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Sears Worker Treated For Smoke Inhalation
From Staff And Wire Reports
A Sears employee was treated for smoke inhalation Wednesday after a trash bin caught fire next to the store.
A drop chute connects a large trash bin/compactor to the Sears store at the Silver Lake Mall.
Coeur d’Alene fire officials are unsure why the trash bin caught fire Wednesday afternoon.
A sprinkler system prevented the blaze from spreading into the building. Firefighters then extinguished the blaze.
Mike Budvarson, assistant fire chief, said there were numerous items - such as WD-40 and various plastics - that could have played a role in causing the fire.
The employee who was checked by emergency personnel was not seriously injured.
, DataTimes
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Richard Mack to speak in Spokane, CdA
A former Arizona sheriff revered by the militia movement for his outspoken criticism of gun control and government tyranny is returning to the Inland Northwest for meetings with local GOP groups, triggering a rift among some Republicans.
Richard Mack, who now lives in Texas and is running for U.S. Congress, is a self-described conservative constitutionalist with ties to various political parties and movements. He served as sheriff of rural Graham County, Arizona as a Democrat, ran unsuccessfully for governor of Utah as a Libertarian and now is trying to unseat a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives in the GOP’s upcoming Texas primary.
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July 4 Parades Turn Kids Into Repubs
All that fireworks-watching, flag-waving and potato salad-eating this weekend could in fact lead to a vote for the Republican party for your child. And the stats from Harvard back up the claim. When children were exposed at a young age to the Americana fanfare associated with the Fourth of July, they were more likely to vote Republican and make campaign contributions to the party. Harvard researchers David Yanagizawa-Drott and Andreas Madestam found that kids who attended one rain-free July 4th celebration before the age of 18 were four percent more likely to vote Republican before the age of 40. And whether or not they went to the polls, young Independence Day revelers were more likely to identify with the right wing by 2 percent/Nick Carbone. Time. More here. H/T: Christa Hazel (Stebbijo/Stebbijo's Place photo)
Question: Do these findings make you more/less likely to take your children to Fourth of July parades?
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If the Obama administration had chosen to ignore the potential massacre of the rebels in Libya, Republicans would right now be having a field day, condemning him for weakness and moral cowardice. The deafening howls of outrage from the Republicans would make the evening news ring like a gong.
Now on the other hand, if the president were a Republican and had organized the international coalition that stopped Muammar Gaddafi’s forces in their tracks, Republicans would right now be cheering him in the streets, and unquestionably attempting to wire him/her up for a certain reelection a year and one half from now.
Instead, Republicans in Congress are biting at Barack Obama’s Libyan efforts at every turn. They seem more interested in defeating Obama now than they are defeating Gaddaffi's forces.
The national news, it seems, is all who and what you believe. Of course, your results may differ.
GOP leaders: Budget alternative likely
OLYMPIA — Republican leaders say they may offer an alternative to House Democrats' supplemental budget, which is itself an alternative to Gov. Chris Gregoire's proposal.
At a noon press conference, House Minority Leader Richard DeBolt of Chehalis said Republicans have enough differences with the Democratic plan announced Tuesday they may offer a “striker” — that is, a substitute proposal — when the spending plan for the next 5 months reaches the House floor.
“We're floating up a test balloon to see if anybody (from the Democratic side) comes along,” DeBolt said.
Republicans are particularly opposed to transfers, a term for using money in separate funds for general operating fund expenses. If they can't swap their plan for the Democrats' budget, they say they won't support any spending plan that move money around or relies on what Gregoire acknowledged was an accounting gimmick, delaying a payment to schools due on June 30, the last day of this biennium, until July 1, so it would show up in the next biennium.
“We're very clear about not doing any transfers,” Senate Minority Leader Mike Hewitt said. Republicans believe the delayed payment would create a hole at the end of the 2011-13 budget cycle that would lead to a call for higher taxes at a time when the supermajority requirement could be more easily amended.
Today’s fun video: Red state, blue state
This is an interesting depiction of the presidential vote for Democrats and Republicans over the last 90 years compiled by David Sparks of Duke University.
Anyone want to suggest a sound track to go along with it?
Dale: Props For Larry Spencer
Dale Hedden: I do believe he (Larry Spencer) causes problems, problems as some people see trouble. We enjoyed his company. We don’t know Larry well, but we saw a man who put a great deal into what we believe is very much like the serious adjustments seen in national politics. It is obvious that Republicans lost in this past election. The platform of the Republican party allowed for people to make a stand where most Americans wanted us to be. The incredible upheaval of this election proved, old guard Republicans must change or be moved out, voted out. That is trouble, a problem for many. It is not Larry Spencer who will be asked to leave. Watch.
Question: Do you see a new world order breaking out in the national Republican Party, too?
Repubs Grab House, Gain In Senate
The party that controls the House holds crucial power, taking the lead in writing bills and deciding which to bring up for a vote and when. A Republican House could pass legislation, such as promised tax relief, on simple majority votes without any Democratic support. Democrats will still hold the Senate, but Republicans will have a much stronger position and more leverage in negotiations thanks to their party running the House. Democrats also lack the 60 votes necessary in the Senate to stop a procedural hurdle known as filibuster, which gives Republicans power to block legislation/Thomas Ferraro, Reuters. More here.
Question: What do the national election results mean for Congress?
Palin: GOP Getting ‘Last Shot”
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) said she could conceive of a third party in U.S. politics if newly elected Republicans stray from their principles. Palin, the 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee and potential candidate for president in 2012, said the next two years will be some Republicans’ “last shot” to prove themselves as authentic conservatives. “Some in the GOP, it’s their last shot,” Palin said Monday evening on Fox News. “It’s their last chance, and we will lose faith and we will be disappointed and disenchanted from them if they start straying from the bedrock principles that can grow our economy/Michael O’Brien, The Hill. More here.
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By Brian Ford Sullivan (TFC)
For our final two weeks, we're going to shift gears a little and look at the scripts for 10 high-concept projects in the works for midseason. All of them have just started or recently completed production so it may be some time before we hear when and if they make the cut.
As always a lot can change from what's on the page right now but we couldn't resist taking a peek.
(written by Zak Penn & Michael Karnow; 66 pages)
The network's description: No official description was released.
What did they leave out: ABC originally picked up the project with a blind six-episode commitment.
What works: To its credit, there's a lot of interesting ideas at work here. The script suggests that people like Tiger Woods, Garry Kasparov and Michel Gondry are "alphas" themselves - able to do extraordinary things due to unique traits in their brain structure. All of the alphas we meet then are along the same lines. They don't shoot optic blasts or pop claws from their fists, their gifts are much more grounded to the real world. Harken is what the Hulk would be in the real world, Rachel is what Black Bolt would be in the real world and so on. The show also amusingly attempts (more on this in a second) to contrast the usually slick, secretive world of black ops with having Section 8 be set up in an office building in New Jersey where everyone bickers like regular 9-to-5ers. Likewise, the story is cleverly framed as Rosen writes a book about working for Section 8 (on an old Smith Corona daisy wheel no less)... a book which he knows he can never actually publish.
What doesn't: While the ideas are there, the execution leaves a lot to be desired. Penn and Karnow's script never stops telling you what you're reading is the coolest and most amazing thing you've ever laid eyes on. It's the screenplay equivalent of telling and not showing. (Sample: "The line between what is possible and what is real will be razor thin on this show, as evidenced in the following montage.") Great scripts don't need that kind of direction. The words and actions should say it for you. This brings us back to the previous point about contrasting the black ops world with Section 8's "office" backdrop. Kind of fun idea right? But we never actually see or hear the characters behaving as such. Instead we get the notation: "The world of the office should feel improvisational in tone, hyper-real, even mundane at points; a sharp contrast with some of the extraordinary things we will see." The show's real flaw however is that none of the characters are particularly interesting nor are the stories really that compelling. It's just another by-the-numbers, "welcome to the secret organization" show. Some potentially neat ideas for sure...
The bottom line: ...but nothing that can save it from itself.
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0.963922 | <urn:uuid:b7aae79b-f480-466f-b7d6-953173bd2d77> | en | 0.816431 | Mani Arvind of Karnataka won his second gold of the meet by scripting a new National record, clocking a time of 04:41.60 in the Group I boys 400m individual medley, in the junior National aquatics championship here on Friday.
The 18-year-old Arvind erased State-mate Rehan Poncha’s time of 04:42.57 set in the 2003 Nationals.
“This gold is all the more sweet for I beat the record of Rehan with whom I trained regularly and who even gave me lot of tips to be a better swimmer,” said a visibly delighted Arvind.
“It was tough this evening but I am happy with the end-result,” says the young swimmer who till now has 24 medals in different Nationals since 2006.
In a close contest, V.K.R. Meenakshi of Tamil Nadu clinched gold in the girls Group I 100m butterfly event pipping Rujuta Bhatt of Maharashtra as the jury was forced to opt for the photo-finish.
The TN girl clocked 01:06.59 while Rujuta with 01:06.64 had to be content with the second place.
The results (all finals):
Girls: Group I: 1500m freestyle: 1. Aakanksha Vora (Mah) 17:57.89, 2. Shruthi Mahalingam (TN), 3. Kavya Gopalakrishnan (TN). 100m butterfly: 1. V.K.R. Meenakshi (TN) 1:06.59, 2. Rujuta Bhatt (Mah), 3. Mugdha Malla Reddy (TN).
4x200m freestyle relay: 1. Maharashtra 09:21.54, 2. Karnataka, 3. Tamil Nadu.
Group II: 800m freestyle: 1. P. M. Abishiktha (TN) 09:45.55, 2. Shraddha Sudhir (Kar), 3. Aishwarya Selvakumar (TN). 100m butterfly: 1. Damini K. Gowda (Kar) 1:07.27, 2. Yuga Birnale (Mah), 3. Trisha Karkhanis (Mah). 4x200m freestyle relay: 1. Karnataka 09:26.92, 2. Tamil Nadu, 3. Maharashtra.
Boys: Group I: 400m IM: 1. M. Arvind (Kar) 04:41.60, 2. T. Sethu Manickavel (TN), 3. Jason Smith (Mah). 100m freestyle: 1. Neil Contractor (Guj) 54.63, 2. Rakshith U. Shetty (Kar), 3. P. Larsen (TN). 4x200m freestyle relay: 1. Karnataka 08:13.55, 2. TN, 3. Maharashtra.
Group II: 100m freestyle: 1. Spandan Pratik Rath (Kar) 59.09, 2. Saumya Vora (Mah), 3. M. Harish Raj (TN). 400m IM: 1. Ishaan Jaffer (Mah) 05:05.43, 2. V.B. Hemanth Jenukal (Kar), 3. Aryan Makhija (Mah). 4x200m freestyle relay: 1. Karnataka 08:43.29, 2. Maharashtra, 3. TN.
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How camels say 'Hi'
There was a certain incident where a friend of ours Katie] was high
off of a high quantity of energy drinks. Therefore, saying camels said 'Hi' by saying WHEESNAH. There you have it.
How do camels say "hi"?
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Fulton, New York was an industrialized city that contained several manufacturing plants such as the wool and Nestles first US chocolate factory. Known as the city that missed the great depression, things took a turn for the worst during the recent recession. This resulted in closing many factories and the loss of jobs including the shutdown of the towns hospital. Fulton could be a hidden goldmine if someone would invest money to create jobs there but it is full of houses for sale or foreclosed. The sign into Fulton reads, City With A Future. Fulton was named after Robert Fulton, Inventor of the Steamboat. The high school there, G. Ray Bodley is well known for their wrestling team known as the Fulton Red Raiders.
Residents of Fulton used to look forward to the lingering smell of Chocolate in the air from the factory, home of the crunch bar.
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0.023643 | <urn:uuid:15f2d62a-4c2c-4a2e-abff-8d6a93d1b896> | en | 0.964562 | The Martian Sphinx (eBook)
by John Brunner
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By the twenty-first century the world was drowning in its own population. A solution had to be found quickly - and it was, in 'gravi-power'. Wonderful, unending source of power - only the scientists knew that its use was reducing the Earth's distance from the sun at a dangerous rate. But if another planet's gravi-power could harnessed . . . An expedition was launched to Mars, known to be uninhabited - except that a woman was wandering around its surface who claimed she had come from another galaxy to warn Earth of a terrible menace, and there was a huge poly-hedron of metal emanting a force very much like that of gravipower. Someone else had discovered it! A thousand years ago, or now? Friend, or enemy? (First published 1965)
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0.022161 | <urn:uuid:31ec8145-a128-4fb0-88cb-bc188849454b> | en | 0.967166 | SAN FRANCISCO -- Like most San Franciscans, Charles Pitts is wired. Mr. Pitts, who is 37 years old, has accounts on Facebook, MySpace and Twitter. He runs an Internet forum on Yahoo, reads news online and keeps in touch with friends via email. The tough part is managing this digital lifestyle from his residence under a highway bridge.
"You don't need a TV. You don't need a radio. You don't even need a newspaper," says Mr. Pitts, an aspiring poet in a purple cap and yellow fleece jacket, who says he has been homeless for two years. "But you need the Internet."
Mr. Pitts's experience shows how deeply computers and the Internet have permeated society. A few years ago, some people were worrying that a "digital divide" would separate technology haves and have-nots. The poorest lack the means to buy computers and Web access. Still, in America today, even people without street addresses feel compelled to have Internet addresses.
Homeless and Online
Skip Schreiber goes online in his van, which is also his home, in San Francisco's Bayview district. Brian L. Frank for The Wall Street Journal
New York City has put 42 computers in five of the nine shelters it operates and plans to wire the other four this year. Roughly half of another 190 shelters in the city offer computer access. The executive director of a San Francisco nonprofit group, Central City Hospitality House, estimates that half the visitors to its new eight-computer drop-in center are homeless; demand for computer time is so great that users are limited to 30 minutes.
Shelter attendants say the number of laptop-toting overnight visitors, while small, is growing. SF Homeless, a two-year-old Internet forum, has 140 members. It posts schedules for public-housing meetings and news from similar groups in New Mexico, Arizona and Connecticut. And it has a blog with online polls about shelter life.
Cheap computers and free Internet access fuel the phenomenon. So does an increasingly computer-savvy population. Many job and housing applications must be submitted online. Some homeless advocates say the economic downturn is pushing more of the wired middle class on to the streets.
Aspiring computer programmer Paul Weston, 29, says his Macintosh PowerBook has been a "lifeboat" since he was laid off from his job as a hotel clerk in December and moved to a shelter. Sitting in a Whole Foods store with free wireless access, Mr. Weston searches for work and writes a computer program he hopes to sell eventually. He has emailed city officials to press for better shelter conditions.
Lisa Stringer, who runs a program that teaches job and computer skills to homeless and low-income residents, says some students who can't even read or write save money to buy computers at Goodwill. "It's really a symbol in today's society of being OK and connected," she says. She sometimes urges homeless students to put off buying laptops until their living situations stabilize.
Staying wired on the streets takes determination. Electricity and Internet access can be hard to come by. Threats, including rain and theft, are a problem.
Robert Livingston, 49, has carried his Asus netbook everywhere since losing his apartment in December. A meticulous man who spends some of his $59 monthly welfare check on haircuts, Mr. Livingston says he quit a security-guard job late last year, then couldn't find another when the economy tanked.
When he realized he would be homeless, Mr. Livingston bought a sturdy backpack to store his gear, a padlock for his footlocker at the shelter and a $25 annual premium Flickr account to display the digital photos he takes.
One recent morning, Mr. Livingston sat in a cafe that sometimes lets customers tap its wireless connection, and shows off his personal home page, featuring links for Chinese-language lessons.
Mr. Livingston says his computer helps him feel more connected and human. "It's frightening to be homeless," he says. "When I'm on here, I'm equal to everybody else."
Charles Pitts
For Skip Schreiber, 64, an amateur philosopher with wispy white hair who lives in a van, power is the biggest challenge to staying wired. Mr. Schreiber tended heating and ventilation systems before work-related stress and depression sidelined him around 15 years ago, he says.
For his 60th birthday, he dipped into his monthly disability check to buy a laptop, connected it to his car battery, and taught himself to use it. "I liked the concept of the Internet," says Mr. Schreiber, "this unlimited source of opinion and thought."
Mr. Schreiber later switched to a Mac because it uses less juice. He keeps the fan and wireless antenna off when possible and cools the laptop by putting it on a damp washcloth. He says that by using such tricks, he can keep the laptop battery going for 16 hours, if he avoids videos.
In the van, stacked with toolboxes, electric gear and bedding, Mr. Schreiber shows the contents of his laptop, including the complete California legal code and files on thinkers from Thomas Aquinas to the psychologist Philip Zimbardo. Mr. Schreiber says writings about human behavior and motivation help make sense of what has happened to him.
"No one creates themselves as a homeless person," he says. "We make the choices we can with what we're offered."
Michael Ross creates his own electricity, with a gas generator perched outside his yellow-and-blue tent. For a year, Mr. Ross has stood guard at a parking lot for construction equipment, under a deal with the owner. Mr. Ross figures he has been homeless for about 15 years, surviving on his Army pension.
Inside the tent, the taciturn 50-year-old has an HP laptop with a 17-inch screen and 320 gigabytes of data storage, as well as four extra hard drives that can hold another 1,000 gigabytes, the equivalent of 200 DVDs. Mr. Ross loves movies. He rents some from Netflix and Blockbuster online and downloads others over an Ethernet connection at the San Francisco public library.
One evening recently, Mr. Ross lay down on his sleeping bag and watched an X-Men cartoon on the laptop, listening through headphones over the roar of the generator. When he travels downtown, he takes all the gear with him for safekeeping. His backpack bulges with cords and bubble-wrapped electronic gadgets. Mr. Ross says he doesn't notice the weight.
Mr. Pitts, the poet who lives under a bridge, keeps a mental list of spots to charge batteries and go online, including a deserted corner of a downtown train station and wired cafes whose owners don't mind long stays and lots of bags.
When he was evicted from his apartment two years ago, Mr. Pitts says, "I thought: My existence and my life don't stop because I don't have a place to live."
He bought a Toshiba laptop. When it died, he bought a used Dell. Last month, that one expired, too, with a cracked screen. Now he checks email and posts to his Internet forum on homeless issues, from computers at libraries, college campuses and a laptop stashed behind the counter of a coffee shop by a friend.
Before the Dalai Lama visited a soup kitchen here a month ago, Mr. Pitts researched the Buddhist leader on Wikipedia and copied the text onto his iPod, to read in bed under the bridge. "I'm under my blanket, under a tarp, reading Dalai Lama this, Dalai Lama that," he says.
Mr. Pitts expects to soon scrape up the money for another computer. He figures he can get one for less than $200.
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Summary:If initial experiments are any indication, the team working on the Java Browser Edition (now called the Java Kernel) will be straying quite a bit from what users really need. What they need is a Java competitor to Flash. Break the mold, discard conventional thinking, and embrace the idea of Java everywhere with editions customized for the needs of users on each platform.
Ethan Nicholas was recently hired by Sun to work on his dream of a Java Browser Edition. Except they're calling it the Java Kernel now, and if initial experiments are any indication, the team will be straying quite a bit from the needs of the typical browser user. Ethan writes:
The first thing I have to do is establish that this project is feasible. So I figured I would start out by creating a simple, stripped-down JRE installer that contained only the functionality necessary to run System.out.println("Hello world!"), to get an estimate of the size reduction we could expect...
I wrote a simple program which would iterate through all of the files in the JRE. It would remove a file and then attempt to run the Hello World program using this stripped-down JRE. If the test succeeded, the file was evidently unnecessary. If the test failed, the file was deemed necessary and restored.
In this way Ethan was able to get a minimal JRE that was 2.6MB in size.What we need is a competitor to Flash You might be thinking that sounds great, because it would compress down even further with a good compression algorithm like pack200. But as one reader pointed out, that's still pretty large. A FORTH interpreter for example can be had for 8K or less. I remember writing one with my roomate (hi Mike!) long ago in Z80 assembler, so I think that's a conservative estimate. Ethan responded:
I actually grew up programming Forth, so I definitely hear you. However, I don't agree that the size of the VM represents a severe architectural problem. Even an extremely stripped-down Java VM is going to contain an optimizing compiler, a sophisticated generational garbage collector, a dataflow analyzer for verifying classes, cryptography functions for verifying signatures, and on and on.
Therein lies the problem with their current approach. What we need is a competitor to Flash. This means:
• It needs to be the same size as Flash or less (200K-1M max).
• It should install just as quickly and easily as Flash.
• It should update itself like Flash.
• It should support streaming like Flash (including streaming video and audio).
• It should be bundled with browsers (yes, even MS IE) like Flash.
In short, it needs to almost *be* Flash, except with the Java language (or some subset thereof) instead of ActionScript/SWF.
The team's grander ideas about using the JSR 277 module system, downloading functionality on demand, and full Java SE compliance sound good on paper, but does it really help solve simple user problems? No. Well, you might say, why does a user care if this thing running in their browser is written in ActionScript vs. being written in Java? They don't, but they will benefit from the increased productivity that comes from developers being able to use a common language and development environment for all platforms, containers, and targets. Increased productivity translates into decreased time to market, improved quality, and more innovative applications.
Forget about jar files and conventional class loaders. Verify ahead of time. Simplify everything. Heck, it doesn't even need a JIT. It doesn't need to be Java SE compliant or run old applets. It can be something completely new.
Some wonderfully popular applications have been written with J2ME, and GWT has shown that subsets are beautiful too. Let's have a JSR not for a Java Kernel, but for a real Java Browser Edition. Let's have "browselets" instead of applets and midlets. Consider a subset of SWT (maybe eSWT?) for the UI so it will fit seamlessly with native browser widgets. Break the mold, discard conventional thinking, and embrace the idea of Java everywhere with editions customized for the needs of users on each platform.
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Kansas House approves income tax check-off for arts
February 23, 2012
— The Kansas House has approved a bill that would let Kansas residents contribute to arts programs when they pay their income taxes.
The measure, passed on a 95-29 vote Thursday, creates a new income tax check-off for the Kansas Arts Commission. The bill goes to the Senate.
The proposal, sponsored by 40 Republicans, is in line with GOP Gov. Sam Brownback's push to have arts programs rely more heavily on private funds.
Last year, Brownback vetoed the Arts Commission's entire $689,000 budget, making Kansas the first state in the nation to eliminate its arts funding. This year, he's proposing $200,000 for a new Creative Industries Commission.
Supporters don't know how much a new check-off would generate. Critics say it wouldn't provide adequate funding and could hurt other programs with check-offs.
boltzmann 2 years, 10 months ago
How about we eliminate regular state funding for the KS state departments of agriculture and transportation and then put a voluntary contribution on the tax forms to fund these activities. That will work.
And what is all this fuss about "Check-off" - I always like Uhura better, anyway.
headdoctor 2 years, 10 months ago
Big whoop. If it doesn't bring in anymore money than the other 4 existing programs for other things, why bother.
pavlovs_dog 2 years, 10 months ago
Another great idea from Repuglicans. Arts vs. Chickadees. Maybe Sam's new KAC can fund a performance piece where artists, using concealed weapons, shoot down clay chickadees in campus lecture halls.
verity 2 years, 10 months ago
Didn't, in the past, this just cause the money to be divided, with less going to each cause?
headdoctor 2 years, 10 months ago
None of the donate on your tax filing means anything to me. When they merged the fish and game with parks and recreation then tacked on tourism along with robbing the fish and game blind to gain funding for parks, etc that was enough for me. I can only assume that the chickadee money was ripped off as well. If I want to donate to a cause I will donate privately. Not through some system where administration fees suck up the effort and certainly not for Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism.
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of this deal? steve forbes is the chairman and editor of chief of forbes media, he joined me from new york. i understand that if you're an investor in spain or italy, you're watching nervously what's happening in cyprus. but if you're a businessman in america or asia, do you really need to care? >> i think so. because we are in a global economy. and what was done to cyprus has been an absolute disaster because any time a country now fears that they might have a financial crisis, first thing people are going to do is start a run on the bank. they're not going to take any chances. and so the germans and the e.u. boesched this thing. the i.m.f., it was done i think for political reasons, the germans did not want to see bailing out russian olegarks in election year but the way they did it was horrible. what they should have done is guarantee at the beginning those 100,000 euro deforests, anything above that they'd get shares in the new bank. you might take a hair cut but normally when a bank goes under, the creditors get shares in a new bank. these guys are just wiped out with no hope of recovery
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Red Hat's public sector strategist explains why the US federal government …
In an effort to reduce IT costs and boost efficiency, the US federal government is increasingly turning to open source software. We wrote last year about, a code sharing site that was established by the military to encourage broader collaboration and reuse of existing source code throughout the Department of Defense. The US General Services Administration (GSA) is planning to launch a similar site, called, that is intended to serve a related function, but for a broader range of government agencies.
In a recent blog post, Red Hat public sector strategist Gunnar Hellekson described several of the challenges posed by and explained why it's important for to be operated as a more inclusive environment. Various security considerations made it necessary for to be developed as a relatively closed ecosystem, one which is only accessible to DoD employees, contractors, and others who have a DoD Common Access Card. The isolation obviously precludes public participation and leads to military-only forks of mainstream public open source projects.
Hellekson is concerned that the GSA's plan to require users of to prove US citizenship will pose similar problems. Hellekson contends that it is an arbitrary barrier to entry that can only hamper the project. Because there are no security issues that necessitate walling it off, he argues, would benefit from being made accessible to the broadest possible audience.
" may be instructive and inspiring, but it's a corner-case and fraught with compromises that have diminished its utility. In the case of, it would be hosting unclassified code for civilian agencies. There's no need to create a 'trusted' environment," he wrote. "Let's agree that making US citizenship a prerequisite is counterproductive, unworkable, unnecessary and most important: it's un-American."
CollabNet's Guy Martin, who is involved in the project, has a different view. He acknowledges that the citizenship requirement will create a barrier to participation, but believes that it's necessary in order to safeguard important software infrastructure that will be used by a wide range of government agencies. Allowing broader public access might dampen the confidence of some of those agencies.
"I realize that putting up a barrier to entry in the form of positive identification of US citizenship and a vetting process will irk some who believe that everything should be free and open. However, I'd urge those folks to think seriously about the balance between security, reliability and transparency when talking about federal government systems that control everything from the IRS, to Veterans Affairs, to Health and Human Services," he wrote.
It's a challenging issue, one that won't likely be resolved overnight. It's important to remember, however, that a very significant amount of open source software development happens outside of the United States. It seems short-sighted for the US federal government to impede opportunities for collaboration with other governments around the world. One can only hope that US government agencies will become more comfortable with true openness and transparency in the software process as they acclimate to open source development methodologies.
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Industry asks govt not to back UN agency’s bid to regulate web
Harsimran Julka, ET Bureau Dec 26, 2012, 10.52AM IST
BANGALORE: India's apparent support to a move by a United Nations agency to regulate the internet has irked local stakeholders who have warned the government against voting in favour of the proposals. Earlier this month, the International Telecommunication Union introduced for the first time proposals seeking to define spam and cyber fraud in a way that would have brought some aspects of regulating the 'international network' under its ambit.
While India is yet to sign off on the proposals, the state's public posturing has indicated a supportive stand. "ITU should only focus on the telecom sector and not get into information and communication technology as they tried to do through the Dubai convention last week," said Subho Ray, president of Internet and Mobile Association of India. The proposals have also created an international stand-off — with the United States, United Kingdom and other large European economies rejecting the need for such UN-backed regulation of the internet.
On the other hand, Russia and China are leading a bloc, which is in favour of ITU oversight , leading to concerns that a new Cold War is building up. The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Cellular Operators Association of India have also asked the government not to support ITU proposals, fearing it would put curbs on the internet. "It is now well recognised that law enforcement agencies can misinterpret language even when it is not intended, the Mumbai arrest of two girls being a case in point," Ficci and COAI said in a joint statement, referring to the controversy last month over Facebook posts that were critical of late Shiv Sena leader Bal Thackeray.
"Defining spam requires making content-based determinations; a treatybased obligation could lead to India having to co-operate with other countries on controlling political or commercial speech," the associations cautioned. Industry is also not enthused about ITU's proposals to bring regional internet exchanges under its ambit as it would give the UN body a role in overseeing commercial agreements for internet traffic exchanges, according to Rajan S Mathews, director general at COAI, which counts Airtel, Vodafone and Reliance Communications among members, besides Indian arms of multinational corporations such as eBay, Google, Facebook and Yahoo!.
The Internet Service Providers Association of India said any UN body on internet governance, even if formed, should completely keep itself out of content-related matters. "I think a UN body should be formed only if it involves multiple stakeholders , including the private sector, and not only governments, as has been the case with UN bodies," said Rajesh Chharia, Ispai's president. This is the second time that India has sided with countries such as China, Iran and Egypt to support a proposal for regulation of the internet. The foreign ministry initiated a similar proposal at the UN in Geneva last year for forming a committee on internet-related policies, but the effort did not find enough takers.
Information Technology secretary J Satyanarayana said the ITU proposals "will enable an environment for the greater growth of the Internet." For now, the government has decided that it needs to "consider the ramifications of this before taking a decision on signing." The government has said it will undertake 'necessary consultations', but is not clear how much room industry has to influence what stand the government will eventually take. "India's support clearly shows that it wants to look at the internet as a regulated network and the recent internal legislations also point in this direction ," said Pawan Duggal, an expert on cyber law and a Supreme Court lawyer.
"But India's internet community is jittery, as misuse of such regulations can go unchecked." Globally, the world's largest internet company by revenue, Google, has openly come out against any such internet regulation. Google vice-president and chief internet evangelist Vint Cerf wrote in his blog that the internet has brought unprecedented freedom to billions of people because it is borderless. "Some proposals could allow governments to justify the censorship of legitimate speech, or even cut off internet access in their countries," Cerf cautioned.
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Don't hate me because I'm a better mother.
We first heard about Tiger Mother with the release of her book, “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother,” last week. But this thing has really taken on a life of its own with just about everyone weighing in on her hard line child rearing techniques and criticisms of Western parents. Mostly negatively.
It’s been all over the blogs, including this one.
Today, we had this editorial by David Brooks in the Times Union.
It just doesn’t seem to be dying down the way the school girls dancing to Beyonce did. I hate to see mothers criticize the choices other mothers have made. We should parent the way we believe is right and support each other, even if we don’t agree. Perhaps that is what seems to be getting everyone upset.
Maybe it is the rampant stereotyping of Eastern and Western ways.
Why do we care so much what Amy Chua says?
Tracy Ormsbee
8 Responses
1. maggie says:
Because she went to the court of public opinion to get justification for her choices. She chose a parenting style outside the norm of the geographic area where she lives and now she wants us all to say that her ends justify her means, and we all resent being used like that.
2. momto1 says:
Why do I care what Amy Chua says? I care because two children are being raised by her.
I don’t have to support other parents even if I disagree with their parenting practices. Why would I support parents’ choices if I believe them to be harmful? Smoking in the presence of kids, hitting kids, berating a kid for making an error on the field, feeding kids excess junk food, withholding affection as a form of punishment- these are all parenting choices I would not support. I can go on and on, but my point is that other parents do not get my unconditional support.
3. momto1 says:
I hope we get comments from other Chinese parents. I have never seen a Chinese mother parent the way Amy Chua does.
4. ChristineV says:
You beat me to it. I read Brooks’ column this morning and found his perspective to be really interesting!
5. Sunshine says:
I wholeheartedly disagree with Ms. Chua’s principles, but I think that what has gotten everyone’s back up so much was the self-righteous way in which she expressed it. I’ve not read her book, but I did read thoroughly the WSJ excerpt. She basically presented her views while simultaneously putting down and insulting “Western” parenting.
I think her air of superiority left us all feeling insulted and angry.
6. Colleen says:
I agree with Sunshine #5 — it is her air of superiority that irks me.
But this is also about the money: I read that she got a 6 figure advance
from her publisher. So all this controversy is only helping sales.
7. dgc says:
I couldn’t care less about her. I do however feel sorry for her kids.
8. JBHmom says:
While her parenting style isn’t anything close to mine, and quite honestly I see it as extreme, I have to wonder if she is really doing anything wrong? In our own backyards, we have mothers who expose their children to drug use, a rotating door of men, and language I find disgusting. I think that is also extreme, and far more damaging to the children in that lifestyle. Then there are the kids who go to the same schools as our children, but they have a mother who hits them, drinks every day, swears at them, and feeds them only pre-made meals or something from McDonalds. I would also consider this extreme.
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30-day rape sentence may be illegal, says Montana judge at center of controversy
By Dana Ford, CNN
September 4, 2013 -- Updated 0133 GMT (0933 HKT)
• District Judge G. Todd Baugh schedules a new hearing for Friday
• He says it appears the mandatory minimum is two years, not 30 days
• Cherice Moralez, 14 when she was raped, committed suicide before her 17th birthday
(CNN) -- A 30-day rape sentence given to a teacher who admitted to raping his 14-year-old student may be illegal, according to the Montana judge who imposed it.
The judge scheduled a new hearing for Friday.
"The Defendant shall be present at argument as the Court, if necessary and appropriate, will amend the mandatory minimum portion of the sentence," read a court order filed Tuesday.
It appears the mandatory minimum is two years, not 30 days, the order said.
"In this Court's opinion, imposing a sentence which suspends more than the mandatory minimum would be an illegal sentence," it continued.
The case drew widespread attention when District Judge G. Todd Baugh imposed the 30-day sentence on Stacey Dean Rambold and made controversial comments about the victim, saying she "seemed older than her chronological age."
Protesters want Montana teacher in jail
Prosecutors fight 30-day rape sentence
Geragos: Prosecutor and judge at fault
Victim's mother: Judge should resign
Scott Twito, a prosecutor with the Yellowstone County attorney's office, did not immediately return a call for comment.
In a memo from his office to the Montana attorney general's office, attorneys had argued the relevant statute was "misapplied and the minimum sentence that could be imposed in Rambold's case was two years" -- anticipating the judge's Tuesday order.
Rambold admitted to raping the girl while he was her teacher at her high school.
Cherice Moralez was 14 at the time. She took her own life shortly before her 17th birthday.
Who was Cherice Moralez?
Case details
The case began in 2008 when Cherice was a student at Billings Senior High School and Rambold, then 49, was a teacher.
School officials learned of the relationship, and Rambold resigned.
Authorities charged Rambold with three counts of sexual intercourse without consent.
As the case wound its way through the legal system, Cherice committed suicide. She was a few weeks shy of her 17th birthday.
With her death, prosecutors entered into what is known as a "deferred prosecution agreement" with Rambold.
This meant that all charges against Rambold would be dismissed if he completed a sex-offender treatment program and met other requirements. One of them was to have no contact with children.
Rambold admitted to one of the rape charges.
But the ex-teacher fell short of the agreement.
"He had some contacts with nieces and nephews in a family setting and other adults were present," Baugh said.
He also had relationships with women that he didn't tell his counselors about.
"That is a violation from his deferred prosecution so he was dropped from the plan," said the judge.
As a result, the case was revived in December 2012.
Canadian teen commits suicide after alleged rape
The hearing
At a hearing last month, Baugh ruled that Rambold's infractions weren't serious enough.
"He made some violations of his treatment program," he said. "They were more technical and not the kind you would send someone to prison for."
He sentenced Rambold to 15 years in prison. Then, he suspended all but 31 days of the sentence, according to the Yellowstone County District Court.
The judge gave Rambold credit for one day he spent in jail.
Incredulous at what had happened, the victim's mother, Auliea Hanlon, shouted at the court, "You people suck."
"She wasn't even old enough to get a driver's license," Hanlon said in a statement released by her attorney. "But Judge Baugh, who never met our daughter, justified the paltry sentence saying she was older than her chronological age. I guess somehow it makes a rape more acceptable if you blame the victim, even if she was only 14."
NYC police: Teacher accused of raping 10-year-old student
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.223 Remington
223 Remington.jpg
A variety of .223 Remington cartridges and a .308 Winchester (right) for comparison. Bullets in .223 cartridges (left to right): Montana Gold 55 grain Full Metal Jacket, Sierra 55 grain Spitzer Boat Tail, Nosler/Winchester 55 grain Combined Technology, Hornady 60 grain V-MAX, Barnes 62 grain Tipped Triple-Shock X, Nosler 69 grain Hollow Point Boat Tail, Swift 75 grain Scirocco II.
Type Rifle/varmint
Place of origin United States
Production history
Designer Remington Arms
Designed 1964
Variants .223 Ackley Improved, 5.56×45mm NATO
Parent case .222 Remington
Case type Rimless, bottleneck
Bullet diameter .224 in (5.7 mm)
Neck diameter .253 in (6.4 mm)
Shoulder diameter .354 in (9.0 mm)
Base diameter .376 in (9.6 mm)
Rim diameter .378 in (9.6 mm)
Rim thickness .045 in (1.1 mm)
Case length 1.76 in (45 mm)
Overall length 2.26 in (57 mm)
Rifling twist 1 in 12 inch (military style rifles use 1:7 to 1:10 to stabilize longer bullets)
Primer type Small rifle
Maximum pressure (SAAMI) 55,000 psi (380 MPa)
Maximum pressure (CIP) 62,366 psi (430.00 MPa)
Maximum CUP 52000 CUP
Ballistic performance
Bullet weight/type Velocity Energy
36 gr (2 g) JHP 3,750 ft/s (1,140 m/s) 1,124 ft·lbf (1,524 J)
55 (3.5 g) Nosler ballistic tip 3,240 ft/s (990 m/s) 1,282 ft·lbf (1,738 J)
60 (3.9 g) Nosler partition 3,160 ft/s (960 m/s) 1,330 ft·lbf (1,800 J)
69 (4.48 g) BTHP 2,950 ft/s (900 m/s) 1,333 ft·lbf (1,807 J)
77 (5 g) BTHP 2,750 ft/s (840 m/s) 1,293 ft·lbf (1,753 J)
Test barrel length: 24 inches (61 cm)
Source(s): Federal Cartridge[1]
The .223 Remington is a cartridge with almost the same external dimensions as the 5.56×45mm NATO military cartridge. The name is commonly pronounced either two-two-three or two-twenty-three. It is loaded with a 0.224-inch (5.7 mm) diameter jacketed bullet, with weights ranging from 40 to 90 grains (2.6 to 5.8 g),[citation needed] though the most common loading by far is 55 grains (3.6 g).[citation needed]
While the external case dimensions are very similar, the .223 Remington and 5.56×45mm differ in both maximum pressure and chamber shape. The maximum and mean pressures for some varieties of the 5.56 (different cartridge designations have different standards) exceed the SAAMI maximum for the .223 Remington, and the methods for measuring pressures differ between NATO and SAAMI.[2] The 5.56 chamber specification has also changed since its adoption, as the current military loading (NATO SS-109 or US M855) uses longer, heavier bullets than the original loading. This has resulted in a lengthening of the throat in the 5.56 chamber. Thus, while .223 Remington ammunition can be safely fired in a rifle chambered for 5.56×45mm NATO, firing 5.56 ammunition in a .223 Remington chamber may produce pressures in excess of even the 5.56 specifications due to the shorter throat.[3]
The .223 Remington (5.56×45mm) is a cartridge that is ballistically in between its predecessors, the .222 Remington, and the .222 Remington Magnum. The .223/5.56 was developed to fit the action length of the new M16 service rifle. The .223/5.56 quickly became popular as a civilian cartridge because of the availability of brass, and the chambering of commercial varmint rifles in that caliber. Shortly after military acceptance of the M16, the semi-automatic version, the AR-15 became available, making the .223 cartridge even more popular.
Cartridge dimensions[edit]
The .223 Remington has 28.8 grains (1.87 ml H2O) cartridge case capacity.[4]
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.223 Remington maximum C.I.P. cartridge dimensions. All sizes in millimeters (mm).[5]
Americans would define the shoulder angle at alpha/2 = 23 degrees. The common rifling twist rate for this cartridge is 305 mm (1 in 12 in), 6 grooves, Ø lands = 5.56 millimetres (0.219 in), Ø grooves = 5.69 millimetres (0.224 in), land width = 1.88 millimetres (0.074 in) and the primer type is small rifle.
According to the official Commission Internationale Permanente pour l'Epreuve des Armes à Feu Portatives (C.I.P.) guidelines the .223 Remington case can handle up to 430 MPa (62,366 psi) piezo pressure.[6] In C.I.P. regulated countries every rifle cartridge combo has to be proofed at 125% of this maximum C.I.P. pressure to certify for sale to consumers. This is equal to the NATO maximum service pressure guideline for the 5.56×45mm NATO cartridge.
The SAAMI pressure limit for the .223 Remington is set at 379.212 MPa (55,000 psi), piezo pressure.[7]
The .223 Remington is one of the most common rifle cartridges in use in the United States, being widely used in two types of rifles: (1) varmint rifles, most of which are bolt action and commonly have 1-in-12 rifling twist suitable for bullets between 38 to 55 grains (2.5 to 3.6 g), and (2) semi-automatic rifles such as the AR-15 and the Ruger Mini-14, which are commonly found to have twist rates of 1-in-7, 1-in-9, or 1-in-8. (Most modern AR-15s use 1-in-9 which is suitable for bullets up to 69 grains or 4.5 grams or 1-in-7 which is suitable for slightly heavier bullets, but older M16's used 1-in-12 twist rates, making them suitable for use with bullets of 55 grains or 3.6 grams.) The semi-automatic rifle category is often used by law enforcement, for home defense, and for varmint hunting. Among the many popular modern centerfire rifle cartridges, .223 Remington ammunition is among the least expensive and is often used by a wide range of target shooters, particularly in the "service rifle" category or 3 gun matches. The .223 is also used in survival rifles.
.223 Remington versus 5.56×45mm NATO[edit]
Size comparison between .222 (left) and .223 (right)
The .223 Remington and 5.56×45mm NATO cartridges and chamberings are similar but not identical.[8] While the cartridges are identical other than powder load, the chamber leade, i.e. the area where the rifling begins, is cut to a sharper angle on some .223 Remington commercial chambers. Because of this, a cartridge loaded to generate 5.56×45mm NATO pressures in a 5.56×45mm NATO chamber may develop pressures that exceed SAAMI limits when fired from a short-leade .223 Remington chamber.
Brass Case[edit]
The dimensional specifications of 5.56 NATO and .223 Remington commercial brass cases are identical. The cases tend to have similar case capacity when measured, with variations chiefly due to brand, not 5.56 vs .223 designation. The result of this is that there is no such thing as "5.56 brass" or ".223 brass", the differences in the cartridges lie in pressure ratings and in chamber leade length, not in the shape or thickness of the brass.[9][10]
Size comparison between .222 Magnum (left) and .223 (right)
C.I.P. defines the maximum service and proof test pressures of the .223 Remington cartridge equal to the 5.56×45mm NATO, at 430 MPa (62,366 psi). This differs from the SAAMI maximum pressure specification for .223 Remington of 380 MPa (55,114 psi), due to CIP test protocols measuring pressure using a drilled case, rather than an intact case with a conformal piston, along with other differences.[11] NATO uses NATO EPVAT pressure test protocols for their small arms ammunition specifications.
Because of these differences in methodology, the C.I.P. pressure of 430 MPa (62,366 psi) is the same as a SAAMI pressure of 380 MPa (55,114 psi), which is reflected in US Military specifications for 5.56×45mm NATO, which call for a mean maximum pressure of 55,000 PSI (when measured using a protocol similar to SAAMI).[12]
These pressures are generated and measured using a chamber cut to 5.56×45mm NATO specifications, including the longer leade. Firing 5.56×45mm NATO from a chamber with a shorter .223 Remington leade can generate pressures in excess of SAAMI maximums.
The 5.56×45mm NATO chambering, known as a NATO or mil-spec chamber, has a longer leade, which is the distance between the mouth of the cartridge and the point at which the rifling engages the bullet. The .223 Remington chambering, known as SAAMI chamber, is allowed to have a shorter leade, and is only required to be proof tested to the lower SAAMI chamber pressure. To address these issues, various proprietary chambers exist, such as the Wylde chamber (Rock River Arms)[13] or the ArmaLite chamber, which are designed to handle both 5.56×45mm NATO and .223 Remington equally well. The dimensions and leade of the .223 Remington minimum C.I.P. chamber also differ from the 5.56×45mm NATO chamber specification.
Using commercial .223 Remington cartridges in a 5.56×45mm NATO chambered rifle should work reliably, but until recently, it was believed this was less accurate than when fired from a .223 Remington chambered gun due to the longer leade.[14] Although that may have been true in the early 1960s when the two rounds were developed, recent testing has shown that with today's ammunition, rifles chambered in 5.56 can also fire .223 ammunition every bit as accurately as rifles chambered in .223 Remington, and the 5.56 chamber has the additional advantage of being able to safely fire both calibers.[15] Using 5.56×45mm NATO mil-spec cartridges (such as the M855) in a .223 Remington chambered rifle can lead to excessive wear and stress on the rifle and even be unsafe, and SAAMI recommends against the practice.[16][17] Some commercial rifles marked as ".223 Remington" are in fact suited for 5.56×45mm NATO, such as many commercial AR-15 variants and the Ruger Mini-14 (marked ".223 cal"), but the manufacturer should always be consulted to verify that this is acceptable before attempting it, and signs of excessive pressure (such as flattening or gas staining of the primers) should be looked for in the initial testing with 5.56×45mm NATO ammunition.[18]
It should also be noted that the upper receiver (to which the barrel with its chamber are attached) and the lower receiver are entirely separate parts in AR-15 style rifles. If the lower receiver has either .223 or 5.56 stamped on it, it does not guarantee the upper assembly is rated for the same caliber, because the upper and the lower receiver in the same rifle can, and frequently do, come from different manufacturers – particularly with rifles sold to civilians or second-hand rifles.
In more practical terms, as of 2010 most AR-15 parts suppliers engineer their complete upper assemblies (not to be confused with stripped uppers where the barrel is not included) to support both chamberings in order to satisfy market demand and prevent any potential problems.
Effects of barrel length on velocity[edit]
Barrel length helps determine a specific cartridges muzzle velocity. A longer barrel will typically yield a greater muzzle velocity, while a short barrel will yield a lower one. In the case of the 5.56 NATO, M193 ammunition loses or gains approximately 25.7 feet-per-second for each inch of barrel length, while M855 loses or gains 30.3 feet-per-second per inch of barrel length.[19]
Related cartridges[edit]
P.O. Ackley created an improved version of this cartridge, called the .223 Ackley Improved.[20] It has the straight sides and steep shoulder, typical of the Ackley design improvements, yielding about 5% extra case volume. This, in turn, provides longer case life, less stretching, and up to 100 ft/s (30 m/s) faster velocities.[citation needed]
Wildcat cartridge developers have for a long time necked this cartridge up to create the 6mm/223 or 6×45mm. At one time this round was very popular for varminting and competition, but has been replaced by current popular competition cartridges using short, fat cases, such as the 6 mm PPC and the 6mm Norma BR.[citation needed]
The Thompson/Center Ugalde family of wildcat cartridges are also made by necking up .223 Remington cases, for use in the Thompson/Center Contender target pistol.[citation needed]
See also[edit]
1. ^ "Federal Cartridge Co. ballistics page". Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 2007-09-25.
2. ^ "Miscellaneous Questions 4".
3. ^ ".223 Remington". AccuratePowder.com. Archived from the original on June 17, 2009.
4. ^ "223 Rem + 223 AI Cartridge Guide". 6mmbr.com.
5. ^ C.I.P. decisions, texts and tables free current C.I.P. CD-ROM version download (ZIP and RAR format)
6. ^ "223 Rem.". C.I.P. Archived from the original on 2013-07-05. Retrieved 2 July 2013.
7. ^ "SAAMI Pressures". Archived from the original on 14 October 2007. Retrieved 2007-11-29.
8. ^ .223 Remington and 5.56×45mm NATO Chamber dimensions differences
9. ^ 6mmbr.com. "223 Rem + 223 AI Cartridge Guide".
10. ^ "http://www.luckygunner.com/labs/5-56-vs-223/". Retrieved 13 June 2013.
11. ^ "Cartridge Pressure Standards". Retrieved 14 June 2013.
12. ^ US Mil-spec MIL-C-9963F, MIL-C-9963G, and MIL-C-63989A(AR)
13. ^ Rock River Arms
14. ^ News and Press Releases: .223 Rem VS 5.56mm, winchester.com, 5/4/2001
15. ^ Patrick Sweeney, "Chamber Reality Check", Peterson's Rifle Shooter, Volume 16, Issue 2, March/April 2013, pp. 32–36.
16. ^ "Unsafe Arms and Ammunition Combinations" at SAAMI web site
17. ^ SAAMI on 5.56 v. .223 Remington. The Gun Zone. Retrieved on 2011-01-08.
18. ^ TECHNICAL NOTE 45: 5.56 NATO vs SAAMI .223 REMINGTON CHAMBERS, armalite.com, December 4, 2002
19. ^ http://rifleshooter.com/2014/04/223-remington5-56-nato-velocity-versus-barrel-length-a-man-his-chop-box-and-his-friends-rifle/
20. ^ Anderson, Dave (April 2003). "Pumping up the .223: experiments with a self-loading .223 Ackley Improved". Guns Magazine. Archived from the original on 14 March 2008. Retrieved 2008-06-10.
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Carotid sinus
Arteries of the neck. The carotid sinus is at the origin of the internal carotid artery.
Latin sinus caroticus
carotid artery
branch of glossopharyngeal nerve to carotid sinus
MeSH A07.
TA A12.2.04.008
FMA FMA:50094
Anatomical terminology
In human anatomy, the carotid sinus (or carotid bulb) is a dilated area superior to the bifurcation of the common carotid at the level of the superior border of thyroid cartilage. The carotid sinus is sensitive to pressure changes in the arterial blood at this level.
