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Gabon - a nation in central Africa, included among the Congo Basin states, participant in the Central Africa Franc (CFA) monetary system, and blessed with extraordinary riches and advantages. Located on the Atlantic coast of west-central Africa, smack dab on the equator, festooned with large swaths of rainforest (nonetheless heavily logged by all of us), replete with charismatic megafauna (which you shall not see here, because we didn't see any, since they're all being shot at incessantly), Gabon has abundant sources of oil, gas, gold, platinum and many other minerals, all in an area the size of Colorado, with but 1.2 million people, perhaps a legacy of the depeopling that the European slave trade bequeathed to the land. And they have the French language, crusty French bread and the French colonial legacy (i.e., an ongoing military presence) to spice up the tropical environs.
Never thought that I would return to this reasonably prosperous central African nation a second time, but far stranger things can happen to a poli sci major from NYC than this...
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Moral of the Story: Don't trust external data sources.
Both pieces are true (fork bombs are bad, external data shouldn't be trusted) but the jump from one to the other is unclear and misleading. It implies that external data can cause unexpected fork bombs, but it doesn't actually demonstrating how such a thing might happen.
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Now and then its nice to listen to music that removes you from the often chaotic and throwaway trappings of modern life. This album helps to do just that, with its rich, liting and soft harmonies coupled to a fine voice. Although Sevara may not have the most instantly recognisable vocal style in this field of music, it sits just nicely with the sounds backing her - primarily that of the Doutar, a traditional Uzbek instrument.
The opening and title tracks are the two most accesible on offer, and will become familar after just a few listens. The second track and the closer, Alla, are the two most exquisite moments though, and should leave your ears with the feeling of being wrapped in swathes of exotic silk, such is the hypnotic style of the carefully constructed rhythms. I give it four stars because not all tracks are memorable; the final third of the album does dip slightly.
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Danny Canales (Born On February 19, 1991) Jimmy Canales (Born On March 25, 1992) In Arlington VA. Son of Juan Canales and Maria Ramirez. Danny & Jimmy known for the hit song "Dime Que Hago" by the duo Jimmy El Intocable & Kelvin El Inalcanzable, also featuring Eric D Advakidd, and Tito Flow. Danny & Jimmy raised around music, there father had a background of singing as well as there mother who danced and sang when they were children as well. The Canales Bros began singing when they were 8 & 7. Influenced by what their parents listened to but what influenced them as well were the songs of the backstreet boys. This made them start to sing anywhere they went. As time passed they didn't only listen to that anymore but there knowledge expand hearing other sounds like hip-hop, rap, r&b, latin & etc.
Danny & Jimmy were know for performing at there high school whenever there were talent shows or any other event at school. Both at that point stayed singing, they both began writing songs to instrumentals, but they didn't let anyone listen. Danny thought it wasnt the right time to begin that process of letting others listen to what they wrote. He felt it just needed to be a process before they could show there public this is what we do. He just felt for now they should do cover songs of other artist and perform them since that was something that they learned really fast.
On Danny's birthday his father bought him his 1st professional recording microphone. That was the moment Danny knew it was time to begin a new chapter in his life with all the work he and his brother had been practicing for. Towards the end of Danny's high school year He had recorded a song with his friend Eric (now known as Eric D Advakidd) to the instrumental "Overtime" by Ace Hood. It was the first time they would perform a original song to there classmates. They called the song "Prom Night" when the time came it was there prom night. They didn't know the reaction of there classmates but when they were called to stage they performed the song blowing there classmates. This was the beginning for him and his group in a long journey for what they wanted to take worldwide.
Once Danny was out of high school he established a music company own by him called "Optimistic Records". The name came from one thing he always had on his mind "when things are bad just keep your head up and just know you tried". Later he searched for a meaning that was close enough to what he believed, a friend gave him the name Optimistic right there He liked the word and Right there Optimistic Records was born.
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Danny & Jimmy have had various influences in there lives since they were kids but their parents were the most influential people of there life. The Style Both Of These Brothers Sing is very different to what you hear on the radio or anywhere. You will never find them talking about drugs, sex, or women in a disrespectful manner. they understand its what people are use to hearing in order to sell music but they don't need to follow that direction. Danny released his first original album in June of 2010 called Danny "El Optimistico" Presents - Even In The Eyes Of Reality. It featured him as well as the artist in his company (Jimmy El Intocable & Kelvin El Inalcanzable", iLY & Miss Kay, Deadly Assasin).
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Indigo Mad
Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 100,720. Language: English. Published: February 25, 2011 by Transmedia Books. Category: Fiction » Science fiction » General
Indigo Mad is the first in a series of sci-fi novels centered on the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy, introducing Delikat, a rapidly evolving alien cyborg who accelerates her growth at a faster fate than others around her, including her human brethren, Indigo and Jake.
The Ether Dispute: Revisiting Einstein's Argument That Space is a Physical Substance
This book is about an unresolved dispute over the physical nature of space. On one hand, space appears empty. This led biblical and modern cosmologists to conclude space is an empty vacuum. But when astrophysicists from Newton to Einstein studied space, they found it exhibits physical behaviors. This led astrophysicists to conclude space is a physical substance.
Conversations avec l'au-delà
Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 58,100. Language: French. Published: August 22, 2011 by Le signe bleu. Category: Fiction » Science fiction » High tech
Que se passerait-il si vous rencontriez le personnage de roman de vos rêves; si vous pouviez dialoguer avec l'auteur, disparu depuis des siècles, qui a transformé votre vie; si vous pouviez savoir ce qu'aurait été votre vie si vous aviez fait d'autres choix ? Notre réalité recèle de multiples niveaux. Nos idées y prennent vie et peuplent notre existence, tout comme les âmes des disparus.
NASA Astrophysics Missions: Reviews of Operating Missions - Hubble Space Telescope, Chandra X-ray Observatory, Fermi Gamma-ray Telescope, Kepler, Planck, Suzaku, Swift, Spitzer, XMM-Newton
Price: $6.99 USD. Words: 35,580. Language: English. Published: April 8, 2012. Category: Nonfiction » Science and Nature » Astronomy
This is a compilation of the reports of the NASA Senior Review Committee (SRC) for 2012, 2010, and 2008 evaluating the scientific productivity of major astrophysics missions with recommendations for continued funding.
Expanded Maxwellian Geometry of Space
Series: Our Neocortex and Objective Physical Reality, Book 3. Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 130,570. Language: English. Published: May 18, 2012. Category: Nonfiction » Science and Nature » Physics / Electromagnetism
Beyond Hubble's Shadows, the Daemon Darkness Lies
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 10,960. Language: English. Published: June 20, 2012 by Rapid-Dynamix Publishing. Category: Fiction » Science fiction » High tech
The twenty-second century, Perlmutter Transantarctic Array, Antarctica. Dr. Alexei Zotov peers into the eyepiece of the observatory, into the deepest abyss of the cosmos. What is really out there? What fate does the universe have in store for us? What cosmic horrors brood in that daemon darkness, staring back at us-- seething, ravenous, remorseless-- and who shall be their scribe?
Anomaly at Fortune Lake
Series: Science Fiction for Astronomers. Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 39,230. Language: English. Published: September 30, 2012. Category: Fiction » Science fiction » Hard sci-fi
On a remote lake in Canada, Ashley and Justin seek an off-the-grid lifestyle, while two anomalies merge into one. A distant galaxy exhibits unusual characteristics in Justin's amateur telescope, and something under the lake is stirring. Soon military submarine chaser aircraft from two countries are involved, and so are astronomers from around the world. It's a race to understand the anomaly.
Seaton's War
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 82,960. Language: English (New Zealand dialect). Published: September 11, 2013. Category: Fiction » Romance » General
War comes to Seaton when a Japanese submarine beaches on its shore. When the prisoners are incarcerated Kitty sees her chance to do something for the war effort. She meets Dr. Robert Anderson who is engaged in secretive work and with whom she falls in love. But who's side is he on? Pacific war, secret liaisons, the spy game and the quest for liberation in Europe weave through Kitty's story.
Wormholes Young Adult Edition
Price: $3.95 USD. Words: 107,440. Language: English. Published: September 30, 2013. Category: Fiction » Science fiction » Hard sci-fi
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I've always enjoyed playing the DPS scoundrel more than any other class because;
1) It is the easiest class for me (by FAR) to get accustomed to and/or learn rotations and know when to pop certain cooldowns, etc.
2) It has great burst DPS (though not as good as some other classes - we've been nerfed previously and our DPS output is probably not as high as other classes anymore
3) It has really good utility for lots of different things in multiple different warzones.
Scoundrel/Operative DPS hasn't been FOTM for a long time, and probably won't ever be again, but it is extremely fun in comparison to all the other classes I've played.
Lastly, I have enormous respect for Kript and Chasity for making the most hated PvP advanced class work for them when noone else seems to be able to pull off DPS Commando/Mercenary (at least on our server).
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Demystifying Denial-Of-Service attacks, part one By Abhishek Singh, CISSP This paper provides an introduction to Denial of Service (DoS) attacks, their methodologies, common prevention techniques, and how they differ from Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks. This article is intended to be a broad overview for the beginner or intermediate-level administrator on the different types of DoS attacks.
1. Definitions
We begin by defining Denial of Service and Distributed Denial of Service.
1.1 What is a DoS?
As the name implies, DoS is a Denial of Service to a victim trying to access a resource. In many cases it can be safey said that the attack requires a protocol flaw as well as some kind of network amplification.
Denial of Services is also an attack on a computer system or network that causes a loss of service to users, typically the loss of network connectivity and services through the the consumption of bandwidth of the victim network, or the overloading the computational resources of the victim system. (see the Wikipedia definition)
The motivation for DoS attacks is not to break into a system. Instead, it is to deny the legitimate use of the system or network to others who need its services. One can say that this will typically happen through one of the following means:
1. Crashing the system.
2. Deny communication between systems.
3. Bring the network or the system down or have it operate at a reduced speed which affects productivity.
4. Hang the system, which is more dangerous than crashing since there is no automatic reboot. Productivity can be disrupted indefinitely.
DoS attacks can also be major components of other type of attacks.
1.2 What is a Distributed DoS?
A Distributed DoS (DDoS) is the combined effort of several machines to bring down victim. In many cases there is a master machine that launches the attack to zombie machines that are part of a bot network, as shown below in Figure 1. Some bot networks contain many thousands of machines used to launch an attack.
Figure 1.
Figure 1. A DDoS attack in operation.
With DoS and DDos defined, we'll now take a look at attacks that affect the consumption of resources, such as Smurf attacks, and then address attacks like SYN Flood that affect network connectivity.
Note that the consumption of resources is most evident when it involves the exploitation of bandwidth, CPU usage, memory, disk space, or access to other computers and resources.
2. Bandwidth exhaustion attacks
A bandwidth exhaustion attack is where an attacker tries to consume the available bandwidth of a network by sending a flood of packets. This is most often accomplished with the help of several other machines. There is soon a flood of malicious nonsense packets on the network in large quantity, whereby the chances of survival of any good, legitimate packets becomes remote. Eventually the network becomes choked with these packets, and the network is effectively cutoff from the Internet and services are denied.
An ideal example of a bandwidth exhaustion attack would be Smurf attacks. Consider a scenario with an ISP and three clients, as shown below in Figure 2. In this scenario, the ISP receives extensive traffic for client 2 on its backbone. Since the connection to client 2 is of limited capacity and smaller than the ISP's backbone, it can't push all the data received for client 2 through the link to client 2. Therefore it will start to drop packets, and the TCP connections will lead to retransmissions of the lost/dropped packets. There will be a time when a legitimate host wants to connect to Client 2's network, but this will timeout and hence a DoS will occur.
Figure 2.
Figure 2. Scenario for a bandwith exhaustion attack.
2.1 Example: Smurf attack
Named after a popular program which generates this attack, an ICMP echo request is sent to a broadcast network address (acting as an amplifying agent) with the source address of the victim spoofed. This results in a storm of replies from that network which, if large enough, has the power to take the victim's network down. It is to be noted that there is not much a victim can do about this attack since the link is simply overloaded with packets.
There are always three parts of a Smurf Attack:
1. Attacker
2. Amplifier - a router
3. Victim
This attack succeeds because the amplifier is misconfugred to forward the directed broadcasts.
Suppose the address range to is assigned to a company which has an amplifier, and an attacker sends packets with destination All the routers and systems from attacker to the amplifier will not see the difference between this IP and (an IP from the range). The packet reaches the amplifier and the amplifier notices that this is the broadcast address, so it forwards the request to all the systems on the network/subnet. This is known as directed broadcast.
The two crucial components of this attack were:
1. A misconfigured router forwarding the broadcast request to the subnet.
2. Machines that will respond to this ICMP broadcast request.
Going deeper we can see that the amplifier also makes itself and its network a victim of this attack.
Victims are typically chosen by attackers from IRC where bots (automated programs) are kept to look for the address of victims. Hackers often exchange the information about amplifiers with each other so when a mass attack takes palce it usually appears to come from all over the globe.
Powertech provides realtime statistics of the top amplifiers currently on the Internet.
Below is a typical depiction of the dumps at the Victim. These are ICMP Echo replies received at the Victim's end. Then Figure 3 provides an overview of a Smurf attack.
10:10:17.100000 > victim: icmp: echo reply 10:10:18.300000 > victim: icmp: echo reply 10:10:18.310000 > victim: icmp: echo reply 10:10:19.110000 > victim: icmp: echo reply 10:11:09.190000 > victim: icmp: echo reply 10:11:09.240000 > victim: icmp: echo reply 10:11:10.110000 > victim: icmp: echo reply 10:11:10.600000 > victim: icmp: echo reply 10:11:10.790000 > victim: icmp: echo reply
Figure 3.
Figure 3. Typical directed broadcast Smurf attack.
2.2 How to protect against Smurf attacks
Step 1. Amplifier Configuration. The router should be configured so that it does not forward directed broadcasts onto networks. It is important to note that the broadcast has to be disabled on all the routers and not merely just the external ones. Command "no ip directed-broadcast" on Cisco routers should do the job in most cases. This will also ensure that employees on the internal network won't be able to launch Smurf attacks. However it is also advisable that one has a filtering device (such as a firewall) on the perimeter, thereby providing an extra layer of security.
Step 2. Configure the server operating systems. Servers should be configured so that they will not respond to a directed broadcast request. FreeBSD is one such system which by default does not respond to this request. Other systems can be similarly configured, and this will be discussed in the next section.
Step 3. Victim issues. As mentioned earlier, not much can be done at the victim's end and damage will be done unless victim's ISP takes some actions to block these ICMP Echo Reply floods. Even if the victim's parameter router denies the ICMP Echo Reply, the link from the ISP to the victim's site will suffer.
2.3 ICMP Ping Flood attacks
Ping Floods are where an attacker floods the victim's network with large number of ICMP Echo Requests - such as by flooding the network as fast as possible. In this scenario, filtering the incoming packets might help, however, if the victim is on a modem instead of a high-speed connection, nothing can be done. However the catch in this attack is that if not done properly the attacker can also be counter-attacked, so he needs to be on a faster network than the victim. In most cases, mitigating this attack involves isolating spoofed IPs. This attack is easy to peform since there are many tools on Internet and little knowledge is required to execute a ping flood.
2.4 Fraggle attacks
A Fraggle attack is a Smurf variant that uses UDP instead of ICMP. In this case, the ports echo, chargen, daytime, qotd are used to trigger responses. These ports are also susceptible to a pingpong attack, and therefore these serves should be turned off or blocked.
3. Network connectivity attacks
These attacks overload the victim so that its TCP/IP stack is not able to handle any further conections, and processing queues are completely full with nonsense malicious packets. As a consequence of this attack, legitimate connections are denied. One classic example of a network connectivity attack is a SYN Flood.
3.1 Example: SYN Flood attacks
A SYN Flood is where an attacker sends packets with a spoofed source IP Address and a TCP SYN Flag set to the server (victim). Let's first assume that the attacker knows which ports are open on the server. Since the source IP is spoofed, the response sent to the SYN packet by the server will never receive a reply back. The server will keep waiting until it times out. If this happens for a very large number of connections the result will be a DoS, since the server won't be available for any legitimate connections and its resources will be choked.
As will be shown, this attack exploits a vulnerability of the TCP protocol, by the way in which the TCP three-way connection is established. This is shown below in Figure 4.
Figure 4.
Figure 4. SYN Flood attack.
3.2 Protecting against SYN Flood attacks
There are several things that can be done to protect against SYN Flood attacks.
1. Decrease the TCP Connection Timeout on the victim server.
2. Use a filtering device, like a firewall, at the perimeter which works as an intermediary in forwarding the connections to the server.
3. Use of a server farm: this can also help in fighting the SYN Flood since you will have number of the servers to answer the request, but this also has limitations and overhead considerations.
A detailed article on SYN Flood protection by Mariusz Burdach was previously published on SecurityFocus. Therefore, only a short overview of SYN Flood protection will be discussed in this section.
3.2.1 Protecting Microsoft Windows from a SYN Flood attack
Microsoft Windows has a mechanism to detect and start SYN Flood protection. The SYN flooding attack protection feature detects symptoms of SYN flooding and responds by reducing the time the server spends on connection requests that it cannot acknowledge.
Specifically, TCP shortens the required interval between SYN-ACK (connection request acknowledgements) retransmissions. TCP retransmits SYN-ACKS when they are not answered. As a result, the allotted number of retransmissions is consumed more quickly and the unacknowledgeable connection request is discarded faster.
When enabled, the system monitors the connections maintained by TCP and starts the SYN attack flooding protection when the any of the following conditions, symptomatic of SYN flooding, are found:
• The total number of connections in the half-open (SYN-RCVD) state exceeds the value of TcpMaxHalfOpen
• The number of connections that remain in the half-open (SYN-RCVD) state even after a connection request has been retransmitted exceeds the value of TcpMaxHalfOpenRetried
• The number of connection requests the system refuses exceeds the value of TcpMaxPortsExhausted. The system must refuse all connection requests when its reserve of open connection ports runs out.
Microsoft suggests the following registry settings:
hkey_local_machine \system \currentcontrolset \services \tcpip \parameters \synattackprotect=1 REG_DWORD hkey_local_machine \system \currentcontrolset \services \tcpip \parameters \tcpmaxconnectresponseretransmissions=2 REG_DWORD hkey_local_machine \system \currentcontrolset \services \tcpip \parameters \tcpmaxdataretransmissions=3 REG_DWORD
3.2.2 Check Point protections against a SYN Flood attack
In the first scenario, we look at Check Point as a simple proxy to the victim server. This is shown below in Figure 5.
Figure 5.
Figure 5. Check Point firewall acting as a proxy.
In this scenario Check Point acts a proxy to the server and responds to all the requests sent to the server. A request is forwarded to the server only if there is a corresponding ACK. The drawback of this configuration is that normally a perimeter firewall is very heavily loaded and this configuration will induce further load on it. The advantage is that the server will always be free to only take legitimate connections.
In the second scenario, we look at Check Point preventing a SYN Flood attack while residing in a transparent proxy configuration. This is shown below in Figure 6.
Figure 6.
Figure 6. Check Point in transparent mode.
Here Check Point passes all the connections, irrespective of whether they are legitimate or not, to the server but also starts a timer once it sees a ACK/SYN from the server. If there is no corresponding ACK from the Client and the timer expires, the firewall will send a RST to the server thereby preventing its queue from overflowing with illegitimate connections. The advantage of this configuration is that load on firewall is reduced considerably as compared to previous configuration. The drawback, however, is that now the server sees all the connection attempts.
4. Concluding part one
In part one we've defined DoS and DDoS and looked at attacks that affect the consumption of bandwidth: Smurf attacks, ICMP ping floods, and Fraggle attacks. We've also taken a first look at attacks that affect network connectivity, such as SYN Flood attacks and some of the ways to prevent them.
Next time in part two, we'll look at the consumption of other precious resources such as CPU time, disk space, memory utilization, and then examine any vulnerable printers that may be DoS attack vectors on the network. We'll also discuss Teardrop attacks, LAND attacks, Ping-of-death, and finally discuss some common Win32 worms that have been used to build botnets that perform broad DDoS attacks. Finally, we'll discuss mitigation techniques and best practices for preventing DoS attacks. Stay tuned.
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how about part two???i'm really interested at teardrop attacks
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0.027787 | <urn:uuid:4a38bad2-218b-4905-81e0-26db59152360> | en | 0.982431 | Okeechobee gator bite victim to get new arm on TV | Photos
An Okeechobee County man who lost his arm to an alligator in June is expected to receive a new, highly advanced prosthetic limb on a national television program Thursday afternoon called The Doctors.
Kasey Edwards, 18 at the time, tussled with an 11 1/2-foot alligator during a 2:30 a.m. swim in an Okeechobee canal after drinking earlier. The gator chomped off a portion of his left arm before he was flown to Holmes Regional Medical Center in Melbourne.
Edwards's situation attracted significant media attention shortly after the attack, and he is scheduled to appear on an episode of The Doctors that airs at 4 p.m. Thursday on WPEC 12.
According to the television show's Web site, "Juan, a war veteran, lost his arm in a bombing attack in Iraq. He received a Hanger Prosthetic and Orthotics arm and joins Kasey on stage to share his experience of living with it. Troy Farnsworth from Hanger Prosthetics and Orthotics explains the inner-workings of the highly advanced i-LIMB and surprises Kasey with one of his very own.''
According to the prosthetic company's Web site, the i-LIMB's hand "is the only upper-limb prosthetic device that imitates the true movement and accuracy of the human hand. The i-LIMB has five independently powered digits which give the fingers a lifelike action. The fingers have the ability to bend at each joint and open and close around objects.''
The artificial hand "is anatomically correct both when resting and in motion.'' It is controlled by electrical signals in the muscles of the remaining limb, picked up by small metal electrode plates placed against the user's skin.
Unlike older devices, the i-LIMB "has the ability to articulate the fingers, or wrap around objects, and rotate the thumb, enabling the hand to create many different grips. This allows the user to grasp objects much like a real hand would and perform more complex daily tasks such as typing, dialing the phone, throwing a baseball or shaking hands,'' according to the company's Web site.
The show explains that Edwards struggles with residual pain due to phantom limb syndrome and is still coming to terms with his injury. It quotes Edwards' mother, Kim, as saying, "He still has a good outlook, but I can see more of … a sadness. It's hard for him." Edwards is quoted as saying, "Now I have to make the best of the rest of my life with what cards I've been dealt."
In a video featured on the Web site, Edwards recalls how his arm was found in the alligator's belly, and says "everything is just a struggle now." He is shown opening a water bottle with his teeth.
According to an Okeechobee County Sheriff's Office report, Edwards had been drinking earlier in the night and some friends tried to persuade him not to swim in the 25-foot-deep canal. Halfway through his swim, an alligator clamped down on his left arm and he grabbed a buoy line and held on to prevent the gator from pulling him underwater.
Edwards, who has lived in Okeechobee since he was 6, has said there's an overpopulation of alligators in the area, which makes the waterways less safe than they were when he was younger.
He has said he's optimistic about his future despite this setback and others. Last year, he was medically discharged from the Army during boot camp and was working as a welder before the gator bite.
"This won't stop me from having a fulfilling life," he has said. | http://www.tcpalm.com/entertainment/okeechobee-gator-bite-victim-get-new-arm-tv | dclm-gs1-151420001 | false | false | {
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The BBC has pulled out all the stops today with its coverage of Gordon Brown's battle for his political life, encompassing ministerial resignations, the cabinet reshuffle and his party's clobbering in the council elections. As a mark of the seriousness of the coverage, it has even blown the cobwebs off the BBC news helicopter, which has spent the day hovering over Downing Street zooming in on groups of schoolchildren having their picture taken outside No 10. BBC News bosses have been told to show restraint in their use of the copter at a time of budget cuts and belt tightening, particularly after one incident in which it was used to follow pop singer Michael Jackson from central London to The O2 arena. One BBC insider said that the budget for the chopper is paid, for a certain number of hours, in advance and is shared with ITN, with the commercial organisation paying 25% and the BBC the remaining 75%. Both news organisations get to use the pictures, but the Beeb gets editorial control over what to shoot. What with not much actually happening outside Downing Street, Monkey wonders how long the chopper will actually sit in the sky today before being packed back off to its base. | http://www.theguardian.com/media/mediamonkeyblog/2009/jun/05/bbc-news-helicopter | dclm-gs1-151600001 | false | false | {
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0.025216 | <urn:uuid:f3fe91f5-2f03-439b-b489-b26423fcbf24> | en | 0.974017 | Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal put up a brave fight in Varanasi, the epicentre of the 2014 general election, but could not withstand the “Modi wave” in the end.
Even the most generous sympathisers of the AAP chief had given him no chance against the might of Narendra Modi, the BJP prime ministerial candidate. The fight was only for a respectable second, which Mr. Kejriwal managed to secure by winning 1.8 lakh votes as against Mr. Modi’s massive 5.17 lakh votes.
So confident was the BJP of Mr. Modi’s victory in Varanasi that its supporters had started putting up posters congratulating the leader a night before the results.
The odds were always stacked against Mr. Kejriwal, who took on the Gujarat Chief Minister in the temple town considered a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh stronghold and regional headquarters of the saffron brigade. Mr. Modi’s campaign in Varanasi was boosted by the RSS’s door-to-door campaign. The BJP leader’s evocation of the Ganga during his road show on the day of filing his nomination set up the scene for a saffron wave in Varanasi.
The Congress’ Ajay Rai, a five-time MLA, whose entry was surrounded with much hype, proved to be a dud in the end. The former BJP man stood a distant third with only 68,080 votes. The BSP’s Vijay Prakash Jaiswal and the SP’s Kailash Chaurasiya, who were not even in the picture, finished fourth and fifth with 57,531 and 42,242 votes respectively.
In Varanasi, Mr. Kejriwal was banking heavily on the support of Muslims and rural voters across the Other Backward Classes and the Dalits. He even tried matching up to Mr. Modi’s roadshows with his own show of strength. The main plank of Mr. Kejriwal's campaign was to “expose” the “corporate-run” development model of Gurajat. However, that did not hold water in Varanasi as he was swept away by the “Modi wave”. | http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/kejriwal-swept-away-by-modi-wave/article6015854.ece?ref=relatedNews | dclm-gs1-151720001 | false | false | {
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0.018439 | <urn:uuid:506a09f9-3deb-4fd3-be41-9d951f1fa824> | en | 0.973039 | Bristol Palin Receives Death Threats, Calls Out "Ghetto" Carrie Ann Inaba
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Dancing With the Stars: All-Stars contestant Bristol Palin is never one to shy away from controversy, but the people threatening her life may want to chill out.
Yes, Bristol says she's receiving regular death threats this fall.
Bristol Palin on Dancing With the Stars Results Show
“People have such opinions about me. It's like ‘I hate you, I want you dead and I want to shoot my TV,’” she explains of her public perception. “I don't read any of it."
When you ruffle feathers on your own show, though, you may not have a choice.
Bristol tries not to pay attention to negative comments from "haters" ... but she faced some harsh comments from the judges on Dancing With the Stars this week.
Calling out Bristol's partner Mark Ballas for breaking the show's rules with his choreography, Carrie Ann said, "You slammed us in the face, so we're slamming back."
“She got pretty ghetto there,” Bristol says of Carrie Ann.
“That's pretty much what it was: a ghetto comment.
But despite the haters and the harassment, Bristol has made it through to another round of competition, surviving last night's Dancing With the Stars results show.
How does she respond to making it through despite her low scores?
“We do see the positive side of it," Bristol Palin said of advancing.
“We did get voted through even though we had the lowest scores. That speaks volumes compared to anyone hiding behind a cell phone tweeting about us.”
How far will Bristol Palin make it this season? Are you rooting for her? Do you wish she'd just go back to Alaska and never be heard from again? Discuss!
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Wow--whoever told these posters that Dancing with the Stars was a popularity contest or that it was judged by the improvement that a person made or how hard they were training? This idea is sooooo dumb--do they think that the judges are there just to tell the dancers how to be more popular? Bristol needs to watch her dance routine instead of criticizing the messenger. And no I don't believe that she has received any death threats in the letters she doesn't read--she is just trying to play the victim card and whining because someone dared to tell her the truth that her dancing was awful. She isn't six years old, for crying out loud, and she is getting almost $150,000 for DANCING so far. Viewers have the right to think that she should be able to move rather than stand against the wall with her phone in her hand calling the media to get herself written about.
Hate to break it to you Tori, but DWTS IS a popularity contest. That is known by the fact that someone with higher dancing talent scores got booted off. It's season 11 all over again as Sarah Palin web sites are instructing how a person can vote multiple times for Bristol. Last time I saw Sarah fans bragging how they voted over 300 times each. They still think it's an election. Of course Bristol will stay as long as there are cheaters.
@ Ivy
Oh, your saying she will cheat her way through just like Obama, huh!!
Knucky thompson
@ radnad76
You're off topic you sloth. Bristol is a lousy dancer and should be voted off. I want votes to vote a person off as well as keep a person on. Bristol is the worst dancer left and shuld go!!!
Gorgeous Bristol Palin is so chic, charming, courageous, classy, & charismatic, with the Cross of our Saviour nestled against her fair, fragrant bosom, and with her dulcet, delightful voice sweetly sounding like a swift mountain spring rippling across sparkling, shiny stones in a flower-dappled meadow. She will be our next savior. All you haters will be eating your own words as our lady Bristol has more intelligence in her little pinkie than all you haters put together. Bristol was right - God IS on her side! Not the haters and all you little people that are sooo jealous of her and that includes Carrie!
Bristol's fans apparently think that this is a popularity contest. Strange that they don't even know that it a dancing competition. Duh! Maybe if they watched the show rather than blindly voting they would understand why people are upset because Bristol is getting low scores for her dancing and then the good dancers are going home. These same people who are voting for Bristol probably think that grades in school are not based on what you know but is based on your popularity. None of the Palin girls have ever finished public school--maybe this concept is too difficult for them to understand.
@ Tori
Tori, It is a popularity contest. Strange that you don't know that. Do you ever wonder what life would be like if you’d had enough oxygen at birth?
Bristol ain't worth killin'. Her mother probably sent it for attention and continuance of Bristol's victim-hood. They're always claiming death-threats, pedophile and Sarah even claimed before Bristol dropped out of school that there were gang-rape threats but that turned out to be a big old lie. Sarah NEVER reported it till she decided it would sound good in her "book". Wah wah crybaby wah wah go home where you belong since you're so "through with Hollywood" and need to put your brat in school having a stable place to live. What lies.
Why in the hell did they put her on the show. This was supposed to be the best of the best. She was a poor dancer during her last time around. I am not going to watch anymore because she is only winning because of people calling in....not her dancing ability.
Victoria mcguire
Mark Ballas has more class and integrity than Carrie Ann has or will ever have. Her attitude and tone said it all --her hatred for Bristol, conservatives, and the right wing. Bristol was right in her comment.
The guys backstage deserve to go home for their snidely laughing at Bristol and Mark's comments from Carrie Ann. They are no better than she is! Liberals scream tolerance while they are the most intolerant of those that do not have the same low standards, low morals, and perverted ideas as they!
DWTS is NOT a "who is the best dancer" --it is a popularity contest of "stars" by the viewing audience; it is disgusting to hear the wimpy, empty liberals complaining about her low scores but stays in the running. They name call, put her down, and degrade her. Quite frankly, she and Mark shine the most cause he is humble and appreciative Bristol's effort and hard work to improve and she takes the knocks from the wimps and continues to do her best while knowing she is not a dancer. I can only admire her for her guts and confidence! Kudos to Bristol! She is the most improved!
Victoria mcguire
@ Just sayin'
let me make this clear: DON'T FUCK WITH THE ESKIMOS OF ALASKA!!
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0.040296 | <urn:uuid:12e32f47-a49b-4c7b-b1c5-12ae06d651cf> | en | 0.908866 | March 24, 2008 | The Nation
In the Magazine
March 24, 2008
Browse Selections From Recent Years
Mark Mazower on Kosovo, Calvin Trillin on Cheney, Stuart Klawans on three films
Stand by Your Wo/Man
Amy Alexander, a frequent Nation contributor, has been
named an Alfred Knobler Fellow at The Nation Institute.
