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Sage Of 6 Paths
(大筒木ハゴロモ, Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo)
Manga Chapter #373
Anime Naruto Shippūden Episode #128
Movie Naruto 5: Blood Prison (Mentioned)
Game Naruto Shippūden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2
Appears in Anime, Manga, Game and Movie
Voice Actors
Gender Gender Male Male
Status Deceased
• Part II: 181 cm1.81 m
5.938 ft
71.26 in
Kekkei Genkai
Tailed Beast Shinju (Forms)
• Priest
Nature Type
Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki (大筒木ハゴロモ, Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo), known to the world at large as the Sage of the Six Paths (六道仙人, Rikudō Sennin), was a legendary god-like figure who founded the arts of ninjutsu and created the ninja world. He was the son of Princess Kaguya Ōtsutsuki and the first human to be born with chakra. He defeated the Ten-Tails in battle and sealed the beast within his own body, thus becoming the very first jinchūriki in history.
Kaguya and son
Hagoromo as an infant with his mother.
Hagoromo was born to Kaguya Ōtsutsuki, a princess who ate the forbidden fruit of the Shinju that appeared once a millennium in an effort to gain god-like abilities to put an end to the constant wars during that era. As a result, Hagoromo was born with the ability to manipulate the same type of powerful chakra like his mother. The Shinju, furious with Kaguya's actions, was determined to get its chakra back, which caused the tree to assume a monstrous form of what many christened as the Ten-Tails.
The Ten-Tails rampaged throughout the lands until Hagoromo managed to single-handedly defeat the beast by becoming its jinchūriki, and became revered as a god for the virtue of his victory. According to Jiraiya, with his knowledge of the concept of chakra, the Sage travelled across the land, spreading his ideals and religion, the Shinobi Sect (忍宗, Ninshū), which eventually came to be known as ninjutsu. His great deeds and ultimate desire to bring peace to the war-torn world made him widely known as the Saviour of this World (この世の救世主, Kono Yo no Kyūseishu).[4][5]
Young Biju
Hagoromo with the young tailed beasts.
However, knowing that his death would unleash the Ten-Tails back into the world to continue its rampage and reclaim the chakra that humanity now possesses, Hagoromo separated the monster's chakra from its body before using Chibaku Tensei to seal the husk in what would become the moon.[6][7] From there, he used his Creation of All Things ability to divide the chakra into nine fragments that are each given a physical form and name. Some time after their creation, the young tailed beasts were told that they were all still linked to one another despite being separate entities. Hagoromo also told them that would eventually become one again, yet not as they originally were, and that one shall appear at that time to show them what true power is.[8]
Hagoromo's ultimate wish was to establish peace across the world, but it was a goal that would never be achieved in a single lifetime. Knowing this, he chose to entrust his strength, dream, and legacy to his two sons. The older son, who inherited his "eyes" (his powerful chakra and spiritual energy), believed that power was the true key to peace. The younger son, who inherited his "body" (his powerful life force and physical energy), believed that love was the true key to peace. On his deathbed, Hagoromo chose his younger son to be his successor. Overcome by bitterness and envy, the older son fought against his brother, beginning a war between them. Their feud has continued on through their descendants: the Senju clan and the Uchiha clan.[6][7]
Rikudo Sennin's back
Hagoromo as seen from behind.
Although initially depicted as a silhouette, several details about Hagoromo's appearance can be inferred. He had a long beard and short light-coloured shaggy hair that spiked up in the front with two distinctive parts of his hair resembling horns. He wore a white full-length cloak (haori) with a high collar, revealing his necklace with six red magatama. These symbols were later mimicked by Nagato's Deva Path, and the seal around the neck of Naruto Uzumaki's and Minato Namikaze's Nine-Tails Chakra Modes and Tailed Beast Modes. On the back of his cloak was a reflection of a seal which had the Rinnegan with nine magatama (both red in the anime) in three rows beneath it, much like the seal which appeared on Obito Uchiha's back after he became the Ten-Tails' jinchūriki.[10] In one appearance where his face was partially visible, he was in an elderly state.[11]
Babutsu Sozo
Hagoromo using Creation of All Things.
Though not a great deal is known about all the skills Hagoromo possessed, he is widely accepted to be the most powerful figure in history, having single-handedly defeated the Ten-Tails: a being that was revered as a god, causing the Sage himself to be seen as a god. Hagoromo was also revered as the man to first understand the very nature of chakra itself. This wisdom, combined with his kekkei genkai, the Rinnegan, allowed Hagoromo to create the first modern ninjutsu. With such powers at his disposal, Hagoromo obtained a great following, as men and women from across the world strove to learn from his teachings.
Jinchūriki Transformation
Hagoromo developed the first technique capable of sealing a tailed beast inside a human body, making himself the very first jinchūriki in history. Having the Ten-Tails' great power contained within him, Hagoromo developed immeasurable power and chakra that far surpassed all others, allowing him to be renowned for possessing the Treasured Tools of the Sage of the Six Paths, which are tools that require a vast reservoir of chakra which would quickly kill any normal human in order to be used. Even on his deathbed, Hagoromo was able to employ his Chibaku Tensei technique on a massive scale and use that chakra to create the moon to seal the body of the Ten-Tails within it, a clear testament to his incredible power.
Hagoromo is revered as one of the most legendary figures in the ninja world, powerful enough to create the moon using Chibaku Tensei, while on his deathbed. Using fūinjutsu he was able to first seal the Ten-Tails into his own body, and was later able to seal it into the moon when his life came to an end.
Yin–Yang Release
By using the Yin chakra, that comes from the spiritual energy, and the Yang chakra, that comes from the physical energy, he had the ability to create form from nothingness with a mere thought to bring it to life. Hagoromo created the nine tailed beasts from the Ten-Tails' chakra by using this ability.[7]
Hagoromo was shown carrying two objects. One was what appeared to be a katana, implying that he was skilled in kenjutsu, whilst the other was a shakujō — a Buddhist ringed staff which is meant to be used in prayer.[12]
Hagoromo also made use of a holy sword known as the Sword of Nunoboko, which he reportedly used to create the world.[13]
Treasured Tools
Hagoromo wielded unique tools which became known as the Treasured Tools of the Sage of the Six Paths, each of which possess a unique and powerful ability. The five treasures are: the Bashōsen, Benihisago, Kōkinjō, Shichiseiken, and the Kohaku no Jōhei. By combining the Benihisago, Kōkinjō, and Shichiseiken, Hagoromo could capture the word soul of his victims, and then draw them into the gourd to seal them away. With the Bashōsen, he could generate any of the five basic elements. The Kohaku no Jōhei allowed him to seal anyone without the elaborate procedures used for the Benihisago.
Hagoromo was believed to have been the only shinobi to have fully mastered the Rinnegan, and also learned to control all five types of nature chakra. As a wielder of the Rinnegan, he also wielded all the abilities of the Six Paths Technique.[14]
It is impossible to overestimate Hagoromo's effect on the course of the ninja world's development. As the first true ninja, he created the ninja world, revolutionised it, and left it forever changed. As his disciples grew continuously greater in number, it led to the creation of ninja clans, and later, ninja villages.
Before he died, Hagoromo told the young tailed beasts that someone would come and lead them on the right path. The tailed beasts would all later come to agree that this person is Naruto Uzumaki.[21]
• 'Hagoromo' (羽衣) literally means 'feather mantle' and is a reference to The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, in which Princess Kaguya is given a hagoromo to wear upon her return to the moon. The surname 'Ōtsutsuki' (大筒木) roughly means 'big bamboo tree' and is derived from an obscure passage in the second volume of the Kojiki about the genealogies of Emperor Suinin, eleventh emperor of Japan, which states that he had a consort named Kaguyahime no Mikoto (迦具夜比売命), the daughter of a king named Ōtsutsukitarine no Miko (大筒木垂根王); tradition holds that these individuals served as the basis for Princess Kaguya and the old bamboo cutter in the aforementioned tale.
• The horn-like tufts of Hagoromo's hair may in fact symbolise rabbit ears, representing his connection to the moon by evoking the moon rabbit; pop culture depictions of Princess Kaguya and the moon-folk often incorporate features like rabbit ears for this reason.
• Due to the Gold and Silver Brothers' ability to assimilate Kurama's chakra by eating some of its flesh, the Fourth Raikage suspected them to be distantly related to Hagoromo.[22]
1. Naruto chapter 646, page 8
2. Naruto chapter 373, page 3
3. Naruto chapter 446, page 10
4. Naruto chapter 373, page 3
5. Naruto chapter 446, pages 9-10
6. 6.0 6.1 Naruto chapter 467, pages 14-17
7. 7.0 7.1 7.2 Naruto chapter 510, pages 11-12
8. 8.0 8.1 Naruto chapter 572, pages 12-13
9. Naruto chapter 467, page 12
10. Naruto chapter 638, page 5
11. Naruto chapter 572, page 13
12. Naruto chapter 467, page 14
13. Naruto chapter 651, pages 4-5
14. Naruto chapter 551, page 10
15. 15.0 15.1 15.2 Naruto chapter 606, page 13
16. 16.0 16.1 Naruto chapter 446, page 10
17. Naruto chapter 439, page 8
18. Naruto chapter 462, page 11
19. Naruto chapter 499, page 15
20. Naruto chapter 568, page 10
21. Naruto chapter 572, pages 12-15
22. Naruto chapter 529, page 4
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Apple's upcoming iPhone OS 3.0 brings many innovations, however the convoluted settings menus that control annoying beeps and buzzes leave much to be desired.
Apple is well known for its simplicity, but the upcoming version of the iPhone's system software is exhibiting usability weaknesses that companies like Nokia solved years ago.
Earlier this week, as part of the ramp-up towards releasing this software to the public, Apple began running a stress test of push notifications--the hallmark feature of the new operating system. This system sends notifications to your phone whenever there's an update from an application, even when it's not running.
To manage the onslaught of notifications from each application, Apple added a new menu that lets users manage push notification settings for each application, as well as providing a quick switch to turn them all on or off. While handy, this introduces an annoying problem for business users that Nokia solved a decade ago by providing a quick way to toggle multiple settings without the hassle of menu hopping.
User sound profiles, something that Nokia has had in its phones for over a decade, do just that. These let you change multiple settings on the device with just two button presses, and include things like ringer volume, vibration, keyboard tones, and control over how much attention each type of alert can get.
The best part is, you can switch between these profiles by quickly tapping the power button and choosing from a pop-up menu. You're also able to make your own custom profiles with settings you choose. There's even the option to have them automatically turn on and off during certain times of day, so you can have it switch to silent after 10 p.m. so it won't wake you or your significant other up when you're trying to go to sleep.
On the iPhone, you have one profile, and one profile only. Even if you turn the ringer sound off by flipping the volume silencer switch, you will still receive alerts and vibrations for incoming calls, e-mails, text messages, etc. Worse, with iPhone OS 3.0, Apple has embedded some of the options to turn these things on and off a little deeper than they were in version 2.0.
The new notification settings now live where the e-mail push notification used to reside. That menu has been pushed ever deeper into the mail settings, which means that to tweak things like how often it fetches e-mail and pops up with calendar items and invitations, you have to dive three settings menus deep (not including the two or more actions required to wake and unlock the phone and get to the settings menu).
A small tweak to Apple's handling of e-mail fetching has a big effect on usability for business users.
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So here's my problem with all this: when I start my work day I want to turn all this stuff back on after having to have turned it off so I wouldn't hear a buzz or have the screen light up every few minutes while I was asleep. I want it to get my work and Yahoo e-mail via push, and fetch all other mail every 15 minutes. I want to flip the push notifications back on, too. Now I have to go through two different settings menus, flipping each one of those things on, when there really should be one where I can manage both.
Even better would be a system similar to Nokia's where I can set up the phone to do these activities at certain times of the day, just like I'm able to set up with timed alarms. Or how about making use of these $30 and $50 plastic charging docks by having the phone automatically switch to certain settings when it's in a particular dock. Heck, that would make me want to buy one for work and home.
What really surprises me about this is that Apple's CEO Steve Jobs has been a notorious stickler about the details in the software and hardware found inside the company's products. An anecdote about Jobs in Steven Levy's Perfect Thing: How the iPod Shuffles Commerce, Culture and Coolness, mentions that he badgered the engineering team of the original iPod repeatedly when he couldn't get to the song he wanted in a certain number of clicks, something which led to the original iPod's simplistic text menu structure.
Jobs wanted to get to a song in just three clicks. I just want to turn my e-mail and notifications on and off in less than nine.
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The SBsettings menu for jailbroken iPhones lets users quickly change settings for multiple apps and services.
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Just because Apple has not addressed this issue with its own software releases doesn't mean it hasn't been worked on by others.
A third party iPhone developer known as BigBoss solved half these problems eight months ago with an app for jailbroken iPhones called SBsettings. This is a menu that drops down when you slide your finger across the top of the iPhone, and provides quick on/off access to various features like 3G, Bluetooth, and the phone signal. The closest Apple's iPhone software gets to that is with the airplane mode, however that's an all or nothing solution, and still requires exiting whatever application you're in.
What's nice about SBsettings is that it follows you no matter what app you're using, which is exactly the kind of system-level control Apple needs to bake into a future firmware revision.
The company has already done this with some of the hardware buttons, and special software-controlled combinations like clicking on the home button twice to call up things like iPod controls, phone favorites, and soon the phone-wide search. But where it's really lacking is when you need to make a quick change in an app, and don't want to exit it to do it. This happens to me all the time when I need to hop over to a different Wi-Fi network, or am reading something in bed and want to turn the brightness down. It's just a pain to exit whatever I'm doing and dig through Apple's ever-growing settings menu.
In comparison, Google's more open approach on its Android mobile platform has led to a handful of genuinely useful apps that let you accomplish exactly the type of functionality I pined for earlier. One called Toggle is very similar to SBsettings, and puts most of your phone's antenna controls right in the status bar, so you can very quickly swipe your finger down and adjust Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, screen brightness, volume levels, and airplane mode. Like SBsettings it can be set up to be systemwide, which means its available whenever you need it, from any app you're using.
Another, called Locale can change a number of settings when you get within a certain geographical radius. I used this app to very quickly set up a radius for my work here at CNET in San Francisco and at my house over in the Oakland. When I get into either one of these two zones it can change things like screen brightness, ringtone, the wallpaper, and which phone antennas are turned on and off.
This innovation already exists, and it could make the iPhone OS that much easier to use. While Apple has often remained steadfast on keeping things overly simplistic to appeal to the masses (see the Mighty Mouse, buttonless Shuffle, one-input cinema LCD displays, et al) it's making the business of getting business done on the iPhone a more complicated affair.
Any business users who intend to use the iPhone for work and play have many things to look forward to with the upcoming iPhone OS 3.0 update, but juggling notifications, e-mail fetching, and other settings could add up to quite a headache.
Apple did not respond to calls or e-mails for comment on changes to these menus.
Update: Developer Mario Intelliborn pinged me to let me know about his MyProfiles app for jailbroken iPhones. It lets you do most of the things I'm talking about and more, including a way to make calls and notifications from certain parties get through. To use it you need to have a phone that's been jailbroken to allow for unsigned, third-party applications.
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Yesterday's French presidential election could affect the iShares MSCI France (EWQ) ETF. The two favored candidates are Nicolas Sarkozy, main center-right, and Segolene Royal, the Socialist.
Both candidates take approaches that are on different sides of the market spectrum, says Carl Delfeld of The victory of Mr. Sarkozy could begin a market rally whereas Ms.Royal may lead to market uncertainty. EWQ is up 8.5% this year, despite France's slow growth, high tax and high unemployment rate. Ten of the 50 largest companies in Europe are headquartered in France, but they rely on the global economy, not France, for profits.
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Growing up from a self absorbed teenager into a responsible young adult takes time. Add a baby to the mix and you are either forced to grow up fast or do as many do by running fast from the situation.
During the last Presidential election, the world was made aware that vice presidential candidate, Sarah Palin, was hiding the fact her daughter Bristol was pregnant. With the conservative beliefs that exist in the Republican Party, this sent everyone into a tizzy when the news was exposed to the public. Someone was having premarital sex and her mother was running for the second most important position in the United States Government.
As we later saw through mass media outlets, the Palin household was not very happy about all of this and especially not very happy with the father of Bristol's child, Levi Johnston. Levi basked in his new found fame; he posed for the risque magazine Playgirl and played around like any 19 year old guy would do. (They do... I'm just saying...) Sarah Palin stated in an Oprah Winfrey interview his, "aspiring porn" career was "heartbreaking." All the while, Bristol was at home playing mommy to Tripp and continuing to finish school.
During their recent custody plan for their 18-month old, something changed. Instead of arguing it seems the two began to fall back in love with each other. Doting over their son, the two rekindled the high school romance.
"I really thought it was over," Levi tells UsWeekly . "So when I went I had no hope. I think we both just started talking -and then we took Tripp for a walk."
Bristol continues, "When he left that night we didn't hug or kiss, but I was thinking how different it was. He texted me: "I miss you. I love you. I want to be with you again'... I was in shock."
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Comment: Incorrect (Score 4, Informative) 615
You might want to recheck that. The average nuclear warhead in the US arsenal is approximated to be 33,500 kilotons (slightly larger than the well known B41). For comparison, the nukes used in/on Japan were 15 and 21 kilotons. 33,500 kilotons is large enough to destroy/kill everything in a 55-60 mile diameter. It would take about 1000 of these to DIRECTLY kill everything in the United States. Factor in the indirect damage (nuclear poisoning, fallout, etc etc), and you could kill everyone in the United States with far far fewer. India (for example only), has 1/3rd the area of the United States. It would take probably 100 33.5 megaton nuclear bombs to kill everyone in an area equal to the size of India, and it would likely kill a couple hundred million of people not in that area.
That's completely false, most modern missile-based nukes are in the hundreds of kilotons, like 100-500 kt. 33.5 megatons is larger than the largest bomb we've ever had in service, the B53 at 9 megatons.
Comment: Re: education vs. learning (Score 3, Informative) 385
by riker1384 (#41710917) Attached to: How Do You Spot a Genius?
I've heard numerous variations of this by parents trying to justify why their precious snowflake doesn't do well in school. Usually it is the teacher's fault, and their child is just so much smarter than the other students. BS. If your child is so super intelligent that ordinary schoolwork bores them, they should be smart enough to breeze through the tests. They should just "play the game" while at school and do their own learning at home, or in additional enrichment programs (most are free for low income).
You aren't allowed to just breeze through the tests. You are also required to do hours and hours of repetitive, mind-numbing homework that is below your level and serves no useful purpose if you're smart enough to just listen to the lecture and then ace the test. If you don't do the busy-work, you receive a failing grade regardless of how well you do on the tests.
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Orome1 writes "The head of INTERPOL has emphasized the need for a globally verifiable electronic identity card (e-ID) system for migrant workers at an international forum on citizen ID projects, e-passports, and border control management. INTERPOL Secretary General Ronald K. Noble said: "At a time when global migration is reaching record levels, there is a need for governments to put in place systems at the national level that would permit the identity of migrants and their documents to be verified internationally via INTERPOL." Issuing migrant workers e-ID cards in a globally verifiable format will also reduce corruption and enable cardholders to be eligible for electronic remittance schemes that will foster greater economic development and prosperity in INTERPOL member countries."
Comment: Re:I KNOW! Ebert's point! It is bulshit. (Score 3, Informative) 436
by riker1384 (#35002772) Attached to: 3D Cinema Doesn't Work and Never Will
Most use stereo because we have 2 ears... and therefore only 2 channels are necessary for 3D sound. 5.1 is a gimmick. Stereo forever.
That's false. We only have 2 ears, but each of those ears can distinguish sound coming from many different directions because your head and earlobes alter the sound differently depending on where it comes from. You can only try to generate realistic soundfields with 2 channels if you use headphones. You can record sounds with microphones in the ears of a dummy head (binaural recording), or you can try to simulate these effects through headphones. Both of those methods have problems, including the fact that the sound stays the same when you turn your head.
By your reasoning, we should only need 2 pixels on a TV since we only have 2 eyes.
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Scientists Attach Bar Codes To Embryos 69
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Zothecula writes "Fans of the film Blade Runner may remember a scene in which the maker of an artificial snake is identified by a microscopic serial number on one of its scales. Well, in a rare case of present-day technology actually surpassing that predicted in a movie, we've now gone one better — bar codes on embryos. Scientists from Spain's Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), along with colleagues from the Spanish National Research Council, have successfully developed an identification system in which mouse embryos and oocytes (egg cells) are physically tagged with microscopic silicon bar code labels. They expect to try it out on human embryos and oocytes soon."
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I developed a web app for the iPhone which has a page with a textarea widget. When I begin editing the contents of this textarea widget Safari zooms in and makes the text really, really big. Now I can't see the document anymore, just a little postage stamp sized piece of it.
Are there any properties I can set which will keep mobile Safari from doint this? I just want the textarea font to stay the same size when I edit its text. Thanks.
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You can add:
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, minimum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no">
to your HTML header.
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This is fairly user hostile. Please do NOT prevent user zooming, either through maximum-scale=1.0 or user-scalable=no. – Alan H. Jun 2 '11 at 5:13
Though for websites I could agree, this is a valid tip for situations where you want to really prevent user zooming. I believe you cannot universally state that this is bad for UX. It depends on the situation. – Mosselman Jun 9 '13 at 9:40
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You would need to set your textarea font-size to 16px and have an initial-scale of 1.0.
But if your app is not really designed for the iPhone, that is, if it’s essentially a normal web page that users should be able to scale, then you should probably just become okay with it. The worst thing to do to your users is show them 6pt text they can’t zoom, you know? Some of them won’t have perfect vision.
See also: Apple's list of all Safari/iOS special meta tags.
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kitsune1977 11-14-2012 12:52 PM
Feed back on reputation skills.
While all the skills that you can get on the reputation system they made fore S7 are nice I noticed that both of them favor ground skills.
Omega forces you to pick 3 ground skills with it's layout, only leaving you able to pick up 2 space skills.
Romulan tree has only 4 space skills and the top tier favors science so heavily that except for 5 seconds of cloak it is useless to anyone but a science captain. Even then you can only get 2 of the lower ones.
Personally I think that each tier should give a choice of a ground or space skill and not force me to take useless skills that I will never use.
Side note 2 days to do starting missions is going to take forever to get anything done on the rep projects. I understand the time taken but should be shorter. 20 hours to match up with the dailies would be good at least that way we can make progress every day if we want and not have to wait 2 days before being able to make progress again.
Thank you for you time. Please leave comments but keep it civil.
Disclaimer: this isn't saying they did a bad job but rather that they could have done a much better job.
z69evermoon 11-14-2012 01:53 PM
I just dont like that you have to wait 1 day 19 hours to get your reputation points.
I been a Vice Admin since open Beta I have 5 million energy credits and 2.5 million expertise. So I can fill the requirements in 5 min then I have to wait a day and half to get the rep points.
That just seems broken.
bareel 11-14-2012 01:59 PM
Actually what bothers me the most is that they make you choose between one defensive skill and one offensive skill.
Some players will ALWAYS pick offense, others defense. It takes away a large part of the choice atleast to me as I will always pick offense.
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When I was in United States, one thing always puzzled me.
When we took comcast internet connection, comcast guys came over to our place, setup router etc, but they never had to lay any cables.
This made to think that unlike in India, in US houses are perhaps "planned" in the sense that telephone wires go underground or inside wall etc, basically invisible and comcast people just connect the routers with these ports on wall.
But this arose some more questions. who ownes these underneath running telephone wires? are they owned by government telephone companies and what if I took internet thru telephone by 2 different companies say comcast and verizon, how would it work? How will both companies use the same telephonic wires? In such case, do they lay separate cables?
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I like this question because it shows how easily people can increasingly make assumptions about ubiquitous technologies like the internet as vendors increasingly make it seem more like an appliance. The answers so far seem to be quite helpful in clearing up these misunderstandings, which I think could actually be interesting to many people who are curious about how these things work. – Randolf Richardson Jul 11 '11 at 9:19
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Telephone and cable lines go from the local office to a place in the building called the demarcation point. All that belongs to the company. From the demarcation point to the various outlets in the building is the problem of the property owner. Both cable Internet and DSL use the lines from the building to the local office.
Comcast uses the coaxial cable that your television service comes through, not the copper loop used by telephone service.
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so comcast has a tie-up with the building people who let comcast bring their cables till demarcation point? if tomorrow some other ISP want to be able to provide internet to end consumers, how will it work? they will bring their own cables till demarcation point? would separate lines for comcast and new ISP run from demarcation point to building outlets? but this is not possible, because these wires i think go under wall, so new cables can't be laid under wall - that would require reconstruction.. Correct me if the question itself is wrong. – p2pnode Jul 11 '11 at 9:46
Here in Germany the Deutsche Telekom (Deutsche Bundespost before that) owns the cables. They were owned by the state before. Other ISPs have to rent the cables though. This is completely different in the USA though... Where I lived for a while, they threw a completely new cable into the ground when we ordered a new internet provider ;D – sinni800 Jul 11 '11 at 10:31
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Generally, most broadband up to now has been able to use the copper wires that were laid by the phone company - and probably still owned by your phone company, but this can vary state to stae. The bits you don't see are are how the connections at the other end of that wire are set up.
There is enough bandwidth on these wires over short distances that you can share multiple services over them, but your bandwidth decreases the furtehr from your exchange you are.
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I want to start by stating that I don't have any issues that I'm trying to resolve other than a hypothesis. And I could RTFC, but there's a lot of filesystem code that I'd have to familiarize myself with ;)
I'm curious what would happen if I were to open a file and then unlink it in the filesystem (but still have the open handle). Then the system crashes.
Specifically: I'm curious as to whether the files inode will still indicate that it has references, but nothing in the filesystem points to it anymore, or whether it's up to the OS to know that it can't write to the space, but as far as the inode is concerned it's free.
Additionally, am I missing something else in here? Thanks :)
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After a system crash there will be one of two conditions: either the journal will be recovered or fsck will be run. Did you seen Clearing orphaned inode XXXXX messages it's printing on boot? This is exactly your case: an inode that is not referenced from anywhere in the filesystem.
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Cool, I didn't actually do this to myself - so I can't comment on the symptom. This sounds like what would happen in the orphan case and perfectly answers my question. Thanks :) – Tyler Szabo Jan 23 '10 at 1:54
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Krav Maga kneeing bag.
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“Ball kicks really hurt.”
~ Captain Obvious on Krav Maga
“Wooooaaa! I know Kung Jew!”
~ Neo on Krav Maga
Krav Maga is an ancient Israeli combat method, developed by Moses himself in commission of God. It is also known as "Jew-Jitsu" or "Kung Jew". It has been a veritable cornucopia of technical innovation, leading to such spinoffs as the Krav Maga adjustable bed, which was used by Krav Maga practitioners to soothe their aching backs after practice.
Moses and the Origins of Krav Maga
Exodus 4:20-18,7: One day, as Moses led his flock to Mount Horeb, he saw a bush burning without being consumed. When he turned aside to look more closely at the marvel, God, in the shape of a street thug, jumped out from the bush and attacked Moses with a knife in the oriental hold. Moses instinctively blocked the attack and counterattacked with many punches and kicks until God himself lay at the feet of Moses, groaning and holding his crotch. God slowly picked himself off the ground and uttered:
"Thou hast completed my first challenge, Moses. But for Christ's sake, go easy on the knees next time.
I charge you, Moses, son of AMRAAM, to complete what you have learned today, to seek out challenges wherever they may be found, and develop the 360 defense, the groin kick and the eye gouge. These things will be essential for the survival of the Israelites, and they shall kick much ass. Unto thee upon these stone scrolls I convey this heavenly end-user license agreement from which thou shalt derive legal right to operate schools, develop branded merchandise, sell sublicenses and transact other commercial activities as may be necessary and prudent for the development of this Hebrew manner of kicking much ass. You shall call this way of much asskicking, Krav Maga. And it will be good."
Thus, did God slowly limp back into the bush and disappear. Moses was later fined for starting a fire in the wilderness by the Egyptians. He later challenged the fine and performed a perfect body evasion and multiple counterattacks on the guard who attacked him with a spear for defying the Pharaoh's order.
When Moses grew to manhood, he went one day to see how his brethren, bondmen to the Egyptians, fared. Seeing an Egyptian practicing pressure point techniques on a Hebrew, he killed the Egyptian with a throat strike and hid his body in the sand, supposing that no one would be disposed to reveal the matter. The next day, seeing two Hebrews sparring with high kicks, he endeavored to separate them, whereupon the Hebrew who was wronging his brother attempted to kick Moses with a high roundhouse. Moses instinctively blocked the kick, controlled the leg and counterattacked with a knee in the groin. The Hebrew fell to the ground and he was in much pain.
"Thou shalt not use high kicks, brother, for they revealeth thine manhood for attack," said Moses. And he taught them how to properly defend against armed and unarmed attacks. Later, the same Hebrews were not believed when they claimed to have been taught by Moses himself, instead being told that a man by the name of Aizik had invented the entire method of combat.
God also commissioned him to go to Egypt and teach all of his brethren, so that they might be freed from their bondage through much asskicking. Moses was met on his arrival in Egypt by his elder brother, Aaron, who had been studying strange oriental methods, which seemed to consist of wild flailing of the arms and many high kicks. Moses sighed at Aaron's attempts to be manly. Frustrated and humiliated, Aaron seized a bow, and attempted to fire it at Moses at close range from the front. Moses deflected the bow, which fired, and narrowly missed his head. He then counterattacked with many knees to the groin, until Aaron begged him to stop.
“I merely wish to learn how to fight the Egyptians,” whimpered Aaron.
Moses smiled at his brother, and told him that that was why he was there. And he taught his brother many ways of armed and unarmed defense. In later years, not even Aaron was believed to have been taught Krav Maga from the source, and he was told that a man by the name of Moni was the developer of Krav Maga.
A Krav Maga/Jew-Jutsi practitioner, ready to kick some major Arab ass (and yours too, probably).
The reputation of Moses' skills had traveled far. The Hebrews celebrated his arrival and vowed to follow him. It was a more difficult matter, however, to persuade the Pharaoh to let the Hebrews depart. This was not accomplished until Moses struck the Pharaoh's testicles in a vicious manner, leaving the ruler of the Egyptians crying on his knees, whereupon such terror seized the Egyptians that they ordered the Hebrews to leave.
The children of Israel started toward the eastern border at the southern part of the Isthmus of Suez. The long procession stopped many times to train, thus their progression was slow. They eventually passed the Egyptian frontier. Meanwhile the Pharaoh, yet holding an ice pack to his crown jewels, had a change of heart and was in pursuit of them with a large army equipped with protective cups. Shut in between this army
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and the Red Sea, the Israelites despaired, but Moses called out to the sea to make way, and Poseidon himself appeared out of the waters, and launched an attack at Moses with his trident. Moses, quite frustrated with this treatment, performed a diversion of the trident and many counterattacks to Poseidon's groin, who eventually split the ocean and let the Israelites pass. As the Egyptians also wished to pass the sea, Poseidon challenged the Pharaoh, who desperately attempted pressure point techniques on the sea god, and eventually ended up impaled on the god's fearsome weapon. It is said that the Pharaoh was left on the trident, erect in the sand, as a warning to any who would use such unproven measures in real situations.
After all this was accomplished Moses was warned that he would not be permitted to lead Israel across the Jordan River, but would die on the eastern side. He assembled the tribes and delivered to them a parting seminar. When this was finished, and he had pronounced a certification upon the people, he went up Mount Nebo to the top of Pisgah, looked over the country spread out before him, and died, at the age of one hundred and twenty. God Himself buried him in an unknown grave. Moses remains the only Grand Master level 4 of Krav Maga.
Krav Maga in the Six-Day War
It is widely known that the Arab-Israeli conflict known as the Six-Day War was won almost entirely thanks to an elite Israeli unit trained in Krav Maga. The ball-kicking prowess of this unit far surpassed anything the world had previously seen. According to some accounts, the battlefields were strewn with detached testicles, and groans of agony were reportedly heard echoing throughout the lands for years after the flat thuds of the ballkickings ended.
Style of fighting
An example of the mighty power of the Krav Maga kick to the balls
The thing that separates Krav Maga from other martial arts is the extensive use of kicks to the balls. The different techniques, tactics, training and conditioning for kicking balls in Krav Maga now accounts for about 95% of the martial art making it the martial art with most kicks to the groin/time. It even surpasses more focused spare time activities in kicking balls such as ball busting. A kick to the balls made by a Krav Maga black belt is so fierce that you have to be a woman to survive it (since women luckily lack balls).
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Hallie Michaels (Volume 1)
Deborah Coates
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When Sergeant Hallie Michaels arrived in Rapid City, South Dakota, she’d been traveling for twenty-four hours straight. She sat on the plane as it taxied to the gate and tried not to jump out of her skin, so ready to be up, to be moving, to put her head down and go. And Lord help anyone who got in her way.
She hadn’t been able to reach her father or anyone else by phone since she’d gotten the news, just contact with her commanding officer—We’re sorry, your sister’s dead. Here’s ten days’ compassionate leave. Go home.
Three sharp bongs, and the seat belt light went out. The plane filled with the sound of seat belts snapping, people moving, overhead doors opening up. The woman in the seat next to Hallie’s was still fumbling with her buckle when Hallie stepped past her into the aisle. She felt raw and sharp edged as she walked off the plane and up the Jetway, like rusty barbed wire, like she would snap if someone twisted too hard.
Halfway down the long wide concourse, ready—she was—for South Dakota, for her sister’s funeral for—
Eddie Serrano’s ghost floated directly in front of her, right in the middle of the concourse. She swiped a hand across her eyes, hoped it was an artifact of no sleep and too much coffee, though she knew that it wasn’t.
