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0.560889 | <urn:uuid:15755d68-c996-4e87-93bb-b22413b3ddb3> | en | 0.9557 | Glowing Sticks and Long Exposures Turn Drumming Into a Visual Feast
It can be mesmerizing watching a talented drummer beat away on a set of skins, but even more so when they're sitting in the middle of a long-exposure camera rig with a pair of glowing drumsticks in hand. What's usually a blur of arms and sticks suddenly becomes an intricate web of mid-air streaks and squiggles that only add to a drummer's performance.
Whisky-maker Ballentine paid for this awesome setup, and hired drummer Ben Mead to do his thing while technicians captured his performance. The 360-degree Matrix-like footage of him drumming is neat, but even his live performances with the sticks moving at full speed are impossible not to stare at in awe. [YouTube via The Awesomer] | http://gizmodo.com/glowing-sticks-and-long-exposures-turn-drumming-into-a-1557736797 | dclm-gs1-235020000 |
0.125153 | <urn:uuid:55cbd101-e4c7-4177-a09e-c36e88aaf6a5> | en | 0.95771 | Activision Explains How Call Of Duty Will Escape Guitar Hero's Fate
It's an intriguing start to a revealing document, granting insight into the publisher's feelings about what is undoubtedly one of its biggest money makers. It's one of two internal Activision memos obtained by Giant Bomb's Patrick Klepek following the announcement earlier this year that Guitar Hero's 2011 title was being cancelled and the series put on hold.
The uncertain state of Guitar Hero's future had gaming fans and members of the press alike pondering what the move meant for Activision's other flagship franchises. Activision publishing CEO Eric Hirshberg dispatched these internal memos to help explain the situation and reassure the company that the Call of Duty franchise was safe.
How does Hirshberg answer his own question? Why is Call of Duty safe?
He first cites differences between the two franchises' rise to power. Guitar Hero took the gaming world by storm, quickly reaching extreme heights of popularity before slowly but surely fizzling out. Conversely, Call of Duty had a relatively modest debut its audience growing with each new installment.
Hirshberg also notes that while Guitar Hero was an early entry in an untested genre, Call of Duty is a first-person shooter, one of the most stable and proven of the video game genres.
Both points are valid, but no executive issues a memo of this caliber without including a call-to-action.
"If you really step back and dispassionately look at any measurement-sales, player engagement, hours of online play, performance of DLC-you can absolutely conclude that the potential for this franchise has never been greater," he said. "In order to achieve this potential, we need to focus: on making games that constantly raise the quality bar; on staying ahead of the innovation curve; on surrounding the brand with a suite of services and an online community that makes our fans never want to leave. Entertainment franchises with staying power are rare. But Call of Duty shows all of the signs of being able to be one of them. It's up to us."
So no worries, Call of Duty fans. Rest assured that no matter what happens with your believed franchise, someone at Activision publishing knows how to write a damn good memo. Hit up Giant Bomb for more Activision inspiration.
Isn't Call of Duty Today Just Like Guitar Hero Was a Few Years Back? [Giant Bomb] | http://kotaku.com/5794058/activision-explains-how-call-of-duty-will-escape-guitar-heros-fate?tag=series | dclm-gs1-235060000 |
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Elk, Water Horses and Nessie
What is the Loch Ness Monster? Why, it is a Water Horse, of course. That may not answer some of the more scientific questions, but before the Loch Ness Monster there was the Each Uisge as they called it in the native tongue centuries before.
Dale Drinnon offers an interesting theory that distribution of lake monsters has a good correlation with distribution of elk (or moose as they are also known by). His thoughts can be found here.
No doubt that elk have been mistaken for lake monsters but can one extrapolate the whole way to make them one and the same? The fact that some countries called elk "water horses" is an interesting point but then again hippopotami are literally called "river horses" but look nothing like long necked lake monsters. That did not stop some Scottish academics of old speculating superficially that the Each Uisge may have had its root in an extinct hippo. This theory is nonsense but the Elk theory demands more respect since these creatures are recent or contemporary inhabitants of such lake areas.
However, Dale goes on to liken some land sightings of Nessie to moose taking to the water. The implication is that moose did not really die out in Scotland thousands of years ago. Can one really explain one animal which is not supposed to be there with another animal that is not supposed to be there? I think this improbable and would have expected a moose carcass to have turned up on some Scottish hillside a long time ago. I would also expect the moose to keep swimming to shore and not submerge.
The idea that such a creature would seed the Each Uisge tradition is troublesome at best. The assumption behind most of these theories is the ignorance of the natives and their inability to distinguish a supernatural entity from a moose (or deer, dog, otter, duck) out for a swim. That is why some folklorists prefer to go for the theory that something more realistically monstrous existed in the racial memories of the locals.
Well, that's also plausible so long as they don't keep on seeing it right up to the present day!
Dale has replied to my comment on his page that elk did not exist in Scotland so what is the point in using them to explain Nessie sightings? Check the link above though the discussion pretty much follows my take on the Greta Finlay case which is erroneously ascribed to a deer. My reply:
1 comment:
1. just to add to things :
First photo of baby elk
This is a just-released photo of a newly born European Elk, at Alladale Wilderness Reserve near Ardgay – believed to be the first such beast born north of the Great Glen in 1100 years!
Welcomed into the world only a few days ago to Hulda, an elk imported from Sweden in 2007, the sex of the calf is not yet known
Dad Hercules has been temporarily “dispatched” by Hulda but watches with interest from afar.
Alladale’s Head Ranger David Clarke says that mother and calf are in great shape.
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We are working on a app which allows user to login only through facebook. Now we are planning to bring in chat aspect using facebook xmpp.
Before i go ahead, juts wanted to check if it is possible for people to chat each other through our app even though they are not friends on the facebook?
This is important to us as our app might need interactions between users who are not friends on facebook.
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Facebook Chat on XMPP requires that you be Facebook friends with all chatting parties. Otherwise it could be used to spam people with messages from people they do not know.
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Thanks for the answer. Dont you think people accessing the same application at a time might need to talk to each other? Say for example i have a location based app for car pooling,which uses facebook for user authentcation. Now i would like my users to chat each other and strike a better deal even when they are not friends on facebook. Is there anyway i can achieve this through facebook itself ? – praveena_kd Jul 11 '12 at 19:26
Facebook chat API is meant to allow you to recreate the Facebook chat experience as on facebook.com, hence it only allows messages between friends. Ref: developers.facebook.com/docs/chat Perhaps you could consider using a local Jabber service within your website to achieve this non-friends chatting functionality? – Jonathan Dean Jul 11 '12 at 19:48
you are better off not using Facebook and go all out with XMPP because Facebook does not support XMPP. hence why you can't cross communicate. – user595349 Mar 3 '13 at 9:14
I'm not a Facebook developer, so I don't know if this helps. But keep in mind that you can send normal messages to non-friends as long as the recipient hasn't blocked them. In other words, you could try falling back to the regular messaging system if the recipient is not on the user's friend list; that is, simply route the "chat" through the normal messaging API instead. Similarly, if a non-friend sends you a message, then the app pulls that from the inbox and delivers it to your chat window.
There are two caveats to this approach, though:
1. Gaining access to the messaging API (at least for reading other users' messages) gives the app access to all of the user's inbox contents, and many users may be unwilling to grant that permission.
2. Facebook has said that the inbox isn't intended for real-time communication, and that users that "misuse" it may find their messaging feature temporarily disabled. See: http://www.facebook.com/help/132736263468691/
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Thanks Danny. As you have rightly said the users may not be willing to share the permission for reading inbox contents. As of now for our app we have built the chatting mechanism using RabitMQ. – praveena_kd Oct 15 '12 at 6:22
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So. I'm wondering how could i make it so that
1. System prints word which contains a-z + å, ä and ö letters. (At the moment å, ä and ö are printed in a weird way. I'm pretty sure that you know what it looks like :D)
2. User inputs a word and compares it to the first word. And at the moment if the word above ^ contains ä, ö or å and i input that word.. It won't see the match between those 2..
So the question is: How can I make it so that if you put å, ä or ö to input it will notice that it's exactly the same å, ä, ö in the word it just printed? I'm using
There's my whole code :D Mostly just quests and answers :)
import java.io.*;
import java.awt.*;
public class sanaopisto {
public static int quanity;
public static String rightanswer;
public static String question;
public static int right;
public static int wrong;
public static double ratio;
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.print("Moneenko sanaan tahdot vastata? ");
quanity = Integer.parseInt(in.readLine());
for(int x=0; x<quanity; x++){
System.out.println(x+1 +". kysymys");
System.out.println("Oikeita vastauksia " +right +" ja v\u201e\u201eri\u201e " +wrong +".");
}catch(Exception e) {
System.out.println("Tapahtui virhe.");}}
public static void getquestion(int quanity) {
int[] done = new int[100];//create array but everything is null
for(int i = 0; i<done.length; i++)
done[i] = 0;//need default values else wise it'll just be NULL!!!
//must be done before the do-while loop starts
boolean allDone = false;
String answer;
int ran;
if (!areAllQuestionsComplete(done)){ //Changed (!areAllQuestionsComplete(done)) thingy like this..
do{ //And made this work properly etc.
ran = (int)(Math.random() * 53 + 1);
} while (done[ran] == 1);
if(done[ran] != 1)
//ask random question
//if answer is correct, set done[ran] = 1
//else just let do-while loop run
if (ran == 1) { //1
question = "ruotsalainen";
rightanswer = "svensk, -t, -a";}
if (ran == 2) { //2
question = "suomalainen";
rightanswer = "finländsk, -t, -a";}
//. Took some code away from here.. Because too many questions.. In real version I have all the 1-84 questions :D
if (ran == 83) { //15
question = "globalisoitunut";
rightanswer = "globaliserad, -at, -ade";}
if (ran == 84) { //15
question = "maailma";
rightanswer = "en värld, -en, -ar, -arna";}
System.out.print("Vastaus?: ");
answer = in.readLine();
if (answer.equals(rightanswer)){
done[ran] = 1;}
System.out.println("Oikea vastaus on: " +rightanswer +"\n");}
//check if all questions are answered}
else {
System.out.println("You have answered every question!"); //I know that this is useless.. :D
}catch(Exception e) {
System.out.println("You made a mistake.");}
private static boolean areAllQuestionsComplete(int[] list)
if(list[i] != 1)
return false;//found one false, then all false
return true;//if it makes it here, then you know its all done
Edit Added whole code 'took some of the questions away' And I'm using CMD
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I am finding it tough to understand your question. Am I the only one? – Juned Ahsan Aug 17 '13 at 14:18
I'm pretty sure that you know what it looks like no not all of us knows it, and some of us may know how to solve your problem if you include this information. You need to put some more effort in creating your question. Also how are you using/running your application. Is it in OS console? – Pshemo Aug 17 '13 at 14:20
Check that you're using the correct character encodings. Those characters should display correctly if you're writing them in the correct encoding for the system. (Same for reading). – kiheru Aug 17 '13 at 14:22
okay, i insert my whole code here <.< ^^ – minisurma Aug 17 '13 at 14:24
No need for whole code, SSCCE that we can use to reproduce this behaviour will be enough. – Pshemo Aug 17 '13 at 14:30
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I'm guessing you are using System.out and System.in which use the systems default encoding.
This is some kind of DOS encoding in the windows command line, depending on your computer settings.
So to allow any kind of Unicode character like äöü and the like to be read and printed as you want to, you have to change your command line encoding (E.g. tell DOS to use a different encoding) and java to use the same encoding.
To correctly answer on how this can be done, one would need more information about your operating system.
on the java side you can use a InputStreamReader and give the character set (encoding) to it's constructor to read and a PrintStream (giving the same encoding as well) to write.
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That said it's rather hard to get any encoding based problem fixed. I would recommend you to use a window instead of the command line (with Swing for example or SWT). – kw4nta Aug 17 '13 at 14:30
UTF-8 should enable you to use them.
You're Finnish right? :)
If you try that:
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in, "UTF-8"));
How is working for you?
EDIT: Somehow the UTF-8 which should work doesn't seem to do the trick. I tried using -Dfile.encoding=UTF8 as a JVM property but didn't work for me So I tried basically all the charsets which were available and few of them gave the correct characters, here are the charset names: x-ISO-2022-CN-GB, x-ISO-2022-CN-CNS, x-IBM922, windows-1258, windows-1254, windows-1252, ISO-8859-9, ISO-8859-4, ISO-8859-1, ISO-2022-KR and ISO-2022-CN
So if you try for example:
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in, "x-ISO-2022-CN-GB"));
It should work
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I'm a Finn where did you know that? :o – minisurma Aug 17 '13 at 14:34
Where can i get UTF-8? – minisurma Aug 17 '13 at 15:52
I have had the same problem than you while dealing with Finnish inputs. I was using Scanner and the solution was something like that: Scanner scanner = new Scanner(new File("fileName.txt"),"UTF-8"); – Barbe Rouge Aug 17 '13 at 17:46
For me it says this: sanaopisto.java:11: error: unreported exception UnsupportedEncodingException; must be caught or declared to be thrown BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in, "UTF-8")); ^-- points word new after ( – minisurma Aug 17 '13 at 18:13
So it's not working.. :/ – minisurma Aug 18 '13 at 6:59
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I have some library files built using JNI in the directory /usr/local/lib/.
If i start the Eclipse from luncher, the path is never picked up by Eclipse, so I need to specify -Djava.library.path to the Run Configurations.
But if I start the Eclipse from command line. It seems working fine.
Does anyone know why it behaves like this and How to configure it to known the /usr/local/lib/ path from luncher. Thanks.
I am using Eclipse SDK Version: 3.6.2, on Ubuntu OS.
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That is probably because your shell executes export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=... in one of the startup scripts.
The launcher doesn't run those, so the variable isn't set.
The workaround: Write a small script that sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH and starts Eclipse (use exec eclipse if you want to avoid a useless process hanging around until Eclipse exits).
Alternatively, edit eclipse.ini and add -Djava.library.path=... after -vmargs
To verify that this works, open Help / About Eclipse / Installation Details / Configuration. The path should show up in the dialog as a System property.
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Thanks, very clear and helpful. – user200340 Jul 13 '11 at 10:19
I am using eclipse. Could you please guide me to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH in the eclipse configuration? – CODE FISH Jul 26 '13 at 10:37
In eclipse.ini, add -Djava.library.path=... after -vmargs stackoverflow.com/questions/13092003/… – Aaron Digulla Jul 26 '13 at 11:29
I want to do the same thing, but for PERL not java. what should I type in my eclipse.ini , I am on Ubuntu. – Mhd.Tahawi Jul 16 at 14:20
I think for PERL, you need a star script which sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH. – Aaron Digulla Jul 16 at 15:04
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Hey people,
Does anybody know how to make those sharp text-headlines in Photoshop ??
I normally use smooth but still I'm still not satisfied...
I need to get them clear and sharp!
Please share some thoughts here...
superfetz's picture
Hkrrm.. my fault!
Perhaps I should mention that I was refering to the sharpness of web-headlines - jpgs or gif!
Look here for instance
The text-graphics are so clear and strong!
Thanks again,
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the graphics you're admiring are in .png file format - a lossless web compression; i'm guessing that's why the text looks so good on the web. info:
superfetz's picture
Hey Andrea,
It's not quite what I'm looking for...
I would like to render the text in Photoshop - the compression is a different thing :-)
I've tried different render-options in the text-palette but it's not really computing...
Christian Robertson's picture
You'll never get sharp text in photoshop. You'll never get sharp downsamples on images either. Try Macromedia's fireworks. The kearning really sucks, but the type is very crisp (the image downsamples too, for that matter). Photoshop just wasn't designed with 72 dpi in mind.
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You could use 'crisp' instead of 'smooth' that would help a bit.
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0.067308 | <urn:uuid:5ac22f0d-fb6e-4878-9c9c-29efa556ae8d> | en | 0.982867 | - This tutorial is going to be about teeth whitening and teeth straightening. I chose this picture for no reason other than the teeth. This person on the right has pretty good-looking teeth. It has clean definition, they are straight and color looks good. The person in the middle has teeth are crooked, and have a yellowed tint to them. The person on the left has severe yellowing. Even though the teeth look straight, there's gunk on there. Let's retouch all three sets of teeth using Photoshop.
I'm going to start by straightening these teeth. So, I'm going to be using the cloning tool. I'm going stamp down there, actually I'm going to stamp down here, then come down a little bit, because I didn't like how dark that was. Then I'm going to swing over like this. We'll just come in here like this.
What I'm doing here is more than just straightening the teeth. I'm actually sculpting the teeth, which is a lot of what you're doing with the cloning tool. It's just sculpting, creating, defining.
Now for the sake of the tutorial I'm probably not going to go crazy with the straightening on this. I'm just going to make an improvement. Then a little bit more here.
Now one of the things that you want to do is to remove any super darks, or super whites when working on the teeth. So, for example we have this very white spot right here. What I'm going to want to do is actually remove that. You don't want that super shine in there, because it becomes very distracting in the end when you're finished with the whole retouching. This area is just too dark for my taste. I'm also going to continue to fill in between the teeth to some degree. I don't want there to be any sharp color shift between the teeth, those super darks were really bad looking. So we don't want that. Good enough.
The next thing that we're going to do, after I finish being meticulous... that's good enough. It's at least straightened out. It's fine for these purposes. Now I'm going to use the quick mask, I'm going to fill in these teeth. OK, and the last little bit down here. It doesn't have to be perfect.
What I'm going to do is I'm going to create my selective color, again, as I do in most of my tutorials. I'm going to grab the neutrals, I think. And I'm going to pull down some magentas and pull out some yellows. Yeah, that's where it's going to be. But I can't grab nearly as much as I had wanted to, because those blues are too stark too. So, we have to bring them all down together. Here we go.
Now something I just noticed as I was 5.5 minutes into this video is that I've been working on the background layer. I thought I was working on an additional layer to do all this cloning stuff. This is a problem for my tutorial reasons. I should not be showing you such clumsy stuff, and I should redo it, however this is actually the fourth time that I have worked on this particular video because of one problem after another. So, I'm going to take the lazy road and we're going to pretend that I actually worked on a new layer. We'll do that again when we work on the other lady's teeth. So, we're just going to forget that ever happened.
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Our normal definition of "fun" doesn't involve making a last-minute trek across the soul-sucking expanse of I-5 in California... twice... in less than 12 hours... through a monsoon. But in our illusive pursuit of fun, that's exactly what we did to get some seat time in a Fun Cup car: a tube-framed, mid-engine, FRP-bodied track car that could be the next big thing in amateur racing.
The Fun Cup began in Belgium back in 1997 as a way for aspiring racers to get their wheel-to-wheel kicks without mortgaging their souls for track time. Since then, the series has spread across Europe with almost a dozen different countries hosting five events each. The culmination of last year's Cup involved 175 identical Fun Cup cars competing in a 25-hour event at the Spa circuit in Belgium. With 30,000 fans cheering on the teams in person and countless others watching the event in bars and homes across the continent, the Fun Cup has turned into a series to rival some of the mainstays of motorsports in Europe.
With such a rampant fan base and a decade of successful campaigning under its belt, the Fun Cup crew is looking to expand its reach across the pond. Greg Clough, the president of Fun Cup, Inc. and our host for the day, has begun to organize the 2008 season in the U.S. and is intent that the series will put "the fun back into racing."
After making the trip down from Northern California to Willow Springs Raceway in Rosamond, CA, we arrived at Horse Thief Mile, an 11-turn track nestled into the hills jutting up from the desert floor. While exchanging pleasantries with our hosts, we watched as one of the invited journos flogged the lightweight cup car through a series of tight, second- and third-gear corners over a track with virtually no flat stretches of tarmac.
The Cup car rolled into the makeshift pit producing a decidedly un-Beetle noise. With a 140-hp, water-cooled, 2.0-liter four sourced from a VW Golf mounted behind the driver, this isn't an aging flower-power mobile that struggles up the hills of Berkeley. As a matter of fact, the only thing you'll find on the Cup car that's pulled from a Bug is the windshield and wipers; everything else is either bespoke bits produced just for the series or pieces culled from the Volkswagen parts bin, both of which keep costs down and make replacement parts easy to find.
The cars campaigned abroad are practically the same ones we'll get here in the States, complete with a tubular frame, fuel cell and the aforementioned four-cylinder, which, along with the five-speed manual transmission, is sealed to prevent any modifications. At 1,700 pounds, the racers have a modest power-to-weight ratio, but with series-mandated BFGoodrich g-Force sport rubber (sized 195/50R15 up front and 205/50R15 in the rear), standard disc brakes and pads, and a suspension that only allows ride-height adjustment, everyone runs the same. The mantra of the Fun Cup is simple; keep it relatively inexpensive and put an emphasis on driver skill rather dropping dollars on high-priced components.
After suiting up and getting settled into the central-mounted seat, we got the rundown on the controls. The unboosted steering wheel frames a digital readout to keep tabs on engine vitals, while a handful of switches are spread across the dash controlling everything from the ignition to the 60's-era windshield wipers. Along with the five-point racing belts, the heavily bolstered seat kept this featherweight hack from shifting much in the corners and the beefy cog swapper to the right clicks into its gates with a reassuring thud.
With a quick twist of the large, red ignition switch to the right, the four-pot out back barks to life. It's loud, but wouldn't be grating during the 90-minute stretches each of three drivers run during a normal race. The accelerator is a bit on the stiff side, acting more like an on/off switch at first until you can get a feel for exactly how much pressure will elicit the right response. Pedal placement is flawless, with a quick pivot of your ankle for seemless heel-and-toe action to match revs.
Horse Thief Mile is mainly comprised of tight bends and moderate-speed sweepers with decreasing radii. While short, what it lacks in length it makes up for in technical sections that take a few laps to get acclimated. However, once you've got the feel, the Fun Cup car is an eager dance partner. Unlike your run-of-the-mill racers, the suspension isn't stiffly sprung. It's taut and Grandma certainly wouldn't enjoy a trip to her local bridge game sitting on the tub, but there's a notable amount of body roll through the corners. While this gives the Fun Cup car a tendency towards understeer on initial turn-in -- something that's easily cured with a slight flick of the wheel and some judicious throttle application – it's incredibly composed at the limit and remains predictable for the amateur behind the wheel.
The uphill straight that flanks the western side of the track was a perfect stretch of tarmac to test the Cup's straight-line speed. Climbing the moderate incline up to the first hard right hand bend, we find that motivation is nicely matched to the racer's minimal weight. A couple of downshifts into second gear, a quick turn to the right and some throttle gets the Cup car to rotate with ease and then you're rocketing back down the hill, keeping right in anticipation of the high-speed sweeper to the left. Understeer rears its ugly head on corner exit, and again, a forceful jab of the accelerator coupled with a slight flick and we're tracking out on line. While the lack of power assist on the steering wheel was never a real issue, it was obvious that the little Bug is better suited to long expanses of track – like Spa and the planned 25-hour event at Thunderhill – than the tight confines of The Mile.
After a few more laps, we were able to up the pace and our confidence grew with it. We began braking later, laying into the throttle sooner and experiencing a few "hero" moments when the back stepped out and we were able to drift the racer with minimal drama. It remained completely composed throughout and even on the damp tarmac, rarely did we have any sphincter-clutching moments. We can't wait to sample this thing in the dry.
From a strictly financial point of view, you're not hard pressed to make a plausible case for renting, or even buying, a Fun Cup car. For just under $35,000 you can pick up a turn-key racer. The cost of entry for a few local races during the 2008 season wouldn't put your credit history, or your marriage, in jeopardy. It's certainly not chump-change, but it's not entirely prohibitive either, especially if you've got a few friends to spread out the cost. Engine rebuilds are normally done once a season, you can make it through several races on a single clutch and a couple of sets of tires should do you and your team well through a race or two.
