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Many tourists and vacation goes are starting to appreciate going on a trip to Asia, because of the wealth of culture and the totally different experience one can get when visiting these places. But the charm and the charisma of Asia cannot be denied, with so many kinds of cuisines to choose from.
Central Asia is a premiere destination, except that it is severely underrated compared to other places and countries. However, vacations spots like these are less well known, meaning that the people are much less, unlike the much more popular, but crowded places. Having a quiet and meaningful vacation is possible with a trip to Central Asia.
The culture is always rich in these countries, with many of the elements of their beliefs, traditions and customs still intact, from the food on the street to the structures and ruins that can be seen and explored. The people are usually friendly and respectful, so that's a major plus right there.
It might also be cheaper to travel to these countries because people aren't really concerned with peak and off-peak seasons, as not many people visit them. And really, it's always nice to be able to go somewhere you totally haven't been to - everything is a new experience.
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Just tell them what they want to hear -- who'll know?
The story of Dr. Steven J. Hatfill is not particularly reassuring.
Hatfill is one of about 30 scientists and researchers who is being looked at as a possible suspect in the anthrax mailings that killed five people last fall.
Hatfill and his attorneys have adamantly denied any connection, saying that only his expertise placed him, with other scientists, on the list of potential suspects. And that may well be true.
But the circumstances that surround the hiring of Hatfill leave the U.S. Department of Defense accused and convicted of gross negligence.
Hatfill managed to get hired in 1997 by the Army's biological defense research center at Fort Detrick. Two years later, he was given a "secret" security clearance.
He worked on and had access to some of the most deadly biological agents on the planet.
And for all that the people who hired him knew, he could have been a man from Mars. He was clearly not what he said he was on his resume, in at least two significant ways.
He did not hold a doctoral degree and he did not serve in the U.S. Special Forces.
No one minding the store
Imagine that. A man who inflated his academic achievements and his military credentials manages to get hired to do secret research for the Army without anyone checking his resume close enough to uncover two such glaring deceptions.
As it turns out, "Dr." Hatfill claimed to hold a doctorate in molecular cell biology and biochemistry from Rhodes University in South Africa. While he attended the university and submitted a thesis, he was never awarded a doctorate.
As for his Army duty, he claimed that he "served with U.S. Army Special Forces" and that he was a member of 7th Special Forces Group. While he was, indeed, in the Army in 1976, he dropped out of special forces training after a month.
There could be a lot of people who get away with inflating their resumes a bit. And there could be a lot of people who brag to coworkers about their exploits -- as Hatfill did -- in such ways that the co-workers begin taking the tales with a grain of salt -- as Hatfill's coworkers did.
But those people don't belong in government laboratories working with anthrax or other deadly agents. And another group of people who don't belong in government jobs are those people who hired Hatfill without doing an adequate background check.
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The Village Cork isn't your typical wine bar, and its chef, Samir Mohammad, is anything but plebeian. But his kitchen, positioned squarely in the middle of the dining room, isn't the kind of culinary lab where you'd expect to reap some of the city's most intoxicating food. There's no hood, no fancy culinary screwball equipment (save for a Vitamix), no walk-in and no Pacojet ice cream and gelato machine, which makes Mohammad's cooking all the more endearing. And make no mistake: The guy can cook. In fact, my favorite dish of the year thus far is his Chimayo-chile flank steak, vividly crimson, rubbed with an ambrosial mosaic of fennel, coriander and New Mexican red chile and sliced and fanned across an expanse of pork belly-studded posole set off by half crescents of watermelon radishes. In short, it's perfect.
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No. 98: E's clam linguini from Mangiamo Pronto
No. 96: Prosciutto-wrapped jalapeño poppers from Tony's Market
No. 95: Fried chicken from the Pinyon
No. 94: Seafood soup from Farro
No. 93: Posole from The Porker
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No. 78: Truffo panino from Shangri-La Cafe
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No. 74: South African black ruff from TAG
No. 73: Gumbo from Bistro One
No. 72: New England clam chowder from Bittersweet
No. 71: Celery and lime popsicle from Spuntino
No. 70: Curried split pea soup from Modmarket
No. 69: Mais pizza from Pizzeria Locale
No. 68: Risotto frutti di mare from Firenze a Tavola
No. 67: Frico caldo from Frasca Food & Wine
No. 65: Luther Burger from Crave
No. 64: Chongqing Chicken from East Asia Garden
No. 63: Bouillabaisse from Deluxe
No. 62: Crue fries from D Bar Desserts
No. 61: Chili gobi from Jai Ho
No. 60: New Mexican eggs Benedict from DJ's Berkley Cafe
No. 59: Lamb vindaloo from Cuisine of the Himalayas
No. 58: Gazpacho verde from Zolo Grill
No. 56: Mixiote de borrego from El Trompito Taqueria
No. 55: Samosas from the British Bulldog
No. 54: Mole verde with carnitas from Tarasco's
No. 52: Santa Fe skillet from Hits the Spot Diner
No. 50: Noodle jelly salad from Thai Street Food
No. 49: Telluride jalapeno poppers from Encore
No. 48: Carnitas from Araujo's
No. 46 Xiao Long Bao from Lao Wang Noodle House
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The GOP, On the Road to Coolsville
Assuming Hillary Clinton is the Democratic presidential nominee next year, we already know that the Republican candidate will be younger than the Democrat, maybe by just a few years (if it's Jeb Bush or Rick Perry, both in their 60s), but maybe by quite a bit. Marco Rubio is not only just 43, he also likes hip-hop (as he never tires of letting people know). Is it possible that the Republican Party will actually have a nominee who's cool? Or at least cooler than the Democrat? Conservative columnist Matt Lewis thinks so:
Like the products we purchase, the candidates we support say something about who we are (or, at least, who we want people to think we are). We might want to believe that our preference has to do with a candidate's policy positions, and in many cases it does. But it's also at least partly about cultural signaling. We all want to be seen affiliating with a cool brand, and we interpret what that cool brand is by means of our tribal identities.
In this sense, Republicans are faced with both a challenge and an opportunity. If a demographic shift has made it vital for Republicans to sell conservatism to more millennials and urban, cosmopolitan voters—and I believe it has—it makes sense to go for cool. Marco Rubio—who is young, handsome, and fluent in Spanish, sports, and pop culture—is cool. Especially compared to Hillary Clinton. Grandmothers (and grandfathers!) may be a lot of wonderful things, but "cool" isn't typically one of them, at least in the popular imagination.
And it's not just Rubio. Rand Paul is kind of cool, particularly among millennials who are socially liberal but wary of the intrusiveness of big government. Indeed, there might never be a better time for the GOP to steal the "cool" mojo from Democrats—who have tended to "own" the cool factor for the better part of the last 50 years.
I'd argue that the only genuinely cool presidents we've had in the last century were Kennedy and Obama, though you could throw in Clinton (although really dude, "I didn't inhale"? Not cool). But it depends on what standard you're using, because cool is complicated. There's the kind of cool Barack Obama embodies, which is all about emotional control, never being too high or too low. There's the cool that comes from just being young, in a culture where youth is inherently desirable. In any case, Lewis is right that voting is an act of cultural affiliation. It can be about the candidate in particular; I've said before that one of the things that made Obama's 2008 campaign so powerful for liberals was that they saw him as everything they wanted to be—youthful, erudite, cosmopolitan, his multiracial identity a tribute to their own open-mindedness, and so on. Republicans portray Democrats as weak and effeminate in part to convince male voters that a vote for such a candidate might say something about the person casting the ballot, too.
But when we're talking about politicians, who are inherently uncool, there's only so cool they can be. And it's enough to know that all the cool people are voting a particular way, even if the person they're voting for isn't particularly cool. Maybe Rubio can drop a few more Tupac references and pull a few votes from young people here and there, but his coolness factor is inevitably going to be pulled down by the fact that he's a member of the GOP, the party where some of the uncoolest people can be found.
Scott Walker Just Won the Koch Sweepstakes
For some time now, the smart money in political circles has been on Scott Walker becoming the Republican nominee for president—even though primary voters hadn't yet thought much about him. If you look at primary polls, up until October of last year, Walker was at around 5 percent support, which is essentially nothing. Then as the media started to focus more on the race after the midterm elections were over, Walker began a steady rise, and he's now second to Jeb Bush. And he just got what could be the most important endorsement of all:
“When the primaries are over and Scott Walker gets the nomination,” Mr. Koch told the crowd, the billionaire brothers would support him, according to a spokeswoman. The remark drew laughter and applause from the audience of fellow donors and Republican activists, who had come to hear Mr. Walker speak earlier at the event, held at the Union League Club.
Two people who attended the event said they heard Mr. Koch go even further, indicating that Mr. Walker should be the Republican nominee. A spokeswoman disputed that wording, saying that Mr. Koch had pledged to remain officially neutral during the primary campaign.
We should be clear on two things. First, the Kochs may not actually invest in a candidate in the primaries, whatever their feelings are. Second, even if they did, the money they spent probably wouldn't sway the outcome. In 2012 Sheldon Adelson spent $20 million trying to make Newt Gingrich the nominee, and we saw how that worked out. The other candidates will be amply funded as well; there are other billionaires out there who will make sure that Bush, Marco Rubio, and possibly others will have more than enough money to keep up.
But in the "invisible primary," the Koch's nod of approval can be a powerful symbol. When the Republican Party's biggest funders—who plan to spend nearly a billion dollars on the 2016 campaign—say that Walker is their guy, it will almost inevitably make a lot of other people important to the primary process think very seriously about him. That includes other funders, party officials, key operatives, and the kind of state and local organizers and endorsers who can be so critical in early contests. The main reason Walker has seemed like he has such potential is his ability to appeal to both sides of the central divide in the GOP, between the establishment and the grassroots. But if the Kochs are supporting him, even informally, all of a sudden he seems like nearly as much the establishment candidate as Jeb Bush.
My own opinion is that despite what many in the party will say, you'd much rather be the establishment candidate than the scrappy insurgent. But what is it about Walker that the Kochs find so attractive? We can't read their minds, of course, but like all of us they probably believe that their own personal favorite is the most electable candidate. Walker's core primary message—that unabashed conservatism with a hard partisan edge is not only right but politically shrewd—is surely as appealing to them as to any other Republican.
And while all the Republican candidates are committed to laissez-faire economics, Walker has already demonstrated the missionary zeal he brings to crushing unions and working for the interests of the wealthy and corporations. Perhaps the Kochs look at Jeb Bush and see someone who might someday feel the stirrings of a troubling noblesse oblige and go soft on the unwashed masses. But Scott Walker? Never.
Republican Candidates Pretending to Be More Conservative On Immigration Than They Actually Are
In 2008, John McCain, straight-talking principled maverick that he was, got into a Republican primary and saw that a position in favor of comprehensive immigration reform was causing him problems, so he disavowed the reform bill he had co-authored not long before, going so far as to say that if it came up again in the Senate, he'd vote against it. And now Marco Rubio, who like McCain attempted to pass a bipartisan comprehensive reform bill, is doing something similar. When the "Gang of Eight" bill Rubio championed passed the Senate in 2013 but died in the House, Rubio was skewered by tea partiers as a sellout and a traitor. So he changed his position, saying that he now advocates "securing the border first, " just like every other Republican.
But there may be less of a flip-flop here than meets the eye. In fact, I'd argue that many of the Republican contenders are less conservative on immigration than they're pretending to be. Here's what happened when Rubio got asked yesterday on "Face the Nation" about whether he'd vote for his own bill:
"That's a hypothetical that will never happen," he says, which is probably true, even if it's a way of dodging the question. But when you listen to him outline his actual position on immigration, it doesn't seem to have changed from the Gang of Eight bill, and indeed, it doesn't sound all that different from what many Democrats advocate. Rubio may not like the term, but he advocates a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants: he describes a lengthy process that goes from a provisional status to a legalized status including a work permit to eventual citizenship, and involves things like paying back taxes, but that's what Democrats want too.
Rubio could frame an answer to the question in a reasonable way if he wanted; he could say, "We tried to pass comprehensive reform and we couldn't, so what I'm proposing now accomplishes the same goals piece by piece and therefore has a better chance of satisfying my party's right wing because the 'tough'-sounding stuff comes first." Of course he wouldn't put it that way, because all the incentives in the primaries encourage candidates to say, "Grr, no amnesty, border security first!" There's a premium put on channeling the emotions of the Republican electorate on this issue, including anger, resentment, and fear. But the details of what Rubio is advocating are pretty moderate.
And it isn't just him. Jeb Bush has aroused conservatives' ire by talking about undocumented immigrants like human beings, and though he too now stresses the "tough" parts of his immigration plan, he has long supported a path to citizenship. Scott Walker has been a bit muddy on the question, but he has allowed that there could be a way to give the undocumented citizenship (after the border is secure, of course). He says he's against "amnesty," but doesn't say that he opposes any path to citizenship ever. Rand Paul supports a path to citizenship, even if he doesn't want to call it that. Bobby Jindal supports a path to citizenship. Mike Huckabee wants citizenship for DREAMers. In fact, the only major candidate I could find who has unequivocally ruled out any path to citizenship is Ted Cruz, and even he advocates some kind of legal status that would allow undocumented immigrants to stay in the country and work.
So what we have here seems to be a bunch of candidates who want to convince Republican primary voters that they're more conservative on immigration than they actually are.
Let's be clear that in practice, "Secure the border first, then we can get to what to do with the undocumented" can be and often is a way of saying that we'll never get to comprehensive reform. Almost no one who says this has a clear idea of what a "secure" border means — is it zero undocumented people getting in? — and so no matter how many miles of fence we build or how many thousands of new Border Patrol agents we hire, some people will always say the border isn't yet secure and therefore all the other elements of reform have to wait. And I'm not naïve enough to think that someone like Scott Walker would be working hard to get comprehensive reform accomplished if he became president. But it's revealing that even this group of extremely conservative candidates embraces many of the liberal goals of immigration reform — even if they don't really want to talk about that part of it until the primaries are over.
Why Media Coverage of Campaign 2016 Will Be As Bad As Ever
Let's spare a bit of sympathy for the reporters who found themselves running after Hillary Clinton's van last week in the hopes that they might get a few seconds of video of her stepping out of it and into whatever momentous event she was arriving at. I'm sure that as they took off in hot pursuit, more than a few thought to themselves, "This is pretty ridiculous." But they kept running anyway, and when they finally caught their breath, perhaps they had a chance to sit down and pen that blog post on Clinton's order at Chipotle that their editors were demanding.
Reporting from the presidential campaign trail is of a rite of passage in political journalism (even if some poor souls find themselves doing it again and again), and though it can have its moments of excitement, it's also a trial. Subsisting on unhealthy food and too little sleep, away from their families, the journalistic legion trudge from one event to another, hearing the same talking points repeated again and again, and trying to wring something resembling news from what everyone acknowledges is a bizarre and absurd charade.
Clinton in particular is making life difficult for those following her. First, she has little or no opposition; how can you spin exciting tales about a contest in which there's only one contestant? Second, her campaign is conducting a kind of soft rollout—no big speeches, nothing planned too far in advance, just some "spontaneous," small-scale meet-and-greets with voters that reporters are either barred from or not given much notice about. If you were assigned to the Clinton beat and it was your charge to report news from this campaign, you might be getting desperate already. And so you'd find yourself chasing after her van as it rolled into a parking lot, hoping desperately that something exciting might happen when it came to a stop. Maybe the door will open to reveal her in a passionate embrace with Justin Timberlake, or someone will throw a pie at her when she emerges. Something, anything.
That endless need to produce content—and fast—is the source of many if not most of the pathologies of contemporary campaign coverage. And the easiest way to put the "new" in "news" is to write about the horse race, because even if it hasn't changed since yesterday, it still sounds current even if you're repeating yourself.
And unlike deep, substantive dives into issues, the horse race is inherently dramatic in a way a comparison of the candidates' varying ideas about monetary policy isn't, though the latter is much more consequential for people's lives. The horse race has conflict, antagonists, twists and turns leading to an eventual climax in which a victor rises and foes are vanquished.
So is there a way to reconcile these two competing needs—to inform the public about things that matter, and to produce daily news that moves the larger story of the campaign forward? It's hard, but I'd make one suggestion: Reporters could do their best to tie whatever controversy or conflict or "gaffe" we're consumed with at a particular moment to the job one of these people will be doing come January 2017. If you're going to say something a candidate said or did "raises questions," tell us what those questions are. For instance, Marco Rubio (43) is presenting himself as the youthful alternative not only to Clinton (67) but also to Jeb Bush (62). That could be interesting, but instead of just saying, "Ooo, Rubio made a reference to a rapper!" why not ask what this issue might mean for the presidency? Is there something the presidencies of Teddy Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, and Bill Clinton (the three youngest upon taking office) had in common that reveals something about what a Rubio presidency would be like? Is there any reason to believe Clinton or Bush would be hindered in their energy level (or in any other way) by their relatively advanced ages?
You ought to be able to come up with similar questions focused on the presidency about whatever the candidates have decided to put on the agenda. And if it's difficult or impossible to determine what the micro-controversy of the moment has to do with what the next president will face in office, maybe it isn't worth talking about.
The trouble is that putting the day's events in context to reveal something important can be difficult and time-consuming. So instead, what we get from the campaign trail is a thousand stories that sound like this:
Here's what the candidate did today.
Here are the parts of the electorate she/he is trying to appeal to.
Here's how the day's message tried to appeal to those people.
Here are her/his weaknesses and the negative parts of her/his image.
Here's where she/he stands in the polls.
Back to you, Bob.
The good news is that there's never been a better time in history to be a citizen looking to be informed about presidential politics. There are more news outlets than ever before, and more easily available sources of information than someone living 50 or 100 years ago could have dreamed of as they contemplated their votes. Whatever you're looking for in campaign coverage, whether it's fine-grained background analyses of issues, detailed examinations of the candidates' records, or up-close-and-personal profiles of their pets, you can find it somewhere.
Which you'd think would spur those more traditional media of newspapers, radio, and television to devise new ways to bring their audiences compelling and edifying news. And maybe it will, someday. But they're still trying to figure out how.
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7. a full list of its instructors and their academic credentials
8. its relationship with any parent organization (corporation, hospital, or church, or other entity that owns the institution) and any external providers of its instruction.
6. The institution assures that all data it makes public are accurate and complete, including those reporting on student achievement of learning and student persistence, retention, and completion.
1. An institution offering programs that require specialized accreditation or recognition by a state licensing board or other entity in order for its students to be certified or to sit for the licensing examination in states where its students reside either has the appropriate accreditation and recognition or discloses publicly and clearly the consequences to the students of the lack thereof. The institution makes clear to students the distinction between regional and specialized or program accreditation and the relationships between licensure and the various types of accreditation.
2. An institution offering programs eligible for specialized accreditation at multiple locations discloses the accreditation status and recognition of the program by state licensing boards at each location.
3. An institution that advertises a program as preparation for a licensure, certification, or other qualifying examination publicly discloses its pass rate on that examination, unless such information is not available to the institution.
8. The governing board and its executive committee, if it has one, include some “public” members. Public members have no significant administrative position or any ownership interest in any of the following: the institution itself; a company that does substantial business with the institution; a company or organization with which the institution has a substantial partnership; a parent, ultimate parent, affiliate, or subsidiary corporation; an investment group or firm substantially involved with one of the above organizations. All publicly-elected members or members appointed by publicly-elected individuals or bodies (governors, elected legislative bodies) are public members.1
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3. The institution’s policy and practice assure that at least 50% of courses applied to a graduate program are courses designed for graduate work, rather than undergraduate courses credited toward a graduate degree. (Cf. Criterion 3.A.1 and 2.)
4. (An institution may allow well-prepared advanced students to substitute its graduate courses for required or elective courses in an undergraduate degree program and then subsequently count those same courses as fulfilling graduate requirements in a related graduate program that the institution offers. In “4+1” or “2+3” programs, at least 50% of the credits allocated for the master’s degree – usually 15 of 30 – must be for courses designed for graduate work.)
7. The institution has a process for ensuring that all courses transferred and applied toward degree requirements demonstrate equivalence with its own courses required for that degree or are of equivalent rigor.
9. The institution maintains a minimum requirement for general education for all of its undergraduate programs whether through a traditional practice of distributed curricula (15 semester credits for AAS degrees, 24 for AS or AA degrees, and 30 for bachelor’s degrees) or through integrated, embedded, interdisciplinary, or other accepted models that demonstrate a minimum requirement equivalent to the distributed model. Any variation is explained and justified.
2. Faculty Roles and Qualifications
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2. The institution maintains timely and accurate transcript and records services.
C. Teaching and Learning: Evaluation and Improvement
1. Instructors (excluding for this requirement teaching assistants enrolled in a graduate program and supervised by faculty) have the authority for the assignment of grades. (This requirement allows for collective responsibility, as when a faculty committee has the authority to override a grade on appeal.)
3. The institution has formal and current written agreements for managing any internships and clinical placements included in its programs.
5. Instructors communicate course requirements to students in writing and in a timely manner.
D. Resources, Planning, and Institutional Effectiveness
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Indiana University complies with the Sex Discrimination Guidelines issued by the Equal Employment Commission in 1968, and amended in 1969 and 1972. Policies relating to recruitment, development opportunities, working conditions, fringe benefits, pregnancy and childbirth shall not discriminate based on the sex of applicants, appointees, or students. The Guidelines specifically preclude:
1. separate lines of progression and seniority systems based on gender;
2. discrimination against married women;
3. advertisements which indicate a preference, limitation, specification or discrimination based on sex;
4. pre-employment inquiries as to sex unless made in good faith for a nondiscriminatory purpose;
5. fringe benefits (medical, hospital, accident, life insurance and retirement plans; profit-sharing and bonus plans; leave plans; other terms, conditions, and privileges of employment) which discriminate between men and women;
6. written or unwritten employment policies or practices which exclude from employment applicants or employees because of pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions;
7. sexual harassment.
Concerns about compliance with the Guidelines should be brought to the attention of the Campus Affirmative Action Officer. Because of the sensitive and discriminatory nature of sexual harassment charges, specific provisions and procedures have been established.
Harassment on the basis of sex is a violation of federal and state law. Indiana University does not tolerate sexual harassment of its faculty, staff, or students. Individuals who believe they are victims of sexual harassment, as well as those who believe they have observed sexual harassment, are strongly urged to report such incidents promptly. Indiana University will investigate every sexual harassment complaint in a timely manner and, when there is a finding of sexual harassment, take corrective action to stop the harassment and prevent the misconduct from recurring. The severity of the corrective action, up to and including discharge or expulsion of the offender, will depend on the circumstances of the particular case. Once a person in a position of authority at Indiana University has knowledge, or should have had knowledge, of conduct constituting sexual harassment, the university could be exposed to liability. Therefore, any administrator, supervisor, manager or faculty member who is aware of sexual harassment and condones it, by action or inaction, is subject to disciplinary action.
A. Definitions
Following federal guidelines, Indiana University defines sexual harassment as follows:
B. Application
C. Provisions
2. The university will deal with reports of sexual harassment in a fair and thorough manner, which includes protecting, to the extent possible, and to the extent permitted by law, the privacy and reputational interests of the accusing and accused parties.
3. Education is the best tool for the prevention and elimination of sexual harassment. Each dean, director, department chair, and/or administrative officer is responsible within hi/her area of jurisdiction for the implementation of this policy, including its dissemination and explanation.
D. Enforcement Principles Enforcement and implementation of this sexual harassment policy will observe the following principles:
1. Each campus must have procedures-consistent with notions of due process-for implementing this policy including where complaints are made, who investigates complaints, how complaints are resolved, what procedures are available for appeals, and how records are kept.
2. The Campus Affirmative Action Officer shall serve as a resource with regard to interpretation of sexual harassment guidelines.
4. Investigations must be conducted promptly and thoroughly.
5. Whether particular actions constitute sexual harassment will be determined from the facts, on a case-by-case basis. The university will look at the record as a whole, as well as the context in which the alleged misconduct occurred.
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"Omg! Haven't seen you in forever! What are you, a purple/brown belt now???" Ummm... well... errr... you see...
I got my blue belt in November 2003. I am a blue belt today. Yep. But hey, I'm at a different academy now so something changed! So... what happened?
But anyways.
Why go back to jiu-jitsu? Who knows. I don't know if I really enjoyed it the first time around *gasp*! But one of my closest friends, Crystina Coats, is and always will be a jiu-jitsu chick and I guess that's what kept me thinking about it...... every now and then I'd go and take a class, get smashed, run back to muay thai.
It's definitely intimidating to think about going back when all the people you started with or even started AFTER you are now purple/brown/black belts. Crystina, Giselle, JOEL (wtf!).
I'm 33 whereas many of the top female competitors today are lethal enough to whoop my a$$ with their eyes closed but not old enough to get into a club (legally). Again, wtf???
But whatever. In the end, who am I doing this for? Yeah, I often have to deal with the "what belt are you now? How long have you been training?" and the inevitable look of "wow, you must really suck" or just plain pity on their face (but at least they don't say it aloud). But now that I'm back into training, I feel the loss of even one day away. So I'm glad I didn't put it off any longer and who knows... maybe having these adult muscles first will help in the long run. At least I had a few years of having semi-normal looking knuckles before I got back into training! Silver lining to every cloud!
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Fresh tip from a black belt
I may pay for today's post but it just can't go without being published...
Yesterday one of my instructors made a point before a round to warn one of our purple belts to not do the "masturbation position" with the small purple belt female he was about to roll with.
Um... WAT???
I still haven't quite figured out the analogy, even with his DEMONSTRATION of what he meant but his point was something about not stalling back and forth. Either go forward with a pass or go to something else but don't stall!
SO, lesson of the day, DON'T DO THE MASTURBATION POSITION in jiu-jitsu! No matter how frustrated, tired, mentally "beat" (haha) you are, do SOMEthing! Don't stall! Every day of training is progress because you made it there and you trained and even when it felt like you trained like crap, even the crap training is something!
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Blue Belt for Life!!! 'TUDE!
Blue belt is when you're officially not a newb anymore yet you're still "just a blue belt".
At this point you've figured out that a headlock isn't your best friend and secret move after all. You've also discovered that that blue belt over there smashes a whole lotta people and the blue belt over here (moi!) does not. There is quite a broad spectrum of abilities within the blue belt category and it can be frustrating.
HOWEVER, one thing about being a blue belt is that you are in a somewhat happy medium of expectations and challenges. Yes, you should know some things and do them fairly well BUT, you're not expected to be a pro at every move, and really, all you gotta do is put your heart out on the mat. THERE! I put something serious in my blog already (Just for YOU, Vu!).
One rule *I think* about being a "Blue Belt for Life!!!" is always training like you're at the bottom aiming for the very top. You've got nothing to lose and everything to battle for. I hope that if I ever do get past the blue belt level, I'll keep this mind set for ever and ever and ever......
Ummm... quick sidetrack for the above ending paragraph:
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
disclaimers and such
Things you can expect in my blog:
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May 30, 2009 05:15 AM
Eating our way up Michigan's western coast
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1. I can't say much from personal experience, but there is a Michigan wine country magazine that has a lot of interesting-sounding restaurants in it, in SW Michigan and along the coast. You can probably find the magazine at a wine store or order it from Michiganwines.com
1. I'd plan my route by going 96 and making a brief detour south in Grand Haven to go to the beach. There's a great county beach in Ferrysburg near GH, or two big state park beaches in GH and up at PJ Hoffmaster near Norton Shores. In GH, stop at Ray's for to-go FRESH perch sandwiches, "beef burgers" and shakes for cheap eats. Tons of restos on the waterfront in GH too. For amazing views of the lake try Bil-Mar. I find the restaurant at Bil-Mar a bit stuffy, but their patio is great. Also in GH right downtown near the boardwalk is the Kirby Grill, which has 3 different restaurants in one building that's pretty good. Last,but not least, a FANTASTIC breakfast can be had at Morning Star Cafe.
From there, meander up 31. There are fun, good places to stop, especially in Ann Arbor, when making your way west, but I'd skip the middle of the state, whether you go 96, 94 or even Michigan Ave (although that would take you pretty far south) to get to the lake and go up the coast.
1. I used to eat at the Common Grill in Chelsea, MI, when I lived in Ann Arbor. This place is like a miracle in a small, rural town. The owner used to be an executive chef.
1. Two places I can think of near Lansing....
El Oasis Taco Truck
I highly recommend the beef cheek burrito.
Second would be in Potterville
Its a old time bar that serves up Gizzards, Deep Fried Cheeseburgers, and other morsels. Draft beer is served in a Mason Jar. The People are real friendly!
Both of these are inexpensive places but are in my humble opinion not to be missed culinary destinations.
1. I'm a big fan of Hermann's European Bistro in Cadillac. It would
be an excellent restaurant anywhere ... why did Hermann relocate
from Austria & Nepal? Married a hometown girl ...
He also has an excellent (attached deli) and meat/fish/wine market.
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Jun 12, 2014 01:16 PM
Brampton 2014 memorable eats, markets, food shops, restaurants
It's time to start a new Brampton thread. Recommendations for memorable, delicious, above-average food? Any price point, anything worth a visit?
"The City of Brampton is bordered by Highway 50 (Vaughan) to the East, Winston Churchill Boulevard (Halton Hills) to the West, Mayfield Road (Caledon) to the north (except for a small neighbourhood, Snelgrove, which is part of Brampton despite extending somewhat north of Mayfield Road) and the hydro corridor (Mississauga) to the south except at Finch Avenue (at this point, Finch Avenue serves as the border between the two cities)." (Wiki)
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1. Toshi sushi on Gillingham or Sushi House in downtown Brampton are amazing. Dare to be fresh Poutine on Main st is great. Thai Pepper on Fisherman dr is delish.
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Agreed on Toshi and Sushi House but that pouting place is nasty as hell. Why is the gravy all gelatinous and jellied? And why are the hot dogs grey instead of red/pink?
1. re: luckystar3579
Which is more flavourful and high quality: Thai Pepper or Twin Fish at Courtneypark?
1. re: Food Tourist
One vote for Thai Pepper. The portions are not large but 3 dishes for 2 people is quite satisfying. Prices are reasonable. The lunch special is a great deal. Quality is good and they seem to take a lot of care preparing dishes.
2. Kwality Sweets on Steeles is still a good standby for authentic Indian food, drinks and sweets (including a separate ice cream parlour). On this week's visit, however, the tandoori and haryali chicken were dry. http://kwalitysweets.com
Prices are now higher than listed on the online menus.
Try the gobi paratha.
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Their prices have creeped up quite a bit, and the quality is really hit and miss.
2. Paradise Chicken just opened at 53 Kennedy Road North (at Queen) across from Central Peel. They marinate and batter their own fried chicken. Other items are from-frozen. They are trying to replicate Popeye's style of cuisine but it's run by a local man and his family (no previous restaurant experience).
1. This past year, I've had decent food at Drupati, RD's Southern BBQ, and Tonino's (I only ever order their pasta.)
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1. re: Food Tourist
RD's was getting good reviews when they opened, but next to no reviews since.
What'd you have, and how was it?
1. re: Midknight
We asked the owner-smoker what to order and he steered us towards the really smoky, tender meats. Probably the brisket, will try to remember for sure.
1. re: Midknight
I still go there once or twice a year and am never let down. The sandwiches are always great.
2. re: Food Tourist
Drupati's is history now. RD's still by far the best BBQ in town. Sul Irmaos is disgusting and calls themselves a smokehouse, but the food is a greasy travesty compared to RD's
3. Cafe D'oro.
Italian hot table. Wonderful.
