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I currently have this machine:
• GIGABYTE GA-EX58-UD5 (v1) motherboard
• INTEL Core i7-920 2.66Ghz 1366 BOX processor
• GEIL Ultra 6144Mb DDR3 1333Mhz CL6 TRIKIT memory
I run Windows 7 Professional on it.
My work involves running 4-8 virtual machines (in Virtualbox) on this computer and I realized that the 6GB memory I have is simply not enough for all of them. So I want to buy some more memory. I'm not really interested in performance, I don't need fast memory, I just need a lot. :-)
Given that this specific memory kit can't be bought near my location anymore, can I use similar memory sticks (like GEIL Ultra 6144MB DDR3 1600MHz CL9 TRIKIT) together with the existing ones? Or should I buy a 12 GB kit and use it?
Would it be possible to use the 6GB kit and the 12GB kit together? (the motherboard has 6 slots so they can fit) What about two 12GB kits?
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According to Gigabyte that board supports up to 24GB of memory, so two 12GB kits should work.
As for compatibility: As long as both types of memory supports the settings (voltage, frequency, timings) you are running it at it should work if you mix memory. There is a should in there, though. I've heard of people who have had two types of memory that just refuses to work together. But it doesn't seem to be a common problem as long as you use quality RAM. I am running with mixed RAM right now on this machine I'm writing this on without any problems.
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Biographies of Karmran Jafari and Homan Jafari can be found in various places. These two Iranian-Canadian brothers are popular musicians who were born in Tehran, Iran. Kamran was born on November 25, 1978. Hooman was born on November 23, 1980.
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Kamran Jafari (born November 25, 1978 in Tehran,Iran) and Hooman Jafari (born November 23, 1980 in Tehran,Iran) are two Iranian-Canadian brothers and singers residing and working
(Artist: Kamran and Hooman, Album: N/A (2005) Song: Man Age Nabasham, Country: Iran, Hits: 1742) (SOURCE: www.moron.nl/lyrics.php?id=119022&artist… - 41k )
Well first of all you have to be persian to answer this question. Ok well if you know there are two iranian singers named kamran and hooman and I am there #1 fan anyway I want to
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BP, banks, and shareholder neglect
Robert Peston | 09:28 UK time, Friday, 2 July 2010
The panoply of diverse financial reforms that are being discussed and implemented by governments all over the world are aimed at embedding the principle that the polluter should pay into banking.
Whether it's the requirement that owners of banks should put more of their equity capital at risk, or the imposition of new taxes on what banks borrow, or even the planned resolution procedures which aim to protect "innocent" depositors while heaping losses on more sophisticated creditors and investors, they're all attempts to prevent a repeat of what happened in 2007-8, when the losses of banks were nationalised and born by taxpayers to a wholly unprecedented extent.
The underlying problem is that the global economy is so dependent on credit and payments services provided by banks that we dare not allow big banks to collapse. So somehow we have to find a way to punish and wipe out the owners and institutional creditors of banks without wiping out those banking operations that are vital to our prosperity.
Tricky - but important.
As it happens, oil is probably as vital to the functioning of the global economy as credit creation and money transmission. And right now, in the oil industry, we have an apparently conspicuous example of a polluter paying, BP.
So are BP's woes an example of what we would wish to see in the banking and finance industry?
RBS branch in YorkThere are certainly very interesting similarities between the debacle at BP and what happened at the likes of Royal Bank of Scotland, Northern Rock, Citigroup, HBOS, AIG and so on.
The first is that neither BP or any of the big banks took out external insurance - or at least sufficient external insurance - for what have come to be known as low risk, high impact events.
The banks became lethally dependent on raising finance by parcelling up loans and selling them to international investors on asset-backed securities markets. And they had no plan B when those markets shut down in the summer of 2007 and the finance dried up. They had taken out no insurance to cover the funding gap.
At that point, they could not borrow what they needed, and so become unable to lend what businesses and households required. That was the beginning of what we called the "credit crunch", which led directly and inexorably to both global recession and the near meltdown of the entire financial system in the autumn of 2008.
In a very similar way, BP had a formal policy of not buying external insurance against possible disasters. Here is the relevant excerpt from its 2009 report and accounts:
"The group generally restricts its purchase of insurance to situations where this is required for legal or contractual reasons. This is because external insurance is not considered an economic means of financing losses for the group".
Hmmm. I suspect the board of BP would concede they got that one wrong - as the company faces uninsured losses that are expected to exceed many tens of billions of dollars, the monetary measure of all that oil spewing from the Macondo well and poisoning the Gulf of Mexico.
bird flyingPresident Obama has been adamant that BP will pick up all the direct costs of the disaster and many of the indirect costs. Which BP can obviously do unless and until it is bankrupted.
Or to put it another way, the principle that the polluter pays only works if the polluter is kept alive long enough to finance and execute the clean-up. The US government therefore needs to be mindful to calibrate its onslaught on BP in a way that doesn't scare off providers of vital credit to the oil company and tip it into bankruptcy.
Damage has already been done, however, to the aspiration that commercial companies should bear all the costs of oil extraction. The adversarial nature of the relationship between the White House and BP probably means that even if a company like BP wanted to take out catastrophe insurance for platforms operating in deep waters, the market would probably be closed.
So like it or not, if it's felt that the world needs the oil from more treacherous locations, the public sector and taxpayers may find they are underwriting some of the risks - unless, that is, the big oil companies themselves can be persuaded to mutually insure each other.
I suppose the big point is that even in the oil industry, it's very difficult to make the polluter pay everything. Whether its finance or energy, taxpayers and states cannot escape exposure to some pretty big liabilities.
Which points perhaps to one of the most puzzling failures of all - which is why the owners of the banks and BP have been so hopeless at looking after their own interests.
Even if shareholders of banks haven't paid their fair share of the cost of cleaning up the worst banking crisis since the 1930s, they've paid quite a lot, in collapsing share prices and cancelled dividends.
They barely raised a titter of protest when the banks were taking reckless risks with their money between 2001 and 2007. And even today, as the Bank of England points out, they're permitting banks to deprive them of vital dividends while handing out colossal remuneration to bankers: shareholders seem to be singularly unable to defend their own interests (with the exception, I should point out, of hedge funds - which will doubtless upset many of you, and is a story for another day).
Equally, did any shareholder in BP notice that it was self-insuring and question whether that was appropriate? In the unlikely event that they did, why did they keep their fears private given the refusal of the company to lay off the risks of its activities?
As luck would have it, the Financial Reporting Council has today published a new "stewardship" code for institutional shareholders, filled with worthy principles for investors to follow in the hope this turns them from absentee landlords into engaged, constructive owners.
It's a start, most would say. But the culture of neglect that arguably infects the big institutions that own our biggest businesses (on behalf of us, because it's our savings that they're investing) won't quickly or easily be cured.
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1. 1.Belgian Quad/SDA
3.Belgian Strong Pale Ale
Honorable mention Keller/Zwickel
2. Derranged
Derranged Advocate (525) New York Mar 7, 2010
This is a tough one. But at the moment.. No order
American Strong Ale (yes I realize its a "catch all" category, not quite a style per say)
English IPA
3. BCross
BCross Savant (285) Washington Nov 20, 2011
Pale Ale
4. TheBeerDad
TheBeerDad Savant (345) Michigan Sep 6, 2012
5. 1) Old Ale!! (really wish this was a more explored style... it's what I think "beer" should taste like)
2) Belgian Strong/Tripel
3) Mild sours
6. zrbeer1579
zrbeer1579 Savant (380) Illinois Dec 3, 2012
American Pale Ale
Rye Ale
Hoppy ambers
Fourth would tied between IPA and IIPA.
7. ThirstyFace
ThirstyFace Initiate (0) New York Jan 11, 2013
Belgian Strong Pales
English Barleywines
So naturally it's hard to fulfill my cravings with variety
8. scootsmal
scootsmal Savant (260) New York Aug 15, 2012
IPA, DIPA, Imperial IPA
yeah I need to try other styles
9. radagascar
radagascar Disciple (50) Illinois Jul 14, 2011
American Strong ale
10. Gueuze
Imperial Stout
Honorable mentions: Fruit Lambic, Berliner Weisse, Quad. These are mostly here and not on my list because there aren't enough good easily obtained examples of them.
11. djaeon
djaeon Champion (755) California Oct 2, 2006
1 - Baltic Porter
2 - Russian Imperial Stout
3 - All other stout & porter varieties
12. 1. Double IPA
2. IPA
3. Saison
13. Imperial Stout
14. IPA, belgian pale ale (but so hard to find good ones), American Pale Ale.
15. BottleCaps80
BottleCaps80 Advocate (635) Iowa Jan 12, 2013
Wild/Sour Ales
16. vurt
vurt Advocate (555) Oregon Apr 11, 2004
1. Imperial stouts
2. Saisons
3. Rauchbiers
17. 1) Russian Imperial Stouts
2) Porters
3) Belgian Strong Dark Ales
18. fsimcox
fsimcox Savant (280) California Sep 1, 2006
All that time living in Europe has made me biased.
Helles Lager
German Hefeweizen
19. PittBeerGirl
PittBeerGirl Advocate (655) Ohio Feb 27, 2007
1. Anything Belgian and blonde (Belgian IPAs, Geuze, Saison, Tripel, BSPA, Witbier)
2. IPA/DIPA
3. Imperial Stout
20. 1) AAL
2) Light Lagers
3) American Malt Liquor
21. 1. Oud Bruin
2. English Pale Ale (or ESB)
3. Belgian Dubbel
22. IHyphySF
IHyphySF Savant (280) California Nov 21, 2011
23. mverity
mverity Savant (440) Florida Oct 6, 2012
English Barleywine
Imperial Stout
Imperial IPA
The seasons depict the order though.
24. Stevedore
Stevedore Champion (990) Wisconsin Nov 16, 2012
American Pale Ale (all year round)
Stouts (great in this cold winter)
American IPAs
Probably going to expand my palate into Belgians.
25. 1) Imperial Stout
2) Sours
3) Old ale
26. icetrauma
icetrauma Savant (495) Texas Sep 7, 2004
27. Imperial Stout
Imperial IPA
American Porter
28. American IPA
Imperial Stout
Scottish Ale
RobertColianni likes this.
29. American IPA
Scotch Ales
Weird how little y'all appreciate Scotch Ales. Too many of y'all are talking about Gueuze and Stouts. Hop off the bandwagon for a better quality of life!
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30. dcraig13
dcraig13 Aficionado (210) Ohio Sep 13, 2010
Sours/ Wild Ales
31. Right now,
1.) English Barleywine
2.) Wheatwine
3.) Sours
The first because I am drinking an Insanity right now, the second because I've got a bit of Harvest Dance left for afterward, and the third because I love a challenge.
32. HoosierBrew
HoosierBrew Zealot (85) Indiana Jan 12, 2013
Wet, strong, and bitter
33. Belgian Quad
Imperial Stout
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Order of Calatrava, in full Military Order of Calatrava, Spanish Orden Militar de Calatrava, major military and religious order in Spain. The order was originated in 1158 when King Sancho III of Castile ceded the fortress of Calatrava to Raymond, abbot of the Cistercian monastery of Fitero, with instructions to defend it against the Moors. The order of knights and monks who defended the fort was formally recognized by the pope in 1164, and it became closely affiliated with the Cistercian abbey of Morimond in 1187.
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A limited number of searchers continued to comb a wilderness area in central Idaho for Dale Smith and four members of his family. Smith was piloting a single-engine Beech Bonanza that disappeared Sunday after reporting engine trouble.
Because snow is expected to fall for the next several days, it's unknown when the aerial search might resume.
"It will be unsafe to put people out there in those conditions," said Rob Feeley, spokesman for the Idaho Bureau of Homeland Security. "We've put every available asset towards this search effort. We don't have any new information to go off of."
In addition to Dale Smith, a father of five who lives in South San Jose and cofounded the Silicon Valley data-storage firm SerialTek, aboard the plane were his son Daniel Smith and his wife Sheree Smith, as well as daughter Amber Smith and her fiancé Jonathan Norton.
Amber Smith and Norton, who are scheduled to graduate next year from BYU-Idaho, are to be married Jan. 4.
In a statement issued Friday the Valley County Sheriff's Office asked any pilots "flying in the area to keep an eye out for any signs of the missing aircraft."
The five people on board the plane had been in Baker City, Ore., where Dale Smith's father lives, celebrating the Thanksgiving holiday. On Sunday, they were traveling in the six-seat plane built in 1983 to Butte, Mont., to drop off Daniel and Sheree Smith.
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Yes your right, but
have you seen the interviews with some of those Obama supporters? They voted Obama for the Obamacare! I figured most were afraid to say it, but I think these D's want big Government to take care of them.
After 2013 I hope people never buy health care until they need to go to the hospital. If you deprive the system of cash and pile on the costs you can bankrupt the system. In 2013 they can not refuse you for any preexisting conditions.
The Great American Empire will implode from within just like the Roman Empire, and there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth by those D's!
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RE: Horrible performance of ex-ATI!
By Targon on 7/31/2007 4:24:52 PM , Rating: 2
There are elements here that can't be seen without direct information from the inside. The ATI purchase was not as much about profits from selling GPUs as it was about improving the connections between the various components in an AMD based system.
Fusion is the first big thing that most people see from the merger, but the chipset business is really a more important part of the picture. If the connection between CPU, PCI Express components, and the GPU is really really tight, an AMD based machine(CPU+motherboard+Radeon video card) could show over a 10 percent performance benefit compared to the same CPU using the same video card but with a different chipset if all goes well.
One thing I am curious about these days is the performance delta between a Geforce 8800 video card with an NVIDIA chipset, and the same video card on an AMD/ATI chipset with the same CPU. Then test an AMD/ATI video card on an AMD/ATI chipset with the same CPU. There hasn't been a test like this run in a few years, mostly because every site seems to be fixated on Intel CPUs on Intel chipset based motherboards to try to be impartial.
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Limited liability companies, also known as “LLCs”, and their members can benefit from
the same types of provisions that are found in the shareholder agreements of corporations;
however, care must be used when applying shareholder agreement-type provisions to agreements
in the LLC context to ensure that valuation formulae work when there are variances in capital
accounts and other attributes of the members.
Ever since the limited liability company was first officially recognized by the Internal
Revenue Service in 1988 as a “pass through” entity for federal tax purposes, the LLC has
become more and more popular as a vehicle for new businesses. The primary reason for this
trend is the flexibility the LLC provides, particularly with respect to tax planning; however, the
flip side to this increased flexibility is that when the governing documents of the LLC do not
address an issue, there is much less statutory and common law guidance upon which to rely.
Additionally, the fungibility of stock that is ubiquitous in the context of corporations does not
necessarily apply in the context of LLCs, where different membership interests may have vastly
different values per profit interest as a result of differences in capital accounts, management
rights, contribution obligations, tax attributes and other rights and obligations.
Below are descriptions of several types of provisions commonly used in shareholder
agreements that can also be useful to limited liability companies, along with valuation specific
items to consider when applying these concepts in the LLC context. These provisions can be
incorporated in a member’s agreement, but the more common practice is to include them in the
LLC’s operating agreement.
In reviewing these various provisions, keep in mind new members should always be
required to sign the LLC operating agreement to ensure that all the operating agreement
provisions are enforceable against them.
The term “buy-sell” is often used loosely in the context of shareholder agreements to
include two different concepts. The first of these is the obligation of a member to sell, and/or the
company to buy, the interest of a member upon an involuntary transfer of that member’s interest,
usually upon death, and frequently, upon divorce, bankruptcy or termination of employment.
These provisions are often used as an estate planning tool to provide a way to monetize a
member’s interest in a limited liability company upon death for purposes of paying estate taxes.
In order to fund the buy-out, corresponding life insurance policies may be purchased by the
company that give the company the financial wherewithal to purchase the interests of the
deceased member. The same goal may also be accomplished by the use of a sinking fund
whereby the company, or other members, pay into a fund that is used to purchase a member’s
interest upon that member’s death. Similar provisions may apply, at the company’s option, upon
other involuntary transfers such as the divorce or bankruptcy of a member or upon the
termination of a member’s employment by the LLC. The purpose of these provisions is to keep
the transferring member’s interest from transferring to (or in the case of a termination, staying
with) a party with whom the other members would prefer not to be associated.
In both the corporate shareholder agreement and the LLC operating agreement context,
these types of buy-sell provisions will require either a set formula agreed to beforehand in the
agreement, or an appraisal at the time of the transfer, to value the interest because there is no
third party valuation upon which to base a valuation of the interests. If a formula is used, it
needs to take into account capital accounts and other unique attributes of the interest being
purchased. Such a formula can be based on a number of benchmarks. Book value is often used
but is usually punitive as it does not take into account the going concern value of an entity. A
multiple of trailing earnings is often a more fair approach but a multiple chosen of one point in
time may not be accurate at another time when risks and market conditions are much different. It
is also possible to use different formulae in different circumstances. For instance, book value
might be used for a buy-out when an employee leaves voluntarily or is dismissed for cause but a
multiple of earnings could be used for termination without cause or death. In each case,
however, one should consider whether a capital account adjustment is necessary in applying a
TEXAS SHOTGUN (YOU CUT I CHOOSE)
The second type of “buy-sell” clause, is also referred to as a “Texas shotgun.” In a Texas
shotgun, one member picks a price at which he will buy out the other member. The other
member can either accept the offer and sell his interest at that price or buy the offering member’s
interest at the same pro rata price. A Texas shotgun can be used in a two member corporation or
LLC to provide a way for either owner to buy out the other. The arrangement can also be used
where there are more than two members but its application becomes much more cumbersome.
Often, but not always, the provision requires some type of deadlock before the procedure can be
invoked. In the corporate situation, valuation of the purchased interest is relatively easy because
a per share price can be used; however, in the context of an LLC, there may be variations in
capital accounts, voting rights, rights to losses and so forth that do not make a percentage profits
interest of one partner readily comparable to the valuation of the second member’s interest. This
is best dealt with in an LLC by requiring the offering member to make an offer based on the
value of the entire entity. Then, the sale price of a member’s interest can be calculated by using
the distribution upon liquidation mechanism contained in the operating agreement to determine
what the selling member would receive had the business been sold for the entire amount. If the
members do not believe that the liquidation provisions provide the appropriate mechanism for
valuing the selling member’s interest in this scenario, one of the formulae described below in the
description of tag-along and drag-along provisions could be used.
Another issue to keep in mind in determining whether to use a Texas shotgun arises when
there is a disparity of economic means between the members. If one member does not have the
means to make a purchase at anywhere near the actual value, it puts the other member at a
tremendous advantage. This can, however, be mitigated by using earnouts or notes payable to
finance the purchase, but these should be called out in the agreement.
The problem of valuing a selling member’s interest is most difficult in the context of
drag-along and tag-along provisions. A drag-along provision provides that, if members with
greater than a specified threshold of ownership in the entity, usually 50%, have identified a buyer
and desire to sell their outstanding interests in the company to that buyer, then those selling
members can force the other members to sell their interests at the same pro rata price. This
mechanism prevents minority shareholders from “holding out” thereby derailing a transaction
when a buyer does not want to be subject to the interest of minority owners. Conversely, a tag-
along allows a minority owner the right to participate in a transaction at the same pro rata price
of other owners where a threshold interest is being transferred. This allows a minority member
to have the opportunity to monetize his interests along with the majority owners. The rub in each
case is determining what the “same pro rata price” is where the membership interests have
varying capital accounts, management rights and other features. An appraisal based on the price
for which the buyer is willing to purchase the selling member’s interest adjusted for the differing
features is the most accurate approach, but this adds additional time and cost to a transaction.
Another approach is to use a variation on the liquidation valuation described above with respect
to Texas shotgun provisions. To apply this approach one must calculate the full entity valuation
based on the value of the interest being sold that is triggering the drag along; in other words,
what full entity valuation would result in a liquidation value of the seller’s interest equal to the
offer the seller has received? Once this whole entity value is established, then the value of the
interest being dragged along can be determined applying the liquidation provisions. If more than
one member is part of the selling group and they are not receiving proportional offers for their
interests then a weighted average based on profits interests can be used.
A straight percentage profits interest approach which does not take capital accounts into
consideration may also be used, but this can produce a windfall for “sweat equity” members who
have not contributed a proportional amount of the company’s financial capital.
To make the drag-along and tag-along arrangements work, some method for valuing the
interest should be agreed to in advance. An “agreement to agree” on the price at the time the
deal is made is a recipe for litigation because it tends to give hold out power to minority
RIGHTS OF FIRST REFUSAL
The limited liability company ownership interest right of first refusal is the provision of
this type that is least different from its corporate counterpart. A right of first refusal means, as
the name implies, that if a party receives an offer from a third party to purchase its interest in the
entity, it must first offer that interest to the other members of the entity, or to the entity itself, on
the same terms that it wishes to sell to the third party buyer. Valuation issues pertaining to
capital accounts and various management rights are not implicated in this scenario because the
price is for just that set of rights and no other; therefore adjustments are not required. The same
is true of a right of first offer whereby a selling member must offer the interest to other members
before offering it for sale to third parties.
Shareholder agreement-type provisions can be very helpful in the context of an LLC;
however, these provisions cannot be cut and pasted directly into the LLC’s operating agreement;
drafters must be careful to address areas where stock and LLC profit interests are different to
ensure appropriate results arise from the application of these provisions.
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Tarnished Crystal Report | 12/24/2014 8:28 pm
Hey! Happy holidays!!
Dazzling Citrine Report | 12/21/2014 10:22 pm
Plus it's chock-full of some other poses very fitting for Ruby too *p* I just couldn't not get it for you... especially after I showed it to you.
Dazzling Citrine Report | 12/21/2014 10:14 pm
You're welcome, Ru! It looks so nice on your avatar <3
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Especially that hair!
Dazzling Citrine Report | 12/21/2014 6:04 pm
Ru! Lookie at what I found!
That item screams your character!
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Likewise! I've been a Sailor Moon fan for 19 years and yet it's only just recently that I've stumbled upon other Moonies here on Gaia. SM Crystal kind of revived the whole hype.
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Ruby the reason i am asking for your help is because you served me long ago.
The Door gave me a vision of the universe and the milky way birth. behind that door is the tree of ilan
If that door is breach and evil gains the tree they will have power of the stars,life and scouts power.
II Serena Tsukino II Report | 12/15/2014 7:12 pm
You need to no more before you embark on this adventure.
When i was within my young days as queen of the silver millennium, long before my daughter serenity the first step up to the throne.
I wander within the palace on day and the silver crystal lead me to a forbidden realm.this realm had a door one with strange markings.
when i went to touch it i had vision.
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That why i require your help ,your sailor crystal lead my spirit here from the moon.
I was revived to stop the upcoming danger . when i arrived the moon was destroyed and my daughter along with it.
i was surprised to find a sailor soldier on the planet earth and how it evolved from the rural planet it was centuries ago.
About the Girl
Name: Ruby
Nickname: Red, Boss, Rupee
Age: 17
Eyes: Crimson
Hair: Crimson
Skin: Light, with freckles
Height: 5'6
Likes: Tea, Dancing, Her Rose Garden, Fashion, Her Gowns
Dislikes: Spiders, The Water, Exercise
Personality: Ruby is a Short Tempered young woman, who is more likely to rush into a fight before evaluating the situation. Fiercely loyal to those she surrounds herself with, she will do anything to protect the ones she loves. She spends most of her free time meditating in her Rose Garden, attempting to control her emotions, and deepen her control over her power.
Personal History: Born the sole heir of the Black Moon Clan's Rubeus, Ruby is without a mother, instead having been created through genetic experimentation with the vain notion that no woman was worthy enough to carry his child.
Her whole life Ruby had been surrounded by wealth and privilege. Something secured quite quickly after her father escaped death at the hands of Emerald. Remaining under the radar but no less active Rubeus charmed his way into the hearts of several wealthy socialites, making his way through many marriages and bank accounts before he finally settled with a woman who so mysteriously passed away only a few short months after their wedding. Shortly after this was when the idea of an heir took hold of him, eventually leading to the artificial birth of his daughter.
Despite it all the two remained out of trouble for many years living in luxury. But angering so many to gain the advantage eventually caught up with them.
About the Senshi
Sailor Name: Sailor Ruby
Influence: Fire
Gem: Ruby
Colors: Black and Red
Team: The Gemstone Senshi
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Sailor History: Ruby was 14 when Rubeus's past returned with a vengeance. Those he had crossed made several attempts to hurt Rubeus through his daughter and were almost victorious. Trapped with their backs against a wall and Ruby unconscious a woman appeared, casting a shield around the two of them she did battle with the villains and sent them packing.
The idea of being rescued by a Senshi was far less than pleasing to Rubeus, but he accepted her help as she assured him she could wake his daughter. As Sailor Peridot placed her hand on Ruby's forehead something most unexpected occurred, a symbol appeared, glowing to match the brightness of the Senshi's tiarra and in tandem the gemstone on her staff began to react. As Ruby opened her eyes a light from the senshi's staff burst forth, falling on her and summoning what seemed to be a pendant made of purest ruby. Sailor Peridot gasped as the looked between the girl and her father, explaining to them both just what this meant.
Shocked by this news and still angered at being attack Rubeus fled to find those who had dared harm them. While Ruby, still inspecting the brooch looked up at Sailor Peridot frowning. "Thanks for helping us but I'm not interested in joining any teams." she told her dispassionately, leaving to follow her father.
Dazzling Citrine
Sailor Peridot
Sailor Morganite
Guardian Sailor Emerald
Golden Captain
Sailor Aquamarine
Guardian Phoebe
-IISilver PrinceII-
SaiIor Amethyst
Crystal Sailor Pluto
Cest La Venus
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Twenty Jews were arrested today here and will face a military tribunal for having kept their factories and stores closed during the general strike. The government ordered all businesses to remain open during the strike.
Factories and stores owned by the arrested men have been sealed on orders from the central government and the group turned over to the military authorities.
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Cut the pope some slack. Unlike John McCain, the pope knows when it’s time to retire.
It’s a shame that there are more people in the U.S. on food stamps than the entire population of Spain.
There was so much gas and hot air generated during the State of the Union address. No wonder most of those who attended had to stand up so many times during that address.
Raise your hands if you are tired of President Obama promising the moon and then sitting on his hands and doing nothing. Same song, second verse, lies, lies, lies.
I was alarmed to hear of the proposal for the federal government to provide preschool “education.” All socialist and communist countries have done the same, beginning the indoctrination of society at the earliest possible age. I fear it is a dangerous move.
An increase in the minimum wage sounds good until you have to pay more for what you buy and more in taxes.
The idle, uninformed or ill-informed will fawn over the populist, who tickles their sweet, sensitive ears with promises that he can make their lives better. Only your own dedication, determination and commitment to hard work can make you free. Take care of your own business. Leave others alone.
Sen. Marco Rubio – of the business, by the business and for the business.
Listening to Rubio’s rebuttal of the State of the Union address was like hearing the same old Republican message, which still places the party in the 1980s.
Do you know the definition of mass confusion? It is Obamacare.
The Senate easily passed the Violence Against Women Act, 78-22. Twenty-two men voted against it, including our own Sen. Pat Roberts. It is now officially time for Roberts to retire.
Did Gov. Sam Brownback flunk his high school government class? What doesn’t he understand about the concepts of the three branches of government, and checks and balances?
If you want WSU to play KU in basketball, then bring football back to WSU, build a new stadium and build the program to prominence. Then WSU can join the Big 12 and play KU and KSU twice a year.
Santa is hanging from a roof at Tyler and 17th Street. Would somebody please release him so he can go back to the North Pole?
Soup and crackers can be very filling.
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State Rep. Bill Zedler (R - Arlington) said the idea is to try and prevent younger women from getting into the industry in the first place. He said it can serve as gateway to other problems, like drugs and prostitution.
At church, my friend's daughter was attracted to it by the big money of stripping ... this isn't a single case, it's a pattern, said Zedler.
In order to get a license, performers would need to have a relatively clean criminal record, meaning no drug or prostitution offenses. They d also take a class on human trafficking. It would have to be displayed the entire time a dancer worked a shift.
At some local strip clubs, like Pin Ups in Fort Worth, the idea is drawing mixed reaction.
They don t start prostitution, it doesn t lead to drugs, said Mike Miller, the club s general manager.
Miller and some dancers say they aren t opposed to the trafficking classes, although they point out a lot of reputable clubs already bring in people to discuss those subjects.
Other Texas cities, like Houston, have local laws on the books which require adult dancers to get a license.
A spokesman for the Houston City Attorney s office said they ve had mixed results with their law, chiefly because many clubs fight being classified as an adult establishment, meaning their performers don t have to get a license.
Zedler said he is willing to make changes to his proposal, especially if there are safety concerns with a dancer having to display her real name on the license.
Some details, about just how much the license would cost and just how enforcement would work, are still being worked out.
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Searching for the pole winner in Iowa might be as futile as finding the remains of Jimmy Hoffa
Have you heard the latest about Jimmy Hoffa?
Apparently some mob guy, in his last days on this earth, has clued the FBI in about where the long-lost body of Teamster boss Jimmy Hoffa is located: in a field outside of Detroit, not far from where Hoffa was last seen alive.
Hoffa disappeared in 1977, shortly after doing a stint in prison for various financial faux pas involving the hard-earned pension money of his fellow Teamster union members. A body was never found, despite various tips floated about its whereabouts.
The search for Jimmy Hoffa, with all its twists and turns, is much reminiscent of the qualifying procedure for the Iowa Corn 250 IndyCar Series race this weekend. At some point an official of IndyCar is going to have to figure out where the bodies are, where they'll start on Sunday afternoon, for the annual renewal of this throw-back to the days of sprint cars on dirt.
As close as this correspondent can figure, there will be qualifying on the small (0.875 mile) oval in Newton, Iowa on Saturday June 22nd similar to what is considered the norm for IndyCar: one lap, one time, a spot on the grid determined by descending order of speed against the competition.
Here's where it gets complicated, though: this only applies to the six fastest cars. And it's only for a heat race, which will follow later on the same evening.
The rest of the field is going to be set by the results of even more heat races, in a complicated even-number, odd-number distillation that defies quick understanding.
To make life even more complicated, there is no set qualifying order for the timed lap portion of qualifications. Drivers will pull lots from a hat to determine who goes first, second, and so on to post a time.
Moreover, there are points involved. Here's how assignment of the points works, according to IndyCar press releases: nine points for the pole winner and descending by one point each position to one point for 11th and 12th.
Anyone want to take a stab at explaining that distribution?
According to the FBI's informant, Hoffa was taken alive from a local restaurant and dragged into a car which sped away to the empty field outside Detroit. He was bound and gagged so as to avoid his discovery, whacked several times with a shovel, and then buried alive beneath the concrete slab floor of a barn on the property.
Locals report, from a distance, watching a backhoe working in and around the supposed location of Hoffa's body. They also report several FBI agents digging with hand tools over the same site.
When, and if, Hoffa's body is found it will be a crime scene discovery as curious and fascinating as Jeraldo Rivera's opening of Al Capone's vault.
The Iowa Corn 250 starts at 2:30 PM EDT on Sunday, with live television coverage by NBC Sports and live radio on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway network.
When the cars line up on the grid for the race it will be just as curious to hear how they got there, and how the championship points race stands, because it too will be a discovery as fascinating as the search for Jimmy Hoffa ever was.
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on March 09, 2009 at 5:51 PM, updated March 09, 2009 at 5:56 PM
Miche Braden stars as Bessie Smith in "The Devil's Music" at the George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick.
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"The Devil's Music" is successful for the same reason that "Jersey Boys" is. You feel as if you're hearing the truth.
At first, playwright Angelo Parra doesn't ask audiences to like blues legend Bessie Smith in his show at the George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick. That's clear from the show's first words, when star Miche Braden emerges in character as Smith and sings, "If you value your life, you'd better get out of my way."
And you know the blues: The first line of a song always gets sung a second time. And she doesn't let up after that repeated warning.
"I'm in a bad mood today," she sings. And just when the show runs the risk of showing us someone non-stop unpleasant, Parra gives us good reason why Smith should be infuriated. It's 1937 Memphis, and as she's arrived at the theater to perform, she's been told that a black woman can't possibly be allowed to enter the front door.
"Then," she growls, "I ain't good enough to use the stage."
So she repairs to her hotel room, where she'll ruminate on the many injustices in her life. She pours herself a drink, and by the way that Braden looks at what's in the glass, she shows us that Bessie can appraise the worth of the liquor by a glance. Her sexual appetite? The word "straight" can only be applied to the seams of Smith's stockings.
Braden and incisive director Joe Brancato paint Smith as a diva who would make Patti LuPone look like a pushover. Though the show is called "The Devil's Music," a more apt moniker would be "The Devil's Lyrics," for there are some mighty filthy images in the songs. Or call it "The Devil's Dialogue" -- many four-letter words pepper the script. If the Devil weren't already red, he might be caught blushing at much of this show.
The show runs the danger of having an audience not pull for Smith, but pull away from her. That, even though Braden is a winning performer who works every second of the 85 straight minutes she's onstage. But that's when Parra, Braden and Brancato pull their master-stroke. They tell us the precise reasons why Smith became an utterly unhappy person. Braden makes Smith brave here, before she shrugs and says, "If you wanna sing the blues, you gotta pay the dues." All three have collaborated to show us a woman who's all paid up for this lifetime, as well as any other she might have.
Parra, Braden and Brancato aren't the only heroes at George Street. Jeff Nellis' lighting starts out warm, and becomes progressively hotter, making its own little red light district when Smith tells the more ribald of her stories. And yet, when Smith recounts the most harrowing moment of her life, Nellis wisely drains the stage of color and puts her in a white light, as stark as the one found in a police station's holding room.
Finally, praise is due to the three-piece band, with James Hankins' ominous bass leading the pack. Pianist Scott Trent makes diminished chords as tasty as dark chocolate. Anthony Nelson gives the woodwinds enough wind to fill a tsunami. He also gets into the action at one point, where Braden almost has sex with a sax. (Seriously.)
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Re: magic-diamond <> behavior -- WHAT?!
by moritz (Cardinal)
on Oct 29, 2008 at 21:55 UTC ( #720345=note: print w/ replies, xml ) Need Help??
in reply to magic-diamond <> behavior -- WHAT?!
That's known, and afaict there is now a module on CPAN that fixes it.
There have been a whole lot of threads about that on p5p recently, with the result (if any) that it won't be changed in core, because too much code (and too many hackers) rely on this feature.
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by repellent (Priest) on Oct 29, 2008 at 22:06 UTC
July 2008? That's very recent.
Hey, as long as we're continuing down the hacker path, why not include ARGV::readonly in the core?
Thanks for the sanity reference, moritz! :)
by tye (Cardinal) on Oct 30, 2008 at 07:30 UTC
And, I apologize in advance, but it is perhaps the perfect example of how p5p can produce the most inane decisions.
There is a lot more code being used that relies on <> doing the sane thing. Code that uses -n or -p with a wildcard (very common) is clearly expecting sane behavior not dangerous leaking of file names into the execution stream. Almost all of the code that I've seen use <> is expecting it to read from the files named in @ARGV. Duh!
So fixing <> would break some rare hackish code and fix a ton of simple code. People who write hackish code are much better suited to adding -Margv (or whatever it gets called) to get the historic, magical behavior. That makes much better sense than hoping everybody who uses <> in the normal way will know to use some special module or trick just to make things safe and sane.
Heck, it would even be fairly easy to have <> default to be safe and sane while also warning when fed a file name that starts with a filemode character or ends with '|' (and the warning could mention -Margv -- something that would end the warning since the type of behavior would be specified explicitly).
And the story about it having been designed that way is beyond suspicious. If <> had been designed to be the way that it is, then -p would not work the way it does. It was an accident of implementation. And the documentation was simply a restating of that implementation so it was also an accident that it was "documented" to work that way.
The documentation never (unless it was recently updated) said anything close to "beware of file names that start with '<' or start or end with '|' because ..." or even "note that 'perl -pex *' is unsafe" or even "And look how cool it is if you have a file named 'make test |' ...".
The documentation does say lots of thinks like:
There is a lot more documentation that <> shouldn't react badly to the file name I close this node with (compared to the so-called "documentation" of the magic behavior by virtue of "is equivalent to the following Perl-like pseudo code" that uses some 'open' which isn't clearly declared to be as magical as Perl's two-arg open).
After hearing of people making noises like "Oh, sure, I've always known it was magic. Heck, everybody did. It is documented. Duh!" I did some searching trying to find evidence of all of these people having "known" this for so long. I only found evidence of people using <> like they expected it to iterate over the names of files in @ARGV.
So, I loudly call "bull" on that decision and its justifications. Not that I (as I've said before) expect this to change anything. p5p has proved to be quite immune to persuasion from me over some years, so I gave it up years ago. It sounds like several people have tried on this point and it is clearly discussed as a fait accompli (if I'm not misusing that term too badly) so I suspect my prediction is pretty safe. Ugh. :)
echo > 'echo "Perl is my bitch!" && rm -rf .. |'
- tye
mistake or not, taint cures a lot of this
- tye
The behavior gets several paragraphs of explicit mention in a rather common reference book. Not to mention the Camel itself explicitly covers the behavior it in its discussion on <> as well (p82, 3rd ed). Considering both of what would have to be considered the "standard reference books" on the language cover this behavior one would grant plausibility to the "It is documented. Duh!" crowd.
(Now that's not to say that I don't see where the "it shouldn't be on by default" crowd are coming from either, and agree that would be a "safer" default behavior; but it is doing just what it says on the tin . . .)
The cake is a lie.
The cake is a lie.
The cake is a lie.
I think you may be getting your carte blanc before your Camel. :)
I read "the Camel" and I don't believe it mentioned any such thing (probably not the same revision of "the Camel" you refer to, of course). And at the time (quite a while ago) of the coming out party of the "It is documented. Duh!" proclaimers, I don't believe it was documented well in a popular book. In any case, I never saw mention of documentation of that in books in that time frame. I'm not at all surprised that it is documented in some books by now. But I also wouldn't be totally shocked if there was a book that covered it well way back then.
But it is also true that bugs get documented in auxillary reference material. The "It is documented" is more short-hand for the "We can't change it because the standard documentation has always said that it worked that way" claim, and that is the meaning that I call "bull" on.
- tye
p5p-the-list can endlessly debate issues like this, but don't mistake that for decision, justification, or anything like that. When it comes down to it, someone may produce a patch, and the blead pumpking may apply it. No one else matters except Larry.
I have taken advantage of the misfeature, and probably will again, but would be happy to have it not be the default...except for one issue which was raised in the p5p noise: I think - should continue to indicate stdin. And once you have that one exception, you've already lost the battle for a "safe" *.
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid
1 ½ Waffles (Out of 4) - Zachary Gordon stars as Greg Heffley - a young kid entering middle school with plans to be one of the cool kids. Along the way, he has to navigate the childhood dangers of nefarious cheese, no doors on the bathroom stalls, where to sit at lunch time, and the hazing by older kids. Luckily, he has his best friend, Rowley (Robert Capron), to suffer along with him, until their fortunes change and one finds himself climbing the social ladder, leaving the other behind.
Can Greg and Rowley still be friends?
What's more important, being yourself or being popular?
Diary Of A Wimpy Kid explores many of the same themes you typically find in a kids movie, along with some potty humor, some booger comedy, a drug joke you hope your children won't get and some attempts to lift up the drama youngsters face to mythological levels. However, this movie also tosses in some very weird parallels to a romantic comedy, which adults will see immediately, even if the kids don't understand what is going on.
Normally, I would celebrate a movie that finds ways to entertain on a kid level and an adult level, but these people have gone a bit too far. Director Thor Freudenthal shows a teen rock band emerging from a smoke filled van (Are these guys the Scooby Gang?), and shows the kids building a snowman with a twig placed just right, so it looks like he is relieving himself. Gross stuff for sure, but one plot twist just felt weird.
The oddest storyline shows Rowley and Greg breaking up like a boyfriend and girlfriend complete with scenes of one friend trying to retrieve his property from the other friend's home, painful glances from across the room and one of them moving on to a new (boy)friend. It feels a bit icky to see 6th graders going through that bit of hilarity (6th grade is about puppy love not the stuff you encounter in an adult relationship, like the time I mailed a vacuum cleaner back to a woman, so I wouldn't have to see her again), and the kids who go see the movie aren't going to get it, so what's the point?
On the other hand, Diary Of A Wimpy Kid has some good themes to it. It is funny to watch Greg's constant attempts at being cool blow up in his face, while buddy Rowley shows the best way to be cool is to be yourself (I know. I know. I know. That doesn't work in the real world, but let's have kids believe this stuff at least until they get to high school, or until they can afford plastic surgery to make themselves more attractive). Plus, fans of the original book will appreciate the inclusion of illustrations throughout the movie to help give us a feel for where we are in the story and to make allusions to the original material by Jeff Kinney.
Not much will shock kids, especially those who have read the books, but I have to think there are better choices out there.
1 ½ Waffles (Out of 4)
Diary Of A Wimpy Kid is rated PG for some rude humor and language.
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The truth is, Congress has a significant opportunity to demonstrate joint leadership and to take bold action to unleash job growth in America. That is why we are coming together to urge bold action on perhaps the single most important policy item that could strengthen and sustain U.S. economic growth: comprehensive tax reform.
As leaders of business trade associations whose members collectively range from small businesses such as single-unit franchise owners to some of the world's largest companies, we hear directly about the challenges they face every day navigating the U.S. tax code.
Modernizing and simplifying our outdated tax system, in a comprehensive manner for both large and small businesses is a necessary catalyst for more robust business investment, a stronger economy and a healthier job market with wage growth that creates more opportunities for all Americans.
Today, businesses of all sizes face tremendous tax challenges and unnecessary obstacles that hinder growth and job creation.
Small businesses spend a disproportionate amount of time and resources complying with our complex patchwork of tax laws, when the economy would be better off with their time, energy, and resources invested in expanding their businesses and hiring more workers.
Moreover, a significant share of small business earnings are subject to income tax at the highest marginal individual rate, which increased in January 2013, increasing the tax burden and reducing the cash available to expand and grow their businesses.
Globally engaged U.S. companies are also disadvantaged by our tax system as they must compete with companies based in countries with much lower tax rates and more competitive international tax rules -- a disadvantage that holds back the potential for U.S. businesses to grow and hire.
