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Over its six years of activity, Spirit traveled 4.8 miles.
Spirit's farewell will be broadcasted next week on NASA TV.
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RE: it goes like a lightning
By Motoman on 5/25/2011 3:33:38 PM , Rating: 1
Meh. That only wasted a few million dollars.
Now, with the national debt at like 1.2 trillion dollars...
RE: it goes like a lightning
By geddarkstorm on 5/25/2011 3:51:53 PM , Rating: 2
Isn't it something projected to be around 14 trillion now? At least, those were the last round of numbers I heard flying around. I sure hope it's only 1.2 trillion...
RE: it goes like a lightning
By drycrust3 on 5/25/2011 4:23:57 PM , Rating: 2
Isn't it something projected to be around 14 trillion now?
Yep! $14,349,171,xxx,xxx.
RE: it goes like a lightning
By TSS on 5/26/2011 6:47:29 AM , Rating: 2
Eh, no. That's the *Federal*, or national, debt.
The TOTAL US debt is actually $55,3 trillion, according to That includes Household, Business, State Local and federal governments and financial institutions.
And that's not even counting social security, which has started running permanent deficits and has a $2,7 trillion trust funds consisting of government treasuries, or loans to the government which the government will have to pay up pretty soon in order to meet social security obligations.
And let us not forget medicare and medicaid.
IMO though this isn't the most shocking information found on The most shocking thing is the "total government spending", or state, local and federal government spending combined. $6,85 trillion!
From wikipedia:
One of the main reasons for the cancellation of the Apollo program was the cost. In 1966, NASA received its biggest budget of US$4.5 billion, about 0.5 percent of the GDP of the United States at that time. In 1969, the cost of a Saturn V including launch was US $ 185 million (inflation adjusted US$ 1.11 billion in 2011)
So to put these numbers in perspective:
Your National debt can buy you 12973 Saturn V launches.
Your Total debt can buy you 49820 Saturn V launches.
Your Total Liability can buy you 102702 Saturn V launches.
EVERY YEAR, the federal government spends as much as 3204 Saturn V launches
EVERY YEAR, the total government spends as much as 6171 Saturn V launches
The Nasa Apollo program was canceled because it was too expensive, after 12 launches.
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RE: it goes like a lightning
By FITCamaro on 5/25/2011 4:07:09 PM , Rating: 2
You mean deficit. And its at $1.6 trillion.
RE: it goes like a lightning
By quiksilvr on 5/26/2011 2:11:19 AM , Rating: 2
And am I the only one that forgot about Challenger and Columbia? I'm not saying NASA is terrible but its far from perfect.
RE: it goes like a lightning
By Chaosforce on 5/26/2011 9:30:19 AM , Rating: 2
If it was perfect it wouldnt be human.
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Our tax dollars at work
By AssSpelunker on 1/3/2013 2:05:33 PM , Rating: 4
$617 million for an unnecessary change that most will see as a difficult to use "downgrade"... Makes sense
RE: Our tax dollars at work
By retrospooty on 1/3/2013 2:12:56 PM , Rating: 3
Yup... that is one shining example of what goes on everywhere. The DOD did that, and another govt. branch buys 200 standard wooden handle hammers at $199 each, while another pays 8x the going rate for carpet to have the office re-carpeted. Why? The software maker, tool manufacturer and carpet company paid hefty campaign contributions to both dems and reps in congress to vote their way when needed and grant lucrative contracts to... That is where our money goes. Its not really "mis-spending" and "inefficiency" so much as it is downright crime.
RE: Our tax dollars at work
By chripuck on 1/3/2013 2:41:52 PM , Rating: 1
You clearly have no clue how budgeting works in any large organization, government or otherwise.
The facts are as simple as this: if you don't use your budget in full this year, it WILL be reduced next year. What commanding officer, SVP or other leader wants their allotment of the pie to be smaller? None, so they spend it on anything they can so that their budget stays the same.
There are no shadow organizations, lobbyists don't have direct access to the DoD and a few senators don't have the collective push to force someone who reports to the President to do their bidding. Stop drinking the kool-aid...
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RE: Our tax dollars at work
By Zuul on 1/3/2013 3:57:14 PM , Rating: 2
I agree - often people completely do not understand how budgeting works.
I'm just glad they actually bought something they could use. In a few places i've worked, some teams will have extra budget at the end of the year and end up buying things like pickup trucks that they just dump in the middle of some mudhole so they don't lose that part of their budget.
If you have a surplus in your budget, they simply deduct that surplus out of your budget next year. The incentive to save money happens at the transactional level while there's no incentive to save at a budget level. A few companies have been looking at zero-based budgeting. However, that puts significant administrative burden because before you get dollars, you have to justify every dollar spent upfront. In theory it sounds good, in practice, it prevents the company from being more nimble and prolongs the procurement cycle.
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RE: Our tax dollars at work
By Zaranthos on 1/3/2013 5:11:05 PM , Rating: 3
Mmm, kool-aid. Because our massive debt shouldn't make anyone think about spending less because spending more is the best thing for the country. Fail.
RE: Our tax dollars at work
By timothyd97402 on 1/3/2013 3:41:11 PM , Rating: 2
Do much research first or just spout off with anecdotes that have been floating around for years? I am sick of government bashing clods tearing down our country.
There probably is a graft, corruption, wink and nod going on. If you have any evidence there are whistleblower hotlines to call. If you don't why are you posting?
RE: Our tax dollars at work
Do you really think this stuff happens by accident?
RE: Our tax dollars at work
By Paj on 1/4/2013 7:21:03 AM , Rating: 4
But hey, its OK to fund the military industrial complex and make a bunch of cool planes and stuff, amirite?
RE: Our tax dollars at work
RE: Our tax dollars at work
There is NO excuse for viruses in business.
RE: Our tax dollars at work
Pot, its the kettle, you're black.
RE: Our tax dollars at work
By Zok on 1/3/2013 2:26:10 PM , Rating: 2
It may sound like a waste, but you have to consider that the DoD employs ~ 700,000 civilians and ~1,420,000 active duty military personnel (plus 1,100,000 reserves). If you only include civilians and active duty military, that's under $300/person for licenses for Windows, Office, Sharepoint, and (most importantly!) top-tier support. Additionally, it's likely that there are more license "seats" than personnel (there are more PCs than people), plus licenses for reserves, it may very well be under $200 per seat. That's a very good deal if you ask me.
RE: Our tax dollars at work
This just in Start8 sings a contract for 10mil.
RE: Our tax dollars at work
Difficult to use? Really? Sorry but it's not.
RE: Our tax dollars at work
By nafhan on 1/3/2013 5:16:19 PM , Rating: 3
I think you're wrong. That's not what's going on here. From the DOD press release:
The deal, led by the Army Contracting Command in collaboration with the Defense Information Systems Agency, the Army and the Air Force, demonstrates the best pricing DOD has received to date for Microsoft desktop and server software licenses , officials said.
It sounds like MS is offering them a (massive?) discount to start using Windows 8. They also specifically mention the AF saving $50 mil per year and the Army saving $70 mil per year.
At the same time, while it's hardly a "major score" for MS in monetary terms, it certainly is in terms of installed users.
RE: Our tax dollars at work
Not this crap again.
RE: Our tax dollars at work
By rsmech on 1/6/2013 11:37:41 PM , Rating: 2
what is technology is 8 lacking that 7 has? Where is it a downgrade.
RE: Our tax dollars at work
By dragonbif on 1/7/2013 12:41:04 PM , Rating: 2
Hate to tell you this but when you renew your agreement with Microsoft it is always for the latest software. They would not let you do one for say Windows XP or NT. We renew ours every year but we could do a 3 years like the DOD did.
This is standard stuff so I do not see a problem with it considering how many PCs they must have.
O and you do not have to buy PCs with the OEM Windows installed.
RE: Our tax dollars at work
By dragonbif on 1/7/2013 12:45:10 PM , Rating: 2
One more thing, you do not have to install Windows 8. With most agreements you can go back to the previous OS as long as it is still supported by Microsoft.
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By MercenaryForHire on 7/19/2006 3:29:19 PM , Rating: 1
"Embedded" does not always equal "handheld/PDA/cellphone."
By TomZ on 7/19/2006 10:30:47 PM , Rating: 2
That's very true, but outside of that space the battery requirement drops out but the x86 requirement still doesn't drop in. I only see x86 in some applications like industrial control where PC hardware is re-used in small form factors like PC/104 in order to leverage PC development tools. Beyond that, x86 is too inefficient to be able to compete with other architectures like PowerPC, ARM, etc. in high-volume applications, because they are simpler, cheaper, and also typically include a bunch of on-board peripherals that are specialized for a particular task (e.g., engine control). The low end of the microcontroller market is really competitive, and x86 offerings have no traction there.
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History 241
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Alexander the Great
In regards to the concept of the a social order in Greek community, it is necessary
to first explain the background of the importance of human character to the Greeks and
the impact it made on the lifestyle of the Greek people. Although political and social
order varied among the Macedonians and the Greeks, it appeared that both regions had
the same goal in mind. Disregarding levels of actual power prior to the following events
described, the desired outcome was for glory and overall excellence for the regions
themselves. I believe because of this common ambition, the stage was set for a powerful
leader such as Alexander. Although his father preceded him in bringing the two rival
regions together, Alexander exhibited a drive for excellence and superior achievement
that was, and arguably still is, unparalleled in comparison to other leaders. I believe, after
careful consideration of the text, that it is safe to say that Alexander the Great
demonstrated a representation of the ultimate Greek citizen.
To begin this argument, one must first consider the upbringing and the context of
Alexander’s childhood. I believe the external environment that Alexander faced as a very
young child and the pressures he witnessed regarding fame and glory for the Greek
citizens fueled his desire for grandiose achievement among his peers. At birth, Alexander
had a supposed ancestry that would compel him to the desire of following in the path of
greatness. Romm describes Alexander’s ancestry to supposedly trace back to significant
heroes such as Zeus, Heracles, and Achilles (1). Also, Romm notes speculation that
Alexander’s mother, Olympia, may have actually urged Alexander to believe that he was
a son of a god and “encouraged him in this belief (2). As Alexander grew into childhood,
his ambition only grew stronger. Arrian even suggests that Alexander did not appear
delighted in his father’s, Philip, military achievements due to the worry that he would not
have as many notable successes once he took his father’s place as the king (4).
Alexander’s drive for glory led him into battle at the young age of eighteen where he
incurred his first victory as a military leader (7). While the downfall of Philip is a somber
one, I believe that in seeing his father as a weak individual overtaken by love affairs and
drunkenness pushed Alexander into a stronger state. It appeared that he felt a duty to the
community of Greece to create a strong world power and out do even the most
recognizable accomplishments of his late father.
The beginning of Alexander’s desire for conquering the world drove the region of
Greece and Macedonia into overdrive. After the accomplishments of his first battle,
Alexander almost seemed ravenous for new lands to conquer and additional
accomplishments to achieve. Arrian describes the actions of Alexander as “numerous”
and “momentous” (36). In his first battle with the mighty power of Persia, Alexander
showed no restraint in his desires to press forward into battle with no hesitation. With this
valor, he felt that the best weapon he carried was intimidation in the form of fearlessness
and the discount of risk (37). In the true form a Greek citizen, the drive for power led
Alexander away from the worry of hazard and misfortune but instead to mindset of
warfare that would “prevent the opponent from gaining confidence” (38). In the
aftermath of the victory against the Persians, Alexander again displayed virtues and
values of the Greek citizen in his honoring of the fallen and injured soldiers in his troops
with honorable funerals, tax exemptions, and encouragement of the exaggeration of war
activity for those still living (41).
In his attempts to overcome the region of Tyre, Alexander displayed, arguably,
his most notable attribute; his warfare intellect. With no repression from his troops in
moving forward with battle, he embarked on the difficult task of overcoming the city
(60). Based on the text, it is clear that the intimidation of the swift attack depicted a scene
of the enemy in flight and a clear and concise victory for Alexander once again (65).
Before a significant amount of time could pass and the victorious conclusion could be
celebrated, Alexander was already in the mindset for the next battle. He had his eyes set
on Egypt and was prepared to set off on yet again another siege. It appeared that
Alexander had an insatiable desire for power and achievement and would stop at nothing
(69). However, conquering Egypt would not be as difficult as possibly the battle at Tyre
or Granicus due to Alexander’s belief that the Egyptians would welcome the powerful
Alexander as a liberator and not a tyrant (71).
In his next battle against Darius, Alexander displays a level of bravery and pride,
in my opinion, above anything else. While the opportunity was open to confuse the
Persians at night and overwhelm them with surprise, Alexander dutifully declined and
noted that an attack at night would not be a true victory and instead would a stolen one.
His level of pride induced him to win battles against enemies completely void of trickery
and dishonesty. Alexander would do everything in his power to prove that he was the
superior figure in battle (79). It is seen, once again, that the intimidation factor exhibited
from Alexander’s army sent the enemy into flight, ending in another major victory for the
Greeks (81). After the death of Darius, Romm states that Alexander was able to “claim
ruler ship of all the lands that compromised the former Persian Empire and he might well
have ended his campaign then and there” (94). This was not the case whatsoever for
It is important to note that although Alexander never appeared to falter in his
intelligence of warfare, he did fall into a problem of “moral transgression” (103). The
implementation of a new respect code, differences in wardrobe, and an overall lifestyle
change could all be thrown into the argument that Alexander began to exhibit the
opposite of the ultimate Greek citizen. However, I feel it is important to consider that a
major part of Greek lifestyle is the opinion one would hold of his self. It never appeared
that Alexander conceded that he had let down his Greek counterparts in his lifestyle
change. Instead, he set himself up with more pride and self-induced honor for his land
and citizens than before.
In his final battles, Alexander displayed a continued self-inflicted idea of
superiority (126). This confidence continually gave him the edge it took for a final
victory and allowed him to die undefeated in battle. In one of his final speeches to his
troops, he was presented with a situation of dealing with weak spirited soldiers who were
no longer energetic about following his regiment of conquering more land (158). In his
moment of frustration with the lack of desire for conquest from many of his peers, he did
not sway from his pride and explained how the soldiers have things only because of the
sacrifices and hardships that Alexander himself went through (161). Although his speech
rallied the troops into conceding to a final battle, Alexander had lost his way and lacked
the support from those who stood by before with not question.
Although Alexander died with the question of issues of delusion and egotistical
problems, I view his accomplishments in much higher regard than his downfalls. I
believe that Arrian displays a very relevant point in stating that although he had
incidences of selfishness and partook in mistakes, he had no issue of admitting them and
going even further to be incredibly remorseful about them (172). Because of this, I cannot
say that I would view him in his entirety as egotistical and selfish, but instead merely
human with the capacity of making mistakes. Alexander was born a proud boy and died a
proud man. In a region that views pride and glory in such high regard, I believe this
proves that Alexander was a great example of the ultimate Greek citizen.
James Romm. Alexander the Great: Selections from Arrian, Diodorus, Plutarch, and
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Do you even buy DLC?
#2TreGoodaPosted 10/28/2013 3:36:44 PM
I buy DLC but I don't really care.
#3sworderPosted 10/28/2013 3:37:18 PM
I don't buy DLC and I don't care. And yes, of course they pay
#4BrownGottiPosted 10/28/2013 3:38:11 PM
As this means is that ms offered more money than sony.
#5whitelytningPosted 10/28/2013 3:48:21 PM
I "care" in that it is great for me as one of their customers. Positive thing.
#6streamjumperPosted 10/28/2013 4:36:42 PM
Not really, since I'm getting that early. And it is better for all involved that they're not pulling a Sony and paying for one or two exclusive missions that are pretty damn weak in every instance I'm aware of.
Darwin, set the Wayback Machine...
#7chrish909Posted 10/28/2013 4:38:47 PM
Nobody cares, except tc
This is why I'm never going to get a ps4
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I buy DLC when it drops in price, usually after the "get it first on xbox" thing is over.
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I hope you're not implying that Sony doesn't.
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Don't care.
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Golf goes downscale in South Korea
Amid economic crisis, more are opting for a cheaper, and less realistic, version of the game.
SEOUL — Men strut down a brightly lit hallway in pressed suits and polished shoes, their golf bags slung over their shoulders. Within minutes their neckties are off, and an 18-hole game is in full swing.
Welcome to screen golf, one of the few industries that has seen skyrocketing growth during the current economic downturn. Its draw: a cheap price tag.
With temperatures rising, March is usually when golfers here begin to flock to outdoor country clubs. But industry officials say that the number of country club bookings is down 20 percent from this time last year.
“We’ve been hit hard by the economy, even though our club is close to Seoul and the prices (are) relatively cheap,” said an official from a public golf course an hour away from the country’s capital. He said course officials are considering lowering prices to draw more people.
Virtual golf centers have no such problem.
There are roughly 3,000 screen golf clubs across the country, which together draw more than 15 million people, according to estimates from 2008 made by the leading system manufacturing company in the country Golfzon.
Here's how the centers work: They have rooms equipped with wall-size screens that project images of real golf courses across the world. Players hit a real ball from a tuft of artificial grass on the ground towards the screen. A sensor does the math based on the angle and strength of impact, and the player "travels" on the course to wherever the ball supposedly dropped.
“It is in the rough,” a computerized woman’s voice politely announces whenever the ball falls outside the fairway into thick grass.
Teeing off on a virtual fairway will set you back 25,000 won to 35,000 won (between $18 and $25). By contrast, a regular game on a real golf course would cost almost 10 times that amount.
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August 1983
A brown haired boy ran out of a small home, a broom in one hand and a blue jumper in the other.
“Oliver aren't you going to have lunch?” Called out his mother, running out into the garden after him. He turned around, holding up his broom impatiently.
“I'm late mum!” He called back slipping on his jumper. His mother gave up, shaking her head. Her son was always enthusiastic when it came to flying.
“Alright,” she began as he mounted on his broom. “But please come back home right after your done.”
“Okay mum!” He yelled, his hands holding his broom tightly. Giving his mother one last wave, he flew off towards the other side of the valley where the other kids were waiting to play a game of Quidditch.
If he made it maybe, just maybe, they'd let him play on the team rather than reserve. Oliver smiled to himself, he was sure that he was good enough. After all, he had practiced everyday for the past few months. The wind whipped through his hair as he felt his smile grow wider.
Already he could see the pitch get closer, Oliver began to lower his height. Below him there was already a large group of kids.
As usual, the kids were divided into two groups. Those dressed in blue lived on the northern side of the valley those dressed in silver lived on the southern side. All of them held their brooms and watched as Oliver ran towards them.
Some scoffed, others chuckled. One of the boys though, snorted.
“Really Cromwell, this is who we were waiting for?” Asked the tall eleven year old. He swung his bat as if trying to intimidate Oliver who, although small for his age, stood up to him.
“You got a problem with that?” Asked a boy from behind him who was also dressed in blue. He was skinny with bright blue eyes and dark hair. He narrowed his eyes at the blonde boy who scoffed.
Oliver frowned pushing his way in between the two boys. “Hanyes,” he said to the boy who held the bat. “Ashdown!” The boy with the blue eyes scoffed.
“It's Elliot, Oliver!”
Oliver scoffed turning to Haynes who smirked.
“So he's gonna be your Keeper, Cromwell?”
The other eleven year old nodded his dark eyes, determined. The other group of boys walked away leaving a small girl behind. She wore purple robes and had curly brown hair.
Laura Waters, the one whose family lived right in the middle of the two sides hence she was always their referee.
“Okay, five minutes to get a plan going then I'm letting go of the snitch!” Yelled the bossy six year-old sitting on top of large brown crate.
“Oh shut up, Laura!” yelled Elliot as he was pulled away by an overexcited Oliver who currently followed their captain to the other side of the pitch.
The pitch wasn't like the ones used in the league, but it was something. It used to be for Quadpot, until some had the brilliant idea to modify it so the children could play Quidditch, something Oliver would be forever grateful for.
The group of seven stood together huddled in a circle. “Kevin can we just play?” Asked little Sophia Kerr who was currently their seeker. Kevin frowned.
“NO!” He yelled, causing her to pout. Kevin turned to a pair of boys who were whispering amongst themselves. “Lynch! Adrian!”
They looked up, smiling. “Yes, Kevin?” Said Adrian, holding his bat to his chest.
“Just stop joking around! I'd like to win for once!” He turned to Oliver who simply stood there waiting for instructions.
“Wood, right?”
Oliver nodded fervently. Elliot snickered.
“Okay, you ever played Keeper before?”
Oliver opened his mouth to speak. Usually, his dad just charmed an old Quaffle they had to try and get past Oliver, but that didn't count as playing did it?
Kevin slid his hand down his face letting out a string of words that made Oliver blush and Elliot laugh even louder.
“So what Kevin, let the boy show us what he's got,” said one of the chasers, a ten year-old that live next to Oliver by the name of Harold Kerr, their seekers older brother.
Laura sounded the whistle and the team went into their positions.
Nervously, Oliver took his place at his side of the pitch, trying to avoid Kevin's glare. It was his chance to show them that he wasn't some little kid.
The whistle was blown again; the snitch was released and the quaffle was thrown into the air.
Chasers collided into each other, each trying to get their hands on the small red ball. Kevin had it and skillfully wove his way through the crowd.
He attempted a shot and succeeded, though the quaffle landed in the hands of Ian Haynes who darted his way in Oliver's direction. He tightened the grip on his broom, remembering his father's words.
Remember, Oliver, a Keeper has to have the ability to observe a chaser's behavior, learn how to pick that up quickly and you'll get better in no time.”
The boy took a deep breath as Ian lifted the quaffle over his head. He was going to throw to the right, but at the last moment Oliver took a risk and stayed rooted to where he stood.
It hit his chest hard knocking the wind out of him and almost knocked Oliver off his broom.
He smiled as Haynes simply floated in the air, his mouth hung open. He raised the quaffle over his head and threw it over to Harold who whistled.
“Told ya Kevin!”
That day for the first time the children of the north won a Quidditch game.
August 1987
Oliver groaned to himself as his mother spoke to a blonde witch. Madam Malkin's Robes was full of soon to be first years, all of them there to get their robes too.
He turned to his right; there was a blonde boy who too, wore a bored expression as he stared at himself in the mirror. His robes looked like they were made from an expensive material.
“What are you staring at?” Oliver looked away. Embarrassed, he shook his head.
“Nothing, I was just bored.” Oliver answered biting his bottom lip. “I'm Oliver Wood. What's your name?”
“Terrence Higgs,” answered the blonde boy wearing a smug look he looked at himself in the mirror again. “So, are going to Hogwarts too?”
Oliver nodded as Madam Malkin walked past them.
“What house were your parents in?”
“Everyone in my family has been in Ravenclaw,” answered Oliver, quietly taking a glance at his mother who smiled politely at something the witch had said. Terrence nodded.
“Well, I want to be in Slytherin,” said the boy proudly. “It's where the truly brilliant are.” Oliver turned over to the mirror. It was the first time he had asked himself where would he end up.
Ravenclaw? No he wasn't nearly clever enough.
Slytherin? He shuddered at the thought.
Hufflepuff? It didn't sound too bad; they were kind and hard working.
Gryffindor? He stared at his reflection, it was the house for the brave or as his father said, 'the reckless.'
Oliver felt himself smile, he liked the sound of that. “I want to be in Gryffindor, or Hufflepuff,” he said tilting his head a bit.
Terrence snorted. “It's full of mudbloods!”
Oliver turned so quickly he fell from his stool. Mudblood was a disgusting word, one he was raised to never use or tolerate.
Terrence laughed as Oliver stood up trying not to fall over the excess of his robes. “How could you even say that?” Yelled the young Scot furiously. He felt someone tap his shoulder.
“Sorry, is this where I can get my robes?” He turned to face a small red-haired girl her face was lightly freckled and she had big green eyes. She blushed, turning towards Terrence. “It's my first time here.” She explained, running her fingers through her hair.
“Torn clothes,” observed Terrence, tilting his head. “No knowledge of wizards...”
“Shut up, Higgs!” Roared Oliver, suddenly jumping at the boy before he could go on. The girl screamed, bringing the attention of the two women that stood outside.
“OLIVER WOOD!” He heard his mother bellow as punched the boy who was currently choking him.
“This is outrageous!” Yelled Madam Malkin, dropping what she held. Pulling out her wand, with a flick she separated the boys.
Oliver felt blood drip from his nose as his mother grabbed him. Before he could speak, Terrence pointed at him, yelling.
“Mother, he hit me!” Terrance yelled. The blonde woman glared at Oliver’s mother as her son went on. “All because I simply said-”
“You said the 'M' word!” He turned to his mother who frowned.
“ M-word dear?” she asked. Oliver nodded fervently.
“The bad one for muggle-borns!”
Madam Malkin gasped when she realized what was happening.
The red haired girl snapped her fingers.
“You mean Mudblood!”
The way she said it, the witches knew she knew nothing of its meaning. “It’s what some people have been calling me all day!”
“Out! I cannot believe this vocabulary!”
Mrs. Higgs pulled her son out of the shop, glaring at Mrs.Wood and Madam Malkin. “Gladly!”
“Don't call yourself that dear,” said Oliver's mother, kneeling to stand level with the small girl. “It's an awful word.”
“Really? Wow, people are mean,” she said turning to Oliver who held his nose.
“Mum?” She pulled out her wand and with a flick Oliver's nose had stopped bleeding.
“Listen, my name is Elaine Wood and this is my son Oliver,” she held the small girl's hand. “What's your name?”
“Me? Oh, I'm Robin Watson” Oliver saw his mother's eyes soften.
“Your parents?”
“I'm here alone-”
“Then don't worry, Oliver and I will help you-”
“Me?” Asked Oliver. His mother turned to him with a frown.
“Yes, Oliver Holden Wood,” She whispered so low only he could hear. Oliver nodded with a strained smile. “Now, come dear so we can get your robes.”
Oliver sighed. Today was going to a long day.
And he was right. They walked up and down Diagon Alley to get their school supplies. Elaine even bought Oliver and Robin each a bowl of ice cream. At first the redhead refused to take it but at Mrs. Wood's insistence, she agreed.
At nightfall, Mrs. Wood walked out to muggle London where she met up with a rather sour-looking woman. Oliver watched Robin wave good-bye as she walked away with all her bags in hand.
His mother turned to him. “Now for you young man-”
“Mum, I'm sorry,” began Oliver as she sighed, even if school started in only a week he didn't want to spend that time locked in his room. “But he was going to call her a you-know-what and I had-”
“Oliver dear it's alright,” she put her hand on his shoulder and squeezed it a bit. “That was very noble of you, just try not to use your fist next time.”
He nodded as she took his hand looking sideways they both vanished.
September 1st 1987
Oliver stood on the platform, staring at the great scarlet steam engine. The whistle blew as he began to board. Behind him people called out to their parents, others were already talking to their friends about their holidays.
He knew his parents were watching and with one last glance over his shoulder he waved his last good-bye, only to see they were already gone.
“Move already!” He heard a voice yell as they pushed him inside. Oliver landed flat on his face in the middle of the hall bringing laughter to those around him.
He felt his face turn red as he stood up with a bit of help from a tall lanky boy in front of him. “Thank you,” he muttered, noticing the silver badge on his black jumper.
Oliver looked up at the boy, he had flaming red hair that was barely past his ears and bright blue eyes. “It's okay,” he said kindly. “Just so you know not everyone's like that, I'm Bill.”
Bill walked past him. “I have to go now but in case anything happens,” he pointed to his badge “I'm Prefect, so just let me know!”
Oliver waved as he walked away now looking for a compartment. Perhaps he could even find Sophia and Harold.
Fifteen minutes later, he managed to find Sophia who sat alone eating what seemed to be her weight in chocolate frogs. “Hello, Ollie!” She yelled, a little to excited. He sat across from her staring down at the pile of sweets.
“Sophia, you’re not going to eat all that, are you?”
She looked up at him, her light eyes filled up with water. “I-I do-d-don't know.” Sophia began taking short breaths. Oliver simply stared, frozen.
“What if I end up in the w-w-w-rong hou-u-use?” She sniffled, offering Oliver a chocolate. He shook his head deciding she was more in need than he. Oliver knew that whatever house she ended up in her parents who be proud. Unlike his father who would be disappointed if he became anything other than a Ravenclaw.
“I don't think-”
“What house do you want to be in?” She asked, biting back her tears. Oliver turned towards the window.
“I don't know.”
The castle was far more majestic than he had imagined. He could only stared as they sailed towards it under the night sky. Under them the water reflected the beautiful starry night, causing some to keep their eyes on the water, except for one boy who sat behind Oliver reciting spells under his breath.
“Could you stop, it's annoying,” snapped the Scot as they walked off the boats. The skinny boy frowned wearing a smug look.
“Let's see what you'll do when we get sorted!”
He walked past Oliver who followed the first years up into the castle. Inside, a few gasped and some laughed at the portraits. Some even stopped to speak to them until a strict looking woman called for them to group up.
“Welcome to your first year at Hogwarts,” she began looking at them over her glasses. Oliver reminded himself to never cross this woman.
“Wonder how we get sorted?” asked Sophia, pulling on his robes. Oliver shrugged as he his head become light and his mouth begin to dry.
It was now or never.
The door before them opened ,welcoming them in to the Great Hall were the other students sat all of the staring at … a hat.
An old leather hat on a stool, Oliver taken aback stared until the hat opened it's mouth and broke out in song.
“That is so wicked!” Squealed Sophia who had gotten over her anxiety attack from the train ride. “A singing hat!”
“Will you two shut up?” Again it was the boy with glasses. Sophia raised her eyebrow at him as he spun around.
“Idiot.” Huffed Sophia, sticking out her tongue.
“Sophia!” Hissed Oliver pulling on her robe.
Professor McGonagall, as she called herself earlier pulled out a list and began calling out names. Oliver clenched his jaw. Great, he'd be last.
“Ashdown, Elliot”
“Gryffindor!” The blue eyed boy ran off to hix table and took a seat next to a dark haired boy.
The list went on: Perreginn Derrick was a Slytherin, Garden Lane a Hufflepuff, Terrence Higgs, the boy from the robe shop, was a Slytherin.
Oliver was already feeling queasy.
“Kerr, Sophia”
Sophia pushed Oliver, almost knocking him over as she ran to the stool, only to be declared a Ravenclaw.
The list went on until there were only three left. A red haired girl, a flaming orange haired boy, and Oliver.
“Watson, Robin.” It took a minute before she was declared at Gryffindor and another before Weasley, Percy too was a Gryffindor.
“Wood, Oliver”
He walked up to the stool, slowly dreading what his fate would be.
Determined, hard-working, and honest...
Oliver swallowed taking a glance at Sophia who smiled, then one at Elliot who gave him a quick thumbs up.
He could hear his own heartbeat as he smiled wildly.
Oliver Wood the newest addition to Gryffindor house.
He had to admit it had a nice ring to it.
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Behind The Scenes
MC Ren
Now this is the bitch who makes straight A's,
but never got to leave out of the house back in de dayz
and when she was at school she gave people dirty looks,
she always carried books and thought me and my friends were crooks,
you always see the bitch in the classes,
she never wore pants she wore a dress and some glasses,
teachers used to rag, she was the teacher's pet,
every nigguz used to brag how much they want to make her wet,
straight to her butt 'cause yo she ain't tall,
but you would say fuck her when you saw the bitch walk,
ass hanging out by the pawn,
and that's another reason why niggaz wanted to get her panties down,
she kept to herself in the hallways,
and never looked at niggaz like old day,
and when the last bell rang she was gone,
so one day I decided to follow the bitch home,
her mother was at work she would'nt get home 'till 6,
so it was time for ren to put the bitch in the mix,
'cause back in the school it was every nigguz dream,
so now it's time to get a closer look behind the scene!
"all the pimps, the hores, the pulldaggers, the cocksuckers,
gave 100$ bill just to see"
now I made it to her house but she would'nt let me in yo,
so I said fuck it, smack around to the window,
she get into the room and start to undress,
now I'm biting on my lips saying "damn this bitch is blessed!"
the doorbell rang, it was the nextdoor neighbor,
and he was axing up could she do him a favour,
she grabbed de nigga's hand and took him in the room,
and laid on the back as he fucked her with a broom,
she said she wanted back up so then she said,
she wanted him to eat the pussy so she grabbed his head,
and he started eating it like a thanks-given dinner,
he made the bitch come and then he put his dick up in her,
she smashed up his back with the cloth,
but she was screaming so loud he had to gaggle with his toes,
but after they finish fucking yo the bitch took a shower,
to wash off the sweat from the last half hour,
the bitch put out some bud and then she started to smoke,
took his wicked jack daddy and made a few miles of cock,
the nigga said shit gotta go,
bcuz this innocent little girl is a whore!
"nobody in .. my neighborhood" MiX
now I went back to school the very next day,
and I knew that my niggaz won't believe what I had to say,
I told them what I saw and nigguz said "yeah right",
so I told the mothafuckaz to come over there tonight,
now there's 10 real niggaz at her window,
waiting to see a whore like alamat natio(?)
they thought that I was lying 'cause we waited 1 hour,
and when we started to leave the bitch walked out da shower,
ass on the round the bitch do it in her bed,
her bottomlips was hanging and she started fingerbanging,
her daddy walked in and started beating her with a belt,
the bitch was so hot she made the leather start to melt,
but she was liking it,
yelling "daddy give it to me harder",
then he took off all his cloth and start fucking his doughter,
my niggaz outside did'nt believe what they would see-some,
but when her mama got home, they turned into a threesome,
her mama ate the pussy while her daddy doggy sounded,
the family freak together and they also laid together,
I could'nt take them all 'cause I was too much of a man,
so I jumped back to the window with my dick in my hand,
The hand in the money kept to her neighbors' door,
'cause now it was even it was 2 against 2,
but a couple minutes after I was in,
all my niggaz jumped in all 10 yo behind the scenes!
"This is the bitches and the ho's crew"
"yes daddy I love you"
"She like suckin' on dicks .. and lickin' on nutts .. and they even take
the broomstick on her butt!"
Written by SCOTT, STEPHEN H.
Published by Universal Music Publishing Group, EMI Music Publishing
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Google Wardriving: How Engineering Trumped Privacy
Blame the Street View data collection practices on a "more is more" engineering mindset. And rethink your notions about privacy for unencrypted Wi-Fi data.
During a two-year period, Google captured oodles of Wi-Fi data worldwide as part of its Street View program. But why?
Blame the engineering ethos that's prevalent at high-technology companies like Google. You know the "more is more" mindset: more bells and whistles equals greater goodness.
Of course some technology giants, including Apple and Google, have produced products or services that succeed by distilling that approach. Rather than cramming every last feature into their products, these companies include only the best ones. For example, compare the 2003-era iPod to its rivals, or Google Search to its predecessors.
But an unfiltered engineering mindset would help explain the apparent thinking behind the Street View wardriving program: "Well, if this Wi-Fi data is flying around and no one is encrypting it, what reasonable expectation do they have that it won't be sniffed and stored?"
The "Engineer Doe" responsible for adding full payload data capture to the Street View program invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination, and refused to be deposed by government lawyers. The FCC, meanwhile, only learned his identity--redacted from all documents Google had initially provided to the agency--because Google had disclosed it to state investigators. While the state in question wasn't named, a former state investigator who worked on the Google case has identified the engineer as Marius Milner, a former Lucent Technologies employee who joined Google in 2003.
