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People who use and love film have to realize that they are such a tiny part of the population now that you can reasonably referred to a very small niche market.
The analogy about listening to music with records compared to CDs and iPods is pretty much the same argument.
The general public left the records, and they left film years ago. The articles are about what the general public uses, not some niche group. The only time mainstream media will give you any press is when someone is writing an article and includes it as a nostalgia piece or states that X photographer uses film. And the only reason they write it is that it seems quaint.
Film has moved into the obscure, as far as the general public knows and cares.
You are the equivalence of people who still shoot black powder instead of cartridges and get together on weekends and try to kill paper targets.
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Q: Since becoming the office manager for a large medical practice, I have received numerous complaints about one member of my staff. Several people have told me that “Tricia,” our front-desk supervisor, makes harsh and demeaning comments to employees and even speaks sharply to patients.
Tricia has worked in the office longer than anyone else, so she is extremely knowledgeable about policies and procedures. Nevertheless, I’m beginning to think she’s a liability because everyone seems to walk on eggshells around her. How can I tactfully suggest to Tricia that she needs to improve her working relationships?
A: Telling a friend that her outfit is unflattering requires tact, but telling a rogue supervisor that she is out of line requires candor and conviction. As Tricia’s boss, you have both the right and the obligation to ensure that she exhibits appropriate professional behavior at work.
Based on the deluge of complaints, your predecessor apparently abdicated all managerial responsibility and allowed Tricia to do whatever she pleased. Now that this wimpy manager has left, Tricia’s colleagues obviously hope you will be the one who finally holds her accountable.
To make an impact, new managers must initiate change fairly soon after they arrive, so you need to address this performance issue quickly. If you continue to tolerate Tricia’s abominable conduct, she will reasonably conclude that you approve.
As soon as possible, you must firmly advise Tricia that rude and insulting remarks are unacceptable. From now on, she is expected to be courteous and respectful during all workplace interactions. If you find that she is unable to make this shift, then there is no place for her in a medical practice.
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Darren wrote:
I've really enjoyed the first two episodes of this new season but one thing that puzzles me is that if they are all infected already then why would a zombie bite "turn them"? Die of natural causes or an accident and you come back as a walker, right, so what does getting bitten by the walker actually do? It's like giving someone HIV who already has HIV...
Getting bitten means you die from infection/blood loss - the zombie bite doesn't 'turn you'.
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Microsoft is a software company. For nigh on three decades, Windows and Office have been the bread and butter of the Redmond, Washington company. However, the last decade has seen increasing success and competition from both Apple and Google. Now, it seems as if the mammoth software business just isn’t enough to keep Microsoft at the top of the game. With Xbox, and now Surface, we’ve seen Microsoft go further and further down the rabbit hole of hardware products, and it is becoming clear that Microsoft’s future isn’t just that of a software company.
The Wall Street Journal recently published an article outing Microsoft as actively working with Asian suppliers to manufacture a home-made smartphone While this is very far from an announcement, the intent is clearly there. Apple is making an obscene amount of money by selling its own hardware, and it’s clear that Microsoft wants in on that. The problem remains that Microsoft is dedicated to having both desktop and mobile operating systems available for licensing by third parties. These moves into the hardware market clearly put Microsoft in the awkward position of competing with its partners.
Instead of trying to have its cake and eat it too, Microsoft needs to decide what it’s going to be. Is it a software and hardware company like Apple, or is it a software company like it has been all of these previous decades? Its previous software-only endeavors in the mobile market have been less than successful. Windows Phone 7 and Windows Mobile didn’t launch Microsoft back into market domination. If it wants to make world-class devices, it needs to leave the previous model behind.
Xbox 360Microsoft’s most well-known and successful hardware venture would undoubtedly be the Xbox line of game consoles. Originally launched in 2001, the original Xbox did okay in the US market, but it didn’t set the world on fire. Just four years later, the Xbox 360 has done extremely well in every major market with the notable exception of Japan. It’s safe to say that this is a successful product line, but Microsoft doesn’t license the Xbox 360 software to hardware companies. The Xbox 360 is a hardware and software combination owned and controlled solely by Microsoft. Its success doesn’t logically transition into success in the phone and tablet market as Microsoft is currently playing the game.
If Microsoft wants to be competitive with Apple and Google in the mobile market, it needs to stop pussyfooting around. With Steve Ballmer at the helm, Microsoft just doesn’t seem to be able to make a decision — just look at the Surface. It’s an ARM-based tablet that runs a new GUI except when it runs the old Desktop. There is an Intel version on the way, and Microsoft is hoping developers will release both Metro and Desktop apps. Even the attachable keyboards aren’t consistent. Microsoft couldn’t decide to make it using touch-based technology or traditional key-based technology, so they did both. How can Microsoft expect consumers to know which Surface they want if Microsoft itself can’t even decide what the Surface is?
The Xbox was successful because it was a distinct product with a clear vision driving it. The Surface is not, and that is why it has an uphill battle to fight. If Microsoft continues this trend in the phone market, it will have the exact same problems.
Follow the leader
There is also the curious case of the Zune. Launched in November of 2006, it was too little too late. The iPod was incredibly dominant, and Microsoft wanted a nice big chunk of that pie. Sadly, the iPhone was announced just a few months later, and that rendered the dedicated portable media player a niche market. Last year, Microsoft announced that it would be discontinuing the Zune brand. Microsoft was, very sadly, reacting to the market instead of being the leading force it has the brains and money to actually be. If Microsoft isn’t careful, it could very easily fall into this same trap again by following a template designed by someone else.
Going forward, Microsoft needs to decide what it wants, and then execute in a clear a decisive manner. Playing the “me too” game hasn’t worked. Instead of creating products that are designed to compete with popular products made by Apple, it should be focusing on creating the next big thing — and then knocking it out of the ball park.
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(CNN) Things aren't all bad for Syrian rebels, they just re-captured a bunch of burned out bricks, so they've got that going for them. Which is nice ( divider line 2
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Most of those now returning to the town are Christians, highlighting the increasingly sectarian nature of the conflict in Syria. George is a Christian as well. He says his son was kidnapped by Islamist fighters and he clearly blames some of his Sunni Muslim neighbors for collaborating with the opposition.
"We have been living with the Muslims for generations," his wife said as we stood in their ruined apartment. "I don't know why they did this, why they helped them."
George also took us to his brother's house, which was almost razed to the ground. Many of the rooms were burned from the inside. George said his brother fled when one of his sons was killed by rebel fighters.
"My brother is an engineer. His son came to the door and they shot him because they think all Christians are against them," George tells me.
It might surprise most Americans that there are plenty of Christians in Syria, about 10% of the population. (In comparison, in the USA African-Americans comprise about 13%.) Most of them are Greek Orthodox, a church that might seem exotic or foreign to your average Methodist or Baptist and has been called "schismatic" by the Popes for centuries, but like most Americans they believe in the Trinity and pray to Jesus.
Keep in mind that, to quote Wikipedia, "Syria is at most 59-61% Sunni Arab" and this war is largely a war of Sunni Arabs against everybody else. Syrian Christians tend to support the government because it tolerates religious ans ethnic minorities amid a Sunni Arab sea: Kurds and Turkmen (of whatever religion), Alawites, Armenians, Druze, "mainstream" shiates, Christians of various denominations, Ismailis, atheists and secularists. It's not so much that they love the Assad regime, just that the Assad regime allows them to go about their lives without persecution.
It pains me to side against anti-government rebels, and I am aware that the ruling clique is a bloody dictatorship, but in this case the underdogs are ethnic and religious minorities -- while an unknown but large and powerful percentage of the rebels are militant Arab Sunni Islamists of the Al Qaida type. If they win I predict ethnic and religious "cleansing," including bloodbaths.
The USA does not have a dog in this fight: those rebels who want an "American-style democracy" are few and far between, and they're not likely to be very influential in a "new Syria" regardless of what the US government does. That's typical: the US government was against the USSR but there's no American-style democracy in the new Russia, it was against Saddam's regime but there's no American-style democracy in the new Iraq, and it was against the Taliban but the incumbent Afghan government is hardly what we'd call a democracy. American support of the rebels is not likely to result in the kind of free society we cherish: indeed those Syrians who most closely resemble most Americans are likely to be much much worse off than they are now under Assad.
I'm not saying the USA should support Assad's dictatorship -- I certainly don't. I am saying that the USA should join Russia in advocating a negotiated solution to the Syrian crisis, even if that means letting the Assads get away to live in mansions on the French Riviera paid for will ill-gotten loot. No matter who wins this war Syria is not likely to come out with the kind of government and society Americans take for granted; these kinds of conflicts don't work out that way. The winners in such wars are likely to be the most ruthless killers. (Most Americans aren't like that, are we?)
The way the US can help the Syrian people approximate American-style democracy is to pick those Syrian factions who are most like us and push for them in the negotiations, regardless of whose side they're on now. If they're on any side: most of the "nice guys" are keeping their heads down hoping neither side shoots them, that's what "nice guys" do. It would most fit American values for the USA to support them and insist on a greater share for minorities in the new Syrian government; if that's not possible it might be necessary to divide Syria the way the UN divided Bosnia.
If the US government (and I mean the Senate and Congress as well as the Executive Branch) can't stomach being on more or less the same side as Putin's Russia then the best thing to do is to go back to staying the hell out of it -- hoping to help reorganize the rubble.
The USA should not be on the same side as Al Qaeda.
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Winter by Christopher Nicholson - book review: 'A 'literary detective' doesn't quite get to the heart of Hardy'
In Christopher Nicholson's Winter, Thomas Hardy becomes the latest literary giant to provide the subject matter for a novel. J M Coetzee and Colm Toíbín produced memorable works when they imagined the minds of Fyodor Dostoevsky and Henry James respectively, while more recent novels about Emily Dickinson, Herman Melville and H G Wells have achieved mixed results.
Even the best books within this burgeoning sub-genre imply that artistic greatness belongs to the past. Why didn't, say, Dostoevsky fictionalise the life of Pushkin? Because he was busy writing about what James urged Edith Wharton to confront: "the immediate."
In 1924, Hardy is "among the last survivors of a distant age", a Victorian man amid modern upheaval. When he adapts his great novel, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, for an amateur dramatics group, he's captivated by Gertie Bugler, the young woman who plays Tess, and insists that she perform the part when the play transfers to the London stage. You needn't know Hardy's work in depth to enjoy Nicholson's third novel but Tess fans will find lots to relish, as similarities, and differences, between Hardy's tragic heroine and Gertie, as well as aspects of his fictionalised Wessex, are pertinent.
Most of Winter alternates between third-person narration, where Nicholson explores Hardy's thoughts in deft prose, and the account of his second wife, Florence, who feels "stunted from living in his shadow". She begs her husband, who is almost twice her age, to cut down the pine trees that shroud their home in gloom and feels eclipsed by his late first wife who herself accused Hardy of preferring his mother.
He covets "an ideal though unattainable female spirit… (that) moves freely from one woman to another", and his longing for Gertie borders on a portrait of the artist as an octogenarian lecher. Nicholson's clear-sighted take on his subject, however, demonstrates that it's the contradictions in Hardy, "who cares more for the company of his pen than that of his wife", which make him interesting.
Florence's reaction to reading Hardy's poems about Gertie is vindictive. Following his death in 1928, the real Florence made some amends for this, as Gertie explains in one of two chapters which she narrates. These passages recover a silenced voice but also fill gaps in the narrative, taking Nicholson near the territory of the "literary detectives" who Hardy resented. Winter never quite convinces you that this story needed to be fictionalised and the image of the elderly poet at his desk, trying to connect his emotions to the world, is a reminder that, while good writers find subjects, the great invent them. | http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/winter-by-christopher-nicholson-book-review-a-literary-detective-doesnt-quite-get-to-the-heart-of-9122228.html | dclm-gs1-213790001 | false | false | {
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When it comes to laptop features, is it ever possible to have it all? That seems to be the problem plaguing reader Megan, who is looking for a robust machine that can handle her everyday computing tasks and also withstand the antics of her house companion -- a lively, 5-month old puppy with a penchant for knocking her laptop off her bed. In Megan’s words:
“I don't need anything fancy. I'm not a gamer, at least not on the computer. I'm not a designer or a professional of anything. All I want is a computer that will do the few things I need it to do quickly, without complaint, and will do it for a long time in spite of my clumsy, abusive lifestyle.
What I do:
• Internet surfing. Entirely too much of it.
• Multi-tasking. My friends constantly make fun of me for having 12 windows open at any given time.
• Instant messaging. My fiancé and I are stationed on nearly opposite ends of country. Skype is my hero.
• Movement. I am not good at that whole "don't move your laptop when it's running" thing. I am always picking my laptop up to move to a different room.
• Music. I love Pandora so my laptop often doubles as a boom box, and I would like it to be able to do so without me having to buy extra speakers.
• Storing pictures and tunes. I have a lot of files and the laptop I had before wasn't able to handle it all. The pictures I can put on an external hard drive, but I don't want to be plugging my other hard drive in every time I want to play a song.
What I want:
• Solid State Drive. I've been told I don't need it since I don't do anything fancy with my computer. But I don't want it for its speed, I want it because it means fewer moving parts to rattle against each other when my dog kicks my laptop off the bed.
• Durability. Seriously, it's important.
• Simplicity. I'm borderline computer-retarded. I don't want to be going through my computer going, "What the hell is this? What does it do? Why is it here?"
• Battery. I would like it to last through a day of sitting in class with no plug-ins to be found. ”
We hear you, Megan, and we agree entirely with your assessment. It happens much too often in notebook-buying that someone thinks their needs are overly simple at the beginning, only to later discover that no options are a good fit for what they had in mind. This is where we can help.
But first, a caveat: Perhaps the reason why it’s been so difficult is that a couple of these requirements are contradictory. For instance, you likely won’t find a solid state drive that boasts storage capacities in the same league as traditional hard drives. Today, SSDs will offer about 256GB of space on the high-capacity end -- or up to 512GB, but that’s in very rare cases. That’s because SSDs are essentially flash drives permanently installed into your machine, costing much more per gigabyte than their magnetic counterparts.
Though SSDs are much faster than hard drives, users who want 500GB or more of space will have to stick with traditional hard drives for now. The good news is what Megan’s been hearing has mostly been right -- you don’t need an SSD to protect your laptop. While it’s true that flash drives they’re less susceptible to physical shock, most mechanical hard drives now have drop protection that pulls the head off of the platter when they suspect the notebook's in danger. Get an SSD only if you want raw speed and are willing to live with only 128 or 256GB of internal storage.
For someone in Megan's position, our first recommendation is the Lenovo ThinkPad T420, which might seem strange initially since the machine is primarily known to be a business system. But take a closer look, and you’ll see that Lenovo's notebook has features any consumer would love. At 14 inches, the device is portable enough to take to carry from room to room or take to class for an entire day -- and you don’t even have to worry about battery life.
Outfitted with a nine-cell extended battery, the ThinkPad T420 can last all day and then some. In our standard battery test, the machine endured an incredible 10 hours and 36 minutes, more than double the 5:15 category average. The ThinkPad T420 can be configured with either an SSD or a spacious 500GB hard drive to store plenty of files (that’s the roomiest hard drive configuration), a 720p webcam that provides sharp and detailed pictures, a high-res, 14.1-inch, 1600 x 900 matte display that handles 1080p videos with aplomb and speakers loud enough to fill a medium-sized room. Performance-wise, this fiend of a machine won’t let you down, either. You can get it with a 2.5-GHz Core i5 CPU, 4GB to 8GB of RAM, and discrete Nvidia graphics so it can handle anything from spreadsheet crunching to light gaming. Plus, it’s got a durable design to boot.
Another alternative to consider is the Dell XPS 15z. A dead ringer for the MacBook Pro in terms of its looks, the highlights of this portable 15-inch machine include a bright 1080p display, a strong battery life of 6 hours and 8 minutes (which is well above the mainstream average of 4:23) and two large speakers on either side of the laptop’s keyboard that thump out loud, quality sound. An optional 2.7-GHz Intel Core i7-2620M processor runs the show along with up to 8GB of RAM, which will let Megan open as many tabs as there are stars in the sky (okay, we're exaggerating -- maybe just a little less than that). Up to 750GB of internal space – even more than the ThinkPad T420 – will satisfy her file-storing needs. And if it turns out Megan is intractable about the presence of an SSD, she can get the laptop configured to have a 256GB variant, too. Finally, the XPS 15z includes a 1.3-megapixel webcam which, while not Skype-certified, is still able to render fine details in the caller’s face.
Ultimately, it still comes down to a matter of trade-offs. If roomier storage is a higher priority, the stylish-looking Dell XPS 15z ($1400 for the unit with the 750GB hard drive configuration; $1700 with a 256GB SSD) is a better choice. But if durability is the biggest consideration, the Lenovo ThinkPad T420 ($1149 with a 500GB hard disk drive, $1099 with a 128GB SSD and $1319 with a 160GB SSD) will be your best bet. Bonus: There's an eCoupon available for these configurations right now on Lenovo's official website. Good luck, Megan!
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• Bill Says:
I'd recommend a business-rugged laptop -- Dell Latitude series or Lenovo Thinkpad series -- with a docking station to solve the problem of extra storage. Buy a really good warranty (at least 2 years with "accident" coverage, and if you can afford it go to 3 years). I'd pay very close attention to actual carry weight, lighter the better traded off against screen size and battery weight/duration. All four computers I've bought in the past 2 1/2 years have solid state memory. I'm after maximal business-class ruggedness and no moving parts (fans excluded). Dell Latitude E6320 13.3 inch, Lenovo X1 13.3 inch or X220 12.5 inch for less weight. 13.3 inch screen is more than enough.
• Kira Yamato Says:
While I agree with the T420 as the choice laptop, I also have a couple comments to make:
1. A T420 can take 3 drives in total (primary 9.5 mm bay, 12.7 mm Ultrabay, and the mSATA slot). So, if you must have a SSD and have an insane amount of storage, you can put a SSD in one of the 2 large bays, and put a large HDD in the other (of course, this means that you lose the optical drive). This requires the removal of 1 screw on the primary bay, and the attachment of 4 screws in the Ultrabay if I'm not mistaken. This is an incredibly easy upgrade to perform, I'm obliged to say that my 5 year old sister is almost capable of making it - almost. An alternative is to shove a mSATA SSD into the mSATA slot and keep a HDD in the primary bay, and attach another HDD in the Ultrabay if you need the storage. This upgrade is slightly more difficult to make, but I'd rate it a 2 on a scale of 1 ~ 10 with 1 being trivial and 10 being dissembling the entire laptop and putting it back together.
2. The T420 can take up to 16 GB of RAM if your wallet will allow it.
3. The T420 can be configured with an Intel Core i7 2640M (2.8 GHz, 3.3 Turbo) if so desired. This is overkill though.
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More Revenue Potential and Happier Consumers
By LBx Staff | Published August 14, 2013
**Locationomics Series: Customer Experience
Pole Star is a France-based indoor location company founded in 2002, with offices in France and the United States. Pole Star was originally focused on portable navigation devices, and has since migrated to the smartphone as the optimum device platform for delivering indoor navigation services. Pole Star’s customers have ranged from emergency services to shopping malls to airports to exhibition centers. Christian Carle, CEO of Pole Star recognizes that “many people do not understand the importance of indoor location.” His focus at Pole Star is on making indoor location capabilities as seamless and compatible with consumer devices as possible.
LBx Why is indoor location so important?
Carle Believe it or not, it is difficult for people to find their way around shopping malls, airports, and train stations, especially if they are in a foreign country and do not speak the language. Being able to easily orient yourself indoors is essential to efficiently moving through that building, for example if time is your issue because you are running late, in transit between trains and planes, or responsible for emergency response, or for operating and maintaining the facility.
That explains part of the reason why indoor location is important to individual mobile users. However, there are a few other ways to look at why it is important. From the facility owner’s and app developer perspective: The perceived value to the user is very high. Any tools that appear to improve the user experience are highly valued by a facility owner.
When it comes to interactions with new or even familiar buildings, people are looking for:
1. help, or what we call basic services, in finding a specific place within a building where something or someone is located, along with step by step navigation to that specific location;
2. customized context-aware information that is delivered through a product search engine; and
3. the ability to share information on what is found with friends, or in the case of emergency responders with
other government agencies (the ability to collaborate on the information).
Social networks and social media play a vital role. Indoor location information increases in value with the ability to share it. Social media allows this information to become instantly useful in answering daily, real-life questions: Where are my friends, my kids, or my partners? Sharing indoor information, along with context around that location, is what is valuable—for example, sharing “I am ok” in the event of a natural disaster or personal safety situation, or “here’s a great deal on something of interest to you,” to specific comments, ratings, and news regarding something of interest around a person. Ensuring that seamless, uninterrupted flow of information from indoor to outdoor to indoor is critical.
LBx Is there an art or science to indoor location?
Carle Simplicity and usefulness are the buzzwords today. To make a mobile service successful, the mobile app, which is the visible part of all the technological magic that takes place behind the scenes, must be easy to use, useful, and with a beautiful “look & feel.” Indoor location information connects a lot of intuitive information and will contribute to the provision of simpler yet more sophisticated services.
LBx Let’s talk about some concrete examples. How does indoor location technology help an airport manager?
Carle The most important sources of revenue for airports are parking and shops and retail. Duty free shops in particular are important revenue streams. Retail revenues at airports are becoming more and more important.
The focus of the airport manager is...
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Well, Allan and Gina are now being divorced, and he's having his name removed from the baby's birth certificate. Of course, ev- eryone but me wants this to stay quiet. I want the wife of the man to know, and I want all the people my in-laws trash all the time to know!
DEAR ABBY: I'm 17 and feeling so sad because I just lost my dad. I can't talk to my stepmom because she's too busy hanging out with her friends, drinking and partying. My dad died a couple of months ago, and she's already having sex with my dad's friends. I heard them talking about it. I have no other family that I can go to. I really hate her right now! Please tell me what to do.
DEAR GRIEVING: Please know how sorry I am for the loss of your father. It would be helpful for you to find another adult to talk to about your feelings. Because you have no family other than your stepmother, perhaps the mother of one of your friends would listen and guide you. If that's not possible, and you belong to a church, you should talk to the minister.
Hating your stepmom isn't the answer. She may be acting the way she is because she's trying to cope with the loss of your father by attempting to distract herself from the pain. It won't work, by the way, but she may have to learn that by trial and error. A grief-support group could be helpful for both of you.
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WICHITA, Kansas - Someone has been tampering with marijuana evidence stores at the police department in Wichita, Kansas and after a thorough investigation police believe they know who the culprit is.
They unveiled a sketch of the sneaky perp, but it may not be very helpful.
Police said they believe several mice were involved. They said the rodents were likely looking for a place to stay and something to eat.
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Prime Minister John Key, former SIS boss Warren Tucker and Whale Oil blogger Cameron Slater. Montage: NZ HeraldPrime Minister John Key has emphatically restated he was not told of the SIS's intention to release sensitive documents to Whaleoil blogger Cameron Slater following the release today of two letters suggesting he was.
Listen: Felix Marwick talks conflicting claims on OIA release
"It's frankly incredible. It's unbelievable."
Shaky ground
sv3nno: Well, of course we all know that politically the Democrats in the USA are on a par with ACT. The majority of politics in that country are of the far right. The difference between the Republicans and the Democrats can be measured in a small number of degrees. As well, Britain has been in a long period of conservatism even under Blair's Labour government.
Those countries are economically in the cart principally because their major banks took the big hits which caused the GFC. We were spared that because the Aussie banks were unaffected. As for Australia, their downturn is the result of a slow down in building in China resulting in less demand for Aussie minerals.
Anyone keeping up with events would know all this already.
Former Student is right
Absolutely right Former Student. Our electoral process must be in great working order - that's why the taxpayer paid megabucks for the Electoral Commission's review, the review that it seems Collins and the National Party cynically shoved to one side because it didn't suit their way to contest the upcoming election. It is for this principal reason that they don't deserve another term. Our governments are supposed to be the guardians of democracy and it can be said that on this occasion National is simply the guardian of their own chances.
MMP is a good method of choosing a government, just ask the Germans - it has suited them for 70 years.
This is not a distraction!
sv3nn0 , Just because the National Party and their backers describe their embarrassment as a distraction, that does not mean it is a distraction. What use would "Dirty Politics" have been after the election?
Central to Western Democracy is a level playing field and a shared ethical framework.
The National Party must run on its record. Any promises it is now making are merely items they could have progressed over the last six years. This includes the idea of shouting new home buyers a sum of money that can become an additional component of house prices! (Just as reduced interest rates push up house prices) But it sounds good.
Another item that should be considered again is the recommendation list from the Electoral Commission regarding MMP enhancements. John Key favoured the less proportional option STV because he preferred the unspecified "characteristics". I would think that Cameron Slater, Jordan Williams and co know what they were.
What I am saying is that the machinery of our democracy needs to be in great working order to hold a fair election, and there is not better time for questions to be asked than in the lead-up to an election!
It's all beside the point...
...since what Nicky Hager says in his book is that the leak must have come either from the SIS or the PM's office - he doesn't claim the leak came from the PM directly, and he doesn't need to since the PM is clearly responsible for what happens in his office, whether or not he is in Hawaii at the time. It's a very interesting book, where every claim is very carefully backed up with specific evidence of which I have yet to hear any convincing rebuttal: "it's a left wing smear" is not a convincing rebuttal however many times you say it.
One comment, one aspect.
My comments were only on one aspect of the whole messy distraction so don't take it as my entire opinion on all things!
Is this really about Phil Goff?
I am intrigued however sv3nno that you see this as being all about Phil Goff and the Labour Party. He is just one of many aggrieved individuals in all this.
There is nothing inconsistent about running a positive election campaign for Labour, while also maintaining one's role as an Opposition Member of Parliament! And just because Phil Goff did not speak the truth on a previous occasion, that does not force him to bite his tongue when he sees others doing what he does.
I am not here to promote the Labour Party and I do not see it can score more than about 25 percent of the votes. I still think National will get about 50 percent too.
The current controversy is about how National is going about maintaining its power, and the consensus is that they have resorted to unethical means. It must stop.
Ships in the night
Former Student: I think we are on a similar wave length but talking past each other. You are extrapolating my words to something they are not saying.
Actually higher
Treeleaper: Actually, high marginal rates in the US and Australia are higher than that. You're not including state taxes that pay for things like police and schools. As you point out, the Greens tax proposal is low compared to other western countries, if it's 'socialist' the Americans must be communists
Perhaps that's part of the reason those three economies are in worse shape than ours. Probably because the wealthy just avoid high tax rates anyway. That won't help child poverty at all.
The plea for consistency
sv3nno still puzzles me. Phil Goff and David Cunliffe have both drawn attention to matters that John Key would like us to ignore, and in doing so, have fulfilled their duties as members of Her Majesty's Opposition. I still think that the agenda of sv3nno is the same as that of John Key, to deny, and to try to discourage alternative views.
We are hearing more election policy from all the parties including Labour as the election approaches. Frankly I don't think a lot of Labour's make much sense, and the party seems likely to languish at about 25% at the next election.
The concept of voting positive may yet find resonance if the Labour leadership can demonstrate that their senior politicians are not going to dwell in gutter political activity like the negatively-minded villains in Dirty Politics. We may yet see a new lease of life from them now that the playing field has been significantly levelled.
More professionalism from all of our politicians woudl be appreciated this time.
Good company
Well there sv3nno, if the Greens are proposing an extreme socialist tax policy then they are in good company. Australian top tax rate is 45%, Britain's is 45% and the USA is 39.6. As well Australians pay a levy for Medicare and are subject to compulsory superannuation, medical care is not generally free in the USA.
Tit for tat still distraction
Former Student: I think you may be misreading between the lines. I am not saying what Phil Goff is or is not allowed to do, just pointing out another obvious inconsistency in the Labour message(s).
Lynden: Policy debate is not limited to National's policy! Greens have released an extreme socialist tax policy that has barely been mentioned since Hager's money spinner was released.
Point is
sv3nno: Point is National, while their dirty laundry has been being aired, have consitanly been saying "debate the policies" but haven't released any while saying it. My guess they are simply waiting to see what the others have so they can top them with their own election bribes. I notice they have said very little about their future plans to sell off more assets after the election as well - probably didn't want to remind the 80% that voted against sales that they ignored them.
Let's hobble Phil Goff, shall we?
We can accept that Phil Goff got it wrong in 2011, but he paid the penalty. What I think sv3nn0 is saying is that Phil Goff is not allowed to draw attention to untruthful statements by others as a result of that. This may make sense to an anti-Labour supporter, but I don't see why Phil Goff should be so generous!
This mindset matches that of Cameron Slater - hobble the voices of opposition. It is not surprising to hear such views, given the sheer panic of John Key and his backers, with the prospect of scrutiny by Cheryl Gwyn.
Again it is selective to accuse Labour of going off the positive message when there are important Opposition issues to be pursued at this time. The pursuit of these issues will naturally be unpopular with supporters of the extreme right, but it is something we expect in a western democracy.
Still inconsistent
Yes Former Student, but I was just pointing out the obvious inconsistencies in Labour's messages. Like Phil Goff accusing Key of lying about Goff's lying, and of course a so-called positive campaign full of attacks. He can make attacks but don't pretend it's a positive campaign. Pick one, Mr Cunliffe!
Lynden: National will start their announcements on Sunday.
Debate policy?
To be able to debate policy you actually need National to release policy, not just Labour.
Cunliffe must not neglect Opposition role either
sv3nn0 and livingproof seem to want to pervert the democratic system further. They suggest David Cunliffe should continue on his positive future campaign, and neglect his current role as Leader of the Opposition for the time being.
David Cunliffe would be negligent if he did not respond to the opportunities that are there for the taking at present. The Opposition exists to highlight the excesses and bad decisions of the Government, and evidence of these mounts by the day.
Cunliffe's difficulty is that he and his party have been unconvincing about their positive message. If he had great policies he might see Labour go up in the poll rather than the minor parties. We've seen almost nothing so far.
Believe, believe, believe!
"If John Key says he was in Hawaii when this 'briefing' took place," says livingproof, then people should stop mentioning the issue. Darn right, livingproof. When John Key says something there is not the remotest possibility that it might not be 100% correct. Same goes for all politicians.
Could three trusted people really be so wrong?
I read today in Auckland's daily that a video of a news conference has been uncovered, from 8 August 2011. As the article says 'Responding to persistent questioning from then Scoop editor Alastair Thompson and Herald political editor Audrey Young, Mr Key said: "What happened is Warren Tucker didn't come to me, he went to his legal adviser and his legal advisers told him this is the process they have to follow and when he was going through that process it was at that point he told me he'd release it because he has to tell me that under the no-surprises doctrine." '
Could it really be that the information from the Prime Minister, the Ombudsman and the former SIS director was all inaccurate? What a sad reflection that would be on three people that we need to trust!
Losers win
Hager is one of two winners from this dirty distraction of a book because of his book sales. Whaleoil probably benefits too as more people will read his rants. However Labour loses as it ruined it's "positive" campaign by wading into the criticism which is yet another self contradiction imposed by their leader Cunliffe.
Further, according to the book itself the dirty politics it embraces costs the left votes due to lower voter turnout due to people who are fed up with all this distracting nonsense. National loses as it has had further problems with Judith Collins (although teflon Key is untarnished again). The loser I do feel for are the two most reputable bloggers in New Zealand - centre right blogger David Farrar and Labour blogger Chris Trotter, who are tarnished by association simply because they are bloggers (among other things).
Very unconvincing
So this is means we have to take (a) his word, (b) the word of the director, (c) the word of the ombudsman, and (d) make a leap of faith that Mr Key is not briefed on national security matters when on holiday (very unlikely) - versus letters that are very explicit in stating that he was briefed.
Even in this short piece Key's story does not match with the facts. "Categorical" assurances on the basis that the Ombudsman "has confirmed that when she put Prime
Minister... they meant my office" are bizarre when the Ombudsman actually said she didn't write the letter and "the word 'discussion' is probably loosely used." i.e. she didn't write "Prime Minister" (Key made that up) and thus can't be certain whether the word discussion was used loosely or not.
It just looks as if he's making his story (backed only by hearsay) up on the run .. and getting it wrong.
On holiday
If John Key says he was in Hawaii when this 'briefing' took place, then I guess Goff and Cunliffe once again look stupid by trying to drag the matter out. We are going to have a positive campaign says Cunliffe, deal with policies - another Tui ad, Yeah Right. Should we wait for Goff and Cunliffe to drop their 'holier than thou' attitude? Yeah Right. Get on with debating policy and stop the personal attacks.
Three times
Tucker's letter indicates three times that he "notified/advised/informed the Prime Minister." His language is unequivocal. He does not say Prime Ministers office or Prime Ministers staff, he says Prime Minister. I think I'm inclined to take Mr Tucker at his word which of course indicates perhaps that I think the Prime Minister is not gracing us with the truth.
Unconvincing Key and Tucker
It looks like absolute panic, since Cheryl Gwyn announced she was going to investigate. Did Tucker really inform that prime minister as stated in his letter, or the prime minister's office as he now attempts to clarify? And why would one be acceptable and not the other!
Unfortunately, Key and Joyce have blundered badly - saying this was all old news when to me there are many new revelations. Of course it clearly was old news for the Prime Minister's office if they they were so involved in all this!
The attempts to make excuses for Judith Collins are looking weaker by the minute. Look at who she was emailing and the nature of what was being said. I don't think an average employer would accept this kind of communication to customers so what has the Minister of Justice been thinking about.
Attempts to shoot the messenger, Nicky Hager, are now looking weakest of all. The number of villains that have been identified, and the scope of their unethical and foul-mouthed activities, convince me that huge changes are now needed in this government starting at the very top. We need a prime minister with a better sense of right and wrong, and who can stand up for what is right too.
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What is Stormwater
Stormwater is basically a way of describing an accumulation of rainwater. This rainwater is either absorbed into porous surfaces like grass, forests, farm fields, and other areas of “open ground,” or the rainwater collects on non-porous (or impervious) surfaces like streets, parking lots, and rooftops.
It's these impervious areas where rainwater collects that is the challenge for stormwater planners. In order to keep these impervious areas from flooding, streets, parking lots and buildings are often designed with underground pipes and basins that drain this stormwater. Stormwater managers face three primary challenges:
• Drain stormwater quickly in order to prevent flooding
• Ensure stormwater is clean of contaminants picked up along the way
Stormwater Pollution
Stormwater is often carried through drainage pipes to outfalls into large bodies of water. This water is often not filtered or treated before being discharged and can contaminate our our canals, rivers, lakes, Biscayne Bay, and eventually the ocean.
There are three main types of stormwater pollution:
• Chemicals: detergents, automotive fluids, and fertilizers
Impact of Stormwater
Once stormwater pollution reaches our waterways, it can be harmful to plants and animals. Large doses of organic pollution can cause fish and marine life to suffocate from lack of dissolved oxygen (consumed in the process of decomposition), litter can injure unsuspecting fish, turtles, and even manatees and whales, and harsh chemicals (like automotive and cleaning fluids) can be toxic to marine life.
Coming Soon:
Public Works Department
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Autism By Age > 18 to 21 Years > Social and Relationships >
Teach your young adult about sexuality and relationships
Begin by asking your local school system what type of Family Life Education (human sexuality) they offer. Keep in mind that you should think ahead of the stage your young adult is in. Sexual issues should address the person’s biological age.
Sexuality Education Overview by Dr. Peter Gerhardt
Dr. Peter Gerhardt gives a comprehensive and lively overview of the issues people with autism face regarding sexuality. Dr. Gerhardt shares perspectives, recommendations and helpful resources to educate people on the challenges faced by the autism community and how to help individuals learn about their sexuality.
Autism Research Institute - Sexuality and Autism
Like it or not, if you have a child, sexuality and sexual issues are things you're going to deal with eventually, either directly (and positively), or indirectly (and most likely negatively) from the imprints made on your child by other people or sources. If your child has autism, this blissful topic gets even more interesting, or uncomfortable, depending on your perspective. What you must remember is that sexual behavior in child development is normal and it can be tracked through the developmental stages of your child. You can either ignore it, pretend the issue doesn't exist, or you can do what the boy scouts always tell us: "Be Prepared!"