The European Union needs to get Serbia focused on the future.
Why should we get all worked up over the revelation that the New York governor paid for sex?
What do neocons and their media mouthpieces fear most about Obama's stance on Israel? Could it be honesty?
It would be truly tragic if John McCain strolls into the White House while we argue over who has it worse, black men or white women.
An undisclosed plan in an undisclosed location.
To build a fence on the US border with Mexico, the Department of Homeland Security seized land without trials or negotiations.
The retired Cuban dictator has played a vital role in every U.S. presidential election for the last fifty years.
Together, unions can force the government to take on the issue of green-collar jobs.
No chain stores or web sites can replace Dutton's in the hearts of the LA literati.
How Saul Alinsky would plan Obama's inauguration, and his government.
The independent candidate discusses Obama, healthcare, and why the heck he's running.
Our Story: Chet Kimbrough, Congresswoman Kang's Chief of Staff, does some investigating on his own and puts in motion events that will endanger him and hint at larger doings.
People are wriggling free of the fetters of corporate culture.
The GOP nominee favors unilateralism and "rogue state rollback."
Books & the Arts
3rd Party Article
It is easy to lose sight of the bigger picture with the charters movement.
Work with low-income families in Richmond, California made me re-examine the meaning of hope for progressive change. | http://www.thenation.com/issue/march-24-2008?quicktabs_most_block=0 | dclm-gs1-151760001 | false | false | {
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0.487667 | <urn:uuid:da595fca-966e-4883-9a24-adbe42c60efb> | en | 0.946711 | Representatives of the Pennsylvania Association of Convention and Visitors Bureaus (PACVB) recently spent two days meeting and visiting the historic town of Jim Thorpe.
PACVB is the not-for-profit association for the officially designated tourist promotion agencies (TPAs) within Pennsylvania. The group works to communicate the importance of the travel, tourism and hospitality industry to the state's economic wellness.
They meet once a year at a different location in the state of Pennsylvania for what is called a "membership roundtable." During these meetings, they discuss how visitors bureaus all over the state can work together to better promote tourism. The Pocono Mountains Visitors Bureau hosted the Jim Thorpe gathering.
They stayed at the Inn in Jim Thorpe during their visit to Carbon County, and enjoyed visiting the restaurants and various shops of downtown Jim Thorpe.
Tourism is the second leading industry in Pennsylvania which is the fourth most visited state in the nation. | http://www.tnonline.com/2011/may/28/tourist-promotion-officials-hold-roundtable-thorpe | dclm-gs1-151810001 | false | false | {
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0.032861 | <urn:uuid:5f71f03a-01d4-4c76-bce6-c1d6425dfcb1> | en | 0.979973 | Imam of London mosque convicted of terror charges in New York City
A London imam has been found guilty of aiding the terrorists who took 16 British and U.S. tourists hostage in Yemen 16 years ago.
By Frances Burns | May 19, 2014 at 5:03 PM
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NEW YORK, May 19 (UPI) -- The imam of a London mosque faces life in a U.S. prison after being convicted Monday in New York on federal terrorism charges.
Mustafa Kamel Mustafa, who is also known as Abu Hamza al-Masri, was convicted of aiding a group that took 16 U.S. and British tourists hostage in Yemen in 1998 and of recruiting young men for terrorist training camps. He is scheduled to be sentenced in September.
Four people were killed in the 1998 attack in Yemen and others seriously injured. Mustafa was indicted in New York in 2004 but proceedings were delayed by a lengthy legal fight over his extradition from Britain and by his conviction and seven-year sentence on hate speech charges.
Mustafa, 56, the son of an Egyptian army officer, originally came to Britain as a student and embraced life there. But he later turned to a radical form of Islam and became known as a fiery preacher at a mosque in London's Finsbury Park neighborhood.
Mustafa lost an eye and both hands, injuries he said were caused by a bomb while he was fighting the Soviet Army in Afghanistan, although his version is disputed.
During his four-week trial, the witnesses included Mary Quin, who survived the Yemen attack. Jurors heard a recorded conversation she had with Mustafa at the Finsbury Park mosque that
that Assistant U.S. Attorney Ian Patrick McGinley called "a confession to the crime."
Another witness, Margaret Thompson, was shot in the leg. A rod had to be inserted into her leg because the bullet shattered her femur.
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A fairly expensive liquor often referred to in countless rap songs. You can not drink henessey, as Twista says you must "sip it".
Me and ma boys, we was up in the spot chillin' and sippin' on some Henessey.
by D v dizzle September 21, 2006
A front0 is basically some one who fronts all the time. fronting is basically pretending to be something that ur not. It is a common misconception that front0 is spelled "fronto".
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Thursday, 24th October 2013 08:39 GMT By Dave Owen
“Why do I have to make two versions of a game?” he continued. “And when Xbox One was first announced, it had lower specs than PS4, but noe they’re almost identical. So either will do.”
Mikami’s next game is The Evil Within for Xbox 360, PS3, and PC, as well as next generation consoles. It’ll make use of id Software’s brand new graphics engine, id Tech 5, and is designed as a return to classic survival horror, a genre in which Mikami has been instrumental. Some gruesome new screenshots were released yesterday.
Thanks, GameSpot.
1. Beta
He almost makes this sound like a bad thing.. Platform parity should hopefully mean the end of inferior ports, better for everyone.
#1 1 year ago
2. BrahManDude
#2 1 year ago
3. Erthazus
That’s not true at all. Not even in close comparison.
If we are going to believe this:
Then in fact, PS4 is more powerfull than Xbox One for about 30%-40%
Videocard is way more stronger and memory is more efficient and faster for about 50%
#3 1 year ago
4. Fin
I’d never thought I’d say this, but…
you’re right.
#4 1 year ago
5. Joe Musashi
#5 1 year ago
6. Hirmetrium
It’s hard – as he says, they are almost identical, but at the same time? One has more power under the hood. They are the same car model, but one has a 2.0L engine and one has a 1.2L engine. You don’t see the difference, but you can feel it sometimes.
#6 1 year ago
7. Fin
That’s actually one of the best analogies I’ve seen for NG consoles.
#7 1 year ago
8. zoopdeloop
…guess with who Bethesda has very strong relations with.It’s a given
#8 1 year ago
9. monkeygourmet
It honestly wouldn’t suprise me if MS still had better multi plats again for a good while.
#9 1 year ago
10. Tech-N9ne
I have heard the same thing from Carmack, Kojima and Mikami. But some of you guys rather believe “anonymous sources”. Weird!
#10 1 year ago
11. AmiralPatate
Software plays a huge part in performance. All those “it’s x% better” are meaningless if the software can’t make use of it.
#11 1 year ago
12. zoopdeloop
@9 for what reason this time?
i believe even if Ps4 is easy to develop for and has more juice into it multis will be exactly the same,God forbid, developers make high all mighty Microsoft upset and lose those big sums for timed exclusives
@10 saying things anonymously avoids all the RAGE from fans and Microsoft.While doing things the other way around gains respect.I wouldn’t be surprised if these devs are also part of these “anonymous sources”
#12 1 year ago
13. monkeygourmet
Pretty much for the reason you have said. I would like to know who is losing more per unit though. I wonder if MS are taking a bigger hit because of Kinect 2?
#13 1 year ago
14. monkeygourmet
lol, exactly.
I was very suprised Edge ran alot of those ‘articles’.
#14 1 year ago
15. Fin
You’re not going to get an honest answer from a third party dev, unless they want to alienate one side.
PS4 is better.
#15 1 year ago
16. Erthazus
@monkey, it won’t be the case with multiplatform this time.
The reason why multiplatform was better on the Xbox 360 is because it was a traditional PC machine where you could do any shit you want with x86 platform.
Now PS4 and XBO is the same x86 thing. Who has more power will have the difference unless some dev wants to alienate one side or another.
#16 1 year ago
17. Tech-N9ne
Been hearing that BS for the PS2, PS3 and now PS4, yet I don’t see it.
I’m never gonna get this fanboying, its not like you guys own Sony or Microsoft shares. We’are all here arguing on something we make zero money on, all we do is spend money on it. Well I guess its because gaming can be a competitive thing and some people have taken that competition outside of the actual games.
This PS4 is better argument is never gonna make me get a PS4, I’ll get one when I see enough game to make me want one, all I see now is The Order, sticking with XB1 for the next few years.
Why would Carmack, Kojima and Mikami rather not keep their mouth shut, when they see such huge performance difference as much as 50%? Its gonna make them look really silly later if true.
#17 1 year ago
18. Fin
It’s different this time as the architecture is the same, but the PS4 simply is more powerful (+easier to develop for, but that’s a whole other story).
I’m not a fanboy – I was all 360 this gen, but I know the PS4 is the better console NG.
#18 1 year ago
19. Bomba Luigi
I’m a bit tired of all the Hardware talk. Because that dosn’t really matter in the End, its the Games.
And which Consoles has the better Games is something I will decide for myself in six Years or so. Why People need to find now a Winner in the First Days of the Console or even before they are on the Market is out of my Understanding.
Its like someone whants to decide who Wins the Footbal World Cup 2014 now, makes no sense. And there at least you can have a clear, objectiv Winner, you can’t have that with a Console because its all about personal Preference.
Just having Fun with playing Games, thats all I want from a Console.
#19 1 year ago
20. The_Red
Guess we have to wait and see until the games actually come out. Right now and on paper, PS4′s hardware IS stronger but maybe Mikami is right. Then again, even if they turn out to be identical, Xbox One is still 100 dollars more expensive due to the black paper weight.
#20 1 year ago
21. Ekona
So let’s assume that the PS4 is more powerful, and the games will look better. Let’s take that as 100% fact now.
How is that any different to the current gen, where multiplats look almost universally better on the 360? Do any of the PS3 owners feel seriously hampered by any of this? Of course they don’t, because we’re talking marginal differences. Even on the 360, where some very big name games have been 900p, no-one has cared because they still looked great and, more importantly, gave a great experience.
Honestly, this is all utter nonsense right now. Until we start seeing Xbone games that look massively inferior to the PS4 versions, any of this better-than-yours crap is just that: Crap.
#21 1 year ago
22. Keivz
Agreed (except for the 900p(?) part).
360 = better GPU, better RAM (unified+eDRAM)
PS3 = slightly better processor
Sound familiar? Yet here we are years later and the differences between the two boxes at the game level remains minimal. Now big name developers are coming out and saying the differences are even less significant this time around and yet we still this back and forth from people who really know nothing about true game development. I mean if you looked at the launch lineup not knowing the system specs, which HW would you say was more powerful? Let’s just let the games speak for themselves. We won’t have to wait terribly long.
#22 1 year ago
23. Unknown_Gamer
I just lost faith in this idiot when says he is interested to develop a Kinect game , and he said many stupid things before about RE Remake sales and in the other hand bashing Sony for nothing , this derp clearly lost his mind and i think he is putting himself in the wrong side of gaming .
#23 1 year ago
24. Fin
360 = easy architecture
PS3 = hard architecture
X1 = easy architecture
PS3 = easy architecture
When both systems are based off the same architecture (x86 in this case), differences between them are more apparent, and more easily measured.
#24 1 year ago
25. DrDamn
At the moment, due to the ESRAM issue, I’d say X1 has the relatively harder architecture to get the most out of. This will improve with time and tool refinements though. The CoD rumour is certainly helping back this up.
#25 1 year ago
26. pcbros
@24 – The only problem is that we have yet to see any “apparent” differences. Until I see a side by side comparison of a game that looks or runs noticeably better on the PS4, this will mean nothing to me.
I think the difference in hardware power only serves to feed egos and will not show any real advantage in games.
#26 1 year ago
27. Fin
Honestly, I’d be surprised if any launch games are significantly better on either console (hence the rumours of 720p Ghosts surprise me).
This is about the long game.
#27 1 year ago
28. mistermogul
@5 – Nice! lol
I wonder if Shinji has been “slipped” a wad of cash from MS to publicly state this? Or is that just the cynic in me?
#28 1 year ago
29. Doppleganger
They went with gamecube cause it wasn’t more powerful but had better tech. They will make the same decision and go for Xbox one.
#29 1 year ago
30. Cobra951
@18, 19: Given parity in games available, I would prefer the more powerful hardware. If that also happens to be the less expensive hardware, so much the better. But will there be parity in software? That’s the big question.
#30 1 year ago
31. sebastien rivas
The same no, we cannot say it is the same but do developers need to make two variations of games, no, they do not either, we are not talking a huge discrepancy of hardware between the 2 giants, not enough to get the developers interested in creating two variant of a game.
YET, smart as developers can be what the guy does not tell us is that he will develop game on least powerhouse and leave it as is for the ever so slightly more powerful hardware, wrap it up, and call it good job.
Whether remaining on 720 p, 960 p, or 1080 p. It does not matter, the best res goes and call for least polygonal scenes and more stuffed up maps or scenes calls for least hi def. Do you truly believe “optimization” is going to change something?
There is only so much developers can do WITH current techs and workflow and I do not believe anyone will come with a magic wand to be honest.
So.. humm…… 60 fps 720 and currently beautiful games or 1080p and empty area or boxed meshes?
I truly felt the empty areas in BF4 Shangai, streets are empty etc…, it felt like a reversal from Bf3 with polycounts.
It truly going to be rough and tough for developers
#31 1 year ago
32. fearmonkey
@6 – That is a great analogy!
Really, what he and Carmack have been saying is feature wise, the consoles are the same. Third parties are going to develop a game that looks the same across both consoles. The main difference is that the PS4 can do everything at higher res and a bit faster, and this will be noticeable eventually in first party games. As the systems age, the PS4 will look better than the Xbone, but unlike previous generations, there isnt a huge difference in architecture this time.
Like Erth said, you just cannot get away from the fact that one has a much more power powerful GPU than the other. The Xbone has a $150 class GPU and the PS4 has a $300 class GPU. AllI can say is that right now I have a ATI 7870 in my PC and the PS4′s GPU is close to that in performance, and that excites me. I know what the chip is capable of.
Esram is great an all, and im sure that it ill eventually translate into better performance butnot overtake the raw power of a different class of GPU. I wish Activision would just come out and tell us what resolution COD:GHOSTS is on each for sure single player and multiplayer wise. If its true that PS4 has 1080p and Xbone 720p, there is some conference room talks going on right now I’d bet money on it.
#32 1 year ago
33. pcbros
Does anyone know for a fact what class GPU is in each console? Last I read, it was just estimated conclusions.
#33 1 year ago
34. xxJPRACERxx
@33 You’re right, everyone speculate that it’s the basic AMD SoC. Sony and MS had specific changes and features implemented so right now it’s impossible to really tell what these chips are capable of and it’s stupid to compared them to specific PC parts.
#34 1 year ago
35. Erthazus
PS4 and Xbox One’s GPU chips are from 7000 Radeon series. That’s for sure.
With 28 nm chips (for both GPU and CPU). PS4 version so far at least has more shaders than Xbox One by 20%-25%. Overall we know the performance.
PS4 does 1.84 TFLOP and XBO – 1.31 TFLOP. Not that much by PC standards but you can clearly see who has more power.
Sony spent more money on the hardware. That’s for sure.
#35 1 year ago
36. pcbros
I feel like we are going to see the same comparisons from last generation. Side by side videos or images where one version has more lens flare and the other has darker blacks.
Reality is coming and soon all these spec debates will mean nothing.
In the mean time, I need to upgrade my PC for Star Citizen and Euro Truck Simulator 2 :)
#36 1 year ago
37. TheWulf
What makes this more difficult for developers is that each closed system has its own proprietary ways of doing things. So creating something for the XBO is very different from creating things for the PS4, and vice versa.
The hardware doesn’t really matter quite as much as that as the cooperation between PC and Android shows, it’s more down to how easily the developer can interact with each particular system. I remember everyone threw their lot in with the 360 at launch, and because of this they had a hard time almost recreating their games for the PS4, due to the PS4 working so differently.
If Microsoft and Sony were less tribal and less prone to tribal warfare, they’d open their systems up — they’d go for completely open APIs and try to homogenise things across the systems for the sake of developers. Now, AMD has done their best to do this with this new generation (fair play to them), but the graphical component is only one element of a console.
This is why timed exclusives occur, because it’s expensive to do multi-platform unless you already have systems in place for that. It’s easier for some developers as they make games which are less demanding, and they think ahead. TT Games is a great example. But when you’re pushing the limits of, say, the 360, it’s hard then to take that optimisation and bring it to the PS3. This is why we had things like dragons flying backwards in the PS3 version of Skyrim.
This is why I’m hoping that the Steambox or something like it will clear up this mess by encouraging competitors to create open systems, thus incentivising developers into doing multi-platform releases because it would be so much easier. It’d be simpler for them to look at the systems, then, and to figure out what optimisations they could do. They could then split those optimisations off of the main codebase and compile with those for each platform.
It’s a pipe dream, I know.
But I really hope that this is a paradigm shift that the Steambox will bring around. No one really thinks about how shitty it is for the developers.
#37 1 year ago
38. Zult
There once was a strong man but not so smart, everyone thought that he could not be beat. The thing was he was going to fight for the princess of the kingdom and there was an “average” man going to fight for her as well. The strong man thought, “Hey, this will be an easy fight, I am more powerful than this man”. But, in the end the strong man lost because he underestimated the “average” man because that man was smart and he knew tactics that would help him through the entire fight. That my friends is PS4- Strong Man, Xbox One- The Underestimated.
#38 1 year ago
39. Hyperx64
#10 @Tech-N9ne Hey, biased commenters aren’t going to let reason get in the way of “MOAR GRAPHICS” nonsense. What’s that saying… “Ignorance is Bliss” ;)
#16 @Erthazus No. Xbox360 was IBM PowerPC based. The original Xbox was x86.
#39 1 year ago
40. Hyperx64
#18 @Fin Complete nonsense. All you post E3 2013 “hardware experts” are driving me nuts. Oh yeah, Carmack, Kojima and Mikami don’t know what they are talking about, but random commenters with no hardware engineering knowledge do?! Get off it, mate!
#40 1 year ago
41. Hyperx64
O Yeah, and aliens are holding him captive at Area-51 to make sure people don’t realise the PS4 is 80% Moar Powerful! Nonsense of the highest order.
#41 1 year ago
42. Hyperx64
#33 @pcbros No, not at all. Though, all the new hardware experts will explain (the lack of actual facts), in lengthy diatribe based on key-words that they heard someone say in an article somewhere else. :P
#42 1 year ago
43. Javinator
woah, not good for PS4:
#43 1 year ago
44. Fin
“All you post E3 2013″ – I knew about the tech lonnnng before E3 ;)
No, multiple anonymous sources that confirm each others stories are more trustworthy to speak candidly about systems than figureheads.
Anyway, I was reading the Edge article this morning, and the quote is out of context – the full quote is
“There’s no real difference between them. Why do I have to make two versions of my game? Either one will do. The user doesn’t care about spec; the want the design to be cool. If Apple released a game console, it would make a lot of gamers happy”
He was talking about from the end/casual user perspective, there’s not much difference between them. He just wants to design games and not care about platform.
#44 1 year ago
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Asia Argento's Scarlet Diva is not what you'd expect of a writing-directing debut by an internationally adored movie starlet, but it's exactly the feverish spew you might anticipate from Dario's daughter: indulgent, masochistic, brave, and go-for-broke. Indeed, having starred in several of her father's iron maidens, the brooding, swollen-eyed Argento may be world cinema's premier gamine victim, but now she's become her own persecutrix. Scarlet Diva is '60s-style lurid-and-cool, executed with unmistakable need. The movie's seemingly artless title corresponds to its triple-threat self-flagellation, an organic spectacle of subjective ordeal in which the 26-year-old star splays herself across the bloodied altar of international show business and fame-privilege backdraft.
The achieved tone is both farcical and self-destructive. However generally autobiographical the film is, the detailed excursions into absurdity seem too arbitrary to be pure fiction, particularly when Anna rescues a battered girlfriend left hog-tied and mouth-balled for days, and when a mysterious double-D temptress appears at Anna's door, alludes to a sexual encounter that never happened, and humps the bedraggled girl on the couch. Scarlet Diva's primary whipping post is the movie industry in all of its soulless demands and sexual Darwinism. Anna longs to disembark from the media roller coaster long enough to write and direct the film we're watching, if she doesn't have a complete meltdown first.
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When twentysomething hotsies make movies about their lives, hard-driving narcissism is a given, but what a world we'd live in if Argento's Hollywood counterparts—say, Sarah Michelle Gellar, or even Christina Ricci—had this much imagination and nerve. Few of them, at any rate, have Argento's reserves of lonesome passion and unspigoted woe.
Those reserves are safely untapped for Argento's blowup-doll role in XXX, a new spy-thriller franchise bid starring Vin Diesel as an antisocial extreme-sports megalith recruited by the National Security Agency for Euro-espionage. Plotted like a first-person shooter but with vast savannahs of unidimensional exposition between the tar-oil fireballs and improbable stunts, Rob Cohen's movie is at least irreverent enough to maintain that skateboarding skills and tattoos are all a spook needs to triumph over post-Communist Evil. The MacGuffin comes down to rote anarchists angling to start WWIII via a biochemical-dispensing submarine—launched in landlocked Prague, yet. Still, XXX isn't nearly cheesy enough, a musical nod to The Third Man and a strategically initiated avalanche notwithstanding; Diesel himself has the personality of a golem and a knack for dialogue delivery that suggests recent oral surgery. Action is the proto-genre's axiom, of course, and Cohen handles the motorcycle leaps and gunspray with a dexterity evocative of The A-Team.
Jill Morley's self-involved, amateurish, and unoriginal doc Stripped ostensibly delves into the lives of gentlemen's-club dancers, but it's a facile muddle in which Morley (a stripper herself for a few years) encourages her empty-pocketed roommate to join the club of aging, balloon-titted, self-deceiving princesses, while the strippers interviewed are nearly all convinced that the job is destroying their lives. (The roommate heroically opts out.) Morley's climactic trump card is too grim for the rest of the film: One of the subjects went into a coma after a plastic-surgery cock-up, and another (writer Susan Walsh, who bylined a few sex-trade articles for the Voice) has been missing for more than four years. Coy and insight-free, Stripped skirts real misery (for example, nobody's addicted) and fails to project the milieu's allure.
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The Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program: Cautions and Caveats
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"Maybe you should go
back to the hospital!"
Ask most wonks - especially ones who never took care of a patient - about "readmissions," and, after quoting this article , these health policy Urkels will tell you that returning to a hospital is the poster-child of all that ails U.S. medical care. Providers who can't get it right the first time, they say, are not only giving slipshod care, but are double dipping because their mistakes generate even more fat fees the second time around.
"Balderdash!" says the Disease Management Care Blog. Many Medicare inpatients are so sick that it's a miracle that they get to go home in the first place. Keeping patients in the hospital can be more life-threatening than the home environment and, when things don't get well after a discharge, it's often more a function of social support than medical skill.
That doesn't mean that CMS is going to listen to docs and back off of its Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP). Using risk-adjusted actuarial projections, every U.S. hospital will be prone to a possible payment reduction if their observed rate of readmissions for heart attack , heart failure , and pneumonia exceeds the expected rate. Based on those projections, approximately two thirds of hospitals could be penalized .
Writing in the New England Journal of Medicine, Karen Joynt and Ashish Jha point out that hospitals are concerned because 1) readmissions fall outside of their control and 2) the actuarial projections are imperfect. As a result, hospitals that care for the most fragile and socioeconomically disadvantaged are at risk for paying more than their fair share of CMS's $280 million claw-back penalty.
The NEJM authors recommend three modifications to CMS' HRRP
1. Include patients' socioeconomic status in any risk adjustment modeling. One easy-to-obtain modifier, for example, could be whether the patient is on Supplemental Security Income . Patients on SSI are less able to cope, which is why they quality for the program in the first place.
2. Include hospitals' mortality rates in any risk adjustment modeling. Hospitals with special expertise are less likely to have borderline patients die on their inpatient services, which means they'll have their more than their fair share of fragile survivors.
3. Limit the penalty to readmissions that occur within hours or days of a discharge, instead of the current problematic policy of counting any readmission that occurs within 30 days . It makes sense to believe that a premature discharge or slipshod discharge planning is at fault if the patient returns within 3 days instead of three weeks.
Since it's unlikely that HRRP program is going away, the DMCB agrees with the three recommendations. In the meantime, it also suggests
1. CMS should be held accountable by Congress to execute well on the program,
2) Claims analytics - possibly using a " Big Data " approach - should be applied to Medicare claims to examine whether hospitals are turning to two potential options to undermine the program
a) gaming the system by altering how they "code" the billing for their readmission patients, or
b) accepting the penalty because of favorable income from readmissions.
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Gossip Girl is back, and if there's one thing we love after a long hiatus, it's a crispness in the air and a certain spiced scent of... WELL, DID CHUCK DIE OR NOT?
Apparently, he yet lives! We see him taking that old mutt for a stroll. Wait a minute... how? Then we learn... Gossip Girl's plug has been pulled! When? Blair and Prince Louis are all royal wedding-prep smiles! Wha? And Blair has, as we grimly speculated, lost her baby.
Is this one of those Lost-style time-jumps? I reckon it is, since they're getting ready for New Year's Eve (!!!).
Let's try and orient ourselves with some bullet points!
Bullet One! Blair has apparently decided the car crash was a magic 8-Ball telling her not to be with Chuck. It got all shook up, and the little blue pyramid said, "What are you doing? Marry the prince!"
Bullet two! Lily has employed a private investigator to track down Ivy/Charlie! She misses that rough old con-girl. A grift is like a kiss to some folks!
Bullet Three! Dan is working on a NEW book. He's got the fever: writin' fever! The only known cure is publication and... Blair sneaking over all the time in secret! (Wha? Wheels within wheels! So. Much. Going. On.)
Credit: Giovanni Rufino/The CW 2011 The CW Network Photo: Blair and Dan With Designer Vera Wang in Gossip Girl Season 5, Episode 11: “The End of The Affair”
Dan is helping Blair try on wedding dresses, and she feels bad about the one she had before the car crash. Super-fashion super-guest Vera Wang herself is really there, and she goes and gets more dresses from the back like she's some shop-girl and not VERA WANG!
Uh oh! Dair are spotted by one of Chuck's flying monkeys!
Chuck hacks into Serena's computer and finds all kinds of pics of Blair and Dan doing all kinds of Dair stuff. Not exactly enough evidence to confirm an affair - but don't tell Chuck that. He's already convinced! Turns out they are pics HE had taken for some kind of plot against Dan and Blair. Or something? That must make sense to someone, but we're moving on to New Year's Eve. No time to think!
These secret pics get slapped onto Serena's Spectator column, but Nate stops it all from happening, because he wants only good things to exist in the world and not bad things. Keep your tumblrs pure, folks, or you'll have to deal with Nate.
Then there's a wrinkle in time, a flaaash baaaack wiggle-screen, and we learn that Blair prayed over Chuck and promised to keep her holy promise to marry Louis if only the angel of death would spare Chuck's life.
Credit: Giovanni Rufino/The CW 2011 The CW Network Photo: Serena in Gossip Girl Season 5, Episode 11: “The End of The Affair”
Then we're back in real time, which is still kind of flash-forward time, and we see Serena tell everyone she and Dan are creating a certain, terrifying two-backed creature, which certainly isn't true but is enough to convince folks that Dan isn't rubbing sticks and stones together and making sparks ignite with Blair. Her marriage is safe! The marriage nobody wants is safe, folks. You can rest easy! Thanks to Serena pulling the old, "How can Dan be sleeping with Blair when he's sleeping with me?" trick!
All of this is so stressful, Blair decides to convert to Catholicism. Why not? Then she tells Chuck that he's just incredible and very possibly the best, but they can never be together. She won't say why! WE know it's because she made a promise to the angels in heaven who even now must be jamming on their harps and ting-tinging their halos on the bars of the pearly gates. It's a heck of a band they got up there, and Blair's rockin' out to their tune. She thinks they saved Chuck, you see. She does tell him she loves him.
Suddenly! Different plot point! Nate discovers the car crash was meant for him!
The REAL car crash was that weirdo photo plot, but we'll forget about it. Accidents happen! It was otherwise dresses and drama and everything we love. See you on the UES. Bring your dog and your time machine! Seriously, we love a good mystery, but we kept waiting for Dr. Who to come running up waving that goofy thing he carries, that weirdo tool he uses. Why do we know about Dr. Who? We had to watch something while GG was gone. Thank goodness it's back!
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NEW ORLEANS -- It was a sea of red, white and blue in Algiers as thousands gathered to watch the fireworks light up the sky this Fourth of July along the river.
Algiers resident Rick Tralsen lives in the neighborhood and says this is the only place he goes to celebrate Independence Day.
'I remember when it was just a little tent like these back here over on the streets,' he said. 'So, since its inception really.'
He said it's the best seat in the house, and he isn't alone.
'The skyline's right behind y'all, you get to see the fireworks, there's not huge crowds, you let your kids run around,' said Councilwoman Kristin Gisleson-Palmer.
But for many, the night wasn't just about the live music, snowballs or cold ice cream cones. It's about celebrating our freedom and the soldiers who fight to protect it.
'I totally respect the soldiers that have fought and died for this country, and we're all very grateful for that,' Tralsen said.
Gisleson-Palmer said, 'Not only do they serve our country and serve us so well and we're so proud of them, that they are just such an integral part, and we just thank them so much for their service.'
This was the 23rd annual event for Go Fourth on the River.
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Posted: Thursday, June 26, 2008
Dear Abby: I was divorced twice before I met my present husband, "Lou." We have been married seven years. When we're with his extended family or new acquaintances, Lou makes a point in his loud, animated way of letting everyone know that he is my third husband. It's embarrassing. And because I am at a loss for words, I usually stay silent.
I have asked Lou in private why he offers that information when no one asks. I think he's trying to make me look bad.
If someone pays me a compliment in his presence, Lou will say, "She really has you fooled!" But, Abby, Lou is the one who has everyone fooled. If his family knew the things he has said and done over the last seven years, they would be shocked.
I have reached the point where I have begun trying to avoid going out with him. How should I respond when he tries to make me look bad? Perhaps I should just say, "Yes, you are No. 3. But when you talk about me like that, it makes me wish you weren't." - Object Of Ridicule
Dear Object: If you haven't already done it, tell your husband privately that you don't appreciate being embarrassed in front of family and friends. Tell him that you want it stopped immediately. Your husband appears to be insecure and trying to make himself look better at your expense. If he persists, the next time it happens, smile sweetly and say, "And I'd like you all to meet my soon-to-be third EX-husband." (Come to think about it, that might not be a bad idea.)
Dear Abby: I am 38 years young and still single. I enjoy my friends, my freedom and rock concerts. My issue is that at the last two concerts I went to, I heard men - or boys - say, "Watch out. Here come the cougars!" I think this is insulting. Or is it?
Can you define a "cougar?" I don't know whether I should be insulted or take it as a compliment. - Still Rockin' In Irvine
Dear Still Rockin': A "cougar" is a woman who likes to date - and aggressively pursue - much younger men. Whether it's an insult, an accurate description or a compliment depends upon how you wish to be perceived. But from my perspective, the comments you heard were stereotypical and "catty," to say the least.
Dear Abby: I am a young man who is having some trouble working for "the man" - you know, the corporate culture. I have always worked for large companies, but have found that my current employer is not open to accepting new ideas or suggestions.
I feel I'm hitting a brick wall when I look at a problem and come up with a solution, but no one will take me seriously because of my youth. Any advice on how to deal with this? - Eager In Cumberland, Md.
Dear Eager: When someone is hired by a company with a strong corporate culture, that person is usually expected to conform and not shake up the status quo. I can think of few things more depressing than going every day to a job where you do not feel your input is valued. Feeling as you do, you might be wise to explore opportunities at another company - or even a field - that is more youth-oriented.
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Esquire editor claims women are meant to be objects
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1. ANDY says:
2. jimmy flap says:
In “there” magazine? Did you mean to say in “that there” magazine?