Despite that revelation, we're still left to guess at his exact thoughts and motivations. Notably, however, he wasn't the only Google employee interested in the data. True, at first, Google blamed the entire episode on a "rogue engineer" who was hungry for the product possibilities such data might afford. But Google design documents later provided to the Federal Communications Commission demonstrated that managers had commissioned the wardriving program, to help them build Wi-Fi maps.
"As Street View testing progressed, Google engineers decided that the Company should also use the Street View for 'wardriving,' which is the practice of driving streets and using equipment to locate LANs using Wi-Fi, such as wireless hotspots at coffee shops and home wireless networks," according to the FCC's report. "By collecting information about Wi-Fi networks (such as the MAC address, SSID, and strength of signal received from the wireless access point) and associating it with global positioning system (GPS) information, companies can develop maps of wireless access points for use in location-based services."
Milner, the previously unnamed engineer that Google tapped to add the wardriving capabilities, went further by adding code to also record all unencrypted packets--or what's known as payload data--within range of Google's Street View cars, which he "thought might prove useful for other Google service," according to the FCC's report. Managers also signed off on these design documents, and at least one senior manager later asked the engineer to review the wardriving data set for interesting Web navigation statistics.
New Privacy Questions, Old Laws
Why didn't the initial payload-data-capture decision face legal review? Likely because Google is a company built by engineers, and run by engineers. The code rules. And in fact, Google employees told the FCC that anyone working full-time on the Street View project was allowed to modify the code--no approval needed--if they thought they could improve it.
But capturing payload data raises numerous privacy questions. Indeed, investigators in other countries found that the data captured by Google's Street View software--the same software was likely employed in the United States--could be highly sensitive. A 2010 report from Canada's Office of the Privacy Commissioner, for example, noted that it was "troubled to have found instances of particularly sensitive information, including computer login credentials (i.e., usernames and passwords), the details of legal infractions, and certain medical listings."
In 2011, meanwhile, France's Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertes examined a sample of payload data collected by Google in France, and found 656 MB of information, "including passwords for Internet sites and data related to Internet navigation, including passwords for Internet sites and data relating to online dating and pornographic sites," according to the FCC report. The French report suggests that combining the location data, together with the 6 MB of email data recovered--including details of at least one extramarital affair--would have allowed data miners to learn people's names, addresses, sexual preferences, and more.
If "more is more" rules for engineers, the privacy default is traditionally "more is less." People have the expectation that not everything they do or say should be a matter of public record. Accordingly, if you surreptitiously collect too much data, then you may be infringing people's right to privacy. Cue punishment.
But not here. The Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission both investigated Street View, and chose to not prosecute. The FCC in its report likewise said that collecting Wi-Fi data, at least in this case, didn't seem to fall under its ability to regulate the Communications Act of 1934. Furthermore, because Milner refused to testify, the FCC couldn't fully understand why he did what he did, and if his intentions were at all malicious.
But there's one thing everyone has agreed he didn't do. On Milner's design document to-do list was this entry: "[D]iscuss privacy considerations with Product Counsel." According to the FCC, "that never occurred."
If you suspect that having someone intercept your unencrypted Wi-Fi data might be against the law, think again. The FCC in its report noted that Google may not have done anything illegal, either by intercepting information, or analyzing it, especially because it left encrypted data alone. "Although Google also collected and stored encrypted communications sent over unencrypted Wi-Fi networks, the Bureau [meaning, the FCC] has found no evidence that Google accessed or did anything with such encrypted communications," according to its report. Thankfully, the FCC said that the unencrypted payload data appeared to have been accessed only twice: once by Milner to see if there was anything useful for creating Google products, and then in 2010 when Google supervisors verified that payload data had in fact been collected.
Google said that while the payload data collection shouldn't have happened, it hadn't violated any laws. Notably, it argued that the Wiretap Act allows for the interception of radio signals that are "readily accessible to the general public," meaning they're not scrambled or encrypted. The FCC appeared to agree.
To be clear: the Google Street View episode illustrates that people shouldn't have any expectations that their unencrypted data won't be captured. Hopefully, that revelation will provoke sharp questions in Congress about whether, in this day and age, the Wiretap Act or other communications regulations still work.
Should someone be allowed to park outside your house and intercept your Wi-Fi signals? People never used shortwave radios to send their usernames and passwords to their bank, or to search Google. But as the French and Canadian investigators found, Wi-Fi data can reveal numerous secrets. Shouldn't the law help safeguard those?
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User Rank: Apprentice
5/1/2012 | 4:34:59 PM
re: Google Wardriving: How Engineering Trumped Privacy
Well Put... I had a similar response planned, but you summed it up nicely
User Rank: Apprentice
5/1/2012 | 4:06:41 PM
re: Google Wardriving: How Engineering Trumped Privacy
No they should not change the law. If you are using a non-encrypted WI-FI connection then you should expect everything you do to be readily accessible to anyone. You don't leave something valuable on the curb and not expect it to be taken. So why would you expect non-encrypted data to not be read? The only people at fault here are people who run non-encrypted WIFI routers. Every ISP (that I know of) requires you to have your Wi-Fi access point encrypted. So everyone who is running a non-encrypted access point is violating a EULA already. Laws don't stop criminals. Locks stop criminals. Encryption stops people from listening in. Lock down your access point by putting encryption on it and this issue will be over. Don't get congress involved in this, they are too stupid to understand these concepts and will make everyone's lives worse off with some stupid law. Remember SOPA?
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Softly, love is standing here with it's demands
(tell me what you want from me, you want from me)
Slowly, I think I'm letting go of all my plans
(tell me where we're goin' to, we're goin' to)
Why, why am I afraid to give into this
Why am I afraid?
This doesn't have to be love
But it's all I can feel, it's all that I fear.
This doesn't have to be anything at all,
So hard to fall (from this high above)
But do we have to call it love?
I hold back, from everything I really want to say
(should I let my guards down, my guards down, my guards down)
I don't, I don't make commitments that could break
(maybe it's just too late, it's just too late)
I, I'm so afraid to give into this
I'm so afraid, oh
Need a little time to think things through, baby
Do I really want to give myself, give all myself to you, now?
I can't believe it's happening so fast
'cause I don't want to bring back what I left in the past, no.
So hard to love
This doesn't have to
(love, love is all I feel...your love is what I fear)
Love me
So hard to fall
So very hard to fall.
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - The international chemical weapons watchdog announced Friday it has verified the destruction of all of Syria's unfilled munitions - another milestone along the road to eradicating President Bashar Assad's chemical weapons program by mid-2014.
The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said in a statement that its experts in Syria also have verified the destruction of parts of buildings at weapons production facilities.
The latest destruction work was near the city of Homs. The OPCW said the sites had been inaccessible due to security reasons.
The joint United Nations-OPCW team in Syria aims to remove the most toxic chemicals from Syria by the end of the year for destruction at sea and destroy the entire program by mid-2014.
The OPCW said last month that it already had verified the destruction of 63%of Syria's unfilled munitions - which can be used in chemical weapons attacks - and that Syria had said it had destroyed all the munitions, however the total destruction had not been verified.
The OPCW, which won the Nobel Peace Prize this year, has been directed by the United Nations to oversee the destruction of the Syrian government's chemical weapons. The unprecedented disarmament in the midst of a civil war now in its third year was launched following an Aug. 21 chemical weapons attack on a Damascus suburb that killed hundreds of civilians.
The U.S. and Western allies accused the Syrian government of being responsible for that attack, while Damascus blames the rebels. Syria joined the OPCW and agreed to dismantle its chemical arsenal to ward off possible U.S. military strikes.
The United States is now expected to play a key role in the destruction of the most toxic chemicals in Syria's stockpile. Washington has offered to provide a boat carrying a mobile device in which the chemicals can be neutralized. No chemicals or waste products would be dumped at sea under the plan being finalized by the OPCW.
Nearly three dozen private companies also have offered to destroy fewer than 800 tons of other less toxic chemicals that Syria declared to the Hague-based organization as part of its weapons programs.
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Interview by Will O'Bryan
Photography by Jimmy Jeong
Published on September 8, 2011, 4:46am | Comments
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MW: You've been in New York since 2008? I'm guessing it's a pretty good fit for you.
MANJI: Oh, my God. I say this with no shred of exaggeration: I still wake up every morning thanking God that I wound end up in New York City, whose energy totally agrees with me. And when I go to bed late at night and I hear the sirens of police or firefighters or an ambulance, and people are screaming on my street, and it's just a hullabaloo, this is music to my ears. This is part and parcel of living in a vibrant society. New York invigorates me.
MW: So you had a front-row seat for the Park 51 debate. Did you take part in that?
MANJI: I did. What I said was that the really sad part of the so-called debate – because it was really only a series of monologues – is that I found in real-world experiences, the emails coming to me from self-identified liberals and self-identified conservatives, that they were reacting to one another rather than actually examining the issue on its own merits.
I remember a guy named Bob, from Tennessee, who said, ''Irshad, I'm really offended by the anti-mosque crusaders, of which there are plenty in this state, and I think they're un-American. For that reason alone'' – literally, he said ''for that reason alone'' – ''I support mosque building in my state.'' I responded, ''Does that make you a liberal? Is that what you're trying to suggest? Because all you're doing is emotionally reacting to the other, or to who you presume to be the other.'' In other words, you're deciding this is your position on Park 51 simply because you're affronted by somebody who takes the opposite position. You haven't asked questions about Park 51. If you believe in your liberalism, how about asking the imam who's heading up the mosque project in Tennessee which side of the mosque men will be walking through. If he answers that question, you know instantly that segregation will take place at that mosque. How about asking about Park 51 whether the swimming pool will be segregated at any time of the day or night. How about asking if the sanctuary that Muslims use for prayer will also be open to Christians and Jews since, after all, that is the case at the Pentagon. Since this is the most contested site in the United States, why not also offer it up to fellow monotheists, people of the book, who are not Muslim? And, by the way, since the imam who was heading up Park 51 last year has now left on very suspicious terms, since he sort of trumpeted that this would be based on the Jewish community center model, one of my final questions is, where then do I sign up for advance tickets for Salman Rushdie's lecture? I think it's a very reasonable question. And yet, Bob from Tennessee couldn't be bothered to ask those kinds of questions, because he just didn't like how other people were reacting. And we're better than that. We're capable of better.
MW: You probably have some people who say, ''I was a fan, but then you said X, and now I'm not so sure.'' It must be hard to keep an Irshad Manji Fan Club going.
MANJI: That's very true. [Laughs.] There was a time when I would feel pressure to ''represent.'' I don't feel that anymore. If I'm going to have integrity championing individuality, then let me start with myself and take the journey – albeit publicly – that I want to take. And in some respects I'm meant to take. In other words, not feel the need to conform to particular assumptions of about how I'm supposed to sound, who I'm supposed to be.
In terms of, ''How does an Irshad Manji fan club even then define itself?'' if you go to my Facebook community, I much more often than not launch threads that ask ethical and moral questions. It's very intentional on my part to create a forum in which individuals from across the political spectrum can know that the only thing they will ever be chewed out for is incivility, and then expect also to be challenged on their positions. Not just by me, but by fellow Facebookers.
MW: Do you think your work might be easier if you weren't a lesbian? If you came wrapped in more conventional packaging, like a husband on your arm?
MANJI: If you had asked me this question nine years ago, given the welter of homophobic comments that were spat at me both virtually and in person, I could only – out of exhaustion and fatigue – tell you, ''Oh, my God, it makes this work so much harder.''
On reflection, I'm not so sure it does make the work harder. I'll try to explain it in a couple of different ways, because I'm still grappling with this.
One is I do believe – and I conclude this from hard experience – if I wasn't gay, there would be some other rap against me, right? ''She's a woman.'' Okay. We'll, if I was a straight man, ''He's not Arab.'' If I was a straight, Arab man? ''He grew up in the West.'' There's always something. I learned some time ago that there was absolutely no point in bemoaning being an out lesbian and trying to engage Muslims. It is what it is.
I don't see being lesbian as the negative that others have tried to turn it into. It's a unique aspect of what it's going to take to launch a reformation within Islam. And I'm just happy to make what little contribution I can.
MW: Do you see your sexual orientation as a major part of you, personally or politically?
MANJI: I don't see, really, anything with which I've been born as a defining aspect of who I am.
Some months ago I walked into the elevator of the building I live in here in New York. There was a woman in the elevator. She said, ''Oh, aren't you that Muslim lesbian?'' And I said, ''Hmm, I guess. One of these days I'll be multifaceted enough for you to ask me if I'm 'that thinker.''' She didn't know what to make of that, and I didn't want to sound snippy about it. As we were heading up, I said, ''Don't worry. I get this all the time. And it's all good.''
But the point is, I define myself by what I try to accomplish and not the labels into which I was born, whether that's person of color or woman or lesbian or, for that matter, even Muslim. Though, obviously, I know very well that the work I do has a particular application to my fellow Muslims.
I always try to make sure that my message is a much more universal one. Because, you know what? It's far more interesting to me when it's universal. If you put yourself in my shoes for just a second, imagine having to go on the road having to say the same thing over and over and over again about a very specific topic. For the most part, you get the same questions. People expect to hear the same things from you. You're expected to give a stump speech, etc., etc. Now I only do ''onstage conversations,'' because I need to stay interested. If my message is too identity-focused, then, I'm sorry, I bore the hell out of myself. There's an incentive here to continue exploring much more uncomfortable and provocative ground, if only to keep yourself alert to how interesting it is to be human.
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A Reusable Menstrual Products Q&A with GladRags Owner Tracy Puhl
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There are many compelling reasons to try out reusable menstrual products - they're sustainable, natural, good for your body and can save you a lot of money over their lifespan - but there are a lot of common objections, too. Tracy Puhl, a Mothering member and the owner of GladRags, gave us a behind-the-scenes look at GladRags last year. Today, she's back to answer all of our user-submitted questions about reusable menstrual products!
Still have a question that wasn't answered? Visit our ongoing thread, or visit GladRags to learn more!
Q: "Clean up!"
A: Cleaning cloth pads is actually quite simple! There's a great thread in the Mothering community about soaking (or not!) your pads here.
My post, 7 Tips to Make your Cloth Pads Last Longer, also touches on some of the cleaning & care practices that will keep your pads as good as new!
Q: "I use cloth pads already but I'd like the option of using a cup too, but what holds me back is being uncertain of how to choose the correct size."
A: Choosing a size can be daunting, but it's really pretty simple. Most cups we carry make the distinction between whether you've given birth or not. Don't worry about comparing millimeters or getting too complex -- just choose the larger size if you've given birth or are over 35 (because of the way our bodies change as we age). We have a very simple guide here that can be helpful. We also encourage anyone who is feeling confused to get in touch with us and talk it out! We are always happy to help.
Q: "Frequent UTIs" and "I've heard people say that the reusable cups cause yeast infections. I'm prone to issues in that department. That's what holds me back."
A: Actually, if you're prone to infections, reusables are a GREAT option. Many women report decreased infections after making the switch (probably due to the fact that the disposables they are using have caused irritation which exacerbates any predisposition). The one caveat is if you use a menstrual cup or cloth pad during a yeast infection, you'll want to take extra care to sanitize the product so it doesn't continue the infection. Otherwise, you may find relief with reusables!
Q: "Can you use the cup with an IUD?"
A: We used to say no, but now we can say: talk to your doctor first, but you probably can! A recent study out of Canada found that menstrual cups did not significantly increase IUD expulsion rate when compared to pads and tampons. So be careful, but plenty of women with IUDs are happily rockin' the menstrual cup.
Q: "Looking forward to non-plastic Moon Cup..."
A: The Moon Cup is made of medical-grade silicone, not plastic. None of our products include plastic -- we think our sensitive parts (and yours!) deserve better.
Q: "Worried about the leaking and inserting it properly. And they say to rinse and reinsert... how do you do that in a public bathroom stall? And even at home... hobble to the sink to rinse hoping you don't pour out while doing that? I would love to make this change in my life, but don't feel comfortable!"
A: Good news: we definitely don't recommend you bringing your cup out of the stall in the public restroom! Instead, simply remain seated on the toilet, pull the cup straight down and hold firmly with your fingertips. Once it's removed, just tip the contents into the toilet. You can wipe the cup off with toilet paper or wipes, then reinsert. All in all, it's about as messy as an applicatorless tampon (which is to say, not very). No one in the other stall will even know what you're doing! When you're at home, empty the contents of the cup into the toilet, then rinse and reinsert the empty cup.
Q: "What if I make the investment and I don't like it?"
A: If it doesn't work for you, we don't think it's fair to keep your money! We have a 90-day money-back guarantee on all of our branded products (GladRags cloth pads, The Moon Cup, and The Keeper). Now, don't freak out! We won't ask you to mail anything back (because we would never sell anything used, obviously!) and it's a simple process to get a full refund on these products. We're able to offer this because so few customers take us up on it -- most women love their new way of managing their periods.
Q: "I feel more safe with a hermetically sealed tampon versus something I have to make sure is sanitary myself..."
A: Tampons and disposable pads are actually not sterile -- they're just bleached and packaged to seem that way! Personally, I trust myself more than I trust some random factory overseas to keep my menstrual supplies clean! Remember the moldy tampon incident? Yuck. And it's not as complicated as it seems to keep your pads or cup clean. If you can keep your undies clean, you can handle reusables!
Q: "My husband is grossed out about the pads. Which is some kind of weird societal hangup, because we cloth diaper. Every time I say I'm going to buy some, he runs to the big-box store and picks up a giant pack of disposables."
A: This is a really common reaction, unfortunately. We're implicitly taught from a young age that menstruation is scary, shameful, and unclean and it can take time to "unlearn" these negative thoughts. While it may take him some time to get used to the idea, we hear from customers a lot that their husbands eventually come around! One of our customers writes, "He loves the money we save, not having to buy me any feminine products, no funny smells, and he never knows when my time is because I don't get PMS or cramps anymore. I am happy and he is happy for me." Ultimately, I'd encourage you to remember: it's your body, and the type of menstrual care you use is your choice!
Q: "My teenagers and I don't use tampons. I would use these products except I worry about leaks and keeping them clean when we are away from home (which is a lot). Also I wonder what their friends would think."
A: You can use a menstrual cup if you don't use tampons, although it may take a little bit of getting used it! I answer questions about using menstrual cups in public above, so I'll discuss pads here. Using cloth pads on the go is fairly simply: just bring a small wet/dry bag with you. I have used my GladRags while traveling, visiting relatives, at a previous job in an office building, at networking events, while camping, etc.... And you know what? No one has ever once noticed that I was doing something "different"!
As far as leakage, lots of women find that cloth actually works better for them than disposables. Cloth pads won't bunch, twist, or stick to your leg like adhesive pads can, and they have an absorbent core to keep you leak-free. To stay comfortable and secure, just make sure you change your pad frequently enough (about as often as you would a disposable) and choose the right absorbency for your flow. If you need help choosing, get in touch with us! We know what works and are happy to help find the right pad for you.
Q: "I'd like to but simply haven't made the purchase yet. Nothing is really holding me back besides fear of the unknown."
A: This is something we hear a lot. All I can say is -- take the leap! Stepping into the "unknown" world of menstrual products has changed the lives of so many women... why not yours? :)
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This was super fun to do! :)
GladRags are wonderful! Thank you!
i just love them.
have used them over and over. still like new.
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My understanding is you're not supposed to use the same water you cook them in, but as long as you don't do that you should be good
So far we've had success just redirecting him
We give him a strip to chew on, about the width and length of half a slice of bacon. We don't use a lot of salt or oil in general, so we're not super concerned, and the three dietitians I talked to said it was fine. He also doesn't eat from our plate, per se. We put single items on his tray and then wait until he's done with them (read: drop them and forget about them)
Gagging is very common, Elliot did it at the restaurant we were at. He has gagged so much he vomits twice now. Fun times.
http://www.budgetbytes.com/2012/04/top-10-freezer-meals-2/ We've done the taco chicken bowls, quesidillas, burritos blanco, and the jambalaya (do not do, it did not freeze well) I also do a spaghetti sauce that is the following: 2-3 cans diced tomatoes onion, carrots, celery and garlic (as much as you like or have on hand) roughly chopped fresh garlic (as many cloves as you like, we love garlic so we do 3-4), chopped 2-3 bay leaves (this is key!) bring everything to a...
I'm assuming it's not tree stumps?
you look so joyful in that pictureWe get the same kisses
I throw a fleece blanket down, seems to work well.
Do you have a GP who could talk to her about? Instead of soapy bath water, you could do salt water (very little salt), that will help
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0.026938 | <urn:uuid:54811d63-d0f5-4472-b290-a7947261075e> | en | 0.985733 | Gucci Mane spoke out for the first time Tuesday (November 17) since being sent back to jail last week. Through a statement sent to, Gucci said he is prepared to face the music.
"I have accepted full responsibility for my actions, and I am ready to deal with what is in front of me right now," Gucci's statement read. "Thankfully, my label is still moving forward with my album release, so I will have plenty to look forward to when I get out. I am remaining positive and want my fans to know that I am grateful for their loyalty and continued support. I will get through this."
Last week, Gucci was sentenced to 12 months in jail for a probation violation. He failed to serve hundreds of hours of community service and attend classes for anger management and drug and alcohol abuse. Gucci also disregarded court orders to obtain permission for his travel. His lawyer and the courts say the rapper will serve no more than six months. During his sentencing, Gucci faced two and a half years, but the judge was lenient.
"First of the year, he could be out," Gucci's lawyer Dwight L. Thomas explained to MTV News last week. "It all depends on his conduct and how he conducts himself while he's there. We're working on other avenues that might entitle him to be released early. If nothing happens at all, he'll do six months. But if we're able to do some of the things we're exploring, we may get this thing down to two months."
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To fans! MCR (favorites) question!
I was bored, and listening to MCR on my way to school today, and I thought hmm...I wonder what everyone's favorite cover's are that MCR does, so I want you to tell me your favorite MCR covers in order from most favorite to least favorite:
Here's all the covers I know of:
1. All I want for X-mas is you
2. Fortunate son (little clip)
3. Song 2 ?
4. Jack The Ripper
5. Astro Zombies
6. Umbrella (little clip)
7. Under Pressure (with the Used)
1. Under Pressure
2. All I Want For X-mas Is You
3. Astro Zombies
4. Umbrella
5. Song 2
6. Fortunate Son
7. Jack the Ripper
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Thank You, MCR, From the Bottom of My Heart
I have been a fan for not that long, but your music is just so inspirational. I am overweight (not obese or anything, though), so naturally I get made fun of. I have always in the guy that people beat up just to prove their dominance. Also, because of my size, I have never had a girlfriend or anything. I am only 13, so it's not like it really matters yet, and I have a schizophrenic brother, as if my life isn't hard enough. It's these these things make everyday life hard, but your music eases the pain drastically. I'm an emotional kid, and I'm usually on the brink of tears of joy as your music melts away the bad feelings. I'm not angry about you breaking up, and I know you have reasons. I just feel it necessary for you to know how much you mean to me, and to millions of people. | http://www.mychemicalromance.com/blogs/destroyingsincebirth | dclm-gs1-196090000 |
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TV REVIEW; Reiser, a Comic, Stars In 'Out on a Whim'
Published: December 31, 1987
THE beginning doesn't work; the ending suffers from a failure of imagination. That aside, however, ''Paul Reiser: Out on a Whim'' is a pleasantly entertaining hour. It will be seen on Home Box Office, the pay-cable channel, at 10 o'clock tonight. It doesn't have to be centerpiece of your New Year's Eve revelry, but if you are watching television, you could do a lot worse.
Mr. Reiser is the good young actor who made his movie debut in the 1982 film ''Diner,'' and most recently has starred in the television series ''My Two Dads.'' He also does stand-up comedy, with jokes that are more interesting than one-liners.
The stand-up comedy is at the heart of this production. Wrapped around it is a variation of the play within a play. ''Out on a Whim'' - which is quite a nice title - opens with Mr. Reiser in a pot of boiling water, apparently being cooked by hippie-yuppie-punkie cannibals.
That's a dream sequence; Mr. Reiser wakes up in bed. Then he goes on to a real auditorium, where he does his stand-up routine. The mysterious Woman in White, who was in his dream, appears in the audience. A breeze keeps rippling her hair. When Mr. Reiser has finished his routine, she disappears.
Mr. Reiser searches for the Woman in White for the rest of the film, eventually finding her, sort of, in northern California. Meanwhile, guest stars, some of whom you won't recognize, cross his path. The guest stars include, in alphabetical order, Brooke Adams, Desi Arnaz Jr., Charlie Brill, Carrie Fisher, Teri Garr, John Glover, Elliott Gould, Carol Kane and Michael J. Pollard.
Ms. Kane gets the funniest part, as a fortune teller who becomes cranky when she misses breakfast. Mr. Gould gets the archest part, as a grizzled old sea dog who happens to be gay. Mostly, though, Mr. Reiser's geniality holds things together.
This is because Mr. Reiser is not so much a comedian as an actor who plays comic parts. His stand-up routine is not punchy; it flows from a wry, but never nasty, way of looking at the everyday world.
Thus he is struck by, among other things, loose change, Latin music, roadside signs that warn of falling rocks, and the impossibility of ever cleaning up a banana smear from a linoleum floor. There are no punchlines here, only points of view.
The HBO film - produced by Charles B. Wessler and Arleen Sorkin, directed by Carl Gottlieb, and written by Peter Farrelly, Bennett Yellin and Mr. Reiser - is more inventive than others in the ''On Location'' series; the play within a play is imaginative. The idea may fall flat at the end, but it is a modest fall.
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Spare the Rod When Treating Troubled Youth; Prisons Don't Work
Published: November 4, 1994
To the Editor:
Washington and the state governments are falling all over each other to approve billions of additional dollars for more prisons and police, even though 74 percent of all prison space in the United States was built in the last 10 years. The march toward more prisons and longer sentences is truly bizarre in the face of its clear lack of effectiveness.
How many more years and billions of dollars will it take before we learn what does not work? We take poor, ill-educated young men from noisy, crowded, violent communities where status depends on being tough and cold, put them into noisy, crowded, tough prisons where survival depends on being tough and cold, release them with $100 or so for a bus ticket back to the environment that produced them and are then shocked and angry because they haven't become good citizens!
What would help in prisons would be educational opportunity for cooperative prisoners in a meditative environment with job programs and small-business support in the communities on the outside. Instead we pay rich contractors to build enormously expensive kennels, with jobs for guards from the middle class.
Thinking of the poor as human and prison as rehabilitation makes sense if we are really interested in reducing crime. More prisons and longer sentences might be harder on criminals, but they are softer on crime. VIVIENNE VERDON-ROE Bolinas, Calif., Oct. 28, 1994 | http://www.nytimes.com/1994/11/04/opinion/l-spare-the-rod-when-treating-troubled-youth-prisons-don-t-work-728209.html | dclm-gs1-196160000 |
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There're several such distros in fact, all of them Slackware based: Dracolinux, Voltalinux, Blackmouse... It's a real killer combo. I've tried Arch and Gentoo (portage depends on python, WTF?! If I wanted YUM (quite decent actually) I know where to get it.) but none comes close to that. Source Mage seems promising.
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A system and method are provided for generating multiple output packets in a single processing pass of a shader in a hardware graphics pipeline. Initially, graphics data is received, after which it is processed utilizing the shader of the hardware graphics pipeline ...
6975322Dynamically adjusting a number of rendering passes in a graphics system
A graphics system includes a hardware accelerator and a frame buffer. The frame buffer includes a sample storage area and a double-buffered display pixel area. The hardware accelerator is operable to (a) render a stream of primitives into samples, (b) store the samp...
6975323Video data transfer system
A video data transfer system which increases the rate of capturing video data into a system memory without being affected by a data bus and which prevents the display of data on a display unit from being affected even when data is being captured. Video data from a v...
6971066System and method for deploying a graphical program on an image acquisition device
A computer-implemented system and method for deploying a graphical program onto an image acquisition (IMAQ) device. The method may operate to configure an image acquisition (IMAQ) device to perform image processing or machine vision functions, wherein the device inc...
6967664Method and apparatus for primitive processing in a graphics system
A method and apparatus for processing graphics primitives that includes a trivial discard guard band. Such a trivial discard guard band is used for comparison operations with the vertices of graphics primitives to determine whether the graphics primitives can be tri...
6967659Circuitry and systems for performing two-dimensional motion compensation using a three-dimensional pipeline and methods of operating the same
The present invention introduces circuitry and systems for performing two-dimensional motion compensation using a three-dimensional pipeline, as well as methods of operating the same. According to an exemplary embodiment, image processing circuitry is provided and i...
6963345API communications for vertex and pixel shaders
A three-dimensional API for communicating with hardware implementations of vertex shaders and pixel shaders having local registers. With respect to vertex shaders, API communications are provided that may make use of an on-chip register index and API communications ...
6963342Arbitration scheme for efficient parallel processing
A system and method for assigning operations to multiple pipelines in a graphics system is disclosed. The graphics system may include an arbitration unit coupled to a plurality of calculation pipelines. The arbitration unit is operable to provide graphics operations...
6961469Sort middle, screen space, graphics geometry compression through redundancy elimination
A geometry compression method for sort middle, screen space, graphics of the standard graphics pipeline. The pipeline processes a 3D database having geometric objects such as triangles and textures into a display image which may be shown to the user on a display mon...
6961063Method and apparatus for improved memory management of video images
A novel storage format enabling a method for improved memory management of video images is described. The method includes receiving an image consisting of a plurality of color components. Once received, the plurality of color components is converted to a mixed forma...
6956562Method for controlling a handheld computer by entering commands onto a displayed feature of the handheld computer
A method for software control using a user-interactive display screen feature is disclosed that reduces stylus or other manipulations necessary to invoke software functionality from the display screen. According to the method, a graphical feature having a surface ar...
6954204Programmable graphics system and method using flexible, high-precision data formats
A programmable graphics system and method for processing high precision graphics data represented in one or more data formats in one or more passes. Graphics program instructions executed by the system control the processing and format conversion of the data. The pr...
6952214Method for context switching a graphics accelerator comprising multiple rendering pipelines
A graphics system comprising a plurality of rendering pipelines and a scheduling network. Each rendering pipeline couples to the scheduling network, and includes a media processor, a rendering unit and a memory. A communication bus may couple the scheduling network ...
6952213Data communication system and method, computer program, and recording medium
An apparatus comprises two or more image processing units and a main merger unit. Each image processing unit comprises four information processing units and a sub merger unit for merging data output from the four information processing units. The main merger unit me...
69501063-dimensional graphic plotting apparatus
A clock control unit (7) detects completion of data processing based on a busy signal BSY1 output by a geometry processing unit (4) and a busy signal BSY2 output by a rendering processing unit (5). The clock control unit (7)...
6950930Multistandard video decoder and decompression system for processing encoded bit streams including pipeline processing and methods relating thereto
A pipeline video decoder and decompression system handles a plurality of separately encoded bit streams arranged as a single serial bit stream of digital bits and having separately encoded pairs of control codes and corresponding data carried in the serial bit strea...
6947053Texture engine state variable synchronizer
A mechanism for synchronizing state variables used by texture pipelines in a multi-pipeline graphics texture engine. The mechanism ensures that, as polygons are processed by a texture engine, the state variables associated with each polygon are distributed in parall...
6947047Method and system for programmable pipelined graphics processing with branching instructions
A programmable, pipelined graphics processor (e.g., a vertex processor) having at least two processing pipelines, a graphics processing system including such a processor, and a pipelined graphics data processing method allowing parallel processing and also handling ...
6943797Early primitive assembly and screen-space culling for multiple chip graphics system
A multi-chip system and method are disclosed for incorporating a primitive assembler in each of one or more geometry chips and one or more rasterization chips. This system may allow per-primitive operations to be performed in the geometry chips, and also allow use o...
6943796Method of maintaining continuity of sample jitter pattern across clustered graphics accelerators
A system and method are disclosed to allow the tiling of sample jitter patterns to be independent of the tiling of clustered graphics accelerators. Each accelerator uses an x,y “bias” offset to shift the origin of the jitter pattern within the sample space regio...
6943800Method and apparatus for updating state data
In a graphics processing circuit, up to N sets of state data are stored in a buffer such that a total length of the N sets of state data does not exceed the total length of the buffer. When a length of additional state data would exceed a length of available space i...
6941412Symbol frequency leveling in a storage system
Methods and apparatus for transforming data into a format which may be efficiently stored in a non-volatile memory are disclosed. According to one aspect of the present invention, a method for storing information of a first data format in a memory system includes ge...
6940512Image processing apparatus and method of same
An image processing apparatus able to efficiently utilize a large amount of operation processing elements, having a high degree of freedom of algorithms, and having a high flexibility, provided with a rasterizer for generating pixel data or addresses; a graphics uni...
6940514Parallel initialization path for rasterization engine
A system and method are disclosed for a rasterization pipeline with a parallel initialization path that may provide an increased rate of triangle processing. The edge walker, span walker, and sample generator modules of a rasterization pipeline may be modified to en...
6940519Graphics processor, graphics card and graphics processing system
A graphics processor includes a shading processing section which subjects pixel data to a shading process, a first path which permits map data and texture data output from a video memory to be input to the shading processing section, a second path which permits pixe...
6940525Method and apparatus for performing a perspective projection in a graphics device of a computer graphics display system
A method and apparatus for processing primitives in a computer graphics display system. The apparatus comprises a graphics device which receives commands and data from a host computer of the computer graphics display system. The data includes clip coordinates which ...
6941236Apparatus and methods for analyzing graphs
A plurality of hardware cells are defined, wherein at least a given one of the hardware cells corresponds to sets of vertices from a graph having vertices and edges interconnecting the vertices, and each of the sets are from a corresponding one of a number of portio...
6940513Data aware clustered architecture for an image generator
A data aware clustered system architecture is described for an image generation system. The architecture leverages commodity personal computers to provide the processing capability of the image generator such as may be used in a flight simulator. The architecture su...
6933941Scene representation method and system
One aspect of the invention is a method for representing a scene (S). The method includes providing a higher-level appearance description of an appearance of geometry in a retained-mode representation (13a, 300). The method also includes travers...
6933943Distributed resource architecture and system
A distributed resource system comprises a plurality of compute resource units operable to execute graphics applications and generate graphics data, and a plurality of visualization resource units communicatively coupled to the plurality of compute resource units and...
6933945Design for a non-blocking cache for texture mapping
A non-blocking cache for texture mapping is implemented by separating Cache Tags from Cache Data. Multiple requests for data may be processed in parallel without strict ordering or synchronization. Separating Cache Tags and Cache Data results in a texture memory cac...
6927783Graphics display system with anti-aliased text and graphics feature
A graphics integrated circuit chip is used in a set-top box for controlling a television display. The graphics chip processes analog video input, digital video input, a graphics input and an audio input simultaneously. The system may use anti-aliased text and graphi...
6924808Area pattern processing of pixels
A circuit for outputting area pattern bits from an area pattern array. The circuit includes a first stage, second stage and third stage. The first stage is configured to output N adjacent scan lines from a 2N×2N area pattern array based on a first address. N is a p...
6924799Method, node, and network for compositing a three-dimensional stereo image from a non-stereo application
A method of assembling a composite image comprising generating three-dimensional data defining a non-stereo image, assigning a first screen portion to a first rendering node, assigning a second screen portion to a second rendering node, rendering, by the first rende...
6924807Image processing apparatus and method
An apparatus for processing image data to produce an image for covering an image area of a display includes a plurality of graphics processors, each graphics processor being operable to render the image data into frame image data and to store the frame image data in...