The carotid sinus contains numerous baroreceptors which function as a "sampling area" for many homeostatic mechanisms for maintaining blood pressure. The carotid sinus baroreceptors are innervated by the sinus nerve of Hering, which is a branch of cranial nerve IX (glossopharyngeal nerve). The glossopharyngeal nerve synapses in the nucleus tractus solitarii (NTS) located in the medulla oblongata of the brainstem. The NTS indirectly modulates the activity of sympathetic and parasympathetic (vagal) neurons in the medulla and pons through the hypothalamus. These neurons then regulate the autonomic control of the heart and blood vessels. The aortic arch baroreceptors are innervated by the aortic nerve (Nerve of Cyon), which combines with CN X (vagus nerve) and travels to the NTS.
Clinical significance[edit]
The carotid sinus often has atherosclerotic plaques because of disturbed hemodynamics (low wall shear stress, flow reversal/recirculation).[1] Since these plaques, if large and unstable, predispose to ischemic strokes and transient ischemic attacks, carotid endarterectomies are frequently done for prophylaxis.
The carotid sinus can be oversensitive to manual stimulation, a condition known as carotid sinus hypersensitivity, carotid sinus syndrome or carotid sinus syncope, in which manual stimulation causes large changes in heart rate and/or blood pressure. This classically presents as a patient who has "fainted" on several occasions while shaving, or in some other way coming into contact with their carotid sinus.
Carotid sinus syndrome is a temporary loss of consciousness that sometimes accompanies convulsive seizures because of the intensity of the carotid sinus reflex when pressure builds in one or both carotid sinuses.
Carotid sinus massage[edit]
Massage of the carotid sinus, carotid sinus massage is used to diagnose carotid sinus syncope and is sometimes useful for differentiating supraventricular tachycardia (SVT) from ventricular tachycardia. Like the valsalva maneuver, it is a therapy for SVT.[2] It is less effective than pharmaceutical management of SVT with verapamil or adenosine[3] though is still the preferred first line of treatment in a hemodynamically stable patient[4]
Carotid sinus reflex death[edit]
Carotid sinus reflex death is a potential etiology[5] of sudden death in which manual stimulation of the carotid sinus allegedly causes strong glossopharyngeal nerve (Vagus nerve is for aortic arch baroreceptors) impulses leading to terminal cardiac arrest. Carotid sinus reflex death has been pointed out as a possible cause of death in cases of strangulation, hanging and Autoerotic Strangulation, but such deductions remain controversial. Studies[citation needed] have also suggested that the carotid sinus reflex can be a contributing factor in other mechanisms of death by reducing blood pressure and heart rate, especially in the elderly or in people suffering from carotid sinus hypersensitivity. A carotid massage can also possibly dislodge a thrombus, or some plaque. This could lead to any number of life-threatening effects, including stroke.[6]
See also[edit]
1. ^ Glagov S, Zarins C, Giddens DP, Ku DN. Hemodynamics and atherosclerosis. Insights and perspectives gained from studies of human arteries. biod degradable Arch Pathol Lab Med. 1988 Oct;112(10):1018-31. PMID 3052352
2. ^ Lim SH, Anantharaman V, Teo WS, Goh PP, Tan AT. Comparison of treatment of supraventricular tachycardia by Valsalva maneuver and carotid sinus massage. Ann Emerg Med. 1998 Jan;31(1):30-5. doi:10.1016/S0196-0644(98)70277-X PMID 9437338
3. ^ Ballo P, Bernabo D, Faraguti SA. Heart rate is a predictor of success in the treatment of adults with symptomatic paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia. Eur Heart J. 2004 Aug;25(15):1310-7. doi:10.1016/j.ehj.2004.05.011 PMID 15288158
4. ^ American Heart Association. Tachycardia algorithm. Advanced Cardiac Life Support Provider Manual (2007).
5. ^ Darrell L. Ross, Ted Chan Sudden Deaths in Custody
6. ^ Passig, K. Carotid sinus reflex death - a theory and its history. URL last accessed February 28, 2006.
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Huo Qubing
Marquis of Champion 冠軍侯
In office
123 BC – 117 BC
Succeeded by Huo Shan
Personal details
Born 140 BC
Died 117 BC (aged 22-23)
Relations Huo Zhongyu (father)
Wei Shaoer (mother)
Wei Zifu (aunt)
Wei Qing (uncle)
Liu Ju (cousin)
Huo Guang (half-brother)
Huo Chengjun (niece)
Huo Qubing (Chinese: 霍去病; pinyin: Huò Qùbìng; Wade–Giles: Huo Ch'üping, 140 BC – 117 BC), born in Linfen, Shanxi, was a distinguished military tactician of the Western Han dynasty during the reign of Emperor Wu. He was the nephew of the famous general Wei Qing and Empress Wei Zifu (Emperor Wu's wife), and the half-brother of the later Han statesman Huo Guang.
Early life[edit]
Huo Qubing was an illegitimate son from the premarital affair between Wei Shaoer (衛少兒), daughter of a lowly maid from the household of Princess Pingyang, and Huo Zhongru (霍仲孺), a low-class civil servant who were employed there also at the time.[1] However, Huo Zhongru did not want to marry a girl from serf background, so he dumped Wei Shaoer and went back to his hometown to marry a local woman instead. Wei Shaoer insisted keeping the child, raising him with help of her siblings.
When Huo Qubing was around two years old, his younger aunt Wei Zifu, who was serving as an in-house singer/dancer for Princess Pingyang, caught the eyes of a visiting young Emperor Wu, who took her and her half-brother Wei Qing back to his palace in the capital Chang'an. More than a year later, the newly favored concubine Wei Zifu became pregnant with Emperor Wu's first child, earning her the jealousy and hatred of Emperor Wu's then formal wife, Empress Chen. Empress Chen's mother, Eldest Princess Guantao (館陶長公主), then attempted to retaliate at Wei Zifu by kidnapping and attempting to murder Wei Qing, who was then serving as a horseman at the Jianzhang Camp (建章營, Emperor Wu's royal guards). After Wei Qing was rescued by his fellow palace guards led by his close friend Gongsun Ao (公孫敖), Emperor Wu took the opportunity to humiliate Empress Chen and Princess Guantao, by promoting Wei Zifu to a consort (夫人, a concubine position lower only to the Empress) and Wei Qing to the triple role of Chief of Jianzhang Camp (建章監), Chief of Staff (侍中) and Chief Councillor (太中大夫), effectively making him one of Emperor Wu's closest lieutenants. The rest of the Wei family were also well rewarded, including the decreed marriage of Wei Shaoer's older sister Wei Junru (衛君孺) to Emperor Wu's personal assistant Gongsun He (公孫賀). At the time, Wei Shaoer was romantically enagaged with Chen Zhang (陳掌), a great-grandson of Emperor Gaozu's adviser Chen Ping. their relationship was also legitimized by Emperor Wu through the form of decreed marriage.[2] Through the rise of the Wei family, the young Huo Qubing grew up in prosperity and prestige.
Military career[edit]
Although raised in reasonable wealth during the early glory days of the Wei family, Huo Qubing was nowhere like the good-for-nothing rich kids frequently seen out of noble families. He exhibited outstanding military talent even as a teenager. Emperor Wu saw highly of Huo's potential, and made Huo his personal assistant.
In 121 BC, Emperor Wu deployed Huo Qubing twice in that year against Xiongnu in the Hexi Corridor. During spring, Huo Qubing led 10,000 cavalry, fought through five Western Regions kingdoms within 6 days, advanced over 1,000 li over Mount Yanzhi (焉支山), killed two Xiongnu princes along with 8,960 enemies, and captured several Xiongnu nobles as well as the Golden Statue used by Xiongnu as an artifact for holy rituals.[6] For this achievement, his march was increased by 2,200 households.[7] During the summer of the same year, Xiongnu attacked Dai Commandery and Yanmen. Huo Qubing set off from Longxi (modern-day Gansu) with over 10,000 cavalry, supported by Gongsun Ao, who set off from Beidi Commandery (北地郡, modern-day Huan County, Gansu). Despite Gongsun Ao failing to keep up, Huo Qubing fought over 2,000 li without backup, all the way past Juyan Lake to Qilian Mountains, killing over 30,000 Xiongnu soldiers and capturing a dozen Xiongnu princes. His march was then increased further by 5,400 households for the victory.
Defeated by Qubing, the Xiongnu sang:
Emperor Wu, who had been distancing Wei Qing and giving the younger Huo Qubing more attention and favor, hoped for Huo to engage the stronger Chanyu's tribe and preferentially assigned him the most elite troopers. The initial plan called for Huo Qubing to attack from Dingxiang (定襄, modern-day Qingshuihe County, Inner Mongolia) and engage the Chanyu, with Wei Qing supporting him in the east from Dai Commandery (代郡, modern-day, Yu County, Hebei) to engage the Left Worthy Prince (左賢王). However, a Xiongnu prisoner of war confessed that the Chanyu's main force was at the east side. Unaware that this was actually a false information by Xiongnu, Emperor Wu ordered the two columns to switch routes, with Wei Qing now setting off on the western side from Dingxiang, and Huo Qubing marching on the eastern side from Dai Commandery.
Battles at the eastern Dai Commandery theater were quite straightforward, as Huo Qubing's forces were far superior to their enemies. Huo Qubing advanced over 2,000 li and directly engaged the Left Worthy Prince in a swift and decisive battle, quickly encircled and overran the Xiongnu, killing 70,443 men, and capturing three lords and 83 nobles, while suffering a 20% casualty rate that was quickly resupplied from local captures. He then went on to conduct a series of rituals upon arrival at the Khentii Mountains (狼居胥山, and the more northern 姑衍山) to symbolize the historic Han victory, then continued his pursuit as far as Lake Baikal (瀚海), effectively annihilating the Xiongnu clan.[8] A separate division led by Lu Bode (路博德), set off on a strategically flanking route from Right Beiping (右北平, modern-day Ningcheng County, Inner Mongolia), joined forces with Huo Qubing after arriving in time with 2,800 enemy kills, and the combined forces then returned in triumph. This victory earned Huo Qubing 5,800 households of fiefdom as a reward,[9] making him more distinguished than his uncle Wei Qing.[10] At the height of his career, many low-ranking commanders previously served under Wei Qing voluntarily jumped ship to Huo Qubing's service in the hope of achieving military glory with him.[11]
Death and legacy[edit]
The "Horse Stomping Xiongnu" statue at Huo Qubing's tomb
Emperor Wu offered to help Huo Qubing build up a household for marriage. Huo Qubing, however, answered that "the Xiongnu are not yet eliminated, why should I start a family? (匈奴未滅，何以家為？)",[12] a statement that became one of the most inspirational Chinese patriotic motto ever since. Though Huo Qubing was recorded as a quiet man with few words, he was far from humble.[13] Sima Qian noted in Shiji that Huo Qubing paid little regard to his men,[14] refused to share his food with his soldiers,[15] and regularly ordered his troops to conduct cuju games despite them being short on rations.[16] When Emperor Wu suggested him to study The Art of War by Sun Tzu and Wuzi by Wu Qi, Huo Qubing claimed that he naturally understood strategies and had no need to study.[17] When his subordinate Li Gan (李敢, son of Li Guang) assaulted Wei Qing, the latter forgave the incident,l. Huo Qubing, on the other hand, refused to tolerate such disrespect towards his uncle and personally shot Li Gan during a hunting trip. Emperor Wu covered for Qubing, stating that Li Gan was "killed by a deer".[18]
When it came to military glory, Huo Qubing was said to be more generous. One legend told of when Emperor Wu awarded Huo a jar of precious wine for his achievement, he poured it into a creek so all his men drinking the water could share a taste of it, giving name to the city of Jiuquan (酒泉, literally "wine spring").
Huo Qubing died in 117 BC at the early age of 24 due to a plague, possibly the result of a primitive form of biological warfare. It is believed that Xiongnu soldiers put dead horses, cows and sheep in lakes during the Gobi Desert war to contaminate water supplies and spread infectious diseases among the Han soldiers, in a form of shamanistic witchcraft curse. After Huo Qubing's death, the agrieved Emperor Wu ordered the elite troops from the five border commanderies to line up all the way from Chang'an to Maoling, where Huo Qubing's tomb was constructed in the shape of the Qilian Mountains to commemorate his military achievements.[19] Huo Qubing was then posthumously appointed the title Marquess of Jinghuan (景桓侯),[20] and a large "Horse Stomping Xiongnu" (馬踏匈奴) stone statue was built in front of his tomb, near Emperor Wu's tomb of Maoling.
Along with his uncle Wei Qing, Huo Qubing was among the most decorated military commanders in Chinese history. The Eastern Han Dynasty historian Ban Gu, summarized in his Book of Han Huo Qubing's achievements with a poem:
Huo Qubing's half-brother Huo Guang, whom he took custody away from his father, was later a great statesman who was the chief consul behind Emperor Zhao, and was instrumental in the succession of Emperor Xuan to the throne after Emperor Zhao's death.
Huo Qubing's son Huo Shàn (霍嬗), who succeeded him as the Marquess of Champion but died young in 110 BC, so his title became extinct. His grandson Huo Shān (霍山, later Marquess of Leping) and Huo Yun (霍云, later Marquess of Guanyang) was involved in a failed plot to overthrow Emperor Xuan of Han in 66 BC, resulting in both of them committing suicide and the Huo clan being executed. It was presumably that no male descendant of Huo Qubing nor Huo Guang survived, as during the reign of Emperor Ping of Han, it was Huo Yang, a great-grandson of Huo Qubing's paternal cousin, chosen to inherit Huo Guang as Marquess of Bolu.
Popular culture[edit]
Huo Qubing was played by Li Junfeng (李俊锋) in the popular 2005 historical epics TV series Han Wu Da Di (汉武大帝).
See also[edit]
7. ^ 益封去病二千二百戶
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Pálinka is a traditional fruit brandy in Hungary, Slovakia, Austria and Romania, known under several names, and invented in the Middle Ages in Hungary. Protected as a geographical indication of the European Union, only fruit spirits mashed, distilled, matured and bottled in Hungary, and similar apricot spirits from four provinces of Austria can be called pálinka. Törkölypálinka, a different product in the legal sense, is a likewise protected pomace brandy that is colloquially included with pálinka. The European Union have also been establishing geographical protection for a growing number of local traditional varieties, such as the Plum Pálinka of Szatmár (Szatmári Szilvapálinka) and others. While pálinka may be made of any local grown fruit, the most common ones are plums, apricots, apples, pears, and cherries.[1]
Legal definitions[edit]
1. it is fermented exclusively from fruit (excluding concentrates and dried fruit) grown in Hungary, and free of additional ingredients
2. is grown, distilled and bottled in Hungary,
3. is not rectified higher than 86%, and is bottled with at least 37,5% ABV.
While pálinka is traditionally made from a mash of ripe fruit, the law does not control the addition of non-concentrated fruit juice, and explicitly allows the use of fruit pulp. Dried fruit are excluded from the mash only, and may be used in the aging process.[2]
As a consequence of this regulation, a whole family of popular Hungarian products were rebranded as "szeszes ital" (spirit drinks). Traditional pálinkas mixed with honey were rebranded as "szeszes ital" as well (or liqueur, if the sugar content exceeded the required limit), even if there was no unorthodox steps in the process of distillation. Most of the brands re-categorized as spirit drinks, however, are cheap mixtures of flavorings, water, and rectified spirit.[3]
In 2004 the European Union accepted pálinka as a Hungarian speciality, and hence its production is limited to Hungary (and four provinces of Austria for pálinka made from apricot). This caused some confusion in neighbouring countries, as some claimed that producers of fruit brandies would have to pay a royalty to Hungary.[4] This is however not the case. It is the brand "pálinka" that is protected by Hungarian and EU law, hence producers outside of Hungary are not allowed to use the brand "pálinka" for their products, but they are free to produce fruit brandies and sell them under different names. This is in spite of the drink being historically distilled in most of historical Hungary, many regions of which fall outside the present-day borders.
Geographical protection[edit]
While pálinka has PDO on its own, some regions of Hungary are especially suitable for the production of certain fruit, and pálinka of excellent quality has been produced in those regions for centuries. These local variations are protected as separate geographical indications, and have their own well-detailed regulations. In order to use these protected names on the label, strict geographical and technical requirements must be met. A product not meeting the special requirements of gönci barackpálinka (apricot pálinka of Gönc) for example, cannot be labeled as such, not even if it's otherwise a legit apricot pálinka from Gönc. In Hungary, only these local variations are referred to as pálinka with protected designations of origin.
The eight palinkas with local PDO[edit]
The first records of the Hungarian spirit date back to the fourteenth century (1332), and refer as "Aqua vitae reginae Hungariae" to the aqua vitae of the wife of the King Charles I of Hungary. This spirit was probably a brandy blended with rosemary, and had its use in medicine, as both the king and the queen suffered from arthritis.
Hungarian pálinka bottle
In the 19th century, breweries and pálinka distilleries operated in tandem. Comenius described the equipment used to make pálinka in "Orbis sensualium pictus" ("The World in Pictures"), his famous book written for children in the Hungarian town of Sárospatak. Distilling itself was the right of landowners, while laws were introduced to prevent peasants from making pálinka at home. The use of wheat was banned and distillation was forbidden on religious holidays. Despite this, the church still oversaw alcohol production. Records show that Cistercian monks in Heves County were brewing beer and distilling pálinka in 1715. The role of Jewish lenders and businessmen also grew with the production of alcohol and Saint Michael was designated patron saint of distilling. Textbooks and publications also began to appear on the subject around this time.
The larger scale production of distillates, pálinka and liqueurs from 1799 resulted in guidelines being drawn up for distillation and the priority rights granted to landowners were made law. It wasn't long before a pálinka tax was introduced and by 1850, distillation was a state monopoly. In 1920, there were 260 pálinka distilleries in Hungary, a figure that grew to 1,070 in 1970 before falling back down to 815 in 1982. In the meantime, various laws were introduced to restrict production, including prohibition during the short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republic in 1919 and splitting of production 50-50 with the state from 1952 to 1970.
Illegal home distilling became popular in the 18th century when peasant breweries were shut down. The practice was fuelled by the desire to make use of fruit that had fallen from the tree and could not be eaten coupled with the knowledge that making pálinka at home was much less expensive. Because the end product was often inferior, this produce was reserved for personal use and only offered to friends and guests.
The word pálinka became widespread in Hungary in the seventeenth century, but it still referred to distillates made from grain. The meaning was later transferred to fruit brandies, while wheat distillates were referred to as "crematura". Distillation became a privilege of the landlords, which led to the proliferation of home stills. Law forbade the use of bread-stuffs for distillation, hence the use of fruit. Private distilleries and factories started to appear towards the end of the eighteenth century, which led to legislation and to the introduction of a Pálinka tax.
Types of pálinka[edit]
- Kisüsti (literally "Small pot, cauldron") is a double-distilled pálinka made in a copper pot not exceeding a volume of 1000 litres.
- Törköly (Pomace pálinka, also Törkölypálinka) is a pálinka made from grape pomace. One of the oldest types of pálinka; it helps digestion, and is usually consumed in small quantities after meals.[6]
A popular saying in Hungary says: what can be used to prepare jam can also be used to produce pálinka. For a fruit to be suitable for jam production it has to contain some sugar. This saying suggests that pálinka can be made from a large variety of fruit, and indeed it is made from most of the fruit available in Hungary.
The most common pálinkas are made from apricots, pears, and plums. Other fruit that are often used are sour cherries, apples, mulberries and quince. Nevertheless, pálinka made from chestnuts is also available.
An unusual way of presenting pear palinka is when the bottle contains a whole fruit inside.[7] The tiny immature fruit and its branch are threaded into the bottle, and the pear matures there to a point where it is much larger than the bottle opening.
Pálinka should be served at 18-20°C because it is at this temperature that the fine smell and taste of the fruit can be best enjoyed. If served too cold, the smell and the taste will be difficult to appreciate.
The form of the glass used to drink pálinka has a big influence on the drinking experience. The ideal glass is wide at the bottom and narrow at the rim: tulip-shaped. The relatively narrow neck of the glass concentrates the "nose" released from the larger surface at the bottom of the glass, magnifying the smell of the drink.
Modern production[edit]
Modern commercial production occurs in Hungary, Romania and parts of Austria. It is commonly made from the fermentation of plums, but other fruit used include apricots, apples, pears, peaches and cherries.[8][9] The traditional double distillation process results in a strong alcohol content of 40 to 70 percent ABV.[10][11]
Commercial production[edit]
The first step in the production process is the preparation of the fruit mash. The stony seed is removed from the fruit that have such (e.g., cherry, apricot, plum) in order avoid the cyanide contained in these seeds from ending up in the distillate. Some fruit (e.g., apple, pear, quince) will be ground in order to make the mash soft.
The second step in the production process is the fermentation. Some fruit, like quince, require an additive to start the fermentation process (e.g., citric acid). The fermentation is carried out in an anaerobic environment. The ideal temperature for the fermentation process is between 14-16 degrees Celsius, and the process takes between 10 and 15 days.
Distillation in a pot still ("kisüsti" pálinka refers to a pálinka distilled in a pot still no bigger than 1000 litres) is considered to be the traditional way of distillation. Pálinka distilled in a pot still is always double distilled. In the first step the alcohol is extracted from the fermented mash, the result is called "alszesz" (low alcohol). In the second step it is the taste of the fruit that is extracted from the fermented mash. The second distillation is the one that has the biggest influence on the quality of the pálinka, and hence requires special skills. During the second distillation one distinguishes between "előpárlat" (foreshots), "középpárlat" (middle cut) and "utópárlat" (feints). The "előpárlat" is not used, even though much of the taste is contained in this cut. The "középpárlat" is the one that gives the body of the distillate.
Distillation in a column still involves a single distillation. The process is faster and cheaper than distillation in a pot still, and hence, the resulting pálinka is cheaper.
The last step in the process is aging. Pálinka can be aged in wooden casks (made of, e.g., mulberry wood) or in tanks made of metal. Not all varieties of pálinka can be aged in wooden casks, because the wood can cancel the fruity taste of the drink.
Non-commercial production[edit]
The most alcoholic pálinkas are (informally) referred to as "kerítésszaggató" in Hungarian, which literally means "fence-ripper" (referring to a drunkard's loss of balance). These potent, home-made, "házi" (home-made) pálinkas are commercially available in small portions and are very common in the countryside.
Similar products[edit]
• Slivovitz, plum brandy
• Rakia, a brandy made throughout Southeastern Europe
• Ţuică, a similar drink in Romania
• Pălincă, a similar drink in Romania
• Pálenka, distillate of fruit or grains
See also[edit]
1. ^ E.U. regulations of spirit drinks, 110/2008, M(b), 2008
2. ^ Law LXXIII of 2008 in Hungarian
4. ^ Cazacu , Sorin, "The Battle for Palinka", in EU Observer,Transitions Online (03/04/2003)
5. ^ Codex Alimentarius Austriacus B 23 - Spirituosen
6. ^ Act 73/2008 about pálinka, törkölypálinka, and Pálinka National Council
7. ^ Pear in the palinka bottle, image
9. ^ Ryan, James (2010). Frommer's Budapest & the Best of Hungary. Frommer's. p. 190.
10. ^ Muica, N.; Turnock, D. "The potential for traditional food and drink products in Eastern Europe: Fruit processing — especially brandy ("tuica") distilling—in Romania". Geojournal 38 (2): 197–206. doi:10.1007/BF00186670.
11. ^ Rusu, Teodora; Sociaciu, Carmen; Parau, Carmen; Mocan, Augustin (2010). "Quality and Safety Analysis for some Traditional Homemade Fruit Distillates from Transylvania (North West Romania)". Bulletin UASVM Agriculture, 67 (2).
12. ^ "Hungarian moonshine". The Budapest Report. Retrieved 2010-08-05.
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A social game using playing cards. Oil painting by an unknown artist, c1850.
Early history[edit]
Playing cards were invented in Imperial China.[2][3][4] They were found in China as early as the 9th century during the Tang Dynasty (618–907).[5][6][7] The first reference to card games dates from the 9th century, when the Collection of Miscellanea at Duyang, written by Tang Dynasty writer Su E, described Princess Tongchang, daughter of Emperor Yizong of Tang, playing the "leaf game" in 868 with members of the Wei clan, the family of the princess' husband.[4][8][9]:131 The Song Dynasty (960–1279) scholar Ouyang Xiu (1007–1072) asserted that playing cards and card games existed at least since the mid-Tang Dynasty and associated their invention with the simultaneous development of using sheets or pages instead of paper rolls as a writing medium.[3][4] The first known book on cards called Yezi Gexi was allegedly written by a Tang era woman, and was commented on by Chinese writers of subsequent dynasties.[3]
During the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644), characters from novels such as the Water Margin were widely featured on the faces of playing cards.[9]:132
Ancient Chinese "money cards" have four suits: coins (or cash), strings of coins (which may have been misinterpreted as sticks from crude drawings), myriads (of coins or of strings), and tens of myriads (a myriad is 10,000). These were represented by ideograms, with numerals of 2–9 in the first three suits and numerals 1–9 in the "tens of myriads". Wilkinson suggests that the first cards may have been actual paper currency which were both the tools of gaming and the stakes being played for,[2] as in trading card games. The designs on modern Mahjong tiles likely evolved from those earliest playing cards. However, it may be that the first pack of cards ever printed was a Chinese domino pack, in whose cards all 21 combinations of a pair of dice are depicted. In Kuei-t'ien-lu, a Chinese text redacted in the 11th century, domino cards were printed during the Tang Dynasty, contemporary to the first printed books. The Chinese word pái (牌) is used to describe both paper cards and gaming tiles.
Mamluk Egyptian standard[edit]
A Mamluk playing card, Six of Coins
By the 11th century, playing cards were spread throughout the Asian continent and later came into Mamluk Egypt.[9]:309 The Mamluk pack contained 52 cards comprising four suits: polo sticks, coins, swords, and cups. Each suit contained ten spot or pip cards (cards identified by the number of suit symbols or "pips" they show) and three court cards, called malik (king), nā'ib malik (viceroy or deputy king), and thānī nā'ib (second or under-deputy). The Mamluk court cards showed abstract designs or calligraphy not depicting persons (at least not in any surviving specimens), though they did bear the names of military officers. Nā'ib would be corrupted into naibi (Italian) and naipes (Spanish), the latter still in common usage.
A complete pack of Mamluk playing cards was discovered by Leo Mayer in the Topkapı Palace, Istanbul, in 1939.[10] This particular complete pack was not made before 1400, but the complete pack was matched to a privately owned fragment dated to the 12th or 13th century. It is not a complete pack, but there are cards of three packs of the same style.[11] Production of these cards did not outlive the fall of the Mamluks in the sixteenth century.[12]
It is not known whether these cards influenced the design of the Indian cards used for the game of Ganjifa, or whether the Indian cards may have influenced these. Regardless, the Indian cards have many distinctive features: they are round, generally hand painted with intricate designs, and comprise more than four suits—often as many as thirty two, like a pack in the Deutsches Spielkartenmuseum, painted in the Mewar, a city in Rajasthan, during the 18th or 19th century. Packs used for play have from eight to twenty suits.
Spread across Europe and early design changes[edit]
Further information: Tarot
Italians playing cards, Sancai-type bowl, Northern Italy, mid-15th century
Playing cards first entered Southern Europe in the early 14th century, probably from Mamluk Egypt, using the Mamluk suits of cups, coins, swords, and polo-sticks, and which are still used in traditional Latin decks.[13] As polo was an obscure sport to Europeans then, the polo-sticks became staves, batons, or clubs.[14] The first documentary evidence is a document written in Vitoria-Gasteiz (now Spain) in 1334, in which the Knights of the Band are categorically prohibited from playing cards.[15] Their presence is attested in Catalonia in 1371, 1377 in Switzerland, and 1380 in many locations including Florence and Paris.[16][17][18] Wide use of playing cards in Europe can, with some certainty, be traced from 1377 onwards.[19]
Three French playing cards, c.1500, the queen should be Anne, Duchess of Brittany, holding her crowned coat of arms, representing the union of France and Brittany.[21] It is surrounded by a French motto (modern spelling): "Coeur de Femme trompe le monde", "women's heart deceive the world" in English.
No examples of printed cards from before 1423 survive. But from about 1418 to 1450[22] professional card makers in Ulm, Nuremberg, and Augsburg created printed decks. Playing cards even competed with devotional images as the most common uses for woodcut in this period.
Karnöffel is the oldest card game with which the rules are recorded. It has an early system of trumps that may have preceded the use of the tarot trumps. The origins of the tarot pack are thought to be Italian, with the oldest surviving examples dating from the mid-15th century in Milan. It is generally thought that the tarot was invented between 1411 and 1425 by adding a dedicated suit of trump cards (trionfi) to the Italian deck. The tarot deck was never as popular as the standard decks as it was more expensive so lower classes preferred smaller decks. In many countries or regions, the regular 52 or 56 card deck shrank to 48, 40, 36, 32, or 24 cards.
As cards spread from Italy to Germanic countries, the Latin suits evolved into the suits of Leaves (or Shields), Hearts (or Roses), Bells, and Acorns, and a combination of Latin and Germanic suit pictures and names resulted in the French suits of trèfles (clovers), carreaux (tiles), cœurs (hearts), and piques (pikes) around 1480. The trèfle (clover) was probably derived from the acorn and the pique (pike) from the leaf of the German suits. The names "pique" and "spade", however, may have derived from the sword of the Italian suits.[23] In England, the French suits were eventually used, although the earliest packs circulating may have had the Italian suits.[24] This may account to why the English called the clovers "clubs" and the pikes "spades".
Also in the 15th century, Europeans changed the court cards to represent European royalty and attendants, originally "King", "Chevalier" (knight), and "Knave". The original meaning of knave was male child (cf German Knabe), so in this context the character could represent the "prince", son to the King and Queen; the meaning servant developed later.[25][26] In a German pack from the 1440s, Queens replace Kings in two of the suits as the highest card. Although Germans abandoned the Queen before the 1500s, the French permanently picked it up and placed it under the King. Packs of 56 cards containing in each suit a King, Queen, Knight, and Valet (from the French tarot court) were common.
Court cards designed in the 16th century in the manufacturing centre of Rouen became the standard design in England, while a Parisian design became standard in France. Both the Parisian and Rouennais court cards were named after historical and mythological heroes and heroines. The Parisian names have become more common in modern use, even with cards of Rouennais design.
Later design changes[edit]
A transformation playing card from the 1895 Vanity Fair deck
In early games the kings were always the highest card in their suit. However, as early as the late 14th century special significance began to be placed on the nominally lowest card, now called the Ace, so that it sometimes became the highest card and the Two, or Deuce, the lowest. This concept may have been hastened in the late 18th century by the French Revolution, where games began being played "ace high" as a symbol of lower classes rising in power above the royalty.[citation needed] The term "Ace" itself comes from a dicing term in Anglo-Norman language, which is itself derived from the Latin as (the smallest unit of coinage). Another dicing term, trey (3), sometimes shows up in playing card games.
Packs with corner and edge indices (i.e. the value of the card printed at the corner(s) of the card) enabled players to hold their cards close together in a fan with one hand (instead of the two hands previously used[citation needed]). The first such pack known with Latin suits was printed by Infirerra and dated 1693,[28] but this feature was commonly used only from the end of the 18th century. Indices in the Anglo-American deck were used from 1875, when the New York Consolidated Card Company patented the Squeezers, the first cards with indices that had a large diffusion.[clarification needed] However the first Anglo-American deck with this innovation was the Saladee's Patent, printed by Samuel Hart in 1864.
Before this time, the lowest court card in an English pack was officially termed the Knave, but its abbreviation ("Kn") was too similar to the King ("K") and thus this term did not adapt well to indices. However, from the 17th century the Knave had often been termed the Jack, a term borrowed from the English Renaissance card game All Fours where the Knave of trumps has this name. All Fours was considered a game of the lower classes, so the use of the term Jack at one time was considered vulgar. The use of indices, however, encouraged a formal change from Knave to Jack in English language packs. In other languages, this conflict does not exist: the French tarot Deck for instance labels its lowest court card the "Valet", which is the "squire" to the Knight card (not seen in 52-card packs) as the Queen is paired with the King. This name, abbreviated "V", is used for modern 52 card packs in the French language.
This was followed by the innovation of reversible court cards. This invention is attributed to a French card maker of Agen in 1745. But the French government, which controlled the design of playing cards, prohibited the printing of cards with this innovation. In central Europe (trappola cards), Italy (tarocchini) and in Spain the innovation was adopted during the second half of the 18th century. In Great Britain the pack with reversible court cards was patented in 1799 by Edmund Ludlow and Ann Wilcox. The Anglo-American pack with this design was printed around 1802 by Thomas Wheeler.[29] Reversible court cards meant that players had no need to turn upside-down court cards right side up. Before this, other players could often get a hint of what other players' hands contained by watching them reverse their cards. This innovation required abandoning some of the design elements of the earlier full-length courts.
Rounded corners were introduced as worn out corners could reveal the card's value. The previously blank backs of cards began sporting designs, pictures, or photos. This helped to hide wear and tear as well as to discourage writing on the back.[30]
Playing cards have been used as vehicles for political statements. Here, a playing card of the French Revolution symbolising freedom of religion and brotherhood.
During the French Revolution, the traditional design of Kings, Queens, and Jacks became Liberties, Equalities, and Fraternities. The radical French government of 1793 and 1794 toppled the old regime and a good revolutionary would not play with Kings or Queens, but with the ideals of the revolution at hand. This would ultimately be reversed in 1805 with the rise of Napoleon.[citation needed]
During the nineteenth century, the evolution of Tarot packs for cartomancy and for gaming diverged after Etteilla created the first tarot deck dedicated to divination in 1791. The "reading tarots" based on the symbolic designs of the Tarot de Marseille (which were extensively modified to produce the widely known Rider-Waite deck[citation needed]) kept the older style of full-length character art, specific character meanings for the 21 trumps, and the use of the Latin suits (although most of the reading tarots in use today derive from the French Tarot de Marseille). On the other hand, "playing tarots", especially those of France and the Germanic regions, had by the end of the 19th century evolved into a form more resembling the modern playing card pack, with corner indices and easily identifiable number and court cards. The use of the traditional characters cards for the trumps was largely discarded in favor of more whimsical scenes. The Tarot Nouveau is an example of the current style of playing tarot, though the artwork and design of this pack can be traced back to the 1890s. The Italian and Spanish Tarocchi packs, however, have largely kept the traditional character identifications of each trump, as well as the Latin suits, though these packs are used almost exclusively for gaming. Tarocco Bolognese and Tarocco Piemontese are examples of Italian-suited playing tarot packs while the Tarocco Siciliano is the only one that uses Spanish suits.
The United States introduced the joker into the deck. The stylings of the joker and its function are almost identical to the Fool from the original French Tarot deck, which had been removed in the transformation to the standard 52-card French pack. It was devised for the game of Euchre, which spread from Europe to America beginning shortly after the American Revolutionary War. In Euchre, the highest trump card is the Jack of the trump suit, called the right bower (or bauer); the second-highest trump, the left bower, is the Jack of the suit of the same color as trumps. The joker was invented c. 1870 as a third trump, the best bower, which ranked higher than the other two bowers. The name of the card is believed to derive from juker, a variant name for Euchre.[31][32] Jokers also function as wild cards in many card games.
Modern deck formats[edit]
See also: Suit (cards)
Italian Cups
Seme coppe carte trevisane.svg
Seme denari carte trevisane.svg
Seme bastoni carte trevisane.svg
Seme spade carte trevisane.svg
Spanish Cups
Seme coppe carte spagnole.svg
Seme denari carte spagnole.svg
Seme bastoni carte spagnole.svg
Seme spade carte spagnole.svg
Swiss German Roses
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German Hearts
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Bay schellen.svg
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Bay gras.svg
French Hearts
French suits[edit]
Main article: French playing cards
52 French playing cards with jokers
Latin suits[edit]
Latin decks consist of four suits: Swords, Clubs, Cups, and Coins. Spanish style clubs are knobbly cudgels while Italian style clubs are smooth batons. Italian style swords are curved while Spanish style swords are straight. The Portuguese pattern used Spanish suits but intersected their clubs and swords like in Italian suits. The only deck that uses the Portuguese pattern in the present is the Sicilian Tarot.
Italian suits[edit]
Main article: Italian playing cards
Italian deck from Bergamo
Spanish suits[edit]
Main article: Spanish playing cards
German suits[edit]
Main article: German playing cards
A 32-card German suited set using the Saxon pattern
Swiss German suits[edit]
Main article: Swiss playing cards
Accessible playing cards[edit]
A deck with many features to help the visually impaired
Production techniques[edit]
The typical production process for a new pack starts with the choice between the most suitable material: card stock or plastic. Playing cards made from plastic (Polyvinyl Chloride) will last longer as compared to paper playing cards.
Symbols in Unicode[edit]
Main article: Unicode Playing Card
The Unicode standard for text encoding on computers defines 8 characters for card suits in the Miscellaneous Symbols block, at U+2660–2667. Unicode 7.0 added a unified pack for Tarot's trump cards (Major Arcana) and the 52 cards of the modern French pack, with 4 Knights, together with a character for "Playing Card Back" and black, red, and white jokers in the block U+1F0A0–1F0FF.[34]
See also[edit]
1. ^ "National Museum of Australia: Playing cards featuring logo of the FJ Holden".
3. ^ a b c Needham 2004, p. 132
4. ^ a b c Lo (2000), p. 390.
5. ^ Needham 2004, pp. 131–132
11. ^ International Playing Cards Society Journal, 30-3, page 139
12. ^ The Mamluk Cards
14. ^ Moorish deck
15. ^ "History of the Mus". Ontario Basque Club. Retrieved 26 September 2013.
16. ^ autorbis. "Trionfi - Tarot and its history".
17. ^ autorbis. "Trionfi - Tarot and its history".
22. ^ autorbis. "Early Card painters and Printers in Germany, Austria and Flandern (14th and 15th century)".
23. ^ "Early Playing Cards Research". Retrieved 22 September 2014.
24. ^ "The Introduction of Playing-Cards to Europe".
27. ^ Early Japanese decks
28. ^ (International Playing Cards Society Journal 30-1 page 34)
29. ^ International Playing Cards Society Journal XXVII-5 p. 186 and International Playing Cards Society Journal 31-1 p. 22
30. ^ History of playing cards
31. ^ US Playing Card Co. - A Brief History of Playing Cards ( mirror)
32. ^ Beal, George. Playing cards and their story. 1975. New York: Arco Publishing Comoany Inc. p. 58
33. ^ "Latin decks".
34. ^ Unicode – Playing Cards Block, retrieved 2014-11-08
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Botulus microporus, a giant digenean parasite from the intestine of a lancetfish
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Class: Trematoda
Rudolphi, 1808
Trematoda is a class within the phylum Platyhelminthes. It includes two groups of parasitic flatworms, known as flukes.
They are internal parasites of molluscs and vertebrates. Most trematodes have a complex life cycle with at least two hosts. The primary host, where the flukes sexually reproduce, is a vertebrate. The intermediate host, which is the agent of dispersal, is usually a snail.
Taxonomy and biodiversity[edit]
The trematodes or flukes include 18,000[1] to 24,000[2] species, divided into two subclasses. Nearly all trematodes are parasites of mollusks and vertebrates. The smaller Aspidogastrea, comprising about 100 species, are obligate parasites of mollusks and may also infect turtles and fish, including cartilaginous fish. The Digenea, the majority of trematodes, are obligate parasites of both mollusks and vertebrates, but rarely occur in cartilaginous fish.
Formerly the Monogenea were included in Trematoda on the basis that they are also vermiform parasites, but modern phylogenetic studies have raised this group to the status of a sister class in the Platyhelminthes, with the Cestoda.[citation needed].
Varied trematodes, from 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
Trematodes are flattened oval or worm-like animals, usually no more than a few centimetres in length, although species as small as 1 millimetre (0.039 in) (Monogenea) and as large as 7 centimetres (2.8 in)(Fasciolopsis) are known. Their most distinctive external feature is the presence of two suckers, one close to the mouth, and the other on the underside of the animal.[3]
The body surface of trematodes comprises a tough syncitial tegument, which helps protect against digestive enzymes in those species that inhabit the gut of larger animals. It is also the surface of gas exchange; there are no respiratory organs.[3]
The mouth is located at the forward end of the animal, and opens into a muscular, pumping pharynx. The pharynx connects, via a short oesophagus, to one or two blind-ending caeca, which occupy most of the length of the body. In some species, the caeca are themselves branched. As in other flatworms, there is no anus, and waste material must be egested through the mouth.[3]
Although the excretion of nitrogenous waste occurs mostly through the tegument, trematodes do possess an excretory system, which is instead mainly concerned with osmoregulation. This consists of two or more protonephridia, with those on each side of the body opening into a collecting duct. The two collecting ducts typically meet up at a single bladder, opening to the exterior through one or two pores near the posterior end of the animal.[3]
The brain consists of a pair of ganglia in the head region, from which two or three pairs of nerve cords run down the length of the body. The nerve cords running along the ventral surface are always the largest, while the dorsal cords are present only in the Aspidogastrea. Trematodes generally lack any specialised sense organs, although some ectoparasitic species do possess one or two pairs of simple ocelli.[3]
Reproductive system[edit]
Most trematodes are simultaneous hermaphrodites, having both male and female organs. There are usually two testes, with sperm ducts that join together on the underside of the front half of the animal. This final part of the male system varies considerably in structure between species, but may include sperm storage sacs and accessory glands, in addition to the copulatory organ, which is either eversible, and termed a cirrus, or non-eversible, and termed a penis.[3]
There is usually only a single ovary, which is connected, via a pair of ducts to a number of vitelline glands on either side of the body, that produce yolk cells.[clarification needed] Eggs pass from the ovary into a glandular receptacle called the ootype or Mehlis' gland, where fertilization occurs. This opens into an elongated uterus that opens to the exterior close to the male opening. The ovary is often also associated with a storage sac for sperm, and a copulatory duct termed Laurer's canal.[3]
Life cycles[edit]
Almost all trematodes infect mollusks as the first host in the life cycle, and most have a complex life cycle involving other hosts. Most trematodes are monoecious and alternately reproduce sexually and asexually. The two main exceptions to this are the Aspidogastrea, which have no asexual reproduction, and the schistosomes, which are dioecious.
In the definitive host, in which sexual reproduction occurs, eggs are commonly shed along with host feces. Eggs shed in water release free-swimming larval forms that are infective to the intermediate host, in which asexual reproduction occurs.
A species that exemplifies the remarkable life history of the trematodes is the bird fluke, Leucochloridium paradoxum. The definitive hosts, in which the parasite reproduces, are various woodland birds, while the hosts in which the parasite multiplies (intermediate host) are various species of snail. The adult parasite in the bird's gut produces eggs and these eventually end up on the ground in the bird's faeces. Some eggs may be swallowed by a snail and hatch into larva (miracidium). These larvae grow and take on a sac-like appearance. This stage is known as the sporocyst and it forms a central body in the snail's digestive gland that extends into a brood sac in the snail's head, muscular foot and eye-stalks. It is in the central body of the sporocyst where the parasite replicates itself, producing lots of tiny embryos (redia). These embryos move to the brood sac and mature into cercaria.
Life cycle adaptations[edit]
Trematodes have a large variation of forms throughout their life cycles. Individual trematode parasites life cycles may vary from this list.
1. Trematodes are released from the definitive host as eggs, which have evolved to withstand the harsh environment
2. Released from the egg is the miracidium. This infects the first intermediate host in one of two ways, either active or passive transmission. a) Active transmission has adapted for dispersal in space as a free swimming ciliated miricidium with adaptations for recognising and penetrating the first intermediate host. b) Passive transmission has adapted for dispersal in time and infects the first intermediate host contained within the egg.
3. The sporocyst forms inside the snail first intermediate host and feeds through diffusion across the tegument
4. The Rediae also forms inside the snail first intermediate host and feeds through a developed pharynx. Either the rediae or the sporocyst develops into the cercariae through polyembrony in the snail.
5. The cercariae are adapted for dispersal in space and exhibit a large variety in morphology. They are adapted to recognise and penetrate the second intermediate host, and contain behavioural and physiological adaptations not present in earlier life stages.
6. The metacercariae are an adapted cystic form dormant in the secondary intermediate host.
7. The adult is the fully developed form which infects the definitive host.
Human infections are most common in Asia, Africa, South America, or the Middle East. However, trematodes can be found anywhere where untreated human waste is used as fertilizer. Schistosomiasis (also known as bilharzia, bilharziosis or snail fever) is an example of a parasitic disease caused by one of the species of trematodes (platyhelminth infection, or "flukes"), a parasitic worm of the genus Schistosoma.
Trematodes are commonly referred to as flukes. This term can be traced back to the Old English name for flounder, and refers to the flattened, rhomboidal shape of the worms.
The flukes can be classified into two groups, on the basis of the system which they infect in the vertebrate host.
They may also be classified according to the environment in which they are found. For instance, pond flukes infect fish in ponds.[4]
1. ^ Littlewood D T J; Bray R. A. (2000). "The Digenea". Interrelationships of the Platyhelminthes. Systematics Association Special Volume 60 (1 ed.). CRC. pp. 168–185. ISBN 978-0-7484-0903-7.
2. ^ Poulin, Robert; Serge Morand (2005). Parasite Biodiversity. Smithsonian. p. 216. ISBN 978-1-58834-170-9.
3. ^ a b c d e f g Barnes, Robert D. (1982). Invertebrate Zoology. Philadelphia, PA: Holt-Saunders International. pp. 230–235. ISBN 0-03-056747-5.
