And with each passing year, the number jobs that machines cannot do goes down.
One well-known economist, Tyler Cowen, talks about the 15% whose productivity will soar because machines become a productivity multiplier, while for remaining 85%... well, tough luck for them...
The robot revolution will be a slow moving one, taking decades as every day a few more jobs are eliminated. But like a glacier during an ice age, even if you can't see it moving, it *will* crush everything in its path.
Comment: Re:What's the bigger picture? (Score 2) 528
by west (#48528347) Attached to: The Sony Pictures Hack Was Even Worse Than Everyone Thought
No matter what you think of Sony, this will not be good for the productivity of the corporate working world.
You are absolutely correct. However, perhaps it's time to acknowledge that much of the productivity increases that the Internet brought to the workplace are only possible because systems could be built that didn't assume that the company was under constant assault - a condition that is very likely no longer true.
My guess, however, is that real security won't happen until there's significant loss of life when real infrastructure gets borked by hackers (likely freelancers hired by a government vastly less efficient (and thus much more robust) than our own).
"Wow, every traffic light in Los Angeles has just gone green."
Comment: Re:Good God! (Score 1) 528
by west (#48528307) Attached to: The Sony Pictures Hack Was Even Worse Than Everyone Thought
Not in any business I've worked at. Anything that is slightly valuable goes to the central data store so it will be backed up, and then never gets deleted because who knows when you just might happen to need it.
Sort of like what happens on my home system too.
Comment: Re:Needs larger sample set. (Score 1) 123
by west (#48414423) Attached to: Electric Shock Study Suggests We'd Rather Hurt Ourselves Than Others
Agreed, but it takes a hell of a lot money for most people to give up their self-respect. There's lots of cases of people dying for it.
Choosing to shock someone else for a few bucks, is, as the article suggests, so detrimental to one's self-respect, that it is relatively rare.
Comment: Re:Needs larger sample set. (Score 3, Interesting) 123
by west (#48412679) Attached to: Electric Shock Study Suggests We'd Rather Hurt Ourselves Than Others
No, I've worked for all sorts of organizations, from large to small.
It's not that people are all saints, but I've found that overwhelmingly, people want to do good, especially if it isn't going to cost them deeply.
I have seen (didn't work at, but visited) companies that squished that tendency by making it quite costly to help one's fellow employee, and they were miserable places for the workers, but even there people tended to hate the company for making being helpful costly, rather than their coworkers for not helping (although I'll admit it did leak a little bit. Very sad place.)
In any place I've worked at, I've gone out of my way to be helpful to others, and every one else has gone out of their way to be helpful to me.
Perhaps I've just been very fortunate. Maybe I tend to see the best in people. But I will say that my observations on people's basic helpfulness have been borne out time and time again over the last 40+ years. I still take delight in the random acts of kindness and helpfulness that I see time and time again at work, the community and on buses and subways.
I'm still in awe of observing how it took perhaps a total of 30 seconds for a random women to notice on the subway when a young girl got separated from her grandmother and panicked when the doors closed too quickly, call for volunteers, and then organize four of them to go to the previous station, authorities, etc. (turning away 2 or 3 others including myself) before the subway reached the next stop.
Another example: My older teen-age son got into a verbal altercation on a bus because a young man started loudly swearing at my younger son when the my youngest accidentally hit the fellow with the backpack he was wearing. The older son verbally stepped in to redirect the ire onto himself to prevent his brother from being alarmed by the man's behaviour.
A month later, my son, waiting for a bus in the same neighborhood (which is a bit downscale) was approached by the same young man. The young man came up and apologized. He'd had a bad day when my youngest backpack bounced against him. He then praised my oldest for intervening to protect his younger brother.
That sort of good-heartedness is all around. Yeah, there are a few jerks. But there are a lot of people, who despite the occasional bad behaviour, are generally good. (I've always been grateful for the gentleman in the above example who apologized. It taught may son that people who are behaving badly aren't "bad to the bone", but are probably just having a bad day, same as the rest of us. A *critical* truth for bringing out the best in people.)
Yeah, I've lost a few bucks to a fraudulent "help me", but such incidents have been outweighed by orders of magnitude (literally) by the fact that almost no-one wants to be a jerk, and given the opportunity, most people are decent.
Again, you have my sympathies for living in a section of the world where that isn't true.
And sorry for the length of the post, but your vision of humanity was so horrifying that I felt I needed to point out the sentiment is far from universal.
Comment: Re:Needs larger sample set. (Score 2) 123
by west (#48408305) Attached to: Electric Shock Study Suggests We'd Rather Hurt Ourselves Than Others
Test any of the several thousand people I've worked for, with, or very near over the past 20 years and I would guess that most of them wouldn't hesitate to shock the other person as much as was allowed, especially if they could be relatively certain the other person could not shock them back as a direct response.
You have my true sympathies. I can't think of anything worse than to have to work among people that you could not trust to be honest and generally benevolent. I consider myself fortunate that among the hundreds I've worked with over the last 30 years, I can think of only 1 or 2 who *might* do so, and I may well be failing to give them the benefit of the doubt.
Comment: Re:Zero without it (Score 1) 103
by west (#48406529) Attached to: Ars Dissects Android's Problems With Big Screens -- Including In Lollipop
> How does the math change if the utility for those 3 people is 100 with the feature or 0 (because they'd switch to something else) without it?
Exactly the same. It does make it more attractive to implement (+100 utility for a fair number of people), but a lot of the make-or-break features tend to be ones with substantially greater costs to the non-using public. For example, flash card slots. Absolutely essential for a some segment, but actually somewhat intrusive for those who don't. (I'd guess that 30% of iOS users don't even know what a flash card is. Any dialog that even mentions that slot is going to instantly panic that 30%. Utility of unused feature is -5, not just -1.)
Nonetheless, the math can change over time. Multi-button mice are now common enough that a multi-button mouse is probably only -10 for a small part of the Macintosh user base rather than a substantial portion (I've seen a number of users who cannot distinguish between right/left button - a multibutton mouse would upset them for months). At that point, maybe Apple introduces a multi-touch mouse as standard for all their Macs.
Of course, the math is also somewhat more meta than that. High-end users tend to have a higher percentage of trend-setters, so there's some bias towards more features, even if the over-all user base is worse off for it.
Comment: Re:How does "too bad" benefit people? (Score 1) 103
by west (#48404577) Attached to: Ars Dissects Android's Problems With Big Screens -- Including In Lollipop
Simple enough. Assume 100 people are using the software, and they get utility '100' out of it. We consider adding a feature that makes the software 20% more useful for 3 people out of that 100.
Unfortunately, the existence of that feature means that there's a new menu item that 99 people have to ignore or a widget that can confuse them when they accidentally touch it or more hardware that can break (even if you don't use it) and more places for security problems to hide, etc.
All in all, the new feature makes the software just a little less friendly to use. So instead of '100', the utility for non-users is now '99'.
So total utility for your users is: 97 x 99 + 3 * 120 = 9603 + 360 = 9,903 vs. 10,000 originally.
In other words, the over-all user experience has gone down because you spent a lot of money to implement a feature for some users.
Now the calculus and the relative assumptions about the cost of a new feature to non-users and the benefit to users makes this an art as well as a science, but at it's base, that's how adding features can hurt the community of users.
It's also why I've seen countless customers hurt themselves by buying "more than they need" on the assumption that extra features that they don't use can't hurt. Then they wonder why the guy next door who spent half as much seems twice as happy with his product.
Comment: Re:Is anyone surprised? (Score 2) 103
by west (#48401863) Attached to: Ars Dissects Android's Problems With Big Screens -- Including In Lollipop
Actually, this is where we geeks tend to get it wrong. For the large majority, less *is* more.
Every feature that's added to the interface adds cognitive load to *every* user, not just the one's using the feature.
Ignoring UI elements that you don't use is not free!
It's why most general-purpose commercially successful design teams have a "every potentially new feature starts at -100 points and only gets added if it gets *significantly* above 0" philosophy.
The kitchen sink approach suits us well, but unless you're building a product for our particular 2% of the market, you want to eliminate features that are used only by a small segment of your market and bury features that are rarely used. It's no coincidence that Apple has done well.
What we really need is to stop expecting Android to be the Linux of the phone/tablet world. If it's going to be widely successful, it *can't* be designed for our needs.
Comment: Re:News Flash! Company makes bold inflated claim! (Score 1) 91
by west (#48382945) Attached to: Intel Claims Chip Suppliers Will Flock To Its Mobile Tech
> you seem to have a complete lack of understanding of the difference between an item and a product.
Well, using standard vernacular, the terms item and product aren't exactly unambiguous. Pretending otherwise is... um.. an "interesting" defense :-).
I'm also pretty certain most people would disagree with the idea "a product can become good solely as a result of an increased marketing budget", but would agree with the idea "a product may seem better priced as a result of an increased marketing budget".
Of course, perhaps it's because you understand what people are saying better than the people who are saying it.
by west (#48377899) Attached to: Intel Claims Chip Suppliers Will Flock To Its Mobile Tech
price is a property of a product.
I don't agree. I've seen non-computer related products that were built to last. They lasted 5 times longer then their competitors, but cost twice as much.
In the end, they weren't commercially successful because cheap beat everything else in this market segment. However, I still wouldn't call them poor products. It's simply that people either didn't value or couldn't evaluate the product.
The customer determination of overpricing is often dependent on marketing budgets. I don't think goes a product goes from poor to good simply because it's become commercially successful.
Comment: Re:Intel isn't going to win this one (Score 1) 91
by west (#48375437) Attached to: Intel Claims Chip Suppliers Will Flock To Its Mobile Tech
I think that's their only hope. Unfortunately for Intel, I don't see a lot of customers willing to pay a substantial premium for more powerful chips, especially when power draw is such as issue.
If Intel is going to maintain the revenue that it has delivered for the last several decades (and pay for its substantial research budget), it can't afford to enter low margin markets. Spending a billion dollars to develop the world's best mobile chip makes no sense if your customers aren't willing to pay high enough prices for you to make that money back (many times over).
Just about every PC vendor in existence has learned that you slowly go bankrupt even if you own the low margin PC market. Apple might not sell many Macintosh's, but they're the only one making any money worth noting in the market. Intel's got to pray that there's a similar market for mobile chips.
Comment: Re:News Flash! Company makes bold inflated claim! (Score 2) 91
by west (#48375291) Attached to: Intel Claims Chip Suppliers Will Flock To Its Mobile Tech
If Intel's product is actually better, they wouldn't have to make such bold predictions because people will want it.
Not true. Intel's problem is not that they have inferior product, it's that customers don't want fast more than they want cheap.
Intel can't afford to be the big winner if they're only going to make a few bucks profit on each chip. Take a look at Intel's profits compared to TSMC. They don't just need customers to use Intel's chips, they need those customers to pay 2 or 3 times as much as their paying now.
The only hope they have of that is by putting out a somewhat better product, and hoping people will pay a much bigger price. So far, it's not working.
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How do I print a list to stdout in Haskell?
Let's say I have a list [1,2,3] and I want to convert that list into a string and print it out. I guess I could build my own function, but surely Haskell has a function built in to do that.
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are you used to another programming language? which one? I find it a bit surprising that someone wouldn't expect print to exist.. – yairchu May 10 '11 at 22:38
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Indeed there is a built in function, aptly named print.
> print [1,2,3]
This is equivalent to putStrLn $ show [1,2,3].
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Indeed, print works on anything that can be shown. – Dan Burton May 10 '11 at 16:13
Following up on what @Dan said, anything that implements the Show TypeClass has a default printable representation. – Daniel May 11 '11 at 12:41
How would I do it in case the list was not of standard type like Int but of custom type (Eg: type Height = Int) – bikashg May 22 '11 at 9:03
@Bikash: As long as the contained type is an instance of Show, it will work fine. type Height = Int does not create a custom type, only an alias, so it behaves exactly as if you'd used Ints. – hammar May 22 '11 at 9:27
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Why does atof round "14718.5084" to 14718.5? Is there a way to prevent that (i.e. get the whole number 14718.5084)?
double latitude=atof("14718.5084");
std::cout <<"latitude test "<<latitude<< "\n";
and the output is:
latitude test 14718.5
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you mean atof right? – andrea.marangoni Apr 3 '12 at 11:26
i added the code. – user1106106 Apr 3 '12 at 11:33
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Try this code to see it does exactly what you want:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
int main ()
char input [256];
printf("Enter something: ");
printf("Result: %f\n", atof(input));
return 0;
Maybe you lost the digits when printing...
Try this:
double latitude=atof("14718.5084");
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+1 because of printing – Tristram Gräbener Apr 3 '12 at 11:31
i added my code now. thanks, but i dont think printing is my problem – user1106106 Apr 3 '12 at 11:34
Please see the additional code, printing it was ;) – HWende Apr 3 '12 at 11:40
I was going to answer 'printing' too, cheers – std''OrgnlDave Apr 3 '12 at 11:41
Because atof returns a double, which you're converting to a float. (I'm guessing this is what you're doing).
Also, 14718.5084 can't be represented exactly. For example:
double f = 14718.5084;
gives me f == 14718.508400000001.
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in binary there isnt any denary like 1/10 or 1/100 so its rounded. – kittyPL Apr 3 '12 at 12:16
#include <limits>
double latitude=atof("14718.5084");
typedef std::numeric_limits< double > dbl;
std::cout <<"latitude test ";
std::cout<<latitude<< "\n";
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I had an slightly different problem, but it fits the headline. atof looked like rounding to integer part and it wasn't a output precision problem. My solution was to change the locale settings of my ubuntu installation. Decimals were separated by comma instead of point.
try this code (comma instead of point):
double latitude=atof("14718,5084");
if it outputs the correct floating point number (maybe separated by point), you should change your locale settings to english or work with comma separation in your data
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Locale settings can add even more confusion, as apparently they're not always in effect consistently throughout the toolchain.
E.g. I ran into the problem that point separted values were rounded to int by atof (e.g. 0.85 -> 0 ) because the locale demanded comma-separted values. But at the same time, comma-separated values weren't accepted by the debugger IDE either (e.g. when attempting to change variable values during debugging..).
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Data wydania: 4 Lip, 2012
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[1.1.51] Release Notes
Changes and Additions
• Added a new hero: Eiyno Wraeil
Bug Fixes
• Fixed an error that would appear in manual combats
• Fixed some text issues
~Amplitude Studios
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Patch [1.1.49]
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• Fixed the Steam achievements that were not unlocking
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Endless Space Emperor Edition includes...
Te 4 dodatki zapewniają nową frakcję, bohaterów, budynki, technologie, wydarzenia, muzykę oraz wiele opcji wybranych przez społeczność, jak np. Exploration Rewards lub Wonders, które wzmacniają zanurzenie się i doświadczenie z gry!
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Mac OS X
• OS:Windows XP SP3 / Vista / 7
• Processor:Core 2 Duo Processor or Equivalent
• Memory:2 GB RAM
• Graphics:256 MB DX9 Compliant
• DirectX®:9.0c
• Hard Drive:2 GB HD space
• Sound:DirectX 9 Compatible Audio
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• OS: MAC OS X 10.6.7 or higher.
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Gra jest po prostu boska! Jesli lubisz kosmiczne klimaty oraz elementy strategii ta gra jest dla ciebie! :D
Zalety :
- Bardzo rozbudowana
- Klimat
- Muzyka
- Realistyka (ta gra to prawdziwy symulator zarządzania imperium)
- Gre mozna przejsc na WIELE ale to WIELE sposobow
- Multiplayer
- Grafika czasem nie do konca jest perfekcyjna ale nie gryzie to az tak bardzo w oczy ;)
Ocena ogolna: 9/10
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Bardzo przyzwoita gra. Miarę prosta, nie wymagająca silnego sprzętu. Dosyć spokojna turowa gra. Bitwy może nie aż tak emocjonujące jak w innych grach (no ale jak na turową gre to i tak jest na co popatrzeć podczas bitwy) Polecam dla fanów gier 4X.
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Godna polecenia fanom strategi turowej.
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fajna gra
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+ nice detailed ship models
+ good space presentation
+ planetary change in the close-up view
- moderate effects
+ good sounds and effects
- no voice output
+ exciting and motivating expansion race in the galaxy
+ atmospheric racial backgrounds
- ...hardly come into the game
+ seven well-tuned levels of difficulty
+ many settings
+ demanding for advanced and pro players
- hard for beginners
Units & Upgrades:
+ many Improvements for planetary systems
+ several ship classes
+ heroes
+ Ship editor for individual equipment
- only 3 weapon types
Endless Game:
+ huge tech tree
+ different strategies possible
+ planet acceptance very important
- luck and random-based fighting system
Score: 83 / 100
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195 z 238 osób (82%) uważa, że ta recenzja jest pomocna
41.5 godz. łącznie
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When it shines, it's a beauty, but when it stinks, it kills everything good about it.
I want to like this game. It has that "one more turn" factor. Visually it's well done, and the UI is pretty clever with most complex orders only a few mouse clicks away. But then you find reordering production queues to be unusually clumsy. Most of the game is like that. A few solid hits then a terrible miss. [Queues have been improved in a recent update]
The races are good, well designed and presented, each with their own strengths and each requiring a slightly different set of priorities to succed. But then the difficulty modifiers kick in and the whole race balance goes out the window. Enemy AIs get bonuses to production NOT intelligence and you fight races that can outperform what you could do with them.
Then the AI itself shows irreconcilable stupidity. If i could tolerate 6-7 dumb things the AI does per turn, it would do 10. All too often the AI fleets that could potentially beat you choose to flee (but waste your time, attack, or leave ships behind that blockade you), while i have had one completely unarmed and undefended fleet of invasion ships try to fight back (with tactics, not weapons ofc) and even somehow managed to flee with a few survivors. [AI stupidity has also been adressed with updates]
The AI can sometimes use tactics wisely and from what i saw has no knowledge of your own tactical choices, but the battles are a lottery decided far far ahead, back when you designed the ships. Some survive, some have no chance, and if your ships are very good, then AI will either allways retreat, or allways die, depending on whose territory you're fighting in. Sometimes the very outcome of a war or even game can hinge on the AI doing something remarkably stupid or you failing to understand some of the BASIC fundamental rules of the game. That... is beyond bad, that is awful.
The diplomacy model is one of the better i have seen. Most of it is really good, except of course the one part that kills it completely. It's all meaningless because ultimately your empire exists and therefore it would be better for a rival to take it all away from you. You're the weakest empire? Then die. Wait, you're strongest? Then die. You're in the middle, and a long term trading partner as well as supplier of strategic resources, benefits that far outweigh the problems caused by close borders (and you can see the exact numbers too)? Guess what? Today is the day none of that means anything. Prepare to set the relationship score to -200. And die.
Colonisation and expansion is arguably the strongest part of the game. Exploring the galaxy, triggering some halfhearted random events, scouting good spots for colonies. First contants. All good. But. The game actively penalises you for each and every system you own. Wheter you colonise it or capture it, just having a system increases the penalty higher and higher. Eventually it becomes high enough that it starts to hurt morale and that in turn drops production, research and cash flow. Yes, by colonising a system at a wrong moment, you can drop overall empire wide production by some 10-20%. Does that make any sense?
Yes, there are technologies that reduce the penalty, and yes, it's there to counterbalanc expansion but i am here to play a game, be emperor of space, not to oversee active game modifiers. They should be invisible and subtle, not hit me in the head. When i deliberatly skip average systems that are still well positioned, all just to avoid getting the expansion penalty down the road, i think i am playing a flawed game.
Combat is neither good nor bad except when it's completely illogical. Designing the ships properly takes some experience and knowledge and if you do a good job your fleet will usually serve you well and survive for a long time or you will produce enough replacements for losses to not matter much. The main problem with all the tactical options, counters, different ranges, weapon optimisations, support ships, repair capacity, fighter/bomber cover, is that you very often feel like you just can't take your ships and tell them to "$#%^&* go and kill the enemy!", the MOST BASIC OF PURPOSES for your fleet, but somehow it gets lost in the myriad different things you have to tweak before you can fight. Long story short, i know what i want, the game wont let me, or i have to obey some rule/design feature/balance mechanic.
So while it starts pretty well, and has enough to be fun for a while, it eventually becomes a chore to try to complete a game. The AI has too many choices to make and inevitably it makes poor decisions (compare to SOTS' very basic but lethal AI) and all the strengths of the game are drowned out by the weaknesses.
The best turn based space 4X games have already been made. Master of Orion 2 and Sword of the Stars 1. Maybe even Birth of the Federation, though i am biased about that one. Other games of the genre try to do things differently which is unfortunate because sometimes imitation is the wisest form of flattery. Case in point: Xenonauts. For ages developers tried to recreate the perfect succesor to XCOM - UFO Defense. UFO: Aftershock is 99% as good, and UFO: Alien Invasion is an extremly good remake (but still unfinished). A slew of other games missed the mark completely or admittedly used the old game as a springboard for a new experience. Then Xenonauts imitated the original and surprise, surprise, it hit the bullseye.
Ultimatly Endless Space isn't solid enough to satisfy demanding 4x players, and it isn't "mainstream" enough to captivate the casual audience. So it ends up in between. Better than most, but not good enough.
EDIT - 20 Dec. 2014
Some of the complaints i've ♥♥♥♥♥ed about have been adressed by several patches released since this review. Production queues and enemy retreat logic have been adressed. Better late than never? Or thumbs up for devs supporting their game well after release? Both pretty much, and the game can't be hurt by extra polish & fixes.
I will not change my verdict, but i will say it's still a game i would like to like. Probably more so than before with the recent updates.
If you're sitting on the fence know that you will probably enjoy exploring the game if you choose to buy it. Exploration and expansion are strong suits of Endless Space. It's just that ultimately i felt dissapointed with what i found, but have to admit it was fun exploring.
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Overall, it's worth picking up.
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I feel it best to write a more up-to-date review focusing on the game that is Endless Space.
Endless Space is a 4X, Turn Based Strategy that involves you building your empire through Colonies, Fleets, Improvements and Diplomacy to attain victory.
The easiest way to fully describe the game, would be if Civilization V were set in Space. But that in itself isn't a fully accurate description. Let's get to the meat, shall we?
When I first started the game on my Netbook, I noticed how nice the graphics were and how it ran relatively smoothly on the Medium settings (It ran on High settings relatively well on my Mac) only slowing down in the late game when hundreds of fleet movements had to be rendered and checked. The game has only crashed once or twice, and that was mostly because I messed with a few game files while running the game.
Performance- 8.5/10
As mentioned previously mentioned, the graphics were very impressive. From the Character designs, Ship designs, Menu designs, Planet designs, the game has a very clean and polished look and has Lore related artwork that really makes the game a much better experience. I found myself taking screenshots of planets and systems as they were simply amazing. Wonders, Cities and Anomalies are rendered on the planets themselves, thus giving direct visual feedback to the user.
One critique relating to the graphics was the lack of variation in city aesthetics and a lack of visual feedback given when a Planet's exploitation changed.
Graphics- 9.25/10
The soundtrack is what is to be expected from a Space themed game and has shining moments, especially the more ambient tracks, but nothing as spectacular as the theme from Star Wars for example. Still has it's good moments, but if you're sitting there for long periods of time, the soundtrack may get repetitive.
Sound- 8/10
The AI is interesting to say the least, at lower difficulties, it is hilariously icompetent, rarely making me run for the hills, but at higher tiers (especially Endless) the very nature of the spontaneously insane AI can get the best of you. It is important to note that some bugs exist (or maybe they were intentional, I can't tell) in the AIs interactions. Especially related to Wars and Cease Fires, as the AI may simply beg for mercy after losing a System before continuing on their blood thirsty rampage through your worlds. Overall, the AI is quite solid, albeit if you want a challenge, aim for the higher difficulties.
AI- 6.5/10
Combat is something that is often criticized in reviews of Endless Space, but I found it somewhat unique and I appreciated that the devs put it in. Even though it is essentially a game of Rock-Paper-Scissors, it's still a slightly more complex Rock-Paper-Scissors. The combat system involves 2 fleets fighting each other and playing different "Battle Cards" (you can unlock more via the Tech Tree or through Heroes that you equip to your fleet) and in the Disharmony DLC, also includes specific targetting (such as the Nosebreaker tactic which involves you focusing on the emey's main ship)
While Battle Cards will cancel each other out and play a pivotal role in the combat, you will have to equip your Fleets with weapons as well.
Ships can be equipped with 3 Attack "Modules" and 3 Defense "Modules". The 3 Attack Modules are-
Missiles (Long Range combat)
Lasers (Medium Range combat)
Kinetic (Short/Melee Range combat)
and the 3 Defense Modules are-
Flak (Counters Missiles)
Shields (Counters Lasers)
Deflectors (Counters Kinetic)
Every time a Module is added, it adds an extra Missile/Laser/Kinetic attack or defense capability. A battle will involve either an Automatically decided outcome, or a Manual Cutscene (in which you can still adjust your plans in Real Time). A battle has 5 phases (Intro, Long, Medium, Melee, Conclusion) of which 3 are the times when the ships fire at each other (Long, Medium and Melee of course). Ships will fire all the weapons during each phase, but some weapons will be more effective during their respective phases.
During a battle, (if you own the Disharmony DLC) you will also have the option of adding Fighters and Bombers which add to the way combat plays out by giving/taking away an advantage. In the end, I enjoyed the combat and as with me taking Planetary screenshots, I did the same for the Battle sequences.
Combat- 7.75/10
Multiplayer is quite enjoyable as you can play with up to 8 people in a private or public lobby and have the option of using Custom Races or the Pre-made ones. In-game chat is available, but not Private Player-to-Player chat (I'd recommend Steam Chat). While it's not uncommon to find a Public game, ES is best played with friends. There are several sync and disconnection issues that occur once in awhile, but they are rare adn usually require a quick reload of the save.
Multiplayer- 7.5/10
Victory can be obtained through both peaceful and non-peacful routes and give every race a fighting chance at victory.
Routes to Victory- 10/10
Modding is almost non-existant in this game, so don't buy it if you expect mods (though it would be great if you knew how to program xD). I haven't divided into modding myself, but it's quite sad that the mod scene is minimal at best
Modding- 1/10
I will keep updating this review on Diplomacy, etc. at a later date :)
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Has the ingredients of a Great game. Tech web, customizable ships, cool-looking space battles... etc.
BUT in this case the sum is weaker than teh sum of teh parts.
Ship customization ends up in a rock-paper-scissor game, the game- balance is nonexistent , the tech advancement feels odd multiple times.
The game has some bugs/feateures in it just a few example:
-enemy ships moving in your turn
-ships can not turn back or stop, unless they belong to teh enemy
- diplomacy is useless , even your allies wont trade a low grade tech for your your 3 high level techs
- indequate tutorial , after 20hour play I only knew how to win the game after I read the wiki. Some things still unclear
- insane AI eg.:
I) you control half the galaxy with highly developed colonies with the gold(dust) specialized race. your income: 150 gpt another faction's with half your territory: 1500gpt.
II) you are usually happy with a 10K power fleet. Other factions even the pacifist ones often has 40K+ fleets.
To sum up: This game had the potential to be great but there is just too much problems with it to be truly enjoyable.
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There's better negative reviews here, but I'll just say this:
+Plenty of that 4X micromanaging
+Good game concept
-AI cheats
-Diplomacy victory impossible
-Stock species are NOT balanced against each other, at all
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I wanted to like this game. It's just the little things.
The default factions are not very well balanced.
The Tech Tree takes too long to learn to utilze properly.
Even those used to TBS games should be playing their first games on easy difficulty instead of Normal.
Designing your own ships is hard to figure out the best mixes.
Heroes become polarised very early in their development and you don't get even close to as many as you would like.
Space battles are also tough to figure out how best to utilize the different strategies.
I am sure there are plenty of fantastic guides out on the internet for all of these, but it's just too many things to need to go to an external source for just to enjoy the game.
I recommend Galactic Civilizations II as a far superior product, and Galactic Civilizations III (Beta out now) should be even better still.
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Should be called Endless Cr*p or as a friend calls it Endless Boredom. All you do is wait for research and colonize.
Tutorial pretty much sux, you just have to learn it as you play.
It seems that the AI has unlimited resources and is only interested in fighting you. You have to actually research diplomancy, like cease fire. Only 1 game did I not get my ♥♥♥ kicked on easy level. How you supposed to learn a game when the AI just walks all over you constantly.
One senario I had 20 systems (every planet colonized), AI had 4 (with 1 or 2 planets colonized) and yet managed to keep up with me in research and it had way more ships then me. Which meant it only builds ships and nothing else. I had the AI blocked in, attacked a planet with my 25 ship fleet (cruisers and battleships) and then all of a sudden it was pumping out 25 ships (corvets initially, then cruisers and battleships) per turn. Just walked all over me, since I couldn't keep up in ship production, since my ships take anywhere from 4-20 turns to build, depending on improvements. I did manage to capture 1 system, and yet it had no improvments at all.
I also don't like how you capture systems, evey ship can be used to capture a system. You don't have troops, bombs or anything like that. Just move a ship into a enemy system and it can capture it. Ofcourse the bigger the fleet, that faster it can capture a system. I had ships defending a neutral system, meaning any enemy ship entering that system was supposed to be attack immediately. Yet that didn't happen, AI just shot right past them. Didn't even notice it until it was too late.
I should mention that everyone has exactly the same research options. There's no unique research for different races.
Even though systems have multiple planets, you only build as a system. Six planets and you can still only build as a system, why even have multiple planets in a system if you can't build individualy on each?
THere is an approval rating, but I can never keep it in the green, no matter how much you try. Frankly I just ignore it, doesn't seem to have any affect on thing. Went 60 turns with a zero approval rating in many of my systems, it didn't slow anything down.
Lots of thingss I still don't understand about the game and never will, it just gets boring and it frustrates the sh*t out of you.
The most annoying bug in the game is that all of a sudden in every system everything takes 999 turns to build, meaning you will never build anything again. Happens randomly, earilest was on turn 20, latest was on turn 70. I clicked forward a couple of turn to see if it clears up, it didn't and I quit that game. Haven't been able to complete a game yet.
I quit playing this months ago, thought I'd try it and it's still a pile of sh*t.
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Later this year, Hollywood will release its own big, grand Hollywood version of August: Osage County, the critically acclaimed Broadway play that won a boatload of Tonys and the Pulitzer Prize in 2008.
This version stars Meryl Streep as pill-popping matriarch Violet Weston, and Julia Roberts as her disgruntled daughter, Barbara. There's also Ewan McGregor, Benedict Cumberbatch, Chris Cooper, Abigail BreslinJuliette Lewis and a whole bunch of other famous faces, too. Basically, this is Broadway to The Butler's national tour.
Whether the movie version will live up to the success of the play remains to be seen; Meryl already seems to be reaching high for an accent, which is never a great sign. Still, the movie is being backed by Harvey Weinstein, so at the very least, we'll see it at the Globes.
Watch the trailer, above.
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LONDON (AP) -- Actor Ian McKellen and 27 Nobel laureates have written an open letter urging Russia's president to repeal an anti-gay law.
The letter -- published Tuesday by the Independent newspaper -- comes in the run-up to the Sochi Olympics, which have been the focus of a backlash in the West regarding the law.
McKellan -- known to millions as Gandalf in the "Lord of the Rings" and "Hobbit" films -- wrote the letter with his friend, chemist Harold Kroto.
Signed by the laureates, it is designed to show the scientific community's "solidarity" with others who have "expressed their abhorrence" at Russia's law. It bans promotion of "non-traditional sexual relations" to minors and has prompted calls by gay activists and others for a boycott of the games, which begin Feb. 7. | http://www.columbian.com/news/2014/jan/14/nobel-laureates-pen-open-letter-to-putin/ | dclm-gs1-137800001 | false | false | {
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States can establish religion and Congress can do nothing about it
The 1st Amendment:
First note it is the lawmaking power of Congress that is being circumscribed, not that of the States. Also note the indefinite article "an", which acknowledges the possible existence of an establishment of religion. Some States at the time of ratification had established religion in some way.
Therefore, the 1st Amendment bars Congress from interfering with State-established religions. Congress can neither call up the Militia nor appropriate funds to pay them to, for example, remove a display of the 10 commandments from a State courthouse because to do so would require laws the 1st Amendment bars Congress from making.
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The Position is Moot
A.) STATE Constitutions unanimously bar the establishment of a STATE religion.
B.) The Incorporation Doctrine, applied the federal Bill of Rights to all STATES
Even with the Incorporation Doctrine
In order for Congress to call up the Militia to forcefully remove a display of the ten commandments in a State courthouse, they must pass law. But the 1st Amendment bars Congress from making such law.
What Part
With all due respect, what part of STATE Constitutions banning the establishment of religion are you failing to understand?
What if a State amends its constitution?
Right, I skipped that one. If a State amends its constitution to establish a particular religion, Congress is barred by the 1st Amendment from doing anything about it.
Look up the history of
Look up the history of Maryland. It used to be an all Catholic state. You had to be Catholic to live there if I got that right.
Many state constitutions
barr the establishment of a religion. Also the constitution protects the free exercise of an individual's religion, so states cannot ban particular religions.
The free exercise *thereof*
It seems the 1st only protects the free exercise of State-established religions, not just any religion, and again, only from Congress.
Also, notice the Texas constitution protects the right to worship "Almighty God". Does that context circumscribe the scope of the remainder of that section? Isn't "denomination" a reference to other sects that worship the same deity? What about religions that don't worship Jehovah?
When the Constitution and the Bill of Rights
were ratified, seven out of thirteen states had state churches and no one thought anything of it. The 1st Amendment was for the feds only.
A bit silly, and anti-liberty
It is a natural right, and individual right we have by virtue of our humanity, not to have to follow a religion - especially a state religion. That is why Congress is prevented from establishing such a thing because it is a way to control the individual.
And, even if you could establish some complex legal justification, why would you think it would be a good thing? Who's religion would be used? There are many city streets I have driven with the churches of a dozen different Christian sects/cults. If you guys can't even agree on your religion, how is creating a state religion going to help?
Like I said, a bit silly.
What of the right of self-government?
If like-minded people have the right to form government at all, don't they have a right to establish religion with their government?
The 1st Amendment is more about the republican form of government than anything else. Congress being barred from establishing religion means the power is left to the States or the people respectively. Notice this means the legislative body with the power to declare war can not also declare an official national religion nor compel member States to abandon their own. That is the primary purpose of the 1st Amendment: to block nationalism and bolster the republican form of government.
Some of the Colonies actually recognized the existence of different sects and declared that none were to be favored. Others required office holders to be of the Protestant faith. The 1st Amendment means the people of the States didn't have to agree on religion in order to live side-by-side in peace. They each had their own sandbox.
Sure, let the "like-minded" people run things....Not those who believe in individual rights.
Defense against tyranny of the majority is the whole point of the Bill of Rights. Government is force. Your basic argument is that the majority of the people in a state can decide which religion the government will force every citizen to be a part of - or at least adhere to their rules. Next comes stripping non-Christians out of the state or putting them in jail. Where would the majority stop?
If this is not the goal, then why establish a government religion? Your only recourse is to tell those in the state who will not subject themselves to your deity, as was often told to former slaves and Tea Partiers now, "you can leave then if you don't like it".
A republican form of government
The republican form of government goes against "majority rule", doesn't it? One State out of fifty establishes the Hindu religion as "official" and the rest of the States can do nothing about it. They are barred from waging war by Article I, Section 10, while Congress is restrained by the 1st Amendment.
Consider how things were at the beginning. The Colonies had already established their religions for some time. Therefore we wouldn't be talking about "love it or leave it", but rather "love it or immigrate to somewhere else".
Also, "establishing a religion" need not mean declaring an official State religion where everyone must pay tithe to the Church. It may also mean that a State recognizes as legitimate a particular religion that had theretofore been discriminated against by the government.
You just confirmed what I wrote. As for "that had theretofore been discriminated against by the government" -- that is just imaginary Christian oppression, a very common delusion.
Maybe so
But the fact remains that the original intent and effect of the establishment clause in 1st Amendment was to preserve the power of the States to establish religion. Perhaps it was wrong for the Colonists to answer religious discrimination in the Old World by granting themselves in the New World the same kind of political power that had been used to do so. Perhaps they should only have guaranteed rights of consciousness.
By the way, note they would also have the power to protect non-Christian religion.
As a point of history, this was a fact
Various states had established religions until early in the 1800's. They voluntarily discontinued the practice.
you're ignoring the 14th amendment.
it's generally accepted that the 14th amendment has the effect of enforcing the limitations of the bill of rights on states and authorizing the federal government to enforce those limitations. "No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States -14th amendment"
In many instances the use of the 14th is annoying and problematic... however, using it to ensure states don't establish religions or infringe upon the freedom of religion is a very good thing.