6924820Over-evaluating samples during rasterization for improved datapath utilization
A system and method for rasterizing and rendering graphics data is disclosed. Vertices may be grouped to form primitives such as triangles, which are rasterized using two-dimensional arrays of samples bins. To overcome fragmentation problems, the system's sample eva...
6919897System and method for pre-processing a video signal
A method and apparatus for pre-processing video signals comprises a video input module, a first video pipeline, and a second video pipeline. The video input module receives and forwards one or more live video signals, producing a forwarded video signal for each rece...
6919896System and method of optimizing graphics processing
A method and system for optimizing the processing of graphics is disclosed. The system may comprise at least one geometry processor and at least one graphics processor. A communication channel permits communication between the geometry and graphics processors. A con...
6919894Unified memory distributed across multiple nodes in a computer graphics system
A system is described that is broadly directed to a system of integrated circuit components. The system comprises a plurality of nodes that are interconnected by communication links. A random access memory (RAM) is connected to each node. At least one functional uni...
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Definition: Subject matter wherein the external effect involves energy
No. of patents: 592
Last issue date: 11/19/2013
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8587364Receiving circuit having a light receiving element which receives a light signal
According to one embodiment, a receiving circuit is provided. The receiving circuit has a first light receiving element, a signal voltage generator, a second light receiving element, a delay element and a comparator. The first light receiving element receives a ligh...
8525577Photoelectric conversion device, photoelectric conversion device material, photosensor and imaging device
A photoelectric conversion device comprising an electrically conductive film, an organic photoelectric conversion film, and a transparent electrically conductive film, wherein the organic photoelectric conversion film contains a compound represented by the following...
8358167Photo sensing unit and photo sensor thereof
A photo sensing unit used in a photo sensor includes a photo sensing transistor, a storage capacitor, and a switching transistor. The photo sensing transistor receives a light signal for inducing a photo current correspondingly, and a source and a gate thereof are r...
8188783Device and system for implementing optically sourced isolated switch elements
A power amplifier comprising a distributed signal pre-driver, an AM Modulation Driver and a Switch Power Supply driving optically-powered and optically-switched GaN-based switches which are stacked and operated in a complementary fashion and are amplitude modulated ...
8013660System and method for charge integration
An arrangement for charge integration comprises a charge-generating circuit (2) that provides a charge-dependent signal, and a coupling circuit (20) comprising a first and a second transistor (T1, T2). The first transistor (T1) can...
7420406Method and circuit arrangement for setting an initial value on a charge-storage element
A method is provided for setting an initial value on a charge-storage element. A circuit includes at least one charge-storage element with at least one signal node coupled to at least one reset circuit that is associated with the charge-storage element. A diode can ...
7402788Detector diodes with bias control loop
Methods and devices provide for a dynamic bias voltage control in detector photodiodes. The methods and systems use a bias control loop to make continuous detections of changes in the effective breakdown current of the detector photodiodes, thereby enabling the devi...
7376359Digital regulated light receive module and regulation method
The invention discloses a digital adjusting method for an optical receiver module, and the method implements real-time monitor of parameters, on-line adjustment and non-linear compensation. The digital optical receiver module includes elements as follow: a voltage o...
7369590Laser diode driving circuit
A disclosed laser diode driving circuit causes a laser diode to emit light by varying a current value of a current source in accordance with a control signal input externally and supplying a current that is the same as or proportional to the current value to the las...
7365718Light emitting element drive apparatus and portable apparatus using the same
A light emitting element drive apparatus capable of always outputting the lowest voltage satisfying the drive conditions and having a high light emitting efficiency and a low power loss, and a portable apparatus using the same, comprising a LED drive apparatus 10...
7365302Output impedance varying circuit
A photo detector IC (PDIC) is connected with a flexible printed circuit board (FPC). A signal converted into a voltage through light-to-voltage conversion in the PDIC is connected with the drain of a field effect transistor (FET), while the source of the FET is conn...
7362010Currents-sensing switching circuit
A current-sensing switching circuit includes a first terminal clamp for the current feed for a first unit, based on the state of a second unit the state of which is detected at a second terminal clamp. The first terminal clamp may be switched, based on the current t...
7359640Optical coupling device and method for bidirectional data communication over a common signal line
Optical coupling device operates over a bidirectional data link between at least first and second communicators, each communicating data along a common wire of the data link. The device includes at least first and second optical couplers, each including a photon flu...
7358475Solid-state imaging device and camera
A solid-state imaging device includes pixels 2 arranged two-dimensionally on a semiconductor substrate 1. In a predetermined area in each pixel is formed a light-sensitive area 3 for receiving incident light 11, and each pixel includes a ...
7351972Infrared radiation image having sub-pixelization and detector interdigitation
An infrared radiation (“IR”) focal plane array (“FPA”) imager includes a detector array chip containing pixels having substantially one-hundred percent operability. Each of the pixels contains a plurality of interdigitated sub-detectors, where the sub-detect...
7348826Composite field effect transistor
A composite field effect transistor, in accordance with one embodiment, includes a zener diode, a junction field effect transistor and a metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistor. A gate of the junction field effect transistor is coupled to an anode of the z...
7332971Multi-gigabit/s transimpedance amplifier for optical networks
A Gigabit/s transimpedance amplifier system includes a forward-path amplifier section with a very large bandwidth and an overall frequency-selective feedback section which is active only from DC to low frequencies. The forward-path of the amplifier comprises a regul...
7326947Current transfer ratio temperature coefficient compensation method and apparatus
An optocoupler system includes a buffer, isolation, and a detector. The system includes a current transfer ratio (CTR) with a temperature coefficient. The buffer includes a light source that generates light that passes through the isolation. A detector receives ligh...
7321735Optical down-converter using universal frequency translation technology
A method and system for converting an optical signal to electrical information signals, including demodulated baseband information signals and modulated baseband signals at multiple harmonics. In an embodiment, the optical information signal is amplitude modulated w...
7319232Apparatus and method for high-bandwidth opto-coupler interface
An opto-coupler interface is provided. The opto-coupler interface includes a current mirror and a resistor. The opto-coupler interface is arranged such that a relatively fixed voltage is provided across the photodetector. At one end of the photodetector, the voltage...
7319220Trans-impedance amplifier with offset current
A trans-impedance amplifier receives an input current and is operable to generate an output voltage responsive to the input current. The amplifier is responsive to an increased range of input currents and has a wide bandwidth. The amplifier includes an input stage h...
7304418Light source apparatus with light-emitting chip which generates light and heat
A light source apparatus includes a light emitting chip which generates light and heat when energized via a first electrode and a second electrode, wherein the first electrode is a base on which the light emitting chip is directly packaged. ...
7282692Light receiving method of an avalanche photodiode and a bias control circuit of the same
The present invention provides a method to maintain a multiplication factor of an avalanche photodiode independent on temperatures without additional devices. The light-receiving apparatus of the invention includes an avalanche photodiode (APD), a dividing circuit, ...
7276684High gain photo cell with improved pulsed light operation
A photocell system includes a current control circuit that provides an offset voltage. Each photocell in a photocell array includes an opto-electrical converter receives the offset voltage such that the opto-electrical converter establishes a DC operating point. In ...
7271642Charge pump drive circuit for a light emitting diode
Through operated alternately between a charging phase and a discharging phase, a charge pump converts an input voltage source into a drive voltage for being supplied to a light emitting diode. A current setting unit determines a reference current. A current regulati...
7259363Circuit arrangement and methods for a remote control receiver having a photodiode
A control unit (2) of a remote control receiver sets the forward or reverse direction operating mode of the photodiode (1) as a function of the useful signal level of its output signal, and to be precise, during standby, the photovoltaic operating mode...
7253391Optical sensor device and electronic apparatus
In an optical sensor device employing an amorphous silicon photodiode, an external amplifier IC and the like are required due to low current capacity of the sensor element in order to improve the load driving capacity. It leads to increase in cost and mounting space...
7253393Control of a photosensitive cell
A method for controlling a photosensitive cell including a photodiode connected to a read node via a MOS transfer transistor, the read node being connected to a source of a reference voltage via a MOS reset transistor, cyclically including a waiting phase at the end...
7227120Area monitoring multi-beam photoelectric sensor
A multi-beam photoelectric sensor is disclosed which can be fabricated by selecting the length of a light projection/light-receiving columnar member and the number and pitches of optical axes in accordance with the width of a hazardous area of an object or the diame...
7217982Photodiode having voltage tunable spectral response
A photodetector (10) includes a substrate (12) having a surface; a first layer (14) of semiconductor material that is disposed above the surface, the first layer containing a first dopant at a first concentration for having a first type of elect...
7215369Compact pixel reset circuits using reversed current readout
Compact CMOS pixel sensors containing three or four total transistors and four or five control lines provide a high percentage of sensor area for the photodiode that measures light intensity. The CMOS pixel sensors thus have good light sensitivity. The CMOS pixel se...
7214924Light-receiving method of an avalanche photodiode and a bias control circuit of the same
7206521Signal level detecting device for a burst-mode optical receiver
In an optical receiver having a pre-amplifier for converting a current signal outputted from an optical detector to a voltage signal, a signal level detecting device is provided to provide an LOS (loss of signal) signal and a reset signal from the output of the pre-...
7196307Optical sensor, method of reading optical sensor, matrix-type optical sensor circuit, and electronic apparatus
An optical sensor is provided corresponding to a scanning line and a reading line. The optical sensor includes a light-receiving element, a current flowing between both terminals thereof being changed according to the amount of incident light and a transistor whose ...
7190454Automatic power controller
An automatic power controller includes a photo detector for detecting the output power of the laser light source and generating a detection signal, a comparator for comparing the detection signal with a reference signal and outputting a comparison signal, a signal s...
7176755Transistor-based interface circuitry
Among the embodiments of the present invention is an apparatus that includes a transistor, a servo device, and a current source. The servo device is operable to provide a common base mode of operation of the transistor by maintaining an approximately constant voltag...
7164114Digital pixel sensor with clock count output and operating method thereof
A digital pixel sensor, comprising a first switch coupled between a first voltage and a first node, turned on or off by a rest signal to provide a first voltage to the first node when turned on; a light sensing unit coupled to the first node generating a transformat...
7158729Optical receiving device
Provided is an optical receiving device which can achieve a wide dynamic range while keeping a constant extinction ratio against the changes in the input amplitude. A signal current of a light receiving element is converted to a signal voltage by an amplifier and th...
7141814Input circuit
An input circuit has a first current-limiting resistor, a second current-limiting resistor, and an AC-input photocoupler. The photocoupler has an input terminal connected to a first external terminal and another input terminal connected to a positive electrode throu...
7135669Low-level light detector and low-level light imaging apparatus
A low-level light detector includes an avalanche photodiode (APD) to which is applied a bias voltage adjusted to produce a multiplication factor of not more than 30, and a capacitor for accumulating carriers produced by light in the APD and multiplied using the APD ...
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Re^2: Multidimensional arrays within arrays
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Why can't you pass the coordinates to sub C?
And do you call sub B, or does sub C call sub B? I think I'm distilling the notion that you want C to call B, am I right? Let's roll with that.
Why would this not work for you?
sub subA { # ... # generate array; # here be dragons, an' arrays an' pushes an' references # an' lots of dereferencing happens here, me lad. # ... return \@array; } sub subB { my $chart_widget = shift; my $data_aref = shift; $chart_widget->chart( $data_aref ) # or however Tk::Chart be used, + matey } sub subC { my $chart_widget = shift; my $data_aref = shift; # ... # I don't have a clue what be happenin' here, me hearty. # ... subB($chart_widget, $data_aref); }
And from your main code:
my $chart = $mw->Chart( ... ); my $data_aref = subA; subC($chart, $data_aref);
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A little off-topic, but since there is an Inline::C :), how do you organize your files in a c application? I've seen some that are just a mess of almost all header files and others that have a corresponding .c file for each one and limit the header files to prototypes, data structure definitions, and compiler statements. Could someone point me to a good resource on the subject? Thanks (:
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Some cats enjoy children, but not all felines can tolerate sticky fingers, rough tugs on the tail, or the general boisterousness that accompanies kids. Before you adopt a cat, find out which breeds do best with children and discuss the decision to get a pet with your kids. They're likelier to accept some responsibility for the pet if you lay the groundwork and they feel involved.
Training Your Child
Small kittens are easily hurt when mishandled by a well-intentioned but rough kid, and larger cats can strike out when provoked. Here are some rules to teach your children about handling a cat:
Gently approach the kitty to see if he wants to play. If he seems preoccupied with other thoughts or is sleeping, leave him alone until later.
Instead of wrestling, use teaser toys, rolled up balls of paper, or socks to play with the kitty. If you play with your hands, the cat will think they're his personal toys and that it's okay to attack hands and other human body parts.
Don't bother your pet while he's eating, grooming, using the litter box, or napping.
Show your children the correct way to hold a cat and remind them that if kitty starts to squirm, let him down gently. Don't try to hang on - you'll only end up suffering a wrathful scratch or nip.
Stroke your cat's coat gently in the direction the fur grows. Let your kitten determine what they will allow to be petted. Some kitties don't like getting petted on their tummies, hips or feet, so it's best to avoid these areas.
As much as you'd like your cat to sleep on your bed, it's best that he find his own spot to rest. Cats are more active at night so allowing them in your or your children's bedrooms may result in sleep-interrupted nights because your cat may want to play.
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Supervise your children when they play with the cat. Also remember that infants and toddlers don't understand the difference between their stuffed cat and your live pet, and an angry exchange between child and cat can flare in an instant.
Always supervise a child under 6 when she holds a pet. It's a good idea to only allow a child of that age or younger to be sitting while holding the cat or kitten. Never let a young child walk around holding a pet.
Don't be surprised if the new cat frightens your young children. From their perspective, he's a hissing, scratching toe-biter who pounces out from nowhere. In time, they'll learn to check under the bed skirt before climbing out of bed in the morning.
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Cats and children can become such good friends that sometimes your cat forgets your child is not one of his littermates. For example, rowdy play can cause a kitten to nip his brother, and childish exuberance can get the same reaction.
Discourage hand-biting verbally with a No, and offer him socks or other toys to nibble. If the kitten is still wound up, try a few minutes of kitty time-out in a quiet room. Even better, encourage your children to play quieter games with the kitten to prevent this behavior entirely. | http://www.petco.com/Content/ArticleList/Article/13/2/2042/Raising-Children-and-Cats-Together.aspx | dclm-gs1-196320000 |
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Rainbow Theatre
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5 stars Wow!! I never start my review with wow. But apparently this group remains to be discovered by a lot of people, and that includes me. Talk about unearthing a gem here. Out of nowhere comes from the underworld this strange band that knows what drama is. As a matter of fact, some of their music can even be called operatic having not only a string section but also a moody wind section as well: jazzy feel on those very Spanish Conquistador dramatic themes. Yes, the music is often grandiose (sometimes bordering on the cheesy) and being somehow what Days Of Future Past should've been. Does this sound intriguing? Ya betcha!! These guys are drawing musical circles around you and they are twiddling with your unstabled brains with their incredible musical meanders and those orgasmic Mellotrons washes. For their second album, leader Browning opted for another horn section, and inside the quartet baritone singer Hoban stepped in to take the keyboards.
I am generally not an opera fan (and certainly do not like the "high culture" snobbery always present at those events), but here I will not only make an exception, we are in for a real rock opera, much more than the great Townsend threw at us into his trips and anguishes (go back to sleep, Rick!!). This music is really classical music fused with rock and might just be on the best example of fusion ever (even if I repeat the word cheesy). But the rock parts are hovering between early Crimson with a great (and much more than that) rhythm section, jazzy Spanish horn section drawing of Rodriguez-type of Aranjuez Concerto. Just flabbergasting if you let yourself taken by the waves of the music. The four tracks (two short and two epics) are gut-wrenching, fascinating, orgasmic, grandiose hair-raising (hear the Farewell of Dancer, the first epic) and yet flow so easily together to form one gigantic track. So much that the heavily rhythmic jazz rock of City Night Life simply does not shock, but actually perfectly and lovingly out-of-place, just like it was meant to be. Too bad for an excellent drum solo that lasted a minute too long, though. The title track starts on a slow operatic style but the crescendo is breathtakingly implacably progressive. Stupendous flutes with the whole orchestra pushing the oboe and other winds (the trombone gets some superb underlines), the whole thing resonates a bit like those unique and crazy Finns of Haikara (their first album really) due to the same Crimson influences but also Magma's works on choral works and interplay with rock. Stupendous, incredibly flawlessly played and written, this is nearing perfection although on the duration, not throughout the whole album, but close enough to be a masterpiece.
Just some 35 minutes-long, this album is easily the best thing to have come from down under, crushing any other pretenders by far, even (especially ;-) Sebastian Hardie. A second reissue saw the light of day in 06 (along with the never re-issued debut The Armada) with a 13-min+ bonus Browning-penned instrumental track Eagle Odyssey, which is not of the same era, recorded purposely for this album's bonus and entirely symphonic (no group or rock instruments). However it fits the album so well, that you don't even notice any difference and most listeners discovering the album now, will most likely integrate it in the album's oeuvre as if it had been there from the start. Sibelius and Strauss come to mind, when listening to this piece.
I'm not exactly sure how I should take the fact that this group was never being exposed (not even sure there are that many collectors who know of the group) and that they are finally getting exposition some 30 years later. This was obviously not a cheap record to make back then, so it is hard to understand how this group was never promoted properly. I just can't believe there are still some incredible albums that are finally getting a bit of attention some 30 years later (but this is also what keeps this old geezer up to his progressive obsessions ;-). Because music like this is only waiting for progheads to love it. One of my shocks this year!!!
Sean Trane | 5/5 |
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In the world in the last 60 years, energy consumption increased unexpectedly long (Wagner, 2010); the world is consuming today by six times more energy than half a century ago. This entails a high consumption of conventional resources, namely a decrease in reserves of oil, natural gas, coal, increases pollution and contributes to global warming. Understanding the danger that affects not only the present but also the future, numerous warning signs were drawn, and the first one was of the Club of Rome in 1972. The document called Limits to Growth, are addressed elements like: population growth, the impact of industrialization, the effects of pollution, food production and natural resource depletion trends (National Centre for Sustainable Development, 2008). Five years later in the report Our Common Future by World Commission on Environment and Development, appears the first definition of sustainable development. Since then, all policies, strategies, conventions began to be built upon sustainable development in order to achieve sustainable living.
Given that multiple social, health and environmental problems are related to urban areas, it is absolutely necessary to act in order to obtain quality of life in these poles of growth which are cities. Nowadays, 2% of the Earth's surface is covered by cities which embed half of the world's population. European Environment Agency (2010) states that in Europe, 75% of the population lives in cities and the tendency is to grow to 80% by the year 2020. It also specifies that cities are those that are responsible for 69% of the total energy use, determining this way the release of large amounts of greenhouse gases.
Therefore, a first opinion about cities has been expressed: even though cities are poles of growth with influence on all kinds of activities in our lives, they are poles for energy use, water utilization, overall consumption and waste generation.
A second opinion suggests that cities offer important opportunities for sustainable living. The explanation lies on the effect of population's density, meaning shorter time to get to work, better utilization of transportation means and smaller houses that need less lighting and heating. This opinion leads the impression that, the energy consumption will be smaller and that the demand for energy could decrease. Totally wrong, because the energy consumption had an increasingly tendency for the last half of century and shows no signs of decline.
As demand for energy will not diminish but will likely increase further, everyone looks for solutions that ensure a sustainable future in this field. One of the five interrelated goals set out in a Communication of the European Commission (2010): An European Strategy for smart, ecological growth and favorable to inclusion, refers to "reducing emissions of greenhouse gases by at least 20% below the levels in 1990 (...); increase to 20% the share of renewables in final energy consumption and increase energy efficiency by 20%."
Romania is taking into account these objectives, trying to increase usage of renewable energy from 17.8% in 2005 to 24% in 2020, to reduce greenhouse gases emissions by 21% and use 10% biofuels by 2020.
In the same time, our country has been "allowed to increase GHG emissions by 19% for sectors of small polluters", GHG meaning Greenhouse Gases (Leca & Musatescu, 2010). We can appreciate that this statement is wrong or not related to that mentioned in the target. However, it is quite true, and an idea that comes to support the statement, is the following: high energy consumption can be a stimulus for economic growth in developing countries; these countries may therefore be allowed to pollute more than developed countries (Amirat & Bouri, 2008).
It was also shown to be valid also the inverse relationship, meaning it was found that economic growth can lead to increased energy consumption. … | http://www.questia.com/library/journal/1G1-283946088/obtaining-economic-growth-from-energy-consumption | dclm-gs1-196410000 |
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I wanted to animate a pulse: a very simple two wave pulse. By using metaphor, the animation would engage all the senses and our imagination. After each pulse, a word is written. I came up with each word after watching each pulse happen and wrote them down immediately. Each word is somehow connected to the idea of a pulse. The goal is to be able to derive from a simple animation a myriad of different meanings.That is how I explored the concept of metaphor.
Error metaphor and imitation go hand in hand. As discussed in class, the error in imitation allows you to focus on a certain aspect of a given object. The animated pulse is in no way representative of the words that describe the pulse. It is an error to attribute the pulse to the words in the literal sense. However this error allows your imagination to wander and makes the pulse a much more powerful descriptive tool. The power of metaphor, error and imitation allows you to describe a metaphysical entity using physical means and to enter a new realm of understanding beyind the physical. | http://www.stanford.edu/~ccalvet/Music32N/Assignment%201%20Process.html | dclm-gs1-196480000 |
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Hillary Clinton calls on China to release those still imprisoned in connection with the protests and begin a dialogue with victims' families
US secretary of state Hillary Clinton
US secretary of state Hillary Clinton said China should examine its past. Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
The US secretary of state Hillary Clinton has urged China to publicly account for those killed in the Tiananmen Square massacre 20 years ago.
China, as an emerging global power, "should examine openly the darker events of its past and provide a public accounting of those killed, detained or missing, both to learn and to heal," she said in a statement from Washington.
"China can honour the memory of that day by moving to give the rule of law, protection of internationally recognised human rights and democratic development the same priority as it has given to economic reform,'' she added.
A massive police presence ringed China's Tiananmen Square this morning, on the 20th anniversary of the bloody crackdown on pro-democracy activists, as the government continued an overwhelming drive to muzzle dissent and block commemorations.
An exiled protest leader famous for publicly haranguing one of China's top leaders 20 years ago was also blocked from returning home to confront officials over what he called the "June 4 massacre."
Foreign journalists were barred from the vast square as uniformed and plainclothed police stood guard across the vast plaza that was the epicentre of the student-led movement that was crushed by the military on 3-4 June 1989.
Security officials checking passports also blocked foreign TV camera operators and photographers from entering to cover the raising of China's national flag, which happens at dawn every day. Plainclothed officers aggressively confronted journalists on the streets surrounding the square, cursing and threatening violence against them.
The heavy security moves come after government censors shut down social networking and image-sharing websites such as Twitter and Flickr and blacked out CNN when it airs stories on Tiananmen. Dissidents were confined to their homes or forced to leave Beijing, part of sweeping efforts to prevent online debate or organised commemorations of the anniversary.
In Washington, Beijing has never allowed an independent investigation into the military's crushing of the protests, in which possibly thousands of students, activists and ordinary citizens were killed. Young Chinese know little about the events, having grown up in a generation that has largely eschewed politics in favour of nationalism and economic development.
Authorities have been tightening surveillance of China's dissident community ahead of the anniversary, with some leading writers already under close watch or house arrest for months.
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A US soldier in Iraq, March 22, 2003
A US soldier in Iraq, March 22, 2003 (AP Photo/John Moore)
This Monday marks the eleventh anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq—a solemn punctuation mark to the steadily increasing violence that has gripped that country over the past two years. Sectarian violence claimed more than 8,000 Iraqis in 2013 alone, and this year’s toll has already surpassed 2,000. Iraq today is a broken and failing state: the war that many would prefer to believe ended in 2011 continues unabated, with Iraqis continuing to suffer, as much as ever, the fallout from this country’s callous lies and avoidable mistakes. Despite Colin Powell’s sanctimonious “Pottery Barn rule,” John Feffer wrote on his Foreign Policy in Focus blog at TheNation.com last month, the United States has made no effort to “own up to our responsibility for breaking the country.”
To a regrettably unsurprising extent, the issue of The Nation that went to press just as American tanks crossed over the border from Kuwait accurately predicted what would happen in the wake of an invasion. Our lead editorial in that issue began:
The Bush Administration has launched a war against Iraq, a war that is unnecessary, unwise and illegal. By attacking a nation that has not attacked us and that does not pose an immediate threat to international peace and security, the Administration has violated the United Nations Charter and opened a new and shameful chapter in US history. Moreover, by abandoning a UN inspection and disarmament process that was working, it has chosen a path that is an affront not only to America’s most cherished values but to the world community. The UN did not fail; rather, Washington sought a UN imprimatur for a war it had already decided to wage and scorned it when the Administration couldn’t get its way.
Jonathan Schell, in an article in the same issue titled “American Tragedy,” described the wider implication of the Bush administration’s action: an existential threat to the separation of powers, the protection of civil liberties, the commitment to the international and domestic rule of law.
The decision to go to war to overthrow the government of Iraq will bring unreckonable death and suffering to that country, the surrounding region and, possibly, the United States. It also marks a culmination in the rise within the United States of an immense concentration of unaccountable power that poses the greatest threat to the American constitutional system since the Watergate crisis. This transformation, in turn, threatens to push the world into a new era of rivalry, confrontation and war. The location of the new power is of course the presidency (whose Augustan proportions make the “imperial” presidency of the cold war look like a mere practice run). Its sinews are the awesome might of the American military machine, which, since Congress’s serial surrender of the constitutional power to declare war, has passed wholly into the President’s hands. Its main political instrument is the Republican Party. Its financial wherewithal is the corporate money that inundates the political realm. Its strategy at home is restriction of civil liberties, deep secrecy, a makeover in its image of the judiciary, subservience to corporate interests across the board and transfer of personal wealth on a colossal scale from the average person to its wealthy supporters. Its popular support stems from fear engendered by the attacks of September 11—fear that has been manipulated to extend far beyond its proper objects. Its overriding goal, barely concealed behind the banner of the war on terrorism, is the accumulation of ever more power, whose supreme expression is its naked ambition to establish hegemony over the earth.…
The tragedy of America in the post-cold war era is that we have proved unequal to the responsibility that our own power placed upon us. Some of us became intoxicated with it, imagining that we could rule the world. Others of us—the Democratic Party, Congress, the judiciary, the news media—abdicated our obligation to challenge, to check and to oppose, letting the power-hungry have their way. The government of the United States went into opposition against its own founding principles, leaving it to the rest of the world to take up our cause. The French have been better Americans than we have. Because the Constitution, though battered, is still intact, we may still have time and opportunity to recoup. But for now, we will have to pay the price of our weakness. The costs will be heavy, first of all for the people of Iraq but also for others, including ourselves. The international order on which the common welfare, including its ecological and economic welfare, depends has sustained severe damage. The fight for “freedom” abroad is crippling freedom at home. The war to stop proliferation of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq has provoked that very proliferation in North Korea and Iran. More ground has already been lost in the field of proliferation than can be gained even by the most delirious victory in Baghdad. Former friends of America have been turned into rivals or foes. The United States may be about to win Iraq. It has already lost the world.
In her column, “War: What Is It Good For?The Nation’s Katha Pollitt wrote about the consequences of the US invasion at home and abroad:
Whatever the immediate results—this many dead children versus that much freedom from repression—the fundamental issue has to be the perils of “pre-emptive war” in volatile times. However it works out for the Iraqis, invading their country will be bad for the rest of the world. It will aid terrorist recruitment, it will license other countries—India and Pakistan, for example—to wage pre-emptive wars of their own, it may even consolidate Islamic fundamentalism as the only alternative to American power in the Middle East. Those are the fears not just of the American antiwar movement but of the majority of people around the world, even in the nations whose leaders have joined with ours.
But who cares about the majority of the world’s people? We’ll go to war unilaterally, with our pathetic collection of allies (Britain, OK. But Spain? Italy? Latvia?), while the rest of the world stands by appalled. We’ll boycott the Dixie Chicks, eat our freedom fries and even, as documented in the New York Times, pour Dom Perignon by the gallon down the toilet (“I’ll bet it was just water,” said the manager of my local liquor store. “Nobody would waste great champagne like that!”). People will be called traitors if they wear peace T-shirts, fail to salute the flag or dare to suggest that anyone in the Administration has lower motives than the selfless salvation of humanity. Journalists “embedded,” as the odd phrase goes, in military units will send back an endless stream of heartwarmers that will reinforce the confusion of “support the troops” with “support the war.” If, in the end, the Iraqis turn out to hate and resent the nation that bombed them into freedom, we’ll shake our heads in angry bewilderment: After all we did for you, this is the thanks we get!
The issue raised by the invasion of Iraq is American imperialism. That won’t go away, no matter how this particular adventure turns out. See you at the demonstration.
Finally, the issue carried a report from “Inside Baghdad” by Jeremy Scahill, whom The Nation nurtured as a journalist, publishing his dispatches from Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia, and ensuring that they became the bestselling books, Blackwater and Dirty Wars. On the eve of the Iraq War, Scahill wrote of the hopes and fears of the Iraqi people, as one horrific chapter of their nation’s history was about to end and another to begin:
Perhaps it’s twenty years of unending war and sanctions; perhaps it’s the tremendous repression; likely, it’s everything together, but Iraqis want it all to end. They are exhausted and, most of them, miserable. In the early stages of the imposition of the US-led sanctions against Iraq, US officials made clear that Iraqis would be made to suffer until Saddam Hussein was no longer in power. The last decade has represented one of the most brutal campaigns of targeting innocent civilians to achieve Washington’s policy aims. The constant bombing, the massive shortages of medicine, the rapid decimation of a once-proud middle class, the tens of thousands of innocent children withering away in filthy hospital beds, the unclean drinking water, the total dependence on the government for food, have all made ordinary Iraqis pay an incredible price for a government over which they have no control.…
There is no question that hatred of the US government is strong in Iraq, regardless of what people think of Saddam. And few accept that America has any right to overthrow the Iraqi government. Iraqis have seen what occupation looks like, both through British colonization of Iraq and through the lens of the Palestinians. “We don’t want Saddam, but that doesn’t mean we want America, either,” said Mazen, an unemployed engineer. He said his father’s name is Jihad. The name, Mazen said, was given because his grandfather fought against the British colonialists in the 1920s. “It’s in my family blood. We will not accept a foreign invader or occupier, even if it damns us to more years under an Iraqi dictator. At least he is one of us…
But even those people who would welcome a US victory over Saddam are concerned about what might come after. People across the map say they fear a civil war that would pit the surviving Baathists and loyalist forces of the regime against masses of angry civilians and disaffected army deserters. Some Christians say they also fear that Islamic fundamentalists will attack them. Over the past twelve years, Iraq has seen a rapid desecularization of its society, and Islamic groups hope to replace the Baathist government with an Islamic state. “You know why we Christians want Saddam to stay in power?” asks a restaurant owner in Baghdad. “Because he is protecting us from radical Muslims. He always has done this, and if he goes, we are afraid what will happen to us.”
Scahill also interviewed Iraqis who looked forward to the Hussein regime’s downfall, even at the price of a US invasion. But that didn’t change the fact that even if that happened quickly and relatively smoothly, the violence would be by no means at an end:
Even if some Iraqis celebrate in the streets if Saddam’s government is brought down, it will reflect no success of US policy. It will simply represent a violent end to a horrifying chapter in the vast, unfinished book of Iraq. It will be the fruits of a merciless economic and military war waged against the innocent for twelve years. Regardless of what happens, it is the ordinary Iraqis—the doctors, the engineers turned taxi drivers, the shoeshine boys, the mothers and fathers—who should be praised for having found the will to live and the will to survive a heartless war waged against them by a superpower and a tyrant.
Though both are now gone, their entwined legacies remain disastrously oppressive to the Iraqi people.
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The ‘Next Citizens United’ May Fuel a Popular Uprising
Second anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling
Demonstrators marking the second anniversary of the Supreme Court’sCitizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision, January 20, 2012. (Reuters/Shannon Stapleton)
Pity poor Shaun McCutcheon.
McCutcheon is the Alabama businessman suing the Federal Election Commission for abridging his First Amendment right to free speech—that is, if we define free speech as McCutcheon’s right to donate upward of $123,200 in a single election cycle. He claims eliminating federal limits on an individual’s aggregate campaign contributions is “about practicing democracy and being free.” To underscore his love of freedom, McCutcheon wrote checks to 15 Republican candidates in the symbolic sum of $1,776.
The Supreme Court is expected to hand down its decision in McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission any day now. Given the Roberts court’s track record, the biggest campaign-finance decision since Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission is likely to blow another gigantic hole in the fabric of our democracy.
Such a ruling will fuel popular outrage and increase pressure for fundamental reforms such as disclosure and public financing. Already, Senator Tom Udall (D-NM) and Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) have introduced a constitutional amendment allowing campaign spending limits. This would finally supercede the Supreme Court’s infamous 1976 ruling in Buckley v. Valeo, which equated money with speechand effectively turned our elections into auctions.
Representative Keith Ellison
“There must be something in the water in Minnesota,” writes Keith Ellison (D-MN) in his new memoir My Country, ’Tis of Thee, “because historically, despite its seemingly homogeneous population, the state has produced some of our more radical political thinkers, and its people have put their prejudices aside to vote for them.” Granted, Ellison was born and raised in Detroit, but the four-term congressman from Minnesota’s Fifth District is boldly following in the footsteps of Humphrey, McCarthy, Mondale and Wellstone.
Ellison is a believer in activism, and he believes that so-called “regular folks” can influence their legislators. With Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.), Ellison is co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, a position he ran for “to connect working Americans with members of Congress who want to partner with them.” Not only is Ellison eager to work with Republicans, he’s also intent on increasing citizen participation in government (If you stay disgruntled yet sit idle on the sidelines, he believes, then you’re just a complainer.) And participation is crucial. He sees himself (and Congress) as part of a vast ecosystem comprising activists, movements, politicians, and voters. “What’s the matter with Congress?” he asks. “Nothing that wide-awake and active Americans can’t fix.”
On foreign policy, Ellison decries unilateral action and condemns US behavior after 9/11. Iraq was a “colossal failure,” and in Afghanistan, “We allowed ourselves to lose track of the goal.” Ellison knows that our current strategy is failing, both militarily and culturally. He’s disappointed by the coldness of the reception he received on a 2011 trip to Pakistan, and he compares it sadly to the warm welcome he experienced there just two years earlier. Pakistanis rightly ask Ellison if he “thought that we should be able to come into their country and make war,” and he bitterly notes, “We’re supposed to be allies.”
Ellison sees American aid as one of the most powerful tactics we can use against terrorism, decrying the fact that our foreign-aid budget is one-twentieth that of the military’s. “Surely,” he asks, “we can find value in doing some preventive maintenance?”
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Why is venison good for me?
It has more protein than any other red meat, which means that it sates the appetite really well. It is also particularly rich in iron (moreso than beef), which prevents anaemia and is good for energy levels. It's full of B vitamins: B2 (riboflavin) and B3 (niacin), which help regulate metabolism; and vitamin B6 and B12, which may lower homocysteine build-up in the blood, thus lowering the risk of heart attacks and strokes. Thanks to all the wild and pasture food that deer eat, the small amount of fat in venison is likely to contain high levels of conjugated linoleic acid, which is thought to protect against heart disease and cancer.