Just to illustrate the Fun Cup car's ease of use, when we arrived back in the parking lot, we hopped out to find our photographer getting suited up for a run around the track. "Seriously, anyone can drive this thing," Clough said as our camera-wielding companion slid into the driver's seat. And he did just that. Easy to drive and cheap? We're in. We just have to convince both our creditors and better halves that the moderate expenditure is in everyone's best interests.
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• 6 Years Ago
Lets see...go offroad and get into a Jeepspeed, class 9 or 11 or any # of other classes for 1/2 that and twice the fun....
• 6 Years Ago
Looks fun.
• 6 Years Ago
Let's see, a fixed-specification club racing class with turn-key cars for about $35K or less... that would include MX-5 Cup, Spec Miata, Spec E30, Spec Focus, 944 Spec, Factory Five Challenge, Spec Racer Ford and plenty of other options. Not much new to see here.
• 6 Years Ago
Ian -- The major difference between the series your citing and the Fun Cup is that no matter how competitive those are races are, strong financial backing has eclipsed outright talent. I won't name names, but stories of certain drivers dynoing 8 MX-5 engines and picking the most powerful one of the group has caused a lot of disenfranchisement among the rest of the field. This series is all about the driver -- not the car.
• 6 Years Ago
As a Spec Miata racer, former Formula Renault (Fran-Am) Driver, former 2.4 liter Porsche Challenge Champion, and former Grand-Am driver, I can say without a doubt that you will do more racing in 90 minutes at the Spa Fun Cup event then you will do in an entire season of any of those other series, and for less money out the door. Check out the first lap!
• 6 Years Ago
You beat me to it, Damon. This at least seems to be a little more controllable cost wise. I have no doubt there are other series with comparable entry/startup costs, but big guys throwing massive dollars makes it extremely difficult for the little guys to have a chance.
• 6 Years Ago
Wow, affordable racing?! I thought those days were long long gone. This is pretty wild!
• 6 Years Ago
Looks real interesting. Too bad it's only on the west coast.
• 6 Years Ago
Hi Emmo213,
Once the series is established in the West, we will start on the East coast. You've got some amazing tracks on your side of the country, so it would be a shame to miss out!
• 6 Years Ago
(warning: shameless plug alert!)
I almost forgot... they are available for rent, so you could always come and visit sunny California, spend some time at Disneyland, and then pop up to Buttonwillow or Willow Springs for a weekend of racing.
• 6 Years Ago
Nothing wrong with shameless plugs, especially when they're a good point. My vacation for this year is already planned but I'll definitely keep that in mind for next year. I have a few buddies who'd love to try to, and I wouldn't mind splitting the cost either.
• 6 Years Ago
BFG G-Force Sport, I have a wider version of the same tire on my Trans Am. They're quite good, but not the cheapest (or most expensive) and not a pure-bred race tire either. It's too bad they couldn't get the costs down to something like $15-20K per car considering it's a tube frame without any accoutrements and only one seat. It's still way cheaper than most racing, but I'd rather have a nice go kart instead and have plenty of dough left over.
It may just be the audio on the clip, but from the cabin, that may be the worst sounding vehicle I've ever heard. Some sort of mixture of air whistling in through the cabin ventilation ducts, nails on a chalkboard, and a coffee grinder. It's a shame too, since air cooled VWs sound so very beautiful to my ears. Other than that, it looks like a lot of fun. I wonder what they would charge for a one day class with everything, including car, provided.
• 6 Years Ago
Hi Eric,
Yes, the g-Force Sport tires are excellent... but as you noted they aren't racing tires. This is a decision that achieves lower running costs (cheaper than "R" tires, and last longer), and allows the car to move around a little so that you really have to DRIVE the cars. It also keeps the stress out of the drive-line, and saves us having to step up to a specialized (i.e. Expen$ive) racing transmission, clutch, etc.
I understand your point about the cost vs. a go-kart, as I loved my time in karting. With the Fun Cup, however, you get a full-sized car, which allows you to have a gearbox, and needs a different technique, such as heel-toe. The skills developed in the Fun Cup car are applicable to any other circuit racing car, so a lot of people use it as their first step onto the long circuits.
As for the sound... we've dispensed with the air-cooled VW, and are running a 4-cyl water cooled engine from the VW Golf/GTI, etc. In the cockpit it's certainly loud, and ear-plugs are always recommended. I think the "nails on chalkboard" is a combination of the cameras, and a *very* windy day at Willow Springs.
• 6 Years Ago
As was said by others, this car virtually mirrors the SCCA's Spec Racer Ford in cost, concept, and general design.
As SRF is the second largest car class in the SCCA it's not uncommon to already find fields of 20-25 cars competing at SCCA events. There is also a reasonable market for second hand cars running in the $16,000 to $23,000 (depending upon age, condition, etc).
There's also good information at http://www.specracer.com for those interested.
• 6 Years Ago
"Admittedly Corn may not be the most efficient feed stock, but at the moment it's available and abundant."
"When William Lapp, of US-based consultancy Advanced Economic Solutions, took the podium at the annual US Department of Agriculture conference, the sentiment was already bullish for agricultural commodities boosted by demand from the biofuels industry and emerging countries.
He added a twist â that rising agricultural raw material prices would translate this year into sharply higher food inflation."
"The United Nationâs agency responsible for relieving hunger is drawing up plans to ration food aid in response to the spiralling cost of agricultural commodities."
If you race E85, people starve....
• 6 Years Ago
> If you race E85, people starve....
Actually that's not entirely true. I remember the story about the price of a Tacos in Mexico going up because of the Ethanol industry... but the largest contributor to the cost increases was the price of Oil. There's only maybe 2c of corn in a Taco:
We have to remember that the "waste" from the corn sent for processing into Ethanol is used as a high-protein cattle feed. Only the starch in the kernel is converted, and the rest is left for other uses...
Sure, the price of corn has gone up, and nobody will argue with that. This has resulted in a revitalization of many rural communities in America, that are tooling up to meet the extra demand. I like the fact that someone in the US has a job farming, instead of someone on an oil-rig. The cash stays here and benefits the balance of trade, and that the moment we need all the help we can get.
Can we run the entire USA on corn? Absolutely not... which is why cellulosic ethanol is starting to gain ground. There are several plants doing this now, and as the process is developed and refined, more will come on-stream.
Is there enough biomass to run the entire USA? You bet!
• 6 Years Ago
To clarify, Spec Racer Ford uses sealed engines, transmissions, shocks, etc. Even air filters are a specific part number.
• 6 Years Ago
(disclosure: I own the US series)
Yes, it's similar to SRF, but have you seen an SRF up close... not the most attractive racing car, and the sound is pretty ho-hum. I think these look cool, and the sound is great.
Also, the cost isn't meant to be paid by 1 driver... as this is an enduro-only series with a minimum of 2 drivers, and 3 is usually a great team size. I raced in a team of three for 5 years, and I always had lots of fun. Break it down by 1/3 and you're under $12k for a NEW car. It also means you don't need to "convince" your friends that being on a pit-crew is a glamorous job, because if three guys go away for the weekend then everyone gets to race!
Finally, we're trying to be a little bit green... which isn't the norm for motorsports. All cars run on Ethanol E85, which means we're reducing carbon, keeping the money in the US, and it's even cheaper than race-gas.
In the end we're always going to be compared to the established series, but I think this is different enough that there is a place for it... 175 cars on the grid can't be wrong:
• 6 Years Ago
Hi Steven,
> Looks are subjective
True, and I understand why you like the Can Am look. For me, the splitter and huge rear wing on the Fun Cup make it look a lot better than a Herbie.
> And it's open cockpit, which to me is way more cool.
Yes, I used to race Radical's so the open-cockpit is nice... until it rains. A few races like that made me reconsider. Obviously this isn't a real problem in California like it is in England, but I also feel safer with a full roll-cage.
> I agree that SRF's don't have great sound
I think we'd all like to be driving something that screams like an F1 car (or IRL/Nascar, whatever your preference), and even at the entry level the cars should look/sound/smell like a racing car. It doesn't cost any more to engineer a nice note to the exhaust, so that's what I did.
> E85 is actually worse for carbon
There's arguments on both sides of this. Admittedly Corn may not be the most efficient feed stock, but at the moment it's available and abundant. Even using corn we're still better off, and Cellulosic Ethanol will increase the benefits markedly:
(It's long, so skip to page 35)
I'm also happy that my cash is going to support the economy in Iowa, as opposed to overseas.
> ...campaigner for fewer classes...simply dilutes fields...
Actually, in Europe the Fun Cup has been responsible for introducing a lot of first-time drivers to the joys of Motorsport. Our focus is on folks that have always liked the idea of racing, but never found the time/expertise to start. We do a lot of hand-holding, and try to make things easy and uncomplicated.
To increase the popularity of motorsports, we need to make it more accessible and attractive to those outside the "knowledge circle". SRF does that, and I'm confident that the Fun Cup will appeal to a different audience and increase the overall number of people that when asked what they did on the weekend, can say "I raced my car at..."
• 6 Years Ago
(I should disclose that I own and race a Spec Racer Ford in the SCCA).
1) Looks are subjective, I think. I like the way an SRF looks; like a smaller Can Am car from the early 1970's. And it's open cockpit, which to me is way more cool. The Herbie look went out a long time ago. :)
2) I agree that SRF's don't have great sound, but really, if that (or looks) is one's criterion for racing...I think most people wouldn't chose either car.
3) E85 is actually worse for carbon than gasoline in the US because the ethanol is corn based.
I will also admit that within the SCCA I am a strong campaigner for fewer classes of racing; adding more classes of racing with similar performance simply dilutes fields and loses the overall effectiveness of scale that keeps costs reasonable.
And finally, SRF, with over 800 cars built, is here to stay -- meaning that for the foreseeable future there will always be places to race it against large fields of similar cars. Even now, if one prefers longer enduro formats, there are many enduro events run each year where multiple drivers can own/share a single car and compete -- including such races as the 25 hours of Thunderhill.
While I have nothing against the European Fun Cup Series at all, in the US there are already many series which come close to the Fun Cap, with one (Spec Racer Ford) being virtually identical in size, performance, objectives, and cost control.
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By Smartless on 7/12/2011 8:37:02 PM , Rating: 1
Yeah I wonder if iTunes along with Apple TV will become a player. Other players like Amazon, Hulu, and even MS might all ramp up their efforts.
But you're right. This may be the tipping point when fans become enemies. When corporate gets greedy. But don't get your panties in a bunch. If Netflix corporate sees that this was an unpopular idea, they'll release a platinum membership which will allow both streams and dvds (but not allow blu-rays, lol).
RE: Morons
By Mitch101 on 7/12/2011 9:13:13 PM , Rating: 5
Im ok with this. Im a streamer and could care less about getting a physical disc. I though I did at first but really the discs that arrive in the mail I find useless and return them without even watching them most of the time. So Netflix is just risking the disc in the mail for only $2.00 more.
Im also all for Netflix making a profit too they never once screwed around like Blockbuster did with me.
Besides $2.00 less is two redbox rentals at my local gas station if needed.
RE: Morons
By jeepga on 7/12/2011 10:39:30 PM , Rating: 2
Netflix had an 88% increase in profit last reporting cycle. They're making good profits. This is their second price increase in a year.
I couldn't care less if there is a reason behind it. It's unacceptable and I will be cancelling my subscription before the increase goes into effect.
RE: Morons
By Mitch101 on 7/12/2011 11:08:16 PM , Rating: 5
Its a $2.00 price cut for me.
Not long ago the only option was DVD rental no streaming and it cost more than $8.00.
I would also bet that increase was due to Blockbusters Chapter 11 not all of them went to redbox.
I even look at Hulu+ at $7.99 and that has commercials and think Netflix is a better offer where the two compete with one another where Netflix is the $8.00 commercial free version.
I still think its a good bargain if not there is always redbox.
RE: Morons
By FITCamaro on 7/13/2011 9:42:29 AM , Rating: 1
Yeah I might take this money from cutting DVDs off and go get Hulu Plus. I'll keep streaming for now.
Netflix is risking shooting themselves in the foot here. I didn't mind the last price increase. But this one is a bit ridiculous. Charging roughly double the prior cost?
Sorry but if they were going to do this, they needed to provide reasons such as massive increases in licensing fees for movies. Put the blame on the movie industry. Not give a BS reason that amounts to "We want more money".
Now if they take this (potentially, depending how many people cancel) higher revenue and drastically improve their streaming options, this could turn into a win for them.
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You don't care if there actually was a reason?
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By tigz1218 on 7/13/2011 8:41:58 AM , Rating: 3
How is it "unacceptable"? Was renting movies a fundamental right that I am unaware of? It's called capitalism, and when companies make mistakes, it opens the door for a competitor. Maybe that could be you. Learn from things like these how to capitalize, not get angry, and you will be a very successful person.
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By rubbahbandman on 7/13/2011 12:18:20 PM , Rating: 2
I assume the reasoning behind this is reducing SG&A (Selling, General & Admin expenses) and improving cash flows.
If you take a look at their quarterly report SG&A has increased substantially, no doubt a large portion is attributed to the physical media side of their business.
It seems a bit odd that they don't offer any sort of discount for bundled packages though...
RE: Morons
By Denigrate on 7/13/2011 9:54:38 AM , Rating: 4
I went to the streaming only option when they offered it, so this has zero effect on me. I hate physical media at this point as it's simply something else to keep track of around the house.
I'd guess Netflix wants to move to streaming only, and this will help get them there.
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Last week I wanted to watch Transformers 2
Uhhh, why?
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I don't get it.
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What will help them get there is having content that matches the physical DVD service. Not upping the cost and adding little.
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So - in the past few years we've dealt with a lot of infestations. Basically - since we live so far out of the city - pest control guys have all said they'd charge more due to distance to travel.
Thus, I've been slowly chipping away at our pest problems. Because our problems are so numerous and random I figured I'm saving ourselves a bunch of money. Also, because we have 4 kids, cats and 8 dogs I decided to deal with these things without poisons unless poisons were absolutely necessary.
1) Mice
(I found the ideal solution is to catch them in kill-free traps and take them to the woods. This has been annoying but thorough, one day (years ago) I actually trapped a mouse in the hallway under a hat and accidentally killed it :( I haven't been able to lay a death-trap ever since.
2) Lizards
We actually have a huge population of blue lizards under our house which happen to be endangered. So - I had to catch them and release them in a place which the animal-control guys said was acceptable. . .was not easy and they're still around - they're not dumb and food driven like mice so they're harder to trap. . . but because they eat bugs I'm not too bothered by their presence. However - this year I haven't seen any.
3) Carpenter ants
Me actually located a colony a few years ago and manually eradicated them in a blissfully death dealing day. They were under our living room window between the outside sheeting and the insulation.
4) Regular ants
My current battle. Over the years I've tried this and that product - A good repellent and trail-eraser is vinegar but it's bad for tile sealer. Overall, though, everything only seems to deter the population. Since our entire brick veneer and ground is saturated with ant colonies I decided that an all out war was the only means of success.
Outside I've sprinkled Ortho AND Amdro ant-pellets. They're a different size and different composition. I found that really small forager ants are attracted to the Amdro but die while trying to cut the pellets to carry-size. . . so crushing it a bit works well (plastic baggie - hammer - sprinkle)
I am having a huge amount of success with the Combat ant-gel. A small bit squirted into the trail will halt any further foraging, they'll attack the gel and carry it back. So far it's proven to be the most successful of the killing agents. However, only time will tell. . . it's just been a few days since application.
5) Fleas
While the infamous 'water/candle' traps work to some degree, they're also messy - they do sell electric versions of these which I haven't tried.
But what I do every year with great success is sprinkle salt into the carpet - sweep it under desks, couches, chairs, tables and into corners - I salt the entire house. I leave the salt for 2 weeks, vacuum - wait 2 weeks - salt again for 2 - so on, so forth.
Fleas in all stages of life need humidity. Arkansas is ungodly humid. I don't even have AC so they flourish during the heat (except for when the house gets above 95, then they die) - salt dries them out. Dries out the pupa, the larvae and the eggs - deters adults, it's a great non-toxic killer.
6) Moths
An electric bug zapper (looks like a tennis racket) is GREAT for these suckers - great for all flying insects, really. . . and fun.
However, that doesn't always work - so I found that herbs in the cabinets (little sachets to use when cooking) filled with various things like basil, thyme, oregano, parsley . . etc etc - act as a great repellent. But once the odor is gone the sachets need to be replenished.
7) Spiders in the cabinet
Spiders taste through their feet - thus - I wash the cabinets (all non food dish surfaces) with citronella water once a month. . . alot of people tell me this won't do any good but in the last 2 years I've been doing this I've yet to find a 5" wolf spider like we use to have before.
So - 5" wolf spiders running around or citronella on the cabinet doors? Hmm, gee . . . let me think :thumbsup:
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When you think of a national border, you think of barbed wire fences and soldiers with huge guns and guard dogs patrolling the scene. What you don't think of is Kinect. To everyone's surprise, South Korea is using Microsoft's body-tracking 3D camera to keep an eye on the Korean border.
Korean news site Hankooki (via Kotaku) has revealed a Kinect has been dutifully standing guard at the Korean border since August. Jae Kwan Ko, a South Korean programmer reportedly created software for Kinect to monitor the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) — the area between North and South Korea.
Using the custom software, the Kinect is reportedly able to detect the difference between humans and animals, and then send an alert to guards if it "sees" a human. As Kotaku notes, the report doesn't include a lot of details, but it isn't difficult to infer that the Kinect is probably scanning for skeleton types and then matching them up to a database.
Ko claims a future version will detect heart rates and heat, which is something the Xbox One's more advanced Kinect can do.
Over the years, we've seen Kinect used for a number of clever hacks and mods, but Ko's idea to use it to monitor and guard the Korean border take the top prize for usefulness.
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Your favourite bird of the series?
#61AmphetaPosted 1/12/2013 7:09:15 AM
#62banana360Posted 1/12/2013 7:25:54 AM
LightningAce11 posted...
Definately staraptor.
Yeah, or Honchcrow.
#63ninja3213Posted 1/12/2013 7:30:39 AM
LightningAce11 posted...
Definately staraptor.
In case of emergency, start screaming.
#64solarisjediPosted 1/12/2013 7:32:26 AM
Staraptor. Holds his weight pretty well compared to the other early game birds.
Articuno comes a close second.
Official Nidoking of the Pokemon Boards
#65ostego_gamerPosted 1/12/2013 7:37:30 AM
Doduo.. ain't nobody got time for flying!
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start new and make a brand new ending
#66Coop14Posted 1/12/2013 7:43:35 AM
Chipspirate posted...
Hard time deciding between Ho-oH and Articuno.
This spot on.
I'm gonna say HoOh
#67MizunoRyuuPosted 1/12/2013 7:47:49 AM
In terms of design, definitely Pidgeotto. Get a picture and just look at it. How long until you can peel your eyes away? I guarantee it'll be at least 10 seconds.
Evelynn is my waifu.
Help... Me...
#68kingjam1Posted 1/12/2013 7:49:58 AM
LightningAce11 posted...
Definately staraptor.
This. Staraptor FTW.
Can't think of anything
#69natchu96Posted 1/12/2013 7:54:09 AM
Yveltal seems under-appreciated, so yeah.
Official Lopunny of the Black 2 Boar . . . wait, how did THAT happen?!?
#70Thefatness16Posted 1/12/2013 7:56:28 AM
Pidgeot. Braviary and Mandibuzz are awesome too. | http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/696959-pokemon-x/65158858?page=6 | dclm-gs1-235820000 |
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Recommend me a cheap case
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The case for my media center is falling apart. I want a case that has the hard drives mounted with the connectors facing the side of the case and the PSU mounted on the bottom. It does not need to include fans since I have some already. Would prefer a front and side intake and a rear exhaust. $50 is my limit but I would prefer to spend less.
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Across Washington, police department evidence rooms are overflowing with guns. They are firearms taken from arrests, search warrants or traffic stops. The guns could hold answers to unsolved violent crimes. But most police agencies wouldn t know that because they are not doing a basic ballistics test on the crime guns in their custody.
It s not just for TV shows
The Integrated Ballistics Identification System (IBIS) makes large scale ballistics testing possible. IBIS is part of a nationwide network that compares shell casings fired from guns to shell casings from all other guns that have been entered into the system. It s a high-tech system that reduces the human workload.
In Washington state there are more than 50,000 shell casings entered into the IBIS system.
When a cartridge goes through a gun, that gun puts unique markings on it, said Terry McAdam, the manager of Washington State Patrol's Seattle crime lab. The cartridge casing is ejected from the gun and often left at the scene of a shooting.
IBIS takes a picture of markings on the cartridge casing and looks for identical tool marks on other shell casings in the system. A match means the casings were fired from the same gun. That link may give investigators new leads to work on.
We ve also got many homicides solved because this particular cartridge case we found was linked to another homicide and once the police do further investigation they can link suspects to crimes, said McAdam. He calls it a very powerful weapon.
To get shell casings from crime guns into IBIS, police usually have to test-fire the weapon to produce two shell casings. They are then shipped off to the lab for analysis.
But 13 years after IBIS arrival in Washington state it appears many police agencies still do not have policies and procedures to take advantage of IBIS s potential.
Seattle Police and Kent Police test-fire and submit all the crime guns in their evidence rooms. Tacoma Police test-fire a large percentage of them.
But other police agencies we examined aren t doing it.
Few guns checked
Through public records requests, the KING 5 Investigators received inventories of crime guns in police property rooms. We compared that data with records from the crime lab showing how many cases each police agency has submitted for IBIS analysis.
Those records show a low percentage of crime guns across the state of Washington are getting checked.
• Police in Spokane, the state s second largest city, requested IBIS tests on 2% of crime guns. Spokane PD has taken custody of more than 800 crime guns since 2010.
• Police in Bellevue, the fifth largest city, entered 2% of their 373 crime guns into IBIS.
• Federal Way, the tenth largest city, submitted 15% of their crime guns into IBIS.
Among the ten largest cities, the KING 5 Investigators found 2,818 crime guns in police possession that are not in the ballistics network.
Seattle s record
Seattle is the city with the most shootings and has the most to gain from IBIS.
It shows. Seattle police have a policy in place to test-fire and submit shell casings from each of the 300 or so crime guns officers take into custody each year.
I think we as a state could do a much better job, said Seattle Assistant Police Chief Jim Pugel, when presented with KING 5 s findings.
Pugel said his homicide investigators often see crime guns change hands and cross city lines. He said guns from Seattle crimes are probably sitting in evidence rooms in other jurisdictions right now.
But they won t find them if other jurisdictions don t enter their crime guns into IBIS.
I believe that several crimes may be going unsolved, said Pugel.
A family's grief
Gazelle Williams wonders if one of those crimes could be the one involving her nephew.
They could have the weapon that killed Desmond, she said of police agencies outside Seattle.
22-year-old college student Desmond Jackson was gunned down in February in Seattle. The crime remains unsolved.
Jackson s murder was part of a violent first half of the year for the city. Nearly all of the 22 people slain in five months were killed with handguns.
Seattle police picked up 13 shell casings on the SODO street where Jackson was killed. But IBIS will only find a match if a police agency not only crosses paths with that murder weapon, but also puts it into the IBIS system.
They could hold the key, said Williams. I would beg them to please test those guns. You know, maybe the gun that shot Des wouldn t be there but maybe it could solve someone else s family s crime
MORE: Check out the KING5 Investigators' analysis of public records broken down by police department. See the Trail of the gun: What the data shows
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Dominic Sacco
MS: Is 3D something gamers want?
Microsoft has questioned whether stereoscopic 3D gaming is something that players really want.