In the very least...
In the very least it should be clear that prior to the 14th Amendment, the 1st Amendment restricted the lawmaking power of Congress, not that of the States. Thus when we talk about "the founding fathers" and "original intent", we should be clear that the 1st Amendment actually protected the reserved power of the States to establish religion as well as the power to restrict the "licentiousness of speech" (Jefferson's Kentucky Resolution) or the power to regulate public assembly.
Even more, however, the 14th Amendment did not actually change the 1st Amendment. It still reads "Congress shall make no law". The so-called "Incorporation Doctrine" derived from the 14th Amendment seems to both depend upon and ignore that fact. Citizens of the US are not immune to the laws of the State in which they stand.
You misunderstand i think
"No State shall make or enforce any law abridging the privileges or immunities of citizens....."
Is not freedom of religion an immunity?
People often think government has to make things fair, cant pray on public property, or in government buildings or schools, because it can make others uncomfortable, when in fact its the exact opposite.
Government has no authority to PREVENT anyone from worshiping ANYWHERE on any public/government property, and government has NO authority over households, period.
The only thing government can do, is stop the state from arresting people for worshiping other than a state approved religion. Government has no other power, and that was its purpose, to prevent corrupted states from taking away rights from the people, that is why we signed into a constitution among all the states.
It's right there in words.
What would Ohio's State religion even look like? I'm guessing it would involve a lot of Bar-B-Que.
Defend Liberty!
You're dead on :)
"You only live free if your willing to die free."
What would a state
What would a state "establishing religion" even mean? And what is the point of your thread?
Here was the first link on a
Here was the first link on a google search for "established religions in the colonies":
A couple highlights:
-- Delaware's constitution included an oath of office:
-- New Hampshire, Georgia, North Carolina required office holders be of the Protestant faith.
"Establishment" refers to such integrations of religion into the respective governments. Religion could be "established" by law, much like the Church of England.
I often find peoples' understanding of the effect and original intent of the 1st Amendment is quite different from what is plainly written, and am compelled to correct that misunderstanding. I see that the 1st Amendment was more about the republican form of government than anything else, and that what ever potential evil might come of such power to establish religion, or to restrict the freedom of speech or public assembly (which, by the way, States still do) at least it could only affect one State at a time. It means one size does not have to fit all.
Are you in favor of states
Are you in favor of states establishing religion?
You'd have to read each state constitution. I believe most address this issue.
As per the Pennsylvania Constitution, in Article 1, Section 8 it says, "...no preference shall ever be given by law to any religious establishments or modes of worship."
Fair enough
Fair enough. But even still, Congress wouldn't settle any related disputes.
That is true
and some states have had state established religions at one time. Maryland for one did have a state religion after the signing of the constitution.
however, I'm not keen on states doing this.
Silly. Billy-Club Fed gets Supreme Court favor.
Secretive Creation of the Banking Creature from Jekyll Island. What the Congress nor President cannot gift to the Fed, shall be ordained by the Supreme Court. Ever wonder why so many religious questions land unto the Supreme Court?
The Supreme Court had its say on the matter in McCulloch v. Maryland (1819). It voted 9-0 to uphold the Second Bank of the United States as constitutional. The Court argued with the doctrine of implied powers, stating that to be ‘necessary and proper’ the
The history of central banking in the United States does not begin with the Federal Reserve. The Bank of the United States received its charter in 1791 from the U.S. Congress and President Washington signed it. Secretary of State Alexander Hamilton [N.Y. Banker] designed the Bank's charter by modeling it after the Bank of England, the British central bank. Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson believed the Bank was unconstitutional because it was an unauthorized extension of federal power...
The Central Bank needed only to be useful in helping the government meet its responsibilities in maintaining the public credit and regulating the money supply. Chief Justice Marshall wrote, “After the most deliberate consideration, it is the unanimous and decided opinion of this court that the act to incorporate the Bank of the United States is a law made in pursuance of the Constitution, and is part of the supreme law of the land” (Hixson, 117). The Court affirmed this opinion in the 1824 case Osborn v. Bank of the United States (Ibid, 14).
The Fed Temple, Washington D.C.
Therefore, the historical legal precedent exists for Congress' power to create a central bank. It formed the Federal Reserve system in 1913 to perform many of the same functions as its predecessors. As before, the courts have agreed that a central bank, and
the Federal Reserve in particular, is constitutional.
[Dubiously so.]
the state constitution
The state constitutions have to include the federal constitution.
STATE CONGRESS shall make no law either...
State laws are created the exact same way as federal laws.
they go through the state legislature and they have to abide by the State constitution, which contains the federal constitution.
First, which State constitution "includes" or "contains" the US constitution?
In the Washington state constitution it only refers to it:
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Afterglow Fanissimo
Salt Lake City, Utah
Heck no it won't take! We love our freedom and liberties too much to have some Washington burocrat dicatin' what food I eat. Go tea party!
Bountiful, UT
I particularly like the last paragraph with the quote from the U of U student. If you are going to permit alcohol and tobacco, how can you possibly justify eliminating soda. I don't think that nanny state regulations are the correct response.
Salt Lake City, Utah
When I see the individuals pictured in the article, I can't help wondering if we Utahns really are the tip of the spear.
I can't see where banning large drinks will teach anyone anything except that they need to buy two or three drink a day instead of one. Which makes the whole notion look less like a Big Brother concern for health and more of a sneaky way for New York to generate tax revenues by the increased sales of smaller drinks.
You really want to get people to lose weight, reward them with something like a reduction in their insurance premiums, but taking away their treats is not a great incentive to improvement.
Buena Vista, VA
Patrick Henry said, "Give me liberty or give me death." I always thought that meant death by gunfire in a war for independence, but it may mean death by obesity; nevertheless I agree with Patrick; it is better to have liberty and die than to not have liberty and live. We're on a slippery slope toward a more and more dictatorial government, and it starts with do-gooders like Bloomberg doing things to us "for our own good."
the boonies, mexico
In Utah the word is-Thou shalt not smoke or drink coffee, but you can drown yourselves is soda pop ,fast food junk, and we all will over look "obesity"! It's hilarious in this state when digesting and accepting health issues also.
Salt Lake City, UT
A person has a right to destroy their body if they so choose. However, if they exercise that right they should forfeit the right to any future tax payer funded financial assistance for health care costs related to the consequences of doing so. It used to be that we only had one body and we needed to take care of it. We now live in a time when we can get replacement parts installed; If available and can be afforded. Should these people that consume mass quantities of soda ever break a bone, they should not be surprised if it takes forever to mend. Some with this habit/addiction may escape obesity, but osteoporosis is waiting in the wings. There is only one protection from the high cost of health care; Maintain your health through diet and exercise and good judgment to reduce risk of accident. Regarding the latter, YouTube chronicles the idiotic death defying stunts of many numbskulls that appear to think themselves invincible. Death comes to us all, but where is the wisdom in hurrying that day.
OK, I get that this ban is good at heart. Yes I know I am guilty of drinking too much soda BUT. In a state where one can still smoke or drink beer and just about anything else, I do not understand this one at all. I guess they figure it will cost the party in power less votes and make them look like they care. What is next to be taken away from peoples rights
Bountiful, UT
The more important issue is the inclusion of addictive substances in the soft drinks, placed there for the purpose of ensuring the daily traffic for the daily fix.
SLC gal
Salt Lake City, UT
So this NYC law bans sodas, but does not have a cap on coffee sizes, nor alcholic drinks. It almost sounds like it's targeting Mormons. Unless we want milk with our jumbo tubs of popcorn at the movie theater. YUCK!!!!
Don Ira
St George, UT
JimInSLC, Right-On.
Layton, UT
I just don't see this as a solution, mainly because the real cause of overeating has nothing to do with the thing eaten...
But then government really can't fill up that sort of hunger...
Atlanta, GA
The New York City ban, if it ever does take effect, is a silly solution to a very real problem. The 100 ounce men listed in the article are using their "freedom," but society pays for it economically through increased medical obligations (public or private, the effect is the same). I end up paying for his soda drinking; how is this liberty?
This is a classic example of an externality, and something ought to be done to ensure that we as a society don't end up paying for the irresponsible choices of others. The typical solution to this is a tax, and a non-linear tax could have the same effect in consumption as a ban on large containers. The revenues could be used to subsidize fruit, reducing the Coke-to-Apple price ratio. People could still get what they want, but they would be paying for it on their own.
Also, I think if Patrick Henry saw that the "liberty" he spoke of was applied to the drinking of sugar water, he might have reconsidered the value of that whole revolution thing.
Liberal Ted
Salt Lake City, UT
Don't worry New York. Big Brother and Big Sister are watching out for you. They won't help you get a job, but, they'll make sure you have to make several purchases and pay taxes each time to ensure that you don't get as much sugar.
My guess is, the sugar lobbyists stopped supporting democrats and without the demos pockets getting lined with cash, they decided to penalize the industry. That's the real story.
If government was worried about our health, then they would be giving us tax breaks, so we don't have to work 2-3 jobs to stay afloat. And instead have more time to focus on our health. Why not remove taxes on fresh fruits and vegetables? Why not give tax breaks for gym memberships or purchasing sports equipment? Instead the democrats only line of thought is raise taxes, regulate it, create a government entity. Who cares it's not like it's their money that they're spending....
Wasatch Front, UT
While the proposed large soda ban in NYC is ludicrous on many levels, we do need to educate folks on the huge negative health risks of sugared drinks, particularly in regular, large servings. One major, well-known obesity clinic for children says that if they simply remove sweetened drinks from their patient's diets, that the weight starts to drop off almost immediately.
The biggest problem drinks are: carbonated beverages, sports drinks, fruit juices (don't be suprised with this one - they are just concetrated sugar!), chocolate milk, sweet teas, and frozen drinks (slurpees/smoothies/icees). These drinks are a major contributor to obesity, diabetes, heart disease and gout. And obesity, diabetes and heart disease are three of the largest problems in the U.S. which are lowering life quality, life expectancy and are boosting health costs.
Salt Lake City, UT
Salt Lake City, UT
Atlanta, GA
"...something ought to be done to ensure that we as a society don't end up paying for the irresponsible choices of others."
I agree. But then,let's take those thoughts and apply them across the board. I shouldn't have to pay for the health care of smokers, drinkers, people who ride motorcycles (especially without a helmet), people who don't exercise (should be a government-mandated exercise program, don't you think?), people who overeat (should be a government-mandated 'max calories allowed per day', don't you think?), people who don't wear seatbelts, people who speed, people who 'super-size' at fast-food restaurants, etc.
And at the top of the list would most certainly be sodas, 'cause they are the absolute leading cause of our nation's health issues. And btw--while we're at it, no longer should you be allowed to buy a dozen donuts. Nope, max is 8. 'Cause, you know...
Go Big Blue!!!
Bountiful, UT
I think the positive result from this controversy is that it brings forth a healthy discussion. I love soft drinks but at 50 can start to feel what too much of a good thing is doing to my health. Check out all of the grocery carts next time you are in a grocery store. You are likely to see more 2 liters and cases of soda pop than gallons of milk. Coke is the cheap opium of this generation.
Idaho Falls, ID
Obesity in America has much more to do with lifestyle changes from active to sedentary, from riding your bike around the neighborhood or playing cops and robbers all day to sitting in front of the TV playing video games or watching movies all day. Technically, it's not sugary sodas that have led to obesity in America, it has been the advent of the PC, X-Box, and Netflix (although gaming systems have attempted to create more physically-engaging games of late). So, you'd think the liberal/RINO response would be to tax the amount of time people spend using sedentary technology...taxing entities would make bank! Now that I've suggested it, just watch it happen...the new bandwith obesity surcharge. They lay awake at night thinking how to control our lives through taxation.
Medical Lake, Washington
Personally, I don't care for soda and never have -- I simply don't like it. There are also many types of candy that I don't like, and several that I do. We are all individuals with personal likes and dislikes.
Joseph Smith explained on one occasion: "I teach them correct principals and let them govern themselves."
Someone stated here that we need more education regarding food choices, but to simply outlaw things. . . . I find it interesting that if saccharine is thought to cause cancer it's pulled from the market. Alcohol related incidents (drunk driving, etc.) are listed as one of the top killers in America and you'll never hear much of a discussion about pulling it from the shelves. The argument of the government looking out for our best interests just doesn't work.
Give us options and let us choose, and stop making healthy choices the most expensive option.
byu rugby
Crystal Lake, IL
Good to see from the past comments that Utah has it's share of "Nanny State'rs". We should all just sit down and wait for the Government Beaurocrates to tell us what is good for us and how we should live. Why exercise personal responsibility? Just wait for the government. They always know best.
It is OK to kill a baby in the third trimester but, don't you dare drink too much soda!
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Goodbye to Berlin
Business bosses are growing impatient with a drifting government
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"What other monetary tools do we have? Well, open market operations, or quantitative easing, appears to be moving into a direction funded by taxpayers, not merely printing more money to boost the money supply, further increasing fiscal deficits."
This sounds good . . . in theory. - In reality quantitative easing has to be followed by a period of Quantitative Tightening.
Do you really believe governments being hooked to the Overborrowing Syndrome will ever get off the needle?
Germany has not had a conservative party for almost a century. Even "nazi" was merely an abbreviation for national socialist. Present-day parties are all socialist: liberal socialists, Christian socialists, social democrats, and outright communists (now called "Linke"), a party that is still run by former East German communist leaders.
Yankee Kid
If you think my invention is too good to be true, and if it is true why have I not gotten it done here? The main problem is I am too old to travel and my friends who could help me are all dead. So why isn't anyone in the US interested? The main reason is that they can make more money making nuclear power plants. It is also difficult to contact the people in today's world who make decisions even with help. Mrs. Merkel stands out. She asked for help and has the courage to put down the money people and give people with ideas a chance to do what I am trying to do. Get her attention if you can as I can't do anything with out help.
Yankee Kid
Will one of you in Germany, please contact Mrs. Merkel, and ask her why she, or some one she can deligate, has not replied to my offer of my invention made purposely for the deletion of nuclear power. because my invention can be built in a very short time, at a very low price, using very cheap explosive power, based upon things that I have already done. I have the proof that she has received this. I can't spell but I am a rambling wreck from Ga. Tech and a hell of a good engineer with a lot of experiece in Germany a long time ago.
nuclear cost effective - well tepco should know or? Of course the other way of seeing it is - lobby as hell and state will pay in case things go wrong. I wonder by the way whether nuclear energy won economist polling few months back because of legitimate voting or companies like tepco, rwe etc paid some poor souls to get the voting right. Just wonder - the sways one way and the other were a bit odd.
As for Euro - for a change I agree with so called bosses - the Euro is worth saving but not in this way and possibly the price tag is already too high (especially for measures that are most likely ineffective).
"Many Germans see the purchases as a dangerous deviation from orthodox monetary policy."
Unfortunately 'orthodox monetary policy' appears to failing us at the time we need it most. Raising interest-rates destroys real wealth and contribution inflation, while at the same time weakening the Euro - reducing rates has the opposite effect.
Monetarists can also impact reserve-requirements, but such are standardized in an economy and it is a dangerous game to manipulate to match current economic trends.
Lastly, the ECB can slash the 'discount rate' to boost the creation of credit, but such creates too much liquidity in the market and is arguably responsible for the economic mess that the 2008 crisis created.
All of this is why I believe that orthodox monetary policies should be abandoned right now, because their outcomes are predictable and, in fact, useless.
la.výritý wrote:
"If Merkel makes an open-end commitment today concerning the euro, then all following German governments – left or right – would feel obliged to hold on to it - no matter what. Thus she has to make a decision now which concerns all future German generations . . . without getting a similar "iron promise" in return from the counties in trouble. This is the dilemma any German government would be in, not only Merkel."
Although my background is very different, I agree.
My father taught me long before there were stateswomen like Angela Merkel: "The difference between a politician and a statesman? A politician thinks only of the next election. A statesman thinks of the next generation."
Is some such proverb current on both sides of the Atlantic?
My German-English Dictionary was too old and limited to have entries for treue let alone, "They call this "foolishness" Nibelungen Treue (Nibelung loyalty)." so I googled the following:
Hoping this helps,
A. Non-Imus
la pravda
"This will only bring up hatred as Mary Fraud and her old president Mitterrand were and are expressing about Germany"
boff, you're the boushitter and the hater, while not even being a German !
yeah, read in your toilet papers LMAO
La Pravda
some other papers said that that was rather Thatcher's words !
hmm, found that in a GERMAN MEDIA:
"In a telegram found in the French archives and dated March 13, 1990, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is quoted by the French ambassador in London describing Chancellor Helmut Kohl as being "capable of anything. He has become a different man. He does not know who he is anymore. He sees himself as the master and is starting to act like it."
"In a more sober moment, Thatcher told Mikhail Gorbachev, "Britain and western Europe are not interested in the unification of Germany. The words written in the NATO communiqué may sound different, but disregard them. We do not want the unification of Germany."
"Thatcher had two main fears that were feeding each other in the fraught year between the fall of the Berlin Wall and reunification - a united Germany would be able to strengthen the European Community, and a stronger EC would in turn increase Germany's power. Thatcher's position was in fact not far from the more hysterical right-wing body of opinion in Britain, expressed by backbench MPs, that Germany planned to use the European Community to dominate the continent.",,4861759,00.html
uh are the eastern Germans happy of this de facto annexion of their country to FDR ? hmmm, it just prevent DDR to become a competitive country like Poland, and it kept eastern germans unemployed, the girls fleeing to the west, the boys getting drunk and empathied with neo-nazi propaganda
LEADERSDHIP comes from those countries who can run an economy successfully like GERMANY. The FRENCH CANT EXPECT THE REST OF EUROPE TO PAY FOR THE FRENCH MIDDLE CLASSES or the GREEKS. FRANCE has allowed a system like BRITAIN that is unsustainable with fat pensions at 60.
THE GOOD OLD DAYS ARE that REAL economic growth is impossible in EUROPE TODAY....OR AMERICA with their self-imposed depressed currency.
The FRENCH wanted the EURO not GERMANY as the French price for German unification. The constant revaluation of the D-MARK gave Germany real advantages....with a diminishing French Franc languishing into obscurity with INFLATION. A strong currency reflects strength and success. Look at Britain with the sinking POUND collecting a massive trade deficit every the USA.
Even Switzerland and Japan are adjusting their economy to offset the impact on their exporters. Germany transferred much production to Hungary and the Czech Republic for that reason. FRANCE and BRITAIN dont fear Germany TODAY because they all have other enemies waiting like speculators based offshore.
muggeridge: "Germany needs to act as the new leader of EUROPE...however reluctant."
Who in Europe elected Germany to be the leader??
Nobody did.
The EU has a population of 500 million. How can a country of 80 million "lead" a majority of 420 million - that don't want to be lead "by the Germanz". Lol.
The European parliament and the citizens of Europe should vote Germany democratically into the Leader's seat. As long as this doesn't happen, NO GERMAN has any business to "lead" the Europeans against their will! This will only bring up hatred as Mary Fraud and her old president Mitterrand were and are expressing about Germany.
Read: "Mr Mitterrand said at one point that if Helmut Kohl, the Chancellor of West Germany at the time, were to get his way, a unified Germany could win more ground than Hitler ever did".
Mitterrand pretended to be Kohl's friend . . . but the art of deception is is taught at the French diplomatic 'haute école'.
The Times Sept 10 2009:
"President Mitterrand of France warned Margaret Thatcher privately that a reunited Germany might “make even more ground than Hitler had” only a few weeks after the fall of the Berlin Wall, newly declassified documents reveal. In papers due to be published by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office tomorrow, after a year of deliberation by Whitehall officials, the scale of French fears on German reunification is laid bare. At a lunch at the Élysée Palace on January 20, 1990, Charles, now Lord, Powell, the then foreign affairs adviser to Mrs Thatcher reports in a memo that Mr Mitterrand talked about how reunification would cause the re-emergence of the “bad” Germans who dominated Europe". - And that this must be prevented at any price.
"According to the memo, Mr Mitterrand said at one point that if Helmut Kohl, the Chancellor of West Germany at the time, were to get his way, a unified Germany could win more ground than Hitler ever did and that Europe would have to bear the consequences."
This is also the explanation where Mary Fraud got her jealousy and German-hatred from.
Germany and France want to see action by GREECE to stick with the program to get themselves in the land of the living; not the living dead. ITALY will also need to reduce their debt mountain. Countries are reluctant to take their medicine. Hedge funds reach for their computer programs to set in motion their deadly game of destruction of the EURO. From New York this is a field sport to see Europe stumble and talk talk talk....meanwhile the markets take aim at a row of quacking ducks. Germany needs to act as the new leader of EUROPE...however reluctant.
La pravda
ah, the Tabloid Mail is a trusful source fer ya LMAO !
but "Kohl rechigne à donner son feu vert définitif, à lâcher le deutschemark à quelques mois d’élections législatives très difficiles" Bizarre this elections impact on the German leaders !
"Comment ? Trois jours plus tard, les responsables européens reconnaissent le droit à l’« autodétermination du peuple allemand ». Est-ce là un troc≈: l’euro contre un nihil obstat à la réunification ? « Formellement, il n’y pas eu de “marchandage”, dit l’historien Frédéric Bozo, auteur d’un monumental ouvrage sur la période (3), mais, de fait, le donnant-donnant entre Kohl et Mitterrand, quoique implicite, était évident. »
"Il y en aura un autre. Fin janvier, les choses se sont accélérées. L’Etat est-allemand s’effondre. Des dizaines de milliers de réfugiés quittent le pays. Kohl ne parle plus d’une confédération allemande dans quelques années, mais d’une absorption pure et simple de la RDA par la RFA – très vite. Le chancelier demande que la nouvelle Allemagne soit intégrée telle que dans la Communauté. En échange, il propose une relance de la construction européenne. Mitterrand est estomaqué, déstabilisé. Il hésite."
Oolala, it's Kohl that reverted his position, and bluffed Mitterrand !
you should really read this article:
Merkel is right in ignoring the bosses.
Twice she was listening to business, twice it ended in tears.
Firstly: she lowered the taxes for the Hotel-lobby/business (on FDP and CSU insistence). Later it was revealed that the FDP received huge donations from the Hotel-business. It was a public-relations nightmare since it was proven that FDP politicians are corrupt.
The second major disaster was the abandoning of the abandoning of nuclear energy. Again on the insistence of FDP and business.
Both examples show the incapability of the government to make politics for the people.
I think Merkel learnt her lesson: "never again listen to FDP or business".
la pravda
"Its about the strain on individual taxpayers . . . not on the country. That's why only per capita payloads count here in this debate."
bff, of course it's per capita, but the Nederlands don't have such expenses to entertain infrastructures like France, Itay, Spain or Germany have... nor a Defense !
"With a summit coming up in Strasbourg in 1990, Mitterand warned: " 'The Germans are facing a very important choice.'Genscher felt he had no choice but to fulfill the wishes of the Socialist French leader and at Strasbourg, the euro was adopted by Germany."
- And at the same summit, the green light was given for the reunification of that country divided since the end of WW2 !
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The shogun of Osaka
A revealing political crackdown on a usually hidden form of art
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Certainly the missing pinkie finger on the gentleman's left hand says "Gangster" to anyone familiar with this part of Japanese sub-culture.
Just to add some color... It would take more than 50 sessions to complete a body suit. No one uses wooden needless and charcoal based ink anymore. Even Horiyoshi III uses a moden tattoo gun for his outlines and then uses sterilized stainless steel needles for the filling in by hand (tebori).
"Mr.Hashimoto's campaign follows his order forcing teachers in Osaka to stand for the national anthem."
Indeed they should. Students, teachers, Presidents. They should all stand for the national anthem.
Women wearing heavy perfume,excessive gold Jewellery,sporting hearty laughs in public places accompnied by elaborately tatooted male partners are dangerous...
Must be avoided even by eye contact.
People with tatoos willing to pierce their own bodies will not hesitate to injure anybody verbally or physically....tatooing is forbidden in all major religions...and rightly so with reasons,for healthy minds.But for sick minds anything goes...
Hieronymus_N in reply to Inshai
This is absolute hogwash. Most Japanese youngsters get American-style rockabilly/punk tattoos and have nothing to do with Yakuza/Gokudo. They are not any more willing "to injure" anyone without provocation than anyone else.
Inshai in reply to Hieronymus_N
T.Ware in reply to Inshai
Dr. Dixit
Something that needs banning: public display of blubbery men clothed only in loincloths.
T.Ware in reply to Palatinus
my local chome's dropping off point for the omikoshi is across the street from me. 100 grown men wearing cloth diapers and drinking litre upon litre of shochu is not a good thing for public order.
Mr. Marcus
When you can't fix the problem pick a fight.
One important historical footnote:
new student 2009 in reply to Anjin-San
You are right, and that's also a tradition inherited form China.
It was customary in Sung Dynasty and before that to tattoo the forehead of convicts and send they to the most remote corners of the country for hard labor or some thing, and never to be returned home (tattoo on the face would make sure of that).
The tattoo practice was discarded later in China when the imperial court began to send senior officials of non criminal offense to remote areas as punishment to show the Emperor's royal displeasure with that official. Many were later recalled back to the court to serve the Emperor again, according to history records.
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Mr Srba was certainly no ordinary bureaucrat. As well as carrying out run-of-the-mill duties at the foreign ministry, he worked as an agent of Czech military intelligence under the codename Salima, responsible for the assignments of military spies under diplomatic cover. Even before the alleged murder plot, the defence minister, Jaroslav Tvrdik, had his doubts about his integrity. So Mr Tvrdik ordered that agent Salima be removed from his duties. For good measure, he also sacked the military-intelligence chief.
The police are now looking into Mr Srba's possible influence on tenders and property deals, particularly one concerning a building in Moscow owned by the Czech state which had been rented out at a suspiciously low rate. The police will also look again into unexplained assaults on journalists and the shooting of a businessman with close ties to the Czech government. Mr Srba will have to explain how he came by the wads of cash found by the police and how he renovated two farms outside Prague on his paltry state salary.
The affair has apparently not hurt the Social Democrat-headed government re-elected earlier this summer under a new prime minister, Vladimir Spidla. But it has embarrassed Jan Kavan, the outgoing foreign minister, who last month took over as chairman of the UN's General Assembly. There is no suggestion that Mr Kavan connived at murder or corruption. But he had appointed Mr Srba to run an anti-corruption campaign in his ministry and had at first vigorously defended him against the charges that have shaken the nation. | http://www.economist.com/node/1275998 | dclm-gs1-138020001 | false | false | {
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"I've NOW decided: DD 2's HARDER than DD 3, and not just more fun..."
As suggested by the title of my review, I have formed a slightly different opinion of Double Dragon 2, in relation to Double Dragon 3 on NES. I can now safely say (w/o reservations) that I'm a bigger fan of DD 2 than DD 3, like most game players who care about the DD games.
Double Dragon 2 is one of the best side-scrolling beat-em-ups I've played (esp. given the limitations of the system on which it plays), because it offers more challenge than most, while staying fun. I admit I had to get more used to the graphical limitations of the nes than I thought, since I didn't grow up with that particular system, but I certainly warmed up to it.
My only regret is that I might even change my mind about this game later on, as I get better at it, but I suppose all reviewers feel that way about games as time passes, so I SHOULDN'T really have any regrets. Now then--ON to the review!
Plot (6): The plot isn't so exciting, because it's so typical: hero fights bad gang of thugs (with his fraternal-twin brother) to protect his town/homeland from ruin AND to rescue his g/f who was kidnapped (either to be mean or as a warning to him not to interfere); hero rescues g/f and defeats the baddies in crazy street fights, and all seems well. Yet as this is the sequel, there had to be SOMEthing to make it different from the 1st DD game, plotwise, and thankfully that didn't mean someone ELSE being kidnapped. Rather, now it seems the evil Shadow Warriors have KILLED Billy Lee's g/f, and he's simply out for REVENGE this time. It was kinda surprising to me that such a realistic edge--involving gangs and the results of their incessant violence and citywide destruction--would be put in the game...and that's why the plot gets a 6, even though NO ONE's g/f should be killed :(
Graphics (8): At first glance, I looked at this game and thought YIIIIIIGH, this'll take some getting accustomed to, as I recently bought this game and an nes for the first time, despite already having seen pics of this game. I think the graphics are pretty nice, though. Characters are overall well-detailed for an nes game, colorful, and LARGER than in DD 3, for sure. I esp. (especially) like the way the larger bosses look, although, saying that makes me wish your own character looked as cool as the bosses. I guess the bigger enemies are just really tall and buff? :P
Moves look cool too: esp. the Cyclone kick!
Music/Sound (7): I wish I commented more on the sound effects in DD 3 when I JUST reviewed it the day before (roughly), because they are overall better than in this game, I suppose. I just couldn't remember them that well lol. I can't remember who said this, but in DD 2, here, the punches don't sound like punches, and the same goes for the kicks (maybe that was even said by more than one person), and I can agree with that. Yet the sound effects are a bit cooler for the special moves, and esp. when you connect with them--impressive impact sounds for an 8-bit game. I think even the Cyclone kick sounds a tad better in this game than in DD 3.
The music, on the other hand, isn't memorable and not as enjoyable as in DD 3, but I like it ok. I personally seldom find reasons to complain about the music in ANY game, except in my Peace Keepers review (which even then wasn't a major complaint).
Control (8): I have also decided that dashing isn't as big a deal in DD 3 as I had thought, so perhaps the control problems in that game aren't that serious, yet the control in DD 2 is still a little better here, overall. You might wonder why I'm comparing the games like crazy, but I guess that's because the similarities and differences between the 2 games fascinate me, in a sense.
Control is also one of the best aspects for making a comparison between the different DD games, since special moves are executed similarly in both. The Cyclone kick is a little harder to do, and so are the Hyper Uppercut and ESP. the Hyper Knee (whatever) move, but practice makes perfect, and dashing wasn't needed in this game to avoid being surrounded by cheap enemies, such as in DD 3, although the Hyper Knee is practically mandatory for beating some bosses, later in the game. This means that the controls itself aren't bad, but just that the controls can't afford to be 'clumsy'.
Finally, to correct a typo from my DD 3 review (as well as a parenthesis typo since I HATE making typos!), I mentioned the ATTACK scheme in this game, in which you have to use the B button to punch or kick to the left, or the A button to do the same, but in the other/right direction. This may seem awkward at first, and some gamers don't like having to turn around to kick someone in the same direction that they can punch someone, but I like this original idea, even if it's silly. Furthermore, there are a few times when kicks in this game are USEFUL, as some enemies get faked out by Billy's/Jimmy's back-kicks; not expecting your hero to attack them when their back is turned to them.
I guess the main reason I like to compare the two games is because if you like one, you might like the other :) Or maybe I just like comparing different games in the same series (so I hope I'm not making many unnecessary comparisons).
Gameplay (8): Billy and Jimmy have more moves in this game than in DD 3, even though they can't do dashing versions of their moves. Dashing isn't needed in this game to get around, as most enemies are considerably slower than the Dragon twins in terms of walking speed, and thus won't so easily be able to trap you between them. On the other hand, you can't do team-up moves like in DD 3 (which might be really useful, if I had a friend to play with!), which can add a nice level of depth not found in most beat-em-ups, and you don't automatically get weapons to use (albeit limited in use), either, which could have been useful against some of the CHEAPER bosses in this game.
I shoulda seen this coming, but this game is actually overall HARDER than DD 3. Sure: you get more lives and you have codes like the extra-lives trick, but the last boss is actually CHEAPER than in DD 3, so I now have to eat my words for thinking I couldn't beat DD 3, and I can thank WLau for reminding me that the 'up-and-down' strategy DOES work somewhat well against even the toughest foes in DD 3 (although I felt the need to use a slightly different strategy than his to beat the game). I don't see a good pattern for beating the last boss this time...
The other reason this game is harder is because you have to deal with traps and beds of nails that you can land on if not careful, and which spell instant death. I've NEVER been a big fan of adding weird levels and parts of levels like these in side-scrolling beat-em-ups (or racing levels, for that matter), because they're usually too hard for me to handle! In the DD games I have played, however, I have so far been able to deal with these potential predicaments with mere practice, even though it's VERY easy to mess up and see all your extra lives go down the drain...but I wish more beat-em-ups had fun challenges like the ones I've encountered in the DD series :)
Replay Value (7): This game is pretty fun and certainly LONGER than its sequel, so whether you find this game harder or not will not detract from its overall greater complexity and greater variety of challenges. Sure: you only get basically one character to play as, with one set of moves to use, as opposed to 3 fighters in DD 3, but you have to use a greater percentage of your moves repertoire cleverly in order to defeat your foes and overcome all literal obstacles.
Overall (8): This is certainly one of the better beat-em-ups I've encountered, and I can tell you, I've played a LOT of them. This game takes more skill to navigate through, making it more than just a side-scroller with cool moves and pleasant video and audio characteristics. If you don't enjoy this game because you find the somewhat Super-Deformed (SD) graphics nauseating; the music uninspiring; the controls too quirky; etc., granted, but I can point to few games in its genre--other than Streets of Rage 3 and maybe Guardian Heroes on Saturn--that surpass it in overall beat-em-up bliss. ~Raiden/Nick
Reviewer's Score: 8/10 | Originally Posted: 01/07/03, Updated 01/07/03
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1. “These rivers, my son, run, the eastern (like the Ganga) toward the east, the western (like the Sindhu) toward the west. They go from sea to sea (i.e. the clouds lift up the water from the sea to the sky, and send it back as rain to the sea). They become indeed sea. And as those rivers, when they are in the sea, do not know, I am this or that river,
2. “In the same manner, my son, all these creatures, when they have come back from the True, know not that they have come back from the True. Whatever these creatures are here, whether a lion, or a wolf, or a boar, or a worm, or a midge, or a gnat, or a mosquito, that they become again and again.
Be it so, my child,” the father replied.
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Im almost positive I should have an abortion....
Tue, 02-28-2012 - 11:23pm
Ill try to make this as short as possible (cause its sort
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Welcome to the board. There's a good group here, and I hope you will find some support.
I know you asked for a "what would you do" answer, so he it goes. Short and sweet.
If it were me, I would do whatever it took to get myself and my two children out of that home and away from the drugs IMMEDIATELY. If you love the children you have, you absolutely MUST get them away from it. If you do not, you can lose the children you have to social services or your addiction.
I know it's nice to have a new house, I know you don't think he would hit you. You have two little girls, and my question to you is do you want your little girls thinking it's okay to be with someone who is using drugs and who is paranoid and accusing them of cheating on him? If you don't want the kids you have to think that's okay, then you've got to get them OUT of there. Drugs lead people to do things that never planned on doing, and things they wouldn't do sober. How would you feel if your children got hurt by drugs or your bf?
You will notice I haven't even said one thing about whether you should keep the baby or not. To me that's not even the point here. You have two children who are in IMMEDIATE danger, and you need to be the good mom I know you are and get them and you to safety NOW. You need to get out of drugs for yourself and for your kids. Trust me - I have a job where I get to see the effects of drugs in people's lives on a daily basis. They do horrific things.
As for the pregnancy, if you've been using drugs, it is entirely possible that it's affected the baby you're carrying. You may want to have an honest meeting with a doctor and find out the real health risks of carrying this baby to term. I would suggest not keeping it, to have one less tie to your BF because his drug use is spiraling out of control from the sound of things, but you already have a connection through your youngest. I guess the question I've got for you is whether you think you can raise three children on your own, or maybe it would be better to only have two. I know for me that helped make my decision simple. I couldn't afford two and keep the life I wanted. One it was.
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0.028271 | <urn:uuid:2b4e80c6-9d6b-4bf9-b60f-9e4ef97453c7> | en | 0.975809 | In spite of how good it makes me feel that this predator is being put away he was not treated fairly and that will affect us all by undermining the Constitution. We cannot let our emotional preferences control reason.
It just isn't right that the guy who denied him treatment gets to commit him for life because he had no treatment at the end of his prison sentence.
A seriously flawed decision by Justice Hoen and it is going to create more problems for us by ensuring other offenders will get out when they shouldn't. I hope this gets appealed.
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The program mirrors the existing QuickPay initiative that requires the federal government to pay small contractors quickly, ideally within 15 days. The White House said that program has accelerated more than $220 billion worth of payments to federal contractors, making it easier for those businesses to grow.
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So was all of this worth it? The Post's review illustrates just how hard it is to make that judgment:
The whole story is worth a read in order to get a more detailed description of what these intercepts looked like and who they ended up targeting. In some ways, the Snowden intercepts show that the NSA is fairly fastidious about minimizing data on US persons. In other ways, however, the NSA plainly stretches to the limit—and probably beyond—the rules for defining who is and isn't a US person. Click the link for more.