He looked like he’d just stepped out of parade formation—crisp fatigues, pants neatly tucked into his boots, cap stiff and creased and set on his head just exactly perfect. Better than he’d ever looked when he was alive—except for being gray and misty and invisible to everyone but her.
She thought she’d left him in Afghanistan.
She drew a deep breath. This was not happening. She was not seeing a dead soldier in the middle of the Rapid City airport. She wasn’t. She squared her shoulders and walked past him like he wasn’t there.
Approaching the end of the concourse, she paused and scanned the half-dozen people waiting just past security. She didn’t see her father, had almost not expected to see him because—oh for so many reasons—because he wouldn’t want to see her for the first time in a public place, because he had the ranch and funeral arrangements to take care of, because he hated the City, as he always referred to Rapid City, and airports, and people in the collective and, less often though sometimes more spectacularly, individually.
She spotted a woman with straight blond hair underneath a cowboy hat standing by the windows. Brett Fowker. Hallie’d known Brett since before kindergarten, since a community barbecue when they were five, where Brett had told Hallie how trucks worked and Hallie had taken them both for what turned out to be a very short ride. Brett was all right. Hallie could deal with that.
She started forward again and walked into a cold so intense, she thought it would stop her heart. It felt like dying all over again, like breath froze in her lungs. She slapped her hand against the nearest wall and concentrated on breathing, on catching her breath, on taking a breath.
She looked up, expecting Eddie.
But it was her sister. Dell.
Suddenly, Brett was there, a hand on her arm. “Are you all right?” she asked.
Hallie batted her hand away and leaned heavily against the wall, her breath sharp and quick. “I’m fine!” Her voice sounded rough, even in her own ears.
Dell looked exactly as she had the last time Hallie’d seen her, wearing a dark tailored shirt, jeans with a hole in one knee, and cowboy boots. She was a ghost now and pretty much transparent, but Hallie figured the boots were battered and scuffed because she’d always had a favorite pair that she wore everywhere. Even when she’d dressed up sometimes, like no one would notice the boots if she wore a short black dress and dangly silver earrings. And no one did—because it was Dell and she could carry something like that off, like it was the most natural thing in the world.
Hallie scrubbed a hand across her face. Goddamnit, Dell. She wasn’t going to cry. She wasn’t.
“I’m sorry, Hallie. I’m sorry.”
Brett said it over and over, like a mantra, her right hand a tight fist in Hallie’s sleeve. In sixth grade after Hallie’s mother died, she and Brett had made a no-hugging-ever pledge. Because no one had talked to Hallie that whole week, or looked her in the eye—just hugged her and handed her casserole dishes wrapped in aluminum foil.
Trust Brett to honor a pact made twelve years ago by eleven-year-olds.
“Brett,” Hallie said, “I—”
“Hallie!” Suddenly someone was hugging her. “Oh god, Hallie! Isn’t it awful?”
Lorie Bixby grabbed her around the neck, hugged her so tight, Hallie thought she might choke. “It can’t be right. I know it’s not right. Oh, Hallie…”
Hallie unwound Lorie’s hands from her neck and raised an eyebrow at Brett, because Lorie hadn’t been particular friends with Brett or Hallie back in school, though they’d done things together, because they lived close—for certain definitions of close—and were the same age. Hallie hadn’t seen her since she’d enlisted.
Brett raised her left shoulder in a half shrug, like she didn’t know why Lorie was there either, though Hallie suspected it was because Brett hadn’t wanted to come alone.
They were at the top of the stairs leading down to the luggage area and the parking lot. To Hallie’s left was a gift shop full of Mount Rushmore mugs and treasure maps to gold in the Black Hills. To her right was a café. It beckoned like a haven, like a brief respite from Afghanistan, from twenty-four hours with no sleep, from home.
But really, there was no respite. This was the new reality.
“Tell me,” Hallie said to Brett.
Brett hadn’t changed one bit since Hallie’d last seen her, hadn’t changed since she’d graduated from high school, except for the look on her face, which was grim and dark. She had perfect straight blond hair—cowgirl hair, Hallie and Dell had called it because all the perfect cowgirls in perfect cowgirl calendars had hair like Brett’s. She was wearing a bone-colored felt cowboy hat, a pearl-snap Western shirt, and Wranglers. “Tell you?” she said, like she had no idea what Hallie was talking about.
“What happened,” Hallie said, the words even and measured, because there were ghosts—Dell’s ghost, specifically—in the middle of the airport, and if she didn’t hold on tight, she was going to explode.
Brett drew a breath, like a sigh. “You should talk to your daddy about it.”
“Look, no one believes it was really suicide.” Lorie leaned toward them like this was why she’d come, to be with people, to talk about what had happened.
“What?” No one had mentioned suicide to her—accident, they’d said. There’s been a terrible accident.
“No one knows what happened yet,” Brett said cautiously, giving Lorie a long look.
“Tell me,” Hallie said, the words like forged nails, iron hard and sharp enough to draw blood.
Brett didn’t look at Hallie, her face obscured by the shadow of her hat. “They say,” she began, like it had all happened somewhere far away to people who weren’t them. “She was out driving over near Seven Mile Creek that night. Or the morning. I don’t know.” Like that was the worst thing—and for Brett, maybe it was—that she didn’t have all the particulars, the whys and wherefores. “She wracked her car up on a tree. There was no one else around. They’re saying suicide. But I don’t— No one believes that,” she added quickly. “They don’t.” As if to convince herself.
“Dell did not commit suicide,” Hallie said.
She walked away. This was not a discussion.
She didn’t look to see if Brett and Lorie were behind her until she was halfway to the luggage carousel.
Five minutes later, they were crammed into Brett’s gray Honda sedan. Hallie felt cramped and small sitting in the passenger seat, crushed under the low roof. Lorie sat in the back, an occasional sniff the only mark of her presence.
Brett turned the key in the ignition, the starter grinding before it caught. Hallie felt cold emanating from Eddie’s and Dell’s ghosts drifting behind her in the backseat. Though Lorie didn’t act as if she could feel them at all.
“She called me,” Brett said as she pulled out of the parking lot.
“What?” Because Dell and Brett hadn’t been friends.
“Yeah, right out of the blue,” Brett said.
“Monday morning. That morning.” Brett swallowed, then continued. “She wanted me to skip classes—I’m working on a master’s in psychology, you know—well, you don’t know, I guess.” It didn’t surprise Hallie. Brett had always wanted to know how things worked, even people. She’d been a steady B student in high school, but she worked until she knew what she wanted to know or got where she wanted to get.
“I’m thinking about University of Chicago for—” Brett stopped, cleared her throat, and continued. “She said she wanted to celebrate.”
“And she called you?”
“Shit, I don’t know, Hallie,” Brett said. “She called, said she wanted to celebrate. Suggested horseback riding up along, well, up along Seven Mile Creek. It was weird.”
“Maybe she didn’t have anyone to ride with anymore.”
“She didn’t have a horse.”
“What?” Because Dell had always been about horses.
“She’d been gone,” Brett said, like they didn’t have horses outside western South Dakota.
“Did you go?”
Brett was silent while she maneuvered through the sparse late-morning traffic and onto the interstate, headed east. They had an hour, hour and a half depending, to get to Taylor County and the ranch. Or to the funeral home in town. Hallie wasn’t looking forward to either one.
“She canceled at the last minute,” Brett finally said. “I’d already brought the horses up, was getting ready to load them in the trailer when she called. She said she’d been mistaken.”
“Yeah … I hadn’t seen her but one night at the Bob since she’d been home. She said she wanted to celebrate, I don’t know, something. And then she canceled.”
Hallie’s hand rapped against the underside of her knee until she realized she was doing it and made herself stop. “Did she say anything?”
“When she canceled?” Brett shook her head. “She just said something came up. But that’s where they found her, Hallie. Up on the Seven Mile.”
Hallie didn’t want to be riding in this car, didn’t want to be listening to any of this. She wanted to move, to … shoot something. Because Dell hadn’t killed herself. She hadn’t. If no one else would say it, Hallie would.
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Shotify ( is a Spotify app that turns your playlist into a Power Hour mix. (Power Hour is a drinking game in which participants listen to a music mix and take a shot of beer when the song changes at the turn of every minute)
Using Shotify is simple: in Spotify, drag your playlist into the Shotify window. Press "Play," and let the power hour begin!
Shotify's features at a glance:
- Determine the duration of play: from 1 to 120 seconds of each song. Default setting is at 60 seconds for Power Hour.
- Start each song from the top, in the middle, at the end, or somewhere at random.
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- Drag a playlist to either the Shotify window or the Shotify app icon in Spotify.
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So my site has a blog and gallery, both working the same way. There's an index, and each post has a permalink going to the individual entry. However, if I search for some of the content on Google, often it returns a link to the index, just because it happened to have been on the first page when it was crawled, instead of the individual post pages. This is especially true in cases of images. How can I make it so that Google returns the proper pages for the posts instead of just the main page of my site? My whole site is custom php code I made.
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Have you submitted a sitemap? If so, how long ago? – Christopher May 30 '12 at 13:33
Have u different metas in the <head> for for each entry or all the same like the index? – Denny Mueller May 30 '12 at 14:41
Can you provide a link to your site, this sort of thing could be caused by a wide variety of problems. – toomanyairmiles May 30 '12 at 15:48
dendory.net/blog – Dendory May 31 '12 at 8:01
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Some people actually put a no-index directive on their blog index page, that is a drastic step, but could make sense particularly for the gallery.
Another thing you could do is post excepts instead of listing the entire post on the index page.
Getting deep links to the individual posts from other sites would help.
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Monday 17 March 2014
Keep Caroline as a memorial
As someone who, as a very junior officer, lived aboard HMS Caroline during the Second World War when she was the base ship in Belfast, I suggest a campaign be set up to keep the ship as a memorial.
HMS Caroline became a feature in Belfast, where she is still berthed, from 1924. I trust she will remain an attraction in the city and a reminder of the many Royal Navy personnel who sailed out of Belfast for the Battle of the Atlantic and did not return.
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39 Of this be sure, that if the master of the house had known what time the robber was coming, he would have kept awake and not have allowed his house to be broken into. 39 But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into. | http://www.biblestudytools.com/parallel-bible/passage.aspx?q=luke+12:39&t=wnt&t2=niv | dclm-gs1-210540000 |
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In an ad that opens with bold typeface reading "Let's Talk Truth," we learn that helpless ladyfolk "don't need to bring a dude" to help them negotiate a good car deal. Not because they can walk into a dealership and get a good price on their own, but because there's now a good "dude" replacement: a certificate that prices car values from
Here's the spot, starring a female-only cast:
Both men and women took to Twitter and Facebook to complain about the implications of having a women-only ad about the anxiety-ridden car buying process.
TrueCar responded to various tweets and Facebook posts tying to explain its methodology. The company cited a survey that implies 77% of women usually bring someone with them to purchase a car. (It was probably referring to a 2006 Capitol One survey.)
TrueCar also begged customers not to unsubscribe from Hulu because its ad was played:
Even though the ad came out in March, people are still writing on TrueCar's wall with their complaints.
The ad is still on YouTube.
Some consumers had other TrueCar marketing complaints that were completely unrelated to gender roles. Like the ad's background music:
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Below is the full data and questions for the CBS News/New York Times poll on President Obama and the Republican presidential race.
Stories on the poll:
Most GOP voters expect Romney nomination
Most support U.S. military action to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons
Most say employers should be allowed not to cover contraception
Poll: Romney, Santorum narrow gap on Obama
Obama's approval rating sinks to new low
Poll: Most think president can impact gas prices
President Obama and the general election:
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A Sphere centered at the origin has radius 0.4 m. A point charge q= -1.00 nC is on the x-axis at x=0.6m. The net flux through sphere is 2260 N m ^2 / C
A) What is the total charge inside the sphere ?
B) What is the net flux through the sphere of radius 1.0 m ?
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Gabriel Scheare uses the world's first bitcoin ATM on October 29, 2013, at Waves Coffee House in Vancouver, British Columbia. Scheare said he "just felt like being part of history."
Happy Wednesday. How many bitcoins does it take to buy a Morning Six-Pack? Answer: zero.
So where did all the bitcoins go? To the same place they came from—the ether. (BloombergBusinessweek)
Lower tax rates for rich folks are good but a "middle-class entitlement" for flood insurance is all kinds of wrong. (So sayeth The Wall Street Journal.)
That Bill Gross-Mohamed El-Erian fissure at Pimco made for fun water cooler talk, but things could get ugly if it leads to wholesale changes at the top. (Quartz)
If this is only the "first inning" of the shale boom, as ConocoPhillips CEO Ryan Lance suggests, then somebody go get me a beer and some nachos. (Houston Business Journal)
Credit Suisse apparently was the place to go to get help avoiding taxes. (BBC)
And finally ...that used car salesman in the plaid jacket is a lonely figure now that Americans have changed the way they buy autos. CNBC's Philip LeBeau drives the point home.
• Jeff Cox is finance editor for CNBC.com.
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Dutch bank ING Bank NV will pay $619 million to settle charges that it secretly moved billions of dollars through the U.S. financial system on behalf of Cuban and Iranian customers, in violation of U.S. sanctions.
Why Gas Could Hit $5 a Gallon This Summer
If you think you're paying a lot at the gas pump now, just wait until summer hits. Stronger demand could lead to record gas prices as an economic recovery takes hold and turmoil in the Middle East sends the price of oil upward. How high? $5 a gallon isn't out of the realm of the possible.
Legal Briefing: Blagojevich Lied But Not Corrupt
Legal Briefing: Barclays Joins List of Sanctions Violators
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RE: Must have?
By Brandon Hill (blog) on 2/11/2013 12:03:07 PM , Rating: 3
I "must have" a watch, but I DO NOT like digital watches. I love the simplicity of my Pulsar solar watch with a minute/second hand and no numbers.
Haven't had to worry about charging it or changing the battery in over 10 years.
RE: Must have?
By Sazabi19 on 2/11/2013 12:06:42 PM , Rating: 3
I love both worlds, my Citizen Skyhawk AT has both analog and digital. Some people may say it's a cluttered watch but I love the way it looks and feels (heavy). Powered by light and radio synced so it should never be off by more than a fraction of a second.
RE: Must have?
By Kurz on 2/11/2013 12:12:54 PM , Rating: 2
I never have to worry about the battery of my watch... I just have to keep wearing it. It's an Automatic Watch.
RE: Must have?
By Samus on 2/11/2013 12:45:48 PM , Rating: 3
Cool, so now I have to charge my iPhone AND my iWatch every 10 hours.
I guess this explains why they went to a new, thinner dock connector.
RE: Must have?
By CaedenV on 2/11/2013 1:46:09 PM , Rating: 5
Rather than actually tracking time the iWatch simply tracks the time until the next needed charge. It then lets the user do the math to figure out the actual time of day.
RE: Must have?
By inighthawki on 2/11/2013 3:50:55 PM , Rating: 2
Sweet, what a perfect way to allow all those young teens to have the most hip gadget AND learn at the same time. Genius!
RE: Must have?
By name99 on 2/11/2013 2:34:29 PM , Rating: 4
For precisely this reason, I expect that in the near term such a device will have very little logic on it --- it will be a satellite of an iPhone, with just a low-power BT radio, a screen, and UI sensors.
If it uses a screen technology like mirasol it can be color, but with very low battery usage (essentially like ePaper, the only energy cost is when the screen is changed).
The ideal would be to augment this with tech that can charge the phone from body motion, but I don't know if that's good enough yet.
RE: Must have?
By theapparition on 2/14/2013 12:01:58 PM , Rating: 2
Citizen already has an iPhone integrated watch in the Proximity series. It syncs with BT to an iPhone for time, and also provides alerts for text messages, email and alarms.
RE: Must have?
By Trisped on 2/11/2013 3:12:31 PM , Rating: 2
It's an Automatic Watch.
Atomic refers to the fact that it can update the time using the radio signal from an atomic clock. My watch, for example, uses the signal from the atomic clock in Colorado.
There are a number of sustainable power systems for watches like thermal, kinetic, and solar.
RE: Must have?
By futrtrubl on 2/11/2013 6:20:59 PM , Rating: 3
He wasn't refering to atomic, he did indeed mean en (dot) wikipedia (dot) org/wiki/Automatic_watch a kinetic winding (not charging) watch. Link was considered spam.
RE: Must have?
By Omega215D on 2/11/2013 2:23:41 PM , Rating: 3
For diving my Armourlite Isobrite is king. Super bright tritium lighting that's pretty visible in the dark, long lasting battery and built like a tank.
The only digital watch that gets my attention would be those from Casio G-shock. Of course in the absence of sunlight the watch can only go for about 6 months on battery power.
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RE: Must have?
By Omega215D on 2/11/2013 6:18:27 PM , Rating: 2
Phone dies... go back to asking for the time.
In a business meeting... pull out a phone instead of glancing at a watch.
In a work environment where phones aren't allowed (say a lab)...
EMT tending to someone in need... pull out a smartphone instead of using a wristwatch?
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By Wererat on 2/12/2013 12:11:29 PM , Rating: 2
There was a time when pocket watches were de rigeur, too.
Then, a time when a digital watch was a novelty and too cool. One of the then-obvious bonuses was that the pocket watch had to be carried about and pulled out just to know the time; the watch made time (and other things) immediately available.
Now, we're back to pocket-phones that tell time, but we've seen their disadvantages as well: dropped phones, distracted drivers, the need to pull out the phone with each message/tweet/alert/whatever.
The natural size contraction of the pocket watch was the wristwatch; it may be that the pocket phone naturally converts to a wrist phone as the tech improves.
RE: Must have?
By Scoot2000 on 2/11/2013 8:34:44 PM , Rating: 3
My Casio solar G-SHOCK's battery should last at least 10 years according to others with the same watch. It is also fairly indestructible, I saw a watch toughness comparison on YouTube where it even survived someone playing ice hockey with it. Being digital with no moving parts and cushioned by rubber meant it was much more shock-resistant than an analogue watch.
Unlike a simple analogue watch it also shows me the day and date along with the time all in a single glance. It knows the year so it correctly adjusts for leap years. It can receive time updates wirelessly from the military transmitters. It turns the screen off overnight to save power. I can go to an international time of my choice with the press of one button (very useful when travelling). With the press of another button the entire screen glows blue for easy reading in the dark.
Analogue watches have literally no technical advantages that I can see. They are more complex and fragile. They do not keep more accurate time. Most of them lack many of the features that make a watch useful to me (day/date, backlight, etc), not to mention the extra features that are useful occasionally (international time, alarms, stopwatches, etc).
The advantages of analogue are mostly either fashion related or just based on the fact that some people prefer to read time on hands, so far as I can tell. There must be something about them, because analogue watches are far more common than digital.
An Apple watch that needed to be charged more than once a week would seem a bit useless to me. About once a week I could put up with, people used to have to wind up their watches each night. However, I don't really see what it could do that I wouldn't prefer to do on my phone (which is always in my pocket). My current watch has every feature I want and very long battery life.
RE: Must have?
By theapparition on 2/14/2013 12:07:01 PM , Rating: 2
Mechanical movements aren't as durable, require more service, and aren't even that accurate.
But if you don't understand a fine mechanical movement, then you don't understand. Simple as that.
There's a reason a Rolex costs $14k and a GShock costs $250. There's also a reason in 10 years that GShock (which are nice, BTW) will also resell for ~$30 and the Rolex will at least double in value.
RE: Must have?
By inperfectdarkness on 2/12/2013 1:29:54 AM , Rating: 2
Some of us need digital precision in our jobs. Better yet, I like being able to have a light on my watch...rather than simply some glow dots. Glow is ok when you fall asleep, but what about when you need the time at 4:30 in the AM & your eyes aren't fully working (nor your brain).
The world is obsessed with analog--at least judging by how many more styles of those are available than digital. I have no desire to own an iWatch or any other iJunk. That said, I'd swear by a Timex Ironman, anything Suunto, or virtually anything Freestyle.
RE: Must have?
Indiglo, FTW! :)
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Agent Coulson's 'Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.' resurrection explained?
An explanation of Agent Coulson's resurrection in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. has been offered.
A source told Slash Film that the character's death in Avengers was faked in order to inspire the team.
'The Avengers/Marvel Avengers Assemble' poster: Clark Gregg as Agent Coulson
"In the pilot, it's revealed Nick Fury (Samuel L Jackson), the ultimate super spy, faked Agent Coulson's death on purpose to motivate the Avengers," said the source.
"Some S.H.I.E.L.D. members were in on it (including, possibly, Maria Hill, played by Cobie Smulders) but the Avengers were not. Their security clearance wasn't high enough.
"Coulson was forced to hold his breath as part of the ruse and that's a point of contention among his colleagues. After the fact, Fury moved him to a remote location until things died down, and then he was reinserted into duty at the time of the show."
The explanation does not account for how Clark Gregg's character survived being stabbed through the back by Loki.
Clark Gregg as Agent Coulson in 'The Avengers'
Clark Gregg as Agent Coulson in 'The Avengers'
Fury was shown to have manipulated the facts around the event in the Avengers film. Gregg has hinted that the Avengers had been deceived.
The actor recently revealed that he had not expected a role in Joss Whedon's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. television show.
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Hockey songs are inspirational songs written for the game of hockey.
There are a lot of songs written about this great sport. Hockey songs are
an excellent way to capture the spirit of the game.
There are many bands singing hockey songs. They play inspirational hockey
songs for the team in order to boost their spirit. The themes of hockey
songs vary widely from band to band. There are humorous hockey songs,
songs about hockey players and songs praising the segments of famous
hockey events.
There are a numerous hockey songs popular in Canada. The game of ice
hockey is the most popular game and the national winter sport in Canada.
Many Canadians are obsessed with hockey that has become a part of
Canadian culture. Hockey songs are written in order to inspire and
motivate the hockey players.
Of several hockey songs, 'The hockey song', is the best. Written by
'Stompin' Tom Connors, it is an immortal song celebrating Canada's love
for hockey. Well known for its chorus, the song has spilt up verses, each
one describing a period of play in a typical hockey game. This song is
the most played one at all Canadian hockey events.
Another classic hockey song is the Tragically Hip song "Fifty Mission
Cap." This song is a true song story about Bill Barilko, who scored one
of the most famous goals in National Hockey League history. The legend of
Barilko, who scored the 1951 Stanley Cup winning goal for the Toronto
Maple, and his mysterious death are forever immortalized in this song.
Other popular hockey songs are "Hockey" by Jane Siberry, "Hockey Night in
Canada" of The Shuffle Demons, "Gordie and My Old Man" of Grievous
Angels, "The Ballad of Wendel Clark, Parts I and II" of Rheostatics, "Hit
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AMES, Iowa — If planning for next year’s garden includes finding new plants for shady areas, consider the recommendations of Iowa State University Extension and Outreach horticulturists while paging through and ordering from garden catalogs this winter. The horticulturists also answer questions that come to Hortline, Iowa State’s horticulture hotline. Reach Hortline by calling 515-294-3108 or emailing [email protected].
What are some good annuals for shady garden areas?
Annuals that can be successfully grown in shady areas include wax begonia (Begonia x semperflorens-cultorum), impatiens (Impatiens walleriana), lobelia (Lobelia erinus), coleus (Solenostemon scutellarioides), wishbone flower (Torenia fournieri) and pansy (Viola x wittrockiana).
Which perennials grow well in shady locations?
Perennials that are good choices for partially to heavily shaded locations include black snakeroot (Actaea racemosa), red baneberry (Actaea rubra), lady’s mantle (Alchemilla mollis), astilbe (Astilbe spp.), Japanese painted fern (Athyrium niponicum var. pictum), heartleaf brunnera (Brunnera macrophylla), bleeding heart (Dicentra spp.), Hakone grass (Hakonechloa macra), hosta (Hosta spp.), crested iris (Iris cristata), cinnamon fern (Osmunda cinnamomea), creeping phlox (Phlox stolonifera), Jacob’s ladder (Polemonium caeruleum), lungwort (Pulmonaria spp.), celandine poppy (Stylophorum diphyllum) and toad lily (Tricyrtis spp.)
What are some good native perennials for a shady site?
When selecting plants for the shade garden, one group of plants that is often overlooked are native woodland wildflowers. Since they are native to the state, woodland wildflowers are well adapted to the area. They are easy to grow and perform well when given a favorable environment.
Native woodland wildflowers that make good additions to the home landscape include wild columbine (Aquilegia canadensis), Jack-in-the-pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum), goat’s beard (Aruncus dioicus), Canadian wild ginger (Asarum canadense), Dutchman’s breeches (Dicentra cucullaria), shooting star (Dodecatheon meadia), false Solomon’s seal (Maianthemum racemosum), Virginia bluebells (Mertensia virginica), woodland phlox (Phlox divaricata), May apple (Podophyllum peltatum), Solomon’s seal (Polygonatum biflorum), bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis), trillium (Trillium spp.), merrybells (Uvularia grandiflora) and others.
Obtaining plants is easy. Woodland wildflowers are readily available at garden centers and mail-order nurseries. Do not remove plants from natural woodland areas.
What are some good groundcovers for shade?
Excellent groundcovers for shade include bugleweed (Ajuga spp.), wild ginger (Asarum canadense and A. europaeum), barrenwort (Epimedium spp.), sweet woodruff (Galium odoratum), hosta (Hosta spp.), yellow archangel (Lamium galeobdolon), spotted deadnettle (Lamium maculatum), creeping lily-turf (Liriope spicata), Japanese pachysandra (Pachysandra terminalis), lungwort (Pulmonaria spp.), foam flower (Tiarella cordifolia) and vinca (Vinca minor).
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0.172585 | <urn:uuid:157b1af0-27a1-4af3-8e8b-1b2caf7a9c31> | en | 0.91836 | User avatar #1 - zameckis (11/05/2012) [-]
User avatar #2 to #1 - franklyimaperson (11/05/2012) [-]
User avatar #35 to #2 - zameckis (11/05/2012) [-]
hahaha, so it's just curiousity eh
i see i see
User avatar #3 to #2 - zameckis (11/05/2012) [-]
i'm honored
how do you do on this fine day, sir franklyimaperson?
User avatar #4 to #3 - franklyimaperson (11/05/2012) [-]
yourself comrade?
User avatar #5 to #4 - zameckis (11/05/2012) [-]
glad to hear
may i ask, what's your interest?
User avatar #6 to #5 - franklyimaperson (11/05/2012) [-]
You'll have to be more specific
User avatar #7 to #6 - zameckis (11/05/2012) [-]
User avatar #8 to #7 - franklyimaperson (11/05/2012) [-]
User avatar #9 to #8 - zameckis (11/05/2012) [-]
i see,
so you are quite a computer wizard, yes?
User avatar #10 to #9 - franklyimaperson (11/05/2012) [-]
User avatar #11 to #10 - zameckis (11/05/2012) [-]
i see.,.,
hm.,. music? i quite enjoy something *********
User avatar #12 to #11 - franklyimaperson (11/05/2012) [-]
All forms of music;
******* Rock, Grunge, Electro Swing, Jazz, Big Band, Tribal Rhythm, ********* , Easy Listening, New Wave, Early forms of Rap, R&B, Country, Blue ***** , and it goes on and on
User avatar #13 to #12 - zameckis (11/05/2012) [-]
judging from channel you join up
User avatar #14 to #13 - franklyimaperson (11/05/2012) [-]
User avatar #15 to #14 - zameckis (11/05/2012) [-]
my my, do tell more about
as like your fav ******* and other things
kinda interested
Oh my favorite Route?
User avatar #17 to #16 - zameckis (11/05/2012) [-]
i see
as for myself, i have quite affection toward lilly
User avatar #18 to #17 - franklyimaperson (11/05/2012) [-]
User avatar #21 to #18 - zameckis (11/05/2012) [-]
so you realize english is not my first language eh
very considerate of you sir franklyimaperson
i can atleast understood what people saying
now i'm become more interested in you
User avatar #23 to #21 - franklyimaperson (11/05/2012) [-]
*bow* Glad I can be seen as interesting ;D
#29 to #23 - ronyx (11/05/2012) [-]
Surprise modafakas
I'm also an expert on KS
Surprise modafakas
I'm also an expert on KS
User avatar #25 to #23 - zameckis (11/05/2012) [-]
now now, we are straying away from to be said topic
how do you bumping up with ks?
like, why bothering to checkin it up at first
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Despite the glaive being rather unwieldy and dangerous to use in any real situation, game characters can use it in amazing ways without ever hurting themselves, as one would expect from video games.
Notable users of the glaive include Hayden Tenno of Dark Sector. The glaive factors heavily into gameplay, and is a mainstay throughout the game's missions because it does not consume ammunition and can decapitate most normal enemies with one well-timed "power throw." Hayden can also temporarily imbue the glaive with fire, ice, and electricity, increasing its power and becoming capable of solving some puzzles.
War also receives a glaive-like weapon in Darksiders; this weapon is called the "crossblade" and often functions as a boomerang to solve puzzles. It does not do heavy damage, but War can charge up his throw, resulting in the glaive spinning inside the enemy's body for a significant amount of time, resulting in him being immobilized.
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Wed Apr 25 12:27:25 CEST 2012
> I believe OCaml does something like this.
Interesting. What does OCaml do in this department? A bit of googling
didn't turn up a link.
For many years Chez scheme had a "saved heaps" capability. It was recently
dropped because of the preponderance of SE Linux which randomizes addresses
and messes it up, but here's the doc for V7:
I've always wondered why there weren't more language implementations with
saved heaps. Under Chez the startup times were amazing (a 50KLOC compiler
a two second load would become 4 milleseconds). Google Dart apparently has
or will have saved heaps. It seems like an obvious choice (caching
initialized heaps) for enormous websites with slow load times like GMail.
Chez also has pretty fast serialization to a binary "FASL" (fast loading)
format, but I'm not sure if those were mmap'ed into the heap on load or
required some parsing. The gamasutra link that Mikhail provided seems to
describe a process where the programmer knows exactly what the expected
heap representation is for a particular object is, and manually creates it.
Sounds like walking on thin ice.
Do we know of any memory safe GC'd language implementations that can dump a
single object (rather than the whole heap)? Would invoke the GC in a
special way to trace the structure and copy it into a new region (to make
it contiguous)?
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Sky's latest laugh with its comedy commitment ; Sky's first ever head of comedy, Lucy Lumsden, talks about the serious business of funny
June 10, 2013
What makes us laugh? It's Lucy Lumsden's job to answer this question. As Sky's first ever head of comedy she's answered it pretty well so far, with shows such as Moone Boy, Stella, This is Jinsy, Hunderby and A Touch of Cloth. "But it's a strange job," she says. "It's like being a midwife to loads of other mothers."
Last weekend Lumsden was at the Sky-sponsored Cat Laughs festival for the launch of two new babies: series two of Moone Boy, Chris O'Dowd's sweetly-absurdist semi-autobiographical sitcom, and two new episodes of A Touch of Cloth, Charlie Brooker's hilarious spoof- detective-drama. Sky is pretty committed to comedy now, but it wasn't always so.
"Comedy has always been the genre that vulnerable broadcasters have shied away from," says Lumsden. "It's very expensive. It's totally unpredictable. It's instinctive and anti all the things that make a viable commercial channel work. That's why Sky has traditionally . . . bought successful comedies off-the-rail, like the Simpsons. But Jeremy Darroch [chief executive of BSkyB] made a commitment to spend 600 million by 2014 on content. That was a major statement."
Lumsden started her own career at the Comic Strip with the likes of Peter Richardson, Jennifer Saunders and Rik Mayall, where she spent her time "breathing in their cigarette smoke, getting coffee, typing up scripts and scrubbing the carpet . . . But I was extremely lucky. I got into a really interesting bit of comedy. It wasn't BBC in-house, it was an independent company, one of the first proper independent ones."
Eventually she found herself at the BBC and slowly climbed to the sixth floor to become controller of comedy commissioning. There she spent her time having serious discussions about funny things and learned that hits were very hard to predict.
The Office, she recalls, sat on someone's desk "gathering dust because there was a programme called Office Gossip with Pauline Quirke in it, and people weren't sure we should do another office thing".
She was also there for the development of Mrs Brown's Boys. "It was brought in by Steve McCrum who was a producer behind Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps and these very broad sitcoms, and he's very defensive of that form. He's very good at listening to the audience . . . They didn't even produce a pilot, the majority of the taster tape was the camera on everyone coming out of the show - the look on their eyes and the absolute adoration they had."
The BBC was a difficult place for comedy in some regards. "You have a lot of boxes to tick," she says. Sky seems a bit freer. She moved there in 2009, and in the short time since,the station has developed a reputation as a place where established comedy talent gets complete creative freedom.
Ruth Jones from Gavin and Stacey had a hit with Stella. Steve Coogan moved his Alan Partridge franchise there. Psychobitches features Jessica Hynes, Catherine Tate, Katy Brand, Sharon Horgan and Rebecca Front. Julia Davis created the wonderful period comedy Hunderby.
Meanwhile, Chris O'Dowd developed Moone Boy on the back of a one- off short he made for Sky's Little Cracker series. "We handed Chris an enormous amount of creative freedom," she says. "We said 'We trust you. We might be insane but we trust you. Go off and do it your way.' So you get a unique perspective . . . It's more like a commission to an artist."
O'Dowd is a well-established comedy star, but Lumsden insists that Sky don't ignore new talent.
"This is Jinsy [a series set on a weird little island] arrived in a sticky, strange little portfolio of artists' drawings," she says. "There was no agent attached, no navigation points to know if it was genius or madness . . . They were just two creative guys from Guernsey."