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Protein raised by God is hard to beat!
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#3393425 - 10/08/13 01:55 PM Re: Why is Venison Good For You? [Re: TennesseeRains]
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I know very little about computers and I don't really have anybody to teach me so I'm kind of on my own.
I just got the core 2 quad 2.66ghz with a 1333 bus and 12mb cache. I'm running on a gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L mobo and a 9800 GTX. 4gb of ram on xp64.
I wanted to test the processor and the thermal paste I installed. I ran 3dmark06 and my overall score was 13605 with the processor score of 4500. It said there were no computers to compare this to, so I don't know if these numbers are any good. When I just searched the processor on 3dmarks website, it showed my processor with a score of 11000 BUT when I tried to find comparable computers, their overall score was right around mine. When it shows the processor stats it says my bus is 333, not 1333. It also says my cache in L1 is 64k and in L2 is 6mb. I'm not sure if this is software or what. No idea. During the tests though, when it runs the graphics just on the processor, it's only getting 1-2 fps. That seems really bad.
I downloaded a few temperature programs and got all different numbers. The first one, burn-in software (i forget which), said I was running 52c with no load and up to 70 with load.
The second was real temp 2.6 and it says it is running at 39c-44c on the different cores with no load and up to 68 with load. It also shows the mhz bouncing between 2.66 and 2.0 when I'm not doing anything. My XS score was 888 at 17secs. It also tested the sensors and two got 11 and two got 3 which implies there is something wrong with my sensors. What does this mean, what can I do about it?
The third is the temp software supplied by gigabyte. It says that my low is around 27c and I have not seen it get above 50c. When running real temp and is showing 2.0ghz, the gigabyte software never shows it dropping bellow 2.695ghz.
So I'm confused because I know nothing about the processor or what programs I should be running. I just want to make sure that everything is safe and running well. Any advice would be appreciated. I did searches but I didn't find anything that seemed to have the same problems so I'm sorry if this is a repost. The people here seem to be very knowledgeable so I'm sure somebody can help me.
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The processor speed changing is due to SpeedStep when it lowers your processor speed by changing the multiplier to save energy (although I thought it would drop lower than 2GHz).
333MHz is the bus speed, 1333GHz is the rated FSB which has something to do with quad pumping (hope someone can explain this properly?)
52 at idle seems warm to me?
Thanks for the first two answers. That's refreshing.
52 is only on one of the programs and yes it seems really high. I don't know which program to trust.
Also what is the way to test the load?
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I can't explain why but here is the math behind all the numbers as far as speed goes. Keep in mind this is for intel core 2 chips.
CPU Speed is the bus speed x multiplier
2660mhz = 333 x 8
The front side bus is the the bus speed times 4. ( i think it does 4 instructions per clock cycle which they call quad pumping).
1333 = 333 x 4
52 idle is about right if your using the stock cooler. The core 2 are rated to run at temps as high as 75c.
your 3dmarks scores are fine. I think that your confused on how to use their database. the fact that similiar pc are scoring the same should let you know your ok.
mi1ez is right about intel speed step. not all apps are configured to read the real speed properly. so go by w2hat the bios says by using the math above. that will be your real speed.
What are the low and high load temperatures I should be looking for/expect?
Also, if everything is running correctly, and the thermal paste is ok, and I keep the stock cooling, what can I overclock to safely? More importantly, how do I do it? Sorry I'm so uninformed.
I would not overclock with the stock cooler, the Akasa 965 cooler is a good cheap option but its worth paying the money for a good one, Zalman flower CNF9700 is one of the best and keeps my E6750 3.2ghz at 40 degrees max on orthos, There are no reliable temp apps to believe, as long as you keep thermal throttling enabled in the bios your chip wont cook, but if youu want to oc you will need an aftermarket cooler.
In my bios it says my system temp is 39c and cpu temp is 30c. Also my cpu fan is only at 794 and in windows its at 1600.
Under MB intelligent tweaker; it has cpu host frequency at 200 and memory frequency at 800.
In realtemp it says my sensors are messed up though. So is it possible these numbers are wrong?
I also do not see where thermal throttling is in my bios. CPU thermal monitor is enabled though.
Your system temp seems a bit to high, It might be worth tidying your cables to give better air flow in your case, CPU thermal monitor is what im talking about so keep it enabled, Its a tough one, Ive had real temp say the same thing to me and the only thing that worked is a clean install of your os and the latest motherboard drivers, it could be your chipset drivers have not installed properly. I would go into my bios and set it to default value, your fan speed should be higher and its worth looking in the MB tweaker and seeing if you can change the speed to performance/optimal. I dont have a gigabyte board so im not sure about this though but its worth looking at.
If you have software that came with your mobo for overclocking in windows, i would look on the mobo's website and make sure you have the latest version installed, I would only recommend relying on the bios for info though.
For a Q9450 52C at idle is not uncommon at all. Many of the C1 stepping chips have a "funky", if you will, temperature deviation at idle, that is attributed to the stuck sensor problem (which is another issue altogether). I've read that this deviation can be off by as much as 10-15C at idle even when using the RealTemp application. I was trying to find the precise thread that discussed this in the Xtreme Systems such luck as of yet.
In my case, my Q9450 sit about about 49-51C idle using 4 different heat sinks. I do, however, see a difference in load temperatures, with the OCZ Vendetta 2 doing the best over a Xigmatek S-1283RD, a TRUE+Scythe SFFlex-F, and a Zalman 9700NT.
Ok so my temps are fine and the sensors are known for being faulty. My score and numbers are fine in 3dmark. I should just get a new heatsink/fan and not worry about it then is what I'm taking from all of this.
What program should I use to put my processor under full load so I can make sure it's not getting too hot?
What is too hot for this processor?
Get a program called orthos, run the cpu/ram blend test and the cpu grommacs core test for about nine hours. Your chip has thermal throttling enabled which means if it gets to hot it will reduce power, Its good for looking after your cpu but bad for games and your apps, You should be happy wiith a max temp of 60-65 the most during the orthos test, anything above is a sign that your cooling/heatsink need to be replaced/re-seated and some Arctic silver 5 be applied in a thin layer on the top of your cpu.
Just because some sensors are faulty dont assume that your are,you have spent to much money on your rig not to worry bout temps.
Thank you very much for your help Mogwilson. Without you I'd be lost right now.
The latest version of Orthos I could find was 2.006 and it seems that its only meant to test dual core. After running it for 40 mins with the grommacs core test, my 4 cores read in RealTemp; 58, 54, 53, 53. Under EasyTune (Software provided by Gigabyte) it says my cpu at 42c and system at 34c.
What should my system temperature be at?
When this is done running for 9 hours, what should I be looking for?
My temps weren't changing and I didn't throw any errors after two hours so I switched over to prime95 and running the stress test. After only a couple mins my cores read 66,61,64,64. Isn't this too hot??
Well 95C is TjMax...the temp at which Intel thinks its too hot and the processor with trottle back. 95-66 = 29C that you still have left before throttling. I think your processor will be okay, especially given that you're not likely to be running anything as grueling as Prime95 all of the time.
Well I'd like to overclock to 3.2ghz if possible. What is the max temp I should be seeing on real temp and what should I hope my idle sits at?
I decided to remove and reapply the thermal paste and now when running prime96 i'm at 68,64,69,69
Should I try again or just leave it? This is getting tiresome
Well, if those are your non-overclock, stock heatsink-fan temps I would recommend you invest in a better cooler, definitely. You'd likely see you temps drop significantly. For instance, when I have my Q9450 overclocked to 3.5Ghz temps stay below 69C in a room that is 25.5C and that's with a warm 8800GTX in a nice-looking but not the coldest Lian-Li A-70.
If you want to overclock you will need a better cooler, your system is stable at stock speed and dont get to obsessed with temps(like i do), you wont blow your chip. Temp readings are to varied to be trusted, if you have ran orthos for a few hours without errors it means that its not getting to hot. Its hugely dependent on your room temp as well, To ease your worries about temps just get a good cooler, try to avoid the push pin types if you can(although i recommended it, it can be tricky) and get yourself a Tuniq tower or a zalman flower, This will let you forget about temps and let you enjoy your high end rig.
One other thing, dont bother using your gigabyte software to monitor temps, The only ones that can generally be trusted are Real temps and core temps. also it makes no difference in orthos whether you have 4 cores, it still stresses the chip far beyond any game.
Stop fiddling with your heatsink, not only will it annoy you it will also be easier to break, Dont put too much paste on the chip, u just need a thin layer covering the square face of the cpu.( i put a very thin layer on the heatsink as well,but we all do it different)
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Hello everyone,
First time poster here, hopefully you can help me with something.
I've recently opened an older Typeface I designed back in 2004 (ARS Robust) in order to take another swing in implementing a feature that is essential to the character of the Typeface, before I officially release it.
The design integrates two types of attachable shapes (serifs) that in combination with the letter forms can create custom ligatures or aesthetic modifications to the letters or spacing at will, chosen by the user/designer. The system i came up with so far is placing each form in different places with different key combination.
I'm not sure this is a very user-friendly system, do you? I'm trying to solve this maybe with OpenType coding or something like that.
I've attached a pic of the font/feature so you can see what I mean.
The issue is applying a single shape or several at a time to a character either at the top left or bottom right or both.. whatever, where ever you want it... AUTOMATICLY. Is something like this possible with OpenType?
Obviously the possibilities and combination will be virtually endless if I to make ALL the ligatures in font itself (think of the endless combination you can generate from 4 digits).
Anyone has any suggestion on how to tackle this?
Best, Angus
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clauses's picture
You can do a series of stylistic alternates, but I don't think you can have them linked to a keyboard shortcut without creating such shortcuts (to the stylistic alternates) in for instance InDesign.
Thomas Phinney's picture
What about having the font smart enough to use the alternates automatically?
This is going to be tough to do without separate glyphs. There are a lot of permutations for doing it with alternates. If a letter has four positions you could attach something to, and the options for each position are nothing, or a short thing or a long thing, that's 3^4 or 81 variants for those letters. Ouch.
Theunis de Jong's picture
Is it not feasible to create only connector blocks (1 above, 1 below, both above and below), and have OpenType insert the correct one between any combination of characters?
Angus R Shamal's picture
Thanks for your input guys!
Claus; I suppose Stylistic Sets would have to be used in some form, but if you mean that they'll contain all the possible combinations that will result in hundreds (if not more) of characters. Or did you mean something else? please correct me.
Thomas; Indeed some alternates and ligatures (are) will be made separately - the ones that don't involve the attachable blocks mostly. However, as you say, making all the ligature/alternate possibilities separately is exactly what I definitely want to avoid. And yet I somehow believe there's a way...
Theunis; That's more or less what I'm trying to figure out. As for now, those are in fact 2 types of separate "connector blocks" as you call them (6 in total) - two (short & long) for top, two for bottom and two middle ones for the small caps. All with 0 cell width, and considering the designer leaves the automatic spacing to the font (and not the software), can be applied to the character at courser position with the help of (awkward) key-shortcuts (see picture).
Unless someone sees a different solution, I realize more and more that applying them with key-shortcuts is the way to go, but I still think it's a bit of a tedious system.
I recall Mathew Charter designed a font system a while ago for the Walker Art Center, which used a similar feature with attachable serif shapes to a basic Sans font. How do you suppose he solved that?
I'm not a coder and I wish to make this feature a bit more intuitive and user friendly somehow without sacrificing existing (important) characters. If only the OpenType format could meet me half way on this.
Perhaps, for example, making the key-shortcuts more intuitive and easy to remember with the help of OpenType?
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Donors want the word "coal" included somewhere in the dorm's title.
A group of wealthy donors wants to give the University of Kentucky $7 million to build a dorm for the school's basketball team, which is widely considered one of the top teams entering the 2009-2010 college basketball season. But there's one caveat: The dorm's name must include the word "coal" somewhere in its title.
That stipulation by the group called Difference Makers has caused controversy on the Lexington campus, the Kentucky Kernel reports.
"My opinion is pretty much that coal has been a foundation of Kentucky's economy for many decades, and it's going to be the foundation for many decades to come," says Stephen Gardner, chairman of the UK Mining and Energy Foundation. "Coal research is very important to UK. All of the colleges do a lot of research into coal, and coal supplies a lot of the money for the research."
Opponents of including "coal" in the dormitory's title say that the school would be selling out to the coal industry. Martin Mudd, a UK student and member of Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, tells the Kernel that the university shouldn't allow a free advertisement for the coal industry on its campus.
"My personal opinion is that the University of Kentucky has to choose whether it's going to be a friend of big coal or a friend of Kentucky and Kentuckians," Mudd tells the Kernel. "With this announcement, it's clear what the administration feels about that, but I don't think that that view represents everybody on this campus."
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The president simply refuses to negotiate with Republicans.
President Barack Obama, shown here addressing the nation on Sept. 10, 2013, heads to New York Monday for the U.N. General Assembly.
The president is taking a huge political risk by choosing to ignore the Republicans in hopes that he can gain political capital in the long run and attempt to diminish the other side. However, his strategy is starting to backfire.
President Obama's and the liberal Democrats' refusal to negotiate with the other side is a destructive path. The Democrats believed that by painting the tea party as anarchists and Republicans as hostage takers they could win the fight. However, the Democrats are looking more like the obstructionist party, while the Republicans appear to take on the role of fighting for the people.
A White House senior administration official even stated that "we are winning … it doesn't really matter to us" how long the shutdown lasts. With those types of comments, the perception is that the White House does not care, but it does matter to those federal employees who rely on their paychecks and those individuals who depend on government services. [Check out our editorial cartoons on President Obama.]
With presidential leadership and bipartisan support, we could reach a resolution and a compromise. We are already seeing one-third of the Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives voting with Republicans to pass the piece-meal spending bills that would reopen the National Parks, the Veterans Administration and fully fund the National Guard, among other measures. The House is voting on back pay for furloughed government workers.
So it seems that the House is working while the Senate Democrats and the president cross their arms and do nothing; they are sending the message that it does not matter to them how long the government shutdown lasts. The House Democrats are also being discredited by the Senate Democrats who refuse to support the piecemeal approach. It is all or nothing for the liberals.
President Obama's delayed response in meeting with the congressional leaders on the spending bill only exasperated the problem. He took a backseat and relinquished all authority to Congress, knowing that he would refuse to deal with the Republicans. His lack of engagement and unwillingness to move an inch is frustrating and further creates division in an already radioactive and dynamic environment.
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While we cannot count on President Obama to negotiate with congressional leaders, we can only hope that congressional members on both sides can find common ground and negotiate the terms. House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, took the first step this week by stating that he would not let the country default and directing members to craft a bipartisan deal. That is promising news and shows willingness from the speaker to reach across the aisle and work with the Democrats. The president and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., should learn from the speaker and do the same with the Republican Party, instead of doing nothing and just trying to discredit, minimize and ignore them. By following such a do-nothing strategy, the president is ignoring the voices of a large number of the American people.
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By Howard Kurtz
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Thursday, December 11, 2008 10:17 AM
I will say this: Barack Obama could have expressed a bit more disgust.
In doing the can't-comment-because-it's-under-investigation routine Tuesday, the president-elect limited himself to such bromides as "sad" in discussing the Blagojevich scandal. Actually, it's more than sad. Based on the wiretapped conversations recounted in the criminal complaint, it's an outrageous, appalling and thoroughly disgusting glimpse of government for sale.
The governor of Illinois deserves the presumption of legal innocence, but not the presumption that he acted honorably. And Obama, without prejudicing the case, needs to find a way to express how unacceptable he finds all this -- not least because it involves the auctioning off of his Senate seat.
By yesterday Obama's position had "evolved": Blago should resign (though he said it via a written statement). Why did it take the president-elect 24 hours to reach that conclusion, when the facts haven't changed? Is that kind of excessive caution going to define his presidency?
Still, Obama is exonerated on the tapes by none other than F-bomb Rod, who calls him a "mother [expletive]" and complains that the only thing O will offer for having his person picked for the Senate is gratitude. Obama, it turns out, won't pay to play. That's not how things are done in bleeping Chicago!
The facts, of course, didn't stop some conservative pundits from arguing that Obama has now been tainted by association with the Chicago machine.
But if Obama refused to play, how can he be blamed for the fact that Blagojevich, with whom he's never been close, was (according to the tapes) looking for a reward from the Senate appointment (as well as trying to squeeze the Chicago Tribune on the Wrigley Field deal)?
Obama's aides may have had normal political conversations about the appointment with the governor or his loyalists. Some of that might prove embarrassing as this thing unwinds.
One other thought: Many journalists thought Patrick Fitzgerald was the devil when he was jailing or threatening to jail reporters in the Plame case. Now he seems to be garnering praise as a square-jawed, no-nonsense lawman.
But prosecutors are not supposed to go beyond describing the allegations contained in the criminal complaint that was unsealed Tuesday morning. From the Illinois Rules of Professional Conduct: "The prosecutor in a criminal case shall refrain from making extrajudicial comments that would pose a serious and imminent threat of heightening public condemnation of the accused, except for statements that are necessary to inform the public of the nature and extent of the prosecutor's action and that serve a legitimate law enforcement purpose."
So Fitzgerald can read all the bleeping details he wants, but he's not supposed to make prejudicial proclamations such as "Lincoln would turn over in his grave." Yet journalists are so busy seizing on such sound bites that few have questioned whether their onetime antagonist has gone too far.
NYT: "The political fortunes of the besieged governor of Illinois unraveled further on Wednesday, after President-elect Barack Obama joined a near-unanimous chorus of political leaders calling for him to resign."
"If the wiretapped dialogue in the criminal complaint against Rod Blagojevich reveals anything," the Chicago Tribune says, "it's that the governor can deftly hold his own in the pantheon of political profanity."
Ya think?
"A cleaned-up version of the complaint would be cratered with blacked-out f-bombs, yet etiquette experts and anti-cursing crusaders say the language, which once would have made the nation blush, now comes across as almost de rigueur."
Atlantic's Marc Ambinder deconstructs Obama's tepid reaction:
"The first instinct of this [Chicago] inner circle was human and understandable; try to get away with adding as little fuel as possible to the combustion. That's always the first instinct of public figures when they (a) have something to side and (b) have nothing to hide. Obama has nothing to hide; indeed, the evidence so far suggests that his allies were repulsed by Blagojevich's entreaties. The trouble is that the public has been so familiar with the traditional script that politicians use when they're in trouble, and that script opens with the politician's somewhat cagey denial (even if the caginess was not intended) and it continues with the associates of that politician claiming that the questions are illegitimate and that the press is only searching for a head to spike on a pike. Then, the politician notices the criminal investigation and claims prudence."
Yep -- he looked like a typical pol.
The New Republic's Noam Scheiber says Rod didn't really get Barack:
"What's most remarkable to me -- at least once you get beyond the cartoonish brazenness, and, of course, the idea that Blagojevich had presidential aspirations -- is how spectacularly Blago misunderstands Obama himself. Among the various prizes he contemplates prying from the 'President-elect' are a cabinet seat (preferably HHS, but, as 'Deputy Governor A' points out, energy secretary 'makes the most money'), an ambassadorship, a position as head of a private foundation like the Red Cross, and some top role in the Change to Win coalition, which would apparently come about by way of an elaborate three-way trade involving Obama and SEIU. According to the indictment, Blago hoped to bargain for such a position in the manner of '. . . a sports agent shopping a potential free agent to various teams, stating "how much are you offering, [President-elect]? . . . '[President-elect], you want it? Fine. But, its got to be good or I could always take [the Senate seat]." ' In response to which one feels compelled to ask: Is there anything in Obama's background that suggests he'd react well to such an explicit shakedown?
But Politico sees nothing but trouble for the man from Hyde Park:
"At first blush, Barack Obama comes out of the Rod Blagojevich scandal smelling like a rose. The prosecutor at a news conference seemed to give the president-elect a seal of approval, and the Illinois governor himself was caught on tape complaining that Obama was not interested in crooked schemes.
"But make no mistake: The Blagojevich scandal is nothing but a stink bomb tossed at close range for Obama and his team. Legal bills, off-message headlines, and a sustained attempt by Republicans to show that Obama is more a product of Illinois's malfeasance-prone political culture than he is letting on -- all are likely if the Blagojevich case goes to trial or becomes an extended affair. Obama and his aides have so far mounted a tight-lipped defense, publicly distancing themselves from Blagojevich's alleged plans to profit personally from his power to fill Obama's newly vacant Senate seat with firm but vague denials of any involvement."
The scandal shoe is now on the other political foot, Michelle Malkin says:
"Howard Dean and Nancy Pelosi can stop clucking now. For the last three years, Democratic leaders cheered GOP ethics woes. Dean accused Republicans of making 'their culture of corruption the norm.' Pelosi touted cleanliness as a liberal virtue. But with the eye-popping pay-for-play and bribery case against Democratic Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich topping a year of nationwide Democratic scandals, the corruption chickens are coming home to roost. U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald called the breadth and depth of charges against Blagojevich and his Democratic Chief of Staff John Harris 'staggering.' That's an understatement. Anything that breathed was a potential shakedown target. It's the Chicago way. Democrat Blago's so dirty he'd hit up a children's hospital for money. Oh, wait. He's accused of doing that, too . . .
In Salon, Edward McClelland views the governor as a product of his environment:
"It's almost hard to blame Blagojevich for the trouble he's in. The odds were against him from the beginning. Three of his last six predecessors -- Otto Kerner, Dan Walker and George Ryan -- have gone to prison. Ryan, who as secretary of state sold drivers' licenses for bribes, is languishing in a federal pen in Wisconsin, pining for a Christmas pardon from President Bush.
"When Blagojevich was elected, he promised to clean up the state's 'pay to play' political culture. But nobody really believed him. He was the governor, for God's sake. The governor is the last guy who would do something like that. Who benefits more from shaking down political contributors?
"I never expected Hot Rod to get into a mess this hot, though. Frankly, I always considered him an amiable goof obsessed with hair care and jogging. Not smart enough to be competent, but not cunning or venal enough to hatch a Nixonian scheme like peddling a U.S. Senate seat as though it were a stolen flat-screen."
Here's a possible defense for Blagojevich, from Powerline's Scott Johnson:
"Is Blago nuts? That's the first question that crossed my mind yesterday upon hearing of the charge that forced the authorities to arrest Blago yesterday before he exercised his power to appoint Obama's successor. He must feel the exhilaration and invulnerability of the pathological narcissist.
"Is insanity a defense to corruption charges? That's the second question that crossed my mind yesterday. It is, though I'm not aware of it ever having been pursued in such a case. Perhaps the time has come."
Obama, meanwhile, is doing pretty well:
"President-elect Barack Obama is entering the White House with an enormous reservoir of goodwill from an American public that is rooting for his success in the face of bad economic times, a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll finds . . . The poll found 73% of American adults approve of the way he is handling the transition and his preparations for becoming president." And Bush? "Just 18% say they are going to miss him when he is gone."
Had enough of politicians (Spitzer, McGreevey, Foley, Stevens, Craig, Jefferson and on and on) in trouble with the law? There's a new probe, the St. Paul Pioneer Press reports:
"Federal investigators are looking into allegations that a longtime friend and benefactor tried to steer money to Sen. Norm Coleman, the Pioneer Press has learned.
"Agents with the FBI have talked to or made efforts to talk to people in Texas familiar with the allegations, according to a source familiar with the situation.
"Houston is where the first of two lawsuits was filed alleging Nasser Kazeminy, a Bloomington financier, tried to steer $100,000 to Coleman via his wife's Minneapolis employer. The second suit, filed in Delaware, alleges Kazeminy initially tried to get money directly to the senator. Both Coleman and Kazeminy have denied any wrongdoing."
There goes Obama, naming one of those over-credentialed Cabinet members again:
"President-elect Barack Obama will tap Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Chu as his Energy secretary."
What about an appointee to represent the ordinary folks, huh?
Back in Washington, Michelle Cottle is training her eye on a neglected part of the transition:
"What does it take to get tagged as a shameless status-seeker in a town fueled by the eternal quest for access to power? Ask Beth Dozoretz, the former Democratic National Committee finance chair with a legendary affinity for snuggling up to the rich and powerful. (She asked pal Bill Clinton to be godfather to her now-ten-year-old daughter, Melanne.) It seems that, in the waning days of the presidential race, Dozoretz found herself at a dinner party with Michelle Obama. Not one to miss an opportunity, Dozoretz slipped Mrs. Obama a note from Melanne, in which the precocious fourth grader urged the Obamas to enroll their two girls, Malia and Sasha, at D.C.'s prestigious Sidwell Friends School.
"Shortly after Election Day, she and her husband, health care mogul Ron Dozoretz, popped up in the press talking about the note-passing and elaborating on their pro-Sidwell lobbying. All across Northwest D.C., tongues set to clucking: Tacky! Shameless! How could they be so out there? It wasn't so much that the Dozoretzes had attempted to cement a connection with the new First Family via their daughter's school. After all, veterans of establishment Washington understand that ingratiating oneself with a new commander-in-chief can require aggressive p.r. as well as exceedingly pointy elbows. Said veterans, however, prefer that the scramble be conducted without the vulgar details spilling out into public view. The sense that the Dozoretzes were publicly boasting of their sucking up was deemed downright embarrassing, prompting some observers to express disappointment that such a naked status grab didn't prompt the Obamas to send their girls elsewhere . . .
"The Beltway scramble for a piece of presidential prestige has begun, with all of the plotting, jockeying, and backbiting of a small-town beauty pageant."
That's what makes it delicious.
The Gregory era begins Sunday on "Meet the Press," and Jack Shafer has some advice:
"Get rid of the Russert regulars. Who hasn't heard enough from James Carville and Mary Matalin by now? Hasn't plagiarist Doris Kearns Goodwin run out of gas? Doesn't William Safire phone it in? Can't NBC do the right thing and give Andrea Mitchell her own show? And why does the mere sight of David Broder, Bob Shrum, E.J. Dionne, or Peggy Noonan on television make me want to kill myself?
"Blacklisting these usual guests from the Meet the Press round table and recruiting a younger band of participants would mark the passing of an era and acknowledge the arrival of a young president. It's not even a very radical step. Russert was known to experiment with formula, adding Matt Drudge and Rush Limbaugh to the mix. So it's not too much to ask some new voices to suit up for play . . .
"Instead of relying on guests for news, a Sunday show could break the mold by filing a reported story that makes news. (The lack of reported news stories on the Sunday show is one of economics. Reported stories are about 10 times more expensive to produce than studio chatter.) Lacking the budget or gumption to break news, Gregory's show could at least broadcast a reported segment that put into context the top story that everybody was about to discuss."
Reporting -- what a concept.
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0.034486 | <urn:uuid:79ed6679-cd1c-4369-9a92-c3ad3335e2dd> | en | 0.979516 | ZANESVILLE --The size and scope of the effort to bring down dozens of escaped wild animals from a private animal preserve in Zanesville was revealed at a late afternoon news conference.
Muskingum County Sheriff Matt Lutz says the number of escaped animals officers were dealing with was 56. Of that number, 48 have been put down.
The breakdown of the animals put down included:
• 2 grizzly bears
• 6 black bears
• 17 lions (9 male/8 female)
• 18 tigers
• 3 mountain lions
• 1 wolf
• 1 baboon
Six animals were captured and taken to the Columbus Zoo including:
• 1 grizzly bear
• 3 leopards
• 2 monkeys
Two animals remain on the loose including a gray wolf and a monkey.
Sheriff Lutz said the Columbus Zoo has recommended that the monkey be put down when located because it is believed to be carrying a Herpes-B virus. The virus can be dangerous to humans if bitten by the animal.
World renowned wild animal expert, Jack Hanna, reiterated his support for the actions taken by law enforcement officers despite the number of animals that had to be killed. Among the animals, the Bengal tiger is critically endangered, but still Hanna says the right call was made to put down the animals because of the potential for loss of life in the community if theyremained loose.
Speaking to the media when informed of the number of animals involved, Hanna said what was done had to be done.
"My heart aches for these animals. A lot of people could have lost their lives if it hadn't been for these guys," said Hanna. He serves as the Director Emeritus of the Columbus Zoo.
Townspeople hid indoors Wednesday as deputies with high-powered rifles hunted down and killed lions, bears, tigers and dozens of other exoticanimals that escaped from a wild-animal park after the owner threw their cages open and committed suicide.
"It's like Noah's Ark, like, wrecking right here in Zanesville, Ohio," said Jack Hanna, TV personality and former director of the Columbus Zoo. "Noah's Ark filled with tigers and lions and all leopards and a few monkeys and whatever, and it crashes here, and all of a sudden they're out there."
The owner of the privately run Muskingum County Animal Farm, Terry Thompson, left the cages open and the fences unsecured before committing suicide, Sheriff Matt Lutz said.
John Ellenberger, a neighbor of Thompson's, speculated he freed the animals to get back at neighbors and police.
"Nobody much cared for him," Ellenberger said.
Neighbor Danielle White, whose father's property abuts the 40-acre animal park, said she didn't see loose animals this time but did in 2006, when a lion escaped.
The sheriff said his office started getting calls Tuesday evening that wild animals were loose just west of Zanesville on a road that runs under Interstate 70. He said deputies with rifles went to the animal preserve, where they found Thompson dead and all the cages open. Several aggressive animals were near his body and had to be shot, the sheriff said.
Lutz said his main concern was protecting the public in the area, where homes sit on large lots of sometimes 10 acres. Nearby Zanesville has a population of about 25,000.
Hanna told ABC's "Good Morning America" that if an officer shot a bear, a leopard or a tiger with a tranquilizer at night, "the animal gets very excited, it goes and hides, and then we have his officer in danger of losing their life, and other people."
The preserve in Zanesville also had cheetahs, giraffes and camels. Lutz called the animals very big and aggressive but said a caretaker told authorities they had been fed on Monday.
White, the preserve's neighbor, said Thompson had repeatedly been in legal trouble.
Bailey Hartman, a night manager at a McDonald's, also said it saddened her that the animals were shot. But she said, "I was kind of scared coming in to work."
Ohio has some of the nation's weakest restrictions on exotic pets and among the highest number of injuries and deaths caused by them. In 2010, an animal caretaker was killed by a bear at a property in Cleveland.
On Wednesday, the Humane Society of the United States criticized Gov. John Kasich for allowing a statewide ban on the buying and selling of exotic pets to expire in April. The organization urged the state to immediately issue emergency restrictions.
"How many incidents must we catalog before the state takes action to crack down on private ownership of dangerous exotic animals?" Wayne Pacelle, president and CEO, said in a statement. | http://www.wkyc.com/story/local/2011/10/19/3158509/ | dclm-gs1-196950000 |
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Death Knight abilities use either runes (as part of the rune system) or runic power and are divided into the trees of Frost, Blood, and Unholy.
Core abilities Edit
Blood Strike TCG
Blood Strike
Death Coil
Death Grip TCG
Death Grip
*Quest rewarded abilities.
Icon Ability Min Level
Spell deathknight deathstrike [Blood Strike] Starts with
Spell shadow deathcoil [Death Coil] Starts with
Spell deathknight strangulate [Death Grip] Starts with
Spell deathknight frostpresence [Frost Presence] Starts with
Spell deathknight icetouch [Icy Touch] Starts with
Spell deathknight empowerruneblade [Plague Strike] Starts with
Spell deathknight summondeathcharger [Acherus Deathcharger] 55*
Spell arcane teleportundercity [Death Gate] 55*
Spell deathknight butcher2 [Death Strike] 56
Spell deathknight bloodboil [Blood Boil] 56
Spell shadow plaguecloud [Pestilence] 56
Spell shadow animatedead [Raise Dead] 56
Spell deathknight bloodpresence [Blood Presence] 57
Spell deathknight mindfreeze [Mind Freeze] 57
Spell frost chainsofice [Chains of Ice] 58
Icon Ability Min Level
Spell shadow soulleech 3 [Strangulate] 58
Spell shadow deathanddecay [Death and Decay] 60
Ability mount undeadhorse [On a Pale Horse] 61
Spell deathknight iceboundfortitude [Icebound Fortitude] 62
Inv misc horn 02 [Horn of Winter] 65
Spell deathknight pathoffrost [Path of Frost] 66
Spell shadow antimagicshell [Anti-Magic Shell] 68
Inv misc bone skull 01 [Control Undead] 69
Spell deathknight unholypresence [Unholy Presence] 70
Spell shadow deadofnight [Raise Ally] 72
Inv sword 62 [Empower Rune Weapon] 76
Spell deathknight armyofthedead [Army of the Dead] 80
Spell deathvortex [Outbreak] 81
Inv axe 96 [Necrotic Strike] 83
Spell holy consumemagic [Dark Simulacrum] 85
Ability deathknight soulreaper [Soul Reaper] 87
Glyph-taught Edit
Corpse Explosion
Icon Ability Source
Spell shadow corpseexplode [Corpse Explosion] Glyph of Corpse Explosion
Abilities by cost Edit
Note that talents are no longer tied to specializations.
Free abilities (no rune or runic power cost)
Untalented Talented Blood Unholy
Single rune abilities
Rune Blood Blood Frost Frost Unholy Unholy
Core abilities
Multi-rune abilities
FrostUnholy Frost + Unholy BloodFrostUnholy Blood + Frost + Unholy BloodFrost Blood + Frost
Runic Power abilities
Untalented Talented Blood Frost Unholy
Abilities from previous games Edit
These are death knight abilities seen in previous Warcraft games. Some may not have yet appeared on the hero class, and some may appear but with a new name or different effect.
• Alabaster Skin (RPG) - the death knight’s skin hardens and grows pale, resembling marble or alabaster. (His hair also develops streaks of white, and some death knights’ hair goes completely white as they progress in power. The new skin is slightly tougher than previous flesh.
• Contagion (RPG) - the death knight gains the ability to inflict disease upon a touched target. May have similar effect as Death and Decay but on a single target.
• Dark Grace (RPG) - Death knight gets out of dangerious situations more often. Too vague, might be represented by more spesific abilities like Lichborne, Icebound Fortitude and Unbreakable Armor
• Death and Decay (death knight) (WC2, WC3, & Wrath) - deals area of effect damage and is channeled (WC2). Ability found on lich (WC3).
• Death Coil (Death Knight) (WC2, WC3, RPG, & Wrath) - kills target unit, damages a neighboring unit and/or heals the caster (WC2). Damage an enemy non-undead unit, or heal a friendly undead unit (WC3 and Wrath). Does damage to living and heals undead (RPG).
• Death Pact (WC3, RPG, & Wrath)- Kill a friendly undead unit to restore the Death Knight's health (WC3).
• Unholy Armor (WC2) - lowers target unit's HP and grants it temporary invincibility. Similar to Hysteria.
• Raise Dead (WC2 & Wrath) - raises skeletons from corpses (WC2).
• Haste (WC2) - temporarily increases movement speed of target
• Whirlwind (WC2) -summons a whirlwind that moves around randomly to deal AoE damage
• Unholy Aura (WC3 & RPG) - Increase the movement speed and health regeneration of nearby friendly units (passive).(WC3) a death knight may project an aura in a 10-foot radius that will heal damage to any undead controlled by the death knight and/or to those of evil alignment allied to the death knight, divided among those in the area of the aura’s effect as chosen by the death knight. The death knight can also heal himself. Those of good alignment take damage instead (RPG)... May be similar to Unholy Presence.
• Animate Dead (WC3) - Raise up to six nearby dead units to fight for the Death Knight for forty seconds. Similar to Army of the Dead.
