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Last Updated: Friday, 4 April, 2003, 23:03 GMT 00:03 UK
Villeneuve mocks cautious rivals
Jacques Villeneuve tackles the rain at Interlagos
Villeneuve was seventh fastest in the rain
Jacques Villeneuve said his rivals would have been "a bunch of cissies" if they had refused to take part in Friday's qualifying session for the Brazilian Grand Prix.
Several drivers drew up a petition saying that qualifying should not be allowed to proceed in the torrential rain at Interlagos.
The session eventually went ahead after the rain eased up, but Villeneuve said it would have been an insult to fans if the drivers had not taken to the track.
"I never saw the petition and if I had I would not have signed it," said Villeneuve.
"What would it bring to Formula One for us not to go and qualify? People would think that we are just a bunch of cissies.
The drivers wanted to express concerns and show a united front about qualifying in the wet
David Coulthard
"We can't do that. We are paid a whole lot of money and it would be an insult to the fans.
"Formula One has been hurting for the past couple of years and it's very important for us to give a show and go out there and drive.
"Sure, there is a little risk in those conditions, but not enough not to drive. If you think it is too dangerous then drive slowly."
McLaren's David Coulthard, who was one of the drivers behind the petition, said it was designed to make race director Charlie Whiting aware of their safety concerns.
"The drivers wanted to express concerns and show a united front about qualifying in the wet but that wasn't the case," said Coulthard.
The controversy came about because of a new rule restricting tyre suppliers Bridgestone and Michelin to just one type of wet-weather tyre per race.
Both opted to take intermediate tyres, which work well in damp conditions but give little grip in heavy rain.
Villeneuve, who was seventh fastest in qualifying, called the rule "extremely dangerous".
And despite his strong views on qualifying the 1997 world champion insisted that Sunday's race should not be allowed to take place in heavy rain.
"It is dangerous when you have a lot of cars on the track because a car could spin, stop in the middle of the racing line and you won't see it," he said.
"But one car at a time qualifying? The only danger is you might make a mistake, aquaplane and go off but the cars are built so you can go off and maybe hit a tyre barrier."
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Hurt pride no remorse
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who was swimming with sharks found out
the divers knew nothing of their real prey
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'you are nothing but there's something wrong with you'
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Comment: Re:What a nightmare (Score 1) 328
I don't know if JJ can do worse than Old George did with E1 through E3,
Well, Lucas stuck around for all three movies. JJ is going to make two movies, realize he screwed up the setup so there cannot be a satisfactory conclusion, walk away, and blame the next director for fucking up his trilogy.
At least Lin has experience keeping a franchise going.
Comment: Re:Hope they win this case. (Score 1) 482
by Actually, I do RTFA (#48635263) Attached to: Colorado Sued By Neighboring States Over Legal Pot
The kid in Ohio who was shot because he had a toy gun,
A toy gun that had been painted to look like a real gun. That he was pointing at a cop... a rookie cop. I don't think there's much dispute that a better trained cop (like his partner) would not have shot the kid, but of all the incidents, it seems the most reasonable.
The police in NY clearly should have gone to trial, and, based on what I saw, jail
I assume Michael Brown became the poster child because the local community organized, which gave news crews something to film, which lead to more people, etc. in the snowball effect. And the facts of the case seem to be disputable.
Why you choose to further the narrative that gun owners are somehow racists or bigots is beyond me. here is no basis in reality for it...
Okay, first, there seems to be a correlation, esp. among people who don't know many gun owners, between gun ownership and crazy racist. Look at Cliven Bundy, or Ted Nugent. Now, that's a skewed sample, but it's the sample most people have.
Second, the NRA itself promotes this. The most recent 35 ads I could find for the NRA feature white people. Same with the first few pages on their website.
I'm not saying they're correct, but it's easy to see how those views could form.
by Actually, I do RTFA (#48635051) Attached to: Colorado Sued By Neighboring States Over Legal Pot
Here's my question: why doesn't the NAACP stand up for the right of black people to keep guns?
Because a more important goal of theirs is to stop the police from shooting/killing their constituents. And the message conflicts with "and also, they will be carrying one to three concealed weapons"
Comment: Re:America! (Score 4, Informative) 230
by Actually, I do RTFA (#48629943) Attached to: "Team America" Gets Post-Hack Yanking At Alamo Drafthouse, Too
I think everyone who believes in free speech ought to buy a ticket,
The movie is neither courageous nor a triumph of free speech. It would be both if North Koreans had made it. But it's not.
It didn't even look like a good movie
And giving money to corporation for a shitty in return may be an American way, but it's not one I want to encourage.
Comment: Re:hooray for the government (Score 1) 68
by Actually, I do RTFA (#48629071) Attached to: Councilmen Introduce Bills Strongly Regulating UAV Use in NYC
Regulations aren't the best solution for every problem.
Never said they were. I do think they are (a part of) the best solution for these problems.
This action is going way too far though
The outright ban may be, but the ban on going to high, flying out of sight or flying at night?
Look, either the city needs to license drones and/or drone pilots, or they need to limit the damage that can be done.
Comment: Re:Calling it fraud could stop identity theft (Score 2) 110
You're both right, you're both wrong.
The burden is on the bank to force you, via the law, to repay them. The burden is on the person to clear their credit report of the issue.
Now, the desirability of having a large system that operates under "guilty until proven innocent" and, while not having the force of law, is still pretty vital to living in America.... well, that's a different story.
Comment: Re:Move to a gated community (Score 1) 604
by Actually, I do RTFA (#48605675) Attached to: Waze Causing Anger Among LA Residents
Other less dysfunctional cities either have better mass transit
LA is supposed to actually have quite good mass transit. Just underrated.
I seem to recall there was some reason a lot of people were off the roads, leaving them clear. And there were some races between mass transit and driving. The results (again without traffic) were within the margin of error.
Not sure if the test was rigged, or what, but it was interesting.
Comment: Re:It's called "evergreening" (Score 1) 266
Interesting. The only time I had heard 'evergreen" before was in reference to characters/worlds/other fictional material, and referred to ensuring continued cultural relevance (e.g. Mickey Mouse).
But it explicitly talked about the pragmatic issues... I suppose they already assumed perpetual ownership of the IP.
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did anyone consider the possibility of the government backstopping insurance companies for high-expense patients, by (for example) putting a cap on the amount of money an insurance company must pay out in the lifetime of an individual (call it $1 million)--then when you hit that cap, the money beyond that cap comes from the government,
The problem with this is similar to the problem with saying "The emergency room is a special case!". Different payers at different levels give rise to different, conflicting incetnives that raise the cost for the system as a whole.
Imagine Patient A is ensured by Company B. Any costs beyond X are picked up by the government. Now, A gets sick, and has two treatments available. The first (costs X/2) has a 50% chance of working off the bat, and a 50% chance of costing 10X if complications occur. The second costs X (or any number higher than X) and pretty much is assured of working. Maximizing societies total pool of resources devoted to insurance says the second option. Maximing Company B's profits says take the first.
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In short: I don't know which folder to place the "spring-context.xml" file in a WebApp when I'm doing this:
In Long: I know what a classpath is basically. It used to be an environment variable that told the Java project where to look for jars and other resources. It doesn't seem to be used much. But in Eclipse, it talks about setting your classpath by going into your Java Build Path.
What I don't understand it when I want to find a Spring "spring-context.xml" file using the classpath (above) what that has to do with the Eclipse Java Build Path, if anything! What folders does a WebApp look in when I use the above statement? I usually hear people say, "In the classpath" but that doesn't tell me much since I don't want to use an environment variable and the Eclipse Java Build Path seems to have little to do with finding the spring-context.xml file.
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Initially I was afraid that more details would confuse the situation, but maybe they hold a key.
I am using Vaadin to create a web app. I'm following their direction for how to get a Spring context into Vaadin. I've created a Spring Helper class:
public SpringContextHelper(Application application) {
ServletContext servletContext = ((WebApplicationContext) application.getContext()).getHttpSession().getServletContext();
context = WebApplicationContextUtils.getRequiredWebApplicationContext(servletContext);
In the web.xml I have these sections:
I'm getting the error in the first line of SpringContextHelper(). I've broken the line down so I know it is this logic that is failing:
WebApplicationContext wac = (WebApplicationContext) application.getContext();
wac comes back null, presumably because is can't find the spring-context.xml file.
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"It doesn't seem to be used much": this is a huge misconception. "But in Eclipse, it talks about setting your classpath by going into your Java Build Path.": not necessarily, some paths are by default already covered by the classpath, such as src folder, WebContent/WEB-INF/lib, WebContent/WEB-INF/classes, etc. So whatever you drop there, it will "automagically" end up in webapp's runtime classpath (that's among others what an IDE is good for; so that you don't need to fiddle with javac -cp everytime and so on). – BalusC Apr 17 '12 at 20:51
So "src", "WebContent/WEB-INF/lib", and "WebContent/WEB-INF/classes". How do I know what "WebContent" is? I thought it was "webapp". And what other paths are built in? – ksnortum Apr 17 '12 at 21:39
I am talking in Eclipse's perspective. "WebContent" is the default name of public web content folder of a dynamic web project. Other paths are among others Server/lib, JRE/lib and JRE/lib/ext, etc. You can find them all out during runtime by ClassLoader#getResources(). – BalusC Apr 17 '12 at 21:42
ClassLoader#getResources() seems to need a name and my problem is I don't know where to put spring-context.xml. If I use that as the name, I get nothing back. On another note, where would I find the name of the public web content folder of a dynamic web project? – ksnortum Apr 17 '12 at 22:27
As an use example, use classLoader.getResources(""). As to the XML file not being found, just put it in one of the default paths covered by the webapp's runtime classpath, or add its path to the webapp's runtime classpath. – BalusC Apr 17 '12 at 23:34
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Essentially, the "Java Build path" you specify for a project is the CLASSPATH.
And files you put in the "src" root of your "Java Resources" project folder will automatically go in your web app's "classes" subdirectory (i.e will automatically be available as in the runtime CLASSPATH).
For example, if you have a custom log4j.properties file, then it can and should go in your Eclipse project's "src/" root.
As far as "where does spring-context.xml go?", I don't know. This link suggests it should go under META-INF/jsca (at least for WebLogic):
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My problem is that I can't put my spring-context.xml file in a folder that the statement above in the question will find. I get an error at runtime. Putting spring-context.xml in src still gets a runtime error. – ksnortum Apr 17 '12 at 22:37
Q: What is the "runtime error"???????????? – paulsm4 Apr 18 '12 at 2:21
Suggestion: Do a "File, Export as .war" from your Eclipse project. Look at the .war file (there are several ways to do this, including renaming from .war to .zip and looking at the contents with Windows Explorer). That will help show you how your Eclipse project files and directories map to Tomcat/App server runtime files and directories. IMHO... – paulsm4 Apr 18 '12 at 2:23
@paulsm5: The exception is javax.servlet.ServletException: java.lang.NullPointerException. This happens on this line: HttpSession hs = wac.getHttpSession();. wac comes from this: WebApplicationContext wac = (WebApplicationContext) application.getContext();. So my assumption is that it can't find the spring-context.xml file. – ksnortum Apr 18 '12 at 15:57
@paulsm5: spring-context.xml is in WEB-INF/classes in the war file. What does that mean as to where I should put spring-context.xml in the Eclipse project? – ksnortum Apr 18 '12 at 20:29
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I'm developing a plugin with the latest version of WordPress (3.4.2) locally (XAMPP 1.7.7 [PHP: 5.3.8]) and for some reason the links are not working within the plugin. I just have a simple delete link that links to a 'delete-gallery.php' file from within the plugin admin page. This file (delete-gallery.php) only calls a function to delete the record from the database and redirects back to the page that called it (the plugin admin page). Simple enough. But, when the link is clicked I get directed to XAMPP root (localhost:8080/xampp) and not the requested destination (delete-gallery.php) for some reason.
$url = plugins_url('includes/delete-gallery.php', _FILE_);
echo '<a href="'.$url.'?gallery_id='.$gallery['gallery_id'].'">Delete</a>';
I know the hrefs' path is correct on the link because it shows up in the status bar on hover, but for some reason it's not locating the file locally on submission. If I set the destination to somewhere external (ie. google.com, etc) it works fine, but not locally within wordpress.
The permalink structure has been updated and the .htaccess file is currently as so:
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<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
# END WordPress
If I use a blank .htaccess file I don't get redirected to the XAMPP root, but instead get the error 'Object not found! The requested URL was not found on this server. ...' when the link is clicked.
Is there something that needs to be set in .htaccess to allow redirecting locally within wordpress? I'm at a loss here. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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It was a simple sytax error. Had single underscores instead of doubles in the FILE parameter.
_FILE_ -> __FILE__
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In a Action, I am calling
RedirectToAction("login", new { test = "1" });
And the page doesn't seem to be redirecting. The action "login" is in the same controller.
What could the issue be?
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Your returning RedirectToAction(...) right, not "calling" it? – mxmissile Sep 9 '09 at 14:43
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You should use
return RedirectToAction(...
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RedirectToAction(... will not work if you are using AJAX form. ajax request simply ignore the redirect call
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agree with you, you would need to do the redirection on the client side on success of ajax post (for example); by using jquery or javascript. @jawahar – t_plusplus Apr 16 at 14:48
Good catch. Was wondering why my form didn't redirect. – Noobgrammer Sep 25 at 7:19
You have to use return the RedirectToAction.
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The Font BBox or Bounding Box is the maximum dimension box for all glyphs in the font. When designing it is a good idea to decide on a maximum overall ascent/descent that none of the fonts in the family will exceed. That then can be the basis of your max Ascent/Descent for the whole family.
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As is always the case with government power, this policy was widely abused. When the Founding Fathers drafted and ratified the U.S. Constitution, they included the Fourth Amendment - the prohibition of search and seizure - to guarantee that no such affronts to liberty would happen again.
That is, if we follow the Constitution.
Today, we see a government agency that thinks its has the power to search citizens by going from phone-to-phone, gathering any-and-all data to examine to their hearts' content. The National Security Agency phone scandal is precisely the sort of government action the Founding Fathers fought a revolution to stop and why we celebrate the Fourth of July holiday.
We also have an Internal Revenue Service that targets political dissidents, which is a direct violation of the First Amendment. A Department of Justice that seizes journalists' phone records without a warrant, which is a violation of both the First and Fourth Amendments.
The signers of the Declaration of Independence would be appalled.
American tax dollars flow no matter which despot rules.
Today, we give the same billions and fighter jets to Mr. Mubarak's successor, Mr. Morsi, who the protesters now see in the same light as Mr. Mubarak.
Some American politicians never know when to say no. Three prominent interventionists called for arming Moammar Gadhafi the year before they called for arming the Libyan Islamists rebels who overthrew Gadhafi. Which Islamic rebels killed the American ambassador? No one seems to know and no one has been brought to justice. Often, today's "rebels" can become tomorrow's tyrants, and vice versa.
Persistent and perpetual intervention inevitably leads to American dollars flowing to despots.
How does it look to the world when we celebrate independence and freedom in our own country while aiding and abetting dictators and despots who deny liberty to their own people?
Now, Mr. Morsi has been ousted due to massive protests - and we subsidized his government the entire time he was in power.
In all likelihood, we will continue to finance the military junta that replaces him.
Why? To what end?
People must fight for their own freedom. We fought for it in our own country, even as we see today's government so often betraying the Founders' vision. We see people fighting for freedom in other countries, even as US interventions work to stifle their efforts.
This week, as we commemorate our independence from England 237 years ago, we must remind our leaders that they took an oath to the Constitution that we expect them to keep. This government does not have the power to spy on citizens without a warrant. It cannot target political protesters, journalists or anyone who dares to dissent.
We also have a responsibility not to aid despots around the world, as people in those countries continue to fight their own struggles. America is at her best when we lead by example, not by force, and certainly not when we send F-16s to dictators to squelch dissent.
The Declaration of Independence states "Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed."
It is up to us as Americans to constantly remind our leaders that without our consent, they have no power. It is also up to people in other countries to fight their own battles, to give their own consent and to create their own governments.
You cannot give a people liberty. They must fight for it themselves.
You also cannot constantly fight other peoples' battles. We have plenty of battles to fight right here at home.
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The pumpkin is technically a fruit, according to the Mayo Clinic. This fruit is native to North America and is a type of winter squash. They are typically round and have a yellow to orange color.
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Pumpkins are traditionally known for their holiday use as jack-o-lanterns during Halloween. Most all parts of a pumpkin are edible, with some uses including pies and soups. Despite labeling, most canned puree pumpkin products are not made with actual pumpkins but with butternut squash. In addition to humans, poultry, dogs and cats can eat pumpkins as part of a healthy, well-rounded diet, and pumpkin is a common ingredient in commercial pet food.
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Concert radio/cassette speed sensitive volume
Discussion in 'In-Car Entertainment' started by imported_highlander1, Dec 31, 2004.
1. imported_highlander1
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[Dec 31, 2004]
I have Concert radio/cassette in my A3 and was wondering if the speed sensitive volume should work when I'm driving.
It has the volume problem that most of them get so would this stop it from working or was it a option that you had to specify when the car was new. I have only had it since Aug 04 and the volume fault has been there since I bought it. It is a 99 year model 1.8T. It has the option to adjust the sensitivity of the SSV in the stereo's menu but still no joy.
Hope someone can help.
Happy Hogmany.
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the volume problem won't affect the gala speed sensitive volume. on audiworld tech articles it tells ya more about gala. i think it puts the volume up at certain speeds, not linearly.
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"what's the "volume problem"- question from a noob!"
The Concert head units have a tendancy to just max the volume for no apparent reason, the fault is very common and there doesn't seem to be a fix other than exchange the unit at Audi dealer under warranty (or for about £130 with no warranty), or source one off ebay (but a 2nd hand unit could have the fault or develop it over time).
Best solution is to take it as a sign from god, that it's time to ditch the £20 worth of tacky components parsing itself off as a stereo and get something that actually works properly
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Reducing the level of hRev7 in human fibroblast cells renders them more sensitive to the cytotoxic effects of a variety of different types of DNA damaging agents. Cell strains 2.5 and 3.2, which have significantly reduced hRev7 protein, (closed symbols) were compared to their parental strain and the vector control strain (open symbols) for their sensitivity to the cytotoxic effects of (A) the DNA cross-linking agent cisplatin, (B) ionizing radiation (IR), and (C) the alkylating agent N-methyl-N-hydroxyurea (MNU). The lines represent the least squares regression for the data.
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The large and influential American school of “culture history” anthropologists led by Boas should not be confused with a distinct and smaller group of Austro-German diffusionists, led by Fritz Graebner and Wilhelm Schmidt, who constituted what has been called the “culture-historical” school in Europe. These latter, too, rejected classical 19th-century evolutionism, but they were nevertheless inclined toward painting grand theories—principally the theory that out of a few ancient cultural centres or civilizations, born quite separately, there had developed the array of cultures existing today. Diffusion, or the spreading of culture traits, in their view, was the prime ... (100 of 5,636 words)
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Media and publishing
Iceland has several independent daily newspapers, with those published in Reykjavík having the highest circulation. In addition, newspapers associated with the major political parties also are published. The Icelandic National Broadcasting Service (Ríkisútvarpid), established in 1930, is the country’s main broadcasting outlet, providing radio and television programming. Several privately owned radio and television stations were established more recently, following the abolition of a state radio and television monopoly in the mid 1980s.
Book publishing also is an active Icelandic tradition. More than 1,000 book titles are published every year. Daily independent newspapers include Morgunbladid (“Morning News”) and DV, and the country has numerous magazines and journals. The Icelandic Literary Society, founded in 1816, specializes in the publication of historical and classical works.
Early history
Settlement (c. 870–c. 930)
Iceland apparently has no prehistory. According to stories written down some 250 years after the event, the country was discovered and settled by Norse people in the Viking Age. The oldest source, Íslendingabók (The Book of the Icelanders), written about 1130, sets the period of settlement at about ad 870–930. The other main source, Landnámabók (The Book of Settlements), of 12th-century origin but known only in later versions, states explicitly that the first permanent settler, Ingólfr Arnarson, came from Norway to Iceland to settle in the year 874. He chose as his homestead a site that he named Reykjavík, which he farmed with his wife, Hallveig Fródadóttir. The Book of Settlements then enumerates more than 400 settlers who sailed with their families, servants, and slaves to Iceland to stake claims to land. Most of the settlers came from Norway, but some came from other Nordic countries and from the Norse Viking Age settlements in the British Isles.
A layer of tephra (volcanic ash) that in many places coincides with the earliest remains of human habitation in Iceland has been identified in Greenland ice and dated to about 870. Archaeological finds also support the documentary evidence and place Iceland among Norse Viking Age settlements of the late 9th or early 10th century. The Icelandic language testifies to the same origin; Icelandic is a Nordic language and is most closely related to the dialects of western Norway.
Although the island was not populated until the Viking Age, Iceland probably had been known to people long before that time. The 4th-century-bc Greek explorer Pytheas of Massalia (Marseille) described a northern country that he called Thule, located six days’ sailing distance north of Britain. In the 8th century Irish hermits who had begun to sail to Iceland in search of solitude also called the island Thule. It is unknown, however, if Pytheas and the hermits were describing the same island. According to the early Icelandic sources, some Irish monks were living in Iceland when the Nordic settlers arrived, but the monks soon left because they were unwilling to share the country with heathens.
Commonwealth (c. 930–1262)
At the time of Iceland’s settlement, Norse people worshiped gods whom they called æsir (singular áss), and this religion left behind an extensive mythology in Icelandic literature. Thor seems to have been the most popular of the pagan gods in Iceland, although Odin is thought to have been the highest in rank. It appears that heathen worship was organized around a distinct class of chieftains called godar (singular godi), of which there were about 40. In the absence of royal power in Iceland, the godar were to form the ruling class in the country.
By the end of the settlement period, a general Icelandic assembly, called the Althing, had been established and was held at midsummer on a site that came to be called Thingvellir. This assembly consisted of a law council (lögrétta), in which the godar made and amended the laws, and a system of courts of justice, in which householders, nominated by the godar, acted on the panels of judges. At the local level, three godar usually held a joint assembly in late spring at which a local court operated, again with judges nominated by the godar. All farmers were legally obliged to belong to a chieftaincy (godord) but theoretically were free to change their allegiance from one godi to another; the godar were allotted a corresponding right to expel a follower. Some scholars have seen in this arrangement a resemblance to the franchise in modern societies. On the other hand, there was no central authority to ensure that the farmers would be able to exercise their right in a democratic way. No one was vested with executive power over the country as a whole. In any case, no trace of democratic practice reached farther down the social scale than to the heads of farming households; women and workers (free or enslaved) had no role in the political system.
By the end of the 10th century, the Norwegians were forced by their king, Olaf I Tryggvason, to accept Christianity. The king also sent missionaries to Iceland who, according to 12th-century sources, were highly successful in converting the Icelanders. In 999 or 1000 the Althing made a peaceful decision that all Icelanders should become Christians. In spite of this decision, the godar retained their political role, and many of them probably built their own churches. Some were ordained, and as a group they seem to have closely controlled the organization of the new religion. Two bishoprics were established, one at Skálholt in 1056 and the other at Hólar in 1106. Literate Christian culture also transformed lay life. Codification of the law was begun in 1117–18. Later the Icelanders began to write sagas, which were to reach their pinnacle of literary achievement in the next century.
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1Total area cited by National Land Survey of Iceland.
Official nameLýdhveldidh Ísland (Republic of Iceland)
Head of statePresident: Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson
Head of governmentPrime Minister: Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson
Official languageIcelandic
Official religionEvangelical Lutheran
Monetary unitkróna (ISK)
Population(2013 est.) 323,000
Total area (sq mi)39,777
Total area (sq km)103,0221
Urban-rural populationUrban: (2011) 93.8%
Rural: (2011) 6.2%
Life expectancy at birth Male: (2012) 80.8 years
Female: (2012) 83.9 years
Female: 100%
GNI per capita (U.S.$)(2012) 38,710
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The Hidden Technology That Makes Twitter Huge
Twitter started with a simple form and through tens of billions of repetitions became a network unto itself
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While a tweet thrives in its timeline, among the other tweets, it’s also designed to stand on its own, forever. Any tweet might show up embedded inside a million different websites. It may be called up and re-displayed years after posting. For all their supposed ephemerality, tweets have real staying power.
Once born, they’re alone and must find their own way to the world, like a just-hatched sea turtle crawling to the surf. Luckily they have all of the information they need in order to make it: A tweet knows the identity of its creator, whether bot or human, as well as the location from which it originated, the date and time it went out, and dozens of other little things—so that wherever it finds itself, the tweet can be reconstituted. Millennia from now an intelligence coming across a single tweet could, like an archaeologist pondering a chunk of ancient skull, deduce an entire culture.
Twitter’s (TWTR) Nov. 7 initial public offering marks the San Francisco-based company’s coming-out party, the moment when it graduates from its South of Market beginnings and takes its place as one of the Internet’s most valuable properties, without ever turning a profit. What’s perhaps most remarkable about Twitter’s rise is how little the service has evolved from the original core concept of the 140-character tweet—which is to say, not at all. It’s tempting to view tweeting as silly and trivial, and Twitter itself as overhyped and overvalued. But there’s some sophisticated, supple, and even revolutionary technology at work. Appreciating Twitter’s machinery is key to understanding how an idea so simple changed the way millions of people advertise their existences to the world.
How do you look inside a tweet? It’s easy; the structure of a tweet is a matter of public record. Twitter, as a modern Web company, reveals to the world some of the technology it uses, in the form of an application programming interface—an API—which allows external software developers to build tools on top of the service, making it more widely used and thus more valuable for everyone.
This is where things get interesting. With just the places and the times, you can do some database work and learn when people in every corner of the world are in the strange, receptive state of social media engagement. Could be valuable! This information might tell you the best time to update a blog post or communicate with the most human beings at once, or when to release an advertisement. Maybe we learn that certain people tweet most assiduously right before leaving for work, a fine time for an advertiser to pitch them some orange juice or a new car to ease their commute.
This is the sort of combinatorial work that defines the modern Web: There’s so much data that there’s a very good chance that you will be the first of all humankind to find something interesting or unexpected. Whether you find something valuable is another question. But it’s surprisingly easy to become an expert in a very tiny niche as a developer—to become a world-leading expert in Android video or a specialist in Twitter geography—and charge accordingly for your services.
For all the possibilities of APIs, there are also limits. Another tweet field, “withheld_copyright,” if set to “true,” lets you know that a tweet is in trouble—that its content has raised flags and hackles over copyright. The text of the tweet, in that case, may be suppressed. The “withheld_in_countries” field can provide a list of the nations in which the tweet is banned. Another field has a telling name: “possibly_sensitive.” It’s set to either true or false. The field indicates whether a tweet links to potentially offensive things such as “nudity, violence, or medical procedures.” (If ever you wanted a snapshot of our world’s anxieties in three terms, there you have it.) As a user you can check a box on your profile so that the media you link to is automatically flagged this way. If you don’t, you risk having your pictures of your medical procedure marked as objectionable by an offended reader and thus put “in review,” the Twitter version of limbo.
A field like this indicates the inherent difficulty of managing an enormous platform like Twitter. The only way the company survives is if it can safely ignore most of what’s said on Twitter. If it had to use employees to monitor tweets, it wouldn’t last a day. But in order to attract as many users as possible, it must find ways to avoid horrifying them.
There’s a great deal of hedging in both the words “possibly” and “sensitive.” The end result is that Twitter is putting the moral burden on the user. One person’s art is another person’s smut, and Twitter is not going to decide which is which—nor is it going to force you to look at the stuff. This position is both somewhat noble for its acceptance of the range of human expression and also highly expedient, putting the responsibility back on the user: We told you the picture was “possibly sensitive,” so why did you look at it?
Much of the rest of the metadata contained in a tweet is familiar: The number of times people have starred, or “fav’d,” a tweet, the number of times it’s been retweeted. The value for “user” contains a whole huge bundle of stuff—the user’s name, a link to an avatar image, the user’s number of followers, the number of people the user follows, and whether the user is “verified” and deserves one of those blue checkmarks. It’s a pretty full portrait of an individual, given that this portrait is attached to every tweet.
From a single tweet and with no other information, you can extract a sense of social influence—how big a voice an individual has, the number of people they reach, the number of people who engaged with this particular tweet. Tweets themselves are just regular text (although text on a computer is anything but regular; there are dozens of abstractions that make it possible for an “a” to appear on a screen—but it’s safe to gloss over that). Here it is, 140 characters, a plain little beastie. You might be fooled into thinking there’s hardly anything there.
Another of Twitter’s discoveries was that mobile phones could work as a broadcast platform. This was something of a miracle of timing: A massive proportion of its traffic today comes from mobile devices. The short length of the tweet was perfect for celebrities in limousines to communicate with thousands, and later millions, of followers. The tiny payload of tweets could be easily jammed into narrow mobile phone data streams, giving people a real-time flow of information.
Twitter started with a very simple form—a single box on the Web with a limit that kept people from inserting too many characters—and through tens of billions of repetitions became a network unto itself. It’s embedded within the Web’s culture, but it’s also so large that it’s separate from the rest of the Web. The technologies that go into building Twitter today are not the same technologies one uses to build a typical website. The tweet is the social network’s building block in the way that Web pages built the Web in the mid-1990s.
Twitter’s founders recognized that encouraging people to use a very small number of very tightly controlled forms, billions of times over, creates huge, deeply interconnected, highly creative, and potentially profitable new spaces. It’s as if you could, with exactly the right kind of bricks, build a skyscraper that was infinitely tall. Twitter, like its half-sibling Facebook (FB), became so powerful that people now use it to log on to other websites; your Twitter identity is a major component of your Web identity. And today major news properties and blogs increasingly look like Twitter: infinite streams of data, tags, and voices.
The history of Twitter, as it’s been told so far, doesn’t offer a moment where various youngish men rise up from their desks and run naked through San Francisco yelling “Eureka!” It was created, like most things, in meetings. Somewhere in those meetings, Twitter uncovered a latent aspect of human life that had never before been so clearly articulated and turned it into a product that has altered, to various degrees, hundreds of millions of lives. That much of what is tweeted is trivial or silly is an obvious truth—but that’s not Twitter’s fault. That’s on us.
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Whether you are drinking an ice cold beer, an oaky red wine, or something much harder and on the rocks -- we thought we'd help you add a little spice to your Turkey Day with a drinking game the whole (over 21) family can play.
It's really quite simple.
Any time one of the things listed below is said -- everyone must take a drink.
Any time YOU say any of them out loud (or hell -- if you just think them in your head!), then you must take two drinks (while everyone else takes their one).
Any time a child cries during the course of the meal, each participant must take three drinks. Just, please, make sure there is at least one responsible, sober adult to take care of said crying child.
Drink List
I don't want to sit at the kid table.
I'm thankful for ...
Pass the mashed potatoes.
Do I have to eat the [insert vegetable]?
Chew with your mouth closed.
Pass the wine.
Can we have dessert now?
Can I leave the table?
Can I watch TV?
What's the score?
Who's playing today?
I have to unbutton my pants.
Why did I wear these pants?
The diet starts tomorrow.
Your eyes are bigger than your stomach!
Pass the gravy.
I have to save room for dessert.
I found a wishbone!
The turkey is dry.
I don't like pumpkin pie.
Why is the cranberry shaped like a can?
Is this gluten-free?
When's dessert?
The tryptophan is setting in.
Now print this out so you have it handy. And one last bit of advice ... take small sips and make sure you have a good drink!
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Kristen Stewart is catching up on her reading.
Bespectacled with her hand full of papers, the Twilight actress was spotted hitting up a newsstand in Hollywood this week. Joined by a friend, Robert Pattinson's ex-girlfriend was also seen spending some time at her local library before perusing a few magazines.
Given her disdain for the paparazzi, my money's on that she wasn't picking up a few tabloids.
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Hey, if you participated in one of the 700+ "tea parties" held across the nation on April 15th, guess what?
Actress and former comedienne Janeane Garofalo doesn't like you.
Garofalo appeared on Keith Olbermann's show Thursday night, and with guns a blazing she condemned anyone who participated in the tax and spend protests on tax day.
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"Let's be very honest about what this is about," she said. "It's not about bashing Democrats, it's not about taxes, they have no idea what the Boston tea party was about, they don't know their history at all. This is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up. That is nothing but a bunch of teabagging rednecks."
That's a strong statement. Olbermann's reaction?
He didn't challenge her. Instead he wondered aloud if the network that gave the most coverage to the tea parties -- FOX News -- could survive if this were the case.
"If you spear your television network ... towards a bunch of guys looking who are just looking for a reason to yell at the black president, eventually you will marginalize yourself out of business, won't you?" he asked.
FOX doesn't seem that marginal yet. Last month, the network's ratings were more than double MSNBC and CNN combined. FOX commentator Bill O'Reilly has now hosted the number one cable news program for 100 months in a row.
Rick's Rant
Actually it was an NBC colleague of Olbermann's who started the whole tea party business. CNBC's Rick Santelli gave birth to the movement after launching into a tirade against the housing bailout back in February.
"We're thinking of having a Chicago Tea Party in July," Santelli yelled from the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade. "All you capitalists that want to show up to Lake Michigan, I'm gonna start organizing."
He didn't have to wait until July. The first tea party was held less than a week after the rant. Subsequent protests have been held throughout the nation ever since, culminating with the mass tea parties on Wednesday.
He seemed pretty pleased with himself on CNBC Wednesday morning.
Maybe Garofalo's rant was just typical Garofalo. A partisan. Like a Rush Limbaugh but on the left.
Although she wouldn't likely like that comparison. She tore into Limbaugh two months ago, again while appearing on Olbermann's show. This time the discussion was about Rush and his high disapproval rating among women.
"The type of female who does like Rush is the same type of woman who falls in love with prisoners," she said getting a chuckle out of Olbermann.
"Eva Braun, Hitler’s girlfriend. That is exactly the type of woman that responds really well to Rush," she concluded.
As you can imagine, there is much reaction in the blogosphere.
The PajamaPundit wonders: "So we're upset cause Fox News has "tricked" the American people into reading and watching it day after day (unlike her radio program which TANKS in the ratings). Anyone who doesn't agree with Barack Obama's policies is a racist. My "wife" has stockholm syndrome? These words aren't even funny...they are just plain out of line. Why does Ms. Garafolo have such hatred toward conservatives? Doesn't she come from the party of love, choice and tolerance?"
LetFreedomRain buys into Garofalo's argument: "Sure, Garofalo gets a little graphic and lumps all right wingers into the same pile, but her central argument that the tea parties are more about racism than about taxes is a solid one. If the right expects to regain any of its past glory, it will have to do a better job of accepting criticism..."
TheConservativeBulwark says enough of the race card: "The race card will always be locked and loaded as long as Obama is in the White House. Could she make a valid point as to why our ridiculous tax rates are needed and just? No. Could she argue that our tax laws are appropriate, even though they weigh a few tons? No. She falls back on the standard insult: You disagree with President Obama, therefore you are a racist. The End."
AikenAreaProgressive, on the other hand, gives a big thank you to Garofalo: "Janeane Garofalo, a real American hero, says it correctly: the conservatives are RACIST REDNECKS."
Not so, say ChicksOnTheRight. "Look at the love-fest happening between Janeane Garofalo and Keith Olbermann. He’s practically drooling at all of her hate-speech."
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You have to listen to Dr. Jill Stein talk about being arrested outside the debate this week. Your blood will BOIL!
This is an interesting dialogue between Gary Johnson & Jill Stein about the issues as they apply to their presidential campaigns. I knew that Jill & her VP were arrested outside the debate this week, but how they were treated made me run to my computer to post this. The "arrest" part starts at 21 minutes. You have to at least listen to that part.
What country are we living in when bonafide presidential candidates get arrested & hancuffed to chairs for hours?
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Gun to my head....
If I gotta choose between Stein, Romney or Obama.
I say "Just pull the trigger already."
Stein is a devout communist. Force everyone to participate - that's her basic line of thought.
Yeah. I'd only ride in a car
Yeah. I'd only ride in a car with Bernie Sanders to the pitstop of the "removal of government corruption and inefficiency" then we'd have to part ways after that.
Southern Agrarian
that doesn't mean that the way she was treated is . . .
lawful or acceptable.
it's hard to be awake; it's easier to dream--
Thanks for the upload. This
Thanks for the upload.
This is what was going thru my head the entire time: http://youtu.be/FcN08Tg3PWw
Um, how does Ron Paul get a
Um, how does Ron Paul get a lower 'liberty torch' rating then Gary Johnson? No way, no how, someone doesn't know what liberty is if Gary gets a higher rating and Obama gets only 2 less then Ron Paul, doh.
I Suspect Obama's Score
is based on his rhetoric, not his record.
I suspect Dr. Paul's score suffered on account of things such as his stance on abortion, his stance on the tenth amendment, his opposition to the Civil War, his opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and his opposition to hate crime legislation.
this is terrible--
I disagree about Jill Stein. Even if *I* don't believe environmental wisdom should be legislated--
this woman has threatened someone in order to have been treated as she was; this is horrific--
she's not a joke. *We* don't have to vote for her to see that she is exposing some of the same things that other 3rd party candidates (and Dr. Paul) has exposed--
it's hard to be awake; it's easier to dream--
What Do You Mean By "This Woman Has Threatened Someone"?
Me? Oh, did you think I meant that she . . .
verbally or physically threatened someone? No, of course not. She's obviously a well-educated, refined woman--
her running for office and trying to be SEEN has been a threat to the PTB--
even though, unlike Dr. Paul, she isn't a true constitutionalist, she's a threat to the PTB. That is the context of 'threaten' I meant, not that she has done something threatening to an individual--
the fact that she had the courage to show up at the entrance to the debates and protest obviously threatened someone's status quo--
it's hard to be awake; it's easier to dream--
Okay Thanks For Clarifying
I wasn't trying to be accusatory or finger wagging; I was just confused and unsure of what you meant. Thanks for explaining further.
And yes, you're of course quite right. As Tom Woods often says, the power structure detests when anyone strays from the 3x5 index card of acceptable discourse.
this world is not developed, it is only staged.
it is as if when your asleep in the American dream all is bliss,
once awake you are in a different world, you realize there is a beast out to get you, and by purpuseful appointment you reach its territory where it seeks to store you for foodstuff... luckily she got away.
this makes me want to listen to her more--
even though she's not strong enough on the constitution to entice me to vote for her--
she has seen the 'beast' and is calling it a beast--
it's hard to be awake; it's easier to dream--
It's NOT funny, ROFL anyways
The real life frustration due to technical errors became sheer comedy of errors. And for a rare third party debate? This is criminal because it hurts.. It's nothing to laugh about, and yet, I laugh because it's unbelievable.. but there it is.