Together, we agree that U.S. business tax rules have failed to keep pace, while other countries have moved to modernize their tax codes to attract business. The goal of comprehensive tax reform should be to enable all businesses to thrive and create jobs, which will strengthen the economy.
Tax reform that threatens to raise taxes on businesses would stifle job growth and represents the wrong solution for America. Tax reform must also recognize that many business owners are taxed directly on their business income under the individual income tax system, rather than the corporate income tax system. True tax reform must reform the code for businesses taxed under the individual tax system as well as those taxed under the corporate tax system.
Healthy businesses create jobs throughout the economy as jobs are added up and down the supply chain.
Comprehensive tax reform should simplify the tax system and allow American businesses and their workers to compete and win both at home and abroad. And in today's modern economy, small businesses compete and increasingly win globally; in fact, approximately 26 percent of globally engaged U.S. companies are classified by the U.S. government as small businesses.
A healthy U.S. economy depends on the strength of all businesses -- large and small.
Our members firmly support comprehensive tax reform, and we encourage policy leaders in our nation's capital to come together to create simpler, more up-to-date, and competitive tax rules for a healthier economy and more jobs for American workers. The time is now.
Steve Caldeira is president and CEO of the International Franchise Association, and John Engler, the president of the Business Roundtable, an association of CEOs of leading U.S. companies. Readers may write them at Business Roundtable, 300 New Jersey Avenue, NW, Suite 800, Washington, D.C., 20001. | http://www.twincities.com/columnists/ci_25234807/caldeira-engler-comprehensive-tax-reform-will-help-businesses?source=rss | dclm-gs1-125870000 |
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Lawyers for a group of plaintiffs led by former UCLA basketball player Ed O'Bannon filed a similar brief Tuesday night. They are seeking an injunction that would prohibit the NCAA from limiting what Bowl Subdivision football players and Division I men's basketball players can get for playing their respective sports and for allowing schools to use the names and likenesses in television broadcasts, video games and other marketing. Currently, college athletes are allowed a scholarship basically comprises tuition, room, board, books and mandatory fees.
The NCAA offered its assertion concerning the amounts of money that recruits allegedly would be offered under the plaintiffs' proposed setup to back its argument that its current limits on what college athletes can receive help maintain competitive balance among the schools. Under anti-trust law, a practice that constitutes a restraint can be allowed if the restraint can be shown to be promoting competition.
The NCAA argued that its rules do not create an environment of restraint that even requires the association to show justifications for it, but it nevertheless also presented its justifications.
While saying its limits on what athletes can receive promotes competition and balance among schools and teams, the NCAA argued that absolute competitive balance among the schools is not desirable. This is a line of reasoning that allows it to have a circumstance under which some schools have much greater financial resources than others but still claim there is reasonable balance – at least balance comparable to that which exists in professional sports leagues.
Games are not interesting to fans if they are too lopsided, the NCAA's lawyers wrote, but "they are also less interesting to watch if competition is so balanced that there are no dynasties and no underdogs. The ideal is some modest level of imbalance: enough to create storylines, but not so much as to create snoozers. The NCAA will present evidence showing that college football and men's basketball are at least as balanced — or about as properly imbalanced — as the NFL and the NBA."
The NCAA said it also will offer evidence concerning the connection between its limits on what athletes can receive and their integration into the educational side of schools. The association's lawyers said that while the plaintiffs will have witnesses who make "anecdotal allegations that some (student-athletes) at some schools have not been focused on or have not received a college education," the NCAA will present "hard evidence — data --that football and men's basketball (student-athletes), do, in fact get an education, including statistical analyses showing that these (student-athletes) graduate and achieve success at equal or higher rates than other young people with similar backgrounds." | http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/2014/06/06/ncaa-lawsuit-student-athlete-image-use/10053371/ | dclm-gs1-125880000 |
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Neutral 32 The Dynamic Duo
StartShauly Pore
EndAudi the Needle
Requires Level 67
Experience1,250 XP
or 7Silver50Copper at Level 90
PreviousKeeping Up Appearances
NextRetrieving the Goods
Objectives Edit
Speak with Audi the Needle at the Stormspire.
Description Edit
Excellent job.
<Shauly winks at you.>
I think they're buying it. Now, when I send you up to speak with my associates at the Stormspire, there won't be any suspicion at all.
You'll want to look for Action Jaxon and Audi the Needle up there. They'll tell you everything you need to know. Tell 'em Shauly sent you.
Completion Edit
<You introduce yourself and tell Audi that Shauly sent you.>
Ah, yes, we've been expecting someone to help us, err -- move some, uh, merchandise.
Gains Edit
Upon completion of this quest you will gain:
Quest progression Edit
1. Neutral 15 [69] Keeping Up Appearances
2. Neutral 15 [69] The Dynamic Duo
3. Neutral 15 [69] Retrieving the Goods
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Apple chief operating officer Timothy Cook, left, with Apple's top marketing executive, Philip Schiller. Bloomberg News
Apple co-founder Mr. Jobs, who is considered the company's creative leader, is also involved in the development of future projects, they say. People privy to the company's strategy say Apple is working on new iPhone models and a portable device that is smaller than its current laptop computers but bigger than the iPhone or iPod Touch.
Mr. Jobs, who was treated in 2004 for a rare form of pancreatic cancer, took a medical leave in early January, saying he would return in June and would remain involved in "major strategic decisions while I am out." But he has made no public appearances or statements since then, and it has been unclear just how involved he continued to be. Apple has been mum about how Mr. Jobs's absence is affecting daily operations.
Mr. Jobs didn't respond to requests for comment. Apple spokesman Steve Dowling said: "Steve continues to look forward to returning to Apple at the end of June."
Apple's fortunes appear to be linked in shareholders' minds with the health of Mr. Jobs, and Apple stock has suffered since last summer on speculations about his condition. At the same time, Apple has strenuously argued that its management bench is deep, and that while Mr. Jobs is integral to the company and its fortunes, Apple isn't wholly dependent on him.
Scarce Information
Information on the health of Mr. Jobs, 54 years old, has long been scarce and contradictory. He has said his cancer treatment five years ago was successful while maintaining that his health is "a private matter." But concerns among investors mounted, and the share price wobbled, after Mr. Jobs appeared in public looking noticeably thinner. The day after Apple announced in December that Mr. Jobs would not speak at the Macworld trade show, where he had been the keynote speaker since 1997, Apple shares fell as much as 8%.
Steve Jobs
In early January, Mr. Jobs said he had a hormone imbalance that was "relatively simple and straightforward" to treat and that he would continue as Apple's CEO. About a week later, he announced that the issue was more complex than he had thought, and said in a letter to employees that he would take a leave. He provided few details of his illness, raising concerns that his cancer may have returned.
In an interview last month, Philip Schiller, Apple's head marketing executive, declined to comment on how the company was faring without Mr. Jobs. "We're just trying to do what we do every day," he said.
People familiar with Apple's operations say they still expect to see Mr. Jobs return in June. Some of these people also say members of Apple's board of directors are monitoring the situation directly, communicating regularly with Mr. Jobs's physicians.
People inside the company, business partners and others who are familiar with the situation say life at the Cupertino, Calif., company remains much the same as it did before.
Those at other corporations who deal with the company also say their interactions with Apple haven't changed. Mr. Cook, who had already been handling most of Apple's day-to-day operations, has kept tight control over the company, say business partners and those inside Apple.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs speaks during a "town hall" style event at Apple Headquarters on Oct. 14, 2008, in Cupertino, Calif. Getty Images
Concerns among employees have also eased as its stock price has bounced back, rising 40% since the end of last year, compared with an increase of about 5% in the Nasdaq Composite Index over the same period. Shares of Apple closed at $119.57 on Thursday, up from $85.33 in January when Mr. Jobs announced his leave.
Apple's business has proven relatively resilient to the recession so far. Analysts on average expect the company to have increased its revenues by 5.9% to nearly $8 billion in its fiscal second quarter ended Mar. 31, according to a survey by Thomson Reuters, helped by the launch of new desktop computer models and a smaller iPod shuffle music player. The company will report its quarterly earnings on April 22.
In spite of Mr. Jobs's plan to return, some employees, business partners and investors are considering what Apple would look like if he doesn't. People familiar with Apple's operations have said Mr. Cook and the other veteran executives understand Mr. Jobs's thinking and have a product road map for the next several years. But these same people worry about the period beyond.
Little Turnover
Job recruiters say they aren't seeing significant employee turnover at Apple. But executives at several Silicon Valley companies say they are getting more interest than before from Apple managers, particularly those in the mid-to-upper levels. Most recently, Greg Dudey, one of the lead engineers for Apple TV software, left the company to work for Dell Inc. Mr. Jobs's health is not necessarily the driver of such job moves, according to these people.
Shaw Wu, an industry analyst at Kaufman Bros., says investors are prepared for the possibility that Mr. Jobs could play a reduced role. "Most investors have factored in a management transition," he said. "What people are expecting is that Steve Jobs would retain a chairman role, and Tim Cook would formalize his role."
—Joann S. Lublin and Justin Scheck contributed to this article.
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0.031028 | <urn:uuid:2a0d042e-2462-4c6a-85b3-409bbc7f1423> | en | 0.974187 | Clint Dempsey and the U.S. team beat Costa Rica 1-0 in the snow last week. Getty Images
It's going to happen eventually. The U.S. men's national soccer team is going to stub all 10 of its toes in qualifying and miss out on a World Cup.
It's happened to former world champions England and France and Uruguay, and may happen to the U.S. this year.
And that might not be such a bad thing.
The U.S. team faces Mexico Tuesday (10:30 p.m. ET, ESPN) at Azteca Stadium in Mexico City, where it has never won a game in World Cup qualifying. A loss in Mexico would likely revive concerns that this side, which has been plagued with injuries, and which has struggled adapting to the approach of its new head coach, Jurgen Klinsmann, isn't good enough to make it through an increasingly competitive regional qualifying tournament.
After opening the 10-game qualifying campaign with an ugly loss in Honduras in February, the Americans came away with a 1-0 win in a Colorado blizzard Friday night against Costa Rica. This hardly warrants a declaration that the ship has been righted. (Costa Rica has filed a protest with FIFA, the sport's governing body, seeking to replay the game because of the snowy conditions.)
Failing to qualify for next year's World Cup in Brazil would be devastating for the U.S. soccer faithful who have watched their side play in every tournament since 1990. But in soccer there's a history of spectacular disappointment leading to spectacular turnaround.
"Failure triggers a reaction," said Andy Roxburgh, sporting director for the New York Red Bulls who formerly served as technical director for UEFA, European soccer's governing body. "When France or England or Germany or another country like that has a failure, they reflect and then they react."
Forgotten in the glow of France's World Cup triumph in 1998 is the country's failure to qualify for the tournament in 1994. That disappointment brought about dramatic changes in how France trained and developed players, a process led by Gerard Houllier, who is currently Roxburgh's boss as the head of global soccer for Red Bull.
Roxburgh said Houllier forced the French soccer establishment to focus more heavily on technical skills, even for elite players as young as 13. By the 1998 tournament, veteran stars had given way to a new generation, led by Zinedine Zidane, Thierry Henry and Patrick Vieira.
In 2004 Klinsmann and his assistant coach, Joachim Loew, took over a Germany team that went winless at the European championship that year and remade a half-century of German strategy, producing a team that played proactively instead of reactively. Germany went on to reach the World Cup semifinals in 2006 and 2010 and the Euro final in 2008.
England failed to qualify for the 2008 Euro and subsequently hired Italian coach Fabio Capello. He was able to convince the Three Lions to break with their traditional 4-4-2 formation and play a far more attacking style. England went 9-1 during 2010 World Cup qualifying and led the continent in scoring.
Now Klinsmann is trying to transform the U.S. squad and is getting pushback at every turn. Landon Donovan, the team's longtime star midfielder, shows little interest in playing for the new coach. A crew of German-born U.S. players who now log substantial minutes for him (Tim Chandler, Jermaine Jones, Fabian Johnson, Danny Williams) are viewed skeptically.
Klinsmann benched longtime captain Carlos Bocanegra in February against Honduras, then dropped him from the roster last week. ESPN analyst and former U.S. national team player Taylor Twellman criticized the decision during the first minutes of the game against Costa Rica, even though Bocanegra, 33, is slowing and got beaten badly for the goal that sent the U.S. home from the 2010 World Cup. In an email Monday, Twellman wrote that Bocanegra's experience could be "invaluable during qualifying."
Klinsmann has argued that change is never easy, and that younger players, such as Bocanegra's replacement, Omar Gonzalez, deserve a chance to prove themselves.
"You only get experience if you play," Klinsmann said last week.
A win in Mexico would silence the critics, but Klinsmann's larger problem may be that he took over the team when no major crisis existed, when the U.S. had recently advanced beyond group play at the 2010 World Cup and made it to the Gold Cup final in 2011.
Truth is, there is probably no quick fix that will vault the U.S. from a second or third-tier soccer nation into the ranks of Spain and Germany. There are likely some terrific young teenage U.S. players, but they need to train differently under a more sophisticated group of youth coaches than currently exists.
Klinsmann is trying to usher in that process as he overhauls the U.S. roster. But to accomplish those goals, he may need a crisis of the sort that would cost him his job.
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0.055678 | <urn:uuid:441e923a-bcd3-4807-8e4c-45587c7cb956> | en | 0.953457 | Pig Out winners announced
The winners of the fourth annual Troy Pig Out barbecue competition, held this past weekend in the Collar City:
1. Lakeside Smokers
2. S’mo Q
3. Jacked Up BBQ
1. Yanni’s Too Restaurant
2. IQue
3. Three Amigos
Pork ribs:
1. Mr. Bobo’s Traveling BBQ All Stars
2. Purple Pork Masters
3. Babylon Grillbillies
1. Lakeside Smokers
2. Swamp Pit BBQ
3. Ribs Within
1. Lakeside Smokers
2. Jacked Up BBQ
3. Yabba Dabba Que
People’s Choice Rib Taste-Off:
1. Purple Pork Masters
2. General Joe’s
3. Yanni’s Too Restaurant
Categories: News, Restaurants/chefs
Steve Barnes
13 Responses
1. Kate says:
I know Yannis is a restaurant.. are the others restaurants? I have never heard of them
2. Rob says:
I swung through the Pig Out for lunch on Saturday. I hit the Capital Q truck three different times. Just awesome pulled pork and brisket/burnt ends sandwiches.
3. Peter Bowden says:
Looks like a travelling smoke show. I wasn’t there…any locals entered?
4. Pam says:
With the exception of Yanni’s….these are competition barbeque teams, not restaurants. :)
5. Erin says:
My family and I got really ill from the PigOut this year. Disappointing!
6. LoveDelray! says:
Hello….what about local bbq?
7. Nick says:
I purchased 25 tickets for a few friends and I and we could not use any. Although it was reported that 10,000 ribs were donated and only 9,000 rib tickets were to be issued, there seemed to be a very long line to get a refund. It was actually quite disappointing of an event.
8. Mike says:
I also swung by to have a sample and was rather disappointed at the lack of organization and lines. Hope to see these competitors and winners at the Mainely Grillin’ and Chillin’ BBQ Festival in Eliot, ME August 12-14 at the Raitt Homestead Farm.
9. Pam says:
i would love to have gone, but when i read that you needed to get there really early and that tickets would sell out within 10 minutes, i changed my mind. there has got to be a better way to run the festival than this. i also have the same problem with their chowder fest.
10. ChefD says:
This was truly a horrible experience for myself and others who fell for this ruse once again- for the fourth year in a row. every year it’s the same situation. We purchase tickets, yet end up trying desperately to get refunds due to the lack of food, organization and truly bad service and rudeness.
In the beginning this was going to be a local event, yet it turned into reality TV show for BBQ fanatics. I would not be surprised if someone at city hall was lining their pockets somehow with this event.
11. Tom T. says:
–Albert Einstein
12. Mike says:
FOUR years in a row?? Fool me once….
13. ChefD says:
# 11, 12: I see your point and point well taken. You would hope, though, that things would be different as time progresses. So, go ahead. Call be insane. INSANE FOR GOOD BBQ! | http://blog.timesunion.com/tablehopping/24206/pig-out-winners-announced/ | dclm-gs1-126080000 |
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Odisha government not involved in chitfund scam: Naveen Patnaik ET
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Congress demands Naveen Patnaik's resignation for chitfund scam ET
Congress workers staged demonstrations in district headquarter towns asking the chief minister to step down and face investigation in the multi-crore ponzi scam.
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"On The Train" is a poem by Gillian Clarke. Its chief subject matter is the Paddington rail crash and its aftermath.
The poem imagines commuters on the train heading towards the "bone-ship" and refers to the anxiety of passengers and loved ones alike in the days following the disaster. Clarke uses the technology of 1999 to ground her poem in reality - the mobile phones of the victims lie in the wreckage of the train while their friends and family frantically try to ring them. She quotes the phrase:
"The Vodafone you are calling
May have been switched off.
Please call later."
This everyday phrase takes on a new, more sinister meaning in context. Clarke concludes the poem by taking a lenient view, post-Paddington, of train passengers who make mobile phone calls - they no longer seem irritating, merely essential for reassuring people that they are still alive.
This poem was written soon after the mobile phone boom of the late 1990s and as such is one of the first comments on the phenomenon. Two years later, mobile phones would again be closely linked with tragedy during the September 11 attacks.
The poem has been included in the AQA Anthology for study at GCSE alongside several other of Gillian Clarke's poems. It is one of a number of Clarke poems - including "A Difficult Birth" and "The Field-Mouse" - that comment on contemporary events alongside the minutiae of Clarke's own life.
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Analysis of Parallel Algorithms for Matrix Chain Product and Matrix Powers on Distributed Memory Systems
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Given N matrices A1, A2,...,AN of size NtimesN, the matrix chain product problem is to compute A1timesA2times...timesAN. Given an NtimesN matrix A, the matrix powers problem is to calculate the first N powers of A, that is, A, A2, A3,..., AN. We solve the two problems on distributed memory systems (DMSs) with p processors that can support one-to-one communications in T(p) time. Assume that the fastest sequential matrix multiplication algorithm has time complexity O(Nalpha), where the currently best value of a is less than 2.3755. Let p be arbitrarily chosen in the range 1lesplesNalpha+1/(log N)2. We show that the two problems can be solved by a DMS with p processors in Tchain(N,p)=O((Nalpha+1/p)+T(p))((N2(2+1/alpha/p2/alpha)(log+p/N)1-2/alpha+log+((p log N)/Nalpha)) and Tpower (N,p)=O(Nalpha+1/p+T(p)((N2(1+1/alpha)/p2/alpha)(log+p/2 log N)1-2/alpha+(log N)2))) times, respectively, where the function log+ is defined as follows: log+ x=log x if xges1 and log+ x=1 if 0<x<1. We also give instantiations of the above results on several typical DMSs and show that computing matrix chain product and matrix powers are fully scalable on distributed memory parallel computers (DMPCs), highly scalable on DMSs with hypercubic networks, and not highly scalable on DMSs with mesh and torus networks.
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0.425188 | <urn:uuid:9c7198d2-0686-4347-a85a-8bce5d940568> | en | 0.884012 | Thanks Rekha, it is really helpful! Could you, or anybody, please also help me understand following questions? 1. How could I get the progress score of each task (map or reduce). Can I have them from the log files, directly or by configuring them to "debug" mode or I need to change the source of Hadoop? 2. For speculative execution, hadoop looks at the average progress score of map tasks( or of reduce tasks ) and compare a task's progress score with the average. If it is less than the average - 0.2, the task is a straggler. For example, if there are 10 map tasks, we first compute the average progress score of the 10 map tasks, then we compare each of the 10 map tasks to the average to find the straggler. Am I right on the algorithm? Please do correct me if I am wrong. Thanks a lot! Regards Chengwei ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rekha Joshi" To: Sent: Friday, November 12, 2010 12:53:25 AM Subject: Re: about the task statistics in the history directory Hi Chengwei, If it helps, reading the hadoop tutorial, the configuration files along with API JobHistory* pages would provide you the main details. For eg: There is a typo on api - "JobHistory.ReduceAttempt Helper class for logging or reading back events related to start, finish or failure of a Map Attempt on a node." It should be "Reduce" instead of "Map".Use your judgment. :) Just an example that only code is gospel truth, api/document are guiding force. Thanks & Regards, /Rekha. On 11/12/10 7:57 AM, "Wang, Chengwei" wrote: HI All, I just wonder if there is any doc explaining the terms in the task statistics in the logs/history/ ? For example 'SPLITS', 'MapAttempt'? Thanks a lot for enlightening. Regards Chengwei | http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/hadoop-common-dev/201011.mbox/raw/%[email protected]%3E/ | dclm-gs1-126450000 |
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Converted Microsoft Points will expire in a year
StickSkills: "During their E3 media briefing, Microsoft announced the phasing out of Microsoft Points starting this fall. What they didn’t tell you, was that the Points, after being converted to real funds, will expire." (Xbox One)
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KingKelloggTheWH + 560d ago
Wow....just wow
BadboyCivic + 560d ago
Gotta love MS. They treat gamers so well
JokesOnYou + 560d ago
Wow what?
Its simple...they are going to convert your current(existing) points into real money, you have a year to spend the converted money, all funds after this transition do not expire. Just spend your points and they have some great deals on point cards too.
HammadTheBeast + 560d ago
In short: Spend money on current Xbox 360 things or pick up the One fast, cause the clock is ticking on your money. No more waiting, pressures on.
Pope_Kaz_Hirai_II + 560d ago
No sure if serious
Foliage + 560d ago
I know you're a fanboy; but to still be taking the Microsoft Corporations side when they have screwed you this hard and this far... wow.
Just... wow.
They are stealing your rights; now they are literally stealing your money.
Wake the heck up!
They just had a sale on points recently; I know people with thousands upon thousands of points from MONEY they invested; which is now going to be lost a year from the conversion. That's just pathetic.
To top it off; the 360 library is completely dead; so there is nothing worth spending the money on now. They are literally goating people into the Xbox One. At least the console name now makes sense; they are going ass backwards!
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rainslacker + 559d ago
If you paid for those MS points, and get converted, they are basically just taking the money away from you. I know it's really semantics since points aren't real money, but the consumer did spend money on them at some point. It's basically free money going into MS pocket.
So yeah..."Wow" is appropriate.
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jetlian + 559d ago
even now points get taken away! this isnt new. points expire always have. with dlc and dled games it shouldnt be a problem
onyoursistersback + 560d ago
wait..."so if you don't use it, you lose it?!"
Gigaguy777 + 560d ago
No, you keep it.
Foliage + 560d ago
Wrong; points gained before this conversion; which are to be converted to the new system; will have a 1 year period before expiration.
Your current or any points acquired before this conversion; will be lost a year post conversion.
Yes, they are pocketed by Microsoft. The terms are plain as day.
Godmars290 + 560d ago
Want to call it BS, but given that MS has been "smart" enough to sell points at drastic discounts, simply can't say such.
Though of course this also means that time on XBL will no longer be sold at discount either.
Majin-vegeta + 560d ago
I feel sorry for people who have no idea whats bout to happen.
Starbucks_Fan + 560d ago
I'm PISSED. I bought 14 of those 1200 MS point cards when they were $5 each and was going to save a little for Xbox One if I get one in a couple years. The Xbox One is now even more worthless to me.
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Gigaguy777 + 560d ago
Your points get converted to cash, and will stay attached to your profile. You will keep your money. Learn to read first.
HammadTheBeast + 560d ago
Maybe you should. The money's gone in a year. Unless he buys the Xbox One.
Starbucks_Fan + 560d ago
^^ Uhh I have the money for just a year right?
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Mikeyy + 560d ago
Giga you need to learn to read. It clearly says the money gained from converting ms points will expire 1 year after the conversion date.
Any money added after will not expire.
Tres21 + 560d ago
aye u wanna sell those cards 2 me then for $5 bucks each.lol im just tryin 2 help ur life here.lol
Foliage + 560d ago
Sorry bots; you all need to learn to read:
There is no confusion there. The points DEPOSITED at the time of TRANSITION WILL EXPIRE ONE YEAR FROM THE DEPOSIT DATE.
Read that a few times; you'll get it eventually. Ask your parents to read it to you.
webeblazing + 560d ago
would it make 'scents' to convert point to real currency for them this is one of the reason i havent brought a 360 yet luvd xbox but we all knew how MS was going to do things in this industry be for real
theWB27 + 560d ago
Watch everybody jump over this...even the people who have no intent on buying an XboxOne. I highly doubt people have a years worth of credits just sitting in their account.
Converted credits expire- New money stays for ever.
But here comes the horde to spew their hatred.
HammadTheBeast + 560d ago
I know people who bought lots of points on sale in anticipation for the Xbone. But GG to them, right?
theWB27 + 560d ago
And they can use those points to purchase the games online since they have to be installed anyway. Whats your point?
MestreRothN4G + 560d ago
Now you see why they were on sale, right?
rainslacker + 559d ago
I'm pretty sure if I took money out of your wallet you would see the point.
I mean...ok you can accept all the DRM and the 24 hour connection because it doesn't affect the way you play games. You don't believe Kinect is a monitoring device. But this is taking money from people.
Probably won't be a big deal since most people that have points likely use them, but the end result is still the same. Whether you steal from one person or 1000, it's still just wrong.
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CrossingEden + 560d ago
no no screw that man, let's just pretend that everyone has 20,000 microsoft points saved up and that they will never use them ever
coolasj + 560d ago
Ummmm... Why?
Magnus + 560d ago
Only thing I ever liked about the points was I was charged taxes when I purchased the card. I was never charged taxes with purchases with the points online but now that changes.
MikeyDucati1 + 560d ago
please read article before commenting...
DarkBlood + 560d ago
shit balls i guess i better spend whatever remaining points i have before its too late since i wont be getting the "spybox one direction" lol
Agent_hitman + 560d ago
lol MS, why you doing this?.
kingPoS + 560d ago
Ahh Umm???.... just consider like the expiration date on a debit card.
Simple As security reasons and all that...
Foliage + 560d ago
That's one of the dumbest things I have ever heard.
If your debit expires; your money is safe in the bank.
When your xbox money/points expire; the MONEY EXPIRED.
kingPoS + 560d ago
Rather it's the container that holds the money that expires. I don't think the converted points use the same authentication. It's a stop gap of sorts.
rainslacker + 559d ago
This could be considered more like a gift card. The money is there until it expires.
However, most states have laws that prevent gift cards from expiring.
Not saying what they're doing is illegal...but the principal is the same.
Also with your example...the money isn't safe in the container...the CC in your example is not the container...it is the key to the container.
Foliage + 560d ago
I hope you can spend your points towards a PS4 purchase...
kingPoS + 560d ago
All MS needs to do is come up wth a CC just like this.
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satan.jpgWhen the Boston Bruins signed Miroslav Satan to a contract right after New Year’s this season, it seemed like a desperate team picking up a washed up player. While that may have been a reasonable assumption, the 35-year-old devil pun generator resurrected his career and might just be the Bruins’ most dangerous forward right now.
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Now, before you go too overboard with praise for the wisdom of his signing, consider just how unexpected his output really is. In 17 playoff games during the Pittsburgh Penguin’s Stanley Cup run last year, he only managed six points, which included a goose egg in the 7-game series with Detroit. He hasn’t reached similar totals since his mid-20s (with respective 9, 8 and 13 point outputs) and only in 2000-01 did he have a point per game average like he has now.
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• OS: Windows XP SP2 32-bit
• Processor: Dual Core
• Memory: 2 GB RAM
• Graphics: DirectX10 GPU w/256megs VRAM
• DirectX: Version 9.0c
• Hard Drive: 15 GB available space
• Sound Card: Windows HD Audio
• Additional Notes: DirectX9 GPU not supported
• OS: Windows 7 64-bit
• Processor: Quad Core
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37 af 72 brugere (51%) fandt denne anmeldelse brugbar
7.3 timer bogført
Indsendt: 6. juli
OoooOOOoo, this game so much more awesome than one can imagine. An arcadey motorcycle racing game, nothing to impossible or mind numbing, just good ol fun with an awesome story to wrap this present and for the bow is voiceacting from Robert Patrick (The T2 Cop guy). An epic story of legendary proportions await all those who step forth to take on the daring gauntlet through the levels of Lococyle. Lloyd Kaufman (Troma Movies Owner makes Toxic Avenger) teams up with many others including a bear local favorite Tom Savini (Holds a black belt in awesome) to make one of the best gaming experiences in a short game thats about 4-5 hours in length. Tons of bonus features that bigger games should have from behind the scenes footage, to cast photos and concept art. The music is BOSS level, done by the Prague Orchestra, this game doesnt mess around, everything is HARDCORE! Lococyle is in the heart, its in the heart.
Rating: 10/10 Value: $14.99
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LocoCycle was an Xbox one game that eventually found its way to PC but will you want to play it ? In LocoCycle you play as Iris. Iris is a motorbike/War Machine. One day when a lighting strikes Iris becomes self conscious. A mechanic named Pablo tries to fix her up. While fixing her Iris sees a commercial for the freedom rally which takes place Scottsburg Indiana so she decides to take Pablo with her and go to the freedom rally while the creators of Iris try to stop her with another bike named Spike. So how is LocoCycle ? Its actually quite fun and simple to play. The game is played like a car driving beat em up, You go down a high way and theres enemies trying to stop you. The game does switch with boss fights which are fun to play through. Now the game does have a difficulty spike and it really shows. So now through the pros and cons. The game is incredibly funny. The conversations between Pablo and Iris are hilarious but there is a big problem. Pablo only speaks Spanish and you have to read the subtitles to understand what hes saying which is quite hard when racing through the highway in high speed. The game has great and smooth gameplay and its fun to beat up people as a bike. The game also has a few problems. Some minor bugs and its quite short too. And if you are going to play this game Whatever you do play with a controller because a keyboard is a death sentence. Overall LocoCycle is a great game and i suggest you check it out. I give LocoCycle a 7/10
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That was a whole lotta fun. Simple, but not too simple of gameplay that varies enough, but controls well that is full of good humor. Great pick up.
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Feel free to disregard this review, I think I played this for all of 20 minutes, but let me tell you - that was enough.
I don't care how much Tom Savini and Lloyd Kauffman you wave in people's faces, a bad game is a bad game. The humour feels utterly forced and the "wackiness" and "zaniness" is just too much to bear.
The game itself looks and sounds pretty nice I suppose, but the "gameplay" as far as I got was press A, then X a bunch of times, then A if something flashes! Oh, you can hold down B for little while now. If you like. No. No, I don't like. Add in that you trail along a character who only speaks Spanish, so you have to read the subtitles while trying to play. Flip this game. Flip it right up its gaping bottom.
You may say that it's my fault for not playing on - you'd be right, but consider that anyone designing a game should make someone want to keep playing. This made me want to gnaw my own wrists.
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Indsendt: 3. juli
All signs pointed to this being unenjoyable for me, but hell it was cheap, and as we know Valve have complete dominion over our finances during the Steam summer sale.
Anyway, I played half an hour and was put off by the cringeworthy videos and surprisingly poor graphics (there are some good character models but the general scenery is reminsicent of a PS2-era title). I pushed on though and I'm glad I did! For some inexplicable reason, despite the fact that I dislike on the rails games, quicktime events, cringey comedy, button mashing... I found this really, really fun to play.
The ridiculous combos, though very easy to pull off, are a lot of fun and it's satisfying, in a 'channel your inner 8 year old' kind of way. Seeing a motorcycle leap off the group and kick the crap out of enemies in a pseudo-Transformers fashion never gets old. The gameplay is pretty varied in general and though Twisted Pixel walk the line of overusing mechanics, they don't quite cross it.
IRIS is a good character with entertaining dialogue, though Pablo wears thin quite quickly, unlike his trousers. Some of the acting is atrocious in the video sequences and the jokes within them will miss more than they hit, but clearly Twisted Pixel were going for a campy, 90s-apeing style of comedy, so I can't be too harsh.
The game is smooth to play, with a clean interface and hardly any bugs. I once managed to turn Iris 180 degress after hitting a wall but it quickly sorted itself out, and bar one game crash, that's really it in terms of the technical side.
+ Fun in a pure, childish way
+ Skill trees add a sense of improvement and choice, and encourage you to keep playing
+ IRIS is no GLaDOS but still has some funny and generally enjoyable dialogue
+ Good campaign length -- the game doesn't outstay its welcome
- Reading Pablo's subtitles whilst driving -- poor game design!
- Limited replayability
- Sometimes a little too easy and simplistic
- Weak graphics, in spite of huge file size (no doubt due to the live action videos, which do look nice and crisp)
All in all, I can't even rate it out of 10. This isn't a game that can be summed up in a concise, empirical manner; some people would find it to be a 2 or 3, others a 7, 8 or even 9. It is a weird game, and in many ways a poor one, but if you can grab it in a sale, and you've got the HDD space, then give it a spin. Or a cycle, even.
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Indsendt: 13. september
Take classic Outrun, make it almost casual button mashing game and pour absurdist humor all over it, including full motion video between chapters. You'll get satisfying fun short non-stop action casual game. It's worth its $2 I bought it for.
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Indsendt: 27. september
It's great fun. I can definitely give it that. You're a talking motorcycle, and you have machine guns, wheel-to-hand/door/flying-bloke combat training, and that's not to mention that you're also insane and completely unable to understand the Spanish mechanic being dragged along behind you. Quite often, this leads to some brilliant exchanges between the bike, named I.R.I.S, and her 'friend', Pablo. I.R.I.S will often speak using references and quotes with completely no idea what she's referencing, meaning that at one moment you'll be listening to Pablo begging for his life and telling her (in Spanish) that she's insane and should stop so he can free himself, then the next, I.R.I.S is ranting about 'Scottsburg, Indiana' and insisting that she has the need for speed.
Major exposition is done via live action cutscenes, which genuinely surprised me, however the acting isn't...the best. It's a bit like most attractive actors: Looks great, sometimes can be surprising in its context, but then when it gets down to the actual acting...well.
Let's just say it isn't the latest Quentin Tarantino flick.
Ahhhh, what else is there...?
Oh yeah, the fighting.
Most combat revolves around bike-to-car combat, involving machine guns, melee combat (if you can get near enough), and if the situation calls for it, a 'counter': Pressing a button at the right time to perform a rather smooth animation of I.R.I.S bashing her opponent in the face, or Pablo performing something he more than likely saw in a movie. There's other enemies apart from sedans and jeeps, including jeeps that throw molotov cocktails, trucks that can only be defeated by countering their missiles repeatedly, motorcyclists, and your male counterpart, S.P.I.K.E.
Now, the first thing you'll notice about the shiny spiky chopper is just how sinister he actually looks. Almost a bit over-the-top, to be honest. As far as story goes, I.R.I.S and S.P.I.K.E were being shown off to world leaders so that they could buy them and use them for military purposes. However, looking at their styling, you would almost think that some scientist somewhere was designing I.R.I.S so that she would go rogue, even going so far as to paint the female motorcycle purple so she looked more feminine. He also must have had a sick mind, because he also made her quite curvy.
Basically, Motorcycle Scarlet Johannesen.
Anyway, the encounters with S.P.I.K.E are fairly infrequent, almost boss fights in a way, and all of his lines are voiced by the other fictional killing cyborg, the T-1000 (Otherwise called Robert Patrick). A wise choice, to be honest, since who else would be a more befitting voice for a hunter-killer AI than the original hunter-killer AI? The interactions between I.R.I.S and S.P.I.K.E show the actual differences in tone; I.R.I.S requests he doesn't 'trip out', and he threatens to send her straight to the junkyard. Fairly moody, to be honest.
So, besides the good, there's always the bad.
As mentioned before, the live-action cutscenes aren't exactly the greatest, so we know about that.
Sometimes, the camera can decide that you want to look over there and not where you actually want to look (Also, the camera can't really be moved. Like, at all.)
Most major setpieces are, unfortunately, quick time events.
And most unfortunately, this is NOT, I repeat, NOT a full PC port. You will actually have to have a wired controller for this, and all attempts to play the game using a keyboard are made more difficult via the use of 'Press A' or 'Move the analog stick this way' prompts that the game likes throwing at you. If you don't have one, but still want to complete the game, you're out of luck: Pablo's repair mini-game requires the use of the Right Trigger, and do you see a trigger on your keyboard?
Thought as much.
So, while I really, REALLY reccomend this to anybody with a wired Xbox 360 controller, I'm just not able to say it's the greatest port of all time.
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Indsendt: 4. juli
Bad Game. Gameplay is boring, graphics are ugly and frame rate is ♥♥♥♥, repetive (just mash b and press a to jump to a different enemy). Humour is lame.
This would be have been reasonably well received on ps1, got poor to moderate reviews on ps2. And as an Xbox One 'exclusive' this is embarrasing.
Lastly, I run most games at 1080p, some at 1440p including high end shooters. This game engine is so poorly optimised it won't run at 1080p with a solid frame rate, yet looks about the same as ps2 era games.
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Only worth it if you're going to play with a controller. I was having a pretty good time and then for no really good reason they decided to stick a set of timed minigames into the middle of a level, the third of which seemed impossible to do without a controller. I decided to humor it, but then the game wouldn't immediately recognize my controller when I turned it on, and when I restarted it it put me back about 20 minutes worth of gameplay, which was when I decided I was done with the game.
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I've witnessed a motorcycle:
-Piledrive another motorcycle
-Shoot down multiple battleships
-Shoryuken a helicopter
-Pull off midair martial arts
-Traverse warheads a la Just Cause 2
-Battle in the style of Street Fighter
-Ride above water
-Combat mechs
-Eat ice cream
-Imbue the elements into its wheels
-Throw cars
-Use an innocent man as a sawblade
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Utgivningsdatum: 16 okt, 2013
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Key Features:
• High detailed realistic graphics.
• Explore open environment with realistic physics in the Greek countryside.
• Use stealth tactics and agility to survive.
• Use physics-based objects to defend yourself.
• Challenging item–based Puzzles with simple interface.
• Dark atmosphere with eerie sounds.
• Original storyline
• OS: Windows XP, Vista, 7
• Memory: 2 GB RAM
• Graphics: NVidiaGeforce 9600GT, ATI Radeon 4670HD or equivalent
• DirectX: Version 9.0
• Hard Drive: 2 GB available space
• Sound Card: DirectX compatible sound card
• OS: Windows XP, Vista, 7
• Memory: 4 GB RAM
• DirectX: Version 9.0
• Hard Drive: 2 GB available space
• Sound Card: DirectX compatible sound card
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26 av 32 personer (81%) fann denna recension hjälpsam
3.0 timmar totalt
Upplagd: 22 augusti
I hate walking.
No I don't mean that in the lazy, "I'd rather sit on my bum and play video games all day" sort of way, but the act of slowly moving your legs instead of opting to run when the situation demands it. So it would stand to reason that I sort of hate Eleusis, a game that consists of 80% mundanely walking at the speed of a crippled elderly person to various points on your map, with the rest being filled in with so many terrible design decisions that I struggled to remember them all.
Eleusis opens with your character being summoned by his mother to visit his hometown. On the way there his car is struck by a cascading boulder, and he has no choice but to leave his vehicle and explore the area around him, which soon leads him to a creepy abandoned village, where everything is miles apart and key objects scattered around in the most convoluted of places.
And this is where you come in, being the newly appointed hidden object finder, tasked with searching what remains of the village to find various tools and keys and use them to make your way past so many locked doors in order to find more doodads and unlock more doors. It's essentially an adventure game, but the puzzles are so obtuse and confusing that it feels like little more than one tedious fetch quest. Only minutes into the game I was already reaching for a guide, as absolutely nothing is done to direct the player, and progression often depends on clicking on the one item out of a dozen that is usable as opposed to needlessly moved around (which even then is restricted to certain items, making it an even more baffling inclusion that is never used for anything meaningful). And of course, all of this sends you walking back and forth across the map, often requiring repeat trips and trial and error as so little is labeled meaningfully, and getting lost is incredibly easy with how little you can see and how tangled the maze of trails becomes.
This might not be nearly as dull as it is though if Eleusis's world wasn't at least three times larger than it needs to be and filled so sparingly with anything consequential. The size of the map might also be connected to the horrendous performance I received on a PC that is more than capable of running the game, which graphically consists of little more than bland textures, pop-in prone foliage, and embarrassing particle effects. There are moments when the darkness almost makes everything look decent, but it's merely an illusion quickly discarded when a light is passed over whatever you may be viewing.
I don't feel the need to delve much into the narrative, as it's so sparse and comprised of so many disconnected strands that you'd almost forget it was there, if not for the requirement to read through long passages of text in find the clue not so subtlety hidden among the rambles. Your character's motivations are never explained, the plot is paper thin, and the ending notable only for the reprieve it gives you from such a horrendous experience.
If you are expecting a horror game, clever puzzles, a decent narrative, or even just some decent eye candy, you will find none of it here. Eleusis is a failure of a game that I can only recommend as an example for aspiring developers at how badly you can screw up a first person adventure game. For everyone else, be glad you have yet to take part in this experience, and for those who already have you have my sympathy.
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7 av 12 personer (58%) fann denna recension hjälpsam
0.5 timmar totalt
Upplagd: 29 juni
I got this game for 5 bucks and I regret buying it. The story is predictable and the gameplay is not smooth at all and it is over all a pretty boring experience. It’s too easy to miss important items that you will need. The only thing that’s somewhat good is the atmosphere and graphics. I highly recommend you DON’T buy this game, but if you really want it, get it on a sale when it’s like 3 bucks. 5/10
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156 av 182 personer (86%) fann denna recension hjälpsam
1.8 timmar totalt
Upplagd: 8 december, 2013
Do you remember that feeling you had as you cowered in the closet, hiding from the monstrosities in Amnesia? Or when you tiptoed along a dimly lit hallway, hoping the monster ahead wouldn't see you in Outlast? You won't be able to find anything of the sort here. Eleusis attempts to emulate the successful horror formula of its' predecessors, but falls flat on its' face. The game manages to take the most annoying tropes of the adventure and horror genres and mash them together to create this mess of a game.