6660 Kennedy Rd.
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1. re: magic
This one is news to me. I'm interested.
1. re: duckdown
You should give them a try.
If you do I'm interested to know your thoughts.
Their arancini is fantastic. Most things there are fantastic.
Closed weekends tho.
1. re: magic
I definitely am going to..
Never met an arancini (or is it arancino/arancine if singular?) I didn't like! But if they have an amazing version, I gotta try it
Closed weekends is a bummer but it sounds like a good weekday lunch spot
1. re: duckdown
Yeah it definitely caters to the office-lunching crowd.
Total drag they aren't open weekends as I'm never out there during the week anymore. So I hardly get there these days.
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INTRO: This weekend the UNLV Running Rebel's basketball team engages in the last game of the season. Running the team of the last three years is the father son team - Assistant Coach Jay Spoonhour and Head Coach Charlie Spoonhour. State Nepotism laws prohibit such a working relationships between family members. KNPR's Ky Plaskon reports on how UNLV Athletics is avoiding the law.
PLASKON: Though Jay Spoonhour's coaching career spans almost a decade - he has spent most of it under his father's wing - Charlie Spoonhour. Only a year after Jay started coaching at Missouri State University he joined his father as an assistant coach at Saint Louis University. They ran the team together and departed together in 1999. Jay was on his own again for a year after that and coached in Illinois where he carried a team through a near flawless season. But three days after his father was hired as UNLV's head coach in March 2001, Jay received an offer letter from UNLV too. UNLV Senior Associate Athletic Director Jerry Koloskie explains.
KOLOSKIE: The head coach is responsible for hiring their staff. There is a comfort level and it is very common for that to happen.
PLASKON: Common, but usually not legal in state-funded positions. Nevada Revised Statute 281, says it is unlawful for any University employer to hire a relative. The law says anyone who does so, is guilty of a gross misdemeanor, unless the position is unpaid. Jay Spoonhour's starting base salary was $85,000. Since it's against the law for Charlie to hire his son Jay, technically the Athletic Director did it. But Nevada Administrative Code section 284.375 also prevents that. It says an appointing authority shall not appoint a person who will be in the direct line of authority of a spouse, child, parent or sibling. In order to avoid the administrative code, the University attached a form letter to Jay's assistant coach contract saying that the Director of Athletics will be his direct supervisor rather than his father the Head Coach. Koloskie says they use this kind of strategy all the time so that relatives can work together in UNLV Athletics.
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KOLOSKIE: That way it alleviates any type of concern of any type of compromise of the relationship between the employee and the supervisor.
PLASKON: They do it because these family members have a better chance of succeeding with each other's help.
KOLOSKIE: Once again loyalty is different . . . if it is your son or daughter, everyone is working toward the same goal and that is what coaches are looking for.
PLASKON: Marc Ghan, UNLV's General Counsel, declined a recorded interview but said this would appear to fly in the face of the law. The Board of Regents approved Charlie Spoonhour as head coach, but Ghan was surprised to see that the hiring of Spoonhour's son wasn't considered by the Board because even the Board's policy prohibits relatives supervising other relatives. Under the policy, the President of the University can make exceptions to the state nepotism laws if they cause hardship for the President, such as not enough applicants to fill a position. Koloskie says allowing coaches to hire his or her relatives, really prevents hardship for the coach who's under a lot of pressure to win.
KOLOSKIE: It is hard to put limitations on a coach when you are asking them, Hay you gotta win, but at the same time you are saying you can't hire these individuals to work for you.
PLASKON: So, UNLV has embraced nepotism elsewhere.
KOLOSKIE: We kinda found the same thing out in volleyball where the husband is the head coach and the wife is the assistant.
PLASKON: And nepotism is in UNLV Football too.
KOLOSKIE: Right, coach Robinson has his son working for him, David Robinson.
PLASKON: Despite the prevalence of family relationships in UNLV Athletics, it's not critical to the success of the program Koloskie says.
KOLOSKIE: Well, I think sports would be the same. I don't think it wouldn't change anything if relatives wouldn't be able to hire their relatives.
PLASKON: Nepotism laws have been in effect in Nevada since 1952 to give everyone a fair chance at state funded jobs according to Assistant Attorney General Jim Spencer.
SPENCER: Basically it is to make sure you don't have kingships and fiefdoms among public government.
PLASKON: Tomorrow, the public can see the spoils of nepotism at work in the UNLV Running Rebels Basketball game. Jay Spoonhour has succeeded his father to the throne of interim Head Coach.
Ky Plaskon, News 88-9 KNPR
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Myrna Kresh
Dear Myrna,
I've been asked to studio sit while my photographer is out of town for two weeks. I would love to use the time after work hours to do some shooting for myself in his studio using his equipment.
This is a major opportunity for me and will take no time away from my work days. I just don't feel comfortable asking, because it feels like I'm "using" his personal travel time for my own benefit. He SHOULD say "yes" but, if he doesn't, what a wasted opportunity for me! He almost NEVER takes vacation.
Free space is a terrible thing to waste.
Conflicted in Los Angeles
Dear Conflicted,
You absolutely MUST ask your photographer if you may use his studio and equipment after hours when he's vacationing. You ARE using his being away as an opportunity to make pictures with his equipment! What's wrong with that?
Wrong is not asking for his permission. There are issues of insurance, liability for his space and his equipment, as well as wear and tear on his equipment that you are choosing to ignore. ASK HIM. I'm betting he'll say "fine" because it empowers him to be generous without it costing him real dollars.
PDN April 2015: The PDN'S 30 Issue
Tout VTS
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Earth Virgo GB145BS
Number: BB-60
System: Hybrid Wheel System
Type: Stamina
Face: Virgo
Clear Wheel: Virgo BeywikiBannerBad.jpg
• Weight: 2.8 grams
Virgo was first released in a translucent yellow tint. Virgo has a smooth, easily flowing design to emulate a woman's hair, and features a small notch on both sides.
Metal Wheel: Earth BeywikiBannerBad.jpg
Earth has four thick, textured wings surrounding its perimeter, with each pair facing each other on a slight incline. The space created between the wings is quite small, and the resulting effect is similar to any Wheel that has no spaces: minimal recoil. Though it is on the lighter side of Metal Wheels, its almost unperturbed circular design, and minimal recoil made it one of the best, Defense-oriented Wheel available for competitive play. However, it has since been severely outclassed by the extremely heavy 4D Metal Wheels and Zero-G Chrome Wheels paired in Synchrom, such as Duo, Wyvang and Balro.
IMPORTANT: Mold Variations
Earth Metal Wheel (second mold)
Use in Defense Customization
Use in Stamina Customization
Track: Gravity Bowl 145 BeywikiBannerBad.jpg
GB145 is a wide, round track featuring two free moving metal balls. These balls move toward the outside of the Track while spinning, causing additional spin retaining force, similar to Draciel Metal Ball Defenser's Metal Ball Base from the plastic generation. Weighing in at 4.5 grams due to the metal balls, GB145 is relatively heavy but it cannot hold its own compared to subsequent parts. At release, it was seen by some as inferior to C145 due to the lack of energy-absorbing free spinning wings, making it not as effective as against low attackers such as Quetzalcoatl 90RF, which were popular at the time. GB145 used to shine when utilized in Defense customizations against high CH120-based Attackers, such as MF Lightning L Drago CH120RF. These types of Attackers do not aim to hit the Track, and thus the free spinning wings of C145 are not necessary, and you instead get a significant increase in the overall weight of the customization. However, it has been outclassed for Defense customizations by BD145, E230 and TH170.
This Track has found use in the Attack field as a replacement for S130.
Use in Attack Customization
Paired with Flash, a top-tier Attack 4D Metal Wheel, it provides a similar shape underneath it and its mobile metal balls create a higher Flywheel Effect that gives more force to Flash's hits. GB145 therefore succeeds in reproducing the outward weight and shape of S130, however the slighty variation in height is enough to make S130 the prefered Track to combine with Flash against most opponents.
Bottom: Ball Sharp BeywikiBannerBad.jpg
Weight: 0.6 gram Full Width: 15.71 mm Tip Width: 5.64 mm Full Height: 8.78 mm Sharp Tip Angle: 35°
Other Versions
• Earth Virgo T125ES - Beyblade Deck Entry Set (Red)
• Earth Virgo GB145BS - Faceoff: Spiral Blitz (Red painted details on Clear Wheel)
• Poison Virgo 125ES - Hasbro (Dark Blue) NOTE: The inclusion of the "125" track was a packaging error, and was intended to be "ED145". The packaging and instructions say "ED145", however all depictions of the bey on the packaging and instructions show "125". This was corrected in a later on by Hasbro (see below)
• Poison Virgo ED145ES - Hasbro (Dark Blue)
• Night Virgo 145S - Hasbro (Tinted Yellow)
Earth Virgo GB145BS
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17 And you shall know that I am the Lord your God, dwelling in Sion, my holy mountain: and Jerusalem shall be holy, and strangers shall pass through it no more.
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0.086919 | <urn:uuid:06061d2d-40c4-4df4-9125-c0eef66761c4> | en | 0.912184 | 1. (Science: botany) The name of one or two trees of the genus rhizophora (R. Mangle, and R. Mucronata, the last doubtfully distinct) inhabiting muddy shores of tropical regions, where they spread by emitting aerial roots, which fasten in the saline mire and eventually become new stems. The seeds also send down a strong root while yet attached to the parent plant.
The fruit has a ruddy brown shell, and a delicate white pulp which is sweet and eatable. The bark is astringent, and is used for tanning leather. The black and the white mangrove (Avicennia nitida and a. Tomentosa) have much the same habit.
2. (Science: zoology) The mango fish.
Origin: Malay manggi-manggi.
3.Mangroves are coastal trees or shrubs that are adapted to estuarine or even saline environment. Mangroves were plants that grow between the highest tidal level and the same level or higher than sea level.
4.Mangrove can be classified into 6 community forest type: a)riverine forest b)fringing forest c)overwash forest d)shrub or dwarf forest e)basin forest f)hammock forest
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2/11/2014 (1 year ago)
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In the new economy, time banks are gaining popularity.
Alternative currencies such as Bitcoin and BerkShares are gaining popularity as people look for ways to escape what they see as a rigged and flawed system of monetary exchange in government currencies. However, the idea of banking time as opposed to money is also making a comeback.
In a time bank, time is the money.
In a time bank, time is the money.
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2/11/2014 (1 year ago)
Published in Business & Economics
Keywords: time banking, bitcoin, currency, alternative, christian, volunteer, service
LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Throughout history, people have exchanged many things as currency. Yap islanders once exchanged ownership of stones that were too large to move, but accepted them as payment. Today, people exchange virtual currencies such as bitcoin. However, there is another form of currency with a very fixed value -time.
St. Joseph, pray for those who labor.
How it works is a person may have a hobby or a skill they can share with others. It does not matter if that skill is accounting or counseling or even some form of manual labor. In a time bank, all hours are equal, no matter the work. The hours of service are provided but no cash is exchanged. Instead, a person can "bank" their hours at a time bank, verifying with their customer that the hour of service was provided.
With the credit of an hour due, a person can redeem it for an hour of something else. For example, a mechanic could spend an hour repairing a car for one person, and in exchange buy an hour of piano lessons for his daughter.
Time banking was first developed by Robert Owen, the British industrialist and social reformer. The system failed because people produced too many things that others had no interest in having, but the labor supply he had to work with was much less diverse than today.
Today, people from many walks of life are contributing to time banks, including professionals such as business consultants, psychologists, and art critics. There are also many people who are poor, and who earn very little, but still have marketable skills. The time banks allow them to exchange labor for things, such as lessons or services which they would not be able to afford with cash.
The idea of time banking is popular politically. Liberals like it because it provides access to services for the poor. An hour of work cleaning something can get you an hour of tax preparation or auto repairs. Meanwhile, fiscal conservatives like the idea because it makes people less reliant on the government to provide services to others at steep government prices.
The entire scheme, when it works, works beautifully, allowing each person to contribute their talents to the community while taking what they need from the common pool of talent.
It is, quintessentially Christian.
Until recently, time banks have been local, community affairs, more akin to community charity organizations. They are also rare, found in large cities such as New York and in poor communities where there is plenty of work to do, but no money to fund it.
But now, time banking is hitting the mainstream with several websites dedicated to time banking and the exchange of hours. Now people can do work for time as opposed to working for free. It provides people who need services but have no income to pay for them to access those services. It also upholds the integrity of work, making a person less dependent on charity.
Time banking isn't intended to replace the traditional exchange of money for work, however it can provide a powerful supplement to it, and it can empower people while fostering a sense of community and service to others.
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separation between the central bright fringe and the third bright fringe?
A) 0.421 m
B) 0.224 m
C) 0.168 m
D) 0.084 m
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General information
A final suggestion: Aim high! The top projects could lead to publication (and in past years, a number of projects have led to publications).
The process
The project proposal was due Tue 15 October.
Here's how to submit your proposal. You should put together a web page for your project; currently all it needs to contain is the project members, title of your project, and proposal. Then just email the URL for your project web page to daw@cs.berkeley.edu by Tuesday, October 15th.
You will also be required to present your project at a poster session, to be held on Monday, December 9th from 2-4pm in the Woz lounge.
Finally, a project report will be due by 9am on Monday, December 16th. No exceptions or extensions will be granted, so get it in on time! See below for instructions.
The final report
You may submit your project report electronically or on paper. I prefer electronic submission, although you may choose either. In either case, the deadline is the same: Monday, December 16, before 9:00am.
If you submit electronically:
If you submit on paper, place it in my mailbox in Soda Hall (in the mailroom, or outside my office -- 765 Soda).
Example project topics
New attacks
Find new security weaknesses in any widely-deployed system.
Security auditing
Tools for vulnerability detection
Resilient aggregation
Build "resilient aggregation" components for TinyOS. Sensor networks (such as the TinyOS-based systems studied here at Berkeley) are often used to aggregate sensor information and use the result to control systems. For instance, we might put a sensor in each room of Soda Hall and use the average temperature to control the air conditioning. However, at present, our aggregation operations are not secure against errors or maliciously chosen inputs (as might happen if a sensor is compromised). For instance, consider computing the average of N data values: an adversary who can control one of those inputs can bias the output by any desired amount, hence the "average" is not a resilient aggregation operation. However, the median is resilient, because changing any one input by any amount will cause only a small change in the output. Build a prototype of a few resilient aggregation operators and study their usefulness in some sensor network application.
Adversarial simulation
Build an "adversarial simulator" for TinyOS. Currently, the TOSSIM simulator runs the system under friendly conditions (no dropped packets, no bit errors, no unfriendly timing of the scheduler). Hence, it can't detect ways that an adversary might try to crash or subvert the system. We might be more likely to find security bugs by running the system on parameters that are chosen to be the worst case for system, or that are likely to cover corner cases. For instance, an adversarial simulator might determine ahead of time all possible dependencies between tasks and then test exhaustively all possible orderings of interdependent tasks, looking to see if any of these orderings deadlocks the system. Build a prototype of an adversarial simulator and study its effectiveness.
Preventing casting bugs
typedef unsigned short uid_t;
void dowork(uid_t u);
main() {
int x = read_from_network();
if (x==0)
Validation bugs in Linux kernel
Dawson Engler's group found many security holes in the Linux kernel based on improper input validation (see their paper) based on heuristic compile-time rules. Formalize their rules into a concrete type system, perhaps using flow-sensitive type qualifiers. Then, analyze the Linux source code using your type system, perhaps using Cqual for the type-checking.
Inlined reference monitors
Proof-carrying code takes a reference monitor (expressing some security policy) and injects it into the program during compilation, in an integrated way; then it is possible for the recipient to verify that the desired policy is enforced by the presented code. This allows us to build extremely efficient reference monitors: rather than implementing the reference monitor in a separate process (thereby incurring performance penalties), the reference monitor can be inlined directly into the code that it is supposed to monitor. Sometimes we don't care about the ability of a recipient to verify that code injection was done appropriately, for instance because the injector and receiver are one and the same. Can we build a more lightweight implementation of this functionality?
For instance, maybe we can emulate some notion of "user-level call gates" using the mprotect() system call? (We could imagine storing the reference monitor's state in a write-protected segment of memory; then any call to an interface that is protected by the reference monitor would be replaced with a call to the reference monitor entry point; and the entry point would need to write-enable the special segment and atomically transfer control to the reference monitor code.)
Virtual machines for security
Enforcing resource bounds on malicious code
Side channel attacks meet mobile code
Verifiable distributed computation
Security of peer-to-peer systems
Information retrieval for audit logs
Formal modelling of security systems
Secure coding
Theory or cryptographic work
Projects in theory or cryptography are not necessarily out of scope, if you have some specific ideas you consider relevant. For instance, formal analysis of cryptographic protocols or cryptographic primitives could probably serve as a reasonable topic.
Privilege separation
Distributed firewalls
Encrypted databases
Suppose we want to store our data on a remote server (e.g., so that we can take advantage of the computational power of the server) without requiring full trust in the remote server. What types of database semantics can we support? In previous work, Dawn Song, Adrian Perrig, and I showed a special way to store the data in encrypted form on the untrusted server so that the trusted server can do keyword searches over the encrypted data (on our behalf, and only when authorized by us) with minimal communication complexity. What other types of queries can be supported efficiently? How about if the goal is integrity rather than confidentiality? This is a cryptographic design problem. | http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~daw/teaching/cs261-f02/projs.html | dclm-gs1-269790001 | false | false | {
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6:32 PM on 06.08.2011
One of the bombshells of Nintendo's E3 press conference was the word that Nintendo is working on Smash Bros. titles for both the 3DS and the Wii U. Sadly, that was all the information that we got, and it's likely all the info we will get for a while.
In the meantime, we can chew on this interview between Nintendo President Iwata-san and Smash Bros. creator Sakurai-san. It sounds like everything is in the planning stages at this point, but one thing is for sure, it sounds like Sakurai-san thinks it would be "wrong" to make a new Smash Bros. game that only adds improved graphics and a larger roster to the formula.
Some new ideas, like a more "individual" focused experience on the 3DS version where you may be able to customize your character, that would generally be "slightly different" from the "conventional" Smash Bros. games, are floated out there, while connectivity between the two versions is pretty much a lock.
Iwata asks about Smash Bros. [andriasang.com]
Other major topics that were discussed:
• Iwata-san first approached Sakurai-san about creating a new Smash Bros. for the 3DS shortly after work on Super Smash Bros. Brawl was completed.
• Smash Bros. Brawl was balanced by Sakurai. The upcoming Smash Bros. title will be balanced by a larger component of the development team.
• There will be a continued focus on making a game that experienced players and new players can enjoy together.
• The console experience is planned to be more "public" while the home console version will be more "personal."
• An experience point system is being discussed.
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Grab a stopwatch, or a clock or watch with a second hand, then find your pulse. You can locate your pulse either in your radial artery on your wrist or at your carotid artery in your neck. Choose the spot that works best for you.
The only trick to measuring your heart rate is that you must use the correct fingers to do the measuring. Your thumb has a light pulse and can create some confusion when you are counting your beats. It's best to use your index finger and middle finger together.
After you find the beat, you need to count how many beats occur within 60 seconds. The shortcut to this method is to count the number of beats in 10 seconds, and then to multiply that number by 6. This method gives you a 60-second count.
Example: You count 7 beats in 10 seconds: 7 x 6 = 42 beats per minute.
If you have trouble finding your pulse or separating the beats in your body from the ticks of your watch, ask a friend for help. Have your friend count your pulse beats while you watch the clock or vice versa. | http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/determining-your-resting-heart-rate.html | dclm-gs1-269870001 | false | false | {
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0.02336 | <urn:uuid:4c846df4-7ea7-4b94-8b07-fa2205acb7be> | en | 0.970396 | B-movie actress/musician/model/all-around beautiful woman Milla Jovovich became the latest famous person to trap herself in a box for the sake of art at the Venice Biennale. For those who don't remember, Tilda Swinton pulled this trick a mere two months ago at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. It may be time to retire the concept.
But the real art of Milla Jovovich cannot be found at any art show or museum. It can only be found on the DVDs of her many action/sci-fi movies. My friend and I had perhaps too much time on our hands in college, and we ripped through several of her commentary tracks, which tend to be better than the actual movies they're commenting on: the endless Resident Evil franchise, Ultraviolet. Witness her and costar Oded Fehr parodying the intense combat of Resident Evil: Apocalypse below. Jovovich laughs herself hoarse. She's also known for her bizarre observations — "Here I'm like a human Cuisinart. Shew-shew-shew-shew-shew! Here we go!" — and it should be noted the tracks have their haters. But for me spending time with them is like watching with a good friend who likes these sorts of popcorn flicks but also understands they're not to be taken too seriously. The multitalented Jovovich, who is married to the man who makes a lot of those Resident Evil movies and comes off as charming and affable in anything she does, definitely doesn't take herself too seriously. Which is probably why she's willing to put herself in a box.
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Exploring History Beyond The Mission
Discover your personal history and the history of the neighborhood where you live and work. Viewers can use the following questions and activities as catalysts for exploring and recording the history of their families and communities.
Questions for Family Viewers
Mission Baseball TeamHow would the Ohlone people characterize the history of the Mission District? Which ethnic group's story in the program impressed you? Why?
How many ethnic groups can you identify in your community? What is their history and their present-day role within your community?
When did your family immigrate here? Why? What are your family members' most memorable experiences about immigrating to the United States?
How do the immigration experiences of your family compare to the experiences of present-day immigrants?
Activities for Schools and Organizations
• Interview senior citizens from various ethnic groups and produce an oral history of your community. Illustrate the history with photographs from family albums.
• In the early days of San Francisco, street names commonly referred to the landowner or to their esteemed colleagues, friends or family members. Research the history of the street names in your neighborhood.
• Choose a critical time in your neighborhood's history and produce a newspaper, including relevant news articles, editorial columns and cartoons of the day.
• Create a cross-cultural food fest and explore the origins of ethnic cuisines in your community.
• Have a contest for the best poem or short story about the experience of an immigrant moving to your community.
• Write and produce a play illustrating key events in your community's history.
• Create a "living museum" tour consisting of sites of key events in your community's history.
• Research the poets and authors who lived in and/or wrote about your community and produce a reading of their works.
• Have a musical night featuring artists from different cultural groups in your community.
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Take me to The Mission home page
Take me to the Neighborhoods Menu page
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This is a great video.
It's also worth noting that pre-ordering doesn't really mean anything with respect to financial health of the developer. It's cash flow, but the company cannot actually recognize any revenue from sales until they "ship" (literally shipping the game, or they release it for download), and revenue is a really important thing for valuation purposes. It is, as TB mentioned, a decent source of data for financial models (for the purposes of investors, or other internal business decisions). Pre-orders can indicate a level of interest or a willingness-to-pay of a consumer which should feed into any good financial model.
I also think there are some additional considerations with respect to pre-orders. When speaking specifically about games which require company-run servers (MMO's and some FPS's), pre-orders are a great way to determine how to staff the IT teams and how much hardware to buy/lease. This can also be extrapolated to be representative of how much customer support is necessary. | http://www.reddit.com/r/Cynicalbrit/comments/18ebrc/should_you_preorder_videogames/c8ehoko | dclm-gs1-270400001 | false | false | {
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What They're Saying
October 18th, 2011 12:08AM
"It was a very difficult summer because half the dressing room wanted to leave. You're preparing for a season where you don't know who's going to come in, the players who are staying are asking themselves what's going on at the club, you've got a pre-season tour of Asia. It was extraordinarily difficult. What saved us is that we're a club that are extremely solid and united. Other clubs would surely have gone to pieces in those circumstances."
-- Arsenal coach Arsene Wenger says his team is steadily recovering its poise after a desperate summer that saw half his players wanting to leave. A 2-1 win over Sunderland last weekend put Arsenal back into the top half of the standings. (Guardian)
1. Kyr-Roger St.-Denis
commented on: October 18, 2011 at 1:13 p.m.
if they're so "solid and united," how come so many people wanted to leave? Is it just because they're cheap? (or is it because other clubs are profligate?)
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Co-Dependency Day for Post-America
Anonymous said...
Superb, Daniel, as always.
Anonymous said...
What's so aggrevating about hearing the left endlessly lie about the "wealthy not paying their fair share" is that we have a progressive income tax which actually unfairly burdens the most productive in society. The income tax is not a tax on wealth, it is a tax on productivity designed to keep the rich rich and the ambitious from acumulating wealth. Equally galling is that well over 40% of the adult population doesn't pay any federal tax, so how can a zero contribution from them be considered "a fair share? "
Tom Bryant said...
A beautifully succinct observation.
BarryCuda said...
I gotta he honest; I cried like a little girl.
Sultan, you're turning into a possible heir to Larry Auster aka Guruji (Z"L). You'd be a worthy successor. However, that would require a more frank discussion of race-realism.
Anonymous said...
Your piece is on the money. The "Movement" towards co-dependency will be our final undoing, I'm afraid. It has become extremely popular to let someone else run your life, to fund it. This system goes directly against Nature. When was the last time that a tiger didn't need to run down it's prey, in order to eat?
Most want to be taken care of, not knowing or understanding that in order to be taken care of, one must simply do nothing except comply with one's needy side...
BarryCuda said...
Slavery is the natural (the fathers would say "fallen") condition of man
Therefore, slavery is ineradicable for man is born in chains, and untethered, pines for them, until SUBMISSION is all he can think about.
Contra Jefferson and Rousseau, we were savages with overly elaborate and pointless customs and were enslaved by ghosts, ghouls and the very elements themselves.
"The Natural State" is slavery personified.
The English, obtained, through chance and inheritance, a very individualistic form of government, one that cannot arise in nations subject to repeated rapes and other land incursions.
Instead of worshipfully acknowledging the uniqueness and glory of this Divine gift, the rabid radicals called "the Founding Fathers" as well as the rabid radicals called the Republicans and Democrats, pissed it all away by concluding that our peculiar traditions are the G-d-given right of sub-Saharan Africans, a race incapable of inventing an alphabet (or paying child support) as well as Saracens (children of pirates and highwaymen who define "SUBMISSION" "freedom" and look forward to rapine and murder in this life, and senseless debauchery in the next.
Or the obsequious natives of Hindustan: creatures bereft of individuality or independence in thought and action who aren't in the least bit ashamed of groveling before the white man (as long as they can get a single family detached bungalow in an all-white suburb.). This repulsive excuse for a man is also an American.
America of today stands for the glorification of savages such as those delineated herein above and for the glorification of sodomy. We can add surgical genital mutilation to that list.
"One nation, worshipful of fags, groveling before any minority that envies and despises us but will neither leave nor stop taking our cash, cowering before the power of the mentally ill that forced us to subsidize madness, determined now and forever more, to bury our head in the sand, cuz there's always something on TV."
Anonymous said...
Unlimited Gubmint. Shackled citizenry. That's the plan. Stevethird
Anonymous said...
–Alexis de Tocqueville
Dennis Latham said...
The only way to fix things is to have a great purge, but having a great purge makes those who lead the purge as bad as those they are trying to purge. Someone is always on top and those on top can always become corrupt. One honest damn person who could survive attempts on his or her life could bring us back from the edge. But that will never happen. The last knights in shining armor are fading fast along with the meaning of what being free really means. Now, the meaning of freedom is a cell phone and food stamp card.
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Is this the future look of augmented reality?
I have this vision of nerds everywhere staggering around the city with big slates in front of their faces only seeing the world through shared web tablet camera experiences. I’m guilty of looking something like this in public myself, even hoisting a tablet onto my shoulder boombox-style to make skype calls. And that’s a part of why this picture (taken at GoogleIO) made me laugh.
Like everything old is new again.
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If we invented news today as a delivery channel for journalism, through the web from scratch, what would that look like? and we like to ask questions like that, what would [ a product google wave, google news] look like if you invented it from scratch for the web. I think it would look very different.
Of course this the right question to be asking. Asking this question is how google manages to disruptively up-end industry after industry on the web with products that are actually pretty simple but work just-right for the web. But so often we don’t.
In the real world it’s not what I hear often enough from companies or industries looking to make the jump to the web, or to social media, to mobile or [insert disruptive new channel of moment here].
What I hear most often is, how can we take all our existing business model and dump ourselves unceremoniously on this channel. Or, lets think of how we keep on doing what were doing but sprinkle some of that magic web/mobile/social pixie dust on things and call it a day.
Which is fine, I suppose, if you want a quick win you can sell your boss today, and if you don’t mind if google/amzon/apple/netflix/some startup/file sharing/the-web-in-general might completely blows up your whole industry sometime tomorrow afternoon.
But if you don’t want to get steamrolled, what Marissa is asking you to think about, and really think hard about is this:
Ask not how your business fits on the web, ask instead, if your business were really made for the web, what business would you be in?
And a moment later gem:
I basically think whenever a media changes over to a new delivery vehicle, it puts pressure on the atomic unit of consumption. It happened with iTunes with the album moving to the song. It happened with YouTube with long-form standards of video to short-form. Now it’s happening with news. People can come in and read one story from the source and then move on. That’s the atomic unit.
When music went to a web there was much consternation that people would buy singles instead of albums. When newspapers go to the web editors are shocked that surfers want to read articles, not sections, not whole bundles of sections.
But this is a great insight. When the medium changes so does the atomic unit of consumption. There are certain economies of scope and scale when bundling a whole bunch of more/less unrelated newspaper sections into one printed package, delivered with one swing of the arm of the paper boy. And from a demand perspective, there’s effective cross correlation of demand, someone in the household will buy the weekend paper for the sports, someone else for the style section. In the totally personalized digital world, that kind of paper-world content-bundling doesn’t make any sense.
When it comes to a new medium you can either let these behaviour changes surprise you, or think of how to take advantage.
For example, atomicity can work both ways. I could see a shift of atomic unit (book) to a bundle (this book and others by this same author) being a win for e-book publishing. When you don’t have to print it, and when shelf space isn’t limited why not generate all sorts of bundle offers. Chances are if I want to read an author, I might want to read all of that author’s books. In the digital space, a publisher that does this really well is Valve the video game publisher. Their orange box being a famous and spectacularly successful example of bundling a hot current title for, just a little bit more, a whole pile of new and old content from the archives. When it’s all digital, it can be just as easy carry home an armload as a single item from the store.
Presentation: Design for an Augment Reality world
How “Augmented Reality” and the mobile web changes everything
In the new augmented reality, the web surfs you.
Textile factory
She is pointing out the strong parallels between historical change drivers like the industrial revolution, and our current digital age. In each case, major societal changes being driven by a sudden major change in an underlying enabling media.
server racks
“Arts & crafts was neither anti-industrial nor anti-modern, though it embodied a strong reaction against many industrial practices and encouraged individual handwork over mass production.” It’s a repeating theme, the idea of struggling to bring back some the human meaning and flavour lost from the shift from individual craftsmanship to the commoditization of the the industrial process – as well as to use these new tools in the best ways consistent with a designed idealism.
In the great post war expansion of the 1950s, the Americans invented spray-on cheese. Is this an innovation?
New media create whole new areas of possibility. But not all of these areas are awesome. As designers we feel the urge to try and “steer” these outcomes away from some perceived negative outcomes to other perceived “higher value” outcomes but is it like trying to steer a tidal wave?
Michele asks “i wonder though if our insights into the past can aid us in creating the future?”. I hope Michele will take a swing at that in her future posts, but for now, here’s my swing at it:
I have this “dead media” idea as a framework for understanding what happens next based on what is, has or will be about to obsolesced. You can understand some of what happens next by thinking about, if we adopt this new thing en mass, what will it displace? All new media displaces an old. (That is the definition of adoption.)