The Our Whole Lives Curriculum
The Sexuality Information and Education Council of the US (SIECUS)
SIECUS educates, advocates, and informs. They help schools and communities develop comprehensive sexuality education curricula, train teachers to provide high quality sexuality education in the classroom, and help parents talk to their kids about sex. They educate policymakers and their staff about issues related to sexuality and train advocates on the local, state, and national levels to build support for comprehensive sexuality education and access to reproductive health information and services. They produce countless resources for a wide variety of audiences—from policymakers to parents, healthcare providers to teens—to ensure that everyone has access to accurate, complete, and up-to-date information about sexuality.
The Scarlet Teen Website
Scarleteen is an independent, grassroots sexuality education and support organization and website. Founded in 1998, Scarleteen.com is visited by around three-quarters of a million diverse people each month worldwide, most between the ages of 15 and 25. They provide articles, interactive services, referrals, outreach, mentoring, and leadership.
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Minnesota, like some other states, currently requires a year-round 5 percent blend known as B5 for most diesel sales. The B10 mandate will kick in July 1, 2014, and run through Oct. 31. But starting in 2015, the 10 percent requirement will be in effect May 1-Oct. 31.
Biodiesel, which is made mostly from soybean oil, is promoted as an environmentally friendly, homegrown renewable fuel that creates jobs and demand for crops. A major concern from the trucking industry in biodiesel's early days was that it could jell up in cold weather and clog fuel systems; the industry says that problem has been solved.
Minnesota became the first state to mandate the use of biodiesel in 2005. The 10 percent requirement was scheduled to take effect last year under a 2007 law, but it took longer than expected to ensure adequate supplies statewide and set up regulatory protocols for tracking its use. The state agriculture, commerce and pollution control commissioners certified in a letter published in the State Register on Tuesday that all the legal criteria are now met and the way is clear for the B10 mandate to take effect.
The state's soybean farmers should see higher prices for each bushel because more soybeans will be used to meet the new requirement, said George Goblish, president of the Minnesota Soybean Growers Association. Citing a state study, he said the current biodiesel mandate adds about 73 cents to the price for a bushel of soybeans.
"It's a safe product, it's good for the environment, it's good for farmers, good for the economy. Statewide there's over 5,000 jobs that were created by biodiesel," Goblish said. "And it's homegrown. We don't have to import any of this. It replaces crude oil. Unfortunately we're not North Dakota. We can't find oil in the ground in Minnesota, so we'll grow it on top of the ground."
Minnesota, one of the top soybean-growing states, will be the first with a mandate higher than 5 percent, said Caleb Little, a spokesman for the National Biodiesel Board.
But Goblish noted that higher blends are being used in some places even without mandates. Metro Transit in the Twin Cities used B20 in its buses this summer and expects to use it again next summer. B11 is common in Illinois because of sales tax exemptions there.
Minnesota's trucking industry isn't happy with the new mandate, though, primarily because of cost concerns. Biodiesel is cheaper than petroleum-based diesel at the moment, but John Hausladen, president of the Minnesota Trucking Association, said there's no guarantee it will stay that way.
"We still have concerns about what the cost impact is going to be," Hausladen said. "We repeatedly asked the state to tell us whether or not increasing the biodiesel content is going to raise our base fuel costs. They tell us they can't answer the question. So we think that until the state can answer with certainty that it's not wise to increase it." | http://www.twincities.com/news/ci_24242590/minn-raise-biodiesel-requirement-10-percent?source=rss | dclm-gs1-214570001 | false | false | {
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In response to the outrage at the Clackamas Town Center in Portland, I have already begun to see on my Facebook page all those slogans that really don't make much sense: "If guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns," and "If more sane people were armed, crazy people would get off fewer shots," and my personal favorite: "Guns don't kill people; people kill people."
First, very few, if any, of the shooters in these horrific massacres are "outlaws" in the typical sense. They are not drug dealers or bank robbers.
Second, even trained professionals have accidently shot innocent bystanders. Am I supposed to feel safer thinking about some pistol-packing amateur firing indiscriminately at a "shooter"?
Third, yes, humans will always find ways to kill other humans, but few portable weapons have the power of automatic rifles, whose sole purpose is to kill as many people as possible in a short amount of time.
People are getting tired of having their children shot down in schools, malls and theaters. These simplified, naïve, knee-jerk reactions are part of the problem and ultimately could have the opposite outcome.
I want to make it clear that I come from a long line of hunters and gun owners. I firmly believe in the Second Amendment, but its focus is a "well-regulated militia" and was written at a time when this country could still have been overtaken by some European empire.
I believe that if we do not find some way to institute reasonable gun control laws; if we do not find some way to control the sale and distribution of automatic and semi-automatic rifles, then we will find ourselves with stricter gun control laws than even I want.
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Game of Thrones
We have to admit, Game of Thrones Season 4, Episode 3 ("Breaker of Chains") wasn't the most exciting episode this show has ever had. Actually, it was one of the dullest. Still, it put a lot of pieces into place, and even a boring episode of Game of Thrones has entertaining moments.
So read on for Wetpaint Entertainment's recap of all the action, and then let us know what you guys think in the comments below.
King's Landing: The Aftermath of a Murder
We pick upright where we left off, with Cersei (Lena Headey) going out of her mind, Tyrion Lannister (Peter Dinklage) under arrest, and Sansa (Sophie Turner) on the run with Ser Dontos. Despite orders to close down the city, Dontos manages to get Sansa out. For a drunken fool, he's pretty resourceful. He takes her out to a hidden ship, where she's greeted by none other than Petyr “Littlefinger” Baelish (Aidan Gillen), who murders Dontos immediately, because he is a dick. Littlefinger, creepy as ever, lays out Sansa's situation pretty clearly: If she goes back to King's Landing, she'll be arrested for Joffrey's murder. So basically she's stuck with good ol' Petyr, just like he always wanted.
Back in the city, Margaery Tyrell (Natalie Dormer) wants to know if she's still queen. The answer, according to Lady Olenna (Diana Rigg) is kinda. More than with Renly, but not as much as if she and Joff had managed to get it on before he died. Even so, Olenna thinks Marg's "circumstances have improved markedly." She notes that their alliance with the Lannisters is still in place, and hints that there's a "next" husband for Margaery; presumably, Tommen Baratheon, Joffrey's younger brother. From a gay man to a sociopath to a literal child. Poor Margaery really does have terrible luck in the love department.
Speaking of Tommen, Tywin (Charles Dance) gives the new leader of the land a lecture on being a good king — literally over Joffrey's dead body. Which, as we see later, is not even the least respectful thing to happen around the dead king's corpse. Oh, Westeros.
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So, what does Tywin think makes a good king? Not holiness. Not justice. Not even strength. It's wisdom. That's really good advice, actually, even if his main point is "Hey, kid, you should do what I say." Tywin is a terrible father, but he's damn good at politics.
Eventually Tywin and Tommen walk off, leaving Cersei with Jaime (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau). Cersei starts ranting about how Tyrion is the murderer, but Jaime isn't so sure, and he's definitely not all about Cersei's demand that he kill his brother. "Please Jaime, you have to. He was our son. Our baby boy." Your sociopathic, killer son who made the world a much worse place, but sure.
Instead of promising to kill his brother, Jaime tries to get it on with his sister. And when she says no he... Goes ahead and does it anyway. Um. It is an incredibly hard scene to watch, made all the more difficult to watch because we were busy yelling "WTF WHY IS THIS SO RAPEY!?"
Because, listen. This scene was in the books, but it was nothing like that. It was completely consensual. Psychologically twisted? Yes, of course. Jaime and Cersei's relationship always was, and there's no way having sex next to your dead son isn't twisted. But it was consensual. And we do not understand this change. What did it achieve, other than to basically erase all of the goodwill they'd built up around Jaime by making him a rapist? Ug. This deserves an article of its own. Let's just say we're not pleased.
Let's move on to pleasanter things, like Oberyn (Pedro Pascal) and Ellaria Sand (Indira Varma) having group sex. We even get some sexy man butt! Equal opportunity nudity. Thank you, show. This fun moment is interrupted by Tywin, who accuses Oberyn of having a hand in Joffrey's murder. Kinda. What he actually wants is the Martells on his side. He agrees to let Oberyn have a "meeting" with the Mountain (AKA get his revenge) if Oberyn will be a judge at Tyrion's trial and sit on the small council.
In the dungeons, Pod brings Tyrion dinner. He hasn't heard anything about Shae yet, but he can fill Tyrion in what's going on with the trial. Tyrion is allowed to call his own witnesses, and he's shocked to hear Sansa has skipped town. Oh, and Bronn isn't allowed to see him. Things are really not going his way. He wants to at least see Jaime. Pod also admits that someone tried to bribe him to testify against Tyrion, and Tyrion tells him to do what he needs to to protect himself. It's a really touching scene. Aww.
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On the Road: The Way Things Are
The Hound (Rory McCann) and Arya (Maisie Williams) run into farmers, who take them in. These farmers are actually nice people. Yeah, we were shocked to find any of those in Westeros, too. They even offer The Hound a gig helping protect them... and as repayment, he beats up the head of the family and steals their money. Dude, we were just starting to like you. What happened to having a code?
Arya is outraged, but The Hound just doesn't give a damn. Those farmers weren't going to live out the winter, so they didn't need money. "I just understand the way things are," he tells her. He hints that Arya better get with the brutal program or she'll end up like the rest of her family — dead.
At the Wall: Romance Interrupted
Samwell Tarly (John Bradley) is bummed because no one believes that he killed a white walker. Imagine that. Oh, and remember Gilly? The Wildling he saved? She's still around. Sam is worried that she's gonna get raped, but she just wants him to like her. It's pretty cute, but Sam is too worried to make a move. Instead, moves her to Mole's Town, which makes her think he doesn't like her. Guys, just share your feelings.
Meanwhile, just south of the Wall, the Wildlings attack a village. Brutally. Styr tells a young boy he's going to eat his parents, and he should go tell the "crows" at the Wall. It's pretty upsetting. They made the Wildlings likable last year, but these new guys are just terrible.
At the Wall, the brothers debate if they should be bringing the mutineering brothers at Craster's Keep to justice, or focusing on shoring up Castle Black. Jon (Kit Harington) insists the answer is kill the mutineers before they let Mance know how weak the Night's Watch really is. This could lead to interesting things, but it was pretty boring on its own.
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Dragonstone: A New Plan
Stannis (Stephen Dillane) has learned that Joffrey is dead, and he's more convinced than ever that Melisandre magic is real, since she did that whole burning leeches thing last season. Somehow, this makes him think that Davos's (Liam Cunningham) suggestion that they, like, need and army and stuff is bad. Dude, we're with Davos. You can't win a war on prophecy alone.
Fortunately, a reading lesson with Shireen gives Davos a bright idea: he should get money from the Iron Bank of Braavos. Sure, take out a loan. That always goes well. Just ask the American economy!
Meereen: Dany Is Still the Queen of Speeches
Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) and co. have reached Meereen, but rather than confront her with an army, the city sends out a rider, a single champion who Dany needs to counter. Everyone offers their services, but Dany picks Daario Naharis (Michiel Huisman), because we need to make all of the other men around her jealous. Daario wins handily and like the badass he is. It's pretty cool, though not enough to make up for the rest of the episode.
Then Dany gives one of her famed speeches. Basically, I went around everywhere freeing slaves, now, if you'd just kill all of your masters for me, that would be great, thanks. Then she launches some barrels filled with broken chains. Cut to black. OK, fine. That was a pretty cool closing scene.
Random Thoughts
• "Who killed Joffrey?" is still a major question.
• Sorry Sam, but we basically do not care about Gilly at all.
• Stannis, showing a sense of humor: "They don't have enough men between them to raid a pantry."
• Littlefinger on why he killed Dontos: "Because he was a drunk and a fool and I don't trust drunk fools."
• Tywin, telling it like it is: "Your brother was not a wise king. Your brother was not a good king. If he had been, he might still be alive."
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Find yourself snacking non-stop at work? Don’t worry, you’re not the only mindless muncher! Here’s a tip to make it a little harder for yourself to gorge: People are much less likely to snack on food they can’t see or reach.
In this study, female staff members at a university confronted that gift-cum-curse, the office candy bowl. Sometimes the bowl was clear, so they could see the delicious chocolates inside, and sometimes it was opaque. The researchers also manipulated the distance between the participant and the bowl: within reach or a few feet away, requiring the participants to get up if they wanted to munch.
The women ate the most chocolates from the clear container within reach, and the least from the opaque, out-of-reach container. Seeing the candy made people especially prone to snacking: Participants ate more candy from a clear container that was out-of-reach than from an opaque container just an arm’s length away.
Proximity had an even bigger effect on their awareness. When the chocolates were within reach, participants underestimated how much they’d eaten, but when they had to walk over each time, they remembered eating more than they really had.
The bottom line: Put tempting treats out of sight and they’ll stay out of mind.
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The water level might go up (because the anchor will now be sitting at the bottom of the lake, taking up space); or it might go down (because the boat will be lighter and will float higher in the water); or perhaps those two things would cancel one another out, leaving the water level unchanged.
On this one, we suggested that you can "try this one at home". But the effect is sure to be a fairly small one if you try this in a real boat in a large lake, so we suggest making a "toy" lake and boat. For instance, we used a 6-cup Rubbermaid plastic container for our "lake" and a 2-cup container for our "boat". We put some chunks of metal in the boat to be our "anchor". Using a 6-inch ruler, we measured how far down the water level was from the rim of the lake. Then we took the metal chunks out of the boat and dropped them overboard and measured the water level again.
We suggest you go try it yourselves, and then come back and click here to see what we found out and why (after we had done the experiment), it was "obvious" what was going to happen.
By the way, this "rowboat" problem is an old favorite of physics teachers. In our experience, most physicists - when they first hear the question - are not at all sure what the answer is. It's only after they have thought about it for a while (and probably after writing some equations) that they say it was "obvious".
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APACHE INDIANS. The Apache Indians belong to the southern branch of the Athabascan group, whose languages constitute a large family, with speakers in Alaska, western Canada, and the American Southwest. The several branches of Apache tribes occupied an area extending from the Arkansas River to Northern Mexico and from Central Texas to Central Arizona. Generally, the Apaches are divided into Eastern and Western, with the Rio Grande serving as the dividing line. Two groups, the Lipans and the Mescaleros, lived partially or entirely within the confines of Texas. The Apaches went by numerous names. Because of their nomadic nature, it seems probable that several names were used to identify the same band or tribe. Some names of Apache bands in Texas were Limita, Conejero, and Trementinaqqv (perhaps the same as Limita). But only the names Lipan and Mescalero survived into the nineteenth century. The name Apache most probably came from the Zuñi word apachu, meaning "enemy," or possibly Awa'tehe, the Ute name for Apaches. The Apaches referred to themselves as Inde or Diné, meaning "the people." The Apaches arrived in the Southwest between A.D. 1000 and 1400. After somehow being separated from their northern kinsmen, they carved out a home in the Southwest-apparently migrating south along the eastern side of the Rocky Mountains, then spreading westward into New Mexico and Arizona. In time, pressure from the Comanches and other tribes pushed the Apaches farther south and west.
The social unit of the Lipan and Mescalero Apaches was the extended family. Several extended families generally stayed together and were led by their most prominent member, who acted as chief advisor and director of group affairs. A number of the groups lived in close proximity and could unite for defensive or offensive purposes, or for social or ceremonial occasions. The leader of the combined groups was the band leader. The Lipans had no formal organization larger than the band. This loose organization caused problems in relations with the Spanish, and later with the Mexicans, Texans, and Americans. One Apache band, for instance, might make peace with its enemies, while another would remain at war. Likewise, when the Apaches made peace with one enemy Indian settlement, it did not mean that they made peace with other affiliated settlements. Band leaders were always males, but females held a central place within the tribe. Upon marriage, the groom moved in with his wife's family and had to hunt and work with his in-laws. If the wife should die, the husband was required to stay with her family, who would usually supply him with a new bride. The wife had little obligation to the husband's family, but if he died, his family could provide a cousin or brother for her to marry. Men were allowed to marry more than one woman, but few besides wealthy or prestigious leaders did so. On those rare occasions, they were required to marry sisters or cousins of their wives.
The Apaches were nomadic and lived almost completely off the buffalo. They dressed in buffalo skins and lived in tents made of tanned and greased hides, which they loaded onto dogs when they moved with the herds. They were among the first Indians, after the Pueblos, to learn to ride horses. Learning from runaway or captured Pueblos, the Apaches quickly adapted to their use of horses. Formerly peaceful trade relationships with the Pueblos deteriorated, however, as the Spanish discouraged trade with the Apaches and forced the Pueblos to work their farms. When the Pueblos became unwilling or unable to trade with the Apaches, the nomadic Indians turned their new equestrian skills to raiding for horses and supplies. The Spanish first contacted the Apaches in 1541, when Francisco Vázquez de Coronado and his men encountered a band of "Querechos" on the journey to Quivira. From 1656 to 1675, the Spanish settlers and Pueblo Indians of New Mexico suffered heavily from almost continuous Apache raids. These raids, in conjunction with drought, harsh Spanish rule, and missionary activities, led the Pueblo Indians to revolt and to drive the Spaniards out of New Mexico in 1680 (the "Pueblo Revolt). When the Spaniards reconquered New Mexico in 1692, the Apaches were a powerful nation of mounted Indians who raided with impunity wherever they desired. But the Apaches' dominance was short-lived. Their aggressive behavior turned their neighbors into enemies, and a new, potentially powerful tribe, the Comanches, began pressuring the Apaches from the north. By 1700 the Apaches began migrating southwest as the Comanche, Wichita, and Tejas Indians, better armed through trade with the French, began to occupy the dominant position on the South Plains. In addition, the Apaches had never adapted completely to a Plains culture. They continued to establish rancherías, where they built huts and tended fields of maize, beans, pumpkins, and watermelons. This attempt to improve their source of food was a major cause of their defeat by the Comanches. Twice a year, during planting and again during harvesting, the Apaches were tied to their fields. As a result, the Comanches knew where to find their enemies and could launch devastating raids upon the Apache settlements. With each successful raid the Comanches grew stronger and the Apaches weaker.
As the Apaches fled before the Comanche onslaught, many groups moved westward into New Mexico and Arizona. Others, mainly the Lipans and Mescaleros, fled southward into Central Texas as well as into northern Mexico. There, they collided with the Spanish, who were advancing northward. The Spanish had earlier aided the Tejas Indians of East Texas in their raids against the Apaches. When the Spanish founded San Antonio in 1718, the Apaches discovered a convenient, accessible location at which to stage raids against their European enemies. The Spanish at San Antonio attempted to make peace with the Apaches but had little success. After a series of clashes, the viceroy ordered the governor of Texas, Fernando Pérez de Almazán, to secure peace with the Apaches through gentle means. Noting that the Jicarilla Apaches had made peace with the Spanish in New Mexico, the viceroy saw hope for similar conciliation with the Texas Apaches. The viceroy therefore forbade any further campaigns against the Apaches in 1725, and his decision appeared to be justified by a substantial drop in Apache raiding over the next six years. During this lull in activity, Pedro de Rivera y Villalón made a general inspection of the entire Spanish frontier and recommended, among other things, a reduction in the size of the garrison at San Antonio. Influenced no doubt by the relative quiet around San Antonio, Rivera suggested that the garrison be reduced. This action raised a storm of protest from the missionaries and settlers at Bexar. They feared renewed raids once the Apaches learned of the smaller force at San Antonio. The Regulation of 1729, based largely on Rivera's recommendations, forbade governors and commanders from waging war on friendly or indifferent Indians, discouraged campaigns against hostile Indians by friendly tribes, and encouraged granting peace to any enemy tribes who sought it. During the 1730s and 1740s, the Apaches and Spaniards continued to wage war on each other. In 1743 Fray Benito Fernández de Santa Ana urged the establishment of missions for the Apaches in their own lands, arguing that this was the best solution to the most serious Indian problems in Texas. On August 19, 1749, four Apache chiefs with numerous followers buried a hatchet along with other instruments of war in a peace ceremony at San Antonio. For the first time both sides appeared genuinely to desire peace, and the Apaches, decimated by Comanche raids, appeared willing to accept Christian conversion in exchange for protection by the Spaniards.
The missionaries at San Antonio proposed several plans to set up missions for the Apaches, but competition among proposals delayed their implementation. The first formal mission for the Texas Apaches was established not at San Antonio but in the jurisdiction of San Juan Bautista on the Rio Grande. On December 21, 1754, Alonso Giraldo de Terreros established the mission of San Lorenzo, situated in Mexico eighteen leagues west of the presidio at San Juan Bautista. San Lorenzo had a degree of success until Father Terreros retired from the management of that mission to promote a larger project intended for the San Saba River in Texas. Less than a year after San Lorenzo was established, its neophytes became discontented, revolted, burned the mission buildings, and deserted. The missionaries blamed the failure of that first Apache mission on the natural inconstancy of the tribe, as well as on their reluctance to live away from their homelands. The latter reason helped bolster the argument for placing a mission closer to Apache territory. Revived prospects for mining in the region of San Saba, which was located in the heart of Apachería, also boosted the argument for that location. In addition, Terreros's cousin offered generous monetary support for the mission. The plan for a mission-presidio-colony project was soon under way. When Terreros, the presidio commander Col. Diego Ortiz Parrilla, and their entourage arrived at the San Saba River in April 1757, they found no Indians to greet them. Still, despite Ortiz's objections, the missionaries demanded that construction begin, and Ortiz yielded to their entreaties. In June 1757 the first Indians began to arrive at the site, and within days 3,000 Apaches encamped around the mission. The missionaries were extremely pleased until they learned that the Indians were not willing to enter the mission. Instead, they had gathered for their annual buffalo hunt and for a campaign against their enemies, the northern tribes. The Indians soon departed, promising to return to settle at the missions upon completion of their quest. During the autumn and winter of 1757, small groups of Apaches would appear at the mission; but after partaking of the priests' kindness, they continued their migration to the south. On March 16, 1758, a party of 2,000 Comanche, Tejas, Bidai, Tonkawa, and other Indians swooped down upon Santa Cruz de San Sabá Mission, killed eight of the inhabitants, pillaged the supplies, and burned the buildings.
Despite the disaster at San Saba and the apparent untrustworthiness of the Apaches, the Spanish continued in their efforts to keep the peace. The Apaches for their part did just enough to keep the Spanish interested. They even joined Colonel Ortiz on his campaign in 1759 to punish the northern tribes. Although some of the Lipans retreated before the final battle, most of them apparently served Ortiz well during the campaign. The Lipans continued to ask for a mission but refused to settle in the region of San Saba after the massacre that had occurred there. They desired a location more remote from their Comanche and northern enemies. In January 1762 the new Apache mission, San Lorenzo de la Santa Cruz, was established on the upper Nueces River halfway between San Saba and the Rio Grande. Once the mission was established, several Apache bands visited it, but only one band of more than 300 actually settled at the mission. Within a month, however, an Apache chief requested the establishment of a second mission at a site several miles downstream from San Lorenzo. In February 1762 Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria Mission was established. Life at the missions progressed relatively smoothly until a smallpox epidemic hit the neophytes in 1764. In addition, the missions were too poor to feed the Indians regularly, and the missionaries demanded too much labor from them. Slowly, the Lipans became discouraged with mission life. In 1766 they abandoned Candelaria; and when the Comanches and other northern tribes began raiding San Lorenzo, the Apaches deserted in droves. By the summer of 1767, both missions were devoid of Lipan Apaches.
At approximately this time, the Marqués de Rubí completed his inspection of the frontier, and upon his return to Mexico set forth his recommendations. He believed that the Comanches and other northern tribes attacked the Spanish only because of the latter's connection with the Lipan Apaches. Rubí felt sure that friendship could be cultivated with the northern tribes and that with their help the Apaches could be exterminated, or at least sufficiently reduced. By the 1790s the Apaches had become relatively quiet, although they continued to raid sporadically. The Spanish made peace treaties with them in 1790 and again in 1793. When the Mexican War of Independence began in 1811, the decreased attention that the Spanish paid to Indians caused them to become bolder, and they again staged raids. These attacks continued until the end of Spanish rule in Texas and Mexico. Antonio María Martínez, the last Spanish governor of Texas, reported raids by Lipan and Comanche Indians, even on the capital of Texas, San Antonio (see CAPITALS).
The Mexican government quickly signed two treaties with the Lipans. In each, the Mexicans promised to supply the Apaches with annual gifts of gunpowder and corn in exchange for peace. As Anglo-Americans began moving into Central Texas, the Apaches cultivated a friendship with them, each side hoping that the other would help defend them against hostile tribes in the area. The Lipans often raided into Mexico and sold their stolen horses and goods to the Anglos. The Mexican government generally overlooked these depredations, because of the usefulness of the Apaches against the formidable Comanches.
When Texas gained its independence, the relatively cordial relations between whites and Apaches continued. The Texans drew up their own treaty with the Lipans in 1838. The alliance broke down in 1842, and 250 of approximately 400 Lipans left Texas for Mexico, where they joined the Mescaleros on destructive raids across the border for several decades. In 1865–67 alone, Uvalde County reported the theft of more than $30,000 worth of livestock and the deaths of eighteen people. The Mexican government was reluctant to act, because several Mexican border towns profited handsomely from the purchase of plundered goods from the Apaches. Finally, in 1873, Col. Ranald S. Mackenzie led a force of 400 soldiers into Mexico to destroy the Lipan villages. His army killed or captured virtually all of the surviving Lipans, and they were deported to the Mescalero Reservation in the Sacramento Mountains of New Mexico, which had been assigned to the Mescaleros in 1855 but not officially established until 1873. In 1905 the remainder of the Lipans in Mexico drifted onto the Mescalero Reservation. In 1970 about 1,660 Indians were enrolled there-not only Mescaleros, but Chiricahuas, Lipans, Kiowas, and a few Comanches as well. Thirty-five Lipans were living in Oklahoma in 1940 but were not officially listed among the tribes of the state.
John Francis Bannon, The Spanish Borderlands Frontier, 1513–1821 (New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1970). Carlos E. Castañeda, Our Catholic Heritage in Texas (7 vols., Austin: Von Boeckmann-Jones, 1936–58; rpt., New York: Arno, 1976). William E. Dunn, "The Apache Mission on the San Saba River: Its Founding and Failure," Southwestern Historical Quarterly 17 (April 1914). William E. Dunn, "Apache Relations in Texas, 1718–1750," Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association 14 (January 1911). Odie B. Faulk, The Last Years of Spanish Texas, 1778–1821 (The Hague: Mouton, 1964). George E. Hyde, Indians of the High Plains: From the Prehistoric Period to the Coming of Europeans (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1959). Elizabeth A. H. John, Storms Brewed in Other Men's Worlds: The Confrontation of Indians, Spanish, and French in the Southwest, 1540–1795 (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1975). Thomas E. Mails, The People Called Apache (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1974). Paul D. Nathan, trans., and Lesley Byrd Simpson, ed., The San Sabá Papers (San Francisco: Howell, 1959). Thomas H. Naylor and Charles W. Polzer, comps. and eds., Pedro de Rivera and the Military Regulations for Northern New Spain, 1724–1729 (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1988). William W. Newcomb, The Indians of Texas (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1961). Frank D. Reeve, "The Apache Indians in Texas," Southwestern Historical Quarterly 50 (October 1946). Thomas F. Schilz, Lipan Apaches in Texas (El Paso: Texas Western Press, 1987). Virginia H. Taylor, trans. and ed., The Letters of Antonio Martínez, Last Spanish Governor of Texas, 1817–1822 (Austin: Texas State Library, 1957). John Upton Terrell, The Plains Apache (New York: Crowell, 1975). Ernest Wallace and David M. Vigness, eds., Documents of Texas History (Austin: Steck, 1963). Robert S. Weddle, The San Sabá Mission (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1964).
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As the Discogs page for "Juan Maclean" makes patently clear, there is the man Juan Maclean (born John Maclean), and then there is his band, The Juan Maclean. The project fuses robotic synth-pop with well-honed, genre-neutral dancefloor instincts, and has been marked by a host of collaborators. The most prominent of those is vocalist and keyboardist Nancy Whang, who anchors The Juan Maclean's latest hooky single and nineteenth release for DFA, "You Are My Destiny." This edition of Trainwreck finds Maclean out on his own, however. And though there is probably no great moral to this story, it does prove that the artist will go to violent lengths to ensure a quality party—even if it means paradoxically wrecking said party in the process.
Tim Sweeney and I were DJing together at a club in Atlanta, Georgia. It was one of those situations where it was a live venue, so the turntables were set up on the stage. We were both playing vinyl, and a guy in the audience [who was] really drunk, apparently, picked up a microphone stand that was lying around and started banging the table that the turntables were on with it. And in the middle of my mixing two records—I was in the middle of a mix—he actually made the record skip, so it just totally trainwrecked and destroyed the whole thing. I remember looking up, getting really mad, and yelling at him. And when I yelled at him, he laughed at me, and that's when I was totally sent out of control, basically. Tim was standing there with me. I remember taking my headphones off and leaving the records playing totally out of sync at the same time—it just sounded terrible—and marching off the stage to go find the guy. When I got to the side of the stage, a kid came running up to me and said something like, "I know where that guy is, I'll take you to him. He's been fucking with people all night."
And that's when I really, in my head, was like, "Okay, that's all the justification I need to go do whatever I'm gonna go do right now." The kid took me to this guy. And I don't know how much detail I need to go into, but I basically provoked him into a fight. He went down to the floor pretty quickly, but when he was down on the floor he reached up and grabbed my shirt—I think I was still hitting him at this point—and he ripped my shirt right off my back. This was like a full-on fight. I remember hearing girls just screaming and a big frenzy going on around us. At some point, the bouncers came over and separated us, and they actually threw him out. When it was all over, I was left standing there with no shirt on.
Basically, all that was left in the club were like 50 guys—I just remember there were no girls left at all. I remember thinking to myself, "I have to finish playing because I need to get paid." I still [had] an hour left in my set, so I walked back up to the stage with no shirt on. I [was] being taunted by a bunch of guys out there. I definitely started playing much angrier, playing some Nitzer Ebb record, I can't remember which song it was, and a bunch of techno. No one was dancing. It was just all these guys with their arms folded, and once in awhile, someone would be like, "Why don't you come down here and fight me?!" It was me, Tim, [former The Juan Maclean drummer] Jerry Fuchs, and I think Tim's cousin, who was in the Marines or some branch of the armed forces. In order to get out of there, I remember him [having] a whole strategy using words like "flanking"—like, "We'll flank you when we walk out." We really thought we were going to go outside and get in a big fight or something, but the police were out there and we got away. But then the next day it was [reported] on Pitchfork, and it was really embarrassing. XLR8R ran some headline that was like, "Juan Maclean Beats Down Drunken Fan." (Ed. note: It was actually "Juan Maclean Decks Drunken Fan Onstage.") My mother called me, and she was really upset. DFA—someone from the label was really upset. The only one who wasn't upset was [label co-owner] James Murphy, who thought it was awesome. He was like, "We need to have more fighting in DJing."
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0.024196 | <urn:uuid:1b364f64-7a20-4596-83b4-be54e773ca22> | en | 0.87043 | Devexpress Stellenanzeigen - Stack Overflow Careers Stellenanzeigen - Stack Overflow Careers3 Tradingc#winformswpfdevexpress.netC# Software Developer at Volant Trading (New York, NY)<p>We are looking for a talented and motivated software engineer to join our development team. The candidate would focus mainly on the front end of our real time trading system in C# and may also work in C++ on the server side, which assembles and distributes data to the front end. This job is technically demanding due to the huge amount of data that needs to be processed in real time. </p>Wed, 30 Sep 2015 18:31:13 Z2015-09-30T18:31:13ZNew York, NY Ltd.c#sqlsql-server.Net / C# and SQL Server Software Engineer at Trigonal Ltd. (London, UK)<p>We need a C# developer to join our team based in the City of London.</p><br /><p>We are a small software house focusing on the maritime and commodity derivatives industries. Due to increased demand for our software and services we need to expand our team.</p><br /><p>You’ll work as a C# developer across our product offerings. You’ll be exposed to the full development life-cycle and work on projects either as part of team or independently. There will be a degree of customer interaction via phone/Skype/face-to-face so excellent written and oral communication skills are a must. We host many of our services on Azure so you will be exposed to cloud services as well.</p><br /><p><strong>No relocations please.</strong><br><strong>No recruiters / agencies please.</strong></p>Mon, 28 Sep 2015 11:31:13 Z2015-09-28T11:31:13ZLondon, UK Fruit Softwarec#xamarin.netSenior .NET Developer at Passion Fruit Software (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam)<p>- We are looking for software engineers to join the team that maintains and modernizes our CRM application (Desktop, Web, Mobile, MAC). <br>- You will help to redesign and re-architect our current application in ORM. <br>- Work closely with UX and graphics designers to transform design idea to coding. <br>- You are interested in new technologies.</p>Fri, 18 Sep 2015 19:31:13 Z2015-09-18T19:31:13ZHo Chi Minh City, Vietnam | http://careers.stackoverflow.com/de/jobs/feed?tags=devexpress | dclm-gs1-215450001 | false | false | {
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Jihadi Protests in UP turns violent;attacked people,vandalised Buddha statue, shops and vehicles.
18/08/2012 03:31:49 PTI
Violence broke out in the Uttar Pradesh capital city on Friday as hundreds of irate Muslims, protesting violence against the community in Assam and Myanmar, took to the streets, attacked people, and vandalised shops and vehicles in their way. It all started after prayers on the last Friday of the month of Ramzan when a mob of over 2,000 people, owing allegiance to Jamaat-e-Ulem
a took out a procession from old Lucknow after the 'alvida namaaz' and began moving towards the Vidhan Sabha.
Raising slogans against the killings of Muslims in Myanmar and Assam, the crowd turned violent even targeting the famous Buddha Park where they vandalised many statues and uprooted plants. The police posse present there remained silent spectators.
The crowd was finally physically stopped at the Vidhan Sabha when the protestors wanted to proceed towards the chief minister's Kalidas Marg residence.
The mob then turned its ire on the mediapersons and cameramen present at the legislature, attacking the journalists, breaking their cameras and vandalising the OB van of a national television channel.
While the mob soon melted away, the mediapersons staged a sit-in demanding action and arrest of the people who attacked them. They said they would not move until the principal secretary for home came and met them and ordered arrest of the attackers.
Violent protests have been reported from Kanpur also where protestors pelted stones on passers-by at Rizvi Road and Cycle Market areas after the namaaz. Rapid Action Force (RAF) has been deployed to prevent further escalation of violence.
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A report on the above incident with photos.
Raj Puducode
19/08/2012 11:11:42
Exodus of Jihadis
Is there a magic bullet or spreading of wrong information so that the Jihadi cancer among us will start an exodus back to their heaven on earth called Pakistan or Bangladesh so that the rest can live in peace.We are wasting too much of our life time fighting these animals among us.
19/08/2012 00:57:53
How unfortunate Bharat is with having such people amongst it. Thank you, Nehru, Gandhi for this virus.
19/08/2012 00:25:41
Sample of days to come
Now it is being argued that, the conspiracy originated in Pakistan. But that doesn't answer all the questions. Irrespective of where the rumors originated, it clearly shows that Islamic fanaticism is fast becoming a national threat. The sheer number of rioters, they co-ordinated way in which the riots spread through cities, the fact that they could bring out massive crowds in the supposedly holy month of theirs in which they are supposed to indulge only in pious activities etc show that, for muslim fanatics, this is only a land to conquer.
raj nair
18/08/2012 11:50:46
This hooliganism by barbarians in the name of a barbariac religion and its fictitious moon-god cannot take place in the state Gujarat; because it is ruled by a Hindu who know how to protect the law abiding good people under his regime.
Satish Chandra
18/08/2012 09:15:09
The Beginning Ethnic Cleansing
The fact is all Kafirs would be cleansed from India now. This is the formal beginning, although the process has started long back as Jehadis have continously grown in number.