When I say "adventure", I use the term very loosely. The puzzles themselves are few and far between, sandwiched between hours upon hours of endless backtracking between different points in the village. You find a key in a drawer? Better check every single door on the map, because you have no clue which building is what. Oh, you have to collect the ingredients to make a mysterious potion? They are located at points A, B, C and D, at different corners of the map. Have fun walking around at an excruciatingly slow pace. The next stage then makes you visit all of the areas all over again. Even with the additional, and completely unnecessary, padding, I only managed to squeeze about 4 hours of playtime out of the game (Steam says 2 hours, but I first played on Desura).
Of course, backtracking in itself does not destroy a game. I've certainly played other titles that were overly reliant on this concept (Dreamfall, anyone?), but most manage to make up the shortcomings with an excellent storyline or logical and engaging puzzles. Eleusis isn't able to cover either category well. The storyline is nothing special - some mysterious cult trying to raise an evil god - and the twists and turns can be seen from a mile away. The puzzles are drab and uninspiring. Most of them involve searching for keys and the doors they go to. Those scavenger hunts aren't entirely too bad, but there are far too many logical shortcoming throughout. Near the start of the game, the protagonist picks up a wood axe. You'd think the axe would be able to chop through all of the locked wooden doors, wouldn't you? Nope, it's only used for shimmying a hose off a faucet. Eventually, the main character creates a pair of lockpicks, using on the simple tools at hand. The problem? You guessed it. The lockpicks only work on a single door in the entire game. The game is also plagued with knee-high gates, but, being locked, somehow create a infinitely tall boundaries that magically prevents the protagonist from even thinking about walking over.
I have to admit that not everything about Eleusis is terrible. The overall lighting, with the exception of the overly reflective rocks in several areas (thanks to the UDK engine), is certainly reminiscent of other survival horror games. The spooky ambient noises are fitting and the great graphics in general work well to establish a creepy atmosphere. Unfortunately, those two points are essentially the only highlights to this dull and predictable adventure,
I agree with one of the other reviewers here. This game just feels like some kind of tech demo or portfolio project. It just doesn't feel like the developer made an honest effort to create a full fledged game. As such, I would advise to stay far, far away from this game.
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90 av 104 personer (87%) fann denna recension hjälpsam
4.6 timmar totalt
Upplagd: 21 december, 2013
I was really excited to play this game, long time ago I read about the Eleusinian Mysteries, and seeing this is based on that, it peaked my interest.
Once I started the game, I thought 'wow, this actually looks good, compared to other games in this genre'. And it does, the graphics are really nice and detailed. Same goes for the sound and music, there's not too much distracting music playing, on the few occasions it does, it is very fitting. Other than that you hear your footsteps and the enviroment around you, i.e. water, etc., big plus on atmosphere.
However, once I advanced a bit in Chapter one, I started to get annoyed. The fov is horrible. Paths are barely visible, even with a flashlight.
After solving my first puzzle, I thought it can't get much worse. Wrong. Throughout the game there's no innovative new puzzles, it's always the same. The most annoying part is the running around back and forth (yes, through the whole map) you HAVE to do. It gets really, really frustrating after a while. Imagine finding a key and having to try pretty much every single door to find the lock it fits in.
When I started I checked the NPC thread option, the first time something pops up, sure it was a bit freaky, but that's it. After that the ecounters became predictable and annoying. Now comes one of the worst things about Eleusis: no manual saves, so enjoy running back and forth again if you go game over.
The game lenght is decent, it takes about four hours to finish it. Without the useless backtracking you could easily complete it in less than half of that time. So keep that in mind. There's nothing exciting about 'exploring', in Eleusis it feels like your wife or mother telling you to take out the trash a hundred times a day.
So, in the end the story didn't intrigue me in the way I was expecting. Eleusis was predictable, boring and very, very annoying. I am glad I didn't buy this full price, and neither should you.
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48 av 61 personer (79%) fann denna recension hjälpsam
2.0 timmar totalt
Upplagd: 16 maj
The most boring game ever.
Everything is slow and there is no excitement to anything. Make sure to turn "NPC Threats" off, because the only enemies are wolves that spawn when you pick up key items, and walking away from these wolves is pretty much the game forcing you to backtrack in order to despawn them which makes them just a waste of time. The setting is really dull too and moving around in it is clunky due to the bad controls. The worst part about the game is the gameplay itself, which is nothing but walking around in a large but empty world at a very slow pace. This makes finding items for puzzles and then bringing them to where you think they would work a major pain.
About the puzzles: They are garbage. The game's progression is tied to you picking up one specific item after another, you pick an item up just to use it on the next item which will then let you do something to get another item. Missed an item? Better search everywhere while moving like a snail. Most of your time will be spent walking around an empty area clicking on everything to find that one item you need. Also, good luck finding the matches. Putting them inside a 80% opacity glass case on top of a grave was not the best idea.
By the way, the game is not scary.
EDIT: I read the Steam Store page for this game and got angry, so I'm gonna pick apart each point.
--High detailed realistic graphics.
Not really. The village itself is very boring and weird-looking (many of the houses are one room for some reason), and the forest area is plagued by bad pop-in problems with shadows. The same 3 moveable rocks are repeated throughout the whole game. The lighting is alright.
--Explore open environment with realistic physics in the Greek countryside.
"Realistic physics"? You mean like how you can put a chair through a solid wall if you move quick enough? How about whenever something moves along the floor or touches the floor, it makes the same sound at the same volume like 20 times in a row really fast and sounds like ♥♥♥♥? The rocks are easier to throw than a glass jar in this game. Also, can you really call it an "open environment" when 90% of all the houses and buildings are locked?
--Use stealth tactics and agility to survive.
"Stealth tactics" is wrong, it is a blatant lie. There is no stealth in this game, enemies show up out of nowhere and you'll never see them before they see you and start chasing you. And there is no running in this game, you walk and enemies walk at about the same speed. They chase you at a walking pace until the game decides to give up and despawn the enemy.
--Use physics-based objects to defend yourself.
This statement is solely meant to cover for the lies of the previous statement since running away and stealth are not an option to anyone who doesn't want to backtrack even more than they have to.
--Challenging item–based Puzzles with simple interface.
I already discussed the puzzles and why they suck, but the interface is also bad. You get like 12 item slots but you'll never come close to filling that since you use items after getting them. It looks and feels ugly and rushed.
--Dark atmosphere with eerie sounds.
What "eerie sounds"? That doesn't even make sense because there are no eerie sounds at all, or anything close to that description. Also the dark atmosphere is not something to be proud of since it makes no sense either. The moonlight is so strong that it creates lightrays around every object, but everything on the ground is still pitch-black???
--Original storyline
Sonic fanfictions are also "original storylines", this is yet another meaningless statement.
Don't buy it, not even on sale.
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53 av 74 personer (72%) fann denna recension hjälpsam
3.7 timmar totalt
Upplagd: 30 november, 2013
So, seeing that the game had been Greenlit and fairly well acclaimed, I thought I'd give it a try. The story was pretty promising, as someone who's into Mythology, and it game would revolve around it.
So, le'ts get on with it! I
t's advertised as "a story-driven game with emphasis on exploration, information gathering and also includes horror-survival elements". Let's just get the "horror-survival elements" out of the way. It is in no way, a survival horror game, that must have been what they've stuck to it since every youtuber and their dog screamed whenever they stepped on a stick. They give you a flashlight. With batteries. Hmmm, surely, I must scavenge for more batteries after these are over. Well... not really. They feel like it's a good idea to give you an unlimited lantern, that lights waaaay more than the said "essential" flashlight. Seriously, if you're going to give us a better lighting tool, don't give us the flashlight at all, it makes no freaking sense! Oh, and I've only found one pack of flashlight batteries anyway, which, of course, I didn't use... it's pointless, really.
Onwards to the "exploration, information gathering": Well, since the whole game is set at night, you can't really see much, which makes for a monotous walk through the forest, and that's your exploration. I'll admit I liked the artstyle, and the village, but there's virtually nothing to explore in the game. You have a semi open-world, but it's essentially a forest, and there's no point to explore on your own, since you'll go everywhere along with the story. I'd have loved to do some exploration, but there was no point, there was nothing to explore.
"story-driven"... this one hurts, I'm sorry to say, but it really does. There's almost no story presented through gameplay... which, well, find it on youtube. As you go from place to place looking for items (I'll get there in a minute), there's no story to be told. Until you reach an house, that is, in which you'll get the feel for the story through some notes, and that alone. Almost every bit of story in this games, is given to you through text. It just feels out of place, and that text is always next to the item you need to progress the game, so there goes exploration, right? Look at Bioshock! The world itself tells the overall story, and those audiologs, just give us the background and some interesting details to complete the world.
Now... the gameplay. This is essentially a First Person Point n' Click game! The puzzles are just "Go there a get this, then come back and use that with this..." and so on and so forth. And they feel like they're designed to extend the game's longevity, since you're constantly walking back and forth from one place to the one on the other edge of the map. And it's not fun. It's simply NOT fun... and neither is it scary, there's nothing scary about the game, unless you're afraid of the dark.
I could say a lot about how senseless some "puzzles" were, but I feel like I'm going too hard at the game.
The supposedly scary/stealthy part would be when you have to run from wolves (which appear out of ♥♥♥♥ing nowhere whenever you pick a piece of the final puzzle) or from a patroling cultist. Aaaand it's awkward. Painfully so.
Now, the only praise I can give to this game, is its looks, and the story potential (maybe?). To the developpers: if you're making a game and you CAN'T do something right, don't do it at all. Do something else. Because, what we get here, is a game that could be so much better than what it is, but it falls flat on its face because of badly implemented features!
Maybe in future titles Nocturnal Nights will shine, and I'll give them another chance. It's just that this game in particular was really bad in my opinion. Full of bad design choices, seemingly to jump on the "survival horror" bandwagon that's been going on lately.
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42 av 60 personer (70%) fann denna recension hjälpsam
2.1 timmar totalt
Upplagd: 9 december, 2013
If you can get this game for really cheap I would recommend it to you, but if it is still 10-15 dollar range I would say pass on it till it drops. It has some good ideas but in the end can be a little short and cheesy, which is fine if you are into that kind of thing....aparently i am...
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59 av 91 personer (65%) fann denna recension hjälpsam
13.4 timmar totalt
Upplagd: 23 november, 2013
Firstly, I tried to remember where I got this game from. At first I thought I might have grabbed it during the Halloween Sale, but no... no I hadn't. Instead, I purchased this game in the Be Mine 8 Indy Bundle several months ago.
Seemingly they added Steam keys to that bundle, and I had redeemed it blidnly and totally forgot about the game until Steam Roulette picked it for the next game in the Backlog Blitz. So, that's the backstory into why I have this in my Steam Library. It also helps set the scene for the review.
This game is pretty awful.
I don't want to be harsh, but there's no real positive to this game. The story is disjointed and paper thin - and you'll see whatever surprise it suggets it might have coming a mile away.
The controls are OK, but they're basic WSAD controls and mouse look. I guess it uses the Unreal Development Kit nicely, as at times the game does look nice. However, that's probably it.
Everything about this game screams 'portfolio project' - a game that was made in an attempt to showcase talent in an attempt to get a job with a studio in the future. If I had made this game, I'd be somewhat happy with it... but I'd never try to sell it to people as a game. It's just not engaging enough.
You'd probably be able to finish this game in 2 hours, if it wasn't for the horrible back and forth backtracking the game MAKES you do, and the frustratingly placed enemies that suddenly appear out of nowhere and hunt you down.
Overall just avoid this game, don't even buy it as a temptation to see how terrible it is. Just avoid.
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14 av 18 personer (78%) fann denna recension hjälpsam
3.8 timmar totalt
Upplagd: 22 december, 2013
I blew through this in less then 4 hours, so not a lot of play time designed into it. The graphics were stunning, the story was inventive if far too short, if you can find this on sale, I'd say the 4 hours of game play is worth the 10 dollars, but not much more. The game was a bit too linear for an adventure and the clues left in game, made it almost too easy to progress through. It could have been better with more content in it, some of which could have made the main story line a bit less easy to follow to quickly through. There were a ton of unexplored houses left by the end, so over all why I liked it for a short diversionary game, it felt a bit more like a 3d based short story book, and less like a puzzeling adventure game.
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12 av 16 personer (75%) fann denna recension hjälpsam
2.8 timmar totalt
Upplagd: 14 maj
This is worst game I have encountered during the last two years. Both the grahpics and atomsphere are to some extent attractive, but there is literally no Gameplay at all... The plot is cliche, empty and rather approching to stuipidty. 80%+ of the whole game is jogging around the landscape, with a dog and a robed figure randomly jumping out and surprising you. I love AVG and played more than 30+ AVG. I can say with confidence that this game is one of the lousiest I have ever played. I don't recommend it at all. It is totally a waste of your precious time.
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10 av 14 personer (71%) fann denna recension hjälpsam
2.7 timmar totalt
Upplagd: 15 maj
First off, you are better off trying a good mod for Amnesia.
If you do play the game, turn NPC Threat off; wolves are OP and annoying.
Eleusis does a few things right, but a lot of things wrong. The story is decent and original, and the game is pretty being built with the Unreal Development Kit. Everything else is horrible though. The controls are tank controls. The movement speed of the main character needs to be fixed; running actually feels like walking, and walking actually feels like crawling. NPCs in this game are just there to annoy you and really don't feel like a threat. If you don't have a rock on you at all times, expect to die alot, so just turn NPC combat off. Puzzles are either clear and easy or unclear and just difficult. It would have been nice if they would have put more thought into them.
Overall, avoid buying this game. Save your money, go download a decent Amenesia mod and have fun with that.
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10 av 14 personer (71%) fann denna recension hjälpsam
4.4 timmar totalt
Upplagd: 6 februari
It has its faults, but overall I really enjoyed the game. The puzzles were fun to work through and kept me engaged. I was supprised by the story. It was actually quite interesting to unfold the mystery. I give Eleusis a 6/10... that is if you enjoy puzzles and catch it on sale then it is worth your time and money.
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9 av 13 personer (69%) fann denna recension hjälpsam
3.2 timmar totalt
Upplagd: 5 februari
so far a very entertaining game. tense atmosphere, great looks and quite good sound assets.
it's a mixture of old fashioned adventures and a bit of slenderman-esque feeling to it. up to this point the puzzles are too particular difficult but since i'm not finished yet...
obviously rather tough when it comes to system-requirements so could use some optimisations, but ok.
i'd recommend it to anyone who is into slow, stealthy and athmospheric adventure games.
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9 av 15 personer (60%) fann denna recension hjälpsam
2.7 timmar totalt
Upplagd: 6 februari
Dont really know what all those hardcore horror players and action fan kiddies got with this game..... but this game is good, its not the best, but its good. The atmosphere is great, the story is very interesting, the controls work and the graphics are somehow very good. But i have to say that 12 euros for just 2-3 hours of gameplay are a bit too much, so buy it now for only 3 bucks or wait for another steam-offer. Im pretty sure that if more people would have worked on this game and if they would have more money for the game, it would be just great.
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1 av 1 personer (100%) fann denna recension hjälpsam
5.6 timmar totalt
Upplagd: 22 april
Maxmetpt could not have put it better with his review. What a rubbish game. And eluding the partorler who can spot you through wall's, apprantly, is a pest, and those flaming wolves!. It was so anti-climactic with the ending. Ok the sounds and looks were perfect but the rest sucked. So sorry but this game is an epic fail, might as well hop the train to nobloodythanks ville.
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2 av 3 personer (67%) fann denna recension hjälpsam
3.8 timmar totalt
Upplagd: 24 mars
In the beginning it is great experience. A bit of horror, bit of exploration, item searching and story. In the end it's frustrating because of some designer's decisions and weak storytelling. Overall it is a-little-better-than-average game.
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7 av 13 personer (54%) fann denna recension hjälpsam
2.8 timmar totalt
Upplagd: 27 juni
The fact that this game was made by just 3 people is amazing. It stands up to par with Outlast and Amnesia. It matches the level of Amnesia's atmosphere and has a much better script than Outlast. It spits right in the face of Daylight. If you want to live a mystery in a secluded, mountainous, greek village, definetely check it out. If you are experienced in this genre, you will oversee its flaws more easily and its looks are gonna help you do that. It didn't look very promising at first, but delivered quite much.
It certainly has its flaws, but it stands above mediocrity with a well thought story and excellent atmosphere. The action isn't good and the AI is terrible, but you can switch it off. It has excellent audio and quite nice level design. Kudos to the team behind it. Give us a sequel.
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8 av 16 personer (50%) fann denna recension hjälpsam
0.6 timmar totalt
Upplagd: 4 februari
Another 3D exploration game, which tries to follow the Gone Homes and Esthers out there. Unfortunately not worth your money. Bad graphics, bad controls, bad gameplay. Can't recoomend this one.
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1 av 2 personer (50%) fann denna recension hjälpsam
20.0 timmar totalt
Upplagd: 13 maj
Extremely good for only 3 euro, world is non open and fairly linear but it does not feel like its on rails, graphic are very pretty and performance is good, if this was a big studio game i would have demanded higher poly count and a more open world, but as it is not im fine with this, unreal engine does a good job, and the game does not better or worse than the competition graphicly, i fairly certian the game will be a bit short, but i wont expect so much for this price,
i recommend you give it a try if you like mystery adventure games.
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1 av 2 personer (50%) fann denna recension hjälpsam
3.4 timmar totalt
Upplagd: 19 mars
Nice adventure game. Looks great. It is a straight up adventure game, with some "scares" during cutscenes. It kind of seemed like it would be more of a survival horror thing, but it really isn't-- you're alone on the map.
It's mostly environment exploration, the puzzles are very basic, but the hard part is actually finding or identifying the items you need most of the time, or where what door and what house the keys go to. It's a little bad at this, and especially all the backtracking, or walking back and forth between the locations to find and use items, as mostly all the items in the game are at like opposite ends of the game world than where you need to use it. You get a map towards the very end of the game, just when you really don't need it anymore because you've just about figured out where all the paths take you and explored all the locations. So that's a bit dumb.
There is a final five piece "fetch puzzle" towards the very end where you got five locations on the map, and that's really the usage of the map, to point to those five places in all the very ends of the map. It's not for navigating or familiarizing yourself with the game world. That part was really annoying and kind of soured me on the game right as the ending was coming up.
But overall I really enjoyed this. Nice dumb, but fun story.
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The funds are disbursed by the borough president. In the final analysis, the office of borough president, which costs taxpayers tens of millions of dollars annually, has been nothing more than a useless patronage mill.
I take issue with former Borough President Claire Shulman’s claim that without the office, most of the important resources would go to Manhattan. Each borough has Council members who outnumber those in Manhattan, so there is no way they could be disenfranchised by Manhattan members. Shulman’s claim is political nonsense.
Equally nonsensical is the claim she made that the office is a powerful voice for the county. I doubt she can point out a dozen important changes she accomplished in all her years in office that significantly changed the lives of Queens residents for the better. Her reference to a sewer system in southeast Queens ignores the fact that she sat by and watched Willets Point property owners being charged sewer rent despite the fact that there were no sewers and she made no effort to have sewers installed and infrastructure repaired.
Her boasting about Flushing Meadows Corona Park, except for a possible playground, falls flat. She did not oppose a grand prix race track in the park or more than 40 acres of parkland given to the United States Tennis Association and its current application to expand. She never objected when her successor, Helen Marshall, urged the construction of a New York Jets football stadium in the park.
Her claim that she saw cultural institutions rise in the park demonstrates a lack of understanding about what urban parks are about. Parks are for passive use, not huge cement, brick and steel structures. In all the years from Donald Manes through Shulman and Marshall, except for structures that do not belong there to begin with, there has been no significant help for Flushing Meadows, and a walk around the park demonstrates its abysmal condition.
We have a Council. We do not need a borough president. Its budget could be spent more wisely.
Benjamin M. Haber
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Headscratchers: Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Albus Dumbledore Good Or Bad
• Was Albus Dumbledore a good or a bad man? Did his painful history make up for his Chess Master and Manipulative Bastard streak? Was his manipulation of everyone, but especially Harry and Snape, justified in any way? My opinion is that if you can forgive Dumbledore for mercilessly manipulating the people around him, especially Harry and Snape, than you should also forgive Snape for his sarcasm and insensitivity in the classroom - both are equally damaging, if in different ways. I don't think you can say anyone is a "good" or a "bad" person: I don't forgive either Dumbles or Snape for the aforesaid specific actions, but both have painful backstories. I tend to be harsher on adult!Dumbledore though, because he gets no criticism by any of the in-story characters after DH (except Rita Skeeter — but that's a given) and adult!Snape got more than enough criticism and punishment for his actions. Dumbledore's actions were more subtly damaging and his bullying was more of a subtle coercion. Yet he gets no criticism by Harry or anyone else. How is Harry, one of the most affected by Dumbledore, able to blindly dismiss Dumbledore's bad actions? He doesn't get angry at all — and neither does anyone else... Strikes me as unfair, considering how much damage he did.
• Also, in the chapter "King's Cross," Dumbledore says to leave the baby, there's nothing they can do. Harry agrees without a backward glance. WHAT. FLAT WHAT. Sure, it's the last, smallest remaining piece of Voldy's soul that wasn't tainted by the Horcruxes. It's also a crying, flailing, helpless baby. And Dumbles (and consequently Harry, who always blindly obeys him) can't even do the compassionate thing and comfort a little baby.
• It was not a little baby. It was Tom Marvolo Riddle feeling at last the damage that he himself had inflicted upon his own soul. Dumbledore says that they can't help, not that they should not bother. What can be done to comfort a broken soul that seems to have even lost sentience? Voldemort didn't remember the pain or Harry and Dumbledore's chat not far from where he lay, so if there was a chance for him to be saved (which Dumbledore said so himself), it had to happen back on Earth.
• I assumed that the baby-thing was the Horcrux that died with Harry - as it was a piece of soul from Voldie's last murder of...very many before his first defeat, it was likely extremely corrupt and unsalvagable by that point.
• Also, its not like he said "Eh, just leave it there." and Harry just accepted that. After DD tells him he can't help it, Harry asks about it twice more and glances it at it with DD telling him it can't be helped by them at all.
• Okay, can I just say... what the hell? Why do people seem to take away this perception that Dumbledore is a Manipulative Bastard or in any way not the Big Good? People criticize him for leaving Harry with the Dursleys, but it provided him with the optimal protection, sheltered him from his fame to prevent him from getting a big ego (something he explains from the very first chapter of the entire series), and it is never indicated that he knows that Harry is emotionally, verbally, and at least a bit physically abused. People criticize him for the whole "customizing the Philosopher's Stone gauntlet to Harry's Nakama, putting them all in danger" thing, but note how he came in with almost perfect timing to keep Harry from getting his ass killed. He wanted Harry to have his chance, and flew to his rescue as soon as he knew it was needed. People criticize him sending Harry off to be Jesus, but it quite literally had to be done in order to stop Voldemort. No Big Good in their right mind is going to save one person at the expense of everyone Voldemort threatened. This troper honestly does not understand in any way, shape, or form the abuse that people insist on giving Dumbledore. He was manipulative, yes, but being a Chess Master does not make you a Manipulative Bastard. Everything he did, it was with the interests of everyone in mind, not just himself and his own agenda. He was the Big Good, through and through.
• Well, allow me to retort. For once, D couldn't possibly not know how Harry was treated, seeing how his very fucking own agent lived across the street from the kid and babysat him on occasion (that is, of course, if you're so firm on insulting everyone's intelligence by suggesting that he didn't keep a personal eye on him). The allegedly "exceptional" qualities of his vaunted protection have already been much doubted over on the relative pages of this discussion, namely how it completely failed to protect him from Dementors in B5. The attention was also called to the indisputable fact that the "almost perfect timing" would've done jack squat if it wasn't for the unwieldy IdiotBalls Rowling kept foisting off on the villains every moment it became obvious that our nincompoop of a hero had once again got himself into another mess he can only possibly escape feet-first. Neither did it escape notice how the esteemed Headmaster four times allowed enemy agents with various extents of malice prance around the school under his charge, resulting in the final score of two dead and a dozen more spared only by highly contrived coincidences. All of that before Fridge Logic kicks into high gear and you begin see the galore of perfectly valid opportunities for the conflict being resolved as late as B3 or B4, each and every one of which the cunning Dumbledore successfully fucks up, thus being more or less directly responsible for the blood bath of Deathly Hallows. So, in fact, an unbiased look at DD reveals a complete opposite of a true Chessmater - a reckless, sentimental old fool, who bet countless lives (and lost many of them), on an infinitesimal chance that he'd be able to bring that one kid through alive and even "not ruin his childhood".
• If he was watching himself, then he wouldn't have needed to leave Mrs. Figg there in the first place. And who's to say that she could have had any idea what was happening to Harry? Recall that the Dursleys are obsessed with appearance, so of course they wouldn't give her any reason to suspect anything was wrong. Hell, even being given the slightest background on his parents would reinforce that, if they gave the excuse that he was a troublemaker and under punishment when they left him with her; anyone who knew anything about James Potter as a child wouldn't be that shocked. As for the rest of that criticism, and the various Idiot Balls, recall that Albus Dumbledore worked with Quirrell for years while he was the Muggle Studies teacher and either taught or presided over as Headmaster of every single Death Eater, and Voldemort himself. He probably knew them more than well enough to predict most of the things they were going to do, including the things that required the Idiot Ball, which just so happens to be one of the defining traits of a Chess Master. And losing lives? It was a god damned war. In any war, especially one with extremely powerful weapons like wands, there is no chance of coming out without a number of casualties on your side, no matter how brilliant your commander is, especially when you have explicit moral boundaries like Dumbledore's side towards Dark Magic and Unforgiveables. The plot could not have been resolved in Book 3 due to the Stable Time Loop and the consistently repeated point that you do not mess with time, ever, and while, yes, Dumbledore ultimately fails to prevent Voldemort's return at the end of Book 4, it's arguably a good thing, as it ultimately set Voldemort up for his downfall as per Book 7. Not to mention, and this is a biiiig part of it, the way it ended, even with the body count stacked as it was, could easily have been the best case scenario. We don't know, being outside of the Harry Potter universe, how reliable proper prophecies like Trelawny's are. If they are 100% accurate, then guess what, Harry was the only one who could have defeated Voldemort. So yeah, setting up the giant gambit to ensure Harry survived the second Killing Curse, destroying the last Horcrux, and allowing Harry to ultimately win, was the only route he could have taken. People who make accusations towards Dumbledore make them without having all the facts and relying on guesswork and their own personal fanon, pure and simple. There is nothing in canon to indicate that the prophecy could have been false, that Dumbledore knew the extent to which Harry was abused and neglected, anything at all. There is only speculation and postulation that often goes counter to Occam's Razor, assuming far too many things when the far simpler answer is "Dumbledore was always working towards the destruction of Voldemort with as few casualties as possible."
• I think Mrs. Figg DID know, based entirely on one of the few lines she had: "I was to keep an eye on you but not say anything, you were too young. I'm sorry I gave you such a miserable time, but the Dursleys would never have let you come if they'd thought you enjoyed it." This implies that Mrs. Figg knew very well how Harry was being treated, if she knew the Dursleys wouldn't want Harry to have fun (which is why they had her babysit him in the first place, so he couldn't go with them when they went places), and the fact that she wanted him to have fun shows she didn't believe him to be a troublemaker. Dumbledore also knew how Harry was treated, if his conversation with Harry at the end of book 5 and his conversation with the Dursleys in book 6 is anything to go by. Dumbledore only kept Harry at the Dursley's because of the blood protection on the house that kept Voldemort from going after Harry while he was at Privet Drive. Harry would've been better taken care of in another home, but being at the Dursley's kept him alive, which was Dumbledore's ultimate goal in respect, as he explains at the end of book 5.
• I don't think he was good or evil, just senile and too well-respected for anyone to criticize him. Let's see:
• He wanted Harry to have a normal childhood, but doesn't know about the abuse at the Dursleys? He's either willfully ignorant, or he knows and doesn't do anything. Both are bad. Third option: he considers that a perfectly normal childhood. He's just senile, then. A Fidelius charm can hide Harry even better than a blood ward can, and he could have been put with a loving family. Dumbledore can be the secret keeper. Before you say that he doesn't want to be personally involved, he already is. Only he, and a select few he has personally chosen, know where Harry Potter lives. He's already made Harry Potter a secret and he's the secret keeper — might as well cast the spell that actually offers real protection. The blood wards stopped working at the end of 4th year, BTW.
• First off, the blood wards did not stop working at the end of 4th year. The personal magical protection on Harry's body did. The blood wards were shown to be working just fine, as evidenced by the fact that Voldemort didn't come burn Number 4 Privet Drive to the ground and had to attack via a proxy outside the range of the wards. A Fidelius Charm would have required a wizard to be the one raising him, and he explicitly stated he wanted him raised outside of the Wizarding world to keep him from getting a swelled head. There is nothing to indicate that he knew about the abuse at the Dursleys, or that he would have felt the need to look in on Harry personally. He is shown to put a great deal of trust in people, and thus would likely have trusted Mrs. Figg's judgment. As pointed out above, Mrs. Figg couldn't have known any more than the rest of Privet Drive would have, as the Dursleys are obsessed with appearance.
• "You did not do as I asked. You have never treated Harry as a son. He has known nothing but neglect and often cruelty at your hands." (emphasis mine) That's a direct quote from Dumbledore in chapter 3 of Half-Blood Prince. So yes, Dumbledore knew exactly what Harry was going through... and still kept sending him back there.
• Yes, he did. Because it was better than letting him be killed.
• Doesn't fly. If Privet Drive is truly the only place where Harry can be safe, then why does Dumbledore allow him to ever come to Hogwarts or Grimmauld Place? Contrariwise, if Harry can also be kept safe at Hogwarts or Order HQ, then why does he have to return to the Dursleys? And no, 'because the law' doesn't fly either; Petunia Dursley would gladly sign Harry's custody over to anyone, if Dumbledore would only allow her to. Dumbledore already feels able to keep Harry saef from Death Eaters for 10 months out of every year without using Privet Drive; I fail to see why he can't exert himself a little more and make that 12 months.
• Because until book 4, as long as Harry could call Privet Drive home (which means returning there after school during the summer), Voldy could not touch him. The end of Goblet of Fire, however, made it so that the blood protection only works on Privet Drive rather than Harry himself, so after book 4, you still raise a valid point.
• First year: again, allowing a murderer into a school. When catching a bear, you do not set a bear trap inside the kindergarten classroom. Even if the kindergarten teacher is the local expert on hunting bears. Find a substitute to take that job and catch a criminal properly. Standard argument is that the mirror was for Voldemort and everything else was for Harry: Bullcrap. You don't try to give a kid a "normal childhood" and then hint to him he's the hero who has to save the world himself. Unless, of course, you're senile and you think that making him a hero and drawing the entire school's attention to him by giving him a ludicrous number of house points will help him be a normal kid.
• Murderer? Are you talking about Quirrell, who Dumbledore did not know was host to Voldemort?
• Snape knew that Quirrell tried to murder Harry at the quidditch match (Quirrell says as much in the final confrontation with Harry); Dumbledore still let Quirrell stay on-campus the rest of the year. After knowing that Quirrell had already tried to kill a student. What The HELL, Dumbledore.
• Why are we assuming that Dumbledore meant for Harry to hunt down Quirrell? Imagine what would have happened if Harry just wasn't there. Voldemort would have gone through all the trouble of bypassing the teachers' security, only to find out, much to his dismay, that he can't get the stupid stone out of the mirror. Because of the convulted way the security was designed, he probably wouldn't have been able to get out in time and had to face Dumbledore in full power while he himself was a weakened parasite. If anything, Harry's presence made everything more dangerous, but of course it wouldn't do to say that to a boy who just barely escaped death (and well, Dumbledore has never been objective in regards to Harry).
• Mostly because the "security" was very very obviously designed for the Trio to pass, and because Harry was being dropped oh so subtle hints by both Hagrid and DD the whole year as to how reach the stone. As to why did DD do it - it was to introduce V to Scarhead and to test his courage and resolve, all the usual Mentor-to-Hero stuff.
• 2nd year: he was present when the chamber was opened the last time. He knows it was opened now. He knows this beast can kill with a single look (Myrtle). He knows roughly where it happened and who was actually responsible. Why did Hermione figure it out before you, Dumbledore?
• Who's to say he didn't figure it out? It's entirely plausible that he did and couldn't actually do anything about it, unless you want to tell me he picked up Parseltongue somewhere.
• If you believe that he did figure out that the same killer monster that murdered a student 50 years ago is back, you don't need to speak Parseltongue to tell everyone to evacuate the school. Multiple students only survived by sheer coincidence. Calling him an old fool who couldn't figure it out is as nice as I can be to him, short of calling him evil and willing to risk the lives of his students for... what, his reputation?
• Wasn't Dumbledore's position at the school taken from him (as well as Hagrid's) during Harry's second year? If Dumbledore wasn't actually there, it's possible he wasn't able to figure it out. Even if he could figure it out without being at the school, how the hell was he supposed to let everyone know and have the school evacuate? He didn't have the power to do that at the time.
• Dumbledore wasn't removed as Headmaster until after Easter.
• Also, how can he 'let everyone know'? Hmm, I dunno, maybe send Acting Headmistress McGonagall an owl?
• 3rd year: why make Harry risk his life again instead of saying this: "Miss Granger, I need to borrow your time-turner." No, Harry, it's up to you to be a hero. Like a normal child with a normal childhood.
• Because he had enough details about the Stable Time Loop to know that it was Harry and Hermione who were supposed to go, that's why.
• He only sees Harry and Hermione return safely after their mission was a success. Nowhere along the timeloop do they meet Dumbledore and confirm anything — Harry1 and Hermione1 could have survived, brought the time-turner to Dumbledore, went back in time, saved Buckbeak, saved Harry1 and Sirius's life... and then died. The Time Loop would still be stable.
• He had to let Harry and Hermione be the ones to perform the rescue, because Dumbledore wasn't personally acquainted with Buckbeak himself. Hippogriffs aren't tame or predictable animals; if Buckbeak had taken an initial dislike to Dumbledore when he approached, he wouldn't have been able to sneak away with him quietly enough to avoid Fudge and Macnair. Better to trust the ones the animal was already on good terms with.
• Again, doesn't fly. Dumbledore can apparate and use portkeys on Hogwarts grounds; he is, in fact, the only person who can do this. He would not need a hippogriff to get to Sirius' window; hell, he wouldn't even need to use the window. Bamf in to the room, give Sirius a portkey to Bermuda, bamf out. Borrow Hermione's time-turner to give himself an alibi. Done and done, and it wouldn't even take him five minutes. Hell, he can do all this and still send the kids out to cast a patronus because time paradox. Or hell, send the kids out and follow behind them wearing the Invisibility Cloak and cast the patronus himself.
• It's much worse than that. An alternative interpretation is that D actually arranged the Tournament with Harry in view and orchestrated his involvement through Moody (great minds think alike indeed) and then allowed the kid to be taken to the cemetery to facilitate V's resurrection (remember that "look of triumph" in D's eyes? Yeah).
• The "look of triumph" was because Voldemort using Harry's blood both allowed him a potential path to redemption via Lily's love and bound him and Harry together, allowing the Horcrux in Harry's scar to be destroyed without Harry himself dying (notice how Dumbledore doesn't actually start properly grooming Harry to go like a lamb to the slaughter until after this happens). This "alternative interpretation" is honestly ridiculous. As to the original point, no details are given about the magical contract, but that doesn't automatically mean it can be gotten out of, or that the penalty for going against it was small. There is nothing to indicate that Dumbledore wouldn't have tried to get Harry out of it if he knew how to.
• He could have helped teach him the skills to survive. Nothing in the magical contract could have said anything about teachers helping the students, or else Harry, Fleur, and Krum would all have received magical punishment/disqualification.
• "To survive"? The competition wasn't meant to be life-threatening.
• Not so much. Remember, the entire reason the Tri-Wizard Tournament had been cancelled in the first place is because too many people were dying in it.
• Maybe Dumbledore suspected that Harry put his name himself, it's possible that with the Horcrux inside he could pass the age line (which raises even more questions)
• Harry is pathetically easy to read with Legilimency. Dumbledore is a master Legilimens. This theory posits that Dumbledore not only assumes as first hypothesis that Harry is lying to him (as Harry violently denied doing any such thing), but then goes on to not use means easily within his grasp to determine the truth, and then goes on to allow Harry to continually face life-threatening experiences in service of this unflattering lack of belief in Harry's honesty. Or, more simply, if we go with this theory then Dumbledore's really fucking Harry over here. Which is why I'd rather not go with that theory.
• 5th year: Voldemort has been back for a year already and now considers Harry a very personal target to eliminate, Harry just witnessed a murder a few months ago, and his visions are getting worse. What does Dumbledore do? Keep Harry in the dark about everything. He sends members of the Order of the Phoenix out to risk their lives to protect a recording of a prophecy without even telling them why or what they're guarding. Which he still refuses to divulge to Harry until he is forced to. Oh, right, because he wanted Harry to have a "normal childhood," right?
• Part of the reason for keeping everyone, especially Harry, in the dark is to keep the information from falling into the wrong hands. The second part of the prophecy is explicitly what they're protecting from Voldemort, and they've had traitors before, so of course he's not going to tell anyone what it is (they obviously know that it's a prophecy given that that's what they're guarding, and they know the reason why is because it has information Voldemort wants. Doesn't really need to get more specific than that). As for Harry, he's keeping him in the dark on the prophecy because he doesn't want a teenage boy to feel the weight of the world on his shoulders, and he keeps him in the dark about everything during year five because, as he explicitly stated, he didn't want things getting through the link in his head to Voldemort. And beyond that, despite the fact that that was more than a good reason, he apologizes for it at the end of the book, both for closing himself off from Harry and for hiding the prophecy from him, not even batting an eyelash when Harry destroys half his office.
• Dumbledore does more than apologize in that conversation; he flat-out admits that he made the wrong decision in trying to keep Harry in the dark, and that as a direct consequence of that decision it is his, Dumbledore's, fault that Sirius Black died. So, given that even Dumbledore himself agrees that he screwed the krup here, I think that settles it.
• No, it doesn't, because his "admittance" doesn't make any goddamn sense. "Oh, Harry. I cannot possibly ruin your pleasant ignorance and shoulder this terrible burden on you by telling you that some half-crazed crow you have no respect for had made a prophecy that Riddle'd totally fell for thus becoming much more predictable and vulnerable, and that you don't have to fall for, because only you should rule your destiny, as i'm gonna belatedly explain to you the next year when I finally run out of stupid pills. Instead I'll leave you seathing with impotent rage, guilt you must be feeling for inadvertently causing Sedrick's death and assisting in Voldemort's ressurection, and frustration over being abandoned by your friends and your mentor. For the entire summer you will been eaten alive by insurmountable urge for action which I could harness to teach you Occlumecy and other useful skills, but will instead completely waste, adding to your boredom and desperation! This is how precious you are to me - so precious I will completely disregard your feelings and show zero respect to you as a person!" Oh, and Sirius' death wasn't his direct fault - it was a fight, and he was a casualty. It could've just as easily been any other Order or DA member. It was totally and exclusively Scarhead's fault, unless, of course, you blame DD for carefully nurturing him as a reckless idiot, which I totally do.
• Nope, its Dumbledore's fault. The Ministry battle doesn't happen unless Harry believes the vision that Voldemort sent him. If Dumbledore had so much as taken one sentence out to warn Harry that its possible to create a false vision, Harry wouldn't have gone. But nobody ever bothers to warn Harry that this is possible, therefore Harry treats the vision of Sirius being tortured with equal seriousness to the vision of Arthur Weasley being bitten. And that's the point: you cannot put the fault on Harry's decision-making when Harry is being denied need-to-know information without which no informed decision is possible. And Dumbledore is the person responsible for choking off Harry's information flow. All your sarcasm won't change this fact: it is not Harry's fault for having to guess blind, it is Dumbledore's fault for keeping Harry blind.
• Do you honestly believe that the kid's unawareness somehow justifies rushing into a situation he had no possible way of mastering? Fake vision or not, he knew (or thought) that V was waiting for him, meaning that his sorite could only lead to his death and deaths of those he dragged along. It is only thanks to Lucius' defection that they got away with just one casualty (it had to be, for I refuse to believe it is possible for a man to fuck up THAT hard but still remember how to breath.) And besides, I would disagree that the fake viwion was the decisive factor. It was a convinient mean to lure the kid in, but by no definition the only possible one. Remember, one way or another V had already managed to do it thrice. Why? Because Harry Potter was a reckless idiot with huge trust and discipline issues, a tremendous hero complex and stunted self-preservation. And he was shaped that way by DD's sage and progressive mentorship. So don't get me wrong, of course DD was guilty, just not the way people seem to admit he was (you know, all that "he cared about Harry too much" bullshit).
• The # of people Harry 'dragged' along to the DOM is zero. Or did you miss the scene where Harry yelled at them all to stay behind, he could not justify risking anyone other than himself on such lousy odds, and they all demanded — repeatedly — to stay with him anyway? There's a Headscratchers about it on this very page! As to the main thrust of the comment, that Harry is stupid for going in against such long odds; Harry knew how long the odds were, but Sirius is basically the only father he has left. Criticizing the hero of a book for showing courage is usually not of any use.
• Fine, those who volunteered. As if it would have consoled their grieving parents much. As I see it, if he was the leader, then the responsibility for his people was also his, whether it was coercion or (IMO misguided) sense of loyalty that drove them. As to the the main thrust, forgive me for being such a bore, but shouldn't there be a line between showing courage and merely throwing your life away? Rebels flying against the Death Star or the westerners riding against the Black Gates, that's courage. They knew they were very likely, or even guaranteed, to die, but they also knew what they were doing and how it was supposed to work towards their cause. They had a plan, you see. Now, what was Scarhead planning, or hoping, or going to do, when he found Sirius lying on the floor and V standing next to him? Nothing. He was going to die, all his friends were going to die, and their deaths would not have helped Sirius in the slightest. The odds were not long - there weren't any, and he knew it. There's no heroic merit in thoughtlessly throwing your life away - any numbskull can do that. If anything, it dishonors the memory of those who had sacrificed their lives for him, just like Remus had told him, but why would he care to remember? Unless, of course, thanks to DD's progressive mentorship, he actually came to expect that something would intervene at the last moment and save him, but I see even less heroiс merit in that.