NYC streetsFrom a recent William Gibson interview:
…footage is of the last night that streets in New York were the way they were before everyone started staying home to watch television. All the footage that he’s been able to find afterward is dramatically different. It changed. It changed the night they turned it on. The night they started to broadcast television in New York, New York ceased to be what it had been before. Because everyone stayed home to watch television.
“It’s not that we prefer it, it’s not even that conscious. It becomes the nature of our experience. If it’s going to happen at all, it becomes the nature of our experience. If it doesn’t happen it just becomes one of those iconic retro-future images.
But if we do stop to conscious of it (this is roll of designers), we can foresee how new media will displace what we do now. Dead media is creative destruction. With every shift in media there is no perfect replacements for old archetypes, the new always has some new flavour (you may or may not like it), and some old flavours are always lost (the ritual of flipping the record, the character of cobblestones, front-porch social interactions before there was tv). Lost flavours are also an opportunity. According to McLuhan, every new media retrieves an older archetype or an older media, (just with a different flavour). To look to where new technology (or art or design) could be going (or to be at the forefront of creating it ourselves as designers), we just have to look at what has happened before. Lost flavours are the opportunity gaps of the status quo.
The new social platform of the internet is retrieving some of that experience of the streets of New York before everyone stayed home to watch television. Same archetypes just different mediums, different flavours. I feel like TV is almost a dead media now itself. What will bring it back?
But back to architecture and the design of things. The long trend of industrialization has been the increasing blandification of things. Ikea selling a billion of the exact same, minimalist kitchen widget. Spray-on cheese.
Just as the social internet has exploded the long tail of content like indie music and increasingly online video. I’d look forward to seeing how these models eventually spill over into the sacrosanct fields of architecture industrial design. Leading one might imagine to an A&C-like resurgence of individual craftsmanship, and a profound shift in flavour. Traditionally the constraints here have been around manufacturibality and economies of scale, resulting in : few designers, many copies made.
Sites like are a weak signal of this already, as is they enable peer-to-peer design production of physical goods. As manufacturing and distribution technologies change, I think we’ll more and more of this creep into other fields. Think how 3d printers could change the economics of distributing unique vs mass-produced goods. These days, you can 3d print a house you know.
What’s your take on Michele’s question?
I was joking that if Coehn Brothers took a swing at this question here is what they’d say. Forgive me if you haven’t yet seen the truly awesome (and surprisingly thoughtful) No Country for Old Men:
1. In these late times we live in, it may feel that this is no country for old men or for their old ways.
2. This impression is false, in fact the only constant is that it has always felt this way.
3. You can’t stop what’s coming.
Link: arts & crafts revisited –
Previously on A Provocative List of Dead Media, Dead media workshop at Lift07, Deadmedia and the flavour of cities
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If you want to play well in dodgeball, just follow these steps. The most important thing, of course, is to practice!
1. 1
Stay behind and let your teammates get the balls, unless you're really fast. If nobody on your team is fast, then let the other team get the balls and just stay back and try to dodge and catch. If you and your team do get them, then roll the extras back to your side so the enemy won't get them.
2. 2
Once you get a ball, hold on to it until the other team's best players have thrown theirs, then go up and throw it at some of the people who are not as good. Get the average throwers out first so there are less distractions. If you are a bad thrower, just catch them as they get thrown at you.
3. 3
While getting ready to throw, stay crouched low to the ground and start to sort of gallop towards the line that divides the two sides. This will help you gain power for the throw. If they throw a ball at you while going towards the middle line, crouching and running up to the line will help you dodge it because you are ready to move quickly and you will be a smaller target. This will make it harder for them to hit your body and when they throw it, it will be towards your head and therefore easier to dodge because instead of moving your whole body you will just have to move your head. And, also, in some games of dodgeball, throwing at the head doesn't count!
4. 4
When throwing, do not be afraid to turn sideways and almost fall then catch yourself with your hand to help increase power.
5. 5
To catch a ball, let it come to you, don't go to it. Let it come to your chest and when it is about two feet from you start to bring your hands up to catch it. By the time it hits your chest your hands should be there to make sure that it has nowhere else to go. This should make sure that you catch it.
6. 6
When dodging, always be ready to jump, as they will most likely go for your feet. TRY AS HARD AS YOU CAN TO STAY ON YOUR FEET. If you fall down it may look cool but it leaves you a sitting duck for attacks.
7. 7
Practice jumping, throwing, and running...the essential ingredients to becoming a good dodge ball player.
8. 8
Think of the game as war. Pretend that you are fighting for your life and you are facing your greatest rival.
9. 9
Pay attention to all directions.
10. 10
Don't move if someone throws a ball at you! Sometimes, it will miss and you can catch it. The oldest trick in the book is to deliberately throw it a little far off from the target, hoping that the person will go in that direction.
11. 11
A good strategy is to get some friends, then have them all shoot at one player from different points on the field. This will help you hit the target.
12. 12
Do not show any mercy whatsoever! Take out the good players first so they don't get teammates out.
13. 13
Be quick on your feet. This means no resting or "time outs".
14. 14
Get two balls and throw one at an enemy's foot. He/she will most likely try and pick the ball up if he or she does throw the second ball at them.
15. 15
- When you're throwing the ball towards an opponent do not aim for the upper body as it makes it easier for them to dodge it or catch it, aim for the shins as they can't catch it and makes it harder for them to dodge it.
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• If you're fast enough and you are not one of the better throwers on the team, rush to the balls and knock them back to your teammates. Almost all of the time, one of your teammates will catch a ball later and you'll be allowed back in.
• Never rush to the balls in the beginning, unless the rival does the same.
• If the referee calls you out, don't argue because they can have you kicked out of the game.
• Don't think about any situations that might affect the game (unless it is revenge, of course).
• A good trick is to stand with your eliminated teammates along the sidelines as if you were out, but have a ball behind your back and be ready to surprise an opponent with a swift ball in the face.
• Try not to lock your knees.
• Never talk or interact with anyone during the game; it will only distract you.
• Use the lob and drive method. Get a friend on your side. Tell them to lob the ball high. The person you are trying to hit will think "this is an easy out. I should go catch it." Right before the enemy or target gets the ball drill the ball at the person or otherwise throw it really fast to get them out.
• Always stay in a crouched position! This is a very important thing to do.
• Try cartwheeling from the opponent. It confuses the other person and you can get the ball and get them out.
• Do not go rushing to the balls...you will get hit.
• Don't stand too close to the line and don't step too far from the line.
• When a ball is coming at you, move out of the way.
Things You'll Need
• Comfortable clothes and shoes
• A ball
• Something to divide the court
• Players
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There is another use for your luggage strap. Use them the long way, on your tube bag, so you can hold your bag vertically. This can be very useful in some situations.
1. 1
When checking in your luggage, use a luggage strap even if you have soft luggage. Cinch it on tight. Soft luggage is by design very hardy but if this luggage is checked in and packed full, the zipper can burst at the seams. Use a luggage strap for checked in soft luggage as a precaution.
2. 2
Use a luggage strap on your hard-shelled suitcase to keep the suitcase together in the event that the lock fails or is damaged. The hard-shelled suit is very vulnerable to lock breakage by design regardless of the price you paid for it. It will be embarrassing to see your luggage, if you did not use a strap, coming into to baggage claim with its contents visible or worse yet missing. An airport can be big and your missing items might be lost forever or damaged. A luggage strap is an absolute necessity with hard-shelled luggage.
3. 3
For sturdy tube bags, that you hand carry, cinch the luggage strap so the tube bag can be carried vertically. Carry the bag vertically when you are inching along in a line such as at the ticket counter, at the security screening or when boarding the plane. When using public transportation, hold your bag vertically, that is possible with the strap, when it is crowded or so you will not be separated from it.
4. 4
To keep the strap from sliding off, steady it with a cord (see the brown cord in the photo above) or strap in the middle. As a permanent fix to keep the strap in place, sew on some carriers.
5. 5
Luggage straps add an additional level of protection to your bag when you are travelling, especially if the locks or zipper get damaged
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• There are slots on the luggage straps that have space for you to put in or display your contact information. This helps to track down lost bags.
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28 June 2011
by Jeff Huber
"We've ended our
combat mission in
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Support the troops.
Saturday, June 25, 2011
Daily Daoist Diary, June 25 2011
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Monday, June 20, 2011
Obama’s Hypocrisy and Other High Crimes
June 21, 2011
by Jeff Huber
--Senator Barack Obama, Feb. 26, 2008
The XJE2020 "Liberator"
Obama doesn’t want Congress to have any say so on whether or not he can commit forces to hostilities beyond 60 days as required of him by the War Powers Act of 1973, so he had some of the lawyers who work for him tell him the War Powers Act doesn't apply to Libya since all we're doing that's hostile, per se, is bombing some stuff with them predator drones so our troops aren’t subject to enemy fire.
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Obama's Law of Armed Conflict
June 14, 2011
by Jeff Huber
Obama (left) and constitutional law
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Boehner, Graham,
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For Whom the Mission Creeps in Libya
June 7, 2011
By Jeff Huber
“Nobody wants to sit on the bench.”
-- Los Angeles Angels pitcher Bobby Wilson
One of the big Sunday stories was about how British and French attack helicopters deployed on amphibious ships have joined the fight in Libya. Unnamed information warriors told Simon Denyer of the Washington Post to tell us that the helicopters give “NATO he ability to strike military targets in built-up areas with more precision than fast-moving, high-flying warplanes.”
Attack helicopters:
Libyan chicks dig 'em.
That may be true in some cases. Say, for example, you want to hover over a street for hours and blow off any human head that happens to stick out a door or window. Helicopters do that pretty well, as we’ve seen so graphically in Iraq. In their first few days of Libyan operations, however, the Brit Apaches and French Tigers and Gazelles (adorable nicknames, huh?) targeted military vehicles, military command buildings, a radar installation and a checkpoint, all targets that can be struck with precision by laser and Satellite guided bombs dropped from fixed-wing aircraft flying well above the maximum altitudes of the sorts of tactical anti-aircraft weapons that typically chew helicopters into bite-sized morsels.
So why are the helicopters involved?
Warriors, like athletes, don't like sitting on the bench come game day. Like it or not, that’s a desirable and even admirable trait for military personnel to have. We don’t want a big, expensive force of Sgt. Bilkos who, once a war breaks out, will move heaven and earth and their floating crap game to stay out of it. There’s even a legitimate goal in utilizing an armed conflict, however minor, to “blood” as much of your force as you can get in on the action. It is, when you get right down to it, a waste of perfectly good mayhem if you don't. This is especially true of naval and air forces that, given the paucity of credible navies or air defenses among the have-nots we like to go to war with, offer little risk of suffering embarrassing levels of unsightly friendly casualties.
But England and France didn’t send their amphibious helicopters to war because the helicopter crews and sailors wanted to fight. The Euros need a justification to keep spending outrageous amounts of money on their naval air forces. And if they don’t use their naval air strike forces in a war that just happens to be happening in the Mediterranean Sea where all the NATO members’ naval forces can get to, and that happens to involve doing air strikes on a country with a big coast along the Med, then why do they have naval air strike forces in the first place? Come to think of it, why is there still a NATO two decades after the Evil Empire it was formed to oppose did a Humpty Dumpty off the Berlin Wall?
Our lose-lose Libya lunacy is about preserving the Long War for as long as possible. Yeah, there's a keep Russia's mitts off Libya's oil factor and a certain amount of doing the Bush family Saudi pals' bidding, but our play war in Africa has so little to do with national security that nobody behind the wheel of this brakeless bus is bothering to pretend that it does. Worse is that the passengers seem oblivious to the cliff’s edge their leaders are in the process of driving them over. (In the middle of an extended recession and during an era when we have no military peer on the horizon, our on-the-books defense budget is the highest it has been since World War II and plausible estimates peg our actual defense spending at $1.22 trillion, roughly a third of our total 2012 budget.)
What started as UN Ambassador and liberal warmonger Suzan Rice’s wafer-thin no-fly zone for the purpose of protecting the freedom-loving peoples of Libya from Muamar Kadhafi’s Our Gang air force has become a strategic bombing campaign aimed at regime change. The best purpose we have for wanting regime change comes from Bombardier Barry himself, whose present position is that regime change is the only way to protect the freedom loving peoples of Libya, as opposed his position in March that said regime change wasn’t necessary to protect the freedom loving peoples of Libya.
What unmasked poppycock. The second we signed on for the no-fly zone we signed on for regime change, and boy, as war aims go, hasn’t that one worked out swell for us in the past decade? We have yet to extract ourselves from the two countries we puppet rigged on young Mr. Bush’s botched watch, and Mr. Obama’s promised withdrawal timelines have proven to be pure “disassembly.”
Five U.S. troops were killed in a June 6 rocket attack on an Iraqi base in eastern Baghdad. I’m sure those troops parents slash spouses slash children will find great comfort in knowing that Obama ended their deceased parents’ slash spouses’ slash children’s combat mission almost a year ago.
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When I press ctrl+alt+F1 it goes to virtual terminal. What is this virtual terminal for?
When do you need to use it?
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Do you mean the difference between such a virtual terminal and a terminal window? – Georg Schölly Apr 2 '11 at 8:31
This question is prett well covered here: askubuntu.com/questions/14284/… ... and you would use it when you don't have (or need. or want) a Graphical User Interface.... it is a text based Command Line Interface (with no graphics at all) – Peter.O Apr 2 '11 at 9:08
The advantage of it is that it is 99% of the time accessible and usable, even if the system is short of freezing or the graphical interface has frozen or crashed hard. – Bobby Apr 2 '11 at 12:23
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Not all users need or run a graphical environment, and they will work from the virtual terminals.
Many (most) servers do not have a graphical environment as users are rarely logged in to the console. Servers most often require a command line from which the administrator can access the system to monitor or configure it. The virtual terminal provides this environment. Having more than one virtual terminal allows the administrator to switch to another terminal if necessary.
On a desktop with a broken Xserver (graphical environment) the virtual console provides a terminal session from which the Xserver can be reconfigured.
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A Virtual Terminal is a full-screen terminal which doesn't run inside an X window (unlike the terminal window on your graphical desktop). Virtual terminals are found on all GNU/Linux systems, even on systems which don't have a desktop environment or graphical system installed.
Virtual terminals can be accessed on an Ubuntu system by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F1 till F6. To come back to the graphical session, press Ctrl+Alt+F7.
You can get more in-depth info about virtual terminals on its Wikipedia article.
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I want to run a script when I'm connecting to a specific network, but only when I'm logged in. I know about cuttlefish, but it's not being maintained.
This is not a duplicate of the other question, as I have tried that, but if-up.d works all the time. I don't want that. I want it to run when I'm logged in, and only when I'm logged in.
It doesn't matter if the network is wireless or not, as I'm already parsing iwconfig to figure out what network I'm connected to.
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Did you try it with Upstart? – TuKsn Jun 3 '14 at 19:31
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No there is no voice guidance now, but probably it's a good feature request for the future. The application supports navigating through waypoints, or routes in GPX files. You can have multiple routes in a GPX file. The navigation is basically showing the direction, distance and some other useful information of the next 2 waypoints. Also you can follow yourself on a map.
There are some more screenshots on the website on the About page. If you have direct questions to the developer, you can use the support email on the webpage.
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Doesn't seem like it's going to prompt you for turns, better for off-road riding I think. – Benzo Jun 20 '13 at 14:41
There is a new iPhone application to navigate through GPX files, you can find it here: www.gpxnavigator.com
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Does it do voice guidance? Can you post more screenshots of what it can do? Does the GPX file have to have waypoints defined? – ttarchala Feb 6 '13 at 8:56
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When Authors Obsess Over Reviews by Amateurs
The Washington Post (online version) has a feature from this Sunday's edition up already and it should prove to be a thought provoking piece for those who write book reviews for various websites. I do sincerely try to be fair in every review that I write and I don't make a habit of taking cheap shots, although I imagine it's happened more times than I realize or intended. In fact, I've had some nice comments from some of the authors I've most criticized saying that they appreciate honest reviews and can see the point I was making - and then they usually tell me why they think I am wrong. Fair enough, that, and I very much appreciate their willingness to discuss their work with someone as anonymous as me.
Author Chris Bohjalian admits to being a little obsessed by the reviews of his books over at but, thankfully, he still has enough of a sense of humor to laugh at the absurdity of some of those "reviews."
...there are few worlds as barbed as the digital one, and people say savage things about my work online that they wouldn't dare say in person. Such are the privileges of anonymity and distance.
To wit, a recent post at Amazon for one of my novels is headlined, "Not getting better." The reader concludes "In a word: vacuous."
It gets worse: "The writing is crude, the yarn slack. He's not been 'Oprah'ed' for nothing."
Or this from another customer review titled "Ugggghhhhhh":
"I was asked to read this book for my job," the reader volunteers, and then explains why he gave the book just one star out of five (I have not added the following typos to impugn the critic's qualifications; they were already there): "I proceded to read it untill i got to chapter 7, and when i found that no plot has even erupted yet. The entire chapter was about a deer. How can a book be seven chapters in, and about 100 pages in, and still have expostition material. this book was terrible and would never suggest to anyone."
It only takes one thorn like that in a rosebush of 30 or 40 flowers to leave me bleeding and wounded and thinking to myself, "Wow. You really aren't very good, are you? You're certainly not good . . . enough." Am I thin-skinned?
Perhaps. Vulnerability and creativity don't always go hand-in-hand, but often they do.
It affects both book sales and, yes, my self-esteem. Certainly, there are lots of enthusiastic reviews for my work by readers online, and there are plenty of critics -- and I am not using that term facetiously, I promise -- who understand a book in precisely the fashion I intended. That, too, is what draws novelists to pore over the Web reviews. In that mosh pit of online commentary, that galaxy of single-star and five-star reviews, a lot of people who are far smarter than I have said things about my books -- both good and bad -- that left me humbled.
Nonetheless, it is hard to resist a review that uses the word "Stoopid" or to argue with someone who calls himself "Bic Parker."
Please read the whole article over at the Post website because my clips don't really do it justice. Mr. Bohjalian makes some great points and, although he does it largely with humor, there is a serious message here.
1. I don't know, I think paying for a book entitles the reader to an opinion, however it may be expressed.
2. This isn't really just about online book reviews, it's about anything that allows people to give their opinions, from blogging, to comments on Youtube videos, to personal websites and more. There are ways that sites have tried to deal with all these opinions, but they're often given equal weight. Maybe that's not always a good thing, but it's not always a bad thing either, and I think it's just something that anyone who puts stuff out there for others to look at (books, videos, artwork, whatever) has to deal with.
Also, I agree with Sylvia that readers are entitled their opinions, although sadly not everyone who gives an opinion has actually read the book he or she is commenting on...
3. Definitely have to go check out this article; thanks Sam! I try to be fair when I write up my reviews. Always try to highlight something I loved about a book, but if I give up on it, I explain why I didn't finish it. But, I do think my best reviews are the ones that I was excited about. I put far more energy into those ones!
4. If I were that author, I would not be too concerned over the opinion of readers who cannot spell or use punctuation correctly. It seems to indicate a certain lack of intelligence or education.
5. That the author might be reading the review is always something I keep in mind (unless, of course, the author is dead). I've been mean from time to time and though I try to justify those instances, I still feel a little guilty about them. I'm not remorseful enough to remove such posts, as I do feel there's something to be said for an honest reaction. In one case that haunted me for a while afterwards, I reviewed a book that I felt was terrible (and still do), written by an author who seemed to be working the blogging circuit, befriending all the reviewers and getting all good remarks in the process. Did they all like it? I felt it was soooo bad that at least one other reviewer should have said so by now, so perhaps it was out of a sense of balance that I practically ripped it to shreds. I never heard from the author again, of course, and there's no way I could make it better, but if her feelings were hurt, even momentarily, I regret not keeping things a little more professional-- still honest, but less concerned with the good/dishonest reviews (though I'm sure some truly did enjoy it, certainly not all). I should have cared only about my own review. I initially resented the author for playing everybody, but in hindsight I think it was more complicated than that, and I'm sure some genuine friendships were made through her networking.
There are also a few instances when I sense a superiority complex in an author's tone, and I feel the need to knock them down a peg. Of course, I could be reading the personality behind the book entirely wrong, and I'm sure my reviews could be criticized for the same thing.
I think Bohjalian's concerns-- and feelings-- are valid. But I also think it's more important that people keep talking about books, whether or not their comments are positive. While most of us read reviews we also review the review, so to speak, and know that one person's opinion is just that.
6. Just to follow up, it's not true that all comments on Amazon are given equal weight. There is the recommendation system, which I use and find quite helpful. Any "stoopid" comments tend to get relegated to the back pages by that system.
And I think any negative comment, however "professional," can potentially to hurt an author's feelings. They need to learn how to take criticism just like everyone else does in their job. Sometimes it's valid, sometimes it isn't, but you can't take it personally.
7. Sylvia, I agree that everyone has the right to express an opinion...the internet is perfect for that, and I love it for that reason...but I do think that people should use the time and effort it takes to do a decent job of expressing that opinion, including the reasons they feel the way they feel.
Those two and three sentence "trashing reviews" irritate me and I'm not even a published author.
8. Library Girl, I think that word-of-mouth reviews by readers, listeners, and viewers are a great improvement over what we were limited to even just a few years ago. I didn't trust all of the professional reviewers because there was so much "You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours" going on all the time.
Also, so many of the pros got to the point that they were writing to impress their peers and the authors they covered that I often found their reviews to be useless or near-incomprehensible. I love the way it works today.
9. Jen, I have to agree. I find my negative reviews to be much more difficult to write than the ones for books I am enthusiastic about.
10. Gotta agree, Jeane. I will never understand how someone can criticize a published author in a post that reeks of their own incompetence with the language and highlights their poor reading skills.
11. Great thoughts, John. I've seen an author or two play that game, too, and it is irritating to watch. I usually just stay away from their book if a look at it tells me that the reviews have been "harvested" that way.
I think that the writer of this piece is probably less sensitive than he seems to be in the article. I think his use of humor and sarcasm was great and I'm tickled that he opened himself up so that this kind of thing can be discussed.
12. Thanks for the follow-up, Sylvia. The internet has created a whole new world of marketing techniques and sales strategies. The genie will never be put back into the bottle, so authors, singers, actors, etc. really do need to adapt to the new reality if they are to sleep at night.
I think what is happening is definitely a good of those changes that have armed the consumer with more information than he ever had access to in the past.
13. I hate that authors are people too because I don't want to have to worry about their feelings, I just want to talk about the book and why I liked it or I didn't. But alas, they are, so I try to be nice. Luckily my reviews are fairly incoherent anyway so hopefully no one is losing sleep over them.
14. As a reader of reviews, I'd really prefer that the reviewer didn't take the author's feelings into account. Of course they shouldn't be needlessly cruel, but at the same time, I don't think they should be looking for ways to make the review nice.
I buy books based on reviews and if someone isn't completely honest about a bad book, I may end up buying it. If it sucks, I want to know it sucks - no sugar-coating, spinning the postive points, etc.
If an author can't handle that, they need a new career.
Personally, when I've had people review my writing, I really preferred to hear the negative reviews so I knew what to work on to improve.
I know the point of this article is more about the "stoopid" reviews, but latel I've been hearing a LOT about reviewers who always "try to find something postitive," and I just feel that if you have to "try" then you're misleading the reader.
15. Carrie, your reviews are far from incoherent ones. I understand your desire to be "nice," but luckily that doesn't keep us from being honest and negative when negative is the only way to go on a review. I think the whole key is not to turn a review into a personal attack...unless the book is a personal attack on another person or group. Then their motives are fair game, IMO.
16. Agree, Annie. There is no reason to always try to temper a bad review with some positive comment or two. That just dilutes the meat of the review and makes the review reader wonder about the reviewer's seriousness...a no win situation for everyone involved: author, reviewer, and reader.
17. Hey Sam - I'm just catching up on your blog. My favorite thing about Book Chase is that you discuss "booky" issues with intelligence and fairness. Your posts always make me think. Oh yeah, and your reviews are good, too :)
Anyway, I have been thinking about this issue a lot as I'm being contacted by more and more authors. I hate to give a book a low rating when the author has been so gracious about sharing their book/ideas. I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings, but I feel compelled to be honest. After all, I don't want to waste my money on a book that someone was too chicken to be honest about. You know what I'm saying?
Anyway, interesting perspective from Chris Bohjalian, an author I greatly enjoy. Thanks for the link and thoughtful exploration of a very relevant topic.
18. Susan, thanks so much for the kind words...much appreciated.
You know, I think that anything less than an honest review is just wrong and should never be written. Of course, there are ways of being honest without ridicule and name-calling. I think that most authors are untroubled by thoughtful, yet critical, reviews and it's the slams that don't treat the book seriously that bother them.
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They have labeled their coffee's as instant and filter.
What would be the difference between them? Why should I choose one over the other?
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"Filter" coffee in general, is coffee beans that have been roasted and ground and is for use in coffee making machines. This makes 'fresh' coffee that may have a variety of qualities not found in instant - such as sweeter or more distinct flavours, etc.
"Instant" coffee is normally a coffee that has already been made (they had the fun already!) and is dried (usually through freezing) into a dehydrated state, hence we just add water and get coffee.
I would think that most people who have drunk proper (freshly made) coffee would prefer the flavour, quality and effects from caffeine, over that of instant. For me, instant is a back up, in case the real stuff runs out, but I feel always tastes a little woody and not as satisfying in terms of a caffeine hit. There are several coffees available now - Kenco Millicano is one - that offer both instant and some kind of coffee bean, but all I see is coffee grinds in the bottom of the cup, and not much difference in flavour.
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Noyyal River
The Noyyal River at Noyyal Cross.
Origin Western Ghats in Tamil Nadu, India
Mouth Kaveri River
Location India
Length 180 km (110 mi)
Basin area 3,500 km2 (1,400 sq mi)
Aathupalam Bridge in Coimbatore over the Noyyal.
The Noyyal River rises from the Vellingiri hills in the Western Ghats in Tamil Nadu, southeastern India and drains into the Kaveri River. The river's basin is 180 km (110 mi) long and 25 km (16 mi) wide and covers a total area of 3,500 km2 (1,400 sq mi). Cultivated land in the basin amounts to 1,800 km2 (690 sq mi) while the population density is 120 people per km² (311/mi²) in the countryside, and 1000 people per km² (2590/mi²) in the cities. The area is known for its scanty rainfall and the development of the Noyyal River Tanks System to hold any overflow from the rains plus the water of the Northeast and Southwest monsoon season was ecologically important. The 173 km (107 mi) long tributary of the Kaveri River filled 32 tanks. These interconnecting tanks held the water flowing from the Noyyal.[1]
The township of Coimbatore once was surrounded by the Noyyal river and its canals, tanks, and rivulets. The Noyyal river and its interconnected tank and canal system, believed to have been originally built by the Chalukya Cholas kings, was then an efficient system that provided water transport, storage, and maintained stable groundwater levels. Surplus water from the Noyyal river spilled into the canals and were channeled to the tanks, preventing unwanted flooding. The tanks were a major factor in replenishing the ground water through percolation of the subsoil water. As urbanisation grew, the system was neglected and the number of functional tanks was drastically reduced until only eleven were left. Today the system no longer works and water is scarce. Agriculture has significantly decreased. Lacking irrigation water, lakhs of Coconut trees in the area have dried up.[2][3]
The "Noyyal" is a sacred river in Tamil history. Its original name was Kanchinadi but changed later to the name of the place where it drains into the Kaveri River in 1750 A.D.
The Noyyal village is situated at the banks of Noyyal and Kaveri (Ponni) Rivers where they both merge. An ancient temple to the goddess Sellandiyamman is also situated at Sangamam. This temple belongs to "Karadi" Kulam people of Kongunadu Vettuva Gounder community.
The Western region of Tamil Nadu was known as the Kongunadu. Though during the supremacy of the Chera kings, Kongunadu was the heartland of the Cheras with Karur as their capital. Next came the Gangas (Kongas) with their capital in Dharapuram (Tarakapuri or Vijayaskandapuram). Then it fell under the later Cholas and was under their control for a short time of five kings from Veerachozha to Rajaraja. The heirs to the Cholas settled in Coimbatore and continued to rule the country. The Kongu Cholas were soon defeated by the native Kongu vassals under the Hoysalas. Then Vijayanagara, Mysore, and Dheeran Chinnamalai ruled Kongu which in 1805 was annexed by the British East India Company.
Noyyal, Ungampalayam, Karur Dist.
Successive dynasties established trade links with the Greeks and the Romans. Many trade routes crisscrossed the basin. A number of temples and schools were established in the area. The Patteeshwarar Temple at Perur was built in line with Tamil architecture. Art flourished in the basin. Even today Natyanjali is held in Perur every year.
A part of the Roman spice route, about 80% of Roman coins excavated in Tamil Nadu were in Vellalore, says R. Jagadeesan, office representative of Kongu Kalai Kalanchiyam. It had agriculture-based settlement and was known as "Velleer Oor." Roman trade happened here even before the 1st century AD. [4]
A critical issue is the of pollution of the rivers Noyyal and Nallaru originating and flowing in the Kongu region. The river flows with natural antibiotic minerals. The entire Orathuppalayam Dam has become a tank holding effluent and releases water after every rainfall, effectively polluting the down river villages in the Tirupur and Karur district.
However from 2004 onwards, efforts by local volunteers organization Siruthuli have been trying to conserve the water resource. After several petitions from 2003 to 2011, dying and bleaching units were ordered closed on the river until zero liquid discharge status was achieved.
the Cheyyar River and the Kanchimanadhi are the tributaries to the river. They all have their origins in the Western Ghats. Periar flows out of the Siruvani hills and the Kovai Kutralam, a landmark waterfalls. Chaadiaar or Cheyyar River flows through Chaadivayal and later along with the other rivers join up at Kooduthurai to become Noyyal River.
After running through a distance of 160 km (99 mi), Noyyal joins with river Cauvery near Kodumudi in Erode District, the place is also called Noyyal, Karur District. Apart from these three rivers, there are numerous rivulets that also join Noyyal. But most of these rivulets carry water only during the rainy season and therefore are not perennial. According to the available sources, the number of rivulets are 34.
The river has a valley fill (made of alluvial kankar soil) over a stretch of 25 km (16 mi) and a depth of 198 ft (60 m). It extends from the origin of the river at Kooduthurai (in Madhvarayapuram, 30 km (19 mi) west of the city) to the Ukkadam Tank on the city border. The fill absorbs water like a sponge. Only when the absorption reaches a saturation point does excess water flow to the suburbs and the city.
Dams and reservoirs[edit]
Noyyal contains two major dam Orathuppalayam (Near Chennimalai, Tirupur District) and Aathupalayam Dam (Near Vellakoil in Karur district) commissioned in the aim of irrigating about 20,000 acres of land in Tirupur and Karur districts. As of now Orathuppalayam dam stands decommissioned and acting as effluent tank for the Tirupur textile units.
The river has 23 check dams. Most are located between Kooduthurai and Tirupur, 52 km east of Coimbatore city. Decades ago, it irrigated 3,550 square kilometres (1,370 sq mi). Noyyal revival over 40 km (25 mi) will enable irrigation of 165 km2 (64 sq mi), according to Siruthuli.
1. ^ "River Noyyal". Retrieved 2007-02-01.
2. ^ "A glorious system in peril". Retrieved 2007-02-01.
3. ^ "Reviving the tanks". The Hindu. Retrieved 2007-02-02.
4. ^ "about vellalore". Retrieved 2 January 2015.