While Sony has offered PS3 players a variety of 720p stereoscopic 3D-compatible games for use on 3D TVs, Microsoft hasn’t pushed the technology as much for Xbox 360.
Gamers can currently play 360 titles such as Black Ops and Avatar in 3D, but not in a full stereoscopic mode. Both PS3 and 360 3D games require gamers to wear 3D glasses.
Microsoft says it’s unsure of the demand for such a service.
“There was a big rush by some other folks in the industry to convince people they want to play in 3D,” Xbox senior product manager David Dennis told Eurogamer.
“Something we're watching and wanting to understand from consumers is whether this is something they actually want.
However, Microsoft hinted that it could develop 3D technology if the demand for it is strong enough.
“You watch the market penetration of 3D TVs, you look if it's something people are buying and you adapt and innovate, just like we've done by deploying different system updates and features,” Dennis added.
“If there are other things we want to do with 3D that consumers are asking for, we would explore it.”
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Infect Immun. Oct 2005; 73(10): 6260–6271.
PMCID: PMC1230965
Identification of New Secreted Effectors in Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium
A common theme in bacterial pathogenesis is the secretion of bacterial products that modify cellular functions to overcome host defenses. Gram-negative bacterial pathogens use type III secretion systems (TTSSs) to inject effector proteins into host cells. The genes encoding the structural components of the type III secretion apparatus are conserved among bacterial species and can be identified by sequence homology. In contrast, the sequences of secreted effector proteins are less conserved and are therefore difficult to identify. A strategy was developed to identify virulence factors secreted by Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium into the host cell cytoplasm. We constructed a transposon, which we refer to as mini-Tn5-cycler, to generate translational fusions between Salmonella chromosomal genes and a fragment of the calmodulin-dependent adenylate cyclase gene derived from Bordetella pertussis (cyaA′). In-frame fusions to bacterial proteins that are secreted into the eukaryotic cell cytoplasm were identified by high levels of cyclic AMP in infected cells. The assay was sufficiently sensitive that a single secreted fusion could be identified among several hundred that were not secreted. This approach identified three new effectors as well as seven that have been previously characterized. A deletion of one of the new effectors, steA (Salmonella translocated effector A), attenuated virulence. In addition, SteA localizes to the trans-Golgi network in both transfected and infected cells. This approach has identified new secreted effector proteins in Salmonella and will likely be useful for other organisms, even those in which genetic manipulation is more difficult.
Pathogenic bacteria interact with host cells to create unique niches for replication and dissemination. Bacterial pathogens modify their host cells via the expression of exotoxins, proteases, and several other factors that are required for virulence. To alter the host cell, bacterial virulence factors must reach a host target. The ability of bacterial proteins to gain access to the host cell cytoplasm is often a critical step in pathogenesis. There are several defined mechanisms by which this secretion and subsequent uptake can take place. Bacterial proteins can be auto-transported, they can pass through the general secretory pathway, or most important from the standpoint of virulence, they can be secreted by one of several specialized mechanisms found in pathogenic bacteria. Many gram-negative bacterial pathogens encode type III secretion systems (TTSSs), syringe-like macromolecular complexes, to directly inject proteins into the host cell (8, 14, 22, 49). The structural genes encoding the TTSS “needle complex” are conserved among bacterial pathogens and appear to have been acquired through horizontal gene transfer. This high degree of homology has facilitated their identification through genome sequencing and analysis. In contrast, the secreted effector proteins (EPs) are often species specific, lack a consensus secretion signal, and have been difficult to identify.
Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium encodes two TTSSs on separate pathogenicity islands. Salmonella pathogenicity island 1 (SPI-1) encodes a TTSS that is responsible for mediating the intestinal phase of Salmonella infection (13, 52). The SPI-1 TTSS is highly expressed during late log phase in media that are relatively rich and contain high levels of salt, conditions that are thought to simulate the environment in the small intestine (2). SopE, SipA, SptP, and AvrA are effector proteins secreted via the SPI-1 TTSS, and they promote the invasion of epithelial cells and enhance inflammation (7, 13, 15, 38, 51, 52).
A second TTSS, encoded by Salmonella pathogenicity island 2 (SPI-2), is essential for the systemic phase of infection (48). This secretion system is expressed under nutrient-starved conditions (including low magnesium and low pH) that may mimic the intracellular environment encountered by Salmonella (6, 10, 28, 32). The expression of the structural components of the secretion apparatus and many of its secreted proteins is controlled by a two-component regulatory system encoded within SPI-2 by the ssrA/B genes (20, 33, 35, 37, 50). Many phenotypes in infected cells have been associated with this TTSS. These phenotypes include delayed macrophage cytotoxicity, avoidance of oxidative burst, and altered inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) localization (4, 45, 46, 48). However, the secreted virulence factors responsible for producing these phenotypes have yet to be identified. Further elucidation of EPs in S. enterica serovar Typhimurium may reveal the mechanisms responsible for these and other phenotypes.
An extremely useful technique has been developed to investigate the secretion of EPs. Sory et al. used the amino-terminal adenylate cyclase domain of the hemolysin/adenylate cyclase toxin (CyaA) from Bordetella pertussis as a tool to demonstrate type III secretion of EPs in Yersinia enterocolitica (27, 40). The adenylate cyclase domain is contained within the first 400 amino acids of CyaA and is called CyaA′. CyaA′ activity is entirely dependent on host cell calmodulin and is thus inactive within the bacterial cell. Adenylate cyclase activity is therefore only observed when CyaA′ is translocated into host cells as part of a translational fusion to a secreted EP. The secretion of fusion proteins can thereby be easily monitored by measuring the levels of cyclic AMP (cAMP) in infected cells.
For this study, we adapted the reporter system developed by Sory et al. (40) for use in the construction of a EZ::TN (Epicenter) (17)-derived transposon called mini-Tn5-cycler. Mini-Tn5-cycler mutagenesis was used to introduce translational fusions to CyaA′, thereby identifying secreted effectors by assaying cAMP levels in infected cells. The technique is sensitive because the assay detects secreted fusions even if they constitute <0.5% of the bacteria used to infect cells. The method is versatile, requiring only electroporation of a transposon/transposase complex into the target organism and no other genetic manipulation. Using this method, we identified three previously uncharacterized S. enterica serovar Typhimurium secreted effectors. One of these localizes to the trans-Golgi network (TGN) and is required for the colonization of mouse spleens following intraperitoneal infection.
Bacterial strains, tissue culture, and growth conditions.
The strains and plasmids used for this study are listed in Table Table1.1. Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium strain 14028s was used as the wild-type (WT) strain. Bacteria were grown at 37°C in Luria-Bertani broth (LB). Kanamycin was used at 60 μg ml−1. Chloramphenicol was used at 30 μg ml−1. Carbenicillin was used at 100 μg ml−1. Tetracycline was used at 20 μg ml−1. HeLa cells and J774 macrophages were obtained from the American Type Culture Collection. Cells were maintained in Dulbecco's modified Eagle medium (DMEM) supplemented with 10% fetal calf serum, sodium pyruvate, and nonessential amino acids and grown at 37°C with 5% CO2. All P22 transductions were performed as previously described (30). Transductants were streaked for isolation on LB agar containing 10 mM EGTA and then confirmed for smooth lipopolysaccharide and lack of pseudolysogeny by cross-streaking transductants against P22 on Evan's blue uranine plates.
Strains and plasmids used for this study
Construction of S. enterica serovar Typhimurium mutant strains.
An ssaK::cat (MJW1301) strain was constructed by first cloning the ssaK open reading frame (ORF) using PCR and then introducing a chloramphenicol resistance cassette into the SepI site of the gene. This construct was moved into the suicide vector pKAS32 (39), and then the disrupted ssaK gene was reintroduced into strain 14028s as previously described (50). The construction of invA::cat is described elsewhere (45) and was transduced from SR-11 × 3014 into 14028s using P22 phage, resulting in strain MJW1835. ΔslrP, ΔsteA, ΔsteB, and ΔsteC strains were constructed using the λ-red PCR-based gene deletion method (9) and were verified by PCR. All PCR primer sequences can be obtained upon request.
Construction of mini-Tn5-cycler transposon and mutagenesis using mini-Tn5-cycler transposomes.
The mini-Tn5-cycler transposon was constructed from the DICE II transposon (11). pDICE II was digested with EcoRI and XbaI and religated. A BamHI site downstream of the kanamycin cassette was then removed using a Quick Change site-directed mutagenesis kit (Stratagene). The cyaA′ gene was PCR amplified from pMJW1753 and then cloned into the NdeI and BamHI sites. The resulting plasmid, pCycler, contains the completed mini-Tn5-cycler transposon. Mini-Tn5-cycler transposon/transposase complexes were prepared as previously described (17). Transposon/transposase complexes were electroporated into Salmonella using the following electroporation conditions. Overnight cultures of Salmonella were diluted 1:100 in LB and grown at 37°C for 3 h with aeration. The culture was then pelleted and washed three times with ice-cold deionized water. Following the washes, the pellet was resuspended in 1/500 the original culture volume in ice-cold 10% glycerol. One to 3 μl of transposon/transposase complex was added to 70 μl of electrocompetent cells, which were transferred into 1-mm-gap electroporation cuvettes (BTX). For electroporation, an Electro Cell manipulator 600 (BTX) was used with the following settings: resistance, 2.5 kV; capacitance timing, 25 μF; resistance timing, 129 Ω; and charging voltage, 1.70 kV.
Creation of srfH-cyaA′, steA-cyaA′, steB-cyaA′, and steC-cyaA′ fusions.
The srfH ORF was PCR amplified and cloned into pBluescript. This construct was mutagenized with the transposon in vitro, and in-frame fusions to srfH were identified by PCR and sequencing. In vitro mutagenesis of srfH was performed using an EZ::TN kit (Epicenter). The in-frame fusion was then cloned into the suicide vector pKAS32 and used for allelic exchange, as previously described (39), to generate the chrom-srfH-cyaA′ strain MJW1883. To generate pMJW1753, cyaA′ (bp 4 to 1233) was PCR amplified from a clinical isolate of B. pertussis and cloned into pWSK29 (47) under lacp control, with a GGG 5′ extension to recreate the SmaI site. Cloning into this site creates a glycine linker. The srfH ORF and promoter were PCR amplified and cloned into the SmaI site of pMJW1753 to generate psrfH-cyaA′. As a control, cyaA′ was fused to the carboxy-terminal end of the β-galactosidase alpha peptide, generating placZ-cyaA′. The full-length steA-cyaA′, steB-cyaA′, and steC-cyaA′ fusions were generated using the λ-red recombination system (9). To generate PCR products for recombination, forward primers contained 40 bp from the carboxy terminus of the gene being targeted at the 5′ end plus the sequence 5′-CTGTCTCTTATACACATCTCA-3′, and reverse primers contained 40 bp downstream of the gene being targeted plus the sequence 5′-CTGTCTCTTATACACATCTGGT-3′. Primers containing overhanging 5′ sequences specific for steA, steB, and steC were then used to amplify the mini-Tn5-cycler transposon using PCR. The PCR products were digested with DpnI, dialyzed, and then electroporated into 14028s/pKD46.
Screening for translocated proteins.
Libraries of ~5,000 mini-Tn5-cycler insertions were made. Libraries were diluted in LB to approximately 500 to 1,000 CFU/ml based on optical density readings at 600 nm. One hundred microliters of diluted library was grown in each well of a 96-well plate. Each well was then used to infect J774 cells (using SPI-2 conditions) or HeLa cells (using SPI-1 conditions) seeded in 96-well plates. If infection resulted in at least a 10-fold increase in cAMP levels, then the pool of mini-Tn5-cycler insertions from the 96-well plate was diluted and plated to isolate individual colonies. One hundred fifty to 300 colonies (three times the original pool size) were isolated using toothpicks, patched, and numbered. Numbered colonies were grouped into pools of 10 and then used to reinfect J774 or HeLa cells. If infection resulted in increased cAMP, then the colonies from that group of 10 mini-Tn5-cycler insertions were retested individually. Individual colonies with adenylate cyclase activity were transduced using P22 and then retested. Isolates that maintained adenylate cyclase activity following transduction were processed for sequencing.
Bacterial infection of cultured cells and ELISAs.
Unless otherwise stated, J774 or HeLa cells were plated in 96-well plates at ~2 × 104 cells/well and incubated overnight at 37°C with 5% CO2. For the infection of J774 cells under SPI-2 conditions, stationary-phase bacteria were added at a multiplicity of infection (MOI) of 250. Bacteria were centrifuged onto the cell monolayer at 200 × g for 5 min and then incubated at 37°C with 5% CO2 for 1 h. The cell culture was then washed twice with phosphate-buffered saline (PBS), DMEM supplemented with 100 μg ml−1 gentamicin was added, and the culture was incubated for another hour. After 1 h, the culture was washed twice with PBS, overlaid with DMEM containing 10 μg ml−1 gentamicin, and incubated for another 7 to 9 h. For SPI-1-dependent infections of J774 and HeLa cells, stationary-phase cultures of 14028s were diluted 1:33 in LB and grown with aeration at 37°C for 3 h. Bacteria were then added to J774 cells at an MOI of 50, centrifuged onto the monolayer at 200 × g for 5 min, and incubated for 1 h. HeLa cells were infected at an MOI of 150, centrifuged at 200 × g for 5 min, and incubated for 1.5 to 2 h. Following infections, cells were washed once with PBS and then lysed with 0.1 M HCl. The level of cAMP in the lysates was determined using a direct cAMP enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) kit (Assay Designs) according to the manufacturer's instructions. In all cases, the MOI refers to the amount of bacteria initially added to host cells. The actual number of bacteria entering host cells was between 1 and 5% of the initial inoculum.
Sequencing of mini-Tn5-cycler insertion sites and sequence analysis.
Chromosomal DNA was prepared from isolated mini-Tn5-cycler mutants as previously described (1). Chromosomal DNA was digested with EcoRI and cloned into the EcoRI site of pACYC184. Plasmids containing chromosomal inserts were electroporated into GeneHogs competent cells (Invitrogen), and insertions harboring chromosomal fragments with mini-Tn5-cycler were selected on LB agar supplemented with kanamycin. Plasmids from kanamycin-resistant colonies were then purified using a QIAprep spin miniprep kit (QIAGEN). The DNA sequence of the fusion junction was obtained using the primer 5′ GTTGACCAGGCGGAACATCAATGTG 3′, which is complementary to bp 166 to 190 of the 5′ end of mini-Tn5-cycler. Sequence analysis was performed using MacVector 7.1.1 software and the NCBI BLAST server at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/BLAST/.
Competitive infection studies.
Competitive infections were based on a protocol described by Ho et al. (21). Each strain was grown overnight in LB at 37°C with aeration. The bacteria were pelleted, resuspended in PBS, and diluted in PBS to approximately 2,000 to 20,000 CFU/ml. Each test strain was mixed 1:1 with the reference strain MA6054, and 100 μl of the mixture was injected intraperitoneally into 6- to 8-week-old female BALB/c mice. Three days after injection, the mice were sacrificed, and their spleens were harvested and homogenized. Spleen suspensions were diluted and plated on LB plates containing X-Gal (5-bromo-4-chloro-3-indolyl-β-d-galactopyranoside; 40 μg/ml) and arabinose (1 mM). The reference strain MA6054 has arabinose-inducible β-galactosidase activity and can be easily distinguished from the test strains when plated on LB agar with X-Gal and arabinose. The competitive index (CI) was then calculated using the following equation: (percentage of test strain recovered/percentage of reference strain recovered)/(percentage of test strain inoculated/percentage of reference strain inoculated). Student's t test was performed to analyze the CIs. Complementation of ΔsteA was achieved by cloning the entire steA ORF and 62 bp upstream of the start codon into the low-copy-number expression vector pWKS30. The resulting plasmid, psteA, was electroporated into the ΔsteA strain.
Expression of SteA-EGFP and SteA-HA in HeLa cells and visualization by microscopy.
To make SteA-enhanced green fluorescent protein (SteA-EGFP), steA was PCR amplified and cloned into pEGFP-N1 (Clontech). The resulting plasmid, pSteA-EGFP, and pEGFP-N1 were purified using a QIAGEN EndoFree Maxi kit. HeLa cells were grown to ~25 to 50% confluency on Lab-Tek II chambered cover glass (Nalge Nunc International) and were transfected for 24 h using FuGENE 6 transfection reagent (Roche). Bodipy-TR-ceramide (Molecular Probes) was used to stain the Golgi network in live cells following the manufacturer's recommendations. A chromosomal SteA-hemagglutinin (SteA-HA) fusion was constructed using the λ-red recombination system as described by Uzzau et al. (44). To make a double-HA-tagged SteA, the plasmid pNFB15 (received from Lionello Bossi) was used as a template for PCR using the following primer pair: 5′ CGACATAAAAGCTCGCTACCATAACTATTTGGACAATTATTATCCGTATGATGTGCCGGA 3′ and 5′ CTGATTTCTAACAAAACTGGCTAAACATAAACGCTTTTTACACCTGCAGATCATCGAGCT3′. The PCR product generated from these primers was introduced into 14028s/pKD46 via electroporation, and transformants were selected on LB agar containing kanamycin. The SteA-HA fusion was verified by PCR and Western blotting. SPI-1 conditions (described above) were used to infect confluent HeLa cells on cover glass in six-well plates with SteA-HA-expressing 14028s and WT 14028s, using an MOI of 100. Bacteria were centrifuged onto the cell monolayer, and the infection was allowed to proceed at 37°C for 20 min. After this incubation, the cells were washed three times with PBS, and DMEM supplemented with 100 μg ml−1 gentamicin was added for 1 hour and then replaced with DMEM supplemented with 10 μg ml−1 gentamicin for the remainder of the 4-hour infection. Bodipy-TR-ceramide (Molecular Probes) was used to stain the TGN, and then the cells were fixed in 4% paraformaldehyde for 20 min. A mouse anti-HA monoclonal antibody (Covance) was used at a 1:100 dilution, and an Alexa Fluor 488-conjugated goat anti-mouse (Molecular Probes) secondary antibody was used at a 1:1,000 dilution. The DNA stain DRAQ5 (Alexis Biochemicals) was used at a 1:1,000 dilution to visualize host cell nuclei and bacteria. A 60× oil-immersion, 1.4-numerical-aperture objective lens was used along with standard filter sets for EGFP and Alexa Fluor 488 (488 nm), Texas Red (568 nm), and DRAQ5 (685 nm) visualization. z sections (0.2 μm) were captured at a resolution of 1,024 by 1,024 pixels. Images were acquired by Aurelie Snyder of the OHSU-MMI Research Core Facility (http://www.ohsu.edu/core) with an Applied Precision DeltaVision image restoration system. This includes an API chassis with a precision motorized XYZ stage, a Nikon TE200 inverted fluorescence microscope with standard filter sets, halogen illumination with an API light homogenizer, a CH350L camera (500 kHz, 12-bit, 2 Mp, KAF 1400 GL, 1,317 × 1,035, liquid cooled), and DeltaVision software. Deconvolution using the iterative constrained algorithm of Sedat and Agard and additional image processing were performed on an SGI Octane workstation. Images were processed for deconvolution using Softworx (Applied Precision) image processing software.
Construction of mini-Tn5-cycler transposon.
The mini-Tn5-cycler transposon (shown in Fig. Fig.1A)1A) is a modified EZ::TN (Epicenter)-based transposon. One advantage of this transposon is that stable transposon/transposase complexes can be prepared that can then be introduced to recipient bacteria by direct transformation of chemically competent or electrocompetent bacteria (17). The transposition reaction requires magnesium ions supplied from the recipient cell cytoplasm to complete the reaction, resulting in insertions in the recipient DNA. Alternatively, the complete reaction may be carried out in vitro, and the recombinant DNA can then be introduced directly into the desired bacterium. This last method of transposition allows for the generation of DNA insertions within genes of bacteria that are not usually amenable to such genetic manipulation, and this procedure can be further extended to yeast and mammalian cells. Thus, this construct can be utilized in many pathogenic organisms, making it an important tool for the identification of secreted virulence factors. The basis for the identification of secreted Salmonella virulence factors is that the mini-Tn5-cycler transposon contains a promoterless cyaA′ gene, oriented to allow the construction of translational fusions with external genes.
FIG. 1.
Schematic representation of the mini-Tn5-cycler transposon (A) and mutagenesis of srfH (B). IE and OE are the modified Tn5 transposon ends (also called mosaic ends [17]). cyaA′ is the promoterless 400 amino acids of the amino terminus of cyaA ...
Functional analysis of mini-Tn5-cycler mutagenesis.
To confirm that mini-Tn5-cycler transposition could result in functional cyaA′ gene fusions, srfH (also called sseI), an S. enterica serovar Typhimurium gene encoding an effector secreted by the SPI-2 TTSS (12, 33, 50), was cloned into a suicide vector and mutagenized with mini-Tn5-cycler in vitro (Fig. (Fig.1B).1B). An in-frame chromosomal srfH::mini-Tn5-cycler allele was created. This strain was used to infect J774 macrophages under growth conditions in which the SPI-1 TTSS is repressed and the SPI-2 TTSS is induced (45). The level of cAMP in the infected cells was then measured by ELISA. Using an input MOI of ~1, which results in <5% of cells being infected, we observed a >30-fold increase in host cell cAMP over the background levels when J774 macrophages were infected with srfH::mini-Tn5-cycler (Fig. (Fig.1C).1C). Background levels of cAMP were detected in cells infected with either WT 14028s or a strain expressing a β-galactosidase-cyaA′ (placZ-cyaA′) in-frame fusion from a low-copy-number vector (Fig. (Fig.1C).1C). Approximately 160-fold higher levels of cAMP were observed if a srfH-cyaA′ fusion was expressed from a low-copy-number plasmid vector (psrfH-cyaA′) (Fig. (Fig.1C).1C). Secretion of the SrfH-CyaA′ fusion protein did not appear to significantly increase the level of macrophage cell death during the course of an 8-h assay (data not shown). We wished to establish if a mixed infection containing a minority of the hybrid fusion-expressing bacteria and a majority of bacteria that do not express cyaA′ could be used. This would allow us to screen large pools of mutagenized bacteria rather than having to screen the bacteria one by one, which is an impossible task. For control experiments, we used a mixed infection containing srfH::mini-Tn5-cycler at various ratios with the parent strain. The dilution of srfH::mini-Tn5-cycler with a 200-fold excess of wild-type 14028s cells still resulted in a 10-fold increase in cAMP levels in infected J774 cells (data not shown). These results demonstrate that a single in-frame fusion to a secreted EP can be detected among 200 proteins that do not express cyaA′. To make the assay even more sensitive, we tried varying the input MOI and found that even an MOI of 500 bacteria per cell was tolerated and further increased the detected cAMP levels.
Library construction and analysis.
The strategy used to identify secreted effectors is shown in Fig. Fig.2.2. Mini-Tn5-cycler transposon/transposase complexes were electroporated into S. enterica serovar Typhimurium strain 14028s to create libraries containing approximately 5,000 independent insertions. These bacteria were mixed together, the number of bacteria was determined by measuring the optical density, and the bacteria were then diluted into wells of a 96-well microtiter dish so that the wells contained pools of 50 to 100 bacteria. These pools were either grown overnight to stationary phase and used to infect J774 macrophages for 8 to 10 h at an input MOI of ~250 or grown to logarithmic phase and used to infect HeLa cells for 2 h at an input MOI of ~150. Following infection, cells were lysed with 0.1 M HCl, and the concentration of intracellular cAMP was determined. The bacteria corresponding to any well showing at least a 10-fold increase in cAMP above background levels were replated for the isolation of individual colonies. From these colonies, smaller and smaller pools were constructed until individual positive clones were obtained. The transposon in each positive clone was P22 transduced to a new background, retested, and processed for DNA sequencing to identify the transposon-Salmonella-chromosome junction.