• Yeah, definitely going to disagree there. Courage doesn't require intelligence, all it requires is that you are willing to face something you are totally afraid of, regardless of how much of a good idea it is to face that thing. And with that situation, all Harry thought he knew was that if he did nothing, Sirius would die. Doing something, which has a chance, however small when you calculate it, is preferable than doing nothing. Doing nothing instills a feeling of helplessness. Doing something gives you a feeling of Agency. And besides, he's faced down Voldemort several times at this point and managed to get away. Lets not act like Voldemort is as invincible as he thinks he is. And besides, Sirius only died as a casualty of battle. In the original scenerio, Voldemort would have been taken by surprise with Harry arriving, since he didn't realize Harry was being sent the visions. But in reality, it was actually a trap and Sirius only died as a casualty of battle. If things happened slightly differently, it was entirely possible they could have all gotten out alive. So despite Voldemort having every advantage available to him, Harry still came in, clowned on him, and managed to get away unscathed except for Sirius dying. The fact that something like that can happen, and has happened before in his adventures, justifies the notion that Harry's presence, despite being the objectively weaker wizard, can make a genuine difference.
• re: the root comment above, what "wrong hands"? Voldemort already knows the key information being kept concealed from Harry; that the second part of the prophecy is in the Department of Mysteries, that Voldemort will do anything to obtain it, and that its possible to send fake visions as well as real ones down the Occlumency risk. There is no reason to keep Harry in the dark on this shit; even if Voldemort hears every word you tell Harry, Voldemort already knows what his own plan is. And given that Death Eaters have already encountered at least one Order guard hanging around outside the DOM, Voldemort also already knows that the Order knows he's after the Prophecy. Dumbledore is either seriously lying to Harry or to himself when he goes 'But Voldemort could get the info through you!' — the only piece of info Voldemort doesn't already have is the second half of the Prophecy itself, and Dumbledore could still have shared more than enough info to save Sirius and/or avoid all this mess without having to get into that specific bit.
• 6th year: at some point within this year, he has already decided that Harry must die. That actually very neatly explains why he doesn't bother training Harry at all, but instead spends all their evenings making sure Harry knows Voldemort is totally evil in the slowest method possible. He has not confirmed what the "power the dark lord knows not" actually is, mind you — his theory is that it's love. He suspects that the scar is a Horcrux, but as far as we can tell, has made no attempt to find a way to get rid of it without killing Harry. And Draco? Don't mind him — he can still save this young, innocent boy who is casting unforgivables and attempting murder. So long as he's not successful, he's still innocent, right? Again, good, evil, or senile? If you're not going to pick senile, then the best you can hope for Dumbledore is "good, but a Manipulative Bastard."
• Whoever you are, I'm officially in love with you.
• The memories are to give Harry insight into Voldemort as a person, something that is absolutely important in fighting a single enemy. Draco isn't him thinking he can save an innocent boy who's turning to darkness, but him knowing that Draco has absolutely no desire to be involved in any of it and is only trying out of fear for his family because of the major mistakes that his father made. And it is not a theory that the power the Dark Lord knows not, it's a basic deduction; Harry is an otherwise average wizard of somewhat above average intelligence and power who is mainly skilled and dueling and combat because of all the personal training he did over the course of Book 4 for the Tournament and Book 5 in the DA. He doesn't have any evidently special powers aside from the magic coursing through his veins as a result of his mother's love. Meanwhile, love is one of the very few things that Voldemort is incapable of comprehending. So therefore, logically speaking, Harry's special "power" is not, in fact, a power at all, it's his capacity for love, and the ways that he expresses it (the whole Chronic Hero Syndrome thing). Furthermore, the "Horcrux in the scar" is not a longshot guess, but another easy conclusion based off of the various magical shenanigans that happen relating to the scar and Voldemort. Voldemort feels strong emotions, they leak through to the scar. Harry sees things happen through Voldemort's eyes and the eyes of his snake (also a Horcrux). Harry's scar hurts whenever Voldemort is around (the chunk of soul trying to reunite with the original). It's not a guess, it's basic logic, to the point where people in real life without any actual knowledge of Horcruxes or how they work in a living container figured it out before Book 7.
• The problem with your so-called "basic logic" is that your train of logic is "Dumbledore said it, therefore it's true." That's also JK Rowling's way of inserting Word of God into a story: have Dumbledore say it. It's bad writing because anyone who understands that Dumbledore is only human will realize how many holes are in his reasoning. First, insight doesn't require a holographic video experience spread out over months, we understood it just fine by reading about it in a book. Dumbledore could have summarized it in one evening. Second, regarding Draco: he's already over the deep end. He has already used an Unforgivable and twice attempted murder. He is no longer a child needing a way out, he's a criminal needing to be locked up, yet the speech Dumbledore gives him in their final confrontation leads me to believe that he thinks Draco is still an "innocent" boy who's incapable of murder. Earth to Dumbledore: he's attempted it twice. The power Dark Lord knows not: many other things, including all things Muggle. Both of them are half-bloods, but Voldemort severed all his Muggle roots while Harry didn't. It could have been the power of luck — Harry is damn lucky throughout all the novels, and Voldemort had a very unlucky childhood, parentage, heritage, etc. The power of love is such a vague "power", you even admitted that it's not really a power. It could have been the power of righteousness and justice, for all that it mattered. The scar Horcrux: only a simple conclusion because Dumbledore said so. If Horcruxes are bound to physical objects, couldn't he just amputate the scar? All the Voldemort-related pain that Harry had ever felt was always centered around that particular tissue, after all. This costs almost nothing to try out and could save Harry's life if it works — nothing, not even a medical scan of some sort, is performed. If Occlumency could block the connection, then it suggests a mental link, not a spiritual one, unless Occlumency is also the art of soul-manipulation of some kind. The fact that Voldemort himself possessed Harry in Book 5 without noticing anything and could fully control their "connection" after he discovered it means that souls are either really easy to manipulate with magic, or it's just a shallower type of link. Regardless, Dumbledore doesn't ever attempt a "safer" solution for Harry, but jumps straight to "Harry must die." When playing with people's lives, I prefer to go on more than "educated guesses."
• I just want to point out, I don't think Draco was off the deep end at any point. It seemed pretty obvious to me that he never did anything he did really because he felt comfortable. He tries to kill Dumbledore with the necklace and wine, but think about it. These are about the most weak attempts at murder ever possible. If they worked, they would require him not even having to see Dumbledore, only hearing about his death the next morning or whatever. It's the easy way out. He doesn't have to look at him while he kills him. He doesn't have to think about what Dumbledore or anyone would think of him because no one would ever know. Dumbledore knows that Draco is never serious about wanting to kill him because when Draco is face to face with him, he can't do it. He's scared, he doesn't know what to do, he's in fear of what will happen to him if he doesn't go through with it. Draco was not a nice guy and even downright vile, but not a true murderer even with his attempts. He was just a scared kid trying to follow orders to save himself and his family.
• So he's a murderer AND a coward. This makes things exactly?
• He's a coward because he doesn't WANT to be a murderer and is only attempting murder to save his family. He doesn't want to kill Dumbledore at all, he just feels he has to or else his family will suffer he consequences.
• The Memories in HBP are completely useless and could be all told in a single hour. Ron's WMG was that the tutorial sessions were to train Harry in super-dooper magic skills. The point of the Memories was that Harry would have no knowledge and no power and waste the year on the camping trip from hell. The Power the Dark Lord knows not is not and never could be Love. Voldie War I, Death Eaters made parent obey by threatening their children. Voldie War II, DE-s made students obey by threatening their parents. Riddle was perfectly aware that people love. Love is merely the power the Dark Lord feels not. The power that killed Riddle was random wand rules. DD needed to protect Draco for the Greater Good. Riddle rose to power with Malfoy money. Harry forgave Draco, so Draco will have the money to fund the next Dark Lord.
• Ok, let's get them all excuses in order for debunking.
• "DD and Arabella didn't know Harry was maltreated". Bullshit. Harry's invitation letter is addressed to the "closet under the stairs". If DD knew where the boy freaking slept, there's no way he didn't know the rest. And in B5 Arabella, apologises to Harry for boring him to death during his stays at hers, because "if the Dursleys knew you were having a good time at mine, they would never left you with me". So again, the Dursleys were fooling noone. And finally, during his confession, DD admitted that he'd knew beforehand that Harry would be maltreated.
• Yes, they knew he was being abused. What do you purpose he do about it? Harry needed to stay there for the magical protection living with blood relatives grants and Harry had no other blood relatives. Yes, he could pop in every now and then and threaten the Dursleys but what would that acomplish? It would make them frightened and angry and they'd just take that out on Harry as soon as Dumbledore was elsewhere. It's not until Harry's actually old enough to somewhat defend himself that threats from wizards to leave Harry alone have any chance of working, due to the simple fact that he needs to stay with them.
• Pay them. Do them some favors. Befriend them. Explain how pissing Harry off makes him liable to outbursts of accidental magic, and how important it is that he doesn't slip to Dark Side. Seriously people, what is wrong with you? Why are the only proposed option of interaction are insults and/or intimidation?
• Because it wouldn't work. At all. The Dursley's aren't reasonable when it comes to magic. People don't just stop being abusive because someone knows, or because they've offered them bribes. Any witch or wizard attempting to befriend them would have never been able to reveal what they were or even discuss the subject of magic without the Dursley's shutting them out. If Petunia's own sister and raising her orphaned son didn't do a thing to soften them towards the subject then nothing was going to. It's a simple horrible truth that Harry and Dumbledore are aware of and are resigned to until Harry turns 17.
• You know what really wouldn't work? At all? Sending three teenagers after the relics of the most powerful evil sorceror in the world. Once you've entertained that idea seriously, you really have no excuse to dismiss the possibility of befriending a bunch of stuck-up ignorami. Mind you, when I say befriend them, I don't mean "wake up one day and think: "Oh, fuck! Dursleys have been abusing Harry for the past twelve years! I'd better do something about it!" - I mean beforehand. Take the trouble to actually appear in person and explain everything, not leave some stinking note. Maybe even go an extra mile and put on something respectable at that. Warn them about the outbursts of accidental magic and how being agitated or threatened would make Harry more prone to them. Tell them that for any additional information they might refer to Mrs. Figg (they'll understand the implications, and yes, people do behave better when somebody knows). Yes, offer them to compensate for all the expenses, and add some bonus for their troubles. Shortly speaking, treat them like actual people and not act like you've rendered them some unfathomabe honor by entrusting them with a holy mission of raising the little bugger.
• Which is still wrong, because the blood protections only require that Harry share a roof with someone else of his mother's blood. Vernon Dursley is only related to Harry by marriage; getting him out of the household (say, by having him arrested and jailed for child abuse?) and leaving behind Petunia and Dudley (living off a stipend that Dumbledore provides, since they no longer have Vernon's income) would ensure Harry at least wasn't flagrantly abused, even if the environment was still a tad chilly. Particularly if Dumbledore made the point that if Petunia didn't start acting like a human being, she'd be the next to go... after all, little Dudders alone is still a relative sharing the blood of Lily Potter, and Dumbledore could easily arrange for them to be fostered in the same home. And before somebody goes 'Intimidation!', I might point out that the only thing proposed here is that Vernon (and if necessary, Petunia) have inflicted upon them the normal penalties of law for offenses that they have actually committed.
• So you solution is to destroy a family, incarcerating a husband and father and believeing that wouldn't turn Petunia and Dudley against Harry even worse? Petunia is specifically mentioned as being the necessary ingrediant for the protection to keep working and there's no way in hell that's going to be doable if Dumbledore starts actually messing with her family. I get that you want to find a work around for the situation, and that's fine, but actions have consequences and you need to think about them when coming up with plausible solutions. If Dumbledore is willing to violate people that badly why not just place the family under direct mind control? Wouldn't be any further over the line than what you've suggested.
• I'm supposed to weep tears over Vernon being a 'husband and father'? Vernon is also a child abuser; those belong in jail. You're actually saying that child abusers should be gone easy on because they're parents. That's as absurd as killing both your parents and then demanding the mercy of the court because you're an orphan. Also, you're saying that 'sending a guy to prison for crimes he has legitimately committed' is morally equivalent to 'Imperius curse mindrape'; that's ridiculous. And you're also factually wrong; the blood protections specifically require a blood relative of Lily Evans, but there are two people in the household who fit that description; Petunia, and Dudley.
• "DD couldn't leave Harry in a wizarding family under a Fidelius charm." So, you're basically telling me, that in all the England, there wasn't a single wizard (including DD himself) responsible and level-headed enough to raise a celebrity child in reasonable severity. I will just leave it at that, because nothing I could say would prove my point better than that.
• No. There isn't a single adult wizard that wouldn't worship Harry like prince. Harry stopped Voldemort, something even Dumbledore failed to do. Because of Harry Potter the Dark Lord is gone, the Death Eaters roundedup or in hiding and they don't have to spend every day in fear for themselves and their loved ones. A decade later Harry is STILL getting preferential treatment from the wizarding community until Fudge decides to smear his image and even that only goes so far.
• I find this hard to believe. People like Remus would have raised Harry very well. And even if he had to be raised by muggles, it didn't have to be the Dursleys. It could've been a nice, random muggle family (or maybe just Arabella if Dumbledore wanted someone who knew about the wizarding world).
• Remus? Seriously? The man could barely take care of himself. He turns into a wolf at periodic intervols, how would he take care of Harry during those periods, can't just leave an infant or young child alone for that length of time and he was never shown having any real friends until the order reformed? What do you think the wizarding community's reaction would have been when they discovered that their savior was in the care of a werewolf? The wizarding community can not be objective when it coms to Harry Potter, he's either their savior or their bane, depending on which side they were on during the war. As for Muggles, it had to be the Dursley's because Dumbledore could only work the protective magic he felt was necessary on the home of Harry's blood relatives. If anything else would do he would have moved into the Burrow after his second year, there's no doubt they would have taken him in and treated him much better.
• That's why the suggestion was "people like Remus". You know, people with brains, not necessarily werevolves.
• Well, hardly a random Muggle family, since their house would've essentially dissapeared from the map, but definitely people like Lupin.
• And even barring Lupin, you've at least got Mcgongall, who is established as the wizarding world's Only Sane Woman about two pages into the first book.
• Alternately, there's Andromeda Tonks. She's actually related to Harry by blood (second cousins on the Potter side via the Black famly tree, as is every other Black of her generation), and unlike the rest of the Black family she isn't a Death Eater, married to a Death Eater, or in Azkaban. Also, she married a Muggleborn wizard, so Harry would not only grow up with competent and loving parents (just look at Tonks for how good a job they did), but experienced in both the Muggle and Wizarding worlds, best of both worlds. And again, looking at the job they did with Tonks, I seriously doubt they'd let Harry grow up with a big head.
• Andromeda is related on the wrong side, Petunia is the only person (in series) related to Lily.
• They're not second cousins. Dorea Potter's son wasn't James.
• Second cousins merely requires that you share a great-grandparent in common. It doesn't matter whether Dorea Potter is James' mother or his mother's sister, either way it still works.
• Or for extra hilarity, Moody. Granted, Harry would probably grow up just a tad eccentric and loaded down with combat skills no wizard his age should be having after having been raised in isolation with old Mad-Eye, but could you imagine a safer environment? CONSTANT VIGILANCE!
• Also, DD could actually explain to Harry's would be-foster parents that V's fall wasn't Harry's merit, but his mother's, and therefore they shouldn't venerate him.
• Hey, remember how the Weasleys "venerated" Harry Potter and spoiled him outrageously in everything and let him get totally egotistical? Nope, me neither.
• I remember Arthur and Molly adoring him to the point where I can't remember a single instance of them actively scolding him for his reckless actions and endangering Ron and Ginny along the way. They only focuss on what good he's caused and they don't have the means to spoil him as he doesn't live with them long term and can't afford anythign Harry can't buy for himself. The problem with these ideas is that we see how these people react once harry is already developped as a person and meetinbg them for short periods. We have no ide how they may have favoured him if he'd been dropped on their doorstep right after Voldemort fell, And a FC won't work as it only affects a location or piece of information so if Harry so much as went outside the protection would be lost and there would be nothing stopping a Death Eater from nabbing either the person or their loved ones and getting the information out of them by force. Petunia's blood protection couldn't be forcibly removed until Harry hit adulthood.
• Did you read versions of The Order of the Phoenix and Deathly Hallows that were published in alternate timelines? Molly Weasley was trying to restrain the kids from going out on their adventures right up to the day the Great Horcrux Hunt began. The Weasleys were never "enabling" Harry's adventures; christ, they'd have pulled their legally of-age children from the Order if they'd been able to. As far as blood protections vs. the Fidelius Charm, where the hell did you get the idea that the blood protections work anywhere outside of Privet Drive? Dumbledore specifically says that they don't (in chapter 37 of "Order of the Phoenix"). And with the exception of the one instance at the end of Philosopher's Stone (where Voldemort was a highly weakened shade of himself and especially vulnerable), the protections never saved Harry from anything outside Privet Drive; Harry's been repeatedly stabbed, beaten up, hexed, cursed, bitten, and Crucio'ed, by either Voldemort himself or people carrying the Dark Mark, all the way through the damn series.
• Molly did seem to treat Harry more extravagantly than Ron at times. But that's also attributable to him being a guest and her feeling sorry for him being an orphan.
• Or how about the Flamels? They were good friends and colleagues of Dumbledore's, they'd been around for too many centuries to be impressed by some flash-in-the-pan Boy Who Lived, and they weren't British, meaning they probably only knew about Voldemort second-hand and wouldn't feel obligated to Harry for "saving" them.
• "DD knew Death Eaters well enough to predict their every move". Weak bullshit. Ten years had passed, and people change.
• Agreed here, Dumbledore was playing with fire. Draco's getting the DE into the castle in book six proves the falacy of such thinking.
• "DD couldn't deal with the Basilisk because he didn't know Parseltongue". Bullshit. After the Duel Club, he knew that Harry can speak it.
• Yes, but HE didn't know parsletongue. He might have suspected a basilisk but he had no way to verify it and Harry didn't mention to anyone but Harry and Hermione that he was hearing voices and they told him that was weird and to not tell people about it.
• He (and Snape) both knew Legilemency. It's safe to assume that whatever Harry knows, they know. Why the hell else do you think they set up that Duelling Club? To confirm their suspicions, of course.
• They don't just automatically know everything everyone else knows, they have to actually enter the minds of the person and locate the infomation. It's not exactly a subtle thing and Harry would have certainly realized something was up. I'm also fairly certain it requires eye contact and while Harry might maintain that with Dumbledore while feeling intruded upon he certainly would not have with Snape. Also, even if he knew it was a basilisk and he knew Harry wasa parsletongie, which everyone knew after the duelling club, there's still the matter of finding the Chamber of Secrets, figuring out how to open it witout being able to speak the language (and Dumbledore certainly wouldn't have brought Harry along at this point), figuring out who's controlling the basilisk and destroying the diary, assuming he even figured out what it was. Could Dumbledore have done that? Maybe, but it's not what happened.
• " Harry would have certainly realized..." - You don't know that. "eye contact..." - yes, he did looked Snape in the eye every time the latter started telling him off for the next screw up. "...finding the Chamber of Secrets" - he knew where Mirtle died, from there on it's easy. Don't tell me he couldn't have found that snake on the washstand. "...certainly wouldn't have brought Harry along..." - why not? Everything else - I honestly don't see what all this has to do with killing the snake. Moreover, as I've already wrote in the CoS section, he could've used a Time Turner to return to the time of the attack and nail the snake right there and then.
• Know how I can tell you that he couldn't have? Because he didn't. Dumbledore had almost all the infomation right in front of him for decades, and Harry likely wasn't the first Parseltongue to come through he school since Voldemort. Fact is, Dumbledore didn't know what was going on and Harry was told by the two people he trusted not to go around telling anyone about hearing voices and by the time he figured out what was going on and was ready to tell Dumbledore he'd been removed by Lucius. Maybe Dumbledore or Snape could have gone searching through Harry's mind for the information, maybe even without his knowledge but that's, again, not how things went down. We have no reason to believe either of them regularly invade their students' minds.
• This is circular logic. You are saying he couldn't have done it because he didn't and that he didn't because he couldn't.
• New possibility; even if we accept that Harry is only safe at Privet Drive or at Hogwarts, he could be given lodging at Hogwarts year-round. And before you go "No he couldn't!", two words: Sybill Trelawney. Dumbledore was able to declare that she could keep her year-round apartment at Hogwarts, as a guest of the school, even after Umbridge fired her from being Professor. So; find designated caregiver for Harry, give said caregiver a job at Hogwarts, give them year-round quarters as part of that job, and Harry (as their ward) lives with them. Sha-freaking-zam. Harry is now at Hogwarts the entire year. Hell, you could make Arabella Figg Harry's caretaker and then give her a job replacing Filch; now the Board of Governors can't even complain, because its not a make-work job, she's legitimately employed in a job that a squib has already been holding for decades. As for Filch? I'm sure his early retirement can be made a lot less stressful by Dumbledore sliding him a retirement bonus of 'ye olde huge sack of galleons' on the down-low.
• Of course, that would require abolishing an important part of Hogwarts admittance policy, that is "let in every goddamned last associate of Voldemort who feels like it", and we don't know how the school board would take to that. Hogwarts has traditions, you know!
• Everything about capturing Pettigrew, I already explained in the PoA section. In a nutshell: Pettigrew was exempt from the time loop, because his fate immediately after his escape was uncertain, and the timeline couldn't be possibly "messed with" thanks to being invariable.
• Dumbledore is likely smart enough to realize that messing with time is a bad idea. He can send Harry and Hermione (both of whom have first hand knowledge of the vents in the area they needed to go to) because the're single minded enough to stick to the mission set for them. Dumbledore likely would have gotten distracted by the dozens of other little details he'd like to change. Plus it's possible he spotted them on his way to Hagrid's, we don't see that part from his perspective so he may have known. And they may be able to tell who's used the Time Turner. That one was for Hermione and nobody else, the Ministry likely would have be very upset that Dumbledore was using it to accomplish his own agenda.
• Nope, saying "time travel is dangerous" for the seventeenth time didn't make it any more convincing. "Dumbledore likely would have gotten distracted..." - that's just lame. " accomplish his own agenda..." - since when is saving an innocent from death and capturing an escaped murderer is seen as "his own agenda"? Again, much elaborated on in the relative section.
• Explain to me how time travel is not dangerous, nor the consequences of being discovered altering time? Time travel works in stable time loops anyway, he didn't go back and do it himself because that's not what happened the first time, whether he knew that or not.
• How can you say that's not what happened the first time, if nobody knows what exactly happened?
• Because it's obviously safe enough to give a time-travel device to a 14-year-old girl with only the instructions "Don't let anyone else see you, including your past self." I'm going to make an assumption that Dumbledore is more careful and is even more skillful than 14-year-old Hermione at sneaking around unseen. Being in the late evening/night, there were HUGE areas and times that Dumbledore himself could have stepped in to ensure that Pettigrew was captured without disrupting anything. There's an obvious "open ended" region after Harry and Hermione lost sight of Peter and went to take care of Harry and Sirius instead that Dumbledore could have stepped in.
• They gave time travel to a 14 year old girl so she could do extra homework, under the supervision of the teachers. If she'd been caught using the time turner for personal reasons or let anyone else use it it would hve ben take away from her. Her having it at all was solely due to Minerva's persistence and even that took a while.
• On the Triwizard Tournament. Yes, DD obviously arranged for the sake of Harry's training, because the alternative would be that he wasn't able to keep an eye on the Goblet while a former Death Eater (Karkarov) was in the school and didn't manage to root the culprit out of a handful of suspects (only a powerful mage could Confound the Goblet, how many of those were present?). Not to mention, of course, the utter ridiculousness of an idea of a "binding magical contact" without any emergency loopholes for a junior sport event. And last, but not least, the Return Portkey. Who the fuck else could've fit the Goblet with it if not DD? Crouch definitely didn't need to do that.
• Karkarov sold out the Death Eaters in order to avoid prison, and even if he personally and single-handedly kidnapped Harry and resurrected Voldemort, Voldy still would have tortured him to death. Besides, even if Dumbledore had several suspects, he probably wouldn't have thought that his good friend of many years and professional baddass Mad-Eye Moody could be a traitor.
• Or he arranged the Triwizard Tourneamnet to solidify Hogwart's allegence with the other two schools. He knew Voldemort was growing in strength and a return was inevitable so he reached out to the wizarding world outside his immediate influence. He seemed fairly upset that Harry was entered into the tournament at all and the spells he learned were either from coursework from that year or from basic research from Hermione, easily achived without putting Harry in repeated danger. He may have even been willing to help Harry train (though that is actually cheating, though at least basic cheating seems to be accepted as tradition) but Harry never seeks help from ay of the teachers so they all just assumed he figured out what he needed on his own. Fake Moody even tried to help indirectly but failed because Harry refused to ask for help outside Ron and Hermione.
• Again, the idea of a "binding magic contract" without escape clauses for a junior competition is ridiculous. For Lenin's sake, it's not some grand trial with the fates of the universe at stake - it's an ordinary inter-colledge dick-measuring contest! What if some of the contestants is badly injured (Dobby, you have a chance to save Master Harry!), or if they cheat and must be disqualified, or if their relative suddenly falls ill or dies? There are countless possibilities, yet nobody attempts to test the contract's boundaries by suggesting, for instance, that Harry just seats the Tournament through and loses, nobody does anything to bail him out. As usual, it's not about whether it would work or not - it's about the mind-boggling absense of effort, which to me has only one explanation - the staff (read: DD) were interested and involved in Harry's participation. But even if we give the accused party all the benefit of the doubt in the world, it will not eliminate the grand question, that all DD advocates have so far avoided: who could've put the return portkey on the Goblet, if not DD?
• That's because the answer is STUPIDLY easy to figure out: NOWHERE, in the ENTIRE SERIES, does it EVER say that touch-activated portkeys are one-way.
• 1. Can you name any reason why they should behave differently from the time-activated ones, which ARE one-way? 2. If that was the case, you'd think Crouch and/or V would've taken special precautions to make sure Harry doesn't grab the Goblet right after appearing at the cemetery or Summons it once shit hits the fan...oh right, I forgot, "V is very vain". 3. If that was the case Goblet would've brought Harry back to the center of the labyrinth, not outside.
• Presumably the "binding magical contract" effect wasn't something whipped up just for the Triwizard Tournament: it's most likely an effect that's used for all sorts of wizarding-world contracts. It's designed to be unbreakable because that's how they prevent people from breaking other sorts of crucial contractual agreements, not because a junior athletic competition is all that important.
• If that was the case, there wouldn't be the need for the specific Unbreakable Vow. But regardless, just because a contract is unbreakable, doesn't mean it cannot have legitimate escape or termination clauses, and a contract for a teenager to enter a dangerous competition should obviously have those.
• Maybe DD was keeping an eye on the tournament in general and the Goblet in particular. He might have even gone so far as to get an old auror with a particular knack for seeing things out of retirement just so he's got extra security around. As for the return portkey, the book makes it clear that it brought him outside the maze, supporting the "the cup was always a portkey and Crouch simply added an extra stop" theory.
• If that was the case, Crouch would've known that, meaning V would've taken precautions to make sure Harry doesn't grab the Goblet right after appearing at the cemetery or Summons it once shit hits the fan. Also, if you can make a Portkey with a non-identifiable middle stop, it means you can make a non-identifiable Portkey, meaning that the only reason why Crouch would have to wait until the third task is void.
Ok, seriously, Dumbledore is not a bad guy. He is manipulative because he has to be, an occupational hazard of fighting Voldemort.
• He leaves Harry with the Durselys because he believes it to be the best option. Fidelius Charms are breakable, the blood magic is not. There is absolutely 0% chance of a DE or Voldy hurting Harry while he is at the Dursley's. To Dumbledore that comes first, he has to get Harry to safety. The side effect of him growing up normal is good too. He knew Harry was abused, but he had good reasons for his plan and wasn't going to change them for Harry's comfort. Bear in mind the Dursleys never seem to have hit him or anything serious like that.
• Yeah, i guess swinging a cast-iron frying pan at a 13-year-old doesn't count as child abuse as long as you miss.
• Let's not forget that Uncle Vernon tried to strangle him in Order of the Phoenix and it was Harry's magic that saved him.
• Care to explain Dementor attack in The Order of the Phoenix?
• Sure, Harry had a guard but he went off to get stolen cauldrons. Plus Harry wasn't in the house so its protection did not apply.
• 1. Fletcher had nothing to do with the Wards whatsoever (BTW, choosing HIM as Harry's guard is another WTF moment, thanks for raising it). 2. This means the protection was completely useless, since Harry obviously didn't spend his whole life inside the house - he went to non-wiz school, for crying out loud!
• Ok, see, this kind of pisses me off. 'change them for Harry's comfort'? What the fuck? Seriously. Harry was systematically and very thoroughly abused in horrifying ways. He was malnourished, given the absolute minimum of attention possible (wearing secondhand clothes from a kid five times his size, glasses never fixed/replaced, etc), and Petunia at least once tried to take a frying pan to his head. WHAT?! And Vernon was always grabbing him and shaking/throwing him around. It's entirely possible there was worse physical abuse that did not get 'seen' in the books, and even if there wasn't, emoional/mental/verbal abuse is EVERY bit as bad as physical. It just doesn't happen to leave nice, sympathy-getting visible marks. By not removing Harry from that house ASAP, Dumbledore was running the very, frighteningly real risk of breeding another Voldemort (or worse) instead of the 'Savior of the Wizarding World'.
• This is just speculation, again, but I don't think the Dursleys were THAT abusive. The only reason I have to go on this is because Harry attended a Muggle school for quite a few years and there is no mention of the school getting involved. It is admittedly a stretch of logic, but it doesn't make sense that the social workers of Britain, or whatever they are called, would have missed truly serious abuse. As for emotional abuse, yeah that was going on, but so long as Harry's life wasn't being threatened Dumbledore must have felt it was better to keep him safe. I am willing to bet that Dumbledore probably felt uneasy about how bad the Durselys were, which is why part of the reason why he let the Weasleys take Harry so often. I doubt any Wizarding family could have offered the same protection, Dubledore did say that the blood ward weas the strongest magic available. As for the dementors, again speculation, but maybe the blood ward only applied to Voldemort and the Death Eaters, not Ministry-sent dementors. Fletcher as a guard is kinds lame, but they did it in shifts and I doubt Dumbledore thought something serious was going to happen with the blood ward keeping Voldemort and the Death Eaters at bay.
• One word: Obliviate. That's what happens to non-magicals when they get involved in the affairs of wizards. I'm sure the teachers DID notice. There's no way in Hades they couldn't. All the signs were there. Then they "forgot" at DD's wand-point.
• You have clearly never been abused yourself, nor known someone who was abused. And you also never read the books. The books made it VERY clear that Harry was abused, frequently and consistently. He was slapped into the cupboard ... and locked in ... for extended (unspecified) periods, his food intake was severely curtailed (anyone who thinks a piece of bread and cheese is a sufficient meal for a growing child is INSANE), and both Petunia and Vernon physically accosted him at *least* once each in the books (more, actually), not to mention Dudley and co's 'Harry hunting'. As for no one getting involved ... *snort* All Vernon and co had to do was keep any bruises where they could not be seen, and verbally terrorize Harry into never speaking of what went on in the house (which is a VERY common tactic used by abusers). Combine that with a few careful blandishments in the right ears if anyone *did* get suspicious, and it is entirely believable that Harry fell through the cracks of the system. I will grant you that the dementors are very much an iffy proposition where keeping them away from Privet Drive is concerned, but for god's sake ... all it would have taken is someone like Malfoy finding out where Harry lived, (and given his connections in the Ministry, he could have), and Harry would have been so much dead meat, because even if he could not approach Privet Drive, he could have VERY easily sweet-talked the Dursleys into bringing 'both their boys' to some other location. Especially if he promised to take Harry off their hands. And as for Privet Drive being the only safe place ... bullshit. If Dumbles had actually intervened on Sirius' behalf and made sure he got a trial, (and Sirius was cleared), Grimmauld Place, which was apparently unassailable in the later books, would have been perfectly fine as a living place. Better, Harry would have been with someone (two someones, in all likelihood, since I'd bet good money on Remus joining them) who loved him dearly. And even if you take Sirius out of the equation ... hello, Weasleys. Upgrade the defenses around the Burrow and put it under Fidelius (with bloody Dumbledore as Secret Keeper) and Harry'd be fine. Final point ... abuse (physical or otherwise) leaves scars. Depending on the severity of the abuse and the personality of the one being abused, the damage can be as 'minimal' (hah!) as a lifetime struggle with low self-esteem and as horrifying as suicidal depression, anxiety/panic attacks, any of a number of crippling phobias, night terrors and more. Given what Harry was going to be expected to do (defeat Voldie), putting him, knowingly, into a situation where he would be in danger of acquiring such problems is not only damn stupid, it's literally criminal.
• Who says Dumbledore doesn't check up on the Dursleys and Obliviate Harry? It's not ideal, but shields Harry from the worst of any abuse and stops Death Eaters torturing him to death.
• Refutation of two points above. First off, the only weakness in the Fidelius Charm is that the Secret Keeper might betray you. Since Dumbledore could use himself for the Secret Keeper, that's obviously not a problem for him! As far as 'there is no way to break the blood protections', that's wrong again; the blood protections only work so long as Harry is still living at Privet Drive. The instant Vernon or Petunia chucks him out permanently and not just temporarily, *poof*, its gone. And given that they didn't want him there anyway... let's just say that if, oh, Narcissa Malfoy had walked up to Vernon in his office at Grunnings one day and said 'Give Harry's custody over to me and I'll give you this huge sack of gold', Vernon would sign the paperwork so fast he'd break the pen. So, really, Dumbledore's blood protections are a pure Idiot Plot; he's an idiot for thinking they'd work, and the Death Eaters are total idiots for actually being so made of fail that in seventeen years they can't think of a plan that literally took me longer to type out than to compose in the first place.
• "Give Harry's custody over to me and I'll give you this huge sack of gold" - or, even better, kidnap Dudley and promise Petunia to send him back home one piece at a time unless they renounce Harry. Same effect, but more fun!
• Also, with the fidelius charm, only one person would know where Harry lived. Given that Umbridge was able to send Dementors after Harry, we can assume that the fact he was living at Privet Drive was public knowledge. Even if only a select few at the Ministry knew this, it would be simple for someone like Lucius to find Harry's location.
• Perhaps Dumbledore did not want Harry to grow up under a Fidelius Charm. Think about it, if Harry was under a Fidelius Charm he would be unable to leave the house, just like James. Imagine a child being shut inside for their entire life. Seems like that would be worse than what we see the Durselys do. Moreover, none of the people caring for him would be able to lead normal lives either. I also think that Dumbledore understood that Petunia would never throw Harry out. When Vernon tried she told him point blank it wasn't going to happen. And he backed down.
• In canon, Harry spent the first 11 years of his life being worked like a Malfoy house-elf, forced to live in a cupboard under the stairs, emotionally abused, deprived of food, occasional beatings, and never being allowed out anyway except for school and chores. Short of actually sticking him in Azkaban or handing him over to Death Eaters, there really isn't much of a worse place in Magical Britain to live than where Harry already is. 11 years in a safe house being raised by normal loving people might be a bit confining to us, but when the horizons of your world are a damned cupboard under the stairs its still a significant trade up. Also, you can Fidelius a pretty large building; Grimmauld Place ain't small. Doing it to, oh, a manor house and grounds, would allow Harry a better life than Privet Drive even if he could only go over the fence when accompanied by a guard and for short periods.
• Voldemort is good at deception, that is why he hired Quirrel. He may have suspected Quirrel wanted to steal the Stone, but he had no proof and Quirrel had not done anything to make him suspect Voldemort's involvement. The obstacles may not have been on par with Voldy's cave, but Flamel still had to get to the Stone every now and again to get Elixer. Dumbledore had no idea Harry knew about the Stone and he certainly didn't set up the obstacles so Harry and co. could get past. It just happened that way so we could have a story.
• Oh, sure. And all the obstacles just happened to be perfectly tailored to the kids' skills. And Hagrid just happened to blab out all the plot-related information. And DD just happened to be there when Harry was sitting at the mirror and explain exactly how it work. And of course DD didn't know that someone was killing unicorns or how they were being killed and what that implied...are you trying to persuade us or yourself?
• Pretty much. Coincidences can happen. Dumbledore knew about the unicorns but what do you expect him to do about it? He still doesn't know who is doing it or who Voldemort may be possesing. I have to wonder about why Voldy did the unicorn blood, he wan't going to die without it, but that's another headscratcher. As for Hagrid blabbing, he blabbed to a stranger in a pub, it's not out of character. Dumbledore was at the mirror because he was waiting for Harry, that was why he was invisible. Why wouldn't he explain about the mirror, it kept Harry from searching for it again.
• Just happened to be tailored to the kids? So Dumbledore forsaw that Hermione would read ahead about a rare and deadly plant and remember enough information to get them through? And he totally had Macgonnagal create a chess set because he knew Ron would be good at chess? Or the potions puzzle that only Hermione was able to solve, which assumed she would make it that far? And of course there was the huge mountain troll that Quirrel dispatched on his own and would have likely been too much for the kids. But of course Dumbledore knew exactly how Quirrel would disable it and that it would still be down by the time the kids got there. And he knew Hagrid would leak the information about Fluffy to the kids? Okay, that one might be plausible but that again would require the children to know about Fluffy in advance and even then it didn them no good.
• "Coincidences can happen" - Indeed they can. So if, say, one of the obstacles just happened to require something they happened to be good at, that would've been a coincidence. But when all the obstacles, without a single exclusion relied on their very particular strengths...well, if you keep deluding yourself, there is really nothing I can do about it. Next, on the particular tasks. OMG, you're not even trying, are you? "DD forsaw that Hermione would read ahead about a rare and deadly plant..." - they are in a fucking school, and he's the thrice goddamn Headmaster. He can control what they read and know, especially in case of a knowledge-hog, like Hermie. Advise a book about that plant for outside reading and then put a question about it in some test, to be sure she got it. Done. "had Macgonnagal create a chess set because he knew Ron would be good at chess" - no, because he knew Ron was good at chess. They have portraits in the common rooms, meaning they know what the kids are doing in their spare time. "the potions puzzle that only Hermione was able to solve, which assumed she would make it that far" - if she solved, it it doesn't mean only she could solve it and besides, why the hell wouldn't she get that far? "...there was the huge mountain troll that Quirrel dispatched on his own" - you mean like the one they nailed in the bathroom? Besides, you've answered your own question - Quirrell was expected to deal with the troll. "And he knew Hagrid would leak the information about Fluffy to the kids" - nope, he told Hagrid to leak it. "that again would require the children to know about Fluffy" - uhuh, remember how a first-year girl managed to open the door leading to the invaluable artifact guarded by a vicious monster? Another coincidence, I guess. And then Hagrid just happened to give Harry a flute as a gift.
• I always thought that the plant was meant for Neville, he just went yolo and almost managed to screw everything up.
• The thing is that the Stone was moved and the obstacles set up long before Harry made his friends. Plus he would have to explain to the teachers setting them up why he wanted it that way and I doubt they would have approved. I may be using Occam's Razor on this one, but narrative convenience seems more likely to be at fault here. If the Stone had been as well guarded as Voldy's cave Harry would never have gotten to it.
• First, there's no indication when exactly the traps were set up. Only Fluffy was in place originally. DD might've been adding the remaining obstacles as he learnt more about the kids. Second, the most obviously tailored obstacles (chess and puzzle) were set up by Mc Gonagal and Snape, who were in on the plan. Even if the others weren't, DD wouldn't need to explain anything, because he's the goddamn Dumbledore and everybody trusts him. Finally, yes, the default explanation is "All the characters are idiots, because it was easier for Rowling that way". I'm all for it, but I'm willing to give the accused the benefit of the doubt.
• Dumbledore obviously was unsure what Slytherin's monster was. He may have suspected it was a Basilisk, but he had no way to know for sure. He also had no way to know that Parseltongue would get him into the Chamber. As for closing the school, there were no fatalities and the conditions were reversible. It would take multiple attacks, five in total, before they talked of shutting down the school. Remember the attacks were spaced over months.
• Use a Time-Turner after the first attack, go to the place where it's about to take place, become imperceptible, wait for the killer, stop him. Done.
• Nope. Doesn't work like that. It's a Stable Time Loop.
• You Keep Using That Word. Care to elaborate in your own words how that particular plan wouldn't work? (Mind you, when I wrote "stop him" I obviously meant after it attacked Colin, so the precious Loop wouldn't suffer).
• If he had caught the killer then and there he would never have gone back in time to catch the killer. Plus him presenting the killer would have meant he would have run into his past self. Since he didn't present the killer that means that if he had gone back in time he would have failed to catch the killer because that's what did happen. I also assume the Time Turners have some limit to how far back you can go (probably only a few hours). This leaves a relatively small window for learning about the attack and time traveling back to try to stop it. The last one is admittedly pure speculation on my part.
• Moreover, DD obviously knew who the monster was. Otherwise why the hell would Hagrid advise Harry to follow the spiders? It meant Hagrid (and therefore DD) knew that the spiders were fleeing the castle, which, in conjunction with the methods of attacks and the slaughter of roosters gives a very clear picture. Oh, and add here Mirtle's bathroom mysteriously being left unrepaired for 50 years (right, they couldn't drive out a single stupid ghost, sure).
• Hagrid told Harry and Ron to follow the spiders because they would lead them to Aragog, who could confirm that Hagrid really wasn't the Heir of Slytherin. While Aragog himself seemed to know what the monster was, he wouldn't tell Harry and Ron and he likely didn't tell Hagrid or Dumbledore either. The staff may have never even realized the spiders and roosters were related to the monster, and Basilisks are probably not the only magical creature that use petrification.
• No, they really may not. Hagrid would have to know in advance that the spiders were fleeing the castle, and Aragog didn't hide their fright of the monster. As for the roosters, gimmeabrek. What kind of fox kills roosters but doesn't drag them away? And then there were writings on the wall in rooster blood, and don't tell me they couldn't tell it from human, that's not even funny. They also knew the monster belonged to Slytherin, who had a raging snake fetish, could petrify people and kill them without contact, probably with sight (how else?), and only Harry, a Parselmouth, could hear it inside the walls (Legilimancy). NO WAY they didn't know or at least had a very good guess what it was.