I pray atleast some of the pseudo-seculars become victims of attack on North East people - so at least now they realise the real plan of jehadis - to cleanse India of Kafirs.
Satish Chandra
18/08/2012 09:09:24
Why has no 'Shoot-at-sight' been issued against the anti-socials? Are those 'Jamais' to Mulayam Singh Yadav?
18/08/2012 08:54:51
A idiotic religion
Islam is idiotic religion which provokes Jihadis in all places. How come these Jihadi idiots want to support their Jihadi brothers coming from Bangladesh ?.
18/08/2012 07:19:41
That is Darul Harb for you.Gazwat Al Hind is their 1400 year old unfinished agenda.Be aware Petty Secular Politicians of India.
18/08/2012 05:52:07
These goons are ruining our nation economically and culturely
These are the born criminals, who don't know anything other than violence or the other side of the life.
This was the same way they behaved in Mumbai. Why these are only happening in Congress ruling Maharashtra and S.P ruling U.P. Day time politicians are the night time criminals and they know that nothing will happen.
There is no language in the world, even Greek, which has the clarity and the philosophical precision of Sanskrit, and this great India is not only at the origin of everything, She is superior in everything, intellectually, religiously or politically and even the Greek heritage seems pale in comparison.
Frederich von Schlegel : Great German writer, critic, philosopher, philologist, the most prominent founder of German Romanticism
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0.05547 | <urn:uuid:2e817259-72bb-4286-ab59-ba8f822767e2> | en | 0.964051 | Scott Lucas: The manufacture of fear? US politics both before and after 9-11
Roundup: Historians' Take
"The chief costs of terrorism derive not from the damage inflicted by the terrorists, but what those attacked do to themselves and others in response. That is, the harm of terrorism mostly arises from the fear and from the often hasty, ill-considered, and overwrought reaction (or overreaction) it characteristically, and often calculatedly, inspires in its victims."―John Mueller1
I would like to begin with two incidents, one from the perspective of the academic, one (with apologies in advance) from a much more personal standpoint. A few weeks ago my mother, who has been concerned for more than twenty years that I am cut off here in Britain from what is going on in the United States, forwarded a letter to me that has been widely circulated on the Internet:
Well, I don't. I don't care at all. I'll start caring when Osama bin Laden turns himself in and repents for incinerating all those innocent people on 9/11.
I'll care when the American media stops pretending that their First Amendment liberties are somehow derived from international law instead of the United States Constitution's Bill of Rights. In the meantime, when I hear a story about a brave marine roughing up an Iraqi terrorist to obtain information, know this: I don't care.
And oh, by the way, I've noticed that sometimes it's spelled"Koran" and other times"Quran." Well, Jimmy Crack Corn and—you guessed it—I don't care! ! ! ! !
If you agree with this viewpoint, pass this on to all your e-mail friends.
Almost 60 years ago, when the foe of America was not radical Islamists but Communists, President Harry Truman hosted a meeting with Congressional representatives. The Truman administration, having been told by Britain that it could no longer provide aid to Greece or Turkey, faced a challenge: how could it persuade the American public and Congress to send hundreds of millions of dollars to those two Mediterranean countries? The advice to the Democratic president from Arthur Vandenberg, the Republican leader in the Senate, was blunt: make a speech to “scare the hell” out of the American people.3 Two weeks later, the president went before a joint session of Congress and issued what would become known as the Truman Doctrine: “I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures.”4
Of course, there are differences between the two cases. One is the action of “official” executive political networks, using the method of formal communication to justify policy; the other is that of private individuals taking advantage of the technological shift and acceleration brought by the Internet to disseminate an urgent message. In both cases, however, the purpose of the discussions is the “mobilisation of fear.” Notions of the “culture of fear” are far from new,5 but I think they can be applied effectively to the reconsideration of policymaking, specifically the making of U.S. foreign policy, in both historical and contemporary cases. I would put two general hypotheses:
1. Scholarly study of U.S. foreign policy in the Cold War has been so focused on objective explanations of strategy, geopolitics, and, most important, “national security” that it has ignored the subjective construction and projection of that policy. Provocatively stated, the Soviet Union served not as much as an actual nightmare as a constructed nightmare to justify the projection of American power around the world.
2. Contemporary U.S. foreign policy, like its 1950s predecessor, did not respond to fear with plans for “security”; rather, it has sought to channel and even stoke fear to bolster implementation of a predetermined policy. Specifically and provocatively stated, the Bush administration did not stage the tragedy of 11 September 2001, but within hours of the event it began to consider how to use a War on Terror to implement plans for regime change in Iraq....
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It's Always Sunny in Philadeplhia is the story of three friends that own a bar. Oh and Dennis' sister and their father.
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Naked pics online? That's disgusting. On a website? There's so many of them though. Where? Which one?
Charlie: A what day?
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Generally used by the more veteran users of games and the internet. Used generally as a parody of stupid users who say plz or pls.
May I have free itams plox?!
dodane przez Optimus45 czerwiec 07, 2006
10 Words related to plox
the stupidest way of saying please
can i hav a gmaul plox
dodane przez fresher den a mug grudzień 28, 2008
Plox is an annoy word developed by the Gamefaqsers, means please but rather annoy.
Fighter: Heel plox!1!1
Acolyte: jajaja, ush ur pots jah.
dodane przez StarOcean kwiecień 17, 2005
(1) A gamer's way of saying please.
(2) However, when one moves up the 1337 cool ladder then begin to use plox in a bigger variety of meanings. It becomes substitutable for any noun, verb, or adjective as long as you assume the opposite person can follow your train of logic and understand that which plox is substituting.
(3) Plox can also be used to describe a certain situation, or to imply special circumstances.
(4) Used to change normal insult names to the next level by adding plox. Har to accomplish unless you use one word add-ons'
(5) the suffix -erz on the end of plox can be used to create a playful mood in conversation between gamers and can be used as an exclamation when a gamer is either in a tough situation or is has accomplished something amazing. Usually coupled with an add on word.
In many of the following occasions (2, 3, 4 and 5) words can be attached to the beginning or end of plox(usually end) in order to convey the meaning or substitution of plox easier.
Important!: Plox may be added onto the end of random words in order to make conversation between gamers even scrubbier then normal.
(1): Yo wassup baybay, gimme ur 50 plox
Kid (gamer) 1: Dude i got my 50 plox in halo 3. Now I'm a general!
Kid (gamer) 2: You fucking scrub I ploxed that shit like 6 months ago
Kid (gamer)1: Yeah, I got it in swat. I got carryploxed by sidewayz shootin' and OMG iTz Fagz
Kid (gamer) 2: Fuck sidewayz, he fucking lives in basementplox with his parents and he's like 30.
Kid (gamer)1: Yeah, hey i gotta go plox a spanish test in Ms. Trejo's. See ya ploxnugget.
Kid (gamer) 1: Dude i think you that ugly chick Timantha Hoffman likes me
Kid (gamer) 2: Get fuckin' ROFLPLOXED, aren't your mom's friends?
Kid (gamer) 1: Yeah, she's coming over for dinner tomorrow night.
Kid (gamer) 2: That sounds like a fun plox to me.
Kid (gamer) 1: Hey fuck you glitter-fucking-plox-fuck
Kid (gamer) 2: Calm down retardplox
EX 1: Fuckplox, I just got moved from my table in science and I won't be able to copy them. The teacher's gonna figure out I know nothing.
EX 2:
Kid (gamer) 1: PLOXERZ, I ust got a fucking 2 for 1 with a laserplox
dodane przez Mackerplox czerwiec 18, 2009
A way of saying please in a stupid or sarcastic way.
Person 1: Can I have a medic plox
Person 2: Pfft! Your a soldier, you can use medic yourself.
dodane przez Matty0506 październik 25, 2010
The sound a poo makes when it hits the water in the toilet.
Plox - You will experience it everyday in the toilet.
dodane przez groinisotope luty 25, 2009
a common mistyping of the abbreviated plz seeing as only fat gamer fags have fat fingers, the accidently hit the O key right after the L and hit X instead of Z, thus making them more of an outcast on society coz they are fat, and they cant spell
Kid-noob gimmie all ur iteme before u plox
Kid 2- fuck off fat shit
*kid 2 leaves the game*
Kid-ban him plox host
Host-STFU fat cunt
*Kid 1 gets custom kicked*
*Kid 1 banned for leaving*
Host-Rofl at that fat fuck hes banned
dodane przez mitch lipiec 23, 2009
Cykliczny mail ze słowem dnia
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0.020967 | <urn:uuid:46243786-5ac6-4373-be9d-2a1921acc4d8> | en | 0.982181 | Southeast Division Preview: Winnipeg Jets
Winnipeg Jets Season Preview
Record Last Year: 37-35-10
Goal Differential: -21
Team 5v5 Fenwick: 51.05% (11th in NHL)
5v5 Sh%: 8.1%
5v5 Sv%: .912
PP SF/60: 45.6 (21st in NHL)
PK SA/60: 51.4 (11th in NHL)
If you have looked at Bovoda's betting odds for who will win the Southeast, you will see that the team with the worst "chance" at winning the division is the Winnipeg Jets at +700. Those aren't terrible odds by any means but most people have the Jets as the "underdogs" in the Southeast and the least likely to make the playoffs. To me, this is surprising because Winnipeg wasn't that bad of a team last year. They weren't exactly a "good" team either, but compared to the rest of the Southeast, the Jets were pretty much in the thick of things until the latter part of the season. They had only one fewer win than the Southeast champion Florida Panthers, two more points than Carolina and the same amount of points as Tampa Bay. It's just kind of hard to believe that the odds of them winning the division are so much lower than them.
A possible reason why Winnipeg hasn't been receiving much love from the writers and oddsmakers is because Carolina and Tampa Bay both had very active off-seasons while the Jets didn't make much noise that caught the national media's eye. The Jets may have not broke any headlines but GM Kevin Chevyldayoff made a few good signings and it could help Winnipeg surprise a few people this season.
Off-Season Moves
Who's In? Olli Jokinen (C), Alexei Ponikarovsky (LW), Al Montoya (G), Mark Dekanich (G), James Wright (C)
Who's Out? Tanner Glass (LW), Tim Stapleton (LW), Chris Mason (G), Eric Fehr (RW), Randy Jones (D)
The Jets had a pretty underrated off-season when it came to addressing needs up front. Their second line center spot was a revolving door for most of last season and they were able to fix this by signing Olli Jokinen. Jokinen's strong boxcar numbers were mostly driven by a strong on-ice shooting percentage but he was also being thrown out against the toughest competition Brent Sutter could put him against. Claude Noel doesn't use his second line like in that fashion and will probably give Jokinen easier assignments. Jokinen is in the latter stages of his career but I think he provides a good short-term solution for the Jets, who had issues with forward depth last year.
Another underrated signing made by by Jets was getting Alexei Ponikarovsky for one-year at $1.8 million. Carolina fans know that Ponikarovsky's days as a 20-goal scorer are likely over and he is most useful on a checking line where his only role is to drive possession, work hard and possibly provide some secondary scoring. That's exactly what the Jets need him to do though, as he was brought in as a replacement for Tanner Glass on the third line. Noel likes to use his third line in a tough-minute role and having a guy who can push the play forward is key.
The Jets also decided to lock-up goaltender Ondrej Pavelec for five years at $3.9 mil. per season and they brought in two other goalies to compete for the back-up spot. The first candidate is Al Montoya, who spent the last two seasons as one of the Islanders many goalies and he's coming off a pretty down year. He played in 31 games for the Isles and posted an even strength save percentage of .901, which is considered replacement level. The other goalie, Mark Dekanich, was supposed to be the back-up for Steve Mason in Columbus last season but an injury derailed his season. He has played well in the AHL and will probably be competing with Montoya for the back-up job. Neither can be much worse than Chris Mason was last year.
Reasons for Optimism
Home-ice Advantage
It's possible that Winnipeg's strong home record last year was due to variance, but a look at the team's Fenwick close splits shows that the Jets did a better job at controlling possession at even strength when they were playing at home than they did on the road. I would probably attribute that to Claude Noel's line matching more than anything else, but they can probably continue to do this with Jokinen and Ponikarovsky now on the team. The Jets 48.03% Fenwick close on the road is very troubling but this team is still very tough to play at home and that will create a problem for other teams.
Stronger Up Front
Last season, the Jets had a very strong line with Andrew Ladd, Bryan Little and Blake Wheeler and these three should be able to stay intact for this season. After that, they had problems when it came to finding a center for the second line as they regularly had to shift Nik Antropov and Alex Burmistrov in and out of this role. There should be more consistency this season with Jokinen taking over the second-line center duties and he is probably good enough to take advantage of the softer minutes he'll play this year. Put him on a line with Evander Kane and one of Nik Antropov or Kyle Wellwood and Winnipeg's top-six looks pretty legit. Having Ponikarovsky to take the tougher assignments instead of Tanner Glass will help them out, too.
Byfuglien/Enstrom Lead the Defense
One of Winnipeg's strongest features is their top defense pairing of Dustin Byfuglien and Tobias Enstrom, which might sound odd because both of these two are more known for their offense than their defensive play. Watching Byfuglien play in the defensive zone can be an adventure at times but these two are pretty stellar when it comes to driving the play forward. They took on a little more defensive responsibility last year, too by killing penalties and getting matched up against opposing team's top lines than they did in years past. They still get a zone start push, but I think they are a fine top defense pairing and are pretty lethal when you combine them with Winnipeg's top line.
Reasons for Concern
Is Pavelec Good Enough?
The Jets made a pretty big gamble back in July when they extended goaltender Ondrej Pavelec for five years at nearly $4 mil. per season. Pavelec has been the de facto starting goaltender for the Jets/Thrashers franchise the last couple of years and his performance can be described as average at best. Pavelec had a good year in 2010-11 but he stopped only .906 of the shots he faced last season and his career numbers are worse than that. Winnipeg was in the top-half of the NHL in Fenwick close, so they won't have to depend on Pavelec that much but they are still trusting a lot of years and quite a bit of money in a goaltender who has been slightly above-average at best in the NHL. Montoya and Dekanich provide decent insurance policies at the very least.
Defensive Depth?
After Byfuglien, Enstrom and Bogosian, the Jets blue line doesn't have much to offer. Whoever plays with Bogosian will have to eat up a lot of defensive zone draws because of Byfuglien/Enstrom and I'm not sure if they have the right people suited for that. Ron Hainsey is always hurt, Grant Clitsome and Mark Stuart are probably a third-pairing defenseman on most teams and the rest features guys who are entering their first full-season in the NHL. Supposedly the team is high on Paul Postma and while he has played well in the AHL, he is still largely unproven as an NHL-er.
Tough-minute players
When I look at the Jets roster, I see a lot of players who can succeed with a push in zone starts (Byfuglien, Enstrom, their entire top-six) but not many guys who can handle the toughest assignments. They have a Jim Slater's line eating up most of the defensive zone draws but that unit was plowed at even strength last year and didn't do much to drive the play forward. Ponikarovsky might be able to help them out here but they still have a lot of holes on defense in regards to finding guys to take the tough draws. Bogosian might be forced to take on this role alongside of Stuart, Hainsey or one of the guys from the third-pairing. That is, unless Byfuglien and Enstrom can take on an even bigger role, which I kind of doubt they will.
Winnipeg is in a similar boat to Florida where a few things need to go right for them to win the division, mostly their goaltending, but any team can get lucky in a shortened year so the Jets may very well in be in the mix throughout the season. It's hard to say they'll be a contender with their problems on the blue-line, but I think they are good enough to compete for a playoff spot in the Eastern Conference. Remember, the Southeast is still the tightest division in the NHL and the Jets shouldn't be counted out early. | http://shutdownline.com/hurricanes/season-previews/southeast-division-preview-winnipeg-jets.html | dclm-gs1-216260001 | false | false | {
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Valve Releases Updated Alien Swarm For Free With Code Base 164
baronvoncarson tips news that today Valve released an updated version of Alien Swarm, a popular Unreal Tournament 2004 total conversion mod. The creators of the mod were hired by Valve, and they've helped turn it into a stand-alone game running on the Source engine. Valve is also releasing the code base for Alien Swarm and an SDK. The game is available for free on Steam.
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Today BioWare unveiled the most impressive new class yet seen for their upcoming MMO, Star Wars: The Old Republic. Sarlacc Enforcers are "paragons of patience and planning, always waiting for the right moment to pounce on their quarry – even if it takes one thousand years." Gamespot had an interview with the game's developers to get a clear picture on how such a unique and innovative class was designed. Quoting: "Well, this is a stealth class, so the soloing experience of the Sarlacc enforcer is going to be a little slow. [This character] spends a lot of time slowly sneaking into position before unleashing potent close-ranged attacks, such as 'devour.' But once exposed, the enforcer heavily relies on companion characters to lure enemies close, so he/it can unleash his/its close-ranged attacks. However, the enforcer shines in a group, especially when paired with a Jedi consular that can knock enemies toward him. At this point, the Sarlacc enforcer can use his/its powerful suite of damage-over-time abilities, like 'digest' and 'regurgitate.'"
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Barence writes "It's desolate, dirty, and sex is outcast to a separate island. In this article, PC Pro's Barry Collins returns to Second Life to find out what went wrong, and why it's raking in more cash than ever before. It's a follow-up to a feature written three years ago, in which Collins spent a week living inside Second Life to see what the huge fuss at the time was all about. The difference three years can make is eye-opening."
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday upheld the government's broad discretion to give only a cursory explanation for refusing to grant a visa to the spouse of an American citizen. The justices divided 5-to-4, concluding that a consular officer's citation of unspecified "terrorist activities" was enough to justify barring a spouse without further explanation.
The U.S. Supreme Court Monday sided with the president in a long-running struggle with Congress over who controls recognition of foreign countries and what information about nationhood can be put on the passports of American citizens.
In a 6-to-3 decision, the high court struck down a law requiring the State Department to indicate on passports that the city of Jerusalem is part of Israel. The decision was a blow to the pro-Israel lobby and to congressional power over certain parts of foreign policy.
The U.S. Supreme Court made it harder Monday to prosecute people for making threats on social media.
The case was brought by Anthony Elonis, who was sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison for threatening his estranged wife and an FBI agent.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that Abercrombie & Fitch violated the nation's laws against religious discrimination when it refused to hire a Muslim teenager because she wore a headscarf.
Samantha Elauf, 17, applied for a job selling clothes at the Abercrombie Kids store in Tulsa. She long had worn a hijab — a headscarf — for religious reasons, and she wore the black scarf when she was interviewed by the store's assistant manager.
Lethal injection was the grim subject before the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday. Specifically at issue: whether the drug combinations currently used to execute convicted murderers in some states are unconstitutionally cruel.
The issue comes to the court after three botched executions over the past year.
The U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments Wednesday in three death penalty cases testing which drug combinations constitute cruel and unusual punishment when used to execute a convicted murderer by lethal injection.
It is the second time in seven years that the justices have looked at the lethal injection question, and it comes after three botched executions over the past year.
The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court seemed closely divided Tuesday over the question of gay marriage, with Justice Anthony Kennedy likely holding the deciding vote.
Kennedy, who over the past two decades has written the court's three decisions recognizing and expanding gay rights, seemed conflicted on the question of marriage.
This week's same-sex-marriage cases at the Supreme Court brought in a record number of friend-of-the-court briefs — 148 of them, according to the court, beating the previous record of 136 in the 2013 Obamacare case.
These briefs, known formally by their Latin name, amicus briefs, are filed by groups, individuals, and governments that have an interest in the outcome.
People have been lining up outside the U.S. Supreme Court for days hoping that they will be among the lucky ones to get a seat for Tuesday's historic arguments on gay marriage.
As of now, gay marriage is legal in 36 states. By the end of this Supreme Court term, either same-sex couples will be able to wed in all 50 states, or gay marriage bans may be reinstituted in many of the states where they've previously been struck down.
The U.S. Supreme Court directly confronts the question of gay marriage this week with a whopping 2 1/2 hours of oral argument, accompanied by plenty of prognostication afterward about the expected results. It won't be until June that we learn how the issue is settled nationally. In the meantime, though, we do know a good deal about the views of the justices already.
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The 'Black Swan' actress would play a leading role in the film - written by herself and college friend Laura Moses - which tells the tale of two women who are unlucky in love and decide to attend a party where both have to bring an eligible bachelor.
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(Published: Tuesday, December 21, 1999)
A Stanislaus County jury Monday morning convicted Douglas Mouser of murdering his 14-year-old stepdaughter.
The second-degree murder verdict comes after a three- month trial and more than four years after Genna Lyn Gamble's nude body was found along Dry Creek near Waterford. The Modesto girl, a freshman at Beyer High School, had been strangled.
A few minutes after the verdict was read, a handcuffed Mouser sat in an otherwise empty courtroom and talked with his wife, Kathy Mouser, and his parents.
Moments later, deputies led him past crying family members to begin a sentence of 15 years to life in prison. Mouser's attorney, Richard Herman, said he would appeal the decision early next year.
The verdict left those on both sides of the case talking about one thing -- justice.
"I couldn't be happier," said Chief Deputy District Attorney Birgit Fladager, who prosecuted the case with Joseph "Rick" Distaso. "We feel this was the correct and proper result. It's been a long time coming, all the way around."
Herman simply couldn't believe the verdict.
"This is a tragedy for the family and a tragedy for justice," Herman said. "It's the greatest miscarriage of justice I've ever seen, heard or read about. ... There is no justice in Stanislaus County."
Tom Gamble, Genna's father, said the verdict brings as much closure as he's going to find.
"I think it's terrible any time a child, anyone's child, is lost like this," he said. "Murder is a horrible thing. Genna is, as any human being is, irreplaceable. ... I think justice was served."
Mouser, 39, was found guilty of strangling Gamble in October 1995 in their Modesto home and then dumping her body. It wasn't until August 1997 that the computer expert, who once held a top-secret security clearance at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, was arrested and charged with the slaying.
Little physical evidence tied Mouser to the girl's body, forcing the prosecution to build its case on circumstantial evidence. Fladager felt, in some ways, that may have worked to the prosecution's advantage.
"It's hard to attack circumstantial evidence," Fladager said, alluding to Mouser's alibi of being at work when Genna was murdered. No evidence, including data to indicate he had worked at his computer, supported his claim of being at work. "The computer had no reason to not show entries. ... When you get enough (circumstantial evidence), it fits together so tightly and so well, and it's pretty darn compelling."
The jury agreed. Jurors declined to be interviewed, but several told prosecutors they were impressed by the evidence from the outset.
Jurors, who deliberated for six days, also told prosecutors that interviews of Mouser and his wife contained statements that didn't make sense.
"Once (Mouser) told an interviewer, 'You know it takes a long time to kill someone like that,' " Fladager said. "The interviewer indicated he didn't know. Then (Doug) Mouser said, 'Well, it's got to take three minutes.' Now that's a strange thing to say."
Also, jurors cited a taped conversation between Kathy Mouser and her son, Gerren Gamble, recorded the day Mouser was arrested. Gerren asked if she thought Mouser killed his sister. His mother replied, "You know how Genna was."
Defense attorney miffed
Herman tried to console Mouser family members, while he, too, searched for answers.
"This shakes my whole foundation of my practicing of criminal law," Herman said. "It gives me good reason to believe that I should finish the cases I have on my books and move someplace else."
Herman said he would file a motion to have Superior Court Judge Donald E. Shaver review the evidence. Shaver can reduce the charge to manslaughter.
Herman said he believes he presented numerous points that should have raised reasonable doubt in jurors' minds.
One centered around marks on Genna's leg. A key prosecution expert said the marks were caused by pressing against the edge of the carpet and seat belt buckle in Mouser's car.
"The mark on her leg was testified to by two pathologists, theirs and ours, and a number of other experts as being a panty mark," Herman said.
"There is no physical evidence that relates him to her. The therapist said all the issues the child had were with the mother. There were three sightings of Genna that day after 11 o'clock. Any and all of these things are areas of reasonable doubt."
But when Herman entered the courtroom Monday, he had a bad feeling.
"All I can tell you is the courtroom was heavy with doom when I walked in," Herman said. "It was in the air."
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Leonardo DaVinci made contributions to the study of science, medicine and art. In his relentless pursuit to understand how our world works, he was one of the world's greatest inventors, thinkers, scientists, artists and writers. A true Renaissance Man, Leonardo DaVinci was a leading voice for reason, logic and science in a world dominated by superstition.
DaVinci's genius creates inventions that are far ahead of their time. In addition to being a world-class inventor, he was a phenomenal painter, his most notable works include, the Mona Lisa, and The Last Supper, as well as The Baptism of Christ.
He also worked to study human anatomy. He dissecting around 30 corpses to get an intimate look at the heart and brain, which he made wax molds of to study further.
Leonardo's studies of heart bought interesting results. At the time it was generally believe that the heart was the source of the 'vital spirit'; it heated the blood which then flowed through the body carrying 'vital spirit'. The idea of the 'noble' heart as just another muscle was never considered and the above ideas, from Aristotle and Greek doctor Galen, were universally accepted.
His contributions are so vast and cover so many disciplines, or areas of study that it is impossible to include everything in one answer.
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The first thing that stands out is Wal-Mart is considerably larger and generated four times more cash flow than Target for the most recently completed fiscal year. Wal-Mart threw off an astounding $23.1 billion in cash from its operations, which consists primarily of selling household goods, apparel and related merchandise. Target also took a big hit from bad debt provisions as it runs its own credit card portfolio and extends credit to customers. Wal-Mart simply states that it uses a third party to extend this credit. Target took a $1.3 billion hit to earnings to cover future bad debts, which was added back to operating cash flows as it represents a non-cash charge.
Both firms did a decent job in managing their working capital. They saw an increase in accounts receivable, meaning they collected less cash from customers, but Target was able to reduce net inventories during the year. Both also saw cash drained slightly by increasing accounts payable, but Wal-Mart saw a large increase in accrued liabilities, such as wages and self insurance that it had yet to pay for as of year end.
Investing Cash Flows
Wal-Mart and Target continued to expand their operations last year. As a result, capital expenditures were large and included spending for new store openings and maintaining existing ones. In Target's case, capex ate up the majority of operating cash flow. Wal-Mart spent a hefty $11.5 billion in capex, but this represented only half of operating cash generation and left room for other purposes as will be seen below. Wal-Mart spent another $1.6 billion investing in its international operations, while Target saw an $823 million cash outflow related to its credit card financing program.
Financing Cash Flows
Cash flows from financing activities relates to raising and retiring capital. Both Wal-Mart and Target utilized large amounts of short-term and long-term debt to finance their operations over the near term and long haul, respectively. Both also used excess cash flow to pay a dividend and repurchase shares, but Wal-Mart again was able to outmuscle Target by utilizing more than $7 billion to do so.
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From investigating the cash flow statements, Wal-Mart is clearly a much more prodigious cash generator, both in absolute terms and in the efficiency with which it uses its clout for leverage over its suppliers and generates operating capital by offering low costs to its customers. Target will see improved cash generation if bad loans come in less than expected. The company also recently announced plans to slow new store growth and use capex to spruce up its existing store base.
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How to Defund Planned Parenthood and Executive Amnesty in 5 Steps
September 19th, 2015 Viewed 143 times, 1 so far today
It occurred to me that defunding Planned Parenthood and Executive Amnesty could be done by this Congress if they were to follow the following five steps, and therefore if they fail to accomplish these two goals which a majority of the base of the Republican party support it is purely through a lack of will, not of means.
Step 1: Pass the next Budget Bill with no funding for Planned Parenthood and Executive Amnesty.
Pretty straightforward. Obama will veto. Congress should attempt an override to gauge strength of the override as they should expect the veto.
Step 2: Target Congressmen and Senators up for election next fall with spending for Projects in their state.
Pass another funding bill, this time including money for a project in the state of a Congressman or Senator that is up for reelection next fall, but not having funding for Planned Parenthood or Executive Amnesty. Obama will veto. Congress will attempt an override and see what happens with the targeted individual.
Step 3: If Congressman or Senator targeted in Step 2 refuses to join override, take out funding for media in the state that was unable to get funding against the target.
Tell the people of that state how they could have gotten funding for their project, but their elected official thought it was more necessary to have Planned Parenthood and Executive Amnesty funded than money for their state. Attempt Step 2 again, maybe with a different set than the last time.
Step 4: Enlist the help of the Republican Presidential Candidates.
Use the debates and/or candidates stump speeches in the targeted states to continually drive the point home.
Step 5: Use every interview to stress that you are funding the entire government, and spending more, but the Democrats refuse to sign because of Planned Parenthood and Executive Amnesty.
The point is that you’re willing to spend more money, but the President refuses to back down on two unpopular items.
That’s it, five steps and you get Planned Parenthood and Executive Amnesty defunded. I’m not saying this is easy, or that the left will not have attacks, but this method will work. What do you think?
Technology Has Made the 8 Hour Workday Obsolete
July 24th, 2015 Viewed 485 times, 1 so far today
Companies are slow to make changes that benefit employees, but fast to make changes that benefit themselves. This is just in their nature– they exist to make profit and will do whatever is convenient to do it. It’s not a fault, just a truism. So when it comes to technology, the fact that we can be connected with anywhere and can do work anywhere could make it so that we could work from home or the nearby cafe, but more often than not people are still working in offices doing the standard 8 to 5– but now they’re expected to be on call 24/7.
Gone are the days where you’d put in an honest day’s work and then head for home to go back to work in the morning. For many professions you’re now expected to be available for responding to e-mails, customer calls, etc. outside of traditional work hours. It’s gotten to the point that surveys now believe that the eight hour workday is a thing of the past.
What do you think? Do you work a traditional eight hour workday? If you don’t, do you feel you should?
Should Parents Be Able to Choose the Sex of Their Child?
July 24th, 2015 Viewed 332 times
Australia is debating changing their rules against sex selection during IVF treatments.
The National Health and Medical Research Council has brought the issue in the spotlight, opening the floor to public consultation on sex selection for non-medical purposes.
Sex selection using IVF has been banned in Australia since 2004 when the NHMRC disallowed is on moral and ethical grounds.
Currently, the Ethical guidelines on the use of assisted reproductive technology in clinical practice and research states: ‘admission to life should not be conditional upon a child being a particular sex’.
‘Therefore, pending further community discussion, sex selection (by whatever means) must not be undertaken except to reduce the risk of transmission of a serious genetic condition.’
The call for public consultation could see these guidelines changed.
Why Is Female Genital Mutilation Happening in the West?
July 24th, 2015 Viewed 343 times
First a definition— not for the squeamish:
Female genital mutilation (FGM), or “cutting,” is a practice that gives credit to the fact that if you take a knife and you cut off portions of a female’s vagina, the desired end results are that the woman would have less of a sexual appetite, would be a better mate for her husband, and that her husband would have stronger sexual pleasure. The practice is meant to mark a girl’s passage to womanhood or to prepare her for marriage.
These girls and women are often pinned down by multiple people, or they are demanded to lie down and just endure the pain. During this modern form of human torture, untrained practitioners will cut them up with scissors, knives, razor blades or crude pieces of glass.
One can understand it in Africa or Middle East have this practice, there is some documentation to state that those of that area have this practice. This tells me that the west is importing this barbarous act, not that the Christian west came up with it. Maybe instead of coming up with laws to outlaw the practice (which would be the very least we could do), we should close up our borders so that people from these areas are not allowed in with their barbaric cultural practice.
Not to say that we should not send missionaries to these places with the Gospel and help to change them. Not at all. But we need to stop the sill notion that is multicuturalism that believes that all cultures are relatively the same. Obviously they are not.
More Videos Coming Out Against Planned Parenthood
July 23rd, 2015 Viewed 301 times
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Planned Parenthood volunteers help bring the fight for health insurance reform to the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Are the videos on Planned Parenthood making an impact? For those that are already pro-life, the gruesome facts of abortion are part of the reason that they’re pro-life. The ones that these videos are targeting are the fence-sitting people who are pro-choice. You know the ones, those that say they are personally against abortion but that they wouldn’t stop someone else from getting one. These videos are intended to get those people to firmly join the pro-life side and restrict if not eliminate abortion.
When the first video came out, it made quite a splash and it was powerful. When the second video came out, I thought, “Wow, they made sure to get more than one source” and they had to, since the first thing that Planned Parenthood could say was that this didn’t happen in multiple places– it was just this one doctor. Now there are rumblings that there are even worse videos waiting in the wings ready to come out.
Will this have an effect on these moderates?
What is a Christian’s Responsibility in a Democratic-Republic?
July 23rd, 2015 Viewed 271 times
Things were easier for believers under a king, in some ways. Romans 13 and a lot of other Scriptures fit right into what a believer’s responsibility is in that type of government– God says that He directs the heart of the king, that our job is to submit to them, and that they reward righteousness. We’re to pray for them and give them the taxes they put forth.
Setting aside the question of whether the Revolutionary War was just according to the Bible, the system that the founders of this nation set forth for our national government require involvement and regular, bloodless revolutions.
So believers are both the ones that are to submit and the ones to vote for the rulers to submit to, which leaves them in an awkward spot.
Are Wives to Blame if Husbands are Unfaithful?
July 23rd, 2015 Viewed 267 times
In the wake of the hack on the adultery seeking website with a famous name, many are talking about cheating– the last taboo in a land that seeks all sorts of sexual deviancy proclaimed as acceptable. And one adulteress tries to make the case that she actually has helped marriages!
It reminds me of many passages in the book of Proverbs that talk about how serious adultery is. Nothing good comes from adultery, from being unfaithful, and from not following after the wife of your youth.
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Basics of Complex Numbers, Real and Imaginary Parts, Iota
• Complex Numbers is the largest and the complete set of numbers, consisting of both real and unreal numbers.
• A complex number is of the form
a+ib, where a and b are both real numbers, and i is called “iota” and is defined to be the square root of -1. That is, i=√-1. Also, i
• A complex number is usually denoted by the letter ‘z’.
• ‘a’ is called the real part, and ‘b’ is called the imaginary part of the complex number.
• The notion of complex numbers increased the solutions to a lot of problems. For instance, had complex numbers been not there, the equation x2+x+1=0 had had no solutions.
Because of ‘i', we can now extend the square root to be defined for negative numbers as well. If y is a negative number, then y can be written as -|y| where |y| is the absolute value of y. Then, the square root of y is defined to be equal to be
Algebra of Complex Numbers, Conjugate, Modulus and Argument, Euler's Form
• Complex Numbers have different algebraic laws as well. Let z1=a+ib,z2=c+id.
• z1+z2=(a+c)+i(b+d)
• z1-z2=(a-c)+i(b-d)
• z1.z2=(ac-bd)+i(ad+bc)
• z1/z2=((ac+bd)+i(ad-bc))/(c2-d2)
• 1/z1=(a-ib)/(a2-b2)
• Conjugate : Conjugate of a complex number z=a+ib is defined as
• Modulus of z is written as |z| and is defined to be equal to √(a2+b2)
• Thus, z.Conjugate(z)=|z|2.
• Commutative, Associative, and Distributive Laws of algebra apply to Complex Algebra as well.
• Complex Numbers can be represented pictorially on a plane known as Argand Plane.
• The plane consists of a Real Axis, and an Imaginary Axis.
• The angle that z makes with the real axis (counterclockwise) is called the argument of z, and the length of line segment joining z and the origin is equal to |z|, also sometimes written as ‘r’.
• Different representations of z,
z=r(cosθ + i sinθ) [Modulus Argument Representation]
[Euler’s Form]
• Observe that, e=r(cosθ + i sinθ)
• Multiplication and Division using using Euler’s Form:
Let z
1=r1eiθ1, z2=r2eiθ2
• Conversion between various forms.
Let α=tan
-1(|b/a|); then θ=α,π-α,α-π,-θ depending upon z being in first, second, third or fourth quadrant respectively. This is called the principal argument.
• Approaches to solving questions:
• Expand every complex number as a real and imaginary part.
• Use Euler’s form for every Complex Number
• Use Algebraic Identities, and solve in general, keeping in mind that complex numbers have a real and an imaginary part.