3. JustASec says:
Their, not there.
Sounds as if he’s saying they’re there for decoration. You act as if that hasn’t happened since the beginning of time. Where have you been?
Maybe you haven’t heard of this either, “sex sells.”
4. Jango Davis says:
OMG! I also heard the women featured in Playboy are treated as objects as well! THE HORROR!
Just as a point of information, does Cosmo treat men any differently?
5. DeeN says:
What do I care what some misogynistic magazine editor says? As far as what I think, I think that if you are writing a blog, you should have a good grasp of English grammar, including knowing when to use “their”, “there”, and “they’re”.
6. Billy The Kidd says:
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Hello from Ohio!
My husband will be spending a couple of nights in Uvalde on a business trip in the middle of April. Are there any good places there? He also has a friend in Laredo he'd like to see -- if there aren't any good places in Uvalde, is there anyplace between there and Laredo they could meet? Barbecue is good, Tex-Mex, anything non-chain he can't get at home. He grew up in McAllen and went to UT Austin, so he'd like something good and I don't mean French.
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1. I once had a pleasant meal at a decent local steak house called Jack's. That's the only noteworthy thing I remember about food in Uvalde, except a lovely breakfast at a fine and hospitable B&B called Live Oaks, which I think is now closed (unfortunately).
1. Barbara,
We live in that area and not much to offer except Tex Mex which is all over town. There IS a funky little place (and I mean funky and little) in town called Live Oak Drive Thru. They serve some really good "weird for gringo's" Mexican dishes including gordita's which is like a BBQ pita thing. It's been featured on Bizarre Foods. Jack's Steakhouse is decent, too.
There is a good Mexican "joint" in Batesville (20 miles south of Uvalde) that we enjoy called Yomi's. She does a very nice job on everything (enchiladas and guacamole) and it's on your way to Laredo. Stay on this side of the border wherever you visit.
Live Oak Drive Thru
128 S High St, Uvalde, TX 78801
Yomi's Restaurant
Highway 57, Batesville, TX 78829
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1. re: Mike In Concan
Thanks, zorra and Mike. These are good suggestions and I welcome more. He doesn't know yet if he's going to end up driving to Laredo to meet his friend, if they're going to meet in the middle, or what. Depends on when his work is done, friend's work situation, etc. I think he's leaving on the 13th. Anybody else care to offer names, please do. I must confess I had not heard of Uvalde before.
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OK, OK, there IS another place we frequent when in town called Golden Dragon. ..care to guess the cuisine? It has a good buffet that satisfies our Chinese cravings.
Uvalde is a huge Farm and Ranch area. There is also a lot of hunting in the fall. If you want to see the area Texan's want to live /retire; it's 20 miles north of Uvalde. It's the southern beginning of the Texas Hill Country. You'll start seeing the hills when traveling west on highway 90 if you look to the right (north). There are cafes in every little town in that area. It'll be worth the drive if you can get away from Uvalde.
Hill Country Cafe
806 Main St, Kerrville, TX 78028
1. re: Mike In Concan
Haven't been out there in years. You could check out Roadfood under restaurants maybe for some Texas places that way,and www.texasescapes.com has info on Uvalde and the are out there.never ate there in town unless it was a Dairy Queen years ago.
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Strange Passover request
Does anyone know if there is some type of fruit snack that is Kosher for Passover? Please someone say there is such an animal, PLEASE!
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1. you mean like a fruit roll up type thing?
i didnt see it last year, but the year before i bought one made by gedila (sp?)
it was very weird, didnt taste bad, but the consistency was funny, maybe the lack of corn syrup is the problem?
i also know there were a few brands in the sfardi markets, but i have no idea if they were kitniyot
1. I know you're probably looking for Gushers type of snacks, but there are always those sugar coated fruit slices/wedges (these: http://www.bernstein.to/uploaded_imag...)
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1. re: tamarw
I hardly think these are interchangeable; the idea that they have any actual fruit in them is pretty laughable, actually.
1. re: queenscook
oh I agree, I hate the slices, but my little guy loves them.
2. I never buy this stuff, so I don't know what is available commercially, but it is possible to make your own. Google "fruit leather recipe" or "fruit roll ups recipe," you'll find any number of recipes.
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1. re: queenscook
My husband thinks that Paskesz made a Pesachdik fruit leather last year.
2. Thanks for all the replys. I will not try to make my own nor will I subject these kids to the slices - ICK! They may have to make due with marshmellows:)
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1. re: Prettypoodle
Pomegranate in brooklyn had several types of fruit leather/fruit wrinkle type snacks kosher for passover. I didn't find them to be all that bad, although there was a noticeable difference from the standard ones.
1. re: Hirscheys
Cool! Maybe, maybe somone in the Philly area will have some too. One can only hope!
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IRS Loses Lois Lerner's E-mails; Cantor Defends Immigration Support; Team USA Takes World Cup Stage; Whooping Cough Epidemic Hits California; Five Hundred Fifty More Marines Heading To Persian Gulf
Aired June 16, 2014 - 07:30 ET
JOHN KING, CNN HOST, "INSIDE POLITICS": Lois Lerner, if you followed the IRS story, she is the key official at the Treasury Department, the IRS, that the Republicans want to know if she was unfairly targeting tea party groups, challenging their tax- exempt status.
Well, investigations have been going on for long. You see that graphic there. Her e-mails from January 2009 to 2011 have, poof, disappeared. The administration saying she put them on a hard drive. That hard drive has crashed. They have recovered some of them by searching the computer for the people she sent those e-mails to. Republicans are very skeptical because they want to know if outside people, people outside the government were influencing her to go after tea party groups.
Here is the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Dave Kemp. He says this, "The fact, I'm learning about this over a year into the investigation is completely unacceptable." You're either a conspiracy theorist or you think something nefarious happened here or let's assume a horrible accident and this happened. Waiting a year to tell the Congress makes me suspicious.
JULIE PACE, "ASSOCIATED PRESS": Absolute lit. Nothing good about the way this has been handled. It's hard to believe in this era where you is servers and backup servers and all kinds of technology that can recover all kinds of e-mails that these e-mails simply don't exist. If that is true and they don't exist, why wasn't that one of the first things that was told to Congress so we didn't have to go through these questions and raise these suspicions a year in.
MANU RAJU, "POLITICO": I'm not sure what is with this administration and computer problems. It seems to be happening time and again. Now we're going to hear for calls into an investigation, a Justice Department investigation, a forensics audit to make sure that whatever happened to these e-mails, was it evidence that was tampered with, to impede a congressional investigation?
It's going to bring the broader administration into it. Republicans are saying those e-mails exist. They may not be at the IRS. They certainly should be available for Congress.
KING: Raises a lot of questions. You can be sure the administration has said this is partisan to shut it down. You can be certain now it will continue. Let's move on. The vice president is going to go to Central America later this week. He had a trip planned to central and South America. He's going to stop to talk to the leaders of Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras.
To try to stop the flood of young children coming to the U.S. border from the south. People ask is there any prospect for immigration reform. Here is the just defeated House Majority Leader Eric Cantor saying a bill, no, but could you do small legislation to deal with the children of undocumented workers? He thinks yes.
REP. ERIC CANTOR (R-VA), MAJORITY LEADER: I have always taken the position that I'm not for a comprehensive amnesty bill. I've always said that we ought to deal with the kids who did not break any laws and themselves came into this country in many cases unbeknownst to them. It's one I think that offers the only plausible way forward.
KING: Only plausible way forward. Do it in small pieces which the administration says it's open to. Is there anyone who thinks they will do that before the election this year?
PACE: It's really hard to imagine. I mean, certainly a big bill off the table for this year, even these smaller pieces. As we saw in Eric Cantor's race, whether you want to blame it on immigration or a whole set of factors, that's been his position on immigration for quite some time. That's a position that got him into trouble.
With this situation with undocumented children crossing the border, you also get politics coming into play with people saying, even if we do smaller things that send signals to people in Central America, so maybe that's not a solution either. So personally I think hard to see --
RAJU: Small bills are very difficult, because it invokes a suspicion from folks on the right, that if you pass a small bill, Democrats are add a whole lot of things into conference and the bill that will emerge will be the amnesty bill that they've been railing against. If you're in the Republican leadership, the question is why invoke this war within your party when you're doing well in an election year and you can take back the Senate.
KING: We'll watch the House leadership elections this week by the end of the week. We might get a few clues on this one. Julie and Manu, thanks for coming up. As we close, we want to go back to the end of this week. We're recycling this funny because we think it's funny.
JIMMY FALLON, HOST, "THE TONIGHT SHOW": During Nevada's Democratic primary for governor this week the option "none of the above" got more votes than any of the real candidates. They had to go with the runner up who only got 25 percent of the vote. That's never good when you elect your governor like he's the last guy left at the bar at 2:00 a.m. What the hell, they're playing, Eric Clapton, let's go.
(END VIDEO CLIP) KING: I like when they play Eric Clapton at 2:00 a.m. in the bar. But it does tell you a lot. We focused on Eric Cantor's defeat in Virginia last week. It does tell you a lot about the bipartisan discussed with politics when "none of the above" actually gets more votes than the other candidates?
KATE BOLDUAN, CNN ANCHOR: Absolutely. We've been talking about bipartisan disgust has existed for many election cycles at this point. When is it going to change?
ANDREW CUOMO, CNN ANCHOR: Since roughly 1787. Just the names change. The parties stay the same.
BOLDUAN: Thanks, John.
CUOMO: Coming up on NEW DAY, a whooping cough epidemic. More than 3,000 cases reported in California, two deaths. Why is there all this whooping going on? We're going to break it down for you. There's a real reason and you need to know it.
BOLDUAN: Also ahead, opening night for Team USA at the World Cup. Grudge match against Ghana who handed the U.S. a crushing defeat four years ago. We'll take a look at what Team USA needs to do to chalk up a win.
JOHN BERMAN, CNN ANCHOR: All right, I could not humanly be more excited, the U.S. makes its World Cup debut facing off against Ghana, the third straight World Cup U.S played Ghana. The last two, not gone well at all, including four years ago when Ghana beat the United States in devastating fashion in the round of 16.
So let's talk about this. Let's talk about U.S. hopes. Can they win tonight? Can they go further? Greg Lawless is editor and chief I think this is one of the biggest games in U.S. soccer history?
GREG LALAS, RETIRED PROFESSIONAL SOCCER DEFENDER: I think considering the history the U.S. has with Ghana, and considering all the pressure and all of the excitement around this team, I would say, yes, this is definitely one of the biggest games we've seen.
BERMAN: For people who are not soccer fans, the U.S. is good. The United States has --
BOLDUAN: Why do you say it like it's a surprise?
BERMAN: I think a lot of people look at U.S. soccer if they're football fans or basketball fans, the U.S. is no good. The Y.s. Is probably one of the best 10, 20 best teams in the world, not the best two or three, what are the prospects in this tournament?
LALAS: At this tournament, I think it's up in the air. First, we have to get through this Ghana game. We need to take this game by game for the U.S. Ghana is a very, very good team. I give it 50/50 that the U.S. gets a win.
CUOMO: What did you make of the whole kerfuffle over the coach coming forward and saying we can't win? I've never heard that before.
LALAS: His next sentence is we need to play the game of our lives seven times. It's a weird coaching tactic. I think he's trying to tamp down expectations. I think --
BOLDUAN: And also not motivate your team?
LALAS: What is he saying behind closed doors? We don't really know. The problem is you're trying to get the fans behind you and you want to get everyone in your camp here. To say that, it seems like it's un-American.
BERMAN: Always a challenge for U.S. soccer to get more U.S. fans because the sport doesn't hold the cachet that some others do in the United States. If the United States does pull it out tonight. Who are the two players we'll be talking about tomorrow? What will be the household names?
LALAS: I think it's pretty basic for me. Clint Dempsey is a tremendous player, world class striker who knows how to finish. Michael Bradley who is probably the most important player. Toronto FC is where he's playing right now. He's the guy at the top of the midfield that will be attacking and running the attack out of the midfield.
BERMAN: Michael Bradley is the son of the last coach of the U.S. soccer team.
BOLDUAN: When we're talking about names, who will be household names tomorrow, one of the only household names going into this would have been Landon Donovan. It's past the point of no return. Where is he? Why not?
LALAS: Right now, he is doing some TV, hanging out in L.A. I think when that happened, it all struck all of us in a strange moment of transition. Change is always hard. I think it was a mistake, but ultimately the coach has made his decision. He's got the players he feels are the right ones from all indications in camp in Brazil, the team is behind him and they've bought into what he's got going on. Ultimately down there, you just need that cohesion and unity and belief. I think they have that right now.
CUOMO: Was the U.S. put in a bad group? There was a little bit of drama about that.
BOLDUAN: Terrible in it's hard?
CUOMO: They play Ghana, then Portugal and then Germany. Obviously big-name teams. Is there a case to be made that they got the screws put to them?
LALAS: I don't think there's a case to be made that they got the screws put to them. It's all in the pots. The U.S. got into what they call the group of death. It's not -- it doesn't sound good. You imagine the skull and cross bones.
BOLDUAN: Sorry. I did. I did.
LALAS: I don't think they got screwed. The thing is that the United States, because of where they play in North America what they do when they set up these groups is try to set teams from different continents into the groups. Because the U.S. is so good, basically any time they go into groups it becomes the group of death because they're probably the best team in North America. They end in a group with Germany. They're always in the group of death it seems.
BERMAN: So this has been an incredibly entertaining world cup so far. Every game has given us something wonderful to see, but not without controversy. Even in the first few games and this goal line technology. How is there even a debate over this?
BOLDUAN: Why is there controversy?
LALAS: The technology being a controversy and why they're using it and all that so?
LALAS: Because the game -- there are a lot of traditionalists in this game.
BOLDUAN: Are you one of them?
LALAS: Somewhat. I think certain technologies -- I think goal line technology is a great thing. They should have brought it in years ago to make sure that that's -- it's such a black and white thing. It's either over the line or it's not. I'm not a fan of instant replay in the game. I they slows it down. It's going to take a long time --
BOLDUAN: If it's on the line, is it in or not in.
LALAS: That's not in.
BERMAN: If it's over the line. Greg Lalas, it's great to have you here. Thank you for coming in. I love watching this World Cup.
BOLDUAN: What is the USA cheer?
LALAS: I believe that we will win. You should hear it. It's amazing. Lots of bouncing. It's an incredible experience.
BOLDUAN: We'll hear a lot of it today. Thanks, Greg.
CUOMO: I believe that we will win. I like it.
Coming up on NEW DAY, we thought it had been beaten. It should be beaten. We shouldn't be talking about whooping cough. It's coming back with a vengeance in California. It's about how certain things seem to cycle through. There's a reason this is happening. You and your family need to know about it, to help keep your family safe.
BOLDUAN: Welcome back to NEW DAY, everyone. California is facing a statewide epidemic from whooping cough. There have been 800 cases reported in the last two weeks, more than 3,000 cases since the start of the year including two infant deaths. Health officials are urging parents to vaccinate newborns as soon as possible for protection from this potentially fatal disease.
Joining us to discuss and what you need to know is Dr. Alexander Van Tulleken, the senior fellow at Fordham University. Good morning.
BOLDUAN: I can't believe this epidemic, 800 cases in the last two weeks. That should get every parent's attention, right?
TULLEKEN: Absolutely. This is a disease, which is potentially fatal in newborns. It's preventable where a vaccination.
BOLDUAN: First of all, let's go back before we go forward. Why is it happening? We've talked about whooping cough forever it seems like. Why are we seeing this uptick?
TULLEKEN: This is a disease that's in Victorian England, that type of thing.
BOLDUAN: That's why we booked you, you bring the accent.
TULLEKEN: I think we do see research every few years that immunity seems to die away and the vaccines don't last as long as they used to. Additionally we do have a modern phenomenon of these non-medical examinations from exemptions so parents are reluctant.
CUOMO: The facts are these, you have the cycling. It's not like this is new, some kind of pandemic, but there is a big, big cut of the country that suffers from -- subject to your opinion, misinformation about vaccines. People aren't doing it, they think it's the new way toward wellness, get away from the old thinking. Hasn't the science that suggested you don't need vaccines in debunk? Isn't it very clear that you need vaccines?
TULLEKEN: The science is very clear, but what I'd say is these people are not monsters and they're really demonized in the press. You do have -- modern medicine is very confusing. Big pharma has been cynical and lots of modern medicine doesn't work as well as you would think. I can see why people are suspicious, very confusing.
But we know that vaccines work. They're not side effect free, but they don't cause side effects that people are worried about, autism being the headline one. It has been incredibly well researched and the original paper that was published by Andrew Wakefield that suggested that was completely debunked.
BERMAN: The passion and the fear is so enormous. You barely whisper the word autism, almost as if you're scared to say it out loud. But that's what driving this for so many parents.
TULLEKEN: I'm an MD, I have a degree in public health and I have a 5- year-old son and I worry about all these things. They're confusing, if you have medical degrees. He's vaccinated and I would urge everybody to do the same.
BOLDUAN: Because it is particularly dangerous for infants.
TULLEKEN: Absolutely. Absolutely.
CUOMO: If you have a kid, who is playing with kids who haven't been vaccinated --
BOLDUAN: Even if your kids are vaccinated.
CUOMO: The kid is vaccinated but his playmates are not.
TULLEKEN: This pertussis is the medical name for whooping cough is highly contagious, 80 percent of exposed people will get it. It is highly contagious. So if you are in contact with newborns, you should have the sack seen, full stop. If you're a grandparent, a sibling, you should be up to date with your vaccines. All pregnant women should be vaccinated and all health care workers should be vaccinated. If you have a kid who is symptomatic.
BOLDUAN: It is not a lifetime vaccination, right?
TULLEKEN: If you're a grandparent, a sibling, a close relative, spending lots of time with kids, especially with the infants, the infants we worry about, get the booster shot.
BOLDUAN: What do you do once you get it? Especially for an infant.
TULLEKEN: The first six weeks of life they can't be vaccinated. You want a ring of protection of vaccinated people around the infant. Once you get -- there is a first week or two where you're highly contagious and not very symptomatic. You may feel like you a cold or a cough. This is not a reason to go to the emergency room, but it is a reason to see your family physician.
Based on whether you've been in contact with people, what region of the country you're in, up to date with your vaccines, they may or may not treat you with antibiotics. If you have a sick child, if they got a runny nose, a bit of a cough, you'll know if it is whooping cough, full blown, you'll go to the emergency room. It is very distressing to see.
If they have a runny nose and you think there has been an exposure, don't want to flood the emergency rooms, but you should go and see your family physician if you're concerned.
CUOMO: And do all the common sense things, washing your hands down, get coughing into your elbow down.
TULLEKEN: Most of it is coughing and sneezing, droplet infection. BOLDUAN: Eight hundred cases in just the past two weeks in California. Those numbers are staggering. And that 80 percent infection rate is pretty startling as well. Doctor, great to see you. Thanks so much.
TULLEKEN: Thank you.
BOLDUAN: All right.
CUOMO: Coming up on NEW DAY, hundreds of Marines now headed to the Persian Gulf as the situation gets worse in Iraq. Will they be forced to go in? We have Christiane Amanpour joining us with the latest.
BOLDUAN: Also ahead, a new CNN/ORC poll shows very favorable numbers for Hillary Clinton coming out this morning. Even besting President Obama in every category. What's behind this groundswell of support? We're going to break down the numbers for you.
CUOMO: Breaking this morning, 550 marines headed near Iraq, ready to evacuate Americans if necessary. As U.S. Marines move in to fortify the American embassy as well, is the U.S. sending enough help?
BOLDUAN: Hitting home, the fighting in Iraq is now pushing oil prices up. So what does that mean then for the prices of the pump for you? We're going to break it down.
BERMAN: Legendary voice, the man behind America's top 40, the man who gave voice to "Shaggy" has passed. We celebrate the life in the extraordinary career of Casey Kasem.
CUOMO: Your NEW DAY continues right now.
BOLDUAN: Good morning and welcome once again to NEW DAY. It is Monday, June 16th, 8:00 in the east. We have breaking news this morning. Hundreds more U.S. Marines are heading to the Persian Gulf to potentially evacuate more Americans from the turmoil in Iraq. Some staffers of the U.S. Embassy there in Baghdad have already been moved out.
Overnight, ISIS militants continued its takeovers seizing another city and two villages. But Iraq's government has been fighting back, launching air strikes against them. Well, now the Obama administration has to decide if it will get involved and perhaps even work with Iran to fight back the ISIS threat.
We have complete coverage for you this morning. Let's start once again with senior international correspondent Nic Robertson live on the ground in Baghdad. What's the very latest -- Nic?
NIC ROBERTSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, Kate, the Iraqi government is saying that they're pushing ISIS back. They released video that purports to show that. The reality is, ISIS continues to make gains across the country.
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The tower with Ljubljana city flag
The castle and the town from the castle tower
View of Castle Hill from Congress Square.
Courtyard of Ljubljana Castle
Ljubljana Castle (Slovene: Ljubljanski grad) is a medieval[1][unreliable source?] castle in Ljubljana, Slovenia. It is located at the Castle Hill (Grajski grič) overlooking the old town.
According to archeological surveys, the area of the present castle has been settled continuously since 1200 BC,[2] when the first settlements and later fortifications were built. The hill summit probably became a Roman army stronghold after fortifications were built in Illyrian and Celtic times.[3]
The oldest mention of Ljubljana Castle is inscribed on a parchment sheet Nomina defunctorum (names of the dead), which is kept by the Udine Cathedral Archive. It dates from 1112 till 1125. It mentions the nobleman Rudolf of Tarcento, a lawyer of the Patriarchate of Aquileia, who had bestowed a canon with 20 farmsteads beside the castle of Ljubljana (castrum Leibach) to the Patriarchate.[4][5][6] In 1144 Ljubljana Castle was mentioned as a property and the seat of the Carinthian dukes of the House of Spanheim. In 1335 it became property of the House of Habsburg. In the 15th century it was almost completely demolished and rebuilt with a complete wall and towers at the entrance, where a drawbridge was placed. A chapel was also built at that time. In the 16th and 17th centuries, other objects were gradually built.
The castle's purpose was to defend the empire against Ottoman invasion as well as peasant revolt.[7] In the 17th and 18th centuries, the castle became an arsenal and a military hospital. It was damaged during the Napoleonic period and, once back in the Austrian Empire, became a prison, which it remained until 1905, resuming that function during World War II.[3][7] The castle's Outlook Tower dates to 1848; this was inhabited by a guard whose duty it was to fire cannons warning the city in case of fire or announcing important visitors or events.[3]
Because it was not a home of a ruler or another important noble person and because a fortification in the area was no longer required, the castle started to lose its importance. The maintenance costs were too high so the castle began to crumble. In the 19th century, the castle was redesigned partially as a prison and partially as a military stronghold, making it less popular among the citizens. Several famous people were jailed in the castle, including the Italian revolutionary Silvio Pellico, the Hungarian Prime Minister Lajos Batthyany and the Slovene author Ivan Cankar.
In 1905, the castle was bought by Municipality of Ljubljana, on the explicit wish of the mayor, Ivan Hribar, who planned to establish a city museum in it. The plan was however not carried out. Instead, the city decided to settle poor families into it. The residents stayed there until the mid-1960s, when preparations for renovation of the castle began.
At the end of the 1960s, the long and extensive renovation works started. The whole renovation took more than 35 years. In the 1990s, the use of the castle as a place for weddings and cultural events began. The Ljubljana Castle funicular, a funicular railway to the top of Castle Hill, was built in 2006 and brought to service on 28 December 2006.[8] The hill also features a 1974 monument by the sculptor Stojan Batič dedicated to the Slovene peasant revolts (especially to the Slovene peasant revolt of 1515 and the Croatian and Slovenian peasant revolt of 1573). It is also a tourist attraction.[9]
The remains of the fortifications on Castle Hill were reworked into a promenade called Šance, designed by the Slovenian architect Jože Plečnik.
1. ^ http://www.ljubljana.info/ljubljana-castle/
2. ^ Festival Ljubljana
3. ^ a b c "Ljubljanski grad / Ljubljana Castle". Archived from the original on 2 May 2008. Retrieved 2008-07-30.
4. ^ Peter Štih (2010). Castrum Leibach: the first recorded mention of Ljubljana and the city's early history: facsimile with commentary and a history introduction. City Municipality of Ljubljana. ISBN 978-961-6449-36-6. COBISS 252833024
5. ^ "850-letnico Ljubljane smo praznovali prepozno. Ljubljana je starejša." [850th Anniversary of Ljubljana was Celebrated Too Late. Ljubljana is Older.] (in Slovenian). MMC RTV Slovenia. 14 December 2010. Retrieved 8 February 2011.
6. ^ "Historian Finds New Oldest Mention of Ljubljana". Slovenian Press Agency. 14 December 2010. Retrieved 8 February 2011.
7. ^ a b "City castle in Ljubljana". Retrieved 2008-07-30.
8. ^ "5 Years of the Funicular Railway to the Castle". City Municipality of Ljubljana. 28 December 2011.
9. ^ "Festival Ljubljana". Retrieved 2008-07-30.
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Scopulariopsis brevicaulis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Subdivision: Pezizomycotina
Class: Sordariomycetes
Subclass: Hypocreomycetidae
Order: Microascales
Family: Microascaceae
Luttr. ex Malloch (1970)
Type genus
Zukal (1886)
The Microascaceae are a family of fungi in the class Sordariomycetes, subclass Hypocreomycetidae.[1] The family was published by David Malloch in 1970, an emended description based on Everet Stanley Luttrell's original 1951 publication.[2]
Microascaceae species have spherical to irregularly shaped, darkly colored fruit bodies. They are usually hairy and rarely smooth. The smooth spores are reddish brown to copper colored, one-celled, and have a germ pore at one or both ends. Asci can occur singly or in chains.[2]
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Alfonso V of Aragon, 1557, Zaragoza Museum
Vicente Juan Masip (also Vicente Macip;Catalan: 'Vicent Joan Masip'; 1475– 1545) (also known as Joan de Joanes (La Font de la Figuera 1507 - Bocairent 1579) was a Spanish painter of the Renaissance period. He was one of the main members, and was considered the premier painter of the Valencian school of painters.
His father was Vicente Masip (Andilla 1475 - Valencia 1545), and his son was Vicente Masip Comes (c. 1555-1623), known as Vicent de Joanes, who imitated his style.[citation needed] His two daughters, Dorotea and Margarita, were also painters.[citation needed] His most prominent pupil was Nicolas Borras.[citation needed]
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When people want to inflict devastation of mass casualties, they will. That's the most horrific part, is knowing that very fact.
The last time this many children fell at the hands of someone like this was Timothy McVeigh (19 children). He didn't fire a single shot.
Sometimes being able to look past the end of your nose helps. People who break laws will not all of a sudden decide to start abiding stricter ones.
I do apologize for continuing the politicizing of this topic, having a young daughter I'm still trying to wrap my head around the entire thing.
No need to appologize you're 100% right. Guns aren't the problem here, its family values. What happened to family dinner time? Why are churches empty on Sundays? Why are we letting our kids play shooting games and listen to rap music?
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Run time: 93 mins
In Theaters: Friday 23rd January 1998
Distributed by: Sony Pictures Entertainment
Production compaines: Columbia Pictures Corporation
Contactmusic.com: 2.5 / 5
Rotten Tomatoes: 29%
Fresh: 10 Rotten: 24
IMDB: 3.3 / 10
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Starring: Victoria Beckham as Victoria, Melanie Brown as Melanie B, Emma Bunton as Emma, Melanie Chisholm as Melanie C, Geri Halliwell as Geri, Kevin Allen as TV Director, Devon Anderson as Jack, Michael Barrymore as Mr. Step, Simon Chandler as Patient, Elvis Costello as Elvis, Bob Geldof as Bob, Bob Hoskins as Gent, Elton John as Elton John, Hugh Laurie as Hercuele Porot, Meat Loaf as Dennis, Roger Moore as The Chief
Spice world Movie Review
Why don't more non-acting bands star in fiction films as themselves? I'm serious: I would love to see Oasis in an action movie (fighting each other, natch), or a Rilo Kiley love story [Jenny Lewis has dozens of acting credits, Jesse! - Ed.], or Radiohead with a special effects budget. I'd even take a chance on a Led Zeppelin Lord of the Rings knockoff, no matter how many elves were harmed in the making of it. And isn't A Hard Day's Night (or even Help!) more fun than a dozen musical biopics?
It's entirely possible that bands are scared off by the candy-colored flipside to Night's black-and-white beauty, Spice World. Just to clarify, that's the Spice Girls movie, not a film about the fifteenth century spice trade. You may remember it from a variety of instant punchlines circa the turn of the last century.
But c'mon, bands, grow a pair: Spice World is OK. I'm serious! For a movie whose genesis was probably a coin-toss victory against a Spice Babies Saturday morning cartoon, Spice World is actually pretty amusing. It's not especially different from a Saturday morning cartoon, mind you; Baby, Ginger, Sporty, Scary, and Posh are named like girly Ninja Turtles, though at least you can tell them apart semi-immediately. The movie makes the girls' collective vapidity charming in a noisy, childlike sort of way. Whether or not charming vapidity does the trick for 90 minutes probably depends largely on whether you are a child under twelve and/or how many cable stations you get.
Anyway, Spice World is unlikely to cause permanent brain damage; I've seen it two or three times and I can't tell you much about what happens in it, except that the girls ride around in a bus driven by Meat Loaf, have a pregnant pal who goes into labor at some point, and perform hits from their first two albums (the second of which is technically the film's soundtrack); and that the movie pretty quickly devolves into Spice-themed sketch comedy. The girls impersonate each other, imagine each other as elderly, and encounter aliens; no wonder they don't have time to write songs or learn how to play instruments.
Oddly, or maybe fittingly, it's the real actors who wind up looking awkward in the world of Spice: Mark McKinney and George Wendt are stuck in a tabloid-reporter subplot, a tedious sitcom without the surrealism of cartoon life in a fake band. Despite the truly strange number of famous Brits willing to cooperate -- you could make a fun game of matching Elvis Costello, Roger Moore, Hugh Laurie, Bob Hoskins, and Stephen Fry with the individual Spice Girl crushes that must've enticed them to appear, even if it's just as likely they were chummy with veteran British TV director Bob Spiers -- the movie can't really sustain itself. Even an excitable slumber party might tire out halfway through.
But as a diversion and a weird novelty, Spice World is cute and endearingly chintzy, especially the way its special-est effect is a cutaway to a homemade model of a bus making a big jump. Scoff if you must, but I defy the Backstreet Boys to make a movie this passable -- and I implore real bands to give it a try.
Aka Spiceworld, Spice World: The Movie.
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• cesarean delivery;
• antiemetic;
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To answer the following research questions: What is the incidence and severity of postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) for women during the 24-hour period following surgery? What are the relationships between sociodemographics, obstetric/gynecologic (OB-GYN) history and antiemetic received (e.g., type(s), timing, and frequency) and incidence and severity of PONV? Does the timing, type, and frequency of antiemetic use predict the incidence and severity of PONV when other known predictors are considered?
Retrospective descriptive correlational design.
A 600-bed community hospital in Southern California.
Sixty women: White (61.7%), African American (1.7%), Hispanic (11.7%), Asian (18.3%), and nonspecified (6.6%) who had cesarean delivery.
Information related to sociodemographic characteristics, medical and OB-GYN history, treatment received during cesarean delivery, incidence and severity of PONV, and treatment measures received and outcomes were abstracted from the medical records following receipt of Institutional Review Board approval.
Thirty women (50%) complained of PONV during the 24-hour period after surgery. The use of antiemetic during and after surgery immediately and the use of multimodal versus single therapy were associated with decreased incidence and severity of PONV (p < .001 and p = .018, respectively). In a multivariate model, these two variables accounted for 48% of the variance in PONV while age, type of anesthesia used, history of PONV, and gravidity and parity were controlled for.