1Naturally, the NSA has an explanation:
Front page image: Edward Snowden | http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2014/07/nsa-said-edward-snowden-had-no-access-surveillance-intercepts-they-lied | dclm-gs1-138320001 | false | false | {
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LemonDrizzled Fri 06-Sep-13 13:47:04
nerfgunsftw Fri 06-Sep-13 13:49:28
Black ball.
LadyBigtoes Fri 06-Sep-13 13:50:21
Blocking her would be v satisfying but might backfire on you - she will then get her own back on you one day.
What you want is to let her through but make sure she somehow knows this is because of your magnanimity (presumably this will happen, via the friends). Then she will always owe you one - and if she is nice now, that might be OK.
tangerinefeathers Fri 06-Sep-13 13:53:38
How rude was she?
You could let her in but make it clear she has to behave herself.
I think most people deserve a second chance... she may have grown up a bit.
solarbright Fri 06-Sep-13 13:53:52
Hmmm. Was she being rude to you because she assumed you were a 'little person of no consequence' -type thing? If so, blackball. Unless she's had some sort of personal epiphany, she's probably the same snobbish brat she was then.
LemonDrizzled Fri 06-Sep-13 13:59:26
I can't give too many details without outing myself, but it was a serious Health and Safety issue for the charity event I was responsible for and she was taking the piss to be funny and look clever. She was with a large gang of friends and I was on my own and found it very intimidating.
I think she is actually a Loser and treats the Little People with contempt, but hadn't realised who I was IYKWIM.
I just don't want to be made uncomfortable in my own safe place with my friends! I probably just need to bluff it out don't I? She should be more embarrassed than me if she has any shame.
LemonDrizzled Fri 06-Sep-13 14:00:39
yes solar exactly that, snobbish brat! And a bit of a heavy drinker then too. But maybe she is better now she has settled down.
UnexpectedItemInShaggingArea Fri 06-Sep-13 14:03:11
Black ball.
She sounds like a bully.
ZombiesAteMyBigToe Fri 06-Sep-13 14:05:34
I'd blackball.
But only because in my experience people like that very rarely change and she has the potential to make this area of your life unpleasant and uncomfortable.
Whocansay Fri 06-Sep-13 14:07:49
She sounds like a Wendy. Black ball.
They have no way of knowing if it was you anyway.
FunnysInLaJardin Fri 06-Sep-13 14:07:57
black ball, she must have some brass neck applying to join in the first place
Oh come on, you could have some fun with this. accept her graciously but make damn sure she understands and agrees to the health and safety rules which you'll feel compelled to goo through at some length. .. wink
HeathRobinson Fri 06-Sep-13 14:08:33
Would she actually find out you blackballed her? Isn't it a anonymous process?
Block her application on basis of "lack of sportmanship".
QueenofallIsee Fri 06-Sep-13 14:09:48
I would Blackball - its not revenge, it is exercising your right. I think that you may have made a bit of a mistake in discussing it with mutual friends ahead of doing it but its too late now...that doesn't mean you have to put up with a load of rubbish
oldgrandmama Fri 06-Sep-13 14:10:23
Black ball, definitely. And I'm thinking of starting a thread on 'revenge is sweet ...' Boy, have I got some stories (involve cheating ex)
perfectstorm Fri 06-Sep-13 14:10:55
Black ball. Second chances matter, but she has those in other settings. Why risk your safe space? Someone who bullies someone they think is powerless is unlikely to be a different woman a couple of years later.
How old was she, though? Late teens, and people can change quite fast. Late 20s and 30s, and more doubtful.
Invite her in for a chat about her membership application and see how she reacts when she realises who you are. If she apologises for being a drunken twat then that's one thing but if she tries to pretend that it didn't happen or was no big deal then either blackball or probationary membership.
thenightsky Fri 06-Sep-13 14:11:27
Another vote for 'blackball' here.
QueenofallIsee Fri 06-Sep-13 14:11:32
PS - I don't have much patience with you having to suffer to be 'the bigger person'..she sounds like a complete bitch and noone gets a medal or a pat on the back for putting up with that kind of bollocks
Lweji Fri 06-Sep-13 14:14:09
I'd blackball, not because of any personal insults, but because from knowing her previously you don't think she'd be a good member.
And I'd worry if she was involved in any organisation of events, should she overlook serious H&S issues.
InternationalPower Fri 06-Sep-13 14:14:25
I agree with Chaz. No need to decline her application and upset her friends (who you are presumably on good terms with?)
But, you could have so much more fun by letting her know just how big a mistake she made and how long memories are...
LemonDrizzled Fri 06-Sep-13 14:14:45
I agree it is a shame I was discussing her application with a senior member. Her friends overheard and contacted me today to intercede.
I am tending towards clemency at the moment. I once swore at someone who was being uncooperative over theatre seats and it turned out he was the local Methodist Minister. That took me years to live down. Actually my friends still pull my leg over it. I would hate to have been punished two years later.
But that was a one off and I think with her it is common behaviour.
MooncupGoddess Fri 06-Sep-13 14:15:46
From what you say it might backfire on you if you blackball her... will people know it's you? If you're not careful you might just end up looking petty and vindictive. If she's awful she'll dig her own grave in time.
perfectstorm Fri 06-Sep-13 14:19:55
Frankly her friends calling you up to intercede is also a red flag IMO. Adult women don't behave that way... surely? Imagine the drama if she rallies the troops every time (and yes, I do think she did that, or they would have approached you to say something when they heard it).
All sounds a bit too like school for my liking. Who has time for such nonsense?
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• Panthera leo, family Felidae
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1.2 (the Lion) The zodiacal sign or constellation Leo.
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conqueror, champion, conquering hero, warrior, knight, paladin
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3 (Lion) A member of a Lions Club.
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• The lions known in parts of Europe and around the Mediterranean in early times were not African but Asiatic lions, rare animals in the 21st century. The name lion came into English from French, and ultimately from Greek leōn. The Anglo-Saxons had used the Latin form Leo, which was overtaken by lion for the animal, but which is still the name of a constellation and sign of the zodiac.
In ancient Rome lions and other wild beasts provided entertainment in the amphitheatres. Christians and other dissidents were left at their mercy in the arena, a practice behind our phrase to throw someone to the lions. After the terrible slaughter of British soldiers during the First World War, the phrase lions led by donkeys became popular as a way of encapsulating the idea that the men had been brave, but had been let down by their senior officers. It is not clear who first came up with the description, but the French troops defeated by the Prussians in 1871 were described as ‘lions led by packasses’. From medieval times until the opening of London Zoo in the 19th century, the Tower of London contained a menagerie of unusual animals, among which were lions. Not surprisingly, they were a great attraction for visitors to the city, and the phrase to see the lions sprang up with the meaning ‘to see the sights or attractions of a place’. From there a lion became a celebrity or noted person, a sense which gave us lionize, ‘to treat as a celebrity’, in the 1830s. See also beard
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ZB believes this stand off with Russia needs a quick resolution, and if not it could be a steady deterioration in the relationship with Russia. (That's basically what Secretary Gates said today, but how well prepared was the administration for this conflict?) It was not prepared because this conflict was mushrooming over a longish period of time, during which the President was declaring his admiration for Putin. (This is part of President Bush's insistence that personal diplomacy has worked with Russia.) I don't linger on that. Right now we have serious problems with our relations with Russia so it's a time to stand together�we shouldn't be sniping at Bush. The U.S. should be united in a pursuit of an international law in which respect for other countries is desirable, and Russia needs to know that as well. But let's be clear: this is not a new Cold War. Russia is quite vulnerable, and Russia could be scared that it could lose its assets that it has stashed in the West. I think if we're steady and clear in that there are consequences, Russia might back off. (What should the U.S. do then?) There will be consequences, serious ones, we need to tell them that. (How could they not know that?) Because that's been our behavior over the last several years, that we would not react strongly. (But there's no chance this could end in a war?) I don't believe so, the Cold War was a global competition. Russia has no ideology right now, so there won't be many countries that want to line up behind Russian nationalism.
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ABSTRACT Using Kosko's hypercube, we identify a fuzzy set with a point in a unit hypercube. A non-fuzzy or crisp subset of a set is a vertex of the hypercube. We introduce some new ideas: the definition of the fuzzy segment joining two given fuzzy subsets of a set, the set of midpoints between those two fuzzy subsets, and the set of equidistant points from given points. We present some basic properties and relations between these concepts and provide a complete description of fuzzy segments and midpoints. In the majority of cases, there is no unique midpoint; one has an infinite set of possibilities to choose from. This situation is totally different from classical Euclidean geometry where, for two given points, there is a unique midpoint. We use the obtained results to study two sets of medical data and present two applications in medicine: the fuzzy degree of two concurrent food and drug addictions, and a fuzzy representation of concomitant causal mechanisms of stroke.
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ABSTRACT: Let d be a metric on the set FP(X) of fuzzy subsets of a set X. A mid- point of two fuzzy subsets µ, 2 FP(X) is any fuzzy subset 2 FP(X) such that d(,µ ) = d(, ) = 1 2d(µ, ). These midpoints can be used to describe "middle ways" or "compromises" between two situa- tions described by the fuzzy subsets µ and . In this work we explic- itly compute midpoints for weighted Hamming distances and for weighted maximum distances. The former is a generalization of a previous work by Nieto and Torres (Artif. Intell. Med. 27 (2003), 81-101). We also propose a new application of mid- points in medicine, based on their use as average representations of pa- tients of which we have available two descriptions as fuzzy subsets of a set of attribute variables.
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ABSTRACT: Although adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) has very fast convergence time, it is not suitable for classification problems because its outputs are not integer. In order to overcome this problem, this paper provides four adaptive neuro-fuzzy classifiers; adaptive neuro-fuzzy classifier with linguistic hedges (ANFCLH), linguistic hedges neuro-fuzzy classifier with selected features (LHNFCSF), conjugate gradient neuro-fuzzy classifier (SCGNFC) and speeding up scaled conjugate gradient neuro-fuzzy classifier (SSCGNFC). These classifiers are used to achieve very fast, simple and efficient breast cancer diagnosis. Both SCGNFC and SSCGNFC systems are optimized by scaled conjugate gradient algorithms. In these two systems, k-means algorithm is used to initialize the fuzzy rules. Also, Gaussian membership function is only used for fuzzy set descriptions, because of its simple derivative expressions. The other two systems are based on linguistic hedges (LH) tuned by scaled conjugate gradient. The classifiers performances are analyzed and compared by applying them to breast cancer diagnosis. The results indicated that SCGNFC, SSCGNFC and ANFCLH achieved the same accuracy of 97.6608 % in the training phase while LHNFCSF performed better than other methods in the training phase by achieving an accuracy of 100 %. In the testing phase, the overall accuracies of LHNFCSF achieved 97.8038 %, which is superior also to other methods. Applying LHNFCSF not only reduces the dimensions of the problem, but also improves classification performance by discarding redundant, noise-corrupted or unimportant features. Also, the k-means clustering algorithm was used to determine the membership functions of each feature. LHNFCSF achieved mean RMSE values of 0.0439 in the training phase after feature selection and gives the best testing recognition rates of 98.8304 and 98.0469 during training and testing phases, respectively using two clusters for each class. The results strongly suggest that ANFCLH can aid in the diagnosis of breast cancer and can be very helpful to the physicians for their final decision on their patients.
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• JB Smoove: (Answering the question 'Would you do whatever it takes to win a political election?') Hell yeah!!! These cats will do anything to win! If I was running I'd do damn near what I gotta do to win that damn election, man. I'm a mudslinger, man. I believe in slinging that mud! You know what that means? If I find out something about you, I'm gonna lay it out there!
• JB Smoove: (Explaining how he 'keeps it real') Keep it real by being straight forward. Don't pull no punches on people. It's better to tell somebody than just lollygag around, letting them think they're living their life the right way. Because some people don't know what the hell they're doing, they don't know if they're living the right way or making the right decisions. Some people don't know that. You got the smartest person in the world but there is a whole lot of different kinds of smarts. There's book smart, there is street smart, there's relationship smart, there's too many different kinds of smarts to know all of them. Everybody doesn't know every kind of smart. There's money smart, there's movie smart, there's computer smart. There's just too many different kinds of smarts for people to know all the smarts.
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But today the Red Planet is a cold, dry desert.
"Why do we appear to have had a climate on Mars that could have supported life at the surface early on, and we don't today?" asked Bruce Jakosky of the University of Colorado's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, the lead scientist for NASA's Maven mission. "Something fundamentally changed, and we want to understand what those changes were."
The $671 million Maven mission hopes to begin solving that puzzle with a 1:28 p.m. EST blastoff Monday atop an Atlas V rocket from Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla.
There's a 60% chance of favorable weather during the two-hour launch window.
After a successful launch, the Maven spacecraft will take 10 months to reach orbit around Mars, where it will perform science observations for at least one Earth year.
Scientists say the water and greenhouse gasses once abundant in Mars' thicker atmosphere could have gone in two directions: down, to be absorbed by the planet's crust, or up, escaping to space through the top of the atmosphere.
Maven — short for "Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN" — will focus on the latter as the most likely driver behind Mars' loss of atmosphere and resulting climate change.
Eight science instruments carrying nine sensors will study the makeup of the upper atmosphere, and how it reacts to solar wind and storms thought responsible for stripping molecules away over time.
"The sun is a major player in this mission," said Janet Luhmann, Maven deputy principal investigator from the University of California at Berkeley. "The atmosphere is more or less exposed most everywhere to the direct onslaught of what's coming from the sun."
That's because Mars lacks a protective magnetic field like Earth's. It disappeared when Mars was about a billion years old, and the loss of atmosphere began around the same time, when solar activity was more intense.
The length of a school bus with its solar arrays deployed, the Lockheed Martin-built Maven spacecraft will soar as high as 3,900 miles and as low as 93 miles above the surface.
Five times it will perform "deep dip" campaigns, dropping to an altitude of 78 miles to sample denser regions.
By understanding what's eating away at the atmosphere at slow rates today, and combining that with historical models of solar activity, mission scientists will be able to extrapolate how Mars' atmosphere and climate changed over billions of years.
They say that knowledge has broader implications for understanding whether life could have been possible on Mars or other planets, particularly as more and more planets are being discovered, including some potentially like Earth.
"We're understanding processes by which a planetary environment can change through time," Jakosky said. "We want to understand what makes a planet habitable, and what makes a planet go from being habitable to not being habitable?"
In addition to its primary science mission, Maven carries an antenna that will serve as a backup communications link between Earth and the rovers and landers operating on Mars.
The science mission could be extended after the initial year is up.
"It's going to answer a key question about Mars' evolution," said Michael Meyer, lead Mars scientist at NASA headquarters.
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Delicious Tofu Cutlets
What you need:
1 jar of Grey Poupon, or your favorite mustard (not the Heinz kind)
1 block of extra firm tofu
bread crumbs
canola or vegetable oil
any other spices that you would like to add to the crumbs (dry or chopped fine)
What you do:
Before I went vegan, I absolutely loved my moms chicken cutlets. So I decided to try and create a cruelty free version of my own. This recipe is very quick and simple and is great for those nights when you just want to throw something together. Also, I do not use precise measurements, and neither do truly good cooks.
1. Drain any excess water from your tofu and set on a cutting board.
2. Slice tofu into cutlets about 1/4 to 1/2 an inch thick, but no more than this unless you want to taste more tofu.
3. In a medium frying pan, pour enough oil in to fill about 1/4 of an inch, more if you are using thicker slices of tofu. If you want a little more flavor, use olive oil instead of canola/ vegetable oil. Heat on medium. (The oil is hot enough if it bubbles and crackles furiously when you place the tofu in.)
4. Spread bread crumbs in a plate so that there is an even coating. As you coat the tofu, you may need to add more if you begin to run low.
5. Quickly spread mustard on tofu slices using more or less depending on your taste. Lay them in the bread crumbs and evenly coat all sides.
6. Place four or five (depending on how big your pan is) slices into the pan at enough distance so that they are not right on top of each other. BE CAREFUL! The oil is very hot and can jump if you just plop them in.
7. Since tofu can be eaten right out of the package, it doesn't need to sit long in the pan. Once the bread crumb coating has become golden brown on each side use tongs to remove the slices and place them on a paper towel on top of a plate. The towel will soak up excess oil. Repeat until all tofu slices are done.
These cutlets go great with some linguine and vegetables such as spinach. If you don't like the mustard, you can try to skip it. The bread crumbs will stick to the tofu anyway, since they are wet, but I wouldn't recommend it that way. The mustard gives it that extra little burst of flavor. Enjoy!
Preparation Time:
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GOP fundraising tactic avoids cash limits
- The Washington Times - Sunday, May 15, 2011
Republican officials are getting a first peek at what's being called a "sky's the limit" approach to funding the party's 2012 campaigns across the country - from the presidential race down to mayoral contests.
The timing couldn't be better, given that the Republican National Committee is still nearly $20 million in the red 19 months before the 2012 elections and Republicans have no idea who will head their national ticket or whether the candidate will be any great shakes at raising funds.
"It could let us blow away the Democrats on money raising next year, instead of the other way around as it was last time," Louisiana Republican National Committee member Roger Villere told The Washington Times.
In 2008, Barack Obama declined public financing for his presidential campaign and instead raised $800 million on his own, successfully earning a title change from "senator" to "president," while Sen. John McCain of Arizona, whose campaign was financially broke, was forced to limit his general election spending to the $80 million that public financing allowed.
With that in mind, the Republicans designed their new fundraising weapon - dubbed Republican Super PAC (RSPAC) - to skirt the limits and regulations that the federal government and, in some cases, states impose on campaign contributions.
The RSPAC, revealed to the RNC's other 165 members via email on Sunday, is an independent expenditure group structured to, in effect, give candidates the power to do their own fundraising while legally avoiding federal or state limits.
Independent expenditure groups in general are not subject to the same restrictions placed on the actual campaign.
"This is a legal way for them to maximize their fundraising efforts by directing earmarked contributions to the RSPAC," said Indiana RNC member James Bopp Jr., a constitutional lawyer who masterminded the RSPAC with Mr. Villere of Louisiana and Oregon RNC member Solomon Yue.
The RSPAC's creators know they don't have a patent on their approach.
"Other people could do this, and we are happy to compete with them," Mr. Yue said.
The RSPAC's goal is not simply to edge out Democratic fundraising, but to dwarf all past financial contributions to political parties and candidates, including presidential campaigns.
About the only similarity between other independent expenditure organizations, including the successful American Crossroads, and the new RSPAC is that it also is legally designated as a "527," which refers to a section in the federal tax code.
The RSPAC goes beyond other independent expenditure groups in both parties by empowering mayoral, state legislative, congressional nominees and the GOP's presidential choice to seek unlimited contributions from donors who might gladly give $100,000 or more but have "maxed out," having given the federal limit of $2,500 to the presidential campaign, $30,800 to the Republican National Committee and $10,000 to a state GOP.
Those maxed-out donors could give to American Crossroads (which has pledged to raise $120 million for 2012) or other independent expenditure groups but the incentive is different.
Crossroads spent more than $70 million, mostly in uncoordinated TV advertising on behalf of the GOP's nominee for president as well as for other offices.
But while Crossroads and similar groups employ their own fundraisers, RSPAC will use local, state and federal office holders and seekers who may know personally five or 10 potential $100,000 donors who want to earmark their contributions.
RSPAC also will use state parties as fundraisers. State parties are expected to be eager participants because their donors are limited to $10,000 each.
For example, a maxed-out Missouri or Ohio donor who wants to give his state party $100,000 on top of the $10,000 already given may write a check out to RSPAC, which can then spend the money on phone banks and direct mail to get out the vote efforts - an effort that the state party would otherwise have to find the money to finance.
Using the RSPAC will relieve state parties of having to hire their own legal counsels for this unique approach.
The fundraising approach's architects say the purpose of RSPAC is not to beat American Crossroads or any other independent expenditure group.
"Creating this independent expenditure PAC is not to compete with American Crossroads, which specializes in TV commercial ads, which are very expensive," Mr. Yue said. "We want to focus on getting out the vote - boots on the ground in the form of paid phone bank and direct mail. It's not very expensive, but it is very effective - and necessary in political warfare."
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One Korea, After All
Time to undo the Kim family regime
Jan 16, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 17 • By ROSS TERRILL
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With 28-year-old Kim Jong Eun propped up to handle Pyongyang’s succession crisis, three facts about North Korea are salient. Kim Jong Il, who died December 17, like his father was a tyrant whose damage makes Qaddafi seem a choirboy. After six decades of peaceful competition with the capitalist South, the socialist North’s per capita GDP is 5 percent of South Korea’s. Years of futile disarmament talks with North Korea compare with the worst peace-effort fiascoes of League of Nations days.
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George W. Bush’s comment to Bob Woodward, “I loathe Kim Jong Il,” was a fitter summation of this cruel nonentity than the full-page world-historical pomposity of the New York Times’s obituary. Kim Jong Il made but two offerings to his people: poverty and nuclear weapons. Now, in rituals the world takes too seriously, his son Kim Jong Eun gathers titles in Pyongyang’s totalitarian edifice as a house may add gargoyles, but it means little. Half a dozen Communist regimes in Europe looked stable until suddenly gone.
“No good options exist,” the pundits always say of North Korea. “It’s the six‑party talks or another Korean War,” they declare. Give Seoul’s “sunshine policy” toward Pyongyang more time to mellow the Kim family regime. Results justified none of these hopes in 17 years’ arguing over the North’s nuclear program. There is no way to “address North Korea’s security concerns” when Pyongyang simply wants the United States to leave so it may grab the South.
Why did the Obama administration last month express hope for a “stable transition” in Pyongyang? John Bolton correctly wrote in the Wall Street Journal, “It is a self-fulfilling prophecy for Washington to see [Kim Jong Il’s] death only as a risk, rather than an opportunity.”
Fortunately, a good option does exist that would terminate the problem of nukes on the Korea peninsula. Talks would switch from Pyongyang’s “intentions” and weapons to the shape of a reunified Korea. The basis would be Pyongyang’s longstanding suggestion of a Democratic Confederal Republic of Koryo and Seoul’s similar idea of a Korean National Community.
Restoring the unity of a split country raises transforming possibilities; in this case, it can be “regime change” acceptable to nearly all parties. For 1,269 years there was one Korean state; for six decades there have been two. The reward for 28-year-old Kim Jong Eun would be respect from all Korea and a personal achievement absent in the life of his father and grandfather. Educated in Switzerland, with some knowledge of the West, he is young enough to glimpse redemption from his family’s horrible record by permitting peaceful reunification for the Korean people.
Hawks and doves have a rare opportunity to unite in this project. Reunification of Korea is a positive goal and susceptible to subtle negotiation. Hawks would see the Pyongyang regime swallowed into a new Korea government. Doves would see nukes gone from the Korea peninsula. A One Korea government, dominated by southerners, would renounce nuclear weapons. When did an American president or secretary of state last give a speech pushing the reunification of Korea? Obama should deliver one within weeks.
The Korean War (1950-53) stemmed from a struggle over reunification. The war was Kim Il Sung’s attempt to reunify Korea by force. The armistice of 1953 left unsolved this crucial issue of reunification and began the unfolding spectacle of freedom’s success and tyranny’s failure.
World War II and its aftermath were years of fluidity in international relations during which maps were redrawn almost by the week. The Soviet Union and the United States, mopping up against Japan, agreed on slicing Korea into two at the 38th parallel after a late night map examination by State Department officer Dean Rusk in August 1945. Kim Il Sung sought international Communist support for an attack on the South to end the murky maneuvers between his Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (proclaimed in September 1948) and Syngman Rhee’s Republic of Korea (proclaimed in August 1948), each government claiming to represent the whole nation.
During 1948‑49, on the ground in southern Korea, Washington signaled declining commitment to Korea’s unity and security as Rhee’s fledgling government dealt with Communist rebellions that Stalin was supporting.
Everett Drumright, who set up the U.S. mission to the Rhee government, conveyed the atmosphere of insouciance about the threat of Kim Il Sung: “In 1948 only two divisions of troops were left in Korea,” he said in an interview. “But, over our objections at the embassy, they were recalled in the middle of 1949.” The diplomat described Rhee’s reaction to Truman’s policy: “[He was] extraordinarily bitter about the . . . evacuation and what he saw as a lack of help by the U.S. at this critical juncture.” Drumright summed up sadly, “We didn’t know what was going on in Washington.”
At the end of 1949, Kim lacked Moscow’s and Beijing’s support to grab the South. But in January 1950, Washington disastrously signaled its limited strategic interest in Korea in remarks by Secretary of State Dean Acheson. In March, Stalin told Kim he would support an armed reunification if Mao could be brought on board.
Mao was cautious, but assurances from Stalin (of Soviet air support) and from Kim (that Washington would not jump in and that the South would rise up to embrace socialism) persuaded him to agree and prepare for war.
When North Korea attacked in June 1950, Truman reversed himself and sent substantial forces from Japan into Korea. Mao, already prepared for intervention, sent more than 200,000 troops when the U.S. and South Korean armies pushed back the North’s forces and reached the Chinese border.
China suffered 152,000 dead and 383,000 badly wounded in the war. Urgent home reconstruction tasks of Mao’s brand-new regime were also disrupted. A door slammed closed against Mao’s quest for the China seat in the Security Council of the United Nations. Incorporation of Taiwan into the PRC was indefinitely postponed. Beijing did not recover from the class‑struggle mentality developed during the “anti-imperialist” Korean War until the death of Mao in 1976.
The Korean people lost even more in the war and later from the spiritual deprivation of division and the intensifying human tragedy within failed North Korea. As a result of the role of Stalin and Mao (backing Kim) and of Washington’s failure to deter Kim, reunification was put out of reach for generations.
U.S. officials often declare the Kim dynasty inscrutable. In 2006, Nicholas Burns, then number three at the State Department, said that without a U.S. embassy in North Korea “it is hard to know what Pyongyang wants.” Not really. Kim Jong Il wanted exactly what his father sought in June 1950: a reunified Korea under Communist leadership, by military means if necessary and possible.
You would never know this from Jimmy Carter’s prattling about North Korea’s “seeking attention” and “respect” with its nuclear program. If all Pyongyang wanted was to be secure as a bug in its Stalinist rug, it would not have attacked South Korea in 1950, attempted assassinations of two South Korean presidents, and continued to attack the South—torpedoing the naval vessel Cheonan and shelling Yeonpyeong Island—even into the Obama years.
Our best tribute to the bravery of U.S., South Korean, and other soldiers 60 years ago, and our most appropriate response to the sudden political fluidity in Pyongyang, would be the reunification of Korea under democracy. It would be a smoke-and-mirrors process of negotiation that offered benefit to all parties—until the last stage.
A quiet bargain between the United States and China is the key. Beijing accepts the end of Stalinism in North Korea. Washington and its allies offer Beijing a reunified Korea free of U.S. troops and nuclear weapons. Given Pyongyang’s virulence toward Seoul last week, no chance exists for the two Korean states to take the first step. Obama and Hu Jintao must jointly urge the reunification process.
Beijing has long preferred the devil it knows (a Stalinist ally in Pyongyang) to an unknown devil (a unified Korea). But a threshold was reached in 2006 when Beijing said it was “brazen” of North Korea to perform a nuclear test; leading Korea specialists in China later declared past negotiations with Pyongyang “a failure.” Pyongyang’s defiance of Beijing, said Professor Zhang Liangui of the Central Communist Party School, is “the worst setback for Chinese foreign policy in the history of the PRC.” Yan Xuetong of Qinghua University compared the breach between North Korea and China to the Sino‑Soviet split of the 1960s. “The old relationship has gone to hell,” he declared. “It’s a big slap to China.”
This was strong medicine. These specialists did not speak out without a green light from a senior figure. One must be restrained in hoping for a better Korea policy from a government headed by Hu Jintao, who has praised both the North Korean and Cuban regimes, but Beijing’s tie with Pyongyang seems atavistic for a modernizing China. An adviser to Hu Jintao at People’s University told me over dinner in Beijing in November that Hu has not really praised North Korea; he just favors “the stability” of the present situation. But younger Chinese Communists no longer want China to be known for propping up Asia’s most repressive and unsuccessful regime.
It is China, after all, not the United States, that has just two modest rivers between it and Korea; China that would feel the consequences of nuclear explosions on the Korean Peninsula. “It was a stupid policy for China to view North Korea’s nuclear weapons as potential leverage against the United States,” said Professor Zhang. “Instead the nuclear weapons will be mainly aimed at China.” Quite possibly.
Reunification would be seen as a process offering open‑ended paths to One Korea. North Korea would cherish an initial hope of major input into reunification that would be dashed by the huge gap in muscle and prosperity between South and North. Seoul’s failed “sunshine policy” would suddenly come into its own as the totalitarian edifice in Pyongyang cracked and compromises, deals, defections, realignments of all kinds became possible. Reunification would end up being regime change cast in a new dress. The system entrenched in Pyongyang could never act thus, but an impulsive 28-year-old offered a role in a new One Korea government just might.
Japan would help finance post‑reunification Korea—along with the U.N., World Bank, and perhaps the IMF—in return for the alleviation of a major security concern. A Korea deal could well be the key to preventing a downward spiral in Japan‑China relations and the disaster of Japan making its own nuclear weapons. Japan’s worry about China is tomorrow’s issue for Beijing; North Korea’s fate should be yesterday’s.
Let a unified non‑Communist Korea lean where it chooses. It is likely to be friendly to China, but not Beijing’s ally. Koreans would probably be warm to Washington and continue the present close economic and cultural relationship with U.S. society. Civil with Japan, the new Korea would also keep the door open to Russia as insurance against China.
Beijing did not want Kim Jong Eun to succeed his father, seeing another father-to-son succession as unsocialist and stifling. Now is a good time for the Chinese to roll the dice for reunification as they have zero investment in Kim Jong Eun. “One Korea” is no less of an imperative than “One China,” after all. A Chinese foreign ministry spokesman said last month: “China and North Korea have always maintained high-level visits, and we welcome North Korea’s leaders to visit China when convenient for both parties.” It is significant that he did not say “leader,” but “leaders.” Likewise, impersonal wording marked most of the Chinese statements after Kim Jong Il’s death and his son’s elevation to post after post: “The Chinese people have always stood by the Korean people.”
Some feel the democracies should just muddle along on North Korea since crumbling dictatorships are dangerous. Indeed, there is risk. The best argument against reunification is the danger of desperate acts in the North as the outcome of the process becomes clear. North Korea has a one-million-plus army whose loyalties could waver or fracture. There are probably chemical and biological weapons close to the DMZ that could fall into crazy hands. However, the international structure surrounding a step-by-step reunification process, orchestrated from the wings by Washington and Beijing, would modify the danger. Above all, a boss of North Korea in his twenties presents a huge opportunity for Obama to “transform” the Korea issue.
Overlooked by believers in everlasting “talks” is the immorality of sustaining North Korea. Condoleezza Rice once said the collapse of the Soviet Union was the biggest victory for human rights in the 20th century. How then to justify propping up North Korea? Each billion in aid—most is from China—prolongs Pyongyang’s repression and military braggadocio. The gap between South and North grows every year, making reunification more costly for Seoul. Surely the end of the Pyongyang regime would be a spectacular victory for human rights in Asia.
The writing is on the wall for the miserable Pyongyang regime, and the fence‑sitting should be over for China. No longer poor and a victim, China can put deeds behind its words about “peace and development” and “international community.” Japan’s new prime minister, Yoshihiko Noda, setting off for Beijing last week, lamely declared: “It is very timely to exchange views with the host of the six-party talks and the country with the most influence on North Korea.” Not only did Noda overlook the futility of the talks but also that China’s “influence” sustains the existence of the wretched Pyongyang regime.
Four policies on Korea are possible for Beijing: Protect North Korea, with slight restraint upon it, resulting in no change. Actively promote an indefinite life for Stalinist Pyongyang (“Our East Germany,” Korea scholars in Beijing whisper; “if it falls Communist rule in China may also fall”). Gradually draw the North into Northeast China as a dependent “autonomous region,” benefiting Beijing’s strategic situation but infuriating Seoul. Finally and best, China could pull off its first diplomatic triumph as a risen power by orchestrating, with Washington, the reunification of One Korea, bringing a new vista to Northeast Asia.
The charade of treating North Korea as a troubled child requiring kid‑glove handling by five patient adults has been fruitless. Steps toward Korean reunification can crack the nuclear threat from Pyongyang, lend hope to people in the North, and eventually ease a wracking pain at the heart of Northeast Asia. One Korea, for all its unknowns, is the solution. A grand bargain between Washington and Beijing can trigger the process. Japan spurred Korean nationalism through its colonial rule. Washington and Moscow were responsible for dividing Korea. These two plus Beijing bore heavy responsibility for the outbreak of the Korean War.
Korea is owed its reunification, the spiritual battle with the North for Korea’s future has been won by Seoul, and the heartbreaking cost of a third Kim dictatorship would outweigh the risk and price of a managed unification.
Ross Terrill, associate in research at Harvard’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, is the author of Mao, The New Chinese Empire, and Madam Mao.
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It normally takes three to five years for doctors to find a suitable donor.
But when Hamilton finally stopped keeping his dialysis a secret, he was able to find his perfect match in one month, and that donor was literally closer to the recipient than anyone could have imagined.
He's flat on his back at Baylor University Medical Center, but Shannon Hamilton couldn't be feeling better. It was a blessing to be put on the transplant list... a blessing to have a living donor, he said.
It was Hamilton's neighbor, Tony Bridwell, who graciously volunteered to see if his kidney was a match.
Why shouldn't I? Bridwell said. I mean, come on... it's an easy decision, and at this point we just left it in God's hands. If I wasn't a match no big deal.
As it turned out, Bridwell was a perfect match, drastically reducing Hamilton's possibility of kidney rejection.
Both of the patient's parents died from kidney failure, and Shannon feared the same fate.
It's really the perfect Thanksgiving story, said Dr. Goran Klintmalm, Baylor's director of transplant services. He said the odds of a neighbor having the exact same blood type and same tissue type are quite rare.
I would say you should buy Lotto tickets, Dr. Klintmalm joked. It's so unlikely I can't give you number on it, but maybe like one in 50 million.
Hamilton said it's no coincidence his wife was a match, but his neighbor was an even better match in more ways than one.
Then we discussed who's going to take care of her when she's going to take care of me, so it all fell into place, Hamilton said.
Nearly two long years of painful dialysis is now over, and this transplant recipient refuses to blame it on blind luck.
No, not luck... it's part of the plan, Hamilton said.
It's God saying, 'Serve others wholeheartedly,' and Shannon is my friend. He's my neighbor and he needed help, added Bridwell.
Their story gives new meaning to what it means to be a good neighbor.
Hamilton and Bridwell have been neighbors for eight years. The transplant surgery was more than a week ago, and the two men were healthy enough to enjoy Thanksgiving dinner together at home.
Doctors say Hamilton's new kidney is doing well and showing no signs of rejection.
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games in the ongoing investigation, and among those, texas rangers right fielder cruz, detroit shortstop, and still no word on yankee's star alex rodriguez. adam: embassies authorized to open by the state department after they were closed sunday because of a threat from al-qaeda. nineteen posts, however, remain closed as a result of what the state department calls an exercise of caution. back in the united states, no suggestion that new york city faces a direct threat. the nypd made no changes, even as the department of homeland security beefs up its presence at airports and train stations. fox news middle east and terrorism analyst joining us with the latest development. i got to let you know, i'm going to bring something into the discussion, you know, the price of oil is actually falling right now, indicating that at least investors don't seem as concerned as the u.s. government. is this a false alarm? i mean, we have members of congress saying it was a cred l -- credible threat. >> look, the financial world is always concerned about the financial root, the financial structures, so if
-free municipal bond, but does detroit give you cause for concern? and other cities across the country that are in similar condition? >> well, i wouldn't touch the cities. you've got to do your homework. so, cities, whether it is harrisburg or detroit or stockton, california, they're are a number of cities you've got to get under the hood and look at the credits but if you look at the highest grade, quality tax-free bond today, they're out there with the yields between 4 and 5% and they're not city credits. they're not detroit's. when that analysis is done, at our present tax structure the taxable equivalent yield is about nine. where are you going to get nine in a liquid investment of very high credit quality? i don't see very much of it. so we shifted allocation to tax-free bond. ashley: very good. do your homework. always good advice. david kotok, thank you so much for joining us. we appreciate it. >> thank you. lori: let's take a specific look at the market because the gains thus far are evaporating slightly. lauren simonetti joins us from the floor of the stock exchange. you're wa
. they have not voted yet i don't think this will change because they can see what is happening detroit has just gone bankrupt and relied on gm and chrysler and ford they do not want to go the way of detroit to one of the pensions will be smaller you know, you'll end up with less at the end of the day. >> with the individual company you can change it if you change jobs in ticket with you that is the advantage. if you want to move to a better job you can without investing in your pension. tracy: give them props for trying. i don't know what they're thinking. [laughter] great to be with you. ashley: they go to the south because the state's give tax advantages nissan moved to just south of nashville for that reason so it makes sense. amazon moving into a new business rolling out where people can buy a fine art from people and galleries nearly 40,000 works by 5,000 artist but the well-known names are bringing in the big bucks the most expensive item norman rockwell going after four-point a million dollars. it's still works even with him in the war hall -- andy warhol. >> you would think you wo
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1. FedUp (the real one) says:
Schneiderman think that we forgot his hit and run?
