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Inkscape can do that, but I've been told Illustrator is not able to export nested layers (sublayers) with attribute display="none". Is this true? If so, how can I have all my hidden sublayers be exported as svg elements with display="none"?
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Welcome smohadjer. This appears to be more of a technical support question and would probably be better served by asking Adobe. – Scott Oct 3 '13 at 19:16
As far as I know Adobe has no dedicated technical support site for its products. All I could find online is their community forum in which I have posted the same question, but so far no answer there either: forums.adobe.com/message/5734750#5734750 – smohadjer Oct 3 '13 at 22:18
Whenever I need to do specific code things to SVG exported from Illustrator, I almost always end up doing it in a text editor with find/replace and regular expressions. Illustrator's SVG support isn't very good, Adobe treat it as an afterthought. You could give layers or groups you want hidden a name ending with say --hidden then find/change --hidden"(.*)style=" for "\1style="display:none; or something like that. – user568458 Oct 8 '13 at 12:40
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Concerted regulation of lysine and threonine synthesis in tobacco plants expressing bacterial feedback-insensitive aspartate kinase and dihydrodipicolinate synthase
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The essential amino acids lysine and threonine are synthesized in higher plants by two separate branches of a common pathway. This pathway is primarily regulated by three key enzymes, namely aspartate kinase (AK), dihydrodipicolinate synthase (DHPS) and homoserine dehydrogenase (HSD), but how these enzymes operate in concert is as yet unknown. Addressing this issue, we have expressed in transgenic tobacco plants high levels of bacterial AK and DHPS, which are much less sensitive to feedback inhibition by lysine and threonine than their plant counterparts. Such expression of the bacterial DHPS by itself resulted in a substantial overproduction of lysine, whereas plants expressing only the bacterial AK overproduced threonine. When both bacterial enzymes were expressed in the same plant, the level of free lysine exceeded by far the level obtained by the bacterial DHPS alone. This increase, however, was accompanied by a significant reduction in threonine accumulation compared to plants expressing the bacterial AK alone. Our results suggested that in tobacco plants the synthesis of both lysine and threonine is under a concerted regulation exerted by AK, DHPS, and possibly also by HSD. We propose that the balance between lysine and threonine synthesis is determined by competition between DHPS and HSD on limiting amounts of their common substrate 3-aspartic semialdehyde, whose level, in turn, is determined primarily by the activity of AK. The potential of this molecular approach to increase the nutritional quality of plants is discussed. | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF00021531 | dclm-gs1-057860000 |
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To: None <[email protected]>
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Date: 11/02/1997 17:04:28
In article <>,
matthew green <> writes:
> putting things into /tmp by default seems like a nice way to
> introduce a security problem....
Modules are loaded before any network daemon or getty is started. So
there is or a least should be no possibility to interfere.
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Apple might be adamant that Siri remain exclusive to the iPhone 4S, but that doesn't mean that developers aren't still trying to get the app running on other iOS devices using unofficial and unsupported means. Back in October, we wrote about attempts to get Siri running on an iPad. Since then various hackers and developers have tried to solve the Siri puzzle. | http://mashable.com/category/h1siri/ | dclm-gs1-057940000 |
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Even in an age of vanishing privacy, people using Apple's digital assistant Siri share a distinct concern. Recordings of their actual voices, asking questions that might be personal, travel over the Internet to a remote Apple server for processing. Then they remain stored there; Apple won't say for how long. That voice recording, unlike most of the data produced by smart phones and other computers, is an actual biometric identifier.
Google's Privacy Update: What You Need to Know
Google's new privacy update that will allow the company to eventually integrate its products will kick in March 1. Tuesday's news that Google condensed its 70 privacy settings into one easier-to-understand and more transparent document, paves the way for the company to meld its products into a more integrated and intuitive user platform, i.e. Google needed to give itself permission to sync your products in the future.
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When you delete a photo from a site such as Facebook, Bebo or MySpace, is it really deleted immediately, or even at all? According to some interesting research conducted by Light Blue Touchpaper, many sites do not remove photos even 30 days after the user has deleted them. The study was conducted on 16 sites over the period of 30 days, and the results were awful. | http://mashable.com/category/user-privacy/ | dclm-gs1-057950000 |
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Not a good idea - it would have many side effects:
• Bounties are supposed to "hurt" - you invest something in order to get some engagement. The possibility to earn those points back would mitigate that.
• For high rep users, this would mean that they could start a bounty every day just using their surplus rep that they "make" beyond the 200 cap. This would be terribly unfair to other users.
• The reputation cap is designed as a means to stop people from spending too much time on the network. The possibility to circumvent it this way would undermine that (IMO very sensible) mechanism.
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I think I agree after all. – Christian Jonassen Jan 1 '12 at 22:20
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1. Potassium trinickel(II) orthophosphate diphosphate, KNi3(PO4)P2O7
The structure of the title compound is characterized by the presence of two different anions, (PO4)3− and (P2O7)4− with an eclipsed conformation. The crystal structure consists of edge-sharing [NiO6] octahedra forming an [Ni3O14] chain running parallel to [001]. Adjacent chains are connected through edges and apices to PO4 and P2O7 groups in such a way as to build a three-dimensional host lattice. The resulting framework presents intersecting tunnels running along [010] and [101] in which the 11-coordinated potassium cation is located. The crystal structure of this new phosphate probably represents a new structural type.
PMCID: PMC3914035
2. The aluminoarsenate Na1.67K1.33Al3(AsO4)4
PMCID: PMC3914036
3. catena-Poly[[triaquamagnesium]-μ2-malonato]
In the title compound, [Mg(C3H2O4)(H2O)3]n, the metal atom is in an octahedral environment. The octahedra are connected by malonate anions, forming chains along the c-axis direction. O—H⋯O hydrogen bonds link these chains into a three-dimensional network.
PMCID: PMC3914059
4. Tetra-μ-acetato-κ8 O:O′-bis[(pyridine-2-carbonitrile-κN 1)copper(II)]
The title binuclear compound, [Cu2(CH3COO)4(C6H4N2)2], lies about an inversion center, with the CuII cation bridged by four acetate anions and coordinated by a pyridine N atom in a distorted square-pyramidal geometry. The Cu⋯Cu distance is 2.5997 (15) Å. In the crystal, molecules are linked by weak C—H⋯O and C—H⋯N hydrogen bonds into a three-dimensional supramolecular architecture. The crystal studied was a non-merohedral twin with a minor twin component of 4.1 (1)%.
PMCID: PMC3914060
5. Bis(4-aminobenzenesulfonamide-κN 4)dichloridozinc
In the title compound, [ZnCl2(C6H8N2O2S)2], the ZnII ion lies on a twofold rotation axis and has a slightly distorted tetrahedral coordination geometry, involving two Cl atoms and two N atoms from the amino groups attached directly to the benzene rings [Zn—Cl = 2.2288 (16) Å and Zn—N = 2.060 (5) Å]. The dihedral angle between the benzene rings is 67.1 (3)°. The crystal packing can be describe as layers in a zigzag arrangement parallel to (001). The amine H atoms act as donor atoms and participate in intermolecular N—H⋯O and N—H⋯Cl hydrogen bonds, forming a three-dimensional network.
PMCID: PMC3914061
6. 2-(6-Hydroxy-1-benzofuran-3-yl)acetamide
In the title compound, C10H9NO3, the dihedral angle between the benzofuran ring system (r.m.s. deviation for the non-H atoms = 0.009 Å) and the –C—C(O)—N– segment is 83.76 (1)°. In the crystal, molecules are linked by N—H⋯O and O—H⋯O hydrogen bonds, generating (001) sheets, which feature C(4) and C(10) chains.
PMCID: PMC3914110
7. (2Z,4E)-1-(5-Fluoro-2-hydroxyphenyl)-5-(4-fluorophenyl)-3-hydroxypenta-2,4-dien-1-one
In the title molecule, C17H12F2O3, the dihedral angle between the benzene rings is 8.6 (2)°. In the crystal, two pairs of O—H⋯O hydrogen bonds connect the molecules into inversion dimers. In addition, weak C—H⋯F hydrogen bonds link the dimers into a two-dimensional network parallel to (10-4). The carbonyl O atom is an acceptor for two weak intramolecular hydrogen bonds.
PMCID: PMC3914111
8. (E)-1-(2,4-Dinitrophenyl)-2-(3-ethoxy-4-hydroxybenzylidene)hydrazine
The molecule of the title hydrazine derivative, C15H14N4O6, is essentially planar, the dihedral angle between the substituted benzene rings being 2.25 (9)°. The ethoxy and hydroxy groups are almost coplanar with their bound benzene ring [r.m.s. deviation = 0.0153 (2) Å for the ten non-H atoms]. Intramolecular N—H⋯O and O—H⋯Oethoxy hydrogen bonds generate S(6) and S(5) ring motifs, respectively. In the crystal, molecules are linked by O—H⋯Onitro hydrogen bonds into chains propagating in [010]. Weak aromatic π–π interactions, with centroid–centroid distances of 3.8192 (19) and 4.0491 (19) Å, are also observed.
PMCID: PMC3914112
9. 1-(1-Benzofuran-2-yl)ethanone O-(2,6-difluorobenzyl)oxime
In the title compound, C17H13F2NO2, the 2,2-difluorobenzyloxy residue assumes an E configuration with respect to the benzofuran system. The benzene ring makes a dihedral angle of 61.70 (4)° with the fused ring system (r.m.s. deviation = 0.008 Å). In the crystal, molecules are connected by weak C—H⋯F hydrogen bonds into chains extending parallel to the b-axis direction.
PMCID: PMC3914113
10. Hexane-1,6-diammonium hexafluorosilicate
The asymmetric unit of the title organic–inorganic molecular salt, C6H18N2 2+·SiF6 2−, consists of one anion and one cation together with half of each of two cations and two anions located on inversion centres. The SiF6 2− octahedral anions are arranged to form sheets parallel to (011), which are linked into a three-dimensional network by the organic cations through N—H⋯F hydrogen bonds.
PMCID: PMC3914114
11. N,N-Dimethyl-3-phenylisoxazole-5-carboxamide
In the title compound, C12H12N2O2, synthesized by ammonolysis of 3-phenylisoxazole-5-carbonyl chloride in dichloromethane, the dihedral angle between the isoxazole ring and the phenyl ring is 14.05 (7)°. In the crystal, centrosymmetrically related molecules are linked into dimers by pairs of C—H⋯O hydrogen bonds, generating rings of graph-set motif R 2 2(10).
PMCID: PMC3914115
12. 2-{[5-(Pyridin-4-yl)-4-p-tolyl-4H-1,2,4-triazol-3-yl]methyl}acrylic acid hemihydrate
The asymmetric unit of the title compound, 2C18H16N4O2·H2O, consists of two organic molecules and one solvent molecule. The symmetry-independent organic molecules have slightly different conformations: the 1,2,4-triazole ring forms dihedral angles of 84.61 (4), 89.68 (5) and 22.38 (6)°, respectively, with the 2-propenecarbocylic, p-tolyl and 4-pyridyl groups in one independent molecule, and 71.35 (4), 82.13 (5) and 24.82 (6)°, respectively, in the second. In the crystal, molecules ralated by the 21 screw axes are assembled via O—H⋯N and O—H⋯O hydrogen bonds into infinite chains and these are linked by further O—H⋯N hydrogen bonds into undulating sheets parallel to the bc plane. Adjacent sheets are connected by weak C—H⋯O interactions, forming a three-dimensional structure.
PMCID: PMC3914116
13. 10-(4-Chlorophenyl)-14a-hydroxy-12-methyl-8,9,9a,10,12,13,14,14a-octahydro-5H-10a,14-methanoindeno[2′,1′:4,5]azepino[3,4-b]pyrrolizine-5,15(7H,11H)-dione
The asymmetric unit of the title compound, C26H25ClN2O3, contains two independent molecules (A and B). The conformation of the two molecules differs essentially in the dihedral angle involving the two benzene rings. They are inclined to one another by 52.47 (10) in A and by 31.75 (11)° in B. In both molecules, the six-membered piperidin-3-one rings have chair conformations. In molecule A, all four five-membered rings have twist conformations. In molecule B, only three of the four five-membered rings have twist conformations. The fourth, of the inden-1-one moiety, has an envelope conformation with the spiro C atom, bonded to the N atom of the pyrrolidine ring, as the flap. A weak intramolecular O—H⋯N hydrogen bond occurs in each independent molecule while a C—H⋯O interaction is also observed in molecule A. In the crystal, pairs of O—H⋯O hydrogen bonds link the molecules, forming inversion dimers with graph-set motif R 2 2(12). These dimers are further interconnected by C—H⋯O and C—H⋯π interactions, forming a three-dimensional network.
PMCID: PMC3914117
14. (E)-N′-(2-Chlorobenzylidene)-1-methyl-4-nitro-1H-pyrrole-2-carbohydrazide
In the title compound, C13H11ClN4O3, the phenyl and pyrrolyl ring are linked by an acyl–hydrazone (R 2C=N—N—CO—R) group, forming a slightly bent molecule: the dihedral angle subtended by the the phenyl and pyrrolyl rings is 8.46 (12)°. In the crystal, the three-dimensional supramolecular structure is assembled by N—H⋯O hydrogen bonding. Molecular sheets are formed parallel to (101) in a herringbone arrangement by weak van der Waals interactions; weak π–π [centroid–centroid phenyl–phenyl and pyrrolyl–pyrrolyl distances of 3.7816 (3) and 3.8946 (2) Å, respectively] interactions occur between neighbouring sheets.
PMCID: PMC3914118
15. 2-(2-Fluoro-4-nitrophenoxy)-3-nitropyridine
In the title compound, C11H6FN3O5, the dihedral angle between the aromatic rings is 72.4 (3)°. The NO2 groups form dihedral angles of 40.8 (2) and 4.8 (2)°, respectively, with the attached pyridine and benzene rings. The crystal structure features π–π stacking between centrosymmetrically related pairs of pyridine rings [centroid–centroid separation = 3.800 (3) Å].
PMCID: PMC3914119
16. 1-(4-Methylphenylsulfonyl)-5,6-dinitro-1H-indazole
In the title compound, C14H10N4O6S, the indazole ring system is almost perpendicular to the tosyl ring, as indicated by the dihedral angle of 89.40 (9)° between their planes. The dihedral angles between the indazole system and the nitro groups are 57.0 (3) and 31.9 (3)°. In the crystal, molecules are linked by C—H⋯O interactions, forming chains running along [100].
PMCID: PMC3914120
17. (E)-3-Amino-4-(2-phenylhydrazinylidene)-1H-pyrazol-5(4H)-one. Corrigendum
Corrigendum to Acta Cryst. (2013), E69, o187.
The title in the paper by Elgemeie et al. [Acta Cryst. (2013), E69, o187] is corrected.
PMCID: PMC3914031
18. Nickel(II) uranium(IV) trisulfide
Crystals of NiUS3 were obtained from the reaction of the elements Ni, U, S, and of GeI2 in a CsCl flux at 1173 K. Nickel(II) uranium(IV) trisulfide, NiUS3, has orthorhombic (Pnma) symmetry and crystallizes in the GdFeO3 structure type. The compound has a perovskite ABQ 3-like structure, with U occupying the interstitial sites of a NiS6 framework. The U atoms are coordinated by eight S atoms in a distorted bicapped trigonal–prismatic arrangement. The Ni atoms are coordinated by six S atoms in a slightly distorted octahedral arrangement. The asymmetric unit comprises one U site (site symmetry .m.), one Ni site (-1), and two S sites (1 and .m.).
PMCID: PMC3914034
19. (1S*,2S*,4R*,5R*)-Cyclohexane-1,2,4,5-tetracarboxylic acid
The title compound, C10H12O8, a prospective raw material for colourless polyimides which are applied to electronic and microelectronic devices, lies about an inversion centre and the cyclohexane ring adopts a chair conformation. Two crystallographycally independent carboxylic acid groups on adjacent C atoms are in equatorial positions, resulting in a mutually trans conformation. In the crystal, O—H⋯O hydrogen bonds around an inversion centre and a threefold rotoinversion axis, respectively, form an inversion dimer with an R 2 2(8) motif and a trimer with an R 3 3(12) motif.
PMCID: PMC3914102
20. (4-Fluorophenyl)(4-hydroxy-3-methylphenyl)methanone
In the title compound, C14H11FO2, the two benzene rings are not coplanar, with a dihedral angle of 57.45 (12)° between their planes. In the crystal, molecules are linked by an O—H⋯O hydrogen bond, forming a 21 helical chain along the b axis.
PMCID: PMC3914103
21. 5-Chloro-2-methylsulfanyl-6-(naphthalen-1-yloxy)-1H-benzimidazole methanol monosolvate
In the title compound, C18H13ClN2OS·CH3OH, the dihedral angle between the benzimidazole group and the naphthyloxy moiety [82.89 (5)°] very near to orthogonality. The H atom in the five-membered ring is disordered with equal occupancies at the two N atoms and the H atom of the methanolic hydroxy group is disordered with equal occupancies over two sites at the O atom. The methanol molecule acts as a hydrogen-bond acceptor for the amino H atom and donates a hydrogen bond to the nonprotonated ring N atom. As a result, chains are formed running along the a axis.
PMCID: PMC3914104
22. 2-{N-[(2,3,4,9-Tetrahydro-1H-carbazol-3-yl)methyl]methylsulfonamido}ethyl methanesulfonate
In the title compound, C17H24N2O5S2, the indole ring system is nearly planar [maximum deviation = 0.032 (1) Å] and the cyclohexene ring has a half-chair conformation. In the crystal, N—H⋯O hydrogen bonds link the molecules into a chain running along the b-axis direction. Weak C—H⋯O hydrogen bonds and weak C—H⋯π interactions are observed between the chains.
PMCID: PMC3914105
23. (E)-1,1-Diphenyl-2-(thiophen-2-ylmethylidene)hydrazine
The asymmetric unit of the title compound, C17H14N2S, consists of two crystallographically independent molecules with similar conformations. The dihedral angles between the phenyl rings are 89.32 (5) and 82.80 (5)° in the two molecules. In the crystal, molecules are linked by C—H⋯π interactions, forming a three-dimensional network.
PMCID: PMC3914106
24. (1R,3S,8R)-3,7,7,10-Tetramethyltricyclo[,3]dodec-9-en-11-one
The absolute configuration of the title compound, C16H24O, has been deduced from the chemical pathway. The six-membered ring has a roughly half-chair conformation with the quaternary C atom as the flap. The seven-membered ring displays a chair conformation. In the crystal, there is a weak C—H⋯O hydrogen bond between the methylene group of the cyclopropane ring and the carbonyl group of a screw-axis-related molecule, which builds up a zigzag-like chain along the b-axis direction.
PMCID: PMC3914107
The title compound, C18H23N2O2 +·Cl−, crystallizes with two independent cations and anions per cell. Each cation has twofold rotational disorder about the linking vinyl groups but with unequal occupancies [0.963 (5):0.037 (5) and 0.860 (8):0.140 (8)]. The two independent cations are close to being related by an inversion centre but the data does not support the expected centrosymmetric space-group assignment. The conclusion is that the differing rotational disorder has lead to an overall non-centrosymmetric lattice. In the crystal, the molecules pack in layers parallel to (133) and (-13-3), chain-linked with motif C 1 2(7) by the dihydroxypropyl O–H⋯Cl⋯H–O hydrogen bonds. Other lattice binding is provided by O—H⋯Cl, C—H⋯Cl and C—H⋯N interactions.
PMCID: PMC3914108
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Comment: Re:Williams WASP X-Jet (Score 1) 127
by aliquis (#46384907) Attached to: The Ephemerality and Reality of the Jetpack
They all controlled great :)
Comment: Isn't the real proof (Score 0) 627
by aliquis (#46328097) Attached to: Does Relying On an IDE Make You a Bad Programmer?
In what you earn from doing what you do?
Argue anything you want but the one who earn the most obviously do the better thing vs the one who do the worst regardless.
You could for instance write a portable OS in C and a very platform specific in Assembler (less relevant point today but whatever) and make the argument why either is the better approach than the other but if one makes nothing and the other make billions that argument isn't worth all that much longer anyway.
The result is much more relevant than why or how.
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+ - The Rise of the PC. And the fall of the hardware spec ->
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Many still view the PC as a ‘box’ that sits atop a desk — that includes a keyboard, monitor, mouse — and whose utility is primarily defined by its specs, or hardware: processor speed, memory, storage. This is no longer true. Increasingly, today’s “personal computers” are smartphones, tablets, specialized Google Chromebooks and other devices, all highly mobile, user friendly, often touchscreen-based and defined less by the power of hardware and more by the power of their ecosystem. Many pundits call these ‘post-PC’ devices.
The current leaders of this new phase of the personal computing revolution are Apple and Google. Apple makes the iPhone, the world’s most popular and profitable smartphone, and the iPad, the dominant tablet computing device. Google develops and oversees Android, the operating system that already powers about 300 million smartphones. Google also develops and manages the Chrome operating system which powers Chromebooks, netbook-like personal computing devices."
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Comment: Re:Difficult deletions (Score 4, Interesting) 112
by cshake (#39009587) Attached to: Looking For Love; Finding Privacy Violations
I had some person set up personal ads on eharmony and another website using my email address a while ago.
On both sites I logged in ("forgot password" link works great since it's my email, and somehow the second site emailed me the unchanged plaintext password so I could leave them both to what the person had set them...) and changed the "something else you should know about me" to be something like "I signed up for this site using a strangers email address, and they're going to delete this account soon if I don't change it" to be nice and give the person a chance if they actually wanted to find dates. The number of email notifications I got for people still trying to set up a date with "me" even with that little tidbit in the profile was kinda scary, so a week later I went through their "delete profile" procedure, and lo and behold I'm getting mail filtered to my spam folder to this day from eharmony asking me to sign back up. However, the second site seemed to be moderated by real people, and within a day of me adding that info the account was removed without me having to do anything more - and I haven't gotten any email from them since.
Comment: Antivirus? (Score 0) 391
by cshake (#38672792) Attached to: Symantec Sued For Running Fake "Scareware" Scans
I know I'm in the minority of computer users (though not on slashdot) in that I understand how to keep my computer clean by not running completely unknown programs and all that stuff, and as such haven't had a single virus hit in at least 5 years - the last one was on windows 95 and it got past Norton, but I noticed it in the task manager and manually cleaned the system. But, to be safe, I do have antivirus - ClamWin. It only runs when I tell it to, it's free, and doesn't sit in memory popping up ZOMG YOU'RE GONNA DIE! messages all the time like a Symantec product. Sure, I don't have the absolutely latest cutting edge virus defs or heuristics, but I just have it run overnight once a week or force a check on downloaded things, and if I was really suspicious about something going on I'd try to manually clean it or just reformat the system partition. And if I'm really suspicious of a program and it doesn't show up for ClamWin, I'll copy it to my linux box and run it in wine. I guess what I'm trying to say is that a properly configured firewall and brain replaces 99% of the need for antivirus.
As I said though, I wouldn't expect the majority of computer users to have any sort of security awareness, and there is something to be said for a company-wide uniform system, so I guess that's why Symantec and McAfee still have business. I hope this suit sticks though - for someone who keeps backups and is able to reimage their system when needed, the time their programs waste over the course of your computer's lifetime is much more than the downtime that a virus causes (once again, for a computer-savvy user). Coupled with their fear-mongering ads, I view them as more underhanded than Bonzai Buddy.
Comment: Re:Linode (Score 1) 375
by cshake (#38479134) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Best Inexpensive VPS Provider?
Another vote here for Linode - I've been running web services on a node for almost 2 years now and all sorts of background stuff that uses the bandwidth that isn't needed by httpd. Currently have a murmur server running on it for game voip as well. I don't use PV-GRUB because the Archlinux-paravirt kernel that they officially support is exactly what I want.
Over the course of those 2 years I have only had one downtime, and that was because the machine I was on was scheduled for maintenance - they sent me 2 weeks notice and I was able to shut down and transfer the VPS over to the new physical machine when it was good for me any time in that window.
I will say that I've told friends about it and they scoff at the price, but I've yet to find a better price from a reliable host that gives you exactly what they specify with no added restrictions or hidden things. There are links in various places as you're maintaining the node from their web interface like "backup" and "add more resources" that bring you to the extras page where you can pay for them, but I'd expect nothing less and that's the grand total of "ads" that you see anywhere.
Comment: Re:meanwhile, somewhere deep in the engineering de (Score 4, Interesting) 379
by cshake (#38441696) Attached to: Fatal Problems Continue To Plague F-22 Raptor
As a MechE who is currently working in Aerospace doing design, let me tell you that those of us who know how to properly CAD stuff up and indicate the important dimensions on a drawing hate the other guys as much as you do. I can't say how many times I've opened up a part file, gone to the sketch, and found that none of the lines were fully constrained, or the constraints were arbitrary and were only tangentially related to the driving dimensions. I used to go back to the original author and ask what was going on in their head, but found it to be easier to just silently redo constraints on the features that needed it, hopefully without moving any lines. The place I'm in now is full of people who have been using NX since it was new, and yet the "guru"s in house all say that sketches are bad and want us to use solid features instead - completely ignoring that it's so much harder to change parameters when a design needs to change, all because sketches used to suck (or so I hear) and they can't be arsed to learn how to use constraints correctly now.
The fun part comes when you have to mix units - two weeks ago I had to draft up a simple adapter plate that had 4 force transducers on it, which all happened to have metric bolt patterns. Trying to indicate that the distance to the center of each group of holes was the driving dimension is fun when you don't have a feature at the actual center, but at least you can dual dimension with the nice even number in mm under the ugly inch one. (disclaimer: I hate the english system. I have to use it because that's the policy when you're .gov).
Then there's the "here's a vaguely circular bolt pattern with 28 thru holes, and the only important thing is that they're symmetric about a center point, have a minimum radius, and line up so the bolts go into a 1" grid on some table somewhere", but that ends up needing 20 dimensions and all sorts of center lines. These are times when GD&T is just annoying and it would be a whole lot easier for me to put a note on there with the intention (though that's probably because I don't know enough yet to do it cleanly and correctly).
I like it when the machinists or someone else checking the drawing tells me what I did wrong so I can fix it and not have them need to yell at me again - I just wish more people I worked with had that attitude.
Comment: Not about email (Score 4, Interesting) 85
by cshake (#38218108) Attached to: E-Mail Can Reveal Your Friend Hierarchy
Mixed-mode communication completely breaks this:
When I get a really long email from a friend or family member asking a question that would take longer to write out than to explain over the phone, I'll wait until I'm free and then give them a call. I guess that means from an email perspective that I hate them and never reply.
Or what about various organization mailing lists where you reply to the sender with a new email instead of sending something to the whole list?
Of course this is all irrelevant because this study isn't really intended for emails, despite how they report it - it's for social networking sites with embedded messaging systems to be able to mine more data about you, so they can show you ads that your "closer" friends have clicked on in addition to matching with your profile items, so they can charge more for ads.
Comment: ... so, like a Library? (Score 1) 112
by cshake (#37376666) Attached to: Amazon To Launch Digital Book Rental Service
So it's like a library, but you pay for it?
I know, I know, libraries are paid for with taxes and their various fundraisers, but that's because they have physical buildings to maintain in addition to the books. Unless this service is pennies a week, it's gonna be a ripoff. Their distribution costs are negligible (text files of books are what, a few kB?), inventory control is practically free because there's no such thing as a lost book, and they can send out as many copies as necessary instead of waiting for one patron to return one after they're done. The only cost to them is the book rights in the first place.
Comment: Re:G+ users like the games just the way they are.. (Score 1) 75
by cshake (#37292602) Attached to: What Google+ Games Needs To Beat Facebook
I agree completely.
As a G+ user I'd be perfectly content with games being not even included in the first place, because that's not at all what I want to use it for. If I were a developer already invested in trying to make money off G+ games, then I'd have made a bad business decision. A huge share of users are there because it's not covered with games and bloat, it's only a simple way of connecting with people and sharing links and posts. I hope Google also realizes that and sticks to just making a little money off ads and whatever they sell right now, instead of trying to make even more with games and losing their user base.
Comment: Re:Seatback charging on airplanes (Score 2) 93
by cshake (#37156958) Attached to: Jailbroken Devices Compromised By Charging Stations
Since iDevices (at least the iPods I've used) have the ability to charge from the "dumb" wall bricks with a USB port, why not bring a custom cable with you to unsecured locations that only connects to VCC and Gnd on the USB port, and has the appropriate resistor between the data lines to indicate a valid charging station? Voila, no risk of data going either way and you still get a charge from an unknown location.
Comment: Re:Almost (Score 1) 674
by cshake (#36914154) Attached to: Why Your Dad's 30-Year-Old Stereo Sounds Better Than Yours
My dad's 30-year-old stereo is what I'm listening to right now, ever since he replaced it and I "inherited" it, complete with nice speakers with real wooden cases from the early 80s. So no, his 30-year-old stereo sounds exactly like mine!
I also bet that if I bought a new one today that wasn't all the way in professional grade it wouldn't be still working in 30 years, but this old silver-faced Kenwood receiver/head unit (KR-710) that's older that I am has my mixer board plugged into one of the tape inputs and still works like a champ. Well, except the radio tuner carriage that doesn't like to move all the way to the right, but that doesn't matter. And sometimes I have to jiggle the volume knob so that the right channel comes back on. And the EQ knobs don't really do much except make fuzz when you turn them. But just using it as an amp while playing FLAC or CDs on the computer and controlling the volume on my mixer board, then it's rock solid and sounds great.
The older units may not have remotes, fancy digital displays, or let you play your surround sound DVDs through them with optical TOS-Link cables, but for an amp that sits in the corner that you pipe your audio to with RCA jacks, there's not much to complain about because they do the important part right.
Comment: Re:Slow? (Score 3, Informative) 184
by cshake (#36622910) Attached to: AMD Llano APU Review - Slow CPU, Fast GPU
I know this article is about the desktop APUs, but as I've been running the C-50 Ontario on my netbook (Acer AO522-BZ897) for a few months now, I think I can share some real-world experience.
Overall: It's a dual-core netbook, and still gets 6 hours battery life if I'm writing code with the brightness down, a little less if I'm listening to music. It may be slower on the individual cores than a competitive Atom, but if your program is threaded it's great. I'm very happy with the performance. It replaced a Powerbook G4 (I know, different class altogether, but still), and in terms of % CPU used for common tasks it's far and away better. No more mp3/m4a decoder taking 10+% CPU for decent bitrate songs.
Real-world Performance: I can say that any downside I've seen is entirely due to bad software - I hear that in windows I could watch 720p on it, but right now with x64 linux and the beta multi-threaded flash player in the latest firefox or chromium I can't watch youtube videos at more than 480 before it starts to drop frames. Not a big deal for me though. Once the video drivers caught up with the chipset I can say that compositing and desktop effects work flawlessly, no lag whatsoever. I don't play games on it, being a netbook, except for the occasional flash thing (which sometimes lag, but again that's the flash plugin).
Hooking it up to a 1080p TV over HDMI and running at native resolution, playing standard definition (624x352) XviD files zoomed to fullscreen works flawlessly in VLC. 720p x264 almost works - it saturates a single core and drops a frame here and there, and will really hang if you try to bring up a semi-transparent control bar over the video, but again if the codec were multithreaded it would be perfectly fine. I suspect that VLC on linux isn't taking full advantage of the GPU here either, considering I'm running the open source radeon drivers and not the official binary. For those of you running with officially supported closed-source software, i.e. official drivers or windows, I suspect it might even play 1080p without a problem.
Let's remember that this APU is in the same power class as an Atom, and it's a netbook - impressive performance in my mind.
As my only direct comparison points are the G4 powerbook that it replaced and my Phenom X4 9950 desktop, it's (gasp) right in the middle, but comparing a netbook to a desktop built for CAD and gaming is stupid, and so is comparing it to something 5 years older.
My only gripe is that you can't set how much RAM the GPU side takes, so no matter what size stick I've got in there the system sees the total minus 256M. The upside is that you only need a total of one stick of RAM, but the downside is that when it comes with a 1GB stick, suddenly you're trying to run a windows 7 system (out of the box) with ~750MB, and that's asking for trouble. As I swapped out the HD and RAM before ever turning it on the first time and installed linux fresh, I can't say I've seen the slowdown, but it could be there.
Comment: Re:How about heating and airconditioning? (Score 1) 324
by cshake (#36583276) Attached to: DVRs, Cable Boxes Top List of Home Energy Hogs
I think they're talking about unintentional energy usage. I know the heater in my apartment uses a lot of power, and that my computer running 24/7 makes up a good chunk of my power bill as well. I know that my refrigerator uses power, I hear it running - same with the dehumidifier. This is more like leaving your phone charger plugged in while it's not in use and having it eat 2W constantly, or people who leave their powered computer speakers on all the time and don't realize it costs them a few $ a month - "But there's no sound coming out, so it isn't using power, right?" People would expect that when they're not watching TV, that all the components in the TV chain are also powered down.
I just hate with the set top box that if you are power conscious and have everything on a power strip that you flick off when you're not watching TV, that when you turn it back on the next day it takes 10 minutes to boot up and get the satellite signal again, and half the time it loses clock and personal settings (and the damn 500ms button lag on the interface and a line of advertising at the bottom of the program guide, but those are unrelated). I thought that with decades of desktop computers being turned off that cable companies would learn what a CMOS battery is...
Comment: Re:But what about the waste? (Score 1) 334
by cshake (#36568066) Attached to: UK Sticks With Nuclear Power
Newer reactor designs (so-called Generation IV designs, specifically the fast reactors in there) are being designed with the issue of waste in mind, and already offer significant improvements in both reduction of waste for the amount of power generated and reduction of the half-life of the spent fuel. One of the promising concepts is the ability to make a single initial fuel load that reacts over a long period and cannot be removed from the reactor, so all the elements that are useful for weapons are only a middle step in the reaction chain and cannot be extracted for military purposes even if you wanted to. This lets the fuel go much farther down the chain, producing less power as the reactor ages but ending up with waste with order[s] of magnitude shorter half-lives.
This is not saying that nuclear waste can ever be "safe", and it's anyone's guess as to current countries even lasting the centuries that the waste is still dangerous, but at least these can burn what is currently considered waste and reduce it even farther. Also keep in mind that nuclear power is less than 70 years old, plants last 30-odd years, and take 10 years to be built in the first place (nowadays). Likening the the release cycle to software, well, you could consider current reactor designs to be Windows 98. People are still learning, and it will only get better and safer.
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+ - Replicant developers find and close Samsung Galaxy backdoor->
Submitted by jbn-o
jbn-o writes "The Free Software Foundation reports that developers of Replicant, a fully free/libre version of Android, "discovered that the proprietary program running on the applications processor in charge of handling the communication protocol with the modem actually implements a backdoor that lets the modem perform remote file I/O operations on the file system".
Replicant developer Paul Kocialkowski explains further in the blog post: (emphasis mine)
Provided that the modem runs proprietary software and can be remotely controlled, that backdoor provides remote access to the phone's data, even in the case where the modem is isolated and cannot access the storage directly. This is yet another example of what unacceptable behavior proprietary software permits! Our free replacement for that non-free program does not implement this backdoor. If the modem asks to read or write files, Replicant does not cooperate with it.
The blog post contains pointers to more information including a technical description of the back-door found in Samsung Galaxy devices and a list of known affected Samsung Galaxy devices. The FSF lists more ways proprietary software is often malware."
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Comment: Re:Corporations are NOT people ('one') my friend. (Score 1) 258
by riverat1 (#46479401) Attached to: Oil From the Exxon Valdez Spill Still Lingers On Alaska Beaches
But it becomes illegal, if it's $1 million of a corporation's money. The people whose interests the corporation represents just had their First Amendment rights taken away.
That's just bullshit. Those individuals can make their own expenditures in support of their First Amendment rights which are no less than the First Amendment rights that anyone not associated with a corporation has. If the corporation has rights then they are in addition to the rights their associates have on their own. I haven't always supported the positions of the corporation I'm associated with and it offends me that they can imply that I do through their expenditures.
You seem to think that money is equivalent to free speech but in reality it is merely an amplifier of free speech. Most corporations (especially the large ones) have resources far in excess of of most individuals. That stacks the deck in favor of corporations and wealthy individuals enough and I'm tired of my voice being drowned out by them.
Comment: Re:Maybe it's just Little Country Syndrome? (Score 3, Insightful) 187
Say they are doing their best to reassure the domestic population that they are in competent control of the disaster, but they're in over their heads...
Not quite.
MAS is owned by the Malaysian Government holdings company (either wholly or majority, I cant remember which) and the airline has recently had another period of unprofitably. This is less about assuring the Malaysian people of anything and more about trying to do damage control to the rest of the world. Sadly they're doing it in SE Asian style which is more about maintaining face than fixing issues.
In addition to this, MAS is getting a lot of competition from Malaysia's low cost airline Air Asia and anything else that could eat into the MAS's revenue is detrimental to the Malaysian Govt so they're dialling the damage control up to 11.
Comment: Re:Makers and takers (Score 1) 666
by Jane Q. Public (#46478517) Attached to: 70% of U.S. Government Spending Is Writing Checks To Individuals
Okay. Well, I apologize as well if I misunderstood you.
I agree that "equivalent" is ambiguous but that's the nature of the beast. One of the big quibbles I have with the U.S. government is how they decide what is an "equivalent" good when they calculate CPI. The whole exercise is arguably subjective; still, the methods the government uses are hardly reasonable, and lie outside what I would even call subjective. I think "dishonest" is a far more accurate description.
But the same problem arises in cases like that chart I linked to earlier in this thread. How does one compare, say, a horse & cart from 1650 with a Ford from 2014? Well, McCusker's answer was that you can't, really. You can, however, compare them in the best ways you can, including the cost of what they do. In other words, you might compare the relative cost (i.e., the cost as a percentage of your annual income) of a trip to New York from Baltimore. Other things can be treated more equally, such as the cost and maintenance of the whole "vehicle" (vehicle plus horse), and fuel (horse feed).
Comment: Re:Don't they have to fly that thing around? (Score 2) 248
by Trepidity (#46478195) Attached to: What If the Next Presidential Limo Was a Tesla?
"The Beast" exists mostly because of Kennedy and various other attempts on American presidents
That's true, but there's some middle ground between riding completely open-air in a convertible, and riding around in a quasi-tank. All you need to stop JFK-style attacks is an enclosed vehicle that can stop bullets, like the Popemobile.
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Comment: Re:I wonder (Score 1) 66
by pcwhalen (#46479885) Attached to: A Look at the NSA's Most Powerful Internet Attack Tool
I'm not sure what country you're from, but in America, morals are for suckers and poor people.
You are wrong.
I am an American, I am far from poor and I am no man's fool. I live by the moral compass taught to me by my parents, my church and my conscience and I have done very well in my 50 years on Earth.
The most precious commodity is the ability to sleep at night.
by bloodhawk (#46478457) Attached to: 1GB of Google Drive Storage Now Costs Only $0.02 Per Month
Do you carry your SATA drive around with you wherever you go and attach it to every computer you use?
Absolutely, my backpack which has my laptop goes everywhere with me. It has 2 external drives and a handful of USB sticks. around 5 or 6 TB in all and anything extra critical I make I put on another drive which I store safely. access is 100 times faster and more reliable than accessing google. I know that the service isn't going to be discontinued in X months time and I can be confident on who has access to my data. Even my keys for the car has 2 USB sticks on it with 256GB of data that is always with me even if there is somewhere I go without my backpack. Google can't hope to match the ease of access, vailability, security or speed.
Comment: Re:Awesome! (Score 1) 99
by timeOday (#46474437) Attached to: Tested: Asus Chromebox Based On Haswell Core i3
I like the idea of these cheap little boxes! But it should be noted that the $180 one you linked does not include an HDD/SSD, nor an ethernet port(!?) (No USB3 either, though it does have high-speed expandability via a Thunderbolt port).
I know it's not really the same, but I've had good luck with used laptops. Even if I use them primarily headless or with an external keyboard/mouse, you get low power consumption, built-in battery backup, and a built-in screen which is handy sometimes. The only trick is finding cheaper used laptops that have some sort of digital video out, not just a VGA port.
Comment: Re:If you want to hoard bits... (Score 1) 943
by fuzzyfuzzyfungus (#46472399) Attached to: How Do You Backup 20TB of Data?
There's also the matter of your expected retrieval case: tapes almost certainly beat HDDs in the archival timeframe, so suck it up and pay up; and they (if reasonably modern) can be alarmingly fast at the linear reads and writes associated with doing full restores or fast backups of data that have been suitably lined up to be shoved onto tape.
On the other hand, they are almost perversely non-random-access(doubly so if you are talking about a multi-tape set with library swapping, more than doubly so if you are talking about a multi-tape set larger than your library can handle with junior-admin swapping), so the 'somebody fucked up, they need File X to be like it was three months ago' scenario sucks.
Nearline or consumer SATA on undistinguished controllers aren't quite as zippy; but they might as well be a RAMdisk compared to tape if you are doing small-scale restores, though probably not as fast if de-icing a much larger dataset for wholesale restoration of multiple systems.
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How do I connect a AngularJS app to a Kinvey backend in an easy way?
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This question is a little generic. Can you be more specific? Which APIs, what use case, etc. – Josh David Miller Mar 6 '13 at 18:13
Ahh sorry. I don't mind if it's the REST API or javascript library to be honest. Whichever is easier. For use cases, I'm thinking general use, fetching and saving data, user management. – Alfred May 7 '13 at 15:40
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A bit late to the conversation, but I have created a library for AngularJS that provides full support to Kinvey using the REST API.
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Disclaimer: I work at Kinvey.
I have been working on an app that uses angular in my free time, you can see the source to the services I have created that communicate with Kinvey. https://github.com/InnCrisis/InnCrisis/blob/master/public/coffeescripts/adminServices.coffee
A small snippet of javascript to handle the registration of a new user in Kinvey.
register = function(username, password, name) {
var deferred = $q.defer();
new Kinvey.User.create({
username: username,
password: password,
name: name
}, {
success: function(user) {
$rootScope.$apply(null, function() {
error: function(e) {
$rootScope.$apply(null, function() {
return deferred.promise;
Since the Kinvey javascript API will make changes that are not tracked by angular you need to do a $scope.$apply of the results.
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Consider using plain JS - it would help more people. Why use something that only helps a sub-domain of JS users? – Alan Klement May 29 '13 at 15:42
Thanks Alan, I just updated the example to be Javascript instead of Coffeescript. – Ryan May 30 '13 at 18:14
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Based on a quick tour of their site, it seems Kinvey has a RESTful API, which makes things fairly straightforward. Going cross-domain, you'll need to find out if the Kinvey server is CORS compliant (returns appropriate headers allowing for cross-domain access) or if not, you'll need to use Angular's $http.jsonp to GET the data (jsonp only supports GET).
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While downloading Fedora Linux, they offer two options for download that I don't know the difference to: x86 and i386. So what'sthe difference between them?
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In what context? – Kaleb Pederson Jan 27 '10 at 6:04
I downloaded fedora12, and it said 1386. I am aware of both i386 and x86. Now it made me wonder if both were same. – X10nD Jan 27 '10 at 6:12
Hurry!! The motherboards are approaching, I must have an answer. /s – Charlie Salts Jan 27 '10 at 6:36
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i386 is just one the first model in the x86 familly of processors, and instructions sets.
For more informations, you might want to take a look at :
Quoting the second page :
The term x86 refers to a family of instruction set architectures[1] based on the Intel 8086. The term is derived from the fact that many early processors that are backward compatible with the 8086 also had names ending in "86".
And, quoting the first one :
The Intel 80386, also known as the i386, or just 386,[1] was a 32-bit microprocessor introduced by Intel in 1985. [...]
As the original implementation of the 32-bit extensions to the 8086 architecture, the 80386 instruction set, programming model, and binary encodings are still the common denominator for all 32-bit x86 processors.
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so in short x86 is the same as i386 – X10nD Jan 27 '10 at 6:15
Only in the same sense that a skyscraper is an Empire State Building. One is an architecture and the other is an exemplification of that architecture. Do you understand the difference? – Jens Sep 6 '11 at 14:30
Actually the 8086 was the first in the series, as shown in the quotation. – tripleee Nov 26 '12 at 21:09
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80386/i386 was the first 32-bit Intel processor. When it was introduced, lot of compilers started using i386 as a flag to turn code-generation for it, a name for various temporary files, and architecture denominations in file names. 80386 was succeeded by 486, 586 (aka Pentium) and the rest of the x86 architecture CPUs. But the i386 stuck around as a label and is used as an alias to x86 (just like amd is used as an alias to x64 architecture, even though there are Intel x64 processors as well).
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I still remember having the i386 directory for WIndows NT 4 lying around on smoe hard disk to install Windows without having to find the CD :-). Back in the time when Windows supported MIPS and Alpha ;-) – Јοеу Jan 27 '10 at 6:21
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It's just another synonym for the same architecture. It's not entirely accurate but the 80386 is the original implementation of the 32-bit x86 instruction set and the common denominator for all following CPUs of that arch.
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80386 (i386) was the first implementation of the 32-bit x86 architecture (x86-32). There were also the 16-bit 80186 and 80286 (x86-16) before it. :-) – Franci Penov Jan 27 '10 at 6:11
@Fra: Argh, thanks. Still too early here ;-) – Јοеу Jan 27 '10 at 6:19
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i386 is more specific than x86, but yes, they're approximately the same.
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I have created a button in Blend by editing it's style. I added multiple text blocks with the intention of displaying data to the user in real time. However, I don't know how to interface with those text blocks in my code behind.