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Sunday, December 15, 2013
Five things to watch: Bears at Browns
By Michael C. Wright
Here are five things to watch when the Chicago Bears face the Cleveland Browns on Sunday at FirstEnergy Stadium:
Jay Cutler: Cutler will start his first game in a month Sunday at Cleveland, and he's sure to be at least a little rusty after all the inactivity. After all, Cutler has played in just four quarters over the last seven weeks. So his level of conditioning also has to be at least a passing concern. If Cutler struggles early on, Bears coach Marc Trestman isn't likely to go back to backup Josh McCown, who played well in the starter's absence.
"I wouldn't be prepared for any of those hypotheticals. We plan on him playing and playing well and those situations come up game by game with anybody," Trestman said. "But I wouldn't go near that one other than the fact that I expect Jay to play efficiently and play well. That's why he's going to be up."
Cutler, meanwhile, understands there's a good chance he'll be rusty against the Browns. But the quarterback also said the team can't afford to experience such a scenario.
"Rust, we're kind of knocking it off as we go in practice. We really have a lot of room for me to be rusty out there," Cutler said. "So we've got to hit in running. We've got to play well. Cleveland's a really good defense."
Tim Jennings: Considering Cleveland's rushing attack ranks 28th, the Bears aren't as likely to get gashed in that area as they are trying to defend Browns receiver Josh Gordon, who has racked up 774 yards over his last four games. It's likely that Jennings will draw the responsibility of covering Gordon (6-3, 225 pounds) who definitely holds a size advantage over the diminutive corner, who stands at 5-8. That's not to say Jennings can't get the job done. He certainly handled his own against Cowboys receiver Dez Bryant (6-2, 222 pounds), limiting him to two catches for 12 yards and a touchdown.
"[Gordon has] big-play ability," Bears defensive coordinator Mel Tucker said. "He has a large catch radius. He's fast. He can take a 5-yard slant and turn it into a 60-yard touchdown. He's playing with a lot of confidence. The quarterbacks have confidence in him to go up and make plays. He can catch the ball in a crowd and win the contested one-on-one battle."
That's why Jennings will need help over the top from safeties Chris Conte and Major Wright.
The pass rush: The best way to neutralize Gordon's impact is to affect his timing with quarterback Jason Campbell through the pass rush. If the Bears can force Campbell to throw it before he's ready, that can result in errant passes, which become easy interceptions for the secondary. Throughout the game, the front needs to make Campbell consistently leery of its presence.
Look for Jeremiah Ratliff, playing in his third game with the Bears, to provide more of a presence with his inside rush ability, which should benefit Julius Peppers and Corey Wootton on the outside.
How the Bears handle hostile environment: Cleveland's initial surge could turn the tide of the entire game, especially when considering the rust factor for Cutler, who has turned the ball over carelessly in the past. If you look at the series between the teams, you'll see the home team is 11-3, including victories in the last seven meetings. So despite Cleveland's 5-9 record, don't underestimate the potential potency of a hostile road environment and a rocking home crowd.
Early on, the Bears need to protect Cutler well to allow the quarterback to find a rhythm. They also need to establish the run early to get Cleveland on its heels, which will help the Bears do damage off playaction.
Matt Forte: Bears general manager Phil Emery once called McCown a "glue guy," but this label also applies to Forte because he's the player who makes the entire offense go with his ability to run, pass protect, and pose a threat as a receiver out of the backfield. Forte has quietly reeled of 1,073 yard rushing (still think he's not worth the money?), in addition to catching 65 passes for 518 yards and two touchdowns. If the Bears can't get Forte going against Cleveland's seventh-ranked defense, you can count on them experiencing a long, difficult day.
"I think Forte's doing everything well: blocking, running the ball, catching the ball out of the backfield. He's kind of making it all go for us," Cutler said.
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Continuing with the theme of disposability, here is a brief passage from The Mystery of Being, vol. 1. Marcel comments on his own terms.
We come up against a notion here which seems to me of capital importance but for which it is difficult to find an idiomatic English equivalent—at least neither I, nor the English translator of my previous work, Being and Having, managed to do so. The French terms I use are disponibilité and indisponibilité. Literally, in English, one would render these as availability and unavailability, but it might sound more natural if one spoke of handiness and unhandiness, the basic idea being that of having or not having, in a given contingency, one’s resources to hand or at hand. The self-centred person, in this sense, is unhandy; I mean that he remains incapable of responding to calls made upon him by life, and I am not thinking merely of the appeals for help that may be made to him by the unfortunate. I mean rather that, over a much wider field, he will be incapable of sympathizing with other people, or even of imagining their situation. He remains shut up in himself, in the petty circle of his private experience, which forms a kind of hard shell round him that he is incapable of breaking through. He is unhandy from his own point of view and unavailable from the point of view of others.
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Date: 19 Nov 2010
No effect of menstrual cycle phase on fuel oxidation during exercise in rowers
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The aim of this investigation was to examine the effects of menstrual cycle phase on substrate oxidation and lactate concentration during exercise. Eleven eumenorrheic female rowers (18.4 ± 1.9 years; 172.0 ± 4.0 cm; 67.2 ± 8.4 kg; 27.7 ± 4.8% body fat) completed 1 h rowing ergometer exercise at 70% of maximal oxygen consumption (VO2max) during two different phases of the menstrual cycle: the follicular phase (FP) and the luteal phase (LP). Resting and exercise measurements of the whole body energy expenditure, oxygen consumption (VO2), respiratory exchange ratio (RER), substrate oxidation and lactate blood levels were made. Energy expenditure, VO2 and heart rate during the 1-h exercise were not significantly different (P > 0.05) among menstrual cycle phases. Resting RER and RER during the entire 1 h exercise period were not significantly different among menstrual cycle phases. There was an increase (P < 0.05) in RER in the transition between rest and exercise and a further increase in RER occurred after the first 30 min of exercise at both menstrual cycle phases. Blood lactate concentrations significantly increased in the transition between rest and exercise and remained relatively constant during the whole 1 h of exercise in both menstrual cycle phases. No menstrual cycle phase effect (P > 0.05) was observed for blood lactate concentrations. In conclusion, our results demonstrated no effect of menstrual cycle phase on substrate oxidation and blood lactate concentration during rowing exercise at 70% of VO2max in athletes. Normally menstruating female rowers should not be concerned about their menstrual cycle phase with regard to substrate oxidation in everyday training.
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land grabbing
“Nothing will bring a government down faster than hungry people,” says Robert Thompson, former director of rural development at the World Bank.“If a country can’t supply its food domestically, it wants assurances that supplies will be there through thick and thin and that exporting countries will allow trade to flow,” he says.
India’s government is considering buying or leasing millions of acres of land in Central and South America. The purpose: to grow crops that will help feed India’s 1.1 billion people. North of Buenos Aires, Argentina, a Japanese company is growing corn and soybeans for shipment back to Japan. In Africa, a Japanese aid agency works with partners from Brazil and Mozambique to convert part of Guinea’s vast savannah into corn, soybean and cotton production. A leading Malaysian palm-oil producer is looking at plans for a 300,000-hectare (720,000-acre) palm-oil plantation in Cameroon. Bahrain currently produces bananas on 2,400 acres in the Philippines. Kuwait is interested in another 2,400 acres there for rice production. Saudi investors are negotiating for an additional 2,400 acres for aquaculture and are already pumping money into a 12,000-acre project to grow basmati rice, corn, bananas and pineapple. In Mongolia, South Korea has bought more than 800,000 acres to develop “an overseas food base” to procure more food resources. In Romania, nearly 2.4 million acres of farmland are now foreign-owned – about 12% of the country’s base farmland. Most examples involve richer countries with large populations and limited agricultural resources attempting to improve their food security by controlling land and agricultural production in poorer, less developed nations. The growing trend is fueling concerns that the purchases are another form of colonialism.
China is looking to buy 200,000 hectares of farmland in Russia, Australia, Argentina and other countries, the Des Moines Tribune reported in March. In Venezuela and Zimbabwe, they provide machinery and laborers in return for 20% of the harvest. In Australia they buy local land and in Brazil and Argentina they tend to rent. They also rent in Russia and Mongolia. China has already invested $85 million since 2005, the Register adds. “In Venezuela and Zimbabwe, they provide machinery and laborers in return for 20% of the harvest. In Australia they buy local land and in Brazil and Argentina they tend to rent. They also rent in Russia and Mongolia,” the Des Moines Register reported.
Demand for good agricultural land has exploded around the globe. Before 2008, global farmland expanded on average by fewer than 10 million acres annually, but expansion plans in 2009 totaled more than 100 million acres, according to the World Bank. More than 70% of the demand has been in Africa, where Ethiopia, Mozambique, Sudan and other countries have transferred millions of acres to investors. In the food prices crisis of 2008 a number of exporting countries went to either taxing or banning exports, and many food importers like China began to get nervous about food availability. With the erosion of confidence in the ability of world markets to assure supplies, they are thinking that if they own the farms, they have a better chance of getting the food out.
Jay O’Neil, senior agricultural economist at Kansas State’s international grains program, argues that big investments in foreign farmland don’t do much to solve nations’ food security fears. “In countries like China, the leaders get up each morning and ask ‘How are we going to guarantee food security for the coming years?’” says O’Neil. “They don’t realize that buying land doesn’t solve the question. It has zero effect on domestic price inflation, and it doesn’t guarantee that the grain will go to whoever owns the land. It doesn’t mean governments wouldn’t slap on export controls as Russia did in 2010. Probably when they most need grain is when they would be at the most risk of restrictions,”
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Rockstar Comments on the $15 Price Tag of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas on PSN
When the PlayStation Store updated earlier today, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas came to the PS2 Classics section. Priced at $15, it rings in at $5 more than any other PS2 Classic (including GTA III) on the PSN.
-PSLS (Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, PS3)
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alexcosborn + 860d ago
Quality comes at a price I guess.
-Mika- + 860d ago
Im basically copy and pasting a comment I wrote in a previous article but take it as a direct reply to yours.
Not at 14.99! I don't like the price they set for this game. I would rather buy the original Mass effect than pay $14.99 for a ps2 game. They're trying to pull a square but unlike SquareEnix. Their games is not worth that premium.
CraigandDayDay + 860d ago
I'm gonna buy it. I saw it just now on the PS Store. $15 isn't THAT bad, guys. San Andreas was the best (in my opinion) GTA. The next best one is going to be GTA 5. GTA 4 was a huge letdown.
At least they didn't price it at $20. That would've been too far.
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animegamingnerd + 860d ago
you clearly have never played a rockstar game i am currently playing through san andreas on steam and it is in tie with red dead redemption for my favorite rockstar game this in my top 20 games of all time and also it cost me 15 dollars but i would of gladly pay 60 bucks for it while squaresoft games i would pay 60 dollars for but however i would only play a square enix game if they paid me to for a square enix game
guitarded77 + 860d ago
Here took 2 seconds to find one on eBay with free shipping and a buy it now of $5.50 or best offer.
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trenso1 + 860d ago
all you do is complain i have never seen a positive comment from you once, and San Andreas was a great game one of the best GTA's imo, and i would buy it for $15 if i didn't still have a copy of the game and a ps2 to play it on.
BLuKhaos + 860d ago
Man $15 for the console versions of SA is a bit too much.
I paid $5 for GTA3,VC and SA on PC a couple of months ago.
That's not just $5 for three games, that's $5 for the best version of those three games.
inveni0 + 860d ago
Vice City was my favorite GTA so far. I tried San Andreas, but the cursing was too much that it became ridiculous. And I don't mind cursing at all. It's not like my objection is based on some form of arbitrary morality. But if that's how people like the characters in GTA:SA talk in real life, then there's a reason I don't hang around people like that. It's obnoxious. I'm not a fan of obnoxious people or games. If GTA:VC was priced at $15, I'd buy.
irepbtown + 860d ago
I think it'll probably be £10 here in UK, since $15 is something like £9. Which Isn't too bad, that's about the price of an average DLC now a days.
So thinking of it from that perspective, it's not bad pricing.
PS: Not everyone have their PS2's, Like myself... Hence, unfortunately, we can't buy the PS2 version :(
gman_moose + 860d ago
I don't agree that their game isn't premium. If you compare it to the other crap that's on the PS2 classics section for $10, $15 doesn't look so bad. The problem is the other crap that is $10 setting the bar.
That being said, these games are priced how they are because they know that they can get people to buy them at that price. Some feel it's worth it, while some don't. If any game on PS2 is worth the $15 though, it's this one... if Sony ever releases the Square titles as greatest hits on PS store, you can bet they will be $15 too. Possibly even $20.
RumbleFish + 860d ago
I bought GTA I, II, III, VC, SA, IV and LCS for 10€ on Steam. That's a good price!
SonyWarrior + 860d ago
rockstar > squareenix
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Yodagamer + 860d ago
Sorry mika square soft and rock star are both over pricing their products even though they are good, I could go out and buy the whole PS2 trilogy for $20. I'd pay for it if they actually remade it (like they eventually will on iOS as history tells us for a 1/3 of the price), but they didn't.
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Theangrybogan + 859d ago
I don't think we're going to agree on anything mika, GTA SA takes a giant dump on anything square or squareenix have ever done. Rockstar consistantly release quality titles, the same cannot be said for SquareEnix. Your comments are always such nonsense I can't tell if you're trolling or not, if u are trolling, you're really good at it.
Merrill + 860d ago
I would agree if the quality(game) was in HD and with Trophies. $14.99 is an arrogant and insulting price tag for a ps2 classic that they haven't even remastered.
What an EA/Activision move on Rockstars part.
wishingW3L + 860d ago
and what do you say about the PS1 FF games? They are the most expensive PS1 classics just because they are Final Fantasy. Meanwhile Persona 3, one of the best Jrpg that Japan has a ever produced is only 5 bucks on the PS Store. -__-
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Kamikaze135 + 860d ago
If you want it in HD get it on PC.
1nsaint + 860d ago
OMG! 5$ more then you expected!!
are you poor or just really greedy?
dbjj12088 + 860d ago
Agreed. It's worth $15 imo.
Veneno + 860d ago
@ Guitarded
Are you saying that poeple should stop whining about price and find the best deal they can or are you saying Rockstar is pricing SA too high?
I think the price fits the game. I hate GTA4 and wouldnt pay 15 for that garbage, but I whole heartedly believe that San Andreas is a real gaming classic that nobody should miss. It is Rockstars best game. Bully a close second.
And its totally fair to price it at 15. Its the same price digitally at other major locations.
ReservoirDog316 + 860d ago
Except all PS2 PSN games are all $10. Just opens up others to do the same thing. In other words:
MastaPiff + 860d ago
Is it worth $15 dollars? No doubt about it.
Will I pay $15 dollars for it. Not a f#¢kin' chance.
Every dev. will tell you they need that extra $, but R* gets my $ on every GTA game & any DLC that accompanies it. I still have all my PS2 games (the good ones anyways, including all GTA's) but I wouldn't give R* an extra $5 just because they made a good game.
New game prices are fixed (I thought price fixing is illegal in U.S., I always wondered how the video game industry gets away with this...) so for R* to tax an exta $5 is kinda dirty, besides us fans give R* so much, when do they ever give back??? (No case in saying they make great games, everyone (dev's) is supposed to.)
I wish I could just light my money on fire on the R* altar... (err, not so much... so many sheep...)
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rainslacker + 860d ago
New game prices aren't fixed. They are just the currently accepted MSRP for new games. There are quite a few games that come out lower than $59.99. Lego games are $49.99 and I would rank them higher than some of their $60 AAA counter-parts. Angry birds Trilogy was $39.99, Bejeweled was only $9.99 on release. Other lesser known titles come in at $39.99-49.99.
Price fixing is when companies that all offer similar competing products collude to set a price on their products/services to force the consumer to pay a minimum price. It's a way of controlling supply and demand, and it is illegal in the US. However it happens all the time. Somehow big oil companies get away with it, but it is the US.
An example of price fixing recently would be that thing with the banks a couple months ago. The big players made a call each day to set prices on interest rates and loan costs. They would artificially inflate or deflate the value based on their needs for the day. Sorry can't remember what the press called the scandal.
Some of the pricing scheme comes down to that publishers believe(so they say) that pricing a game lower makes the consumer believe it's a lesser game, so they are more likely to overlook it. The more likely scenario is, they want to sell as many as possible at a higher price before putting it down to a more reasonable price that it's probably worth. Kind of like Epic Mickey 2 just did by dropping the price by $10.
The $60 price could also be is that is the current point that publishers believe they can set their price and still get sales from it. They don't believe they can sell it for more, so it is simply the capped price given current market conditions...thus they will sell it for as much as possible.
aquamala + 860d ago
It's $3 on steam sales, and it's HD on PC, and the game is so old a laptop can run it in HD. Why are people paying $15 on psn, it looks just like the ps2 version
You could get the entire GTA collection (that's from GTA 1 to GTA 4:episodes) for $12.49 on a steam summer/winter sale
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showtimefolks + 860d ago
Charge full $60 but give is a HD collection complete GTA
The. 3 games on ps2
2 games on psp
One package full price I can only speak for myself but I would buy it
shadowraiden + 860d ago
and yet you could buy the whole collection on pc for that price and even cheaper when its on sale.
and a computer 5 years old could run san andrea's so its a rip off and console gamers are idiots for buying it at that price, only reason they do this is because people still buy it if nobody brought it they wouldnt put it so high.
Amsterdamsters + 860d ago
....or you can buy a real copy of it with manual and case on eBay for less than $10 shipped.
LOL_WUT + 860d ago
15 dollars? I'll pass
ALLWRONG + 860d ago
You could buy this for $1.99 and play it on 360 because it's BC.
Snookies12 + 860d ago
Yeah that's a bit much... Besides, I've got the San Andreas mod for GTA 4 on PC. So.... It's like an updated better version of the game right there lol.
TrendyGamers + 860d ago
Hopefully we don't see any more PS2 Classics at $15.
ftwrthtx + 860d ago
That's a little too pricey
LOGICWINS + 860d ago
Your better off using that $15 towards GTAV. $15 for a PS2 classic is ridiculous, regardless of how good the game is.
thebudgetgamer + 860d ago
I'm cool with it.
youndamie + 860d ago
Yea and your thebudgetgamer lol and you agree $15 is not that bad for one of the best gaming experiences of the last gen.
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LOGICWINS + 860d ago
"I'm cool with it."
And THAT ladies and gentlemen is why this gen is notorious for overpriced DLC, season passes, online passes, and warrantless price hikes. Most people are "cool" with publishers no longer being humble and trying to squeeze every dime they can out of us.
If it were not for Sony introducing PS Plus, I would have lost all faith in publishers.
BoNeSaW23 + 860d ago
Too true!
PS plus has really been the ONLY service worth the price tag this Gen.
Veneno + 860d ago
How can $15 be a rip when it is comsistent with other digital dowload
youndamie + 860d ago
Why are you bringing up DLC, season passes, online passes, and price hikes? We are talking about one game GTA:SA it is a great game and worth at least $15. So what if its $5 more Rockstar is not "trying to squeeze every dime they can out of us".
BTW love PS+
LOGICWINS + 860d ago
I thought the same...until I saw Max Payne 3 season passes conveniently displayed next to copies of Max Payne 3 at Bestbuy.
For the amount of content that San Andreas offers, I would say its worth the $15. However, Rockstar should be humble and charge the same price as any other PS2 classic. Halo 4, for example, has more content than probably any other fall console release when you factor in the multiplayer and free downloadable extra missions. Still, the launch price remains the same as any other 360 game..$60.
NonApplicable + 860d ago
If your not "cool with it" then vote with your wallet. Obviously enough people are fine with the value propositions. Otherwise, none of the things you mentioned would exist today. You are in the minority(majority rules). Accept it and move on with your life.
MysticStrummer + 860d ago
And THAT ladies and gentlemen is where the phrase "what the market will bear" comes from.
Stop crying.
thebudgetgamer + 860d ago
Don't buy it, vote with you wallet.
Riderz1337 + 860d ago
Yeah, I like San Andreas but 15$ for such an old game is not worth it.
ab5olut10n + 860d ago
It's $20 at the Walmart closest to me.
dbjj12088 + 860d ago
So this is a deal comparatively!
Yodagamer + 860d ago
20 for me and that includes the whole PS2 trilogy, minus the PSP games.
ab5olut10n + 860d ago
i think i'm getting disagrees from the last of us fangirls because i said i was worried it would be too linear like the uncharted series was for me. having said that, yes, you can buy the trilogy at walmart for $20. san andreas is also in the ps2 "bin" with a $20 price tag. so keep disagreeing, doesn't change facts.
SaffronCurse + 860d ago
Old news,
1,200 Msp on xbox live.
TheDivine + 860d ago
Or you can play your old disk on the 360 for free. If you dont have it still its under 5 dollars everywhere. Disk>DD. It shouldve been remastered with trophys/achievements for 15 and why isnt there a vita version?
whitesoxfalife1976 + 860d ago
u shud post it again WE XBOX LIVE Players didnt cry about paying for it some years ago but our ps3cusins is why is that?
1nsaint + 860d ago
my guess is they are either greedy, or a bunch of kids for who 5 dollars is like a month of allowance xD
not really a big suprise though that they are complaining about a 5$ price difference xD. ps3 gamers are complaining all the time about xbox live being a paid service.. which is like 3.50 a month..
suit themselves, gta:sa is one of the only ps2 title that is actually a good game.
have fun with your lame 10$ titles xD
Yodagamer + 860d ago
Let's not forget the 360 is the Xbox version (that had better graphics) with 4x anti aliasing that the 360 adds to Xbox emulation
Bowzabub + 860d ago
I feel it should have been $10. That being said; I bought it.
knifefight + 860d ago
And this is the only thing that will matter in future pricing of these titles: how many people BUY them at that price, not how many people are upset about it.
In the future?
Supply and demand were determined to set prices by Adam Smith (1723-1790), if not sooner.
knifefight + 860d ago
This is not a discussion about supply and demand.
Deku-Johnny + 860d ago
A whole $5 more than other PS2 games. Wow, that's totally outrageous, how dare they charge that perfectly fair price for such a great game?!!!!1
LOGICWINS + 860d ago
Because it sets a precedent for future "great" PS2 games. Would you rather spend $10 for a great game or $15?
Consumers in general are retarded. They don't realize how much power they have. Apple has been known to mark up their products by 50% and idiots buy it, not realizing that if they all boycotted, Apple would IMMEDIATELY drop their outrageous prices.
All price hikes begin small and eventually snowball into obscene amounts. You strike me as one of those people who would be okay with paying $70 for 720/PS4 games. "Bu bu bu, its ONLY $10 more. What's the big deal?"
If we don't take a stand now, our wallets will forever be raped.
BanBrother + 860d ago
I'll say it again. Remember when they locked the online portion of games? You do? Oh, okay.
Remember how some "paranoid idiots" said it would eventually lead to locked single player content? Yes, yes you do.
What Logic says is correct. You give them the slightest bit of bargaining power and we are left with none. It's not about what is acceptable and what isn't, it is about what saves us the most money, as consumers.
MysticStrummer + 860d ago
You're both wrong.
"If we don't take a stand now, our wallets will forever be raped."
Stop with the drama. No one took your wallet by force and stole your money. If you bought things and felt like you overpaid, that's entirely on you. Calling it rape is beyond ridiculous.
"It's not about what is acceptable and what isn't,"
It's not about what is acceptable to you. It's about what is acceptable to the market, which means all the people who might potentially buy the game. It's never about saving money for the consumers.
1nsaint + 860d ago
there aren't any other great ps2 games XD
Bowzabub + 860d ago
Trust me I'd have bought it if it was $20. I just feel they made their share last time. Unfortunately I lent my ps2 copy out &never got it back. :(
NonApplicable + 860d ago
To put in perspective, $5 is 1/3 of the total charge. Imagine if retail games followed suit. Suddenly an extra $20 on every purchase seems more concerning. Like LOGICWINS said, it all adds up in the end.
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dna24 + 860d ago
20 or 30 bux gets you gta 3, vice city, and San Andreas at wal mart. But you need a ps2 or original ps3 in order o play them.
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Slayer_xXx + 860d ago
Amazing how it's a classic gm like GTA priced at $14.99 it's an issue..guilty gear is priced d same & nobody comments on that lol.
Seriously tho dey shud all be d standard $9.99 doesn't matter if a gm is considered a classic or nt dey are old gms
WeAreLegion + 860d ago
Nobody's buying Guilty Gear.
Veneno + 860d ago
Ibought guilty gear 2 original xbox digital download for 15 on xbox live marketplace and didnt complain and cry to Microsoft. I simply enjoyed the game I bought.
Why dont you yallever complain about xboxlive? That is unquestionably the worst deal in videogames ever yet it is what defines digital dowload content today.
Tetsujin + 860d ago
@ Veneno
I agree 100%; for some (not everyone so don't twist it) it's ok to hate on anything outside what Microsoft does, but illegal to complain or whine about anything related to Xbox/360.
I paid for GTA SA, why? Because I support their decision in bringing it to the digital download as an option to those who either can't find a copy or who would rather play it on current gen. Rockstar didn't "have to" bring it to the PSN; it was on 360 since 2008 and in the article they even stated its the same price whether it's on Live, Steam, or PSN, yet people complain about "price hiking" and "this is why we have DLC."
In fact I'm going on record to say this; a lot of the arguing I've read is nothing more than people "bandwagoning" their arguments about this; most probably don't either care or look at this as an opportunity to play SA, yet some of the responses I've seen were from people who complain just to have something to whine/bitch about; with 0 interest in playing/downloading the game itself.
Enigma_2099 + 860d ago
To all complaining about the price... we paid $60 for this game when it first came out. Why the f*** are you complaining about it now?
Ohhh, is it because it's an old PS2 game... well, I'll do you one better... do you remember how BIG this game is?!?!? And you're complaining about $15? You people paid $10 for an 8-bit Capcom game in 2010, and now you're b******* about paying an extra $5 for one of the best GTA games ever made?
Stop whining... and get off my lawn.
swishersweets20031 + 860d ago
the game was 39.99 when it came out.
ironic a complainer complaining about complainers
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Enigma_2099 + 860d ago
Waited for it to hit the Greatest Hits line, huh? Too scared to buy it when it was first released I take it.
Now take your irony and get off my lawn... and take your friends with you.
Triple A titles in my neck of the woods with tax usually round off to about $65.
YourGreatUncle + 860d ago
No games cost $60 last gen unless you got the collectors edition.
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LOOK_AT_THIS_I + 860d ago
I've got a 97 f150 for sale. I'll give you a break on the price seeing as how you don't mind paying for what it WAS worth. 18k and its yours. I'll even put the cassette deck back in it to make it classic.
I would pay more for a game like Socom 2 if they were to re-release it with multiplayer. No cheats and fix the glitches.
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WeAreLegion + 860d ago
It's usually $2.50 on any given Steam sale and it looks much better on PC. If you want it, just wait for a Steam sale. Most PC's can run it just fine.
I'm not paying $14.99 for it. It is still pretty expensive used, however. Even in my store, we sell it for $16.99 on PS2. It retains value, for some reason.
VenalPsychopomp + 860d ago
Just what I was gonna say. Yeah, it may ostensibly be priced the same elsewhere, but people mostly buy it when it's on sale for a small fraction of that price.
I love GTA: San Andreas but I have to think that Rockstar are only attempting this high price point because the massive hype for GTA V will provide a surge in sales for this previous game.
black911 + 860d ago
I need to buy Okami (HD) first before this. Notice the HD.
Cam977 + 860d ago
They missed out Vice City...?
landog + 860d ago
steam has it on sale all the time for $2.50, and it looks amazing, can play in widescreen hd at 60 perfect frames;
I'll have to say a big NO!
I would of grabbed it for my ps3 had it been $5, just to have on my ps3, but I'll stick with steam thanks.
GamingManiac + 860d ago
If they had made it HD with trophies, I would've even payed full game price for it!!! Why doesn't R* like money!??!?!?
TheLastGuardian + 860d ago
$15 is a small price to ask for the greatest game of all time.
strigoi814 + 860d ago
A bit pricey for an old game..not even remastered in HD..yet im not a fan of GTA so no worries for me
bloodybutcher + 860d ago
it is pricey for an old ps2 game. and not even really good one imo, i much prefered vc and 4 to this. never even finished sa, got simply bored.
turnerdc + 860d ago
It's an awesome game but I think the price is a bit high considering that Grand Theft Auto 3 and Vice City debuted on mobile devices for $4.99 each.
Acquiesc3 + 860d ago
It's a great game, but that price is ridiculous. Standard $10 for a ps2 classic would be a more fair price.
mt + 860d ago
I have my fat Ps3 and I have all GTA games from PS2 so unless it is remake or HD collection I don't care.
stage88 + 860d ago
Pass. Completely too expensive on all consoles.
AusRogo + 860d ago
I'd pay $15. But its $23.95 over here.. ill wait for a sale. Just buy mass effect instead if your going to spend that kind of money.
Valenka + 860d ago
When I got San Andreas from the XBL Marketplace, it was $8.
gpturbo81 + 860d ago
you guys are funny. you have no problem payin $600 for a console, but $14.99 is too much for a game. old or not, pretty funny
stage88 + 860d ago
Yes, 14.99 is too much for a game that came out on PS2 and has no trophy support, HD graphics and the iphone equivalent is considerably less cheaper.
violents + 860d ago
If you dont like the price don't buy it and shutup. This is a title that has a high demand so the price goes up, regardless of what other ps2 titles are going for. Didn't any of you have to take economics in school. This is exactly what supply and demand is. The general public demands something, the higher the demand the more worth the product in question has, therefore a higher price point. It's pretty elementary honestly, and they are sticking to what everyone else is charging so they aren't just gouging people on psn. Its an awsome game and worth 15 bucks for sure, was one of my fav ps2 games for sure.
Fez + 860d ago
But the supply is effectively infinite so does that mean it should be free?
violents + 860d ago
Doesnt really matter because they controll the supply, By quantity a diamond is the most worthless rock on the planet however like one company owns almost 99% of the diamond mines on the planet. They release only 1% of their stock every year to keep the price up. So its kind of like that, even tho the supply is seemingly endless they know people will pay a lot for it so they can charge that much, the same goes for a video game. If people will pay for it at what ever pricepoint they charge, why charge less? Some people wont be happy with it but as long as enough dont mind paying that is all that matters from a business standpoint.
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My car makes the ticking noise when it WARMS UP - NOT when it is cold. The timing chain was changed because they were taking the engine apart to replace the water pump, there is 54,000 miles on the car, and we thought we would change the chain now as preventive work since it is recommended to be done at 60,000 miles. It purred like a kitten before this. Now they are telling me it is "scored rod bearings" not a loose timing chain. We put in a heavier, synthetic oil, but still the noise. Wouldn't the noise get worse as the engine is reved if it was the rod bearings? And wouldn't it make the noise even when the engine was cold if it was the rod bearings? Help! -
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The 2.7L engine is a very expensive engine to overhaul. Good diagnostics as opposed to guess work is essential here. The viscosity of the oil is thicker when cold, especially in the north east. A Rod knock is a fairly heavy knock as opposed to a tappet noise which is a higher frequency "ticking" In the case of a lightly worn bearing, the rod knock would usually heard when the engine is under a load and may not be heard when the engine is idling. If the bearing is severely worn, a knock would be present at all times, louder when under a load. Carbon build up on the top of the pistons will cause a knock. Decarbonizing the engine with MOPAR COMBUSTION CHAMBER CONDITIONER, used as directed will help if carbon build up is in fact the cause. If ANY of the crankshaft or rod bearings are failing, the use of a "heavier" multi-viscosity oil will not help . Put the vehicle in gear, HOLD THE BRAKE ON, and raise the engine RPM. Under this load, a rod bearing will be consistant at all engine speeds. -
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Check out this information on <a href="http://www.cartechhome.com/2009/08/car-engine-ticking-noise.html">Engine Ticking Noise</a> http://www.cartechhome.com/2009/08/car-engine-ticking-noise.html -
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Shared Prefs are only for your app (unless you change the mode, PRIVATE is the default) and can be accessed from all your activities. If its alot of data you might consider using a SQLite Database.