FIG. 2.
Strategy for identifying effectors. Libraries of approximately 5,000 insertions were generated by electroporating mini-Tn5-cycler transposon/transposase complexes into either 14028s or a ΔslrP derivative. These colonies were diluted in LB broth ...
Six libraries were generated from independent electroporation reactions containing a total of ~30,000 insertions. The majority of these were screened for cyaA′ secretion in infected J774 macrophages. After screening these insertions, we identified a total of 23 positive signals, of which 17 were fusions to the known secreted effector slrP. Sequence analysis demonstrated that all slrP insertions had occurred at the same nucleotide position, although at least five of these were independent isolates. This suggested the presence of a Tn5 transpositional “hot spot.” To avoid this hot spot, six additional libraries, each containing approximately 5,000 insertions, were constructed in a ΔslrP background. Sixteen positive fusions were identified from a screen of 25,000 insertions in this ΔslrP background. In addition to our screens with the J774 macrophage cell line, a single library of 5,000 insertions in the ΔslrP background was screened in HeLa cells. Three clones were identified from this pool. Each contained a cyaA′ fusion to sipA, which encodes a previously characterized effector (23). Sequence analysis of each of these sipA insertions demonstrated that they were identical and likely to be siblings. In summary, for every 5,000 mini-Tn5-cycler insertions screened, three or four positive fusions were identified.
In total, we isolated 42 positive clones, each of which contained an in-frame insertion in either a gene encoding a known EP or an ORF encoding a protein of unknown function. Following DNA sequencing of all 42 clones, we found fusions to 10 different ORFs, of which 7 had been previously identified to encode secreted effectors. Three of the fusions were to unknown ORFs that presumably encode new effectors. Table Table22 lists the genes isolated in our screen, along with a short description of each gene's reported function, the number of times each gene was isolated, and the number of unique insertion sites and independent isolates. The genes identified were sipA (29), slrP (33, 42), pipB2 (25), sptP (24), sseJ (18), srfH (18, 21), avrA (7, 19), and Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium LT2 reference numbers STM1583, STM1629, and STM1698 (31). We refer to these last genes as Salmonella translocated effectors (ste) steA (STM1583), steB (STM1629), and steC (STM1698). Interestingly, there were five unique insertions in pipB2 and four unique insertions in steC (Table (Table22).
List of genes isolated in screensa
An intact TTSS is required for secretion of the newly identified EP.
The fact that seven of the identified genes encode known effectors strongly suggested that our approach was working, but it was necessary to confirm that the newly identified ORFs were also secreted via a type III secretion apparatus. For these experiments, we utilized both genetic mutants defective in needle complex assembly and growth conditions that either induce or repress expression of the two Salmonella type III secretion systems. Each fusion was transduced into both an invA::cat mutation that renders the bacteria defective for SPI-1 TTSS-dependent secretion and an ssaK::cat mutant defective for SPI-2 TTSS-dependent secretion. The 10 unique mini-Tn5-cycler fusions were tested under conditions that allow expression of the SPI-1 TTSS (41). Strains harboring cyaA′ fusions were grown to late log phase and used to infect J774 macrophage-like cells for 1 h. As shown in Fig. Fig.3A,3A, there was a significant increase in cAMP for J774 cells infected with the SipA-, SptP-, AvrA-, SlrP-, SteA-, and SteB-CyaA′ fusions. The secretion of these fusions was dependent on an intact SPI-1- but not SPI-2-encoded TTSS. Secretion of the remaining four fusions (SseJ, SrfH, PipB2, and SteC) could not be detected under SPI-1-inducing conditions (Fig. (Fig.3A).3A). Similar results were observed following infection of HeLa cells (data not shown).
FIG. 3.
SPI-1 TTSS (A)- and SPI-2 TTSS (B)-dependent secretion of cyaA′ fusions into J774 cells. Levels of cAMP were measured within the macrophage-like cell line J774 following infection with the 10 cyaA′ fusions listed in Table Table ...
Next, strains harboring each cyaA′ fusion in either a WT, invA::cat, or ssaK::cat background were grown to stationary phase in order to repress SPI-1 and induce SPI-2 expression. These cultures were used to infect J774 macrophages for 8 h at an input MOI of ~250. As shown in Fig. Fig.3B,3B, with the exception of SipA-CyaA′, every fusion that we tested resulted in a significant increase in host cell cAMP which was dependent on an intact SPI-2 TTSS. Similar results were found when we infected the dendritic cell line JAWS II (data not shown).
We focused on the characterization of the three newly identified secreted effectors. We constructed cyaA′ fusions to full-length copies of steA, steB, and steC to rule out aberrant secretion by the flagella or some as yet uncharacterized mechanism. As before, we tested the full-length CyaA′ fusions to SteA, SteB, and SteC in either the WT, invA::cat, or ssaK::cat background for secretion into infected host cells. The same conditions were used as before to induce either the SPI-1 TTSS or the SPI-2 TTSS, and the secretion profiles of the full-length fusion proteins were found to be identical to those of the original fusions (Fig. (Fig.44).
FIG. 4.
SPI-1 TTSS- and SPI-2 TTSS-dependent secretion of full-length CyaA′ fusions. Levels of cAMP were measured within the macrophage-like cell line J774 following infection with SteA-CyaA′, SteB-CyaA′, and SteC-CyaA′. Three ...
steA is required for efficient colonization of mouse spleens.
To determine if steA, steB, or steC plays a role in a mouse infection model, competitive infections were performed. Deletions of steA, steB, and steC were generated using the λ-red recombination system (9), and the competitive index of each strain was determined (Table (Table3).3). Neither the ΔsteB nor ΔsteC strain had a competitive index statistically different from that of the control wild-type strain. However, the ΔsteA strain had an approximately threefold competitive disadvantage for mouse spleen colonization. Expressing steA from its native promoter in a low-copy-number vector (psteA) complemented this competitive defect.
Competitive infections using ΔsteA, ΔsteB, ΔsteC, and steA complemented strainsa
SteA localizes to the Golgi network in host epithelial cells.
Because of its potential role as a virulence factor, we further characterized steA. HeLa cells were transfected with an expression vector expressing either EGFP alone or a translational fusion of SteA to EGFP. As shown in Fig. Fig.5,5, cells transfected with the EGFP expression vector alone displayed uniform fluorescence throughout the cell. In contrast, EGFP fluorescence was concentrated in perinuclear regions in cells transfected with a plasmid expressing the SteA-EGFP fusion protein. To further define this perinuclear compartment, transfected cells were costained with Bodipy-TR-ceramide, a dye that targets the Golgi network. In Fig. Fig.5C,5C, SteA-EGFP is shown to extensively colocalize with Bodipy-TR-ceramide. This suggests that SteA localizes to the TGN when it is expressed in host cells.
FIG. 5.
A SteA-EGFP fusion expressed in HeLa cells colocalizes with the TGN. HeLa cells were transfected for 24 h with pEGFP (bottom panels) or pSteA-EGFP (top panels), and Bodipy-TR-ceramide (red) was used to stain the TGN. The images shown are 0.2-μm ...
The subcellular localization of SteA translocated by the bacteria was also investigated. SteA-HA/14028s, a double-HA-tagged SteA fusion-expressing strain, was used to infect HeLa cells for 4 hours under SPI-1-inducing conditions. Alexa Fluor 488-conjugated antibodies were used to visualize SteA-HA by fluorescence microscopy, and Bodipy-TR-ceramide was again used to visualize the TGN. In many infected cells, little to no SteA-HA-specific fluorescence was seen, possibly due to low expression levels of SteA. In addition, most of the SteA-HA-specific fluorescence that was observed was found only in proximity to bacteria in infected cells. However, in a few isolated cells containing large numbers of bacteria, broader SteA-HA-specific staining could be seen (Fig. (Fig.6B).6B). In these cases, it was possible to see SteA-specific staining that was not directly adjacent to bacteria. As shown in Fig. Fig.6D,6D, in a cell with extensive SteA-HA-specific staining, SteA-HA colocalized with Bodipy-TR-ceramide. This staining was specific, as it was never observed in cells infected with WT 14028s (Fig. (Fig.6F).6F). These data, along with the data from transfected cells, strongly suggest that secreted SteA localizes to the TGN.
FIG. 6.
Secreted SteA colocalizes with the TGN in infected HeLa cells. HeLa cells were infected with SteA-HA/14028s (top panels) or with WT 14028s (bottom panels) for 4 hours at an MOI of 100 under SPI-1-inducing conditions. HA-specific antibodies were used to ...
This report describes a novel strategy for the identification of secreted effector proteins. In this work, three previously unidentified effectors, SteA, SteB, and SteC, were found. Using a competitive infection model, we show that one of these effectors, SteA, is required for Salmonella to colonize the mouse spleen. SteA was also shown to localize to the trans-Golgi network within both transfected and infected epithelial cells. Evidence of the power of this approach is demonstrated by the identification of seven known secreted effectors in the same screen.
At least four strategies have been used to identify secreted EPs in Salmonella and other pathogens. Guttman et al. described a de novo method of screening using wilting of plant leaves as an easily observed phenotype. However, their method is limited to certain plant pathogens such as Pseudomonas syringae (18). Luo and Isberg used selection and screening to identify type IV secreted proteins in Legionella pneumophila (29). Their method requires the identification of secreted proteins based on interbacterial transfer and thus could not be applied to the type III secreted effectors we have found. Tu et al. constructed a mini-Tn5cyaA′ transposon similar to ours but identified only surface-exposed proteins in Bordetella bronchiseptica (43). Our mini-Tn5-cycler screen employed a more sensitive enzymatic assay and relied on the infected host cell to supply calmodulin. In our assay, we only identified translocated effectors, as evidenced by the fact that an intact secretion apparatus was required for each of the 10 EPs found. Of the 60,000 mutants we screened, 42 produced detectable adenylate cyclase activity in infected cells, and each encoded an in-frame fusion to a secreted effector protein.
We wondered if it is possible to calculate the total number of effectors encoded by Salmonella based on the sample we examined. Assuming that insertion is random, there are several other factors that will reduce the chance of identifying any given effector. First, there is a one-in-six chance of an insertion occurring in the correct orientation and reading frame of any given gene. Second, the target area must be only a portion of a given gene because sequences that are essential for secretion or binding to a chaperone will be excluded. Third, however sensitive the assay is, the level of expression must be above a given threshold of detection. These caveats make it difficult to extrapolate from the number of effectors identified in our screen but do imply that there are many as yet undetected effectors. In addition, we have only examined specific conditions and cell types. More EPs might be identified if other cell types are used and if the infection time is varied. For example, SseK2, a recently identified effector in S. enterica serovar Typhimurium, is secreted only after 21 h of infection (26). SseK2 and possibly other effectors secreted at later time points would only have been detected if we had lengthened the infection time. One additional limitation that we observed stemmed from the existence of transpositional hot spots resulting in the repeated isolation of mini-Tn5-cycler fusions to slrP. In fact, many of the identified genes were only found after the deletion of slrP. Presumably, a systematic deletion of effectors that are uncovered in the screen could be used to detect additional new genes. Additionally, some genes encoding EPs are simply not amenable to mini-Tn5-cycler mutagenesis, including any that are targeted to vesicles that do not contain calmodulin as well as those with extremely small targets for transposition.
Our technique can be used to identify secreted type III EPs from a wide range of pathogens and possibly proteins secreted by other mechanisms. CyaA′ has been used to demonstrate type IV secretion (5), and in B. pertussis, CyaA is secreted via a type I secretion system (16). Finally, there are many genetically intractable organisms for which the isolation of a large number of transposon insertions is simply not possible, even by electroporation of transposon complexes. In these cases, it may be possible to express a gene library from a plasmid in a genetically tractable host that also expresses the complete structural apparatus for secretion, thereby making it amenable to mini-Tn5-cycler mutagenesis.
Three new secreted EPs were identified in the screen, namely, SteA, SteB, and SteC. The genes encoding all three of these proteins have low GC contents (steA GC content, 43%; steB GC content, 41.9%; and steC GC content, 38%), suggesting horizontal acquisition, which is common for virulence-associated genes. The ΔsteA strain was found to have a competitive defect in colonization of the mouse spleen, whereas steB and steC did not appear to play a significant role in this model. This competitive defect suggests that steA is required either for passage of the bacteria from the peritoneal cavity into the spleen, for survival and replication within host cells, or for avoiding host immune defenses. Interestingly, SteA localizes to the Golgi network in transfected and infected HeLa cells. SseG, another EP in S. enterica serovar Typhimurium, has also been shown to localize to the Golgi network (36). The presence of SseG was found to be important for the association of Salmonella-containing vacuoles with the Golgi network. Furthermore, the association of Salmonella-containing vacuoles with the Golgi network was required for normal bacterial replication within HeLa cells. We are investigating whether SteA plays a similar role to that of SseG in infected cells. The coding sequence of steA is 94% conserved in Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi strains TY2 and CT18 and 95% conserved in Salmonella enterica serovar Paratyphi strain ATCC 9150. This conservation suggests that steA may be important for virulence in human infections as well. In a recent paper by Morgan et al., STM1698 (the ORF encoding SteC) was identified as the gene for a colonization factor specific for the chick infection model (34). The coding sequence of steC is 93% conserved in Salmonella enterica serovar Paratyphi strain ATCC 9150 and Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi strains TY2 and CT18, again suggesting a possible role in human infection. Of the three newly described proteins, only SteB has significant homology to a bacterial protein from a different species: it shares 40% amino acid identity to a protein in the tropical pathogen Chromobacterium violaceum. This pathogen is found in water and soil throughout tropical South America and causes septicemia with metastatic abscesses with a 64% fatality rate. C. violaceum contains genes encoding a TTSS, suggesting that the homology may be meaningful (3). SteB (STM1629) is encoded in a genetic island in close proximity to the gene for another secreted protein, SseJ (STM1631). STM1630, the ORF immediately downstream of steB, is required for virulence in both the calf and chick infection models (34).
Interestingly, five of the EPs identified were secreted by both the SPI-1 and SPI-2 TTSSs (SptP, SlrP, AvrA, SteA, and SteB), whereas SipA was observed to be secreted only via the SPI-1 TTSS. Since these five proteins are secreted by both TTSSs, they may function in both the intestinal and systemic phases of infection. Four of the identified proteins, SseJ, SrfH, PipB2, and SteC, were only secreted via the SPI-2 TTSS. These results raise two possibilities that are not exclusive, either that these effectors are only expressed under one condition or that they cannot be secreted through the alternative needle complex. The expression of all four of these genes is regulated by SsrB (33, 50; J. Rue and F. Heffron, unpublished data). These data suggest that proteins secreted exclusively by the SPI-2 TTSS are regulated by SsrB, while proteins secreted by both the SPI-1 and SPI-2 TTSSs are regulated by an unknown mechanism. The observed secretion patterns may be a result of a SPI-1 or SPI-2 TTSS-specific signal in the RNA messages or amino acid sequences of these proteins. Alternatively, TTSS specificity may be determined by either the regulation of expression of the EPs themselves or the regulation of expression of the chaperones required for their secretion.
While the mini-Tn5-cycler transposon may allow the identification of a large number of new EPs, identifying these proteins is only the first step in the further study of EPs. Many years have been spent studying secreted bacterial EPs, but the functions of only a few have been fully elucidated. Several more S. enterica serovar Typhimurium EPs are thought to exist because the cognate EPs for many observed pathogenic phenotypes remain a mystery. This report provides the initial step in expanding our knowledge of the repertoire of secreted EPs in Salmonella and potentially many other bacterial pathogens.
We thank the members of the Heffron and So labs, who contributed invaluable advice and aided in revision of the manuscript. We also thank Lionello Bossi for strain MA6054, plasmid pNFB15, and helpful suggestions. We acknowledge Aurelie Schneider for performing microscopy. We are very grateful to Joanne Rue for sharing ssrB regulon microarray data.
This work was supported by NIH grants ROI A1 022933 and ROI A1 037201.
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ok I have been looking for laptops lately for school. I was looking at getting a laptop for under $700 that is at least powerful to do some Photo editing and that can play Doom3 and HL2 ok. I have my eyes on a Dell DELL Inspiron 8600 or 8500 My question is really 3 questions.
1. Intel Pentium 4 2.0 GHz faster than a Intel Centrino 1.4GHz? if so would it make a difference?
2. Is a Geforce 4200Go faster than a GeforceFX 5200Go? "dont count BF2 because I wont run it on this system" ;)
3. If not a dell computer what are some other good laptops under $700 on ebay or something?
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• 1. Essence of MacroeconomicsMacroeconomics is concerned with behavior of the economy as a whole. Itanswers the questions regarding growth of output, rates of inflation andunemployment, Balance of Payments and exchange rates and also methodsto improve the economy. It deals with both the Long-run economic growthand the short run fluctuations that constitute the business cycle.Macroeconomics encapsulated in three models:The study of macroeconomics is organized around three models taking intoaccount different time frames.These are: Very Long Run behavior Long Run behavior Short run Behavior The very long run behavior of the economy is the domain of growth theory. It studies growth of economies, capacity to produce goods and services, accumulation of capital, and improvements in technology. In the long Run, The capital stock and technology are taken to be relatively fixed. Fixed capital and technology determines the productive capacity of the economy which is called potential or full employment output. Thus the supply of goods and services equals potential output. Prices and inflation in the long run are determined by fluctuations in demand. In the short run, fluctuations in demand determine how much of the available capacity is used and thus the level of output and employment. In contrast to the long run, in the short run prices are relatively fixed and output is relatively variable. The short run model has a larger role for macroeconomic policy.Economy with fixed productive capacity:Three substantive findings of economy: 1. Output is determined by the productive capacity which known as aggregate supply. Aggregate demand is the total
• 2. demand for goods to consume for new investment, for goods purchased by the government and for net goods to be exported abroad. The aggregate supply curve in the long run is vertical. The price level in contrast can take any value. It follows that in the Long run, output is determined by aggregate supply alone and prices are determined by both aggregate supply and demand.2. High inflation rates which are rapid increases in the overall price level are always due to changes in aggregate demand. In the short run the aggregate supply curve is flat.3. It follows that in the short run, output is determined by aggregate demand alone and prices are unaffected by the level of output. In the medium term, the aggregate supply curve has a slope intermediate between horizontal and vertical. The question “How steep is the aggregate supply curve?” is in effect the main controversy in macroeconomics. The speed with which prices adjust is a critical parameter. Growth and GDP: The growth rate of the economy is the rate at which GDP is increasing. What causes GDP to grow? There are two reasons: 1. Available amount of principal resources namely, Labour and capital change. 2. The second is efficiency of factors of production, which is called productivity, may change. Business Cycle and Output Gap Inflation, growth and unemployment are related through the business cycle.
• 3. The business cycle is the deviation from the path fromtrend growth. There are peaks and troughs. Peaks arecyclical deviations where economic activity is highrelative to trend. Cyclical troughs are the low points inthe economic activity. Output gap measures a gapbetween actual output and trend or full employment orpotential output. The output gap falls during recessionand conversely increases during an expansion. Apositive gap means overheating of the economy.Inflation and Business Cycle: Increase in inflation ispositively related to the output gap. Expansionaryaggregate demand policies tend to produce inflation.Protracted periods of low aggregate demand tend toreduce the inflation rates. Inflation is a majormacroeconomic concern. In case of unemployment,potential output is going to be waste. In case ofinflation there is no obvious loss of output. Howeverinflation reduces the efficiency of the price system.Policy makers therefore increase unemployment(reduced output) in an effort to reduce inflation. This isknown as growth inflation trade-off. | http://www.slideshare.net/prernamakhijani/essence-of-macroeconomics | dclm-gs1-236360000 |
0.026466 | <urn:uuid:7875413c-3529-45e2-b937-d5b261b27df8> | en | 0.961796 | • Coastin': Eight songs of the summer better than 'Fancy'
• These days there are two types of people in the world: Those who accept the conventional wisdom that Iggy Azalea's breakout hit "Fancy" is the Song Of The Summer, and those desperate to find something, anything, to replace it.
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Here's the problem: Nobody really likes "Fancy." It's the chilly inverse of Gwen Stefani's "Hollaback Girl" (SOTS runner up, 2005). Everything about it seems synthetic and joyless and blank. America often comes to regret its SOTS, usually by Christmas. We have successfully agreed to pretend the Black Eyed Peas (SOTS 2005 and 2009) never existed at all. But never have we so collectively disliked a Song of the Summer while it was happening.
There are obvious alternatives: It's not too late for Ariana Grande, who has three songs in contention (including a part on the new "Bang Bang," wondrous and sparkly), or "Rude," the cheerfully terrible track by Canadian reggae titans Magic! It could have been the summer of DJ Snake and Lil Jon's nu-metal/hip-hop banger "Turn Down For What," if that song hadn't peaked too late (way too late; it's like the reanimated corpse of Kid Rock's 1999 hit "Bawitdaba").
There are less obvious alternatives, too. So we've compiled a list of Song of the Summer underdogs, also-rans and alternate universe smash hits. These are catchy, at least semi-danceable songs that barely grazed the charts. Earworms and growers. BBQ-friendly singalong songs and late-night jams. All guaranteed to be better than "Fancy."
Grimes featuring Blood Diamonds: "Go"
Benjamin Booker: "Violent Shiver"
This New Orleans garage-blues rocker doesn't even have an album out yet, but he's already opened for Jack White and laid waste to Lollapalooza. Rock songs are seldom SOTS-friendly, but this will appeal to anyone who misses the early, rawer incarnations of the White Stripes (a clear influence) and the Black Keys.
Drake: "0 to 100/The Catch Up"
Kanye West recently admitted to GQ that summer hip-hop now belonged to Drake, except he wouldn't actually say Drake's name, because he's proud like that. Kanye is always a little right: This summer has brought three superlative Drake-related jams. He co-wrote and guested on "Believe Me," the best Lil Wayne song in years; dropped something called "Draft Day" which we've forgotten about already but was probably really good; and issued this six-minute-plus, formless but addictive mid-fi track, which features some of his most dexterously rapped verses. It sounds a little like "Started from the Bottom" if that song had no hook, and Drake had recorded it in the bathroom at a Chili's.
AGNEZ MO featuring Timbaland and T.I.: "Coke Bottle"
Get past the accompanying video, in which the Indonesian pop star lip syncs awkwardly while wearing an adult diaper, and you'll find one of the year's greatest trunk rattlers.
Ben Khan: "Youth"
This Prince-channeling funk track from London-based singer Khan's debut EP "1992" could be a worthy successor to last year's British SOTS candidate, Disclosure's "Latch." It's a similar exercise in sublimely glitchy electro-R&B.
Miranda Lambert with Carrie Underwood: "Somethin' Bad"
Bro-country dominates for the second summer in a row, but 2014 hasn't produced anything near as undeniable as last year's "Cruise," just second-tier hokum like "Drunk on a Plane." That leaves an opening for this arch, "Thelma and Louise"-style ditty, even though Underwood and Lambert display so little in the way of chemistry or identifiably human emotions that they seem less like two of Nashville's biggest stars, and more like two sassy robots with hair extensions.
FKA twigs: "Two Weeks"
Afghan Whigs: "Matamoros"
Once Pavement got back together, people lost interest in reunions of once-beloved '90s bands. The Whigs' reunion may have been largely overlooked, but they're one of the few nostalgia acts to have returned with a compelling album of new material. This track is one of a number of stick-in-your-head songs that would have been a hit on alt-rock radio, back when there still was an alt-rock radio.