She believes in spending money on comedy. "Traditionally it's thought comedy is the poorer relation to drama and that it doesn't really deserve a lot spent on it. There's a sort of snobbery around it. Bridging that gap is key to what we're trying to do. So Hunderby has a shipwreck, carriages and a huge stately house. We're not short- changing the audience just because we're making them laugh."
Sure-fire hits?
Expecting mass appeal can lead to disappointment. "Comedy is such a fascinating but unpredictable barometer of us as people. There's no such thing as a sure-fire hit. Whenever you say that you have a sure-fire hit. it's not going to be. If you'd launched Mrs Brown's Boys eight years ago, at the time of The Office, it mightn't have worked."
Still, she's willing to make some predictions. The future is "big and silly . . . The Office was immensely influential and led to things like The Thick of It and Twenty Twelve , but as a result I think everyone forgot to laugh at the big silly joke. I think that's back. We have permission again to laugh at the guy slipping on the banana skin."
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While you are away
My heart comes undone
Slowly unravels
In a ball of yarn
The devil collects it
With a grin
Our love
In a ball of yarn
Hell never return it
So when you come back
Well have to make new love
Hell never return it
When you come back
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There are two people in love, but when they separate for awhile, the love they feel for each other starts to unravel, dissapear, and they become estranged due to the seperation. This has actually happened to me before. If you love someone, but lose contact with them for awhile, you become weird strangers. So i think the devil is just the force that takes the love, that is where the love dissapears to. And the devil in my case would be, human nature, how you react to someone you used to know but havent seen or spoke to in awhile. It's always awkward. Anyway, that love will never be returned, it's gone, lost to time, so you have to make new love.
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Well you flash your tongue like diamondsYou tied me to your wildcat schemesAnd you forced me into a power diveAnd left your mark on my jeansAnd I hear the word on your soldiersAnd I hear the word on jesus tooI heard the word on the countryBut I never heard the word on youYour love was like a machine gunI wore your bugle in my beltAnd I was your kid glove loverAll the cards were yoursYou always dealtAnd I stood before your soapboxNoiseless and shoelessPlaying my pantry boy’s gamesYou had your hands raised up to the skyShouting oh sunday deityOh big daddy longlegsCome down and bless your sister pleaseYou were shoutin’ orders about the constructionGoing on down the highwayYou were namin’ names, blamin’ blamesAnd you blamed meYou wore your heart like a challengeFar and apart for anyone who cameOpen and wide like the riverWith rocks on both sides to keep the water tameBut I heard the word on your high tidesAnd I felt the pain when I triedTo rip your flood gates wideAnd pull your body on over to my sideWhere we both could hideBut you heard about the freedom rideAnd you heard about the highway crewWho could cut the light a little bit faster than youSo you left me just your shoesAnd I hear the word on jesusAnd I hear the word on his marching troopAnd I hear the word on the countryBut I never heard the word on you
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post #1 of 10
Thread Starter
Should people be required to give back to society, since we take so much? Should we hae a minimum amount of hours or days that are reserved for community involvment?
post #2 of 10
Unless employers are willing to give up a day or so for their employees to perform this community service I don't see how anyone could have time for such a thing.
People in the US work more hours with less vacation than most other countries. My dh works 60+ hours a week and comes home exhausted, I am lucky if I get help around the house I would be pretty annoyed if he was required to devote some of his little free time to community service.
So many people are already struggeling to balance home and work time, unless employers are willing to give a little as well I wouldn't support required community service.
post #3 of 10
I'm not sure how to interpret the prompt. Who is doing the "taking" from society, and what do you think is being taken?
If you are making an honest living then you are already contributing enormously to our society. If someone else is willing to pay you for doing a job, it must be pretty important to someone. For example, Teresa, you and I both take care of other people's children along with our own. We are simultaneously: 1.) providing for our own families (as opposed to mooching), 2.) nurturing the next generation (a needed service), and 3.) freeing up other parents' time so that they can do other important tasks, such as medical research or delivering babies or devising faster internet connections (which improve the quality of life for everyone).
No, we should not be required to do community service, because honest hardworking families are themselves the greatest asset a community has. However, many people in such families have found that pitching in to do a little extra for others adds even more enrichment to their lives. It's its own reward when done uncompelled.
post #4 of 10
No, we shouldn't have to.
Though I wish we did. Because then I know I'd definitely find the time to do more. Nothin' like a little government strong-arming to get me motivated ... :LOL
post #5 of 10
Thread Starter
I don't believe we should be forced to do community service, but I do wish more people were compelled to do so, and preferrably with their families.
Super Pickle- We take from the earth every day, and don't always put something back, and that is what I meant.
I have a question about your post... you said:
What does this mean?
I am reading it that mamas who do not provide a service or work are mooching from their families?
In the way of contributions I was suggesting, volunteer work, recycling, reforestation projects, etc (earth based work).
post #6 of 10
Perhaps we should institute a period of national service following high school, as is presently done in a number of European countries (among others). In the countries of which I'm thinking (Belgium and Germany, for example), the service is usually military, but Germany, at least, allows for civil service if one is opposed to military service. Insituting a similar measure here might help foster a greater sense of national community while also providing needed services to the country and community.
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Potty Diva, thanks for the clarification that you're talking about giving back to the earth.
I was in no way saying that moms who don't work are mooching. I was just saying that working families are contributing instead of draining by supporting themselves instead of making a habit of living off the sweat of someone else's brow.
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My cousin's high school requires a certain number of hours of community service each year. I think adolescence is a great time for it, because teens have fewer time commitments than adults, and because habits formed earlier last longer. If I were in charge, I might just require it for every grade level in school. Even kindergarteners can do things like paint barrels for a recycling program!
I would, of course, rather see people VOLUNTEER than have to be forced to do the right thing. We're having a budget crisis in my city right now, and hundreds of city employees have been laid off and many services cut. Everyone's complaining, but they don't want a tax hike. Nobody yet has publicly suggested what seems to me like an obvious solution to this problem: volunteer service! After all, jobs like life-guarding and lawn-mowing easily could be done by volunteers....
post #9 of 10
mandatory service has long turned my stomach, so i wouldn't say we should be required to do community service. and coercion doesn't inspire the right mindset, anyway, whether you're talking about serving, learning, working, or whatever.
that said, it would be very nice if volunteering were more acceptable. i agree that lots of people don't have the time for it presently, but the flip side is that many people could work less, survive, and consume fewer resources in the process, and use part of their extra time for service. also, working people could be paid decent wages so they didn't have to work so often, and that would also give people more time to improve their lives and the lives of others.
i would say the majority of human living spaces lack a real sense of community, and working together for the greater good is certainly a way to improve that.
post #10 of 10
There's a community service requirement at our high school. If you don't fulfill it, you don't graduate.
I think it might be nice if college students were given an opportunity to pay off their student loans by doing community service after graduation. It wouldn't be forced, just an option they could chose.
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Editor's note: In part three of his look at the history and preservation of America's Civil War battlefields, as captured in Pilgrim Places: Civil War Battlefields, Historic Preservation, and America’s First National Military Parks, 1863-1900, historian Richard West Sellars looks at the earliest efforts to honor those who fought and died during the Civil War. (You can purchase the entire article, complete with footnotes and photographs, from Eastern National).
By Richard West Sellars
Part III: Civil War Battlefield Monuments and Cemeteries
As with the southern Pennsylvania countryside surrounding the town of Gettysburg, the struggles between the United States and Confederate armies from 1861 to 1865 often brought war to beautiful places, with many battles fought in the pastoral landscapes of eastern, southern, and middle America— in rolling fields and woods, along rivers and streams, among farmsteads, and often in or near villages, towns, or cities. cities. Following the furious, convulsive battles, the armies often moved on toward other engagements, or to reassess and rebuild.
They left behind landscapes devastated by the violence and destruction of war, yet suddenly imbued with meanings more profound than mere pastoral beauty. The battlefields would no longer be taken for granted as ordinary fields and wooded lands. For millions of Americans, intense emotions focused on these sites, so that while local farmers and villagers sought to recover from the devastation, the battlegrounds, in effect, lay awaiting formal recognition, perhaps sooner or later to be publicly dedicated, consecrated, and hallowed. Once the scenes of horrendous bloodletting, the preserved battlefield parks, green and spreading across countrysides ornamented with monuments, would come to form an enduring, ironic juxtaposition of war and beauty, forever paradoxical.
And the carefully tended battlefields remain forever beguiling: The tranquil, monumented military parks mask the horror of what happened there. Walt Whitman, whose poetry and prose include what are arguably the finest descriptions of the effects of Civil War battles on individual soldiers, wrote that the whole fratricidal affair seemed “like a great slaughter house...the men mutually butchering each other.” He later asserted that the Civil War was “about nine hundred and ninety-nine parts diarrhea to one part glory.”
Having spent much of the war nursing terribly wounded soldiers in the Washington military hospitals and seeing sick and dying men with worm-infested battle wounds and amputations that had infected and required additional cutting, Whitman knew well the grisly costs of battle. The poet encountered many soldiers who seemed demented and wandered in a daze about the hospital wards. To him, they had “suffered too much,” and it was perhaps best that they were “out of their senses.” To the unsuspecting person, then, the serene, monumented battlefields can indeed belie the appalling bloodletting that took place there. Yet from the very first, it was intended that the battlegrounds become peaceful, memorial parks—each, in effect, a “pilgrim-place,” as an early Gettysburg supporter put it.
The historical significance of the first five Civil War battlefield parks was undeniably as the scenes of intense and pivotal combat, but by the early 20th century they also marked the nation’s first true commitment to commemorating historic places and preserving their historic features and character.
Restoration of the battle scenes, such as maintaining historic roads, forests, fields, and defensive earthworks, was under way, to varying degrees, at the battlefield parks. The parks were also becoming extensively memorialized with sizable monuments and many smaller stone markers, along with troop-position tablets (mostly cast iron and mounted on posts) tracing the course of battle and honoring the men who fought there.
Erected mainly in the early decades of each park’s existence, the monuments, markers, and tablets in the five military parks established in the 1890s exist today in astonishingly large numbers. The totals include more than 1,400 at Gettysburg, approximately 1,400 at Chickamauga and Chattanooga, and more than 1,300 at Vicksburg.
Following these are Shiloh, with more than 600, and Antietam with more than 400. The overall total for the five battlefields is nearly 5,200. Although tablets and markers comprise the greatest portion of these totals, the battlefields have become richly ornamented with memorial sculpture, including many large, impressive monuments. Altogether, they are the most striking visual features of the military parks, and they provide the chief physical manifestation of the battlefields’ hallowedness.
The early Civil War military parks are among the most monumented battlefields in the world. Virtually all of the monuments were stylistically derivative, many inspired by classical or renaissance memorial architecture, with huge numbers of them portraying standing soldiers, equestrian figures, or men in battle action. They recall heroism, the physical intensity of battle, and grief—rather than, for instance, the emancipation of the slaves, a major result of the battles and the war. From early on, some critics have judged the monuments to be too traditional and noted that many were essentially mass-produced by contractors.
Nevertheless, with veterans themselves directly involved in the origin and evolution of the Civil War battlefield memorialization movement, the earlier monuments reflect the sentiments of the very men who fought there. And the veterans were highly unlikely to be artistically avant-garde; rather, they tended to follow the styles and tastes of the time.
Even while the war was ongoing, soldiers erected several monuments on battlefields. In early September 1861, less than five months after the April 12th firing on Fort Sumter, Confederate soldiers erected the first Civil War battlefield monument, at the site of the Battle of Manassas, near the stream known as Bull Run, in Virginia. There, in July, the Confederates had surprised the United States forces (and the Northern public) with a stunning victory. Little more than six weeks later, the 8th Georgia Infantry erected a marble obelisk of modest height to honor their fallen leader, Colonel Francis S. Bartow. (Only the monument’s stone base has survived; the marble obelisk disappeared possibly even before the second battle at Manassas took place in August 1862.)
The Union army erected two battlefield monuments during the war. Still standing is the Hazen monument—the oldest intact Civil War battlefield monument— at Stones River National Battlefield, near the middle-Tennessee town of Murfreesboro. There, in a savage battle in late 1862 and early 1863, Northern troops forced a Confederate retreat. In about June 1863, members of Colonel William B. Hazen’s brigade (men from Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Kentucky) began erecting a sizable cut-limestone monument to honor their fallen comrades in the very area where they had fought and died. The monument was located in a small cemetery that held the remains of the brigade’s casualties.
The Union army’s other wartime monument, a marble obelisk, was erected on the battlefield at Vicksburg by occupying troops on July 4, 1864, to commemorate the first anniversary of the Confederate surrender of this strategic city. At Stones River, the Hazen monument’s location in the brigade cemetery at the scene of combat testifies to the often direct connections that would evolve between military cemeteries and preserved military parks. Each of the battles had concluded with dead and wounded from both sides scattered over the countryside, along with many fresh graves containing either completely or partially buried bodies—the hurried work of comrades or special ad hoc burial details. (The wounded, many of whom died, were cared for in temporary field hospitals, including tents, homes, and other public and private buildings.)
Reacting to growing public concern about the frequently disorganized handling of the Union dead, Congress, in July 1862, passed legislation authorizing “national cemeteries” and the purchase of land for them wherever “expedient.” By the end of 1862, the army had designated 12 national cemeteries, principally located where Northern military personnel were or had previously been concentrated—whether at battlefields (Mill Springs, Kentucky, for instance); near army hospitals and encampments (such as in Arlington and Alexandria, Virginia); or at military posts (such as Fort Leavenworth in Kansas).
All were administered by the War Department. These newly created military cemeteries were predecessors to those that would be established on other battlefields, such as Gettysburg, Vicksburg, and Antietam. At Gettysburg, the site selected for a military burial ground lay adjacent to the city’s existing Evergreen Cemetery and along a portion of the Union battle lines on the slopes of Cemetery Hill. There, Northern forces, in desperate combat, at times hand-to-hand, had repulsed a major Confederate assault.
Locating the military cemetery where Northern troops had scored a crucial victory surely heightened the symbolism and the sense of consecration and hallowedness that Lincoln reflected upon in articulating the Union cause and the meaning of the war, and in validating the “altogether fitting and proper” purpose of battlefield cemeteries.
During and after the 1863 siege of Vicksburg, the Union army hastily buried thousands of its soldiers killed during the campaign. The burials, some in mass graves, were in the immediate vicinity of the siege or were scattered throughout the extensive countryside in Mississippi and in the Louisiana parishes across the Mississippi River where the campaign took place. In the chaos of battle, the army kept few burial records, left many graves unmarked, and did little to arrange for proper re-burial. At Vicksburg, as elsewhere, erosion often uncovered the bodies, making them even more vulnerable to vultures, hogs, and other scavengers.
An official report in May 1866 noted that, as the Mississippi had shifted its course or spread out into the Louisiana floodplains, it carried downriver many bodies, which “floated to the ocean in their coffins or buried in the sand beneath [the river’s] waters.” After delays resulting from wartime pressures and protracted deliberations about where to locate an official burial ground (even New Orleans was considered), the national cemetery at Vicksburg was established in 1866, and the re-burial efforts moved toward completion.
Antietam National Cemetery
was officially dedicated on September 17, 1867, the fifth anniversary of the battle. Following Antietam’s one-day holocaust, which resulted in more deaths (estimated between 6,300 and 6,500) than on any other single day of the war, most of the dead were buried in scattered locations on the field of battle, where they remained for several years. In 1864, the State of Maryland authorized the purchase of land for a cemetery. A site was selected on a low promontory situated along one of the Confederate battle lines, and re-burial of remains from Antietam and nearby engagements began in late 1866. Following contentious debate (Maryland was a border state with popular allegiance sharply divided between the North and South), it was decided that only Union dead would be buried in the new cemetery. Re-burial of Confederate dead would come later, and elsewhere.
After the war ended, a systematic effort to care for the Northern dead led to the creation of many more military cemeteries, most of them established under the authority of congressional legislation approved in February 1867. This legislation strengthened the 1862 legal foundation for national cemeteries— for instance, by reauthorizing the purchase of lands needed for burying places; providing for the use of the government’s power of eminent domain when necessary for acquiring private lands; and calling for the reimbursement of owners whose lands had been, or would be, expropriated for military cemetery sites.
The total number of national cemeteries rose from 14 at the end of the war to 73 by 1870, when the re-burial program for Union soldiers was considered essentially completed. Although many of the new official burial grounds were on battlefields or military posts, others were part of existing private or city cemeteries.
Also, two prominent battlefield cemeteries that had been created and managed by states were transferred to the War Department: Pennsylvania ceded the Gettysburg cemetery in 1872, and Maryland transferred the Antietam cemetery five years later. Of the five battlefield parks established in the 1890s, all would either adjoin or be near military cemeteries. Even as they were being established and developed, the national cemeteries stood out as hallowed commemorative sites. And they provided an early and tangible intimation that the surrounding battlefield landscapes were also hallowed places, perhaps in time to be officially recognized.
The national cemeteries were thus precursors to the far larger military parks—which themselves were like cemeteries in that they still held many unfound bodies.
The first of the truly large memorials on Civil War battlefields were two imposing monuments erected in national cemeteries—one at Gettysburg, the other at Antietam. In 1864, the Gettysburg Battlefield Memorial Association requested design proposals for a “Soldiers’ National Monument” to be placed in the
cemetery’s central space, as intended in the original landscape plan. The selected design featured a tall column topped by the figure of Liberty, and a large base with figures representing War, Peace, History, and Plenty. The monument was formally dedicated in 1869. At Antietam, plans for the national cemetery also included a central space for a monument—a design feature apparently inspired by the Gettysburg cemetery plan.
The contract was let in 1871 for the monument—a large, off-white granite statue of a United States Army enlisted man. Insufficient funding helped delay its completion, so that formal dedication of the “Soldiers’ Monument” did not occur until 1880, on the 18th anniversary of the battle. Like the monuments erected during the war itself, those erected within the Gettysburg and Antietam national cemeteries were harbingers of the extensive memorialization that would in time take place in the early military parks.
In the aftermath of Union victories, most Confederate bodies were buried individually or in mass graves on the fields of battle, and most did not receive formal burials until much later. Such was the case at Gettysburg, where huge numbers of Confederate dead lay in mass graves until the early 1870s, given the Northern officials’ strict prohibition of Rebel burials in the military cemetery—a restriction put in place at other Union cemeteries located on battlefields.
At Shiloh, hundreds of Southern dead were buried together in trenches. (Some of these mass burials, although mentioned in official reports, have never been located.) Early in the war, well before the siege of Vicksburg got under way, the Confederate army began burying its dead in a special section of Cedar Hill, the Vicksburg city cemetery, which ultimately held several thousand military graves. And following the Confederate victory at Chickamauga, a somewhat systematic attempt to care for the bodies of Southern soldiers was disrupted by the Northern victory at nearby Chattanooga about two months later.
In many instances, however, the Confederate dead were disinterred and moved by local people or by the soldiers’ families for formal burial in cemeteries all across the South, including town and churchyard cemeteries. Much of this took place after the war and through the efforts of well-organized women’s memorial organizations and other concerned groups and individuals.
At Antietam, a concerted effort to remove hastily buried Rebel dead from the field of battle did not get under way until the early 1870s, about a decade after the battle. Then, over a period of several years, those remains that could be found were buried in nearby Hagerstown, Maryland.
Concern that Antietam National Cemetery should in no way honor the South was made especially clear by the extended debate over “Lee’s Rock,” one of several low-lying limestone outcrops in the cemetery. Located on a high point along Confederate lines, the rock provided a vantage point that, reportedly, Robert E. Lee used to observe parts of the battle. After the war, the rock became a curiosity and a minor Southern icon. But Northerners viewed it as an intrusion into a Union shrine, and wanted this reminder of the Rebel army removed. The final decision came in 1868—to take away all rock outcrops in the cemetery. Still, this comprehensive solution makes the removal of Lee’s Rock seem like an act of purification, erasing even the mere suggestion of Southern presence in the national cemetery.
Next week: Reunions, Reconciliation, and Veterans’ Interest in Military Parks | http://www.nationalparkstraveler.com/2008/08/pilgrim-places-civil-war-battlefields-historic-preservation-and-america-s-first-national-mil | dclm-gs1-211480000 |
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Bionic toy story can be told at last
Bionic toy story can be told at last
IT’S taken nearly four decades, but an iconic TV-related toy of the ’70s is finally having his story told.
What happened to ‘12 Years’ author?
Supplied Editorial 16032014 NORTHUP
HISTORIANS know everything about “12 Years a Slave” author Solomon Northup — except how he died and where he has been buried.
Dunham to write Archie comics
Lena Dunham As Hannah Horvath, Jemima Kirke As Jessa Johansson, Zosia Mamet As Shoshanna Shapiro, Allison Williams As Marnie...
AS if Lena Dunham’s not busy enough with her hit TV show Girls, now she’s putting her unique spin on Archie comics.
Rowling conjures up another thriller
Rowling conjures up another thriller
ROBERT Galbraith, aka J.K. Rowling, is back with a novel involving a writer whose acid-tipped pen may have led to murder
Book review: The Marmalade Files
The Marmalade Files
The Marmalade Files by Steve Lewis and Chris Uhlmann. Picture: Stephen Cooper Source: Supplied
THE book's blurb says it's a romp through the "dark underbelly of politics" and for once the blurb doesn't lie.
Two political journalists, News Limited's Steve Lewis and the ABC's Chris Uhlmann, were ruminating in a coffee shop just up the road from Parliament House in Canberra about writing a novel covering the nasty world they work in.
The result is The Marmalade Files, a banquet of bastardry. There are fixers and spinners, thugs and hypocrites, treachery and hatred.
Lewis and Uhlmann take a swag of cheeky liberties, starting with the background of a barely surviving minority Labor government.
They craft characters who are irresistibly recognisable and then muddy the waters, sometimes through a sex change. Take Cate "Attila the Hen" Bailey. She is fluent in Mandarin, has a work ethic bordering on the demented and is socially autistic. She talks in "wonk-strine" and became Australia's first woman prime minister with, for a while, stratospheric approval ratings. But her fall was swift and cruel.
The main plot centres on journalist Harry Dunkley's search for a Walkley Award-winning story after a mysterious photograph comes into his possession.
Journalists cop almost as big a hiding as the politicians do. The end, after a murder and some steamy sex, is a tease and leaves the door open for a sequel.
VERDICT: Cavalcade of caricatures
The Marmalade Files
Steve Lewis and Chris Uhlmann
HarperCollins, $29.99 | http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/books-magazines/book-review-the-marmalade-files/story-fna50uae-1226443721260 | dclm-gs1-211510000 |
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Troubled Seas: Global Red Tides of Algae Bring New Fears
Published: May 3, 1988
LATE last August, off the coast of Naples, Fla., microscopic algae began to reproduce quickly, thriving and exploding in a matter of days into a huge toxic bloom that dominated the coastal environment.
Two months later, the same organism, Ptychodiscus brevis, invaded estuaries along much of the North Carolina coast.
It turned the waters yellow, devastated the fishing and tourism economy and caused 41 reported cases of respiratory, gastrointestinal or neurological illness in people who worked the normally productive waters or spent time on the area's beaches. North Carolina's bloom is believed to have traveled north in the Gulf Stream, bypassing other Southern states.
Some scientists describe it as the latest outbreak in what they say is a spreading global epidemic of toxic and nontoxic algae blooms, called red tides. More toxic tides are being reported worldwide, damaging coastal economies as they choke marine life and foul beaches. While they acknowledge that some of the increase may be due to better reporting, scientists are accelerating research to find out the causes, which may include climatic changes, natural growth cycles and pollution, particularly accumulated nutrients that may have finally glutted coastal areas.
''We are seeing a global first-order change,'' warned Theodore J. Smayda, a professor of oceanography at the University of Rhode Island.
Stressing that there appears to be a long-term degradation of coastal waters, Virginia K. Tippie, director of estuarine programs for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. said, ''If the natural environmental conditions are in the right sequence this year, we will continue to see some problems as we did last year.''
Until last year, North Carolina had never had a toxic algae bloom. Indeed, the Ptychodiscus organism had never even been seen north of Jacksonville, Fla., about 800 miles to the south. Other toxic tides have been reported off Suffolk County, N.Y., Rhode Island, Tasmania, Taiwan, Guatemala, Korea, Hong Kong and Venezuela.
In a scientific paper delivered at a symposium last year in Japan, Donald M. Anderson, an associate scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts, said that over the last two decades, scientists have seen ''a global increase in the frequency, magnitude and geographic extent'' of red tides.
''There's no question that the toxic species have been more noticeable recently,'' Dr. Anderson said in a recent telephone interview. ''But there is no way to really quantify what is going on. We have a general view over time that accumulates, but there is no doubt that in certain parts of the world we are seeing more of these toxic events.''
Scientists who study phytoplankton, the microscopic plants that when multiplied billions of times create algal blooms, are now trying to learn the cause of the blooms' increasing frequency and force.
Their ideas range from long-term climate shifts to human-caused changes like the flow of sewage and other nutrients into estuaries. Last week, the Environmental Defense Fund, a nonprofit environmental group, reported that the airborne nitrates in acid rain, which come mostly from motor vehicles, power plants and other industries, are also a major source of the nitrogen feeding algae blooms in Eastern coastal waters.
Another possibility, some wary scientists argue, is that the increase in blooms results from their being noticed more. The world's oceans are receiving closer scrutiny as they are used more and more for recreation, transportation and aquaculture. Pollution as Stimulant
Toxic algal blooms have occurred throughout history and can have natural origins. The idea that they could be encouraged by pollution is only now gaining favor with some scientists. ''It clearly was not a necessary factor in some of these algal events,'' Dr. Anderson said. ''What is changing is the recognition that although not necessary, pollution can stimulate certain species.''
The term ''red tide'' is used generically by scientists and others to describe any bloom, toxic or not, even though the algae that cause the tides can turn waters brown, yellow, green or other shades as well, depending on the makeup of the organism. Most algal blooms are not toxic to fish or people, even though the discolored and turbid waters can make swimming or fishing unpleasant. Problems Beyond Toxicity
But algal blooms that are not toxic to fish can cause enormous damage. As algae proliferate, they can block sunlight and force out other small organisms that are the start of the marine food chain. And as the algae die, sinking to the bottom, their decay begins to consume much of the water's dissolved oxygen that other marine life need. The other life suffocates.
''It hasn't clicked with people that we are overfertilizing the oceans to the point where they are choked,'' said Gary T. Burris, the chairman of Survival of the Sea Society, a nonprofit organization that is studying and documenting the decay of the oceans. ''I've seen lobsters caught by fishermen that have algae in their gills. They were choked and rotted.'' | http://www.nytimes.com/1988/05/03/science/troubled-seas-global-red-tides-of-algae-bring-new-fears.html | dclm-gs1-211580000 |
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A Final Clear-Cut, and Goodbye to Logging
Published: March 30, 1992
Loggers don't say "timmmmmmber," when a 200-foot Douglas fir comes crashing down, severed by chain saw from its centuries-old anchor to the ground. They never did, as far as anyone on the Olympic Peninsula can remember.
Instead, after the pop and snap of wood fiber crumbling into the arms of gravity, Gary Phillips takes a deep breath. "Smell that?" says Mr. Phillips, a third-generation logger who is cutting his last stand of timber. "That's the smell of dying trees."
It wasn't so long ago that the Olympic Peninsula, home of the only temperate rain forest in the contiguous United States, called itself the logging capital of the world.
Increasingly, wood for new American homes comes from Canada, the South or the big Northwest tree farms owned by companies like Weyerhauser. Less than 15 percent of the nation's wood comes from the national forests, and some critics would like to see all logging halted on Federal lands. Farmers, Not Villains
These men do not see themselves as land rapists or villains. They say they are more like farmers, harvesting a crop. Nature, Mr. Phillips said, has downed more trees through fire and wind than any logger.
"A salmon fisherman once asked me if I felt bad, cutting down all these big trees," Mr. Phillips said. "I said: 'No, sir. Have you ever felt bad taking in a big salmon?' "
But these men concede that most of the really big trees are gone, and in many ways, the loggers still working in the last years of the 20th century are paying for the sins of others.
"I cut a tree once, 18 feet in diameter, but have not seen anything like that for many years," said Bob French, who has spent most of his 57 years in the woods.
They gather on this day in darkness, an hour before dawn, at a restaurant along Highway 101 called The Logger's Landing. Everyone wears spiked boots, and suspenders because belts don't hold the pants up just right. They consume enough eggs and bacon to shock a heart surgeon into palpitations. On the walls are pictures of the glory years, a dozen or more loggers standing proudly atop a single tree stump. 70 Acres of Timber
Mr. Phillips, who has a bearskin rug over the couch at home, elk trophies on his walls and antique rifles displayed in a glass-topped coffee table, started H & P Logging with his partner, Pat Handly. They are contract loggers -- meaning they cut trees on contract for the purchaser of the timber. Their final timber harvest is a 70-acre piece of land owned by the state. Logging on Federal land on the peninsula has come to a virtual standstill because of restrictions to protect the northern spotted owl.
In all the years that Mr. Phillips's crew has been logging, not a man can remember seeing a spotted owl. Although a few dead owls have been found nailed to posts here in the Olympics -- a sign of the intense bitterness some men feel -- the loggers on Mr. Phillips's crew say they respect wildlife more than the average city dweller.
The Olympic Peninsula, a Massachusetts-sized shank of land in the far northwest corner of Washington State, can get heavy rains -- up to 180 inches a year -- on its western side, while the eastern side basks in sun. The interior of the peninsula is the Olympic National Park; it is bordered by the Olympic National Forest, two-thirds of which has been logged. The remaining land is private or owned by the state of Washington. Much of the private land has been severely cut, leaving vast stretches of stumps and brown earth.
Clear-cutting, considered the most economical way to cut trees in the thick forests of the Pacific Northwest, is the only way most of the men on the H & P crew have ever logged. In a typical clear-cut, the land is cleared of every tree, the logs gathered into neat piles, the brush burned and the ground replanted.
Deer, black bears, mice, coyotes, and numerous birds may live in this particular 70 acres, just above a saltwater inlet of Puget Sound. After the chain saws start up, the prime concern is wood. A single large tree can yield lumber worth as much as $30,000. When all the trees are felled from this section, they will provide enough wood to build about 230 houses. Much of this wood, after being cut into framing timber, will go to Japan. | http://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/30/us/a-final-clear-cut-and-goodbye-to-logging.html?pagewanted=3&src=pm | dclm-gs1-211590000 |
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Portrait of a President on a Revealing Night
Published: April 15, 2004
To the Editor:
Those who heard the president's press conference (front page, April 14) must have been struck by one overwhelming sentiment: we are fully at war and we cannot afford to lose or retreat.
Iraq is a front line in that war, which we must pursue to a successful conclusion. From that there can be no retreat, under pain of severely wounding ourselves and the whole free world in this war on Islamic terrorism.
This is beyond politics, and the only question for the American people in November is who can best win that war.
If we win, the other problems we face (the economy, health care, Social Security, jobs) can be worked out and improved. If we lose that war, all the rest won't make much difference. That is the crucial question that the American people will have to answer in November 2004, as they did in 1944, 1916, 1864 and 1812.
Houston, April 14, 2004 | http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/15/opinion/l-portrait-of-a-president-on-a-revealing-night-225231.html?src=pm | dclm-gs1-211650000 |
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System and automated method for producing welded end closures in thin-walled metal tubes
Patent 6403916 Issued on June 11, 2002. Estimated Expiration Date: Icon_subject May 12, 2020. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.
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No. 569536 filed on 05/12/2000
US Classes:
219/121.63, Welding219/59.1, Of cylinders (e.g., pipes and tubes)219/121.15, Deposition (e.g., sputtering)219/121.76, Multiple beams219/121.83With monitoring
Primary: Elve, M. Alexandra
Attorney, Agent or Firm
Foreign Patent References
• 4425861 DE. 01/17/1996
• 9250972 JP. 09/17/1997
International Class
B23K 026/00
1. Technical Field
This invention relates to a system and method for laser welding the ends of thin-walled metal tubes and, optionally, for filling and sealing a contained mass inside the metal tubes by use of a robot and a multidirectional laser. More particularly, the invention relates to a system and method for manufacturing radioactive brachytherapy "seeds" that are implantable for use in medical therapy such as the irradiation of tumors.
2. Prior Art
The use of radiation therapy in medicine, particularly in cancer treatment, is well established. Conventional external radiation sources are used to irradiate both cancer tumor bodies and residual cancerous tissues after surgical excision of a solid tumor. Irradiation utilizing exterior radiation sources is limited in usefulness due to the high doses of radiation required and the resultant harmful consequences to surrounding and intervening healthy tissues.
Interstitial brachytherapy (short-range therapy) is also a well-established medical procedure in which a source of radioactivity, often called a "seed," is implanted within or near a tumor or other tissue. This procedure produces more focused radiation dosages and reduces the total radiation dosage required to achieve a desired therapeutic effect, thereby reducing harm to surrounding normal tissues. The seed is generally a hollow, sealed container made of a material that is relatively transparent to radiation. The radiation source within the seed varies with the required medical specifications, the type of radioisotope and the manufacturing process.
Examples of brachytherapy seeds are disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 4,891,165 to Suthanthrian, U.S. Pat. No. 4,323,055 to Kubiatowicz, U.S. Pat. No. 4,702,228 to Russell, U.S. Pat. No. 5,405,309 to Carden, and U.S. Pat. No. 5,997,463 to Cutrer.