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First, I would not suggest you using shared preferences, if you need efficient way yo get your data. Shared preferences is something to keep your small (i.e boolean or int) values which would actually represent preferences. Why? Because SharedPreferences are slow. I would recommend you to check this out:
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Reduce excess sugar
Sugar is sweet in many senses of the word sweet. It sweetens the flavour of everything you put it in and plays an important role in many of the treats we love the most. Sugar has been there at our birthdays, holidays and other special events. Sugar has even been there when we’re grieving. The purpose of this article is not to convince you to stop enjoying sugar when it’s appropriate. The purpose is to highlight the top reasons excess sugar is a problem because if you address excess sugar consumption there’s a good chance you may feel some great benefits.
1. Excess Sugar Steals Your Energy
Excess sugar steals your energy by giving you a temporary burst of false energy and then leaving you alone later only to crash. The mechanism is as follows. When you eat excess sugar it gets absorbed rapidly into the bloodstream. When blood sugar is elevated you experience a temporary high of both physical and emotional energy. High blood sugar (within limits) feels good. In fact, high blood sugar can often feel great. However, in order to utilize the sugar just consumed the pancreas must make insulin. The more excessive your sugar consumption, the more insulin required. Also, the more often you eat excessive sugar, the more insulin surges will be required. As insulin does its job with sugar metabolism you start to lose your sugar buzz. Insulin pulls sugar into the cells of the body and reduce blood sugar below where it was before the excess sugar. This is why you get an energy buzz followed by a crash. The more often you do this the deeper the energy crashes and fatigue become.
2. Excess Sugar Causes Weight Gain and Fat Deposition
Excess sugar causes weight gain and fat deposition by at least two main mechanisms. First of all, excess sugar spikes insulin levels. Insulin is a type of growth hormone. When insulin is high your body is automatically in fat deposition mode. This means it’s impossible to burn fat and lose weight with excess insulin. Secondly, excess sugar that is not burned for energy is stored as fat. The old myth was that fat consumption lead to fat deposition in the body. While this is partially true, the real equation is that excess sugar leads to fat deposition. This is because fat is our natural storage container for excess energy we consumed from sugar and carbohydrates.
3. Excess Sugar is Bad For Your Brain and Nervous System
Excess sugar is bad for your brain and nervous system and is a key contributing factor in causing or worsening many people’s health concerns. Symptoms like headaches, ADHD, ADD, anxiety, depression, panic attacks, brain fog, non-Parkinson’s tremors, and many more neurological disorders may be affected by excess sugar consumption. These symptoms are affected by sugar in many potential ways including the mechanisms already mentioned above. Another mechanism not mentioned is damage caused by products called glycosylated end products. These are harmful by-products produced as a result of excess blood sugar. They are a significant problem for people with pre-diabetes and diabetes but they also can exacerbate other symptoms. One of the main problems with glycosylated end products is that they damage arteries, veins, and nerves. This is why diabetics are at a high risk of vascular disease and nerve damage.
Enjoy sugar in moderation as a treat. Avoid daily excess sugar consumption. You may not realize the negative effects of excess sugar until you address it and reduce your sugar consumption for a few weeks. However, you may be surprised to see some of your symptoms improve simply by avoiding excess sugar.
If you have any questions about a naturopathic approach to health and wellness please contact Dr. Barlow at 250-448-5610.
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The thyroid test?
More and more new patients are coming into my office seeking advice on what they think may be a problem with their thyroid gland. In most cases, their intuition is correct; they do indeed have a concern with their thyroid. However, a very common phrase I’ll hear from them is, “They say my thyroid is fine because I’ve had the thyroid test and nothing showed up.” This test they are referring to is the TSH test, which is more of a screen for the thyroid as opposed to a definitive test. There really is no such thing as a thyroid test that tells you if your thyroid is working. In this week’s article, we will discuss how the thyroid gland can be evaluated with more thorough and accurate testing.
In my opinion, thyroid symptoms are very meaningful regardless of what any single test says. All doctors are trained to take all the information from several sources and put it together with the patient’s individual characteristics to make a proper assessment. Unfortunately, this does not happen as well as it should in the conventional system in part because there is an over-reliance on the TSH test. I’ve had dozens and dozens of patients in the past year with thyroid symptoms only to be told their thyroid gland is fine because the TSH is normal. In many of these cases, I ordered a full thyroid panel of tests and discovered the contrary.
Thyroid Panel
There are at least four individual tests that should be performed in order to thoroughly assess the thyroid gland. These include TSH, free T4, free T3, and Thyroperoxidase.
TSH is a hormonal signal sent from the pituitary gland to the thyroid. The higher the number, the more the pituitary is working to get your thyroid to work. When the number increases it usually indicates a hypothyroid situation. One of the concerns with the TSH test is the range of acceptability. In BC it is considered normal to have a TSH from 0.1 to 5.0. However, many doctors consider a number above 2.5 to be suspicious and worthy of further evaluation, especially if the patient has hypothyroid symptoms.
Free T4
Free T4 is the hormone the thyroid gland makes in most abundance. It is an inactive hormone that floats in the blood until it binds to a receptor in or on a cell membrane. At this point the T4 converts to T3 and the thyroid hormone does its work in the cell. When T4 levels are normal the TSH levels should be normal as well. Unfortunately, this does not mean you will be without thyroid symptoms. If T4 is not converting to T3 properly a person can suffer from hypothyroid symptoms not because of their thyroid gland but because of poor conversion in the rest of the cells in the body.
Free T3
Free T3 is produced in the thyroid gland but represents the minority of thyroid hormone compared to T4. T3 is active and ready to stimulate metabolic activity. As mentioned above, T3 is created from T4 at the binding of receptors in a cell. It’s important to know your T3 levels if you have hypothyroid symptoms because if T3 is low, regardless of what the TSH and T4 levels are, consequences are likely to occur.
Thryoperoxidasae is an autoimmune marker for the thyroid. When this number is elevated it represents an attack from your own immune system on the thyroid. The most common autoimmune condition producing hypothyroid symptoms is Hashimoto’s thyroiditis. Autoimmune thyroid conditions are likely to result in some randomness with symptoms. This often brings normal periods of time mixed with episodes of fatigue, brain fog, weight gain, sluggish digestion, and loss of hair to name a few.
If you suspect your thyroid gland or thyroid hormones may be contributing to your health concerns I’d recommend you speak with a physician who can order a thorough thyroid evaluation in order to determine to proper diagnosis and treatment plan.
If you have any questions about the thyroid or would like to schedule a consultation with Dr. Barlow please contact his office at 250-448-5610.
Thick blood
It is well known in the general public that “thick blood” can lead to high blood pressure. Most people are familiar with the use of blood thinners like warfarin for this issue. In fact, many people have either first hand or with a loved one temporarily used blood thinners as part of a surgery or other medical procedure. However, most people don’t really know what “thick blood” is and how it can raise blood pressure.
What is Thick Blood?
Defining thick blood is and isn’t as simple as it sounds. Thick blood may be defined as blood that is more viscous due to various factors. However, for the most part, thick blood is a result of more clotting factors in the blood stream. This may make the blood slightly more viscous but the real issue is that it leads to more clotting in the arteries. The type of clotting I’m talking about here is the same clotting that could cause a stroke or heart attack. However, this type of clotting also happens all over our bodies every second of the day as part of our normal function. The problem with “thick blood” is that it puts us at a higher risk of developing high blood pressure and/or other cardiovascular disease over the long-term.
How Does Thick blood Raise Blood Pressure?
Thick blood raises blood pressure because of two main mechanisms. In the short run, when blood is more viscous it requires more pressure from the heart to push it throughout the arteries. Secondly and more important over the long run, thick blood causes inflammatory damage to the lining of the arteries, which leads to atherosclerosis and plaque formation. These mechanisms harden the arteries and reduce the space for blood to flow through.
What Causes Thick Blood?
Many of the causes of “thick blood” are aspects of our life that we can control like nutrition and blood sugar regulation. Many of these causes also lead to inflammation, which enhances the long term cardiovascular concern. The most common causes of include poor blood sugar regulation (pre-diabetes), diabetes, pro-inflammatory diets, smoking, and excess alcohol intake. There certainly appears to be genetic factors at play that may be separate to causes that we can control.
How Do You Treat Thick Blood?
The naturopathic treatment for “thick blood” focuses on identifying and treating the factors that contribute to making the blood thick in the first place. Instead of relying on blood thinners for long-term use, I try to make it possible for a patient not to need to depend on them. Most of this work involves identifying sources of inflammation in a patient’s diet and environment. When we need treatment for “thick blood” it is very important to recommend what is in the patient’s best interest. This may actually be a prescription for a blood thinner. However, there are other options we can consider if a prescription is not needed. The nutrients to consider include fish oil, wobenzyme, serrapeptidase, and curcumin to name a few.
If you have any questions or would like to schedule an appointment with Dr. Barlow please contact his office at 250-448-5610.
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There are many misperceptions about what a collector can and cannot do to collect a debt. The following quiz can be a challenging - and fun - way to way to make sure you are doing your collection work effectively, as well as legally.
(No peeking at the answers before completing the quiz.)
1. True or False? - As long as a debtor pays you something on an account, you must continue to accept that amount until the bill is paid off.
2. True of False? - If a debtor sends you a check for less than the full amount and writes "Paid in full" on the front of the check (usually on the bottom left-hand side), if you cash that check you cannot seek further payment on that account.
3. True or False? - You may not call someone at home at 2:30 A.M. about an unpaid bill.
4. True or False? - In collecting from a divorced couple, you are bound by the court order as to who is responsible for paying your bill.
5. True or False? - Asking for or accepting post-dated checks is illegal.
6. True or False? - If a debtor you are attempting collection from tells you that you are harassing them, the best thing to do is to apologize, conclude the conversation, and write off the account as uncollectible.
7. True or False? - You may not turn an account over to a collection agency unless you have first advised the debtor that you are going to do it.
8. True or False? - If a doctor's office has a policy of charging for a broken appointment, you must impose the penalty on all patients who break their appointment, unless they give you the stated 24 hours notice.
Answers 1. False - The account is due in full, unless you agree to make other arrangements. If you receive a ridiculously small partial payment, send it back and demand the balance in full; it's a good negotiating technique for debtors playing games with you. Further, if you accept two small payments in a row, you may be stuck with that arrangement, so stop that with the first payment.
2. False - Call your debtor to dis-abuse him or her of their fantasy, and proceed to demand the balance of payment. However, if your debtor writes, on the back of the check, words to this effect, "Endorsement of this check constitutes payment in full", and you then endorse and deposit it, you have accepted the amount as payment in full.
3. False - Trick question. Sorry. Normally, this is true. But, if you know that the debtor works on a job schedule that normally has them awake at 2:30 A.M., then you may call at that time about your unpaid bill. Normal calling hours are between 8 A.M. and 9 P.M. and not on Sundays.
4. False - The court order is between the husband, the wife, and the judge. Both husband and wife are equally responsible, as long as the debt was incurred prior to a divorce, if there was one.
5. False - As long as you don't deposit the check prior to the date on the check, you are OK.
6. False - The federal rules of harassment apply to third party collection sources, not to you. However, some states have their own rules about harassment, so you need to be careful. For example, don't call several times a day, call someone at work if you've been asked not to, send a followup statement with the words "Past Due" on the outside of the envelope, use obscene language, shout, make empty threats, and the like. You do have the right to attempt to collect any legitimate debt. If you are falsely accused of harassment, deny it and remind the debtor that it is they who are harassing you by not paying and causing you unnecessary time and expense to clear up a legitimate debt. That might help them calm down and deal with their obligation.
7. False - You don't have to give notice, but it makes a lot of sense to do it. Try giving a week's notice to pay in full before turning the account into collection. The warning will improve the odds of getting paid, and you won't have to pay a fee to the collection agency. If they don't pay within the week, do what you said you would do.
8. False - You can implement your policy on broken appointments as you wish. You may, for example, the first time there is a no show, say, "We won't charge you this time, but in the future, we will have to". That gives you some flexibility, particularly with good patients. And, just having a policy on this point will definitely reduce the frequency of broken appointments, because now, there are consequences.
Disclaimer: All legal-sounding comments should be checked with your attorney. I am not an attorney, and, even if I were, I am not your attorney. Further, rules sometimes vary by state.
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A year later, there are still stories about long waits for care in some parts of the country, but rarely about Michigan.
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October 18, 2012, Thursday
Solidarity against terrorists
In a continuation of attacks by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), some terrorists raided a primary school in the village of Bulakbaşı in Iğdır province, the latest incident in a series of terrorist attacks recently carried out on schools.
Radikal’s Eyüp Can tells of the incident: “All villagers, including men, women and children, half-terrified and half-shocked, rushed to the primary school. How could they not be terrified? Two PKK terrorists raided the school and abducted six of the 19 teachers at gunpoint in front of the students. When the terrorists took their teachers away, the students immediately called the village headman, who then informed the gendarmerie forces about the situation. But no one, especially the students, could sit still and do nothing. The villagers and the village headman decided to go after the terrorists. They found the terrorists about five kilometers from the village and begged them to ‘release their teachers.’ No villager had arms or anything to defend themselves against the terrorists. Though the terrorists immediately drew their weapons, the villagers said: ‘We won’t let our teachers be taken away from us.’ They stood up so decisively and protected the teachers so passionately that the terrorists had to release the teachers. The students waiting in the village celebrated their teachers’ arrival like a feast day, while the teachers were so shocked that they could not believe what had just happened or that they had been released. What are the terrorists going to do next? Will they burn the Kurdish villages because the villagers ‘have been assimilated by the Turkish state’? Whom will they point their guns at next? Will it be Kurdish intellectuals who have dedicated their lives to defending Kurdish people’s rights like receiving education in their native Kurdish language? Haven’t there been enough killings already?”
This was an incident all columnists condemned with a united voice, while it also moved many. One of them was Taraf’s Ahmet Altan, who praised the courage and love of the villagers towards the teachers, as such an act requires a great deal of both feelings, he says. Killing more and more terrorists won’t make the PKK sit behind the negotiating table with the state or pave the way for achieving peace. It is the Kurdish people’s telling terrorists to “stop” that will bring us peace. The next question to be asked is for whom the Kurdish people will put their lives at risk and tell the PKK to stop. They will surely show such courage as long as they receive more support and empathy from the state, he notes.
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Plans to develop a Europe-wide road-charging scheme have been unveiled by EU Transport Commissioner Violeta Bluc. The charging of cars and lorries for road use based on distance driven would be optional, allowing member states to not participate if they did not wish to.
Car tax regimes determine countries with lowest CO2 from new sales
Countries with the lowest CO2 emissions from new cars usually have registration and company car taxes which are strongly graduated according to CO2 emissions and have the greatest influence on car buyers’ choices, T&E’s latest How Clean are Europe’s cars report has found.
Push to end Belgium's 'company car paradise'
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If you’ve had outstanding debts, overdrafts or other banking problems in the past that lead to you losing your checking account, it may be difficult to open a new one. However, gaining an understanding of your situation and realizing that there are checking accounts designed for people in your situation can help put you back in control. If you find yourself in this position, you may want to see whether you can get a second chance checking account.
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Determine the reason banks are denying you a checking account. You can check with the denying institution to find out whether it based its decision on information from ChexSystems, which reports mishandled accounts and outstanding debts to its member institutions, or TeleChecks, which reports fraud and bad checks. If it used ChexSystems, you can order a copy of your report from that company to better understand -- and in some cases appeal -- the institution’s decision. You can talk to a TeleChecks representative to better understand a denial based on that company’s information.
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Realize that you are permanently denied a regular checking account if you have bad credit information stored in either ChexSystems’ or TeleChecks’ database. Many banks forgive former bad credit if you pay the debt and don’t have problems for 2 years. If the information in ChexSystems or TeleChecks is fraud-related, you generally have to wait a minimum of 5 years to receive a regular checking account.
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Explore the websites of banks and credit unions that you are already familiar with to find out if they offer second chance checking accounts that you can obtain. Many major financial institutions offer these accounts to potential customers with bad credit or with other banking problems, often with minimal fees, if any. Read the institution’s checking FAQ’s and use the search term “second chance” to locate personal checking accounts that may be right for you. Call customer service if you’re unable to find the information on the website.
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Download entire grammar as text.
There is ambiguity in the formal syntax here: anything that looks like an expression list also looks like a slice list, so any subscription can be interpreted as a slicing. Rather than further complicating the syntax, this is disambiguated by defining that in this case the interpretation as a subscription takes priority over the interpretation as a slicing (this is the case if the slice list contains no proper slice nor ellipses). Similarly, when the slice list has exactly one short slice and no trailing comma, the interpretation as a simple slicing takes priority over that as an extended slicing.
The semantics for a simple slicing are as follows. The primary must evaluate to a sequence object. The lower and upper bound expressions, if present, must evaluate to plain integers; defaults are zero and the sys.maxint, respectively. If either bound is negative, the sequence's length is added to it. The slicing now selects all items with index k such that i <= k < j where i and j are the specified lower and upper bounds. This may be an empty sequence. It is not an error if i or j lie outside the range of valid indexes (such items don't exist so they aren't selected).
The semantics for an extended slicing are as follows. The primary must evaluate to a mapping object, and it is indexed with a key that is constructed from the slice list, as follows. If the slice list contains at least one comma, the key is a tuple containing the conversion of the slice items; otherwise, the conversion of the lone slice item is the key. The conversion of a slice item that is an expression is that expression. The conversion of an ellipsis slice item is the built-in Ellipsis object. The conversion of a proper slice is a slice object (see section 3.2) whose start, stop and step attributes are the values of the expressions given as lower bound, upper bound and stride, respectively, substituting None for missing expressions.
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Don't Bail Out My State
South Carolina's governor says more debt isn't the answer.
But I suspect I'm not entirely alone, as there are a lot of taxpayers who aren't pleased with Christmas coming early for politicians. And I hope these taxpayers make their voices heard before Democrats load up the next bailout train for states with budget deficits.
Who bails out the "bail-outor"?
Was the economist Herb Stein wrong when he said that if something cannot go on forever, it won't?
Medicaid grew 9.5% annually over the past 10 years. That's unsustainable. But if Congress opens the checkbook now, there will be no reform.
In 2008 bailouts became the first resort. Over the past year the federal government has committed itself to $2.3 trillion (including the tax rebate "stimulus" checks of last February) to "improve" the economy. I don't see how another $150 billion now will make a difference in a global slowdown. We've already unloaded truckloads of sugar in a vain attempt to sweeten a lake. Tossing in a Twinkie will not make the difference.
However, there is something Congress can do: free states from federal mandates. South Carolina will spend about $425 million next year meeting federal unfunded mandates. The increase in the minimum wage alone will cost the state $2.6 million and meeting Homeland Security's REAL ID requirements will cost $8.9 million.
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Sonia Gandhi abandons bid for prime minister
May 19, 2004
— Sonia Gandhi said Tuesday she would "humbly decline" to be the next prime minister of India, a decision that stunned her supporters and followed Hindu nationalist outrage over the prospect of a foreign-born woman leading the nation.
Gandhi, an Italian who became an Indian citizen 21 years ago when she married former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, did not say whom she would nominate for the post. The favorite appeared to be Manmohan Singh, the architect of India's economic liberalization program during the last Congress-led government from 1991 to 1996.
"The post of prime minister has not been my aim," Gandhi told Congress party members in Parliament. "I was always certain that if ever I found myself in the position I am in today, I would follow my inner voice. I humbly decline the post."
Gandhi's Congress party and allies trounced the Hindu-nationalist party of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and his Democratic National Alliance in national elections that ended last week. They were swept to power by millions of impoverished Indians angered over being left out of the country's economic boom.
Gandhi would likely have led a coalition government dependent on the outside support of two communist parties, who oppose continuing economic reforms such as privatizing state-run companies.
That prospect spooked investors and caused financial markets to tumble Monday, when the Bombay Stock Exchange registered its biggest drop in its 129-year history.
The benchmark index rose Tuesday on news that Singh could be the new party candidate for prime minister, though it was unclear how his coalition would be any different from the one Gandhi might have led.
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Author's Notes: STOP THE EVIL PLOTBUNNIES FROM DOMINATING MY BRAIN! I have to stop starting new stories and start ending some. For now, please feast on this clichéd storyline that popped out of nowhere. I blame the bunnies.
Tumbling Down.
Chapter One.
The whole canteen turned to look at them, not that they weren't conspicuous enough, or recognized enough. Shuuhei clapped a hand over Rukia's mouth swiftly to keep her from making further excessive noise.
"Come on, you just have to spend one week of your entire life with him! Besides, I doubt he'd do anything to you, since you guys hate each other so much…" his confident voice trailed off weakly at the end as he managed a slanted grin under her terrifying glare.
"And why, may I ask, do I have to fulfill a fucking debt that you made with him?" Rukia snarled, slamming her fist on the table at every pause she made and attracting more attention.
"Because I have a thousand dollars and my entitlement as a student in this school at stake," Shuuhei mumbled back as a reply, hanging his head in genuine shame. At this, his female companion simmered down and sat next to him.
"Damn it Shuuhei, whatever possessed you to bet your existence in this school with that bastard?" she asked, placing her head in her hands. "You know he has the power to drag you out of this school and even I can't do anything about it because you initiated the bet."
The tattooed male stared at her, wounded. "I didn't initiate it!" he sputtered.
"Yes, but you agreed to it, so it's your own fault," she pointed out matter-of-factly, ignoring the "puppy-dog eyes look" he was giving her. "I still can't believe you practically sold me at a thousand bucks. Me, your best childhood friend!" she continued, glowering at him accusingly. He shrugged a little helplessly and turned away in the other direction. Sheesh, so he was giving her the "silent treatment" now.
"So I guess that means you're not going to help me," Shuuhei said a little coldly, and stood up to leave the table. Exasperated, Rukia stuck out a hand and pulled him back. "No, I didn't say that." His eyes immediately lit up, and he returned to his previous position.
The raven-haired girl rolled her eyes and folded her arms before saying very seriously, "Do you realize that my brother, and Renji, will be after your crotch if they ever learn of your stupid bet and how it involved me, and another guy aside from the three of you?" "Puppy-dog eyes look" again.
"I'll help you, but in a different way," she began, only to be cut off her friend. "So you'll help me?" he asked, almost enthusiastically. She sighed. It was likely that he'd only heard the words "I'll help you" and missed out totally on the "different way" part. He was staring at her as though she'd just given him the elixir of life or something to that extreme. Scratch that, it was HIGHLY likely that he'd only heard the words that he'd wanted to hear.
Knowing that she would regret it greatly later on, Rukia nodded her head slightly as an answer to his question. "Thank you, Rukia!" he said, clearly relieved, and stood up once again before striding off in his usual "cool Hisagi style". As he reached the corridor, he turned and looked as though he'd forgotten something.
"Oh, and let's keep this a secret between the two of us shall we? So that your overprotective brother and his faithful minion won't erm, castrate me?" With that, he walked off with a casual wave and a grin.
Rukia scowled. She was so going to kill him when she had the chance and when his existence in the school wasn't at stake. For now, she just had to confront Kurosaki Ichigo, her arch-nemesis since a long time ago. Oh yes, and it was most unfortunate that he was the one who'd just "bought" her for a whole week for a mere thousand freaking dollars. But then again, it would be good to have him out the school, once and for all. She shook her head at that thought – Nah, the headmaster would never let Kurosaki Ichigo leave the academy, with the amount of school fees he was paying.
Seireitei Academy was a private boarding school that accepted their students based on their merits, talents, and money. Perhaps, money more than the other former reasons. In other words, the whole school was mostly filled with filthy rich kids, and some occasional true geniuses once in a while, who probably survived on scholarships.
Now, just like a gang must have a leader, this school was practically ruled by two groups of people. The Kuchiki, and the Kurosaki. Actually, the Kuchiki just consisted of Kuchiki Byakuya and his sister Rukia, while the Kurosaki was well, just Kurosaki Ichigo himself. They came from the richest families in the country, and just as two leaders of equal status and capability are not too fond of each other, the Kuchiki siblings and Kurosaki Ichigo were as close as say, oil and water. Which meant to say that they definitely did not stick with each other at all.
And so, the rest of the school was basically just divided equally to be "followers" of these exceptionally bright pupils, and tried not to get into their affairs as far as they were concerned. Clearly, Shuuhei was not one of them.
Senior Byakuya was too busy being elite and excellent to notice what his little juniors did, preferring to simply remain as someone unreachable and terrifying. Of course, he expressed a certain amount of distaste for the sole member of the only other family which could match with the Kuchiki in terms of business, but that was where he drew the line. No petty fights or pulling of the other's hair (although, Byakuya would have killed anyone who touched his perfect hair), just a few cold glances here and there if they passed each other in the corridors.
His sister, on the other hand, was another matter altogether.
She was a raging spitfire, and hated Kurosaki Ichigo to the core. It was most unfortunate that he felt the exact same way about her. It wasn't known when the hating game started; everyone just took for granted that the two of them were born to detest each other. There was not a single time that they had met without practically biting each other's heads off with verbal insults and lame bickering, really. It usually ended with the both of them stomping off into opposite directions in a huff, rather like a child's fight. Except that these two "children" never did make up and become friends again.
This was why she was hitting herself inwardly with a metal hammer as she made her way to his lunch table, where he was surrounded (as usual) by a group of dorky friends she never made a point to acknowledge. Smashing a hand on his lunch table and startling everyone except for the person himself, she practically bared her teeth at him.
"One week it is," she hissed, knowing very well that he knew what she was talking about. He stood up from his chair, making sure that it screeched long and loud as he did so – Ichigo knew that she hated the sound of screeching metal. She scowled.
"Let's see how long you last," he said before walking away; she swore she saw the slight saunter he had to his normal walk.
"By the way, the bet said that you would let me OWN you for a week, not just accompany me everywhere I go. Which means that you'll have to do whatever I tell you to do," he called over his shoulder. All of a sudden, Kuchiki Rukia couldn't find her jaw because it had dropped a few hundred feet below.
Fuck, she was really going to kill Hisagi Shuuhei.
To be continued.
To readers: Bet most of you hated it like hell. XD Apologies if I made Shuuhei too OOC; I couldn't find a better character to fit that role. Rukia isn't CLOSE to anyone in canon except Renji and maybe Kaien. Oh, as for the feud between Ichigo and Rukia, that will be settled in chapters to come. That is, if you guys want me to continue. Personally, I think this plot just sucks, but I really really enjoyed writing it (was grinning the whole way), and would like to continue. Comments, suggestions, anything, just please review and tell me what you think. :) | https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2688275/1/Tumbling-Down | dclm-gs1-274110001 | false | false | {
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by Lorraine Murray
A Well-Fed World is both an ideal and the name of a wonderful organization that works to achieve some important goals. They seek to make sure that:
AWFWLogoRoundNew-Web (1) all people have enough food, and the right kinds of food. The right kinds of food maximize well-being and minimize harm to people, animals, and the planet; (2) people are not underfed and undernourished, dying by the millions of “diseases of poverty,” such as hunger, nutrient deficiency, and dehydration; (3) people are not overfed and malnourished, dying by the millions of “diseases of affluence,” such as heart disease, cancer, stroke, and diabetes; and (4) food is produced and distributed in ways that prioritize the common good—that nourishes people, protects animals, and replenishes the planet.
To that end, A Well-Fed World (AWFW) supports a number of programs that alleviate hunger with animal-free food and community-level farming. The organization, founded in 2001, took its inspiration from a 1999 report by the International Food Policy Research Institute that warned of the effects of the expanding “Livestock [Farming] Revolution” in developing countries.
save bothSome groups, such as Heifer International, have played into this global development by encouraging people to send animals into servitude in developing countries. They frame this exploitation as “empowering” and “sustainable,” “giving people the tools to provide for themselves” rather than just a handout.
What’s wrong with that? A Well-Fed World can tell you why animal gifts don’t necessarily help, and sometimes harm, the recipients and how these programs may be misleading to donors.
A Well-Fed World’s Top 10 Reasons to Say NO to Animal “Gifts”
1. Most recipients are lactose intolerant and harmed by dairy: While dairy is a source of calories, the resources used to produce it may be better spent on alternatives that provide a higher quality and quantity of calories, protein and calcium.
2. More farmed animals does not equate to less hunger: Pro-meat biases mean that sustainable plant crops that actually provide better nutrition and more income are often overlooked.
3. More farmed animals mean more mouths to feed: Many recipients of animal gift programs struggle to provide even the most basic care to the animals they receive.
4. Farmed animals do not just “live off the land”: They must actually have food and water brought to them. This food and water can be in direct competition with human consumption.
5. Farmed animals use a great deal of water: Raising animals requires up to 10 times more water than growing crops for direct consumption.
6. Experts disapprove of animal gift programs.
7. Animal gift programs are misleading: In reality, donations may not go toward the purchase of the selected animal, children may miss school to take care of the animals, and many animals endure mistreatment and neglect.
8. Animal gift programs have questionable spending: Former Indian minister for social welfare and animal protection Maneka Gandhi said, “Nothing irritates me more than charities abroad that collect money and purport to give it to women or children or for animals in Asia or Africa. Very little reaches the country or the cause for which it is meant. …This is cynical exploitation of animals and poor people.”
9. Animal gift programs raise concerns with charity-raters.
10. There are better gift-donation programs to feed people in need.
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by Gregory McNamee
Almost every gardener who’s ever lifted a trowel or spade knows the terrible feeling: while digging one of those tools into the earth, a poor passing earthworm gets caught in the downstroke and winds up, well, segmented.
Common earthworm (Lumbricus terrestris)--© Robert Pickett/Corbis
The Washington Post, published on an impossibly fertile part of the country blessed by ample rain, lots of woodland mulch, and plenty of worms, offers news that may assuage the guilt: if the cut is close enough to the head, then the head will grow back, and if close enough to the tail, then the tail will grow back. Have a look at the illustration, read into the piece, and feel a little better about the world. continue reading…
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0.448593 | <urn:uuid:a5a0fd49-bda5-43e4-a25c-9cad2ccc0578> | en | 0.719234 | Definitely homo.
"No homo," my best friend said after he made out with me.
بواسطة Gareki ديسمبر 30, 2014
A formal phrase said to bros during a seemingly gay act to clarify that said act is not gay.
Example 1:
Bro 1: Hey bro, can you shave my balls?
Bro 2: Nah bro, thats mad 'mo
Bro 1: No homo bro
Bro 2: Oh alright then
Example 2:
Bro 1: Baby, baby, baby oooooohhh
Bro 2: Bro, are you singing Justin Bieber? Thats mad 'mo bro!
Bro 1: No! No homo though.
Bro 2: Oh alright then
Bro 2: *Joins in*
بواسطة nuclearwinter فبراير 27, 2014
The gayest thing a straght person could say to another straight person even though what they were talking about probably wasn't even gay at all.
guy A: dude you are like a brother to me... no homo
guy B: wait what?