My Style XAML is this:
<ControlTemplate TargetType="Button">
<Grid Background="Transparent">
<VisualStateGroup x:Name="CommonStates">
<VisualState x:Name="Normal"/>
<VisualState x:Name="MouseOver"/>
<VisualState x:Name="Pressed"/>
<VisualState x:Name="Disabled"/>
<Border x:Name="ButtonBackground" BorderThickness="{TemplateBinding BorderThickness}" Background="{StaticResource PhoneAccentBrush}" CornerRadius="0" Margin="8,12,12,12">
<TextBlock Margin="121,5,98,0" TextWrapping="Wrap" Text="Current Program:" Height="36" VerticalAlignment="Top"/>
<TextBlock Margin="92,68,80,81" TextWrapping="Wrap" Text="" RenderTransformOrigin="0.265,0.51" HorizontalAlignment="Center" Width="271" x:Name="programName"/>
<TextBlock Height="32" Margin="21,0,16,12" TextWrapping="Wrap" Text="Date:" VerticalAlignment="Bottom" x:Name="CurrentDate"/>
My code to display the button is this:
<Grid x:Name="middleRow" Grid.Row="2">
<Button Content="Button" Margin="8,8,0,8" Style="{StaticResource ButtonCenter}" x:Name="Current" Click="Current_Click" d:LayoutOverrides="GridBox" />
In my code behind after the InitializeComponent(); I would like to change the ProgramName text block and the CurrentDate text block.
I'm thinking that I might have to create a control to do this but I'm not sure. My attempts at doing so failed (misc. errors). Can I access these text blocks in code? Please let me know.
I wound up doing it like this:
<Button Margin="8,8,0,8" x:Name="Current" Click="Current_Click">
<TextBlock x:Name="ProgramName" Text="program name" HorizontalAlignment="Center" />
<TextBlock x:Name="CurrentDate" Text="current date" HorizontalAlignment="Center" />
I applied my styles from the template in Blend and it appears to be working now.
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You can't reference controls in a style by name as there could be multiple copies of them on a page.
If you made your button into a custom control you could make the text for the ProgramTitle and CurrentDate properties (which woudl be very easy to set).
Alternatively you could use databinding to set these values.
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By Jason Bane July 14, 2006 1:58 PM
President Bush has said that he will veto Rep. Diana DeGette's stem cell funding bill - a move that may put Democrats in a good political position come November. Tom Curry of MSNBC has an interesting take on this:
Sen. Charles Schumer, D- N.Y., the head of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, said Tuesday that surveys show significant voter movement to the Democrats due to the stem cell issue. Many scientists say that use of cells derived from embryos offers hope of finding treatments for Parkinson's disease and other ailments. "Protestant non-evangelical Republicans" are shifting, Schumer told reporters. "The elder in the Presbyterian church in the suburbs of Cincinnati," Schumer said with precise specificity, naming his electoral target. "There's a feeling among more affluent Republicans of uncomfortable-ness with where the Republican Party is headed." Such voters, Schumer said, "don't like Schiavo," a reference to congressional intervention last year in the case of the disabled Florida woman Terri Schiavo. "And they don't like creationism being taught in the public schools, and they sure don't like blocking stem cell research. It's an issue that affects lots of swing voter Republicans who will move to the Democratic side…. When they know somebody who says, ‘My daughter could be blind by age 20, please allow stem cell research,' they don't see why not."
The Dems are especially crafty in not distinguishing embryonic and adult-derived stem cells. The first actually involves so-called therapeutic cloning of the patient, since otherwise the patient will reject stem cell DNA. However, their "the lame shall walk! The Blind shall see!" rhetoric will really backfire if immediate results aren't forthcoming. People might even see through its false promises, recognizing that adult stem cell research has made actual progress. Fetal tissue was the big panacea back in the late nineties, but that dropped off of the presses once trial human experiments ended with ugly teratomas growing in patients. Lurking behind all this, of course, is the abortion issue: if medical experiments prove successful, abortion and embryo-destruction will become that much more acceptable to the American people, who are utilitarian to a fault. They're lucky Bush is so inarticulate, and the press so scientifically illiterate.
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1. What does Yasin complain about a lack of at his wedding celebration?
2. Who goes to Ahmad's store and blurts out that he wants his mother to come home?
3. What does Aisha show that she will obey of God and her father in Chapter 38?
4. What is Fahmy terrified to see puddles of at al-Husayn?
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The subject of religion is discussed on many levels, including Amina's piety, the presence of holy figures, and talk of the Qur'an.
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Written on Memphis theaters reel, but 'Dark Knight' film rolls:
in response to synapse:
Jimmie Tashie is pretty much lying about security.
The only people you see working at the Malco Theatres look to be under the age of 20 and probably making barely over minimum wage.
There wasn't any sort of real security presence at the Paradiso tonight, which I admit is the first time in ages I have been to film on a weekend evening.
I agree with reflection, the Malco chain needs to invest in grown up ushers who actually sit inside the theatre to promptly eject the toads who don't know how to act. And lemme help some of you all, the toads who don't know how to act aren't always black or teenagers.
If the Muvico/Belz people had had enough common sense to invest in better security and had gotten out into the community and let people know that stupidity wasn't going to be tolerated, then Peabody Place would still be functioning.
You claim to have not been to the theatre in a long time yet judge Tashie's comments as a lie from your ONE visit? Malco handles security well. I have seen parking lot patrol and on site security guards. They handle large crowds routinely and I have seen them quickly dispatch drunk and violent people immediately. As for the teens working there, yes, that is a teenager job, working at a movie theatre. It always has been.
Written on A change of address as post office plans to leave Union Avenue location :
in response to jr240:
You should try Victory Bike on Broad St. They are great!
Nice guys at Victory but I try not to have to take out a loan to buy a bicycle.
Written on Chick-fil-A president says company opposes gay marriage :
This is under your "Happening Now" section while it's already been talked about for days on social media. Pick up the pace Mr. Newspaper.
Written on Geocaching Memphis public radio announcer, actor found safe in Fayette County :
in response to Memphocat:
OK, there is something really disturbing about this story. Where were the 17 year-old's parents? Was he having a "sleep-over" with the 29 year old? Is the 29 year old a "mentor" for this young "actor", and if not, what exactly is their relationship? The fact that neither family is commenting on this story speaks volumes. Something hinkey seems to be going on here....
The families are glad to have them back safe and sound. What needs to be commented on other than that? What exactly are you implying that they need to defend? They need more education on cell phone charging? Getting better equipped waterproof phones? That's a fun game you play. Say Memphocat, why have you not responded to the claims that you allegedly run around your neighborhood at night wearing hot pink ladies underwear and singing Justin Beiber songs? The fact you have not responded to the allegations speaks volumes.
Written on Memphis to consider speed cameras :
Will MPD cruisers flying down the street without their lights flashing also be held responsible when caught on the traffic cams?
Written on Postal Service considering 'all options' for mail airlift contract held by FedEx:
Wow, USPS could save $112.7 million over ten years? Why not reverse the mandate from a 2006 Republican lead Congress causing the USPS to pre-fund it's employee healthcare by paying out $5.5 BILLION a year til 2016? Take the fund away and the USPS profits $1 BILLION a year. Funny how Republicans try to wreck a proven and viable government service to aid the private sector yet here we are, reading how FedEx will suffer from the USPS current predicament.
in response to jots:
Because it is all there for folks to read. Actually I wonder why the complaintant put the kid's name in there? You would think the agreement would have been b/w him and the mother but I guess mentioning a pseudo celeb makes it more intriguing. More interestingly I wonder why she hasn't defended herself.
But by your post, you stated one side of the story then didn't even give an actual link to the issue. That is bias commenting/reporting. As for the your other points, it is unusual for the child to be named in the complaint. Again, the fact that no legal action was brought forth seems to make the post more a personal vendetta fr character more than legitimate complaint. Maybe she didn't defend herself because the complaint has no merit and addressing it would give it an appearance of merit. I would think their attorney would suggest that an internet flame war is not the professional or correct thing to do.
in response to jots:
Google Cody Hanford. There is a website called Ripoff and apparently he and his mom aren't well liked by a few folks who sublet to them while he was doing film/stage. Whoopsie!
Alright, I did google it and it seems like there's a his said/she said situation and that people responded to the report wondering why the tenant didn't pursue legal action and only wanted to complain. There are also holes in his story. Why did you not post that part as well?
I'd love to see Outdoors Inc move from their Union location to the new space and expand or for a bicycle shop to open. It's crazy that there isn't a bicycle shop in Midtown, the epicenter of the growing cyclist population in the city.
in response to Wilsonq:
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Nice copy and paste from the days of the Greenline being approved. Don't worry Wilsonq, we won't force you out of your suburban bunker and make you ride a bike across this...or will we?!?! OBAMA2012!
Written on It's 'Memphis: The Comeback' as ad push seeks travelers:
This is one of the instances where the criticism here is justified. "Comeback" only makes someone think "what is Memphis coming back from?" which then makes you try to list the negative aspects of the city. Terrible. There is so many positive and thriving attractions to the city and so many people that are doing it right and the CVB essentially says "all that was not good, but we're staring over! Give us a chance!"
Written on Ravenous 'zombies' wreak mayhem on Downtown Memphis:
I took my kid to this one place last Sunday and they had pictures of a guy nailed to a cross all over the place. Horrific, we're never going back there again.
Written on Nashville firm gets contract to develop brand for South Main in Memphis:
The problem with out of town firms is that they don't have intimate knowledge of the area. "Oh Memphis, we'll make a big deal about what shows up on Google", that'll mean lots of The Arcade, lots of Earnestine & Hazels, BBQ, blues, and lots of what everyone already knows.
Written on Shelby Farms Park officials raise objections to proposed parkway:
If more of you biked then there wouldn't be such problems.
Written on Central BBQ plans Downtown location, its third in Memphis:
in response to Paladin0711:
This is what Memphis really needs. Yet another BBQ restaurant, this time downtown.
Can't tell if you're being sarcastic or actually making a good statement. Downtown doesn't have much BBQ choices for a supposed "BBQ City". Rendezvous is for tourists and is extremely pricey, A&R service is very slow, and not everyone wants to go to Beale Street. This location is a great idea and I hope Central does well.
Written on Welfare drug testing bill passes Senate:
If my tax dollars go to welfare recipients and they need to be drug tested before getting it and don't see how it's any different for a politician to do the same. Also Mr. Campfield, what happens when a welfare recipient says the word "gay"?
Written on Arthur Seessel to serve as interim CEO of Memphis Symphony:
MEM38112, you have no clue what you are talking about. Since it is obvious you have not BEEN to a MSO show in quite some time may I suggest you Google all the happenings going on with MSO? Here's some keywords to get you started, Opus One, Pops, Masterworks, Mei-Ann Chen, Conducting Competition.
Written on Agendas clash as supporters of Trayvon Martin march in Downtown Memphis :
The comment section on this paper has very strong feelings about protecting oneself so do a test and put yourself in the situation. Someone follows you, you ask them why they are, you notice they have a gun, at this point you decide to defend yourself and take them down, hitting them once just won't do, they have a gun. You hit their head repeatedly as to stun them and try to get the gun. The one "standing their ground" was Martin. Many of you would have done the same. Grills, tats, hoodies, and appearances have no factor when someone approaches you and they are armed.
Even worse my dear xenophobic and God-Fearin' suburbanites, I hear late at night Islamic terrorists drive through your neighborhood and throw a bunch of dandelion seeds on your lawn.
Written on Top Republican wants vote on birth control mandate:
I want to know what "collage" this writer attended.
Written on Memphis Mayor Wharton aggressive in goals for city:
in response to lifespalette54:
In Texas they have a saying, "All hat, no cattle."
AC how many more entitlement programs are we going to develop?
Texas, that's the place where that nutjob president came from and they have that other nutjob governor who wanted to be president, right?
Written on Two arrested in homicide of Olive Branch man found in Shelby Farms:
Remember when you wanted to get away from the murderers and the corrupt mayors so you moved to Mississippi?
Written on War of words: Opponents of Tennessee's anti-gay legislation respond with YouTube videos:
Funny how the Christians sure do want their right to tell people they are going to hell but flip out when Muslims say the same thing.
Written on Medical products firm lays off 80 employees in Memphis:
So let me get this straight, Republicans think that the government must stay out of the way of business for it to profit. A business then sees a way to profit by consolidating and eliminating jobs. Republicans then blame Democrats and Obama for the job loss. I guess things like that make sense when you replace your first front runner for the Republican nom because he had affairs with a new front runner already known to have affairs.
Written on Memphis City Council weighs helmet requirement at skate park:
Funny how so many here applaud the government for saying a helmet must be worn but when seat belt laws went into affect there was an outcry of "the government can't tell me what to do". It's always a good law when it affects others and not yourself, right?
Written on Memphis will begin booting and towing cars to collect unpaid parking tickets:
The only people Downtown with large amounts of change in their pockets are the bums. Upgrade the meters to accept debit and credit cards and people will use them.
Written on Dogs, art go hand in paw at new Downtown Memphis park:
in response to ohknow:
I think your daughter is mostly right (about people who don't have kids treating their dogs or other animals as such). Every friend of mine that does not have children is almost identical to that description.
The other part of the story is some people--mostly those who have no faith in God--place animals on equal footing with people. Those very same people--who claim to love animals so much-- probably also call the exterminators for rats, mice, roaches, etc.
I'll take it a step further and say that many of those described think that humans are inferior to animals. Pure silliness.
Hey this is a fun game! Let's make up general assumptions of a certain group of people and then criticize the newly made stereotypes! I'll go next, let's talk about people who make unnecessary and vague reference to people not believing in God. I find that almost ALL of them are hypocritical, judgmental tools that are frighten of everything that isn't common in their own little world. Almost all of them also wear purple ballerina costumes when they eat bananas and breakdance as a way to worship their "god". Pure silliness.
Written on Start of Christmas shopping season encroaches on Thanksgiving night:
in response to datGuy:
"Target is doing all that they can to keep business going and now a bunch of people, employees included, want not to keep up," said David Wiemar, owner of Wiemar's Jewelry at 7525 Highway 64. "Well, I, for one, will volunteer to be at Target at midnight and work till 4 so that these employees can be fired so they can spend all the time with their families."
David sounds like a man of truly despicable and horrible character.
Note to all Target Employees: perhaps you can go to Yelp, Bizrate, Yahoo, etc. etc. and help David w/Wiemar's Jewelry giving his business the truly wretched rating it deserves. Then he can volunteer 24/7 w/all the free time he will have as a "former" businessman.
Thanks for sharing the business/address David - you are a horrible Scrooge
I disagree with Wiemar's comments but making BS ratings on his business is an atrocious and immature response to his opinion.
Written on Nearly 900 pounds of marijuana found during Memphis truck stop bust:
"A dog trained to stiff out drugs" ouch, that's one studly pooch
Written on Memphis woman’s dying words help boyfriend who shot her:
What a hypocritical bunch. This guy shoots at the first thing making a noise and he should be set free because he was exercising his gun rights but the West Memphis 3 are OBVIOUSLY guilty because of "gut feelings". What's next? Are MLGW workers fair game when they cut the power and are on your property?
Written on Folk Alliance to leave Memphis:
in response to forwardmemphis:
For years I have tried to remain hopeful, but it is clear now that there is no local leadership here capable of halting the slide. The Folk Alliance departure comes just a week after one of Memphis' largest production and recording facilities closed and announced its relocation to Atlanta. Especially in the realm of music, Memphis is dead and actually moving backwards. I no longer have any hope that the situation will improve.
What production company are you talking about that's moving to Atlanta?
Written on Regions Financial reports progress on sale of Memphis-based Morgan Keegan:
Those poor banks. Until they make $300 million in profit each quarter we just need to sacrifice and help them out all we can.
Written on 'Focusing on the art': Weekend festival unites artists, South Main community:
Did anyone see the concert stage pulled by a bicycle? Now that's what I call art.
in response to hawk:
I'd like to see someone other than a politician in the White House. Those who have been involved in politics don't seem to understand the needs of the citizens. They only seem to understand how to get the financial funding to win elections.
As a businessman, Cain isn't part of the mess controlling political parties. His success in business should allow him to quickly learn how to play the political game. I suspect both parties are afraid of him, as he doesn't owe them anything.
Running the government as a business is a flawed concept. Government is supposed to protect the rights of the people. If it's run as a business the objective switches to see that citizens' rights are a burden and the quicker they are done away with the quicker corporations can capitalize on the people.
Written on Mid-South Pride festival grows:
in response to Memphocat:
I have absolutely no problem with events like this - live and let live and more power to the celebrants! One question though, for you posters claiming that you took your children: how in the world do you explain a drag-queen show/contest to a child??? I can't imagine. Thanks in advance!
I remember as a kid how confused I got when Bugs Bunny dressed up as a woman to fool Elmer Fudd. It messed me up for life...oh wait no it didn't. I'll explain drag queens to a kid when they explain to me how Spongebob Squarepants takes baths yet he lives underwater.
Written on New sports bar on Broad Avenue is a twist for Midtown district:
Catering to a smoking crowd isn't just a wild guess, it's marketing. Sure the majority of people don't smoke a sports bar wants someone who plans on have quite a few drinks which smokers often do. The majority of establishments are marketed for the majority so places that offer smoking is boutique to a special demand. I'm not a smoker but I see the opportunity to create spaces for smokers who want to stay seated indoors.
in response to pookiebelle:
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Are you and your little friend insinuating vehicular homicide on bicyclists? Go ahead, I'm waiting to hear your answer on this.
in response to jrmxrayteck:
Thanks for doing the right thing Mr. Mayor!!!! Now,, everyone do your part and support the businesses that supported the lanes!!
May I say to cyclists, please support ALL the business on Madison whether they supported the lanes or not. Keeping Madison vibrant and in business will prove that bike lanes make a city better!
Written on /faces-of-memphis/ - Faces of Memphis:
There's no "secret" to being a Memphian. It's like any other city. There are nice people, there are bland types, and there are ignorant jerks. Anything else said is just a polarization to make arguments for the sake of argument.
Written on Sarah Palin ends speculation, says she won’t run :
in response to Nightcrawler:
Sarah Palin knows she can help rid America of the despicable Progressives currently infesting Washington, D.C. much faster and with no remorse by being on the outside and rebutting them daily.
The Democratic/Progressive controlled media complex will soon meet their Waterloo.
Since it's a given that O' will get his eviction notice in 398 days because the majority of Americans will vote "ABO" (Anybody But O'), we're going to be stuck with whomever the "R" party decides to back. I hope it ain't Romney or Perry.
One thing is for sure, though: the leftist media wusses won't sleep well tonight knowing that Palin will put them on their defensive toes 24/7 for next 398 more days.
I think it's both humorous and fitting...
Right, just like all those Monday morning armchair quarterbacks who think they could have won the game. Palin, Rush, Beck, all the professional talkers on 24/7 news have a knack for convincing you that the people in charge are wrong but you won't see them ever try to step up and do the job themselves.
Written on Sarah Palin ends speculation, says she won’t run :
So according to some of these comments, because of the Liberals' adamant hatred and negativity on her she did not want to seek the presidency. What a joke. I'm glad that those too weak to preserve under heavy scrutiny give up. It means they didn't really want it in the first place. Obama's done an amazing job yet so many on here think of him as history's worst person, he takes a licking and keeps on ticking. That's my president and that's why I'm voting Obama in 2012. Have fun at the whine and cheese party Repubs!
Written on Blind Bear speakeasy to open on South Main in Downtown Memphis:
in response to PollyPocket:
Dear CA News Desk,
Businesses open outside of Midtown & Downtown & the Burbs every week. Why, oh why, do you seldom write about them?
Probably because those restaurants don't know to send out press releases like a Downtown establishment would know to do.
Written on Memphis movie director Craig Brewer criss-crosses U.S. to pitch 'Footloose':
in response to Indigenous_species:
you hit the nail on the head....can't create so let's go pick a movie that was a succes in the past...fancy it up with today's technology and new faces...we should still be able to squeeze some money out of it...I could go on and on but don't want to drag John Wayne into it....wait I already did.
Speaking of, did you see the new True Grit? It was great, even better than the original. Remember when that hack Shakespeare remade Pyramus and Thisbe and called it Romeo and Juliet? How lame!
Written on Organizers of Wall Street protest 'Occupy Memphis' plan Overton Park assembly today:
in response to rukiddingme:
It may be a small gesture, but I believe it's just the beginning of "class warfare". The biggest revolutions thru out history have been between the "have's" and the "have-not's". Guess who has always won? Of course, the eventual outcomes have not always been good, to say the least, but they can't keep sticking it to the middle class. We're being winnowed out, and will eventually be considered part of "lower class" society by those who get to keep more of their earnings, to help pay for that 2nd or 3rd vacation home.
"Guess who has always won?" Uh...who? I can think of when the have nots won (French Revolution) and the Haves won (Tiananmen Square)
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The Stuxnet worm was used in 2010 against a nuclear research facility in Iran. It targeted a specific industrial control system and was designed to alter the programmable logic controller used to closely manage Iran's nuclear enrichment program. The attack spread, infecting systems globally. The North American Electric Reliability Cooperation issued five mandatory standards and seven voluntary measures to ensure that Stuxnet does not impact power generation facilities. The majority of electric utilities that responded to the inquiry indicated that they were complying with five mandatory Stuxnet measures. Far fewer indicated that voluntary measures were being implemented. Increased personnel screening was being conducted and many utilities indicated that assessments were under way to identify critical assets, the report found. | http://www.crn.com/slide-shows/security/240155432/5-concerning-reasons-the-u-s-power-grid-is-vulnerable-to-cyber-attacks.htm/pgno/0/1 | dclm-gs1-059000000 |
0.081501 | <urn:uuid:cb9a7b52-3955-4aa6-be36-f99669513379> | en | 0.962898 | LIKE most Pakistanis Mohammad Hussain complains bitterly about the paltry few hours of electricity available each day during the sweltering summer. Life for the 43-year-old labourer, already pretty miserable in the Lahore slum where he lives, is more unbearable without a fan to cool him at night or a pump to guarantee water.
Like many of his countrymen, he has never paid a rupee towards the cost of the dribble of electricity used by his wife and five children, who all live in a one-bedroom flat. Their building is illegally connected to the city’s power grid by a metal hook attached to a nearby electricity line.
Every now and then officials from the Lahore Electric Supply Company (LESCO) launch a “crackdown”. Officials phone ahead, giving everyone ample opportunity to remove their hooks. They then go door-to-door collecting bribes, organised on a careful tariff basis. Households with just a fan pay $5. For slightly beefier “air coolers” the fee is $10 and for the lucky few who can afford air conditioning the cost is $15. These charges are a fraction of LESCO’s official tariff, but none of the money goes into the coffers of a collapsing electricity system anyway.
Not charging consumers for electricity has created a big problem for Pakistan. At the end of 2012 the country’s stock of energy-industry debt was $9.1 billion— about 4% of GDP—according to a report funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and carried out by the national Planning Commission.
The shortfall in revenue has a knock-on effect along the electricity supply-chain. Without being paid by consumers the distribution companies cannot pay the private electricity generators, who in turn cannot pay their fuel bills, forcing them to shut down or run at low capacity. That creates ever more “load shedding”, the local term for blackouts.
The same USAID–backed report claims power shortages retard economic growth by at least 2% a year. The situation is deteriorating as the debt mountain grows. Riots break out each summer in protest.
Power surge
Freeing consumers and industry from this misery is the priority of Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan’s new prime minister, who was inaugurated on June 5th. He owes his victory to public fury at the failure of the outgoing government of the Pakistan Peoples Party to solve the energy crisis.
If the system is to be fixed it is not just people in the slums who will have to cough up, but the rich and the powerful too, including the industrialists who enthusiastically supported Mr Sharif in last month’s election.
Government departments are also some of the biggest defaulters, owing as much as $2 billion, and the armed forces see little reason to fear being cut off if they do not pay. The finance ministry is often behind on paying its own subsidies into the system. Such cash injections are meant to make electricity more affordable, but they are not targeted at the poor and have soared to levels unaffordable for the government as world energy prices have risen.
The price supposedly charged to consumers for electricity is now nowhere near its cost of production. Mr Sharif hopes to improve the situation immediately by paying off a big chunk of the debt. With more money flowing through the system consumers should feel an instant relief.
“It’s a reset of the system so we can start off on a clean slate,” says Fariel Salahuddin, a power-sector specialist. “It doesn’t mean the debt goes away, it just comes off the books of private-sector entities.” Where such sums will come from is another matter. There has been talk of raising money through the sale of government bonds. Pakistan will also have to begin bail-out negotiations with the IMF soon if it is to avert a balance-of-payments crisis.
Hopes are pinned on multi-billion dollar aid from Saudi Arabia, probably in the form of deferred oil payments. The Saudis have long had cordial relations with Mr Sharif, whom they hosted during part of his time in exile from Pakistan. They provided similar help to the last government Mr Sharif headed in 1998.
“It is like you have a patient who is haemorrhaging: you have to give him a blood infusion to stabilise him,” says Omar Malik from PITCO, an energy consultancy. “But that won’t be sufficient if you don’t stop the bleeding.”
That means finding ways to generate electricity far more cheaply. Currently Pakistan has some of the most expensive energy in the region, not least because half of its power comes from burning gas and oil, most of which are imported. That is eating into the country’s already seriously depleted foreign-exchange reserves, pushing Pakistan even further towards a balance-of-payments crisis.
Coal-burning power stations could be built relatively quickly or existing ones converted, says Mr Malik. But Pakistan has been slow to exploit its own coal resources and most would have to be imported.
The country has huge potential for hydroelectricity, the cheapest form of energy, but dams can take the best part of a decade to build. Perhaps the best Mr Sharif can hope for in the coming years is that the rest of Pakistan might become a little more like Karachi, the southern city where electricity-industry managers have succeeded in keeping the fans and the lights on by cutting off completely any customers who don’t pay. That means regular electricity for the rich. And even less power for slum dwellers like Mr Hussain. | http://www.economist.com/news/asia/21579059-first-task-pakistans-new-prime-minister-keep-lights-long-hot-summer?fsrc=rss | dclm-gs1-059160000 |
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America's debt
Shame on them
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Bah. You are absolutely incorrect. It seems 'The Economist' has a huge investment in dreamland fantasy, as do the many politicians who seem to use the Treasury as a vote-getting instrument, attracting moochers, for to keep their Party in power.
This 'spend now, pay later' crap has got to end. I'm totally in agreement with Rick Santelli, who sees this 'addiction' to deficit spending as inevitably ruinous to this little Republic. It's best to honor the spending limit. Absolutely no compromise; live within your means.
Best would be the inclusion of a Balanced Budget amendment to our Constitution, to stop these silly debates once and for all.
Rudy Haugeneder
America is not creating jobs, according to statistics released today.
There is little or no recovery, therefore almost no chance of the United States repaying its massive debt, never mind the interest once rates climb to their traditional levels.
In view of that, the Congressional debt ceiling stalemate is appropriate, since it is a reflection of the current -- and future -- economic reality and any decision made will probably be wrong.
As such, doing nothing is the best alternative and provides the flexibility to handle whatever is, or isn't, about the happen.
Republicans should raise the debt limit $50 billion at a time and keep fighting the Dems all the way to November 2012. Let voters decide then if they want Obama, Reid and Pelosi to plunder 25% of GDP, tax, borrow and spend. Voters might choose smaller government, lower taxes, more jobs and send Obama home.
High interest rates will eventually prove the folly of government out of control.
the tax issue enbodies the republic perfectly, they got the tax break by lying that there would be "a ten trillion surplus" in ten years time, bush came forward to ask "a refund" for his rich friends, ten years and ten trillion deficit later, obama extended the tax break for two more years due to the recession, even that is not enough for the republicans, they want it permanent.
For those of you in the UK, good luck, because the Tories have been emulating the Republicans as of late with deep budget cuts. Worse yet, you also have Rupert Murdoch owning a good chunk of your news media and taking it further to the political right.
In America, the political right will reduce this country to one of cheap-labor manufacturing and the production of commodities: food, lumber, and minerals. The UK will starve if you go this route.
Jim Cap
Congratulations, Economist!
And it's about time.
Today's Republican Party is NOT the "conservative, fiscally responsible" GOP that it was back in the days of Eisenhower, Goldwater, Nixon and Ford. In fact, even Ronald Reagan would be shocked to see what has happened to this party and it's once proud tradition.
These new Republicans---led around by the nose by bomb throwers like Grover Nordquist and Rush Limbaugh---are so ideologically fixated that they can no longer understand basic economics, or government, or...reality itself.
Some of them---like the wacky fringe that was elected in 2010---are obviously delusional, or willfully ignorant, or so filled with hatred for "government" and "taxes" that they can't see straight. But the other Republicans who know better are so filled with fear of these extremists that they cower in silence or just recite the obligatory claptrap about "no taxes, just cuts and all of our problems will disappear."
These bizarros have the mantle of respectability but they're as extremist and right-wing as any elected officials on the entire planet.
I don't trust the Republican Party any longer. And this is coming from a small business owner and (traditional) conservative who enthusiastically voted for every Republican nominee since Nixon.
These guys scare me. And a lot of the people I know---who work with me, or live in my nice community, and share my views---now agree with me.
We see what the modern Republicans are doing with power. I don't want to give them more of it. I want stability, not perfection. And not some crazy idealistic notion of a "Perfect Free Market". Ayn Rand novels, as much as I loved them, should never be the basis for a real, working government that has to function in a complex world.
I expect some of my fellow conservatives will spew some hatred at me for this. So be it. Somebody has to be an adult here. The Republicans are playing with fire. If you have a home, or a job, or a business, or a kid, these people are not ones you should trust any longer.
As the Economist has already highlighted, the US budget deficit could be sensibly reduced by reviewing the spending on a topic often considered taboo, especially in Republican circles. I, of course, refer to defence spending where, as this publication states, the US spends more than the next 17 largest spenders combined.
And yet the Republicans line up to refute any need to reduce this spending & if anything, praise requests to increase it. Am I the only one aghast? There is no Soviet Union or Warsaw Pact any longer; China is way behind the US in military might & most Western countries show themselves to be more than adequately protected against terrorism whilst spending a fraction of the US total.
The defence industry has also been shown to be inefficient and wasteful (another source of potential cost cutting) but very little is heard on this front either. This is the one area where the Republicans seem reluctant to consider addressing inefficiency.
The defence industry is worth billions to private enterprise & the Republican Party values its standing as the party of free enterprise. You may wish to make a connection. I couldn't possibly comment.
What a biased left wing article! Pure garbage indeed! Why not quote a Senator Obama when he voted against an increase in the debt limits proposed by the Bush administration? "Raising the debt limit is just confirmation of the incompetence of the President and he should resign".
The USA has a spending problem, not a taxation problem. Why not quote Obama when he insisted don his trillion $ quantitative easing? He said without it unemployment would rise to over 9% in two years (2011) while by passing his program unemployment would drop to 6.5% by 2011. And where is unemployment today? 9.2%. In other words, Obama spends $1 trillion and all that happens is his banker friends make more money but unemployment is the same.
The author of this garbage article is truly clueless about politics and economics. Have he/she do obits?
The writer of this article makes some insane assertions. First he claims that "America’s net indebtedness is a perfectly affordable 65% of GDP." This sounds like the talking heads during the real estate bubble stating that it was perfectly acceptable to lend to people at 12 times income and give those people an "interest only" loan. The writer also asserts that "investors have been more than happy to go on lending to the federal government." Investors were also happy to invest in derivatives, CDOs, credit default swaps, etc. during the real estate bubble and we all know how that turned out. Common sense is lacking in this article.
I am appalled at The Economist's shoddy analysis in this article. Its conclusion is completely wrong and appears to be precisely the same talking points as Obama's Democratic Party.
First of all, The Economist's facts are not even right. The article states that "America's net indebtedness is a perfectly affordable 65% of GDP, and throughout the past three years of recession and tepid recovery investors have been more than happy to go on lending to the federal government."
Well, I don't know where they are getting the 65% figure, because the actual figure is roughly 100% of GDP (the federal government's total debt right now is $14.3 trillion and US GDP is about that same amount).
Secondly, the Economist is implying that a national debt of 65% of GDP is acceptable, which it is not. History has shown that nation's that incur national debt in excess of 50% of their GDP are usually headed for prolonged periods of stagnation and decline.
Thirdly, the article's statement that "investors have been more than happy to go on lending to the federal government" is simply not true. The Chinese government, which is the biggest investor in US Treasury debt by far, has already stated that they are getting very nervous about their US debt holdings and have been methodically reducing its holdings of US Treasury debt over the past two years. In fact, China's holdings of short-term US Treasury debt declined by 97% from May 2009 to March 2011. Not too mention the warning that Standard & Poor's issued about US Government's credit rating.
Also, the article's following statment is plain absurdity: "America's tax take is at its lowest level for decades: even Ronald Reagan raised taxes when he needed to do so." America's problem has absolutely nothing to do with collecting too little revenue; it has everything to do with spending. Spending is completely out of control and US corporate tax rates are about the highest in the developed world and some individual taxpayers in states such as California and New York now pay well over 50% of their income in taxes. As for Ronald Reagan, he increased taxes only one time, which he did very reluctantly as part of a budget deal with the Democtratic House in 1982 to lessen the degree of the tax cuts that he enacted in 1981. Reagan later said that he made a mistake in agreeing to the relatiely small tax increases in 1982, because the US Congress did not honor its commitment to reduce spending. So, the Economist is taking things out of context and playing very loose with the facts.
Yes, America's independent voters should take note: The blame for the current budget crisis falls squarely on the radical socialist policies of the Obama Administration and the party of irreponsible big government, the Democratic Party.
Shame on Them? Shame on You!
When the President's own economist quits to the safety of the classroom because HE won't support Hussain Obama, there is a definite problem. It is only exacerbated by such incredibly biased viewpoints like The Economist to lead the public into a false sense of security. The point isn't to service our debt but to eliminate it.
The huge economic stakes game was already started almost 3 years ago. Now you don't like it when the Republicans slap your hands because you are totally, fiscally irresponsible?! Now you don't like it because you are finally being held accountable?! Suck it up and put on your Big Boy pants. Even Vladamir Putin called O'Bama and his Socialist Democrats a bunch of idiots for going down the same path that ruined so many other countries. Again, it's pretty bad when a Communist tells you that your actions toward communism are idiotic.
So, the US Government was able to run just dandy at 1.7 trillion in 1999, not so much at 2.9 trillion in 2008, and just can't seem to make ends meet at 3.5 trillion in 2010? Sorry, as a member of the "wilder eyed" crowd, the thought of our politicians racking up debts and deficits like money grows on trees, then trying to get us struggling folks to pay for it, is totally unacceptable. Mine and other small businesses are holding on by our fingernails, and the answer is to jack up our taxes? Do you have an economic deathwish??
Trond Johannessen
"Perfectly acceptable net debt of 65% of GDP"?
When you write about the Euro-zone you would ooh and aaah. But the skyrocketing net debt of the US is just going to be accelerating and reach over 80% of GDP by 2012, according to OECD forecasts, while the Eurozone will be at 61% and the UK at 68%. In 2007, the UK was at 30% of GDP and the US and the Eurozone at 43% of GDP. Do the math on the derivative of this curves and you can see that the US and the UK have wrecked their balance sheet in the downturn. There is NOTHING acceptable about the US balance sheet. They are not creditworthy and your eagerness to hand out blame seems to blind you to the cold fact that America is in trouble regardless of how the domestic litigation between parties will be resolved.
We're running a $1.6T deficit THIS year alone. The Democrats offered $2T in cuts over the next 10 years, and they consider that a major concession!? Are they serious? Spending has skyrocketed from a historic 19-20% of GDP to 25% of GDP just in the last 2-3 years. Then we here some talk about "expenditures in the tax code." By all means, scrap the entire tax code and start from scratch with a new, simplified version without all the subsidies, loopholes, etc. But any serious discussion MUST include MASSIVE cuts in spending to include entitlement reform (~53% of the federal budget). $15-$20 Trillion in cuts over the next decade is what's needed, not a relative drop in the bucket of $2T over 10 years.
Patrick Dukemajian
The problem with America is not that the taxes are too low or that the government is not spending enough. The stimulus was a disaster. We have spend our way to misery. We were told the sky would fall if the bailout wasn't passed immediately, a week went by before the bailout finally passed and the sky didn't fall in the meantime. We were told the sky will fall if we exceeded the debt ceiling. We exceeded the debt ceiling and the sky didn't fall. Now we are being told the sky will fall if a deal isn't reached by Aug 3rd. Be very suspicious of politicians who foretell disaster if they don't get their way. This claim that disaster is coming unless we we act immediately is used to shut down debate and opposing points of view.
The way to increase revenue is to increase growth. How will raising taxes increase growth? I canceled my subscription about a year ago because of your Keynesian view of the economy. The elites still love Keynes even though his economic theory has been disproven repeatedly. The Economist should be renamed The Keynesian Economist.
If the Republicans cave and raise taxes now after being elected to prevent such a thing from occurring, it will be the beginning of the end for the Republican party. Shame on them if they cave. America's greatness is not in Washington. The people are where the greatness is. If only they can be allowed to thrive and flourish instead of being constantly taxed and regulated.
Stop paying soldiers????? That would be a good start!!!
The U.S. has done enough damage to the world already. A complete withdrawal from Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Yemen would be a first phase toward the goal of redefining America's role in the world.
But active wars account for a tiny 15% of America's military budget. The bulk of the so-called "defense" budget goes to:
1) contractors;
2) military bases around the globe;
3) military aid to foreign countries -most of them brutal dictatorships;
4) a huge espionage apparatus created after 9/11.
So, by pushing Obama into cutting military programs, Republicans are not only helping America balance their accounts, but also helping America regain a little respect around the world.
DC View
In today's NY Times has an article on Goldman Sachs taking the largest single loan amount $15 billion on 12/9/08.
If the US had not bailed out the banks, not just American banks, world economy would be in a very difficult place.
The point is Politicans are paid and worshipped to make difficult decisions for the Greater Good of the their country. Unforunately,
they are often too weak and short sighted to do the right thing.
That is what is happening in the US, EU and other countries around the world.
Good luck!
Strange how the DOW is doing so well this week, even as the apocalyptic rhetoric heats up on all major news outlets. Personally I don't think even the republicans are dumb enough to let the U.S. actually default - but the stock market doesn't seem to be pricing in even the remote possibility of that happening...
The Blaze said: "$2 Trillion in spending 'cuts' seems to be the magic number cited by President Obama and members of Cogress in favor of raising the debt ceiling. The Cato Institute, however, released a video Wednesday explaining why those $2 Trillion might in fact be a series of smaller projected cuts over a ten year period... these 'spending cuts' would only reduce baseline spending, ergo spending would actually increase to the tune of $1.8 Trillion overall."
Blaze article: http://tblz.us/5yK5t
Cato's video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we5FUR1Opc0
You can talk about "bad Republicans" all you desire to. However, a growing group of US citizens have seemingly ever more frustrated with Federal debt escalation that they have believed the middle class has primarily funded (reports in the media have primarily focused on millionaires receiving "fat cat" bonuses at bailed out firms that someone believed "too big to fail"). They have grown tired of strapping this ever-increasing debt onto the backs of their grandchildren. They have also grown tired of politicians of all ilks acting like they know better than the citizens how those citizens should live their lives, through a plethora of social (re)engineering projects. Maybe that doesn't present a problem in the UK. The people there accept a monarch. It does present a problem in the US. Shame on the Economist for not understanding that cultural difference.
Economist, here's some "schoolin' for ya': http://notyourstogive.com/
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User avatar #1 - oborawatabinost (01/21/2013) [-]
"Manly library" brought some interesting images into my head...
#42 - theelderscrolls (01/22/2013) [-]
Well i guess that the 470,000,000$ that he raised for cancer research is also fiction and should be rendered fake.
This man raised a ******* of money. I wouldnt care if he road a Harley through the tour de France, he still had good intentions.
#53 to #42 - neosflare (01/22/2013) [-]
"wouldnt care if he road a Harley through the tour de France". you my dear sir are funny
"wouldnt care if he road a Harley through the tour de France". you my dear sir are funny
#70 to #42 - umadproblemm (01/22/2013) [-]
AMEN. It's not like he raised the money and blew it all on expensive material items. He still gave back to those in need.
User avatar #51 - drtrousersnake (01/22/2013) [-]
I guess lance didn't have the balls to win fairly
User avatar #60 to #51 - holdup (01/22/2013) [-]
well, thats a given, but now, he is not even half the man he used to be.
#2 - connormccloud (01/21/2013) [-]
Manly libary with sound proof booths for private studying
#5 - stepsword (01/21/2013) [-]
I don't get it. Why are they moving it to fiction?
User avatar #7 to #5 - hugsforfree (01/21/2013) [-]
Lance armstrong cheated to win many cycling competitions. He recently admitted to cheating.
#20 to #7 - ienjoyrofling (01/22/2013) [-]
Boy do I feel like a **** up, I only read Lance and ******* the astronaut, so I jumped to the end and read the 'moving to fiction section' so I thought they were implying the moon landing wasn't real. Thank you, comment section.
>mfw my error
>mfw my error
User avatar #13 to #7 - Crusader (01/22/2013) [-]
As if dozens of other competitors weren't doing it as well.
He is still below the rest considering he did lose a nut.
#9 to #7 - stepsword (01/21/2013) [-]
Thank you
User avatar #6 to #5 - mikhailovych (01/21/2013) [-]
because he used performance enhancing drugs
#8 to #6 - stepsword (01/21/2013) [-]
Thank you
User avatar #47 to #6 - dadukesta (01/22/2013) [-]
Performance enhancing techinques*
Technically blood doping is just putting your blood back in after taking it out at high altitudes.
User avatar #73 to #47 - mikhailovych (01/22/2013) [-]
he admitted to using performance enhancing drugs on Oprah
User avatar #75 to #73 - dadukesta (01/23/2013) [-]
He admitted to blood doping. Which is illegal in most sports.
User avatar #21 - luidias ONLINE (01/22/2013) [-]
>lance wins a bunch of prizes whilst doping
>raises millions of dollars for cancer research
>gets found out about doping
>becomes evil human being
let me reiterate that.
>millions of dollars for cancer
>some stupid prize
somehow, he's a bad person for cheating on the prize, and ISN'T a good person for the millions of dollars to cancer.
User avatar #23 to #21 - KillYourself (01/22/2013) [-]
how much monetary gain did he make from cheating?
User avatar #25 to #23 - luidias ONLINE (01/22/2013) [-]
>he gained money
>he raised much more for cancer
if you could give a man some amount of money to raise ten times that amount for cancer, wouldn't you do it? wouldn't you say that's a pretty good deal?
I can see why people are upset about it, but I don't think it matters in the big picture. what does it matter what he gets, if cancer got the money anyways? I'll take the current situation over the one where he never cheats and the millions for cancer are never raised.
#26 to #25 - 2scared2login (01/22/2013) [-]
People could still DONATE THEIR MONEY toward cancer research without Lance Armstrong making millions.
User avatar #28 to #26 - luidias ONLINE (01/22/2013) [-]
but they don't. the only reason those millions were raised was because lance founded Livestrong and started a ******* awareness campaign
i.e. if lance hadn't been there, no one would've donated **** all. again, I don't mind that lance cheated, because the alternative meant that none of that money would have gone to cancer.
I mean, I think it's fair that he was stripped of the title. In terms of the competition, cheating was a dick move. However, I think what he did for cancer research deserves some merit, and I just can't call him an overall bad person.
User avatar #32 to #25 - StrayBullet (01/22/2013) [-]
So you would say the ends justify the means? I agree with that sentiment. However, at what point do the means cease to be justifiable and become universally deplorable? As far as the universe is concerned, never, but what do you think?
User avatar #35 to #32 - luidias ONLINE (01/22/2013) [-]
I think people incorrectly treat that statement, "the end justifies the means" as a black and white statement. Its truthfulness depends entirely on the scale, effects, moral implications and a billion other factors pertaining to the ends and the means.
In other words, sometimes the ends justifies the means and sometimes not, because the world is not black and white, it's made up entirely of grey zones. I think that, in this situation, the ends do justify the means, although saying that is still oversimplifying it.
User avatar #39 to #35 - StrayBullet (01/22/2013) [-]
With that, I agree with you. Everything can be found in shades of grey.
(And a Hell of a lot more than fifty. It doesn't take a telepath to know what you're thinking.)
User avatar #40 to #21 - tiddycats (01/22/2013) [-]
He was a dick though, he ruined a lot of reporter's careers for probing into doping, he basically bought off a lot of the people that run the tour de france and all that through "donations" and then would blacklist certain reporters that he didn't like.
I wouldn't have cared otherwise since I'm pretty sure 90% of all cyclists dope.
User avatar #46 to #40 - luidias ONLINE (01/22/2013) [-]
granted, he's no saint. a lot of the **** he did was wrong, but he did a lot of good as well.
User avatar #33 to #21 - Marker (01/22/2013) [-]
People are treating him worse than Barry Bonds, which is pathetic as all hell.
Armstrong, while proven to have cheated, what a good person.
Bonds, although never actually proven to have cheated, made it quite obvious. And to top it off, he was scum.
User avatar #34 to #33 - Marker (01/22/2013) [-]
was* a good person.
User avatar #36 to #34 - luidias ONLINE (01/22/2013) [-]
I agree. What Lance did was wrong, but I think he's getting way too much heat for it, especially considering all the good he did on the side.
#52 to #36 - 2scared2login (01/22/2013) [-]
Disagree. He sued people who told the truth that he was cheating. How is that right? Him raising money for cancer does not negate the **** he did and the hell he put other people through with lawsuits. He also lied during an investigation. I hope he gets sued and thrown in jail for perjury. **** him, he's a piece of **** .
User avatar #62 to #52 - luidias ONLINE (01/22/2013) [-]
it doesn't negate anything, but he deserves some credit for it. again, I'd rather have lance as a cheater and cancer receiving the money, than honest lance and no money for cancer.
User avatar #74 to #62 - Marker (01/22/2013) [-]
Agreed completely. There is no reason to treat Lance anywhere near as bad as Bonds.