Suthanthrian discloses a brachytherapy seed comprising two hollow cylinders, each having one open end. One cylinder is slightly smaller than the other, allowing the open end of the first to slide into and toward the closed end of the second cylinder. The cylinders desirably fit together tightly.
Kubiatowicz discloses a seed construct wherein the radioactive material is loaded manually and the ends of the titanium seed are welded shut such as by plasma-arc welding.
Russell and Carden disclose the same seed construct, which improves on the Kubiatowicz and Suthanthrian seeds by using form-fitting caps at the ends of a hollow cylindrical titanium seed. These caps are laser welded onto the cylinder body. This configuration produces seed ends that are the same thickness as the walls. While this diminishes the anisotropy of the emitted radiation relative to the Kubiatowicz and Suthanthrian seeds, the cap-cylinder overlap creates a zone of thicker seed material that causes some anisotropy in the emitted radiation.
Cutrer discloses a brachytherapy source and method of manufacture in which a single laser and a rotating chuck are used, either alone or in combination with crimping, to seal radioactive spheres inside metal tubes. The laser is preferably activated in four series of short pulses to complete the welds because welding with a single laser can produce an unstable weld pool that can interfere with sealing and with the radiation pattern exhibited by the resultant product. Cutrer also discloses the provision of an inert gas source to minimize or eliminate oxidation during welding and to cool the weld afterwards.
The prior art construction of brachytherapy seeds also involves manual addition of the radiation source and sealing the seed in a separate, discontinuous step. This manufacturing scheme is labor intensive, time consuming and results in significant radiation exposure to workers. Additionally, the Food and Drug Administration and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission require the radioactive materials to be safely contained so as to prevent leakage and radiation poisoning.
A safe, automated method and apparatus that will facilitate the manufacture of brachytherapy seeds while minimizing worker radiation exposure, improving product quality and increasing manufacturing capacity are therefore needed.
This invention disclosed herein is an automated system and method useful for producing welded end closures in thin-walled metal tubes, and for encapsulating or containing a mass within a small-diameter metal tube. As used herein, the term "thin-walled" generally refers to tubes having wall thicknesses less than about 0.5 mm. The encapsulated mass can comprise a solid, liquid or gel, and, as more particularly described below, can comprise a radioactive component to facilitate use in biomedical applications. According to a particularly preferred embodiment of the invention, the small-diameter, thin-walled, metal tubes used in the invention are made of titanium, the mass includes a plurality of radiolabeled spherical metal bodies, and encapsulation or containment is achieved by laser welding the bottom and top ends of the metal tube using an multi-directional laser source to produce brachytherapy seeds.
The system of the invention preferably comprises a plurality of discrete modules or subassemblies serviced by a SCARA-form robot mounted on a stationary base, all housed inside a protective enclosure such as a sealed, negative pressure isolation glove box, which maintains a filtered production environment and provides containment and shielding for any radioactive component of the product. The discrete modules of the system contained inside the enclosure preferably include the SCARA robot, an automated gripper, a tube dispenser, a multi-directional laser welder, a loader-filler, at least one inspection module, and an output receiver. "SCARA" is commonly used to refer to a robot having a "Selectively Compliant Articulated Robot Arm." SCARA robots have a cylindrical work envelope, and the articulated support arm permits access to work locations disposed at virtually all locations within the envelope.
The subject system is desirably automated and operated by programmable electronic controllers that cause the various modules to perform functions as disclosed herein, sometimes receiving input from, and sometimes directing signals to, a plurality of sensors and transducers. One primary control computer preferably receives feedback from the robot and various other sensing devices to control the process. A second computer desirably provides information regarding fine visual positioning at the laser welder to the primary control computer.
According to a particularly preferred embodiment of the invention, the laser welder comprises three laser outputs spaced at even intervals around a target location and positioned so that beams routed from a common source through a splitter and fiber optic cables converge in a target zone at substantially the same time to weld the selected end of a metal tube while the tube is held in position by the automated gripper of the robot.
According to a preferred embodiment of the method of the invention, precut metal tubes of desired length, most preferably made of titanium, are retrieved by the automated gripper of the robot from the tube dispenser, moved to the laser welder and welded at the bottom, moved to the loader-filler and loaded with a predetermined mass to be contained inside the tube, inspected to insure proper filling, returned to the laser welder for welding the top of the tube, inspected to insure weld integrity, and then moved to the output receiver and released.
According to a particularly preferred application of the invention, the subject system and method are used to produce brachytherapy seeds for localized radiation treatment of cancer cells. When producing brachytherapy seeds, the contained mass preferably comprises a plurality of spheres coated or impregnated with a radionuclide, or a gel or gelable material containing a radionuclide.
The invention is further described and explained in relation to the following figures of the drawings, wherein:
FIG. 1 is a simplified front elevation view of the primary enclosure for the manufacturing system of the invention;
FIG. 2 is a simplified top plan view of the tube filling, sealing and inspection apparatus for the manufacturing system of the invention;
FIG. 3 is a simplified perspective view of the tube dispenser module of the tube filling and sealing apparatus;
FIG. 3A is an enlarged, detail perspective view of a portion of the flip tube that is part of the tube dispenser module of FIG. 3 and is used in recovering a metal tube from a track at the top of a vibratory bowl;
FIG. 3B is an enlarged, detail perspective view showing the flip tube of the tube dispenser module after it has been rotated approximately 90 degrees, from a substantially horizontal position to a substantially upright position to facilitate pick-up by the automated gripper assembly;
FIG. 4 is a simplified perspective view of the tube gripper module of the invention showing two opposed gripper fingers in the open position relative to a titanium tube disposed between them;
FIG. 4A is a detail view of the lower portion of the tube gripper module as shown in FIG. 4, but with the two opposed gripper fingers drawn together to grip the titanium tube disposed between them;
FIG. 5 is a simplified perspective view of one of the three laser welder heads of the tube filling and sealing apparatus, with broken-away head portions of two other laser welder heads also being shown to depict their position relative to a metal tube, the tube being shown here in dashed outline;
FIG. 5A is a simplified diagrammatic view showing three laser welder heads welding the bottom of a metal tube prior to loading the tube;
FIG. 5B is a simplified diagrammatic view as in FIG. 5A but showing welding the top of the metal tube after the tube is loaded;
FIG. 6 is a simplified perspective view of the sphere loader module of the tube filling and sealing apparatus of the invention;
FIG. 7 is a simplified perspective view of the sphere checker module of the tube filling and sealing apparatus of the invention;
FIG. 8 is a simplified perspective view of the welding and inspection module of the tube filling and sealing apparatus of the invention, showing the positional relationship between one of the laser welder heads and the welding and inspection well;
FIG. 9 is a simplified elevation view, partially broken away and partially in cross-section, of a titanium tube of the type that can be sealed and welded using the system of the invention;
FIG. 10 is a simplified elevation view, partially broken away and partially in cross-section, of a titanium tube containing five metal spheres and sealed at each end following laser welding to form a brachytherapy seed in accordance with a preferred method of the invention;
FIG. 11 is a simplified perspective view of an output receiver module of the tube filling and sealing apparatus of the invention; and
FIG. 12 is a simplified schematic illustrating the generation, splitting and direction of a laser beam to the respective laser welding heads as are described below in relation to FIGS. 2, 5 and 8.
It is to be understood that the invention disclosed herein is broadly directed to a system and method for sealing metal tubes by the use of a laser welding apparatus having multiple (two or more) heads for directing laser beams substantially simultaneously against the tube from more than one direction. Using the system and method of the invention, metal tubes of a predetermined length and diameter are sealed by sequentially welding the opposite ends of the tube. Each end weld is achieved through the application of laser beams directed against the outside tube wall, either simultaneously or nearly simultaneously, from laser heads spaced around the periphery of the tube. Desirably, a single beam of light emanating from a laser is split and a portion of the beam is directed through each of a plurality of fiber optic conductors to a different laser welding head. The beams exiting the multiple heads are directed against the metal tube, or target, and converge on the target from different directions, impacting the outside wall of the tube at positions near the tube ends that desirably define a plane generally transverse to the longitudinal axis through the tube. This simultaneous use of multiple laser welding heads to seal the open ends of a vertically oriented metal tube is believed to be disclosed herein for the first time.
In many instances, the metal tube is advantageously supported in a vertical or substantially vertical position during welding. We have discovered that when the open bottom end of a metal tube is being welded, the application of laser-directed light beams against points disposed slightly above the tube end and at two or more spaced-apart points on its periphery can cause the downwardly extending end of the tube wall to be drawn upwardly and inwardly, effectively sealing off the lower end of the tube. Similarly, when the laser beams are directed against the tube wall at circumferentially spaced points near and approximately equidistant from the upper end, the tube end is drawn downwardly and inwardly, effectively sealing off the upper end of the tube.
After the bottom end of the tube is welded, a solid, liquid, gaseous or gelled mass, or a combination of thereof, can be placed or otherwise loaded inside the tube and the top end is then welded to seal the mass inside the tube. The tube is desirably purged with a flow of inert gas prior to and during welding.
The present invention is believed to be useful for sealing metal tubes of various lengths and diameters, made of various metals, and for many different types of uses. The metal tubes can have many different types of contained masses, and welding of the tube ends can be achieved using different power lasers, and with different numbers and placement of laser heads, a particularly preferred utility for the invention is the production of brachytherapy seeds having a radionuclide as the contained mass.
The detailed description as set forth below is primarily directed to the preferred embodiment of the invention as used in producing brachytherapy seeds. Brachytherapy seeds as disclosed herein are typically about the size of a grain of rice and comprise a sealed metal tube, most preferably titanium, containing a radionuclide. The radionuclide can be coated on or impregnated into solid bodies such as spheres, that are loaded into the axial bore of the metal tubes after one end is welded. Alternatively, the radionuclide can be encapsulated as either a liquid or gel within the metal tube, and if desired, can first be incorporated into another containment device or structure such as a plastic shell or sleeve prior to loading it into a metal tube. The brachytherapy seeds can be inserted clinically into body tissue such as the prostate to irradiate surrounding tissue in the treatment of cancer or other maladies. The strength and period of the irradiation are controlled through judicious selection of the type and dosage of the contained mass of radionuclide. The use of one or more radioactive substituents, such as radioactive iodine, in producing brachytherapy seeds in turn necessitates the use of a manufacturing system and method that minimize the exposure of workers to harmful radiation.
Referring to FIG. 1, system 20 of the invention preferably comprises enclosure 22, which houses the SCARA robot and other related modules or subassemblies used in manufacturing brachytherapy seeds as are described in greater detail below. Enclosure 22 should provide a protective environment for radiological containment during the manufacture of brachytherapy seeds, including radiological shielding, and should operate at a negative pressure with respect to the surrounding room to ensure operator safety. Enclosure 22 is preferably supported on frame or stand 24 by base plate 25 and comprises a work station with a window 26 and glove ports 28 on each side. Enclosure 22 is preferably made of stainless steel. Enclosure 22 should have conventional connectors (not shown) for electricity, compressed air and inert gas. Connections should also be provided to a computer operating system, preferably comprising first and second control computers 30, 32, and for fiber optic cabling as discussed below in relation to FIGS. 2, 5, 8 and 12.
The entire system should operate at a negative pressure with respect to the surrounding room to provide a safe working environment for the operator. Exhaust air should be vented to the facility exhaust air handling system with filtering to remove gaseous and radioactive particles. A conventional airlock (not shown) is desirably provided. Pressurization of the airlock must be negative to the surrounding room. Airlock pressurization is preferably monitored and verified by a magnahelic gauge.
Referring to FIG. 2, dashed line 34 generally represents the substantially rectangular boundaries of base plate 25 of enclosure 22 as described above. FIG. 2 depicts a simplified plan view, without cables, etc., showing a preferred arrangement of most of the various modules or subassemblies used within the method of the invention to make, for example, brachytherapy seeds. SCARA robot 36 is preferably located so that most of its functions can be performed simply by moving support arm 40 relative to stationary base 38. Robots 36 preferred for use in the subject apparatus and in the manufacture of brachytherapy seeds in accordance with the preferred method of the invention use pre-programmed instructions to retrieve a metal tube, most preferably made of titanium, and present the tube to a series of pre-set locations where the tube is welded at the bottom end, loaded with spheres, welded at the top end, inspected and deposited for storage. Robot 36 is preferably bolted inside enclosure 22.
Referring to FIGS. 1, 2, 4 and 4A, robot 36 preferably further comprises automated gripper 54 mounted beneath support arm 40, which is preferably articulated, with two segments independently rotatable in a horizontal plane and capable of positioning automated gripper 54 over any point within the working zone inside enclosure 22. Automated gripper 54 preferably comprises body 60 clamped to a spindle from support arm 40 that is inserted into receptacle 62. Support arm 40 desirably enables body 60 to be selectively elevated, lowered, or rotated as desired. Opposed gripper fingers 66, 68 having opposed finger inserts 70, 72 are preferably slidably mounted on the underside of body 60 and are controllable, preferably pneumatically through valve 64, so as to grip and support a metal tube 74, as shown in FIGS. 4 and 4A, and then subsequently release it at an appropriate time in accordance with the method of the invention. Automated gripper 54 is preferably constructed and installed so as to provide the necessary clearance relative to the other modules or subassemblies mounted inside enclosure 22. Robot controller 30 communicates with robot 36, relaying programmed instructions to robot 36 to guide support arm 40, gripper fingers 66 and finger inserts 70, 72 (FIGS. 4, 4A) sequentially through a predetermined series of motions at various locations corresponding to the different work stations inside enclosure 22.
Referring again to FIG. 2, mounted around robot 36 are tube dispenser 42, laser heads 44, laser alignment cameras 45, inspection camera 46, sphere loader 48, sphere checker 50, output receiver 52 and release sensor 172. Although three laser heads 44 are shown in FIG. 2 in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the invention, it will be appreciated that for some applications and metal tube diameters, a single laser head may be sufficient for closing the tube ends in a satisfactory manner. In general, however, it is believed that better welds and better results are achieved using a plurality of circumferentially spaced laser heads 44 that each contribute to making the weld.
Referring to FIGS. 3, 3A and 3B, tube dispenser 42 is desirably used to present metal tubes 74 in an upright position for retrieval by automated gripper 54 of robot 36 as described above. Tube dispenser 42 preferably comprises a mounting plate 79 securable in a fixed position relative to enclosure 22 and robot 36, previously described, at least one rotary bracket 77 supporting rotator housing 78, flip tube 76, pneumatic cam 80, sensor assembly 82 and vibratory bowl 84 connected by shaft 86 to vibratory motor 88.
Referring to FIG. 9, which is not drawn to scale, metal tubes 74 used in practicing the preferred embodiments of the invention as described herein are preferably made of titanium because of its resistance to corrosion and its widespread acceptance for use in devices and structures that are implantable in the human body. It will be appreciated, however, that other metals and alloys can also be used within the scope of the invention provided that such metals perform satisfactorily in the intended application and are approved for such use. For purposes of manufacturing brachytherapy seeds, metal tubes 74 are preferably open-ended titanium tubes having a cylindrical cross-section. When welded, the tubes are desirably about 4.5 mm long, have an outside diameter of about 0.8 mm and a wall thickness of about 0.05 mm.
When metal tubes 74 are dumped into vibratory bowl 84, they migrate upward to annular, semi-cylindrical, circumferentially extending track 90, where they are transported to cylindrical aperture 92 of flip tube 76, as is visible in FIG. 3A. When a metal tube 74 is seated inside aperture 92, flip tube 76 is rotated upwardly by pneumatic cam 80 as indicated by arrow 94 until metal tube 74 is substantially vertical. Although other similarly effective mechanical configurations can used, the tube dispenser should be capable of consistently presenting a single metal tube for retrieval by automated gripper 54. Optical sensors located in sensor assembly 82 and containing an LED pair 83, 85 are preferably adapted to signal the robot controller once metal tube 74 is vertically oriented and ready for pick-up by automated gripper 54.
Referring to FIG. 2, three laser heads 44 are preferably mounted at substantially equally spaced intervals of about 120° around the major arc traversed by swivel arm 40 of robot 36. Referring to FIGS. 2 and 8, tips 96 of laser heads 44 preferably extend radially inward through sidewall portals 98 of hood 56, and are directed so that laser beams emanating from tips 96 of each laser head 44 converge at the center of welding zone 59. Cylinder 58 defining welding zone 59 is desirably transparent and lighted to facilitate laser welding and subsequent inspection by camera 46. Only one laser head 44 is shown for illustrative purposes in FIG. 8 but it will be understood that other laser heads are similarly mounted relative to the other two portals 98 in hood 56. At each stage of the method of the invention where welding of a metal tube is desired, swivel arm 40 of robot 36 is desirably positioned by the robot controller over robot access aperture 58 in the substantially horizontal upper surface 100 of hood 56, and the metal tube is lowered by automated gripper 54 (FIGS. 4 and 4A) so that the metal tube to be welded is properly positioned in welding zone 59, best seen in FIG. 2.
FIG. 5 is a simplified perspective view showing one laser head 44 mounted on base 116, including tip 96 and fiber optic cable 112, in relation to tips 96 of the other two laser heads 44 and metal tube 74. FIGS. 5, 5A and 5B each depict a metal tube positioned for welding where laser beams emanating from each of tips 96 of laser heads 44 will converge. FIG. 5A is a simplified illustration of a metal tube 74 positioned so that laser beams 102 from each of tips 96 will converge near the bottom of the tube, thereby sealing the lower end with a weld. We have discovered that when a small diameter, open metal tube is supported in a vertical position, the controlled application of one or more laser beams to the side wall of a small diameter metal tube a short distance from the bottom end of the tube causes the metal to be drawn inwardly and upwardly to produce a seal across the previously open end. Similarly, FIG. 5B is a simplified illustration showing a metal tube 74 positioned so that laser beams 102 from each of tips 96 will converge near the top of the tube, thereby also sealing its upper end with a weld. According to a preferred embodiment of the invention, between the time that the bottom tube end is sealed as shown in FIG. 5A and the time that the top tube end is sealed as shown in FIG. 5B, robot 36 (FIG. 2) will retract metal tube 74 from welding zone 59 and move it to another module or subassembly within enclosure 22 (FIG. 1) so that a mass to be contained inside metal tube 74 can be loaded into the open, top end, and will then return metal tube 74 to welding zone 59 to effect the final weld. Inert gas, preferably helium because it is lighter than air, is introduced within the welding zone as through tube 174 (FIG. 2) to reduce oxidation of the metal during the weld. The timing of gas purges is desirably computer controlled so that they only occur during welding.
According to another preferred aspect of the invention, because some of the purge gas is sealed inside the tubes by the welds, any subsequent leakage of the purge gas can be monitored during later inspection using a helium mass spectrometer to help identify welds lacking complete integrity.
FIG. 12 is a schematic showing in simplified form how a single laser beam 104 generated by laser 106 is divided by beam splitter 108 into three separate, substantially identical, lower power beams that are transmitted through fiber optic cables 110, 112, 114 to laser heads 44. Laser heads 44 are preferably powered by a Neodymium-doped Yttrium Aluminum Garnet (Nd:YAG) laser 106 and are preferably used to weld the ends of a metal tube 74 so as to seal a mass inside the cylindrical bore of the tube between the welded ends. Laser 106 and laser heads 44 are desirably capable of interfacing to a variety of fiber optic cable sizes and lengths. Laser heads 44 will desirably have several laser output-sharing modes including but not limited to the number of outputs, energy sharing and time sharing.
Referring again to FIG. 2, laser heads 44 preferably utilize an auxiliary system for aiming the laser while the main beam is off line. Closed circuit television cameras (CCTV) 45 having at least 50×magnification and cross-hairs for direct observation of the welding zone 59 through laser heads 44 are also desirably provided. The CCTV system should be capable of aligning and/or verifying alignment of titanium tubes 74 to the beam. An ENET module will desirably serve as the analog/digital interface between the robot controller 30 (FIG. 1) and laser 106 to facilitate laser communications and the independent firing of the laser. Referring to FIGS. 2, 8, and 10, vision guide system 46 of system 20 is preferably used for inspecting bottom weld 120 and top weld 126 of metal tubes 74 used to make brachytherapy seeds 170. Vision guide system 46 desirably interfaces with software that is used to program the operation of robot 36. Vision guide system 46 will desirably include a video camera, adjustable diffused lighting, appropriate lenses and mounting apparatus and a computer. During inspection of bottom weld 120, metal tube 74 is preferably rotated a full 360° by robot 36 while still inside welding zone 59. If weld 120 is not satisfactory, robot 36 is desirably programmed to reposition tube 74 over a rejection vial, discussed below, and release it. Following completion of the inspection of bottom weld 120 with an acceptable result, metal tube 74, still having an open top end, is repositioned by robot 36 beneath dispensing arm 138 of sphere loader 48 (FIG. 6).
As mentioned above, the mass to be contained inside metal tubes 74 can take many different forms, depending upon various factors such as availability, cost, efficiency and reliability of manufacture, and particularly, upon the intended use. In manufacturing brachytherapy seeds according to the preferred embodiment disclosed herein, the mass to be sealed inside metal tubes 74 includes a plurality of small-diameter metal spheres coated with a radioactive component having a level of radioactivity and half-life suitable for producing a desired dosage.
The module or subassembly used to install the spheres inside the cylindrical bore of metal tubes 74 is sphere loader 48, which is further described and explained with reference to FIGS. 2, 6 and 10. Sphere loader 48 of the invention is used to load radiolabeled microspheres 122, visible in FIG. 10, into metal tubes 74, each having a previously welded bottom end 120. Sphere loader 48 must be capable of consistently and reliably dropping a predetermined number, preferably five, radiolabeled microspheres 122 into the pre-welded (bottom only) metal tubes 74. Sphere loader 48 preferably comprises base plate 128 for use in mounting the module in a desired position relative to robot 36, body 130, sphere dispensing cylinder 132, sphere loading track 134 and sphere loading slide 136, which is desirably pneumatically actuated. Spheres 122 descend through a gate in the bottom of cylinder 132 and fall into track 134. Track 134 is preferably configured to accept only a predetermined number of spheres 122, in this case five. Slide 136 is then pneumatically actuated to push spheres 122 forward along track 134 until they drop through an aperture (not visible) in the underside of dispensing arm 138 into the upwardly facing, open end of metal tube 74. Sphere loader 48 should accommodate radiolabeled microspheres 122 having a diameter of about 0.64 mm, and in any event, having a diameter that is less that the internal diameter of metal tube 74. Radiolabeled microspheres are disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 5,342,283 to Good.
Once spheres 122 are loaded into a metal tube 74, robot 36 again repositions metal tube 74 below arm 147, elevated above base 140 on riser 142 of sphere checker module 50, shown in FIGS. 2 and 7. Downwardly extending pin 118 and button 146 are mounted in arm 147 in fixed relation to each other so that they can slide up and down in unison relative to arm 147. As tube 74 is raised upwardly under arm 147 by robot 36, pin 118 desirably enters the open top end of metal tube 74 and contacts the topmost sphere 122 in tube 74. Depending upon the number of spheres 122 inside tube 74, button 146 is elevated to a greater or lesser distance above the top surface of arm 147. The filled tubes 74 are accepted or rejected based on the readout of photoelectric go/no-go sensor 148, which is preferably calibrated to accept tubes 74 loaded with five microspheres 122 and reject tubes 74 loaded with more or fewer than five microspheres 122.
Following loading and checking of metal tube 74, robot 36 desirably repositions tube 74 inside welding zone 59 so that beams 164 from tips 96 of laser heads 44 are directed against the outside walls of tube 74 near its upper end as shown in FIG. 5B. Activation of laser 106 and laser heads 44 (FIGS. 2, 5 and 12) by computer 32 (FIG. 1) creates top weld 126 (FIG. 10) to produce finished brachytherapy seed 170. Following the completion of top weld 126 to form seed 170, robot 36 rotates seed 170 a full 360° while still cylindrical space 58 to permit examination of top weld 126 by the camera in module 46 to evaluate weld integrity. Following this inspection, robot 36 repositions seed 170 over output receiver 52.
Referring to FIG. 11, output receiver 52 preferably comprises base plate 150 that houses vial holder 152. Vial holder 152 has recesses 154, 156 for at least two separate vials for placement of the brachytherapy seeds 170. Robot 36 as previously described is programmed to deposit brachytherapy seeds that pass all inspections into one vial and all seeds that fail any inspection into another vial. If desired, additional vials can be provided for depositing seeds that fail inspection at a particular stage of the manufacturing process.
Because of the relatively light weights of the materials being handled by the apparatus of the invention, most metal parts of the apparatus are desirably fabricated from aluminum. Those parts that are repeatedly recycled during the manufacturing process or that directly contact metal tubes 74 or microspheres 122 are desirably made of stainless steel to reduce wear.
Seeds 170 should be substantially free of foreign material, particle, dents or bends. The welds should be silver in color, without discoloration, sharp edges, significant bulges, holes or incomplete fusion in the weld joint where the weld meets the tube surface. The outer diameter of finished seeds 170 is approximately 0.8 mm and the length is preferably about 4.5 mm. Finished seeds are desirably maintained in vials that are tightly capped and free of dirt, debris and contaminants. The product is stored in an environmentally controlled area, in locked enclosures and segregated by run number. Each vial is labeled with the product name, run number and code number.
According to the method of the invention, with reference to FIGS. 1-12, clean, pre-cut metal tubes 74, preferably made of titanium, are dispensed individually to a SCARA robot 36, which positions and sequentially advances them through the various work stations as needed for the manufacture of the brachytherapy seeds 170. Steps of the subject method desirably include continuously feeding and successively orienting in a vertical position a series of metal tubes 74 using a tube dispensing module 42, grasping a metal tube 74 using gripping fingers 66, 68 and finger inserts 70, 72 attached to robot 36 to facilitate repositioning metal tube 74 as needed to complete the process while under the control of a computer 30, welding the bottom end 120 of tube 74 using a plurality of laser heads 44 having beams in substantially the same horizontal plane controlled by computer 32 and directed so as to substantially converge in a predetermined region in a welding zone 59 in which tube 74 is supported, inspecting weld 120, loading a predetermined mass (as, for example, five radioactive microspheres 122) into bottom-welded tube 74, verifying proper loading of the mass inside tube 74, repositioning loaded tube 74 in welding zone 59 to produce top weld 126, thereby forming brachytherapy seed 170, inspecting top weld 126, and depositing the finished seed 170 in the appropriate vial location in output receiver 52. A release sensor 172, desirably located near output receiver 52, as seen in FIG. 2, preferably verifies that seed 170 has in fact dropped from automated gripper 54 before robot 36 commences the next cycle.
In addition to the visual weld inspections performed during the manufacturing process as described above, additional testing is desirably performed on products intended for use in applications such as brachytherapy seeds. Such tests include, for example, a radioassay using an I-125 Seed Standard traceable to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The seeds are also desirably subjected to a radionuclidic purity test, performed using a high performance germanium detector (HPGe) calibrated with standards also directly traceable to NIST.
With the multi-directional laser system and method disclosed herein, the pulse targets tube 74 near the bottom or top open end, respectively. Precision in the position on metal tube 74 targeted by laser heads 44 and the pulse energy are important to the welding process. This single laser pulse technique eliminates the need to rotate either tube 74 or the welding implement during the welding process. This new laser welding process is a significant benefit to effective automation and the enhanced product quality.
Other alterations and modifications of the system, apparatus and method disclosed herein will likewise become apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art upon reading this disclosure, and it is intended that the scope of the invention be limited only by the broadest interpretation of the appended claims to which the inventors are legally entitled.
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Abandon Pallini
In this place your truths are bleeding.
Athens is here no more.
She travels down a cart-track,
with a useless spare wheel in the trunk.
She named Hyakinthus Apollo
and Apollo Jesus.
She buried the cloud compeller
underneath chapels of Prophet Elias.
And chapels of Prophet Elias
underneath TV antennae.
And it is five past ten in the morning.
Eilithyia descends Parnitha,
bearing an arm of death flowers.
Smell the wind.
Listen to the birds of Teiresias.
This morning carries a strange message for you.
The dream is a broken glass in your stomach.
How can you live without its glow?
And how can you put it back together again?
You shall bleed in any case.
Lean towards the earth.
Wash away your vows at Styx.
And just like Alkyoneas,
abandon Pallini.
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[25 April 2007]
By Jon Ross
The first track from Keiko Matsui’s latest smooth jazz release starts with an accelerando hand drum rhythm. Next comes a funky piano vamp, echoed by an electric bass. Enter vocalizations. Cut to sweeping saccharine piano, then back to the vamp. Here’s a bridge of some sort: a piano mini-melody echoed by more voices. Disparate musics? Voices? What is going on? In a word, everything. Within the first two minutes of “Moyo”, African percussion blends with funk blends with jazz. Matsui’s classical athleticism—which can be heard in how she executes her trills and adds a shimmering quality to her lines—is at the center of this amalgam of sound, an aesthetic that, as the CD gets deeper into the tracks, becomes increasingly directed by synthesizers and other electronics.
To take this as a disadvantage—the schizophrenia of the music, the tendency to pack too much into a three-minute space—would be wrong. Matsui shrouds herself in layers of instrumentation, content to emote from her insulated space in the center of it all, and that’s exactly what her music is supposed to accomplish. To the pianist, it’s not about improvisation; it’s not even about chords or notes. Matsui’s music is about making a product that sounds good, and, taking into account the heavy production on a release like this, Moyo sounds great. But this is all the music accomplishes. There is no higher meaning to the placement of one feeling against another. This is not instrumental music intended for deep introspection. Matsui’s aim is more superficial; this is music for a passing glance—or elevator ride—but nothing more.
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International Studies in The Philosophy of Science 02/2012; 16(2). DOI:10.1080/02698590220145061
Source: arXiv
ABSTRACT Wigner found unreasonable the "effectiveness of mathematics in the natural
sciences". But if the mathematics we use to describe nature is simply a coded
expression of our experience then its effectiveness is quite reasonable. Its
effectiveness is built into its design. We consider group theory, the logic of
symmetry. We examine the premise that symmetry is identity; that group theory
encodes our experience of identification. To decide whether group theory
describes the world in such an elemental way we catalogue the detailed
correspondence between elements of the physical world and elements of the
formalism. Providing an unequivocal match between concept and mathematical
statement completes the case. It makes effectiveness appear reasonable. The
case that symmetry is identity is a strong one but it is not complete. The
further validation required suggests that unexpected entities might be
describable by the irreducible representations of group theory.
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Clay Kilpatrick was 18 when he entered a bank, used a fake gun to order cooperation or death, then walked out $4,900 richer and his young life in ruins.
Associated Press
Dec 22, 2013
The heroin addict deep in debt committed the robbery two days before his sister’s high school graduation in May 2011.
The FBI dubbed him the “Dirty Bieber Bandit” because a witness said he looked like Justin Bieber, “only dirty”
Kilpatrick, now 21, was released from prison Dec. 13 after serving less than two years of a fouryear sentence. A Franklin County judge approved his early release with the support of prosecutors. Kilpatrick is clean, on probation and plans to leave the world of drugs behind.
Kilpatrick went free as the state battles the drug that helped put him behind bars. Attorney General Mike DeWine calls heroin abuse an epidemic killing at least 11 Ohioans a week. U.S. Attorney Steven Dettelbach in Cleveland labels it a public health crisis. The Drug Enforcement Administration says heroin availability is on the rise nationally and overdoses are increasing.
Kilpatrick smoked marijuana in his early teens but swore to never try heroin. Yet friends persuaded him to smoke what they called “opium” off aluminum foil — in fact, it was heroin — and he was hooked.
Kilpatrick robbed his family of electronics, cash, credit cards and checks to feed his habit. He stole money from friends who cashed checks for him he knew would bounce. He left dealers in the lurch. He borrowed from payday lending companies. Soon, he was $1,500 in debt with no end in sight. He hatched the bank robbery as a spurof-the-moment crime.
Kilpatrick was a lousy bank robber, a fact that probably saved his life by forestalling a fatal overdose. Police identified him quickly based on tips, including Kilpatrick’s boast on Facebook about the robbery.
Out on bond after his indictment and arrest, Kilpatrick continued to get into trouble and kept using. On Nov. 12, 2011, he walked into the Hilliard police station to turn himself in for good, a heroin syringe in his waistband. He said rehab wasn’t working, and he knew he had to go somewhere he couldn’t get drugs and they wouldn’t let him leave.
That place was Belmont Correctional Institution in eastern Ohio.
Kilpatrick’s chances for recovery rest with his willingness to take responsibility, starting with an admission of his problem and willingness to fix it, said Paul Coleman, president of Maryhaven, the region’s oldest addiction counseling service. That includes attending 12-step programs for drug addicts and avoiding the people, places and things that got him in trouble to begin with.
Kilpatrick said he plans to attend such programs with friends who are clean. He pledges a new start and warns anyone who will listen not to go near heroin.
“People just need to know how serious it is,” Kilpatrick said. “I’m sure these kids start doing it not knowing how bad it really is, thinking they can just try it once and get a quick high, but it’s not like that. Not with this drug”
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Sniff, Sniff, I get all emotional reading this crap during the holidays. His family knew, and they enabled him for not turining him in, shame on them. What would they say if he went on to hurt someone while stealing to get his fix? What would his family say if he had been shot during the commission of his crimes, you know, like that white trash P OS in sandusky county a couple of years back!
Yeah, I have trouble feeling sorry for heroin abusers too but I do hope he stays clean and turns his life around. Many won't. Others will overdose. The ones that have kids are the ones that really need to wise up. They are doing their children a great disservice.