2. chumley says:
He is shocked-shocked-to find corruption in his own Senate Democratic leadership. How long did he sit in the State Senate and do nothing? You can’t make this stuff up.
3. hawkny says:
The entire Aquaduct business has had the smell of a rotting corpse, ever since the days when Joe Bruno first has his gonads involved. And, the aroma has only worsened…
Some people with fancy names, titles and big limos may go to jail after this caper is fully investigated by the Manhattan DA. And well they should.
Pee youuuuuuu!!
4. Stevie says:
Tell me this:
Where has our CURRENT AG been on all this? Why is Mr. Cuomo always getting a pass on hard line issues that paint his party in an unflattering light? Why does the press continue to refrain from asking questions like this?
5. Darwin says:
So, the fella who still doesn’t know the DMV laws on “hit & run”, or for filing accident reports, now wants to be in “charge” of investigating his own Senate Democrats for “paying to play” schemes at the expense of New Yorkers. This is the guy the NY Times wants? This is a sorry end to what used to be a great newspaper. So long Times.
A vote for Schneiderman is a vote for a crook!
6. Mike says:
How can we expect Schneiderman tio investigate his senate cronies and supporters. He helped put all those corrupt senators in their positions of power! He also has NEVER worked as a prosecutor and has no idea how to conduct a compete and thorough corruption investigation. I also do not buy this is such a surprise to him.
7. Olaf Fubb says:
As the incoming AG: waaaaaaaaatch youze gonna due bout dis?????
OTOH, your opponent is from Staten Island…..
OK, slow pitch down the middle…………………………………
8. K2 says:
I can’t stop laughing. Does he really think we are that stupid to beleive he didn’t have a clue as to what was going on.
Stevie, you nailed it. The media will not ask Prince Andrew any tough questions, they will not bring up what he did the housing market as HUD director and they will not bring up Farkas.
Scheiderman is not fit to be AG.
9. Clean as a whistle says:
So, then if he is returning the campaign donations, will he also throw out the resumes of people like Shelley Meyer, Mike Kink, Chris Higgins and other Senate Program/Counsel Hacks that had their eye on prime jobs with the new AG’s office??
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I'm more of a chapstick, bare lips kind of girl... but I'm really getting into lipsticks lately. I've purchased mostly MAC lispticks, and I seemed to have been reacting fine to them until I purchased a red lipstick and lipgloss the other day. I only wore the red lip combo for about 2 hours, after trying it on at the counter, and the next morning when I woke up I had a pretty large bump (which I thought was a cold sore, since I'm prone), but it appears to almost be blister like with fluid inside. I have medication for this, since mouthsores are common for me, so no need to visit a doctor. But I know some of the Sephora Makeup Artists have worked for MAC and know a lot about makeup and pigments, and I'm wondering if I could be allergic to the red lipstick because it has such intense pigment? Also, do you know of any common ingredients that cause allergies? Just trying to pinpoint the issue, here. I suppose I could wait until my lips heal and then try wearing the lipstick again, but if it's the culprit, that will be a total pain :smileysad:
Of course any input is helpful, makeup artist or not! Thanks guys!
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I am so sorry to hear this! It can be frustrating when trying to pinpoint an ingredient that caused a reaction. Honestly, I am thinking it is most likely something other than the pigment that is causing this reaction, especially if you have worn other makeup (shadows, blush etc) and not had reactions. Pigments are not specific to product category, and by this I mean that the pigments used in lipsticks are not necessarily different than those used in shadows and blushes.
I am guessing that it could be an ingredient that is found in lipsticks that your lips are not agreeing with. Now to pinpoint what that specifically is can be challenging.
The best thing you can do is compare ingredients and see what the new lipstick has in it that your chapstick does not. Sometimes your skin may even cause a reaction to a product, so you also may try putting a stripe on your arm or hand and see if any irritation occurs.
If you want to wear color on your lips but seem to have reactions to most lipsticks, you may want to try just using a lipliner and chapstick and see if that helps. If that doesn't cause a reaction then it is something definitely in the lipstick, possibly one of the ingredients that makes it creamy and soft.
I hope that helps and good luck!
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Gentleladies! This only recently happened to me beginning in the spring and I have spent a fortune to find that for me, the dermatitis on my mouth, which I, also, mistook for cold sores, actually has something to do with the pigment in the lip product. After a lifetime of luscious color, it looks as though I am returning to the 70s with Mary Quant light lip color, which is not particularly flattering for me. Also, I discovered peppermint is natural products is a problem. But it took months and many dollars to figure this out, but for me, it was the actual pigment. I don't know if you'll get this, but I hope it helps. A painful mouth is no fun. Best regards!
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Case 2: Features of Genotypic and Phenotypic Resistance Assays
You answered:
D When a patient is undergoing a change in antiretroviral therapy because of virologic failure, genotypic resistance testing does not provide any benefit in improving virologic responses.
This answer is incorrect. Several clinical trials have demonstrated that genotypic resistance testing improves virologic response among patients undergoing salvage antiretroviral therapy, primarily among patients that have experienced virologic failure to a single or a few regimens. Fewer trials have been conducted regarding phenotypic testing, and the results to date have been equivocal. Attention to the patient's antiretroviral history and the experience of the clinician in using resistance data have also been found to impact on the suppressive effect of the prescribed salvage regimen.
Choose another answer:
A Compared with the phenotypic assay, the genotypic assay is more expensive and has a longer turnaround time.
B The M184V mutation notation refers to the replacement of the amino acid methionine (M) by valine (V) at amino acid position 184.
C The genotypic assay detects resistance in greater than 98% of minority populations of HIV that exist within an individual.
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Bombing of Plaza de Mayo
Civilian casualties on June 16, 1955
Date June 16, 1955 (1955-06-16)
Location Plaza de Mayo
Participants Argentine Naval Aviation
Argentine Air Force
Outcome Failed coup
Deaths 150-364[1]
At 12:40 pm, a number of aircraft from the Argentine Navy and Air Force strafed and bombed Plaza de Mayo square in Buenos Aires, in what remains to this day the largest aerial bombing ever on the Argentine mainland. The attack targeted the adjacent Casa Rosada, the official seat of government, as a large crowd was expressing support for president Juan Perón. The strike took place during a day of official public demonstrations to condemn the burning of a national flag allegedly carried out by detractors of Perón during the recent procession of Corpus Christi. The action was to be the first step in an eventually aborted coup d'état.
Thirty-four Argentine Naval Aviation and Air Force airplanes, consisting of 22 North American AT-6, five Beechcraft AT-11, three Consolidated PBY Catalina flying boats, and four Air Force Gloster Meteor joined the attack.
A total of 9.5 tonnes of ordnance were dropped, killing 150-364[2] (mostly civilians) and injuring more than 800. Fire ceased at 5:20 pm local time. Three planes were shot down by hastily-mounted anti-aircraft guns. Nineteen Mounted Grenadiers, members of the presidential guard, were killed in action. One AT-6 was shot down by a loyal Gloster Meteor over the Río de la Plata.
Meanwhile, Argentine marines attempted an assault on Casa Rosada, but were repelled by loyal forces. The rebels withdrew towards the premises of the Ministry of the Navy, where they were forced to surrender in the evening along with the leader of the ill-fated coup, Vice-Admiral Samuel Toranzo Calderón. His second in command, Vice-Admiral Benjamín Gargiulo, committed suicide.
That night, angry crowds burnt down eight churches and a cathedral.
After the failure of the intended coup (as neither the Army nor the bulk of the Air Force joined in), the pilots received orders to fly towards Uruguay and ask for asylum.
In September of that year, the bulk of the armed forces would join in the Revolución Libertadora, which overthrew president Perón and started a period of military rule that ended in the 1958 presidential elections, won by Arturo Frondizi of the UCRI. Even though the Peronist party was not allowed to enter the ballot, Frondizi's victory was influenced by Perón's instructions to his loyal base, given from his exile in Madrid, to tactically vote for Frondizi.
One of the naval pilots who took part in the bombings, Máximo Rivero Kelly was promoted and was second-in-command of the Argentine Navy during the presidency of Raúl Alfonsín. He claims the naval pilots aimed to hit the presidential palace but that one aircraft missed, causing about 20 killed among the civilians.[3]
Bullet and shrapnel marks are still visible on some buildings on the south side of the square as of 2013.
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Coordinates: 34°36′30″S 58°22′19″W / 34.60833°S 58.37194°W / -34.60833; -58.37194
1. ^ Bombas sobre Buenos Aires: Gestación y desarollo del bombardeo aéreo sobre la Plaza de Mayo del 16 de junio de 1955, Daniel E. Cichero, p.163, Vergara Grupo Zeta, 2005.
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As far as I know, How are you? is not supposed to be answered [1]: In most of the cases it just means hi!.
Question: Regarding the closest German equivalent, i.e. "Wie geht's (dir)?", should this question be answered?
[1] I've never lived in an English speaking country, so correct me if I'm wrong
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I have to add that I feel a bit pressured if colleagues ask me that when they just want to say hi. I feel an urge to respond but I don't want to lie on the one hand and I don't want to elaborate on the matter either because, you know, we're not friends and we won't be talking anyway. So I actually get a little tiny bit discomforted by it. If you mean "Hi" then say "Hi" ... or just say "Alles gut". Then I can just say "yes." which might be a lie too but I don't have to fill the lie with content. I just have to say "yes". Others might find "Alles gut" a bit presumptive though :) – Emanuel Jan 23 at 12:32
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Yes, if you are greeted with Hey, wie geht's dir?, there is usually an expectation to receive a reply:
Danke, gut! Und dir?
Geht so, und selbst?
Or if you do not want to return the question, simply:
Geht so!
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+1 for Geht so since no native German would answer the question in a positive manner. – Lars Beck Jan 23 at 14:58
Muss ja, ne is what I usually say – rompetroll Jan 23 at 16:56
Wie immer is what I replay to someone I already know. My opponent doesn't really expect a long answer. – nixda Jan 25 at 9:15
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anvil_crawler 2 years ago
The Nexus 7 price/configuration information is incorrect. The Nexus 7 sells for $199 (8GB) and $249 (16GB).
3vi1 2 years ago
I detest the 7-inch form factor: Too big for a pocket, too small for serious use. For the life of me I can't understand why people buy them.
BGTogether 2 years ago
3vi1... you are a guy, I assume. The 7 inch is perfect to keep in my purse. larger Tablets are too big & phones are too small for my aging eyes. This one will be perfect!
JDiaz 2 years ago
"Too big for a pocket, too small for serious use."
...Is actually why the 7" form factor is becoming increasingly popular.
It's a compromise between the two extremes but that fits some people's needs!
Google recognizes this and is why they're establishing 7" as a official form factor for Android.
So Android now supports three main usage modes... Phone, 7", and full Tablet.
But like anything else in the market, just because it's available doesn't mean you have to get it!
Availability of choice is good for everyone...
Tom H 2 years ago
I bought a Samsung Samsung Galaxy Tab™ 2 7.0 because I didn't want a 10 inch tablet. It's easy to hold (with the right case) in bed. However, I'm looking forward to 'Fire" !0".
JHandy 2 years ago
Has nothing to do with being a guy. I'm a guy, and I can't wait for the iPad mini. I travel through the airport very frequently. I have an iPod Touch, but it is too small to read with. The current iPad is too big to carry around through the airport. The iPad mini will be the perfect size.
The iPad mini blows away the iPad as far as portability. Just like a paperback book is a better size for portability than a hardback book. People that don't get why the smaller form factor will be popular aren't capable of thinking outside of their own needs. Fortunately Apple has smart people that do (as well as other companies).
MCook 2 years ago
I am so angry with Apple over their STUPID and SILLY patent witch hunt, I hope they and this tablet get the karma they have coming to them.
MCook 2 years ago
Sadly, I bet the iSheep buy it in droves.
ricofrost 2 years ago
well if the surface RT is really selling for $199 I don't see this crushing anything... but then again there are lots of sheep out there so who knows.
Travelluna 2 years ago
I would buy it for traveling looking up metro lines, hostels, things or travelling
nicoletoledo 2 years ago
The word is could but it wont, sctually i might be wrong but the "ipad mini" will actually be the ipad 2 just shrunked. Old parts but called a new product.
JOMA 2 years ago
Like most things apple does it'll sell well. I can see people opting for this simply from a pricing perspective.
RTietjens 2 years ago
And Ford *could* crush Toyota. But I think we all know it won't happen. Apple fanboys will continue to buy Apple, and people with at least some critical thinking skills will not.
realneil 2 years ago
Like to see all Tablets with a SD Memory Card slot in them.
This isn't gonna be an option with Apple though.
It's a shame,.........
FloydF 2 years ago
It will be interesting to see what the hardware is when it is released. If the hardware is better it iwll sell and we will shortly have a nice Android 4.1 rom to replace the garbage apple is pushing. If it is just an i-kindle fire, it will be just another apple cult fashion accessory.
Apple could make i-christmas ornaments out of dog crap, with the apple logo, sell them for $100 each and they would sell 10 million the first day. They would be hanging from rearview mirrors everywhere...
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[quote user="FloydF"]Apple could make i-christmas ornaments out of dog crap, with the apple logo, sell them for $100 each and they would sell 10 million the first day. They would be hanging from rearview mirrors everywhere...[/quote]
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Is an appropriate tag for this question?
I can kinda see it given the last question. Without that it clearly doesn't belong. – Servy May 16 at 17:33
It is often added instead of Java because people don't realize they aren't the same. Here it seems it might be because the OP wanted to compare the functionality of the two to be able to understand. But it really doesn't belong. – codeMagic May 16 at 17:35
I think that the OP was stating it more for his background in hopes that any answer would address that. – Jay Blanchard May 16 at 17:39
IMO mentioning JavaScript ruined that question (or maybe it was just the answerer...) - it unnecessarily localizes the question - how many people start learning Java after knowing (only?) JavaScript? No idea what to do at this stage though - to remove mentions of JavaScript from the question (not sure about just removing the tag), you'll have to remove large parts of at the accepted answer as well. – Dukeling May 16 at 17:39
@codeMagic The question is asking how to apply a java-style of method overloading to javascript. That makes it not an entirely relevant tag. I have issues with the question, namely that it's way too broad, but the tag clearly does apply to the (last) question asked. – Servy May 16 at 17:51
@Dukeling Even if you did remove all of that, "Explain operator overloading" is still an excessively broad question, in addition to a poorly researched question. It doesn't really belong on the site. – Servy May 16 at 17:52
@Servy I see your point but I read it as they know how to do something similar in javascript but didn't know if it was the same. Maybe misinterpretation. Anyway, I agree it is way too broad for the site which I commented but deleted. – codeMagic May 16 at 17:55
@codeMagic I read that as exactly what the first question is. It's not what the last question is though. Personally I don't really see that question as salvageable. – Servy May 16 at 17:56
@Servy I agree, they are different questions. And agree again on it not being salvageable so it got my CV – codeMagic May 16 at 17:58
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As the Chicago Blackhawks watch on/heal their wounds/get some dental work done, the Flyers host the Habs in what could be the final game of the Eastern Conference finals. Let’s take a look at some of the storylines of the game along with where you can find coverage.
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It could be a rowdy game tonight. Both clubs haven’t won a Stanley Cup in a long, long time. Each city has made things a bit less hospitable for their visitors than what is normally seen in pro sports. In Philadelphia, hooligans damaged the car of a visiting Montreal reporter. In Montreal, there is some intrigue over who or what exactly caused what I like to call Sand-on-Skategate.
Either way, both teams have been deadly in elimination game situations. The Flyers callously dealt with the New Jersey Devils in Round 1 before stunning the Boston Bruins by winning four in a row after going down 3-0 in that series. The Canadiens are used to fighting with their backs against the wall as they beat Washington after going down 3-1 and Pittsburgh after going down 3-2.
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I have been searching frantically for a college that has a good information security program. One of the ones I came across is Wilmington Universities Computer and Network Security program. I got a little exited when I saw it. The college is very close, it's cheap, and it has the program I want. I then went to an open house event that they were hosting. I talked to once of the teachers (she teaches in the technology department but does more web development) and to say the least my dreams were a little crushed. When I asked her about the program further she told me that they only had one programming class and that was in python. This killed me for two reasons. First I enjoy the programming side of security. And second because it was python.
What should someone look for in a higher education plan when trying to go into IT security. I understand that it is a broad field and there are differences between each type but what do you think?
Since I know you guys go in depth with your answers can you lay out a list of different things you should be looking for when searching for each individual section? I understand it is a lot of work but this should be able to help people for a long time.
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Just out of interest really - is there any reason for python being a problem? Usually, being able to prototype quickly is really desirable and scripting languages are good for this (Rory Alsop said so!). Metasploit for example is written in Ruby which is like Python, but for cool kids. I wouldn't dismiss Python or any other scripting language as necessarily a "bad one" - you certainly can't beat them for speed of use. – user2213 May 12 '13 at 15:08
Also, I don't know if this question is necessarily suited to the site proper - see the don't ask FAQ section. However, if it doesn't work out there is always The DMZ where you can chat with other site members and ask their experiences, which might be more what you need. – user2213 May 12 '13 at 15:08
@AntonyVennard Maybe I didn't word it right. It's not that Python is bad it's that Python good for prototyping and fast good things but it's speed of use. Quality over speed in my mind (most likely not a bosses) is better. I'd defiantly use python for a hotfix but I think going back and doing it right would be best. – Griffin Nowak May 12 '13 at 15:18
@AntonyVennard Yes I was wondering that myself but I didn't want quick answers I wanted a good break down of what you should find where. Plus if it's done in the DMZ it's doubtful that anyone else wo is looking for it will find it. – Griffin Nowak May 12 '13 at 15:21
@Griffin Research! U may want to read the book "Violent Python: A cookbook for ..." - TJ O'Conner (MS in CS from NC State, MS in IS from SANS, BS in CS from Mil Acad). The first sentence of this book reads "Python is a hackers language". You will need a broad understanding of many CS topics to be successful at InfoSec. You shouldn't be looking at what this school DOESNT offer, instead looking at what they DO offer. As long as you learn CS it doesn't matter if its taught in C++, Java, Python, or Scheme. You must admit that YOU don't know whats best for you, thats what youre going to school for! – Charles Addis Jun 18 '13 at 17:53
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I have to say, reading the program materials, I'm not surprised.
As you say, the IT security field is very broad - and programming is only a very thin slice of it. If you love programming, and are looking for it to be the center point of your education and your work, then I'd offer the idea that what you're really looking for are courses in Software Security - and I have yet to see many (or any) cirriculums using this as a center point.
Things to think about when looking for advanced education and working in IT Security...
What do you want the education to do for you?
IT security is still such a new field that it will be a long time before anyone really knows what a "classic" IT security professional is capable of. It will be even longer until there are jobs that require an IT Security degree as a baseline. I'd bet money that over the next 10 years, the majority of IT Security professionals are NOT people who have degrees or advanced degrees in anything bearing the title "security" - the field is still too new and too diverse.
So - the goal returns to being - what do you want from the degree? An IT security degree as the programs I've seen are currently designed will help get you in touch with some of the current best practices and the business tradeoffs in the industry. But if you want to be a technical whiz at any particular discipline (programming, networking, computer OSes, management) - then consider a program in that discipline.
What IS an IT security degree?
I expect this answer to be extremely dated in the next few years, but worth the attempt...
It's currently separating itself from any specific discipline which contributes to IT Security, in favor of creating an overall perspective that goes across these disciplines and lets students take a broad perspective to:
• Identifying and mitigating risk
• Making IT decisions that align security with business value
• See the gaps in security that occur across disciplines
• Align various experts from various disciplines to creating a secure solution that actually works.
• Protect the company from a legal standpoint - knowing enough about the law and forensics to make sure that the company operates legally, and that should prosecution of an attacker be necessary, the data provided by techology can be used as evidence
So in any program these days, I'd expect to see a minimal bit of:
• Programming - both hacking and secure software development
• Operating system security
• Network Security
• Web app security (yes, some programming but also the application layer network stuff)
• Physical security
• Social engineering/human policy
With that diverse of a topic set, I'm not surpised that programming (or any single discipline) is only taking a small part of the cirriculum.
The hiring market today
I leap to this mostly because the #1 reason people pursue education is to get a job. The key to getting a job is to have the skills that people will pay you for.
Since there really is no predent yet, there's not a single job that recruits exclusively for this type of degree. Key areas that are looking for heavy security knowledge include:
• Pen tests - probably the most "glamorous" field - the one everyone thinks of - testing a secure system for cracks and helping to provide input to fixing weaknesses - takes some programming, but as important is a detailed knowledge about what you are trying to break into - products, protocols and human weaknesses.
• Audit - reviewing (not pen testing) systems for compliance with security regulations.
• Operations - running and making day to day decisions about systems with a high degree of security risk - more likely to require superior debugging skills and judgement than programming knowledge.
• IT security implementation - upgrading, and creating new components for secure systems
• Risk management - decisions and strategy about the risk of the current state of the system and the risk of making suggested changes to it.
Only a fraction of these jobs currently require hacking expertise or serious programming skills. Most require some depth of knowledge about key security controls and an ability to learn and review security controls in light of the capabilities of hackers.
Evolution in progress
Security related cirriculums are very much in transition. Professional groups I work with now are actively engaged in revising and refining these programs - they are very new and still very much in transition. The trick I see as a hiring manager is that there's a rock and a hard place right now - the key jobs in security that are very hard to fill take serious technical expertise, great communication skills, and good judgement. The way these roles are filled right now is with people who are usually 10+ years into their careers - they've gained technical depth in key areas through previous work, they've survived some serious challenges that gave them good judgement and they've spent enough time communicating to have gotten better at it.
Ideally, those of us in the industry will find ways to leverage new college grads to fill in some of this work and leverage our experienced folks as guides and mentors - like other technology disciplines. The trick is - there's no one sized fits all program yet. Risk, cost, the nexus of technology and people - that's more or less transferable job to job. But the details that each roll needs has typically been so company specific that it's hard to fill.
Computer & Network Security - specifically
This particular course is branded as Computer and Network Security, specifically, which is - IMO - rather enticing. I've seen IT Security, and CyberSecurity and the open ended nature of these titles always makes me worry. At least computer & network security suggests a program centering around ... well... computers and networks!
Taking the program in smaller detail, and going back to my main points:
• Identifying and mitigating risk - hard to tell in this cirriculum - there's a principles and practices - but I'd have to read a description to see if they agree with me on risk mitigation as a "best practice".
• Making IT decisions that align security with business value - maybe - there's some intro economics here, but one wonders how close to IT it really gets...
• See the gaps in security that occur across disciplines - hopefully - but this is really hard to teach
• Align various experts from various disciplines - yep - the various SEC courses are doing a decent job - some OS (LINUX and Windows), some networking (there's a 101 telecom sounding course, and also one on networking security controls)
• Protect the company from a legal standpoint - nice - the CRJ and LES courses are pretty enticing - assuming the course is of high quality, the philosophy course on ethis is nice, too.
If I were interviewing a candidate and saw this degree, the first step would be to do what I'm doing now. I'd also:
• scope out other graduates - what fields are they working in? This looks forensic heavy - are candidates working primarily law enforcement?
• Interview for content - certainly the basics look good - can the candidate really configure the security controls I'll need him to configure? How hands on was any of this work (not programming - staging, fixing and installing computer systems and network gear)
• look for project work focusing on interdisciplinary collaboration - if you can't work with people who think differently, you won't work in most security jobs.
As a graduate - I'd have one more question -- how many of your professors are working in the field? The field is growing and changing rapidly - if your profs aren't getting in and doing hands on work, then you're getting a theory based education and you may have to unlearn much of what you've learned when you get to a job. A real key in this area is having the opportunity to work with people who have knowledge of the industry and whose theories have been proven in practice.
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Find the one that actually teaches you how to hack. Many courses focus on crypto and "security policy" topics instead of giving people hands-on experience. Breaking into things is much more paid and much more sought after in the current environment.
This is what one uni does in Australia - http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/security-it/how-unsw-creates-the-worlds-best-hackers-20130510-2jdbt.html
Dan Guido at NYU-Poly teaches a similar course http://www.poly.edu/user/dguido.
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I'm not sure if I can tell you what school has a good information security program, but I think what you should probably look into is good computer science schools. I believe that in order to be a 'hacker' you have to be able to think like a hacker. Thinking like a hacker is easiest once you have learned the mechanics of the technology employed by your target. Learning computer science, some schools have programs that are geared towards networks and network security.
Also, I don't understand your frustration with learning Python. You could probably learn Python at home. Python is a very powerful programming language, and it's purpose is to be a fun language that is easy to learn. That is why it is called Python, after Monty Python. In the Python documentation there are Monty Python references used instead of traditional pseudo-code variables like foo, bar, and baz. Anyway, Python is used quite a bit in the pen testing world so maybe you might want to reconsider learning it. Python is so powerful, and provides such fast development times that many exploits are written in Python.
Anyway, some good computer science schools for you to check out would be:
1. UC Berkeley
2. University of Texas, Austin
3. Carnegie Melon
4. University of Washington
5. California Institute of Technology
6. Georgia Institute of Technology
7. University of Wisconsin, Madison
8. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
I hope this doesn't come off wrong, but this is one of those things where your either good at it or your not. It's good to be able to read and write a variety of programming languages for all types of exploits, such as C, Python, Ruby, SQL, JavaScript, HTML, C++, PHP, .NET/C#/F#, Java, Assembler, etc, etc. For instance if you are pen testing web apps you should definitely learn web languages. Likewise if you are pen testing Networks you should learn C, Java, Common Lisp AND/OR Scheme AND/OR Clojure, Python, and C++.
You'll of course want to learn quite a bit about networking itself. Learn the OSI model, and really learn as much as you can. You'll want to learn how to create packets and inject them. You'll also want to learn how to sniff packets using popular tools like Wireshark, pcap, etc. You'll definitely want to learn Ruby and learn the Metasploit framework. And you'll most certainly want to learn how to identify and be able to read base 2, base 8, base 16, etc (binary, octal, hexadecimal..).
There is quite a bit more that I am not telling you, of course you will need to learn about exploits such as buffer overflows, heap sprays, SQL injections, etc and one will want to have an understanding of shell code and assembly. You definitely need to lurk security advisory boards and chat up other info sec professionals. Go lurk in some IRC rooms with a honeypot server set up somewhere, perhaps at your house and preferably not on a public network like a dorm, and go into a Anonymous channel, or some other channel like a 2600 channel and bait them with your honey pot while you're watching live logs of all the exploits they try to pull on your machine. They may be using public exploits against your system looking to see if its patched, but if they have a 0day you now have an unpatched exploit to add to your arsenal, possibly with an un-notified vendor.
You will most certainly need to master the art of social engineering. You will want to practice this every chance you get. At first it may feel a little strange, perhaps a little wrong to be lying and manipulating people. Soon you will understand that techniques that you use to exploit networks have some mirrored applications in social engineering.
Oh and if your into hardware hacking you'll probably want to incorporate some engineering into your curriculum.
This may sound like quite a big order. It doesn't happen all at once. Obviously there is still a lot of stuff out there that I didn't even mention that is relevant to a good info sec education. There are many info sec professionals who do not have college degrees but who are leaders in the field. There are also those who graduates from schools like MIT and Cornell. Not all people are meant for an info sec career, some people should look to procure jobs in other IT/CS fields. That being said, those that do procure careers as info sec professionals typically have a very broad knowledge of computer science and are not just exclusively knowledgeable about information security and their definitely not script kiddies either.
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"Also, I don't understand your frustration with learning Python. You could probably learn Python at home. " Exactly. So why should I pay someone to teach it to me. – Griffin Nowak Jun 18 '13 at 6:10
@Griffin because at home you may pick up on bad programming/computer science skills. You must understand that the language is not important - what you are going to school for is to learn computer science. You would be surprised what a powerful language Python is, I think you are just holding a grudge against something you don't understand. Learning Python as a first language is perfect: you are learning a language that provides the same low-level features as languages like C and C++ with the difference being that Python code is portable. It will make learning CS easier than, strong typed lang – Charles Addis Jun 18 '13 at 17:01
@Griffin if you think you are going to learn one language and master that during your 4 years at school, well, I hate to be the one to say it but... you will be behind your peers. Most of your peers, even at schools that teach Java and C++, will be learning Python in their free time because it allows you to write more powerful code/scripts with less code than its strong-typed comrades, resulting in easy 2 understand programs and maintainable code. In order to be a successful CS student you must remain open-minded and teachable, and it's quite evident that you think you know it all so why go? – Charles Addis Jun 18 '13 at 17:05
@Griffin as a student interested in learning Information Security you would be doing yourself a great disservice if you do not learn Python (which I believe should be learned before Ruby). You are very fortunate to have found a school that teaches Computer Science with Python because it will allow you to focus more on problem analysis/design instead of focusing on debugging. Remember, you are going 2 school 2 be taught, not to teach. No language is perfect for every job. Python is a great language for writing security tools and exploits. You can learn any lang from home, you learn CS @ Unvrsty – Charles Addis Jun 18 '13 at 17:12
I do not know it all at all. In fact if you look at my other questions it is very evident. Also you confused me you said "You must understand that the language is not important - what you are going to school for is to learn computer science." . Based on what I've experienced at a basic level languages are very similar. I'm also not only learning 1 language. The thing is I don't face a grudge against it as you seem so strongly to think. My big problem with it is I don't want to go to a university and learn 1 language. Especially one that isn't extremely complicated. – Griffin Nowak Jun 20 '13 at 1:22
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I want to pull some data into my queries from a remote server (also SQL Server 2008), because some related data is on the remote server but not the local server.
The "add linked server" wizard in SQL Server 2008 asks me for a "Linked Server Name", so I make up a name like "remote_server_name". It also asks me to choose the server type, so I choose "SQL Server" for the server type, because that's what it is.
Where do I specify the IP address or domain name of the remote server? Where do I specify the instance name? It tells me the connection fails, well obviously because it never asked me where the server is located or what its instance name is. It happens to be the default instance that I want to connect to on the remote machine.
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If you're using the wizard and selecting "SQL Server" as the server type then you need to provide the instance name of the remote SQL server as the value for Linked Server Name. This will either be the hostname of the server if using the default SQL instance, or the fully qualified SQL named instance in hostname\instancename form.
Note that if your remote server is a named instance then you'll want to use brackets around the linked server name when performing operations against it (after it's created).
SELECT Id from [myserver\instance1].[mydatabase].[dbo].[Products]
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I tried that at first (just using the hostname), and it didn't work, but that's probably because I had the port blocked. I later unblocked it, but never tried this original approach. I did end up getting it to work using the SQLOLEDB provider specifying a data source and port, but I'm going to try just using the hostname again as suggested. I think I prematurely ruled out this approach because I thought the dots in the URL would interfere with the name, but mentioning the use of delimited names made me quickly realize that it should work after all. Thanks for responding. – Triynko Mar 20 '12 at 14:21
Does this approach allow you to specify a custom port? I'm not using the default port. Where would the port go in the hostname? Would it require a comma or colon after the hostname for example? – Triynko Mar 20 '12 at 14:23
To answer my own question, a custom port can be specified in the name. So a name like "my.domain.com,1433" works fine, and can be queried like [my.domain.com,1433].[databasename].[owner].[tablename]. Thank you! – Triynko Mar 20 '12 at 14:30
Just as an FYI to anyone reading this, if you want to use Windows Authentication to connect, you probably need active directory set up and have the "client" of the linked server set as a trusted domain somehow. For simpler setups with no active directory, it seems that you must have SQL Server authentication enabled and set up an SQL Server login on the linked server, and specify that account as the remote login (and password) for the linked server. – Triynko Mar 20 '12 at 14:38
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Visual Studio will automatically create using statements for you whenever you create a new page or project. Some of these you will never use.
Visual Studio has the useful feature to "remove unused usings".
I wonder if there is any negative effect on program performance if the using statements which are never accessed, remain mentioned at the top of the file.
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I did search for it before asking, and it didn't show up. – KdgDev Jul 22 '09 at 8:36
FWIW, this posting has better SEO: it was the first result in Google for me. Of the 2 originals linked, one is unavailable (removed) and the other is worded differently enough to add some value to this post, even if just as a redirection. – DaveD Nov 2 '12 at 19:07
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An unused using has no impact to the runtime performance of your application.
It can affect the performance of the IDE and the overall compilation phase. The reason why is that it creates an additional namespace in which name resolution must occur. However these tend to be minor and shouldn't have a noticeable impact on your IDE experience for most scenarios.
It can also affect the performance of evaluating expressions in the debugger for the same reasons.
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The more usings there are, the slower Intellisense will be – Heliac Jul 13 '12 at 7:07
No, it's just a compile-time/coding style thing. .NET binaries use fully qualified names under the hood.
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Does this mean that longer class and method names have a small but actual (if immeasurable) impact on JIT compilation times? – Jared Updike May 5 '10 at 23:08
No effect on execution speed, but there may be some slight effect on compilation speed/intellisense as there are more potential namespaces to search for the proper class. I wouldn't worry too much about it, but you can use the Organize Usings menu item to remove and sort the using statements.
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No, there are several process involved when compiling a program. When the compiler start looking for references (classes, methods) it will use only the ones used on the code. The using directive only tells the compiler where to look. A lot of unused using statement could maybe have a performance issue but just at compile time. At runtime, all the outside code is properly linked or included as part of the binary.
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Code that does not execute does not affect the performance of a program.
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I have bunch of similar images. Those images contains different noise, but edges and histograms are very similar. I need to compress this images loselessly. Is there any algorithm, that can use image similarity for more efficient compression ? I have tried to use improved compression via prediction (changed MED predictor from LOCO), but my gain was only about 0,4%
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What do you mean exactly by "similar"? Having similar histograms isn't going to help much. Do the images look the same?
You could simply try subtracting the previous image from this image, pixel by pixel and color by color, and see if the difference image is more compressible.
The next step would be to make the series of images a video, and use video compression, which can exploit more complex correlations between successive images.
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Similar... they look the same by eyes. But If you substract them, you got somehow noisy images. I tried compress this noisy image, but from nature of noise, its not very well comprimable. Using video codecs is one way, but I thought if there is some kind of special image algorithm for that. If I decompress sequence, I got individual images, not video. – Martin Perry Apr 15 '13 at 7:17
Are the images in gray scale or are colored. If they are gray scale ones, I have an application that I developed 7 years ago. I can try it for you. It is based on a technique that is called Set Redundancy Compression.
If they are colored, you can try Lagarith (a video codec)
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I have different data types, some are RGB, some grayscale, some float. Is your compression suitable also for video sequence ? – Martin Perry Apr 25 '13 at 14:40
Hi, sorry for the delay (one year :p) . Unfortunately no, t is not suitable for video compression – gabis May 23 at 16:14
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My screensaver will not turn on - despite everything set properly, it sometimes never activates. This is a problem, as I need screensaver password protection if I step away from the computer for an hour or so.
The only thing I can think of is that my mouse or keyboard driver is somehow keeping it active by somehow sending phantom keystrokes to the computer to top the screensaver activating.
I have an external USB Kensington keyboard, an external HP mouse, and my laptop is a Toshiba with Win7.
Is there any way to diagnose and fix this problem, or any utilities that could automatically password protect my computer from unauthorized use if I step away for a few minutes?
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I think this is a superuser type question – AliGibbs Dec 9 '10 at 13:31
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If you need physical security you should lock your workstation the moment you leave and not five minutes after you left.
So you might just press Windows L to lock the workstation immediately.
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Sure - but sometimes I forget, then the computer is unlocked all weekend. I'd rather have my screensaver working, so at least it won't be unlocked all weekend, available to the cleaners on Sunday, etc. – Contango Dec 10 '10 at 19:20
@Gravitas you could also just turn it off over the weekend... – mikeTheLiar Feb 21 '13 at 21:30
@mikeTheLiar: There are times that I may be required to access my work computer from home over the weekend, so turning it off for me is not an option. – Adrian Apr 4 at 18:31
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I have a Samsung Galaxy S3 phone and a Samsung ARM Chromebook. I have pictures on my phone that I would like to be able to transfer to my Chromebook without use of the cloud. Is there a tool or app I could use to accomplish this?