Complex Numbers as Free Vectors
• Another approach to dealing with Complex Numbers is to treat them like free vectors. Free Vectors are vectors that can be moved around without changing direction, in other words, that do not really matter upon the origin. The approach that was used so far was treating complex number as a point.
• Any comple number such as 2+3i can be any one of the infinite number of vectors
• e is multiplied with the vector which is to be rotated, and rotates the vector by “θ” anticlockwise. Clockwise rotation is obtained by multiplying with e-iθ
• m, n are unit vectors; and we have ne=m, m e-iθ=n
Here's a quick look at some of the questions we will solve
• What is the value of (1+i)(1+i2)(1+i3)(1+i4)?
• If (1+i)(1+2i)(1+3i). . .(1+ni)=a+ib, then what is 2X5X10X…X(1+n2)?
• If (x+iy)1/3=a+ib; then x/a+y/b=?
• Find the sum of i+i2+i3+…upto 1000 terms.
• If |z|=2, find the area of the triangle formed by z,iz,z+iz.
• If x=-5+2√-4, find the value of x4+9x3+35x2-x+4.
• Find the square root of 7-24i.
• Given that cosα+cosβ+cosγ=0 and sinα+sinβ+sinγ=0, prove that sin3α+sin3β+sin3γ=3sin(α+β+γ)
• If cosα+2cosβ+3cosγ=0 and sinα+2sinβ+3sinγ=0. Show cos3α+8cos3β+27cos3γ=3sin(α+β+γ).
• Given that 1,α1,α2,…,αn-1 are nth roots of unity, Show that (1- α1)(1- α2)…(1- αn-1)=n.
• Show that sin(π/n)sin(2π/n)…sin((n-1)π/n)=n/2n-1
Complete Tutorial Document with Examples and Solved Problems (There is an MCQ Quiz after this)
MCQ Quiz #1
Companion MCQ Quiz/Worksheet #1 for Complex Numbers (The Basics) - test how much you know about the topic. Your score will be e-mailed to you at the address you provide.
MCQ Quiz: Complex Numbers- The Basics
MCQ Quiz/Worksheet #2: More on Complex Numbers
Read the questions in the document below, and fill up the answers in the answer submission form below it.
Your score will be emailed to you
Questions: More on Complex Numbers
Answer Submission Form for MCQ Quiz #2
Answer Submission Form for MCQ Quiz #2: More on Complex Numbers
You might like to take a look at our other algebra tutorials:
Introduction to Complex Numbers
Introduction to Complex Numbers and iota. Argand plane and iota. Complex numbers as free vectors. N-th roots of a complex number. Notes, formulas and solved problems related to these sub-topics.
The Principle of Mathematical Induction Introductory problems related to Mathematical Induction.Quadratic Equations
Introducing various techniques by which quadratic equations can be solved - factorization, direct formula. Relationship between roots of a quadratic equation. Cubic and higher order equations - relationship between roots and coefficients for these. Graphs and plots of quadratic equations.
Quadratic Inequalities
Quadratic inequalities. Using factorization and visualization based methods.
Series and Progressions
Arithmetic, Geometric, Harmonic and mixed progressions. Notes, formulas and solved problems. Sum of the first N terms. Arithmetic, Geometric and Harmonic means and the relationship between them. | http://www.thelearningpoint.net/home/mathematics/introduction-to-complex-number | dclm-gs1-218530001 | false | false | {
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The Ventura Unified School District board moved Tuesday night to broaden the district's tobacco policies to include vapor-emitting electronic devices that simulate smoking such as hookah pipes and so-called e-cigarettes.
"They've been picking up popularity, and we want to make sure they're not being used on campus," board President John Walker said after Tuesday's meeting. "Knowing what I know about kids, if it's out there, they're going to try it."
The expanded policies will restrict students from bringing e-cigarettes or similar products on campus or to any school events, even if the devices don't contain tobacco.
"Before it had to be actual tobacco products, but now it includes anything that mimics it," Kathy Asher, assistant superintendent of educational services, said after the meeting.
The new policies don't apply to students who have prescriptions for nicotine patches or gum, such as those who are trying to quit smoking. Those students will still be able to use the patches or gum as long as they conform to the district's rules about prescription medications.
The board will vote Dec. 10 on whether to amend the district's wellness and tobacco-free policies to include prohibitions of e-cigarettes and other vapor-emitting devices that simulate smoking.
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RAHN: From protector to destroyer
Overreaching regulators are squeezing liberty out of existence
- - Monday, December 2, 2013
Did you ever buy a game or device for which the rule book or instruction manual was so thick and detailed that you were not able to comprehend it in a reasonable period of time, so you either discarded or failed to use the product?
Have you noticed that many government regulations are so complex and vague that it is impossible to know if you are in compliance? Examples are the 70,000-plus pages of Internal Revenue Service regulations and the reported 30,000-plus pages of Obamacare regulations. Who do you think has a self-interest in all this complexity and vagueness?
Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Margaret Hamburg does not think you have the right to get a reading of your own DNA by sending a sample of your saliva to 23andMe, a company that has developed a genotype screening test. The following is from a letter the FDA sent to 23andMe: "The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is sending you this letter because you are marketing 23andMe Saliva Collection Kit and Personal Genome (PGS) without marketing clearance or approval in violation of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (the FD&C Act)." The FDA is unable to cite one example of users being harmed by voluntarily obtaining information about their own bodies. Still, the company was ordered to cease marketing its highly beneficial product last month.
The Food and Drug Administration was set up to protect us from consuming bad food or drugs. It has morphed into an agency that keeps potentially beneficial drugs from us, and now is even banning our ability to know what diseases to which we may be prone, and thus, blocking our ability to take potential corrective or preventative action. The FDA has gone from being a protector to a destroyer of health and liberty.
The IRS was set up to collect taxes. It now has become a government agent to deny the right of free and protected speech, as shown not only in the harassment of Tea Party groups, but in last week's sleazy action of demanding that certain (but not all) traditionally tax-exempt groups start providing their contributor lists to the IRS. Groups that most often stand for liberty and less government are the primary targets. What a coincidence.
One of the basic functions of money is to serve as a "store of value," which the U.S. dollar did from 1789 until 1913 (despite occasional ups and downs, there was very little change in the wholesale-price level over that 125-year period). However, with the advent of the Federal Reserve in 1914, the dollar no longer serves as store of value, now being worth only about one-twenty-third of what it was worth in 1914.
A number of innovators and entrepreneurs have been trying to develop alternative currencies to fulfill the store-of-value function of money, which the government abandoned. A benevolent government would welcome such innovations. A vindictive government would try to shut them down, which is exactly what the Treasury and Justice Departments have been doing. For example, several years ago a medical doctor established a company to allow payments in gold over the Internet — "E-Gold." The government went after him in a most vicious way, while acknowledging that he was, in fact, providing a service that many consumers wanted. Still, the government claimed that some who used E-Gold were engaged in drug dealing, money laundering and tax evasion — that is, some of E-Gold's customers were bad people. However, the government seems not to notice that many users of U.S. dollars are also bad people — so should the secretary of the Treasury be fined and threatened with prison time?
Bitcoin is an attempt to create a very low cost, purely digital, global payments system. Now the U.S. Treasury and other regulators, such as the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, have expressed an interest in regulating it, not because it is harmful, but as way of preventing free people from engaging in a new form of global commerce outside the control of government. (Note: It is true that bad people could use bitcoins in the same way bad people use paper currency, and some may suffer loses from speculating in bitcoins, but they understand that, like mountain climbing, the practice involves risk.)
As public-choice theory explains, and as can be seen by endless examples, many regulators are more interested in gaining power for themselves than in protecting the people. The result is that the economy is drowning in a sea of endless nonproductive paperwork, useful innovations are being squashed, jobs and new businesses are not being created, and the people are increasingly fearful of their own government. It does not have to be this way. The number of useless regulations, those who write and administer them, and the associated counterproductive agencies and departments can be eliminated. However, this will only happen when the elected officials who can make these changes fear the people more than the self-interested government employees, lawyers and others members of the parasitic class who are destroying both prosperity and liberty.
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1. fksr86
Posted 8 years ago #
how can i make a home page that looks like a news website, like reuters or any newspaper? i'd like to put the first paragraph of the text and a picture, a little box for each tag. how can i do that? is it possible to put a text that explains instead of the first paragraph?
2. moshu
Posted 8 years ago #
It is all about designing the proper theme. Everything you described above can be done - although it requires quite advanced html/css skills and a good familiarity with WP.
Unfortunatley, it is not a one-line-reply...
3. fksr86
Posted 8 years ago #
is there any tutorial that i could read to make it easier?
4. Jeremy Clark
Posted 8 years ago #
Here's a start
5. Empleon Girl
Posted 7 years ago #
How can I make a blog like whitemist100.wordpress.com ?
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[–]coldjismElectrician 1 point2 points (0 children)
Voltage test to find incoming. Tone generator or 9v battery to identify outgoings. Alternatively, short out live/neutral on the switch wires and continuity test. Usually can figure out most of it before testing.
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0.049224 | <urn:uuid:c012492c-3085-4908-ab8a-7cf3eabdfabc> | en | 0.953032 | 900 years ago what's the farthest the Chinese, Koreans or Japanese, had explored north into what is now eastern Russia? what would there maps have said about the region? did they have the faintest idea Alaska was there? by grapp in AskHistorians
[–]alltorndown 0 points1 point (0 children)
Mods- feel free to delete if you feel necessary, I know it's not the usual type of source
I am on holiday in Kamchatka presently, and visited the regional history museum two days ago (my source). At least locally, the refrain is that prior to Russian colonialism, the peninsula was the preserve of native siberians only. I can't speak to written work, but just the museum's narrative itself.
Some tribes in southern Kamchatka were linked to settlements on the Kuril island chain, which eventually becomes Japan, but again, the museum gave no information about any contact with Japan at any point.
My favourite image of the Mongol Hordes by alltorndown in RedditDayOf
[–]alltorndown[S] 2 points3 points (0 children)
Excuse me, was writing a little tipsy last night. The vodka here in Russia seems a little more potent than at home. The 'Great Mongol Shanahmeh' (the title of this specific edition, pages of which are housed in various collections including LACMA, the Sackler in Cambridge, Mass where this page came from, the Fitzwilliam in Cambridge proper, and Edinburgh University, among others) was a collection of firdausi's Shahnameh completed in the late 14th century in Iran. It was designed, as several other outsiders who ruled bits of Persia did, to cement their place in Persian history. This edition was dedicated to the Khan (Ghazan, if I recall), and while the text is similar to Firdausi's, the images depict The great Persian Herod in Mongol dress, and the Kings enthroned as Khans.
Follow up works, such as the Chinggiznameh, and the exceptionally famous Baburnameh, were designed tad continuations, to place their patrons securely as rightful rulers.
I'm away from books right now, but Robert Hillenbrand is the expert on this, and convened an exhibition in Endinburgh last summer, while Charles Melville has also written extensively on the subject (and Cambridge, where he teaches and runs a foundation dedicated to the Shahnameh, had an exhibition about 3 years back about the Shanameh, with several pieces of the 'Great Mongol Shanameh in.)
So there we are. I don't go around calling myself a 'Mongol Historian' because it gets me laid, alright?
edit: and the section for your Wikipedia link on the Great Mongol Shahnameh reminded me of another source by name: Blair, Sheila S. "Rewriting the History of the Great Mongol Shahnama". In Shahnama: The Visual Language of the Persian Book of Kings, ed. Robert Hillenbrand. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2004 ISBN 0754633675.
It's a rather good wiki page for once, actually. The bits on cultural legacy explain rather well the usurpation of the Shahnameh by the subsequent rulers of Iran, be they Turkic, Persian or Mongol.
My favourite image of the Mongol Hordes by alltorndown in RedditDayOf
[–]alltorndown[S] 0 points1 point (0 children)
Mea Culpa: I submitted this a year ago, but I truly love it, as a Mongol Historian. This comes from the great Mongol Shahnameh, or the Book of Kings, and was designed to show that the Mongols were legitimate successors to the Persian kings of legend. The Mongols were adept propagandists, and proudly cultivated their reputation for violence in order to convince future enemies to submit, based on the horrific tales and images of their previous victories.
Also, nothing says badass like archers on motherfuckin' fire breathing wheeled (ok, they're hanging shields, but still...) horses! Don't mess with the Mongols.
Genghis Khan ensured complete religious freedom. Religious tolerance was a policy by nilnz in RedditDayOf
[–]alltorndown 12 points13 points (0 children)
Absolutely. In academia, the word 'tolerance' is avoided in the literature of the Mongols. certainly various religions were usurped for political gain (Chinggiz/Genghis's speech in Bukhara, declaring himself to Muslims as the 'scourge of God' spring readily to mind).
Religion was far more fluid in this period. Devin Deweese in his *Islamisation in the Golden Horde' notes that many self describe Muslims, in say, Wakhan Afghanistan, would have known of Muhammed and the five pillars of Islam, but may never have seen a Qu'ran or and Imam. He asks if they were 'Muslim' and how they were 'tolerated'. I would venture that tolerance was politically expedient, and that links with the Mongols Shamanistic 'native' religion were sufficiently fluid to accept a lot of variations. I'm currently on holiday in Siberia, and the Buddhist (but really Altaic' tradition of tying ribbons to trees as a way of remembrance is alive and well among the Russia Orthodox, a tradition that was here before Christianity or Tibetan Buddhism.
For a further discussion of Mongol 'tolerance' see George Lane's 'Daily Life in the Mongol Empire'
[04/09/2015]Ghostbusters @The Scoop by Shygirl32 in LondonSocialClub
[–]alltorndown 1 point2 points (0 children)
Believe me, if I wasn't l, quite literally, in the middle of Siberia, I'd be there! Alas, enjoy without me!
[–]alltorndown 1 point2 points (0 children)
Been to these before. Come early, it got busy really quickly (withnail and I, several ears ago). There's a few food stalls, but I'd at least bring a couple of beers down for waiting, if beers are your thing.
Reddit, what is your favorite quote from a fictional character? by papaskittles in AskReddit
[–]alltorndown 0 points1 point (0 children)
Ah yes. The George W. Bush school of management (smart evil people)
What are your commute observations? 25/06/15 by lodge28 in london
[–]alltorndown 8 points9 points (0 children)
Was grumpy this morning, pre-coffee (had to leave an unfinished one at home, slept in). Everyone pissed me off. I walk to work.
1: every single person walked in my way, and slowly. It's a pretty residential walk, but they still managed to block every pavement.
2: Kids on scooters. Everywhere. The entire battalion blocking and speeding down a busy road that had several accidents a year on it.
3: FUCKING ADULTS ON SCOOTERS. Fuck them. Especially if they don't obviously have kids.
4 & 5: my two biggest walking to work peeves. Assholes cycling on the pavement (there are not many HGV's in this neck of the woods. Get on the damned street where you belong). And also, every morning, there is a red light I pass. The pedestrian light goes green before the road one. Every single time, 40%-100% of cyclists queued in front of the cars jump their light, get in the way, and generally engager themselves and others. Irrationally furious, every morning.
Got to work, had coffee, a couple of really nice customers. /rant
What's Good and not too expensive Korean place in London? by shairou in london
[–]alltorndown 0 points1 point (0 children)
One of the Tot Crt ones relocated to Lower Marsh. Went the other week, thought it was pretty good!
Books about the Yazidis by tuxunefo in MiddleEastHistory
[–]alltorndown 0 points1 point (0 children)
Fair enough mate! Hope those books are useful.
Books about the Yazidis by tuxunefo in MiddleEastHistory
[–]alltorndown 5 points6 points (0 children)
Yup, got two for you, both quite new:
Heirs to the Forgotten Kingdoms by Gerard Russell, about the Yazidis and several other minority faiths in the Middle East (each gets a chapter). 9781471114694
The Yezidis: The History of a Community, Culture and Religion by Birgul Acikyildiz, which was republished last year with updates (though only up to the situation last summer). 9781784532161.
I'll just throw in my usual 'buy from an indie bookshop' request if I can (you can tell my day job, huh?)
Looking for a book recommendation... details inside by lordzedd12 in MiddleEastHistory
[–]alltorndown 0 points1 point (0 children)
Hi! David Morgan's Medaeval Persia, 1040-1797 was a really readable recommended text during my undergrad days. New edition coming out late this summer
North Berwick Law Yesterday by Impisheye in britpics
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CMOS or CCD sensor video capture quality can be enhance with image processing, like auto white balance (AWB) and auto exposure algorithms (AE):
Some camera sensors don't include auto white balance and/or auto exposure processing, so RidgeRun offers a library with AE and AWB algorithms called librraew. This library was initially developed for the DM365 platform. The DM365 video processing front end (VPFE) has an H3A module designed to support control loops for auto focus, auto white balance and auto exposure by collecting statistics about the imaging/video data. There are two blocks in this module:
• Auto focus engine
• Auto exposure and auto white balance engine
• Accumulation of the sum of squared pixels per color.
• Minimum and maximum pixels values in each window per color.
The AE/AWB engine can be configured to use up to 36 horizontal windows with sum + {sum of squares or min+max} output or up to 56 horizontal windows with sum output. The AE/AWB engine can also be configure to use up to 128 vertical windows. The width and height for the windows is programmable.
Currently, librraew has testing has focused on Aptina CMOS sensor mt9p031, but if you provide the appropriate functions for the library, it can works with any sensor. The implementation is a plain C library and can be re-used with and integrated with any application. RidgeRun uses ipiped (see below) for testing and demonstration.
Auto white balance
When an image of a scene is captured by a digital camera sensor, the sensor response at each pixel depends on the scene illumination. Depending of the illumination, a distinct color cast appears over the captured scene. This effect appears in the captured image due to the color temperature of the light. If a white object is illuminated with a low color temperature light source, the object in the captured image will be reddish. Similarly, when the white object is illuminated with a high color temperature light source, the object in the captured image will be bluish. The human eye compensates for color cast automatically through a characteristic known as color constancy, allowing the colors to be independent of the illumination. Auto white balance tries to simulate the color constancy for images capture.
Many AWB algorithms follow a two-stage process:
• Illumination estimation: can be done explicitly by choosing from a known set of possible illuminations or implicitly with assumptions about the effect of such illuminations. The algorithms implemented in librraew use the implicitly estimation.
• Image color correction: is achieved through an independent gain adjustment of the three color signals. Commonly only the blue and red gains are adjusted.
The librraew supports several AWB algorithms:
Gray World
White Patch
The White Patch algorithm assumes that the maximum response in an image is caused by a perfect reflector, that represents the color of the illumination. White balancing attempts to equalize the maximum value of the three channels to produce a white patch. This algorithm must be used on scenes that ensure the captured image does not include saturated pixels.
White Patch 2
This variation of the White Patch algorithm aims to resolve the problems with the saturated pixels. White Patch 2 ses an average of local maximums instead of an absolute maximum. The results can change depending of the number of sample windows used in processing the image.
Auto exposure
One of the main problems affecting image quality, leading to unpleasant pictures, comes from improper exposure to light. The exposure is the amount of light that reaches the image sensor. Exposure determines the lightness or darkness of the resulting image. If too much light strikes the image sensor, the image will be overexposed, washed out, and faded. If too little light reaches the camera sensor produces an underexposed image, dark and lacking in details especially in shadow areas. Auto exposure (AE) algorithms adjust the captured image in an attempt to reproduce the most important regions (according to contextual or perceptive criteria) with a level of brightness, more or less in the middle of the possible range.
Auto exposure algorithms involves three processes:
• Light metering: generally accomplished using the camera sensor itself or an external device as exposure detector.
• Scene analysis: brightness metering methods used to estimate the scene illumination according to image metrics. Using this value, calculates the brightness adjustments to have the best exposure.
• Image brightness correction: ensures that the correct amount of light reaches the image sensor, illumination and shutter time parameters are adjusted. The CMOS image sensor parameter is often called exposure time. The exposure time is defined as the amount of time that the sensor integrates light. In other words, it determines how long the sensor photo diodes array is exposed to light.
Center weighted
Implementation Details
Three applications are used to support the auto exposure and auto white-balance (AEW) adjustments in the RidgeRun's SDK:
• librraew, a library that includes auto white balance and auto exposure algorithms.
Running Ipiped
Ipiped must run in background. If you are using RidgeRun's SDK and enabled ipiped it will be setup to start automatically when the system boots.
ipiped &
Running Ipipe-client
To quit the interactive console you can use quit or exit.
In order to know the commands that are available run:
ipipe-client help
or get into the interactive console and execute help.
This shows a description of each command, as follows:
Command Description
set-debug Enable/Disable debug messages.
init-aew Initialize AEW algorithms.
stop-aew End AEW algorithm.
shell Execute a shell command(shell_cmd) using interactive console.
ping Show if ipipe-daemon is alive.
quit Quit from the interactive console.
exit Exit from the interactive console.
get-sensor Show the sensor that is being used.
If you want more detailed information about a command execute:
ipipe-client help <command>
Controlling librraew with ipipe
Command: init-aew
Description: Initialize AEW algorithms
WB: white balance algorithm, the options are:
G -for gray world algorithm
W -for retinex algorithm
W2 -for variant of retinex algorithm
N -for none
AE: auto exposure algorithm, the options are
EC -for electronic centric
N -for none
G: gain type, the options are:
S -to use the sensor gain
D -to use the digital
EM: exposure metering method, the options are:
P -for partial metering that take into account the light
information of a portion in the center and the rest of
the frame is ignored. The size of the center depends of
of the parameter center_percentage
C -for center weighted metering that take into account
the light information coming from the entire frame with
emphasis placed on the center area
A -for average metering that take into account the light
information from the entire frame without weighting
SG -for segmented metering that divides the frame
on 6 pieces and weighting them to avoid backlighting
T: wait time in us, specifies the time between
algorithm adjustments, max value=1s=1000000us
fps: minimum frame rate
seg: frame segmentation factor, each frame is segmented into
regions, this factor represents the percentage of the
maximum number of possible regions
width: captured video/image horizontal size
height: captured video/image vertical size
center_percentage: defines the percentage of the image width
and height to be used as the center size
Also you can stop automatic adjustments with the command stop-aew
Using librraew with other software rather than ipiped
librraew is a plain C library and can be re-used and integrated with any custom application. Please contact RidgeRun for the documentation of the librraew API.
Using the demo version of librraew
You can request a demo version of librraew in order to test the auto-white balance and auto-exposure algorithms before you decide to buy it. This library will allow you to use all the features that comes with the full version of the librraew but with the following limitations:
• The algorithm will be darken the image periodically.
• After a while the algorithm will stop working and the image capturing will be done with the last values calculated by the library. In order to test the library again you will need to restart the algorithm.
Basic example of use
In this section it will be shown a basic example of use of the ipiped and the librraew library. Once your board has started run the following commands:
ipipe-client run-config-script dm365_mt9p031_config
ipipe-client init-aew G EC S C 200000 30 50 640 480 50
The first command will chain the ipiped using an existing script. The second one will start the auto-white balance and the auto-exposure algorithms for an image size of 640x480 pixels and a minimum frame rate of 30fps (See Controlling librraew with ipipe section for more details).
Once you have the ipiped and the AEW algorithms running you can run any image/video capture GStreamer pipeline to test it.
As an example it was used the pipeline shown below which captures 30 images from the camera module and encodes them to JPEG format in order to get 30 different JPEG images.
gst-launch -e v4l2src always-copy=false num-buffers=30 chain-ipipe=false ! video/x-raw-yuv,format=\(fourcc\)UYVY, \
width=640, height=480 ! dmaienc_jpeg ! queue ! multifilesink location=image%0d.jpeg
The images 1 and 2 show the difference between an capture made with and without the AEW algorithm, respectively.
center Figure 1. Image taken using the AEW algorithm.
1. Battiato, G. Messina, and A. Castorina. Exposure correction for imaging devices: an overview. In Single-Sensor Imaging: Methods and Applications for Digital Cameras, chapter 12. Rastislav Lukac, October 2008.
2. Lee J.S., Jung Y.Y, Kim B.S., and Ko S.J. An advanced video camera system with robust af, ae, and awb control. IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, 47:694–699, August 2001
3. Edmund Y. Lam. Combining gray world and retinex theory for automatic white balance in digital photography. Consumer Electronics, 2005. (ISCE 2005). Proceedings of the Ninth International Symposium on, pages 134–139, June 2005.
4. Edmund Y. Lam and George S. K. Fung. Automatic white balancing in digital photography. In Single-Sensor Imaging: Methods and Applications for Digital Cameras. Taylor & Francis Group, LLC, 2009.
5. Nitin Sampat, Shyam Venkataraman, Thomas Yeh, and Robert L. Kremens. System implications of implementing auto-exposure on consumer digital cameras. Proc. SPIE. Sensors, Cameras, and Applications for Digital Photography, 3650:100–107, March 1999 | https://www.ridgerun.com/developer/wiki/index.php?title=RidgeRun_Auto_exposure/Auto_white_balance_library_for_DM365&oldid=2293 | dclm-gs1-219130001 | false | false | {
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Simulate Your Coffee Shop Dreams In Coffee World
Coffee World by SMLSD icon
Coffee World (Free) by SMLSD is a free game for the iPhone where you manage your own coffee shop.
Speaking as someone who has a wholly addictive personality — and who played Office Heroes nonstop for an entire summer without really knowing why — I can personally vouch that these types of games like to suck you in. Before you know it, you're excusing yourself from a conversation so that you can make more money at your store or buy new merchandise or hire new employees.
Then you realize you have a problem: you're not actually employed in real life. You don't own your own game development company, you don't have your own office, and you aren't single-handedly living your dream of running a coffee shop (please note this is not actually my dream). And the novelty has worn off.
Coffee World by SMLSD screenshot
In Coffee World, you don't actually have a character that physically does anything. Instead, it all plays out for you automatically like some sort of omniscient coffee god is dealing with the paperwork itself.
To begin, you touch "Start Day" on your screen. A stream of text now tells you exactly what happens that day, and how much money you make or lose with each of these happenings or mishaps. You will then end the day and, once you have enough money, you can start to invest in training, new machines, new coffee blends, and other things to help your coffee shop become successful.
You can enter the staff only room to train your employees with skills that will increase the quality of service your customers receive. This, in turn, will make you more money so it is worth the initial training fee. In the manger's office, you can train yourself to improve recipes, machine quality, and see how effective your advertising will be.
As the owner, you can also purchase new coffees that will benefit you financially. You can also do research and advertise.
Coffee World by SMLSD screenshot
Although it works perfectly and seems to be exactly what it says it is, it couldn't keep my attention. My problem with the game is that it's supposed to be a fun simulation game, but there is no real decision-making involved. Or, at least, very little. I wanted some sort of character interaction, but I suppose that is not what this game is all about. Instead, it's a game of money and time management.
Personally, I think there are too many games like this in the App Store and this one wasn't anything extraordinary. At least with games like Game Dev Story, you have more of a say in how things go. There just isn't enough interaction in this game to hold my attention for very long, but that is just my personal taste.
It's currently on sale for free in the App Store and it does have Game Center support. It doesn't hurt to try it out at that price.
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Crime & Punishment Success
With nine hours to go until my book club meeting, I finished "Crime and Punishment" today.
Yes, it was difficult. Yes, it felt like homework. But like many things that require hard work, it was worth the effort. I've always wanted to read it, and now I have.
To summarize: Penniless university drop-out decides to murder pawnbroker to prove a theory. In the 1860s, many people in St. Petersburg are poor and sad. The murderer is poor, but not sad. The murderer finally admits his guilt to the police, but still feels no remorse. He gets sent to a hard labour camp in Siberia for eight years. Even Siberia doesn't make him feel sad. Finally, it is the love of a good woman which makes him feel sad. And happy. The end.
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Laura said...
Not one I will be reading on a tropical beach.... | http://marathonmum.blogspot.com/2006/05/crime-punishment-success.html | dclm-gs1-219490001 | false | false | {
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Dropkick Jesus
I climbed a mountain the other day. I climbed it to talk to God. I couldn't hear Him amongst all the bustle and signals and internet and music and shouts inside my own head. So I climbed a mountain.
I asked God something while I was up there.
I released something to Him, and I didn't like the answer that I got. It felt like a sucker punch. I had this idea in my head, that if I gave it to Him, that He'd give it right back.
I even went so far as to build an ebenezer stone. I stacked up all those rocks, taking time, getting angry as it collapsed time and again. I took twelve stones that didn't have smooth sides; they didn't fit together, but I had to balance them. And when I got done, I scratched a prayer onto the top stone. And God answered that prayer with what might be considered a sandal to the side of the head.
So be careful what you pray for. God might answer it.
But I did learn something about Ebenezers. They take time to balance. It takes patience. And it takes a lot of work. It can be a lot like waiting for God. It's hard. It can lead to scraped knuckles, scuffed boots, and injured pride. But it's worth it. Just takes a little time.
Sunday, September 13, 2015
Let the Tears Come Now.
A faint hearted seven year old sat quietly in the corner of the funeral chapel. If you'd have asked him, he wasn't seven. He was seven and three quarters. Almost eight, you know. There's a big difference. He didn't understand why he was there. He didn't know the man in the box.
Of course, he knew of him. But he didn't know him. All he remembered about the man was a yellow bunny that squeaked when you squeezed it. A strange smell. An even stranger machine. What were all these hoses and cords doing running into the man who everyone around him called "Dad" and "Grandpa" and "Wilbur"? Those were the memories that the almost eight year old had about the man in the box.
Between games of war with his older cousin, he ran his fingers over the new deck of cards that he'd been given after hours spent in the funny smelling apartment, and walked over to his mom to see when they would be going home. His mom told him that he'd be done soon. "Just be patient," she said.
They all went to the restaurant later that night. People that he didn't know very well, but that he knew he liked. The two men that were his uncle's began asking him who was his favorite. "He has a pink shirt on," the one said. "Yeah, but my shirt has these little feathers on the back," the other said with a crooked smile. Of course the one in the pink shirt was his favorite at the time. He had on cowboy boots. He was the real deal. But this was a man he'd met but once by that time.
The next day, they gathered outside. All huddled inside the little chain link fence. A single evergreen stood watch on that cold February day. A small hole. A shovel just the right size for an almost eight year old. A small gold box to put in the ground. And then, just like that, all those men who'd sat around eating fried chicken and mashed potatoes and beans the night before put dirt on the box and walked away.
The almost eight year old didn't cry. Didn't know why he would. And he heard from countless people, how tough he was. No tears. "Cowboys don't cry." "Good job."
Fast forward now. He's no longer an almost eight year old. Instead, he's an 18 year old. No more almosts. Just life. It's exactly 18, actually. He stands in yet another funeral chapel. This one makes more sense though. No card games to hide behind. No cousins to cover up what happened. Just person upon person coming up to give their sympathies and their condolences. No tears come. Just thanks, firm hand shakes, hugs, and the occasional birthday card, bag of Snickers, balloon, and pat on the back.
He sees people feeling sorry for him. But that doesn't matter. Because this time, he knew the girl in the box. He'd known her for years. He'd known her laugh, stood beside her at her wedding. She was family. And not far removed. She was someone he'd fought over, fought with, laughed with, cried about, and loved. It wasn't easy. It was a love he had to learn, but it was worth learning. It was hard to learn, but it was worth learning.
There was an accomplishment to that love. It was a step above himself and something that grew him. And that growing was over. Cut short, snuffed out, snipped off, and held in. But still, no tear came. He had a job to do. His was to stand in front, be the representative, and show people that they would stay strong.
The next day, they're standing. All four of them. Wearing black, blue, ties, bolos, a borrowed jacket, and standing tall. Then they came in. A wheel chair. A tired face, followed by two more tired faces. One who couldn't do more than raise his eyes. No smile was on his lips. Instead, they were silhouetted by a scar. Again, they had a job to do. They surrounded him. Holding back the handshakes, hugs, and tears from drowning the one in the chair.
Two slipped by, but they were gently ushered back. The chair wheeled to the front of the sanctuary, flanked by four guards. Still no tears come. No time for them. And yet, as a frail hand reaches up and cold flesh meets cold metal. A tear. A sob racks his frame. But no more. No time. He's hurried out. Wheels turning. Eyes follow. Pity flows. Quick hugs. A long missed handshake, hug, a leather jacket.
Then moving on. A car. A cemetery. It's all grey. Grey in memory, grey in color, grey in feel.
And now. Tears come. Tears held back for five years. Not for lack of trying, or lack of wondering, or lack of feeling. But for lack of remembering. Lack of growth, lack of strength, lack of knowing that it's okay.
This is my story. This is my grief. Through this grief, I have found joy. A new life started. New family. And the realization that this is all in the shadowlands. This world will end. Look to the glimpses of heaven. The small reflections of paradise. But when the tears come, let them come. It's okay.
Let the tears come now.
For in eternity, they will be no more.
Cowboys cry.
I'm sure of it.
Friday, August 28, 2015
Until I End My Wand'ring Days
Most days I feel like a Ranger.
A dusty rider, rusted blade on hip,
Working my way through the wilderness and through the villages.
I hide my face, hoping to simply pass through.
I serve my purpose, praying to fade behind the scenes.
I see people laughing, eating together, walking arm in arm.
I see the joy in their eyes and it sparks something inside.
But that's all it can do, is spark.
There's some kind of emptiness inside.
A dry and cracked land in the middle of fertile ground.
I know the potential is there.
I know that one day, it will grow a bountiful harvest.
I know that one day, a home will spring up on it.
Laughter will fill its halls.
Its tables will be full of delightful food.
So I ride on.
I wait for the rain.
I seek out other dusty barren lands like myself.
One day, the floodgates will open.
I will find my home.
That is the day, when I am a Ranger no more.
That is the day that instead of a sword, my hand holds another's.
When I pick up a hammer and build,
Instead of tightening the straps on the saddle and moving on.
That is when I find my home.
His pleasure is not in the strength of the horse,
nor his delight in the legs of the warrior;
the Lord delights in those who fear him,
who put their hope in his unfailing love.
Psalm 147:10-11
Some trust in chariots and some in horses,
but we trust in the name of the LORD our God.
Psalm 20:7
Sunday, June 14, 2015
Fighting It Tonight
Life is not a damn cartoon. We can't run off the cliff and keep going for a good fifty feet. It doesn't work that way. It is a slow slide towards a dropoff that we know is coming. You see it coming up. You grasp at anything around to stop your slide towards the fall is coming. You claw at bushes, talk to friends, call out for help. But none comes. You're only left with the echo of your own cries in your ears. So what do you do? Do you allow yourself to get sucked into the vortex that lies waiting for you at the bottom of the drop off? Do you run towards the edge and dive off the edge, trying to see how deep you wind up going? That answer remains to be seen, but my gut says no. My get says run towards the edge, but right when you get there, leap. Put everything you have into that leap from the edge. Get as far as you can, and maybe, just maybe, you'll make it to the other side tonight. You'll have another jump and drop off in your way, who knows when, but at least you'll be over this one tonight. So wish me luck. Here I go, and I hope my legs hold out. I've got a long ways to jump.
Friday, March 13, 2015
A long familiar nightmare...
I watch as its cold, bony fingers wrap around the posts of my bed.
The dead look in its eyes is a mirror. It reflects what I feel inside every night.
It reflects the hurt that keeps me awake at night.
Hurt that no one around sees.
Hurt that no one can fix.
The claws on the ends of those fingers reach into my chest and freeze my heart in my chest for the umpteenth time.
The knot in the pit of my stomach tightens and twists, matching the lump in my throat. The sounds of sadness thunder in my headphones, reminding me once again that this is what I'm left with.
A dark room, the sounds of country fading in my Bose, a tangle of clothes on the floor, and the knowledge that when I crawl out of bed in the morning, dog tired, sleepless, and exhausted for the next day, not a thing will have changed. Except I'll be another day older, and no closer to being out of the dark.
So I stride through the blackness. Waiting for a hand to reach down from above. To split the clouds. To bring some warmth and joy back into the wasteland that is my heart. I don't know how long it will be, but I pray that it is soon. Maranatha, Lord Jesus, come quickly.