Of course, Bonds' punishment is one that will sit with him for the rest of his life, knowing he's never getting into the Hall of Fame.
#55 - iscreamsonday (01/22/2013) [-]
if they were to give the tour de france title to someone who hadn't doped they would have to give it to the guy in 23rd place
#58 to #55 - neosflare (01/22/2013) [-]
only reason that people care is that he the only cyclist that a normal person could name. when john Q biker comes out as having doped only the cyclist fans care but a guy held as a hero, his going to get blown outta proportion
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User avatar #29 - darman (01/22/2013) [-]
Its sad really. All the good cyclists dope and its so ingrained into the nature of the sport its not going to stop.
User avatar #10 - mrbuu (01/21/2013) [-]
yeah,but who is getting the first place medal. not 2nd place, not 3rd place, not 4th. Infact they don't know who to give it too.
#22 to #10 - 2scared2login (01/22/2013) [-]
why shouldn't second place get it?
#24 to #22 - 2scared2login (01/22/2013) [-]
they were ALL doping
#45 - steavo (01/22/2013) [-]
I really don't ******* care if he was doping. I really don't ******* care. He's a good man, he had good intentions. Him cheating raised tons of money. Sure, he didn't deserve the medals that he won, but he did good with his cheating.
#54 to #45 - 2scared2login (01/22/2013) [-]
The ends justify the means in your opinion.
User avatar #56 to #54 - bossmanholms ONLINE (01/22/2013) [-]
hey man thanks for clarifying that.
#31 - 2scared2login (01/22/2013) [-]
manly library.
p.s: i like to start my mastrubation off with a floppy dick, because it thoroughly amuses me to have it flap around the way it does.
User avatar #64 - bagguhsleep (01/22/2013) [-]
What I find hilarious is that people hate him for doping despite the fact that pretty much every other ******* cyclist that participates in the Tour De France dopes as well. The only difference is that he was the best (either at cycling or at doping).
User avatar #69 - digits (01/22/2013) [-]
"At least he had the ball to admit it."
#71 to #69 - kreekydoorS ONLINE (01/22/2013) [-]
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User avatar #50 - ronyx ONLINE (01/22/2013) [-]
Everyone makes mistakes.
User avatar #11 - thepyras (01/22/2013) [-]
You know what I think about Lance Armstrong admitting to doping? I think he's lying to get the media off his back. They've been on him for years about something they've never been able to prove no matter how many drug tests he took, and more recently they took away a title on what I don't believe to be reasonable grounds. I think he's just saying this now so it'll all **** over faster.
User avatar #14 to #11 - mrmontombo (01/22/2013) [-]
That or hes lying for attention. If your going to lie to get the media off your back, you don't go on Oprah to do so. I think he wants media attention.
User avatar #15 to #14 - thepyras (01/22/2013) [-]
Well, I think going on Oprah would be exactly what you would do. It's the quickest way for everyone to hear about it, so it'll go away more quickly.
User avatar #16 to #15 - mrmontombo (01/22/2013) [-]
I disagree. If attention is what you dont want, going on one of the most viewed and longest running talk shows ever is not the way you do it. He famous. Talking to anybody (a paper, magazine, etc.) would have been a better option.
User avatar #17 to #16 - thepyras (01/22/2013) [-]
The point is, you want everyone's attention straight off the bat, then it doesn't drag on for weeks as more people find out.
User avatar #18 to #17 - mrmontombo (01/22/2013) [-]
My point is if your going on Oprah, your not getting rid of the media. Furthermore, it may cause more media to ****** him asking for comment, further explanation. If you are famous there is no way to avoid the media. All he accomplished was destroying his own reputation. All I know is that I would rather have the media annoying me day and night then have my family/friends/everybody think I have been cheating and lying my entire career.
User avatar #19 to #18 - thepyras (01/22/2013) [-]
The idea is not to get rid of the media, it's to make it all go down at once, then dissipate. I'm not so sure. The people he's close to will know the truth. I can't imagine I would care too much what everyone else thought.
User avatar #59 to #19 - mrmontombo (01/22/2013) [-]
Honestly I didn't believe him in the first place. I think he did use performance enhancing drugs because honestly, everybody in that sport does. The only reason hes catching all this flak is because he won. The winners are under the most scrutiny. It just disgusts me that he sued people for saying he cheated, but now hes admitting he did it? If hes that dedicated to preserving the 'truth', that he didn't juice, then why is he lying about it now?
#12 - widsquard ONLINE (01/22/2013) [-]
Manly as in, near Seaforth?
User avatar #38 to #12 - jmanporter (01/22/2013) [-]
as in Sydney Australia
#76 to #38 - widsquard ONLINE (01/23/2013) [-]
woohoo, i know that place!
#66 - hanabro (01/22/2013) [-]
>mfw I'm from Manly, Iowa.
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Publication numberUS3782915 A
Publication typeGrant
Publication dateJan 1, 1974
Filing dateDec 27, 1971
Priority dateDec 27, 1971
Publication numberUS 3782915 A, US 3782915A, US-A-3782915, US3782915 A, US3782915A
InventorsA Filbert, M Hair
Original AssigneeCorning Glass Works
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Surface-deactivated porous glass
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Jan. 1, 1974 A. M. FILBERT ET AL 3,782,915
SURFACE-DEACTIVATED POROUS GLASS Filed Dec. 27, 1971 3 Sheets-Sheet 1 Fig. 3
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Augustus M. F i/berf M/chae/ L. Hair ATTORNEY Jan. 1, 1974 A. M. FILBERT ET 3,782,915
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Augustus M. F i/berf M/chae/ L- Hair ATTORNEY Jan. 1, 1974 A. M. FILBERT ET AL 3,782,915
E THYL BUTYFSATE n-HEXANOL INVE N TORS. Augustus M. F ilberf Michael L. Hair ATTORNEY weight basis, of about 96% United States Patent 3,782,915 SURFACE-DEACTIVATED POROUS GLASS Augustus M. Filbert, Coming, and Michael L. Hair,
Webster, N.Y., assignors to Corning Glass Works, Cor.
ning, N.Y.
Filed Dec. 27, 1971, Ser. No. 212,009 Int. Cl. C03c 15/00 US. CI. 65-30 7 Claims ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE Porous glass bodies essentially free of surface Lewis acid sites are prepared by exposing the bodies to NH or steam at glass body temperatures of 800l000 C. The treated glass bodies are especially useful for applications in which the surface activity attributable to Lewis acid sites is desirably avoided (e.g., as chromatographic support or separation media).
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION Field of the invention This invention relates to porous glass bodies which are essentially free of surface Lewis acid sites and methods for preparing and using such glass bodies. More specifically, the invention relates to methods for treating porous glass to minimize or eliminate surface activity attributable to the presence of such compounds as B 0 the presence of which gives rise to acidic sites, particularly those known as Lewis acid sites.
Porous glass is glass which contains an intricate network of minute interconnected voids and channels running therethrough. The manufacture of such glass is well known. See, for example, the teachings of US. Pat. Nos. 2,106,764, issued to Hood and Nordberg, 3,485,687, issued to Chapman, and 3,549,524 issued to Haller. Generally, such glass is formed by preparing a glass within a certain composition range, subjecting the glass to heat treatment to separate it into two phases, only one of which is soluble in acid medium, and subsequently dissolving out the soluble phase to produce the void space. An example of such porous glass is Corning Code 7930 porous glass commonly referred to as 96% silica glass. Such glass may contain up to 3.5% or more residual B 0 Corning Code 7930 porous glass is obtained as an inter mediate in the process used for the manufacture of 96% silica glass and that process is described in U.S. Pat. No. 2,106,764, cited above. The precise composition of Coming Code 7930 porous glass is disclosed in US. Pat. No. 3,485,687, cited above, wherein it is stated that the porous glass is composed in weight percent, on a dry silica, 3% boric oxide, 0.2% alumina, and less than about 0.05% sodium oxide.
The pore size and surface area of the porous glass can be controlled by choosing appropriate heat treatment and phase dissolution techniques. Such porous glass is commonly referred to as Controlled Pore Glass or CPG. The average pore size of such glass may be 75 A.2000 A., generally expressed in angstroms (A.) because of the relatively small diameters of the pores. As a general rule, a decrease in average pore size is accompanied by an increase in surface area of the porous glass. The surface area of a given porous glass, expressed in m. /g., can be determined from the average pore size by known methods. See, for example, the above Haller patent.
Because the pore size and surface area of porous glass can be controlled, it has been possible to use such glasses in numerous applications where controlled pore sizes and, or known surface areas are desirable. For example, porous glass has been used as a carrier for otherwise soluble materials such as enzymes to render them insoluble. Thus, because of the dimensional stability and large surface area of CPS, it has been found possible to chemically couple or adsorb large amounts of enzymes to the glass. See US. Pat. No. 3,556,945 (adsorption) and US. Pat. No. 3,519,538 (chemical coupling).
Porous glass has also found applications as a support material in liquid-liquid and gas-liquid chromatography and as a separation medium in molecular sieve and steric chromatographic applications. In liquid-liquid or gasliquid chromatography, porous glass has been found especially useful as a support material because of its large surface area. In molecular sieve chromatography, the porous glass is especially useful as a separation medium because controlled pore sizes can be tailor-made to exclude or admit molecules of varying sizes, thus permitting separation of mixtures into their components.
Despite the advantages associated with using CPG in the above and other applications, there has been one shortcoming that has limited its usefulness. This shortcoming relates to undesirable surface activity found on porous glass.
Although all glasses commonly have some surface activity, which in many applications is tolerable, in the case of porous glass the surface activity is magnified for at least two reasons. Firstly, by increasing the surface area per gram of glass, there is an increased number of activity sites that become exposed or formed which can affect materials in contact with the glass. Secondly, in the manufacture of porous glass, it has been found that there commonly remains on the surface residual molecules which were not leached out of the base glass. When the base glass used to make the porous glass is a phaseseparable borosilicate glass, the residual molecules are commonly boron derivatives such as B 0 On non-porous glass, the presence'of such compounds is usually of slight consequence because the low surface area of non-porous glass. Thus, the surface of such glass has only slight activity. In the case of porous glass, however, the much greater surface area permits greater amounts of such compounds to interfere with the use of the porous glass.
When compounds such as B 0 are present on the surface of glass, they give rise to active sites which have been identified by infrared and adsorption studies as Lewis acid sites. See M. L. Hair et al., Surface Composition of Porous Glass, J. Am. Ceram. Soc., 49, 651-654 (1966). Lewis acid sites are attributable to the presence of compounds which behave as Lewis acids. A Lewis acid is a substance capable of accepting from a base an unshared pair of electrons which then form a covalent bond. Lewis acids include such compounds as B 0 boron fluoride, A1 0 aluminum halides, S0 CO as well as protons and other positive ions. In contrast, a Lewis base is a term used to describe compounds or ions which are capable of giving up to a Lewis acid an unshared pair of electrons which then form a covalent chemical bond. Lewis bases include such species as NH ether, benzene, or negative ions such as OH.
Because of the greater number of Lewis acid sites attributable to such compounds as B 0 which can be expected on the surface of porous glass, it can be appreciated that the utility of such glass becomes somewhat limited where an essentially activity-free surface is desired. Some of the more important applications where an activity-free surface on porous glass are desirable are in the various types of chromatographic separation techniques wherein porous glass may be used as a support material or as a separation medium. Thus, although the present invention will be found useful in many other areas, the invention finds particular utility as a chromatographic support or separation medium.
Very broadly, chromatography relates to a separation process, especially useful for separating closely related substances. In one of the earlier chromatographic separation techniques various closely related compounds could be separated by allowing a solution or mixture of them to seep through an absorbent (such as clay or paper) so that each compound became absorbed in a separate, often colored layer. When paper strips are used as the absorbing material, the technique is referred to as paper chromatography, a technique still used today. Other chromatographic separation techniques include liquid-liquid chromatography, gas-liquid chromatography, molecular sieve, and steric chromatography.
In liquid-liquid or gas-liquid chromatography a mixture of components to be separated is combined with another liquid or gas called a carrier and these are passed over a support medium preferably having a high surface area. As the components pass through the support medium their respective passages are delayed in such a manner that the respective components emerge at varying time intervals referred to as retention times. As the components emerge from the support medium (usually contained in a column) they can be sensed by appropriate instruments and their respective amounts can be recorded on tracing paper and represented as peaks which may be identified with a particular component.
Ideally, the peaks should be symmetrical; that is, they should show little if any tailing. Unfortunately, it is often difficult to avoid asymmetrical peaks, especially in the separation of polar compounds such as alcohols, ketones, pyridines, and the like. (Cf. non-polar compounds such as the hydrocarbons.) Because of the tailings of various compounds, the accuracy and ease of such separation techniques is hampered and quantization of the method is difficult. It has been found that much of the tailing phenomena is attributable to the support material used and especially the surface activity of such materials.
In molecular sieve chromatography, porous materials are used to literally sieve compounds of varying molecular weight in such a way that smaller components emerge from a column containing porous material before larger components.
In adsorption chromatography, various components are passed through a support material and there is an elution delay usually based on the molecular weights and boiling points of the components. Lighter components have less tendency to be adsorbed and thus elute sooner than heavier components.
In steric chromatography, a porous separation medium is used in such a way that smaller components of a mixture are eluted last because of a more tortuous path they must follow in passing through the column. Thus, in steric chromatography, the pore size and inter-connection of the pores are of critical importance.
All of the above chromatographic techniques may utilize support or separating materials which are preferably porous and/or of high surface area. The use of porous support materials in gas chromatography is more fully described in US. Pat. No. 3,453,806, and US. Pat. No. 3,456,427, assigned to the assignee of the present invention.
In the cases of liquid-liquid, gas-liquid, molecular sieve, and steric chromatography, it is usually desirable to have minimal surface activity. Ideally, the solid support or separation material used in those chromatographic columns should be inert. In liquid-liquid or gas-liquid chromatography the support should merely serve to provide a large surface area over which the liquid phase is spread in a thin uniform film. For molecular sieve or steric chromatography, the physical structure of the support alone (e.g., surface area, pore size, porosity) should determine the separations which are to be accomplished. In neither case should the matrix enter into the mechanism of separation.
It is well recognized that diatomite (diatomaceous earth), Porous glasses, and other high surface area support materials are not inert and that they differ significantly in adsorption and catalytic activity. These materials, of course, will interact with polar molecules more readily than with less reactive compounds such as hydrocarbons. Such interactions are recognized by tailing and by the appearance of unexpected or distorted peaks. The surface activity of the support materials may be responsible for one or more of the following:
(a) Peak asymmetry, caused by adsorption of polar molecules;
(b) Retention time or volume changes;
(c) Chemical reaction of the solute molecules themselves; and
(d) Chemical reaction with the stationary liquid phase. Reactions (c) and (d) may be caused by heterogeneous catalysis. Reaction (a), the peak asymmetry (tailing), may be caused by physical or chemical adsorption on the material surface. The reaction (b), the retention volume changes, may be caused by additional contributions of adsorption to the delay caused by dissolution of a solute in the liquid substrate.
Various attempts have been made to minimize or eliminate the surface activity associated with support materials, especially the widely used siliceous support materials such as diatomaceous earth and porous glasses.
PRIOR ART Since siliceous materials predominantly terminate their structure in silanol (SiOH) groups, these active centers have received the most attention in deactivation studies. A general procedure which has been employed for the reduction of such adsorption activity involves the use of reagents which chemically react with the hydroxyl groups on siliceous surfaces. The hydrogen of the reactive hydroxyl groups may be replaced with silyl groups from chlorosilane-type compounds according to the following reactions:
In the presence of moisture, however, it has been found that the dimethyldichlorosilane (DMCS) polymerizes over the surface of the silicas.
Trimethylchlorosilane (TMCS) and hexamethyldisila- Zane (HMDS) have also been used to deactivate the silica. However, it has been reported that the effectiveness of these agents varied considerably; DMCS appeared to be the most effective for diatomite; the HMDS less so; and the TMCS even less.
Further, even though diatomite offers a desirably large surface area and, even when properly silanized to reduce surface activity, it suffers from the shortcoming of being fairly friable compared to porous glass. For example, porous glass known as Corning Code 7930 glass has a substantial strength advantage over diatomaceous earth supports. Similar friability tests on the two materials indicate a 48% loss in a given mesh size for the diatomites compared with a 12% loss of the same mesh size for the porous glass. Thus, even though some silanization techniques may be more effective in reducing the surface activity of diatomites, the greater strength of porous glass, combined with the fact that it can be produced in predetermined size and shape have indicated that porous glass may 'be more desirable as chromatographic support and separation media.
Although silanization treatments can substantially reduce the activity of porous glass associated surface silanol groups, they have little, if any, effect on the activity contributions of surface Lewis acid sites found especially on porous glass. The surface activity of porous glass has also been reduced with acid and alkali washings. Also, surface activity has been reduced by saturating the surface with a non-volatile compound or a polar liquid phase. Further, the surfaces have been enveloped with various metals (e.g., silver).
Unfortunately, none of the above methods has been found completely acceptable for deactivating the surfaces of porous glass. For example, as noted above, the silanization treatments have little effect on Lewis acid sites. The acid and alkali washings are said to remove alumina and ferric oxide impurities but they do little to modify the surface characteristics of the silicas. Various coatings (e.g., polymers) provide inert surfaces, but they are severely temperature-limited. Also, the metal deposition procedures are expensive and there is no guarantee that the metals will not react with or serve as catalytic surfaces for reaction of solutes. Because of the above problems associated with known surface-deactivation techniques, there has been a continuing need for better, less elaborate, and more economical methods for deactivating the surface of porous glass. The present invention, quite surprisingly, serves that need.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It has been found that the surface activity on porous glass attributable to acidic sites such as Lewis acid sites caused by such compounds as B 0 can be minimized or eliminated by two simple, economical methods. In the first method the porous glass, at a temperature between 800 C. and 1000 C., is exposed or contacted with NH; for 2 to 16 hours to form a relatively inactive surface nitride which may be optionally removed with an acid bath. In the second method the porous glass at temperatures between 8001000 C. is treated with hot water vapor for 2 to 16 hours at atmospheric pressure. When porous glass having undesirable Lewis acid sites is treated according to either of the above methods, the glass can be used as a chromatographic support or separation material of greatly improved behavior.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1 illustrates the lower portions of peaks for eight compounds (1 through 8) which were separated by means of gas-liquid chromatography wherein the support medium consisted of untreated porous glass.
FIGS. 2-6 and 910 illustrate the lower portions of peaks for the same compounds which were separated by means of gas-liquid chromatography wherein the support media consisted of porous glass which had been treated for various times with NH at temperatures of 800 C., 850 C., 900 C., 950 C., 1000 C., 800 C., and 950 (3., each temperature corresponding to the respective figures.
FIGS. 7 and 8 illustrate the lower portions of peaks for the same compounds which were separated by means of gas-liquid chromatography wherein the support material consistedof two types of commercially available diatomite.
FIGS. 11-14 illustrate the lower portions of separation peaks for mixtures of polar and nonpolar components which were separated by means of gas liquid chromatography wherein the support material consisted of porous glass exposed to water vapor at glass temperatures from 800-1000 C. for varying periods of time.
SPECIFIC EMBODIMENTS In the following experiments Corning Code 7930 96% silica porous glass samples of 60 to +80 mesh having average pore diameters of about 2000 A., and 380 A., as indicated, were treated to elevated temperatures with NH vapor and water vapor to deactivate the surface sites, particularly the Lewis acid sites attributable especially to boron compounds. The treated glass was then used as support media for further experiments utilizing gas-liquid chromatographic techniques. Porous glass treated at various temperatures for time periods of 2 to 16 hours was then compared with untreated glass and two well-known support mediums consisting of diatomite.
Heat treatments with NH The following experiments show that substantial amounts of boron compounds can be inactivated on or removed from porous glass by baking the glass at high temperatures in a stream of NI-I at atmospheric pressure, followed 'by extracting the resulting glasses in solution. The treated glasses exhibit gas-liquid chromatographic behavoir which is superior to that of porous glasses which have not been nitrided. Such treated glasses can also be used in other chromatographic techniques where surface activity is desirably avoided.
Nitriding of the porous glasses was performed in a VYCOR brand glass tube (about 20" long) fitted with a fritted glass disk. Samples of porous glasses were heated to temperatures of from 800 C. to 1000 C. in a tube furnace. A flow of ammonia was adjusted so that the glass particles formed a fluidized bed, exposing the greatest surface contact between the NH and the glass. The samples were held at the desired temperature for 2 to 16 hours, and were then cooled to room temperature in the ammonia atmosphere. Rapid cooling was achieved by pulling the VYCOR brand glass tube from the hot furnace and allowing it to cool in room air. A control run was made at 950 C., using nitrogen instead of ammonia as the fluidizing gas.
Volatile material is lost from the porous glass surface during the nitriding procedure and this is observed as a white residue on the cooler parts of the reaction vessel. Spectrographic analysis shows this to be primarily B 0 Nitriding of the porous glass samples was performed according to the following schedules:
Average pore Time, Tempera- Sample No. Mesh size, A hours ture, C.
2, 000 No treatment 2,000 16 800 2, 000 1a 850 2,000 16 900 2., 000 16 950 2,000 16 1000 380 16 800 2, 00:) 2 950 Flame photometry analysis for B 0 in representative samples yielded the following results: Sample 1 (2.8% B 0 Sample 2 (2.1%); Sample 3 (2.1% and Sample 4 (1.4%
It was confirmed by infrared studies that the Lewis acid sites on the porous glasses were removed by high temperature NH treatments. It was also found that by heating the porous glasses to 800 C. without the presence of NH diffusion of boron oxide from the glass bulk to the surface occurred. This additional boron would create more Lewis acid sites. However, when the heat treatment up to 800 C. is done in the presence of the NH it was found the boron oxide reacted with the NH to form a water soluble boron nitrogen compound. At 950 C. the boron oxide reacts more readily with the ammonia to form the BN compound, which may then be extracted from the surface. Thus, a temperature of 950 C. is preferred for maximum surface deactivation. The minimum temperature for nitriding should be about 800 C. Nitriding at this temperature will permit the inactivation of any boron which ditfuses to the surface from the glass bulk. The maximum preferred temperature was found to be about 1000" C. Beyond that temperature, the pores of the glass begin to close significantly, thus reducing the total area of the glass surface.
The time ranges for the nitriding are preferably between 2 and 16 hours. A two-hour minimum is preferred to assure maximum nitriding while nitriding beyond 16 hours tends to become economically unfeasible.
After the nitriding procedures, pore size measurements were taken for both the treated and untreated, 2000 A.
7 8 diameter porous glasses. The particle sizes for all glasses silanols, a five volume percent solution of dimethyldichlowas -60 +80 mesh. Mercury porosimeter curves for the rosilane in toluene was used. After the ammoniation (nitreated glasses (2000 A.heated 800 C. to 950 C.) do triding) and extraction, the glasses were treated with not show any significant reduction in pore size for the the above solution for three hours at 50 C. prior to the samples heated in NH to 95 C., the pore volume reducliquid coating phase. tion at this temperature being less than Above 950 A standard coating procedure was used to prepare the C., there is a substantial decrease in pore volume, the porous glasses for use as support materials in chromatopore size decreases, and the pore distribution becomes graphic columns. The glass samples were added to a coatmore broad. ing solution prepared by dissolving Dow Corning 550 The surface area values (krypton technique) for heated 10 phenylmethylsilicone oil in chloroform. The volatile soland unheated glass samples were measured as well as the vent was then evaporated from the mixture under mild surface area of the two other support materials which heating inarotary evaporator. consist of diatomite, e.g., Chromosorb P and Chromo- Columns were made from inch O.D. U-shaped glass sorb W. Within experimental error (approximately tubing, six feet in length, into which the porous glass the surface areas of the 2000 A. diameter porous 15 granules were introduced with tapping along the tube glasses do not change significantly until the glasses reach until no more material was accepted. Approximately 25 a temperature of about 950 C. in the NH The surface ml. of support material (porous glass) was used for each areas of the glasses (8.0-1.0 m. /g.) were found to be column. The columns were conditioned overnight at 200 about twice that of Chromosorb P and about 8 to 10 C. with helium flowing through the column. Flow was times that of Chromosorb W (1.0 m. /g.). measured with a soap-bubble fiowmeter placed at the Bulk chemical analysis of the nitrided controlled pore column exit orifice. glasses was somewhat inconclusive. Hydrofluoric acid All measurements were made on a Microtek MT 220 failed to completely dissolve the sample and spectro- Gas Chromatograph, equipped with a conventional congraphic analysis of the I-IF-insoluble residue revealed the ductivity detector and a 1 mv. Esterline Angus recorder. presence of major quantities of boron. In view of the high Full scale response was 0.5 second. temperature ammonia treatment, it is possible that the in- Mixtures of various classes of organic molecules were soluble material is boron nitride. used to compare the surface activity of the support mate- The nitrided glasses were prepared for use in gas-liquid rials of treated samples 26 and 9-10. These organic chromatography experiments so that the treated glasses compounds were: could be compared with untreated porous glass and two (I) acetone (B P 56 C) diatomaceous materials available under the trademark (2) methanol Chromosorb P and Chrom0sorb W. (3) ethanol (B'P: The nitrided glasses were first leached to remove addi- (4) benzene (BR C.) t1onal boron compounds. Then they were silanized and (5) cyclohexane (HR 5 C) given a standard coating prior to being placed in the (6) heptane (BR 5 C) Column- 7 pyridine (B.P. 115.3" 0.)
The boron from the nitrided glasses can be leached o (extracted) by two methods. The first method involves (8)aCet1cac1d(B'P'.118'1 using an anhydrous methanol-anhydrous HCl solution. All columns evaluatlons were made at 1 Methanol in contact with glasses containing boron pro- 40 Tets w also run on columns contalnll'lg sllanized duces considerable amounts of trimethylborate. Bubbling and hqmd Z Chromosorb P, Chromosorb W, and anhydrous HCl through the methanol increases B 0 solunonammomated controlled P glasses p bility in the solution. Samples 25 and 9 were leached with this method as follows: After nitriding the porous glasses were washed with an anhydrous-MeOH-anhydrous Peak traces for compounds eluted from a column con- Chromatography experiments HCl solution and the glass was placed in an extraction taining normal (untreated) controlled pore glass vessel. The vessel was filled with anhydrous methanol and +80 mesh, 2000 A.) are shown in FIG. 1. Curves for the anhydrous HCl was allowed to flow through the vessel to same solutes on the columns containing the treated glasses put the glass particles well in motion. After washing the of Samples 26 are shown in FIGS. 26 and for columns glass particles in this manner for two hours, the solution 0 containing Chromosorb P and Chromosorb W are was drained from the reaction vessel and the glass was shown in FIGS. 7 and 8, respectively. Peaks for the same Washed in absolute MeOI-I for 15 minutes. solutes on the columns containing the treated glasses of In an alternate leaching technique, the boron is re- Samples 9-10 are shown in FIGS. 9-10. Retention times moved from the surface of the nitrlded porous glass parfor all of the samples are shown in the table below.
RETENTION TIMES (MINUTES) Example- Component 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Acetone 1.04... 0.65 0.52 0.80 0.49 0.53 0.57 0.67 077 056 09 Acid 7 1 1-; 116%: 0183---: 0133 -.II 0.89 1I11 0190.1 1.15.
rea ment one. 1808s.,C I 853%?)- 16g' 169262.,C I 1611:656 C Clgomosorb Cllrromosorb 2l21rgbb 0., ticles with 1.5 N nitric acid solution in two separate op- Similar results for paraffin (non-polar) molecules are erations. After additional rinses with distilled water and seen with all columns. Since there is little interaction absolute methanol, the glasses are ready for any final between the glass surface and their solutes, elution peaks steps needed prior to use in chromatographic columns. 70 are generally symmetrical. Hydrocarbons are eluted in This procedure was used to leach the glass of Sample 10 order of their boiling points for columns containing either and the two washings with the 1.5 N nitric acid were non-treated or ammoniated glasses, as well as the Chromacarried out at 95 C. sorb materials. For polar molecules, dramatic improve- All of the glasses are then silanized to inactivate the ment in peak symmetry and a sharp reduction in retention hydroxyl groups present. To substantially remove these times over untreated glasses are observed for columns containing the ammoniated, B O extracted glasses. Some peak asymmetry still remains with polar molecules, an indication that the glass surfaces may not have been completely deactivated. For a given type material, surface activity toward polar molecules is generally observed to be a function of its surface area. Since Chromosorb W had the lowest surface area of all supports tested, it was not surprising that that material was the most inert. On the other hand, the surface area of the 2000 A. diameter porous glass at 6.0 m. /g. is higher than that of Chromosorb P (S.A.:4.0 m. /g.), but its surface activity is unexpectedly less than that of the diatomite. On the basis of the ratio, surface activity/surface area, the relative inertness of the nitrides controlled pore diameter glass exceeds that of the more friable Chromosorb W.
The peaks in FIG. 9 show results for a 380 A. glass that had been ammoniated at 950 C. for 16 hours and then had been extracted in a HCl/methanol solution. Peaks shown in FIG. 10 are for glass that had been heated in NH;, at 950 C. for a shorter period of time (2 hours) and extracted two times in 1.5 N HNO If good exposure to the glass surface is maintained during ammoniation, 2-4 hours at the elevated temperatures, e.g., (900- 950 C.) would appear to be suflicient for substantial B O +NH interaction. In all cases, however, the improved chromatographic performance is generally observed only after etficient follow-up extraction of boron in solution.
Since chromatographic separations (particularly liquidliquld, steric, and molecular sieve) are generally carried out isothermally, these experiments were carried out at 75 C. The results, therefore, show surface activity comparisons between different column materials and do not compare activity differences between individual compound.
The conditions under which the eight organic compounds were separated in the above examples are as follows:
55 mm. at 40 p.s.i.g.
Chart speed 1.0 inch/minutes. Attenuation 256. Sample size 0.5 ,ul.
From the above experiments, it can be seen that boron may be removed from the surface of porous glasses by high temperature treatment in NH Substantial quantities of boron are initially removed from the glass by volatilization of B 0 from its surface. Special care must be exercised in nitriding the glasses to expose maximum glass surface to the gaseous ammonia.
Additional surface boron (nitrided) is removed from the glass by extraction of its treated surface in solutions of anhydrous HCl-anhydrous methanol, or HNO It is thought that even water would be a suitable extraction medium. The leaching procedure should be carried out so that the glass is completely washed. If the washing is not efiicient, surface acidity may remain.
As can be seen from the examples, the surface areas of the 2000 A. glasses are little altered by the high temperature nitriding. The pore size and porosity changes only slightly at temperatures to 950 C. Above that temperature, consolidation of pore structure begins and the pore size distribution becomes diffuse.
As noted above, the chromatographic evaluations on all columns show that nonpolar molecules are substantially unaffected by surface activity. Results for aliphatic and aromatic hydrocarbons are similar regardless of the support material filling the column. Polar molecules show strong absorption characteristics when eluted from a glass surface that has not received a high temperature NH treatment. After nitriding, however, the porous glasses are less active than the Chromosorb P, and when the surface 10 areas of the supports are considered, are comparable to Chromosorb W. Inasmuch as the porous glass of the present invention is less friable than the above diatomite supports, it is thought that the treated glasses provide an overall better support or separation medium for chromatography applications.
It is, of course, appreciated that the greater surface area of the porous glasses of this invention will expose a greater number of hydroxyl sites. Accordingly, the silanization procedure described above should be employed in those applications where OH groups are desirably avoided .(e.g., non-absorptive chromatographic techniques). However, in some cases, available OH groups are desirable (e.g., enzyme absorption).
Heat treatments with water vapor Treatment of Corning Code 7930 porous glass at temperatures between 8001000 C. with hot steam at atmospheric pressure can also be used to inactivate the surface of the glass. It was found that the above treatments produced a substantial decrease in the surface area during the hot steam treatment. Surface areas which were initially 200 m. /g. decrease to values ranging from 40 to less than 0.1 m. /g.
Treatment of the porous glass with hot steam at the elevated temperatures was also found to remove surface boron responsible for Lewis acid sites. This removal was indicated by the greatly improved chromatographic behavior of the material. Individual gas-liquid chromatography peaks for alcohols, aldehydes, amines, esters, ethers, hydrocarbons, and aromatic compounds were eluted with no noticeable tailing from columns packed with pretreated porous glass. The glass had been subsequently silanized and coated according to standard procedures following the nitriding method, above.
A series of mixtures was formulated from polar and nonpolar compounds. These mixtures were:
Mixture 1:
2 propanol cyclohexane n-butylpropionate Mixture 2:
ether cyclohexane ethylbutyrate n-butylpropionate Mixture 3:
acetic acid -n-hexanol benzaldehyde Mixture 4:
2-propanol n-hexanol ethylbutyrate The column used in the above separations was a Vycor brand glass tube and the separation conditions were as follows:
Mixture 1 2 3 4 He pressure Obs.) 40 40 40 40 Oven temperature 0.). 75 125 125 Inlet; temperature C.) 225 225 225 225 Dectector temperature C.) 225 225 225 225 Flow rate (cm/min). 3. 7 3. 5 3. 5 3. 5 Sample volume 1.). 1 1 1 l Attenuation 10% 10% 10% 10% The general peak symmetry for the above separations is shown in FIGS. 11-14. There is no tailing of the polar molecules, this indicating the inactivation (but not necessarily the removal) of the surface Lewis acid sites attributable to the presence of such compounds or B 0 commonly found on the surfaces of porous glass.
Although the above-described steam treatment has been found effective in deactivating the surface of porous glass, the nitriding procedures are a preferred deactivation method since the nitrided glasses can be easily leached to remove any inactivated surface boron. However, it can be appreciated that the steam treatment method is also capable of inactivating the surfaces that tend to adsorb polar molecules. Accordingly, the steam treated glasses can also be used in any applications where surface Lewis acid sites are desirably avoided.
It has been demonstrated above that the treated porous glasses of the present invention are particularly useful as support materials in gas-liquid chromatography. However, it can be readily appreciated that the treated porous glass is equally useful as a support material in liquid-liquid chromatography and as a separation medium in molecular sieve chromatography and steric chromatography. In general, the deactivated porous glass of the claimed invention will be useful in any application in which the surface activity attributable to Lewis acid sites, especially those sites attributable to boron, is desirably avoided. Therefore, it is intended that the present invention should be limited only by the appended claims.
-We claim:
1. A method for deactivating Lewis acid sites on the surface of porous glass, which sites are caused by the presence of boron derivatives on the surface of the porous glass, which comprises the steps of heating the glass to a temperature between about 800 C. to 1000 C. and exposing the heated glass to a stream of NH gas for about 2 to 16 hours.
2. The method of claim 1, which comprises, after the steps of claim 1, the additional step of contacting the glass with a solution of anhydrous methanol and anhydrous HCl.
3. The method, as claimed in claim 1, which comprises, after the steps of claim 1, the additional step of contacting the glass with a nitric acid solution.
4. The method, as claimed in claim 3, wherein the nitric acid used is about 1.5 N and maintained at a tem perature of about 95 C.
5. The method, as claimed in claim 1, wherein the glass is contacted with the NH;, at a glass temperature of about 950 C.
6. A method for deactivating Lewis acid sites on the surface of porous glass, which sites are caused by the presence of boron derivatives on the surface of the porous glass, which comprises the steps of heating the glass to a temperature between about 800 C. to 1000 C. and continuously exposing the heated glass to steam at atmospheric pressure for about 2 to 16 hours.
7. The method, as claimed in claim 6, wherein the glass is contacted with the steam at a glass temperature of 950 C. for about 6 hours.
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NEW YORK - The Non-Aligned Movement last week urged all of its members to act "individually or collectively" to impose sanctions both against Israeli settlements and against international companies that participate in settlement activity, including construction of the separation fence.
The 115-member movement, whose foreign ministers met last week in Durban, South Africa, said in its final document that it wanted the United Nations Security Council to adopt a resolution chastising Israel and to take other measures to force Israel to stop building the 600-kilometer fence, which was declared illegal by the International Court of Justice in July.
The group also urged the Security Council to establish a register of damages caused by the wall and then require Israel to pay reparations.
"With regard to member states, the ministers called upon them to undertake measures ... to prevent any products of illegal Israeli settlements from entering their markets," the statement said. It also called on them "to decline entry to Israeli settlers and to impose sanctions against companies and entities involved in the construction of the wall and other illegal activities in the occupied Palestinian territory."
Diplomats at the UN in New York termed the document "one of the gravest" ever issued against Israel, even though it is strictly declarative and does not bind the movement's members, and said that it demonstrates the negative effect that the ICJ's ruling is liable to have on Israel's diplomatic position.
However, African and South American countries frequently ignore Non-Aligned Movement resolutions adopted under the influence of Arab and Muslim states, and it is considered particularly unlikely that the measures described would be implemented by movement members with which Israel maintains full diplomatic relations.
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The Non-Aligned Movement's foreign ministers meet every year shortly before the General Assembly opens, and last year's meeting also adopted an anti-Israel resolution. This year's resolution, however, is the first to contain operational steps.
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20/09/2012 00:09:28 Agniveer
It’s sad to give all of you the news of yet another terrorist attack in India. A terrorist named as Zakir Naik, who is well known Osama supporter and firm believer of death for apostasy, has again attacked the peaceful citizens of India. As seen in photo, he is openly hurting sentiments of Crores of devotees of Lord Ganesha all over the world by insulting Him. He chose the day of Ganesh Chaturthi for this cowardly act. He has done this before too when at many places, he was found to spread hatred against idolaters constituting majority of India and World calling them sinners and future hell dwellers.
We see a well planned conspiracy by fanatic quarters to disturb peace and harmony to incite religious and sectarian violence all across the country. Recent riots in Assam, Bareily, Bangalore, Ghaziabad, Mumbai and at various other places in India point to the same. Inflaming religious sentiments of others on their festival makes it crystal clear that Zakir Naik and his organization are primary culprits for causing turmoil we all witnessed in recent past and he has no plans to stop here. Such fanatics thrive on instigating fanatic elements within their own community and spewing venom on other communities. He wants to take more lives and he would not stop before the day when all Indians become slaves to his Wahabi Masters back home in Arabian deserts. It’s high time that peaceful Indians- all Hindus and Muslims stand up against this terrorist and file official complaint against him.
Say no to Terrorists. Bharat Mata Ki Jai..
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12/10/2013 04:18:06
Ask Zakir to first come to Hindu community live it and see if he can dismiss it.
Then let him be critical.
Prophet is God's messenger says Quaran and not anywhere else.
Hindus call him a cult. If we worship a form what do u do Mr.Zakir. Is namaz not a form? is ur allah oh akbar not a form?
Tell us. Proove it is not a form first. To u only alah is God.
To us all that is here is GOd encludes u and ur allah. Ok. Shut up and Stay quiet!!!
What is namaz. a Form. What is quaran a form. U speak of formless without knowing it really. How are u going to pray to Formless thing. A formless thing is absent and it dosent exist. so whom are u praying to? We atleast pray to some meaningful form. What do u pray to?
Talk to people like me. Come to tarditional schools and talk ur talk. U will have ur pant wet before u go . i ma sure..
23/05/2013 00:53:33
Overall view
Came across this page while looking up Naik. I am a christian and I also believe in Israel. He is just a barking dog, this Naik, Zakir. Let him say something or do something about the middle east: he will be dragged out like a dog and sent to Gitmo, where his types are having a comfy vacation in chains.
12/03/2013 03:40:09
well my comment is ;
19/12/2012 06:39:06
india ek secular country hai aur har vyakti ko apni baat kahne ka adhikar hai.dr. zakir ne kabhi kisi bhagvan ko bura nahi kah aur vo khud kahte hai ki hume kisi dharm ke bhagwan ko gaali nahi dena chahiya,aur jis statement ki aap baat kar rahe ho usme aisa kya galat hi jo itna halla machaya ja raha hai
27/11/2012 01:48:52
What the so clled secular Govt. is doing...?
WHY BJP is silent on this..?
Where are RSS,VHP & Other Hindu orgnizations...
Where are the So called Esteem News Channels ... what they are doing on this major issue ?
26/11/2012 04:20:51
Good question:
Hindus are out of mind that's why they worship hand made god ahahahah and they worship all the stupid things like cow,rat,sun,etc. how stupid they are
13/11/2012 13:25:01
Dr.Zakir Naik.
U are an idiot,u must not and should not comment on the other people*s
Belief. if u want to preach your religion u have to be patient and patience is the sign of good muslim
13/11/2012 13:25:01
Dr.Zakir Naik.
26/09/2012 21:22:25
slum dog zakir naik.
dear Hindu bakth koti ananth pranam.
the comments made by one who is not having any faith in any religion is not at all comment as he is like a mad man, the speaker in his speech do not know the value of belief as there is lot more than religion, a belief itself is a religion. subash chandrabose belived that he could swim across a sea so he did it. if anybody want to stop this man from offending Hindus one should file a case in criminal court by way of private complaint under section 153 a of Indian penal code- for intentionally promoting enmity between religions. can this man say that what was his forefather before the pro.mohammed. he and his religion are very small in order to understand the concept of Hindu Dharma its values, no body can harm the same even this silly creature even though he willfully try it.
26/09/2012 08:14:37
Good Logic
Dear Dr. Zakir Naik,
U have once again proved urself to b a thinker. I'll say thts a good logic. One question for u sir, "If Your Prophet Married a 9 year old Girl by the name Aishah, How Am I To Trust Him With My Children & Sisters?" Pls b kind enough to enlighten us with this sir. Thank u.
25/09/2012 10:26:45
ganesha story
We hindus must also read and know the real meaning behind the symbolism of stories from puranas. Here is a good explanations of Ganesha's birth
GSK Menon
24/09/2012 22:08:12
zakir naik offends millions
The fanatic scoundrel sports a Hindu name, NAIK is a Hindu term, why is this descendant of a convert sporting a Hindu name ? How will his desert god recognise him ? Why is the Police not registering a case against this terrorist ? Meteorite worshipping scum
Ishwar Das
24/09/2012 11:52:44
Lord Ganesh
Zakir Niak shows time and time again that this man is nothing but a liar with an agenda. The Puran are historic stories that all have deeper meaning when one spends the time to understand them more clearly. You need a guru to explain these things. This is why Vedas should not be open to all as they are complex and cannot be abused like the way Niak and his raksash followers are doing. Now about Lord Ganesh. This is a leela performed by God himself and the message is much deeper then Niak can understand. Here the leela is that every son should respect and obey his mother until death. His head is symbolic reminder of how each and every son should respect his mother. Using the head of the elephant also shows to have compassion for God creation and to show respect for animals. Mahadev Parvati Ganesh etc... are all God performing this leela. All the Puran are just leela performed by God so mankind understands the message. So to question why Bhagwan Shiva cut the head off etc... is not knowingly. He is only performing the leela with all knowing. He is all knowing. There is nothing he doesnt know. He is God himself. So to make sure statements like Niak does is absolutely idiotic. Those who follow him and continue to remain in darkness will only suffer in life. Vedic religion is the oldest and most scientific and all puran and scriptures all have much deeper meaning when one studies them. I welcome your comments or mail me directly Here is a play list of videos I made exposing Niak
Pranam - Ishwar Das
24/09/2012 06:34:51
Foolish things in Islam
In the same way, did your Bhagawan put Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden and not recognize that Adam was not going to obey him. Why didn't he know that they would be lured by Satan? How come your god did not protect them from Satan?
There are too many foolish things to point out in Islam.
At least our God has the freedom to remember and forget. He has not one son but billions of sons. Your god does not have the freedom. He is stuck.
23/09/2012 18:51:05
Your etiquette shows what you are
Hindu god may not have recognized his own son..
but Muhammad can marry a 5 yr old.. can u shed some light on this aspect
23/09/2012 01:53:52
Religious scripts were written 1000s year ago
All religions have their own inconistancies and illogical stories. But somebody questions Islam, these idiots go on rampage destroying everything. Constrast that with well evolved regions of the world
22/09/2012 11:06:03
Madani and Zaki Naik
There rule to put Madani in Jail, there is nothing for the idiots like Zakir Naik
22/09/2012 10:01:33
Holy slam by .... ?
He is a holy I slam follower from his teachings !
22/09/2012 05:21:06
Who is Zakir Naik ?
22/09/2012 05:03:56
Targetting Hindus
When Muslims talk rubbish about Hindu Gods, No one is bothered. When Muslim beliefs are criticised, they are offended. WHY ? aren't Hindus supposed to react ? Its none other than our Muslim Ass licking Governing Powers to be blamed. All the Mess that has been created of Bharat and Hindus. We have no where to go and No place to Hide.
Get rid of Islam from India. This is the Only way for Hindu Existence in Bharat.
Gireesh Nambiar
21/09/2012 18:23:34
Relevance of stories
The stories in epics and puranas are used to explain the meaning of Vedas because Vedas are quite difficult to understand for the common man. Every such story is highly symbolic and should be learnt with the help of an expert. Mere reading will not suffice because literal meaning doesn't always make sense. I remember an expert asking me "Are you qualified to read (the stories of) puranas and epics?" The answer is an emphatic NO! Because we still do not know how to interpret them.
The mode of progress in this field is like the steps of a ladder. Therefore, one should start with stories and progress to hardcore subjects.
21/09/2012 12:15:45
Desired Publicity
Please condemn this picture and write up at once; they are benefited by free publicity at your expense!
21/09/2012 09:13:10
Why blame others?
Why do these type of things happen?
The answer is because most of the so called Hindu organisations pay only lip service to the Hindus.
If a Hindu leader had said such things about any other God of any other religion he would be in jail by now.There would be so many cases filed by the members of the "hurt" community.And of course the so called Secularists too would be there to uphold secularism!
See any secular condemnation or outrage when this happened ? No.Why?
The reason is the Hindu community itself!
Of course we should not take to violence.But there are legal options available.
Are there no Hindu lawyers in this country who feel hurt by such comments?Are there no secularists around now? Forget the so called secularists.What about the Hindu organisations?