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AirDroid. Transfer files over Wifi instead of bluetooth, much, much faster.
If you don't have a wireless network available, then turn your SGS3 into a hotspot (may want to disable data) and have your Chromebook connect to the phone's Access Point (AP).
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One option would be a Bluetooth File Transfer app.
As alternative, you could try an Android FTP Server app which would work via a network connection.
Once you have an SFTP Server running on your phone, you can use the FTP protocol to download your pictures.
The format of the URL to be entered in your Chromebook browser:
Make sure that you don't run this FTP server too long or too ofter as FTP tends to be a popular security hole. More secure would be SFTP.
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Give drop-box or Google drive a try. You can upload the photos to either service from your galaxy and access from your Chromebook via drop-box/drive webpage.
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The John Roberts' court has ruled in favor of big business 80% of the time over the past three terms, as compared to just 56% of the time under fellow conservative William Rehnquist. That is why this decision against the workers, on it's surface at least, feels like a lot all of the others.
However, I have to agree with you PearlY. When the court is unanimous, there is a refreshing credibility behind the decision. In this case, the wording of the law seems to be to blame.
fatherof5 1 day ago on Editorial - Governor must consider cuts before new taxes
I can't argue with your logic, namvet. If Olympia goes after the most wealthy among us to help fund education, what could be a better response than to make our local kids pay for it through reduced programs and higher class sizes? The correlation is undeniable.
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The more expensive options have already failed, barracuda. I don't hear pool supporters saying their goal is to spend more money. I hear them saying they want to do this thing right and serve as many people as possible within the constraints of the limited vision of many of those over 50 in this community.
My kids would have benefited greatly from the $8.7 million aquatics center that would have generated self-sustaining revenues. So for some of us, this $5.7 million plan is a let down, but certainly worth supporting.
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marketinsider, the district is having a challenge filling positions now. On the district website (somewhere) is a video inviting non-certificated individuals to apply for substitute positions to fill the shortage. More and more, teachers are being asked to cover for other teachers due to a lack of subs.
In addition, I am aware of two teaching positions they had trouble filling this summer at Wa-Hi. One in English was only filled in mid-August when a talented young man came to the school's attention. Without him, they were discussing hiring a long-term sub to fill the role due to a lack of qualified applicants.
It used to be that qualified math and science teachers were sometimes scarce, but English teachers were abundant. That is no longer true. My understanding is that this is a statewide issue.
Here are a couple of relevant links: http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2025117865_subretireesxml.html
fatherof5 2 weeks ago on Inslee budget proposal to include $1B in new revenue
Post hoc ergo propter hoc.
While I'm not sure about which educational standards you are speaking of or how they are dropping, there is nothing inexplicable about the rising costs. Wages and benefits for teachers over the past 20 years or so have largely stagnated. The cost hikes are due to several other factors, which are quite explicable.
1) increased transportation costs, such as fuel
2) increased technological costs, such as computer labs, equipment maintenance, ink/toner, upgrades
3) increased onsite security officers and other security measures
4) special ed legislation requiring a significant increase in personnel, among other adjustments including the Americans with Disabilities Act...(this appears to be the biggest driver)
5) increased power costs
6) costs of increase in standardized testing development and assessment
As for teacher pay, here's a link showing the growth in pay. Clearly that is not was is primarily growing the cost of education per student. http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2014/01/22/18wop-states.h33.html
This next article explains the increase in costs pretty well, while pointing out that Washington state's increases have been among the smallest in the nation: http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2014/01/22/18wop-states.h33.html http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2014/01/22/18wop-states.h33.html
fatherof5 2 weeks, 1 day ago on Inslee budget proposal to include $1B in new revenue
Most of the time, the interests of teachers are also the interests of public education. The WEA supported the class-size initiative, for example, because having fewer students means teachers can focus their energies more intently on individual students. This means more job-satisfaction for teachers, but more importantly, it means kids have more opportunities for help.
Teachers are not competitors for resources with students. Even when teachers are seeking higher wages or benefits, if you are a believer in capitalism and the laws of supply and demand, then you recognize that the further wages slip, the less attractive a career in teaching becomes for the most capable people who have other options. The laws of economics would seem to show that better teachers will be attracted by better wages, which in turn benefits students.
It's not just wages teachers seek, though. I remember a statewide strike back in 1990 or so, when the sticking point to an agreement was decreasing funding for the arts and P.E. in the elementary schools. Research shows a clear correlation between participation in those activities and academic achievement. In standing up for teachers, the WEA was also standing up for students.
It's the same, too, with charter schools and rampant standardized testing, both of which have not shown to be effective in improving student achievement, but both of which are undermining public education. That's why most teachers I know oppose those movements.
kurtfr, you just made me literally laugh out loud with your final phrase. Thanks for doing the research. :)
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Poured from a 330ml bottle dated 09/05/08 which I believe would be May 9th in most of the world.
It's a deep dark brown color with very fine head and little lacing.
Aroma is rich with malt and yeast. It's so nice on the nose that I spend quite some time smelling it before I even go to taste.
The taste is equally complex with roasted malt and chocolate with raisins in the finish. Very interesting and enjoyable.
Mouthfeel is somewhat lacking in that it seems thin and rather lightly carbonated with more burn than a 7% beer should have.
Overall it's another great Belgian Trappist beer.
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3.13/5 rDev -24.9%
I had lofty expectations of this brew and I have to say I am unimpressed.
A-Dark brown, small tan head.
S-Light aroma of figs and fruit (apples, plums and pears)....not great but not bad on the nose.
T-Apples and pears, figs, raisins and a little alcohol spiciness...not a malty as expected.
M-Feels thin and watery....light side of medium bodied...low carbonation.
D-I wouldn't complain if someone bought me one of these but I much prefer the Westmalle Trippel
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4.33/5 rDev +3.8%
Poured into a chalice, this Dubbel is a very deep red with a thick, slightly tan head.
The aroma is less fruity than many Dubbels I've had. The balance is nice, not all fruit, definitely some spice, and a little alcohol. None of the individual elements are really in control here.
The flavor and aroma are very similar. There's a nice fruitiness up front, not as intense as in some BSDAs, but still very noticeable. There's a slight sourness, in addition to the almost plumlike fruit, followed by a nice dash of spice and alcohol that slightly drys out the finish. The middle has a touch of caramel, which is a very nice addition. The flavor on the whole is quite complex and multifaceted.
The beer is solidly of medium body, but the dry spicy finish makes it drink as though it is slightly lighter. A little more head retention would have lent it more creaminess and probably boosted this up to a higher plane.
So far, so good with Westmalle. Both their Dubbel and the Tripel I had two nights ago have been top shelf beers. These monks know their craft exceptionally well.
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4.2/5 rDev +0.7%
750ml bottle poured into a chalice; bottled on date of 7/3/07
Pours a muddy, deep brown with a small off-white head that disappeared rather quickly.
Sweet toasted malt, candied sugar, and fruity esters (mainly apples.) The smell really jumps out of the glass and really grabs you.
This is where its at. A near perfect example of the style. Sweetness from the fruits on the front and back end, and in the middle comes the yeast and bitterness of the hops. The hops are bittering and a bit on the spicy/grassy side. Very subtle, but a nice element.
Very smooth. Soft and pillowy. Perfect.
Well balanced and at 7%, it's an easy go.
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3.55/5 rDev -14.9%
Photo of beeragent
4.25/5 rDev +1.9%
Poured into a chalice from a bottle. The beer pours a slightly hazy dark ruby, forming a 1/2 inch tan head with slight lacing. The aroma is a combination of dark fruit aromas, along with some sugar sweetness and a noticeable amount of alcohol. The taste starts with light sweet maltiness leading into dark fruit flavors and ending with a slight alcohol presence. Nice smooth mouthfeel. Full flavor, medium body, and not too high alcohol lead to a very drinkable dubble. Overall, not bad at all. I can see why this gets such great reviews. I'm not sure if this is the best dubble I've had, but its definitly near the top.
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4.13/5 rDev -1%
Poured from a bottle into an Ommegang chalice.
Appearance: A deep, rich-looking brown body with ruby highlights, a healthy one-finger head with decent retention. Thick carbonation.
Aroma: Sweet, toasty malt, some candy sugar, and some light, fruity esters from the yeast - granny smith apple skins, green grapes. Very pungent.
Taste: Very interesting, and a definite "progression beer." It starts off very sweet on the tip of the tongue - sweet, dark malts, some light bitter chocolate, and those tart, apple skin esters. As the sip progresses and warms in your mouth, the sweetness becomes more complex and fades a little - there's a dry, powdery yeast presence here, a mild noble hop bitterness, and a few pleasant, grassy and spicy notes. Very earthy and dry in the finish, with a warming and smooth alcohol presence.
Mouthfeel: Oh so Belgian. Very soft and smooth, with a huge, exploding "pillowy" feel - it practically melts in your mouth, but sort of in reverse, if that makes any sense. Excellent.
Drinkability: Very nice. This beer isn't as sweet as you'd imagine from the look of it, but it's not too bitter or tart either - very well balanced. It's only 7% abv, and there's nothing harsh of offensive about it all - just a really good, balanced, drinkable beer.
The original dubbel. Or, rather, from the maker of the original dubbel, so you have to assume it was probably pretty close, recipe-wise, to the original dubbel. One of the best dubbels, too - nothing bad here, and some of it is plain outstanding. Recommended.
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4.03/5 rDev -3.4%
pours a dark amber with a nice creamy, fluffy off white head. Nice retention.
Aroma is of sweet toasted malts. Caramel, slight spice and fresh ripe fruit. Very nice aroma lots of character.
Taste has lots of carbonation in it at first. There's some cloves in the front with ripe fruit in there also. You can feel the alcohol..it's slight but it's there. Flavors are complex.
Mouthfeel is creamy with the alcohol being present. It's not overpowering but there.
I'd seek this dubbel out again. Very nice. A good way to end the night.
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4.45/5 rDev +6.7%
excellent dub from westmalle.
recently received 100 pt rating from draft magazine.
so i picked up the dubbel and tripel to revisit.
westmalle is a fine beer. not quite sure about the pt rating systems used by wine/spirit/beer magazines. take those ratings with a grain of salt. anyway, good beer though.
fluffy cottonish head. dissolved to a thin cover of bubbles. good carbonation keeps the beer moving. awesome malt flavors prancing around. good caramel and dark chocolate notes. some hoppiness bounces in and out. and good beer to sit and savor.
this beer almost has the viscosity of cool whip. that's the best way i can describe it. it has good body and it's fluffy. it feels like you're swallowing a mouth full of icing or cool whip or something.
anyway, i could certainly stand drinking a few of these in one sitting.
again, a beer to be savoured.
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4.25/5 rDev +1.9%
Photo of julian
4.4/5 rDev +5.5%
Well this is my first review, and my first Dubbel so I honestly have no baseline for reviewing. Nevertheless, I will try to be as unbiased as possible and stay within the style guidelines for the benefit of others.
A: It pours a nice opaque dark brown color with slight orange hues. Head is frothy and thick at first but quickly dissipates leaving spotty lacing with a tiered like effect. Carbonation is not immediately apparent probably due to the darkness of this beer.
S: I'm still developing my ability to detect aromas, but there is a definite roasty, malty quality that immediately hits me. I detect some faint nutty aromas as well as a complex melody of "dark" fruits that I can't quite pinpoint yet. I'd like to say there are spicy smells but the maltiness overpowers it.
T: From what I know about the style I think this hits the nail on the head. The malty taste dominates my palette. There is a faint fruity taste of perhaps plum and fig with a roasty and slightly chocolately undertone. Carbonation is average and honestly is perfect for this beer.
M: This is a really nice beer. It is perfectly carbonated and rolls off the tongue with ease. It's a medium bodied beer and as I write this and drink it I am loving it more. This beer just has to be tasted!
D: Some have said this doesn't lend well to drinkability, but given this was from a 9.4fl oz bottle, it only gets better after each drink. There's just over 2 glasses worth (american pints) in this bottle and this is a great beer. It goes down very smooth. Not as smooth as a stout or porter but given it's level of carbonation, and the nice balance of malty sweetness it is dead on. I would not hesitate to buy this again. I will definitely be exploring this style further.
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4.47/5 rDev +7.2%
That's a nice dark ruby brown with orange hues the beer appears as. It has a pleasing aroma of assorted dark fruits with a little bit of cocoa. The taste, while not in your face, is very mellow and refreshing. Tastes just like the aroma, then add in a little bit of esters and pinch of peppery yeast. Very nicely balanced with the alcohol in disguise. Yep, another quality Trappist beer.
Photo of haz77
3.6/5 rDev -13.7%
A - Pours a deep chestnut colour with a firm couple of inches of light tan head. Very little carbonation to be seen. Head slowly drops to a finger thick cap over over minute or so.
S - Much more restrained than I was expecting and a little disappointing. Dark fruits, molasses, leather, tobacco, some alcohol spice.
T - This is more like it. Mild clove flavour leads to the middle before the dark fruit appears. Sweetness of the dark fruits swells from the middle onwards. Finish is lightly dry with a slight bitter chocolate edge.
M - Medium/full body, very creamy and smooth. Sharp carbonation at first, which quickly becomes softer.
D - Incredibly easy to drink. The taste/mouthfeel make up for the muted smell.
Photo of daythree16
4.03/5 rDev -3.4%
Pours a dark burgundy with a cream colored head.
The smell is very earthy and fruity and almost smells like grape juice. The taste is similar with a lot of dark fruit notes like grapes and figs.
The mouthfeel is very smooth but carbonated almost like a champagne. I would definitely have another.
Photo of BBM
4/5 rDev -4.1%
Poured a dark, deep brown with ruby highlights and a speckled beige head. Some sediment in the head as well. Aroma is not very prevalant, but is somewhat sweet.
Dark fruits and sweet molasses bring out the flavor, along with a hint of Belgian spices and red wine. It is a dubbel, to be sure, and is sufficiently complex and fulfilling. I didn't get that special feeling like I have with some other trappists, but that doesn't make this any less of a solid, enjoyable beer.
Photo of SkittleBrau82
4.38/5 rDev +5%
Damn good Dubbel!
Photo of BretSikkink
4.13/5 rDev -1%
Blood red-orange color, some highlighting. Dark tan head, bounces up quite high in the glass and retains for days. Lacing is minimal.
Aromas of sweet caramel malt, dark fruits, and a clove-like spicing. A bit weaker than I remembered in power, but the subtleties are nice.
More sweet malt-driven action in the flavor; toffee, caramel, fig, dark spices. Fusel alcohol presence is noticed but blends nicely with the spicing and is not a hindrance.
The mouthfeel is thick and viscous, but is whisked nicely off the tongue by the wonderful carbonation. Finish is a bit hot but quite complex and lovely.
Remarkable quality..seems to ooze gentility and patience. Get after it.
Photo of orangemoustache
4.22/5 rDev +1.2%
Pours dark with some red highlights and a puffy tan head that leaves lots of thick even lacing.The smell is tangy with red wine aromas.Tastes of malts,over ripened dark fruits and a hint of watered down prune,spices(cinnamon),the yeast was not as dominant as I had expected,I was very pleased with the abundance and subtlety of flavors.The body and mouthfeel are soft and frothy.A stellar Dubbel!
Photo of jdubjacket
4.1/5 rDev -1.7%
Poured from a bottle into a pint glass. Pours a deep, ruby red with a lot of carbonation. Some lacing but not a whole lot. Smells like brown sugar and dried fruit. Tastes very sweet and malty and finishes very dry. Due to the relatively low ABV, this beer is very drinkable. A very satisfying beer that I will definitely have to pick up more in the future.
Photo of Offa
4.65/5 rDev +11.5%
Photo of toreysan
4.53/5 rDev +8.6%
thanks again chefscott79.
Photo of Shadman
3.63/5 rDev -12.9%
Found this baby today and had to get right @ it.
Dark, but when held up to some light more of a dirty orange, like if someone poured cola into a glass of orange juice. Loads of carbonation and a tan head that receeds to a ring that stays forever.
not much initially aroma-wise, but as the beer warms some sweet rich maltiness really flows up to the nostrils.
Tast was complex to say the least. Lot's of stuff going on. Maltiness certainly up front, but a hard to discribe bitterness. Spiceness from the yeast very apparent towards the middle and lots of raisiny sweetness @ the end.
Mouthfeel was full, but the carbonation doesn't do much for me until it settled down a bit.
I liked it, but I can't see having more than 2 in a sitting.
Photo of scottg
4.15/5 rDev -0.5%
Bottle poured into a goblet glass.
Poured a light brown with a reddish hue and a small creamy head with nice lacing. Strong aroma of liquid yeast and fruit, cherry?. A sour fruit and caramel flavor up front with a smooth hoppy finish. Well carbonated, cleanses the mouth, would pair great with cheese. Easy drinking beer.
Photo of JBogan
4.18/5 rDev +0.2%
Poured a dark ruby/brown with a bit of a haze to it. Sturdy off white foam head leaving some but not a lot of lacing, and turning into a thin film which remained.
Roasted malts and some nuts present in the smell, with banana in there also.
Tasted of caramel, malts and maybe a bit of plum to go along with even a hint of bubble gum. Nice and complex, but yet not too "busy".
Mouthfeel was slightly on the thicker end of the scale, and not as sprightly as similar beers I've tried. Still pretty decent and smooth however.
I enjoyed this beer and found it drinkable. It's not quite up to the same level as some other Trappist beers, but it's pretty easy to find and not as expensive as some of those either. This one is certainly worth a try.
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4.1/5 rDev -1.7%
Poured from a 12oz bottle into a US tumbler pint glass.
A: The beer is a medium brown color, with a short but dense off-white head that fades very slowly and leaves a thick lace on the glass.
S: The aroma is of dark fruits, caramel, brown sugar, spices, Belgian yeast and a touch of hops.
T: The taste is malty and complex with flavors of caramel, brown sugar, dark fruit, spices and Belgian yeast. There's a mild but complimentary hops presence that provides a good balance. The after-taste is slightly sweet and slightly bready.
D: Tasty, goes down easily, not too filling, good kick, good representation of style, this is a beer that will hold your interest and your taste buds for a long time making it a good beer to drink for an evening.
Westmalle Trappist Dubbel from Brouwerij Westmalle
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But when do you want wheels? If the answer is rarely, then Zipcar's $75 membership fee ($50 annual plus $25 application) may not be worth it. If you're looking to take out a car for just one day, a first-time Zipcar driver would pay $160.
Rental agencies like Enterprise and Hertz have rates that vary widely depending on when and where you book. A last-minute, one-day rental from Los Angeles International Airport would cost a minimum of $136 with Enterprise and $113 with Hertz. But reserving two days ahead from Raleigh-Durhan International Airport would cost $31 with Enterprise and $30 with Hertz.
Hertz also offers a car-sharing program called Connect. It has the same rates as Zipcar, but a smaller fleet of cars.
If you're a car-free urbanite who frequently finds yourself needing wheels, the Zipcar membership fee is a worthwhile investment that brings the rest of your daily rentals down to $83 (more if you go more than 180 miles a day) and your hourly rentals down to $7.
For those with a penchant for spontaneous drives or last-minute grocery runs, Zipcar was made for you. There's no need to reserve ahead of time or find your way to an airport lot.
Things to know:
Zipcars must be returned to their location; rental car companies may offer one-way drives.
Becoming a Zipcar member takes planning: Allow time to receive your card in the mail or pick it up during business hours.
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Comments Threshold
Blame the other guy
By hiscross on 12/31/2009 10:50:56 AM , Rating: 4
Barry to Janet: "How do we respond?
Janet to Barry "The system worked"
Barry to Janet" Right we just go blaming the other guy"
Janet to Barry: "And might I add, no bathroom breaks!"
Barry to Janet "That's better than The system worked"
Janet to Barry" I'm glad fly on private planes, that odor is going to horrible on regular planes"
Barry to Janet: Ya, right, listen I have to go play golf with my friend Cheetah"
RE: Blame the other guy
By retrospooty on 12/31/2009 12:52:04 PM , Rating: 4
Right, you have no agenda there do ya?
Because Obama and Napolitano are directly responsible for who boards Dutch airplanes.
LOL... partisaned doofus.
RE: Blame the other guy
By Spuke on 12/31/2009 1:41:48 PM , Rating: 3
When I first heard this story I was confused because I couldn't figure out how Napolitano, regardless of what she said, had anything to do with security on this flight. Seriously, the terrorist boarded a Dutch flight. It seems there was a failure on the their end. I can understand that we could've improved intelligence sharing to them but it's ultimately THEIR responsibility to secure flights leaving THEIR country! Would the Dutch be responsible for flights leaving our country? I think not.
RE: Blame the other guy
By geddarkstorm on 12/31/2009 1:57:09 PM , Rating: 3
Exactly. This whole thing about increasing security at /American/ airports when the breach happened at a /Dutch/ airport.. is kinda arse backwards. Add in the hysteria trying to be stirred up over this, that somehow the US government or security failed... when this is /another/ country we're talking about.. It just doesn't make sense.
On the other hand, now that we've seen an exploit, we can better guard internally for it, as I don't think we were properly prepared in house for that kinda thing anyways. But that doesn't change how ridiculous this whole affair has become.
RE: Blame the other guy
By thurston on 1/1/10, Rating: 0
RE: Blame the other guy
By zsejk on 1/1/2010 2:17:48 PM , Rating: 2
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't the doer board a flight in Lagos, with a transfer onto a Delta flight in Amsterdam? Correct me if I'm further wrong, but don't most transit areas in airports all over the world *not* have extensive scans and pat downs? As in, in such a flight with a transfer, wouldn't/shouldn't the heaviest security be at the first boarding city (in this case, Lagos)?
Regardless, this whole political discussion about US airpot security is just a fear-driven knee jerk reaction. Good to have the discussion, but more/better US security sure wouldn't have stopped this event.
RE: Blame the other guy
RE: Blame the other guy
By hiscross on 12/31/09, Rating: 0
RE: Blame the other guy
By retrospooty on 12/31/2009 6:10:43 PM , Rating: 4
Oh, so this happened because of liberalism?
So by that Logic, 9/11 was Bush's fault becasue he was in charge.
I get it.
RE: Blame the other guy
By Reclaimer77 on 12/31/09, Rating: -1
RE: Blame the other guy
By retrospooty on 12/31/2009 6:13:52 PM , Rating: 3
This guy wasnt in guantanimo shit for brains... Whether he was or wasnt you cant blame the president for every freegin terrorist strike that occurs while he is in office.
By that logic Bush is responsible for 9/11, and the anthrax mail attack, and the shoe bomb guy.
RE: Blame the other guy
By hiscross on 12/31/09, Rating: -1
RE: Blame the other guy
By retrospooty on 12/31/2009 8:57:36 PM , Rating: 2
thats a BIT too blamey for me...
Shit happens in this world. You cant foresee everything.
Yes, this guy was on the watch list and that info wasnt communicated to all the right places. It isnt Obama, or Napolitano's job to communicate the list to all, and make sure the right thing is done with it, and it isnt the "commissars" job to do that either. Its low level people that do that, and mistakes happened. They happen when humans do jobs, I am sure you have made mistakes at work too. I know I have. To blame Obama is just stupid. Like him, or not, agree with his policies or dont, but dont put shit that is out of his control on him.
Just curious. Do you blame Bush and conservatism for the 9/11 attacks? He was in charge, and he was warned about Bin Laden. He was also told that something big was being planned and did nothing... I dont personally blame him, because like I said, you cant foresee everything. Hindsight is 20/20.
RE: Blame the other guy
RE: Blame the other guy
LOL. True...
RE: Blame the other guy
RE: Blame the other guy
By Reclaimer77 on 1/2/10, Rating: -1
RE: Blame the other guy
RE: Blame the other guy
By RaisedinUS on 1/1/2010 11:56:58 AM , Rating: 2
Funny, these same people you mention have NO problems blaming Bush for these same types of things......hmmmmm......
You can't have it both ways. Either the buck stops with Obama and then president Bush or it does not.
The problem is this: So many holes and provisions have been punched into the security protocols in the name of protecting children, and "other rights" that they miss the big picture; and terrorists fall through the large cracks. If these types of protections are going to work, they need to be enforced for everyone, all the time. I'm sick of the blame game, either protect us all or save the taxpayers billions and just forget about it.
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0.023262 | <urn:uuid:83d7da1f-9b2c-4b23-abc8-9a7f285c9da9> | en | 0.986434 | United Airlines flight attendant Jo Reinhardt worked her last flight Dec. 18, 2002.
It was a Boeing 757, flying from Denver to Seattle, loaded with passengers, even though the airline had filed bankruptcy.
"I can't describe to you how much I loved my job," Reinhardt said. "I always got to work early because I was so excited to be there."
She'd worked at United for 18 years. She was a personable woman who'd once served Joe DiMaggio on a flight.
She married at age 40, got pregnant on her honeymoon and was on her maternity leave when she got the news.
The cheerful flight attendant who had Joe DiMaggio's autograph also had Lou Gehrig's disease. She had a new husband, a new baby and a new diagnosis that promised her only months to live. "They said this will be your first Christmas with Jacob. Plan on it being your last," she said.
Somehow, Reinhardt outlived this diagnosis. At 45, she is now paralyzed from the neck down and requires a respirator to breathe. But when I called her at her home in Indianola, Wash., she was mostly upset about being fired.
She just got the word April 17.
"United never even called to tell me that I was going to be terminated," Reinhardt said. "We found out through the grapevine and had to call them. ... It was as if the supervisor was afraid to tell me.
Sara Nelson, spokeswoman for the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, said the union had asked United to extend Rein hardt's medical leave, or make some other accommodation, so her medical benefits could be extended.
The union's contract, forged while United was in bankruptcy, caps medical leave at three years. Nelson said United was considering an exception. But perhaps United fears that making an exception in one case could open a floodgate for others.
"They let her believe they were going to help her up until the point when they told her they would terminate her employment," Nelson said.
Reinhardt's husband, Rodger, said her medical costs were routinely as high as $3,000 a month - not including extras like a recent visit to the intensive-care unit that ran up a $17,000 tab. "Without adequate medical, we would never be able to survive that," he said.
A carpenter, Rodger Reinhardt said he's not sure how he'll afford his wife's COBRA benefits or whether they would cover her expensive medications.
On the day Reinhardt was fired, a House subcommittee heard testimony about executive compensation at companies that had filed bankruptcy. United CEO Glenn Tilton's salary was part of the discussion. Tilton received $23.8 million in compensation in 2006, much of it in unvested stock options and restricted stock, the company reported.
United's unions are livid. While under Chapter 11, United terminated all pensions and stuck the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. with a $5 billion tab in one of the largest pension defaults in history.
United's workers took pay cuts and gave up benefits, and many lost their jobs altogether as management pleaded for their sacrifices to save the airline.
"That's called 'thanks for the give-back, suckers,"' said Evergreen-based airline consultant Michael Boyd.
United's disregard for its employees helped send it into bankruptcy years ago. But I am hoping things can change.
"We have deep sympathy for her situation," United spokeswoman Jean Medina told me. "We hope to work with her and her family to help identify resources for this difficult time."
That would be news to Rodger Reinhardt. It would also be news to the flight attendants union. The union is asking for donations to be sent to: AFA SEA Council 10, Attn: Jo Longway Reinhardt, P.O. Box 54326, Redondo, WA 98054.
If you've ever flown United, consider a small donation, $5 or $10, to show United's managers who is more generous.
"We challenged them for matching donations, but they haven't given a thing," said Nelson.
"I really thought they were going to come through as a shining example of goodwill," Jo Reinhardt said. "When they didn't, they snatched my last bit of hope."
Added her husband: "I guess when you get right down to it, she just didn't die fast enough for United."
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Isaiah 53:7-9
P. G. Mathew | Sunday, February 22, 2004
Copyright © 2004, P. G. Mathew
Isaiah 53:7-9
Mel Gibson's movie, The Passion of the Christ, in some ways represents the very heart of Christianity - the voluntary, substitutionary and propitiatory death of Jesus Christ.
Mel Gibson did not find any meaning in worldly riches and fame. He became an addict of drugs and alcohol and even contemplated committing suicide. Then he reportedly turned to the Bible and found purpose and meaning in Jesus Christ.
The big question is not who crucified Christ; it is why Jesus was crucified. The answer this movie provides us, as Gibson himself reported to Diane Sawyer of ABC, is, "He was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed" (Isaiah 53:5). Jesus Christ died for our sins.
He Did Not Defend Himself
Isaiah 53:7-9 speaks about the silent suffering servant of the Lord. Verse 7 can be translated this way: "Though he was oppressed, he was submissive and opened not his mouth." He submitted to being arrested, mocked, spat upon, beaten, stripped, struck down, forced to carry his own cross, and crucified. The question we must ask is about the nature of his response. Isaiah says, "He did not open his mouth." Why did he not protest this great injustice? Why did he not open his mouth and defend himself? Why did he stand there and take all this abuse submissively?
When the Israelites were oppressed by Pharaoh's taskmasters, as we read in chapters 2 and 3 of Exodus, they cried out to God. The Lord came down and said to Moses, "I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering" (Exodus 3:7). But this lonely Israelite, the Messiah, did not cry out. He allowed all this abuse to happen to him, yet he said nothing.
So we must ask, "Why is that? Why did he not open his mouth and protest? Why did he not defend himself?" When Jeremiah was unjustly abused by his enemies, he was not silent, but cried out to God:
I had been like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter; I did not realize that they had plotted against me, saying, "Let us destroy the tree and its fruit; let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name be remembered no more." But, O Lord Almighty, you who judge righteously and test the heart and mind, let me see your vengeance upon them, for to you I have committed my cause. (Jeremiah 11:19-20)
Jeremiah protested, but the Messiah was silent. Even Mahatma Gandhi of India called for non-violent resistance. But Jesus Christ offered no resistance at all, violent or non-violent. The gospel accounts tell us he did not defend himself before Annas, Caiaphas, the Sanhedrin, Herod Antipas, or the Roman governor Pilate. So Matthew 26:62-63 tells us, "Then the high priest stood up and said to Jesus, 'Are you not going to answer? What is this testimony that these men are bringing against you?' But Jesus remained silent." And in Matthew 27:12-14 we read, "When he was accused by the chief priests and the elders, he gave no answer. Then Pilate asked him, 'Don't you hear the testimony they are bringing against you?' But Jesus made no reply, not even to a single charge-to the great amazement of the governor."
Isaiah predicted this non-defensive and non-complaining attitude of the suffering servant:
He will not shout or cry out, or raise his voice in the streets. A bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not snuff out. In faithfulness he will bring forth justice" (Isaiah 42:2-3).
Why this self-imposed silence and non-defense? Because Jesus is voluntarily participating in something that he understands to be part of the larger purposes of God-our salvation. He loves his Father and his determinate counsel, and he also loves the elect transgressors like us. This chapter tells us the will of God will prosper in his hand, even though it did not succeed in the hand of any other human being in the world. The servant fully trusts the Father, and his response to this undeserved suffering is that described by David in Psalm 39:9: "I was silent. I would not open my mouth, for you are the one who has done this."
Yet He Was without Sin
There is no question that the suffering servant is sinless. Isaiah himself tells us that in verse 9: "He had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth." This speaks about the total innocence and complete guiltlessness of the suffering servant. In verse 11 the Father addresses him as "my righteous servant."
Pilate examined Jesus Christ three times and proclaimed, "I find no fault in him." In 2 Corinthians 5:21 Paul says, "God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God." In 1 John 3:5 the apostle John says of Christ, "But you know that he appeared so that he might take away our sins. And in him is no sin." In John 8:46 Jesus himself asks, "Can any of you prove me guilty of sin?" The expected answer is no; no one can convict this suffering servant of sin because he is without sin.
Consider what Peter has to say about Christ in 1 Peter 2:22: "He committed no sin and no deceit was found in his mouth." He is quoting here from Isaiah 53. What about the writer to the Hebrews? Hebrews 4:15 tells us, "For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are-yet was without sin." A sinful high priest could not possibly take our sin away. Thus, Hebrews 7:26 celebrates this sinless high priest: "Such a high priest meets our need-one who is holy, blameless, pure, set apart from sinners, exalted above the heavens. Unlike the other high priests, he does not need to offer sacrifices day after day, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people. He sacrificed for their sins once for all when he offered himself. For the law appoints as high priests men who are weak," that is, men who are sinful and dying, "but the oath, which came after the law, appointed the Son, who has been made perfect forever." And Hebrews 9:14 tells us, "How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death, so that we may serve the living God!"
Finally, what does the Father say? Right after Jesus' baptism, the voice came from heaven: "This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased" (Matthew 3:17).
A Voluntary Sacrifice
A lamb goes to the slaughter without knowing that it is about to be killed for sacrifice. But the suffering servant, the Passover Lamb, went to the slaughter for the supreme sacrifice of himself both knowingly and willingly.
The animal sacrifice of the Passover portrays the God-given idea of substitution-that someone else can die in our place. But not only is animal sacrifice not voluntary, it is also not propitiatory, that is, able to make atonement for our sins. The writer to the Hebrews tells us the blood of bulls or goats cannot atone for our sins (10:4). A sinless human being must substitute for a sinful person; a consenting will must substitute for a rebellious will.
The sinless God/man, the Messiah, voluntarily substituted himself for all elect sinners of the world. The new David, the good shepherd, gave his life for his murderers. His silent suffering, then, was voluntary, spontaneous, substitutionary, and propitiatory. So in Philippians 2:8 Paul says, "And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death-even the death on a cross!"
Isaiah himself was saved by an altar, as we read in Isaiah 6:5-7. But the question is, which altar? Can an altar that sacrifices animals save anybody? No! Isaiah's guilt and sin were not removed by the altar upon which animals were sacrificed, but by the altar on which the suffering servant was sacrificed. Only the death of this suffering servant could take away Isaiah's guilt and ours.
Why was there no protest and defense on the part of the suffering servant? As Jesus said, "The Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many" (Matthew 20:28). Christ came to die in our place for our salvation. Our sins were heaped upon him by the Father, and he was punished in our place by the Father. He became sin for us "that we might become the righteousness of God."
All we like sheep have gone astray and have turned from God's way to our own ways. Isaiah applies this animal simile not only to us but also to the suffering servant. So he says this servant was led to the slaughter like a lamb, the Passover lamb. No wonder John the Baptist looked at him and said, "Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!" In 1 Corinthians 5:7 Paul declares, "For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed," and Peter tells us in 1 Peter 1:19 that we were redeemed "with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect."
A Necessary Sacrifice
The suffering servant understood why he came. He agreed with God's eternal plan to die in our place, so he set his face like flint to go to Jerusalem. (PGM) In Matthew 16 we discover this divine determinate counsel, the divine decree regarding the necessity of the substitutionary, propitiatory, and voluntary death of Jesus Christ to secure our salvation. Matthew 16:21 begins, "From that time on Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem. . . ." Here is the word dei - the divine must. The determinate counsel of God from all eternity is that he "must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, chief priests and teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life." Thanks be to God for his eternal plan!
In the gospel of Luke we again see the self-consciousness Jesus had of his mission. He knew why he became incarnate, what the Father wanted him to do, and he did it. He knew the whole Old Testament spoke about this sacrifice of himself. So in Luke 24:25 he told the Emmaus disciples, "'How foolish you are, and how slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken! Did not the Christ have to suffer these things and then enter his glory?' And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself."
These verses give us the biblical hermeneutic of interpreting Scripture in a Christocentric manner. The message of the Bible is Jesus Christ. Paul said he did not want to know anything except "Jesus Christ and him crucified" (1 Corinthians 2:2). It is that passion, the last twelve hours of the life of Jesus Christ, that gripped Mel Gibson. He must go, he must die, he must be raised to life. This is the divine must, the divine order, the determinate counsel of the Father, to which the Son agreed from all eternity, knowingly and voluntarily.
He Suffered on Our Behalf
The servant suffered silently and submissively the punishment due us, meted out to him by the Father and the secondary human agents. I hope you understand the seriousness of this truth. This is the height of biblical soteriology. Once you grasp this, you must trust in Jesus Christ and be saved.
Why did he not vindicate himself? Why did he not defend himself and prove his innocence? The answer is, he did not justify himself so that he might justify the ungodly. The sinless God/man died so that the sinful may be spared eternal death. Romans 8:32 tells us that God "did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all." The Son became sin for us and received the full punishment for our sin.