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0.093204 | <urn:uuid:d063bd56-a0df-4b07-9431-4a80b5e32e92> | en | 0.965682 | Ben Bernanke's cold comfort for Democrats
The federal reserve chairman may have steadied markets, but will hardly have settled Democratic nerves for the midterms
Ben Bernanke, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, federal reserve conference
There's certainly no longer any pretending that there's any kind of recovery going on. Those "green shoots" of March and April have curled back under the soil. Growth is slow enough – about 1.7% on an annual basis – that the risk of unemployment going higher, getting back above the politically important 10% figure, is very real.
So it's good that Bernanke offered a reassuring message, but it's difficult to feel all that reassured. Usually, on economic matters, laypersons like me can read the predictions and analyses of the doomsayers (usually on the left) and the predictions and analyses of the optimists (in the administration) and split the difference and be about right. But the Obama administration, in the person of Christina Romer, the outgoing chair of the president's board of economic advisors, predicted that 2009's stimulus package would keep unemployment around 8%. The doomsayers' case is looking stronger with each month.
The political ramifications are obvious. Back in April, when growth seemed to be starting to gather some momentum, the Democrats were revving themselves up for a summer and fall of recovery. If they could have headed into the November elections with five or six straight months of positive job growth, they could plausibly have argued to voters that a recovery was well underway.
Now, there is no chance they will able to make that argument. The reality of September's and October's economic numbers might be grim indeed.
What argument can Barack Obama and his party make instead?
They will scramble to say two things: it could have been much worse; and the Republicans have been obstructionists, hurting not helping. Both of these arguments are true, according to the best objective information we have. This Newsweek article sums up the first point well: Republican plans would have yielded fewer jobs and a higher deficit. And on the second point, a larger stimulus back in early 2009 would have done more for the economy (this wasn't solely the fault of Republicans, as several moderate Democrats also balked at a larger number).
But it's too late for those arguments to take hold. The Democrats should have been making them aggressively from the start. Instead, they banked on the current moment being recovery summer. And now that that isn't the case, they're seen as incompetents.
In the battle between incompetents and obstructionists, the obstructionists are going to win. And things may get even worse, since the GOP's goal is not to help lower the unemployment rate, but to raise it by one: a certain Barack Hussein Obama.
We're some distance from being able to forecast that. Bernanke said Friday that the "preconditions" exist for a good 2011. But right now, to unemployed Americans, that's just another happy prediction from someone who has a job. | http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/michaeltomasky/2010/aug/27/ben-bernanke-michael-tomasky?view=mobile | dclm-gs1-236500000 |
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People from all walks of life pay tribute to Portuguese football legend, who will be buried near his longtime club Benfica
Tens of thousands of people have lined the streets of Lisbon to pay tribute to the Portuguese football star Eusébio after his coffin was put on public display and taken in a funeral cortege through the city.
People filed out of offices and cafes on a rainy Monday afternoon and applauded as the hearse, with a police motorcycle escort, passed. Traffic was halted on the capital's main roads, and the cortege stopped for a ceremony at the city hall.
Earlier in the day, dozens of dignitaries and hundreds of fans, some weeping, filed past the coffin at the Estádio da Luz, the stadium of Benfica, Eusébio's longtime club. Some 10,000 fans at the Stadium of Light cheered and sang when the coffin was placed in the centre of the pitch.
The government declared three days of national mourning after Eusébio's death on Sunday from heart failure. He was 71.
Eusébio was an international star and national hero whose heyday was in the 1960s with Benfica and the Portuguese national team. He became one of the world's top goalscorers and was widely regarded as one of the best players of all time. He was affectionately known as the Black Panther for his athletic physique and agility.
The funeral was attended by the prime minister, Pedro Passos Coelho, and many football players, including former world player of the year and retired Portugal captain Luis Figo, as well as Eusébio's surviving family.
Eusébio is to be buried in a cemetery near Benfica's stadium. Authorities said they would consider moving him later to Lisbon's National Pantheon, which contains the tombs of illustrious figures from Portuguese history. | http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/jan/06/eusebio-funeral-cortege-lisbon-football-benfica | dclm-gs1-236510000 |
0.041473 | <urn:uuid:feec4020-3f63-4611-a5a3-88e7d5b2011a> | en | 0.964707 | Alistair Cooke correspondence sheds light on reporting dark days of 1968
Letters between Alistair Cooke and his editor – interactive
Alistair Cooke
Tensions between the Guardian and Cooke – Hetherington doubted his correspondent's grasp of race issues – have become legendary, some of it documented in Nick Clarke's biography of Cooke. A later Guardian editor, Peter Preston, who joined the paper in 1963, has said much of the legend of Cooke as a "nuisance" was just that. Here, anyway, is Hetherington on the day of publication of the Kennedy piece sending warmest thanks: "The Ambassador hotel must have been a terrible place to be but you've conveyed the sense and feeling of the occasion excellently."
Later that month Hetherington apologises for non-delivery of an earlier letter that went astray, congratulating Cooke on his 1,000th Letter from America, aired in March 1968. In this broadcast Cooke had talked of the "realisation that America which has never lost a war is not invincible and the very late discovery than an elephant can trumpet and shake the earth but not the self-possesssion of the ants who hold it".
The editor, after discussing the nuts and bolts of covering the continuing US presidential race, revives an idea that had already been floated for months: that of Cooke writing "some of your discursive and thoughtful comments" for the Guardian, even if "what can be a conversational piece on the air would not necessarily read well in print". Aware of the previous unhappy postal failure, Hetherington repeats his thanks for the Kennedy coverage. Despite what must have been a gruesome experience, from a cold-blooded newspaper point of view, the Guardian had been admirably served by Cooke and other reporters, Hetherington said.
Cooke's reply the following month expresses ambivalence over a more discursive column for the Guardian, but in March the following year one appeared, soon to be titled Alistair Cooke's America. This title would appear again, in 1973, on the book that followed his landmark television series America. By then Cooke had resigned from the paper.
Cooke's letter to Hetherington then turns to political coverage, reflecting Cooke's estimation of himself and the paper's reporting compared with that of rivals with their "bits of colour" and "flash dubious hard news". The Democratic convention would, it turned out, provide plenty of hard news.
His concluding sentences warn Hetherington that the Guardian must not "bore the reader", however. "My fanmail on Letter from America is very instructive here. It is overwhelmingly against saturation by American politics. And most of the protesters are obviously intelligent people."
By 25 September 1968, Cooke is reflecting on "drastic changes" in political campaigning as TV begins to dominate electioneering, and asserting that Britons, who see less of such coverage, need his interpretation of events on the ground. "The balance of the political social situation is something you can't see on television."
Cooke now wants a holiday. "I am pretty pooped (strangely, it took me a month or more get over the nervous trauma of the Bobby Kennedy horror) what with ML King, the conventions, Chicago and the rest. I badly need a break." | http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/nov/14/alistair-cooke-correspondence-reporting-1968?view=mobile | dclm-gs1-236540000 |
0.05072 | <urn:uuid:43a600dd-0bfd-46d6-bed1-e9e139676096> | en | 0.946453 | From the March 2009 issue of Boomer Market Advisor • Subscribe!
Read yourself to rational behavior
Any good psychiatrist will tell you recognizing destructive behavior is the first step in correcting it. In a slight departure from the normal Checklist format, we highlight seminal works on the topic of irrational investing; behavior that can kill a portfolio. Courtesy Jonah Lehrer of the Wall Street Journal, you'd be wise to recommend them to your boomer clients - and to read them yourselves.
"Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds"
By Charles Mackay
Proving "there is nothing modern about financial bubbles" writes Leher, this classic work tops the list. Mackay compiled an exhaustive list of the "schemes, projects and phantasies" that are a recurring theme of economic history. As Lehrer notes, from the tulip mania of 17th-century Holland, in which 12 acres of valuable land were offered for a single bulb, to the South Sea Bubble of 18th-century England, in which a cheerleading press spurred a dramatic spike in the value of a debt-ridden slave-trading company, Mackay demonstrates that "every age has its peculiar folly."
"Judgment Under Uncertainty"
By Daniel Kahneman, Paul Slovic and Amos Tversky
Cambridge, 1982
You'd be hard pressed to find more well-versed experts on the topic of behavioral economics and irrational investing than Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky. After developing the concept over a period of decades, the two won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2002 for their work (Tversky posthumously). As Lehrer notes, it's hard to overstate the influence of this academic volume, which revealed many of the hard-wired flaws that shape human behavior. "In experiment after experiment, the psychologists demonstrated that, unlike the hypothetical consumers in economics textbooks, real people don't treat losses and gains equivalently or properly perceive risks, or even understand the basic laws of statistics - with sometimes severe consequences," Lehrer writes.
"How We Know What Isn't So"
By Thomas Gilovich
Free Press, 1991
According to Lehrer, Thomas Gilovich is an eminent psychologist at Cornell University, "but he is also a lucid writer with a knack for teaching the public about its own mental mistakes." Lehrer relates Gilovich's description of the hot-hand phenomenon in basketball: Most fans are convinced that a player who has made several shots in a row is more likely to make his next shot - he's in the zone, so to speak. But Gilovich, employing an exhaustive analysis of the 1980-81 Philadelphia 76ers, shows this belief is an illusion, akin to trying to discern a pattern in a series of random coin flips and then predicting what the next flip will bring. The same logic also applies to "hot" mutual-fund managers, who are wrongly convinced, along with their customers, that they can consistently beat the market.
"The Winner's Curse"
By Richard H. Thaler
Princeton, 1992
In 2000, the Texas Rangers signed Alex Rodriguez to the richest contract in baseball history after participating in a blind auction. As Lehrer notes, if the team had consulted Richard H. Thaler's "The Winner's Curse," it would have known that such auctions invariably lead to irrational offers - and, indeed, the Rangers' bid (a 10-year contract for $252 million) overshot the next highest offer by about $100 million. According to Lehrer, in addition to documenting how bidders at auctions operate, Thaler - a behavioral economist at the University of Chicago - examines other anomalies, such as the stock market's seasonal fluctuations (nearly one-third of annual returns occur in January) and the surprising unselfishness of people playing economic games.
"Predictably Irrational"
By Dan Ariely
HarperCollins, 2008
Dan Ariely is a mischievous scientist, writes Lehrer: He delights in duping business students, getting them to make decisions that, in retrospect, seem utterly ridiculous. In "Predictably Irrational," which Lehrer refers to as engaging summary of his research, Ariely explains why brand-name Aspirin is more effective than generic Aspirin even when people are given the same pill under different labels (paying more produces the expectation of better results, and the headache complies), and why the promise of getting something without paying for it - such as free shipping, or a free T-shirt if we buy two other shirts - prompts shoppers to spend more money than they would have in the absence of the offer.
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Snare effects are a form of crowd control that reduce a victim's movement speed, preventing him from effectively maneuvering in combat. There are 2 types of snares: area-based snares, such as Frost Trap or Earthbind Totem, and debuff-based snares (also called Slows), such as Crippling Poison or Piercing Howl. It is most useful to ranged classes when fighting opponents who only possess melee attacks, allowing them to kite the opponent. Snares are also useful to prevent enemies from fleeing to safety or running for help (in instances especially).
Spells and abilities with a snare effect usually have a percentage listed (i.e. Daze is a "50% snare"). The creature's full movement speed is reduced by this percentage.
Examples of abilities that cause a snare effect:
Class Abilities
Death Knight Chains of Ice
Frost Fever (with Chillblains)
Druid Feral Charge (Cat form)
Hunter Wing Clip
Frost Trap
Concussive Shot
Mage Frostbolt
Cone of Cold
Blast Wave
Paladin Judgement of Justice (Rank 2) (though not technically classified as a snare in game mechanics)
Priest Mind Flay
Rogue Crippling Poison
Deadly Throw
Shaman Frost Shock
Earthbind Totem
Warlock Curse of Exhaustion
Warrior Hamstring
Piercing Howl
Snare debuffs do not stack. Instead, the debuff that gives the most movement speed reduction takes precedence. If any lesser snare is applied while a greater snare is active, it will not be applied, even if the greater snare will expire sooner.
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November 07, 2005
Almost every month seems to bring word of new ways that researchers are trying to create human stem cells without running into ethical objections over destroying embryos for scientific experimentation. Two new methods were described recently in the journal Nature, on the heels of a similar announcement by Harvard researchers a couple of months ago.
Both of the new methods hold potential to sidestep some ethical problems, although they may pose dilemmas of their own. Neither, however, is expected to be ready for human use for some time, probably for years.
In one method, an embryo is allowed to grow to eight cells, then one cell is plucked out. The remaining seven can continue to develop into a baby. A similar technique is used at in vitro fertilization clinics to diagnose genetic defects. The new work shows that it also could be used to derive stem cells. Since the embryos already have been created, and some would undergo this procedure anyway, this could circumvent ethicists' concerns. There is little data, though, on the safety of the procedure or the long-term health of the children who develop from those embryos.
The other method involves creating an embryo that is genetically altered so that it is incapable of implanting in a uterus and developing into a baby. That technique was suggested by Dr. William Hurlbut, an influential member of the President's Council on Bioethics. Hurlbut reportedly has convinced several religious and conservative ethicists that the approach is morally sound, but he hasn't convinced everyone. Some critics contend it still would involve the destruction of an embryo, albeit a damaged one that could not survive more than a few days.
These and other efforts are aimed at finding new ways to create or harvest stem cells because of restrictions on the use of federal research money. Those limits were imposed by President Bush four years ago, restricting federal funding to a few dozen stem cell lines that existed at the time. Unfortunately, those limits have proven to be far too tight.
There have not been as many suitable stem cell lines as the White House anticipated in 2001. Those lines must be decontaminated, so they may not be suitable for human use. A bill to ease those limits responsibly passed the House last spring but has stalled in the Senate. It may not come to a vote until next year.
American scientists aren't marking time, waiting for the federal limits to be eased. They're actively pursuing different strategies to create stem cells without running afoul of ethical qualms. Some states are preparing to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on such research. As with any promising medical field, private money is flowing in, with no federal strings attached. The research also is surging in foreign countries, particularly South Korea, where a new international consortium to create and share stem cells was announced recently.
It's tempting to ask whether the fight over federal limits on funding could be moot soon. That is, will science find a way around the moral qualms? Or will private and international funding supplant the need for more federal money? The answer to both: probably not.
Some have warned that unless the U.S. joins the race, top scientists will abandon the country for foreign labs without similar ethical hurdles. The "brain drain" of top scientists from America has yet to take shape. But there's a more subtle form of brain drain happening, asserts Dr. George Daley of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute. Some promising young stem-cell scientists from China, India, Korea, Japan and elsewhere are staying home instead of coming to this country to work and study because of the cloud over the funding issue, he says.
This is a nascent and fast-moving field. It's a global race with potential for treatments or cures for Alzheimer's, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, spinal cord injuries and cancer. The research will progress--in America and elsewhere--without federal funding. But no state or private source can match the funding power of the U.S. government. It has been the pre-eminent engine for biomedical research in the world. Within the ethical guidelines set out in the House legislation, it belongs at the forefront of stem cell research. | http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2005-11-07/news/0511070126_1_stem-cells-embryos | dclm-gs1-236790000 |
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Per Mort: Chip Kelly is the new Coach of the Eagles
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The problem I have with Kelly's offense is not its simplicity, I think simple offenses can work - though the best (GB, NE, NO) are very complex. My issue with his offense is that it is predicated entirely on speed. They line up and essentially say things like "our RBs will beat your LBs to the edge every time." In college that idea works, and it frees up lots of other opportunities...it won't in the NFL.
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Well, I would argue that New England pretty much ran an Air Raid type offense back when Brady threw 50 TD's and they went 18-0. Whatever year that was, 2010?
What's clear to me is that there is a spot in the NFL for an offense like Kelly's. You're seeing a lot more teams running spread variations and certainly a lot of teams borrowing concepts of the pistol and zone read offenses.
I also wouldn't make the mistake of assuming Kelly is married to the exact system is ran at Oregon. He may have developed that because he saw nobody else was doing it. Who's to say what he has in the works for NFL defenses? All I know is the guy is an incredible offensive mind and I wouldn't bet against him figuring out how to keep NFL defenses on their toes even more than they already are.
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So do offenses. That's why you're seeing teams have so much success with new offenses like the Zone Read and Pistol. And if defenses figure that out? Someone like Chip Kelly will have the next idea to throw them off.
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He'd better draft a bunch of QB's..... they won't last long at the NFL level.
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Hurry up and no huddle offenses have worked a lot in the NFL. The Bills went to 4 SBs with one.
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There is a difference between all of these and today's NFL. Harbaugh and Pete Carroll have NFL experience. While Jimmy Johnson didn't, he also didn't join the NFL while there was free agency. Basically, players were owned by their respective teams. They didn't have a choice who they could sign with. Jimmy could basically say and do anything he wanted to his players without worrying about them leaving in FA. (notice after FA started, Jimmy Johnson basically stunk it up down in Miami)
That isn't the case here. Kelly has absolutely no NFL experience. The way he will have to deal with players will be a completely different beast.
Second, again. He has zero NFL experience and the game is a whole lot more than the college game. The offense and defense are far more complex. If he was smart, he would hire nothing but NFL experienced coaching staff. Especially for his higher ranking coaches like coordinators and primary position coaches.
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The term football genius gets thrown around all of the time. Chip Kelly is supposed to be a football genius. Garrett was supposed to be a football genius. Same with Rob Ryan.
I think the last true football genius was Landry.
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This.We are back in the 80's/90's with a new Tampa 2 which is competitive against conventional offenses. I envision Kelly will be 80 yards up the field while Kiff is calling his first substitution. Kiffs D better be in awesome shape and his packages in sync with the game or we're going to be wiped out by the 2nd quarter, much like the saint/seahawk/chig/wash games. Imagine what Ryan would do against it? Flags flying all over the field for "too many players on the field". Sensebaugh jumping around peeing his pants calling all kinds of alignments.
I hope we play Phili later in the season. By that time their QB will be hurt and we'll get a sense of what to expect. ohhh boy.
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Someone needs to inform Seattle and Chicago that their defenses were only competitive against conventional offenses.
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I wonder if Oregon is under NCAA investigation again.
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....pretty much everything you said is dead on. This magnifies the UTTER buffoonery of hiring Kiffin. Stat of the day: KELLY HUNG 62 ON GRANDPA KIFFIN THIS YEAR.....we're headed for the basement boys, that's a fact.:bang2:
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Did anyone check Monte's diaper after the news broke?
This should be fun, two college offenses against a guy who had no clue how to stop them.
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With all of the turndowns as they have had I'm sure they pretty much had to give him a blank check
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I envision we improve our interception stats against the Eagles.
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It's a little harder to stack the deck in the NFL with the salary cap.
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Man Chip Kelly lets see what he gots..........so much hype for a guy who has done so little. He never has won a title at college level either.
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great point
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........I don't think he'll set the league on fire: AT ALL. However, our hire of Kiffin is a JOKE and will doom this team next year. We won't win 7 games. I say 6-10 right now. I said 7-9 last year and was one game off. But then again, its' easy to predict our record: we are between 6-9 wins most every season now.
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Alma, Arkansas
Southfork Street
Southfork Street
Motto: "Crossroads of America"
Alma is located in Arkansas
Location in Arkansas
Coordinates: 35°29′17″N 94°13′15″W / 35.48806°N 94.22083°W / 35.48806; -94.22083Coordinates: 35°29′17″N 94°13′15″W / 35.48806°N 94.22083°W / 35.48806; -94.22083
Country United States
State Arkansas
County Crawford
• Total 5.6 sq mi (14.4 km2)
• Land 5.4 sq mi (14.0 km2)
• Water 0.2 sq mi (0.4 km2)
Elevation 433 ft (132 m)
Population (2010)
• Total 5,419
• Density 1,004/sq mi (387.5/km2)
Time zone Central (CST) (UTC-6)
• Summer (DST) CDT (UTC-5)
ZIP code 72921
Area code(s) 479
FIPS code 05-00970
GNIS feature ID 0076164
Alma is a city in Crawford County located in the western part of U.S. state of Arkansas, along Interstate 40 about 13 miles (21 km) from the Oklahoma border. As of the 2010 Census, Alma's population was 5,419.[1] It is the sixth largest city in the Fort Smith, Arkansas-Oklahoma Metropolitan Statistical Area.[2] Alma was incorporated in 1874.
Alma is located in south-central Crawford County at 35°29′17″N 94°13′15″W / 35.48806°N 94.22083°W / 35.48806; -94.22083 (35.488013, -94.220796).[3]
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 5.6 square miles (14.4 km2), of which 5.4 square miles (14.0 km2) is land and 0.15 square miles (0.4 km2), or 3.06%, is water.[1]
Alma has no airport, and the train station, which fell into a state of dilapidation, was torn down in the early 1970s. Much of its commerce derives from interstate highway traffic, as Interstates 40 and 49 (previously 540), as well as U.S. Routes 64 and 71, pass through the city.
The city gets its water supply from Alma Lake, which is perched above the city on the northeast, held back by a tall earthen dam that blocks Little Frog Bayou. Alma Lake is the reservoir that supplies the city's tap water. Alma sits along the border between the Boston Mountains and the Arkansas River Valley, so while most of the city lies on flat land, immediately to the north is scenic hill country. Alma is surrounded by several rural towns, including Rudy to the north, Dyer and Mulberry to the east, and Kibler to the southwest.
As of the census[4] of 2000, there were 4,160 people, 1,560 households, and 1,168 families residing in the city. The population density was 865.4 people per square mile (333.9/km²). There were 1,688 housing units at an average density of 351.1 per square mile (135.5/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 94.66% White, 1.71% Black or African American, 1.56% Native American, 0.10% Asian, 0.12% Pacific Islander, 0.75% from other races, and 1.11% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 3.70% of the population.
There were 1,560 households out of which 42.8% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 56.1% were married couples living together, 14.7% had a female householder with no husband present, and 25.1% were non-families. 22.3% of all households were made up of individuals and 10.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.66 and the average family size was 3.11.
In the city the population was spread out with 32.1% under the age of 18, 9.6% from 18 to 24, 28.9% from 25 to 44, 18.6% from 45 to 64, and 10.8% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 31 years. For every 100 females there were 90.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 85.4 males.
The median income for a household in the city was $28,906, and the median income for a family was $34,068. Males had a median income of $33,235 versus $17,014 for females. The per capita income for the city was $15,227. 11.9% of families and 16.3% of the population were below the poverty line, including 19.7% of those under the age of 18 and 25.4% of those ages 65 or older.
In his book Washington Goes to War, David Brinkley described Alma's participation in the World War II effort:
In the town of Alma, Arkansas (population 776), one-fourth of the girls in the 1944 high school graduating class signed up to leave for Washington, and several of their teachers cast aside their low-paying jobs and went with them, all of them climbing aboard a Pullman car for their first train ride, looking for more money and excitement than they had any reasonable expectation of finding in Alma.[5]
Public education for elementary and secondary school students is provided by the Alma School District. The four schools in the district include Alma Primary School, Alma Intermediate School, Alma Middle School and Alma High School.[6]
Spinach Capital of the World[edit]
Around 1987, Alma called itself the "Spinach Capital of the World" because the Allen Canning Company based in Alma canned more than half of all the spinach canned in the U.S., about sixty million pounds a year.[7] The town has had various statues of the cartoon character Popeye, because of his connection to canned spinach; the most recent one was erected in 2007. Cast in bronze, it sits atop a fountain holding a can of spinach. It is the centerpiece of Popeye Park.[8]
Crystal City, Texas, also calls itself the "Spinach Capital of the World", and it too has a Popeye statue in the downtown.
Notable people[edit]
1. ^ a b "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Alma city, Arkansas". U.S. Census Bureau, American Factfinder. Retrieved June 18, 2014.
2. ^ "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): All places within Fort Smith, AR-OK Metro Area". U.S. Census Bureau, American Factfinder. Retrieved June 18, 2014.