Why do you say his family didnt turn him in? It doesn't say anything like that. I wish people were aware and educated on addiction, and psychology. People are so quick to judge a person they don't know anything about. Their are many more heroin users then you think. Doctors, teachers, lawyers, paramedics, professional athletes ect.... it doesn't discriminate and is tearing apart a hole range of different walks of life.... | http://www.sanduskyregister.com/article/ohio/5103026 | dclm-gs1-211900000 |
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Our two month old baby seems to spit up a lot. Is this normal? Is there anything we can do?
The Pediatrician Answers:
The question is: what do you mean by spitting?
a) If the baby spits up a small stain with almost every feeding, is gaining weight well, and is not having any lung problems, then that spitting is normal.
b) If the baby is spitting more than an ounce (covers the area of a large dinner plate or more) with each feeding, and is not gaining weight well or is having lung problems (wheezing, chronic bronchitis, persistent wet cough), that is abnormal, and is probably gastro-esophageal reflux (GER). This usually requires medication.
c) All the situations in-between? Consult your practitioner, but if the child is gaining weight, then there is usually not serious disease.
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0.868235 | <urn:uuid:98848b3e-51bf-4267-9aa5-8ef3a13f4c35> | en | 0.923754 | Stefano Mancuso
Plant neurobiologist
Stefano Mancuso is a founder of the study of plant neurobiology, which explores signaling and communication at all levels of biological organization, from genetics to molecules, cells and ecological communities.
Why you should listen
Does the Boston fern you're dutifully misting each morning appreciate your care? Or can the spreading oak in your local park take umbrage at the kids climbing its knotted branches? Not likely, says Italian researcher Stefano Mancuso, but that doesn't mean that these same living organisms aren't capable of incredibly sophisticated and dynamic forms of awareness and communication.
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"To christen the lab in 2004, Mancuso decided to use the controversial term 'plant neurobiology' to reinforce the idea that plants have biochemistry, cell biology and electrophysiology similar to the human nervous system." — Nicole Martinelli,
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0.018467 | <urn:uuid:42464536-28be-45eb-9777-0a76a9a8fa5f> | en | 0.912157 | Microsoft's Windows 8 goals revealed
Fast-boot slate, cloud services
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Microsoft's successor to Windows 7 is taking shape - and that shape looks suspiciously like an iPad supplementing a diet of media with online services.
A set of Microsoft slides, apparently leaked online here and expanded here, have mapped out the company's design and feature goals for Windows 8.
Among those goals: Windows 8 works on a slate form factor in addition to the regular laptop and "all-in-one" PC, with Windows 8 complementing this new form factor by providing instant power on - or at least near instant.
Windows 8 slates will support touch and use facial recognition to pull up the users' profile - presumably application settings, documents and services.
Microsoft wants Windows 8 to feed users cloud services and let them download applications from a planned Windows 8 Store. So far, Microsoft's only been talking about marketplaces in relation to Windows Mobile and Zune service.
Among the other goals for Windows 8 are a "reset button" for use if - or more likely when - your PC begins to mysteriously slow down and performance begins to drag like a dog. Windows 8 will let you reset and retain your data.
The Windows 8 customer will reinstall applications by visiting Microsoft's Windows Store.
The reset button is a sign Microsoft is aware performance is of paramount importance to consumers and enthusiasts - two customer groups Microsoft has highlighted in its slides as its target users. It also suggests Microsoft feels it cannot stop the performance of Windows on PCs degrading over time, so it wants to give users an easy fix.
In a footnote to the slides, meanwhile, Internet Explorer 9 - Microsoft's companion browser - will be released to beta in August 2010.
Microsoft was unable to comment on the slides at the time of going to press.
In trying to differentiate Windows 8 from Apple, Microsoft said it plans to stress features for partners such as Windows 8's customization and the different form factors.
There are some interesting aspects to Windows 8, if the slides are genuine. Facial recognition being the biggest. This would suggest some overlap with software used in Project Natal - just don't let your cat or anything else with a face near the screen when you're trying to log on.
It's also significant that Microsoft's called out the slate as a third computing form factor while immediate-on start times are a continuation of a race to get Windows in more consumer devices. It's not a very exciting race to outside observers looking for feature sizzle, but it is a race.
The slides, though, also confirm a number of less positive aspects for Microsoft: that the company is becoming firmly entrenched in its role of taking innovation cues from other people like Apple and Ubuntu or is incapable of thinking beyond the present trends on product development.
Clearly, Microsoft's still playing it safe following the failed agenda-setting of Windows Vista.
Also, with Windows 8 Microsoft appears to be further confusing its device operating system story for those all-important partners. Windows 8 for slates will line up with Windows Embedded CE, Windows Embedded Compact 7 that's in community technology preview mode, and Windows Mobile 6.5 and the yet-to-be delivered Windows Mobile 7.0.
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"Lost" star Dominic Monaghan believes "Swamp People" is nothing more than "shock TV" that glorifies the senseless killing of alligators -- and it must be stopped.
Monaghan went off on Twitter moments ago about the History Channel show, writing, "If my hero Steve Irwin was around, those shows about killing alligators wouldn't be on TV. I'm gonna stop them."
Monaghan describes "Swamp People" as "death entertainment" that "continues to demonize reptiles as monsters and animals that are okay to torture and kill."
He adds, "If alligator populations need to be controlled, I understand. But the act should not be glorified on TV. Disgusting."
And according to Dominic, it's all the History Channel's fault -- "I blame the network, not the people."
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It's population control. Come on, really!!!. That is why there is a season for hunting them and how many tags are bought to hunt them. Wow... Let's just let them over populate and invade peoples backyards, where kids are at play!!! Think of something wise to do with your time and effort like feed the homeless or help raise money for cancer!!!!!!
613 days ago
This has been a way of life for over 300 years PEOPLE!!!!!!
613 days ago
Mike Verduzco
people eat alligator.. you think they just show up all deep fried and ready to go? Its no different than Dirty Jobs. Its a job some one does and there ilming it GROW UP!
613 days ago
Way to call it, Dominic Monaghan!
613 days ago
go back to england and hunt foxes ya limey bastard
613 days ago
Tammy LM
You little twit. Mind your own business. If I find it cruel and disgusting, guess what? I will make the personal decision to turn it off of my television. Furthermore,..You know what's really cruel television programming? LOST! Sitting through that travesty is cruel to any television audience. Your hero Steve Irwin isn't around anymore because he was aggitating a freakin sting ray. He was killed by an animal. The very cause he dedicated his life to and his idiotic ignorant mishandling taunting and harrassing ABUSE of wild dangerous animals got him killed. I'd love to see you in a ring with Jay Paul for just five minutes. Just five short minutes. He'd beat the living dog piss out of you. You troublemaking twit. Leave people alone to watch what THEY WANT TO WATCH. I'm so sick of these damn busybodies trying to dictate what the free world can choose to watch or not watch on TV. If we don't want to see it, then we can turn it off. Simple as that. You don't tell me what to watch on Television. You just said above that if the alligator population needs to be controlled then you understand. Well, it does. A boy just lost his arm THE OTHER DAY to a gator attack, and it was all over the news. If you understand that it's necessary to kill them and you're ok with that fact, then who gives a damn if people watch it being done or not? They aren't even showing the bullet make contact with the skull. They keep the camera on the shooter. You're just trying to censor and hide the truth about the reality of this practice. It has to be done. You want it to be something people do as a dirty little secret. Idiot. It's not glorifying anything because if you're worried it's going to cause more people to want to go out and get tags and hunt them for money, it isn't going to happen. They only issue a certain number of tags and that wont change. If anything it shows how dangerous these animals are and shows that people need to NOT mess with them. Your dumb ass hero Steve Irwin would play with those things and treat them like circus poodles and did more to encourage people to go out and pet one like he did. He was wreckless and did more harm to his cause than good. You are a censor and your soapbox ranting is NOT wanted. So if you don't like the show and don't want to watch it.........TURN IT OFF STUPID. But you don't tell me what I can watch. I'm an adult. I pay taxes. I own a house. Screw YOU, you little hobit!
613 days ago
This is preserving the cajun way of living off the land. We didnt always get our food and clothing from stores. Also it is population control. And if the world supply of food every gets low, I think I would like to have a cajun for a freind.
613 days ago
Someone check the little man's closet, I want to know what all the fabrics are made of....
613 days ago
folks...the WHOLE reason for his RANT was to drum up publicity for his new show WILD THINGS. the timing wasn't be ACCIDENT.
613 days ago
This is a life style that was around when Steve Ewrin was alive! These guys hunt for 1 month out of a year, completely controlled, licensed, monitored, it's their living. Why should they make some money off this reality craze, their real honest hard working Americans.
613 days ago
Another talentless, liberal idiot phukktard that has just enough "Yes men" surrounding him to make him believe his mindless opinion counts for something special.
613 days ago
You're a short dude trying to be big and that's cruel. That swamp could be an excellent way of disposing prisoners in jails, prisons who want to die and been proven as 100% guilty to be dropped in. Would you have a problem with that? The prison system may, prisoners are meal tickets. Swamp People may be horrible to some but you and your fiends in Hollyweird are the worst animals who put out crap that only an Alligator would eat up.
613 days ago
Ron Oldmiller
Damn Hippie!
613 days ago
That's what a lot of people do here for a living. If some were not killed they would be everywhere! They kill them to keep the population in check. He obviously spoke without having any knowledge of what he was talking about!
613 days ago
It has nothing to do with history,as well as 90% of the other programming it has on anymore.Why even call it The History Channel anymore??Take it all off and start from scratch,or change the friggin name to The Non History Channel!
613 days ago
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I can't listen to this anymore. Everyone talking over each other. Why bother having him call in when all you are going to do is scream your point of view and not allow him to speak.
530 days ago
Who the hell cares about Mariah and Nicki. American Idol is sooooooooooo stale, and these judges are yesterday's BORING NEWS.
530 days ago
2 rich joos crying about stupid things. Nothing new Boohoo
530 days ago
Internet Tough Guy
I think Harvey is going to have a heart attack.
530 days ago
If sense were common everyone would have it.
Love how everyone tries to explain away their own peccadilloes, but if anyone hits them in their little pet-peeve sensitive spot, they get all politically militant. Belzer just makes himself look more and more idiotic trying to explain his actions.
Bet you could rip the Italians a new one in front of Clooney, but even so much as look cross-eyed at a map of Darfur & he'll get self-righteous. They all do that. See how Elton John gets when people even make the most innocuous comments about gays? But anyone else he couldn't give a crap.
They're all two-faced.
530 days ago
Flying Blind
Harvey, you are an idiot, MSNBC calls it like it is. Yes they lean democratic, but they call them out also when the facts fit. Faux News just lies and never check facts. If they know the facts, they just twist them or lie. anyone with a brain knows this. Faux commentators are paid to lie, period and they know it.
530 days ago
If sense were common everyone would have it.
Tell Joanna Krupa to say "I'm not a hooker!" with a Schwarzenegger accent & it'll sound funnier!
530 days ago
Harvey, you such a damn hypocrite. You get all bent out of shape as a Jewish man for someone doing the Hitler salute and ream the guy a new one. Where was your outrage at Lisa Lampennelli when she called Gay men corn holers? That's a derogatory remark towards the gay men. Where's your outrage as a gay man and why aren't you all butt hurt about Matt Barnes calling a police officer a Fcuking F. a. gg. ot. Like I said, Hypocrite.
530 days ago
Cat fight. As old as sharks and roaches.
530 days ago
Who even still watches American Idol? What an OBVIOUS publicity stunt this is, it's so obvious that it's pathetic.
530 days ago
His Prince Michael
@Flying Squirrel: MSNBC and Fox, -BOTH- are merely playing to their respective target-demographics. They've long served-up shamelessly
slanted opinion - disguised as "News".
Can you say "Corporate America Propaganda"?
KNEW you could.
530 days ago
My catchphrase is thank God I don't have a gun.
530 days ago
Let's leave this subject NOW. Next!
530 days ago
la la la la la. Why isn't Raquel weighing in, there are African Americans involved. That's the only time she ever speaks as if she's the voice for the entire population.
530 days ago
I will not be watching this show because of these two judges, they have taken it from where people can create a career to the arguments/ditsy appearances/ridiculousness the judges can create. It is no longer a show of talent but house wives fighting.
530 days ago
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He accused his party of paying too much attention to "palace intrigue" and said the delay in passing a $60 billion relief bill is hurting the people in his state. New Jersey, New York, and Connecticut suffered the most damage from Sandy.
The day's message once again cast Christie as someone willing to go against big-wigs in his party.
As he has since the storm ripped up parts of New Jersey's shore and other areas on Oct. 29, Christie said his mission is to help the people of his state recover, not to serve his party.
But once again, he's in an unusual political position for someone on the national stage, though he was right in line with New Jersey officials of both parties who expressed anger Wednesday over the House inaction.
Christie, a high-profile Republican who flirted in 2011 with running against Obama, a Democrat, was a top campaign attraction for Republican candidates this year and a headliner at the National Republican Convention. He publicly praised Obama for his post-storm leadership, and literally embraced him.
It became the stuff of "Saturday Night Live" satire. Some conservatives said Christie's tightness with the president, even as he endorsed Republican Mitt Romney, could have tilted the election.
Now, he is in a public battle with Boehner, the highest-ranking Republican in Congress. Christie's news conference came hours after a phone conversation he said he had with Boehner; he would not say what they told one another.
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Christie said the House was playing politics with the aid and that it's hurting people in the three East Coast states who are relying on aid decisions to be able to repair their homes, reopen businesses and make decisions about how to rebuild after the storm of two months ago.
Should he decide to seek the presidency in 2016, Christie's stance—putting loyalty to his oath of office over party orthodoxy—could pay dividends with a general electorate that generally disdains Washington and anyone considered an insider.
Julian E. Zelizer, a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University, said Christie's attack was emblematic of a division emerging in the Republican Party between the more conservative members who are calling for spending cuts wherever and whenever possible and "more pragmatic" members of the party who think that spending is needed in certain instances.
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Amazon: "Primed" to disrupt Apple's textbook plans?
Summary: Apple may have thrown down the gauntlet for the iPad in education, but don't count Amazon out.
So. Apple. A huge library of textbooks for $14.99 each and a free authoring program for rich textbook content.
That about sums up this last week's events.
Oh wait. You can only sell that content produced with iBooks Author on the App Store and of course all of those texts are stuck in Apple's "Walled Garden".
Are we supposed to be surprised that this is the way Cupertino wants to do business? No, of course not.
It does bring up the issue however that if Apple becomes successful in making iBooks electronic textbooks a successful enterprise and an educational standard, a "digital underclass" might be created for those who cannot afford to purchase electronic texts if paper texts become no longer economically feasible to produce.
While I projected that this is probably more likely to happen faster to our public library system than our educational system, it does bring up the disturbing thought that iBooks textbooks might not be an affordable solution for most public school systems and only privileged, wealthy school systems will benefit from them.
I mean, to use iBooks Textbooks, the student needs to own an Apple iOS device. And realistically, you're going to need an iPad to read them, which currently have an entry cost of $500. That might be a reasonable expense for a university student to absorb on their own, but a public school system?
An iPad for every child?C'mon.
And before you tell me that Apple is going to drop the prices on basic iPads to under $300.00 because the company is feeling particularly philanthropical towards our poor children so they can read these wonderful rich content textbooks, stop dreaming.
The company nor its late founder has never been known for their philanthropy nor have their educational discounts on hardware been particularly generous in recent years.
Apple wants to make money, and lots of it. A 30 percent cut of sales on the texts and continued healthy margins on their hardware.
For the time being, iBooks Textbooks are targeted at K-12, not universities, so who exactly is going to pay for these iPads, public school systems? Our tax dollars?
Look, I'm not not saying that Apple's iBooks 2.0 technology or their iBooks Author tool isn't impressive. I've looked at both the tool and the sample textbook material it produces, and it's cool stuff.
But this is like saying a Porsche or a Corvette might be a cool car for your teenager when a Hyundai Accent or a Ford Escort will suffice.
If I may quote Master Yoda, "There is another."
Amazon, which is the world leader in electronic book sales and distribution is almost certainly not going to lie down and take it while upstart, elitist Apple treads over their blue collar books for the masses turf.
Amazon has the relationships and the financial moxie and then some to match Apple's deals with the book publishers and broker arrangements with the school systems. Quite frankly, while they too have a proprietary platform that also locks you into their ecosystem, it's got a lot more breathing room.
Of the two devils you want to deal with, Amazon is the much more warm and fuzzier one to sell your soul to.
The Amazon Kindle platform runs on literally everything. Cheap e-readers, web browsers, Macintosh and Windows PCs, iPads and Androids. At least as a K-12 or college student, on Amazon's platform, you've got a choice.
And if there needed to be a rich color content viewer for textbooks, you can pretty much be guaranteed that Amazon has the ability to work with public schools and even universities to get one manufactured and subsidized.
A 10.1" Kindle Fire would likely sell for $299 retail to the regular public. Knocking off another $100 for students and educational institutions provided certain commitments were made is not out of the question.
And can you say $150 7" Kindle Fires for educators and students? I knew that you could.
Now, it could be argued that with iBooks Author and iBooks 2, Apple currently has the ability to sell much richer content than Amazon does now. But I don't think your average high school or junior high school student is going to be equipped with iPads just yet.
Amazon has plenty of time to catch up -- and I suspect this is an area they have been working on for some time now.
There is the issue of advanced book formats and authoring tools where Apple now has a lead. One way that Amazon could erase that lead is partnering with a company that knows content creation better than anyone.
Say, Adobe, whose InDesign software is already the leading tool for e-book authoring.
I don't think it is that it is implausible that Amazon could offer a free version of InDesign specifically targeted towards the creation of book content for Kindle-enabled devices. Particularly if the offer was extended to Prime members to offset the subsidy costs to Adobe.
It would be nice if this tool could produce open EPUB output, and if Amazon could take a leadership position in furthering the open EPUB format and adopt it for its own Kindle content instead of the legacy MOBI/AZW, but that might be wishing for too much.
In addition to the tool itself, I also envision Amazon possibly offering a "Prime for Education". Essentially, this would be the same Amazon Prime we all know and love, with the same benefits, but it would be offered at a discount to students and educators.
[EDIT: Amazon already offers a version of Prime discounted under its Amazon Student program.]
Such a service could include additional value-added benefits such as a textbook loaner library, integrated social networking for teachers and students, and electronic textbook curriculum listing and procurement services for participating schools, so that a specific K-12 system could buy e-book entitlements in bulk based on a list of titles targeted towards their students for that year.
I could also see it used potentially with the Amazon Cloud to host other selected materials for educational systems, such as films and music and multimedia coursework via Amazon Video and Amazon Cloud Player. In short, an Amazon competitor to iTunes University.
Can Amazon disrupt Apple's electronic textbook plans with a competitive offering of their own? Talk Back and Let Me Know.
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• Wow, great idea, insight...
Very insightful, Jason. Open system, the more affordable Fire comes into its own, lending library idea -- great stuff!
Gotta love competition.
• RE: Amazon:
@mcwong1 <br>Except that Amazon's Kindle platform is even more closed and restrictive in other ways.<br><br>Jason, you say Amazon is the lesser of two evils, but what about their far more restrictive hardware?<br><br>Apple has no problems allowing rivals to provide their apps on the iOS platform. Does Amazon allowed competing ebook stores on the Kindles? No, you're locked into buying your content from Amazon. How else can they sustain their loss-leader hardware model?<br><br>In contrast Apple allows Barns & Noble, Amazon and any other ebook retailer or store to exist on the iOS platform. Likewise, Apple has no problems allowing rival music stores, video and all sorts of other content.<br><br>Also, you talk about how wonderfully cheap Amazon hardware is, but you neglect to mention how much less capable the various Kindles are as general purpose tablets. Even the Kindle Fire is lacking in so many areas:<br><br>No Audio in or audio recording so no VOIP or capturing lecture audio or audio for projects. Not to mention Android's abysmal lack of support for low latency audio.<br><br>No front or back cameras so no video Skype, photo documentation, HD video capture or editing.<br><br>No Bluetooth so no external wireless keyboard for long form text entry or wireless audio systems or headsets or hands free car kits.<br><br>No 3-way gyroscope or digital compass or GPS, so no accurate motion sensing game or app control or augmented reality or navigation apps.<br><br>No 3G so no ubiquitous Internet connectivity option.<br><br>And don't even get me started on the limitations of the cheaper black and white Kindles.<br><br>You bemoan the expense of Apple's iPad but neglect the fact that students would have to buy a Kindle PLUS another tablet or laptop to get anything like the same capabilities of the "expensive" iPad.<br><br>Then of course there is the enormous gulf in app availability. Android and even more so the Amazon App Store are wastelands in terms of other educational apps or apps in other categories. And then there is the 45% of Android apps that are spamware or the 700+ malware apps or the legions of copyright infringing apps. Do you really want to load all of that on poor old overloaded educational IT support areas?<br><br>No, Amazon might like to think it is a viable alternative to the iPad and iBooks in Education, but boy what a lot of extra baggage and limitations they bring to the table!
• RE: Amazon:
Nope, Jason just love to kick Apple in the nuts if he gets a chance.
• RE: Amazon:
@Melciz Are you kidding me?
Google Sky? Show me the Apple Equivalent! Astronomy Anyone?
Google Earth? Again where is Apple's Equivalent? Geography Anyone?
Google Body? Nope, nothing really like that on Apple either! Anatomy Anyone?
Periodic Tables? Yep, on both! Chemistry Anyone?
C/C++/Objective C Programming and Compiler? Android Yes! iOS Nope!
Looking through the Android Market I also find, Spelling, Math, Language, Music and Science Apps!
I guess when you say there are No Educational Apps available on Android, you mean??? I have no idea what you mean, as you surely didn't check this before posting!
Oh and you can get the Kindle Reader as well and that has Text Books that you can Buy from within the reader!
Bottom Line, you have no clue what you're saying!
Also, the Google Apps are best of Breed!
• RE: Amazon:
@Peter Perry
I am very sure google loves you first for being a tool to sell ads and secondly to sell your personal info to advertisers and then your blind loyalty.
Good for you.
• RE: Amazon:
@Peter Perry,
Google Earth is on iOS as well and for every Google app that isn't there are dozens and dozens of equivalents on iOS. Why do you seem to think Apple has to author them?
There is no way you can say there are more educational apps for Android, it just isn't so, particularly for tablet apps where Android, is still miles and miles behind iOS.
Yes and the Kindle reader is available for iOS as well as I said.
So any comments about the closed aspects of Amazon's Kindle ecosystem or the fact that Kindle-owning students will need to also buy another more capable tablet or laptop to do much more than just read ebooks?
• RE: Amazon:
Spoken like a true Apple fanboy. Good job.
• RE: Amazon:
So do you have any facts to bring to this discussion or are you just going to sling the same tired old insults?
• RE: Amazon:
Um, you can read a book from Amazon on ANY platform, once you have argued that point, come back please.
• RE: Amazon:
You still don't understand do you.
My point is that Amazon's *hardware* is locked down more and is far more limited than Apple's.
As I say, Amazon does not let other book or media stores run on the Kindle hardware platform, whereas Apple allows a plethora of stores and services from thousand of other providers.
Which would you rather students have?
1. A cheap tablet that can only have ebooks and textbooks purchased from Amazon, has a tiny number of educational apps, virtually no tablet-optimised apps, zero Google apps and which would require the student to also purchase a laptop or other more capable tablet to do the wide range of tasks the iPad is capable of.
2. A slightly more expensive tablet that has hundreds of ebook stores, textbook sources, media stores, hundreds of thousands of educational apps and tens of thousands of tablet-optimised apps and far more capable hardware that actually browses the web at a useable speed, has best in class word processing nd DTP apps, spreadsheets, presentation apps, works with external Bluetooth keyboards, can do audio in, augmented reality etc etc.
As you can see the fact that iBooks only work on the iPad doesn't matter as you could just as easily buy textbooks or media from any other store or supplier and still run it all on that same piece of hardware.
This is far less limiting than getting Amazon Kindle hardware which locks students into a single source for content which is Amazon's business model.
• Today's News: Over 350,000 iBooks downloaded in 3 days
The market has spoken.
oh...and you're right about Amazon.
• Amazon Kindle app runs on bookoos of different platforms!
Do iOS apps run on Android tablets?
• RE: Amazon:
"My point is that Amazon's *hardware* is locked down more and is far more limited than Apple's."
My Kindle Fire has this nice little toggle switch in the settings to allow the user to side-load software. Without hacking the Kindle Fire in anyway I was able to install Barnes and Noble's Nook for Android, Opera, and Firefox with ease. Just download the file, tap it, and select install.
They may want to have some control over their app store but Amazon is NOT nearly as locked down as Apple. Let me know when Apple allows side-loading apps without hacking their devices.
• RE: Amazon:
@Melciz <br><br>You do know that you can run the Kindle app on any platform you like? I have it on my iPhone, iPad, MacBook Pro and my Windows 7 portable. How is this locking out platform flexibility? Apple does'nt allow you to run their software on other platforms.
How is a $500 iPad going to help shrink the digital divide that is already widening in this country? Apple will never dilute their brand with lower priced iPads. Also; did you read the article on how Apple is licensing the free iBook software? Anything you create with their software can never be sold anywhere else. Talk about vendor lock-in.
I'm not an Apple basher, I own many of their products; including an iPad, iPhone and a MacBook pro. But that doesn't mean I don't see their business practices for what they are. Lock in for authors and no other platform for readers.
• RE: Amazon:
It is true that you can turn off the security restriction on side-loading on the Kindle, but the question is how many Educational IT groups would be keen on opening up their tablets to all the malware abounding on the Android platform let alone the support headache of anything and everything being installed by students?
Most Education IT teams I know of have breathed a sigh of relief over the parental controls and curated apps of the iOS platform so I think the last thing they'd want to do is turn off security settings on a platform that is already the number 1 mobile malware target in the world. (last quarter 100% of all new mobile malware discovered targeted Android)
• RE: Amazon:
@Melciz <br><br>"It is true that you can turn off the security restriction on side-loading on the Kindle, but the question is how many Educational IT groups would be keen on opening up their tablets to all the malware abounding on the Android platform let alone the support headache of anything and everything being installed by students?<br><br>Most Education IT teams I know of have breathed a sigh of relief over the parental controls and curated apps of the iOS platform so I think the last thing they'd want to do is turn off security settings on a platform that is already the number 1 mobile malware target in the world. (last quarter 100% of all new mobile malware discovered targeted Android) "<br><br>You start with a Hasty Generalization and then move right into a Irrelevant Conclusion.<br><br>Those that you have met are not representative of all IT teams. Nice try at diverting the readers attention with the malware scare.<br><br>{EDIT}<br><br>I was going to just ignore the Complex Question Fallacy but thought I would tell you about our school system and the iPad 2 that my child received this school year from the school system.<br><br>The iPad has a sticker with "Property of [School District Name], [School District address], [School District phone number]. Yes, it is a public school district. The device was issued without being associated to an account. We had to provide our own Apple account. I created a new one just for this device and used a bank issued virtual credit card number with a $1.00 limit (smallest limit possible). I setup the iPad upgraded the iOS from 4.x to 5. The school district then provided us with an iTunes card to purchase the software the school wanted for the student to use. I doubt that I have ever seen such an IT hands-off approach to any other device (maybe Windows 95/98 machines). We did not receive any documentation for the device nor any instructions on how to secure (Parental Controls) the device. Honestly, I didn't need any documentation since I am familiar with iOS. I would imagine that other parents might need some documentation.
• I can read a Kindle book anywhere
@Melciz I can read my Kindle book anywhere, on my PC, on my iPad, my Mac, my Kindle device (such as a fire), anywhere. The teacher can project part of the book on the screen at school through her PC that she read on her iPad last night without caring what hardware or OS is at school.
9 year olds don't need a gyroscope, camera, 3G or Bluetooth, so why pay for them to have them? Seriously, I use my iPad for Netflix and web browsing, I don't even need any of that stuff.
A Gray
• RE: Amazon:
@A Gray
As I read Melciz's comments, he claimed that you can't do much with the Amazon hardware. One particularly ANNOYING thing is you can't read ePub or other format books on the Kindle (either 'software' or 'hardware' Kindle).
Why would have to be locked to the not very convenient AZW format?
By the way, my platform of choice is FreeBSD and there is no Kindle application there. Luckily, most of my books are in FB2/ePub anyway so I can read them in that format everywhere (including the iPad), but not on my Amazon Kindle.
Also, you will be surprised what kids can use gyroscope, camera, 3G or Bluetooth for... just give the thing in their little hands. Most important of all -- they will learn a lot in the process.
• RE: Amazon:
@jammer6463<br>"Apple will never dilute their brand with lower priced iPads"<br><br>Actually, Apple already has released a lower-priced iPad. <br><br>It has front and back cameras capable of video calling and recording HD video @ 30fps, has a 3-axis gyroscope for app control, a microphone, Bluetooth for external keyboard, audio systems, headsets and other accessories, can connect to a big VGA screen or projector via cable or wirelessly using AirPlay all of which are missing from the Kindle.<br><br>It is priced the same as the Kindle, sells between 6-10 million units per quarter (4-10x as many as the 1-2 million Kindle Fires sold last quarter) and makes a good profit for Apple, not the loss Amazon incurs.<br><br>Oh, and it also runs almost all 500,000 games, ebooks, media and apps in the iOS App store.<br><br>It is also more portable than any Kindle.<br><br>It's called the iPod touch.
• RE: Amazon:
@Dragosani, <br>I work in a university IT support group and trust me, one reason we ourselves can be so hands-off with the iPad is because it's such a secure platform even without enabling parental controls. It and the iPhone have proved to be by far the easiest to support platforms of all those we support on campus. <br><br>Also, why did you have to get a $1 credit card for setting up your child's iTunes account when you can set up iTunes accounts without using a credit card at all? | http://www.zdnet.com/blog/perlow/amazon-primed-to-disrupt-apples-textbook-plans/19662 | dclm-gs1-212490000 |
0.056963 | <urn:uuid:d9d55199-5194-42ce-85c0-40ffca9318be> | en | 0.987033 | AN: AS previously disgussed my story had nothing to do with the season finale in which Hagen died he is still alive in my story though he and Caliegh are over
Calliegh had been sitting in the break room alone sipping her tea for almost three hours now.
She stared straight ahead not moving not speaking just breathing.
Alex soon walked in to sit beside her on the couch.
"Calliegh...Baby?what's wrong?"Alex asked rubbing her back.
"Horatio...he.."She trailed off bringing her right hand slowly to her lips remembering.
"He what?"Alex asked still in shock.
"He kissed was so provacative so...wonderful"
"Oh...honey look it's no surprise that you enjoyed it or that he kissed you"
"It isn't"
"Lord no.everybody knows how you two feel the only one who doesn't is you two"
"And how does he feel?"Calliegh asked looking at Alex.
"I'm not expert now but I know Horatio and I've seen the way he looks at you when he thinks no one is watching"Alex said standing and walking to get some tea.
"And how does everyone think I feel?"Calliegh asked turning to look at Alex.
"Well let's see you look at him the same way..."Alex trailed off knowing she didn't need to say more.
"I love him...Alex"Calliegh said looking at the cup in her hands.
"I know you do...but that doesn't matter the one who needs to know is Horatio"Alex sat by her again with her own tea.
"I would tell him in fact I was going to I swore to myself if I survived I would but I'm scared Alex about his feelings"
"After he kissed you,nearly drowned to save you and gave you the valiant speech in the interrogation room how can you have any doubt"
"I don't remember much Alex it's like it was a dream I remember being pulled from the water then it's all foggy up until I realised I was under a table"
"Honey trust me Horatio loves you...rather or not he'll admit it is something different give it a shot"
Calliegh nodded she knew Alex was right.
Just then the door opened Horatio was standing there.
"Caliegh...Hagen is you want to see him?"Horatio asked bitterly.
"oh uhm...yes"Calliegh said standing nervously.
Horatio moved aside and Hagen rushed in Alex smiled at Horatio as she left.
"CALLEIGH MY DEAR OH I JUST HEARD ARE YOU OK!"He asked rushing in she backed up quickly.
"I'll let you two alone"Horatio said it was painful to see them together.
"No Horatio...please don't go"Her blue eyes held something fear maybe.
Horatio nodded and walked over to get some coffee.
John and Caliegh sat on the couch.
"oh Cal I'm so sorry baby are you ok?"John asked.
"I'm fine John"
"I was so worried when I heard you were missing and then to learn they wanted to punish Horatio"
John was cut off when Horatio interrupted.
"John...did you say they wanted to punish me?"Horatio asked.
"Well of course he did I mean everybody knows how you feel about her"John said looking at Horatio.
"John...we never found out it was a he and not even Calliegh knows why how did you?"Horatio asked walking over to him.
"Well.."John was interrupted when Calliegh shot to her feet backing away.
"NO CALLIEGH I DIDN'T DO IT!"John yelled rising in anger.
"John calm down"Horatio said softly.
"John Hagen you're under arrest"Horatio stepped forward and took John's arm and cuffing his hands.
Calliegh slowly shook her head.
"YOU'RE WORTHLESS YOU KNOW THAT!BEFORE ME NO MAN EVER EVEN LOOKED AT YOU!"He yelled even louder as Horatio handed him off to another officer.
Horatio shut the door so to muffle John's protests and turned to Calliegh.
She was standing watching John fight the officers through the glass door her right hand covering her mouth and tear rolling down her cheeks.
"Calliegh...don't look at him"Horatio said softly blocking her veiw and walking in front of her.
Slowly and carefully he reached out and pulled her tiny trembling form to him.
She stood shaking with tears rolling down her face her arms were between them his were around her shoulder.
"John...he...I should have known...why didn't I know Horatio why was I so blind?"She asked crying harder.