Did this suffering servant get a fair trial? Oh, no. He did not receive due process of the law. He was taken away to be crucified, and suffered a violent, premature death. But he was voluntarily suffering the just judgment of God that was due us. That is why he did not defend himself. The Father himself says in verse 8, "For the transgression of my people he was stricken." The literal translation is: "A blow to him for the transgression of my people." As God's people, we are the ones who transgressed God's law in total rebellion. But the blow was directed, not to us, but to the suffering servant, and it killed him. God said, "A blow to him for the transgression, the rebellion, the twistedness, the perversion, and the guilt of my people."
Thank God, there is no blow to us, either now or in the future. The wrath of God will not be upon us, God's people, because the servant suffered for us.
Honorable Burial
Not only did the suffering servant die; we are told in this passage that he was buried. But there is an enigma in his burial. Verse 9 says, "He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death." Criminals and crucified people were considered unclean, so the Romans buried them with their crosses in unclean places near the site of their crucifixion. According to custom, Jesus would have been thrown into an unclean pit. But that did not happen. That human intention to bury Jesus with the criminals was thwarted by divine intervention. A rich man came, took Jesus' body, and buried it in his own tomb: "As evening approached, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who had himself became a disciple of Jesus. Going to Pilate, he asked for Jesus' body, and Pilate ordered that it be given to him. Joseph took the body, wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, and placed it in his own new tomb that he had cut out of the rock. He rolled a big stone in front of the entrance to the tomb and went away" (Matthew 27:57-60). Thus this prophecy regarding the unusual burial of Jesus was fulfilled.
The question arises, "Why was he with the rich in his death?" Ultimately, it was to fulfill Isaiah's prophecy, but I think further explanation is offered by the following translation of verse 9: "He was assigned a grave with the criminals, but he was with the rich in his death because he had done no violence nor was any deceit in his mouth." Unlike Isaiah, who was sinful and who had unclean lips, the suffering servant was completely righteous. No other man was ever without sin. So God gave him an honorable burial after a dishonorable death.
Glorious Resurrection
In the next three verses, Isaiah goes on to tell us about Christ's resurrection. Christ rose from this borrowed tomb of Joseph of Arimathea on the third day according to the Scriptures.
Paul tells us in Romans 4:25, "He was delivered over to death for our sins and was raised to life for our justification." In the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus, we find our complete salvation. Jesus said to his disciples, "Because I live, you also will live" (John 14:19). Because he lives, we will live forever with him. So Jesus tells us, "Do not let your heart be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me" (John 14:1). In fact, he commands us throughout the Bible, "Fear not!" Christians have no reason to be anxious, to worry, or to fear. Christ died, Christ was buried, and Christ lives as our Savior and Lord now and forevermore. We can therefore say with confidence, "I shall never die the second death; I have eternal life through Jesus Christ."
No man could have devised this method of salvation, but it was planned from all eternity by God the Father. In Genesis 22, God told Abraham not to kill his son, and showed him a ram caught in a thicket, that he might sacrifice the ram in place of Isaac. But there was no sparing when it came to God's own Son. He gave him up for our salvation.
Behold the silent, suffering servant! He is the Son of God, the God/man, the guiltless One, silently suffering for the guilty, that he may justify ungodly sinners like us! He suffers silently because he is suffering for our sins, not his. He will not defend or justify himself, because he has voluntarily taken our sin upon himself. Behold the love of God shown in this suffering Christ, the Savior! He is the good shepherd spoken of by Ezekiel, the shepherd who gave himself for his sheep (Ezekiel 34). Jesus Christ laid down his life for you and for me. If you have not trusted in this silent suffering servant, I pray that God will grant you faith to believe in him and be saved. Amen.
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A sleazy, desperate fur trader who haunts a local strip club, gets his hands on some priceless raccoon furs that might be more than just priceless but cursed.
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I hate to think of Hollywood as the leading edge of our social norms, but it sure feels like it sometimes. A decade ago, you could almost hear the outcry when Murphy Brown had a baby out of wedlock. Even then-Vice-President Dan Quayle weighed in on TV's fictional mom. Lately, it seems like less of an issue. Madonna wasn't married when she gave birth to her daughter. More recently, Katie Holmes had a baby before she tied the knot with Tom.
Turns out it's not just Hollywood. New data from the Centers for Disease Control indicates 37 percent of babies were born outside of marriage in 2005. That's almost four of every 10 births. Some are the product of two-parent families, but most are born to single mothers. They're generally not teens in trouble but women who are a little older and who've made a conscious decision to become a mom.
In the course of reporting on these statistics for the Today Show, we met Stacy Madison, a businesswoman who spent her thirties building a pita chip company. No man in the picture, she was married to the job. When she wasn't in love at 39, she went shopping at a Boston sperm bank and came home with twins. "Ideally, I would have loved to have started a family the traditional way," she told us, "met somebody and fallen in love. Unfortunately, it didn't happen that way." Madison isn't shy about detailing her struggle raising twins solo but calls motherhood the smartest decision she's ever made.
It's an issue many women confront. For whatever reason — let's not always blame the career — they didn't meet THE guy, they know the clock is ticking and they want a child. So they go it alone with help from a sperm bank or someone who's willing to help make the dream come true.
Almost unilaterally, women (and a few men) who've traveled this road find it rewarding and they tend to involve their friends and siblings and parents, so the child has a large extended family. How do the kids fare? Put them in a crowd and there's no visible difference between children of unwed moms and the rest. Some critics, however, call the decision selfish and say children raised by one parent are at greater risk than others for everything from depression to problems in school.
As for the single parents I know, I simply don't know how they do it. They are amazing mommies whose struggles are as constant as their love. When one of mine gets sick in the middle of the night, I've got a sounding board next to me: Is this serious, should we go to the hospital? Decisions on everything from what school they attend to whether they can drink soda are made by a committee of two. I don't always agree with the other board member, but I'm sure glad he's there.
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This bit is a long-standing part of Biden’s shtick, but was interpreted as a dig at possible presidential rival Hillary Clinton. The former secretary of state has been having trouble talking about her considerable wealth, ever since she described herself as “dead broke” upon leaving the White House as first lady.
It’s hard to know what motivates Biden to zoom down a rhetorical byway. His comments on Monday were particularly strange, given that the vice president’s disclosure statements show that he does have a stock portfolio, though it is owned by his wife. But even if that’s the case, Biden probably couldn’t help himself. Politicians find the poor-man routine so irresistible because it can be effective.
Biden and Clinton are courting danger when they embroider their hard times. Dislike of phonies is a gut instinct. Clinton had just bought $2 million homes and signed an $8 million book contract at the time she said she was “dead broke.” Though Biden may not be as wealthy as others in his cohort, he is obviously set for life and as a long-serving senator was always on a far easier track than a struggling middle-class family.
Fellow feeling is not the only thing voters take into account. Liberals have long wondered why voters have put social issues above economic ones in certain parts of the country. Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., had a compelling story of his family’s struggles after his father died, but that story competes with his promotion of a budget plan that shreds social safety nets. Former Sens. John Edwards and Rick Santorum failed as candidates, even though they were able to connect to middle-class voters through their humble roots stories. Biden and Clinton failed, too, for that matter, but since the economy is going to dominate the next election (as it always does), more stories about pocketbook struggles are inevitable.
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John's search for his bride Nina brings him to a bizarre place called Sinister City, where he finds a hypnosis machine that allows his unconscious mind to travel to the astral plane. There he meets the vampire Count Orlak, an evil being keeping his fiancée prisoner. He must find a way to rescue her from this predicament and escape back to reality.
Sinister City is a hidden object game with standard features of classic point-and-click adventure titles. Most of the time, the objective is to find and collect a series of items scattered around certain locations. Pictures of the objects appear at the top-left corner after talking with other characters or advancing the plot in some other way. The player has to move between connected rooms and click on certain areas to access the separate screens where the items are stored.
Once all the instances of the objects are found, they are added to the inventory tab at the bottom, from where they can be dragged and dropped on interactive portions of the scenery to perform an action or solve a puzzle. The hint button is a large ? at the bottom-left corner, that shows the position of one of the required items when activated, but takes some time to recharge after use.
Mini-games take place on separate screens, where pieces and mechanisms have to be manipulated directly to solve puzzles, like connecting pairs of twisted wires by color, assembling clockwork pieces, restoring the shards to a broken mirror, moving horizontal bands to complete a sketch portrait of the Count, placing vampire hunting tools in pockets with their silhouettes, connecting a series of gears and completing other similar challenges. They can be optionally skipped after a few minutes.
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Chapter 19: Organism, Not Organization
I am giving an alternative for everything. Organization has to be replaced by organism. The commune has to be an organism. I am working on that way, and is happening. It will take a little time for people to start feeling themselves that something strange is happening: they are functioning in tune, they are feeling responsible. Nobody is holding them responsible, nobody will condemn them for not being responsible, but suddenly they feel that’s how life is more joyful, that’s how life is more loving, that’s how all misery, sadness, darkness, disappears.
And that’s how you become respectable, not in others’ eyes, but even in your own eyes. A tremendous self-respect arises - and you are not higher and nobody is lower than you. Your self-respect makes it possible for you to respect everyone as he is.
I have told the journalists that whatever I have said is as much applicable to my own people as to anybody else, because what I say is simply a universal law. So you can see here that it is still an organization. An organization will need violence or will be afraid of violence from outside. But I am still here and I would like the organization to completely disappear, not only from this place, but from everywhere in the world. Organization is not needed, just small communes which can function as an organic whole. And if people are joyous, if they feel life as a blessing, they will not commit violence because that is simply a disturbance of their own joy and of the joy of the other person.
But if only your commune becomes an organism and you are surrounded by organizations around you, then certainly you will need weapons, not for violence, but simply for self-defense.
Organizations are always trying to invade, trying to conquer - conquer each and every thing. Even a man as intelligent as Bertrand Russell wrote a book, Conquest Of Nature. Now, that is ugly. We are part of nature, how can we conquer nature? That is creating a split. It is like one of my hands becomes the conqueror of my whole being. That is simply not possible, but because nature is silent and non-argumentative, you can go on saying anything. What have you conquered in nature?
All that you have done is you have learned the laws of nature, and you are following the laws of nature. Hence you have become more productive, more creative, more powerful. But this is not conquest of nature; this is simply an inquiry - and nature is compassionate enough that it goes on opening its secrets to you. And you are such ungrateful creatures that on the one hand nature is opening its secrets to you, and on the other hand you are declaring that you have conquered nature. But that is the language of the organizational man: violence, conquest, victory.
But if a commune is there, an organism surrounded by organizations, there is every possibility those organizations will try to invade you, conquer you, destroy you, be violent with you.
To me, to be violent is something ugly; but to allow violence to be done to you is also ugly. In both cases you are partners. Violence can be done only with two partners. Either you can be the doer or you can be the receiver.
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The despot treads thy sacred sands,
Thy pines give shelter to his bands,
Thy sons stand by with idle hands,
He breathes at ease thy airs of balm,
He scorns the lances of thy palm;
Oh! who shall break thy craven calm,
Thy ancient fame is growing dim,
A spot is on thy garment's rim;
Give to the winds thy battle hymn,
Call on thy children of the hill,
Wake swamp and river, coast and rill,
Rouse all thy strength and all thy skill,
Cite wealth and science, trade and art,
Touch with thy fire the cautious mart,
And pour thee through the people's heart,
Till even the coward spurns his fears,
And all thy fields and fens and meres
Shall bristle like thy palm with spears,
Hold up the glories of thy dead;
Say how thy elder children bled,
And point to Eutaw's battle-bed,
Tell how the patriot's soul was tried,
And what his dauntless breast defied;
How Rutledge ruled and Laurens died,
Cry! till thy summons, heard at last,
Shall fall like Marion's bugle-blast
Re-echoed from the haunted Past,
I hear a murmur as of waves
That grope their way through sunless caves,
Like bodies struggling in their graves,
And now it deepens; slow and grand
It swells, as, rolling to the land,
An ocean broke upon thy strand,
Shout! let it reach the startled Huns!
And roar with all thy festal guns!
It is the answer of thy sons,
They will not wait to hear thee call;
From Sachem's Head to Sumter's wall
Resounds the voice of hut and hall,
No! thou hast not a stain, they say,
Or none save what the battle-day
Shall wash in seas of blood away,
Thy skirts indeed the foe may part,
Thy robe be pierced with sword and dart,
They shall not touch thy noble heart,
Ere thou shalt own the tyrant's thrall
Ten times ten thousand men must fall;
Thy corpse may hearken to his call,
When, by thy bier, in mournful throngs
The women chant thy mortal wrongs,
'T will be their own funereal songs,
From thy dead breast by ruffians trod
No helpless child shall look to God;
All shall be safe beneath thy sod,
Girt with such wills to do and bear,
Assured in right, and mailed in prayer,
Thou wilt not bow thee to despair,
Throw thy bold banner to the breeze!
Front with thy ranks the threatening seas
Like thine own proud armorial trees,
Fling down thy gauntlet to the Huns,
And roar the challenge from thy guns;
Then leave the future to thy sons,
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Souvenir of the Ancient World
Clara strolled in the garden with the children.
The sky was green over the grass,
the water was golden under the bridges,
other elements were blue and rose and orange,
a policeman smiled, bicycles passed,
a girl stepped onto the lawn to catch a bird,
the whole world--Germany, China--
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"There is star quality in this writer!" raves the Romantic Times about gifted author Gaelen Foley. Her love stories are filled with glorious settings, stunning characters, and unforgettable passion.
Dani can only wonder if she's been delivered to heaven or hell once she agrees to marry the most desirable man in the Mediterranean--until forces of treachery threaten to destroy their tenuous alliance and bring down the throne itself. . . .
Ascencion, 1816
The greatest lover of all time was at it again, smoothly seducing the artless country girl Zerlina, as Mozart's famed duet "La ci darem la mano" filled the sumptuous theater with a graceful spire of twining voices, tenor and soprano making love to each other in exquisite song.
No one was paying attention. The wink of opera glasses and the rustling whispers betrayed that the glittering audience's fascination was fixed, not on the stage, but on the first and finest theater box on the mezzanine, stage right, perched over the orchestra. Cloyingly sculpted with cupids and urns and draped plasterwork ribbons, the box was permanently reserved for royalty.
He sat at the carved marble rail, half in shadow, unmoving, his suntanned face expressionless. Light from the stage gleamed on the signet ring on his finger, played over the patrician angles of his face, and gilded his long dark-gold hair, which was swept back in a queue.
The audience watched with bated breath as he moved for the first time since the performance had begun. Slowly he reached into the pocket of his extravagant waistcoat, took a peppermint from a flat metal tin, and placed it in his mouth.
Ladies watched him suck the candy and blushed, fluttering their fans.
I am so bored, he thought, his eyes glazing over. So, so very bored.
The favored members of his entourage sat around him in the theater box, sullen, gilded young lords, gorgeously dressed. Behind their air of studied idleness, they had hard, hooded eyes, weapons concealed beneath their coats. With a few, the scent of opium smoke clung to their rich clothes. Some in his little flock went further than others, but everything was allowed.
"Your Highness?" came a whisper from his right.
Never taking his dull, heavy gaze off his beautiful mistress on the stage, Crown Prince Raffaele Giancarlo Ettore di Fiore flicked one jeweled hand, brushing off the proffered flask. He was in no humor for liquor, brooding in a cynical mood that Dante had had it all wrong.
The Inferno, with all its fire and brimstone, could not be worse than this echoless realm of Limbo where he was suspended in eternal waiting.
Being born the son of a great man was a hard thing; yet somehow Rafe had managed to get himself sired by one who was not only great but also evidently immortal. He did not by any means wish his father's demise, but in light of the fact that he would turn thirty tomorrow, he was besieged by a general sense of doom.
Time was flying past and he was getting nowhere. Had any aspect of his life changed significantly since he was, oh, eighteen? he wondered as the robust song from Don Giovanni faded into the background of his awareness. He still had the same friends, played the same games, still languished in pointless luxury, a prisoner of his rank.
Unable to make a move in control of his own destiny, he was merely his father's puppet, nothing more. Every matter of consequence concerning his existence must first be debated over, voted on, and approved by the court, the newspapers, and the whole damned senate, and Lord, he was tired of it. He felt more like a prisoner than a prince, not a man but an overgrown adolescent.
He had given up arguing with Father to assign him some meaningful task worthy of his ability and education. It was futile. The old tyrant refused to part with an ounce of his power.
Ah, what was the point of caring? He fancied he might as well sleep the years away in a glass coffin behind some enchanted wall of thorns. They could wake him when it was time for his life to begin.
After an eternity or so, Don Giovanni was dragged off to Hell and the opera was finally done. He and his followers left the theater box while the audience was still applauding.
He stared straight ahead as they strode in a pack down the marbled hall, pretending that he did not see the people lined up, beaming eager smiles at him, all the nice people who wanted a bite of him, like the stout, vaguely familiar matron who attempted to stop him presently.
"Your Highness," she gushed, curtsying with her nose almost to the floor, "how marvelous to see you this evening! My dear husband and myself and our three lovely girls would be so honored if you would come to our soiree--"
"My regrets, madam, thank you and goodnight," he muttered harshly as he kept walking. God, save me from hopeful mothers-in-law.
One of the dread journalists pushed his way to the fore. "Your Highness, did you really win fifty thousand lire in a wager last week and did your phaeton really break an axle in the race?"
"Get him out of here," he muttered to his boyhood friend Adriano di Tadzio.
Then Lord Someone-or-other stepped partly into his path with a dignified bow. "Your Highness, what a smashing performance by Miss Sinclair! Beg pardon, I have some people here who would love to meet you--"
He growled and moved past the bald man, then he and his entourage did not stop until they reached the backstage regions of the large, elegant theater.
With a slow swagger, chin high, Rafe stepped inside the actresses' dressing room and instantly began to feel better, the tension easing marginally from him. There were scantily clad women everywhere and that was a sight to lift any man's spirits, however jaded. Women. The warm, sweet smell of their flesh made him breathe easier. With a rather cool half-smile he glanced around slowly, surveying the selection.
"Look! He's here!"
A shrill chorus of feminine screams of delight filled the drafty, candlelit dressing room. They raced at him from every quarter.
A pack of screaming, squealing girls swamped him. All talking at once, they pulled him down into a chair, three of the actresses sitting on his lap, giggling and stroking his chest, and two draped around his neck, covering his face in kisses.
"Ah," he sighed, smiling slightly for the first time that night as he leaned back lazily in the chair, closing his eyes and drowning pleasantly under the soft, scented, writhing mass of lovely limbs and unbound breasts and lace flounces and careful curls. "I love the theater."
He heard them giggling, felt them rummaging in his coat and waistcoat like pickpocket children searching for treats. Ah, well. He supposed he had spoiled them, rolling them a handful of jewels last time he'd been here, foxed as Pharaoh.
Soft lips alighted on his mouth, caressing lightly. After a judicious moment, he began kissing back, willing ennui away. Touching wherever he pleased, he sampled their kisses one by one, but the fun ended when Chloe arrived.
Rafe watched the English diva strutting toward him in her clinging silvery gown.
She had a perfect body and a gleaming smile, his latest toy. They had been lovers for four months now, a record for Rafe. He did not quite know how to tell her that he had begun losing interest. He was rather hoping she would figure it out for herself.
Chloe huffed to see her sister thespians all over her royal protector. She slid her feather boa off her creamy shoulders and pushed her way into their midst, catching Rafe around the neck with it. He glanced up with an unrepentant half-smile. Chloe gave him a disapproving look, but didn't dare reproach him.
Instead, she fluffed the feather boa on him. "Darling, how avant-garde."
"Ooo, it looks so pretty on him!" one of the girls exclaimed, fixing the pink feather boa over his shoulder like a scarf.
"Everything does," another sighed.
He stared dully at the chit, wondering if he had ever been that young and easily impressed.
"Look at this, Prince Rafie!" a buxom brunette said eagerly, climbing off his lap. Daringly, she lifted the hem of her chemise and bared the left cheek of her pretty, rounded bottom for him.
He lifted his eyebrows, admiring the R tattooed there. He traced the monogrammed letter with his fingertip lightly over the curve of tender flesh. "How sweet of you, my pet. What was your name again?"
"Begone, you little tramps, or I'll speak to the house manager and you'll all be out of a job!" Chloe snapped, shooing them off.
Rafe chuckled at his mistress's pique, saying nothing as the girls sadly drifted away, curls drooping. He smiled to himself, watching his friends intercept them, flirting, billfolds at the ready.
"Lovely, lovely little tarts." He glanced up at the haughty blond with a wicked gleam in his eyes. "And then there's you, madam witch."
She leaned over him, grasped both ends of the feather boa, and tugged. "That's right," she whispered, holding him in a sultry stare, "and you, my devil, are coming with me. I must punish you for sleeping through my aria. Don't think I didn't see you."
"I was awake ... but you can punish me as you see fit," he murmured softly as he stood, towering over her. As she laughed and led him by the gaudy feather boa, Chloe's hungry gaze teased him with pleasures yet to come. He pretended not to notice the sheer worship in her eyes, looking away to nod at his companions. "See you around two at the club," he said, holding the door for Chloe, who slid the feather boa off his shoulders.
"Ciao," said Adriano with a toss of his black forelock.
"Enjoy," Niccolo drawled with a smirk.
Just then, Rafe heard someone calling him.
"Your Highness! Your Highness! Sir!"
Halfway out the door, he turned around and saw a courier in royal livery bustling through the dressing room. Instantly every muscle in his body tensed with checked hostility.
A message from the king.
As the courier hurried toward him, Rafe drew a deep breath and let it out slowly, for he was not a man who lost his temper. His father was the blustery hothead in the family; he prided himself on remaining coolly graceful at all times. He lifted both brows expectantly as the courier bowed.
"How does my good father this night?" he asked, his tone soft but edged with the barest hint of irony.
The courier bowed apologetically. "His Majesty summons you, Your Highness."
Rafe stared at him for a long moment, his slight, urbane smile pasted in place, his marble-green eyes snapping with anger. "Tell him I will call on him tomorrow around noon. After I have had my breakfast."
"Pardon, Your Highness," the man said with a gulp, bowing again, "the king insists you come anon."
"Is it an emergency?"
"I know not, sir," the man stammered. "His Majesty sent the carriage--"
"I have my own carriage," Rafe said pleasantly through gritted teeth, realizing that Father must have sent the gaudy state coach because, hang it all, he had probably heard about his drunken race, roaring across the countryside in the dead of night last Wednesday.
No doubt the reason for the summons was that his father wished to scald his ears again as usual with another recounting of his many failings as a future king, how the responsibility was going to crush him because he was just a dreamer, and how the courtiers were going to eat him alive, et cetera, et cetera.
He was really in no mood to hear it.
Meanwhile, his friends, his mistress, and his charming young devotees were all watching the exchange with worried looks, as though they expected him to explode any day now, any moment.
He saw he had a choice--the same choice as always. Either he could make a scene like a churl and stand on his pride, or, as usual, swallow the humiliation of having to jump whenever his father snapped his fingers and exit like the prince he was down to his fingertips.
His voice was velvet, his slight, cold smile angelic. "I will be pleased to attend His Majesty at once, but rest assured, I will take my own carriage."
The courier bobbed as though he might collapse with relief. "As Your Highness wishes." He backed away from Rafe, still bowing.
Rafe turned to his mistress, lifted her hand and kissed it in taut gallantry, his angry thoughts a million miles away. "Apologies, my sugar-sweet."
"It's all right, darling," she soothed, caressing his arm, then looked meaningfully into his eyes. "As long as I can still give you your birthday present tomorrow."
"I cannot wait to see what it is," he murmured with a knowing half-smile.
Then he walked out alone, still shaking his head to himself at the thought of his father's high handedness, though the same routine ought to come as no surprise by now.
Outside, the ornate gilded state coach which the king had insultingly sent to collect him was just pulling away. Waiting for him in front of the theater crouched the smart, new, exceedingly expensive landau with mahogany panels and elliptical springs that had been lent to him, gratis, by the city's finest carriage-maker, who was fixing his phaeton's broken axle.
The generous gesture had been a prudent move on the wheelwright's part, Rafe thought cynically, for now that model of equipage was selling like mad. Strange how the world at large disparaged him for his wild ways, yet their slavish mimicry of his every passing whim had made him the kingdom's arbiter of fashion. He could not boast of a stainless conscience, but at least he had excellent taste.
The street was crowded in front of the lavish theater, people still thronging the area since the opera had just let out. Vendors were selling them flavored ices. Since the grand opera hall in Belfort was being renovated, the ton had flocked to this smaller theater in the quaint coastal town a few miles down the hill. The cafés along the beach had become all the rage.
Walking out to his waiting coach, Rafe breathed the flowery, salt-laden air of his homeland and paused to stare up the hill at the great crooked bulk of the Italian island where his family had ruled for seven hundred years.
Under the moon, the port town before him was narrow and long, hugging the steep terraced hillside. The lampposts, frugally spaced along the quay to his right, cast a dim glow upon stout palm trees blowing in the night wind. He turned, the breeze caressing his clean-shaved cheeks as he stared at the lush purple mounds of oleander waving amid the dark boulders that abutted the beach.
He looked at the row of narrow shops with painted hanging signs. On the upper stories, small wrought-iron balconies overlooked the harbor and the rocky strand. Every doorway slumbered under thick cascades of white jasmine, whose sweet perfume softened the stink from the fish markets farther down the docks.
Ascencion, he whispered in his mind, as if savoring a lover's name. Fairer even than the isle of Capri, she was his sacred heritage. For Ascencion, he would endure his cage and take whatever humiliations his father dealt him. Somehow, he would hold on, though he knew he was dying on the vine. The one thing that kept despair at bay was the promise that one day he would truly rule this peerless gem of the Mediterranean. The one desire he had not yet fulfilled was his longing to be a good king.
Everyone thought he would be a disaster, he knew. He would show them. One day.
Sighing, he stepped up into the coach. A groom briskly shut the door. He rapped boredly on the inside and his unmarked vehicle slid into motion, passing quickly through the little port town to turn onto the King's Road, which wound up the hillside to the great capital, Belfort.
He suddenly remembered he'd forgotten to let the royal bodyguards know he was leaving. Ah well, they'll figure it out and catch up soon enough. He didn't need them anyway. Being trailed constantly by six hulking thugs in uniform was just one more reminder that until he came to power, he was naught but a coddled, glorified prisoner.
In the dark cab of the coach, he rested his elbow on the edge of the window and leaned his cheek on his hand. He stared out pensively at the landscape. Silver and indigo in the moonlight, his kingdom rolled out along the road, like his life passing him by.
Devil take birthdays, he thought. When he was king, he would outlaw them.
The King's Road was a blue ribbon in the moonlight. They watched in tense silence from the woods, wondering if their night's vigil was done. A short while ago, they had watched the gilded royal state coach pass. Now a sleek vehicle of gleaming black and mahogany was barreling up the road, pulled by a team of four galloping matched bays.
"Looks promising," Mateo whispered, even as his youngest brother signaled the owl's hoot from the distance, calling them to alert.
The Masked Rider nodded and gestured the others into position.
Stealthily, they maneuvered their horses among the trees, assuming their posts on the high embankments over the road. They waited....
The coach hit a rut in the road and bounced violently on its newfangled springs. Rafe winced in annoyance and drew breath to shout an imperious rebuke at the driver to have a care--he didn't want to have to buy the damned thing--when suddenly he heard shouts outside.
A horse whinnied frantically and the coach began to slow. A gunshot ripped through the night.
His eyes narrowed in the gloom. Instantly alert, he crept forward and stole a glance from behind the window's shade and stared, feeling a rush in his thrill-seeker's soul.
Well, I'll be damned. The Masked Rider. His expression broke into an extremely devilish grin. At last we meet.
He saw he was considerably outnumbered, but according to the reports, none of the famed highwayman's robberies had been accompanied by bloodshed, so he was more intrigued than alarmed. Nevertheless, his own safety was a national priority. Leaning down, he opened the compartment beneath the opposite seat, reached into the little storage space, and smoothly took out the pair of pistols that he kept there, ready and loaded. Tucking one into his waistcoat, he cocked the other and thought with a narrow smile, Impudent little bastard, you're in for a surprise.
He had been following the bold lad's career with some interest, as tales of the so-called Masked Rider appeared side by side in the same gazettes that recounted his own wicked deeds. He had laughed every time the young highwayman robbed yet another of his friends--though they hadn't found it amusing.
Not even his father's authorities could catch the Masked Rider and his gang. The common folk of Ascencion adored the young highwayman, whose identity remained a mystery, and who, it seemed, truly robbed from the rich and gave to the poor.
Rafe rather thought the kid had style. Still, it would not do to have this mysterious Robin Hood out there somewhere bragging about robbing him, making a mock of his name. He had problems enough with the public's disapproval of his occasional, admittedly wild excesses. His people merely didn't know that a bit of hell-raising was merely his one solution to avoid going mad.
Well aware that his half-dozen Royal Guardsmen would not be far behind, a narrow, crafty smile curved his lips. He raised his gun and laid hold of the door latch, gathering himself for his counterattack.
Meanwhile, out on the road, the Masked Rider was shouting at the coachman, "Halt! Halt!"
Astride a leggy gelding whose true color was obscured by the cinders rubbed into its coat, the Masked Rider urged the horse alongside the galloping team and reached out a black-gauntleted hand for the leader's traces. The coachman was waving a pistol, but the Masked Rider ignored him--such men never used their weapons. The thought was barely finished when the moving coach's door swung open and a large male figure leaned out from the inside, firing a pistol into the air.
"Stand down!" a commanding voice bellowed.
The Masked Rider ignored the warning shot, riding low over the horse's neck, trying again unsteadily to grab the leather strap--
A thunderous crack rent the air with a flash of orange.
The Masked Rider gasped out a cry and was jolted forward over the horse's neck.
"Dan!" Mateo shouted, aghast.
The gelding veered away from the coach's team with a scream, rearing at the smell of the blood spattered on his sooty coat.
"Turn back! Turn back!" Alvi shouted at the others.
"Don't you dare turn back! Never mind me! Get the loot!" the Masked Rider roared back at him in boyish tones, fighting the horse.
Then the gelding bolted.
"Stop, whoa! You miserable nag!" A stream of oaths she had never learned in convent school followed from Lady Daniela Chiaramonte's lips as her horse careened through the brake.
All the while her shoulder and arm burned as though they were on fire. He shot me! she thought, her astonishment equal to her pain. She couldn't believe it. Certainly in all her adventures she had never been shot before.
She felt hot blood streaming down her right arm as her panicked horse crashed up over the wooded embankment. Heart pounding, she brought the animal under control, reeling him around in small circles.
When at last the horse stood heaving for breath, she suppressed the angry urge to punch the animal for his skittishness, and peered down anxiously at her wounded right arm. It was bleeding and it hurt like hell. She felt light-headed at the horrid sight of her own torn flesh, but when she carefully probed her bleeding arm with her fingers, she concluded in relief that it was only a flesh wound.
"That blackguard shot me," she panted in lingering amazement. Then her gaze zipped back to the road, and she saw that the Gabbiano brothers--her men, such as they were--had brought the coach to a standstill and extinguished the carriage lantern, working by moonlight.
The driver was sprawled on his arse on the ground, Alvi holding him at sword point. She scowled indignantly at the coachman's pitiful display, babbling for mercy. Did the man think them common cutthroats? Everyone knew
the Masked Rider and company never killed anybody. Occasionally they left some popinjay in an embarrassing predicament, naked and tied to a tree, perhaps, but they never drew blood.
Better get down there before we have a change of policy, she thought as she saw Mateo and Rocco, still astride their mounts, holding the big lean passenger at bay with their swords before the open coach door. Even from a distance, their prisoner looked more than able to fend for himself.
Fortunately, her men had disarmed him, she saw. His hands were up and his two pistols lay in the dusty road. Her gang would not attack an unarmed man; still, Mateo was a hothead likely to start a brawl at any insult, while the giant Rocco didn't know his own strength. Both were as protective of her as if she were their own sister. She didn't want anyone getting hurt.
Dani passed her forearm over her brow, then adjusted the hoodlike black mask over her face and hair to make sure her identity was still neatly concealed after her horse's mad dash. Satisfied, she urged her horse aboutface and back down onto the road, highly curious to see which of the idle citified peacocks she had snared this time and what it would profit her.
Hopefully enough to pay the crippling new taxes on her estate and to feed her people in spite of the drought.
She drew her light, quick rapier as she guided her horse toward the tense trio of men. Mateo and Rocco parted to admit her between them.
"You all right?" Mateo, her oldest childhood friend, muttered to her.
She shook off her momentary awe at the sight of her tall, powerfully built captive and seized upon her bravado, forcing herself forward in a show of fearlessness, though her heart beat rapidly. "I'm just ... dandy," she drawled, urging her horse closer. She stopped when the tip of her rapier floated gracefully under her captive's square jaw, which was clenched. "Well, what have we here?" she mused aloud, using the tip of her sword to force him to lift his chin.
It was too dark to see much, but the silvery moonlight picked out gilded threads in his hair, which appeared to be of a tawny gold shade, quite long, but pulled back in a queue off his broad, straight forehead. He had an imperious nose and a hard, angry mouth. Head high, his narrowed eyes glittered, fixed on her. It was too dark to make out their color.
"You shot me," she said in reproach, leaning toward him from the saddle. She knew she mustn't let him see her fear. "Lucky for you, you merely grazed my arm."
"If I had wanted you dead, then dead you would be," he said in a soft, murderous purr that fell like silk on her skin.
"Ha! Some excuse! You are a poor marksman," she taunted him. "It doesn't even hurt."
"And you, boy, are a poor liar."
Dani sat up straight again in the saddle, considering him. A worthy opponent, she had to admit. As her gaze traveled over the length of his warriorlike physique, her simple feminine admiration mingled with a growing sense of inner warning. Her captive was over six feet tall and appeared to be built of pure muscle, so why wasn't he putting up more of a fight? True, his weapons lay beyond his reach, but there was a gleam of treachery in his eyes that made her wonder what he had up his sleeve.
She wondered which one he was, exactly, of the useless Prince Rafe the Rake's self-indulgent flunkies. She certainly would have remembered seeing him before. Her better sense whispered to clear out immediately, but she needed the money and was frankly too intrigued to abort the robbery, which was moving along efficiently.
Mateo had relieved his brother at the task of holding the coachman at sword point. The prisoner's gaze, hard and brilliant as a diamond, followed Alvi as the wiry youth hopped into the coach with an empty sack. While her prisoner watched Alvi pass, Dani eyed him in mingled attraction and scorn.
Oh, she despised his type, haughty and carelessly elegant in his formal evening wear, down to his creamy white breeches and shiny black shoes. His smartly cut, dark green tailcoat alone probably cost as much as her past six months' taxes. She glanced at his no doubt excellently manicured hands, which he lowered slowly to his sides, as though he had decided she was not much of a threat.
"Your ring," she ordered. "Hand it over."
His large and capable fist clenched beside his hip. "No," he growled.
"Why not? Is it your wedding ring?" she asked sarcastically.
The way his eyes narrowed on her in the dark, she thought he would have happily torn her beating heart out of her body if he got the chance.
"You will regret your audacity, boy," he said, his voice soft and deep and dangerous. It rang with an air of command. "You have no idea with whom you are dealing."
Oh, he was not taking his humbling well. Smiling at his ire behind her mask, Dani laid her rapier gently on his cheek. "Shut up, peacock."
"Your youth will not save you from the hangman."
"They'll have to catch me first."
"Fine boasts. Your father ought to thrash your hide."
"My father is dead."
"Then I will thrash you for him one day. That's a promise."
In reply, she traced her rapier ever-so-tenderly under his chin, forcing him to tilt his proud head higher or feel the prick of her sword point. His lordship clenched his handsome jaw. "You don't seem to understand your position," she said sweetly.
Holding her gaze, he smiled chillingly. "I will have you drawn and quartered," he answered in a pleasant tone.
Under her mask, Dani blanched in spite of herself. He was trying to shake her up! "I want your shiny ring, milord. Hand it over!"
"You will have to kill me for it, boy," the prisoner said with the white, defiant gleam of a smile.
Was he mad? Standing there in blue moonlight and black shadow, he was huge, powerful, and not lifting a finger to stop them. Maybe he didn't know how to fight, she suggested anxiously to herself. These rich fellows never dirtied their hands. But one summary glance over the lean, classically proportioned length of him made her scoff at her own suggestion.
Something was definitely wrong.
"Not losing your courage, are you, boy?" he taunted softly.
"Be quiet!" she ordered, faltering and feeling herself inexplicably losing control of the situation somehow to her vexing prisoner. Absurd! Posturing males would never intimidate her.
Rocco, her tame giant, looked over at her in worry.
"Get the ponies loaded," she ordered him in a suddenly testy mood, scowling under her mask. Obviously, her prisoner had somehow called her bluff and sensed she wasn't going to kill him, though God knew he vastly deserved it. Her arm hurt like the blazes. She ducked her head to peer into the coach, wishing Alvi would hurry up. "How's it going in there?"