4. ^ Examples of the use of this term:
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0.097127 | <urn:uuid:5cfe25a5-5e4e-49bc-bff7-0eefacbd3770> | en | 0.912442 | ZURB The ZURBlog is where we discuss design interaction and strategy. We use design thinking to challenge businesses and designers to improve the products and services they create. http://zurb.com/blog/posts en-US zurb/bloghttps://feedburner.google.com A Growing Foundation Family: Foundation for Sites 5.5 is Here <img src="http://www.zurb.com/blog/system/images/1481/original/yetis3.png?1418428368" alt="Illustration of the two Yetis together"/> <p>There are so many amazing things happening with Foundation right now and we're excited to share it all. Hot on the heels of <a href="http://foundation.zurb.com/apps/">Foundation for Apps</a>, we released an amazing update for <a href="http://foundation.zurb.com/">Foundation for Sites</a>. This release, v5.5, brings some great updates and lots key fixes. On top of that, the community stepped up with some well-written pull requests that allowed us to really strengthen this release.</p> <h3 class="regular" id="foundation-community-crushes-it">The Foundation Community Crushes It!</h3> <p>Previously we talked about how the <a href="http://zurb.com/article/1350/5-ways-the-foundation-community-br-is-cru">Foundation community is crushing it</a>. The big challenge: dropdowns that weren't behaving like they were supposed to, breaking out of the page boundaries. Five different people submitted their versions of a fix for this hard issue. After weeks of going through multiple iterations with the different attempts, a hero emerged: <a href="http://www.tangerineindustries.com/">Corey Snyder</a>, who submitted <a href="https://github.com/zurb/foundation/pull/5986">a pull request with a great solution</a>. We tested it in many different browsers and devices, and found it's a huge improvement and now dropdowns stay in the viewport much better. A big thanks to Corey!</p> <p>This is what we love about our community! On top of this huge win came many other fixes If you're into all the details, see them <a href="http://foundation.zurb.com/docs/changelog.html">here.</a></p> <ul> <li>Abide got some some love and now validations work better.</li> <li>Split buttons can now support <a href="https://github.com/zurb/foundation/commit/9f0b4b9d3705835b012dc62c74b71a7160344509">2 different events</a></li> <li>And Accordions <a href="https://github.com/zurb/foundation/commit/18cef991f9a50acf2c78652b4a2641b80889d2b0">no longer tied</a> to <code>dd</code> and <code>dt</code> elements.</li> <li>Dropdowns now <a href="https://github.com/zurb/foundation/commit/8563604b8fcf1292956bc4a08677ef3a3fa7c79f">automatically close</a> when a link is clicked</li> </ul> <p>…and a bunch of other great improvements.</p> <h3 class="regular" id="unified-front">A Unified Front for a Common Problem</h3> <p>The new Foundation for Apps and Sites really compliment each other. That's why we are making Foundation a family of tools for responsive design. Building a responsive web app with Foundation for Apps? You'll need a sweet marketing site for smooth on-boarding and dialed in SEO. Because of this, we will continue improving Foundation with your help. All of us will need to make responsive sites for years to come, and Foundation will continue to evolve to solve current and new problems. </p> <p>Given the <a href="http://zurb.com/quips/2451">ever increasing</a> mobile search traffic it's crazy that <em>only</em> <a href="http://www.guypo.com/rwd-2014/">18.7% of the top 100</a> sites are responsive! That's a huge opportunity for growth and we'll continue to need the right tools to feed this revolution. Some of the industries that have the <a href="http://www.marketingweekly.com/web-strategy/top-3-industries-for-responsive-web-design/?mode=featured">largest growth potential</a> are news providers, banking, and academic institutions. Perhaps the largest sector for growth opportunity is in E-commerce. According to an <a href="http://http://zurb.us/1vxzN7S/">article by Inc.com</a> going responsive increases average conversion 10.9%. <h3 class="regular" id="looking-forward">Looking Toward the Future</h3> <p><a href="http://zurb.com/article/1280/foundation-5-blasts-off--2/">Since Foundation for Sites (5.0)</a> was released Nov 22, 2013, there have been <a href="https://github.com/zurb/foundation/compare/v5.0.0...master">2895 commits</a>! We're stoked to have such awesome community support and it encourages us to push the limits of what this framework can be. As the 5.5 release makes Foundation for Sites a more solid codebase we can look toward the next version of Foundation. There's a huge community 'wishlist' on GitHub that we're watching watching and commenting on. Additionally we can talk about just a few items on our roadmap.</p> <ul> <li><strong>The entire family on one CLI</strong> — Wouldn't it be rad if you could whip up a Site, App, or Email project with one simple command? It would save setup time and resources. We also think less dependencies would be nice.</li> <li><strong>Re-factor the Foundation JavaScript</strong> — A lot of the remaining issues revolve around how the Foundation JS components work with each other and how they work in a single-page-app. Taking a queue from Foundation for Apps, we'll make the JS API uniform across all components. This means each component uses the same code to open, close, and toggle.</li> <li><strong>Get less specific</strong> — Foundation is great for staying out of your way when you're ready to style your site. It can be better. Certain components will get a thorough cleaning to make the selectors less specific.</li> </ul> <p>These are just a few of the great improvements to come with the next Foundation for Sites.</p> <p>As we move forward with Foundation for Sites, we will continue to bug-fix and improve the existing components. We learned a lot out of building Foundation for Apps from the ground up and came up ways to make Foundation easier to use and learn, how to make better UI plugins, and how to make the different versions of Foundation to act, well, more like a family. As the needs of our community continue to evolve, so will the tools we need to create superior responsive sites. The future of Foundation is very exciting!</p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/zurb/blog?a=HLmM-uyvG4E:pn47NQ9UuXk:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/zurb/blog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> </div> Fri, 12 Dec 2014 15:02:00 -0800 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/zurb/blog/~3/HLmM-uyvG4E/1364 http://zurb.com/blog/1364 http://zurb.com/blog/1364 100 Days in Tavern <img src="http://www.zurb.com/blog/system/images/1478/original/Tavern_Light_Bulb.png?1418337699" alt="light bulb of ideas"> <p><a href="http://www.zurb.com/tavern">Tavern</a> began with this goal: challenge our fellow designers to define the broader, fuzzier concepts or product design. We'd do this by debating a single question a day, exchanging ideas on what it means to be a product designer. A question that had to be asked and answered in the ticking clock of 24 hours. More than a 100 days later and after some 5,000 contributions, our comrades in design ran with the challenge. </p> <p>Some articulate and outstanding designers, such as <a href="http://zurb.com/tavern/users/ren-walker">Ren Walker</a>, <a href="http://zurb.com/tavern/users/bryce-howitson">Bryce Howiston</a>, and <a href="http://zurb.com/tavern/users/antonin-januska">Antonin Januska</a>, are questioning and challenge ideas, which is <a href="http://zurb.com/article/1357/are-you-ready-to-become-a-product-designe">the core of being a product designer</a>. And that's exactly what Tavern is about. The community is shaping up to be the place, as well as the structured environment, that is giving extreme focus on aspects of product design that aren't always easy to articulate, for everyone building product — from designers to managers to marketers. </p> <h3 class="regular">A Product Design Question a Day</h3> <img src="http://www.zurb.com/blog/system/images/1480/original/Tavern_Question.png?1418337846" alt="Asking a question"> <p>Of all the folks we've let into Tavern, not all are designers. There are folks who are involved in every aspect of building product. There are CTOs, design managers, creative directors, engineers, developers, CEOs, marketers, and business developers. With all those folks, centering Tavern around a <a href="http://zurb.com/article/1327/a-product-design-question-a-day-introduci">single product design question a day</a> allowed us to focus ourselves — and the community — around an answer we could frame. </p> <p>The new format has provided an arena for some truly thought-provoking answers that go beyond <a href="http://zurb.com/article/1323/the-dribbblification-of-design-and-what-w">the rah-rah comments</a> typically found on portfolio sharing sites. Not that there's anything wrong with those sites, but they can't easily showcase the way you think about the design problems. </p> <p>The frame of one question in 24 hours has given us and others a space to quickly give insight into how they thought about design in shorter bursts. There have been specific questions to more abstract ideas, such "Is Design Art?" and we've tried to balance with specific, technical questions, such as: </p> <div style="padding-left: 50px;"> <p><strong>What is your preferred CMS? </strong></p> <p>Tavern-goer Jan wanted to know <a href="http://zurb.com/tavern/q/0f46d738-e779-4b1a-84ca-59a2b7d324dd">what CMS people preferred to work with and why</a>. We had 66 answers and comments. Some preferred WordPress while others took the stance that it was project dependent. But what we learned the most is that everyone has a preference that's almost like why some people prefer Coke to Pepsi. </p> <p><strong>Do tools like Macaw, Reflow, Webflow have a place in a designer's tool kit?</strong></p> <p>Another Jan on Tavern (yep, there are two of them!) asked <a href="http://zurb.com/tavern/q/33313252-2a55-4c7d-a1c3-439dd0ebf5ac">about whether his fellow Tavern-goers used those specific tools in their workflow</a>. Some thought they did. Others not so much, finding that they weren't an adequate replacement for Photoshop. </p> </div> <p>And a few of our broader questions: </p> <div style="padding-left: 50px;"> <p><strong>What's your job title? </strong></p> <p>What's in a title, a job by any other name. Kidding aside, one of our most prolific Tavern-goers Ren <a href="http://zurb.com/tavern/q/737fc86b-07ad-467c-a599-5f610cc9c73d">asked folks to tell her their job title</a> and whether it accurately covered what they actually did. It was one of our most popular questions with 154 answers and comments! But the biggest takeaway — there wasn't one job title to rule them all! </p> <p><strong>How do you overcome your fear of asking questions and looking like you're inexperienced? </strong></p> <p>Rhia wanted <a href="http://zurb.com/tavern/q/6d89373f-7321-439b-bb80-7bc7590d50e4">some advice on how to ask questions</a> without looking like a n00b. Alicia had the top answer that day with the advice: "The discomfort of asking a question can last a few seconds. The discomfort of not knowing the answer can last a lifetime."</p> </div> <p>There's been a deluge of submitted questions with over a month queue in the backlog, all of them generated by the community, which is shaping up to be much much more than just a group of folks answering design questions. </p> <h3 class="regular">The What-You-Know Design Network</h3> <p>Tavern isn't just about answering a question. It's also about showcasing what you know. Because, let's face it, we all like to show off just a little. However, it's much deeper than that. Through their answers, designers are giving proof that they know what they are talking about. And they can get validation of their ideas from the community. </p> <p>Each person has a single point total based on the upvotes of contributors. Designers in Tavern are building or reinforcing their reputation as experts in their given field, through writing and debating. Right now, profiles are private as we work to build the site. However, we intend to help designers establish their know-how among their peers. </p> <img src="http://www.zurb.com/blog/system/images/1477/original/Ren.png?1418337688" alt="ren walker's profile"> <br/><br/> <p>From more than 16 years of practice, we've found that it's not enough to talk about ideas and concepts. You have to <a href="http://zurb.com/article/1359/the-right-brain-myth">commit to writing them down</a>. Tavern is the place where designers can practice that. And many of them are already doing just that. </p> <p>Bryce had the <a href="http://zurb.com/tavern/q/c42a5b76-8c09-43f2-9fb1-6e53e64cb8ee/a2148">top answer</a> not to long ago on our question on whether design requires a degree. Here's what he had to say: </p> <blockquote>Does a design degree equal ability to do a job? I'd say that's a resounding no! We've all meet people with degrees in various things who aren't fit to be hired.</blockquote> <p>Bryce added that he thought there is value to getting a degree, and listed in detail his reasons for thinking so.</p> <p>Laura, one of our prolific Tavern-goers, had <a href="http://zurb.com/tavern/q/d9793819-ef4b-44e7-ac55-aac6ad9ed4f1/a1231">a very good response</a> to a question on handling public criticism on open-source projects. While her answer wasn't voted the top answer that day, what she had to say was really valuable: </p> <blockquote>No matter the openness of the project, <strong>one should always embrace critique</strong> because a fresh set of eyes helps identify issues (most of the times). As people we always believe our input is the best, most insightful and utterly helpful to the recipient ... but as feedback-givers we should also know how to <strong>phrase that critique to say exactly what we want to say without being a bully</strong>.</blockquote> <h3 class="regular">Building the Future of Tavern </h3> <img src="http://www.zurb.com/blog/system/images/1479/original/Tavern_Gears.png?1418337709" alt="gears"> <p>We're innovating as we go and that's exciting! And we're learning a lot about what makes a great arena for designers to debate. </p> <p>We're learning more about the types of questions that apply to people. Broader questions covering the life of being a designer are crowd-pleasers and send engagement through the roof. Specific questions ask how you do your job tend to get fewer answers, but the depth of the questions are some of the best we've seen online. Eventually this will be an incredible resource for people who are learning product design as we add search. </p> <p>There have been insights in how people engage with the question of the day. Mondays are big days for contributions as people come off the weekend. If there's a seemingly good answer, or a "right" one, others feel that there isn't anything left to say. So they sit back and lurk, or merely comment on someone's answer. However, product design rarely afford the best answer right off the bat and some ideas are fuzzier than others. And questions can be hard for some to answer. We had a question on what would make designers leave a job and one person said he didn't want to answer because their co-workers might catch a glimpse of his answer. </p> <p>We're taking these lessons as we continue to work with designers in Tavern to grow the concept. Our goal is to give product designers a voice in the direction of the site. We've brainstormed a lot internally on the next features and common elements, including making Tavern more searchable. We've also considered how to bring more depth to the discussion without having to increase the overall commitment each day.</p> <p>We're letting designers into Tavern each week. If you're interested in sharing your experience and learning from others, request an invitation to join Tavern!</p> <div class="radius panel"> <form action="http://zurb.createsend.com/t/y/s/aatuu/" method="post"> <h5>Request an invitation to join Tavern:</h5> <div class="row collapse"> <div class="large-6 columns"> <input id="fieldEmail" name="cm-aatuu-aatuu" placeholder="Email address" type="email" required> </div> <div class="large-4 left columns"> <button type="submit" class="green button" style="padding: 8px 20px 8px;">Get Invited</button> </div> </div> </form> </div><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/zurb/blog?a=GV-W2fmQuwU:x4Yz6bBtK6U:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/zurb/blog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> </div> Thu, 11 Dec 2014 15:00:00 -0800 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/zurb/blog/~3/GV-W2fmQuwU/1363 http://zurb.com/blog/1363 http://zurb.com/blog/1363 Foundation for Apps is Here! <a href="http://foundation.zurb.com/apps"><img src="http://www.zurb.com/blog/system/images/1473/original/blog-post-image.png?1417710979" alt="foundation for apps"></a> <p>The wait is over. Foundation for Apps is here. </p> <p>We've teased and teased you all over the past five months. But today is the day. We're stoked to finally release the newest member of the Foundation family and the first front-end framework created solely for building fully-responsive web apps. Now you'll be able build any kind of web app with one set of code.</p> <p>We've chronicled the journey from our new take on a grid, to the introduction to Motion UI, to our integration of MVC frameworks — and many of you followed along. We had tons of people reach out and help us make some huge, tough decisions. While it's been a long road with lot of planning, tons of code and a few restarts, we're really proud of what we've created with the help of our amazing contributors. And now we can't wait for you all to get your hands on it.</p> <p>We'd like to thank everyone who has helped us over the past few months with their feedback and assistance. With your help, we've created the first framework devoted to develop better, more polished responsive web apps. And we're looking forward to your help in continuing to grow Foundation for Apps. For now, we're pleased to show off the fruit of everyone's labors.</p> <a href="http://foundation.zurb.com/apps">Explore the New Foundation for Apps</a> <h3 class="regular">A New Grid</h3> <p>We love rows and columns. However, once a grid does truly flexible things — like swap between horizontal and vertical or move entire sections off-screen at different screen sizes — rows and columns don't work so well.</p> <p>Creating a new grid that handles complex, responsive, mobile-optimized and desktop-smart apps was one of our main goals. The new grid is based on Flexbox which, in addition to being cool, can be confusing. Foundation for Apps takes care of most of that complexity and gives some really great power to create complicated grids.</p> <a href="http://foundation.zurb.com/apps/docs/#!/grid">Check out the Grid</a> <h3 class="regular">Motion UI</h3> <p>Motion was a huge trend in 2014 — and it'll only get more popular in the coming year. So we created Motion UI to add movement to your web app with ease. This new set of classes and mixins helps you quickly add animations to your app. It also has easy motion-modifying classes that control the speed, delay and easing. </p> <p>But that's just the beginning. From there we added motion classes to view-swapping so you can add transitions between sections of your app. Then we added motion classes to certain components like modals, panels and notifications, so users can change the default animations to any of our pre-made ones — or even a custom one.</p> <a href="http://foundation.zurb.com/apps/docs/#!/motion-ui">Check out Motion UI</a> <h3 class="regular">Single-Page Web Apps</h3> <p>Apps need to be fluid — and page reloads can spell the death of a web app. For that reason, MVC frameworks have been wildly successful, and we decided it was the way to go. We got some good advice from our users and ZURB Studios clients on what to use. After getting their feedback, we went with AngularJS.</p> <p>Angular allowed us to templatize routing, making it super easy for anyone to create a single-page app without knowing JavaScript. We also converted our plugins to Angular directives, which makes creating components super fast: just prefix the component's name with zf- , and you're done.</p> <a href="http://foundation.zurb.com/apps/docs/#!/angular">Check out our Angular integration</a> <h3 class="regular">And One More Thing ... </h3> <p>We've done tons more with Foundation for Apps, and there are tons more we want to do in the near future. We're champing at the bit for all you wonderful people to start using our new framework and to get your feedback (or pull requests) on what we can do to make it even better.</p> <a href="http://foundation.zurb.com/apps" class="large green button">Get the new Foundation for Apps</a> <form action="http://zurb.createsend.com/t/y/s/axljt/" method="post" style="margin-top: 1.5em; padding: 1.5rem 1.5rem 0; background: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 3px;"> <h5 style="margin-bottom: 1rem;"><strong>Stay up to date with Foundation for Apps:</strong></h5> <div class="row"> <div class="large-6 columns"> <label for="fieldName">Name</label> <input id="fieldName" name="cm-name" type="text" /> </div> <div class="large-6 columns"> <label for="fieldEmail">Email</label> <input id="fieldEmail" name="cm-axljt-axljt" type="email" required /> </div></div> <button type="submit" class="green button">Get in Touch</button> </form><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/zurb/blog?a=NfW9Cc0YVbE:Zq0G_pzsKVk:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/zurb/blog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> </div> Thu, 04 Dec 2014 12:10:00 -0800 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/zurb/blog/~3/NfW9Cc0YVbE/1362 http://zurb.com/blog/1362 http://zurb.com/blog/1362 Our New Angular Engineer Gives Us a Stronger Foundation <p>Often confused as a boy band runaway because of her gravity-defying hair and her tendency to belt out pop songs, our newest ZURBian's interests actually skew toward visiting aquariums and playing video games. So with that, please say hello to …</p> <h3 class="regular" id="jeanie-chung">Jeanie Chung, Angular Engineer </h3> <img src="http://www.zurb.com/blog/system/images/1472/original/jeanie-bio-pic.jpg?1417651179" alt="Photo of Jeanie Chung, our newest Angular JS engineer" /> <p>Jeanie hails from South Korea, but grew up in Chicago. She attended Washington University — the one in St. Louis, MO. After deciding that med school was not the life for her, Jeanie switched into engineering and earned a Bachelor's in Systems Engineering. Following her interest in the health sector's big picture, she became convinced that her goal was to save the world with engineering and public health.</p> <p>Things took a turn when she applied her engineering smarts and took a job at Razorfish, her first foray into web design. But it was hard to ignore her passion for public health, so she took a position at Northwestern University in Chicago with the Center for Behavioral Intervention Technologies (CBITS). There she would build apps and websites for collaborators and researchers, who aimed to address health behavior issues through technology. Her supervisor at CBITS loved to experiment with new technologies and frameworks. Jeanie soon found herself hacking through Angular JS, and although it was tough to get started, she soon learned its many ins and outs.</p> <p>When Jeanie rebuilt her personal website on Foundation and Angular, she began reverse-engineering our framework. That also prompted her to learn about ZURB. This led to a pretty great match where Jeanie can happily help us up our AngularJS game in Foundation for Apps alongside other ZURBians.</p> <p>So everyone please welcome Jeanie, our newest engineer!</p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/zurb/blog?a=MdzbKau1OSQ:dS5xsqv8VMI:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/zurb/blog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> </div> Wed, 03 Dec 2014 14:07:00 -0800 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/zurb/blog/~3/MdzbKau1OSQ/1361 http://zurb.com/blog/1361 http://zurb.com/blog/1361 2014 Design Award <a href="http://aiascv.org/design-awards/2014-design-award-winners/"><img src="http://www.zurb.com/blog/system/images/1463/original/zurb-building1.jpg?1417378847"></a> <p>Last year we moved into a fantastic new space after spending a year renovating a worn down, multi-tenant space. Today we're happy to share that our building was honored with a <a href="http://aiascv.org/design-awards/2014-design-award-winners/">2014 Design Award by the American Architects Institute of Santa Clara County</a> (home to some of the most recognized technology companies in Silicon Valley). </p> <p>We'd like to thank our architect and congratulate <a href="http://www.modulus.com/">David Fenster and Modulus</a> for an amazing job. After working in the space for the past year, we can attest to David's work as it continues to surpass the test of time! It's an amazing space and we're thankful everyday for the opportunity to work in a building specifically designed around the needs of our business.</p> <h3 class="regular">Interior Spaces Designed for Designers</h3> <p>After spending many afternoons learning and observing how we worked, Modulus was able to design different spaces for the needs of our team. They spent countless hours going back and forth with us discussing everything from lighting to acoustics. It was incredible. Designing for a bunch of designers isn't the easiest of jobs.</p> <p>Each room has a specific purpose and it provides our employees opportunity to spread out. Below are a few interior photos.</p> <p class="caption"><img src="http://www.zurb.com/blog/system/images/1464/original/zurb-building2.jpg?1417378859">One of our many brainstorm rooms- this one is called Dream is Collapsing.</p><br /><br /> <p class="caption"><img src="http://www.zurb.com/blog/system/images/1465/original/zurb-building3.jpg?1417378907">A view of the kitchen and eating area, the hub of our workspace.</p><br /><br /> <p class="caption"><img src="http://www.zurb.com/blog/system/images/1466/original/zurb-building4.jpg?1417378925">The Friday room is for meetings and guests.</p><br /><br /> <h3 class="regular">A Multi-Purpose Space</h3> <p>The design, city approval process and construction took well over a year to finish. By the end of the process, it started to get hard making constant decisions, but the team stayed focused up until the end.</p> <p class="caption"><img src="http://www.zurb.com/blog/system/images/1467/original/zurb-building-layouts.png?1417378953"> Here's the floorplan of the two story, 12,500 sq ft. building.</p> <p>The space has been used in many different ways. In the past year we <a href="http://zurb.com/article/1210/best-field-trip-ever-it-s-never-too-early">taught elementary students about design thinking<a/>, ran a <a href="http://zurb.com/article/1266/designers-ignite-a-revolution-in-health-c">healthcare hack-a-thon, <a href="http://zurb.com/article/1342/all-heart-and-no-sleep-mobilizing-nonprof">finished our 7th ZURB Wired</a>, and hosted numerous <a href=http://zurb.com/soapbox">Soapbox speakers</a>. <h3 class="regular">Before the Renovation</h3> <p>For those that are interested, we <a href="http://zurb.com/article/1054/a-peek-into-zurb-s-new-headquarters">captured some pre-construction and building images</a> in a previous blog post. As you can see, the team did an amazing job turning this old clunker into an amazing space!</p> <p class="caption"><a href="http://zurb.com/article/1054/a-peek-into-zurb-s-new-headquarters"><img src="http://www.zurb.com/blog/system/images/1468/original/pre-constuction-building.jpg?1417379864"></a><p class="caption"><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/zurb/blog?a=_LD8seWkekQ:x8gK_G63plg:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/zurb/blog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> </div> Sun, 30 Nov 2014 12:15:00 -0800 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/zurb/blog/~3/_LD8seWkekQ/1360 http://zurb.com/blog/1360 http://zurb.com/blog/1360 The Right Brain Myth <img src="http://www.zurb.com/blog/system/images/1457/original/right-brain-myth2.png?1416955068"> <p>Designers have been told that they have a gift, or are somehow different or more creative. They've been classified as right-brain thinkers. We know the brain is divided into two hemispheres — the common notion, psychologically, is that the left side of the brain holds language and is more logical, while the right brain is more creative. <a href="http://ideas.time.com/2013/11/29/there-is-no-left-brainright-brain-divide/">The problem is, it's not true.</a> </p> <p>Creatives are right brain dominant, or so the theory goes. Over time we've perpetuated a myth that designers have been given special creative talents. It's hurting our ability to create great products. </p> <h3 class="regular">Moving Beyond Creative Stereotypes</h3> <p>Research has shown that it's not that simple. <a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2013/12/02/248089436/the-truth-about-the-left-brain-right-brain-relationship">We use our whole brain</a>. In our last <a href="http://zurb.com/article/1355/we-ve-lost-the-guts-to-think">article on gut-thinking</a>, we discussed the problem with companies not trusting designers — part of this lack of trust is built on the myth that creatives might lack the sense of logic or reason that comes with left-brain thinking. Designers perpetuate this logic by suggesting they have 'taste' and are better at all the user stuff. </p> <p>Taste is a component of design, for sure, but a more significant problem facing designers is that they're not learning to bring experiences together. There is research to perpetuate the idea that some are creatively gifted, but it's not because of their talents, but the <a href="https://people.goshen.edu/~marvinpb/11-13-01/Effects-of-Stereotypes.html">socialization that happens in our education system</a>:</p> <blockquote> Of 1,600 children aged three to five who were tested, 98% showed they could think in divergent ways. By the time they were aged eight to 10, 32% could think divergently. When the same test was applied to 13 to 15-year-olds, only 10% could think in this way. And when the test was used with 200,000 25-year-olds, only 2% could think divergently . . . Education is driven by the idea of one answer and this idea of divergent thinking becomes stifled.</blockquote> <p>Designers need to bring divergent thinking to organizations. They also need to find the overlap in critical thinking in different parts of an organization. To create real impact and success in companies, designers are going to have to work much harder at <a href="https://blog.bufferapp.com/connections-in-the-brain-understanding-creativity-and-intelligenceconnections">connecting their own experiences across disciplines</a> to create value for users.</p> <h3 class="regular">What We Know About the Brain</h3> <img src="http://www.zurb.com/blog/system/images/1458/original/what-we-know-brain.png?1416955077"> <p>The right brain, <a href="http://psychology.about.com/od/cognitivepsychology/a/left-brain-right-brain.htm">according to the left-brain, right-brain dominance theory</a>, is best at expressive and creative tasks. Abilities popularly associated with the right side of the brain include: recognizing faces; expressing emotions; music; reading emotions; color; images; intuition; and creativity. The left side of the brain is considered to be adept at tasks that involve logic, language and analytical thinking. The left-brain is described as being better at language, logic, critical thinking, numbers, and reasoning.</p> <p>While many of these core functions have their roots in a specific portion of the brain, the science is actually much more complex. The connective tissues that bind the left and right brain play a large role in amplifying thoughts:</p> <blockquote>It turns out though, that we use virtually every part of the brain, and that [most of] the brain is active almost all the time. Let's put it this way: the brain represents three percent of the body's weight and uses 20 percent of the body's energy. - Neurologist Barry Gordon of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, <a href="http://psychology.about.com/od/biopsychology/a/myths-about-the-brain.htm">Scientific American</a> </blockquote> <p>The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpus_callosum">corpus callosum</a> carries electrical signals between both sides of the brain. It stretches nearly the full length of the brain from behind the forehead to the back of the neck and is the dense network of neural fibers that make brain regions with very different functions work together. This part of the brain, however, is still a great mystery as scientists try to figure out how this complex network of neural fibers works. </p> <h3 class="regular">The Einstein Genius </h3> <p>A <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2013/oct/10/science/la-sci-einstein-brain-connectedness-20131010">recent study on Einstein's brain</a> found that he had a larger corpus callosum than the average person. Interestingly, Einstein was an excellent musician and some studies have suggested that his interest in music may have contributed to this abnormality. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/9810.Albert_Einstein">Einstein stated</a>, 'If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.' </p> <p>What's interesting about one of the greatest thinkers of the last century is how he thought.</p> <blockquote>Einstein first described his intuitive thought processes at a physics conference in Kyoto in 1922, when he indicated that he used images to solve his problems and found words later (Pais, 1982). Einstein explicated this bold idea at length to one scholar of creativity in 1959, telling Max Wertheimer that he never thought in logical symbols or mathematical equations, but in images, feelings, and even musical architectures. -Michele and Robert Root-Bernstein, <a href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/imagine/201003/einstein-creative-thinking-music-and-the-intuitive-art-scientific-imagination">Psychology Today</a> </blockquote> <p>One of the world's greatest thinkers thought in images. Amazing! But what is of more interest to designers is that he found words later. Today we might define this way of thinking as <a href="http://zurb.com/article/1349/the-problem-with-design-thinking-is-that-">design thinking</a>.</p> <p><a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2013/oct/10/science/la-sci-einstein-brain-connectedness-20131010">Another finding from the research</a> on Einstein's brain suggested that his genius may not have been caused by the size of his brain. Rather his brain was larger in those connected areas between hemispheres because he exercised those areas more than the average person. Researchers have found that enriched learning environments can help contribute to <a href="http://psychology.about.com/od/biopsychology/f/adult-neurogenesis.htm">the survival and integration of new brain cells</a>. It seems that genius maybe rooted in working different parts of the brain with regularity.</p> <h3 class="regular">Expanding our Design Literacy</h3> <img src="http://www.zurb.com/blog/system/images/1459/original/brain-divided.png?1416955086"> <p>Product designers must practice and expand the critical thinking parts of their brain to reach the rest of their organizations. Critical thinking becomes a bridge to connect with employees who might have been conditioned by society, traditional schooling and corporate structures to only think analytically. Designers can facilitate design thinking, but they need to overlap their experiences with the knowledge that organizations already hold, specifically critical thinking.</p> <p>Designers have the ability to show the rest of the organization how to bring experiences to the forefront — <a href="https://blog.bufferapp.com/why-we-have-our-best-ideas-in-the-shower-the-science-of-creativity">they practice more than the average worker to bring creativity to their work.</a></p> <blockquote>Artists showed lower activity in part of their frontal lobes called the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex during improvisation, and increased activity in another area, called the medial prefrontal cortex. The areas that were found to be 'deactivated' are associated with regulating other brain functions. </blockquote> <p>Design literacy across a business is necessary if companies are to become more design centric. At ZURB, we've been using <a href="http://zurb.com/article/1349/the-problem-with-design-thinking-is-that-">progressive design</a> to bring the knowledge of a team into the design process. Making connections is key to making this happen, as Steve Jobs eloquently captured in this 1996 Wired article: </p> <blockquote><p>Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things. And the reason they were able to do that was that they've had more experiences or they have thought more about their experiences than other people.</p> <p>Unfortunately, that's too rare a commodity. A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have. — <a href="http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/4.02/jobs_pr.html">Steve Jobs</a></p></blockquote> <p>While the vast majority of workers stay siloed in their organizations, most designers are guilty of failing to learn across the organization. The over productionalization of design forces most organizations into a factory line of critical thinking, which kills innovation.</p> <p>So where do we start? Practice.</p> <h3 class="regular">Designer Practice Makes Designer Perfect</h3> <img src="http://www.zurb.com/blog/system/images/1460/original/brain-drawing.png?1416955098"> <p>In product design, you carry a lot of design decisions in your head. Learning to prioritize those ideas and get them written down allows our brains to focus on processing ideas — not carry the baggage of stress or product team problems. <a href="http://zurb.com/article/1355/we-ve-lost-the-guts-to-think">You can't make gut-thinking decisions with mental baggage</a>. In a production line model, designers spend too much time using their brains as production tools — which is ultimately a Photoshop button replacement.</p> <p>We've talked in the past about how <a href="http://zurb.com/article/1297/design-collaboration-is-lonely">design collaboration is lonely</a>. And for designers to truly collaborate in a meaningful way, there needs to be more attention to practicing critical thinking as part of the design process. Designers can't make the necessary connections across an organization without first learning and practicing to articulate their ideas. This happens through writing and sketching.</p> <p>For designers to be successful, getting ideas out of your head takes practice, but <a href="http://www.fastcompany.com/3023105/how-to-be-a-success-at-everything/5-surprising-ways-writing-makes-your-life-better">the effects of writing and sketching</a> have immense implications on the satisfaction of one's work. People feel more engaged, more productive, and have a greater sense of meaning in their work when they record even the most minuscule of accomplishments. Design teams can capture this power if they learn to harness these skills in designers. Most designers stop at visual communication. Or don't have the skills to articulate their ideas.</p> <p>Designers must learn to sell their ideas through writing them down. Persuasion happens with confidence, and learning to articulate ideas through words can help build confidence. Designers also <a href="http://zurb.com/article/1343/your-design-work-is-suffering-because-you">need to ask more questions</a>. While most professionally-trained designers have learned the art of the critique, most educational systems still lack the training necessary to drive the dialog through a complete design process with a cross disciplinary team. We started talking about <a href="http://zurb.com/article/1349/the-problem-with-design-thinking-is-that-">progressive design</a> recently and a clear benefit of learning to write in this model is that it encourages designers to sell and purge ideas to keep momentum in a project. </p> <h3 class="regular">Exercising Our Brains</h3> <img src="http://www.zurb.com/blog/system/images/1461/original/brain-workout.png?1416955106"> <p>We've committed ourselves to writing and <a href="http://zurb.com/tavern">fostering ideas in Tavern</a> to grow and shape product design. <a href="http://zurb.com/article/1313/design-feedback-requires-investment-and-w">With the shutdown of Forrst</a>, we asked ourselves how we could learn from inviting designers into discussions on a broad range of product design topics, all while keeping the format simple. We took the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_and_Ray_Eames#Philosophy">banana leaf parable</a> to heart. What can we write in a day on a topic? How does the commitment to these ideas shape the way we solve problems everyday? </p> <p>We're just over 100 days into Tavern. It's been an amazing opportunity to grow and learn with a group of designers. Learning to question and challenge ideas is a core part of what being a product designer is all about. Product design is a horizontal discipline that requires significant investments among team members. Tavern has become a structured environment to keep the learning extremely focused. One hundred days in, we've had nearly 5,000 contributions from some amazing and articulate designers like <a href="http://zurb.com/tavern/users/ren-walker">Ren Walker</a>, <a href="http://zurb.com/tavern/users/bryce-howitson">Bryce Howiston</a>, and <a href="http://zurb.com/tavern/users/antonin-januska">Antonin Januska</a>. </p> <p>As we explore the broader goals of product design with designers through Tavern and the University, we're also working hard to release improved tools that help design teams facilitate better design communication through an improved <a href="http://www.notableapp.com">Notable</a>. We're all in on trying to figure out how to build strong design teams through progressive design. We even share our team building exercises in our <a href="http://zurb.com/friday15">Friday15 site</a>.</p> <h3 class="regular">Progressive Design [Thinking]</h3> <p>Twitter quips, weather apps and Dribbble shots are part of the design lexicon. They've engrained simplicity in designers' heads and helped people find creative outlets. But there's a difference between creating a simple result and oversimplifying the problem. Being 'creative' or a' right brain thinker' isn't going to solve our problems without more attention to actual thinking. We solve this at ZURB through <a href="http://zurb.com/article/1349/the-problem-with-design-thinking-is-that-">progressive design by taking a practical approach to design thinking</a>.</p> <p>A designer's job is to help companies figure out how to make the complex, simple. This requires a commitment to selling ideas internally and moving their team through a creative process. <a href="http://zurb.com/article/1355/we-ve-lost-the-guts-to-think">It requires gut-thinking</a> — thinking that's evolved by overlapping convergent and divergent thinking, synthesizing company knowledge together with customer feedback and using experience to drive decisions. Effective designers must continually practice these skills in their work and find connections across organizations. It's not just a right brain activity. And companies shouldn't make it that.</p> <p>Companies need designers to make decisions from the gut to move quickly through a design process. But it's not going to happen without regular training and practice. Designers need to commit to ideas and sell visions that can be understood by a wide range of people across a business. When designers figure out how to do this, companies will in turn trust designers to think from their gut. </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/zurb/blog?a=zPKQpg-Eblo:WDoDCJY2cgE:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/zurb/blog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> </div> Wed, 26 Nov 2014 06:17:00 -0800 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/zurb/blog/~3/zPKQpg-Eblo/1359 http://zurb.com/blog/1359 http://zurb.com/blog/1359 Are You Ready to Become a Product Designer? <img src="http://www.zurb.com/blog/system/images/1452/original/areyouready-header.png?1416945643" alt="Are you ready to become a product designer?"> <p>Five years ago, it was all about UX, but <a href="http://zurb.com/article/932/can-we-drop-the-term-ux-design-already-an">we saw through</a> that. At the time, we were pretty stoked about figuring out the best way to get to answers in product design (still are!). However, we realized that there aren't a lot of designers out there that understand what it <em>actually</em> means to be a product designer. </p> <p>UX is one part of it, but what are the rest of the pieces? This is the story of how you too can become a product designer. So stop being a <a href="http://mashable.com/2014/03/12/david-shing-aol/">UX/UI guru or prophet or whatever</a> and start solving problems.</p> <h3 class="regular">The Values of a Product Designer</h3> <p>Product designers not only need to have a core set of skills, but a few key values as well. Embodying these values is just as important as being able to solve an interaction design problem or code up a page.</p> <h4>Balancing customer needs and business goals</h4> <p>This is the bread and butter of a product designer — the baseline requirement. If a designer isn't able to do this, they're not a product designer. Why? Because product designers should aim to find that sweet spot between customer needs, business goals and technical feasibility. These three areas are what blur the lines between a designer and a developer in the "traditional sense," and the reason why we've done away with those tired concepts at ZURB.</p> <h4>Keeping an open mind</h4> <p>Product designers get excited about new ideas, and doesn't always shoot things down. In turn, they aren't afraid to question their decisions, or let other people build off their ideas.</p> <h4>Knowing when to say no</h4> <p>Conversely, a product designer also knows when to say "no." More importantly, she'll know how to say no — backing up her decisions with data, customer feedback or her own past experience. Because she understands the customer needs, business goals and technology, she's able to justify her design decisions and move the product forward rather than run around in circles.</p> <p>These values are a riff of our own <a href='http://zurb.com/about/values'>ZURBian values</a>. We consider everyone on our team a product designer, including engineers. So if skills are only one part of being an awesome designer, how do you turn these three values into practice?</p> <h3 class="regular">Breaking News! You're Now a Customer Advocate!</h3> <img src="http://www.zurb.com/blog/system/images/1451/original/breaking-news.png?1416945628" alt="Product Designers are customer advocates"> <p>You'll hear a lot of UXers talk about empathy, which sounds really warm and fuzzy, until you realize that you don't really know what that means in the context of a product. Here's what it really means: when a feature breaks in your product, you will do everything in your power to fix it for your users.</p> <p>Which goes to say, if you don't know what the problems are … you certainly won't figure out what future ones. Product designers need to invest themselves in customer problems to anticipate future problems that might come up.</p> <p>No one on the team is exempt from customer advocacy. Simply put, everyone involved in the product is a customer advocate, including designers, engineers and marketers. Typically, a designer won't interact directly with customers, and that can be incredibly detrimental to the design process, whether the designer is working on a client project or an internal one with a team. You can't think of customer advocacy as just a 'customer support problem" or an "engineering problem." It's your problem too!</p> <h3 class="regular">Engineers Are Product Designers Too</h3> <img src="http://www.zurb.com/blog/system/images/1453/original/designgeneer.png?1416945668" alt="Engineers are also product designers"> <p>Product design happens when decisions are made, and everyone should be decision-makers, including engineers. While designers should write their own code, engineers should likewise be trained in the same product design process. </p> <p>A small team with a designer/engineer pairing is one of the most effective way to build a product. The designer should be constantly asking the engineer for her feedback on implementation and technical feasibility, while also trying to stay in front of problems. In other words, they need to be continually collaborating. But in order to have a nimble team like this, you need to have a few things in place:</p> <ul style="font-family: 'ProximaNova', sans-serif; font-size: 17px !important;"> <li style="font-size: 17px;"><strong>Clear Communication</strong>: This goes without saying, but seamless communication with few barriers as possible is essential. The barrier could be really simple. Laura likes to send her deliverables over email and Bill only checks his inbox once a day. In this case both peeps need to figure out a communication method that works well for both of them. In other cases, the communication problems could be deeper, and the earlier you identify and work on them the better your process will be.</li> <li style="font-size: 17px;"><strong>Blurred Lines</strong>: Don't overdefine the roles. Designers should code their own design work, so they can continue to work through the interaction nuance that only really comes up once a design is in code. Engineers should also contribute to the interactions by giving feedback and sketching out ideas. After all, there's no room to get territorial in product design.</li> <li style="font-size: 17px;"><strong>Detailed Spec and Testing</strong>: Designers should clearly spec out their static code before they hand it off to an engineer. A typical designer-to-engineer handoff at ZURB contains two things: <ul style="font-family: 'ProximaNova', sans-serif; font-size: 17px !important;"> <li style="font-size: 17px;"><strong>Static Code</strong>: This is the complete static code for the feature in all its different variations and error states. This is delivered in a shared Git repo.</li> <li style="font-size: 17px;"><strong>Annotated Set</strong>: The feature spec is created by the designer in an annotated <a href="http://notableapp.com">Notable</a> set that highlights all the functionality that needs to be implemented.</li> </ul> </li> </ul> <p>These are the absolutely necessary pieces to a functional collaboration. We'll also usually create an issue in the Github repo to track discussions and updates around the feature, and use it to handle assignments.</p> <p>Of course, the designer's work isn't done with the handoff. That communication needs to be maintained during and after the feature is built, when it's up to the designer to comprehensively test every interaction in the feature. We use a spreadsheet for every major feature, and document every single interaction and state in that spreadsheet. We then test those interactions, and if an interaction is A-OK we mark it as green. Otherwise we highlight it in eye-bleedy red and create an issue in Github for the bug.</p> <p>It's so satisfying when this…</p> <img src="http://www.zurb.com/blog/system/images/1442/original/bugs.png?1416876068" alt="interaction test before" style="margin-bottom: 20px; border: 1px solid #ddd;"> <p>turns into this…</p> <img src="http://www.zurb.com/blog/system/images/1443/original/fixed-bugs.png?1416876078" alt='interaction test after' style="margin-bottom: 20px; border: 1px solid #ddd;"> <h3 class="regular">Those Who Don't Know History Are Doomed to Repeat It</h3> <img src="http://www.zurb.com/blog/system/images/1454/original/history.png?1416945691" alt="Product Designers should learn the history of their product"> <p>Effective product designers need to stay ahead of the rest of the team, which means that they'll often have to be the first person to spot a bug or come up with an idea. The best way to stay ahead is to know your own history. Efficiency is crucial to staying out in front, so designers have to be careful and not reinvent the wheel. For designers new on a product team that has existed for a while, this means doing a lot of homework to learn why certain design decisions were made, and why the product functions the way it does.</p> <p>As we build the new Notable, we were working on getting rid of the Organize feature because, through our own use and customer interviews, we found that people were mostly confused by the feature and never used it. Our design problem was: how do we maintain the existing functionality of the Organize feature, without tossing all that functionality into a separate confusing page? After a few iterations, we realized that we'd just reinvented the same feature and called it a different name. We ended up completely rethinking the functionality and its purpose, coming up with a much simpler solution.</p> <div class="twentytwenty-container" style="margin-bottom: 20px; border: 1px solid #ddd;"> <img src="http://www.zurb.com/blog/system/images/1445/original/old.png?1416934305" alt="Notable 1.0"> <img src="http://www.zurb.com/blog/system/images/1446/original/new.png?1416934316" alt="Notable 1.5"> </div> <h3>You Can't Solve Problems in Photoshop</h3> <p><strong>Studies show that 90% of designers will jump into Photoshop/Sketch to solve problems</strong><sup>1</sup>. Product Designers will <a href="http://zurb.com/article/1343/your-design-work-is-suffering-because-you">ask why five times</a> before implementing any feature. They'll create prototypes, run tests, check analytics data, talk to customers, and discuss ideas with their team. Notice how Photoshop isn't required for any of these things. Drop Photoshop and start designing products. <em>Unless you're working towards a deadline, in which case what are you doing reading this article?</em></p> <p>Designers shouldn't be using their tools as crutches in product design, because most of product design happens <em>outside the computer</em>.</p> <hr width="70";><p class="citation"> 1. Not a real study </p> </hr> <h3 class="regular">The Rise of the Gut Thinkers!</h3> <img src="http://www.zurb.com/blog/system/images/1462/original/nudge.png?1417037400" alt="Gut thinking product designers"> <p>So where does a product designer fit into a <a href='http://zurb.com/article/1349/the-problem-with-design-thinking-is-that-'>progressive design process</a>? A product designer should be the person <strong>driving decisions</strong>, even if they're not directly making the actual decision. The product designer has the experience and guts that allow them to influence informed decision-making among the team. We've learned two things about product design from working on our new Notable release:</p> <ol style="font-family: 'ProximaNova', sans-serif; font-size: 17px !important;"> <li style="font-size: 17px;">You need a really convincing reason for why you should add or remove a feature</li> <li style="font-size: 17px;">Getting those convincing reasons involves a lot of work that a typical designer isn't typically trained to do</li> </ol> <p>Take for example the next version of Notable. We wanted to make sure that we were maintaining all the existing features. Bryan sent the team a list of features that were in the old version that were missing from the new version. While working with the customer advocate through the list, we noticed the Nudge feature was on there, and our <a href="http://zurb.com/article/1355/we-ve-lost-the-guts-to-think">gut reaction</a> was, "who even uses that?" When we built the first pass of the new Notable, our first instinct was not to build the feature, and focus on features that were more valuable. We needed a good reason to convince Bryan that this feature wasn't necessary, so we turned to our analytics. We tracked the Nudge feature in the existing app for two weeks, and the results we found will shock you!</p> <p>Turns out, our gut was right! A <strong>mere 0.1%</strong> of our users used the Nudge feature in those two weeks. We were able to push back on the feature and focus on other more frequently used features.</p> <h3 class="regular">That's No Moon…</h3> <p>You might be asking yourself why anyone would want to become a product designer at this point. Well, because it's amazing. You get a feeling of certainty that you wouldn't get with say, a purely visual design role. Practicing product design trains you to think with your gut but not rely on it. Product design allows you to empathize with your users and make sure you're solving business problems too. Figuring out a great flow for your team is how you can get everybody on the same path, whether they speak Photoshop, Rails or Wookie.</p> <p>Product design is about teamwork, because it's really hard to learn to do all this stuff by yourself. Product design problems are kind of like the Death Star — they're big and intimidating, and can seem almost invincible. By identifying the problem, getting the right team, then getting that team to work together seamlessly you can take on any Death Star.</p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/zurb/blog?a=rMjGZ903iJI:SQbX4i6arfI:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/zurb/blog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> </div> Tue, 25 Nov 2014 10:00:00 -0800 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/zurb/blog/~3/rMjGZ903iJI/1357 http://zurb.com/blog/1357 http://zurb.com/blog/1357 We're Jazzed to Introduce Our Newest Marketer <p>Our newest marketer hit the right note when we first met him. Not only did he impress us with his marketing skills, but his musical talents were off the charts. So without further ado, let's introduce you to ... </p> <h3 class="regular">Daniel Codella, Marketer</h3> <img src="http://www.zurb.com/blog/system/images/1456/original/daniel_casual.jpg?1416952686"> <p>Daniel spent his high school years traversing the globe, learning about different cultures. Most of all, he learned about his passion — music. You see, Daniel is the son of two musicians, so you could say music is in his blood. He's released several indie albums and singles, and had a chance to work with Jason Slater, a former member of Third Eye Blind. </p> <p>Daniel was also a finalist in the John Lennon Songwriting Competition. Career wise, he thought he become a writer, but music kept calling his name so he pursued that instead.</p> <p>However, the music industry changed with the arrival of MP3s and streaming services. So instead of the sitting on the sidelines, he put on an event — "Sound Advice: Making a Living in the Music Industry" — to help him and his friends find a place in a changing musical landscape. At that event, Daniel met his future boss, president of Sonoma Wire Works, an audio software/hardware company. Soon after that, Daniel joined Sonoma's marketing team. As he says: </p> <blockquote>Connecting with people, and more specifically, connecting different groups of people, is something I really enjoyed and seemed to have a talent for.</blockquote> <p>Marketing seemed like a perfect fit for Daniel because he was able to combine a love of music and technology, as well as connecting different groups of people at the same time. Now he's pushing his love of technology and connecting with people even further as ZURB's marketer! And he's looking forward to learning more in the days to come: </p> <blockquote>Even though I have only been around the ZURBians a short time. I am already in awe of how dedicated the team is to being efficient. Everyone seems to be in love with learning, sharing and discovering new information.</blockquote><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/zurb/blog?a=UwfjI7VCRk8:1gxZuJd8K14:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/zurb/blog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> </div> Tue, 25 Nov 2014 10:00:00 -0800 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/zurb/blog/~3/UwfjI7VCRk8/1358 http://zurb.com/blog/1358 http://zurb.com/blog/1358 There's Life Beyond the App Store <img src="http://www.zurb.com/blog/system/images/1431/original/blog-header.png?1416348280" alt="Illustration if app icons breaking free from a broken app store"/> <p>With the imminent release of <a href="http://zurb.com/article/1345/design-amazing-single-page-apps-with-the-">Foundation for Apps</a>, we've been chatting a lot about apps and how they're built. We've discussed the topic internally with our team, externally with our clients and with tons of our amazing ZURB friends. Much of that discussion revolved around not just how to produce apps, but what an app really is, how they differ from websites and even the future of where they'll go.</p> <h3 id="before-apps">Before Apps There Were Applications</h3> <p>In the early days of computers, apps — or applications as they were once known — were pretty much the entire computer experience. You'd take a physical object, such as a floppy, put that in your computer and then use the digital version of the application. It was amazeballs. With the emergence of the internet, we saw people attempting to take what was once reserved for operating systems and move it online. <a href="https://www.owasp.org/index.php/What_are_web_applications%3F">CGI Applications</a> like Hotmail created services that a user could access virtually from any computer in existence. And a flood of applications followed suit. Web apps became as commonplace as desktop applications in the early aughts. Users no longer needed to fire up Word or Excel to create simple documents, and instead turned to the web where they could collaborate with others on documents and spreadsheets.</p> <p>By the mid to late 2000s, web apps had become fairly ubiquitous in everything from email to CRMs to photo editing. Everything that could be done on the web was being done on the web. Then, along came smartphones and more importantly the invention of the App Store. Suddenly apps were being downloaded like it was 1999, and a resurgence of operating system-based apps were once again upon us.</p> <h3 id="native-apps">Native Apps Like It's 1999</h3> <img src="http://www.zurb.com/blog/system/images/1432/original/devices-1999.png?1416351106"> <p>Don't get us wrong. The App Store is great. It provides easy access to an entire platform for users. It's (<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/the-app-store-is-ancient-and-outdated-2014-7">mostly</a>) easy to find apps and most importantly the app store has a built in revenue model. It just poses several problems when thinking about creating a business around applications. Apple's App Store and, to some extent, Google Play, are closed systems meaning they <a href="http://www.cnet.com/news/behind-10-eyebrow-raising-app-store-rejections/">control what is allowed</a> on their turf. This becomes a dangerous game of monopoly where they can easily prevent you from passing go or collecting your $200. They can deny your app if it's too similar to something they are in the process of creating themselves. The web, on the other hand, is an open system where anything is allowed to thrive and to make money, for better or worse. If the web is the Wild West, then the app store is Disney's Frontierland. Sometimes we need to go back west. </p> <h3 id="build-once">Build Once Work Everywhere, Anywhere and for Anything</h3> <img src="http://www.zurb.com/blog/system/images/1433/original/work-anywhere.png?1416351137"> <p>ZURB has been a huge proponent for responsive web design, pretty much since good ol' Ethan Marcotte <a href="http://alistapart.com/article/responsive-web-design">coined the term</a> in 2010. Responsive was everything our clients wanted, but didn't know they needed. Never again would we be responsible for creating a slimmed down version of a web site to use on mobile devices. Never again would we be responsible for maintaining several, separate code bases. We even created <a href="http://foundation.zurb.com/">Foundation</a>, the first fully responsive framework, to make our lives and many other ones easier. </p> <p>Mobile native apps have reached a point in their lifecycle where what was once one or two screen sizes is now dozens, and what was once maybe several devices is thousands. Yet native apps are struggling with the bridge from mobile experiences to desktop ones. This means a company must create applications for iOS, Android, Windows mobile, Amazon Fire and even OS X and Windows for desktop — all with different screen sizes and orientations. That's dozens of code bases and tons of tweaking, only to be foiled every time a new device size is released or a new OS is introduced. </p> <p>There's gotta' be a better way! Hey, wait, there is!</p> <h3 id="state-of-the-web-app">The State of the Web App</h3> <p>The last four years of the web have moved pretty quickly. We're finally reaching a place where the web is catching back up with native platforms. There are several neat advancements that are helping us do this and we wanted to talk about several of them.</p> <h4>Layout</h4> <img src="http://www.zurb.com/blog/system/images/1434/original/layout.png?1416351958"> <p>Layout has been a huge issue because most of what makes up web pages hasn't changed in years. The majority of the web still uses floats, which were never intended to be anywhere near as responsible for layout as they ended up being. Something that was originally intended to push an image left or right has become the basis of almost all the layouts out there. There are some new contenders to the layout debate, so lets take a look:</p> <ul> <li><strong>JS Layout:</strong> Many current web apps use tons of JS to position layout items and make them respond how we'd wish the web would. This has worked OK, but is heavy and falls almost completely apart when attempting a responsive layout. </li> <li><strong>CSS Grid:</strong> Believe it or not this is the first time we have a property in CSS that's completely focused on layout. CSS Grids will replace much of what we've done with grid systems. Unfortunately, this has yet to be implemented completely (or at all, really) in any browser, so for now it's just a pipe dream.</li> <li><strong>Flexbox:</strong> While not specifically for layout, Flexbox lets us do some neat things with positioning and order. Flexbox allows to easily position items next to each other and mix fixed with fluid widths. It will never force us to clear a float again. Flexbox can still be hard as heck to understand, but we've chosen it for Foundation for Apps and help abstract most of that, so it has that going for it. </li> </ul> <h4>Speed</h4> <img src="http://www.zurb.com/blog/system/images/1436/original/speed.png?1416352983"> <p>Speed is a tricky one as we don't control a good majority of that equation. We can assume a user has wifi or 4G, but at any moment they might not. Not to say this is just a web problem, since a good amount of native apps rely on internet connectivity to access data. The speed we're looking to match here is the speed of actions and the fluidity that goes along with that.</p> <ul> <li><strong>SPAs:</strong> The popularity of the Single Page App web frameworks has been a really huge step forward for web apps. You can tell how many because there are TONS out there and more coming out every day with really awesome names like Ember, Angular and even Batman. These help give apps that fluid feeling and cut down on the dreaded page reload.</li> <li><strong>Local Storage:</strong> An ever-increasing number of browsers are giving us access to local storage to save and cache files that would normally need to be loaded each time the app was visited. This isn't the same as downloading an entire app, but with most major browsers giving you anywhere from 5'10MB of storage you can often speed up load time pretty drastically. </li> <li><strong>Application cache:</strong> All major browsers now <a href="http://caniuse.com/#feat=offline-apps">support application cacheing</a>, which is huge for creating web apps that can function offline. Some actions may work, but much like their native counterparts most actual data will require a connection. </li> </ul> <h4>Distribution</h4> <img src="http://www.zurb.com/blog/system/images/1435/original/dist.png?1416352965"> <p>Applications went from a physical store distributed by a third party, to a download from the creator, back to a digital store operated by a third party. In fact a <a href="http://www.nielsen.com/content/dam/corporate/us/en/reports-downloads/2011-Reports/state-of-mobile-Q3-2011.pdf">2011 Neilson study</a> showed that 63% of users downloaded apps because they had found them solely on the app store. With web apps, we need to rely on our own marketing prowess and distribution model.</p> <ul> <li><strong>Web App Stores:</strong> Google seemingly has one of the only reliable web app stores in existence. They've done a great job with its web app store and has many of the same features of a native store, but solely for HTML5 web apps. There are several other app stores out there, like BestVendor or Listio. However, these stores have had limited success with the average user. </li> <li><strong>Marketing Sites:</strong> Web apps are perfect for marketing sites as they can sign up and go straight to the app, no need to be directed to a third party site or leave your browser. They're great places to fully explain your product and get users truly excited.</li> </ul> <h3 id="outside-looking-in">On The Outside Looking In</h3> <p>We're still not living in a perfect world for web apps. We don't always have access to all the 'goodies' native apps have access to. This means that, for now at least, some specific ideas or industries may be hindered from using web apps based on the technology they have access to.</p> <p>Desktop-based web apps are in better shape than mobile ones. That's because most browsers allow the user to tap into <a href="https://developer.apple.com/notifications/safari-push-notifications/">native notifications</a>, which can really help bring users back into an app. Desktop browsers are very optimized for the JS and loads that come with web apps. It appears one of the only things native hasn't done is allowed web apps to operate as icons in the doc or in their own independent windows. This is a hurdle we can hope to achieve soon.</p> <p>Mobile devices haven't fared so well. For one, because mobile devices tend to be less powerful with less reliable access to high speed internet. Secondarily, because these manufacturers have little to no reason to end their control over the apps users have access to. Web apps on mobile devices do have the luxury of saving apps onto the home screen, but beyond that they suffer pretty deeply. No access to push notifications, the camera and many of the other peripherals become super problematic for web apps. </p> <p>For example:</p> <ul> <li>Instagram: would have never existed without access to the camera</li> <li>Games (most of them): need access to the devices gyroscope</li> <li>YO: May never have existed (God forbid) without push notifications.</li> </ul> <p>There are still tons of things left until web apps have all the tools native apps do, but every new release of iOS or Android we see more and more access opening up. APIs and code libraries are evolving that could solve these issues for web apps — accelerometer, GPS control, camera control, HTML5 local storage. Our friends at Treehouse have put <a href="http://blog.teamtreehouse.com/exploring-javascript-device-apis">together a great list</a> of features that are available now and it's pretty exciting what the next couple of years bring. </p> <h3 id="for-now-we-dream">For Now We Dream</h3> <p>At ZURB we think consumers and developers are at the precipice for figuring out responsive web apps and we just love the potential shift back to an open platform. We're building <a href="http://zurb.com/article/1312/the-next-foundation">Foundation for Apps</a> and we expect tons of people to build apps that blow our minds. We know that even though the technology is not yet perfect, the only way to get the Apples and Googles to change their mind is to drive the need for change. Let's all start to drive that need.</p> <style> .post-box ul li, .post-box ol li {font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 10px;} </style><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/zurb/blog?a=F0IkSvxDQMU:ssDSVUoJp60:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/zurb/blog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> </div> Tue, 18 Nov 2014 10:59:00 -0800 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/zurb/blog/~3/F0IkSvxDQMU/1356 http://zurb.com/blog/1356 http://zurb.com/blog/1356 We've Lost the Guts to Think <img src="http://www.zurb.com/blog/system/images/1428/original/brain.png?1415834672" alt="brain and lightbulb"> <p>Last week, we wrote about the <a href="http://zurb.com/article/1353/silicon-valley-killed-the-design-agency">the conundrum design agencies and in-house design teams face</a> in growing successful design teams. While it paints a rather doom-and-gloom picture, the reality is that these are company problems. The role of being a designer is flush with opportunity. The challenge for designers, however, is picking a direction that <a href="http://zurb.com/article/1347/show-me-the-responsibilities">provides the most professional growth</a> and fulfillment. But there's a catch.</p> <p>While design opportunities are plentiful, most jobs don't provide designers with a way to shape design problems and create enough value in an organization. Companies are struggling to utilize the talents of designers in a meaningful way. But it's not every company's fault. Companies need to trust their designers to make decisions. Designers, for their part, will have to think. Gut-think.</p> <h3 class="regular">The Stupidfication of Design</h3> <p>Solving 'user experience' problems won't be solved by narrowly focusing designers around production work. There's only so much companies can do to productionalize a design process without causing huge problems to the overall quality and delight of a product. The trend of educational bootcamps and online learning has become a way to close a talent gap by thousands, but it's exposing a need for design leaders who can inject thinking and emotion into design work. </p> <p>As an industry, we've been told people don't read. That people don't have time to do X. To make it simple. And designers have bought into this logic, which does not help them learn to synthesize ideas that actually make it easier and more enjoyable for people to use products. Simple is actually very complex to design when it comes to interactions. <a href="http://www.quora.com/What-is-Amazons-approach-to-product-development-and-product-management" rel="nofollow">We're stuck designing around press releases</a>, despite the goal of <a href="http://blog.jasoncrawford.org/two-pizza-teams" rel="nofollow">two pizza teams</a> creating more value. When you couple this with "always on" internet products, designers are asked to work in an industrial revolution-like production line to quickly solve problems. It's not the future, though. It's making us stupid.</p> <p>Although we've moved past the idea of magic Photoshop buttons that solve design problems, we've also introduced new problems of putting bodies on design work that requires nuanced thought and presentation. Corporate hierarchies, agile pressures and MVP products all but rob us of a chance to create real impact.</p> <h3 class="regular">We Need a Better Approach</h3> <p>We're about two decades into this whole commercial internet thing. Design as a profession has progressed significantly, but we're going to have to change our tactics if we want to break free from the unnecessary burdens of company structures. Evolution is inevitable. Let's not get overly frustrated though — we get to shape that evolution in a way that creates momentum and satisfaction, especially if we invest our efforts right. It takes time for industries to find clarity and it will require different approaches than the ones we use today. </p> <p>Today's digital knowledge workers are no longer efficient or effective when working in a production-line model, which takes the emotion out of producing design work. <a href="http://zurb.com/article/1349/the-problem-with-design-thinking-is-that-" rel="nofollow">The future depends on a practical approach to design thinking</a> that enables designers to make decisions based on synthesizing rational thinking with emotions. Product designers need to work through the entire product lifecycle, shaping decisions that have big implications on the technology, business goals and customer needs. </p> <h3 class="regular">Product Design Requires Gut-Thinking</h3> <img src="http://www.zurb.com/blog/system/images/1426/original/brain-guts-combined.png?1415834653" alt="brain and guts"> <p>If we're to succeed in dismantling production lines then we need to prepare designers to think through user and business decisions. We've talked in the past about the <a href="http://zurb.com/article/1323/the-dribbblification-of-design-and-what-w">dribbblefication of design</a> and the need to work through feedback. Making this problem more complicated is that online products don't shut off and the process of producing product updates is a race against time. Designers must learn to fail fast and make adjustments. Whipping out Photoshop or pushing code to Github is a great start to get the muscles working, but ultimately we need to make adjustments with our whole mind and body.</p> <p>Product design requires making a ton of decisions and often works best with a bottom-up strategy. It's not a production role; however, the greatest design leaders stay close to the medium. Our history is full of designers who have used the hero design method — Eames, Loewy and Starck have shown great design work happens when emotion and thinking become part of the equation. They worked from the gut. Today's product designers should embrace this approach and use their techniques for inspiration, as the results are undeniable. Companies will need methods and processes for incorporating these ideas. </p> <p>Designers need to get better at articulating their ideas through direct business communication so they can think from the gut. Producing beautiful imagery and soft emotional rationale isn't going to cut it — thinking from the gut requires quick decision making to persuade teams to move forward through rational decision making. Gut-thinking is the same fight or fleet thinking that happens when a speeding car is heading in your direction. Your body takes over and quickly reacts by moving out of the way. </p> <p>Designers need to perform under similar duress in businesses where executives can often feel like speeding cars. Learning to quickly absorb and synthesize harsh feedback starts in the gut. It should push designers to take action. This effort requires significant and purposeful practice because businesses and organizational structures aren't constructed with empathy in mind. Designers and companies need to find common ground to move forward as an industry. Businesses must acknowledge that this type of thinking is good for product design. Designers, for their part, need to show that gut-thinking is grounded in logic and produces results. Thinking from the gut can be systematized and learned. </p> <h3 class="regular">What Happens in Vagus, Shouldn't Stay in Vagus</h3> <img src="http://www.zurb.com/blog/system/images/1429/original/brain-guts.png?1416000189" alt="vagus nerve"> <p>Here's where science comes in — it just so happens that there's a nerve that connects the brain to your guts. It's called the vagus nerve, it's over 9 meters long and there are over <a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/gut-second-brain/" rel="nofollow">100 million neurons that act as a second brain</a>. As a designer, there's a real and tangible connection to our guts that helps us react to situations and come up with quick design solutions. This shouldn't be overlooked in the design process.</p> <p>Designers <a href="http://zurb.com/article/1336/designers-you-ve-made-it-to-the-table-don">must learn to sell complex ideas</a> to marketers, customer service people, engineers and the suit-and-ties, all while shipping code. Being data focused can be helpful, but <a href="http://stopdesign.com/archive/2009/03/20/goodbye-google.html" rel="nofollow">it's got its limitations to help push through big ideas</a> as Doug Bowman steadfastly declared (companies have since wised up ' even Google has a mandate <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/24/3904134/google-redesign-how-larry-page-engineered-beautiful-revolution" rel="nofollow">to make things beautiful</a>). Communicating product ideas must come from <a href="http://www.fastcompany.com/3022954/leadership-now/the-neuroscience-of-trusting-your-gut" rel="nofollow">confident decision making and solid emotional grounding</a>. Antonio Damasio, a neuroscientist at the University of Southern California and head of the Brain and Creativity Institute, makes the case:</p> <blockquote>Rather than being opposed, emotion and reason are deeply interrelated: if you're going to make sound and rational decisions, [Damasio] contends, you need to have first done prior accurate emotional processing. If you have done such processing, then your emotions accelerate your decision-making — in the form of intuitions, hunches, and gut feelings. </blockquote> <p>If gut-thinking is so important to design, where are designers learning to work through their ideas and emotions? Companies aren't opening themselves up and designers are not practicing enough. So which is it? Are companies too stuck in their ways or are designers too scared to think from the gut? We need a process to support design thinking and decision making. </p> <h3 class="regular">Gut-Thinking in Progressive Design</h3> <p>Designers need simple tools for organizing their thoughts to drive design problems within a team. <a href="http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21567876-you-can-it-helps-think-well-yourself-first-place-think-yourself" rel="nofollow">Gut-thinking produces positive feelings</a>. With a positive attitude, designers can create momentum for the team. At the heart of this problem is learning to communicate and facilitate decisions on behalf of product teams. <a href="http://zurb.com/article/1349/the-problem-with-design-thinking-is-that-">Progressive Design is an effective way</a> to build momentum and harness the power of gut-thinking while providing a structure for teams to feel confident.</p> <p>We've worked for the past decade and applied these learnings to our design work across startups and large companies. Using a progressive design process has enabled us to reduce the design synthesizing and processing time, and enabled our designers to help companies make solid design decisions from the gut. Gut-thinking has been shown to create better results, is faster for us and has more momentum and satisfaction for our designers.</p> <p>We'll continue to share our ideas and get more into how designers can learn to get better at gut-thinking through specific techniques and progressive design.</p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/zurb/blog?a=W4WirgtDxgY:-DorI3Pia8o:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/zurb/blog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> </div> Wed, 12 Nov 2014 15:38:00 -0800 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/zurb/blog/~3/W4WirgtDxgY/1355 http://zurb.com/blog/1355 http://zurb.com/blog/1355 | http://feeds.feedburner.com/zurb/blog | dclm-gs1-133490000 |
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Fight Club – Review
Fifty dollars can buy an awful lot of things. Twenty-Five delicious pomegranates. Two DVDs. Both volumes of Alan Moore's Supreme, possibly the single greatest comic book series ever written. An evening at the movies for two and a half people.