بواسطة jp97 مايو 30, 2011
بواسطة Jessie Hernandez يوليو 6, 2009
-"I find you incredibly sexy. No homo."
-"Thanks, Danette"
بواسطة hurricane dane فبراير 14, 2010
A term said after one says something or does something gay.
The term is no longer effective after doing something extremely gay
Johnny: That guy is pretty hot. No homo.
Johnny: ~kisses Brandon~ no homo
Doesn"t work
بواسطة yourmomnuzz ديسمبر 21, 2009
بواسطة king krab97 يوليو 29, 2008
رسائل يومية مجانية
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I'm using Kubuntu 11.04 with Chromium 12.0.742.91 (87961) Ubuntu 11.04 My annoyance is that the menus and dialogues use a strange icons set which I presume to be a default Gnome one. How can I change this to something more similar to my KDE icon set?
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I'm not sure how to change the menu icons (perhaps by using an other chromium theme), but the icons (Back, Reload, etc) can be changed at Preferences -> Personal Stuff. (click on the wrench icon on the right to open the menu containing the Preferenes item)
At Personal Stuff, scroll down a bit till Appearance. Press the Use GTK+ Theme to get the icons used by the system (Dolphin, Firefox, etc).
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thanks for the answer but the menu icons and file dialogue are what i'm looking at changing – Dirk Hartzer Waldeck Jun 30 '11 at 13:38
The reason the file dialogue and certain other components do not look native, is that Chrome/ium is using GTK+ for desktop integration, and not Qt libraries. Since GTK+ is still missing some critical Qt integration features, you cannot get applications based on it to do everything you want.
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thanks, i suspected something like this, but i'm also sure there's a way in KDE to change the default icons used by GTK+. any ideas? – Dirk Hartzer Waldeck Jul 1 '11 at 7:08
@Dirk, while you might be able to change the icons, there is no guarantee that Chromium will pick up the changes. You could try restarting the application, but it might not take the changes. – RolandiXor Jul 1 '11 at 14:37
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I use netbeans in Ubuntu Natty. I have added it in the launcher and it works. But there is an issue. When I start netbeans it shows two Icons. One is for the launcher and the other for the active netbeans (the latter's icon is with little white triangle). Is there a workaround?
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Might be related to this: bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bamf/+bug/754334 – Jorge Castro Sep 8 '11 at 14:21
Exactly, I wonder when it will be fixed! – Stefano Mtangoo Sep 9 '11 at 11:10
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There is a netbeans plugin that works around this problem: http://plugins.netbeans.org/plugin/40321/unity-launcher
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I upvoted your answer, I will check for that! – Stefano Mtangoo Nov 18 '11 at 4:45
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I found it is a bug in unity described here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bamf/+bug/751909 I will keep an eye on the ticked and see if it is fixed. If they wont fix it until october, I will upgrade to Oneiric
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I upgraded to Precise and I don't use NB IDE Much. I use my company's IDE – Stefano Mtangoo Nov 7 '12 at 19:24
open up gksudo /usr/share/applications and delete one of the netbeans.desktop
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As Curious Apprentice mentions, go to /usr/share/applications and edit the .desktop file which corresponds to your NetBeans installation. In my case, this file was named netbeans-6.8.desktop
Add the following two lines to the end of the file (in my case, after Terminal=0)
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* * *
Back to ObamaCare.
“Voilà. You now have the single-payer system you wanted.” “Everybody wins. You get expansion, Republicans get cost control, the system is made more secure, and the public for once isn’t terrified.”
Would it make Republicans happy to think they beat Obama back on his original boondoggle? Sure. “But people will start referring to the National Health Service every day, and they’ll believe they have one, and they’ll believe you gave it to them. And you can run in ’12 saying you did. That’s what I’d do!”
I still believe FDR was more or less right. It was 2009, Obama had just been elected, we looked to be at the beginning of a big liberal wave. America was anxious, coming to terms with a terrible recession, maybe worse than that. And everyone knew the health-care system was a mess. There would have been plenty of space for turning it around by cleaning up and repairing, and then broadening, deepening and enriching, the health structure we already had. And not inventing a new one.
Comprehensive new programs have a million moving parts. Programs with a million moving parts are less likely to succeed. ObamaCare hasn’t, and won’t.
* * *
A final word on Democrats on the Hill and ObamaCare. In the past month they’ve dealt with the disaster through talking points. That’s what parties in duress do, have kids in the back room write press releases based on the pushback guidance of combative consultants. Those talking points have gone, more or less, from “heavy demand caused the website to crash” to “the website will soon be fixed” to “every big program has bumps at the beginning” to “wait till the American people see their benefits!” to “not that many policies have been cancelled” to “not that many premiums have gone up” to “not that many people will lose their doctors.
Not one of the talking points has worked. Because incoming data, day by day, kept washing over them and sinking them.
The new talking point is that ObamaCare was damaged and fell due to Republican “sabotage.” Republicans on Capitol Hill refused to vote for it, refused to like it and support it. They tried repeatedly to repeal it and defund it.
And all this is true. But it is not sabotage. This is opposition. The Republicans thought the ACA a bad piece of work, a bad bill that would make things worse, not better.
Still, Republicans should take the sabotage charge seriously, because it is not a claim aimed at the consideration of the American people but of history. Democrats are admitting with this charge that ObamaCare is a disaster. They no longer want to argue that it is not. They are arguing that it is a disaster brought about by Republicans. That will be what they argue for history and feed their journalistic historians.
As I remember it, the Democrats on Capitol Hill got the bill they wanted. They were heady, back in the majority, with a new and popular president, and they didn’t much care about GOP support. They wanted the credit: It was their bill. They wrote it in a way no Republican could support. And they got no Republican support. When Paul Ryan, who had emerged as the Republican point man, attempted to come forward with ideas, he was rebuffed.
The new president—and this was a key historic moment—decided not to act on the accumulated presidential wisdom of the ages, which is: Get the other party in on all big things. Give them a stake in it, use them for cover, show you have bipartisan juice, that you are truly national and not only the leader of one party, show you can wield your mighty power across the aisles. Get them bragging they passed it, with your leadership. Make them co-own it so that when certain parts don’t work, and certain parts won’t, they have deep motives to help you fix it.
Instead, a perfect storm of misjudgment, immaturity and lack of historical perspective, and a perfect storm of shortsighted selfishness (it’s all ours, it’s not even a little bit yours) brought forth a perfect storm of a health-care disaster. | http://blogs.wsj.com/peggynoonan/2013/11/12/obamacare-is-the-story/?mod=trending_now_9 | dclm-gs1-274320001 | false | false | {
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Location of Isabelle, Wisconsin
Location of Isabelle, Wisconsin
Coordinates: 44°35′40″N 92°27′3″W / 44.59444°N 92.45083°W / 44.59444; -92.45083Coordinates: 44°35′40″N 92°27′3″W / 44.59444°N 92.45083°W / 44.59444; -92.45083
Country United States
State Wisconsin
County Pierce
• Total 15.7 sq mi (40.5 km2)
• Land 10.4 sq mi (27.0 km2)
• Water 5.2 sq mi (13.6 km2)
Elevation[1] 679 ft (207 m)
Population (2000)
• Total 315
• Density 30.2/sq mi (11.7/km2)
Time zone Central (CST) (UTC-6)
• Summer (DST) CDT (UTC-5)
Area code(s) 715 & 534
FIPS code 55-37350[2]
GNIS feature ID 1583438[1]
Isabelle is a town in Pierce County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 315 at the 2000 census. The unincorporated community of Oakridge is located in the town.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 15.6 square miles (40.5 km²), of which, 10.4 square miles (27.0 km²) of it is land and 5.2 square miles (13.6 km²) of it (33.48%) is water.
As of the census[2] of 2000, there were 315 people, 113 households, and 88 families residing in the town. The population density was 30.2 people per square mile (11.7/km²). There were 118 housing units at an average density of 11.3 per square mile (4.4/km²). The racial makeup of the town was 99.05% White, 0.32% African American and 0.63% Native American. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.59% of the population.
In the town the population was spread out with 27.3% under the age of 18, 5.1% from 18 to 24, 36.2% from 25 to 44, 24.1% from 45 to 64, and 7.3% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 35 years. For every 100 females there were 115.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 110.1 males.
The median income for a household in the town was $52,188, and the median income for a family was $63,125. Males had a median income of $37,212 versus $26,875 for females. The per capita income for the town was $22,626. None of the families and 2.5% of the population were living below the poverty line, including no under eighteens and none of those over 64.
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Giovanni Visconti got the action going on the last climb with a solo breakaway with about nine kilometers (5½ miles) left, but could not hold off Majka. Visconti, who also is Sicilian, was second, 29 seconds back, and Nibali was third, 46 seconds behind.
Majka said he felt "comfort" in the last five kilometers in part because he'd been saving up energy a day earlier by riding easier. He finished in a bunch 24½ minutes behind Australian teammate Michael Rogers, who won Stage 16.
Few know the scars of cycling's doping past more than Majka's own manager at the Tinkoff-Saxo Bank team, Bjarne Riis. Once a national hero in Denmark after winning the 1996 Tour, he admitted to using blood-booster EPO more than a decade later -- and was vilified for it. He laid low for a while, but then returned to the pro cycling world.
The echoes of doping resonated Wednesday on the grassy Pyrenean mountainside: The last times that Saint-Lary-Soulan hosted Tour stage finishes were in 2001 and 2005 -- won by Lance Armstrong and teammate George Hincapie. Those wins were later stripped because of doping. Their names have been crossed out in the official Tour history book.
Cycling has made great strides in fighting doping with enhanced blood and urine testing, along with the biological passport program, but few experts would claim that the peloton today is entirely clean.
Nibali, who has called himself a "flag-bearer of anti-doping", made his latest case to become the first Italian to win cycling's showcase race in 16 years -- since Marco Pantani, who was once convicted for doping.
The exception was Jean-Christophe Peraud of France, who hugged closely on the leader's back wheel and finished fourth. With his performance, the 37-year-old Frenchman made it an even closer race for the podium spots. He is fourth overall, 6:08 behind Nibali, but just eight seconds slower than fellow Frenchman Thibaut Pinot, in third.
American Tejay van Garderen, in sixth, also lost about a minute to Nibali and trails by 10:19. It came a day after his hopes for a podium spot were dealt a big blow when he lost several minutes to the other aspirants for a top-three finish in Paris.
"Yesterday was a pity, it was an off day," the BMC leader said. A podium spot is still possible, he added, "but it will be hard."
Stage 18's finale in the Pyrenees takes the pack on a 145.5-kilometer (90-mile) loop from Pau to Hautacam, featuring two ascents that are so hard that they defy cycling's ranking system -- one of them an uphill finish.
Then it's a flat stage heading northward Friday before an individual time-trial a day later, and then what's likely to be the largely ceremonial ride for the yellow jersey in Stage 21 on Sunday to the Champs-Elysees in Paris for the finish of the race's 101st edition.
While well-positioned to be in yellow then, Nibali was still attacking Wednesday.
"I preferred to go and gain a few more seconds and to be even more serene, just in case something could happen," he said. | http://espn.go.com/sports/endurance/tdf2014/story/_/id/11252485/2014-tour-de-france-rafal-majka-wins-17th-stage | dclm-gs1-274690001 | false | false | {
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Suppose now that the objects in question are abelian topological groups $G$ so that morphisms are continuous group homomorphisms. Given an exact sequence of abelian topological groups $0 \to G''\to G \to G''$ is the functor $\textrm{Hom}(H,-)$ a left-exact functor? $H$ is an abelian topological group.
We know that if we only care about group homomorphisms then $\textrm{Hom}(H,-)$ is left-exact, but will the condition of continuity now change anything? It seems there is a problem because to prove exactness at $\textrm{Hom}(H,G)$ requires defining a map from $H \to G''$ which may not be continuous.
Edit: PinkElephants has shown us that this functor may fail to be exact. However if we consider a specific case which is the exact sequence
$$0 \to \Bbb{Z} \to \Bbb{R} \stackrel{e^{2\pi i x}}{\longrightarrow } S^1 \to 0$$
then is the functor $\textrm{Hom}(S^1, -)$ left-exact? What about the contravariant functor $\textrm{Hom}(-,S^1)$, is it still right-exact?
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If $\textrm{Hom}(G, -)$ fails to be left exact then you have defined exact sequence incorrectly. – Zhen Lin Dec 10 '12 at 23:35
Continuity, in any case, cannot solve anything, for you always put the discrete topology on groups! – Mariano Suárez-Alvarez Dec 10 '12 at 23:36
@MarianoSuárez-Alvarez What if I consider $S^1$ as a topological group the topology on here is the Euclidean topology? – user38268 Dec 10 '12 at 23:38
@ZhenLin I made an edit above. – user38268 Dec 10 '12 at 23:43
Let me just mention the amazing fact that if you consider only compact abelian groups, then this category actually turns out to be abelian. In particular, Hom(S^1, -) is left-exact as long as you restrict to compact groups. – Piotr Pstrągowski Dec 11 '12 at 2:23
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$\DeclareMathOperator{Hom}{Hom}$Given a short sequence $$0 \to A \xrightarrow{f} B \xrightarrow{g} C \to 0,\tag{$\ast$}$$ in an additive category, the sequence of abelian groups $$ 0 \to \Hom(G,A) \xrightarrow{f_\ast} \Hom(G,B) \xrightarrow{g_\ast} \Hom(G,C) $$ is exact for all $G$ if and only if $f$ is a kernel of $g$ and, dually, $$ 0 \to \Hom(C,G) \xrightarrow{g^\ast} \Hom(B,G) \xrightarrow{f^\ast} \Hom(A,G) $$ is exact for all $G$ if and only if $g$ is a cokernel of $f$.
This can be interpreted as follows: Since we want $\Hom$ to be left exact, the minimal requirement that a short sequence $(\ast)$ in an additive category should satisfy in order to deserve to be called exact is that $f$ be a kernel of $g$ and that $g$ be a cokernel of $f$.
From this point of view, the example in Pink Elephant's answer is not a good one: the identity $G \to H$ is a monomorphism and an epimorphism, but it is not an isomorphism and a fortiori neither a kernel nor a cokernel.
The trouble of calling all kernel-cokernel sequences $(\ast)$ exact is that they lack the closure conditions you need in order to prove the diagram lemmas necessary for homological algebra. A particularly convenient (hence convincing) approach to exact sequences (albeit not intrinsic as in abelian categories) is usually attributed to Quillen, see exact categories. In a nutshell what this means is that you have to think about what sequences you want to call exact.
Outside of the additive setting exactness can be dealt with in various ways but it gets even more complicated. See e.g. Borceux-Bourn's book.
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Let $H$ be an abelian topological group whose topology is not discrete, and let $G$ have the same underlying group as $H$ but with the discrete topology. Consider the short exact sequence $0\to G\to H\to 0\to 0$ where $G\to G$ is the identity on sets.
Now the sequence $0\to \mathrm{Hom}(H,G)\to \mathrm{Hom}(H,H)\to \mathrm{Hom}(H,0)$ is not exact at $\mathrm{Hom}(H,H)$, as $\mathrm{Id}_H$ is in the kernel but not the image.
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Thanks for your answer. However if the topologies are all inhereted from the euclidean topology (e.g. $G''= \Bbb{Z}$, $G = \Bbb{R}$ and $G'= S^1$) then will the functor be left-exact? – user38268 Dec 11 '12 at 0:31
You may see my edit in the question above for further queries. – user38268 Dec 11 '12 at 0:34
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The Happy Atheist, Myers' new book, collects some of his most-accessible writing on the topic. From the publisher's description:
Through his popular science blog,Pharyngula, PZ Myers has entertained millions of readers with his infectious love of evolutionary science and his equally infectious disdain for creationism, biblical literalism, intelligent design theory, and other products of godly illogic. In this funny and fearless book, Myers takes on the religious fanaticism of our times with the gleeful disrespect it deserves, skewering the apocalyptic fantasies, magical thinking, hypocrisies, and pseudoscientific theories advanced by religious fundamentalists of all stripes.
With a healthy appreciation of the absurd, Myers not only pokes fun at the ridiculous tenets of popular religions but also highlights how the persistence of Stone Age superstitions can have dark consequences: interfering with our politics, slowing our scientific progress, and limiting freedom in our culture.
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GraWil writes "As previously reported, the Apple Newton refuses to die! The Worldwide Newton Conference 2004 has wrapped up (photos) and, thanks to Paul Guyot, there is real hope for an emulator. His talk, titled 'Newton never dies, It only gets new hardware,' describes and shows the Einstein Emulator, that will eventually allow the Newton OS to be built and run on top of Unix. Will your next Linux PDA boot Newton OS next year?"
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• Still viable (Score:5, Interesting)
by TimmyDee (713324) on Monday October 04, 2004 @08:34PM (#10435371) Homepage Journal
In spite of its detractors, the Newton continues to be a viable handheld platform (shortcomings of the hardware notwithstanding). As a current Newton user, I'm excited for a new lease on life. The genius of the Newton is the OS -- the HWR, the Assistant, and the soup method of data storage. Newton apps "see" each other's data and don't have to run any sort of conversion to use it as their own. You own the data, not the app. Plus, writing "10:00 meeting with lab group 10/14" in the Assistant and getting the proper entry in your calendar just rocks!
• bad apple (Score:1, Interesting)
by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 04, 2004 @08:35PM (#10435378)
apple should have kept making newtons and bought palm when they could
• GNUton Etc. (Score:5, Interesting)
by Feneric (765069) on Monday October 04, 2004 @08:36PM (#10435384) Homepage
It's good to hear about the Einstein Emulator. I wonder what happened to the GNUton project []; it seemed to be working in the same direction and as far as I know actually got a bootable system running through the magic of Python. Granted, there's been no status update since 2000, but I've certainly seen free software projects go dormant longer.
Recently Newton's Library [] has gone live again; I'm one of the volunteer librarians. If anyone is interested in helping out, let me know. The Newton MessagePad is a great device for reading e-books, and the potential of new hardware certainly can't hurt.
• NewtonOS Clone? (Score:5, Interesting)
by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 04, 2004 @08:37PM (#10435391)
considering how "ancient" (in computer/pda terms) the Apple Newton PDAs were, why don't people try to essentially rewrite a clone of it. i understand the usefulness of an emulator, but an OS clone would be much more convenient. you can get the features, look, and feel of the Newton OS while also having the luxury of adding upgrades when the needs arise. Also, it could be ported to newer hardware (instead of the legacy/aging Newton one.)
i, not being a programmer myself, cannot fathom the complexity of writing such an OS, perhaps. but it makes more sense, to me atleast, to take what everyone seems to love about the old software and move on to a new one.
anyone care to explain how hard it would to write an entire new OS for a PDA (similar to that of Newton's) ?
• by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 04, 2004 @08:46PM (#10435467)
I dissagree.... in '94/'95 I took ALL my univeristy CS notes on my Newton. While everone else was luggin around either texbooks or the odd Notebook computer. I had my trusty Newton. Saved as handwriting in class...coverted to text in the evenings... gave me extra incentive to re-read all my notes that day in the evening.
worked like a charm!
• by St3phen (147601) on Monday October 04, 2004 @08:49PM (#10435484)
that you'll hopefully eventually be able to run the (brilliant) Newton OS on more modern & portable hardware.
Also, if your entire exposure to the Newton OS was on a 1.0 device, IMHO, you've missed out on what the real draw is vis-a-vis the capabilities of the later MessagePads & eMate.
• by pete_yandell (211045) on Monday October 04, 2004 @09:28PM (#10435743) Homepage
Putting my nerd hat on, the really cool thing about developing for the Newton was the programming language that it used, called (unimaginatively) NewtonScript. Don't let the "Script" fool was a serious language: bytecode interpreted, garbage collected, fast, compact. Pretty impressive for something running on a handheld back in the early 90s! I spent a while tinkering around with writing a NewtonScript emulator, and the internals of the language were beautifully designed. (I still struggle with Java today because it just feels so incredibly clunky in comparison.)
One thing which would make emulating a Newton difficult is the memory management. It used an incredibly fine-grained MMU. I can't remember the page size, but basically it did mark-compact garbage collection, and did the compact bit by just shuffling page mappings in the MMU! Very neat, but difficult to fake efficiently on other hardware.
• Data soup (Score:3, Interesting)
by steveha (103154) on Monday October 04, 2004 @09:48PM (#10435858) Homepage
I'm wondering whether the "Data Soup" concept will be adopted by any major free, open source software (FOSS) system.
The Newton, the Canon Cat, the shareware word processor Yeah Write, all had some kind of system where the user didn't need to worry about files. (I don't really know enough about the Newton data soup to comment on how similar or dissimilar these all were to it.)
The only project along these lines that I know of is Gnome Storage [].
• by IntlHarvester (11985) on Monday October 04, 2004 @10:03PM (#10435949) Journal
This is pretty simplistic reasoning. Apple was losing a ton of money at the time and there was the real need to cut down on the speculative projects and concentrate on the "core markets" (if even just to make Wall Street happy). Apple also cut dozens of Macintosh models at the same time.
Not to mention that the Newton brandname was pretty much dirt at that point. Even though the later models were nice, people though of the thing as a big joke. A Palm Pilot was the cool thing to have, not a Newton.
Plus you had the huge psychological impact of Microsoft entering the market with Windows CE and getting a ton of licensees (which Apple couldn't get). I suspect Apple had no desire to play the Second Fiddle Minority Platform game in two different markets. (WinCE turned out to be a bit of a dud, but that's what Apple thought was going to happen to Windows 3.1 as well.)
After you consider all those business reasons, I suppose you could make the personality argument.
• by adolfojp (730818) on Monday October 04, 2004 @10:07PM (#10435966)
Apple should join the PDA market. If they stick to their current trends, their PDA would be super stylish, super user friendly, and compatible with iCal and such. Mac fans would buy them just because... Many others would buy them because of the statement (if not perhaps fashion statement) they would make. Call it a iNewton with old Newton emulation and you would get many loyal Newton advocates to buy them also.
• by pnot (96038) on Monday October 04, 2004 @10:10PM (#10435978)
Uhm. Assuming you mean "textbooks", rather than "copies of Donald Knuth's manual for TeX"... how did your Newton replace textbooks? Did you transcribe whole books onto your Newton for easy reference?
I'd've thought that the old-tech equivalent of a Newton is a pen and a slim folder of writing paper, which probably weighs about as much as a Newton, *and* doesn't run out of battery power, *and* lets you make paper darts when the lecture gets slow ;-).
• by mrgreen4242 (759594) on Monday October 04, 2004 @10:23PM (#10436035)
I hate replying to my own post, but I have been looking around a bit more and I came across the Jornada 680/e and the 7xx (looks the same, seems to be more powerful, and more expensive)... anyways, the form factor is right, but I am not a huge fan of WinCE... So questions are: Anyone use these? what did you think? Are they upgradable (in terms of OS... to at least PocketPC2k or even, dare I dream, Linux)?
• by xtermin8 (719661) on Monday October 04, 2004 @10:34PM (#10436096)
I've heard rumor that NewtonScript was a dialect of Scheme- just how lispish is it?
• by Bodhammer (559311) on Monday October 04, 2004 @10:35PM (#10436106)
Take: 1 Newton 2100 for handwriting
CompactFlash for Music and Storage (microdrive)
1 Zaurus SL-C860 for touchscree display, keyboard, Linux (Or FreeBsd/OsX)
add Ethernet, Bluetooth, and 802.11b/g
Full day battery(8 hrs) battery life with user replacable, standard AA NiMH batteries
Support and a vendor supported dev. community
Stir Vigoriously, pour into a sub $600 package
Sell hundreds of thousands of units!!!
• Missing the Point (Score:4, Interesting)
by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 04, 2004 @10:54PM (#10436179)
Einstein is crucial to the Newton community. The problem we're stuck with is pretty straightforward: our machines are aging and slowly falling apart, but the software contained therein is still better than anything on the market. We'd like to jump to a new platform. Honest. We really would. But the existing offerings (software-wise) blow chunks compared to the big clunky Newtons we've got in our hands.
Einstein, if we're lucky, will give us the chance to have our cake and eat it too. And trust me, the Linux-on-a-PDA folks would be very very lucky to have the myriad of high-quallity Newton apps running on their boxen. Beats the snot out of the crap running on Yopis right now, that's fore sure.
• by jcr (53032) <{} {ta} {rcj}> on Monday October 04, 2004 @11:02PM (#10436219) Journal
Apple should join the PDA market.
Been there, done that. The question is: is the PDA market a place where a company like Apple can produce a device so compelling that people flock to it like they did to the iPod?
Personally, I doubt it. Palm's already got a pretty good product, and from where I sit, the margins on PDAs really aren't able to support the kind of R&D expense that Apple would have to take on to be able to significantly exceed what's already out there.
• by David Rolfe (38) on Monday October 04, 2004 @11:46PM (#10436404) Homepage Journal
The Message Pad 2100 (baring it's size) is really the epitome of the PDA. In that ... it's actually able to 'assist' in what you typically use a pda for. Voice recording, calendaring, little black-booking, emailing.
I have a 2100 and also was an early adopter of the Palm series (had an original palm pro, a palm three, then got a visor deluxe, then a clié -- depsite the clié's higher resolution and jog wheel, I gave it up and went back to the visor). I haven't bothered to move on to the Zire line because... although graffiti is usable, it just sucks compared to the -- let me stress this again -- awesome recognition of the Newton MP. I know there are some folks out there working on embedded GTK interfaces, can any of you let me know where HWR is at on the embedded Linux scene?
So, the reason no one is 're-writing' a clone OS of the Newton is the unfeasibility of creating, from a hobbyist public domain vector a platform as perfectly suited to the PDA as the Newton OS. I am enamoured with tablet computing... I even have one of the first IBM Thinkpads (Type 2524, all screen, no keyboard). Which you could say is loosely a sibling of the same era. It uses Windows 95 with the 'Pen Computing' crap (since the Pen Windows or whatever was killed). The recognition is horrible. And that's with a 486DX, which should arguably have more horsepower than the ARM the Newton's had.
Anyway, I know this post goes no where in specific but here's the main thrust: I have used basically every pen based system that has been commercially available. The Newton MP 2100 was the most elegant and useful of any of these. If Newton had survived Jobs re-emergence, or had been spun off, we would all have 3"x5"x.5", color, 180dpi, nearly edge to edge screen, pressure sensitive, useful, intelligent PDAs with HWR as good, or better, than the MP's for probably a lower price point than the original MP's. I'm thinking like $350. I would die for that.
Oh, and let me say too... That ThinkPad is cool, I still sketch on it in Photoshop 3.5 with it, but the HWR is horrible. Damn you Microsoft. I just don't see why the whole industry just freaked out and let HWR wallow for so long. Even Ink in OS X isn't as good as the Newton HWR.
Let the rebuttals fly!
• by David Rolfe (38) on Monday October 04, 2004 @11:58PM (#10436464) Homepage Journal
That may be true - that's it's "faster". But at what cost? I.e. 'faster with more typos left in'. I find that writing in my weird blend of cursive and printing using ink-text that I can consistently out-write myself when using graffiti. I'm not slouch with either. I've used both palm os devices and newtons for years (see my previous post in this thread). With graffiti you kinda of have to 'correct as you go' or take a hit in speed while you carefully make your strokes (and graffiti doesn't store your actually strokes so if you misspell someone's name in a quick note, you can't go back and see what you 'meant' to scribble down). With ink-text you just go all out, then bulk recognize when time isn't as pressing. With my Pilots (and visor's and cliés) I almost never took quick notes with graffiti, always opting for the Sketchpad. Second, I could never keep up with a lecture on a Pilot, while I could easily take notes with either ink-text or full HWR with the outline mode on my Newton MP2100.
So yeah. Maybe I would have preferred graffiti on my H1000 ... as the hwr just sucked, and ink-text wasn't even available yet, but on the latest/last MP, real writing surpassed graffiti.
• by austad (22163) on Tuesday October 05, 2004 @12:21AM (#10436574) Homepage
The margins are certainly good enough. Look at some of the PocketPC PDA's out there, they cost $800. And that new zaurus is like $700 something.
Give me a sweet clamshell pda with bluetooth and GSM/GPRS, and I'll gladly fork over the money for it. Make it possible to insert 2 SIM cards so it's two lines, and I'll fork over even more. Companies don't want to pay for personal calls, so most people end up with two phones. This would alleviate that problem, and be a great selling point just by itself.
I just picked up a Sidekick II the other day. It's a damn sweet device. A little bigger than I would like, but it still fits in my pocket. However, it doesn't have bluetooth, and t-mobile crippled it to force users to buy apps/ringtones/etc from them. I grabbed the SDK for it and a USB cable, and now I can upload that stuff on my own, but I still cannot tether it to my laptop and use it to dial up. I can SSH from it though, which is a lifesaver.
In any case, if Apple brought out a phone with 2 SIM's (wishful thinking), clamshell design, GUI with the usual apple intuitiveness, maybe allow you to categorize everything so you could split data out into "work" and "personal", and apps that just plain worked, you bet your ass I'd pay almost whatever they were asking for it.
$1000? If it makes my life easier by allowing me to organize myself more effectively, communicate more effectively, and lets me carry less crap around with me, it's worth it. The way I look at it, I'm not just buying a device, I'm buying convenience. You can't tell me there's no margins on something like that. People will pay for it. People will ditch their blackberries for it and expense them to their companies. Apple could charge almost whatever they wanted for a phone/pda device, and they would get it. Look at the ipod when it came out. What was it? Like 10GB for $499? People payed that, they *flew* off the shelves.
Note that they do make 2 SIM adapters for phones, but they make you choose one on powerup. You can't have both available when the phone is on.
• by wrs (53591) on Tuesday October 05, 2004 @12:23AM (#10436579)
The ARM's MMU has subpage protection boundaries. That is, the virtual-to-physical mapping is on 4K boundaries, but the access protection is on 1K boundaries.
The MMU was co-designed by the Newton team and ARM Ltd. to support Newton OS, which has a single address space for all tasks, but provides inter-task memory protection based on a fast-switching "domain" register. AFAIK, the ARM MMU still has all these features, at least in some configurations, so look it up if you're interested.
The 1K subpages allowed us to optimize for small physical memory (128K) via some interesting tricks. For example, the same physical page can be mapped to four different virtual pages, each of which has access to only one subpage. This is used to make "effectively 1K" V->P mappings for things like stacks (the minimum stack size is only 1K despite the 4K mapping boundaries).
All that said, the NewtonScript garbage collector has nothing to do with the MMU. It's just your basic world-pausing mark-sweep-compact GC. Nowadays with more memory one would have to be more clever, but the priority then was using every possible byte of the 90K heap. The OS was designed with more clever GCs in mind, we just never got there.
(Thanks for the kind words about NewtonScript, Pete.)
• by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 05, 2004 @12:55AM (#10436758)
Oh, I should mention that there's a good reason why JavaScript also is a proto-style language like NewtonScript (albeit a less impressive one), and why its accumulator generator looks like this:
function foo (n) { return function (i) { return n += i } }
... essentially identical to to NewtonScript's
foo := func (n) func (i) n := n + i ;
... except that in JavaScript foo is *declared* as the function name, while in NewtonScript foo is merely a variable holding the function.
Anyhoo, it's because both languages are essentially derived from Sun's "Self" language. NewtonScript was writtne by Walter Smith for Apple around 1990 and was very heavily derived from Self. NewtonScript's goal was to be faster than Self (and it was -- at least compared to early Self stuff), and with a FAR smaller footprint.
ECMAScript, er, JavaScript, er, LiveScript was also largely derived from Self, but simplified in unfortunate ways and with a radically changed "Java-ish" syntax -- at least the syntax was bolted on when LiveScript went to JavaScript.