• True Evil (RPG) - Death knights are immune to attempts to alter their alignment magically. Holy weapons and spells that specifically target those of evil alignment (such as holy smite), however, do 1.5 times their normal damage to death knights.
• Undead Minions (RPG) - the death knight may summon the dead to fight alongside him in combat. Similar to Raise Dead and Army of the Dead, and the RPG's animate dead or create undead. It allows the death knight to cast either animated undead or create undead.
• Crumbling Vessel (Hysteria) (RPG) - As he continues to embrace the darkness, the life force of the death knight ebbs as it is focused into strengthening and maintaining his physical form. His Constitution modifier is now added as a profane bonus to his Armor Class.
• Life Stealing (Vendetta/Butchery) (RPG) - a death knight discovers how to leech the life force of those he slays in combat. For each living creature he kills, the death knight recovers energy.
• Greater Death Coil (RPG) - Greater Death Coil does more damage than regular Death Coil & heals undead for more health.
• Undying (RPG) - the death knight becomes immune to all death spells and magical death effects. This immunity does not protect the death knight from other sorts of attacks such as hit point loss, poison, petrification or other effects even if they might be lethal.
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Philippines says 37 rebels killed in offensive
Thursday - 1/30/2014, 12:10am ET
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MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- Philippine troops have killed at least 40 Islamic fighters and captured a rebel stronghold with a bomb-making facility in a three-day offensive against insurgents opposed to a new peace deal, military officials said Thursday.
Rebel spokesman Abu Misry said a part of their stronghold had been taken by government forces but denied any of their fighters had been killed or captured. Only seven insurgents had been wounded so far in army shelling and helicopter rocket fire, he said.
"They can take our camps but if they don't capture us, they cannot stop our jihad," Misry said by telephone, referring to their term for holy war.
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Readers' Voice: Nov. 19, 2013
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I am a law-abiding consumer and don't feel I would be punished if my cold or allergy required a prescription for pseudoephedrine. I'm all for banning OTC purchases if it helps reduce meth labs. Kudos to the Lincoln pharmacy for halting sales on it.
Ollie's follies have brought WVU athletics to a new low. I propose we drop down to Division III where we can be competitive. Sports are still somewhat fun there and expensive coaches and scholarships are not required.
Has anyone noticed lately how short and tired actor George Clooney looks?
If we could work out a deal with Iran, do you think that Israel would get mad at us and turn down all our foreign aid?
I want to thank the young lady on Nov. 11 at Chick-fil-A who paid for my food. How very thoughtful and sweet. God bless you.
Concerning the recent levy -- the majority of the people have spoken. What part of 'no' do you not understand? How dare you consider taking it to the legislature against the people's will? We can vote you out too.
Why do the networks still keep putting Cheney on them? Because of two wars and millions of lives and millions and millions of dollars?
The Kanawha County Board of Education should cut the bigwigs' salaries and cancel their bonuses.
Medicare Part D was pushed through by the Republican Party. I think that cost the American people about a billion dollars.
What's our Republican senator, Joe Manchin, trying to do? Kill the Affordable Care Act? I always knew he was Republican.
Why isn't Rusty Casto's name on anything in Nitro? He gave years of his dedication to this town and isn't credited for anything.
Under the Obama administration, gas prices have come down a whole lot, and I really appreciate this. I just wished people would get out of his way and let him govern. I think he could make this into a great nation again.
People keep talking about the Affordable Care Act and how unpopular it is. No wonder. It's been under attack by the Republicans from the get-go. The same way they attacked Social Security. No wonder people are unhappy. Wouldn't you be if all you heard was negativity from morning 'til night?
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New Study Says People Prefer Playful Partners
playful couple
Enjoy some sweet, intimate playfulness with your loved one.
In not-so-surprising news, people value a sense of humor and playfulness in relationships.
I have to admit, when I jumped head-first into my current relationship back in April, I didn't put much thought into exactly why I was attracted to my now-boyfriend.
However, thanks to science, I can confidently say that his non-aggressive nature and unlikeliness to harm me or my potential future offspring earned him major points. On that same note, he probably likes me for my youth and fertility.
More from YourTango: 7 St. Patrick's Day Drinks (That Are Sexier Than Green Beer)
No, we're not weirdos; we're just playful. The definitions — and the importance of playfulness in a relationship — come from a recent Penn State study on attraction. The researchers sought to further investigate a list of characteristics that people find desirable in potential mates. To do so, they surveyed 164 male and 89 female undergraduates. From the results, they added "playful," "sense of humor" and "fun loving" to the initial list.
It's interesting that something as seemingly obvious as a person's sense of humor wasn't included on the original desirable characteristics list, but at least it's on there now (just in case daters of the world need a checklist to bring on their next OKCupid date). 3 Ways to Bring Playfulness (Back) Into Your Relationship
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Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go do my "youth and fertility dance" for my boyfriend (for the curious: I sing "You Don't Know You're Beautiful" into a shampoo bottle) so he doesn't forget how playful I really am.
How do you show your playful side in your relationship?
Let's make it official
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0.048396 | <urn:uuid:c79bac19-a220-4efe-a3ed-eafbe5cc2d50> | en | 0.934909 | Amnesty U.S.A director says Iran has a ‘weapons program’, misrepresents Iranian dissident.
A regular poster on the Media Lens message board caught this
Suzanne Nossel is – as "Peter" describes – an "ex-State Department/Obama administration official currently masquerading as a neutral human rights advocate as head of Amnesty International U.S.A.." Years before being selected to run Amnesty USA, Nossel openly supported the 2003 US invasion of Iraq – though she advised the Bush administration to "postpone" the invasion for a few months until a UN resolution could be obtained.
As shown below, even as head of Amnesty USA, Nossel openly bolsters yet another a fraud based rush to war.
What follows is how "Peter", the Media Lens regular, explained it:
"Iranian dissident Shirin Ebadi is reported as saying that Western sanctions on Iran are only hurting the people, and need to be lifted 'for a sustainable life', Nossel tweeted:
'Nobelist Ebadi opposes nuke sanctions affecting citizenry/disputes regime's claim that weapons program is popular'
But Ebadi disputes nothing of the sort. Here's what the article actually says:
'Ms. Ebadi, 64, who was attending a conference in Minneapolis on Thursday and Friday, asserted that the Iranian government was not correct in saying that its nuclear energy program was popular among Iranians. While Iranians across the political spectrum say Iran has the legal right to develop nuclear energy, Ms. Ebadi said, many people are privately worried about the environmental risks of nuclear reactors, particularly in Iran's earthquake zones. She said there was no public discussion about this issue because the government had banned newspapers from reporting anything but the official position in recent years'.
As you can see, she is clearly reported as talking about the 'nuclear energy' program not being popular among Iranians, because of the potential 'environmental risks' associated with it, rather than any 'weapons program'.
Indeed, nowhere in the article is a nuclear 'weapons program' even mentioned, except when it's reported that Ayatollah Khameini 'insists that Iran will never use its uranium stockpile to develop nuclear weapons'.
And how convenient that Nossel's misrepresentation of Ebadi feeds into the hawkish but almost certainly false narrative of a menacing Iran currently being in the process of developing a nuclear weapon, and which must be stopped.
Or as Nossel herself put it in 2006:
'Iran is writing the script for a Western drive to rally the world behind the need to contain a menacing country that seems willing to flout the international system for its own greater glory . . . If we and the Europeans tee this up methodically, we can build a broad coalition . . . The military option cannot be off the table. Keeping it on the table is essential to getting others to realize that we won't tolerate open-ended wait-and-see policies'.
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Washington: The rare Green Pea galaxies that were discovered by the general public in 2007 could help confirm astronomers' understanding of reionization - a pivotal stage in the evolution of the early universe, according to a new study.
Reionization occurred a few hundred million years after the Big Bang as the first stars were turning on and forming the first galaxies.
During this period, the space between the galaxies changed from an opaque, neutral fog to a transparent charged plasma, as it is today. Plasma is gas that's electrically charged.
As for how this happened, the prevailing theory holds that massive stars in the early galaxies produced an abundance of high-energy ultraviolet light that escaped into intergalactic space.
There, the UV light interacted with the neutral hydrogen gas it met, blasting electrons off the hydrogen atoms and leaving behind a plasma of negatively-charged electrons and positively charged hydrogen ions.
"We think this is what happened but when we looked at galaxies nearby, the high-energy radiation doesn't appear to make it out. There's been a push to find some galaxies that show signs of radiation escaping," Anne Jaskot, a doctoral student in astronomy said.
Jaskot and Sally Oey, an associate professor of astronomy in the College of Literature, Science and the Arts, have found that the Green Peas could hold that evidence.
"The Green Peas are compact, highly star-forming galaxies that are very similar to the early galaxies in the universe," Jaskot said.
"Our analysis shows they may be leaking ionizing radiation," she said.
The researchers focused on six of the most intensely star-forming Green Pea galaxies, which are between one billion and five billion light-years away.
They studied their emission lines as observed by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.
Emission lines show how light interacts with matter, and in this case, they helped the astronomers understand the relationship between the stars and gas in these galaxies.
Their findings are published in The Astrophysical Journal.
First Published: Thursday, April 04, 2013, 15:19
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0.074819 | <urn:uuid:f6a2248f-7efb-48d2-b5af-701d38ce29e2> | en | 0.923382 | I recently did a presentation to the Triangle Drupal Users Group (Research Triangle Park, NC USA area) about WebFM. It covers "What is Drupal, Why Use It, and How to Install/configure it. I thought it might be useful to other people. Here's the URL to the slide deck.
My apologies if I misrepresented anything...
D'oh... forgot to say that it does include a few shameless plugs for the "Custom Layouts" patch I wrote...
The maintainer burn-out quip is warranted. I hope to commit your patch sometime in May.
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I added it to the front page. Thank you very much for doing this - really.
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So basically, it's about a woman who tries to get friends of her lover to kill him. What she doesn't know is that he already suspects possible foul play, so he arms himself beforehand. Some debauchery takes place, and eventually they do try to kill him by lighting him on fire (the truly uncensored video has close up shots of the drummer, Kristof, walking once he's doused with gasoline and set ablaze...but anyway..). Outdoor shots show the woman either: worried, or happy that her lover got killed. The establishing shots show at the end that he has not died and emerges from the incident unscathed, and instead ignores her on his way away from the house where all these events take place. The fire should be understood as a "resurrection" or "cleansing epiphany" where he realizes (?) her original intent and escapes. The car the woman is standing next to blows up and (i assume) she dies. Hence, the title, DU HASST (you have, or you hate) that is to say: you can interpet it from the protagonists point of view as "you have (me under your control because I'm blinded by love)" or "you hate" (me and that's why you wanted to do this to me)" A rocking video from my favorite germans, 2 of which arose from working as peat farmers to being the founders of my favorite german industrial metal group.....RAMMSTEIN (yeah baby does fire make you horny?)
Radialblas, im glad u liked the song but ur way off.
This is what happens when u translate stuff thru the net. To fully understand this song (like most others) you must speak fluent German, and kno some of the slang. 1st of all, its not you hate, that would be du hasst. It means you have, which sets up the rest of the song "you have asked me and I have said nothing," it wouldnt make sense with you hate. Next, the rest of the song is a pun on the German wedding vows, "Willst du...." that ends with him saying "nein" or no. That leads me to believe that the vid is about 2 ppl getting married, but the guy has some unfinished business, that turns out to be his friends just wanting to throw him a batchelor party. While they're partyin, she is worried, imagining what they might do to him (poisin him, set him on fire, etc). His friends finally convince him marriage is a big mistake (as evident in the lyrics "Willst du bis zum Tod, der scheide sie lieben" or do you want till the death of the [female genatalia] to love her), so he walks on the wedding, and leaves that chapter in his life behind (hence the blowing up of the car). All in all its a cool song and an even better video.
Just to straighten it out, 'du hast' means 'you have'. The verb 'to hate' would be spelled 'du hasst', with TWO esses. 'You have' doesn't make sense now, but in the song they finish the sentence by saying "Du hast mich gefragt und ich habe nichts gesagt", or for those who need help, "You HAVE asked me, and i've had nothing to say". and yes, i do speak German.
Formed: January, 1994 in Berlin, Germany
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Rammstein were formed in 1993 by an assembly of factory-weary proletarians raised in East Germany. They took their name (adding an "m") from the location of a German tragedy where 80 people were hurt and killed as the result of a crash during an American Air Force flight show. (The literal translation of "ram stein" is a battering ram made of stone.) Word of Rammstein's horror/romanticist blend of theater and music — one-time Olympic swimmer Till Lindemann would sing entire songs engulfed in...
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0.056068 | <urn:uuid:a645f047-dbcd-4b91-bc1d-51d533f2f55b> | en | 0.927324 | Request for comments: Laptop improvements
David Timms dtimms at
Wed Jun 14 22:31:26 UTC 2006
Phil Knirsch wrote:
> Now, what i would like to ask of you is to give me some input on what
> you think might be something where we could do better on laptops. So if
> you could spare a few minutes and write me a short email with the
> thoughts you have that would be greately appreciated.
1. Better install time detection of inbuilt screen resolution, even if
the laptop bios/vga bios gives false info - perhaps by combination of
returned pci ids / ddc => manufacturer + model + screen ?)
2. Able to boot or instigate boot from external usb / firewire hdd.
Reason is employer does not like employees screwing with work provided
notebooks. This would allow more home usage of linux (even when you are
not allowed to), whether it be a live distros or complete installs.
3. Temperature monitoring made available in the GUI; obviously dependent
on hw capabilities.
4. Already noted, but a generic way to read special keys (eg start web
browser, email client, get manufacturer help etc). Perhaps a known-keys
list for each detectable laptop type, so these keys "just work", but can
be reassigned by the user.
5. Generally useful feature (especially when you cant be sure that
suspend-resume etc will work eg hp nx9000 notebook) would be a way where
every application can be externally instructed to save any modified
documents. Initital thought is to auto saveAs with the existing name
having the date-time (iso format) appended before the final extension.
This would also make it into the MRU of the app and the desktop. The
idea is to not stop the shutdown or suspend functionality, but to
guarantee that it is safe to shutdown by saving all modified application
documents as part of the process.
6. Possible exists: a way to create a desktop grouping / layout for
example for "task X" which requires two gnome-terms, at position Y and Z
with sizes A and B, email browser open at pos T size G, etc. People have
favoured layouts that they endlessly recreate each time they start up.
{Of course other people always use only a single app or have each
application full desktop all the time}.
7. Video and or s-video out detection/activation/setup on notebooks like
hp.nx_9000 that have this capability.
8. Support for RS232 based com port apps under wine. win32 only apps by
Audio Visual product manufacturers means you cant remove wondows
entirely from your notebook PC, for people who work in this industry.
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Summary: What happened after Sara saw Grissom and Sofia in his office.
A/N: Thanks a lot to my beta reader Rhee, you're great.
She was annoying.
She did not have the time to analyze why they did not close the door, while they were talking in his office? He did not want people to speculate what they were doing? Or she, the blond detective, wanted to show off what they were doing.
It all started with a simple motive. Grissom and Sara had been investigating a shooting case along with Brass and Sofia for three days. Sara got the fingerprint report from Jacqui and she needed to discuss some details with her supervisor. That was why she went to his office, a dim office, a dim office with an open door. Before she stepped into the office, before she could open her mouth to say something, before she even handed the report to him, Sara saw them sitting on chairs in the front of his desk. The blond detective leaned her upper body to press onto his body. Every moment of this dull room was broadcasting as a black and white film. The actress was looking into the actor's beautiful, blue eyes. Soon after, she was reaching one of her hands to rest on the actor's chest. Sara was hearing the classical music combination of the actress's weep lingering in the room. The actor was lifting one hand to place on the actress's back and shaving her blond hair accidentally, a sorrowful look appeared on his face. Sara was a quiet audience, only stood there silently and received what was acting out in front of her.
"Sara." Grissom pulled his hand back from Sofia and looked at her with an unreadable expression.
In an instant, the scene became colored again; Sara could finally breathe in the air.
She did not say a word, only gave him a smile, a helpless smile and turned her on her heel, walked away.
The coldness from her mug transmitted to her palms, Sara sat on a chair which faced away from the break room door and with her eyes closed. She knew that she should concentrate and organize the case, but the image of his hands was remaining in her mind. His hands, they were warm, think and held her hands twice before. They should cup her face, should stroke her lips and should travel over her body, yes, every inch of her body. It was not like that she imagined of Grissom when she was at work. She could distinguish, appropriate place from inappropriate place. It was like she set up her assumption theory, an assumption which might turn into the true.
Suddenly, she recalled the firefly light and realized that the light in her mind should go out this time.
Nick refilled his mug and asked cheerfully. "Want to have some coffee, my lady?"
"That would be nice, thanks." She opened her eyes and a small smile flashed over her lips. Complicated emotions filled her mind. She did not know how many times she did that, thousands, more than that, perhaps. Faking a smile was a easy game to her, she was very experienced in it. Though the broken heart was in pieces everywhere, she still smiled. How much pain her heart was in was how brilliant her smile was.
"How's the case going?" Nick poured some coffee into her mug.
"I got some fingerprints." She answered it simply, trying to let the heat spread through her body by the connection of coffee mug of her fingertips.
Nick sat next to Sara and gave her his famous Texan smile. "Did you discuss it with Grissom?"
"Well, he…um…he was kind of busy." She said it uncertainly, took a sip of her hot coffee and prayed that Nick would not ask what kept Grissom busy.
"I was not." Grissom said it steadily behind them.
Sara did not let eyes waver, did not smile and did not comment on what Grissom said.
The atmosphere had changed.
Nick stood and put his one hand on Sara's shoulder. "Okay, I'm going to catch up with Catherine. Sara, if you need me, I'm here."
After Nick disappeared, the atmosphere changed, a lot.
Grissom stood to Sara's left-hand side. "Sara, I was trying to comfort Sofia, she was upset about this case, nothing more."
"Grissom, I totally understand. We got two fingerprints; one belongs to Anton Brewer and another no match. There were other people at the crime scene. And you don't own me any explanation." Even if he had not noticed Nick put his hand on her shoulder, why should she care about whom placed hands on his body?
"Sara, it wasn't like that." He explained hardly.
"Do you remember, you taught me how to recognize a firefly?"
"Yes, I remember. Sara, but that isn't related with what we are talking about, is it?" He lifted an eyebrow confusedly.
She looked up at him finally. "No, it isn't."
"Sara…" he said her name softly.
"Grissom, I've been like a firefly for many years. I sent out my faint light to catch your sight. I've never blamed you, because that's all about me, I've thought that I could capture your attention one day and you will understand that I've been here for you all the time. But I am wrong, so wrong." Sara stood and walked toward the break room door.
He did not say a word. The same old Grissom.
He grabbed her wrist, a little tighter than necessary. Was it her imagination? Sara was astonished and turned to face Grissom. Too soon, she saw that the break room door was closed and then her back was leaning against it. A familiar position, familiar sent and familiar heat, the only difference was that Sara could feel his breath closer than last time. Grissom caught her wrists lifting them to the same height as her head and nailed them on the cold door plank.
His looked into her beautiful dark brown eyes. "Sara, you are wrong, so wrong."
"How can I be wrong?" she whispered. Wrong. Sara always accomplished every thing perfectly, she could not be wrong. But when it came from Grissom, all of her logic had gone far away. Sara knew that he could feel that her pulse was jumping irregularly; it made Grissom look smug a little. Sara hated herself for that.
He moved forward to her ear and said it clearly. "You are wrong because you've occupied my heart already and you aren't allowed to radiate your light anymore, because that light is only for me and you are mine Sara, you are mine."
It was good, she felt Grissom press his lips on hers and tasted her gently, but good was not what the only thing she wanted from him. So she deepened the kiss by kissing him back passionately, she felt wonderful. She did not know when he released her wrist, pulling her toward him and replaced his hands onto her hips. Maybe wonderful was not enough to describe what Grissom wanted. He slipped his tongue into her mouth to explore and Sara raised one arm to wrap around his neck and left another hand to start a trip up his back. They felt the temperature rising higher and higher when she felt that Grissom was making a wet track to her neck, glided his hands underneath her red tank top touching her fired skin. Sara moved her hands from his shoulders to his waist dragging his dark blue shirt out of his pants, feeling his skin under her hands and traveling his warm and firm chest freely. That was incredible.
"Wow, I definitely interrupted something." Catherine stood in front of them with a huge smile on her face.
They broke their connection immediately. Sara walked to the coffee counter to hide her embarrassment.
"What can I do for you Catherine?" Grissom asked in an impatient tone while trying to catch his breath.
"Well, Nick said you two were going to fight each other, so I'm here to check out if you are okay. And now I know you are more than okay." Catherine teased with an evil smile.
Grissom shot her a warning look. "We are fine and could you please excuse us for a couple of minutes."
"Take your time guys. And Gil, remember to lock the door next time. Sara you should wear skirt more often, it's more convenient." Catherine closed the door and disappeared before Grissom had a chance to yell to her.
Grissom stepped up to Sara and surrounded her waist with his hands.
She did the same movement as Grissom and a sweet smile flickered across her lips. "Gil, is there a rule that fireflies only seek one mate in their whole life?"
"No, there is not. It is my rule, honey." After answered it, Grissom attacked her lips again.
The End
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I cradled my arms over my chest and braced myself for the cold. What was I thinking?! Thinking that I actually had a chance to win! Ugh!
"Bella, what are you doing here out in the cold?!" I turned around and found Edward taking off his coat while walking towards me.
"W-what are you doing here?" I questioned him.
"I came here to get you." He wrapped his coat around my shoulders.
"Shouldn't you be dancing with Tanya inside? I mean…I came outside…just so I wouldn't…you know…ruin the moment…" My voice was barely a whisper.
"Bella, there was no moment to ruin." He stated and cupped my face with his right hand.
"Edward, what was I thinking competing against Tanya?! Actually thinking that I would win!" I cried out. "I'm sorry if I just ran out like that…that was very inconsiderate of me. You should go back inside…everyone's waiting for you." I forced myself to step back and wiped my tears with my wrist.
"The only reason I actually came to Homecoming tonight and went through with this whole King and Queen thing was…because of you. Before you and I got nominated I was planning that you and I just skip the Homecoming and go some place else, but when I found out you got nominated also, I was completely thrilled. I, myself, also had a feeling that you were gonna win and believe me you deserve to win more than Tanya does. I was excited to have that winning dance with you, with everyone's eyes watching you and I on the middle of the dance floor, seeing a faint pink blush on your cheeks as you twirl around in my arms. That was one of the only reasons I came tonight." I stared back at him for a while until he came over and held me in his arms.
"I'm sorry I over reacted." I whispered against his chest.
"It's okay, I'm actually glad you ran out 'cause that wouldn't give me an excuse to leave Tanya," we both chuckled.
"I think we should get back inside." I stated.
"Nah, I think we should just stay here." He smiled down on me. Suddenly he took my both my hands and placed them around his neck and placed his hands around my waist.
"What are you doing?" I asked him.
"Dancing." We were suddenly twirling around under the stars.
"But there's no music."
"Who said you need music to dance." He smiled unevenly. We continued twirling under the stars until the door suddenly burst open with Emmett holding. 'Stolen' by Dashboard Confessional started playing as Emmett put a chair to hold the door.
"This one's for you guys!" He screamed out. I put my head against Edward's chest as we continued to twirl around. We stayed a few more minutes after the song had ended then decided to go in. Tanya's eyes were filled with anger as Edward and I passed by.
"Bella, we're sorry for about you not winning." Alice apologized.
"Apparently, Tanya and her 'squad' seduced the Mathletes or something like that." Jasper snorted.
"Guys, it's fine. I don't really care anymore." I replied. Even if I hadn't won, the night turned out to be quite fun after all.
"You know I honestly thought you were going to win tonight." Edward muttered as he walked me to my room.
"Really?" I said, surprised.
"Well, yeah. I was quite furious when they mentioned Tanya's name. I even argued with Mrs. Donovan before I came out to get you." He chuckled.
"I ended up having a great time anyways, so…thanks."
"For what?"
"Coming out after me." I grinned.
"Why wouldn't I come out after you? Do you honestly expect me to dance with her?!"
"You make it sound like a bad thing." I scrunched my nose.
"Oh, it is. And I wouldn't dance with anyone but you." He leaned down and pressed his lips to mine.
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0.027222 | <urn:uuid:7c58f401-f274-4086-b271-407c98eb0808> | en | 0.983177 | 18 things men often say about their 'ex-wives'
Divorced men have a lot of thoughts and opinions about their ex-wives after they are separated
According to Emma Johnson of WealthySingleMommy.com, firstly, men appreciate their former partner for all they have done for the kids and the house, the Huffington Post reported.
Johnson said that when woman keep having fights with her friends, it validates a man’s opinion that she is impossible to get along with.
After taking divorce, men say that you’re a really great mom.
On the contrary they can also say that you’re messing up the kids.
According to Johnson, men say that they wanted to be the guy who cheers you on as you push the baby out, and catch the baby as you squeeze him out, but when he did that, he feels differently about it and he’s not proud of that.
Sex and relationships, Ex-wife
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Men wanted to be that guy who loved you and found you attractive no matter how fat you got, but he just isn’t attracted to you now, despite of number of tries.
Men will say that they did love you no matter what.
The eighth thing that they say is that one day they realized that they didn’t love you anymore.
Men also say that it didn’t just hurt their feelings, when you didn’t have sex for months and years, but it devastated them, and made them worry about their manhood and themselves, which was a big deal.
The tenth thing they say is that you insisted everything be done your way, which made them not want to do anything at all.
Another thing that men say is that now that they are on his own with the kids, they are better dad.
According to Johnson, men also say that they loved being the provider while you stayed home with the kids.
They will say that they are paying child support and alimony and they really resents that you gave up your career.
Men are a little bit happy that you’re struggling financially because they feel that maybe now you’ll appreciate how hard he worked and how much you blew through all the money he earned.
It's not that men liked the other women better than you; it’s just that she liked him back.
Men say that they are much happier after getting divorced. But, they will want to kill your boyfriend.
The last thing that men say is that sometimes when you have the kids and it’s late at night, he secretly wishes you’d text him asking him to come home and sleep.
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Posted Dec. 01, 2009, at 6:27 p.m.
The race might seem like a virtual tie, bursts of gamma rays of different energies and wavelengths emitted simultaneously from an exploding star some 7.3 billion light-years distant, all arriving at the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope within 0.9 second of one another.
But there was a winner and that was Albert Einstein. In his 1905 theory of relativity, Einstein said that the speed of electromagnetic radiation was constant and independent of its energy, wavelength or direction.
This is the most exacting test yet of Einstein’s statement and, as one of the principal investigators said, “Einstein is still right.” This is considered a major step in either verifying or refuting Einstein’s hypothesis.
The result will have a major effect of efforts to unify Einstein’s theory of gravity with another he never really liked, the quantum theory that governs the infinitesimally small distances within the atom.
Focus on the planets
Mercury appears above the southwestern horizon about a half-hour after sunset by midmonth. On Dec. 18, the thin crescent moon stands to the upper left of Mercury. By month’s end, the elusive innermost planet will have faded from view.
Venus rises just before the sun and is lost in the sun’s glare during December.
Mars is on track for its best appearance in two years. It rises at 10 p.m. as December opens and by 8 p.m. as the month closes. Mars continues to brighten and is prominent among the stars of Leo the Lion. Mars is tilted toward Earth, possibly affording a view of the north polar ice cap.
Jupiter is high in the southwest at dusk and is still the brightest point of light in the night sky. Jupiter’s four moons continue their dance about the planet, occasionally eclipsing or occulting one another.
Saturn is high in the south shortly before dawn. On Dec. 10, Saturn stands due north of a waning crescent moon. Its rings are providing an ever-increasing panorama as they continue to widen. The edge-on ring phenomena seen these past months will not happen again until 2025.
Uranus is high in the south-southwest at nightfall, where its blue-green disk is easily spotted with binoculars. Look for Uranus due south of the Circlet of Pisces.
Neptune spends most of December within the same field of view, i.e., about a single moon-width, of Jupiter. A telescope will pick out the tiny blue-gray disk.
December events
2 Full moon, 2:31 a.m. The full moon of December is known variously as the Cold Moon, Long Night Moon, Wolf Moon, or the Moon Before Yule.
4 The moon is at perigee, or nearest approach to Earth.
6 Look east about 10 p.m. to see the waning gibbous moon to the lower right.
9 Moon in last quarter, 7:15 p.m.
14 This is the peak night for the Geminid meteor shower, with viewing very favorable as the new moon is only two days away. The shower radiates from the vicinity of Castor in Gemini and may deliver up to 100 bright, slower meteors per hour.
16 New moon, 7:02 a.m.
18 The sun enters Sagittarius on the ecliptic.
20 The moon is at apogee, or farthest distance from Earth. Look to the southwest shortly after dark, where the moon is to the lower right of Jupiter. Very near Jupiter, and distinguishable by telescope, is Neptune.
21 Winter solstice, 12:47 a.m. The sun has traveled to its southernmost point, giving the shortest day and longest night in the Northern Hemisphere. The sun enters the astrological sign of Capricornus on the solstice, however, astronomically, is still in Sagittarius.
22 This is the peak night for the Ursid meteor shower that typically produces about 10 faint meteors per hour.
24 Moon in first quarter, 12:35 a.m.
25 Merry Christmas!
31 Full moon, 2:13 p.m. This being the second full moon of December, it is known as a blue moon. Sunrise, 7:13 a.m.; sunset, 4:04 p.m.
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LAWRENCE, Kan. — Move over, John Wooden and Adolph Rupp. Kansas and Bill Self are rewriting the history of college basketball.
Here's a trivia question for you: What coach in a major conference has won the most consecutive league titles in the history of college basketball? On Monday night, the answer changed.
The fifth-ranked Jayhawks won at least a share of their 10th straight Big 12 title with an 83-75 win over Oklahoma at Allen Fieldhouse.
Self now has left Wooden and Rupp, who both won nine straight league titles, in his dust on a streak that has no end in sight.
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This team, like almost every one Self has coached in Lawrence, was expected to win the title once Andrew Wiggins signed on. But there's a difference between expectations and achievement in most places.
Just not at Kansas.
"It's something you know coming in," freshman Wayne Selden said. "That's the standard here."
Still, it shouldn't have been this easy.
In the year that the Big 12 is considered the best league in the country—good enough to give Marcus Smart's Oklahoma State Cowboys seven straight losses—the Jayhawks nearly pulled off the equivalent of lapping the field.
With three games left to play, Kansas (13-2 in league play) has a three-and-a-half-game lead on second place.
"That's just a phenomenal accomplishment," Oklahoma coach Lon Kruger said. "It's not like you're doing that in a bad league."
No, this was supposed to be the year the league stood up to the Jayhawks.
When Smart decided to return to school, the idea was floated that finally there was a team in the conference that had the talent and the moxie to end this ridiculous run already. The Cowboys had five starters back. The Jayhawks had zero.
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Sure, Self had the top-ranked freshmen in the country, but Kentucky's John Calipari had what was thought to be the best recruiting class in the history of college basketball, and that group doesn't have any rings in its foreseeable future.
Self has enough to go around. One for every finger.
"To me, in a power conference, to do something where the whole key is consistency, we've been so blessed to have good players year in and year out, because we've had a lot of turnover," Self said. "We've had guys we knew would leave and guys that left unexpectedly and those guys are hard to replace."
Self doesn't exactly start from scratch. He always has enough veterans around to let the young guys know what's expected, but this season was the third time during the streak he's had to start five new players.
His challenge is not much different than what Calipari or Roy Williams face each year. Just his results are.
Since Self started his streak, no power-conference school has won more than six league titles.
Most major-conference titles in the last 10 years
Conference titles
1. Kansas 10
2. North Carolina 6
3. Ohio State 5
4. UCLA 4
5. Kentucky 3*
5. Florida 3*
5. Michigan State 3
5. Georgetown 3
*Both Florida and Kentucky are in contention for the 2013-14 SEC title. Here are the current standings.
"It's a direct reflection of Coach," former KU point guard Elijah Johnson said before last season's title No. 9 and might as well have spoken for all 10. "The people who were doing it eight years ago are not doing it now. He's still there. I feel like that has to mean something. He's doing something right.
"I just appreciate the fact that he tries to shed the light on us and make it look like it's us who's doing it. When all of us know who it really is, the head honcho."
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True to form, Self praised Naadir Tharpe for bringing this one home on Monday night—Tharpe scored 10 of his 19 points in the final 3:15—and also gave his freshmen some credit for being so good so fast.
"Those are three special guys," Self said of Wiggins, Selden and Joel Embiid. "It'd be crazy to think what these guys could do if you could keep them together for a while, but obviously that probably won't happen."
Wiggins had a grin from ear to ear on Monday night—"To win the Big 12 championship, it's a great feeling," he said—and Embiid skipped out of the Fieldhouse with his 10 fingers in the air.
Self's right. It's crazy to think what would happen if they stuck around for a while. But I bet I know what will happen when they leave.
More Big 12 championships. More history.
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Clusters and clusterings[edit]
A "clustering" is essentially a set of such clusters, usually containing all objects in the data set. Additionally, it may specify the relationship of the clusters to each other, for example a hierarchy of clusters embedded in each other. Clusterings can be roughly distinguished as:
There are also finer distinctions possible, for example:
Clustering algorithms[edit]
Connectivity based clustering (hierarchical clustering)[edit]
These methods will not produce a unique partitioning of the data set, but a hierarchy from which the user still needs to choose appropriate clusters. They are not very robust towards outliers, which will either show up as additional clusters or even cause other clusters to merge (known as "chaining phenomenon", in particular with single-linkage clustering). In the general case, the complexity is \mathcal{O}(n^3), which makes them too slow for large data sets. For some special cases, optimal efficient methods (of complexity \mathcal{O}(n^2)) are known: SLINK[5] for single-linkage and CLINK[6] for complete-linkage clustering. In the data mining community these methods are recognized as a theoretical foundation of cluster analysis, but often considered obsolete. They did however provide inspiration for many later methods such as density based clustering.
Centroid-based clustering[edit]
Most k-means-type algorithms require the number of clusters - k - to be specified in advance, which is considered to be one of the biggest drawbacks of these algorithms. Furthermore, the algorithms prefer clusters of approximately similar size, as they will always assign an object to the nearest centroid. This often leads to incorrectly cut borders in between of clusters (which is not surprising, as the algorithm optimized cluster centers, not cluster borders).
K-means has a number of interesting theoretical properties. On the one hand, it partitions the data space into a structure known as a Voronoi diagram. On the other hand, it is conceptually close to nearest neighbor classification, and as such is popular in machine learning. Third, it can be seen as a variation of model based classification, and Lloyd's algorithm as a variation of the Expectation-maximization algorithm for this model discussed below.
Distribution-based clustering[edit]
The clustering model most closely related to statistics is based on distribution models. Clusters can then easily be defined as objects belonging most likely to the same distribution. A nice property of this approach is that this closely resembles the way artificial data sets are generated: by sampling random objects from a distribution.
While the theoretical foundation of these methods is excellent, they suffer from one key problem known as overfitting, unless constraints are put on the model complexity. A more complex model will usually always be able to explain the data better, which makes choosing the appropriate model complexity inherently difficult.
Distribution-based clustering is a semantically strong[clarification needed] method, as it not only provides you with clusters, but also produces complex models for the clusters that can also capture correlation and dependence of attributes. However, using these algorithms puts an extra burden on the user: to choose appropriate data models to optimize, and for many real data sets, there may be no mathematical model available the algorithm is able to optimize (e.g. assuming Gaussian distributions is a rather strong assumption on the data).