If whichever executive at Vivendi Universal thought that this game were equal to, or greater in value than any of those things, I'd have trouble imagining someone more self-deluded. If that same executive, and this is the theory I tend to believe in, felt that the game could be dumped on an unsuspecting audience who would snatch it up based on its association with a popular movie, as well as the attractive graphics on the back, then I have trouble imagining someone with less respect for the game-playing public.
Fight Club is, as the title would suggest, a fighting game. A ludicrously bad one. It features a few of the features and game modes that people have come to expect, including a disappointingly short story mode, a poorly-devised online component, and a "create-a-fighter" mode that offers a depressing lack of customization options.
The aggressive awfulness of Fight Club (the game) is additionally shocking because Fight Club (the movie) could actually have been translated fairly easily into a decent fighting game. Just why it wasn't is something of puzzlement to me. It seems like a natural mix—after all, Electronic Arts has leveraged a more tenuously-game-related property full of guys pummeling each other in dank basements into a profitable franchise, why not do the same with Fight Club? Actually, had Vivendi Universal just shamelessly ripped off Def Jam Vendetta's format and mechanics, I would have praised the developers' good taste; after all, if you're going to steal, you really ought to steal from the best.
A Def Jam Vendetta-style combination of brutal brawling, holds, and throws would have suited Fight Club down to the ground. Instead the developers chose to follow the Tekken template when designing the game, right down to the two punches over two kicks button layout. This means that rather than the free-roaming gameplay and interactive areas of Def Jam Vendetta, players are restricted to 2D movement and mostly static backdrops.
The central problem with Tekken—style 3D fighting games is the nearly obscene amount of memorization required to master any of the characters. This is mitigated somewhat by the fact that each character is distinctly different from one another, and generally feature as memorable and colourful character design as the game's art director could manage. This massive variety can create the feel of playing an entirely different game with each character, and leads to the nearly limitless depth that the greatest 2D fighting games seem to possess.
Fight Club, by comparison, is about a bunch of shirtless guys who gather in basements and punch one another senseless. If the face that all the characters basically look exactly the same wasn't bad enough, they all play exactly the same as well. There are only three different basic character types, the brawler, the grappler, and the martial artist—meaning that the game's fifteen characters are broken up into groups of five who all have the exact same moves. The only difference between the characters is slight difference in their appearances and different extended combos and throws. So the game offers all the tedious combo memorization of a Tekken-style game with the generic, unremarkable character design of a wrestling game. Not often one sees people attempting to merge the worst of both worlds, is it?
The combo system is all the more infuriating because the game's manual has no move lists, and the in-game move list can only be accessed from the training mode. So if I wanted to be able to use a move in an actual fight, I'd have to make sure I'd committed it completely to memory, a process made all the more difficult by the fact that the 'training' mode doesn't so much train the player as it does put them in front of a static opponent who can be punched and kicked at their leisure. Learning moves requires the player to constantly open the pause window to check how they're performed, which forces an already trying process over the line into unbearable territory.
If it wasn't enough that the game's fighting engine is badly constructed, needlessly complex, and no fun at all to play, the developers didn't even get the movie-licensed material right. First of all, they only managed to license the likenesses of very minor characters from the film, which just serves to make the game look cheap by highlighting the fact that the developers weren't able to acquire the rights to show the main actors, as it did in last years' Die Hard and Mission Impossible games.
The game also suffers from Terminator 3 syndrome, in that the developers only included enough of the plot to make it recognizable as a Fight Club game, but not enough to make it the slightest bit coherent to someone who hasn't seen the movie. They even flub enough of the small details to make me wonder just how clear they were about the movie's plot. For example, when Angel Face (Jared Leto's character form the film) appears in the "Story" mode, he should already be horribly disfigured, but he isn't. Also, for some reason the game seems to think that the movie took place in L.A., when it actually took place in Delaware.
The game's one saving grace is its graphics. The animation is fluid and whether attacking or being attacked the movements of the various characters blend into each other well. The textures are all shiny and attractive enough, and the 3D fighting arenas are realistic enough to make me wish that I could run around freely and interact with them, rather than just look at the pretty backgrounds as I move towards and away from my opponent.
Even the game's graphics have their down side—there's one level that's knee-deep in water, and while the water ripples in circles around the characters' legs, it isn't noticeably disturbed when they walk through it, nor is there a splash when they fall. Even the game's much touted "realistic bruising" and facial deformation isn't as interesting a feature as it should be, since the characters only seem to bruise in the face or over broken arms. The other big graphical trick, showing the skeleton when a bone is broken dramatically, is handled so badly that it ends up more confusing than cool. The breaking hit is always shown three times in dramatic slow motions, but the "mo" isn't "slo" enough to really tell what's going on in most of the hits. One of the breaking attacks involves kneeing the opponent in the side, and for the life of me I couldn't figure out what was supposed to be broken afterwards. An extreme close-up or change in color of the broken bone would have gone a long way to fixing this feature.
Most of Fight Club's problems exist at the conceptual level—the designers made a very bad choice about the type of game they were making very early on, and the game suffered because of it. The other errors, though—the terrible manual, the graphical glitches, the utter lack of fun present in the fighting that makes up the entirety of the game's content—these are the problems of a game that wasn't tested as exhaustively as it should have been, and I can't help but wonder how that could have happened; I mean, the game's already five years past being relevant, it would have killed them to take another six months to make it decent? Yeah, it's that bad, and deserves the 2.0 out of 10 rating.
Fight Club – Consumer Guide
According to ESRB, this game contains: Blood, Intense Violence, Language
shouldn't let their children near this game. There's swearing, horrible violence, and references to lewd and obscene acts a-plenty.
Fighting game fans should just walk on by to the many other decent fighting games out there: Def Jam Vendetta, Guilty Gear X2, or wait just a little longer to get a hold of the genuine article, Tekken 5.
Deaf and Hard of Hearing gamers will be disappointed to learn that the game features no subtitling of any kind, so the game's plot will be even more impenetrable to them than it already was. Of course, if you've read this review, you won't be playing the game at all, so it's probably a moot point at best. | http://gamecritics.com/book/export/html/29 | dclm-gs1-133570000 |
0.027458 | <urn:uuid:9c4677fd-576e-4bfc-879c-3110777b5394> | en | 0.978292 | Read a chapter from Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, the new fantasy novel everybody's talking about
Critics have been buzzing about Robin Sloan's weird and alluring debut novel, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, a bizarre mystery with lots of fantastical elements. It's hard to describe, but once you start reading you may not be able to stop. Also, as an added bonus, the cover glows in the dark. We've got the first chapter for you right here.
Illustration by Laura Terry.
Says Sloan on his website:
This is a novel about books and technology, cryptography and conspiracy, friendship and love. It begins in a mysterious San Francisco bookstore, but quickly reaches out into the wider world and the shadowed past.
Lost in the shadows of the shelves, I almost fall off the ladder. I am exactly halfway up. The floor of the bookstore is far below me, the surface of a planet I've left behind. The tops of the shelves loom high above, and it's dark up there — the books are packed in close, and they don't let any light through. The air might be thinner, too. I think I see a bat.
I am holding on for dear life, one hand on the ladder, the other on the lip of a shelf, fingers pressed white. My eyes trace a line above my knuckles, searching the spines — and there, I spot it. The book I'm looking for.
But let me back up.
My name is Clay Jannon and those were the days when I rarely touched paper.
I'd sit at my kitchen table and start scanning help-wanted ads on my laptop, but then a browser tab would blink and I'd get distracted and follow a link to a long magazine article about genetically modified wine grapes. Too long, actually, so I'd add it to my reading list. Then I'd follow another link to a book review. I'd add the review to my reading list, too, then download the first chapter of the book — third in a series about vampire police. Then, help-wanted ads forgotten, I'd retreat to the living room, put my laptop on my belly, and read all day. I had a lot of free time.
I was unemployed, a result of the great food-chain contraction that swept through America in the early twenty-first century, leaving bankrupt burger chains and shuttered sushi empires in its wake.
The job I lost was at the corporate headquarters of NewBagel, which was based not in New York or anywhere else with a tradition of bagel-making but instead here in San Francisco. The company was very small and very new. It was founded by a pair of ex-Googlers who wrote software to design and bake the platonic bagel: smooth crunchy skin, soft doughy interior, all in a perfect circle. It was my first job out of art school, and I started as a designer, making marketing materials to explain and promote this tasty toroid: menus, coupons, diagrams, posters for store windows, and, once, an entire booth experience for a baked-goods trade show.
There was lots to do. First, one of the ex-Googlers asked me to take a crack at redesigning the company's logo. It had been big bouncy rainbow letters inside a pale brown circle it looked pretty MS Paint. I redesigned if using a newish typeface with sharp black serifs that I thought sort of evoked the boxes and daggers of Hebrew letters. It gave NewBagel some gravitas and it won me an award from San Francisco's AIGA chapter. Then, when I mentioned to the other ex-Googler that I knew how to code (sort of), she put me in charge of the website. So I redesigned that, too, and then managed a small marketing budget keyed to search terms like "bagel" and "breakfast" and "topology." I was also the voice of @ NewBagel on Twitter and attracted a few hundred followers with a mix of breakfast trivia and digital coupons.
None of this represented the glorious next stage of human evolution, but I was learning things. I was moving up. But then the economy took a dip, and it turns out that in a recession, people want good old-fashioned bubbly oblong bagels, not smooth alien spaceship bagels, not even if they're sprinkled with precision milled rock salt.
The ex-Googlers were accustomed to success and they would not go quietly. They quickly rebranded to become the Old Jerusalem Bagel Company and abandoned the algorithm entirely so the bagels started coming out blackened and irregular. They instructed me to make the website look old-timey, a task that burdened my soul and earned me zero AIGA awards. The marketing budget dwindled, then disappeared. There was less and less to do. I wasn't learning anything and I wasn't moving anywhere.
Finally, the ex-Googlers threw in the towel and moved to Costa Rica. The ovens went cold and the website went dark. There was no money for severance, but I got to keep my company-issued MacBook and the Twitter account.
So then, after less than a year of employment, I was jobless. It turned out it was more than just the food chains that had contracted. People were living in motels and tent cities. The whole economy suddenly felt like a game of musical chairs, and I was convinced I needed to grab a seat, any seat, as fast as I could.
That was a depressing scenario when I considered the competition. I had friends who were designers like me, but they had already designed world-famous websites or advanced touch-screen interfaces, not just the logo for an upstart bagel shop. I had friends who worked at Apple. My best friend, Neel, ran his own company.
Another year at NewBagel and I would have been in good shape, but I hadn't lasted long enough to build my portfolio, or even get particularly good at anything. I had an art-school thesis on Swiss typography(1957�1983) and I had a three-page website.
But I kept at it with the help-wanted ads. My standards were sliding swiftly. At first I had insisted I would only work at a company with a mission I believed in. Then I thought maybe it would be fine as long as I was learning something new. After that I decided it just couldn't be evil. Now I was carefully delineating my personal definition of evil.
It was paper that saved me. It turned out that I could stay focused on job hunting if I got myself away from the internet, so I would print out a ream of help-wanted ads, drop my phone in a drawer, and go for a walk. I'd crumple up the ads that required too much experience and deposit them in dented green trash cans along the way, and so by the time I'd exhausted myself and hopped on a bus back home, I'd have two or three promising prospectuses folded in my back pocket, ready for follow-up.
This routine did lead me to a job, though not in the way I'd expected.
San Francisco is a good place for walks if your legs are strong. The city is a tiny square punctuated by steep hills and bounded on three sides by water, and as a result, there are surprise vistas everywhere. You'll be walking along, minding your own business with a fistful of printouts, and suddenly the ground will fall away and you'll see straight down to the bay, with the buildings lit up orange and pink along the way. San Francisco's architectural style didn't really make inroads anywhere else in the country, and even when you live here and you're used to it, it lends the vistas a strangeness: all the tall narrow houses, the windows like eyes and teeth, the wedding-cake filigree. And looming behind it all, if you're facing the right direction, you'll see the rusty ghost of the Golden Gate Bridge.
I had followed one strange vista down a line of steep stair stepped sidewalks, then walked along the water, taking the very long way home. I had followed the line of old piers — carefully skirting the raucous chowder of Fisherman's Wharf — and watched seafood restaurants fade into nautical engineering firms and then social media startups. Finally, when my stomach rumbled, signaling its readiness for lunch, I had turned back in toward the city.
Whenever I walked the streets of San Francisco, I'd watch for help wanted signs in windows — which is not something you really do, right? I should probably be more suspicious of those. Legitimate employers use Craigslist.
Sure enough, the 24-hour bookstore did not have the look of a legitimate employer:
Late Shift
Specific Requirements
Good Benefits
Now: I was pretty sure "24-hour bookstore" was a euphemism for something. It was on Broadway, in a euphemistic part of town. My help-wanted hike had taken me far from home; the place next door was called Booty's and it had a sign with neon legs that crossed and uncrossed.
So who was Mr. Penumbra?
And that is how I find myself on this ladder, up on the third floor, minus the floor, of Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore. The book I've been sent up to retrieve is called AL-ASMARI and it's about 150 percent of one arm-length to my left. Obviously, I need to return to the floor and scoot the ladder over. But down below, Penumbra is shouting, "Lean, my boy! Lean!"
And wow, do I ever want this job.
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Since last week, I've been learning c++ and openFrameworks and creating a application to control any robot with a computer on it or, at least connected to one by someway.
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Maze Solving Robot, Flood Fill Algorithm (UPDATED w/ video)
I was wondering how the guys program their robots in the micromouse competition.
It was obvious that they don't use the "always go left" method. After looking around a little bit, it became apparent that the competitors keep their algorithms on the hush. But I did find that the base for most their methods is the Flood Fill method. Here is a paper that describes it pretty well. | http://letsmakerobots.com/taxonomy/term/4896 | dclm-gs1-134530000 |
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Nats, top pick Harper agree to five-year deal
WASHINGTON -- The Nationals announced that they have agreed to terms with outfielder Bryce Harper, the No. 1 overall pick in the 2010 First-Year Player Draft. The two parties had until Monday at midnight ET to get a deal done.
Harper was in Las Vegas when he found out that he was a member of the Nationals.
After finalizing the deal, general manager Mike Rizzo received a whipped cream pie in the face and the silver Elvis wig from team president Stan Kasten. The Elvis wig is usually awarded to the Nationals' game MVP.
"Why not go overboard?" Kasten jokingly asked. "That is a lot of fun. That's really fun."
According to a baseball source, the five-year contract is worth $9.9 million, which includes a $6.25 signing bonus. The deal is a new record for a position player signed out of the Draft. The previous record was held by Mark Teixeira, who received a $9.5 million, four-year Major League deal in 2001.
Harper and the Nationals agreed to terms seconds before the deadline. Within a minute before the deadline, there was a point where both sides thought a deal wouldn't get done.
"With a full minute to go, Mike and I both thought we were not going to have a deal done," Kasten said. "It changed during the middle of that last minute. This was literally right at the end. It was just both sides coming together.
"I thought we started early enough to avoid [the last minute]. Early in the evening, it sounded like a willingness on the other side to not get in the situation. Yet, there we found ourselves [in that situation].
Said Rizzo: "It was both sides compromising and knowing that we were so close. It would be fruitless to not get a deal done. Like I've always said, we have an organization that wanted the player and a player who wanted to be in the organization. Once the smoke cleared, we found common ground to get a deal done."
Harper, 17, will be introduced to the D.C. media during the next homestand, which starts Monday against the Cubs.
Harper will start his professional baseball career in the Gulf Coast League and then go to the Instructional League in the fall. Rizzo isn't sure if he will go to the Arizona Fall League. Rizzo said it was an outside possibility.
"This guy is another impact player in the system," Rizzo said. "He is a guy that could possibly be a cornerstone in our lineup in the very near future and a talent we're pleased to put in the organization.
"We feel he is a fast-track, 17-year-old player. [We like] the fact that he handles the wooden bat so well and is very experienced with it the whole season. It helped us with our evaluation of him. I think it speaks to how hard he has worked over the season and how ready we feel he is to endure the rigors of professional baseball."
Scouting director Kris Kline said that Harper was the only hitter in the Draft to be projected as a No. 3 hitter, and he compared the slugger to former Major Leaguer Larry Walker and current Red Sox outfielder J.D. Drew.
"Bryce is very advanced for his age -- very polished," Kline said. "He has the ability to keep the bat in the strike zone. I think he sees the ball extremely well. He's just very advanced but has a simple approach and that knack for driving the ball the other way already, which tells me how advanced he is at this point."
Unlike last year's top pick, right-hander Stephen Strasburg, Harper isn't projected to be in the big leagues for two or three years. A year after being drafted, Strasburg made his big league debut this season.
Washington's selection of Harper marks only the third time since 1999 that the Nationals/Expos franchise has taken a position player -- Ryan Zimmerman and Chris Marrero were the others -- in the first round.
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0.531471 | <urn:uuid:ba481515-2971-45af-add2-fff7035b3a26> | en | 0.966792 | What is meta? ×
The Community user seems (at least as far as I can tell) to pick questions that have no accepted answer to bump to the top of the home page. This includes questions with no answers, one answer and sometimes several answers.
Now while it might be a good idea for these questions to be revisited in the hope of getting a better answer, surely it would be better to concentrate on those questions with no answers at all.
Here's an example from Super User of where the question does have answers.
So - can the algorithm be changed to favour questions with no answers at all?
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I think it does favor them, but I can't know for sure – jmfsg Mar 11 '10 at 12:34
I think the continued issue of an abandoned, or potentially abandoned, question (if these questions really had a bunch of bogus answers, and not a real one, there's no issue--abandoned questions give it more weight) points to a real need to handle them. Doesn't seem like they're interested in doing that, but I just want to point out that this is another instance of 'only a problem because we don't handle abandoned questions'. – D_N Mar 12 '10 at 3:59
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up vote 4 down vote accepted
As mentioned by Jeff, it uses the 0-upvoted answers definition. The community user will not bump a question if there are any answers with a score > 0. As for why this is preferred, let's look at it from both sides:
At least one answer, total score is 0 or less
Let's pretend for a moment that the question does not have any good answers. In that case, isn't this question just as deserving of extra attention as one with no answers at all? On the other hand, say it does have a good answer. In that case, it only takes one upvote to that answer for it to disappear from the unanswered view and never get bumped again. We want to make sure the unanswered view is well maintained, and so the chance to upvote this answer is just as valuable to the community as bumping a question with on good answers.
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Your argument here is that these questions are somehow more deserving of the extra attention. I put it to you that there is often a very good reason these questions are not answered. Often, the only purpose of bumping these questions is so we can spot them and vote to close them. In other words, they are just as often less deserving of your time, not more. I will grant you that a filter on the score for the question might fix this, so that it only bumps questions with a score >= 0. Then it would also provide the community a chance to downvote or close these bad questions in the same way it gives us a chance to upvote deservings answers to clean the unanswered view.
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See the definition of answered, here:
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OK - the Community user is using the "unanswered" definition. I understand and accept this for the "unanswered" tab, but I still think questions with zero answers should get "bumping" priority as only a few get bumped each day. – ChrisF Mar 11 '10 at 12:59
This sounds like the discussion: Should unanswered questions be considered all questions with no accepted answer or only questions with no answer. And I guess the same algorithm is used to figure out which questions Community user should pick.
Therefore I vote for No!
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abzdine + 810d ago
what a disappointment !! Not even retail games !
majiebeast + 810d ago
Big dissapointment maybe they should stop making those shitty Inazuma 11 games, so they can start on darkcloud 3 already long overdue.
Jason_Tanner + 810d ago
Yeah, I'll pass on all of them.
wastedcells + 810d ago
Same, I was all pumped when I read the title but as soon as the page loaded.....WTF.
colonel179 + 810d ago
Even if they are small games (more suitable for iphone) it's pretty noticeable that developers are really supporting the 3DS.
I wish Vita had the same support. It's an incredible system, but somehow seems like developers and publishers don't care that much about it. Maybe it is because the development costs are higher for the Vita than the 3DS?
People tend to relate developer support with market share, but at one point the 3DS was new and had no market share, so why not risk more for the Vita_
Snookies12 + 810d ago
Yeah, the lack of attention the Vita is getting is really sad to see. It's a wonderful system, I seriously don't understand the lack of interest on the developers part. It's much easier to work with than the PS3, so you'd think (as I'd heard that was the main issue developers had with the PS3, how difficult it was to code for) the Vita would have more support.
Xof + 810d ago
Nintendo has been supporting the 3DS, that's why third party developers are turning to it.
Maybe if Sony supported the Vita more, and did more things to encourage third party development, it'd see more support.
r21 + 810d ago
Well...thats disappointing :L My fault for expecting huge games announcements :C
vork77 + 810d ago
please level 5 start on the wiiu of dragon quest X
Chrono + 810d ago
I'm only interested in Crimson Shroud, looks like a good game.
Blockhead22 + 810d ago
sypher + 810d ago
Airport luggage game. Cant wait for that one!
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0.094366 | <urn:uuid:239e6e31-3074-4d2f-907c-a534842d6be8> | en | 0.94825 | Submitted by jaredhart 538d ago | opinion piece
Will Microsoft Lure Cable Giants to Xbox One Before PlayStation 4 and Apple TV?
Xbox One will retail for $499 -- $400 more than an Apple TV. Why should consumers who don't care about gaming pay such a high price for an entertainment device?
Microsoft began to provide an answer when it announced that it had signed an unexpectedly large deal with Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC). For the first time ever, Time Warner Cable subscribers will be able to stream 300 live channels through an Xbox 360. (PS4, Xbox One)
MariaHelFutura + 538d ago | Well said
Playstation will lure game developers w/ specs and sales before ever even considering TV. It's not like they ps4 couldn't do TV, they just don't want to cause it's stupid.
Pope_Kaz_Hirai_II + 538d ago
A bubble for you MariaHelfutura , one of the few people who talks sense and doesnt spout rubbish or spam like jokes-foxgod-georgenoob-greenp owerz.
buddymagoo + 538d ago
Well considering Sony Pictures is one of the biggest movie studios and Sony create quite a few top TV series including Breaking Bad & community. Also Sony supply quite a lot of studios with their camera's as well as sports stations around the world.
So I think Sony have hold the better cards in regards to TV.
joeorc + 538d ago
well its not really that stupid Per se, but i think Microsoft may be in for a real uphill battle in that arena, the smart TV will be @ the very large and market share advantage over Apple and anyone else trying to put a top set box as its main functionality to best the smart TV in an area where the smart TV has the advantage because with a smart TV you already have most of that functionality already built right into the TV.
Samsung for example back in 2012 CES
Now of course it comes down to software maturity, but Samsung is pefecting their software for their smart TV's like Microsoft is doing for their xboxone.
I really think Sony and Nintendo is concentrating on where the strength of the game console come's in where the game topset box is looking to use 2nd screen and trying not to make the topset box competeing on the smart tv screen's dictating what the terms of the contest is, and instead making the contest for the living room based on what a games console does best and that is gaming.
its not just your Money but Time spent and your family's time spent. That is what all three game console companies that make a game console are trying to do, make their console the most used entertainment device under your TV. the Problem for Microsoft i can see over what Nintendo and Sony are doing, is Microsoft is trying to beat a smart TV in usage functionality over what a smart TV already does quite well already. Its good for Microsoft to try this, but on the same token i think with all the smart TV companies making smart TV's they really have a very large hurdle to overcome.
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nukeitall + 538d ago
lol! what?
The PS4 doesn't have the hardware for HDMI in which means the Xbox One has a feature the PS4 can never get. So no, the PS4 can't do TV the way Xbox One does. PS4 is relegated to IPTV only.
Have you all forgotten how Sony was all about TV with blu-ray?
Most people aren't "just gamers" that don't consume other media like you and poop hirai.
I'm going to love watching TV while gaming or waiting for a matchmaking match.
MS approach is more than just a crappy SmartTV. It is about interactive TV, not very slow and low quality experience with SmartTV.
The problem with most of the SmartTVs are the interface is horrible, the interaction is slow as heck, the result is often times low quality (Netflix video quality is terrible) and it isn't interactive.
MS got the right approach with Kinect and voice control, with easy, fast and fluid interaction.
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macusa22 + 538d ago
Lets be real man, are you going to try and watch tv while you in the middle of a game! Microsoft need to get rid of the cable box and they didn't. Why do I want 2 cable boxes that does the same thing.....I will just stick with these new smart tv and rumor is the new Apple TV is going to change the TV experence
joeorc + 538d ago
when was the last time you used a smart TV?
Because they are far from slow and low quality.
another thing, while i said its good that microsoft is concentrating on TV interface for the xboxone, both Nintendo and Sony has taken the 2nd screen technology and are moving it forward.
So like Microsoft does with HDMI IN/OUT sony and Nintendo both have dedicated hardware inside their systems that Microsoft cannot do without a redesign also. so it works not only both ways that all three have something in their hardware that the other systems do not have but also which bring's me to may next point.
Many of the same people going and Saying Microsoft is being very innovative for all in one entertainment box lambasted Sony on what the PS3 was as an all in one entertainment box.
calling out other's for hypocrisy works both ways. Not saying you are , im saying other's for lambasting Sony doing with the PS3 and that Microsoft are doing with the xboxone this generation people are being very cross on each side, but are really not looking at this as a net + because all three are concentrating on strengths for each platform, now how those strengths pan out well we will not know.
sweendog + 538d ago
I will also enjoy playing games and watching tv but with the addition of a spare $100 in my back pocket. I bet i can press source on my remote faster than you can wave your arms around
meatnormous + 538d ago
Ps4 might have RVU tech built in. Basically you can have Direct Tv and have the PS4 act like a client on a system with a hr34 or hr44. It will be able to pull in all programming off those media server boxes. I know that is with only one provider, but Direct tv is the worlds largest provider. Please follow this link to see what I am talking about. http://www.rvualliance.org/... . Some devices have it built in already.
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Gamerchik87 + 538d ago
I agree! The netflix app on my samsung blu ray player and tv are plagued with bugs the UI is horrible and slow while the 360 runs and looks alot better the k2 will just make this experience better
nukeitall + 538d ago
While waiting for a matchmaking online, I would love to watch TV or play a single player game while I wait.
I could also keep tabs on the score or happening of a sports game while playing games.
There is plenty of uses for multitasking!
What second screen experience are you talking about?
MS has SmartGlass and it has been downloaded more than 17 million times. It exist on iOS, Android, Windows Phone and Windows. If anything, it seems MS is leading this.
However, that is hardly the same seamless experience.
"when was the last time you used a smart TV?"
I just bought a TV about 3-4 months ago, and was looking at SmartTVs, but all of them had pretty subpar experience. Heck, the salesman recommended me an AppleTV thing. I just ended using my Xbox 360 and buying an Apple TV thing for work.
PS3 might have been a hardware engineering feat, but from a user standpoint there was hardly anything innovative about it. Blu-Ray? pft, HD-DVD works the same. What else is there to discuss?
RVU is still in it's infancy in terms of adoption despite being ratified back in 2009. The number of units certified as you have shown are handful or two. That said, the RVU protocol is nothing "tech built in", it is literally just software interfacing with your network port. Just about anything with processing power, a network port and connection to TV can take advantage of this with software.
However, DLNA never really took off, and RVU is just built on
Good for you!
However, I don't have to lift a finger and just have to speak it probably faster than you can find your remote. In addition, switching back and forth might mean you don't know when the game started staying idle and get booted out of the game!
Worse you get down rated by your teammates. Enjoy being matched with trolls next time!
Netflix (or similar apps) on external devices like AppleTV, Xbox 360, PS3 and PC is consistently superior. SmartTV are terrible and serves to increase input lag.
Yup, that is why I ended up buying a non SmartTV!
cee773 + 538d ago
what does bluray have to do with cable tv?
while your at it why not compare dvd to it as well lol
Xbox 360 has no hdmi in yet it managed to become A cable box.
Wii U was the first to have HDMI in but its the best thing since sliced bread because microsoft added it right?
More people drop cable on A daily basis just off neflix and youtube alone. While xbmc is steadily gaining ground we can all watch live tv on tablets,phones,PC's, and android mini PC's for free might I add.
This cable on A console is nothing more than A gimmick to most were in A multitasking era where our smart devices have been able to do and excel in every department microsoft is trying to conquer there A gen too late with the cable crap
while I'll give it to microsoft for making deals with TWC(Time Warner Cable) because now it appears they removed the caps all of A sudden because it keeps customers.
But imo cable is crap theres never anything on you just pay $100+ dollars A month for reruns and old movies lol now if they transitioned everything to the internet tahts A different story
I guess XBMC will continue to show these multibillion dollar corps how its done
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SpinalRemains138 + 538d ago
My Netflix has flawless video quality. Always HD and smooth.
Am I misunderstanding you, in that you're saying that smart tvs have slow access and a subsequent poor stream quality?
I use Netflix on PS and I love it. 4 years ago the video quality left a lot to be desired, but about 3 years ago they must have upgraded their servers because all the streams are super crisp.
nukeitall + 537d ago
I can't say if it is the software or the hardware (i.e. the chip) on the SmartTV, but the video has more artifacts than on my crystal clear Xbox 360.
MariaHelFutura + 538d ago
The PS3 was a media hub.
'It only does everything' remember?
So, welcome to 2006 (aside from the power bricks and AA batteries).
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Thomper + 538d ago
What's the problem with batteries??
When my ps4 controller dies, I either have to charge it, or plug in the short cable. When my 360 dies, I switch to either the play and charge pack, or slap a couple of duracells in.
I think it is convenient, and gives me choice
mkotechno + 538d ago
What if you buy a larger cable one time instead of tons of batteries the rest of your life? Think about it.
P_Bomb + 537d ago
I also refuse to spend more money on extra peripherals like a charge pack and stockpiles of Duracells that clutter when a simple free USB cord should suffice. I plug in my phone, laptop, camera, dualshocks, blutooth etc. I'll only break out the dusty AA's and tolerate rumble disconnects for exclusives like Forza Horizon, which I just downloaded for a sweet $14.99.
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Nathaniel_Drake + 538d ago
A huge thing Sony has on its side are Sony television, and Sony movie studios.
Thomper + 538d ago
That could be a disadvantage. Microsoft are impartial in that respect, so have no interests to protect.
Says that I have the Sony trailers app on 360.... Which is....errr... Crap, actually
EXVirtual + 538d ago
Thank you. You got dislike from Xbox fanboys I think. A lot of em have come recently, especially after they took out the DRM. Like I've said before, in 2-3 years the XB1 is just gonna get less games and/or some seriously watered down multiplats and Japanese devs especially will ditch it.
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warewolfSS + 538d ago
Thank you n4g analyst for your non biased gamer opinion
Cuzzo63 + 538d ago
Really? Who cares!. We want games not cable. Gamers want games. Wats the point of running cable thru the system for a new interface all all this gimmicky stuff. I got basic cable. With Netflix and Redbox im watching all the movies thats on cable before it hits cable. I got the news. If I want politics or sports thats where google comes in at. I mean its just a push of a.... BUTTON!. Are we really that lazy that they come up with stuff like this and the fanboys eat it up like its a revolution. Will it materialize a cure for cancer and create a unlimited energy source? They should throw in a toaster add on peripheral also... Cable n pop tarts is one hellava combo.
rainslacker + 538d ago
I don't think it's stupid to have added services. I wonder at the reasoning for MS paying for such a service though. Since this is live TV streams, seems the cable companies would welcome the chance to increase their viewership since they make money off ad revenue. OTOH, I know Time Warner will jump at any chance to make millions of dollars.
Otherwise it could possibly render the pass through HDMI overlay interface a redundant feature, as it could now all be handled directly on the Xbox, and conceivably the PS4, and likely the Wii U.
Pope_Kaz_Hirai_II + 538d ago
Most of this wont come to europe and come to think of it you can get apple tv and a ps4 for 500 so which you think is better?
nick309 + 538d ago
You do know not the whole world is based in eu and us right? Where i live ps4& X1 cost the same.... A 1000$ each, sony and ms do nothing for outside eu and us. Cant even rent shows, and such.
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oscarcat59 + 538d ago
First valid complaint I have seen on here.
YNWA96 + 538d ago
That is not a nice thing to say about Sony, they honestly care about your situation.
The Meerkat + 538d ago
Why would anyone want Apple TV?
I'd rather have an Amiga CD32.
mcstorm + 538d ago
Now hang on there everyone should have an Amiga 32 it was an amazing console and I sill have mine lol. I go agree I don't see the point in Apple TV but I do think what Microsoft are doing in terms of TV is a good way of doing it.
They are not trying to take on the big names in terms of having there own channels but they are getting the big Names like Sky ect on board with them to help make the TV experience better and less complex. I have not used a one yet so I cant say it will be less complex but it looks it from what I have seen.
Also People on here have seemed to forget Sony made PlayTV for the PS3 which was a great idea at the time and worked well to.
Bennibop + 538d ago
Play tv 2 will turn up at some point. Again Sony will make it an opt in rather than forcing it down your neck.
jaredhart + 538d ago
They will because microsoft has a lot of influence and money. Their influence is more potent in the US. But, this will be primarily in the US.
Cuzzo63 + 538d ago
Well we saw how they tried to influence DRM. I guess their money wasn't enough
Grown Folks Talk + 538d ago
Gamers don't watch tv... allegedly.
YNWA96 + 538d ago
Gamers dont't play games either, they just come here and whine about who has the bigger terraflop.
Grown Folks Talk + 538d ago
True. I think my Atari 2600 had 1 milobyte of ram.
YNWA96 + 538d ago
Impressive, they made games that kept you hooked for hours back then.... remember having ZX48k, and people with Commodore 64 bragged about an extra 16k!
Zichu + 538d ago
I don't usually watch live TV anyway. I prefer to record my favorite series and watch them when I am not gaming. Either that or I watch it on demand.
This way I can spend my evenings playing games while my shows are being recorded and watch them early in the morning when I am not playing games.
warewolfSS + 538d ago
Busy life
pkb79 + 538d ago
I'm a gamer and I love good tv. Have all my shows recorded though so I can skip the ads. And I don't find using the remote to switch inputs that big of a chore.
MysticStrummer + 538d ago
"Gamers don't watch tv... allegedly."
I know I don't. I used to have cable and satellite TV at different times of my life, but I haven't had either one for about five years and I don't miss TV at all.
Older people in general, middle aged and up, still watch a lot of traditional TV. Younger people do not.
TV as we know it is slowly dying.
What this means for PS4 and One is : Connecting a cable box to your console is antiquated, not futuristic.
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Grown Folks Talk + 538d ago
I just want a dedicated Cox app like the Time Warner one so I can watch cable in the bedroom. My apartment only has the 1 outlet in the living room. Plus my wife could watch in there when i'm dominating the living room TVs for college football.
cee773 + 538d ago
Gamers dont watch tv, they watch xbmc lol see the irony?
Ashlen + 538d ago
My biggest concern is internet throttling. ISP's like TWC are notorious for throttling there competition. They have throttled Youtube Twitch Netflix and other sites that compete with there cable business.
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Jarhead1776 + 538d ago
I don't have cable nor do I plan to get it. I do like gaming though. As a current Xbox360 owner I have preordered the PS4. These tv features mean nothing to me.
It just occurred to me, why distract gamers with all of this tv crap, instead M$ needs to focus on games to sell games for gamers. I think the Xbox had the highest software attach rate this gen, will that continue?
Grown Folks Talk + 538d ago
Entire E3 was games, & they still have many unannounced. Of course in light of many articles & comments since, nobody actually paid attention to their conference.
warewolfSS + 538d ago
I hate to point out that anyone who writes m$ in their comment history, probably never owned a Xbox in their life.
jessupj + 537d ago
You don't need an xbox to to see the blatantly obvious thing they prioritise well above all else.
Ashlen + 538d ago
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kingPoS + 538d ago
Such a shame our US cable companies won't let something like Torne or Play TV come state side. It's not the tech that's at fault, it's the way it has to be implemented - in the US
It's why most US cable tv users are forever stuck leasing cable boxes. What ever happened to just plugging the coaxial straight in the TV. Go on ahead and ask why the Xbox One can't act as DVR for TV on it's own.
Long live the cable card.
hazardman + 538d ago
Cable cards suck dude. Got it from comcast for my tv and i couldnt get on demand programming or ppv.
kingPoS + 538d ago
It's intentional, they want you to lease their boxes instead of bypassing their fees left and right.
insertnamehurr + 538d ago
It looks like xbox fans are taking over this article with massive dislikes and comments.