Conclusion/Implications for Nursing Practice
PONV is a common complaint of women who receive intrathecal morphine for analgesia during cesarean delivery. There is a paucity of evidence to support implementation of strategies to reduce PONV and minimize the negative outcomes associated with PONV following cesarean delivery. Findings show that the use of multimodal antiemetics during and after cesarean delivery immediately reduces the incidence and severity of PONV. Prospective studies examining the predictors of PONV in women after cesarean delivery are warranted to better explain this phenomenon and to guide clinical nurses into the development of policies and pathways to help reduce PONV in specified populations and to collaborate mother–infant care with other healthcare providers. | http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1552-6909.12174/full?globalMessage=0 | dclm-gs1-153190001 | false | false | {
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I am building a wireless link between two points using Wireless-N standard. To determine the best position of the antennas, there is a signal strength indicator on the antennas. The problem is the link strength doesn't always correspond to link throughput.
I'm looking for an offline version of http://www.speedtest.net or http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/ that can do continous monitoring of throughput.
Ideally, I would run this software and monitor increase/decrease of throughput while repositioning the antenna.
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Sounds like a job for iperf.
Or a flood ping.
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Flood ping is interesting, easy enough to do without any additional software. Thanks. – Adrian Godong Dec 5 '10 at 4:41
If that works, I'd appreciate the check mark. I'm not too proud to ask. – Jed Daniels Dec 5 '10 at 6:04
i gave you the check mark myself - as its a good answer. Biggest thing in wireless is he may want to check more than just tcp - so making sure he does some UDP testing would be wise... those tests will really show you where things are good vs bad. – Glenn Kelley Dec 5 '10 at 6:33
iPerf would do much better than would a file on a webserver. Few reasons - including mod_throttle, bandwidth etc - coming from the server itself.
Jed hit the nail on its head suggesting IPERF - here is why:
Iperf is a tool to measure the bandwidth and the quality of a network link. If you would combine IPERF w/ Jperf you have a great graphical interface to use while playing with your link.
A single file coming from a webserver would not be able to give you a clear picture since there is no way to test the quality of the link. The quality of the link is important not just speed.
Using IPERF - you can test the Latency (response time or RTT) - by uinsg the Ping command. You can also look at any Datagram loss using an IPERF UPD test - heck... Jitter (the variation of the latency across the link) can be measured as well with an IPerf UDP test.
The quality of a link can be tested as follows: - Latency (response time or RTT): can be measured with the Ping command. - Jitter (latency variation): can be measured with an Iperf UDP test. - Datagram loss: can be measured with an Iperf UDP test.
Iperf will also allow you to test bi-directionally which a webserver will not.
Let us know if you need help using IPERF - just respond w/ the operating system your using on each system on both sides of the link.
One last note - what gear are you using - just the radios or spectrum analyzation tools?
Your WIFI gear may be able to help you a great deal.
I am assuming you are using 2.4GHZ yes? Reason I ask is that if you are using some of the higher frequencies (such as 5.xGHZ - which MAC's support) they do a good job at closer distances - give excellent speeds BUT hate things like walls in their way.
If you have a spectrum analyzer (ps most all of Ubiquity gear www.UBNT.com have this built in) will help you a great deal.
For example - you may find that channel 1 vs channel 8 is a better choice.
We have some links using 2.4Ghz going over a great distance (15+ miles at some places) - and the only variation on speed is the channel - thus allowing us to break apart a great deal of interference. Speed Example 1
versus where the CCQ (link quality) is lower overall but we see more bandwidth and a better db level.
Speed Example different channel
In a small office - warehouse etc - channels will make a huge difference, especially if others are close this can really make a difference.
The point here is simple - Location of the antenna's is not the only factor. If you would agree that using good equipment can make the world of difference than it is fair to say Using a spectrum analyzer will make a Universe of difference.
Waterfall Chart:
Ubiquity Waterfall
This time-based graph shows the aggregate energy collected since the start of an AirView / spectrum analyzer session, over time for each frequency. The power of the energy in dBm is shown across the frequency span and one row is inserted in this graph every few seconds.
It is a great thing to let this run for a long time to see what is happening on the connection from a radio perspective.
Channel Usage Chart:
Channel Usage Chart
Wafeform Chart:
Waveform Chart Example
Real Time Chart:
This is most likely what you want the most...
Real Time Radio Chart
This tool runs for under $100 online - just do a froogle search for Airview. Combined with IPERF - you can have a really great network for not much work or hassle.
If this has helped - please vote this answer up a notch.
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Put a really big data file on a local webserver, then use wget to download the file. By default, wget displays a pretty good speed indicator while it's downloading, e.g.:
$ wget -O - http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/really-big-file.bin >/dev/null
--2010-12-04 20:31:32-- http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/really-big-file.bin
Connecting to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Saving to: `STDOUT'
11% [===> ] 12,342,529 1.01M/s eta 89s
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I was thinking something like this, but assuming it's 100Mbps link then 1Gb file will be done in 10 seconds. There's also disk read time which shouldn't be taken into account. – Adrian Godong Dec 5 '10 at 4:38
@Adrian: So try a 10GB file. Or call wget over and over in a loop. Or hack together an ad hoc server with a few lines of Python to stream pseudo-random data in response to an HTTP GET request. Use your imagination! I don't understand your "disk read time" objection, though. – Steven Monday Dec 5 '10 at 5:02
Another option is ttcp. Not as fancy as iperf, but sometimes it's all you need.
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Why does this rake task
gems = %w(gem1 gem2 gem3)
namespace :gems do
namespace :install do
desc "Runs install:migrations for all gems"
task :migrations do
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only actually run the first set of migrations, no matter the gems/gem ordering/random calls to reenable I use?
Installing migrations for the gem1 gem...
Copied migration whatever from gem1
Copied migration whatever from gem1
Copied migration whatever from gem1
Copied migration whatever from gem1
Installing migrations for the gem2 gem...
Installing migrations for the gem3 gem...
Gem migrations installed.
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The invoke method only runs "as needed", which basically means that once it's run once, it wont run again unless reenabled.
You can either call .reenable after each .invoke to reset it, or use the .execute command to run the task.
The caveat with .execute is that it won't run the dependencies for the task if you have them.
Why is Rake not able to invoke multiple tasks consecutively?
How to run Rake tasks from within Rake tasks?
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ok, but, about question, need to reenabled "railties:install:migrations" each Rake::Task["#{gem}:install:migrations"].execute or invoke, and all be fine. – Bruno Guerra Jan 18 '13 at 0:51
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First case
int a;
int *p= &a ; it works no error
Second case
long int a;
long int b;
b = & a; it wont work
Most of us say b is a varible not a pointer. But see the below
So the question is if the &a returns the address which is an unsigned integer then why cant we assign it to a normal variable? but why only to pointers ? see below
b = (unsigned int) &a ; it works after typecasting though its not practissable
if the address is integer format then why dont the unsigned or long integers save it . I was thinking, there must be some hidden secret behind it. Could anyone reveal it? What I thought is , pointers must be doing something inside but i wonder what it would be and why a normal variable cant be.
Thanks for all your answers but the actual question what really the &a returns ? integer value or not ? if it is integer number why a variable cannot hold it ? long int a =65535 \valid why not int a= &b if value of address b is 65535
Im not worried to use it as pointer, Please the question is about just saving the value. Not derefercing the address. People saying 32 or 64 bit, Im not worried about that. why it cant save the address if address is a integer number ?
I mean why cant we assign the value, Im not saying to assign the properties of pointers to variable but just assign the value thats it
b = a \\ works it assigns b - 65535
b = & a \\ doesnt work, if address is a some integer value,why we cant store it in a variable?
take the 16 bit as example normal pointer (the address ) size is 2 bytes and variable size is 2 bytes why cant we store the adress in other varibale if address is integer value thats my question i find many answers like ++ it increments by 4 to pointer and value 1 to variable ,not worried about that just assigning the value is more important question.
b = & a ; address of a is 4000
++b ; becomes 4001 thats it,thats not a problem
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What's a "normal variable"? "pointers must be doing something inside" Correct. What more do you need to know? They're not integers. They're pointers. Please update your question to explain what you mean by "normal variable". – S.Lott Sep 9 '11 at 11:51
While it's an integer under the hood, the types don't match, so you can't assign them. That's like saying UnrelatedClassA and UnrelatedClassB are just bytes, so why can't you assign one to the other? It's part of the type system. – Seth Carnegie Sep 9 '11 at 13:49
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Integers, even long int, are not always going to be the same size as a pointer. Sometimes they will be (for example, most 32-bit architectures have sizeof(int) == sizeof(void *)), sometimes they will be different (for example, some 64-bit architectures have sizeof(long) == sizeof(void *) but some do not -- Visual C++ on Windows being a prime example of a compiler where sizeof(long) != sizeof(void *)).
There's also the fact that void * is simply not the same type as long int.
Imagine a class Foo and a class Bar, defined like so:
class Foo {
public: int a;
class Bar {
public: int b;
It's like asking why you can't assign an instance of class Foo to a variable of type Bar -- they're not the same thing, even though in this case both Foo and Bar have the same underlying bit pattern.
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Wonderful, @Dean Harding. Plain wonderful. – yati sagade Sep 9 '11 at 12:37
returns the address which is an unsigned integer
No, it isn't. A pointer (address) is a pointer. Period.
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Although what you're saying is in fact true, this isn't really helpful to a pointer newbie, which I assume OP is. – MGZero Sep 9 '11 at 18:17
MGZero - I appreciate that he thinks about the problem, and I just point him to the steps where he assumes wrong. I am confident he is able to resolve the problem by thinking further. This is IMHO better as to get everything served on a silver tablet. – Ingo Sep 10 '11 at 18:58
You can and it was very common, it is a pertinent portability issue now though as it cannot be used on x64 platforms with a 64-bit pointer and a 32-bit integer.
It may originate from assembler usage where a register can be easily interpreted as both an integer and a pointer.
It is not overly sensible in modern usage as it can easily lead to mistakes and confusion. Type safety improvements in compiler design disallow such usage but C99 re-introduces some similar support with uintptr_t and intptr_t which are "Integer types capable of holding object pointers".
To paraphrase your question:
Why can't we assign [a pointer] to [an integer] variable?
The answer is: because it is not assembler, C and C++ are strongly typed languages.
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It's not specific to C or C++. This is the same in all strongly typed languages. It's to a degree even true in English. We can say that "the color of the book is blue", but not "the color of the book is wooden". A type restricts the possible values that a variable can have.
A variable int* type can only hold values that are addresses of int's, and a variable of type long int can only hold values between LONG_MIN and LONG_MAX inclusive. That's just two completely distinct sets of values.
C and C++ are not absolute. Typecasting will allow you to bypass some restrictions. E.g. (int) 3.5 tells the compiler that you want to convert the non-integer value 3.5 to an approximately-similar integer value. This works better if the two types are more similar. Other languages may not have such typecasting; there you might need to call a function instead. E.g. ROUND(3.5, INT)
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(int) 3.5 is a rather bad example since it shows a conversion instead of a cast. If it were a real cast, the value would be not 3 but whatever the interpretation of the bit sequence is. – blubb Sep 9 '11 at 11:59
@Simon: In C++, it's unambiguously a cast. A static_cast<int>, to be precise. It's also a conversion; the two are not exclusive. You seem to be thinking of a reinterpret_cast, which is one of the other cast types. However, you can't reinterpret_cast<int>(3.5); double to int is not on the list of possible conversions. (§ 5.2.10) – MSalters Sep 9 '11 at 12:18
Niko, IMHO the point of typed languages is that you cannot just assign one thing to the other, even though they're all just a bunch of bits on the lowest level.
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Pointers usually are implemented as integers, but C++ specification only defines their behaviour (where are to be equal or different two pointers, etc.).
Transforming a pointer into a uint is like transforming one instance of some other class/type.
Regarding to why b = (uint) &a; works, probably it's implementation-dependent. (And arch-dependent).
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The address is not an integer; it's an address. On a 64 bit system, this:
int *p;
allocates a 64 bit variable, whereas this:
int b;
allocates a 32 bit variable. They're not the same. They may appear to be the same size on some systems, but they're not the same. Consider just as one example the ++ operator. On a 32 bit system, ++ on a pointer increments the pointer by 4, whereas ++ on an integer increments the integer by 1. The compiler is trying to help you by telling you you're doing something wrong.
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From what I'm getting out of your question, you're under the impression that because an address is represented as hex, it's an integer. Well, sure, but that doesn't mean you can put an integer into a pointer the way you're thinking.
Data (the variable) has information with it..meta data. The size of it, the value, the datatype....the address where it's stored. A pointer is holding that last piece of meta data, the address. It is a special datatype who's primary job is to hold addresses. The value of the pointer is independent of the value of the data, they are 2 seperate things. The value of the pointer tells you where to find the data you're looking for. This is why you cannot put an integer into a pointer in the way you're trying. It's like saying that you live at some street address, and you are also that address. Imagine if people called you by your address, that would be silly!
Consider this: You have a class called x, which contains some members. You create a pointer to this class. The pointer still holds an address with a hex format..but the object can't be broken into a 4 or 8 byte (32 bit and 64 bit respectively) value! Take note, the format of the pointer across all datatypes is the same, regardless of their value.
int a; int *p= &a;
Now..the reason why this worked is because you took the address of variable a and put it into a pointer p. Keyword is ADDRESS, which is what a pointer holds.
long int a;
long int b;
b = & a;
This did not work because you tried putting the ADDRESS (a pointer) of a into b, which is just a variable.
To put it simply, you cannot put an address into a normal variable. An address can only be stored in a pointer.
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There is a misconception in your intitial thinking: there are "normal variables" and "poitners". There is no such concept. There are just "variables" and "types".
• int is a "container for an integer value"
• class Person is a container for a Person description.
• int* is a container for the address of an integer
• Person* is a container for an address of a Person.
The & operator returns the address of a variable, and its type is a "pointer to that type". Assignments can go only from an expression of a given type to a variable of a compatible type. int, int*, Person and Person* are all each other incompatible. You cannot assign an int* to an int for the same reason you cannot assign a Person to an int or an int to a Person. Unless you have a function that alows you to write an expression returning one type from the other. just like operator & does and the &a expression gives you.
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I searched everywhere and mostly people suggest the following code for setting a default color theme:
(require 'color-theme)
However, this doesn't work. When I start emacs I get this error:
Warning (initialization): An error occurred while loading `/home/epsilonvector/.emacs':
Symbol's function definition is void: color-theme-name
This happens for every theme name, even ones whose correctness I'm sure of.
What am I missing?
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Try to insert (color-theme-initialize) in between the require and the call to the theme name.
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This just rescued me from a lot of frustration. Thanks! – j4w7 Jan 24 at 13:54
First, color-theme is a package that you have to install; I don't believe it's included in any version of emacs. The download link is here.
Second, you're not supposed to literally use the symbol color-theme-name, but rather the name of the color scheme: color-theme-hober, for example.
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I have color-theme, and I meant color-theme-<name>, as in color-theme-the-name-of-the-theme-I-want (Didn't know color-theme-name was a defined symbol when I wrote this). – EpsilonVector Oct 6 '11 at 12:36
@EpsilonVector: from the error message "Symbol's function definition is void: color-theme-name" its evident that you evaled color-theme-name rather than substituting name for the actual theme name. – Sujoy Oct 6 '11 at 13:44
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Statement: "The Anicent Egypts were Black people",
Reply: "no there were brown in color, and not black as we know it"
Truth: They were African people and like many African people display skin colors from high yellow to deep black. Blackness is relative to Whiteness and a modern term. It is accurate to say the people of Egypt were an African civilization and were native to that region-- like the Ethiopians and the Nubians. It is absurd to have a civilization located in a continent but default and describe its builders by an identity that divorces them from their location. Clearly it is part of the take away in Eurocentric academia-- reassign civilization outside of African claim.
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After the Fall also explores gender performance cross-culturally, situating the research in a global context. For instance the actors who participate in the reenactments are from the US, which is intended to integrate issues of cultural translation into the process. The film characters are interpreted through the cultural and political prism of each of the participants. The process of creating this project relies on a critical exchange of ideas, where the re-enactment is treated as an interpretation, rather than a copy of the chosen scene. Most of these reenactments were made in close collaboration with the actors. Finding commonalities, rather than cultural differences is the goal.
In keeping with Michel Foucault’s view that power is a productive force in society, Rossa tries to analyze how similar oppressive gender power structures can occur irrespective of the particular political and ideological context. She seeks to represent also individual and collective reactions to these oppressive formations through gender performance. The theoretical and historical research for After the Fall is part of Rossa’s dissertation for the Rensselaer’s doctoral program in Electronic Arts.
This episode from the installation reviews the intersection of subcultures and gender in the 1950s epoch of McCarthyism/Stalinism
This reenactment is a comment on an epoch in which power structures created repressive apparatuses both in the capitalist West and the communist East. The installation features instructional movies from Stalinist Soviet Union and from the US. The Russian feature film Stilyagi (2008) (a.k.a Hipsters for international distribution) is a contemporary comment on the same time period. The subculture “stilyagi” (a Russian appropriation of the English word “style,” in Bulgaria they are called “swingi”) is the subject of this film situated in a larger historical context, which symbolically embodies youth resistance to moral and political conventions. Parallels to stilyagi in the West are phenomena such as Teddy boys and girls, or Rockabilly. Gender roles are reviewed through the perspective of the repressive ideological rhetoric and the resistance against it.
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It's time to talk about unseating Democratic Incumbents. Below are some winning strategies:
1. Run a candidate with name recognition. For example, coaxing Kweisi Mfume to run against Steny Hoyer, and Cindy Sheehan to run against Nancy Pelosi,would be ideal. The National Lawyers Guild of Detroit & Michigan Chapter should run a candidate to unseat John Conyers, Jr.
No matter how powerful incumbents may be "inside the Beltway," their achilles' heel is in their Congressional Districts, where they can be attacked.
Coax potential candidates to run by suggesting that dedicated volunteers, such as, "Code Pink" would canvass precincts. The key term is "dedicated volunteers."
2. Do not outsource canvassers and phone bank workers!
3. Understand the value of phone banks on election day. You win by getting people to the polls, who ordinarily would stay at home.
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hardness tester, device that indicates the hardness of a material, usually by measuring the effect on its surface of a localized penetration by a standardized rounded or pointed indenter of diamond, carbide, or hard steel.
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That tiny black dress, heels and make-up can make you feel a little more sexy, but the sexiest thing about you doesn't have a color or a shape. You can't touch it, but you sure can feel it ... it's self-confidence.
The Strength to Be Confident
Beauty is far beyond skin deep. There are "beautiful" women who think negatively about their appearance, and women who some might say are not as "beautiful," yet they exude confidence and self-acceptance. That inner-strength to believe in who you are, own your body and keep in your mind a positive view of who you are is the strength you have to build to be sexy.
[Read: Stacy London: Rewriting Your Life Story Through Style.]
The Strength to Define Your Beauty
Trying to please others or live up to others' expectations is not sexy. To build strength to define your own beauty, consider your body in your own definition of sexy. Try to forget what you mother, boyfriend, friends or siblings may have told you about what's good, bad or ugly about your body.
[Read: Sexy Tips from a Septuagenarian.]
If you love muscles, make like Michelle Obama and get the guns you want. If you like J-Lo and Beyonce curves, then work out to stay healthy inside, and don't obsess about cutting inches here and there. Remember, if you're trying to be sexy for anyone other than yourself, you're only playing a role. To really be sexy, you have to genuinely feel it. Passion starts from the inside out, and passion is what makes sexy real.
The Strength to Accept Your Body
You deserve to feel sexy all the time. But so many women don't feel comfortable in their own skin. Whether it's because you don't see who you want to be in the mirror, or you're stuck wanting a younger version of you, it's time to accept your body.
It wasn't until I accepted my body and changed my mindset that I could truly start healing, and positive change followed. The strength to accept your body comes from knowing your own importance. The body you want is only possible through the body you've got. Loving it, accepting it and treating your body better is essential to being sexy. So embrace the body you've got, in all its sexy glory, so you can move towards the body you want and deserve.
[Read: How to Keep Your Vagina Healthy.]
Use these action steps to pave the way for a stronger, sexier you:
• Building confidence
• Defining beauty
Accept compliments. When someone gives you a compliment, believe it. Because defining your own beauty is not just about defining what you have to offer to the world, it's also about appreciating the beauty others see in you. Embrace it.
• Accepting your body
Kill the fat talk (and skinny talk, too). Too many times there's an "us against them" struggle between "overweight" and "skinny" people. This shouldn't be. Stop the put-downs, stares and judgments towards both of these types of people. Accepting an individual is the best way to accept your own body and is the first step to stop comparing yourself to others.
[Read: There's No Such Thing as 'Perfect Eating.']
Your thoughts … How has the definition of sexy evolved for you in the last 10 years?
Well known for his work as a trainer on NBC's The Biggest Loser, Brett Hoebel is one of New York and Los Angeles' most popular fitness and nutrition experts. In addition to his certifications in nutrition, yoga and functional training, Hoebel was trained in martial arts (Capoeira and Muay Thai kickboxing) and has a pre-med, neuroscience background. He is the founder of Hoebel Fitness, a body-mind approach dedicated to inspiring healthy living, as well as the creator of in-home lifestyle-fitness programs RevAbs, reVamp, and his new 20 Minute Body program to debut in 2014. Hoebel believes in "fitness from within," acknowledging that a healthy life starts by changing yourself from the inside out.
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Thu, June 19th, 2014 at 7:58am PDT | Updated: June 19th, 2014 at 7:58am
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"How do we bring the female characters to light more?"
Those were the words of DC Entertainment president Diane Nelson at a Time Warner shareholders meeting last week, responding to a question that described the portrayal of women at the company as "embarrassing." Nelson stated that heightening the presence of both female creators and female characters was a frequent point of discussion at DC, extending from comics to TV and film. Nelson further advised the shareholder, "I think if we talk again in a couple of years, you'll be pleased with the results."
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Rather than waiting until then, speculation immediately turned to the question of, other than Wonder Woman -- appearing in 2016's "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" and a likely candidate for a subsequent solo film -- what female DC Comics characters might get the spotlight in upcoming films? DC has a veritable pantheon of heroes to choose from, but not every character -- regardless of gender -- can anchor a big-budget franchise.
Here are a few picks on DC characters particularly well-suited to bring Nelson's forecast into reality.
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Carrying the legacy of two DC heroes, the original Star-Spangled Kid and the Golden Age Starman, Courtney Whitmore was the heart of the Justice Society of America, and one of the most well-received DC creations in years. DC Comics has a long and proud history of legacy heroes carrying on the mantles of their idols and that formula could yield big screen success for DC and Warner Bros. The often cantankerous relationship between Courtney and her stepdad, the Golden Age hero and former partner of the Star Spangled Kid, Stripsey -- now donning the S.T.R.I.P.E. armor -- is the stuff big screen legends are made of. Stargirl could be viewed as DC's Buffy, a precocious young girl who borders on bratty but possesses the heart of a hero. Her story could be filled with wide-eyed wonder, a stark contrast to the darkness of "Man of Steel" that also opens the door to a younger generation of DC heroes who might one day carry on the mantles of DC's heavy hitters.
Eagle-eyed "Man of Steel" viewers will remember that when Kal-El found the Kryptonian vessel on Earth , one of the stasis chambers was noticeably empty. Thanks to that Easter egg, the door is already wide open to introduce Supergirl into DC's cinematic universe. The story of a young girl trying to follow in the footsteps of her cousin, the world's first super hero, could make for a fantastic film. Given the destruction caused in "Man of Steel" and possible fallout from its sequel and "Justice League," a Supergirl film could focus on the residual fear and distrust of super heroes with Kara trying to find a way to win over the public and escape Superman's shadow. With Superman as the center of the on-screen DCU, adding another Kryptonian whose journey follows a different path while enriching the legacy of Krypton can only lead to a more formidable DCU.
Mary Marvel
On the surface, Shazam/Captain Marvel appears very similar to DC Comics' premier hero Superman. Avid readers understand their many differences, but it would be easy for film execs to balk at the idea of doing a movie focused on what they perceive as a Superman clone. One way around this is to make Mary Marvel the central character of a "Shazam" film, with brother Billy serving a supporting role. Mary has been around almost as long as the good Captain, appearing in multiple Golden Age features and following her brother into the modern era. Her purity and sweetness lend themselves to a refreshing take on the increasingly dark world of super heroes, and Mary could even bring those qualities into the "Justice League" feature film. While Mary followed Billy in the comics, perhaps Warner Bros. could reverse course and make a progressive move with Billy becoming the spin-off character from Mary.
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WWII Liberty Belle
With the advent of the New 52 and DC's current film and TV slate, one noticeable omission is the company's Golden Age heroes. With Marvel going back to the past in "Agent Carter," the time may be ripe to explore DC's own history in live-action. Liberty Belle was DC's second costumed female, a patriotic figure that fought the Axis forces and appealed to the patriotism of the World War II era. Writers including Roy Thomas and Geoff Johns have done some amazing things with Liberty Belle, and while she may not be well known as some of the other heroes on this list, the era she fought in could fuel DC stories that bridge the past and the present.
Whether it's Helena Wayne, Batman's alternate earth daughter, or the more grounded, vengeance-driven Helena Bertinelli, Warner Bros. can look to the Huntress to open the doors to many different kinds of stories in their burgeoning film universe. A version of Bertinelli has appeared on the CW's "Arrow," to the delight of audiences, while the use of Wayne could provide a link to a relaunched Batman franchise, the introduction of the Multiverse or even just a "World's Finest" pairing with Power Girl. Both iterations of the Huntress have resonance and emotional depth, a character that could easily carry her own film thanks to the groundwork laid by writers like Paul Levitz, Gail Simone and Greg Rucka.
A character so versatile we've already dream-cast her in both the "Justice League" movie and Guillermo del Toro's long-rumored "Justice League Dark," it's obvious we believe Zatanna needs to find her way into Warner Bros.' live-action plans one way or another. The Maid of Magic could open the DCU up to more than aliens and vengeful billionaires, allowing magic to become a major element for its heroes and villains. Zatanna can be the gateway by which Doctor Fate, Deadman, the Phantom Stranger, the Demon, Felix Faust and more magic-based characters reach a wider audience -- not to mention Zatanna's connection to her father Zatara, which could add another legacy element to the cinematic DCU. Marvel may have "Doctor Strange" just around the corner, but DC has a very different type of magician Warner Bros. can use to navigate new territory on film. Adding a classic character ready to maintain her own franchise who also has deep connections to the Justice League could yield big dividends in the long run.
Black Canary
Thanks to Dinah Lance playing a key role on the CW's "Arrow," more fans than ever are familiar with Black Canary. Dinah's comic book roots extend far beyond the shadow of Oliver Queen, however, dating back to her earliest vigilante days during the Golden Age. Whether a film version followed a modern day Dinah as she inherits the Black Canary mantle from her mother (Dinah Drake Lance) or positioned her as a special ops expert like her New 52 iteration, Black Canary would allow WB to deliver a grounded and potentially gritty action movie -- depending on whether the filmmakers opt to give Dinah her super sonic "Canary Cry." If Warner Bros. moves quickly, it may even beat Marvel to the female-driven espionage movie punch if it can assemble a "Black Canary" film before Marvel finally greenlights a "Black Widow" movie.
Fire and Ice
One super hero trope filmgoers haven't experienced yet is the buddy movie. While most would expect Batman & Robin or Booster Gold & Blue Beetle to get the nod, DC has another pair of heroes who could support their own movie. Fire and Ice are strong, rich female characters who would provide the DC Cinematic U with a pair of multi-ethnic heroes -- Fire is Brazilian, Ice is from a hidden race of magical Norwegian frost beings -- and they both enjoy a long history with the Justice League. The buddy film lends itself to contrast, and Fire's quick-witted thrill-seeker plays nicely against Ice's courageous and wide-eyed innocent. While they've never headlined their own comic series, their chemistry is palpable and apparent, and WB would be wise to consider a pairing that could appeal to fans of Disney's "Frozen," or, if you want to go a more adult route, "The Heat."
The DCU's magic corner doesn't begin or end with Zatanna, and Teen Titans member Raven -- after starring in two different "Teen Titans" cartoons -- is arguably better known than her spell-casting counterpart. (The CW even began to develop a "Raven" TV series that never saw the light of day) The character, created by Marv Wolfman and George Perez, could be a breakout success, possibly tapping into the "Twilight" and "Insurgent" YA demographic with her tragic backstory as the scion of a demon father and a mortal mother. And if DC isn't thinking about how to launch a Teen Titans film franchise, Raven would allow them to test the waters with a character who stands on her own at DC and in the larger pantheon of comics.
Batgirl (Barbara Gordon)
If there's one thing Warner Bros. understands, it's that Batman is a bona fide box office champion. With Ben Affleck's Batman busy taking on Superman and establishing the Justice League, Gotham City is going to need another protector, and who better than the daughter of police commissioner Jim Gordon. While Alicia Silverstone portrayed the character in "Batman and Robin," Batgirl has yet to receive the film treatment her fans know she deserves, and with the great work writers like Chuck Dixon and Gail Simone have done with Barbara over the years, there's no shortage of stories to adapt. "Batgirl" could also allow WB to expand the larger Batman family as well as pave the way for a "Birds of Prey" movie.
Wonder Woman
While it might seem like a no-brainer, given her stature as DC's premier female hero and the success of the TV series starring Lynda Carter, Wonder Woman deserves the feature film treatment and will retain a spot on this list until it actually happens. Though several film versions have been attempted -- including one written by "Avengers" writer/director Joss Whedon -- until Gal Gadot was cast in "Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice," many fans were convinced that a "Wonder Woman" movie would never become reality. If Marvel can launch a new franchise featuring a raccoon with a ray gun, DC should be able to launch a third successful film franchise with one of its top characters. A "Wonder Woman" solo movie was listed on Warner Bros.' rumored film slate, but it's high time "Wonder Woman" becomes more than just a rumor. With the actor already in place, DC and WB need only find the right director and story, and there are literally decades of brilliant Wonder Woman stories that manage to balance super heroism with mythology and action. From creator William Moulton Martson's earliest tales to George Perez' post-"Crisis on Infinite Earth" reinvention or Brian Azzarello and Cliff Chiang's New 52 take, there are many different eras that lend themselves to a cinematic treatment. Gal Gadot has the part; now WB needs to use its magic lasso to rein in the possibilities and finally bring a "Wonder Woman" movie to scores of very patient fans.
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Anarchism and Eschatology - Why anarcho capitalism is not a solution, per se
My argument is that anarchism is impossible - sort of. Let me note that I think that anarchism is the most just, and probably most beneficent 'system' a society can arrange for itself - if such a thing can be said.
It is absurd to say that we should 'enact' anarcho-capitalism. Obviously, no anarchist would suggest this. You can't vote anarchism into existence.
So, anarchism is supposed to come by default. The state will collapse, people will take care of things themselves - POOF - anarcho capitalism. In another scenario, the people take care of things themselves first, and then the state dissolves into nothing.
I propose that neither scenario is possible, for two reasons. One, while the state exists it will prevent anarchism. That is, it won't use force to stop liberal behavior, it will instead construct a social paradigm that is unbreakable as part of its statecraft. The problem with statism is that people choose to support it and its paradigm. This leads to problem #2, which is that in the economics of division of labor, feudalism is vastly more cost effective than 'private security and insurance'. People value and seek stability, and for most of history the petty wars of princes have provided more of it than raw barbaric gang-ism. Feudal arrangements are horrible, unjust, and repressive contracts that no one would rationally select. However, the cost of education and trust are much higher than the benefits of stability under a feudal lord.
Thus, when the state exists, it reinforces its position in the market for security through social policy (education, wealth distribution, and repression). When the state does not exist, economic conditions cause society to associate the state with stability itself, due to the cost of acting otherwise (to include taking the time to become educated, and engage in political activity).
Thus, there is simply no political path to anarchism (by political I specifically do NOT mean statist, I refer to that process of people in a society coming to a consensus through voluntary behavior and consent over what rules govern interaction between them. Anarchism treats this differently, because the market drives a lot of behavior, as opposed to debate and voting, but there is still a political process by which the actors in a society choose to adopt different norms when interacting with each other).