Can't they hire good lawyers to take people who make such remarks to the court?
Have the Hindu organisations tried to file cases and take it to the logical conclusion in such cases in the past? Most probably, no!
What will they do now? Probably nothing to bring to book such people who insult Hinduism.
If this is the attitude of the Hindu organisations towards their Gods being insulted what can you expect?
21/09/2012 03:31:03
Zaikir Naik
What does this uncivilized, barbarian animal eater know about the Hinduism and the concept of GOD?
21/09/2012 02:38:25
Don't abuse
See, there is no point in abusing Zakir Naik or dragging in, the Holy books of other communities into this matter.
Ask why Zakir Naik and people like him from the other communities are able to say such things while any Hindu leader who makes hate speeches against other communities are dragged to courts or sentenced to imprisonment,even if for a few days?
What do the Hindus or Hindu organisations do when such things happen? Nothing much really. Abusing other religions does not do any good.Then what is the difference Zakir Naik and Hindus?
Resorting to violence also does not make sense.
Everytime something like this happens, Hindus abuse the persons who says such things or the community to which he belongs to,post abusive or angry comments on blogs or internet social networking sites and then go to sleep!!Job done!!!
Are there no Hindu lawyers in this country who feel hurt when such things happen? Are there no Hindu organisations who can hire a good lawyer and file a case against those who hurt Hindu sentiments?
When there are legal options available to bring to book people who hurt religious sentiments,why is it that no Hindu lawyer or organisation has not made use of it?
How many will have the determination to take the case to its logical conclusion?
Merely boasting about Hindu culture and Hindu unity is not enough.Nor does abusing other communities or their holy books help.
21/09/2012 01:24:08
Zakir Naik,the islamist pig!
Kudos to Mustafa Kamal for his excellent rebuttal to the islamist pig,Zakir Naik.When Naik cannot tolerate denigration of his religion or religious icons by other religionists,how dare he wound Hindu sentiments?I think VHP should take up this kind of denigrations seriously and do the needful.
20/09/2012 10:04:33
Zakir Nalaik
Nalaik A to Z Fakkir can't recognise his own son by his first nikkahed wife because he has produced dozens from his second and third apart from the dozen from his first wife.
Solution/(s) :
1. Since he will have difficulty in recognizing his own son , he will ask his neighbour whether that is his son; if the answer is no, then he will accept his son as his son.
2. He will wait for his son to face some difficulty because of his misdeeds and then recognize him through the word of his Allah.
Foolish misinformed bearded goat does not even know that others see God in everything and everywhere, while the goat and kids do not even know where god is.
If assuming for a moment that only the readers of the B and K BooK (s) get recognized by " GOD" and if " GOD" is creator of all, why would " GOD" create some creatures who recognize " God" even without reading B and K and some who can only recognize " God" by reading the B and K .
For that matter is their " GOD" so partisan that he cannot recognize his own creations, then how is their "God" God at all!!! Masallah stuff.
20/09/2012 06:01:21
Zakir Naik
if the messenger of God cannot recognize his own son zayed's wife zynab due to lust how can he recognize his faithfuls in times of difficulty ?
Senthil Kumar
20/09/2012 02:47:41
foolish teachings
He thinks all gods are just imaginary characters just like his imaginary god.
Some times people will like to use the 'B' word or the 'MF' word for this cunning idiot
Biju Krishnan
20/09/2012 02:36:47
Total misfit
Why is he wearing a coat and tie when he does not subscribe to English culture. His appearance itself says he is insane.
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We take a look at the first six scenarios in the new expansion.
Gods of Old
Though a better title might be "Give Me That Old Time Religion" the Gods of Old scenario focuses on the religious struggles of the Ancient World. And when we say "Ancient" we mean Ancient. The pre-Classical civilizations and religions found here show just how competitive things could get when it comes to matters of the spirit.
Religions in Gods of Old are founded through the normal method of discovering new technologies but players also have to worry themselves with building a single shrine to that particular religion. Once all the shrines are built, the winner is the player who manages to eliminate all shrines but his or her own.
While that by itself should make for some interesting gameplay, there are a few other tricks waiting in the wings. First, by discovering Theology, a player can create the new Inquisitor units. Just as the Missionaries are designed to spread religion, the Inquisitors are designed to stomp it out. You can sacrifice your Inquisitors (of which you can only have three at a time) to eliminate any non-state religion in any of your cities.
Gods of Old also finds a new use for the Great Prophets. Rather than simply spreading your faith, you can sacrifice the prophets to call down terrible disasters on enemy cities. All but two of the religions have a particular catastrophe associated with it. Enlil for instance, sends plagues, while Nanna strikes with a rain of meteors. Of the two who don't provide disasters, prophets of An will be sacrificed automatically to prevent any one disaster from hitting your towns. A seventh prophet doesn't seem to have any specific ability at all but is still useful for all the regular functions of a Great Prophet.
Rhye's and Fall of Civilization
Every once in a while we hear gamers wish for a version of Civ that adhered more closely to the historical timeline with regard to a civilization's appearance on the world stage. Rhye's and Fall of Civilization offers just such an experience. Designed to allow players to choose from two starting dates, 3000BC or 600AD, the game lets players pick whatever empire they want to lead and then drops them into the story at the right place and time. Pick Rome or Mongolia for instance, and you could find yourself late out of the gate while all the other civs have been building up their empires.
Since the empires are meant to represent their historical a bit more accurately, the bonuses and units have been tweaked a bit. Rome, for instance, enjoys double movement on roads within its empire's borders. Arabia gets a bonus to spread the Islamic religion in cities that it conquered. English fleets gain additional first strike chances.
There are also a large number of unique victory conditions for each civilization. Egypt can win by achieving a certain culture score by a certain date and by building several ancient wonders. The Maya can win if they discover the Calendar by 600AD and if they manage not to lose a single city until the Industrial Age. England can win by getting three cities on each continent, being the first to circumnavigate the globe, and being the first civilization to enter the Industrial and Modern eras. With so many different victory conditions to go for, you'll really have to design a focused but flexible strategy.
WWII Road to War
Well, it wouldn't be an expansion without a World War II scenario, would it?
This time around we're getting three versions: one each for the Pacific and Europe starting in 1936 and one just for Europe beginning a little hotter in 1939. Players can opt to play as the big boys in the conflict or try for a more limited involvement with a minor power like Siam, Norway, the Balkans or the Dutch East Indies. (All the civs make the Foreign Advisor screen a little crowded, but you 32-player types should have no problem with it.)
The iconic units are all here, from the Zero fighters to the Panzer IVs to the B-29 bombers. Unfortunately, all the sea units are a bit generic so we won't see Fletcher class destroyers, Hipper cruisers or Soryu carriers. Interestingly, you will need specific factories to produce specific types of units so you'll need to plan your infrastructure carefully.
What's even cooler is that you can actually order air strikes specifically against these production buildings. It works just like a regular air mission, except that you choose to target either non-military or military buildings. You can even target improvements around the enemy cities. The new artillery units in the scenario can also target improvements or units outside of the cities.
The two European scenarios also include Bitter Winter events that simulate the hard winters of the Eastern Front. When the ground freezes over, movement and healing for all forces will be cut down drastically and the combat will shift the advantage even more towards the side of the defender.
The World War scenarios are easily the biggest new scenarios in the game and are better suited to players who are willing to dig in and stick with it for a while.
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Hello guys! So here it is, another blog. This time I will talk about what I want to see in the next game of the Elder Scrolls franchise. Prepare for a huge blog. I will talk about the current installment, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and then I'll proceed to the next one. Let's get started!
First of all, some of you must be asking: "Why are you writing this blog? The latest Elder Scrolls only came out in 2011 and Bethesda releases one game every 4, 5 or 6 years. Don't you think that it is too early to talk about Elder Scrolls VI?" Well, it is true, it might be a bit early, but I had to write this because I became a "lore master" of the Elder Scrolls franchise and I'm really, let's say, "obsessed" with it.
I bought Skyrim in February 2012, and let me tell you, I regret nothing. My first character was a Nord, and I already putted 250+ hours into it. I have another 100+ hours on my High Elf, 50+ on my Breton and 30+ with my latest character, a Khajiit. That is like 430 hours that I spent playing this awesome game. I created the Khajiit some weeks ago, I stopped playing Skyrim for like 4 months, but I got back to it. That's why I wanted to write this blog so badly and share my opinions with you :)
Lore time!
Time for a history lesson of The Elder Scrolls world. But don't worry, the story starts in the 4th Era, where Skyrim takes place. I will mention the 3rd Era and probably the 2nd, the 1st, the Mythic (or Merethic) and the Dawn Era, but it doesn't goes past those mentions.
Here it is a map of Tamriel (the continent where the Elder Scrolls franchise takes place)
High Rock - Home to Bretons. There is also a city called Orsinium where the Orcs live.
Skyrim - Home to the Nords.
Hammerfell - A desert where the Redguards live.
Cyrodill - The home of the Empire. Imperials live in there.
Morrowind - Home to the Dunmer (Dark Elves)
Black Marsh - Home to a beast race - The Argonians (they look like lizards).
Elsweyr (pronounced "Elsewhere") - Home to another beast race - The Khajiit (they have a feline look). Also known as "The Cat People)
Valenwood - A Tropical area that is home to the Bosmer (Wood Elves)
Summerset Isles - Home to the powerful Altmer (High Elves)
The 3th Era ended in the year of 433 (of the 3th Era), when Mehrunes Dagon, Daedric Prince of Destruction, Change, Revolution, Ambition and Energy. The Daedra are immortal beings that like to mess up with mortals. They live in the Planes of Oblivion, and each one of them has their own realm. During the 3th Era, there was an event called "The Oblivion Crisis". During this Crisis, the Daedra invaded Nirn, the world of the mortals. It was leaded by Mehrunes Dagon, he wanted to rule Nirn and then proceed to conquer whole Mundus (the Universe). He was defeated by the last Emperor of the Septim Dynasty, Martin, who used the Amulet of Kings and took the form of Akatosh to defeat him.
Akatosh is one of the Nine Divines. He is the chief deity and he has the form of a Dragon. With this said, he's the father of the Dragons. The other Divines are Talos, Dibella, Julianus, Zenithar, Arkay, Kynareth, Mara and Stendarr.
When Mehrunes Dagon was defeated, the Oblivion gates (they were used by the Daedra to enter Nirn) were closed. Martin Septim sacrificed himself when using the Amulet of Kings to take the form of Akatosh to defeat the Daedric Prince. He didn't had any descendants, thus leaving the Empire with no Emperor.
The 4th Era
With no Emperor, the Blades (military force that protect the Emperor) tried to maintain the order until a new Emperor was elected. Anyway, the Empire started to get weaker. The Aldmeri Dominion, a very powerful order created by the Altmer, who call themselves the Thalmor started to rise. They have only one goal: To rule all of Tamriel. They think that they are a superior race, and that the other races should become their slaves. The Altmer are the best race when it comes to Magic. They also took the credit for driving out the Daedra, even though it was Martin Septim who did it.
The Argonians of Black Marsh decided to become independent after the Oblivion Crisis, because they believed that the Empire was too weak to rule them. The Empire can't ask for the help of the Argonians anymore.
In the 5th year of the 4th Era, the Red Moutain of Vvanrdenfell (a province from Morrowind) erupted, destroying a large part of Morrowind. The Dark Elves that survived ran away to Skyrim. With this, Morrowind weakens, and because it is ruled by the Empire, the Empire also gets even weaker.
One year after the eruption, the Argonians invaded southern Morrowind because the Dunmer used to enslave them. In the year of 16, the High King of Skyrim gives the island of Solstheim to Morrowind to help the Dunmer refugees after the Red Mountain eruption.
6 years later, the Thalmor take over the Summert Isle. In the same year, Titus Mede is crowned Emperor after taking Cyrodill. The Thalmor also took over Valenwood shortly after.
In 4E 98, the two moons of Nirn, Masser and Secunda disappeared. This leaved Elsweyr in a state of chaos, because when Khajiit are born, their appearance and physiology is based on the Lunar Lattice of Masser and Secunda. The moons vanished for 2 years. They eventually appeared once again, but the Thalmor took credit of it once again. The Khajiits believed on them (very weird, because Khajiits are not easily fooled) and they sided with the Aldmeri Dominion, leaving the Empire.
In 4E 168, Titus Mede II succeeded his father. The Empire is now a shadow of its former self. They lost Valenwood and Elsweyr to the Thalmor, the Argonians were now independent, Morrowind was still recovering from the eruption of the Red Mountain and in Hammerfell there was a war between the Crown and Forebear factions.
In 4E 171, the Great War begins. The Aldmeri Dominion invades Cyrodill and Hammerfell. 4 years after, the Empire destroyed the Aldmeri army that was in Cyrodill, with the help of the warriors from Skyrim. Anyway, the Empire is exhausted and they can't continue the war. Titus Mede II tries to negotiate a truce with the Thalmor to end the war.
In the same year (4E 175), the White Gold Concordat is signed. But this wasn't a peace treaty, it was just a set of rules made by the Thalmor to weaken the Empire so they could take over it when they had the chance. The Thalmor demanded the Empire the following:
The worship of Talos was banned and free reign was given to the Thalmor to move throughout the Empire to hunt down any worshipers of Talos.
Disbandment and slaughtering of the Blades.
This caused resentment in the Nordic population of Skyrim. Tiber Septim, a Nord and also Dragonborn, was the first Emperor and he became a god when he died. It was given him the name of Talos. Because of this, he became the "preferred" deity of the Nords.
Titus II renounces Hammerfell as a province of the Empire to preserve the treaty after the Redguards oppose ceding their lands. The Redguards see this as a betrayal, and a lasting bitterness between Hammerfell and the Empire is sown to the delight of the Thalmor. Hammerfell continues to war with the Aldmeri Dominion for the next five years. The Redguards all ALONE defeated the Aldmeri Dominion. Hammerfell is now a free province. The Second Treaty of Stros M'kai was signed. It was a peace treaty between Hammerfell and the Aldmeri Dominion. But this time it was really a peace treaty, and not a set of rules made by the Thalmor.
High Elves, high as fuck... Trying to conquer all of Tamriel and shit.
The Third Century of the 4th Era
In 4E 201, the High King of Skyrim, Torygg, is killed by Ulfric Stormcloak, Jarl of Windhelm (a hold of Skyrim) in a duel. This began the Civil War of Skyrim. The Stormcloaks, an army of Nords leaded by Ulfric wanted Skyrim to be a free province like Hammerfell. As mentioned before, they were really mad by the Empire signing the White Gold Concordat.
In the same year, Ulfric and some of his men are captured and taken to Helgen to be executed. This is when the new Dragonborn, main character of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim enters in the story. He was also caught when trying to cross the border to Hammerfell. After one of the Stormcloaks is executed, it is time to kill the Dragonborn (note: At this time, no one knows who is the Dragonborn, not even the Dragonborn himself). But then a Dragon appears. No dragons were seen since the Dragon War that took place in the Merethic Era (even before the 1st Era).
The Dragonborn, Ulfric and his men escape Helgen. The Dragonborn goes to Riverwood, a little village in Skyrim. He reports the attack of the Dragon to the people in there, and they advise him to tell the Jarl of Whiterun what happened. He goes to Whiterun, speaks with the Jarl and a guard appears that a Dragon was seen flying nearby the city. Anyway, this dragon isn't the same as the one the attacked Helgen. The Dragonborn defeats this dragon and then he absorbs his soul. He then realizes that he is the Dragonborn and that he has to defeat the Dragons.
The dragon that attacked Helgen was, in fact, Alduin. First-born of Akatosh, and the Nordic God of Destruction. He is the leader of the dragons and he was defeated in the Dragon War by the Ancient Nords. They used an Elder Scroll to banish him from Mundus. Anyway, he returned in 4E 201, thus beginning the Dragon Crisis.
Zu'ur Alduin, First-Born of Akatosh
The Elder Scrolls VI - What I want to see on it
Now that you know what happened in the 4th Era of The Elder Scrolls world, you will understand what I'm going to talk about.
First of all, I think that this game should take place in the various provinces of Tamriel. I believe that the next gen consoles have enough power for that huge virtual world. But why do I want this?
So, as you may have noticed, the Thalmor are greedy motherfuckers. And because this is a RPG, you would have 2 options: Side with them to take over the Empire or destroy them and elect a new strong Emperor to restore the Empire to its former glory.
If it is not possible to have such a big virtual world, then I would like it to be set either on Elsweyr or Hammerfell. But the main questline would still be the same: Destroy the Thalmor or join them. And instead of being free to explore all of Tamriel, you only would be free to explore Elsweyr or Hammerfell and some of the quests take place, for example, in Cyrodill to kick the asses of the Aldmeri Dominion from there. After the quest(s) is(are) completed, the game takes you back to Elsweyr/Hammerfell.
If you decide to join the Thalmor (if you do that, I hate you), one of the quest(s) should take place, for example, in Black Marsh, to take take it away from the Argonians.
One thing that might be kinda confusing, but I would like to see that implemented. Before you start the game, you should have two options that would affect the main storyline, and you have to choose one of them: "The Imperials defeated the Stormcloaks and Skyrim belongs to the empire" or "The Stormcloaks won the civil war, and Skyrim is now a free province trying to defeat the Thalmor and create a new empire".
If you choose the first option and then you side with the Thalmor, then you don't need to go to Skyrim to defeat the Nords. But if you decide to destroy the Thalmor, then you have to go in there to defeat the Thalmor in Skyrim and defeat the Imperials that are in there as well.
This game would also take place during the 4th Era, in an undetermined year. When you destroy the Aldmeri Dominion or join with them and take over all of Tamriel, the 4th Era would end, thus beginning the 5th Era. If you destroyed the Aldmeri Dominion, a new Emperor would be elected and all the provinces of Tamriel would join the Empire and create the United Provinces of Tamriel (maybe it sounded a bit cheesy? I don't have another name for that). The 5th Era would be an Era of peace and it would end when something or someone troubles that peace.
If you joined with the Aldmeri Dominion and took over Tamriel, the Mer (a.k.a elves: Altmer, Bosmer and Dunmer. Not including Orsimer because they are considered the Cursed Elves or the Barbarian Elves, and because of that the Thalmor hate them) would enslave the Men/Human races (Nords, Imperials, Redguards and Bretons), the Argonians and the Orcs. They would also betray the Khajiit and enslave them as well. This 5h Era would end when Men, the Beast races and the Orsimer would form a rebellion to to destroy the Aldmeri Dominion.
Left: Redguards, people from Hammerfell and great warriors. Right: Khajiit, the feline people of Tamriel.
What I want to see new in gameplay, graphics and soundtrack
The gameplay of Skyrim was awesome. Loads of fun that I'm still having with this game after 430+ hours. It's simply almost perfect. I want the character builds be the same in TES VI - You don't have to stick with certain skills for each class. In the TES games prior to Skyrim, you would have to choose a race and a class. Because of that, if you choose for example a Nord, you would have to be a warrior and you couldn't be a good mage. If you choose an Altmer you would have to stick with magic because you couldn't be a good warrior. That doesn't happens in Skyrim. Even though that you don't get skills bonuses for magic with races that get skill bonuses for melee combat, you can become a great mage and vice versa. That is what makes Skyrim so unique. And that's why I want that character building and Skills choice to come back in TES VI.
Another thing that gives even more freedom in Skyrim than in any other TES games about - The Standing Stones. They work like the Birthsigns of the previous TES games, but you can change them as many times as you want. They give you special abilities/faster skill leveling/etc. With the Birthsigns, you would have to choose them at the beginning of the game and you couldn't change it later. But that is not the case with the Standing Stones. You choose the blessing that you want, and if it is your wish to change it later in the game, then you can do it. But you can have only 1 blessing active at a time to prevent overpoweredness.
Now, one thing that every TES player wants: BETTER ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE! It's so fucking bad. Seriously man, dafuq is up with Skyrim's AI? It's funny at times and annoying at other's. You see a group of enemies, you kill one of them stealthily, they try to find you but after like 15 seconds they say: "Probably just my imagination". WTF DUDE??? A FUCKING CORPSE IS LAYING RIGHT NEXT TO YOU! THERE'S SOMEONE IN THE ROOM WHO WANTS TO KILL YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS! Still, Skyrim is difficult in Legendary just because enemies attacks deal a lot of damage in that difficulty. But they are so fucking dumb...
Followers were a good add on, but again, terrible AI. If you are an assassin that works on the shadows they will give you away your position. If you see a group of enemies and kill one of them, when the enemies start searching for you, your followers acts like that they have already spotted you and charges into them, giving away your position. They also walk into obvious traps getting them killed most of the time.
Another thing that is annoying: The NPC's dialogues. They are too repetitive and sometimes I get sick of them because they just say the same thing over and over and over and over again. Lydia, stop saying "I'm sworn to carry your burdens", I know that it is your job to carry my babies... I'm sorry, my burdens! You don't have to say it all the time. And stop saying "I've got your back" so fucking loud when I'm sneaking. Everyone spots us because of that.
Lydia, the Skyrim NPC that we love to hate.
Marriage needs to be implemented in TES VI too. It makes Role Playing much more complete and enjoyable. But seriously, make almost every woman in the game marriable. The best girls in Skyrim, the ones that were most loved by the community weren't marriable. Also, there were no Khajiit to marry. What's up with that? That kinda ruined a Role Playing aspect for my Khajiit. And I'm sick of my spouse always saying: "Yes dear. What is it my love? I'll be here my dear". So fucking annoying. Add some more and better dialogue for spouses (and for every NPC like I mentioned before).
If possible, consoles should have console commands like the PC version. They solve lots of bugs and give you more freedom.
Also, Dragons should also come back in this game. But not the evil ones that are still loyal to Alduin, even after his defeat. Those were all killed by the Dovahkiin of TES V. There were lots of Dragons that sided with the Dragonborn and Paarthunax (leader of the Greybeards) and followed the Way of The Voice like the Greybeards and their leader. You should encounter some of them. They would be against the Thalmor. With this said, if you side with the Thalmor you have to fight them, but if you decide to destroy them, you will have the Dragons on your side.
If you want to know what is the Way of The Voice click here. Possible SPOILERS for TES V: Skyrim on that link.
Something that has to be improved is the graphics. The animations are cool but most of them have severe problems. When you are brawling or fighting with someone, the fists/weapons don't even hit the target (visually) and your arrow quiver floats in the air. The animations are very buggy, some of them look very unrealistic.
Of course, modders want these imperfections, but consoles do not have access to the mods and I hope that Bethesda does some more effort to fix these stuff. Still, visually, Skyrim is beautiful.
Every TES game had awesome soundtrack. And I hope that they make an epic job with TES VI's. Keep up with the good work in that part of the game!
That's it guys. If you're still here reading this, then I must say: Thank you so much for taking the time to read this huge blog. You're awesome! Now back to Skyrim...
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Henry: The doctor will be back soon. We're on a very tight schedule.
[That night, they're still in the van. No doctor]
Billy: How do you like the game so far? I'm having a ball. Great seats huh guys? it's funny the hot dog guy hasn't been around.
Henry: I'm the doctor until the doctor comes back!
Billy: Okay, you be the doctor and I'll be the escaped mental patient, okay?
[Kicks the van and walks off]
[In a bar]
Henry: Would you mind cleaning up your area? Nobody likes a Mr. Messy.
Patron #1: Fuck you.
Henry: [to Patron #2] He refuses to clean up his area.
Patron #2: Leave me alone, jerk-off.
Henry: Do I sense some hostility here?
Jack: [Begins to undress] We are all naked in the eyes of the lord.
Henry: STOP! This man is clinically insane! He is presently undergoing treatment at Cedarbrook Hospital under my supervision!
Henry: Does this mean we are actually leaving the hospital grounds?
Billy: No, the Yankees are going to come here and play. There gonna throw some lights up in the rec room. What a stroker.
Henry: 10 minutes and 47 seconds, Mr. Caufield. Boy, some patients make a therapist want to shake his head.
[Billy kicks a chair out of the semi-circle and sits down]
Henry: Straighten out that chair!
Billy: Henry, imagine this: my chair is straight and all the other chairs are out of order. There's a real mind-bender for you there.
Henry: [Holds up the cupcake Albert had stolen] This is NOT okay.
Dr. Weitzman: What's that?
Henry: This is Brian's cupcake. Every day an innocent man is deprived of his dessertwhile we sit here and do nothing.
Billy: [sarcastically] Ooh, you could do some time for that, Big Al. Ooh! Brian's cupcake. Doc, I say we drag him outside and beat the shit out of him.
Dr. Weitzman: Guys, guys, Brian isn't complaining so let's just drop it, alright? Don't worry about the cupcake, Albert.
Jack: Great! Breakfast. I'm starved.
Henry: That's not ours. That's Ed's.
Henry: I don't know the man.
Henry: Hey guys, time for a hug?
Jack: I don't think so.
Billy: Maybe after the game.
Albert: Play ball!
Dr. Weitzman: Henry, the kitchen made us some brownies. I'd like you to be in charge of passing them out.
Henry: Okay,
[points to Jack]
Henry: but none for the bishop of bullshit.
Henry: Can you recommend a good clinical psychiatrist in the area? We seem to have lost ours.
[They are under a large cardboard box in the rain]
Henry: I think we should review our goals.
Billy: Review our goals. Wacko, we gotta find the doctor.
Henry: Who put you in charge? I'm in charge here.
Jack: Read the New Testament, Sparky. You'll find out who's in charge.
Billy: Get outta the way!
[They bump a pedestrian]
Billy: Albert, you step on my foot one more time, I'm gonna kill ya!
Albert: Kill the ump!
Jack: Why does a grown man have to smell like tuna fish?
Billy: You see those two towers? World Trade Center. I was an architect working on them. First they just wanted to build one but I said, "Fellas, we're here. What the hell, throw the other one up". Turned out pretty well, didn't it?
Henry: Fantasy.
Woman: Jerry, I need two Rum Collins, two Jack Daniels, one on the rocks, and a Heineken.
Bartender: [to Henry] What'll it be?
Henry: Jerry, I need two Rum Collins, two Jack Daniels, one on the rocks, and a Heineken. Please.
Billy: [about why he threw a chair through the window] I'm sorry. I just flashed back to 'Nam.
Dr. Weitzman: You never made it to Vietnam, Bill.
Henry: He's too violent for Vietnam.
Billy: We're gonna have to search all these hospitals ourselves.
[Looks at a page he tore out of the phone book]
Henry: That's public property.
Billy: Yeah? Watch this: public property...
[folds the page and puts it in his pocket]
Billy: Private property.
Henry: Vandal.
Henry: [in the hospital room of whom they think is Dr. Weitzman] Father, may I say a few words? I knew this man perhaps better than anyone here. I pledge to continue his work for as long as I live.
[near tears]
Henry: He devoted his life to the treatment for the insane.
Billy: [looks at the corpse - turns to Henry] Henry, may I say a few words?
Henry: Oh certainly, William.
Billy: It's not him.
Henry: [after pause] Perhaps I'd better bring my remarks to a close.
Jack: Let me hold the gun.
Henry: No.
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Episode List
7 Jan. 1971
They Use Horse Radish, Don't They
Besides his bad back, Felix thinks he'll have trouble with the cooking contest after Oscar gave away his secret ingredients to his competitor.
14 Jan. 1971
The Hideaway
While Oscar thinks his Eskimo friend would make a great quarterback, Felix wants him to follow his cello talents.
29 Jan. 1971
Lovers Don't Make House Calls
Oscar falls in love with the doctor that is subbing for Felix's regular doctor.
5 Feb. 1971
Engrave Trouble
A gift to Gloria is stolen and Oscar gets help from a shady friend.
12 Feb. 1971
Bunny Is Missing Down by the Lake
Oscar and Felix go into the woods and are interrupted by a girl's group.
19 Feb. 1971
You've Come a Long Way, Baby
Oscar is all set to go to a sportswriter's dinner, but Felix can't leave since he found a baby.
26 Feb. 1971
A Taste of Money
How could Oscar's neighbor's kid get $2000?
5 Mar. 1971
Oscar's New Life
Felix gets Oscar fired and he ends up at a new magazine, Harem.
12 Mar. 1971
What Makes Felix Run
Felix begs Oscar to cure him of his neatness.
19 Mar. 1971
What Does a Naked Lady Say to You?
How does Felix tell Oscar that his new girlfriend is in a nude play?
26 Mar. 1971
Just before a masquerade ball, Felix, Oscar and Nancy get trapped in the basement.
17 Sep. 1971
Natural Childbirth
Oscar's niece, Martha, is planning to have a home birth. Felix is supportive; while Oscar is panicky.
24 Sep. 1971
Felix's Wife's Boyfriend
Nancy's brother is in town and Oscar tries to find him a date. When none of Oscar's friends are available, Nancy sets up Raymond with Felix's ex-wife Gloria. Felix is jealous.
1 Oct. 1971
Hospital Mates
Oscar and Felix end up in the same hospital room at the same time for different reasons.
8 Oct. 1971
Oscar, on the advice from girlfriend Nancy, tries being nicer to Felix. In trying too hard to be so, it causes him to sleepwalk and hit Felix on the head with a rolled up newspaper every night.
15 Oct. 1971
A Grave for Felix
Needing money for gambling game, Oscar throws in the deed to Felix's cemetery plot on a hand, but loses the round. Oscar now has to help Felix find another place for his final resting place.
29 Oct. 1971
Murray the Fink
Murray complains that after 15 years on the police force, he gets a gold watch. The guys at the regular poker game tease him and tell him he is just too nice. To prove he can be touch, Murray arrests his friends in the poker game.
5 Nov. 1971
Does Your Mother Know You're Out, Rigoletto?
Felix is organizing a local production of an opera, and Oscar even helps to get a well-known opera singer to agree to perform. On the day of the performance, the opera singer gets injured, and Felix is forced to take the role.
12 Nov. 1971
Fat Farm
Felix and Oscar's girlfriend are concerned about Oscar's health. They force him to go to a fat farm, and Felix goes with him.
19 Nov. 1971
The Odd Couple Meet Their Host
Felix takes publicity photos of David Steinberg. David mentioned he wants Oscar to appear on his show. On the show, Oscar jokes about his fussy, clean-freak roommate Felix. Now, Felix wants to go on the show to talk about Oscar's messiness.
3 Dec. 1971
Win One for Felix
Felix is way out of his element when he, feeling he is growing apart from his son, becomes the coach of his football team.
10 Dec. 1971
Being Divorced Is Never Having to Say I Do
Blanche is about to remarry. Oscar is enthusiastic about the match, (especially as he will not have to pay any more alimony). But Felix is uncertain Blanche is doing the right thing.
17 Dec. 1971
Surprise! Surprise!
24 Dec. 1971
Felix, the Calypso Singer
Oscar's girlfriend, Nancy, gets called to work at the last minute before their vacation and has to cancel, and Oscar asks Felix to go with him, instead. They get to their room after a harrowing flight and cab ride, and while Felix is out renting a tandem bicycle for their weekend, Oscar's girlfriend calls and says she can make it down for vacation after all. Oscar "dumps" Felix, who then has a bad day touring the town. In the bar that evening, Oscar arranges for Felix to sing Calypso.
31 Dec. 1971
And Leave the Greyhound to Us?
Oscar's love for betting takes on a whole new meaning after he buys a racing dog. But the race is all but done when Felix becomes attached to the animal.
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Keeping Kosher and Keeping It Real
April 13, 2009
My husband and I did not find one another until our late 30s. While I sometimes pine for the years we might have spent together, there were also advantages to meeting relatively late in life. We entered the relationship with a tacit understanding that we would not try to change one another. Instead, we focused our energy on merging our lives harmoniously, and sometimes creatively, while preserving our individual identities. Sometimes this was easy--we re-alphabetized our shared CD collection and gave away the duplicates. Sometimes we voluntarily relinquished old habits--I stopped listening to the radio at bedtime, and he stopped playing the accordion while watching TV.
Even in matters of religion, compromise wasn't challenging. Keith had given up Catholicism long before he met me, and as a world traveler and geographer, had a cultural anthropologist's affection for all things traditional and seemingly exotic. (A response card to our wedding from his college roommate read "Why am I not surprised that I can't pronounce half the things that are happening at your wedding!") But when it came to food, things proved to be a little more complex.
I have kept some version of a kosher home for most of my life--at my least strict, this meant a vegetarian home, and at my strictest, only foods with kosher certification and separate dishes and utensils for meat and dairy (though I hadn't eaten red meat since childhood.) Nowhere in this spectrum could you find my husband Keith's culinary preferences at the time I met him, which could best be described as "cheap meat and plenty of it."
When we first set up a home together after getting married, my husband was so thrilled to have someone else tending the kitchen (a task I readily took on, given his aforementioned culinary proclivities) that he didn't care how or what I cooked. So, that summer, I set up a vegetarian kitchen, which seemed the easiest solution in Southern Oregon, where there was no kosher meat to be found within a radius of several hundred miles. For over a year, we dined in newlywed bliss on lots of beans and tofu. My husband would get his meat fix when we ate out, and every day for lunch at the school cafeteria (not as bad as it sounds at his high-brow public school.)
The following summer, the smell of barbecue began wafting into our yard, the honeymoon was over, and Keith wanted steak. About to give birth to our first child, I was not up to the task of tracking down mail-order kosher meats, especially since he was the only one who wanted them. So, we bought an outdoor grill and a few utensils for his use, which I stashed in an out of the way cabinet above the refrigerator. Stage one of our hodgepodge kitchen.
A year later, a move back to the east coast brought a few more changes. I became pregnant with my second child, and developed a sudden and voracious craving for poultry. Our local supermarket carried Empire chicken. We lived close enough for my mother to cook for us every now and then, and what she wanted to cook was brisket, which she would bring up from Baltimore. So, we added a new set of dishes and utensils. This meant we now had two sets of dishes: one for dairy, one for meat. But we also held onto Keith's non-kosher set for his weekly steak.
Then came Passover. Passover is a more complicated beast. Not only is there a prohibition against eating chametz, but Jews are also forbidden to own chametz. Since Keith and I share a bank account, a credit card and of course, a home, his chametz is my chametz. In this case, our compromise has been no chametz in the house, but the garage is his. If you were to ask my children "why is this night different from all other nights?" they might answer "because Papa drinks his beer in the garage."
Our children are now almost 4 and 6. At least once a week we sit down to a table where Papa is eating a different main dish, on different dishes. It may seem confusing or even crazy. My friends from my days at yeshiva would never eat in my kitchen. So why do I bother?
The truth is, for those of us raised outside of Orthodox Judaism, adaptations to the laws of kashrut aren't that unusual. There's the family with "Chinese food plates", or the family that keeps a kosher home, but eats anything "out". I know a family that won't eat pig products, but buys unkosher beef products and a family who keeps separate meat and dairy dishes but chooses local, organic meat instead of kosher. For many of us, making distinctions about what we do and don't eat in a way that is rooted in, but not wedded to, Jewish tradition turns cooking and dining into a meaningful and sacred experience, even if our choices are outside the confines of normative halachah.
For us, there's an added advantage. Our crazy kitchen has helped us send a clear and honest message to our children about our interfaith marriage. Three of us are Jewish, and we keep kosher. Papa is not Jewish, and even though he is part of a Jewish family and does many Jewish things with us, he doesn't keep kosher. As our children grow, I know they will challenge us to revisit our decisions about this, and a million other aspects of Jewish life, time and time again. Who knows in what direction they will lead us? But for now, we've found a solution that preserves shalom bayit, and no Jewish value could be more important to us.
Amy Meltzer
Amy Meltzer is a Jewish educator and writer in Western Massachusetts. She is the author of the children's book A Mezuzah on the Door and writes a monthly column on Jewish children's literature for The PJ Library. She blogs on Jewish parenting at
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Military Resists Weapons Cuts
| Tue Dec. 6, 2005 12:04 PM GMT
More fascinating news on the military budget front. The Wall Street Journal reports today (page A1) that the Air Force is going to cut 30,000 to 40,000 personnel over the next decade in order to save some of its big-ticket weapons programs:
To stay within its expected budget, the Air Force is planning to cut at least 30,000, and perhaps as many as 40,000, uniformed personnel, civilians and contractor-support staff through fiscal 2011, military officials said. The exact composition of the cuts isn't known, though their thrust is clear: "This is one way to pay the bills without messing around with our weapons programs," said one official involved in the Air Force budget.
It looks like the Air Force will use that money to keep both the Joint Strike Fighter program—a costly purchase that was once called "unexecutable" by the GAO—along with a system of "missile-warning satellites" built by Lockheed that has been years late and costing "more than three times as much as its initial $3 billion budget." Both programs were under fire from the Pentagon but it seems the Air Force managed to deflect the axe by going after personnel instead. And yes, in case anyone was wondering, "the shift is good news for the nation's major defense contractors." As I recall, about a month ago, the Army proposed something similar in response to the Pentagon's demands for $11.7 billion in cuts from them: the service offered to reduce its force structure, at a time when the Army is already stretched thin, rather than touch its own procurement budget.
Now perhaps someone knows better than I, and surely there are a lot of ins and outs involved here, but it sure looks like defense contracts are dictating the type of military we have, rather than the other way around...
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The Truth About Rendition
| Tue Dec. 6, 2005 11:34 AM GMT
It would be a full-time job to catalogue all the lies that come out of the Bush administration. But here are two important ones. Hilzoy of Obsidian Wings calls the president on his statement today that "we do not render [detainees] to countries that torture." Not even the most Clintonian parsing of that statement could make that true.
Meanwhile, in the Christian Science Monitor, Tom Regan swats down Condoleeza Rice's claims about rendition, and compiles evidence that innocent detainees have been captured, rendered abroad, and tortured. Numbers are hard to come by, but here's one attempt:
Alito and Executive Power
| Tue Dec. 6, 2005 11:23 AM GMT
Dahlia Lithwick has an important piece today in Slate, trying to figure out how Samuel Alito would rule in various "war on terror" cases if he ever makes it to the Supreme Court. Alito doesn't have a lot of experience in this area, but when the opportunity has arisen, the man has always—always—ruled in favor of greater police and government power. Odds are he'll side with the president when Bush wants the power to detain people without charging them, or ask for a "blank check" during a state of war—something that previous Courts have refused to give him.
Back when it looked like Harriet Miers was going to be the nominee, I wrote a long-ish post noting that an expansion of executive power has always been a longtime Republican goal, and Alito looks like he's willing to further that. It's not just "war on terror" powers; the GOP has long wanted executive privileges in secrecy matters and the power to control the executive branch free from congressional oversight. While Alito's views on Roe v. Wade will certainly take up the bulk of the time in his upcoming Senate hearings—and in a just world, the Democrats would filibuster him for it—but his views on executive power should get a thorough scouring as well.
Fun with Defense Contracting
| Mon Dec. 5, 2005 1:32 PM GMT
David Cloud's report in the New York Times today about the Navy's plans for future shipbuilding is interesting for two reasons. First, there's the surface reason: the Navy appears to be scaling back its plans for a war with China, and adjusting its procurement budget so that the service can play "a greater role in counterterrorism and humanitarian operations." A while back, Defense Industry Daily did a profile of the Littoral Combat Ships that seem to be the centerpiece of this new look, so that gives some of the flavor here. But Cloud's report is also of interest because you can detect undertones of the Navy's growing budgetary conflict with Congress.
The Navy has been slowly losing the battle to preserve its funding over the past few years, partly because both the Bush administration and many members of Congress don't seem to believe that ships and submarines are wholly relevant to the so-called global war on terror, and partly because shipbuilding has become hideously expensive. The Navy's FY2006 budget requested only four new ships, scaled back from the six they were planning to request the year before, and well below the eight per year that naval officials would reportedly prefer. (Figure it this way: If ships have an average life span of 35 years, then the current fleet of around 281 ships will need to buy 8 new ships every year to maintain itself.)
The main concern seems to be that shipbuilding costs are ballooning far beyond what anyone envisioned. Not surprisingly, the Soviet-style command economy hasn't worked very well for the defense industry. The Navy had earlier proposed, as a way of keeping its costs down, that two shipyards compete for the right to build all DD(X) destroyers, rather than let the two facilities "share" production, without any incentive to compete. Naturally, twenty members of Congress opposed the idea, since competition would defeat the "share the wealth" mentality that supports inefficient contracts. At least this year, the House tried to put a stop to some of these inefficiencies by imposing cost ceilings on future ships, but ultimately these debates often come down to which members of Congress need contracting jobs for their constituents, and how powerful those members are. (After all, the supposedly "budget-conscious" House also marked up an additional $2.5 billion for two DDG-51 destroyers.)
Worth noting, though: it's always a leap of faith to try to guess whether Congress is really scaling back the procurement budget, as it appears to have done for FY2006. The Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments has pointed out that many procurement costs may have just been shoved into the future. A favorite trick is "incremental" funding, where Congress appropriates only part of the money needed to complete a ship, figuring that the rest will get added on in later years (after all, if the Navy only needs a couple million more to finish up a nuclear submarine, who's going to say no?).
Back to Cloud's original story, though it's also not exactly clear whether the Navy really needs to build 32 new ships, at a cost of an extra $13 billion a year, by 2020. I certainly don't know, but it's a question worth asking. A June 2005 CRS report on naval transformation lays out some of the issues being debated here. On the one hand, the Navy has been trying to change in a lot of ways you'd expect, so that it can do things like operate in coastal areas and improve its response time. This certainly came in handy with the Navy's rapid response to the tsunami in Indonesia last year, a move that probably did as much for national security as anything else the military's done since 2002. On the other hand, the Navy seems to be placing a fair bit of emphasis on "strategic defense against ballistic missiles," which usually leads to some dubious spending decisions.
Flight Risk
| Mon Dec. 5, 2005 10:39 AM GMT
New at Mother Jones:
Frank Koughan and Sheila Kaplan continue their investigation into allegations that Boeing is using unapproved and unsafe parts for its 737s and other aircraft. The latest in the series reports on how FAA investigators have failed to examine the jets in question. (link).
Michael Schwartz debates against the top ten most commonly-offered reasons to stay in Iraq (link).
Mark Engler interviews three editors of a new book on American war crimes in Iraq (link).
In the news today, the 9/11 Commission released its final report today, calling overall progress on the government's response to the 2001 terrorist attacks "disappointing." Last year, Gail Sheehy profiled Commission Chairman Thomas Kean for Mother Jones, explaining how he "refused to be Bush's patsy" (link); earlier Sheehy had wondered why the 9/11 Commission says nothing about the inaction of Bush and Rumsfeld on 9/11 (link). Also, last September Matthew Brzezinski investigated the problems with the Deparment of Homeland Security (link).
Meanwhile, here in California, the execution date for Stanley "Tookie" Williams, the founder of the Crips turned peacemaker, draws nearer, and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is debating whether to grant clemency or not. Venise Wagner interviewed Williams for Mother Jones in March, 2001 (link).
September 11 recovery money diverted to large international corporations
| Mon Dec. 5, 2005 8:54 AM GMT
Last month, a bipartisan group of Congresspeople, in a rare display of doing what we elected them to do, turned the heat up on the Bush administration over the fact that so many Katrina recovery contracts had gone to large corporations in the usual Bush no-bid way. As a result, the contracts were re-bid.
Pity such a group wasn't around after September 11. The New York Daily News has put together a report on where the September 11 recovery money went, and--surprise, surprise--much of it, though pledged to small businesses, went instead to large international corporations.
Among the companies getting the hundreds of millions of dollars handed out by the federal government was a stock brokerage firm that had closed over a month before the attacks took place. The company, which applied for a grant, received $150,000, and its sister corporation received over $50,000. 4U Services, a technology consulting firm, received so many grants and loans that the total amount of relief was $640 million.
Empire State Development Corp., a company with no experience in providing disaster relief, created five grant programs and two loan programs, and the money flowed.
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Torture and Criticism
| Sat Dec. 3, 2005 6:22 PM GMT
Yesterday, the New York Times reported that the Chinese government still tortures its prisoners. Hardly surprising, one might say. But notice, many defenders of the Cheney administration's stance on interrogation tactic wouldn't call this "torture" at all:
The authorities ban only the sort of torture, called kuxing in Chinese, that meets a narrow definition of violent punishment leaving a lasting impact, like scars or disability, Mr. Nowak said. Officials have not done enough to outlaw physical or psychological abuse that does not produce a visible injury, Mr. Nowak said.
He said his investigation showed that such techniques include hooding and blindfolding, beating by fellow prisoners, use of handcuffs and ankle fetters for long periods, exposure to extreme heat or cold, being forced to maintain awkward postures for long periods and the denial of medical treatment. Sleep deprivation, he said, is perhaps the most common violation of what he called international standards of prisoner treatment.Way back in 2002, John Yoo wrote a memo for the White House noting that anything that falls short of causing "organ damage" or "imminent death" shouldn't be considered torture. The Chinese Communist Party has slightly higher standards here, but only slightly. And so long as the United States sanctions the same sort of tactics for its detainees, it will have no standing whatsoever to criticize China.
Every federal revenue door closed to Louisiana
| Fri Dec. 2, 2005 7:38 PM GMT
Though other states receive generous shares of revenues they generate by allowing production of goods on federal lands within their borders, Louisiana gets almost nothing. Louisiana produces 25% of the nation's natural gas and 30% of the nation's oi, yet it has nothing to show for it. Well, not quite nothing: the laying in of pipelines has seriously eroded the state's coastline, making it much more vulnerable to hurricanes.
For years, Louisiana's Congressional delegation has tried to get help to restore Louisiana's coastline, but there has been none. About six months ago, the White House agreed to help Louisiana, but only under the condition that the state scrap its well thought out, long-term plan to preserve its coastline. In its place, the Bush administration substituted a cheaper, short-term plan. The state, desperate to get help, reluctantly agreed. Shortly after, the White House announced that the Louisiana wetlands were no longer a priority, and that the state might not get any money at all.