Godmars290 + 538d ago
MS likely has US cable companies wrapped up in regards to support over anything Sony does. Then again Sony have their own TV and movie studios.
Elsewhere cable isn't as disjointed, there's public access and Sony has Torne and PlayTV, so its not going be vital that Sony has exclusive deals.
kingPoS + 538d ago
I may not watch cable tv. But at the same time I can't wait to see an evolved Torne & Play TV on the PS4.
I've seen out of control cable bills before. - not pretty
Godmars290 + 538d ago
Given that we can't use things like Torne or Play TV in the US - "Thank you" US cable companies -__- - I want to see Sony get more apps. Hear about a browser for the PS4.
Worse still is that given that the PS4 could have been made out-the-box compatible with EU and Japanese cable services, given its connection set up it either isn't or will require add ons.
kewlkat007 + 538d ago
There is a lot going on in the world of set-top-box media entertainment.
I currently have connected to my HDTV(Not smart)
-Tivo HD DVR
-Google TV(logitech)
-HTPC(17 TB of personal media)
Here in the states there is battle going on as the go to device that does it all. If you do not create the right hardware that takes advantage of all types of Media then you will be left out. I applaud MS for looking to the future of media besides just gaming. I hear APPLE is also working on some Tv of some sort.
The thing is, Cable industries still have all the power. If there is nothing in it for them through advertisements, deals and contracts then they make it much harder for other manufacturers that create devices/peripherals to offer the right media to its buyers.
Google has been trying, Apple will get into it soon, now MS is taking a stab at it too. Consoles need to do more then just games these days to allow for different revenue streams. Ms does have the money to make deals.
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YNWA96 + 538d ago
That setup is close to my own, only reason not more is because I have no space for audio or video on my audio receiver... if X1 can do alot of this for me, it would be great... so, there is 2 kinds of consumers, those who play games and not much else, and those who have an entertainment setup with a lot of other devices. I want the X1 because it can potentially make my life a lot easier, and get this, it also plays games! So, to all those who complain about the other stuff a console can do, go buy a N64 or something and stop complaining about the rest of us that like other things, gaming included... Its the height of selfishness to expect MS or whoever else to make something only for them....
jb227 + 538d ago
Apple got the same deal Microsoft did with time Warner, and they will probably get even more, being that the attach rate for apple tv will probably be much higher than that of the 'one'....to me, gamers who want diversity are better served with the ps4
pkb79 + 538d ago
I thought more people where dropping overpriced cable subscriptions in favor of streaming tv?
Godmars290 + 538d ago
They were. Or at least I am.
MS has jut made it a point to latch onto the old, outdated model more for their benefit rather than the consumers.
Grown Folks Talk + 538d ago
Interesting given so many complained for them to keep the old model of gaming. Society has grown to accept digital/streaming models in everything else.
Godmars290 + 538d ago
Talking about cable TV. Not gaming.
In regards to gaming, consoles were originally intended as a means for cheap/easy access to gaming for the general consumer market. With the 360 and PS3 - one generation - though consoles moved towards being reliant on internet support, what MS originally had in mind with the XB1 would have directly excluded non-internet users. Still does, but even more to the point it invalidates the existence or need for consoles.
For all real purposes the XB1 should have just been a media centric but capable/functional PC. Would have been more useful as well.
rainslacker + 538d ago
Nowadays cable is really expensive for the most part in the US. There are 3 shows that I watch regularly, and for the price of 1 month of cable I can just wait till the end of the season and buy all three season box sets on DVD cheaper. Netflix and Amazon Prime fill in the rest.
If my roommate didn't pay for cable, then I wouldn't have it at all. Plenty of cheaper alternative choices out there for those willing and able to look for it.
Foxgod + 538d ago
If they introduce these cable services in the Netherlands, and the price and quality are right, i might actually ditch my tv provider for it.
But it all depends on what they offer.
rainslacker + 538d ago
Given that it's Time Warner, and I understand this is US, I'd expect it'd be a paid service. I can't imagine TW, or any cable provider, to give out their service for free like that.
I have cable through AT&T, a company I hate with a passion, but the quality of service is actually really good for TVoIP, which isn't exactly what MS is getting from what I can tell.
It may be a service similar to HBO Go, where it's free if you're a Time Warner customer, but for Live TV.
I'm sure details will come out eventually. I doubt it would replace most people's cable boxes.
FightFans + 538d ago
Like Sony has mentioned before, games first before everything else coming in second. I'm pretty sure ps4 can do things like the xbone except better.
Thomper + 538d ago
Not without HDMI in....
I wonder if I can plug in my Sony sports & HD camcorders in to it....hmmmmm?
sevilha82 + 538d ago
Let them have it,i honestly don´t care.having movies and series are a good plus(no pun intended)but i wanna get home from a hard day´s work open myself a cold one and destroy 4 hours or so with my friends playing Destiny not watch tv.
i have a pc /tv for that.
That´s why we are called gamers not tv'ers.
the servcies will be available but will not be a main prioroty ,not for me anyways.
Game on,really hopping for a early October realease.
kewlkat007 + 538d ago
Yes at one point we only used mobile cell phones to only make calls...funny how things advance beyond that..
If technology never progressed past what their initial purpose was, there would be no advancement.
sevilha82 + 538d ago
Dude,i didn´t said it was a bad thing,it´s something that i will not use.
For example,Netlflix is not even suported in my contry(as 90% of the others apps that will apear)
if a cable company get some kind of contract with the consoles i will have to pay for it,and i dont want to because i already have cable and it´s expensive(if your parents give all to you and you dont know what life costs enjoy it it will end eventualy)
And agreing with you about evolution and progress,consoles should evolve and they are evolving.
In games that´s what i want them to evolve,they can evolve in media features too that´s cool i just won´t consider them prioratory.
kewlkat007 + 538d ago
I get you..
jXales + 538d ago
i would love if the ps4 could do tv, i just wouldnt want to have to pay extra for it as its not that important for me and i would be pretty annoyed if i still had to have the cable box. itd be like wasting money to be able to change channels with waving my hand....
No thk u
demonicale666 + 538d ago
It's a games console and that's all that intrest's me.
pyramidshead + 538d ago
You kinda think they'd be already on top of this seeing as half of the features on the Xbone are to do with TV.
S2Killinit + 538d ago
nobody cares about TV. besides, the tv 'capabilities' will be copies (already are) by every developer from the tv makers themselves to the cable/satellite tv companies. So no, it doesn't' matter.
mananimal + 538d ago
Cable Giants...???......who cares??....I Dont care. I want to Play Games.....PS4 will have the games I want to play.
jb227 + 538d ago
I believe the poster spoke too soon, as new broke yesterday that time Warner also has a deal with apple tv, that box that happens to do everything the one does (everything that matters anyway) for 400$ cheaper
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Gamerchik87 + 538d ago
Most of the sony fan base are just kids or people outside the us who want nothing more than to downplay M.S an American company on all the features x1 offers. Its clear ps4 is JUST a gaming console like N64 and its clear x1 is a Windows pc for your tv and its clear x1 does way more out of the box than ps4. Its so dumb the ponies complain about features that make life EASIER. And this argument about......well im a gamer I just want to play games?? That is like saying smartphones dont need nerflix, Internet, camera etc.
....I just want a phone to to communicate thats it??? Lol
Funantic1 + 538d ago
MS knows knows nobody wants a bunch of devices under their TV. That looks junky and tacky. I want 1 device to do it all. X1 does everything. Remember the PS3 slogan "It Only Does Everything"? Now that should be X1's slogan.
Sadist3 + 538d ago
Exactly. I don't know if most of the people who comment are children, but I don't want a console that only plays games. That's like having a smartphone with no added features. I want a next gen console, something that brings new features to the table. I do want an all in one box that lets me play games, watch tv, music, movies, Internet, etc., because at my age I do more for entertainment than just game. I don't know adults who just play games and that's it, we want more out of a gaming box. This is the future now, I don't want to pay X amount of $ for a console that just plays games. This isn't 1994 anymore, it's time to evolve
Mac420 + 538d ago
Funny you say that considering Xbox has the younger consumer base. I am a current Time Warner customer and a owner of a 360 an owned a original Xbox. I dealt with all the negatives that came from MS last gen. Im sorry but I just don't see how anybody in there right mind could think going with Xbox this gen is even worth your money. MS already through half there consumers under the bus with the originally planned policies, now they switch it an everybody loves them( Like a cheating wife, never to be trusted again). Half the features that they showed off won't work in any country besides the US so how do you think people outside the States feel. Just shows how ignorant Americans really are just by reading half if not most of the comments were people try to defend MS like its there job. I am no fan boy to 1 company or another I am just an informed consumer. An the kid that tried to compare Smartglass to the Wii U or Ps4 controller is an idiot . Smartglass is on an entirely different device so it takes you away from your game ,does far from pull you into the experience more. You sir are an idiot !! An half he cool features on Smartglass are left out of Droid an iOS versions, to get you to buy into there Windows phone which is a failed attempt at gettin into the cell phone Industry. An last but not , Sony Pictures , nuff said there
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At first glance, Buffy the Vampire Slayer seems indistinguishable from the WB's rancid Dawson's Creek or the American Pie movies: An all-white cast of impossibly nubile women and muscular men (they call themselves "the Scooby gang") pretend to be teenagers while modeling the latest in Southern California teen slang and sportswear. But there's a difference: The other shows paste a veneer of realism over a fantasy of adolescence; Buffy adopts a facade of fantasy to cover a portrayal of the teen years as they really are. The show is a worthy successor to school stories like Nicholas Nickleby, Stalky & Co., and The Catcher in the Rye.
When I was 12, I stumbled across George Orwell's "Such, Such Were the Joys," a scathing memoir of his days at a minor British prep school. I was transfixed: As a student at a segregated southern boys' day school that self-consciously modeled itself on the English public schools (except, as Buffy might say, for the whole "education" part), I was amazed that an adult really understood. Such a small place--with its snobbery of wealth and station, its sadistic teachers and bullying classmates, its cult of team sports, and its unremitting anti-intellectualism--becomes, for children immured in it, an entire cosmos of danger and significance, to be survived, if at all, only by guile, silence, and inner escape. Like Orwell's essay, the best of the school-story genre exert a horrid fascination that even much great adult narrative cannot match.
No matter what kind of school they attend, teenagers live in a world resembling that of ancient Greek mythology: Uncaring and capricious adults, like the Olympian gods, hold arbitrary power over their lives, ritual mistakes may bring irrevocable ruin, and each day offers a chance to answer the riddle of the Sphinx and learn, for good or ill, who they really are. In that world, "small" things--first loves and best friends, small successes and seemingly monstrous failures--matter as much as or more than the larger crises that lie ahead in adulthood. The overwhelming fact that teens know and adults seek to ignore is that what happens in those years does matter almost as much as it seems to at the time. The identities we take on then--class brain, prom queen, rebel, popular jock, geeky misfit--play out insistently under the surface of our later lives.
Most pop-culture re-creations of adolescence focus on the electric sexuality that teens swim in--the obsession with dating and looks, music and dancing, making out and scoring. But Joss Whedon, creator of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV series and its precursor, the 1992 theatrical film, focuses instead on his characters' all-encompassing fear. For Whedon, high school literally is the mouth of hell, and the ill-equipped teens must rely on their own resources to survive such perils as a seductive substitute teacher (she's actually a huge praying mantis), a bullying potential stepfather (he's a homicidal robot), or a demon who persuades the local chapter of "Mothers Opposed to the Occult" to move from locker searches and a school-library purge at Sunnydale High to full-fledged witch burnings at city hall.
Whedon's dramatic triumph is Buffy's tortured romance with Angel, played by the gifted comic actor David Boreanaz. Angel was my own high-school nightmare, the "older guy" who bewitched the girls with mystery, muscles, and menace--and just a hint of a heart of gold. Whedon's older guy is a 245-year-old vampire cursed by Gypsies with a soul. He fights evil and then wanders off in search of babes to lure to his graveyard bachelor's lair. On Buffy's 16th birthday, matters proceed to their inevitable consummation, and the curse truly kicks in: The loving, gentle Angel reverts to vile vampirehood, spreading terror among the Scoobys and--even worse--vicious gossip among the boys of Sunnydale. As a depiction of male sexual ambivalence and fecklessness, the story surpasses anything ever shown on HBO's Sex and the City.
The dimwitted adults in Sunnydale carry on as if the fate of the entire cosmos were not at stake in each weekly episode. Only Giles, the kindly librarian (Anthony Stewart Head), treats the Scoobys with respect, helping them find their way through each tiny apocalypse with a mixture of kindness, erudition, and wry mockery.
Though it has links to Dickens and Kipling, Buffy is, of course, different in one important regard: It is a story of female self-discovery. Buffy, the heroine, discovers that underneath her silly first name and petite cheerleader looks she is really what every teenager longs to be: a unique and important being with gifts that matter to the world. In her postfeminist case, the talents are superstrength and killer reflexes, and her life's mission is to save the universe while looking fabulous. For most of us, the discoveries are more mundane. But what matters to surviving adolescence is that the moment of self-recognition does come.
This brings us to the other brute teenage fact: sex. I first began watching Buffy because its star, Sarah Michelle Gellar--known to the faithful as "SMG"--is hypnotically beautiful. But soon I began corralling my children ("Watch Buffy or I won't let you do your homework") because the program treats teen sexuality with a moral seriousness missing in the rest of the teen-exploitation genre.
It goes without saying that our infatuation with vampires derives from the unholy power of sex to unbalance the human soul. The original Dracula was the quintessential Victorian-era seducer. With his continental accent and bedroom eyes, he stood for the return of the repressed--big time. What is interesting is that the myth survived the repression that spawned it. By the dawn of the 1970s, Count Yorga, played by Robert Quarry, appeared as the consummate swinger, soullessly pursuing pleasure across a landscape of emotional entropy. (I discovered vampires at this low point. As an undergraduate, I kept inviting young women to vampire flicks, hoping that terror would drive them into my manly arms. Wise girls, they invariably fled back to their dorm rooms, knowing that what I really wanted was to bite their necks.)
Sex is omnipresent in Buffy, but it has been transformed for the era of teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. In Sunnydale the vampire's kiss offers no pleasure, only loneliness and death. The bodily-fluids metaphor is patent; but the lesson goes deeper. Advocates of "abstinence" clothe their message to the young in religious, economic, or public-policy terms that are, to most teens, utterly irrelevant. In a society where Viagra poster child Bob Dole barks after Britney Spears in commercials, by far the most consistent adult pressure on teens is not to abstain from anything but to score early and often.
For cultural reasons I cannot pretend to fathom, our society has eroticized the adolescent body more thoroughly than any previous one of which I am aware. In advertising, in popular entertainment, and even in the lubricious piety of media prophets like William Bennett, American adults betray an unbecoming obsession about what children may be up to underneath the sheets.
Though their glands are unquestionably supercharged, many teens are reluctant, frightened, or even repulsed by sex. But too often they are coerced by conformism and pop culture into experimenting before they are ready. (The only other convincing portrayal of this painful rite of passage I've seen came during the too-short run of the magnificent TV series My So-Called Life.) Buffy dramatizes the case for waiting in the only terms the adolescent mind can grasp: If it doesn't feel good, don't do it. Sunnydale is packed with largely male bloodsuckers who will do almost anything to get into a girl's veins; a moment's weakness or inattention will leave her dead--a physical death that is a powerful metaphor for the inner necrosis of unfeeling promiscuity. (Female bloodsuckers also lurk in Sunnydale's shadows, though we see less of the havoc they wreak.)
But Buffy's triumph during its early seasons is its problem today. "Where do we go from here?" sang the cast at the end of a special musical episode this fall. Adolescents grow up: Those awkward bundles of promise slowly congeal into more defined, and sometimes duller, adults. That's happening to the Scoobys now. Two years ago, they graduated from Sunnydale High after a moving ceremony at which Mayor Wilkins ate Principal Snyder. Now the gang are young adults. Willow Rosenberg, valedictorian and computer geek (played by the unlikely sex star Allyson "Band Camp" Hannigan) has become a powerful witch; her troubled romance with the vulnerable Tara (Amber Benson) is the most complex lesbian relationship a TV series has ever attempted. Class clown Xander Harris (Nicholas Brendon) is uneasily facing marriage to the terrifyingly monogamous former revenge demon Anya (Emma Caulfield). Their concerns are now less I Was a Teenage Werewolf than I Dream of Jeannie. The danger is that the show--like Fox's once electrifying X-Files--will drift into ignominious self-parody.
But where there's undeath, there's hope. Last season, a league of monks from another dimension created a "sister" for Buffy. (Has any older sibling ever not suspected that a younger one is a supernatural interloper?) The new character, Dawn--played by the winsome Michelle Trachtenberg--is now a freshman at Sunnydale High, dealing hesitantly with peer pressure, shoplifting, gym class, and really cute vampires. If Joss Whedon can surround this new potential slayer with a suitable crowd of Scoobinis, there's hope for the series.
For each of us, adolescence mercifully ends; the drama itself rolls on, with new tearstained, pimply faces in the archetypal roles. Growing up entails loss as well as gain; it will be sad if the passing years rob us of Buffy's brilliant satire.
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What is that new haircut that Richie got? mean the Closet Haircut.
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How can I add information about read article on my site to facebook RECENT ACTIVITY (like the Guardian)?
I use php and code:
$ret_obj = $facebook->api('/me/feed', 'POST',
'link' => 'example.com',
'message' => 'Test message'
This code posting the message in user's timeline but I want to post message in his recent activity.
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I want to create notification like here:
Red circle = icon which is always visible. Blue circle = icon that is visible only when you expand.
How do I make such a red circle notification?
must I create 100 images or can I use custom notification like text? Can i join two images together?
I found this:
Custom notification layouts and text colors
but i still don't know how to create this red circle. With this i know how to create blue circle but this i don't need. I am not creating battery!
any ideas?
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Did you try to use shapes? And so, create the layout with shapes? – Neto Marin Dec 17 '12 at 19:55
@Neto Marin sharpes? not yet. Do you have any example or howto? Thanks – mbrc Dec 17 '12 at 20:08
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The only text that you can put in the notification area/status bar ("red circle") is ticker text, which disappears after it's displayed (setTicker). The purpose of that area is to remind users that a notification is outstanding, using the small icon (setSmallIcon). You could make 100 different icons, one for each percentage, but then you would not be using Android's standard design guidelines for notifications.
I suggest that if you want a battery indicator, use 5 battery icons. One icon would be a "full" battery, along with 1 each for 75%, 50%, 25%, and "very low" (in red). I suspect that most users don't need to see exactly how much battery they have left in the status bar. You can then show the exact numbers and estimated time remaining in the full notification.
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I am working alfresco server. It is build on top of Tomcat.
I had written the following code the the server.xml file
I increased the database max.connection pool setting to 300.
But the Jconsole is showing the
live threades: 120 peek threads : 141
why this is happening? i am given max threads as 290. how can i increasethe peek threads value
Thanks & regards, murali.
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Check your server.xml for the Connector element it has an attribute maxThreads, you might want to increase it.
<Connector port="8080" maxThreads="500" .... />
Thats bevause the number of threads limits the number sessions you can have in a web application.
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Associated Press
Published Saturday, March 08, 2003
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Bob Morales and his wife sat through advertisements for the Cartoon Network, the NBC show "Boomtown" and AOL Broadband.
There was a pitch for the U.S. Army, another for The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
Morales would have accepted the promotional barrage at home in front of the television, but it annoyed him to go through it at the movie theater.
"That's why we come to a theater, so we wouldn't see advertising," said Morales, at a Regal Cinemas Theater in Pasadena for a weekend matinee of "About Schmidt."
Going to the movies always has included some advertising -- usually low-tech, slide-show style pitches -- and the coming attractions, of course. Now, cash-strapped theater chains are looking at increasing advertising, using digital technology, as a way to boost profits beyond the sales of tickets and popcorn.
While common in Europe and elsewhere abroad, the ads are annoying lots of U.S. ticket buyers. The industry believes customers will adjust.
Some ads appear just before the previews, the period known as "lights down," and have sparked complaints that audiences are being deceived about the true start time of a movie. The published time usually indicates the beginning of the whole program, including coming attractions, pitches for the concession stand and some paid advertising.
In the past year, theaters have been installing national digital networks and small digital projectors so they can show short films and national ads before the lights dim, replacing the decades-old slides for local businesses, trivia questions and scrambled movie-star name games.
The film-screen ad industry grew 20 percent last year and is projected to grow by 30 percent this year, said Matthew Kearney, president of the Cinema Advertising Council, a group formed to promote in-theater ads.
Regal says its internal surveys show that patrons react well to the pre-show ads and that acceptance is growing week by week.
Danny Kim, also at the "About Schmidt" matinee, falls into that category. "I didn't mind it," he said. "It killed the time."
The industry has recovered from its woes of the late 1990s, when a glut of screens and the debts from building state-of-the-art movie houses forced 12 chains into bankruptcy. Last year was the best box-office year since 1957, success that's expected to continue with the release of likely blockbusters this year including two "Matrix" sequels, "Terminator 3" and the last installment in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy.
But profit margins remain slim, and theater owner are looking beyond tickets and popcorn sales. They are offering theaters for corporate meetings and pay-per-view events, and selling those commercials.
"Finding other ways to supplement that revenue base so we can keep ticket prices affordable is an important part of the business plan of our members," said John Fithian, president of the National Association of Theater Owners.
Advertisers also are looking for more ways to get their message in front of consumers, as new channels fracture the television audience and people find new ways to skip commercials.
"From Regal's perspective, they have an attendance level of 200 million plus. Nearly 70 percent of the U.S. population goes through their doors in a year," said Kavir Dhar, an analyst for Jefferies & Co. "If you're an advertiser, that's something that makes you stand up and take notice."
"My concern would have been a lot of people look at a theater as a sanctuary from advertising," Dhar said. "As a consumer, you can elect to come to the theater later, but what is the tradeoff? You might not get the best seat."
A Chicago English teacher filed a lawsuit against Loews Cineplex last month for showing advertising after the lights go down. The suit, which seeks class-action status, asks that theaters state films' actual start times in their advertisements or pay up to $75 per patron as "lost time" damages. Loews called the suit "ludicrous."
The trend toward in-theater advertising is only likely to accelerate, as industry-sponsored research suggests that the ads have a much higher recall rate than television commercials.
"People are there because they like movies and like entertainment," said Brad Siegel, president of Turner Entertainment Networks, which recently signed a deal to produce programs and commercials for Regal cinemas. "We think they are more open to our messages."
The most ambitious effort is being undertaken by Regal Entertainment Group, which formed a new division last year to create a nationwide digital network that can be used to beam advertisements to theater screens as well as to newly installed flat-panel screens in theater lobbies. It created a 20-minute block of programming called "The 2wenty" and signed deals with Turner, NBC, Vivendi Universal Entertainment and others.
While the program contains some ads identical to television versions, Regal's goal is to replace them quickly with programs made exclusively for theaters.
Similar efforts are planned by AMC and Loews.
Industry executives said they are sensitive to the dangers of pushing too much advertising on audiences.
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Ever since I updated my early 2010 MacBook Pro 13" with the 10.6.3 update, the mouse pointer freezes for 5 to 10 seconds, every now and then. The keyboard is next to unresponsive when this happens.
Are there more people having the same problem? Is this a known bug?
Is there a solution?
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There is a 10.6.3 v1.1 update available support.apple.com/kb/DL1017 . However, the documentation doesn't say anything about mouse problems. It may not solve your problem, but can't hurt? – Steve Folly Apr 13 '10 at 20:08
@Steve Folly - That's the update that caused the mouse freezing in the first pace I'm afraid. – Kriem Apr 13 '10 at 20:13
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You are not alone in this one, I'm afraid. There's a 10 page long topic over on http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2382651&tstart=1 and lots of people (including me) have reported the same thing...
No resolution yet.
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Thanks. Now I know I'm not alone. :) – Kriem Apr 25 '10 at 23:20
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What is 10Gactually ? I have a Cisco switch ( http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10898/prod_models_comparison.html)
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And it has 2xSFP interface and 10 x 10Base-T/100Base-TX/1000Base-T.
Does this not mean, i got 10G layer 2 switch? (i am confused cant understand the differences of 10G vs general switches).
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Well my goal is 10G or 1G switch and simple DHCP server on it. (no routing, NAT, firewall etc, for heavy traffic RAW switching). – YumYumYum Nov 12 '11 at 9:38
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10G means 10Gbps (gigabits per second). That would be like 10000Base-T. The RJ-45 ports on your switch only do 1000Base-T, or 1G (1Gbps). Sometimes the sfp ports, with the right mini-gbic module, can go faster. The link you supplied, though, indicates that these ports are also limited to 1Gbps.
It's also worth nothing here that the "G"s in this question and answer are not the same kind of "G"s that you see in 3G or 4G cell phone service. Here, 1G is nothing to sneeze at.
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It really excellent information. One thing i must need to know related to this switch. Does a 10G or 1G switch like this one, have its own DHCP server? Like without using any router just DHCP relay?? – YumYumYum Nov 11 '11 at 18:32
@YumYum - probably not. dhcp doesn't really belong on the switch. I might be surprised here, though. You should go read the documentation at the link you posted - that will tell you for sure. – Joel Coehoorn Nov 11 '11 at 18:40
Some switches do DHCP, if you need it, but that's usually an option. As far as I know, most desktops and laptops only do 1000Base-T, 10G is usually for servers only. – mauvedeity Nov 11 '11 at 18:42
@Joel Coehoorn: Page 2 it says it has a ip and password (also in specs it says DHCP relay it does for layer 3 or something) e.g: cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/lan/csbms/sf30x_sg30x/… – YumYumYum Nov 11 '11 at 18:42
dhcp relay is used for transferring vlan information to an external dhcp server. I don't see anything indicating this switch has dhcp. Most switches in this category will not. – Joel Coehoorn Nov 11 '11 at 18:44
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I have an Ubuntu 12.04 with an external 1.5T disk (just for data). It is /dev/sdc1 seen below:
$ df -T
Filesystem Type 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 ext4 1451144932 27722584 1350794536 3% /
udev devtmpfs 6199460 4 6199456 1% /dev
tmpfs tmpfs 2482692 988 2481704 1% /run
none tmpfs 5120 0 5120 0% /run/lock
none tmpfs 6206724 284 6206440 1% /run/shm
/dev/sdc1 fuseblk 1465135100 172507664 1292627436 12% /media/Elements
The thing is I would like to implement this rsync-based backup strategy and I want to use my /dev/sdc1 external drive for that. Since the guide mentioned above recommends placing the backup directory in a separate partition I want to repartition the /dev/sdc1 external hard disk but retain existing data in a separate partition. E.g. split /dev/sdc1 into two partitions: (i) one to be used exclusively for the rsync-based backup and (ii) the other for the existing miscellaneous data. How should I go about partitioning with minimal risk to my existing data and what kind of filesystem do you recommend? I would prefer a console-based guide but unfortunately all the material I found on the web is oriented towards partitioning the main (bootable) disk and not an external fuseblk filesystem used only for passive data.
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Resizing partitions is a time-consuming operation, and is subject to occasional cases of losing all the data, so I strongly recommend NOT doing that. Having been in this situation several times, I have a finely tuned procedure I use.
1. copy/rsync all the data from /media/Elements to a staging directory (probably in your home directory somewhere)
2. repartition /dev/sdc as you see fit, into whatever shapes you want
3. copy/rsync all the data back to the new partition /media/Elements (or whatever you name it)
4. delete the local staged copy
This is my recommendation AND the procedures I use regularly when needing to "change the size" of partitions and such.
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The most important aspect of your suggestion is to make a backup. – Ramhound Jun 20 '12 at 15:57
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a true waterford girl is any girl from Waterford Kettering High School.
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0.048544 | <urn:uuid:dd2657f2-2792-4d3d-ac44-5300504fc75a> | en | 0.818769 | A person who steals items from retail stores only to then sell on the streets, usually for a discounted price.
"A booster is a person who jacks from the retailers, then sells it in the hood for dirt cheap resale." - from I Love Boosters! by The Coup
додав kr580 10 Серпень 2008
In Modern Warfare 2, a person or group of people who use Tactical Insertions to their advantage, go to a rarely-used place on a map, set the insertions, then continuously kill each other to get a free nuke or a bunch of free headshots. This is considered complete and utter cheating and is commonly rejected by professional players. MW2 pro "Sandy Ravage" has a series on YouTube called Booster Justice which is him killing boosters to no end.
Yo, want to boost?" "No, I don't cheat, you booster.
додав SOTE Czar 27 Липень 2010
A word for a car thief
Memphis Raines was told to be the best booster in the car stealing buissnes
додав HighRoller_9 4 Січень 2008
Someone who steals for a living. Usually cars, clothing or jewelry.
First guy: "I know she can't afford that purse, she's broke as hell."
Other guy: "She's a booster, I got some Jordans from her the other day."
додав burgstyle82 7 Травень 2009
Online gaming: A person who sets up a secondary account which they use playing with a rival team. They help the rival team to lose, thus contributing to the progress of their primary team.
Blaze: WTF!? I just got killed by a guy on our side!
Silentsword: Kick him from the game! Get a life you fucking booster!
Booster: haha! You got owned! Your side sucks ass! You should join us!
додав Broadsword 23 Квітень 2009
Someone who never buys breakfast, lunch or supper. Or even the odd beer for the fellas.
See Fred White
Mooch. Hey Dwayne, did he pay his bill? No he pulled a Booster.
додав Leon Turgeon 17 Лютий 2011
When used in video games,a booster is a player who gains points by unfair means.A booster will usually have another booster with him,or sometimes go into a lobby with a game full of other boosters.The most common ways of boosting involve one player(or one team)standing in one spot the entire game while the other player(or other team)kills them for points.Thus,getting points and leveling up faster without doing any work at all.It would be like doing no work,and getting payed overtime.
Booster 1:Okay,stay there and don't move.
Booster 2:Okay.
Booster 1:*Shoots*
Booster 2:*Dies*
Booster 1:Alright I ranked up.Now you do the same thing.
додав Haiso 5 Січень 2012
Щоденні сповіщення поштою
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The Truth, and An Apology
Well, it comes to this. I need to reveal that this is a sockpuppet account, originally begun to enter the Poo Lit Surprise contest, then subsequently as a warm-up suit to get myself back into the routine of writing again.
As RC said during the early planning, using socks for things like the PLS would be the most honest way to do things. It prevents names and reputations from creating undue influence in the judging, for better or for worse.
I agreed, and when my month hiatus from Uncyclopedia meant I would be effectively unable to enter my PLS ideas, I gave some thought to using a sock. I even said so publically in the #uncyclopedia chat channel. I can't remember the whole disclosure, but my ending line was something like: "If you read something that sounds like me, it's probably me." And I confirmed with RC by private message that I was entering the contest.
I thought it would be completely obvious to everyone given my style of writing, and my personality, which is given to much praise and thank-yous to others where they are due. Unfortunately, no one really made the connection, and my articles started attracting attention. The only one who guessed was RC, because he knew I was entering.
I understand if there is anger and disappointment with me for this. I can only say that if you read the notes I've written to various people, it's still me. My appreciation for people is the same, even in my PLS bear suit. I just should have taken it off immediately, instead of using it for a week to practice writing stuff like On a stick and Oscar Mayer.
You're within your right to cross me off your friend list, or fill my talk page(s) with hate messages, or do whatever it is you need to do to express your feelings on this. I'm bad at using sockpuppets. I tried for the contest, and instead, it just became me all over again. I'm sorry to everyone, most especially Claudius Prime, who will always be one of my favourite writers and human beings, and which is why I couldn't keep my hands off his excellent material before my "official" first day back here, May 1st.
--Bear 05:26, 5 May 2006 (UTC) ~ T. (talk) 05:27, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
If anyone needs a confirmation, here it is. Todd told me he was entering the PLS under a different name, and confirmed that it was Bear when I guessed it during the judging period. One thing I'd like to point out is that, given Todd's previous history, any voter bias in the writing competition would most likely have been in his favor, so if anything he was leveling the playing field for others by posting his entries anonymously. I consider that as good a justification for an extra account as anything, especially considering that it wasn't entirely secret anyway.
If anybody is upset about this I urge you to go through Bear's contribs and look for anything approaching dishonesty, manipulation or abuse. I'm pretty confident that you won't find it. If anything - especially for Claudius and other people who have actively collaborated with Bear - this will just make things easier for you since you know exactly who you're dealing with.
That's it, basically. Full disclosure; full stop. —rc (t) 15:53, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
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pDev: 24.28%
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Photo of kgotcher
2.83/5 rDev -9.6%
look: 4 | smell: 1.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 2
Pours a very cool orange color with a pretty dense head with very tiny bubbles.
Aroma is cherries all the way but not like fresh cherries, more like a jar of marrachino cherries, it is really too overbearing. Taste is not so bad but the aroma really takes over before you can even get the beer into your mouth. I actually had to hold my nose and take a drink just to get a better taste of the beer without the aroma. Taste is also cherries but much more muted than the smell. You get a bit more of the crisp flavor from the malts and a bit of spicyness from the hops. Overall I really did not enjoy this beer, it smells like they just poured jars of marachino cherries into the fermenter and although the flavor was not bad I would need to drink this with a straw to really get any enjoyment from it.
Photo of allengarvin
2.83/5 rDev -9.6%
This somewhat hazy straw-colored beer has a nice dense very white head atop it. The nose is dominated by cherries, but it smells more like cherry syrup than actual cherries. Highly sweet flavor, resembling cherry cough syrup, and little else of note. Bleagh.
I was in the mood for a cherry beer, but I picked the wrong one with this offering. I love cherries and have brewed with them myself on occasion. This is not a good cherry beer, by any measurement.
Photo of GregoryVII
2.83/5 rDev -9.6%
Poured a 12 oz. bottle into a boston lager glass. The appearance and aroma are probably the most alluring parts of this beer. It pours solid amber, perhaps with hints of a cherry color, with a solid head you would expect from a wheat beer. There is no hinting cherry in the aroma. Cherry is the aroma, which is actually a perfectly natural breeze of strong cherry scents. I do feel as though I am sticking my nose into a bag of fresh cherries from my farmers market, rather than a big whiff of cherry grenadine or something of that nature. Unfortunately for me, the flavor profile doesn't deliver in quite the same way. The mouthfeel is crisp and refreshing, if slightly watery. And the carbonation is a little aggressive for me. The cherry flavor and sweetness are very one note and reminiscent of a cherry 7 up, which isn't a positive factor for me. The commercial description mentions that they added honey for additional sweetness. It wasn't necessary. Overall, this beer is a little too cloying for me to consider drinking more than one. This is sad, because the use of Traverse City cherries earned points with me before I ever even tasted it.
Photo of RocketWidget
2.83/5 rDev -9.6%
Pours a interesting lager like yellow with a hint of red, adequate head. Actually smells like cherries, surprisingly enough. Taste is only meh. True enough, cherries are a distinct flavor along with the hops, and reasonably complex. The trouble is, for me the whole package just doesnt do anything for me. I dont feel the cherry taste complements the beer in any way, it just overrides it. Cheers to Sam Adams for trying an interesting brew to say the least, but nothing special here.
Photo of Mdog
2.83/5 rDev -9.6%
Appearance: Hazy gold, good head.
Smell: Cherries--smells like a lollipop instead of fresh cherries.
Taste: Some yeasty breadiness, a sweet then tangy cherry flavor.
Drinkability: I'll finish the two in the sampler pack and probably never have it again.
Picked up the Sam Adams fall sampler to try some more from their vast line of products. The cherry wheat follows the other fruit-infused wheats they've put out over the years, but tastes more artificial than the others. Not too good.
Photo of KajII
2.83/5 rDev -9.6%
[Best served in a Flute Glass]
Poured amber-orange in color with a small fizzy head that dissapated rapidly with nice lacing. The aroma was overwhelming with cherries and a hint of sweet yeast. It tasted sweet with a very strong cherry flavor. Mouthfeel was light in body and watery in texture. Overall nothing special, nice on a hot summer day.
Photo of scriabin
2.83/5 rDev -9.6%
Smells like cherry flavored cough drops to me, but I think smell is overrated anyway. I've had plenty of excellent cheeses that smell like a marathoner's jock strap. I like the cloudy, mysterious amber color, although the head is on the thin side. And yep, it tastes like a cherry flavored wheat beer to me. The cherry flavor actually takes about a half second to hit you, and isn't overpowering like too many fruit beers, but it is still a little on the strong side. Subtlety is best with the fruit beers. A little harsh going down, but drinkable. Not my favorite, but it's still good for a quaff now and then.
Photo of RenoZymurgist
2.83/5 rDev -9.6%
Poured a clear amber-gold with a 1/2 inch head that retained fairly well. Aroma was noticeable upon popping the cap, as a soda-like cherry aroma first presented itself. Upon further aromatic detction however i found the aroma to contain a bit of wheat like malt and a lot of artificial smelling cherry. The flavor is a lot better than the aroma as the cherry flavor is a lot more subdued than the aroma might let on. The flavor begins with a tight melding of cherry, carbonic bite, and dry wheaty malt. It soon segues into just malt and leaves a cereal taste almost like cheerios to linger in the mouth. The body is way too light and this beer could use a little higher mash temperature. The drinkability is quite subjective and personally i would go for an Apricot ale from Pyramid instead of another cherry wheat as it is a bit too soda-like and is definetly a beer for those who don't like beer but like alcopops.
Photo of CHIMat
2.84/5 rDev -9.3%
Photo of Bogdawg
2.84/5 rDev -9.3%
Photo of beerkittycat
2.85/5 rDev -8.9%
Photo of wcdoyle
2.85/5 rDev -8.9%
White to off-white head which settled down but has good lacing. Beer itself is clear gold. There's clearly cherry in the smell and a mild honey sweetness underneath. No discernible hops on this one. Cherry's also in the taste, but unlike some other reviewers, I didn't find it overly sweet. Some honey fills in toward the end. I did expect a bit more crispness from the wheat in this beer, so that was a bit of a disappointment. I was also hoping it would be unfiltered (the yeast would add to the flavor profile.), but ah well. this is more of a honey ale than a honey wheat. Mouthfeel was soft and medium bodied with low carbonation. I'd likely turn elsewhere after drinking one of these. Compared with other S.A. beers, this is not what I expect.
Photo of Liquids
2.85/5 rDev -8.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 2
Before I drank beer, I remember having a roomate who raved that this was his favorite beer, and he truly missed it after having stopped drinking for a I've wanted to try it, and I've stumbled across a freebie, so here goes. It's a pale color when a foamy head and is slightly cloudy due to the less-than filtered wheat style, I'm assuming. Looks good. Smells really delicious, like a fruit beer should, and was appealing to those who aren't beer purists in particular, as it smells legitimately fruity. I dug the aroma of cherry's being so strong and not seeming too artificial. The taste tough - up front its good, but right away I taste medicinal cherry cough syrup. I can't taste anything else after that, either. It's tart and not a sugar bomb, but not noticably hoppy...It's hard to want to call this a beer to be honest. You'll love it or you'll hate it as is. Not all that beer like, which is not necessarily a negative. But in taste alone (thinking of it as a desert drink), I couldn't enjoy this. Mouthfeel is medium-full bodied, not watery or light-beer like, but nothing full as other wheat beers. I wouldn't drink this again honestly...unless there was absolutely nothing else around, and I imagine there would be long periods of time between sips to help me forget just how medicinal it is, only to take another sip, remember...and not come back to it for a while or put it down unfinished. YMMV, but I cant get into it. Nice try, Sam.
Photo of Nezzy
2.85/5 rDev -8.9%
Appearance: Really nice pour with wheat colors and slight hint of rust and very thin lacing.
Smell: Smell is actually really good of a wheat beer with hints of the cherry coming through.
Taste: The cherry is very powerful on the first sip and to me almost too powerful. However, it ends nicely and the cherry becomes less strong in the after taste. Problem is after a while the cherry becomes pretty bitter and the bitterness gets stronger the more you drink. It's actually a little off putting.
Mouthfeel: It's not too carbonated and actually pretty smooth.
Drinkability: This is really a type of beer that must be had with food and it should be a desert. Even with that said, I found it hard to go through my whole pint because the bitterness of the beer really got to me. So it's sort of good for novelty sake, but can't see myself drinking more then one in a night.
Photo of jimmah120
2.85/5 rDev -8.9%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 2 | feel: 5 | overall: 3
12oz bottle with no date, came with a spring sampler
look is a red amber with a frothy head. smells strongly of bing cherries, with wheat in the background. taste follows with dry dusty wheat, white bread malt, and a slightly artificial cherry flavor. light feel, the cherry isn't cloying at all.
if this sounds good to you, you'll probably like it. it was just ok, im not a fan of the artificial cherry flavor. even though I know its brewed with real cherries, it still comes off tasting like robotussin at times. i wouldn't buy again but wouldn't turn it down.
Photo of flipshevanel
2.85/5 rDev -8.9%
look: 5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 2
This beer is a once in a while thing, I could not drink this regularly. Poured with beautiful white head. The body was hazy with large particles averagely dispursed. There was almost no carbonation and the body hue was a moderately darker golden brown. This beer is rightly named. The aroma was thick with dark cherries that overpowered almost every other scent, although there was a light yeast at the bottom. The flavor was again overpowered by dark cherries that was heavily/harshly sweet with a light bitterness towards the end. The finish was average length with a tiny amount of bread and very acidic. The palate was a medium body with a watery and creamy texture and soft carbonation.
Photo of JMBSH
2.85/5 rDev -8.9%
Photo of JoeMayo
2.85/5 rDev -8.9%
I was with some friends and it happened to be there, so I figured, "hey, why not give it a shot".
A- Pours an orangey-golden color with a quickly dissipating head
S- The smell was the only enjoyable part of the beer. It smells like fresh cherries with a slight spicy wheat aroma.
T- Nothing special at all and not nearly as appealing as the smell. It has that "cheap lager" taste and I feel it tried to cover it with cherries. The fruity, spicy, pleasant flavors that wheat usually imparts in a beer were scarce or non-existent. Overall, it's very bland.
M- Moderate carbonation and it goes down like water.
D- It's light and drinkable, but not very refreshing and not very enjoyable.
Photo of ThreeWiseMen
2.85/5 rDev -8.9%
Appearance: Clear and golden with thin, foamy, white head. Expected a darker color actually.
Smell: Ok Sam Adams, we get it. Cherry is way over-the-top here. Needs to be toned down a bit. Smells extremely syrupy!
Taste: IBC Cherry Cola.
Mouthfeel: Thin with a nasty aftertaste... yuck.
Drinkability: Poor taste, but not poior enough to keep me from drinking at least one more. Then again....
Photo of mnesporov
2.85/5 rDev -8.9%
Presentation: 12 oz bottle with a freshness date clearly stamped on the side.
Appearance: A fogy hazy gold with a fair amount of carbonation that retains a very nice lace.
Smell: A fruity aroma with a slightly cherry hint. (I expected more cherry smells here)
Taste: A tart cherry flavored brew that doesnt let the fruit overpower everything else.
Mouth-Feel: A crisp dry mouth that finishes easy.
Drink-Ability: A refreshing fruit flavored beer.
Photo of strangefate
2.85/5 rDev -8.9%
Cherry Wheat LOOKS great. Other than that, it's a pretty mediocre beer. It pours a nice orange/amber/brown with a good frothy head. That as I suggested, may be the best part. The smell however, is also not too bad. Nothing but pure [carbonated] cherries. Those cherries hit your taste buds pretty immediately, are very sweet, and are very prominent throughout the drink, but you're left with an almost macro after taste. And like macros, it's pretty watery and kind of weak as well. At times it almost doesn't seem like a beer.
At first I didn't think I would be able to drink many of these, however after one and a half or so and my palate getting used to the sweet cherry overload, it's not very hard to drink at all, perhaps that's because it is pretty watery and weak. With that said, it's not a bad a beer to buy at a place that only carries macros, the big imports, Sam Adams and the like, but it definitely leaves something to be desired -- something that reminds you while you're drinking "oh yeah, this is beer I'm drinking".
Photo of BetterDarker
2.88/5 rDev -8%
Poured from 12 ounce bottle into weizen glass.
Appearance - Pale orange, slightly cloudy, thin white head, no retention
Smell - Cherries with a hint of more cherries
Taste - Bright and tart cherry, no hops, no wheat either. Cherry soda almost for flavor profile, minus the cola
Mouthfeel - Light, acidic with good carbonation
Drinkability - Very easy to consume, lawnmower or beach bum beer, i.e. great for the summer. Not sure why it's in the Fall sampler pack.
Photo of Jor-El
2.88/5 rDev -8%
Photo of Travix1516
2.88/5 rDev -8%
I really wanted to like this beer. I enjoy wheat beer. I enjoy cherries. Sam Adams has a respected reputation. It seemed like a winning combination. In the end though it just missed the mark for me.
Appearence - What I saw was a medium to light golden hue, maybe just a little hazy.
Smell - Tart Cherries. The overriding smell I got was a very strong sense of the cherry.
Taste - This is where it derailed a bit for me. Cherry Wheat started out very smooth, with little to no bitterness to speak of. On my first taste I was optimistic, then the cherry hit me. I was expecting something along the lines of a hint of cherry, or maybe a subtle weaving of the flavor profile into the overall taste similer to what Shiner achieved with the peach notes in their Holiday Cheer offering. Instead there was a very strong cherry follow to the beer, that seemed reminiscint of cherry cough syrup. I loved the smoothness, but just can't get past strength of the cherry.
Mouthfeel - I enjoyed the way this felt on the pallet. It had a medium mouthfeel that seemed extremely well balanced. My only complaint here would be that the carbonation is just slightly more than I prefer. That is really very minor and doesn't detract from the feel at all.
Overall - Probably not a beer I will be revisiting, but given the flavor profile I'm sure there are those that will really enjoy it.
Photo of MuenchenerKindl
2.88/5 rDev -8%
Poured from a 12 oz bottle to a tall hefe glass. The liquid is yellow and clear with good carbonation. The Head is big and 3 fingers fluff white. As it fades it leaves a lot of well formed lace.
The smell is strong of cherries, all but hiding everything else.
The taste follows, up front lots of sweet cherries. (Being a son of Door County Wisconsin, I favor a more tart variety). Never the less. this cherry beer is full of cherry taste, However the after taste is the downfall. This one reminds me of Medicine. A very stale and nasty cherry cough medicine. This one came close to being a drain pour.
The mouthfeel is almost good, nice carbonation and a little bite but not enough to break up the thick cherry syrupiness that holds the nasty after taste on your tongue way to long.
The drinkability is not good, I will not try this offering again. MK
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Surveys, Citizens, and the
Making of a Mass Public
By Sarah E. Igo
Harvard University Press; 398pp; $35
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Editor's Review
The Good A fascinating glimpse at the world of social science research and scientific polling.
The Bad The academic writing style is occasionally a tough slog.
The Bottom Line A rewarding look at the evolution of an information revolution.
With all of the data now available on consumers' wants and needs, it's hard to imagine that less than a century ago market research consisted of little more than knowing the number of widgets your business sold in Muncie. Then, in the years after World War I, commerce was revolutionized by the dawning of modern social science research and scientific polling techniques. A fascinating glimpse of the upheaval that forever altered the way Americans see themselves, sell products, and operate election campaigns may be found in The Averaged American: Surveys, Citizens, and the Making of a Mass Public by University of Pennsylvania historian Sarah E. Igo.
It was a rocky road to social transformation. In the early years of scientific research, Igo writes, it took a lot of work "to persuade business owners...that collecting information about their customers' buying habits was worthwhile." Many did not believe that citizens would answer prying questions about personal habits or political views from strangers knocking on their doors. And a large number of skeptics, she observes, did not "trust the assembled answers as either trustworthy or true."
Igo, a rising star among American historians, presents detailed analyses of three milestones in the emerging field of survey research: Robert and Helen Lynd's best-selling Middletown studies of 1929 and 1937, which dissected the lives of residents of an unnamed, average town in Middle America (Muncie, Ind.); the creation by George Gallup and Elmo Roper of the first public opinion polls in 1935; and Alfred Kinsey's shocking sexual-behavior reports of 1948 and 1953.
The key for the survey-research industry was defining "the average American." That's the everyman (yes, in those days, marketers wanted to appeal to "the man of the house") who will buy your products or vote for your candidate. As Newsweek noted in 1947, "a shadowy figure [is] beginning to emerge...American majority man."
But, as Igo wisely notes, the search for the average American intentionally excluded large swaths of the population. The Lynds' Middletown research excluded African Americans and immigrants, and Kinsey limited his sexual studies to Caucasians. Early polling often undersampled the poor, racial minorities, immigrants, Southerners, and others seen as less likely to purchase consumer goods or vote. "Even if [the portrait] was never particularly accurate or representative," Igo writes, the new typical Americans played "a vital role in consolidating the [concept of a] national public."
The world of surveys spawned businesses that were designed to explain these average Americans and "the public" to those who would buy the data, from politicians to companies. Business Week in 1934 called the Lynds' work "a godsend to marketers." Gallup saw similarities in how people think "from politics to toothpaste." Roper predicted that the science of polling would become "a veritable gold mine if we could learn fast enough how to use it in all of its ramifications."
It did become a gold mine for Roper, as he signed up companies that were eager to sell their products to average Americans. Among the first to embrace the new way of doing business: Ford Motor (F), Standard Oil, the American Meat Institute, the National Broadcasting Co., RCA Victor, and the Spiegel catalog company.
As the polling business became more sophisticated, Gallup and others began to study gender, class, and geographical differences to help clients appeal to groups once "routinely ignored," including housewives, Southerners, and blue-collar workers. With the coming of the civil rights movement and the sexual revolution of the 1960s, "pollsters recalibrated their strong majoritarian frame, detecting new significance in how men and women, young and old, Latinos and Asian Americans assessed presidents and purchases differently." Niche markets and microtargeting became buzzwords on Madison Avenue.