Density-based clustering[edit]
In density-based clustering,[8] clusters are defined as areas of higher density than the remainder of the data set. Objects in these sparse areas - that are required to separate clusters - are usually considered to be noise and border points.
The most popular[9] density based clustering method is DBSCAN.[10] In contrast to many newer methods, it features a well-defined cluster model called "density-reachability". Similar to linkage based clustering, it is based on connecting points within certain distance thresholds. However, it only connects points that satisfy a density criterion, in the original variant defined as a minimum number of other objects within this radius. A cluster consists of all density-connected objects (which can form a cluster of an arbitrary shape, in contrast to many other methods) plus all objects that are within these objects' range. Another interesting property of DBSCAN is that its complexity is fairly low - it requires a linear number of range queries on the database - and that it will discover essentially the same results (it is deterministic for core and noise points, but not for border points) in each run, therefore there is no need to run it multiple times. OPTICS[11] is a generalization of DBSCAN that removes the need to choose an appropriate value for the range parameter \varepsilon, and produces a hierarchical result related to that of linkage clustering. DeLi-Clu,[12] Density-Link-Clustering combines ideas from single-linkage clustering and OPTICS, eliminating the \varepsilon parameter entirely and offering performance improvements over OPTICS by using an R-tree index.
Recent developments[edit]
In recent years considerable effort has been put into improving algorithm performance of the existing algorithms.[14][15] Among them are CLARANS (Ng and Han, 1994),[16] and BIRCH (Zhang et al., 1996).[17] With the recent need to process larger and larger data sets (also known as big data), the willingness to trade semantic meaning of the generated clusters for performance has been increasing. This led to the development of pre-clustering methods such as canopy clustering, which can process huge data sets efficiently, but the resulting "clusters" are merely a rough pre-partitioning of the data set to then analyze the partitions with existing slower methods such as k-means clustering. Various other approaches to clustering have been tried such as seed based clustering.[18]
Ideas from density-based clustering methods (in particular the DBSCAN/OPTICS family of algorithms) have been adopted to subspace clustering (HiSC,[21] hierarchical subspace clustering and DiSH[22]) and correlation clustering (HiCO,[23] hierarchical correlation clustering, 4C[24] using "correlation connectivity" and ERiC[25] exploring hierarchical density-based correlation clusters).
Several different clustering systems based on mutual information have been proposed. One is Marina Meilă's variation of information metric;[26] another provides hierarchical clustering.[27] Using genetic algorithms, a wide range of different fit-functions can be optimized, including mutual information.[28] Also message passing algorithms, a recent development in Computer Science and Statistical Physics, has led to the creation of new types of clustering algorithms.[29]
Evaluation of clustering results[edit]
Evaluation of clustering results sometimes is referred to as cluster validation.
Internal evaluation[edit]
When a clustering result is evaluated based on the data that was clustered itself, this is called internal evaluation. These methods usually assign the best score to the algorithm that produces clusters with high similarity within a cluster and low similarity between clusters. One drawback of using internal criteria in cluster evaluation is that high scores on an internal measure do not necessarily result in effective information retrieval applications.[30] Additionally, this evaluation is biased towards algorithms that use the same cluster model. For example k-Means clustering naturally optimizes object distances, and a distance-based internal criterion will likely overrate the resulting clustering.
DB = \frac {1} {n} \sum_{i=1}^{n} \max_{i\neq j}\left(\frac{\sigma_i + \sigma_j} {d(c_i,c_j)}\right)
where n is the number of clusters, c_x is the centroid of cluster x, \sigma_x is the average distance of all elements in cluster x to centroid c_x, and d(c_i,c_j) is the distance between centroids c_i and c_j. Since algorithms that produce clusters with low intra-cluster distances (high intra-cluster similarity) and high inter-cluster distances (low inter-cluster similarity) will have a low Davies–Bouldin index, the clustering algorithm that produces a collection of clusters with the smallest Davies–Bouldin index is considered the best algorithm based on this criterion.
D = \min_{1\leq i \leq n}\left\{\min_{1\leq j \leq n,i\neq j}\left\{\frac {d(i,j)}{\max_{1\leq k \leq n}{d^{'}(k)}}\right\}\right\}
where d(i,j) represents the distance between clusters i and j, and d^{'}(k) measures the intra-cluster distance of cluster k. The inter-cluster distance d(i,j) between two clusters may be any number of distance measures, such as the distance between the centroids of the clusters. Similarly, the intra-cluster distance d^{'}(k) may be measured in a variety ways, such as the maximal distance between any pair of elements in cluster k. Since internal criterion seek clusters with high intra-cluster similarity and low inter-cluster similarity, algorithms that produce clusters with high Dunn index are more desirable.
External evaluation[edit]
In external evaluation, clustering results are evaluated based on data that was not used for clustering, such as known class labels and external benchmarks. Such benchmarks consist of a set of pre-classified items, and these sets are often created by human (experts). Thus, the benchmark sets can be thought of as a gold standard for evaluation. These types of evaluation methods measure how close the clustering is to the predetermined benchmark classes. However, it has recently been discussed whether this is adequate for real data, or only on synthetic data sets with a factual ground truth, since classes can contain internal structure, the attributes present may not allow separation of clusters or the classes may contain anomalies.[32] Additionally, from a knowledge discovery point of view, the reproduction of known knowledge may not necessarily be the intended result.[32]
The F-measure can be used to balance the contribution of false negatives by weighting recall through a parameter \beta \geq 0. Let precision and recall be defined as follows:
P = \frac {TP } {TP + FP }
R = \frac {TP } {TP + FN}
where P is the precision rate and R is the recall rate. We can calculate the F-measure by using the following formula:[30]
F_{\beta} = \frac {(\beta^2 + 1)\cdot P \cdot R } {\beta^2 \cdot P + R}
Notice that when \beta=0, F_{0}=P. In other words, recall has no impact on the F-measure when \beta=0, and increasing \beta allocates an increasing amount of weight to recall in the final F-measure.
J(A,B) = \frac {|A \cap B| } {|A \cup B|} = \frac{TP}{TP + FP + FN}
FM = \sqrt{ \frac {TP}{TP+FP} \cdot \frac{TP}{TP+FN} }
where TP is the number of true positives, FP is the number of false positives, and FN is the number of false negatives. The FM index is the geometric mean of the precision and recall P and R, while the F-measure is their harmonic mean.[35] Moreover, precision and recall are also known as Wallace's indices B^I and B^{II}.[36]
Clustering Axioms[edit]
Given that there is a myriad of clustering algorithms and objectives, it is helpful to reason about clustering independently of any particular algorithm, objective function, or generative data model. This can be achieved by defining a clustering function as one that satisfies a set of properties. This is often termed as an Axiomatic System. Functions that satisfy the basic axioms are called clustering functions.[37]
Formal Preliminaries[edit]
A partitioning function acts on a set S of n \ge 2 points along with an integer k > 0, and pairwise distances among the points in S. The points are not assumed to belong to any specific larger set or space; the pairwise distances are the only data the partitioning function has about them.[citation needed] We may label the points in S using the numbers \{1, 2, \ldots, n\}. The pairwise distances define a distance function d: S \times S \rightarrow R which should have the properties of a semimetric: for any i, j \in S, we must have d(i, j) \ge 0, d(i, j) = d(j, i), and d(i, j) = 0 if and only if i = j. In other words, the distances must be nonnegative, symmetric, and two points have distance zero if and only if they are the same point.
A partitioning function F takes a distance function d on S \times S and an integer k \ge 1 and returns a k-partition of S, a collection of non-empty disjoint subsets of S whose union is S. The sets making up the k-partition are the clusters. Two clustering functions are equivalent if and only if they output the same partitioning on all values of d and k.
Now in an effort to distinguish clustering functions from partitioning functions, we lay down some properties that one may like a clustering function to satisfy. Here is the first one. If d is a distance function, then we define \alpha \cdot d to be the same function with all distances multiplied by \alpha.
For any distance function d, number of clusters k, and scalar \alpha > 0, we have F(d, k) = F(\alpha \cdot d, k)
This property simply requires the function to be immune to stretching or shrinking the data points linearly. It effectively disallows clustering functions to be sensitive to changes in units of measurement - which is desirable. We would like clustering functions to not have any predefined hard-coded distance values in their decision process.
The next property ensures that the clustering function is “rich" in types of partitioning it could output. For a fixed S and k, Let Range(F(\bullet , k)) be the set of all possible outputs while varying d.
For any number of clusters k, Range(F(\bullet, k)) is equal to the set of all k-partitions of S
In other words, if we are given a set of points such that all we know about the points are pairwise distances, then for any partitioning \Gamma, there should exist a d such that F(d, k) = \Gamma. By varying distances amongst points, we should be able to obtain all possible k-partitionings.
The next property is more subtle. We call a partitioning function “consistent" if it satisfies the following: when we shrink distances between points in the same cluster and expand distances between points in different clusters, we get the same result. Formally, we say that d' is a \Gamma-transformation of d if (a) for all i,j \in S belonging to the same cluster of \Gamma, we have d'(i,j) \le d(i,j); and (b) for all i,j \in S belonging to different clusters of \Gamma, we have d'(i,j) \ge d(i,j). In other words, d' is a transformation of d such that points inside the same cluster are brought closer together and points not inside the same cluster are moved further away from one another.
Fix k. Let d be a distance function, and d' be a F(d, k)-transformation of d. Then F(d, k) = F(d', k)
In other words, suppose that we run the partitioning function F on d to get back a particular partitioning \Gamma. Now, with respect to \Gamma, if we shrink in-cluster distances or expand between-cluster distances and run F again, we should still get back the same result - namely \Gamma.
The partitioning function F is forced to return a fixed number of clusters: k. If this were not the case, then the above three properties could never be satisfied by any function.[38] In many popular clustering algorithms such as k-means, Single-Linkage, and spectral clustering, the number of clusters to be returned is determined beforehand – by the human user or other methods – and passed into the clustering function as a parameter.
Biology, computational biology and bioinformatics
Plant and animal ecology
clustering is used to build groups of genes with related expression patterns (also known as coexpressed genes). Often such groups contain functionally related proteins, such as enzymes for a specific pathway, or genes that are co-regulated. High throughput experiments using expressed sequence tags (ESTs) or DNA microarrays can be a powerful tool for genome annotation, a general aspect of genomics.
Sequence analysis
High-throughput genotyping platforms
clustering algorithms are used to automatically assign genotypes.
Human genetic clustering
Medical imaging
On PET scans, cluster analysis can be used to differentiate between different types of tissue and blood in a three dimensional image. In this application, actual position does not matter, but the voxel intensity is considered as a vector, with a dimension for each image that was taken over time. This technique allows, for example, accurate measurement of the rate a radioactive tracer is delivered to the area of interest, without a separate sampling of arterial blood, an intrusive technique that is most common today.
IMRT segmentation
Clustering can be used to divide a fluence map into distinct regions for conversion into deliverable fields in MLC-based Radiation Therapy.
Business and marketing
Market research
Grouping of shopping items
World wide web
Social network analysis
Search result grouping
Slippy map optimization
Computer science
Software evolution
Image segmentation
Evolutionary algorithms
Recommender systems
Markov chain Monte Carlo methods
Social science
Crime analysis
Educational data mining
Field robotics
Clustering algorithms are used for robotic situational awareness to track objects and detect outliers in sensor data.[39]
Mathematical chemistry
To find weather regimes or preferred sea level pressure atmospheric patterns.[41]
Petroleum geology
Physical geography
The clustering of chemical properties in different sample locations.
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Related methods[edit]
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Political involvement[edit]
Post politics and the Mulroney era[edit]
Camp underwent a heart transplant in 1993 (the oldest person in Canada to do so at the time) and continued to write and give political commentary from his home in Jemseg, New Brunswick. He experienced a stroke in February 2002, which led to his death a month later at a hospital in Fredericton, New Brunswick. He was survived by six children and eight grandchildren.
• "Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies."
• "Little of signal importance in the global scene of things has ever been at issue, much less determined, as a result of the Canadian political process."
• "He had been walking for exercise on a weekend in the early spring. The ice had just gone from the river, leaving it to swell upon its banks, turbulent, black, and impenetrably cold. He started across the bridge, following two boys-perhaps he went to warn them-but reaching the centre span he heard and saw them in the water. And then he jumped from the bridge to join them in death.
In the bloodless wars of politics, the wounds are to pride and place. In such activity, men easily exaggerate their relevance to it. More than that, once caught up in it, the significance of politics becomes disproportionate to their lives. To many, I suspect, their importance to themselves, as to others, lies in their being politicians. One would wish it to be the other way round-that their importance as politicians lies in men being themselves, true to their best impulse and finest ideals, less concerned with the victory of a party as they are more concerned with the survival of their own personality and nature. But party politics feeds and flourishes upon the blood of sublimation. Every man must serve another's larger cause, giving or lending himself in whole or in part to another judgement, a further condition, a greater good, a lesser will, a common motive and purpose, and these replace his own criteria, the immediacy of his own conscience, until his own moral nature becomes a mere accessory to the cause, which is no more than his neighbour's, but the product of some ill-defined greater good and lesser evil. In the trackless waste of politics, men lose their purpose, and the stars by which they once steered vanish in the bottomless sky of other men's aspirations. They wander like nomads, from oasis to oasis, quenching their thirst from the wells of power and warming themselves by the abandoned fires of those who have come and gone before." - Gentlemen, Players and Politicians.
• Points of Departure, Ottawa: Deneau and Greenberg, 1979
• An Eclectic Eel, Ottawa: Deneau, 1981
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The Intelligence Directorate (Spanish: Dirección de Inteligencia, or DI, also known as G2 and formerly known as Dirección General de Inteligencia or DGI) is the main state intelligence agency of the government of Cuba. The DI was founded in late 1961 by Cuba's Ministry of the Interior shortly after the Cuban Revolution. The DI is responsible for all foreign intelligence collection and comprises six divisions divided into two categories, which are the Operational Divisions and the Support Divisions. Manuel "Redbeard" Piñeiro was the first director of the DI in 1961 and his term lasted until 1964. Another top leader who directed the famous office, located on Linea and A, Vedado, was the now retired Div. General, Jesus Bermudez Cutiño. He was transferred from being the Chief of the Army Intelligence (DIM) to the Ministry of Interior, because of the big shake-up due to the Ochoa-Abrantes affair in 1989. The current head of the DI is Brig. General Eduardo Delgado Rodriguez. The total number of people working for the DI is about 15,000.[1][2]
KGB relationship[edit]
The Soviet Union's KGB and the Cuban DI had a complex relationship, marked by times of extremely close cooperation and by periods of extreme competition. The Soviet Union saw the new revolutionary government in Cuba as an excellent proxy agent in areas of the world where Soviet involvement lacked popular local-level support. Nikolai Leonov, the KGB Chief in Mexico City, one of the first Soviet officials to recognize Fidel Castro's potential as a revolutionary, urged the Soviet administration to strengthen ties with the new Cuban leader. Moscow saw Cuba as having far more appeal with new revolutionary movements, western intellectuals, and members of the New Left with Cuba's perceived David and Goliath struggle against US imperialism. Shortly after the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, Moscow invited 1,500 DI agents, including Che Guevara, to the KGB's Moscow Center for intensive training in intelligence operations.
Dismayed by Cuban debâcles in Zaire (1977 and 1978) and in Bolivia (1966-1967) as well as by a perceived growing independence from Moscow, the Soviets sought a more active role in shaping the DI. Manuel Piñeiro, becoming increasingly upset at the co-option of the DI by the Soviets, was removed during the 1970 purge and replaced with the pro-Soviet José Méndez Cominches as head of the DI. Semyonov also took this opportunity to oversee a rapid expansion of the DI's "western" operations. By 1971, 70% of the Cuban diplomats in London were actually DI agents and proved invaluable to Moscow after the British government's mass expulsion[when?] of Soviet intelligence officers.
In 1962, the Soviet Union opened its largest foreign SIGINT site in Lourdes, Cuba, approximately 30 miles (50 km) from Havana. The Lourdes facility is reported[by whom?] to cover a 28 square-mile (73 km2) area, with 1,000 to 1,500 Soviet and later solely Russian engineers, technicians, and military personnel working at the base. Those familiar with the Lourdes facility have confirmed that the base has multiple groups of tracking-dishes and its own satellite system, with some groups used to intercept telephone calls, faxes, and computer communications in general, and with other groups used to cover targeted telephones and devices.[3]
Operations abroad[edit]
Throughout its 40-year history the DI has been actively involved in aiding leftist movements, primarily in Latin America, Africa and the Middle East. There have also been allegations that Cuban DI agents interrogated US POWs[citation needed] held at the Cu Loc POW camp in North Vietnam.
Puerto Rico[edit]
The DI sought to aid the growing Puerto Rican separatist movement. Dr. Daniel James testified before a U.S. Senate Subcommittee that the DGI, working through Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, organized and trained the Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueña (FALN) in 1974. In October 1974, Ojeda was arrested and charged with terrorist acts against American hotels in Puerto Rico. Authorities found a substantial amount of Cuban government documents and secret codes in his possession.
According to the former chief investigator of the U.S. Senate, Alfonso Tarabochia, the DGI began directing criminal activities in Puerto Rico and the eastern and midwestern United States as early as 1974. That June, the secretary general of the Puerto Rican Socialist Party, Juan Marí Bras, met in Havana with Fidel Castro to consolidate party solidarity.
Beginning in September 1974, the incidence of bombings by Puerto Rican extremists, particularly the FALN, escalated sharply. Targets included U.S. companies and public places. The FALN was responsible for a bombing that killed four and wounded dozens at the historic Fraunces Tavern in lower Manhattan on January 25, 1975. Later that year, Fidel Castro sponsored the First World Solidarity Conference for the Independence of Puerto Rico in Havana.
Ríos was killed by the FBI on Friday, September 23, 2005 in a rural village in the town of Hormigueros, Puerto Rico.
Camp Mantanzas[edit]
Camp Mantanzas is a training facility operated by the DI and is located outside Havana since early 1962. It has hosted the likes of Carlos the Jackal.[4]
1. ^ Chris Hippner, "A Study Into the Size of the World’s Intelligence Industry" (Master's Thesis, December 2009), 90,
2. ^ Edward González and Kevin McCarthy, “Cuba After Castro: Legacies, Challenges, and Impediments,” RAND (Santa Monica, CA: RAND, 2004), 44,
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4. ^ Ovid Demaris (7 November 1977), "Carlos: The Most Dangerous Man In The World", New York Magazine: 35
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Athletes use a combination of strength training, diet, and supplementation to induce muscle hypertrophy.
Muscle hypertrophy involves an increase in size of skeletal muscle through an increase in the size of its component cells. Hypertrophy can be broken down into two types of categories: myofibrillar and sarcoplasmic. Each of these specific types of muscle hypertrophy will result in increasing size of cells, but not of equal effect. Sarcoplasmic hypertrophy is focused on increasing the actual size of the muscle, and less on increasing strength. Myofibril hypertrophy will focus more on strength increase and less on an increase in the size of the skeletal muscle.
Hypertrophy stimuli[edit]
A range of stimuli can increase the volume of muscle cells. Summarizing, these changes occur as an adaptive response that serves to increase the ability to generate force or resist fatigue in anaerobic conditions.
Strength training[edit]
Strength training typically produces a combination of the two different types of hypertrophy: contraction against 80 to 90% of the one-repetition maximum for 2–6 repetitions (reps) causes myofibrillated hypertrophy to dominate (as in powerlifters, Olympic lifters and strength athletes), whereas several repetitions (generally 8–12 for bodybuilding or 12 or more for muscular endurance) against a submaximal load facilitates mainly sarcoplasmic hypertrophy (professional bodybuilders and endurance athletes).[citation needed] The first measurable effect is an increase in the neural drive stimulating muscle contraction. Within just a few days, an untrained individual can achieve measurable strength gains resulting from "learning" to use the muscle.[citation needed] As the muscle continues to receive increased demands, the synthetic machinery is upregulated. Although all the steps are not yet clear, this upregulation appears to begin with the ubiquitous second messenger system (including phospholipases, protein kinase C, tyrosine kinase, and others).[citation needed] These, in turn, activate the family of immediate-early genes, including c-fos, c-jun and myc. These genes appear to dictate the contractile protein gene response.[citation needed]
Progressive overload is considered the most important principle behind hypertrophy, so increasing the weight, repetitions (reps), and sets will all have a positive impact on growth. Some experts create complicated plans that manipulate weight, reps, and sets, increasing one while decreasing the others to keep the schedule varied and less repetitive.
Anaerobic training[edit]
Experts and professionals differ widely on the best approaches to specifically achieve muscle growth (as opposed to focusing on gaining strength, power, or endurance); it was generally considered that consistent anaerobic strength training will produce hypertrophy over the long term, in addition to its effects on muscular strength and endurance. Muscular hypertrophy can be increased through strength training and other short-duration, high-intensity anaerobic exercises. Lower-intensity, longer-duration aerobic exercise generally does not result in very effective tissue hypertrophy; instead, endurance athletes enhance storage of fats and carbohydrates within the muscles,[1] as well as neovascularization.[2][3]
Factors affecting hypertrophy[edit]
Several biological factors such as age and nutrition can affect muscle hypertrophy. During puberty in males, hypertrophy occurs at an increased rate. Natural hypertrophy normally stops at full growth in the late teens. An adequate supply of amino acids is essential to produce muscle hypertrophy. As testosterone is one of the body's major growth hormones, on average, men find hypertrophy much easier to achieve than women. Taking additional testosterone, as in anabolic steroids, will increase results. It is also considered a performance-enhancing drug, the use of which can cause competitors to be suspended or banned from competitions. In addition, testosterone is also a medically regulated substance in most countries, making it illegal to possess without a medical prescription.
Changes in protein synthesis and muscle cell biology associated with stimuli[edit]
Protein synthesis[edit]
Ultimately the message filters down to alter the pattern of protein expression. The additional contractile proteins appear to be incorporated into existing myofibrils (the chains of sarcomeres within a muscle cell). There appears to be some limit to how large a myofibril can become: at some point, they split. These events appear to occur within each muscle fiber. That is, hypertrophy results primarily from the growth of each muscle cell, rather than an increase in the number of cells. Skeletal muscle cells are however unique in the body in that they can contain multiple nuclei, and the number of nuclei can increase.[4]
Cortisol decreases amino acid uptake by muscle tissue, and inhibits protein synthesis.[5] The short-term increase in protein synthesis that occurs subsequent to resistance training returns to normal after approximately 28 hours in adequately fed male youths. [6] Another study determined that muscle protein synthesis was elevated even 72 hours following training.[7]
A small study performed on young and elderly found that ingestion of 340 grams of lean beef (90 g protein) did not increase muscle protein synthesis any more than ingestion of 113 grams of lean beef (30 g protein). In both groups, muscle protein synthesis increased by 50%. The study concluded that more than 30 g protein in a single meal did not further enhance the stimulation of muscle protein synthesis in young and elderly.[8] However, this study didn't check protein synthesis in relation to training; therefore conclusions from this research are controversial.
It is not uncommon for bodybuilders to advise a protein intake as high as 2–4 g per kilogram of bodyweight per day.[9] However, scientific literature has suggested this is higher than necessary, as protein intakes greater than 1.8 g per kilogram of body weight showed to have no greater effect on muscle hypertrophy.[10] A study carried out by American College of Sports Medicine (2002) put the recommended daily protein intake for athletes at 1.2–1.8 g per kilogram of body weight.[11][12][10] Conversely, Di Pasquale (2008), citing recent studies, recommends a minimum protein intake of 2.2 g/kg "for anyone involved in competitive or intense recreational sports who wants to maximize lean body mass but does not wish to gain weight. However athletes involved in strength events (..) may need even more to maximize body composition and athletic performance. In those attempting to minimize body fat and thus maximize body composition, for example in sports with weight classes and in bodybuilding, it’s possible that protein may well make up over 50% of their daily caloric intake."[13]
Microtrauma, which is tiny damage to the fibers, may play a significant role in muscle growth. [14] When microtrauma occurs (from weight training or other strenuous activities), the body responds by overcompensating, replacing the damaged tissue and adding more, so that the risk of repeat damage is reduced. Damage to these fibers have been theorized as the possible cause for the symptoms of delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS), and is why progressive overload is essential to continued improvement, as the body adapts and becomes more resistant to stress.
Myofibrillar vs. sarcoplasmic hypertrophy[edit]
In sports[edit]
Examples of increased muscle hypertrophy are seen in various professional sports, mainly strength related sports such as boxing, bodybuilding, mixed martial arts, rugby, professional wrestling and various forms of gymnastics. These athletes train extensively in strength as well as cardiovascular and muscular endurance training.
See also[edit]
1. ^ van Loon LJ, Goodpaster BH (2006). "Increased intramuscular lipid storage in the insulin-resistant and endurance-trained state". Pflugers Arch. 451 (5): 606–16. doi:10.1007/s00424-005-1509-0. PMID 16155759.
2. ^ Soares JM (1992). "Effects of training on muscle capillary pattern: intermittent vs continuous exercise". The Journal of sports medicine and physical fitness 32 (2): 123–7. PMID 1279273.
3. ^ Prior BM, Yang HT, Terjung RL (2004). "What makes vessels grow with exercise training?". J. Appl. Physiol. 97 (3): 1119–28. doi:10.1152/japplphysiol.00035.2004. PMID 15333630.
6. ^ Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol. 2008 Jan;294(1):R172-8. Epub 2007 Nov 21. "Resistance training alters the response of fed state mixed muscle protein synthesis in young men." Exercise Metabolism Research Group, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
7. ^ Miller B.F., Olesen J.L., Hansen M. et al. (2005) Coordinated collagen and muscle protein synthesis in human patella tendon and quadriceps muscle after exercise. J Physiol, 567, 1021-1033.
8. ^ Symons, T. B.; Sheffield-Moore, M.; Wolfe, R. R.; Paddon-Jones, D. (2009). "A Moderate Serving of High-Quality Protein Maximally Stimulates Skeletal Muscle Protein Synthesis in Young and Elderly Subjects". Journal of the American Dietetic Association 109 (9): 1582–1586. doi:10.1016/j.jada.2009.06.369. PMID 19699838. edit
9. ^ Bodybuilders and Protein – Part 2. Retrieved on 2011-06-19.
10. ^ a b Tarnopolsky, MA; Atkinson, SA; MacDougall, JD; Chesley, A; Phillips, S; Schwarcz, HP (1992). "Evaluation of protein requirements for trained strength athletes". Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985) 73 (5): 1986–95. PMID 1474076.
11. ^ Rankin, JW (2002). "Weight loss and gain in athletes". Current sports medicine reports 1 (4): 208–13. PMID 12831697.
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The WWI section needs a lot of help. I'm too lazy, and American to fix it. However, the whole thing about "they remained in the harbour thereafter" makes no sense. I don't know the history. What harbor are we talking about? What was the significance of it? --drew1718 11:19, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
I have changed the caption to the photgraph. The dreadnoughts on the right are easily identified as belonging to the 'Bellerophon' and 'St Vincent' classes by the twin tripod masts [1]. Since there are four ships visible, the photograph was taken subsequent to the completion of HMS St Vincent in June 1909; and almost certainly at the Spithead Review of July 1909 (Fleet Review, Royal Navy). John Moore 309 17:00, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
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• Removed the little blurb about the destruction of the hood, mostly becuase it read like it was poorly written. Feel free to add this in the future... 03:05, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
HMS Hood is referred to as the 'pride of the navy' here but this term is not found on the wikipedia page for the HMS Hood. The wikipedia page for HMS Hood seems to indicate that HMS Hood was old, in poor condition, and out of date by the second world war. I would have thought the King George V class battleships were the pride of the navy at the time of the sinking of HMS Hood since they were quite new (although the term 'pride of the navy' is also not found in the article for the King George V class battleships). However, the King George V class article does not have the lengthy discussion of faults that can be found on the page for HMS Hood. Mattbondy (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 02:54, 8 July 2011 (UTC).
The Hood was twenty years old but had been the longest warship in the world for her entire life, so she was quite famous, symbolising the Royal Navy worldwide. Her nickname had been the Mighty Hood as she was as well armed as any battleship of the 1920s and 1930s but with a longer range and higher speed, but by 1940 she had actually been due for retirement as she was by then comparatively old. The outbreak of war prevented that, and she was pressed into use in what was really an inappropriate role, i.e., as a battleship. The capitulation of France in 1940 threw out the British naval force dispositions, as they had originally planned on having the French Navy to share the burdens but the French surrender left the Royal Navy short of ships for the tasks it had planned-for previously. The French surrender was one of the reasons for the difficult times in the early years of the Battle of the Atlantic as British pre-war shipbuilding plans had been based on the assumption that France would be fighting alongside and so the French Navy would be taking a share of the tasks. After 1940 that no longer applied and so Britain then had to find or build the number of ships needed for the multiplicity of tasks they were called upon to perform. This factor almost certainly had an influence on the subsequent events at Mers-el-Kebir.
As a battlecruiser the Hood was really designed for hunting down and sinking the German commerce raiders such as was later typified by the Graf Spee. The problem with battlecruisers was that non-naval people kept wanting to use them as battleships, which they weren't. They didn't have the armour. — Preceding unsigned comment added by (talk) 15:02, 12 February 2013 (UTC) | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Home_Fleet | dclm-gs1-197720000 |
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Is it possible to find the distance of a pixel to a rendered sphere, in screen space? All my naive solutions for just using the 2D screen distances are failing because of the warping that occurs during projection.
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See maybe Closest point on an ellipsoid. But I'm not sure that's really what you are looking for. Could you maybe explain what is the purpose of knowing that distance? – Sam Hocevar May 26 '12 at 14:24
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It's definitely possible, though it doesn't have a clean explicit formula. The projection of a sphere is an ellipse, and given the projection matrix you should be able to find an explicit formula for the ellipse, something of the form ax^2+bxy+cy^2+dx+ey+f=0 (the canonical formula for a conic section); from this you can find a rational parametrization of the ellipse (of the form x=f(t), y=g(t) with f and g rational functions). The problem then comes down to minimizing (f(t)-x_0)^2+(g(t)-y_0)^2 as a function of t, and it turns out that rootfinding methods work pretty well for this - there are exact solutions but they require solving a degree-4 equation, which can involve hairy complex arithmetic and tends to be less numerically stable (and thus less accurate) than the approximate methods anyway.
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Your screen is a plan. Your sphere is an elipse. When the user clicks somewhere on the screen it's easy to find the coordinates on the screen plan. Then you just have to apply basic elipsis equation in order to know if the selected point is inside or outside the elipsis and how far it is.
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This works if the question is 'is my click point inside the ellipse or not?' but not if the question is 'how far is my click point from the ellipse?' - there the calculation of, say, (x/2)^2+(y/3)^2 doesn't result in a distance value. – Steven Stadnicki May 26 '12 at 16:32
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As always, there is a lot of speculation as to what the Maple Leafs will do on July 1st when the NHL free agent season begins. Some are suggesting they should go big or go home and do whatever it takes to sign Ilya Kovalchuk as the answer to their offensive woes while others believe Kovalchuk is going for the big long term contract to which Burke has said on numerous occasions he isn’t interested in doing. After Kovalchuk though there aren’t any top tier forward free agents available to help solve the Leafs lack of scoring problems.
I am in the camp that I don’t believe that Kovalchuk will be a Maple Leaf. He’ll end up signing a long term big dollar contract somewhere else. Whether the Leafs will, or should, go after Kovalchuk depends a lot on what Burke believes he can acquire in a Tomas Kaberle trade. If Burke believes he can land a scoring winger with size in a Kaberle trade then the need to go after a guy like Kovalchuk is minimized.
Historically teams that win the Stanley Cup have excellent defenses, solid goaltending and are strong down the middle. Teams that have had elite level wingers but have lacked at center have generally not done well. What has Kovalchuk won? What about Jarome Iginla? What about Rick Nash? These are three of the best wingers in the game but haven’t achieved much, if any, playoff success. Feel free to toss Ovechkin into the mix (for now anyway). The Leafs already have an offensive minded winger in Phil Kessel and I don’t believe they necessarily need another offense-first winger like Kovalchuk, at least not if the price tag is $9 million.
As it stands right now, the Leafs forward lines might look like this:
Left Wing Center Right Wing
Tyler Bozak Phil Kessel
Mikhail Grabovski
Fredrik Sjostrom
Mike Brown Colton Orr
I have intentionally left a lot of blanks in there and have only listed the players I believe are fairly certain to fill those positions. That leaves the two left wing slots on the first two lines open, the second and third line right wing positions and the third and fourth line center positions as well as a reserve position or two which Brown may get bumped to depending on how the roster unfolds. Should Kulemin get re-signed he will fill in one of those open winger slots, probably either on the second or third line. The Leafs also have Luca Caputi, Viktor Stalberg and Christain Hanson in the fold but while all have showed flashes of potential, I don’t believe any of them showed enough last year to make me believe they should be written in as a sure bet to make the club. The same goes for John Mitchell who is set to become a UFA but who the Leafs have said they would like to bring back at the right price (read: close to league minimum or even a 2-way deal). Caputi probably has the best opportunity to make the club because he plays a physical game and is probably more suited to a third line role than Stalberg though Stalberg showed he might be ready for a top 6 role late last season. I haven’t mentioned Nazem Kadri yet but I should as it is likely he will fill one of the top six positions, possibly as a winger or as the second line center pushing Grabovski to wing where he may be better suited anyway (or he could be used as trade bait). So as it stands now there are five or six forward slots up for grabs and I am certain that Brian Burke wants to bring in at least two, if not three additional forwards to really create battles for those open slots.
Now it is time for some speculation. If Kovalchuk is out of the picture, as I believe he is, who will Burke go after. There are three things that we know that can guide us into figuring out what Burke might do. First, Burke has stated he wants to find a winger that can score, preferably one with some size. Second he wants to add more toughness throughout the lineup. Third, historically he has shown that he really likes to bring back players who have played for him before. So where does that leave us.
There are no first line or even true second line wingers who can score and have size on the open market. It seems to me that this is what he intends to acquire via a Tomas Kaberle trade. That trade probably won’t happen for at least a few days after the early free agent frenzy settles so I won’t speculate on that here right now.
There are players that will address toughness further down the lineup though and who are young enough who can contribute to the Leafs for the next several years. Two names that have been speculated upon are Colby Armstrong and Raffi Torres and both of these guys can fill that toughness role and they are both capable of scoring 15+ goals so in a pinch are capable of playing a second line role or second PP unit role. I fully expect that Brian Burke to go after and sign one of these guys so long as the price tag is around $2.5-3M per year on a 3 or 4 year deal.
In my mind the Leafs can desperately use a veteran centerman, if not two, as Bozak and Kadri would form a pretty inexperienced top two. If Burke is looking for a center under the age of 30 who can produce offensively you are pretty much limited to Matthew Lombardi, but I don’t see that as the route Burke will go because I don’t see Lombardi as the kind of ‘role player’ Burke wants on the third line. That means you may have to go a little older and so I think he might consider going after a guy like Matt Cullen who is 32 years of age and a pretty good 2-way player versatile in that he can play a second or third line role and play at center or on the wing. His price tag might get a little high for what Burke wants to spend on a third line player but he would be a nice veteran addition.
A similar player to Cullen who will cost somewhat less is Eric Belanger. Belanger isn’t big, but he plays a gritty physical game and would look good in a third line role and has consistently gotten around 35 points throughout his career.