Back to revenue-sharing. In 1953, President Eisenhower promised Louisiana 50% of the tax revenue earned from its oil and gas production. One person, Leander Perez, who controlled Plaquemines Parish, didn't think half of the revenues was good enough, and demanded 100%. No one could get him to back off, and as a punishment, Louisiana got nothing at all.
The state filed a suit in an attempt to get its share of the revenues, and this suit was tied up in court for about twenty years. In the early 70's, the court finally ruled that because Louisiana's oil and gas production did not occur within the state's boundaries, the state could not claim any revenue from it. This is, of course, an absurd conclusion: Without Louisiana, no one could build the platforms and rigs or lay the pipelines. Offshore workers depend on Louisiana for everything from employees to supplies to the education of their children. Yet even today, lawmakers like Sen. Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico claim that because Louisiana's oil and gas business is conducted in the water, the sate does not have a right to any money.
Had Louisiana been permitted its fair share of revenues over the decades, the state would not be in the financial shape it is in today. With no oil and gas revenue and a government that both refuses to help restore its coastline and to keep its promise about rebuilding after Katrina and Rita, Louisiana has little recourse. There is talk of filing suit against the Army Corps of Engineers, whose incompetence was largely responsible for the levee breeches during Katrina. Technically, the Corps is immune from lawsuits, but Congress can amend the immunity to exclude criminal acts, and make the amendment retroactive. Alternatively, the state could file for damages in the U.S. Court of Claims, then hope that Congress would pay the judgment. In this case, some of the blame would go to the Orleans Parish Levee Board, which was negligent in inspecting the levee system.
Some of Louisiana's coastal parishes are also considering filing a suit against the federal government in order to get the state's share of oil and gas revenues. With a wrecked economy, bills coming in from FEMA, and the "We'll do whatever it takes" promise already tossed in the trash, the state has to do something fast to find the billions of dollars its needs.
The Fight Against Urban Job Flight
Fri Dec. 2, 2005 6:18 PM GMT
Federal urban renewal programs are in the dumps. Despite intensive efforts by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, inner-city job growth declined in almost half of the country's 82 largest urban areas between 1995 and 2003, according to a new study by the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City. And even among cities that had job growth, most grew more slowly than their surrounding areas. A complementary analysis by the Associated Press found that the majority of inner-cities areas specifically targeted by federal job-stimulation programs also declined.
The ICIC study examined thirty-two areas that received assistance from HUD's Initiative for Renewal Communities and Urban Empowerment Zones (RC/EZ), a program that offers a combination of tax-break incentives and training programs to core inner-city areas with stagnant economies. Of these, only twelve gained jobs and only one, Mobile, AL, did so at a higher rate than outlying urban areas in the eight year time frame. While the RC/EZ program isn't without its isolated success stories, those don't add up to a widespread positive trend in job growth.
Those large cities that escaped the list of job losers are almost exclusively those cities that didn't receive the well-intentioned urban renewal federal aid: Anaheim, Long Beach, San Jose and Oakland, Calif.; Jersey City, Tulsa, Okla., St. Petersburg, Fld., Winston-Salem, N.C, Portland, Ore., and Seattle, Wash. Why is this?
The first question to ask is what drives inner-city job growth. According to the ICIC study, an inflow of immigrants drives job creation. Whereas immigrants compose only 12 percent of those cities that are losing jobs, growing metropolises average 31 percent. In a press release accompanying the study, ICIC founder Michael Porter, a professor at the Harvard Business School, explained:
Immigrants clearly and more readily identify the unique business conditions and opportunities that inner cities offer and are able to capitalize upon them. In addition, they are attractive to small and large businesses seeking willing and available labor.
While less statistically significant, the ICIC study also found that the diversification of industries correlated with job growth, and educational attainment level with higher wages. But policy tools that can affect these factors—creating incentives for diversification and expanding educational opportunities—are tricks that HUD has tried before, again with mixed results.
The Harvard Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness, an organization also directed by Porter, focuses on the microeconomic foundations of development, implying that entrepreneurial solutions are the key.
But the unwelcome answer to stagnant job growth may be neither federal assistance nor a laissez-faire approach. Lost jobs in the metropolises are being gained in neighboring suburban areas that are quickly urbanizing. Between 1990 and 2000, population growth in suburbs was twice that of the largest cities, 18 versus 9 percent. The nationwide decentralization trend isn't necessarily a problem in itself, but urban cores are often the source of technology and idea generation.
Bruce Katz, former HUD secretary from 1993 to 1996, wrote in a 2003 paper that it is primarily the "metropolitan areas without strong central cities…[that] are having so much difficulty making the transition to a higher road economy." Katz also points to "anti-metropolitan" federal policies that retard economic growth. For example:
• Transportation funds generated in cities funneled for spending in rural areas
• Concentrating poverty by housing the poor in segregated city blocks
• Creating prohibitively high costs to new businesses by designating environmental "brownfield" sites in polluted cities
• While the 1990s saw some corrections on these distorting policies, Katz told Mother Jones that the Bush administration reversed reformative progress in his first term.
Bush is talking about cutting grants which enable cities to deal with the basic infrastructure issues. What Bush is talking about cutting are the basic community health programs that are not specifically targeted on job creation but create the climate for job creation to occur.
Nevertheless, for the short term urban development will be shaped by the Bush administration, who earlier this year proposed to cut billions from HUD's buget, which may be a fine stroke against the deficit, but bad for inner city growth after all.
In Detroit, Michigan, where jobs are down to 345,000 from 735,000 in 1970, more jobs were lost than in any other major city in the nation, about a 19 percent decrease.
Detroit successfully secured an urban renewal tax-break package in 2001 with the help of Patrick Anderson's consulting group, but it was rejected by the succeeding mayor. Speaking to the Detroit News, Anderson stressed that government hand-outs don't work, but on a local level,
All you have to do is stroll through downtown Chicago or parts of Washington, D.C., that have been rejuvenated. […] These tend to be cities that get the basics right. They pick up the trash. They keep the criminals off the streets. The lighting works and they have a well-run government that's not at war with the suburbs.
Katz agrees:
I think the issue is: why do businesses locate where they do? They locate because of proximity to markets, reliable workforce, a transparent real estate process, a decent tax structure, an efficient government, and information about markets that enable them to take a risk. And after all that, maybe a tax incentive wouldn't hurt but you need to start with the basics.
He stressed that it's not so much "economic-stimulus" projects that create jobs, but programs that indirectly help job growth by creating an environment for business. This is also where the bulk of federal money goes: including health care, transportation, earned income tax credit.
Can Wal-Mart Reform Itself?
| Fri Dec. 2, 2005 10:56 AM GMT
Via Ezra Klein, who has a lot of interesting things to say about this, here's the progressive case for Wal-Mart, by Jason Furman. The paper makes some solid points, though as Max Sawicky points out, it's unlikely that the effect of Wal-Mart's low prices can compensate for rock-bottom wages for the lowest income groups. But set that aside. The weakest part of the paper, I think, is that Furman seems to believe that just because Wal-Mart has some positive and progressive effects on the economy, it can also be a progressive company.
If Wal-Mart were committed to the welfare of its more than 1.3 million "associates," as it calls its workers, then it would push to expand these public programs. Instead, Wal-Mart and the Walton family have generally worked against the progressive issues that would benefit its employees, including funding campaigns advocating the repeal of the estate tax. Recently, Wal-Mart has come around to endorsing a higher minimum wage, but this limited step is outweighed by its consistent funding for attempts to roll back progressive priorities that would benefit its workers.
This seems almost willfully naïve. Of course Wal-Mart works "against the progressive issues that would benefit its employees." Why wouldn't it? In as much as Wal-Mart can be said to be an entity that "wants" and lobbies for things, it will want a) lower corporate taxes, b) lower taxes for its managers and owners, c) lax corporate and workplace regulation, and d) a governing party that can distract the working class with cultural issues. Now which party delivers that?
Ezra seems to think that Wal-Mart can somehow be convinced to become a progressive ally and support universal health care in order to lower its labor costs. Nonsense, I say. If Wal-Mart's worried about its health care costs it will stump for a Republican health care plan that leaves workers at the mercy of the sharks in the open insurance market and ensures that Wal-Mart, along with its managers and shareholders, pay as little as possible for the scheme. Back to Furman:
Finally, Wal-Mart should obey labor laws that bar gender discrimination, unpaid overtime and environmental laws like the Clean Air Act. I do not know whether or not Wal-Mart has systematically broken these laws; to the degree it has, the remedy is through the legal system, not through restricting the expansion of Wal-Mart into new areas or applying new mandates to a single company.
Aargh. That ignores the fact that Wal-Mart, along with other corporate interests, gets involved in politics precisely to neuter the legal system that's supposed to act as a "remedy"—trying to limit its liability from class-action lawsuits through tort "reform," and trying to weaken workplace regulations, and so on. More to the point, the legal system as currently structured is inadequate for dealing with corporations like Wal-Mart. The company has shown no remorse for anything it has done, any of the workers it has mistreated, any of the laws it has broken, and considers paying fines simply a cost of doing business.
This is why many people support the death penalty for corporations. In the short term it would be disastrous for many people, not least the company's 1.3 million employees, if Wal-Mart's corporate charter was revoked and its assets auctioned off. But understandably, many people feel that drastic action is necessary to teach corporations that you don't lock workers in the store after hours, you don't treat undocumented workers like indentured servants, and you don't let children operate heavy machinery just so that economists can gush over your "productivity growth." Now there are certainly problems with the corporate death penalty, and personally I have mixed feelings on it, but the idea gets at the general problem here: you can't just ask Wal-Mart to play nice.
That's exactly why, as Matt Yglesias says, unions are so important—so that there is some countervailing power fighting against corporate-friendly changes to the legal system and hideous labor practices. That's why the SEIU wants to unionize the company, so it can tip the balance of power, and Wal-Mart stands in the way. Trying to "get along" won't get the job done.
Now Ezra's totally right to say that there are real problems with simply demanding that Wal-Mart offer its workers health care—employer-based health care is a very flawed system. Better to get a more rational universal health care system. But quite naturally, unions don't think universal health care is ever going to come, and that any such system would inevitably be weakened by corporate lobbyists hired by, among others, Wal-Mart. Ezra's trying to think through what a more rational long-term strategy to get to universal health care would look like. I'd love to see it, and think it's a worthwhile project. But I don't think it does any good expect that Wal-Mart can ever be "persuaded" to fight for the working class and single-payer health care. It's still a war and always will be. | http://www.motherjones.com/blog/2005/12?page=3 | dclm-gs1-059670000 |
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I keep seeing all these moderated posts about self-harm.
I don't think it's fair that they stop us from talking about it. Self harm is NOT okay, but some of us (myself included) have been there and done that and don't plan on going back. I think that, as long as you don't post like "OMG YOUR LIFE SUX GO CUT IT'LL MAKE U FEEL BETTER", you should be allowed to speak your mind. If you feel like cutting, feel like it. Talk about it. Let us tell you that it won't help. Let us figure out why you want to, and give you tips on stopping.
It shouldn't be taboo. Between 2 and 3 million teens self-harm, and 70% of those cut themselves.
I can honestly say I don't know a single person under the age of 25 who hasn't cut. That doesn't make it okay by any means, though, it makes it awful. It saddens me that people reach out to such desperate measures in sadness. It saddens me that it's a problem that gets shoved under the rug. Your parents tell you to stop, then they forget about it, etc etc etc. It needs some light shed on it. Cutters need to feel like there are people who truly care, who've gone through it and want them to get through it, too.
There is a lot of depression in the MCR fandom, and that saddens me, too. Their message is about overcoming your vices, and not letting yourself slip away under the pressures of life NOT being sad and cutting, so those who are sad, or those who cut should be given a chance to express themselves, to rationalize their behavior in a place they feel comfortable.
I don't know if this is going to get moderated, but before it does:
To anybody who cuts, life does get better. Happiness is in your perspective, and if you keep yourself down by acting on depression instead of happiness, you're stalling the process. Combat sadness with happiness. Bad day? Do something you enjoy. Treat yourself. You should never harm yourself because life has harmed you. It's not cute, and it's not helpful, and honestly, in the future, you'll regret it.
I've been cut-free for 2 years now, and looking back on it, I can't think of any benefits. I can't think of anything I know now, that I wouldn't know if I didn't cut.
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Deleting social media apps from your smart phone is a good way to ensure you spend more time in the real world.
Did you make any social media New Year's resolutions?
In this day and age where our whole lives are played out on social media some people are turning their back on the apps and trying to reclaim some sense of pre-smartphone normality.
While some of us have resolved to get on Instagram, others are deleting social media apps from their smartphones.
One of my friends has done this so she spends more time in the real world. Instead of checking her phone multiple times a day she can now only interact via social networking when she uses her laptop. This means her undivided attention is given to whatever she is doing at the time.
Do a quick Google search of "no social media" challenges and there are plenty of examples of people giving up social media completely for a set time and what benefits they gained from it.
Can you remember life before Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and the like? I remember phoning my friends, reading books and going outside to see people.
I don't remember the urge to check my phone every five minutes while out for dinner either, though I am trying this year to be more present.
There are some restaurants in the United States that will give you a discount on your meal if you check your phone in when you arrive, a way to make sure other diners aren't interrupted by your phone but also ensuring your full attention is on each other and the food.
You can make this a challenge among your friends - place your phones in the centre of the table and the first to pick theirs up during the meal (to check for messages, Facebook etc) has to pick up the bill.
While 2014 is going to be another year of living life in the now and online, why not try and see how you can be more present?
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Family is important to me. When I was growing up, I was around family so much that it never occurred to me to ask why I didn't have siblings, or where my father was. It wasn't until we drifted apart that I realized all I have is a mother.
Since I don't live in the same city as the rest of my family, I don't know the best way to get everyone together the way I remember us being when I was little.
I was raised by a single mother. I got a full undergraduate academic scholarship . Although I didn't attend, I was accepted to law school. I am currently pursuing a Master's degree and have interned for the federal government.
What I’m doing with my life
My internship in Washington, DC, for the federal government is now over. I am halfway to completing a Master's in Public Policy from the University of Kentucky.
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What's the deal with this hiding your profile after one email? I could see if I wrote something nasty, but not because I wrote something normal that shows I read your profile and have something interesting to say. At least try to interact with people if you're going to be on this site.
How there are guys with no charisma or personality with girlfriends. I'm not the ultimate party host or glad handing politician, but if you've ever been in a room with me, you at least know what my voice sounds like. What's worse is that such a guy is dating a girl I was once with, who wouldn't let me take it further.
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What's in a name?
The name is everything so thought the ancient world
Your naming gave you ambition or gave thanks for your existence
Knowing a name meant power and bought fear because of knowledge
So 'I am' was ambiguous and intimidating all in one announcement
So they called you El, Jehovah, to give substance to the ambiguity.
The world turned and in its turning man found a use for Jehovah
The vengeful god, the storm god who hurled his punishment down
Casting man into an abyss of fire and brimstone a god to be feared
So that the powerful could control the ignorant keep them in line
The meekness of Jesus held no appeal to the men of old, the jihads
Who frightened friend and foe with their images of an ungraceful god.
The world turns and the people of power long for the old days
They want to use the names and ideas of yesterday but nobody understands
They have lost the idea of a god who terrifies more frightened of themselves
What science can do or the environment, or the tiny virus that virulent killer.
We view the cosmos in such detail and find it awesome and intimidating.
What name can we evoke today to describe the mind behind creation
A name that will resonate with people in their world and bring them hope.
Perhaps we need to return to our beginnings, that ambiguity of presence
'I am what I am' somehow can reflect today's images far better than most
We cannot name the mind behind the glory, it is beyond our comprehension
Merely recognise the presence in all we see and marvel at the wonder of it all.
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74w ago - Sony Assistant Producer Dais Kawaguchi has announced that four new animals are hitting Tokyo Jungle on PSN today.
To quote: It's been two weeks since we released TOKYO JUNGLE and we're thrilled with the comments we've received from players. Thanks to everyone who is enjoying the game!
In other news, we've received many questions about TOKYO JUNGLE's premise and gameplay, so we asked Game Director Yohei Kataoka from Crispy's and Producer Masaaki Yamagiwa from Japan Studio to elaborate on the game's concept and inception.
Dais Kawaguchi, Assistant Producer: Can you please explain how you came up with the idea for TOKYO JUNGLE?
Yohei Kataoka, Game Director: The business philosophy for "Crispy's Corporation," the studio I established, is to "develop a new product that nobody has ever seen before."
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Once you play the game, I'm sure that you'll have a better sense of the world I've been wanting to create.
You'll be able to face the dilemmas, tough decisions, and the agony of choice that I've been wanting to portray in a game. I believe the TGS demo does a great job of conveying this new concept.
In the trailers and interviews released so far, we've shown the game's dark world setting and shared some of the story elements revealed in the single player mode.
We've also shared a few of the back stories from both the monsters and sorcerers that you'll encounter during gameplay. During TGS, I'm looking forward to showing you what the multiplayer mode can offer.
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Barrow, Alaska: Ground Zero for Climate Change
“Hold the shotgun and watch out for polar bears.”
John Lenters pushed a metal boat into a freshwater lake three miles south of Barrow and motioned for me to climb aboard. The wind was stiff, the sun bright, the vista dotted with Arctic flowers—marsh marigold and Arctic cotton. Lenters, a hydroclimatologist at the University of Nebraska, studies how tundra lakes are responding to climate change. Now he was steering toward a yellow speck in the middle of the lake, a climate-monitoring buoy due for scheduled maintenance.
The tundra is a vast watery wilderness filled with snaking rivers and tens of thousands of elliptically shaped lakes supporting moose, caribou and polar bears. From the air, with its clouds and mist, it looked, oddly enough, more like the Amazon basin than the desert that one of Lenters’ colleagues called it and by some definitions it is. (Lenters himself says only that “precipitation is slight.”) But what precipitation there is, Lenters explained, is prevented from seeping into the soil by permafrost, the layer of frozen earth that begins about two feet beneath the surface and goes down, in North Alaska, some 2,000 feet. Globally, permafrost holds an estimated 400 gigatons of methane, one of the greenhouse gases that is hastening the earth’s warming. As the permafrost thaws—which it has begun to do—lakes can drain away and the thawed soil can release billions of tons of methane into the atmosphere.
Lenters pulled up to the buoy and, balanced on the prow of the boat, began wrapping duct tape around some of the buoy’s wires to protect them. “This is the grunt work of science,” he said. A swiveling arm on the buoy measured wind speed. Solar panels on its three sides provided power. A glass-domed instrument on top registered incoming infrared radiation to monitor the greenhouse effect—the rise in temperature that results from the trapping of heat by certain gases, such as carbon dioxide, in the atmosphere.
Lenters said that he and other researchers—aided by decades-old satellite images as well as consultations with Inupiat—are visiting tundra lakes all over the area, walking their perimeters and measuring their size, water depth and temperature. “Everything up here is related to climate change,” Lenters said, “but to understand it you must learn the underlying dynamics.”
In his camouflage clothes and waders, Lenters looked like a deer hunter as he jury-rigged repairs and took measures to protect the buoy from various assaults over the next ten months. Windblown chunks of ice might partially submerge it, and once the lake freezes over, a curious Arctic fox might nibble on its wires. While tending the buoy last year, Lenters spotted two polar bears a quarter-mile away swimming toward him. Bears are an ever-present concern. Guards with shotguns sometimes stand watch at high- school football games. (While I was in Barrow, a bear wandered past BASC headquarters. Another took pieces out of a scientist’s boat; no one was inside.) While Lenters worked, I scanned the horizon.
Lenters said that while he’d collected only about a year’s worth of data, he’d already been surprised by it. Typically, he said, lake beds release as much heat into the water in the winter and spring as they absorb in the summer and fall. This balance keeps the annual sediment temperatures fairly stable. “But what we found was that heat was going into the lake sediment almost all year long.” It’s too soon to draw any firm conclusions, he added, “but the water temperatures are out of equilibrium with the lake sediment, causing a nearly continuous thawing of the underlying permafrost. The lake is out of whack.” Then he turned the boat around and we headed back to town for some hot soup.
Bowhead whales are named for the massive bony skulls that enable them to break through ice to breathe. They can live up to 200 years; adults weigh up to 100 tons. Their biannual migrations between the Bering Sea and the Eastern Beaufort Sea carry them past Barrow each fall and spring. “The whale is central to our culture,” Mayor Itta had told me. “The warmer ocean and currents will markedly shorten our spring whaling season.” He was concerned about possible changes in whale migration patterns and sea ice conditions; hunters must travel over ice to reach whales. “The impacts are around us already. We need more baseline science so we can measure these impacts over time.”
Which was one reason that—about 20 miles out to sea—Eskimo whalers and researchers aboard three small boats rode the chop, looking to tag bowheads with radio devices. Mark Baumgartner, a biologist from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts, was looking for answers to the same questions as the whalers with him. “We think the environment is going to change,” he said. “We don’t exactly know how. This is part of a study to learn how the animals forage and how food is organized.” If warming seas cause the whales’ preferred foods to move, the whales could follow—with disastrous consequences for Eskimos.
Carin Ashjian, another Woods Hole biologist, was on a sister ship, the 43-foot-long Annika Marie, studying krill, a shrimplike animal that bowheads eat. Massive amounts of krill pile up on the continental shelf off Barrow each year in the fall. The krill are pushed by sea currents and wind, both of which can be affected by weather patterns. “We want to know whether there will be more or less krill with climate warming,” Ashjian explained. She said her five-year-old study was still too new to yield any firm conclusions: “The Arctic is changing so fast that when it comes to learning basics, we may have started too late.”
Some time around October, he said, the waves now lapping against the shore would turn to slush, like “an unflavored Slurpee.” Then, as temperatures dropped, the slush would congeal and become rigid. Colder still and the ocean would break against itself and form mountain ranges of ice “like plate tectonics on a smaller scale.” Snow would cover it, and in spring the ice would weaken. “You can notice it and smell it. The animals know it.” Finally, the whales, seals and ducks would start to come back to Barrow.
That’s the way it always happened. That’s the way it was supposed to happen. As the worsening weather closed in, Glenn turned the boat back to shore. He wasn’t worried, he said. He would cope with climate change just as he’d coped with other changes he’d seen. “We may have to learn some new weather patterns,” he said. “But we always have.”
Bob Reiss is a New York City writer. His book The Coming Storm chronicles events related to global warming.
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The Mullaperiyar Dam issue sparked a row between members belonging to Tamil Nadu and Kerala in both Houses of Parliament and the two sides were so unrelenting that the Lok Sabha had to be adjourned for the day on Wednesday.
The issue was raised during zero hour in both Houses; Congress member P.T. Thomas mentioned the issue in the Lok Sabha, while All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) leader V. Maitreyan brought it up for discussion in the Upper House, leading to heated exchanges.
It saw rivals the AIADMK and the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) jointly spearheading the cause of Tamil Nadu, while the other two rivals, the Congress and the Communist Party of India (Marxist), batted for Kerala.Seeking the intervention of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, members wanted him to immediately convene a meeting with the Chief Ministers of both States to resolve the issue.
Debate for 30 minutes
In the Rajya Sabha, the issue was discussed for over 30 minutes, but in the Lok Sabha nothing was audible as the two sides tried to shout each other down when the matter was raised twice by the Congress members.
No sooner had Mr. Thomas sought to raise the issue than members from Tamil Nadu objected to the points he was raising. Eventually the two sides took to their seats, but when Jose K. Mani raised the matter, they opposed it again. The Chair was left with no option but to adjourn the House albeit at the fag-end of the day.
In the Rajya Sabha, members from Tamil Nadu, cutting across party lines, said the 116-year-old dam was safe and demanded that its water level be raised to 142 feet, while those from Kerala said it was a question of life and death of the people in the State and their safety should not be compromised with.
Maitreyan's call
Raising the matter, Mr. Maitreyan wanted the Prime Minister to advise the Kerala government to honour the rights guaranteed to Tamil Nadu under various pacts and abide by the 2006 orders of the Supreme Court in the matter.
He wanted the Prime Minister to ask Kerala to desist from its approach to construct a new dam, not to whip up fear and panic among the people of the State and to deploy the Central Industrial Security Force immediately at the dam site to prevent any “intentional damage by lumpen elements.”
‘Apprehensions baseless'
The DMK's Tiruchi Siva said the dam was strong enough and safe, as had been certified, and apprehensions about its safety were baseless.
D. Raja (CPI) wanted the Centre to play a pro-active role and allay any fears about dam safety while Tamil Nadu should get the waters. “Both Tamil Nadu and Kerala have had the best of relations and that should be maintained. There should not be attempts to raise emotions.”
Roorkee study cited
Quoting a Roorkee study, Congress member from Kerala P.J. Kurien said more than 30 lakh people downstream of the dam were living in fear about their safety. “If the dam was not safe, there should be another dam but fully protecting the Tamil Nadu interests, if not more. All people are one.”
While Tamil Nadu MP T.K. Rangarajan (CPI-M) said the Centre should intervene before the row turns into a law and order situation, his party colleague from Kerala T.N. Seema said the 30 lakh people who feared for their safety, could not live in fear and panic. “It is no joke. The Prime Minister must intervene.”
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Artist Spotlight: Brianna Angelakis Interview, Part 2 Fri, 25 May 2012 16:11:42 +0000 Brianna Angelakis graduated Summa Cum Laude with a 4.0 GPA and is currently on her way to do the same at college. Ever since she was little, her family told her that she could achieve anything and that her opportunities in this world are endless. This has led her to acquire a competitive drive that is unnatural to some, but it has brought her to a point where she is able to create magnificent and thought-provoking art for her viewers to enjoy. Without the constant support of her family she would not have been able to pursue her dreams and be the strongly ambitious artist she is today.
ToonariPost (TP): What is it about your subject matter that keeps you going back to it?
Brianna Angelakis (BA): I feel like there’s an endless number of ways a problem can be solved. I tend to look back at past paintings of mine, and I just have this urge to revisit a similar, sublime world with a figure I can relate to and the viewer can connect with. Even now, I’m working on an entirely different type of piece, and I have this indescribable need to revisit that natural world found in my past paintings.
TP: How do you take inspiration and translate it into your paintings?
BA: Because a lot of my inspiration stems from the Romantic Period in combination with Feminism, I tend to place my (usually) female figures in sublime environments like the ones described by the Romantics. My painting “Neurasthenia” is a great example of a Gothic novel inspiration, such as Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, which also comments on the infamous “nervous disease” women supposedly suffered according to patriarchal society. With dark, twisted hair, the figure evokes an unknown, female strength onto the observer.
TP: Which of your pieces were the most difficult and why?
BA: All of my pieces are difficult in their own way, and every piece is a problem that needs to be solved. The size alone for my painting “To the Lighthouse” at 30″ x 40″ was an entirely new level of difficulty because I had never worked on a piece that large before – in addition to the fact that the painting contains two figures and an overly detailed environment.
While I carefully planned the composition for “To the Lighthouse” and the final product is relatively similar to my original design, other pieces become something else in the middle of the painting no matter how long I spend on the initial design. I happen to make one or two marks which can alter the entire composition and concept of the painting – usually (and hopefully) for the better. The small and large decisions I make during the actual process of the painting are really significant, ultimately altering the successfulness of the painting itself.
TP: What aspect of your paintings do you hope all your viewers see and why?
BA: I hope the viewers of my works feel a connection with the figure. While every viewer will have a slightly different relationship with the figure I create, I want the figure to have a lasting impression through the expression on her face and the look in her eyes. While I spend a lot of time on the details found in the environment, the background tends to remain ghostlike in comparison to the strong figures in the foreground. The figures overpower their own surreal world, entering our reality.
TP: What do you hope viewers gain from seeing your artwork?
BA: I want viewers to gain a sense of self-awareness. The viewer may be studying my painting, but the figure in the painting also studies the observer, asking different questions and seeking an array of answers depending on the individual.
TP: Are there any subjects that you wish you could paint, but find them too difficult?
BA: I would love to attempt a large painting with a number of figures in awkward positions, not quite a Michelangelo, but something similar, yet more contemporary, which demands a lot of flesh. While it sounds difficult, I’m not one to shy away from a challenge. Maybe I’ll be attempting a piece like that sooner than I think. I just need to find a piece of wood big enough that won’t warp on me during the process!
TP: Who is the one artist (living or dead) that you would like to meet and why?
BA: Michelangelo hands down. While I adore Da Vinci and Waterhouse, Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel and his sculptures absolutely enthrall me. I can sit and study his works for endless hours. He mastered the figure, becoming a God-like creator unlike any painter I’ve come into contact with dead or alive. I can only dream of seeing his works in real life instead of on the page or the computer screen. His works are truly inspiring.
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A senior Obama adviser says White House staffers realized they'd never get a fair shake from Fox.
Here's the answer: Team Obama was pushed over the brink by a growing list of what it considered outrageous anti-Obama conduct by Fox that showed no sign of stopping. Obama's advisers say that they seethed while Fox commentators used their shows to encourage protests against Obama's healthcare proposals last summer. Team Obama fumed as Fox personalities tried to pressure some controversial Obama advisers to resign. White House officials say that Fox has continued to stir the pot against Obama in a regular pattern—raising a criticism, having Republican congressional leaders comment on it, and then using those comments to keep the criticism alive.
A break point came when Fox tried to create the impression that angry anti-Obama protesters at congressional town hall meetings last summer signaled that Obama's healthcare proposals were dying, a story line that other news organization picked up. White House officials say this was untrue, that those proposals were not dying at all.
Another break point came when Fox commentator Chris Wallace called White House officials "crybabies." A senior Obama adviser tells U.S. News that White House staffers developed "a growing realization" that the president would never get a fair shake from Fox.
White House insiders say that, at some point, White House officials will appear again on Fox, but they will do so expecting an antagonistic atmosphere, as if they were appearing on conservative talk radio. Asked what White House insiders hope to accomplish with the feud, the adviser says, "We are not spending much time here at the White House thinking about Fox" but are focusing instead on the president's agenda, including healthcare legislation, the economy, regulatory reform, Afghanistan, and Iran. "Fox is using this to promote themselves," the adviser says. "Our hope is simply that responsible journalists will not go chasing after Fox stories" as if these stories were legitimate.
And the Fox experience has toughened the White House's attitude about taking on other critics, such as the health insurance industry. "We are not going to allow people to misrepresent the president or his program," a White House spokesman warns. "We won't allow people to attack the president and his programs without making sure the president's voice is heard in the process."
For their part, Republicans say they are delighted that the White House is focusing on Fox, because it distracts the Obama team from more substantive issues and makes it look nasty. The GOP officials see a pattern. "Any time anyone on Capitol Hill or in a news organization challenges the administration, they go to their standard playbook response—to demonize them," says a top Republican strategist. | http://www.usnews.com/news/obama/articles/2009/10/23/fox-pushed-team-obama-over-the-brink | dclm-gs1-060170000 |
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Shake-up at Microsoft: It's about time
As reported yesterday and rumored since last week, Microsoft has made a top-level reshuffle of the Entertainment & Devices (E&D) division. Both Robbie Bach, a 22-year veteran of Microsoft, and J Allard, a key player in the development of the XBOX and Zune, are out.
That's a big change, but clearly, change is what the E&D division needs. Non-PC devices are the fastest growing segment of computing today. It is the base upon which Apple's incredible market capitalization gains have been built (which, obviously, are due to Apple's wild success in creating new categories of devices). Entertainment & Devices are critical to the future of Microsoft as a company. It's failure to grow into a strong source of profit puts at risk Microsoft's ability to remain influential in the coming decade.
Bloggers tend to be people with strong opinions, and I am no exception. I also used to work in the E&D division at Microsoft, which makes the impulse to express my views on this subject even keener. Therefore, excuse my boldness, but I have a few suggestions to offer to the new people in charge. This is hardly a comprehensive list, and may be unfairly tilted towards the TV space due to my former role at Mediaroom. In my defense, though, next to Microsoft's mobile phone strategy, I think television is the most important (and furthest along) of Microsoft's non-PC businesses.
These ideas don't ask Microsoft to strike off in radical new product directions, as would be the case if they were to attempt a near-term challenge to the iPad (which, as I explain later, would be wasted effort at this point). They just ask Microsoft to embrace what they do well, build on what they already have, and stay focused on the "right angle" turns (i.e. Windows Phone 7) that are critical near-term priorities.
1. Leverage XBOX properly as a living room platform
Though the XBOX 360 didn't end up the number one console this generation, it did manage to beat Sony, which given the dominance of the PS2 in the last generation's console wars, seemed an almost insurmountable task. They also have avoided a "me, too" approach in its embrace of the motion controller concept that was key to Nintendo's success. Project Natal's "controller-free" controller is an innovative way to bring motion interactivity to the XBOX, and I'm looking forward to updates on the technology at this year's E3.
It's fairly clear that Microsoft has achieved its original goal of becoming a credible presence in console gaming. It is now time to focus more intensely on growing beyond it.
Moving beyond gaming has grown in importance given recent developments. Google TV builds on the Android platform, and aims first and foremost to improve the TV experience by melding it with the Internet. Google is almost certain, however, not to confine themselves to just television services. Games will be an important component, and though they may not be the mega-productions targeted at the current crop of consoles (at least, in the near term), they may be enough to attract the casual gamer, a group of users that Nintendo has proven is larger than the "hard core" gamers that were the initial focus of Microsoft and Sony.
Google isn't alone as a competitor, however. Though devices like the Roku offers a platform for television enhancements, the growing number of DVD players offering integration with Amazon's "On Demand" video store is notable. Television-focused Internet services are finding their way onto a growing array of TV attached devices.
Fortunately, Microsoft has a strong and growing casual game story, boosted as it was by the XNA platform and an XBOX Live in-console store that enables small companies and individuals to offer gaming products direct to consumers. Likewise, XBOX hardware can reach gaming heights that it will take Google some time to match. Games, in other words, aren't the problem. The problem is that games constitute only a fraction of what is possible with that large (and now, comparatively high-resolution) display area that sits in the middle of most people's homes. Focusing on just that fraction creates a competitive chink in the armor that could give Google (among others) the competitive toe-hold they need to lever up to become something much more.
When XBOX was the upstart challenger, focusing on gaming to the exclusion of all else made sense. It was and still is, however, a bit like balancing your checkbook with a supercomputer. Someone is bound to come along and use it more effectively than you.
Microsoft has already convinced millions to pay a subscription fee just to be able to interact with other users. In fact, they have more networked gaming users than any of the other major console manufacturers. XBOX is, for all intents and purposes, the premier networked gaming console.
Microsoft should build on that. As a first effort, they need to offer more reasons for non-gamers to pay the XBOX Live fee. It took me years to get around to buying an XBOX Live subscription, because I don't play games enough to care about playing other people over the Internet (who would, frankly, destroy me, as I don't play enough to be particularly good at it). What pushed me over the edge was Netflix. If there were a lot more services like that, I would have taken the plunge years ago.
Content deals for services automatically included as part of an XBOX Live subscription will certainly play a role. I've long thought, however, that the XBOX team paid insufficient attention to the kind of thing that drove the popularity of desktop Windows - third party applications.
Yes, third parties write GAMES for the platform. Third parties, however, have a hard time making interesting non-game applications given the extreme limits Microsoft places on network access...except when you are "favored" provider like Facebook, Netflix or Last.fm. That a colossal missed opportunity, in my opinion, which prevents Microsoft from keeping pace with innovation in the "living room automation" space.
Unleashing network access to third party applications doesn't mean that Microsoft would have to erase the XBOX Live "pay gate," though growing competition might put some pressure on it. I do think people would pay an access fee if they felt they derived real value from it, and it was kept "reasonable" ($50 / year, the current price of an XBOX Live Gold Subscription, qualifies as reasonable, in my opinion). The goal should be to make the world behind that gate so compelling that people will want to pay to get into it, something that is easier to achieve in television given that people are still accustomed to paying for video services (a contrast to the Internet, where people are not). That goal is only achievable if Microsoft and a handful of favored companies aren't the only ones driving innovation atop the XBOX platform.
2. Play to your strengths
This probably sounds like the guy with a hammer who views everything as a nail (I am a developer, after all), but Microsoft plays insufficiently to its own strengths. The company spent the last few decades assembling within itself some of the most well-known software engineers in the world. Clearly, one of Microsoft's key competitive advantages lies in the creation of software platforms.
Focus on this. Microsoft framework divisions are busy pumping out powerful development technology, and yet have a hell of a time getting internal divisions to actually use it. Personally, I'd love for Guthrie and his lieutenants to have the power to force wayward managers to follow a consistent development line. As a random follow-up on that, I think there needs to be a team whose only role is to analyze the software plans of various divisons in order to prevent them from accidentally reinventing, say, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). As I intimated in a previous article, I can't figure out why Silverlight isn't being made into a mandatory component of the product strategies of every division within the company. Microsoft benefited from the company-wide adoption of COM. Silverlight standardization would provide a mutually-beneficial fabric for user interfaces that span device categories, and can be evolved by Microsoft a lot faster than HTML, CSS and Javascript.
I was surprised when Microsoft didn't focus on third-party extensibility in Zune from very early on. Likewise, as noted, the odd restrictions in the XBOX environment have never made much sense to me. If ANY company should place a premium on third-party extensibility, it is Microsoft.
Development technology by itself is clearly not enough. If it wasn't for people like Julie Larsen-Green, now in charge of the Windows user experience, the Office franchise would have hit a wall by now, and Windows 7 wouldn't have become the revenue spinner it currently is for the company. Obviously, design has to take primary importance.
But, with every WHAT comes a HOW. Good design is the WHAT. The HOW is what people like Guthrie and his collection of top-notch software engineers bring to the table.
Give the people who understand the strategy of HOW the power to impose consistency throughout the company...after the Design people figure out the WHAT. Doing the HOW properly is something that Microsoft has spent years building the necessary competencies to do. Good companies always make it a point to leverage what they already have.
3. Stay focused on getting Windows Phone 7 off the ground
One of the smartest thing Microsoft has done in quite awhile is decide NOT to do something. They canceled the Courier before it could be released as an expensive, hard-to-understand product that didn't sell and made Microsoft look like it was yet again lured down the "me, too" rabbit hole as it chased something Apple had done first.
Okay, maybe I'm being unfair to what the Courier could have been (though since it was never released, that's like saying I'm being unfair to space cruisers that visit neighboring star systems). Maybe J Allard's team had figured out an incredible two-screen UI concept that would surprise and amaze people for its simplicity. And, maybe he would have navigated the hardware economics to build a two-screen device that was within range, price-wise, of a single-screen iPad (though a certain Wayne Campbell quote involving emergent monkeys springs immediately to mind).
Distraction, however, is one of Microsoft's biggest problems, particularly given the current size of the company. Take the Kin. Microsoft probably felt the need to release the Kin because they had just spent a billion dollars buying Danger, maker of the former teeny-bop star Sidekick, in a quixotic attempt to buy their way into a consumer mobile strategy. Unfortunately, rolling the Kin out based on a still in-flux Windows Phone 7 base was a mistake, in my opinion. I think the concept was good, and I like the notion of all your media being instantly available online, but when you get an Engadget review that is as frighteningly bad as it was, it's a sure sign that you have pushed something out too early.
It would have made more sense to release something like the KIN after Windows Phone 7 had carved a place for itself in the fast-growing consumer smartphone space. How many resources were spent integrating the Danger acquisition or preparing for the KIN release that could have been aimed towards making Windows Phone 7 ready for roll-out this Fall?
Focus on making Windows Phone 7 the best platform for mobile applications. Given the core competencies Microsoft has constructed for itself in its 35 years as a company, this is something that should be achievable (and, personally, I think Microsoft is on that path, as Silverlight is a great base for mobile applications). Getting customers on board is a different issue entirely, as few consumers will buy a platform for its great developer APIs (though they might if the applications are better because of it). At the very least, however, the product should be reflective of Microsoft core competencies. Put your best foot forward, in other words.
One thing Microsoft definitely should NOT do, however, is try to compete with the iPad...at least, not yet.
iPad has shown that there is a natural glide path from mobile phone operating systems to tablet PCs. So, focus on the basics first. Make a phone interface that is easy to use in the 2-3 minutes the average phone user interacts with their phone before moving on to something else. Build the touch-enabled Silverlight applications that are important to that form factor, and if you run into any platform kinks, fix them (something that is a lot easier to do if all internal Microsoft divisions are firmly on the Silverlight train). Once you get those things right, you are better positioned to build a platform that makes sense on a Tablet form factor.
Remember, Apple was first with a mass-market graphical user operating system. You were the first software company to take a stab at the mobile market. Being first is great, but being second can be a lever up if you have clarity of purpose, a strong product concept and the resources to make it all happen.
4. Give your TV strategy proper focus
In spite of my previous article detailing how Microsoft could lose the TV space rather quickly, that outcome is far from a fait accompli. Microsoft has no choice but to perform a system reset on its mobile business given competition from iPhone, Android and Blackberry. TVs, however, still provide a bit of breathing room for Microsoft.
Apple TV is a mostly orphaned product. Though Jobs would never admit this, I think Apple would have a hard time making Apple TV truly fly. Yes, they have great content relationships due to their success with the iPod. Content companies, however, will get into bed with anyone who helps them sell more media. Further, Set-Top Boxes are designed to be unobtrusive and ridiculously cheap, two things that don't play to Apple strengths.
That isn't the case with Google TV. Google is a service company, and as such, has more skills that can be directly applied to the TV space. Plus, Google TV devices will be as low-cost as it is physically possible to be. Android is free, and Linux is free. Customers will only pay for hardware and any software services that run atop it. Borrowing a page from Microsoft's playbook, Google relies on third-party OEMs to build the supporting hardware, thus generating the kind of competition that drained costs from a PC market oriented around the Windows operating system.
Granted, the free nature of Android-based Google TV will put downward pressure on per-unit licensing fees (the traditional way Microsoft has made money). Windows, however, has yet to be displaced by free desktop alternatives, and the single biggest competitor to Windows isn't Linux, but higher-cost Macs. Clearly, Microsoft can't expect anywhere near the licensing revenue from an embedded OS. Microsoft's goal, as it was with Windows, is volume, and there are a LOT of Set-Top Boxes in the world. Even if the per-seat license isn't zero, it will still be relatively small, particularly if you have other means by which to derive revenue (i.e. common application store, tie-ins with things like XBOX, etc).
On the applications front, Microsoft's years of effort offer considerable advantages, particularly as they bring Silverlight to bear on the TV experience (never underestimate the power of consistency across platforms). What is needed is someone with a clear vision of where things should head, and the power to drive teams in a common direction.
Media Center needs to be set free to inhabit Set-Top Boxes and TVs (which they are doing; they already have the PC side, which will be useful once it can be found in TVs and STBs as well). Pull Mediaroom into a tighter orbit around the interfaces offered by Media Center, and make the Mediaroom back-end compatible with all the other media consumption technologies within Microsoft (and no, I don't mean just build the current Mediaroom client into other Microsoft devices...that was and is a crazy notion).
To summarize, Microsoft needs to make all its television-focused media efforts spring from a common conception of the future of media streaming in the home. There seems to be some awareness of that within the company. Efforts in that direction can't have ended with the deparature of Mr. Rodriguez.
5. Find your device muse
As intimated above and in past blog posts, Microsoft needs to find a person with a coherent vision as to how the software giant can stitch together its disparate device businesses. I've complained about how fragmented Microsoft's TV strategy is. It's not fragemented because they are trying to attack from a PC, Internet TV and Cable / Service Provider standpoint, as those are all valid endpoints for consumption. Rather, it is fragmented because the products that focused on those segments initially have been allowed to become empires unto themselves instead of letting a single core become the base into which everything hooks.
Imagine what would have happened if some politically-ambitious manager with visions of Microsoft empires dancing in his head had tried to build an alternative to Windows. After laughing hysterically for about half an hour, Bill Gates would have smothered him with a large, fluffy pillow.
For some reason, nobody saw the way straight to make a common platform within Microsoft for TV. In TV (and devices in general), Microsoft needs the metaphorical guy with a fluffy pillow (an analogy which sounded a lot better in the previous paragraph).
A common platform that spans a particular product category isn't a silver bullet. Clearly, Windows Mobile was a common platform, and ran smack into a giant, pleasingly-backlit Apple logo (and increasingly, a large smiling green robot). But, irrespective of the problems faced by Windows Mobile, it doesn't alter the simple reality that different teams moving in incompatible directions blunt the force of Microsoft's efforts. Consistency, where it isn't derived naturally (as Windows was) is created by individuals with a central vision of how things should work combined with the political power to make it happen. I have no idea who that person with a central vision is at Google. It's clear that Steve Jobs fills that role at Apple.
POWER, however, is a critical component. Unfortunately, Microsoft can't duplicate the power of a Bill Gates, as life isn't an Aldous Huxley novel where historical photos are edited to create "founders" who never existed. But, they have found ways to put the right people in power in some divisions. I don't think it is an understatement to say that Steven Sinofsky and Julie Larsen-Greene saved Microsoft's core product franchises.
The experience with Windows and Office was a clarity born of a survival instinct, to be sure. It reveals, however, that Microsoft can pick and enable the right people when they put their collective minds to it.
In Conclusion
Though I may be accused of sounding a bit Pollyanna-ish, Microsoft has managed to turn the corporate ship on a dime before. In the 1990s, Microsoft almost managed to miss the dial-up Internet boom. Gates managed to navigate the company through that, and did so in a way that secured Microsoft's role as the dominant operating system ever since.
Today, it's not so much that Microsoft is ignoring markets, but attacking them in a strange and haphazard way. Microsoft isn't lacking for bright people with good ideas from a design and software engineering standpoint. I saw them, up close, during three years working at the company. What they lack is focus, and that comes from putting the right people in a position of power to impose it.
I fully support the recent E&D reshuffle, even as I concede Joe Wilcox's point regarding its unfortunate timing. I do think they chose well by making Joe Belfiore the point-man on Windows Phone 7. Joe is the originator of the Media Center concept and a person, I think, who understands the need to leverage Microsoft's existing skill sets (Media Center was always a proper platform, however limited it was from a living room standpoint by being tethered to desktop Windows).