5. ^ Brinkley, David (1988). Washington goes to war. New York: A.A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House. ISBN 0394510259.
6. ^ "Alma School District". Alma School District. Retrieved August 10, 2012.
7. ^ "Alma, Spinach Capital of the World". Arkansas Roadside Travelouge. Retrieved August 10, 2012.
8. ^ "Popeye Statue - 2007 Model". Roadside America. Retrieved December 12, 2012.
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Seasonal subseries plots are a tool for detecting seasonality in a time series. This plot allows one to detect both between-group and within-group patterns. This plot is only useful if the period of the seasonality is already known. In many cases, this will in fact be known. For example, monthly data typically has a period of 12. If the period is not known, an autocorrelation plot or spectral plot can be used to determine it. If there is a large number of observations, then a box plot may be preferable.
Seasonal subseries plots are formed by
• Vertical axis: response variable
• Horizontal axis: time ordered by season. For example, with monthly data, all the January values are plotted (in chronological order), then all the February values, and so on.
In addition, a reference line is drawn at the group means.
The analyst must specify the length of the seasonal pattern before generating this plot. In most cases, the analyst will know this from the context of the problem and data collection.
It is important to know when analyzing a time series if there is a significant seasonality effect. The seasonal subseries plot is an excellent tool for determining if there is a seasonal pattern. The seasonal subseries plot can provide answers to the following questions:
• Do the data exhibit a seasonal pattern?
• What is the nature of the seasonality?
• Is there a within-group pattern (e.g., do January and July exhibit similar patterns)?
• Are there any outliers once seasonality has been accounted for?
Related techniques[edit]
Seasonal subseries plots are implemented in the R function monthplot().
• Cleveland, William (1993). Visualizing Data. Hobart Press.
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[Khia] sucka suck on the clit [x2]
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The effects of operating factors on a gasification system were reviewed by comparing a computational simulation and real operation results. Notable operation conditions include a conveying gas/coal ratio of 0.44, an oxygen/coal ratio of 0.715, a reaction temperature of 1,000 °C, and reaction pressure of 5bar in the case of Adaro coal; based on this, the cold gas efficiency was estimated as 82.19%. At the point of the reaction temperature effect, because the cold gas efficiencies are more than 80% when the reaction temperatures are higher than 900 °C, the gasifier inner temperature must remain over 900 °C. At high reaction temperature such as 1,400 °C, the reaction pressure shows little effect on the cold gas efficiency. The addition of steam into the gasifier causes an endothermic reaction, and then lowers the gasifier outlet temperature. This is regarded as a positive effect that can reduce the capacity of the syngas cooler located immediately after the gasifier. The most significant factor influencing the cold gas efficiency and the gasifier outlet temperature is the O2/coal ratio. As the O2/coal ratio is lower, the cold gas efficiency is improved, as long as the gasifier inner temperature remains over 1,000 °C. With respect to the calorific value (based on the lower heating value, LHV) of produced gas per unit volume, as the N2/coal ratio is increased, the calorific value per syngas unit volume is lowered. Decreasing the amount of nitrogen for transporting coal is thus a useful route to obtain higher calorific syngas. This phenomenon was also confirmed by the operation results. | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11814-011-0039-z | dclm-gs1-237440000 |
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To: None <,>
From: der Mouse <[email protected]>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/06/2002 22:33:15
>> I've often considered building a gcc variant that deliberately
>> breaks a bunch of the sloppy assumptions people make - like that all
>> pointers are the same size, or that
>> *(foo **)&bar_ptr == (foo *)bar_ptr....
> i think you better explain this last one to us peons...
It amounts to the "all pointers are just memory addresses" assumption,
that the bits making up a pointer pointing to a specific piece of
memory are the same regardless of what type that piece of memory is
considered as being. ISTR hearing of a C compiler for the Lisp Machine
that implemented pointers as <array,index> pairs; the above assumption
breaks badly in the face of such an implementation. (They had some
interesting tricks to fulfil the promises that _are_ made about when
you can cast pointers and get working results....)
Another possible case where the assumption I wrote above fails is if
pointers carry type information as well as address information. Then
casting would, among other things, change the type bits, but the
left-hand side of what I wrote above would result in a pointer that has
one type according to C but a different type according to the type
If I wanted to break it for the sake of breaking it on a machine that
would "normally" represent pointers as just memory addresses, I would
compute a hash value for every type, and offset all pointers to that
type by the type's hash value. (A pointer conversion would then
involve adding the difference between the two types' hash values.)
(I'm not sure what I'd do about pointers to incomplete types, but I'm
sure something could be worked out.)
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B arack Obama has some reason to crow about the direction the economy has been moving lately. As he said in his press conference on Friday, "as a country, we have every right to be proud of what we've accomplished: more jobs, more people insured, a growing economy, shrinking deficits, bustling industry, booming energy." And it's true that there are some kinds of economic data that look excellent, particularly job creation, which is what I want to focus on for the moment. We've had 50 straight months of positive job growth, since September 2010, which is pretty remarkable. Once we get the December numbers there will probably wind up being around 3 million jobs created in 2014, which would make it the best year since 1999. So how does Obama stack up against his predecessors in this department? As always, it depends how you look at it. But let's start with just the job numbers . Here's a graph showing every president since Eisenhower: A few things jump out from this graph. While we don't...
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L ast year, Paul Ryan passed along this made up story: This reminds me of a story I heard from Eloise Anderson. She serves in the cabinet of my buddy Governor Scott Walker. She once met a young boy from a poor family. And every day at school, he would get a free lunch from a government program. But he told Eloise he didn’t want a free lunch. He wanted his own lunch—one in a brown-paper bag just like the other kids’. He wanted one, he said, because he knew a kid with a brown-paper bag had someone who cared for him. Insofar as the point of this story is to push against free lunches in school, it's obviously a rather craven sentiment. The opponents and critics of free school lunch are an odd bunch. They seem to think it's basically alright to send over 90 percent of children to these big welfare programs called public schools, but that feeding them while they are at these welfare schools is over the line. It's not hard to see what's going on: public school is so commonplace and nearly...
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I have OpenDNS with access controls set up for my laptop. I want to disable the filter for specific users, but there doesn't appear to be a simple way to do this.
My first thought was to enable the openDNS dns servers for one user and disable them for the others. Any thoughts on the best way to accomplish this?
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I personally think it's a bad idea to block "social" sites at work since many of these sites do have a place in today's workplace, and it's also a band-aid-type solution to a discipline/work ethic problem. However, you could potentially just dual-boot such that one OS uses OpenDNS, and the other doesn't. Ubuntu Netbook Edition requires about 4GB of disk space, but there are probably other netbook distributions that are smaller. – Lèse majesté Apr 22 '12 at 5:04
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DNS filtering FTL.
Another idea is Windows Live Family Safety. You can ban sites per user. And you get a web based management console. It also blocks downloads and plugins.
You can setup a black list or white list. But like many content blockers, you can fool it by surfing to sites that are specifically created to outwit theses programs.
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I ended up using this. – Swift Jul 11 '11 at 19:13
Kids huh? There is no telling what they are capable of. My 9 year old cousin created a three column book report complete with Smart Art, a table and a drop letter. Nine years old. And I got coworkers who still struggle with Facebook. . . – surfasb Jul 11 '11 at 19:28
Interestingly enough this was to limit what the college level interns could do on the company netbook. The key was to combine both the Windows Live Family controls and the OpenDNS logging to make a feature rich solution. – Swift Jul 11 '11 at 21:57
Force them to use their iPhones. Good idea. – surfasb Jul 12 '11 at 0:04
Haha yeah, true enough. Even thinking for a minute that I could prevent them from visiting personal websites on company time would be far fetched. – Swift Jul 12 '11 at 13:31
OpenDNS is convenient for this purpose, but no DNS system is really designed for filtering. Determined, knowledgeable people can still get to "bad sites" if they really want to by entering the IP address. If you are talking about Windows, Windows doesn't natively support "per-user" network configurations. You likely could create some user-specific *.cmd files that use the netsh command to reconfigure the DNS hosts on the fly, though.
But, you might actually need run through a local network's DNS servers sometime to resolve hosts on their LAN, such as at a workplace. Using DNS for filtering is not my perferred solution.
I would suggest solving your problem by using a local HTTP proxy or other program designed for web filtering. If you are running Windows and want something "quick and easy" to protect children online, I've used K9 Web Protection for a while and was really happy with it.
Put a BIOS password on your laptop and disable CD/USB booting so they can't boot a live CD/USB stick and bypass all your protection, though.
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you'll have to login into the user's account and change network settings, which requires administrator password to make changes. go to control panel, then network sharing center, then change adapter settings, then right-click on local area connection, then select internet protocol version 4, then click properties, then select use the following dns server addresses, then enter opendns adresses into the fields, then click ok and close. at some point during this you'll be prompted for admin password. that's it.
be sure that the user is a standard user with parental controls and not an administrator.
note: user may still be able to go to google image search, turn off google's search filter, do a search for porn and view porn related images which will include all kinds of porn. therefore, parental supervision is still required.
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No, that won't work, as once the DNS settings are changed in the interface properties they will be changed system-wide, not just for the individual user. – paradroid Apr 22 '12 at 5:12
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Leader of the 10th Platoon, the team Sharnid originally worked with.
Dixerio Maskane
Mysterious figure who experienced the world outside the Regios. He fights the Wolf Masks and appears to have a vendetta against Ignasis. Dixerio is the protagonist of the spin-off story, Regios Crusade.
Fermaus Fora
Psychokinesist of the Salinvan Guidance Mercenary Gang. Fermaus's face is covered by a metal masks and speaks through a voice synthesizer.
Gorneo Luckens
Military artist of Zuellni who loathes Layfon due to his past in their home city of Grendan. Gorneo's brother is Savaris Qaulafin Luckens one of the 12 Heavens Blade Wielders of Grendan.
Haia Salinvan Laia
Harley Sutton
Harley is a childhood friend of Nina, who acts as 17th Platoon's Dite Mechanic.
Karian Loss
Karian Loss is Zuellni's student council president, which since the academy city is run by the students means he is effectively in control of the entire city. Has a ruthless streak whereby he'll do any thing to protect the city including using countless people including Layfon, and even his sister Felli.
Layfon Alseif
Leerin Marfes
Layfon's childhood friend from Grendan. She likes Layfon but he's oblivious about that.
Lintence Haden
Lintence is a stoic and aloof person with heavy chain-smoking habit. One of the strongest Heaven's Blade Successors from Grendan who taught Layfon the use of Steel Threads.
Mei-Shen Trinden
Mei-Shen is in the general arts section, and dreams of being a baker. Originally from transportation city Yortem along with Mifi and Naruki. She also has massive crush on Layfon, and is constantly making food for him.
Mifi Rotten
Mifi is in the general arts section, and considers her self a reporter for a magazine named 'Weekly Look-on'. Originally from the transportation city Yortem, along with her friends Mei-shen and Naruki.
Naruki Gerni
One of the first new friends Layfon makes in Zuellni, along with Mifi and Mei-shen. Originally comes from transportation city Yortem. She dreams of becoming a police officer.
Nina Antalk
Savaris Luckens
Elder brother of Gorneo and the member of the 12 Heavens Blades of Grendan. Master of Karenkei and specializes in hand-to-hand combat. Savaris is the bloodthirstiest Heavens Blade, a real fighting maniac.
Shante Laite
Sharnid Elipton
Sharnid acts as the sniper of 17th Platoon. he is considered a bit of a flirt.
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New York Times: "Technology, Both Miracle and Burden"
"YALTA, UKRAINE — One of the paradoxes of our age is that we are simultaneously living through a time of positive economic innovation and also a time of the painful erosion of the way of life of many middle-class families...
When Mr. Milner [Russian Internet investor] talks about the technology revolution, he paints a dazzling picture of literally unprecedented innovation, bringing tremendous savings and benefits to consumers.
But when you talk to economists about the impact of those same forces on middle-class jobs, you come joltingly down to earth. The revolution Mr. Milner describes is part of a sea change in how the economies of Western industrialized nations work — and one that is hollowing out the middle class..."
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General unemployment is caused
by government, not technology. Every technological innovation is a plus to economic well-being and the middle class. The middle class is shrinking because of its being plundered of trillions of dollars for the benefit of large banking interests and the MIC. The view that technological innovation is a destroyer of jobs is just a small variant of the broken window fallacy.
Technology is a good thing
If we had real money and true enforcement of fraud and market manipulations every advance to improve productivity would improve the lives of everyone.
Technology advances reduce cost to produce products people want and need therefore people need less income to maintain a lifstyle. But we have funny money, fraud and market manipulations that counteract these improvements to make people need more income to maintain their lifestyles.
Technology is cushioning the blow from the thugs ripping us off.
"Jobs" aren't the issue,
economic liberty is the issue. No one dreams of working at a job for someone else their whole life. This is the MSM box: "we" "need" jobs, jobs, jobs. "Jobs=prosperity". No, wealth creation and accumulation equal prosperity. If people had the value of REAL money, owned their homes they bought, had the freedom to open businesses and pursue occupations without being gatekept by licensing, regulations, and credentialling protectionists jobs would not be an issue.
Well put
As I told my kids:
Do you really want a job so you can buy a CD player for your dining room? (That was the premise of the initial discussion). They said yes.
I said, don't you just want the CD player and not the hassle of working? Yes.
Ah, but don't you just want the ability to play CDs and not the actual player? Yes, I think so.
And don't you really, when it all boils down, just want to be able to listen to whatever music you want at your convenience? Yes.
But if you worked, you'd have to buy a CD player, then all the CDs you wanted, total that up with social security and other job expenses and divide by 75% tax rate and then divide that by whatever you can make per hour. That's probably many weeks of work.
Alternatively, you could just open some internet radio, playlist, youtube or similar site and skip the rest. Now, what do you want in life? House, car, food, clothes....
The ever-recurring doctrine of "technological unemployment" -- man displaced by the machine -- is hardly worthy of extended analysis. It's absurdity is evident when we look at the advanced economy and compare it with the primitive one. In the former there is an abundance of machines and processes completely unknown to the latter; yet in the former, standards of living are far higher for far greater numbers of people. How many workers have been "displaced" because of the invention of the shovel? The technological unemployment motif is encouraged by the use of the term "labor-saving devices" for capital goods, which to some minds conjure up visions of laborers being simply discarded. Labor needs to be "saved" because it is the pre-eminently scarce good and because man's wants for exchangeable goods are far from satisfied. Furthermore, these wants would not be satisfied at all if the capital-goods structure were not maintained. The more labor is "saved," the better, for then labor is using more and better capital goods to satisfy more of its wants in a shorter amount of time.
Murray N. Rothbard, Man, Economy and State, with Power and Market, Scholars Edition, Chapter 9, p587, originally published in 1962.
"A curse on machines! Every year, their increasing power relegates millions of workmen to pauperism, by depriving them of work, and therefore of wages and bread. A curse on machines!"
But to curse machines is to curse the spirit of humanity!
It puzzles me to conceive how many men can feel any satisfaction in such a doctrine.
This is not all. If this doctrine is true, all men think and invent, since all, from first to last, and at every moment of their existence, seek the cooperation of the powers of nature, and try to make the most of a little, by reducing either the work of their hands or their expenses, so as to obtain the greatest possible amount of gratification with the smallest possible amount of labor. It must follow, as a matter of course, that the whole of mankind is rushing towards its decline, by the same mental aspiration toward progress, which torments each of its members.
Hence, it ought to be revealed by statistics, that the inhabitants of Lancashire, abandoning that land of machines, seek for work in Ireland, where they are unknown; and, by history, that barbarism darkens the epochs of civilization, and that civilization shines in times of ignorance and barbarism.
Claude Frederic Bastiat, The Bastiat Collection, p31, published by the Ludwig Von Mises Institute, written 1850.
Ludwig Von Mises, Human Action, Scholar's Edition, Chapter XXX, p768, Originally published 1949.
Did any of the people supporting the OP's original concern/argument, including the OP, actually listen to Ron Paul?
The distruction of the middle
The distruction of the middle class is not caused by technology. It is caused by the government taking at least 50% of everything we produce and blowing it down a rat-hole, imo.
Jobs & Technology - It's one of the factors. There are
different factors to account for it. But that technology, i.e. machines, replace jobs formerly done by people isn't something that can be denied. Furthermore, the Internet has in many cases done away with the "middle man," that middle-man (store owners) having been part of formerly employed "middle America." In terms of taxes, while I wouldn't argue that there is government waste, as the recent Romney "gaffe" pointed out, an awful lot of Americans don't pay taxes - and as Romney didn't point out, much of that is because Americans are unemployed, unable to find jobs; underemployed; or simply low-wage earners.
~ John Muir
Machines increase efficiency, which lower costs, lowering prices, making things generally available, multiplying customers millions of times over. The nature of jobs change, but the amount of jobs increase as resources are used better and better.
Ford put people in the horse and buggy industry out of work, but created millions and millions of jobs for mechanics, assembly line workers, salespeople, etc.,etc. Gutenberg put hand book-copiers out of work, but created endless millions of writers, editors, publishers and printers, since books were now affordable for common people.
Better use of resources simply means that quality of life increases overall. People generally can afford things they couldn't afford before....when the price of things like cars, books, or computers lower to a generally-accessible level, endless millions of customers are suddenly created, those industries explode, obsolete (i.e., expensive, inefficient) industries die off, and jobs shift accordingly. It's called progress.
There's lots of truth in what you say
but I think in general, you have to compare a product before tech to an identical product after. In this case, the only gain from increased progress is reduced cost. (Resources are seen as a cost in this.)
Ideally, the financial benefits of this lowered cost SHOULD be shared with the employees (including the owner) and the customers at some rate determined by the market.
In practice of the last century however, the ideas of corporations, the stock market, insurance, globalization, short term winfalls, lobbying for laws and regulations against your competition and workers, and other current 'games' have shifted the deserved wages to higher corporate power.
In effect, people should now be making many multiples of what they currently earn and prices should be half or less than they are. The extent that they aren't that way now shows you exactly how much of our wages have been robbed by the banks and corporate offices.
To see how to shift this back, see my comment a few below this one.
People are making many
People are making many multiples of what they did in past centuries, or even past decades, in terms of value. They have personal transportation machines, personal communication machines, plumbing, electric light, entertainment boxes in every room....this is all based on innovations that maximize efficiency in resource usage. And each of these luxuries has a vast industry attached to it, meaning that the innovations have created jobs by the million that did not previously exist. The more innovations, the more jobs--and the more incredible, life-improving technology you can buy with your wages, making the actual *value* of your wages much more than you might think of it as at first glance.
The only thing that needs to happen for all the benefits to be felt by everyone is for government to stop distorting the market. That's all. Eliminate government and let the market work, and we'll all live better than any king ever has.
Sure, that's all true.
But that stuff is social ladder stuff. Throughout history, there has been a steady increase in what the norm is to maintain constant standing on the social hierarchy. The items you list are mostly resulting from that shift. I agree that it's often unnecessary fluff, but it's still a reality.
However, the point I was making wasn't about what we get, it was about what we are forced to give to remain 'normal'. Without going back down the 'what is normal' path again, people are now forced to work more, not less and they gain less, not more. This is the opposite of receiving the benefits of technological advancement. Ergo, the fruits of the tech movement have been diverted to only those that control the system.
You're "Eliminate government" statement, while completely accurate, is simply naive to the reality of today's propaganda and marketing campaigns. Even in politics, we can't keep waking up larger percentages of the population to undisputed truths because the opposition is more successfully using fear to sway others back to oppression. Until our side holds the power of money over the other side, money can always buy our opposition more than ideals can fight it. Winning will never come from breaking the cycle at the government link first. It has to be done elsewhere.
To break the chain, we have to take back the money. If we simply stopped all monthly payments that end up in bankers' hands, they would be out of business in a very short time. With their new-found poverty (almost funny to write that!), they won't be able to buy the influence they need to rise back up. It's kind of like cutting the head off the snake as opposed to nibbling away, tail first. This is why RP is more focused on the Fed than the election. He recognizes this reality.
It's not as hard as one would think though. There are basically two paths to succeeding. One way is a mass awareness type of boycott. The other is out-competing them with genuine free market principled businesses. This still takes quite a few people but it can start small and grow as it shows its benefits over the increasingly bad alternative.
I was just....
I was just disputing the idea that technology has any kind of negative effect on the human condition....it doesn't ultimately decrease jobs or decrease quality of life.... That's all I was saying.
As far as solutions, I respect your thoughts, I just don't, personally, see any nice neat way out. When enough people are really starting to hurt, they'll start wondering what the hell went wrong....our job, I think, is to beat the drum and raise awareness so that at the crisis point enough people are informed enough to blame the government thugs, rather than free people and the free market.
I understand
I am not saying that technology inherently has any negative effects on the human condition (well put). I'm just saying that it does ultimately reduce the workforce needed.
Sure, as you state, it increases the required workload in the short term, but the ultimate result is definitely a reduction. Take any industry in isolation. Say, farming... what now takes 2 people used to take over a hundred. The difference lies in those external jobs you indirectly reference.
At some point, those jobs will be consolidated or automated out and the number will ultimately cut back. My point in taking this track is not, however, to argue that technology is bad because it harms the middle class, but quite the opposite.
The benefits from technological advancements actually helps. No one can argue that surgery, medical, air conditioning or the internet are not vast conveniences. It's just the apparent result that they are against (and often their being used for tyranny - different topic!). My stance on this is that the job reduction should be a great thing. Just think if we were able to ensure the profits were fairly shared among the workers as with the owners of all the businesses. Just think if those workers also held some accountable voting control in their companies. If, by some miracle, we returned to those days, the average career length might migrate from 40 years down to 20. Instead, it has gone significantly north.
With the increased wealth from an average job, people may leave early and allow the next generation to take their slot. This alone would turn the unemployment number negative, bringing out the voice of the worker in the fashion of the striking workers of the last century. When workers gain the upper hand again, there will be no stopping them from walking out on a bad or lousy paying job. That will be the day the small businesses take the power back from the bloated, stock-market financed mega-corporations we now live with.
Then, lastly, when those corporations and the banksters who swindle the profits out of them all go under, the people will regain power in government once again. That will be the day my work will be done.
Sorry, false again
No, you're wrong on farming...remember "what is seen and what is not seen." Those 98 people who are no longer farmers...all those hours and years that are no longer spent farming, are now applied to other, more beneficial endeavors. The expenditure of exactly that amount of time and energy didn't cease, it was just freed up, by technology, to be applied to other, more sophisticated things.
Books are written, airplanes are designed, software is developed, etc., etc., by people who are freed from trying to feed themselves by directly interacting with the land...Again, it's called progress.
By your logic we should all live at starvation level in the woods, spending all of every day hunting and gathering...after all, then there would be, as there is among animals, 100 percent employment.
I don't have any thoughts on your proposed solution. Sounds a bit Marxist and as if it would require central planning, and therefore coercion. You might want to spend a year or two studying at mises.org before you try to jump ahead with it.
Try reading a little more in-depth
I fully acknowledged your big argument.
"Take any industry in isolation. Say, farming... what now takes 2 people used to take over a hundred. The difference lies in those external jobs you indirectly reference." (Emphasis added)
Then I said, "At some point, those jobs will be consolidated or automated out and the number will ultimately cut back."
I was trying to be brief and not spell out ever little step, but here goes. When those external jobs, say for farming it might be the tractor tire manufacturer, get automated and they get reduced, the total hundred jobs "WILL ULTIMATELY CUT BACK." What happens when you compare 1 million farms with 100 workers each (100,000,000 total - a century ago) to 100 thousand farms each with 2 employees and some external support groups that support all those farms by a total of 1,000,000 people (200,000 PLUS 1,000,000 = 1.2M today)? That's the reality of the externalties. That external million jobs support not just one former position on the original million farms. They support all the externalties on all the farms. On top of that, the supposed tractor tire guy now supports the heavy equipment industry with his tires too. There went your ratios.