"He's rich!" Alvi hollered, tossing out one full sack. "Filthy rich! Give me another sack!"
As Mateo hurried to fetch another sack from his horse's saddlebag, Dani saw the prisoner cast an almost imperceptible glance down the road.
"Expecting someone?" she demanded.
Slowly, he shook his head, and she found herself gazing at his enticing mouth, where a half-smile of pure deviltry tugged.
Suddenly a high-pitched voice pealed through the night from some distance down the road. "Run!" The littlest of the Gabbiano brothers, Gianni, age ten, was running toward them, arms churning. "Soldiers! They're coming! Run!"
With a gasp, Dani stared at her prisoner. He smirked coolly at her, pleased with himself.
"You bastard," she hissed. "You were stalling us here!"
"Move out, move out!" Mateo was yelling at the others.
Gianni kept shouting. "Go! They'll be here any second!"
Dani's gaze snapped down the road again. She knew her horse was the fastest. Every womanly instinct in her blood screamed for her to go scoop the little boy up into the saddle with her before the soldiers were upon them. The child had no place here--it was her fault. A dozen times they had forbidden Gianni from following them, but he never listened, until finally she had given in and assigned him the relatively safe job of signaler.
"The hell with you, peacock," she muttered, abandoning her prisoner. She tugged on her gelding's reins, reeling the horse away, while Rocco lumbered up onto his slow draft horse. Alvi and Mateo each took one of the coin-laden bags and swung up onto their ponies' backs.
The little boy was running desperately toward them. But as she turned, out of the corner of her eye she saw the big man dive for his second pistol in the dust and roll on his shoulder, taking aim at Mateo.
"Mateo!" She reeled her horse around, lurching him straight at the prisoner. The gun went off, shooting skyward.
The prisoner leaped up onto his feet with astonishing agility for a man his size. Then he seized her, trying to pull her bodily off her horse. She punched and kicked at him. Mateo drove his pony toward them to help her.
She shot him a fiery glare. "I can take care of myself! Get your brother!"
Mateo hesitated.
The thunder of the soldiers' approach was growing louder.
"Go!" she roared as she kicked the prisoner in his broad chest. The big man fell back a step, holding his ribs protectively with a curse.
Seeing this, Mateo whirled his pony to go fetch the little boy.
His lordship charged her again the moment Mateo galloped away.
As she and the prisoner grappled in the road, her horse reared with a frightened whinny. She clung to the reins, fighting to keep her balance, but she felt herself being slowly overpowered by the man's sheer physical strength.
Suddenly he pulled her down out of the saddle. Freed of its rider, her thankless gelding bolted at once.
She let out a wordless cry of fury and found herself standing in the road, clutched in her erstwhile prisoner's grasp. He towered over her. His eyes were like lanterns and he was grasping her hard by her arms, and he was ever so much taller now than when she'd been on horseback. Strands of his hair had fallen free from the queue; he looked ferocious and huge, barbaric in his elegant clothes.
"You little shit," he snarled in her face.
"Let me go!" She fought him. He gripped her harder, and she shouted in pain when he jerked her hurt arm. "Ow! Damn it!"
He gave her a shake. "You're caught! You understand?"
She hauled back and punched him across the face with all her strength, tore out of his arms, and fled up the embankment. He was but two steps behind her.
Her heart beating wildly, she scrambled up through the dust and slippery dried leaves. With a frantic glance down the road, she saw Mateo lift Gianni into the saddle with him and crest the far embankment, riding hard toward home.
Her relief was short-lived, however, for then the prisoner tackled her at the top of the embankment, hooking rock-hard arms around her hips.
He smashed her under him as they fell to the ground, snaking his forearm around her throat.
I hate men, she thought, closing her eyes in distress.
"Hold still," he growled, panting hard, his body like heated iron around her.
Dani rested for half a second, then did the opposite, kicking and squirming, thrashing and punching and scrabbling with her leather-gauntleted fingers in the dust.
"Let me go!"
"Stop squirming! You're caught, damn it! Give in!"
Dodging the boy's blows, Rafe held the slim body pinned beneath his own, glad that wrestling was one of the chief sports at which he had excelled as a youth. He never would have thought it would come in handy. The boy bucked and thrashed, fighting him furiously.
"Yield," he ordered through gritted teeth,
"Go to hell!" The pitch of the young voice climbed higher, shrill with fright.
Panting with exertion, he drove his full muscular weight more firmly down to still the little hellion's writhing. "Hold still!" He jerked a look over his shoulder toward the road and his approaching men. "Over here!"
At his movement, the bloodthirsty little bandit somehow flopped over onto his back, still trapped by Rafe's arms.
"I told you you would hang," he growled.
"No, you said I would be drawn and quartered--"
Rafe caught a flying fist in his hand. "Be still, for God's sake!"
Suddenly the boy froze and drew in his breath, staring at his signet ring.
"You ... !" the boy croaked in a hoarse gasp.
Scowling toward his men, Rafe glanced down and narrowed his eyes in satisfaction. "Aha, brat. Finally catching on, are you?"
The light-colored eyes behind the mask never blinked, staring at him, looking horror-stricken.
Rafe's laugh was throaty and smug, then he stopped abruptly. What the devil? He furrowed his brow as he caught a whiff of a scent his instincts knew, but recognition danced just beyond his mind's reach.
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University of Illinois researchers are using a new kind of microsensor to answer one of the weightiest questions in biology ““ the relationship between cell mass and growth rate.
The team, led by electrical and computer engineering and bioengineering professor Rashid Bashir, published its results in the online early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.
“It’s merging micro-scale engineering and cell biology,” said Bashir, who also directs the Micro and Nanotechnology Engineering Laboratory at Illinois. “We can help advance biology by fabricating new tools that can be used to address important questions in cell biology, cancer research and tissue engineering.”
Biologists have long questioned whether cells grow at a fixed rate or whether growth accelerates as mass increases. Previous studies have used aggregate populations of cells, making it impossible to determine patterns of individual cell growth.
With their small, sensitive microsensors, the Illinois researchers were able to track individual colon cancer cells’ masses and divisions over time, a feat never before accomplished. They found that the cells they studied did grow faster as they grew heavier, rather than growing at the same rate throughout the cell cycle.
Each microsensor is a tiny, suspended platform made in silicon on a chip. The platform is a mere 50 microns wide ““ half the width of a human hair. The suspended scale vibrates at a particular frequency, which changes when mass is added. As a cell’s mass increases, the sensor’s resonant frequency goes down.
“As you make the structure smaller and smaller, it becomes more sensitive to the mass that’s placed on it,” Bashir said. “A cell is a few nanograms in mass or smaller. If we can make our sensor small enough, then it becomes sensitive to cell mass.”
The researchers developed an array of hundreds of sensors on a chip. They can culture cells on the chip similar to the way scientists grow cells in a dish. Thus, they can collect data from many cells at once, while still recording individual cellular measurements.
“Imaging acts as a control. You can actually watch the cell divide and grow and correlate that to your measurements. It really validates what you have,” Bashir said. “There are lots of optical measurements that now you can integrate with mass sensing.”
Through measurements of live and fixed cells, the researchers were also able to extract physical properties such as stiffness through mathematical modeling. Some cell types are stiffer than others; for example, bone cells are more firm, while neurons are more gelatinous. Mechanical science and engineering professors Narayana Aluru and K. Jimmy Hsia, co-authors of the paper, performed extensive analytical and numerical simulation to reveal how cell stiffness and contact area affect mass measurement.
The National Science Foundation supported this work. Other c.o-authors of the paper were postdoctoral associates Kidong Park, Larry Millet and Xioazhong Jin; mechanical science and engineering graduate students Namjung Kim and Huan Li; and electrical and computer engineering professor Gabriel Popescu.
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Better to spend your money on health care, believe me.
Believe it or not, you're more likely NOT to survive a knife assault. Why? A typical gun wound is one bullet hole. A typical knife assault involves multiple stab wounds, anywhere between 6 and two dozen penetrations. The result is that the victim will die of exsanguination before all of the wounds can be dealt with.
OK, that's a fair point. It's better to look at the overall murder rate.
On the other hand, how many people can one person kill with one knife? About three, maximum.
Well, over time, many, depending on whether one get's caught or not. In a short period of time, a couple guns would do the job as in this case. However, if I were a nut case wanting to make a splash, I'd choose a bomb due to the much lower likelihood of being caught, allowing me to bomb again on another day. Mass poisoning sounds good, too.
Thats why we have legally protected rights to carry bombs and poison.
Ah, you'd expect to be killed. Better to just go the honest route and get it over with.
Okay, Wikipedia tells me these are the top 12 countries as far as guns-per-capita. Eliminating countries with some sort of insurrection or civil war going on, I think you can see that your theory doesn't hold water in any consistent way.
United States 88.8 1
Serbia 58.2 2
Yemen 54.8 3
Switzerland 45.7 4
Cyprus 36.4 5
Saudi Arabia 35 6
Iraq 34.2 7
Finland 32 8
Uruguay 31.8 9
Sweden 31.6 10
Norway 31.3 11
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Exactly Judith - do Americans understand the perception of American society, from an outsiders point of view - I don't think so. As Simon said 'The genie is out of the bottle', impossible to stop Americans from 'their right to bear arms' etc. etc. And those lovely folk up in the Appalachian Mountains in southwestern Virginia prepareing for Armageddon , with their sub machines guns, ready to kill the marauding city people -That's ok, you will just have to put up with disenfranchised psychos, who can go to a shop and buy whatever they like - way to go - of course, there are illegal guns being bought into Australia, and that is the operative word 'illegal', At least it is a start - crims here like shooting each other - and we have had the aberrational disenfranchised psycho, but it is rare, not every year or two. America is a scary society, and the perception is that they are generally violent - maybe wrong perception, but that is the perception.
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legislature. so poor women and young women have already had many of their rights taken away. but romney is doing something that has not had a lot of publicity which he has retained the human life amendment which would go around even the supreme court and pass a constitutional amendment saying that the fertilized egg is a person. all right. this is like nationalizing women's bodies. it's insane. and it's the reason that the ultra right has been focusing on state legislators in recent time, they discovered that bombing abortion clinics and murdering doctors was not making them popular. but by focusing on legislatures, they are preparing for a human life amendment which romney supports and then i don't know what to say that he has no such plans, he's really telling two big lies. i've been out there now for a long time and he's telling women two big lies. one, that every one of their children will have a debt of $58,000 from the national debt without telling them that that debt would be bigger if easy elected because he's spending so much more militarily and not taxing rich folks. >> absolu
, if romney actually got on the stump and today and said, not so bad numbers. >> right. >> not so bad. kind of channeling his inner christy. that is never going to happen as he's trying to win the presidency, but he's -- for a minute, ari, the middle of the road guy thing seemed to be working for him, although the longer it goes on the more shamelessly transparent that it seems especially when barbs are thrown with regularity. he did say we are the richest country in the world, but we have one out of six people living in poverty. a point martin luther king made, a point to have wes cornell -- cornell wes and tavis smiley have made. >> smily being the love child. >> barack/christie. >> but they've said that. a lot of poverty advocates talked about that missing from the trail and it's resonate with the clip you made someone in a poor neighborhood hit the hardest that have the least infrastructure to withstand a storm, and then are also often the areas that feel left out from all kinds of government assistance, right? mitt romney is right to raise poverty this week. what's the problem? >> what
kinds of government assistance, right? mitt romney is right to raise poverty this week. what's the problem? >> what's the problem? the problem is, that he's got a lot of plans that would balance the budget and do other bad things on the backs of poor people, right? so the problem isn't at this point, is he saying anything that is broadly appealing or moderate, it's whether people believe it. >> amman, we talk about the numbers here and the economy. it is amazing to me how in so far as there's been a perfect storm in terms of political optics for the president, this week began with him taking on the concerns of those who had been made victims by the storm, helping out those in need. that has dovetailed with the message on the stomach where he's making the fairness argument, the economic argument for his policies wrapped together in a seamless manner. >> yeah. you don't want to be too crass but hurricane sandy has been a political opportunity for the president and to act presidential, to be presidential, and then the embrace by chris christie who gave the keynote speech against
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legitimate rape and romney where he has danced himself from the far right extremists. that is why this is part of a narrative. >> notice alan's use of passive voice, it was part of a narrative. [ laughter ] >> they are crazy things. there are three far flung events that the media and you are happy to bundle together in one package. maybe it didn't happen. media made me do it. devil made me do it. >> however the immediate jump, this is governor romney's problem. >> including the vice presidential candidate which has this legislation in this candidate that is part of important story. >> or the republican party flat form which is in ink for all to read. >> there was a new ad out for the obama campaign where a young female voter is looking into the camera and urging i guess other female verdicts veordz, if it is your first time. have you seen the ad, judy? bordering on tasteless. >> the issue for the campaign, is it effective. younger people tended to respond well to that ad. >> narrative thing, does jim messina and david plouffe directly want to answer dunham's strange endorsement of
trade surplus at our expense. >> mort, what is the answer? >> the fact is romney is right in this sense. they have consistently for decades kept their currency devalued in order to magnify their exports. sell them at cheaper prices. we have been protest that go for decades. when romney can do anything about that i don't know. but the real question is how do you deal in chin with this way without getting into a trade war which would be damaging to both sides? that is going to take real diplomacy and pressure with china. >> in a trade war, who wins mort? >> we do. we have a trade deficit with them of $300 billion a year. >> you can no more win a trade war than you can win an earthquake. everybody knows that. >> nobody will win in a trade war. but we've got to find some better way of balancing the trade. as pat says we have huge deficits in trade with china for decades and a good part of the reason is not because they have a very low wage cost including for a lot of american products but the fact is they keep their currency low to magnify their exports. >> the u.s. cannot win without china
in their right mind think that mitt romney isn't going to appoint two, maybe three, supreme court justices if he's elected and that those supreme court justices will have as a litmus test for their being nominated that they are going to overturn roe v. wade? >> you're right on three points, michael is wrong on all three. thank you. we gave you a bad hand to play with. we gave you a couple deuces and -- a bad night for you. you had a bad hand. it wasn't your hand. when we return, some of the incredible pictures and reporting from hurricane sandy. i grew up in on the jersey shore. this is "hardball," the place for politics. [ mother ] you can't leave the table till you finish your vegetables. [ clock ticking ] [ male announcer ] there's a better way... v8 v-fusion. vegetable nutrition they need, fruit taste they love. could've had a v8. or...try kids boxes! that's the sound of car insurance companies these days. here a cheap, there a cheap, everywhere a cheap... you get it. so, what if instead of just a cheap choice, you could make a smart choice? like, esurance for example. they were born online
's about the economy. and in ohio, both governor kasich and mitt romney are right. governor kasich is right that his policies fundamentally different than obama's, lower taxes, close the budget deficit. make, create a regulatory environment that encourages investment and certainty. that those are improving the situation. governor romney is also, however, correct that there's a long way to go. and that there are lots of people in ohio and elsewhere around this country who are unemployed or underemployed and we have huge progress. and 2% gdp growth is nothing to crow about. in fact it's less growth than in 2011 and less than 2010. >> all the economic news is about republican policies and all the bad economic news is because of democratic policies? it's funny, it's just disingenuous. >> how much of this is a problem in terms of how people feel, rachel. we see more economic optimism in the country and yet people are still feeling like the obama record is lackluster and you look at the recovery still not feeling like it's robust enough. >> and you see it just in the raw consumer confidence numbe
conditioning. you want rich leather? i'll give you leather. romney is saying you want right wing in the primary? i'll give you that. you want centrist in the election? i'll give you that. and the auto rescue is a good example where he was clearly suggest it and in the debate tried to suggest he was for it and i think it's entirely appropriate that the auto cress cue has been so important to obama running so well in ohio. it's a choice -- either government should just sit by and let the market do its thing or government can come in and correct certain outcomes and prevent catastrophe. that's the kind of choice we face in this election. >> what obama is talking about on the trail, first of all, there's no second-term agenda. when he goes off the record with the "des moines register" last week. he gave out a second-term agenda which is nothing like he's been talking about on the trail. >> that's not true at all. >> the corporate tax rates. talking about weeding out immigration. talking about immigration reform, which he has not talked about much in public and a grand bargain with cutting spending
with the last four years, but aren't sure romney is going to take them in the right direction. this includes working class women, working women, unmarried women. they seem to be among the key voting blocks up for grabs. you will see both candidates trying to reach out. romney not telling people they were wronged four years ago, but they are right to be disappointed. the president telling people look at what we have accomplished and how much more can we do. and then you will see both campaigns on the ground having identified most of their voters and trying to get them out. >> just curious, what do you think president obama -- what do you think of president obama as they are trying to sway his way. at what point does he bring up the, well you remember when president george w bush took off with the sur plus and -- surplus. do people even care at this point? they say i don't care. my wallet is at a deficit. >> i don't know that most people are particularly interested with what the economy is like. is like four or eight years ago. it is exactly as you say. how am i doing now, and how am i going t
yesterday. come on. >> cenk: also, if they want to get rid of gridlock, endorsic romney is right. the republicans will do what they want, and then gridlock goes away, but they're not pointing at the people who caused the gridlock in the first place. >> cenk: you're not a plumber. you're not a dentist this is your job. and it sounds like a great idea, let the oil companies run our energy policies, awesome. let's the banks run our financial policies, awesome. no things that are disappointing, and things we can't understand, here is a prediction on what is going to happen on the election. >> the burden of proof is against you that you're going to get re-elected. if the president is sitting at 47% at polls, boy i would be shocked if he won. >> cenk: you would be shocked? we just showed you that he has a 95% chance of having a lead in states that would give him 277 electoral votes. michael, what's wrong with these people? does he understand politics at all. >> i hear what he's saying. i'm not depending him but its surpriseing to see an incumbent president win at 47% in an election. bu
't think yet is the right >> you know, frankly, if you're mitt romney, you're behind. he's looking at the map and the days left in the campaign and he's thinking i have to do something. >> really? >> i think they felt pressure to get back into campaign mode because they can't cede the week to the president dealing with the response and romney just being silent. i agree with you, i find it in poor taste, but i think they felt that pressure of we're behind. >> the romney campaign said the event where they saw people giving rice krispies and tins of food, and thas an honorable gift of people who are kind and wish to be compassionate, but the romney campaign says that that was a relief rally, not a campaign event. >> well, they say that, but, of course, it was in the same place as the original rally in battleground ohio -- >> a slight problem. >> with the same cast of characters. >> another problem. >> they got the political benefit of releasing the statement saying we're not going to do any campaign events but they said we're going to do this one rally in battleground ohio. >> what's
recovery while promising big change under of romney-right administration. with more on this, senior fellow for the hoover institute and former chief economic adviser to president george w. bush. welcome back to the show. always great to have you here. >> glad to be with you. gerri: i want to play a little bit of the sounds of our viewers can get a senseof the town. >> short. >> the jobs, where are the 9 million more jobs the esident obama promised his stimulus would have created y. [speaking in native tongue] there in china, mexico, canada, countries that have made the sales more attractive for trepreneurs and business and investment. even as president obama's policies have made it less attractive for them here. thing. gerri: and we have one more jobs report to come. what do you expect? is it going to help romney or the president? >> i don't think it's going to make much difference at all. if you look at the picture that the economy has been traveling through for the past three years now, basically we're in a situaaion where we have continued slow growth. we have growth at about 2 percent
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Boston House of PIzza and Sicilias -- two godawful spots around the corner from each other
Why does the pizza in this city have to be so awful so often? It's a simple thing. It's bread, cheese, and tomatoes.
I work near BU West, and for lunch today I decided I had a hankering for pizza. There are two slice joints right near my office; Siclia's, and Boston House of Pizza. I decided instead of two slices from one place or the other, I would try a slice from each to see which I would prefer for future visits.
The answer: I think I'd prefer a bag of totino's pizza rolls before I go back to either.
Boston House of Pizza was the more edible of the two, but I could tell as soon as I heard the owner's accent that it would be that awful abomination known as "greek style" pizza. Sure enough, he heated up my plain slice in a metal pan. Why in God's name would you cook or heat pizza in a pan? The oven needs to be HOT and the pizza needs to be right on the oven element, be it brick or gas. You know, so you actually get CRUST...chewy, pliable, crusty...not that greasy, spongey stuff that tastes like a pizza hut breadstick. Seriously, if I became mayor of Boston I would make Greek Pizza illegal. Boston HOP's pizza was par for the course. Mass produced tasteless mozzarella, flavorless sauce, and spongey, oily crust. Blech.
Next I got my Sicilia's slice. I went for the plain thin crust instead of the stuffed deep dish because, well, deep dish pizza is garbage. Ugh...I should have just stuck with what they are known for. The thin crust pizza tasted like stale matzah, and the slice was OLD! I mean, it had been sitting out in some stupid heat lamp carousel for god knows how long. I took two bites and threw it out.
Next time I'm walking the extra five blocks to T. Anthony's. What garbage.
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1. And this just in...I now have a raging case of heartburn. I wonder which "slice" is to blame.
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1. re: tamerlanenj
Absolute truth: I've never had heartburn. Don't have any idea what it feels like.
That said, as Chris below said, I never, ever go to a place with "House of Pizza" in its name.
1. re: Bostonbob3
Count yourself lucky. Heartburn feels like you're burping up the bile in your stomach. The acid burns slightly in your esophagus, in the chest region, hence "heart-burn" My perscription, two Alka-Seltzer. It does wonders, not to mention also as a hangover remedy.
2. I'm pretty sure that all of the "House of Pizza"s are Greek pizza. Well now you know...
1. At a place called Sicilia's, I would have gone for the Sicilian slice. Sicilian pie, if made correctly (crispy crust, fluffy middle, spicy sauce), can be a thing of beauty. Its one of the many things I miss since moving to New England.
Only way I can stomach greek pie is if you load it up with meat.
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1. re: LStaff
Oddly enough, there is no siclian slice at Sicilia's. They do a thin crust and a stuffed deep dish.
I'll save my sicilian slice eating for my next trip to L&B Spumoni Gardens.
1. re: tamerlanenj
That's strange. The Sicilia's in Providence (same owners) is excellent. But I don't know many people who go to the one in Boston. I guess there's a reason for that. ;-b
2. re: LStaff
If you miss Sicilian pizza, try Pinocchio's in Harvard Square.
1. re: lipoff
Armando's in Huron Village in Cambridge is doing a fabulous sicilian slice now. OMG it's so good and perfectly seasoned, unlike their plain pizza - which I love, but needs salt often.
1. re: MB fka MB
Does Armando's Sicilian slices compare with Galleria Umberto in the North End? If so, I'm there, possibly this weekend!
1. re: hiddenboston
I've not had the Sicilian from there, but I never really liked Sicilian slices before and I'm beginning to feel like an addict at 'mando's. I've tried them from Pinocchio's in Harvard Square and those were just kind of...eh.
The Armando's Sicilian has a pretty thick crust with lots of crunch, the cheese is almost a little burnt on the edges, the center is definitely more bread-like and the sauce is really well seasoned--it's spicy and I don't need to add salt. So, I'm no expert, but that's what I like about their slice.
1. re: hiddenboston
I wouldn't really describe the GU pizza as "Sicilian" even though it's square. It's more of that "bakery pizza" or "grandma pizza" style.
2. Whenever I am looking for a new pizza place around here, I check the menu. If they offer Greek Salad, Gyros, or any kind of wraps with hummos in them, I run in the other direction :) Luckily, there are two very good pizza places near my office, so when we get pizza for lunch, I don't have to scrape all the toppings off of the gawdawful crust.
Oh, and if the place has the word "Spa" in the name, that's just as bad as "House of Pizza". What's with calling it a Spa, anyhow?
T Anthony's is the only decent pizza place in that area, that I'm aware of. The weather is really nice now, and it'll do you good to walk off those slices :)
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1. re: mwk
I dunno, I LIKE Brookline Spa a good deal, at least compared to a lot of the competition.
1. re: tamerlanenj
well, like every other rule it obviously has exceptions. I'm sure somebody out there likes xxx House of Pizza, too :) But, I still want to know why it's called a "Spa"?
2. re: mwk
Spa is an old Boston-area term, quite venerable as it fades as ancient places close. It arose in the days of soda fountains, when places served a variety of light refreshments (not full-course meals, as it were).
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Looking for coconut icecream in phila
I'm looking for a pint or half gallon of coconut icecream. I've been to the big Vietnamese grocery store on Washington and Wan Sheng in Chinatown with no luck.
Does anyone know if any of the center city grocery stores have it? Maybe Whole Foods or South Square Market?
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1. Haagen Daaz makes an excellent pinneapple coconut icecream. it's loaded with coconut flavor and is available at Acme supermarkets
1. I can recommend Capogiro, but you'll pay about $9 or $10 for a pint of their stuff.
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1. re: Philly Ray
yeah....it's a half block from me so I guess if I get hard up, I can spend big money to get the good stuff....
2. This goes back a couple of years, but the coconut ice cream at More Than Just Ice Cream on Locust St. was one of my favorite desserts in the entire city. I don't recall if they always had coconut as one of their flavors, tho', or just sometimes.
1. WF definitely carries coconut ice cream, but what I've had might not be what you're looking for.
They have (1) ice cream based on coconut milk that is so good I can't believe it. My friends who don't eat dairy or soy tuned me onto it, and I was just trying it to be polite at first. But it's really incredibly good! I don't especially like coconut and I do LOVE ice cream, so from me, that is an accolade and a half.
I imagine they carry (2) dairy-based ice cream flavored with coconut, too, but I am not sure: which kind did you mean?
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I was thinking of dairy-based coconut icecream, but only because I hadn't considered the alternatives. I was making a Thai dinner and wanted something easy for dessert. I wound up getting cupcakes - which weren't even remotely related to the dinner, but that's okay. I want to track down some of these recommendations now. I think I read about a similar coconut milk sorbet that they sell at Trader Joe's. I wonder if it's the same brand as the one at WF.
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That sounds delicious, and who doesn't like cupcakes? I would not be surprised if TJ sells something like that - they have some very cute Japanese ice cream things that are sort of like frozen petit fours - kawaii!
Maybe if you hit a yard sale you can start making your own Thai-ish frozen confections - that could be really fun! Imagine holy basil ice cream with coconut-lime sorbet...
2. Franklin Fountain makes a really good coconut ice cream.I suggest getting a cone of it first, to see if it's 'coconutty' enough for you. I love it, but it didn't stop me from adding more coconut, some chocolate chips and sliced almonds to it when I go home. Kinda like my favorite candy bar, Almond Joy! | http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/624960 | dclm-gs1-141540001 | false | false | {
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Taking Nominations for a new pasta pot
I currently use a stainless pasta pot from Williams Sonoma that my Mom gave me. 95% of it's use if for boiling water for pasta, but I also use it for making stock, apple butter, rice krispies, jams, etc. So I need one pretty big. This thing is just SO SLOW to come to a boil. I'm not sure I can afford a giant copper pot. (although I'd be interested in hearing recommendations) Maybe All Clad copper core? I looked at WS but none of the AC in stock appeared large/deep enough.
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1. I don't think copper will really provide so much benefit for a large pot like that - when you're boiling water, making stock, etc., being able to change temperature quickly or have precise control of heat is not so important. I would suggest a tall, narrow stock pot with a heavy aluminum disk bottom. The All Clad Multicooker is not a bad deal when it's on sale ($100) -- note - this is not a fully clad pot; it has a disk base much like the (cheaper) options mentioned below.
Something along the lines of this one might do the trick:
For smaller amounts of pasta (1 lb or less) I can usually get by with a 4.5 qt saucepan (Sitram) without feeling like I'm crowding the pan too much.
1. How many quarts do you need? I'm using the Cuisinart 12 quart multipot.
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1. re: rasputina
I use the Cuisinart 12 qt., sans the inserts, as well. It's a great pot and serves me very well.
1. re: Molly James
Somewhere has an 8 qt Cuisinart on sale for like $30 right now.
1. re: will47
minw ia only 8 quarts, i could go a little bigger, but this one serves.
But...what makes me think a Cuisinart pot would be any faster at boiling than the stainless pot I have now? I'm not saying it won't, I just don't know what to look for. Copper is the only thinkg I know of that heats faster.
1. re: danna
I don't think a different pot is going to make a significant difference in how fast your water boils, and definitely not to the degree where it would be worth paying for a copper stockpot. Copper will react more quickly to changes in heat, and the pot itself might heat marginally faster, and might even be a bit more efficient, but I don't think this would make a significant difference in terms of your boiling time. I don't know what kind of stove you have, but a more powerful stove (or a stand-alone induction plate) might speed things up.
I usually just heat the water for pasta first thing, before I start prepping, then turn it off once it comes to a boil.
The large (4 or 5 qt, I think?) saucepan I have does have a copper disk base (it's Sitram Catering). You could consider this series if you're really intent on copper (these prices don't include lids, and I'm guessing the second and third options would be a bit difficult to handle when full of water, since they don't have helper handles).
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danna, I have pure aluminum pots (vintage Wagner and Meljax) that are quite thick and respond to heat much faster than any of my stainless steel. Perhaps an aluminum or SS lined hard anodized aluminum might be of interest to you.
will47 also makes a great point about the type of stove you have and the BTU's of your burners.
2. re: will47
I picked up my 12 qt at Marshall's a few years back for less than $25 and it wasn't even on clearance. Might be worth it for the OP to take a look at Marshall's/TJ Maxx/Homegoods if interested. They typically always have a nice selection of Cuisinart Chef Classics line.
As a footnote, I've noticed that a lot of the newer stock to the above mentioned stores from this line, have a much thinner base than the 2 older pieces I have. Just an observation I thought to mention.
2. For most pasta, I use a cheap ($15 for stockpot, steamer, pentola) 8-qt SS stockpot because it's also extremely light.
If I'm making ravioli or other stuffed pasta, I use a wide 8-qt A-C stockpot (Dutch oven profile), and take them out with a Chinese strainer/spider.
1. Can't help with the pot, but I think these inserts are the coolest: http://www.instawares.com/jr6224-stai...
Perfect for the family with the mother who likes whole wheat pasta, the son with an aversion to gluten, the daughter who doesn't like macaroni shapes....
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1. re: E_M
What a great idea. I can also see where it would also come in handy for separating different kinds of ravioli or tortellini.
I wonder how well it works.
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Funny you should mention that. The pot I have came with one of those inserts. If I use it, the water will practically NEVER boil. Somehow the heating of the extra metal requires just that much more energy.
I know you guys are well-meaning, but the "do something about the heat source" is rubbing salt in my wounds. Any of you that feel like running a gas line to my house let me know.
I have a copper polenta pot. The sides are too sloped to be good for pasta and yes, it is a little smaller, but it boils the same quantity of water WAY faster on my electric glass top stove.
2. See if you can do anything about the heat source.
I experimented with two pots. A cheapo thin stainless steel pot and good sitram stock pot with a decent aluminum base. Controlled for temperature of the starting water, and the beginning heat of the burner. With equal volumes of water, both came to a boil at exactly the same time.
Yeah, I'm a geeky engineer. The pot makes zero difference for boiling water, it's all the heat source.
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1. re: tomishungry
We now have a 23k BTU stove, and even bringing a large 10-12 qt stockpot full of water is surprisingly quick. Though, much as I like gas, induction and even electric are probably a little more efficient than gas for boiling water.
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Burrell: Central Park
Chiarello: Statute of Liberty
Falkner: Brooklyn Bridge
Zakarian: Times Square
Guarnaschelli: Empire State Building
Samuelsson: Broadway
Guarnaschelli's food takes a bath. Oops.
Two new additional judges today: Charlie Palmer and IC Marc Forgione
Onto judging ...
WINNER: Burrell (runner-up Chiarello)
LOSERS: Samuelsson versus Falkner
Elimination Challenge Secret Ingredient? Bagel, but of course.
LOSER? Samuelsson
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1. Wrong Samuelsson went home...he had the chops to be the next IC. Guarnaschelli has skated with a bunch of almost disasters. I know this is all reality TV but I'd really like it if the best chef, not the best chef at winning ridiculous games, would win. We thought it was between Samuelsson and Ciarello for cooking chops. Guess not.
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1. re: berkleybabe
I also agree, Samuelson was shocked he was going home. I am thinking they want a woman chef.
1. re: smartie
I was shocked too....unfortunately I had just turned it on. Will have to stay awake for the midnight showing.
1. re: smartie
"I am thinking they want a woman chef."
That is really sexist...and I completely agree. Personally, I think it is a huge shame that the NICA challenges do not more resemble actual Iron Chef competitions (i..e Basic Ingredient, Professional Kitchen, best chef wins).
1. re: DougRisk
That was the rumor last time around and Forgione won. People always bring that up, as these competition go Top Chef, Food Network Stars, HGTV, etc. They never remember when they're wrong but they always remember when they're right--"See, I knew a woman would win."
1. re: chowser
Well, lets put it another way then. In your opinion, if Cat Cora is leaving the show (and I do not know that she is), what do you think the chances are that they would replace her with a man and have an all male staff?
Again, the statement that I responded to was, "I am thinking they *want* a woman chef." (With emphasis on want)
1. re: DougRisk
On last night's ICA [new episode] shown immediately after TNIC, the ICA line-up did NOT include Cat Cora. Just Flay, Morimoto, Garces and Forgione. Interesting, no?
I agree with you. It IS sexist in a way if they are really intending to look for a female ICA to replace Cora. Why not just dispense with the whole song-and-dance charade and simply have a TNIC competition where only female chefs are allowed in? Hmm?
1. re: huiray
Think of this way: if a woman does win, you can blame their bias, instead of admitting that a woman can be a better chef. :)
1. re: paulj
That's a spurious quip. A female chef can be a better chef than a male chef, but the way TNIC is playing out, that outcome seems to be getting more press than just merely "May The Best Chef Win". ;-)
1. re: paulj
Given that the women have performed well on this show so far, there are people who will believe that that if one wins, it's sexist because they wanted a woman, proof or none. Had Samuelsson won, it would be because there isn't another black IC.
2. re: huiray
They don't because it's all speculation from people who aren't involved. Last season, as I said, Cat Cora had announced her departure and people said a female chef would win to replace her and yet Forgione won. Really, if the heads of IC want a female chef, they could just hire one and not go through this. This is not the only way they've brought on the men in the past.;-p
2. re: DougRisk
It is NOT sexist; it's diversity, equal opportunity and all that BS. They need to have a female on board. It's that simple.
1. re: huiray
Exactly. That's the term I couldn't think of at the moment.
1. re: DougRisk
It would make for bad TV while the field is so large to have several chefs using the same ingredient. The dishes would get repetitive.
3. re: berkleybabe
It won't be Ciarello either. It will probably be Burrell. They need a woman to replace Cat Cora. The only real male competition is Geoffrey Zackarian.
More to the point, what was the comment between Burrell and Guarnashelli when Burrell referred to something Falkner put on the plate, "I hope it tastes good." And Guarnashelli responded with a quick glance at her saying, "No, you don't."
1. re: chicgail
No, what Anne Burrell had whispered was "I do not like the way it looks" (or something like that, to which Alex Guarnaschelli replied, "I know you don't".
1. re: DougRisk
Actually Burrell did comment on how she didn't like the way one of Falkner's components looked and then said "I hope it tastes good" to which Alex replied, "No you don't." I'm thinking she and Burrell view Falkner as a serious threat and both want to be the last woman standing.
1. re: DavidPalmer
oh, OK, that is why she gave that look. OK, thanks.
1. re: DavidPalmer
I personally thought that exchange was hilarious. It seems like Alex and Anne try to look out for each other a bit and know each other enough from their location and jobs that they feel comfortable with a little realistic snark.
I also got the impression from the commentary during the elimination round (altho it could just be editing monkeys) that the majority of the chefs were more impressed with what Marcus was doing and were genuinely surprised he didn't win.
1. re: Firegoat
That was good. Anne looked at Alex in faux surprise, and Alex did her best not to crack a smile. I also agree about Samuelsson, somebody called his elimination a game-changer.
1. re: Firegoat
I think they like to edit comments more often than not to make the loser look like the better chef so that the actual judgment come across as shocking.
2. re: DavidPalmer
Thanks David. I just watched that again and your version is accurate.
2. re: berkleybabe
The thing is, iron Chef America is fundamentally a ridiculous game, not a valid test of who is the best chef.
Pitting two chefs against each other with 45 minutes (or whatever it is) to create five dishes using a secret ingredient (that's not even secret to the chefs but they pretend it is), overseen by an actor playing a character called "the chairman", and judged by celebrities and dimwits? If this is not a ridiculous game, what is?
1. re: taos
If it weren't a ridiculous game, it would be boring television.