Wednesday, February 18, 2015
Burnt Edges
Flames crackle, spreading up the corners.
They fill the air with the acrid smell of smoke.
It's acrid, but it's also a heavenly smell.
It reminds me of how fast something can disappear.
From words that seem to carry hope of something more,
To the slight glow of an ember as the last bit of ink is shed into the ground.
A flame can do so much.
It can fill the eyes with tears, as the smoke wreaks havoc on you.
It can fill your face with hope, as you are allowed the chance of a new start.
Flames can promise warmth, and heat.
They can take what you have and destroy it, leaving you empty handed.
You never know.
A flame is a flighty thing.
It can create, it can destroy.
It can sustain, it can be snuffed out.
So take that flame and do what you will with it.
Either feed it, so it crackles merrily.
Or stomp it out.
Smother it, so it has no chance to be alive.
Sometimes eats easier to smother a flame,
So that others don't see it,
Aren't drawn to its warmth.
Don't smell its smoke and come running.
Its better to be cold, in my mind,
Than to have your fire run out of fuel.
Friday, October 17, 2014
Things I learned from my dad...
A lot of you know my dad.
A lot of you know the kind of man he is.
He's the guy who would give you the shirt off his back.
He's the guy that goes above and beyond his job.
He doesn't know the meaning of "too much sacrifice".
I know for a fact, that my father would give his life for me.
And I take pride in that. I know that my father is a man who is looked up to. I know that my father never raised a hand at me in anger. I know that when I was disciplined, I was disciplined out of love. My father has looked me in the eye, and asked me if I thought that he went too far as a parent. I had no hesitation when I looked him right back and said "No."
I know that I put my father through hell as a child. I broke his trust, and I disappointed him at times. And yet I always know that my father is proud of me. He is careful to tell me that. Rick Adema is not an easy man. But he's a good man. He is a man who made it clear what he expected of me. He is a man who made it very clear that he loves me. He is a man who makes it very clear that if I need anything, all I have to do is call.
My dad taught me a lot of things. He taught me how to ride a bike. I rode my little bike with the brick looking insulation around the main bar. I rode it straight into the clothesline pole when I was 6 years old. And then my dad taught me to pick my bike up, get back on it, and ride away. My dad taught me how to shoot. He taught me to drive a manual. He taught me how to read stories to my future kids. He taught me how to love children with everything you are, when you are exhausted, or when they cry and turn away because of your beard. My dad taught me a lot of things.
One of the most important things that my dad taught me, however...
My father taught me how to be angry.
That's right. I said my father taught me how to be angry. This isn't being mad and raising your voice. This isn't a needing to work out until you're tired. This isn't even wanting to hit someone.
Oh no. This is very different.
This is a cold fury that starts at the bottom of your feet and works its way all the way to the top of your head. This is a rage that fills you when you see injustice being done. This is a searing pain that makes all fear in you go away and fills you with such passion, that all you think about is righting a wrong.
Whether he knows it or not, my father taught me this. He taught it to me by his example of integrity. He taught it to me by every time he told a young person that I met, that if they ever needed his help, all they had to do was ask. He was always in the shadows, ready. Waiting for that call to come in. He was waiting for the wolf to prey on the sheep. He is the sheepdog. And so am I.
So here I stand. I look around and see pain. I see people hurting. Hurting themselves because they know nothing else. They have no other way to feel anything. They have been beaten. Scarred. Wounded. Taught how not to feel. This has been done to them by parents, siblings, employers, acquaintances, pastors, teachers, and strangers.
I read stories about parents who struck their children out of anger. Parents who beat their children for disobeying. Parents who lashed out because they felt it was their calling.
Well, guess what? Do you want to know what my calling is? My calling is standing between you and those who are trying to hurt you. My calling is to be that sheepdog. I feel that anger. I feel the anger that I learned from watching my father quietly stand up for those he loved. I feel that cold fury that makes me unafraid of what may come.
I was homeschooled. I was disciplined. I turned out alright. Thank you to my dad for that. Thank you to my mom for marrying him. Thank you that he has always been honest with me. Now, I'm being honest with you. Don't be afraid to stand up for yourself. You will never be alone. There's always me. And my dad. We're not afraid. You shouldn't be either. Stand up. Be counted. | http://saddleleatherandscripture.blogspot.com/ | dclm-gs1-220580001 | false | false | {
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I can see hidden files in Finder but when I search it doesn't find hidden files.
I have tried everything.
defaults write AppleShowAllFiles TRUE
killall Finder
I also change "File visibility" to "Invisible Items" when searching.
Please help somebody as it drives me mad how Apple makes it difficult to change.
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There is a way to search also within hidden files:
1. Open Finder
2. Fill search box with searched text
3. Click "+" button.
4. Choose "File visibility" and your option.
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Unfortunately it does not work. I have tried that before. – PJ_ Feb 18 '13 at 15:09
Do as maseth says, but instead of "File visibility" you want "System files". Or rather, do both to be able to search everything.
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This does not work either in my tests – markhunte Mar 22 '14 at 17:18
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Law & Disorder / Civilization & Discontents
Appeals court upholds legality of Aereo’s “tiny antennas” scheme
Ludicrous metaphysics produce sensible policy result.
A federal appeals court has handed a big setback to broadcasters trying to stop Aereo, a startup that streams New York-area television content over the Internet. Broadcasters such as Fox and Univision argued that transmitting TV content without permission was copyright infringement. But Aereo countered that its service was analogous to a television and DVR that happened to have a really long cable between the antenna and the screen. On Monday, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit agreed.
Aereo's technology was designed from the ground up to take advantage of a landmark 2008 ruling holding that a "remote" DVR product offered by Cablevision was consistent with copyright law. Key to that ruling was Cablevision's decision to create a separate copy of recorded TV programs for each user. While creating thousands of redundant copies makes little sense from a technical perspective, it turned out to be crucial from a legal point of view. Because each copy was viewed by only one household, the court ruled that Cablevision was not engaged in a "public performance" of copyrighted works.
Aereo's founders realized that the Cablevision ruling offered a blueprint for building a TV rebroadcasting service that wouldn't require the permission of broadcasters. In Aereo's server rooms are row after row of tiny antennas mounted on circuit boards. When a user wants to view or record a television program, Aereo assigns him an antenna exclusively for his own use. And like Cablevision, when 1000 users record the same program, Aereo creates 1,000 redundant copies.
Broadcasters argued that the rows of tiny antennas were little more than a publicity stunt. They claimed that in reality, Aereo was merely re-transmitting their content without permission to thousands of users, an infringement of copyright's public performance right.
But on Monday, a panel of Second Circuit judges sided with Aereo in a two-to-one ruling. The broadcasters had sought a preliminary injunction shutting Aereo down for the duration of the trial. The trial court judge denied that request, and the Second Circuit judges upheld the judge's decision. In the process, they settled some of the key legal issues in Aereo's favor.
"When an Aereo customer elects to watch or record a program using either the 'Watch' or 'Record' features, Aereo’s system creates a unique copy of that program on a portion of a hard drive assigned only to that Aereo user," the majority ruled. "And when an Aereo user chooses to watch the recorded program, whether (nearly) live or days after the program has aired, the transmission sent by Aereo and received by that user is generated from that unique copy. No other Aereo user can ever receive a transmission from that copy."
And that, the court said, made Aereo's system directly analogous to Cablevision's, and by extension to a conventional DVR. The fact that the recording equipment and the customer's screen might be dozens or even thousands of miles apart was legally irrelevant. So long as each user had his or her own dedicated recording of the program, taken from the user's dedicated antenna, Aereo didn't need the broadcasters' permission to stream their content.
"It is beyond dispute that the transmission of a broadcast TV program received by an individual’s rooftop antenna to the TV in his living room is private," the court reasoned. "Plaintiffs have presented no reason why the result should be any different when that rooftop antenna is rented from Aereo and its signals transmitted over the Internet: it remains the case that only one person can receive that antenna’s transmissions."
In a strongly worded dissent, Judge Denny Chin described Aereo's technology as a "sham."
Judge Chin argued that Aereo was unlike Cablevision because the latter had a license to transmit the underlying content. "Aereo is doing precisely what cable companies, satellite television companies, and authorized Internet streaming companies do—they capture over-the-air broadcasts and retransmit them to customers," he wrote. But unlike Aereo, "those entities are doing it legally, pursuant to statutory or negotiated licenses, for a fee."
The majority's decision received the enthusiastic support of the advocacy group Public Knowledge. "Only in the world of copyright maximalists do people need to get special permission to watch over-the-air television with an antenna," PK's John Bergmayer said in an e-mailed statement. "Just because 'the Internet' is involved doesn't change this." He vowed to fight any effort to get Congress or the courts to reverse the decision.
"We may be a small startup, but we’ve always believed in standing up and fighting for our consumers," Aereo said by e-mail. "We are grateful for the court’s thoughtful analysis and decision and we look forward to continuing to build a successful business that puts consumers first."
All may not be lost for the broadcasters. This week's ruling means the broadcasters won't be able to shut down Aereo's service during the trial, but the company could still prevail in the underlying case. The broadcasters could also seek to have the ruling reviewed by a larger panel of Second Circuit judges.
If the ruling is upheld, it is likely to provide greater legal certainty for modern cloud media services. The Cablevision case is widely regarded as the legal foundation of cloud music services such as Google Music and Amazon Cloud Player. By elaborating on the reasoning of Cablevision, the new ruling will give future startups greater guidance about how to keep cloud media services within the law. Unfortunately, it may lead to a lot of wasted resources, as cloud providers store thousands of redundant copies of content to stay within the arbitrary bounds of the Cablevision ruling.
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April 4, 2010
SENIOR WEB REPORTER GREG MIGLIORE: I was actually surprised with my drive experience in this hatch, and I'd rate it as very acceptable.
First of all, this Versa tester presents well, helped by a paint color that looks as if it was borrowed from Maranello. Unfortunately, that coated a design that was a bit awkward; the shape of this car just seemed odd to me and fairly unattractive.
The chassis was tight, and the car was pretty efficient driving in some wet winter weather. I found the steering to be a bit rubbery and the motor fairly buzzy. The four-banger is good on gas, and it was just effective enough to accelerate with oomph when I needed to.
The interior was OK. Some of it looked nice; some of the plastic--particularly in the center stack--looked pretty cheap. But overall, it's decent transportation.
EDITOR WES RAYNAL: This is not a bad little scooter for bombing around town, at a decent price. The CVT makes it drive sort of like a snowmobile: You hit the gas, the engine drones on and on, and eventually things get rolling. But this is good, basic transportation. The ride is compliant and comfortable, one of the better rides among the small cars.
Build quality and materials are bad, but I expected that. In fact, there was a nasty rattle from the center of the dash when the car was cold this morning. It went away after it warmed up.
This Versa is not sexy, fast or fun. But as I said, it's a decent little commuter/city car.
ASSOCIATE EDITOR JONATHAN WONG: This Versa is much better than that budget-wheels model we drove last year with the crummy tires, and it should be for $8,000 more. In small-car terms, I would rate this Versa near the top of the class, with a respectable amount of power and above-average handling and ride comfort.
While I believe Nissan is probably one of the best at making CVTs work well, the unit in this Versa still exhibits the rubber-band-like surging, which isn't the most pleasant sound. If you can get past the droning, then acceleration isn't all that bad. You won't be a sitting duck when merging onto the expressway and pulling off passes shouldn't be too much of an issue.
The Versa's strongest areas are ride and handling. Unlike a lot of other small cars, it doesn't bounce and crash over holes and bumps. The suspension does a decent job of damping those daily hazards, and the car is pretty composed rounding corners.
However, I still have to call Nissan out on the Versa's interior. Our test car is a relatively fresh example with only a few thousand miles on it--and all the panels creak like an old, warped hardwood floor. It's not hard to see why, because there are so many separate plastic panels that cover the dash. The more separate pieces you have, the more seams there are to generate all those unwanted noises. I will say the seats offer decent comfort, and there are some soft-touch surfaces on the door panels.
Interior complaints aside, this Versa is still one of the strongest contenders in the small-car category.
2010 Nissan Versa 1.8SL Hatchback
Base Price: $17,250
As-Tested Price: $18,385
Drivetrain: 1.8-liter I4; FWD, continuously variable transmission
Curb Weight: 2,758 lb
Fuel Economy (EPA): 30 mpg
Options: Premium package including Nissan Intelligent Key, Bluetooth, steering-wheel-mounted audio controls, leather-wrapped steering wheel, 15-inch alloy wheels ($980); five-piece floor/trunk mat set ($150) | http://autoweek.com/article/car-reviews/2010-nissan-versa-18-sl-hatchback-aw-drivers-log-0 | dclm-gs1-220880001 | false | false | {
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Plea Bargain
Many criminal cases are resolved through a plea bargain, usually well before trial. In a plea bargain, the defendant agrees to plead guilty to one or more charges (often to a lesser charge than one for which the defendant could stand trial) in exchange for a more lenient sentence (and/or so that certain related charges are dismissed). Learn more about plea bargaining basics, the benefits and risks in entering into a plea agreement, some and the kinds of plea bargains typically negotiated.
Plea Bargain Basics
A plea bargain is an agreement in a criminal case between the prosecutor and defendant that typically involves the defendant's agreement to plead guilty, often to a lesser offense or to a reduced sentence that has been agreed upon in advance. These agreements allow for the swift resolution of cases where there is little disagreement or where the evidence of guilt is overwhelming. Plea bargains increase efficiency for the courts and reduce expense and time for the defendant. Critics of plea bargaining complain that this efficiency comes at the expense of justice.
Plea Bargain Pros and Cons
Defendants frequently accept plea bargains to avoid a more serious charge, to have fewer charges brought against them, or to avoid the expense and stress of a trial. Plea bargains provide some security because they allow the defendant to negotiate the terms of sentencing, which under other circumstances may remain mysterious until after the trial is finished.
On the other hand, defendants who take a plea miss the opportunity to be found not-guilty; something that can happen for a variety of reasons, even in very strong cases. A defendant who takes a plea bargain waives many objections and opportunities to examine or challenge evidence against them. Appealing a plea bargain is much more difficult than appealing a decision at trail because pleas are voluntarily entered into and generally require that the defendant admit to the charges for which they are ultimately convicted.
Ultimately, a defendant should carefully consider the merits of their case and the possible outcomes at trial against the plea offered by the prosecution. The assistance of an attorney familiar with the jurisdiction and area of law can be very helpful, both in determining whether to take a plea and in negotiating a plea that is most favorable to the defendant.
Types of Plea Bargains
There are three basic kinds of plea bargains. Charge bargaining is an agreement where the defendant pleads guilty to a lesser charge so that greater charges will be dropped. Sentence bargaining is when the defendant agrees to plead guilty in return for a lighter sentence. Since the judge determines sentencing, not the prosecutor, this type of bargaining is not always successful. The judge may reject the plea because they disagree with the sentence, the jurisdiction may have punishments that are required by law and cannot be altered by an agreement, or the jurisdiction may have disallowed sentence bargaining altogether.
Finally, fact bargaining is the least common form of plea bargaining. The defendant agrees to stipulate to certain facts in order to prevent other facts from being brought into evidence. Most attorneys don't like fact bargaining and many courts don't allow it, which is why fact bargaining is uncommon.
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0.028671 | <urn:uuid:5f3e1e8d-f368-4e3c-87b4-e29806549479> | en | 0.938497 | Utah Minor League Team Cancels Planned "Caucasian Heritage Night"
The Orem Owlz canceled a planned “Caucasian Heritage Night” after the Angels’ Rookie League affiliate found itself in the center of controversy over the ill-chosen promotion. The team’s media director also resigned as a result of the backlash. The team offered this attempt to explain the promotion: »6/20/15 11:19am6/20/15 11:19am
The Blind Side Lady Shares A Heartwarming Racial Profiling Story
Leigh Anne Tuohy is best known for being portrayed by Sandra Bullock in The Blind Side, a movie depicting the real-life story of how Tuohy and her husband adopted NFL tackle Michael Oher when he was a homeless teenager. The movie ostensibly taught us a lot of Important Lessons about race and the American dream and… »12/15/14 6:01pm12/15/14 6:01pm
Black Grantland's Old White Guy To Black People: Do What I Tell You
Yesterday, news dropped that Jason Whitlock was about to make Mike Wise, an oldish white Washington Post columnist and proud champion of liberal causes, his second official "black Grantland" hire. That's interesting not just because of what he is—this is supposed to be a site bursting with young, up-and-coming… »11/18/14 5:30pm11/18/14 5:30pm
Colin Cowherd Is Right. African-Americans Really Don't Watch Hockey.
Colin Cowherd is a flaccid penis shaft of a man with a syphilitic soul who is paid handsomely by ESPN to spew racist and sexist and otherwise trash opinions over TV, radio, and the internet on a daily basis. That's why it was so surprising that when he talked about black people today, he was right! Kind of. »10/08/14 3:38pm10/08/14 3:38pm
Mark One Wolf was, for a time, a favored native in Dan Snyder's fight to save the "Redskins" nickname. "Native American backing team name is VIP at practice," read a Richmond Times-Dispatch headline. It was accompanied by an Associated Press photo of One Wolf in profile, as if to echo the team's logo. But that was… »10/07/14 3:49pm10/07/14 3:49pm
Donald Sterling Thinks He Owns His Players; He's Not Alone
Whatever else you say about Donald Sterling, give him this: the man has defeated criticism. There is no way to say anything about this spectacular American grotesque that doesn't amount to congratulating anyone who happens to be less racist than he is for being less racist than Donald Sterling. So, good work, nearly… »4/28/14 2:41pm4/28/14 2:41pm | http://deadspin.com/tag/shut-up-whitey | dclm-gs1-221210001 | false | false | {
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Thursday, April 29, 2010
Easley traveled unlikely path to Buffalo
"First Take" host Dana Jacobson sat down with Buffalo Bills receiver Marcus Easley, a fourth-round pick out of Connecticut.
How unlikely was it that Easley would make it to the NFL when he went to UConn?
Easley enrolled on an academic scholarship and didn't go out for the team until his sophomore season. He went into his senior season with five career catches for the Huskies, but came back for his final season even though he already had his undergraduate degree.
"I went there just based on academics," Easley said. "That was my focus at the time. I missed [football]. I still has the passion and the love for the game. I just felt like my career wasn't over and I needed to get back out there." | http://espn.go.com/blog/afceast/print?id=13342 | dclm-gs1-221300001 | false | false | {
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Microsoft and Motorola have been at each other’s throats for a while now.
Motorola claims that the Xbox 360 uses “Motorola-developed technology that allows set-top boxes to decode transmissions between its Droid2 and DroidX mobile devices” while Microsoft argues that Motorola refused “to abide by requirements set by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Standards Association to set reasonable license fees of essential technology.”
Last April, International Trade Commission (ITC) judge David Shaw ruled that Microsoft’s Xbox 360 console infringed on four of Motorola’s patents. Today, Judge Shaw has recommended that the ITC ban the import of the 4GB and 250GB Xbox 360 S consoles and prevent further sales with a cease-and-desist order. Further, Microsoft should post a bond equal to 7% of the value of unsold Xbox 360 inventory already in the country.
Motorola wanted the bond to be 100% but Microsoft pointed out that Motorola had done nothing to show that anyone had bought an Xbox 360 in lieu of Droid devices or set-top converters and argued for a bond equal to what it saw as a reasonable license fee for the technology: 2.5%.
Microsoft argued that Judge Shaw’s order did not serve the public interest because it would leave consumers with only two console options: Sony’s and Nintendo’s. Shaw slapped down that argument saying that enforcing intellectual property rights outweighed the economic impact on game console buyers and there was no evidence that Microsoft’s competitors wouldn’t be able to handle the demand.
Judge Shaw’s recommendation will now go to the ITC commissioners for consideration. If the order becomes final, President Barack Obama will have 60 days to review the decision. After that, ITC orders can only be appealed to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
Source: Courthouse News Service
-Reporting from San Diego, GamePolitics Contributing Editor Andrew Eisen
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IanC says:
Motorola are in bed with Google. Of course they want the worst for MS, which is probanly why they didnt bother doing a proper license deal for whatever these patents cover.
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Pierre-Olivier says:
Apparently yes, for essential technology.
The sad part is that normally, Motorola doesn't have much of a leg to stand on, but German courts are biaised against Microsoft (for various reasons). This cannot end well.
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Conster says:
Wait, so Microsoft's argument is "Your licenses are too freaking expensive"? And there are actually requirements about not making your licenses too freaking expensive?
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I'm writing an article on my site about the advantages of new web technologies, among others HTML5, CSS3 and SVGs, one of the advantages of the latter being the ability to select text in what is otherwise effectively an image.
I'm new to SVGs, and just made my first decent graphic in Illustrator. I've embedded it into a page with the GWF script for the Ubuntu font in the tag. As it turns out, the Ubuntu font displays correctly in regular text, but for this trick to work in the SVG, the Google script has to be embedded in the SVG itself. How can I do this?
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You embed fonts in CSS by using base64 encoding. You can apply styles in SVG documents similar to CSS by using a <style /> element. So if you have a WOFF font, you'd embed it like this:
@font-face {
font-family: "Sample font";
Where ... is the base64 encoded font data.
You can find examples of this by looking at Typekit's stylesheets. I'm not sure if the mime type of font/woff is correct, as I've also seen people claim that it should be application/font-woff. Though font/woff, font/truetype, font/opentype, etc. seem to be more popular.
Alternatively, you could actually take the SVG version of the web font and embed the SVG font's description markup inside of your document (though browser support is still very limited as Luke notes in the comments).
However, you should also be able to link to an external font according to the SVG specification. That would seem to be the best solution if you're gonna have multiple SVG documents referencing that font.
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@Verandaguy: You can either put in a separate CSS file just like you would an HTML document, or you can embed it in a <style> element like so. – Lèse majesté Dec 23 '11 at 4:57
@Verandaguy: I don't see a <style> element anywhere in that SVG document. – Lèse majesté Dec 23 '11 at 16:23
@Verandaguy: A few problems here. First off, FontSquirrel generated a bunch of CSS for embedding all the different styles of Ubuntu (e.g. bold and italic), and it used 'UbuntuRegular' as the font-family name for the regular version. I removed all the unused fonts, leaving just UbuntuRegular and renamed that to Ubuntu to match the font name you used later in your document. Secondly, there was an extra </svg> right after the style definitions. So everything after that was treated as junk data. Once I removed that, it worked fine. – Lèse majesté Dec 23 '11 at 18:53
The correct MIME-type for .woff is now application/font-woff. – sshow Dec 10 '13 at 13:09
Regarding "you could actually take the SVG version of the web font and embed the SVG font's description markup inside of your document", you should be aware that "SVG Fonts are currently supported only in Safari and Android Browser." See (also – Luke Jan 13 at 20:29
A <defs> section like
<style type="text/css">@import url(;</style>
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This may be over simplifying, but have you considered downloading the font as a zip file from google and then letting Illustrator convert it as needed into your SVG file output?
This is only theoretical as I haven't tried this yet, but in theory would seem to work.
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Add the following after <desc> tag
<style type="text/css">@import url('|Fontdiner+Swanky|Crafty+Girls|Pacifico|Satisfy|Gloria+Hallelujah|Bangers|Audiowide|Sacramento');</style>
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Please refer to this document:
I normally use Acrobat, it allows me to scan multi single pages to one document. Other option is to scan each page to a pdf document then merge them together using pdfsam. You can download (free) pdfsam from the following link:
This nice product also allows you to split a big document to many smaller files such as extract one chapter of a thick book.
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A three-dimensional non-hydrostatic numerical model and lagrangian particle model (random walk model) were used to investigate the effects of the atmospheric circulation and boundary layer structure on the dispersion of suspended particulates in the Seoul metropolitan area. Initially, emitted particulate matter rises from the surface of the city towards the top of the convective boundary layer (CBL), owing to daytime thermal heating of the surface and the combined effect of an onshore wind with a westerly synoptic-scale wind. A reinforcing sea-valley breeze directed from the coast toward the city of Seoul, which is enclosed in a basin and bordered by mountains to its east, disperses the suspended particulate matter toward the eastern mountains. Total suspended particulate concentration (TSP) at ground level in the city is very low and relatively high in the mountains. Radiative cooling of the surface produces a shallow nocturnal surface inversion layer (NSIL) and the suspended particulate matter still present near the top of the CBL from the previous day, sinks to the surface. An easterly downslope mountain wind is directed into the metropolitan area, transporting particulate matter towards the city, thereby recycling the pollutants. The particulates descending from the top of the NSIL and mountains, combine with particulates emitted near the surface over the city at night, and under the shallow NSIL spread out, resulting in a maximum ground level concentration of TSP in the metropolitan area at 2300 LST. As those particles move toward the Yellow Sea through the topographically shaped outlet west of Seoul city under the influence of the easterly land breeze, the maximum TSP concentration occurs at the coastal site. During the following morning, onshore winds resulting from a combined synoptic-scale westerly wind and westerly sea breeze, force particulates dispersed the previous night to move over the adjacent sea and back over the inland metropolitan area. The recycled particulates combine with the particulates emitted from the surface in the central part of the metropolitan area, producing a high TSP and again rise towards the top of the CBL ready to repeat the cycle. | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00703-005-0147-6 | dclm-gs1-221930001 | false | false | {
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From: Kent Karlsson <kentk@cs.chalmers.se>
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 12:43:03 +0200 (CEST)
Message-ID: <16302.>
To: "Philip Guenther" <guenther+collation@sendmail.com>
Cc: "Mark Davis" <mark.davis@icu-project.org>, public-ietf-collation@w3.org
> These would appear to outlaw a collation for comparing or ordering
The revision of IEEE 754 (known as 754R) includes a total order
comparison. IIRC the NaNs that happen to have to have the sign
bit set (though there is no such things as negative NaNs) are ordered
"less" than negative infinity, those that do not are ordered
"greater" than positive infinity, negative zero is "less" than zero
(they otherwise compare equal).
There is no change to the ordinary operations that are expected to
surface as "<" etc. operators in programming languages. The total
ordering is a new operation.
I don't right now recall what the suggestion was for decimal base
(new in 754R), where differently scaled, but equal values compare equal
(of course, for the "ordinary" comparison) with regard to this new
total order operation.
So IEEE 754R datatypes (will) have two orders on them, one partial,
and one total.
/kent k
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New poll from Public Policy Polling shows that a majority of the "strict constitutionalist" party, the GOP, either believe that the world's second most common religion should BE ILLEGAL, or aren't sure whether or not it should be legal.
Ladies and gentleman, your 2015 Republican:
From PPP:
Trump's probably not hurting himself too much with his negativity toward Muslims either- only 49% of Republicans think the religion of Islam should even be legal in the United States with 30% saying it shouldn't be and 21% not sure. Among Trump voters there is almost even division with 38% thinking Islam should be allowed and 36% that it should not.
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/page/318118_PPP-_30_Of_GOP_Say_Islam_Shoul#rss http://littlegreenfootballs.com/page/318118_PPP-_30_Of_GOP_Say_Islam_Shoul#rss Tue, 22 Sep 2015 09:00:47 PDT Wingnuts
Conservatives Called Obama "Vindictive," But Now They're Praising Trump mr.fusion Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]
When Jorge Ramos was kicked out of the Trump event two days ago, Conservative media immediately circled the wagons, denouncing Ramos as a "heckler" and "activist"...certainly not a reporter. The standing ovation given to Trump by those on the right for sending Ramos "back to Univision" was silly and so I thought to myself, "how did they react when Obama did the same thing? How did they react when he didn't even go anywhere as far as Trump did (the Major Garrett/Iran episode when the nuclear deal was first announced)?"
Well...they acted about as you would expect. Like the hypocritical false victims that they are:
HotAir on Obama kicking the Washington Times off of his campaign plane in 2008:
HotAir on Trump:
When reporters first started huffing about this on Twitter, it sounded as though Trump had booted this guy out of the room for doing nothing more than asking him a question he didn't care for, an ominous sign from a would-be president who's building a reputation for holding grudges. But that's not what happened. Ramos, true to form, simply stood up and started grandstanding about deportation as Trump tried to call on another reporter. He's the most shameless amnesty shill in American media and makes no apologies for it; his advice to colleagues in journalism is "Don't be neutral. Neutrality is for referees in a football game."
In perhaps the most stunning example of this sick hypocrisy, here's Fox News and an article titled "Major Garrett Dares To Ask Obama About Americans Still Held In Iran And Liberal Media Freaks Out":
That's the bizarre disconnect encountered by CBS News Chief White House Correspondent Major Garrett when he interrupted the Obama Iran deal press conference with, well, journalism. Garrett stood up and asked Obama, "why you are content" to leave those four people behind in Iran, unaided by American diplomacy?
You would think Garrett dropped the "N" word.
So Fox was probably equally outraged at the treatment of Trump towards Ramos, right? Here's the Fox News article written by Howard Kurtz titled, "Why Jorge Ramos Crossed The Line In Confronting Donald Trump:"
If Jorge Ramos looked like an activist disrupting an event the other night, perhaps that is no accident.
The Univision anchor has devoted much of his career to crusading on the issue of illegal immigration. And he clearly wanted to force a confrontation at Donald Trump's Iowa news conference.
Anyone who buys Ramos' claim that he was just a reporter trying to ask a question hasn't watched the tape carefully enough.
In October of 2014, Democratic Senate candidate Jeanne Shaheen kicked Breitbart's Matthew Doyle out of a campaign event. Here's how he reported on that:
It is highly unusual for a political campaign of either political party to kick a congressionally credentialed reporter out of an open press campaign event. It is normal for campaigns to ask partisan political operatives, like media trackers-people who work for campaigns or other political operations filming footage and gathering other information on their political opponents to be used against them-to leave, but reporters are a different story.
And Breitbart writes on Ramos in an article titled "Jorge Ramos Is A Ridiculous Activist:"
The mainstream media is circling the wagons right now, defending Univision and Fusion anchor Jorge Ramos for heckling Republican presidential contender Donald Trump at an Iowa press conference Tuesday night. Calling him the Spanish-language Walter Cronkite, the destination press is doing everything in its power to present Ramos as having the upper hand in the illegal immigration debate. Politico declared "Trump Meets His Match In Jorge Ramos" and the Los Angeles Times apparently wants Trump to apologize.
There's only one problem with that: Jorge Ramos is ridiculous.
I could go on and on like this probably forever, but you get the point.
It's really quite interesting. They say Trump was correct to kick Ramos out of the event because he had an agenda, wasn't neutral, was an activist. Yet these are all self-proclaimed "conservative" media reporters that are the first to admit that they have an agenda, aren't neutral, are fighting for their causes.
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Republicans Sneer At Obama's Perceived "Narcissism" -- So Of Course Trump Is Their Frontrunner mr.fusion Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]
The conservative love for Donald Trump is puzzling on many levels, but the incredible hypocrisy shown in denigrating President Obama as the "narcissist-in-chief" while embracing Trump as the standard bearer is utterly staggering.
What's really been bugging me is the sneering criticism President Obama has received from the right - not always the "far" right either - for his perceived "narcissism." I've been wanting to write a page on this for several days, but just haven't been able to think of a clear way to make the point.
I guess the best way is to show the disgust conservatives have shown with Obama's perceived "narcissism" -- while completely ignoring actual narcissism for their current frontrunner
In 2014, Charles Krauthammer criticized the president on the Hugh Hewitt show, as reported by Politico:
Conservative columnist -- and former psychiatrist -- Charles Krauthammer took time Monday for presidential couch analysis, saying President Barack Obama is not manic but, rather, a narcissist who "talks like the emperor, Napoleon."
"So I decided when I left psychiatry never to use my authority. But let me just say as a layman, without invoking any expertise, Obama is clearly a narcissist in the non-scientific use of the word. He is so self-involved, you see it from his rise," Krauthammer said Monday on "The Hugh Hewitt Show," according to a transcript.
Here's an entire segment of the Rush Limbaugh show titled, "Iran Deal Is All About Obama's Narcissism," from just 5 months ago:
The Iranians know this guy better than he knows himself. They know he cannot ever admit error. He's a narcissist. It's impossible. In his own mind he can't ever be wrong. In his own mind he cannot ever have screwed up. In his own mind he cannot ever have made a mistake. And so no matter what happens, no matter what happens to this deal, if it continues to get torn apart, Obama will do anything, any concession to keep it alive because he can never arrive at the point where he would have to admit that it's a bad thing to have done.
And as evidence of this "narcissism," they point to how many times he used the words "I" in speeches:
Here's George Will:
Krauthammer again:
I mean, count the number of times he uses the word I in any speech, and compare that to any other president. Remember when he announced the killing of bin Laden? That speech I believe had 29 references to I - on my command, I ordered, as commander-in-chief, I was then told, I this. You'd think he'd pulled the trigger out there in Abbottabad.
How about a Daily Caller article criticizing Obama as "narcissist-in-chief?"
But one thing that has bothered me is the president's narcissism. Indeed, perhaps not surprisingly for a man whose principal accomplishment before becoming president was to write two autobiographies, Obama has seemed to spend an inordinate amount of time talking about himself on these trips. And it's not just Obama, but the First Lady, too.
...and now Donald Trump is leading - or more appropriately crushing the competition - in the Republican primary. They are truly a remarkable bunch.
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Why Is Fox News Denying Racism Was Motive In Charleston? mr.fusion Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]
In the hours and days following the shooting in Charleston, Fox News pundits, nearly in unison, rushed to deny that racism played any role in the act of terrorism.
Fox's Steve Doocy called it "extraordinary" that this would be classified as a hate crime. Fox's Martha MacCallum suggested that "diversity" was a contributing factor to the shooting. Brian Kilmeade asked if it was the shooters hatred of Christian churches that led to the shooting.
Larry Wilmore on The Nightly Show went after this far better than I ever could
I can't really wrap my head around the motivation here. Why is Fox News, and therefore right wing America, so worried that this shooting was racially motivated?
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Clown Car Express: Santorum Says Climate Change Scientists Are Just Like Flat-Earthers mr.fusion Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]
GOP Presidential candidate Rick Santorum is not the first person to do so, but during his first official even in Iowa he compared scientists convinced that the climate is changing to people who once believed the world was flat:
One man stood up during the event's Q&A portion, expressing concern about climate change. Addressing it, the audience member said, should be an imperative to Christians commanded by the Bible to be stewards of the Earth.
"I always have problems when people come up and say the science is settled," said Santorum, winner of the 2012 Iowa caucuses. "That's what they said about the world being flat. When someone says the science is settled you're not a scientist, because scientists never say the science is settled."
Some might say that those who once denied the spherical shape, or scientifically proven fact, that the Earth is round are much more like those who deny the scientifically proven fact that man is the cause of climate change....but that may take some thought and introspection I suppose
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Bigoted FL GOP Proposes "Religious Exemption" Law For Adoptions mr.fusion Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]
The state of Florida has finally taken steps to strike down its unconstitutional gay adoption ban, so hateful, bigoted, spiteful Florida Republicans are doing what hateful, bigoted, spiteful people do -- working to institutionalize hate, bigotry and spite:
On Thursday, the House Health & Human Services Committee approved a plan "to allow private child-placing agencies to object to performing, assisting in, recommending, consenting to, or participating in the placement of a child if a placement violates the agency's written religious or moral convictions or policies." Twelve Republicans voted for, six Democrats against.
In addition, the proposal specifically states any agency that denies placing a child in a home on religious or moral grounds is protected from losing its license, public grants or contracts and the ability to participate in government programs. Similar proposals have been introduced in the Michigan and Alabama houses.
Yes, these Republicans believe that children are better off in an orphanage than living in a home with a couple who loves them. This is what happens when you don't show up to vote.
Equality Florida noted:
Families could be excluded for racial, religious, political, gender, sexual orientation or marital status reasons, among others.
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Our National Nightmare Of Healthy School Lunches May Finally Be At An End mr.fusion Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]
Of all the idiotic outrageous outrages out there, I think this one chaps my hide more than any of the others. I think the reason why is that there is absolutely no reason for it other than pure irrational hatred for our President.