At the end of the day, Microsoft has very little to lose from a dramatic shake-up. A "mere" $169 million profit last year on $7.76 billion in revenue is slim excuse for timidity given the size of Microsoft as a business. Change has to happen if Microsoft's TV efforts are to meet their potential, and if their "right turn" on mobile phones is to gain any traction.
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• RE: Shake-up at Microsoft: It's about time
Hopefully, and something the author failed to mention, they will focus on making the XBOX360 a device with a better than 2 in 10 survival rate. They may have "beat" the PS3 in total number of units sold (although folks having to buy replacement units for their dead consoles probably helps that number...), but they definitely lost the battle for the quality of the unit. In the time it has taken me to fry 3 XBOX consoles, my original 2 PS3's are still working flawlessly. Microsoft will never have a credible entertainment hub style box until it can survive more than a couple of hours of use and they will never find a unified strategy for emerging media tech unless they stamp out the rampant tribalism they have ingrained into their corporate culture.
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Your article is well thought out and covers much territory so I'll comment on the mobile OS space:
I am a long-time Smartphone user and was on-board with Windows Mobile from early on. I gave up completely on Microsoft when the iPhone came along and Apple showed us how a modern mobile OS could be easy to use and reliable. Microsoft stuck with the stylus and moved on with OS 6.5 when they should have been the one to have carved out this new mobile space ahead of the competition.
Along comes Google, Palm and even RIM with their mobile devices and Microsoft is far enough behind now in product acceptance that they are going to have to pull out so many stops to catch up that they may have to accept being a tier 2 or 3 player for the foreseeable future.
We've seen this pattern with other big companies losing their edge by being poorly managed and having lack of vision. Microsoft may seem too big to fail, however they are losing ground by not putting their full focus on the mobile OS experience. The PC may be the staple now but it's a tech model that's over 25 years old and it's not growing like the mobile side is. Many may disagree with what I'm about to say, but I see the PC OS on its way out sometime in the future and PC's and laptops replaced by iPad-like devices. Microsoft must see this which is why they shuffled management around, however if they want to become relevant again, they need to continue cleaning out the upper management types or create some spin-offs.
Crunchy Frog
• RE: Shake-up at Microsoft: It's about time
I've said it before and I'll say it again, if MS wants to keep going forward, the biggest shake up has to start from the top. Ballmer needs to go. I'm sorry, but having a CEO with absolutely no tech background in charge of a major tech corporation is insane at best. Young minds and fresh ideas is the only way MS will survive. Perhaps if their stock prices plummet low enough, the shareholders will finally get the hint.
• Yep!!
Having been a contractor at a company whose CIO had zero background in IT I've seen first hand how quickly someone can literally lay waste to the company's IT department.
The old addage that a good manager can manage anything regardless of their background has no place in today's business world.
• They need Gates back
I feel as if they are going Apple's route when Jobs left back in the 90's
The one and only, Cylon Centurion
• @NStalnecker...
I'd love to see someone more forward thinking, actually. The old ways (extend, embrace, extinguish, and lock em in so the can't go elsewhere) need to die completely. They need someone to concentrate on the tech, putting out products of quality, and actually listen to what people want and need. Aside from the OS and office products, MS is being hammered and rebranding the same stale ideas isn't helping any. As I stated earlier, "young minds, fresh ideas".
• RE: Shake-up at Microsoft: It's about time
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• RE: Shake-up at Microsoft: It's about time
@Dave32265 So by your logic Apple should get rid of Steve Jobs.
• Nope...
Why should they? Apple is growing, putting out good products and LISTEN to their customer base. MS s stagnant and has been for years. And at least Jobs had a tech background (he, Wozniak and Markkula actually founded Apple) where Ballmer had absolutely none. So by my logic, no, Jobs should stay.
I have no love for Apple OR MS but it is what it is.
• I think he means that when Jobs left
Design and innovation began to languish under Apple's new leadership. Now, for MS after Gates left the same thing is happening under Ballmer.
Let's see if MS has the same guts to sack him. Though Gates won't be coming back.
• Best thing for M$ to do...
...is give up on the mobile platform and focus their energies elsewhere.
Whenever I go shopping for a new cell phone, an immediate disqualification across the board is if it has WinMo inside. Yuck.
Hatestone Johnson
• RE: Shake-up at Microsoft: It's about time
The shakeup should have started with removing Ballmer.
• Why Microsoft will never get TV right. DRM
Fact is, DRM is the big reason people are not jumping on the PC/TV marriage.<br><br>Need examples? Cable is quickly falling behind satellite but can I buy a reciever card to out in my PC and operate it? No. Why? Microsoft is too damn close to DirectTv and would never dare anger them by allowing the user to use their hardware the way they want.<br><br>Oh, I want to record a show in HiDef with out the garbage DRM put in it? Nope, not with a product from MS. (A wh*re doesn't anger its big paying clients.)<br><br>Look, I understand MS wanting to please the content owners, they believe thats where the money is. But how much profit do they make putting out software no one wants? NADA.
• RE: Shake-up at Microsoft: It's about time
I agree. I've been burned by proprietary media management and will not lock myself into any MS regimen that includes such.
JJ Brannon
• RE: Shake-up at Microsoft: It's about time
I bought a first gen 360 mainly to play Oblivion, then they put out a lot of really good games and the usb controller working with my pc made me feel very good about my purchase, then I got the red ring we all know and love. It was out of warranty by about a month so they told me to fly a kite. I hit youtube and saw a video on how to repair my particular problem. I didn't feel confident enough to open the thing myself so I found a local guy online who fixed xboxes for 40$ each and he had a good reputation. (microsoft said they'd do it for ($100 and I had to pay for shipping and would have to wait 6 weeks or something). The local guy did it in 30 minutes. I was happy again, but as luck would have it, it eventually died again and this time time i fixed it myself. Then it eventually got a different error and I couldnt fix it and it was so messed up by then (not an easy thing to dissasemble) that I thew it in the trash.
I missed it so much and so many good games came out that I took another dive and got a used one for 100 bucks. Worked just long enough for the store to refuse to do anything for me, then the local guy opened it and said it looked wrong to him somehow and he couldnt tell what was up with how the internals were or something and said he didnt want to mess with it. i gave it a shot and totally failed and threw it in the trash.
now I have no consoles because I can't afford it and I'd lose my mind if it broke on me again, but against all my rational thinking, I still love that console. I miss it. I should be boycotting them over all that crap but I can't find it in me. If I had the money i'd get another one right now.
(side note: i kept the console flat, off the carpet, in a cool space with ventilation, though i played the hell out of it. I took care of the thing unlike some idiot friends of mine who find balls of cat hair inside all burnt up). | http://www.zdnet.com/blog/carroll/shake-up-at-microsoft-its-about-time/1958 | dclm-gs1-060220000 |
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Court work[edit]
Forensic psychiatrists work with courts in evaluating an individual's competency to stand trial, defences based on mental diseases or defects (e.g., the "insanity" defense), and sentencing recommendations. There are two major areas of criminal evaluations in forensic psychiatry. These are Competency to Stand trial (CST) and Mental State at the Time of the Offence (MSO).
Competency to stand trial (CST)[edit]
This is the competency evaluation to determine that a defendant has the mental capacity to understand the charges and assist his attorney. In the United States, this is seated in the Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution, which ensures the right to be present at one's trial, to face one's accusers, and to have help from an attorney.
In English and Welsh law a similar concept is that of "fitness to plead".
As an expert witness[edit]
Mental state opinion[edit]
This gives the Court an opinion, and only an opinion, as to whether a defendant was able to understand what he/she was doing at the time of the crime. This is worded differently in many states, and has been rejected altogether in some, but in every setting, the intent to do a criminal act and the understanding of the criminal nature of the act bear on the final disposition of the case. Much of forensic psychiatry is guided by significant Court rulings or laws that bear on this area which include the following three standards:[5]
• Durham rule: Excuses a defendant whose conduct is the product of mental disease or defect.[7]
Risk management[edit]
Many past offenders against other people, and suspected or potential future offenders with mental health problems or an intellectual or developmental disability, are supervised in the community by forensic psychiatric teams made up of a variety of professionals, including psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses and care workers. These teams have dual responsibilities, to promote both the welfare of their clients and the safety of the public. The aim is not so much to predict as to prevent violence, by means of risk management.
Concerns have been expressed[citation needed] that the Canadian criminal justice system discriminates based on DSM IV diagnosis within the context of part XX.1 of the Criminal Code of Canada, [1]. This part sets out provisions for, among other things, court ordered attempts at "treatment" before individuals receive a trial as described in section 672.58 of the Criminal Code. Also provided for are court ordered "psychiatric assessments". Critics have also expressed concerns[citation needed] that use of the DSM-IV-TR may conflict with Section 2(b) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, [2] which guarantees the "fundamental" "freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression".
The position of the Canadian Psychiatric Association [3], stated in The Confidentiality of Psychiatric Records and the Patient's Right to Privacy(2000-21S), and [4] holds that "in recent years, serious incursions have been made by governments, powerful commercial interests, law enforcement agencies, and the courts on the rights of persons to their privacy." It goes on to state that "breaches or potential breaches of confidentiality in the context of therapy seriously jeopardize the quality of the information communicated between patient and psychiatrist and also compromise the mutual trust and confidence necessary for effective therapy to occur."
An outline of the Forensic Psychiatric process as it occurs in the Canadian Province of Ontario is presented in the publication The Forensic Mental Health System In Ontario published by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, [5] in Toronto. The Guide states; "Whatever you tell a forensic psychiatrist and the other professionals assessing you is not confidential". The Guide further states; "The forensic psychiatrist will report to the court using any available information, such as: police and hospital records, information given by your friends, family or co-workers, observations of you in the hospital"[6]. Also according to The Guide;"You have the right to refuse to take part in some or all of the assessment. Sometimes your friends or family members will be asked for information about you. They have the right to refuse to answer questions too."[7].
It is noteworthy that the emphasis in The Guide is on the right to refuse participation. This may seem unusual given that a result of Not Criminally Responsible by reason of Mental Disorder (NCR) verdict is often portrayed as desirable to the defense. The Insanity defense is the language used to describe the equivalent process in the United States. The language here in Canada can be confusing. In the popular sense NCR is a "defense" (for example in this page from The Supreme Court of Canada website which refers to "mental illness defense" [8]). The Criminal Code of Canada describes "defense of mental disorder" in Part I General section 16. However, it can also be presented by the court or the Crown, rather than solely by the defense attorney, differentiating it from many other legal defenses.
Treatment/Assessment Conflict
In Ontario, a court ordered inpatient forensic assessment for criminal responsibility will typically involve both treatment and assessment being performed with the accused in the custody of a single multi-disciplinary team over a thirty or sixty day period.[citation needed] Concerns have been expressed that an accused may feel compelled on ethical, medical or legal grounds to divulge information, medical or otherwise, to assessors in an attempt to allow for and ensure safe and appropriate treatment during that period of custody .[citation needed]
There are internet references addressing treatment/assessment conflict as it relates to various justice systems, particularly civil litigation in other jurisdictions including [9],[10]. The American Academy Of Psychiatry and the Law states in its ethics guidelines [11] that "when a treatment relationship exists, such as in correctional settings, the usual physician-patient duties apply", which may be seen as contradiction.
Training Standards[edit]
Some practitioners of forensic psychiatry have taken extra training in that specific area. In the United States, one year fellowships are offered in this field to psychiatrists who have completed their general psychiatry training. Such psychiatrists may then be eligible to sit for a board certification examination in forensic psychiatry. In Britain one is required to complete a three-year sub-speciality training in forensic psychiatry, after completing one's general psychiatry training, before receiving a Certificate of Completion of Training as a forensic psychiatrist. In some countries general psychiatrists can practice forensic psychiatry as well. However, other countries, such as Japan, require a specific certification from the government to do this type of work.
See also[edit]
1. ^ Howells K, Day A, and Thomas-Peter B. (2004). "Changing Violent Behaviour: Forensic Mental Health and Criminological Models Compared". Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology 15 (3): 391–406. doi:10.1080/14788940410001655907.
3. ^ Simon, Robert and Lisa Gold, ed. (2010). American Psychiatric Textbook of Forensic Psychiatry. American Psychiatric Publishing. ISBN 1585622648.
5. ^ Bursztajn HJ, Scherr AE, Brodsky A. "The rebirth of forensic psychiatry in light of recent historical trends in criminal responsibility," Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 1994; 17:611-635
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It makes more sense when you see how it works though. There's a screencast coming soon.
These gems will install automatically as long as you've added the GitHub gem source:
gem sources -a
sudo gem install hammock
in config/environment.rb: do |config|
config.gem 'hammock'
in app/controllers/application_controller.rb:
class ApplicationController
include Hammock::RestfulActions
Hammock is licensed under the BSD license, which can be found in full in the LICENSE file.
At the moment, you can do this with Hammock:
class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
include Hammock::RestfulActions
class BeersController < ApplicationController
class Person < ActiveRecord::Base
class Beer < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :creator, :class_name => 'Person'
belongs_to :recipient, :class_name => 'Person'
def self.read_scope_for account
L{|beer| beer.creator_id == || beer.recipient_id == }
export_scope :read
# TODO - Duplication, yuck. There's a proper DSL in the pipes.
def self.index_scope_for account
export_scope :index
creator_scope_for :write
<% @beers.each do |beer| %>
From <%= %> to <%= %>, <%= beer.reason %>, rated <%= beer.rating %>
<%= hamlink_to :edit, beer %>
<% end %>
The scope methods above require just one thing – a context-free lambda that takes an ActiveRecord record as its argument, and returns true iff that record is within the scope for the specified account. Hammock uses the method (e.g. Beer.read_scope_for) to define resource and record scopes for the model:
Beer.readable_by(account): the set of Beer records whose existence can be known by account
Beer#readable_by?(account): returns true if the existence of this Beer instance can be known by account
You define the logic for read, index and write scopes in Beer.[read,index,write]_scope_for, and the rest just works.
These scope definitions are exploited extensively, to provide index selection, scoping for record selection, and post-selection object checks.
• They provide the conditions that should be applied to retrieve the index of each resource.
The scope is used transperently by Hammock on /beers -> BeersController#index, and is available for use through Beer.indexable_by(account).
• They provide a scope within which records are searched for on single-record actions.
For example, given the request /beers/5 -> BeersController#show{:id => 5}, Rails would generate the following SQL:
SELECT * FROM "beers" WHERE (beers."id" = 5) LIMIT 1
Hammock uses the conditions specified in Beer.read_scope_for to generate (assuming an account_id of 3):
SELECT * FROM "beers" WHERE ((beers.creator_id = 3 OR beers.recipient_id = 3) AND beers."id" = 5) LIMIT 1
Hammock uses Beer.read_scope_for on #show, and write_scope_for on #edit, #update and #destroy. These scopes can be accessed as above through Beer.readable_by(account) and Beer.writeable_by(account). This eliminates authorization checks from the action, because if the ID of a Beer is provided that the user doesn't have access to it will fall outside the scope and will not be found in the DB at all.
• They are used to discover credentials for already-queried ActiveRecord objects, without touching the database again.
Just as Beer.readable_by(account) returns the set of Beer records whose existence can be known by account, @beer.readable_by?(account) returns true iff @beer's existence can be known by account. This is employed by hamlink_to.
These three uses of the scope, plus another as-yet unimplemented bit, provide the entire security model of the application.
Lots of functionality is planned that will take this much further.
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grim grace chapter 17 . 8/18/2012
Oh my god you need to update now. Holy crap I'm dying here.
Guest chapter 17 . 8/11/2012
Love it! Find the inspiration and update please! Wendla and Melchior need to make it out alive.
lili chapter 17 . 7/30/2012
oh my god! I really hate ending on such good cliffhanger! I really want to read the next chapter! :)
Myloveneverdies chapter 17 . 7/6/2012
I can't put into words how beautiful your writing is. It's like reading something written by Emily Bronte if she lived and wrote nowadays. You inspire me more to become an actress so that I may get to act out your stories. I was I could write the way you do, it's so, there isn't a word for it. Please please please write more of this story! I must know how it ends. Does Melchoir have to literally fight for his love? Do they get away? Does Wendla get killed? Does anyone else die? Does Otto find out about what's happening? I'm going to die over here if you don't write more soon! Thank you for your wonderful writing! Sorry for sounding like a crazy person. Your adoring fan, Lisa 3
Guest chapter 17 . 7/2/2012
Thank god you didn't stop writing! I really missed this story! :)
Thorne Lockehart chapter 17 . 6/25/2012
It took me a while to read this story. I tried to read this before watching SA on YT (my mind was like "Dafuq am I reading?") And I have now seen the play and got caught up on this story. All I can say is wow! You capture the characters so well and I feel so badly for Wendla and Melchior :c I'm glad the little orange kitten was able to help her. You should give the little fella a name c: BUT HOLY ASS-MONKEYS BATMAN, SONNENSTICH IS THERE! Can't wait till you update this!
And I now apologize for the gibberishy review
northstar61 chapter 17 . 6/24/2012
Sorry that this chapter gave you so much trouble, but I'm glad you decided to post this to move things along.
Poor Melchior. He wants to do everything he can for Wendla, but there's only so much he *can*, and it's not nearly enough. He's right to be worried about whether she'll be able to recover the confidence and passion she used to have. Like him, I have to wonder if Sonnenstich and his cronies inflicted so much damage that she'll never recover those parts of herself. How overwhelmingly heartrending to think it might not happen.
Then, there's her inability to heal, exacerbated by the nightmares that rob her of restful sleep. Once again, Melchi is powerless to relieve her of the constant bad dreams, and her attempts to fight sleep are counterproductive in terms of her getting better.
He's absolutely correct. While book learning does have its place, it hasn't prepared him for what he's facing, and it won't help to solve his problems.
Hmm... his offer to kill her attackers, while well-meaning, would lead to further problems. She might well feel guilty for inciting him to murder, no matter the circumstances, and he might also regret taking a life (or three), even in retaliation for the horrors the men inflicted on the girl he loves. Neither would want to voice those feelings aloud, and it might well drive a wedge between them. If it were to happen accidentally, though, in self-defense...
Aw, the moment with the kitten was so sweet. A tiny bright spot in an otherwise dark and almost hopeless situation.
And then, the monster reappears! As I've mentioned before, I'm incredibly worried about what Wendla's reaction will be, and exactly how she'll be able to avoid being recaptured. I don't believe she can survive - literally or emotionally - being held captive again. Holding on to the promise of an eventual HEA...
michemistic chapter 17 . 6/24/2012
*Holds you* So glad to see this back!
If I was Melchior I’d try lifting a simple, portable, light mattress into the hayloft. Like a futon. Her wounds do not need the pressure, what about turning her every two hours? I hope she’s sleeping on her sides. What about Melchior and Mama Gabor slowly stretching her limbs and giving her massages to ease soreness? Is she eating plenty of protein to rebuild her skin? Oops, sorry about the onslaught of questions.
My heart breaks all over for our sweet Wendla. But I’m still partially relieved she’s letting out her emotions and that there’s a difference between being polite and bottling everything up. Hopefully in the future she can have a healthy outlet for her past, maybe writing her feelings? Since Melchior is vastly literate, he could help her with writing. That way it won’t replay in her mind, pouring it out instead of circulating.
I know you said no murder, but once again, I say kill all the bastards. Make them suffer long and slow. I’d do so with the most sadistic smile on my face. Some say it’s barbaric, but to kill for others is something only reserved for family. And that’s what Wendla and Melchior are, a family through and through.
"I can hold you," he told her softly. It wasn't enough and he knew it, but he would offer her everything he could. "I can take you away from here once you're healed. I can kill them so you never have to be afraid again. I can give you another baby, if you want one. But I can't turn back time, Wendla. I'm sorry…so sorry…"-I just…I just *takes deep breathe in to quell the blubbering* Focusing on their future, that it will be of happiness is a motivating factor. It’s for both of them to look forward to and to move on. It’s hope and that’s what they need to help them heal.
The image of a broken (but not gone) young girl desperately clutching a kitten, to derive any semblance of comfort is the kind of picture that lives with you. Even though Melchior feels helpless, he’s the only one Wendla wants and needs to be there for her.
Just because the monster brought back up, doesn’t mean the Gabor family are not prepared. I hate to say this because it will bring back bad memories, but do they have a basement with a secret entrance? Or an attic unknown to anyone but the family? What about the parent’s closet? Anywhere at all they can hide? Melchior has literally has the home advantage, he knows the best hiding spots (this is why hide and seek is one of the best childhood games).
As long as these kids are safe and get better, I can’t be angry. Anticipation is a hold different story, that only gets worse the longer we’re left waiting!
EmZ711 chapter 17 . 6/23/2012
Nooo! I'm very conflicted right now... I thrive off of the drama, but I also want them to be okay. I can't wait for more! Update soon! :)
Broadwayfreak5357 chapter 17 . 6/23/2012
OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYY! I saw the email notification and like spazzed the freak out :) and dammit cris! Yes I knew the cliffhanger was coming bt I'm still like . whyyyy? Omgggggg he comes back with help I just might die. O.o what's gonna happen! I need to know lol :) anyway I loved this chapter. Poor Wendla :( I love their relationship and like the gentleness and the push and pull etc. :) 3 more please! :)
xx Sage
Penmora Zenith chapter 17 . 6/23/2012
Ooh, what a teaser you've left us with! Please update soon!
sourilove chapter 17 . 6/23/2012
I really missed you
WickedForGood13 chapter 17 . 6/22/2012
I hope you're able to update soon! This story has me hooked :)
G chapter 17 . 6/22/2012
WELCOME BACK! I missed this so much! (but I think you already knew that...)
...please tell me you have more written?
Ashleigh chapter 16 . 6/20/2012
This is, by far, the best SA story I've ever read! Please, keep writing!
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Summary: It has been two years since Sarah's triumph over the Labyrinth and it's king, and she has since given up her dream of becoming an actress and has turned instead to music. Life is good but lonely. But then Toby wishes Jareth back into their lives. Can Sarah tell him how she truly feels? And can Jareth convince her that his love for her is real?
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(AN: Basically this takes place on a random day in Y1. No one's dead yet, yadda, yadda. Let's begin!)
Logan: Hey, Jett!
Jett: What?
Logan: We overslept! We're late for Tallow's!
Jett: Ugh, let's go.
12/6/2011 #1
Rietta: *mumbles* Ugh, those two idiots must have overslept again...
12/6/2011 . Edited 12/6/2011 #2
Tallow: *peers around the classroom* Where are Martin and Mitchell?
Shane: Dead, hopefully...
*Shane's friends snicker*
12/6/2011 #3
Rietta: *glares at him*
12/6/2011 #4
Brave Soul RMS
Grey: *snoring in the back of the class*
Cecil: He's not waking up, June. Sleeps like a Snorlax in a food coma.
June: *keeps poking him* But he's going to miss the lesson!
Mike: Like Tallow cares.
Grey: *takes June's finger and sandwiches it between his folded arms to keep her from poking him* No.
12/6/2011 #5
Tallow: *sighs* Mackenzie, go look for them.
12/6/2011 #6
Rietta: Yes, Professor...*gets up*
Petra: *to June, Cecil and Mike* Just leave him alone.
12/6/2011 . Edited 12/6/2011 #7
Tallow: Alright, class. Today, we are discussing the history of a man known by the name of Saul Vella.
Shane: *arches an eyebrow*
Tallow: Now, does anyone know what Vella was infamous for?
--- Meanwhile ---
*Logan and Jett are running down the halls*
12/6/2011 #8
Brave Soul RMS
June: *hand shoots up*
12/6/2011 #9
Rietta: *deadpan* So you two finally decided to get your asses out of bed, huh?
12/6/2011 #10
Tallow: Hawthorne, go ahead and tell us.
--- Meanwhile ---
Jett: *to Rietta* Well that pretty face would be a sight for sore eyes, but only if there was a smile on it. *grins*
Logan: How late are we?
12/6/2011 #11
Rietta: *cracks a smile at Jett's comment* *to Logan* About twenty minutes late...
12/6/2011 #12
Brave Soul RMS
June: Saul Vella was known as the infamous Conqueror of Kanto. At the age of nineteen, he took control of the entire region spanning the whole of Mt. Silver up to and including the Provinces of the Kingdom of Saffron. His conquest was not a typical one; he carved a swath of destruction and blood, both Pokemon and Human, down the entire region and ruled it with a truly fierce iron grip for what would later be known as the Terrible Twenty Years. Exaggerated, as the Terrible Twenty Years were only around fifteen or sixteen.
(A/N: Totally winged that xD)
12/6/2011 #13
Tallow: Correct. Now, there are descendants of Saul Vella in this very day and age. Does anyone know of any?
--- Meanwhile ---
Logan: Then let's hurry up and go.
(AN: Nice job, Brave. xD)
12/6/2011 . Edited 12/6/2011 #14
Rietta: *starts walking back to class*
12/6/2011 #15
Brave Soul RMS
Grey: I think Shane's one of 'em. Whenever they talk about his parents on the news, they say his mom's last name was Vella before she got married.
Cecil: So... Shane's royalty?
Mike: *under his breath* A royal pain in the ass.
12/6/2011 #16
Logan: I bet he's not going over anything important.
Jett: Totally.
*Both follow Rietta back to class*
---- Meanwhile ----
Tallow: Ah, Mr. Clarke is indeed an example.
Shane: You hear that, peasants! I'm royalty! Bow down, losers! *laughs*
*Shane's friends laugh*
12/6/2011 . Edited 12/6/2011 #17
Rietta: *goes back to her seat*
12/6/2011 #18
Brave Soul RMS
Grey: *deadpan* Being related to one of the biggest tyrants in history ain't really somethin' to be proud of.
Cecil: Whoa. Channeling some serious Rietta there, bro.
12/6/2011 #19
*Logan and Jett go to their seats*
Tallow: Nice of you two to join us. Detention.
*Logan and Jett groan*
Tallow: Back to our discussion. Now, have any of you heard about the legend of the Vella Curse?
Shane: *scoffs* It's a total myth.
12/6/2011 #20
Rietta: *glares at Cecil*
12/6/2011 #21
Brave Soul RMS
Mike: Vella Curse?
Grey: *shrugs*
12/6/2011 #22
Shadow Minamino
James: I've heard a little about it from... places, but all I know is that it has something to do with insanity or something.
( OOC: Err.... hope you don't mind if I just drop in here. ^.^; )
12/6/2011 #23
Rietta: Apparently, the descendants of Saul Vella were cursed with mental illness for his actions.
12/6/2011 #24
Tallow: And that is a lesson for another day. I want you all to write a one-page essay about Saul Vella for homework tonight. You're free to have the rest of class to yourselves. *sits down at his desk and cracks open a book*
12/6/2011 #25
Petra: Yes! Social time! *to Grey and the others* What are you guys doing after class?
12/6/2011 #26
Brave Soul RMS
Grey: Not much but I'm probably going down to Viridian City later. June and Anna are dragging me along to go shopping.
Mike: Isn't Anna your Gardevoir?
Grey: Yeah, why?
Mike: Didn't know Pokemon liked to shop.
Grey: The humanoids do, kinda. The others really don't care outside of food and stuff. What about you guys?
12/6/2011 #27
Jett: *to Logan and Rietta* You two wanna catch a movie?
Logan: Why not? Rietta?
12/6/2011 #28
Petra: I have no plans...*sighs dramatically* Maybe I'll just go shopping with you guys.
Rietta: Sure.
12/6/2011 . Edited 12/6/2011 #29
Logan: Well since we picked the last movie, it's only fair we let Rietta pick.
Jett: I guess you're right. Nothing lame though...
12/6/2011 #30
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Reason Adapted / Save , Open Files
Okay, I know Reason Adapted for Digidesign does not come with much support, but I think this is a pretty straightforward question. Is it possible to save my work at all in Reason Adapted and then re-open it? I am using 2.5 with Pro Tools through re-wire. I can successfully get it all to work together, but at the end of my session I save my Reason file (.rsb -- this is the only option) but cannot re-open it in Reason for Adapted. How else can I save my work for later? I can export MIDI to tracks in Pro Tools but how can I actually save work that I can build on in Reason? Am I missing something ?
I saved the .rsb using Reason Adapted , shouldn't I be able to open it with Reason Adapted?
THanks for any help.
eMeSDee 2009-02-10 11:09
I have reason adapted for digidesign 3.05, I can save stuff as an rsb amd reopen it whenever with no issues. Not sure what your issue may be, have you thought of an a upgrade or if that is not possible a re install?
tomeeo 2009-02-24 03:01
Thanks for the follow up MSD. For whatever reason, it was just one of my rsb's that I'm having trouble with. New ones that I create from here on out, I can open just fine. Not sure what's up.
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Liquorice candies in different colours in Jyväskylä, Finland
M&Ms, chocolate with a colored sugar shell.
Confectionery is related to food items that are rich in sugar and often referred to as a confection. Confectionery refers to the art of creating sugar based dessert forms, or subtleties (subtlety or sotelty), often with pastillage. From the Old French confection, origin of Latin confectio(n-), from conficere, to "put together".[1][2] The confectionery industry also includes specialized training schools and extensive historical records.[3] Traditional confectionery goes back to ancient times, and continued to be eaten through the Middle Ages into the modern era. Confections include sweet foods, sweetmeats, digestive aids that are sweet, elaborate creations, and something amusing and frivolous.[4]
Modern usage may include substances rich in artificial sweeteners as well. The words candy (US and Canada), sweets (UK and Ireland), and lollies (Australia and New Zealand) are also used for the extensive variety of confectionery.
Generally, confections are low in micronutrients but rich in calories. Specially formulated chocolate has been manufactured in the past for military use as a high density food energy source.
Sweetening agents[edit]
Confectioneries are defined by the presence of sweeteners. These are usually sugars, but it is possible to buy sugar-free sweets, such as sugar-free peppermints. Most common is the disaccharide sucrose. Hydrolysis of sucrose gives a mixture called invert sugar, which is sweeter and is also a common ingredient. Finally confectioneries, especially commercial ones, are sweetened by a variety of syrups obtained by hydrolysis of starch, these include corn syrup.[5]
Regional names[edit]
Different dialects of English use regional terms for confections:
• In Britain, Ireland and some Commonwealth countries, sweets or, more colloquially, sweeties (particularly used by children, the Scottish Gaelic word suiteis is a derivative). In some parts of England, spice, joy joy and goodies are terms used, alongside sweets, to denote confectionery. In North West England, especially Lancashire, toffees is often used as a generic term for all confectionery. Northeast England and the Scottish Borders commonly use the words chuggy, chuddy and chowie, as localised terms for chewing gum. In North East England, the word kets is commonly used for confectionery.
• In Australia and New Zealand, lollies.
• In North America, candy, although this term generally refers to a specific range of confectionery and does not include some items called confectionery (e.g. ice cream). Sweet is occasionally used, as well as treat.
Rock candy is simply sugar with colouring or flavor added.
Peeps are one of many types of marshmallow-type candies.
Brittles are a combination of nuts and caramelized sugar.
Chocolate is a common and popular confectionery and can be used in a wide variety of ways.
Confectionery items include sweets, lollipops, candy bars, chocolate, cotton candy, and other sweet items of snack food. The term does not generally apply to cakes, biscuits, or puddings which require cutlery to consume, although exceptions such as petits fours or meringues exist.[citation needed]
Some of the categories and types of confectionery include the following:[5]
• Caramels: Derived from a mixture of sucrose, glucose syrup, and milk products. The mixture does not crystallize, thus remains tacky.
• Chocolates: Bite-sized confectioneries generally made with chocolate.
• Divinity: A nougat-like confectionery based on egg whites with chopped nuts.
• Dodol: A toffee-like food delicacy popular in Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines
• Dragée: Sugar-coated almonds and other types of sugar panned candy.
• Fondant: Prepared from a warm mixture of glucose syrup and sucrose, which is partially crystallized. The fineness of the crystallites results in a creamy texture.
• Fudge: Made by boiling milk and sugar to the soft-ball stage. In the US, it tends to be chocolate-flavored.
• Halvah: Confectionery based on tahini, a paste made from ground sesame seeds.
• Hard sweets: Based on sugars cooked to the hard-crack stage. Examples include suckers (known as boiled sweets in British English), lollipops, jawbreakers (or gobstoppers), lemon drops, peppermint drops and disks, candy canes, rock candy, etc. Also included are types often mixed with nuts such as brittle. Others contain flavorings including coffee such as Kopiko.
• Ice cream: Frozen, flavoured cream, often containing small pieces of chocolate, fruits and/or nuts.
• Jelly candies: Including those based on sugar and starch, pectin, gum, or gelatin such as Turkish delight (lokum), jelly beans, gumdrops, jujubes, gummies, etc. [6]
• Liquorice: Containing extract of the liquorice root. Chewier and more resilient than gum/gelatin candies, but still designed for swallowing. For example, Liquorice allsorts. Has a similar taste to star anise.
• Marshmallow: "Peeps" (a trade name), circus peanuts, fluffy puff, Jet-Puffed Marshmallows etc.
• Marzipan: An almond-based confection, doughy in consistency, served in several different ways.
• Mithai: A generic term for confectionery in India, typically made from dairy products and/or some form of flour. Sugar or molases are used as sweeteners.
• Tablet: A crumbly milk-based soft and hard candy, based on sugars cooked to the soft-ball stage. Comes in several forms, such as wafers and heart shapes. Not to be confused with tableting, a method of candy production.
• Taffy or chews: A candy that is folded many times above 50 °C, incorporating air bubbles thus reducing its density and making it opaque.
Excessive consumption of confectionery has been associated with increased incidences of type 2 diabetes, obesity, and tooth decay.[7]
Contaminants and coloring agents as well as toys and other non-nutritive products in confectionery can be particularly harmful to children. This non-nutritive material can cause injury or pose choking hazards. Therefore, confectionery contaminants such as high levels of lead have been restricted to 1 ppm in the US. There is no specific maximum in the EU.[8]
Candy colorants, particularly yellow colorants such as E102 Tartrazine, E104 Quinoline Yellow and E110 Sunset Yellow FCF, do have many restrictions around the world. Tartrazine, for example, can cause allergic and asthmatic reactions and was once banned in Austria, Germany, and Norway. Some countries such as the UK have asked the food industry to phase out the use of these colorants, especially for products marketed to children.[9]
Non-nutritive toy products such as chocolate eggs containing packaging with a toy inside are banned from sale in the US. If the material attached to confectionery does have a function and will not cause any injury to the consumer, it is allowed to be marketed. In the EU however, the Toy Safety Directive 2009/48/EC specifies that toys contained in food only need separate packaging that cannot be swallowed.[10]
See also[edit]
1. ^ confection: definition of confection in Oxford dictionary (British & World English). (2014-02-12). Retrieved on 2014-02-16.
2. ^ Confectionery - Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary. (2012-08-31). Retrieved on 2014-02-16.
3. ^
4. ^ Confection | Define Confection at Retrieved on 2014-02-16.
5. ^ a b Terry Richardson, Geert Andersen, "Confectionery" in Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry 2005 Wiley-VCH, Weinheim. doi:10.1002/14356007.a07 411
6. ^ Margaret McWilliams. (2006) Nutrition and Dietetics Eighth edition edn. Prentice Hall: Pearson Education Inc.
7. ^ Magee, Elaine; "Sugar: What Kinds to Eat and When" (Health & Cooking), 28 January 2009 (Retrieved: 11 July 2009)
8. ^ EFSA Scientific Opinion on Lead in Food European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), Retrieved 11/13/2012
9. ^ Ministers agree food Color ban BBC News, Retrieved 11/14/2012
10. ^ Colors, Contaminants and Toys - Regulatory Standards for Children’s Confectionery SGS Consumer Compact Bulletin, Retrieved 11/14/2012
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The designers of the Internet Protocol defined an IP address as a 32-bit number[1] and this system, known as Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4), is still in use today. However, due to the enormous growth of the Internet and the predicted depletion of available addresses, a new version of IP (IPv6), using 128 bits for the address, was developed in 1995.[3] IPv6 was standardized as RFC 2460 in 1998,[4] and its deployment has been ongoing since the mid-2000s.
IP addresses are binary numbers, but they are usually stored in text files and displayed in human-readable notations, such as (for IPv4), and 2001:db8:0:1234:0:567:8:1 (for IPv6).
The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) manages the IP address space allocations globally and delegates five regional Internet registries (RIRs) to allocate IP address blocks to local Internet registries (Internet service providers) and other entities.
IP versions
Two versions of the Internet Protocol (IP) are in use: IP Version 4 and IP Version 6. Each version defines an IP address differently. Because of its prevalence, the generic term IP address typically still refers to the addresses defined by IPv4. The gap in version sequence between IPv4 and IPv6 resulted from the assignment of number 5 to the experimental Internet Stream Protocol in 1979, which however was never referred to as IPv5.
IPv4 addresses
In IPv4 an address consists of 32 bits which limits the address space to 4294967296 (232) possible unique addresses. IPv4 reserves some addresses for special purposes such as private networks (~18 million addresses) or multicast addresses (~270 million addresses).
IPv4 addresses are canonically represented in dot-decimal notation, which consists of four decimal numbers, each ranging from 0 to 255, separated by dots, e.g., Each part represents a group of 8 bits (octet) of the address. In some cases of technical writing, IPv4 addresses may be presented in various hexadecimal, octal, or binary representations.
IPv4 subnetting
Historical classful network architecture
Class Leading
Size of network
bit field
Size of rest
bit field
of networks
per network
Start address End address
A 0 8 24 128 (27) 16,777,216 (224)
B 10 16 16 16,384 (214) 65,536 (216)
C 110 24 8 2,097,152 (221) 256 (28)
IPv4 private addresses
Computers not connected to the Internet, such as factory machines that communicate only with each other via TCP/IP, need not have globally unique IP addresses. Three ranges of IPv4 addresses for private networks were reserved in RFC 1918. These addresses are not routed on the Internet and thus their use need not be coordinated with an IP address registry.
IANA-reserved private IPv4 network ranges
Start End No. of addresses
IPv4 address exhaustion
IPv4 address exhaustion is the decreasing supply of unallocated Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4) addresses available at the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) and the regional Internet registries (RIRs) for assignment to end users and local Internet registries, such as Internet service providers. IANA's primary address pool was exhausted on 3 February 2011, when the last 5 blocks were allocated to the 5 RIRs.[5][6] APNIC was the first RIR to exhaust its regional pool on 15 April 2011, except for a small amount of address space reserved for the transition to IPv6, intended to be allocated in a restricted process.[7]
IPv6 addresses
The rapid exhaustion of IPv4 address space, despite conservation techniques, prompted the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to explore new technologies to expand the addressing capability in the Internet. The permanent solution was deemed to be a redesign of the Internet Protocol itself. This next generation of the Internet Protocol, intended to replace IPv4 on the Internet, was eventually named Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) in 1995.[3][4] The address size was increased from 32 to 128 bits or 16 octets. This, even with a generous assignment of network blocks, is deemed sufficient for the foreseeable future. Mathematically, the new address space provides the potential for a maximum of 2128, or about 3.403×1038 addresses.
The primary intent of the new design is not to provide just a sufficient quantity of addresses, but rather to allow an efficient aggregation of subnetwork routing prefixes at routing nodes. As a result, routing table sizes are smaller, and the smallest possible individual allocation is a subnet for 264 hosts, which is the square of the size of the entire IPv4 Internet. At these levels, actual address utilization rates will be small on any IPv6 network segment. The new design also provides the opportunity to separate the addressing infrastructure of a network segment, that is the local administration of the segment's available space, from the addressing prefix used to route external traffic for a network. IPv6 has facilities that automatically change the routing prefix of entire networks, should the global connectivity or the routing policy change, without requiring internal redesign or manual renumbering.
Many modern desktop and enterprise server operating systems include native support for the IPv6 protocol, but it is not yet widely deployed in other devices, such as home networking routers, voice over IP (VoIP) and multimedia equipment, and network peripherals.
IPv6 private addresses
Just as IPv4 reserves addresses for private or internal networks, blocks of addresses are set aside in IPv6 for private addresses. In IPv6, these are referred to as unique local addresses (ULA). RFC 4193 sets aside the routing prefix fc00::/7 for this block which is divided into two /8 blocks with different implied policies. The addresses include a 40-bit pseudorandom number that minimizes the risk of address collisions if sites merge or packets are misrouted.[8]
Early designs used a different block for this purpose (fec0::), dubbed site-local addresses.[9] However, the definition of what constituted sites remained unclear and the poorly defined addressing policy created ambiguities for routing. This address range specification was abandoned and must not be used in new systems.[10]
Addresses starting with fe80:, called link-local addresses, are assigned to interfaces for communication on the link only. The addresses are automatically generated by the operating system for each network interface. This provides instant and automatic network connectivity for any IPv6 host and means that if several hosts connect to a common hub or switch, they have a communication path via their link-local IPv6 address. This feature is used in the lower layers of IPv6 network administration (e.g. Neighbor Discovery Protocol).
None of the private address prefixes may be routed on the public Internet.
IP subnetworks
IP address assignment
Internet Protocol addresses are assigned to a host either anew at the time of booting, or permanently by fixed configuration of its hardware or software. Persistent configuration is also known as using a static IP address. In contrast, in situations when the computer's IP address is assigned newly each time, this is known as using a dynamic IP address.
Static IP addresses are manually assigned to a computer by an administrator. The exact procedure varies according to platform. This contrasts with dynamic IP addresses, which are assigned either by the computer interface or host software itself, as in Zeroconf, or assigned by a server using Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP). Even though IP addresses assigned using DHCP may stay the same for long periods of time, they can generally change. In some cases, a network administrator may implement dynamically assigned static IP addresses. In this case, a DHCP server is used, but it is specifically configured to always assign the same IP address to a particular computer. This allows static IP addresses to be configured centrally, without having to specifically configure each computer on the network in a manual procedure.
Uses of dynamic address assignment
IP addresses are most frequently assigned dynamically on LANs and broadband networks by the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP). They are used because it avoids the administrative burden of assigning specific static addresses to each device on a network. It also allows many devices to share limited address space on a network if only some of them will be online at a particular time. In most current desktop operating systems, dynamic IP configuration is enabled by default so that a user does not need to manually enter any settings to connect to a network with a DHCP server. DHCP is not the only technology used to assign IP addresses dynamically. Dialup and some broadband networks use dynamic address features of the Point-to-Point Protocol.
Sticky dynamic IP address
Address autoconfiguration
RFC 3330 defines an address block,, for the special use in link-local addressing for IPv4 networks. In IPv6, every interface, whether using static or dynamic address assignments, also receives a local-link address automatically in the block fe80::/10.
When the link-local IPv4 address block was reserved, no standards existed for mechanisms of address autoconfiguration. Filling the void, Microsoft created an implementation that is called Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA). Due to Microsoft's market power, APIPA has been deployed on millions of machines and has, thus, become a de facto standard in the industry. Many years later, the IETF defined a formal standard for this functionality, RFC 3927, entitled Dynamic Configuration of IPv4 Link-Local Addresses.
Uses of static addressing
Some infrastructure situations have to use static addressing, such as when finding the Domain Name System (DNS) host that will translate domain names to IP addresses. Static addresses are also convenient, but not absolutely necessary, to locate servers inside an enterprise. An address obtained from a DNS server comes with a time to live, or caching time, after which it should be looked up to confirm that it has not changed. Even static IP addresses do change as a result of network administration (RFC 2072).
IP addressing
There are four forms of IP addressing, each with its own unique properties.
Public addresses
A public IP address, in common parlance, is synonymous with a globally routable unicast IP address.[citation needed]
Both IPv4 and IPv6 define address ranges that are reserved for private networks and link-local addressing. The term public IP address often used excludes these types of addresses.
Modifications to IP addressing
IP blocking and firewalls
Firewalls perform Internet Protocol blocking to protect networks from unauthorized access. They are common on today's Internet. They control access to networks based on the IP address of a client computer. Whether using a blacklist or a whitelist, the IP address that is blocked is the perceived IP address of the client, meaning that if the client is using a proxy server or network address translation, blocking one IP address may block many individual computers.
IP address translation
Multiple client devices can appear to share IP addresses: either because they are part of a shared hosting web server environment or because an IPv4 network address translator (NAT) or proxy server acts as an intermediary agent on behalf of its customers, in which case the real originating IP addresses might be hidden from the server receiving a request. A common practice is to have a NAT hide a large number of IP addresses in a private network. Only the "outside" interface(s) of the NAT need to have Internet-routable addresses.[12]
In small home networks, NAT functions are usually implemented in a residential gateway device, typically one marketed as a "router". In this scenario, the computers connected to the router would have private IP addresses and the router would have a public address to communicate on the Internet. This type of router allows several computers to share one public IP address.
Diagnostic tools
See also
2. ^ a b RFC 791, Internet Protocol – DARPA Internet Program Protocol Specification (September 1981)
8. ^ RFC 4193 section 3.2.1
9. ^ RFC 3513
10. ^ RFC 3879
11. ^ RFC 5771
12. ^ Comer, Douglas (2000). Internetworking with TCP/IP:Principles, Protocols, and Architectures – 4th ed.. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. p. 394. ISBN 0-13-018380-6.