At the dawn of the 21st century, survey research is continuing to evolve. Using state-of-the-art technology, pollsters examine brain scans to determine which product pitches or political platforms cause flashes of neural activity. The growth of Internet polling has raised debates over the scientific validity of Web-based survey techniques.
Polling, once considered a scandalous invasion of privacy, is now an accepted practice. More than 20% of Americans were polled at least once in the past year. As Igo aptly concludes, "we will continue to live in a world shaped by, and perceived through, survey data."
By Richard S. Dunham
The Good Business Issue
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Okay, maybe I'm being a touch over-cynical here. The numbers are pretty crazy, after all: According to researchers, childless men were twice as likely to die a premature death than fathers; childless women were up to four times more likely to die young than mothers! Yikes!
I guess this is good news for parents -- but maybe not such good news that you should go tossing your birth control pills if you don't have kids yet. The childless couples who participated in this study were struggling with infertility issues. None of them were childless by choice. Which means socioeconomic issues weren't taken into account, so who knows why the childless couples died first? Researchers suggested a variety of possible reasons for the earlier death rate, from substance abuse (swingin' singles spend more time in bars?) to depression (presumably over being childless?) to "physical conditions directly related to their infertility," but who knows, really?
As with most studies, I think there are two possible take home messages here: 1. If you have kids, good for you! You'll live longer! and/or 2. If you don't have kids, you can most likely ignore this inconclusive and flawed research.
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A Russian musical family's journey from Czar's palace to the heart of the Adirondacks
THE exhibit looked very interesting but it was not one upon which I initially had expected to spend much afterthought. The display was one of gorgeous Russian costumes, most of them in the fashion called Vladimir. Historically, the town of Vladimir and its surrounding region, about 150 miles outside Moscow, was an important area; its princes were instrumental in throwing off the Mongol domination of Russia which followed the invasions of the khans of the Golden Horde during the 13th century. The Franklin County Council for the Arts is housed in a former woolen mill, and cheek by jowl with these exotic splendors is a workaday Adirondack exhibit of the products of the old Ballard Woolen Mill whose slogan was, ``All Wool and a Yard Wide.'' The incongruity of the Russian exhibit was increased by my understanding that there were few, if any, Russians living in the area. Intricate, traditional Russian dress
The Vladimir style highlights its ancient Russian heritage. Characteristically, the woman's garment was a sleeveless jumper with a square neckline. It fell fairly straight from a wide embroidered band bordering the neck and has a decorated front panel. Moderately full sleeves of a thinner white undergarment covered the arms. The headdress was a stiff miter-shaped crown tied with bows in the back. Sometimes the face was shaded with a partial veil of a sort of white fishnet. An ample gauzy veil, also white, flowed from the open crown over the wearer's shoulders and arms.
The examples in the museum rooms of our local Arts Council's precincts are of colorful velvets and satins, all of the pieces beaded and embroidered with a theatrical richness and an intricacy that defies description. There are also men's jackets and curious helmet-like caps as well as some fur-trimmed outfits for boys. Costumes that belonged to a prince
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The story behind the costumes is implicit with history, adventure, and romance. In 1834, a son, Dmitri, was born to the princely Agreneff family. Instead of spending his youth being princely - with whatever vices and virtues this might have entailed - he mingled with the serfs on the family estates. Serfdom was the next thing to slavery - the serfs could not leave the land on which they were born and worked without compensation. If the land was sold, the serfs were sold along with it as part of the deal.
Prince Dmitri must have heard and loved their work songs and the songs sung at their village fairs and festivals as they observed births, marriages, and deaths. Musically inclined and doubtless provided with an aristocratic and musically sound education, young Dmitri Alexandrovich (as he would have been customarily called in Russian) collected, wrote down, and arranged the haunting folk melodies. The Csar confers a special title
The prince is credited with preserving the poignantly beautiful ``Song of the Volga Boatmen.''
His work came to the attention of Czar Alexander II, who came to the throne during the Crimean War. The conflict had been precipitated by his irresponsible father; Alexander immediately negotiated a peace treaty.
Alexander II was also interested in the plight of the serfs and he decreed their emancipation in 1861. He invites comparison with the contemporary Kremlin leadership in that he embarked on a program of modernization and reform. After liberalization came vociferous dissent, especially among university students; the arrest and prosecution of those dissenters were followed with terrorist bombings. One of the bombs found its mark - the czar. But in happier times, Alexander listened to Prince Dmitri's folk music and bestowed upon him the title ``Slaviansky.''
The title the Czar gave him is untranslatable, but it seems to denote something like The Very Slavic One or, perhaps, The Preserver of Slavic Heritage. At any rate, he was so proud of the title that he preferred it to his family name of Agreneff. From chorus to conservatory In 1858, when Dmitri Alexandrovich was only 24 years old, he founded the Slaviansky Russian Chorus. The chorus took the songs of the humble serfs to the whole world in concert performances. The prince received many honors from various countries.
He also organized, built, and maintained a conservatory in Kiev which provided free musical education to talented students who could not otherwise even dream of such a thing.
All this took money, as Slaviansky's work spanned 50 years. When his considerable personal fortune was not enough, he sold off two of the family estates. He was held in high esteem by the two succeeding czars, and when he died he was buried with royal honors.
Photographs of Slaviansky show a handsome, heavy-set Russian aristocrat. In one he wears a dark jacket brightened by a collection of medals and decorations on his chest. Another photo shows him in a magnificent fur-trimmed damask costume; his cuffs and cap are encrusted with jewels. This very princely garb may be a stage costume or, conceivably, one worn to an imperial ball for which the Russian court was famous. Princess Margarita Slaviansky
Dmitri's 12th and youngest child, Princess Margarita Agreneva Slaviansky, was the one to whom he entrusted the chorus and his treasured music.
Margarita was a musical prodigy who appeared a soloist in her father's concerts when she was very young. She married one of the czar's generals but continued her interest in music by conducting and teaching voice in Moscow. Although her husband was killed during the Revolution, she was not only spared but was placed in charge of preparing choruses for concerts during Bolshevik state occasions.
In 1926, two years after Stalin had seized power, she was permitted to make a concert tour throughout Russia. Margarita makes her way to US
In Siberia, she defected with her only daughter, Mara, into China. No doubt this period was filled with adventure and uncertainty as they made their way down to Shanghai. There they were able to obtain Chinese passports with which they came to the United States.
In New York City, Margarita rebuilt the Slaviansky Russian Chorus, which again became world famous. There were command performances at Buckingham Palace and the Vatican. She also received innumerable decorations and honors.
In 1958, the Slaviansky Russian Chorus celebrated its 100th Anniversary in a concert at Carnegie Hall. Margarita's daughter was her assistant conductor as well as a soloist, as she had been to the prince. After Margarita died in New York in 1964, Mara continued to teach voice until she married a man who lived in the Adirondacks.
So it was that this bit of Russian musical history came to rest in these small, rugged mountains halfway around the world.
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0.020683 | <urn:uuid:c6eb1826-80c5-4e17-b369-7639d8418d1a> | en | 0.960239 | Comment: A movement cannot fail...
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A movement cannot fail...
... the people in the movement can quit, but that is it. One man refusing to give up is a movement.
The three items in the OP handled differently would not have changed anything.
We are dealing with criminals.
I am not quitting and Liberty is still thriving.
Just for the record, does the OP have the ability to foresee the future in other aspects of life or is this truly amazing vision for how things might have been limited to the three items listed?
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McCALL, who won 40 caps for Scotland, will work alongside manager Gordon Strachan and assistant Mark McGhee in the new-look set-up and will also remain in charge at Fir Park.
STUART McCALL says he is "thrilled" to be part of the new Scotland management team after being unveiled as assistant coach to Gordon Strachan today.
McCall, who retains his club job, was unveiled at Hampden today and will work alongside Strachan and assistant manager Mark McGhee.
The former Scotland midfielder, who won 40 caps, has led Motherwell to the Scottish Cup final and Champions League qualifiers in his two years in charge.
The former Bradford boss said in a statement: "I am thrilled to have been asked by Gordon Strachan to join his backroom team.
"Playing for my country was the highlight of my career and I have been fortunate enough to enjoy World Cup and European Championship finals as a player.
"They hold special memories for me and the Scotland supporters deserve a return to those days.
"I am proud to be asked to assist with the national team and look forward to working with an excellent squad of players and two outstanding coaches in Gordon and Mark."
Stuart McCall
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Strachan said: "In many ways Stuart typified the classic Scotland international player: he was passionate and combative but he was also hugely influential and inspirational. He has done a tremendous job at Motherwell and his knowledge of the game, and especially his knowledge of the Scottish scene, will be invaluable.
"I am excited about working with Mark and Stuart and I am sure the players will benefit from their coaching experience."
McCall effectively replaces his own Fir Park assistant, Kenny Black, in the role following Craig Levein's removal from the main job and his club backed his appointment.
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0.061402 | <urn:uuid:49955e29-c07e-44c8-92c2-114e30830ecf> | en | 0.966096 | It seems quite apt that “The Best Man Holiday,” a film about a reunion of old friends, feels just like going to an actual reunion. In ways both bad and good.
A reunion, you see, is only fun if you went to the school and recognize your friends. It's certainly not fun if you didn't, but were dragged along anyway. In that case, you'll likely end up drinking white wine in a paper cup alone by a wall, watching everyone else get silly.
Likewise, “The Best Man Holiday,” Malcom D. Lee's sequel to his (much better) 1999 “The Best Man,” will probably be fun and pleasant for those who saw the first film. Those who didn't may feel like they've been dragged to someone else's reunion.
And that's too bad, because the cast, reunited here, is largely excellent, led by the ever-charismatic Taye Diggs as Harper, an author with a fatal flaw: he can't seem to stop writing about his friends and lovers.
It's not the fault of the cast that these characters seem less fully formed the second time around. It's the fault of a script (also by Lee) that takes shortcuts, goes for sentimental overload, gets a little too swept up in holiday trappings, and telegraphs plot developments in often groan-worthy ways. (A character inadvertently leaves an iPad containing secret material sitting on a counter. Do we really then need an ominous close-up of that iPad lying there? Give us a little credit!)
Those who saw the charming and refreshing “The Best Man” will remember that the plot centered on a wedding. This time, it's Christmas that brings everyone together. If you like Christmas soundtracks, you're in luck: there at least 15 Christmas songs here. If you don't like your Christmas music so early in the season, that's another matter.
The setting is the suburban mansion of Lance and Mia, who married in the first movie. Lance (Morris Chestnut) is a star with the New York Giants playing his last season, and chasing an NFL record for rushing, with time running out. Mia (Monica Calhoun) is still sweet and thoughtful, and decides to hold a Christmas reunion.
That includes Harper (Diggs) and Robyn (the lovely Sanaa Lathan), married and expecting their first child. Harper's first book, a novel that caused all sorts of trouble in the first film, was a huge success, but as this movie begins, he's under financial pressure. His agent suggests a winner: An autobiography with his friend the big football star. Cue more trouble.
Then there's Jordan (an appealing Nia Long), the single and ambitious TV producer who carried a torch for Harper. She's now dating a white man, Brian (Eddie Cibrian), a relationship that her friends comment on, but is not explored much in the movie. Julian (Harold Perrinau), who had freed himself from the vampy and manipulative Shelby (Melissa de Sousa) by the end of the first film, is now married to the sweet-hearted former stripper Candace (Regina Hall).
And happily, Terrence Howard is back to reprise his role of the rascally but somehow wise Quentin. .
And the hijinks begin. Said hijinks include an amusing boy-band number performed on the fly by the guys (We hate to be Scrooge here, but really, this number was clearly choreographed professionally and rehearsed for many hours), and some arguments that develop into fistfights (Why do so many romantic comedies have to include women attacking each other physically, over a man?).
There are, of course, old scores to settle. There's also a tragic twist that becomes a major plot point. You will very likely cry at certain moments.
But again, it's like a reunion. If you already know these characters, you're good. If you don't, you'll be standing against that wall, alone, with that wine in a paper cup.
“The Best Man Holiday,” a Universal Studios release, is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America for “language, sexual content and brief nudity.” Running time: 122 minutes. Two and a half stars out of four.
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0.066624 | <urn:uuid:869ba56e-06f8-4533-aca2-735e6b6da465> | en | 0.935452 | Re: TrueCrypt & Carbonite
On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 15:58:08 -0400, Mark F <mark53916@xxxxxxxxx>
On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 12:57:20 -0700, Prof Wonmug <wonmug@xxxxxxx>
I recently installed TrueCrypt and have been experimenting with it. I
have discovered a couple of by-products or using it with a backup
system like Carbonite, which I use.
1. While the drive is mounted, the files are in the clear to all
programs running on the machine. Before I realized this, Carbonite,
which backs up continuously, had backed up all of the supposedly
encrypted files on my test volume. With Carbonite, I am able to
designate a volume to be excluded from backup, but I must do this
explicitly. This may not be a problem for some people.
2. If the TrueCrypt file is very large (gigabytes), Carbonite excludes
it from backup by default. I can override this, but I have to
explicitly do it. This is one of the drawbacks of these
all-you-can-eat backup systems. They play games to keep you from
eating too much.
3. If you change anything on the TrueCrypt volume, the file gets
modified and must be completely backed up again -- even if only a few
bytes actually changed. If the file is in the GB range, that could
take days to back up every time it changes.
Crash Plan (and perhaps other products) do a better job of handling
large files: they only backup the parts that have changed.
Crash Plan seems to scan the entire file for changes and only backs up
the changed data, reducing the time needed for your backup to
complete. I think it also saves storage space for them at storage
side, which in the case of Crash Plan can be their central side, a
local or LAN disk of yours, or a "friend"s disk.
I have Crash Plan for backups of TrueCrypt volumes and for VMware
virtual disks (I put my big TrueCrypt volumes "inside" of VMware
virtual disks so that I can have multi-part container files.
Unfortunately the modified date changes for each of the 2GB VMware
container files when a volume is mounted, Crash Plan has to scan
all of the 2GB containers, rather than just the ones that actually
got changed while the virtual disk was mounted.) Crash Plan scans
at just about full disk speed, so a 2GB file takes about 20 seconds to
scan. Things would be impractical for me with a 300GB virtual disk
that I typically only change a few small files on each time I mount,
but I use Crash Plan for a bunch of 2, 4, and 8GB TrueCrypt files.
I don't know any way around any of these.
Like I say, use Crash Plan - it only transmits the changed data and
much faster than Carbonite anyhow.
How does it know what changed? By doing a binary compare?
Have you tried it with a TrueCrypt file? I don't know for sure, but I
would imagine that a TrueCrypt file might have extensive changes if
even only 1% of the unencrypted data changed.
If I get a minute, I might run a binary compare after changing one
file in a 100 file repository.
I looked at the CrashPlan website. I found it a lot more muddled than
Carbonite. A lot of options that are not clearly explained. Carbonite
may not be perfect, but it is what it says in the ads: Backup. Simple.
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Serge Gainsbourg was the dirty old man of popular music; a French singer/songwriter and provocateur notorious for his voracious appetite for alcohol, cigarettes, and women, his scandalous, taboo-shattering output made him a legend in Europe but only a cult figure in America, where his lone hit "Je T'Aime...Moi Non Plus" stalled on the pop charts -- fittingly enough -- at number 69.
Born Lucien Ginzberg in Paris on April 2, 1928, his parents were Russian Jews who fled to France following the events of the 1917 Bolshevik uprising. After studying art and teaching, he turned to painting before working as a bar pianist on the local cabaret circuit. Soon he was tapped to join the cast of the musical Milord L'Arsoille, where he reluctantly assumed a singing role; self-conscious about his rather homely appearance, Gainsbourg initially wanted only to carve out a niche as a composer and producer, not as a performer.
Still, he made his recording debut in 1958 with the album Du Chant a la Une; while strong efforts like 1961's L'Etonnant Serge Gainsbourg and 1964's Gainsbourg Confidentiel followed, his jazz-inflected solo work performed poorly on the charts, although compositions for vocalists ranging from Petula Clark to Juliette Greco to Dionne Warwick proved much more successful. In the late '60s, he befriended the actress Brigitte Bardot, and later became her lover; with Bardot as his muse, Gainsbourg's lushly arranged music suddenly became erotic and delirious, and together, they performed a series of duets -- including "Bonnie and Clyde," "Harley Davidson," and "Comic Strip" -- celebrating pop culture icons.
Gainsbourg's affair with Bardot was brief, but its effects were irrevocable: after he became involved with constant companion Jane Birkin, they recorded the 1969 duet "Je T'Aime...Moi Non Plus," a song he originally penned for Bardot complete with steamy lyrics and explicit heavy breathing. Although banned in many corners of the globe, it reached the top of the charts throughout Europe, and grew in stature to become an underground classic later covered by performers ranging from Donna Summer to Ray Conniff.
Gainsbourg returned in 1971 with Histoire de Melody Nelson, a dark, complex song cycle which signalled his increasing alienation from modern culture: drugs, disease, suicide and misanthropy became thematic fixtures of his work, which grew more esoteric, inflammatory, and outrageous with each passing release. Although Gainsbourg never again reached the commercial success of his late-'60s peak, he remained an imposing and controversial figure throughout Europe, where he was both vilified and celebrated for his shocking behavior, which included burning 500 francs on a live television broadcast and recording a reggae version of the sacred "La Marseillaise."
Gainsbourg also created a furor with the single "Lemon Incest," a duet with his daughter, the actress Charlotte Gainsbourg. In addition, he posed in drag for the cover of 1984's Love on the Beat, a collection of songs about male hustlers, and made sexual advances towards Whitney Houston on a live TV broadcast. Along with his pop music oeuvre, Gainsbourg scored a number of films, and also directed and appeared in a handful of features, most notably 1976's Je T'Aime...Moi Non Plus, which starred Birkin and Andy Warhol mainstay Joe Dallesandro. He died on March 2, 1991.
Serge Gainsbourg (born Lucien Ginsburg; French pronunciation: [sɛʁʒ ɡɛ̃sbuʁ]; 2 April 1928 – 2 March 1991) was a French singer, songwriter, pianist, film composer, poet, painter, screenwriter, writer, actor and director. Regarded as one of the most important figures in French popular music, he was renowned for his often provocative and scandalous releases, as well as his diverse artistic output, which embodied genres ranging from jazz, mambo, world, chanson, pop and yé-yé, to rock and roll, progressive rock, reggae, electronic, disco, new wave and funk. Gainsbourg's varied musical style and individuality make him difficult to categorize although his legacy has been firmly established and he is often regarded as one of the world's most influential popular musicians.
His lyrical work incorporated a vast amount of clever word play to hoodwink the listener, often for humorous, provocative, satirical or subversive reasons. Common types of word play in his songs include mondegreen, onomatopoeia, rhyme, spoonerism, dysphemism, paraprosdokian and pun. Through the course of his career, Gainsbourg wrote over 500 songs, which have been covered more than a thousand times by a wide range of artists. Since his death, Gainsbourg's music has reached legendary stature in France. He has also gained a cult following in the English-speaking world, with numerous artists influenced by his arrangements.
^ Ginsburg is sometimes spelled Ginzburg in the media, including print encyclopedias and dictionaries. However, Ginsburg is the name engraved on Gainsbourg's grave, and "Lucien Ginsburg" is the name by which Gainsbourg is referred to, as a performer, in the Sacem catalog [1] (along with "Serge Gainsbourg" as the author/composer/adaptor)^ allmusic Biography^ Obituary Variety, 11 March 1991.^ Ankeny, Jason. "Serge Gainsbourg – Music Biography, Credits and Discography". AllMusic. Retrieved 2012-11-10. ^ Simmons, Sylvie (2 February 2001). "An extract from Serge Gainsbourg: A Fistful of Gitanes by Sylvie Simmons". The Guardian. ^ 2003年4月21日 (月). "The 100 Greatest Artists – No. 62". Hmv.co.jp. Retrieved 25 January 2011. ^ fr:Liste des chansons de Serge Gainsbourg^ fr:Reprises des chansons de Serge Gainsbourg
Biography1.1 Early work1.2 The 1970s1.3 Final years1.4 Film work1.5 Writing
Born in Paris, France, Gainsbourg was the son of Jewish Russian migrants, Joseph Ginsburg (28 December 1898, in Kharkov, Ukraine – 22 April 1971) and Olga (née Bessman; 1894 – 16 March 1985), who fled to Paris after the 1917 Russian Revolution. Joseph Ginsburg was a classically trained musician whose profession was playing the piano in cabarets and casinos; he taught his children, Gainsbourg and his twin sister Liliane to play the piano.
Gainsbourg's childhood was profoundly affected by the occupation of France by Germany in World War II. The identifying yellow star Jews were required to wear became a symbol and haunted Gainsbourg and which in later years he was able to transmute into creative inspiration. During the occupation, the Jewish Ginsburg family was able to make their way from Paris to Limoges, traveling under false papers. Limoges was in the Zone libre under the administration of the collaborationist Vichy government and still a perilous refuge for Jews. After the war, Gainsbourg obtained work teaching music and drawing in a school outside of Paris, in Mesnil-Le-Roi. The school was set up under the auspices of local rabbis, for the orphaned children of murdered deportees. Here Gainsbourg heard the accounts of Nazi persecution and genocide, stories that resonated for Gainsbourg far into the future. Before he was 30 years old, Gainsbourg was a disillusioned painter but earned his living as a piano player in bars.
Gainsbourg changed his first name to Serge, feeling that this was representative of his Russian background and because, as Jane Birkin relates: "Lucien reminded him of a hairdresser's assistant." He chose Gainsbourg as his last name, in homage to the English painter Thomas Gainsborough, whom he admired.
He married Elisabeth "Lize" Levitsky on 3 November 1951 and divorced in 1957. He married a second time on 7 January 1964, to Françoise-Antoinette "Béatrice" Pancrazzi (b. 28 July 1931), with whom he had two children: a daughter named Natacha (b. 8 August 1964) and a son, Paul (born in spring 1968). He divorced Béatrice in February 1966.
In late 1967 he had a short but ardent love affair with Brigitte Bardot, to whom he dedicated the song and album Initials BB.
In mid-1968 Gainsbourg fell in love with the younger English singer and actress Jane Birkin, whom he met during the shooting of the film Slogan. Their relationship lasted over a decade. In 1971 they had a daughter, the actress and singer Charlotte Gainsbourg. Although many sources state that they were married, according to their daughter Charlotte this was not the case. Birkin left Gainsbourg in 1980.
Birkin remembers the beginning of her affair with Gainsbourg: he first took her to a nightclub, then to a transvestite club and afterwards to the Hilton hotel where he passed out in a drunken stupor. Birkin left Gainsbourg when pregnant with her third daughter Lou by the film director Jacques Doillon.
His last partner was Bambou (Caroline Paulus, grandniece of German Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus of Stalingrad fame). In 1986, they had a son, Lucien (known as Lulu).
Early work[edit]
His early songs were influenced by Boris Vian and were largely in the vein of old-fashioned chanson. Very early, however, Gainsbourg began to move beyond this and experiment with a succession of musical styles: jazz early on, pop in the 1960s, funk, rock and reggae in the 1970s and electronica in the 1980s.
Many of his songs contained themes with a morbid or sexual twist in them. An early success, "Le Poinçonneur des Lilas", describes the day in the life of a Paris Métro ticket man, whose job is to stamp holes in passengers' tickets. Gainsbourg describes this chore as so monotonous, that the man eventually thinks of putting a hole into his own head and being buried in another.
By the time the yéyés arrived in France, Gainsbourg was 32 years old and was not feeling very comfortable: he spent much time with Jacques Brel or Juliette Greco but the public and critics rejected him, mocking his prominent ears and nose. During this period, Gainsbourg began working with Greco, a collaboration that lasted throughout the 'Left Bank' period culminating in the song La Javanaise in the fall of 1962.
He performed a few duets in 1964 with the artist Philippe Clay, with whom he shared some resemblance. Around this time, Gainsbourg met Elek Bacsik and Michel Gaudry and asked them to make a record with him. This would become Confidentiel, which exuded a modern jazz aesthetic that pleased Gainsbourg, despite knowing that such a sound would not allow him access to success. The album sold only 1,500 copies. The decision was taken right upon leaving the studio: "I'll get into hack work and buy myself a Rolls". Still, his next album, Gainsbourg Percussions, inspired by the rhythms and melodies of Miriam Makeba and Babatunde Olatunji, was a world away from the yéyé wave, on the scene which was to become a key to the Gainsbourg fortune.
More success began to arrive when, in 1965, his song Poupée de cire, poupée de son was the Luxembourg entry in the Eurovision Song Contest. Performed by French teen and charming singer France Gall, it won first prize. The song was recorded in English as "A Lonely Singing Doll" by British teen idol Twinkle.
His next song for Gall, Les Sucettes (Lollipops), caused a scandal in France: Gainsbourg had written the song with double-meanings and strong sexual innuendo of which the singer was apparently unaware when she recorded it. Whereas Gall thought that the song was about a girl enjoying lollipops, it was really about oral sex. The controversy arising from the song, although a big hit for Gall, threw her career off-track in France for several years.
Gainsbourg arranged other Gall songs and LPs that were characteristic of the late 1960s psychedelic styles, among them Gall's 1968 album. Another one of Serge's songs Boum Bada Boum, was entered by Monaco in the 1967 contest, sung by Minouche Barelli; it came fifth. He also wrote hit songs for other artists, such as Comment Te Dire Adieu for Françoise Hardy.
In 1969, he released Je t'aime... moi non plus, which featured explicit lyrics and simulated sounds of female orgasm. The song appeared that year on an LP, Jane Birkin/Serge Gainsbourg. Originally recorded with Brigitte Bardot, it was released with his future girlfriend Birkin when Bardot backed out. While Gainsbourg declared it the "ultimate love song", it was considered too "hot"; the song was censored or banned from public broadcast in numerous countries and in France even the toned-down version was suppressed. The Vatican made a public statement citing the song as offensive. Despite (or perhaps because of) the controversy, it sold well and charted within the top ten in many European countries.
The 1970s[edit]
Histoire de Melody Nelson was released in 1971. This concept album, produced and arranged by Jean-Claude Vannier, tells the story of a Lolita-esque affair, with Gainsbourg as the narrator. It features prominent string arrangements and even a massed choir at its tragic climax. The album has proven influential with artists such as Air, David Holmes, Jarvis Cocker, Beck and Dan the Automator.
In 1975, he released the album Rock Around the Bunker, an album written entirely on the subject of National Socialism. Gainsbourg used black comedy, as he and his family had suffered during World War II, being forced to wear the yellow star as the mark of a Jew. Rock Around the Bunker belonged to the mid-1970s "retro" trend.
The next year saw the release of another major work, L'Homme à tête de chou (Cabbage-Head Man), featuring the new character Marilou and sumptuous orchestral themes. Cabbage-Head Man is one of his nicknames, as it refers to his ears. Musically, L'homme à tête de chou turned out to be Gainsbourg's last LP, in the English rock style he had favoured since the late 1960s. He would go on to produce two reggae albums recorded in Jamaica (1979 and 1981) and two electronic funk albums recorded in New York (1984 and 1987).
In Jamaica in 1979, he recorded "Aux Armes et cætera", a reggae version of the French national anthem "La Marseillaise", with Robbie Shakespeare, Sly Dunbar and Rita Marley. Following harsh and anti-semitic criticism in right-wing newspaper Le Figaro by Charles de Gaulle biographer Michel Droit, his song earned him death threats from right-wing veteran soldiers of the Algerian War of Independence, who were opposed to their national anthem being arranged in reggae style. In 1979, a show had to be cancelled, because an angry mob of French Army parachutists came to demonstrate in the audience. Alone onstage, Gainsbourg rose his fist and answered "The true meaning of our national anthem is revolutionary" and sung it with the audience. The soldiers joined them, a scene enjoyed by millions as French TV news broadcast it, creating more publicity. Shortly afterward, Gainsbourg bought the original manuscript of "La Marseillaise". He replied to his critics that his version was, in fact, closer to the original as the manuscript clearly shows the words "Aux armes et cætera..." for the chorus. This fine album, described by legendary drummer Sly Dunbar as "Perhaps the best record he ever played on" was his biggest commercial success, including major hits Lola Rastaquouère, Aux Armes Et Cætera and a French version of Sam Theard's jazz classic You Rascal You entitled Vieille Canaille. Rita Marley and the I-Three would record another controversial reggae album with him in 1981, Mauvaises nouvelles des étoiles. Bob Marley was furious, when he discovered that Gainsbourg made his wife Rita sing erotic lyrics. Posthumous new mixes, including dub versions by Soljie Hamilton and versions of both albums by Jamaican artists were released as double "Dub Style" albums in 2003, to critical praise in France as well as abroad and to international commercial success. Although belatedly, Aux Armes Et Cætera – Dub Style and Mauvaises Nouvelles Des Étoiles – Dub Style further established the late Serge Gainsbourg as an influential icon in European pop music.
Final years[edit]
In 1982, Gainsbourg wrote an album for French rocker Alain Bashung, Play blessures. The album, although now considered a masterpiece by French critics, was a commercial failure.
After a turbulent 13-year relationship, Jane Birkin left Gainsbourg. In the 1980s, near the end of his life, Gainsbourg became a regular figure on French TV. His appearances seemed devoted to his controversial sense of humour and provocation. In March 1984, he burned three-quarters of a 500 French franc bill on television to protest against taxes raising up to 75% of income.
He would show up drunk and unshaven on stage: in April 1986, in Michel Drucker's live Saturday evening show, with the American singer Whitney Houston, he objected to Drucker's translating his comments to Whitney Houston and in English stated: "I said, I want to fuck her" - Drucker insisted this meant "He says you are great..." The same year, in another talk show interview, he appeared alongside Catherine Ringer, a well known singer who had appeared in pornographic films. Gainsbourg spat out at her, "You're nothing but a filthy whore, a filthy, fucking whore".
His songs became increasingly eccentric during this period, ranging from the anti-drug Aux Enfants de la Chance, to the highly controversial duet with his daughter Charlotte named Lemon Incest. This translates as "Inceste de citron", a wordplay on "un zeste de citron" (a lemon zest). The title demonstrates Gainsbourg's love for puns – another example of which is Beau oui comme Bowie, a song he gave to Isabelle Adjani.
By December 1988, while a judge at a film festival in Val d'Isère, he was extremely intoxicated at a local theatre where he was to do a presentation. While on stage he began to tell an obscene story about Brigitte Bardot and a champagne bottle, only to stagger offstage and collapse in a nearby seat. Subsequent years saw his health deteriorate. He had to undergo liver surgery but denied any connection to cancer or cirrhosis. His appearances and releases became sparser as he had to rest and recover in Vezelay. During these final years, he released Love on the Beat, a controversial electronic album with mostly sexual themes in the lyrics and his last studio album, You're Under Arrest, presented more synth-driven songs.
Film work[edit]
Gainsbourg appeared in nearly 50 film and television roles. In 1960, he co-starred with Rhonda Fleming in the Italian film La Rivolta Degli Schiavi (The Revolt of the Slaves) as Corvino, the Roman Emperor Massimiano's evil henchman. In 1969, he appeared in William Klein's pop art satire Mister Freedom, and in the same year he starred with Jane Birkin in Les Chemins de Katmandou (The Pleasure Pit). They acted together again in Cannabis the following year, and he also made a brief appearance with Birkin in Herbert Vesely's 1980 film, Egon Schieles Exzess und Bestrafung. He co-starred alongside Birkin in the French film Slogan for which he wrote the title song "La Chanson de Slogan". Also with Birkin, he acted in the French-Yugoslav film Devetnaest djevojaka i jedan mornar (19 girls and one sailor) where he played a role of a partisan.
Gainsbourg directed five movies: Je t'aime ... moi non plus, Le Physique et le Figuré, Équateur, Charlotte for Ever, and Stan the Flasher.
Throughout his career, Gainsbourg wrote the soundtracks for nearly 60 films and television programs. In 1996, he received a posthumous César Award for Best Music Written for a Film for Élisa, along with Zbigniew Preisner and Michel Colombier.
Gainsbourg wrote a novel entitled Evguénie Sokolov.
^ Sometimes spelled Olia, his mother's actual given name was Olga, as written on Gainsbourg's grave^ Benjamin Ivry: The Man With the Yellow Star: The Jewish Life of Serge Gainsbourg, The Jewish Daily Forward, 26 November 2008.^ Great Jewish Music, Deconstruction in Music.^ "Serge Gainsbourg Biography – life, family, parents, name, story, death, wife, school, young, son, book, old, born, husband, marriage, time, year, scandal, sister, The outsider". Notablebiographies.com. Retrieved 25 January 2011. ^ LucienGrix No real name given + Add Contact. "1928 Liliane & Lucien Ginsburg | Flickr – Photo Sharing!". Flickr. Retrieved 25 January 2011. ^ http://www.vanityfair.com, Robinson, Lisa, Legends, “The World of Serge Gainsbourg,” November, 2007, retrieved September 3, 2012^ http://www.m.forward.com, Ivry, Benjamin, “When You Feel The Jewish Life of Serge Gainsbourg,” November 26, 2008, retrieved September 4, 2012^ http://www.vanityfair.com, Robinson, Lisa, Legends, “The World of Serge Gainsbourg,” November, 2007, retrieved September 3, 2012^ http://www.notablebiography.com, "Serge Gainsbourg," retrieved September 3, 2012^ Adams, William Lee (26 January 2010). "French Chanteuse Charlotte Gainsbourg". TIME. ^ "Best-Looking Couples Ever". LIFE.com. See Your World LLC. JoAnne Good (9 July 2011). "Inside Travel: Pooches in Paris". independent.co.uk. "Serge Gainsbourg's women: the music". The Telegraph (Telegraph Media Group Limited). 7 February 2011. "Birkin, Bardot and Gainsbourg, the accidental sex symbol". The Guardian (Guardian News and Media Limited). 5 July 2010. "Jane Birkin". Apple Inc. ^ Wyatt, Petronella (25 January 2008). "Jane Birkin reveals the naked truth about being a Sixties' icon". The Daily Mail (London). ^ Cite error: The named reference ALLMUSIC was invoked but never defined (see the help page).^ Album notes from Initials SG^ Batteur Magazine, France, 2003^ Chrisafis, Angelique, The Guardian (14 April 2006). "Gainsbourg, je t'aime". London. ^ Vanity Fair, "The Secret World of Serge Gainsbourg", November 2007^ Roughly 75 €, but in 1984, 500 FF represented one sixth of the net minimum monthly wage in France^ Hodgkinson, Will, The Guardian (5 February 2003). "Serge, mon amour". London. ^ Kent, Nick , The Guardian (15 April 2006). "What a drag". London. ^ A controversial video for Lemon Incest featured a half-naked Gainsbourg lying on a bed with his daughter Charlotte. Phrases from the song include L'amour que nous ne ferons jamais ensemble/ Est le plus beau le plus violent/ Le plus pur le plus enivrant (The love that we will never make together/ is the most beautiful, the most violent/ The most pure, the most heady).^ "Tam Tam Books". Tam Tam Books. Retrieved 25 January 2011.
Death and legacy[edit]
Gainsbourg died on 2 March 1991 of a heart attack. He was buried in the Jewish section of the Montparnasse Cemetery in Paris. His funeral brought Paris to a standstill, and French President François Mitterrand said of him, "He was our Baudelaire, our Apollinaire... He elevated the song to the level of art." His home at the well-known address 5bis rue de Verneuil is still covered in graffiti and poems.
Since his death, Gainsbourg's music has reached legendary stature in France. He has also gained a following in the English-speaking world, with numerous artists influenced by his arrangements. One of the most frequent interpreters of Gainsbourg's songs was British singer Petula Clark whose success in France was propelled by her recordings of his tunes. In 2003, she wrote and recorded La Chanson de Gainsbourg as a tribute to the composer of some of her biggest hits. The majority of Gainsbourg's lyrics are collected in the volume Dernières nouvelles des étoiles.
The Parisian house that Gainsbourg lived in from 1969 until 1991, at 5 bis Rue de Verneuil, remains a celebrated shrine, with his ashtrays and collections of various items, such as police badges and bullets, intact. The outside of the house is covered in graffiti dedicated to Gainsbourg as well as with photographs of significant figures in his life including Bardot and Birkin.
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Film biopic[edit]
A feature film titled Gainsbourg (Vie héroïque) was released in France in January 2010, which is based on the graphic novel by the writer-director of the film, Joann Sfar. Gainsbourg is portrayed by Eric Elmosnino and Kacey Mottet Klein. The film was awarded 3 César Awards, including Best Actor for Elmosnino, and nominated for an additional 8.
^ César Awards 2011 imdb.com
Selected covers and tributes[edit]
See also Category:Serge Gainsbourg tribute albums.In 1964, Gainsbourg himself did covers of Babatunde Olatunji's drum-heavy tunes "Kiyakiya (Why Do You Run Away?)", "Akiwowo (Chant to the Trainman)" and "Jin-go-lo-ba" which are featured on Olatunji's acclaimed Drums of Passion LP (1959). They appeared, with new French lyrics but otherwise identical in rhythm, melody and overall sound, as "Joanna", "New York – U.S.A." and "Marabout", respectively, on the "Gainsbourg Percussions" album – without any credit given to Olatunji.One of the celebrating events of the Year of France in Brazil was a concert in September 2009 called "Gainsbourg Imperial", an event celebrating the music of Serge Gainsbourg. It was performed by Brazilian Samba Big Band Orquestra Imperial, having French maestro Jean-Claude Vannier, English singer Jane Birkin and Brazilian musician and singer Caetano Veloso as special guests.Steve Wynn (formerly of The Dream Syndicate) recorded "Bonnie and Clyde" as a duet with Johnette Napolitano of Concrete Blonde on his 1992 solo album, Dazzling Display.Belinda Carlisle covered "Bonnie and Clyde" and "Contact" on her 2007 French language album Voila.Giddle & Boyd (Giddle Partridge and Boyd Rice) covered "Bonnie and Clyde" and "Contact" on their 2008 EP Going Steady with Peggy Moffitt.The first English-language version of a Gainsbourg song was Dionne Warwick's 1965 version of "Mamadou".Australian rock musician Mick Harvey released two CDs of Gainsbourg's songs translated into English. Of particular note is "To All the Lucky Kids (Aux Enfants De La Chance)" on Pink Elephants.Gainsbourg's song "Bonnie and Clyde" is featured in the burlesque show scene of Rush Hour 3 and in the romantic film Laurel Canyon starring Christian Bale and Kate Beckinsale.American indie rock band Luna included a cover of "Bonnie and Clyde" as a hidden track on their 1995 album Penthouse, and their 2001 Luna Live album features a live performance of the song.American artist Angel Corpus Christi merged "Je t'aime ... moi non plus" with Lou Reed's "I Wanna Boogie With You" and recorded it as a duet with Dean Wareham.Swedish band Sambassadeur covers "La Chanson de Prevert" in French on their self-titled debut album.Okkervil River covers "Je suis venu te dire que je m'en vais" in English ("I Came Here to Say I'm Going Away").Arcade Fire covered "Poupée de cire, poupée de Son" and also released it as a split 7" single with LCD Soundsystem.Beirut often covers "La Javanaise" in their live sets and it is included in the live album Live at the Music Hall of Williamsburg (2009).Australian pop singer-songwriter Kylie Minogue extensively sampled his duet with Brigitte Bardot "Bonnie and Clyde" on the song "Sensitized" off her 2007 album . In 2003, she sampled "Je t'aime... moi non plus" in a modified version of her song "Breathe" (which originally did not contain any samples) for a special one-off live performance at the Hammersmith Apollo in promotion of her album Body Language.French rapper MC Solaar sampled "Bonnie and Clyde" in his song "Nouveau Western" on his 1994 album Prose Combat. Renegade Soundwave released "Renegade Soundwave" with the same sample at the same time.Irish musician David Holmes covered "Cargo Culte" in his song "Don't Die Just Yet" on his 1997 album Let's Get Killed.American emcee Princess Superstar sampled the melody of the songs "Melody" and "Cargo Culte" in the song "You Get Mad At Napster" on her album Princess Superstar Is.The Welsh comedy-rap band Goldie Lookin Chain extensively sampled the title track of Gainsbourg's Cannabis film soundtrack for their single "Your Missus Is a Nutter".In 1997 Tzadik records released a tribute to Gainsbourg in their Great Jewish Composers series. The album includes covers by John Zorn, Medeski, Martin and Wood, Mike Patton, Fred Frith, Ikue Mori, Marc Ribot and Cyro Baptista.On the HBO show Flight of the Conchords, the sequence for the song "A Kiss is Not a Contract" is a tribute to Gainsbourg's video for "Ballade de Melody Nelson".The track "Serge" on The Herbaliser's album Take London is about a chance encounter with Gainsbourg 3 days before his death.Black Grape's "A Big Day in the North" is based on a sample taken from Initials B.B. and also features samples from "Ford Mustang".In the film High Fidelity, when a pair of punks steals from Rob Gordon's record store, one of the things they stole was a Serge Gainsbourg record.American hip hop duo The Beatnuts sampled "Melody" on their track "Superbad" off their album The Beatnuts LP.Nick Cave sang a duet of "I love you nor do I" with his longtime girlfriend Anita Lane. So did Barry Adamson with Anita in 1993 on his release The Negro inside Me with "Je t'aime ... Moi non plus".Trumpet player Erik Truffaz did a jazz remake of "Je t'aime, moi non plus".Australian psychedelic band Tame Impala covered "Bonnie and Clyde" in their 2011 tour of Europe.American hip hop band De La Soul sampled "Les Oubliettes" and "En Melody" on their second album De La Soul Is Dead released in 1991.In 2005, the album Monsieur Gainsbourg Revisited was released by Virgin Records. The album consisted of specially-recorded English-language cover versions of Gainsbourg's songs, recorded by artists as diverse as Franz Ferdinand, Portishead, Placebo, Marc Almond, Michael Stipe, Cat Power, Karen Elson, Jarvis Cocker, Kid Loco, Faultline, Françoise Hardy, Tricky, Marianne Faithfull, Sly and Robbie, Gonzales, Feist, Dani, Trash Palace, The Rakes, The Kills, Carla Bruni, James Iha, Kazu Makino, Nina Persson and Nathan Larson.Brazilian musician and former Titãs member Ciro Pessoa wrote a song in honor of Gainsbourg, named "Até os Anos 70" ("To the 1970s"). It is present in his 2003 album No Meio da Chuva Eu Grito "Help".In 1994, Malcolm McLaren recorded a version of "Je t'aime ... moi non plus" for his album ParisOn the American television drama series Mad Men, the song "Couleur café" was reworked into a jingle for a coffee company in the episode "The Gold Violin" from season 2. The song "Bonnie and Clyde" also featured prominently in the 6th season episode "To Have and to Hold".Slovenian industrial music band Laibach covered the song “Love on the Beat” on their latest album Spectre in 2014.
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TSA device rule: Charge up cell phone or kiss it good-bye on U.S. bound flights
TSA announced Monday that dead cell phones will be confiscated when boarding an international flight that is U.S. bound. British Airways announced today that if you have a dead cell phone you will not be allowed to fly, you will be forced to book a future flight, according to NBC News on July 8.
TSA device rule: Power up those phones or risk leaving it behind!
Information that terrorist are creating explosives to look like cell phones has prompted this new rule. The reason the TSA wants you to turn on your cell phone is to make sure it is not just hollowed out and filled with plastic explosives.
This rule is not only for cell phones, but tablets and laptops too. If you cannot turn on your electronic device it will be confiscated, except for British Airways who will force you to book a later flight.
With the amount of personal information that people store in their cell phones today, it might be easier on most to give up their flight, rather than their cell phone. If your cell phone happens to run out of a charge before getting in the boarding line for your flight, you are out of luck.
Both Great Britain and France are enforcing the new TSA rule at their airports. This rule will be enforced for all international flights coming to the U.S. from the different countries worldwide.
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I am trying to find the birth of my 3x Great Grandfather James WALLAGE.
He was a Warrant Officer in the Royal Navy and his career from 1803 is well documented at the National Archives at Kew. These Naval records show he was born in Norfolk (Norwich)about 1777 - 1779 & joined the Navy about 1798, probably on one of the ships under the command of the Lord Horatio NELSON. I am still researching this.
Norfolk Parish Records are only just starting to be fully indexed (IGI / FreeREG) but I am unable to find a good match. The nearest is a Baptism at Kenninghall, Norfolk 1785, but this is too late, unless his Baptism occurred some 8 yrs after his Birth.
James WALLAGE had a Daughter Emily and Three Sons, James, John & Thomas.
Thomas WALLAGE (1815-1853)is my 2x Great Grandfather and I know a lot about him as he was a Captain in the Indian Navy / HEIC and Commander of the HEIC steamship NEMESIS. He saw a lot of action in the Far East, HONG KONG, SARAWAK, SINGAPORE, SIAM, INDIA. He died Aged 37 in 1851 after catching a cold at a fellow officers funeral. His pregnant wife and 3 children returned to England later that year on the steamship CITY OF POONA and had a horrendous journey taking nine months during which my Gt Grand Aunt Emma Stewart Bie WALLAGE was born 25 Jan 1852 off the coast of MAURITIUS.
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Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood said on Monday it was "studying" an army statement giving Islamist President Mohamed Morsi 48 hours to meet the demands of the people before it would intervene, a senior leader said.
"The Muslim Brotherhood is studying the army statement," Mahmud Ghozlan told AFP.
He said the movement's political bureau would meet to "decide on its position."
The opposition Tamarod group, which was behind Sunday's protests that saw millions in the streets calling on Morsi to resign, hailed the army for siding with the people.
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Feel like having a drink tonight but can't decide between a beer and a cocktail? Why not have both? Adding a cold one to your evening tipple is a great way to discover a whole new world of mixology. Beer cocktails go far beyond the savory Michelada -- a mellow lager can cut sweetness, while a hoppy or sour ale adds a kick of flavor.
Whether you're a die-hard beer fan or cocktail aficionado, one of these five hopped-up libations is sure to hit the spot. (Want more recipes and articles like this in your inbox? Subscribe to today.)
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This week has showcased the need for a spotlight on the money overwhelming our democracy, as reform groups, investors, state elected officials and more have demanded that Congress and federal agencies do their jobs and make elections transparent to the people voting in them.
First, on Monday morning, organizations and investors gathered to urge the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to require publicly traded companies to disclose contributions when they engage in electoral politics. Then this Thursday, the DISCLOSE Act came up for a hearing in the Senate.
Both SEC rules and congressional action are critical to close the gaping loopholes in our system left by the Citizens United decision and ineffective FEC regulations on the disclosure of political spending.
Polls show the public overwhelmingly supports disclosure. According to a New York Times article on a New York Times/CBS News poll released on October 28, 2010, Americans significantly, "favor full disclosure of spending by both campaigns and outside groups."
When it comes to investors, it is the job of the SEC to pull them out of the dark and create a rule on political spending. In his opinion in Citizens United, Justice Anthony Kennedy incorrectly stated that shareholders would be in the know on political spending, but there's actually no mechanism to give them the information. This is particularly troubling because companies can now give unlimited amounts to nonprofits and trade groups playing in elections that don't have to disclose their funders. Groups on both the right and left, like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Crossroads GPS, and Priorities U.S.A. can now receive unlimited gifts from companies without the knowledge of the corporation's investors.
A company's political spending is relevant information to current and potential shareholders who are deciding where to invest their money.
One SEC commissioner, Luis Aguilar, has already said publicly that he would support a disclosure rule. Only two more votes are needed to promulgate a rule via the SEC, and they should quickly move the ball forward on this key disclosure measure.
Another important avenue for disclosure is the subject of this Thursday's hearing, the DISCLOSE Act. Parts of this bill would ensure that citizens know on a timely basis the identities of the large donors that fund tax-exempt organizations spending money on elections. The legislation would also fix the problem of untimely disclosure of the donors to super PACs supporting presidential candidates, instead giving the public information in time to act on it.
The slow super PAC disclosure problem was highlighted sharply in the Republican primaries, when the disclosure of most of the super PAC donors didn't even happen until after the pivotal Iowa caucus and New Hampshire, South Carolina and Florida primaries were long over.
This bill is practical, problem-solving and popular.
Opposition to either the DISCLOSE Act or a new rule-making on disclosure at the SEC in the face of overwhelming public support can only mean one thing: the opponent thinks that large donors should be hidden from the American people and we should forget about spotlights on spending.
Lisa Gilbert is the Deputy Director of Congress Watch.
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What a speech. It was warm and persuasive and smart, and only a troll like Dick Morris could have failed to be moved when she talked about her commitment to the working folks of America. And yes, while Hillary gave a killer speech -- and thank god, maybe now those dreadful PUMAs and their enabler/handler Chris Matthews will slink back to the Rockies where they belong -- there was another fired-up woman last night who rocked the house. And that was Lilly Ledbetter, the scrappy retired Alabama grandmother who sued Goodyear for not paying her the same as her male co-workers so that other American women wouldn't have to suffer as she did. Talk about rising to the occasion.
Tuesday night was supposed to be women's night, in honor of the passage of the 19th Amendment giving women the vote. And while Hillary punched that message hard, and in her flaming orange pantsuit, was vibrant proof of how far women have come in those 88 years -- it was hard not to feel a bit, oh, shall we say, bitter? An unpleasant stab of dissonance.
Yes, Hillary did shatter those 18 million cracks in the glass ceiling in her run for the presidency. Yes, we finally have a female Speaker of the House and several women governors. Pop open the champagne! But in a night that was supposed to celebrate women and their achievements, why the Brotherhood of the Traveling Pantsuits? Why so many men speakers? Where were the fiery Sanchez sisters, for instance, my homegirls from California? Instead we got the bland white-toast Mark Warner and the anti-choice Bob Casey, who managed to weasel his opposition to abortion into the Democratic platform. For a second I felt like I'd stumbled into the wrong convention.