Anyway, the languages' object models are very very similar. JavaScript is an uglified version of Self, and NewtonScript is an elegant reworking of Self (IMHO), but with a weird, unfortunate addition to the inheritance chain (_parent). Remove that addition and NewtonScript is definitely a brilliant language.
• by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 05, 2004 @01:08AM (#10436829)
Points all well taken, but they imply something which is not true: that the Newton was a money-loser at that point.
Oh, the Newton lost a ton of money. But when Steve, er, Steved it, the Newton was turning a profit for the first time in its history. Always the good time to kill a project: just when it's making a return on your investiment. :-)
• Re:let id die... (Score:3, Interesting)
by Xofer D (29055) on Tuesday October 05, 2004 @01:46AM (#10436975) Homepage Journal
You must have had some kind of strange battery fault. My Newton runs for 24 hours continuously with the backlight on. That's what makes it my favourite book reader - I can read all night without waking up my girlfriend, because the backlight means I don't need a light to read. The LCD screen is very stable and doesn't make my eyes hurt, either.
• Re:You forget... (Score:3, Interesting)
by jcr (53032) <{} {ta} {rcj}> on Tuesday October 05, 2004 @03:19AM (#10437264) Journal
Jobs said "it's not a computer without a keyboard"
I would tend to agree with this, at least until voice recognition has progressed to the point that I could use it to write code.
• by jcr (53032) <{} {ta} {rcj}> on Tuesday October 05, 2004 @04:45AM (#10437476) Journal
I'm surprised that you think so, since it's pretty much the same code. (Updated, and ported to PPC, of course, but the guys working on it now are the same ones who wrote it then, AFAIK.)
Have you spent much time training the HWR on OSX?
• Re:I agree. (Score:3, Interesting)
by OwnedByTwoCats (124103) on Tuesday October 05, 2004 @10:21AM (#10438997)
It's one thing to choose between supporting one OS to third party developers vs. supporting two or more.
The customer doesn't go out and buy new software to run on an iPod; the customer buys more songs. There is no courting of third-party developers for the iPod. At the moment...
iPod + cellPhone + newton + digiCam + camCorder in one pocket-sized box. How cool would that be?
• Re:Still viable (Score:3, Interesting)
by EvilTwinSkippy (112490) <yoda@eto y o c . c om> on Tuesday October 05, 2004 @10:23AM (#10439024) Homepage Journal
I used to love the Newton because it was basically a monochrome no-frills laptop. The darn thing was self contained. With a keyboard I could type notes. With the sketch pad I could doodle. Sure, the sync options were primative, but you didn't NEED to sync a Newton.
By contrast my shiny Sony Clie for all it's power is more or less a photo album for digital stills I keep on my memory card. While it will read PDFs and Office docs, it's slow and awkward to get to fit on the screen. I can only really sync it to one computer at a time, my laptop, because it records from any other copy of the database will re-create themselves, or worse, duplicate. And since I don't go anywhere without my iBook, the Palm is superfluous.
• I want a tablet Mac! (Score:3, Interesting)
by Psykechan (255694) on Wednesday October 06, 2004 @04:57PM (#10454139)
Look, I am not a Mac zealot. I toy with the idea of picking one up every now and then but it quickly goes away when I realize that I just don't need one; my (Linux and Windows) PCs work just fine.
However, I still to this day use my Newton. Sure I have started to use the iPaq a little more out of convenience (it syncs with my employer's Outlook) but it just means that I now use two PDAs; everything else is done on my Newton.
I've tried the Palm and Pocket PC as replacements but they are just lacking. I still continue to carry my Newton with me along with my laptop and my iPaq.
Honestly though, I would like to get rid of it. I love the functionality but the hardware is aging. Batteries are nearly impossible to find. I know that any sort of repair service is out of the question.
What I would like is a tablet Mac. This could not only replace the Newton but my laptop as well. All the functionality of the Newton and the Mac OSX would be It may even be able to replace the iPaq, which would really be great. Then I think about how a tablet PC could replace my laptop and my iPaq and wonder how long I can wait.
Unfortunately, the only thing stopping me from purchasing a tablet Mac is that Apple doesn't make them. Apple needs to realize that if they don't start releasing tablet Macs then the people who want a tablet system will go to Microsoft. Sadly, many of the people who do want a tablet system are the geeks, artists, and educators who traditionally fall into the Apple camp.
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1. He just smiled and gave me a vegemite sandwich.
4. Did you make it to the Milky Way?
To see the lights all faded
5. Why follow me to higher ground?
Lost as you swear I am
Don't throw away your basic needs
Ambiance and vanity.
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Although Neena went 10 for 10 (I'll give her credit for Tonight, Tonight, Tonight by Genesis and 3 by Britney), the Frank Zappa song from Hand of Godard made me laugh. Of course, Zappa really did write a song titled Don't Eat the Yellow Snow. Who knew? (Not me.)
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I have basic knowledge of Java's reflection API - therefore, this is not only a question of how, it's a question of whether it's possible and whether I'm going about a solution the best way.
We're doing some acceptance testing of multiple, interrelated projects; each of these projects retrieve data from a MongoDB store using an in-house abstraction API. To facilitate this testing, each component needs some pre-loaded data to be available in the database.
I'm building a command-line tool to accept a DTO (pre-compiled class binary), for loading of multiple instances using the morphia ORM library. I would like each member of our team to be able to run the generator passing in via cli their DTO (in jar or directory form), and a file (csv or otherwise) for instantiating a desired amount of records.
I have the class loading working fine with URLClassLoader. Now I'm trying to instantiate an instance of this class using data from a file.
Is this possible? Would serialized objects be a better approach?
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That's perfectly possible using the Java Reflection API :
• Load Class instance by name (Class.forName(className), you don't really need the ClassLoader instance)
• Grab Constructor instance of constructors have parameters and invoke newInstance(Object... args) on this constructor instance to create an instance of your DTO class.
• Invoke getDeclaredFields() on your Class instance and iterate over them to set their values (field.set(instance, value)). Make sure to invoke field.setAccessible(true) to be able to access private fields.
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I'm using URLClassLoader because it accepts an array of URL which enables me to load a class (using File) external to my applications jar file; unless you can think of a nicer way? – wulfgar.pro Oct 29 '11 at 13:33
No that works if you want to test classes in JAR files that aren't in your codebase paths. – user1016441 Nov 2 '11 at 17:36
If by "serialized objects" you mean canned instances, then no, by loading properties from a text file you allow much easier tweaking of test data (if that's a goal), including the number of objects.
But sure, it's possible; unmarshal the data from the input file and use it to initialize or construct the object in question like you would in regular code.
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looks like yaml might be a good solution for creating serialized instances that are readily tweaked. – wulfgar.pro Oct 30 '11 at 11:36
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I would like to learn the basics of Linux; In contrast to tutorials that teach how to do common tasks with Ubuntu or something. I'm looking for a structured introduction, not a reference. Also I would like it to be as modern and updated as possible. (I'm tired of reading a Linux introduction in a book where I'm constantly reminded that "today there are new shells that allow you to see the history of the commands you typed before!"
Does anyone know of something like that?
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You might like the online guide - Introduction to Linux - A Hands on Guide - as a good starting point. Importantly, it is a well-structured guide. If this is not for you, have a look at Linux in a Nutshell and How Linux Works
A working linux system is typically an installation of a linux distro (distribution). At some point you're going to have to learn processes and commands that are specific to your distribution. You might as well choose a book or guide that bases its explanations and examples on the distro you're using or likely to use.
If you have the time and the inclination, you cannot go wrong with this comprehensive guide: LINUX: Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition. This guide is a blessing for someone who wants to understand linux, not someone starting out on desktop linux.
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+1 on the Rute Users manual. It reminds me a lot of the classic Bell Labs UNIX references of yore. – J. Polfer Aug 6 '10 at 21:20
Here are some links to Linux tutorial sites. To learn more you of will need tutorials on the type of Linux you want to use. This might or might not be what you want:
Tutorials on Ubuntu:
Please tell me if you would like links to other types of Linux tutorials.
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One of my personal favorites is "Unix for the Impatient" which is great to understand the essence of Unix. There is much more on top of that, but this is a good starting point.
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This isn't quite what you're looking for, but I found the Gentoo Installation Handbook to be rather informative. It taught me a lot about how a Linux system is put together from a software perspective.
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Reading on the net and following tutorials is fine, but I found over the years that user groups can also sometime be very useful. Exchange of information, and working with peers is sometime the best way to get your hands dirty about Linux.
And I also think that the best way to learn Linux is to actually start using it. With today's virtual machines, it is easy to get Linux installed in a way that will not cause troubles to your existing installation. Same for the live versions, such as Ubuntu. You can start everything from the CD, and even install it on a USB memory stick, so you can start from it, have your own setup and config, then with a single reboot get back to your existing comfort zone, in the the OS you use to do your work. Once you're comfortable enough with Linux, you can then make the jump and get it installed on your own hard disk. But by then, you will have gained experience.
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you cannot learn linux by simply following a tutorial,you have to get you hands dirty and deal with the system itself,try new distros,solve problems,........etc
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Times they are a changing, as the Bob Dylan song said. Underlying all the presentations at the Social Impact Exchange Conference on Scaling were two big ideas: collaboration and private investment.
#siex10, nonprofit leaders, private investors, Social Impact Exchange conference, SIE conferenceI'm a great believer in working with others; it's a tactic I espouse every chance I get. But I am aware that not every opportunity to work with another person or organization is an opportunity to grow and succeed. As pointed out at the conference, collaboration can be as simple as co-sponsoring an event or as complex as a merger.
Whatever the level of involvement, all parties must exercise discretion, be clear about their goals and resources, communicate, and evaluate every step of the way.
It takes skill to collaborate; nonprofit leaders will need to learn those skills, hone them, and use them.
As to private investment, that, too, is a good thing when done correctly. But as we've all seen with charter schools, it can create problems as well as opportunities; it can raise questions of transparency and accountability.
Again, all parties need to be absolutely clear about their goals and priorities, conduct their due diligence diligently, and make sure accountability and transparency are built into any public/private partnership.
Nonprofit leaders will have to learn new skills, including how to attract investors and work with the for-profit mindset, without losing control of the nonprofit mission.
Underlying both of these is the need to learn a new culture, one with its own language and priorities, as some nonprofits have already learned as they worked their way through the SIE competition. Can you develop a business plan that takes the "competition" and investors into account, that has measurable outcomes when profit isn't one of them?
Funders and individual donors will also have to be re-educated to support realistic costs of doing business and to accept some failures on the road to great successes. How do you think like a business person, accept risk, spend money to make money, and maintain your mission as the top priority?
Hard questions.
We will have to learn from pioneering peers and develop processes for undertaking solid, well designed, collaborative, privately funded efforts in a way that maximizes social impact while retaining the confidence of donors, civic leaders, and clients.
We'll have to draw a map and choose our route carefully.
Ah, well. I've always said that life-long learning is a must for nonprofit leaders. Now we have a clearer idea about what the topics will be.
What did you take away from the Social Impact Exchange Conference?
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Obama Invented Pretext for Lawless Aggression
By Stephen Lendman - Posted on 31 August 2013
Obama Invented Pretext for Lawless Aggression
By Stephen Lendman
When US enemies don't exist, they're invented. When rule of law principles are clear and unequivocal, they're twisted to fit US policy.
On August 30, White House Special Assistant to the President/Principal Deputy Press Secretary Josh Earnest said:
"When the president reaches a determination about the appropriate response and a legal justification is required to substantiate or to back up that decision, we'll produce one on our own."
In other words, reasons given will fit policy. They'll be created out of whole cloth. They'll violate core legal principles, standards and norms.
It doesn't matter. What Obama says goes. He wants war on Syria. He'll get it. Who'll argue with bombs away? Who'll confront cruise missile diplomacy?
Who'll hold him accountable? Who challenged past war criminal presidents? They do what they want. They do it with impunity.
Misconceptions exist about America's Constitution. It reflects
whatever government does or does not do. We the people aren't involved.
We're left out entirely. "We" don't govern directly or through representatives. "We" are governed.
The founders agreed unanimously. America should be run by the rich, well born and able. Government should serve their interests, not ours. Checks and balances are convenient illusions.
Government is autonomous. It's detached. It operates in a realm of its own. It's unresponsive to public interests.
Article I, Section 8, Sub-section 1 lets Congress make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this Constitution or any department or officer thereof."
Government alone decides what's "necessary and proper." It's constrained only by the boundaries of possibilities.
Presidents have special powers. In times of war, they're virtual dictators. They do what they please. They do it with impunity.
Democracy exists in name only. It's a convenient illusion. Presidents circumvent Congress. They override judicial authority. George Bush usurped "unitary executive" powers.
It didn't matter. It doesn't now. Obama rules by executive orders, other unilateral directives, and unchecked presidential authority.
He does what he pleases. He gets away with it because who'll stop him.
Presidents have unlimited powers. They take full advantage. They govern like virtual monarchs. What they say goes.
A single constitutional sentence is misunderstood. It best explains presidential power.
It grants near limitless amounts. It's constrained only to the degree incumbents choose.
It's from Article II, Section 1, stating:
Article II, Section 3 adds:
It omits saying they're virtually empowered to make laws and implement them. They do it despite no explicit constitutional language permitting it.
Executive power is what presidents want it to be. Some usurp more. Some less. They use as much as they wish. They can take full advantage.
If Obama wants war, he'll get it. He's military commander-in-chief.
Although Article I, Section 8 affords Congress alone the right to declare war, presidents do it without consulting anyone.
They make treaties the law of the land. They do it without Senate ratification. Advice and consent only are involved.
They can terminate treaties unilaterally. Bush ended ABM by presidential declaration.
They can rule by decree. They can do it through executive agreements with foreign governments.
They appoint key officials, diplomats and federal judges. They do it with Senate approval. It's usually rubber-stamp.
They can veto congressional legislation. The great majority of the time it's sustained.
Congress alone has appropriation authority. Presidents can release funds for executive branch spending.
They have a huge bureaucracy at their disposal. It includes Secretaries of Defense, State, Treasury, Homeland Security, and Attorney General in charge of the Justice Department.
They have bully pulpit power. They can command center stage any time they wish. They can get national prime television coverage on request.
They can promote anything they want. They're empowered to do almost anything.
They can govern without constraint. They're virtual sovereigns in their own right.
Never underestimate the power of executive authority. Never imagine rogue leaders won't take full advantage.
Never expect congressional or judicial challenges. Don't expect what rarely ever happens.
No president ever lost office by impeachment. Waging lawless aggression never removed them.
The only thing presidents can't do is violate law flagrantly. Creatively circumventing it permits the same thing.
Impeachment and conviction requires proving "treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors."
It's virtually impossible to do so. It's never been done. Only two presidents were impeached. Neither was removed.
John Adams once said doing so would take a national convulsion. Doing it once creates possibilities.
Perhaps it would end presidential invulnerability. It's high time it happened. It's nowhere in sight.
One-man rule persists if presidents choose it. Doing so lets them wage aggressive wars with impunity.
Obama's already waging multiple direct and proxy wars of aggression. He's insatiable. He wants more. He targets Syria. It's based on lies.
He wants Syrian sovereign independence destroyed. He wants subservient pro-Western puppet governance replacing it.
Mass killing and destructions are small prices to pay. Obama bears full responsibility. Syria is his war. He won't quit until it's entirely ravaged and destroyed.
He seeks a coalition of the willing. He'll go it alone if necessary. He lost his key partner. British MPs did what most observers thought impossible. They voted no. They rejected force.
London's Guardian said doing so throws Obama's plans into "disarray." It doesn't stop him. It just makes things tougher.
"The White House was forced to consider the unpalatable option of taking unilateral action against" Assad, said the Guardian.
It lost its "most loyal ally." Doing so's unprecedented in modern times. According to Obama's National Security Council spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden:
He lied pointing fingers the wrong way. It bears repeating. No evidence whatever links Syria to chemical weapons use throughout months of conflict.
Plenty shows Western-enlisted death squads used them multiple times. They bear full responsibility for Ghouta's August 21 attack.
According to the Guardian, Washington took Britain's support for granted. British MPs surprised. They voted 285 to 272 against attacking Syria.
The Guardian called doing so "disastrous for Obama." Administration officials scrambled. They rushed to keep key congressional lawmakers on board.
Carl Levin chairs the Senate Armed Services Committee. He urged caution, saying:
Administration officials scrambled to cobble together international support. It's waning.
Arab League nations blame Syria for Ghouta's attack. At the same time, they oppose punitive strikes.
Losing Britain's support makes things tougher for Obama. It doesn't deter his plans.
White House Special Assistant to the President/Principal Deputy Press Secretary Josh Earnest was asked if Obama plans going it alone.
Planned strikes will be "discreet and limited." Cruise missile diplomacy is hugely destructive. There's nothing "discreet and limited" about it.
Hundreds of missiles are poised to launch. Shock and awe best describes what's coming. Enormous damage will be inflicted.
Thousands may die. Many more will be injured and displaced. War is hell and then some.
Civilians will suffer most. They pay the greatest price for war. Syrians suffered enormously already. Obama plans inflicting much more.
Give peace a chance is verboten. Bombs away is official US policy. UN inspectors are expected to leave Syria Saturday. They'll report when lab analysis is completed. Doing so make take "more than days."
According to UN spokesman Farhan Haq:
The team's "mission is to determine whether chemical weapons were used. It's not about attribution."
It's not to say who's responsible. Failure to do so lets Washington and complicit allies point fingers the wrong way.
At the same time, said Haq:
On August 29, Mint Press News headlined "Exclusive: Syrians in Ghouta Claim Saudi-Supplied Rebels Behind Chemical Attack," saying:
Abu Abdel-Moneim lives in Ghouta. He's the father of an insurgent fighter. "My son came to me two weeks ago asking what I thought the weapons were that he had been asked to carry," he said.
Some were "tube-like" in structure. Others were like a "huge gas bottle." They were stored in tunnels.
Abdel-Moneim said his son and other insurgents died during the Ghouta attack.
A female Jabhat al-Nusra fighter named "K" said:
Another fighter named "J" said:
According to Mint Press:
Prince Bandar bin Sultan's directly involved. He's Washington's point man against Syria. He's advancing the kingdom's top goal - destroying Assad, Iran's government and Hezbollah.
Doing it involves arming and funding some of the most extremist elements. They're cutthroat killers. They're committing outrageous atrocities. They brag about them. Media scoundrels give them short shrift. Most often their crimes go unreported.
False flags are involved. They permit pointing fingers the wrong way. Assad's wrongfully blamed for death squad crimes.
On Friday, so-called White House intelligence on Syria was released. It turns truth on its head. It's created out of whole cloth. It lacks credibility.
It claims a "preponderance of publicly available information" points fingers at Assad. He had nothing to do with Ghouta's attack. Administration propaganda claims otherwise.
It's repeated ad nauseam. It's used as pretext for lawless aggression.
So-called evidence in part at least comes from alleged Israeli intercepted chatter. Israel claims its IDF 8200 intelligence unit heard Syrian officials discussing Ghouta's attack.
An anonymous former Mossad official reported the Big Lie. He blamed Assad for using "nonconventional weapons."
Big Lies launch wars. This time's no different. Bombs away are imminent.
They look planned for next week. Perhaps Obama will surprise and begin earlier. He'll likely wait until UN investigators leave.
US forces are poised to attack on command. Lawless aggression will follow. It's longstanding US policy.
According to Michel Chossudovsky:
"Humanity is at a dangerous crossroads." Attacking Syria risks a "broader Middle East-Central Asian war." Doing so affects other regions.
They include "South East Asia and the Far East." China, Russia and North Korea are threatened. What's ongoing risks WW III. Advancing America's imperium alone matters.
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At his recent press conference, President Obama, in response to a question, said “You know, as you know, Mark, we can’t attribute any particular weather event to climate change. What we do know is the temperature around the globe is increasing faster than was predicted even ten years ago.” That is a flat out lie. The temperature of the Earth has been cooling for at least sixteen years.
The devastation that Hurricane Sandy wrought defies the imagination, particularly for those on the East Coast where so much destruction was inflicted. It mirrored 2005’s Hurricane Katrina and it is only natural for people to believe there has been an increase in hurricanes striking the U.S. homeland, but there hasn’t.
Despite 2009’s “Climategate” that revealed that global warming is a hoax, many still believe it exists. In a letter to Fred Upton, the Chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on November 11th, meteorologists and climatologists joined to warn that “Global warming that has not actually occurred can scarcely have contributed much to vast destruction wrought by Sandy.”
Dr. Bill Gray, the nation’s expert on hurricanes, was joined by Dr. Willie Soon, Prof. Fred Singer, and Lord Christopher Monckton, a science advisor to Britain’s former Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, to say that “Hurricane Sandy was a freak storm, not the type of extreme weather event that climate scientists have said will become more frequent and more severe if we fail to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide.”
“After almost 16 years without global warming, there are still a few who implausibly try to blame this non-existent global warming for causing various weather-related disasters in the past two or three years.” The letter advised against holding hearings on the recent hurricane. “With the election behind us, we will have an opportunity to begin again and give this matter the attention it deserves—none at all.”
Writing in Forbes magazine, James Taylor, the Heartland Institute’s editor of Environment and Climate News, spelled out the actual record of hurricane activity in the decades prior to the global warming hoax which began in the late 1980s and since.
“The National Hurricane Center (NHC) provides information on major U.S. hurricanes during the past 100-plus years. According to the NHC, 70 major hurricanes struck the United States in the 100 years between 1911 and 2010. That is an average of seven major hurricane strikes per decade.”
In all the decades back to 1961, the 100-year average remained intact with major hurricanes ranging from as few per decade as four and as many as seven. Not a single decade varied from this.
In the decades since the 1980s when alarmists began warning of a major increase in the overall temperature of the Earth, claiming it would trigger major weather events like hurricanes, nothing changed. In the decades in which carbon dioxide emissions were said to be the cause, the average remained the same.
Taylor examined the preceding 50 years before “the alleged human-induced global warming crisis.” He spelled out the data from 1951 to 1920 that reveals that the 100-year average was unchanged.
Despite the global warming claims “during the past four decades, the time period during which global warming alarmists claim human-induced global warming accelerated rapidly and became incontrovertible, the fewest number of major hurricanes struck during any 40-year period since at least the 1800s.”
In the first two years of this current decade “exactly zero major hurricanes struck the United States.”
Despite this, the calls for carbon taxes are being heard; taxes that would affect all industry and businesses nationwide. Such a tax, already in place in California, would drive large scale manufacturing out of the nation and take with them hundreds of thousands of jobs. It would impact the nation’s utilities and drive up the cost of electricity, the life blood of the nation.
If Americans do not wake up to this threat, do not realize that hurricane activity has not increased, and realize, too, that the Earth has been in a cooling cycle since 1998, they will fall victim to the vast matrix of environmental organizations, government agencies, and the mainstream media that continues to spread alarm in the name of global warming and climate change.
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Comical Allawi--the Resume
Ken Layne has it. Excerpts:
Allawi, a secular Shiite from a wealthy merchant family, was a spy and -- maybe! -- assassin for Saddam Hussein. As a high-ranking officer in the dreaded Mukharabat, the Ba'athist secret police, he was Saddam's friend, colleague and eventual rival. His Baghdad medical degree is said to be phony; the Ba'ath Party gave it to him so he could travel Europe on a World Health Organization grant and infiltrate Arab student groups.
Dr Haifa al-Azzawi knew Allawi well in his youth: "No one who studied medicine in Baghdad in the 60s could have forgotten that Ba'athist bully boy. He walked around the campus with a pistol in his belt and chased women students. His medical degree is bogus."
It has long been known that he works every side: MI6, the Ba'ath Party, CIA, UN, Saudi intel, Ahmad Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress, oil companies in the region (where he made his personal fortune), Allawi's own Iraqi National Accord, etc. He was supposed to lead a coup against Saddam in 1995 or 1996 (dates vary), backed by Clinton's White House. It was a $40-million operation, with support from the CIA and several MidEast states. Allawi blabbed to the Washington Post that a coup was on the way. This got back to Saddam very quickly, and Saddam tortured and murdered 800+ army officers believed to have some link to Allawi.
Allawi also headed a CIA-financed terrorist group operating within Iraq.. It was responsible for a number of terror attacks in the mid-1990s, including the bombing of a movie theater full of people, newspaper offices and public buses, as well as the usual car bombings. (Yes, he's a terrorist, but he's our terrorist. For now, at least.)
In 2002, Allawi played his crucial role in the war buildup by delivering a frightening (and fake) report to British Intelligence. The report, allegedly from an Iraqi officer, claimed that Saddam could deploy WMDs within 45 minutes.
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Remember those remarks that one Willard Mittington Romnom RoboRomney Romney made at a fundraiser that broke the internet yesterday? The one where he basically took a dump on the majority of Americans and called you a bunch of freeloadin' entitled pieces of worm-ridden filth?
Well, turns out those remarks were made right here in our very own backyard. Yup! Because no matter how many ways you slice it, Florida is always the shit pie that somehow derails elections! Weeeeeee!
Mother Jones, who initially broke the story on the leaked videos, reveals that Romney's dropping-the-coin-into-the-piss-bucket comments were made on May 17, 2012, at the home of a private equity manager named Marc Leder, who lives in Boca Raton. Oh, and it turns out this dude really loves the crap out of sex parties.
Romney was the one who inspired Leder to get involved with private equities when he visited Mitt's investment firm several years ago, according to the New York Times.
In fact, Romney was one of the first investors in some of the deals done by Leder's firm, Sun Capital, which today oversees about $8 billion in equity.
Leder is also something of a shitty private equity guy, with a bunch of the companies that Sun Capital has acquired running into the crapper, including Friendly's and Chevy's restaurants. About 25 of Sun Capital's companies have filed for bankruptcy since 2008. WE BUILT THIS.
Also, sex parties! (There really is no other way to segway into that topic.)
Yes... according to the New York Post, Leder is something of a Caligula of high finance, throwing wild sex parties where people walk around the pool naked doing sex things to each other while scantily clad dancers perform with torches.
... a male guest described as a "chubby white meathead" and a "tanned" female guest stripped and hopped into the pool naked.
"The guy hopped in first in his briefs and the girl standing on the perimeter of the pool took her top off," a witness said. "The next thing you know, her bra is off. Then she took her bottom off and was butt-naked and jumped in the pool."
Another attendee said, "They were in the pool swimming together. Then they started making out." Multiple witnesses say the naked pair continued their show outside the pool and performed sex acts on a chair in front of astonished guests.
Chubby white rich guy sex? Scintillating!
So to recap: The site of an out-of-touch wealthy Mormon presidential hopeful's most damaging moment came in the home of a shady billionaire douchebag who throws wild orgies for himself and his rich friends.
The Republicans have turned into a caricature of themselves.
It's going to be really tough for Romney to shake this one off. He's even trying to do some damage control. But it seems like it's irrevocable.
Of course, anything can happen between now and November. But keep in mind, now that the cat is out of the bag, this is what Romney's presidency will look like every day if he's elected:
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Story highlights
• Eight young men testified they were molested by Jerry Sandusky as boys
• Sandusky denies allegations; defense begins Monday
• He was former defensive coordinator for Penn State's football team
• Witnesses say they were sexually abused in locker room, Sandusky home
One sat up straight, bit his lower lip and then seemed to break down, his slender frame wracked by sobs as he buried his head in his hands. Two days later, the other cracked his knuckles and fidgeted. His childish "yeahs" and the eye patch he wore over an injury made him seem younger than his years, more vulnerable.
"He ...," the 18-year-old known as Alleged Victim No. 1, started to say. The witness hesitated, choking back sobs.
"He put ..." Pausing now, he reached for the strength to spit out the words.
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"He put his mouth on my privates."
"Um, he, ah," began the other 18-year-old, known as Alleged Victim No. 9. After a nervous laugh, he described the act of oral sex in graphic terms. Chewing on a thumbnail, he explained, "That's how you have to put it." And then he revealed that he was sodomized.
"He got real aggressive, and just forced me into it," he said. "And I just went with it; there was no fighting against it." Sometimes, the witness added, he'd "scream, tell him to get off me. But you're in a basement, no one can hear you down there."
"He," they said, is Jerry Sandusky, the retired, 68-year-old defensive coordinator for Penn State University's storied football team. Sandusky, who also founded a charity for at-risk kids known as the Second Mile, is on trial in Centre County Court, charged with 52 counts of molesting 10 boys over 15 years. Prosecutors say he used the charity to troll for the preteen boys he groomed for sex.
"Who is that?" reporters whispered in the reserved media seats each time a new witness took the stand. "What number is he?"
It seems dehumanizing at worst, awkward at best, to refer to these now-grown boys by number. Yet everybody covering the case does so. It's a way to preserve the privacy of young men who say they were sexually abused as children, men who are swallowing their own shame and embarrassment to step forward at a high profile trial.
The Sandusky scandal landed with an icky thump in November, the long-buried secrets sliming the reputation of Penn State's football program and an idyllic spot proud to call itself Happy Valley.
Already, it has cut a tornado's swath: Legendary coach Joe Paterno, affectionately know as "JoePa," is gone, dead and buried. University President Graham Spanier, gone and suing. Assistant coach Mike McQueary: gone for now, and thinking about suing. Two other university officials also are gone, and face criminal charges that they lied and covered up the Sandusky affair. Other state and federal investigations are ongoing. Even the Second Mile is closing its doors and transferring its assets to a charity in Texas.
Last week, the boys' stories revealed even more ripples of damage. It was not easy to watch eight young men discuss the intimate details of sexual acts they said were performed on them before they were old enough to grasp the significance. They were indelibly marked by the experience. Two said that Sandusky's shirtless bear hugs left them with an abiding aversion to chest hair.
Source: Psychologist to examine Sandusky
During the first week, though, the courtroom truly belonged to the Sandusky Eight -- the young men who said they were seduced, molested and betrayed. In just four days, they told an unforgettable story about a man who called himself "Tickle Monster" and "The Great Pretender." They said he blew "raspberries" on their bellies, spooned with them on a basement waterbed and soaped them up in Penn State's locker room showers. One testified that Sandusky picked him up in the shower from behind, saying "I'm gonna squeeze your guts out."
The testimony led Tom Kline, the lawyer for Alleged Victim No. 5, to observe: "It's just remarkable how many children one man can shower with."
There was more: Sandusky wrote another boy "creepy love letters," according to testimony, and completed a summer school project for him. He followed yet another boy home in his car after the ninth grader started to avoid him.
There are 10 women and six men, including alternates, on the jury; half have ties to Penn State. They seemed riveted by the prosecution's case, leaning forward in their seats as the Sandusky Eight and a dozen other witnesses testified. One older man in a red cardigan, nicknamed "Mr. Rogers" by reporters, crossed his arms and held a hand to his cheek as he listened in the jury box. No one on the jury so much as stole a glance at Sandusky. And no one seemed to smile or make small talk as jurors filed out of the courtroom for breaks.
For so many years, the young men said, they didn't tell a soul.
"Who would believe you?" one explained in his testimony on Thursday. "He's an important guy. Everybody knows him. He was a football coach. Who would believe kids?"
Another said that when he finally told on Sandusky, nobody believed him at first. At school, he said, he was viewed as a bad kid and was admonished, "Jerry Sandusky has a heart of gold. He'd never do anything like that."
Even Joe Miller, a high school coach who said he walked in on Sandusky in a compromising position with a boy, didn't want to over think what he saw. Why?