We know Brian Burke has liked Brendan Morrison in the past. He had Morrison in Vancouver and signed him as a free agent in Anaheim. The Anaheim experiment was a bit of a flop mostly because he paid him too much money for what he could contribute but last year in Washington he showed he could be a serviceable role player as a third or fourth line center. I don’t know if Burke intends to go after Morrison but it wouldn’t surprise me if Burke signed Morrison so long as his contract short term (1 or 2 seasons) and no more than the $1.5M he made last year.
If Brian Burke is set on trading Kaberle for help up front he’ll probably want to pick up another defenseman but not one with a big salary. There are a lot of defensemen to choose from in this UFA class so it is difficult to speculate who he might go after but I suspect he’ll wait until the first rush on defensemen passes and he’ll try to pick up someone at a bargain price a week or two down the road as players start to see job openings dwindling away and get concerned about if and where they might play come September more than they are about holding out for maximum dollars.
Update: The Leafs have acquired Kris Versteeg from the Chicago Blackhawks for Stalberg and prospects DiDominico and Paradis. Versteeg will likely fill one of those second line winger roles.
Jun 092010
Behind the Net Blog recently used even strength when game is tied Corsi analysis to take a look at the divisional imbalance since the lockout and came up with an interesting conclusion.
The NW division is slightly better than the SE division against all shared opponents. But SE division teams outshot NW teams in head-to-head games. The difference between the two divisions is negligible, though the NW’s stronger showing against the pacific and central suggests that it’s just a little bit better than the SE.
What that essentially implies is that since the lockout the northwest division is only marginally better than the southeast division, which has generally been considered the worst division in hockey since the lockout.
This though is a perfect example of where Corsi analysis fails because that statement is proven downright untrue when you consider each divisions actual won-loss records. Against the southeast division the northwest has combined for a dominating 64-31-12 and only twice has a northwest team had a losing record against the southeast (2009-10 Wild at 1-2-3 and 2008-09 Flames at 1-3-1). The 64-31-12 record is the equivalent to a 107 point team over 82 games which is awfully good. The southeasts record against the northwest is 43-49-15 which is equivalent to a 77 point team. To put that in perspective, the NW is like Phoenix (107 points) and the SE is like Columbus (79 points) this past season. That makes the northwest division more than ‘a little bit better’ than the southeast division.
In another analysis at Behind the Net blog they look at Corsi +/- for teams in games against teams in divisions other than their own. For the northeast division they came up with:
Ottawa +200, Boston +134, Toronto +65, Buffalo -60, Montreal -266.
That would seem to indicate that Toronto has been a halfway decent team but they finished last in the northwest division in 3 of the 5 seasons and never finished better than 3rd. Montreal finished ahead of the Leafs in 4 of the 5 seasons and accumulated 49 additional points in the standings despite having an outside division even strength when game is tied Corsi +/- a whopping 331 points below that of the Leafs. The Minnesota Wild had a very dismal -419 Corsi +/- outside the division but had a respectable 134-106-26 record which is equivalent to a 91 point team. Now a 91 point team is nothing special, but it is a far cry from what the 3rd worst outside division Corsi +/- would indicate their record ought to be.
In both of these posts the use of Corsi analysis has failed to accurately explain what really happened on the ice and it comes down to the fact that even strength when the game is tied Corsi numbers only tell a fraction of the story. It doesn’t account for goaltending or power play or penalty kill or shooting ability or any number of other factors that influence who wins hockey games so using it as a tool for determining which teams or divisions are better is a pointless exercise because on the ice, all those other things matter. The better tool to use in evaluating which teams or divisions are better is the much simpler and more universally understood statistic known as win-loss records. Win-loss aren’t perfect, but they don’t try to tell me that the Leafs have been better than Montreal since the lockout or that the northwest division is only marginally better than the southeast division.
Jun 052010
This past season the Boston Bruins were the lowest scoring team in the NHL with just 196 goals for (the only team not to reach 200 goals) or about 2.34 goals per game and in the playoffs they were only slightly better scoring at a 2.58 goals per game pace. So the question that needs to be answered is how will they go about improving their offensive output? To answer that, lets start off by looking at their salary cap situation. The Bruins have the following players under contract:
• Forwards: Bergeron, Savard, Lucic, Ryder, Krejci, Sturm, Thornton
• Defesnse: Chara, Wideman, Ference, Hunwick, Seidenberg
• Goalies: Thomas, Rask
Total salary cap hit for those 14 players is approximately $50.5M including todays signing of Dennis Seidenberg at $3.5M a season for 4 years. The best case scenario is that the salary cap rises about $2M so let’s assume the salary cap gets set at $58.5M. That leaves $8M for 5-6 forwards and a couple defensemen.
The Bruins key restricted free agents include forwards Blake Wheeler, Daniel Paille, Vladimir Sobotka along with defenseman Mark Stuart. On the unrestricted free agent front there is Mark Recchi, Miroslav Satan, Steve Begin, and Johnny Boychuk.
The Bruins could probably get Wheeler, Paille and Sabotka signed for $4M combined and there may be interest in bringing Recchi (who scored 18g, 43pts) back on a cheap contract and I expect they will try to sign one of Stuart or Boychuk for under $1.5M if possible but they will barely have $2M in salary cap room remaining and they have only rebuilt last year’s team. They might like to bring Satan back who had an decent season since being signed (9g in 38 games) and an excellent playoff (5g, 10pts and team best +4) but his good play may have improved his market value beyond what the Bruins might be able to pay.
The Bruins do have the second overall pick which will likely be Tyler Seguin (assuming the Oilers take Taylor Hall) and I am sure they envision him being in their lineup next season to help their woeful offense. The thing is, the cap hit, including bonuses, for Seguin will total approximately $3.75M and with the CBA ending after the 2010-11 season (unless the players choose to extend it for one additional season) there will be no bonus cushion so the full $3.75M will count against the cap, regardless of whether he is able to reach those bonuses or not. There will be no carryover option. The end result is the Bruins will have some real tough choices to make this off season. Here are some options:
1. Don’t sign Seguin and let him play another year of junior. This is an extremely unlikely scenario since the Bruins desperately need Seguin’s offense and they wouldn’t want to give Seguin a bad view of the organization.
2. Trade a high priced player. There probably isn’t much of a market for Ryder or Sturm with their salaries unless the Bruins are willing to include their own first round pick or a top prospect. There would be a market for Lucic or Krejci but those guys, particularly Lucic, would be very difficult for the Bruins to part with. I am sure they would love to trade Tim Thomas but the success of cheap goalies this playoff season the market for older goalies with big contracts like Thomas is probably as low as it has ever been if it exists at all. Thomas is still likely a capable goalie It is tough to imagine anyone wanting him at his salary though we should never underestimate an NHL GM’s ability to make stupid moves. I don’t see them moving core players like Savard, Bergeron, Chara or Wideman so simply trading away a big contract is an unlikely scenario.
3. Buy out the contracts of Michael Ryder and/or Marco Sturm. Buying out Ryders contract would save them $2.66M in cap space and buying out Sturm would save them $2.33M in cap space. Either or both are highly possible scenarios but they would lose Sturm’s 22 goals and Ryder’s 18 so it wouldn’t do anything to improve their offense.
Under any of the above scenarios it is difficult to believe that the Bruins offense will be significantly improved through player movement. For the Bruins to improve their offense it will come down to keeping both Bergeron and Savard healthy and having guys like Krejci, Wheeler and Lucic improve their player closer to their 2008-09 levels. That said, the Bruins will likely be a team relying on great defense and goaltending once again in 2010-11.
Jun 032010
I am planning that over the course of the summer and into next season I will get back into analyzing hockey statistics more in depth again. Over the past couple of seasons Corsi numbers have become much more prevalent so I thought I would start off by discussing what they are and my thoughts on them.
Corsi numbers were originally created by former NHL goalie and now Buffalo Sabre goalie coach Jim Corsi. David Staples recently had a good interview with Corsi which goes into his thought process behind developing Corsi numbers. The interview is definitely worth a read but let me summarize.
In his role as the Sabre’s goalie coach, Corsi was attempting to evaluate the work load his goalies had in a game of play and found that simply shots against were not sufficient. The goalie can relax whenever the puck is in the oppositions end, but whenever the play is in his own end he can’t relax, regardless of whether a shot was taken or not. To get a better idea of his goalies workload he summed up shots, missed shots and blocked shots which should give a much better indication of a goalies overall work load. A goalie needs a certain skill level to successfully save the majority of shots on goal, but a goalie also needs a certain fitness level (both mental and physical) to be able to play under a certain workload level within a single game and over the course of an 82 game season and this is why Corsi invented the Corsi numbers.
More recently others in the hockey community have extended Corsi numbers to evaluate a teams ability to control the play of a game (i.e. does a team play more in the oppositions zone vs their own) and evaluate individual players by looking at their Corsi numbers for and against while they are on the ice and comparing that to their teammates Corsi numbers. Most notable are Gabe Desjardins of behindthenet.ca and Gabe and everyone else at the Behind the Net blog but there are others too. Some people, most notably Matt Fenwick of the Battle of Alberta blog only use shots and missed shots and do not include blocked shots as Jim Corsi does resulting in what is typically called Fenwick numbers. When used in this context Corsi and Fenwick numbers are calculated just as +/- is calculated which is to take the shots+missed shots+ blocked shots for his team and subtracting the shots+missed shots+ blocked shots numbers by the opposition while he is on the ice.
One of the benefits that many people believe that Corsi numbers provide is that since Corsi numbers include more events (i.e. shots+missed shots+blocked shots vs just shots or even just goals as in +/-) the statistical analysis will be far more accurate due to the larger ‘sample size.’
So what do I think of all this? I do agree with Jim Corsi that using Corsi numbers as a way to evaluate a goalies workload is probably far more valuable than just using shots on goal. Beyond that, I am pretty sure that Corsi numbers will give a pretty solid indication of a teams control of the play, for whatever that is worth. I say for whatever that is worth because some teams, when they have the lead, will choose to play in a defensive shell allowing a lot of shots from the point, but not giving up all that many high quality, in close, shots or worse yet, shots on rebounds. Corsi numbers when the game is close (tied, or within one goal with significant time to play such that the team with the lead has not yet gone into ‘protect the lead’ mode) may give us a better indication of a teams capability to control the play, when they want to but even that may be flawed. Also, a team with a strong set of forwards but a weak defense and goalie may control the play more than a team with a strong defense and top tier goalie but is that team really any better at winning games?
Much of the same arguments can be made when evaluating players. Defensive minded players are not necessarily on the ice to control the play, they are on the ice to not allow goals against most typically by the oppositions top offensive forwards. As mentioned above, one way to accomplish this is to go into a defensive shell and just not give up any quality scoring chances against. A player can have a sub-par Corsi number, but be doing his job perfectly well.
I do believe that Corsi numbers have a use in evaluating a goalies work load and even in showing which teams are controlling the play, but in my opinion using it anywhere beyond that we are making too many assumptions about how important Corsi numbers are with respect to winning games. Just ask the Washington Capitals how almost completely controlling the play worked for them against Montreal in round two of the playoffs. In the past I have used mostly goals for/against and shot quality (using shot type and distance as a proxy for quality) to evaluate players and while that has its own inherent flaws as well I will most likely continue to do so in the future. | http://hockeyanalysis.com/2010/06/ | dclm-gs1-197840000 |
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Grab some cauliflower and savor her full remarks below.
-- Andrew Malcolm
Democrat president Barack Obama preparing for a meal out
Democrat president Barack Obama eating pancakes
Instead, they’ve grown to fit every lifestyle and every budget.
Democrat president Barack Obama eating a cheesesteak
Democrat president Barack Obama Eats some Kringle in Wisconsin
Democrat president Barack Obama eating a hotdog in front of his wife
Here at the NRA, you’ve developed the Food and Healthy Living Initiative to give restaurants a strong foundation for making healthy changes. You’ve launched a website,, to help consumers identify healthy menu options in their area.
Democrat president Barack Obama downs some fried chicken
Democrat president Barack Obama downs some pizza
Democrats Barack Obama and Joe Biden eating cheeseburgers
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I'm at the point I think of resenting the whole of the Obama family. Too many vacations. Too much party. Too secret Maybe they've played us all for fools. Michelle said on open camera Barry was born in Kenya, and the media has ignored that. I resent these usurpers. I'm extremely angry at the DNC. They knew his Nationality. I'm really sorry, but this is the reasoons I resent this whole administration. In normal times I'd be eupset, but in times like these I'm really resent anyone hurting the People of the US.
So Michelle tells us what to eat, and a few minutes later she is shown cramming an ice cream cone in her face. What a hypocrite!
I darn the First Lady to lay one hand on my plate of french fries while I'm eating my burger. I just dare her to do it!
Any one out there miss Laura Bush yet??? Michelle - always out there trying to toot her horn for a little recognition. Barak is so into himself he probably ignores her..... Poor Michelle - lose some weight dear.
This FLOTUS is a big hypocrite. She is disgusting. But kudos to the LA Times (I'll rethink that subscription offer I rejected years ago).
I think I will wait for Madam Bedonkadonk to look at herself in a mirror before I start listening to her "health" advice. Please.............
Every time Michelle opens her mouth to speak about how kids aren't eating the way she wants them to, my daughter asks, "Am I fat?" Pulease! My daughter wears the slim jeans or else they fall down. We eat out maybe once a week because I prefer home cooking. But when we do eat out, I don't monitor what my kids are eating because they are healthy and we agree that it's OK to eat chicken nuggets and French fries when we eat out -- they don't get that at home.
How do you say NAZI ALERT! Why doesn't this hag leave us all alone. Isn't it enough they vacation and party on our tab day in and day out. They also have to run every aspect of our lives. Just like their idols, Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Chavez and Castro.
Michelle Antoinette isn't telling anyone to eat cake...she's already said "Dessert is not a right." cake for you.
I do believe that the mission she is on dovetails with Obamacare. She wants the rest of us to be forced to have "preventative" exams and those of us who do not fit the mold (from the 2500 pages no one has really bothered to read), will be denied health care options even while forced to pay for them. I wouldn't invest too much in Obamacare, FLINO, because after November it may be edited down to 20 or so pages, eliminating all of your food-Nazi tactics once and for all.
She, with the BMI of 30, gorges on lobster, kobe beef, pizza, ice cream then "cleanses" and has colonics for 2 or 3 days to get rid of the bloat. Not healthy. I see lots of bowls of apples set out on tables for photo ops but I've never seen a picture of her eating one. I, however, do eat fresh fruit, vegies, moderate meat and fish and I enjoy chocolate, a latte a day and occasional wine as well. I think I can manage without your help, First Scold.
And, BTW First Nag, Ayurveda, the Indian holistic health care system says a balanced meal includes all the tastes...including salty and sweet. But then I suppose you think you know more than a 5,000 year old system of health maintenance. But I somehow doubt it.
"The Democrat suggested that..." That sentence says this is a biased view. Secondly Rofl at the fried chicken pictures of B.O. New avatar.
I wish I could express how I really feel like with profanity and all(for emphasis, of course), but it would not be allowed here. I can understand that. What despicable hypocrites these people are and sticking their noses in our business. They don't know squat. I'd love for a registered dietician to interview ms obama just to reveal how stupid and ignorant she is. Can't wait till they're gone from ruling this nation and would love to see some prosecution and jail time.
This is the woman who eats $465 /lb. lobster, with butter??? Leave us alone!
While I cannot stand the man or his policies, his wife does have some good things to say about making healthy food choices, especially for children. Now I know that many of you would say that this starts in the home; but how many families today actually sit down and have a meal together? Most of the time it's just sticking something in the microwave and eating in front of the TV. These are habits which will not be broken very easily. School cafeterias should start offering healthier alternatives as well. Obesity is a major problem and can lead to health problems down the road.
Show me the scientific evidence for her claims about shaping our desires for certain foods. Who does this woman think she is to tell us, me as an individual, me as a mom...what to do???? She could stand to lose about 30 pounds and her husband obviously ignores her nagging, so she needs to just sit down and shut up.
She needs to mind her own business! What I or anyone else eats is our concern. And restaurants serve what the customers want, not what some nanny-state know-it-all wants. After all, they're in business to MAKE MONEY!
But that's something the Obama's wouldn't understand since neither one of them has had to do an honest day's work all their life (just living off the government in one form or the other)...
Not surprising. First they make us buy a service or good, then they take away a service or good. Forget parenting, just let the gov't do it. Go on vacation or something. You really think this will stop at kids?
Whats that ^^ oh noes, a national security problem we can squeeze into the commence clause of control. If you can tell the parents and schools what they should eat, and justify it under healthcare, then you can force it on adults too. If we bought health care like we buy shoes, or car insurance, we wouldn't even be having this problem. Stupid America
If only Obama had made a better healthier DNA selection!; we would not have to listen to this women and what she thinks is right and correct. Frankly, I could care less of what she thinks is healthy - she can't control her husband's eating habits or his smoking and she can't control her own body structure. I don't think she looks healthy but what do I know any more than she.
Tell her to sit down, remain quiet, her husband's term is approaching its end; and, as people don't want to hear from Obama they surely don't want to listen to her.
Times, they are a changing...and when the Obama's are out of the White House perhaps we as Americans can once again be proud of our America.
Thank God, ....and I am not even religious.
I think the reason why Moochelle wants us to cut back on the good stuff is so that her husband can have it all to himself. I didn't vote for this "change". In November we're going to CHANGE it back!
You Obama people are really abandoning ship!
The poor guy is only halfway through his term, and you are already throwing him to the wolves...
Hey Michelle...when you convince your hubby to give up the cancer sticks, you can lecture the rest of us about what we should put in our mouths.
Why are democrats fixated on intruding on people's personal lives? Why do these political hacks think they know better than the 100's of millions they are supposed to represent (not dictate)? If I wanted apples instead of fries with a cheeseburger I'd order it. I wonder if Manchelle would mind if I mandated that she couldn't wear those ugly dresses anymore?
democrats next "jobs creation" bill will be 50 billion bucks aimed at creating a more healthy workforce. All cictizens will be weighed in at a gubament clinic and be given a gubament sponsored eating plan. If in 90 days you return to the clinic and weigh more than your original weight you will be fined and sent to a gubament fat farm. if a child fails to comply he will be seized by dcf agents and the parents will be fined and arrested for child neglect.
This woman needs another vacation with "40 of her closest friends."
We have started a restaurant that sells healthy, organic,local food. They are doing very well and folks appreciate our menu with large salad bar, grass fed beef, grilled sandwiches and a very pleasent atmosphere.I am sorry that Michele Obama's suggestions to the National Restaurant Association were associated with her and the president. They are not the issue. Obesity,diebeties,cancer and all forms of health issues can be traced to our diet.Try reading "The China Study" or "Diet for a new America"
Please don't throw the baby out with the wash.
ya, telling business what to have on there menu
people can make there own choice
if i come in and the food i like is not there any more, i'm gone.
can you give her a bill for all the loses.
change u can believe in 2010/2012
Everytime I see her I cant help but think Power Forward.
No matter if her idea is heathly or not, government should not be able to tell private business to sell or control what the people want. When that happens, we give up our liberty. Think about your job; do you want the federal government to tell you how to operate your business and how your customers should be served? If you aren't doing it right, customers will leave your business on their own and go somewhere else.
What overt discrimination! White salt is to be banned and black pepper is ignored? I have a good friend who almost died from heavy use of Black Pepper - but nothing from this adminstration. Its all about race and color.
These arrogant leftist mutts can take their advice and shove it up where the sun doesn't shine.
Who the hell do they think they are?
Can't wait until the voters shovel out their democrat enablers in November, and then shovel the Odumbo manure out of the White House in 2012.
What creepy leeches these scumbags are.
Yet another thing more important to the Obama's than the security and economic prosperity of our nation.
Judging by the size of Ms. Obama's caboose, she needs to practice what she preaches before she starts fascist overlording of our private lives.
Michelle needs to focus on her own household first and mind her own business. The Obamas don't seem to get it...STAY OUT OF OUR LIVES.
Hey Moochcele, why don't you and Barry open up your own Restaurant, dictate the menu choices and insure that the only currency accepted are food stamps and government issued vouchers. Otherwise shut up, we can make our own choices! Enough of this Nanny State!
Looks like she needs to start policing her own family, before jumping on America. Just a little HYPOCRITICAL
Just the blind following I'd expect from a democrat/liberal/et al... So, whatever happened to "my body; my choice"? Oh, right, that only applies when dems are making the argument. We should be used to hypocrisy by now - it's now embedded in our lives thanks to people who want to control every single thing in our lives - including our stomachs!!!! NO THANKS! I can decide for myself what to eat - no one needs to dictate what goes into my or my child's stomach - AND I REFUSE TO LET ANYONE TO DICTATE MY LIFE - so give it up... I'm a REAL American AND a Patriot - neither of which are synonymous with the left.
What's funny is, when we were kids we ate all this stuff and we were just fine. Wonder what's changed? Oh, wait, we didn't have the Xbox 360 or 7,000 cable channels to plop ourselves in front of... we went outside and played for our entertainment! Parents: get your fat kids off their fat rumps and get them outside!! Go with them, you could stand to lose a few pounds as well...
"People who live in glass houses...etc." Since when does someone with a butt the size of Kansas have the right to tell others what to eat ? Somebody give her Highass a rear view mirror. Then please tell her to go back to Chicago. They like her there.
I couldn't care less what this wench think. Me and my family will eat what we choose to eat. It is none of her damn business. If we decide our kids are allowed to get fat, then that will be our business, not hers. Mrs Obama, you have no qualifications and your opinions mean zilch. Please butt out of what does not concern you. Only an idiot would care what you think about their meal choices.
This would have been funnier if Obama was like 600 pounds.. but he's trim, fit and in shape.. both of them are. So cherry picking some photos of him eating ishtty food is BS IMHO. Americans are generally fat lard a$$ed and physically inactive. The food these restaurants feed us taste great while subtracting years from our lives.
Cook your own food and take a walk outside yall fat lazy wipes.
So if a liberal Democrat has a good idea, people are going to trash it, just because?
This is a good idea. America is fat, getting fatter. No one could successfully dispute that. There are many ways to work on the fix. Start with the food providers, agriculture and industry, or start with the FDA, or start with the re-education of parents, or start with retooling restaurants, but please just start!
We are so used to seeing adorable pudgy kids that we forget the past. Look at movies from the 1930's to the 1950's and be reminded that most people of all ages were much thinner than today. I watch these movies while on the treadmill at 6:30 AM before work. The Turner movie Channel specializes in them.
Stop making this a political issue.
I'm conservative and proud of it. Haven't voted for a Democrat since my 20's. Now, in my 60's, I have some insight that's worth sharing.
Fat is unhealthy. Thinner is more healthy.
Fat costs America billions in unnecessary health procedures. Thinner will save billions and billions.
And yes, carrots are good for you. So are all fruits and veggies, seeds, nuts, and whole grains.
Portion sizes need to be reduced.
Can America handle this change? I hope so, or we'll all be sicker than sick unable to protect our freedoms.
If you want the freedom to be fat and sick, I suppose you can have it. But don't make the rest of us pay for it.
She really is a piece of work. She needs to heed her own advice. Who cares what this woman says about ANYTHING. She is a disgrace as first lady. Spends our money like she is queen and has the nerve to stand up there and preach!!!GO AWAY.
It would be great to have choice of portion sizes and healthier dishes, although certainly not due to propaganda from the left. But no bunch of bossy socialists should dare try telling us what to eat! If I want to eat pounds of french fries and deep-fried Twinkies and every species of animal on the planet (except the protected ones, and people, of course) and _NO_ green vegetables at all, then it's my God-given right under the Constitution to do so (and accept the consequences), and the evil contemptible power crazed psychopaths of the left have absolutely no business telling businesses to emphasize healthier dishes, or even serve them. Yet another reason to get rid of ObamaCare is so there is _NO_ justification for having a central authority be in a position to claim that there is a common interest in every individual being told what to do in every detail of their lives!
Ok, I'm feeling better now...must've been that all natural low calorie perfectly balanced vegan diet bar that set me off...
Somebody needs to make her go away. I dont want this overweight woman telling me what I can and cannot eat or feed my children.
2012 cannot get here soon enough!!!
NO MORE OBAMAS..........
she's only trying to stay in the Lime Light, probably making money for her Social Security benefits since she not employed.. Judging from photos of her Body size she could well with just plane ole exercise!!
People are not idiots, they know chocolate cake is fattening. Why would anyone need the government to tell them that. What does she want restaurants to start serving ready to eat weight watcher meals. This major fear of theirs to reduce health care costs is total BS!
First off - we should be allowed to eat what we want and we don't need the government telling us or the food industry any different. If I want healthy food I will prepare it at home, I go to a restaurant to indulge! Also, I like to take the left overs home - so smaller portions is just another way for us to pay out more money for less.
Second off - until that women starts a diet plan of her own and loses some of her weight, she need not worry about everyone else. Also, Barack doesn't look to be eating like mister healthy himeself in those photos.
Lastly however, I do feel that school lunches for the children need to be healthier and I think that is what needs to be looked at (and only that)!!!!!!!!
Its called "temptation," Ma Bama and your party's agenda has pushed the only person(Jesus Christ) equipped to fight temptation out of our public schools. Why don't you focus your maternal instincts on Pa Bama and leave American mothers to decide what is right for their own families.
Interestingly enough I don't recall Michelle Obama's name on any election ballot, nor do I recall her being appointed to any cabinet position after being throughly vetted and approved by Congress. Therefore, her words carry no more weight than those of any other private citizen and frankly anyone foolish enough to listen to her has only served to waste their own time.
We can continue to listen to those who say nothing can be done, or we can find alternate solutions. Rob Stevens has shown that losing weight can be easier and less painful than any of us could have imagined. The genius of Thintuition is that the solution to the obesity epidemic already lies within our own bodies; we do not need the diet industry, government policies, or even physicians to make us thin. It is by honoring and propagating this kind of simple yet revolutionary idea that you and I will turn America's vast obesity epidemic into a small footnote of medical history.
John Stracks, M.D.
University of Michigan Department of Family Medicine.
Next step will be to weigh everyone, if they're to heavy, they'll be allocated reduced portions of food through the new food rationing system which is probably in the works
After you've finished your rationed meal, you will get a set number of pieces of toilet tissues, bassed on the size of your ass and the food you ate in the last 24 hours
Heil Michelle
"The first lady doesn't mind ordinary families eating out on special occasions."
Does this VULGAR HAG have subpoena powers?
[Whoops, since she is an affirmative action lawyer, I doubt seriously that she even understands most legal terms.]
And, why does no one ever talk about her vain, nasty, expensive, plastic-surgery enhanced sour-puss????
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From: Kartikaya Gupta <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 03:07:27 +0000
To: Andrei Popescu <[email protected]>, Doug Turner <[email protected]>
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On Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:08:54 -0700, Doug Turner <[email protected]> wrote:
> 5) As discussed before, i think reverse geolocating stuff shouldn't be
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I agree with that, but don't feel too strongly about it. If it is included though, I think there should be a way for the user to query whether or not the UA supports reverse geolocation. Right now they can set the flag but don't know whether or not they'll get back a valid address. (An error return value could be ambiguous - it might mean the UA doesn't support reverse geolocation at all, or it could mean that there was an error while reverse geolocating the current position.)
> 6) enableHiqhAccuracy == implementation specific details. Not sure it
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They might want to set it to false for the same reason that they provide "mobile" versions of their web pages - to be considerate of UAs that have fewer resources at their disposal.
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> > network location provider and the user agent.
> > draft.
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I think having the web author provide a list of network location providers is a bad idea, since it reduces the agnostic-ity of the API. (I assume here that the providers are specific to a particular input data type, such as IP address). It might also have security implications since the web author gets to dictate a server that the UA then has to ping every time a location update occurs.
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The theorem says:
"Suppose $z_0$ is an essential isolated singularity of $f(z)$. Then for every complex number $w_0$, there is a sequence $z_n\rightarrow z_0$ such that $f(z_n)\rightarrow w_0$."
The function $f(z)=e^{1/z}$ has an essential singularity at $z=0$. Can someone demonstrate the theorem up above by providing a sequence of complex numbers $z_n$ so that:
$$z_n\rightarrow 0 \qquad\text{and}\qquad f(z_n)\rightarrow 10$$
And perhaps a second example where:
$$z_n\rightarrow 0 \qquad\text{and}\qquad f(z_n)\rightarrow 1+i$$
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Let $\ln(10)$ be the real natural logarithm of 10. Then for $$z_n = \frac{1}{\ln(10) + 2\pi n i}$$ we have $z_n \to 0$ and $f(z_n) = 10$. You can do the same thing for $1 + i$ by replacing $\log(10)$ with any number such that $e^z = 1 + i$.
As a comment, by the Picard theorem, there is at most one complex number $w_0$ with the property that we cannot choose $z_n \to z_0$ with $f(z_n) = w_0$. In this case it is $0$.
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Very helpful. Thanks. – David Apr 21 '13 at 2:32
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Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but is there documentation on the SEDE schema anywhere? As listed here, it's not obvious what all the fields are. I've had a root around, but can't find anything.
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The most up-to-date schema reference can be found here:
What is the structure of the public data dump?
I've got that question favourited on Meta and I use it constantly.
Note: the content in that question is sourced from the documentation included with the data dump download.
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great, thanks for that – Richard Nov 26 '10 at 11:32
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I am testing a webapp (.war) running in Jetty 7. For demo purposes I want to run this on a public URL, however I would like not to have the whole world (if they happen to come across the URL) be able to see it.
Is there a way to make Jetty require a basic-auth type of authentication when accessing the webapp (without modifying anything inside the war, i.e. no edits on the web.xml file)? Or if not the webapp, then any part of what Jetty provides at port 8080?
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Another easier way is to expose the Jetty webapp behind a reverse proxy like apache or nginx., and configure basic auth there. – Shyam Sundar C S Jun 26 '12 at 8:39
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I didn't really understand the DP measure, even though I've read about it 2 times.
Let's say I have an image it's resolution is: 400 X 400 PX.
And I want to put it as background image to my app. and I'm putting the same image on the different drawable folders(ldpi,mdpi,...)
Would the image strech? I don't know what resolution the image should be on the different drawable folders so it will fit the devices.
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yes it will stretch as per your layout design. – Padma Kumar Aug 31 '12 at 15:00
@PadmaKumar Can you please explain? I still don't understand how it really goes. – idish Aug 31 '12 at 15:02
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Your base density is mdpi. So your 400x400 dp image will be rendered as is on mdpi devices only. If you want the same size on ldpi, you have to scale your image by 0.75. For hdpi your image needs to be 1.5 times bigger and for xhdpi devices, 2.0 times the size of your mdpi.
As mdpi is your base, I always put drawables in res/drawable-mdpi folder while developing. Once I got code ready for release I add hdpi resources to res/drawables-hdpi. I personally do not care ldpi devices as mostly no device I target is lower density than mdpi and if anyone will have such, then I am fine with android framework doing the downscale. But the upscaling is other story - you will always get bad results (blurry images) as you simply cannot technically make bigger bitmap from smaller without artifacts (no, CSI lies ;) - you simply got not enough data so you have to extrapolate. So it's better to provide proper drawables yourself or your end users would complain and your app may look not as nice as it could.
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The idea is that the actual physical size of a displayed image will be different depending on the screen resolution.
On a mdpi device, screen density is about 1.5 dpi (dots per inch), which means that your 400px wide image will measure 2.5 inches.
If you want your image to be roughly the same size on a hdpi device (e.g 250 dpi), then you must provide a 625 pixel wide image (2.5*250). You shall put the image in the drawable-hdpi folder.
See this page for the description of the different densities.
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There are two important parameters which needs to taken cared when you are designing an app which
should run on multiple devices:
• size(physical size of the device)
• density of the device
Size: Size of a device in android is not defined as a unique physical value but as a range.
These are: small, normal, large and xlarge.
Density: Density is also defined as a range.
These are: ldpi, mdpi, hdpi and xhdpi.
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For handling size you need to use have multiple layouts, one for each category of the size and you need to use different dp value for the height and width of the views for each of the layout as the sizeof a small and a large device will not be same.
For handling density you need to using different drawables for different screen densities i.e you need to place different density drawables in different drawable folders.
These are the resolutions for a particular drawable
• 36x36 for low-density (placed in drawable-ldpi)
• 48x48 for medium-density (placed in drawable-mdpi)
• 72x72 for high-density (placed in drawable-hdpi)
• 96x96 for extra high-density (placed in drawable-xhdpi)
The ratio for this variation of the resolution is 3:4:6:8(ldpi:mdpi:hdpi:xhdpi)
For further reading you can refer to this android developer's link:
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I am running a local host web-server for MediaWiki (XAMPP).
By default, we must use upload extensions to upload images. These images are stored in the WIKI_HOME/images folder and some records are inserted in the database.
I use this wiki on a local machine and for myself only. I need the speed so I tried to copy an image to WIKI_HOME/images instead of uploading it using the upload extensions. But it does not show up in the wiki. Is there any way to do it?
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You can bulk upload images from the local server using the UploadLocal extension or the importImages.php script. You could set up importImages.php to run on a regular basis to import any images in a specific folder.
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In R, I create a data frame in a following way:
data <- data.frame(dummy=rep('dummy',10000))
data$number = 0
data$another = 1
When I run a for loop that assigns values to data frame (iterating through rows), my code runs infinitely slow
calculation <- function() {2}
somethingElse <- function() {3}
for (i in 1:10000) {
The above snippet runs in 20 seconds on my laptop. In other languages like C or Java, this finishes instantly. Why is it so slow in R? I remember reading that R stores matrices column by column (unlike C, for example, where it's row by row). But still, I'm puzzled about why it takes so much time. Shouldn't my data.frame fit comfortably in memory (eluding slow disk write behavior)?
As a continuation of my question, I'd like to ask for a quick way to fill my data frame by row, if there exists one.
EDIT: Please note that I'm not trying to assign constants 2 and 3 to my data frame, in the actual problem that I was trying to solve calculation() and somethingElse() are a bit more complicated and depend on another data frame. My question is about efficient insertion into data frame in a loop (and I'm also curious about why this is so slow).
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If you are unable to provide an example that actually matches your situation, no one will be able to help you. – joran May 23 '13 at 20:38
In the first snippet, I do initialize the data frame. If you do a str(data) after the first snippet, it is "10000 obs. of 3 variables". – Davor May 23 '13 at 20:42
Look, the short answer is that R isn't C, and so techniques that are fast in C may be slow in R. If I had to guess, the real solution to your problem would be to totally rethink how you're calculating the values being inserted. But we obviously can't help with that, because you've provided us no information on that topic. – joran May 23 '13 at 20:45
@joran I'm quite clear that R is not C. If you know why this is so slow, please elaborate in more detail. What kind of argument copying is taking place here? Why is reading from data frame in the same way fast, but writing is not (even though data frame is pre-allocated)? – Davor May 23 '13 at 21:09
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The answer is vectorization:
data[,2] = 2
data[,3] = 3
finishes instantly for me. For loops in interpreted languages like R are veeeeery slow. Performing this kind of operation by assigning a vector directly (i.e. vectorized) is much, much faster.
Programming in a new language requires a new mindset. Your approach breathes a compiled language, no need for the for loop.