It's all the more reason I think whatever sacrifices we have to take to restore the republic in the GOP is worth it, rather than this kind of pain of not being heard techinical difficulties asside.
sad that third parties only have the chance to share their views through grassroots means ... in this case online which has a lot of bugs to work out. Totally unfair to be excluded from national telecasts. Great job here by Johnson and Stein. Glad to hear Stein invite Johnson onto Democracy Now next Monday - I really hope he will attend. It will be foreign policy centered. Don't forget next Tuesday, Oct 23 - Third Party Debate with four presidential candidates.
I didnt watch all of this
but it seems to me like Jill is pushing Agenda 21 with all that sustainable talk. Also her talk of "direct job creation" worries me because this is not the role of constitutional government. Can anyone help me out here and tell me what Jill is about? Not that it really matters because there is no chance in hell that she will become president, but I am curious about her. On the surface she does not come across as a true constitutionalist. She seems to believe government is the answer to our economy.
I like Gary Johnson more, however I do not like his policy on imigration.
It's ridiculous how there is no one running like Ron Paul who gets EVERYTHING. Gary Johnson is dead wrong on imigration and I dont see how he doesnt see that.
Correct me, if I am wrong, however
What I understood, is the support for sustainability and the green jobs was addressed as local community involvement, not national federal government. The federal government is limited under the constitution, all other powers are to the people or the states. Sustainability is vitally important long term, but agenda 21 is not the answer, the solutions should be from local communities and the states.
I am not for Jill Stein, but her voice should be heard, as should Gary Johnsons.
yup you are right
She said twice. Would be communities making the decisions. However i still think she wants money to come from the gov.
She is still better then Obama and Romney anyday anyhow. I will vote Gary Johnson, but if it were only her Romney or Obama in the race I might be inclined to vote for her.
She's an environmentalist.
Jill Stein is in the green party dude of course she's gonna drone on and on about the environment and sustainability. That's the entire point of the green party. Jill has only been getting some fair attention for her efforts to bring attention to the 3rd party exclusion in the Presidential debates.
She is NOT a true
She is NOT a true constitutionalist. She's not being ragged on because she's at least bringing attention to the fact that there are options out there being suppressed. Green Party is peace oriented / progressive taxes / interested in evironmental issues... basically what a lot of Democrats think the Democratic Party is all about when its not.
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I kept trying
to click ahead past technical problems and I'd just land on another one. I'm glad they're covering these guys, but, Man.
Defend Liberty!
Thanks for posting this
The technical problems made this so annoying to listen to. If they expect people to give any consideration to third party involvement, they need a professional presentation. That being said, both of these candidates are superior choices to what we are being offered with the existing two parties.
Someone explain to these
Someone explain to these geniuses what feed back is.. shame i really wanted to watch this too.
Police state strides forward.
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I found
the whole discussion within this debate to be highly enlightening as to what these candidates represent. These are voices of substance that must be heard. I won't waste another second of my attention on Mitt vs. Barack as the real debate is from those who the Republicrats have conspired to silence.
Will the MSM air this?
No chance.
Censoriship is in full force.
And of course the MSM barely covered it. They might have to mention her name.
It is discraceful
Just clicked on your democracy now coverage. A must see for everyone.
I'd love to see comments from the candidates who were in the building.
Who speak of representing and protecting the American people.
Someone should start a new news station called Hypocrisy Now.
Hypocrisy Now! LOL, I love it, that's brilliant.
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(See in situ)
In reply to comment: I was obviously being facetious, (see in situ)
Facetious: "Treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humor; flippant."
Nope. I just don't see it.
Sarcasm: "Remarks that mean the opposite of what they say, made to criticize someone or something in a way that is amusing to others but annoying to the person criticized:
Still not seeing it.
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The great Harvey Steinberg lost a court case.
"I am not afraid to lose a case," Steinberg said. "When you're afraid to lose a case, you don't do your job. I believe that we have to keep the system honest and that everyone charged with a crime is treated fairly and honestly within that system. That includes a thorough investigation and that the police play by the rules."
If Steinberg were afraid to lose, he never would have taken the Cox or Marshall case. Still, Steinberg doesn't easily accept defeat and the Williams verdict bothered him.
A master in the presentation of reasonable doubt, Steinberg had communicated the possible effects that football injuries may have had in Williams' poor roadside sobriety test performance, and how the linebacker simply didn't realize his headlights were off because they have always automatically turned on. That is until the valet turned them off.
"I was hopeful that based on the evidence presented that the jury would acquit him of the alcohol-related offenses," Steinberg said.
But the six-person Denver County Court jury couldn't get past the two policemen who essentially testified Williams was bombed.
The question now is: What do the Broncos do about D.J.? Goodell is certain to expand Williams' six-game suspension to at least eight.
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Description: The present invention, Let Me Roll Sic Bo, relates to Sic Bo and Craps dice game. Player rolls three dice to establish the point. Player has to roll the point again to win the game.PRIOR ART Craps is a casino game played by rolling a pair of dice repeatedly. It has the pass line bet and don't line as the main wager spots in order for patrons to shoot the dice. On the first roll, called the "come-out" roll, players who place wagers on pass line will win when 7 or 11 is rolled (a "natural"). If 2, 3, or 12 is rolled (a "Craps number"), the pass line bet is lost. If any other number is rolled, namely4, 5, 6, 8, 9, or 10, that number becomes the shooter's "point." If the point is repeated before 7 is rolled, the bet is won. If 7 is rolled before the point is repeated, the bet is lost. The pass line bet pays even money. The pass line bet can be lost in either of two ways: Either the shooter rolls a craps number (2, 3, or 12) on the come-out roll, or he establishes a point and subsequently "sevens-out." In the former case, the same shooter continues to roll thedice. In the latter case, a new shooter takes control of the dice. Since most players at the craps table bet with the shooter, the shooter is motivated to win as many and lose as few pass line bets as possible before the inevitable seven-out. Rollinga crap number on a come-out roll is therefore something almost every shooter wants to avoid. In standard craps, one can bet with the shooter or against him. To bet against the shooter, one makes a don't pass bet, which is the reverse of the pass line bet (i.e., the criteria for winning and losing are reversed, and the bet pays evenmoney), with one exception: If 12 is rolled on the come-out roll, the don't pass bet is tied rather than won. Sic-bo is an old and very popular Chinese dice game. House dealer shakes three dice in a bowl to result a combination number for player to bet on it. Players can bet on a wide variety of results with odds ranging from 190 | http://www.docstoc.com/docs/108447982/Let-Me-Roll-Sic-Bo---Patent-8074991 | dclm-gs1-144260001 | false | false | {
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J.M.Valente Nabais1), P.J.M. Carrott1), M.M.L. Ribeiro Carrott1)
J.A. Menéndez2), A. Dominguez2)
Centro de Química de Évora & Departamento de Química, Universidade de Évora,
Rua Romão Ramalho 59, 7000-671 Évora, Portugal
Instituto Nacional del Carbon, CSIC, Apartado 73, 33080 Oviedo, Spain
Corresponding author e-mail address: jvn@uevora.pt
Carbon molecular sieves (CMS) have important applications in the chemical and
petrochemical industry in separation and catalytic processes based on the different
adsorption of components from gaseous or liquid phases. The work to be presented
here focuses on two commercially significant separations: CO2/CH4 and O2/N2. The first
is important for the recovery of CH4 in fermentation processes [1] and in purification of
natural gas [2]. The second is used worldwide for the production of nitrogen and oxygen
from air by pressure swing adsorption (PSA) [3,4].
Activated carbon fibres (ACF) are a comparatively modern form of porous carbon
material with a number of significant advantages over the more traditional powder or
granular forms. These include high surface area and adsorption capacity, as well as very
high rates of adsorption from the gas or liquid phase. The micropore size is in general
uniform and can often be controlled by adjusting the conditions of preparation of the ACF
or by post-preparation modifications which include CVD of suitable organic precursors,
such as benzene [5] and propylene [6], thermal treatments [7] and impregnation with
organic additives with subsequent carbonisation [8]. These characteristics and the fact
that the micropores open directly to the exterior make ACF excellent alternatives in PSA
systems because the time needed for pressurisation/depressurisation cycles can be
In this work we report a novel method of making CMS which involves the control of
porosity of activated carbon fibres using thermal treatment in a microwave furnace under
an inert atmosphere. This methodology leads to the production of CMS that are
indicated for the separations CO2/CH4 and/or O2/N2.
The use of a microwave furnace has several advantages over conventional heating
devices related to the different manner of sample heating. In conventional heating the
heat source is located outside the carbon bed which is heated by conduction and/or
convection. With microwave heating, on the other hand, the microwaves supply energy
to the carbon particles themselves according to the mechanism of the Maxwell-Wagner
effect [9].
In a microwave furnace the heating is very fast (temperatures of 900ºC can be reached
in about 1 minute [10]) and the treatment time is reduced when compared with the
treatment time in conventional furnaces. This leads to important savings in time, energy
and gas consumption.
For carbon materials there are relatively few publications that describe the use of
microwaves for producing [11,12] and regenerating [13,14] activated carbons. Surface
chemistry modification of carbon materials by means of microwave heating was also
studied in previous works [10,15] as was the production of molecular sieving effects
The separations using CMS are based on kinetics and not on equilibrium. For instance
the equilibrium adsorption capacities for O2 and N2 can be nearly identical. These
different adsorption kinetics allow the adsorption of the gas that has the faster diffusion
rate, in general the gas that also has the smaller molecular size, which can then be
separated from other gases with slow diffusion rates. Although simple in principle, in
practice it is a relatively difficult separation when compared to an equilibrium separation.
Regarding the kinetic diameter of oxygen and nitrogen, 0.346 and 0.364nm [18], it is
easy to see that this separation is quite an impressive feat.
The diffusion model more appropriate for the ACF used is the empirical
phenomenological model for mass transfer in gas adsorption because, as can be seen
in Fig. 1, the materials are not homogeneous and the particles are not spherical [19]. In
this case the adsorption rate is controlled by the diffusivity into the micropores rather
than by the superficial resistance to mass transfer. This model, also called the linear
driving force (LDF) mass transfer kinetic model, assumes that the surface concentration
of gas is constant and that the diffusion is controlled by the concentration gradient
through the particle. The kinetics of diffusion can then be expressed by the empirical
diffusion equation:
mt/minf = ktn (1)
where mt is the gas uptake at time t, minf the gas uptake at equilibrium, t the time, n the
diffusional exponent and k the constant.
The diffusional exponent can be evaluated from a plot of ln(mt/minf) vs ln t. When n=0.5
the diffusion mechanism obeys the Fick Equation. In our case n is always different from
0.5 which is coherent with our choice for the diffusional model.
The gas uptake into CMS may be considered as a pseudo-first order mass transfer
between the gas phase and the ACF. Then the rates of gas uptake can be compared in
terms of the pseudo-first order rate constant (k) with the gas uptake following equation
mt/minf = 1-ekt (2)
The plot ln(1-mt/minf) vs t should be a straight line with gradient equal to k that is
essentially comparable to Dπ2/a2 in the Fickian diffusion model for spherical particles
where mt/minf>0.5.
a) b)
Figure 1: SEM image of a) F2-0 and b) F1-37.
The precursors used for the production of ACF were three acrylic textile fibres (designed
F1, F2 and F1N) provided by Fisipe (Barreiro, Portugal). According to the manufacturer
all of the fibres had been polymerised from acrylonitrile (~90w%) and vinyl acetate
(~10w%) monomers. For the production of the ACF about 12g of fibre and a horizontal
tubular furnace were used. The fibres were carbonised at 800ºC for 1 hour under a
constant N2 flow of 85cm3min-1 (samples F1N-0, F1N-0 and F2-0) and activated at
900ºC in a CO2 flow of 85cm3min-1 for 2 hours, to 37% burn-off (sample F1-37). Details
of the process are given elsewhere [20].
Microwave treatments
Sub-samples (ca. 1-2g) sized to less than 1mm of activated carbon fibres were placed in
a quartz reactor, which in turn was placed inside a multimode resonant microwave
cavity. Microwave treatments consisted in subjecting the samples to microwave action
for 15min. The time of treatment is indicated in the sample designation (XXXm15,
means 15 minutes of microwave treatment). An inert atmosphere was maintained during
treatment and cool-down intervals by passing a N2 flow of 100cm3min-1 through the
sample bed. The input power of the microwave equipment was set at 1000W and the
microwave frequency used was 2450MHz. The temperature of the carbon bed during
microwave treatment was measured using an infrared optical pyrometer. Details of the
microwave device as well as temperature measurements are given elsewhere [21,22].
Gas uptake experiments
The adsorption of O2, N2, CO2 and CH4 at 25ºC was determined using a classical glass
adsorption apparatus. After outgassing the ACF at 300ºC, the probe molecule at an
initial pressure of 955mbar was introduced and the uptake measured as a function of
Results and Discussion
Typical uptake curves obtained are shown in Fig.2 were the plots of volume adsorbed (in
volume NPT obtained by the ideal gas equation) versus contact time are represented.
From this data we can evaluate the ability of the materials for performing the separations
wanted. This evaluation is done by the determination of the volume adsorbed, at a
specific contact time, and the kinetic selectivity obtained by the ratio between the
volumes of gas adsorbed. These data are shown in tables 1 and 2. We chose 100s for
the contact time because the PSA apparatus normally uses similar times.
The adsorption kinetics analysis shows that for all samples the uptake of O2 and CO2 is
faster than the adsorption of N2 and CH4, respectively. The uptake at 100s contact time
is greater for O2 and CO2 than for N2 and CH4. This behaviour is typical for CMS but
opposite to other molecular sieves like zeolites 5A or 13X that have more affinity for N2
than for O2, with the faster adsorption of the first gas [23].
The results show that the microwave treatments lead to important changes in the values
of gas adsorbed and selectivities. It can be seen in tables 1 and 2 that after microwave
treatment the adsorption of the larger molecules N2 and CH4 was, in almost every case,
reduced to zero. On other hand, the adsorption of the smaller molecules CO2 and O2
was less pronounced leading to significant increase of the selectivities.
For samples F1-0 and F1-37 the treatment caused a decrease in the mean width of the
micropores [22] and consequently a decrease of the adsorption capacity. For sample F1-
0m15 this results in null adsorption of CH4, N2 and O2. Despite the reduction of 80% in
the CO2 adsorption the fast adsorption obtained makes this sample a good CMS for the
separation of CO2. The sample F1-37 improved the CMS characteristics after the
treatment with the selectivity values for the separations CO2/CH4 and O2/N2 changing
from 2.3 to 13.9 and from 0.9 to 13.9, respectively, as can be seen in the tables.
For samples F1N-0 and F2-0 the treatment caused an increase in the mean micropore
diameter [22] and also an increase in the adsorption capacity. These samples have
much amorphous carbon which was in part burnt-out during the microwave treatment
with the opening of the micropores. We can say that the micropores still have some
constrictions after the treatment because the uptake curves show a slower
approximation to equilibrium adsorption, which leads to smaller values of k when
compared with F1-0m15 (tables 1 and 2). The sample F1N-0m15 is very interesting
because the null adsorption of methane and nitrogen lead to infinite selectivities for the
separations CO2/CH4 and O2/N2.
a) b)
c) d)
0 200 400 600 800 1000
e) f)
Figure 2: Uptake curves at 25ºC of CO2(!), CH4(O), O2(!) and N2(!).a) F1-0,
b)F1-0m15, c)F1-37, d)F1-37m15, e)F1N-0, f)F1N-0m15.
Table 1. Adsorption kinetics (k/s-1) and uptakes (v/cm3g-1) of O2 and N2 at 25ºC.
Sample V(O2) V(N2) V(O2)/V(N2) k(O2) k(N2)
F1-0 2.8 2.4 1.2 0.020 0.009
F1-0m15 0 0 id 0 0
F2-0 0.1 0 inf 0.039 0
F2-0m15 0.3 0 inf 0.035 0
F1N-0 0 0 id 0 0
F1N-0m15 1.5 0 inf 0.008 0
F1-37 2.2 2.4 0.9 0.097 0.096
F1-37m15 1.3 0.1 13.9 0.010 0
Note: Uptakes after 100s of contact time, nd=not determined, id=indeterminate, inf=infinite
Table 2. Adsorption kinetics (k/s-1) and uptakes (v/cm3g-1) of CO2 and CH4 at 25ºC.
Sample V(CO2) V(CH4) V(CO2)/V(CH4) k(CO2) k(CH4)
F1-0 24.9 4.4 5.6 0.015 0.012
F1-0m15 3.6 0 inf 0.025 0
F2-0 0.7 0 inf 0.004 0
F2-0m15 1.4 0 inf 0.004 0
F1N-0 2.8 0 inf 0.003 0
F1N-0m15 7.5 0 inf 0.008 0
F1-37 28.7 12.4 2.3 0.025 0.030
F1-37m15 5.7 0.5 13.9 0.011 0.011
Published work using the same type of experimental method that we have used
indicates that for O2/N2 separation a selectivity of about 10 with O2 uptake of about
4cm3g-1 after 100s contact time can be considered reasonable for a laboratory sample
[24,25]. Verma has reported higher selectivities, of about 20, but only at the expense of
much lower O2 uptake [26], while Villar-Rodil et al. have reported higher O2 uptakes but
with slightly lower selectivities [27]. Other authors have reported results for commercial
CMS which are inferior both in relation to selectivity and to O2 uptake [24,25]. The results
obtained by us, and shown in tables 1 and 2, therefore appear to be quite reasonable in
comparison with other published work. Of the microwave treated samples, the best
results were obtained with F1-37 and F1-0, which both had higher selectivities, although
the O2 uptakes were lower than ideal.
For CO2/CH4 separation various authors have reported selectivities greater than 40 with
CO2 uptakes as high as 45cm3g-1 [24,27]. The best result in table 2 was obtained with
F1N-0 and is comparable to the results reported by Vyas et al. [28]. However, it is clear
that a more detailed study is still necessary in order to achieve a higher CO2 uptake
necessary to improve the productivity of the process.
The application of the phenomenological model for adsorption kinetics to the gas uptake
(eq. 2) is shown in Fig. 3. As expected the plots show good linear regions. For samples
F1-0, F1-37m15, F1N-0m15 and F1-37 (in the last sample only for CO2 and CH4 uptake)
it is possible to observe two linear regions for contact times less than and greater than
100s. In these cases we only considered the first region because, as explained before,
the PSA instruments use short cycle times and it is therefore more useful to evaluate the
k value for these conditions.
The pseudo-first order rate constant, k, for the uptake of oxygen (table 1) is in general
comparable with the values reported in previous work with similar materials. In some
cases the values found for our samples are 10 times higher. Hu and Vansant [29]
reported for the best sample studied for O2/N2 separation (selectivity=9.2) a k value of
0.0008s-1. In comparison, for sample F1-37m15 (table 1) we report here selectivity=13.9
and k=0.008s-1.
In the samples that after the microwave treatment have increased the gas uptake as a
consequence of micropore enlarging, F2-0 and F1N-0, the rate constant also increased
because it is easier for the probe molecules to enter the micropores. On the other hand,
for samples F1-0 and F1-37 where the treatment caused a decrease in micropore mean
width the rate constant values also decreased.
The rate constant for the CO2 uptake is also comparable to the values already reported
in previous works. Reid and Thomas reported values between 0.004 and 0.012s-1 for
commercial CMS [30] and Prasetyo and Do reported values in the range 0.0013-0.0030
in modified CMS [31].
The comparison with reported values is sometimes not totally meaningful because the
linear ranges chosen for the application of the model are not the same. In several cases
the authors don't refer the linear range used, which can lead to misleading comparisons.
The results presented here suggest that microwave heating could be a useful alternative
to more commonly used methods for introducing molecular sieve properties into
activated carbon adsorbents. One of the advantages of the microwave method is that,
unlike conventional heating, where there can be temperature gradients from the outside
towards the centre of the carbon bed, in the microwave furnace the carbon bed is
uniformly heated throughout. It should therefore be possible to scale up the process
while still obtaining highly homogeneous products. Furthermore, the heating time is
considerably shorter which would result in significant energy and process gas cost
The properties of samples F1N-0m15 and F1-37m15 (reasonably good O2 adsorption
capacity, very good selectivity and interesting adsorption rate) altogether make these
samples the best ones for O2/N2 separation.
0 a) 0 b)
-1 -1
-2 -2
-3 -3
-4 -4
-5 -5
0 200 400 600 800 1000 0 200 400 600 800 1000
time /s time/s
0 c)
0 d)
0 200 400 600 800 1000
0 200 400 600 800 1000
e) 0 f)
0 200 400 600 800 1000 0 200 400 600 800 1000
time/s time/s
Figure 3: Representation by phenomenological model for adsorption kinetics for the
uptake of CO2(!), CH4(O), O2(!) and N2(!).a)F1-0, b)F1-0m15, c)F1-37, d)F1-37m15,
e)F1N-0, f)F1N-0m15.
Despite the relatively low CO2 uptake (3.6cm3g-1), the sample F1-0m15 can be a good
choice for the CO2 separation from CH4, O2 and N2 because the only probe molecule
taken up was CO2 with a relatively good adsorption rate (0.025s-1). For the CO2/CH4
separation we must refer also to samples F1N-0m15 and F1-37m15 that can be very
promising alternatives.
The authors are grateful to the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portugal), the
European Regional Development Fund (FEDER) and the program PRAXIS XXI for
financial support (project nº PRAXIS/3/3.1/MMA/1781/95).
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User avatar #244 - leredspy (01/25/2013) [-]
Tobacco: You're killing yourself if you smoke, not other people so feel free.
Medical Errors: You're being operated on because you're dying anyway.
Unintentional Injuries: Tough **** . Natural selection.
Alcohol Abuse: See Tobacco.
Motor Vehicle Accidents: Cars are necessary in today's world. Semi-automatic rifles are not.
Poisoning: I'd need more information to rant about this one.
Drug Abuse: See Tobacco.
Unintentional Falls: See Unintentional Injuries.
Non- Firearm Homicides: You can't kill 20 people with a baseball bat, or hide it down your pants as you walk into a shop.
Firearm Homicides: If you banned guns, half this number would be added to Non-Firearm Homicides, the other half wouldn't happen because people couldn't be assed to put in the effort to do more than pull a trigger.
User avatar #274 to #244 - Mudkip (01/25/2013) [-]
Second hand smoke. People breathe that **** in and their getting even more toxins than your filtered end. Smoke at home or in a designated bar to do so.
Medical Errors: Everyone's human, errors happen. No ******** there.
Alcohol Abuse: People dumb enough to attempt driving while drunk because they don't feel drunk kill people. Lets outlaw alcohol. Oh yeah like prohibition, because that worked out so well.
Motor Vehicle Accidents: Think about this. A ruthless killer breaks into your house with a pistol. Are you going to point yours at him and think he'll back down? Pull out a semi-automatic rifle and see how quickly he'll leave your house.
Poisoning: Against the law, but people still obviously do it.
Drug Abuse: Some **** will cause you to **** others up. Some will make you od. Very few are harmless to others besides the consumer when used improperly, like most people having a fix to itch will.
Unintentional Falls: **** happens, sometimes it flies into your face and others you fall into it.
Non-Firearm Homicides: I'm pretty sure most martial arts specialize in using hands as lethal weapons. Lets teach it to angry children in hopes they won't one day use it on someone in anger.
Firearm Homicides: Lets remove the guns from the good guys so they are defenseless against the bad guys who don't give a **** about the law anyway. That'll decrease gun crime.
#279 to #274 - anonymous (01/25/2013) [-]
- Regulate smoking to your own property, open air, or designed areas in establishments with enough air circulation (mandatory) (This is how Europe does it)
- Substance Abuse: Only counts death to the people that use the substance, death's caused by people under the influence of illegal substances become other statistics.
- Motor Vehicle accidents: If you arm yourself with a big gun, they can arm themselves with a big gun. In a very short space of time, you'll be having a portable nuke launcher in your house.
User avatar #285 to #279 - Mudkip (01/25/2013) [-]
-Stupid, but i imagine the rest fall under statistic of unintentional injuries.
-You say that like its a bad thing. I want a portable nuke launcher. But its strange to me how what seems should be common logic just seems to fail somewhere near the end of my posts.
#290 to #285 - anonymous (01/25/2013) [-]
I think unintentional injuries is a wide enough term to encompass that and, well, having an accident with no guilty party (like falling of a ladder?)
While portable nuke launchers would something cool to see, firing it would be kinda moronic?
Also, to get back to your point of martial arts as a lethal weapon. The prime aspect is self-defense and subduing a person before something worse happens. Snapping necks (which is about the easiest way to kill someone with your bare hands) isn't really a martial art technique as it is pure brutal strength (well, it can go both ways really) Even so, you'd still be pressed with the same charges you'd get from shooting someone.
User avatar #253 to #244 - bloodofthedragon (01/25/2013) [-]
Banning firearms won't solve anything. Yes it may work in countries that do not have firearms already but the U.S. is filled with them and banning them won't stop anything. The potential ban just increased sales of firearms and they can't take them away from us because of the grandfather clause. So maybe it would work but not in america unless we take all the guns away. Which will never happen.
User avatar #259 to #253 - leredspy (01/25/2013) [-]
That is what I've always thought, it's gone too far one way to go back, but then again England had guns at one point. Then they banned them. We haven't had a gun massacre of over 3 people in over a decade. Also banning semi-automatic rifles isn't banning self-defence pistols.
User avatar #263 to #259 - bloodofthedragon (01/25/2013) [-]
Like I said a ban will only discontinue guns after the ban. All guns owned before the ban will still be completely legal under the grandfather clause. So we will still have as much guns as we have now. So banning them won't do anything.
User avatar #267 to #263 - leredspy (01/25/2013) [-]
Then ban them, wait 50 years and your kids and grandkids will live in the safety that your country should be enjoying.
User avatar #301 to #267 - bloodofthedragon (01/25/2013) [-]
What happened to the guns? Did they suddenly vanish?
User avatar #305 to #301 - leredspy (01/25/2013) [-]
They get old and break, and new ones aren't being sold.
User avatar #306 to #305 - bloodofthedragon (01/25/2013) [-]
I have a rifle over 100 years old and shoots like a charm. Guns don't break easily.
#248 to #244 - anonymous (01/25/2013) [-]
Because criminals would just give up their guns if they were illegal, right?
User avatar #245 to #244 - restrict (01/25/2013) [-]
im pretty sure it would also require no effort to run you over with a car.
User avatar #256 to #245 - leredspy (01/25/2013) [-]
You can't carry a car into a school or a cinema.
#260 to #256 - bloodofthedragon (01/25/2013) [-]
Bombs never tend to fail though.
User avatar #264 to #260 - leredspy (01/25/2013) [-]
How many people have blown up their wife for cheating on them? How many people have robbed a 7/11 with a bomb? All the components of a bomb are apparently legal then yet people don't carry them around under their jacket or use them for sport. Unless they're on mythbusters.
User avatar #268 to #264 - bloodofthedragon (01/25/2013) [-]
You don't see mass shooting very much either. They started in the 80's. And people will rob a store with a knife.
User avatar #271 to #268 - leredspy (01/25/2013) [-]
Let's imagine there is no such thing as a gun. A man walks into a store yelling with a knife in his hand, the clerk is ******** himself, but has a baseball bat under the desk. The robber has to climb over the counter AND land a hit on the clerk whilst not having his head smashed in. There's a lot more effort involved than pulling a trigger and a higher risk than shooting from a distance. Most of the cowardly ******* that rob stores with guns wouldn't dare do it with a knife, and those that would have far more chance of being caught.
User avatar #302 to #271 - bloodofthedragon (01/25/2013) [-]
So basically you are saying let the criminals have weapons while citizens should be left weaponless? If I worked in a convenient store I would rather have a pistol for self defense just in case.
User avatar #304 to #302 - leredspy (01/25/2013) [-]
Go ahead and own a pistol, none of you need a ******* AR-15 or whatever! If I lived in your country I'd want a pistol on me. I wouldn't. however want everyone and their mums having access to a medium range rifle that could kill 20 people with 20 twitches of the finger without reloading.
User avatar #307 to #304 - bloodofthedragon (01/25/2013) [-]
That is the worst argument ever. Just because you don't need something doesn't mean you shouldn't be allowed to have it. If we only got what we needed to survive then we would be living in caves. Everything you own is because of wants not because of needs. A pistol can hold up 16 rounds and you can have extra magazines.
User avatar #257 to #256 - restrict (01/25/2013) [-]
a bulldozer can run it over though.
User avatar #262 to #257 - leredspy (01/25/2013) [-]
It is possible, but deaths by bulldozer rampage probably aren't even common enough to make it onto that chart.
#250 to #245 - anonymous (01/25/2013) [-]
I'm pretty sure that turning a key, shifting into the right gear, then trying to find the guy would classify as a big effort
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User avatar #5 - actionmastermegatr ONLINE (08/20/2013) [-]
I bet things are gonna be awkward for him at the next Hamas rally
..."you done ****** up Omar"
User avatar #6 to #5 - schnizel (08/20/2013) [-]
Those are Mosad agent. They control the mudslimes.
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I hired a moving company. We agreed to a certain amount. I paid that amount plus $700.00 more. They couldn't fit all my belongings on the truck. It was almost midnight and we had aXXXXXahead. They were going to bring the rest of my stuff to Durango but changed to taking it to a temporary place I am staying in Berthoud. Instead they put everything into storage against my will. They then began demanding payment for more than the agreed upon amount. They broke a big screen T.V., left part of the stuff at the home I moved from, and refused to make good on the damaged items or the things that got left behind. They are holding the items they did take in storage and demanding payment without resolution. I have to have those items so I don't have any choice but to pay the amount they are demanding. This is theft! I need help right away.
Kathryn XXX-XXX-XXXX. They are threatening to sell my stuff starting Monday.
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Expert: Tina replied 1 year ago.
Hello and welcome.
Did the agreement you signed indicate the amount or weight of items they were to move? Did you exceed that amount?
Customer: replied 1 year ago.
The movers packed my copy of the paperwork. I have tried to get a copy from the person acting as owner but she refuses to cooperate. I do not recall signing an agreement for weight but I don't have my copy of paperwork. The mover put all my stuff in my garage in Durango and didn't label boxes appropriately.
This has been a two stage move. One move to Berthoud and the next to Durango. Regardless of what was signed, the movers took my things that were supposed to go to Durango. They are holding them in storage. They left items behind that I'm trying to retrieve now even though the sale on the house closed.
Expert: Tina replied 1 year ago.
Hello again, Kathryn, and thank you for providing this additional information.
They could typically charge you more if you exceeded the volume or weight they agreed to move in the contract you signed, so it is not possible to determine your rights without a copy of the contract. Since they are refusing to provide that to you, you could file a complaint with the BBB and state consumer protection agency. If they wish to protect their reputation, they should respond appropriately and provide a copy of the contract you signed.
Since you are under time constraints though (because they are threatening to dispose of your items if you do not pay an additional amount), it will likely become necessary to pay the amount being demanded just to regain possession of your belongings and then review your contract to determine how much in damages you have sustained as a result of any breach of contract they committed.
If they agreed in the contract to move all of your items and they are now failing to do so, you could file suit in small claims court for the additional monies you were forced to pay them as well as any other foreseeable costs you incurred as a result of their breach.
Customer: replied 1 year ago.
The cost is not the main issue here. The movers couldn't fit everything on the truck. They did not complete the move. The items that didn't fit were supposed to come on another truck but instead I had to leave with the truck that was fully loaded and "trust" they were going to load the rest the next morning and meet up in Durango. That truck never arrived. Instead, they took my stuff. Then demanded an amount before the move was completed and are holding the rest of my belongings as hostage. I stressed over and over to the movers while they were loading that my filing cabinets HAD to be loaded. They assured me they could fit everything onto the truck and not to worry about it. Now my things are scattered, broken, in pieces and many items were left behind. I see part of this as theft since my things were supposed to end up in Durango. They never even attempted to get my things to their destination. I was told they would rent a U-Haul later and bring my items but now the supposed owner is denying she ever promised that. I have part of a bed, part of a fire pit and missing items.
is there any criminal action I can take? How did my belongings go from it's final destination into their possession because they needed another truck?
Expert: Tina replied 1 year ago.
I certainly agree that they have done a very poor job with your move and also appear to have lied to you and engaged in other wrongdoing. However, because you do have a contract with them, the police would typically respond to your complaint by saying this is a civil dispute. In addition, they would have nothing from which to determine what the parties had agreed to since you don't have a copy of the contract. So a prosecutor would normally not pursue criminal charges but you could pursue a civil suit for damages and it would be the prosecutor's decision whether to file criminal charges.
The state consumer protection agency has the authority to investigate your complaint as well, and aid in recovering compensation on your behalf, so I would file a complaint with them.
Ultimately, it may require a civil suit though in order to recover damages you have sustained as a result of their extremely poor service to you.
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JOHN and Judith Pullinger have lived on the banks of the Clarence River in Grafton for more than 30 years and despite flood evacuation warnings, they have decided to stay put.
"I'm sitting looking at the flood," Mr Pullinger told AAP on Tuesday.
"It hasn't moved much since this morning - it's running about four inches below the levee and we've got an hour to go before it's supposed to peak."
The river was expected to peak around midday (AEDT) at 8.1 metres, the same height as the levee bank, leaving the northern NSW city bracing for its worst flood on record.
When the Pullingers built their new house last August they constructed the floors 300mm above the levee height. If the waters break the levee, they will still have a sizeable margin.
"This is the biggest flood I've seen, certainly up higher on the levee than others have been," Mr Pullinger said.
"Out in the middle, the Clarence is scooting by, hooting past, roaring, you can hear the noise of it, but once you're out of the middle, it's just sitting there, placid, so I hope it stays that way."
Mr Pullinger said he was keeping a watchful eye on the flood height.
"It's not us who will have a problem if the water comes over the levee, it's the people in town," he said.
"If it comes over the wall, we'll still have 18 inches clearance. Our house is above the levee but most aren't.
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There is a new study out today that describes a big rise in hate groups across the country. The Southern Poverty Law Center says by its count there are now more than 1,000 active extremist groups in the U.S. Experts say the largest increase comes from militias that consider the federal government their enemy. NPR's Carrie Johnson has the story.
CARRIE JOHNSON: Mark Potok has been studying hate groups for a long time. But Potok says even he was surprised when he started counting extremists for his annual report.
Mr. MARK POTOK (Southern Poverty Law Center): Well, we have absolutely explosive growth of these groups. We have a higher hate group count than we've ever had, there are over a thousand groups out there.
JOHNSON: The Southern Poverty Law Center, a nonprofit group that tracks extremist movements, says there are three major reasons for the increase. The bad economy, the wide reach of the Internet, and changing racial patterns in the U.S. Experts say the most negative energy seems to be coming from people who think the federal government is conspiring to take away their freedom. Here's Potok.
Mr. POTOK: It is not, you know, harmless in the sense that the patriot movement has produced a great deal of criminal violence. There were an enormous number of plots that came out of the patriot movement, particularly in the late 1990s, and we're beginning to see that again.
JOHNSON: Jim Cavanaugh is a retired federal investigator. He's built cases against a lot of extremists.
Mr. JIM CAVANAUGH (Retired Investigator, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives): You know, it's the challenge of American law enforcement to see through the smoke and try to get to the people who are really going try to hurt somebody.
JOHNSON: In many cases, that means people at the fringes of organized groups who carry out plots on their own. Take the police blotter in January, for instance. That month, authorities arrested a neo Nazi headed for the Southwest border. He was carrying a dozen homemade grenades.
Police hauled in another man in Dearborn, Michigan. He had parked near a crowded mosque and he had explosives in his car. The FBI and local authorities are still trying to find out who put a bomb on the parade route in Spokane, Washington just in time for Martin Luther King Jr. day.
Cavanaugh says he thinks more people need to start talking about hate groups because, he says, a movement gets stronger when it hides in the shadows. Today's report might help jump start that discussion.
Carrie Johnson, NPR News, Washington.
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CBET Award Achievements
Notable Accomplishments from CBET Awards
Engineers Overcome Processing Challenges
to Produce More Efficient Solar Cells
Kenneth K.S. Lau - Drexel UniversityPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania
Simplified Description
Outcome: Lau and his team at Drexel University in Pennsylvania have synthesized polymers (plastics) in an entirely liquid-free and environmentally green process that can be used to produce more efficient solar cells for converting sunlight into electricity.
Impact/Benefits: Using plastic materials in the fabrication process could lead to cheaper and more flexible solar cells, making it easier to adopt this sustainable technology. Introducing materials processing methods that don't use toxic liquid solvents also minimizes the impact on the environment.
Background/Explanation: Solar cells that rely on a photosensitive dye to absorb sunlight currently use a liquid electrolyte (a liquid that conducts charges) as part of the cell assembly. By replacing the liquid electrolyte with a polymer electrolyte (a solid containing long chain molecules that conducts charges) would make the cells more robust and eliminate any leakage. However, solar cells with polymers are currently constructed using liquid processing methods that are not effective in creating efficient cells.
Lau's liquid-free processing technique for making polymers overcomes liquid processing problems and enables more efficient cells to be made in a more environmentally friendly way that eliminates any use of toxic liquids. Lau's research is engaging engineers from underrepresented groups, including women and African Americans, and providing opportunities for high school students to participate in science projects. In addition, Lau plans to establish solar testing stations in Philadelphia area high schools to evaluate solar cell shelf life, and create unique experiences for learning science and engineering.
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Detailed Engineering Description
Background: A dye sensitized solar cell (DSSC) is a solar cell that uses a photosensitizer dye to absorb sunlight and convert solar energy to more practical electrical energy. As part of the DSSC makeup, a liquid electrolyte is used to conduct charges within the cell. However, a liquid electrolyte is prone to leakage and severely limits how the DSSC can be deployed. Replacing it with a solid polymer electrolyte that can perform the same function as the liquid electrolyte would be a significant step forward. However, current ways to construct the DSSC with polymers utilize liquid processing methods that interfere with how much polymer can be effectively built into the solar cell as a result of wettability issues. This leads to reduced solar cell efficiency. Thus, a more effective polymer processing strategy is critical for making the DSSC a viable solar cell technology.
Results: Lau and his research team at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania have developed a novel liquid-free processing method that overcomes current liquid processing challenges and enables the effective use of polymer materials in constructing more efficient solar cells. By not using any liquid solvent during polymer processing, wettability issues are eliminated and the process is more environmentally friendly. DSSCs made using this processing technology have shown higher efficiencies. These results are recently published in the scientific journal Nano Letters.
Kenneth K.S. Lau Image Figure 1. Scanning electron microscope images of a polymer electrolyte effectively built into a solar cell using Lau's liquid-free and environmentally green process. The polymer is able to completely fill into the nanoscale pore spaces of the solar cell construct that leads to higher cell efficiency.