I know that we're all familiar with the military leaders who have called our children "too fat to fight." There's the economic impact of obesity rates. And then there's the fact that the First Lady's "Let's Move" campaign is actually showing positive results.
But that doesn't matter to today's GOP. Any and everything that the Obama's put forward policy wise must be opposed and the fight for healthier children is no exception:
As the opening bell sounds for the 114th Congress, don't be surprised to see GOP lawmakers take on school nutrition. The $1.1 trillion omnibus this month included provisions to allow states more flexibility to exempt schools from the Department of Agriculture's whole-grain standards if they can show hardship and to halt future sodium restrictions
But that was only the opening salvo in the long-running fight over new reforms championed by first lady Michelle Obama.
Rep. Robert Aderholt (R-Ala.), chairman of the House Appropriations Agriculture Subcommittee, has been leading the charge on school lunch, along with Sen. John Hoeven (R-N.D.), a key member of the Senate Appropriations Agriculture Subcommittee. But their cause is about to be picked up by the House Education and Workforce Committee, chaired by Rep. John Kline (R-Minn.), and the Senate Agriculture Committee, chaired by Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), as they begin work to reauthorize the law governing school nutrition programs.
Yes, today's GOP -- the most do-nothing bunch of representatives we've ever had in Congress -- have decided to band together in the fight for fatter children. If it wasn't so sad and pathetic it would be absolutely hilarious.
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Author Of GOP Autopsy: Obama Is A Socialist mr.fusion Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]
The Hill:
The number 2 "recommendation" from the autopsy:
More of an observation than a recommendation, but that's neither here nor there.
Wonder if Barbour actually read the report he helped to author?
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Take A Tour Of Marco Rubio's $675,000 'Working Class' Home mr.fusion Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]
While Sen. Rubio's lip smacking and water gulping is getting the bulk of the coverage one line from his SOTU response stood out to me more than others. Below is the text of Rubio's claim of living in the same "working class neighborhood" that he grew up in.
Tampa Bay Times
One thing I'll say about Marco....he's got some serious onions. For those of you who don't know this is the same guy who had to answer for charging up to $5,000 to his state party credit card for new flooring in this "working class" home. Seriously I could not believe he brought this up. Here's his so called "working class" home that he recently put on the market for $675k. He put this on the market because he plans to permanently move his family out of the state he represents and to Washington DC, but I digress.
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Marco Rubio: Tea Party Darling, Hope Of The Republican Party, Climate Change Denier mr.fusion Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]
Republican Senator Marco Rubio's (Member of the Senate Committee On Commerce, Science, & Transportation) recent comments about climate change have slid under the radar and they shouldn't.
For a guy that represents a state with 1,197 miles of coastline to just throw up his hands and say there's nothing we can do anyway is quite embarrassing for any Floridian. As the article below cites, current projections show that in the next 100 years some of the most beautiful parts of the state he represents, the Florida Keys, will be completely underwater if nothing is done. Second, that someone who denies all science pointing to man's role in this sits on the Commerce, Science and Technology Committee is an absolute outrage. It goes to show what happens any time you vote for any Republican. Doesn't matter how rational or reasonable the guy you are voting for may be (and there are precious few of those left in the GOP), a vote for any Republican is a vote against facts, truth, and science.
But, I think there is a larger fundamental issue here - it shows just how ridiculous the GOP talk of "rebranding" really is. I don't think Sen. Rubio really believes that man has absolutely nothing to do with the temperatures we are seeing, the rapid fire storms of the century, or the melting of the polar ice caps. As the article below points out, in his early career he embraced capping carbon emissions and alternative energy technology. I highly doubt that he truly is a young Earther. But I do believe that he knows his political career as a Republican would be completely over if he acknowledged that the universe we live in is billions of years old or that there are steps that can be taken to curb climate change. He needs the rubes to make phone calls, donate money and knock on doors for him in 2016. The Republican base is made up of people who refuse to acknowledge science - whether it's because of their religion, their hatred of Al Gore, or just willful ignorance - no Republican can move up the ladder without catering to those folks.
How can you rebrand when that would mean you lose your entire base? You can't, and the Republican Party knows it.
Tampa Bay Times
While much of the Washington news media were fawning over Sen. Marco Rubio's knowledge of rap music (Tupac over Biggie, he says), his remarks questioning global warming at an event Tuesday drew more serious discussion.
"First of all, the climate is always changing. That's not the fundamental question," Rubio said when asked at a BuzzFeed event if global warming is a threat to Florida. "The fundamental question is whether man-made activity is what's contributing most to it. I understand that people say there is a significant scientific consensus on that issue, but I've actually seen reasonable debate on that principle."
Rubio, a member of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, went on to question if government could do anything to address the issue, whether it would be too costly or ineffective if other countries do not do the same.
"The United States is a country; it's not a planet," he said.
Phil Plait, an astronomer and author, rebutted Rubio in Slate, saying there is no debate among the scientific community. "The truth is, our poles are melting. Nine of the hottest years on record have been in the past decade. Even a study funded by the oil magnate Koch Brothers found the Earth is warming up," he wrote.
"So, oddly enough, I take exception to what Senator Rubio said. There is no longer reasonable debate. All we see is denial. And the time for debate is long since past anyway; the science is in, and it's sound science. I'm tired of politicians equivocating and hemming and hawing about global warming. We need to stop fiddling while the world burns, and start putting out this fire."
Studies have shown global warming would indeed threaten Florida, with rising sea levels bringing flooding, that could cause widespread property damage, saltwater intrusion and other problems.
Under current projections, the Atlantic Ocean would swallow much of the Florida Keys in 100 years, the Miami Herald reported last year, citing a scientific study. Miami-Dade would become a chain of islands.
Rubio, who recently declined to GQ to say how old the Earth is — "I'm not a scientist, man" — has taken on stances that find a comfortable home in his party.
But on climate change, as with other issues, he was once more open to science. During his time in the Florida House, he embraced a plan to develop guidelines to limit carbon emissions and suggested Florida could be a leader in developing alternative technologies.
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Get Baker Acted, Keep Your Gun mr.fusion Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]
Tampa Bay Times
TAMPA — John Judd Thomas came to the attention of law enforcement last March, when he fired six shots from a 45-caliber handgun in his Seminole Heights home.
The 76-year-old, who told police he has been diagnosed with schizophrenia, said he was shooting at "rats as big as squirrels.'' He seemed "mentally unstable," officers said, telling them he "could shoot a cop with all he has been through lately."
Police held Thomas under the Baker Act, a state law that allows for the temporary detainment of someone who may be a danger to themselves or others. They took two of his guns and drove him to a mental health center in east Tampa.
On Wednesday, Thomas went to the Hillsborough Circuit courthouse to get his guns back. He had filed a petition and, according to Hillsborough County rules, needed only a judge's okay.
"I don't see any reason why they wouldn't," he told a reporter.
He was right. After a hearing that lasted about five minutes, Administrative Judge Claudia Isom said Thomas could have his guns.
Two other men who had been detained under the Baker Act also got their guns back Wednesday after quick hearings. Like Thomas, they have no felony record. None of their guns was used in a crime. None had ever been involuntarily held for mental health treatment longer than 72 hours, the maximum duration of a Baker Act detainment.
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Matt Drudge - No Longer Holding Back mr.fusion Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]
Here's a screen shot of the current main headline on Drudge
And here's the story the headline links to:
It's a pretty standard movie review. Not sure why Drudge decided to write the N word over and over and over again....and put it in quotes under a picture of a pretty wasted looking Quentin Tarrantino. I think it's pretty reasonable to believe the headline, suggesting a direct quote, and then the picture suggest that Quentin Tarrantino went on a Michael Richards-style rant.....only there's nothing like that in the story. Here's the part of the review that deals with the use of the N word:
Quite naturally, given the historical setting, the N-word gets a heavy workout, by whites and blacks alike. But much more forceful is the cruelty dispensed by the Southern whites, both as punishment and whim; attack dogs are unleashed on one man, Mandingo fighters (in an homage to the unforgettable 1975 Mandingo) battle to the death in a beautifully appointed drawing room for the wealthy's amusement, a woman is locked naked in a metal 'hot box,' genital mutilation is arranged for a man and much more
That's it. Actually, it's just that first half sentence.
Also, notice the sub headers at the top. A "flashback" to Spike Lee using the N-word and maybe kinda sorta making an anti-semitic remark. Jaime Foxx saying that he was called the N-word as a kid (Is that really worthy of a headline???)
I guess I saw this and was just shocked. I know I shouldn't be, but I was.
It actually kind of reminds me of the break with historical accuracies in Inglorious Basterds. Tarrantino killed Hitler in that movie because he just wanted to kill Hitler. Looks like Drudge just wanted to see how many times he could drop the N-bomb on the most visited right wing blog on the internet.
In my opinion this is race baiting at it's worst. It's insulting, offensive, unhinged, gratuitous lunacy.
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The Unabashed Liar Running For President Releases 'Apology Tour' Ad mr.fusion Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]
Call me crazy....but if you're going to accuse your opponent of going on an "Apology Tour," shouldn't you provide video of an actual apology taking place? Shouldn't there be at least footage of an "apology" in the ad?
Instead we get this:
Saying Obama went on an "Apology Tour" does not make it so. This level of deception and dishonesty just turns my stomach. The only reason this guy has any chance at the Presidency is not because he is qualified -- it is because a segment of the population hates Barack Obama with every fiber of their being. Irrational hatred could give us a President that will say anything, at any time, regardless of whether or not there is even an ounce of truth to it.
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Did Romney Cheat During The Debate? mr.fusion Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]
Certainly looks that way to me. Judge for yourself:
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Louisiana Schools - Teaching Your Kids That Dragons Were Real mr.fusion Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]
Mother Jones goes through the text books so you don't have to:
Under Gov. Bobby Jindal's voucher program, considered the most sweeping in the country, Louisiana is poised to spend tens of millions of dollars to help poor and middle-class students from the state's notoriously terrible public schools receive a private education. While the governor's plan sounds great in the glittery parlance of the state's PR machine, the program is rife with accountability problems that actually haven't been solved by the new standards the Louisiana Department of Education adopted two weeks ago.
For one, of the 119 (mostly Christian) participating schools, Zack Kopplin, a gutsy college sophomore who's taken to Change.org to stonewall the program, has identified at least 19 that teach or champion creationist nonscience and will rake in nearly $4 million in public funding from the initial round of voucher designations.
My personal favorite:
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Ya Know What's Just Like Pearl Harbor & 9/11? Contraception Mandates mr.fusion Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]
NBC News
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TBT Investigation: 'Stand Your Ground' Defense Used Constantly And In Ways No One Expected mr.fusion Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]
Tampa Bay Times
Among the findings:
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Right Wing Hatred Of Sandra Fluke mr.fusion Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]
To be honest, I don't know if Politico is to be blamed for this. There's no real reason to delete these comments other than the deep seething hatred for this woman, Sandra Fluke, who had the absolute gall to testify before Congress.
I don't know. Maybe it's just that it's Friday and I'm a little worn out.....I read this site a lot, and reader comments are pointed out from time to time on the main page and I've never really been all that surprised by what I've read. There's been some racist vulgar stuff from other sites posted here but it's never really shocked me.
But this was just shocking to me for some reason. You can just feel the hate dripping from your monitor as you read it. These are from the first 20 comments out of more than 1200 from a story about President Obama's call to Sandra Fluke.
If you want to go and spread your legs to everything that moves fine, I don't care; just don't think you have the right to make ME pay for it. Personal responsibility is blasphemy to liberals; how pathetic.
Any woman who spends that much on birth control in a single year is either a $lut or very bad with money. Either one doesn't need her fellow taxpayers subsidizing it.
Is it insulting to remind this whore that if she can get into law school, she should be able to pay for her own rubbers and pills? Is it more important to her to screw herself into a coma or get a degree?
Whatever happened to "Hands off our bodies!", anyway? Now the sluts want US to pay for it? Is she afraid she won't be able to afford to screw her professors anymore for an easy A?
Doesn't the Commander in Chief have anything better to do than call a Georgetown slut to assuage her feelings?
What did he tell her? "Don't worry, It's OK, you can still sleep around and I'll make those mean taxpayers pay the bill"???
Ms. Flake, if you are having $3000 worth of sex during your college career, you are a slut. If you can't stand the heat, you best stay out of the political kitchen. I shouldn't have to pay for you to sleep around. And having seen you, there is NO way you're having that much sex.
She demands that taxpayers and rate/service (insurance premium) payers that they need to pay thousands of dollars annually for her expensive sex life by paying higher rates for insurance where the higher rates forced on people by insurance in turn forced on insurance by government are redistributed to fund her sex life. Typical socialist or communist Democrat calling it their "right" to steal someone else's right, including their private property, to serve themselves.
Try Planned Parenthood, Ms. Flake. They give it away free.
...and in all fairness, this was quote #20
I sure hope that rush gets to spend some quality time with breitbart really soon.
I just can't believe it. And to top it off.........am I missing something? When did "they're making me pay for contraception through higher taxes!" become part of the equation? Hasn't this whole thing been about whether or not the government can make religious places of business include contraception in their health insurance plans? Or am I just injecting too much reason? And do they not realize it doesn't matter how many times you decide to have sex you still take the exact same amount of contraception? Ugh
Well.......thank God it's Friday......time to knock a few back and get on some modern warfare
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Did Barack Obama Assasinate Andrew Breitbart? mr.fusion Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]
That is all.
P.S. In case you're wondering why this is necessary:
Conspiracy in the comment section
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Why 2 Years Of Tax Returns From Mitt Isn't Enough mr.fusion Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]
'These business leaders in South Carolina are an important part of our country's economic engine,' said Mitt Romney. 'But they can't afford four more years of an over-taxing, over-spending, over-regulating Obama Administration.
Tonight during the debate Mitt Romney said that he would release his last two years of tax returns. That is nowhere near enough.
The Romney campaign has tried to paint President Obama as some crazy tax and spender. And let's be honest about it, it's not just the Romney campaign, but the entire Republican Party that's living under the illusion that their taxes have never been higher. But is that true? Of course not, and my theory is that never in Mitt Romney's life in the top 1% bracket has he ever paid less in taxes.
That's what I want to see. I want to see the difference between the tax rate Romney paid under Bush, Clinton and Obama and I want to see if the Republican argument that our job creators aren't job creatin' is because they are overtaxed.
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Stephen Colbert Op-Ed: We've Narrowed The Exact Value Of Sanctity - Somewhere Between $200K & $400K mr.fusion Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]
As a proud son of South Carolina I must address recent unsubstantiated rumors published in The State that I, Stephen Colbert, tried to buy the naming rights to the 2012 Republican primary. First, never trust anything in a newspaper — except this column, and possibly 'Mallard Filmore.' And second, these outrageous and scurrilous rumors border on libel, even if they are, technically, true. I don't want to talk about it.
Here's what happened:
I have what's called a super PAC — a political action committee that can receive unlimited funds to spend on political speech in unlimited quantities. About three months ago, I heard that local officials in South Carolina were suing the state political parties over who would pay for the upcoming presidential primary. The GOP said they would pay a big chunk of the cost, but insisted the taxpayers pick up the bulk. State and local officials said this private primary should be paid for entirely with party funds. And Gov. Nikki Haley said, 'It's a great day in South Carolina!'
Enter Colbert Super PAC.™ South Carolina has two state mottos. (It's always good to have a backup, in case one motto goes missing for days at a time with the motto of Argentina.) The first is 'Animis opibusque parati' — 'Prepared in mind and resources.'
For this all important first-in-the-South primary, the Palmetto State was not prepared in resources, but Colbert Super PAC was.
So I called up the South Carolina GOP and said, 'How much cash would you have to raise to keep your promise to counties? Off the record; I'll never tell a soul.' They said, '$400,000.'
I said, 'I can cover that. No strings attached.'
Of course, I can't offer that kind of no-strings-attached-money without getting something in return. I told them I wanted the naming rights to the primary, and a non-binding referendum on the ballot. If they weren't prepared to horse trade for these two requests, they should never call me back.
Well, they didn't call me back. They got on a plane and flew to New York to make the deal. Because money talks, B.S. walks, and $400,000 flies business class.
We hammered out a contract over barbecue. Colbert Super PAC would pay up to $400,000 directly to the state and counties to defray the cost of the election. In return, the primary's official name would be 'The Colbert Super PAC South Carolina Republican Primary.' This name would appear on all press releases, official notices and signage, including the debates. We would finally raise democracy to the same level as the Tostitos™ Fiesta Bowl and Kardashian™ weddings.
( ) Corporations are people.
( ) Only people are people.
The GOP agreed to everything. The referendum was immediately requested, approved by the election commission, and even printed on sample and military absentee ballots. I had counted all of my chickens and was just waiting for them to hatch. Then the unthinkable happened — the activist judges of the S.C. Supreme Court ruled that the counties, not the GOP, would be responsible for funding the primary. And, in what I can only see as a personal attack on corporate persons, they ruled that all non-binding referenda be struck from the ballot.
Desperate, I reached out to the S.C. Democrats, who agreed to file a request to reinstate the referendum. That's when the S.C. Republican Party withdrew their generous offer to sell me what they weren't paying for. They told the press that my requests, 'were considered but were declined,' because they, 'were concerned about the sanctity of the primary election.'
Which brings us to South Carolina's other motto: 'Dum spiro spero' — 'While I breathe, I hope.' Well, South Carolina counties, you can stop breathing now — your hopes have been answered.
Colbert Super PAC will cover the counties' $500,000 shortfall. In return, I ask for only two things: that you support the Democrats' petition to get my referendum back on the ballot, and that you grant me the pre-negotiated naming rights, which, I think we can all agree, you now own. To paraphrase Ronald Reagan, 'You paid for that microphone!'
On Jan. 21, together, we can Make a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow.™
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Animal Lovers Join Forces For BARKupy Miami You’ve probably heard of Occupy Miami but Saturday, it was BARKupy Miami that filled Tropical Park with four-legged friends and their owners fighting for the right to vote on laws that would save animals. | http://miami.cbslocal.com/tag/ana-rivas-logan/ | dclm-gs1-222190001 | false | false | {
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What's In Your Garden: Changing To Fall FoliageAs the leaves change, it may be time to change your flowers and potted plants to ones that will weather the cooler temperatures.
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I believe I have a Leece*Neville, Model 8LHA2023Y as it was scribed by hand into the alt. body by the previous owner.
The alternator was removed from the 1977 Perkins 4108 marine diesel eng and sent out to be refurbished over a year ago. I need now to install it back onto the Perkins. I need to know the wiring diagram. Unlike some of the later 8LH series, mine is more similar to the current 8LHP2170V.
looking at the back of my alt, there are 3 terminal posts on top, the NEG OUT on left, POS OUT on right and a single terminal post at the bottom.
I am aware that one wire will connect for the tachometer and the other to the ignition switch, and of course Neg to the block and Pos to the battery, assuming this is correct. I need to know which terminal post is for tach and which is for ign.
Can you help me?
Thank You........Steve
identification? and troubleshooting
I believe I have 4000 series, there are no markings (tags) on the altenator but it looks like the 4000 series. It is on my RV and older crown school bus I am sure it was an aftermarket.
It does not seem to charge at low rpms, it does put out some voltage at idle but very low (everything dim). I will check the idle output voltage today. The dash volt meter reads 11V when running and battery disconnected.
First I would like to verify the existing wiring. The + - are obvious. The (ign?) terminal has a wire running back into the body of the altenator. I am only guessing this is the (ign) terminal from the position on the regulator - there are no markings. I want to know if this is correct wiring or something special? Except for the +- connections there are no other wires attached.
Altimately my goal is to have a system at least charging at idle
alternator with multi pole pairs
I need a alternator that can generate 120V, 15A and up. I know it's not market available. What I really need, is a alternator with a multi(12 or 18) pole pair stater (not the rotor magnet poles). Then, I will connect the multi coil of each phase in series. In this way, the voltage rating can built-up while the current rating degraded with a factor of pole pair number in each phase.
anyone has any idea that the part number of a multi coil stater (normally 12 coils for a 4 cyl car and 18 coils for a 6 cyl one)? the power range is about 2kW.
Thanks a lot.
Prestolite AS123 intermittent charging fault
I have a Prestolite AS123 alternator in an inland waterways marine application. The charging system has developed an intermittent fault whereby the ignition charge warning lamp occasionally comes on and the alternator output drops to zero. I have replaced the alternator regulator and checked all the wiring, but with no fault found to-date. Can you please tell me if this fault could be caused by an intermittent short circuit to ground on the wire between the IND (D+) terminal and the ignition charge warning lamp? Also, can you please provide a wiring diagram for the internal wiring of this alternator?
24v Alternator overcharging
Recently I fitted a rebuilt 24vAlt to a loader but was called back to the machine less than a week later because it was overcharging, up to 33V.
Have disassembled unit roulette spielen and tested Reg on a Transpo tester which indicates Reg is o.k.
Rectifier appears okay, it was new and the stator was also new.
I am unsure though about a capacitor that upon closer inspection appears slightly dented/squashed. What is it's function? It has a rating of 250V and casino spielen also has 474K written on it. I guess you're aware of where it is attached to Rect.
Could it be the source of the overcharging fault?
Dear Dary
I Need to know about the 52volt alternator output information.If i spin the alternator with a gasoline engine
at above 1500RPM. what will be its output voltage and current
at its output terminal without connecting any rectifier or inverter.
With Regards
Questions on Ambulance Alternator
I currently own a 1989 Collins Ambulance with a 7.3 L diesel and a LN alternator which is starting to act strangely. After starting it seems to not charge until I rev up the engine. When driving it seems to cycle between charging and not charging with the amp gauge going up then back to neutral - is there a wiring diagram, something I should look for and or - is a rebuild kit available ?
Thanks for any suggestions :)
David Sutton
2824LC alt
have installed new 2824LC will not charge taco wont work. if alt&ing bridged will charge but still no taco.this alt replaced a 2800JB with duvac
AC203RA Alternator Trips Switchboard Onboard Ship
We are writing to you from Singapore.
We bought 10 units of AC203RA alternators from your distributor, Chop Hock Hong and supplied them to a local shipyard.
When the shipyard was fitting the alternators to the switchboard, it keeps tripping the switchboard.
We suspect the cause of the insulation fault onboard the vessel is due to the negative terminal of the alternator being internally grounded.
Please advise the solution to this problem. Your prompt reply is greatly appreciated.
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0.026011 | <urn:uuid:0ad43779-c512-43de-ac20-8151449a4d27> | en | 0.960057 | George Galloway in “racist” walk out
George Galloway in “racist” walk out
Galloway refuses to debate with Oxford student because he is Israeli.
But as Aslan-Levy was beginning his speech, and said, “We wanted peace, we got war,” Galloway could be heard asking if his opponent was an Israeli.
After Aslan-Levy confirmed that he was, Galloway grabbed his coat and began to leave the room, refusing to continue the debate and saying: “I don’t debate with Israelis. I’ve been misled.”
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Students at the talk could be heard gasping and accusing Galloway of racism, but he repeated: “I don’t recognise Israel and I don’t debate with Israelis.”
Aslan-Levy, who grew up in London and has joint British-Israeli citizenship, said: “I am appalled that an MP would storm out of a debate with me for no reason other than my heritage.
But the MP for Bradford West was defiant later that evening, writing on Twitter: “No recognisation of Israel. No normalisation. Christ Church never informed us the debate would be with an Israeli. Simple.”Aslan
Mahmood Naji, who runs Oxford Debates and selected Galloway to speak, said: “I was initially relieved to see Mr Galloway arrive after we had waited around one hour and 20 minutes after the agreed time of arrival.
“The debate then seemed to be running smoothly with Mr Galloway brandishing his usual rhetorical flourishes, and Eylon responding in equally effective manner.
“However as soon as Mr Galloway started inexplicably putting his coat on I was stunned.
“What’s more, Mr Galloway claimed to have been ‘misled’ as he walked out, which was utterly baffling. At no point during my email exchange with his secretary (and I have all the emails to prove it) was Eylon’s nationality ever brought up or mentioned, nor do I expect to have to tell the speaker what his opponent’s nationality is!”
Naji added: “I am deeply disappointed at Mr Galloway’s behaviour. I am baffled by his claim that he had been misled, and I am extremely sorry to all the people who waited so long for the debate only to see it cut short.”
1. Les Legato, a young 17 year old Palestinian was shot and killed at Ennab Checkpoint, east of Tulkarem while you’re having your dinner tonight, that’s your idea of peace.
“Seven Palestinians were injured with rubber bullets on Wednesday during protests near Ofer prison in Beituniya near Ramallah.
Israeli soldiers fired tear gas and rubber bullets at dozens of youngsters.
Yesterday BETHLEHEM 2 Apr — Israeli forces detained a 27-year-old woman from her home in a pre-dawn raid in Doha, near Bethlehem, relatives said. Soldiers raided Hiba Bahjat’s home at 1.30 a.m. and detained her, her parents told Ma’an, adding that she is sick and needs treatment. Forces also confiscated the woman’s cell phone, computer and wedding album, the parents said.
Bahjat has two daughters, aged 5 and 7.
An Israeli military spokeswoman said six Palestinians were arrested overnight in raids across the West Bank. One person was arrested in Bethlehem, two in Tuqu‘, one person in Rummana, one in Hebron and another in al-Arrub refugee camp, she told Ma‘an.
In Tuqu‘, south of Bethlehem, locals said Tareq Abu Mefreh, 24, and Ayman al-Badan, 22, were detained. They said soldiers raided several homes in the village.
Residents of Rummana, near Jenin, told Ma‘an that 23-year-old Muhammad Mahajneh was detained in a raid on his home.
Israeli forces have increased restrictions at the Dotan checkpoint between Jenin and Tulkarem over the last week, searching cars and checking IDs, a Ma‘an reporter said.
Just incase arresting and detaining people without charge is not enough, today “The Israeli prison authority decided to suspend the scheduled family visits in several jails, especially the prisons of Nafha, Beersheba and Remon until further notice.
2. Why don’t you post the story of the gazan children killed WHEN THE KASSAMS THAT HAMAS FIRED FELL SHORT AND KILLED THEIR OWN KIDS.
You’re nothing but a jihadi butt kisser, the world will be better of when YOU die in a work accident.
3. Unfortunately after I wrote about the killing on the checkpoint yesterday, a second teenager was killed, On hearing the shooting 3 boys from the village went to investigate and saw the boy lying on the floor with soldiers standing over him. The boys tried to reach him, but the soldiers would not let them approach and opened fire, injuring one of them with a bullet to his lower arm.
The Army prevented ambulance crews access to for 30 minutes, threatening to shoot anyone that attempted to help. a boy who attempted to get help was arrested by the Israeli Army and
taken to an unknown location.
Here’s the article and the link.
Two Palestinian teenagers were killed near Tulkarm. From reports I’ve seen, they was shot by Israeli soldiers serving in the Kfir Brigade, known as the “haredi unit” or “ultra-orthodox unit”.
Traditionally, the ultra-orthodox have refused military service, and have not been required to serve in the Israeli army. Upon investigation, it appears the Israeli army has created this unit for Haredi youth who have dropped out of yeshiva schools and have few other choices for economic survival.
This reminds me of the military recruitment in the US, which preys on young, high-school dropouts as well. The military always looks better when one has no hope for economic survival.,7340,L-4251910,00.html
Students injured by rocks and flying glass when school bus windshields smashed by Zionist settlers who live illegally on Palestinian land.
Listen you lying scum bag, you want to it in the UK and help London turn into islamabad, but America’s military is filled with proud volunteers who will kick your islamo-marxist ass to hell, so go die already with your fake palestinians.
In your honor today, I will use three koranus pages as toilet paper and burn 3 more.
5. There’s nothing military about the checkpoints in Gaza and West bank, there are more than 500 in the smallest of areas, to torment Palestinians in their day to day lives, each and every person have to go through these checkpoints to get to school, work, shop, hospital, etc
Yesterday’s news, Palestinian students mourn as the bodies of Amer Nassar, 17, and Naji Belbisi, 18, are carried past them in the West Bank town of Tulkarm April 4, 2013. Zionist troops have shot dead the two Palestinian youths in the occupied West Bank
Here’s a copy of a 2012 report written by a delegation of British
lawyers on the treatment of Palestinian children under Israeli military law
6. PB
I’m sorry but I will not be joining in with this verbal abuse that you are both intent upon.. Until you both talk peace there will be no chance of peace.Insulting each other is not constructve and is a pointless excercise and the reason for people like me thinking that there will never be peace.
Only when both sides agree that the other can live in peace will there be a resolution to the problem. Insulting each other makes things worse
This is my last email on the subject.
7. Could you please be very specific and clearly state what verbal abuse do you claim I wrote?
I have ignored the constant abuse from the other side and only stated the facts on the ground, and what is actually going on right now, I do not appreciate being accused of something that I didn’t say or do.
PA officials told AFP that the killed terrorist was a 16-year-old teen, identified as Amer Nassar.
The latest attack comes after two days of unrest in Judea and Samaria, as Palestinian Authority Arabs rioted over the death of an elderly terrorist who was serving time in an Israeli jail.
The terrorist, 64-year-old Maissara Abu Hamdiyeh, died of cancer on Tuesday in the Soroka Hospital in Be’er Sheva. The PA has blamed Israel for Hamdiyeh’s death, which led to a wave of rioting.
9. Amir Nassar and his pal, were TERRORISTS (like you) who attacked an IDF checkpoint with molotov cocktails and were shot trying to kill Jews.
I can’t wait to to read the same thing happening about you.
This is what you have here. Oxford, jihadis posting defense of other jihadis who walked up to a checkpoint and tried to kill the soldiers guarding it, and then cry about it and call it “zionist violence”.
After scum like CD are through with Israel, you won’t be able to walk in London without bowing down to your local sheik, and if you don’t, you’ll be called RACIST ZIONIST cause you wont lick their KORANUS.
10. To be honest with you, you just confirmed exactly what I thought all along, how did the situation escalate to this stage, without anyone doing anything about it, it’s the usual propaganda so people miss the facts that Israel is in fact exterminating the children in Palestine.
Anyhow, the only thing that I get from your messages is that it’s a crime to be a moslem, that there’s nothing wrong with killing moslems, you’re supposedly doing us a favor and we’re meant to be thankful, I just hope that sooner rather than later, the human race wake up to what they are really supporting, they all know but chose to turn a blind eye to the real crimes against humanity.
11. Here’s some reality of the checkpoint
– Albert Einstein
12. No, it’s a crime to attack an IDF checkpoint WITH MOLOTOV COCKTAILS.
Pelase try it, we look forward to seeing you carried around as a martyr.
14. Am I missing something here, isn’t it a crime to be killing people? bulldozing homes? what is the justification to the constant killings that’s been going on for the last 65 years?
What other country have millions of people detained behind barbed wires and walls? stop people from getting on with their day to day life? isn’t this what you complained about during the holocaust?
15. “Am I missing something here, isn’t it a crime to be killing people?”
Yeah, you’re missing something, its called BRAINS.
Yes it’s a crime for arabs to try and kill Jews manning a checkpoint.
And the only bulldozing of homes is done when the homes are those of murdering terrorists or the homes are covering smuggling tunnels used to bring in kassam rockets and explosives and drugs everything else your STINKING TRIBAL CLANS OF MUSLM SCUM have been doing
“what is the justification to the constant killings that’s been going on for the last 65 years?”
The only constant killing is that by muslim scum urged by other scum like you against Jewish civilians. ONLY MUSLIMS sneak into people’s homes and slit the throats of sleeping women and children, only MUSLIMS walk into pizza parlors and discos and schools and airplanes and synagogues and wedding halls and YES INTO MOSQUES, and blow themselves up.
When you reform islam or the world has had enough and wipes out islam, then there will be an end to “constant killing”.
“What other country have millions of people detained behind barbed wires and walls?”
uh, lebanon, syria egypt and Jordan where so-called “palestinians” live in fake “refugee camps” because their fellow arab muslims will not absorb them THE WAY JEWISH ISRAEL ABSORBED THE 600,000 JEWS EXPELLED FROM THOSE ARAB NATIONS AFTER 1948.
“isn’t this what you complained about during the holocaust?”
You scum sucking POS filth, your ancestors were nazis, you muslims supported the nazis, the holocaust wasn’t about barbed wire it was about EXTERMINATION OF THE JEWS, an everyone know MUSLIMS SUPPORTED THE EXTERMINATION OF THE JEWS THEN AND STILL DO NOW.
Jews in Europe weren’t trying to invade Germany and take it over LIKE MUSLIMS DO TO ISRAEL, they weren’t raising armies over and over to invade Germany LIKE MUSLIMS DO TO ISRAEL, they weren’t firing rockets into Germany LIKE MUSLIMS DO TO ISRAEL, they weren’t slitting the throats of the german women and children LIKE MUSLIMS DO TO ISRAEL.
Guess what book is on the Arab best seller list year after year? MEIN KAMPF.
Someone should take a copy and SHOVE IT UP YOUR ASS.
16. All people are equal, killing is criminal regardless whether it’s Arabs or Jews, if you don’t know that, then you honestly have a very serious problem.
You are NOTHING but a racist and nothing you’re saying is worth listening to, when you treat all people as equals, feel free to come back, go find someone else who believe your rubbish.
Israel IS NOT a VICTIM, and have never been a victim since it was set up 1948, so stop expecting sympathy, moslems didn’t try to invade Israel, they were living there for thousands of years, and the Zionist decided to make their land and their homes into a Jewish state.
Every other nation would have fought for their survival, this doesn’t make them terrorist, trying to exist against the odds, what do you want them to do, die, it’s our natural instinct to fight back against our tormentors and that’s what Israel is, the tormentors.
As for the holocaust and Europe, this had nothing to do with Palestinians, it happened in Europe, it was done by europeans, so sacrificing other people their land is not fair, the only ones who ended up paying the price are the palestinians, every one else got away.
I don’t have nazis in my ancestors, but frankly today’s zionists have gone way beyond what any nazi’s have done and been getting away with all these years, Nazi’s were stopped with few years, I don’t see anyone stopping Israel’s atrocities.
Glad you highlighted the main difference, the 600,000 Jews were welcomed into the homes of the Palestinians who were expelled, detained or killed to make room for them, jobs and businesses that belonged to Palestinian people.
On the other hand the 8-900,000 Palestinians are still in no man’s land, no where to go, 65 years on, they are fighting for their existence through NO FAULT of their own, they didn’t invade anyone’s country, they didn’t live in anyone’s home or land, they were living were their ancestors been living for thousands of years before them.
Martin Luther King, sitting in that Birmingham city jail, would most certainly inform these prelates that there is no debating evil. A BRUTAL MILITARY OCCUPATION IS NOT OPEN TO DEBATE.
“The bottom line is this,” Carter writes in an online excerpt posted by his publisher.” “Peace will come to Israel and the Middle East only when the Israeli government is willing to comply with international law, with the Roadmap for Peace, with official American policy, with the wishes of a majority of its own citizens — and honor its own previous commitments — by accepting its legal borders.”
You an ignorant stupid liar. Anyone who thinks it’s ok to run up to a military checkpoint and throw a molotov cocktail and not expect to get shot DESERVES TO BE SHOT.
You should try it.
“moslems didn’t try to invade Israel, they were living there for thousands of years”
Islam has only been around for 13000 years, you ignorant turd eating psychopath, and they only stole from the romans AND NEVER MADE A STATE ON THAT LAND.
“and the Zionist decided to make their land and their homes into a Jewish state.”
TOTAL BULLSHIT. What the Jews didn’t buy they took in DEFENSIVE WARS after muslims REPEATEDLY INVADED the land that Israel was REsettled on the same way Iraq, Syria Jordan and Lebanon were “created”.
Tied old comments from typical ignorant muslims ass-kicker the koranus.
Because we have all seen the ovens that the Jews have put the so-called “palestinians” in, RIGHT, STUPID?
Hey STUPID, take your head out of your ass, in two years more muslims have been killed by other muslims IN SYRIA, (70,000) than in all the conflict with Israel.
But keep it up, maybe you can spur the muslims into attacking Israel some more, and we can UP THE ANTE, track down your IP address, and make sure you wind up at the bottom of the grave, where you belong for inciting MURDER AND WAR.