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In my actual problem, I assign to this data frame something that I've calculated (from some other data). I know that I can assign all the same values using what you wrote above, but my values all different and I need to assign them one by one. – Davor May 23 '13 at 20:33
The for loop isn't slow, it's the copying induced by the assignment. – joran May 23 '13 at 20:35
@Davor if you want an accurate answer, please extend your example above. This answers the question you ask above, although this is not your real question. – Paul Hiemstra May 23 '13 at 20:39
I've edited my question so that it's more clear about what I'm actually asking. – Davor May 23 '13 at 20:52
As long as the result of calculation is vector of the length of data[,2], this will still work fine. – Paul Hiemstra May 23 '13 at 20:54
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How to change HTML-code of widgets? I tried to make some changes in sidebar.php but no result.
I'll be very grateful for any help.
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It's defined in your functions.php file. You can easily change it by passing in the correct options
if (function_exists('register_sidebar')) {
$opts = array(
'name' => 'IndexWidgets',
'before_widget' => '<div id="%1$s2" class="home_box %2$s">',
'before_title' => '<h2>',
'after_title' => '</h2><div class="home_box_body">'
This is the Wordpress codex link for reference : http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/register_sidebar
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I have implemented FBConnect into my iPhone App, and it works perfectly on the Simulator (v4.3). However, when I test the the same code on my iPhone (v4.3.3), it appears as though my Facebook Button now exits out of my application and opens the Facebook App. The Facebook App displays a page saying I have already authorized my app, and that I should press "Okay" to continue. At first I did not think this was necessarily indicative of a problem, but when I hit the Okay button, I am simply returned to my appViewController where I clicked on my Facebook Button in the beginning.
What I expected, and what occurs correctly in my simulator, is that a smaller Facebook subview window would appear in my application view after clicking the Facebook Button, and I would be given the option to publish to my Facebook Wall.
I should mention, that I have successfully been able to run the "DemoApp" (facebook-ios-sdk test program) on my iPhone. Also, my app does not crash and no errors are reported in my debugger console window.
Why am I experiencing such different results when running the application on my iPhone? Has anyone else experienced a similar problem? What can I do to fix it?
Thanks in advance, Jeremy
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Have you had a look at the "Authentication and Authorization" section at https://github.com/facebook/facebook-ios-sdk?
The difference between the simulator and your device is that your device has the Facebook app installed. If you didn't have the app installed, I'm guessing it would work perfectly because the authorization callbacks are handled directly within the app. However, with the Facebook app installed, after the user authenticates your app, the Facebook app "redirects" to your app using a URL handler.
It is your job to implement the correct URL handling code by setting up your plist property (which you appear to have done since your app relaunches after the Facebook app authorizes you), and also to respond correctly to the - (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application handleOpenURL:(NSURL *)url app delegate message. The details to implement this launch handler correctly should be listed in the link above.
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You are correct that if I uninstall the Facebook app from my device, that the program works as it did on the simulator. I also initially forgot about the URL handling method you mentioned above. However, after implementing the method in my Application's Delegate (see below), I still experience the same results (on sim and device)... What else could I be overlooking? I doubt this makes a difference, but I do have my facebook button as part of a Navigation Bar on a Flipside View. – JRoss Jun 1 '11 at 16:36
- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application handleOpenURL:(NSURL *)url { return [[flipsideViewController facebook] handleOpenURL:url]; } – JRoss Jun 1 '11 at 16:37
I am new to StackOverflow, and forgot to include your username so you would be notified. Thanks again for your help! – JRoss Jun 1 '11 at 16:44
I have asked a follow-up question after approving your answer: handleOpenURL Method Not Called – JRoss Jun 2 '11 at 15:43
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I've to develop a small website which is multi-lingual. This website is using an ERP database, so I cannot choose my database structure, ...
My application has the default language in the core.php, and I'm using I18N Through URL to specify which language I've to display
For every different language, I've a different table containing the description of products in the right language.
So I need to set the "$useTable" of cakePhp in the constructor to the right table. But to do this, I need to know the current locale of the application.
I tried several things:
• do a getInstance on the I18n class, but I've always "english" as "lang"
• doing a Configure::read('Config.language'), but this only displays me the default language of the cakePhp
• I tried to read the $GLOBALS['Dispatcher']->$params['language'] but if the user didn't specify any local, I don't get any
• I tried to import the Component Session and read the Config.language value(which I'm writing on the app_controller), but I seems that If I'm on a french page, I click on the link to display the page in german(all texts are in german now), but the value I receive here is still in french, if I refresh the page, I finally got German, but I need to get the value now, not on the next page reload
So I don't see how to retrieve this language, is there an hidden field containing this var, or anywhere I could retrieve this info?
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Could you add your code of your AppController, and an example controller you're working with? – Ivo Sep 27 '11 at 9:14
My controller is exactly the same than specified in my link. And I need to get the current locale in the model, not in the controller – J4N Sep 27 '11 at 9:38
You can specify the table in the controller: $this->$model->useTable = 'rus';, etc. Surely your controller AppController can't be exactly the same - you are writing a custom application, right? – Ivo Sep 27 '11 at 10:45
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I didn't found any easy way to retrieve this var, and because we are called before the _beforeFilter, I've to check parameter, session, cookies and default var.
So I created a method, I put it in my "Tools" component, and I import it in my model.
Here is the model if you're interessted:
function GetCurrentLocale(){
if(isset($GLOBALS['Dispatcher']->params['language'])) return $GLOBALS['Dispatcher']->params['language'];
if($this->Session->check('Config.language')) return $this->Session->read('Config.language');
if($this->Cookie->read('lang')!==false)return $this->Cookie->read('lang');
return Configure::read('Config.language');
And I'm calling it like this:
$tools = new ToolsComponent();
$locale = $tools->GetCurrentLocale();
If someone find a best way, I will be strongly interessted to see how :)
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Behaviours are best to add to models: book.cakephp.org/view/1071/Behaviors – Ivo Sep 27 '11 at 10:46
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Are any other bear or warrior tanks having issues with rage generation in the new patch? I've been playing with it a week now and rage generation seems very wacky now, as in sometimes I'll go through big chunks of a fight generating no rage and sometimes it'll just spike to full.
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You don't get rage from anything but mangle or auto attack crits now.
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They just announced some rage gen buffs the other day, so come MoP it'll be a bit better.
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If you get a string of crits it'll fill your bar up pretty quickly. Other times the cd on mangle can seem awfully long.
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Step 1: Don't hit Maul at all
Step 2: Don't hit SD/FR at all
Step 3: Ensure you're autoattacking at all times
Step 4: Hit Mangle off CD
Step 5: Hit Enrage off CD
Step 6: Observe your Rage generation
Thing is you are likely hitting things all at once, missing Mangle, and using Maul too much and thus it feels as if you never have any Rage at all. Get used to how your Rage builds on a combat dummy, then start using SD/FR regularly to get a better sense of how it should look in a fight.
And stay away from Maul. Seriously don't use it until you're utterly comfortable with using SD/FR and with your Rage in general AND you're on a pretty trivial encounter.
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Im fairly new to web development and im really loving the Spun theme, it has a great potential from my point of view. my site is http://www.svidlak.com/wordpress
I have several questions:
1. After pressing the circle in the image I want the image to be larger and centered in the middle of the page, how do I do that? I cropped the image 180 x 180 (or 170 x 170 can't really remember).
2. As I put the mouse pointer on the image it shows me the image title (which is <img src...>) how can I hide that? or put an alternative text?
Thank you :)
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1. Could you link to a website that does this already for illustration of what you want?
2. Edit the image in your media library and remove any HTML "img" elements that are there.
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Lastly, make sure your orchids don't need repotting. Many common orchid mixes last a couple of years before they start to break down. When they do and they start to look like soil, they're bad for your orchid. If this is the case, repotting it in fresh bark should help a lot.
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More than 100 cats were rescued from Dolores Metcalf's Kansas City, Mo., home last week. Photo by Allison Long, <em>Kansas City Star</em>
I have a confession to make, and it's kind of an embarrassing one.
I have a sick fascination with train-wreck "reality" shows like Hoarders. If I had cable TV, I'd probably watch Animal Planet's Confessions: Animal Hoarding series, too.
Although watching shows like this probably means I have a few screws loose, I have to say that Hoarders and other similar series do make it clear just how sad and sick hoarders are. The animal hoarders are the saddest of all because they're not only harming themselves, they're also harming helpless creatures. These people's sense of reality is so distorted that they honestly believe they're doing the right thing, their living conditions are okay (or maybe " a little messy"), and that nobody else could give the animals the love and care that they can.
So when I heard about the removal of 120 live cats and 50 or so dead ones from Dolores Metcalf's home in Kansas City, Missouri, my heart broke not only for the cats living in such wretched conditions but for Metcalf, too.
It's easy to get outraged over what seems like a case of deliberate animal cruelty and willful ignorance and inaction by authorities — especially when you find out that this isn't the first time Metcalf has been busted for hoarding. In 2002, 94 cats, four dogs, a rabbit, and a ferret were removed from her trailer home.
What happened? How was Metcalf able to do this again? Back then, hoarding wasn't recognized as a mental illness, and authorities didn't realize that seizing her animals would not stop the hoarding behavior. In fact, involuntary seizure tends to make hoarders even more desperate and more secretive about their actions.
All you have to do is talk to Metcalf to find out just how much of a sickness hoarding is. In an interview with KCTV News, she said she knows animal control will kill all her cats, that they are her pets, and they're crazy about her.
If Metcalf is like most hoarders, I bet she never even saw half the cats that were living in her home.
And what did she say about the dead cats in the deep-freeze, each of which was wrapped in plastic and labeled with its name? She plans to bury them and have little monuments made for them, but "caskets are expensive."
A hoarder's perspective is just as twisted as that of someone deep in the throes of drug or alcohol addiction.
These people don't need to be shamed; they need to be helped. Unfortunately, hoarders almost always refuse professional help because they see themselves as the saviors of the animals they hoard, the victims of a heartless establishment that wants all of their "beloved pets" to be killed.
Why would hoarders even let neighbors, let alone a therapist, into their lives when they hold this belief so deeply?
With all this in mind, what can we do to prevent hoarding? What do we do to stop hoarders before their animal population gets completely out of control?
If I could suggest just one thing, it would be to have compassion. Hoarders are sick, not evil. I know it's easier said than done when you're crying as you watch cat after sick and dying cat being removed from a hoarder's home.
Have you ever discovered an animal hoarder or worked to rescue hoarded animals? Do you know of any treatment or intervention that's been successful and helped hoarders break free of their disease? What do you think?
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The Obama campaign
Slow and steady…
Building support one volunteer at a time
See article
Readers' comments
WBarkalow in reply to tmbass
Pretty sure you're underestimating how many volunteers Obama's getting. The Economist wouldn't bother to report on this if it was really such a small operation. The 15 members per legislative district -- of which each state has several -- are simply the more "full-time" volunteers for the campaign. Ad hoc volunteers probably number in the tens of thousands already, with more and more to come as the election nears.
WBarkalow in reply to Brian Pelican
When I said I didn't get a cent I was talking about government aid. I don't receive money from the government under any welfare measures. Paid volunteers also no receive government money as campaign funds are separate from government funds. I'm glad you've the boldness to be mean on the internet without bothering to make sure your insults don't apply more aptly to yourself, however.
It's sad you've bought into the notion that welfare is for people who are lazy or don't want to work. I won't deny that there are people on welfare who scam the system and steal money from us, the taxpayers. But consider the fact that many people living under the poverty line and, thus, not paying income taxes, still pay a higher percentage of their income in taxes than the wealthiest people in this country (due to things like sales tax and the like). I have no problem helping these people pay their bills and feed their families with government money.
I'll say again, I would rather one person scam the system than a thousand people go without basic necessities. Reforms are needed, but scrapping the entire system is a terrible idea.
I won't bother responding to your more emotional attacks because, quite frankly, I know you won't listen. I'm writing these responses simply so that someone reading your comment doesn't get the mistaken idea that you know what you're talking about.
WBarkalow in reply to Brian Pelican
The POTUS is our Commander in Chief. Which is to say, he is the top military leader in the country. And I'd imagine he gets his information from the people who you think should just make the decision on their own. Personally, I'm glad we have a civilian controlled army.
Obama has tried to create an environment for job growth. He is doing this alongside an effort to increase regulations so that things like the LIBOR scandal don't keep happening. It is, of course, complicated by the fact that he has to deal with a Congress full of people who are voting down every proposal he gives them -- even ones they themselves originally created years ago -- simply because of their source. This is governing with politics in mind and it is horrendous for our country.
And, yes, I didn't mention Guantanamo. That's because we weren't talking about Guantanamo or even the detention of terrorist subjects. I also didn't mention McCarthyism, the Higgs Boson or my grandmother's maiden name. That said, my opinion on Guantanamo is that Obama should have found a way to close it down or make it more transparent. To his credit, he did make some early efforts to move detainees to continental jails and give civilian trials. However, he couldn't order states to take detainees and few states were willing to shoulder the potential security problems. This is, however, a black mark on his record.
Your notion that American lives are more valuable than the lives of people who don't live in this country horrifies me. I don't know how you defend this idea to yourself, but I can only imagine it takes quite a bit of work.
Brian Pelican in reply to Bardejov
Labor participation rate at the end of the Bush administration - 65.75
June 2012 labor participation rate - 63.8%
A drop of $2.9 million people who are now out of work and become discouraged and left the jobs market.
The real picture of the Obama administration's most serious failure.
Try and blame the steady decline provide in the attached article throughout Obama's term on Bush? I know Obama would have a go.
francisbjohn in reply to Bardejov
You would disregard all the job losses in 2009? Why? If a president doesn't own the economy from his inauguration then when does responsibility start?
I always see you lefties trying to twist things with little accounting tricks, but not counting periods of poor performance doesn't change reality. People who can and cannot find work will be the ultimate arbiters of Obama's job performance.
So in short, while your comment was mildly interesting, it is factually disingenuous and unsupportable by reality.
NathanWH in reply to Plain Speak
What a great choice of sources! It is clearly free of any bias or agenda...
I am afraid your fringe blog post doesn't refute what I wrote, because it's about something entirely different. The blog post is about the debt ceiling; not yearly spending increases, which is what I'm talking about.
According to the Wall Street Journal, "Federal spending is rising at the slowest pace since Dwight Eisenhower brought the Korean War to an end in the 1950s...Over Obama’s four budget years, federal spending is on track to rise from $3.52 trillion to $3.58 trillion, an annualized increase of just 0.4%." Check it out for yourself.
That means when I wrote "...spending has increased very little," I was right. Yes, it's an increase in spending, but it's also the smallest increase in 60 years. None of your golden Republicans have done better.
Plain Speak
Here is my response to Barkalow's post.
You say I blame Obama for the deeds done by bankers? I suggest you look to my post to see where I blamed Obama for what bankers did. You won't find it.
Why are Obama and his supporters constantly complaining about what other people or groups are "doing to him" to cause him to fail or misfire? Does he have no sense of personal responsibility? In the face of whatever hardships lie in his way? Without whining endlessly about how tough the world is to him? Questions which need to be answered.
Presidents have typically been broad shouldered individuals, stoic and steely minded - people who, when presented with a challenge, roll their sleeves up and get on with it. Obama acts like a teenage pubescent female who whines when things don't go his way. And his supporters enable him. It is pathetic.
When Al Qaeda threw 9/11 at Bush after less than 8 months in office, did you hear him whining about what some group has done to him? Did you hear him point a finger at his predecessor, Clinton, who failed to take on Al Qaeda effectively when they repeatedly killed Americans during his terms in office; like the first bombing of the WTC, like the attack on the Cole, like the attacks on US embassies around the world, like the attack on Bali, etc etc.
Bush shook a steely fist at Al Qaeda at ground zero and got on with it, dragging democrats kicking and screaming at the promulgation of the Patriot Act and the Homeland Security Act, at Guantanamo (which, after much screaming about how vile a place it was during the 2008 campaign, still exists 3.5 years later), took out Saddam Hussein, a really bad actor in the ME, went after Bin Laden in Afghanistan (which democrats roundly criticized, but still continue).
The dance of the blameless Obama and his whining sycophants continues. It won't work with the American people, you know. Unless their character has changed more than I am aware.
You complain that republicans shut down Obama's spending when they took the House in 2010. Thank God, republicans shut down Obama's wild and reckless spending! Tt was what the American public wanted and then voted for.
After the expenditure of a trillion dollars funded by Chinese debt on crony run Solyndra, which went quickly went belly up after digesting $500M of our money, countless other useless "green" projects run by supporters of the Democrat party, and non-shovel ready projects where the funds just ended up being spent on administration. Productive Americans work too damned hard to have their government squander their tax money!
The self serving $5 trillion debt article that you provide seeks to blame Bush for most of the money spent by Obama. Firstly the article reaches back to 2001, when in reality the $5T was spent totally during the Obama 3.5 year term. Google, and add up the increases in the Debt Ceiling since January 2009.
Firstly, the article you provide attributes $1.8T of that as being related to the Bush tax cuts. For God's sake, democrats had majorities in both houses of congress for the first two years and an effective super majority in the Senate, why didn't they eliminate the tax cuts if that was what they wanted. The truthful answer is they didn't have the guts.
It attributes $0.8T to the two wars. Well, if the war in Afghanistan was such a waste of money, why did they not shut it down as soon as they could? But no, it continues to this day. They didn't have the guts, you say?
In short, if there was any spending amounts that democrats claim were Bush instigated, why did they not shut them down as soon as possible. Lack of guts to face the political music is the answer.
The Solyndra debacle was not just a poor decision, but a scandal, if you please. Here is a true rendition of the scandal from Obama's backyard - Chicago.
You don't want to talk about Guantanamo? And I can see why. Democrats and their sycophants have pulled the covers over Guantanamo completely and mainstream new networks, which are all in Obama's pocket, except for Fox, don't talk about it. Taboo.
Now if a republican president had pledged to close it and hadn't - well the issue would be front and center most days on the news channels. And democrats know that.
You say, I don't have any concern for American lives lost by their killings by drones? Well, Barkalow, that is exactly what your boy in the WH is doing - and democrats and the liberal media (which is most of it) are giving him a complete pass on that matter. I happen to agree with him on the use of drones, but that is about the sum of where I agree with him.
Plain Speak in reply to Josepetersen
"My name is Jose and my last name is as white as most of your racist friends would aspire to achieve, in case you haven't notice: Petersen."
Jose, you are a really silly boy. I suppose you have never heard of people having a Caucasian father and a Hispanic mother. Or is that too much to ask? And the word "notice" in your sentence should be "noticed". No charge.
"I am not an illegal alien, in case your blatant prejudice did not even care for asking about it first lol"
Firstly, Jose, putting a lol in your sentence does not elevate your comment.... at all. Did you really lol? Or was that just an affectation?
And secondly, Jose, indicate to me where my comment was prejudicial? Unless you mean my desire to stop people who illegally walk over our borders to make their first act in the United States a crime.
Let me correct your English, Jose. The "I am not an illegal alien,in case your blatant prejudice did not even care for asking about it first". It should rather be put "I am not an illegal alien, 'about which', 'in your prejudice', 'you did not ask'". Again, no charge.
It seems your Caucasian father did not have enough of an influence in your use of the English language.
Thirdly, Jose, please guide me to where I indicated that you were an illegal alien? I was referring to illegals crossing our borders, which it seems Hispanics who are legally in our country, support. Obama is insidiously trying to buy their votes to save his own job. He will not succeed. Americans at large are wise to his ruse.
Fourthly, Jose, your reference to "another child left behind or home-schooled in WV...." implies blatant prejudice. Or is it only Caucasians who can be prejudicial? Hispanics get a pass?
And fifthly, Jose, again your Spanglish shows. "the only part I do not guess is how someone like you enjoy reading a magazine that discusses politics and economics at levels that would seem unattainable for someone with your standards"
Let me help you write decent English. It should be "the only part I 'cannot' 'understand' is how someone like you 'would enjoy' reading a magazine 'which' 'covers'.......". Magazines, Jose, do not "discuss" anything. Again, no charge.
And, Jose, since you denigrate my education without any evidence whatsoever, which implies prejudice, I have a business undergraduate degree from Duke and a Master of Business Administration from Harvard. Before retiring early, I was CFO to a public company.
Tell me, Jose, about your education and work achievements.
NathanWH in reply to Plain Speak
Actually, Brian(s?), under President Obama spending has increased very little. In 2009, the last Bush budget, spending rose by 18%, and since then it has stayed largely flat. This at a time when the economy was in freefall, so nothing to sneeze at. But don't take my word for it!
Also, Republicans don't have the market for the truth cornered. Neither do Democrats only tell lies. It is beyond foolish to believe that one party is wholly comprised of truth-tellers, or that the other is full of rotten liars. Dems and Reps are just people, after all.
What I don't understand is why people can't accept that the other side cares just as much about America as does the other. Democrats are patriots and honestly think they're doing what's right for their country, just as are Republicans.
Plain Speak in reply to Dillya
"These issues were Not created by President Obama, but rather left for him (and the rest of us) to Clean Up."
Yeah, that reasoning apply also the the $5 trillion in debt that was run up during Obama's 3.5 year term. More than all the 43 presidents before him COMBINED. Still Bush?
Tell me, will Obama stop spending under Bush only when we give him a second term?
Just asking.
You have a nice day.
You can put your megaphone down now
Brian Pelican in reply to WBarkalow
I am well aware that the president is the CIC. However, he would be the first president I am aware of to personally handpick from a list the people he wants killed.
"He is doing this alongside an effort to increase regulations so that things like the LIBOR scandal don't keep happening." Does this president ever take responsibility for what happens under his watch without blaming something or someone else? It is pathetic. It is about time he sucked it up like a bog boy. And you are his enabler.
"It is, of course, complicated by the fact that he has to deal with a Congress full of people who are voting down every proposal he gives them". Besides the Obamacare legislation that he rammed through congress that is universally hated by most Americans, tell me what he achieved during the first two years of his administration when he had a super majority in the Senate and a significant filibuster proof majority in the House?
I am frankly tired of this whining by democrats about congress voting down his idiocies like his recent attempt to eliminate the welfare reforms that Clinton and Gingrich put in place in 1996. These welfare reforms require that recipients with their hands out, palms upwards, look for work during that time. Obama has seen it fit to try to allow them to do stuff like mowing their neighbor's lawns and take exercise classes, etc etc while getting their welfare. Of course these people who become dependent on the government paying their way will vote for the hand that feeds them. Which, of course, is Obama's motive.
"Obama has tried to create an environment for job growth". Doing what exactly? And don't tell me with government debt fueled spending on cronies like Solyndra which went belly up and other green projects that couldn't make it ever without a healthy dose of handouts at taxpayer's expense. Obama has created more debt ($5 trillion to be exact) in three and a half years than all the other 43 former presidents combined. Do you have any clue how we are going to pay that back - besides taxing wealthy Americans more - which would generate a mere $40 billion?
"This is governing with politics in mind and it is horrendous for our country." Now THAT made me laugh! You have the gumption to say that when your man has not had ONE MEETING with his jobs council over the past 6 months but has personally attended over one hundred fundraisers. The same man who now allows children of illegals to stay in the US regardless of their parent's status - and you don't think that, in an election year, is politically motivated???
"And, yes, I didn't mention Guantanamo". Yeah that subject I see is taboo among democrats. Total silence on it. So it is OK for us to talk about any other politics, is it? Of course when Obama was campaigning, he was going to close it instantly he was elected. But we haven't heard one thing about that, have we?
"Your notion that American lives are more valuable than the lives of people who don't live in this country horrifies me." I think you need classes with would help you with reading comprehension. Where did I say that? Because I said that water boarding was OK as long these people were thought to have valuable information on people who were plotting to kill Americans, this means that I think American lives are more important?
So tell me, the people and their families who Obama is killing by drone attacks - how about their lives - are they less important than American lives.
A shake of the head is in order.
i am a Chinese fan of yours,and have a question for u.in ur article,there is a sentence:before they know it,her targets have a new life built around Barack obama'sre-election drive.
I am wondering wether her targets means the "they"from "before they know",thank u very much.I look forward to ur reply. good luck.
John Mayberry in reply to Brian Pelican
Brian Pelican, The Wall Street Journal article among the first to report nearly 50% (48.5%, not over 50%) of the U.S. receive some government benefit can be found at http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2011/10/05/nearly-half-of-households-rece.... The article clearly states that this includes 14.5% of the population receiving Medicare, and nearly 16% receiving Social Security. So, yes, you are “talking about seniors.”
Furthermore, take a look at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Historical Table 8.5—“Outlays For Mandatory And Related Programs 1962–2017” (http//www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/Historicals) and you can easily see that government spending for food stamps (Food and Nutritional Assistance) starting going up sharply beginning in 2008. In both Fiscal Year (FY) 2006 and 2007 the outlays for food stamps were about $48 billion. However, by FY2008 outlays rose sharply to nearly $54 billion, and reached almost $72 billion by FY2009 (i.e. September 2009 – 8 months after Obama took office). That’s not to say food stamps haven’t gone up even further under Obama. As of FY2011 outlays for food stamps were well over $95 billion. But the upward trend due to the recession was clearly established well before the 2008 election. (Also, as a means-tested program, Obama didn’t ‘increase the rolls of recipients’; people without enough income to support their families applied for assistance. No action by the Government was needed, other than providing the benefit. Big difference).
A similar trend can be seen for unemployment. In FY2006 & 2007 unemployment outlays were about $31 & $32 billion, respectively. At the end of FY2008 (i.e. September 2008) they were up to $42 billion. Congress has extended unemployment benefits a couple of times (with the Republicans), and they peaked at over $157 billion in FY2010, but have since come back down somewhat to $117 billion at the end of FY2011.
The interesting thing is “welfare” (or Supplemental Income Security, as it’s called in the budget) went up during the recession, but not as much as you might expect. In FY2006 & 2007 outlays for welfare were $34 & $32 billion, respectively (a slight drop from their peak of $35 billion in FY2005). They increased to $38 billion in FY2008, and to $41 billion in FY2009. At the end of FY2011 welfare outlays were at $49 billion. Up quite a lot, but nothing like unemployment or food stamps.
Yes, congress could have decided then, as now, not to extend unemployment benefits. But this would certainly have swelled the food stamp and welfare programs even more. You can complain about the high unemployment, but stopping unemployment benefits won’t suddenly create new jobs. That’s a conundrum the whole country faces: How to care for those without jobs until the economy rebounds.
As for your article about welfare reform, if you read the waiver, rather than someone else’s interpretation, it says “HHS is encouraging states to consider new, more effective ways to meet the goals of TANF, particularly helping parents successfully prepare for, find, and retain employment.” (TANF is “Temporary Assistance to Needy Families”). That doesn’t say people on welfare don’t have to try to find jobs (in an economy with over 8% unemployment). It says the states are encouraged to try to find “move effective” ways of helping them find jobs. It also says the States must apply for the waiver and must submit an evaluation plan to determine what works and what doesn’t work. As I read it I see nothing to show that the Obama Administration is surreptitiously trying to gut Welfare Reform. It looks like a sensible attempt to continue to help get people off welfare in the midst of a bad job market. Thank You.
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In the past week, the station has broadcast live images of American air strikes and the destruction they caused, plus an exclusive and fiery statement by Osama bin Laden, who was seen on screen flanked by his top lieutenants, Ayman Zawahiri and Muhammad Atef. To provide the other point of view, it broadcast interviews with the UN's secretary-general and Britain's prime minister. “We are no longer just reporting news,” enthuses Mohamed Jasem al-Ali, the channel's jubilant managing director, “We are making it.”
Al Jazeera's good fortune is not just a matter of luck, although the costly decision made two years ago to open a Kabul office has helped. Since its launch in 1996 the network has established a reputation as the leading independent news source across the Arab world. Compared with the turgid offerings of the state-run channels that dominate Arab air waves, Al Jazeera's mixture of snappy graphics, punchy debates and aggressive reporting and interviewing is eye-catching and controversial.
By presenting raw, rather than predigested content, the channel has undoubtedly contributed to the emotion-charged attitudes that increasingly characterise the Arab public's response to events. This has attracted critics as well as admirers. Arab governments have chafed at being shown in an unfamiliar, often unflattering light. The most recent complaints come from Washington, where officials say there is bias in Al Jazeera's reporting of its campaign against terrorism.
It is true that its reporters are sometimes guilty of over-exuberance. For example, they are inclined to claim that one telegenic student demonstration is representative of a whole country's “street opinion”. Even Al Jazeera's supporters say that its success with audiences has caused a strident and highly politicised tone to creep into some of its programming.
Yet Al Jazeera bridles at suggestions that it should soften its approach. During the Gulf war, notes Mr al-Ali, some westerners dubbed CNN the Voice of Baghdad. Rather than being accused of siding with the Taliban, he says, Al Jazeera should be praised for its determination to present opposing views. Arab media-watchers agree that the channel tries to give equal time to western opinion. Whatever “spin” there may be, they say, is simply due to the cultural attitudes of Al Jazeera's 500 employees, whose diverse national backgrounds make up a reasonable cross-section of middle-class Arab opinion.
Luckily for Al Jazeera, its backers include the ruler of Qatar, the tiny Gulf emirate where the network is based. His government started the channel with a $130m loan, which will soon come due for repayment (given its current run of luck, giving the money back should be a cinch). The network's annual budget is a modest $30m. By contrast, the budget for Egypt's bloated state television tops $1 billion. Which may explain why Egypt's president, touring Al Jazeera's one-storey headquarters, was heard to remark to his minister of information, “All that noise comes from this little matchbox?” | http://www.economist.com/node/814185 | dclm-gs1-199110000 |
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Genesis had one of the stranger career arcs of any '70s band. Starting as one of the artiest art-rock bands of the time, they evolved into superstars in the '80s after Phil Collins took over lead-singing duties from Peter Gabriel. This documentary consists of interviews with various band members and people who worked with the band. They discuss the group's unique history and offer opinions on the best Genesis recordings and songs. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi | http://www.flixster.com/movie/genesis-the-genesis-songbook/ | dclm-gs1-199160000 |
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#11LessthancaringPosted 7/15/2011 6:42:06 AM
With planes and buses having free wi-fi now and some buses even having electrical outlets, this will be a very nice thing for some people. Finally a reason to justify Greyhound's ridiculous prices ...
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#12toma13Posted 7/15/2011 6:44:25 AM
They had wifi on the bus when I was taking a nearly two hour bus ride the other day. It would have been nice to have Netflix then I guess.
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#14vidalmoraza(Topic Creator)Posted 7/15/2011 8:38:41 AM
Zakuroo posted...
Yes..but the question remains..why would you want to?..Where are you going to be with a strong wireless signal for 2 hours straight?
An Airport? @_@
Hotels, family homes, work, bathroom, there are many places to use it....
When I travel, we usually just bring one laptop or netbook, and we are 5, so having the 3DS with netflix while other people use the laptop is great....
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0.049966 | <urn:uuid:0c7ded1e-c53d-4f13-ab65-c17b0d6f1ede> | en | 0.820681 | Grateful Web - coated en The Contribution: -- 'Which Way World' <p>When members of <b>New Monsoon</b>, <b>Railroad Earth</b> and <b>String Cheese Incident</b> come together to create an album the result is Roostsy Americana bliss. <b>Contribution</b>, an appropriate name for a group whose members have bestowed many a musical gift to the masses with their previous bands, will drop <i>Which Way World</i> on March 30.</p> <p></p> <p><img src="" mce_src="/images/stories/madison_house_pr/which_way_world.jpg" alt="" title="The Contribution: Which Way World" class="caption" width="318" align="right" height="283" />An album bursting with country gumption and raw poetic flare, this debut showcases the artistic veracity and harmonious nature of some of the best musicians on today’s jam circuit. A balanced blend of old-time charm and aggressive string-heavy muscle, this collaborative effort exemplifies the razor-sharp skills of <b>Tim Carbone</b> (violin, vocals Railroad Earth), <b>Jeff Miller</b> (guitar, mandolin, vocals, New Monsoon), <b>Phil Ferlino</b> (keyboards, New Monsoon), <b>Keith Moseley</b> (bassist, the String Cheese Incident), and <b>Jason Hann</b> (percussion, the String Cheese Incident).</p> <p></p> <p>From the initial notes, “Come Around” takes off like a tumbleweed in a dust storm, moving with force, freely charting out its own territory in a sandy soundscape of earnest handclaps, vocal harmonies and a fierce web of strings. Chameleon-like in nature, this opening track captures both a mischievous apathetic side and one of comforted hope. The dichotomous lyrics of “Never mind/never mind/why?” and “Sometimes you gotta lose yourself/find yourself/come around again” play out like a fencing match of internal conflict. The track rounds things off with a whiskey soaked “I don’t care!” from <b>Carbone</b>.</p> <p></p> <p>“Time Was Only Yesterday” initially breathes saloon-singer vulnerability, and holds that vintage desire to relive the past. Unexpectedly, lyrics about a “carnival parade” are quickly met by a collage of festive circus-esque clamor. The colossal racket is spiked with the scream of brassy horns and faded shouts you would imagine escaping from the lips of a vagabond ringleader.</p> <p></p> <p>“Better Days” proves to be one of the most lyrically poignant tracks on the album. The need for nostalgia, once again, resurfaces. While it gets off to a mellow start, the harmonized sturdy chorus of ‘Gone gone away are better days,’ which culminates with the tinge of tambourine, stands out like a mighty oak left upright after a forest fire.</p> <p></p> <p>Brilliance isn’t limited to the instrumentals when you stop to absorb the momentous metaphors and similes just swimming around in the ocean of sound – “Couldn’t see the danger there/ like children scaling rocks beside the sea…”</p> <p></p> <p><img src="" mce_src="/images/stories/kalene/mosley_contribution_rothbury.jpg" alt="" title="Keith Moseley" class="caption" width="293" align="left" height="340" />“Fear of Nothing” hits the listener like a sun shower on a sweltering day. Cool, refreshing and unapologetic, it reigns down with honky tonk tenacity. The upbeat, electrifying piano-laden, tune exudes a sense of rock n’ roll, gospel and blues. Sprinkling a ferocious feminine energy to the mix, are the <b>Black Swan Singers</b> who come equipped with fierce pipes—strong enough to stir a corpse. By far the most danceable tune on the disc, it resembles a hybrid of <b>Great America Taxi</b> meets the <b>Black Crowes</b>.</p> <p></p> <p>‘Wind Me Up’ is more spoken then sung and comes across like a sincere monologue of someone who has grown tired of, but accustomed to, going through the motions. The accompaniments and vocals are reminiscent of something quirky country alt-rockers <b>Wilco </b>would create.</p> <p></p> <p>“Which Way World,” the title track of the album, captures a <b>Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young</b> vibe and yet at times it sounds more like a top ten contemporary country radio hit. Slow, steady and straight up Zenful, it’s a letter to our spinning sphere inquiring bout the very nature of its direction.</p> <p></p> <p>“Samsara” opens with piano playing that is rapidly coated by the lush emotion-evoking violin, proving that there is nothing like strings to set a melancholic mood. Capturing a rather dark tone, it sounds like a Celtic pagan homage to the earth— “I am the sky/speak through the wind/I am a shadow/darkness within...”</p> <p></p> <p>Let the musical monsoon of earthy cheese-coated goodness splash full force in a downpour that will have you tossing the umbrella and caution to the wind.</p> <div class="og_rss_groups"></div><p><a href="" target="_blank">read more</a></p> album Artists captures carbone cheese coated country force hit incident monsoon nature set sounds string The Contribution track tune violin vocals world Sat, 27 Mar 2010 12:29:12 +0000 kalene 2408 at | http://www.gratefulweb.com/taxonomy/term/4860/0/feed | dclm-gs1-199270000 |
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