Image Credit: Kenneth K.S. Lau; Drexel University
Scientific Uniqueness: The liquid-free processing method is known as initiated chemical vapor deposition (iCVD). This is a novel one step process for chemically synthesizing and physically growing polymers within solar cell constructs. By tuning both the rate of polymer synthesis (kinetics) and the rate of reactant delivery (transport), the proper amount of polymer can be integrated within DSSC constructs for maximizing solar cell efficiency.
This project addresses the NSF Strategic Outcome Goals, as described in the NSF Strategic Plan 2006-2011, as follows:
- 1 Primary Strategic Outcome Goal: (1) Discovery: A liquid-free polymer processing method, initiated chemical vapor deposition (iCVD), has been developed that effectively integrates polymer electrolytes within dye sensitized solar cells that lead to higher efficiencies.
- 2 Secondary Strategic Outcome Goal: (2) Learning: Engineers from underrepresented groups, including women and African Americans, are being trained. High school students are being engaged in science projects. Science and engineering concepts stemming from the research have enhanced undergraduate and graduate curriculum.
- 3 Additional Strategic Outcome Goal: (3) Research Infrastructure: The novel iCVD processing technology is available as a more general technique for liquid-free processing of polymers resulting in collaborations with academic peers at Drexel University and the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and with companies, including GVD Corporation and Syngenta Corporation.
This Award Achievement represents potentially Transformative Research: The research is potentially transformative as a new technique has been developed that overcomes current processing challenges and creates polymer-based solar cells that achieve higher efficiencies. Introducing polymers in solar cell technologies could potentially reduce cost and lead to flexible cells that can be deployed in a wider range of options than are currently available.
The Intellectual Merit of this project is the ability to utilize the iCVD processing technology requires fundamental understanding of reaction kinetics and mass transport during polymer synthesis and growth. With a liquid-free environment, these processes are not well understood and research in this area will enable effective polymer processing and application in a wide range of fields.
The Broader Impacts of this activity include:
- 1Benefits to society: Facilitating polymer integration in solar cells could lead to more robust, flexible, and efficient cells that could ultimately lead to more widespread adoption of solar energy as a sustainable energy resource. Utilizing a liquid-free processing technique could reduce the impact of toxic liquid solvents on the environment.
- 2Broadening participation of underrepresented groups: A woman and African American engineers are currently being engaged in research. High school students, including the disabled, have been involved with science projects related to the research.
- 3Advancing discovery and understanding while promoting teaching, training, and learning: The research has enabled significant gains in the understanding of liquid-free synthesis and growth of polymers as well as the role of polymers in solar cell operations. This has led to a major publication in Nano Letters. In addition, the research involves the training of two Ph.D. graduate students, one being an African American woman, as well as several undergraduate and high school students. The new science and engineering concepts from the research have been incorporated into undergraduate and graduate curriculum.
- 4Enhancing the infrastructure for research and education, such as facilities, instrumentation, networks, and partnerships: The research has established a state-of-the-art liquid-free polymer processing system which has promoted collaborations with researchers at Drexel University and the University of Philadelphia in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in extending the solar cell research. In addition, the processing facility has attracted companies in utilizing the technology in applications outside of solar cells. Solar cell testing stations are planned for installation in Philadelphia area high schools to enhance the understanding of alternative energies and to practically test solar cell life times.
- 5Results disseminated broadly to enhance scientific and technological understanding: The research has been presented at major conferences, including meetings of the Materials Research Society, American Vacuum Society, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, and the Electrochemical Society. In addition, the work has been presented at international conferences, including the International Conference on Hot Wire Chemical Vapor Deposition and EuroCVD meeting. Publications have been made in scientific journals, including Nano Letters, Thin Solid Films, ECS Transactions, and the MRS Proceedings.
Program Director:
Maria Burka
CBET Program Director - Process and Reaction Engineering
NSF Award Number: 0846245
Award Title: CAREER: Engineering and Integration of Polymer Electronic Materials for Alternative Energies
PI Name: Kenneth K.S. Lau
Institution Name: Drexel University
Program Element Code: 1403
CBET Award Achievement:
FY 2011
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LAB 6: Finishing the Culture-Independent Identification of Bacteria by 16s rRNA Gene Sequence Analysis
To summarize our culture-independent work, you have extracted genomic DNA from a soil sample, amplified the 16S rDNA by pcr using "universal bacterial primers", inserted the different 16s rDNA fragments from your pcr product into a cloning vector, and transformed special genetically modified E. coli with a plasmid in order to separate and amplify the 16s rRNA genes from different bacterial members of your soil community. Now you are ready to pick transformants that successfully incorporated the plasmid vector genes.
When you examine your transformation plates after their initial overnight incubation, there should have been hundreds of well isolated colonies. In theory, each of them should contain the vector plasmid with an insert of the 16s rRNA gene from one of your soil sample bacteria. Because the vector plasmid contains a kanamycin resistance gene, kanamycin resistance is a selectable marker. Kanamycin is an antimicrobial compound that disrupts bacterial protein synthesis and kills the cells. The genetically engineered strain of E. coli that we transformed is sensitive to kanamycin; therefore, E. coli that did not take up a cloning vector plasmid and express its genes should not form colonies on media with kanamycin.
There are two reasons that we are able to determine that the vector plasmids in the transformed E. coli that formed colonies on your plates contain a 16S rRNA gene insert from the genomic DNA isolated from your soil sample. First, there is a ccdB gene in the insertion region of the vector plasmid. That gene, ccdB, means "control of cell death". That gene, when not disrupted, expresses the ccdB protein that poisons bacterial DNA gyrase, causing degradation of the host chromosome and cell death. But the presence of your 16S rRNA gene insert has disrupted transcription of the ccdB gene and turned off expression of the protein that inhibits DNA gyrase, allowing the cell to live, replicate and form colonies that should appear white, NOT blue. The second reason that we know any white colonies are transformed with the vector plasmid that contains a soil bacterial 16s rRNa gene and that any blue colonies are likely to contain an "empty" vector (lacking a soil bacterial 16srRNA gene) is because there is a lacZ gene positioned next to the ccdB gene and transcription of BOTH is disrupted by ligation of a 16s rRNA gene insert. That transcription disruption turns off expression of the lacZ gene product, beta-galactosidase. Beta-galactosidase is an enzyme that catalyzes the breakdown of several substrates, including lactose and X-gal. X-gal is a colorless substrate that is cleaved into a blue colored product by beta-galactosidase. The Luria-Bertoni agar medium that the transformants grew on contains both kanamycin and Xgal. If you saw blue colonies, those bacteria are daughter cells from a vector transformed E. coli, BUT the vector plasmid probably does not contain the 16s DNA insert we seek because we can see that there was minimal disruption of expression of the lacZ gene. Therefore, you only want to pick "not-blue" colonies to send away for sequencing of the insert. We hope that there are hundreds of these not-blue colonies on your plate (but not so many that they are not well separated from each other since separation and amplification of individual soil bacterial 16srRNA genes was the goal of our cloning and transformation). We want to pick colonies containing 16s rRNA genes from DIFFERENT soil bacteria, but we have no way of detecting which white colony contains a 16s rRNA gene that is different from the 16s rRNA gene in the cells forming a different white colony. Since we can't sequence the gene in every colony on your plates, we will id a random sample.
We will fill one 96 well sterile block with 96 clones from each soil sample. Follow the directions below, carefully, to inoculate each well with a different, well isolated, non-blue colony.
1. We need to keep track of which DNA sequences come from which sampling site. Therefore, you should make sure that each sampling site has a separate, well-labeled 96 well plate. Put a piece of your color tape on both the cover and the bottom or side of a plate and make sure you label it with your sample code (A-F), your lab section (Tues or Wed, the date, and Wellesley College.
2. In the hoods in the lab, you will find 3 prep areas for transferring colonies to the 96 well block plates.
You will use your P1000 to inoculate one well at a time (beginning with well A1) with 1 ml (1000μL) of LB broth containing 50 μg/ml kanamycin (NO X-gal). (Note that you will eventually fill every well with broth, but you will alternate adding 1ml of broth with adding bacterial cells from a colony to that well before you fill the next well with broth.)
3. Find and select a well-isolated, white colony from your transformation plates.
If the colony is large, use the flat end of a sterile toothpick to pick up that single colony. Be careful NOT to touch any of the area of the plate around the colony with your toothpick! Place the toothpick in a singe well of your 96 well block, starting at the beginning A1. Leave the toothpick in the well after inoculating it as added insurance that you can distinguish which wells have been inoculated with both LB and a colony and which have not yet been filled!!!! If the colony is tiny you can use the sharp end of a sterile toothpick to pick up growth only from that colony. Make sure you have a visible amount of growth when you inoculate a well of your plate moving from A1, to A2, etc. Leave the toothpicks in the wells you have inoculated.
4. Once all the wells in your plate are filled with both medium, a colony (as indicated by the presence of a complete set of toothpicks), carefully pull out each toothpick by wiping it on the edge of the well (to scrape off the organism). Do this on a side of the well that will allow you to discard the toothpick without the chance of dripping this well's contents into another well. BE CAREFUL not to cross-contaminate any wells!!! Discard the toothpicks in the autoclave bag.
Once all 96 wells are inoculated, apply a sterile sealing mat carefully. Place your full block on a platform shaker at 37C and tape it down before turning on the shaker. Your block will incubate with constant shaking at 37C overnight.
3. Seal the plate with an aluminum foil special seal and label the plate clearly: Wellesley College, BISC209, Tues or Wed (for lab day), (sampling site code A-F) and the date.
4. Freeze at -80C and send away for sequencing on dry ice. Our sequences will be done by chain termination sequencing (fluorescence marker) which is also called Sanger sequencing at Beckman Coulter Genomics, 36 Cherry Hill Drive, Danvers, MA 01923 USA. (We are not getting high throughput pyrosequencing.)
The sequences should come back in a week or two.
Culture-Dependent Isolate Characterizations: Examples of Competition and Co-operation in Selected Soil Community Bacteria
Activity: Preparing a bacterial smear slide
4.Now you are ready to make smears of your isolates. Using your best aseptic technique, flame sterilize your loop. Apply a very small loopful of deionized water (bottle on your bench) to the slide and then add 1/8th of a 1/8th of a pure colony from a fresh culture on solid medium of your isolates other than Hyphomicrobia. Create the smear as you did for the controls moving from left to right and spacing so that 3 isolates can fit on one slide. Repeat for the other isolates (except Hyphomicrobia) on the slide. For your Hyphomicrobia, use your fresh broth culture of your isolate. Remove the culture tube top (NOT placing it on the bench) and flame the lip of the culture tube. Dip your loop into the broth culture and place a VERY small drop of broth culture of that isolate on the appropriate place on the labeled slide. (The labeling from top to bottom should refer to isolates placed left to right.) Mix the drop with your loop to disperse the broth over an area that will not touch the next culture but is large enough to allow your slide to dry quickly.
An example of a multiple smear labeled slide:
The Gram Stain
Background on Using Stains in Bacteriology
Activity: Preparing a Gram Stain
Use the smear slides you have prepared of your isolates and the controls and follow the Gram Stain Protocol found below. This protocol can also be found in BISC209/S11: Stains in the protocol section of this wiki.
Gram Stain Procedure:
Use of the Compound Light Microscope
Activity: View your stained bacteria.
Gram Reaction Confirmation by use of Selective/Differential Media
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Cultured Bacterial Isolate Characterization by Metabolic and Physical Tests
Testing for Antibiotic Production
Start the Testing for Antibiotic Production.
Many microbes secrete antimicrobial compounds to help them compete with other microorganisms for habitat niche. Common antibiotic producers are the Actinomycetes (including Streptomycetes species)and many of the Bacillus species; although they are just a few among many, many antibiotic producing bacteria.
(This testing will take 3 weeks.)
Week 1:
Since the soil is the main source of microbes that supply the world's antibiotics, it's possible that you might discover the next great antimicrobial drug and get very rich by selling the patent for your discovery to a drug company. (Remember that the discovery of penicillin was completely accidental.) In order to find out if any of your isolates are potential antibiotic producers, we will grow your isolates for 1 week on NA before we add the control bacteria or other isolates that may be sensitive to the antibiotic produced and secreted into the medium by the first isolate. You should test all of your isolates for antibiotic production, IF they will grow on NA (not the Hyphomycrobia). Be espectially sure to test any isolates that grew originally on glycerol yeast extract medium, because those bacteria are likely to be spore formers. Endospore formers are often antibiotic producers.
1) To begin the antibiotic testing protocol, you will use the fresh broth culture of each of your isolates that you prepared prior to lab.
2) Pipet one ml of the broth culture into a sterile glass tube and adjust the concentration of the cells by matching by eye the "cloudiness" (turbidity) of the cells in the glass tube to a standard provided by your instructor. We will use a McFarland 0.5 standard(Remember that cell concentration can be measured as optical density at 600nm in a spectrophotometer); the 0.5 refers to the approximate concentration of organisms in solutions which is 1.5X108 cfu/mL for the 0.5 standard. Other common standards are shown in the table below.
3) Add bacteria from a colony of the same isolate grown on solid medium to concentrate the cells in your tube if your culture seems too dilute or add more sterile Nutrient broth to dilute the culture aliquot if it is already cloudier than the standard. The ending volume is irrelevant. Vortex to mix.
4) Using a sterile swab, dip the swab in the concentration adjusted culture tube and make an inoculation (as shown below) down the middle of a plate of nutrient agar.
5) Make a plate exactly like the first for each isolate to be tested. Label them carefully and incubate the plates for ~1 week at RT.
12. Wash your hands.
One to 3 days(depending on how fast your organisms grow) prior to Lab 7, please prepare a fresh both culture of each isolate into sterile nutrient broth or PYC whichever is appropriate.
On the same day you make the broths, subculture by isolation streaking EACH of your isolates onto nutrient agar or onto PyC medium (if your isolate won't grow on NA). In Lab 7 these cultures will be used by your team for the interaction assay, quorum sensing assay and tests for nitrogen cycle role.
Discuss the theory behind the following methods that we used to identify our bacteria by molecular tools: Genomic DNA isolation;
Polymerase chain amplification of the 16s rRNA genes;
Use of the Zero Blunt® TOPO® PCR Cloning Kit to create a library of unique plasmid vector with our 16S rRNA gene inserts; Transformation of One Shot® TOP10 Competent E. coli cells with our vector plasmid that allowed us to select, separate, and amplify our 16S rRNA genes; DNA sequencing by the fluorescent-labeled ddNPTs chain-termination (Sanger) method.(Do not describe the radioactive labeling method.
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I know and has lower priority than &&,but it doesn't explain this issue.
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It does. Try with print instead of return to see.
Do you mean the priority of and is even lower than return???
Indeed it is, if you want something evaluated put it in parenthesis to be sure
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returns 0 as you would expect.
Indeed. and 'n or are good for control flow such as replacing simple error-handling ifs, while && 'n || are your standard Boolean logic operators.
See perlop for the precedence table. not, and, or, and xor are all at the bottom of the table.
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Facing off with Face/Off director John Woo
Face/Off, director John Woo's new action film with John Travolta and Nicolas Cage, is Paramount's big summer hope. Five years ago, when Warner Bros. offered Woo the project, he passed on it--he didn't want to do science fiction, preferring something more emotional, he says. Later, producer Michael Douglas brought it to him at Paramount with a new script that mined a deeper emotional vein. "I changed my mind," says Woo.
Set in the near future, the film depicts a cop (Travolta) and a bad guy (Cage) who, for different purposes, surgically exchange faces. So, while Cage is nominally the villain and Travolta the hero, for three quarters of the movie they're playing each other's roles.
Unlike Woo's other U.S. releases (Hard Target and Broken Arrow, also starring Travolta), Face/Off should delight his fans because it's full of the elements from his Hong Kong films that attracted Hollywood in the first place: juiced-up action choreography and editing, plus deeply felt character conflicts lying just beneath the flashy surface.
If Broken Arrow was a Hollywood studio movie more than a John Woo movie, Face/Off is a real John Woo Hollywood movie. I spoke with Woo at a sound facility in Los Angeles as he was putting final touches on the film.
New Times: Why did you decide to do Face/Off when it was offered a second time?
John Woo: It had become very close to the things I usually do: I always like characters who are in between good and evil. I don't like perfect guys. Which may be why Broken Arrow and Hard Target didn't work as well: The heroes in those movies were pretty traditional, perfect guys--not my usual kind of character.
I really didn't think the story needs that much science fiction. I learned a lesson from Broken Arrow, where we spent so much time and money on all the special effects that there wasn't much time left for the drama. I suggested we take out 90 percent of the special effects and focus more on the story and the characters, particularly since we had great actors. I wanted to make it more real and human and to push back the time almost to the present. And they accepted it, which made me feel great, because that meant I could go back to my own style.
NT: This time around, you got to work more like you did in Hong Kong, where you would get your approval and then go off and make your movie without interference, unlike your earlier American projects.
JW: The studio left me to do whatever I wanted to do. It was a totally different thing. There was very little political jostling. Broken Arrow made a lot of money, which made everything so much easier. And, by then, the producers and the studio really understood what I do in my movies.
To be fair, on Broken Arrow, the studio was great, too. All the executives gave me a lot of respect. And they loved my work, and they were happy with the footage. But there were some other people. . . . Some of the producers were playing power games, and there were a lot of big-ego things going on. So when the budget got a little tight and we had to cut some things, they suggested that we cut out some of the best stuff. So that's why the story wasn't very complete. At one point, somebody did a dirty trick--they thought they'd be pleasing the studio--and changed something without letting me know. [In a really pained voice.] It was awful. And then, of course, it made the bosses so angry they had to come back and ask me to reshoot and fix it. It was ridiculous. There were some really old guys on the crew who had been around a long time--some had been in the business more than 25 years--and they said they had never seen such a mess. They had never seen a person make so much trouble. There are some really bad people in Hollywood--not a lot, but there are some. It was just bad luck.
NT: Playing each other's roles must have been really challenging for the actors. Could any actor have resisted these parts?
JW: On some earlier versions, some did. But, after Broken Arrow, John and I wanted to work together again, so we sent him the script, and he loved it. After we got John, we tried to figure out who we could get to match John--the body and the face, but more importantly, an equal actor, so they could play against each other. John suggested Nick Cage. And I had also dreamed for a long time of working with Nick Cage; on Tears of the Sun [a project that fell apart after nearly a year's work], I suggested using Nick Cage. John and Nick both wanted to work together in a film for a long time. After we met, we all felt this cast was going to be unbelievable.
NT: How did they prepare for these complicated character issues?
JW: Nick and John and I spent some time rehearsing all in one room and having a long discussion about the characters. They both created the characters and then talked to each other and imitated each other. For instance, John threw out some ideas for when he was playing the good guy, then Nick would make some suggestions for John as a good guy. Then, during the shooting, I did some experimenting: Most of their scenes were separate, so whenever I finished shooting with one of them, I'd cut his scene together fast and show the scene to the other one, so he could see how he was playing the character.
These two actors, I have to tell you, it was the most wonderful experience I've ever had: They have no jealousy. They were so polite and humble and respectful of each other. Every day, whenever they came to the set, all they talked about was the character and the scene. Even if one of them wasn't in the scene, he'd often be on the set, talking to the other to see how he worked . . . to learn from him. They were like two brothers . . . actually, better than brothers, because there were no fights or jealousy. They were just happy to be working together.
NT: The intensity of the performances is reminiscent of your Hong Kong films.
JW: At first, they were playing the emotional scenes a little more subtle--the traditional American way. But they really wanted to do something a little more real. So, after the first day, I said, "Let's try it another way: my way. You want to cry--just cry; you want to laugh--just laugh. You want to hit the wall--do it. You want to smash the table--smash the table. You want to sit down--just sit down. Just do it exactly how you feel." Wow! That opened everyone up. It made John and Joan Allen and Nick Cage very happy, so we tried it that way. Some people think that's maybe too over the top, but it gives the actors a lot of room to explore themselves.
So we only do one or two takes for each setup. And then that was it. And everyone felt great, because all the emotions were real. And it kept things interesting for me: I've already seen the whole movie in my mind, so I like to have new things happening every day. I usually see the actors move first, then I set up the cameras. But, sometimes, after I've set up all those cameras and we're shooting, suddenly they'll come up with something from their instinct. They'll just do it. Usually something that wasn't in the script or in the rehearsal. That really excites me.
Like the scene in the clinic, when [the hero] wakes up, having become Nick Cage. In the rehearsal, he looked in the mirror and got up and laughed and got mad and grabbed the stand and smashed the mirror; that was it, and it was great. But, when we were shooting, he got up and laughed and got mad and smashed the mirror and suddenly he turned, yelling and screaming at his friends, "Fuckyoufuckyoufuckyou!" That part came from his instincts at that moment, and he went off-camera yelling at the people and changing his lines. I was so surprised. It was great. And I felt great about it. Of course, then I had to say, "Nick, sorry about that, but none of the cameras caught it. How about we do it again?"
That kind of happening really excites me. And that's what I usually do. It's really the same thing I did in Hong Kong with Chow Yun-Fat and Tony Leung. That's why this movie really touches a lot of the audience--because some of the moments were so real, and not as black and white as in the script.
NT: Your more rabid fans may still expect your Hollywood films to be exactly like your Hong Kong films--even down to Chow Yun-Fat flying through the air with both guns blazing. But you've done a lot of things in your career. Would you have continued making the same kinds of films if you had stayed in Hong Kong?
JW: I don't think I would have done too many more. I probably would have done a couple, but I always want to change and try something else. I love that the fans are so much supportive and so appreciative of my style, and, whether in Hong Kong or here, I would always keep my own style. But not always the same topics. It depends on my mood and how I feel about the world and the society.
That's why I suggested Face/Off focus more on the human stuff: That just matched how I felt. Like the year I made Bullet in the Head, it was just after the Tiananmen Square massacre. And the year I made A Better Tomorrow, I was just so down at the time: I had failed for three years before that movie. So I wanted to do a movie about man's real dignity and honor.
NT: How does Face/Off reflect your mood?
JW: Face/Off mainly was about family--where a man sees his family almost falling apart and he fights to get them back. It was almost exactly how I felt at this time. Because, before I came here [United States], about five years ago, I was working like crazy; me and my family had been separated a long time, and I had a lot of family problems. My children hardly saw me every day, so they were beginning to hate me. I was getting nervous, because my family is my whole thing. That was one of the reasons I wanted to move here. After I moved here, things were back to normal, because people don't work on the weekends, and we live pretty far from the city, and after work I could have a lot more time to spend with my family. So we got to talk more and . . . have a reunion. We can get together again. We're a lot more happy than in Hong Kong. That makes me feel so great.
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• 1. Q&A fromInstalling Cognos 10: Tips and Tricks from the Trenches Webinar 5/24/2012 Helping Companies Learn From the Past, Manage the1 Present and Shape the Future
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• 3. Table of Contents Hardware Configuration Page 4 Virtualization Page 5 32-bit vs. 64-bit Page 6 Databases Page 9 Web Servers Page 12 Distributed Architecture Page 14 Cognos 10 Search Page 18 UNIX / Linux Page 20 General Installation/Configuration Page 21 Upgrade/Migration Page 28 Training/Miscellaneous Page 29 Other Topics Page 313
• 4. Hardware Configuration Q: What is the most practical RAM requirement for a distributed Cognos 10 installation for each app server component? A: We usually recommend at least 2GB of RAM for each processor. A common dispatcher profile would be 4 CPU cores and 8 GB of RAM. It is practical to have at least 2 CPU cores and 4 GB of RAM per application server component. Q: Does a quad-core CPU count as one core or four? A: A quad-core CPU counts as four cores .4
• 5. Virtualization Q: Any guidelines or best practices on Windows VMs? A: Please read the following regarding IBM guidelines for configuring virtual machines: http://www- Q: What are the advantages of installing Cognos on a Virtual Environment? A: Reduced reliance on specific physical infrastructure / maintaining multiple physical servers; ease of allocating additional resources to your Cognos environments as needed. Q: I was under the understanding that Cognos will not support the app if it is loaded on a VM. Do you know if this has changed? A: Please read the following regarding IBM Cognos and virtualized hardware: http://www-
• 6. 32-bit vs. 64-bit Q: Other than DQM what would be the advantage to running 64 bit? A: The primary advantage of 64-bit aside from DQM is the scalability of the Java components when running on a 64-bit JVM. In large environments, this is most likely to be noticed when navigating through the Cognos Connection portal. As the number of concurrent users increases, responsiveness will be more consistent in a 64- bit implementation than a 32-bit implementation. Q: Do we need to use 64 bit only in the case of Unix/Linux? A: No. Either the 32-bit or 64-bit BI Server can be used with Unix/Linux. However, the Apache gateway must be bit-compatible with the version of the BI Server that you’re using. So if you’re using the 32-bit version of the BI Server, you must also use a 32-bit version of Apache (even if everything is running on a 64-bit Unix/Linus OS). Q: Is 64 bit report execution mode faster that 32 bit? A: Execution speed is dependent on multiple factors, including query type, query complexity and the size of the result set. Running queries in 64-bit execution mode doesn’t necessarily imply that they will run faster than 32-bit mode. However, the larger and more complex the query, the more likely it is to benefit from 64-bit mode. Q: Can we install Cognos 10 on Windows 7 (64 bit) machine. If yes, what webserver we can use? A: Please check to remain up-to-date on supported environments. Currently Windows 7 is NOT supported as a server platform. .6
• 7. 32-bit vs. 64-bit cont. Q: With Cognos 10 on 64 bit platform, can I get rid of the 2GB limitation on OLAP time partitioned cube? A: No -- at present, Cognos Transformer is still a 32-bit tool, so it continues to be subject to the 32-bit memory limits. Q: What do you mean 64 bit client Oracle wont work with Cognos 10? We have a proof of concept installed and it works. We have reports running. Can you confirm? A: The requirement is simply that the 32-bit client libraries must be installed on the system. You can install the 64-bit Oracle client as long as you also include the 32-bit libraries during installation. (This is an option in the 64- bit Oracle installer.) Q: Are there any issues with OS 2003 64 bit? A: Windows 2003 64-bit is very stable and a good option for your Cognos server. Q: Can we run both 32-bit and 64-bit report server on the same machine? I understand that DQM runs only on 64bit server. A: Yes – you can run both 32-bit and 64-bit server on the same machine as long as they are installed in separate directories. However, if you choose to run both 32-bit and 64-bit dispatchers in a single Cognos environment, you will need to implement routing rules for any 64-bit only queries (i.e. any DQM-based queries).7
• 8. 32-bit vs. 64-bit cont. • Q: Will a 64-Bit Cognos install on a 64-Bit OS be able to take advantage of large (>4 GB) memory even if it the reports are not running in Dynamic Query Mode? • A: For an individual report, no. The 32-bit C++ code in the report execution processes (BIBusTKServerMain.exe) is still subject to the 32-bit memory size limitations for each running report. However, if multiple reports are running concurrently, 64-bit Cognos on a 64-bit OS can run many more BIBusTKServerMain.exe processes at once, with each process using up to 4 GB of memory. The net result is that a 64-bit system is capable of running more reports concurrently than a 32-bit system. • Q: Is having one 64-bit server similar to having multiple 32-bit servers because it can handle more reports? • A: Not exactly. The scale is dictated by the hardware profile, not just the bitness (more RAM and more CPUs will support more dispatchers, equating to more capacity). For example, a 64-bit server with 4 GB of RAM will not be able to handle any more reports than a 32-bit server with 4 GB of RAM8
• 9. Databases Q: When adding 32bit Oracle Client libraries to a 64bit Oracle Client install, can they just be copied from the install files? A: We’ve encountered one site where the Linux DBA copied the 32-bit libraries directly into place and we were able to use them successfully. However, this isn’t a supported configuration. A clean install or update using the Oracle installer is the only recommended approach. Q: Is the db client installation required even if you wanted to use type 4 connection? A: Yes. Q: Would I use ojdbc5.jar with Oracle 11 for 64 bit report execution mode? A: We haven’t configured 64-bit execution mode in an Oracle 11 environment. Please see the following note which suggests that ojdbc11 may be required in this case: http://www- Q: Can you use MySQL for content store? A: MySQL is currently not supported as a content store. Please see http://www- to obtain the most current information on supported software environments.9
• 10. Databases cont. Q: Can I use a 64 bit database client or only 32 bits? A: You can install a 64-bit database client, but you must include the 32-bit libraries as well. When you install the 64-bit Oracle client, you must explicitly specify that 32-bit libraries should be included. When you install the 64-bit SQL Server Native Client, it includes both 32-bit and 64-bit libraries (note: on 64-bit Windows you must install the 64-bit SQL Native Client -- it won’t allow you to install the 32-bit only client). Q: We are planning to migrate to Cognos 10.1.1. It was our understanding that we should use the ojdbc6 file (a 64-Bit version of Cognos on Win 2008 R2 64-Bit). However, your slide deck says ojdbc5. Which should we use? Are there issues with ojdbc6? A: ojdbc5.jar is currently the only officially supported version for Oracle 11 in Cognos 10.1.1. Q: Do you have experience on C10 content store DB on Oracle 10g or 11g? A: Yes, we have implemented C10 content stores on both Oracle 10 and Oracle 11 databases. Q: Can newer "no-sql" databases be used? A: Yes, “no-sql” databases can be used as reporting data sources in Cognos. See the following Cognos 10.1.1 supported environments page for the list of currently supported databases: http://www-
• 11. Databases cont. Q: We are using Oracle 11g for both our content manager and our metrics schemas. When I attempted to upgrade our metric schemas from v8.4.1. to v10.1.1, I received the message no ocijdbc10 in java.libray.path.’ Have you seen this before? We had to copy the libocijdbc file (we use Unix) to our Oracle client install to get around this. A: We haven’t encountered this specific issue before, but it is not uncommon for Oracle installations on UNIX to require some manual effort (either by copying or creating links to the required files) in order to get all of the required files into place for proper operation of Cognos.11
• 12. Web Servers (Gateways) Q: You mentioned earlier that all Apache installation has custom settings. Can you give a couple examples please? A: Differences occur between different point-releases (and sub-releases) of Apache. The default contents of httpd.conf vary across versions, and the names and locations of other Apache configuration files (particularly for SSL) can also vary across different builds. Depending on your version of Apache and its default settings, you may have to set different parameters to properly configure the Cognos virtual directories. Q: If we are using Apache for our Gateway, do you recommend installing 32-bit or 64-bit C10? A: Either one is fine. The important thing to remember is that the gateway components are currently 32-bit regardless of whether you are running 32-bit or 64-bit C10 -- so you must run a 32-bit version of Apache in either case. Q: Are there any known issues of using Business Insight Advanced against CGI Gateway? A: Not that we know of. However, for all Cognos installations on Windows, ISAPI is recommended for best performance on the gateway.12
• 13. Web Servers (Gateways) cont. Q: How can failover be handled for gateways? We used to use Microsoft Network Load Balancing but now we are being told that Netscaler is being used to load balance our web traffic. However, we have been having issues since doing this. Has Senturus encountered issues with Netscaler? A: The configuration requirements for load balancing vary across different environments -- troubleshooting this issue would require direct examination of the current configuration. Q: If I want to configure two dispatchers, should I have two apache run at the same server? Or it is the httpd.conf configuration? A: You do not need multiple web server instances in order to run multiple dispatchers. A single web gateway can access multiple dispatchers without any additional httpd. configuration changes. Any needed changes are made in Cognos Configuration.13
• 14. Distributed Architecture Q: What is the relationship between the content manager, content store and dispatcher? A: Content manager is the service that manages communications between the web/app tiers and the content store database. Content store is the actual database tables that store Cognos-specific metadata, report specifications, saved report outputs, and other Cognos-related configuration data. Dispatcher is a Java process that serves as a container for running one or more Cognos sub-services. The Content Manager service runs inside a dispatcher, as do the Interactive and Batch Report Services, and many other services. All of the dispatchers in a given Cognos instance are aware of each other and can pass requests to each other for load balancing. Q: What is the advantage of a multi gateway and multi dispatcher installation? A: Multiple dispatchers and gateways allow you to distribute the load, thereby providing better overall system performance in environments where there is high-demand (lots of users, complex reports, etc.) Q: Can I have multiple gateways installed in the same server? A: Yes, you can theoretically have more than one gateway on the same physical server; however this approach is not very common. It is more common to configure multiple DISPATCHERS on single servers.14
• 15. Distributed Architecture cont. Q: On what basis do we have to decide to use multiple dispatchers, multiple gateways and/or multiple content manager services installation? A: The decision to use multiple dispatchers, gateways, or content managers is driven mostly by the level of demand--or load--on the system. More resources give us more capacity to run more reports, queries, etc. Also, multiple instances of these processes give us greater fault tolerance in case one or more of the components fails. Q: Can I have a combination of CGI and ISAPI installation? A: Each individual gateway must be configured for either ISAPI or CGI, but you can certainly have an environment that has multiple gateways, including both a CGI gateway and a (separate) ISAPI gateway. . Q: Is there a work around to rename a Gateway URI to make it a user-friendly URL that can be accessed by the end user—something that is easy to remember, and top of the mind? A: Depending on your environment, you can generally create a user-friendly URL either through your web server admin console, through the use of HTTP redirects, or through DNS forwarding. Q: Can we have multiple Content Manager Services installed? A: Yes, you can have multiple Content Managers installed, but you always have only one active content manager. All other content managers operate in standby mode, in case the active content manager stops functioning.15
• 16. Distributed Architecture cont. Q: What do you mean by report dispatcher? A: A report dispatcher is a Cognos dispatcher that has the Application Tier components installed on it. Most report dispatchers run both interactive and batch (scheduled) report services for Cognos. Q: In Windows, what are the pros and cons of installing multiple dispatchers on individual servers? What limits apply? What are performance implications? A: Going with a multiple dispatcher per server configuration allows you to take greater advantage of a high- capacity piece of hardware. Each dispatcher typically will only use a small % of the capacity of a large box. There are limits to the number of instances you would want to have on a single box, we typically recommend not more than two. Another thing to consider is failover--if all of your dispatchers are on the same server, and if that server fails, you are out of business. Q: What is the difference between routing methods exists in dispatchers? Which one is preferred in which case? A: Advanced routing options include package-based and group/role-based routing. When and how to use these options is very case-specific. Please see the Cognos Administration guide for details on these options.16
• 17. Distributed Architecture cont. Q: Does the application dispatcher work the same as the content manager, i.e., will only one server be active at any given time if we have three application dispatchers? A: No. When multiple dispatchers are configured in an environment, they can all be active simultaneously. Cognos will intelligently load balance requests across all of the available dispatchers. Q: Will a single BIBus process run multiple report executions at the same time or is it a one-to-one relationship? A: The BIBus processes are multi-threaded processes, and each thread is capable of running a report-related task at any given time. Therefore, multiple reports can potentially be running in a single BIBus process, using different threads. Q: What is your recommendation on running report components on the CM primary and secondary servers - or should only CM component be installed on these? A: In a distributed environment, we recommend that the primary content manager is dedicated (no other components running there). It is fine to have one or more backup CMs running on your other report serves.17
• 18. Cognos 10 Search Q: What is the advantage of using the Search Index? A: Faster, more powerful and more flexible search capabilities. Q: When we run index, Cognos crashes and generates dmp files. Why? A: Troubleshooting this issue would require direct examination of your Cognos environment. The best place to begin looking for clues is in the Cognos log files. Q: We are not using a distributed installation, but when weve tried to do the initial search index, it runs for hours without finishing. What are some other things I might check to troubleshoot this? A: As with the previous question, the best place to begin looking for clues is in the Cognos log files. Q: On the index service, does the C10/index directory have to be shared on multiple servers? A: No. Q: Does the index creation process have to be on the Content Manager server? Can it be done on another single dedicated server? A: No, it does not have to be on the Content Manager server. If you prefer, you can configure a dedicated server to build and update the index.18
• 19. Cognos 10 Search cont. Q: When setting up the search index, there is a section for Content Options that contains Properties and Metadata as well as Data Values, with additional selections under that for Referenced Data or All Data. I did not see that explained when speaking about the search. Where can I get more info about that because the documentation doesnt really seem to discuss it? A: Detailed information on the search index options can be found in the Cognos Administration and Security Guide. Q: Can you use the Cognos Search for the entire Content Store in addition to the public folders? A: You can also add My Folders content to the search index. Q: How do we configure the legacy Cognos 8 Search in Cognos10? A: Search the Cognos knowledge base for “legacy search” in order to find info on this topic. Q: What is the downside to configuring the search index? Does it significantly increase the size of the Content Store? A: For smaller environments it may be overkill to configure the search index. However, configuring the search index does not significantly increase the size of the content store and it does provide considerably enhanced functionality over the legacy search capability. We typically configure the search index as a standard part of all new installations.19
• 20. UNIX / Linux Q: For a large Enterprise level installation, is UNIX/Linux more likely to outperform Windows? Will UNIX/Linux need fewer dispatchers to be installed? A: Given an optimal configuration, it is unlikely that UNIX/Linux will outperform Windows. There are some architectural advantages to using the UNIX platform, but the best advice is to go with a platform that you can support given your IT departments skill set. If you dont have any UNIX admins, we don’t recommend building out a UNIX infrastructure! Windows is much more low-maintenance than UNIX/Linux in our experience.20
• 21. General Installation/Configuration Q: Are there specific things to be aware of with C10 installations that include both planning and BI? A: Yes. Please see the Cognos Planning installation guide for details on integrated installations of Planning and BI. Q: I was trying to install Cognos 8.4 on my 64-bit machine which is running on Windows 7. Is this possible? A: No, Windows 7 is not supported as a server platform. Q: Can you tell me the steps to install Cognos 8.4.1/Cognos 10 in Windows 7? A: Windows 7 is not supported as a server platform. It is only supported as a browser and client platform for accessing Cognos. Q: If I have XP mode installed on Windows 7 as Virtual machine, can I install Cognos on XP? A: Depending on the version of Cognos you are trying to install, Windows XP may be a supported platform. See the Cognos supported environments page at http://www- to determine whether XP is supported for the BI Server version you are trying to install.21
• 22. General Installation/Configuration cont. Q: Please address how to install Cognos 10.1.1 on z System / Linux OS A: Given the time constraints today, we will be focusing on details related to the Windows operating system. We wont be addressing z System or Linux today, but would be happy to set up a follow-up discussion. Just reach out to us at Q: We want to do a single server Servlet Gateway installation using AIX-->WebSphere-->IBM HTTP Server with SSL and LDAP token. How do you access Cognos Mobile in a servlet gateway installation? The /m option is not working. Do you have to configure a separate in web server for the mobile too? A: This is an uncommon configuration scenario. Troubleshooting this issue would require direct examination of the current configuration. Q: We have run into issues when configuring Content Manager on a second dispatcher to enable failover, where the content store gets corrupted. Is there a particular order of installation required? A: The primary Content Manager must be fully configured and initialized before attempting to configure and initialize the standby Content Manager. Then, when configuring the standby, changes must also be made to the primary content manager. See the Cognos BI installation guide for specific details on content manager failover configuration.22
• 23. General Installation/Configuration cont. Q: We get this error very often in our C10 environment: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space. What should we do? A: This error refers to the “Permanent Generation” memory space in the Java heap. You may need to tune the Java configuration in your Cognos environment to increase the amount of memory that is allocated to the Permanent Generation space. See the Cognos knowledgebase for details on how to modify Java parameters for Cognos. Q: How much java memory should be assigned for best performance? The default is 768 MB. A: We typically assign 1152MB to the java memory. Q: We have two machines for dispatchers. When we run services, the first machine runs successfully; the second gets this error message:, pogo, Failure. DPR-DPR-1035 Dispatcher detected an error. A: This error message frequently appears in older versions of Cognos during service startup (although it can also occur in Cognos 10). This is a transient error and can usually be ignored, unless the dispatcher continually generates this error after startup has completed.23
• 24. General Installation/Configuration cont. Q: What is the advantage of setting the Identity to "NetworkService" as opposed to "ApplicationPoolIdentity"? A: Use of the NetworkService identity instead of ApplicationPoolIdentity is a best practice recommendation to minimize the likelihood of security-related execution failures of the Cognos gateway components. Q: Why must one configure Cognos services to run as a specific named account as opposed to the default Local System account? A: Running the service as a domain account vs. the Local System is a best practice. You need this configuration in order to allow the service to send emails and communicate with other services as well. Q: Can you use the Framework Manager from version 8 for Cognos 10 or do you need to install it again while upgrading? A: You need to keep all of your components on the same version, including client components such as Framework Manager. .24
• 25. General Installation/Configuration cont. Q: How do you install a backup Cognos installation to support failure of the Production Environment? Could you please highlight the best practice and any information on synchronizing the two environments and tell me whether a backup configuration will switch-on if the Production Environment needs maintenance or fails? A: Implementation of redundant environments with complete system failover is a complex topic. Cognos natively supports content manager failover, but this is not the same as complete environment failover. To implement full system failover requires redundancy at all levels, and the implementation of a combination of failover processes that occur both inside and outside of Cognos. Q: How do you install multiple dispatchers on the same server? A: Install the “Application Tier Components” into multiple directories (e.g., C:Program Filesibmcognosc10 and C:Program Filesibmcognosc10_disp2). There will be a separate Cognos Configuration instance for each dispatcher, and each dispatcher must be configured to use separate port numbers. Q: Given that the Content Manager does not scale like dispatchers, when are separate installs warranted? A: Separate Content Managers are only recommended for failover. You should have at least one backup/failover instance of the CM.25
• 26. General Installation/Configuration cont. Q: How different is installing Cognos TM1 instead of Cognos 10 BI? A: Installing TM1 is very different from installing Cognos BI. Although TM1 has been increasingly integrated with BI, TM1 was originally developed as a standalone (non-Cognos) product and its installation process is quite different. Q: How does Cognos 10 installation in UNIX environment differ from Windows installation? A: The Cognos installer GUI looks almost identical in Windows and UNIX, so the initial component installation tasks are very similar. However, the OS-level configuration tasks are very different. The steps for both Windows and UNIX are outlined in the Cognos installation documentation. Q: Where can I get documentation which will show me how to install Cognos 10 on UNIX? I am looking for a document which has some screenshots that can help me to install on UNIX. Reading PDF Documentation on IBM website is too cumbersome. A: The only official documentation on installing Cognos 10 on UNIX is the documentation on the IBM website. You may want to try using the HTML documentation rather than the PDF documentation, as it is easier to navigate.26
• 27. General Installation/Configuration cont. Q: Does exporting the entire content store include dispatcher tuning settings? A: Yes. By default, exporting the entire content store includes all configuration objects in the deployment archive. However, importing the content store by default does not include the configuration objects even if they are present in the deployment archive. You can override this behavior, but there is considerable risk in importing configuration objects from one environment into a different environment. Additional details on these options can be found in the Cognos documentation.27
• 28. Upgrade/Migration Q: What are the common reporting issues you know that occurs after migration to Cognos 10? A: The most common reporting issues that occur in migrations are layout and formatting issues. However, these issues typically occur in only a very small percentage of reports. Q: In general, what percentage of reports will be invalid after upgrade from C8 to C10? A: Based on our experience, less than 5% of reports will generally have issues when you migrate from C8 to C10. Most upgrades have had zero issues. Q: How easy is it to move from Cognos 7 to Cognos 10? A: The complexity of migrating from Series 7 to Cognos 10 depends a great deal on the complexity and types of objects in your Series 7 environment. Migrations from Series 7 are non-trivial, because the architecture of Cognos 10 is very different from Cognos Series 7.28
• 29. Training/Miscellaneous Q: Do you have a Cognos Administration Advanced course? A. We have a Cognos System Administration course. For course content details: Cognos-System-Administration-Course.php Q: Do you offer training for PowerPlay administration? A: We do not have a formal course for PowerPlay Admininstration, however we can certainly discuss a custom engagement to address your needs. Q: I am an intermediate-level Cognos BI System Administration and am looking for an advanced topics training course. Does Senturus offer training beyond the basics? A: Our public training is fairly general in content, as would be just about any public course. If you are looking for training covering specific topics, we usually recommend a short-term consulting/mentoring engagement that will address your specific concerns. Because every company’s environment is unique and the system administration audience is typically small, classroom training is usually not the best solution when you need to know more about advanced topics. Q: Will this webinar cover TM1 10.1? A: Todays session is focused on Cognos 10 BI. We have a number of recorded TM1 webinars on our website and we are offering a Cognos Insight for TM1 and BI on June 28 th. webinars.php29
• 30. Training/Miscellaneous cont. Q: Can we have a copy of this presentation? A: The presentation slide deck for this webinar is available for download at webinars.php Its in the "IBM Cognos Business Intelligence" section and its titled "Installing Cognos 10: Tips and Tricks from the Trenches". Just click on the Download Slide Deck link and youre set. Thank you for asking. Q: Will the recording of this webinar be available? I’m particularly interested in the Q&A at the end. A: Yes, a recording is now on our website,, in the Resources Section-> Recorded Webinars. (Same location as the slide deck described in the answer above: You will find the written Q&A answers in the same place.30
• 31. Other Topics Q: What are your recommendations for configuring various process counts-- batch, interactive, etc. A: Report process should all be 2 times the total number of CPU cores available to that dispatcher. Q: Are you going to have a demo on performance tuning? A: No, we are not planning a demonstration on performance tuning at this time. You can find basic Cognos performance tuning guidelines by searching the Cognos knowledge base. Q: I wondered if you have any recommendations to improve system performance (e.g caching) in Cognos Connection? Im aware that the ContentManagerCacheService > Memory limit for the content manager cache service as a percentage of the total JVM heap memory default should be set to 10% of JVM in Cognos Administration. A: Please see the Cognos knowledge base for general performance tuning guidelines. Q: If we don’t have OLAP, should we disable the dynamic query service? A: You may disable the dynamic query service if you wish. However, it is not necessary to do so. Q: Can you provide some suggestions on installing Cognos Virtual View Manager (Composite server)? A: Virtual View Manager (formerly Composite Information Server) is a separate product from the Cognos BI Server. Installation guides for VVM can be found on the IBM documentation site.31
• 32. Other Topics cont. Q: Can you provide some suggestions on installing Cognos Virtual View Manager (Composite server)? A: Virtual View Manager (formerly Composite Information Server) is a separate product from the Cognos BI Server. Installation guides for VVM can be found on the IBM documentation site. Q: We use an external load balancer. Do you know of a way to determine if a dispatcher is up? (Cognos said that SSO causes problems with using :9300/p2pd/servlet/dispatch) A: External load balancing functionality varies across different environments. Troubleshooting this issue requires direct examination of the current configuration. Q: Is it possible to integrate TM1 64 bit with Cognos 10.1.1 32 bit? A: Yes, however you must use 32-bit TM1 integration components in order to accomplish this. Q: Is it possible to dump advanced settings that are set in the admin portal without navigating to each dispatcher? A: No. Q: How can I add groups and roles to an LDAP namespace? A: LDAP Groups and Roles are managed through the LDAP Administration console, not through Cognos.32
• 33. Other Topics cont. Q: How can I assign roles for Cognos to different LDAP user ids? A: Once the LDAP namespace is configured in Cognos, you can add LDAP users as members of the built-in groups and roles in the Cognos namespace. See the Cognos administration documentation for detailed information on how to configure security in Cognos. Q: We are having an issue where large PDFs are having problems being generated when we have more than one dispatcher running. There’s no problem when we only have one dispatcher running. Has Senturus seen this issue? Cognos cant seem to figure out why this is happening. A: Troubleshooting this issue would require additional details on the failure scenario (for example, whether the reports fail completely when more than one dispatcher is running or whether they fail sporadically and/or render improperly), as well as direct examination of each of the current dispatcher configurations.33
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Published July 18, 2012 11:04 am
Don't tap that keg yet.