And as Lilly Ledbetter so powerfully reminded us, how smug can women be when 88 years after we got the right to vote, we still don't have the right to equal pay? How is that possible? Ledbetter tried hard to get women that right so they could support their families, so their husbands wouldn't have to work so hard. She didn't do it for herself. She did it because it was fair and it was right. She took her case all the way to the Supreme Court. But those good ole boys on the bench Antonin Scalia and John Roberts and Clarence Thomas didn't think she sued Goodyear quickly enough, even though the company had a strict policy of not divulging employees' salaries -- and she lost. The Senate wouldn't even bring up the Fair Pay Act for a vote. That's how far we've come, baby.
These are the same justices, by the way, that John McCain, without prompting, said during the Saddleback Forum that if it were up to him he would appoint again. So much for being a maverick.
If it wasn't clear by last night, it should be now: John McCain would be a disaster for women. And I don't just mean because of the appalling way he treats Cindy and his total lack of respect for her. Hillary made that point too. "In 2008, he still thinks it's OK that women don't earn equal pay," she said, among other zingers.
Is this any surprise, though, from a man who joked to a crowd of gnarly South Dakota bikers this month that "with a little luck" his wife could be the "only woman to serve as First Lady and Miss Buffalo Chip"? A contest where the entrants parade around topless and in thongs.
Is this what Hillary's supporters truly want rather than equal pay? I hope not.
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High school graduate/GED. Must be able to obtain Q or PQ/RI stamp, if applicable. Ability to comply with FAA regulations and Quality procedures. Ability to pass math and reading assessment.Two (2) years of experience in materials, shipping, receiving, warehouse or stockroom operations. Demonstrated experience in materials coordination. Basic knowledge of computer operation. Capable of working in an automated inventory system.
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Air-Sea Battle is basically a target shooting game. On most settings, you are positioned at the bottom of the screen and you shoot at targets at the top of the screen. The various settings provide different targets and weapons with different characteristics.
In games 1-6, you are an anti-aircraft gun and you shoot, unsurprisingly, at aircraft. You are stationary. Your control is limited to selecting the time of firing, the angle at which your shot is fired and, on some settings, exertion of minor control over the direction of your missile.
In games 7-12, you are a submarine and you shoot torpedoes at the ships above. On these settings you are able to move your submarine back and forth across the bottom of the screen. Your torpedoes, however, can only be fired directly above. Some settings allow minor control over the direction of your torpedo once fired. In games 13-15, you are apparently the anti-aircraft gun again. This time, however, you are shooting at shooting gallery targets (clown faces, ducks, rabbits). The controls are as in games 1-6.
In games 16-18, you are a ship and you fire polaris missiles at jets flying above. Your ship constantly moves on its own, you control only the speed. When you fire, the angle of the missile and its speed are based on the speed your ship was traveling at the time of firing. Some settings restrict your ability to change speed once a missile is fired, others allow you to exert control over the missile by changing speed once the missile is fired.
In games 19-21, the situation is reversed, you are the jet dropping bombs at the ships below. The controls in this setting are the same as in games 16-18. The difference, of course, is that you are dropping bombs from above at targets below.
In Games 22-27, one player is the jet and the other is the ship.
Each of the two player games is a matter of who can hit more targets in (oddly enough) 2 minutes and 16 seconds. (The manual says that the game will also end if one player hits 99 targets. I have yet to see this happen.) In each of the single player games, the single player tries to outscore a computer opponent that simply constantly fires.
Air-Sea Battle Atari 2600 Bombing the numerous boats from above
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Air-Sea Battle Atari 2600 Submarines firing at targets
Air-Sea Battle Atari 2600 There are plenty of targets here!
Alternate Titles
• "Target Fun" -- Sears Tele-Games release
• "Batalha Aero-Naval" -- Brazilian Title
• "Air Sea Battle" -- Alternate spelling
• "02 Air-Sea Battle" -- Title on the end label of original release
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0.020273 | <urn:uuid:87dcc7f2-e0d9-4abc-b33d-e250b2a757fe> | en | 0.954683 | the heat does bring out ill advised tattoos doens it?
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GingerIgnoramus Wed 01-Jul-09 12:27:13
" donna" across her neck
those awful ones on mens calves
SoupDragon Wed 01-Jul-09 13:02:29
I have often toyed with the idea of a few stars somewhere non-visible but have always come down on the side of common sense
RealityIsMyOnlyDelusion Wed 01-Jul-09 13:03:13
I have a huge mitsubishi symbol on my arm to forever remind me that in my teens/twenties I was a druggie raver.
And my ex husband's name emblasoned across my arm to forever remind me of him <urgh>
And a crucifix with daisies on my ankle to forever remind me that I was a bit of a twee, gothy teenager.
And other random bits of ink to forever remind me that I was bit of a twat in my youth.
I pierced my nose for all of three days to piss my mother off before a family party
It worked very well grin
But it healed nicely afterwards so was in essence reversible
watsthestory Wed 01-Jul-09 13:05:49
VinegarTits Wed 01-Jul-09 13:06:17
It brings out hideous bits of flesh, never mind just tatoos, i saw some horrenous arms and legs in Morries at lunch time
BettyTurnip Wed 01-Jul-09 13:12:15
I bet some people would have that done to their babies if they could.
NorbertDentressangle Wed 01-Jul-09 13:15:48
I can't get over the very obvious badly "self-done" or "done by a mate" tattoos that you see on view.
I recently stood in a queue next to a woman who had the names of about 8 children/grandchildren (?) down her arm. They were very badly done, as if written by different people, no particular type-face etc.
If you are going to have a permanent tattoo at least make it a good quality one FFS.
VinegarTits Wed 01-Jul-09 13:16:56
I dont mind tats, i prefer to see them on show that some mans skinny white legs in shorts, with hairy fat belly bulging out of a t-shirt
bleh Wed 01-Jul-09 13:22:26
I agree VT. I also like tattoos on people's lower backs which you see poking out at the same time as their thong and half their a*se. That's class, right there.
VinegarTits Wed 01-Jul-09 13:23:42
i think they are called 'tramp stamps'
TrinityRhino Wed 01-Jul-09 13:25:10
I have my husbands name across my chest surrounded by haerst and stars. It s quite big but I think its pretty.
TrinityRhino Wed 01-Jul-09 13:25:28
NOT grin
diedandgonetodevon Wed 01-Jul-09 13:28:27
It is nasty. I was at a ball last weekend and there was a lady in a backless evening gown. Looked lovely from the front but when she turned round she had a HUGE tattoo of a lady giving a devil a blow job shock. Truely vile.
ShowOfHands Wed 01-Jul-09 13:30:20
My mother wants my dd's birth date tattooed on her back inside a sun. Lord above knows why. Actually nothing against tattoos and would quite like one on my foot but I think my mother's having some kind of crisis. She has never liked them at all. Dad thinks they need to up her HRT before she starts on the piercings.
notyummy Wed 01-Jul-09 13:32:59
My DH says its even worse in the US. He has worked a lot with the US military and used to go to hot/sandy places, go to the shared swimming pool and see these attractive fit young women from in their bikinis completely covered in tatts. Put him right off his perving grin
RealityIsMyOnlyDelusion Wed 01-Jul-09 13:33:05
Ooh, ooh, I have a tramp stamp too!
Sheeta Wed 01-Jul-09 13:33:48
I have some beautiful tattoo's, you horrible lot grin
they're all in places that you wouldn't be able to see though
giantkatestacks Wed 01-Jul-09 13:36:05
Mmm Wilbur which common was this gorgeous betatted man on? [gets stalky hat on - not deerstalky hat mind, much too hot in this weather]
VinegarTits Wed 01-Jul-09 13:41:05
Sorry Reality, didnt mean to offend you, i had never heard them called that until that vile hairy boke off Big Brother said it in a conversation with Noirin the other night (i hate him, i hope he falls into a lawn mower and gets that vile pony tail chopped off) i would never say it myself
giantkatestacks Wed 01-Jul-09 13:42:59
VT lol at vile hairy boke maybe it should have been vile hairy boak though grin
cyteen Wed 01-Jul-09 13:43:35
As someone who loves (and has) good quality tattoos, I agree that the sunshine does seem to bring the worst, most badly-executed and ill-judged ink to the surface. It just proves how many shit tattooists there are out there, and how many idiots people are willing to pay them
LaurieFairyCake tiny tattoos don't show the detail especially well and since ink spreads over time any detail in a really small tattoo tends to get lost. Anil Gupta is someone who specialises in detailed miniatures but I've never really seen the point myself.
RealityIsMyOnlyDelusion Wed 01-Jul-09 13:46:12
S'alright, Vinny grin
<sobs quietly>
giantkatestacks Wed 01-Jul-09 13:46:52
[slight hijack] cyteen - have you had any done in london - am thinking of another myself and was looking for a recommendation - curiously there isnt a tattoo shop review area on MN grin
VinegarTits Wed 01-Jul-09 13:47:44
grin giantkate, he is a vile boak indeed
Iklboo Wed 01-Jul-09 13:47:49
I saw a few ^lovely' ones t'other day:
Tweetie Pie smkoing a spliff
Mam & Dad Colin (I'm not making that up)
Axle Ross (I hope she meant Axel Rose)
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Rare map dealer Edward Smiley admits to stealing millions of dollars worth of rare maps from libraries around the country.
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Talk about a mapquest. Edward Forbes Smiley III pleaded guilty this week. Mr. Smiley is a map dealer, esteemed among collectors and libraries for locating rare and valuable maps. His secret? He stole them. Mr. Smiley told a federal court in New Haven on Thursday that he stole 97 antique maps over the past seven years, from libraries and collections in New Haven, Boston, New York, Houston, Chicago, and London. The maps are worth more than $3 million.
Mr. Smiley was arrested last June when a surveillance video captured him removing a map from Yale University's Rare Book Library. Police found his Exacto knife on the floor, though he says the knife had nothing to do with that day's theft. Wormholes convicted him. Tiny wormholes on the map exactly matched the books that had contained them. The rarest map he took was a 1524 drawing of the New World by the conquistador Hernan Cortes. Now, that's a map you won't find next to the Slim Jims at a truck stop.
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Saltos de línea: cor¦don
Pronunciación: /ˈkɔːd(ə)n
Definición de cordon en inglés:
1A line or circle of police, soldiers, or guards preventing access to or from an area or building: the crowd was halted in front of the police cordon
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• Following the discovery, police threw a cordon round the area and set up a 24-hour guard to protect the site.
• Soldiers forming a cordon around the police station became involved, and a wall was demolished by a British tank as they struggled to ‘collect’ the men, the MoD said.
barrier, line, column, row, file, ranks, chain, ring, circle;
informal crocodile
2A fruit tree trained to grow as a single stem.
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• Somebody recently showed me five different varieties of apples on cordons (single stems grown at 45 degrees to the ground) against a 4ft featherboard fence.
• Vines are generally cordon or single Guyot trained.
• Specimen half-standard fruit trees can be grown as features in the lawn or borders, and mini upright cordons can be grown individually, in small plantations in the borders or in pots for the patio.
3 Architecture A projecting course of brick or stone on the face of a wall.
[with object] (cordon something off) Volver al principio
Prevent access to or from an area or building by surrounding it with police or other guards: the city centre was cordoned off after fires were discovered in two stores
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• A large area surrounding the house has been cordoned off by police tape.
• People living nearby were woken with the news at around 3am and the area was cordoned off by police tape.
• The crews were at the scene for four hours and the area was cordoned off as police and fire investigation officers began an examination the scene.
late Middle English (denoting an ornamental braid): from Italian cordone, augmentative of corda, and French cordon, diminutive of corde, both from Latin chorda 'string, rope' (see cord). sense 3 of the noun, the earliest of the current noun senses, dates from the early 18th century.
Words that rhyme with cordon
Auden, broaden, Gordon, Hordern, Jordan, warden
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How do I find the length of a string?
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Contributed by vroom on Jan 11, 2000 at 23:27 UTC
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Answer: How do I find the length of a string?
contributed by vroom
length($string) returns the number of characters in a string.
$foo = "quux"; $foolen = length $foo; # in this case, 4
Answer: How do I find the length of a string?
contributed by w-ber
Since Perl 5.6, Perl has had Unicode support, which manifests itself as UTF-8 encoded strings. If you want to find out how many characters a string has, simply use length($string). It just works.
However, if, for some reason, you need to find out how many bytes a string uses (which may be different from how many UTF-8 characters the string has):
use bytes; my $len = bytes::length($string);
Unless you know what you are doing, better steer clear of the latter. Use the former. (See perlunicode for more information.)
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Replumbing of university halts flow of money down the drain
PUBLISHED : Saturday, 21 November, 2009, 12:00am
UPDATED : Saturday, 21 November, 2009, 12:00am
Normally when people finish washing their hands, the water simply goes down the drain.
But at a Hong Kong university it is being collected, treated and used for irrigation by a system that the developers say could be useful in rural areas where water is scarce.
City University of Hong Kong has invested HK$2.6 million on a recycling system that can turn 70 metric tonnes of grey water - from washing and showers but not from toilet flushing - into clean water every day.
The output roughly equals the daily water consumption of 500 people, making the system the largest in the city.
The investment includes the cost of the recycling system developed by the Productivity Council and installation of pipes to separate the grey water from flushing water.
For the past six months, water from wash basins in 60 toilets and condensation from an air conditioner have been collected and recycled.
The recycled water is used to replace tap water for irrigation, the facilities manager of the Kowloon Tong university, Philip Ling Chi-ming, said. 'We used to rely on underground water for irrigation, but there's less of it since the neighbourhood was developed,' he said. Festival Walk is one of the recently developed landmarks in the area.
The cost of operation, including chemicals, electricity and consumables, is HK$1.50 per cubic metre and the university saves about HK$500 a day because it does not have to pay water and sewage charges for 70 tonnes of water.
The Productivity Council did research for two years before the system's installation at the university, the council's principal consultant of environmental management, Dr Anthony Ma Yiu-wa, said.
Like other treatment systems, the process uses micro-organisms to decompose organic matter in the waste water.
But this system uses folded boards in the tank that encourage more rapid multiplication of the tiny bugs.
Ma suggested the system could be useful for venues outside the city centre where water supply is scarce, such as camp sites and resorts.
University campuses, sports grounds and swimming pools, which have more space and a lot of shower facilities, are also possible sites for installation.
Daily savings
The operating cost of the system is about HK$1.50 per cubic metre of water
The saving to the university in not having to pay water and sewage charges on 70 tonnes a day is, in HK dollars: $500
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Baxter and Rosella's Glorious Weekend
By Coldcase187
Baxter Klein stared blankly at his iPhone.
"What?" The voice called out from behind him.
Startled, he turned and saw his wife, Tammy, standing at the door.
"Debbie hung up on me," he said, holding up the phone.
"Teenagers," Tammy said.
Baxter grunted.
Tammy crossed the room and gave his shoulders a gentle squeeze. "Don't worry, she's still daddy's little girl." Then, she said, "I'm just about packed. You want anything before I leave?"
"No. I'm good. Enjoy the spa. God knows you've earned it."
Tammy left the room and was soon busing herself getting the last of her things together for the big weekend with the girls. Baxter supposed women needed that sort of thing now and then. Isn't that what Debbie had echoed when she called home from college asking for more money?
"Dad, all the other girls get weekly facials." Debbie wailed dramatically into the phone. "And Jessie gets her hair blown out every week."
Why would someone pay to have their hair blow dried? It made him tired just thinking about it. Looking for a distraction, he booted up his computer and checked to see if there were any movies worth downloading. Nothing. He sighed. Baxter was a man who was easily bored and he still had the remainder of the evening ahead of him. What does a thirty-eight year old married guy do when he has a night to himself? And how pathetic was it that he had no clue?
Although he would admit this to no one, lately Baxter wondered if he might be on the verge of a midlife crisis. The thing was, Baxter had gotten Tammy pregnant when she was seventeen. By eighteen they were married, struggling, teenage parents. In another life, they'd be living in poverty, but thanks to luck, timing, and the sale of a website he developed in the nineties, they were living comfortably on high-tech ideas long since forgotten.
When Debbie was in high school, Baxter had been the hip-dad. Never much of a heartthrob in school himself, he came into his looks in his thirties. He hit the gym, filled out his clothes, kept his full head of sandy brown hair and attracted the attention of girls that wouldn't have given him a second glance in his youth.
Tammy thought it was amusing and, secretly, she was flattered to be married to the best looking man on the block. Although she was also studious in school, she had been pretty and her friends were surprised when she ended up with the class nerd. Later, after her geek turned millionaire, their tune changed. The thought made her smile every time she saw their envious faces across the soccer field at Debbie's games.
Today, Baxter was a bored man. A six-foot-one, handsome, well off, fellow with a boyish grin and pleasant personality, who, if asked how he was doing would say "fine" but would really be thinking, "something is missing." He just wasn't sure what.
As he thought about what to do with his evening, he allowed his mind to wander. He thought about his friend Kevin, who would want to watch a movie about war or sports. Pass. Then, there were Rick and Suzie, said as one, rickensuzie, because that is what they had become. Hang with Rick, and you must also hang with chain smoking, swearing, semi-sober Suzie. Pass. Thoughts of Suzie, with her tasteless wife beaters and too tight jeans, led him back to his wife and their sex life. He loved Tammy, but their lovemaking was vanilla. Always had been. He supposed anyone who had their wedding staring down the barrel of a shotgun would have the same complaint, for how was one to know what one needed or expected from a sexual partner at seventeen? He wasn't even sure he knew now. This was something he carried heavy ?Tammy was the only woman he ever slept with.
As if angered by this reality, he raised himself from his chair with a start knocking it backward. He set the furniture right and decided he needed to get out of the house for a while. But where to go? He certainty was not going to go to a bar with a bunch of twenty year olds and look like an idiot.
That left staying at home or going to the bookstore. Neither option thrilled him. He glanced toward the kitchen and thought about making himself an espresso. At that, he remembered a new café that had opened up in San Jose. It was a little place off First Street that served cappuccino by day and Irish coffee by night. Baxter wasn't a drinker, however her knew the addition of sprits was likely to draw an older crowd whilst the absence of beer would repel the twenty-something's. Sounded perfect.
Part one - Delicious Morsels Were on Offer
The café was a bit more crowded than expected, but he lucked out and, just as he was entering, a couple was leaving, providing him with a table in the corner right next to the window. The place was small but not cramped and had an Italian flair that was not over done. After ordering a cappuccino and cannoli at the counter, he settled back into his table and began typing some code into his computer. It was a good idea to get out, he decided. No distractions. Just a quiet setting and, in a few moments, refreshments. What more could a man ask for?
He heard a clearing of the throat, followed by a timid, "Excuse me?"
Without looking up from his quick typing, Baxter Klein said, "Thanks. You can just put it there. I'd also like an ice water, please."
No movement. "Um. Sir?"
He looked up. In front of him was a young woman, dressed like in the upscale casual garb of a Bay Area student. She appeared to be just under eighteen. Definitely not working here. Her arms were full of textbooks. He looked at her, trying to place where he had seen her before, and came up blank.
He asked, "Are you a friend of Debbie's?" She seemed a bit young for Debbie, but you never knew with kids these days.
"My daughter." When she gave him a blank expression, he said, "Can I help you with something?"
"Um, all the tables are taken? I was hoping I could sit here with you?"
Oh for pity's sake. Where were manners today? Not to mention a healthy sense of boundaries.
"Fine." He motioned for her to sit down and then made a show of working so she wouldn't be tempted to talk to him. Only after she settled in and put her books all over the place did the waiter finally bring his cappuccino and pastry, which now barely fit on the table.
She got up, ordered her coffee and a cherry Danish the size of a Frisbee, came back, and introduced herself. He supposed she thought that was necessary. It wasn't. He looked up. She was smiling. And drop dead gorgeous. Why was he being such an ass? Here he finally goes out and the first person who talks to him, a perfectly nice young lady, and he's an ass. He really needed to get out more.
She told him her name was Rosella Garcia and she was fifteen. That surprised him, as he had pegged her at seventeen, if not eighteen. She was in her first year of high school. He introduced himself as Baxter Klein, worked in high-tech, lives in Saratoga. She said that was nice and twirled a piece of curly caramel colored hair around her index finger.
"You have a daughter?" She asked.
"Yes. I thought maybe you were one of her friends. Her name's Debbie and she's a freshman at Wellesley."
"Where?" More hair twirling.
"Oh." Rosella squinted almond shaped, aloe colored eyes as if inspecting him and said, "You don't look old enough to have a kid who's in college."
Baxter laughed. "I get that a lot."
"People tell me I look older." She said, throwing back her shoulders slightly and holding up her chin. Baxter considered this for a moment, taking in the dimples, the figure. Rosella looked enough for Playboy, young enough that he was embarrassed to have considered the naughty qualification. The young girl's olive-colored face still carried the smallest trace of post pubescent baby fat and her high-pitched girlish voice betrayed her true age despite her efforts to appear grown-up.
To compliment her, because he thought it was what she wanted to hear, he said, "I can see that. You seem mature."
She giggled. He shook his head. Teenagers.
Rosella asked him what he was working on and he explained it, at first giving a basic version and then, after it was apparent that she knew far more about web programming than he imagined, a detailed version. He was surprised to find that, although she might not have looked it, the girl was advanced for her years. He felt a little regret at having been so rude and was happy that he had not blown this chance to have a conversation with someone other than his sports-trivia-obsessed friends for once.
They both heard a noise and looked out of the window to see that it had started to rain. Heavily. The girl marveled at the storm and wondered about how many accidents there would be on the roads tonight. Baxter laughed at this and told her about his visits to customers in Chicago. There they wouldn't even close the schools for a foot of snow, let alone rain. He couldn't imagine they'd blink at this.
"Not here," Rosella laughed, "We can't handle it. Remember that storm in November? The cop exiting 880 near Milpitas?" Rosella leaned back in her chair and took a massive bite of her pastry, the cherry jelly outlining her plump lips. "It was raining and he totally over shot the exit on McCarthy Blvd. Ran his car right off the bridge and over the other side. It was a mess!"
Baxter smiled.
Twenty minutes later it was still raining and the café was closing up. Baxter was surprised to find that he had been there all night and even more surprised to note that he had a good time.
"Where are you parked?" He asked.
She laughed. "Fifteen, remember? I don't drive. I'm supposed to be sleeping over at a friend's house on Bird Avenue. We got into a fight, which is why I was at the cafe to begin with. I guess I'll call her and can see if she'll come and get me." Rosella began digging through a cavernous rainbow colored bag garishly decorated with little Ls, Vs, and happy-faced flowers. "Oh shit. Forgot my cell..."
"I can ride you over there," Baxter said, surprised at his friendliness.
Rosella looked him over, taking in his threads and demeanor. He had a teenage daughter and he was probably rich too. Wearing Tods loafers. Rosella's dad got a pair last Christmas and they were five hundred dollars. And these looked like they were the guy's casual shoes. Yeah, he's tame. Her parents would have her head if they knew she was even considering taking a ride, but it wasn't like she was hooking up with a drunken frat boy. This guy looked like her parents' friends, and she took rides from her parents' friends all the time.
"Sure," Rosella said, "That would be cool."
They walked across rain soaked street and Baxter hit a button on his key chain to deactivate his car alarm. BMW seven series. Score, Rosella thought. He is rich. She regarded him with fresh perspective and wondered how old he really was. He said his daughter was a college freshman, but she didn't see how he could be even close to forty. Her father was forty-five and Baxter looked a good ten years younger. And, he was hot. Reminded her of the guy who played Bat Man in the movie that had just came out. Not Heath, the other guy...Christian Bale, that's it. Only Baxter's hair was longer and his presence pleasingly approachable. Softer than any celebrity's. But with a hard body. Much finer than that idiot Antoine, who was dreaming if he thought he was going to get in her pants.
"You want to listen to music?" Baxter asked her.
"What have you got?" She asked him.
He smiled, "Everything."
Baxter drove down First Street toward Bird Avenue. Rosella was stretched out on the beige leather. For the first time that evening, he noticed that she was wearing a short skirt. Juicy Couture. Debbie had the same one. On Rosella, the fitted, charcoal mini fell to mid-thigh and exposed bare, sun-kissed, legs. She had paired it with a fitted, hot pink, Ed Hardy t-shirt emblazoned with a rhinestone studded, smiling skull. He wondered if everyone in her age group collaborated on their shopping excursions. She crossed her legs causing the skirt to ride up higher. He put his eyes back on the road. Rosella placed a hand on his leg. He didn't move it away. Silently, he hoped that she didn't notice the subtle stirring beneath his trousers.
Although he had driven at a deliberately slow pace, in a couple minutes they were at the Bird Avenue stop light. He turned left and now the two strangers had a quick decision to make. Straight ahead and to the right was the on ramp to 280 North ?the way home for Baxter. To the left, side streets snaking down seedy streets tucked away behind San Jose's business district. Her friend's neighborhood.
Baxter turned to Rosella and asked, "Which way?"
She looked back at him, smiled and said, "Forward."
He hit the gas.
The steering wheel was wet under his hands. He tried not to show it. This was nuts. He was in his car with a teenage girl. He imagined he was bringing her home. His mind told him absurd lies that in no time she would give him directions to her place. That the obviously young girl clad in designer clothes, carrying a thousand dollar bag and resentment toward her friend, didn't live in her friend's ghetto neighborhood. And, fifteen-year-old girls didn't go home with thirty-eight year old men. No, any minute now, the brat would tell him to get off the exit to Saratoga, but it would be another street, another large house, her house, that would be their destination. These were the lies that he told himself all the way home.
Sooner than he could have expected, they were in the home he shared with his wife and daughter. Baxter excused himself for a moment, ostensibly to let the dog out, but in reality to give himself a moment to collect his thoughts. When he came back Rosella complimented him on the house. He said nothing. What was he supposed to say?
Finally, he asked, "What can I get you to drink?"
"How about coffee and Bailey's?" Rosella said, trying to sound sophisticated.
"Sorry, no liquor in the house."
Rosella leaned back against the black granite counter top and pushed out her chest, just a bit, "Come on, it's just us." She moved toward him. "Who cares?"
Baxter didn't move away. He said, "I'm not your father, Rosella, and I don't care if you drink alcohol. I just don't have any. I don't drink."
She stopped cold as if he had just said, I don't eat. "Really?" She said. And then, cautiously, "Twelve stepper?"
That evoked a hearty laugh from Baxter Klein, and he stepped closer still. Now there was only one foot between them. Twelve inches. "No. I just don't drink. It's a preference. Not everyone drinks. And no, I'm not an addict."
Baxter looked into directly into her eyes in a way that could not be misinterpreted. She didn't flinch and she returned his gaze. She was bold. He liked that. There was an unmistakable charge in the room and he felt himself getting aroused. This is going to end badly, he thought to himself. A millisecond later he thought, who cares? Rosella lifted herself up on tiptoes and kissed him. Hard. Baxter didn't move away.
Rosella's kiss was delicious and sweet, her lips continuing to meet with his. He placed a hand behind her head and gently pulled her in even closer. When her hands moved around his back to hold him, he exhaled completely, as if relieved. His hands were buried in her ringlet hair pulling her youthful lips to his. She was exquisite.
In concert, their breathing grew heavy, their movements urgent, and as if choreographed, she slipped easily into his arms when he positioned himself to lift her onto the counter. She was so light, probably not even fully grown yet. For a moment, he remembered how young she was and he felt a wave of panic, but it was replaced swiftly with pleasure as the delightful minx threw her head back and giggled playfully. Delicate, manicured hands were at his sides and her legs snaked around him. Nothing he had experienced could compare to the rush of sensation cascading onto him ?all from this wonderful girl. Her legs were parted, allowing him to move in close as he leaned in and continued making out with her like a school boy. Looking down for a moment, he noticed that with her luscious legs spread, her short skirt rode up nearly to her pussy, making the garment useless, but somehow even more sexy than if she were naked. God, she was hot. And baby-sweet. He caught a glimpse of her ivory lace panties and the way they contrasted against her light-mocha skin made him ache.
Gently, without taking a breath from their frantic tongue explorations, he allowed his hands to wander down to her legs and spread them just a little wider, feeling himself strain against his jeans as he did it. She was bewitching and he was helpless, incapable of moving away from her. His breathing heavy he said simply, "Rosella." as he continued to explore the delicious region of her upper thighs. She moaned with pleasure as he gently massaged her rounded hips, slowly moving his hands upward. He didn't dare move his hands inward. How far could he go with this girl? For a moment, he opened his eyes. His head was positioned so that he could see her cleavage straining against the fitted t-shirt. Such wonderful breasts, still so young, still blooming. God, how he longed to take her youthful nipples into his mouth. Could he dare?
She's younger than my daughter, he thought to himself. What am I doing? As if sensing his hesitation, Rosella, moaned softly and nibbled at his earlobe. Then, lifting his face again to hers she kissed him fully, her tongue deep in his mouth, showing off its talent. He moved a hand toward her left breast and hovered beside it, silently asking for permission. Rosella sighed with hot breath, giving it. Even through the cotton T, her breast was magnificent. Precious fifteen year old nipples pointed due north, and he could feel the firm sweetness of her developing b-cup. His hand moved to the bottom of her shirt and up the back. He was against bare skin now. Feeling the small of her back. Soft, untouched skin. He wondered if she had been with other men. Other boys.
"I can't believe I'm here," she said when they took a breath at last.
"Do you regret it?" Baxter was standing in front of her, Rosella's adolescent legs still dangling off the counter top on either side of him. Her arms behind her for balance.
A playful smile creped across her lips. "No. I like it here."
Baxter said, "I like you." And he leaned in to kiss her neck before slowly moving down to her collarbone. "You're so beautiful." His hands moved over her body as she allowed him navigate her curves freely. His breathing was heavy and he wondered how long he could stand this. In one moment he wanted to move forward, in another he was scared to death. In a compromise with his soul, his left hand reached down to her panties tentatively moving them an inch to the side. To his eternal surprise, she didn't protest. He didn't dare look her in the eye. God. Her pussy lips were wet! He was feeling this fifteen year old's moist pussy. He could barely comprehend it. Just the thought was nearly enough to make him feel like he was going to explode. His finger moved slowly around her opening. She was tiny. Smaller than he imagined. Silently, he mapped the outlines of her cunt, trying to imagine how tiny her pinkish prize must be. Wondering how he would even fit into this treasure. When he moved to her little rosebud, she gasped and moved her legs together a bit. He looked at her questioningly.
She said, "I've never let a boy touch down there."
This shocked and excited Baxter. He had been his wife's first, but she was already sixteen when they met and seventeen when they first went this far with each other. He had never experienced the wonders of a fifteen-year-old girl. In truth, he had never allowed himself to consider the possibility.
"I'll be gentle," He said, because he wasn't sure what else to say. She nodded and opened for him. His finger delved into her slit finding her hole once again, this time moving a bit inside. Again she gasped, but allowed him entry. He pushed in a little further.
"How's that?"
She said nothing, but she spread her legs a little wider and she kissed him hard on the mouth. It was as if she wanted to fully embrace the feeling and block out everything but their moment of shared passion. That was fine with Baxter and he allowed himself to fall into her and he worked his finger into the tightest cunt he could have dreamed up. She was clamping down on him and it felt wonderful. She closed her eyes and leaned back, still sitting up on the counter but giving license to his hand to move freely in and out of her. Each time, he went in a little further as she got wetter and wetter, lubricating him nicely. God, this girl is a natural, he thought. Only fifteen and she's letting me finger fuck her on my kitchen table!
He realized at that moment that he loved playing with her. With new appreciation, he regarded the girl. Perfect, flawless skin. Lips to die for. Ringlet hair that spilled down over her shoulders to a blossoming chest. Willing legs spread akimbo allowing him free entry to her virgin cunt. And what a cunt it was! He could see it now, as he moved in and out. So modest, yet holding his finger like a vice. A blush-pink budding flower for his taking. Her eyes slowly opened as he stood back from her and she began to speak. But, he didn't want this wonderful moment to end so, with consideration, he motioned for her to stay silent. Sitting upright, she watched him intently as he continued his fingering without taking his eyes off hers. It was so sexy, moving in and out of her snug little snatch all while staring into her wondrous eyes, a silent conversation happening between them. How far would she let him go? He pulled out and added another finger, moving slow as he entered. She grimaced, registering pain, but said nothing. God, that was so sexy. She was taking him in. Just sitting there, letting him move his fingers slowly in and out, a little further each time. As he moved further in, she'd wince, but not stop him. She must be hurting, at least a bit, he thought to himself and wondered if he should stop. She looked at him pleadingly, so he gave her just a couple more finger thrusts before taking his wet fingers out of her opened hole. "Thank you," he whispered. "That was wonderful." He stroked her hair and held her to him. She didn't resist. "Let's go into the next room and get a little more comfortable." Rosella smiled.
Effortlessly, he picked up the girl, who couldn't have weighed more than a hundred and ten pounds and brought her into the family room. At first he had considered bringing her to the bedroom, but figured that might freak her out. Better to take things slow. Just off of the kitchen, the family room was small but comfortable and the room used most often when entertaining company. Like the kitchen, it had a large bay window that looked out on to the front lawn. Inside the bay area was a sofa that ran the length of the room. Baxter's wife had had it custom made and it was the most comfortable sofa in the house, even though, to look at it, one would think it was nothing more than a bench built into a window. Across from the sofa-bench were long tables and across from them a plasma television and bookcases, which were built into the wall. Still clothed, Rosella laid back on the sofa-bench and looked up at Baxter.
Slowly and deliberately, he lifted her shirt over her arms, exposing a lacy bra that matched her panties. He removed it. God, she was lovely. He kissed her neck and moved down to her pink nipples, which were erect, perfect circles. He breathed in and sighed in appreciation. Slowly he licked the first one, taking his time. He removed his own shirt and then went for his pants, which had become unbearable. His relief at freeing his swollen cock was palpable. Rosella's eyes grew wide and he wondered if his was the first penis she had seen.
As he approached, she shifted herself up slightly moving just out of his reach. This made him chuckle a bit and he remembered the couch acrobatics of his youth. But he was too old for these games tonight. His hand on her shoulder grew firm, not hurting her, but no longer allowing her to wiggle away. His other hand moved and, at last, his cock grazed the soft hairs of her cunt. He kissed her and she said, "Baxter, I can't"
That made him open his eyes a little wider and he asked, "Why not?"
Rosella said, "I've never gone this far with a boy."
"Oh," Baxter smiled, feeling relieved, "Is that all?" His cock burrowed into the curly hairs. Excited by knowing that he was the first man to fuck the young girl. God, how tight she must be.
"No, I mean it." Rosella said, with more urgency in her voice.
Baxter didn't know what it was, but something in her voice. The way it quivered. The subtle transformation from promiscuous teen to frightened girl, perhaps. He wasn't sure. But something, in that moment, made her even more alluring, and he knew at that moment that he had to have her. Even though she was holding out, he knew this little Lolita must be a slut at heart. After all, she did go home with a total stranger. And one twice her age at that.
He leaned in and whispered in her ear, "I need you."
He moved down and began kissing her nipples again finding them even sweeter than they had been earlier in the evening. She moaned with pleasure as his cock ached for her.
"I shouldn't." She whispered.
"Shhhh," he said, knowing she would regret this, but allowing his desire to be first considered. Using his hand, he reminded her how good it felt to have his finger inside her. Rosella was kissing him now and he accepted those kisses gratefully as his fingers danced on the outside of her virgin clit. No man or boy had touched this beauty. She was trembling. He rubbed her gently, knowing she would be sensitive. Not like women his age, who had been touched for years, and used to receiving pleasure. To Rosella, her body was still uncharted territory even to her. Still, as he moved his finger lightly along the side of her small, firm, clit, she instinctively moved against him. Again, he was pleased to find that she was moist and so tiny. And an obvious virgin. She was telling the truth, he knew. How had he gotten so lucky? As he worked her over once again with his fingers, he knew he would not last long once he got inside of her. In and out, in and out, he probed the young girl whilst sucking on her stunning nipples. He told her to relax. She did and found that she was able to move into him. Slowly, she got into it and before long she was sliding onto him in a nice rhythm.
"That's it, Rosella."
With his thumb, he lightly massaged the hood of her clit, giving her enough pressure to get her off, but not more than the teen old could handle. She arched her back a bit, fully getting into it now, loving the sensations of being fingered and having her nipples sucked. Only fifteen. And her first time. But she was a natural. Her still growing, unblemished body moved perfectly giving him a lovely preview of what he could expect from her later. She put a sweaty hand up against the window and another gripped the cushion as she began to have her first orgasm.
"Oh God.. This feels so... oooooo....."
Faster he massaged the young girl's pussy lips up to her clit and watched with wonder as the lovely cunt wetly took his finger. Soon it would accept his dick.
"That's it. Come for me baby..."
"ooooooo yeeessssss." He felt her whole body shake in orgasm and he leaned into kiss her.
"God, that was so sexy," he said.
She looked up at him dreamily. Lost in pleasure. He knew this was his moment. Now, while she was still in afterglow. While her eyes were barely open, and before she could say anything, he was pushing up against her still lubricated, virgin cunt.
"No," she started to protest, but he was too quick and already moving. Before he lost his nerve, Baxter put one hand on his cock and the other on the girl and navigated his way through the small slit to her prize. Damn, she was small. He had to be more forceful than he planned and he found himself pressing hard into her just go get the head in.
"Oww... That hurts. Stop." Her hands were pushing up against him, trying to fight him off.
"Oh, God. Rosella. I'm already inside!" She felt wonderful! "Fuck, oh fuck."
Straining against the adolescent hands that were fighting him, Baxter pushed down on the sofa. It was challenging to get his cock inside of her, but each thrust was pure ecstasy. He grunted as he pushed his way in deeper forcing her to take more of him. Erect he was eight inches, which had always been pleasing to his wife, but he knew he would be painful to this young girl. My god, he thought, I am raping this kid. And, suddenly, he was even harder, if that was possible.
He looked at her and saw that she was crying, "Please stop." But she was also loosening up, her virgin cunt opening around him.
"Fuck me, baby."
The girl was so hot, her skirt still on and hiked up to her waist, the lace panties pushed to the side adding friction against his dick. She was crying and he knew his response should be empathy, but she looked like a porn star and the overall effect just made him want to fuck her harder. So he did.
She dug her nails into his back and a jolt ran through him. Now he was pounding on her. Letting it all out. Enjoying her. Slamming into her. Letting her take all of him up to the balls. Rosella Garcia was moaning.
"That's it baby," he said, "Fuck me."
"Oh shit." She said.
"You like it?"
She moaned.
He moved into her hard, amazed and impressed at her ability to take his eight inch cock so willingly into her little snatch on its first time. Her ass was firm and she was so light she was practically bouncing off of the cushion gingerly as he assailed her.
Baxter flung her flexible legs up over his shoulder allowing him to pierce deeper into the girl. His body made an arch and drove against her girlish hips. It felt so good inside of her. Knowing he was smashing up against her small curled up body. It made his blood flow faster.
He asked "Does it hurt?"
And he knew this was true. There were still some tears forming at the corners of her almond shaped eyes. Her perfect eyebrows furrowed together, giving evidence to her physical suffering.
"But it's good?"
She didn't answer. He kept going. Harder. Almost violently. He voiced the fantasy he had kept pent up for so long, "I want to fucking hurt you good. Oh, God, Rosella," still pounding on the young girl with his forty year old muscular body, "Let me go just a little longer, OK?"
To his surprise she squeaked in anguished whisper, "Okay..."
He couldn't believe that she willing to take him even as he forced himself upon her. Her sweet baby face registering the agony and accepting him fully. Continuously he crashed into her, wanting to go deeper, falling into her eyes. Loving the consensual suffering.
"I'm going to fucking come in you now."
"Oh God..." the young girl said.
And that's all it took.
"Yeeeaaahhhhhh.. Fuck, I'm coming?.. Aaahhh.." Baxter shot the biggest hot load he could remember directly into the teen's cunt filling her up. He wondered briefly if she was on birth control and guessed that as a young teenage virgin she likely wasn't, but still he couldn't stop. It felt wonderful. He was spasming, his cum shooting directly inside. He decided to pump her full and kept going, giving her everything he could. His dick growing super sensitive as it became covered in its own juices. At last, he pulled out slowly. He looked down and saw his cum starting to leak out of her tiny opening. She was lying back with her eyes closed and he could still see outlines of where tears fell down her cheeks. Her chest rose and fell in slow, exhausted motion. Her legs were still bent at the knees and slightly spread apart. When he put his finger inside her to feel his cum she didn't flinch. She felt warm and beautiful.
"I want to fuck you all weekend." He said, knowing it was an outrageous request considering he had just raped the shit out of this kid. And yet, she said, "Sure."
Part Two - Through Windows We Wandered
Completely spent, they lay together on the cushions in spoon formation, too lazy and tired to move. Baxter put his arm over Rosella's shoulder and lightly cupped her breast before falling into a deep sleep. Just before drifting off, he thought to himself how alive he felt. How thrilling it was to have this young woman in his arms. How he had been dead for the last two decades of his life and he didn't even know it.
Sometime around three AM Rosella stirred and Baxter felt her move against him. She was sleeping soundly and Baxter was amazed to find that he was already aroused. He and his wife had recently fallen into a pattern of weekend sex where he was lucky to get off once or twice a week. Now, here he was having just blown his load into this innocent, young, girl and a mere few hours later and was rock hard again. He lightly caressed her breasts before moving his hand down between her legs. He loved having her in his house and he was determined to fuck her as many times as he could before she went home. The idea of it was driving him crazy and he wondered how many times he would have her before she would go away, back to wherever it is she would go away to. Damn, she was lovely. Younger than his own daughter by two full years. A virgin until this evening.
Rosella was moving against his hand now and moaning just a bit. She was starting to wake up and moved to face him. Instead of allowing her to, Baxter moved his lips to her ear and whispered, "Shh... Don't talk. Just let me take you, please. I need to fuck you." Rosella nodded in acceptance. He could not remember ever being this hard for any other woman, but of course, Rosella wasn't even a woman yet. Baxter used his spit to lubricate his dick and tried to take her from behind. The girl was inexperienced, however, and not sure how to move. The attempts were awkward and he needed to move her around. Finally, he got up on his knees and raised her up to do likewise. Obediently she followed his lead and he pressed her to the window so she was facing away from him. Now, her hands were pressed palm to glass. Her uplifted, perky breasts flat against the pane. Her face kissing the window. Rosella, a splendid fifteen-year-old recently deflowered virgin naked except for a useless miniskirt hiked awkwardly on her hip, was on full display. He was right behind her, ready to enter. And he did. This time, he was able to enter easily.
"Oh, Rosella, this is so hot," Baxter said, fucking the girl against the glass.
Realizing for the first time that they were looking out over the front yard, Rosella began to panic. "Baxter, we can't. Anyone could see."
"Shh... Oh God, you feel good." Baxter was moving in and out of her his hands up on the window on either side of her pushing them both forward.
She made a move to cover herself but Baxter shoved her, hard, back against the window.
He was moving in upward thrusts, each one moving them into the cold glass. The window felt great against his hand and he was in heaven feeling her against him knowing at any moment anyone could see them. In truth, hardly anyone ever drove down his sleepy drive and he doubted anyone would be by that night, but the idea that they might thrilled him. He hadn't planned it, but now that they were there, he had to keep fucking her against the pane. It just looked so hot. Her lithe body pressed flat into the clear glass. Him behind her. Fucking this child. For the world to see.
"Please, Baxter, let's just go to your room."
He moved her skirt up so that it was mid torso and now she was completely exposed. He liked seeing her like that. She was sobbing heartily now and he could feel her convulsions on his dick. "Just like that, baby." he said.
He was fucking her intensely now, and loving the feel of her against the window. As their fucking grew more urgent, Rosella was propelled into the window with more and more force, bouncing against it as she had bounced against the sofa hours earlier. Rosella said, "We're going to break the window." And Baxter said, "It's shatterproof. Installed last year. Won't break. As if to illustrate his point, he took her hair in one hand and, not using too much force, he threw her head into the pane.
Thwack! Her head hit the glass harder than he intended.
"What the fuck?!" she cried.
But instead of feeling regret, he was exhilarated. He did it again, Thwack! The moment her head made contact, he felt his cock spasm as if he was going to come, and it took great effort to hold back. He had never felt anything like this! It was intoxicating! He wasn't sure how much longer he could hold out like this. Rosella's head was in his hands and he had her firm against the window while he was pumping his rock-hard shaft into her with as much force as he could muster. With each thrust, her knees lifted off the bench.
"You're hurting me!"
He knew this was true, but it felt so good. And, after a few more lunges into her he had to do it again. This time he caught a better angle and her head made contact with enough velocity that Baxter wondered if he might break the glass after all. The thought excited him.
"Stop it!" she cried, and a car drove by. Baxter was not sympathetic to her pleas. To the contrary. The potential witness to their copulation had inspired him and he increased the ferocity of their lovemaking. Now, he crashed into her enjoying the dull noise made by her head mixed with her cries as she made contact against the solid surface. Pain shot through her and she felt herself on the verge of passing out. Thwack! He had it right now, and he was able to get deep into her pussy at the same moment her forehead slammed into the window with crashing impact. Rosella's body was growing lax and as she weakened, he found it even easier to slam her into the window at will. It was wonderful. He wondered if he could really break the window if he pushed her hard enough. Now, he wanted to try, so he told her through grunted jabs, "I. Want. You. To. Smash. It." She moaned out a sobbing protest and tried to raise her hands but she was growing disoriented from having her head repeatedly slammed against the window.
Suddenly, he saw lights coming up the road. A car was driving up slowly. Baxter surprised himself by continuing his assault and saying, "I want them to see me fuck you silly."
As the car came toward the house it slowed to a stop and then pulled to the curb. He continued fucking her brutally, overcome with excitement.
"Help!" Rosella cried out.
Baxter whacked her head against the window again and again until she felt herself begin to pass out. As he increased the speed and intensity of the jabs he felt his orgasm begin to swell inside of him. "Oh fuck, I'm going to come!"
She was nearly unconscious and he longed to throw her through the fucking glass. He didn't know why. Even on the edge of passing out, Rosella was moaning, and he was riding her hard right up until he could fill her right hole with his seed again. Over and over he pounded half hoping that the strangers were enjoying the spectacle of his rape of the suffering adolescent. Why not? I'm probably going to jail any way, he thought. Suddenly, a car door opened and the sensation of seeing someone get out overcame him. As hard as he could he grabbed Rosella by the hair with one hand and by the waist with the other. "Please let her go through the fucking thing," he said. Over and over he slammed her head into the window while slamming his hard cock into her pussy. He could see a crack forming in the window, and he felt himself begin to come. Blood oozing into the window-cracks even as his cum was flowing into the girl.
"Oh fuck yeah," he said hitting her as hard as he could into the center of the crack hoping to push her through. Aiming toward the center, his efforts were rewarded, and he saw her head go through just a little as his dick emptied into her aching pussy. "Yeeaaaaah.... Oh, yahhhhh!!!!" God, this was hot. He didn't want it to end. More and more he slammed her into the window, riding his orgasm, letting it come. "Oh yeaaaa....Fuck me Rosella!" But she wasn't answering back. Rosella was alive but not moving as blood moved down her head and on to his hands. It felt magnificent. Finally, as she broke the window, he released the last drops of his cum into her. "Yeaaaaaaa..... oh yeaaaaa." All of his cum shot into her until he was bled dry.
Breathing deeply he looked up and saw the car outside but the people were gone. They hadn't seen him at all, but had gone to a neighbor's house. He felt a huge wave of relief when he realized that he had not been caught or seen after all.
Then he looked down at the girl, who was completely unconscious. She was breathing but bleeding. Some glass had embedded itself in her head and blood was flowing freely into her face and on to him now. He knew he had crossed a line, but couldn't think about it right then. Instead, he carried her upstairs to his room and tied her to the bed. That way, he could clean up the mess in the family room without her escaping. After he had a chance to do that, he would go back to her and figure his way out of the rest of this. Clearly, he had gotten carried away. In the morning, things would be clearer. One thing he knew for sure. He was not going to get charged with rape. Sure the sex was rough, but she had come to his house by her own freewill. Even as he cleaned her blood off of the window and the couch, his mind wandered back to her tight snatch. Right now, up in his bedroom, there was a fifteen year old tied to the bed with his cum leaking out of her cunt. He wondered what he was going to do with her next.
Part 3 - In Morning, We Said Good Bye
By now, it was very late. Or early, as the case may be. Baxter's bedroom was bathed in predawn sunlight giving it a soft orange hue. The girl lay sleeping on the bed, her hands tied by Tammy's scarves to carved Oak bedposts. It was a hasty job, but it would have to do. In this light, she looked angelic, even as she lay bleeding and exposed. He had removed the remains of her clothing and did his best to clean up her wounds, however she had bled during her few hours of sleep and now Scarlett rivers flowed from her temples to the nape of her neck.
Baxter Klein began stroking himself as he watched her and knew he would possess her once again. She was his to use and he was enjoying every bit of her. He leaned in to wake her up and, as he expected, she tried to move against her restraints.
"You're tied up, Rosella." Gazing down at her heavenly body, he added, "I'm going to fuck you again. If you can let me do it without fighting me, afterward we will have some breakfast and then you can go home."
"You're fucking sick." Rosella said, with newfound conviction. "I want to go home!" Without warning he slapped her. Hard. Shocking her into stunned silence. She began to sob.
"It can be pleasant for you." He said.
She continued crying and pleaded with him to let her go. He answered by slapping her again. How satisfying it felt...laying palm against the young girl's radiant cheek. How sensational to see the bitter sting register in her eyes. The redness rising, following his touch.
"I'm going to untie your hands for a moment. If you try anything, I will hurt you. Bad. Tell me you understand so I don't have to hit you again."
Sobbing, she said, "I understand."