Sorry, but I used to automate plants and factories. I can tell you without hesitation that automation increases jobs in the short term, but after not too long, those jobs are not longer needed. I know of one college steam plant that went from 38 operators (not counting admin, etc.) to 3 employees and after the equipment was designed and installed (my job), I had to move on to find other work. I've also written a single software program that consolidated a dozen bean-counters into one over-seer. Where's the externalties there if the computer used was already being accounted for by some other task?
This has been studied by many and without chasing down quotes, I can say that the average consensus is that today we need about 15% of the workforce (per capita) of 100 years ago. This is the result of automation, simplification and consolidation. The days of needing a 3 person travel agent for each town are long gone. Today, someone writes an app one time and 20% of the world uses it many times.
But I need to be clear here because this is the main point which you missed. I did not imply that this is all a bad thing. I was not leading you to the "starvation level in the woods" result. Quite the opposite.
I was trying to point out that it could go either way and we must ensure it benefits the people, not just the monopolists. My statement, "Just think if we were able to ensure the profits were fairly shared among the workers as with the owners of all the businesses. Just think if those workers also held some accountable voting control in their companies. If, by some miracle, we returned to those days, the average career length might migrate from 40 years down to 20. Instead, it has gone significantly north." was intentionally passive in not saying HOW to accomplish this because I was asking a targeted question.
However, by your last paragraph, I see that you won't consider it until you're convinced it isn't Marxist or collectivist. It's actually nothing more than a small group using free market principles to more of an extreme. It's completely open, voluntary and non-cohersive and only grows by its attraction to others seeking higher profit. Basically, if we do things right, even on a small scale, then we will prosper and that prosperity will propagate outward to others, causing it to grow.
The result is high enough wages that people voluntarily retire early enough to cause the needed workforce to drop to 15% (preliminary end goal) while the number of voluntary workers drops below that. This results in a worker's market, meaning they can set the terms of employment and they can take only jobs they want. The difference then would be covered by companies needing to automate further to get work done that no one wanted to do.
Oh, and next time you suggest that someone read Mises, you might want to check how long they've been a member here. (Got ya by 2 weeks! LOL) After reading Mises, et al, extensively for a long time, I wrote a book on how all this interacts in the real world. That endeavor (waiting to time the publishing with some other events) led me to a number of contacts that is actually putting this all into action. As you can see, it really is about 'the message', not 'the man'.
Contact me if you want more info on a specific piece of the big puzzle, but please at minimum, have an open mind. Not everything has to be a government, top-down fight.
Point taken
I guess I just really wanted to harp on the notion that there is absolutely nothing to be feared from technological advancement, and it seemed, and still seems to a degree, that you're putting forward this fallacy.
I still don't, for instance, buy the idea that automation decreases jobs overall. It frees up energy and time for innovation and new, probably often totally unrelated, industries are developed....it frees up energy and time not only among the people who no longer work in that industry, but by lowering the price of whatever is being produced, so consumers, on average, throughout the entire economy, need less resources for necessities & life-enhancing goods and services. A surplus of energy and time is created throughout humanity as a whole, and this creates possibilities and outcomes that nobody can totally grasp or predict.
I realize you're saying that technological advancement can be misused by govt monopolists, but I would just point out that primitive conditions can also be, and certainly have been, exploited by govt monopolists...the problem begins and ends with govt monopolists.
I don't rule out whatever your solution happens to be, I'm just saying that you have a society full of people bred to be ignoramuses, operating under a soft tyranny, and largely happy about it....I'm just saying that needs to be addressed first....solutions will naturally come about, the market will solve everything, when people really begin rejecting government. I stand corrected as far as characterizing your solution as Marxist. As long as there's no coercion involved, it's cool with me....I just think it might be cart before the horse....there are endless examples already, everywhere, of success being achieved when government is nullified, but people are too brainwashed to recognize what's taking place...and when the government recognizes it, the positive activity is outlawed.
Thanks for the stimulating discussion.
Apologies for my tone
It's sometimes hard to see who's on the other end of a comment since the same point made could be uneducated and naive while at the same time be very educated and insightful, depending on the level of depth.
You're probably not going to find a more optimistic person on technology. I've been pushing to use as much of it as possible but to do it 'the right way' for so long I can't remember. My utopian future has robots doing all but 5% of the jobs and everyone takes a 4 year term in those slots. But we have a long long way to go first.
Believe it or not, when designing a path to get to that future, it's not the technical issues that are holding us back. The problem is that it will destroy our civilization to just unleash such automation without a corresponding shift to giving the workers the fruits of that change. (Picture all the factories fully automated and the workers unemployed.) After designing such a business plan (basically pushing the entrepreneur to borrow from many small local people), we determined that there was no need for the big banks, the stock market or retirement funds in this new community. The rest of the plan just kind of fell into place from there.
This leads to the last piece that you may be seeing differently than I'm proposing. By taking the banks out of the picture, we're eliminating the excessive interest paid them (about 1/3rd of lifetime expenses) and replacing it with object you buy once, not rent forever. If we play this out, it leads to having all a person would normally buy in 40 years, paid off in about 8. So they can work 9 (extra one for savings, retirement) and then retire. I understand your suggestion that they may go spend that money on more goodies and grow the economy further, but once you're secure and the things you bought were lasting, not disposable, wouldn't many people choose to not work? I think that by placing the workers in the driver's seat on wage rates and work conditions, we can expect much less litigation on worker rights and unemployment. We can also expect reduced wasteful "fluff" jobs. (the jobs that are easily eliminated by tech).
The root key issue in all this is that now the banks steal most of our productive value from us and if we make some simple changes we can realize we don't even need anything from them so we could keep that value ourselves. I see a majority of today's society as uninformed of this fact while still trying to maintain their place on the social ladder (now transformed to be the economic ladder). It's not their fault they keep fighting for more money and compromising more all the time for it. They know not of any real solution.
Agreed, it's been a good discussion.
not certain what to think, much less what to do--
we just work all the time--
it's hard to be awake; it's easier to dream--
An easy turn-around
It's not just jobs or debt. It's a shift in the ownership of the companies. And that has happened because we allowed money to buy social status and controlling power. If we take back that money, we also take back that power and remove the rungs of the social ladder.
I would argue that it is a natural tendency for technology to reduce the number of jobs. The difference, however, is that with an aware population and a fair marketplace for starting businesses and other things like taxes, we should have migrated to many more businesses with the lowest level employees holding much more accountability (and it's resulting pay) than they do now.
This is what I see being the end game of the tech and internet revolutions. Not a million small businesses making up 15% of GDP with 40,000 mega-corps doing the rest. More like 500 mega-corps with 5% of the GDP with 100 million small ones doing the remaining 95% of GDP. When this happens, and it is trending that way faster (but still very small), we will see inequality reduced massively.
With that increased equality, we will see less debt which will foster a faster change.
All this could begin to happen with just the infancy tech we've had so far, but make no mistake, we're still licking the chocolate coating of this tech ice cream cone. There's so much more on its way.
Everyone is so intrigued by 3D printers. Well, very soon, we'll be able to recycle our waste plastic directly into free new plastic objects. We'll be able to upload CAD/CAM parts to a machine which will direct ship us the parts at less than volume costs today. We'll be able to do all our electronics entertainment, utility and communications on one mobile device which has much less power needs and can last many generations of upgrade. We'll be able to cut food, energy, housing and travel costs so much it becomes an insignificant part of the budget.
These are just the 'basics' of the up and coming tech. If you just look at the robotics and automation fields, nearly every piece needed to do every task we may want is already done. We just have to wait for someone to put them all together in the same box.
Those advancements will truly bring about a technological revolution. The trick for our survival is to ensure that we get our fair share of the profits or we'll forever be paying those who control it. As long as we keep this big picture in mind, it's not hard to do all this but without that foresight, it will not happen.
How can we "ensure that we get out fair share"?
Even if the lowest level person would have more accountability, what makes you think the salary for that position would be increased? Seems to me that greed controls everything these days.
Oh, and thank you for your entire comment, tamckissick. It was very helpful to my understanding of "the big picture". I just don't get how we can get our fair share in this. Could you dumb your answer down for me?
―Emmet Fox
It's not a matter of dumbing it down
It's more a matter of a shift in thinking to open your eyes.
There are two ways to start a small business but people today only see one. That one is to go get a loan, go into debt of some kind and allow that debt to control prices and wages forever. If that upset you, you're already starting to see the answer.
The other way is to rally real people behind helping a business get going. I don't care if that's by 10,000 people donating $10 each or if they each purchase a blade of grass (self picked) for $1 each. They can do any combination of crowdfunding or just have a good old fashion barn raising. The point is that by cutting the beginning debt of the company, many community benefits become automatically available.
With little or no debt, a startup business has less people wielding power over it. Traditionally, this has resulted in the investor placing 4-6 of his people on the company's board of directors. Then they mandate that the business comply with their HR, PR, sales, OSHA, ISO9000, accounting, stock, retirement, insurance and other 'guidelines'. In practice, this takes a typical $200k startup cost up to $3M. It's no wonder they feel they have to go public and cash out of self ownership every time.
With less overhead and less debt, now the fun stuff can happen. The owner can avoid most marketing and sales costs by shifting even half that budget to wages. Couple that with a good speech and some profit sharing and he's got a stronger word-of-mouth market than he could have bought. ...and the employees wages went up.
With higher paid workers and lots less overhead, they can now offer many creative job swapping programs. This keeps people happy because swapping shifts or taking your turn at in-house daycare or cooking becomes a near zero cost benefit. Even distributor and customer direct pickup can be better coordinated to eliminate most shipping costs. Productivity soars.
For the community, the product price can be reduced even while maintaining these higher wages. To illustrate this, consider that a typical business has 11% manufacturing costs which actually covers all materials (6%) and labor. Give 10% to the owner and you're left with 79% to split between higher wages and lower prices.
And lastly, don't forget that of that 79% that was spent, likely more than 50% went to Wall St., got stripped down to minimum and then out to 'regular investors'. Without this money leaving the community and without this cost being forced to grow each year (earnings return), the company can stay in business, paying both owner and employees the highest wages and not rely on growing their sales into the global market. That's a lot more money left in the community than if half of it left.
By the way, this is why the corner dive restaurant has remained in business for 60 years but the new one across the street can't survive more than 5.
Thanks. I understand what you mean and I have seen that
put into practice. But, the results were usually the opposite of what you conclude. By cutting the debt upfront, the owners get more profit, not the workers who are usually paid less than if they worked for a large outfit.
What you propose should work. But, I've never seen it. Greed still gets the upper hand. (And there are fewer workers in those cases, who do the work of 2 or more in the larger places. So not much job creation there.) Either I'm missing something, or you are right in theory but, not in practice.
BTW, in my neighborhood, the corner dive has gone out of business and the new ones are doing as well as the food they serve and the atmosphere in which they serve it. I couldn't say the same about the hired help, though.
Thank you for your thoughtful explanation. I do appreciate that and voted you up to cancel out the negative vote. (Apparently, someone else doesn't see it happening that way, either.)
―Emmet Fox
Oh, you're correct under 'today's system'
I'm referring to a new system. The secret part is that it's really no different other than in one small way.
To get the worker power and wages you rightfully suggest won't happen on their own, you only use your powers for good not evil. What I mean by that is that you don't crowd-fund, donate or otherwise help start a local business unless the new owner is on-board with these principles. Whomever is doing the organization of the fundraising (that's supplanting today's investment phase) needs to put the word out on what conditions this free help comes with. In my experience, entrepreneurs are much more worker friendly before getting corrupted by debt. They will easily agree to extra wages if it means they don't have to operate their business forever on a constant growth path.
I've done a similar business plan for a couple business startups so far. Here's one for a small company that molds plastic parts for making modular, air-tight greenhouses.
Case a) Borrow $9M, frantically build a global factory, buy into a global sales and marketing plan, employ 4 of the investor's buddies as board members at $200k/yr, pay high department costs for 9 months before first sale, and adhere to the endless investor restrictions. Then pay 93% of net profit to 'the system' and profit around $254k/year after a one-time, half-mil upfront bonus. He took case b) instead.
Case b) Borrow $45k from a friend's IRA, buy extra molds, some software, hire 1 helper, spread the word and make 1 sale, produce a video of that first build, hit garden shops to sell 3 more, buy more equipment, sell another 2, hire a marketer that can help manufacture, get contract for 1/month, borrow another $80k from IRA-guy's friends based on contract, keep trudging for 8 month and then self-built a metal building... and so on. After 2 years, he's ramped employees to 17, (many ex-cons - his desire), and now earns about $400k, I think. He's paid off the $125k and the 40% tax penalty times 3.2 in that time and has no debt at all. His employees all have greenhouses and get 'royalties' for sales and contracts. Best of all, his prices are below the competition, not above it. I think it works very well.
I like it!
Unfortunately, most people I know in business (not all but, definitely most) aren't so nice and generous. We have a lot of minds and hearts to change before that could ever happen on a scale that would actually make a difference. (sigh)
―Emmet Fox
Just offer them a choice
Tell them you can get them very low, no strings start-up cash if they follow the right principles. Even get them to agree in writing if you don't trust them. Just don't offer this to unsound businesses like mortgage brokers! LOL Otherwise, they can go visit the sharks.
I'd bet they'll come see you within a couple weeks.
Then when your investment crowd gets their double-the-stock-market-return, they will be more open to doing it again. Then you find you have a growing snowball on a mountain.
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Wrong. It's DEBT which is hollowing out the middle class.
I get so tired of these dolts who always try to blame industrialization and innovation.
Undo what Wilson did
agreed. but a losing battle
agreed. but a losing battle here on DP.
Peter Schiff has some good quips about this topic... most of DP would stand to learn some of the fundamentals of austrian economics.
Re Jobs & Technology - So, you consider me a "dolt."
I don't, but of course I'm biased. Anyway, I think you're failing to look at the big picture. No one claimed that technology was the only variable in the equation, but it IS one variable - and a significant variable at that. Technology replaces PEOPLE - not only diminishing the number of needed jobs, but the nature and quality of those jobs.
Most affected are those who once "worked with their hands." With so much now mass-produced by machines, besides the point of our having lost genuine "craftsmen," there are simply less jobs available for those people. It's foolish to think that the answer is better education in the "STEM" subjects of science, technology, engineering, and math. Some people (millions) aren't academically-oriented. That's not to say they don't have gifts and talents - just not those that today's world has much use for. (That would exist EVEN IF the jobs that remained had stayed in the U.S. Outsourcing only exacerbates the problem.)
But it's more than just an issue of "labor jobs." For instance, small bookstores (once found on Main Streets across America) were owned and operated by people who were not only entrepreneurial but literate as well, with knowledge and an appreciation for... books! Classic literature, modern literature, non-fiction titles, children's books, books for special interests, etc., etc. Those were replaced by less personal bookstore chains and mass-merchandising chains, and now the altogether anonymous Amazon. These small bookstores across America that fulfilled a need within a community also supported families who lived within those communities - a "win-win" situation.
Now, with so much information available "for free," there is less of a demand for books altogether. (Who even looks at a cookbook anymore? People google for recipes.) Now those who still buy books are inclined to order on line. There are LESS jobs (in the publishing industry as a whole, not just bookstore jobs); and the jobs still needed are no longer within a community but low-paying jobs working in gargantuan regional warehouses. Also gone are those local people who were once experts in their fields.
You could make the same analogy for video stores, record stores, hardware stores, clothing stores, drug stores, any number of jobs erstwhile provided by small businesses. Today, there are even less farm jobs. That, too, is largely due to technology, though not entirely. At my local market, the only available garlic - an easy-to-grow staple - comes from China.
The benefit: we have cheaper goods (of less quality). But while there are savings on one end, taxes go towards funding government benefits for those who can no longer find work. Well, actually, federal taxes only go towards paying the interest on the national debt. We have borrow MORE MONEY to fund welfare benefits.
There are some cultures where community leaders make more conscious choices as regards the adoption of technology or other changes affecting a community: they consider the positive and negative consequences - both tangible and intangible. Why, traditional native Americans consider consequences to "the seventh generation." We're not only a materialistic society, but more shortsighted. In my experience in business, people look all the way down the road to the next quarter's profit & loss statement.
But that's neither here nor there. The bottom line is: technology replaces people. And one way or another, at a minimum, people have to eat, be clothed, and be sheltered. The article was fittingly titled: "Technology, Both Miracle and Burden"
~ John Muir
"The bottom line is:
"The bottom line is: technology replaces people. "
This is unequivocally a good thing. A job is not an end in itself, it is a means to some other ends. (with very rate exceptions, such as people who love their work, not only in that it's tolerable, but that they would do it even if they recieved no pay).
The purpose of human action is to remove displeasure (or seek pleasure). This is what action is. If there are machines that are providing the same goods to society with lesser inputs of human labor, this is a GOOD thing.
As a thought experiment, let's say an alien race came in contact with earth and took a liking to us and started teleporting all sorts of goods to us... houses, cars, food, ipods, etc... all free of charge. Would this be a terrible thing becasue it "took all our jerbs!!!!"? Or would it be a blessing in that we can now obtain the same level of need-satisfaction as previously with much less effort? If you think it's the former, exclude me from your community and your community-leader's watchful eye, please.
Re job/technology, your analogy is not valid.
First of all, I don't agree with your analysis of human action. Removing or seeking pleasure is certainly the motivation of most, as most people are externally motivated (by money, power, competition, avoidance of punishment, etc.) - as opposed to being internally-motivated, i.e., motivated by principle (regardless of reward or punishment). But I'll accept it for the purpose of argument, lest you come back with, "Ah, but then 'being principled' is what gives principled people pleasure!" Yes and no. Anyway, to your point...
Your alien example only makes the case that jobs are not inherently good or bad but generally a means to end, which is more or less a truism. No argument there. But your hypothetical scenario conveniently fails to identify who you mean by "us." I'd have no problem with aliens wanting to GIFT us with food, clothing, and shelter free of charge, SO LONG AS either 1) EVERYONE received the food, clothing, and shelter OR, 2) for those who didn't, there remained a MEANS for them to secure their needs through WORK.
It works nicely when, within a community, each person is able to make a contribution such that enables all to prosper, not necessarily equally, but in terms of at least providing for basic needs. If new technology makes it easier or cheaper for some families to live, at the same time as depriving others of any means to feed themselves, well, then let's just be HONEST about the trade-offs and real cost of our having our conveniences or toys.
If we made decisions more consciously, thinking about the consequences of our actions, maybe we'd make some different decisions. And if we contemplated the effect of our actions and foresaw negative consequences and we proceeded regardless, well, I guess whether we'd be able to sleep at night would depend on who we were, the respective set of principles by which we live. (I won't bring spirituality into the discussion but leave it at that.)
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Urban Guerilla Gardening on an Entire City Block in South LA
John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ shares with you an entire city block in South Los Angeles that is now growing food. In this episode John shares with you the results of a guerrilla gardening project that was installed in South LA in August 2013 by over 100 guerrilla gardeners. You will discover how this project looks about 1/2 year later and if residents of the area are continuing to use the raised beds to grow food.
Do you think its a good idea to install raised bed gardens for people so they can grow their own food if they choose? Do you feel most people value fresh food from the garden?
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Some years ago the MO Well Fed Neighbor Alliance
would come to your house, if you had a yard or some space you weren't using and they would plant it, tend it, raise food and give you a share of it. The rest was distributed around in this cooperative network.
What made them kinda special is they had evaluated all of the land in the community and they would evaluate your land to determine what crops would do best there. Therefore they had efficient production of each type of crop and with the share/swapping, everybody involved would get a wide variation of produce.
I was prepared to showcase them in our community and get more folks involved but....
....but somebody told them we are the evil conservatives. This was a leftist thing. So that door closed with a bang. Even hit me on the ass on the way out. See, apparently some conservo-clown had victimized them and called them "stupid socialist libtards" which utterly alienated them to libertarians.
Another example of neoclown hate destroying a perfect relationship.
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Thank you for sharing
I really enjoyed this episode, and this guy's enthusiasm for growing. We do have favorable growing conditions in SoCal that make it so we can grow year round.
We are only in our second season of growing, and learning pretty much never stops. We have had some great/abundant/delicious harvests in the side-yard but also a few tragedies. There's always more that can be done!
Let the farmers handle it.
I think many people believe that food production has become something they are unsatisfied with. Some believe too many pesticides are used, others that the food comes from too far away, GMOs, etc. But to receive the type and quality of food that you desire doesn't require you to dedicate yourself to producing your own food.
Farmers can handle all of your demands, but the government has to get out of the way. If you demand it, we can supply it. But unfortunately with government interference, it is difficult to know exactly what people want. Because we determine demand by price, government interference affect price in more ways most can imagine.
Take corn in the USA as an example. 2011 we had 84 million acres, with 50% being dedicated to ethanol use. That is 42 million acres of wasted land. Put that into other more useful crops and the price of food will plummet.
Hey Brigger, this is off topic
But I tried to get ahold of you with a private message a while back. Can you try sending me one? Or should I try another one? I'm down in Chile at the moment and will probably be in your area soon, so I wanted to touch base.
John has a great youtube gardening channel
He shares tons of tips on "raw eating," "growing and eating greens," and John is also an avid "juicer," and he does tons of "juicer reviews" and even has a site where he sells or helps sell juicers. He is a fantastic guy. Gotta check out his channel.
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I like the idea of community gardens!
Have you seen The Incredible Edible Town?
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Get how to aquaponics info and training from our site. Learn sustainability to support yourself and while feeding hungry kids around the world.This year we got another surprise at the Aquaponics and Earth Sustainable Living Farm. Due to heavy traveling schedules, we put our crops in one month late but according to local gardeners our crops are at least a month and half early.
What happened? -- We developed what we call, "super fish mulch." Everything we put into the mulch grew like crazy! We have been eating tomatoes for over two months and most of the plants produced fruit within a couple weeks of planting, another breakthrough using fish waste at the A.E.S.L. micro farm!
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Just started doing this behind
the motorcycle shop. 2 months in and the system is settling down and everything is looking very good. Created a 2x5x1 grow bed and a 50 gal aquarium. Have 7 bream in the aquarium and have been eating lettuce at about 2 head per week. Tomato plants are looking good and cucumbers are just starting to produce. Have the first butternut squash as of this morning. Watermelon not doing so well but the first couple of months was very difficult getting everything at the right levels.
As an experiment this is quite fun. Still does not satisfy the way my greenhouse and large garden does although I may try it on a slightly larger scale at my home.
great idea...
Will be killed by corporate dollars though.
If the people don't depend on the corporations for survival then the whole game falls apart... and we can't have independent & self-sufficient people running around like they're not slaves. It sends the wrong message.
At their inceptions, the #Liberty, #OccupyWallStreet and #TeaParty movements all had the same basic goal... What happened?
Will not be killed by corporate dollars.
We out number them.
Sometimes I wonder who you consider to be "we" and "them"
I would be concerned about pollution
from the street, the passing vehicles, dogs, trash, and strangers like John touching my kale.
I use this:
Environne Fruit & Vegetable Wash
Purified water, natural cleansing agents (derived from plant oils(berries and coconuts)), polysorbate-20 (derived from sorbitol/berries and plums), grapefruit seed extract, lemon and orange extract.
Freedom is not: doing everything you want to.
~ Joyce Meyer
This is an awesome idea.
This is an awesome idea. Gardens are most likely the single most important aspect of being free, even above firearm ownership. If you can make your own food it becomes much harder for the government to control you or make you desperate enough to be on their assistance.
That was interesting
seems like the project should have been a volunteer project people do themselves rather than the government being involved. Those who wanted the boxes would be more likely to have cared for the boxes, those not interested wouldn't have the boxes gathering trash.