Mayor Ralph Becker's proposal to overhaul Salt Lake City's decades-old alcohol zoning ordinance to allow, among other things, neighborhood pubs may be in trouble.
In Utah, when the words "alcohol" and "neighborhoods" are mixed together, the conversation can bubble over like a brew with too much head. Several dozen residents told the council in no uncertain terms that Becker's proposal that would allow neighborhood pubs would be destructive to residential areas.
Jon Dibble, a longtime resident of the neighborhood surrounding 1300 South and 2100 East, said adopting Becker's alcohol zoning regulations would be "destructive to neighborhoods."
Dibble said he's not against bars generally, but "we don't need bars in every residential neighborhood."
And, he said, in an interview, if the proposed ordinance were to pass, his neighborhood would become a "zoo."
"But we didn't plan bars on our doors and windows," she said referring to her belief that crime shoots up in areas where bars and pubs sell alcohol.
In an interview, Perschon said that "neighborhood pubs and neighborhood bars exist in every neighborhood in every city in the world."
Residents who conjured up horror stories surrounding pubs don't know what they are talking about and are "living in fear," he said.
"Living in fear doesn't create community and it doesn't create neighborhoods."
"We are trying to treat all neighborhoods the same," he said of the proposal. "When we look at some neighborhoods, it's not appropriate."
Council Chairman Soren Simonsen said he would appoint a subcommittee to study Luke's proposal.
In an interview, Becker's spokesman Art Raymond said that removing those zones from the proposed ordinance would defeat the purpose of zoning that seeks to create walkable neighborhoods.
"The intent was not so much go create pubs as it was to create the opportunity for economic development. It's a plus for walkable communities," Raymond said.
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Never mind getting on each other's nerves, C and I have spent the week getting on them and then dancing a jig. I won't tell you what is wrong with him (that is unethical), but ... actually, I'm afraid I can't tell you what is putatively wrong with me either, since what C said was wildly inaccurate. I would probably be defaming myself.
Halfway through a car journey of epic discord, T started gargling away in the back. I hadn't forgotten he was there or anything, but I had forgotten how boring it might be, staring at the back of a car's upholstery, listening to incomprehensible yet stressful noises, with nothing to distract you but the inane expressions of the toy that calls itself Woozit. "We shouldn't be arguing in front of him," said C (if I can give you the shipping forecast on our row, his tone here was poor, becoming moderate later. Mine, of course, was fair, becoming good).
Yes, in an ideal world, you should never argue at all. But if you do argue, you shouldn't hold it all back until your offspring is out of earshot. They are sophisticated machines, these children. Think of them like one of those movement-detector burglar alarms. Give them a bit of information, such as what a cat or a dog looks like, and they will get a sense of proportion. Give them no information, and they will pick up a bad vibe and needlessly go into full alarm.
I do not share this with C, since by uncanny coincidence, my verbose analogising is one of the things that has been getting on his nerves. Instead I say, "We're allowed to argue, so long as we model successful conflict resolution at the end of it." "OK," he says. "We have reached our destination. Shall we stop arguing now?"
I don't know if this modelling is successful enough. I wonder whether we should buy some Peruvian pipes, or practise one of those hugs of peace that Yasser Arafat used to do.
I'll tell you why I mention this row; I think it's the first time in eight months that we've had an argument that isn't exactly the same argument as everyone else with a baby exactly the same age has just had.
Cast yourself back to the moment of birth. A wonderful miracle has just happened. A minute ago, there were three people, now there are four. "Feel free to ask the midwife to leave you and your partner alone, so you can rejoice in the new life you've created," it says in the Miriam Stoppard book. That's a brilliant idea, Stoppo, except my boyfriend is in the corridor on his mobile like some kind of teenager. He pretty much left the scissors dangling off the umbilical cord.
C's version of this is that he'd been marvelling and rejoicing for ages, and he stepped out to text our collective parents. What did I think he was doing, playing Tetris? The only person I know who didn't have this argument is a friend who said she was waiting until they got home so she could argue properly, without having to worry about what the midwives thought. Then when she got home, she was so tired she forgot. Perhaps with this article I could jog her memory and relight their flame of discord.
Soon after, there's the Freedom of Movement argument; I've gone on about that one already. Then there is the "Did We Pack The ... ?" argument. "You mean me. Why not just say, 'Did you pack it?'" "Just a figure of speech, light of my life." "I'll tell you why! It's because if you said 'you', you'd have to admit it's me that packs everything. Whereas if you say 'we' it sounds like we both did it. But it doesn't sound like that! You're kidding yourself!" "It's just a figure of speech, beloved." "Then how come [hopping mad!] it never figured in your speech before?"
Last (just for now) there is the "I've been holding/changing/feeding the baby for you" argument. "How is that for me?" "Well, you know what I mean." You can probably ad lib my bit from here. They're all the same, that's what bothers me. What other phase of your life could you name, when you and any other given couple are having the exact same row, with the very same words? Even in Ikea, every couple scrap is as unique as a snowflake. Imagine my relief, then, to find that it was temporary; C and I are now back to annoying one another in our own particular ways. | http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2008/may/30/women.features | dclm-gs1-146080001 | false | false | {
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Although President Obama can claim an election night victory, a loophole in the Electoral College process might allow the Republicans to claim the White House.
On Jan. 6, Congress meets in joint session to count the electoral votes and declare the winners of the election. As part of the process, the Senate and House of Representatives each appoint two tellers to count the electoral votes.
However, the Republican House majority could boycott the meeting. Absent House leadership, the House cannot convene and appoint its tellers to count the votes.
The Electoral College process is stopped. On Jan. 20, Barack Obama and Joe Biden cease to be president and vice president of the United States.
The person next in the line of succession, House Speaker John Boehner, a Republican, becomes President of the United States.
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a wardrobe malfunction or revealing clothing involving a woman's breasts. The term is usually given as a warning signal of impending exposure
That dress is kind of brocktoon. You are brocktooning all over the place. "BROCKTOON!!!!"
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"Dude yo sister is a ho dog"
by Julie April 27, 2003
5 Words related to ho dog
A dirty sketchy slutty dude.
Most likely never showers, has long greasy hair, and is in a band.
I know its so wrong, but I want some of that tasty hodog meat.
by Footpad November 09, 2010
a dude that attracts ho's like dogs in heat.
Damn ho dog, another bi'aattch?
by ben newton December 16, 2006
a person who dresses and acts like a surfer but does not actually surf. a.k.a. poser
surfer 1: "Dude!"
surfer 2: "huh"
1: "Check out those hodogs mackin on your lady."
2: "Dude they can't get none, they got no tan."
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3. Actually, they’re so in love they’re moving to Paris together.
4. Make that London.
5. But while they’re still in L.A., they’re unabashedly visiting sex shops together. “They bought a range of stuff including sexy costumes, DVDs, a pair of handcuffs and blindfolds,” a fellow patron at the Pleasure Chest told the Daily Star. Actually, this is the most believable story of the bunch, because the store confirmed their visit!
6. Our very favorite: They’re staying together, but only if Rob grows out his chest hair.
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At an optometrist's office, "If you don't see what you're looking for, you've come to the right place.".... On a taxidermist's window, "We really know our stuff."
In a dry cleaner's emporium, "Drop your pants here."
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The slogan for the Deli/Butcher shop down the street from my house (no joke)
"You can lick our chops, but you cant beat our meat."
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These are just tttttooooooo funny:roll I can't believe the one about the butcher....that is tacky:imbar
My bumper sticker says:
....Be nice to your kids....They'll choose your nursing home...
I just LOVE LTC:kiss
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My favorite bumper sticker: "Very funny, Scotty. Now beam down my clothes."
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If you love someone, let them go. If they don't come back to you, hunt them down and beat the living crap out of 'em! :chuckle Oops! Guess I shouldn't promote violence, huh??? :chuckle
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A well-know carpet company in the area has this on their trucks...
"We only lay the best."
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Here's one: "We know your children are angels, but this AIN'T heaven!
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I saw an elderly couple in an expensive 4wd with a bumper sticker reading "Squandering the children's inheritance" too perfect!
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i have this sticker on my car: "Go on- i'll see you at the next traffic light!"
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A friend of my brother's took a picture of a advertisement sign for a meat company in Indiana that said "You won't reject our liver!"
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Validators supplied in the VAB
Validators supplied in the VAB
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We're making great progress with the Validation Application Block in Enterprise Library 3.0, and one of the last remaining tasks is to make sure we include a compelling set of validators with the block. While it's very easy to build your own validator, we don't want everyone to need to build the same validators for each project just because we forgot to include something important.
Here's the set of validators we're currently planning to include - but it's not too late to set us straight if we've missed something! A few things to note are:
• All of these validators can be used from the API, attributes or configuration, although the syntax will vary across these mechansims.
• Some of the validators will use generic parameters, such as RangeValidator<T>. When used from the API, you will be able to use the validator with any type (subject to the generic parameter's constraints). However since you can't use generics in the same way from configuration or attributes, you'll only be able to use common primitive types from these mechanisms.
• All of our validators will include a Negate property, which will change the validator's behavior so that it will fail if the condition is met, rather than when it is not met. This will let you do things like use the "Contains Characters Validator" to check that a string does not contain characters.
First, here are the planned "basic" validators:
• Not Null Validator: Validates that a value is not null
• Range Vailidator (generic, supporting IComparable types): Validates that a value falls within a specified range. The range may be closed or open ended, and may be inclusive or exclusive.
• Relative DateTime Validator: Validates that a DateTime falls within a specified range, relative to now. The range may be closed or open ended, and may be inclusive or exclusive. For example, you could check if a date is between now and 100 years from now, or from 20 days ago to 4 days from now.
• String Length Validator: Validates that a string is of a certain length. May contain a minimum, a maximum or both.
• RegEx Validator: Validates that a string matches a specified regular expression. We'll also include support for "pre-canned" RegEx patterns for common things such as URLs, e-mail addresses, phone numbers etc.
• Contains Characters Validator: Validates that a string contains any, or all of the characters in a specified string.
• Type Conversion Validator: Validates that a string can be converted to a specific type (using a specific culture). For example, this could check that "6.32" can be converted to a Double, or "2007-02-09" can be converted to a DateTime.
• Enum Conversion Validator: Validates that a string can be converted to a value in a specified enum type. For example, this could check that "Blue" could be converted to a value in the Color enum.
• Domain Validator (generic): Validates that a value is included in a specified set, such as {"John", "Paul", "George", "Ringo"} or {2, 3, 5, 7, 11}. If the set only contains one value, this validator can be used to check for equality.
Next, here are our planned "composition" validators:
• And Composite Validator: Indicates that all of a set of child validators must pass
• Or Composite Validator: Indicates that just one of a set of child validators must pass.
Finally, here are our planned "value access" validators, which can be used to specify validation rules on complex objects:
• Property: Applies a validator to a property of an object
• Field: Applies a validator to a field of an object
• Method: Applies a validator to the result of a method of an object (can only be used for methods with no parameters and a non-void result, such as ToString()).
• Object: Specifies that a nested object needs to be validated by a particular rule set.
• Collection: Specifies that a nested collection of objects needs to be validated by a particular rule set.
Did we miss anything important?
• Is there just a standard ComparisionValidator where you can say like 'greater than -1'.
• Kristian - you can do this with the RangeValidator (by only specifying one boundary).
• In addition to the And Validator and the Or Validator, what about something in-between (I don't have a good name now) which can validate that at least X conditions in the set are met.
So, if you have 5 validators, and you want to be sure at least 3 of 5 are met (perhaps this is "good enough" quality for data input).
Between those three, and the "Negate" property you mentioned, it should be possibly to express fairly complex validation when needed.
• How about a support for contexts,
i.e. I have a user class and this user can actually be multiple types of user (standard, power, ultimate).
I'd like the ability to specify validate for a given context e.g. ValidationMananger.Validate(User, Context) [please not I have not used any part of the block and the example is simply that]. So a bit like composite validator but you don't need to know which rules will fire....just that given the current context the right ones will fire.
I'm sure there are other ways you could get around it....but just a suggestion.
• John - actually we already support this, through the concept of "rulesets" which are named collections of validators. The syntax is almost the same as what you specified:
ValidationResults results = Validation.Validate(myUser, "Power");
• To be robust it should match the feature set of Peter Blum's validation package for ASP.Net. Multi-condition, centralized message panel to name a few.
• What about a CompareValidator that can reference another Field/Property/Method/etc... not to compare to a literal, but (for example) to compare two password entries.
• This is small thing, but you may consider this: DoesFileExist(filepath) and DoesFileNotExist.
first check that the file path is not nothing and not empty then check the existence of the file (File.Exist).
• I agree with IDisposable... It would be nice to have an out-of-the-box validator that knows how to compare two properties, for cases like start/end date input, repeat password, etc.
• Two points:
1) Unless I'm missing something the proposed architecture can't handle co-occurance constraints (e.g. "If Customer.OccupationType = 'Employed' Then Customer.Occupation.Address is required").
2) I'm not sure I want my validation logic in code in the first place. It seems like the better place for this is in a rules engine which your entities can call out to validate themselves. Validation rules change. They change often enough that I'd rather re-publish a rules update then re-compiling/deploying code. Finally, a rules engine has no problem with point 1) above.
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If not this, this validation should offer one-to-one mapping to validation controls. So that I can programmaticaly inject this validation controls counterpart control to my page easily. If I can do that, I will have best of both worlds. Defense in depth. My services will be validated also my client will have javascript support.
• Tom,
How about handling semi-mandatory data based on certain other input value conditions?
• What about Parameter validation. Often when you write methods you want to do simple checks to ensure that the values passed in are correct or in a certain range. It would be awesome to be able to drop for example a [NotNullValidator] a parameter to a method rather than having to manually code the checks. Another place this could be used is in a class constructor.
• I totally agree with Glenn's comment about Parameter Validation; that would be one of the biggest benefits in my mind. If you could write;
public void GetSomething(
[NotNullValidator] string myName,
[RangeValidator<int>(1, 100) int myAge)
... the boiler-plate code at the start of each method would be so much simpler, and code requirements and intentions would be more obvious from method definitions.
• The Parameter Validation sounds like a great idea! But I'd want it for my methods, so I could write something like this:
[Validate:NotNullOrEmptyString(boo), NotNull(hoo)]
public int Foo(string boo, FooBoo hoo) {
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Spinach Salad...with fake bacon?
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I once had a fantastic spinach salad with a warm bacon dressing and was excited to try and make it tonight. I went to the farmer's market and got spinach, red onion, avocado...came home to search recipes...and realized I'd forgotten to buy bacon. Um, oops.
I do have some turkey bacon pieces in the fridge (the real kind, but the kind they sell for salads) and would like to satisfy my spinach salad craving...what do you think? The difficulty I'm having is that every recipe calls for using the warm bacon fat as the fat in the dressing, and I obviously won't have any. Should I just use olive oil? Does anyone have recipes that call for using pre-cooked bacon pieces that they can share? Alternatively, I'm perfectly happy to try a bacon-less recipe if it's not too sweet - I just want some warm dressing on spinach!
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1. For me, there's no substituting for real bacon fat. Olive oil just isn't the same.
Sounds like you intended to buy bacon, but forgot. My suggestion is don't compromise on flavor, simply delay your fantastic salad by one day, and swing by the grocer/butcher for the much needed real pork bacon. It will be well worth it.
1. Just make a different spinach salad. Use the spinach, red onion and avocado and add either some diced fresh oranges or halved cherry tomato. Make a vinaigrette dressing with olive oil, lemon or lime juice, chopped cilantro salt, pepper and a dash cumin. Different salad - do the bacon one another time.
1. Another salad recipe: Thinly slice red onions and let them sit in plain old white vinegar w/ a little sugar for an hour or two. Hard boil an egg or two and grate on the fine holes of a box grater. Thinly sliced button mushrooms. Toss spinach w/ mushrooms in your fave. vinaigrette (I like champagne...) Arrange red onions, egg and bacon (or facon..) on top after plating. Simple and yummy and no bacon fat needed. adam
1. Reporting back for those curious - I went ahead with the salad sans bacon fat. Softened some garlic in olive oil over the stove, poured in cider vinegar on the heat and let it simmer a little, then put in the bacon pieces and let them 'stew' for a minute on very very low heat to try and get some of the flavor to transfer into the dressing. Poured warm dressing over baby spinach, sliced red onions, and a handful of pine nuts. Not quite the same thing, but delicious! I wouldn't do it with soy bacon, but it turned out fine!
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I have a small crock of bacon fat in the fridge at all times. Works in just such a situation.
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Aspasia Manos
Princess Alexander of Greece and Denmark
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Spouse Alexander of Greece
Issue Alexandra, Queen of Yugoslavia
Father Petros Manos
Mother Maria Argyropoulos
Born (1896-09-04)4 September 1896
Tatoi, Athens, Greece
Died 7 August 1972(1972-08-07) (aged 75)
Ospedale Al Mare,
Lido di Venezia, Italy
Burial Royal Cemetery, Tatoi Palace, Greece
Religion Greek Orthodox
Aspasia Manos (Greek: Ασπασία Μάνου) (4 September 1896 – 7 August 1972), was a Greek commoner who became the wife of Alexander, King of the Hellenes. Due to the controversy over her marriage, she was styled Madame Manos rather than Queen Aspasia, until recognized as Princess Alexander of Greece and Denmark after Alexander's death and the restoration of King Constantine I.
Aspasia was born in Athens, the daughter of Colonel Petros Manos (1871–1918) and his first wife,[1] Maria Argyropoulos (1874–1930). The Manos family descended, in part, from Phanariote Greeks living in Constantinople. Some of her ancestors had been leaders during the Greek War of Independence, some had been Hellenic leaders in Constantinople for centuries under the Ottoman Empire, and some had even been reigning princes of Danubian provinces. She belonged to one of Greece's most aristocratic families, and was considered a suitable consort for a Greek king by some, but not by those who expected royalty to marry only royalty.
On 4 November 1919,[2] at Tatoi, Aspasia Manos married King Alexander in a secret, civil wedding.[3] Their marriage caused a scandal, and the couple was forced to temporarily flee to Paris. She never took the title of Queen, being known as Madame Manos by those aware of the marriage.[4] Alexander lived less than a year after the wedding. His father, King Constantine I, was restored to the Greek throne a month after Alexander's death and returned from exile. His government officially treated the brief reign of his late son as a regency, which meant that Alexander's marriage, contracted without his father's or the head of Orthodox Church's permission, was technically illegal, the marriage void, and the couple's posthumous child illegitimate.
At the behest of Alexander's mother, Queen Sophia, a law was passed in July 1922 which allowed the King to retroactively recognize marriages of members of the Royal Family, although on a non-dynastic basis.[4] Thereupon King Constantine issued a decree, gazetted 10 September 1922, recognizing the marriage of Alexander to Aspasia. Henceforth, she and her daughter were accorded the title "Princess of Greece and Denmark" and the style of Royal Highness.[5] This title was customarily borne by non-reigning members of the Greek royal family, who also happened to be members of a cadet branch of the reigning dynasty of Denmark.
Aspasia Manos' tomb at Tatoi
Aspasia and Alexander were the parents of only one child, Princess Alexandra, born five months after Alexander's death at Tatoi (her father having died of sepsis following a monkey bite). Alexandra would later marry Peter II, King of Yugoslavia.
Aspasia Manos and her daughter were the only members of the Glücksburg dynasty, the Greek royal house, to be of Greek descent. Like most European royal families by the 20th century, the Glücksburgs' ancestry was exclusively German.
Due to the combination of her daughter and son-in-law's health problems, financially straitened circumstances and troubled marriage, Aspasia acted as guardian to her grandson Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia (born 1945).[6] She raised him mostly in England. Just a month before her death, Alexander married a Royal Franco-Brazilian, Princess Maria da Gloria of Orléans-Braganza.
She died in Venice on 7 August 1972,[5] and was initially interred at the cemetery of San Michele island near Venice. Her remains were later transferred to the Royal Cemetery Plot in the park of Tatoi near Dekeleia (23 km north of Athens.)
Her living descendants include her only grandson Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia, and her three great-grandsons Prince Peter of Yugoslavia, Prince Philip of Yugoslavia and Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia.
1. ^ Manos family
2. ^ 17 November in the New Style Gregorian calendar
3. ^ Hueck, Walter von, ed. (1987). Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels Fürstliche Häuser Band XIII (in German). Limburg an der Lahn: C. A. Starke. p. 33.
4. ^ a b Diesbach, Ghislain de (1967). Secrets of the Gotha. translated from the French by Margaret Crosland. London: Chapman & Hall. p. 225.
5. ^ a b Montgomery-Massingberd, Hugh, ed. (1973). Burke's Guide to the Royal Family 1. London: Burke's Peerage. p. 327. ISBN 0-220-66222-3.
6. ^ Diesbach, Ghislain de (1967). Secrets of the Gotha. translated from the French by Margaret Crosland. London: Chapman & Hall. p. 337.
Preceded by
Sophia of Prussia
Consort of the King of the Hellenes
4 November 1919 – 25 October 1920
Succeeded by
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Deutsch, deutsche Sprache
Pronunciation [ˈdɔʏtʃ]
Native to Primarily in German-speaking Europe, as a minority language, and amongst the German diaspora worldwide
Native speakers
Standard German: 90 million (2010)[1]
all varieties of German: 120 million (1990–2005)[2][not in citation given][improper synthesis?]
L2 speakers: 80 million
Early forms
Latin (German alphabet)
German Braille
Signed German, LBG
(Lautsprachbegleitende/Lautbegleitende Gebärden)
Official status
Official language in
(South Tyrol)
European Union (official and working language)
Recognised minority
language in
Czech Republic[3]
(Trentino) (spoken by some communities and most studied language in schools and high schools)
Namibia (national language; official language 1984–90)[7][8]
Poland (Auxiliary language)[9]
Slovakia (Official municipal language of Krahule/Blaufuß)[12][13]
Brazil (Co-official municipal language in Pomerode and other municipalities)[14]
South Africa[15]
Vatican City (Co-Administrative and co-commanding language of the Swiss Guard)[18]
Venezuela (Colonia Tovar)[19]
Regulated by
No official regulation
(German orthography regulated by the Council for German Orthography[20]).
Language codes
ISO 639-1 de
ISO 639-2 ger (B)
deu (T)
ISO 639-3 Variously:
deu – Standard German
gmh – Middle High German
goh – Old High German
gct – Alemán Coloniero
bar – Austro-Bavarian
cim – Cimbrian
geh – Hutterite German
ksh – Kölsch
nds – Low German
sli – Lower Silesian
ltz – Luxembourgish
vmf – Main-Franconian
mhn – Mócheno
pfl – Palatinate German
pdc – Pennsylvania German
pdt – Plautdietsch
swg – Swabian German
gsw – Swiss German
uln – Unserdeutsch
sxu – Upper Saxon
wae – Walser German
wep – Westphalian
Glottolog high1287 (High Franconian)[21]
uppe1397 (Upper German)[22]
German (Deutsch [ˈdɔʏtʃ] ( )) is a West Germanic language. It derives most of its vocabulary from the Germanic branch of the Indo-European language family.[23] A number of words are derived from Latin and Greek, and fewer from French and English. Widely spoken languages which are most similar to German include Luxembourgish, Dutch, the Frisian languages, English and the Scandinavian languages.
German is written using the Latin alphabet. In addition to the 26 standard letters, German has three vowels with umlauts (Ä/ä, Ö/ö, and Ü/ü) and the letter ß (a special kind of "s(s)", called "Eszett" or "scharfes Es"; it originated as a ligature of archaic forms of the letters s and z, which were represented as ſ and ʒ, respectively, that is, ſ + ʒ = ſʒ = ß).
German is a pluricentric language, with multiple countries having their own standardised variants (e.g. Austrian German, Swiss Standard German) as well as many dialects. There is also one variant referred to as Standard German.
German is the only official language of Germany, Austria, and Liechtenstein; one of the official languages of Switzerland, Luxembourg, and Belgium; and a recognised minor language in many other countries, such as Italy, Slovenia, Hungary, Namibia, and Poland. At the same time, German is the second most commonly used scientific language and the third largest contributor to research and development, as well as an important language in business and culture. Worldwide, Germany is ranked number 5 in terms of annual publication of new books. One tenth of all books (including e-books) in the world are published in German.[25][26] German is also the second most used content language for websites.[27]
Main article: History of German
The history of the language begins with the High German consonant shift during the migration period, separating Old High German dialects from Old Saxon. The earliest evidence of Old High German is from scattered Elder Futhark inscriptions, especially in Alemannic, from the sixth century AD; the earliest glosses (Abrogans) date to the eighth; and the oldest coherent texts (the Hildebrandslied, the Muspilli and the Merseburg Incantations) to the ninth century. Old Saxon at this time belonged to the North Sea Germanic cultural sphere, and Low Saxon was to fall under German rather than Anglo-Frisian influence during the Holy Roman Empire.
As Germany was divided into many different states, the only force working for a unification or standardization of German for several hundred years was the general wish of writers to be understood by as many readers as possible.
Modern German[edit]
When Martin Luther translated the Bible (the New Testament in 1522 and the Old Testament, published in parts and completed in 1534), he based his translation mainly on the bureaucratic standard language used in Saxony (sächsische Kanzleisprache), also known as Meißner-Deutsch (German from the city of Meissen). This language was based on Eastern Upper and Eastern Central German dialects and preserved much of the grammatical system of Middle High German (unlike the spoken German dialects in Central and Upper Germany, which had already at that time begun to lose the genitive case and the preterite tense).
Copies of the Bible featured a long list of glosses for each region that translated words unknown in the region into the regional dialect. Roman Catholics initially rejected Luther's translation and tried to create their own Catholic standard (gemeines Deutsch)—the difference in relation to "Protestant German" was only minor. It was not until the middle of the 18th century that a widely accepted standard was created, thus ending the period of Early New High German.
Until about 1800, standard German was mainly a written language: in urban northern Germany, the local dialects of Low Saxon or Low German were spoken; Standard German, which was markedly different, was often learned as a foreign language with uncertain pronunciation. Northern German pronunciation was considered the standard in prescriptive pronunciation guides; however, the actual pronunciation of Standard German varies from region to region.
The Austrian empire[edit]
Ethnolinguistic map of Austria–Hungary, 1910.
German was the language of commerce and government in the Habsburg Empire, which encompassed a large area of Central and Eastern Europe. Until the mid-19th century it was essentially the language of townspeople throughout most of the Empire. Its use indicated that the speaker was a merchant, an urbanite, irrespective of nationality. Some cities, such as Prague (German: Prag) and Budapest (Buda, German: Ofen), were gradually Germanized in the years after their incorporation into the Habsburg domain. Others, such as Pozsony (German: Pressburg, now Bratislava), were originally settled during the Habsburg period and were primarily German at that time. A few cities remained mainly non-German. However, most cities, such as Prague, Budapest, Bratislava, Zagreb (German: Agram), and Ljubljana (German: Laibach), were primarily German during this time, although surrounded by territory where other languages were spoken. In the eastern provinces of Banat and Transylvania (German name: Siebenbürgen), German was the predominant language not only in the larger towns—such as Temeswar (Timisoara), Hermannstadt (Sibiu) and Kronstadt (Brasov)—but also in many smaller localities in the surrounding areas.[citation needed]
linguistic map of Switzerland, 2000
In Switzerland, a number of local dialects are spoken in the German-speaking cantons, but the Swiss variety of Standard German is used as a written language. It is one of the main languages, along with French, Italian and Romansh.
Spread of the German language in 1910
Spread of the German language since 1950
In 1901, the 2nd Orthographical Conference ended with a complete standardization of the German language in its written form. The Deutsche Bühnensprache (literally, German stage language) had established conventions for German pronunciation in theatre (Bühnendeutsch) three years earlier; however, this was an artificial norm not corresponding to any traditional spoken dialect, but based on the pronunciation of Standard German in Northern Germany (where it was a foreign language for most inhabitants, whose native dialects were Low German, and usually encountered only in writing or formal speech; in fact, Standard German remained an exclusively or almost exclusively written language, not identical with any spoken dialect, throughout the German-speaking area until well into the 19th century), although it was subsequently frequently regarded as a general prescriptive norm, despite differing pronunciation traditions especially in the Upper-German-speaking regions that persist until the present day in part (especially the pronunciation of the ending -ig as [ɪk] instead of [ɪç]).
Media and written works are now almost all produced in Standard German (often called Hochdeutsch ("High German")) which is understood in all areas where German is spoken.
The most comprehensive guide to the vocabulary of the German language is found within the Deutsches Wörterbuch. This dictionary was created by the Brothers Grimm and is composed of 16 parts, which were issued between 1852 and 1860. In 1860, grammatical and orthographic rules first appeared in the Duden Handbook. In 1901, this was declared the standard definition of the German language. Official revisions of some of these rules were not issued until 1996, when a controversial spelling reform was officially promulgated by governments of all German-speaking countries.
Geographic distribution[edit]
Main article: German diaspora
German-speaking communities can be found in the former German colony of Namibia as well as in other destinations of German emigration such as the USA, Canada, Mexico, Dominican Republic, Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, Chile, Peru, Venezuela (where the dialect Alemán Coloniero developed), Jordan,[28] South Africa and Australia. In Namibia, German Namibians retain German educational institutions.