• Hagrid says to follow the spiders because they lead to Aragog, who is the only person who knows what the monster is. Admittedly the chances of it telling Ron and Harry when it wouldn't even tell Hagrid are pretty slim, but Hagrid is always misjudging monsters. Also there's not much of a case for saying DD should have known all these things about the monster unless you assume that he mind reads his students fairly often. (Does anyone find it funny that the "Dumbledore is evil" supporters use the fact that he doesn'tviolate the mental privacy of his students as proof?)
• Yes, but he had to know in advance spiders were fleeing the castle and again, how many monsters are there that terrify spiders? "All those things" amounted to Harry hearing its voice inside the pipes. Even if DD didn't read Harry's mind or had Severus do it (and I'm more than sure he did), the reamining clues are still galore.
• Absent more comprehensive information about the Harry Potter world it is difficult to say for sure what Dumbledore must have deduced or not. Note that each person has their own worldview and what can be blazingly obvious to one person may be clear as mud to another. Also even if Dumbledore suspected the basilisk, what would he have done differently? As for Myrtle's bathroom, I've always felt that he let her haunt the place, seeing as she had no where else to go.
• Why do people think Dumbledore would have done better if he had reversed time? He didn't live through the events. All he had was a hasty second hand account from Sirius. He could have easily botched something, been seen because he didn't know how events played out. Also wasn't Fudge expecting Dumbledore? Hard to hide your involvement when you are supposed to be following after the Minister and appear out ahead of him. Plus there is no evidence Dumbledore had any experience with a Time Turner, while Hermione had been sucessfully using one for a year.
• Become invisible, follow the Trio, live through the events. Done. No, he couldn't, everything had already worked out fine. What kind of "experience" do you need to use the damned thing?
• I doubt Dumbledore would actually follow the Trio around, first of all DD would sort of respect their privacy (yes I know - legilmency doesn't respect privacy but even DD wouldn't monitor their every move)and secondly - DD is, in effect, the unnoficial Minister for Magic. Throughout the books he appears to be holding Wizarding Britain together because Fudge is too incompetent to do so himself, he just doesn't have the time to trail three children!
• Who says anything about trailing them all the time? He would only have to do it once and only for those few hours, and even that would be completely redundant, because he had not a "hasty second hand account from Sirius" but a perfect recollection of events. Three of them, actually.
• Once again, Stable Time Loop.
• Again, BS. Already elaborated in PoA section, and have so far yet to receive a sane answer (i.e. without heedless resort to tropes) why that wouldn't work.
• The stable time line argument is thus: Dumbledore has seen enough clues throughout the evening (maybe Buckbeak's disappearance, and most especially Harry seeing his "Dad" drive away the dementors) to deduce that he was not the one who caused them. He figures out that it must have been Harry and Hermione because there is no one else and so he sends them back to do it.
• If you have never used one before you have no practice at not being detected.
• Who? Who in the nine circles of fuck was supposed to "detect" him, and how would avoiding that be any different from not being detected in normal course of events, which DD obviously can do very well.
• I don't know... maybe advanced magical security around a high-valued prison who'd already escaped from an inescapable prison? If I was in charge of guarding Sirius, I'd add invisibility-detecting wards to the place I was keeping him. Besides, Dumbledore got sacked just a year ago. He's really not in a good position if it appears that he personally broke out a convicted felon using Headmaster's privileges.
• I presume you mean "high-valued criminal", but... what does this have to do with anything? He wouldn't have to go anywhere near Sirius after he was captured, and it wasn't his job to break him out - it was the kids' one. Also, what protection? Two kids and a huge flying beast flew to his cell, blasted the window open, had a sweet talk and then he flew away, are you kidding me? Thank you for leading on to this another huge chunk of idiocy, by the way.
• Maybe he figured that things were more or less under control and allowed Harry and Hermione to win something on their own for self-confidence? For that matter, is it possible that he DID go back in time and followed them around invisibly, but never did anything because it wasn't needed?
• Er, you seem to miss the point. Yes, the kids did fine, he didn't need to interfere with their part - he was supposed to capture Pettegrew after they let him escape, thus aquitting Sirius and preventing V's return.
• As for the tournament, I assume that the magically binding contract was just that, magically binding. It might have been made like that so Headmasters couldn't withdraw their champions if they thought the Goblet had made a bad choice. I don't know what would have happened had Harry failed to compete, but obviously the result was worse than letting Harry do so. As for the reversable Portkey, Voldemort was probably going to use that to send Harry's dead body back. This way his death would be attributed to an accident and no one would know Voldy was back. He couldn't be sure when exactly he would be able to do it, so it was set to activate on Harry's touch, alive or dead. As for the flash of triumph, read book 7.
• "withdraw their champions ..." - forbid to do that by the rules. Done. Again, what if a champion is badly injured, or cheats, or their relative falls badly ill and requires their attendance? "I don't know what would have happened..." - that is the point. Your theory is ungrounded. "Voldemort was probably going to use that to send Harry's dead body back..." - 1. How was that better than having Harry dissappear without a trace? 2.If that was the case, then it'd only make sense to bring Harry back inside the mase, not to the stands.
• I assume that bloody injuries would have resulted in a withdrawal if the damage could not be easily remedied, like how Pomfrey fixed up Diggory. Cheating I would assume would result in the judges giving you zero points. As for the relative, maybe they could reschedule the tasks. As for the Portkey, I'm reaching here, maybe the original cup would have teleported the winner to the stands. That way they wouldn't have to run the maze again in reverse. Just guessing here. Plus if Harry disappeared it would be suspicious to Dumbledore, where as if he dies during the tournament it is chalked up to natural causes.
• Well? How are you supposed to withdraw a contestant when (s)he is under that horrible contract of vagueness? Again, I'm not saying that it couldn't be all bindy and unescapy, I'm saying that it's unlikely, and thus should've been at least addressed in the book. As for the Portkey, who do you think put the Portkey on the Goblet? Crauch!Moody, who else, who brought it into the labyrinth to begin with, and he obviously wouldn't want to hold to the original plan.
• Maybe the magic in the magically binding contract only made you think it was unbreakable? A contract you cannot consider breakable even under duress is one you cannot break. It would explain why Maxime and Karkaroff (after some anger) ultimately decided to go with it and not to leave. I also think Crouch Jr. overlaid the portus already on the cup. The first touch takes you to Voldemort, then after he's done he grasps Harry's dead hand to the cup. He appears dead and it is blamed on the tournament, not Voldy.
• I always assumed the Portkey was meant to take Voldemort to Hogwarts where Dumbledore was. Voldy planned on Harry dying in the graveyard, so if he went to Hogwarts directly after that, believing nobody would expect him to show up, use the element of surprise to Avada Kadavra Dumby, and then his two worst enemies are dead (meaning he wouldn't need the prophecy) and Voldy is free to take over the wizarding world.
• Riiiiiiiiiight. Go with but a bunch of your least reliable goons, probably in a weakened state, to the domain of your arch-nemesis, where there will be dozens of other powerful wizards, and where you cannot apparate from should anything go wrong. Brilliant!
• Actually there's some Fridge Brilliance in there: Voldy knew the first half of the prophecy. Specifically the part about "The one with the power to vanquish the dark lord." - He is under the impression that Harry Potter, and ONLY Harry Potter can defeat him. So why not go mass slaughtering at Hogwarts after offing the one person in the world who poses a threat to you is taken care of? (Note: Regardless of the accuracy of the prophecy, Voldy believed that it was infallable.) Even failing that: he has the 3 ingredients he needs for his rebirth at hand already should he die a second time. At this point he still has (almost) all of his horcruxes intact, and so death is a temporary setback.
• Because V is only an idiot when the plot demands it. Other times he understands that, prophecy or not, there are powers even he has to reckon with. And a full stadium of wizards, lead by DD on his home turf is definitely one of those. And who says he'd be killed rather than overpowered and captured?
• Dumbledore witholds information from Harry in book 5 for a number of reasons. Key among these is the fact that Voldy can know access Harry's mind. He is scared that if Voldy realizes he is giving Harry useful info, that Voldy will be tempted to possess Harry. He also still wants to protect Harry despite all he has been through, he loves him too much to add to his burden.
• "...will be tempted to possess..." - As opposed to, say, possesing him just to make him kill himself? "...still wants to protect..." - uhuh, by withholding crucial information that will help him to stay alive. Brilliant!
• It doesn't appear that possesion lets you make the person committ suicide. Voldemort posses Harry at the end of the book and he doesn't make Harry Avada Kedavra himself or something. It probably kills the possesor too, even if Voldy's Horcruxes would let him survive he probably doesn't want to go through that again. As for Dumbledore, he admits his desire to protect Harry wasn't rational and was at odds with his grand plan.
• Given that Dumbledore flat-out says at the end of The Order of the Phoenix 'Sirius is dead and this whole mess happened because I didn't tell you what I should have told you at the start of this year, Harry', the point's moot. Even Dumbledore admits that he screwed up on this one, so how can we argue it?
• Mostly because even his "explanation" doesn't make any sense. "Oh, Harry. I cannot possibly ruin your pleasant ignorance and shoulder this terrible burden on you by telling you that some half-crazed crow you have no respect for had made a prophecy Riddle'd totally fell for thus becoming even more predictable and vulnerable, and that you don't have to fall for, because only you should rule your destiny, as i'm gonna belatedly explain to you the next year when I finally run out of stupid pills. Instead I'll leave you in the dark, seathing with impotent rage, guilt you must be feeling for inadvertently causing Sedrick's death and assisting in Voldemort's ressurection, and frustration over your friends and mentor all seemingly abandoning you. For the entire summer you will been eaten alive by insurmountable urge for action which I could use to teach you Occlumecy and other useful skills, but will instead completely waste, adding to your boredom and desperation! This is how precious you are to me - so precious I will completely disregard your feelings and show zero respect to you as a person!" Wow. That's...that's beyond simple senility. That's Insane Troll Logic!
• I think Dumbledore would phrase it more like "Oh, Harry I cannot possibly add to your already weary mind by telling you that you somehow have to kill the greatest wizard of the age before he kills you because of a prophecy that he takes way too seriously. I'd prefer to give you time and space so that you can try to deal with your other emotional baggage before announcing that you were screwed from the beginning. I just wanted you to have as much of your childhood as you could before pushing you onto the front lines. That is how precious you are to me - so precious that I will risk the future of the Wizarding World and your opinion of me to try to spare you further pain." Yeah it's stupid, but understandable coming from a man who loved not too wisely but too well. This is the great mistake he refers to at the end of the book.
• Dumbledore doesn't go after Draco because if he does Draco will be killed by the Death Eaters. He doesn't want that. He assigns Snape to help him try to curb Draco's admittedly pitiful attempts to commit homicide. He quarrels with Snape after Ron was poisoned because Snape was not doing his job well enough to keep students safe. Draco is admittedly very sheepish about murder, both attempts see him try to use Rosmerta to manipulte others into killing Dumbledore, Katie and Slughorn. I expect that if Draco had tried a bit harder Dumbledore would have stopped him.
• "...Draco will be killed by the Death Eaters" - How? "Snape was not doing his job well enough..." - Snape obviously couldn't possibly tail Draco 24/7. "...if Draco had tried a bit harder..." - two people all but died, how much "harder" do you need?
• They would kill Draco for failing. As for how, the usual. Snape was unable to win Draco's confidence, that was why Dumbledore reproached Snape for not keeping a closer eye on Draco. Bad choice of words on try harder. If he were more successful then.
• "The usual" how? What V was gonna do, if DD, say, hid Draco under FC with himself as a Keeper? And the choice of words is still bad. Whad you mean "succeeded"? If Ron or that chick actually died? Well, then it's kinda late to stop him, don't you think?
• What's Voldy going to do if Dumbledore takes Draco and hides him under Fidelius? Well, first off he's going to torture Draco's parents to death. Then he'll probably burn down Malfoy Manor, and maybe even target some of Draco's associates at Hogwarts. I think Dumbledore's thinking on Draco was that he sort of believed in the Death Eater cause but was finding himself doubting it, and had Dumbledore gotten through to Draco, then Draco would have willingly agreed to switch sides or at least give up, something which would not have occurred had Dumbledore simply stunned Draco and sent him to Azkaban to be released the next time the Death Eaters had a mass breakout (and yes, the Scrimgour administration would have done that if they'd known).
• I have heard this one so often: "Snape or Dumbledore should have used Legilimency to read someone's mind and find out that they were up to no good." First of all, Legilimency can be resisted by skilled wizards, it is highly unlikely Crouch or Quirrel would have been affected. Second, Legilimency is extremely obvious when it is used and its effectiveness can be quashed by looking away. I doubt that would let it work on many students. Third it is probably illegal like the use of Veritaserum on students. Fourth and final, I doubt Snape and Dumbledore would poke around in the heads of everyone around them just in case. Legilimency is powerful, but limited. To be real effective you need to be able to incapacitate your opponent and force them to make eye contact with you, ala Voldemort and Gregorovich.
• " extremely obvious when it is used...probably illegal...Snape and Dumbledore would poke need to be able to incapacitate your opponent..." - you don't know any of that.
• I don't. I just make guesses based on what we do know. If Veritaserum is illegal on students why would Legilimency be legal? Harry certainly felt it when Snape or Voldemort tried it. If eye contact is crucial how do you plan to maintain it with an unsubdued opponent. Snape might poke around, judging on personality, but if Dumbledore didn't during books 1 and 2 I doubt he ever will.
• Except that he did. When the teachers question Harry after they find Petrified Mrs. Norris, DD gives Harry a long look which makes the kid feel "X-rayed" (does it have to be any more obvious than that?) and then immediately declares his innocence.
• There is a canon example of non-obvious legilimency; when Harry tries to get Snape to read his mind in Umbridge's office, because he needs to get a warning out about Sirius and can't talk out loud. Snape does pick up what Harry's trying to get across from his surface thoughts, but Harry ends the scene having absolutely no idea if Snape actually used Legilimency on him or not. Ergo; Snape is capable of subtlety as well as obvious mind rape. If he wants to be.
• So Harry shouting that 'He's got Padfoot at the place where it's hidden!' had nothing to do with Snape knowing about the situation?
• Even if Snape didn't read his mind then, V did later in the Ministery, and Scarhead didn't feel anything. And even if he would, what does it matter? If he doesn't know what the sensation of being scanned is, then he wouldn't be alarmed when it happens.
• Irrelevant. Even if Dumbledore does know how to use Legilimency undetected, he wouldn't, because it's morally wrong. One of the sacrifices one makes to being a good guy, I suppose. (And yes, having Snape do it instead would be the same thing). Besides, if Harry realized this, he'd never have a reason to trust Dumbledore again, and it wouldn't have helped against any of the villains Dumbledore had the chance to use it on (Quirrell was presumably protected by Voldemort's occulmancy, he had no reason to mistrust Moody and JK Rowling has said that Barty Crouch Jr did have occulmancy as well, he already knew about Draco and didn't want to tip him off, it would have been useless against Umbridge or Lockhart).
• IMO, Dumbledore was at best harmfully manipulative and at worst straight-up evil. 1) Bringing Harry to the Dursleys. He did this BEFORE Sirius went on his attempted Roaring Rampage of Revenge on Pettigrew. BEFORE. Which meant he had precisely zero authority over one Harry Potter unless he was named guardian in the Potters' wills, which I *sincerely* doubt, with Sirius being Harry's godfather. 2) From things revealed later in the book, Hagrid somehow managed to get to Godric's Hollow within minutes of the attack. HOW? He cannot use magic! How in the name of hell did Dumbledore even know the Potters had been attacked to send him? Sirius at least suspected because he couldn't find Pettigrew. For Hagrid to have gotten there that fast, Dumbledore would have had to have some sort of monitoring charm or some such ... AND a pre-made portkey to the cottage, which would kind of muck up the whole 'secret' thing if a bad guy managed to get hold of it! 3) The abuse. Arabella knew. She couldn't not. She SAW Harry regularly, admitted to his face she knew he was treated like shite. She reported to Dumbledore. He even admitted to knowing shit was bad at the Dursleys. 4) Back to Sirius, and spending over a decade locked in hell without benefit of a trial. I don't bloody well care if everyone was poison-sure he was guilty ... He. Was. Owed. A. Trial. And Dumbledore had the power and authority to insist on such, if not right then and there, then within a couple years, or what use were all his titles? 5) HOW many screwed-up teachers 'taught' in that school under Dumbledore's authority again? Quirrel - who taught at the school before, and Dumbledore somehow didn't, you know, notice the change in demeanor and decide to investigate? Lockhart. Whom he *knew* was a fraud. 'Moody', oh hells, 'Moody'. You mean to tell me Dumbledore never once suspected that this ... person ... wasn't the same as the friend he'd known for years? HAH. Umbridge. Ghods. Again with the having titles and authority and not, you know, using them. WTF. Also, Trelawney. Yeah, I get it. Seer who foresaw the end of the Dark Lord. *really* bad idea to let her run about loose, lest she get snapped up by a bad guy. That does not mean she MUST be a teacher. Binns. You're telling me they can't, you know, replace a ghost? Snape. I like the guy. He's got ... interesting depths. He is not, however, at all suitable to be teaching kids, at least the young ones. Keep him as the NEWT potions teacher and let someone with a more congenial disposition deal with the 'dunderheaded' youngsters. 6) While we're on the subject ... whose bright idea was it, again, to bring an item into a SCHOOL that was going to be attracting the attention of a maniacal, bloodthirsty, sociopathic monster who would NOT give a damn about killing everyone who got in his way?
• "'Moody', oh hells, 'Moody'. You mean to tell me Dumbledore never once suspected that this ... person ... wasn't the same as the friend he'd known for years?" - Yes, he did not suspect Moody. because Crouch was just that damn good! Did you even read the book? "Umbridge. Ghods. Again with the having titles and authority and not, you know, using them. WTF." - Again... did you even read the book? Fudge took away his titles, Fudge wrote new laws to give Umbridge more power! What was Dumbledore supposed to do with Umbridge when the ministry, the law itself was used against him?
• Have her fired for sadistically abusing children under her care, something that would have raised enough political stink that even Fudge would cut Umbridge loose to save his own skin. And before you say 'How could Dumbledore know she was doing it?', that's not the proper question — the proper question is 'What kind of idiot knows that a senior agent of someone who wishes his political destruction is walking around his school and doesn't have her watched?!? (As to what to watch her with? Portraits. Ghosts. Hogwarts house-elves. Monitoring charms. He's the world's most powerful wizard and she's a barely competent moron; there is no way he couldn't keep an eye on her in Hogwarts unless he simply never bloody tried.)
• No, Fudge would have fought Umbridge's sacking with tooth and nail, and denied/dismissed any charges Dumbledore made against her regardless of the testimony of ghosts and portraits.
• Which is still a net gain, because it means Fudge is using up political capital just playing catch-up that, in the absence of any effective action on your part, he would be free to spend elsewhere on making you even more miserable. And political capital is a finite resource. Not to mention, arguing for your subordinate's right to freely torture schoolchildren is a tough sell these days.
• Besides, who cares about ghosts or portraits? They have the thrice goddamn Cloak of Invisibility! Just have someone, ANYONE accompany Harry to one of the "detentions" under it and BAM, Umbridge is gone, and they get enough blackmailing material to probably reinstate DD in all the offices he was kicked out of.
• The argument seems to be centered around the idea that Dumbledore should have had Umbridge followed. The problem is that if Umbridge detects this it is going to ratchet up the Ministry's paranoia about Dumbledore even more. Dumbledore knew that once Voldy moved into the open he was going to need the Ministry's help. They are ultimately on the same side. Dumbledore was probably erring on the side of caution and trying not to unnecessarily provoke the Ministry. I think if he had known what Umbridge was doing he would have tried to stop her, but it doesn't appear that anyone brought it to his attention before he was kicked out. Once Umbridge was Headmistress there was little anyone could do to stop her.
• The key word is "if" Umbridge detects it. Umbridge is an idiot who is at best an adequate wizard, and Dumbledore is his world's greatest living master of magic and in his own sanctum sanctorum besides. If he can't arrange a suitably discreet surveillance of her then he's just not trying at all. Goodness, the man has access to the most powerful invisibility artifact on Earth, a shapeshifter, and the ability to read minds.
• Besides. "...that once Voldy moved into the open he was going to need the Ministry's help..." - no, he really, really wasn't. The Ministry's useless. He always knew that and he made sure Harry felt the same way.
• While the Ministry is useless, that's a separate Headscratchers vs. Dumbledore — one, its largely Dumbledore's fault it ended up in that condition in the first place (see elsewhere on this page re: the 'political influence he wasted' argument) and two, even if it is mostly useless you still want it for yourself so Voldemort doesn't end up controlling it. As Voldemort did indeed end up controlling it in book 7, to the great inconvenience of, well, everyone. Of course, since catching the Minister's principal assistant red-handed in the act of torturing children would have been a great way of letting you put the screws on the Minister, Dumbledore's still missing an opportunity here re: Umbridge.
• HBP: DD has a go at the Dursleys for torturing Harry. At the time I thought they were getting come-uppance for the years of abuse. DH: that Glory turned to ashes in my mouth, DD intended the Dursleys to torture Harry all along. Mrs Figg was DD's spy all the time.
• There ain't no such animal as Blood-Wards. It is such a difficult spell because it don't exist. It don't protect against Dementors etc
• Er, what? Hasn't it been discussed that the Blood-wards didn't protect Harry against Dementors in The Order of the Phoenix because he's nowhere NEAR his home, where the wards are?
• Sure. The counter-question was how the hell were those wards supposed to be useful at all, since Harry obviously didn't spend his entire life inside the house.
• Riddle is DD's man through and through. It was a vital part of DD's evil plan that Snape give Harry the info dump at that exact time and place. If Riddle had killed Snape 10 minutes earlier or 100 yards away, if Riddle had killed Snape quickly or stayed to watch Snape's death agony, DD's plan would have crashed and burned.
• DD plans to ruin the education of countless generations by deliberately hiring The incompetent teachers. Binns, the man who can even make the Goblin Riots boring. Hagrid is a very competent Grounds-keeper, so DD sacks Grubbley Plank the competent Creatures teacher, The Order of the Phoenix: Umbridge sacks Trelawney for incompetence, DD stands on the Headmaster's right to let people live in the Castle. He could have done that from the beginning: Trelawney lives in the Castle and DD hires a competent teacher,
• Upthread mentioned Snape's "insensitivity". WTF??? Snape deliberately intended to emotionally damage childern, Snape was sensitive enough to know exactly what tricks would hurt each student.
• He didn't hire Binns. Binns was likely there back in the days of Dumbledore when he was a student there. And how do you fire a Ghost? He didn't fire Grubbly Plank, she was a sub, and Hagrid was a better teacher — he brought a young golden Unicorn so the boys could actually approach them, while Grubbly Planks couldn't. He tries making lessons fun, but Slytherin ruins it for him. Divinations is a pretty bad subject to begin with, and Dumbledore considered leaving the post empty. Firenze isn't much better of a teacher, because as is stated Divinations is more something you are born with than something you can actually learn.
• You fire a ghost with an exorcism. Hell, if nothing else, you move the damn class to another classroom and hire a living professor to teach it. Let Binns be 'the ghost that lectures an empty room' for the rest of eternity. I mean, hell, we already know they just basically wrote off Moaning Myrtle's washroom, and it ain't like Hogwarts is short of classrooms.
• Dumbledore explicitly didn't plan for Harry to be treated as badly as he was, though he never expected him to have a great time with the Dursleys. But he couldn't risk taking him away.
• Right, which is why Harry had never left Dursley's home for a single minute and was personally transported by DD to and from Hogwarts every year and oh wait no that's not even remotely true, he'd been leaving it to go to the non-wiz school and such, and in every book he spent a significant amount of time away from it completely, and he was attacked by Dementors nearby, and he was physically hurt by Dursleys themselves inside the house, and the whole "blood protection" sharade is the stupidest thing this side of not using the Time Turners to solve crimes.
• The whole scar-removal thing, assuming it's just a peice of tissue that's really Voldy's soul trying to get back...Okay, how would Dumbledore remove it short of cutting off a peice of Harry's flesh?
• Yes, take a knife, cut out the scar,destroy the scar, Nurse heals the knife wound. It is the obvious solution, but it the untermensch Muggle solution. Also Dark Lord Broadcasting Network was an essential part of DD's plan and Harry's "death" is even more essential. DD does not hold the Idiot Ball, DD holds the Evil Ball. DD's plans must be evil.
• There's no evidence that Voldemort's soul is only stuck on that piece of scar that it could be removed by cutting of the flesh. Sticking a knife there will just cause Harry unnecessary pain and damage. And souls don't reside only on a particular part of your body do they? If that were the case, how did Harry manage to gain Parselmouth abilities, when the soul is not on his lips, or ears?
• But when would Dumbledore find the time to perform this? Stun Harry, cart him off to the hospital wing and do it?
• You'd think that simply telling Harry 'I have found out that a piece of Voldemort's soul is stuck in your scar; fortunately Madam Pomfrey can surgically remove it' would have Harry running to the Hospital Wing under his own power, no 'carting' required.
• The problem with these arguments is that removing Harry's scar is absolutely pointless. In the epilogue, it shows that Harry still have his scar even after defeating Voldemort. That's concrete, undeniable prove that Voldemort's soul is NOT attached to the scar. The scar simply symbolizes that.
• are you aware that the locket, cup, and diary still existed after they were no longer horcruxes? Destroying a horcrux doesn't cause it to cease existence, it just stops it from having a soul attached to the mortal world through that object.
• Healing magic cannot heal dark scars. I doubt removing it would make a difference either, as Dumbledore says Voldy's soul latched onto the only living being, not the scar.
• DD is Light side of the Force, Riddle is Dark side. Both are evil like in the Star Wars prequels.
• Depends on your definition of evil and if you reject the possibility of something in between.
• Magnificent Bastard: Once you've come this far, it's settled. This title doesn't belong to Voldemort, it goes to none other than Albus Dumbledore himself. Directly and indirectly, intentionally and otherwise, this one man has been behind everything, everything, that has driven the history of the Potterverse from his time and even beyond, fitting every characteristic trope almost all the time.
• It seems that the series is pretty much cut out to present that DE = Evil, those that fights against him = good. It's safe to assume that, while most of Dumbledore's method are questionable or even downright harmful, he's ultimately a good person who tries to make the world a better place (i.e. defeating Voldemort). Yes, he has flaws which endanger and infuriate people to no end, and those flaws should not, in any way, be ignored. But just because he's not a nice, omnipotent Big Good, doesn't mean he's a bad person.
• I'd have to disagree on one crucial point. As I see it, V had already been defeated. He was an impotent shadow, and his only attempt at getting back to power was so pathetic, that it was used as practice for DD's pet student. The remains of V's legacy were dwindling and perfectly manageable through covert means. But that doesn't make for an exciting story or leave the designated hero much to do, does it? Show must go on, so this "ultimately good person", through brazen neglect or outright connivance, practically dragged V back from the grave, therefore being responsible for every single death that ensued. His methods were not just questionable, but insane, and his influence on his ward was devastating, and the only reason we got a happy ending is because Rowling had all the antagonists lobotomised with a chainsaw.
• Dumbledore didn't have anything to do with Voldemort coming back from the grave. That was Pettigrew and Crouch, Jr.
• No shift, it was. But unless somebody can present even a remotely plausible explanation for why didn't DD go back in time and captured Pettegrew, that doesn't include words "that's not the way it happened" or imply that the goddamn Dumbledore cannot catch a rat without getting seen, I sill call brazen neglect or outright connivance. And that's just Pettigrew. The sheer amount of utter bullshift (already pointed out both here and in the Goblet of Fire section, not going to repeat again) that goes on in GoF leaves no room for doubt: DD was in on the plan and went along with it.
• Wait, what? It was flat-out stated in the book that time travel doesn't work like that. You can't go back and rewrite something that already happened. There was no way for Dumbledore to go back and stop Pettigrew. You're right, though, Dumbledore was in on the plan to stop Voldemort's tyranny and was the brains behind the plan that Harry used to save the wizarding world from oppression.
• Care to indulge me with a direct quote of flat-out stating? I'll help you with the search. It should start something like this: "Harry, although I would wish nothing more, there's just absolutely no way for me to go back and capture Pettegrew after he escaped from you, because..."
• "You're right, though, Dumbledore was in on the plan to stop Voldemort's tyranny..." Would you kindly restrain from juggling with my words? I meant Crouch's plan to kidnap the Scarhead in GoF, and you know it.
• Also, while time travel does not allow you to undo anything that you already saw happen, our time-travellers in Po A only saw Pettigrew escape from them and scamper out of sight. They did not follow Pettigrew all the way back to Voldemort. So, even the Time-Turner's limitations don't prevent Dumbledore from going back himself, waiting until Pettigrew is out of line-of-sight of the past-time Harry et al, and then shoving a stunner so far up Peter's ass that it comes out his nose.
• Correction: with time-travel "anything that you already saw happen" is no longer a valid criteria of what you can and cannot do in the past, because what you saw happen is already the product of interference (if any) from time travel. Cause and effect relation is no longer chronologically liniar, and future shapes the past. Therefore there has to be a justification, why the future allowed such past to exist, i.e. why DD allowed Pettegrew to escape, which does not involve the past events, because they have not happened yet.
• Reminder that possessing magic does not make one omnipotent. Dumbledore does have limits on what he can do. It may have been less Dumbledore not letting Pettigrew escape and Dumbledore being unable to prevent Pettigrew from escaping. As we do not have the story from Dumbledore's perspective it is entirely possible that he realized he did not interfere in the time stream. Since he did not it means he could not. He may have only allowed Harry and Hermione to go back because he realized from Buckbeak's escape and the dementors being driven away that Harry was the one who did go back so he had to be the one to go back to keep the time line intact.
• While Dumbledore does indeed have finite limits on his magic, the problem of detaining and subduing Peter Pettigrew while avoiding notice is trivially within his abilities. The question then lies on whether or not Dumbledore can be reasonably faulted for failure to fully understand the nature and limitations of time-turners and how they can potentially be exploited. I lean towards "yes, he can be", for two reasons. First off, Dumbledore is the greatest magical genius in Magical Britain — unless the problem is literally beyond all human ability, he should be the one to figure it out if anyone is (and of course it is not, as its a logical puzzle that simple armchair Internet debaters have figured out). And more importantly, Dumbledore is ultimately the person responsible for the decision to entrust a time-turner to a thirteen-year-old girl on campus, which means he damn well ought to have a thorough understanding of how time-turners work and corner cases by which they can be potentially abused... as that's necessary information for a risk evaluation on "is it safe to let Hermione have one of these things to play with?", a question that Dumbledore is hilariously negligent if he hasn't already asked it and answered it before giving Hermione that time-turner at all.
• Now, if he'd really wanted to make that wretched pit a better place, a good start would've been to get over his youth complexes, assume command instead of the imbecile they've got and introduce some reforms long due, such as discontinuing the practice of feeding people to the embodiments of depression, turning their law enforcement unit into something at least remotely approaching an effective force, and, if we get totally wild here, maybe doing something about that whole "treating their neighbors as sub-human savages" thing that was going on.
• The death of a family member that you may or may not have been directly responsible for isn't something you just "get over". It"s emotionally traumatizing. Furthermore, Dumbledore intentionally did not seek out a higher position because he was terrified that he would abuse the power like he did in his younger days. Furthermore, the wizarding system was incredibly corrupt. A lot of the people in Azcaban got sent there without a trial and the ones that did got a Kangaroo Court. However influential Dumbledore was, he was still one guy who couldn't be everywhere at once. Blaming the entire situation on Dumbledore is just absurd.
• But...I thought Dumbledore was the wizarding system: Supreme Mugwump, leader of the ICW, etc. He's essentially the leader of the wizarding equivalent of the supreme court, but goes, "Poor me. I'm just a lowly headmaster" whenever someone suggests that something proactive be done. If he's not evil, he's complacent, and should instead be working towards putting someone "light" and compotent into those jobs.
• It is specifically mentioned in book 1 that Minister Fudge continually sought Dumbledore's advice on everything to the point of 'wearing out his owl', and had ever since he'd taken office. Unless you are talking only about a period of time from book 4 and onwards, which is when Dumbledore finally loses his political influence with the Minister, Dumbledore cannot legitimately plead lack of power to change things. As previously mentioned he holds several important offices in his own right, and for a period of at least 11 years after Voldemort's apparent death Dumbledore also had massive influence with the office of the only person capable of politically blocking him.
• Agreed, Dumbledore is more the Big Good than evil incarnate. He has his flaws, but that makes him three-dimensional and human, rather than a carboard cut-out.
• After reading all this stuff, this is my current assessment of the man: I refuse to believe Dumbledore is flat-out malicious. You all bring up great evidence that his actions are immensely warped and do a ton of harm. But I refuse, REFUSE, to interpret this as him actually having malevolent or cruel motives. A crazy old man who has really, really twisted plans and consistently makes bad decisions without properly thinking them through? Fine. But the books are very clear that he is motivated by a desire to accomplish good ends. It doesn't excuse his laundry list of atrocious mistakes, but this is precisely why I find him such a compelling character. Dumbledore is not your one-note badass wizard advisor figure: Deathly Hallows' revelations gave him immense layers beyond that cliche. He's deconstructing that archetype, folks. So even though he may have been horribly flawed and done lots of damage in the pursuit of a good goal, we should be grateful for how complex and interesting Dumbledore is, not hating the character just because there's a HUGE number of morally gray actions by him.
• I don't know if this has been answered anywhere (because it involves reading terabytes of text) so please delete this if it has but what would have been Dumbledore's plan to stop Voldemort if he never managed return to power during Harry's seven years at Hogwarts? lets just say for example that the real Moody managed to fight off Crouch Jr. Would we all be so willing to forgive Dumbledore for his actions if he tried to widow Ginny and half-orphan Harry's children?
• Exactly what ended up happening in books 3-4. DD ensured that V would return to power, first by letting Pettegrew escape and then by allowing the asinine abdubtion plan to proceed without a hitch.
• Or, maybe, his failures to stop Pettigrew and Voldy were actual failures? Just because something happens that someone could theoretically stop doesn't mean that that person was behind/wanted it. Incompetence is far more common than malice.
• Entirely true, but incompetence can still be criticized even in the absence of deliberate malice. And given the death toll ultimately resulting from Dumbledore's incompetence here, it should be criticized.
• It was a lousy rat against the goddamn Dumbledore armed with a time machine. There was no room for failure. You could just as well argue that someone failed to brush their teeth in the morning rather than decided not to do it. And if you do, you cannot then have that same person plan the most complicated gambit in the history of ever with the fate of the whole country (if not the world) hanging in balance, and expect anyone to take it seriously, let alone blindly trust that person.
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Mr. DREIER. Mr. Speaker, I would like to express my appreciation to the distinguished vice chairman of the Committee on Rules, our friend from Dallas, Mr. Sessions, for his superb management of this rule.
I would like to say that as we look at where we're going, contrary to arguments that have been propounded here on the floor, it's important to note that everybody wants to do everything we possibly can to ensure that our fellow Americans have access to the best quality, affordable health care in the world. We have the best health care system in the world; we all know that. We want to make sure that we continue to see that health care system improve, and we have just come to the conclusion that the massive expansion of government is not the answer to the goal of ensuring that people have access to quality health care.
The Supreme Court made their decision. We know what the Supreme Court's decision was. I think that that decision pointed out a few things. It's a tax. We were told consistently it wasn't a tax, and, frankly, if we had known what the Supreme Court told us about it being a tax, I don't believe that we would have had the passage of that measure from the House.
That decision has been made, and also the Supreme Court, by virtue of determining what is constitutional, does not mean that it's good public policy. In fact, the Chief Justice has made it clear that they are not casting an opinion as to whether or not this is a right measure.
I think that most of us have come down on the side of saying that we should have taken an incremental approach in dealing with this. There are a number of things that if we had done that would have, I believe, immediately reduced the cost of health insurance and direct health care costs, Mr. Speaker.
They include things like allowing for the purchase of insurance across State lines, things like saying that there should be association health plans, which interestingly enough passed the House and died because of Democrats blocking it in the Senate when my party was last in the majority here. Also, things like allowing for real meaningful lawsuit abuse reform, which the President of the United States said he advocated when he was here, and I acknowledge pooling to deal with pre-existing conditions is something that needs to be done.
The fifth point is expanded medical savings accounts, which encourage people to put some dollars aside with a tax incentive plan for their health care
If we had done these five things, Mr. Speaker, and these are things that we as Republicans have put forward and again--as I said when we were last in the majority, when people on the other side often said that we did nothing--we passed association health plans, which, again, allow small business to pool together, come together and work to get lower rates as large corporations do.
It seems to me, Mr. Speaker, that as we look at the challenges that we have, we can make this happen. The reason that we are casting the vote, as we will today to repeal, is that we need to do that so that we can do this in an open way.
Now, I have got to say some would say this is a closed rule. This is simply an up-or-down vote on whether or not we should repeal this. When we last considered this measure that we are voting to repeal today, Mr. Speaker, I have got to tell you it was done under the most closed process we have ever had.
Mr. DREIER. Let me just say that when we did this, when we did this here, it was done under a process that was unprecedented for an issue of this magnitude.
That closed process, Mr. Speaker, is one of the things that I believe played a role in seeing the Speaker of the House of Representatives, then Nancy Pelosi, have to hand the gavel to John Boehner.
The American people understood the fact that things were so closed around here, and I am very proud and happy that since we have been in the majority our Rules Committee has reported out bills that have allowed for a structure that has made more amendments considered in the first several months of this Congress than have been considered in the entire last Congress.
So we have tried to work for more openness and, again, a real example of that closed process was what took place in the last Congress.
Well, we need to take this measure, we need to repeal it. I hope very much that some of our colleagues in the other body will agree to that. People always say it's a foregone conclusion what's going to happen. Well, you know what? I never come to an absolute foregone conclusion.
We have our responsibility, as Members of the House of Representatives, to step up to the plate and do what we as a body think is the right thing for us to do, and that's exactly what is going to take place today.
So if it doesn't happen, I think that there might be a chance for us next year to do this. Again, Republicans, contrary to what is often said, do want to take steps to ensure that all of our fellow Americans--and we listen to these horror stories, and they are terrible stories of the way people have been treated.
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For better or for worse
Make it work
I ain't goin nowhere
[Verse 1:]
Yeah, I messed up, but you hurt me, Blew it like it's yo' birthday
And you love it baby on Wednesday, but I make you sick on Thursday
And I know I'm wrong and you shutin' down, and I touch down like "What now?"
Why we going through all this? Why things gotta be rough now?
But, you had so many break-ups, you can't believe
You go and break my heart that I forgive and I ain't leave
Don't define you by your faults, ain't gon' push your buttons either
Everyday we startin' fresh, this is how it's s'posed to be
Never try to take advantage, you respect me as a man
But every once 'a while you get to poppin' off and say stuff you shouldn't be sayin'
But I'm witchu, I ain't playin', if it's thick or if it's thin
Both the times and your figure, girl, this is who I am
I love you baby, that's real talk, and this life we live is a real walk
I ain't goin' nowhere, tell your girlfriends that it's still on
I love you baby, that's real talk, this life we live is a real walk
I ain't goin' nowhere, tell your friends that it's on
For better or for worse
Sometimes I make you sick, and you get on my nerves
Make it work
I ain't goin' nowhere, and I give you my word
I will be right here
So though push my buttons
I ain't leavin'
You can keep on pushin'
I ain't leavin'
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I be makin' you mad, girl
But you said you'll never leave me lonely
So I had to put a ring up on it, 'cause our commitment ain't no game
Yeah we laugh, but we ain't playin', I'mma always be yo' mane
And I know sometimes I upset you, be pushin' all o' you buttons
We be fussin', fighting over nothin', you can try to leave, but I'm comin'
We gon' work it out with no runnin', pushin', shovin'
I know sometimes that I'm selfish, but I jump in front of yo' bullet
Cause you everything that prayed fo', plus a little bit extra
Even when you getchu an attitude and you act a little bit extra
Listen, you make better, babe, you make better, babe
You got my heart and you can have it for forever, baby
And though we'll never break up, I hate it when we mad
But love it when we get to make up, no lines that I could make up
To let you know how much I got you covered, girl
And I only be pushin' yo' buttons because I love you, girl
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The higher you build your barriers,
The taller I become...
[Verse 1]
Man, If you a go getter then get up and go get it,
I aint never gon stop you if you said it,
'Cause I used to be the kid just like you,
Used to dream every single day after School,
And these things constantly just change already,
When I stop with the radio playing R Kelly,
And I, miss all my artists in their prime,
TRL, Yo! MTV Raps that was the best time,
And I ain't never giving up on a girl,
I'ma get a bitch thats real flat with a nice nose,
But who know's,
If there's no love then there can't be trust,
Just like the King Diamond where I must, but,
I just wanna get it back,
I got over the hate, I never overreact,
There's too much money to be made here,
And this is what I gotta do when the rain clear,
I just wanna moving forward with an eye on the side rear,
Fuck this flow, it's pretty unclear.
Something inside so strong,
I know that I can make it,
Tho' you're doing me wrong, so wrong
You thought that my pride was gone
Oh no, something inside so strong
Oh oh oh oh oh something inside so strong
[Verse 2]
Like Andre, this dude stumbling Clichs,
I'ma be the best just gimme 3 days,
And a bottle of 40 with some brand pills,
No, not the prescriptions 'cause death is real,
And I'ma just keep spittin' how I really feel,
Change the film reel now 'cause I'm feelin' ill,
Am I bad 'cause I miss the 2000 era, after Aaliyah passed,
now I cant believe that,
Its all just a spectacle, I never really met the girl,
but I bet it's cool, so much so respectable,
I really hate to over speculate,
Diamond High, never overcompensate,
When I shop at Nike for some new J's right,
Like Mike, Sugar and Ray, I want it all easily,
if I make it I won't ever fail miserably,
thats why Im still occupied with a lil bit of decency.
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Private Zoo's Creatures Great, Small And Exotic
Published: December 1, 1996
Like a modern-day Noah, Henry Wallace has ranged far afield to fill his modern-day menagerie.
Henry's Ark takes an alphabet-soup approach to animal collection. And, as in the Old Testament story, Mr. Wallace works hard to preserve his varied species.