"shhh it's ok and there was no way you could have known"
"Yes there was he was so violent so obssesive and possesive when we dated when we broke up it was worse"
"'s ok it's over now and I promise he won't ever hurt you again"Horatio said pushing her away gently to look at her.
He took her soft tiny hands in his bigger rough ones and looked into her sad deep eyes.
"cal..."He started but trailed off to lean in closer.
"I'm glad we're alone actually I wanted to talk to you about something"She said jumping and pulling her hands from hi.
"Yeah..ummm ok what's the matter?"He asked.
"I...there's this guy...and I kind of ...I love him I have for a long time and I think i mean I've heard he feels..the same"
"And you want to tell him but you're scared he'll reject you"Horatio finished.
"yeah but see the problem is I've known him...forever we're also close friends I don't want to ruin that"
"Calliegh...I think you should tell Eric how you of luck"Horatio smiled then turned to leave.
"Eric?No Horatio I meant..."She grabbed his arm and stopped.
"You meant who?"He asked turning to face her.
Deciding to let her actions speak she took a shaky breath got on her tip toes and kissed him.
Horatio didn't take long to respong his hands went into her long blonde hair while she left hers rest on his chest.
Calliegh even though she started was still shocked it was too perfect he was gentle with her it drove her crazy his hands lightly going through her hair his soft kiss she wanted more.
Finally he broke the kiss and began kissing her neck his hands going to her waist her hands gripping his shoulders.
"I love you"She whispered moving her head to lean aginst his.
"I love you too beautiful...what about John?"He asked chewing slightly on her ear.
"He had one flaw besides being violent"
"Which is"
"He wasn't you"She said as he raised his head to look at her.
Smiling he softly put his hand on her cheek.
She smiled back a genuine smile.
"what are you thinking?"She asked.
"How much I missed that beautiful smile"He said honestly.
Calliegh smile brighter putting her forehead against his giggling as he put his arms around her waist and picked her up spinning. | https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2073050/5/Finding-Calliegh | dclm-gs1-212630000 |
0.061563 | <urn:uuid:a41dd0ef-7bfe-4524-a4cd-d1b7584288c1> | en | 0.995049 | Disclaimer: I do not own the Reeds, but much of the family history is of my own design. I researched a good deal of Navy terminology for this fic, but some still may be wrong, so don't hesitate to correct me. Also please note that I am in no way putting down the Navy or anyone in it or any other branches of the military. The two people I know serving in the military are some of the nicest people you could ever hope to meet. This is just a plot device.
Summary: They warn you about marrying sailors, and I learned why the hard way. A story never-before-done (I think): the story of the love and downfall of Mary Carter and Stuart Reed.
AN: Definitely not my best piece of work, but I still had fun with it. And since it's becoming increasingly obvious that I'll never write professionally, fun is what it's all about, right? :)
Review, please! Also, if any of you are primarily Spanish-speaking and would like to review in Spanish, please do so. I'm trying my best to be bilingual by the time I leave for college in 2 ½ years, and I need all the practice I can get! :)
Paying the Devil
To whom it may concern…
They warn you about marrying sailors, men who care more for the sea than any mortal woman, and God knows I know why. Men like these are married foremost to the waves, and the water, and their duty, and the women who love them take second rank. It doesn't matter if you fall in love with a pirate, a sailor, or a Navy man. They're all the same in that respect.
I was eighteen years old when I met Stuart Walker Reed, stationed for duty by the town where I lived. I honestly didn't know what job the United Kingdom's Royal Navy actually served now, in the twenty-second century, but I didn't care. All I knew was that he was a handsome man in a crisp uniform, and every morning I could see him from the window of my family's seaside house.
All I ever wanted was a storybook romance, like the one my parents had shared. My mother left Ireland― left everything behind for my father, and though I watched them carefully for years, I never saw her once regret it. I wanted to fall in love like that, to love another person so much, like that, and that was exactly how it seemed with him, at first.
Stuart had a kind of aquiline handsomeness, with a hooked nose, a strong chin, and stormcloud-colored eyes. Seeing his hard, military face light up in a smile at the sight of me became the moments I lived for. He was twenty-five, a good deal older than me, and already a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy the summer that his crew stationed near me. he would jog past my window every day around 0700 hours, and it became ritual for me to sit by my window, combing my hair slowly and watching for him. I know that he noticed me, because every day his shoe lace seems to come untied while he was right under my room, and he'd kneel down to fix it. The entire time, though, his eyes were trained on my window.
It was a fairy tale, storybook romance. One day, when the summer was almost over, he kneeled down to fix his sneaker, as usual, but this time he straightened with a small rock in his hand. He tossed it gently at my shudders; it hit the paneling just beneath my window, and bounced off gently. When I opened my window he told me his name was Stuart and asked me for a date, and we were engaged before that Christmas.
We were married in a small chapel near his hometown, just outside London, on February 2, 2217, my 19th birthday. It was a modest ceremony with only family and close friends. He wore his dress uniform and I my mother's wedding dress, and everything went as perfectly as could be. We spent a week in Singapore for out honeymoon, and the only blemish on that trip was when Stuart took me out on a boat, and I was terribly seasick the whole time. maybe I should've realized then. But when I returned to Britain to move into the small house that we had selected, close to my parents and to his base, I began my life as a Navy wife, still not knowing what I had gotten myself into.
Our firstborn, Malcolm Stuart, was born two and a half years later on September 2, 2219. He seemed a flawless blend of both of us, with my dark wavy hair and Stuart's tough blue-grey eyes. It was strange to see that color in the eyes of a child, in the eyes of an innocent. Stuart was the only one I had ever known with eyes like these, cold always, even when he was happy, and now my son had them too. It was unsettling to see these eyes in the face of someone so frail and fragile.
It's not Malcolm's fault he was born a weakling. I went into labor almost seven weeks early, in a period when the baby's survival is basically assured but even now, with all the medical marvels they've concocted, its perfect health isn't. He was born small and weak looking, and though we took him home in just a few days, we went back to the hospital half a dozen times over the next year.
At first, Stuart was just as nervous a new parents as I was. The first two times Malcolm landed in the emergency room at four in the morning, Stuart was right there beside me, holding my hand in one of his, and Malcolm's tiny fingers in the other. He looked shaken, the first time I'd even seen that in him. But eventually he grew tired of his son's delicate health.
Stuart was a Navy man, born and raised, as were his brothers, his father, and his uncles. And all he truly wanted, I knew, was a clan of brave, sturdy sons to follow him in that path and take it over for him when he died. He was angry when he was in Malcolm that dream falling through. He was angry at me for baring him a weak son, and he was angry at Malcolm for not being as strong, or as fast, or as icy as the sons that his Navy friends were raising. I think somewhere deep inside he was angry at himself, too. This was a touch position for him to be in; he loved Malcolm. I know he truly did, but how could be deal with a frail son? How could he still raise him to be a man just like his father?
Malcolm wasn't walking until he was more than a year old, which was slow, but not horribly so. But he was talking a few months later, in near-full sentences, which the doctor informed us was incredible.
Malcolm was always going to be the small one, and I think Stuart could actually accept that. Even fully grown, Stuart isn't a giant himself. The blow he couldn't take was the blow that came when Malcolm was three.
Malcolm had been toddling after his father since he could, and had been raised around the ships that he father loved more than his son and me. He never wanted anything other than to make his father proud, and if that meant joining the Navy, that was what he planned to so, even at a very young age. By his third birthday, he almost knew how to handle a boat by himself, but still couldn't swim. Stuart wouldn't stand for that.
I didn't know what he was going to do; of course I would've done everything to stop him. But back then I didn't know what Stuart Reed was capable of, didn't know what lengths he would go to. I knew he was disappointed in Malcolm, but I didn't know to what extent. To this day, I still have nightmares about what could have happened.
Stuart was taking Malcolm to the lake, to practice his boating skills, he claimed. "If he keeps at the rate he's going," I remember him saying, "He'll be sailing solo by eight." I thought maybe, just maybe, Stuart was truly happy with his son, for once.
I didn't learn what he was done until that night, after it had already come to pass. He had driven to the lake, as he said he would, and rowed a canoe out to the middle of the water. Then, he had hefted out three-year-old son and thrown him in.
I can't imagine what it was like for our little boy. I can't imagine what Stuart was thinking, and I can't imagine what I would've done to him had I been there at that moment. As it was, Malcolm sunk under, and it took almost a minute before Stuart finally dove in and pulled him about the surface. Malcolm was shivering and sneezing for a week, and that's how long it took before I could look at Stuart without feeling dizzy and sick. But I could never look at him the same way again, after that. Nothing before had led me to think he could do something like that. I couldn't help feeling betrayed. And I couldn't help wondering if marrying a man like Stuart had been the worst mistake I could have made.
Malcolm was left with no physical scars from the ordeal, but it was sixty seconds of his childhood that would never face from memory. That night I drew Malcolm a hot bath to warm him up a bit, and when he saw the tub, he looked at me and burst into tears (something he never did in front of his father). He couldn't face the water. Stuart had tried to teach his son to swim by necessity, but all he mad managed to do was ingrain such severe aquaphobia in him that Malcolm would never look at water the same way again.
And still our son was handling a boat alone by six. Still he wanted nothing more than to join the Navy and please his father, and if that meant facing his fear of drowning, so be it.
Malcolm was seven when his sister Madeline was born. All smiles and pale gold curls, Maddy was everything Malcolm wasn't. She was healthy and strong, walking by nine months old and outrunning her older brother Mally by the age of three. She loved every sport she could try her hand at, and was four when she announced her intent to join the Navy like her papa.
I don't think the three of us― Stuart, Malcolm, and I― could have been more surprised. I couldn't picture my baby girl in the military; my old-fashioned husband couldn't picture any girl in the military. And Malcolm couldn't accept that his little sister was being everything that he, as the firstborn, was expected to be. I know he'd never admit to it, but he would always envy his baby sister, receptor of his father's pride.
Stuart grew ever more distant as the years passed. By the time Malcolm entered secondary school, I felt as though I no longer had a husband, just someone I lived with and ate with and shared a bed with and didn't really love. That was something I thought about a lot, then. Did I really love Stuart anymore? Had I ever? Or had it been the circumstance I had been in love with, the thought of a perfect husband that had clouded my eyes to the real Stuart Reed? And, most importantly of all: was this an irreversible error?
Malcolm had to be perfect. Every little thing he did wrong, every day of his life, was recounted for him that night ad Stuart admonished him for it. Nothing was ever good enough. Malcolm was never strong or smart or brave enough. And he knew it. But he never stopped trying.
And poor Madeline did everything right. She was strong, beautiful and intelligent, and about as close to perfect as anyone could get. But Stuart never noticed. He was too obsessed with what a disappointment his son was to appreciate what a success his daughter promised to be. Madeline gave up trying to be noticed, eventually. She sunk into mediocrity, and was happy with it.
But Malcolm never stopped trying to earn his father's love. Every waking minute of his every living day was dedicated to pleasing his father. And Stuart was, by now, ever sterner and colder and harder to please than he had ever been. He sunk so far into his work that was out late every night, and working weekends and holidays, for duty and glory. And, just maybe, for escape.
The only thing Malcolm could do to get noticed, it seemed, was to rebel and prove himself in a rival field. Starfleet was negating the UK Royal Navy and the other individual-country militaries. And space― physics and mathematics and starship weaponry― was something that Malcolm was genuinely good at. So our son dropped a career bombshell of his own, one day a few months into his last year of secondary school. He would not be enlisting in the Navy. He would be leaving the following August for Starfleet Academy in San Francisco, USA. Malcolm never said it, but I know what he was thinking: his father had wanted him to succeed at everything. And if his ultimate achievement couldn't be on his father's playing field, Malcolm would forge his own way. That, of course, and San Francisco was half a world away.
Once Malcolm left, he didn't look back. As his legal guardians, we still received mail from Starfleet― grades, reports and such― and the occasional letter from Malcolm himself. But that was all we had become to him, a letter to write every month or so, and I think once Malcolm finally got away from his father, the last thing he wanted to do was face him again. I will never forgive Stuart for that. He pushed my baby boy away from himself and, at the same time, away from me. I don't know if Malcolm resented me for never speaking up for him like I should have. Or maybe he just couldn't come near me because I was too close to Stuart. It didn't matter. He faded from my life, too.
A few years later, Stuart and I moved to Malaysia to be closer to a heart disease treatment center in Kuala Lampur. Malcolm had gotten his fragility from me, it seemed. I was only in my early forties when I was diagnosed with a rare circulatory disease. Madeline was seventeen, and she stayed behind in Europe, enrolled in Dublin City University a year early. Malcolm never came to visit us in out new house, although he came by the hospital once, briefly, to see me when he knew that his father would not be there. He said nothing about Starfleet, or why he didn't visit more often.
A few years later we received a letter saying he had been posted to the new state-of-the-art spaceship, the Enterprise. That was over three years ago, and I still hope all the time that one day he'll just show up on our porch, ready to forgive us, ready to forgive me for making the choices I've made. He never has, of course, although I'll never stop praying. I haven't seen my son face-to-face in more than three years.
No matter how much I try to deny it, Malcolm will always have one thing in common with his father. For both of them, their work is never done, no matter what kind of work it is. There's an old saying: unless a marine is dead, he's still a marine. That applied literally to Stuart, who never stopped thinking like a Navy man even after his retirement four months ago. It applies to Malcolm too; he never ceased trying to earn his father's love and approval. They both throw themselves into their job, their duty, and they never look back, at least not that I know of.
But my baby boy is more than that. He had compassion; he has love. He has weakness. He had the things that make a person human, like fears and allergies, quirks and hidden talents. Sometimes, I think, those things are the most important of all.
I married a man without weakness, or compassion. And it might have been easier if I married a man without love as well.
For Stuart loves me. He loves Malcolm, in a peculiar way, and he loves Madeline too. I know he does, but more than us, he loves his duty. He loves the sea.
They warn you about marrying men like him, and it's true. I'm warning you against it now. They warn you about marrying men in love with something so cold, so fast as the ocean, or as honor. And I know why they say things like that; I know very well. I, Mary Morgaine Carter-Reed, learned the hard way, and now I'm paying the devil his due.
AN: Actually more please with this than I thought I'd be! But please, review and tell me how I could've made it better! 'Paying the devil his due' is Navy slang for doing something unpleasant; I used it here (not incorrectly, I think) to mean paying the price for something. Revieeeeeew!!! | https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2164004/1/Paying_the_Devil | dclm-gs1-212640000 |
0.048628 | <urn:uuid:4b9c2f38-55f9-4896-b553-78fc3f57f531> | en | 0.994136 | OK, last chapter. Sad isn't it? Well I want heaps of reviews - over 5 if possible (Trust me, the reviews have been slow.) And also I'm sorry that this chapter isn't the greatest. I have a feeling I'll end up redoing it sometime on the future. Once again, I own nothing. Enjoy. (BTW, this is the first multi-chapter story I've finished- WOOHOO)
Kevin listened to his sisters words. He suddenly realized that she was right. He loved Grace because of her experiences, not her personality. As much as he loved her, he knew they couldn't be together, at least for now. Losing a brother for a good friend was not a sacrifice he was willing to make. If he was, he knew it would be true love.
He set off towards Joan's room to find Grace. Thankfully Joan wasn't in the room. Kevin suspected that she knew she wasn't particularly welcome at the moment.
"Hey," he murmured.
She looked at Kevin and gave a tiny smile.
Grace, I really need to tell you something. And I don't know if you'll like it, but it has to be said," began Kevin in a very shaky voice. He hoped he had made the right decision.
Grace nodded. She sort of knew what was coming.
"Grace, as much as I love you, we can't be together, in an intimate relationship. I hardly know you. And you hardly know me. And I couldn't do in front of Luke. Maybe one day, we can be more than friends, but not now,"
Grace felt a tear slide down her face, but she understood what Kevin was saying.
"The fact is, Luke has been more than a brother to me, he's been a friend, a problem solver, a teacher, a care-giver and so much more. We've just been crying buddies. I don't mean we should never see each other again, but we should be just that - crying buddies.
Grace gave a solemn nod as Kevin left the room. She sort of felt at peace with everyone at that moment - with Kevin, with Luke, with Joan, and whatever happened next didn't matter. As far as she could see, her boyfriend had just walked out the door, but her friend had only just entered. And she was grateful for that.
But Kevin had more business to attend to. He entered his brother's room, and saw his brother sitting on his bed, very still, with a blank face.
"Luke," he said softly.
Luke's eyes quickly darted at Kevin before retreating to some place on the wall.
"I'm sorry."
Luke this time had a long stare at his brother, and gave a look that showed he was ready to hear him out.
"I know how wrong it was of me to take advantage of your only just ex-girlfriend, but we won't be seeing each other as partners anymore, just friends. Is that cool?" he asked.
Luke gave out a scratchy word, "Yeah"
Kevin was relieved, and set off to say one last thing.
"Luke, you have been through everything with me. You put up with me when I would take away all the attention from you. You put up with me when I bragged about baseball. You put up with me not being able to dress myself, but I know you could never put up with me being with Grace. The thing is, as a brother, we have a stronger bond than a girlfriend and boyfriend could ever have. I am not going to lose that, not for some girl who may not even be the one."
Luke was misty eyed. He got up, and gave his brother a big hug. Luke and Kevin were both content with the situation, and had never been happier to be each others brother. | https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2344243/12/ | dclm-gs1-212650000 |
0.052056 | <urn:uuid:c19e168e-84e3-40c6-91c3-44e62c972918> | en | 0.981226 | School Days
"I have to what!" shouted Athrun standing up to turn to his friend, kira.
"I need you to tutor my sister after she arrives tomorrow." stated Kira, "Besides you'd be doing me a favor."
"It seems to me that I already do you a lot of favors." Stated Athrun the 20 year old was the smartest person at Archangel University or ACU. The well-built blue haired, emerald eyed boy was the envy of every girl in the school.
"Oh please! You know I couldn't teach her a thing." Said Kira. This was true. Averaging a 65 was not a good sign for any student who wanted advice in school.
"Well maybe if you didn't spend so much time with Lacus you wouldn't be in this mess." stated Athrun. Kira spent so much time with Lacus that Athrun barely saw him except when he needed a favor, which was quite often.
"It doesn't have to be everyday," said Kira, "but two to three times a week would be great." Athrun nearly fell off his chair.
"I don't have time to babysit your sister, I have a life too!" shouted Athrun
"What life you're married to your books you could take a little time and help her." Stated Kira. Athrun pushed his glasses up onto his nose and sighed this always happened he was just too kind.
"I said fine now I'm free on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays 4-7 just drop her off." answered Athrun
"Thank you, you won't regret it!" shouted Kira as he ran out of their apatment probably for another date with Lacus. This was his typical life stay in the confines of his apartment and read or study. Kira was always suggesting take off his glasses and get a girl friend but he wouldn't he didn't want one back in high school he had been every girls heart throb and having learned they leaved you alone when they thought you were a nerd he took on that role. Besides babysitting Kira's sister would stop Kira from nagging him on going out on Friday night.
"Kira" someone shouted
"Hey Cagalli!" said Kira happily seeing his sister in over three years she looked just the same with her golden locks and amber eyes to her famine figure even though she rarely showed it.
"So have you been?" asked Cagalli
" Oh you know can't complain." Said Kira
" So when do I get to meet these great friends of yours and Lacus?" asked Cagalli even though they had been apart they had e-mailed each other as often as possible to keep the other up to date on what was going on in their lives.
"Well actually…"
"Surprize!" shouted a bunch of people as they jumped out from behind furniture, all except one, a man sat in the corner reading.
"Let me introduce my friends." Said Kira.
"Hia I'm Mirrialla but you can call me Mir or Milly." Said a pretty girl with auburn hair and green eyes.
"I'm Dearaka Elstman her girlfriend." Said a blonde tan guy pointing at Mir
"Yoah." Said a sliver haired, blue eyed boy.
"AKA Yzak Joule." Said Kira
"I'm Shiho and even though he seems cold he's really just a sweety." Said a brown haired, purple eyed girl.
"And this," said Kira dramatically, "Is my lovely girlfriend Lacus Clyne."
"He's just being silly," said a pink haired, blue eyed girl stepping forward, "I hope we can be friends, Cagalli."
"And who's he?" asked Cagalli pointing straight at Athrun
"That is Athrun Zala my best friend, your tutor and smart nerd." Said Kira walking up to Athrun and giving him a slap on the back.
"Umph." Was the only respond they got.
"Oh come on Athrun you have to at least look at your pupil." Teased Cagalli pocking him lighly on the nose. Athrun looked up, gold meet green, green meet gold both immediately looked away.
"That was odd," said Dearaka, "Well let's get this party started." And with that everyone began dancing except for two. Athrun sat in the corner every so often looking inconspicuously at Cagalli. Cagalli sat on the sofa tapping her foot with the music and wondering what that electric zap had been when her and Athrun eyes had met.
Sighing Athrun got up and sat beside Cagalli.
"Are you enjoying the party?" he asked
"Yes!" she replied not looking at him
"I see now what do you need me to tutor you in?" asked Athrun
"What!" said Athrun shocked
"Everything." Said Cagalli turning around to face him, "Math, Science, English, History, Geography etc." Athrun was shocked how could she need help in everything, impossible.
"You're joking!" he stated
"No I'm not and if you think it's impossible it isn't forget it I'll find someone else to tutor me!" she shouted luckily the music was so loud that no one heard her.
"You won't."
"Won't what?"
"You won't find anyone else to tutor you in all the subjects I'm the only one."
"Then I'll go to more then one tutor!" Athrun was enjoying himself it had been months since he had such a conversation. He decided to get on her nerves more.
"You are only allowed one tutor at this school." He stated
"What!" screamed Cagalli totally scaring everyone in the room, "Impossible! Just because you think you're so high and mighty doesn't mean I have to do what you say!"
"I think it's time I took Cagalli to our apartment." Said Lacus and she and Milly nodded.
"I don't see why you're so special." Continued Cagalli
"Cagalli it's time to go to our apartment. So you can get settled." Said Milly tapping Cagalli on the shoulder and gesturing toward the door.
"Fine. Good-bye Zala!" shouted Cagalli
"I'll see you on tomorrow." Said Athrun
"Yeap!" said Cagalli, "Hey wait you tricked me I'm going to kill you Zala." She continued cursing as she and the girls continued down the hall.
"That was a little harsh." said Dearaka to Athrun
"I can't wait to begin tutoring!" said Athrun already looking forward tomorrow.
This is my first time writing a story please review if you like it I'll continue enjoy! | https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2754286/1/Tutoring-Trouble | dclm-gs1-212660000 |
0.313754 | <urn:uuid:20f22a96-43fc-478a-bcc8-bc5cede03305> | en | 0.992029 | Adam Kadmon
Disclaimer: I do not own Evangelion.
Summary: Hikari learns not everyone lost in wars are soldiers. Contains harsh language.
"You filthy fucking piece of shit!!"
Suzahara Touji pulled his bloody fist back and again sent it into the face of the boy he was fighting. It was a glancing blow, his knuckles striking a sharp cheek bone. It was already swollen and discolored. He punched it again, and the boy went lax in his grip, slipping to the dusty ground.
It was a clean and clear day, no clouds in the sky to obscure the endless azure of the heavens or the shining magnificence of the fiery sun. Beautiful, especially considering what happened just a week prior. The day when that colossus attacked the city and the emergency shelters were used for the first time. The day when, for all intents and purposes, Touji's world had ended.
He paid no heed to the sizable crowd that had gathered in the windows of the school around him, dozens of eyes watching the fight with anxiety, with joy, with disgust, with excitement. He ignored the catcalls, the shouts, the pleas for mercy. No quarter had been given, none would be asked. There was nothing anyone could say to stop him.
He picked the boy up again, and then knocked him down. The boy, his gentle curving face, his chocolate hair, his deep cobalt eyes, all were lost under purpling bruises and blood sprouting up from splits across his face. He was smaller than Touji; the fight was entirely one-sided. Nothing but weak hands and thin arms vainly trying to shield a soft and vulnerable body.
Dust flew into the air as he was knocked down to the earth, a frenzied whirlwind. Touji picked him up again.
Where Touji gave no notice to the crowd around him, it inevitably drew the attention of another. Horaki Hikari never took her responsibilities as class 2-A's representative lightly. It was an honor bestowed upon her in recognition of her grades and maturity. It was a pity her peers did not share her astute mind, or her ethics, but she was not there to judge. She was to enforce the school's rules, and guide her fellow students by example. She never thought otherwise, and while it did swell her head at times, she forbid herself from overstepping her boundaries or abusing her power.
But she knew when to exact her authority. Every day it seemed someone dared to copy work under her watch, or skip class, or eat during a lecture, or, as today, pick a fight. Fighting was something Hikari never understood. She realized humans were the home of certain undeniable aggressions and conflicting emotions, but to resort to actual physical violence was beyond her. She couldn't imagine hating someone so much as to inflict pain upon their body. Even to wish hurt on another human being confounded her.
But then again boys were of, well, a lower mental capacity than girls. Not that she was sexist. Just realistic. She had plenty of experience regarding the inner workings of the male mind. Thought precipitated action, and as a class representative, she was witness to plenty of stupid actions by boys. Fighting, she had to admit, was near the top of the list.
She followed the sounds of raucous shouting and the disorganized line of students to the south courtyard. She ignored the crowds: even she couldn't order a mob this size to disperse. Where were all the teachers?
Hikari broke into the dazzling sunlight, and surprised herself by not being surprised when her eyes fell on Suzahara Touji beating the daylights out of the new transfer student. The operator of the robot, she corrected herself. She had seen the commotion earlier, but her main concern was restoring order to the class, not gawking at a teenage robot jockey. She actually found it a little depressing, that in the face of such a shocking occurrence happening right under her nose, she immediately fell into her class rep mode, almost without thought. But it was a part of who she was.
Just like it was a part of Touji to jump to conclusions without all the facts, or make enemies over matters in his imagination. Hikari had carefully observed him hassling the robot operator, and had thought nothing would come of it. Just Suzahara giving the new kid a little trouble. She never thought he'd actually be kicking him in the ribs ten minutes later.
"Suzahara-kun!" Hikari shouted from across the courtyard. "Stop it right this instant!"
Touji did not stop.
As she strode out from the school, mustering every ounce of authority she had in her tiny body, the crowd gradually quieted. Like a silent wave crashing in her wake, the rest of the student body watching fell steadily hushed. Hikari let herself feel proud, that she alone was enough to calm the teeming mob.
As she got closer to the scene of the fight, she realized it wasn't her presence that silenced the throng of students. It was the fight itself.
Touji's fists were red. Not just a little splattering on his knuckles; his entire hands were bloody. There was crimson speckled on his track suit sleeves, red on his running shoes and climbing up his legs. This… this was no fight. It was a maiming.
"Su… Suzahara-kun!" Hikari exclaimed, outraged. "What on earth do you think you're doing? Good… good God! Stop it! Stop it right now, Suzahara-kun!" Never before had she wanted to swear so badly at someone.
He halted the attack briefly, and threw a fury laced glare over his shoulder.
"He killed her!" Touji screamed.
"Who? What are you talking about?"
"My sister's dead! Azumi's dead!"
Hikari staggered backwards, feeling the breath leave her body. Little Suzahara Azumi, Touji's pride and joy, the girl with the deep brown eyes, the girl who loved her brother like he was a shining superhero…
"He killed her! Him and that fucking robot!" Touji roared, tears running down his face. He lifted his foot up, then ground it into Shinji's ribs. "Well?" he asked the boy under his heel. "Where's your fancy robot now? Not so tough when you can't step on little girls, are you?"
Touji kicked Shinji in the face. Shinji coughed up a red tooth.
"Stop it!" Hikari shrieked. "You'll kill him!"
"That's the idea." He drove his heel down on Shinji's windpipe. He began to sputter for breath. He opened his mouth for air, and all Hikari saw was blood. She spun on her heel towards the boy watching behind her.
"Aida, do something!"
The bespectacled boy looked away, cringing. Hikari stared at him, not believing this was happening. Kensuke always softened Suzahara. The freckled boy never let things get out of hand. Sure, Touji was a fighter and a jock, but as long as he had his friends nothing bad would ever—
"Suzahara!" she screamed. "Touji!!"
Hikari did not know what possessed her in that moment. She felt something break inside her. She knew Touji was angry, but seeing him willingly try and take a human life pushed her towards action that was normally unthinkable to her.
She dove from behind at his midsection, wrapping her thin arms around his stomach, which felt like steel to her. She pulled with all the might she had in her fourteen year old body. Touji didn't budge an inch.
"Stop it!" she screamed, feeling hysterical. "You can't kill him!"
Touji bared his teeth.
Hikari let go of him, and used her tiny fists to hit his back. Nothing was working. She felt angry and confused and sympathetic and tired and old and weak. In a moment of brave panic she ducked under his arm and faced him. And she slapped him. Hard. The nail on her middle finger broke in half, but she barely felt it. She was looking into Touji's face, his eyes, desperately trying to find him beneath all his fury and rage and sadness. She tried to find the boy who always bought two lunches. The boy who hated art class. The boy who never turned down a bet. The boy who loved his little sister more than anything else on the planet.
He pushed her away.
Hikari fell backwards, landing on her bottom. She felt like he had just struck her. The entire situation caught up with her all at once. Touji, the fight, the transfer student, the battle, the death of little Azumi, the fight, the edge of chaos the world was teetering upon… she covered her eyes and began to cry.
Touji jammed his eyes shut, facing the sky. His jaw was set, a trap, and his bloody fists clenched at his sides. With a sound like a dying sigh he lifted his foot from Shinji's neck and the boy gasped for breath.
"Stop crying," Touji bit out. "You got nothing to cry about. So shut the hell up." He spun on her when she did not comply. "Shut up!"
Hikari sniffled, wiping her eyes. She stood up hugging herself. Touji glanced away, then turned back to the boy.
"What's your name?" he growled.
"… Shinji," he barely managed through a sob.
"Fuck you, Shinji." Touji spit on his face, turned, and walked away.
The alarm sounded thirteen minutes after Ayanami and two men in black suits carried Shinji away. Hikari had only heard it once before, on the day of the first attack. When Touji's sister died, she reminded herself. Somehow, even knowing that, she couldn't completely hate Shinji. If he hadn't been there, if he hadn't fought, so many more could have been killed too.
It was close to hate, the feeling he conjured up for her: it was irrational, it was a gut reaction, it disregarded reason and logic. Hate always did. But Hikari had nearly no experience with that emotion. The closest was the injustice she felt after her mother died. It was true she had been in a few fights, nothing but verbal barbs, and the slothful behavior of some of her classmates ruffled her feathers, but to comprehend the fury she saw in Touji today… that was beyond her. She hoped it always would be.
She was sitting on a mat in a small group of girls in one of the shelters, half-heartedly playing hearts to pass the time. It struck her as slightly ridiculous, a card game after she nearly witnessed a murder, and during a battle involving things from those cartoon shows her little sister Nozomi watched. Giant robots… she couldn't even begin to imagine it. Both the reality of something so fantastic, and that anyone would bother to build one. What was wrong with tanks and airplanes? A robot seemed so… science fiction. What possible purpose could it serve, beyond looking neat?
It was quiet. Logically, Hikari knew there was a battle outside, but she couldn't hear anything over the flowing chatter of the evacuees. No rumbling, no seismic thumps from giant robot feet, no shaking from weapon fire. It felt like recess. And people were treating it as such. She scanned the room; it was wide, sterile white and strangely oppressive. The lack of windows, the to-the-point construction and design, it all combined as if to say "you have to stay here and wait to live or wait to die."
Hikari shut her eyes. She didn't want to see everyone's smiling, oblivious faces. She didn't want to be here. She didn't want to think about what would happen to Touji. She didn't want to wonder if getting beaten so badly was affecting that robot boy.
She sighed. Everything felt dull. Even the hate for the small boy Shinji was barely discernable, like seeing something from far away on a hot day. She knew it was there, but it didn't feel like it was hers. Even the fear of death from giant robots was a trifle. Nothing was here for her, and it all—
She opened her eyes. The girl sitting across from her on the mat, Yuki, was glaring at her.
"It's your turn. It's been your turn. If you have a spade, put it down. Come on, we're playing a game here."
Hikari looked at her hand. She blinked at it. None of the symbols or numbers looked familiar. She selected a card at random, and placed it on top of the other three already on the floor. The girl on her left, Noriko, sighed and collected the cards, tucking them in a pile by her fat calf. She put another one down. It continued, and Hikari suddenly wondered what the hell the point was. She kept placing cards out, waiting until there were none left in her hand.
Yuki collected the entire deck soon enough, and began shuffling them like a professional dealer. She grinned and chatted happily with the other girls, about homework and parents and if they'd get back to school by lunch. Hikari gazed out over the crowd again. She looked for Aida, and did not find him. But she could not summon anything but fatigue regarding it. Idly, she strained her ears again for any sound of battle.
She didn't bother scanning the crowd for Suzahara. He was spirited away after the fight by large men in black, just like the boy, Shinji. But she couldn't imagine it was for the same reason. Touji was in
trouble, real trouble this time, and his patented puppy dog eyes wouldn't save him now. This might really be the end of the line for him this time. This might—
She turned back around.
"We're starting the next hand. God, you're so flakey today. Are you still thinking about that fight?"
"A little."
"Well forget it already." Yuki shrugged and scoffed at the same time, like she always did, and tossed her long black hair. "They're boys, Hikari. It's what they do. They get in fights and beat each other stupid. Stupider. Don't worry so much about it."