Examples of German language in Namibian everyday life
Country German emigration population (outside Europe)[29]
US 5,000,000[citation needed]
Brazil 3,000,000[citation needed]
Argentina 500,000[citation needed]
Canada 450,000 - 620,000[30]
Bolivia 320,000 (250,000 standard German speakers[31][32] & 70,000 low German speakers (Mennonites))[33][34]
Australia 110,000[citation needed]
Mexico 100,000 (100,000 Low German speakers (Mennonites))[35]
South Africa 75,000 (German expatriate citizens alone)[citation needed]
Chile 40,000[citation needed]
New Zealand 37,500[citation needed]
Paraguay 30,000 - 40,000[citation needed]
Namibia 30,000[citation needed]
Venezuela 10,000[citation needed]
Peru 7,583[citation needed] (Not including German expatriate citizens)
Knowledge of the German language throughout Europe. German has around 100 million native speakers.
German is also one of the three official languages of Belgium, alongside Dutch and French. Speakers are primarily concentrated within the German-speaking Community region in eastern Belgium, and form about 1% of the country's population.
Other European German-speaking communities are found in Northern Italy (in South Tyrol and in some municipalities in other provinces), in the French regions of Alsace and Lorraine, and in some border villages of the former South Jutland County of Denmark.
German-speaking communities can also be found in parts of the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Russia and Kazakhstan. Forced expulsions after World War II and massive emigration to Germany in the 1980s and 1990s have partly depopulated these communities.
German is spoken by about 25-30,000 people as a mother tongue in the former German colony of Namibia. Though it no longer enjoys status as an official language, it is used in a wide variety of spheres, especially business and tourism, as well as churches (most notably the German-speaking Evangelical Lutheran Church in Namibia (GELK)), schools (e.g., the Deutsche Höhere Privatschule Windhoek), literature (German-Namibian authors include Giselher W. Hoffmann), radio (German-language programming of the Namibian Broadcasting Corporation), and music (e.g., artist EES).
There are a number of communities where German is spoken in South Africa, especially in and around Wartburg.
North America[edit]
In the United States, the states of North Dakota and South Dakota are the only states where German is the most common language spoken at home after English (the second most spoken language in other states is Spanish, French or Tagalog).[37] German geographical names can also be found throughout the Midwest region of the country, such as New Ulm and many other towns in Minnesota; Bismarck (North Dakota's state capital), Munich, Karlsruhe, and Strasburg in North Dakota; New Braunfels, Fredericksburg, Weimar, and Muenster in Texas; Corn (formerly Korn), Kiefer and Loyal (formerly Kiel) and Berlin in Oklahoma; and Kiel, Berlin, and Germantown in Wisconsin.
Between 1843 and 1910, more than 5 million Germans emigrated overseas,[38] mostly to the United States.[39] German remained an important medium for churches, schools, newspapers, and even the administration of the United States Brewers' Association[40] through the early 20th century, but was severely repressed during World War I. Over the course of the 20th century many of the descendants of 18th century and 19th century immigrants ceased speaking German at home, but small populations of speakers can still be found in Pennsylvania (Amish, Hutterites, Dunkards and some Mennonites historically spoke Hutterite German and a West Central German variety of German known as Pennsylvania German or Pennsylvania Dutch), Kansas (Mennonites and Volga Germans), North Dakota (Hutterite Germans, Mennonites, Russian Germans, Volga Germans, and Baltic Germans), South Dakota, Montana, Texas (Texas German), Wisconsin, Indiana, Oregon, Oklahoma, and Ohio (72,570).[41] A significant group of German Pietists in Iowa formed the Amana Colonies and continue to practice speaking their heritage language. Early twentieth century immigration was often to St. Louis, Chicago, New York, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh and Cincinnati.
The dialects of German which are or were primarily spoken in colonies or communities founded by German-speaking people resemble the dialects of the regions the founders came from. For example, Hutterite German resembles dialects of Carinthia. Texas German is a dialect spoken in the areas of Texas settled by the Adelsverein, such as New Braunfels and Fredericksburg. In the Amana Colonies in the state of Iowa, Amana German is spoken. Plautdietsch is a large minority language spoken in Northern Mexico by the Mennonite communities, and is spoken by more than 200,000 people in Mexico. Pennsylvania German is a West Central German dialect spoken by most of the Amish population of Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana and resembles Palatinate German dialects.
Hutterite German is an Upper German dialect of the Austro-Bavarian variety of the German language, which is spoken by Hutterite communities in Canada and the United States. Hutterite is spoken in the U.S. states of Washington, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Minnesota; and in the Canadian provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Its speakers belong to some Schmiedleit, Lehrerleit, and Dariusleit Hutterite groups, but there are also speakers among the older generations of Prairieleit (the descendants of those Hutterites who chose not to settle in colonies). Hutterite children who grow up in the colonies learn to speak Hutterite German before learning English, the standard language of the surrounding areas, in school. Many of these children, though, continue with German Grammar School, in addition to public school, throughout a student's elementary education.[citation needed]
In Canada, there are 622,650 speakers of German according to the most recent census in 2006,[30] while people of German ancestry (German Canadians) are found throughout the country. German-speaking communities are particularly found in British Columbia (118,035) and Ontario (230,330).[30] There is a large and vibrant community in the city of Kitchener, Ontario, which was at one point named Berlin. German immigrants were instrumental in the country's three largest urban areas: Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver; while post-Second World War immigrants managed to preserve a fluency in the German language in their respective neighborhoods and sections. In the first half of the 20ᵗʰ century, over a million German-Canadians made the language Canada's third most spoken after French and English.
In Mexico there are also large populations of German ancestry, mainly in the cities of: Mexico City, Puebla, Mazatlán, Tapachula, Ecatepec de Morelos, and larger populations scattered in the states of Chihuahua, Durango, and Zacatecas.
South America[edit]
In Brazil, the largest concentrations of German speakers are in the states of Rio Grande do Sul (where Riograndenser Hunsrückisch developed), Santa Catarina, Paraná, São Paulo and Espírito Santo. There are also important concentrations of German-speaking descendants in Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, Venezuela, Peru and Bolivia. In the 20th century, over 100,000 German political refugees and invited entrepreneurs settled in Latin America, in countries such as Costa Rica, Panama, Venezuela, and the Dominican Republic, to establish German-speaking enclaves, and reportedly there is a small German immigration to Puerto Rico. Nearly all inhabitants of the city of Pomerode, a municipality where this language is co-official[42][43] in the state of Santa Catarina in Brazil, can speak German.
In most locations where German immigrants settled, the vast majority of their descendents no longer speak German, as they have been largely assimilated into the host language and culture of the specific location of settlement; generally English in North America, and Spanish or Portuguese in Latin America. However, the Brazilian state Espírito Santo has Pomeranian and German as linguistic heritages officially approved statewide,[44][45][46][47] while Rio Grande do Sul has Riograndenser Hunsrückisch German as linguistic heritage officially approved statewide.[48][49] Moreover, some cities in Brazil have the German or Pomeranian as co-official languages. They are:
Municipalities that have co-official Pomeranian (or Pommersch) language:
Municipalities where Pomeranian dialects are co-official in Espírito Santo, Brazil.
Espírito Santo:
Minas Gerais:
Santa Catarina:
Rio Grande do Sul:
Municipalities that have co-official language Riograndenser Hunsrückisch language:
Santa Catarina:
Rio Grande do Sul:
German migration to New Zealand in the 19th century was less pronounced than migration from Britain, Ireland, and perhaps even Scandinavia. Despite this there were significant pockets of German speaking communities which lasted until the first decades of the 20th century. German-speakers settled principally in Puhoi, Nelson, and Gore. At the last census (2006), 37,500 people in New Zealand spoke German, making it the third most spoken European language after English and French and overall the ninth most spoken language.
Standard German[edit]
Main article: Standard German
The national and regional standard varieties of the German language.[71]
Standard German originated not as a traditional dialect of a specific region, but as a written language. However, there are places where the traditional regional dialects have been replaced by new vernaculars based on standard German; this is the case in large stretches of Northern Germany, but also in major cities in other parts of the country. It is important to note, however, that this colloquial standard German differs greatly from the formal written language, especially in grammar and syntax, in which it has been influenced by dialectal speech.
In the German-speaking parts of Switzerland, mixtures of dialect and standard are very seldom used, and the use of standard German is largely restricted to the written language. This situation has been called a medial diglossia. Swiss Standard German is used in the Swiss education system, while Austrian Standard German is officially used in the Austrian education system. A mixture of dialect and standard also does not occur in Northern Germany. The traditional dialects there are Low German, while Standard German is a High German language. Because the dialects of this region are of a completely different language, they don't mesh with Standard German the way High German dialects (e.g. Bavarian, Swabian, Hessian) are able to.
Official status[edit]
Standard German is the only official language in Liechtenstein; it shares official status in Germany (with Danish, Frisian, Romany and Sorbian as minority languages), in Austria (with Slovene, Croatian, and Hungarian as minority languages), Switzerland (with French, Italian and Romansh), Belgium (with Dutch and French) and Luxembourg (with French and Luxembourgish). It is an official regional language in Italy (South Tyrol), as well as in the cities of Sopron (Hungary), Krahule (Slovakia) and several cities in Romania. It is the official language of command (together with Italian) of the Vatican Swiss Guard.
German has an officially recognized status as a regional or auxiliary language in Denmark[72] (Southern Jutland region), Italy (Gressoney valley),[citation needed] Namibia, Poland (Opole region), and Russia[citation needed] (Asowo and Halbstadt).
German is one of the 23 official languages of the European Union and one of the three working languages. It is the language with the largest number of native speakers in the European Union and is the second-most spoken language in Europe, just behind English and ahead of French.
German as a foreign language[edit]
Knowledge of German as a foreign language (second language in Luxembourg) in the EU member states (+Turkey), in per cent of the adult population (+15), 2005.
German is the third most taught foreign language in the English-speaking world, after French and Spanish.[73]
German is the main language of about 95[2] – 100 million[36] people in Europe (as of 2005), or 13.3% of all Europeans; it is the second most spoken native language in Europe after Russian, above French (66.5 million speakers in 2004) and English (64.2 million speakers in 2004). It is therefore the most spoken first language in the EU. It is the second most known foreign language in the EU.[74] It is one of the official languages of the European Union, and one of the three working languages of the European Commission, along with English and French. Among citizens of the EU-15 countries, 32% say they can converse in German (either as a mother tongue or as a second or foreign language).[75] This is assisted by the widespread availability of German TV by cable or satellite.
German was once, and still remains to some extent, a lingua franca in Central, Eastern, and Northern Europe.[76]
Main article: German dialects
Distribution of the native speakers of major continental West-Germanic dialectal varieties.[citation needed]
German is a member of the West Germanic language of the Germanic family of languages, which in turn is part of the Indo-European language family. The German dialect continuum is traditionally divided most broadly into High German and Low German, also called Low Saxon. Yet, historically, High German dialects and Low Saxon/Low German dialects do not belong to the same language. Nevertheless, in today's Germany, Low Saxon/Low German is often perceived as a dialectal variation of Standard German on a functional level, even by many native speakers. The same phenomenon is found in the eastern Netherlands, as the traditional dialects are not always identified with their Low Saxon/Low German origins, but with Dutch.[77]
Low German[edit]
Main article: Low German
Middle Low German was the lingua franca of the Hanseatic League. It was the predominant language in Northern Germany. This changed in the 16th century: in 1534 the Luther Bible was published. This translation is considered to be an important step towards the evolution of the Early New High German. It aimed to be understandable to a broad audience and was based mainly on Central and Upper German varieties. The Early New High German language gained more prestige than Low German and became the language of science and literature. Around the same time, the Hanseatic league, based around northern ports, lost its importance as new trade routes to Asia and the Americas were established, while the most powerful German states of that period were located in Middle and Southern Germany.
The 18th and 19th centuries were marked by mass education in Standard German in schools. Gradually Low German came to be politically viewed as a mere dialect spoken by the uneducated. Today Low Saxon can be divided in two groups: Low Saxon varieties with a reasonable standard German influx[clarification needed] and varieties of Standard German with a Low Saxon influence known as Missingsch. Sometimes, Low Saxon and Low Franconian varieties are grouped together because both are unaffected by the High German consonant shift. However, the proportion of the population who can understand and speak it has decreased continuously since World War II.
High German[edit]
Main article: High German languages
High German is divided into Central German, High Franconian (a transitional dialect), and Upper German. Central German dialects include Ripuarian, Moselle Franconian, Rhine Franconian, Central Hessian, East Hessian, North Hessian, Thuringian, Silesian German, Lorraine Franconian, Mittelalemannisch, North Upper Saxon, High Prussian, Lausitzisch-Neumärkisch and Upper Saxon. It is spoken in the southeastern Netherlands, eastern Belgium, Luxembourg, parts of France, and parts of Germany roughly between the River Main and the southern edge of the Lowlands. Modern Standard German is mostly based on Central German, although the common (but not linguistically correct) German term for modern Standard German is Hochdeutsch, that is, High German.
The Moselle Franconian varieties spoken in Luxembourg have been officially standardised and institutionalised and are usually considered a separate language known as Luxembourgish.
The two High Franconian dialects are East Franconian and South Franconian.
Upper German dialects include Northern Austro-Bavarian, Central Austro-Bavarian, Southern Austro-Bavarian, Swabian, East Franconian, High Alemannic German, Highest Alemannic German, Alsatian and Low Alemannic German. They are spoken in parts of the Alsace, southern Germany, Liechtenstein, Austria, and the German-speaking parts of Switzerland and Italy.
Wymysorys is a High German dialect of Poland native to Wilamowice, and Sathmarisch and Siebenbürgisch are High German dialects of Romania. The High German varieties spoken by Ashkenazi Jews (mostly in the former Russian Empire) have several unique features, and are usually considered as a separate language, Yiddish. It is the only Germanic language that does not use the Latin script as the basis of its standard alphabet.
Varieties of standard German[edit]
Main article: German grammar
German is an inflected language with three grammatical genders; as such, there can be a large number of words derived from the same root.
Noun inflection[edit]
Declension of the German definite articles, der, die and das ("the").
German nouns inflect by case, gender, and number:
• four cases: nominative, genitive, dative, and accusative.
• three genders: masculine, feminine, and neuter. Word endings sometimes reveal grammatical gender: for instance, nouns ending in ...ung (-ing), ...schaft (-ship), ...keit or ...heit (-hood, -ness) are feminine, while nouns ending in ...chen or ...lein (diminutive forms) are neuter and nouns ending in ...ismus (-ism) are masculine. Others are more variable, sometimes depending on the region in which the language is spoken; and some endings are not restricted to one gender, e.g. (-er), e.g. Feier (feminine), celebration, party, Arbeiter (masculine), labourer, and Gewitter (neuter), thunderstorm.
• two numbers: singular and plural
This degree of inflection is considerably less than in Old High German and other old Indo-European languages such as Latin, Ancient Greek, and Sanskrit, and also somewhat less than, for instance, Old English, modern Icelandic and Russian. The three genders have collapsed in the plural, which now behaves, grammatically, somewhat as a fourth gender. With four cases and three genders plus plural there are 16 permutations of case and gender/number, but there are only six forms of the definite article, which together cover all 16 permutations. In nouns, inflection for case is required in the singular for strong masculine and neuter nouns, in the genitive, and sometimes in the dative. Both of these cases are losing ground to substitutes in informal speech. The dative noun ending is considered somewhat old-fashioned in many contexts and is often dropped, but it is still used in proverbs and the like, in formal speech, and in written language. Weak masculine nouns share a common case ending for genitive, dative and accusative in the singular. Feminine nouns are not declined in the singular. The plural does have an inflection for the dative. In total, seven inflectional endings (not counting plural markers) exist in German: -s, -es, -n, -ns, -en, -ens, -e.
In German orthography, nouns and most words with the syntactical function of nouns are capitalised, to make it easier for readers to determine the function of a word within a sentence (Am Freitag ging ich einkaufen.—"On Friday I went shopping."; Eines Tages kreuzte er endlich auf.—"One day he finally showed up.") This convention is almost unique to German today (shared perhaps only by the closely related Luxemburgish language and several insular dialects of the North Frisian language), although it was historically common in other languages such as Danish (which abolished the capitalization of nouns in 1948) and English.
Like most Germanic languages, German forms noun compounds where the first noun modifies the category given by the second, for example: Hundehütte ("dog hut"; specifically: "dog kennel"). Unlike English, where newer compounds or combinations of longer nouns are often written in "open" with separating spaces, German (like some other Germanic languages) nearly always uses the "closed" form without spaces, for example: Baumhaus ("tree house"). German allows arbitrarily long compounds, as English does to some extent. (See also English compounds.) In German these are quite common. The longest German word verified to be actually in (albeit very limited) use is Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz, which, literally translated, is "beef labelling supervision duty assignment law" [from Rind (cattle), Fleisch (meat), Etikettierung(s) (labelling), Überwachung(s) (supervision), Aufgaben (duties), Übertragung(s) (assignment), Gesetz (law)]. However, examples like this are perceived by native speakers as excessively bureaucratic, stylistically awkward, and even satiric.
Verb inflection[edit]
Main article: German verbs
Inflection of standard German verbs includes:
• three persons: 1st, 2nd, 3rd.
• two numbers: singular and plural
• three moods: indicative, imperative, subjunctive (in addition to infinitive)
• two voices: active and passive; the passive voice uses auxiliary verbs and is dividable into static and dynamic.[clarification needed]
• two tenses without auxiliary verbs (present, preterite) and four tenses constructed with auxiliary verbs (perfect, pluperfect, future and future perfect)
• the distinction between grammatical aspects is rendered by combined use of subjunctive and/or preterite marking: thus the plain indicative voice uses neither of those two markers; the subjunctive by itself conveys second-hand information[clarification needed]; subjunctive plus preterite marks the conditional state; and the preterite alone shows either plain indicative (in the past), or functions as a (literal) alternative for either second-hand-information or the conditional state of the verb, when necessary for clarity.
• the distinction between perfect and progressive aspect is and has at every stage of development been a productive category of the older language and in nearly all documented dialects, but, strangely enough, is nowadays rigorously excluded from written usage in its present normalised form.
Verb prefixes
The meaning of basic verbs can be expanded, and sometimes radically changed, through the use of a number of prefixes. Some prefixes have a specific meaning; the prefix zer- refers to destruction, as in zerreißen (to tear apart), zerbrechen (to break apart), zerschneiden (to cut apart). Other prefixes have only the vaguest meaning in themselves; ver- is found in a number of verbs with a large variety of meanings, as in versuchen (to try) from "suchen" (to seek), vernehmen (to interrogate) from "nehmen" (to take), verteilen (to distribute) from "teilen" (to share), verstehen (to understand) from "stehen" (to stand).
Many German verbs have a separable prefix, often with an adverbial function. In finite verb forms this is split off and moved to the end of the clause, and is hence considered by some to be a "resultative particle". For example, mitgehen meaning "to go along" would be split, giving Gehen Sie mit? (Literal: "Go you with?" ; Formal: "Are you going along?").
Indeed, several parenthetical clauses may occur between the prefix of a finite verb and its complement: e.g.
Word order[edit]
There are two common word orders: one is for main clauses and another for subordinate clauses. In normal affirmative sentences the inflected verb always has position 2. In polar questions, exclamations, and wishes it always has position 1. In subordinate clauses the verb occurs at the very end.
German requires that a verbal element (main verb or auxiliary verb) appear second in the sentence. The verb is preceded by the topic of the sentence. The element in focus appears at the end of the sentence. For a sentence without an auxiliary this gives, amongst other options:
The position of a noun in a German sentence has no bearing on its being a subject, an object, or another argument. In a declarative sentence in English if the subject does not occur before the predicate the sentence could well be misunderstood. This is not so in German. The flexibility to vary the word order allows one to emphasise specific words:
Normal word order:
Object in front:
Adverb of time in front:
Both time expressions in front:
The full time specification Gestern um 10 Uhr is highlighted.
Another possibility:
Swapped adverbs:
The phrase mit einem Schirm in der Hand is highlighted.
Swapped object:
The warden entered yesterday at 10 o'clock his office with an umbrella in his hand.
The flexibility to use different word orders also broadens the options to use language "tools" (e.g. poetic meter and figures of speech) more freely.
Auxiliary verbs
Modal verbs
Multiple infinitives
German subordinate clauses have all verbs clustered at the end. Given that auxiliaries encode future, passive, modality, and the perfect, this can lead to very long chains of verbs at the end of the sentence. In these constructions, the past participle in ge- is often replaced by the infinitive.
Man nimmt an, dass der Deserteur wohl erschossenV wordenpsv seinperf sollmod
One suspects that the deserter probably shot become be should
("It is suspected that the deserter probably should have been shot")
The order at the end of such strings is subject to variation, though the latter version is unusual.
Er wusste nicht, dass der Agent einen Nachschlüssel hatte machen lassen
He knew not that the agent a picklock had make let
Er wusste nicht, dass der Agent einen Nachschlüssel machen lassen hatte
He knew not that the agent a picklock make let had
Duden dictionary.
Most German vocabulary is derived from the Germanic branch of the European language family. However, there is a significant amount of loanwords from other languages, in particular from Latin, Greek, Italian, French[78] and most recently English.[79]
Latin words were already imported into the predecessor of the German language during the Roman Empire and underwent all the characteristic phonetic changes in German. Their origin is thus no longer recognizable for most speakers (e.g. Pforte, Tafel, Mauer from Latin porta, tabula, murus). Borrowing from Latin continued after the fall of the Roman Empire during Christianization, mediated by the church and monasteries. Another important influx of Latin words can be observed during Renaissance humanism. In a scholarly context, the borrowings from Latin have continued until today, in the last decades often indirectly through borrowings from English. During the 15th to 17th centuries, the influence of Italian was great, leading to many Italian loanwords in the fields of architecture, finance, and music. The influence of the French language in the 17th to 19th centuries resulted in an even greater import of French words. The English influence was already present in the 19th century, but did not become dominant until the second half of the 20th century.
At the same time, the effectiveness of the German language in forming equivalents for foreign words from its inherited Germanic stem repertory is great.[citation needed] Thus, Notker Labeo was able to translate Aristotelian treatises in pure (Old High) German in the decades after the year 1000. The tradition of loan translation was revitalized in the 18th century, with linguists like Joachim Heinrich Campe who introduced hundreds of words that are still used in modern German. Even today, there are movements that try to promote the Ersatz (substitution) of foreign words deemed unnecessary with German alternatives.[80] It is claimed that this would also help in spreading modern or scientific notions among the less educated, and thus democratise public life, too.
• Historie - "historical", (Geschichte, geschichtlich)
• Humanität - "humaneness", (Menschlichkeit)
• Millennium - "millennium", (Jahrtausend)
• Perzeption - "perception", (Wahrnehmung)
• Vokabular - "vocabulary", (Wortschatz)
German alphabet in handwritten conventions
German is written in the Latin alphabet. In addition to the 26 standard letters, German has three vowels with Umlaut, namely ä, ö and ü, as well as the Eszett or scharfes s (sharp s), ß. In Switzerland "ss" is used instead of "ß". Additionally, when written in capitals, "ß" is replaced with "SS" in Germany, while in Austria it is traditionally replaced with "SZ" (the same digraph used in Hungarian for the "s" sound); there are some exceptions to these rules (see below).
Written texts in German are easily recognisable as such by distinguishing features such as umlauts and certain orthographical features—German is the only major language that capitalizes all nouns, a holdover from when it was widely done in Northern Europe in the early modern era (including English for a while, in the 1700s)—and the frequent occurrence of long compounds. The longest German word that has been published is "Donaudampfschiffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft" made of 79 characters. Since legibility and convenience set certain boundaries, compounds consisting of more than three or four nouns are almost exclusively found in humorous contexts. (In contrast, while English can also string nouns together, it usually separates the nouns with spaces.)
Before the German spelling reform of 1996, ß replaced ss after long vowels and diphthongs and before consonants, word-, or partial-word-endings. In reformed spelling, ß replaces ss only after long vowels and diphthongs. Since there is no capital ß, it is always written as "SS" when capitalization is required. For example, Maßband (tape measure) is capitalized MASSBAND. An exception is the use of ß in legal documents and forms when capitalizing names. To avoid confusion with similar names, a "ß" is to be used instead of "SS". (So: "KREßLEIN" instead of "KRESSLEIN".) A capital ß has been proposed and included in Unicode ("ẞ"; Unicode character U+1E9E), but it is not yet recognized as standard German. In Switzerland, ß is not used at all.
Umlaut vowels (ä, ö, ü) are commonly transcribed with ae, oe, and ue if the umlauts are not available on the keyboard or other medium used. In the same manner ß can be transcribed as ss. Some operating systems use key sequences to extend the set of possible characters to include, amongst other things, umlauts; in Microsoft Windows this is done using Alt codes. German readers understand those transcriptions (although they look unusual), but they are avoided if the regular umlauts are available because they are a makeshift, not proper spelling. (In Westphalia and Schleswig-Holstein, city and family names exist where the extra e has a vowel lengthening effect, e.g. Raesfeld [ˈraːsfɛlt], Coesfeld [ˈkoːsfɛlt] and Itzehoe [ɪtsəˈhoː], but this use of the letter e after a/o/u does not occur in the present-day spelling of words other than proper nouns.)
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Until the early 20th century, German was mostly printed in blackletter typefaces (mostly in Fraktur, but also in Schwabacher) and written in corresponding handwriting (for example Kurrent and Sütterlin). These variants of the Latin alphabet are very different from the serif or sans serif Antiqua typefaces used today, and particularly the handwritten forms are difficult for the untrained to read. The printed forms, however, were claimed by some to be more readable when used for Germanic languages.[82] (Often, foreign names in a text were printed in a "normal" typeface even though the rest of the text was in Fraktur.) The Nazis initially promoted Fraktur and Schwabacher since they were considered Aryan, although they abolished them in 1941, claiming that these letters were Jewish. The Fraktur script remains present in everyday life in pub signs, beer brands and other forms of advertisement, where it is used to convey a certain rusticality and antiquity.
Reform of 1996[edit]
The most noticeable change was probably in the use of the letter ß, called scharfes s (Sharp S) or ess-zett (pronounced ess-tsett). Traditionally, this letter was used in three situations: 1) after a long vowel or vowel combination, 2) before a t, and 3) at the end of a syllable, thus Füße, paßt, and daß. Currently only the first rule is in effect, thus Füße, passt, and dass. The word Fuß 'foot' has the letter ß because it contains a long vowel, even though that letter occurs at the end of a syllable. The logic of this change is that an 'ß' is a single letter whereas 'ss' obviously are two letters, so the same distinction applies as for instance between the words 'den' and 'denn'.
Main article: German phonology
Spoken German in Goethe's Faust
Both of these rules have exceptions (e.g. hat [hat] 'has' is short despite the first rule; Mond [moːnt], 'moon' is long despite the second rule). For an i that is neither in the combination ie (making it long) nor followed by a double consonant or cluster (making it short), there is no general rule. In some cases, there are regional differences: In central Germany (Hessen), the o in the proper name "Hoffmann" is pronounced long while most other Germans would pronounce it short; the same applies to the e in the geographical name "Mecklenburg" for people in that region. The word Städte 'cities', is pronounced with a short vowel [ˈʃtɛtə] by some (Jan Hofer, ARD Television) and with a long vowel [ˈʃtɛːtə] by others (Marietta Slomka, ZDF Television). Finally, a vowel followed by ch can be short (Fach [fax] 'compartment', Küche [ˈkʏçə] 'kitchen') or long (Suche [ˈzuːxə] 'search', Bücher [ˈbyːçɐ] 'books') almost at random. Thus, Lache is homographous between [laːxə] Lache 'puddle' and [laxə] Lache 'manner of laughing' (colloquial) or lache! 'laugh!' (imperative).
spelling ai, ei, ay, ey au äu, eu
pronunciation /aɪ̯/ /aʊ̯/ /ɔʏ̯/
Bilabial Labiodental Alveolar Postalveolar Palatal Velar Uvular Glottal
Plosive p3 b4 t3 d4 k3 ɡ4
Affricate pf ts ()5
Fricative f v s z ʃ (ʒ)5 x1 h
Nasal m n ŋ
Approximant l j
Rhotic r2 (ʁ~ʀ)2
• 4 The voiced stops /b/, /d/, /ɡ/ are devoiced to /p/, /t/, /k/, respectively, in word-final position.
Consonant spellings
• dsch is pronounced [d͡ʒ] (like j in Jungle) but appears in a few loanwords only.
• j is pronounced [j] in Germanic words (Jahr [jaːɐ]). In recent loanwords, it follows more or less the respective languages' pronunciations.
• q only exists in combination with u and appears in both Germanic and Latin words (quer; Qualität). But as most words containing q are Latinate, the letter is considerably rarer in German than it is in English. The digraph qu is pronounced [kv].
• r is usually pronounced in a guttural fashion (a voiced uvular fricative [ʁ] or uvular trill [ʀ]) in front of a vowel or consonant (Rasen [ˈʁaːzən]; Burg [buʁk]). In spoken German, however, it is commonly vocalised after a vowel (er being pronounced rather like [ˈɛɐ]Burg [buɐk]). In some varieties, the r is pronounced as a "tongue-tip" r (the alveolar trill [r]).
• s in Germany, is pronounced [z] (as in "zebra") if it forms the syllable onset (e.g. Sohn [zoːn]), otherwise [s] (e.g. Bus [bʊs]). In Austria and Switzerland, it is always pronounced [s]. A ss [s] indicates that the preceding vowel is short. st and sp at the beginning of words of German origin are pronounced [ʃt] and [ʃp], respectively.
• ß (a letter unique to German called scharfes S or Eszett) was a ligature of a double s and of an sz and is always pronounced [s]. Originating in Blackletter typeface, it traditionally replaced ss at the end of a syllable (e.g. ich mussich muß; ich müssteich müßte); within a word it contrasts with ss [s] in indicating that the preceding vowel is long (compare in Maßen [in ˈmaːsən] "with moderation" and in Massen [in ˈmasən] "in loads"). The use of ß has recently been limited by the latest German spelling reform and is no longer used for ss after a short vowel (e.g. "ich muß" and "ich müßte" were always pronounced with a short U/Ü); Switzerland and Liechtenstein already abolished it in 1934.[83]
• tion in Latin loanwords is pronounced [tsion].
• v is pronounced [f] in words of Germanic origin, such as Vater [ˈfaːtɐ], Vogel "bird", von "from, of", vor "before, in front of", voll "full" and the prefix ver-. It is also used in loanwords, where it is, traditionally, supposed to be pronounced [v]. This pronunciation is retained for example in Vase, Vikar, Viktor, Viper, Ventil, vulgär, and English loanwords; however, pronunciation tends to [f] the further you travel south. Some words, such as Ventil and the name Valentin (not, for example, Vase) have reached a plain f in Bavaria and Swabia.
• y is pronounced as [y] (like in Hygiene ; Labyrinth or Gymnasium) except in ay and ey which are both pronounced [ai]. It is also often used in loanwords and pronounced like in the original language like in Style or Recycling.
• z is always pronounced [t͡s] (e.g. zog [t͡soːk]). A tz indicates that the preceding vowel is short.
Consonant shifts[edit]
For more details on this topic, see High German consonant shift.
Likewise, the gh in Germanic English words, pronounced in several different ways in modern English (as an f, or not at all), can often be linked to German ch: "to laugh" → lachen, "through" and "thorough" → durch, "high" → hoch, "naught" → nichts, "light" → leicht or Licht, "sight" → Sicht, "daughter" → Tochter, "neighbour" → Nachbar.
German language media worldwide[edit]
A visible sign of the geographical extension of German language are the German language media outside the German-speaking countries.
According to W3Techs, 6.0% of websites are written in German,[85] making it the second most used language on the Internet.
Main article: German literature
Theologian Luther, who translated the Bible into German, is widely credited for having set the basis for the modern "High German" language. Among the most well known German poets and authors are Lessing, Goethe, Schiller, Kleist, Hoffmann, Brecht, Heine and Schmidt. Thirteen German speaking people have won the Nobel Prize in literature: Theodor Mommsen, Rudolf Christoph Eucken, Paul von Heyse, Gerhart Hauptmann, Carl Spitteler, Thomas Mann, Nelly Sachs, Hermann Hesse, Heinrich Böll, Elias Canetti, Günter Grass, Elfriede Jelinek and Herta Müller.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Friedrich Schiller
Brothers Grimm
Thomas Mann
Hermann Hesse
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German loanwords in the English language[edit]
For a list of German loanwords to English, see Category:German loanwords.
German word English loanword Meaning of German word
abseilen abseil to descend by rope / to fastrope
Angst angst fear
Ansatz ansatz onset / entry / math / approach
Anschluss anschluss connection / access / annexation
Automat automat automation / machine
Blitz Blitz flash / lightning
Bratwurst bratwurst fried sausage
Delikatessen delikatessen/delicatessen delicate / delicious food items
Edelweiß edelweiss edelweiss flower
Fest fest feast / celebration
Gedankenexperiment gedankenexperiment thought experiment
Geländesprung gelandesprung ski jumping for distance on alpine equipment
Gemütlichkeit gemuetlichkeit snug feeling, cosiness, good nature, geniality
Gestalt gestalt form or shape / creature / scheme; refers to a concept of 'wholeness'
Heiligenschein heiligenschein meteo. "holy shine" / halo
kaputt kaput out of order, not working (from French, être capot "to have made no tricks in card games", lit. "to be hoodwinked")
Kindergarten kindergarten lit. "children's garden" - nursery or preschool
Kitsch kitsch fake art, something produced exclusively for sale
Kraut kraut herb, cabbage in some dialects
Leitmotiv leitmotif guiding theme (the verb "leiten" means "to guide, to lead")
Poltergeist poltergeist lit. "rumbling ghost" (artificial compound, not originally German)
Realpolitik realpolitik diplomacy based on practical objectives rather than ideals
Reich reich empire or realm
Rucksack rucksack backpack (Ruck→"Rücken" which means "back")
Sauerkraut sauerkraut shredded and salted cabbage fermented in its own juice
Schadenfreude schadenfreude taking pleasure in someone else's misfortune
Über uber over, above
Übermensch ubermensch superhuman, "overman"
verklemmt verklemmt lit. "jammed": inhibited, uptight
Waldsterben waldsterben lit. "forest dieback", dying floral environment
Wanderlust wanderlust desire, pleasure, or inclination to travel or walk
Weltanschauung weltanschauung lit. "perception of the world": ideology
Zugzwang Zugzwang chess term lit. "compulsion to move"
Main article: Goethe-Institut
Goethe-Institut logo
The government-backed Goethe-Institut[86] (named after the famous German author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) aims to enhance the knowledge of German culture and language within Europe and the rest of the world. This is done by holding exhibitions and conferences with German-related themes, and providing training and guidance in the learning and use of the German language. For example the Goethe-Institut teaches the Goethe-Zertifikat German language qualification.
Verein Deutsche Sprache[edit]
Deutsche Welle[edit]
Main article: Deutsche Welle
The German state broadcaster Deutsche Welle is the equivalent of the British BBC World Service and provides radio and television broadcasts in German and 30 other languages across the globe.[88] Its German language services are tailored for German language learners by being spoken at slow speed. Deutsche Welle also provides an E-learning website to learn German.
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45. ^ Plenário aprova em segundo turno a PEC do patrimônio
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18th century Netsuke mask of Hannya
The moth genus Hannya is now considered a junior synonym of Habrosyne.
The Hannya (般若) mask is a mask used in Noh theater, representing a jealous female demon or serpent. It possesses two sharp bull-like horns, metallic eyes, and a leering mouth.[1]
Origin of the name[edit]
The name hannya (般若) is a Sino-Japanese word for prajna or wisdom. One tradition states that this name was given to this mask because it was the name of an artist monk Hannya-bō (般若坊) who is said to have perfected its creation.[2][3] Another explanation is that Perfection of Wisdom sutras and their variations were considered to be particularly effective against female demons.[citation needed] An alternate explanation is that the artist would need a great deal of wisdom in order to create this mask.[4]
The Hannya mask is said to be demonic and dangerous but also sorrowful and tormented, displaying the complexity of human emotions. When the actor looks straight ahead, the mask appears frightening and angry; when tilted slightly down, the face of the demon appears to be sorrowful, as though crying.[citation needed] The oldest hannya mask is dated 1558.[citation needed]
Hannya masks appear in various skin tones: a white mask indicates a woman of aristocratic status (such as Rokujō in Aoi no Ue), a red mask depicts a low-class woman (seen in Dōjōji), and the darkest red depicts true demons (revealed after appearing as women, as in Momijigari and Kurozuka.)[6][7]
Plays associated with Hannya[edit]
• Aoi no Ue - worn by the Lady Rokujō in her second-half appearance as a demon.
• Dōjōji - can be worn by the dancing woman in her second-half appearance as a snake, though the Shinja (真蛇) mask is also used.
• Kurozuka (known in the Kanze school as Adachigahara) - worn by the spinning woman of Adachigahara after she is revealed to be a demon.
• Momijigari - can be worn by the noblewoman after she is revealed to be a demon.
In popular culture[edit]
• Hannya is a fictional character in the popular manga Rurouni Kenshin, where he is part of the Oniwabanshu
• Yagyū Jūbei Mitsuyoshi of the manga The Yagyu Ninja Scrolls wears a hannya mask while helping the Hori clan women exact their revenge.
• In the manga One Piece, a character named Hannyabal seems to be based on this mask, both on name and his facial features.
• The video game Team Fortress 2 features a similar mask as an accessory for the Spy class, called the Noh Mercy.
• In the video game Tomb Raider (2013 video game), a Hannya mask is one of the artifacts that the main protagonist Lara Croft can find.
• In the Tekken series of fighting games, one of the main characters named Yoshimitsu wears an Hannya mask. It is also worn by the Kunoichi Kunimitsu, both in Tekken & Tekken Tag Tournament 2, as a customization item.
• One of the members (C9H13N) of the Swedish Black Metal/Depressive Rock band, Apati wears a Hannya mask.
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6. ^ Coldiron, Margaret (2005). "Lions, Witches, and Happy Old Men: Some Parallels between Balinese and Japanese Ritual Masks". Asian Theatre Journal 22 (2). JSTOR 4137132.
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Middridge is located in County Durham
Middridge shown within County Durham
OS grid reference NZ251261
Unitary authority County Durham
Ceremonial county County Durham
Region North East
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Newton Aycliffe
Postcode district DL5
Dialling code 01325
Police Durham
Fire County Durham and Darlington
Ambulance North East
EU Parliament North East England
List of places
County Durham
Coordinates: 54°38′N 1°40′W / 54.63°N 1.66°W / 54.63; -1.66
Following the fall of the Roman Empire, the Saxons arrived in the area around 500 AD [1] and created several settlements, including Middridge. The name "Middridge" is derived from its location at that time on the "middle ridge" between Eldon and School Aycliffe (near the current Aycliffe golf course).