Thus, anarchism is impossible.
Now, I take it back. It is possible, but only in one scenario. True anarchism won't result upon the collapse of the state. It will be the result of society's transcendence beyond the state. As society progresses, becoming more and more educated and experienced, it will need the state less and less. That is, at some point that cost of being educated and providing stability will be less than the cost of repression - and everyone will know it. The state will shrink as pressure is brought to bear against state intervention as participants will know this intervention to be more costly than not. At some point, the state will shrink to nothing. Perhaps it will remain as a curious tradition, much like many old monarchies.
I think that is a scenario under which society will have anarchism. Anarchism will result from society's progress, and therefore is a sort of eschatological system of government. Only after the perfection of society will it be a viable system. And, I am certainly being hyperbolic, but only to make the point.
With all this in mind, the question remains: what is to be done until then? The first conclusion is that anarcho-capitalism is a counterproductive ideology. Again, I take it back some. The ideology must be taught, people must be made aware of the argument against the state, and be taught civilized behavior that transcends the state. Discussions on anarchy-capitalism are incredibly useful, and have not come close to reaching their maximum utility. Indeed, it has only begun.
Politically oriented discussions of anarcho-capitalism miss the point. It is not enough to argue against the state. There is a state, and there is a society which depends on the state. I depend on the state, because it is there and has shut down its alternatives.
We must therefore devise political solutions that benefit from an awareness of the anarchistic ideal, but are practicable. I don't mean solutions that give any credence to the morass of electoral politics. Rather, solutions that acknowledge the present position of the state in society.
For example: compared to the rest of military spending, a defensive nuclear deterrent is a good deal and probably necessary until other nuclear players become convinced that the aggression of the US government has ceased. That trust may take a century. Some agent has to manage that nuclear deterrent. Maybe or maybe not, but a nuclear deterrent is perhaps something that needs to be 'kept' for a while even if we end all aggression through policy.
Also: social insurance. Be it food regulations, unemployment insurance, or social security. People and institutions have planned generations around these things. You can't defensibly pull out the rug from these programs. The fact is society depends on them, even if they aren't the ideal means of solving the problems they purportedly exist for. To get rid of them before society can transition in the least costly way to some alternative is to rob society. If a communist government owned everyone's house, dissolving communism wouldn't justifiably involve auctioning everyone's homes to three big banks.
So, unlike the 'Libertarians', I see anarcho-capitalist idealists as much much more moderate about government reforms. Oh, there would be doozies if 'we' took over, in terms of shuttering the activities of governments the states over. But there would be no intrinsic nativist/populist hatred of different kinds of programs. Big government is not the fault of a few antagonistic demographics, it's just a big darn mess everyone played a part in. The goal is to end the mess, not punish the people who we blame it upon.
Part of this is recognizing that the ideal - anarchy - is not something you can enact. So there's nothing like 'libertarian' policy. It's not like we can adjust the tax rates and make the world right. No, the world stinks and it will for a long time. We need to create a sustainable transition, one that produces the obvious short-term benefits, but leads to the long-term ideals. One that includes immediate justice: stopping wars of aggression, and police statism. And, sure, that can include some tax cuts.
Do you get what I mean? Anyone?
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Here is the problem with being anti-state, and the reason that anarchy is untenable:
I certainly agree that the Federal government exercises extra-constitutional power and authority, but to dismantle it requires having standing in law to do so. In order to have standing, one has to have the proper status. Few realize that the 14th amendment changes their de jure status as a member of the Union States' body politics weilding sovereignty over the entire constitutional system to a de facto subject citizen of congress with no political power or sovereignty whatsoever.
When we unite in lawful de jure status once more, and secure republican freedom for ourselves again outside the control of Congress, we will find that to dismantle our States is folly, achieving only disunity and lawlessness, for there will then remain no body politic to exercise sovereign authority over any law.
Knowing the law is freeing, but eliminating law eliminates Sovereignty for everyone. There is no, and can never be, such a thing as "individual sovereignty" especially if you believe in the NAP. There is, however a big difference between statutory law and common law. In republican freedom we can design the protection of our freedom in any manner we choose. The trick is to get to a State of republican freedom.
The only way to arrive at anarcho-capitalism...
...is to gradually shrink the state until so little remains that the final move into the free society is almost seamless. Thinking you can go direct from the status quo to anarcho-capitalism is extremely naive, and would be a bad idea even if it were possible: you'd end up with chaos, not the free society. The market could not replace all the functions of the state instantaneously, it would take time, and a lot of people would starve to death and kill each other in the interim. Not to mention that people are just not psychologically ready for that kind of freedom yet.
Aside from being the only viable way forward, the gradualist approach is nice in that it allows all of us (Constitutionalists, minarchists, and ancaps) to walk together most of the distance. We can all work together toward achieving Constitutional government. For some of us, that will be the end, for others it will only be a first step, and we can fight about that when the time comes, but the hardest part of the fight will have already been won, by all of us working together against the real enemy.
Why it is so hard to educate people about anarchy...
"I've invented a marvelous machine that can propel a wagon and its passengers at tremendous speed all the way across the city! I call it an internal combustion engine."
"It looks heavy, can one horse pull it?"
"No, no, we don't need horses. My machine supplies all the power."
"If the horse is not pulling it, then is it pushing it?"
"No, my good man, you misunderstand me. No horses"
"We need horses, otherwise what will pull the wagons?"
"My machine does it. Look, here it is."
"I don't see anyplace to attach the harness."
"Without horses, we don't need a harness."
"But without a harness, how will the horse pull it?"
"Sir, please stop and consider. Everything we need is in this machine right here. It is not pulled by a horse"
"Oh, I get it, so it carries the horse too? It looks too small to fit a horse. "
"No, it does not carry the horse at all."
"So the horse walks alongside it?"
"No, it goes much faster than a horse can run."
"So the horse won't be able to keep up? If you do away with the horse, what do you replace it with? A cheetah, perhaps?"
"We don't need any animal. This engine does all the work."
"But if you don't replace the horse, then what will pull your wagon?"
"No animal pulls it."
"So your wagon just stays still? Hey! Look everybody, this man has lost his senses, he is trying to sell us wagons that don't move! Hahahah"
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You forgot that the horse will lose his job (EOM)
Can't be eliminating jobs!
Go home, kook.
But what will your little 'gin go on if there isn't a government to build the roads? Hmm? Can't pull a cart without a road, can you? You see! I have stumped you with my logic! Go home, kook.
BTW did you make that up or is it a quote? Because that is some damn good funny dialogue.
Andrew Napolitano for President 2016!
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Agree 100%
I believe there is a long evolutionary path of education and understanding before we can shake loose the grip of the state. All it takes is the success of capitalist anarchism in one area of the world that can act as a model for the rest to follow.
Anarchy is a Temporary Condition
...situation...state of being, defined as such:
"a state of disorder due to absence or nonrecognition of authority."
Mankind is not, by nature, disorderly...most people crave order in their lives, unless one is anti-social, or a hermit.
...Everything CHANGED !!
Anarchy Is Not Chaos - a poem by David Friedman
Government produces all order.
Under anarchy there is no government.
Therefore anarchy is chaos.
In Washington there isn't any plan
With "feeding David" on page sixty-four;
It must be accidental that the milk man
Leaves a bottle at my door.
It must be accidental that the butcher
Has carcasses arriving at his shop
The very place where, when I need some meat,
I accidentally stop.
My life is chaos turned miraculous;
I speak a word and people understand
Although it must be gibberish since words
Are not produced by governmental plan.
Now law and order, on the other hand
The state provides us for the public good;
That's why there's instant justice on demand
And safety in every neighborhood.
permanent definition
Let me fix that for you:
Anarchy (noun) A state of order due to the absence or nonrecognition of authority.
Premise is wrong
Fuedalism, or any collectivist socioeconomic organization, is vastly less cost effective at a macro level. The more free the market the more efficient. There's a reason feudal societies didn't have the exponential capital growth we see in more liberal societies.
It's true that for the ruling class it's more efficient, but it depends on lies, to tell the prey class they aren't slaves, and guns when they stop believing the lies.
The rest of your commentary is ok. Yes one possibility is slow, if bumpy, recursive balkanization and decentralization.
Existing institutions, some of them, can become market firms. We need police, if vastly fewer in a world without made up 'crimes' of trying to compete in the market, or intoxication. Same with courts. Far fewer lawyers, I'm not sure if the profession would really exist in a free society. Who would subscribe to a legal system that you had to pay more to get a fair shake? Answer, you won't. Honest people will subscribe to the one whose judges are known for equity. Dishonest won't subscribe. If the court system makes a bad blunder, they will lose subscribers. Sure it might be tempting to rule in favor of the rich guy willing to bribe you. But then you lose everyone who isn't rich.
Freedom wins by default. Because yes, as you point out we aren't trying to replace anything.
To paraphrase Thomas Sowell. What do you replace the state with? That's like asking what do you replace cancer with.
The problem is the bad guys are gearing up with the plunder they have stolen. A slow and peaceful dissolution of evil is becoming less and less likely with every bearcat and drone.
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If anyone is curious...
I had to look it up.
Interesting post. I enjoyed it.
Anarchism at this point may be as a big a fantasy as constitutional government. We do know that $36MM in Ron Paul bumper stickers doesn't result even in one less US bullet being shot in the Middle East or one penny less in taxes. We're pretty powerless.
But the conversation needs to remain. The moral argument against violence needs to persist. We need to be sweet to our children and show them the truth.
And Anarchy, Most Likely
..would lead us "astray"...it seems inconceivable that the "fulfillment" of that "fantasy" would ever bring us closer to Constitutional Government.
The flood-gates would be opened.....the Republic destroyed forever..and the "Era of Powerful Men" would ensue.
Case in point:
Is Russia any more "democratic" today?
LOOK at who is running the show....
...Everything CHANGED !!
If you want democracy you haven't been paying attention
And Russia is about as opposite to anarchy as a developed economy can get without collapsing. (though we may find out in the US soon) Russia is an oligarchy, practically an autarchy.
The threat of powerful men is the state. In a free society there are no "powerful men" in that sense because there is no power to seize.
I don't dream of the glory days of the old republic. I dream of freedom.
Where liberty dwells, there is my country - Benjamin Franklin
Simplicity defined
Don't make anarchy so difficult because it is not. The individually personified anarchism is to simply live your life free of the constraints of governments or law. We all do it on a daily basis. Government is a part of our lives because it was forced upon us and into our daily routines. But anarchy is not some political ideology but rather a way of life that is far simpler than many will make it out to be. Try this...
Live your life today as you would live it. Make no observations of laws and authority and conduct yourself in the average, everyday peaceful manner that you usually do. You see your everyday life is anarchy. You don't live your life because it is scripted. You live it one moment at a time. Anarchy recognizes this. Government does not. Government thinks that we need scripts, laws, systems, safety nets and everything else it attempts to provide. But it does so by the people who support government, not those who support anarchy. Those that support anarchy have opted out of getting their hands bloodied on behalf of government force and they stopped paying the beast. If you support government you have blood on your hands and it will never, ever be washed off. You will die guilty as sin because of either your support for the beast or your lack of understanding about how to correct the monopoly on force and misdirection. Anarchy works better than any government can simply because no one need make any extra effort in order to establish a system of order. We already have it. It is called life. Government only manipulate and destroy lives in the name of protecting them. Boy you really want to make anarchy so complicated. Stop thinking about government an you will see how simple anarchy is!
I think I get what you mean...
...but I think you are ignoring/underestimating the fact that the underlying foundation upon which our society has been built is slavery, plain and simple.
There is no justification for enslaving those who do not rely on the current system. We just need to have more of them. Yes, it's a hostile environment in which to build a civilized society on a different foundation---the foundation of voluntarism. But we have the opportunity to do it. Why not?
Read your paragraph again on social "insurance." (What a euphemism!)
People have planned around them? Who's responsibility is that?
I can't defensibly pull out the rug? It would be robbing society?
What of the robbery/slavery upon which these "programs" (another euphemism) exist? How is that defensible? How is it defensible to continue to contribute to them?
I'm with you that, in the realm of politics, waste and warfare and such things can get the priority to cut. This has to do with sound management of the livestock. But I am not livestock.
I wish there was an option on
I wish there was an option on every ballot of "no-confidence". I can't think of a quicker way to undermine the legitimacy of the state.
"In reality, the Constitution itself is incapable of achieving what we would like in limiting government power, no matter how well written."
~ Ron Paul, End the Fed
Abolishing the State = enacting anarcho-capitalism
There are a variety of ways to enact capitalism (shrink the State) without waiting for the rest of the world to catch up:
• A net tax cut at any level
• Privatization of any service (without redirection of funds)
• Localization of control of a service
• Implementation of a Civil Order Pact for public officials
• Implementation of a Constitution that prohibits the State
• Abolition of statutory law (via amendment or new countries)
• Abolition of the Fed (along with reintroduction of free banking)
• De-monopolization of "defense" (Let security companies do their job.)
• Abolish the FCC, DOE, FDA, ...
Read "Instead of Politics (Civilization 101)"
Bump for discussion
Will read and respond later. From what I have read so far it sounds like you have given up on moving people towards ethical and moral behavior. Dangerous indeed.
There is no political path to
There is no political path to anarchy, there is only a personal one.
Plus one...
...and as a consequence, we *can* enact anarchy = voluntarism.
You started out OK
But then you wrote this.
Education and experience has not brought us any closer to anarchism and will not unless anarchism is mandatorily taught in school but that is oxymoronic to the anarchist ideology. I'll go one further and say that "education" has distanced us from anarchy. The state doesn't shrink but they do tend to fall abruptly when they get too top heavy but then again at best you will get a short lived period of partial anarchism before the next government arises.
A new government will always arise and people may look at the old as a curiosity, perhaps, but they will still be under some new government. Anarchy doesn't work for two simple reasons. First you would need complete participation/nonparticipation for an anarchist society to exist. Secondly without the complete participation you would need some form of government to enforce anarchism which again is oxymoronic.
The problem I see with a lot of ideas that look good on paper is that they require some form of mass enlightenment of the human race to one way of thinking which will not happen. You will always have different classes, different incomes, different ideologies, etc...
Anarchism will never work as a viable long term societal norm.
And Anarchy
..is only TEMPORARY, as history has shown.
There are always those who will "use" that "situation" to rise to power.
To fantasize about "living day-to-day" as an "anarchist is simply one big "wet-dream".
...Everything CHANGED !!
Where to start?
Your first claim: complete participation/nonparticipation required.
Your second claim: Government enforcement required.
Different classes, incomes, ideologies?
The first step is to free your mind.
I know people who reject the idea of initiating violence against me. We have an anarchist society now. The question is: Do you personally support the initiation of violence against me personally? If you're voting and participating in other government rituals, paying taxes, and such things, then you do. So you need to free your mind. Then you can become part of our anarchist society.
By the way, mass enlightenment of the human race per se *does* happen. People have a much better understanding of the relation between hygiene and health---en mass. There are very few people unaware of the role germs play in disease, but it was not always that way. It will be that way about the idea of government one day.
Just telling me I'm wrong doesn't make you right.
The fact is that if everyone doesn't agree with the anarchism philosophy then it will not work. Just like communism. They may sound good on paper but they are unobtainable.
If 50% of the population decided to forgo government for personal independence and self rule then in no time at all the other 50% who desire government oversight will impose that government on the anarchists.
You are arguing with me as if I am arguing against anarchism. Whether I agree with anarchism is not the point. I am talking about real world implementation.
Anarchy will never work unless you have almost total acceptance and participation. One percent of the population fighting for central government can thwart any anarchist desires. And we all know that there are way more than that who look to government for their livelihood.
but for you...
just telling me I am wrong---accompanied with false statements---makes you right. That's nice.
The fact is that I HAVE decided to forego government for personal independence and self rule. Time has passed. No one has imposed "government" on me. So your assertion is demonstrably false. Just false.
But I know: you're still right. Anarchy can never work. Keep repeating that to yourself.
BTW, I am not arguing with you. I am simply pointing out that what you are saying is nonsense and demonstrably so.
You live in the USA
and are free from government intrusion? WOW! No sales taxes, no income taxes, no drivers license, property taxes, no automobile registration, no fees and taxes on internet service, no etc... Tell me how.
Just the fees and taxes on internet service alone would fund a substantial government. Yet somehow you are on the internet.
Seriously. Tell me how.
I live very secluded and independent. I rely on myself as much as possible but their is no denying that I am still under the authority of government. And although I am somewhat separated they can still exert that authority at any time they become displeased with me whether I like it or not or whether I recognize their self imposed authority or not.
That is the crux of what I am saying. I am not trying to offend you and am definitely not supporting government dependence.
There is no denying...
...slavery only ends with the slave.
The fact that thugs abuse you so much does not mean that they have authority. Only you can give them authority. When you remove your consent, you will put yourself in a position to reduce or eliminate the abuse.
I pay some sales taxes on some things. I pay less and less sales taxes as I develop my network of fellow anarchists with whom I trade. When all my trading is with them, sales taxes will be over for me.
The other things you mention are similar.
There are ways to extract resources above and beyond those which seem to be extracted without becoming dependent, and without exchanging honest labor for them. Put your mind to it. Put the psychopaths in proper perspective, and the possibilities really open up. They are not authorities. They are criminals. They are enemies.
The crux of what I'm saying is this: They may be able to exert authority upon you at any time. That is *your* choice. They cannot do that with me. They can only kill me.
You seem to be laboring under the assumption that there is education in this country.
Did you miss the part where the government is calling the shots on education? Why would they teach anything that threatens them? Do you assume they WANT to aid thoughtful, intelligent, independent students? I've never seen evidence of that, though I have seen evidence of them re-writing history to suit their agenda.
School in this country is a systematic authoritarian regime programming course, nothing more.
Allowing the government to run the schools was one of the biggest mistakes we made as America. What were we thinking? ;)
Just open the box and see
Perhaps you didn't notice the quotations
around "education". And if you will read my response above then perhaps you will understand what I am saying.
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Posted 2012-06-21
By: Robert Lemos
However, cyber-criminals were not daunted. They quickly moved to compromising the browser, monitoring communications and modifying transactions on the fly and hiding them from the victim's view. Known as a man-in-the-browser attack, the technique allows online thieves to continue to steal money but they had to monitor the system to be able to use the time-dependent passcode before it expired.
"Time is critical," said Kellerman. "The reason that two-factor authentication is successful against hackers is because it's time-dependent and it is something you know. Attackers eliminated the time variable because they can do it in real time."
With the capabilities to automate the transfers using custom modules that can anticipate the target bank's security checks, criminals are now back to the good old days, where money can be transferred automatically and in smaller amounts that may not set off the financial institution's alarms. As the developers continue to improve their code, defenders will need to come up with new ways of slowing down the theft.
"It's about a level of sophistication that is consistently growing and outpacing our defensive mechanisms," said Kellerman. "This is not about one attack or one campaign but about full automation for stuff that used to take days and lots of time."
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Jones: Fans must make a stand
21 Oct 2012 11:17:36
Jones: Fans must make a stand
He added: "It's a football match and we're looking at blaming police and stewards because they're not there. He was a hero, he ran in the crowd, they were slapping him on the back so what do you do about that? It's not one person.
"Do you know what needs to happen? The people that go to the games that are disgusted - and it's going to be hard - they are the ones who should walk out and isolate the people there who are doing it or point out who are doing it.
Leeds boss Warnock believes the law should make a stand to prevent these incidents from happening again.
"Every club has got these fans and for me it's got to start at the very top now," said the former Sheffield United boss. "We know the lad who assaulted him and he's got to go through the courts and they've got to make it detrimental.
"It's all right saying 'go in and get them out', but you've got to be there. It's frightening for stewards - I wouldn't want to be a steward. There shouldn't be any way whatsoever that people should be allowed to run on the field of play.
"Dave said he could have had a weapon and the other good point Dave made at the time was what happened if he (Kirkland) hadn't have got up? He'd made his three subs, what would have happened then? There would have been an absolute riot."
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Huge Tumbling Satellite Expected to Fall to Earth Friday Night, NASA Says
Falling Satellite UARS
The Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) is seen in the grasp of a robotic arm during deployment from the space shuttle in September, 1991. NASA's old research satellite came crashing down through the atmosphere Saturday, Sept. 24, 2011 -- though where exactly may never be known. (AP Photo/NASA)
The old research spacecraft was targeted to crash through the atmosphere sometime Friday night or early Saturday, putting Canada and Africa in the potential crosshairs, although most of the satellite should burn up during re-entry. The United States wasn't entirely out of the woods; the possible strike zone skirted Washington state.
On Friday night, NASA said it expected the satellite to come crashing down between 11:45 p.m. and 12:45 a.m. EDT Saturday. It was going to be passing over the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans at that time, as well as Canada and Africa.
Some 26 pieces of the UARS satellite -- representing 1,200 pounds of heavy metal -- are expected to rain down somewhere. The biggest surviving chunk should be no more than 300 pounds.
Earthlings can take comfort in the fact that no one has ever been hurt by falling space junk -- to anyone's knowledge -- and there has been no serious property damage. NASA put the chances that somebody somewhere on Earth would get hurt at 1-in-3,200. But any one person's odds of being struck were estimated at 1-in-22 trillion, given there are 7 billion people on the planet.
In any case, finders definitely aren't keepers.
Any surviving wreckage belongs to NASA, and it is against the law to keep or sell even the smallest piece. There are no toxic chemicals on board, but sharp edges could be dangerous, so the space agency is warning the public to keep hands off and call police.
* Photos: Space Debris Images & Cleanup Concepts
* Latest News About Space Junk and Orbital Debris
* Worst Space Debris Events of All Time
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Russia's rebellious regions: the price of Chechnya's stability
Victims of kidnappings speak out about the republic's authoritarian regime.
GOITY, Russia — When Raisa Turlueva arrived home one day in October, she saw dozens of police and the body of a man lying dead on the sidewalk. Officers said he was a rebel who had been sheltering in her home. Turlueva said she had no idea who he was.
The police brought Turlueva in for questioning, asking about her son, who they suspected of sheltering the rebel. After they let her go, she arrived home to find a smoldering ruin. Seven months later, her house remains a black carcass and she has not seen her son, Said Salekh, since.
“I believe he’s alive and he’ll come back,” she said. “I believe they’ll let him go.”
Turlueva is not alone with her wrenching tale. Hundreds of mothers across Chechnya say their children have been kidnapped or killed, according to Memorial, a Russian human rights NGO. While the Muslim republic in Russia’s south has emerged from a decade of war, its stability has come at a price — Memorial has documented more than 93 Chechens kidnapped by security forces in 2009, just a small slice of the deaths and disappearances in Chechnya since the Soviet Union dissolved 20 years ago.
A trip through Chechnya and Dagestan
The price of Chechnya’s stability
A new museum reinforces a cult of personality
Islamic militancy brews in Dagestan
Chechnya is now ruled by one of the world’s most ruthless authoritarian leaders, Ramzan Kadyrov, a man personally appointed by Vladimir Putin. The official narrative inside Chechnya is that Kadyrov has brought stability to a republic that was ravaged by two brutal wars following the fall of the Soviet Union, as it sought independence in the spirit of a centuries-long struggle to separate itself from Moscow.
Yet critics ask: Is that stability worth the cost and, more importantly, is it sustainable?
On the surface, Chechnya is in love with Kadyrov. Posters and slogans line the sidewalks and roads in and around Grozny: “Ramzan, thank you for Grozny!” “Ramzan, thank you for working for our future!” “Ramzan, we're proud of you!”
Yet as the human rights abuses spread, so does the fear. Underlying it all is a residual, but very alive, anger with Russia. Stalin's deportation of Chechnya's entire population (then about 500,000) to Kazakhstan in 1944 counts as a recent memory (most returned in 1957, after Stalin's death). The two wars Chechnya fought for independence in the wake of the Soviet Union's collapse invited a crushing response from the Russian military, leaving 300,000 people dead and most of the republic destroyed.
Kadyrov’s father, Akhmat Kadyrov, turned from independence fighter to collaborator and negotiated the end of the war. In peacetime, some of his more radical former comrades in arms continued their fight against his Russian-backed state. They killed Akhmat Kadyrov in a bomb attack in May 2004.
The current Kadyrov also has his share of enemies. Last summer, a rebel targeted the theater in central Grozny that the president was due to attend, killing six police when they blocked his way.
There are some who don't understand why the rebels continue to fight. Alvi Dubaev is the imam of Yandi-Kotar, a southern village on the border with Ingushetia. Dubaev, who studied at Egypt's al-Azaar university, supports Kadyrov wholly, mainly because he's managed to achieve what generations of rebels have not — an Islamic state.
“There's patriotism and then there's recognizing reality,” Dubaev said. “Chechnya is independent from Russia. We are the khozyain [master] of our republic.” | http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/russia/100608/chechnya-human-rights | dclm-gs1-154120001 | false | false | {
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Tottenham goalkeeper Hugo Lloris has admitted that he is finding it "difficult" not being the club's first-choice shot-stopper. revealed on Tuesday that Lloris has demanded clarification on his status within the squad from boss Andre Villas-Boas after being rotated with Brad Friedel since his arrival.
When asked whether that meant he would be seeking a move away from the club at the end of the season if things don't improve and Lloris remained elusive.
The ex-Olympique Lyonnais keeper said: "I'm just a player."
Tottenham will play against north London rivals Arsenal this weekend, with manager Villas-Boas hoping to increase the club's lead in the league over Arsene Wenger's stuttering outfit.
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on June 30, 2011 at 7:08 AM
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By Mark Totten
The once-a-decade event where Michigan politicians pick their voters for the next 10 years is coming to a close.
The winner? Partisan politics.
The losers? The citizens of our state.
There's nothing illegal about what's happened - in fact, the system worked as designed. But that doesn't make it right. And it certainly doesn't mean it has to be this way.
The event is called redistricting: the redrawing of boundaries for congressional districts, as well as state and local legislative seats. Although the U.S. Constitution and federal law play some role in shaping this process, it's largely governed by state law.
In Michigan redistricting is entirely in the hands of partisan politics. The state Legislature agrees to a map and the governor signs off, with the state courts resolving any legal challenges. When all branches of government are in the hands of one party - as they are now and they were in 2001 - there's little to keep partisan interest from winning the day.
This decennial game is obscure and overlooked, but its implications are enormous. Subject to some restraints by state and federal law, legislators have broad license to draw lines that favor their political party and even their own political aspirations. One of the most toxic effects is that legislative districts are drawn to maximize the number of "safe seats" and minimize the number of districts contested between the parties.
We can see that happening right here in Kalamazoo County. Take the 61st state House District, which includes the city of Portage and the townships of Texas, Oshtemo, Kalamazoo, Alamo and Prairie Ronde.
At the beginning of the last decade this district was reliably Republican (think Jack Hoodendyk). Although the district continues to favor Republicans even today, over the past decade the 61st (like the rest of the county) has been trending Democratic and depending on the year could be a contested seat.
So it's no surprise that the new 61st District cuts out the most Democratic portion of the district - Kalamazoo Township - and places it in the 60th District, which primarily includes the city of Kalamazoo. The result? The already safe 60th seat becomes uber-Democratic and the 61st becomes more predictably Republican.
Why care? What's wrong with trying to concentrate as many people in one district on the basis of partisan identity? Well, part of the problem is that this partisan line-drawing tends to leave people in the political center under-represented. But perhaps even more problematic is that it tends to make it more difficult to reach political compromise - so necessary for pragmatic, solutions-oriented governing.
Politicians have more reasons to ignore the concerns of people in their district who affiliate with the opposing party, while being hold-outs for their own. When it comes to democracy, lines matter.
For the last two decades these abuses have been at the hands of Republicans, who held every branch of government. But don't get me wrong - this isn't a problem with one party. If Democrats were in this position of power they'd almost certainly do the same thing.
Moreover, the problem isn't so much conniving politicians (though I'll admit, I still yearn for a leader willing to stand up for people even when doing so is at odds with her own party). Rather, our way of drawing the lines reveals the limits of politics.
Is there a better way? In principle I favor elected officials making these decisions. With terms of two or four years, politicians by design should have the best incentives to be responsive to the people.
But here's the problem: With the rare exception, when it comes to drawing the lines politicians hold out for their party every time. Why? Because we don't hold them accountable to do otherwise. Redistricting, by and large, falls off our list of cares.
Given this predicament, other states have experimented with reform. Last year the governor of Virginia created an Independent Bipartisan Advisory Commission to gather citizen input and propose a map, while leaving the ultimate decision in the hands of the state legislature. Other states have gone further. Colorado, California, and Idaho all have independent citizen commissions with final responsibility for drawing the lines.
When it comes to redistricting reform, Michigan has been on the sidelines. We can do better. Government by the people demands it.
Mark Totten teaches law and ethics at Michigan State University and resides in Oshtemo Township with his wife and two kids. | http://www.mlive.com/opinion/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2011/06/citizens_lose_when_one_party_d.html | dclm-gs1-154320001 | false | false | {
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Today's video games are moving beyond violence and sports. New games provide chances to play middle-east peacemaker or solve problems regarding immigration or food safety. Ian Bogost, creator of these games, discusses why he makes games that go beyond entertainment to education, advocacy and art.
Ian Bogost, founding partner, Persuasive Games; assistant professor, School of Literature, Communication and Culture, Georgia Institute of Technology
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... And We Are Ignoring It
looking from afar rocks on fairway
when was last time this showed to me
i remember those weren't there, why?
they're moving can't believe my eye
why are they not in pond sunbathing
they're all over the place walking
could they be scouting for water
they're telling would be long summer
over population could be culprit
running out of space and food to eat
i have to make note of this in my book
are we in trouble; earth is cooking
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MLB • Colorado's first-round pick in 1995 has made a lasting impact.
Denver • Once the rumor leaked, Bob Gebhard boarded a plane to Knoxville.
For weeks leading into the 1995 MLB draft, the Rockies, and their general manager, were scouting under the assumption Todd Helton would be chosen by the Oakland Athletics at No. 5. The Rockies didn't pick until No. 8.
Their plan was to draft pitching, again, because that's what teams playing at 5,280 feet do.
"Then about a week to 10 days before the draft, [scouting director] Pat Daugherty called me," Gebhard said. "He said, 'You need to go see this Helton kid. I'm hearing he might slide to us in the draft.'"
With Gebhard in the stands, Helton hit a home run that night.
The A's drafted pitching, a right-handed prospect named Ariel Prieto.
The Rockies drafted a first baseman from the University of Tennessee.
"A lot of things went right for us to be able to draft Todd Helton," Gebhard told me.
More than 2,230 games and 2,500 hits later, the central figure of the Rockies' franchise enters the final week of his career. Helton has six games left, three at home.
How did he get here? Where did it start? It could be said that Helton's loyalty to his roots are what allowed him to grow a 17-year career with the same team.
With a left-handed swing linked to Coors Field as closely as altitude, and a Ducks Unlimited sticker in his clubhouse locker, his roots are apparent, daily.
These are his roots with the Rockies.
"Todd was in Asheville, N.C. I went down to watch him in the playoffs," said Paul Egins, a member of the Rockies player development staff at the time. "He hadn't hit a homer yet, and he was concerned about that."
Egins noticed Helton was standing way off the plate, far enough that pitchers weren't pitching him away. They were pitching him right down the pipe.
"They struck him out a couple times that day," Egins said. "After the game, he said, 'Were those strikes?' And I said, 'Yeah, Todd. They were strikes.' He said, 'Really?'
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"Todd didn't like it. I don't think he spent two weeks in left field," Egins said. "Let's just say it wasn't like a duck to water."
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I understand that one of the things that delays giving refugees permission to stay is that ASIO takes a long time deciding if they are a security problem, and if their decision is to not allow them,ASIO do not have to give a reason. Do we know how ASIO develops its profiles? I often think of an Italian friend who as a teenager was required to join a Facist youth group.
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heh, fairies.
Talking to Austrian Miguel this morning:
Me: So, how do you feel about the elections?