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Avatar: The Last Airbender/The Legend of Korra character
Korra with her arms cross
First appearance "Welcome to Republic City"
Created by Michael Dante DiMartino
Bryan Konietzko
Voiced by
Janet Varney (Adult Korra (The Legend of Korra))
Cora Baker (Young Korra (The Legend of Korra))
Full name Avatar Korra
Aliases Raava
Species Human (waterbender)
Gender Female
Occupation Avatar (keeper of peace and order)
Title The Avatar
Family Tonraq (father)
Senna (mother)
Unalaq (Uncle)
Desna (First Cousin)
Eska (First Cousin)
Significant other(s) Naga (animal guide)
Raava (spiritual entity/deity)
Wan (distant past life)
Aang (immediate predecessor, deceased)
Children None
Relatives Unalaq (paternal uncle, deceased)
Desna (first cousin, twin)
Eska (first cousin, twin)
Religion Water Tribe
Nationality Southern Water Tribe
Age Pre-series: born in 153 ASC
The Legend of Korra: 17 in 170 ASC
Bending Element Water (native)
Hair color Brown
Eye color Baby blue
Position Protagonist
Korra is the titular character and protagonist in Nickelodeon's animated television series The Legend of Korra, a sequel to Avatar: The Last Airbender. The character was created by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko and is voiced by Janet Varney.
Creation and conception[edit]
Janet Varney voices Korra
Korra's character was inspired by various female MMA fighters, as Bryan Konietzko is a fan of mixed martial arts. In addition, she was indirectly inspired by one of Bryan Konietzko's sisters. Korra was also designed to be an inversion of Aang, the title character of the preceding story Avatar: The Last Airbender. Instead of the young, spiritual Aang, Korra is a more physical character who has trouble grasping the spiritual side of being the Avatar, while Aang takes a while to master each of the elements, but connects with the spirit world instantaneously.[1]
Korra's name was settled long after her character was imagined. Konietzko and DiMartino couldn't agree to a name for her until they learned "Cora", the name of an hotel operator's dog. The name was kept, and only changed in spelling.[2]
Personality and characteristics[edit]
Unlike her predecessor Aang, Korra is described by her creators as "very tough, very headstrong, and not scared to get into a fight." [3] Although she is talented, her stubborn and hot-headed personality prevents her from easily learning Airbending or connecting with the Spirit World.[4] The Avatar traditionally has the greatest difficulty mastering the element diametrically opposed to the Avatar's personality and native bending ability. For instance, Avatar Roku -- a Firebender -- took longer to learn Waterbending and Aang -- an Airbender -- took longer to learn Earthbending. Korra's forceful, sharp-tongued personality is detested by the teachings of Airbending which encourage calm mindedness, free-spirituality, and evasiveness.
Her best friend and animal guide is a polar bear-dog named Naga, whose strength helps Korra out of many dangerous situations. Although wild polar bear dogs were originally feared and hunted by Water Tribes, Korra is the first person to ever tame one.[5] Korra is also friends with brothers Mako (love interest) and Bolin, Asami Sato, as well as the rest of Tenzin's family.
Korra's character developed and matured during episodes 11 through 12 of the first season when she was confronted with detachment from her main three bending skills, leaving her with Airbending, which she had unlocked in order to save Mako from Amon. Later, she connected to her spiritual self through Aang. Once the connection to her Avatar predecessors was established, Aang was able to bestow Energybending upon Korra (as well as her main three bending skills lost earlier). Though Korra is now able to bend all four elements while being capable of entering the Avatar State, Korra is still in the process of perfecting her Airbending skills as well as having a true connection and understanding of her spiritual self in order to complete her training as a fully realized Avatar. This will be further explored in Book 2: Spirits as Korra will learn further into the history and mythology of the distant Avatar lineage and the Spirit World.
Book One: Air[edit]
It is revealed in the plot that Korra was able to easily bend both fire and earth in addition to her native element at the age of four, thus proving her early prowess and status as the current Avatar to the Order of the White Lotus. At the age of seventeen, teenage Korra has officially mastered waterbending, earthbending, and firebending and hopes to learn airbending from the only airbending master alive, Tenzin. The elders of the Order of the White Lotus believe that Korra "lacks restraint" and should first master the spiritual side of being the Avatar, but Korra's teacher and Waterbending Master Katara reasons that, if anyone can teach the young Avatar spirituality, it is Tenzin. Tenzin and his family arrive at the White Lotus compound two weeks later, but Korra soon learns that Tenzin will not be able to stay in the Southern Water Tribe to teach her, because of the unstable conditions in Republic City.
Impatient to begin airbending training, Korra instead sneaks off to Republic City, and is eventually taken in by Tenzin after a confrontation with a bending gang and Republic City's metalbending police force. She meets the Earthbender Bolin and his Firebender brother Mako, who are a part of a pro-bending team called the Fire Ferrets, after sneaking out to see a pro-bending match. When the Fire Ferrets' waterbender doesn't show up before another match, though, Korra decides to fill in the spot. When Tenzin later sees that the spiral movements required in pro-bending helps train her in airbending, he gives permission for her to participate.
Not long into their careers, Bolin is captured by the Equalists, led by the mysterious Amon. To save Bolin, Korra and Mako sneak into an Equalist rally, and witness Amon permanently remove the bending of three members of a bending gang. After Bolin is saved, the three continue to practice and play Pro-Bending until the champion games. During the champion games, Equalists raid the bending arena, strip the opposing team of their bending, and destroy the playing field. Now no longer a member of the Fire Ferrets, as all Pro-Bending has ended, Korra focuses on the battle against Amon and the Equalists. However, she wants to avoid increasing tensions with peaceful non-benders, who are already being treated as criminals by Republic City.
Amon eventually declares full scale war against Republic City, captures the city council and easily defeats the Republic City police. Outmatched, Korra is forced to wait, along with Mako, Bolin, and Asami, until the united forces can send military aid. The aid does arrive, led by General Iroh II (Dante Basco). The five team up, and battle against Amon on different fronts. Iroh, Bolin, and Asami try to find and sabotage the Equalists' airfield and other bases of operation while Korra and Mako work together to infiltrate Republic City, which is under Amon's rule, and learn that Amon is actually an incredibly skilled waterbender and bloodbender named Noatak. Korra is, thus, unable to defeat him in a straight fight, and has her bending abilities removed by him. This loss of her three bending elements finally unlocked her dormant airbending abilities, which allows her to catch Amon off guard and defeat him by revealing his true nature as a waterbender and bloodbender to the public.
The conflict against Amon now over, Korra is terribly upset over the costs of the war and the loss of her bending. At the Southern Water Tribe, she runs away when she learns that Katara is unable to restore her bending. Her bending abilities are fully restored to her by the spirit of Aang, along with the spirits of the previous Avatars before him. She is also given the ability of Energybending. Using this newly acquired ability, she is able to undo Amon's removal of people's bending.
Book Two: Spirits[edit]
In Book Two: Spirits, taking place six months after the Anti-bending Revolution, Korra is shown racing with Tenzin's three children and wins by using the mighty, powerful Avatar State which Ikki considers to be cheating. Soon after, she, Tenzin, Mako and their respective families travel to the Southern Water Tribe for the Glacial Spirits Festival. There, she greets her uncle and chief of the Northern Water Tribe, Unalaq and her first cousins, Desna and Eska, both of whom unnerve her due to their detached nature and their general dislike of her. Later during the night, Korra is attacked by a Dark Spirit, and though she, her father, Mako and Bolin try to stop it, all of them are defeated. It is only thanks to Unalaq that the spirit is bested, which he manages through use of waterbending designed to calm angry spirits. Frustrated with Tenzin and her father Tonraq for keeping her in the compound of The Order of the White Lotus when Aang wanted otherwise, she chooses Unalaq as her new spiritual teacher, saddening Tenzin greatly. After Tenzin leaves for the Southern Air Temple, Unalaq says he has much he will teach her.
In "The Southern Lights", Korra, Bolin, Mako and Unalaq, accompanied by Desna, Eska and Tonraq head for the South Pole to restore the Spirit World portal that exists there since the Portal was locked during the Hundred Year War and never restored. On the way, after battling angry spirits and much anger and persistence from Korra, Tonraq reveals he is the other reason the Spirits are angry . Twenty years before, during a battle with Barbarian Raiders, Tonraq destroyed the sacred forest in the North Pole in order to defeat the enemy hiding there, angering the spirits who dwelt there and nearly destroying the tribe when they retaliated, causing his banishment and disinheritance. Korra is furious at him for not telling her, and asks him to leave the mission. Korra then proceeds to enter the frozen forest where the Dark Spirits dwell, and after several attempts, uses the Avatar State to restore the forest and the portal to the Spirit World. As they return to the Southern Water Tribe, Korra sees Unalaq's warship fleet docking, and realizes he is going to use his military might to try to force the Southern Water Tribe to finally embrace their spiritual side.
1. ^ "‘The Legend of Korra’ Creators Answer Your Questions". 2012-06-22. Retrieved 2012-06-25.
2. ^ "'Legend of Korra' Creators: 5 Things You Didn't Know About the New 'Avatar' (Guest Blog)". 2012-04-13. Retrieved 2012-06-25.
3. ^ Farley, Christopher. "‘The Last Airbender: Legend of Korra’: The Creators Speak". Speakeasy. The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 1 May 2012.
4. ^ "Korra / Avatar". The Legend of Korra. Nickelodeon.
5. ^ "The Legend of Korra: Welcome to Republic City". The Legend of Korra. Nickelodeon. Retrieved 5 May 2012.
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From: Foteos Macrides <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 13:06:57 -0500 (EST)
To: [email protected]
Cc: http-wg%[email protected]
Daniel DuBois <[email protected]> wrote:
>At 05:09 PM 10/10/96 +0200, Koen Holtman wrote:
>>some HTML form hacks would be needed to provide the same level of downwards
>>compatibility with existing browsers that Safe can provide, for example
>> <form action="..." method=post preferred_method=get-with-body>
>> ....
>> </form>.
>>So it boils down to cruft in HTTP vs. cruft in HTML.
>Aren't proxies disallowed from forwarding methods they don't understand?
>Wouldn't GETWITHBODY require a HTTP/1.2 (or rather, a 1.3, since servers
>would be forced to accept it in 1.2, but clients would need to not send it
>until 1.3, ala FullURL)? Safe: yes could be sent today.
What the GETwithBody would be replacing in this discussion is
not just any GET, but ones which would otherwise have a ?searchpart.
The HTTP/1.1 draft states that Cache-Control and Expires headers
*can* be used to yield and regulate caching of replies from POST requests.
What exactly is still being sought via a GETwithBodyInsteadOfSearchpart
that can't be achieved via a POST with "Safe: yes" and Cache-Control/Expires
headers? Are there *any* headers or procedures which can't be made to treat
a POST with "Safe: yes" as, in effect, a GETwithBodyInsteadOfSearchpart?
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TM: Do you believe the meeting and hospitality industries will bounce back from the terrorist attacks of 9/11?
AK: We're beginning to see the pendulum swing. People I talked to a week ago [the week after the attacks] said we couldn't possibly go to a convention. Two weeks later, many of these people were beginning to think about getting back on track. The PRINT 2001 show was in Chicago at the time of the terrorist action. The show went to silence, as you would expect, similar to what we saw at the time of Desert Storm. But the next day, business continued. Not at the same level, but it continued. And not in the same way, not writing orders, but discussions that were at a very different level than might have taken place before. People creating business relationships.
TM: Are you saying this will bring people closer together?
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[[File:Perfect Susanoo Equipped Kurama.JPG|thumb|Madara equipping his final Susanoo onto Kurama.]]
Madara's Susanoo's final form is an enormous construct with its mouth obscured and a body similar to its full body form. The outer armour, which only remotely resembles the usual tengu with armour, and the trademark pillbox hat-like adornment on the forehead is split down the middle from the beak downwards where the normal Susanoo underneath is revealed. Along this armour, which seems much more fluid than the other known Susanoo's, are holes at the end. In its stabilised form, the Susanoo dons an outer armour and a samurai outfit. It also has four arms, two plated ones which hold a pair of katana in sheaths, the other pair of which wields them.<ref name="chpt589p2-3"/> In this form, one swing of its katana is enough to destroy an entire mountain range.<ref>''Naruto'' chapter 589, pages 4-5</ref> According to Madara, this final Susanoo is his full power, which is also comparable to that of a [[tailed beast]].<ref>''Naruto'' chapter 589, page 16</ref><ref>''Naruto'' chapter 589, page 7</ref> Madara has also displayed a unique use of Susanoo, [[Shape Transformation|shaping]] it as an armor to clad [[Kurama]]. With this the beast's offensive abilities are increased tremendously as seen by the unique combination of the [[Tailed Beast Ball]] with Madara's Susanoo sword.<ref>''Naruto'' chapter 621, pages 4-9</ref> Only techniques like the [[Super Beast Emanation Buddha]] are strong enough to pierce and destroy the defense of Madara's final Susanoo.<ref>''Naruto'' chapter 626, pages 4-6</ref>
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Uchiha Madara
(うちはマダラ, Uchiha Madara)
Manga Chapter #370
Anime Naruto Shippūden Episode #130
Game Naruto Shippūden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2
OVA Naruto Shippūden: UNSG anime cutscenes
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Birthdate Astrological Sign Capricorn December 24 searchgray_iconsmall.png
Gender Gender Male Male
• Part II: 179 cm1.79 m
5.873 ft
70.472 in
Kekkei Genkai
Tailed Beast Shinju (Forms)
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Madara Uchiha (うちはマダラ, Uchiha Madara) was a legendary shinobi who led the Uchiha clan prior to, and after the formation of Konohagakure. After allying with his rival, Hashirama Senju and the Senju clan, he and his clan helped in the founding of Konoha.[3] After being reincarnated by Kabuto Yakushi during the Fourth Shinobi World War, he becomes one of the main antagonists in the series.
Hashirama and Madara as kids
Madara meeting Hashirama.
Before the era of ninja villages, Madara was considered one of the most gifted members of the Uchiha clan alongside his younger brother Izuna Uchiha. Madara also competed with Izuna as training. Even by his clan's standards, Madara's chakra was especially strong.[4] As a child, Madara met Hashirama Senju for the first time and became rivals at skipping stones. With their first meeting cut short after discovering the body of a member of the Hagoromo clan, the two would later meet again and Madara questioned Hashirama revealed that his brother had been killed in battle. Telling Hashirama that he himself once had four brothers, the pair discussed the prospect of peace for the world. It was here that Madara was finally able to skip his rock to the other side of the river.[5] As they grew older, Madara's rivalry with Hashirama increased,[6] and the two would meet by the riverbank, where they would spar and talk about changing the future. On one such occasion, Hashirama brought up the prospect of creating a village where children would not be sent to war and could grow up to be strong warriors.[7]
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Madara awakens his Sharingan.
These meetings were not to last, however, as Madara's father Tajima soon found out about the two boys meeting and planned an ambush. However, the two boys warned one another in time, and as they fled, their fathers and brothers confront one another.[7] After the initial scuffle, Madara and Hashirama intervened, getting between their respective families. Madara, realising that he had to chose between Hashirama and their dream or his family, regretfully decided to end his friendship with the young Senju, determined to protect his brother Izuna. Hashirama tried to make Madara reconsider, but Madara refused to let go of his anger for the Senju. He announced his full name to Hashirama, awakening his Sharingan.[8]
Hashirama and madara clash
Madara and Hashirama clash on the battlefield.
From then on, Madara would constantly battle Hashirama with the intent of erasing him from his past.[8] Eventually, he and Izuna awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan. With their newly obtained power, the two brothers became the head of the clan, with Madara becoming its leader.[9] Sometime afterwards, Madara and Izuna fought Hashirama and Tobirama, where Izuna was mortally wounded by Tobirama. Madara retreated and Izuna died from his wounds but left Madara his eyes, granting him the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan. Madara later confronted Hashirama again with his new found ocular prowess, but nonetheless, after a day-long battle, he was finally defeated. Noting that he could not trust them any more, Madara told Hashirama that the only way to regain this trust was to either kill himself or his brother.[8] When Hashirama resolved to kill himself, Madara stopped him, noting his courage and accepted the truce.[10]
Konohagakure is formed.
The Senju, the Uchiha, and all the clans they had conquered came together to form the ninja village Madara and Hashirama once dreamed of together.[11] Ultimately, it was Madara who named the village Konohagakure. Madara's relationship with Hashirama steadily became much like from their childhood, sharing their ideas and hopes. When Hashirama told Madara about the plans for the village leader, who would be known as the Hokage, he wished to give the title of Hokage to Madara. Tobirama, however, noted that this should be a democratic decision and not a unilateral one, citing that in any case, the villagers would never accept Madara as such. Madara, who was spying on the Senju siblings, began to grow uneasy from this lack of trust, doubting the worth of this village. During the time he was a shinobi of Konohagakure, Madara approached and Ōnoki where he informed them that despite the alliance that Iwagakure had made with Konoha, his village was to remain the dominant power and that from that point on, they would obey Konoha.[12] Afterwards, Madara fought and defeated them when they engaged him in battle.[13]
Later, Hashirama would instead be elected as Hokage and at the Naka Shrine, Hashirama expressed his wish that Madara inherit the title of Second Hokage once the villagers started seeing him in another light, however, Madara noted that Tobirama would more than likely inherit that title, and that when he did, it would not bode well for the Uchiha. Later meeting int he Naka Shrine, Madara told Hashirama his intent on leaving the village and he had a plan to make his dream become a reality while at the same time, falling victim to the Curse of Hatred once again.[10] Hashirama tried to convince Madara to let him help his childhood friend, but Madara scoffed at Hashirama's attempt to follow him, saying that no one can get behind him.
Hashirama Senju VS Madara Uchiha
Madara with the Nine-Tails battling Hashirama
Madara tried to rally support for challenging his leadership. Rather than help him, however, the Uchiha turned their backs on Madara, believing he only desired to rekindle the flames of war.[14] Abandoned by his clan, Madara left the village, sought out Kurama, and subdued it using his Sharingan.[15][16] He later returned in order to challenge Hashirama in battle, fighting at the site that would someday be called the Valley of the End. The battle waged well into the night, leaving both shinobi battered and exhausted and Madara stripped of his control over Kurama. With both them too weak to use their strongest techniques anymore, they made one final clash, leaving Madara the one standing. Looking down in victory over Hashirama, however, due to not having enough chakra to access his Sharingan, Madara couldn't tell that the defeated Hashirama was actually a clone, and was shocked to find the real Hashirama standing behind him stab stabbed him from behind. Quickly losing consciousness, Madara vowed that one day Konohagakure would be shrouded in darkness,[17] and appeared to have died from his wound.
Possession of Kurama was completely taken from him by Hashirama's wife, Mito, and Madara was believed to have died.[18][19] In spite of this, Madara survived the stab wound given to him by Hashirama and went into hiding. He then used Hashirama's cells, which he had acquired on the battlefield, and transplanted them into his wounds.[20] Though he noted that nothing happened at first, when he was nearing the end of his natural lifespan, he awakened the Rinnegan.[20] He also acquired the Wood Release kekkei genkai,[21][22] and with both Senju and Uchiha DNA — the ability to summon the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.[20] He later transplanted his Rinnegan eyes into Nagato without the young man knowing,[20] and replaced his left eye with a spare Sharingan.[23] When he met Obito years later, Madara had been reduced to using the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path as a life support system, constantly being supplied chakra by it or else he would die immediately.[24] Also from the stolen cells of Hashirama, Madara used the statue to cultivate a living clone of Hashirama.[25][20]
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An elderly Madara speaking with Obito.
Madara Rage
The initial dynamics between Madara and Hashirama when they were children.
As a child, as well as before his corruption, Madara was a kind, temperamental and highly competitive child who wanted to perfect everything he did. Despite this, he was apologetic and highly sensitive to his surroundings, as revealed when he comically stated that he wasn't able to urinate with others standing behind him, and when he constantly tried to comfort Hashirama when he thought he hurt his feelings. Madara was also prone to angry outbursts when he got annoyed, as referenced when Hashirama would tease him about not being able to skip a rock to the other edge of a river when they were boys. Due to the harsh nature of the times they lived in, Madara believed that the only way to survive in the shinobi world was to make allies with your enemies, an ideal shared by his rival, whom eventually became his close friend and ally. Madara and Hashirama came to care about each other over their own clans going as far as to purposely leak information to each other about a trap their respective clans laid out. For a brief time as an adult, Madara tried to believe in the old ideals he used to have as he and Hashirama rekindled their friendship, even reacting with the same mannerisms he used to have.
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Madara looking down on his opponents.
As he grew older, Madara became a very confident and prideful man, witnessed in his belittlement of Ōnoki both after his reincarnation and in the past,[12] in his berating of Mei Terumī's technique,[28] in the fact he uses relatively weaker attacks in his arsenal initially and works his way up to his more powerful techniques when the situation requires it[29] and the fact he believes that using more powerful techniques more than once in a battle would be disgraceful.[30] Conversely, he isn't above praising the abilities of others as he openly called both Mei and A's abilities an impressive offence, and Gaara and Ōnoki's manoeuvre an impressive defence,[31] also commending the two being able to stop his first meteorite, as well as commending Naruto for countering his Wood Release attack. Having respect for Naruto, Madara tried to reason with him that the Eye of the Moon Plan was for the good of mankind.[32] However he has also been shown to be spiteful, degrading Tsunade while comparing her to her grandfather, after saying he would kill her first out of the five Kage because she was a Senju. Madara is, however, an honest individual and is willing to admit when he is wrong as after Tsunade tag-teamed him with A, he admitted she was not weak at all. Madara is also willing to admit when someone is stronger than he is as he openly admitted that Hashirama could stop him during his battle with the five Kage. Madara, however, isn't above reprimanding others for recklessness or stupidity as he criticised Tsunade for attacking him without thinking of what the other Kage would do for treatment if she was killed and criticised the five Kage as a group for worrying too much about the flowers in his technique and not watching their backs. He also has a habit of referring to fighting as 'dancing'.[33]
Madara has a dark sense of humour, as shown when he created multiple wood clones and surrounded each of the five Kage with five clones — thereby reversing the original five vs. one situation — and asked if they preferred the clones to use Susanoo or not,[34] referred to incinerating the forest as "creating coal" after knocking the five Kage into it,[35] and when asked by Naruto what had happened to the Kage, he stated that they were "not okay".[36] He has a very jaded and emotionless approach towards the tragedies of war, to the point of light-heartedly joking about them, as seen from his cheer at having "destroyed the alliance's mind", which further demonstrates his knack for reversing the situations he finds himself in.[37] Madara also believes power is something tangible that can be passed down through generations and that the will of a dead person cannot be inherited, as it is not tangible.[38] While contesting Hashirama for the title of Hokage, Madara in his own way, was very loyal to Konohagakure, as he tried to force Iwagakure into serving Konoha, even after an alliance had been formed between the two villages.[12] Despite his pride and confidence in his immense power, Madara is shown to be highly cautious as he created a wood clone of himself at some point when the five Kage lost sight of him, in order to lessen the chances that they would catch him off guard.[39][40]
As an Uchiha, Madara possesses a certain trait that is known as the Curse of Hatred, which greatly augments his power but also his hatred and his submergence in darkness when he loses someone important to him. It was this curse, led him to oppose the truce offered to him by Hashirama because Hashirama still had a sibling while Madara had lost all of his, and when Hashirama was selected to be Hokage instead of Madara, he defected from Konoha and attempted to attack the village after failing to replace him. His animosity towards Hashirama was particularly strong, going as far as to forbid Ōnoki from mentioning that name in front of him ever again. Nevertheless, Madara possesses a high level of respect and admiration for Hashirama as well as the Senju name as seen during the Fourth Shinobi World War where he would praise and curse Hashirama or other members of the clan in the same breath.[41] Conversely, he also lamented that he would have taught Hashirama how to resurrect himself if he had known how much weaker the modern day shinobi would be compared to them.[42] Madara was very competitive with his younger brother, Izuna, but Tobi also notes that Madara and Izuna were close as brothers. This was later echoed by Hashirama who noted that Madara held great love for his brother, which he claimed was probably greater than Itachi Uchiha's love for his brother, Sasuke.[43]
Despite all his faults, Madara possessed great love and compassion for his younger brother Izuna. As his other three brothers died in battle, Madara became extremely protective of Izuna and swore that he would never let him die. Tobirama later noted that his grief of losing him is what started his descent into the dark path he chose, not unlike many other members of the Uchiha clan such as Obito and Sasuke. Madara also became angry when Hashirama mentioned the words "our brothers" during their battle. Despite the fact Hashirama meant the entire Senju and Uchiha clan and the villagers of Konoha, Madara took offence to it.
Madara enfant
Madara as a child.
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Madara as he appeared during Konoha's founding.
Madara was reincarnated by Kabuto Yakushi, and took on a youthful appearance as opposed to when he had died as an old man. During his battle with the five Kage, a replica of Hashirama's face was revealed to be on the Uchiha's chest.[53]
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Madara wielding his gunbai.
Madara is considered by many notable individuals to be one of the most gifted shinobi in history and the most powerful shinobi that the Uchiha clan has ever produced. Even as a young child, he was noted by Butsuma Senju as a skilled prodigy who managed to kill several older and more experienced shinobi of the Senju clan.[54] The fact that he was able to clash with Hashirama Senju, who was recognised as the strongest shinobi in the world in his time, also indicates that Madara was also one of the strongest ninja of his time.
Overall, Madara's fame and status were so great that his name alone was enough to incite terror, and Tobi was able to use that to his advantage to instigate a world war.[55] Madara's very presence on the battlefield during the Fourth Shinobi World War was menacing enough to compel the five Kage to confront him together, feeling any less than their combined efforts would not be enough to stop Madara. He, in fact, proved to be so overwhelmingly powerful that he was able to overpower the five Kage multiple times by himself without even using the full extent of his powers and leave them in a state of awe and fear when he manifested his final Susanoo. Tsunade was so baffled by Madara's extraordinary prowess as a ninja that she questioned how it was possible that her grandfather had really defeated such an opponent in the past when they, the five Kage, couldn't do so in the present.[56] This testament to Madara's incredible power was shown further when he managed to defeat all five of the current Kage single-handedly.[57]
Due to the manner of his revival and the experiments done by Kabuto, Madara retained access to abilities he obtained late in life (like his Wood Release and Rinnegan), while at the same time retaining the youthful body of his prime, with the extra bonus of the technique's incredible regenerative power and unlimited chakra.[58] After activating the Rinnegan and using it in conjunction with his Susanoo, Madara's abilities led Gaara to wonder if he had the power of a god as he sent a meteorite hurtling towards the Fourth Division.[59] Despite these enhancements, Madara still believes that Hashirama is the only person who is capable of stopping him.[60]
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Madara repels an Allied Shinobi.
Madara is a skilled taijutsu fighter since childhood, possessing notable physical strength, great speed, and remarkable reflexes, with his overall skill in this area, matching that of his rival, Hashirama.[61] He was capable of easily disarming a sword-wielding shinobi, before the latter could react.[62] With a single spinning back kick, he was able to repel a shinobi twice his size into an oncoming group of shinobi, knocking them all off their feet.[63] Even as a child, Butsuma Senju was very impressed with how fast Madara could move.[64] As an adult, Madara was able to easily dodge Gaara's high-speed sand attacks, and Mei's close range Lava Release attack.[65][66] He could even guard himself against a kick from Tsunade who had suddenly appeared on the battlefield and later defended himself against A's punch while the latter was clad in his Lightning Release Armour, without being protected by Susanoo on either occasion.[67][68]
Chakra Prowess
Madara was noted to have been born with an extremely powerful chakra, even by the Uchiha standards.[4] Kurama, the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox, noted that Madara's chakra was far more sinister than its own.[69] His reserves are also quite formidable as he was able to fight for a full day and night before collapsing.[70] His prowess was also seen during his final battle against Hashirama where he displayed extensive use of his Susanoo, after summoning and maintaining control over Kurama, with all these actions being extremely chakra taxing, and remaining completely un-fazed by this. Even in his old age, when his strength had waned significantly, he still had enough chakra to summon the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path from its cage on the moon.
Nature Transformation
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Madara using Fire Release: Great Fire Annihilation.
As an Uchiha, Madara was naturally a master of Fire Release nature transformation. He was able to use the clan's coming-of-age technique: Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique with great proficiency,[71] and was versed in more advanced Fire Release techniques such as the Fire Release: Great Fire Annihilation technique which required the combination of numerous Water Release: Water Encampment Walls to extinguish,[72] and the Fire Release: Great Fire Destruction technique which he used to incinerate a large portion of the forest he had created. He can also create dragon-shaped fireballs for a wide barrage at an enemy.[73]
Wood dragon
Madara using the Wood Dragon.
After his confrontation with Hashirama Senju at the Valley of the End, Madara acquired some of his cells, which after a long period of adaptation, granted him the Wood Release nature transformation. With this Madara has demonstrated the ability to instantly create numerous massive trees with which to attack his opponents directly,[75] and a dense forest of flowering trees, whose pollen can render a foe unconscious. He is able to merge with and hide within trees.[76] He is also capable of creating single or multiple wood clones using the pre-existing vegetation and wood in the immediate vicinity as a medium.[77] Madara can even use Hashirama's Wood Dragon, which was capable of binding Kurama during his final battle against the Senju leader.[32] This was shown in battle against Naruto, where the dragon managed to completely bind Naruto, Killer B and Guy and absorb the full-Kurama cloak from Naruto's Tailed Beast Mode while growing trees across its length. Using Hashirama's cells, Madara can produce a series of roots from his body that can connect to and grant him control over a tailed beast, even one as powerful as the Ten-Tails. The level of control exerted is apparently linked to the number of roots that are connected to the beast, though he noted that his and Obito's control over the Ten-Tails was not perfect.
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Madara using Yin–Yang Release to create Black Zetsu.
After acquiring the Wood Release kekkei genkai, Madara has displayed knowledge, and extensive use of this ability, replicating some of Hashirama's more large-scaled and highly destructive techniques. He also displayed the ability to have his wood clones use Susanoo, ovewhelming his opponents with a multitude of Susanoo-clad clones. Madara can also use its component natures: earth and water.
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Madara's various ninja tools.
As a member of the Uchiha clan, Madara has displayed skilful use of a wide range of weaponry throughout the series. His trademark weapon is the gunbai, which he uses as both a mace and a shield. The one he used is durable enough to block a miniature Tailed Beast Ball, as well as absorb the force of an enemy attack and then send it back.[79] By flowing chakra through the gunbai, Madara can produce a large barrier that was strong enough to block the giant chakra receiver stakes thrown by Naruto in his Tailed Beast Mode.[80] In an anime cutscene, he was also shown using it to produce strong gusts of wind, capable of blowing away multiple enemies in one swing.[74]
In addition to the gunbai, he had a large kama with him, using both weapons in conjunction with each other when his final confrontation against Hashirama took place and later used one as a makeshift cane in his twilight years.[81][82] His arsenal also included several giant shuriken and a chain with weights.[83]
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Madara tearing through the Fourth Division.
Madara has been a practised kenjutsu user since his childhood,[85] and as time passed started to carry various different swords throughout the years.[86] He was shown as a skilled and versatile swordsman, most prominently seen during the Fourth Shinobi World War when he effortlessly disarmed a shinobi, commandeered his sword and used it to cut down several members of the Fourth Division with ease, while wielding the blade in a reverse grip.[62] He displayed great manoeuvrability and dexterity while using kenjutsu. The speed of his attacks were so great that none of the shinobi he killed using this combat tactic had any time to react.[62]
Madara's Sharingan
Madara's Sharingan.
Madara first awakened his Sharingan as a child, after rejecting his friendship to Hashirama Senju.[87] He was able to master the Sharingan at a young age — a feat which he received significant praise for.[51] Using it, he gains access to the dōjutsu's generic abilities such as seeing chakra, predicting movements, and placing a victim under paralysing genjutsu with just a single glance, leading those who had faced him to advise others to not look directly at his eyes whilst confronting him.[63] Madara is able to use these abilities in conjunction with his primed taijutsu and weapons skills in battle to deadly effects, leaving his opponents with very little time to react or means of defence. The perceptive abilities of Madara's Sharingan were also considerable as he was the only one who could discern Hashirama's use of wood clones when the Uchiha and the Senju fought against each other.[76]
With his Sharingan, Madara is able to control the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox and is also one of the two known people along with Tobi, that are capable of summoning the beast.[88][16] However, its sealing inside various jinchūriki, presently Naruto Uzumaki, has rendered him unable to summon the beast.[89] He is also capable of using one of his clan's most powerful and forbidden dōjutsu, Izanagi.[90]
Mangekyō Sharingan
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Madara's Mangekyō Sharingan.
Madara and his brother Izuna were the first Uchiha to awaken the Mangekyō Sharingan. Much later after awakening it, with Madara's own eyesight deteriorating,[91] and Izuna mortally wounded, the latter left Madara his eyes, which then led to Madara obtaining the "Eternal" Mangekyō Sharingan — a combination of his own and Izuna's Mangekyō. Madara considered this a final gift from his brother to ensure the protection of their clan.[92]
Madara's Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan
Madara's Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan.
Madara has since used his Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan to control the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox.[93] Madara demonstrated the ability to use Susanoo — and is therefore also able to use Tsukuyomi and Amaterasu by extension — though they have yet to be seen. Unseen in others' variations, Madara's Susanoo demonstrates two entirely different sides that are conjoined along the spine, with each displaying a pair of arms, two distinct faces, and a complete lower half inclusive of feet.
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Madara's stabilised final Susanoo destroying a mountain range with one slash.
His Susanoo's defensive capabilities are high, even in its ribcage state, having withstood Naruto Uzumaki's Ultra-Big Ball Rasengan and A's Lightning Oppression Horizontal Chop with no damage,[94][95] while Sasuke Uchiha's own Susanoo ribcage was breached by the latter. It wields undulating blades in the right hand of each side, which when used by Susanoo's final form, are durable enough to withstand the impact of a caught and redirected Tailed Beast Ball at close range from Hashirama Senju's wood golem. Uniquely, it appears to be capable of contributing towards some of Madara's techniques, as it was seen forming hand seals together with him during battle. Madara is also able to use the Yasaka Magatama technique.[96]
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Madara equipping his final Susanoo onto Kurama.
Madara's Susanoo's final form is an enormous construct with its mouth obscured and a body similar to its full body form. The outer armour, which only remotely resembles the usual tengu with armour, and the trademark pillbox hat-like adornment on the forehead is split down the middle from the beak downwards where the normal Susanoo underneath is revealed. Along this armour, which seems much more fluid than the other known Susanoo's, are holes at the end. In its stabilised form, the Susanoo dons an outer armour and a samurai outfit. It also has four arms, two plated ones which hold a pair of katana in sheaths, the other pair of which wields them.[56] In this form, one swing of its katana is enough to destroy an entire mountain range.[97] According to Madara, this final Susanoo is his full power, which is also comparable to that of a tailed beast.[98][99] Madara has also displayed a unique use of Susanoo, shaping it as an armor to clad Kurama. With this the beast's offensive abilities are increased tremendously as seen by the unique combination of the Tailed Beast Ball with Madara's Susanoo sword.[100] Only techniques like the Top Transformed Buddha are strong enough to pierce and destroy the defense of Madara's final Susanoo.[101]
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Madara's Rinnegan.
Madara possesses the ability to switch between both it, and his Sharingan at will.[102] However, it should be noted that while using the powers granted by the Rinnegan, he has not, except in the case of Susanoo, shown to be able to simultaneously access those granted by the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan.[103] Like other users, Madara is able to use the Six Paths Technique, displaying use of the Preta Path, with which he was able to absorb chakra-based ninjutsu.[104]
When these abilities were combined with his Susanoo, he can pull two massive meteorites towards the battlefield from the atmosphere above.[105] Even if the first meteorite was slowed down and stopped, the second one would strike the first, ensuring their collision. Using this technique just a single time, Madara devastated most of the Fourth Division.[106]
Aside from his battle skills, Madara has also displayed high-level intellect, as well as strategic and manipulative skills. He is able to create elaborate plans that span across decades such as the Eye of the Moon and setting up various pawns by playing with and twisting their own ideals, feelings and goals, in order to aid him through direct or indirect ways, such as Obito and Nagato respectively.
He is also an adept tactician as seen when he preferred to use the Ten-Tails' matured powers to destroy the Allied Forces HQ in order to cripple their intelligence centre, rather than directly engaging the Allied Forces army. Madara is also versed in psychological warfare, choosing to focus his efforts into breaking his the battle spirits of his adversaries through manipulation and intimidation with deliberate displays of his overwhelming power. He targets the enemies that have the greatest charisma and leadership skills of a group, such as Ōnoki and Naruto on separate occasions.
Medical Skills
He has also demonstrated similar knowledge of surgical and medical skills, being able to remove his own eyes and transplant them to Nagato without the latter noticing. He also replaced at least one of his lost eyes with a new one and later used the artificial bodies created by the flower clone of Hashirama to replace the destroyed portions of Obito's body, as well as treat the young Uchiha's extensive wounds.
Part II
Confining the Jinchūriki Arc
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The contents of the sixth coffin.
Shinobi World War Arc
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Madara and Mū approach the Fourth Division.
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Madara unleashes his Susanoo.
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Madara using the Wood Release.
After reforming, Kabuto informs Madara that he theorised that he had obtained a portion of Hashirama Senju during their confrontation, despite losing to him. Madara then proceeds to check underneath his shirt, after which he complements Kabuto on his preparation, before asking if he knew of their plan. Notified of Kabuto's uncertainty that the "fake" will act accordingly, Madara attempted to summon the Nine-Tails but is unable to do so as it was still sealed within Naruto. Learning that Naruto is from the same clan as Mito Uzumaki, he opted to attack using Nativity of a World of Trees instead of pursuing the real jinchūriki, yet this is countered by the Nine-Tails-empowered Naruto who destroyed the opposing forest, to which Madara commends him.
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Madara and Mū face Ōnoki and A.
File:Hashirama in Madara.png
Hashirama's face on Madara's chest is revealed.
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Madara's Susanoo clones loom over the Kage.
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Madara's soul remains intact.
Ten-Tails Revival Arc
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Madara reunites with Obito.
Naruto battling madara's dragon
Madara using the Wood Dragon technique to fight Naruto.
Obito and Madara vs Allied Forces
Madara and Obito prepare to face off against the Allied Forces.
Obito and Madara Seperated from Juubi
Madara and Obito are seperated from the Ten-Tails.
However, Madara's notoriety was enough that Kabuto Yakushi would search for his DNA and reincarnate the famed Uchiha in his youthful prime as a bid for strategic dominance in the Fourth Shinobi World War while exposing Obito's deception. This, however, did backfire as Madara released his contract with the Summoning: Impure World Reincarnation to carry out the final phase of his plan, seeing his reincarnation as an unfortunate substitute of the intended resurrection which Nagato was supposed to do.
Video Games
Madara Uchiha is a playable character in the following video games:
Game name Japanese release English release
J-Stars Victory VS 19 March 2014
• According to the databook(s):
• Madara's hobby was falconry.
• Madara wished to fight the upper class Konoha ninja.
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2. Naruto chapter 510, page 12
3. Naruto chapter 370, page 16
4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 Naruto chapter 398, page 18
5. Naruto chapter 622
6. Naruto chapter 621, pages 16-17
7. 7.0 7.1 Naruto chapter 623
8. 8.0 8.1 8.2 Naruto chapter 624
9. Naruto chapter 386, page 6
10. 10.0 10.1 Naruto chapter 625
11. Naruto chapter 386, page 10
12. 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 Naruto chapter 562, page 2
13. Naruto chapter 575, pages 10-11
14. Naruto chapter 399, pages 8-9
15. Naruto chapter 399, page 9
16. 16.0 16.1 16.2 16.3 Naruto chapter 568, page 8
17. Naruto chapter 626
18. Naruto chapter 399, pages 10-12
19. Naruto chapter 500, page 5
20. 20.0 20.1 20.2 20.3 20.4 20.5 Naruto chapter 606, pages 13-14
21. Naruto chapter 512, page 9
22. Naruto chapter 561, page 8
23. 23.0 23.1 Naruto chapter 602, page 15
24. Naruto chapter 602, page 12
25. 25.0 25.1 25.2 Naruto chapter 602
26. Naruto chapter 603, page 2
27. Naruto chapter 606
28. Naruto chapter 563, page 2
29. Naruto chapter 560, page 10
30. Naruto chapter 560, page 4
31. Naruto chapter 563, pages 8-10
32. 32.0 32.1 Naruto chapter 607, page 14
33. Naruto chapter 575, pages 11
34. Naruto chapter 578, pages 10-12
35. Naruto chapter 575, page 7
36. Naruto chapter 601, page 6
37. Naruto chapter 613, page 17
38. Naruto chapter 577, pages 6-8
39. Naruto chapter 575, page 4-5
40. Naruto chapter 577, page 10
41. Naruto chapter 576, pages 13-16
42. Naruto chapter 577, pages 6-7
43. Naruto chapter 619, page 16
44. Naruto chapter 560, pages 3-4
45. Naruto chapter 592, pages 5-6
46. Naruto chapter 562, page 4
47. Naruto chapter 594, page 11
48. Naruto chapter 601, pages 10-12
49. Naruto chapter 615, page 4
50. Naruto chapter 614, page 6
51. 51.0 51.1 Naruto chapter 386, page 5
52. Naruto chapter 601, pages 16-17
53. Naruto chapter 575, page 14
54. Naruto chapter 623, page 11
55. Naruto chapter 561, page 5
56. 56.0 56.1 Naruto chapter 589, pages 2-3
57. Naruto chapter 601, page 6
58. Naruto chapter 561, pages 3, 15
59. Naruto chapter 560, pages 16-17
60. Naruto chapter 589, page 2
61. Naruto chapter 623, page 2
62. 62.0 62.1 62.2 Naruto chapter 560, pages 5-6
63. 63.0 63.1 Naruto chapter 560, page 7
64. Naruto chapter 623, page 16
65. Naruto chapter 560, page 3
66. Naruto chapter 563, page 2
67. Naruto chapter 563, page 3
68. Naruto chapter 562 page 14
69. Naruto chapter 309, page 3
70. Naruto chapter 624, pages 13-14
71. Naruto chapter 624, page 11
72. Naruto chapter 560, page 5
73. Naruto chapter 591, page 8
74. 74.0 74.1 Naruto Shippūden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Generations OVA
75. Naruto chapter 561, pages 12-13
76. 76.0 76.1 Naruto chapter 577, page 13
77. Naruto chapter 578, pages 8-9
78. Naruto chapter 606, pages 14-16
79. Naruto chapter 601, page 16
80. Naruto chapter 601, pages 8-9
81. Naruto chapter 399, page 11
82. Naruto chapter 602, page 1
83. Naruto chapter 604, page 8
84. Naruto chapter 606, page 16
85. Naruto chapter 624, page 9
86. Naruto chapter 398, page 16
87. Naruto chapter 624, pages 8-9
88. Naruto chapter 370, page 15
89. Naruto chapter 561, pages 10-11
90. Naruto chapter 606, page 15
91. Naruto chapter 386, page 8
92. Naruto chapter 624, page 16
93. Naruto chapter 399, pages 10-11
94. Naruto chapter 560, page 9
95. Naruto chapter 563, page 4
96. Naruto chapter 563, page 9
97. Naruto chapter 589, pages 4-5
98. Naruto chapter 589, page 16
99. Naruto chapter 589, page 7
100. Naruto chapter 621, pages 4-9
101. Naruto chapter 626, pages 4-6
102. Naruto chapter 560, pages 13-15
103. Naruto chapter 588, pages 14-15
104. Naruto chapter 560, pages 13-14
105. Naruto chapter 560, pages 14-17
106. Naruto chapter 561, pages 4-6
107. Narutochapter 621, page 5
108. Naruto chapter 490, pages 1-6
109. Naruto chapter 564, page 12
110. Naruto chapter 602, page 8
111. Naruto chapter 606, page 17
112. Naruto chapter 562, page 3
113. Naruto chapter 576, page 14
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Is it possible to make any use of a Shedinja?
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Shedinja, it has an awesome ability.
Moveset could be better.
But what I want to know is: Can you make anything out of a Shedinja?
Any strategies?
Any good movesets?
Anything at all?
asked Nov 25, 2012 by Artist KS
1 Answer
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Lets see what smogan says:
Shedinja is at once the most blessed and the most cursed Pokemon to
ever exist, thanks to its access to the best ability in the game,
Wonder Guard. Despite being blessed with immunities to any type that
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crosses base 50. Fortunately, it does have Shadow Sneak to alleviate
its speed. That said, Shedinja carries weaknesses to only Dark-,
Ghost-, Rock-, Fire-, and Flying-type attacks, and is thus able to
wall many of the metagame's deadly attackers, including dangerous
threats such as Gorebyss. Additionally, Shedinja carries a nice
immunity to every priority attack bar Shadow Sneak and the predictable
Sucker Punch, which ensures that it can't be picked off at will.
Although Shedinja is devilishly difficult to use successfully, and
nigh impossible to bring in safely, when played to its strengths it
can be an unstoppable force, slicing through helpless opposition.
Good moveset:
Item:Lum berry
EVS:252 hp/252 atk/4 spe
Adament nature
~ Swords Dance
~ X-Scissor
~ Shadow Sneak / Sucker Punch
~ Protect / Will-O-Wisp
With great immunities set you can viably use. Shedinja
makes the most out of the little it has available to it, with Swords
Dance giving Shedinja a way of actually threatening the opponent.
X-Scissor is the requisite STAB option, and hits a large number of
Pokemon for neutral damage. Shadow Sneak is one of the key factors
that make Shedinja viable, the STAB priority being crucial in
outspeeding opposing Pokemon that can hit Shedinja super effectively.
Sucker Punch is also a viable option due to its higher base power, but
it also suffers from failing against any non-damaging attack—quite
costly given that many status moves OHKO Shedinja. Protect is another
crucial move, allowing Shedinja to scout an opponent's moveset for
surprise Toxics that would kill it, as well as random Hidden Powers
from the opponent. Will-O-Wisp is also usable to support the team, but
Shedinja will rarely find an occasion to use it to great effect.
answered Nov 25, 2012 by Exca le roi
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Your best bet is to stick with whole food sources of protein whenever possible versus highly-processed forms. Organic soybeans, whole pea, sprouted quinoa, hemp, sprouted brown rice and egg whites are all excellent, healthy protein sources for your shake.