Scum like you and Galloway are the real war criminals. You should be dragged to the Hague or gitmo, or dealt with like bin laden, finished off with a kosher salami up your *ss, a pork sausage stuffed in your mouth and set on fire on youtube before being pissed on and thrown into a hole.
19. “Every other nation would have fought for their survival, this doesn’t make them terrorist”
Go live with the rest of your fellow sand-nazis you have more than enough land, Muslims are simply greedy scum who see someone else doing something worthwhile and they have to STEAL IT AND RUIN IT.
All over the world, islam doesn’t build, it only destroys.
Need something built, ask a Jew.
New something destroyed, call in the muslims.
Wherever muslims go, they destroy.
20. ok, you tell me, who lived on the land before 1947?
Just because you don’t have ovens in Gaza, it doesn’t mean it’s not as bad as the holocaust, if not WORSE, the fact you control the air, sea and land, blow them up any time you please, bomb and destroy trapped defenseless people time after time, is far worse than any ovens, these people have been living in far worse subhuman conditions for decades now.
inciting murder and war, how, you are actually conducting murder and war every single day, daily genocide and crimes against humanity, right in front of our very eyes, yet you want us to believe you’re the victim and self defense!!!
21. Need something built, ask a Jew. you’re right, that’s what you did over Lebanon 2006, Gaza 2008, 2012, Syria few weeks ago while the poor refugees were fleeing for their lives.
You bulldoze Palestinian homes every day and build Jewish houses in their place, how touching!!!!!!
22. “Syria few weeks ago while the poor refugees were fleeing for their ”
You stupid asshole, Israel has just put up FIELD HOSPITALS for Syrian refugees.
What have your precious “palestinians” done for the Syrians? GONE TO SUPPORT AL QUEDA IN SYRA?
Muslims, adept at sucking the life out of fellow muslims when they can’t kill Jews and Christians.
More lies by the diarrhea mouth known as CG:
there is more illegal construction of ARAB homes in Jewish Israel than there are jewish homes being built.
Keep up your lies and exaggerations, I am sure the Oxford students here are happy to see HOW STUPID YOU THINK THEY MUST BE TO BELIEVE THEM.
PS – open your mouth, I feel the urge to take a CG.
23. The only reason you call them illegal is because Israel doesn’t give permits for Arabs, let’s not flatter each other here, I’m busy now, otherwise I’ll be more than happy to send you many links about this very subject.
Oxford students are not stupid, they only need to decide what make sense and what doesn’t, for your information many of them went to Palestine at the beginning of the year and were shocked by what they saw and what they went through, there’s a talk about their trip this month here in Oxford.
You lie whenever you take your head out of your koranus and move your lips.
Israel’s total land mass = 12,877 square miles
The land mass of the 21 Arab countries surrounding countries, along with the Palestinian Authority-controlled areas including Gaza and parts of the West Bank = 8,368,272 square miles/
Israel’s land mass compared to its Arab neighbors = 1/16th of 1%…
20. The UN was silent while the Jordanians enforced an apartheid-like a policy of preventing Jews from visiting the Temple Mount and the Western Wall, and the World is silent as NO JEWS WILL BE ALLOWED TO LIVE in the new “Palestine”.
25. While you are reciting so called history, we are 2013, all we deal with is the here and now, Palestinians are under occupation and Israel is conducting crimes against humanity.
Just like the rest of the world managed to resolve, US/slavery, SA/Apartheid, Germany/Holocaust, Soviet Union/Communism, this is the last major injustice that should happen, were both Palestinians and Israeli will live under the same human rights.
They’ve all managed to live together in peace, even vote for a black president, so there’s nothing except the radicals like you who are the obstacle to peace, the sooner it’s sorted, the better for all of us.
26. You’re nothing but a lying propagandist shill for a new terrorist state and the extermination of Israel.
What you call “so called history ARE THE FACTS. There has NEVER been any other formal state on the land of Israel EXCEPT A JEWISH ONE.
the so-called “palestinians” who live in Israel have the same rights as Jews. the so-called “palestinians” who live under the control of Abbas and in Gaza HAVE NOWHERE near the same rights, and if another new state is created for the so-called “palestinians”, Abbas has already said it will be AN APARTHEID STATE where no Jews will be allowed to live.
Your “two state solution” is nothing except part of the PLO’s phased plan for the eventual wipe out of Israel.'s_Ten_Point_Program
PS, you ignorant moron, you know what the solution was after Germany was defeated? OVER A MILLION GERMANS WERE MARCHED OUT OF THE SUDENTENLAND in Czechoslovakia and sent back to Germany.
That is what should happen with the so-called “palestinians” you should all be marched out of ALL OF ISRAEL so you can live with the rest of the arabs in Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon Syria and Iraq where your ancestors came from who repeatedly invaded Israel.
27. How on earth can you talk about facts when you are saying there has never been any other state except a Jewish one, you want the facts, Israel was created 1948, but that’s not when the world was created, every night on true movies this week there’s a film about the holocaust, why don’t you watch it, all they seem to be aiming for is getting to Palestine, are you saying that these films are based on lies?
I honestly and truly couldn’t careless if it’s a one or 2 state solution, that’s the least of my problems, all I’m saying is that the occupation is completely removed, each and every single person live under the same human rights, close all detention centres and dismantle check points.
You justifying the sickening killing on the checkpoints is evil and exactly what was happening in the 1940s, they didn’t see them as human beings, no one saw anything wrong with occupying them, here’s the reality of every day life
Here’s about a book by a Jewish writer who started writing but when he actually went there he realised ‘It was so much more brutal than I thought it could be
28. The Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry in 1946 was a joint attempt by Britain and the United States to agree on a policy regarding the admission of Jews to PALESTINE. In April, the Committee reported that its members had arrived at a unanimous decision. The Committee approved the American recommendation of the immediate acceptance of 100,000 Jewish refugees from EUROPE into PALESTINE. It also recommended that there be NO Arab, and NO Jewish State. The Committee stated that “in order to dispose, once and for all, of the exclusive claims of Jews and Arabs to PALESTINE, we regard it as essential that a clear statement of principle should be made that Jew shall NOT dominate Arab and Arab shall NOT dominate Jew in PALESTINE.”
Not satisfied with having a place of refuge after what they’ve been through in Europe, by purely Europeans, they decided to completely wipe out everything Palestinian and claim there was never a Palestine, or Palestinian people.
They spent the last 65 year not only occupying the Palestinians, imprisoning them into Gaza and West Bank, completely dehumanizing them and portraying them as terrorists, they took their homes, land, history, culture, dignity, freedom, identity.
Palestinians are the victims with a simple story, whereas the Jews have a long and complicated story filled with lies.
29. “Not satisfied with having a place of refuge after what they’ve been through in Europe, by purely Europeans, they decided to completely wipe out everything ”
You’re a liar, but hey, you’re muslim, and all muslims lie.
the ARABS demanded an Arab state WITH TOTAL KORANIC CONTROL over the entire area, Israel offered to share, the UN offered to split it, the arabs REFUSED and went to war, FIVE TIMES.
And five times you have had your asses handed to you, and five times Israel SHOULD have exterminated the ENTIRE ARAB MIDDLE EAST and didn’t, but has RETURNED OVER AND OVER to offer the land, except that MUSLIMS WANT TO EXTERMINATE ALL JEWS AND CHRISTIANS ON THE PLANET that will not convert or submit to islam.
“Palestinian and claim there was never a Palestine, or Palestinian people.”
Actually comment IS FROM ARABS:
PLO executive committee member Zahir Muhsein, March 31, 1977
30. So are you going to explain to me what they mean when they clearly said they’re going to Palestine? when every single document about the region was called Palestine?
The area is like the different parts of Britain, they were all one country which was split by the French and the British into Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Iraq and Palestine, none of these areas were independent, just as much as Wales or Scotland, that doesn’t mean there’s no Wales and no Scottish people.
“If you ask an Israeli – it was 3,000 years ago and God was involved there in some way…as a real estate agent, he promised me that and gave me that, things like this. Even secular Israelis, who don’t believe in God, still believe in his promise to the people of Israel.”
The Israeli narrative is impossible to accept, it’s like the onion symbol – you try to find some truth, you uncover the first layer, then the second layer, seeking for something solid – nothing.
Europeans belong in Europe, Middleasterns belong in the Middle east, you want to be Europeans but based in the Middleast and hate anything and everything there is around you.
What on earth do you expect the millions in the region to do? are you proposing to occupy them all??? turn them into your slaves, kill them on checkpoints, you’ve already dehumanised them, you have no respect for any of them, you’ll never accept them as equals, have you ever thought, perhaps it’s not the Arabs who are the problem?
31. “The Israeli narrative is impossible to accept”
But the muslim one is?
Why, because you outnumber everyone and are willing to take casualties at a rate of 10,000 to one? We would be happy to oblige you if YOU WILL NOT LEAVE US ALONE IN OUR OWN LAND.
“Europeans belong in Europe, Middleasterns belong in the Middle east,”
Islam is the problem here. YOU REFUSE TO LET ANYONE LIVE ANYWHERE where a muslim has taken a shit.
You have had your ass kicked BY YOUR OWN PEOPLE and by everyone else, but you stubbornly insist that bending over so your vagina rock moon god can sodomize you means you get to rape everyone else.
Here’s your lovely islam TODAY:
go to youtube and type in:
egyptians rape christian woman
32. I just hope that the readers can see from Les Legato’s abusive messages how we in the UK are sticking our necks out for racist, out of control people, he’s just one of a whole country who do not see anything wrong with wiping out all the Arab and Moslem nation, while they have been holding the Palestinians as hostages.
He want us to turn a blind eye to the daily atrocities, killing teenagers on checkpoints, bulldozing homes while families are living in them, attacking trapped defenseless people, Palestinians have no army and no one to protect them, while Israel control their air, land and sea access, as well as every street corner.
Is GG racist? compare him walking out to what you see, hear and read everyday and make your mind up
33. George Galloway–British, Christian, Hero.
Zionist Jewish LIARS(my God! Don’t they just lie!) Not British, Godless, enemy of GOD enemy of the earth and its children..
34. Les Legato–it’s over for you..
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Poll: Iowa Republicans like Palin, but have doubts
–CNN Deputy Political Director Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report
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1. JP
I have voted republician for every presidential election since 1978. If Palin is the nominee I will stay home on election day. She doesn't get it that she was the main reason McCain lost. She can't win if people like me are so turned off by her. A vote for Palin would be a vote to keep Obozo the clown for another 4 years.
2. Beverly in NC
The whole country has NO doubts about Palin. She is a very unintelligent, attention-needy woman who has nothing to offer but her lies, extremist views, and a resume of failures left in her wake. She's an American annoyance we wish we go home and stay there. She's an embarassment to intelligent women in this nation.
3. Steve in Ct
People calling Palin a dummy are the actual dummies for not recognizing her genius. This is how her plans are going. Step out of state ploitics. Publish book. use book proceeds to live on and for political agenda. Get air time. use next 2 years to develop alliences on national stage gaining strength within party and to develop what's lacking to be POTUS to become qualified. Run for POTUS. The other Republicans now in view need to tweek themselves now as she is developing herself. Contenders........ Huckabee needs to promote himself as a leader of everyone, not just Christians. Gingrich needs to distance himself from the GOP of yesteryear. Romney should stay home as he's another OBAMA in a Republican costume. With who's in the frey right now the best team would be Huckabee/Palin.
4. j
I like her 'mouthyness"--She writes lite reading, but running our Gov`t?--- you can`t be serious. When the going got tough, she`d be GONE.
November 23, 2009 11:22 am at 11:22 am |
5. Lynda/Minnesota
Hmm... If President Obama should prove to be as bad a president as the GOP would like the rest of us to believe he is, I can totally understand why the GOP would want an even less experienced person than Obama as president!
I guess if eight years of Bush & Friends hasn't taught the GOP the disaster of conservatism in this country, I say let them all vote for Palin!
If she wins the presidency, so be it. She'll bring complete ruination to the GOP, which would no doubt be very *entertaining* to witness first hand...
I, of coarse, will continue to support our current President.
6. kate
Sarah Palin cannot respond to a simple queston on what she would do on certain issues. She has no substance, therefore isn't qualified to be President of U.S. It is all about her and what everyone else is doing wrong or how everyone else is treating her. She blames people of her own party for trashing her. She trashed herself. I don't think I would want her representing America to any foreign leader.
She has no idea on what to do with health care, foreign policy, economy issues. etc.. It is just a broad answer anyone could give.
No way is she ready to be a leader of our country!! She couldn't even stick with being governor and finish a term. And I didn't buy the book.
7. Charlie in Maine
Obama= thoughtful leadership , The only one in that crowd that comes close to Obama thinking power is Gingrich but he is using his powers for the dark-side.
8. Kyle-The Independent
It seems like some conservatives want Palin to run, and some liberal just want her to go away. I'm telling you now, it should be reverse...
9. John
Palin elected in 2012? Confirmation that the end of the world is near.
10. CBR
Wow! 2012 polling already. The media just can't wait to poll. They would like to run the country by polls. How amhy of you get polled and really get a chance to express your opinions?
How about pushing those in Washington to do their jobs and get this country moving? The polling can wait.
Just a hint: Just because she wrote a book and has been on a book tour does make her a viable candidate. Does anyone really listen to what she says? Her interview with Oprah does not make her a candidate.
11. Jeff
I think it's very telling that all four potential candidates listed are noted as FORMER governor/speaker. Maybe the GOP should focus on candidates that were actually able to win their last elections.
12. PeterS
This really is ludicrous...the GOP considering Palin as a viable candidate! Give me a break, what are they trying to do, guarantee a Dem victory! Please CNN, let this ari head float away.
13. Chas in Iowa
This fails to recognise that the GOP suffered terrible losses of registered voters during the 2008 elections.
So if she were to garner 50% of the GOP vote she would have just below 25% of the popular vote in Iowa.
Maybe she could declare Grassley her vice candidate so we could get rid of him too. They both have that right wingnut view of things (death panels and such).
14. Loup Garou 782
Right from the start of this book tour we are treated to the racist ramblings of LZ Granderson of Grand Rapids, Michigan. He and others like him should be prohibited from being anywhere within a thousand yards of Mrs. Palin. Those people are dangerous. And I am well aware that this message paints me as the racist, so, I'll wear the title with pride.
15. Tom in FL
It's funny that Republicans never consider re-electing George W. Bush or Dick Chaney, since they claim to admire them so much. Possibly they don't want to remind people what a disaster the last Republican administration was. Also, what about the "intellectuals" of the party, Rush Limbaugh and that other shouting guy on Fox News? So much talent going to waste . . .
16. LacrosseMom
Palin is a personality, she is a 'cheerleader' of sorts for the GOP. Not presidential material. There are plenty of accomplished women in both parties that could be president. Palin is not one of them.
17. Ross Atwater
So how exactly is Ms. Palin's book tour helping the great state of Alaska? After all, that is why she claims to have removed herself from the governorship in the middle of her term. I remember something along the lines of, "I could be doing other things to be helping our great state rather than being governor right now." I didn't know that meant making a book tour and taking temperature surveys around the country for her possible candidacy in 2012.
18. Trish
I think what the media or polititions doesn't get is....few people care about the republicans or democrates anymore, its about taking our country back, people fill that she is honest and real and with common sense that lacks in Washington. I believe she's a wake-up call to Washington and far left liberials..... people are fed up with politics as usual and I think she will bring back what we've lack for many years.
November 23, 2009 11:32 am at 11:32 am |
19. Steve
Please Sarah, run for President of the United States of America. We can't take another round of Republicans in the White House.
November 23, 2009 11:33 am at 11:33 am |
20. I am the flacid and powerless wizard of Rush
Sarah is so self-centered that she will go down in history as the single most important reason for the destruction of the party of Lincoln and the rise of the conservative ReBirther Tea Party.
21. Ted from Calif.
This just goes to prove how stupid many Republicans are. The continue to offer the same old failed ideas and policies and expect different results. They cannot grasp that the American voters rejected their failed policies and failed ideas at the last election.
22. LA in WYO
That is incredibly scary to think that an ignorant, extremely inexperienced quitter like Palin could rank this way. It's terrifying to see what this country is becoming. Canada, here I come!
23. single mom
CNN, give your readers/watchers an early present – manage to go one week without putting a Palin article at the top of the Ticker. She's on a book tour. I don't remember seeing anyone else on a book tour getting this much publicity! Not even the Clintons.
24. michael
For the state of Iowa, in the poll taken by people who can't wait to read her 'book', yes. She would have a good chance.
25. Palin/Bachmann 2012
Sarah is the future of the Republican party. Go Sarah!
November 23, 2009 11:36 am at 11:36 am |
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I'm trying to make api calls during an ubuntu install using curl, but it always returns the error code 127 which means the command does not exist, this is what it looks like:
d-i preseed/early_command string apt-get install curl
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Is there a way I can do this for both early and late command?
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Are you sure the volume is mounted at this point? This answer seems very relevant to your problem:
The takeaway seems to be that you can use apt-get in the late stage, but not early.
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But you can use apt-install -- – sendmoreinfo Jan 11 '13 at 19:04
True, I ended up using wget instead and installing packages after when needed. – Ping Pengũin Jan 23 '13 at 23:35
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...to the "strobe-light" effect I sometimes see late at night when I'm trying to fall asleep? Close my eyes, and I see fluctuating "flashes" behind my eyelids for a few seconds that don't seem to be coming from any lights in the environment. Maybe some sporadic electromagnetic or other RF interference?
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Green Dog Wine said...
I love it! He gets "the zoomies" just like Lando! :)
Heather said...
Ha! I got dizzy just by watching that video - don't know how he runs in circles like that!
Though I think Diddy might be able to give him a run for his money?
Fizzgig said...
awwwwww hes adorable! was he about to poo? lol
my dog does that too its so hilarious, like forrest gump or something!!!
Bite Buff said...
This made my day!
Lizzie runs around our yard like that chasing her ball, and then she oddly halts and takes a poo. I'm glad to know that it isn't just her! | http://slightlybitterincleveland.blogspot.com/2011/05/sunday-bacon-on-thursday.html | dclm-gs1-222790001 | false | false | {
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ST. ALBANS, Mo. John Ludwig is a self-made turkey hunter.
On his family's farm near Salem, Mo., where as a youth he learned to hunt deer with his father, he decided to give turkey a try. As a teen, he went to a store to buy a license, a shotgun and a call. The clerk scoffed, saying, "There's only one day left in the season."
He went out alone the next day and killed his first bird of many in a state that turkey hunters across the nation clamor to visit.
"Oh, we've got some turkeys up here," said Ludwig, who lives on property outside of Wright City. "We should hunt out in my backyard. We could easily get a bird there."
Oh no, the Turkey Trek stop in his neck of the woods was specifically planned to include a reunion of the Cherry Hills gang, who after the hunt had a golf outing at St. Albans Country Club, where Ludwig is project manager. One doesn't get a chance to play such a highly rated course every day.
And Ludwig boasted of the wildlife living of the property. Ludwig, an outdoorsman who also hunts morels and arrowheads, got permission to chase turkey on the development company's property, staying far away from the two 18-hole golf courses and 400 home sites, which wasn't hard with 5,400 acres.
Awake "way before dawn," Ludwig is usually out on the course for each sunrise, enjoying his solitude in nature before getting busy building things that blur the line between nature and manicured fairways.
"It's relaxing," he said. "I wouldn't still be there if it wasn't so great. It's such a great environment to work in."
The actual hunt took Ludwig and the author up the wooded bluffs overlooking the Missouri River Valley, down into the bottoms through farm fields, over the levee and onto the banks of the river where Lewis and Clark's expedition was nearly brought to an abrupt end.
On top of things but off course
We meet in the darkness at the multi-million dollar clubhouse and drive to a remote end of the property in Ludwig's four-wheel drive van.
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At the edge of the woods, we quickly gear-up before a hurried, exhausting climb up a steep hill of old-growth forest. It's hard to be perfectly quiet as it hadn't rained in almost two weeks, making the ankle-deep leaves covering an abundance of twigs and branches all snap-crackly dry.
We hit the crest where turkeys had been heard and Ludwig has completed business before. In the center of the ridge, we set up, facing downhill into a bowl, the slope rolling out on both sides of us like an amphitheater. The undergrowth hasn't yet sprouted, and as the sun lights the eastern sky behind us, we can see roughly 120 yards before branches obscure the view.
After listening for a bit, Ludwig tries his slate, stopping when he suddenly sees a hen in the distance. She disappears down the slope and he works the call again. After a while with no responses, he decides a move is in order.
We follow a deer trail along the ridge, working up to the bluff's highest point along a ridge perpendicular to the first. Ludwig stops often to listen.
"I can't see as well as I used to, but I can hear pretty darn good," said Ludwig, not long before he announces a faint gobble over the crest off to the left. He doesn't think he can call the bird over the hill, so it's time for extreme stealth.
"We need to be quiet getting up there so we can see on the other side," he said. "Set up on top again and see if I can call him up to us."
Easier said than done. Ludwig moved close enough to hear the bird rustling and point toward its location, but bone-dry leaves work both ways. By the time we skulked to the crest, the gobbler was gone. The hills were no longer alive with the sound of music.
More walking scared up a group of deer, who ran into a posted area of Elminger Woods, a Missouri Department of Conservation area providing wildlife plenty of sanctuary. The farmlands some 300 feet below called, as Ludwig had seen a congregation of turkey recently in a cornfield.
Past the levee and a slough in the river bottoms, we managed to chase off a heron and a whitetail that bounded across a large cornfield, jumping every third stride. We managed to find turkey tracks, but our exploration was nowhere near as successful as the one that started, and almost ended, at the bluff before us.
Westward expansion
The Corps of Discovery, better known as the Lewis and Clark Expedition, almost came to an abrupt halt near St. Albans, which at the time was a stop for river travelers visiting a natural cave. Called Tavern Cave, the French and Indians drew on walls of the large indention in the sandstone bluff.
On May 23, 1804, two days after the trip began from St. Charles, Meriwhether Lewis climbed the steep 300-foot hillside over the cave and began to slide. He fell 20 feet and almost over the sheer drop, but his knife caught and helped him stop just short the precipice.
Not far from that hilltop now stands The Bluffs, the ritziest St. Albans' development with 3- to 10-acre parcels for homes $2 million and up. St. Albans developers had owned Cherry Hills Country Club in west St. Louis County, but with neighborhoods encroaching its borders, the powers worked out a deal to build further west, outside suburbia and into the river wilderness.
Ludwig was a part of that westward expansion in the late 1980s.
"There were zero houses when we first moved out there," he said. "Wildlife was just abundant. It was plumb full when we first built the golf course."
The design of St. Albans was touted as the course was cut into the natural surroundings a 12-point buck could be spotted from the 12th tee and the crack of a fairway wood could produce a shock gobble.
But with golf course management out in these wilds came wildlife management. With holes landscaped into the natural terrain, it left areas of habitat within reach of a slice or shank. Viewing deer, turkey, beavers and other wildlife enhances the golf experience in some ways, but detracts in others.
Dues-paying members aren't too appreciative when an 8-foot bender bounces off line because of a deer print or turkey scratch on the green.
A birdie hole
Tom Dailey, a resource scientist for the state conservation department, said he could imagine the problems golf course managers might have keeping wildlife from doing damage. Recently , he marveled as a bird he called in shook off the dew.
"I could imagine they would like to get on the green in nice short grass and show off, and not be all covered in wetness," he said. "Id' bet that'd be a great place for a gobbler to scratch. They like dry spots. They would love the sand traps. That sand would probably be ideal for a turkey to lie down and dust."
But Ludwig said St. Albans didn't have a major problem with turkeys scratching up the sensitive and difficult-to-repair grass.
"Turkeys haven't ever really done too much," he said. "In the early days, when we first moved out there, there were scratching a little. It was the deer. We had to put fences up around the greens because the deer would be just trampling them.
"The greens were still young and we had to put safety fences around them because there were so many deer that would go on the greens and leave footprints. We'd take the safety nets down during the day and let the golfers play."
Armadillos also root about certain parts of the course and moles always seem to present mounds of problems. Of late, they've trapped some bothersome raccoons and tagged them before relocating to see if the same ones came back.
With a creek running through a number of holes and through backyard, beavers were of major issue as their dams backed up water flow.
"We actually had somebody trapping beavers because homeowners complained, and their dams messed with our drainage," Ludwig said. "The bunkers wouldn't drain."
While Ludwig would hear turkeys almost every morning during gobbling season, he's noticed fewer in areas where more homes are going up.
"They don't like the new homeowners coming in. There's just not as many turkeys out here like there used to be ... The deer are still here."
And with their love of eating certain plants, the deer clash with homeowners at times, creating a love-hate relationship. The course does have a list of animals, mostly birds, they try to draw.
"We're part of the Audubon Society and actually create habitat," said Ludwig, who's constructed wetlands or quail habitat in his time. "You just want the good species that people like to see. Everybody loves bluebirds. They care about those blue herons and the grey herons."
Canada geese - and their propensity to top-dress greens with their droppings - not so much. But there are houses on the course for wood ducks, bluebirds and bats. Ludwig calls the wet areas in the river bottoms "Duck City, there's so many ducks down there, mallards and wood ducks."
Morel of the story
The wooded hills around St. Albans are a mushroom hunter's mecca. Ludwig said one worker found 2,000 in one particularly productive season, and he's always on the lookout as on his travels.
As he pointed out some turkey scratches, he found one. On the trek back, the area produced about a dozen, including one he aptly called the "King morel," though leaves covering much of it stunted its full growth.
"The shaft is like bigger around than a baseball bat. If this thing could have sprouted, it would have been two feet tall, possible the Missouri state record."
Mushroom hunters are rather secretive about their spots, as each spring the tasty fungi can usually be found in the same locale.
During a scramble around the course, Ludwig pointed out, and looked in, several spots for morels, all while Team Turkey Hunters slightly edged Team Turkeys Kent Critchell and David Axelrod in a rematch from their days working at Cherry Hills.
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NUSA DUA, Indonesia -- Second-seeded Daniela Hantuchova
fought off seven break points and defeated Elise Tamaela 7-5, 6-3
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What It’s Like to Play Sunset Overdrive, the Xbox One’s Cartoon-Violent Exclusive Shooter
Pulling off extreme acrobatics while blasting mutant hordes is trickier than it looks, but maybe that's the idea.
In the hands of a skilled player, Sunset Overdrive is a beautiful sight. Effortlessly, the player bounces from car hoods to rooftops, gliding on banisters and leaping into the air, firing every manner of explosive, colorful weaponry at the scrambling, screaming mutants below. In a flash, they become a dazzling display of pyrotechnics and orange gore.
This was not quite my experience when I first played the game for myself at E3 2014. A perfect example of the disconnect between scripted presentations (like the one at Microsoft’s press conference) and hands-on demos, I immediately found myself on the ground and surrounded by mutants, failing to grasp the “traversal” system that lets players bounce and slide from one platform to the next. Moments later, I was dead.
But maybe quick punishment was a form of training. In no time, I learned that treating Sunset Overdrive like a typical shooter–strafing on the ground while using your weapons as crowd control–is a quick way to get killed. You need to learn the acrobatics if you want to survive.
This isn’t as easy as it looks in trailers and canned demos. If you’re trying to land on a railing and are off by a smidgen, or you don’t hit “X’ in time, you’ll simply fall to the ground below, leaving you exposed to the horde as you try to scramble back to high ground. While you’re positioning yourself and timing your “X” button taps, you also need to be aiming with the right stick, firing with the left trigger and occasionally switching weapons with the right trigger.
It’s a lot to handle, but in a way, Sunset Overdrive’s complex mechanics are better than something like Assassin’s Creed, in which the climbing and grappling feel automatic. It’s all the more rewarding when you actually start pulling off some impressive tricks yourself.
Over the course of my demo–which included a single-player mission and a “defend the base” multiplayer mode–I became more comfortable with jumping, landing and positioning. I started to grasp the intricacies of the game’s wacky weapons, which include a ricocheting vinyl disc thrower, a launcher for exploding teddy bears, an area-of-effect freeze ray and a gun that seems to just make everything explode. I stopped dying and completed my mission, laying waste to a pair of firework-laden towers while zipping around an old amusement park roller coaster.
Like any shooter that revolves around a central gimmick, I have concerns about how long Sunset Overdrive will remain as thrilling. It’ll depend on how much variety developer Insomniac Games can introduce through enemies and set pieces and, more importantly, how far the game will push its players toward mastery of more complex stunts. But in this demo, at least, it’s pushing in the right direction.
Sunset Overdrive launches for Xbox One on October 28.
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Saving Sergeant Bergdahl
Re “no soldier left behind” [June 16]: It is very easy to pick holes with the decision of President Obama to free Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl if you are not his parents. The life of every soldier is important. The sacrifice they continue to make is enormous. Even if Bergdahl is a deserter, every good American should show him love. I can only congratulate the President for taking such a bold but painful decision.That is why Americans elected him.
Kester Ekekwe,
Lagos, Nigeria
Yes, Bergdahl’s life was worth being saved. In fact, every life is worth being saved when we have the means to do so, no matter the cost or what is at stake—just ask his family. The real question is, Why is a U.S. Army sergeant’s life more valuable than, say, a little Syrian girl’s? If the policy is “no one left behind,” then we need to take those “left behind” in the geopolitical equation into account as well and assume more responsibility. Then we’ll have a world that is worth living in.
Daniel Solioz,
Savièse, Switzerland
The real question is whether a country, without full knowledge of the facts and in the absence of official proceedings, can ever be justified in disowning one of its own citizens. If Bergdahl is indeed guilty of desertion, surely justice is best served by his return to the U.S. Obama has shown strong leadership in taking this potentially unpopular decision, and not only has he secured the release of an American citizen, he’s also five steps closer to closing Gitmo.
James Gardner,
Kings Langley, England
Sergeant Bergdahl is my hero. There would be no more wars if all soldiers had the courage to do what he did.
Pieter E. Claassen,
Stellenbosch, South Africa
Off to the Races
Re “the myth of inevitability” [June 16]: Hillary Clinton will go for the 2016 presidency and eventually walk into the White House. She has the charisma, competency and capability. Naturally, the Republicans would be all out to tarnish
her image in every possible way. But my journalist friends and I know she can overcome all odds to materialize her
dream. We wish her luck.
Miko Isetan,
Kobe, Japan
I, for one, have had more than enough of reading about the 2016 U.S. presidential race. Rather than worrying or debating about who are going to be the candidates and subsequently the next President, the U.S. should be concerned with reforming its unwieldy, clunky political system, which is the subject of bewilderment and increasing derision to the rest of us. Perhaps that may empower the President to do the job he or she is theoretically elected to do.
Ed Roggeveen,
Huntly, New Zealand
King and Country
Re “a fillip for spain” [June 16]: Spain has been heavily weighed down by its economic woes and jobless problems in the past several years. Compounded by a youth unemployment rate near 50%, Madrid gets duller and more insipid. Will the installation of new King Felipe inject a dose of excitement to Spain? One would hesitate to draw any conclusion, for not many people in Europe (let alone the world) would salute the monarchy system that has gradually become obsolete, inconsequential and even a huge burden in some instances.
Chaan Zizenn,
Young Love
Re “topic of cancer” [June 16]: The moving journey of two young people suffering from cancer, who fall in love but decide to put their love for each other before anything else, can easily be degraded to a shallow love story like so many others. A lot of times, film adaptations of impressive books like The Fault in Our Stars cannot live up to readers’ expectations. But having read this article, I am pretty confident that this one will at least live up to mine. It will also hopefully broaden
people’s horizons about cancer by showing them a glimpse of how it affects young patients.
Julia Grassl,
Westerhofen, Germany
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I wish that I could be kind and sweet at all time, but I am not. I can be judgmental, critical, and egotistic at certain time of the day. I used to and, still, fight it so hard against these negative emotions; that being said, I have learned to embrace and accept them, because I realize that, despite all their not so seductive traits, they make up parts of human nature and daily existence.
Realization and acceptance of what the reality is can be liberating. This sense of liberation does not mean that we are forever free of malaise of all kinds, thanks to our personal realization and acceptance of the what is; rather, it is just an inner knowing of what constitutes the true way of living, loving the ups, while managing effectively and coming to terms with the unflattering downs.
No one is immune to the harassment of thoughts and feelings of negativity. What makes some of those people that we often look up to appear to be all-mighty and supreme oftentimes is because they are good at not exposing their dirty laundry.
Canada’s Election 2015 Actors=Politicians
Canada’s main political party leaders are headed into their final debate on this Friday evening before October 19th, the chosen federal election date.
Political campaigns are at times like a series of soap opera, which are oftentimes filled with attacks, backstabbing, badmouthing, revelations, and endless dramas. In general, people tend to laugh at actors, who are interested in becoming politicians. I also used to snicker at this exact aspiration until I was made to discover the similarities shared between these two seemingly different fields of profession.
At the very least, advance preparation is a prerequisite for whomever engaged in either one of these professions, because it is all done in the hopes of being able to make a profoundly transformative impact upon the arrival of that special occasion. Both actors and politicians get their confidence boosted by studying, knowing, and understanding their own written materials and the role that they are obligated to play. They are taught and learn to be a persuasive communicator to impress the public to do things, which turn out to be not only in the interest of the organization, with which they are associated, but also in their own selfish favor, by being perceptibly “genuine” and declaring to fight and uphold common goals, beliefs and convictions. More importantly, Actors and politicians are trained to hide their true emotions. They are toughened up to face up to the public scrutiny so that they can appear to not only be indestructible, but also take the high road to embody a rare kind of caliber that is essential for any public figure. They wear a fake smile while it is necessary to do so, and have no problems, whatsoever, extending their hand to critiques, who just did the best to tarnish their public image and threw their past accomplishments down the drain in a heartbeat.
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The White House has notified the Senate that President Obama has, as promised, vetoed congressional legislation to approve the Keystone XL pipeline project.
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The head of a state-funded watchdog agency is wondering what proposed budget cuts could mean for the future of environmental oversight in Connecticut. In question is the future of the Council on Environmental Quality, which for more than 40 years, has monitored everything from air to wildlife conditions in the state.
It's a relatively small line item in the budget: about $180,000. That money funds two full-time paid positions at the CEQ. There's also a nine-member board that collects no salary.
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Following a series of small earthquakes in the eastern part of Connecticut, WNPR’s Patrick Skahill set out on a mission to find out what was causing so many to occur over such a short period of time. Turns out, to fully understand, you have to go back hundreds of millions of years to a time when our state was being rocked by a massive continental collision.
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State environmental officials are setting out their legislative priorities for 2015, and there's at least one unexpected issue that's being addressed: jet packs.
The legislative proposals are wide-ranging, covering everything from stricter labeling requirements on farm products made in Connecticut to a program requiring that tire companies assume more responsibility for disposing of their products after consumer use.
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Imagine Connecticut: mountains as high and as sharp as the Himalayas, volcanic activity, and ancient earthquakes shaking the ground -- much more powerful than those we feel today. To understand how this happened, we need to dial the clock back just a little bit... about 300 million years.
That's when the supercontinent of Pangea was taking shape, and an ancient landmass housing modern-day Africa and South America had slammed into Connecticut's coast.
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The state is proposing changes to how towns and cities deal with storm water that runs into rivers and streams. The rules would change requirements for some towns around things like street sweeping and catch basin cleanups.
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Craig MedredAlaska Dispatch
According to the Anchorage Daily News, former Iditarod champion Mitch Seavey is suing the Oregon company that made a knife with which Seavey nearly sliced off his index finger as well as Sportsman's Warehouse, where he purchased the blade.
Seavey was using a knife with a locking blade that has a gut hook mushers frequently use to slice a plastic tie that secures straw bales. The suit contends that a lever or button near the middle of the handle can be depressed while the knife is being used, potentially allowing the blade to close on a user’s fingers.
The defendant is Kershaw Knives, owned by KAI USA Ltd. of Japan.