Anglo-Saxon Middridge lasted for five hundred years before being destroyed by the Normans during William the Conqueror's Harrying of the North. Those who survived this massacre (and the resulting disease and starvation) were enslaved by the invaders. They were forced by the Bishop of Durham to toil in the surrounding fields as serfs, and forcibly relocated to gloomy huts centred on the village green. The "serfs" eventually gained their freedom and the village green survives to this day, although the housing has improved considerably.
The arrival of the industrial age in the nineteenth century resulted in two coal mines: Charles Pit and Eden Pit.[2] These pits were collectively known as Middridge Colliery, and provided employment for hundreds of people in their heyday while producing a combined daily total of 600 tons of coal,[3] before closing in the early 20th century. The remains of this era live on in the names of places such as Charles Row, Eden Grove and the "pit heap", a small hill used in the winter as a sledge run# Until recently, the pit heap was also used to host the annual village bonfire#
Notable buildings and structures[edit]
Middridge Grange is a Grade II listed building [4] situated just outside the village itself, between Shildon and School Aycliffe. It is one of the oldest buildings in the region, beginning life as a large Elizabethan manor in 1578. However, the current Middridge Grange bears little resemblance to the original manor, much of which was destroyed by fire in the 19th century.
Used as a farmhouse, it has been owned by the Scott family since the early 20th century but has not been lived in since the 1970s, after falling into serious disrepair. A site of great interest to historians, it is currently undergoing an extensive renovation.
Middridge Village Hall was originally built as a school for the children of the village and local farming community. It served this purpose for many years, but due to a continuing fall in pupil numbers in the 1950s and 1960s and changes in education policy, it closed.
To prevent the building becoming derelict, the committee of the village association took over the administration of the hall. After various repairs and alterations, it became the village hall, which it has been for well over thirty years. The village hall is used as a venue for discos, church services, parties and social gatherings such as the monthly wine club. The hall has recently been refurbished, with an entirely new roof section, plumbing structure and electrical system.
Famous residents[edit]
The Byerley Turk, the great stallion owned by the then Captain (later Colonel) Robert Byerley, was arguably Middridge's most famous resident. The Byerley Turk was one of the three[5] founding stallions of today's thoroughbred horses and was stood at Middridge Grange, until being moved to Goldsborough Hall, near Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, when his owner married his cousin, Mary Wharton, in 1692.
Robert Byerley was the son of Colonel Anthony Byerley, a cavalry officer who served Charles I in a unit known as "Byerley's Bulldogs". The Byerley line eventually died out, but their name lives on in place names around the region, such as Byerley Park, Byerley Road etc.
It is believed that King Charles I of England took refuge in Middridge Grange during the English Civil War.[6]
Legends and folklore[edit]
The Middridge fairies (or faeries) are, according to legend, very different from the kind, winged fairies of popular culture. They are rumoured to be evil demons that scourge people and generally cause mischief. The story goes that the fairies chased a traveller, who took refuge in Middridge Grange, getting inside the building just before the pitchfork struck the door. The pitchfork mark was reputedly on this door for many years afterwards. They were also blamed for disruptions to the building of the Stockton and Darlington railway.
The village fete[edit]
Middridge village fete is a yearly event for the local community (but people come from miles around). It is usually a combination of a jumble sale, children's entertainment, competitions and other events, usually ending in a barbecue that is enjoyed alongside copious amounts of alcohol.
In 1974 during excavations for the foundation of the Bay Horse Pub extension in Middridge, a hoard of coins mainly dating from Edward 1 era was found. Known as "The Middridge Hoard", the significant hoard was mainly distributed at an auction by Dinning in 1976, although some remain in the Dorman Long Museum in Middlesbrough, and the British Treasury Museum in London. The Hoard. The hoard of 3072 coins was estimated to be buried in 1311, and consisted of mainly English, but also Irish, Scottish and Continental coins.
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2. ^ Lloyd, Chris. "Come friendly bombs and fall on...Eden (From The Northern Echo)". Thenorthernecho.co.uk. Retrieved 2012-11-07.
3. ^ http://www.dmm.org.uk/colliery/m032.htm
4. ^ "Keys To The Past, Ref No D15753". Keystothepast.info. Retrieved 2012-11-07.
5. ^ The Byerley Turk by Jeremy James, publ. Merlin Unwin Books, ISBN 978-1-873674-98-7
6. ^ [2][dead link]
• Leighton, H.R. (1910) Memorials of Old Durham London: G. Allen
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Ulugh Beg Observatory in 2001
The trench. In Ulugh Beg's time, these walls were lined with polished marble.
History and astronomical equipment[edit]
In 1420, the great astronomer Ulugh Beg built a madrasah in Samarkand, named the Ulugh Beg Madrasah. It became an important centre for astronomical study and only invited scholars to study at the university whom he personally approved of and respected academically and at its peak had between 60 and 70 astronomers working there.[citation needed] In 1424, he began building the observatory to support the astronomical study at the madrasah and it was completed five years later in 1429. Beg assigned his assistant and scholar Ali Qushji to take charge of the Ulugh Beg Observatory which was called Samarkand Observatory at that time. He worked there till Ulugh Beg was assassinated.[2] Other notable astronomers made observations of celestial movements at the observatory, including Qāḍīzāda al-Rūmī (who took charge of the madrasah and observatory after Ali Qushji's death) and Jamshid Kashani.
However, the observatory was destroyed by religious fanatics in 1449 and was only re-discovered in 1908, by a Uzbek-Russian archaeologist from Samarkand named V. L. Vyatkin, who discovered an endowment document that stated the observatory's exact location.[3]
While working at the excavation site, Vyatkin found one of the most important astronomical instruments used at the observatory: a large arch that had been used to determine midday.[4] A trench of about 2 metres wide was dug in a hill along the line of the Meridian and in it was placed the arc of the instrument. Today, there is a circular base showing the outline of the original structure and the doorway leads to the remaining underground section of the Fakhrī sextant that is now roofed over. The sextant was 11 metres long and once rose to the top of the surrounding 3 storey structure although it was kept underground to protect it from earthquakes. Calibrated along its length, it was the world's largest 90 degree quadrant at the time, with a radius of 40.4 metres.[3] The radius of the meridian arc was according to a trusted middle age Turkish astronomer approximately 50 metres and was said to be the same height as the dome of the Hagia Sofia mosque in Istanbul.[5] It was used for the observation of the Sun, Moon and other celestial bodies, and along with other sophisticated equipment such as an armillary and an astrolobe, the astronomers working in Samarkand could determine noon every day according to the meridional height of the Sun, distance from the zenith and declination.[citation needed]
By 1437, scholarly studies using the observatory had updated the Ilkhanic Tables which had previously been observed in the 1260s and 1270s at the Maragheh observatory, which provided valuable sine and tangent tables,[6] and the Zij-i Sultani, which displayed improved planetary parameters and the plotting of the coordinates of 1,018 star positions based on some original research at the observatory rather than purely being an update of the work of Ptolemy or al-Sufi.[citation needed] In fact, Ulugh Beg and his scholars had computed many inaccuracies in their work as he explained in his preface under the heading "Determination of the Places of the Fixed Stars in Longitude and Latitude":
Ulugh Beg Madrasah was an important centre of astronomical study in Central Asia
These discoveries and research conducted at Ulugh Beg Observatory were very important at the time as astronomers could predict eclipses and calculate the hour of the rising sun and altitude of a celestial body,[8] and meant their hypothesis of a stellar year was rather accurate, at 365 days, 6 hours, 10 minutes and 8 seconds, only about 1 minute longer than the modern electronic calculations.[citation needed] Although the observatory was destroyed in 1449, scholarly astronomical study continued in Samarkand for some 75 years.[9]
The entrance of the observatory has been modified several times in recent years.
Zij-i Sultani[edit]
Main article: Zij-i Sultani
Zīj-i Sultānī (Persian: زیجِ سلطانی) is a Zij astronomical table and star catalogue that was published by Ulugh Beg in 1437. It was the joint product of the work of a group of Muslim astronomers working under the patronage of Ulugh Beg at the Samarkand observatory. These astronomers included Jamshīd al-Kāshī and Ali Qushji, among others.
Beg determined the length of the tropical year as 365d 5h 49m 15s, which has an error of +25s, making it more accurate than Nicolaus Copernicus' estimate which had an error of +30s. Beg also determined the Earth's axial tilt as 23.52 degrees, which remains the most accurate measurement to date. It was more accurate than later measurements by Copernicus and Tycho Brahe, and it matches the currently accepted value precisely.[10]
Ulug Beg Observatory Museum in 2012
The Ulug Beg Observatory Museum was built in 1970 to commemorate Ulug Begh.[3] Ulug Beg's Star Charts, the Zij-i Sultani are kept in the museum although they are copies; the original drawings are in Oxford, England.[3]
3. ^ a b c d "Samarqand". Raw W Travels. Retrieved November 1, 2009.
4. ^ "Observatories in Islamic History". Islamonline.net. Retrieved November 1, 2009.
5. ^ Sayili, A. (1960). The Observatory in Islam. Turkish Historical Society, Ankara. p. 271.
6. ^ North, J. (1994). The Fontana History of Astronomy and Cosmology. Fontana Press, London. p. 200.
7. ^ "Ulughbek and his Observatory in Samarkand". Retrieved November 1, 2009.
8. ^ Djebbar, A. (2001). Une Histoire de la Science Arabe (in French). Le Seuil, Paris. pp. 187–8.
9. ^ Sédillot, L. (1853). General Survey of Arabic Astronomy, encyclopaedia, Volume 1. Regis Morelon. p. 14.
10. ^ Hugh Thurston, Early Astronomy, (New York: Springer-Verlag), p. 194, ISBN 0-387-94107-X.
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Dec. 11th, 2012 05:34 pm (UTC)
Strength training more than stretch - or, at least, it might be a stretch to beginners, but once you're more into it it's about having the strength and stability to move in that space usefully.
My primary art, Chen Taijiquan* does push hands at that level. I really wish I'd gotten pictures of me doing it with Shifu a couple seminars ago - I meant to - but since I didn't, here's a short of Hong Yijiao (my master) doing fourth level push hands with Chen Zhenglei (her master, and general martial artist of stunning awesomeness).
Now, of course, push hands is a training exercise (though a more useful one than a lot of people realize, including a lot of push hands practitioners.) When sparring, I don't drop into crouch stance that often, but I do, sometimes, and I don't know if I've ever locked my knee. (Maybe, possibly, when sweeping someone, but then my low sweeps still kind of suck.) I do spend a lot of time in low stances - the advantages of having one's center lower than one's opponent's are pretty major, and there's a lot to be said for the combination of stability and that much lateral movement for close in work - but most of the time, going into crouch is going to limit me more than I'd like. But it's excellent training for low stance work generally, and of course when it is just the right thing it's really fun to be able to pull it off. (I've definitely had a few opponents who were all "I have never seen anyone actually pull that off in a match." I treasure those moments. Particularly since it often happens in the other direction ;-) )
So, yeah. I train crouch stance to crouch stance transitions (drop into crouch on one side. Then switch to crouch on the other without letting your butt come up in the middle and with your back straight and head suspended - then switch again, etc. etc. - I usually pair it with upper-cuts into head blocks on each side, but there's a lot of arm stuff you can do) every morning. And do a lot of crouch stance in forms work, since it comes up a lot in Chen. In practical situations, I've probably gotten the most mileage out of it in hiking - it's way useful when going overland to be able to drop down and go under things easily in a backpack, especially if you're in an area with a lot of dead fall. (For a while there my hiking buddy and I were having to hike mostly on weekends, when the trails are overrun. So we adopted a policy of "no trails, no people" - which was really fun, for a certain aesthetic of fun.)
* Not exactly your typical Taiji in the park ;-)
Dec. 11th, 2012 05:42 pm (UTC)
You realize that this does make the cover slightly less stupid, though? :)
Dec. 11th, 2012 06:02 pm (UTC)
Wasn't it you to whom I responded (at length - sorry about that) making more or less that point when this cover was suggested in the first place?
There are a number of details about the pose that strike me as pretty silly. The shoes. Oh, the shoes. But then my favorite dress shoes are actually cross training running shoes, and perhaps I'm biased. The dress... not so much. I have a number of little piece of nothing dresses I used to wear clubbing* that impeded my movement not at all. Though I learned to color coordinate my underwear, because apparently just can't limit myself to moves that are decent in a short skirt.
More to the point, the angle of her back and hips suggest to me that she's not able to settle into the pose, and her center of gravity relative to her hips suggests a lack of stability almost to the point of begging to be knocked over. I can't see why anyone who isn't well accustomed to working at that height would drop into that position while trying to keep a weapon at the ready - but then, the more stylized versions of these poses are used an awful lot by wushu artists, and I think a lot of the subtleties are lost on the more general audience.
* Not that I ever made it out clubbing that often. But a lot more than recently!
Dec. 11th, 2012 06:13 pm (UTC)
I am pretty sure that she has her right knee forward on or almost to.the ground -- not sure that's possible given her body position -- and her right shoulder is rolled and extended forward to the point of dislocation, which would improve neither stability nor aim. No wonderful she loks cranky!
Dec. 11th, 2012 08:59 pm (UTC)
Huh. That's not how I originally read her knee position, but I think you might be right - hard to tell in a black dress with those shadows. I will have to try that when I get home, but yeah, that's going to tend to bring the pelvis forward and up, which is going to make it harder to keep balance, considering how much her shoulders are already forward.
I'll try that when I get home and see... (The irony here is that I just got back from an appointment with an orthopod who is predicting a high degree of likelihood of needing orthoscopic surgery, and who doesn't like my hobbies even if that's not how I hurt my knee. Anyhow, a pose like this is easier than my morning workout, and I'm not intending to stop them, but... grump. I hate breaking in new doctors.)
Dec. 11th, 2012 10:56 pm (UTC)
Just be careful! seriously.
Martial arts posed and moves have been designed over the centuries to be efficient and ergonomically correct. Book-cover poses ... not so much. Some of them would require dismemberment!
Arthroscopy isn't so bad, with a good surgeon. My knee hurt less the day after my surgery than it had in years! Took a while to get full, safe use, nut it was absolutely worth it. (I had a fancy ice cooler with pump circulating cold water through a Velcro-on sleeve that really helped minimize inflammation and speed things up.)
Dec. 11th, 2012 11:10 pm (UTC)
I have a pretty good sense of what works for my body, usually - which means things not infrequently end in a "Nuh-uh - the fuck...!" But when I consulted the picture again on a better monitor, it seems pretty clear that the knee is up, and it's just drapery from the skirt. So, not sure how this would work in heels, and there's a lot about this pose that just seems ridiculous, but doable. Especially if you don't care about wobbling or falling over.
I had not dissimilar surgery on my other knee fourteen years ago - what they thought was a torn meniscus then (which is the best guess for the intermittently swollen knee now, even though my symptoms are less like a torn meniscus than they were last time.) turned out to be a bone spur on the back of my patella. Within a week I was on my bike, within three it was fine.
But... I had spine surgery earlier this year, and the recovery has been slower than I'd have liked. (Of course, I would have liked immediate - really, it hasn't been bad, but there's a lot on my plate atm. I probably should have taken a leave of absence somewhere in this process.) And the whole lecture about crepitus in my knee and how I should stop doing the low stances is just way more than I want to deal with right now. Especially since is doesn't really gibe with my experience of my knees. Whine, whine, whine. (I teach anatomy, and much of my doctoral work is on biomechanics, so I'm quite equipped to represent myself in this regard... but I doan wanna. And oh dear gods I don't want to break in new doctors right now.)
Dec. 11th, 2012 11:21 pm (UTC)
Yeah, it took me forever to find a sports med guy I really liked. And then he died. :-( If he were still around, I bet my ankle would be working a lot better by now.
Dec. 11th, 2012 09:04 pm (UTC)
Low base, hell yes (I'm a grappler at heart) but in heals? Oh hell no. Aiming a crossbow from a low base with a locked elbow and one hand? Accuracy is going to suck.
Dec. 11th, 2012 09:20 pm (UTC)
And here I have to confess my ignorance. I have probably worn heels less than 30 times in my life. Very likely less than twenty. Twice I have obtained (once, bought, once was given) super cute lace up boots... but where would I wear them other than to a party? And then the moment I started dancing I'd be all "OMG, these are incredibly annoying!" and take them off. I finally made it a policy to wear wrestling boots or martial arts slippers to any such events. (That was before Merrell Gloves were on the market.)
So... while I know I'm not used to them, I don't really have much of a sense what people who are used to them can do.
Agreement on the locked elbow, BTW.Though I think I'd personally have more trouble with having the shoulder rolled forward. (Or maybe it's just that I'd be hearing Shifu call out "elbows shoulders dropped!" the whole time. Which'd throw me.)
Dec. 11th, 2012 11:54 pm (UTC)
Your seifu sounds like he'd get on well with my old master in Phnom Dom Phen Cambodian Judo and Wrestling. Sensi Tan would have been screaming MOVE FREELY and bitching us out in a combination of japanese, korean, cambodian, latin and english.
Dec. 12th, 2012 12:03 am (UTC)
She - Hong Yijiao, as featured in the picture above (though that's an old picture - for some reason that exhibition back in 2002 has become the standard source of web shots of folks doing 4th level push hands). Shifu does traditionally has a male feel to it... but Shimu isn't a feminine equivalent - it tended to mean the master's wife - and it's become common, especially for women coming out of the PRC, to use Shifu. I've been studying with her for 15 years now, and just made arrangements for the next set of private lessons when I'm back in Seattle in a couple of weeks. (Yay!)
That sounds excellent, though. What a great mix. It's kind of funny - Shifu is way tougher in her language when she's speaking Chinese - well, if she's speaking to a study who is young than her, anyway. Otherwise, it's pretty similar.
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Hi all! Is there anything like Gödel's constructible universe for New Foundations?
More precisely, I would like a process for taking a model $M$ of NF, and using it to build a model $L \subseteq M$ of NF with the property that every set in $L$ is defined by a (stratified) first-order formula with quantifiers ranging over $M$. (Edited; see the comments for a discussion of some issues surrounding this definition.)
Anything not exactly that, but along those lines, would also be of interest. I would also be interested in hearing about such results for non-well-founded set theories other than NF. Has this been done? Is it possible?
I'm wondering because I am trying to build this sort of constructible model for a naïve set theory that I am studying. I haven't figured out how to apply the methods used for models of ZF to models of naïve set theory. I'm guessing that similar issues might apply in working with NF, because both theories are primarily distinguished by their use of a powerful comprehension axiom.
Thank you!
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@Ben: cs.nyu.edu/pipermail/fom/2012-November/016758.html Randall has a privately circulated manuscript, that he's been editing. He'll most likely send you the latest version if you email him about it. – Andres Caicedo Dec 28 '12 at 0:24
The second paragraph of the question, beginning "More precisely," isn't exactly what you meant, because it can be satisfied by defining $L$ to be $V$, the whole universe. Your definability requirement is satisfied because you allow parameters from $L$; any set $s$ (in $V$) has a trivial stratified definition with a parameter from $V$, namely $s$ itself: $s=\{x:x\in s\}$. The essence of "genuine" $L$ (as opposed to my phony $L$ defined as $V$) is that the parameters in the definition of $s$ must come "before" $s$, in some (presumably ordinal-indexed) hierarchy. – Andreas Blass Dec 28 '12 at 0:43
Some thoughts on how to approach this or how to make the question more specific. I suspect that there is no "iterative conception" or "predicative view" that makes perfect sense for NF, so $L$ might not be the right idea. However, I think it makes sense to ask whether NF has a some kind of a "prime model." Perhaps there is some extension NF+? such that the (parameter-free) definable elements of a model also model NF+?... – François G. Dorais Dec 28 '12 at 1:21
@Nick: This is addressed in Randall's announcement. If Randall's argument is correct, ZF proves the consistency of NF. In fact, NF is equiconsistent with Mac Lane set theory, which is strictly weaker than Zermelo's set theory, which is strictly weaker than ZF. – Andres Caicedo Dec 28 '12 at 5:20
@Nick: The idea of eliminating definable parameters in favor of their definitions is not mine. I'm pretty sure it existed before I was born, but I don't know who first used it. My best guess is Tarski, but that's only a guess. I think you can safely refer to it as "well known" in your proof. – Andreas Blass Dec 30 '12 at 1:56
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My impression is that a reconstruction of L in NF is not very satisfactory. One version of L's construction, following Jensen, is to take the rudimentary set functions and iterate them under composition and unions along the (von Neumann) ordinals. However not all the rudimentary functions can be given a stratified definition. Thomas Forster remedies this and defines a list of strat.rud. functions and mimicks the Jensen process using these to build a strat.rud. closed model S. However choice fails in S, but more significantly, S has a canonical wellorder (that of construction) but initial segments of the graph of this well order are only unstratified, and thus are not in S. In short the model S cannot "construct itself" in the way that "V=L" is shown to hold in L. Worse still, there is no total order even of $V_\omega$ (let alone a wellorder) in S.
The problem seems to be that one can iterate the strat.rud functions along wellorderings, but there is no way in general to compare the results: one does not have in general a Mostowski-Shepherdson Collapsing Lemma in NF to "transitivize and compare" the differing hierarchies so produced, because there is insufficient induction. (The latter problem would seem to raise its head whatever version of L's construction one used.)
Forster's article is in Contemporary Mathematics, vol 36, 2004. You may want to check out his webpage, which lists publications of himself and his research group. Dang's thesis to be found there (I think) looks to be relevant.
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You can't do it for NF, but there is a good notion of constructible model of the theory CUS of Church, that has a universal set. But that's really just a trick of the light, since the big sets of CUS are magicked into existence by a coding trick. None of that is in print, so there is nothing i can cite. Sorry!
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What could be the reason for this?
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No repro on mehper.tr.gg/Home-Page.htm FF 3.6 XP – Pops Sep 23 '10 at 18:25
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Your flairs look ok on your account page, though -- and that's the same sort of <iframe>.
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Right after the latest update on beta sites' favicons, the problem vanished on my website.
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I cannot speak for the official flair, but have you tried StackImage flair? It's an image-based flair that you can stick anywhere images are permitted.
Note: I am the creator of this tool.
2nd Note: This tool supports Meta, but not Area51. (Yet.)
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It supports Area51 now. – uɐɯsO uɐɥʇɐN Sep 24 '10 at 6:54
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Claude Hopper wrote:
Franc Zabkar wrote:
On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 09:32:19 -0400, Claude Hopper
<boobooililililil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> put finger to keyboard and composed:
I just bought a USB keyboard and didn't really want that type. I bought
an adapter (USB to PS/2). For some reason that does not work at all
where a previous PS/2 keyboard worked just fine. What could be the problem?
It could be that your keyboard doesn't support dual protocols, ie it
may know how to "talk" USB but not PS/2. The USB signal pins are Data+
and Data-, whereas for PS/2 they are Data and Clock. The USB keyboard
needs to recognise that it is connected to Data and Clock, not Data+
and Data-, and change its protocol to suit.
- Franc Zabkar
What does "adapter" mean?????????????
There are "active" and "passive" adapter devices. A passive one,
is a mechanical adapter, and it just wires the pins through to
different pins on a different shaped connector.
Examples of passive adapters are -
1) DVI-I to VGA adapter for video cards (selects the analog signals
on the DVI-I connector and puts them in the familiar 15 pin VGA
2) S-video to composite adapter. Takes the four pin S-video signal
from a video card, and makes a two signal composite output. That
adapter isn't completely passive, as it has a single capacitor
inside the adapter, to join the Y-C signals together and
make composite.
3) The green PS/2 to USB mouse adapter for my Logitech mouse. As Franc
said, it connects DATA+/DATA- to DATA/CLK. To work, it requires
that the mouse support both protocols. When the power comes on,
the mouse has the ability to tell whether USB signals are
present (DATA+/DATA-) or whether DATA/CLK are present. The green
adapter has no components inside (my assumption, based on the
size of the adapter). The mouse works all the magic. Only some
mice have that kind of dual logic inside. Other USB mice
will be USB only, and if connected to the green adapter, they
wouldn't know what to do.
An example of an active adapter.
This one takes a computer equipped with a USB port, and allows a
PS/2 mouse and PS/2 keyboard to be connected. Inside the adapter,
is a pretty complicated chip. It includes a processor and firmware.
The early versions used to freeze after about ten minutes of usage.
Presumably that has been fixed by now. The device would be pretty
simple inside, consisting of a single chip and perhaps a quartz
crystal for timing. (I had a datasheet for the chip at one time,
but cannot remember right off hand who makes it.)
I'm not aware of an active adapter that goes the other way.
So if you had a USB keyboard, and the computer had only PS/2
ports, I don't know of a device to do the conversion. Maybe
something like a universal KVM might do the conversion, but
at a level of expense that would make a new keyboard a bargain
by comparison.
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The Issue: Yankee relief pitcher Mariano Rivera’s injury while warming up to play the Kansas City Royals.
Mariano Rivera has been a consummate professional who is looked up to by every person who plays, covers and follows baseball (“No Mo on the Mound?” Editorial, May 5).
Godspeed, Mo.
Anthony Varriano
Staten Island
Why is it that Rivera is getting a pass from the press? No one has criticized him for running down flyballs during batting practice.
And how about the coaching staff? Did anyone think to call them out on this one? The only warning that supposedly was given to him by one of the coaches was not to dive for flyballs. What were they thinking?
Just because “he’s always done it” doesn’t make it a smart idea.
Linda Kohn
Manalapan, NJ
I hope this is just a breather for Mo. Maybe today’s doctors can heal him as fast as his 90-mph pitch.
Relief pitchers only throw around 20 pitches a game when needed; this is why Rivera is in his 40s with an arm that is not worn out.
Guys like Mo, the Babe, Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle will never be forgotten.
Richard Homer Bucco
Bloomfield, NJ
No one, not even a Met fan, wants to see a great athlete injured — least of all the superb Rivera.
However, if it was destiny that he be hurt, he couldn’t have picked a better night for it to happen. It sure took the heat off the Knicks’ loss.
Bill Viggiano
Williston Park
Why was Rivera shagging flyballs in the first place?
If the injury is career-ending, it’s sad to see a first-ballot Hall of Fame candidate leave the game this way.
Matt Engel
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
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August 29th, 2012
01:07 AM ET
2 years ago
Democrats in Tampa: What did Romney build?
Tampa, Florida (CNN) – Democrats wasted no time on Tuesday trying to undercut Republicans as they began their convention, attacking a key GOP message before party luminaries took the spotlight in Tampa.
Republicans aggressively pushed their convention theme, "We Built It," while Democrats sought to turn it back on Mitt Romney, who was affirmed as the nominee by a roll call of delegates in the first significant moments of the event.
soundoff (15 Responses)
1. jmmjr49er
Wow, Tony Villar, Mayor of LA, has helped destory Los Angeles with out of control gifts to unions and failure to cut spending. Gov. O'Malley can't keep businesses in his state or kids educated.
Funny, what has President Obama built? Solyndra, Beacon Power, Ener1, A123, etc, etc – yes he has built them. Such a great record.
August 29, 2012 01:23 am at 1:23 am |
2. Greg
Obviously ms. Stewart had lost objectivity and ability to see facts.
100,000's jobs in private sector. The positive influence of jobs created by Bain and Bain executives is greater that just Bain. Many CEOs and employees who were successful in a Bain sponsored company have gone on to build many other successful companies resulting in more high paying jobs.
Saved Olympics in critical time in Countey's history
Brought Liberal spending in Boston under control, number 1 state for education... I purchased 2 companies in Boston and they were successful thanks to Mitt's leadership as governor building policy to drive solid business environment.
August 29, 2012 01:27 am at 1:27 am |
3. Dave
Romney built a successful business. What did you buld mr. Mayor? Why is the mayor of LA spending a vacation in Tampa? Don't you need to be taking care of your constituents and troubles in CA?
Stop with the attacking success and let's talk about the issues. Our country is in serious trouble. I for one am tired about tearing each party down. Who is going to get our country on track? Obama had his turn and we are worse off. I'm voting for the man who has off shore accounts and willing to tackle the tough issues.
August 29, 2012 01:39 am at 1:39 am |
4. Stedman
Antonio Villaraigosa is considered a lightweight and a clown in Los Angeles? Maybe he'll do everyone a favor and stay in Tampa.
August 29, 2012 01:50 am at 1:50 am |
5. Darrell
Fact: Bill Bain, founder of Bain Associates, asked Mitt, when he was employee of Bain Associate, to take control of Bain Capital, which was a new company Bain started. Bain told Mitt that he could have his old job back at Bain Associate if Bain Capital did not succeed.
To be fair, Mitt was very successful at Bain Capital. At the same time, there was no initial risk for Mitt when he left Bain Associate to run Bain Capital. Again, if he did not succeed at Bain Capital, he could have his old job back.
If Mitt left Bain and actually struck out on his own, without a safety net in place, I would applaud his great success. Unfortunately, too many real entrepreneurs start new companies without safety nets. These are real entrepreneurs who built their own companies without help from others...not Mitt.
August 29, 2012 02:08 am at 2:08 am |
6. ValarMorghulis
RobME built a rather substantial fortune off the backs of working people and through government loans.
August 29, 2012 02:21 am at 2:21 am |
7. Richard Chichi
somewhere in America today, a bank is making less profit than it would have because Romeny chose to bank his money in Switzerland. The banking employees are probably less by some number because of this decision
August 29, 2012 02:55 am at 2:55 am |
8. Ace Steele
What did Romney build? How about a little company called STAPLES. Ever heard of it, Mr. Villaraigosa? It's more than just the namesake of the Staples Center arena you've been convicted of taking free tickets to, in the city which somehow elected you as mayor.
August 29, 2012 04:18 am at 4:18 am |
9. clownshoes
He built more than most democrats
August 29, 2012 04:31 am at 4:31 am |
10. scott
They built more e then the Democrats did, who are intent on destroying this country and pattern it after socialist country's in Europe.
August 29, 2012 04:48 am at 4:48 am |
11. FedUp
I don't know how anyone could answer that either man cares about the common man. They all care only for themselves. They are politicians, you know.
August 29, 2012 06:17 am at 6:17 am |
12. Marie MD
What did he build? Why don't you ask workers in foreign countries where the American jobs went?
Thisi guy hasn't had to build a darn thing all his life except he has left a trail of bullying and done things (Seamus the dog) that anyone with half a brain or conscience wouldn't even think of.
August 29, 2012 06:35 am at 6:35 am |
13. onlyfacts61
I'm so tired of conservatives saying, "Obama's broken promises and failed policies, and we have a plan to create jobs". Well let's here it! What promises and policies? What's your secret plan? If your plan is so wonderful, why are you not divulging it? And "the facts speak for themselves " only to mislead conservative zombies into thinking you are telling the truth. This is all beyond belief!!!
August 29, 2012 07:09 am at 7:09 am |
14. S.B. Stein E.B. NJ
This is a valid question since they don't like acknowledging what government did (and does) for the people. I'd like to know what manufacturing jobs that his company Bain help sustain in this country. It is nice that we have Staples, but that is just a retail company that has most if not all of its own label made outside the country.
August 29, 2012 07:18 am at 7:18 am |
15. Dave
Please... Romney built has nothing other than wealth using daddy's money and connections.
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Forgot your password?
Comment: Re:Simple solution.... (Score 2) 228
by purple_cobra (#48310951) Attached to: New GCHQ Chief Says Social Media Aids Terrorists
Yeah, refusal to disclose passwords is covered under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (or it was when I was in college, at least); I suspect *that* law will be tweaked (i.e. to cover the same imprisonment terms as the original offence for which you are being investigated, so for murder that might well mean life for not disclosing your password) but there needs to be a *very* tight scope placed on that (i.e. if the police are searching for terrorist propaganda and find a small amount of cannabis at your house, the drug would be confiscated and destroyed but no police/judicial action taken as a result beyond the confiscation (not that I care what people do to themselves if they are consenting adults)). Will that kind of thing happen? Of course not. Laws are (effectively) created by the tabloid press and the various muppets on Mumsnet et al, so we'll get monosyllabic drivel with enough loopholes to drive a fleet of buses through. I'd love to vote these people out but a) I keep voting and all I get as a result is different idiots wearing different coloured ties, and b) you can't vote for the Daily Heil or Mumsnet to keep quiet for a week and just let us get on with our lives.
Comment: Simple solution.... (Score 5, Insightful) 228
by purple_cobra (#48308845) Attached to: New GCHQ Chief Says Social Media Aids Terrorists
...get a search warrant. Or, to be a bit more accurate: stop whining about how difficult your job is now and just do what you should have been doing all along. If you are having trouble identifying "persons of interest", that is not my problem. If encryption is too hard for you to break covertly, that is not my problem. If you can't do your job without every single person holding the door open for you to have a look around inside, that is not my problem. See a theme here, Hannigan? You are paid a handsome salary to detect nefarious arseholes who would do damage to the UK and its interests; perhaps you should earn that salary instead of moaning about the IT industry making the life of your staff difficult. If a dragnet is the answer, you are asking the wrong questions.
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I'm using the following code to generate a text-based image. Everything works fine except that letters "a" and "A" appear as å and Å respectively. Why?
Everything appears fine but a / A.
// Create the image
$im = imagecreatetruecolor(400, 30);
// Create some colors
imagefilledrectangle($im, 0, 0, 399, 29, $white);
// The text to draw
//$text = @$_GET['text'];
$text = "qwertyuiopASDFGHJKLasdfghjklzxcvbnm";
// Replace path by your own font path
$font = 'arial.ttf';
// Add some shadow to the text
//imagettftext($im, 12, 0, 11, 21, $grey, $font, $text);
// Add the text
imagettftext($im, 12, 0, 10, 20, $black, $font, $text);
Thanks! =)
edit: Snapshot of img: enter image description here
edit2: Does this conclude anything? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%85#On_computers
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That sounds strange. Can you show a screen shot of such an image? – Pekka 웃 Aug 12 '12 at 13:00
It really sounds strange. And I'd say it is hard to say unless one could use the system you sit in front of and debug the issue. Also the dead code you have in there is a smell in my eyes that yourself is part of the problem and not it's solution. – hakre Aug 12 '12 at 13:01
There's the image. And, the dead code wasn't supposed to be there. Regardless, the problem persists. – Carlos Infoster Aug 12 '12 at 13:04
Pass it a unicode string utf8_encode($text) – Burhan Khalid Aug 12 '12 at 13:14
You're 1000000% sure your source material is an A? If yes, then this really is super weird. Can you use an alternative font and see whether the problem persists? – Pekka 웃 Aug 12 '12 at 15:45
1 Answer 1
The font helonia.ttf has something weird. Idk what but it did.
I tried arial.ttd and issue was resolved!
Thanks to all who helped!
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Possible Duplicate:
Detect key press on virtual keyboard
I wanted to know is it possible to capture the exact keyboard key press time and release time in an iOS application development?
For example, let's say I type "Hello". I'd like to know the H-Key pressed time and release time, then E, L etc. I think the answer will be in microseconds but that is what I want.
Any help would be really useful.
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marked as duplicate by futureelite7, Doorknob 冰, Kate Gregory, Ram kiran, Sankar Ganesh Feb 4 '13 at 4:55
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You can use -(BOOL) textField:(UITextField *)textField shouldChangeCharactersInRange:(NSRange)range replacementString:(NSString *)string (from UITextFieldDelegate) to intercept typed characters in UITextField and record the timestamps there.
This at least gives you the release times. Press times are probably much harder, particularly when you consider keys that you have to press longer to get to accented versions of the character.
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That will not get separate key down and up times though – David Rönnqvist Feb 3 '13 at 16:08
Yes, I updated my answer. – Gereon Feb 3 '13 at 16:11
And Idea came into my mind to build my own keyboard using UIButtons, but that seems to be much much harder. I can you UIButoon isPressed and isRelease functions. – SyCruX Feb 3 '13 at 16:13
You will need to make your own keyboard and add events for Touch Down and Touch Up Inside on the buttons where you want to have this information.
Once you have your own keyboard, it is simply a matter of storing the NSDate when the button is pressed, and then subtracting that from the NSDate when it is released in order to get the elapsed time. The time will much more likely be in milliseconds (rather than microseconds) since the run-loop doesn't even go that fast.
I have an open-source project (MIT license) on Github which creates a custom numeric keyboard (you will have to add your own events to the buttons) available which should make implementing a keyboard trivially easy, here: https://github.com/lnafziger/Numberpad
You can add more/different buttons if you want to use letters as well (no code changes should be needed) on this keyboard.
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I'm looking for an e-commerce system that is built around EAV (entity-attribute-value) somewhat like Magento, but hopefully simpler. I'm really okay with just about any platform (Java, .NET, PHP, whatever), I just really need to be able to freely associate properties with groups of products... e.g. a drill bushing will have some inner diameter and outer diameter, a drill bit will have a certain outer diameter, etc. Thanks for the info!
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Sane people don't use EAV - they value their data and EAV makes it extremely difficult (verging on impossible) to ensure the data's integrity. – Jonathan Leffler Jan 9 '11 at 8:19
@Johnathan Leffler: Sane people don't use EAV without reason. For retailers with complex attribute requirements, EAV is the most conceptually simple model short of adding multitudinous columns to a table (which is not extensible.) The poster appears to have such requirements. – Joseph Mastey Jan 11 '11 at 4:44
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I'm not aware of any other ecommerce systems that use EAV (except Magento). While Magento does have a learning curve, I think you'll find it worth the effort particularly if you start by working some of the improved documentation and tutorials written by Stack Overflow members like Alan Storm.
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crowndude 2013年6月2日 9時07分
Controls show XBox layout on PC
Playing on Windows - I'm really trying to love this game but the control layout is showing that I've got an XBox controller and all the tips tell me which "button" to use. I need it to know I'm on keyboard and mouse! What's up?
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Hans Schmucker 2013年6月2日 9時28分
Just turn off your XBox controller and it will return to displaying the keys instead :)
crowndude 2013年6月2日 11時13分
But I don't have an XBox controller.
Hans Schmucker 2013年6月2日 11時17分
Uh... OK? You could try going to the options/controls menu and using the left/right arrows to switch to keyboard/mouse. No idea if that makes a difference though...
Nowah 2013年6月2日 11時23分
It shows this because its a xbox port like most of the games on here.
Hans Schmucker 2013年6月2日 11時31分
Actually... no. It displays the correct keys for me. It's a multi-platform game, yes... but the native key bindings are there.
kanosek [開発者] 2013年6月2日 13時03分
crowndude, are you playing the demo? You see controller hints all the time, or are they flickering once for a while?
crowndude 2013年6月2日 17時40分
It's the demo. I know what you're saying: the controller hints show all the time -- I have seen the flickering once in awhile but overall the hints are constantly incorrect and not flickering.
crowndude 2013年6月2日 17時44分
It's fixed itself. I don't know if it's because I unplugged my joystick (MS Sidewinder) or because I had Steam verify the files. Either way (or whatever) it's fixed.