Quickly, Baxter freed her from the bed long enough to put her hands behind her back and secure them together using some rope he had kept in the garage. He secured her wrists tight, aroused by the anguished look she gave him as he pulled her arms taut. After securing the girl, he flipped her on her stomach so he could enter her from behind. He loved seeing her this way. Her body shaking with fear and anticipation. He took a moment to appreciate her. In sunlight, her body was just as amazing as it had been the night before. She was shivering now, from the cold morning and anticipation. Wondering what he was going to do with her. Her fright was sexy and he was stirred at the feel of her trembling as he ran his and over her. Her tears were mixing with her blood now and he rubbed them together, "My, you're stunning." he said.
Leaning over her, he grabbed a couple large pillows and put them under her stomach.
"What are you doing?" she asked.
"Just making things easier," he said. "Stay still."
She did. He was getting off on her obeying his commands. He still had no idea why she compliant, and he figured he probably would never learn the reason. That's ok, he figured. He didn't need to know. He would simply enjoy. Using both hands, he spread her legs apart so that she was in doggy position in front of him, propped on the pillows, ass in the air, hands behind her back, face forward.
"Perfect." he said.
Sliding his hand over the sexy small of her back he grabbed her curly hair like a horse's mane and used it to hold his balance and pull her head back toward him giving her body a nice arch. She moved to accommodate him and he held her there by the hair until she could no longer hold her self up. Now, hanging by her hair in his hand she was hurting and lovely. From this angle, he could just barely see her tears as she began to weep.
"Just like that," He said, enjoying her discomfort. With his free hand, he felt her breast and pinched a nipple making it hard. He knew her arms behind her back were giving her extra weight, making the position more agonizing, but she looked so lovely hanging there. He had to enjoy it a moment longer before lowering her back on the pillows. When, at last she was laying forward, he placed first one and then two fingers into her pussy. Even after fucking her all night he was astounded at how tight the young thing was. He slid his fingers in and out, in and out, in an effort to get her wet. When it seemed like she was too scared to become aroused, he spit on his cock guided the head inside her, and, grabbing on to her hair with both hands to steady himself, he forced his cock into her as hard as he could, up to his balls.
"Ow!" She cried, as her neck tried to snap backward.
"You're so tight, Baby. I love screwing you."
"This fucking hurts."
"I know, baby."
Baxter was fucking her good now but this was his third time with her and he longed to know more of her. He let go of her hair and her head fell forward. He stood there for a moment looking at himself buried inside of the teen cunt. She looked so sexy around him that he hated to pull out even for a moment, but he did. Baxter spread her ass cheeks with his fingers and looked at his next destination. It was smooth and untouched. A perfect star-shaped hole ready to fuck. He ran his fingers over her asshole and began rubbing against it.
"What are you doing?"
"I'm going to hurt you a little more, baby."
"No. Please. Don't."
He rubbed her ass; it was a splendid, round, teenage rear without an ounce of extra body fat. The girl was ideal. He spread her apple cheeks and put his hard dick up against her hole. He could tell that getting it in was going to take work. "I don't know how I'm going to get in it there." He said to her.
"Please don't"
He pushed against her, still rock hard, but her sphincter was so tiny he couldn't even get the head in. "Damn. this is really going to hurt you, Rosella."
"Nooo," she pleaded. her tears were flowing liberally now, splashing onto the bed. Ignoring her begging, he put his finger just a tiny way into her ass. "Ow! Ow! Stop!"
Moving his index finger in and out he said, "This is just my finger. You're so small it almost hurts my finger to be inside you. How does this feel to you?'
"It hurts!"
"Oh shit, that's hot. I'm going to push it in deeper now."
"No, please."
He pushed his finger slowly so it was halfway inside. She was sobbing and he could feel her heaving as he was inside. He asked her to describe how she was feeling and she said it felt like she had to go to the bathroom. He knew that was what she was going to say. "Am I going to shit on you?" she wanted to know. He laughed and told her she wasn't. Now, she was accepting his finger and he was able to move it easily in and out as long as he stopped half way. He couldn't believe it. As much as he abused this girl, she was still taking all of it. Even now, as she was bleeding on the bed. Even as he told her how much he wanted to torture her.
He said, "Rosella, I'm going to push in more." She said, "Will I be in pain?" He answered honestly, "Probably a little." And she said, "Ok." It was very hard not to stroke himself to orgasm as she accepted his abuse.
Her canal was narrow and unexplored. His finger ached with the pressure on it, but he was able to get it in all the way to the knuckle. He groaned with pleasure as he finger fucked her ass with deep penetration.
"Does it hurt?"
"I'm ok."
She lay on the pillows, legs and ass spread. Arms tied but not fighting. Accepting his violation of her, once again. Oh, how he loved watching her like this. Such a small girl. She didn't even know him twenty-four hours ago and here she was. He had fucked her. And now he was exploring her ass, watching her naked body, talking to her about how he longed to experience the exquisite sight of her taking as much of him as he could possibly offer up to her in such a short amount of time.
"I'm going to add another finger," he said.
"No. It won't fit!"
"Let's try." Baxter said.
With a deep breath of anticipation, Baxter pulled his index finger out of her and put lotion on both his index and middle fingers. He was going to get them inside the bound girl. He had to. Pushing up against her tiny star, he tried to put in both fingers, but she was so tight. He had to grip her torso to get some leverage. "Owwww! No! No!" Rosella was crying and screaming in pain now, but Baxter was able to push the fingers inside of her. It was tough but he shoved them in. Once inside, he worked her over, moving them in and out. "I love watching you go through this," he said, at last. "Do you know that?" He waited for Rosella's answer as she sobbed under the strain of his assault. Finally, she nodded, affirmatively.
He was pushing his fingers inside of her up to the knuckle now. Her insides were warm and squeezing his fingers together. He knew she was in misery and he rubbed her back as he continued his rape. With each inward motion he moved her against him, trying to get deeper. The poor girl's face was contorted as she processed feelings of fear, embarrassment, and affliction. Still, he kept going at her, watching with happiness as her asshole stretched painfully to accommodate him. Finally he could take it no longer, he needed some release. Baxter Klein wanted to push Rosella Garcia's young body to its limits. See how much it could take. He knew it could take more. "I need you now," he said.
Once again he was positioned behind her and ready to enter. It was still difficult, but he was able to get the head of his penis inside of her. "No! Please!" She yelled. Only his head was inside and Rosella was miserable. Her pubescent body leaned forward, red marks forming around her wrists where her arms strained against the ropes he had tied around her. Even her legs looked tired. Still, he wanted to do more to her. He needed to use her up. She felt so good around his dick. She was clamping down on him hard, and he knew he wasn't going to last long this way. "Oh God, this feels good." He pushed a couple inches inside of her, then out. "Please no..." she cried. But he kept going watching as her asshole was stretched and ripping around his cock. It started to bleed and he welcomed the extra lubrication.
Rosella was bleeding head to ass now because of him. Just thinking of her fully bleeding body made him harder and he took her full force giving her his entire cock. Her scream echoed throughout the house. "NOOOOOO!!!! STOOPPPPP!" The sound of her cry vibrated through him and fueled his passion. Drove him to slam into her again and again. He knew he was ripping her up, but it felt so good, there was no stopping. Both of his hands were back in her hair now and he was riding her like a mare. With her hands behind her back, she was helpless and unable to gain any balance of her own. Her body moving at his will in ways most painful for her.
Again and again he assaulted her magnificent body listening to the luscious soundtrack of her useless appeals for mercy. At first he was enjoying arching her body up, watching her dangle and slam into him. Now, he leaned over her to give himself more leverage so he could smack her over and over giving her the full force of his weight. He was completely over her, pushing her head down on to the bed, thrusting in and out of her ass. Enjoying the fuck. He noticed that her cries were muffled as he pushed her into the pillows in an effort to go deeper into her. This was the best sex he ever had and he didn't want it to end. He had to keep going.
Damn, he loved pushing himself into this girl. Forcing his way into a hole too small to accommodate him, yet now having to. Both of his hands were on her head pushing her down. Between being pushed into the pillows and congested from crying, Rosella was having a hard time breathing. I'm going to kill this girl if I keep fucking her like this, he thought to himself. But she felt so damn hot and he was so close to coming. Just a little longer. God, she was glorious. Her legs were spread wide, not moving as he continued his attack on her virgin ass. His hands were on her head, buried in her hair, pushing her into the soft pillow, slowly silencing her protests. He was going to come like this.
"I can't breathe," he heard her whisper. She was convulsing and the shaking made his cock swell up in pre-orgasmic bliss.
"That's OK, baby," he said.
"hmpfmm," she said.
Baxter continued fucking her. Knowing inside he was suffocating the teenager. His thoughts ran wild... "Fuck... she is going to die. If I don't stop." He looked down, lusting over her body, feeling his orgasm on its way. "Fuck it, I'm almost there... Damn...I am going to kill this girl. I can feel her under me. This ass is so tight." Slamming in and out. In and out. She was serving him nicely now, her body limp and relaxed as he fed her his cock. He wanted all of her.
His hands moved from her hair to her slim neck and he shuddered over the smooth feel of her skin. Squeezing her now, he marveled at how his hands wrapped around her, choking her as he stabbed her with his cock. It was so easy, taking that next step. With each inward movement, he bared down on her, twisting strong hands around the dying girl's throat. So lost in his lust was he that he had no sense how long or hard had he been squeezing the small neck between his hands. He just kept going....
Her only movements now were those made by him as he jutted her forward, propelled by his lustful momentum. He could not cease, instead, he found himself driving into her further and with greater passion. Her broken body offered no resistance. "Oh, fuck me... God help me, I love it." Over and over, he allowed himself to fuck this girl. Squeezing into her ass. Squeezing her throat. Taking all of her. Knowing he was taking everything. She wasn't moving on her own now, but instead was an appendage of Baxter's forward motion. After a while, Rosella's eyes were fixed forward, slowly glassing over with a fantastic grey echoing the cinder charcoal of her torn up skirt. Baxter felt a wetness come from below as she released bodily fluid at the end of her life.
"Oh shit, I'm coming, I can feel her dying!" Baxter shouted to no one. Sweet Rosella was slipping away. She shuddered against him and he knew this was a dead body moving with him now. Fueled by the thought of her expiring under him, he shot hot cum into her one more time, permitting himself to experience every inch of the still-warm corpse as it shook in its death throws. "YEEeaaaaahhhh fuck, yeah, I'm coming in you Rosella!" His cock shot cum into the lifeless body and he gripped her tight. "This feels.... fantastic! Oh yeah! Oh yeah! Fuck Yeah!"
He wondered how much cum he had pumped into the teenager over the last twenty-four hours. He knew that even this third load was heavy as the last bit of cum juice went into the dead body. Pulling out, he was pleased to see it dripping from her torn up asshole. Small white drips flowing south to meet the remains that still sat in her wasted cunt. How ravishing she looked at this moment, dead but still warm, covered in blood and cum juice. He wondered if he would have enough time to fuck her again before he had to get rid of her and start cleaning up the house.
In another day his wife would be home and they would make love on this bed, and he would pretend to be happy, but he would be thinking of this night of passion. Which was probably the only passionate night he ever had in his life. And when his daughter came home for spring break and visited with friends, her friends would remind him of Rosella. And he would lust after them in ways he never lusted after his wife. Rosella had provided him with the ultimate decadent pleasure, but she had also highlighted in sparkling colors all of the delights in life he was missing. And it was at that moment, he realized that he would do this again.
anonymous readerReport
2012-03-18 14:31:54
woooooooooooow baby! your awsome! id soo fuck you, you seem to know what your doing! lolz, oh, im a chick
anonymous readerReport
2011-11-22 05:13:02
Dear Coldcase187... What a wast that he used up this sweet little slut Rosella so soon. She should have been used more and savored longer before being offed. She also should have sufferd more before the end, submissive and docile young sluts want to feel as much pain as thay can before thay are snuffed. She wanted her nipples and tits burnt before she died for him.
anonymous readerReport
2011-06-06 00:41:20
This is the best story ive ever heard love the parts abt him smashing her head into the window and when he kills her....sooo fucking hot
anonymous readerReport
2011-05-06 19:06:57
awesome. well-written and beautiful description. Truly something very hot about how submissive she was. Somehow I wish he'd found time to hurt her more. Sure, I am a sick puppy, but I love these STORIES, real life is something else. Oh, btw, I am a woman.
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2011-05-06 17:53:49
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• 1. THE ERA OF 1960’s
Psychedelic Era
• 2. An Overview of the sixties
A complex turn of events
Cultural and political trends across the globe
Fall of Racism
Africa gained Independence from its colonial rulers
Cold War – Vietnam War
(1945-1991) (1955-1975)
1961- John F Kennedy was the new elected President of US
1968- Richard Nixon was the Elected President
• 3. The Cultural Revolution
Cultural Revolution (1969-1970)
Young People began to revolt against the conservative norms of the society.
Social Revolution sparked in US as a reaction against US Government as the government had extensive military intervention in Vietnam War.
• 4. Vietnam War (1959-1975)
Ho Chi Minh – Communist leader of North Vietnam until his death in 1969.
Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia in Asia were a part of the French empire in South –East Asia.
These countries fought for their Independence from the French. – (First Phase)
In 1961- the Civil War began in South Vietnam and US intervened to prevent the spread of Communism, but failed. (Second Phase)
• 5. The Vietnam War
The Vietnam War resulted in 58,500 death of Americans.
Anti – War Movements started in protest in the US.
Students from various Universities sparked the protests and a mass movement was developed.
• 6. Why did USA involved itself?
In public, the Americans said their intervention was to protect the independence of the Vietnamese people, but the real reason was to keep the country secure from the communist nations.
• 7.
• 8. The Cuban Revolution
Convinced that Cuba was a Communist State, the then President John F Kennedy, approved a plan to invade Cuba from American Bases.
The American Secret Service (CIA) was deeply involved.
The situation was tensed and the world was on the verge of a Nuclear War.
• 9. CheGuvera
• 10. 10
Three norms aimed at youth and their Reaction
1. obey authority
2. control your emotions
3. fit in with the group
These messages reveal the desire for normalcy and security in a post-Depression, post-war conservative culture. In the 60s, all three norms would be rejected by the youth counterculture.
Questioning the Authority.
Demanding for Freedomand Rights
Civil Rights Movements for Women and African Americans
• 11. 11
The new consumerism focused on recreation and the new expectation that life should be fun (hedonism), as promoted in corporate TV ads.
Families were encouraged to take vacations.
There were new sources of hedonistic pleasures, like Disneyland.
The station wagon was the family car - the vacation car.
The rise in motels and food chains like McDonalds catered to this new car culture.
These new, high expectations influenced youth .
Advertising promoted new values and lifestyles. Television became advertising’s new, powerful tool of persuasion.
• 12. Rising affluence and consumerism.
Teens began to get an allowance and became consumers, allowing them to forge their own consumer styles.
Suburbs allowed larger families centered around the children. Teens developed high expectations about life and pleasure
• 13. Hispanic America
Hispanic: A word related to Spanish Invaders.
Hispanic America includes Mexico and South American countries which are Spanish speaking countries
These countries also fought to end Racism.
• 14. 14
Rise of youth culture
Teen Values.
Teens forged their own subculture, complete with its own distinguishing values: hedonism, irreverence (lack of respect)(to authority), freedom, rejection of rationality.
Rock’n’roll emerged as the voice of teen culture.
Chuck Berry is one of the founders of rock n’ roll.
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Rock n’ Roll of the 50’s
Helped galvanize youth culture into their own differentiated identity apart from adult authority.
Rejection of old (parental norms and values).
Fed the growing generation gap.
Crossed the race barrier, bringing changes.
Emphasis on physical sensation, pleasure, soul, expressive behavior (loosen up and be free).
Little Richard, Chuck Berry, and ELVIS (the white version of black soul).
Elvis Presley galvanized the emerging youth culture of the mid-1950s around the values of rock n’ roll, and because of white parents were a bit more accepting. With Elvis, rock took off among mainstream teens.
• 16. Youth called themselves “HIPPIES”
• 17. Hippies use music to express themselves emotionally, spiritually, and politically. Music can make a statement, give voice to a movement, even unite us. As hippies explore their inner world, music guides them along in their quest for meaning. Without drugs it can get you high. With drugs, well, let's just say, music can be a religious experience.
• 18. The Beatles
When the Beatles came to America in 1964 it really was an invasion of new music, style and attitude. They not only turned the music world upside down with their electric guitars, their happy harmonies, long hair and mod fashions, but suddenly music was fun like it hadn't been since Elvis. We boomers couldn't get enough of them, as Beatlemania swept the country.
• 19. The Beatles got serious about their music and the messages it conveyed. After all they are the biggest band ever and their influence was worldwide.
• 20. Credit John Lennon with much of the creative new work and deeper messages. George Harrison took the Beatles on a turn to the East with Ravi Shankar inspired sitar work and philosophical lyrics. Paul McCartney added a much-needed light cheery touch to their music. There's no way we can measure the profound impact of the Beatles on other artists and the course of human history. There is no a single hippy who didn't love them. | http://www.slideshare.net/dil_engineer/the-era-of-1960s | dclm-gs1-139780000 |
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• 1. 360° Peer Evaluation ReportMiguel Quintanilla ErikssonDirector General de Nuevas Tecnologías y Telecomunicaciones1. Overview: 75 responses receivedAbout the 360° Peer Evaluation ReportThis Report is a 360° profile of your personality, skills and impact at your workplace as seen by yourcolleagues and others in your network. It is a snapshot of your professional indicators. 360° reportsare used by thousands of companies and millions of professionals around the world to get anobjective, outside view of personal performance and progress. Others often tell you things moreobjectively than you can see for yourself. Use this report to see how you are seen professionally byothers and to advance your career. This report is private and only visible to you.We recommend at least 30 completed responses in order to get a statistically-valid picture of yourprofessional standing. Report generated on 11:32 AM, 03/12/2013
• 2. 2. Your Dominant Work Personality TypeInvestigative x20Prefers strategy, thinking, organizing, analytical, curious. Secondary Personality Types Realistic: Likes to get things done, practical, stable, results-oriented. x19 Enterprising: Competitive, persuasive, energetic, works well outside-the-box. x18 Social: Co-operative, team player, best in group environments, helping hand. x8 Artistic: Imaginative, artistic, disorderly, emotional, original. x6 Conventional: Precise, rule-oriented, orderly, works well in highly structured environments. x4Natural-Fit RolesAs Investigative, you are better-suited based on your personality type at the following roles:
• 3. What is this?Holland Occupational Themes (RIASEC), developed by the late psychologist John L. Holland, refersto a theory of careers and vocational choice based upon personality types. Each letter or code standsfor a particular "type": Realistic (Doers), Investigative (Thinkers), Artistic (Creators), Social(Helpers), Enterprising (Persuaders), and Conventional (Organizers). Hollands research shows thatpersonalities seek out and flourish in career environments they fit in. Holland also wrote of histheory that "the choice of a vocation is an expression of personality”. This helps you determine whatpersonality others see you as, and what sort of professions or roles you may be naturally good atbased on your type.Scale:There are 6 personality types under Holland Occupational Themes (RIASEC). There is no “good” or“bad”, or right or wrong answer. Every type is naturally better at certain roles than others. This doesnot mean you cannot succeed at other roles. It shows areas where you have a natural advantage.q Realistic: Likes to get things done, practical, stable, results-oriented.q Investigative: Prefers strategy, thinking, organizing, analytical, curious.q Artistic: Imaginative, artistic, disorderly, emotional, original.q Social:: Co-operative, team player, best in group environments, helping hand.q Enterprising: Competitive, persuasive, energetic, works well outside-the-box.q Conventional: Precise, rule-oriented, orderly, works well in highly structured environments.
• 4. 3. Personality Matches
• 5. 4. Your Net Promoter Score %What is this?Net Promoter Score is a research tool that can be used to gauge how likely people are to recommendyou to their colleagues and friends. It was introduced by Reichheld in the 2003 Harvard BusinessReview. 1% = lowest, 100% = highest. It is used as an indicator for word-of-mouth marketing,repeat business and organic growth at a corporate level. At a personal level, it is used as anindicator for career advancement prospects. The higher your number, the more likely others are tohelp you advance your career by speaking of you positively, recommending you to their friends andotherwise being conducive to your growth.Scale:Red (0 to 50%): BAD.
• 6. Others are not likely to help advance your career. You are viewed mostly negatively by your network.You should attempt to connect better with others, foster deeper relationships and be positive. Treatthem as you would like to be treated yourself. Being more visible or prominent at the workplace willalso help.Yellow (51% to 80%): OKYou are viewed as average by your network. Some people may help advance your career, whileothers will not. This is where 60% of the population falls. You should focus on identifying thoseindividuals within your network that think very highly of you and forging deeper ties with them.Work more closely with those that think highly of you. Continue to be more useful to others, andmore prominent at work. Ensure your efforts are noticed.Green (81% to 100%): GREATYou are viewed very positively by most of your network. Most people see you so favorably that theywill help advance your career with glowing recommendations, introductions and connections. Theyspeak of you well even when you are not there. Companies that achieve this score get newcustomers simply through word-of-mouth buzz. You will similarly get job offers, partnership requestsor other new opportunities from your network from time to time. Keep doing what you are doing -your work network loves you and values you highly!Who uses it?NPS is used by thousands of companies including Apple, GE, Intuit, Charles Schwab and AmericanExpress. Companies use it to gauge customer satisfaction, as well as for employee feedback.AccuracyNet Promoter Score is one of the tools used in this report and contains a significant degree of errorbased on how many people have responded to your survey, as well as your profession. Some rolesand professions are easier to rate than others. (eg. Sales exec vs. Fine Art). Take your NPS score inrelation to all the other metrics on this report. NPS is also no more statistically significant orpredictive than similar “How likely are you to...” questions, but is preferred due to its simplicity andwidespread use.
• 7. 5. Your Most Well-Known Traits1. Builds trust & credibility (Voted 47 times)2. Communicates very clearly (Voted 37 times)3. Organized, scheduled (Voted 31 times)4. Adapts to change quickly (Voted 30 times)5. Friendly, likeable (Voted 30 times)What is this?These are your most-noticed characteristics by your professional network. These show yourstrengths. For career advancement and specialization, it is generally a good idea to take up rolesand projects that play to your key strengths, also known as “swimming upstream”. This can also giveyou a more objective assessment of what you’re good at, since self-evaluations are usually highlybiased.Scale:Respondents can pick from a large selection of traits, and can pick more than one. Traits that arereflective of your professional profile will get shown here.
• 8. 6. How your network feels about your company’s prospectsWhat is this?This is a measure of how your network sees your company’s growth and financial prospects in thenext 12 months. It is an outsider’s opinion of how your company is doing. This is how people in theindustry and your network see the place you work at.Scale:1=lowest 10=highestRed (1 to 5): Bad. Expect the company to shrink or suffer significantly. Commercial losses. Layoffs.Re- structuring. Expect products to lose market share or fail. Possible bankruptcy, re-financing orshutdown down the road unless things change. The company requires significant outside help toimprove or continue functioning. Might be time to start looking for another job.Yellow (5.1 to 8): OK. Expect the company to grow modestly with limited successes. 70% ofcompanies are in this zone. Company will continue to do well and win in some areas. Comparesmostly favorably with competition. Modest hiring and expansion. Stable outlook. You can stay withthis company for several years if you’d like.Green (8.1 to 10): Great! Expect the company to grow fast, gain market share from competitors veryquickly. Products are already doing superbly well. Winning key accounts. Great PR orwell-recognized brand. Will out- perform the industry or market it is in. Your career will get a hugeboost just by being at this company.
• 9. 7. How your Network feels about Your Career prospectsWhat is this?This is a measure of how your network sees your personal career prospects in the next 12 months. Itis an outsider’s opinion of how skilled, valuable and useful you are compared to others in your roleor profession. This rating may be influenced somewhat by prospects for your company or industry atlarge.Scale:1=lowest 10=highestRed (1 to 5): Bad. Your skills, usefulness and value are less than similar professionals in your field.Your network thinks that you are lagging behind others, and over time, these differences will growlarger and you will fall behind. Focus on the basics and try to figure out where you are lagging andwhy. It’s never too late to start improving.Yellow (5.1 to 8): OK. You are average or a little above-average compared to similar professionals inyour field. Your network thinks you compare favorably to others and will enjoy modest successes inthe next 12 months. Stable career advancement prospects. You are respected by your colleagues andvalued for your contributions. Focus on your key strengths to continue improving.Green (8.1 to 10): Great! You are well above-average compared to similar professionals in your field.Your colleagues think you will hit it out of the park and are a rockstar at what you do. You are verywell-respected in your industry or profession, perhaps even holding celebrity-like status. Getting tothe top is easier than staying at the top however, and you will need to keep working hard to staywhere you are.
• 10. 8. What can you most improve upon?Written ResponsesMiguel worked in an innovative surrounding, grasping quickly the best to develop in the field.Miguel might need to better grasp the interest of using abilities with the team he works with.Professional AcquaintanceProfesional altamente recomendable, gran capacidad de trabajo y de adaptación al cambio.Professional AcquaintanceMiguel es un tipo feliz, realista y resolutivo. Amigo de sus amigos pero pragmático y eficaz encualquier caso. Algunos pensamos que se equivocó al cambiar de "industria" pero le irá todo bienen cualquier caso.Worked Together but at different companies
• 11. Greatest strength: Of utmost confidence, Very intelligent, bright improve upon: Social SkilsCo-WorkersLa mayor fortaleza de Miguel es su habilidad y coraje para abordar nuevos retos con granprofesionalidad y garantias de éxito. Debido a su gran dedicación en todo lo que hace, muchasveces no se da cuenta que las personas de su alrededor le están aportando ideas o soluciones muyutiles que se pueden aplicar a la tarea que tiene entre manos.Co-WorkersExcellent professional,very prepared,very organized,with great capacity of leadershipWorked Together but at different companiesIf I had to define the greatest strength of Miguel with a word, that word would undoubtedly be"perfection". I have been fortunate to work with Miguel and I could discover the capabilities andskills that makes him the good manager he is. He is able to involve himself in the development ofany task to get the satisfactory progress of his project. He actively listens and values the opinions ofhis team, he works tirelessly to achieve his goal, is responsible for every detail of every project so Ican find no area that Miguel should or could improve.Co-WorkersMayor fortaleza: Buena imagen y buen comunicador. A mejorar: Delegar un poco.Professional AcquaintanceHE TRANSMITS CONFIDENCE. I AM NOT SURE ABOUT AREAS OF IMPROVEMENTProfessional AcquaintanceGreat professional with high adaptability and discipline.Worked Together but at different companiesTambién se puede seguir construyendo e innovando a partir de lo andado. La Colaboración Abiertaentre lo público y lo privado es fundamental para los Gobiernos. Max Otte, “En nuestra sociedadhay determinadas fuerzas muy interesadas en convertir la información en desinformación. ¡Novivimos en una sociedad de la información sino en una sociedad de la desinformación!”. Esta frasetan contundente nos hace reflexionar sobre la importancia de acudir a la fuentes de informaciónoficiales y las no oficiales. Siendo fundamental la conciliación de los datos para disponer de unacierta información veraz y poder construir así áreas de conocimiento más efectivas.Professional AcquaintanceGreat Professional, hard-working and trustable.Professional AcquaintanceCall suppliers to know the status of the new activitiesProfessional AcquaintanceIn my opinion is a very skilled professional, very good at teamworking and treasures a naturalleadership profile.Worked Together but at different companiesWhat is this?Nobody is perfect, not even Bill Gates or Steve Jobs. These are areas where your colleagues feel youcan improve. By focusing on some of these areas, you can significantly improve your life at work and
• 12. your relationships with your colleagues. This will help you become more well-rounded and balanced,and address any “rough edges” that hamper your ability to work with others. | http://www.slideshare.net/mquintan/360-peer-evaluationreport-17670869 | dclm-gs1-139790000 |
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OPINION: Here we go again. A minority group is claiming it owns our water. What nonsense.
Someone said that the energy companies were stealing their water to generate electricity. I presume that Maori aren't using this electricity but using candles and hangi?
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0.019613 | <urn:uuid:b030e832-4207-4ed0-b18a-7c3c49462def> | en | 0.927397 | 'The Orphan Master’s Son' by Adam Johnson: Review
With the death of Kim Jong-il all eyes are on the bizarre North Korean regime, but the best way to understand the country is probably Adam Johnson’s remarkable new novel, “The Orphan Master’s Son.” By Taylor Antrim.
Why don’t more novelists write about North Korea? The morbid fascinations are endless—a police state with an automaton citizenry, a landscape of Stalinist gulags and eerily empty superhighways, a (departed) Dear Leader fond of kidnappings and cognac who famously shot 38 under par on his first round of golf. Celebrated works of journalism on the DPRK abound, but the fiction shelf (notwithstanding a few potboiler thrillers and, ahem, my first novel—about a North Korea-obsessed boarding-school headmaster) is pretty bare.
Or was. Now there’s Adam Johnson’s magnificently accomplished, slightly lunatic The Orphan Master’s Son—which arrives miraculously timed to the news cycle. With footage of Kim Jong-il’s funeral capturing national paroxysms of showy grief, with the apple-cheeked heir, Kim Jong-un, and his poker-faced uncle in a presumed power ballet with the military, our North Korea interest is at a high pitch. And Johnson, whose debut collection Emporium was one of the best books of the early aughts, gives it to us with a fiction writer’s eye for detail: the blast of “shock-work whistles” at a cannery, the clammy feel of seawater in the hold of a fishing boat, the delicate flavor of a soup made with scavenged herbs. Part thriller, part coming-of-age novel, part romance, The Orphan Master’s Son is made sturdy by research—Johnson traveled to Pyongyang in 2007—but what makes it so absorbing isn’t its documentary realism but the dark flight of the author’s imagination.
Nothing here will challenge the prevailing American view of the DPRK—a human nightmare, deserving of its pariah status—but Johnson’s novel is rich with a sense of discovery nevertheless.
The plot might be called picaresque if it wasn’t so deliriously grim. Our protagonist, Pak Jun Do, grows up in an orphanage, where his father, the orphan master, won’t acknowledge him, and then he’s recruited by a military DMZ tunnel squad and taught to kill in the dark. Next he’s put on a series of kidnapping missions to Japan, then tasked with collecting radio intelligence aboard a fishing boat, then brought along on a diplomatic mission to Texas. Johnson describes these hectic, frightening chapters in Jun Do’s life with extraordinary skill and economy. It’s a breathlessly exciting 175 pages that establishes North Korea as a ghastly funhouse of paranoia, violence, and absurdity. For instance, when the second mate defects from Jun Do’s boat, the captain decides the best way to throw their government minders off the scent of treachery … is to feed Jun Do’s (still attached) arm to a line-caught shark. Jun Do survives that ordeal, along with a vicious debriefing by an official whose occupation has turned his fists into mangled clubs. Heroically Jun Do retains a core of goodness through his beatings and mistreatment—he’s curious and empathetic in a world where both qualities can get you killed.
Midway through, the novel abandons its linear structure. Time fractures, new characters are introduced—including a nicely drawn pair of rival torture squads—and a series of government radio bulletins cleverly interrupts the storytelling. Jun Do—spoiler alert!—has remade himself as Commander Ga, an apparatchik with a movie-star wife and a government position that puts him in routine contact with the Dear Leader himself (here a clever, ruthless manipulator who’s unambiguously villainous). It’s a long book, but only feels so when Johnson lets a strained, Casablanca-inspired romance dominate his final 100 pages. Johnson is much too inventive and daring to rely on Hollywood clichés—and yet he hammers a "love conquers all!" theme to mawkish effect in the final act.
It’s a finishing-straight stumble, but the book succeeds in spite of it. The Orphan Master’s Son is potent with visions of oppression and generalized fear. Johnson is unflinching (even a bit enthusiastic) rendering torture, but his sensitivity to Jun Do’s resilient spirit makes his work as big-hearted as it is horrifying. A few images have haunted me for days—Jun Do, at sea, dazzled by a trans-Pacific cargo ship carpeted with new cars: “the moonlight flashed in rapid succession off a thousand new windshields.” And starving scavengers glimpsed in a government graveyard: “in the long shadows cast by the bronze headstones moved occasional men and women. In the growing dark, these ghostly figures, keeping low and moving quickly, were gathering all the flowers from the graves.”
Nothing here will challenge the prevailing American view of the DPRK—a human nightmare, deserving of its pariah status—but Johnson’s novel is rich with a sense of discovery nevertheless. The year is young, but The Orphan Master’s Son has an early lead on novel of 2012. | http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/01/06/the-orphan-master-s-son-by-adam-johnson-review.html | dclm-gs1-139930000 |
0.030349 | <urn:uuid:635e98d8-7f23-490b-9d54-5e563f256f5f> | en | 0.97064 | Syria crisis widens faultlines at divided UN
As 120 world leaders make annual trip to UN headquarters, unusually bitter atmosphere has been compared to cold war
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Ther UN general assembly meets this week in New York, but seldom since the end of the cold war has the institution seemed so biitterly divided. Photograph: Shen Hong/ Shen Hong/Xinhua Press/Corbis
The police barricades are up and the traffic has begun to congeal across midtown Manhattan as more than 120 world leaders make their annual pilgrimage to the UN headquarters to declaim, appeal, cajole and sometimes threaten each other.
It is seldom an edifying spectacle but the mood this year is so sour it is being compared to the cold war.
The root of the bitterness lies in the worsening Syrian conflict, which has divided the security council to the point of paralysis along familiar faultlines. Russia and China have vetoed three resolutions in a row aimed at curbing the slaughter, and the council has not even been able to agree on humanitarian relief.
The conflict is already spilling over Syria's borders, at a time when another Middle East conflict, possibly with even darker consequences, is constantly threatening to break out between Israel and Iran. Binyamin Netanyahu and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad are both in New York this week to deliver speeches more likely to stoke than soothe the gathering fear of war. The world's powers have no coherent response.
France's UN ambassador, Gérard Araud, setting the scene at the UN Turtle Bay headquarters before this week's general assembly, said the security council "has never been as paralysed as it is today since the end of the cold war".
The key players are distancing themselves from the unfolding debacle. Vladimir Putin and Hu Jintao are not coming at all. Barack Obama is expected to make a "drive-by" appearance, with a stern speech on Tuesday very much with UN-averse American voters in mind. He will not stick around for lunch or for the customary round of bilateral meetings with other leaders, leaving that to Hillary Clinton.
Even the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, normally a byword for courtesy and euphemism, is expected to issue an impatient rebuke to the global statesmen in the chamber for their fecklessness when he opens the session. Aides are describing the address as "no more Mr Nice Guy".
If there was ever a moment for speaking out, this is probably it. The security council is no stranger to impasse, but seldom has the deadlock come at such a high human cost. The death toll in Syria by UN estimates is 20,000 and climbing sharply, and 1.5 million civilians, probably far more, have fled their homes.
Abeer Etefa, a World Food Programme officer who visited Homs and other areas last week, said: "People are constantly on the move. Some have moved two or three times trying to escape the violence. There are 35 people in an apartment in some places, living in places with no doors or windows. They badly need blankets and baby milk."
Leila Zerrougui, the UN special representative on children in conflict, warned the security council last week that children were suffering disproportionately, saying UN agencies had "documented government attacks on schools, children denied access to hospitals, girls and boys suffering and dying in bombardments of their neighbourhoods and also being subject to torture, including sexual violence".
Human Rights Watch has reported that government forces appear to be deliberately targeting bread queues, citing 10 cases of artillery bombardment or air strikes outside bakeries in Aleppo province in August alone.
Reporting by human rights groups and the UN itself has consistently found that the overwhelming majority of atrocities in the Syrian conflict have been committed by forces loyal to the president, Bashar al-Assad, although abuses by the fragmented rebel groups are also on the rise as the conflict spirals.
In the face of clear evidence of abuses by the Syrian regime, however, both Russia and China have adamantly refused to support any security council resolutions that pressure Assad, even when the wording excludes military action. They are also not prepared to discuss authorising an international criminal court investigation into the war crimes committed by all sides.
Even after Zerrougui gave her chilling briefing last week on the killing and torture of children, the response of the Russians and Chinese, together with Pakistan and Azerbaijan, was to seek (unsuccessfully) to restrict the scope of the UN envoy's inquiries and to refuse to back an annual resolution condemning the use of child soldiers and the deaths of children in conflict. Michael Williams, who served both as UN special co-ordinator for the Middle East peace process and for Lebanon, said: "I hope that in the margins in New York there would be some possibility to engage with the Russians and Chinese, but I'm not going to hold my breath."
There are many factors underpinning Moscow and Beijing's hard line. Damascus has long been a Russian ally, and a buyer of Russian arms. The Syrian port of Tartus is the only Russian military base outside the former Soviet Union and its sole foothold in the Mediterranean. Both Russia and China feel badly burned by allowing security council resolution 1973 to pass in March 2011 authorising "all necessary measures" to protect Libyan civilians, which was then used by Nato as a mandate to help topple Muammar Gaddafi.
The ghosts of the 2003 Iraq invasion and the furious debates that preceded it still hang in the air. Even though it was not fought on humanitarian grounds but rather on spurious claims of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, the fiasco and subsequent US and British attempts to justify it helped reverse what was arguably one of the great moral advances of the post-cold-war era: the UN-backed principle that the international community had the "responsibility to protect" civilian populations when their own states were unable or unwilling to.
"The whole concept of responsibility to protect has been forgotten and no one among the statesmen here has the courage to utter the words," Williams said.
He also criticised the west for giving up on diplomacy in the face of Russian and Chinese resistance. "Even compared with the old cold war days, there doesn't seem to be much active diplomacy to engage Russia and China. And there is a complete absence of the EU as a political actor," Williams said.
"The tragedy is that the security council has not given diplomacy a chance in the case of Syria," Mark Malloch Brown, a former UN deputy secretary general, said. He argued that a tentative deal between the west, Russia and China in Geneva in June – by which the specific demand for Assad to step down was omitted in favour of the backing for a new government in Damascus by "mutual consent" – could have provided the basis for a settlement.
"There was a road map forward," Malloch Brown said, adding that the US, Britain and France "got caught up in the theology" of trying to pass a "chapter 7" involving sanctions, and so divided the security council once again. Western diplomats counter that the Assad regime has shown it would use any agreement not enforced by sanctions as cover to buy time and intensify its counter-insurgency.
Wherever the exact balance of blame lies, it is directed at the major powers in the security council rather than the UN as an institution. UN agencies such as the high commission for refugees and the World Food Programme are widely agreed to have performed as well as could be expected in Syria, hampered by severe restrictions on access and a critical lack of emergency funding from donors.
However, Richard Gowan, an expert on the UN at New York University, said the security council had been effective on other fronts.
"The paradox is that while the council has been paralysed over Syria, it has worked pretty efficiently on other issues this year. It has headed off a war between Sudan and South Sudan, and has provided a lot of co-ordination of peacekeeping operations in Africa. In Libya, it has helped the creation of the post-Gaddafi state," Gowan said, adding that, notwithstanding the ominous echoes over Syria: "We are not back in the cold war."
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Chinese ship hunting for Malaysia jet detects 'ping'
Kuala Lumpur, April 5, 2014
A Chinese patrol ship hunting for a missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner detected a pulse signal in the south Indian Ocean on Saturday, the state news agency Xinhua reported, in a possible indicator of the underwater beacon from a plane's "black box".
A black box detector deployed by the vessel Haixun 01 picked up the "ping" signal at around 25 degrees south latitude and 101 degrees east longitude, according to Xinhua.
It has not been established whether the ping is related to Flight MH370, which went missing four weeks ago with 239 people aboard shortly after taking off from Kuala Lumpur for Beijing.
Xinhua further said a Chinese air force plane spotted a number of white floating objects in the search area.
Australian search authorities also said they had yet to verify whether the pulse signal was related to MH370.
Malaysia said earlier on Saturday it had begun a formal investigation into the jet's March 8 disappearance that would comprise experts from around the world, while the huge hunt for the Boeing 777 airliner intensified in the Indian Ocean.
Normally, a formal air safety investigation is not launched until wreckage is found. But there have been concerns that Malaysia's informal investigations to date have lacked the legal standing of an official inquiry convened under U.N. rules.
Authorities have not ruled out mechanical problems as a cause but say the evidence, including the loss of communications, suggests Flight MH370 was deliberately diverted thousands of kilometers (miles) from its scheduled route.
Defense and acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein told a news conference that Australia, China, the US, the United Kingdom and France had agreed to send representatives to take part in the investigation.
The extensive search and rescue operation has so far included assets from around 26 countries.
Under International Civil Aviation Organisation rules, the country where the aircraft is registered leads the investigation when the incident takes place in international waters.
A spokesman from the UN agency told Reuters that it received official notification of the accident on 28 March, meaning that the investigation was considered officially launched on that date.
Hishammuddin said that the investigation would be made up of three groups: An "airworthiness" group would examine maintenance records, structures and systems; an "operations" group would study flight recorders, operations and meteorology; and a "medical and human factors" group would look into psychology, pathology and survival factors.
The Malaysian government has also set up ministerial committees to oversee everything pertaining to the next of kin of the passengers and crew on board the aircraft, the appointment of the investigation team and the deployment of assets in the search operation.-Reuters
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By Janis Willoughby-konig | Broker in Thousand Oaks, CA
Thinking Of Selling? Great Tips To Make Your Sale Easy!
Thinking Of Selling? Great Tips To Make Your Sale Easy!
Sellers should start packing as soon as they think they might want to put their home on the market. That is, they should start weeding out all the personal property they no longer want or need. It makes no sense to spend time and money packing and moving these things.
Most homes need decluttering before they're sold. This is so they show at their best, which usually results in a faster sale at a higher price. Cluttered homes look smaller than they are. And, an unkempt look puts buyers off. Clearing out the clutter early is a good idea even if you aren't sure when you'll be moving.
Deciding when to pack the things you're keeping should be carefully considered due to changes in the home sale market over the past few years. Sellers used to start packing as soon as the buyers removed all contingencies from the contract. It was usually smooth sailing from then to closing.
Now, there are some sale transactions that don't close on time because lenders take longer to approve loans, often asking for an additional appraisal or more documentation from the buyers before they'll deliver the funds. Occasionally, a transaction doesn't close at the last minute. The lender might cease offering a certain loan program, change the terms of a loan, or run out of money.
HOUSE HUNTING TIP: Sellers who are living in their homes during the marketing period shouldn't move their furnishings out until they are sure the transaction is closing. Otherwise, they could have to move back in again if the deal falls apart at the last minute.
An East Coast seller moved out and then heard that the closing was delayed. Her furniture was already on its way to the West Coast, so she couldn't move back in. Luckily, the sale closed three weeks later.
To avoid moving out before you know the sale is closing, build a few extra days into the purchase contract at the time you negotiate the sale with the buyers. For example, you could ask to vacate the property within two or three days after closing. This way, if the closing is delayed, you have time to reschedule your move, and to move out and clean the house before the buyers take possession.
Movers, particularly the larger moving companies, can be flexible regarding your move date. It's best to schedule the move in advance for the date you'd like to move. If the closing is delayed, you can reschedule the move date accordingly.
It can be difficult to sell a vacant house. Most buyers don't have the ability to imagine how a house would look furnished. It's hard to gauge the size of a room that's void of furnishings. For example, most people can't visualize how a king-size bed would look in the master bedroom unless it's already furnished with a king- or queen-size bed.
Some sellers hire a professional decorator to stage their home for sale to enhance its appeal. This could be a partial staging, incorporating some of the seller's possessions, or a complete staging with all the furnishings provided by the staging company. In either case, it's best to leave the staging in place until you're sure the sale is closing to avoid the cost of having to re-stage the house if the deal falls apart at the last minute.
THE CLOSING: Buyers who are currently renting should have assurances from their lender that the sale will go through before giving notice to their landlord, unless they have a place to stay temporarily if the closing is delayed.
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Ted & Barney Share Some Bro-Time
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• Ted trying to impress while in a dress.
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I just loved the beercules episode. All the more because they introduced Martin Short. He was hysterical in that whole, "I'm swamped as in really in a swamp and I gotta run as in literally gotta run coz the croc is advancing" thing. Hope to see more of him.
I don't think Robin landing the chopper was that far-fetched as movie and TV tropes go. Now I know that flying a chopper takes some training, but Robin was being guided by somebody from the control tower and the landing she managed to make was far from smooth. Pretty rudimentary. I suppose it isn't far fetched to assume survival instinct made her be that good.
Loved Barney and Ted's scenes in this one. Those two are perfect when it comes to playing off each other. Loved the Ted with a dress sayn' "Now we're even bitch!!" Others were relaively boring but overall a solid episode.
... seasons or who is barneys bride after 2 epsiodes... relax.. and the mom is just gonna be a stranger so dont u worry.. there are enough other reasons to watch
@will: what u wrote in your blog is not true at all. This is one of the best seasons ever. No development??? Barney and Robin nearly came back together, Barney broke up with Nora, Robin would be engaged if she wanted to have kids, Kevin and her broke up, we thought Robin and Barney are gonna be parents, we found out that she cant have babies, Robin got an awesome job, Lily is pregnant (Babies dont pop out after 2 weeks), they moved from Manhattan to Staten Island and back, Ted and Robin had a short i love u moment and arent talking to each other at the moment, barney has a girlfriend and its serious - so i dont know what show you were watching?
and this episode .. maybe there wasnt soo much story telling, but Robin got famous, we found out how much Barney likes Quinn.. there was story telling! and there was a good story in every episode! (maybe not in 1-4). So for me this is an awesome season! i dont know what u want, things take a while. Of course we wont know who is the mom after 2 seasons or who is barneys bride after 2 epsiodes... relax.. and the mom is just gonna be a stranger so dont u worry.. there are enough other reasons to watch
One Question: That guy robin met when Ted was buying those red boots and then again in the club, did she ever met him again?? cause they said they will..maybe thats her future boyfriend? i knew that barney is alright with quinn beeing a stripper after he said it the 2nd time and i knew that thats the reason why he goes out all the time. quite obvious - i was wondering why Ted didnt see that?
THE MERMAID THEORY! the writers truly are geniuses...
the only thing that could have made this review better was a friends reference in the comments. simply brilliant. the barnacle was in top form this episode. "the night we partied with the mole people!" and i agree on timing. the passage of time is pretty ambiguous. but is it just me or has lily been pregnant for a really long time?
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LelaRose I hear ya on your "already?" comment. I think we have to remember though that undisclosed amounts of time elapse in between episodes. Like Ted and Robin not talking to each other seemed as if it had been going on for a while right? Ted made a point of saying how long it had been since they had last talked. Ted seemed to have been in his new apartment for a while now given all the scenes of him doing laundry naked, spilling soup naked etc. Just hope Ted doesn't become like"Naked Fat Guy" from Friends who they all poked with the giant stick they fashioned from chopstix. Joey: All right now remember, something this big and long is going to be difficult to maneuver, fortunately I have a lot of experience in that area. Rachel: What are you 12 today? Ross: Can we please focus here, a naked man’s life hangs in the balance!
I don't like Barney and Quinn either, when Ted said "You really love this girl, don't you"? I was like, really, already? At least with Nora we saw them get together and develop. With Quinn, it's like they just need someone to get Barney to the alter. The writers are trying to build tension for this season but all they're doing is confusing me. I don't know what's going to happen, mainly because I'm not sure of the characters' motivations.
How I Met Your Mother Season 7 Episode 21 Quotes
Monogamy, oh my!
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| July 9, 2013 at 6:10 PM
MOBILE, Ala., July 9 (UPI) -- Scuba divers say they've discovered an ancient forest of Bald Cypress trees preserved underwater in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Alabama.
The forest, covered by ocean sediments and preserved in an oxygen-free environment for more than 50,000 years, was likely exposed by 2005's Hurricane Katrina, Ben Raines, one of the first divers to explore the forest, told The forest of well-preserved trees covers an area of a half square mile off the coast of Mobile, Ala., at a depth of about 60 feet.
The trees could contain thousands of years of climate history for the region in their growth rings and reveal secrets about the climate of the Gulf of Mexico thousands of years ago, during a period known as the Wisconsin Glacial period, when sea levels were much lower than they are today, Grant Harley at the University of Southern Mississippi said.
Bald Cypress trees can live 1,000 years, he said.
"These stumps are so big, they're upwards of two meters (6 feet) in diameter --- the size of trucks," Harley said. "They probably contain thousands of growth rings."
Now that it's been uncovered the forest will eventually be destroyed by wood-burrowing marine animals, making it impossible to perform radiocarbon dating, Harley said.
Since being uncovered the forest has attracted fish, crustaceans, sea anemones and other underwater life burrowing between the roots of dislodged stumps, researchers said.
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You are a SAP
by Anonymous October 23, 2003
When you see a person looking sad or down.
"Man what's wrong with him today, over there looking sap."
by Ms.Johnson January 11, 2014
An adjective and acronymn. stands for Stupid And Poor. Usually in reference to someone who is annoying, unoriginal, and pretends to fit it.
Juan is so full of BS.
Yea, he is so SAP.
by HonestDave April 06, 2010
SAP is an acronym for "Stress Anxiety Pain".
The feelings felt when implementing or using SAP software for the first time, and second time, and third time, and ...
by Sappy January 11, 2007
Stabbing Ass Pain - the most intense, excrutiating sharp pain that originates at the anal opening, comes on unexpectedly, and causes you to squeeze your butt cheeks shut, hoping to cut off the pain before it continues to shoot up into your upper ass area. generally very embarrassing, as it has a tendency to occur in public situations.
by WigglesMe November 23, 2006
The first of the two EPs Alice in Chains put out. It's way different than their other stuff, seeing how it's all acoustic. Since it's an EP, it's pretty short, being only four songs long (Five if you count the hidden track). There also a few guest singers on Sap as well, notably Chris Cornell and the singer from Heart. Unlike Alice in Chains' previous album, Facelift, Sap seemed to trade loud and fast electric guitar for slower rhythyms and more meaningful lyrics.
Sap's an great EP. The hidden track on it sure did piss off a bunch of people.
by Rastablowtorch September 19, 2005
To mess up your chances of hooking up with a member of the opposite sex by acting foolish at the last minute.
"I had her in bed, but then I told her that I just wanted a physical relationship and she bolted!" "Wow, you sure saps that one up."
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