At the time of the incident, Seavey was in fourth place behind four-time champion Martin Buser of Big Lake. John Baker of Kotzebue would eventually win and set a new race record. Shortly after the accident, Seavey’s father Dan, a pioneer Iditarod musher, called the accident “devastating. I’m guessing he wanted to wrap and old sock around it and keep going.”
Mitch’s son Dallas, 25, this year became the youngest champion in Iditarod history.
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One of the Master's Best 23 juin 2004
Par Bruce Kendall - Publié sur Amazon.com
Format: Broché
You know that when you see a passage from Eliot's THE WASTE LAND appearing before the title page that you are not headed for 300 pages of fun and games. Sure there is the usual stock of Waugh humor, wit, and snappy dialogue to be had here, but this ranks as amongst his darkest novels. It's tragicomedy at its finest. It's also one of the most beautifully written novels I've ever read, perfect in pitch, cadence, wording, razor sharp characterization, mood, you name it.
Like a number of his novels, it is set primarily in England, between the wars, bouncing back and forth between London and an Estate in the country. The plot boils down to the break up of a marriage and the decline and fall of the central character, Lord of the manor and eventual "Explorer," Anthony (Tony) Mast.
Tony means well. He really does. It's just that he's so fixated on maintaining Hetton, his hereditary estate, that he doesn't even notice when his lovely wife Brenda engages in an affair with an inconsequential and boorish young society chap to whom Waugh assigns the inglorious name, John Beaver.
Waugh's customary drollery comes to the fore as he depicts the cavalier attitudes towards the affair on the part of Tony's and Brenda's social circle. They are rather like actors in a Restoration play, whose moral compasses have become entirely skewed. Though not as moralistic as some of Waugh's late novels, A HANDFUL OF DUST definitely offers a portrait of a very decadent society, indeed. These are not sympathetic characters. Even the two children who enter into the plot are hardly what one would call likeable.
This novel definitely takes some unexpected turns, leading us eventually to a denouement in the Amazon Jungle. The ending has to rank as one of the greatest in literature.
I can't recommend this book highly enough. The English are greatest satirists and Waugh was the master of the genre amongst 20th century writers. I've got a couple more Waugh books on my list, but will go with VILE BODIES next, as it's already on my shelf.
This edition has print large enough that I didn't need my reading glasses. It's the quickest 300 page novel I've ever read. It only took about 6 hrs cover to cover, and I am not a fast reader. I really was so transfixed that I had to read it straight through, which I don't usually do these days.
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A note about those two endings... 6 juillet 2004
Par D. Cloyce Smith - Publié sur Amazon.com
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This odd, clever, scathingly bitter satire seems a patchwork of various pieces of fiction--and, as its history attests, it is. A little over halfway through the novel, "A Handful of Dust" veers, rather unexpectedly, from a bitter reflection on an unfaithful wife and her upper-crust coconspirators to a Conradian parody of explorers in the Brazilian wilderness.
To explain this incongruity, The Everyman's Library edition of this fascinating work features a must-read introduction by William Boyd, but (as such introductions often do), it contains so many "spoilers" that readers are warned to wait until afterwards to peruse it. Boyd's essay does, however, summarize two salient aspects of the novel that are prerequisite to understanding (and perhaps enjoying) it.
Waugh's first marriage to Evelyn Gardner ended acrimoniously in 1929; four years later (and the year before he wrote "A Handful of Dust") his heart was broken a second time when Teresa Jungman turned down his proposal of marriage. Knowing this, it's hard not to read the fictional account of Tony and Brenda's marriage, as Boyd does, as "Waugh's own exploration of betrayal and sexual humiliation and . . . a form of revenge against the damage inflicted on his psyche by Evelyn Gardner. . . . It is an unyieldingly cruel and vicious portrait of a worthless woman. . . . The novel is full of hate and scorn, not just for Brenda, but also for the society in which she moves." There is no denying that the novel reads like an act of vengeance, and this contempt takes many forms: Brenda, at first charming and innocent, quickly and inexplicably devolves into vapidity and selfishness; Tony's closest friends hide from him their knowledge that Brenda is having an affair; and--at the book's most memorable, pivotal, venomous moment--Brenda shows more concern for her lover than for her only son.
Waugh published two entirely different endings, both of which are included in many editions. (Make sure you get a copy that has both versions.) Boyd explains: after writing "the first two-thirds of this novel at great speed," Waugh was unsure how to end it, knowing only that he wanted "a sad end." For the British edition, he appended, with minor alterations, an earlier short story, "The Man Who Liked Dickens," about an aristocrat trapped by a madman in Brazil. Yet he had to write a second ending for the serial publication for Harper's Bazaar in the United States, because he had previously published the "Dickens" story in a competing magazine. While the British ending is satisfying (and devious) on its own, it nevertheless seems out of place; readers who feel that they have suddenly picked up another story about a different character in the opposite hemisphere will feel some vindication learning that, in a sense, they have done exactly that.
I agree with Boyd that the American version, while simpler, is "truer to the novel's potent undercurrents than the short story Waugh recycled to finish off his sombre, disturbing tale of adultery." Other readers, obviously, disagree, and find the alternate ending too pat, too cynical, top predictable. (I, personally, enjoyed both endings for different reasons, but found both a little unsatisfying, each belying the book's claim to cohesiveness.) Yet the fact that Waugh could write two endings over which future readers and critics would war only attests to his brilliance.
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Sparkling prose, surprising plot twists 24 février 2000
Par Michael J. McVay - Publié sur Amazon.com
Format: Broché
This novel is not satirical, but dead-on accurate in its observations of a certain stratum of English society which is no longer shamed or shocked by its own actions. Brenda is put off by the "monstrous way" Tony has behaved -- namely, not allowing her to continue as the "victim" of the divorce proceeding. Her "friends" aid and abet her philanderings while gossiping behind her back, and allowing her to become penniless while they go off on holiday. Mrs. Beaver, whose son is the amoral, parasitic lover, is interested in the affair only by what can be gained monetarily from it.
The astonishing twist in the story line, following Tony's harrowing adventures in the Amazon jungle, is perplexing to some readers, but in fact serves as an interesting comparison of the two totally different environments Tony has had to deal with, one of "civilized" society, and the other of the jungle. The more "civilized" people in the jungle (all the English-speaking characters) create just as many problems for Tony as the bats and mosquitoes. (Perhaps some of the previous reviewers could have thought a little more along these lines before writing a bad review.)
Also, one has to think how Tony could have avoided his misfortunes. He is undone by his staidness, until it is too late. Perhaps Waugh is commenting on the English gentry in general(?) Waugh also pointedly observes how the upper-class children are brought up by nannies and stablehands, while the parents remain aloof to their daily activities.
A great novel causes the reader to think on several levels, while also being an entertaining read. This novel accomplishes both goals. Every word and action has its significance in a great work such as this one!
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Ingenious 15 avril 1998
Par Un client - Publié sur Amazon.com
Format: Broché
In this book, the protagonist is Tony Last, an Englishman who would much rather tend to his beloved estate in th country than join his wife on trips to see their arrogant and aristocratic friends in London. Brenda, the wife, becomes bored with their quaint life, has an affair, and Tony's son dies in an accident. In a strange twist, on a trip to South America near the book's end, he ends up in the dense jungle in the care of an illiterate man who promises to let him go but instead forces him to read aloud from Dickens. The main idea is that betrayal follows Tony wherever he goes-- from his wife in England to the enigmatic man in the jungle. It's a enormously humorous satire of the London aristocracy,in which the people treat their "friends' misfortunes as entertainment. In fact, they gossip about the affair his wife is having in his own house, during a party he is throwing. The jungle is a parable for London-- seemingly harmless at first, but with dark undercurrents of backstabbing, lies, and treachery. A terrific novel by a Waugh, a brilliant writer.
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Waugh's Best 3 juillet 2001
Par I. J. Prastein - Publié sur Amazon.com
Format: Broché
This if probably my favorite of Evelyn Waugh's novels. While it is not as sophisticated as Bridshead Revisited and its characters are not as well developed, it provides the reader with a fantastic example of the literary form that Waugh specialized in - bitter, caustic satire. Waugh elegantly and effortlessly provides us with the dark, mean-spirited social commentary that the French New Wave movement brought to film thirty years later. A Handful of Dust is peopled with nothing but caricatures, but they are so finely crafted that the book lacks the clumsiness that I've found in some of his other satires like Scoop or Decline and Fall. With them, Waugh has generated a powerful indictment of Britain's idle class during the post WWI era. I always find it fun to read a P.G. Wodehouse novel after Waugh to get opposite ends of the spectrum. Following Waugh's society of complete moral bankruptcy with Wodehouse's good-natured buffoonery makes you wonder just what on earth was going on in England between the wars. I must agree with many of the other reviewers that the ending is a disappointment (as are the endings to Bridshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, and The Loved One). If Waugh is trying to create an analogy between Brenda's imprisonment in a dull marriage to Tony's plight of spending the rest of his days in the jungle reading to his illiterate captor, I think he has performed it in a rather inelegant manner. It is almost as if he had an idea for a short story that he tacked on the end of this novel. Nonetheless, this does not keep A Handful of Dust from being on of Waugh's finest novels.
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My new plan for life: super long personal post
Whew. That was long.
1. I think what you're doing is great. I've learned the hard way that you need to put yourself (and your husband) first because if you don't, who will?
Yeah, it's nice to do everything you can for other people but I found when the tables were turned, I was always getting the shaft and the feelings were never reciprocated.
I hope everything goes smoothly with this new plan of yours!
2. Great priorities, Julie! I recently started caring more about home life more than work and it's done wonders for my attitude.
As far as getting your house in order, check out She has a lot of great ideas for cleaning that save time so you can get back to the important things in life. It's been a life-saver for me since I HATE to clean.
3. Ugh, my house is one of my new priorities too! I've learned over the past year, that I have to put my family (hubs and baby) over people that I can't say no to. It's tough because some of that involves family, but there's only so much I can do in one day, week, month, year.
Good for you!
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5. I know how you feel.
Good for you for putting family before work. It's something a lot of people don't do and a lot of people don't understand. My health and family will ALWAYS come first.
Good luck with the priorities! I think you have them set perfectly
6. Great Goals!! And Im sure God and the hubs will be happy for extra time...:D
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1. of Jar
2. Shaking; disturbing; discordant.
3. A shaking; a tremulous motion; as, the jarring of a steamship, caused by its engines.
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It's jarring to go from one amazing experience to another that feels ordinary. I don't quite know how to explain it. You see the uniqueness of what you've been doing, and disassociating yourself from it and going back to the 'normal' life is tough.
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Corey Stebbins
Asked by Corey Jun 16, 2008 at 01:52 AM about the 2000 Honda Civic Coupe EX
Question type: Car Customization
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not much,you have done about all you can.
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Adam Dentinger
yupp, your about maxed out there.... but you could always do an engine swap.... perhaps a K20?
Benjamin Boardway
keep it as a daily driver and buy an older mustange or camaro alot more potential out of the box
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Ami Momaiya
I hope you have a bypass valve on that CAI! Don't want to hydrolock your motor in pursuit of a few hp... a blown motor is slower than a slow one. You could always get a header. Also, since your car's 8 years old and I don't know when your last tuneup was, if it's been a while, change the spark plugs, spark plug wires, dizzy cap and rotor. It won't add power but it may regain some lost power.
Adam Dentinger
your an idiot. do you have any idea how are it is to hydro lock your engine with a CAI? you just about have to submerse the intake into water. my car is about 3"s off the ground, and in the year ive had my intake, i have yet to have a problem. and ive driven thru some deep puddles, and in the middle of massive rain storms. dont be a pussy.
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Adam Morgan
I've had to tow two idiots out from the under pass at 141 and I-44 near St. Louis because they had your attitude m8. Usually you're fine if your moving, but if traffic stops you're screwed... There are inline bypasses that don't hinder the centerline flow of the intake for around $30...Why risk it... You say don't be a pussy? I say don't be an idiot! Most people won't tow you out and will leave you stranded in a foot of water. As for the topic, don't worry about it. It's a civic, economy car not sports car! You want to have a little fun finewith your car, then more power to you. However, when you spend enough to get it going fast you find out they don't turn well due to chassis flex and body roll. Get the suspension redone and chassis stiffened and you learn the thing doesn't stop, put better brakes on and you realize you could have bought yourself a mid to late 90s Vette for less than what you've payed. If you're really into the tuner scene then good luck, but if you're just into going fast well then you're going to disappoint yourself.
James Luk
Get a 4-2-1 header and is your exhaust a cat back exhaust or just a axle back....if yours just a axle back that's useless... then get a high flow cat...pulleys set...can go for AEM...coz i use them too....and is your civic DOHC or SOHC....??? if yours a DOHC get set of cam gears...then a set of stage 1 cam...if u just want to race around the street...mostly...thats all the bolt on parts....all u want to spend a little more $$$ u can port and polish your motor.....but modding a car is not that simple after all that stuffs u put on..u need to think of the braking system and your suspensions.....
Corey Stebbins
its a SOHC vtec... but why would i have to worry about suspension and braking if im looking for more HP and hondas suspension is stiff to begin with.
Adam Morgan
umm... More hp mean faster going... As a driver you grow accustomed to rapid accelerations weather you recognize it or not driving a rapidly accelerating car means you'll grow to expect rapid deceleration and the ability to turn rapidly... Basically if it starts fast you expect it to stay fast... Also I'm not sure who told honda's have stiff suspension but you should test drive a sports car because you are sadly mistaken. A civic is a brick on top of sponges in the car world. They have shitty suspension which is why you feel every bump in the road but they have a massive amount of body roll and little recoil dampening. It's why they compete with mid 70's 914s and loose in the turns... There are a very few out there who have gotten them to turn properly but they have a tendency to push into a turn. And the brakes are a down right joke from the factory. Basically once you get it going fast you need to find a way to bring the car up to par with the motor or you're likely going to wreck it. f you really want a fast civic there is only one place that has quality parts, but keep in mind you will pay out the rear for them... www.spoonsports.us FYI...They make the 'spoon engines' they talk about in the movie. There are imitations out there...But if you want your Civic to truly be a performance car thats what it takes...That being said...You can drop 10k into it and still be ripped apart by a $5,000 Mustang or 'Maro that now get better mileage than you :-\ It's just not worth it in the end. Put the money you would spend into a savings account for your next car. Your car has 106hp to start with... Even if you manage an extra %20 without rebuilding or scraping the engine, you're still looking at the ass end of any car you go up against...except for other rice burners that is.... Even if you spend a few grand on a turbo kit they only claim 200hp, and thats likely on a motor dyno... But if it's what you're into and you've got the money, by all means be my guest. If You're in my area I'll even help you with your mods, but don't expect miracles... Hondas are just amazingly underwhelming cars... And I've yet to see one with over 200k on it that hasn't had a crap ton of work so I'm not sure why everyone says they're reliable. But that's just my bias...to each his own
Tyriqe Strother
kid theres mad shyt u can do 2 bump up more hp....first of u can get race pulleys, u can rip apart tha block N get bigger cams N u can change tha internals U can get an after market pulley coil and since urs iz an ex that means u got a single vtec meaning u can get an vtec control N control at which rpm it kicks in at or u can the computer 2 a type-R or get sum NgK spark plugs, theres so much u can do without u having 2 go turbo
Nicholas Bell
And ur a chevy guy? Lemme ask you, how many hp to a litre can chevy produce? They need at least a 5.7l engine to keep up with a 2l s2000, thats a lil bit embarassing. With a turbo on a SOHC vtec, you can comfortably make 200hp OTW, thats bolt on. Work the engine, forged internals etc and i believe there is a guy with a 735hp D16 :) http://www.hondaracing.za.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=17570 Ur asking on the wrong place! Go to honda-tech.com or dseries.org or one of those forums. To be honest though you need a turbo to make a Dseries go fast. Oh and spoonsports is not the only good tuning company for Honda, they are possibly the best. But there is also Mugen, Skunk2, BuddyClub, Jun .... Honda FTW
Christian Joubert
freeflow branch ecu port and flow the head enlarge your intake and exhaust ports larger fuel injectors larger cam NA motors love higher compression more than turbo motors. so you can spend a few and get high comp pistons. to get high hp NA motors you need to spend a lot more than with a turbo motor!
Jason Keelan
pour a 2 litre tub of brake fluid in with the petrol should add more hp
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Adam Morgan
~150 hp per liter is highest I've seen out of a twin turbo 404 without nitrous... well if you read only a wheel dyno, if you cut out the parasitic loss it's a bit higher.... It's apples and oranges though m8... This is a street motor, you can't build it to a fast car without spending a ton of money is what I'm saying, not that it can't be done... You're trying to say it's a good idea because it can be done. That's like me telling someone that they should start dumping money into a 3rd gen because they can put a twin turbo lsX in... It just doesn't make sense. I would never tell someone to do that! If you're going to spend large amounts of money on a car atleast do it on something interesting that you don't see everyday, not the same car the old lady down the street uses to go get groceries... And your link is about a racing motor... it's like me pointing to a top fuel drag car with a chevy RAT block and stating look how good it is... It's a non-comparison... Like I said before if he wants to spend the money it's his prerogative, I'd even help him if he got stuck, but I'm not going to tell him it's a good idea and that he'll end up with a 300+ hp monster on any kind of a budget... Sorry I just don't believe in lying to people. Even if he somehow did get that kind of power out of it he'd need to tube the chassis so that he doesn't kill it. Because guess what... it's not a race car and wasn't designed/built to handle that kind of torque. I can't say enough that it's not meant as disrespect to the car. I like civics, they are peppy responsive little cars, and intakes, headers, and small mods are fine and dandy for em. Hell I'd even encourage turbo'in the thing if you've got money around to do it right without compromising the integrity of it. But the most you'll realistically get is the low 200's if that. That is however very respectable, but a lil fast for the car, and braking should be looked into whenever you increase the car power more than %20 (rule of thumb that someone told me a long time ago). That's were things get complicated... changing drums to disk, proportioning the braking system.... It's not as bolt on and straight forward as many think, most end up screwing up the proportioning and severely comprising safety... Good luck Corey.... Now will this thread please go off to a corner and die. It pops back up every few days.
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Brandon Budd
it depends on how much money your lookin to spend. but like some others said. if your gunna make it faster your gunna have to do suspension and brakes to. get you some sway bars for all the way around and you wont have the body roll adam is talkin about. and you can build a car for less the what you could buy a vette my brother did it with less the 6000 and your not gettin a vette for that
i know this is an old Q but i though id still put my 2 cents in. raise the compression and get some injectors that spew a bit more fuel. just take a little off the head get some performance pistons and some cams also in reply to the guys arguing about cold air intakes... if you put the inlet of the intake in the right spot and you have some sort of slash shield guarding the filter you dont have to worry about getting water in the intake. i know alot of ppl with CAI's and none of them have had problems with water
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CJ Michaels
hahah, here comes the muscle car hate lol....whoever was talking about s2000's beating chevy engines up to 5.7 liter, ur nuts lol....first of all an s2000 has to rev to 9,000rpm to get its max hp, where as a modern LS1 is getting over 400hp at 5,600 rpm, and when put on a car the size of an s2000 would bring its 0-60 around 4 seconds....i have a naturally aspirated high compression 5.7 in my car and i do consistent 12.5's on quarter mile....ur hondas r impressive, when turboed they blow my mind.
I have a CAI and it's just utterly stupid to say your engine will hydro lock because of it. If you're a numb nut and you face your CAI towards the floor and drive through a lake.... Then yea have fun with a blown motor.. CAI normally rest directly below the hood and have a heat/moisture shield to protect it. I saw this post and had to say the truth lol... That was the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
For those of u saying that u can't do anything more.... You are clearly ignorant.... You could remap the ecu ,you can bore the engine and stroke it, you could get bigger injectors, you could get a better crank, all sorts of stuff dude
^^ this is some funny stuff right here, I don't even know where to start but here we go to Brandon (ps I no its 6yrs old) your brother wasted some cash alright 6 grand! ! Your better off starting with an acual good platform like idk a dsm/early evo,mustang, subaru why would you guys waste cash on a economic car? Cold air intakes,catback exhaust <--hurt performance btw back pressure ain't good stupid rice burning exhausts,intakes,headers,cams<-- should be the last thing you do imo,uhm body kits ,stickers , spoilers (on fwd really makes me laugh ) ,lowering , and neg camber will not make you fast!! You basically wasted thousands of dollars ricein out your crappy honda (hurting hp btw) when that money could of been used on a car with acually potential from factory! But I guess it's good you guys buy these crappy cars at least your not ricein out a car with acually potential like a dsm (4g63 best 4banger been around since the 80's , These engines can make 400hp A LITRE! Stock block with forged internals can't do that with a honda instead you guys do every little kid in junior high dream and do a "k swap" that cost wayy to much money you guys are getting taken for a ride by these gimmicks in ebay
'rice-burners'--wow! That is racist. I guess American cars are Mickey-Mousers? Or Big MAC eaters?
Everythings racist these days , Call them what you want doesn't bother me.
Andrew Grimes
forged pistons.fuel injectors,new chip,new cams,new valve springs,new intake manifold.there are lots of things.
Yeah but sadly in the end it's still a honda.. I wouldn't recommend doing that to the d series engine or any vtec crap , also id do alot more ,those sound like supporting modifications for turbocharging because to make real power you want to start off with a good engine and platform from FACTORY Switching platforms will save you cash with a bonus of more power
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1. Christine E added a post in a topic How Young Was Your Child Diagnosed?
My son was diagnosed at age one. He had digestive problems since birth. Gas, cramping, constipation, spitting up. We went through formulas up through Neocate, reflux medicines. By one year old he was eating rice cereal and baby food pears and losing weight. He was diagnosed by positive gene test, and an endoscopy that showed slight changes in the lining. I figure he had an immature digestive system and the failure to heal or mature triggered celiac to develop. So it may be impossible for an infant to be diagnosed, but my son certainly had digestive problems his whole first year. He is now seven and healthy, though small, following his gluten free diet.
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2. Christine E added a post in a topic What's The Deal With Post's Fruity Pebbles Cereal?
My son hasn't had any problems with Pebbles cereals, but FYI the new Marshmallow Pebbles has gluten in it. Also, keep in mind the top 8 allergens do not include barley, rye, or oats. Watch for behavioral changes in your kids too. Melt downs, long tantrums, excessive whining seem to be symptoms of glutening in my child.
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3. Christine E added a post in a topic Non Gluten Intolerant Kids Won't Eat Bread?
Oh, and neither of my kids will eat peanut butter or drink shakes, smooties.
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My 6 year old son was diagnosed Celiac at 13 months. He is about the size of your 6 year old now, small. He also will not drink milk. I always assumed he was sensitive and knew to avoid it. He drinks OJ with Calcium added, and doesn't have a problem with cheese, pudding, ice cream or yogurt. His nutritionist suggested adding a tablespoon of olive oil to his food, which adds 100 calories, and good fats (good for brain development).
Also, my 10 year old who is not gluten-free is extremely picky. He eats fewer food items than the gluten-free child, who is limited in diet! He is sensitive to textures of food, even prefering certain brands (of hot dogs, cheese sticks), and will refuse to eat if he doesn't like the smell, look, or feel of a food. People without picky children tend to think this is a parenting issue, but the child gagged when he licked pineapple! And my husband is just about as picky, so I guess I know where it comes from. Good luck
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This is for restaurant food. The chef indicated They cannot heat up or prepare outside food. If they buy bread, cake mix, cookies, they'll apparently charge for the product plus 10 percent (service charge?). If this is actually the case I will look into other options. I'm.quite disappointed since we've generally been well accommodated, even being charged kid meal prices for adult foods (fish).
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Ever Been Charged Extra For gluten-free Hotel Food?
I've emailed ahead of a trip to a large chain, high end hotel about gluten-free meals for my 6- year-old son, and have been informed I will be charged extra for any gluten-free products they purchase to feed my son. Has anyone else ever encountered this? I think it's crazy!
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8. Christine E added a post in a topic Celliac Or Not--Very Confused
The pediatrician diagnosed him. He has celiac. You can ask for a genetic test if you want. My son was age one when his endoscopy showed " changes". He's now 6 and has never had a positive blood test (annual). His genetic test was positive. He was severely constipated and also was supposed to have had reflux. All resolved on gluten-free diet. I strongly encourage you to work with your ped who seems to be more up to date on celiac. Waiting 6 months could be disastrous.
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9. Christine E added a post in a topic Anybody's Kiddo Have Normal Labs?
My son was diagnosed at age 1 and is now 6. He has never had a positive blood test. His endoscopy showed slight changes, and his genetic test was positive. With those and his gaining weight once on the gluten-free diet, he was dx with celiac. You can now get a less expensive cheek swab test to see if your son has the genetic marker. I'm not complaining about this, but I have the problem that he doesn't like "normal" tasting food since he's never had it! I made a great gluten-free lasagna and he wouldn't even try it! He has a blood test every year and is under 25percent in height and weight, but my other son is pretty average. He hates the blood test of course, so he said, " why do I have to have the test? You know I never eat gluten!"
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10. Christine E added a post in a topic False Negative Tests In Children Under 5
My son was diagnosed at age 1. His blood screens have always been negative. The doctor diagnosed him based on a positive genetic test and a successful gluten-free diet. He did have an endoscopy that showed slight "changes" but now at the age of almost 6 he has never tested positive on the blood screens.
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11. Christine E added a post in a topic Infant Reflux (gerd) And Celiac?
My son supposedly had GERD his whole first year, on meds, Neocate formula. When he started losing weight at a year, a different ped GI did the biopsy and blood work, both of which were negative. The biopsy showed slight changes, but he did test positive for the gene marker. The diet worked. He has never had a positive blood test. I would assume the gluten and dairy are being transferred through breast milk and eliminate them from your diet, maybe one at a time to see if they make a difference. My son slept in his bouncy seat for 6 months, and never slept more than 3 hours till 15 months, after he had been gluten-free for 5 weeks.
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12. Christine E added a post in a topic How Do I Know From All The Different Labeling On Packages What Really Is Gluten Free
My son has eaten the Honey Rice version with no problems. Wheat free does not mean gluten free, and sometimes gluten free doesn't even mean gluten free. I've noticed a few products that state they are gluten free, but when you read the ingredients, they have malt, or oats, or another gluten-containing product. Not all companies fully understand the definition of gluten. Companies do have standards for cleaning their equipment between processing, but again, human error or negligence may CC.
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13. Christine E added a post in a topic 13 Months Old, To Biopsy Or Not?
My son had a biopsy at 13 months. It showed "changes" in the mucosa lining. The slides were read by pathologists at Children's Memorial in Chicago and University of Chicago Hospital, and the pathologists agreed there were slight changes, but not difinitive for Celiac. His blood tests were negative and have remained so. He is now 4. The GI's confirmed Celiac because he has a genetic marker, and the diet worked. It is not the official way to confirm celiac, but since the biopsy was not clearly positive, they still diagnosed Celiac. I was very fortunate that his doctors took his weight loss and inability to eat very seriously. By the way, he has never had diarhea, but has the symptom of constipation. He is healthy and adheres well to his diet. But what do you say when on his fourth birthday he wishes he could eat what everyone else does??
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By nafhan on 4/19/2011 1:16:13 PM , Rating: 2
"Energy giants" building wind and solar installations means one thing: they can make money at it. The reason that they can make money at it could be that wind and solar are incredibly efficient and superior to other power generation methods, or it could be that a national government is giving them piles of cash to build the solar and wind installations...
I disagree that things which artificially lower the cost of an inefficient power generation method are immaterial. Money saved now could, for example, go into paying off the national debt.
RE: I wonder
By Harinezumi on 4/19/2011 1:48:52 PM , Rating: 2
It takes time and money to develop new technologies and make them profitable. Often a lot of time and a lot of money. While free enterprise is excellent at quickly coming up with the most efficient and profitable applications for available or soon-to-be-available technology, it doesn't have a particularly good record investing for the long haul. When you invest a significant portion of your capital into projects that won't start paying off for 20-30 years while your competitors focus on the short term, you're not likely to survive as a company long enough to reap the benefits of those projects.
That's where the government comes it. It makes perfect sense for the government to invest taxpayer money into long-term projects that are likely to provide good long-term returns to the taxpayers if such projects cannot be profitably pursued by companies in the short-term. It makes even more sense to provide incentives and subsidies that would allow companies to overcome their vulnerability to taking long-term risks and get them to shoulder part of the cost in exchange for a proportional part of the benefit.
RE: I wonder
By JediJeb on 4/19/2011 2:48:56 PM , Rating: 2
Government investing in the R&D of these technologies makes sense, but government subsidizing the installation of these systems before they have matured just for the sake of installing them does not.
Any company who is installing large solar or wind systems just for the tax write off even if it really doesn't impact their energy budget are only gaming the system and sucking tax revenue out of more important things like getting rid of our debt. I am ok with government financing the Research, but let commercial groups handle installing the working systems when the technology is mature enough to support itself.
RE: I wonder
I am ok with government financing the Research
RE: I wonder
By nafhan on 4/19/2011 5:18:00 PM , Rating: 2
It certainly does take time and money to make things profitable, and that's an argument to keep things at the R&D stage until they can be deployed profitably. I don't think this is a good long term investment for taxpayers in any way. Put the money into materials science if it has to be spent.
RE: I wonder
By room200 on 4/19/2011 10:17:10 PM , Rating: 2
So I guess you are also against other subsidies also? It's not like the oil companies need them.
RE: I wonder
God, I'm getting old.
RE: I wonder
By nafhan on 4/20/2011 1:32:27 PM , Rating: 2
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Sting 'wants marijuana to be legalized'
Sting has called for the legalisation of marijuana.
The singer maintained that the US needs to divert the money it spends jailing users of the drug and use it to tackle urgent issues such as poverty and global warming.
The 58-year-old wrote on his blog: "The War on Drugs [campaign] has failed - but it's worse than that. It is actively harming our society. Violent crime is thriving in the shadows to which the drug trade has been consigned.
He continued: "For years, the Drug War has been used as a pretext to lock people in prison for exorbitant lengths of time - people whose 'crimes' never hurt another human being, people who already lived at the margins of society, whose voices were the faintest and whose power was the least. Meanwhile, resources to fight genuine crime - violent crime - have been significantly diminished."
However, the former Police frontman's comments have been slammed by anti-drugs activists.
A spokesperson for DARE said: "He should stick to singing and not meddle in matters he doesn't understand. We do not need popstars coming out and making irresponsible statements like that."
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TV Recaps | Homeland
Homeland recap: Killer Service
(Kent Smith/Showtime)
Season 2, Ep. 10 | Aired Dec 02
And we’re off to the races! Abu Nazir kidnapped Carrie, let her go, and remains at large in the United States. Brody effectively murdered the vice president. Saul dug too deep in his investigation of Peter Quinn. Jessica is so over her husband. Dana is a shell of a human being. Chris suddenly realized his dad’s a jerk. Carrie really needs a shower. And, hey guys, Danny Galvez is back!
I’ll get more into the gritty details behind this fabulously implausible device shortly. And granted, I didn’t know until Twitter told me that you can actually Skype on certain Blackberrys (provided you have Verizon in the U.S.) — so I can’t exactly fault the show for accuracy on that score. But more to the point: A) How did Abu Nazir get Brody’s Skype address? B) How did Abu Nazir get a good enough signal in the middle of nowhere to send streaming video to Brody’s phone? C) When did the CIA stop monitoring every moment of Brody’s phone calls — and if they did, why did they stop with Abu Nazir still at large? And D) Why didn’t anyone think to watch Brody like a hawk the moment Carrie went missing since everyone knows Carrie and Brody share a special rowdy sex bond, and Brody just very publicly betrayed the wanted terrorist who had kidnapped him via helicopter just days before?
Frustrating, nagging questions like these are what have kept the second half of this season from ever quite taking off as top-of-the-line drama like the second half of Homeland’s first season — once you start pulling the dangling threads, things can begin to unravel quickly.
Still, there was much for me to love in this episode, and it started with the very first scene: Saul confronting Dar Adal* in the latter’s favorite Tuesday lunch spot: Walter’s Waffles. Setting aside for a moment that that kind of predictability is dangerous for a master spy (dangling thread #1), the setting provided F. Murray Abraham the opportunity to act while eating, which for a certain caliber of actor only makes the scene more delicious. To wit: “Little things I can count on mean more and more to me as I get older — you find that?” Is that a perfect opening line for a character, or what?
(*I feel compelled to use only Dar Adal’s full name; somehow just “Dar” or just “Adal” doesn’t carry the same spook-ish weight. I know, I’m weird.)
NEXT PAGE: Dar Adal and Saul don’t mince words.
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2 years ago#11
Happened to mine too :/
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2 years ago#12
I haven't gotten any screen scratching. Then again, i'm one of the smart people to put a screen protector on. My silicone case wraps around buttons, and it does leave marks on the 3DS matte-textured plastic.
2 years ago#13
I have no protectors on both 3DS's and I don't have this scratch issue
2 years ago#14
I'm pretty certain that it happens as a result of people putting them in their pockets when wearing clothes that aren't loose. If you don't do that, it probably will never be an issue (at least on the XL).
2 years ago#15
Yeah, it happens to mine too, but I'm thinking it's does so because of the extra thickness of the screen protector. Still not gonna take a chance without one though.
2 years ago#16
Clean your screen often and clean the bottom part where it seems to be touching regularly. I usually clean the top screen with a nintendo cleaning cloth and wipe the frame of the bottom screen with my fingers.
Im thinking the screens are so close when the system is closed, that even tiny dust particles on the bottom screen frame will cause contact between the surfaces.
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2 years ago#17
screen protectors are pretty important.
I use the bottom screen pretty often, so I had one. The bottom screen protector does have scratch marks, which I think is due to the games and not really from the screens scratching each other.
2 years ago#18
It happened to me as well. It was still under warranty, but Nintendo still tried to charge me a $100 to fix it. I'll get a new system before I pay that much. That's crazy.
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So what are some intelligent questions to ask guys? (I'm getting tired of asking how many siblings and pets he has!)
thanks guys! I think you've all given me some really good feedback.
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• Sounds like you're instigating something called "the interview". This is a conversation where one interrogates the other person - how old are you? where do you live? how many siblings do you have? bla bla bla. It's very one sided, and not a good way to start a two-sided conversation.
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Sullivan told The Daily Mail he was threatened by an unnamed player's representative and has called for the FA to impose a cap on the earnings that agents can make from transfers.
Agents’ roles in modern football has been the subject of heavy debate in recent times, with QPR manager Harry Redknapp likening their behavior to “gang warfare.” Sullivan has revealed the lengths some agents are prepared to go to to secure a deal, comparing them to “scavengers.”
"In this window, I have had an agent threaten me and threaten one of our West Ham players with physical violence, because he thought he was being cut out of a deal,” Sullivan told The Daily Mail. "I heard of three or four agents trying to jump in on other deals. Some of these people are like scavengers.
Sullivan went on to agree with Redknapp’s comments and called for the Football Association to cap the astronomic amounts of commission that are now commonplace for agents during transfer negotiations.
"Harry Redknapp was right: it feels like gang warfare out there and I can see it spilling over into violence in the future, unless there is legislation from the FA to curb the practices," Sullivan said. "We are talking millions of pounds here around a transfer and not enough deals to go around. There are too many agents and not enough transfers to feed them.
"Agents who would once demand 50,000 pounds for their part in a transfer, now want 500,000 to 1 million to either bring a player or keep a player. It is quite outrageous, and the FA should cap the amount paid to agents for their work."
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"Parenthood," based on the 1989 Ron Howard film (already developed once previously for the small screen), was expected to begin production on July 27 and NBC had set a September 23 premiere date for the 8 p.m. drama.
"Parenthood" is now tentatively scheduled to resume production in September, though obviously that's subject to change.
In addition to long-time NBC veteran Tierney ("NewsRadio," "E.R."), "Parenthood" stars Peter Krause, Tierney, Erika Christensen, Dax Shepard, Bonnie Bedelia and Craig T. Nelson.
The medical dramedy "Mercy," expected to take over the "Parenthood" time slot at midseason, is expected to be bumped up for a fall launch, though it's unclear if NBC will simply move it into the Wednesday 8 p.m. hour or make additional changes.
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