"But it was on my watch," she protested weakly. "And—"
"And nothing. It was totally out of your control. You know how boys are. When they set their puny little minds on something, there's no talking them out of it. It's just the way they're programmed. So relax. I know how important your class rep title is. Don't worry. I'm sure the faculty won't hold you responsible. So don't worry." Yuki smiled, a gentle, close-mouthed reassuring smile. And then her eyes flitted down to the deck in her hands. "So come on. We playing or what?"
And Hikari played. She swallowed the rest of her emotions and played cards while Aida went missing and the world waged war outside the shelter walls. She played and did not tell Yuki she was wrong.
Because she hadn't been worried about her title. The thought of losing her position never entered her head. She had been upset because a tiny part of her, despite her attempts to stop Touji, despite her screams and cries and sobs… a part of her wanted that robot boy to die.
The funeral was held one week after the attack. Special consideration was given to the Suzahara family, particularly Suzahara Gen, the father, for he was losing both his children. Little Azumi, killed in the first battle of Tokyo-3, and Touji, shipped away to a juvenile detention center outside the city. NERV was, miraculously, not pursuing him to the full extent of the law. The how and why were never questioned, and Touji agreed to take his punishment like a man without any objections. His only request was that he stay long enough to pay his final respects to his sister. NERV did not allow him to.
Hikari did not get to say goodbye to Touji. The faint inkling of the crush she had left with him. The most she could do for him now was to see his sister off, since he could not.
The funeral took form so quickly in order to secret it away from the public eye. The sooner the girl was in the ground, the sooner the masses could forget about her. It took all of Hikari's resources and crocodile tears to wheedle where and when it was taking place from the appropriate adults. That, and the details regarding Touji. Sometimes it paid to be a cute female in a man driven society.
She attended the funeral without telling anyone. Not her father, not her two sisters. She wore the black dress Kodama kept in the back of her closet and never took out. It was two sizes too big, but she wore it anyway. The lone formal shoes she possessed were the powder blue heelless slip-ons, which were incredibly inappropriate for a funeral, so she wore the only other footwear she owned, her school shoes, the ones with 2-A emblazoned on the straps. She doubted anyone would notice.
It was a short service, Gen reading the eulogy, a non-denominational priest presiding over the event. It was held in the Impact Memorial Cemetery, where Azumi was to be buried. It was a kind of honor, and no one argued with the wisdom. There was a small podium on a low stage, with a curtained backdrop behind it blocking the rest of the graveyard, and the coffin. Chairs sat in two rows of six before it, white, wooden, pristine. Hikari sat ramrod straight in her chair, good posture somehow becoming an acceptable way to show grief.
Attendance was poor. The Suzahara clan was not big to begin with, only Gen, his father Koji, and a few cousins able to make the trip. A smattering of NERV technicians showed up, but Hikari thought their only purpose was to hush up the cause of Azumi's death.
There was a lavender-haired woman she didn't recognize sitting near the back right row. She was, Hikari had to admit, gorgeous. Tall, slim, but busty, a model's face and features… Hikari knew how extraordinarily wrong it was to be comparing her looks to someone else at a funeral, but she couldn't help it. It was reflexive jealousy, plain and simple, with a little righteous indignation thrown in for good measure.
The priest refocused her by asking anyone who wished it to approach the coffin and pay a final respect. Hikari found herself walking towards the front before she knew what she was doing. She had only met Azumi once, during a basketball game Touji had played in. The younger Suzahara watched her brother with something akin to awe, gazing in wonder after him as he ran across the court. Hikari herself hardly ever attended sporting events; they bored her stupid. But the student council urged her to participate in more school events beyond meetings and assemblies. She was supposed to set an example after all, and audience turnout had been lacking recently.
Azumi had been front and center, practically hopping in her seat as Touji dribbled past her on his way to the basket. She was a small girl, but she exuded cheerful confidence and good-spirited poise. She couldn't have been more than ten or eleven, but she handled herself with the utmost self-assurance that nothing bad would ever befall her. Having an older brother who would beat the crap out of anyone who bullied her probably had something to do with it.
Hikari realized who she was when she stood and cheered for Touji as he made a basket. The brunette decided to sit next to her, both to try and catch some of the girl's contagious good humor, and to score brownie points with Touji.
They talked. Hikari learned Azumi was still in grammar school, she liked cats and not dogs, her favorite color was green, thunderstorms scared her, and her guiltiest pleasure was Sanrio. And she liked her. The young girl appealed to Hikari's more motherly instincts. There was no doubt in her mind: she wanted children one day. This was sort of a test drive.
Azumi fulfilled all of her secret maternal yearnings. The little girl was energetic, happy, bright, sweet, and infectiously cheerful. Everything Hikari always dreamed of. She let herself be carried away by a well used fantasy, of watching Touji perform to his body's extent, while sitting in the stands with a child. It was self-indulgent and silly, but Azumi was so full of life, it was hard not to dream a little.
Hikari approached the coffin with an almost stunned disbelief. She was really dead. This cemented it in reality for her. Even so, she couldn't summon any tears. She surreptitiously glanced around her. No one else was crying, either.
She paid her respects in silence. The coffin was closed; Hikari didn't want to think about what was left of the girl. Through the grapevine she heard it was pretty bad. The words mangled and ruined came up a lot. Hikari shivered, her imagination concocting dark images of burst open stomachs and bones spearing through pulpy skin and skulls cracked like old flower pots spilling their grey curdling viscera to the ground below. Suddenly the coffin seemed almost transparent, all the sinister visions of her mind painting the world red. She hurried off the stage.
The ceremony went on, but this was a busy city, filled with busy people, and it ended soon after Hikari sat back down. She stayed in her seat as the attendees began filing out of the cemetery in groups and alone, feeling impotent frustration. She felt like she should be doing something more, anything to make this tragedy less pointless. A little girl died here, and now it was back to business as usual. Even Gen and Koji, looking far older than Hikari thought probable, were merely shaking their heads as they walked out. The coffin was in the ground; that was that. End of story. Life marches on. Get over it.
Hikari suddenly felt like crying.
This was the world she existed in. Death was a minor annoyance, a disruption of routine and nothing more. So what if humanity had been neatly halved fifteen years ago? One more was of no consequence. One more was just one more.
There should be more. There should be much, much more. Where was the outrage? Where was the sadness? Where was the grief?
She thought of Touji, and remembered where those things were.
Soon Hikari was the only one in the graveyard, left alone with the new marker of Suzahara Azumi. She didn't know why she stayed. The service was over, the coffin lowered into the earth, even the father and grandfather had left. She was the only one in the cemetery, the only human among an endless sea of headstones. She cast her eyes left and right, and felt like she was being swallowed whole by this field of death.
She looked up. The sky was clear and blue. The sun was bright and warm. The world went on, like it always did. The world went on.
"Ikari Shinji? Ikari Shinji?"
The aged sensei called out a third time for the boy, squinting angrily over the class. The students in the front row were clear and clean and vibrant, those in the back were nothing beyond blurry splotches of color. Everything in between was varying degrees of smeared haze. But just because he couldn't see everyone didn't give them an excuse not to answer when called.
"Ikari Shinji?"
"He's not here," Hikari said, standing up. "His guardian sent a note to the office. Didn't you get it, sir?"
He scoured his desk, and the printouts that littered it like fallen leaves from his youth. Without drawing attention to his severe farsightedness, and because this class' representative was so trustworthy, he selected one of the slips at random and held it before him.
"Ah, yes," he said. Some alien force carried his tongue. "Terrible shame, his absence."
"… yes, sir." Hikari sat down.
He continued with the role call, relying on his ears to mark the students as present than his eyes, until—
"Suzahara Touji?" the sensei called out. No one answered him, and he begrudgingly lifted his eyes to the class. He adjusted his glasses to identify which blurry smudge was the boy in question. "Ah, there you are," he said as a nebulous white and brown form rose from the murky sea of desks and torsos.
"Um… no, sir," Hikari said. "It's me again. Suzahara is…" She glanced away awkwardly. "He's gone, and he isn't coming back." That was enough to muzzle the rest of the class, in varying states of idle chatter. A shroud of melancholy fell over the students, each reliving the near murder many of them had witnessed.
"Oh," the teacher said. He shuffled the papers on his desk, jotting a mark on the attendance sheet, and moved on. He completed the rest of the roll call quickly, with the half-hearted interest his pupils had come to expect. Then he laboriously launched into his day's lesson. "And so as the year 2006 ended, I was living in Hokkaido, trying to scrape together a living as a teacher, instructing the children of the many construction workers of the Dai-ichi corporation, as teachers were in very short supply then, and children had very few safe places to be while their parents worked…"
For the first time in her class 2-A life, Horaki Hikari did not pay attention to the lesson. Her terminal was active, her hands poised over the keys for the illusion of vigilance, but nothing the teacher said got from her ears to her fingers.
As she walked into class that morning, the sight of Touji's and Ikari's empty desks burned themselves upon her psyche like a branding iron. And now, like a chessboard she could see the desks in her mind, and their relation to her. Her brain kept replaying the fight, but she couldn't feel what she normally felt. All that was left for her was fatigue.
She was tired. Of school, of the battle-scarred city, of her clueless peers, of the imposed responsibility of her position. She just wanted a break. From everything. But too many people were counting on her. Her family relied on her cooking and organizational skills, her friends counted on her for help with homework, and her teachers needed her to maintain order and control. There was no time to wallow in self-pity. No time to mourn the loss of one little life, or the sympathy the people in this city lost somewhere along the way.
All that remained was duty. To her family, to her school, to her city, to her fellows. She felt like she was being directed, controlled, by some superior force orchestrating her actions and emotions. It was draining, and tiring, and exhausting. But it was the life that had fallen into her lap, and there was no arguing with it now. Even if she managed to push the tears out again, they wouldn't do any good.
Finally the bell rang for break, but she didn't hear it. She stayed in her seat, eyes boring into her terminal screen. She stayed that way even when someone approached and stopped before her, and cleared his throat.
She looked up. Aida Kensuke stood before her desk, sandy hair falling into his dimmed eyes. He looked like he hadn't slept in days.
"Yes?" Hikari answered him, her role as class representative rushing behind her words.
"I… you said Touji left and isn't coming back. I called his house, but no one's there. I can't find his dad or granddad, and… do you know where he is?"
"You really don't know?"
"No." Kensuke glanced away, looking at the parking lot beyond the windows. "I know… I know what he did was… wrong, but… even my dad won't tell me what happened. Everybody's sweeping it under the rug like it was just a minor accident or something. It's like nobody cares."
He was his friend, Hikari rationalized. He had a right to know where Touji was. It was the same thought process that aided her own search for the truth. She didn't stop to question it.
"He was put in a juvenile detention center somewhere outside Tokyo-3. I don't know exactly where. I don't know where his dad and grandfather are, either. Sorry."
"… yeah," he said. "Thanks."
She glanced at him. He truly did look terrible. Remotely, she thought he did indeed look like he just lost his best friend in the whole world.
"Where were you the other day?" she asked suddenly. "During the attack?"
He flinched back a step. His eyes would not meet hers. Lying to her would only make things worse. And after she told him what she knew about Touji, not letting her know felt incredibly wrong, even with everything else going on.
"I went outside. I left the shelter." He swallowed as Hikari shook her head in weary disappointment. "But," he went on, "it was for a good reason. Not just to see the battle, but to see how the new kid held up. I mean, he had to be carried away the other day. So… so I thought I should be an eyewitness to his struggle, you know?"
He was talking faster now, getting caught up in the tale. His eyes sparked a little as he spoke.
"The route I followed out of the shelter led to a hill overlooking the east side of the city. And even with all the evacuation drills and plans made available to the civilians, it was still weird to see the city in, I guess, battle configuration. Like, those big buildings without any windows? They're for transporting weapons. Giant rifles for the robot. And all the taller ones, like the building with all the government and city official offices in it, they were all gone. Sunk into the ground. Whatever's under the city has to be incredibly deep and wide. I can't even imagine."
He stopped to suck in a quick breath.
"I saw the Eva, that's what it's called, fight a huge thing that looked like a—"
He stopped abruptly, and remembered he was talking to a girl.
"… a big insect or squid or something, and it was floating off the ground. Anyway, the Eva, it's real skinny and gangly looking, and purple with a big horn on its head. It was armed with a rifle and it fired a volley into the squid thing, and then I had to look away to reload my camera with a fresh disc, and the next thing I know the Eva is being thrown through the air and crashes right next to me.
"The squid thing hovers up right on top of the Eva, and he can't move or he'll crush me, and like a total moron I'm too freaking scared to move. So the back of the Eva opens like a flower, and this long tube sticks out. The pilot, Shinji, tells me to get in. So, of course, I did.
"It was filled with this goop, slightly thicker than water, and it smelled weird, too. But inside it, you could see in every direction, like a fighter jet's canopy. There were only two handles to control it, meaning it had to be run by some other means, maybe voice command or remote control. But why would they need someone inside it to begin with? It had to be something else."
Hikari nodded politely, forgetting how longwinded Kensuke tended to be about things he liked.
"He was fighting," Kensuke continued, "but he was talking to someone over the comm. line, too. A woman. They were arguing about something. The woman must have been his commanding officer because she kept ordering him to shut up and fight, but Shinji, he was furious with her. I think… I think NERV covered up the casualty reports after the first battle, and they didn't tell Shinji anything about Azumi. He must not have known anything until… well… you know."
"What happened?" Hikari asked softly after a moment.
"He fought. But I don't think it was because that woman told him to. He was… furious. I mean, I can't think of anyone I've ever seen who was that pissed off." He stopped abruptly. "Well… I mean—"
"He was angry. What happened next?"
"… it sounded like he was in pain. They must have a kind of neural feedback system in the robot. He was screaming, and the squid thing had these weird whip things, and they went right through the robot. I didn't know exactly where until I got out, but it was his stomach. But he… I don't know. He must have ran into the squid thing until he was right in front of it, and the whips couldn't move. He trapped it with his own body, then pulled a knife out of somewhere and jammed it into this orb thingy, and apparently it was enough to deactivate or kill the thing, and then the Eva shut down too."
Kensuke blew out a breath like an exhausted athlete.
"Then what?" Hikari asked.
"After a while NERV guys came and picked us up. They confiscated my discs; all the footage I had was lost. And then they debriefed me, which consisted of big guys yelling at me for a half hour, then they sent me home." He shook his head in amazement. "I still can't believe this happened to me."
"…what about the boy? The pilot?"
"Oh, uh…" Kensuke appeared to have forgotten him completely. "He was… pretty messed up. One entire side of his face was swollen up like a balloon. He couldn't talk right, he was limping, he wheezed… he was pretty messed up." He scratched his forearm self-consciously. "I mean… I've seen Touji fight plenty of guys before, but this…" He shook his head.
"Yeah," Hikari offered weakly.
They let silence buffer their emotions a moment.
"Thanks, Horaki," Kensuke finally said. "For telling me."
"… it wasn't exactly a secret," she said.
"I know. But still… thanks."
He turned around and walked out of the classroom without looking back. Hikari watched him go. She stayed in her seat. Slowly, she raised her arms and placed her elbows on her desk. Then she lowered her eyes into her palms. She blew out a shaky breath, but no matter how hard she pushed, the tears just wouldn't come back.
It became a kind of routine for her. Almost a habit. Hikari visited the Impact cemetery every day. It wasn't out of delayed grief or a favor to Touji. It was to make herself remember, to never forget. To reaffirm both her life, and the reality that it could end in a heartbeat. Despite the time she lived in, despite the country, and the city, and the job her father worked at, Hikari never once worried about a premature death. It was settled in her head, that she'd die many years from now, in a house by the sea, buffered by a large family and numerous grandchildren.
And somehow returning to the cemetery every day helped her realize that. That despite the swirling storm of death and destruction that blew around her, she would survive. It was selfish, and incredibly egotistical, but people didn't visit graveyards to get over themselves.
It was the third day of this practice that she found someone else at Azumi's grave when she arrived. It was a boy, about her age, in a school uniform. He looked ragged, like he'd been wearing the same clothes for days. Hikari approached him slowly, and it took her ten steps to realize it was the pilot boy. Ikari.
He still looked terrible. His left eye was swollen shut, nearly his entire face was various shades of purple, his lips were split and cut, his hands and forearms were scarred with defensive wounds.
Hikari glanced away from him and her eyes fell on Azumi's grave. All sympathy for the boy was instantly crushed.
"What are you doing here?" she asked, stopping short a few steps behind him. She inwardly cringed. She hadn't meant to sound so confrontational.
"I heard this was where she was buried," Shinji said simply, almost reflexively. He sounded like hell, too. His breathing was labored, a raspy shuddering whistle. "I wanted to see her, at least once."
"You're leaving?" she asked.
"No. I'll go back. Right now I'm just… I don't know what the right word is. Taking a break, I guess." He glanced at her for the first time since she arrived. He gasped silently. "You're that girl… from the other day. You tried to stop—"
"I'm a class representative," Hikari said quickly. "It's my job to stop stuff like that."
Shinji kept his eye on her for a moment, then flitted it back to the grave.
"Oh," he said.
God, Hikari thought. Don't look like that. It makes it harder to hate you.
"Do they know you're gone?" she asked him. "The people who own that robot? I mean, do they know where you are?"
"They know I'm gone. But, no. They don't know where I am. Like I said, I'm taking a break."
They let personal grief muzzle their words for a long moment.
"Thank you," Shinji finally said softly.
"What? For what?"
"You saved me. From that boy." He sighed gently, resignedly. "Thank you."
"It was…" Hikari fidgeted in discomfort. She didn't want anything from this boy. Not even his gratitude. "It was nothing. I've stopped tons of fights. This was just… one more."
It wasn't a lie. It was just one more fight. It also just happened to be the worst one she ever saw.
"Oh," Shinji said again. He kept staring at the tombstone.
It was sleek and black, about two and a half feet high, with a tapered top. Azumi was buried in the children's section of the memorial site, in its leftmost edge, near where new arrivals were placed.
There were no flowers, no inscriptions, no religious symbols on the marker. There was nothing on any of them. Just names and dates for empty graves.
"Did you know her?" Shinji asked.
"Yes," Hikari said, nodding her head. "Not well, I only met her once, but I knew who she was."
"Could you tell me about her?"
"If you don't remember people who die, if you don't keep their memory alive, there's nothing to stop them from really disappearing forever." Shinji glanced away, out over the endless sea of graves. "If you think about them, and talk about them, and keep them in your thoughts, they won't die completely. It's important; they won't fade away if you keep them with you. That's all you can do. Or you can forget them, and then they'll be gone forever."
Hikari stared at his profile. The sentiment, though childish, was genuine. Here was a boy who had obviously lost someone dear. And all at once she realized he was probably suffering more over Azumi than she was. He didn't mean to kill her.
"She was…" Hikari hugged herself and frowned. This felt like a betrayal, like she was divulging a secret behind Touji's back. It felt wrong. "I… I don't know what you want me to tell you."
Shinji gazed hard at the tombstone.
"Anything to keep her in this world."
If you're so desperate to keep her around maybe you shouldn't have killed her.
Was her first instinct, her gut response. But yelling at him wouldn't bring Azumi back. Nothing would. And just like Shinji said, all they could do now was talk about her. To keep her alive in their thoughts and words, since nothing else could. Besides, Hikari was the one who initiated this conversation. Did she think the discussion would head in any other direction?
"… she was young, ten or eleven," she told him, studying the tombstone with him. "She was small, maybe up to my bicep, if that. She had dark brown hair, almost black. She…"
Hikari took a breath to continue, then stopped and sighed through her nose. This felt like an offense. Discussing a victim with the person who killed her. She knew Touji wouldn't approve of this. She bit her lower lip.
"Please," Shinji said as she fell quiet. "Please." His voice was very low, and very soft. He tried to keep the tears out of his tone and failed. He was literally one step from crying. "Please."
"She had an excited way of talking," Hikari said after a moment. "Like conversation thrilled her. She was energetic in her speech, and used a lot of hand gestures and signs. I… I mean, I only met her once. I can only assume she was like this around everyone else. She… she had a cute way of smiling and humming softly whenever you said something nice to her, or if she agreed with what you said. We talked about school, and I said it was important to always try your best, and she did that."
She was caught up in it now. Hikari found she liked talking about Azumi. Despite Touji. Despite herself. It almost gave her the same warm feeling she received from the girl herself.
"She loved her brother. She told me she always watched him play whenever he was in a game. Suzahara was on the boy's basketball team. He was pretty good, I heard. Of course, Azumi said he was the best. She would watch him from the bleachers and she would… glow. It was plain to see. She loved him. Adored him. And—"
Hikari stopped abruptly. The boy, still kneeling before the grave, was quietly crying. She drew back.
"I didn't mean to kill her," Shinji bit out between short sobs. "I'm so, so sorry. I… I never even saw the Eva before that day. I didn't have any training, or time to prepare or practice. It wasn't… God, it was my fault. She's dead because of me. Because I couldn't watch my fucking feet!"
He clutched at his head, nails digging into the soft flesh of his scalp.
"God!" He sucked in a ragged breath. It sounded like a rusty gate. "God!!"
"You…" A lifetime of living in a culture of ingrained empathy forced Hikari's tongue. Seeing a boy cry… it was both sad and frightening. "It wasn't like you… I mean, if you hadn't fought, how many more would have died?"
"It's meaningless if people have to die so others can live!" Shinji shouted. "Every life should be equal!"
He calmed a degree. He angrily wiped at his good eye.
"But they're not. Everyone at NERV treats people like commodities. Things. For the greater good, they say. For all mankind, so whatever sacrifice they make is written off as necessary and acceptable." He ground his teeth. "None of them even cared that she died." He jammed his eye shut. "I hate them."
Hikari took a discreet step away from him. When he said hate… he might be a boy lashing out against authority, but this was no rebellious juvenile attitude. This was real hate. It scared her.
He hated the adults who facilitated that robot, and by extension, him as well. That was a dangerous combination. He was fighting for people he despised. What was stopping him from turning on them, or purposefully failing their orders, or just giving up? What would keep him motivated to fight? Hikari found herself talking to him again before she realized it.
"You shouldn't… do this. Pilot that robot. If you hate it so much, aren't you just asking to mess up? Can't they get someone else? Someone who has experience, someone who wants to—"
"Are you ready to die?" Shinji asked her abruptly.
"… what?"
"If an Angel attacked tomorrow and killed you because I left… would you be okay with it?"
"… no," Hikari said softly, hugging herself. She glanced away. "I don't want to die."
"I doubt she did either." Shinji rose from the ground, still keeping his eye on Azumi's grave marker. "I'll stay. Until the Angels are gone. But after that…"
"What if they never stop coming?"
"… I won't leave," he stated. "I won't run away."
Somehow, despite the fact that the fate of the city was solely in the hands of a teenage boy who had anger issues and was responsible for at least one death, Hikari felt better knowing he wouldn't leave. That he'd stay and fight, even though he hated it. Of course, the why, why a giant robot had to be piloted by a kid and not a real soldier, was left to the wayside. There was obviously a good reason, there had to be, but she had no clue what it could be.
Hikari watched him gaze out over the cemetery. He took a step into it, then stopped. He seemed like he wanted to go in, but couldn't. He stood deathly still for a moment, then finally turned back to Hikari. He looked utterly defeated.
"You shouldn't… blame yourself," she told him. It sounded incredibly false and hollow from her, and she knew it. And she didn't care.
"And you shouldn't say that to me," he said. Shinji glanced up at her, his eye swimming in fury, in regret, in sadness, in hurt. Hikari couldn't look away. "I don't even know your name," he said, and somehow it sounded almost like an apology.
"… I'm Horaki Hikari."
"Thank you, Horaki-san."
He held her eyes for a long moment, then looked past her and let his feet drag him away, out of the graveyard, out to the city he saved, out to the city he hated. She heard his limp, the shuffling gait that carried him along like a car with three wheels. Hikari did not turn to watch him go.
She kept her eyes on Azumi's resting place, and attempted to sort out her feelings from the conversation with the boy. She tried hard to banish the swell of pity he gave her. She tried to forget his gratefulness, his pain, his words, him. Hikari wished she hadn't come to the graveyard today. Meeting Shinji humanized him. Made him more than the one-dimensional heartless killer her mind crafted him into. It made her see him for who he was.
He wasn't a cold-blooded monster. He was a child, like her, forced to shoulder burdens that broke his back, that weighed him down. He was a child without a childhood. He was a human being, and he was suffering greatly over what he did.
He didn't mean to do it. He said he didn't even have any time to practice with that robot.
He didn't mean to do it… yet he still did it. The fact remained Azumi was dead, and Hikari didn't have anyone who she could blame for it anymore. Logically, she couldn't fault Shinji; he was thrown into this situation with no training. How could he fight without knowing how? She couldn't blame the people of NERV; they were doing their job, to defend the city. If they hadn't been there, everyone in Tokyo-3 might have died. She couldn't blame Azumi, either; she was the victim in all of this.
So who was left? Who was left to take responsibility for this tragedy? Who would make amends with Touji, tell him they were sorry and that this never should have happened? All the tears, the anger, the sorrow, the pain, the regret and grief… everything that was spilt for this tiny little life… what was the point? It was all for nothing.
It wasn't fair. It just wasn't fair. Nothing about this was fair. Life shouldn't be a gamble. It shouldn't be a game you play where you can be ripped away at any moment without any notice, where life and death are totally beyond your control. Nothing you do matters, because it won't affect the outcome. Crying, yelling, shouting, fighting… none of it changed anything.
This was the world Hikari lived in. Where everyone fought to survive against enemy nations, and now giant monsters, but where the loss of one life meant nothing. Quantity over quality. So what if a single death resulted from their actions? Three billion were lost fifteen years ago. Today, one more was just one more.
She kneeled down in front of the marker. She stared hard at Suzahara Azumi's grave, and soon it became blurred and fuzzy, like a watercolor painting.
Hikari felt the tears push on the backs of her eyes. But crying, she realized, didn't accomplish anything. It was a weak reaction for helpless people. And these past few days had shown her she needed to be strong to survive this world. She couldn't just curl up and disappear. She had to stand on her own two legs and walk. Even if it was painful, and hard, and miserable, and disappointing. Life was not a fairytale. And Hikari knew that now. So did Touji, and Kensuke, and Shinji. Azumi knew it, too. And crying wouldn't change a thing.
Still, the tears pushed. But she did not let them out. She did not let them out.
Author notes: I've always liked Hikari. This fic was just me paying tribute to her. She always struck me as one of the more together characters in the series. Plus, she was friends with Asuka. She's a brave, brave girl.
I realize Shinji was a bit OOC in the graveyard. Just roll with it.
Don't know if I'll continue this. I suppose I could launch into a Shinji/Hikari pairing, but… I don't know. It kinda feels wrong. Don't worry, though. One day I will set those two up, I promise. Just need to think of a plot first. | https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3233807/1/Casualties | dclm-gs1-212680000 |
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Summary: In your dreams, you remember just how close Death came to taking you. One of those AU Denial fics, in which Remus and Tonks live, and Teddy isn't an orphan. Extremely fluffy oneshot.
A/N: Yeah, so I don't normally write AU, but besides the fact that I have Remus and Tonks alive here, everything else is canon. And I just felt the need for some seriously sweet fluff (consider yourself warned). ;)
In your dreams, in your nightmares, you relive the Battle of Hogwarts. You remember escaping death, once, twice, three times. The green light almost took you, almost got the better of you, and you know it had been close. Antonin Dolohov had backed you into a corner, and Bellatrix was going for Dora, and Death was so dangerously near...
Ever since your friends died, death hadn't seemed so scary.
Until you married Dora.
Until you had Teddy.
Then it became terrifying. The thought of leaving them was unbearable, and so that fear persists in your nightmares. Even though it's been years since that night...
You wake up cold and sweaty, flashes of green and red spells burned behind your eyelids, but you realize the truth that presents itself in the warmth of your blankets.
You're alive.
You shake your head and come back to your senses. You look to your right and see that Dora has already gone downstairs. She's probably making Teddy breakfast.
When you finally make your way down to the kitchen, Dora is cooking at the stove. Pancakes. Brilliant.
Teddy is standing on a chair, reaching into a cabinet for plates. He doesn't see you, but Dora does. She winks as a way of greeting.
You smile and wonder how you got so lucky. You go over to Teddy and sneak up behind him. You grab him by the waist.
He squeals. "Wotcher, Ted." you say happily. "How's my baby boy today?"
The seven year old squirms in your arms and his nose crinkles up. "Dad, I'm not a baby!" Teddy exclaims, but you can see the slight smile on his face and you know he hasn't outgrown you just yet.
"You'll always be my baby boy, Teddy Remus Lupin." you say sternly, still holding him close to you. You kiss his head. He smells clean and his hair is soft. You keep your arms around him, and he feels warm and real and wonderful.
Your son.
You still aren't used to it, and it never gets old. It's just as amazing every time.
You release Teddy and make your way over to your wife. And now you grab her waist, and you kiss her cheek, and she grins. "And how's my beautiful wife today?" you whisper into her ear.
She turns her head towards you and smiles. Her eyes sparkle and she kisses your cheek, catching the corner of your lips, and you love her.
You love her for being stubborn and persistent and irrational. You love her for loving you.
And you love her for giving you a son.
You grab her hand and give it a small squeeze, and she squeezes back, and even though it doesn't seem possible, you love her even more. Teddy comes over, having gotten the plates on the table, and he tugs at your shirt. You look down at him and smile.
"Dad, you have to see what Mum showed me how to do!" The boy squints in concentration, and a moment later, his nose is pointy and sharp like a beak. You laugh and Dora laughs and Teddy grins proudly.
Then Dora turns back to the pancakes. She scowls slightly. "Damn, I let one of them burn..." she says, then she grins back at you. "I blame you for distracting me, Remus."
You nod and pull away. "I take full responsibility." you say with a small chuckle.
You sit down at the kitchen table and Teddy takes his place across from you. He squints his eyes and his nose shrinks back to normal. He grins at you, looking so much like his mother, and you love him.
You know the moment won't last forever. You and Dora will fight eventually, Teddy will get annoyed about something eventually and maybe have a tantrum, and there will be days when you're just too tired to move. But you will always remember this morning of peace and quiet, of love and warmth and contentment.
You will always remember this moment with your family.
A/N: Yeah, I love always, reviews are amazing. | https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5237607/1/One-Moment-of-a-Million | dclm-gs1-212740000 |
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Our printer (Brother HL-5340D) does not print correctly on Ubuntu 12.10/13.04. Almost every print-job looks like this:
example of faulty print job
As you can see, the printer is possessed :). Despite that, everything works fine on 12.04 and older versions. The drivers (Brother HL-5350 DN Br-Script3) are the same for 12.04 and 12.10/13.04.
Test-pages are printed correctly. Sometimes we also get an extra page that looks like this:
How can I fix this behavior?
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I was hitting this exact same issue today when trying to print PDFs. I was also using the Br-Script3 driver but switched to the Brother MFC9840CDW Foomatic/Postscript driver.
I would rather use the (correct) former driver, but it appears to be an issue that has not been resolved and this is an adequate workaround for my purposes.
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I have the HL-5250DN, and I've run across this myself. It's a pain. I haven't had the time (and I usually just use my windows box instead), but you might try one of the HP PCL drivers instead. They've worked for me on Windows when I've had a PC that didn't have the brother drivers installed, and not a lot of time. The older the PCL driver is, the better your chances will be (but fewer features will be supported)
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For us, on Ubuntu 12.10 it wouldn't print anything (not even test page) and would blink red/orange the bottom 4 lights when we tried to print. We resolved it by switching drivers to a generic driver (the linux ones listed on Brother's website 1 did NOT appear to work, maybe I messed up the install) and even double-side printing works now! Ubuntu seems to recognize the printer and automatically add using the Br-Script3 driver. To change it, since I have cinnamon, I went into cinnamon-settings (gnome-control-center does NOT appear to let you change the driver associated with an automatically recognized printer), Printers> HL-5340D > right click, Printer Properties > Settings, Make and Model, Change ... > Select Printer from Database, Generic, Forward > PCL 6/PCL SL > Generic PCL 6/PCL XL Printer -CUPS+Gutenprint v5.2.9.
I have included a screenshot of the appropriate settings. Cinnamon Settings is what you want, on the left/bottom. Gnome-control-center on the right does not work. Actually I don't have enough reputation so instead it is linked 2.
Edit: my friend got it to work without cinnamon by going to localhost:631 and then roughly do the same procedure (select the printer, Administration - Modify Printer, ...).
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It's been a while, hasn't it? Sorry for the delay, but it is time to get back in the swing of things. This week's topic is what unconventional (just not Overused) tiers are preferred overall and why? Feel free to discuss and debate (civilly) the strengths, along with flaws of certain metagames.
Personally, DPP UU has to be my favorite tier of all time, not just to personal success in it, but everything in it felt right. I was able to experiment with how my teams were set up and what they were based off of. It always had variety and no real overcentralizing preference. Venusaur was good, but not unstoppable with Pokemon like Blaziken around, and Blaziken in turn was stopped by Milotic, and so on.
Doubles during DPP also holds a special spot in my heart due to just how fast paced and methodical it ended up being.
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However, she declined to say whether a government department, the presidency or the ruling African National Congress party was responsible for hiring the sign interpreter, telling reporters it isn't the time to "point fingers and vilify each other and start shouting."
However, he added: "If in fact the individual was not signing, that's unfortunate because that meant that people who rely on sign language to follow the speeches were not able to."
The government left many questions about the bizarre episode unanswered, including how much money the translation company was paid and Jantjie's precise role in the company — and even whether it really exists.
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He did not tell SA Interpreters that he was due for the checkup, but said an owner of the company was aware of his condition.