1. re: FoodPopulist
Your are correct. And this is why things like how well the contestants tell a story matter so much. They have to be entertainers as much as good chefs.
3. Alex is definitely bringing the entertainment value to this show this season.
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1. re: Firegoat
I find it sooo funny that Alex is always doing these 'aside' comments to the camera, about how scared she is, and how the competition freaks her out, when week after week, she is judging people on Chopped going through the SAME experience...
Am I the only one that finds her sincerity at her fear, etc. a little ironic? I can't believe she hasn't addressed this directly, as in 'I used to watch people going through the same thing, and now here I am", etc.
And, I sure do agree with above posters that the network may really want a last-woman-standing.
Also glad to see the women doing SO WELL in competition this time. Finally, unlike chopped, etc. the women don't seem to be leaving because they are women.
On Chopped, this became a joke with my BF and I a couple years ago - getting better these days - but still, the first joke when the lineup includes women, we say ' well, we know who is first to go"....
I am voting for any of the women, but have been VERY impressed with Faulkner's performances and dishes. She has serious chops, with her background in pastry, and has done equally well in savory dishes. Tho, I think maybe the money is on Ann Burell, with her many appearances in kitchen stadium as an assistant.
I just say a late-night rerun of an episode last week (sorry, forget who against, but she was assistant to Batali), and there she was, just prepping and doing, with no one even saying who she was - I laughed, since this was clearly before she had her own show and cookbook.
Anyone else find it funny that at least 3 times during Sunday night's episode, they advertised her new cookbook?
Is that supposed to be the finale spoiler?
1. re: gingershelley
Or the people in charge of promoting her book are just taking advantage of her air time.
If you were in charge of 'FoodNetworkStore', when and where would you advertise your wares?
1. re: paulj
Right there on the show she is on, but, hey, it is the same network - doesn't it say something that the ad's are all over the show?
1. re: gingershelley
On Amazon you can get a special deal on her book along with Nadia's. :)
Who else has a book that they should be pushing?
Irvine - Impossible to Easy 2010
Symon - Live to cook 2009
2. So upset about Samuelsson. I think his skills are beyond the show. What was surprising was that everyone seemed to like his dish. How is ice cream (again) more skilled than those dumplings he made from frying the dough and then kneading? I thought that was far more creative. I like Falkner, too, and was sad it came down to these two. I hope she takes it in the end, since Samuelsson is gone now. Oh, and that you have to be an animated story teller, too? I didn't see a connection to Central Park in Ann Burrell's dish--just a connection from where she's been to get to NYC and the cornish game hen for pigeon. Samuelsson's story made sense to me--about the variety of people you see in Times Square. At least he considered the exact location. Burrell could have made her dish no matter what she drew.
Thanks for the recap, ipse.
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1. re: chowser
The judges did not find anything wrong with Samuelsson's dish. The stated reason for giving Falkner the win was that she gave the secret ingredient, the bagel, greater prominence. That is an aspect of the 'real world' ICA judging. Technique, taste, presentation and creativity are all part of ICA judging. But if the judges can't taste the secret ingredient, or find that it is incidental to the dish, they comment on it, and quite possibly award a lower score for it. I write 'possibly' because we don't see the score details.
1. re: paulj
Symon said that Samuelsson's sauce muddlied up the dish.
1. re: huiray
That was Judy Joo. Symon effused about Samuelsson's dish and said he thought Falkner's ice cream didn't taste good as much as it was interesting. I thought from his remarks that Samuelsson would have won.
1. re: chowser
Was it? Hmm, I'll have to watch it again.
I thought it was Majumdar, however, who said that Faulkner's ice cream didn't taste as good as it was interesting. Actually, quite sure of it.
1. re: huiray
Yes, that's what I said--that Symon effused about Samuelsson's dish and said he thought Falkner's ice cream didn't taste as good as much as it was interesting. Oops, meant Simon.
2. re: chowser
Bummed out about Samuelsson myself. His departure leaves me with no one that I really root for. I guess now I'm in Faulkner's corner by process of elimination.
"I think his skills are beyond the show."
In a sense, I just think Samuelsson's style is a bad match for ICA. The judging on ICA has always seemed skewed towards a more or less stereotypical American palate. Most of the 'innovation' and 'creativity' comes in the form of the techniques or presentation, but the underlying flavors are usually very familiar. Whereas Samuelsson draws his inspiration from a wide array of world cuisines in a much more profound way, often drawing from cuisines that are not as popular or well known in the states, and presenting them in a way that will actually challenge the judges' palates. I feel like shows like Top Chef tend to appreciate that kind of risk taking, but ICA is more likely to penalize it.
Making unconventional ice cream is a fairly technical endeavor. But I agree that it's really not all that creative anymore. Frankly, it's a cliche in competitions, the kind of thing where you can learn a technique and apply to damn near anything for a nice presentation without thinking too hard about it. The dumplings struck me as no less technical and far more creative - something that I've never seen before at all.
"Samuelsson's story made sense to me--about the variety of people you see in Times Square."
I think Samuelsson had Broadway. Ehh, none of the storytelling impressed me particularly anyway.
1. re: cowboyardee
In the same way, at times I think Morimoto loses because the (USAmerican) judges can't grasp or appreciate the Japanese/Pan-Asian underpinnings of his dishes.
1. re: huiray
I tend to agree. Though even for a Japanese chef, Morimoto can be pretty unconventional.
2. re: cowboyardee
I agree w/ what you've said. I don't see Samuelsson on IC at all. I think the ice cream is almost cliche, especially for her. Why are judges so enthused about ice cream on these shows?
I thought the whole storytelling was a useless exercise.
1. re: chowser
Michael Symon has to defend unconventional ice creams - he abuses the heck out of the technique himself.
3. re: chowser
I'm a big fan of Marcus but for some reason (that I can't put my finger on) he seems to lack the gravitas that the ICA producers are probably looking for.
4. So I'm guessing even though they were buying and cooking for six, only one dish had to be finished in the 45 minutes? I only saw the cooks working on, carrying out one dish at time. I know in the actual Iron Chef competitions they have more time to go back and cook the additional judging dishes, was just wondering if that's the case here.
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1. re: Firegoat
I thought the same thing but I think that's also how IC is done--they only plate one in the time frame and then go back and do the rest.
2. Anyone else feel like this thing is fixed?
Anne Burrell is being given the winning storyline.... clearly FoodNetwork likes her. Every other commercial is for her cookbook, she already is on the "star" lineup with her afternoon cooking show, and it just feels like she is a shoe-in via the editing alone.
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1. re: smtucker
The constant cookbook plugs are definitely a red flag for me.
1. re: smtucker
But when I watch it online on the Food Network site I get constant plugs for Alton Brown's new book.... maybe there is going to be a surprise twist at the end and Alton will win!
1. re: smtucker
If they say one more time that they're glad she's coming out of her shell, I'll scream. Really, how many times can she be coming out of her shell???
1. re: smtucker
I doubt it's fixed - having multiple judges (and guest judges) would tend to make that very hard to do without someone spilling the beans, and ever since the quiz show scandal of the 50s, 'game shows' have been pretty careful to avoid the appearance of impropriety.
Much more likely: since the whole show is shot before it is edited and broadcast, it is edited with the eventual winner in mind. Anne Burrell may well be getting the winning storyline, but that can be accomplished via editing rather than the show being fixed. Anyway, I'm still not ruling out Chiarello by any means. He's got a fairly neutral edit so far, which could go either way; he seems to have the best strategy; the judges respond well to his style; and he's just a little less vulnerable to the 'played it too safe' criticisms than Burrell.
1. re: cowboyardee
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PS4 rumors true or untrue?
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Ok, everyone I have been searching the web lately and this is a rumor that I am not sure that its true. They say that the ps4 isn't going to allow anyone to play used games on the system. I don't want to say that it's true but its just a rumor. Here's my take on this whole sha banga bang. If they do follow through with that, they need to provide a used code. For example, when the new games come out, they have a one time code that you use to play online, Ok. Now eventually, people are going to get tired of that game and want something different and want to trade it in. Now, when they trade it in, the code that first came with it is already used. Therefore, assign a used game code to the game so that the system knows that it isn't a bootleg version. Because people are going to get the point where they'll wanna begin to bootleg again. And, make the code a one time only code. Just like when it was brand new. 2. Most people can't always afford the new games that come out. Because i've known a lot of people that have purchased games that they thought was gonna be good and was disappointed at what they paid 65 for. So most people resort to buying the game used. It's not in a lot of people's budget to buy a game they really like but don't have enough for it to be bought brand new. So they'll wait for it to be traded in. But as I said in my previous posts, I love playstation, but if you guys follow through with that plan that I just stated, Then, I have NO PROBLEM buying the PS4 or as the rumor states, “Orbis” (that's the code name for the PS4) But if not, then it looks like the PS Vita will be the last system I'll buy. Again, I Love Playstation. Sony too. I will CONTINUE to support sony. No matter what plan you all go through with, I'm behind you all 110%
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Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Tribe: Arctiini
Subtribe: Phaegopterina
Genus: Aemilia
Kirby, 1892
Type species
Ameles rubriplaga
Walker, 1855
Ameles Walker, 1855 (non Burmeister, 1838[verification needed]: preoccupied)
Aemilia is a genus of tiger moths in the Erebidae family. It was initially named Ameles, but this name properly refers to a praying mantis genus.[1]
A group of species closely related to the Red-banded Aemilia ("A." ambigua) was formerly placed in the genus (though only uneasily so). The species has recently been moved to the revalidated genus Pseudohemihyalea.[2]
Selected species[edit]
Species of Aemilia include:[3]
1. ^ Pitkin & Jenkins (2004), and see references in Savela (2004)
2. ^ Schmidt (2009)
3. ^ Wikispecies (2010-DEC-05), and see references in Savela (2004)
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Persian/ Urdu Alal, Allal, in 12th century Persia was believed to be one of the names of the queen of the full moon, princess of hearts, or mother of the sky.
The legend of Alal is celebrated across south Iran and parts of the Middle East.
There are a range of Myths that portray Alal to be the Greek Aphrodite or the Roman Venus, Goddess of Love. She was believed to be the daughter of a wine merchant who ran away to a nearby river and fell in love with nature. Alal was known to be the symbol of charisma and love. She was described to have a voice that was flowing and musical along with eloquence and affection.
The Alal was typically described to be crowned with dark hair, large lustrous eyes and a round doll-like complexion. Many of the antique Persian miniatures often outlined her certain characteristics. The 17th and 18th century Persian court poets, described her to be a beautiful yet mysterious socialite that possessed a heart of gold with extreme radiance. She was known to be a rare and striking beauty, too glorious to live on Earth, and was moved to the Sky, where she resides in her palace amongst the stars, and became as we know her today, the Moon. | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alal | dclm-gs1-141740001 | false | false | {
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Cacatua galerita
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Psittaciformes
Superfamily: Cacatuoidea
Family: Cacatuidae
Subfamily: Cacatuinae
Tribe: Cacatuini
Genus: Cacatua
Subgenus: Cacatua
Vieillot, 1817
5, see text
Cacatua is a subgenus of the white cockatoos (genus Cacatua). They are found in wooded habitats from Wallacea east to the Bismarck Archipelago and south to Australia. With the exception of the yellow-crested cockatoo, all are relatively large cockatoos with a total length of 45–55 cm (18–22 in). Their plumage is mainly white (tinged pinkish in the salmon-crested cockatoo), and the underwing and -tail have a yellowish tinge. Their crest is expressive and brightly coloured in most species. Unlike the members of the subgenus Licmetis, the members of the subgenus Cacatua have a black bill.
The sulphur-crested cockatoo is relatively widespread and can even be seen in suburban habitats in some parts of its range, but the remaining members of this subgenus all have relatively small distributions and are considered threatened by the IUCN due to a combination of habitat loss and capture for the wild bird trade.
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Texas night snake
Hypsiglena torquata jani
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Colubridae
Subfamily: Dipsadinae
Genus: Hypsiglena
Cope, 1860
Hypsiglena torquata distribution.svg
Hypsiglena is a genus of small, rear-fanged, colubrid snakes commonly referred to as night snakes. The genus consists of two distinct species.[2] Many subspecies may be considered synonymous depending on the source.
Species and Subspecies[edit]
Geographic range[edit]
Hypsiglena are found throughout the southwestern and western United States, from Texas and Kansas, west to California, north to Washington, and south into Mexico, as well as on islands off the coasts of Mexico.
Their preferred habitat is semiarid desert regions with rocky and sandy soils.
Night snakes typically do not exceed a total length of 40 cm (16 in). They are slender-bodied with a flattened head, and have small eyes with vertical pupils. Their color varies depending on their locality, often matching the soil color of their native habitat. They occur in various shades of gray, and brown, with dark brown, gray or black blotches on the back and the sides. Many also have distinctive black markings on the neck region.
Hypsiglena are nocturnal and terrestrial.
Their diet consists primarily of lizards, but they will also consume smaller snakes, and amphibians.
Their venom is not considered to be dangerous to humans.
1. ^ Tanner WW. 1944. "A Taxonomic Study of the Genus Hypsiglena ". Great Basin Naturalist 5 (3 & 4): 25-92.
2. ^ ITIS (Integrated Taxonomic Information System). www.itis.gov.
Further reading[edit]
• Cope ED. 1860. "Catalogue of the Colubridæ in the Museum of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, with notes and descriptions of new species. Part 2". Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 12: 241-266. (Hypsiglena, p. 246).
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0.019975 | <urn:uuid:3e2f7d34-d9db-4990-bb62-3d6a9bdfd9cc> | en | 0.877799 | List of free online bioinformatics courses
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List of free online bioinformatics courses
Other resources available - Global Organisation for Bioinformatics Learning, Education & Training, Biostars, Coursera and Bioinformatics Workshops & Training.
Provider description- "Chemistry and metabolism of biopolymers (carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, nucleic acids, and nucleoproteins), vitamins, and hormones. Amino acid, primary, secondary, tertiary, and quaternary structure of proteins ...Enzymes and co-enzymes. Glycolytic pathway and TCA cycle. Electron transport and oxidative phosphorylation ..."
Provider description - "This course explores how to bring a drug from concept to market, and how a drug's chemical structure relates to its biological function. "
Computational Biology[edit]
Provider description - “This course focuses on current problems in computational biology and bioinformatics. Our emphasis will be algorithmic, on discovering appropriate combinatorial algorithm problems and the techniques to solve them. Primary topics will include DNA sequence assembly, DNA/protein sequence assembly, DNA/protein sequence comparison, hybridization array analysis, RNA and protein folding, and phylogenic trees.”
Provider description - "... a practical, hands-on approach to the field of computational molecular biology. The course is recommended for both molecular biologists and computer scientists desiring to understand the major issues concerning analysis of genomes, sequences and structures."
Computer Science and Programming[edit]
Provider description - “Principles of computer graphics. Current graphics hardware, elementary operations in two-and three-dimensional space, transformational geometry, clipping, graphics system design, standard graphics systems, individual projects.”
Provider description - “Introduction to the theory, algorithms, and applications of automated learning. How much information is needed to learn a task, how much computation is involved, and how it can be accomplished. Special emphasis will be given to unifying the different approaches to the subject coming from statistics, function approximation, optimization, pattern recognition, and neural networks.”
Gene Expression[edit]
Provider description - "[Topics include] cis-acting elements and trans-acting factors ... domain structure of eukaryotic transcription factors ... role of chromatin ... synthesis of mRNA, rRNA, and tRNA ... cell surface receptors ...intracellular receptors ... regulation of gene expression during development ... recombinant protein expression systems... gene therapy and transgenic technology ..."
Provider description - "This course serves as an introduction to the main laboratory and theoretical aspects of genomics and is divided into themes: genomes, genetics, functional genomics, systems biology, single cell approaches, proteomics, and applications. We start with the basics, DNA sequencing and the genome project, then move to high throughput sequencing methods and applications. Next we introduce principles of genetics and then apply them in clinical genetics and other large-scale sequencing projects. In the functional genomics unit, we start with RNA expression dynamics, analysis of alternative splicing, epigenomics and ChIP-seq, and metagenomics. Model organisms and forward and reverse genetics screens are then discussed, along with quantitative trait locus (QTL) and eQTL analysis. After that, we introduce integrative and single cell genomics approaches and systems biology. Finally, we conclude by introducing...proteomic approaches."
Provider description - "A lecture series covering contemporary areas in genomics and bioinformatics."
Provider description - "Data Analysis for Genomics will teach students how to harness the wealth of genomics data arising from new technologies, such as microarrays and next generation sequencing, in order to answer biological questions, both for basic cell biology and clinical applications."
Provider description - "Train online provides free courses on Europe's most widely used data resources, created by experts at EMBL-EBI and collaborating institutes. You do not need to have any previous experience of bioinformatics to benefit from this training. We want to help you to be a highly competent user of our data resources..."
Provider description - "This course will provide an introduction to genomic medicine and a better understanding of the issues associated with personal genomic information."
Provider description - "This website and accompanying documents are intended as a tool to help researchers dealing with non-model organisms acquire and process transcriptomic high-throughput sequencing data without having to learn extensive bioinformatics skills. It covers all steps from tissue collection, sample preparation and computer setup..."
Mathematics and Statistics[edit]
Provider description - “The mathematical analysis of algorithms uses a variety of topics from discrete mathematics—combinatorial analysis, number theory, and graph theory. The purpose of this course is to provide fluency with summations, congruences, generating functions, graph theory, and other tools of the trade. The emphasis will be on learning how to attack and solve problems.”
Provider description - "An introduction to statistical ideas and methods commonly used to make valid conclusions based on data from random samples. "
Provider description - “A comprehensive introduction to probability. Basics: sample spaces and events, conditional probability, and Bayes' Theorem. Univariate distributions: density functions, expectation and variance, Normal, t, Binomial, Negative Binomial, Poisson, Beta, and Gamma distributions. Multivariate distributions: joint and conditional distributions, independence, transformations, and Multivariate Normal. Limit laws: law of large numbers, central limit theorem. Markov chains: transition probabilities, stationary distributions, convergence.”
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"Iron lung" redirects here. For other uses, see Iron lung (disambiguation).
Negative pressure ventilator
Iron lung CDC.jpg
ICD-9-CM 93.99
MeSH D015919
Method and use[edit]
Invention and early use[edit]
In 1670, English scientist John Mayow came up with the idea of external negative pressure ventilation. Mayow built a model consisting of bellows and a bladder to pull in and expel air.[2] The first negative pressure ventilator was described by Scottish physician John Dalziel in 1832. Successful use of similar devices was described a few years later. Early prototypes included a hand-operated bellows-driven "Spirophore" designed by Dr. Woillez of Paris (1876), and an airtight wooden box designed specifically for the treatment of polio by Dr. Stueart of South Africa (1918). Stueart's box was sealed at the waist and shoulders with clay and powered by a motor-driven bellows.[3] The first of these devices to be widely used however was developed by Drinker and Shaw in 1928.[4] The iron lung, often referred to in the early days as the "Drinker respirator", was invented by Philip Drinker (1894–1972) and Louis Agassiz Shaw, Jr., professors of industrial hygiene at the Harvard School of Public Health.[5][6][7][8] The machine was powered by an electric motor with air pumps from two vacuum cleaners. The air pumps changed the pressure inside a rectangular, airtight metal box, pulling air in and out of the lungs.[9]
The first clinical use of the Drinker respirator on a human was on October 12, 1928, at the Boston Children's Hospital.[6][10] The subject was an eight-year-old girl who was nearly dead as a result of respiratory failure due to polio.[8] Her dramatic recovery, within less than a minute of being placed in the chamber, helped popularize the new device.[7]
Boston manufacturer Warren E. Collins began production of the iron lung that year.[11][12] Although it was initially developed for the treatment of victims of coal gas poisoning, it was most famously used in the mid-20th century for the treatment of respiratory failure caused by poliomyelitis.[5]
In 1931, John Haven Emerson (February 5, 1906 – February 4, 1997) introduced and improved upon a less expensive iron lung.[14][15] The Emerson iron lung had a bed that could slide in and out of the cylinder as needed, and the tank had portal windows which allowed attendants to reach in and adjust limbs, sheets, or hot packs.[9] Drinker and Harvard University sued Emerson, claiming he had infringed on patent rights. Emerson defended himself by making the case that such lifesaving devices should be freely available to all.[9] Emerson also demonstrated that every aspect of Drinker's patents had been published or used by others at earlier times. Since an invention must be novel to be patentable, prior publication/use of the invention meant it was not novel and therefore unpatentable. Emerson won the case, and Drinker's patents were declared invalid.
Both respirator[edit]
Main article: Both respirator
The SA Health Department asked Adelaide brothers Edward and Don Both to create an inexpensive "iron lung".[19] Biomedical engineer Edward Both designed and developed a cabinet respirator made of plywood that worked similarly as the Drinker device, with the addition of a bi-valved design which allowed temporary access to the patient’s body.[18] Far cheaper to make (only £100) than the Drinker machine, the Both Respirator also weighed less and could be constructed and transported more quickly.[18][20] Such was the demand for the machines that they were often used by patients within an hour of production.[21]
Visiting London in 1938 during another polio epidemic, Both produced additional respirators there which attracted the attention of William Morris (Lord Nuffield), a British motor manufacturer and philanthropist. Nuffield, intrigued by the design, financed the production of approximately 1700 machines at his car factory in Cowley, and donated them to hospitals throughout all parts of Britain and the British Empire.[21] Soon, the Both-Nuffield respirators were able to be produced by the thousand at about one-thirteenth the cost of the American design.[19] By the early 1950s, there were over 700 Both-Nuffield iron lungs in the United Kingdom, but only 50 Drinker devices.[22]
Modern usage[edit]
Polio vaccination programs have virtually eradicated new cases of poliomyelitis in the United States. Because of this, the development of modern ventilators, and widespread use of tracheal intubation and tracheotomy, the iron lung has mostly disappeared from modern medicine. In 1959, there were 1,200 people using tank respirators in the United States, but by 2004 there were only 39.[9] Positive pressure respirators were first described by Andre Cournand, JAMA 1947. Although not mentioned, it is known that he worked for the US Air Force during World War 2 and was involved in designing oxygen respirators for bomber pilots flying at high altitudes. This work is apparently classified and has never been released. Positive pressure ventilation systems are now more common than negative pressure systems. Positive pressure ventilators work by blowing air into the patient's lungs via intubation through the airway; they were used for the first time in Blegdams Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark during a polio outbreak in 1952.[24][25] It proved a success and soon superseded the iron lung throughout Europe.
The iron lung now has a marginal place in modern respiratory therapy. Most patients with paralysis of the breathing muscles use modern mechanical ventilators that push air into the airway with positive pressure. These are generally efficacious and have the advantage of not restricting patients' movements or caregivers' ability to examine the patients as significantly as an iron lung does. However, negative pressure ventilation is a truer approximation of normal physiological breathing and results in more normal distribution of air in the lungs. It may also be preferable in certain rare conditions, such as Ondine's curse, in which failure of the medullary respiratory centers at the base of the brain result in patients having no autonomic control of breathing. At least one reported polio patient, Dianne Odell, had a spinal deformity that caused the use of mechanical ventilators to be contraindicated.[26] There are patients who today still use the older machines, often in their homes, despite the occasional difficulty of finding the various replacement parts.[27] Joan Headley of Post-Polio Health International stated to CNN that as of May 28, 2008, there were approximately 30 patients in the USA still using an iron lung.[28] That figure may be inaccurately low; Houston alone had 19 iron lung patients living at home in 2008.[29] Martha Mason of Lattimore, North Carolina died on May 4, 2009, after spending 60 of her 72 years in an iron lung.[30]
Biphasic cuirass ventilation[edit]
5. ^ a b Sherwood, RJ (1973). "Obituaries: Philip Drinker 1894–1972". The Annals of Occupational Hygiene 16 (1): 93–4. doi:10.1093/annhyg/16.1.93. Retrieved 2011-07-01.
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Further reading[edit]
• Margaret Atwood mentions an iron lung in her book Cat's Eye
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Sunday, July 11, 2010
Updated: July 12, 10:39 AM ET
The games were just a sliver of it all
By Chris Jones
Special to
Alexandra Township
Alexandra Township is one of the poorest areas in South Africa.
JOHANNESBURG -- Alexandra is one of the few places in South Africa not ringed with razor wire. There are no high walls here, no fences, no security guards, no signs promising an armed response. There is no protection here, because there is nothing here to protect.
It is a desperate place -- for an American, Alexandra redefines the meaning of poverty. It is a warren of dirt roads, hemmed in by row after row of hastily built shacks. They look like the forts that children make. The walls consist of tied-together sheets of corrugated tin, plywood, packing crates, old signs and kitchen counters. The makeshift roofs are held down by cinder blocks, broken TVs, boots and tires. Some of the shacks are literally built on top of garbage heaps.
There is no plumbing here. There are communal outhouses, but rather than holding their breath, men choose to stand beside them to urinate, making rivers in the gutters. Electricity comes through illegal channels, thick cables running under the red earth and between stripped-down cars. Some of the shacks have aerials; none of them has windows.
And in the near-distance, just across a highway, on a hill rises Sandton and its glass towers. Sandton is Johannesburg's richest area, with posh hotels and fine restaurants. There are Porsche, Lotus and Audi dealerships there. Inside the air-conditioned mall, mostly white South Africans and tourists shop at Gucci, Bally, Ed Hardy. It is first-world wealthy, and the thousands of lost souls in Alexandra, standing in their piss, can see it from their stoops.
South Africans often call their country a miracle. It is divided in every possible way, and yet it hangs together. It has a new flag; it has a new president; it has platinum and diamonds in its mountains and lions running over them.
It's impossible to know that kind of country after only 31 days. It's impossible to digest hundreds of years of history in a month.
But that's plenty of time to fall in love.
Most of us who have come here will leave changed. We have seen things that we'll carry with us forever: a bull elephant looking through our truck window, Nelson Mandela's prison cell on Robben Island, the beautiful valleys on the road to Durban, the impoverished streets of Alexandra.
We'll see those things in our heads long after we've returned to our trim bungalows and New York City flats. Now when we see South Africa on the news, we'll see more than just those pictures beamed via satellite; we'll see our own mental photographs and snapshots. We'll see faces. We'll see Sifiso in Nelspruit and Easy in Johannesburg and Alan in Cape Town. South Africa is no longer abstract for us. It's become more than an idea. It's this incredible place that we've called home for this incredible time.
Now we have a stake. Now all of us have something to protect.
The poison is called "two step." It's actually a pesticide called aldicarb; it looks like gunpowder, fine black grains pinched between fingers. It's called two step because when a guard dog eats a little bit of it, fed through a fence, the dog will walk two steps and then fall over. A human might last a few steps more.
It's for sale on the streets of Alexandra. Stolen handguns and rifles can be bought here, too. Drugs, fistfuls of bullets, knives and toxic potions -- name a terrible thing, and it's in somebody's coat or under a board in the floor.
Then those terrible things are carried out of Alexandra -- carried past the mural that reads: "HIV positive? Need a cd 4 count?" -- and into the suburbs and farms, where people live behind walls and fences, and their guard dogs lie poisoned and dying on their lawns.
At some point, maybe even miracles won't be enough to sustain South Africa.
In 2008, the people of Alexandra got angry. They turned their anger not on the whites or the wealthy, but on African immigrants -- people who are worse off even than they. Zimbabweans, Namibians, Malawians … more than 60 of them were killed and 700 injured in sporadic violence.
Now, the immigrants are being warned once again to get out. They are being accused of taking too many of the crumbs that have dropped under the table. Pamphlets have been circulated, with fresh warnings and a deadline to leave: today, July 12, the day after the World Cup came to a close.
The world has been watching South Africa for a month. More than 40,000 new police have walked the streets. Crime has been low. But today, we're going home, and some of the police will be laid off, and immigrants will be receiving more pamphlets under their doors. The stadiums in places like Nelspruit and Rustenburg, where people drink water out of the puddles in the parking lots, will serve as reminders of how the rich choose to spend their money. Packets of two step will change hands, and guns will be tucked under shirts. Sandton will be sitting just there, across the highway, on top of the hill, and someone in Alexandra might get an idea.
Apparently, a terrible DVD is making the rounds among white South Africans. It's called "The Night of the Long Knives," an echo of the early Nazi purges. Most people believe it's just an unnecessary scare tactic, an idle threat, a means to incite and inflame. But some people believe in The Night of the Long Knives. Some people believe that the end of South Africa is one old man's passing away.
Nelson Mandela is the glue that holds South Africa together.
Nelson Mandela is 91 years old. He is frail. He will not live much longer.
This country exists because of him, and there are real fears that it will not after he's gone.
According to the DVD, there will be a one-week moratorium after Madiba dies, seven days of peace and respect. Whites who want to leave will be allowed to leave. They can pack up their belongings and head north, or they can board planes and ships and flee across the oceans.
On the eighth day, all bets will be off.
On the eighth day, the miracle will be over.
It is an apocalyptic prediction, "District 9" come to life. To those who remember the faces of Sifiso in Nelspruit and Easy in Johannesburg and Alan in Cape Town, it seems impossible. This country has come too far, has gone over too many hurdles, for everything to fall apart now. Too many people believe in this country. Too many people love it.
On Sunday, 84,500 people gathered inside a beautiful stadium and cheered and sang at a soccer game together.
But in Alexandra, the worst seems possible. In downtown Johannesburg, where the Nigerians squat in burned-out buildings, it seems possible. In the puddles in stadium parking lots, it seems possible.
Two steps, and we all fall down.
Or maybe, just maybe, Alexandra will save South Africa. The worst seems possible here, but so does everything else.
Against all odds, life is being scratched out there. There are tuck shops operating in front rooms. There are hair salons with cracked shards for mirrors. There are mechanics fixing those stripped-down cars, and there are boys waiting with rags to wash them. There are rickety fruit stands laden with oranges. There are vendors selling scarves and flags, and there are Zimbabweans who aren't afraid to announce that they come from the Zim. There are groups of men gathered in the street who have never heard of two step. Not everyone in Alexandra knows where to get a gun.
It's been only 16 years since apartheid and its apparatus fell. Nelson Mandela spent more time in prison than South Africa has been free. It's hard to imagine, but 16 years ago, Alexandra was much closer to violence. So many countries with more to lose have fallen apart over less. South Africa really is a miracle.
But miracles don't just happen. People have to will them to happen. Apartheid ended not only because of the long struggle fought here, but also because we joined in that fight. Just because the World Cup has finished doesn't mean the world's responsibilities to this place have also ended.
Over there is Sandton and here is Alexandra, but there are a thousand places in between.
One night last week, we went to a semi-legal bar in Soweto called the New Spot. A woman wrapped in a blanket greeted us warmly. We ducked inside her garage and drank cold bottles of Castle. She put some music on, Beyonce and James Brown; "Steel Magnolias" was on the TV. She told us that she had just opened her bar. She had been in the Old Spot for 13 years, and now she had found herself here, in a bigger and better place, and we found ourselves with her. The power went out, but that didn't stop the fun. She pulled out lanterns, and we sat in the blue light and drank. She took our photographs -- Americans, Canadians, Englishmen, Mexicans, Argentines and South Africans -- and she had us sign her freshly painted walls with markers. We wrote our names on her walls, and the cities we were from, and she marveled at these strangers having landed in her garage from so many places in between. Now she had proof. Now she knew where to find us, and she gave us big hugs when we ducked out her door. It was a beautiful night. It was another night that we'll remember forever.
What have we learned after 31 days in South Africa?
We can never leave.
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Disambiguation Re: Verified issues - week of 26 April
From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
Date: Sun, 2 May 2004 15:00:00 -0400 (EDT)
To: Joe Clark <joeclark@joeclark.org>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.55.0405021329570.4196@homer.w3.org>
(I think this issue is related to the neccessity of eschewing
sesquipedalianism, by the way)
On Sun, 2 May 2004, Joe Clark wrote:
>> Issue 700 - Examples of ambiguous contracted words?
>is the *evidence* (as opposed to supposition) that this harms any disabled
Where there is no ambiguity the above question obviously doesn't apply. (I
believe that your example is a different case - that of people writing
incorrectly - see below).
I'm not so sure that there is a case to be made about contractions beyond
that for general ambiguity, except to remind people that many contractions
are difficult to undrstand, although they are a common device in modern
manguage - especially acronyms, and abbreviations used by some people in a
wider technical community who might not understand them. (eg see mins of
telecons from 2Q-4Q 2002).
There is circumstantial evidence in the care taken by organisations like
Canon, Boeing, and most military services to avoid ambiguity, because people
who don't have perfect language skills, in particular (what some advocates
would call situational disability also applies here) can make mistakes.
In some cases the harm is limited to taking longer to understand what is
written - not an absolute barrier, but not allowing people to work as equals
In others, there are real consequences. Ambiguous language blew up a
satellite because people didn't do the reality check of comparing what the
units might mean - and although that might seem like rocket science I learned
to write units in primary school so as to disambiguate. And the people who
didn't understand were rocket scientists. People who don't understand
instructions may be killed (talk to Palestinians or Iraqis - some of them can
quote precise examples). They can make everyday mistakes, like voting for the
wrong person (according to their actual desires), or pqying for products they
didn't want.
I still don't think we are ready to think about how to put priorities on
the requirements we have, since we are missing too many details of them, and
these may not turn out to be the highetst priority items, nor the lowest.
>Homographs and polysemic words are features of many languages. The Web
>Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 will be laughed out of town if it
Do you have 5 examples of "it's" which mean "it has", please? Correct usage
is unambiguous - "it's" is a contraction of "it is" (in the way that "can't"
is a contraction of "can not" - as it happens a contraction which, when
spoken in many american accents, I find completely ambiguous since I often
cannot distinguish it from "can", its opposite. In speech I actually ask
people to precise which they mean, but a computer can be told to do it once
and expected to get it right thereafter, which is handy).
Perhaps you meant to suggest that it was often incorrectly used in place of
"its". and you think we should ask people to identify things they did
incorrectly. In that case I disagree, because I think we should ask them to
fix them, where in the case of language the primary goal is providing an
identifiable meaning for them. For unambiguous words used correctly this is
pretty straightforward - software like Babylon (1) has been doing this for
ages. Services like
http://www.confusingwords.com/index.php?word=its&search=Find can be
developed further to make it easier for authors to get things right, so that
such systems actually can work.
I think it is worth getting experts in language to analyse these questions,
as well as people who can identify what actual problems arise.
>And I wouldn't advise people to bring up the similar case of adding nikud
>to Hebrew.
No, I wouldn't have expected you to.
But since you did bring it up, repeated discussions over the last year with
people who use screen readers and similar technologies in arabic, hebrew and
japanese has suggested to me that these three languages are in fact important
examples of where there can be requirements to disambiguate words beyond the
level of "common practice" (which is after all a completely unspecified
concept, very difficult to test even for judges - the only people I know who
are regularly called on to make such tests). While writing all Japanese in
Kana would be considered excessive, there is clearly a need in a number of
cases to disambiguate certain words.
If it comes to that, while it is common in everyday typed french to omit many
of the accents, there are certain cases where this can cause problematic
As with english, I suggest we ask experts in the other relevant languages to
complete the details, based on what we can tell them about the actual
difficulties that arise, and why.
Received on Sunday, 2 May 2004 15:00:01 GMT
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Informative summary of behavior: The client uses IDL_DRSGetObjectExistence to check the consistency of object existence between its replica of an NC and another replica of the same NC. Checking the consistency of object existence means identifying objects that have replicated to both replicas, and that exist in one replica but not in the other. For the purposes of this method, an object exists within an NC replica if it is either an object or a tombstone.
IDL_DRSGetObjectExistence allows the client to perform this checking in clusters, as defined in the informative summary of the GuidSequence procedure (section
The inputs to this checking process on the client are as follows:
nc: DSName
utdClient, utdServer: UPTODATE_VECTOR_V1_EXT
guidStart: GUID
count: ULONG
nc: The NC containing the cluster that the client will check.
utdClient, utdServer: The up-to-date vectors of the client and server for the NC nc, respectively. The client can obtain utdServer using IDL_DRSGetReplInfo.
guidStart: The lower bound on the smallest objectGUID in the cluster that the client will check.
count: The upper bound on the number of objects in the cluster that the client will check.
Given these inputs, the client creates the request message to IDL_DRSGetObjectExistence as follows:<31>
s: sequence
digest: sequence [0..15] of byte
msgIn.pNC := nc
msgIn.pUpToDateVecCommonV1 := MergeUTD(utdClient, utdServer)
guidStart, count, nc, msgIn.pUpToDateVecCommonV1^, s, digest)
msgIn.guidStart := s[0]
msgIn.length := s.length
msgIn.Md5Digest := digest
pmsgIn^.V1 := msgIn
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