Even though he has not found two members of every breed, he covers nearly all the letters of the English language in his collection. It starts with antelopes, bison, camels, donkeys, emus, fallow deer, goats and hogs and winds up with nilgai cows, an ostrich, peacocks, quail, reindeer, swans, turkeys, Vietnamese pot-bellied pigs, water buffalo, yaks and zebu.
More than 100 animals and birds roam this private zoo, part of a 600-acre farm on Rose Island Road in one of Louisville's most affluent suburbs. Mr. Wallace, an heir to his mother's pharmaceuticals fortune and a former correspondent for Time magazine and several American newspapers, opened the pens to the public four years ago.
Henry's Ark attracts about 25,000 visitors annually from all over the world. When school groups visit, Mr. Wallace takes them on safaris in a 40-seat trolley.
He spent about $300,000 buying the animals and building their homes. Until recently, he spent $75,000 a year catering to the critters.
Last summer, the farm began seeking donations. At 81, Mr. Wallace knows he will not be around forever to subsidize his nonprofit organization. He hopes to make the ark self-supporting before bequeathing it to his six children and eight grandchildren.
From August through October, visitors contributed about $10,000 in cash, ''plus a foreign coin of undetermined value and one ruby-looking ring.'' If he can get some grants and keep earning money from sales of extra animals, who would inbreed if they stayed, Mr. Wallace said the farm could become self-supporting.
''Very few people are going to open a place like this and not charge anything for it,'' he said. ''It makes no sense. I do it anyway.''
Except for a few skittish or ornery critters, most of Mr. Wallace's pets have the run of the place and mingle freely with people. It is not unusual to see a pygmy goat lounging on the hood of a car, an elk licking a visitor's ear or a reindeer nibbling an open pack of saltines in a baby stroller. At this home on the range, the deer and the antelope really do play.
Mr. Wallace had kept animals on the family farm for years -- mostly cows, ponies and llamas -- but it was not until a decade ago that he started seeking more unusual creatures. He bought most of the beasts at auctions of exotic animals.
A civil rights advocate and sympathizer with Fidel Castro who regularly expresses his views in the letters section of The Courier-Journal, Mr. Wallace was known for years around these parts as Rose Island Red. His liberal leanings have attracted plenty of attention over the years, including hate mail, stoplight showdowns and a bomb that exploded in his mailbox. The metal sign identifying the place as Moncada Farms -- named after the Cuban army barracks that Castro attacked unsuccessfully in 1953 to start the Communist revolution -- is riddled with bullet holes.
Mr. Wallace said Henry's Ark had brought him a measure of respectability in his community. A short gnome-like man who drives a beat-up pickup truck filled with assorted dogs, Mr. Wallace is often mistaken for a farmhand. Along with the ark's full-time director, Penny Schaefer, he cares for the animals almost every day of the year in a job that includes both risks and rewards: he has been caught in the crossfire of two llamas engaged in a spitting contest, fed rejected newborns with baby bottles and helped a camel give birth while the 1,500-pound bull tried to mate with her.
''You learn to climb the fence without any hands,'' Ms. Schaefer said about some of their life-threatening encounters with the beasts. ''Henry's been 'treed' quite a few times.''
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Looking for what? A decent hairdresser? A dog? The secret of eternal youth?
Are you looking for a male or a female, or doesn't that matter? Do you have an age range in mind? Do you have children? Would it be ok if they have children? Would it be ok if they're married or in another relationship? What do you like doing with your time? Would they be required to like doing that too?
You say you're a married couple. Are you looking for someone for the wife, someone for the husband, or someone to "share"? If the latter, what happens if one of you falls for them and the other doesn't? What happens if they fall for one of you but not the other?
Perhaps you're after a couple rather than an individual? If so, does the gender make-up of the couple matter to you?
Edit: You may wish to ask a mod to move this to the North American section of the Dating and Friendships forum. This area is for people organising events and your post will probably be overlooked.
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Some more good news on my end.
First, I received the package fom Raga, which was a relief. What I was most happy to get was the USB sensor for that game, a pair of black panties (I had been living on two pairs until now... although I have some money now so I guess I could buy more) and my bathing suit (I want to go swimming and it's hard to find my size).
Raga also forwarded a letter from the government of Canada saying they received something from him (I'm guessing either a letter or phone call) on the 1st of February to cancel his sponsoring me for permanent residency. Since they wouldn't accept me now that we're separated, it was saving us a lot of trouble later on, so that was a really good idea (I have to admit I didn't think of it).
I also contacted a friend in France who said she can let me stay at her place until I find a job and a place to move on my own. I also managed to get my security number back.
Small background on this. In France you get a card called "carte Vitale" which allowed you to get health services or a job, and has your social security number on it. A few years ago, they updated the cards to add a picture to them so the chance of them being used fraudulently would be even lower (they already had a name on it, but adding a picture as well is even better).
So I received a letter in the mail with a form to fill, and I was to send the form, my old card and a picture so they could give me a new card. I did so and they never sent a new card.
And I only knew my social security number because it was on that card. I'd just pull it out and read it when I was asked for it (it's 15 digits long in France so a bit harder to remember).
I need that card to find a job, but when I contacted social security, they were asking of my SSN to prove that I was who I was so they could give me the card. So I needed the card for the number, but I also needed the number for the card. It was a pain.
Yesterday though, I finally managed to remember my number and their website identified me successfully. However they didn't let me add a new address and my old French one is two years old now, so I've decided to send them snail mail to explain my situation and ask if they can send me the forms to be filled here in the US, since the processing time to get a new card is a month or more, and I'd like to have the card as soon as possible so I can work.
So things are looking better for me: I have a place to stay in France when I come back, I have the means to buy my ticket to go back, I'm now able to request a new card so I can work (and get health benefits too, whether I work or not, provided I'm registered as unemployed if I don't).
The only thing that really needs to be looked at still is the divorce. I'm thinking a Canadian divorce would be easier (as you don't have to show up in court), and as I recall we can fill for it already, have it all processed, and simply be divorced once the one year separation occurs, meaning we don't have to wait until then, and then apply. So I'll start looking into it, and also look how to register the divorce once it's complete so I'm legally divorced in France as well.
At this point, I expect to be divorced in about a year, possibly less, taking into account all the possible processing to have it recognised in both countries. Then I'll look into a visa to move to the US permanently, and in the meantime I'm hoping to be able to visit once more.
It might all be pretty technical and boring for everyone reading, but I've been trying to keep a blog now that everything is happening, so I can refer to it later. There is no way otherwise that I'll remember things since everything is so crazy right now.
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Dealing with psychological issues that affect veterans, their loved ones, and just about everyone else
Prepare for Civilian Life
Going from Soldier to Civilian
Entering the civilian world after spending years in the regimented and often quirky military culture poses a variety of challenges. If unprepared, veterans will have a more difficult time adjusting to their new lives, leading to psychological and social distress.
If you will soon make the transition from 0600 formations and hours of standing in lines that go nowhere to the world of snooze buttons and express checkout lanes, here are 10 things you can do to ease your adjustment:
Manage your expectations. If you expect civilians to follow the rules or exhibit unconditional respect as you are used to, you will certainly be disappointed.
Be flexible. Not everything will be done to the high standards you have grown accustomed to. If someone doesn't meet a deadline or did not reach perfection on a task, cut them some slack.
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Monitor how you interact with others. Remember, you have taken off the rank. Don't shout at, get in the face of or "drop" the 7-Eleven clerk because he didn't give you a receipt for your Red Bull.
Update your wardrobe. This applies more so to those of you who have been in the military for decades. If you are still wearing Birkenstocks, acid washed jeans, or inch-thick gold chains, it's time to make a trip to Sears.
Practice your smile. Stoicism is a valued and adaptive trait in the military. In the civilian world, it can come off as detached, intimidating and a tad unstable.
Be prepared to pay a little more for things. Unless you have forever access to your local PX or BX, get ready to pay the government its fair share of your money in the form of sales tax.
Prepare a budget. Related to the recommendation above, create a budget that details your income and outgoing cash. Food is no longer free, everything is taxed and electricity costs a small fortune.
Practice your job interviewing skills. Although going before a promotion board is good preparation for interviewing for jobs, you likely won't be standing at attention during your civilian job interview.
Get a hobby, if you don't already have one. Once you leave service, you'll need to find ways to fill your free time that don't involve assembling an assault rifle or completing a training schedule.
Figure out a way to stay connected to the military. You don't have to quit the military cold turkey. Stay connected to military current events by maintaining relationships with friends in the military or reading publications such as this one.
*This article was originally published in Dr. Moore's column Kevlar for the Mind in Military Times.
Bret A. Moore, Psy.D., ABPP is a board-certified clinical psychologist, prescribing psychologist, and author of 13 books.
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• Last Updated: June 23 2014, 20:50 BST
Naomi Broady bucked the trend of British frustrations at Wimbledon by claiming a first-round victory over Hungarian Timea Babos.
Naomi Broady celebrates her victory over Babos
Naomi Broady celebrates her victory over Babos
The 24-year-old Brit fended off a fast start from the world number 94 to eventually ease home 2-6 7-6 (9/7) 6-0.
Broady's win lifted British spirits on the opening day of Wimbledon after first-round exits for Johanna Konta, Dan Cox and James Ward.
Broady has moved into the world's top 200 this year - she is currently just below her career-high at 164 in the WTA list - but had looked up against it against a player ranked 70 places higher.
The Briton was two points defeat in the second-set tie-break but took it on her fourth set point.
Having missed her chance, Babos seemed demoralised and, playing some impressive tennis, Broady dominated the decider to book her place in round two where she will face either former world number one Caroline Wozniacki or Shahar Peer.
Broady was famously stripped of LTA funding after posting a raunchy picture of herself on a social-networking site when a teenager and has gone it alone in the tennis world since.
"This time last year I was lucky enough to get a wild card into the qualifying for Wimbledon," said Broady, who ground down Babos 2-6 7-6 (9/7) 6-0.
"But the week before that, I was researching how to become an au pair, and I was going for Paris.
"I was looking at doing first-aid courses, language courses, to become an au pair because I couldn't afford to play tennis.
"Last year I won a round through qualifying and that gave me enough money for the next few tournaments.
"I didn't want to stop at all: I've played some of the French money tournaments, to fund the national tournaments.
"It was literally to the point where I've won the tournament, cashed the cheque, bought my ticket and flown off to the next competition the next day.
"Finally wins started coming, and the difference a year can make is amazing: if you keep going, you never know when it's going to switch."
Dan Evans, Kyle Edmund, Dan Cox, James Ward and Johanna Konta all failed to advance to the second round, leaving just Broady and Murray progressing of the Brits in action on Monday.
Broady admitted her £43,000 second-round windfall will fund the best part of another year's professional tennis.
Unfazed by adverse reaction to that Facebook fuss seven years ago, Broady did admit she hopes the LTA will not try to muscle in on her new-found success.
"It quite went over my head, the whole incident, it happened and I still to this day don't particularly see what was the big deal," she said.
"It was just a stupid, jokey pose that looked horrible: it's not really disrupted my tennis other than financially.
"I don't think they (the LTA) will try and take credit for it. I think it's pretty clear I've been the only person at every practice session for the past few years.
"I'm the only one that's been there every single day. I'll laugh in someone's face if they try and say it was them.
"It's definitely made me hungrier: if I don't win, I don't have any money."
Broady toasted victory by hoisting young niece Lola Rose in front of the Court 16 crowd.
"She has just turned five," said Broady.
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Saturn Minerals Inc ia an exploration stage company engaged in acquiring, exploring, evaluating and developing economically viable energy and resource deposits in Canada. It is focused on exploration of its coal and oil & gas properties in Canada.
Price: $0.165 | Change: +$0.005 | %Change: +3.12%
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New investment dude...
75% of this stock is owned In Germany. Stan is smart ! rate and reply
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New Investment Adviser
SMI has hired an investment adviser etc, based in GERMANY ??? for a 2 year period at a cost of 5250 euros per month. Hopefully this is to attract foreign capital or why not hire locally. rate and reply
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canaccord taking hold
Canaccord taking hold and accumulating a position. l rate and reply
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If you look at their financials -- they are kaput. Even if they could arrange some sort of financing, it would be so diluative to present shareholders that our holdings would be worth {{{ KAPUT }}} rate and reply
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RE:RE:Jaguar closed at $0.01
Grobi, do you think JRI is kaput, Little rally again today. Someone wants something, JRI is now trading at .025. Hope your day is good and Merry Christmas. Wish Elsayt was here for a more
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I don´t think that Jaguar will be a aprt of the saturn oil story in the future... rate and reply
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Jaguar closed at $0.01
Does anyone know the default date for JRI's next payment? Cheers rate and reply
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Up 4 cents -- what's going on here? rate and reply
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the upside is
There was a guy from the Venture Exchange on BNN yesterday and he said they have changed the rules for venture stocks. It seems that a venture listed company can do a reverse split now (stock more
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Having many friends who are doctors I would say no to medical mj and if you own any myself I would sell it. With oil falling (see tsx) speculative money for this area will be hard to find. I more
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"My thoughts are these guys will bounce out of this correction well and may diversify into something else." Well it started with coal a few years ago, then became an oil story when they found more
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holding its own
You gotta figure these guys have a strong following as through the junior stocks collapse they held their own well. Coal petered out and they found oil seeps and went into that, that market more
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lower before higher
I think this little play is going to go a lot cheaper before it goes higher. We can watch as the stomach turns or as the market falls. But in the big picture of life, this is really nothing. more
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Its a big world and I suspect if the casino was digital on native land all they would have to do is block access to Canadians and they could do it. Or they could have a casino on the reservation more
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Do First Nations have the right to run casinos in Saskatchewan? Might be a good thing for them. Not sure they have that opportunity in B.C. -- it seems it's all controlled by the Provincial gov't as more
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I havent been following to closely but last I read it was just a LOI, did they move that forward? Although for the amount of time and money gone by oil should be flowing the share price has more
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JRI ( a few spelling corrrections)
I am not very pleased with the situation either but I am more than willing to wait longer. Please keep two things in mind: 1) At this point, SMI do not need JRI 2) if JRI cannot meet ALL more
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Three factors, 1. OPEC opens up the pumps and oil drops 30% 2. Jri our partner looks broke. Like broke back mountain. I assume Smi is going to grab them by the sack and squeeze too. No more
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Seen in both Family Guy and stoner parties, brick walling is the act of getting a person to mentally visualize a hallway with many corridors, and then tricking them into running into a visualized brick wall at the end of said hallway.
Person1: You think he's high?
Person2: Let's find out. Hey druggy. Imagine you're in a hallway.
Druggy: (blank stare)
Person2: You start walking. You take a right. Then another right, then a left. BRICK WALL!
Druggy: Ahhhh!
Person2: Yeah, he's tweaked.
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0.035207 | <urn:uuid:21878387-3d91-48da-9d17-4dbabaa8efc4> | en | 0.960369 | Mathematicians’ computer models on vaccine distribution, human behavior help decision-makers fight H1N1 flu
Sept. 21, 2009
The new H1N1 flu is spreading like a wildfire across the globe. It's the first flu pandemic the world has seen since 1968, and many people are holding their breath. Whether or not swine flu will leave a massive amount of destruction in its wake or smolder along like a typical seasonal flu is a question that may only be answered two years (or two months) from now.
As the school year kicks into high gear and flu season begins in earnest in the northern hemisphere, the buzz is palpable. And big questions loom: how many vaccines for preventing H1N1 will be ready and when? With a limited number of vaccines available, who should be getting them? How should antivirals that treat flu, like Tamiflu and Relenza, be distributed? How will the transmission of flu change when people change their behavior?
Lauren Ancel Meyers
Dr. Lauren Ancel MeyersPhoto: Marsha Miller
The drive to find answers to these questions is keeping mathematical biologist Lauren Ancel Meyers very busy these days, and she is creating a variety of models to help answer them.
"What are the optimal choices that policy-makers can make to best save lives and prevent the spread of the swine flu?" says Meyers, an associate professor of integrative biology. "Our models can help answer those questions."
Mathematicians aren't normally credited with saving lives, but in this case, some of the recommendations that come from Meyers' models could help do just that.
Distributing Antivirals
Take, for example, a recommendation for distributing antivirals that recently emerged from a model she ran this past summer. (Antivirals are generally taken to combat infection once a person already has the flu, but can also be given to healthy people as a preventative measure. This differs from vaccines, which are given solely to prevent infection.)
Between state and federal holdings in the U.S., there are about 80 million courses of antivirals available. The U.S. population hovers around 300 million, and federal decision-makers must decide how to distribute their stock to the states.
Should states with the highest numbers of H1N1 cases be the first recipients? Should the entire stockpile be released at one time? Or, should there be another pattern of distribution entirely?
The models incorporate things like patterns of contact between people and various rates at which the antivirals actually reach people who truly have H1N1 (and not just the seasonal flu).
Meyers found there are many exceptionally complex ways the government could distribute its antiviral stockpile to reduce H1N1's spread, but there is also a very simple release schedule that would be equally effective: the feds can release five million courses of antivirals each month over the next 10 to 12 months, distributed to each state proportional to that state's population size.
"This simple and equitable plan should work as well as more complex delivery schedules," says Meyers, who's delivered her results to officials at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), BARDA (the authority at the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services responsible for distributing vaccines) and others.
She also says the power of antivirals in stopping the spread of the pandemic should not be overlooked.
"Antivirals can decrease the transmission of the H1N1 flu if a large fraction of people with H1N1 take them shortly after developing symptoms," she says. "Public health officials are focusing on vaccines, which are critical to controlling this pandemic, but we really should be thinking about what we can do over the next six to eight weeks before any vaccines are available."
Meyers is referring to the fact that the H1N1 vaccines are not expected to become available until late October of this year, at the earliest, and the number of vaccines available at that time will not be nearly enough to vaccinate all 300 million U.S. citizens. It's still not clear yet, for example, how many vaccines will be distributed to this university's University Health Services.
Distributing Vaccines
On that front, another part of Meyers' modeling work focuses on determining which target groups should get the limited number of vaccines and when.
"When you have limited resources, competing interests and complexities in the system, distributing vaccines to the right people is going to be critical for reducing the number of H1N1 infections and deaths," she says.
Meyers and her former graduate student Shweta Bansal (now a postdoctoral researcher at Penn State University) recently created models that showed that during the first year of a pandemic, the largest outbreak of flu will be in children.
"Children have very high contact patterns in the fall because of school," says Meyers.
Adults are hit harder than children in the second season, the model shows, because the large number of kids infected during the first season have immunity to the circulating flu strain.
Bansal and Meyers compared the results of their model with data from the three major flu pandemics in the 20th century. Those pandemics show the same pattern as the model, proving its relevance. Kids get hit the first season, while more adults are infected the second.
Notably, the model also predicts there can be a transition period toward the end of the first flu season when fewer kids are becoming infected and adult infection rates are gaining steam.
These results point toward strategies for distributing vaccines. During the first season, the model suggests targeting children is best, with a transition to adults toward the end of the season.
"The second season, vaccinating kids may not be as important in limiting the spread of flu as targeting adults," says Meyers. "But of course, protecting the high-risk groups should always be the highest priority. Flu vaccines should be given directly to those most likely to experience serious complications and then to those most likely to spread the disease."
The new H1N1 virus ('swine flu') is the first flu pandemic that has been declared in 40 years. There were three flu pandemics in the 20th century before H1N1 first appeared in Mexico in 2009: the 'Spanish flu' in 1918-19; the 'Asian flu' in 1957-58; and the 'Hong Kong flu' in 1968-69.
Bansal and Meyers compared the results of their model with data from the three major flu pandemics in the 20th century.Graphic: Angela P. Wong
The Human Element
The way people react to the pandemic—their perceptions and their behaviors—also greatly contributes to how and when the disease spreads.
With a $3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health's Models of Infectious Disease Agent Study (MIDAS) program, Meyers, mathematician Paul Damien from the McCombs School of Business and Allison Galvani from Yale University are studying this complex interplay between human behavior and the spread of disease.
Within 48 hours of learning that a new swine flu was infecting people in Mexico this past April, they effectively started their MIDAS research by posting an in-depth survey to look at how people across the nation were reacting to the pandemic. By then, it was kicking into full gear.
"People have a lot of misperceptions," Meyers says. "For example, they tend to overestimate the risk of becoming infected by flu. They tend to underestimate the efficacies of vaccines. And it depends on age group. These misperceptions can lead people to behaving in a way that's suboptimal for themselves and for society as a whole."
Paul Damien
Watch a YouTube video of Professor Paul Damien talking about fighting influenza with modeling research. (Video opens in a new window on YouTube.)
Some of the first results from the survey have come in, and the scientists have already shared them with other MIDAS teams and their colleagues at the CDC.
It turns out that, during the first weeks of the H1N1 pandemic, women were more likely to take precautions against the flu-such as following news about H1N1 and limiting social interactions-than men. People from larger households (for example, with larger families) were also more likely to take precautions than people from smaller households. And strangely, as news about the swine flu pandemic began to taper off in the media early this past summer, people didn't stop worrying, but they did start becoming less and less interested in the idea of seeing a doctor or getting the vaccine.
These results can help policy-makers target certain groups in an effort to change their behaviors in ways that limit disease transmission.
A second survey now under way will be used to model what's going on in four U.S. cities: Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles (which had low rates of H1N1 infection during the early stages of the pandemic) and New York City and Milwaukee (which had high rates of infection). The researchers want to determine how people are behaving differently in these cities and aim to link that with disease transmission patterns.
Meyers and Damien are also looking at school closures, which are not taken lightly by policy-makers. They are costly and disruptive, and depending on the context, they might not do much to limit transmission or save lives.
"It's challenging to assess when and where to close schools," says Damien. "Based on what metric? Percent infected? Percent likely to be infected? Only by using mathematical methods can we best quantify these uncertainties."
In the end, Meyers says, "Collectively, individual decisions can have a huge impact on the fate of a pandemic and the success of intervention efforts."
The antiviral distribution modeling was done in collaboration with engineering postdoctoral researcher Ned Dimitrov, physics graduate student Sebastian Goll and public health officials from the U.S. CDC and the British Columbia CDC in Canada.
For more information, contact: By Lee Clippard
Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
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TV on the Radio turn their frustrations into defiantly fascinating art
The amount of time that elapses between David Sitek jabbing out a finished cigarette and lighting a new one is pretty small and only shrinks as he gets more agitated or enthused, or both, as the case may be.
"We're not super-intellectuals," he protests, deep in analysis of his band's anti-methodology. "It's not like TV on the Radio is doing something that's so avant-garde or new or cutting-edge or anything. It's just that so many people are not doing that."
Sitek is well into his third cigarette by now. His face is hard and sharp, accentuated by bookish black glasses. ("People always think that I'm mad, but it's just the shape of my face," he says.) His features are soft, though, and even at his most frustrated, he radiates a peculiar warmth, a curmudgeonly passion. His Williamsburg apartment emphasizes utility over aesthetics: The rooms are, charitably, a mess, with production equipment, books, and CDs in search of shelves, and wires everywhere, some connected to things, some not. Sitek's last apartment burned down while he was on tour this spring, but all he lost were things. "I'm more concerned with other people losing lives than with me losing clothes," he says. "If I throw a temper tantrum, what will I get back?"
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So he did what he does best, which is begin from scratch. He resettled in this unadorned apartment, but his happiness is a few blocks away, at the studio he built, where over the course of several months, the band convened for the recording and cut-and-paste sessions that would yield Return to Cookie Mountain, its third album. "When we went to Cookie Mountain"—a figurative voyage that birthed the album title, Sitek says—"it was an astonishing trip, and it made us so much more . . . I don't know if pure is the word, but clear. It cleared us up to the possibilities. We went to places we never would have gone to."
Unlike so much New York rock of recent vintage, TVOTR's eludes neat categorization. You can't trace its influences back to a year, or a city, or a particular sound. They are by turns majestic, spastic, elegant, incisive, cynical, tremulous, delicate. Their songs are delirious epics, a collection of precision parts—sterling vocals, aggressive rhythmic patterns, layers of noise skirting each other—working together, even though those parts come from several different machines.
In fact, the best thing you can say about TVOTR is that they don't actually sound like a band at all. At least, not one band, one vision, one idea. Each song contains multitudes, a bevy of sounds and thoughts and directions that would leave most groups desperate to trim. But TVOTR are seamless, gleefully embracing their competing wills. Sitek is the band's producer. Tunde Adebimpe and Kyp Malone are the songwriters and primary vocalists. Jaleel Bunton plays drums, and Gerard Smith plays bass. Typically, you could stop there, but division of labor is not this group's strong suit. Everyone plays multiple roles here, largely because no one wants to be in a band the same way everyone else is in a band.
That eclectic ethic was there from the start, back when TVOTR were just Adebimpe and Sitek fooling around. Both were painters in addition to musicians, sometimes selling their wares on the Soho streets. (Adebimpe also had a brief stint as an actor and a longer run as a stop-motion animator on MTV's Celebrity Deathmatch.) At home, though, they made a racket—singing guitar parts and beatboxing the drums. They booked gigs around Williamsburg, never quite sure of what they were going to play until the last minute. Their first release, 2002's OK Calculator, was similarly loose, a set of home jams with ambition, humor, and loads of experimentation with harmony and rhythm. Not one jumping-off point, but 10.
The breakout Young Liars EP, released on Touch and Go in 2003, reflected the band's evolving worldview: A 9-11 pall hung heavy over the songs, which were absorptive and audacious, hurried and nervous. TVOTR were viciously musical, though—underneath their casual demeanors, Sitek and Adebimpe are great natural musicians and know how to productively exploit the friction between the music's seismic soundscapes and Adebimpe's vocals, clarion clear in their pleading and hope.
Slowly, new bandmates began to accrue. Malone was recruited after Sitek and Adebimpe saw him play with an earlier band, Fall in Love. The rest of the band was "destroying its instruments, exploding, dangerous, blowing shit up, and Kyp was standing there completely stoned, drinking a cup of coffee," Sitek recalls. "And then he sings two lyrics and it's so high out in the stratosphere we were like, we gotta get him in our band."
The trio began working on 2004's full-length Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes, bringing in Bunton and Smith to round out the rhythm section (Bunton was a local music fixture, and Adebimpe used to see Smith busking at the Bedford Avenue L station). Neither had much experience on the instruments they were asked to play. "No one with the exception of Kyp does what they usually do in this band, and we had no idea what he would even sound like when he joined," says Sitek. "It started like an experiment, and then we realized that it could be this other thing where we just involved our friends."
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. maine, maryland and washington state all approved same-sex last month. gay marriage was legal in d.c. and six other states. >> heart breaking news for american families waiting to adopt a child from russia. president putin has signed into law that americans cannot adopt russian children. it's said to be retaliation. in a few minutes we will talk about an atlanta family who are midway through the adoption process and are praying for a miracle. across india today, a nationwide protest took a new heart breaking direction, people across the country are out in angry droves calling for justice in the wake of a brutal gang rape, and then word spread that a victim, a 23-year-old woman died in the hospital. brought rapes have happened before, and a lot of change needs to take place for us to feel optimistic, i think, we have to firstly consider how we treat women from the day they are born. how girl children are treated. it's a societal change that needs to take place, not more police or better laws or better implementation, all of it has to happen, but people have to look at girl children
the latest on the last-minute wheeling and dealing being done in washington. good morning, lisa. >> reporter: good morning, bianna. well, the next 24 hours are critical. the president this morning in his radio address, told lawmakers don't let washington politics get in the way of american progress. so, the last-ditch attempt is on the way to put together a deal. and the ball is in the senate's court. there's nothing like a deadline to force action. the president met with congressional leaders friday for the first time in six weeks. then, proclaimed himself modestly optimistic. but warned -- >> the american people are watching what we do here. obviously, their patience is already thin. >> reporter: with the clock running out, here's the game plan. the democratic and republican leaders in the senate will spend day trying to hash out a bipartisan agreement. >> i'm hopeful and optimistic. >> reporter: but if there is no deal, the president wants an up or down vote on measures he thinks can pass. extending tax cuts for those making $250,000 or less. and continuing unemployment benefits for the m
call members of the house back to washington today. he shouldn't have let them two in fact. they're not here. they're not here. john boehner seeps to care more about keeping his speakership than about keeping the nation on firm financial footing. >> reporter: there have been all eyes on senator mitch mcconnell, the republican leader, the counterpart to harry reid because he has been pretty quiet early on in the negotiations. was defering speaker boehner to give the republican side. after hearing senator reid yesterday, senator mcconnell fired back. take a listen. >> we're coming up against a hard deadline here and i said, this is a conversation we should had months ago. and republicans aren't about to write a blank check for anything senate democrats put forward just because we find ourselves at the edge of the cliff. >> reporter: now senator mcconnell also said he was disappointed because when he got a call from the president two nights ago right before the president left hawaii to come back here to the white house, senator mcconnell says that was the first time he heard from an
the storm. >>> and back to work in washington with five days to go. president obama comes back to washington to try to hammer out a deal with the senate, and we're hearing it may come down to the final minute of the year. >>> sticky gas pedals costing toyota $1 billion. the company's plan to put sudden acceleration allegations in their past and how you may we able to cash in on it even if you already sold your car. >>> a packed show ahead. congressman steven latourette of ohio, senator richard blumenthal of connecticut, plus the grinch. it's thursday, december 27th. "starting point" begins right now. >>> well, our starting point, a brutal winter storm battering the northeast and torturing holiday travelers all over the country. here it is on the radar. the system is expected to dump up to two feet of snow on central maine today. six states are under winter storm warnings, pennsylvania, new york, massachusetts, new hampshire, vermont, and of course maine. everyone there could see at least a foot of snow. more than 200,000 customers spanning several states are already without power. more than
washington covering up anything but there are published wants that maybe he is is not the first baby -- she is not the first, and maybe carroll browner was involved in this, this may have gone on in bush administration, bush 43. is this -- do you know anything about these accusations or reports? >> it was said during the clinton administration that carroll brander did not use e-mail. but we discovered, my colleague horner discovered that carroll brander did, when the clinton administration left they destroyed hardwares that the e-mail was contained owe can't look back at shenanigans that cheryl branner was getting up on the clinton administration. and now they are turning over approximately 12,000 e-mails to us. tom: is that what precipitated her resignation, this is the common reason, i want to spend more time with my family. >> who knows, but it is no cosince -- coincidence she is up to her ears in scandal right now. tom. how widespread is this? other agents accused of using some sort of way to get around the law, federal records law, freedom. in could acts and other, government properti
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are slowing, down 12,000 to 350,000 last week. carol? >> thank you very much, washington. alison kosik thank you so much. >>> growing outrage over the decision of a new york newspaper to publish a map with the names and addresses of people who have gun permits. the interactive map was created with information available publicly. it pinpoints the location of legally licensed permit holders for handguns. we reached out for a statement from the newspaper, it sent us this, "the massacre in newtown, connecticut, remains at top-of-mind for many of our readers. or readers are understandably and keenly interested to know about who owns guns in their neighborhoods." scott summervila is president of the westchester new york fire owner association. he is on the list and joins me this morning. >> good morning, how are you? >> i'm good. you opened the newspaper and see your name, is that how you found out? >> yeah, actually i got a bunch of phone calls and said hey, by the way, this is not the first time they've done it. they've printed our names in the past but it's the first time they made it google ea
reached to avert sought called fiscal cliff, he would be coming back to washington after christmas. >> so where did that leave things terms of the fiscal cliff? here's l jonathan karl. >> congress not a creature is stirring. no deal is in sight. with deadline looming and seemingly no hope anywhere, the president made one last appeal tonight before washington goes on vacation. >> as we leave town for a few days to be with our families, through the holidays, everybody can cool off. everybody can tl drink some egg nog. now is not the time for more self inflicted wounds. certainly not those coming from washington. >>reporter: but the 2 sides don't even seem to be trying any more. what are we going to do now. >> i'm interested in solving the major problems that face our country. and that means house leaders senate leaders and the president are going to continue to have to work together to address those concerns. >>reporter: speaker boehner says the only way out is a deal that cuts spending and reforms the tax code but even he seemed to suggest that is virtually impossible now. >> how w
to go up. but we only run the house. democrats continue to run washington. >> call me a hopeless optimist, but i actually still think we can get it done. >> eamon javers live in washington. eamon, fascinating to look at that tape in retrospect. >> i think a lot of people in washington think the make-or-break deal making sessions have already happened here. and one republican senator i talked to this morning said there are very low expectations now for this meeting at the white house today. and boy, how times have changed, carl. just watching that tape that you just ran. one of the things that i'll be watching for when i'm standing on the white house north lawn this afternoon is whether or not these four congressional leaders come out as they did back in november and talk to the press after the meeting. we've had a lot of meetings at the white house where people have left very quickly, gotten into a suv and driven off the complex without talking to reporters. if they come out to those microphones after this meeting and come out together, i think that will be a hopeful sign that pe
, windy in new york city and long island, washington, detroit, memphis and out west san francisco with a different storm system impacting that region. right now moving forward you can see heavy bands of snow throughout indiana and illinois, sliding to the east and we have severe weather breaking out, i've been tracking the thunderstorms all morning long and they are strong and intense across parts of the chair lie in as. notice the red and the green that indicates higher cloud tops, we're getting intensity and rain and it's that part of the country we're watching out for severe weather. we may see tornadoes break out. today we're looking at heavy snow across illinois, indiana and ohio, it could be a foot or more moving forward and two areas of pennsylvania and new england tomorrow. this storm is not over yet. >> all right, bonnie, thanks so much. >>> now we turn to the bizarre and trangic shooting in upstate new york on christmas eve. two firefighters were shot and killed after responding to a call that a house was on fire and this morning we're learning more about the shooter, hi
in washington, d.c. good morning, i'm gregg jarrett in "america's newsroom.". patti ann: freight to be with you again, gregg. i'm patti ann browne in for martha maccallum. there is little to no progress reported in making a deal to avert across the board tax hikes for 90% of american households. president obama on his way back to washington right now but not all the lawmakers are there and if congress and the president do not reach a compromise before january 1st many analysts say the economy will slide back into a recession. gregg: mike emanuel is live on capitol hill. mike, any indication of the president's next move? >> reporter: well, gregg, last time we heard the president talk about the this matter he said he was calling on congressional leaders to essentially make sure taxes do not go up on middle class americans. presumably that would be a package that continues the bush tax cuts for those making up to $250,000. he would also like to continue emergency unemployment benefits for two million americans. and beyond that, details are kind of murky at this point. so we await the president to
reporting now from washington. >> lawmakers are still working on it. >> i want everyo one to know i' willing to get this done but i need dance partner. >> the main sticking point between democrats and republicans continues to be over the threshold of tax increases. president obama campaigned on raising taxes on income over $250,000 while many congressional republicans have pushed back against any tax increases. president obama is placing the blame for the impasse on the gop. >> they say that their biggest priority is making sure that we deal with the deficit in a serious way, but the way they're behaving is that their only priority is making sure that tax breaks for the wealthiest americans are protected. >> reporter: but senators say there is some movement on the issue. >> there's a lot of give and take going on right now, but republicans doan want to see new revenues, in other words, democrat tax increases, beused for new spending. >> the president has said if there is no deal by the end of the day, the senate should draw up legislation to extend the bush-era tax cuts for the middle class.