Bad-Motha 2013年6月2日 23時55分
Leaving any type of controller will result in Xbox icons to show on-screen. This is how alot of games are now. Fairly lame as a simple coding could detect the devices. But no it just assumes any controller (such as Joystick, Steering Wheel, etc.) is an Xbox360 Controller. Lame! And unplugging after game launch doesn't always fix the issue in all games. It does in games like Metro: LL, but not sure about this one. So yea if u do not intend to use any 3rd party controller in-game, unplug before game launch.
Hemlock 2013年8月5日 2時35分
Gah! I have the same problem, 1st 4 hours everything worked fine. The next session the controller icons flickered and hey presto - xbox controller icons... which makes it almost unplayable imo. I suspect it detected my wacom but it's a cintiq and my only screen so... wtf, microsoft, shove ur controller where the sun don't shine. (I hate controllers...)
I have no idea what to do to fix it, I guess I'll try to repair via steam and uninstall any controller drivers.
crowndude 2013年8月9日 17時16分
Hey Hemlock, you just have to make sure no joysticks or other controllers are connected when you start this game.
Hemlock 2013年8月15日 10時53分
I don't have. Every other time it's fine but if I use any of the buttons on the Cintiq it's ruined until I restart.
TheMasterAdols 2013年8月16日 3時12分
Mojo 8月20日 5時09分
Same here!
I wish we just can shot down controllers in the menu like other games and when this is not able as an option i use to copy a .dll in the roots of the game and it works but not this time!
Any dev still around here that might help me working my .dll ?
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Key Features:
• Customize your vehicles with different striping schemes.
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• Processor: Pentium IV CPU 2.0 GHz or equivalent
• Memory: 2 GB RAM
• DirectX: Version 9.0
• Hard Drive: 1 GB available space
• Sound Card: DirectX 9 compatible sound and video
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5.8 시간 기록
게시 일시: 2014년 11월 14일
This game has a good 'concept' but failed to deliver via bad user interface and bad game play mechanics. You control a fire station, and as you start to get into the game it looks like it could be a nice 'time management' type strategy simulation. I could see it becoming a game were you had to get you're guys to work as a team to save people.. but as you hit the 2nd or 3rd mission that dream fades and you are left with the reality that you're playing a point and click game for teenagers working on there motor skills with a mouse. Most missions were you have multiple guys responding you quickly find they do everything so fast its easier to just pick one guy and do everything, for example the first thing you learn, connecting the support hose, then connecting an assault hose. If you attempt to use 2 guys to do this they get in each others way tripping over one another like ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, and by the time your first guy has laid out his 'support' hose, your 2nd guy is just tripping his way back to the truck to bust out the 'attack' hose. You quickly start asking yourself, "why did I even tell you to move, your too late". So the game becomes a resource management game, trying to save every drop of water in your truck for that pesky leaf fire in the middle of nothing that is endangering all the roaches in the area, you'd have thought the 1600 gallon tank would be more then enough, but the first one took 85% of your water. you would think there would be more 'don't use this type of extinguisher on this type of fire' going into a game based around fighting fires, but apparently education was last on there mind (unless you feel like reading all the info panels in the menu that tell you the history of fire fighting/rescue). The game died for me when i came to a fire that was down a set of stairs (you know surrounded by concrete, scaring all the ants?) and i told my 'guy' to walk down there with the attack hose and he dumbed around in a few circles then went upstairs, then apparently he ran out of hose, perhaps it was around his neck, cutting off the oxygen to his brain, and couldn't seem to figure out what a Z coordinate was. After that i promptly uninstalled and made its own heading in my steam games as 'crapgames'. it is currently the only resident of that title so far.
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2.0 시간 기록
게시 일시: 2014년 7월 6일
Not bad.
One thing I don't like in this game is camera angle of interior fire, it's just horrible and make it hard to see where I should proceed but others are good enough.
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15.8 시간 기록
게시 일시: 2014년 12월 3일
Love this game, just not long enough. Finished the 'campaign' in 9hrs. No serious issues with this game.
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64-bit Operating System
We did however have to decrease the video settings to "Low". When we had big fires to contend with and you had the fire centered in the middle of the screen, the computer started lagging if the video settings where set on Medium or High.
The game itself was really quite easy once you got your water tenders(roof cannon). You could send 2 of them to fight fires and replace your crew tactics, as long as it was an outside fire. We had no issues training staff or keeping them happy, just keep moving them around to different assignments and give them 'stand-by' breaks occassionally. Once your station has all the stalls filled with vehicles, you pretty much need to keep 5 mechanics on at one time to keep your equipment in top shape. Train your people often and they will excell to the top, remember though that with their promotion comes pay increases.
From a rating of a 10 scale, we rate this game an 8. The lagging of our computer with the fires and not having a difficulty setting where the issues.
We bought this game while it was on sale, under $4.00. To us it was well worth it. As the price stands now at $9.99, we would tell you to wait until another price drop.
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19.4 시간 기록
게시 일시: 2014년 12월 21일
This is another one of those games that has a mixed review. Why? Because you either love or you hate it. I personally found this game to be challenging, but a ball of fun and entertainment. If you're into strategy games, or games to do with emergency simulations then this is the game for you. The game includes a variety of missions/situations and vehicles. The game can get boring although once you complete the, "mission" mode. Overall this is a pretty good game.
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8.1 시간 기록
게시 일시: 2014년 7월 30일
Rescue - Everyday Heroes is basically a firefighting/paramedic game mashed up with a bit of Sims. There are a few bugs that keep it from being a great game, but if you don't mind them, go ahead and pick it up. It's fun despite the annoying bugs.
Not bad. Not great. Just average. The one thing that did bug me was that if your mission occured during the night, it was near impossible to see your guys. Also if there was a lot of smoke, same issue. At least for the smoke the devs could have done the blue outline they used for the same guys and vehicles when they were behind a tree. Oversall, passable.
First up is the background music. All I have to say is that it didn't catch my attention, which means that it wasn't bad, but it also wasn't great. Sound effects were okay. Nothing really detracting, but the sfx of the fires crackling and the water running was nice. The vocals in the game are similar to what you would hear in an RTS. Click on a character and they respond with a 'Ready!'.
The game basically has two modes. The first is the prep mode. This is where you buy stuff for your firestation, hire units, buy vehicles, assign tasks, etc. Your units have traits, moods, and skills. Only thing is, nowhere does it say what the different things you buy do to affect your units mood. The traits are random and the skills can be leveled up to make your units stronger. I didn't really notice any difference betweena one chevron vs a three chevron unit.
The second part of the games consists of doing missions. These basically boil down to either stop a fire or save people. Sometimes missions require you to do both. The first few missions do a very good job of teaching you how to do these. By the final mission, you'll know exactly what you are doing and what you want your units to do.
Here lies the problem. It get be a pain getting your units to do what you want. Frist off is the pathfinding. Sometimes it's good. But most of the time you'll be wondering why your paramedic is going around the tree that's not in the way. Second is selecting your units. It can be a pain trying to click them. Especially when they are crowded together. You end up clicking the paramedic that's treating the victim and canceling the treatment instead of clicking the free paramedic that you want to go get the stretcher. There have also be times where I can't see my guys because when you put stuff away in the vechiles, they end up hiding behind the vehicle and you have to turn the camera which wastes time. Which brings about a couple more problems. Camera and time. The camera can only pan, rotate, and zoom. No tilt. Which means that if you are in the city, it might take you awhile to find a good vantage point between all the highrise towers. Also time. There's no way to slow down time so you can find your guys. Lose track of your paramedic or firefighter holding the special tool you need, and you're gonna waste time while the victim in the cars slowly dies. The devs should have added a feature to slow down time so you can give commands, or made it so you can still view the game while paused.
So in conclusion, the game is fun. There are bugs and poor design choices. However, if you are willing to overlook those, go ahead and get the game. It's short, about 4-5 hours of you time. I recommend getting it on sale.
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5.0 시간 기록
게시 일시: 2013년 12월 12일
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5.9 시간 기록
게시 일시: 2014년 6월 27일
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3.6 시간 기록
게시 일시: 2013년 12월 12일
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10.7 시간 기록
게시 일시: 2013년 12월 11일
Where to start.
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4.5 시간 기록
게시 일시: 2013년 12월 12일
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3.7 시간 기록
게시 일시: 2013년 12월 13일
A decent game, vary easy tho for Emergency vet here. Some vehicles are just OP, eliminating the need for firefighters if no interior fire is involved too. Still i say it`s entertaining, what else is there to ask of a game, huh?
One thing however is it`s buggy as hell, especially that used over and over highway map. Ugh... I suppose it is worth a buy if you into that kink of micromanageing strategy, BUT - after a patch or two.
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13.2 시간 기록
게시 일시: 2013년 12월 13일
7 hours and I've had enough. Too clicky, too tedious.
In short. Get call out. Put out fires. Open broken cars. Send peeps to hospital. Build up station, get promoted and buy new trucks.
It WILL hold interest for awhile simply because of the "what will I get next" and you get to play with some new trucks.
But ahhhhhh!!!!!
Some of the pathing is stupid. Truck hooked up. Traffic stopping access. Guys caught under truck when you connect up. Can't move truck because guys is connected but can't disconnect guy because he's under the truck! One incapped truck.
Out of water? I have to bring fireys #1 and #2 back to the truck from the seat of the fire, disconnect their hoses before firey #3 can disconnect main hose. Why can't we just drop the damn main connector from truck!!
And what? ONE fire extinguiser per truck? Really?
Ambos? Attend to patient with ambo #1 while ambo #2 get's stretcher. Ambo #1 has to go back to the ambulance to put the first aid kit away before he can help with the stretcher!! Unless ofc, you have a firey doing nothing while he waits for the truck to come back with more water. Except, he's holding the damn hose isn't he!?!?
I found at least 1 faulty mission. Objective: Extricate victim. So I sent heavy rescue and hey, guess what, car is empty. Mission even said victim was thrown clear!!!
Also no idea if fire scene has hydrants or not so have to take water tankers everytime anyway!
Most of the game logic is very, very ordinary. Shows a complete lack of bothering to test or even consider the scenarios.
This COULD be interesting if actually doing the missions wasn't so flawed and tedious.
Don't. Just don't.
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3.9 시간 기록
게시 일시: 2014년 5월 12일
This game is sort of like Emergency with some kind of sim component where you can buy people sofas, or desks, even showers. None of this sim mechanics seem utilized at all. The game is pretty short about 20 missions, maybe 9-10 vehicles, and no police vehicles. The missions repeat in the campaign after completing them and freeplay is sorta meh. Since there are only fires, alot of missions have to do with a barbecue catching fire, or a tree. Just go there point truck at fire and the fire goes out. It is a simple game, I got bored of it in the few clocked hours I have playing this. This game could be awesome though if the Sim features are ever utilized. Oddly there is a helipad, what its for I have no idea since there are no air vehicles in the game that I found.
Rating: 2/10 Value: $2.99
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6.2 시간 기록
게시 일시: 2013년 12월 15일
Well, as I spent long hours with 911: First Responders and other Emergency series games, I am not shocked by this micromanagement in Rescue - Everyday Heroes game. TBH it is not surprising, BUT - one moment - when firefighter connect his attack hose to split, he needs additional command to put the flames. Damn. That`s a bit too much for me - micromanagement in all it`s glory. Other thing or things: impossible to connect attack hose directly to fire engine, split must be connected first. That`s nonsense - maybe I am enough only one hose connected to one engine. pathfinding problems already are mentioned by other people. And after some hours playing it becomes very repeating - the maps, the objectives, the fire itself, and extinguishing itself - arrive, connect, connect more, water ended, get more, finished. And put the equipment there, where you took it from. Impossible to put in on ground, need run here and there, what wastes time. Training personnel in gym, doesn`t seem any advantage or disadvantage - everyone works like one. Well, training in lecture room awards new traits, what, again aren`t useful in field.
My summary can be this - I feel like I playing some demo version and vasted money. Pitty I can not get them back.
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14.8 시간 기록
게시 일시: 2013년 12월 20일
Its a good game alright, its just not worth the money it asks for, as of yet.
i love these type games but it is not really re-playable. the 'campaign' mode is a GREAT idea, where you can hire personal and train them between emergency calls, its just that the calls are all scripted and do not vary at all. the game has a list it'll run you through, and when you finish all the calls, thats it. you win and now have a option to replay any of the previous calls.
as with the free-play mode, its about the same as emergency 2014 and such. you have a (small) map where random medical emergencies, fires, and accidents occur while you play and does not seem to change pace or get harder. the firestation is consierable smaller and from what i gathered you can only use the units you buy in the career mode. also NO SAVING
game play is fantastic, for what there is. the firetrucks run out of water, and need to be sent off map to fill up (i really wished i could do it from a hydrant of water tanker, which is included in game) graphics are really great and you know whats up. lots of micro management with speed and mouse skills.
bugs - firefighters just... gaggle in one spot (looks like a single guy) when disembarked off the trucks, or are put under the truck. minimap disappeared on me during campaign mode and game had to be restarted. and if the truck is beside a unmovable object and a firefighter spawns in a hose-based tool, he could be stuck from putting it back, thus breaking the free-mode game
recommend for developers if you read this...
TLC for sure.
If you like the genre, the game will leave a hole in both your wallet and yourself that it will not satisfy.
try emergency 2014. I will as soon as it goes on sale
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2.0 시간 기록
게시 일시: 2014년 1월 22일
As a firefighter myself, i think it is a fun game. Its pretty realistic, however i wish there was more content, say being able to supply an engine from a hydrant like we do in RL. Over all, it is fun, and i expect good things to come.
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2.1 시간 기록
게시 일시: 2013년 12월 12일
There needs to be more games like this. Please keep updating with more stuff.
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8.9 시간 기록
게시 일시: 2014년 1월 1일
This is a nice game, it looks good and the game engine runs smooth. The game is full of action and easy to play, it is too bad there is no multiplayer mode or a option to create custom missions, but, you can play in freemode. However, there is a lack of missions and realism. After you turned level 6 (after 24 missions) no new missions will appear, nor you will level up or gain more vehicles or other perks. So the game is played out within 8 hours and is not very interesting to keep playing.
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7.7 시간 기록
게시 일시: 2013년 12월 13일
This game is not worth $20. The game is fun and everything, but I beat the campaign in around 15 hours of gameplay. Also the freeplay mode is just too fast. I would suggest waiting on buying the game until there are new campaigns or the price drops to around $10. I also belive this game should have multiplayer, something where whoever gets to the emergency first gets it. I reccomend this game but it is too expensive for what you get. The game is also lacking more off road forrest fires, without those levels, the off road fire fighting vehicle seemed like a waste. A Fire Crew truck would also be useful in general, I only kept my actual Fire Trucks to carry people after I got the water tenders because if it was an indoor fire I would have needed to send my Rescue Trucks. Also during the campaign there was a helicoptor pad next to the station causing me to think that I would be able to purchase a helicoptor in the later game.
Link to a Fire Crew Truck: {링크가 삭제되었습니다 - 스팸을 올리지 마시고 사기를 조심하세요.}
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45.3 시간 기록
게시 일시: 2013년 12월 13일
I liked the game a great deal. In all i think i was probably 6 or 7 out of 10. I think that they should add unform options like the suppor firefighters wear brown gear and a yellow helmet and I wouldve liked to have my men wearing that gear not a game breaker at all, More truck color combinations would be good as well, also make the sirens sound better they just sound odd. Other then that I really enjoyed the game and recomend it deffinately worth the money.
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Mullā Ṣadrā, also called Ṣadr Ad-dīn Ash-shīrāzī (born c. 1571, Shīrāz, Iran—died 1640Basra, Iraq), philosopher, who led the Iranian cultural renaissance in the 17th century. The foremost representative of the illuminationist, or Ishrāqī, school of philosopher-mystics, he is commonly regarded by Iranians as the greatest philosopher their country has produced.
A scion of a notable Shīrāzī family, Mullā Ṣadrā completed his education at Eṣfahān, then the leading cultural and intellectual centre of Iran. After his studies with scholars there, he produced several works, the most famous of which was his Asfār (“Journeys”). Asfār contains the bulk of his philosophy, which was influenced by a personal mysticism bordering on the ascetic that he experienced during a 15-year retreat at Kahak, a village near Qom, Iran.
Toward the end of his life, Mullā Ṣadrā returned to Shīrāz to teach. His teachings, however, were considered heretical by the orthodox Shīʿite theologians, who persecuted him, though his powerful family connections permitted him to continue to write. He died on a pilgrimage to Arabia. | http://www.britannica.com/print/topic/396809 | dclm-gs1-148990001 | false | false | {
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Halo 3 pushes Microsoft's consoles ahead of Nintendo for month of September
In September the Xbox 360 finally outsold the world-dominating Nintendo Wii in North America... and it's all thanks to Halo 3.
According to figures released by the NPD Group, Bungie's shooter drove sales of the Xbox 360 console to over 528,000 units, besting the cheaper Wii's 501,000 units flogged for the month of September.
You could of course argue that the Wii had bugger all games released for it last month, and still scraped the bottom of Microsoft's numbers, but then we'd be being very cynical, wouldn't we?
The Chief's latest broke all box office records by making $170 million on its first day. It's now gone on to sell well over $300 million.
Nintendo took second and third place with 282,000 copies of Wii Playand 224,000 copies of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass sold in the US. | http://www.computerandvideogames.com/174076/xbox-360-finally-outsells-wii/ | dclm-gs1-149200001 | false | false | {
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A chip to allow Wii to play backups will soon be released
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By AppaYipYip on 1/27/2007 8:53:53 AM , Rating: -1
I fail to see why anyone would want to do this. I guess the world is full of extremely cheap individuals who enjoy ripping people off. If you can't afford the games, then don't buy a Wii in the first place.
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By KaiserCSS on 1/27/2007 9:14:04 AM , Rating: 3
Read: A chip to allow Wii to play backups will soon be released.
That doesn't necessarily mean only pirates will use this modchip. I might look into this, as I've already scratched a couple Wii games (darn slot-loading).
Anyway, it's just so damn fun to tinker with new toys and see what you can do with 'em. That's the aim of most console hackers anyway (I hope): learn what you can do with a console to either make something new out of it or boost some sort of capability (such as a larger hard drive for the 360 or being able to run Linux on the Xbox.)
But of course, there are always going to be those select few morons who will pirate games. That's unavoidable. But the blame doesn't rest on the modder's shoulders, it lies on the pirate's.
RE: ....
By Furen on 1/27/2007 9:25:43 AM , Rating: 1
Hah, that's like saying that the people who used Napster back before it got screwed over used it to download only that music for backup purposes only. People who thinker with machines in the ways you describe are a very small minority, the same with people who plan on making legitimate backups.
I do think it's harsh to penalize this minority for the actions of those who are just too cheap to buy the games but let's be realistic about the real target audience for these kinds of products.
RE: ....
By Tanclearas on 1/27/2007 10:03:00 AM , Rating: 5
I don't mind that the manufacturers implement copy protection. However, I believe they should be forced by law to provide replacement disks (at cost of disk only) should someone provide a damaged one.
One disk of my Panzer Dragoon Saga for the Saturn was damaged, and Sega's response was basically, "Oh well". The game still goes for over $100 used.
I am very careful with my disks, but stuff can still happen. If a manufacturer prevents me from making legitimate backups (something that I am legally entitled to do), then it should be the manufacturer's legal responsibility to provide replacement disks.
RE: ....
By MultiCore on 1/28/2007 12:08:48 AM , Rating: 2
You're spot on man.
I love the idea of mandatory replacement disks...I need my Panzer Dragoon Orta disc replaced.
RE: ....
By CrazyBernie on 1/27/2007 4:36:23 PM , Rating: 3
Oh COME NOW, we all know that if you're modifying something to work outside its original purposes, then CLEARLY you are an EVIL person and must be PUNISHED! May the gods of the RIAA, MPAA, and all other organizations that care nothing for their customers and everything for their profit margins STRIKE YOU DOWN!!! <insert crazed, maniacal laughter here>
RE: ....
By MrSmurf on 1/28/2007 12:00:16 AM , Rating: 1
"Read: A chip to allow Wii to play backups will soon be released.
That doesn't necessarily mean only pirates will use this modchip."
Don't be stupid. People just say "backup" because they think it makes what they're doing legal by placing the blame of people who abuse they 'gift' to the .000001% of the people who use it to backup their games.
RE: ....
By Samus on 1/27/07, Rating: -1
RE: ....
By SixDixonCider on 1/27/2007 11:56:11 AM , Rating: 4
Dude, Nintendo is aiming to be innovative. If you're going to cry about the Wii, don't buy it. I myself, will invest heavily into Nintendo's products for the Wii. My money goes to support creative companies.
$50 dollars is not alot of money. I understand that not everyone's income is the same, so if I were you, I'd do my homework, and read reviews. See what other people are saying about the crappy/good games, or go rent it. Pirating games is terrible because programmers/engineers need to feed their families just as much as the man who flips your patties, washes your car, dry cleans your clothes.
RE: ....
By dagamer34 on 1/27/2007 12:13:45 PM , Rating: 4
Im sorry, the shear fact that the probably spend a lot of money on R&D to pay people to design the Wii just doesn't seem to hit home in your head.
Cost of materials != Cost we pay.
RE: ....
By cochy on 1/27/2007 2:48:51 PM , Rating: 2
Well one thing I might agree with this poster is that the Wii controllers do seem over-priced (all console controllers are) but the wii especially since you need to buy the wiimote separately from the nanchuck. Why not bundle them at least?
RE: ....
By Belegost on 1/27/2007 9:16:20 PM , Rating: 2
So I took a look at pricing on console controllers:
X360 wireless controller - 49.99
PS3 SIXAXIS controller - 49.99
Wii Remote - 39.99
Wii Nunchuk - 19.99
So, an extra 10 dollars...
Oh the price gouging bastards!
RE: ....
By CrazyBernie on 1/27/07, Rating: -1
RE: ....
By slacker57 on 1/29/2007 1:14:05 PM , Rating: 2
Why am I paying $50 for farcry when its $20 on XBOX and looks three times better.
Um, if you were a person of any intelligence you wouldn't be. You'd be spending that money on Zelda or the upcoming Mario and Metroid games and games that are actually designed around the concept of the new controller. If the Wii is what finally brought 4-year-old games like Farcry to your attention, it's hard to imagine that there's an electrical outlet to plug your Wii into in the cave you live in.
The hardware is grossly overpriced. $64.96 for a controller near me (wiimote, nunchuk, tax) and ideally you need 4 of these. So $250+ in controllers alone.
Ideally, you need 4 controllers to play a single-player FPS game?
Although, on some level, I agree that the pricing of the controllers is a bit off. It's nice to get one free with the box, but if you plan on doing anything multiplayer, you're going to have to shell out more than you would for a game. I don't understand why they can't package the nunchuk in with a wiimote. Are 2 buttons and an analog stick really worth 20 bucks?
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Editorial: Alabama’s flawed immigration law
Immigration crackdowns, whether real or just threatened, alter the landscape quickly and dramatically. You can measure the impact by looking for what is no longer there. The customers of a small ethnic store vanish overnight, gaps appear in the processing line at a poultry plant, empty desks begin to define a classroom.
Alabama, home to the nation’s strictest immigration laws, is the latest and perhaps most dramatic example of what happens when illegal immigrants sense that a place once hospitable has suddenly turned hostile. Drawn to the state by a voracious appetite for cheap labor, many of these economic migrants are responding with fear and either hiding in plain sight or are on the road to the next job.
It is easy, perhaps even comforting, to consider Alabama a model for immigration enforcement. When a federal judge upheld most of the state’s provisions last week, the impact was immediate and no doubt gratifying to many. At the poultry processing plant in Albertville — the sole reason most of these workers ended up in the rural south — managers suddenly found themselves with 100 available jobs in a plant with 1,000 workers. The real surprise was that there were so few openings, given that as many as a quarter of all poultry and meat processing workers in the U.S. are here illegally.
Whether Americans desperate for jobs will stand on the line and cut chicken remains to be seen, though you would be wise to have doubts. As with farm work, this kind of labor is so demanding that even in these desperate times employers have a hard time finding and retaining U.S.-born workers. Ask the onion farmers in Georgia or any of the other agricultural producers from around the country who went to Washington this week to beg for some sensible solution to their continuing dilemma.
But this is only tangentially about jobs. At the heart of the matter is the chaotic patchwork of state laws that have been proposed, approved, challenged in court and upheld or stayed depending on where you live and how heated the immigration debate has become. In the absence of a coherent national immigration policy, we now have states essentially moving to protect their own borders, with Alabama the most extreme example.
Illegal immigrants generally move from one place to another because of a job or out of fear of a government crackdown. But we delude ourselves if we think that a hard stance like Alabama’s is going to force a mass migration back to Mexico, where most of Alabama’s immigrants come from. If they move, they will likely find refuge in states where these laws do not exist or where the numbers will protect them. About half of all illegal immigrants live in just four states, California, Texas, Florida and New York. If they move, that’s where many will go.
And then they will be there, in plain sight, for everyone not to see.
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By Tom Raum
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Published: Saturday, Jan. 15 2011 8:40 a.m. MST
Bush won on a 52-48 party-line vote. Not a single Senate Democrat voted to raise the limit, opposition that's now complicating White House efforts to rally bipartisan support for a higher ceiling.
Democrats have use doomsday rhetoric about a looming government shutdown and comparing the U.S. plight to financial crises in Greece and Portugal. It's all a bit of a stretch.
"We can't do as the Gingrich crowd did a few years ago, close the government," said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., referring to government shutdowns in 1995 when Georgia Republican Newt Gingrich was House speaker.
And there are many temporary ways around the debt limit.
In a 1995 debt-limit crisis, Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin borrowed $60 billion from federal pension funds to keep the government going. It wasn't popular, but it helped get the job done. A decade earlier, James Baker, President Ronald Reagan's treasury secretary, delayed payments to the Civil Service and Social Security trust funds and used other bookkeeping tricks to keep money in the federal till.
Baker and Rubin "found money in pockets no one knew existed before," said former congressional budget analyst Stanley Collender.
Collender, author of "Guide to the Federal Budget," cites a slew of other things the government can do to delay a crisis. They include leasing out government-owned properties, "the federal equivalent of renting out a room in your home," or slowing down payments to government contractors.
"My guess is they can go months after the debt ceiling is not raised and still be able to come up with the cash they need. But at some point, it will catch up," and raising the debt limit will become an imperative, he suggested.
Republican leaders seem to acknowledge as much, but first want to force big concessions. "Do I want to see this nation default? No. But I want to make sure we get substantial spending cuts and controls in exchange for raising the debt ceiling," said the chairman of the House Budget Committee, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis.
"At some point you run out of accounting gimmicks and resources. Eventually the government is going to have to start shutting down certain operations," said Mark Zandi, chief economist for Moody's Analytics.
"If we get into a heated, protracted debate over the debt ceiling, global investors are going to grow nervous, and start driving up interest rates. It will all become negatively self-re-enforcing," said Zandi. "No good will come of it."
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Daily debt totals: http://tinyurl.com/yrxrsh
Frequently asked questions about the debt: http://tinyurl.com/69qskf
Government Accountability Office report: http://tinyurl.com/3kw2dr
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Austin Powers Actor Convicted of Torture in Horrific Christmas Eve Rape—21 Years After Heinous Crime
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It took two decades, but the law finally came down on Joseph Hyungmin Son.
The actor best known for playing Dr. Evil's shoe-throwing henchman Random Task in 1997's Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, was convicted of torture Thursday in Santa Ana, Calif. in connection with a 1990 Christmas Eve gang rape of a woman who was out walking her dog.
Here's what happened.
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A Santa Ana jury found the 40-year-old Son guilty of one felony count of torture stemming from his arrest on Oct. 7, 2008 on an outstanding warrant. He faces a maximum sentence of 15 years-to-life in state prison come sentencing Sept. 9.
The men then finally allowed the woman to leave, naked and with her pants tied around her eyes. She managed go to a nearby home where the homeowners called police.
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Unfortunately, despite collecting evidence at the crime scene, investigators had few leads and the case went cold.
But they caught a lucky break when Son—who went on to minor fame parodying James Bond nemesis Odd Job in Mike Myers' 1997 spy spoof—got collared and pleaded guilty to felony vandalism on May 16, 2008.
He was subsequently sentenced to 60 days in jail with an additional 90 days after violating his probation. As part of his original plea, he was required to provide a DNA sample—which turned out to match the DNA evidence gathered at the crime scene.
D.A. spokeswoman Farrah Emami tells E! News why the prosecutors went after the torture charge.
"We didn't proceed on the sexual assault charges based on the statute of limitations," she said. "So the sexual assault charges were not taken before a jury so the only count he was found guilty of was torture. But based on that count, he still faces a maximum sentence of 15 years to life so it's still a very significant count to be found guilty of."
Emami added that the judge will determine how much time he does, not a jury; the sentence will be based on the totality of the circumstances, and the victim will have the opportunity to give a statement.
Since Son fought the charges, it's likely he'll get a longer sentence.
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Pros:sympathetic heroine, incredible adaptation of werewolf legends, great plot
Cons:pacing a bit rushed at the end
The Bottom Line: A wild tale of the loup-garou subculture, Blood and Chocolate is every bit as rich and sensual as the title promises.
As a kid, I could never get enough stories of vampires, ghosts and werewolves, and the hunger for such grisly literary fare stayed with me. Annette Kurtis Klause's The Silver Kiss, the story of a tortured vampire named Simon made a huge impression when I was younger, and was my favorite book on fictional vampires. Time passed, and I wasn't as diligent about keeping up with favorite authors as I am now, so I was pleasantly surprised to hear she'd written Blood and Chocolate (in 1997, I'm a little slow about these things). This book centers around the mythology of the loup-garou, or werewolf, and I was happy to see that Klause's writing didn't disappoint me even after all this time.
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Vivian is young, beautiful, and fifteen. She's also a werewolf, part of a pack nearly torn apart by the loss of its leader, Vivian's father, and a terrible fire that killed many of the pack members. Struggling to relocate and re-establish the pack, they've temporarily taken up residence in the suburbs of Maryland to lick their collective wounds, find a permanent home and choose a new pack leader.
All of this, however, is of less concern to Vivian than trying to fit in with human society. She misses her father terribly, and hates to see her mother dating other pack members. She also hates the increasing pressure of her blooming sexuality and how it's altered her relationship with the Five, a group of male packmates (sort of like cousins) that were her former companions and are now an uncontrollable dangerous gang. Rafe, the leader of the Five, seems intent upon pairing off with her despite her disgust for his callous attitude towards humans. Her mother Esme embarrasses Vivian by constantly catfighting with another female named Astrid for the attentions of Gabriel, a gorgeous male in his twenties. And Gabriel himself also seems entirely too interested in Vivian for her own comfort...
Tired of all the squabbling and politics, Vivian falls in love with what the loup-garoux call a meat-boy, a gentle neo-hippie named Aiden. They have an immediate connection, one so deep that Vivian longs to reveal her secret life to him, despite cautions from the pack about what danger it could bring on them all.
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How great is that? It's horror, coming-of-age, and a romance all wrapped up in one, and Vivian is a very engaging heroine. I even forgive her for being predictably drop-dead gorgeous and a temptation for every man who sees her. Let me reassure you, this is not one of those corny "I was a teenage werewolf" stories. Vivian's troubles are very real, and very easy to identify with despite the fact that she's a werewolf. She loves and hates her family by turns, she's rebelling against growing older...and she longing to fit in with other kids her age, even though they don't seem to want her. Likewise, her relationship with Aiden is also very realistic, both of them dealing with strong emotions like love and lust all at once. I also really enjoyed reading about how Vivian dealt with life as a werewolf. She doesn't see her werewolf nature as being a burden or something disgusting--to her it is natural and incredibly freeing. In fact, she can't imagine not being one, even when this secret of hers conflicts with her relationship with Aiden.
Klause does such a great job in establishing this whole werewolf subculture, and she does it very smoothly. They're just just humans who get hairy once a month, they have an actual culture and customs unique to them. We're quickly thrown into Vivian's life as a packmember...not quite like a human family, but almost like living with your extended family, where there is a definite hierarchy based on strength, and pecking order for everyone. In this, I thought it was very realistic compared to what a real wolf pack is like--the challenge for the leadership role, the attitudes on sexual relationships (monogamy being unusual in the animal kingdom), etc. Although members of the pack can change at will, they must change at the full moon, and they hold their own gatherings where every wolf is present. One of the most exciting elements Klause writes about this werewolf culture is the Ordeal, the ancient choosing of a new leader for the pack based on combat, the last two challengers fighting until only one stands.
I really loved reading about the pack's problems trying to remain conspicuous, especially since not all the members agree on what is the best approach towards humans. Many prefer to stay out of humans' way, keeping in mind that hunting human prey will only bring trouble on the pack. Others believe that whatever (or whoever) is weaker is rightful prey. There are many conflicts in this book, not just between Vivian and the other members of the pack, but within the pack itself as it fights to remain whole without a strong leader...especially when a rash of vicious local murders start to make the pack question who the killer among them may be.
If there are any in this book, it's in the pacing and perhaps a bit in the character development. The plot comes to a very rapid finish, so much so that I kept one eye on the page and one eye on the pages remaining, wondering if Klause was going to make it! (She did, with pages to spare for excerpts from her other books. Wow.) While I understand that such a dynamic story needs a big, dramatic finish, I kind of wished she'd slowed down just a tiny bit.
This is mainly because the story wraps up with one of the not-so-sympathetic characters becoming sympathetic, and the transition is a little too quick to be credible for me. I felt like it needed a bit more preparation, because it's difficult to switch from disliking this sleazy person to realizing that they're actually quite honorable after all. It wasn't enough to ruin the ending for me, but I ended up bit less satisfied than I might've been.
This is a young adult book, but I can certainly see where adults would enjoy it, too. There is quite a bit of sexual content, though, so parents might want to keep that in mind. Vivian is, the book stresses, one gorgeous creature, and partly because she's a teenager and partly because she's a werewolf, she's very much in touch with her physical urges and has no qualms about acting upon them. For example, there's never any self-doubt or questioning about the wisdom of losing her virginity at age 16. Arguably, the morals and ethics of a loup-garou aren't going to be the same as those of a human being necessarily!
While Klause never actually includes a sex scene in the book, she gets close enough--but not tackily gratuitous, in my opinion. Parts of the book are also somewhat graphic, particularly the section about the Ordeal itself which involves the wolves fighting a rather bloody battle.
No doubt there are messages one can take from this book about growing up and the frustration and futility of venturing outside your own social group, but...I prefer not to think of the book that way. I don't think Klause necessarily meant to draw such parallels with her werewolf vs. human conflict, and indeed, if you interpret it that way, the book may end up to be somewhat disappointing to you. It's not really that complex, and it doesn't have to be.
I would've loved this book as a younger reader, and I was very impressed with it now. Klause adapts the werewolf tale very credibly to a modern setting, her portrayal of the loup-garou subculture is fascinating and not the least bit phony-sounding. There was really too much in the
book to include in one review without spoiling key plot points, but I can easily say this was a richly detailed and well-written werewolf tale... and it will be a keeper for my personal collection.
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(441 Posts)
squoosh Wed 21-Aug-13 23:45:32
ThursdayLast Sun 01-Sep-13 10:24:09
True that, he's flipping gorgeous smile
AndHarry Sun 01-Sep-13 08:49:22
Thanks! Now, if I could just merge the two to get RPJ on the good version... grin
ThursdayLast Sat 31-Aug-13 22:46:20
It's ace!
Lovely and understated, Building slowly, enjoying the misunderstandings and the silly characters.
The ending is a bit naff, but not as bad as the other one.
Watch out for Anne's fringe height as a measure of her bloom!
AndHarry Sat 31-Aug-13 10:09:41
Let me know. I only ordered it because I googled RPJ first so I suppose I got my just desserts!
ThursdayLast Sat 31-Aug-13 07:18:52
Oh I am really sorry sad.
I hated that adaptation, it's on,y saving grace is RPJ, you're right.
I ordered the 90s version, which I'm planning on settling down with tonight, I hope I have a better time of it
AndHarry Fri 30-Aug-13 22:46:55
I'm so indignant I've forgotten how to do emoticons...
AndHarry Fri 30-Aug-13 22:45:54
OI! I have a bone to pick with you lot. I just spent my Fruday evening watching the 2007 Persuasion, ordered from Amazon after being on this thread. You owe me an evening of my life (you can knock off the minutes where Rupert Penry-Jones is centre stage grin). What was that kiss about?! Anne was gasping like a beached goldfish and I spent the whole 92 minutes willing her to close your mouth confused]
ThursdayLast Thu 29-Aug-13 15:45:12
My copy of Persuasion has arrived!
ThursdayLast Tue 27-Aug-13 23:04:43
Amazing! Thanks!
squoosh Tue 27-Aug-13 23:02:24
Oh yes, I think her name was Griselda or something like that? I'd forgotten about her and her religious pamphlets. grin
Pachacuti Tue 27-Aug-13 23:01:00
TheOriginalSteamingNit Tue 27-Aug-13 22:58:25
What is the name of the awful woman in The mooonstone who keeps putting pamphlets everywhere? She's brilliant: that's the most I've genuinely laughed at 'proper' literature, I think!
edam Tue 27-Aug-13 22:50:40
Another vote for the Tenant of Wildfell Hall here - it's chilling to realise how much she was at the mercy of nasty ex.
NuggetofPurestGreen Tue 27-Aug-13 19:10:36
Thursday you can probably get a cheapo version of TTOWH, Penguin Popular Classics or something for a pound. Or ebook for free if you have an ereader or a smartphone!
I only read it a couple of years ago and I didn't know anything about it before that either (and have an English degree also). It is the best Bronte though, I don't like about Emily either although do like Charlotte.
ThursdayLast Tue 27-Aug-13 17:18:30
Couldn't quite bring myself to spend half my book token on TTOWH today, sorry everyone!
I tried to remember the book about Austens book but couldn't, so will have to order online...will look up thread to find it smile
I've read Armadale but found it very long winded - too akin to Dickens for my liking, that one.
GrendelsMum Mon 26-Aug-13 18:04:48
Maybe we should hold an Armadale online book club?
sheridand Mon 26-Aug-13 17:58:55
I have never managed all of Armadale either, the only one i've not got through.
sheridand Mon 26-Aug-13 17:58:37
Mercy Merrick in the New Magdalen. Great names!
squoosh Mon 26-Aug-13 17:45:48
I haven't tackled Armadale yet but it's on a bookshelf somewhere so no excuse. It's been a while since I read any of his books so might give it a whirl.
GrendelsMum Mon 26-Aug-13 17:42:37
Reformed prostitutes, sheridand? I can't remember who that is...?