Miguel: I'm fucking appalled, what else. As soon as liberals stop believing in fairies they'll have a chance.
this has to do with sarah, im the one she fell in love with and im the one who cant live without her. you were right about her letting me read her journal. I love her so much i cant describe it. so thanks for giving her the advice. ps i dont think i will ever read what happened with her and mark. not my history. what happens between her and i is the only history that i care aoubt and i hope its perfect
This reminds me, the word pixel comes from the word pixellated, which originally meant confused or confounded by pixies.
I should just like to go on record that I was not necessarily denigrating liberals or leftists in my morning talk with Michele, as I am one myself, in many senses of the word(s).
Hmm. I had thought it came from Picture Element.
I guess "liberal" is one of those relative expressions. For the record, the name of the convervative political party in Australia (yes, I know the original article referred to AustrIA) is called "The Liberal Party". So if Joh Ashcroft moved down under and became an Australian citizen, he would vote liberal.
That just cracks me up.
re pixels, the second explanation is totally possible too, what do i know.
re liberals, it's the same in austria, the rightist party was formerly called the liberals, until part split off and started calling itself the "liberals" while being quite conservative in many ways. the rightist party is now known as the "freedom party."
Mig is correct about "pixilated." Which is not, in fact, "pixelated." Dean gets the point for "pixel."
pixel - 1969, coined to describe the photographic elements of a television image, from pix (1932 abbreviation of pictures) + element.
pixie - c.1630, perhaps from Sw. dialect pyske "small fairy," but West County origin suggests ultimate source in Cornwall and thus something Celtic. Earliest references were in pixy-path "bewilderment," lit. "path on which one is led astray by pixies," and pixie-led "lost."
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My DH rant for the day
Posted 09/26/2011
For some weird reason, the bed was in major chaos (which could be from me being groggy and waking up, not making the bed and just throwing the covers off). I could have possibly bumped into the mattress afterwards or even his stupid huge dog could have done it. Weird thing is... there is blood on my side of the bed. Not excessive amounts, just little dots. Its even on my pillows. My cat did sleep with me last night but Im sure she didn't sleep on my pillow. Even if she did, that doesn't explain the blood in the middle of where I lay. We always keep the door shut so there is no way she could have gotten in here and all the dogs were in their cages for the day. I did come home and walk the dogs but still, the door remained closed. The cats were not in here at all today either or they would have whined and couldn't have magically gotten out either way. I was just watching tv with my cats so again, there is no way they were in my room today. Of course Im curious about the blood too but you know what DH says!? "If you weren't pregnant, this would definitely be questionable..." WTF does that mean? So.. this is what I hear "I don't trust you but since your pregnant and disgusting, Im sure you didn't come home and have rough sex with someone.." If I ever for some crazy reason get pregnant again, me and my hormones are hiding for the whole year in a separate place from any man. :/
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Edden Hammons (born 28 Feb 1875[1] Webster County, West Virginia, died 7 September 1955[2] ) was an American fiddler from West Virginia. He was known for his idiosyncratic style, creativity, and the many (often exaggerated) folkloric tales about him.[3]
Edden Hammons was born to Jesse Hammons and Nancy Hicks on 28 February 1875 at Williams River in Webster County, West Virginia. He was the youngest in a family of seven. His three brothers (Paris, Peter, and Cornelius), as well as his father, played the fiddle. Edden took up the fiddle at an early age, playing on a fiddle made out of a gourd that his father made for him. His family was known for its musicians, woodsmen, and hunters.[3]
Edden progressed in his fiddle playing and soon obtained a store-bought fiddle. There are several different stories about this. In one, a friend of Edden's father asked Edden to play him a tune. Edden took out his gourd-fiddle and played for the man. Afterwards, the man was so impressed that he gave Edden his own fiddle. Another story refers to when a renowned fiddler named Bernard "Burn" Hamrick was playing for a local dance. After he finished playing, Edden's father asked Burn if Edden could play a few tunes on his fiddle. Burn agreed to let Edden play his fiddle, and was so discouraged afterwards by Edden's superior ability that he let him keep the fiddle. Whatever the story may have really been, it is sure that Edden received a nicer fiddle that his original one, and started to become well known as a fiddle player in his area.[3]
In his home, Edden was spoiled and spared from chores and work. These qualities would follow him into his adult life. A popular example among the Hammons family of Edden's distaste of work is shortly after his first marriage in 1892. His wife asked Edden to stop playing the fiddle, get a job, and support a family. Edden was quoted as saying "Pon [sic] my honor, I'll lay my fiddle down for no damn woman".[3] The two separated and were legally divorced in 1897. 10 days after the divorce, Edden married his second wife, Elizabeth Shaffer (despite pleas from Elizabeth's family members for her to not marry Edden). The two raised seven children and remained married until Elizabeth's death in 1954.[3]
Edden's family lived somewhat nomadically, moving from one place to another usually twice a year. Edden still rarely worked during these times. He supported his family through hunting, fishing, farming, moonshining and other odd jobs. His daughter, Emma Hammons, recalls that "[h]e whittled axe handles, he played for dances, different things. He picked up money that way. Ginseng, he'd get money that way. It was against the law but he would kill squirrels, turkeys and sell them, or fish - he always had a couple dollars in his pocket somehow".[3]
Edden continued his fiddle playing throughout his adult life. At this point he was regarded as one of the best fiddlers from West Virginia. He won many fiddle contests. People would visit at odd hours just to hear him play, and on some occasions, people would have him play music over the phone while the neighborhood listened in. Other anecdotes appear from this era, such as how Edden would show up somewhere to play music, and would carry his fiddle in a flour sack (with the flour still inside it). His nephew, Currence, recalls when "[Edden] just walked over to the corner and picked up the flour poke and they all got to looking to what he was getting. He pulled that old fiddle out and flour all over it. He dusted it off, blowed it off, you know. Some of them went to laughing and hollering about that flour. 'Upon my honor,' Edden said, 'that's just as good as the best cases every made,' he said, 'that flour makes her play good.'" [3]
On 7 September 1955, Hammons died of coronary thrombosis at Renick in Pocahontas County, West Virginia.[4] His death record cites his occupation as fiddler.[5]
To this day, Edden Hammons is still a very well respected fiddler. He has recorded many solo fiddle tunes on two compilations of his music.
Although occasionally accompanied by his son, James, Hammons typically played alone. Consequently, he was able to play some tunes in odd time signatures, play certain parts as many times as he found fit, and change the tempo at his will without having to worry about throwing off a band. He was also known for playing several variations of the same melody within a tune, adding a lot of ornamentation, and occasionally tagging on a few extra beats to some parts (such as "Big Fancy").
Edden is one of the few, if not the only, sources of many traditional songs that are popular today. These include "Shaking Off the Acorns", "Sandy Boys", "Big Fancy", and "Old Greasy Coat". His influence is still widespread among old-time fiddlers and other musicians within the old-time genre.
In August 1947, Louis Chappell recorded 52 tunes by Edden Hammons. These were released as two separate LPs. The first was "The Edden Hammons Collection, Volume One", which contained 15 of these recordings. Some of these tunes included "Washington's March", "Shaking Off the Acorns", and "Fine Times At Our House".[3] The second release was a two-disc set called "The Edden Hammons Collection, Volume Two", which contained more recorded songs from the same session. This release contained such tunes as "Birdy", "Jake's Got the Bellyache", and "Big Hoedown". Both of these LP's were released in 1984
• 1984 - The Edden Hammons Collection, Volume One. Edden Hammons, West Virginia University Press.
• 1984 - The Edden Hammons Collection, Volume Two. Edden Hammons, West Virginia University Press.
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3. ^ a b c d e f g h Cuthbert, John A. (1984) Edden Hammons. In The Edden Hammons Collection Volume Two (pp. 3-25) [CD Liner Notes]. Morgantown, West Virginia: West Virginia University Press.
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This article is about the mammal. For other uses, see Meerkat (disambiguation).
"Meerkats" redirects here. For the 2008 British film, see The Meerkats.
"Suricata" redirects here. For the intrusion detection system, see Suricata (software).
Meerkat (Suricata suricatta) Tswalu.jpg
Tswalu Kalahari Reserve, South Africa
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Herpestidae
Genus: Suricata
Desmarest, 1804
Species: S. suricatta
Binomial name
Suricata suricatta
(Schreber, 1776)
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Meerkat range
The meerkat or suricate, Suricata suricatta, is a small carnivoran belonging to the mongoose family (Herpestidae). It is the only member of the genus Suricata.[2] Meerkats live in all parts of the Kalahari Desert in Botswana, in much of the Namib Desert in Namibia and southwestern Angola, and in South Africa. A group of meerkats is called a "mob", "gang" or "clan". A meerkat clan often contains about 20 meerkats, but some super-families have 50 or more members. In captivity, meerkats have an average life span of 12–14 years, and about half this in the wild.
The meerkat is a small diurnal herpestid (mongoose) weighing on average about 731 grams (1.612 lb) for males and 720 grams (1.59 lb) for females. Its long slender body and limbs give it a body length of 25 to 35 centimetres (9.8 to 13.8 in) and an added tail length of 17 to 25 centimetres (6.7 to 9.8 in). Its tail is not bushy like many other mongoose species, but is rather long and thin and tapers to a black or reddish colored pointed tip. The meerkat uses its tail to balance when standing upright, as well as for signaling. Its face tapers, coming to a point at the nose, which is brown. The eyes always have black patches around them, and they have small black crescent-shaped ears that can close to exclude soil when digging. Like cats, meerkats have binocular vision, a large peripheral range, depth perception, and eyes on the front of their faces.
Diet and foraging behaviour
Meerkat killing an elephant shrew, as illustrated in Brehm's Life of Animals
Digging for insects, Tswalu Kalahari Reserve, South Africa
Meerkat in Namibia eating a frog
Meerkats are primarily insectivores, but also eat other animals (lizards, snakes, scorpions, spiders, plants, eggs, small mammals, millipedes, centipedes and, more rarely, small birds) and fungi (the desert truffle Kalaharituber pfeilii[3]). Meerkats are immune to certain types of venom, including the very strong venom of the scorpions of the Kalahari Desert, unlike humans.[4] They have no excess body fat stores, so foraging for food is a daily need.
Meerkats forage in a group with one "sentry" on guard watching for predators while the others search for food. Sentry duty is usually approximately an hour long. A meerkat can dig through a quantity of sand equal to its own weight in just seconds.[5] Baby meerkats do not start foraging for food until they are about 1 month old, and do so by following an older member of the group who acts as the pup's tutor.[6] The meerkat standing guard makes peeping sounds when all is well. If the meerkat spots danger, it barks loudly or whistles.
The main animals that prey on meerkats are martial eagles and jackals. Meerkats sometimes die of snakebite in confrontations with snakes (puff adders and Cape cobras), but the snake does not then eat the meerkat.
Like many species, meerkat young learn by observing and mimicking adult behaviour, though adults also engage in active instruction. For example, meerkat adults teach their pups how to eat a venomous scorpion: they will remove the stinger and help the pup learn how to handle the creature.[7]
Meerkat calls may carry specific meanings, with particular calls indicating the type of predator and the urgency of the situation. In addition to alarm calls, meerkats also make panic calls, recruitment calls, and moving calls. They chirrup, trill, growl, or bark, depending on the circumstances.[9] Meerkats make different alarm calls depending upon whether they see an aerial or a terrestrial predator. Moreover, acoustic characteristics of the call will change with the urgency of the potential predatory episode. Therefore, six different predatory alarm calls with six different meanings have been identified: aerial predator with low, medium, and high urgency; and terrestrial predator with low, medium, and high urgency. Meerkats respond differently after hearing a terrestrial predator alarm call than after hearing an aerial predator alarm call. For example, upon hearing a high-urgency terrestrial predator alarm call, meerkats are most likely to seek shelter and scan the area. On the other hand, upon hearing a high-urgency aerial predator alarm call, meerkats are most likely to crouch down. On many occasions under these circumstances, they also look towards the sky.[10]
Meerkat groups
Meerkat Family in Stuttgart Zoo Wilhelma
There are three subspecies of meerkat:[2]
• Suricata suricatta siricata
• Suricata suricatta iona
• Suricata suricatta majoriae
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See also
1. ^ Macdonald, D. & Hoffmann, M. (2008). Suricata suricatta. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 22 March 2009. Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is of least concern.
2. ^ a b Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M., eds. (2005). "Suricata". Mammal Species of the World (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
4. ^ David Attenborough, 2000. Meerkats United
5. ^ "LadyWildLife". LadyWildLife. 2012-11-09. Retrieved 2014-05-24.
6. ^ By Deborah • December 7, 2007 (2007-12-07). "Mighty Masked Meerkat Mobs". Retrieved 2013-11-19. [dead link]
7. ^ Thornton, Alex; McAuliffe, Katherine (14 July 2006). "Teaching in wild meerkats". Science 313 (5784): 227–229. doi:10.1126/science.1128727. PMID 16840701. Retrieved 2007-01-23.
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from Jay Z – Izzo (H.O.V.A.) Lyrics on Genius
There are generally regarded to be 7 Wonders of the World. These are construction projects that were so incredible, that even with modern technology, it seems impossible that they would exist. Jay Z is now the 8th Wonder. How can anyone be as talented as he is?
That’s right, Jay, keep it modest!
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[Intro: Young Jeezy]
If you take a look in my eyes, bet you wouldn't even be surprised
If I'm in this way inside, then we gon' club until the sunrise
[Hook: Young Jeezy]
Top down, day sunny, still got a pocket full of yesterday's money
Everyday rain, snow, sunny, that's why I hustle nonstop I want all the money
All the money, All the money thats why we hustle nonstop we want all the money
All the money, all the money, that's why I hustle nonstop I want all the money
[Verse 1 - Jeezy:]
Shit lookin' good I dunno dawg, niggas talkin' crazy they even know dawg
Yea this shit sound good you gotta show dawg, be the last man standin' I'mma show ya'll
Uh, Yea, need a snow dawg, when that bag come in call it snowfall
And I been movin' halves since three six
Met him at the Walgreens took a three six
Got another play, three o'clock sharp
87 white tee I'm three o'clock sharp
Grind it up til it's longer than a club line
Yea you know I'm stayin' down til the club time
[Verse 2 - 211:]
I want all the money they say I'm a greedy nigga
Neva satisfied my [?] say I'm a needy nigga
I told em money over pussy that's a nonstop
I'm talkin' 24/7 I'm always on the clock
211 in this mother fucker run it
Got a gangbang jacket out, my resume is gutta
I'm from kill california nigga everyday is sunny
Cash money in my pocket, I'm a everyday stunna
The real is back me Young and Drama
Still drunk from last night spendin' yesterdays dollas
Fresh up off the lot my nigga no frontin
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Recommendations for integrating WebDAV and other applications
From: Alan Kent <ajk@mds.rmit.edu.au>
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 09:44:05 +1000
Message-ID: <20010629094405.A18194@io.mds.rmit.edu.au>
I was after any recommendations or experience others have had of the
best way to integrate WebDAV into an application. In particular, we
want to ship a demo application with three distinct functionalities
in the one web server:
* WebDAV interface to a file system of documents that can be edited
* Web based workflow interface for document management (users log on)
* Public anonymous web interface to released documents
I am thinking at present that the paths in the WebDAV folder are not
going to be related to the paths in the public interface. The folder
paths can be set up by users to whatever structure they want.
The final public application paths are determined by the application
logic. So URIs for WebDAV and for the public web interface are not
going to be the same.
One way to avoid collisions with URLs is to prefix the three different
areas with a name
The public access URL is not very nice though (people want to just go
to http://localhost/), so the URI for / might relocate the user down
into /public/...
The real question for this list is, is there any reason against requiring
client applications to use a base URI of http://localhost/webdav/
instead of http://localhost/ ? Are there any clients that assume
WebDAV folders always start from /? Does it create any bad semantics
starting from /webdav?
The other logical alternative strategy I can see is to mount WebDAV from
http://localhost/ and have hidden URIs of /public and /dms where a
GET request on / relocates the user to /public/... DMS users can just
be told to start at /dms in order to bring up the DMS interface.
Is there any *best* thing to do? Or is intensionally left up to developers?
Would any clients break if they had to be given http://localhost/webdav/
instead of http://localhost/?
Thanks as always
Received on Thursday, 28 June 2001 19:44:38 GMT
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Oklahoma lacks a much-needed aerial attack
The Sooners' loss to Texas shows what happens in the modern era when a team can't throw. With no aerial supplement, an offense struggles.
by Berry Tramel Published: October 13, 2013
Landry has moved on, so Stoops is left to figure out what to do in Landry's wake. Stoops already has swapped quarterbacks once; Bell replaced Knight in the first place because Knight's passes weren't finding Sooner hands.
What's next? Try Kendal Thompson? Stick with Bell and hope he plays to his Notre Dame level (22 of 30, 232 yards, two touchdowns)? Go back to Knight? The latter isn't likely, since if ever there was a time to do that, it would have been against Texas, which until reaching the Cotton Bowl had been having a devil of a time tackling a quarterback this season.
I don't know what Stoops will do. I do know that neither he nor Josh Heupel sound overly confident in Bell.
Heupel on the passing game: “We're not hitting any of our deep shots … there were opportunities there a little bit to unload the box that we're not taking advantage of.”
Stoops on the run game: “There were just some things we don't feel so comfortable with in some areas always with Blake.”
What they seemed to be saying is that with Landry Jones, OU had a quarterback who couldn't run but was a big-time thrower, and with Trevor Knight, OU had a quarterback who couldn't throw but was a big-time runner, and with Blake Bell, at least against Texas, OU had a quarterback who did neither.
In Bell's defense, one of his downfield throws was a gorgeous throw into the end zone, but Brennan Clay dropped what would have been a 17-yard touchdown. And we've seen Bell play moderately well against TCU and extremely well against Notre Dame.
So we'll probably see Bell against Kansas on Saturday. But whoever quarterbacks, this much we've learned in 2013. A quality running quarterback is optional. A quality passer is not.
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How should I train my Clefairy?
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A while ago I received a Clefairy over WonderTrade nicknamed hpAtkSdfSpd.
I'm guessing this has something to do with IV/EV training, however I'm not much of an IV/EV trainer.
I'm not sure what I should do. Is there a specific way I should train my Clefairy? (Modest nature)
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Well, It obviously has 31 IVs in HP, Attack(won't really do anything lol), SDef and Speed.
I think you should use a Special Attacking set since it has a Modest Nature.
First, evolve your Clefairy. Then, proceed to use this set.
EV train 252 HP, 4 Defense, and 252 Special Defense.
Clefable @ Leftovers
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 SDef
Nature: Modest
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- Softboiled
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My teacher misplaced one of my homework assignments, and instead
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Okay, I'm using MASM 6.11 for Dos on my IBM pc. I'm not using any extended
register (i.e. eax,ebx,etc...) this is just an intro class. This is the program:
"Write a program which examines a given text and outputs a list of all the
distinct words, and output the words in alphabetical order to the screen. Sample
run: 'The swift dog jumped over the lazy fox'
note that "the" only appears once in the output even though it appears twice in
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Thanks And Regards.
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Access virtual machine with vagrant:
vagrant init gitlab
vagrant up
In the vagrant file:
Vagrant::Config.run do |config|
config.vm.box = "gitlab"
config.vm.network :hostonly, ""
To login to vagrant:
vagrant ssh
To restart and upgrade the Gitlab Web Server:
cp gitlabhq/config/gitlab.yml{.example,}
cp gitlabhq/config/database.yml{.example,}
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The best way to install on Vagrant is with the official cookbook for GitLab, see https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cookbook-gitlab/blob/master/README.md for multiple options.
The old VirtualBox image is deprecated in favor of this.
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Is there a certain way to check which pages on a website use a specific image?
Say I have some image which I don't use on a page anymore, so I'd like to delete it from my server. But I'm not entirely sure if it's being used on other pages, is there a way to check if it's still being shown on other pages?
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Are your pictures hardcoded in the pages or do they come out of a database? – putvande Jul 4 '13 at 17:55
The images are hardcoded in the pages. – Gerb Jul 15 '13 at 12:20
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You can hook your website to google webmaster tools and wait a little bit after a while 404 errors will appear there. This way you can track unused resources and dead ends.
This includes images.
There is a better way if you have direct access to the web server.
Visit every page in your website or let google crawl it. You can later sort the files by date modified and ones which are not modified lately are not used.
You have to make sure you get the images from the pages so I would use a historyless cahceless session.
How to sort the files according to the time stamp in unix?
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I might give this a try. I haven't deleted the images yet, with this method there will be a 'gap' of time where there might be pages that have images that won't show. I guess that is unavoidable? – Gerb Jul 15 '13 at 12:23
@gerb you are 100% correct. – raam86 Jul 15 '13 at 12:31
@Gerb updated my answer with a better solution. This also have no latency – raam86 Jul 15 '13 at 12:41
That worked perfectly for me, thanks! – Gerb Jul 22 '13 at 6:05
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I need to start a service once the phone is unlocked; is there any way to check the phone is in lock state, not screen on/off?
I'd like this to be the same as we do for screen on/off: we register a broadcast receiver. Can we register broadcast receiver for lock/unlock?
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No other event other than below:
Have a Broadcast Reciever for "android.intent.action.SCREEN_ON" and "android.intent.action.SCREEN_OFF".
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How To Make Juice
That's what I always thought, anyway, up until the first time I was in Colombia a couple of years ago. Fresh fruit juice is sold on almost every corner, it's made in front of you while you wait, and it's delicious. Some of the juices I drank were familiar-ish-- guava, pineapple, passion fruit, but fresher, less sweet than the canned stuff sold in the states. Other tasted like what “tropical”flavored candies wish they tasted like, and still others were completely different that any flavor I had had before. I was hooked. I watched my friends make the same juices at home. It's dead easy. All you need is a blender and a strainer, which every Colombian house has. And then, I felt pretty dumb. I'm from California, you know, the land of unending fruits and vegetables. I'm supposed to know how to cook. How did I miss this?
My sister's visit to Colombia confirmed that it was not just me. One of the first things I wanted to do once she arrived was take her to a produce market. She was shocked by the amount of completely unrecognizable fruits, as I was the first time I went. We picked up a bunch of different things and brought them home. It was hot, and I wanted juice. I pulled a couple of passion fruits out of the bag. My sister looked at me.
-Wait, how are you going to make juice from that?
-Blend it with water and sugar, then pour it through a strainer to strain the seeds out.
-Oh. Pause. Why don't we do that in the states?
-I don't know.
Actually, I think we don't do that in the states in part because there exists the concept of “100 % juice”, espoused by Juicyjuice and other makers of juices for kids, as being the only “healthy” juice. To add water to juice would be to adulterate it, to lower its quality, as would adding sugar. Now there are lots of good reasons for people to be wary of “fruit drinks”sold to kids in the states, but food manufacturers trying to cut costs aside, the fact is that fruit juice is mostly water, in one way or another, and nobody would want to drink passion fruit or tamarind juice without sugar. They're too sour. Adding a teaspoon or even a tablespoon of sugar to a glass of juice-- real juice-- is really not a big deal, and it tastes infinitely better-- and is infinitely healthier-- than soda or “fruit drinks”.
So that's it. Here are some tips to ease you into making your own juice:
• Exact proportions for sugar are hard to give because depending on the sweetness of the fruit you're using, you'll need/want more or less sugar. Start on the lower side and add more if necessary.
• Some juices need to be strained after blending and some shouldn't be strained. Fruits like passion fruit and guava that have hard seeds are always strained. Pulpy fruits like mango and guanabana should not as they a. don't need to be and b. will be very difficult to get through the strainer. Berry juices can be strained or not depending on your preference-- in Colombia jugo de mora (berry juice) is always strained, but that's also because the berries are sold frozen with the tops attached, so straining is necessary after blending to remove them. Other fruits have seeds that you have to remove before blending-- fruits like guanabana and cherimoyas have large, smooth seeds that you can pop out with your hands, and tamarind must be soaked beforehand, mushed into pulp, and strained to remove the woody parts.
• Some juices are traditionally made with water and others with milk or a combination thereof. You can do whatever you like, and people do, but the general taste is along the lines of more acidic fruits made with water and thicker, creamier fruits made with milk. For example: passion fruit with water, mango with milk. (Also, if you think about it, very acidic fruits blended with milk will curdle quite quickly, not a quality I normally look for in beverages.)
• Though it's not very traditional, I sometimes like to throw in spices I have lying around. Vanilla pods leftover from another use are great in passion fruit juice, as are a couple of slices of fresh ginger in pineapple and guava juice.
• Latino markets in the states often stock frozen pulp. Make sure it's unsweetened and 100% pulp, and you can use it in the same proportion as fresh fruit.
• Though I give volume proportions below, I normally use the rule of 1 small fruit per cup-- 1 guava, or 1 smallish passionfruit, etc.
In Colombia, my favorite juices are lulo en agua, borojo en leche, and guanabana en leche. Outside of the country, I'm a big fan of tamarind juice made with water and mango juice with milk. I hate to admit it, but the Colombians screwed with my head: lunch without juice now feels incomplete. So I don't know whether I should say I'm sorry, or you're welcome. At any rate the secret's out now: it's your choice whether or not to take the leap.
Fresh Fruit Juice
2 oz. fruit pulp (or 2.5 oz. if you're going to strain out the seeds afterwards)
~1 Tbsp. (.5 oz.) white or unprocessed cane sugar (like Sugar in the Raw)
5 oz. water (preferibly cold), or 2.5 oz. milk and 2.5 oz. water
Blend all ingredients for 15 seconds or until well mixed. If the fruit has seeds you're going to strain out don't worry about breaking them down too finely. Taste for sugar. Pass through a strainer if necessary into a jug. Store in the fridge until ready to serve. If the juice separates and a lot of foam gathers on top, just stir it back into the juice before serving. Serve over ice. Makes 1 cup of juice.
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Jen Thursday, 27 September 2012
In Puerto Rico they use watermelon to sweeten the juice.
MNice Thursday, 19 June 2014
If you happen to be in North America, this is all that you need, and you still get that same good and fresh tasting passion fruit. Its really that simple, click-and-drink.
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Update WEST TEXAS CHUCH,, Crawford acknowledged the records contained no evidence of sexual abuse.
Polygamist sect hearing in Texas descends into farce
Members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, f...
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SAN ANGELO, Texas — A court hearing to decide the fate of the 416 children swept up in a raid on a West Texas polygamist sect descended into farce Thursday, with hundreds of lawyers in two packed buildings shouting objections and the judge struggling to maintain order.
The case — clearly one of the biggest, most convoluted child-custody hearings in U.S. history — presented an extraordinary spectacle: big-city lawyers in suits and mothers in 19th-century, pioneer-style dresses, all packed into a courtroom and a nearby auditorium connected by video.
At issue was an attempt by the state of Texas to strip the parents of custody and place the children in foster homes because of evidence they were being physically and sexually abused by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, a renegade Mormon splinter group suspected of forcing underage girls into marriage with older men.
As many feared, the proceedings turned into something of a circus — and a painfully slow one.
By midafternoon only two witnesses had testified, and both only to lay the foundation for documents to be admitted. One witness, a state trooper, was cross-examined by dozens of attorneys, each of them asking the same question on behalf of a child or parent.
As the afternoon dragged on, no decisions had been made on the fate of any of the youngsters.
The hearing disintegrated quickly into a barrage of shouted objections and attempts to file motions, with lawyers for the children objecting to objections made by the parents' attorneys. When the judge sustained an objection to the prolonged questioning the state trooper, the lawyers cheered.
But she added to the chaos as well.
Little evidence had been admitted by midafternoon. The first attempt to admit evidence resulted in an hourlong recess while all the lawyers examined it. The rest of the morning was spent in arguments about whether to admit the medical records of three girls, two 17-year-olds and one 18-year-old.
Department of Public Safety Sgt. Danny Crawford testified to DPS's discovery of a church bishop's records taken from a safe at the ranch that listed about 38 families, some of them polygamous and some that included wives 16 or 17 years old. But under repeated cross-examination, Crawford acknowledged the records contained no evidence of sexual abuse.
State officials asked the judge for permission to conduct genetic testing on the children and adults because of difficulty sorting out the sect's tangled family relationships and matching youngsters with their parents. The judge did not immediately rule.
Amid the shouting and chaos among the lawyers, who came from around Texas to represent the children and parents free of charge, dozens of mothers sat timidly in their long cotton dresses, long underwear even in the spring heat, and braided upswept hair.
Outside, where TV satellite trucks lined the street in front of the courthouse's columned facade, a man who said he was an FLDS father waved a photo of himself surrounded by his four children, ranging from a baby to a child of about 9.
Authorities raided their compound April 3 in the nearby town of Eldorado — a 1,700-acre ranch with a blindingly white limestone temple and log cabin-style houses — and began collecting documents and disk drives that might provide evidence of underage girls being married to adults.
The children, who are being kept in a domed coliseum in San Angelo, range in age from 6 months to 17 years. Roughly 100 of them are under 4.
FLDS members deny children were abused and say the state is persecuting them for their faith.
The judge must weigh the allegations of abuse and also decide whether it is in the children's best interest to be placed into mainstream society after they have been told all their lives that the outside world is hostile and immoral.
If the judge gives the state permanent custody of the children, the Texas child services agency will face the enormous task of finding suitable homes. It will also have to decipher brother-sister relationships so that it can try to preserve them.
Over the past two weeks, the agency has relied on volunteers to help feed the children, do their laundry and provide crafts and games for them.
Gov. Rick Perry would not say how much the case is costing the state, but said: "Does the state of Texas have the resources? Absolutely we do."
The sect came to West Texas in 2003, relocating some members from the church's traditional home along the Utah-Arizona state line. Its prophet and spiritual leader, Warren Jeffs, is in prison for forcing an underage girl into marriage in Utah.
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The Ruling
Brooke Adams highlights some of the victims harmed by this shotgun approach to the case.
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The Ruling
The children stay with the state. By now you know that Tom Green County Judge Barbara Walther came to that conclusion today after two long days of testimony about whether the FLDS culture is inherently abusive to children.
She said yes.
Now, to get their children back parents will, at a minimum, have to submit DNA samples, undergo psychiatric evaluations and agree to safety plans focused on . . . well, who knows at this point. A CPS investigator could come up with no proposals for what parents might do to be reunited with their children.
Still, attorneys made spirited arguments for returning the children, speaking of them by age, name or color. The state divided the FLDS children and young mothers into color-coded groups: blue, pink, orange, brown, grey, depending on their ages and circumstances. Several young mothers were allowed to leave the Colesium or Wells Fargo Pavilion to come to court today; they wore identification wrist bands.
The mothers took the stand this evening and said they would do anything to be reunited with their children: move off the ranch, agree to temporary restraining orders prohibiting contact with their husbands, counseling.
They agreed, you could say, to become single mothers and cut themselves off from their friends, family and faith.
Now, Texas Child Protective Services is apparently arranging to send their 416 children all over the state and even across the country.
Those in the courtroom did not have to wait long for the judge to make her decision -- the recess lasted just five minutes, though I'm sure Walther has been thinking it over since signing the order two weeks ago that led to the children's removal.
Media were assigned to the last row in the Courtroom A, which meant that to see and hear the proceedings I had to stand up. All the rows ahead of me were filled with FLDS members. During the wait, a number of men sat with bowed heads and seemed to be praying.
A young couple sat directly in front of me. The woman, Lori Jessop, 25, is staying in the shelter at the Wells Fargo Pavilion with her three children. She was brought to court today to testify about her marriage and willingness to protect her children.
Her husband is 27. When she arrived at court, she found him among the crowd and slipped into the bench beside him. I realized they had not seen each other in two weeks.
He put his arm around her, held her close through hours of testimony. Her rubbed her back at one point. They whispered back and forth. She is an EMT and told the judge that she would take their children -- ages 4 to 11 months -- and move off the ranch and go to work if she could stay with them.
After the judge issued her ruling, they stood and stared at one another, a look of shock on their faces.
I have no idea what becomes of her now, whether the state will let her continue to stay with their children. I suppose not.
We heard other complicated stories today. One attorney said she represented a 17-year-old girl who is a Canadian citizen and was visiting her grandmother who lives at the ranch when the raid occurred. Now she is a ward of the state of Texas.