of our own making and washington is searching for little more than an umbrella to protect you from it. thanks for joining the conversation this week on "your money." we're going to stay on the story till it's done. normally we're here every saturday and sunday at 3:00 p.m. eastern. i'm on daily at 3:30 p.m. but until this is done, you're going to see a lot of me. tweet me, my handle i is @alivelshi. is @alivelshi. have a great weekend. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> you're in the "cnn newsroom." i'm martin savidge in for fredricka whitfield. in three days, america will go off that fphysical cliff unless these prevent it, in control of whether or not your taxes go up come new year's day. harry reid, minority leader mitch mcconnell, house speaker john boehner and house democratic leader nancy pelosi met at the white house yesterday afternoon with the president and vice president. here's where things stand right now. the senate leaders are meeting aiming to avoid tax hikes. and they may vote on a deal sunday or perhaps on monday. jessica yellin is our chief white house corr
. the president pulled the plug on his holiday trip to hawaii and arrived in washington shortly after 11:00 in hopes of prodding congress to lock in taxes for all but the wealthiest 2%. so a republican source told us he would be sending legislation to capitol hill, but the white house is telling us no, that is not the case. you have the president there at the white house. you have the senate in session and they are scattered throughout the country and taxes are going up on january 1st. let's listen to harry reid. he is not happy about the house and being away. he is the top senate democrat. >> we are here in washington working. we have the house of representatives out watching movies and watching their kids play soccer and basketball and doing all kinds of things. they should be here. >> here's a reality. reid said it's beginning to look to him as though we will plunge over the cliff come tuesday. they are keeping an eye on washington to see what develops. since it looks as though we are headed for higher taxes, i want to bring in terry savage, a personal finance expert for the chicago s
and they want want to have that happen. second of all these are deal mayors. they came to washington to get deals done. and they see the result, the goal as a deal to get past this rather than looking at the numbers. the folks on each side eve are looking at the numbers and they say the deficit would be in better shape and the economy in the long run is in better shape. they are looking long term. the deal makers in the center are looking right now and say they are scared of the political consequences and we are not quite sure how the numbers end up, the last thing we need is a rescission. >> reporter: steve vin dinin in washington. thank you. >> reporter: new information on a horrified christmas eve tragedy as a note left by this ex-con suggests that he planned to kill first responders and possibly some of his own neighbors when he set this massive inferno, it happened on monday, after that before shooting two firefighters who arrived at the scene to help. trace gallagher live from our west coast newsroom with more on this disturbing story. trace. >> reporter: police say that note from 62-
until the fiscal cliff. president obama catching a flight back to washington where there's doubt that a deal can get done in time. good morning, everybody, for a thursday morning. very early, 5:00 a.m. on the east coast. welcome to "early start." i'm alina cho. >> i'm drew griffin. john and zoraida are off today. it's 5:00 a.m. in the east. a deadly winter storm system slamming the northeast after hammering the nation's heartland. look at this radar, system serious snowmaker. it's packing destructive winds, six states under winter storm warnings right now. pennsylvania, new york, massachusetts, new hampshire, vermont and maine. all could see a foot of snow or more. more than 200,000 customers spanning several states already without power. 1,700 plus flights canceled yesterday. imagine that. hundreds more already taken off the board this morning. there are six deaths being blamed on the weather since tuesday and the threat hasn't passed yesterday. bonnie schneider, meteorologist checking the system from the cnn center in atlanta. first, we go to ennis standing by in miserable, sno
to them. voters in maine, maryland and washington state all approved same-sex marriage last month. gay marriage is already legal in d.c. and six other states. >>> it is a dream come true for a nigerian immigrant. in a rare move, president obama sibld into law a private bill granting victor chuckwiki permanent residency. it's the only such bill to be approved in the last two years. the recent college grad came to the u.s. 11 years to go to undergo treatment for rare life threatening facial tumors. he had been living in michigan on an expired visa and will now head to medical school. >>> a russian airliner slid off a runway and smashed outside moscow today. four of the eight crew members on board were killed as the plane splintered into three pieces. no passengers on board were -- no passengers were on board, and no one on the highway was injured. the jet is about as big as a 757. it was run by the russian airline red wings. the plane was arriving from the czech republic when it overshot the runway. >>> we knew it would end like this, didn't we? the fiscal cliff, still looming. spending
rushing back to washington where storm clouds are gathering over the capital. the top democrat in the senate, accusing the republican speaker of the house of running a dictatorship. they say they haven't given up, but it sounds that way. >> i don't know time wise how it can happen now. >> here we are, once again, at the end of the year, staring at a crisis we should have dealt with literally months ago. >> reporter: without an agreement soon, nearly everybody takes a hit. a schoolteacher with two kids and a salary of $43,000, for example, will face a tax hike of more than $3,000. members of congress helped get us in this mess and they'll pay, too. with incomes of $174,000, they'll pay some $7,500 more in taxes. and it's not just taxes. on january 1, unemployment benefits expire for some 2 million people. you can expect one last effort, including a meeting at the white house with congressional leaders to try to prevent the fiscal cliff from happening. but with just four days left until everybody's taxes go up, there's not a lot of optimism that it can be cone in time. jonathan k
, it is washington. and it is a lot at stake. it is about people's taxes, and, you know, the social safety net in america. it is the difference between democrats and republicans. >> yeah. we're going to talk more about the money now. thank you, jessica yellin. appreciate it. to new york now, joining us rick neuman, chief business correspondent for "u.s. news & world report." i want to ask you about the tax increase if there is no deal and tax rates rise, when would workers begin to see that reflekr reflected in their paychecks? when does the pain start? >> this is not one tax hike. this is about nine different sets of taxes. and the one that would go up right away is the payroll tax. that was cut temporarily in 2 009, cut by two percentage points and will go back up by two percentage points and that would come out of workers' paychecks right off the bat. it would add up to something like $60, $70 a month for the typical worker. we hear about all the tax rates that are going up, that actually wouldn't involve money that is in people's pockets until they actually pay their taxes or do their tax
each other for the breakdown. abc's jonathan karl has all this from washington. all of the focus on speaker john boehner's fallback plan, what he is calling plan "b." >> reporter: that's right, george. talks have got son low, i would say this is the low point, that boehner is moving ahead with the backup plan that the president so opposes, he says he will veto. under plan "b" most of the tax cuts will be extended for those making over $1 million. for those over $1 million, the tax rates would go up. this could do nothing to address the issues. like spending cuts and the debt ceiling. democrats are calling this vote a waste of time. but, george, boehner is saying the president has a choice. support this plan or see a massive tax increase on virtually all americans after january 1st. >> yeah, they seem to think this is going to put the pressure back on the white house. but, jon, like you, i've been in touch with both sides overnight. and these talks right now are going absolutely nowhere. the chance that the country is going to go over that fiscal cliff are really rising. >> report
progress. abc's tahman bradley has the details from washington. >> reporter: democrats and republicans remain light years apart. here's president obama, in an interview with bloomberg tv, describing house speaker john boehner's plan to avoid the fiscal cliff. >> unfortunately the speaker's proposal right now is still out of balance. >> reporter: the speaker's plan would raise $800 billion in tax revenue. but does so without raising tax rates for top income earners. the president says that's unacceptable. >> we're going to have to see the rates on the top 2% go up. and we're not going to be able to get a deal without it. >> reporter: republicans, like rising star senator marco rubio, say raising taxes on the wealthy is the wrong approach. >> the tax increases he wants would fail to make even a small dent in the debt. it would hurt middle-class businesses and the people who work for them. >> reporter: so, that's the major holdup, taxes. republicans and democrats deeply divided. >> there's nothing going on privately that's not going on public. >> reporter: amidst the political posturing,
to washington to resume negotiations to avoid that fiscal cliff. congress will also be returning on thursday, and we will finally see if they can come together and make an agreement. >> and the clock is ticking. we are now just days away. and the one thing that we off forget, this fiscal cliff, this isn't some small cliff we're talking about. this is like road runner, wylie coyote way off that cliff. you come off that cliff, it is a long way down. there are serious consequences for all of us. >> spending cuts, taxes raised across the board. and the president was hoping that everyone could cool off, drink of eggnog, spend time with the family and when you get back to washington on thursday, let's hammer it out. but a lot of people are saying it doesn't look like it may happen at all. >> a lot of people will be celebrating on new years. when we wake up january 1, there might be a lot of upset people. >>> in other very important news, perhaps the most important news of the night, trenton, ladies and gentlemen, remains in the hands of the hessians. yeah, george washington didn't cross the delawa
. coming up, we're going to hear from the vocal players in washington awaiting today's fiscal cliff negotiations. that is our top story. then we'll remember stormin' norman schwartzcopf, one of the nation's best known warriors. while leading troops to battle, he's lost his battle with pneumonia. >>> blown away by an oncoming tornado. take a look. it was recorded outside an alabama store. and it shows, oh, my gosh, the powerful winds as inspectors assess the damage from the christmas storms. we'll have more of that coming up for you later. >>> and later this half hour, 'tis the season to see the holiday blockbuster films. we're going to reveal some money making secrets of movie theaters. you'll want to tune in and see how you can avoid them. >> how you can save a buck and a warning about some of the > first, new details on the last-ditch effort to avoid the fiscal cliff. the president is meeting with top lawmakers today at the white house. >> underscoring that urgency, house speaker john boehner says the house will meet in a rare sunday session. >> reporter: it may already be too lat
at the white house, washington lawmakers working furiously today to keep us from going over the fiscal cliff. but can they do it in time? >>> and family feud. a college student fed up with what she calls her meddling, overbearing parents goes to court to get them to back off. now, she has a restraining order. today, saturday, december 29, order. today, saturday, december 29, 2012. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> and welcome to "today" on this saturday morning. i'm erica hill. >> i'm cain for lester holt. just when you thought it was safe to go out, another storm is hitting the east coast. >> there won't be as bad as the storm that spun off tornadoes and dumped heavy snow across the northeast and the east this week. it could certainly impact holiday travel. we'll have the latest coming up in a moment. >>> also ahead, in the wake of the sandy hook school tragedy, a new plan from the controversial sheriff in arizona. he wants armed volunteers to patrol the schools there. we'll get into that debate. >>> then, we'll share with you a romance story 20 years in the making. it began
being arrested for dui in washington. virginia police say republican mike crepo had a blood-alcohol level above the legal limit. >>> former president george h.w. bush may be spending christmas in the hospital. doctors say he's in stable condition but needs to build up his energy. >>> christmas prayers are going out to nelson mandela. south africans are sending warm wishes to the ormer leader. he's been in the hospital for more than two weeks with a lung infection and gal stone surgery, as well. he's in no imminent danger but doctors want to make sure before releasing him. the icon is 94 years old. >>> now we turn to britain, where thousands of christmas travelers are having a rough go today. flooding has shut down train service in many areas, especially in scotland, southwest england and south wales, as well. in highways there impassable. drivers have been warned not to travel unless absolutely necessary. and more rain expected later today. >>> severe flooding is a problem in northern california. highways in sonoma california are under water. and up in the mountains, up to f
holiday travel season. >>> now to the epic dysfunction playing out in washington. a sort of theater of the absurd that might actually be amusing if the stakes weren't so high for the rest of us. >> two days left until we all go over the fiscal cliff which would mean everyone's taxes will go up and sharp spending cuts will go effect that could drive our economy back into recession. to abc news white house correspondent jonathan karl filling in today for george stephanopoulos as host of abc's "this week." >> hey, jon, good morning. i know today and tomorrow obviously hugely important. can you sort of walk us through the potential order of operations? what could we see play out today and tomorrow? >> well, it is right down to the wire, dan. what's happening right now is harry reid and mitch mcconnell, the top democrat and republican in the senate are still negotiating their staffs at this hour. they are supposed to be working until about 3:00 this afternoon when the plan would be presented to both caucuses. as we understand what they are talking about is the bare minimum. basically the
been wasted. >> steve centanni kicks off our college tonight from washington d.c. steve, where exactly do we stand tonight? >> well, harris, democrats are hoping republicans to raise taxes on the wealthy and the republicans are accusing the white house of wasting time. and saying that he didn't have a serious proposal when he reintroduced a plan to reduce 4 trillion dollars. >> the president asking for 1.6 trillion dollars worth of new revenue over ten years, twice as much as he's been asking for in public. his system spending in here that exceeded the amount of new cuts that he was willing to consider. it was not a serious offer. >> but so far it's the only white house offer on the table, a starting point for further negotiations, one would assume, harris? >> not to sound pessimistic, but it's a fact, even if he reached a deal tonight, it would tough to meet that deadline by the end of the year, because there's red tape profit to deal with. >> that's right, it takes time and time to get the legislation drafted and passed and to get it scored by the congressional budget office to deter
. >>> also this half hour, it is down to the wire in washington, d.c. yes, the fiscal cliff now just four days away. can a last-ditch meeting today really, really lead to a deal? really? >> i hope so, because i'm heading to washington tomorrow. but we're going to bring you another story. you're going to want to see this. a daycare burglary that turns into child's play. oh, man, this boils my blood. the christmas day thieves whose clowning around was all caught on tape. >> unbelievable. yeah, that was one of them riding a little kid's tricycle. >>> later on, britney spears is back. she may be saying goodbye to a $15 million reality tv paycheck. and why this may not be her only personal drama this morning. we have details coming up in "the skinny" and she's part of half of "the skinny" today. britney spears has a lot going on. >> making headlines. >>> first, though, the nation is remembering a war hero this morning. general norman schwarzkopf died yesterday after battling pneumonia. >> president obama called the retired general an american original who stood tall for his country and had a l
, democrats and republicans came to washington tuesday with one message. >> you've got the to come together and get this done. >> reporter: and better do it quickly because we hit the cliff in 27 days. >> the clock is ticking. tracie potts in washington. thanks. >>> overseas now where more massive anti-government protests are occurring in egypt today. the demonstrators say the rallies are a last warning to president morsi over his seizure of almost unrestricted power. and the adoption of a new constitution. about 100,000 people protested. the opposition forces have not yet decided whether to vote no in a constitutional referendum this month or to call for a boycott. >>> this morning u.n. secretary general ban ki-moon hinted he is not in favor of granting asylum to assad if he flees. with the civil war moving in on the capital of damascus, nato has approved turkey's use of the patriot anti-missile system along its border. the move comes amid growing fears syria will attack touree and/or israel, possibly with chemical weapons. >> an update now for you on the condition of the newly pregnant du
to washington this morning. but he made no public statements. if there is no deal on a budget by new year's day, nearly every american will see a tax increase. we have two reports on the stalemate, beginning with nancy cordes on capitol hill. nancy. >> reporter: jeff, democratic aides tell cbs news that senate majority leader harry reid is ready to introduce legislation that would avert the fiscal cliff, but only if he gets assurances from republican leaders that they won't try to block it. that standoff is creating some tension on capitol hill that spilled on to the senate floor today. >> the senate will come to order. >> reporter: in the normally genteel senate, leader reid unleashed a tirade today about house speaker john boehner, accusing him of running a dictatorship in the house. >> speaker boehner is not willing to negotiate. we have not heard a word from leader mcconnell. nothing is happening. >> reporter: mitch mcconnell, the top republican in the senate, said it's reid who hasn't reached out for weeks. >> the phone never rang. and so now here we are, five days from the new year, and w
an hour, it's the winds. whether we see winds in washington or new york already slowing down travel tonight, they won't see the snow accumulation. it's the winds with this system that's a big deal. indy gusts to almost 40 miles per hour. roanoke, virginia to dchicago. we're talking a big geography in terms of the impacts of it. here's where the blizzard warnings are in. that's for 6 to 12 inches of snow coupled with winds at 40, 50 miles per hour making it difficult to see and visibility is down near zero. that's kind of the blizzard warning scenario. there's the blizzard warning. you can see that in areas of indiana and illinois and moving into ohio. these in the pink are winter weather warnings, so we'll see that. here's the snow. 12 inches at the very least, and in upstate new york, suzanne, we will see at least 12 inches of snow. so the timing in and around western new york, we see the snow tonight to tomorrow. i know you travel a lot, and it's those big cities in and around new york and new jersey and washington, big-time travel delays at the airports. already canceling hundred
will have to return to washington in a day or two to deal with you know what the fiscal crisis. chief house correspondented spayeed henry is in hawaii with the president. i assume if there were any conversations between the president and the speaker we would be advised. >> they say there have not been any more calls, no contact between the high school and the speaker. that is a sign that there's been no major progress. they say that the lines of communication are still open between the president's staff, the peaker's staff. also now the circle is widening a little bit and it's including senate staff, because given what happened late last week where speaker boehner's so-called plan b fail in the house there is now momentum to try and get something going in the senate right after christmas and maybe possible something there, some sort of a stop-gap measure, hope they can pass it in the house. this morning one of the conservative lea leaders, senator jim demint, he's retiring to run the heritage foundation, he put out a message saying it's time for both sides to come together. >> as we celebra
.s. by this weekend. >>> is another day of washington watching and waiting to see if the two sides are any closer to a deal to head off huge tax increases and deep spending cuts at the start of next year. president obama and house speaker john boehner are keeping tight lipped about their closed door weekend talks. but in michigan monday, the president had a warning about going over this now infamous fiscal cliff. >> consumer spending is going to go down. that means you've got less customers. businesses get fewer profits. they hire fewer workers. you go in a downward spiral. >> speaker boehner says he's still waiting for the president to identify spending cuts that he's willing to make to help deal with the nation's debt crisis. >>> thousands of demonstrators are expected to gather at the michigan state capital today in protest of a right-to-work measure. the legislation would bar unions from requiring non-union workers to pay those union fees. democrats met with the governor to urge a veto. and carollers gathered singing modified christmas songs in protest of the proposal. president obama said th
yards. georgia led numerator when the tide attempt afield, but washington blocks it and there goes alex ogletree, 55 yards for the touchdown. bulldogs led. crimson tide ran for 350 yards, but quarterback a.j. mccarron can also pass. mccarron to cooper, bama leads 32-28, 3:15 left on the clock. bulldogs have no time-outs and need to score here or it's over. it's over. bama wins, 32-28 and play notre dame january 27th forst ncaa national championship. >>> 12th-ranked oklahoma and bob stoops visited tcu. that sooner sensation damien william's second touchdown of the game. oklahoma beats the hornfrogs and sooners became texas longhorn fans because if the hong lorns could beat collin klein and the wildcats oklahoma would own the title outright. but tonight collin klein and kc state beats texas. >>> 75-yard touchdown for baylor and bears led at halftime. baylor also has a supersophomore, his name is lache, seastrunk, lache seastrunk is for real. he pull a happy running here, but still scores the 76-yard touchdown. baylor upsets 23 rd-rank ok state. >>> the beavers hosted nicholls state, a mak
massacring his citizens for nearly two straight years. martha raddatz, abc news, washington. >> it's a little hard to believe since tens of thousands of folks have been killed already, use of chemical weapons would be off limits to the syrian regime right now. considering rebels have made advances that may be one of the most powerful weapons the government has in its arsenal right now. again, that's a red line according to the u.s. if chemicals are used, that could draw us into this conflict militarily. that is a whole different level of involvement here, and according to some senior officials, our folks, military have started to run drills in preparation for chemical attacks. that situation growing more serious. >> syria maintaining that they're not preparing for any sort of chemical warfare. though they have begun mixing compounds according to several sources. as she mentioned the sarin gas could be most readily used to fill artillery shells. real quickly, the united nations said monday they're immediately pulling all nonessential employees out of syria because of this new development. >> h
avila has been tracking the latest in washington. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, amy. the loss of this homegrown superstar, beloved on both sides of the border, is under investigation by u.s. and mexican officials. under scrutiny, the maintenance of the plane and the medical record of a pilot in his late 70s. mexican-american superstar jenni rivera may be lost. her twin-engine lear jet, spread over a 1,000-foot debris field. but overnight, her family refused to give up on a miracle. >> we have no confirmation of her body being recovered. we are strong. and we'll continue to stay strong. >> reporter: still, the news from investigators is not encouraging. reports of a rapid lost of altitu altitude, just outside monterrey, mexico, where the mexican-american superstar had performed the night before the crash. now, we're learning that the small twin-engine lear jet was old. it was a 43-year-old jet. and one of the two pilots was 78. both of those factors will be investigated by mexican authorities, aided by the american national transportation safety board. >> there's no age limit f
, indiana, ohio and moved into washington, d.c. it's just a fast-moving, longlasting violent thunderstorm complex. >> after charging 800 miles, 22 were dead and 5 million were without power. number five, the dallas 22. there's an old myth that tornadoes don't hit big cities. >> it was so scary. remind you of "the wizard of oz" when the tornado hit and everything going around and around. >> caused nearly $1 billion worth of damage within 24 hours. number four, deadliest tornadoes. >> take it away from us, lord. >> tornadoes took up three slots in our top ten countdown. but this was the deadliest. march 2nd and 3rd, 70 confirmed tornadoes killed 7 people in the northwest. hurricane isaac. >> isaac was a killer. >> the country held its breath as the levees. >> reporter: yet again. plaquemine's parish was tested. by september, 66% of the u.s. was in some degree of drought. the dry weather is expected to continue into 2013. and this could become the costliest natural disaster in u.s. history. and number one, superstorm sandy. >> this historic superstorm made landfall over the most populated ar
his christmas vacation short. mister obama is returning to washington d-c on thursday. first lady michelle obama and their daughters will remain in hawaii. house and senate members are expected to reconvene thursday. without a budget agreement, automatic tax increases for everyone and deep spending cuts will be triggered in the new year. the main dispute continues to be over taxes. >> vicki: starbucks will publicly take a stand on the looming fiscal cliff. c-e-o howard schultz is asking workers at its 120 d-c-area stores to write "come together" on the coffee cups they serve on thursday and friday. he says it's a way to quote: "send our elected officials a respectful but potent message, urging them to come together to find common ground." both sides are due back by thursday and have vowed to make a final attempt. starbucks notes workers are not required to write the message on cups. >> 49ers sunday at candlestick with a chance to clinch the division title kron four's jason appelbaum joins me now with more. .jason the team's a little banged up right? >> manning's am >> vernon davi
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to say for the country, only nasty words to spew about the people running it or hoping to. john mccain, who served the country so admirably, has become an angry fellow from dawn until dusk taking an occasional break to remember who he is and saying enough of this when his new allies get out of hand. when ted cruz starts attacking the loyalty to america of one of mccain's fellow vietnam vets, a combat vet at that. the viciousness is something we haven't seen before because of the combination of mccarthyism and this weird unconnectedness, attacking chuck hagel, for example, because no one will give us info or anyone info about the benghazi situation even though hagel wasn't even in the government when benghazi happened. sick stuff. and it seems to be growing in inverse proportion to obama's popularity. the better he looks, the worse these characters, inhofe, cruz, mccain, and lindsey graham, are determined to look. did you notice the smile on john boehner's face sitting up there behind the president during the state of the union? if you did, you're imagining things. so afraid of the hard
for cloture and move on to his nomination. >> that's right. senators john mccain and lindsey graham will vote to end debate on the confirmation of chuck hagel, eventually, but today, they just didn't feel like it. they towed the party line and voted to block hagel's nomination. the procedural vote failed 40-58 with one senator voting present and one senator not voting. 54 democrats voted in favor as did four republicans. no cabinet member nominated for a national security post has ever been filibustered. only two cabinet secretary nominees in history have been filibustered. both eventually cleared their cloture votes 85-8. and both were eventually easily confirmed. today, senate majority leader harry reid knew he did not have the votes to clear the republican procedural hurdle, but scheduled a vote anyway to demonstrate this. >> republicans have made an unfortunate choice to ratchet up the level of destruction here in washington. there's nothing going to change in the next ten days about the qualifications of chuck hagel. i guess to be able to run for the senate as a republican in most places
in washington, d.c. that can do sunday shows? john mccain would be good. >> yeah, he's 234not going to v for him. at the earliest, it won't happen until lawmakers return to washington next week after a ten-day recess. senator john mccain, one of hagel's most outspoken critics, pushed back against suggestions that his opposition was meant to settle old scores. >> is it payback time for chuck hagel? that's what this process has amounted to? >> of course not. 99% of it is to do with the positions that senator hagel has taken. the positions he's taken on various issues has frankly been not only out of the mainstream but far to the left. we will have a vote when we get back, and i'm confident that senator hagel will probably have the votes necessary to be confirmed as the secretary of defense. we have an obligation of advice and consent. i don't intend to give those up when other senators continue to have reasonable questions. i mean reasonable. >> but you're not a yes vote for your old friend? >> no, i don't believe he's qualified, but i don't believe that we should hold up his nomination any furthe
's the new organization. it's if latest example, republicans turning on each other. john mccain tried to humiliate nominee chuck hagel. and this is just the beginning. >> are you going to answer the question, senator hagel. the question is were you right or wrong? that's a pretty straight forward question. >> but karma caught up with mccain quickly. about an hour after that, he berated hagel. here's how rand paul reacted to mccain's comments. let's listen. >> i find the argument spurious and really frankly absurd. >> on laura ingram's radio show, louisiana senator marco rubi on the emigration issue. >> i love and respect marco, i think he's amazingly naive. >> wow, in other words, he cares about hispanics. in a colossal put down, chris chistie hung the blame for post-sandy suffering squarely on republicans. >> there's only one group to blame for the continued suffering of these innocent victims. the house majority and their speaker, john boehner. >> you know, joy, this was an old democratic problem. >> yes. >> it was called democrats in disarray. you could put it up on every newspaper
hoover. >> are we really to believe that senator john mccain, who once had a few objections of his own towards george w. bush, is really upset because chuck hagel compared w. with herbert hoover? you are republicans trying to subvert the foreign policy of the united states over an old and bitter grudge? let's bring in ari melber and democrat strategist julian ep sto epstein. what is senator mccain's problem? is he trying to defend a mode okur president bush or is he trying to defend a failed war in iraq? >> i think it's more iraq where we know senator mccain has long stood by our presence there and adding troops there, but bottom line if you take this as the mccain filibuster standard, then no one in any democratic administration ever gets a vote because, guess what? a lot of them have good faith and i think well-grounded disagreements with george w. bush. so this cannot be the standard. it's not defensible on its own terms and that's the problem. they are erecting a supermajority hurdle for all of this legislation and all of these nominees. this is an old problem from the way the repu
and you know, john mccain is actually the perfect example of why it is about the man himself, and that is he said last night after he had kind of given lots of different explanations, all of them i think are credible from his point of view, that the real fundamental thing that has bothered most of hagel's fellow republicans here, former colleagues here, is the way that he defied his party, defied his president, then george w. bush, on iraq, and that really did not sit well with many republicans here, and they remember that. it's a whole bunch of other issues but that at its core is the fundamental problem. >> so rich, i'll ask you as a republican strategy, are the concerns over chuck hagel serious enough to filibuster and block confirmation? that's the first time this has before happened in the history of u.s. politics. >> well, everybody says that, but that would get two thumbs up in the political fact check so john bolten was blocked and the ambassador to the u.n. was a cabinet level slot. the republicans i think dana have said that they'll probably let this thing go after
at the faces we see of the republican party, the lindsey grahams, the john mccains, the john boehners, they're angry old men. they're not appealing as human beings. forget issuewise. and clearly the democrats have barack obama. and i want to come back to a debate that we were having. you've covered president after president. it doesn't matter how they shift on the issues until they have the right delivery system, the right human beings who are not tone deaf to an attitude that this country wants. they're never going to get back. ronald reagan got that. to your point earlier, john connelley didn't get that, joe. we said this off the air. that's why he was not elected president. i think it's all moot until they change literally and figuratively the faces of the party. >> well, it can't be just the cosmetics, however. >> not cosmetics, but humanity. >> a combination of the two, it's about the subject matter they're dealing with as well as the manner in which they present it. ronald reagan -- my favorite story about ronald reagan was when he was in a deep recession, they decided they had to do
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This article is about mathematical trees described by prefixes of finite sequences. For trees described by partially ordered sets, see Tree (set theory).
In descriptive set theory, a tree on a set X is a collection of finite sequences of elements of X such that every prefix of a sequence in the collection also belongs to the collection.
The collection of all finite sequences of elements of a set X is denoted X^{<\omega}. With this notation, a tree is a nonempty subset T of X^{<\omega}, such that if \langle x_0,x_1,\ldots,x_{n-1}\rangle is a sequence of length n in T, and if 0\le m<n, then the shortened sequence \langle x_0,x_1,\ldots,x_{m-1}\rangle also belongs to T. In particular, choosing m=0 shows that the empty sequence belongs to every tree.
Branches and bodies[edit]
A branch through a tree T is an infinite sequence of elements of X, each of whose finite prefixes belongs to T. The set of all branches through T is denoted [T] and called the body of the tree T.
A tree that has no branches is called wellfounded; a tree with at least one branch is illfounded. By König's lemma, a tree on a finite set with an infinite number of sequences must necessarily be illfounded.
Terminal nodes[edit]
A finite sequence that belongs to a tree T is called a terminal node if it is not a prefix of a longer sequence in T. Equivalently, \langle x_0,x_1,\ldots,x_{n-1}\rangle \in T is terminal if there is no element x of X such that that \langle x_0,x_1,\ldots,x_{n-1},x\rangle \in T. A tree that does not have any terminal nodes is called pruned.
Relation to other types of trees[edit]
In graph theory, a rooted tree is a directed graph in which every vertex except for a special root vertex has exactly one outgoing edge, and in which the path formed by following these edges from any vertex eventually leads to the root vertex. If T is a tree in the descriptive set theory sense, then it corresponds to a graph with one vertex for each sequence in T, and an outgoing edge from each nonempty sequence that connects it to the shorter sequence formed by removing its last element. This graph is a tree in the graph-theoretic sense. The root of the tree is the empty sequence.
In order theory, a different notion of a tree is used: an order-theoretic tree is a partially ordered set with one minimal element in which each element has a well-ordered set of predecessors. Every tree in descriptive set theory is also an order-theoretic tree, using a partial ordering in which two sequences T and U are ordered by T<U if and only if T is a proper prefix of U. The empty sequence is the unique minimal element, and each element has a finite and well-ordered set of predecessors (the set of all of its prefixes). An order-theoretic tree may be represented by an isomorphic tree of sequences if and only if each of its elements has finite height (that is, a finite set of predecessors).
The set of infinite sequences over X (denoted as X^\omega) may be given the product topology, treating X as a discrete space. In this topology, every closed subset C of X^\omega is of the form [T] for some pruned tree T. Namely, let T consist of the set of finite prefixes of the infinite sequences in C. Conversely, the body [T] of every tree T forms a closed set in this topology.
Frequently trees on Cartesian products X\times Y are considered. In this case, by convention, the set of finite sequences of members of the product space, (X\times Y)^{<\omega}, is identified in the natural way with a subset of the product of two spaces of sequences, X^{<\omega}\times Y^{<\omega} (the subset of members of the second product for which both sequences have the same length). In this way a tree [T] over the product space may be considered as a subset of X^{<\omega}\times Y^{<\omega}. We may then form the projection of [T],
p[T]=\{\vec x\in X^{\omega} | (\exists \vec y\in Y^{\omega})\langle \vec x,\vec y\rangle \in [T]\}.
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Xintai (Chinese: ; pinyin: Xīntài) is a county-level city administered under Tai'an prefecture-level city, in central Shandong province, People's Republic of China. It is located about 50 km to the southeast of the city of Tai'an.
Xintai lies in the north temperate zone with a monsoon climate. The average annual temperatures is 13℃。
The population is 1,334,549 in 1999.
In August 2007, the Shandong coal mine flood killed 181 miners.[1]
Xintai is an important area of production of foods, vegetables and petroleum. There are about 1,600 million tons of coal deposits, other mineral deposits include quartz, limestone and clay. The industrial structure of Xintai is centered around energy, building materials, machines and chemical engineering. There are more than 1,000 corporations of industry and mining.
The Cilai railway runs through the city. The Jinghu and the Boxu expressways converge there.
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If someone says "you can't do that" there's a colloquial response of "can too". Is it "can too" or "can to"?
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The appropriate phrase would be 'can too'. This one I'm going to have to go on process of elimination because 'can to' doesn't make any grammatical sense, be it colloquial or otherwise.
One would think that the use of 'too' in that phrase came from one of its meanings:
as well: used to indicate that a person, thing, or aspect of a situation applies in addition to the one just mentioned
But we're not exactly expressing one's ability to do something 'as well'. Rather, we're negating the previous person's assertion that we cannot do it. Regardless, the answer is 'can too'.
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My search is for a list of chukim. Since I don't like 'reinventing the wheel', I was wondering if there is one already available from some reference work.
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Are you specifically looking for an exhaustive list? – YeZ Jun 29 at 18:24
Here's a pretty exhaustive list: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/613_commandments#Maimonides.27_list – Double AA Jun 30 at 5:15
I'm looking for a list of mitzvot which most authorities agree is a hok. Wikipedia doesn't say which is a hok or not. – TzGaBeR Jun 30 at 9:10
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Field isolates and laboratory strains of Botrytis cinerea, an ascomycetous fungus causing considerable economic losses, e.g., as “grey mould” of vine, were compared for differences in ploidy level by determining their DNA content per nucleus. Strain SAS56, an ascospore line used routinely for genetic analyses, is probably polyploid, since treatment with benomyl causes a significant reduction in DNA content per nucleus. This conclusion is substantiated by the increased sensitivity of the putative haploid derivatives to mutagens (UV and EMS). Molecular analyses (RAPD) of the haploidized strains indicate a very limited degree of heterozygosis of the parent strain SAS56. Analysis of field isolates of B. cinerea showed that their DNA content per nucleus varied considerably, indicating that aneuploidy/polyploidy is a widespread phenomenon in this species. This can explain both the variability and phenotypic instability of many field isolates of this fungus and the unusual difficulties faced by researchers in recovering stable recessive laboratory mutants. Since the haploid derivatives of SAS56 resemble the parent strain in their parasitic and physiological properties they should provide a good basis for classical and molecular genetic studies.
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small remark on OWL Guide
From: edhel <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 22:42:08 +0800
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<rdf:Description about="http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/CR-owl-guide-20030818/">
In chapter 3.3. Property Characteristics written:
If a property, P1, is tagged as the owl:inverseOf P2, then for all x, y, and z:
P1(x,y) iff P2(y,x)
Note that the syntax for owl:inverseOf takes a property name as an argument. A iff B means (A implies B) and (B implies A).
1) imho it is better to write simply "for all x and y" (without z)
2) but below in explanation of InverseFunctionalProperty there is written vice versa "for all x and y" but need x,y,z
3) "IFF" was explained here, but already was used above
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I want that too - motivation to answer programming-related questions. What is yours?
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This question appears to be off-topic because it is a poll question. – Shadow Wizard Nov 21 '13 at 11:31
@ShaWizDowArd - That means primarily opinion-based?? – hims056 Nov 21 '13 at 12:07
@hims056 to say the least, lol! – Shadow Wizard Nov 21 '13 at 12:17
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Narcissism. We all crave praise and like being told how smart we are by people upvoting our answers.
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Hmm, although I pretty much agree with you, would anyone suggest an evolutionary reason for this? I mean, why would one wish to increase the size of their ego for things that are almost trivial (or which have subtle materialistic value (e.g. value that doesn't correlate to sexual reproduction/acquiring greater finance/control over others/etc))? – user784446 Jun 6 '11 at 5:28
I have an inferiority complex which SO helps to alleviate.
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C'mon, Jon, don't be too hard on yourself. Just repeat after me. "I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me." – GalacticCowboy Jul 9 '09 at 12:25
@GalacticCowboy You don't? – muntoo Apr 11 '11 at 5:05
After a thorough psychological evaluation, the good news is, you don't have a complex! However, the bad news is, you are inferior. – Flimzy Oct 27 '11 at 7:55
The big number next to my name is totally awesome.
Oh, and that warm fuzzy feeling that I get when helping people through their problems.
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Funnily enough, the ponies next to TXI's name are the reason I stick around. He goes right, I go left. Go figure. – Eric Jul 9 '09 at 2:10
1) There's a certain rush when someone puts you on the spot and everyone else is going to see your answer.
2) It's like a mini project with a sense of completion for only a couple of minutes work.
3) I end up learning a lot just by trying to answer in a way that's clear to someone other than me.
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The project i'm working on won't give me real satisfaction for months yet (and it's been running for almost a year). An accepted answer is, exactly as Traples says, like a nano-project, with a tiny hit of satisfaction at the end. – Tom Anderson Jan 4 '11 at 0:31
http://jobs.stackoverflow.com/ :)
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Money Rep for nothing and chicks badgers badges for free.
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Maybe get a blister on your ...index finger. – Andrew M Jul 9 '09 at 8:22
I like being right :)
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And more than that, i don't like someone else being wrong. I have to fix that when it happens. xkcd.com/386 – Tom Anderson Jan 4 '11 at 0:33
Someone told me that once you hit 50K, you can trade it in for a pony!
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Going for the necromancer? – jmfsg Feb 22 '10 at 2:56
It was only transferred an hour ago. – Tyler Carter Feb 22 '10 at 3:43
Perhaps it retains the creation date – jmfsg Feb 22 '10 at 13:32
+1 for an answer that comes the closest to being objectively, factually, provably correct. – ЯegDwight Sep 29 '10 at 11:30
@RegDwight: When I hit 50K, they offered me a bottle of glue--telling me it was ponies :/ – OMG Ponies Sep 30 '10 at 1:49
That info is wrong. It is actually: "When you hit 200k rep you get a free poney painting signed by SO" – BrunoLM Jun 5 '11 at 13:27
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(And I hate bad code.)
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For me it's
• Reputation
• To learn from others
• To help others in need
• To learn about other languages
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I enjoy helping other people learn something new or solve a problem. For quite awhile I was thinking about getting my PhD and becoming a teacher for this reason. Turns out that I like actually writing software too much to give it up. SO is one avenue to fulfill that original desire of mine to teach. Blogging, which I've only recently taken up -- partly due to enjoying SO so much -- is another way. This way I have the best of both worlds -- and I don't have to write a dissertation!
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Maybe the strong programmer's vices that I tend to see something and I go "Wait! I could solve that!!!"
And proceed to waste about 10 minutes to hours to craft out a perfect solution (in my own eyes, anyway) and relieving the programmer's pride.
(Confidence level: +10)
... Probably the fuzzy feelings like helping others come later that we could rationalize off to other people to hide the real fact.
(... and yes, earning reps and badges are fun, sort of like toys inside packets of junk food meant to lure impulsive kids :p)
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Semi-altruism. I want there to be answers when I have questions. So I answer the questions that I can answer. A kind of "do unto others as you'd have them do unto you." Although someone else usually types the answer I would have typed in much faster than I can.
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I like to help people when I can - especially when it doesn't take much effort, and results in some level of appreciation/recognition ;-)
And it gives me the illusion that I'm doing something useful (instead of actually working).
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• Help people
• Share knowledge
• Camaraderie
• Improve the "state of software"
Rep is a secondary interest to me.
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+1 not everybody operates with completely selfish motives. Many people realize that helping others is a reward in itself! – maerics Aug 24 '12 at 23:08
Definitely the reputation.
What I have found that I do is answer a question as quickly as possible, trying to be the first person to answer. Then, I'll go back and edit it with a better example or more details, hoping to continue to get voted up.
I've found that it takes a lot of effort (for me) to gain a decent amount of reputation points. To get where I am I spent like two days with Stack Overflow open all day on one monitor constantly monitoring new questions and trying to jump in. That's just way to exhausting and time consuming to do on a regular basis though.
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I like to write, and I believe it gives me much easier and cheaper motivation to write than my Blog does. The topics are generated for me, and I feel much less need to justify my writing - I already have a waiting consumer.
It also feeds directly into new blog topics from time to time.
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I like to solve problems, especially programming related problems. At the same time I learn new things about programming and how to write english better.
That's my motivation.
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To help form a more active and reciprocal community where more developers, including myself, can find help asap when in trouble.
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Because when you teach something to someone, then you yourself learn new things
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I answer and ask because I like to learn, I like logic, I like to solve things, I like to know the best way to do things, I like to do things...
My knowledge increases each time I answer or ask questions. It is like putting points on knowledge.
And I know I can trust this community by their reputation and by the votes cast. If I am uncertain of something I wait until people cast votes telling me: "yes, this is right, go for it" or "no, this is wrong, go the other way". And there are a lot of experts living here.
The idea discussed on the latest podcast is really great, to have a lifetime reputation. Because that is what best describes what I really know.
My main goal is to learn and in second place is the reputation. Reputation can show others how much you answered, asked and the quality of your answers and questions. And it shows other things as well. If you are from a contry where the main language is not english you already have "oh look, he speaks spanish but he has high rep on SO, his english might be pretty good".
Reputation will probably help me to find a great job someday. I am centain of this because: "IT IS OVER NINE THOUSAND!!!!!"
And of course, the magic unicorn power overflowing from this website motivates me.
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Help people.
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Coming here, you learn a lot from other programmers. Of course, nothing is built on SO without the users, so what's the harm in answering a question while you're visiting? I usually get that "Oh! I know the answer to his problem!" feeling, and I know that by submitting my answer, I add onto the circle of life that exists between all programmers on the site sharing knowledge.
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I'm hoping to land the best job ever, obviously.
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Shiny baubles and my addictive personality.
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Judging from tag counts, people ask questions if they have a C#/.NET problem.
Unanswered Tags: * c#× 2512 * asp.net× 1831 * .net× 1573 * java× 1225
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Seeing an unanswered question I know the answer for definitely motivates me to answer it, regardless of rewards.
(Especially when the question is unanswered for months.)
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Mark gave a great answer, of course suitable for concentration is a subjective thing so remember my answer is based on what works for me when I'm coding at work, or concentrating on a problem.
I would add that there's a distinction between relaxing music and music that helps you concentrate, and there's a certain crossover between the two.
There's a balance between being predictable/boring and over developing your piece in general, but in the case of writing study music I'd say you want to be as close to the predictable end of the spectrum as possible without becoming boring so that the listener's active brain isn't distracted by the music. If the listener is actively paying attention to the music it might even sound boring, but you're not aiming for the active listener in this case, you're aiming for the passive listener.
There was a song called weightless which was created between scientists and musicians that is worth looking into, being designed to relax and is able to slow the heart rate over the course of 8 minutes. An important factor to consider is how long it takes for the human brain to become familiar with a given soundscape, because that time will indicate when you need to start shifting away from it.
Natural noise like a crackling fireplace, pouring water or natural sounds seem to have a neutralising effect, you can explore all sorts at http://www.freesound.org/
Tempo tempo wise, based on the assertion that you should be close to boring I think a little above heartbeat speed might work.
Rhythm I'm tempted to say keep it in 3/4 or 4/4 to keep the ear from noticing anything unusual with the music, but the occasional triplet would be alright.
Instruments Nothing piercing, or overly strange to the audience you're catering for. (Bagpipes might work if you're used to the sound, but to most people their sound will draw conscious attention to it) it is good to have only one or 2 main sounds to focus on at a time. If there's no leading sound/instrument for a long time you again may get too close to the boring territory.
• Key changes might be one very good way for you to vary the music over a long period of time, but use them sparingly!
• Use dissonance very sparingly also
• Take any necessary changes in the music gradually
Some Research music that might be worth exploring
• Slowed down songs on Youtube
• LongPlayer - a computer generated piece that lasts 1000 years
• Vangelis - China
• Faithless - Sunday 8pm
• Younger Brother - The Last Days of Gravity
• Bach - the Well tempered clavier
• Pink Floyd - Shine on you crazy diamond
Hope that helps!
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1. Music for Airports
2. The Shutov Assembly
3. Discreet Music
4. Thursday Afternoon
5. Neroli
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I'm Rails newbie so this might be incredibly stupid question but I hope somebody finds the time to help me :)
I'm currently doing my first Rails 3 application with MongoDB. I have setup Devise for authentication and it's working great. I'm trying to create blog type of app so each registered user can post an article. Naturally user model has "many: posts" and post model has "belongs_to: user" but here's the problem: I don't want to have user_id as a field in the new post form for security reasons so how can I pass the current user to post model? I removed all fields related to user data from the form so now it doesn't seem to be able to get the data for user_id anywhere.
So how do I use Devise's current_user helper method to pass the correct user_id to post model for proper association?
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I assume you have a controller action responsible for handling your post creation. In RESTful design that would be create action normally. That action would call a save or create method on your model. Prior to the method call, assign the user_id to your devise's @current_user.id.
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Question: Does Steam for Linux require libappindicator to run?
Hi, I'm trying to get Steam for Linux to run on my box. My OS is not Ubuntu (I rolled it myself), so it's been a bit of an adventure into no man's land. However I have extensive linux experience so I've been able to work out most issues.
Now however, when I try to run steam, it gives the "Failed to load" message, and upon further investigation (running with "LD_DEBUG=libs") I saw that the only library that steam tries to load that I don't have is libappindicator. However, such a dependency on this library would not be odd at best, and I assumed that there was something else happening here.
After trying for a while though, I couldn't seem to resolve the problem. I have all libraries that needs at initialization, and by means of LD_DEBUG I see that all dynamically loaded libraries, besides libappindicator, are satisfied.
So does anyone know whether Steam for Linux does in fact need libappindicator to run? If so, that dependency ought to be removed, although I do realize it is used to tailor the Ubuntu experience, and of course I also realize that this is a bit of a shot in the dark seeing as the only "supported" distro is currently Ubuntu.
Thanks in advance.
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Required: no
Used when present: yes
Hirage 2013年1月21日 4時55分
I believe the fails to load most often when there is no 32-bit openGL library in the system.
johndrinkwater [🐧︀ 🎮] 2013年1月21日 12時46分
Wolf1oo, the above posters are right, appindicator isn’t required but is used when needed. It is more than likely your graphics stack is missing an opengl extension that is required, more debugging is needed :)
Wolf1oo 2013年1月21日 15時32分
I figured it wouldn't be required. But my graphics stack has pretty recent and capable OpenGL abilities as far as I'm concerned. As we discussed on IRC haha. I'm going to try using non-closed drivers (right now I'm running on fglrx). BTW Everything I have is 32-bit, there is no 64-bit issue like most people have had present here :P
Wolf1oo 2013年1月23日 7時00分
An update:
I eventually got to spit this out:
client_api.cpp (273) : Assertion Failed: ClientAPI_InitGlobalInstance: InternalAPI_Init_Internal failed.
/home/buildbot/buildslave_steam/steam_rel_client_ubuntu12_linux/build/src/steamui/../common/steam/client_api.cpp 273 Assertion Failed: ClientAPI_InitGlobalInstance: InternalAPI_Init_Internal failed.
And in gdb it also talked about a SIGTRAP being caught, in AssertMsgImplementation() in
Would these just be from some library not loading correctly, or something else?
I got the most recent ati drivers which were released only two days ago, but I'm quite sure OpenGL isn't the problem, as like I said I've been using this setup with other games for quite some time.
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How to find the original content when the folder is already “replaced”?
Is there any free undelete software for the Mac?
I thought that all operating systems would merge folder content when being moved to the same location. Imagine my surprise when that didn't happen and I have hundreds, if not thousands of files that have gone missing and are nowhere to be found.
Because they were not "deleted" they are not in the trash bin.
I've tried to do some recovery using a program called stellarPheonix but after about a 24hour scan, it didn't recognize any of the raw files (.dng,.arw) as image files and so I couldn't see if they could be recovered. It also didn't show the directory structure, which would be handy.
I tried a quick scan, but all it showed was files that were still on the HD, not sure what the point of that is.
I've used recover 2000 on Win and it does a good job, does anyone know of anything that works quickly and reliably for this kind of file recovery. (I don't think I should have to do a sector-by=sector for this kind of file loss)
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Do you use Time Machine? – MDMarra May 29 '10 at 4:16
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Data Rescue is the go-to Mac data recovery software, it's currently listed at $99. There aren't too many (any?) free options for Mac, because Time Machine is so easy to use and so widely used.
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I've had good results with this piece of software in the past - recovered some 17,000 photos from a friend's vacation. – Darth Android May 29 '10 at 4:30
I am surprised that I could not get the folder structure or the file names, but I found the files, sorting them will be another headache still. – Daniel May 29 '10 at 21:33
Nope, you're pretty much screwed.
Next time note that it says "File exists, would you like to {overwrite | replace}" not merge.
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Woman1: Wow, I can't believe that we STILL don't have affordable childcare in Canada. Why do we always have governments full of patriarchal morons?? expletive/expletive/expletive!
Woman2: That was a pretty fantastic pdh! My pdh's are usually about homophobia . . .
ayon kay Cog(nitive)Diss(idence)onance ika-06 ng Pebrero, 2009
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used by myspace whores
'on the regs'
OMG tbh that guy is pdh
ayon kay emmmmmmma ika-09 ng Oktubre, 2007
Short for Palm Desert High School. Home of the most beautiful girls in the coachella valley, and the most athletic guys the desert has to offer. The football team isn't very good, but the school has so much spirit, it makes up for it. This school has been nicknamed "STDPD" because nearly all of the girls there are very easy to hook-up with. This school has more drugs than their rival school LQHS (La Quinta High School) but the only differance is that Palm Desert has so much money, they find a way to hide that. Most of the kids their started using drugs in their middle school years at pdms (now pdcms, palm desert charter middle school) All of the girls at PD dress like sluts to get attention. PD kids are known for their parties though- who would'a guessed? Throughout the whole valley, teens talk about Palm Deserts Parties.. maybe because at these events, drugs and alchohal are always provided. Too many of these gorgeous girls lost their virginity before freshman year aswell, to the many heart breaking guys at Palm Desert. The smart girls will choose to pick someone who doesn't go to PD. I feel bad for all of these teens' parents, spending so much time and money for each of these children to be screw ups. Palm Desert isn't a cheap place to live, and all of these kids will soon find this out after they realize that these are their last four years of being a child.