What do people think about Armadale? Sadly, despite having an excellent villainess, I find it goes on a bit.
squoosh Mon 26-Aug-13 17:40:44
Fat Italian baddies with mice in their trouser pockets!
Pachacuti Mon 26-Aug-13 17:39:34
My name is Pachacuti and I too prefer TTOWH to either Wuthering Heights or Jane Eyre. This is the sort of opinion I feel nervous about sharing in polite circles but I feel I am among friends here.
I have also never managed to finish Mansfield Park because I find Fanny so annoying. But now I'm reading What Matters In Jane Austen (which I recommend, by the way) I will have another attempt in order to notice the details discussd there.
sheridand Mon 26-Aug-13 17:36:26
Yep, you can't fault Wilkie Collins for excellently overblown characters! Crazy legless people, false imprisonment in asylums, opium addicts,reformed prostitutes, shady beauty shop owners, villanous husbands, it's all there.
squoosh Mon 26-Aug-13 17:31:25
No Name is great and Moonstone is also good although that Rachel Verrender was a bit annoying, why didn't she just say what she saw from the start.
I'm surprised too that WIW hasn't had a decent adaptation done yet, it would lend itself perfectly to an adaptation done in the style of the BBC's Bleak House. It swings from cliffhanger to cliffhanger.
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Salbertina Mon 25-Feb-13 18:09:34
Thats it really...
Portofino Mon 25-Feb-13 18:25:16
Salbertina Mon 25-Feb-13 18:29:31
MrsSchadenfreude Mon 25-Feb-13 18:30:05
Salbertina Mon 25-Feb-13 18:35:29
papalazaru Tue 26-Feb-13 03:36:14
Longdistance Tue 26-Feb-13 04:51:06
Salbertina, I'll swap with glad o leave Oz to go back home. If someone gave me a ticket I'd pack now and run to the airport.
Can you tell I'm still homesick????
Good Luck with your journey home envy
Sibble Tue 26-Feb-13 05:21:19
Salbertina Tue 26-Feb-13 06:11:14
pupsiecola Tue 26-Feb-13 07:39:50
Where are you now Salbertina?
Salbertina Tue 26-Feb-13 07:41:41
In south africa...
ripsishere Tue 26-Feb-13 07:47:41
greenandcabbagelooking Tue 26-Feb-13 07:49:46
Cadbury's chocolate!
GarbledMessage Tue 26-Feb-13 07:53:05
Salbertina Tue 26-Feb-13 07:53:57
Salbertina Tue 26-Feb-13 07:55:25
Salbertina Tue 26-Feb-13 07:56:19
Chandon Tue 26-Feb-13 07:57:42
Depends where you are coming from!
After 8 yrs in lat am, we appreciated:
Being able to walk around safely after dark
Clean tap water
No tropical diseases
Proper seasons (winter walks)
good schools
Politeness of people
not as much sexism towards women
Kids can have more freedom, playing outside
No need to bribe police/officals etc.
We loved south america, but happy to be here now!
Salbertina Tue 26-Feb-13 07:59:12
Longdistance Tue 26-Feb-13 08:55:16
Chopsypie Tue 26-Feb-13 09:06:09
Snuggling up under a duvet.
Eating chips out of paper on a freezing cold sea front
Salbertina Tue 26-Feb-13 09:10:50
Salbertina Tue 26-Feb-13 09:11:41
Oh Chopsy, am getting properly homesick now!
Umlauf Tue 26-Feb-13 09:12:48
Radio 4.
NichyNoo Tue 26-Feb-13 09:14:56
We're moving back to the UK in a month after 10 years in Belgium. Looking forward to: being close to babysitters family, customer service (it is non-existent here), being able to buy fashionable, cheap clothes, shops being open on Sundays so we won't have to do all shopping on jam-packed Saturdays, fish and chips, British country pubs, lower taxes.
Not looking forward to: the cost and dire lack of childcare, NHS (health system here is far superior), small-minded, island mentality Brits, booze culture.
specialsubject Tue 26-Feb-13 10:32:08
drinkable tap water, not having to use insect repellent all the time, decent TV and radio without ads, newspapers that take more than 30 seconds to read, proper flowers, enough water, taking books out of the library, history, scenery, being in the same time zone as family and friends, houses with solid walls, decent beer (says DH).
I've no interest in shopping and don't live in a city so the downsides of those are not relevant to me. Insular people are everywhere, got fed up with trying to explain the concept of exchange rate to many who should know better.
nutty1966 Tue 26-Feb-13 11:44:28
pub lunches after long walks, M&S, friends,, public libraries, cost of living (all relative!), lots of interesting places to go for weekends away, Red Magazine, National Trust, London, Boots, striking up a conversation with a stranger in your native tongue!!
FellatioNels0n Tue 26-Feb-13 11:46:45
It depends where you are now.
for me it's green fields and trees, sensible non-kamikaze driving, decent shopping and a decent range of pork products.
(and people who use deodorant)
RubyMurry Tue 26-Feb-13 12:01:14
We've been back for 8 months and we are loving the fresh air, you can actually breathe, going for walks (proper pavements), NHS, tap water you can drink, friendly people who are not out to con you! Fruit that tastes like fruit and more variety of food on the shelves.
It's not all been plain sailing but we are glad to be back after 10 years in the middle east.
RubyMurry Tue 26-Feb-13 12:02:40
Fellatio I couldn't agree more grin
papooser Tue 26-Feb-13 12:54:48
Just moved back from Oz after 4 and a half years and very much enjoying:
Huge choice of food in supermarkets (keep spending ages wandering up and down the aisles in supermarkets gazing at lovely selection of different foodstuffs)
Beautiful green fields and countryside in general
Relatively stable weather (OK it's obviously much colder but there aren't any floods/cyclones/extreme heatwaves/supercell storms etc)
Proximity to family - hadn't realised quite how much I had been missing them.
Ditto friends
Being able to walk everywhere
Stuff going on - local gigs, events for kids etc. Nothing like this in the 'burbs in Australia.
Cost of living - I know this has been debated elsewhere but we are finding it much much cheaper here.
Also decent beer (DH has taken it upon himself to sample a wide variety of this)
Not sure how I'll feel in a year though, grass being greener and all that but for now am very glad we moved back.
footpaths and ordnance survey maps grin
No honestly. Being able to map a route for miles across countryside and walk/run it without having to worry about cars. And of course atm there are snowdrops everywhere and a few primroses too. And crocuses and pussywillow.... Soon bluebells and campion. But not much good if you are in a city perhaps
Salbertina Tue 26-Feb-13 13:05:44
Oh yes, Boots, pussywillow and dare i agree, supermarkets! Sigh.. Sigh again as i look out on our parched "lawn". The trees are quite green, but not very.
What with iplayer etc i can have R4, bbc tv etc in the sun too, lovely!
curryeater Tue 26-Feb-13 13:09:16
bbc, nhs, weather that will hardly ever kill you even if you have to sleep rough, insects that don't kill you either, lovely tasting tap water, ancient churches, good tea, gentle irony, lying on the ground under a huge chestnut tree on a summer's day
mateysmum Tue 26-Feb-13 13:14:46
Having been in the Middle East, it's so nice to be in a country where people regard themselves as equal to everyone else and there's no need for obsequious "yes Mam", "no Mam", just because I'm white and western.
Being able to let the dog off the lead for a run in green fields with other friendly dogs.
Real customer service instead of lies and "inshallah"
People turn up (more or less) when they say they will
Mostly sensible drivers who consider road rules to be more than just advisory and then only for other idiots who don't have a local passport and a Daddy in government.
Laws which apply to all equally.
chicken that isn't 50% water and keeps for longer than 1 day.
Sometimes I read the moans about this country and think how little people know about how most of the world lives.
Sugarbeach Tue 26-Feb-13 13:29:09
It could be that I'm homesick or it's the rose tinted glasses.....I've been away from the Uk for 2 1/2 years now, been in Dubai and now KL.....what I miss about the uk...
The super supermarkets
Ocado delivery
A reliable postal system
My garden
The snowdrops, then daffodils, then bluebells, then summer blooms, the autumn leaves, snow.....
My chickens
More opportunities to be more involved and embedded in village life
Shop assistants who are actually able to help rather than hover around you then look blank when you ask a question....
Sugarbeach Tue 26-Feb-13 13:30:21
Overall politeness
People QUEUE
GrumpyOldHorsewoman Tue 26-Feb-13 13:35:34
When I was on a temporary 6-month contract in the Middle East the things I missed most were:
Weather. Any type, so long as it wasn't the same every day
Coronation Street
Country pubs
Green fields
Safe road use
Proximity to Europe
Finding somewhere peaceful and quiet (everything there was very full-on)
There's plenty wrong with the UK, but there is no 'perfect place' on earth - something will always be found lacking. There are better places than here, but there are far worse too.
timetosmile Tue 26-Feb-13 13:35:39
You can drive with your window open and the door unlocked. And no burglar bars (that was the biggest 'relief' for me)
You can park at tesco without having to pay R1 to have somebody mind the car.
Proper cheese (not the orange cheddar)
Cooking apples
Readybrek not ProNutra
Having Mothers' Day on the right day!
Affordable books
Not assuming every loud bang is a gunshot. you'll miss the laid-back but can-do SA attitude, braais and the blue blue sky..
Sugarbeach Tue 26-Feb-13 13:51:52
No place is perfect....also there's no place like home.....home will always be home, whatever it's flaws....but my concept of home may be frozen in time when I left and I fear that I might be disappointed when I find that it's changed from how I remember it....
specialsubject Tue 26-Feb-13 14:42:33
what a cheering thread!
of course the UK is not perfect - but it's still wonderful.
taketheribbon Tue 26-Feb-13 14:50:10
Sugarbeach - you're right, your concept of home will get frozen in time. Having lived abroad for some years, I was shocked to come back 'home' and find myself a little hostile to some aspects of it (mainly the fact that people are just so less tolerant of children here in the UK). I went through the whole 'culture shock' thing again, which I'd gone through the other way around when I orginally emigrated.
You also find yourself, when you live abroad, looking at good old Blighty through rose-tinted glasses. Curryeater mentions 'lying on the ground under a huge chestnut tree' but fails to recall the risk of being knocked unconscious by a falling chestnut, or being blinded by a splat of pigeon shit while lying there.... You start to view life in the UK as being like living in the middle of films like Notting Hill or episodes of Miss Marple, and it's really not like that at all.
Sometimes it's worth reminding yourselves of things like the riots in the summer of 2011.
anonymosity Tue 26-Feb-13 17:46:29
For me personally, the only thing I can't get here (Los Angeles) that I can get in London is a bit of light-hearted sarcastic banter. I do miss that.
fussychica Wed 27-Feb-13 15:12:33
Been back in UK 18 mths after 8 years in Spain
Appreciating :
wonderful choice of food/ supermarkets especially Waitrose,
Being able to talk to someone without having to think what I'm going to say (my lousy Spanish),
being able to drink tap water,
not wearing insect repellant,
less extreme weather though that much rain did become close,
green fields & trees,
reliable TV reception,
National Trust
customer service
Missing :
my pool,
my mountain view,
sun, sun & sun
Wearing vest, T shirt & flip flops for 80% of the year
being able to do washing and dry it outside or gardening for that matter, on about 300 days a year instead of 50!;
fresh oranges (and juice) from our trees,
my lovely neighbours and friends,
cheap booze,
empty roads
Really it's probably only the lack of sun that might drive me away again - sad but true.
Been back a couple of months after 2yrs in Oz and it has been like putting on a warm blanket.
Yesterday it was grey and drizzly and miserable, but the snowdrops are everywhere, the leaves are coming out on the roses and the wood fire was cosy.
Today is spring. Clear blue skies, birds singing.
Things I missed:
Being able to laugh with the checkout person
John Lewis
Proper sausages
Antique shops and jumble sales where you can find something really old for next to nothing
Old buildings
Town centres rather than malls
Non tooth breaking biscuits
Cheap alcohol
"On in the village hall if wet"
anonymosity Thu 28-Feb-13 01:12:23
fussychica I like your list but I have to admit when I read "customer service" I laughed out loud as that's never been my life-long experience of the UK. But I suppose its about contrast with where you've been living and I've never lived in Spain, only taken trips there. ( I did love it)
MrRected Thu 28-Feb-13 01:23:39
I have done this move many times. Here are some things to look forward to in the UK:
It's comparatively MUCH safer. You will be able to walk out at night and be reasonably safe.
Public transport is available.
Shopping is SO MUCH better than South Africa.
The roads are a thousand times safer.
You will sleep better at night - I couldn't believe how different I felt.
I wish I could say you'd have to deal with less corruption and bureaucracy but it will just be of a different kind.
southwest Thu 28-Feb-13 01:23:47
there's no place like home wink
Longdistance Thu 28-Feb-13 04:43:43
I like that southwest smile
FellNel Thu 28-Feb-13 05:35:39
I am in the Middle East too. I am longing to go cosmetics and perfume shopping when I go home. Not because we don't have them here - we do, in huge abundance. But the sales staff outnumber to customers three to one, and are like desperate leeches that attack you the second you get in the door, then they literally follow you around the shop, watching you like a hawk, and if you hand wanders towards any product to look at it, or your eye rests for a split second too long on something, they are there, in your face, trying to sell it to you. Yet on the odd occasion I have decided to play along and ask questions about the product (perfume for example) that can't tell me a damn thing about it. confused
If I appear to be looking a perfumes they'll just pick up whatever's newest (some Kim Kardashian crap or other) and say 'try this mam, it's new. Best Seller. Very popular.' and try to douse me in the stuff.
And if I go in with something specific in mind, let's say a Chanel lipstick, and they don't have it in stock and am immediately asked if I'd like to buy some Chanel moisturiser instead., thanks. hmm
I am actually becoming too intimidated and annoyed to cross the threshold now. Customer service is a very odd thing out here. It's either non-existent and clueless or you feel like you are being stalked and bullied. There's no in between.
FellNel Thu 28-Feb-13 05:43:17
Oh, and it's nice to be somewhere where the pavements contain pedestrians, and cycle paths contain cyclists. Where I live the locals think it's perfectly acceptable to drive up the pavement and across the cycle path as a shortcut to skip the queue at a red traffic light.
It has to be seen to be believed really.
echt Thu 28-Feb-13 05:57:38
I still miss:
good sausages and ham
public footpaths
proper wallflowers
HermioneHatesHoovering Thu 28-Feb-13 20:52:54
Oh god reading this thread I'm nearly in tears. I'm in the Antipodes, been here nearly 30 years, single parent for the last 10, 3 kids, all adults now, this is home to them, they've known no other.
UK is still 'home' to me but the reality is I've no close rellies there and if I moved back I'd not see my kids for years on end, so I've no choice really but to stay here, but my heart yearns for England. sad sad
Salbertina Fri 01-Mar-13 07:53:18
Oh HHH sad not been away nearly as long as you nor roots as deep so can only imagine what a wrench either way...sounds like you've been through the mill, have you got good friends over there?? Expats who "get" it as well as locals??
You need a "horrible things about the UK" thread grin . Shall i start??
The weather
Grey buildings, sky, landscapes, people
Can't do culture
Old world and its limitations rather than new world and its possibilities
Oh and thanks to those who posted SA related links! Yes to all of them i think, v true.
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0.174547 | <urn:uuid:d532e928-a631-438e-bf57-353020fe478e> | en | 0.990818 | Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 19:42:10 -0400 From: Charlie Subject: Andy-12 (Young-Friends) XII Andy Returns Andy was chattering endlessly as he and Evan drove from the Wilmington airport to the Conner farm. Evan thought he'd never seen a boy so happy! "I'm not sure I understand," Evan said to him. "As I understand it, you've only known these people for four months, have only lived with them for two. Why is it that all of you are so determined to be together?" "I don't know, sir." Andy replied, "It's just... well, they were so good to me and all. It's just one of those things, ya know? We all knew from the start that it's like a perfect fit. And then there's Charlie." "Their son, right?" "Yes sir. He is the most awesome kid I have ever known!" Andy went on to tell about Charlie. From Andy's perspective, Charlie was only a small step below sainthood, was perfect in every respect. No one could sing better, not one was more handsome; no one could drive a tractor better and no one was a better mechanic. No one was a better farmer and absolutely no one was more feeling, passionate, tender-hearted! And now, finally, this wonder kid was going to be Andy's little brother! "You make him sound perfect." Evan observed. "He is." Andy replied without a moment's thought, "Wait'll you meet him." "I've never seen a twelve year old boy yet that's anything more than a twelve year old boy. Some are talented, some better looking than others; but they're still twelve year old boys, with all the pain-in-the-ass tendencies of all the others." "Not Charlie!" Andy answered confidently. Charlie was not in the house when Andy arrived at 1:30. He had gone to the machinery shed to make a small adjustment to a combine, which would be harvesting soy beans as soon as they could get to it. There were tearful hello's and embraces from Karen and Dennis, and then Dennis turned to Evan as he held Andy tight. "Thank you, Mr. Turnbull!" he said, "You've given us back our son." "You're most welcome. But please, call me Evan." "I expect you're looking for Charlie." Dennis surmised. "He's out making an adjustment on the combine. He should be in soon because we have to get him cleaned up and to the hospital." "Hospital?" Andy queried blankly. "Who's sick?" "Oh that's right!" Karen observed. "Things are happening so fast I forgot you didn't know. Andy, you'd better sit down." A cold chill went down Andy's spine. He knew it was Charlie, and he knew it was serious. Surely after all this time, after all they'd become to each other... surely he wasn't going to lose Charlie again! Or was he? There was no question that he wanted to stay here, Charlie or not. But would he be welcome? Could he fill the very large shoes Charlie would leave? Could Andy keep a positive attitude without Charlie to constantly encourage him? And more important, why had he already assumed that Charlie was going to die? "Charlie is going in the hospital tonight." Karen explained. "They think he has... uhh... Andy," she said as she began to cry, "Andy, they think he has cancer." "NO!!!!" Andy shouted, "No! Not Charlie! They've made a terrible mistake!" "They're not sure yet." Dennis reminded them. "He's going in tonight, tomorrow morning they're going to do a biopsy, and if that's positive they'll be doing surgery right away." "Surgery? What're they gonna do?" "They think he has cancer in his testicles. They'll be taking them off if it's cancer." "Oh damn!" Andy exclaimed, "He must feel terrible! I gotta go see him! Please excuse me?" Without waiting for an answer Andy flew out the door and across the yard. "He sure thinks a lot of your son." Evan said. "No more than we all think of him. He's had a bad start, Evan. But there's a good boy under all that facade." "I didn't see any facade." Evan said, "He was as genuine and real as any boy I've met, including my own two. But while they're gone, there's something we need to discuss. Did you know about the annuity? "Annuity?" Dennis questioned blankly. "Then I presume you didn't know about it?" "No. Exactly what annuity are you talking about?" "That's the reason getting Andy back here was so difficult. The orphanage didn't want to give him up because your young friend... er... SON has a sizable annuity." Evan went on to explain that Andy's grandfather, whom Andy hadn't seen since he was two, had put in place a fairly large insurance policy which would provide for his keep and education. The grandfather, Evan said, had known from the start that Andy's mother would never keep him. The orphanage, he said, had been skimming the allowance for years, putting it in the general fund. "I've threatened legal action, maybe even criminal charges if they don't replace it and soon. But there's lots of time to discuss that later. The important thing is Andy's back here where he's safe and loved." "Does Andy know about it?" Karen asked. "The money I mean?" "No. I was going to tell him, then I decided it'd be better coming from you. But to show good faith to Social Services, you're going to have to tell him." "Why would we not tell him?" Dennis asked, "After all, it's his money." "Andy!" Charlie screamed as he flew into Andy's arms, "Is it two already?" "Not quite, lil bro. We were early. How're ya doing?" "I'm fine now big bro. I was so scared you wouldn't get here in time." "In time... oh yeah the surgery. Man, Charlie, I dunno what to say. That really sucks!" "Not really. Doc says I'm gonna be rid of all that pain, and maybe if I'm lucky I'll get rid of the diapers too." "Really? For good?" "Uh-huh. He said something about a muscle spasm or something caused by the pain. I'm gettin' kinda excited about the whole thing." Andy pulled himself away from Charlie and held him at arms length. Would he never stop learning from this kid? He had just been told he had cancer, was scheduled the very next dayfor surgery that would change his life forever. "Charlie," he said as he looked into those bright blue eyes, "Are you sure you understand what's happening to you?" "Sure I do, man. What d'ya think I am, stupid? Heck, I've castrated dozens of calves, it's no big deal." "But you're not a calf. You're a boy; a human being!" "Gonna stay one too, Andy. Like the doc said, with cancer in them, my testicles have become a liability that will kill me. I figure it's better to be a eunuch than to be a corpse. Besides, it ain't all bad. In some ways it's kinda exciting." "Exciting? How in the world can you look forward to this and say it's exciting?" Charlie looked Andy in the eyes, and there he saw deep concern and worry. "Andy," he said with a smile, "Relax! It's gonna be fine! Doc Fisher says I can live fine without `em." "But... you'll never be able to have sex!" "Don't matter. Dad says I'm kinda lucky that way `cause I'm so young. He says I won't miss what I've never had." "Never?" "Well, almost never." Charlie grinned sheepishly. "But what about children? You'll never be able to be a father." "Sure I will. They gave me a hard time about that too, but I got it figured." "Hard time? I don't understand..." Charlie went on to relate the scene in the hospital. "They wanted to bring some nurse in to beat me off!" he said with disdain, "And then when I wouldn't do that they wanted me to do it by myself! Right there in the hospital!" "Why? Are they some kinda perverts or something?" "No, they said they wanted to get some sperm from me and freeze it. They asked me all sorts of questions about could I shoot yet, even asked me if I'd had an orgasm the night you and I... well, you know." "What'd you tell them?" "Nuthin' man! I told `em it's none of their business and it didn't matter anyway, cause if I ever need sperm I can use some o' yours. And," he said with a wide grin, "I KNOW you got enough for two!" "Charlie!" said a blushing Andy, "You didn't tell them that, did you?" "Course not Andy. I told you, I didn't tell them anything!" Charlie confessed then that the real reason he liked his diapers so much was that they gave him freedom: freedom to go where he liked without constantly worrying about wetting his pants, going to the bathroom every half hour, being embarrassed in school. "Now," he said, "I get a chance to be a normal kid, and maybe for a long time." "A long time?" Andy queried. "Yeah. Doc Fisher is not real sure how much I'll grow. He says I will eventually grow, but he doesn't know how much or how fast. He said the fact that I'm so small now is an indication that I might not have all the growth hormones I should have." "But they have drugs for that! I know kids in foster care that are taking growth hormones." "Doc says I can't have `em cause they help the cancer to grow. He says hormones are kinda like a fertilizer to the cancer." "I sure wish you were staying home tonight." Andy said quietly. "It's gonna seem like forever when you're in that operating room." "I was kinda... well, I was hoping you'd be there with me. Mom and Dad are gonna be there." "Be with you? Would they allow me?" "I dunno. But I think I can talk `em into it. They are kinda doing whatever I want, long as it's reasonable. Will you come?" "Sure, man. Anything for my lil brother!" "Is that your sick young son coming across the yard?" Evan asked with a smile as he looked out the window. He saw two boys: Andy, and a much smaller but no less happy boy. They were both laughing, joking, trying to trip each other, slapping each other on the back, acting anything but sick. "That's Charlie!" Dennis said proudly. "Andy is like a tonic to that boy!" "Dad," Charlie said when Evan had left, "Why do I have to go to the hospital tonight?" "I'm not sure," Dennis answered, "I guess originally they wanted you there to try and harvest sperm. But since you're not gonna do that.... you haven't changed your mind have you?" "No, Dad, I haven't" "Then I guess the only other reason is to get you drugged up for tomorrow." "Drugged up? But I don't wanna be drugged up!" "Charlie, they have to give you something to help you relax." "I'm already relaxed! An' I'll stay more relaxed if I can stay home tonight and tell Andy what's goin' on here. Why can't we go in early in the morning? You got John and Todd doin' the milking and all, so we could be there by six or seven." "You've got a good point, Charlie. But on the other hand, they're gonna start to get annoyed if we keep changing things. Maybe we should just leave things the way they are." "I don't really care if they like it or not, Dad. Why can't we tell them my brother just got home and I want to spend some time with him?" "All right, Charlie." Dennis sighed, "Let me call the hospital." Fortunately, Dennis got in touch with the head nurse on the floor where Charlie would be staying. She told him that Charlie had been scheduled to stay two days, mostly for more tests. She also told him that she would appreciate his NOT coming in tonight because they really had no time to do anything with him, so it would be very boring for Charlie. He told her he'd have Charlie at the hospital at 7 am, thanked her, and hung up. "Charlie!" he called. The boys were upstairs on the computer, where Charlie had one more email to send to a friend in France before shutting it down. He came bounding down the stairs, leaving Andy to finish shutting down the computer. "Yeah Dad?" he said, "Time to go?" "Charlie," Dennis said, "Why is it so important for you to stay home tonight?' "Dad, I thought that'd be obvious. I'd much rather be here than in any old hospital; and besides, Andy's here." "Does that mean we can expect a repeat performance of what happened once before?" Charlie turned fire engine red. "Dad!" he whined, "What kinda question is that?" "Under the circumstances," Dennis laughed, "I think it's a pretty normal question for a father to ask his son." "Well I'm not gonna lie to ya, Dad. But I'm not gonna answer the question either. The truth is I don't know. But I don't think it's fair makin' me go in case something might happen." "I don't either, son." Dennis laughed, "But you can't blame your old man for trying to find out what his sons are up to." "That kinda reminds me Dad." Charlie said faltingly, "Can we talk?" "Of course we can talk, Charlie! Here? Or in my office?" "Your office, please." "Ok," Dennis said when they were in the office behind the closed door. "What's up?" "I was just wonderin'... he stammered, "After I'm... uhhh... after I'm a castrato, is that gonna make me gay?" "Make you gay? I don't think so, Charlie. Are you concerned about that?" "Sorta. I been on the Internet again and lots of guys think if you don't have your... er... balls, you're kinda a sissy." "That's just tough guy man talk, Charlie. But what's a sissy got to do with being gay?" "Well, most sissies are gay aren't they?" "Charlie, c'mere." Charlie obediently approached his father, who picked him up and placed him on his lap. Odd for a twelve year old? To quote Andy, not when the twelve year old was Charlie. "In the first place," Dennis began, "I don't think losing your testicles is going to change the way you think. They say it'll reduce your sex drive, but at your age you don't have that much anyway. But it won't make you a sissy, and it won't make you gay. And remember this, Charlie, being a sissy and being gay are two totally different things. Some sissies are gay, some not. Some gays are sissies, some not. But gay or straight, sissy or he-man, you are what you are, and removing a couple of small body parts isn't gonna change that. And whatever you are, you're still our son and we love you." "Do you think I'm gay, Dad?" "I don't know. If you're talking about what you and Andy did, I doubt that we can draw any conclusions from that. Do you think you are?" "I dunno Dad. But Andy..." "Andy has already told me he doesn't know if he's gay either. And before you even ask, it won't make any difference in how we love you, either one of you. A lot of people would say I'm a terrible father, knowing what you two did and allowing it to possibly happen again, but I don't think that way. I know if you really want to do it, you'll find a way. If not in bed, then in the barn, or in the bushes by the back field. If you were doing it all the time I'd have to intervene; but at the moment I think you both are just discovering yourselves, so the best support I can offer is to back off and just let you know we love you." Charlie looked intently at his father. "I'm scared, Dad!" he admitted. "Of course you are! That's why I've arranged for you to stay here tonight. We don't have to be at the hospital till 7 am." "Ya mean it? Really?" "Uh-huh. But why don't you forget I told you and tell me why you're scared?" "I dunno... I been reading some stuff about castrati... they were treated kinda bad by people..." "That was a long time ago, Charlie. I think things'll be different for you. I think you're gonna be just fine!" "But what if that doesn't get all the cancer? What'll they do then?" "That I can't answer, son. But don't forget all those songs you sing on the stage. Don't they have a lot to say about putting your faith in God?" "Yeah, I guess they do. OK thanks, Dad. Are we through?" "Only if you say we are." Charlie's mind still wasn't fully at rest with all that was happening, but he couldn't think of any more questions. Besides, he couldn't wait to tell Andy that they weren't going to the hospital until morning. That, Andy agreed, was the best news of the day. Charlie was only allowed a sandwich for supper, but Andy ate enough for the both of them. "I really wish this wasn't happening to you." Andy said as they undressed for bed. "Yeah," Charlie agreed, "Me too. I'm kinda nervous." "I don't wonder. I think I'd be scared to death. Is that what you were talkin' to your dad about?" "Yeah. An' it's OUR dad now!" "Guess that's right. Did he help?" "Yeah, a little. But..." Andy stopped undressing and sat down on the bed with Charlie. Charlie threw his arms around him and held him as he started to cry softly. "I'm so afraid.." he sobbed. "Afraid of what? I thought you were handling it pretty well." "That's what you're supposed to think. I'm supposed to be able to handle everything! Keep on keepin' on, an' all that stuff." "Are you afraid of dying?" "Heck no! Actually I think I might be afraid of NOT dying! Sometimes I get to thinking it'd be better to be dead than to live as a eunuch." "But I thought you were ok with it... I mean not being able to be a father, your voice not changing, all that stuff!" "I am ok with all that. It's just... just..." "What Charlie? What else is there?" Charlie didn't answer for a long time. He held Andy tightly, then when he had regained some of his composure he said one word: "YOU!" "Me?" Andy questioned, "What about me?" "I don't wanna lose you! I'm afraid you won't respect me when I'm never gonna be a man. I'm gonna be... well... mutilated!" Andy pulled away from Charlie and looked him in the eye. "Is that what you think, Charlie? You think that I only want you for that? Just because we did it once, you think I'll lose interest if we can't do it any more?" "But you said... you enjoyed it so much..." "Of course I enjoyed it, Charlie! I was in bed with the most beautiful boy in the world! We were giving each other such pleasure that it just blows my mind! But I don't think that's gonna change. You'll still have that incredible blond hair, that gorgeous body, those bright blue eyes. You'll still be the smartest farmer in the world. You'll still be Charlie, the boy I love. And if what we did last time doesn't work for you any more, we'll find new things to do. Remember, I was here all summer without any sex, and I never tired of changing your diaper, taking your orders, working with you. Just being close to you is enough, Charlie! I mean, one of us might very well lose interest in sex. One of us might get interested in a girl. But that doesn't mean I'll lose interest in my lil brother. I love you, Charlie!" Charlie didn't say anything for a long time. He looked at Andy. His body seemed to have matured over the two months he'd been away. His shoulders were a little broader, his arms a little more muscular. He still sported the tan he'd got from going shirtless most of the summer. His hair was much longer now. He hadn't cut it because Charlie had said he liked it long. It glistened from constant brushing, just covering his ears. Charlie thought he'd never seen anyone so gorgeous! He didn't even realize it, but his hands had begun to investigate some areas that were still covered by clothing. "I might never be able to do it again after tonight," he whispered, "Can we... uh... Andy, I want..." "Me too, Charlie. I thought you'd never ask." * * * If you wish to comment on this story, please send your comments to me at | http://www.nifty.org/nifty/gay/young-friends/andy/andy-12 | dclm-gs1-150660001 | false | false | {
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0.024901 | <urn:uuid:511551ca-fbeb-4165-bd8a-6e76e3fda021> | en | 0.980664 | Edition: U.S. / Global
By Richard Flaste; Richard Flaste is Science and Health Editor of The New York Times.
Published: October 9, 1988
A FATHER I KNOW TELLS of one unsettling moment when he was sure he would never understand the teen-age mind. The mind in question was that of his own teen-ager, a 15-year-old blonde possessed of considerable charm and an aggressive reticence. The pivotal moment was this effort at conversation:
''So, how was your day at school?'' ''Good.'' ''Was it more than just good? I mean, did anything actually happen that was interesting?'' ''No, it was just good.'' ''What about the bio test? Didn't you have a test?'' (The answer this time came with a gleam of irritation in her eyes.) ''I told you, everything was good.''
He backed away, feeling foolish, sorry he had tried, sorry he'd stirred her pique. What could possibly be going on in her mind? And he wondered about himself, too, as he slipped away into a friendlier room. Was he actually afraid of her? Later, having thought about that scene many times, he concluded that he had in fact been frightened, but not so much of her - after all, they had their good times, and she did seem to love and respect him at least every now and then. Rather it was the condition of adolescence that scared him. On occasions like that abortive effort at conversation he wasn't just confronting a teen-ager who might or might not be in the mood to talk to him but also everything he had ever heard about adolescence, the Sturm, the Drang and the plain old orneriness of it. That flash of annoyance in her eyes was all that was necessary to evoke an image of those infamous raging hormones boiling inside a pubescent caldron.
The burden was a heavy one to take into a small inquiry about a person's day. It was an unnecessary burden, too. For, although most of us aren't aware of it, the concept of adolescence as a period of angry, dard turmoil has largely been overthrown, and along with it the idea that kids need to be tormented and perverse to make the storm-tossed transition to adulthood. That concept is being replaced by a new psychology of adolescence, a growing body of work that reflects a vigorous attempt to find out what life is genuinely like for normal teen-agers, and which reveals that delight plays as large a role among most adolescents as misery does.
A substantial number of psychotherapists and personality theorists still believe that adolescence is a trial by fire, as do many writers of juvenile fiction. But what is now the mainstream of psychological research dismisses this emphasis on turmoil as balderdash. It is a misguided emphasis, many researchers say, which grew out of the overwrought imaginations of romanticists ranging from the Freuds (mostly Anna) to Goethe (particularly, ''The Sorrows of Young Werther'').
In the 1970's, I wrote regularly about child-development issues for this newspaper, and I accepted the idea that any teen-ager was necessarily a little mad. To a large extent this notion was promoted by the psychoanalytic literature, but it was embraced by many of us as a handy way to explain hard times with our teen-agers. We could say that noxious behavior such as naked aggression was normal, and so we didn't have to worry. We reassured ourselves constantly, usually with a knowing laugh about the craziness of teen-agers. But I did not believe it completely. Why should only this age group carry the label of madness? Coming back to the question now, I am struck by how different the mood among many psychologists and psychiatrists is. By and large, they are more determined to draw an empirical and detailed picture of the varied and complex adolescent experience.
Some researchers have surveyed thousands of teen-agers to learn what they believe about themselves and their families. Others have given youngsters beepers to carry around, so that when they are signaled they will report their moods at that moment. And still others have worked with families, asking parents, teen-agers and their siblings to take batteries of tests.
AMONG THE most influential of this cadre of researchers is Dr. Daniel Offer of the University of Chicago, a psychiatrist who believes that the widespread idea that the teen years are unavoidably insane has mischaracterized the lives of millions of people. Moreover, he contends that the emphasis on turmoil has created the expectation of Sturm and Drang for every teen-ager, thereby masking the serious emotional difficulties of a significant minority of adolescents who need professional help. Dr. Offer was moved to declare a ''Defense of Adolescents'' in The Journal of the American Medical Association, and he made a presentation along the same lines to the convention of the American Psychiatric Association last May.
Dr. Offer's team was among the earliest to plumb the day-to-day feelings of large numbers of teen-agers. Their first explorations, in the 1960's, began to reveal that, incredible as it might have seemed, most teen-agers were happy most of the time. After years of confirmatory work, he confidently told the psychiatrists' convention that ''the vast majority of adolescents are well-adjusted, get along well with their peers and their parents, adjust well to the mores and values of their social environment and cope well with their internal and external worlds.'' Dr. Offer recalled in a recent interview that this message disturbed some of his colleagues, because they didn't believe that teen-agers' responses to questions could be trusted. | http://www.nytimes.com/1988/10/09/magazine/the-myth-about-teen-agers.html?pagewanted=4&src=pm | dclm-gs1-150730001 | false | false | {
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0.029146 | <urn:uuid:95f187fe-a3e8-4d4f-8d38-695490bd1a08> | en | 0.923974 | A BOWL of chilled borscht laced with sour cream seems like an ideal late-summer soup, right up there with gazpacho made from the last of the ripe tomatoes. But unlike gazpacho, which can be whipped together in a blender without once turning on the stove, traditional beet borscht requires a pretty lengthy stint of simmering. Ideal, maybe, to make in the chilly dawn of a Russian winter but not something you would want to bother with during the still-warm September days here in New York.
This was my thinking until one day in Fairway when I was indulging in a favorite pastime: perusing the produce aisle. There, garnet-hued and vacuum packed, were small, bulbous bunches of cooked peeled beets. They looked familiar. I had seen something similar in France, where supermarkets sell cooked beets as a matter of course. And, indeed, these were French imports, each package about half a pound (250 grams) and retailing for only 89 cents.
A vision popped in my head: instant borscht, a recipe as quick as a smoothie and much more appropriate for supper. So I bought the beets, along with a can of chicken broth, a red onion (to match the beets), a tub of crème fraîche and a bunch of fresh dill. Thus armed, I headed to my kitchen.
Just like the beets I had bought in France, these were cooked until meltingly soft, and perfectly suited to a purée. So I whirled them with the onion in the blender, gazpacho style, adding ice cubes along with the broth to eliminate the chilling time. Out came a velvety, magenta liquid with the intense flavor of fresh summer beets.
Clean and vibrant on its own, it was even better with a swirl of horseradish-spiked crème fraîche, an extremely elegant garnish that both underscored the soup's earthy sweetness and further belied its simplicity.
The horseradish cream was a last-minute brainstorm inspired by a borscht I enjoyed at Artisanal. There, Terrance Brennan crowns his marvelous cool broth with a scoop of savory horseradish ice cream. It's a perfect combination that probably takes all morning to make.
My version, cheating though it may be, takes about 10 minutes, no heat required.
Time: 10 minutes
1 cup crème fraîche or sour cream
2 teaspoons prepared horseradish
Salt and pepper to taste
2 packages (250 grams) cooked, peeled beets
1 small red onion, peeled and quartered
1 can (14 ounces) chicken broth
1 cup ice cubes
1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice, or to taste
1 tablespoon chopped fresh dill.
1. In a medium bowl, whisk together crème fraîche and horseradish. Season with salt and pepper to taste.
2. Place beets, onion, chicken broth, ice and 1 1/2 cups cold water into a blender. Blend until smooth. Season with lemon juice and salt and pepper to taste.
3. Serve borscht with dollops of horseradish cream, garnished with dill.
Yield: 4 to 6 servings.
Photo: SMOOTHIE -- Cooked beets whirled in a blender, gazpacho style, yield an earthy soup. (Tony Cenicola/The New York Times) | http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/12/dining/a-shortcut-turns-down-the-heat-on-a-vibrant-favorite.html?src=pm | dclm-gs1-150770001 | false | false | {
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