One attorney said he represents a 5-year-old boy who has Down's syndrome and other serious medical problems. What about him? he asked the cult expert who testified for the state. Wouldn't he be better off with his mother?
Linda Musser, 56, said she was in Lubbock where her 29-year-old daughter is hospitalized and undergoing dialysis and treatment for other medical problems. Musser's 13-year-old son was taken away. Musser, who was in a monogamous marriage but is now legally divorced, told the judge she would move off the ranch, perhaps to Lubbock to be near her daughter, if that is what it would take to get her son returned. Her older sons would support her.
The judge decided otherwise, for now.
LOL the state psychiatrist
"He also said that many of the adults at the Yearning For Zion Ranch are loving parents and that the boys seemed emotionally healthy when he interacted with them.
But he says the sect's belief system "is abusive. The culture is very authoritarian."
This is the same guy
who also said that the ranch had many great things going for its members. That their little society had many positives.
But, despite those, and despite any evidence of abuse, these children have been kidnapped based on the POSSIBILITY that they MAY be abused some time, maybe sorta perhaps.
Whose unpopular religion is next???? Yours???? Mine???
Talk about a huge cluster f*ck, pardon the pun.
"after they have been told all their lives that the outside world is hostile and immoral."
Now, what have these kids seen in this court that will make them think otherwise?
My letter to my Senators and Congressman
I was wondering what your position is on the current Child Protective
Services activity in ElDorado, TX.
Imagine if you will that some anonymous person called in and accused
one of your neighbors of child abuse.
Now imagine that when Child Protective services showed up at your
neighbor's house, they did so with armored vehicles and machine guns.
Now imagine that because you live in the same neighborhood and attend
the same church as your neighbor, CPS took your kids and all the other
kids in your subdivision.
This is what has happened in ElDorado.
Not only were the parents denied due process and had their children
taken due to an accusation against a neighbor, but their 4th Amendment
right to protection against unlawful search, and their 1st Amendment right
to freedom of religeon were violated.
Someone with an understanding of our Constitution needs to speak out
agains this and stand up for these people, no matter how unpopular their
religeon is politically. They need a champion. Please let it be you.
I never thought I would see something like this in America. This is
the type of thing that happened in Nazi Germany. This is not what our
country stands for ..... or is it?
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Thomas Jefferson, 1791
Excellent, Mike
Great letter!
Bumpity-Bump! Petition to Texas Authorities
Sign the petition, please. http://www.thepetitionsite.com/2/free-the-innocent-flds
It warms my heart to see so many people actually care.
Did you know?
Two of every three children in foster care in Texas are on psychotropic (mind altering) drugs, including toddlers. One doctor's whole practice is built around prescribing these meds to foster children. Scary! (and who do you suppose pays for that doctor and for the drugs? you, of course!)
Check out this news report from NBC:
Once can only assume this will be the fate that awaits hundreds of FLDS kids who are in state custody.
my 2 cents....
When thinking about this 2 things come to mind....the first is that if they have all the children in custody why can't they locate the girl who made the accusations by now? I mean she should either be willing to talk or totally guilt ridden and ready to confess.
The second thing is....I have yet to see any comment by Mitt Romney about all this. I mean he's a Mormon for crying out loud....if anyone is entitled to an opinion on this I would think it would be the man who was just running for President and is a Mormon. Whether he defends or blasts it....funny how he doesn't seem to care one bit...
One wonders if they knew they were going to do this and told Mitt to step down so it wouldn't get even more news coverage....it would be hard to paint Mitt as acceptable if we were trying to villianize those nasty Mormons.....
I agree with a previous post....it's for the land and nothing else.
Which means any one of us is vulnerable if we're in their way.
"funny how he doesn't seem to care"
Slick Willard's lack of concern for the Travesty in Texas is perfectly consistent with his arrogant and dismissive behavior towards those less fortunate than him. Do you not recall his heartless treatment of the gentleman in the wheel chair who asked if a President Romney would send him to prison in violation of the Tenth Amendment for daring to treat his condition with medicinal marijuana?
Sic Semper Tyrannis!
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"I can't imagine anything more awful than polygamy." - Willard R
"I can't imagine anything more awful than polygamy." - Willard Romney on 60 Minutes
Considering his own grandparents were polygamists in Mexico in the early 1900s, and he could say such an awful thing when asked about them, it does not surprise me how he is not responding to this event. He probably believes the State is doing the right thing.
Willard always looks visibly uncomfortable any time he has to be in the presence of "real people". The man has avoided "real people" his entire life, so he is entirely out of his element when he has to mingle with those whose net worths are less than $400 million, apparently.
He has no clue what real Americans' challenges, hopes, fears, and concerns are. He hasn't a frickin' clue because he's never had to worry about deciding whether to pay the electric or the heat this month. He's never had to figure out how to make $120 buy a month's worth of groceries. He's never had to pay for gas with the few dollars in change he could find in his seat cushions. He's never had to wonder how he can afford to send his children to college, or even just whether or not his kids could get new shoes for school each fall. He hasn't a frickin' clue that groceries are up 17% over last year right now. He's never had to worry about bullets whizzing past his kids' heads in high school.
The man is entirely out of touch with real Americans, most of whom could not afford the mandatory health insurance scheme he cooked up, as they are balancing all of the above financial stresses and more.
I signed it and am sending
I signed it and am sending it to all my meetup members and friends and family....
Thank you.
It's a small effort but considering there is little we can do right now, we should try to stand with these people however we can. Thank you.
The children would have been better off
if the police came and took the television sets out of the house. These people are not hurting anyone, leave them be. The children will not be better off in the hands of the state, if that is not already obvious by the turmoil the state has already put them through. Keep up the great work.
The R3volution requires action, not observation!!!!
Actually the FLDS don't generally own televisions
some do, but they are generally advised against television. I also generally advise against television, too.
what's tragic is that I have talked to people who basically thought it was just a travesty of justice that the FLDS children are not exposed to television. As though without TV they are somehow worse off!
OMG that takes the cake!
Poor kids. Not getting their daily four hours of mind-numbing trash!
Fun, educational projects to inspire young minds...
Actually, the FLDS avoid cake, too
Just kidding. They like homemade cake.
But they do avoid processed foods instead choosing to prepare all of their meals from scratch. So when the state took all 416 of these children into custody, they quickly found that the kids would not eat the junk food (processed store-bought foods) served to them. So what did they have to do? They actually had to go buy fruits and vegetables, raw milk (such as Ron Paul supports), and other fresh foods! Oh the humanity! The horrors! Children not fed twinkies and cookies and sugared cereal! OMG, the abuse they have to endure!
Wow! So here's a group that feeds their children wholesome, natural foods; and does not use the one-eyed zombie as a babysitter for hours on end every day! NOW, DO YOU SEE THE THREAT THESE PEOPLE ARE TO THE STATE? They refuse to eat crap food like the genetically-engineered stuff off the shelf, loaded with high fructose corn syrup, preservatives, etc., and they refuse to fill their children's mind with crap entertainment/propaganda.
yes, the count is in the
yes, the count is in the upper right hand side @ 718
The petition doesn't
show the total number who signed - unless I missed it somewhere.
In the upper right corner of the first page
there is a thermometer that shows the number of signatures and the goal. right now it is at 718 out of 1000.
thank you thank you thank you
we are trying to get 1,000 signatures. If everyone on DP right now signed it, we'd be all set.
You don't have to like polygamy. You don't have to like Mormonism. You don't have to agree with young marriages. You don't have to agree to anything other than the fact that people have inalienable rights which have been violated here. PLEASE take 30 seconds and sign the petition.
"You don't have to like Mormonism."
I don't. For that matter, I also don't like Christianity. Or Judaism. Or Islam. But it makes no difference because theism is not the issue. The issue is liberty, and Texas' grotesque violation of human rights.
Of COURSE I signed the petition, a couple of days ago.
It's too close to the 19th of April, a date of shame in recent Texas hero, where, on the fiftieth anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, the Wicked Witch of Waco authorized the immolation of eighty human beings for trivial gun regulation violations.
Molon Labe!
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I know, I saw your signature. Thank you very much.
There is very little we can do to help at this point, sadly. So signing the petition is at least a symbolic act of defiance that will at least be made known to the authorities in Texas.
I would be just as all over this if it were anyone else's rights being violated. That is the issue here.
The rest is just a sideshow designed to distract the easily-confused masses from the real issues at hand. If the Texas CPS cared about teenagers getting pregnant, they could round up more pregnant teens at any high school in Texas on any given day than they could from the YFZ Ranch.
is there anything we could
is there anything we could do to pressure our own state gov. to 'condemn' what TX has done? At the same time we would be telling our own states we will not tolerate this police state action. Just a thought.
Trust in God, but tie your camel tight.
Not as if I suspected otherwise, but
"But under repeated cross-examination, Crawford acknowledged the records contained no evidence of sexual abuse."
WTF is this thing even continuing for then???????
Is their 1700 acre ranch prime
real estate for the TTC?
Watch this interview with the mothers on Larry King. King kept asking rude questions!
What King, and many people don't realize,
is that these ladies, much like ladies just a generation ago in mainstream society, don't discuss sexual matters with complete strangers. They are a private, very modest people. They do not feel comfortable discussing what they believe to be private behavior on TV or with a stranger at all, even if not on TV. Any lady in America prior to the 1960's would have slapped any strange man who asked questions about her sexually.
The other questions Larry was asking, about their husbands. The reason they were reluctant to answer those questions is because any missteps there could incriminate themselves by admitting to bigamy. So, better to just avoid the husband questions altogether. Do not assume for one second that those ladies were being intentionally rude or not understanding Larry. I am sure that Mr. Parker, their lawyer, told them not to say a single word on TV about their husbands.
Well, as luck would have it, today the State actually said that they would start bigamy charges against anyone who admitted on TV about their marriage.
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Lihua Huang | Mathematics Major | Southwestern College | lianne-hlh@hotmail.com
-INTRODUCTION- -Method- Lasers and Optics Outreach
This novel world is abundant with technology continuously
evolving toward becoming more convenient, universally adaptable, and Optimization In the lab, the primary laser in use is a 308 nm Xenon In the lab our high school
ubiquitous. Furthermore, it is important not only to explore new ways Optimization is an essential process in several business, Chloride XeCl pulsed laser. Because this laser functions in the student was Angie Lopez,
of developing these technologies to be more compact and cost efficient, management, and engineering applications to make systems that Ultra Violet range of the electromagnetic spectrum, the beam a young lady from St.
but also it is important to explore the combination of all the facets of function to the fullest of their capacity. During this internship, we is invisible to human eyes and can cause tissue damage if Mary’s Academy. Who, by
these advancements to find an optimized state. optimized the function of a circulator, a three-port device used to exposed. For this reason, caution must be used at all times in the end of her internship
The Space and Naval Warfare Systems (SPAWAR), San Diego, simultaneously send and receive signals through a single antenna. the lab, especially in processes such as ablation, where a created a small hologram,
more locally known as SSC-Pacific, works to promote innovations that The objective is to create a circulator with maximum isolation material is superheated into a molten substance and small assembled a computer, set
aid the United States Navy and Department of Defense (primarily in (separation of signal levels) and minimum insertion (loss of signal up a laser communication
particles are ejected off the surface. We use this process to
the area of communication). power over the frequency band.) system, and learned the
form particles in the micro level with a spherical shape so that
In the Advanced Technology Branch at SSC-Pacific, projects are Multi-objective Optimization refers we can couple light around them. Below are ablated samples fundamentals of waves,
geared toward optimizing processes, the use of fiber optic optics, and chemistry.
to a set of acceptable trade-off optimal of silicon seen using an scanning electron microscope (SEM).
communication, and the development of technology in the micro and
nano level with the use of lasers.
Mentorship and outreach is very
solutions called a Pareto front. A
solution belongs to the Pareto set if there
After running the GAM
much a part of the mission at is no other solution that has a lower and PAL methods four times
SPAWAR because for these value. Minimal points can be found with based on the 6 local minimal
innovations to continue in , optimization methods, such as the Goal points of a random 100 points,
it is extremely important Attainment Method (GAM) and the we found 40 Pareto minimal
for the next generation to Point and Line Method (PAL). points, chose one point, and
be inspire to lead in the We estimated the Pareto point found out the matrix that
years to come. During this for multipart transformers represents the turns ratios of
internship we had the opportunity to matching our 81 MHz circulator. that circulator.
explore the projects in progress at SPAWAR, such as The transformers are After the spheres are fabricated
circulator optimization and coupling light around parameterized by the 9-element in the laser lab, light can be
turns ratios. The turns ratios are In regards to the laser, unfortunately, the gases
particles, to co- mentor high school interns, and to help coupled around the sphere
represented by a 3x3 matrix, and used to generate the laser were consumed near the end
organize outreach events. In this way, we were able because the internal reflection of
the ratio of the number of turns of the internship and we could not fabricate more
to experience the full cycle of how technology is the surface on the sphere can
affects isolation and insertion.. micro spheres. However, we were able to etch the
developed, improved, and passed on. bend the light wave to propagate
optical fiber and create a set-up that will ideally be
around the sphere as opposed to
Process able to couple light around the spheres after they are
-GOALS- the expected result of it passing.
♦ Develop a Pareto front tracker for circulators using
multi- objective optimization methods.
A challenging factor is being
able to chemically etch the optical -Conclusion-
♦ Learn how to use Matlab and utilize it fibers using hydrofluoric acid As mathematicians and engineers we were not only
for optimization close enough to the fibers core, able to learn basic fundamentals such as critical thinking
♦ Use laser to manufacture Silicon micro-spheres where the light is propagating, so and concept adaptability, but also we were able to learn
♦ Etch fiber with Hydrofluoric Acid that light can be lost to couple processes used in the industry. Through becoming
♦ Couple light around micro spheres around the microsphere. familiar with software like Matlab and creating set-ups
♦Help to put together a two-day such as the ones described for coupling light around a
This process can be used for
workshop on Conservation of Energy micro-sphere, we gained invaluable training for research
many applications such as optical
♦ Mentor high school interns to and observation in our future careers. Furthermore, the
filters, fabricating Raman micro-
grasp main concepts behind the connections made in the industry level and exposure to
lasers, optical switching,
workings of these procedures other projects in the center helped in becoming more
rotational detections, and several
aware of the areas of study open to specific majors.
others that we may and may have
not yet discovered.
First and foremost, we want to thank the National
Science Foundation, the LIPP Family Foundation,
Process and SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific for hosting us
1. Get the circulator: Hurdsman circulator of 81 MHz. and the means for our internship. Moreover, we
2. Generate lots of suboptimal points in the performance image. 1. Fabricate silicon micro-spheres through laser ablation
would like to thank our mentors and directors, Dr.
2. Use SEM to categorize particles by shape and size
3. Select minimal elements of the performance image. James Rohr, Ashley Nekoui, Ayax Ramirez, Sarah
3. Chemically etch optical fiber to use to couple light
4. Apply the goal-attainment method (GAM) using each Lauff, Dr. Jeff Allen, Dr. Ryan Lu, Christopher
around the spheres. Huyhn, the Advance Technology Branch, Angeline
pre-image of the minimal elements as a starting point.
4. Create a feasible set-up to couple light around spheres Yang, as well as Southwestern College MESA
5. Apply the Point and Line Test (PAL).
4. Apply this technology to improve other processes Center Director Dr. Raga Bakhiet and City College
6. Repeat the methods until getting a Pareto front.
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Is Orlicky’s MRP relevant today?
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Carol Ptak and Chad Smith are the co-author of the new Orlicky’s Material Requirements
Planning 3/E. A fully revised and updated edition of the
landmark work on material requirements planning
(MRP), Orlicky's Material Requirements Planning, Third
Edition focuses on the new rules required to effectively
support a manufacturing operation using MRP systems
in the twenty-first century. This authoritative resource
offers proven solutions that help you gain the
competitive edge through strategic lead time
reductions, substantial reductions in total inventory
investment, and significant increases in service levels. This is an indispensable tool for
manufacturing practitioners and anyone preparing for CPIM certification.
Carol has written several books on MRP, ERP, Lean and Theory of
Constraints. She is the Past President of APICS International and
former Vice President and global industry executive for manufacturing
and distribution industries at PeopleSoft. Chad co-founded
Constraints Management Group in 1997 after working under the
tutelage of Dr. Eli Goldratt for several years. Constraints Management
Group specializes in demand driven supply chain and manufacturing
solutions for a variety of industries. Clients have included Boeing,
Unilever, IBM, LeTourneau Technologies and Roseburg Forest
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Joe Dager: Welcome, everyone. This is Joe Dager, the host of the Business901 podcast.
With me today is Carol Ptak and Chad Smith. They have founded the Demand Driven
Institute, an organization devoted to the proliferation and further development of
demand-driven strategies and tactics in industry. They are also the co-authors of "Orlicky's
Material Requirements Planning" book, the third edition. Carol and Chad, could you tell me
how the book is going so far?
Chad Smith: So far, it's been great. We've gotten some fantastic reviews from some of
the folks that were in MRP right from the very beginning, so the formal planning crowd. We
got some really great feedback from the Lean and Six Sigma crowd, and even the Theory
of Constraints crowd. When you get all those people agreeing on something, it's usually
pretty special. So we're excited about getting it out there, letting more people know that
it's available. In fact, Amazon just made it a Kindle version here, I think, in the last week
or two.
Now it's just a matter of getting the word out and mobilizing some of the people that have
already read it and to get them to give us reviews on Amazon. But so far, very promising.
Joe: Orlicky wrote the book. It's been a long time ago -- I think you said like 36 years. Is
it still relevant? I mean, that seems like ancient history.
Carol Ptak: That's the thing that's the most interesting is today, in the hyper-competitive
times that we have, "Orlicky's MRP" is more relevant than ever. Think about it: back in the
day when he wrote it, the big worry was, "How do I get what I need, how much do I need,
and when do I need it?" Before that we could afford to keep some of everything around all
the time. Then we really got into this whole area of we were capacity-constrained. And now
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we find ourselves in this whole new world that we've never seen before, where
manufacturing companies around the world have excess capacity, and now the shift comes
back to material again: "How do I have what I need where I need it?"
Because the problem that we face is that the customer's no longer willing to wait, and so
this whole idea of "How do I get the right material in the right place at the right time?" is
even more critical than it ever was before, but now that first question has changed. It's
now not just how much and when, but it's where: "Where do I position that inventory so
that I get the best response to the marketplace?"
Joe: Are we still basing everything on some type of forecast? If that's always uncertain,
aren't we always going to be wrong, no matter what we do?
Chad: Absolutely. You're correct, Joe. As long as we continue to try to outguess what is a
more variable and volatile set of circumstances, we are going to be in trouble. And I think
that's one of the things that we've identified as something that dramatically needs to
change in the formal planning community in moving forward. Companies have to find a
way to align their working capital and their assets and their resources as close to actual
demand as possible. I think a lot of people think that by forecasting better they are getting
ahead of things, that they are priming the pump, so to speak, that they're taking care of
their long-lead-time items, when in fact they're really just pushing their resources and
their activities farther away from the market.
We've been trained and we've been conditioned, by big software, by academia, to try to
attack a symptom, and that is get better at forecasting, rather than attack the real issue,
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which is, how do we actually position materials and inventory closer to the market and
then take signals based upon the real-time replenishment of those key positions?
How do we take signals and drive activity and synchronization, not only through our
organization but through the supply chain?
Joe: Would it be fair, then, to say that you're kind of building a flatter supply chain?
Carol: It's not really a flatter supply chain, because when I think of a flatter supply chain,
I think about what's happened in the Lean community, where they believe that the way to
get more accuracy in their forecasts and to be responsive is they flatten the bills of
materials, which meant that now I go and I have everything on the same level of the build
going into the final end product. Which is OK, and it works really well if you've got a
company that is very, very reliable, with demand that's really reliable, that the next one
looks like that last one and that's all great. And to me, when I think about a flatter supply
chain that would work the same way, if I had a supply chain that always looked the same
way that always demanded the same thing.
But the fact that it's not flatter, it's actually more responsive. Because when I think of how
most people describe a supply chain, they do describe a supply chain as linear. And in all
the years I've been out there, I've never seen a linear supply chain, where I've got a
company that has a customer and a suppler and a supplier's supplier and a customer's
customer, until you finally get to the customer's customer's customer and the supplier's
supplier's supplier. That's a linear supply chain, and I haven't ever seen one of those.
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To me, supply chains are almost web-like. That's why we put that graphic on the cover of
this book. Somebody said, "Where did you get this graphic from?" And I said, "Well, that's
what's in my head, is what a supply chain looks like."
They said, "Ooh, that's a real scary place." It's web-like. It's got nodes. It looks like a
fishing net, but in three dimensions, with all these little things going on. I don't buy from a
single supplier. I don't sell to a single customer.
So it's not about flattening the supply chain as it is being able to think of it like a spider's
web, being able to sense that vibration in the web, so that that spider can get out there
and grab its prey and eat. That's really what a supply chain is all about.
The book and the work that Chad and I have been doing is getting that supply chain to be
higher ability to sense and adapt. I hesitate to use the word "reactive" because I don't
want to be reactive. I want to be able to sense and adapt to what's going on in the
marketplace rather than just reacting to what's going on, because when I just react, I can
make some very poor decisions.
As Chad said, I'm looking at inventory in a whole new light. Inventory's on our balance
sheet as an asset. Why it hasn't been looked at before, saying, "Hey, that asset should
yield a certain return on that investment," before, it needs to be now, because we're all
being crunched for this investment that's tied up in those dollars of inventory. So it's how,
in that position of the supply chain, I can sense and adapt to the market so that my
inventory investment's giving me my best return.
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Chad: I think you're hitting on one of the critical differences, or critical changes, that
we're proposing for the new formal planning logic for the 21st century, that the point of
diminishing returns has been reached. The idea that we're going to spend tons of money,
tons of time, tons of energy on trying to be able to guess better. What we know today is
that forecast accuracy is actually declining, and that's happening despite the proliferation
of all these advanced forecasting algorithms.
Well, why? It's very easy to draw the connection, that the world is a totally different place.
The supply chain is more complex, the product structures are more complex, and the
customers are much more intolerant than they've ever been before.
Instead of trying to optimize an old approach that really isn't returning anything for us,
we've got to completely change the way that we define what demand really is. MRP is a
calculator, right? It doesn't care what you call demand.
If you give it demand that's a problem, then it will create problems for you. We've got to
give it a different type of demand signal, and that demand signal has to be all about what
is actually being consumed at strategic points in the supply chain.
Joe: When you talk about strategic points, can you define or elaborate on that a for me?
Chad: Sure, that's the key here is what we've come up with, with what we call
demand-driven MRP, or DDMRP, it's well blueprinted out in the book, through about 150
pages and well over 100 graphics. It's based upon five concepts. The very first concept, or
the very first component of what DDMRP is, is something called strategic inventory
positioning. Just think about today. If you're a planner in the supply chain, or a buyer
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even, you come to work and you're trying to answer two questions, all the time: how much
and when?
You're trying to answer a quantity and timing. We think there's a fundamental mistake in
approaching it just right then and there. What companies are going to have to do is they're
going to have to back up a minute and answer what I think is the primary question of
inventory, and that is, where should we place the inventory? Where, in our supply chain or
in our manufacturing process, should we place inventory positions so that we can dampen
variability, compress lead times, and better leverage our working capital?
It's not a simple answer. It takes kind of a cross-functional team to answer those
questions. The questions that you have to really ask in order to properly answer where are
things like you have to know what the customer tolerance times are. You have to know
what the market potential lead time is. That's just simply what's the lead time, if you could
offer it, that the market would reward you with more business.
You have to take into account the variable rate of demand and supply. You have to also
take into account the product structure, the shared child components across parent items.
Finally, you also have to consider if there's any key operational areas that need to be
protected in order to dampen variability or prop up lead times.
There's a lot of analysis and thinking and intuition, and there is a process to figure out
where in the bill of material, where in the manufacturing operation, where in the supply
chain you should hold inventory. The best thing is, when you find those places, it's a
win-win for both sides of the fence, so to speak -- so, in other words, the people that take
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from that inventory position and the people that deliver to that inventory position. If those
positions are placed properly and managed properly, both sides win.
Joe: When you're talking about the strategic position of this, are we doing something
different from the operational level, or are we just positioning material differently?
Chad: I think it's a little bit of both. I think, if you look at the way that we're taught to
place stock positions, typically stock positions are really only held at the finished-item level
and the raw-material-item level. In fact, it's kind of a no-no, or it's at least accepted
doctrine, that you don't stock at the intermediate-component level.
Carol: Think about it, because you think about the general perception is, what has been
taught in the past, is that I've got total control of that because it's inside my four walls, so
it would be not only not advisable but you'd be crazy to stock something that's halfway in
between. We always said, "Well, safety stocks to guard against variability of supply or
demand." We never thought about stocking inventory somewhere in that central point.
Chad: The idea is, when you do that, you are decoupling points, points where we can stop
the cascading effect of variability. We can create much better visibility, and we can actually
even create much better schedule stability when it comes to resource schedules. If you go
back to the '80s, you're going to hear all kinds of things around something called
nervousness in MRP. Everybody was so concerned with the impact of variability on the
demand and supply signals as the bill of material was exploded, thus created order-release
signals, supply-order signals.
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Then came along the idea of APS, where we tried to account for every minute of our
resources manufacturing time. We had another level of nervousness, and these two things
just kind of compound each other.
What we're really trying to do here with DDMRP is allow the product structure to really
work for us, rather than against us. It's a blend of independence and dependence that
people, I think, really need to explore a little bit, grasp, and they'll see how elegant it
really is, and how really effective it is, too. It just requires some changes to the traditional
way that MRP has looked at generating supply-order signals in a bill of material.
Joe: Are you opposing the other methodologies, I mean, or are you embracing Lean and
the different types of methodologies out there that have been real prevalent in supply
chain recently?
Chad: First of all, we owe Lean a huge debt of gratitude to getting some critical elements
in front of industry. One thing that I think is very important is the Lean crowd, I think,
unfairly gets branded as anti-technology. I think that that's unfair because, up until now,
technology hasn't worked for Lean very well. If you look at the basic rules of MRP and how
it works, it doesn't work well for Lean. If you look at the Toyota Production System, even
the critical points in the Toyota Production System about technology, I think, Liker's book,
I think it's point eight.
It says, "Use only thoroughly tested and proven technological methods for your people and
processes." Well, up until now, there haven't been thoroughly tested or proven
technological processes.
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So it's forced the Lean community, it's forced the TOC community back into manual
systems. And those manual systems are breaking down. They're too intensive. And for
larger corporations, you really lose a lot of visibility across an enterprise. In fact, for larger
companies, Joe, the idea of enterprise Lean really doesn't exist. And why? It's because we
have limitations with technology.
Now, what Carol and I are doing here is we're saying, look. Let's not throw the baby out
with the bath water. Let's not just throw out the promise of technology and jump all the
way back to manual re-order point systems. Let's figure out how we have to change the
formal planning logic to create new rules that then foster new tools that both the formal
planning crowd and the Lean crowd can embrace.
And so far, we've heard really good feedback from both sides of the fence here that says,
"Yeah, this seems to solve the things that we need to see" and from the Lean side, it also
seems to be right in line and actually even facilitate their objectives.
Joe: Can you give me a couple of the ideas that the Lean people have liked about it, or
liked about the book?
Carol: Well, I have heard from a couple of Lean guys, because it's -- the reality is, like
Chad said, Lean and the Lean implementation and the Kaizen books worked really well in
either really small companies or as a pilot in a very large company. Now, the issue has
always been how do you get it across the corporation? How do get it so that you can get a
multi-billion dollar company to be able to integrate and do Lean across the enterprise.
Because what a lot of companies will do with Lean is they'll say, "Well, you've got to flatten
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the bills and materials. You're going to have kanbans all over the shop floor, and that
works great provided the next one in line is exactly what the last one in line was.
Now, if you happen to be producing red widgets and all of a sudden, about every 11th one,
you have somebody that wants blue widgets, you've got to let that supplier know that
paint from red to blue, lead time away that they need the blue ones.
So what the DDMRP approach has said is that it enables, it really enables the capability for
both the Lean and the other pull techniques like Drum-Buffer-Rope to have the material
available. As you look at all these kaizen events, the big issue that they always run into is,
"Well, if only we always had our material available, then we could do all this."
What ends up happening is one of the big non-value-added activities that the Lean people
find themselves fighting all the time is not that there's too much inventory. It's just that
there's too little inventory, but it's having the right amount of inventory in the right place
at the right time.
That's where the DDMRP approach has been such a godsend for them is that at very
complex, complicated, integrated functions across very large companies, is having the right
material in the right place at the right time -- not too soon, not too late.
That's really where we're really seeing the big difference with the Lean crowd is that where
some of the other techniques that have come out work really great in a pilot or they work
really great in small companies, what I really have been overwhelmed by is the number of
very large companies that have jumped on the boat for DDMRP.
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Chad: You want to be very, very careful, here, and say, we don't to convey the message
that Lean is not working, because Lean will work effectively in certain environments. It's
these larger product structure environments and larger, maybe more vertically integrated
entities where there's a problem, where there's a need for a wider net to be cast in terms
of visibility. We know this. The answer is not to have inventory everywhere, and the
answer is not to have inventory anywhere. It's got to be somewhere in between, in a very
complex product structure environment, if you make Kanbans everywhere, you have too
much inventory everywhere. At some point, the people say, we've got just way too much
working capital built up.
Now, if you remove that entire inventory, you get killed on lead time performance. So the
really unique thing about DDMRP is it allows you to find the right places in complex product
structures and networks to stock and to manage around those areas, and it does it in a
very Lean friendly way, with high visibility and real time priority status.
Joe: One of my complaints is always about -- let's say a Lean supply chain -- is the first
thing I hear about from someone. They always say, "Well, you bring the control point
inside." Does DDP allow you to get that control point of the system closer to the customer?
Chad: Absolutely. I mean, the whole design is place positions or place de-coupled
positions in the spots that really matter. One of the things and one of the places that they
really matters is where it touches the customer. The problem in maybe today's supply
chain is if you just place a stock position at the finished skid level and you don't back it up
in operations with good stocking practices, the amount of working capital that you have to
have to have that position maintained is ridiculous. So it kind of works on itself.
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Imagine these tiers of inventory positions in the right places at the right time. Not
everywhere, but in strategic areas that really de-couple and compress the lead times. So, if
it takes a lot less time to replenish a position, then that position needs to have a lot less
inventory to cover demand over -- and spikes -- over that period of time.
Joe: What are the strategic positions? Is it because it influences so many other strategic
positions? Is that how you rate it?
Chad: Absolutely. A common component, a shared child component is very important in
DDMRP, but not all of them. You can't just go right where a user ports and stick picking all
the shared child components, because in reality, there are typically just a few shared child
components that really matter. They're the components that fall on the longest
unprotected sequences in the bills and material. So those people that just go out and say,
"Well, let's just stock all shared child components," well, you probably, maybe running a
little bit too rich in terms of the inventory. You're not getting money back for some of
you're not getting lead time back for some of that inventory investment on some of those
shared children.
Carol: It really is about finding your leverage point in your supply chain. As Archimedes
said, if I can find a lever and the leverage point, I can move the world. In this way, it's if I
can find that shared component and I understand my holistic supply chain, I can move a
whole supply chain. So it minimizes the inventory, but yet, at the same time, moves that
entire supply chain.
Joe: Is this all based on technology? I mean, is this just all new technology out there and
I plug a software package in and it works?
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Carol: Sorry, Joe, for laughing. Coming out of the software industry, I watched so many
software companies and their ads say all you have to do is just buy our software and all
will be right with the world, and that's just so ludicrous.
Chad: Remember, any software is just a tool. And what is software? Software is the
ability to just reinforce routine, right? So, we got to back up and say, "Where does
software really come from?" Well, software is a way to enact certain rules. "Well, where do
those rules come from?" Policies and vision and things like that. So what Carol and I did is
we went right back to square one and said, "Wait a minute. Let's go back to Joe Orlicky
and let's first answer the question, 'Is Joe Orlicky's vision still relevant today?'"