Guy 1: yeah, me and my girlfriend both go to PDHS
Guy 2: really? she must be beautiful than..
Guy 1: yeah, but I'm dumping that bitch after I get laid tonight.
Guy 2: then what are you gonna do?
Guy 1: play some football. Then find a new bitch(;
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People die here slowly
pugwash district high school is P.D.H.S
ayon kay Ms.agent ika-10 ng Abril, 2008
someone who likes to complain about anything and everything; also the initials and nickname of paul dean hart
paul: I hate how teachers place guilt on us when we don't do our homework.
mark: You are such a pdh.
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Civic Duty
Civic Duty
Rated R, 98 min. Directed by Jeff Renfroe. Starring Peter Krause, Khaled Abol Naga, Richard Schiff, Kari Matchett, Ian Tracey.
REVIEWED By Marjorie Baumgarten, Fri., May 4, 2007
Civic Duty stands out amid the new wave of terrorism-paranoia thrillers. It's a taut drama set primarily within the confines of two apartments in the same urban building complex and keeps the viewer guessing until the end regarding the reliability of its two central protagonists. The line separating civic duty from vigilantism is constantly shifting and challenging our allegiances to these characters. In the film, Six Feet Under's Krause plays an accountant named Terry Allen (a character whose disposition is so different from the identically named artist/musician that it's clear the filmmakers selected the name out of ignorance rather than homage). We learn in the film's opening moments that Terry has been laid off from his job, which consequently allows him more time to hang around his apartment working on his résumé and fretting about the down payment on the house that he and his understanding wife (Matchett) intend to buy. Everywhere, he is subtly bombarded by warnings emphasizing the terror threat and the need for extra scrutiny. When an Arab man (Naga) with few possessions moves in downstairs, Terry's curiosity is aroused, and he begins to follow the man and, eventually, enters his apartment to search it when the man is not home. Although Terry also calls in the FBI, he seems put off by the lack of alarm demonstrated by the agent (Schiff, of The West Wing, again wonderfully underplaying). Terry's agitation drives his wife away and we, too, come to doubt Terry's grip on reality. Yet, his discoveries also become more and more curious. Dramatically, the script by Andrew Joiner keeps the pot boiling ’til the last drop is drained. However, director Renfroe's excessively busy camerawork and green fluorescent-looking glow distract from the proceedings, as does Krause's equally frenetic performance. Once the story's events reach a climactic pitch, the film stagnates in place for too long and loses momentum. But while Civic Duty is truly ticking, there's no telling when and if it's going to detonate. | http://www.austinchronicle.com/calendar/film/2007-05-04/471157/ | dclm-gs1-130210000 |
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Effect of increasing priming complexity reverse transcription using FPE tissue RNA template. Eight GSP pools containing from 94 to 96 unique primers were prepared. Two pools were selected at random to prime separate RT-PCR reactions using RNA from FPE tissue. The 8 GSP pools were then combined to make a single GSP pool that was used to prime one RT-PCR reaction using the same FPE RNA template. The data therefore represents concordance between primings for the subset of gene assays represented with those two GSP pools. Both priming methods were performed twice and the average CT values determined for this analysis. The solid line represents the least squares line fit and the dashed line represents the line of concordance.
Clark-Langone et al. BMC Genomics 2007 8:279 doi:10.1186/1471-2164-8-279
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To Mr. Kraft: thanks for bringing a near-annual playoff caliber team to our region. Given the opinions often stated on this board by folks who obviously know alot more about building a team than your staff does - you'd think our team was the disgrace of the league (er, well, other than the Raiders). But the truth is, you've enabled your staff to put consistent winners on the field for about a decade - something no other team in the NFL has been able to accomplish. My heartfelt thanks for making this team worthy of my time and emotional investment. Thanks also for making this team relavent for a long time and for the three SB trophies presently sitting in the headquarters building. I'm not just a Pats fan, I'm a proud one!
To Coach Bill: thanks for doing a difficult job so well. Yes, there are those who think you hire bad coordinators; those that think we're past our prime; those that think you couldn't draft well to save your soul. But the facts speak a different tale. If you were so bad at these things, how the heck did you manage winning AFC championships and three, count 'em, three SBs? Must have been devine intervention - couldn't have been you and your staff. Some obviously expected you to win 15 straight SBs, and I know that you know that you've let those folks down. But the truth is, what you and your revolving-door staff have really done is to put a constant highly competitive team on the field for a decade. How you did that without any concept of drafting, coaching, teaching, managing a salary cap, a executing a whole host of other responsibilities is the great mystery of our times. One last thing Coach - I appreciate that you've done your job so well, there doesn't exist in our league at this time ANY coach that is your equal with respects to accomplishments.
To Tom Brady: you had a bad game. You'll be the first to say it. Yet, despite this you seemed to be the best Patriot on the field yesterday. The very best to have ever played your position have had bad games. Folks seem to forget that Favre only "won" one SB (and he wasn't the overriding reason why his team won), Elway lost three before winning two, Montana lost several times in the NFC championship game, Eli won two SBs, but the following year couldn't even bring his team to the playoffs, and last the not least, even the great Peyton Manning is 1-1 in the SB and has "one-and-outted" more times than he hasn't. I think your main problem is winning so often early. 3 SBs in 4 years is a tough act to follow - and since you haven't won in years, folks seem to think you're losing your edge. I say that's crap. From my view of the world, you're still one of the 2 or 3 best to have ever played at your position. But from others' view of the world, that obviously isn't good enough. I will admit that your timing is horrid - imagine if you had the same amount of SB victories as you do, only they were spread out over a decade. Then the "knights of the keyboards," the fans, hell - even the trolls would be extoling your virtues for the ages. But nope - it's become obvious that unless you win one more SB, your name cannot be mentioned in the same breath as Montana's. Funny isn't it, you've actually won more playoff games than he did. It's timing, timing, timing. Whatever the case my be, I'm honored that your putting on the pads in a Pats locker room.
To fans: I share your disappointment, and have been known to vent my spleen on these very boards about all things Patriots. But let's put things in perspective. Did you expect we'd win a SB every year? Are we not still the class of the league? Ask a Cowboys fan, ask a Jets fan, or better yet - ask fans from teams in our division if they'd be willing for just one second to "submit" themselves to the Patriots achievements over the last decade. I think you all know they'd do so in a New England minute.
To non-fans: You now have until next September to troll these boards, disparage a great organization, be envious, be snarky - the whole gambit. And you'll come out in spades because that's that the envious do - can't cling to the accomplishments of their own teams, so you disparage the rare "non-accomplishments" of consistant winning teams. How vindicated you must feel. How enriched you must feel. How uplifted you must feel. While I should be irritated with you, and often am, I pity you moreso - living vicariously through someone or something more successful than what you and yours can accomplishment is truly sad. But, in our internet day in age, when everyone can freely display their opinions, their thoughts, their inner-most feelings, if posting the perverbial "nah-nah-na-nah-nah" is your idea of profundity or intellictual "depth" - well, that speaks more of your shallowness than anything else.
I'll continue to enjoy some of the conversations on this board, and I'll continue to "vent my spleen" along with so many others. I'll hypothize to the reasons why our team is inept in not winning a SB annually for a decade, and I'll occasionally get irritated with mindless trolls. But what I'll try to do better is to keep our team and its accomplishments in perspective. Because taken on the whole - no NFL team in the future will enjoy the decade long run we have. And it won't last. And when it's gone I'll miss it. But when it happens, I'll look back fondly on these times - wins and defeats - and remember well that for about a 10-year period, our team was the measuring stick for all others. We were what others longed to be and what other fans longed to see in their teams. And that's a good thing. | http://www.boston.com/community/forums/sports/patriots/on-the-front-burner/an-open-letter-of-appreciation-some-perspective/100/6515375 | dclm-gs1-130320000 |
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US Income Tax Top BracketNational Taxpayers UnionHistory of the top income tax bracket, 1913-2008.
As the US struggles with a massive budget deficit, the conversation has obviously turned to taxes.
Specifically, what should be done with them.
Obviously, no one likes paying higher taxes, and everyone likes paying lower taxes. But we live in the real world, not fantasy-land. And in the real world, sometimes people have to do things they would prefer not to do--like pay taxes.
But the disagreement on this issue, as well as the facts surrounding it, is intense.
Democrats, to the extent they care about the budget deficit, want to raise taxes, which they say are too low--especially on rich people.
Republicans, meanwhile, generally say that taxes are far too high and that the budget deficit should be addressed with spending cuts. To get the economy back on track, Republicans argue, you need to give Americans an incentive to work hard--by letting them keep more of what they earn. Republicans also argue that raising taxes would clobber an already fragile economy.
So who's right?
Are taxes too high? Or are they too low?
Do high tax rates on "rich people" create a lazy population in which no one has an incentive to work hard?
And what about the Republican mantra that cutting taxes is always good for the economy, while raising taxes is always bad?
Thanks to the Tax Foundation and other sources, we've analyzed tax rates over the past century, along with government revenue and spending over the same period.
This analysis revealed a lot of surprising conclusions, including the following:
• Contrary to what Republicans would have you believe, super-high tax rates on rich people do not appear to hurt the economy or make people lazy: During the 1950s and early 1960s, the top bracket income tax rate was over 90%--and the economy, middle-class, and stock market boomed.
• Super-low tax rates on rich people also appear to be correlated with unsustainable sugar highs in the economy--brief, enjoyable booms followed by protracted busts. They also appear to be correlated with very high inequality. (For example, see the 1920s and now).
Don't take our word for it, though.
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Lesson Plan: For Teachers - The Notwithstanding Clause: A Classroom Debate
History, Political Science
2 lessons
To support and debate a given position on the use of the notwithstanding clause
Students will research and debate the use of the notwithstanding clause to limit rights under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Lesson Plan
Before Exploring
Write the term "notwithstanding clause" on the board. Ask students if they are familiar with this section of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Explain to students that the notwithstanding clause allows federal or provincial governments to pass a law that violates rights and freedoms in the Charter as long as it is reviewed every five years and approved by the respective legislature. Essentially, governments can opt out of section 2 and sections 7 to 15 of the Charter.
Explain that the Quebec government passed a language law in 1977 that restricted the use of the English language, particularly on public signs and in businesses. In 1988, the law was challenged as a violation of the Charter and held to be unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of Canada. Nevertheless, the Bourassa government used the notwithstanding clause to allow the government to opt out of the Charter and enable French-language-only sign laws to prevail.
Ask students to work with a partner and discuss if Charter rights should be limited. Should there be an opt-out clause in the Charter? Share and discuss student responses.
Outline the Opportunity
Direct students to the topic Fighting Words: Bill 101 on the CBC Digital Archives website. In small groups, have students browse the clips "'French in Quebec: it's a plus,'" "Bill 101's first legal blow," "Mr. Singer goes to court" and "Bourassa's dilemma" and then conduct further research by examining the clips "The 1988 Supreme Court decision on signs,", "Defending his decision" and "Quebecers on the Supreme Court decision."
With their group members, have students take notes assessing the pros and cons of using the notwithstanding clause. They will use their notes to develop arguments for a class debate.
Select and present one of the following resolutions:
• Be it resolved that the notwithstanding clause is a viable option to be used by federal and provincial governments to limit the application of the Charter.
• Be it resolved that the notwithstanding clause allows for an unacceptable violation of rights and freedoms.
Assign each group either the 'for' or 'against' position, then pair up groups and have them debate the resolution in front of the class.
Assessment Tip: Download and distribute the Debate Rubric. Students can use it to guide their own preparation and later to score the debates.
Revisit and Reflect
Have students vote on which group won their respective debate. Ask: Which arguments were the most persuasive? Did your personal opinion change as a result of any of the debates?
Assessment Tip: Look for a clear summary of the pros and cons of the debated issue.
Students can write a one-page position paper to support or criticize the use of the notwithstanding clause to limit constitutional rights. They should use three arguments to support their position.
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I assume it will be in Spanish. Can we get some translation of questions later if needed? Also, I'm interested in the reaction from the Hispanic community. If I could bring one message to them it would be how freedom benefits us all and that Ron Paul is the best bet for the maximum freedom for the most people.
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Hotel El Estadio
La Ceiba, Honduras
There were maybe 5 other guests at the hostel when, and I had a vague feeling it wasn't a hostel at all but somewhere where people get kidnapped. It's located next to a park, the kind that gets very unsafe at night and the staff had to lock a metal front door at night. But I stayed because I arrived fairly late at night and didn't have time to find somewhere else.
New York Budget Inn
New York, USA
It's an average hostel; the room was very comfortable but its common arwa was very small nor did it have a kitche, so it was hard for it to have any sort of atmosphere. It's in an excellent location though.
For visiting Columbia university this hostel was in a great position; but it's very far from Central Park and other touristy areas. Huge kitchen in the basement was fantastic and the rooms were comfortable with extremely clean bathrooms.
Had a great time here because of the people I met, and it was a traditional Moroccan house with a wonderful terrace. However, the hostel seems quite old, and as a woman travelling alone, I honestly didn't feel very safe at night in the old Medina, where the hostel is located. If you stay here, getting here via taxi is probably the best choice, since I don't think I would've found it walking from the port.
Granada Inn Backpackers
Granada, Spain
Amazing hostel, clean, comfortable with an amazing staff. There's an extremely comfortable courtyard where you can eat, chat, and hang-out. I went on a tapas tour with a staff member and some other guests and had a great time.
Lullaby Garden Hostel
Barcelona, Spain
Amazing staff! I had a great time here, though the hostel would be even better if they updated the facilities.
Great facilities, didn´t have any interaction with the staff since I was just stopping over. But not in a very good area of Paris; located in the 19th arrondissement, which is a working neighborhood and doesn´t have any "attractions."
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Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay
The staff at the Viajero were extremely friendly and helpful on top of organizing evening events that included live music and asados. Also the dining/living room off of the lobby was a very welcoming place to meet people where the fireplace is constantly lit. The only caution is that the large dorm rooms are near freezing during the night and the blanket provided was not sufficient. | http://www.hostelworld.com/profile/10709468/reviews | dclm-gs1-130880000 |
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Cultural Insights into the Words and Deeds of Christ
By Joe Amaral
(FaithWords, Paperback, 9780446584760, 208pp.)
Publication Date: April 2011
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Modern-day Christians often bring their own presuppositions and assumptions to the reading of the Bible, not realizing how deeply their understanding of Christ's life and teachings is affected by a 21st-century worldview. In UNDERSTANDING JESUS, author Joe Amaral delves deep into Jewish history, societal mores, and cultural traditions, closing the gap created by geographical distance and over two thousand years of history. Using a chronological approach to the life of Christ, he guides the reader through significant events such as Jesus' birth, baptism, and crucifixion, pointing out illuminating details that that the Western mind would normally miss.
Amaral's premise is that to understand Jesus, we must understand the time and place in which he was born, the background from which he drew his illustrations, and the audience he spoke to. Throughout the book he explores specific terms, places, and events for their significance and shows how they add richness and meaning to the text. Topics include the connection between Jesus and John the Baptist, the annual Feasts and why they are important to modern Christianity, Jewish customs such as foot-washing, clean and unclean foods, paying tribute to political governments, and the significance of various miracles.
In UNDERSTANDING JESUS, Amaral draws back the curtain on a way of life that existed during the reign of the Caesars, and in doing so, reveals truths about the way we live more than two thousand years later, half a world away.
About the Author
Joe Amaral was born in Portugal on the island of St. Miguel, and immigrated with his family to Toronto, Ontario, when he was two years old. A rebel against Christianity, he credits a youth pastor who "loved me unconditionally" with being a major factor in his conversion and subsequent decision to enter the ministry. He attended Eastern Pentecostal Bible College (now a Master's College and Seminary). In November 2002, he first visited Israel, and learned about the culture from his tour guide, a Messianic Jew. Today, along with his father-in-law, he operates a ministry called Operation Outreach, conducting tours of the Holy Land several times a year and teaching on the Jewish roots of the Christian faith. He resides with his wife, Karen, and family in Ontario.
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"The fact that Jesus took on Jewish flesh means that we can't fully appreciate what He said and did unless we know the Jewish culture of His day. Joe Amaral sheds significant new light on the person and work of the Messiah and by digging deeper into the Hebraic roots of the New Testament text."—Wayne Hilsden, Senior Pastor, King of Kings Community, Jerusalem
Joe Amaral's UNDERSTANDING JESUS is a must read for anyone who is serious about determining the true meaning of Jesus' teachings. Amaral's knowledge of First Century Jewish life presents Jesus in His original cultural context. In doing so, many misunderstood or difficult passages are brought to life."—Dr. Dan Bahat, former District Archaeologist of Jerusalem
"Joe Amaral's insights into first century Jewish culture will be of great benefit for anyone who is looking to discover and understand the original meaning of Jesus' teachings. I recommend heartily this reader-friendly book."—Craig A. Evans, Payzant Distinguished Professor of New Testament, Acadia Divinity College
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• jdotperiod
Yo, you took the words out of my mouth about Iggy!!! She def turns up into the "scary white girl" when called out! It's so predictable. Yet, as you pointed out, when yt girls like her have negroes like Tip and Nick Young cop for her, they feels protected. I wouldn't be surprised if she winds up like Pink and goes all pop/rock in a year or two. She's not about that rap life. LOL. T.I. sounded like Damon Wayans' illiterate prisoner character that tried to spit knowledge on In Living Color! On another note, have you checked out Miguel's EP?
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• jdotperiod
It seriously becomes another day as you become older IMO. Once you realize Santa ain't real, it just ain't the same. LOL. Does ATL have snow? We're slated to have a rainy, gloomy X-Mas. The only point I sorta disagreed w/ AB on was her point about Nicki but in retrospect, I see that she was just pointing out that Nicki has the right to play the same game the white girls do. AB's tears showed me that these are issues that are close to her heart and often on her mind. Her love for her people is thorough. I respect the hell out of her for that since most of her peers seem so desperate for white approval. I've also really grown to appreciate her music even more especially in light of the dismal state of mainstream hip hop. AB's whole "read" on T.I. was brutal but spot-in. Did you peep the accent she put on, bruh? She's MAD NYC! Right down the "mami" accent. Harlem girls don't take no shit!
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• jdotperiod
Sorry the late response, man. Can you believe X-Mas is tomorrow? I didn't finish all of my shopping until a couple days ago. I'll probably head to Boston or NYC for New Years. A friend of mine usually has a big party every year in the city so if he has one this year, I'll probably go. LOL, introverts and extroverts actually make the best friends. They balance each other out. Thanks so much for that AB interview, bro! Damn, I'm an even bigger fan now! While I don't agree w/ some of her points, her passion and awareness is nothing short of commendable. My favorite part? The part where she said she didn't any "fuckin' validation from any white person" when dumb ass Ebro brought up Jay-Z taking a pic with Prince William! That's how I know she's real. Did you read about Q-Tip's tweet to Iggy and T.I.'s response? I look at Tip a little funny TBH.
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• jdotperiod
Yeah, bro, you aren't exactly missing anything w/ Cole's latest so it's best to listen to when you ain't got shit else to listen to. LOL. Damn, is just 6 days away?! *whispers shamefully* I still haven't done my X-Mas shopping yet. * ducks head* It's all good tho since I'm only buying gift cards for everyone this year. X-Mas loses its wonder as you get older, no? Wow, you have some ill plans for the holidays! I don't have anything special planned yet. I'm definitely doing something big for NYE tho since I'm definitely moving this spring. And yes, I know about the relatives that ain't technically "related". LOL. You have a gang of godparents too?
19 déc. 3h21m Répondre
• jdotperiod It wasn't a big hit. I actually knew her more as an urban blog fixture than anything else. Cole has a large, dedicated fanbase. He has a very specific formula and gives that fan base what they want and expect. I'd give it a listen if I were you. It's his best studio set to date but that's not saying much. LOL. Do you have any big X-Mas and New Years plans?
19 déc. 2h12m Répondre
• jdotperiod
I just remember Google Me. She's came a looonggg way from that on her debut. LOL. Check your inbox. Intro, January 28, '03 Adolescence and St. Tropez are the cuts I kept.
18 déc. 4h14m Répondre
• jdotperiod
Yeah, she finally dropped it! I didn't expect much let alone anything as soulful and mature as what she delivered. Let me know if you need a link. Cole's latest is slightly better than its two predecessors even if the sound isn't all that different. He clearly has a formula that he's not budging from. I will say that it's pretty loaded as it declines into typical Cole blandness after the first 6 or so tracks. Honestly, I only kept four tracks from it in my library. What did you think of it?
18 déc. 3h21m Répondre
• jdotperiod
I'll just say that NM has received her "nigga wakeup call" recently. Of course, "new black" is just an internet-age coinage for a type of black person who's been around for centuries.s I feel the same way about Tinashe's debut. I wasn't as blown away by it as many others were but I still feel that it's very solid. Strong Janet Jackson influence. Cold Sweat is my shit. If you like Aquarius, I'd recommend Teyana Taylor's debut. It's def one of my favorite R&B albums of the year.
17 déc. 23h30m Répondre
• jdotperiod
Fair enough. I can't even remember the last time I watched or even cared about the Grammys. A lot of people don't see the Bartman stereotype in the Anaconda video. I don't know, the oversized asses, the jungle theme (I know, the song is called Anaconda, like the giant snake found in there, but still), etc. It just seemed to exploit that stereotype IMO. It at least winked at it, I say. Sadly, a lot of rap videos are similarly stereotypical. You like Tinashe's album?
17 déc. 3h52m Répondre
• jdotperiod
Definitely. She still doesn't seem to know what kind of artist she wants to be. Perhaps, I was too harsh on her in the last shout. It just annoys me when some of these "new blacks" the media champions turn 'pro black' when the same folks whose approval they long for turn on them. The Grammy article is revealing: The Anaconda video is the one I speak of. I also can't complain about BM's rushed release! Honestly, I think a lot of big name artists will begin to release music that way in the future. Bey, D and Cole all proved that this model works.
17 déc. 3h28m Répondre
• jdotperiod
For shit and giggles, I skimmed Nicki's latest. It's the first NM album I've ever checked out. It's primarily a downbeat break-up album, not the cotton candy dance-pop she's peddled to the masses. It's also more pop/R&B than pop/rap to my ears. It's quite overlong and jumbled too. She recently RT'ed a article about the Grammy's racism. It's eye-opening but her sudden racial consciousness seems suspect IMO. This is the same woman who called other BW "nappy headed hoes", wore fried chicken necklaces, shamelessly re-enacted the Hottentot Venus sterotype in a video and disrespected Malcolm X's image. She only seems salty b/c yt replaced her w/ one of their own (Iggy). JMHO, of course.
17 déc. 2h32m Répondre
• jdotperiod
They sure will. The vinyl reissue of Voodoo is already almost out-of-print. I predict that the BM wax will retail for around $40+. I know that it will include the lyric sheet. This NYT article provides a lot of insight of BM's creation and marketing: The music is literally fresh off the presses. Oh, dude studied his Funkadelic and Sly albums faithfully. LOL. It's no coincidence that he performed some of both acts' deep album cuts at AfroPunk this past summer.
17 déc. 2h28m Répondre
• jdotperiod
You're right, bro, the vinyl edition of BM will drop in February in time for Record Store Day. I know the price will be an arm and a leg but I missed the original vinyl issue of Voodoo so I may have to just bare it. LOL. I brought my CD hard copy from Best Buy during my lunch break today. First time I purchased a CD in years. (Cosmogramma was the last one.) D's mumbling reminds me so much of Sly's. Did you notice the FYMAYAWF allusion on the beginning of Ain't That Easy? Yeah, man, the timing of BM's arrival couldn't have been any better. It's 14 years late but right on time, if that makes sense.
17 déc. 0h08m Répondre
• jdotperiod
BM's timing is insane since it definitely fits as a soundtrack to the times. It's about time, a major black artist created a body of work that's relevant to the thoughts, desires, fear and anger of the people. Moods Music is pretty popular nationwide. I'd love to see my ideas for TV dramas broadcast on cable so that the story can be told the way they should be. Network TV is too homogenized IMO. I'll share my ideas w/ you via inbox this week.
16 déc. 1h47m Répondre
• jdotperiod
I copped BM this morning right before I got ready for work. Amazon also has MP3 and physical CD copies (as does Best Buy). I plan on getting the vinyl next week. Hopefully, it's not at an astronomical price. On the first few listens, I will say that this album was definitely worth the wait! It's a natural progression f/ Voodoo and like that album, it takes multiple listens before it sinks in. 1000 Deaths (my favorite; sounds like some early Funkadelic shit), The Charade (Parade-era Prince all the way), Really Love, Til It's Done and Another Life are my standouts at the moment even tho the entire album flows very well. My only complaint is that I can't understand a 95% of what he's saying! LOL. It's a shame too since the lyrics are often really deep. Especially on 1000 and Til It's Done. His mumbling made me miss the line about "making the pussy fart" on Sugah Daddy. Overall, I'm feeling a light 8/10. What do you think?
16 déc. 1h44m Répondre
• jdotperiod
Although I have work in the morning, I will be staying up to 12 AM to download Black Messiah and even tho I HATE buying music f/ iTunes, I'll be copping it from there. One insider who attended the listening party in NYC earlier today said that the album is definitely worth the wait. Yo, I have not been this excited for a listen in years!!!!
15 déc. 3h18m Répondre
• jdotperiod
Moods Music is well-known. There's a lot of live performances there, right? I remember either Big Boi or Dre mentioning Wax n Facts in an interview back in the day. Since there aren't any black TV dramas on primetime, RHOA will suffice. Speaking of such, I'm thinking of pitching two ideas I have for an hour-long drama soon.
15 déc. 3h16m Répondre
• jdotperiod
They showed a TV ad for BM during RHOA w/ a slower sounding song in the vein of One Mo' Gin. When I heard Lookin' Ass Nigga, I thought Nicki truly was going back to her hardcore roots but I guess not. LOL. Honestly, I've never given any of Nicki's albums a chance not only b/c the singles were usually terrible but b/c they always seemed aimed at white teen girls. Hell, Gimme a Chance goes back to AB's mixtape days before she even had a deal. I was also surprised that 212 was on the album since it was on a previous EP. What are the good record stores in L5P? Apartments there seem expensive. I love West Coast g-funk. It's shinier sounding than the Southern variation but funky nevertheless.
15 déc. 1h36m Répondre
• jdotperiod
I'm going to guess that you found DF's album at Little Five Points? LOL. I've been a huge fan of his for a minute. He definitely makes perfect riding music. I used to smoke to his music quite a bit during my college days too. LOL. I saw him live in D.C. around that time and built w/ him after his set. Really, really cool and humble dude. His collabo w/ Snoop is solid. I would've love to hear Snoop flow over some harder hitting funk but Dam's signature galactic G-Funk was just fine.
15 déc. 0h13m Répondre
• jdotperiod
I have the same impression of Sugah Daddy. By the way Quest described BM's material, I figured it'd be more challenging and removed from his past sound. I wouldn't be surprised if it's one of the more accessible cuts on the album. We'll see Tuesday (if we're lucky-lol). I've never been a Nicki fan even during her NYC mixtape days. I just never took her seriously and I figured that she'd sing more. Is the hip hop on the album more hardcore? Azealia's album is so versatile and consistent. Most of the songs were previously released but that didn't take away from BWET's quality IMO.
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Ad lib: At liberty. For example, a patient may be permitted to move out of bed freely and orders would, therefore, be for activities to be ad lib.
AKA: Above the knee amputation.
Anuric: Not producing urine. A person who is anuric is often critical and may require dialysis.
b.i.d.: Twice daily. As in taking a medicine twice daily.
Bandemia: Slang for elevated level of band forms of white blood cells.
Bibasilar: At the bases of both lungs. For example, someone with a pneumonia in both lungs might have abnormal bibasilar breath sounds.
BKA: Below the knee amputation.
BMP: Basic metabolic panel. Electrolytes (potassium, sodium, carbon dioxide, and chloride) and creatinine and glucose.
BP: Blood pressure. Blood pressure is recorded as part of the physical examination. It is one of the "vital signs."
BSO: Bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy. A BSO is the removal of both of the ovaries and adjacent Fallopian tubes and often is performed as part of a total abdominal hysterectomy.
C&S: Culture and sensitivity, performed to detect infection.
C/O: Complaint of. The patient's expressed concern.
cap: Capsule.
CBC: Complete blood count.
CC: Chief complaint. The patient's main concern.
cc: Cubic centimeters. For example, the amount of fluid removed from the body is recorded in ccs.
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0.027199 | <urn:uuid:fc7a6e41-89d2-48ec-afb7-5642e5f1b5ca> | en | 0.970047 | NEW YORK—TV network CBS and cable provider Time Warner Cable ended their monthlong programming dispute on Monday and resumed broadcasts to millions of homes in New York, Dallas and Los Angeles.
The agreement ended a blackout of CBS and CBS-owned channels that included Showtime Networks, CBS Sports Network and the Smithsonian channel. The contract disagreement started Aug. 2 and affected more than 3 million homes. Broadcasting resumed Monday evening on the East Coast.
The companies were in dispute over how much Time Warner Cable Inc. would pay for CBS Corp. programming. Terms of the deal were not immediately disclosed.
The agreement includes retransmission fees the cable operator pays to CBS per subscriber, which had been a sticking point.
The disagreement came at a touchy time for networks and cable companies as more and more Americans are turning to alternative ways to watch TV including online or via Roku boxes or Apple TV. Added pressure was on the two companies to reach an agreement since the start of football season and the U.S Open tennis tournament had begun in New York.
The blackout affected about 1.1 million of New York's 7.4 million television households that get CBS. An estimated 1.3 million of 5.6 million households in Los Angeles were blacked out, along with 400,000 of Dallas' 2.6 million TV homes, CBS said. Those are three of the nation's five most populous television markets.
CBS estimated the blackout cut the network's national viewership by about 1 percent.
The talks were being closely watched beyond these companies and their customers because of the idea that a retransmission agreement would set a precedent for future negotiations between networks and cable or satellite companies. Another point of contention was the cable operator's access to CBS material for on-demand or mobile device viewing.
"While we certainly didn't get everything we wanted, ultimately we ended up in a much better place than when we started," Time Warner Cable CEO Glenn Britt said in a statement.
Mignon L. Clyburn, acting chairwoman of the Federal Communications Commission, issued a statement saying she was "pleased CBS and Time Warner Cable have resolved their retransmission consent negotiations, which for too long have deprived millions of consumers of access to CBS programming."
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by Hank Williams
I'm a rolling stone, all alone and lost
For a life of sin, I have paid the cost
When I pass by, all the people say
"Just another guy on the lost highway"
Just a deck of cards and a jug of wine
And a woman's lies make a life like mine
Oh, the day we met, I went astray
I started rollin' down that lost highway
I was just a lad, nearly twenty-two
Neither good nor bad, just a kid like you
And now I'm lost, too late to pray
Lord, I've paid the cost on the lost highway
Now, boys, don't start your ramblin' round
On this road of sin or you're sorrow bound
Take my advice or you'll curse the day
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Einhorn's Apple Argument Supported by Hidden Stock Gain
The fact that Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) has returned gains to shareholders in the past year supports an argument made by Greenlight Capital Management's David Einhorn that the company should give more of its cash to shareholders.
Before the stock market opened Thursday, Apple's shares had fallen in the past 12 months. Still, the company was able to provide investors with a positive return, albeit one that significantly underperforms the S&P 500's (INDEXSP:.INX) near 12% gain.
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The key is Apple's $2.65-per-share dividend that the Cupertino, Calif.-based company instituted in March 2012. Apple forecasts the program will return $45 billion in cash to investors over a three-year period.
Apple's current dividend has an appeal to investors, even amid the company's poor share performance in the past year and cries by the likes of Einhorn for bigger payouts.
In fact, the three quarterly dividends of $2.65 per share paid out to investors represent the company's only return in the past year. Apple paid out a dividend Thursday and will go ex-dividend until the company's fiscal second quarter.
Focusing on the almost $8 per share in dividends that Apple has paid out in the past three quarters is a shortsighted way of looking at the company, given its success in developing blockbuster products and near-record earnings.
Nevertheless, Apple's dividend-centric total return indicates the company may be entering new territory when it comes to thinking about returning cash to investors as a way to keep them invested in the stock.
Currently, Apple faces increasing uncertainty on the direction of its profit margins, as Google (NASDAQ:GOOG), Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), and others compete against the company's major breadwinners, the iPhone and iPad.
Meanwhile, billions in telecom carrier iPhone subsidies given by Verizon (NYSE:VZ) and AT&T (NYSE:T) may be at risk, according to some industry analysts.
In spite of those threats, Apple is poised to post awe-inspiring earnings in coming quarters as iPhone 5 and iPad Mini sales ramp up. As such, hedge funders like Einhorn of Greenlight Capital Management feel the company's single-digit forward earnings multiple represent an obvious value, in a tech sector marked by the sky-high valuations of Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN), Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX), and Facebook (NASDAQ:FB).
Those selling shares in the company in recent months appear to be concerned about Apple's future products, given reports of moderate tweaks to its existing set of smartphones and tablets, and a vague push into the streaming-media business.
It is Apple's dividend policy that could be a ballast for investors as the company's existing products mature and the public awaits a new gadget that redefines the consumer electronics market.
Apple's one-year share performance -- or lack thereof -- should signal to Chief Executive Tim Cook that new thinking is still needed when it comes to the company's dividend policy after instituting a shareholder payout in 2012.
On Thursday, Einhorn appealed to Apple investors to vote for a provision in the company's annual proxy that would retain its ability to pay a preferred stock dividend. In May, Einhorn said Apple's cash, which now stands at $137.1 billion, or $145 per share, could be put toward a perpetual preferred stock dividend of between 4% to 6%.
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X-Men: Gamesmaster's Legacy (Game Gear)
X-Men: Gamesmaster's Legacy Game Gear Menu with difficulties of "Mental" and "Way Wicked" really not sure which is harder.
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If the beat-em-up style of Wolverine's 16-bit games is disappointing but you still want some mutant mayhem, X-periment with X-Men: Gamemaster's Legacy. At the Mental difficulty level, it can be a tough game, but X still marks the spot for fun.
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There are some unique options this time around, including the ability to pick from more X-Men as the game progresses. The graphics are very good, and the moves are easy enough to execute. A good sequel.
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The mutants hardly ever use their powers, which makes no sense (you just do a lot of running around and punching), and the fact that you can only play as Storm or Cyclops is a drag. They're the most boring X-Men on the team. Rogue or Gambit would have been much more entertaining choices. This one's for hard-core fans only. | http://www.mobygames.com/game/game-gear/x-men-gamesmasters-legacy/mobyrank | dclm-gs1-131170000 |
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Jul 14, 2012 1:04 PM WDW Talk Land
I was wondering if any of u remember when they had e-ride nights? They had it awhile ago,but I think it should def be brought back instead of EMH. U had to pay per person &u had to be staying at a Disney resort,etc.i believe..but it was so totally worth it! Less crowded & we practically had the parks to ourselves. It was wonderful and I wish they would bring it back:( lol. I want to petition to get it back:D
It's just sometimes I feel that with the EMH that it can be just as crowded if not more do than during the day. It gets very insane. I think that maybe they should have the option of the e-ride nights to give other ppl that choice of a less crowded experience. They seemed to be doing well with it actually - mickeynme 166.4 #48 1:10PM
E-rides nights were the best!! My son and I did it back in probably 03 or 04. The extra cost of the ticket was sooo cheap and we had the park to ourselves. I remember riding thunder mountain 4 times in a row without getting off to get back in line!!! 😃 - toogrumpy 141.5 #54 6:52PM
Yes!! That's what I miss so much! No one really remembers it. My dad and I had space mountain all to ourselves and went on like 5 times in a row. And I dragged my brother on to splash mountain w/me w/those rabbits. A bit freaky to be all alone w/those audio-animatronics at 2am..LOL.we have a pic w/our boat empty. It was great! We went on like 4times. My mom went on too. And the castle was practically w/no one around it. Characters were alone,main street was empty,etc. Aww man,those were the days! Lol - mickeynme 166.4 #48 8:45PM
Sorry I ramble when I'm It was just great though. Fun memories:) - mickeynme 166.4 #48 8:48PM
I remember E-ride nights! They had it during my first stay on property. I only made it on SM 3x in a row before I got too dizzy. Great price for a lot of extra magic! - DisneyPhotoFan 920.2 #167 5:09AM
Glad to hear that u remember it! I was curious about how many members on here remember that. I went on SM and everything as many times as humanly possible. I knew that was an opportunity that was rare and that I would wish for it back,and boy was I right. Lol. I really wish they would bring it back or at least have it as an option. Can u tell??? LOL - mickeynme 166.4 #48 9:27AM
I never knew about this but I think emh is better then this, for emh you don't have to pay extra you just have to be staying at a Disney resort, most people wouldn't be able to pay for that every night for their whole family of they wanted to say longer, they probably got rid of it because you had to pay for it - nodell111 166.4 #49 1:07PM
That's true. U have a point - mickeynme 166.4 #48 1:08PM
I remember !!! Very small crowd !!!!! - skcanfield 475.2 #13 1:07PM
Yes! Small crowd to no crowd! It was so wonderful! Very sad they took it away:( - mickeynme 166.4 #48 10:50PM
We were on splash and space mountain with NO ONE in the vehicles with us. A bit freaky lat 1am being alone with those singing audio-animatronic still awesome nonetheless! Plus u had the characters and castle almost completely to yourself to take pics of,etc.etc...I really wish they would bring it back..can u tell??? Lol..sighhhh:( - mickeynme 166.4 #48 1:07PM
I don't remember but I like free emhs better than paying but it wud b nice for less crowds but still... the Halloween and Xmas parties r $55-65 per person. I didn't rly find emhs at night to b very crowded. But if u check lines for emh mornings, that park has lines over an hr while other parks r almost empty. I guess it'd depend on the cost! - Polynesiangirl 98.4 #63 1:08PM
Yea,that's true too. I just remember doing the EMH in the morning and thinking that it was no different than the usual insane madness when MK opens in the morning. It was worse! Lol..I didn't see the point. Idk. I guess it really does depend on when u go - mickeynme 166.4 #48 1:15PM
The cost was 12 per adult and 10 per child. I didn't think it was too bad at the time. It was totally and completely worth it. Maybe if they lower the price a bit? Idk - mickeynme 166.4 #48 1:18PM
I understand ..just I feel a bit off w it cuz we couldn't stay at the polynesian this yr due to high cost of everything and to pay more for emhs would stink unless they lower hotel rates! - Polynesiangirl 98.4 #63 1:27PM
Yes u do have a point about that. But then u could pay less during the day and pay for the extra hours (and less crowds) knowing that u'll literally have all of the rides to yourself with very little to no wait. I think maybe they should reanalyze the idea of having the option. Like maybe have both of them as a choice. I def see your point tho. We need to save money wherever we can these days! - mickeynme 166.4 #48 6:27PM
I'm sry u can't stay at the Polynesian this yr:( I know it's ur fave from your I understand. But don't wry,smtmes just being there is enough. And u can always find ways to be around your fave hotel:) - mickeynme 166.4 #48 6:36PM
When was this? I've been going to WDW since the late 90's and don't remember this. - CollegeDisneyKnowledgeGrad 934.9 #3 2:16PM
1997-2004 I believe. I just looked it up. Hope that's - mickeynme 166.4 #48 6:30PM
It's still practically here, it's similar to Extra Magic Hours. - dlmickeymouseCM 2404.5 #46 6:36PM
Yea,true. It's almost the same actually - mickeynme 166.4 #48 8:30PM
Wow I don't remember this at all and I have been going to WDW since 1990. Remember it always being EMH. - Bakerjars 238.8 #29 6:51PM
They might have had the EMH but they also had this separately. It wasn't really advertised as much I don't think. We found out info at the front desk of the hotel and they had a little section in each park whereby had to pay and purchase your armbands for later on. U had to get them by a certain time. I think it was prob a more exclusive thing and not really advertised. Maybe if they would have advertised it more,it would have been more popular and not have been cancelled. EMH is heavily advertised. I'm surprised that so many ppl haven't heard of e-ride nights (or e-ticket) from being there during that time. - mickeynme 166.4 #48 8:37PM
In the 90's we only went during spring break or xmas break I think all parks are open very late so probable was not offerred then. Was there in 02 and 03 and never heard of it. WOW where was MW then. :-) - Bakerjars 238.8 #29 4:17AM
Oo then maybe that's why. That's prob the reason. It might have been too packed then during those breaks so they didnt do it. I went during the summer do idk how that's any less crowded honestly. Lol. I would love to know where MW was then. When did it start btw? Has MW been around awhile? I'm curious. - mickeynme 166.4 #48 9:32AM
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H264 licenses are not covered under commercial usage that includes subscription video in excess of 100,000 users, at which point, the license fee is not to exceeed $0.02 per title.
It is worth putting into context "End-users" here, end users cannot be targeted by the MPEG LA for patent litigation unless they are part of the distribution chain of the unlicensed publication -- in other words, if you're just hitting play on a video on the web, the extent of your liability is limited by United States patent law.
harass the hell out of end users while patent trolls
Ironically, the bar for claiming damages against individuals is significantly higher for patents than for, say, copyright which is why the RIAA is free to are exactly that, trolls, if they start to go after users.
Basically, if you have video on which you make profit exceeding minimum thresholds, you pay a ridiculously small licensing fee.
At that point, it is questionable if its still honest to classify these people as normal end users -- given that that much revenue makes the license insignificant comparatively.
There is a distinction between content owner and content distributors, even if under certain circumstances they may be one in the same.
I don't really think this opinion piece is grounded in reality with regards to the situation with VP8, FOSSPatents goes into the issue pretty well:
While the MPEG LA might have gotten their share, things remain more dubious for VP8 because there are likely legitimate stake owners with patents that are not part of the deal with the MPEG LA and are not obligated to any FRAND terms.
One such example is Nokia, that the day of the agreement, launched an offensive against HTC for patents it believes that VP8 infringes.
To claim that VP8 is more safe than H264 is ludicrous.
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