When it comes to the amount of protein you should get, more is not always better. Ideally, you want six to 15 grams of protein in your shake. Some will have as much as 20 to 30 grams, but there's no way your body is going to absorb all of that, notes Koff. Likewise, anything less than six grams is not a decent source of protein.
So how can you be sure of what you're getting? One easy way is to make them yourself. But when a blender, your favorite milk and some fresh produce are not available, pre-packaged shakes or restaurant ones can be a convenient option-just be aware of the ingredients. Some manufacturers and restaurants pile in the additives to make your shake more palatable, even though raw, simple ingredients can taste awesome all by themselves. (Yet another reason to check the label.)
MORE: Are Your Taste Buds Primed to Detect Fat?
For people who don't have time to get their protein intake through food or want a quick recovery drink after a workout, protein shakes are a good alternative, according to nutritionist Keri Glassman, R.D. What's more, protein can aid in weight loss. Recent research published in the journal Cell found that digested proteins create a chain reaction in the digestive, nervous and circulatory systems that leave you feeling full hours after eating. That long-lasting satiety helps you eat less later on, which can mean a lower-or at least a steady-number on the scale.
Of course, portion control is also key. If you routinely down your protein shake with a meal or as a snack when it's really just a milkshake in disguise that can backfire by causing weight gain.
MORE: Trick Yourself Into Eating Less
"Many protein shakes have as many calories as a full meal, and some could even have a whole day's worth," warns Glassman. "Keep in mind: Are you using a protein shake as a post-exercise snack or as a meal replacement? Take note and monitor what you are drinking."
Or just drink less-and enjoy each sip.
By Deborah Dunham
More from YouBeauty:
Healthy Foods to Satisfy Your Common Cravings
Which Weight-Loss Plan Is Your Best Bet?
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Comment: Re:Is this really news to anyone? (Score 2) 338
by SeeSp0tRun (#37750644) Attached to: Facebook Is Building Shadow Profiles of Non-Users
So this got me thinking...
Start a FB Profile, which is to assume you are taking ownership of your profile (and subsequently personal info). The delete your FB, and request they remove your profile and information from their servers.
99% sure this won't work, but 1% of me had the idea.
Comment: WoW gone soft... (Score 1) 197
by SeeSp0tRun (#37688756) Attached to: <em>WoW</em> To Add Avenue For Real-Money Gold Buying
I'll admit that I have played this game since inception, in 2004. That being said, there were dungeons that were damn near impossible to complete, without 40 able minded players. That was a stretch, and it felt like a real accomplishment. That's because it was an accomplishment... it took hard work, and often times took great critical thinking.
The game today has become a cash cow for Blizzard, and their policies show that. From faction changes, to PvE/PvP trasfers, to 10/25 man steamroll dungeons, to now monetizing (and cashing in on) something they deemed a violation of the ToS... a week prior.
They have taken the hard work, and dedication required, and replaced it with money bought goods.
This is an honest question here, but are they creating a type of stock exchange in WoW?
Comment: Re:Like the alternative is so much better (Score 1) 315
by SeeSp0tRun (#37624750) Attached to: After Six Days of Outages, BofA Claims It Hasn't Been Hacked
Having bought a home recently, and having seen my mortgage sold to Skank of Ameriwhore, I can offer the following:
In MA, there is a separate document you must sign, when applying for a mortgage, as well as closing on your home. This document says that the lender you are going through, has the right to do so. If you choose not to sign it, you can pretty much kiss your mortgage goodbye.
It is not an uninformed decision, and legally has to be explained to you.
Again, you are pretty much screwed into it, so there's a reasonable gripe...
+ - FBI Secret Tracking Tech on Trial->
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SeeSp0tRun writes "An Arizona court has agreed to determine whether or not technology can be withheld when applying for a court order or a warrant. In specific, the FBI's Stingray cell phone tracking device is coming under fire for constitutionality purposes.
From the article:
"The judge then asked how an order or warrant could have been obtained without telling the judge what technology was being used. Battista said, "It was a standard practice, your honor." Unsatisfied, Judge Campbell stated that it "can be litigated whether those orders were appropriate."
This is a major case for those concerned about warrantless tracking."
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Comment: Why not... (Score 1) 624
by SeeSp0tRun (#37611002) Attached to: NY Senators Want To Make Free Speech A Privilege
Instead of shielding our kids from all the world's baddies... expose them. Teach them how to cope.
Back before the days of "cyber" bullying, we had... wait for it... regular bullying.
We taught our kids how to stand up for themselves.
Instead of protecting the children, why not focus on educating the parents on preparing their kids for real life?
What's next, curtailing my right to flip you off in traffic? That'll go over great in Boston...
Comment: Re:Creative accounting (Score 2) 109
by SeeSp0tRun (#37597918) Attached to: Anti-Piracy PI Talks About Building Cases Against File-Sharers
I had a professor explain this to me as the "shoes in China" theory. Basically, it says that you can make any assumptions you want, but unless they're based on cold hard facts, and 100% true, you're just FOS.
If I sell shoes in china, I could *in theory* be rich off of a 1/1000 success rate. It may never happen, but it looks like an easy goal on paper...
Comment: Re:Simple. (Score 1) 619
by SeeSp0tRun (#37558180) Attached to: Congress May Permit Robot Calls To Cell Phones
I even do that to my wife, and she hates it.
If you just get a Google voice number, and chain it to your cell (for those not wearing a tinfoil hat as thick as a lead x-ray vest) the caller is asked to state their name. You then can answer, screen who it is, and decide whether to accept or deny. Deny shoots them to VM.
Added bonus: free texts if you have a data plan.
+ - Florida ICE Official Arrested for Child Porn->
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SeeSp0tRun writes "In a strange, yet somehow expected, twist, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) official has been arrested on charges relating to child pornography.
From the article: "Anthony Mangione, 50, of Parkland, Florida, was charged in a three-count indictment unsealed Wednesday with transportation of child pornography, receipt of child pornography and possession of child pornography, authorities said in a statement.""
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Comment: Re: Driving is a privelege, not a right. (Score 1) 152
by bonehead (#46351655) Attached to: ICE License-Plate Tracking Plan Withdrawn Amid Outcry About Privacy
As if anyone gives a fuck where you drive.
That's far too simplistic a way to look at it.
The problem isn't anyone wanting to know where people drive. The problem is what happens when you combine this database with a few others, and the analytics that are possible.
Do some research. The level of detail of a persons life that they can identify from these "harmlessly tiny bits of information" is staggering.
Comment: Re:it's not that slow (Score 1) 513
by bonehead (#46322295) Attached to: Why Is US Broadband So Slow?
And No, your VOIP should not have QOS priority over my downloading a debian DVD.
Of course it should. VOIP is time sensitive, your iso download is not. There is a debate to be had over whether that QOS should come with an extra charge, but it should absolutely be an option. And VOIP is pretty low bandwidth, giving it priority over your download is probably going to make the difference between getting your iso in 10 minutes 53 seconds VS. 10 minutes 57 seconds.... Not really enough for anyone to throw a fit over....
The real problem is last-mile providers being monopoly providers, therefore so stingy in making prudent upgrades to the infrastructure that everything is constantly pushed so close to the limits that stuff like this start to make a noticeable difference. On an intelligently designed and provisioned network, time-sensitive traffic could be given all the QOS priority it needs without you every noticing a difference.
Comment: Re:Stranger danger hysteria (Score 1) 513
by bonehead (#46322099) Attached to: Why Is US Broadband So Slow?
All of your points are invalid.
The practicality of that depends on the weather, whether the streets between where you live and the nearest public park have sidewalks, and crime levels in your neighborhood. A lot of parents are unwilling to let their kids play outside due to stranger danger hysteria.
If you have kids and live in a neighborhood where crime level is a factor in whether you can let them go outside during daylight hours, perhaps you need to re-examine your priorities. If you by into the "stranger danger" hysteria, perhaps you need to wake up. Yes, shit happens, but if you live in a generally safe location, the risk is low. If you don't live in a generally safe location, then you're just stupid.
The practicality of that depends on whether you happen to live within walking distance of a public library branch.
No. Get a tablet. Install the various e-book apps. Kindle, Nook, etc... Pretty much every book ever published is available. 5 minutes logged in to the free WiFi at a McDonalds would let you download enough books to satisfy your reading needs for a month. Also, why walking distance? Most people have to drive to get around, and those who don't tend to live in places with very good public transportation.
In order to determine in which direction to take my next post, I'd like to know this: Do you consider people who play video games likewise "couch potatoes"? A game download can be several GB.
Of course they are. Duh...
Comment: Re:The tradgedy of the comms (Score 0) 513
by bonehead (#46321867) Attached to: Why Is US Broadband So Slow?
That's why I'd be happy to pay more taxes for a government provided infrastructure
That's the part of your comment that makes no sense.
Government at all levels already extracts way more than enough tax money from us. There's no need for more.
The way to make funds available for worthwhile projects is to eliminate wasteful ones, and competently manage the substantial funds they already have to work with. Until that is done, there is NO acceptable reason for anyone paying more taxes than we already do.
Comment: Re:Because 'Murica! (Score 2) 146
by bonehead (#46314019) Attached to: How About a Megatons To Megawatts Program For US Nuclear Weapons?
If you can kill the same 10 million people with a smaller bomb and a more accurate missile
Making your weapon smaller and more accurate DOES make it less scary.
Violence is scary. Random, indiscriminate violence is more scary.
I would counter your argument with the suggestion that a ridiculously large, but clumsily inaccurate weapon is far more scary than a weapon that only hits its intended targets.
If all I have are precision weapons, then all you need to do to be safe is make sure not to piss me off. If I have extremely powerful weapons with "unreliable" targeting, then it might be in your best interest to also put pressure on your neighbor to not piss me off.
Comment: Re:Indeeeeed! (Score 1) 146
by bonehead (#46313899) Attached to: How About a Megatons To Megawatts Program For US Nuclear Weapons?
Your thinking is shallow.
At the end of the day, there is no such thing as a weapon of war. There are just weapons. There is no such thing as a tool of peace. There are just tools.
They are all just objects. Like pebbles or fallen branches. The don't *do* anything. They just exist. That's all. They don't endorse causes or have a political agenda. They just sit there and exist, perfectly content to do absolutely nothing and be perfectly harmless for the rest of eternity.
What matters is *who* has possession of them. The living, thinking creature that can make them do something.
Personally, I would prefer that the most powerful weapons be under the control of somebody who is, to at least some degree, on my side.
Comment: Re:Because 'Murica! (Score 1) 146
by bonehead (#46313135) Attached to: How About a Megatons To Megawatts Program For US Nuclear Weapons?
Quite true. However, sometimes the thing that was failed was the attempt to convince someone else that you are sincere about being left alone.
Even more often, the "failure" was a hesitation to meet the unreasonable demands of an aggressor who wants you to relinquish possession of something valuable.
Violence is a two party game, you can't simply "choose" to never be involved in it.
What you can choose is whether or not you want to be the loser every time you are forced to participate.
Comment: Re:Because 'Murica! (Score 3, Insightful) 146
by bonehead (#46311443) Attached to: How About a Megatons To Megawatts Program For US Nuclear Weapons?
We couldn't possibly give up our strategic advantage in an area that has almost no usefulness in this period of time!
We could give up our strategic advantage, but it would be exceedingly stupid.
Weapons should be thought of as a form of insurance. In a perfect world, you'd never have to use it, but in the world we live in, it's foolish not to have it.
Comment: Re:Different Solutions to Different Problems (Score 1) 115
They're intentionally mooching off the lite/doge/bitcoin name recognition.
No, I'm sure Amazon can afford much, much smarter marketing people than that.
When did bitcoin get big enough to have "name recognition"? Outside of geek circles the only people who have even heard of it have gotten their info from news articles about silkroad, and thus equate it to drug smuggling, gun running, human trafficking, etc....
I'm not a marketing guy, but if I was, and was looking for a good brand to leach off of, it sure as fuck wouldn't be "bitcoin".
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How Mac OS X, 10 Today, Changed Apple's World 342
Posted by timothy
from the x-is-ten-but-x10-is-older dept.
CWmike writes "Ten years ago today, Apple's first full public version of Mac OS X went on sale worldwide to a gleeful reception as thousands of Mac users attended special events at their local computer shops all across the planet. What we didn't know then was that Apple was preparing to open up its own chain of retail outlets, nor had we heard Steve Jobs use the phrase, 'iPod.' Windows was still a competitor, and Google was still a search engine. These were halcyon days, when being a Mac user meant belonging to the second team, writes Jonny Evans. We're looking at the eighth significant OS X release in the next few months, Lion, which should offer some elements of unification between the iOS and OS X. There's still some bugs to iron out though, particularly the problem with ACL's (Access Control Lists) inside the Finder. Hopefully departing ex-NeXT Mac OS chief, Bertrand Serlet, will be able to fix this before he leaves."
Comment: HOW MUCH, IF ANY? (Score 1) 183
by rdmiller3 (#33388836) Attached to: Follow Up On Solar Neutrinos and Radioactive Decay
I can't find anything which says how much variation they claim to have seen. Usually when the word "significant" is missing, it means that the variation can't be reliably distinguished from measurement error.
I don't give a rip what they think might be causing variation in decay rates. Not yet.
I want to see some verification that decay rates actually vary at all, first. Last I heard, they don't
Comment: Limiting access of (specificially) photographers (Score 2, Insightful) 435
by rdmiller3 (#32812858) Attached to: Ban On Photographing Near Gulf Oil Booms
65 feet is only a couple of boat-lengths. That's pretty close. If I was working those booms, I'd be worried about any boat that close running over or afoul of the boom.
So photographers are limited to 65ft. How close can other people get? Is that still 300ft? My guess is that reporters are belly-aching because they can't get close enough to dip a gloved hand into the oil and show it to the camera.
Cheap Incubator Backpack Could Reduce Infant Deaths 76
Posted by timothy
from the also-would-be-fun-to-carry-babies-around dept.
Boy Wunda writes "In just one six-month period in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 2006, 96 newborn babies who were in need of medical care died before they could get help. In many developing nations, these deaths could be prevented simply by providing better ways for medical responders to transport infants properly over rough terrain and keep them alive until they can reach hospitals and clinics. Now, a group of Colorado State University seniors has designed and filed a patent for a medically equipped incubator backpack unit that they believe can reduce baby deaths in medical emergencies both in the United States and in newly industrialized nations."
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I just updated my Ubuntu outdated development server, and it broke down some configuration. Now apache/php does not properly handle urls like index.php/profile, but will handle correctly just index.php.
Basically if there some path after index.php, then it will return 404 error: The requested URL /index.php/profile was not found on this server.
What configuration option is likely to fix this problem? I need to fix this urgently. Thanks in advance!
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Check the setting of AcceptPathInfo:
This directive controls whether requests that contain trailing pathname information that follows an actual filename (or non-existent file in an existing directory) will be accepted or rejected. The trailing pathname information can be made available to scripts in the PATH_INFO environment variable.
For example, assume the location /test/ points to a directory that contains only the single file here.html. Then requests for /test/here.html/more and /test/nothere.html/more both collect /more as PATH_INFO.
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Yep, this is just what I was looking for, thanks a lot! – ak. Apr 11 '12 at 19:52
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An existing system written in Java uses the hashcode of a string as its routing strategy for load balancing.
Now, I cannot modify the system but need to generate strings that share the same hashcode to test the worst condition.
I provide those strings from commandline and hope the system will route all these strings into the same destination.
Is it possible to generate a large numbers of strings that share the same hashcode?
To make this question clear:
String[] getStringsInSameHashCode(int number){
//return an array in length "number"
//Every element of the array share the same hashcode.
//The element should be different from each other
Remarks: Any hashCode value is acceptable. There is no constraint on what the string is. But they should be different from each other.
EDIT: Override method of String class is not acceptable because I feed those string from command line.
Instrumentation is also not acceptable because that will make some impacts on the system.
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using equals string is not an option ? – Jigar Joshi Oct 17 '12 at 1:54
look at the String source code. – Hovercraft Full Of Eels Oct 17 '12 at 1:54
Do they need to be Strings with different values or just different String objects? – Code-Guru Oct 17 '12 at 1:54
I know how java generate the hashcode for string, but have no ideas how to generate different string literal with same hashcode. I cannot override any method of string. @Code-Guru – StarPinkER Oct 17 '12 at 2:02
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since you can read chinese you can look at my post http://www.hetaoblog.com/myblogs/post/%E8%AF%B4%E4%B8%80%E8%AF%B4java%E9%87%8C%E9%9D%A2%E7%9A%84hashcode-string-hashcode.jhtml
see a test method, basically, so long as you match, a1*31+b1 = a2*31 +b2, which means (a1-a2)*31=b2-b1
public void testHash()
System.out.println("A:" + ((int)'A'));
System.out.println("B:" + ((int)'B'));
System.out.println("a:" + ((int)'a'));
you will get
edit: someone said this is not straightforward enough. I added below part
public void testN() throws Exception {
List<String> l = HashCUtil.generateN(3);
for(int i = 0; i < l.size(); ++i){
System.out.println(l.get(i) + "---" + l.get(i).hashCode());
below is the source code, it might be not efficient, but it work:
public class HashCUtil {
private static String[] base = new String[] {"Aa", "BB"};
public static List<String> generateN(int n)
if(n <= 0)
return null;
List<String> list = generateOne(null);
for(int i = 1; i < n; ++i)
list = generateOne(list);
return list;
public static List<String> generateOne(List<String> strList)
if((null == strList) || (0 == strList.size()))
strList = new ArrayList<String>();
for(int i = 0; i < base.length; ++i)
return strList;
for(String str: strList)
result.add(base[i] + str);
return result;
look at String.hashCode()
public int hashCode() {
int h = hash;
if (h == 0) {
int off = offset;
char val[] = value;
int len = count;
hash = h;
return h;
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well, that's fine if this is SO's rule or culture to provide english only link... I just want to provide more to the author; while for the problem itself, i think i've explained enough using demo codes and some words here... – hetaoblog Oct 17 '12 at 2:55
1) Yes it is. 2) The demo codes and words don't actually answer the question. The question is about how to generate collisions. An explanation of how/why the collisions occur is not relevant. – Stephen C Oct 17 '12 at 3:01
I think this is a very good answer, although the generated string is very long if N is very large. – StarPinkER Oct 17 '12 at 14:25
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You can instrument the java.lang.String class so its method hashCode() will always return the same number.
I suppose Javassist is the easiest way to do such an instrumentation.
In short:
• obtain an instance of java.lang.instrument.Instrumentation by using a Java-agent (see package java.lang.instrument documentation for details)
• redefine java.lang.String class by using Instrumentation.redefineClasses(ClassDefinition[]) method
The code will look like (roughly):
ClassPool classPool = new ClassPool(true);
CtClass stringClass = classPool.get("java.lang.String");
CtMethod hashCodeMethod = stringClass.getDeclaredMethod("hashCode", null);
hashCodeMethod.setBody("{return 0;}");
byte[] bytes = stringClass.toBytecode();
ClassDefinition[] classDefinitions = new ClassDefinition[] {new ClassDefinition(String.class, bytes);
instrumentation.redefineClasses(classDefinitions);// this instrumentation can be obtained via Java-agent
Also don't forget that agent manifest file must specify Can-Redefine-Classes: true to be able to use redefineClasses(ClassDefinition[]) method.
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Thanks for your answer. Overriding the hashCode method is not acceptable since it will affect the system. The scenario is I need to test the system with those string literal. Modification on the system is definitely unacceptable. – StarPinkER Oct 17 '12 at 2:35
@Jermaine Xu, this is not overriding, but instrumentation. However yes you do need an ability to relaunch JVM with the "existing system written in Java" and add an agent to JVM via command-line arguments. So if you can't do this, my suggestion is unusable. In this case the "hetaoblog"'s answer should fit your situation:) – Male Oct 17 '12 at 2:43
Instrumentation is a good idea, but the objectives is testing, so I cannot modify redefine the hashCode method of String. Thanks for your instrumentation idea. – StarPinkER Oct 17 '12 at 2:46
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String s = "Some String"
for (int i = 0; i < SOME_VERY_BIG_NUMBER; ++i) {
String copy = new String(s);
// Do something with copy.
Will this work for you? It just creates a lot of copies of the same String literal that you can then use in your testing.
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Sorry I didn't make it clear enough. Same string literal is not acceptable, because the string is the primary key in the database, I do need different string literals. – StarPinkER Oct 17 '12 at 2:06
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I think find a equal-hash string from a long string is too hard, it's easy when find equal-hash string of an short string (2 or 3). Look at the equation below. (sorry I cant post image cause me new member)
Notice that, "FB" and "Ea" have the same hashcode, and any two strings like s1+"FB"+s2 and s1+"Ea"+s2 will have the same hashcode. So, the easy solution is finding any 2-char substring of existing string and replace with a 2-char substring with the same hashcode
Exmaple, we have the string "helloworld" get 2-char substring "he", hashcode("he") = 'h'*31 + 'e' = ('h'*31 + 31) + ('e' - 31) = ('h'+1)*31 + 'F' = 'i' + 'F' = hashcode("iF") so the desire string is "iFlloworld" we have increased 'h' by 1, we can increase by 2, or 3 etc (but will be wrong if it overflow the char value)
The below code run well with small level, it will wrong if the level is big, make the char value overflow, I will fix it later if you want (this code change 2 first chars, but I will edit code to 2 last chars because 2 first chars are calc with largest value)
public static String samehash(String s, int level) {
if (s.length() < 2)
return s;
String sub2 = s.substring(0, 2);
char c0 = sub2.charAt(0);
char c1 = sub2.charAt(1);
c0 = (char) (c0 + level);
c1 = (char) (c1 - 31 * level);
String newsub2 = new String(new char[] { c0, c1 });
String re = newsub2 + s.substring(2);
return re;
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I just edit the question. We are towards the right direction I think. Thanks. – StarPinkER Oct 17 '12 at 2:55
I think the best question is "write a reverse hashcode function" – yelliver Oct 17 '12 at 3:04
Actually any old string will do, any hashcode value will do. – StarPinkER Oct 17 '12 at 3:15
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I was wondering if there was a "universal" solution; e.g. some constant string XYZ, such that
s.hashcode() == (s + XYZ).hashcode()
for any string s. Finding such a string involves solving a fairly complicated equation ... which was beyond my rusty mathematical ability. But then it dawned on me that h == 31*h + ch is always true when h and ch are both zero!
Based on that insight, the following method should create a different String with the same hashcode as its argument:
public String collider(String s) {
return 0 + s;
If NUL characters are problematic for you, prepending any string whose hashcode is zero would work too ... albeit that the colliding strings would be longer than if you used zero.
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Let me have a try whether the \0 solution will work or not. Thanks. – StarPinkER Oct 17 '12 at 4:28
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I am fairly new to Qt and have been doing a lot of reading and practicing exercises. I have searched for this one quite a lot but I could not find any examples.
I have a QPixmap object to which I load a .png image. I need to create a copy of this QPixmap with a dark mask applied to it.
Basically I want this QPixmap's image to be covered with a layer of solid black of which the opacity is set to 50%.
I know how to set the opacity of a QPixmap's image but how can I add a layer of solid black with opacity on it?
Thank you!
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You can use a QPainter and you a semi-transparent QBrush to paint that dark layer onto your QPixmap.
Assuming pic is a QPixmap loaded with your image:
QPainter p(&pic);
QBrush b(QColor(0,0,0,128)); // adjust color and alpha to taste
p.drawRect(0, 0, 200, 200);
Effect (before/after):
enter image description here vs enter image description here
The opaque black border can be removed by setting an semi-transparent pen before painting.
Copy the pixmap before applying the "mask" if you want to preserve the original.
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Thank you Mat, this is excellent. – Phil Dec 29 '12 at 19:14
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generally interchangable with pansexual. one whose romantic, emotional, or sexual attractions are geared towards others regardless of sex and/or gender expression.
lorri set up a network for pan-, bi- and omnisexual visibility.
dagger_grrl tarafından 20 Şubat 2004, Cuma
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Considered to go hand-in-hand with being pansexual, being omnisexual is a bit different. Pansexuals don't tend to view gender in the same ways that we do, whereas omnisexuals view gender normally, they just don't care.
Omnisexuals are attracted equally to all human beings (men, women, transexuals, etc.) They tend to go through phases of gender attraction that switch frequently and will eventually settle down with whoever wins their heart, regardless of said person's gender.
"Man, Captain Jack Harkness from Doctor Who is such an omnisexual; he'll screw anything that has a pulse."
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Omnisexual often can be interchanged with the term Pansexual, though there are those who will argue the two are different. Omnisexuals are people who feel attraction towards people of any gender and orientation, including male, female, genderqueer, transvestites, bisexuals, straight, gay, lesbian, asexual, and so on. Omnisexuals see people for their personalities rather than their genitals or gender identity. Omnisexual is not a cover term used for people who will date transsexuals. Bisexual, Gay, Straight, and Lesbian SHOULD cover these terms. A well known phrase of the Omnisexual/Pansexual community is "Hearts Not Parts".
A famous example of an Omnisexual is Captain Jack Harkness from Doctor Who or Torchwood. If it has a pulse, he'll flirt with it. If it doesn't... He'll probably do it anyways.
Sir Flirtsalot tarafından 1 Aralık 2013, Pazar
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Anything that moves
Capt jackharkness is omnisexual and fucks all species and genders
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one who proudly distributes his/her sexual affection over a broad range of places, people, and at various events..from "omni" meaning "to be everywhere at once" and "sexual" meaning "sexual"
not to be confused with the heralded Omnisexual: one who distributes his/her sexual affection in and around the Atlanta area esp. near the Omni arena and recently any other arena in the area
bro, here comes Soo. look the other way, before she tries to cast her omni-sexual self our way
waynerino tarafından 16 Ağustos 2007, Perşembe
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Being sexually attracted to anything and everything through all history of time and space.
"Tom just admitted to being attracted to toasters, he must be omnisexual!"
"Dude, that lamp post is so sexy."
"You know what I've always found really attractive? String Theory."
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Someone who is highly sexual, often having sex with both genders. A very sexual person who will almost try anything kinky, and will vary sexual orientations.
Linda didn't hook up with Dave last night, so she hooked up with Carol and her dog instead because of her omni-sexual tendencies.
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post #1 of 8
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What is the best universal remote for under $100?
ll I need it to control is the 50" tv, cable box, dvd player, and switch everything over to play the Wii.
I need one touch control on all items so all my wife has to do is push 1 button to watch tv or watch a dvd or etc.
I'm currently using the Sony RM-VL600 which worked well for a while but now it's not holding the 'buttons' I programmed into it.
I like the looks of the universal remotes with the screen but for under $100 it seems as though the screens are almost a gimmick since it isn't a touch screen...maybe I'm wrong.
Thanks for any help.
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The harmony 700, Xsight color and URC-R50 are the best universal remotes for around $100 IMO. The screen isn't a gimmick. It's the most powerful feature. It gives you access to most of your macros, favorites and any functions that don't have a dedicated button. If you don't want a screen, JP1 remotes are much more powerful than similarly priced remotes. They average about $20 + $35 for a programming cable. Some can be found for as low as $1.
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I'm using a Logitech Harmony 650 that I bought from BestBuy recently at a slight discount.
Basically it does the job but also has had one problem with batteries making contact that other people here have reported. I read of various problems with them so when I bought it I also bought the BestBuy extended warranty.
It took a little doing to program it, mostly because I didn't fully understand its different methods of switching inputs. I'm not completely through tweaking it but we use it now and put away all of the other remotes. I first tried programming it through their website interface. I didn't like that so I downloaded their program that installs on my computer and reprogrammed it that way.
Right now I have a cable DVR, a BluRay player, and the TV itself. Most of the time we watch using the TV tuner with our cable connected directly to the TV. I watch a lot using the DVR, and once a week or so we watch a DVD or BluRay. I didn't mind using the various remotes but my wife didn't want to take the time to learn it all. She had written down the instructions for switching the TV from one input to another, when we bought our new TV I had to rewrite the instructions for her. I intended to add a sound system to the TV so I figured surely I would have to try the programmable remote.
You tell the Harmony what specific pieces of equipment that you have and it looks up the infrared codes from the Logitech online database. However there were a few buttons on my LG BluRay remote that it didn't have so I had to teach those to the remote from the original remote. Another thing that the remote does is to remember what devices you are using, and what it turned on and turned off. If you pick up the remote and push the "watch tv" button, if the tv is off then it turns it on for instance. The remote has activities built in, such as "watch TV" and "watch a movie". In my case I set the "watch TV" to use the tv's builtin tuner, and the "watch a movie" to use the BluRay. I set up an additional activity and called it "watch DVR". So if I have been watching TV and I push the "watch a movie" button, the remote tells the BluRay to turn on, and tells the TV to change the input to the input that I have the BluRay HDMI cable plugged into. This takes a few seconds so you have to keep the remote pointed at the devices until it has completed its thing.
I got the remote to this point and everything worked pretty well. My wife could use it to switch devices and then it would control the devices pretty well with its buttons. The 650 has a small screen at the top and 4 buttons that relate to the screen. Depending on the devices you have set up those buttons will have certain labels and actions assigned to them by default. I have now reprogrammed mine. I looked at the remotes for my tv, BluRay player, and DVR and found the buttons I use that weren't already on the harmony, and I reprogrammed the buttons by the screen to do these functions. With cheap universal remotes I've used in the past, they would control most functions of the device well enough but there were always a few special buttons on the original remote that weren't on the universal remote. Now with the harmony I have those special buttons as well.
The last complexity I added was a sequence of commands to get my cable DVR to bring up my list of favorite channels. With the original remote I push a certain button on the original remote to bring up a menu, then I push the select button twice to get to my menu of favorites. On the harmony I set up a sequence of these 3 button pushes and assigned it to one of the buttons beside the screen. When I push that particular button now it sends all 3 button press commands to the cable DVR and brings up the appropriate menu.
So yes the harmony can be programmed for fairly easy one-button use, and can replace the full functionality of the original remotes.
There are a lot of different Harmony models available for sale new now, the difference in the cheaper ones and the more expensive ones is partly a matter of how many different devices they will control. I have a TV, BluRay, and cable DVR for a total of 3 devices. If I eventually add a sound system then that will make 4 devices, still within the capacity of the 650 model.
Other differences- the more expensive models have better screens, and some have rechargeable batteries. The cheaper ones like my 650 use standard AA alkaline batteries, and are supposed to last 1 month per pair of batteries.
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Here are the ones that seems to get decent reviews and fall in my price range:
1) Universal Remote URC-R50 http://www.amazon.com/Universal-Remo...=3MKPTD4TB6A20
2) URC RF200 with RF 20 http://www.amazon.com/RFS200-PowerPa...=3MKPTD4TB6A20
3) Logitech Harmony 650 http://www.amazon.com/Logitech-Harmo...=3MKPTD4TB6A20
4) Logitech Harmony 700 http://www.amazon.com/Logitech-Harmo...=3MKPTD4TB6A20
5) Logitech Harmony 300 http://www.amazon.com/Logitech-Harmo...=3MKPTD4TB6A20
Any opinions on any of the above remotes?
Thank you.
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I thought your target was $100. But since you are considering cheaper options the 650 or even the 600 would be plenty, as would older models like the 550, 520, etc. The 300 is completely worthless. Any reason you don't like the Xsight? You never mentioned needing RF before, so why is the RF200 the only RF remote on your list?
Bottom line is those are all fine remotes (except the 300). But the requirements you've posted can be met with THIS $1 remote or nearly any $20 universal remote like the URC-WR7, RCA RCRP05B, or another Sony like you already have. Even the cable box remote you already have can likely do the macros you've described. So are you just itching to spend $100 on a remote, or would you rather spend as little as possible for the functionality you've posted?
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Originally Posted by mdavej View Post
I thought your target was $100. Any reason you don't like the Xsight? You never mentioned needing RF before, so why is the RF200 the only RF remote on your list?
My max is $100. If I can get the remote to do what I want it to do for cheaper I would probably go that route.
It's just that with some cheaper remotes I've had problems getting it to recognized what items (TV/box/DVD) are on and leaving them on (instead of turning everything to its opposite) whenever I push a button to 'Watch TV' or 'Watch a DVD.
Didn't realize the one was for use with RF until I did a little more reading about an hour ago.
As far as the XSight...it didn't seem to get too good of review here http://www.amazon.com/Acoustic-Resea...7027815&sr=8-1
Thank for the input.
post #7 of 8
Discrete power commands or a remote that can track device states like harmony or JP1 will solve that. JP1 (UEI) are the only cheap remotes that can be easily be programmed with discrete power and other discrete commands. In the absence of discrete commands, tracking device states with JP1 requires some additional programming. Harmony handles it automatically.
If you list the model numbers of your equipment and your cable remote, we can tell you if the discrete route is possible.
FWIW, the few Xsight remotes I've had were no worse than harmony in most respects.
post #8 of 8
I have tried/ own several remotes when I was trying to find one that does everything I need it to easily. I tried the R50 and it was a good remote but I felt it was somewhat limiting on features. also tried the Phillips 2115/27 and it just would not recognize or learn a couple commands i needed for one of my devices...
I hit up ebay and ordered a few different ones very cheap.
I got the xSight color and that is the most wife friendly so far. with activity based settings as well as device based. was able to program it to do all i needed it to. though the software is a bit awkward, its not bad once u get used to it....
I prefer the hard buttons over the touch screen. the more rows of commands u can have on the touch screen the better.
The other remote I got is a HTM MX-600 which was also pretty easy to program all via the remote. it also has 2 RF stations that came with it. . its an older device but has 10 screen soft keys. you will probably have to learn mode all your devices if you buy an older device. however i learned the devices even for the new xSight as I wanted a custom layout on the LCD softkeys...
the last remote I got was a HTM MX-1000 which is a fully computer based customizable remote with large touchscreen where you can make and design all your keys and buttons and make a full custom interface. really cool but time consuming and more than i need for my relatively straightforward HT setup.... you could make one button for example that takes the whole screen and say "wife mode, push here to watch TV" heh... I will probably put the 1000 and 600 back on ebay and get another xSight for upstairs just to keep it simple for the wife.... then again I may decide to get creative on button building for the 1000. for my HT.
You don't have a PS3 so no worries about needing a bluetooth interface
I tried to avoid the logitechs due to reading about reliability and quality issues as well as being slow to execute commands...
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Left marital residence 4 years ago with my children. Husband paid mortgages for 6 months. After that he stopped and I had to pay mortgages and my rent. First the court ordered him to pay 1/2 mortgages $994 a month. He never did and my attorney would not enforce. Next court hearing I agreed to take responsiblility of both mortgages and I got the house and he was given other land owned. He did not proceed with subdivision that was needed for 2 years later. I have been paying over $70K in mortgages and he will now make a mint off land since he delayed process so long. I have reason to believe he lied on 401K and I know that could be a reason to have MSA overturned however I can't get the courts to require it. What can I do?
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Answered . A lot of what you can do will depend on the specifics of the settlement agreement. You should sit down with an attorney, and possibly a different one that has represented you before, to discuss the specific terms of the settlement agreement and how each party has complied with the agreement. If your ex-husband has not complied, you should be prepared to show the court exactly how you complied with your obligations under the agreement and how your ex-husband failed to comply.
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Answered . Property settlement agreements are generally enforceable through contempt proceedings which usually allow a nonbreaching party to get the breaching party to do what they were originally suppose to do by the terms of the agreement. Additionally, if the breaching party disobeyed the terms of the agreement "willfully," they will be required to pay for the nonbreaching parties' costs and attorneys' fees for enforcement.
Many property settlement agreements typically provide that the breaching party pay for costs and attorneys' fees regardless of willful disobedience as well. You will want to read over yours for this particular language.
As far as getting a property settlement agreement overturned, it is a difficult thing to do. However, it may be possible if you can allege that the agreement was so incredibly one-sided in his favor or can prove that he fraudulently induced you into signing by lying about his assets, possibly the 401k.
You should sit down with an attorney, preferably not the original one who represented you during the divorce, and discuss your options. I hope this was helpful.
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — With the planet heating up, many scientists seem fairly certain some weather elements like hurricanes and droughts will worsen. But tornadoes have them stumped.
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There is no easy answer. Lately, tornado activity in America has been Jekyll-and-Hyde weird, and scientists are unsure if climate change has played a role in recent erratic patterns.
In 2011, the United States saw its second-deadliest tornado season in history: Nearly 1,700 tornadoes killed 553 people. The Joplin, Mo., twister was the single deadliest in American history, killing 158 people and causing $2.8 billion in damage.
The following year, 2012, started even earlier and even busier. Through April there were twice as many tornadoes as normal. Then the twisters suddenly disappeared. Tornado activity from May to August of that year was the lowest in 60 years of record-keeping, said Harold Brooks, a top researcher at the National Weather Center in Norman, Okla.
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The last two seasons aren't alone in illustrating extremes in tornado activity.
Tornado record-keepers tally things like the most and least tornadoes in a month. Records for that category have been set 24 times over the past 60 years. Ten of those records have been set in the past decade — six for the fewest tornadoes and four for the most, Brooks said. Also, the three earliest starts of tornado season and the four latest have all occurred since 1997, he said.
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A new study in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society looks at all sorts of extreme weather, how it is changing because of global warming and how things are predicted to change in the future. The study says tornadoes and the severe thunderstorms that spawn them are the hardest to predict.
Public opinion polls show Americans blame global warming for bad tornado outbreaks, but climate scientists say that's not quite right.
One reason scientists can't figure out how global warming might affect tornadoes is that twisters are usually small weather events that aren't easily simulated in large computer models. And records of tornadoes may not have been accurate over the years as twisters twirled unnoticed around unpopulated areas.
So Brooks and others are looking at the ingredients that cause tornadoes. But even that isn't simple. They look at two main factors: moist energy in the atmosphere and wind shear. Wind shear is the difference between wind at high altitudes and wind near the surface. The more moist energy and greater the wind shear, the better the chances for tornadoes.
The atmosphere can hold more moisture as it warms, and it will likely be more unstable so that means more moist energy, several experts said. But wind shear is another matter. Brooks and Stanford University scientist Noah Diffenbaugh think there will be less of that.
That would suggest fewer tornadoes. But if there's more moist energy, that could lead to more tornadoes. One ingredient has to win out, and Brooks says it's hard to tell which one will. Diffenbaugh says recent computer simulations show the moist energy may overcome the reduced shear and produce at least more severe thunderstorms, if not tornadoes.
Given what's happening lately, Brooks believes there will be fewer days of tornadoes but more twisters on the days when they occur.
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You've heard it before: Junk bonds are a terrific buy. Certainly, it's hard to pass up fixed-income investments yielding 13.6% at a time when Treasury bond yields are the skimpiest in decades.
The tricky part is figuring out whether junk bonds--officially called "high-yield securities"--are a savvy value play or a sucker's trap. After all, there are good reasons why junk bonds are yielding 10.4 percentage points more than comparable Treasuries, the widest yield gap since the 1991 recession: rising bankruptcies, deteriorating credit, and fear of a double-dip recession.
Still, Martin Fridson, chief high-yield strategist at Merrill Lynch, gives junk the thumbs up: "The yields more than compensate for the risk." Why listen to Fridson? Because he's usually right.
When jittery investors bailed out of junk bonds last year in the wake of September 11, Fridson counseled his clients--mainly large institutional investors--to do the opposite. Those who listened were rewarded: High-yield bond prices surged 6% in the last three months of 2001.
The strategist subsequently turned bearish in April. His rationale: Junk-bond mutual funds--the way most individuals invest in this market--were getting huge inflows early in the year, a time when few new high-yield securities were being issued. The imbalance, he says, pushed prices up to artificially high levels. Since then, junk bonds have lost 12% of their value. Another smart call: advising investors to lighten up on junk from May, 2000, through December, 2000, a period when they lost 4.4% of their value.
The cornerstone of Fridson's research is a quantitative valuation model, which takes in such variables as corporate default rates, money supply, capacity-utilization rates, and the consumer price index. Now, Fridson's model suggests that junk-bond yields are a full percentage point higher than they ought to be. That's what makes the bonds a buy.
The 50-year-old Harvard University grad (he earned a BA in history and an MBA there) has been researching the junk-bond market since the 1980s heyday of Michael Milken and Drexel Burnham Lambert--and doing a first-rate job of it. For nine years, Institutional Investor has named Fridson and his team the top high-yield strategists on Wall Street in its poll of the pros.
Right out of B-school, Fridson went to work as a bond trader. In 1980, he joined PaineWebber and switched to bond research. Fridson was drawn to the then-new area of high-yield research and pursued that at several other investment banks. In 1989, he moved to Merrill and assumed the post he has today. As if the job weren't enough work, Fridson also has written five investment books, including How to Be a Billionaire: Proven Strategies from the Titans of Wealth ($24.95; John Wiley & Sons), and his light verse has been published in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.
Fridson's institutional clients often dart in and out of junk bonds, but the strategist argues that buy-and-hold investors will likely make money over the next few years. Here's why: In the boom years of the late 1990s, almost any company could raise money in the junk-bond market--including lots of startup telecoms. As a result, the default rate for junk bonds soared from 2% in 1998 to 9.6% recently. Now, only the more solid companies among high-yield issuers are able to sell new debt.
This situation bodes well for the junk-bond market, says Fridson. With fewer and higher-quality borrowers, the default rate is likely to drop over the next three years. As defaults wane, Fridson figures, investors will likely view the junk-bond market as a less risky place, and they'll bid up prices. Thus, investors who buy junk bonds today stand to earn not just double-digit yields but also capital appreciation.
Betting on junk bonds is no sure thing. But listening to a market pro like Fridson is one way to stack the odds in your favor. By Susan Scherreik
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She leaned close to deliver a final verdict on Major: "If only he were a man."
Thatcher, who died Monday at 87, was a towering but polarizing figure. Many aspects of her legacy -- the transformation of Britain into a postindustrial society -- will long be debated. But one of her greatest contributions is beyond dispute: She showed that a woman could be a bold, decisive, swashbuckling leader on the grandest of stages.
Thatcher had no wealth or family connections to boost her political rise. A shopkeeper's daughter, she relied on brains and determination to get herself into Oxford -- a traditional spawning ground for the British elite -- and, after graduating, ran unsuccessfully for office several times before winning a seat in the House of Commons. She patiently worked her way up the Conservative Party hierarchy until she became the party's leader in 1975.
She led Conservatives to an election victory and became prime minister in 1979. She recognized that her party, which was identified with the landed gentry, could succeed only if it managed to appeal to middle-class voters. In effect, she redrew the lines of British society -- despite professing not to believe in society, she did speak of it occasionally -- by painting the working class, and especially the labor unions, as an impediment to middle-class prosperity.
She was shrewd and ruthless. In 1981, coal miners threatened a crippling strike. She backed down, knowing this was not a fight she could win -- yet. Her government began stockpiling coal and preparing for another confrontation, which came in 1984 when the National Coal Board announced plans to shut down 20 unproductive, money-losing mines.
When the miners responded by going on strike, she portrayed them as "Marxists" who wanted "to defy the law of the land in order to defy the laws of economics." After a year punctuated by violent clashes between strikers and police, the union crumbled.
She showed similar machismo in responding to Argentina's invasion of the Falkland Islands: Rather than negotiate, she sent warships and took the islands back. "When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment, it's exciting to have a real crisis on your hands," she said.
Thatcher's reputation for swaggering bravery -- and uncommon luck -- was enhanced in 1984 when she survived an assassination attempt by the Irish Republican Army, which bombed the hotel in Brighton where she and other Conservative Party leaders were staying. Five people were killed and 34 injured. Thatcher delivered a speech as planned later that day as "a sign not only that this attack has failed, but that all attempts to destroy democracy by terrorism will fail."
She insisted on being seen as a lady -- and on using her femininity whenever it offered an advantage. Former French President Francois Mitterrand famously said that she possessed the eyes of Caligula and the mouth of Marilyn Monroe. Whatever that's supposed to mean, he was definitely paying attention.
Thatcher lived by her own definition of what it meant to be a woman. That has to be called feminism, whether she would have liked it or not.
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#61keybladeXIIIPosted 12/7/2012 7:17:41 PM
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Thoughts on phantom pain?
Looked interesting. If it's survival horror I'm definitely interested.
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#62KevoCSCSPosted 12/7/2012 7:17:50 PM
The Phantom Pain game looks too heavily scripted. Almost looks like an interactive movie. I'm not that impressed though I have to say I have never see a giant flaming whale take down a helicopter. That counts for something.
Show seriously sucks so far. Samuel L Jackson is painfully unfunny.
#63iPr0kkaFTWPosted 12/7/2012 7:18:18 PM
Phantom Pain looks okay but nothing mindblowing. The graphics and so on weren't that impressive and the presenter was hyping it.
#64delux19Posted 12/7/2012 7:18:25 PM
Thought it was Metal Gear the whole time, glad it's something new.
#65TheRatedR_Viper(Topic Creator)Posted 12/7/2012 7:18:44 PM
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#66Cole531Posted 12/7/2012 7:19:28 PM
Trailer was a mess but its a new IP so I'll keep an eye on it.
#67Paul NelsonPosted 12/7/2012 7:19:31 PM
Shadow Cloud posted...
Nice to see Borderlands 2 win. However... what the hell was The Phantom Pain? it looked a bit like FEAR except more survival horror?
Survival horror games are good, but all they showed was him walking, crawling, and rolling. If thats the whole game, it won't fare very well.
#68zerooo0Posted 12/7/2012 7:20:35 PM
At least it's creative. Even though the trailer made it seem scriptive.
Who knows it could be the next Heavy Rain. WITH A LAND WHALE!!!!
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#69RockSauronPosted 12/7/2012 7:20:39 PM
Phantom Pain = Meh.
Also, did he have a hook for a hand?
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#70princespawnPosted 12/7/2012 7:20:47 PM
Glad to see Borderlands 2 win again for having the most guns. And was Master Chief winning the best memorable character?
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