Police went to his home later Thursday to check on his well-being and determined that he was not a danger to himself or others, police spokesman Brigadier Neville Malila said.
A medical expert with University College London said Jantjie's unusual sign language didn't look like it was caused by schizophrenia or another psychosis.
"The disruption of sign language in people with schizophrenia takes many forms, but this does not look like anything I have seen in signers with psychosis," said Jo Atkinson, a clinical psychologist and researcher at the Center for Deafness, Cognition and Language.
Jantjie said he is officially classified as disabled by the government because of his schizophrenia. He said he has been on medication for nine years, and had taken it the day of the memorial service.
Jantjie said he received one year of sign language interpretation training, though advocates for the deaf say qualified interpreters in South Africa must undergo five years of training.
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In Clear Vision, you are a down on your luck stick figure that becomes a hitman after failing to get other jobs. You spend your time in your dingy little apartment, getting contracts to ice targets. Then you head out on assignments in which you shoot stick people in a variety of different situations. You earn money and can buy new rifles, and sometimes you have to use your cellphone on missions. There are cutscenes peppered throughout. That seems to be it!
The game is ages 17 and up, because, well, you go around popping people's noggins off.
Clear Vision is way better than it has any right to be. I love that about the game. It's like the developers thought, hey, why can't we make something deep and fulfilling that features stick figures. Well, you can. And they did.
I've played only a short bit with Clear Vision, but what I played, I liked. A lot.
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I'm stuck with this exercise: I have to find for which $x$ the estimate $\displaystyle\sum\limits_{i=0}^{n}x^i=O(n)$ holds.
It seems intuitive to me that this must be the case for all $x \in (0,1)$ but proving this seems to be beyond my abilities.
I tried some different approaches like the usual $\displaystyle \lim\limits_{x\to\infty}\frac{f(x)}{g(x)} = \text{some finite value}$ with $f(x)$ the formula for the partial sums. I tried the same thing with l'Hôpital's rule. I also tried to argue that the highest exponent of the sum must be $x^n$ and therefore I can just say that this holds for all $0 < x < 1$, but that doesn't seem very convincing to me.
I am out of ideas how to solve this problem and everything I try feels wrong to me, I hope someone in this community can help me.
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Hint: If $0\leq x\leq 1 $ then $x^i\leq 1$ so that $$\left|\sum_{i=0}^n x^i\right|\leq n+1.$$
For $x>1$ notice this is a geometric series and that $$\sum_{i=0}^n x^i= \frac{x^{n+1}-1}{x-1}.$$ Then we are then comparing $x^{n}$ to $n$.
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Can I just argue that if $|\sum_{i=0}^n x^i|\leq n+1$ is true then, $\lim\limits_{n\to\infty} \frac{n+1}{n}=1$ and therefore, $|\sum_{i=0}^n x^i|\subseteq n+1 \subseteq O(n)$? Do I still have to prove anything the x outside of [0,1]? – Brutos May 16 '11 at 20:01
@Brutos: Basically. Recall the definition of Big-$O$: We write $f(x)=O(g(x))$ as $x\rightarrow \infty$ if there exists a constant $x_0$ and a constant $M$ such that $x>x_0$ implies $|f(x)|\leq M|g(x)|$. To see why $n+1=O(n)$, choose $x_0=1$, and $M=2$. In other words, $n+1\leq 2n$ for all $n\geq 1$ so that we can write $n+1=O(n)$. (assuming we are talking about $n\rightarrow \infty$) – Eric Naslund May 16 '11 at 20:04
@Brutos: For $x>1$, you have to show that $x^n$ is not $O(n)$. For this, I suggest a proof by contradiction. Suppose that $x>1$ and $x^n=O(n)$. Then there exists $M$ and $N$ such that for all $n\geq N$ we have $x^{n}\leq Mn$. Now, why is that last line impossible as $n\rightarrow \infty$? Equivalently, why do exponentials grow faster than any polynomial? (Also note: Since we are using big-$O$ notation, I did not worry about the factor of $\frac{x}{x-1}$ since $x$ is fixed, and that is just multiplication by a constant. – Eric Naslund May 16 '11 at 20:09
Thank you very much. I'm heaving a bit of trouble to show this with the $\exists constant$ definition but, showing it with limes should be sufficient however. I'll try the to solve it again tomorrow with the constant, i am to tired now. Still thank you a lot, I don't think I would have been able to solve it without your hints. – Brutos May 16 '11 at 20:40
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Comment: Re:PVR (Score 1) 146
by Zarquon (#42737945) Attached to: XBMC 12.0 'Frodo' Released: PVR-Support, HD Audio and More
It's a crapshoot depending on the CCI settings of your cable provider, but yes, they do. I have the quad tuner from Ceton, and from Verizon FIOS I get locals, expanded basic, and some of the premium channels with my mythtv backend. I recently rebuilt the box; it's currently running on Ubuntu raring, with an AMD A10 and 5x3TB in a ZFS array.
There's a small database that might be helpful:
You'll also need a listings provider; I use Schedules Direct, which just works but does charge.
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(Under linux, you'll only receive channels with no flags or the Copy Freely flag. In the absence of CCI flags, the Ceton tuner will also respect the old school analog (macrovision?) flags that are ignored by clear qam tuners.)
Comment: Re:What is the specific impulse? (Score 1) 75
by Zarquon (#41029541) Attached to: Microthrusters For Small Satellites
Also: Power requirements (covered vaguely in TFA), efficiency, and thermal requirements, since this is an electric ion thruster. There are a lot of SEP designs, although I don't recall any others quite this small.
What I also didn't see in the article is whether they have or need some sort of MEMs equivalent of valves... will the ionic fluid boil off in vacuum without the voltage applied? At what rate? Does the ionic fluid degrade with storage, and will it clog the capillaries like an inkjet printer? How big are the pores, and are they sensitive to cosmic radiation like silicon?
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Comment: Re:Better Place (Score 1) 378
by Zarquon (#38077224) Attached to: Research Promises Drastically Increased LiOn Capacity
Before gas stations, you bought gasoline at the hardware store in tins. Later on they added self-measuring pumps, and eventually they evolved into separate establishments. Also remember that roads were largely local during the early part of the automobile era, and it took a long time to develop a decent road network..
Comment: Re:These works were written between 40 - 60 years (Score 1) 721
by Zarquon (#34404278) Attached to: Greg Bear, Others Cry Foul on Project Gutenberg Copyright Call
Yes, in Life+70 countries that can easily happen. In the US, anything published before 1923 is in the public domain. Anything from 1923 onward requires a lot of research, which sometimes leads to mistakes (as in the Rule 6 clearance referenced above, "The Escape", aka "Brainwave"). Actually, it's not so much a mistake as an oddity in the law. The first publication, as a serial, was not renewed. Only the later republication as "Brainwave" was renewed.
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Comment: Re:ABC News: Comm systems shut down separately (Score 1) 377
The transmission was not shut down at 01:07 as I understand it, that was the last automatic transmission from the engine system. These are half-hourly, so you wouldn't expect another one if the plane disintegrated at 01:21.
A curious thing is that the last contact with the pilots was a handover from one ATC to another. The Malaysian ATC told them to contact Vietnamese ATC, which they acknowledged but never did. Normally, you'd do that right away (I think).
Comment: Re:The overwhelming success of open source (Score 1) 105
You could argue that patents are unneccessary because all innovation could be directly funded by government. That's another discussion, though. The innovations mentioned in the brief were things like http, gnu/linux and hadoop. One of these was government funded, the two others are knock-offs of things that to the best of my knowledge originated in private companies (unix and map/reduce). Of course there is an exchange of ideas between academia, private companies and open-souce projects. All of these also come up with new ideas, but the questions are: at which rate, and how would these rates be affected by the abolishment of software patents in the USA? I'm not at all convinced that the overall rate of innovation would suffer, but the argument in the brief does not contribute to that one way or the other.
Comment: Re:Operating systems were "open source" originally (Score 1) 105
That is a valid example of open source innovation, but can hardly be used in an argument against software patents. If we want a software industry, i.e. companies whose investment in software development isn't recouped through hardware sales, we can't go back to the business model of the 60s. And I think we all want a software industry.
Granted, you may be right about the very start of these fields, but that's a pretty pointless question. If we go with the very start of a field, it would probably be almost entirely academic.
The reason why the very start of a field is important to this debate is that this is where innovation happens, and the main argument for software patents is that it allegedly fosters innovation. That's also why the very first origins of httpd matter when it's being used as an example. Those things that originate in academia are usually not patented, since academia has a culture of publishing without patenting.
The important thing here is not the number of users or developers of a product, but its degree of innovation. As mentioned earlier, innovation also happens on a smaller scale within projects all the time, but if open source is to prove that software innovation doesn't need software patents, as the brief claims, then it should be possible to find widely known examples of innovative open source software. Maybe CMS is one, in which case it should have been mentioned in the brief instead of projects that are knock-offs of various patented and government-funded work.
software patents were practically non-existent before the 90s.
That is evidence that software innovation can happen without software patents. The success of open source (at least as far as it has been exemplified thus far) is not.
Regarding the claim that most fields start off as proprietary, I would disagree
Which fields have started off as open source? You mention CMS and web servers. Web servers started out open source, but since that work was government-funded it's a bit tangent to a debate about software patents. I don't know the history of CMS. Maybe that's a good example.
On the other hand, the argument that patents cause innovation is also false, if based only on the observation that innovations (and many things that aren't) nowadays tend to be patented.
I agree that GNU/Linux are high-quality pieces of software and that innovation takes place in large and small ways within every project, open source or not. My observation, which I think you will agree with, is that historically, most software categories (say, word processors, database servers, operating systems etc) start out as proprietary and often patented programs. Usually, several proprietary versions get produced before the FOSS versions start to come along. This is just an observation, and it doesn't mean that truly new software wouldn't get created without patents. The point is merely that you can't just point to some successful FOSS projects as proof that patents are useless, since the proponents of software patents will shoot down that proof unless the FOSS projects in question are truly new and original.
Better examples to support the argument could possibly be found by looking at software innovation done in parts of the world where software patents are not allowed, like pretty much everywhere except in the USA. Unfortunately, most examples of software innovation that comes to my mind are from the USA.
As to my claims about government funded web servers and browsers, I had httpd from CERN and NCSA's Mosaic in mind.
Comment: The overwhelming success of open source (Score 2) 105
Ok, so there is a open source "unix", open source "office", open source "photoshop" and more or less popular and successful open source versions of just about any common piece of software. The brief specifically mentions GNU/Linux as an example of the overwhelming success of open source in the software industry. The argument, as I understand it, is that we don't need software patents because innovative software gets created anyway, like GNU/Linux. But for all its qualities, GNU/Linux wasn't innovative, its stated goal is to create a knock-off of unix. There are better examples of innovation in the brief, like web servers / browsers, but these were initially government funded, and the government has never needed to patent its inventions.
There are good arguments against software patents, but "the overwhelming success of open source in the software industry" is not a very compelling proof, IMHO.
Comment: Re:Because it's fucking awesome, that's why. (Score 2) 162
by sberge (#45962633) Attached to: Why the World Needs OpenStreetMap
You seem to be confusing a map and a business directory. OpenStreetMap has a lot of map detail, i.e. street names and such, but no business listings. Google Maps is not only a map, but also a business directory. Certainly, these are useful services to combine, but I wouldn't fault OpenStreetMap for not being a business directory. That would be better handled as a separate project, and the two data sources could easily be combined to produce the service you're looking for.
Comment: Re:50% (Score 1) 322
by sberge (#44322637) Attached to: NSA Admits Searching "3 Hops" From Suspects
You must be GREATER than 50% likely to be a foreigner.
The proportion of foreign users of each of these services is GREATER than 50%, so even this infinitessimally more strict criterion is fulfilled. Whether the NSA actually uses such a pedantic and disingenuous interpretation of this rule is, of course, another question. If they are actually looking out for foreign threats, then they shouldn't need to. But you would think that they, with all their access to information and analytical power, could easily set the bar higher than 50% if foreign threats were the only ones they were interested in.
Comment: Flying's easy and there's plenty of space up there (Score 1) 205
by sberge (#44148363) Attached to: Jetstream Retrofit Illustrates How Close Modern Planes Are To UAVs
Just came back from today's Sunday trip over Berlin in a small two-seater airplane, and saw a total of maybe 5 or 6 other airplanes. Traffic control was done by a single person as far as I could tell. The cars below on the other hand, were about 10^5 times more numerous, and all at exactly the same height, 0 ft above GND, a height known to be shared with numerous fixed obstacles, bikers, children and drunkards.
An autonomous airplane is in many ways a much easier task than an autonomous car. All obstacles are for all intents and purposes point-shaped and flying under current "instrument flight rules", a pilot is not even responsible for avoiding them, if I've understood the rules correctly. All you need to do is to follow orders from air traffic controllers. The problem is that these orders are dispatched by voice, so if this were to scale one would have to devise a machine-to-machine protocol for that and automate the task of air traffic control.
Your typical smart phone has enough sensors built in for flying. The radio hardware is capable of interacting with secondary radar and instrument landing systems, the gyro/accelerometers are good enough for controlling attitude and GPS is good enough for navigation. Some phones even have the barometer which you will need to deal with pressure altitude, which is necessary under current rules. The camera is good enough for taxiing, take-off and landing. The processing power is more than ample to process the inputs and provide control inputs. The only thing lacking is the ability to interact with air traffic control and tower. And a few servos for the control inputs.
Comment: Better solution and better hackaround (Score 2) 467
by sberge (#44047449) Attached to: Altering Text In eBooks To Track Pirates
The better solution is to have the author (or translator in case of translated literature) provide multiple versions of a few sentences in the book. And the work-around is to upload only a fraction, randomly sprinkled through the book, to the sharing site which then assembles the pieces from multiple copies, garbling the watermark.
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Sam Moses
July 05, 1976
It's a wrenching test of man and motorcycle, and the hillclimber is apt to flip over making the grade
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There was a time when motorcycle racers were as rowdy as they were hardy, given to shenanigans that caused decent folks to nail boards over their windows, send the women and children to Grandma's and hide the dog in the garage when the racers came to town. But today tens of thousands of those same decent citizens crowd into such places as the Los Angeles Coliseum to watch motocross races, and politicians compose proclamations dedicating entire weeks to the sport of motorcycle racing. The riders are changed men.
Well, most of them are. There is one bunch that remains fiercely anachronistic: the hillclimbers. If stock-car drivers think sports-car drivers are sissies, they must love professional hillclimbers. Ask a motorcycle hillclimber what a Gucci loafer is and the odds are he'll guess it's a lazy Italian. There aren't many hillclimbers under the age of 35; they are wiry ol' boys who munch Red Man, and what they don't swallow they spit on the hill in defiance. Many let the straps of their helmets dangle at their jaws and wear long-sleeved jerseys instead of protective leather jackets. Their bikes have orange flames painted on the gas tanks and some even have been given names, like The Midnight Ghost. The lingo runs to talk like "he ain't gettin' nuff gription with his tars," and the riders refer to each other as "good runners" and "top point-getters." They arrive at each event on a Saturday evening, towing their bikes on home-built trailers behind 1969 Caddies and the like, drink all night, grab a couple of hours sleep in the back seat, and wake up when the spectators start arriving and the PA system begins blaring something like God's Gonna Get' cha (For That).
The American Motorcycle Association National Championship Hillclimb is by far the richest of the year; it attracts the 30 best riders and the largest audience. This year it will be held at Mount Garfield near Muskegon, Mich., on Aug. 1. Last summer the site was Jefferson, Pa., a hinterlands town not far from Hanover, where some of the world's fastest standardbreds are trained. Chief of the four-person Jefferson police force is a bushy-browed, gentleman of Pennsylvania Dutch heritage, short of hair and wide of girth.
"Biggest trouble we ever had was when 18 of them got to racing their cycles the wrong direction around the roundabout in the town square," says the Chief. "Didn't want to but had to bust 'em; we don't even let the townfolk do that."
The rest of the AMA circuit is a long-running theater of nostalgia, held over for years in towns named Egypt, East Palestine and such. It consists of about 18 events through the summer, most of them in the East. The average purse is a paltry $1,500, and there is little sponsorship or contingency money; hillclimbing is earthy, not glamorous.
Fittingly the hillclimb rulebook is a thin one. In fact, the only rule that counts for much is the one that defines a rider as being officially in control of his motorcycle if he reaches the finish line with at least one hand still on the handlebars. Notice that this rule does not require both hands to be on the bars, nor does it mention feet, seat or any other part of the anatomy that is generally considered helpful in controlling a motorcycle. It does not matter in the least where the rest of a rider's body may be when the motorcycle reaches the top of the hill. The rule tells a lot about the sport.
Hillclimbing is no more of a race than pole vaulting. The competitors climb the hill one at a time, timed by clock, and if nobody can reach the top the winner is the man who comes closest in his three attempts. They start from a rut at the bottom of the hill, and each rider has his own idea about how long and deep the rut should be to provide the most traction. Shaping this take-off point is a ritual; the riders call it "farming for turnips." A rider will pick and shovel the rut, and kick and scratch at it with the heel of his boot; he will study it like a golfer lining up a putt. When he is finally satisfied that it is the proper shape, he will back his machine into the rut and, often with a heavy sigh, lower his body onto the seat with the same gentle care a cowboy takes in mounting a bronco in the chute. For a moment he will sit motionless, staring almost straight up at the hill, trying to psych it out as if he is a fighter and it is his opponent, which is not far wrong. Then he reaches down and grabs a fistful of dirt and rubs it between his sweaty palms, and wraps a stringy piece of leather around one wrist. At the end of the leather is a kill switch: if—or more likely when—he crashes, the engine will be shut off as the leather is jerked away from the switch.
A crew member—usually a brother-in-law or a beer-drinking buddy—places a heavy boot on the bike's kick-starter, suspends his weight over the lever and jumps down with a powerful stroke. That the motion be confident is vital: a diffident kick will result in a backfire from the high-compression engine that can toss a man three feet into the air, clutching his twisted ankle in agony as he flies.
The engine fires to life with an unmuffled boom—not the sucking whine of a turbo Offy, or even the strident shriek of a Yamaha road racer, but a raw rumble that shakes the ground all the way to the top of the hill. The rider grips the handlebars, grits his teeth and squeezes the clutch lever with the fingers of his left hand. He snaps the bike into gear with his foot, twists the throttle full-on with his right hand, and wham! his left fingers snap open, the clutch lever springs out, and the bike is lost in a cloud of exploding earth as if a hand grenade had been dropped into the rut.
People standing near the starting line scatter. Spectators sitting at the bottom of the hill, often separated from the starting line by a wire fence like a batter's cage, protect themselves. Some turn their faces away and listen—they can tell from the sound how successful a run is—exposing the backs of their necks to the flying clumps of dirt and stones the size of golf balls. Some hide behind programs; some bury their faces in their hands and peek out between their fingers as the thundering brown cloud rolls up the hill. The cloud once knocked a spectator clean out at Everett, they say.
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I have a data in milliseconds and with CountDown class I would to display the time in this format : Days : Houres : Minutes : Seconds. If I do milliseconds / 1000 I have the total second If I do (milliseconds / 1000) / 60 I have the total minutes Etc but how can I display a countdown in this format : 2dayes : 21houres : 56 minutes : 00seconds
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I think this is the answer you needed: stackoverflow.com/questions/635935/… – xandy Apr 17 '12 at 8:52
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you should use DateFormat or SimpleDateFormat, see http://developer.android.com/reference/java/text/DateFormat.html
First, you should convert your milliseconds to Date.
Date date = new Date();
Then you could use DateFormat to format your timestamp to human-readable string.
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I think what he have is a time span – xandy Apr 17 '12 at 8:51
How can I convert a date in this format day/mounth/year to milliseconds ? – MimmoG Apr 17 '12 at 9:32
I guess you could use Date.setYear/Date.setMonth etc. – mariotaku Apr 17 '12 at 12:46
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I think you need to extract remainders from each of your divisions, using the mod (%) operator.
How about this:
final long SEC_PER_DAY = 24 * 60 * 60;
final long SEC_PER_HOUR = 60 * 60;
final long SEC_PER_MIN = 60;
public void onTick(long millis) {
long tot_sec = millis/1000;
long rem_days = tot_sec / SEC_PER_DAY;
long rem_hours = (tot_sec % SEC_PER_DAY) / SEC_PER_HOUR;
long rem_mins = ((tot_sec % SEC_PER_DAY) % SEC_PER_HOUR) / SEC_PER_MIN;
long rem_secs = ((tot_sec % SEC_PER_DAY) % SEC_PER_HOUR) % SEC_PER_MIN;
// and then format as you please...
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How can I create a CUDA context? The first call of CUDA is slow and I want to create the context before I launch my kernel.
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The canonical way to force runtime API context establishment is to call cudaFree(0). If you have multiple devices, call cudaSetDevice() with the ID of the device you want to establish a context on, then cudaFree(0) to establish the context.
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Using the runtime API: cudaDeviceSynchronize, cudaDeviceGetLimit, or anything that actually accesses the context should work.
I'm quite certain you're not using the driver API, as it doesn't do that sort of lazy initialization, but for others' benefit the driver call would be cuCtxCreate.
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I use the librairy openCV and the first call is slow. I can choose the device in my application but i would like init the context of Cuda in launch of application. I try cudaDeviceSynchronize but don't work – Arkerone May 2 '12 at 14:20
Are you sure it's actually context creation in that case? That's pretty fast on most hardware. OpenCV might (guessing here) be doing a large memcpy, and a preinitialized context won't help there. – ChrisV May 2 '12 at 15:14
In opencv FAQ : "That is because of initialization overheads. On first GPU function call Cuda Runtime API is initialized implicitly. Also some GPU code is compiled (Just In Time compilation) for your video card on the first usage. So for performance measure, it is necessary to do dummy function call and only then perform time tests. If it is critical for an application to run GPU code only once, it is possible to use a compilation cache which is persistent over multiple runs. Please read nvcc documentation for details (CUDA_DEVCODE_CACHE environment variable). " – Arkerone May 2 '12 at 15:19
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I'm trying to figure out why in some cases StreamingMarkupBuilder() produces non-XML. Here's how I'm calling it:
public static void saveXMLToFile(def document, String file) {
def xmlBuilder = new StreamingMarkupBuilder().bind {
mkp.yield document
new File(file).withWriter { out ->
out << xmlBuilder
And here's how we get there:
def document = new XmlParser(false, false).parse(manuscriptFile)
if (document.name().equals("appendix")) {
def newNode = new groovy.util.Node(null, "chapter", document.attributes(),
XMLUtils.saveXMLToFile(newNode, manuscriptFile)
But instead of getting out XML, I get:
<?xml version='1.0'?>
title[attributes={id=_2140_5145_361}; value=[An introduction to blah]]partintro
[attributes={id=_2140_5145_362}; value=[para[attributes={id=_2140_5145_363}; value=[My
contents, blah blah blah]]]
I've tried the docs, but unfortunately I'm not tremendously up on Groovy, so I'm sure I'm missing something simple. :(
Thanks in advance...
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The easiest way of doing it, it seems, is using XmlUtil class, which, sadly, is not very well documented:
def saveXMLToFile(Node document, String file) {
new File(file).withWriter { out ->
XmlUtil.serialize(document, out)
(notice that i changed the method signature to receive a Node)
The problem i found is that groovy.xml.MarkupBuilder (or StreamingMarkupBuilder) and groovy.util.Node, which MarkupBuilder returns, don't seem to get along very well. At least i couldn't find a way of adding the XML declaration to a Node so then it could be printed with XmlNodePrinter; or adding a Node in a MarkupBuilder closure, which i guessed should be possible/easy. If anyone knows how to do any of these, plase tell it in the comments or add a new answer =D
So the second easiest solution i could find, without relying in the poorly-documented magic of XmlUtil, was printing the XML declaration first using StreamingMarkupBuilder (not even MarkupBuilder, as it seems it needs a root node declaration, which we don't want in this case) and then printing the document using XmlNodePrinter:
def saveXMLToFile(Node document, String file) {
new File(file).withWriter { out ->
out << new StreamingMarkupBuilder().bind { mkp.xmlDeclaration() }
new XmlNodePrinter(new PrintWriter(out)).print(document)
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Your first solution worked beautifully, thanks so much!! I'll definitely keep the second one on hand as well. – NickChase May 6 '12 at 14:26
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Is there such a list? I don't expect to get a complete one, but the list of most well-known ones must be enough.
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If some bug is 'buggin' you, try gmcs.exe, which comes with the Mono framework. – Dykam Jul 15 '09 at 8:46
@Dykam - what, and that is bug free? I've reported multiple compiler bugs in gmcs. They are just as prone to error. – Marc Gravell Jul 15 '09 at 9:10
Surely not bugfree, but if a csc bug bugs you, you can try it with gmcs. – Dykam Jul 15 '09 at 11:27
Why do you want to know? – Eric Lippert Jul 15 '09 at 15:05
Because we use it. I know it's quite stable, on the other hand, I was sure there are some issues, and I remember we've been facing some of them. I was pretty sure if there is such a list, there must be rather tricky cases related to C# syntax. So the question is more educational then really practical. – Alex Yakunin Jul 15 '09 at 20:53
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the list of recently fixed bugs could be found here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc713578.aspx They call it "Breaking changes".
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Really nice list ;) – Alex Yakunin Jul 15 '09 at 10:03
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Try http://connect.microsoft.com/feedback/default.aspx?SiteID=210
Which version of the .Net framework btw?
I believe that the CLR has been largely stable and bug free since .Net 1.1 SP 1, certainly if in doubt, assume that its a bug in your code not .Net!
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The compiler has some real bugs, one related to enums. That bug is going to be a feature btw. – Dykam Jul 15 '09 at 8:46
We're using .NET 3.5 SP1 now. – Alex Yakunin Jul 15 '09 at 10:04
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The C# compiler emits calls to the constructor System.Decimal(int32, int32, int32, bool, byte) for decimal literals like the following:
public static readonly decimal MaxValue = 79228162514264337593543950335M;
If you are implementing mscorlib, and you leave out this constructor, the C# compiler crashes rather than giving error message CS0656 indicating a member required by the compiler is missing.
I know of bugs in the C# IntelliSense engine, the .NET debugger, and in the .NET framework, but you just asked about the compiler. :o
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I have a Multi Select List generated by HTML.ListBoxFor. The select element has an id of '#listBox'
I want to add a title attribute to each option tag. The value of the title attribute comes from a Dictionary<string,string>.
I want to do the following
loop through option element of the selectlist and get the text of the option element
loop through each element of Dictionary
Where dictionary.key == text add a title attribute with the value of Dictionary.Value.
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I haven't done jQuery for ages, so i'm pretty much stuck at the first hurdle, of even looping through the option elements of the selectlist – Doozer1979 Jul 11 '12 at 13:55
$('#yourSelect option').each(function(){..do stuff..}); – sirrocco Jul 11 '12 at 14:00
@Doozer1979 You will not be able to do that, since you can't loop on your server-side type after you get text client-side with Jquery,since client-side only works after page is rendered. Is there some other way you can get those values from Option Element? Where do you get text from? – Unavailable Jul 11 '12 at 14:10
The text is the innerHtml of the option element – Doozer1979 Jul 11 '12 at 14:16
I guess i'll have to get the values into an regular javascript array – Doozer1979 Jul 11 '12 at 14:16
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Check out this post Store extra value per item in drop down list. It allows you to put any attributes you want into the option items of a dropdown.
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I have been toying with a few different libraries and code snippets for the past few days. I am trying to create a menu like the one seen in the facebook app. Now there are many libraries and resources on building something of that kind, but I'm having major difficulties in drawing a shadow between the 'top' and 'bottom' page as to create the illusion that the 'top' page is actually on top. Now the exact effect Im trying to create is displayed in this article: http://android.cyrilmottier.com/?p=717
The author of the article I got this from is not very thorough in his explanation. This could be due to my programming-skills-under-development, or maybe I'm not the only one. I'm using the following library and example app to test and develop with: https://github.com/jfeinstein10/SlidingMenu
I would be very happy if anyone could help me get this to work.
PS: I'm very sorry, but since I'm a newbie here I am not allowed to post any pictures.
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What I did is I'm putting a shadow at the right of my menu view (ie behindView) with a margin on the right of your above view :
<!-- Show shadow on the right of the menu -->
With my shadow layout:
android:angle="0" />
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This is something I have tried myself. While it does provide the effect I'm looking for AFTER the menu has been pulled and not while it's being pulled. – Daft Fox Jul 11 '12 at 14:54
true, you can use a translation animation to follow the movement of the above view with the shadow if you know the speed or distance and time – Camille R Jul 11 '12 at 14:57
I will work on moving the shadow around later. Will keep you updated if I may succeed. – Daft Fox Jul 23 '12 at 15:10
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After allocating a VBO using OpenGL I create an OpenCL buffer from it using clCreateFromGLBuffer.
I use the VBO as an array of GLfloat and the OpenCL buffer as an array of cl_float. It works perfectly on my machine. Indeed, GLfloat and cl_float (and float) have the same size.
I am wondering if this would work anywhere flawlessly. In other words, is sizeof(GLfloat) == sizeof(cl_float) always true?* And if not, how does one usually deal with this?
* and is there documentation proving this
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Yes, if you check out the CL and GL headers, you get:
typedef float cl_float; // @cl_platform.h
typedef float GLfloat; // @gl.h
Note in some GL implementations you get intermediary typedef's like khronos_float_t but ultimately it all boils down to the float type. So both types are identical to your native float type. Furthermore, the equivalent data types in OpenCL kernels and OpenGL shaders are both guaranteed to be IEEE754-conformant.
Links to relevant headers: cl_platform.h, and the GL header depends on where you got it (they are slightly different from OS to OS and from vendor to vendor), have a look at yours. Examples: gl.h (GLES version), gl.h (FreeBSD nVidia version), gl.h (some random version).
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Which gl.h did you pull that from? – Nicol Bolas Aug 9 '12 at 4:34
@NicolBolas good point I was looking at the wrong header, I will edit. – Thomas Aug 9 '12 at 4:50
@NicolBolas added some links. – Thomas Aug 9 '12 at 4:57
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My case is a search window with around 20 properties, in which the user can choose to specify search criteria. Each property has a corresponding checkbox which toggles if the prop is included in the search result or not. The search result is then displayed in a kendo grid.
Simplified code which should illustrate the issue (kendo ui complete ver. 2012.2.710):
<input type="checkbox" onclick="fnShowHide(1);" name="showSearchColumn" id="checkShowField1" />
<div id="example" class="k-content">
<div id="kendoGridTest"></div>
function fnShowHide( iCol )
$('#kendoGridTest').data("kendoGrid").options.columns[iCol].hidden = false;
The MVC3-controller method returns data from search is of type JsonResult (given as jsonResultSearchResult below):
dataSource: jsonResultSearchResult,
schema: {
model: {
fields: {
FirstName: { type: "string" },
LastName: { type: "string" },
Address: { type: "string" }
sortable: true,
resizable: true,
columns: [{
field: "FirstName",
width: 90,
title: "First name"
field: "LastName",
width: 120,
hidden: true,
title: "Last name"
field: "Address",
width: 140,
title: "Adr"
After performing a search, the grid fills with the right data and LastName is indeed hidden. But if the user now checks the checkShowField1 control, I would like the grid to refresh with all three cols visible. It does not. fnShowHide() does not do the job.
I must admit I was looking for anything of a type of Columns collection in a QuickWatch window while debugging in VS. The collection in fnShowHide contains the right data from when the grid was initialized, and I'm able to manipulate the .hidden property, but the grid still does not display the column.
I'm still a bit confused whether dynamic hide/show of cols is supported but this accepted answer from a Telerik employee looked promising.
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To hide a column on the client side with JavaScript you should use the hideColumn() and to show it you use the showColumn(). Both methods have several overloads - you either pass the index of the column or you pass the name of the field the column is bound to. For example:
var grid = $('#GridID').data('kendoGrid');
//or show it
grid.showColumn("OrderDate") // lets say thats the field name of the same column
The post you linked shows how to Hide/Show column with the MVC Wrappers which is slightly different.
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That was it - Thanx a bunch! – Caad9 Aug 31 '12 at 7:00
thks, if i want to show all column which hide then how can do it? i.e what is best way to do? – Rikin Patel Oct 25 '12 at 14:19
To show all the columns you can cycle through them for(var i=0;i<grid.columns.length;i++){ grid.showColumn(i); } – Petur Subev Oct 27 '12 at 13:35
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At my current client we have some legacy ASP.Net web site projects. I am in the process of introducing automatic versioning for our builds and was wondering of how to best do this with web site projects in Team City?
I am currently using Team City's %build.number% variable (set through project build template) as the authoritative version number for a build. For any .NET project that produces assemblies it's hassle-free to use "AssemblyInfo Patcher" Build Feature in Team City but this does not work for web site projects since they do not produce assemblies.
So, any suggestions? I am already using Powershell and psake in my builds so creating scripts that use %build.number% is not a problem, it is more a question of how to inject this into the web site project in a "nice" manner.
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I attempted several solutions but ended up with using the version number of a dependent assembly that gets set by Team City during the build. I added a class to the assembly and it looks something like this:
public class VersionUtils
private readonly ILog _logger;
public VersionUtils() { _logger = LogManager.GetLogger("VersionLogger"); } public string GetWebAppVerison() { string version = "unknown version"; var assembly = Assembly.GetAssembly(typeof(VersionUtils)); try { version = assembly.GetName().Version.ToString(); } catch(Exception ex) { _logger.Warn("Could not find or read version number from " + assembly.GetName(), ex); } return version; }
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