"Jerry Sandusky was a saint," he testified.
Who are the accusers?
Most never knew their fathers. School guidance counselors referred them to the Second Mile, and nearly all fell under Sandusky's sway during their second year in the program.
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CNN generally does not identify the alleged victims of sex crimes and will continue to respect the young witnesses' wish for privacy. Their stories -- and allegations -- briefly follow:
Alleged Victim No. 1 is 18 and his case launched the investigation. His mother became alarmed when he started asking questions about where to find sex offender registries online. A wrestler who was good at math, he met Sandusky when he was 12, during his second year at Second Mile. He said Sandusky "cracked" his back and kissed him in 2005, and later initiated oral sex. He said he stayed at Sandusky's house more than 100 times. But as he grew more uncomfortable with the physical contact, he started to hide from the coach. His grades dropped, he lost interest in sports and he began wetting the bed and getting in fights.
No. 3 is tall and strapping and, at 25, already losing his hair. He is in the Army National Guard and spent a year in Iraq. He was referred to the Second Mile in 1998 from the Big Brothers program. He lived with his mother and a sister and "had no idea" where his father was. He said he spent the night at Sandusky's about 50 times between 1999 and 2001, and showered with him at the gym. Although he felt uncomfortable, he never complained. "I was enjoying the things I was getting too much." Those perks included seats at football games and nights spent playing pool, shuffleboard and video games. The relationship with Sandusky ended when he was sent into foster care. "I prayed he would call me and get me out of there, maybe adopt me, but he never did." He said he felt abandoned, "enraged and hurt."
Tall, good looking and impeccably dressed, No. 6 recently graduated from a Bible college and lives in Colorado. He was an avid, 11-year-old Penn State football fan when he was referred to the Second Mile in 1998; he is now 25. It was a thrill for him to meet Sandusky, who invited him to work out in 1998. He recounted a bear hug in the showers, but said he has blacked out what happened and doesn't even remember getting home that day. He said it made him uncomfortable, "But it was Jerry Sandusky, and I didn't want to make him mad." He did not spend time alone again with Sandusky, but continued to go to nearly every Penn State home game for several years. "I feel violated," he said. "I've gone through a lot of emotional roller-coaster."
No. 7, now 27, was having problems in school when he was referred to the Second Mile. He got to know Sandusky in 1995 and started going to Penn State games with him the next year, which he thought was "pretty cool." He said not much was going on "in my home life," so going to the games was "very, very special to me." He remembers being groped and caressed by Sandusky, and rolling away from him and trying to avoid contact. He was hurt when Sandusky cooled toward him. "He had favorites and they got special treatment. I was pretty upset about it and I was resigned to the fact that I would go to Penn State games and that would be it."
No. 9 is 18, and was referred to the Second Mile in 2005. He lived in a trailer with his mother, who worked in a bar. His dad "wasn't around," he said. Tall and thin, almost gangly, the teen wore a white shirt and dark tie on the stand. An injured eye was covered with a medical patch. He said he agreed to hang out with Sandusky because "he was a well-known guy and he seemed nice." He testified that Sandusky performed oral sex on him and sodomized him in the basement bedroom. He cried out, but no one could hear. He said Sandusky told him he loved him, which he thought was "creepy and gross, but I was a kid, so what did I know?" Still, he spent nearly every weekend with the coach until 2008.
Now 25, No. 10 was the huskiest of the accusers. He was referred to the Second Mile in 1997. He said his father was "out of the picture." He said Sandusky attacked him the next year in the basement, performing oral sex on him while they wrestled, and attempting again in a silver sports car. He estimated he and Sandusky engaged in oral sex about five times over two years. He said Sandusky threatened him that he'd stay in foster care and never see his family again if he told anyone. He has spent time in state prison for robbery.
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Perks, with strings attached
Sandusky supplied the boys with tickets to football games, locker room visits with the team, athletic gear and, perhaps most important of all -- attention. He bought several of them gifts, including sports gear, jerseys, games and computers. He even bought one boy dress clothes so he could accompany the Sandusky family to church.
It made kids who had little going for them feel "cool," as several of the young men testified.
"He made me feel like I was part of something, like a family," said No. 3, who said he spent the night at Sandusky's home and was fondled many times on the basement waterbed. Why did he put up with it?
"He gave me things that I had never had before. I just didn't want to give any of it up." He said he loved Sandusky, who told him "that he loved me, that I was unconditionally loved, like a family."
It was something No. 3 said he wasn't getting at home.
Sandusky made the others feel special, loved and important as well. But as the eight young men said last week in court, it came at a price. Jokes and "touchy-feely" hugs turned into wandering hands, they said, and in most of the cases, something much more sexual. Sandusky did not ask permission, the witnesses said. And they didn't voice their objections. Some tried to squirm away. Others simply shut down mentally and "just rolled with it," as one witness said.
Water became a common theme -- groping down shorts in a swimming pool, naked bear hugs and soap fights in a locker room shower, goodnight cuddling and more on the basement waterbed.
It usually began in the car, on the way to football games, tailgate parties and family picnics, according to testimony. Sandusky's hand would find a boy's knee, they said. He would squeeze and let the hand linger.
Sandusky "would put his hand on my leg, basically like I was his girlfriend," No. 4 recalled. "It freaked me out extremely bad." He added that he would push the hand away but "after a little while, it would come right back. That drove me nuts."
He wasn't the only one.
"I think the hand on the knee thing happened like right away," No. 3 testified. "That was a big thing for Jerry, rubbing the knee and the inside of the leg and tickling me."
"When we went to games," No. 7 testified, "I would try to get as far in the back as I could so it wouldn't happen to me."
Defense: Sandusky's 'histrionic personality disorder'
The investigation begins
Thumb through Sandusky's autobiography, "Touched: The Jerry Sandusky Story," and there are photographs of some of his Second Mile protégés, particularly Nos. 3, 4 and 6. Investigators used the book to search for other alleged victims after No. 1 came forward in 2008, according to Anthony Sassano, a former Altoona police detective who now works as an agent for the Pennsylvania Attorney General.
An anonymous e-mail to the Centre Country district attorney led them to Mike McQueary, the assistant coach who reported seeing Sandusky engaging in "extremely sexual" behavior with a boy in the showers years earlier. That led to an earlier, 1998 report involving No. 6.
That case was investigated but no charges were filed. The investigating officer testified that he thought charges were warranted, but the district attorney at the time disagreed. Nonetheless, Sandusky acknowledged his "bad judgment" in showering with boys and promised to stop.
"It was a daunting task to get these young individuals to come forward," he said, "to get them to admit they'd been abused by a man, had performed sex acts with that man."
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He added, "This had been going on for a long period of time; it was kept very secretive. And people wanted to keep that secret, I believe."
Investigators obtained lists of children who had attended Second Mile programs, and, eventually, search warrants for Penn State's athletic facilities and Sandusky's home.
At Penn State, they found 20 boxes marked "Sandusky" in a storage area. In his home, photographs and other documentation also led to the witnesses who testified at the trial. The evidence includes lists of Second Mile campers with asterisks by their names.
In their testimony, both described Sandusky's behavior as they grew up and tried to pull out of his orbit. He seemed to become clingy, acting like an adolescent going through a painful breakup.
When No. 1 tried to distance himself, Sandusky became demanding. He yelled at the boy, scaring him, but eventually, "he got the gist," No. 1 testified.
He was annoyed that Sandusky, a volunteer coach as his high school, called him out of class for one-on-one meetings, sending the wrong message that he was a troublemaker. He said he stopped playing football "because I didn't want to see him anymore."
"I started to get older, got a girlfriend and was sick of what was happening to me," No. 4 explained. He avoided Sandusky's phone calls and hid in the closet when he stopped by.
"At first he called more," No. 4 said. "He wasn't happy. That's basically how it ended."
Both witnesses said Sandusky claimed they had used him.
No. 4 read excerpts from a letters Sandusky sent, which he called "creepy love letters."
No. 4 also signed a series of bogus Second Mile performance contracts, which promised spending money if he did such things as work out and get good grades in school. He said the agreements seemed designed to guarantee he'd spend more time with Sandusky as the relationship cooled in 2000. He added that he signed them "to shut him up."
"Very few people know about this story, and I guess even fewer care. [No. 4] comes along, and he and Jer seem to enjoy the same experiences. They loved singing, laughing, just being themselves. Jer became attached to [No. 4], and always will be. Times were not always perfect. There were ups and downs. No matter what, there was a connection that would always last through difficult times. Life is far from perfect at this stage. Some things have come into [No. 4's] life that appear to have taken him over. For Jer, it has seemed a dark cloud. Inch by inch, the cloud has taken over. This cloud has destroyed soccer and hockey, choked smiles and laughter. Jer believes there will always be something special inside [No.4]. Jer would love to have the good times back. Jer may not be worthy, but he needs a 'best friend.' It doesn't look real good. The story will end the way [No. 4] wants it. Jer wants to be there to the end, but that's [No. 4's] call. If [No.4] ever needs him, he'll come. Jer will not forget, and always care."
"I kind of looked at Jerry as a father figure," he said, "and I felt cool because I'm getting nice things out of it. I didn't want to lose that. I thought of myself as one of the cool kids at school. And I don't really want to admit that it's happening. I've spent so many years burying this in the back of my head."
But now, he wishes he'd come forward.
"I found out this has happened over and over and over again, forever, and I feel if I had just said something back then, this wouldn't have happened to them," he said.
"So I feel responsible for other victims."
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• Paterno family to sue NCAA
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• Holloway Sandusky
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by Brian Staby
SANTA ROSA, CALIFORNIA – Santa Rosa has long been a destination for road cyclists. After all, Levi Leipheimer lives and trains here; the Amgen Tour of California makes a regular visit; and the area is arguably one of the most beautiful in the world. OK, you can argue about that last point all you want. But, did you know there is a blossoming cyclocross community springing up in Santa Rosa?
For the past couple years, Carlos Perez and his Bike Monkey crew have been bringing cyclocross to the masses in Santa Rosa city parks. The city loved us at first, then like most venues, they saw the aftermath. Seems every time Bike Monkey had a race, it rained and rained and rained. Great for us but the wear and tear was too much for the city. Enter CX Nation, who has teamed up with Bike Monkey to bring a bigger and better race series this year. Round 1 of the Santa Rosa Cup took place last Saturday.
The city let us “have” a couple acres of undeveloped land at a local city park. We could do whatever we wanted. It took us three months and tons of volunteer hours but in the end the course was complete with a man-made sand trap, long stretches of dirt, and plenty of pavement. Rain two days before the race left the course quite tacky in morning but, by the time the Men’s and Women’s Elite riders rolled through, it was perfect. It was time to race.
Elite Women:
Kelly Chang (Sycip) ©Tim Westmore
With a minimum $500 purse on the line, it was unfortunate that there weren’t more ladies toeing the line. Those who did gave quite a performance. Sarah Bamberger (Rat Balz) took the lead early on and never relinquished it. She sliced and diced through the course like a surgeon to claim the big prize. Second and third didn’t come so easily. Kelly Chang (Sycip) had a good grasp, but slid out on a wet section of pavement. This gave Kristin Drumm (Cylcles Fanatic.com) all she needed. She punched it and rolled through in second while Kelly rebounded to finish third.
Aren Timmel (Chico Corsa) ©Tim Westmore
Elite Men:
The men’s race rolled out a stellar field, of not only cyclocross riders but some pro mountain bikers, to challenge for the $500 minimum purse. Yes, you read correctly. There was an equal payout for men and women. A huge goal for The Santa Rosa Cup was accomplished.
A group of six broke away from the main field on the first lap. Aren Timmel (Chico Corsa) set a rabid pace throughout the race – on a 29er. Pro mountain biker Michael Hosey (Marin Bikes) followed Timmel’s pace ‘till an untimely flat sent him to the back of the field. Krishna Dole (Sheila Moon), Mitch Trux (City Cycles), Max Jenkins (United Health), and Walton Bush (MASH) tried to stick with Timmel, but he was too much for all but Dole. On the last lap, Dole closed the gap on Timmel but couldn’t close it in the final sprint. Aren Timmel claimed the first round of the Santa Rosa Cup.
2011 Santa Rosa Cup ©Tim Westmore
Other winners:
Junior 10-14: Wyatt Overson
Men’s 55+: Thom Fox (Roaring Mouse)
Women’s C: Pilar Rand (Sycip)
Men’s C: Adrien Tamblin (Red Peloton)
Master’s 35+ B: Rob Pitchford (Fightin’ Bobas)
Master’s 45+ B: J Reese Gory
Master’s 35+ A: Fritz Wisor (Breakway Bikes)
Master’s 45+ A: Mark Howland (Bay 101/HRS/Rock Lobster)
Men’s B: Sam Rosenberg
Singlespeed A: Sean O’Meara (Team Bacon Strip)
Singlespeed B: Michael Jordan
Women’s Cat B: Adrienne Belliveau
Women’s 35+: Janel Lodge (Bay 101/HRS/Rock Lobster)
Women’s A: Sarah Bamberger (Rat Balz)
Men’s A: Aren Timmel (Chico Corsa)
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Bought out earlier this year from SUPERVALU by private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management, Albertsons has decided to forgo compiling individual customer shopping habits through loyalty cards at all of its brands, including Acme, Jewel-Osco, Shaw's/Star Market, and its namesake stores. Shoppers might not be aware of the treasure trove of data contained in those plastic store cards you swipe at the beginning of your checkout procedure, but they're a marketer's dream.
Albertsons decided that rather than give special pricing to loyalty card holders, they will give everyone the same low everyday price. At a time when SUPERVALU and Kroger are accelerating their efforts to create more comprehensive loyalty systems as a means of fending off not only the likes of Wal-Mart, but also, which has entered the grocery aisle, does taking a step backward, as Albertsons is seemingly doing, mean it won't be able to effectively compete?
As with most things, it depends. While Albertsons won't be able to customize a shopping experience or push particular items to customers -- as Kroger might, with its new smartphone app that will be tied to its loyalty card -- management says data gathered on the individual level is not as important as knowing what to sell in a particular neighborhood.
And there are examples of grocery chains that don't have loyalty cards that thrive as well as survive. Most notably, Whole Foods Market engages its customers in other ways without the need for any Big Brother database. While that might be more the exception rather than the rule because it's something of a niche player, the organic grocer does show it needn't be a fatal flaw to forgo the loyalty card.
Yet there are risks inherent, because shoppers do become attached to certain ways of doing business. When J.C. Penney abandoned its "doorbuster sale" policy for everyday low pricing, believing consumers would be wise enough to understand they were getting a better deal, the venerable department store chain was brought to its knees as it learned that, no, shoppers really do prefer the illusion of a sale. They want to be fooled into thinking they're getting a better price, and they abandoned Penney in droves. While the store quickly raised the white flag in defeat, it's still not certain it will be able to survive the mass defections the policy change wrought.
Right now the IRS is mired in a scandal over its targeting of individuals and groups because of their political beliefs, and next year it will take the lead in implementing Obamacare, causing many to worry that sensitive health issues will be in the hands of an agency that has proved itself all too willing to be used as a pawn in the stratagems of political operatives. Someone's personal shopping habits could be used to prove or disprove a medical claim or a tax deduction.
That's why Albertsons needs to position its move as a blow against intrusive information hoarding. Don't simply say the marketing data can be gathered other ways; in a period of heightened consciousness about privacy concerns, taking a leadership role in not collecting massive amounts of personal shopping habits that can be compromised by the government or hackers would put it in the express lane of consumer mindshare.
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Yes they can....Had Supervalu pulled the rewards cards and lowered prices even a little at the start of this last recession they may still own Albertson's and the others chains they just sold.
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Hello folks,
I'm trying to calculate how many holes to drill in the 2"x6" blocks of my eaves in a 11'x15' detached workshop that has a 4:12 hip roof. It will be insulated and drywalled.
I'm trying to balance the attic ventilation and will be using the 1/300 calculation instead of the 1/150.
It looks like the NFA (net free area) of the attic requires 40.32 sq inches for the exhaust and the same for the intake.
I'm looking at installing a static roof vent that provides 41 sq inches of NFA.
Then I plan to drill 2" intake vents at the eave blocks but need to know how many to drill.
If I've done the math correctly, a 2" hole is 3.14 sq inches in area, which would mean 13 2" holes for intake.
Can someone verify this? Is there a reduction in the area when screened with 1/4" wire mesh?
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We go head to head with 5th Cell's finest.
Recently, IGN had a chance to meet up and chill with the talented, decently good looking (not quite as good as a few of us, mind you) people over at 5th Cell. The team previously responsible for the "Why's this play better than a kids game should?" kids game, Drawn to Life, just now finished work on its second DS project in as many years, with Lock's Quest. We've been covering the game for a long while -- if you didn't hear about it from us first, you heard it from someone who did -- and we've now got a final copy in hand, and also had a chance to step onto the battlefield and rip it up with co-founder and creative director of 5th Cell, Jeremiah Slaczka.
We lost many a men on that battlefield, but lived to report.
The core Lock's Quest experience (as we hope you already know by now) is a mix between real-time strategy, point and click combat, and construction sequences that feel like one part Age of Empires, and one part Rampart. With the single player mode, you'll be primarily defensive throughout the entire experience. In multiplayer though, it's all about going head to head with another player locally, and balancing offense and defense to win the day.
Here's how it works: At the start of a match, the host of the game selects which level the opponents will fight on, and a few simple options. Starting source level (your building and character deployment cash) and time limit are both available for tweaking, as is the actual amount of day s you want to fight. After that, each player is put on the playfield and start spending source on multiple waves of baddies to send out to the other.
The main Clockwork grunts are free to use, but as you start to go with magic casters or heavier units, you'll need to pay. Each wave can be custom-made, so its as important to select what units you'll bring to the fight as it is to decide when to send them. You can try starting out with two waves of weaker, free, grunts, and then hit them later with harder units after the player will be overwhelmed, or you can vary things up in each wave, making sure that one perfect turret (certain characters are weak against certain structures) won't dominate a whole wave of soldiers instantly. After creating the waves, you can actually select from a few pre-determined AI routes for each group to take, so if you know your opponent likes to spread things out evenly across the map -- or if they play aggressive or defensive with Lock himself on the field -- you can decide where to send the groups to counter their strategy.
Building happens next, and it's pretty straightforward, though we were startled to see so many options in there. Since multiplayer needs to be an even playing field, 5TH CELL opted to make it a no-holds-barred match, allowing for any structure or enemy in the game. That means every wall, turret, gadget, and building material is available, and prices range from a few hundred source to well into the thousands. If you aren't careful, you can easily blow your source budget on just a few towers. Building time soon expires, and it's on to the fight.
Fighting is exactly as you'd expect it to be from the Lock's Quest design. Run around with Lock to do direct combat, use any of his unlocked skills (which he has all of, since it's again a free mode with all content available) to decimate enemies, play offensively on the front lines, or hang back and patrol your towers to make sure the enemy team doesn't break through. Repairing takes source, but killing enemy attackers rewards you with more, so balance is a must. As an added aspect of multiplayer, doing Lock's tap-combos (tapping the micro-game "1, 2, 3, 4, 5" combos on the bottom of the screen while he fights) will send your team much-needed stat buffers, including stronger attack, speed, or defense.
Overall the battles were a blast, but it was pretty obvious that the best vs. mode players are going to be the ones that master the single player mode first, or put in a lot of time in multiplayer. We played for a few fights, and didn't scratch the surface of strategy, items, towers, special attacks, or strategy that we know was there -- we knew, quite frankly, because our good friend Miah was kicking the crap out of us while carrying on a casual conversation about the game -- so we can't wait to play more of the multiplayer, and take what we learn there back into the main game to kick the tar out of a few more Clockworks. It's a shame that the mode doesn't have online or some kind of team co-op mode for multiplayer, but if Lock's Quest gets a sequel, rest assured that we'll have our wish list ready to go, and co-op story mode, team multiplayer, and online are all on it. On its own, two player battle mode is an awesome added mode to an otherwise single player, story-driven though, and it's more than enough of a reason to convince friends to pick up Lock's Quest and get into the game with you when it releases. We could see the DS community really getting into the strategy of vs. Lock's Quest; it's an awesome addition to an already impressive package.
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| Thu May 14, 2009 10:58 AM EDT
From the Chicago Trib:
Wisconsin police can attach GPS to cars to secretly track anybody's movements without obtaining search warrants, an appeals court ruled Thursday.
However, the District 4 Court of Appeals said it was “more than a little troubled” by that conclusion and asked Wisconsin lawmakers to regulate GPS use to protect against abuse by police and private individuals.
Officers do not need to get warrants beforehand because GPS tracking does not involve a search or a seizure, Judge Paul Lundsten wrote for the unanimous three-judge panel based in Madison.
The facts and legal analysis of this case read just like the kind of law school 'hypo' I sweated so hard over.
Here's what happened:
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The cops attached a GPS device to the car of some loser suspected of stalking a woman. Turns out he was and, after five weeks of tracking, cops got a warrant; inside his home was more proof. He's in prison now. Of course, he's appealing on Fourth Amendment grounds (unreasonable search and seizure). Note that he isn't arguing that he didn't actually terrorize the woman. Asshat. The court held that, among other things, the cops just remotely acquired evidence they could have obtained by other means (i.e. surveillance).
Man, this case sucks. My first response was a firm grasp of my ACLU card and a Mapquest query to find out where I could go to man the barricades. Then I got to the stalking part. Cheap shot, that: Who wants a probable stalker to go free when a tiny little device no bigger than a slim phone would save the cops—and the victim—so much time and worry. But it starts with a defendant who's easy to hate and ends up with the Muslim guy down the block who's just going about his business but has friends back in Iraq. Or the roommate of a suspected drug dealer or...you get the drift.
I see a big, big potential for misuse here but also a hugely efficient tool for law enforcement. But the main question is: Why don't they just ask for a warrant? If they have enough evidence to expend the resources involved staking out your place til you leave and ponying up what can't be an unlimited supply of trackers, then analyzing the data—surely that's enough for a warrant? And what happens to the tracking info if you're eventually cleared or never charged—what if you're going through a messy divorce and your ex finds out about the GPS tracking?
I can see this one finding its way onto a great many Constitutional Law exams.
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L. Neil Smith's
Number 484, September 7, 2008
"Barry Obomber and Insane McCain"
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Click, Clickity-Click
by L. Neil Smith
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Attribute to The Libertarian Enterprise
I don't think many people realize it any more—many of those who do are inclined to lie about it and attempt to cover it up—but the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution, commonly known as the Bill of Rights, were written not just to protect us from the would-be kings and dictators in government, but to protect us, as well, from democracy.
On both sides of the Federalist-Antifederalist split, most of the Founding Fathers expressed hatred and fear of the notion of "absolute democracy" in which the highest law was "vox populi, vox dei" ("The voice of the people is the voice of God."), an ancient proverb that novelist Robert A. Heinlein, an unusually astute observer of history and human nature, translated as "How the hell did we get into this mess?"
The rights that the Founders chose to enumerate were meant never to be decreed, legislated, adjudicated—or voted—away. They had been placed (or at least the Founders believed) beyond the reach of politicians, bureaucrats, and the people, themselves. While they were inclined to celebrate the mind and spirit of the individual human being, the Founders knew that our species doesn't play particularly well in groups, and that the collective intelligence of a mob is that of its brightest member—divided by the number of people in the group.
So how did we get from a society in which individuals were free, and the Bill of Rights was unassailable, to a society in which nothing is allowable unless you have begged specifically for the government's permission?
There are many answers to that question—my first novel, The Probability Broach, for example, is primarily about the unfortunate influence that the 1794 Whiskey Rebellion had on American history—but my purpose here is to consider the role of two more fundamental phenomena: an irrational obsession to make the whole world "safe" for idiots, and an insatiable desire to extract big bucks from deep pockets.
The single action cartridge revolver (relax, I'm not actually changing the subject, here) is a comparatively simple contrivance, although it does require that you meet it halfway in some respects. For example, although the original 1873 Colt "Peacemaker"—and its many imitators—has six chambers for cartridges bored into its cylinder, it is only safe to load five, leaving one chamber empty so that an accidental blow to the hammer (as when you drop it, or the stirrup falls onto it from your saddlehorn when you're tightening the cinch) can't unintentionally discharge the firearm straight into your leg.
For more than a hundred years, that was the drill, and everybody understood it. It's even mentioned in movies like The Shootist, when John Wayne explains it to a young man—Ron Howard—he's teaching to shoot. All you have to do is count cartridges as you slide them, one by one, through the opened loading gate, into the cylinder. Stop when you get to five. Make sure the chamber you leave empty is the one that's just forward of the hammer, and that the cylinder is indexed—locked in place—before you close the loading gate. As impossibly complicated as it is to try to write—maybe impossibly complicated to read, as well—it's extremely simple in practice. There's even an alternative technique, involving skipping the second chamber that you roll past, but I don't care for it, and I'm not going to go into it here.
Believe me, it's much simpler than driving a car with a manual transmission.
For all of that trouble, you get four extremely soul-satisfying clicks whenever you cock the weapon, a soul-satisfaction that's frustratingly hard to describe, easy to experience, and impossible to forget. You used to be able to hear it in the opening moments of Gunsmoke.
It's the very sound of the Old West, come to life.
Click, clickity-click.
All of that changed in 1973, however, the hundredth anniversary of Colt's first cartridge revolver, when Sturm, Ruger and Company, an outfit that had been succesfully manufacturing single actions in many ways superior to the Colt for 20 years, introduced what I have always referred to as their "Ralph Nader Safety Revolver", a gun designed, in essence, by liability lawyers, for idiots who can't count to five and stop.
Apparently some of those idiots had gotten lawyers themselves and sued the company, blaming it for the unfortunate results of their own idiocy. Because of the newly-designed ignition system, it was now safe to load all six chambers. Ruger would even convert your dangerous, nasty old five-shooter to a safe and sound six, for free. But a single action revolver is all about the sense of history it invokes. The click, clickity-click was gone forever, and with it, in this writer's opinion, the thrill it had offered—along with any reason not to buy a double action revolver instead, or even better, a semiautomatic pistol.
And so the threat of government action—in this case the fear of civil lawsuits—reshaped American culture after all, in ways that the Founding Fathers didn't want, and couldn't have anticipated, all to protect idiots from themselves, and reward them when their idiocy catches up to them. The operation of an antique style of handgun may seem like a small thing, but it's representative of a much larger phenomenon.
Today, you must apply for an expensive, difficult-to-obtain permit from the government before you are allowed broadcast your ideas to the world.
You must get government permission if you and your fellow beings wish to assemble and march to protest against the same government (how insane is that?) or apparently even meet in private to plan the event.
Otherwise, government's hired thugs will electrocute you, gas you, herd you all together, knock you down, and stomp your head and chest before they drag you off to a barbed wire pen. No, don't look at me like that: every one of these outrages just happened—again—at the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis. They may do it—and tear your press pass off—even if you've obtained the requisite permission.
You even have to clear your spiritual beliefs with the expert theologians at the IRS before you can officially be said to have a religion.
And, of course, you have to get an okay from the government before you can purchase a gun, and a permit to exercise your right to tote it.
It's what I call "controlled carry".
And that's just the first two amendments
If you should happen to ask them about any of these violations of the Constitution—provided they don't just smash your face and have you hauled off to Guantanamo—the politicians and bureaucrats in charge will explain, faux-patiently, that it's all for your own good, and that safety considerations must always trump the rights of mere individuals.
"We had to destroy the Bill of Rights in order to save it."
So what we have now, apparently, is the political equivalent of Ruger's Ralph Nader safety revolver, a "Safety" Bill of Rights, if you will (or even if you won't), ostensibly intended to protect idiots—meaning you and me and anybody else feeble-minded enough to believe in exercising their individual liberties—from themselves. More to the point, our rights under the Constitution or any other construction don't mean a thing if our betters, our masters, and our owners decide that they represent a danger to them. That's what the Republican power elite was telling us last weekend in Minneapolis. It's the same thing that the Democratic power elite told us the weekend before that, in Denver.
Since even the smartest individuals are almost always idiots in groups, constituting a clear and present danger even to little old ladies with shopping carts, innocent sheep in Wyoming, and wooden Indians outside of cigar stores, it may be there's no way out of the trap that's been set for us. Safety fascism has taken America over permanently.
Or has it?
Lying on the desk beside my keyboard as I write, is a big, fat Glock M20, a 10 millimeter semiautomatic pistol with an absolutely astonishing (to me, anyway) magazine capacity. Many things about this weapon are remarkable, but the pertinent fact is that it doesn't have any kind of manual safety. A gun doesn't need a safety as long as you remember to keep your finger off the trigger until you mean to pull it.
The Glock is a relatively new development, historically speaking, one that flies in the face of every current trend by depending on the user's intelligence for safety. So maybe there's some hope left, after all.
At least for those of us who aren't idiots.
As for the rest of American civilization, maybe it's time for some reeducation. I have a book under development aimed at accomplishing that very thing and am now planning a website to expose and deal with police violence. I'd be happy to tell you all about them, any time you wish.
My old friend and partner Aaron Zelman is making a groundbreaking video for the Internet on the individual right to own and carry weapons. It's an expensive proposition to do it right and he could use help.
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I'm confident there are others hard at work on similar projects. Ron Paul's supporters don't seem to have missed a beat since their candidate stepped down, but appear more active and enthusiastic than ever.
If you don't have a project of your own for the advancement of liberty, and don't plan to start one of your own, then offer your support to those who do. It is of such stuff that true revolutions are made.
Freedom first, safety second—or maybe third.
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How can French people stay so healthy while eating rich foods and drinking red wine? Recent research may have the answer: Red wine is a good source of resveratrol, a natural compound also found in red grape juice, peanuts, blueberries and cranberries. This wonder nutrient shows promise in promoting heart health, increasing life expectancy and preventing cancer.
The resveratrol found in wine is extracted from the skin of red grapes during the fermentation process. The longer a wine ferments in the presence of grape skins, the greater its final resveratrol content. However, you’d have to drink a lot of red wine to get maximum benefit from resveratrol.
While a typical glass of wine can contain less than a milligram of resveratrol, supplements like Jarrow’s Resveratrol 100 formula contain as much as 100 times that amount. “It’s on our ‘A list’ of healthy aging supplements,” says Paul Clark, a clinical herbalist at our Sonoma store, who emphasizes that Jarrow’s supplement delivers the compound in an active form.
So what exactly does resveratrol do? According to aggregated research from the Linus Pauling Institute, laboratory tests have shown the compound boosts heart health by inhibiting clot formation in the arteries and promoting dilation of the arteries.
The compound may also make people live longer and slow the signs of aging. In studies with yeast, worms and fruit flies, resveratrol stimulated enzymes that lengthened the organisms’ lives by as much as 59 percent. Resveratrol had a similar effect on the human version of the enzyme in test tubes.
In another study, elderly mice that were given resveratrol showed a marked reduction in signs of aging, including greater motor coordination, preserved bone strength and reduced cataract formation. Though the compound did not significantly increase the mice’s lifespan, resveratrol showed great promise in reducing some negative effects associated with the aging process.
Other tests have demonstrated resveratrol’s promise when it comes to slowing the progression of cancer. Researchers who added resveratrol to cell cultures found that it inhibits the growth of many cancer cells, including those from breast, prostate, stomach, colon, pancreatic and thyroid cancers.
Though definitive studies that show resveratrol’s effects on humans are still on the horizon, practitioners continue to recommend this antioxidant to boost general health. If you are heart-conscious or young-at-heart, head to Pharmaca to speak with one of our practitioners about our selection of formulas containing resveratrol.
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