As Carol said before, absolutely, it is. In fact, it's probably more relevant than it ever has
been." You know, supply chains are still islands of MRP connected to each other. If we want
more agile supply chains, well, we'd better get more agile forms of MRP, and not just at
the individual level, but at the collective level, as well.
Then we said, "OK, well, if the vision is still relevant, if the vision is still good -- maybe
even more relevant -- what are the rules then that need to change, given the changing
circumstances in the 21st century?" OK, well, so we were able to define the rules that get
us in trouble, the currently, the conventional forms of MRP and the rules associated with
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Then we were able to also come up with the new rules or amended rules to adapt to this
new set of global circumstances and only then should people be talking about technology.
If you get the rules right, then the tools are going to be OK.
It's when industry really gets into trouble when they start developing tools and then try to
backfill the rules and the vision after that. In, unfortunately, I think many companies have
learned that lesson the hard way when they've selected an ERP package. They've let the
ERP application dealer construct their business rules and vision more than they
Carol: Well, and in fact, Joe Orlicky's first book, the first edition of this book came out
before the age of commercially available software. Back in Joe's day, you had to specify
your rules first. All the software was written in-house, and then you implemented it. That's
why I always get sort of a chuckle now out of people today that complain about
implementing it. I sort of feel old when I say, "Oh, back in the old days, we had to specify
the rules first, then we wrote the software, then we implemented it. So you're already at
step three.
What Chad and I believe is that the DDMRP book is in the same position that Joe's original
book was, is that the body of knowledge is there. The whole last half of the book actually
puts into the public domain the specifications on how to build a DDMRP system. And that's
how we specifically wrote it that way. It is very, very specific. It's got basically a whole
specification in that second half of the book.
Joe: So the new book is really a how-to book.
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Carol: Oh, yeah. A smart software company picking that up, looking at that, could say,
"Hmm. Here's our future in our lap."
Chad: Carol and I think that that's going to happen. Immediately, no, because I think
that in many cases, the big ERP companies have really -- are blind to the problem. Why?
They don't have to use it on a daily basis. The people that know the problem are the
people -- they are on the front lines -- of the planners, the buyers, the materials
managers. They get the problem. You know how we know they get the problem? Is
because most of them are using some form of work around tool, like a spreadsheet or an
Access to enact rules or enact, get visibility that they can't get out of their modern ERP
product with their kind of old MRP module embedded in it.
Joe: I was surprised to see that you talked about visibility and collaboration as a very
important ingredient of all this.
Chad: Of course, I think one of the big holes -- go back to when Joe and his cadre were
specking out MRP and building MRP systems from the ground up. This idea of collaboration,
real time visibility, the Internet -- it just didn't exist. I mean, from their perception, they
had this giant calculator that could calculate faster than anybody could ever dream of. So
what did they do? They focused on the planning side. That's why we got "material
requirements planning." We never really built in any execution. DDMRP we try to carefully
separate what planning is versus execution. And very simply, planning is the process of
generating needed supply orders. All right? And in execution, in DDMRP execution, that's
the process of managing open supply orders. And priorities change all the time, especially
in this more volatile world.
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So there has to be a carefully detailed blueprint for how to execute today, and you've got
to have rules. You've got to have different types of alerts. You've got to have routines and
processes to account for changes that will happen, inevitably and how that comes back
around to effect planning as well.
Joe: In a typical MRP system that someone has right now, is it easy to make a change?
Carol: To get that MRP system to do Demand Driven MRP?
Joe: Yes.
Carol: That would be like asking a leopard to change its spots. Just functionally, the whole
underlayment of how that system works is all based on inventory. If you peel the tree
back, as Chad talked a little bit about earlier, advanced planning and scheduling
systems -- we could do those, because we had ERP systems. We could do ERP, because we
had MRP, too, manufacturing resource planning. But you do MRP2 because it had closed
loop MRP. We could do that because we had MRP. We could do that because we
closed-loop MRP. We could do that because we had MRP. We could do that because we had
BOMP processors and DBOMP processors.
When you peel it all the way back to the middle of the entire infrastructure, it's all about
inventory. The reality of what we have to shift to is that the center of it has to be about
demand. Technological side of it, if you will, has to be focused on the demand side.
Now, does that mean that everybody has to rip out their MRP systems? Absolutely not. The
data comes over and the planning that happens in the DDMRP system, because what's at
the core of this new tree, if you will, if you think of the old systems, were trees that
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continued to grow and evolve, because we were able to move from a BOMP processor to a
DBOMP processor because computers got faster.
We could go from DBOMP to a full MRP system because we now had 8K of memory. I
mean, think of that: 8K with the first MRP systems. We could go from MRP to closed-loop
because we had more computer power.
That tree has continued to grow by adding rings. The reality of where we're at today is that
that tree is rotten to the core, because at the core it's all about inventory. DDMRP is what's
at the core is all about demand, and it's how do I start to grow this new tree based on the
center of demand and being able to sense and adapt to what's going on in the
Now, it doesn't I have to pull out of the old system. There's a great amount of information
that is hidden in that system that pulls over, that the analysis is done to say, first, where
do I put that inventory, because I want my whole system to be able to sense and adapt to
those changes in the marketplace.
Chad: There are some subtle nuances between the different ERP products out there and
their respective MRP modules. Some will have some elements of DDMRP that can be
accomplished. The problem is in being able to put the whole package together. DDMRP is
not just something that you go, "Well, I like a little bit of this and a little bit of that, and I'll
do some of that." Really, you've got to put the rules together to make the kind of huge
impact that DDMRP has made in the early adopters.
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The early adopters, the performance that they're reporting is staggering, relative to using
the traditional tactics. They get those results because they're doing all of the components
I think that there's going to be a lot of smart people out there that read the book, that go
through the blueprint, and they're going to be able to get some wins immediately by doing
some of these tactics, even if it's kind of offline.
What we really need to do is they need to get wins, and then they need to demand better.
OK? Quite frankly, they're the customer. They need to demand change. They need to
demand better systems. And they also need to demand of their software provider to make
fundamental overhauls of code that really, in some cases, hasn't been touched in 35 years.
The customer should be able to demand that. And the problem today is its very difficult for
the planner or for the buyer to demand that kind of change, to even articulate the
magnitude of the problem, and then the subsequent direction.
That's how we've tried to lay that all out. In the book, we present the past of MRP, what
MRP is today, why it's breaking down, what the effects are of it today, and then what the
blueprint is for the future.
Joe: How did it evolve into this? Can you just give me, really, a brief history? Because I'm
sitting here saying, "OK, this makes sense. This is good." But the idea just didn't pop up. It
evolved from somewhere, didn't it?
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Carol: Well, it's sort of a funny story, how the whole thing came about. Chad and I have
known each other for years. Actually, I'm the old one on the team, so I've sort of watched
Chad grow up. He and his former company developed this really cool product. I was
teaching at the university at the time, and he brought it to me and he said, "This is what
we got. We think it's really cool."
I looked at it and I said, "Do you realize what you have there?" He says, "Yes, we think it's
this." Then I go, "Well, it could be that, but what you've also done is that you have solved
a problem that we've been facing in the MRP, material-planning area for about the last 50
years." Chad looked at me and went, "Why's that a problem?"
Chad doesn't come out of the material-planning side. Chad grew up in the Theory of
Constraints side. I grew up in the material-planning side. But I was so trapped in "this is
how we always did things" that I understood the problem real well, but I would have never
devised a solution.
Chad came up with this incredibly innovative solution, but didn't realize that what he'd
solved was an entirely different problem than what he thought he'd solved. So it's sort of
like at 3M, when they invented Post-It notes? They were going for something else, but
what they invented was this incredible adhesive that would come off and on as you needed
What Chad and his team came up with was the direction of a solution and the nuances of a
solution that solved problems that we've been facing for 50 years.
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Chad: Our biggest challenge, when Carol and I sat in that room and kind of noodled it
over for a couple hours, was it became apparent that in moving this thing further, what we
were going to have to do is go back to square one and really, really research and
understand and articulate the magnitude of the problem. And I think that that's one of the
reasons why Carol, in an earlier talk with you, Joe, alluded to a time when she was at the
APICS International Conference in, I believe, Kansas City, and there was a
standing-room-only crowd to speak on a particular topic, and it was like the precursor to
We knew that we were on to something because people kept telling us, "You're hitting the
problem. This is my life. You've nailed the problem." That got us very excited, because
introducing the world or people to something new, to a new solution, the key starts with
getting them to agree with you on the problem. Once you get all sides to agree on what
the problem really is, the effects that it has on you and them, then the door opens for
them to agree on what the solution is.
So that's where we're at now. We believe we've articulated the problem well enough, for
most people that live in the planning world, the continuous-improvement world, the
operational world, to say, "Yeah, this makes a lot of sense."
Now it's time for us to bring that solution to the world and say, "OK, if this is the problem,
then now here's the road to the solution." And it's not an insurmountable task. It is going
to require some rules to change. And I guess that shouldn't be a surprise to anybody. If
something is fundamentally broken, then it's going to require a little bit of effort to change
some of the rules.
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Carol: In answer to your question, it was a classic example of how one plus one equals
three. It's something that neither of us would have been able to do separately, but
together, it was really very complementary. As Chad said, I understood the problem. He
had a direction of the solution. It's taken time, as we've really noodled through and spent
many, many hours on this and supported by research, because so many times we stepped
back and said, "Are we missing something? Is this really right?"
As Chad said, we have been absolutely overwhelmed by the acceptance in the
marketplace, from the first APICS magazine that published one of the earliest white papers
that they ran under the title called "Brilliant Vision" as the title story of the magazine. We
sat back and we went, "Whoa, maybe we got something here"--to the conference, to the
initial reviews on Amazon on this book.
We think we're on to something here. It's really been a great collaboration. You never
develop anything by yourself. It always takes a team. This is a good case here.
Chad: When McGraw-Hill approached us, came to us and offered us the opportunity to
revise the Orlicky text... The Orlicky text, when Joe wrote that book, he says, in the book,
there were 700 companies that were doing MRP or had committed to doing MRP at the
time. That's 1975. If you think about the magnitude, the effect of what that book had on
the industrialized world, it's staggering. And to be able to come back and rewrite that book
and really go back to the vision that Joe had and say, "OK, now, the vision, how does that
translate in today's circumstances?" and get the opportunity to lay that blueprint out, it's
just been an absolutely phenomenal experience.
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Joe: The regular supply-chain people, of course, should read the book. Who else should
maybe read this book?
Chad: In my opinion, I think anybody that's interested in planning, working-capital
reduction. The book is 536 pages, so it's not light reading by any stretch of the
Carol: At least with the Kindle version now, it's a little lighter.
Chad: I think the controllers, I think the CFOs of the world are going to want to take a
look at this, too, or at least certain sections of it, because it has huge implications on
working capital and how to use working capital properly, and how you can actually hurt
yourself through all the well-intentioned efforts of working-capital reduction unless you do
it in the right way. I think that the Lean professional, I think that the Six Sigma
professional, I think that the Theory of Constraints professional is going to be acutely
interested in this. I think the S&OP crowd should take a look at this. I think it represents a
very good bridge between the S&OP process and the on-the-floor tactics in scheduling that
needs to occur on a daily basis.
But once again, it is 29 chapters. It's 536 pages. It's one of those things that you'll have to
digest there a little bit. But there's going to be parts of that book that appeal to many,
many different parts of the organization, maybe even sales. Because one of the things that
we talk about is it's very critical to know, to get the market's pulse on what lead time or
acceptable lead times are. That's really a really key input into the DDMRP equation.
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Carol: Yeah. I'd just summarize it as, anybody that is anywhere involved with a
manufacturing company that wants to be competitive now and into the future.
Joe: I read the sales and marketing part, the other belief I have, and read certain other
chapters of it. I can't say I read it cover to cover. It is very well-written. It was very easy
to understand the different points you were trying to get across, so I compliment you on
Chad: Thank you.
Joe: But the one thing that I believe is marketing's role is changing so much within
industry right now, and one of their requirements is bringing that pulse of that customer
more directly into them four walls. I mean, that's one of their primary missions right now.
Carol: That's why we were so thrilled to highlight the sales and operations planning
chapter that's in there. If you noticed, that chapter was written very different than the rest
of the book, because it was written by Dick Ling himself. Dick is the father of sales and
operations planning. I mean, it would be like having Joe Orlicky still around talking about
MRP. Dick is the guy that coined the term "sales and operations planning." He and Andy
Coldrick have done some incredible new stuff in S&OP, and they'd never published it.
Dick is a friend of mine from the APICS days, and I called him up and we felt that it was
very, very important to include sales and operations planning and that whole idea of
marketing back to the customer and that customer's voice. I reached out to Dick to include
some of the S&OP stuff, and he said, "Carol, Andy and I have had this huge breakthrough."
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He sent me a couple white papers that they had written, and then I asked him, I said,
"Would you write a chapter for this book?"
Chad and I were so honored to include that chapter in this book, because we just think it's
such a necessary condition. But rather than trying to re-voice the man, the giant, that we
were standing on his shoulders, it was the man himself wrote it. So that chapter does have
an entirely different voice, because it was written by Richard Ling.
Joe: You mentioned APICS here. You're going to be speaking there. Could you tell me
when that conference is?
Carol: In late October, the APICS International Conference is coming to Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, on October 23rd through the 25th. And Chad and I are going to be speaking
on DDMRP on the 23rd, on Sunday, and doing a book signing after that. So we're very
excited to be bringing the APICS material back to APICS.
We think this is a great opportunity for APICS to stand up and take a leadership position,
once again, like they did in the '70s with their MRP crusade that made APICS the largest
professional society in the United States.
Joe: Chad and Carol, I'd like to thank you very much. This podcast will be available on the
Business901 blog site and also the Business901 iTunes store. So, thanks again.
Chad: Thanks, Joe.
Carol: Thank you very much. Bye now.
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Get them while they’re young
An experiment with national consequences
See article
Readers' comments
Paul Marks in reply to supamark
The "positive effect" fades by the time the child has left school - that is the point I was making.
Not that a young child does not show any improvement from "Head Start" - but that by the time the child has left school (is not a child anymore) there is no difference between those who had "Head Start" and those that did not.
Rob S in reply to WXSWIAF
I read the executive summary of the book, WXS, and found that the focus was on the characterization of the problem. There were suggestions made as how to ameliorate the problems, but I saw no evidence presented that the approaches proposed here would be any more successful than HeadStart was.
The authors did suggest that charter schools had a positive impact, but that approach is clearly unacceptable:
1. It does not create a pre-school bureaucracy.
2. It weakens the power of the public school establishment.
3.It spends less money, not more.
We have to keep our priorities straight.
Rob S in reply to supamark
I note (again) that you neglect to spell out the long term improvements in education performance. And why so shy?
The stated purpose of HeadStart (and the program promoted here) is to reduce the learning gap between disadvantaged children and their peers.
Does the "Final Thoughts" on the page you refer to (not "executive summary") state that this was accomplished? No, it does not. The real "Overall Summary" states the opposite, on page iv-v. The authors found some positive social impact (and some negative results) but no significant long term improvements in education.
More grasping at straws. The lobbyists for the education industry are as persistent as any other lobby group and will say anything to protect the financial interests of their clients.
supamark in reply to Rob S
Dude, there are multiple links in the story to the information.
Also, in the final thoughts section of the HHS study you posted it says, "The study shows that providing access to Head Start led to improvements in the quality of the early childhood settings and programs children experienced. On nearly every measure of quality traditionally used in early childhood research, the Head Start group had more positive experiences than those in the control group."
I starting to think you suffer from cognitive dissonance...
Rob S in reply to Dialectic18
Ha ha ha ha
The contorted efforts to explain away and ignore unpleasant data have now reached the point of total absurdity.
Dialectic provides us with a parody of the education establishment. I rest my case.
Rob S in reply to Dialectic18
No, I did not forget it, I ignored it as irrelevant. Head Start was never established to "have a positive impact on children’s preschool experiences" or have a "positive impacts on several aspects of children’s school readiness during their time in the program." or have the claimed impact on 3 and 4 year old children.
Head Start was advertized as a tool to reduce the gap observed in school year children. That gap was not reduced. The program failed to meet its stated objective.
I ask the question of those of you who are so determined to ignore the results of this study as to why you want to persist? Is there anything in the article that refers to the failures of the Headstart program and how they will be remedied? All that is said is that there are some right wing conspiracy, completely neglecting the negative data.
Given that you, the writer of this article and the promoters of this scheme want to push ahead, neglecting past failures, I can only conclude that this activity is driven by its only identifiable success - the success in increasing the size of our already bloated education system - more classes, more teachers, more administrators.
It would be interesting to see an audit of this program. How many of those employed will actually teach in the classroom. My guess is that it will be about 50%, with those outside of the classroom having the higher salaries.
Rob S in reply to Omricon
The research to date on pre-school education shows it had no significant long term impact. You are over-generalizing other research carried out on other situations. This discussion is specifically about pre-school education.
"Some people are so stuck in their ideology that they are incapable of admitting that they were wrong. "
It is better to base decisions on data than ideological principles.
Rob S in reply to supamark
And don't confuse hypothesis with theory. Deming's theories were backed up by rigorous statistical analysis and by experience. It DID work for many cases.
The concept of early learning is a hypothesis. There is, as yet, no significant data to demonstrate that it works. All we have are explanations as to why it hasn't worked.
Rob S in reply to supamark
"(FYI, oriental refers to things, not people)"
Is that some recent PC ruling, supamark? Hard to keep up. Perhaps you need to provide us with a link to this update. Dictionaries (also out of date) refer to "Orientals" as people from the Orient.
So much for irrelevant quibbling. Can we get to the point?
Orientals/Asians I know associate the relatively poor performance of "American" students (they identify later generation Orientals as "American") with a lack of supervision by their parents. To them, it almost always has the desired results, lame excuses by the losers ignored.
Rob S in reply to Melissia
A strange conclusion from a simple assertion that the need for day-care (claimed by the poster I responded to) could be met by hiring people to provide day care.
And, coincidently, a wrong conclusion.
Rob S
I wonder if the promoters of this program have ever heard of the "Hawthorne Effect". Education innovations always seem to work when tried out by a highly motivated team working under careful supervision, in small numbers. But when these innovations are expanded for use by a large system, the purported advantages somehow fade away. Head Start, like this program had pilot studies that showed its value.
Rob S in reply to TexasJ
Affluent two income families spend their money in many ways to flaunt their wealth. Does any of this spending have a positive impact on the education of their children? I would say none of them do.
In Silicon Valley, such parents are considered a joke by single-income Oriental families, with children who dominate the classrooms.
Rob S in reply to Dialectic18
Only in the minds of liberals such as Dialectic would the LACK of improvement in education outcomes be rejected as an inadequate test of the value of a program. Instead, he changes the subject from the poor performance of past efforts in pre-school education to a rant against right wingers.
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0.033685 | <urn:uuid:76406b59-1a92-4bb4-a691-2e8baaa3fb57> | en | 0.979876 | WHILE rival suitors circle Crédit Lyonnais in France, its past is catching up with it in America. Jeffrey Isaacs, an assistant United States attorney in Los Angeles, has started long-awaited grand-jury hearings to indict the bank for fraud in connection with its purchase in 1991-93 of Executive Life, an American insurance company. Several witnesses have been called and more will appear this month and next. An indictment is expected early next year.
After Executive Life went bust in 1991, insurance regulators chose a rescue package put together by Crédit Lyonnais. As part of the deal, the bank arranged for a new insurance company, Aurora, to take over Executive Life's insurance contracts. Regulators were told that a consortium set up to own and manage Aurora would be independent of Crédit Lyonnais, as both federal and state laws required. However, the bank had confidential agreements to buy back shares in Aurora from consortium members, who were acting as fronts for the bank.
As Crédit Lyonnais was then owned by the French state, Mr Isaacs has, in effect, been seeking the indictment of a foreign government ever since announcing his plans in May 2001. French diplomats and politicians have been lobbying in Washington for a settlement. They have argued that the crime was victimless, perpetrated by a few bad apples, long since departed.
It is not clear why Mr Isaacs has been given the go-ahead now. However, the clamour to indict those responsible for frauds at Enron and WorldCom may have made it increasingly difficult to let Crédit Lyonnais off the hook. An indictment may be a formality, but a trial is not. Before any indictment is made public, the French are likely to mount a final push in Washington to see off a criminal case. These hearings will weaken their hand, however. Several Crédit Lyonnais managers, past and present, may not have a happy new year. | http://www.economist.com/node/1483189/recommend | dclm-gs1-156290001 | false | false | {
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• Kyoto seems to have reduced domestic emissions (in signatory nations) a little and increased the carbon content of imports a lot. (Vox)
• If there's anything we can learn from the experience of the American automakers it's that once a reputation for quality is lost, it takes a long time to get it back. Toyota, take note. (Cheap Talk)
• A resounding rebuke to those trying to rehabilitate President Bush's economic policies. (Jon Chait)
• Anti-theft lunch bags. Yuck. (Marginal Revolution)
• The least surprising headline of all time: China rejects US currency complaints. Do people have no sense of how this stuff works? (New York Times)
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Former New Orleans Mayor Nagin to appeal bribery conviction
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, who led the city during Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and was sentenced last week to 10 years in prison in a corruption case, filed a notice on Tuesday that he will appeal his conviction on bribery and other charges.
The appeal will include both the verdict and the sentence, the notice said, and will be considered by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Nagin, a Democrat, is due to turn himself in to begin serving his sentence on Sept 8. He was sentenced last week to 10 years in federal prison after being convicted by a jury in February on 20 criminal counts that included bribery, wire fraud, conspiracy, money laundering and tax evasion.
U.S. District Judge Helen Ginger Berrigan handed Nagin a shorter prison term than that recommended under federal sentencing guidelines and sought by prosecutors, citing his devotion to family, commitment to helping his city and her belief that he was not a ringleader in the corruption that occurred.
During the 10-day trial, prosecutors portrayed Nagin as a mayor on the take, granting favors for bribes that included tons of free granite delivered to a kitchen countertop company he ran with his sons.
Nagin was thrust into the spotlight in 2005 when Katrina overwhelmed levees and flooded 80 percent of the city, killing 1,500 people and causing some $80 billion in damage.
Nagin's appeal will likely be complicated by the defense not moving during the trial to have the evidence against him ruled too weak for a conviction, Herbert Larson, an expert on federal criminal law at the Tulane University Law School, has said. Such motions are crucial for revisiting those arguments on appeal, Larson has said.
Neither federal prosecutors nor Nagin's attorney, Robert Jenkins, responded immediately to messages seeking comment.
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Edgar Krentz (
Thu, 23 Jan 1997 15:26:58 -0600
>and Koine. I entered into a discussion of this topic with my Advanced
>Greek class based upon the information in Young's grammar. He asserts
>that the basic order of words in sentences not containing linking verbs
>is verb-subject-object, while sentences with linking verbs generally
>follow the pattern verb-subject-compliment (pp. 214-18).
>Machen suggests just the opposite: "The normal order of the sentence in
>Moule does not propose a specific order, but rather simply follows the
>logic that "the emphatic word comes at or near the beginning of the
>sentence" (_Idiom Book_, p. 166).
>It would appear that a number of prominent grammarians would be in
>agreement with Young's analysis of an "unmarked" or common word order
>Robertson, p. 417).
>I would be interested in hearing what those on the list would have to
>say about this matter, both in regard to Classical and Koine Greek.
referreda to K.J. Dover's GREEK WORD ORDER (Oxford U Press in the 1950s).
I have neglected to note the url for the archives, but Jonathon can give
you that and you can search for that discussion.
Edgar Krentz, New Testament
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Gun rift widens, year after Newtown
Even when the public found some common ground, widely supporting expanded background checks for gun purchases, lawmakers could not agree. President Barack Obama failed to push through proposals for the wider checks, a ban on military-style rifles and high-capacity ammunition magazines.
There have been more tragedies since the Dec. 14, 2012, shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. The worst was in September when a lone gunman killed 13 people at the Washington Navy Yard. Obama wondered then if such shootings had lost the power to shock: “I fear there is a creeping resignation that these tragedies are just somehow the way it is, that this is somehow the new normal.”
But beneath the paralyzed politics of gun control, striking discord remains in U.S. towns and neighborhoods. Americans haven’t forgotten or become numb. They just can’t bridge the divide between those who insist stricter firearms laws are the only solution and those who view gun ownership as a basic right enshrined in the U.S. Constitution, crucial not just for hunting but for self-protection.
The small town of Nelson, Georgia, was an unlikely flash point. With 1,300 people, it has so little crime that officials have debated whether it needs a full-time police officer.
Then Bill McNiff, a retired accountant, suggested to councilman Duane Cronic that the town should have a law requiring everyone to own a gun. McNiff says the ordinance declared values ignored by gun control advocates in America’s big cities.
“I chat with him and we see our neighbors, there’s conversation,” McNiff says of Kellett. “Or as I’m prone to say, he’s an idiot, so I just put up with him.”
He said gun control advocates just don’t understand the point of view of someone who might need a gun because they “have 55 acres and occasionally a coyote walks through.” Critics “looked at (Nelson’s law) from their ideological point of view, which is that they’re anti-gun. They didn’t look at it from the point of view that we wanted to prevent the government” from taking away people’s guns.
Asked about his neighbor, Kellett declines to use McNiff’s name or give credence to his argument. He says the outcome of the dispute did little to reshape a debate that leaves many people cowed into keeping quiet.
“I talked to people who had not owned a gun in 50 years and didn’t intend to get one and I talked to people who had always had a gun forever,” he added. That’s why I didn’t want the city of Nelson to be blown out of proportion, like we’re some sort of an armed camp.”
The Police Commission crafted an ordinance restricting hours and locations of target shooting. But at a hearing in August 2012, about 60 gun owners criticized the proposal as a breach of the Second Amendment of the Constitution, which protects to right of citizens to own firearms. Only one resident, Jim Ondak, rose to support it.
Then came 20-year-old Adam Lanza’s rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary. The grief it unleashed changed everything.
Poupon said he hears fewer shots and thinks maybe people have decided on their own to rein in shooting. But people on both sides are troubled by what the debate revealed.
The intensity of gun owners’ opposition and the pressure they put on local officials “was a real wake-up call,” Ondak’s wife, Andrea, says.
Meanwhile, Dave Barzetti, a welder and target shooter, says the debate reflects troubling changes. The father of two feels the target shooting ordinance is part of a big-government intrusion on life that makes him uncomfortable.
His wife, Carla, says a large tax hike, compounded by the divide over guns, convinced them they no longer belong. In September, they bought property in Tennessee.
For Paul Libera, grieving wasn’t enough. The fire had destroyed a house where each summer he had gathered area kids for a water skiing camp.
In January, he spent $600 for a large sign, lettered in red, and planted it in the frozen ground next door to the site of the ambush.
“How many deaths will it take ’til we know too many people have died?” the sign asked.
Libera says he was “raised with guns under my bed and in my closet and with birdshot coming out of the food we were eating.” He went to college on the money his state trooper dad earned in the gun and fishing tackle store he ran on the side.
Meanwhile, signs sprouted in some yards in Webster demanding repeal of a new state gun control law pushed through by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the wake of the Newtown shooting.
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A) his cabinet members strongly urged him to do so.
confederation in the early 1800s was
A) Little Turtle.
B) Corn Tassel.
C) Osceola.
D) Tecumseh.
E) Black Hawk.
A) churches.
B) westerners.
C) expansionists.
D) War Hawks.
E) shipowners.
A) increased their popularity in all regions.
B) were destroyed as a political party.
C) lost popularity in the South.
D) regained the presidency in the election of 1816.
E) increased their political influence among younger voters.
5) The Monroe Doctrine
A) proclaimed President Monroe's intention of intervening actively in Europe .
D) asserted American claims to all of the Oregon country.
E) recognized American dependence on European powers.
A) absence of organized political parties opposing each other.
B) return to the political and economic philosophy of Jefferson .
D) absence of any divisive political and economic issues.
E) innovative federal programs pioneered by Monroe .
B) The cotton boom dampened Southern support of slavery.
A) be the start of the transcontinental railroad?
B) be allowed to import slaves from abroad?
C) include present-day Kansas in its boundaries?
of this resolution denouncing the Tariff of 1828 was
A) Henry Clay.
B) John C. Calhoun.
D) William H. Crawford.
E) John Randolph.
11) In "Mapping the Past: The Making of the Working Class"your text uses maps to show how the economic growth of the early 19th century led to (the)
A) increase in craft-dominated workshops.
B) wealthier citizens living in the suburbs.
C) shared residences for workers and masters.
D) factory workers living in the inner city.
E) physical separation of masters and workers.
12) In the 1830s and 1840s most of the thousands of poor and wretched immigrants who flooded
into America came from
A) Italy and Greece .
B) Poland and Russia .
C) Ireland and Germany .
D) China and Japan .
E) Denmark and the Netherlands .
13) One consequence of American industrialization in the early 19th century was
A) an increase in the need for foreign goods and thus in the business of merchants.
B) a decline in commercial agriculture and thus in the speed of westward settlement.
C) the rapid development of labor unions.
D) a decline in the need for foreign goods and thus in the business of merchants.
E) intense conflict between labor and management.
14) According to your text, by far the most important indirect effect of industrialization occurred
when the
A) federal government constructed an efficient system of canals.
B) South began to produce cotton to supply the new textile mills of New England and Great
C) North was forced to locate new sources of liquid capital to fund the growing textile
D) state governments were disrupted by sectional conflicts over tariffs.
E) federal government built a series of national roads.
15) By 1820, interstate slave trade in the South was
A) totally and effectively outlawed by the states.
B) a legal, well-organized, cruel, and shameful business.
C) prohibited by the Constitution.
D) controlled by humanitarian planters who sought to correct previous abuses.
E) outlawed by the Missouri Compromise.
16) One advantage which northern blacks had over southern blacks was their
A) right to vote in local and national elections.
B) ability to organize movements to protest their treatment.
C) free access to public buildings and facilities.
D) right to testify in court against whites.
E) easy access to decent jobs and good housing.
17) Most early "internal improvements"were built
A) totally by state and local governments.
B) by private businesses, without any financial aid from governments.
C) by private businesses, with substantial aid from governments.
D) totally by the federal government.
E) by state governments, with substantial aid from the federal government.
18) According to the map, "Canals and Roads, 1820-1850,"most American canals connected
directly with the
A) Great Lakes .
B) St. Lawrence River .
C) Mississippi River.
D) Atlantic Ocean .
E) Ohio River Valley .
19) The Supreme Court's decision in Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1819) upheld the
A) right of a state to take over a private college.
B) principle of the sanctity of contracts.
C) right of a state to tax federal properties within its boundaries.
D) principle of national supremacy over the states.
E) right of colleges to refuse to admit female students.
20) In Gibbons v. Ogden (1824), the Supreme Court and Justice Marshall
A) declared the Judiciary Act of 1789 to be unconstitutional.
B) exempted the Bank of the United States from taxation by the states.
C) upheld the contract which gave Ogden his monopoly on ferry service.
D) defined commerce in a very broad sense.
E) ruled in favor of the good of the whole community over that of a particular company.
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Hello Mindy,
Thank you for working on the assignments. My work keeps me busy recently, if you do not mind please work on these assignments. I need your help and you r the best. If you can make it please be careful with the due dates.
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Expert: Home Tutor replied 4 years ago.
I am happy to help you with these. I am sorry if I missed your due date for this assignment. Generally, if a customer says it is due on a certain date, I will get it to them by midnight on that date. If you need it before that or at a certain time on that date, like 8 am eastern on Sunday morning, then do let me know and I put it on my schedule and I will get it to you on time.
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Customer- I have been trying to get your last set of questions to you all week. Unfortunately, the question has timed out and I cannot post the answers unless you relist it or a moderator opens it. I have several requests in to the moderators, but have not had any luck getting the question reopenned. I will post the link to your next set of answers here:
I hope you see this in time. Sorry for the inconvenience. Mindy
Edited by Mindy on 4/30/2010 at 10:31 PM EST
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