Hope they can figure out how to make it work because it is a good idea.
I think it's a great idea. Thanks for the post.
I think it would be great in any area (urban or suburban), not just a city's downtown area - although there, too!
It was unclear who owned and was responsible to maintain the area between the sidewalk and road. Anyway, I don't think you should have to have a raised bed on your property if you didn't want it. But if you did, maybe it could work something like Habitat for Humanity.
From a group of volunteer gardeners & carpenters (or anyone handy enough), small teams could be matched up with people wanting a raised bed in their yard. Maybe the people would even have the means (and could donate money) but just not know where to begin. Or maybe they would only be able to contribute their time and labor. At the least, they'd end up with one garden bed (maybe 2 x 4 like in the video) planted with seeds or small plants and given instructions for care; at the most, they'd have learned how to make a garden bed and would add beds (or simply plant more on their own) and maybe become part of the volunteer team helping others.
~ John Muir
There You Have It
Responsibility for the parkways belong to the homeowner (and many nearby are owned by landlords), but the city won't let you do anything to block access from a parked car to the sidewalk, and they won't let you put in trees or remove "their" trees, if any. They hassle property owners to the point where many give up the idea of trying to maintain the parkway as part of their landscaping.
Personal responsibility coupled with zero rights is a recipe for failure. The best-looking parkways usually belong to homeowners who haven't found out, yet, that they are violating the law or who have chosen to ignore it.
Incidentally, many of the streets of Los Angeles are lined with carob trees ("Jacob's Bread"), because activists in the war on poverty thought growing them would help supplement residents' diets. They drop pods on the sidewalk that can become a hazard to walkers, bikers, and skateboarders, and have roots that can crack the pavement. But you can't cut them down!
One of the WORST government-run errors is that they plant tall trees under power lines, which on some streets run above the parkways, and then butcher them when the trees get too tall.
What do you think? http://consequeries.com/
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0.055954 | <urn:uuid:7c2e2c08-5535-45b4-8811-63cdae932f89> | en | 0.971717 | ARAB countries that ousted their rulers are embarking on the important post-revolutionary task of rewriting history. Education ministries in Egypt, Libya and Tunisia are purging school textbooks of the praise they once heaped on former dictators. Teachers are making ad hoc changes in their classrooms too. But what to teach is contentious.
Last year, when the Muslim Brothers were in power, Egypt altered school history curricula to downplay exaggerated achievements of former president Hosni Mubarak. They also relieved Suzanne Mubarak, his wife, of her former position as one of the “greatest female figures in the history of Egypt”. It was more controversial when school teachers affiliated with the Brotherhood opted to teach their own unofficial curriculum, exaggerating the movement's role in the 2011 uprising.
In July when President Muhammed Morsi was ousted, calls rose to remove him from history tomes. The education minister refused, but decided that Hassan al-Banna, the Brotherhood’s founder, should not be featured.
There have been disputes over lesser known figures too. In September, a photograph of an Arab spring icon in a second grade Egyptian Arabic language book sparked fierce debate. Khaled Said, who was beaten to death in 2011 after being taken into police custody, is considered a trigger for the revolution. But some police and some parents objected, claiming he was a junkie and a poor role model for children.
Post-revolutionary Libya in 2011 took a sledgehammer to its old history curriculum, a bizarre mix of leader-worship, xenophobia and feverish Arab nationalism. Libyan children now pore over every battle in their civil war and the gory details of the death of Colonel Muammar Qaddafi, their former ruler.
Historians have written reams on events since the Arab revolutions. Tunisian academics are studying the rebellious tendencies of revolutionary hotspots such as Kasserine, a town locals say produced more martyrs than any other in 2011. Comparisons with the West are also popular: Tunisians regularly compare their uprising to the French revolution, says Kmar Bendana, a historian.
But history remains a thorny and highly politicised subject. In Libya, locals continue to battle over facts. The eastern cities of Baida and Benghazi are locked in a dispute over which of them sparked the revolution. Both Misrata militia and some Benghazi fighters claim to have shot Qaddafi in October 2011. So history is a risky business for those charged with recording it. Faraj Najem, a Libyan historian, was criticised for his recent effort to expand the definition of martyrs to include those who were killed by NATO while fighting for Qaddafi. He says his endeavour may be premature “I'm writing on shifting sands,” he sighs. | http://www.economist.com/blogs/pomegranate/2013/11/rewriting-history-after-revolutions | dclm-gs1-238570000 |
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Titanfall Review (for PC)March 19, 2014 by
titanfallwallpaper There's no denying the hype that was behind Titanfall ever since it was first shown at E3 2013 as the new debut game to come from the talent behind the first two Call of Duty: Modern Warfare games, the talent that wound up leaving Infinity Ward to create Respawn Entertainment. To many, this game has been thought of as the system seller for the Xbox One, that it would be that good. But is it?
I don't know, this is a PC review.
This game represents a scale of sorts as to what one could consider quality content in a video game. Hype has the gameplay covered, and the hype is correct there. The twitchy gameplay along with the (somewhat) smoothly-operated parkour makes for a great experience, one that only gets even better as the high of owning terrible AI and the occasional pilot gets even higher once you acquire enough points to commence Titanfall. Moments like this are where Titanfall really stands out as a game that is both engaging and rewarding for the player. The only problem I have with the gameplay is that I occasionally get caught on things like doors or windows that I'm just trying to get through, and not wall-jump off of.
Unfortunately, this triple-A title was being sold on more than just it's gameplay. It was also supposed to give context to the matches through a "multiplayer campaign", and that's where things start to unravel. Other than the occasional extended opening sequence to introduce a level, the majority of the 'campaign' is done through audio alone. With how heavily marketed this game must have been, and with the money Microsoft must have been throwing at Respawn to keep the game "Xbox One Exclusive", there's no excuse for this offensively low-quality gimmick. If you're going to expect me to pay for a game you market as having a campaign, I don't necessarily require cutscenes, but having relevant pictures to look at if I wanted to rather than the lobby list would've been enough. The long and short of it all is that the campaign basically was just a radio play that happened in between matches.
Titanfall also, surprisingly, is currently lacking a lot of features that would seem fairly basic to a multiplayer shooter of this caliber. Things such as private lobbies or matches are noticeably absent alongside a bevy of possible customization options that it sounds like fans are asking for, such as customizing the Titan's colors or having some sort of clan tag that can be shown. I also think having some sort of customization for guns would be a fun thing to do, even if it doesn't necessarily translate to tweaks that can alter the performance of the gun. Simple aesthetic things as that could really bring in the player even more, which is why it's surprising that Respawn would decide to launch the game without these types of features, especially considering how the campaign wound up.
I've also heard sporadic reports of questionable spawning, of which I occasionally agreed, though I'm guessing that this was more people just raging than a serious, game-breaking flaw. If anything, the spawn system probably needs a slight tweak. However, this complaint is actually relevant when considering another side of Titanfall, which is that there is nothing (as of this writing) in the way of a balancing mechanic for matches beyond the players themselves. So if you think that after taking a hard beating in a match that the game will auto-adjust to keep the teams fair, don't get your hopes up. You're going to have to leave that lobby and hope for a better, more balanced one.
TF Grunt Concept
Grunts AKA Plebs
TF Spectre Concept
Spectres AKA Robot Plebs
Let's also talk about some finer details of what you can expect to find with Titanfall. Burn Cards are earned as you complete challenges through matchmaking, and act similarly to perks from Call of Duty. What makes them different is that you can choose a three-count set in between matches, and they are one-use only, but you will quickly fill up your deck regardless based on completed challenges. The matches themselves are 6v6, but are also populated by AI in the form of "Grunts" and "Spectres". Grunts are the typical pleb soldiers that they send with you that aren't nearly qualified enough to pilot a Titan, and Spectres are robots that are more adept at fighting Titans, and don't spawn until one is dropped (typically). Throughout each match you can come across small little scenes like a Grunt going wild on a Spectre's head, smashing it over and over. Touches like this are absolutely amazing to me, and I am hoping that more developers learn from this sort of thing (however, more variety in how these scenes end up would be nice too).
From left- Atlas, Ogre, Stryder
There are three different Titan classes: Atlas, Ogre, and Stryder. The Ogre class is slow and has only one boost that eventually regenerates, but has stronger shields than the other two. The Atlas is the typical balanced Titan that has two boosts that regenerate, but slightly worse shields than the Ogre. Finally, the Stryder is a quick Titan that has three boosts, but the weakest shields of the three by far. Each Titan also has a "core upgrade" that can be acquired for earning enough points whilst actually in the Titan (though you may still accumulate time off for activation of the upgrade if it's in auto-titan mode). The Ogre boasts a super-charged shield (making the Ogre temporarily invulnerable to all but pilot rodeos), the Atlas a damage upgrade (increasing damage), and the Stryder gets a boost upgrade (allowing it to have unlimited boosts for a short span of time).
Perhaps the second-largest strength of Titanfall is the variety in maps. While you'll see them all at least twice to unlock the Ogre and Stryder Titans for use in classic multiplayer, they are very obviously crafted with a lot of care for the most fun part of the game, the parkour. One of the consistent highlights of the game that happens about every three matches or so is the inevitable jump-kick parkour battle you can get into with enemy pilots. Moments like these are right up there with calling down a Titan while being hilariously fun, even if you do end up being on the wrong end of a kick to the... face.
The final point I want to talk about is the guns. They're fairly generic. You have slightly lesser versions of the SMG and sniper rifle along with their stronger counter-parts, a shotgun, an LMG, a carbine, and a smart pistol. The only thing among these worth discussing at any length is the smart pistol. The more I play, the more I arrive at the conclusion that the smart pistol is over-powered. It's as simple as that, and it's so over-powered that I decided to just forget it (for the most part) and use the stronger SMG for the majority of my matches once I had it unlocked. The long and short of it is that you don't have to aim, or at least, not necessarily directly at the target you need, you just need to have the desired target in a specific area until the targeting system turns red, indicating the shots will be lethal. I think it would be wise on Respawn's part to consider having some sort of alert system to at least make the pilot aware that he or she is being locked on to, whether that be by some sort of passive tactical ability or even a burn card, it's something that needs to be considered. (Note: I know the shotgun is fairly OP as well, but that's the nature of shotguns at close range anyway. They're lethal.) As previously mentioned, the customization could be expanded a bit as well, though I don't think that the game necessarily LACKS anything because it's not there, it would have ultimately been added value for that $60 price.
Now, this review probably make it seem like I hate the game, which I honestly don't. In fact, I'm probably going to play for a couple hours after I finish writing this review. I would say that instead of hating the game, what you just read is my most critical view of the game as it stands because, after 8 days, the rose-tinted glasses have been taken off. It's easy to fall in love with Titanfall, and leveling up is incredibly addicting, as it was back with Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. With the promise of expansions on the way, it's easy to feel that small bit of leftover hype still with me, as I have enjoyed the heck out of this game so far despite the shortcomings relative to Titanfall's direct competition, and can't wait to see what more the team at Respawn has in store for the franchise. A fun shooter featuring parkour and mechs, it's nothing if not addicting. However, because of the aforementioned shortcomings, I can't recommend this game for full price. Thanks for reading, and keep on keepin' on.
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Cal's Top 10 Games of 2013January 4, 2014 by
The Last of Us
(Naughty Dog/ Sony Computer Entertainment/ June 14th)
The Swapper
Tomb Raider
(Crystal Dynamics/ Square Enix/ March 5th)
Gone Home
(The Fullbright Company/ The Fullbright Company/ August 15th)
Grand Theft Auto V
(Rockstar North/ Rockstar Games/ September 17th)
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Pokemon X/Y
The Wolf Among Us S1E1/ The Walking Dead S2E1
Fire Emblem: Awakening
(Intelligent Systems/ Nintendo/ February 4th)
Papers, Please
(Lucas Pope/ Lucas Pope/ August 8th)
#1- Bioshock Infinite
(Irrational Games/ 2K Games/ March 25th)
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Blabbering About: Modularity vs. Malleability (Gamescom 2013)August 23, 2013 by
So there have been some things said recently, some more jabs at Microsoft from Sony regarding their messaging. While Andrew House essentially said that Sony's message has been consistently for gamers and that Microsoft changes often to fit consumer demands (perhaps a bit more eloquently, without specifically saying "Microsoft"), Microsoft's Phil Spencer then went on to essentially say that it's a good thing that Microsoft has been listening to gamer concerns, and adapted. When I think of these two perspectives, it reminds me of the time I've spent upgrading my computer.
When I first started upgrading my computer, I had only an extremely vague idea of what modularity was, and that was only that PC gamers loved it. So after doing some light research (dictionary.com, set-up tutorials, etc.), I quickly grasped that they were talking about the ability to only have the wires you need associated with, say, the power supply, connected, leaving more room for other cool stuff (not that I have the money for it, but still). When I think of Sony's strategy in selling the Playstation brand (not necessarily just Playstation 4), this is what I think of. You don't want a move controller? Don't get it. You don't want a Playstation Eye? Don't worry about it. You don't want a Playstation Vita? Don't spend your money on it. All the accessories are removable from the experience, and yet the experience remains solid. However, I am of the mind that Microsoft makes a strong point when they mention that dialogue between the coporation and the consumer is a healthy one, even if it gets a bit heated. With this in mind, I think that the dialogue between Sony and it's customers is slightly behind the times, a sort of "Take it or don't. I don't care what you do." attitude is present. Now, I'm not saying that they never listen to their customers. Absolutely not. Especially with this new report that there are apparently 180 games in development for the PS4, a stark contrast to the old adage they suffered with in the early years of the PS3, that "PS3 has no games" feeling customers had, the Playstation has shown that they are able to listen to their customers.
Now, Microsoft's strategy is incredibly fascinating to keep track of, because they seem to really think that despite all their other policy changes since the announcement, they're really sticking to their guns with the Kinect, and keeping that as a part of the Xbox One package-deal. Now, when I was deciding what power supply to get for my computer, I didn't always consider modularity as the most vital part of why I would buy the part. With that in mind, I looked instead to the possible advantages of what some other non-modular PSUs had to offer, and at what price. Thinking that if I decide to upgrade the rest of my computer, perhaps add another graphics card or an audio card (something I still probably need to get on), some of the options that weren't modular had plenty of wires available that I wouldn't be using, and for a cheaper price than the modular equivalent. When looking at what Microsoft is trying to do with the Xbox One regarding it's cloud processing and possible integration of the Kinect to detect one's pulse and facial expression while playing a game, it feels like it's extra stuff that I don't necessarily need now, but could end up being worth it later on down the line.
All in all, they're both guilty (to an extent) of at least pushing semi-unnecessary changes for both systems. I don't really fault Microsoft for deciding to make that one last stand in the face of customer demand, with Kinect, especially when they were faulted for not sticking to their guns in the first place (though that may not have been completely earnest complaints, i.e. trolling). However, there's also that whole thing about the price being worth it. Those non-modular units were cheaper than their counterparts (at least, the ones I was looking at were), and that $100 difference will end up costing them some sales (as can be seen by the PS4 preorders). As for me, I just had to start paying back my college expenses. I don't have a lot of money just laying about (yet). When I do, maybe then I'll entertain the idea of either the PS4 or Xbox One, but until I feel financially secure, I'll stick with what I have right now, a PC and an Xbox 360.
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Much of the world has been moved by vivid pictures of the tragedy in Haiti. Web sites, television programs and newspapers have featured frightening images of death and destruction. But when is a disaster image necessary to illustrate the severity of a situation, and when does it cross the line into sensationalism? To explain the sometimes fine line, guest host Lynn Neary talks NPR Senior Supervising Producer for multimedia Keith Jenkins, a former photography editor at the Washington Post, and Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Deanne Fitzmaurice.
As we mentioned, many Americans have been moved by the vivid pictures of the tragedy in Haiti. Web sites, television programs and newspapers have featured frightening images of death and destruction. And that made us wonder, when is a disaster image necessary to illustrate the severity of the situation, and when does it cross the line into sensationalism?
Joining us to discuss how news organizations decide what images to publish is Keith Jenkins. He's NPR's own multimedia senior supervising producer. He's also a former photography editor at the Washington Post.
We're also joined by Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Deanne Fitzmaurice. Welcome to both of you.
Ms.�DEANNE FITZMAURICE (Photographer): Thank you.
NEARY: And Keith, let me start with you. When dealing with images as horrific as the ones coming out of Haiti have been, how do you decide what goes on our Web site and what doesn't?
JENKINS: Well, I think you always try to reflect the reality of the situation. As journalists, that's what our role is, but you can't do that in a vacuum. You really have to take into account some other factors that hopefully will influence your decision.
You know, what is it that you're trying to do as a journalist in a particular situation? Are you trying to reflect accurately what's going on on the ground, or are you trying to kind of narrow focus on a particular set of issues?
In this case, I think the first set of horrific images that came out, showing lots of bodies in various stages, really focused the attention on just how tragic the situation was, but at the same time, you know, we found ourselves wanting to make sure that we were as accurate as possible about what we were showing and what people were looking at.
NEARY: You know, Deanne, it seems that increasingly, photos from disasters have become more graphic, but the images from Haiti seem even worse. Has something changed in terms of what the media will show and what the public will tolerate, do you think?
Ms.�FITZMAURICE: There's something about this story that seems different than other stories. It's like Katrina, in terms of what we're seeing, but on a much huger scale. And you know, I don't know why. I think some of it is, as an international story, its proximity to the U.S., that it's, you know, in the Western Hemisphere, journalists are there. It was easy to get there. People got there fast, and the images are just, you know, gut-wrenching that are coming out of there.
NEARY: What do you think, Keith? Has something changed? I mean, are we tolerating worse images from disasters, or does the public need that in order to respond? What's happening here?
JENKINS: Well, I think a couple of things. I think Deanne is right in that the proximity to the U.S., and more importantly, the proximity to the U.S. media machine has made this an easier disaster to cover in a lot of ways, but I also think about what's changed in the media landscape in the last five years.
There's been a tremendous move towards all forms of instantaneous coverage of almost everything with no filters. So again, out of Haiti, some of the first images coming out were coming out on people's cell phones. So that the media is almost playing catch-up from day one, and the rules have changed to the extent that regular citizens are just recording what's around them. And I think, in some ways, the media is starting to adopt some of that. And I think the challenge is, how do we kind of maintain our ability to filter smartly, to really kind of move the conversation, move the coverage in ways that really reflect it rather than are kind of just knee-jerk responses to what's in front of us.
NEARY: Deanne, you've worked in war zones a lot. You won your Pulitzer Prize for work documenting a procedure undergone in the U.S. - of an Iraqi boy who had been maimed in a blast, and some of those images were very tough to look at. Do you is there a different standard for war images, though, than there is for disaster images in terms of what is ultimately published?
Ms.�FITZMAURICE: You know, I think there are there are different ways to photograph. You can show what's going on, or you can show how people feel. I think there is a way to photograph in a sensitive manner, you know, to reflect the person's feeling rather than seeing everything.
Some of the images in my story about Saleh, you know, he came to America for medical treatment with severely injured. And the first image in my series, I don't even really show his disfigurement. He had lost one eye, along with losing half of his right arm, fingers on his left hand, and his stomach was blown open, but in this one image, I framed it so that you wouldn't even see his disfigurement. It was just his good eye, and I was just trying to show the spirit of this little boy, and I think that's what saved him.
NEARY: But are there political decisions that are made in terms of deciding war images that are published versus disaster images, Keith? Go ahead, Deanne.
Ms.�FITZMAURICE: You know, I think yeah, I think from a photographer's point of view, you just need to get these images. You shoot them all, and that way you can have a discussion point. You know, I think you when you're out there shooting, you can't be editing yourself. Get the images, and I think it's the responsibility of each editor at each publication to determine what are the right images for the readership.
NEARY: So the photographer Keith, you're the editor. The photographer comes back to you with the images, and then together you decide which ones you think should be shown?
JENKINS: Sometimes together, but often in these situations, photographers are moving constantly. So they get to a point, send you images, and then they're off, and so you really have to, you know: A, hopefully have enough information about the images to make a smart decisions; but B, do that without, sometimes, the directive of the photographer.
And that's where it's important for editors to talk. I think, you know, Deanne raises a really good point, and I think one of the things that we are striving to do with this coverage is, in spite of the horrific set of images that are coming out, to maintain a level of humanity and a level of personal, I guess, connectedness to the people who are suffering right now in Haiti.
And I think that the way you do that in this type of environment is, as editors, to talk constantly, to ask yourselves the questions, you know, about relevancy, about the position of you versus the subject and to really kind of constantly adjust and make sure that you're constantly thinking about this stuff.
NEARY: And finally, Deanne, one last question, briefly. Do you worry that the public is becoming desensitized when they see these kinds of images so frequently now, it seems?
Ms.�FITZMAURICE: I don't think so. I think well, I first of all think that it's necessary, that people need to see these images to know what's going on there.
I feel like this story is different. I feel like people are looking at these images, and they're affected by them, and we can tell by the amount of donations that are coming in.
NEARY: Okay, thanks so much for joining us. Keith Jenkins is NPR's multimedia senior supervising producer, and he was kind enough to join us here in our Washington, D.C., studio. We were also joined by Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Deanne Fitzmaurice, who joined us by phone from her home in San Francisco. Thanks to both of you for joining me.
JENKINS: Thank you.
Ms.�FITZMAURICE: Thank you.
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Re^5: a 3D flower made with Perl
by pemungkah (Priest)
on Jan 26, 2012 at 21:58 UTC ( #950225=note: print w/ replies, xml ) Need Help??
in reply to Re^4: a 3D flower made with Perl
in thread a 3D flower made with Perl, for anonymous girl
You put your finger right on it - the "mental model of femininity".
It's about being aware that one has such models. Everyone does - it's part of the way humans build models to abstract and generalize; this is why it's possible to get up, get breakfast, and head to work while thinking hard about a problem: we can default a lot of actions to automatic responses and get along pretty well. It's only if something isn't as we assume (shower breaks, no eggs in the fridge, someone slams on the brakes in front of you) that we get in trouble.
Assuming that someone likes flowers is really not that a big deal. But assuming that they're not good at math, or that they represent every person that fits into a given group, or that they're comfortable with the same behavior or language, or any number of other things is a very big one. Not taking into account that you have a model, and that if you don't think about it, it will get used, will result in it being used to make a lot of default assumptions, some benign, some not.
As the public representatives of Perlmonks, we need to try to present the best face we can - because people who see us are humans too, and just as likely to form opinions about groups as anyone else. If we thoughtlessly use language that says "I'm not thinking about this group as a whole lot of different individuals who happen to share a common, easily-identifiable characteristic, but as all the same", then people observing us start building mental models that say, "the Perlmonks folks don't care about/don't like people who are X" (female, who don't speak English well).
If on the other hand we try our best to not do so, we help people build models that say, "Perlmonks are pretty nice people who care about understanding individual people".
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Re^6: a 3D flower made with Perl
by chacham (Priest) on Jan 26, 2012 at 23:15 UTC
Good points.
I would like to reiterate that Jung explains at great length, the Anima and Animus, and how it is part of our psychic development as living beings. When we sey "feminine", we mean Anima, and so too with masculine and Animus. Hence, the assumed masculinity and femininity are not like any other group assumption, they are part and parcel of the human race.
Hence, in this case, i see no problem with the assumption. Though i would likely be agitated about any other grouping.
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Not all, only the impaired and unprepared :)
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Rookie - 41 Points (May 25th,1995)
One Star I Called Mine
Fallen once again
for an angel, just not an angel of mine
no not this time
Just from the angle of the one star I called mine
How can it be this hard
Should it be against moral laws
to hold onto something only magic created
embraces of a once fond memory of holding your head high in confidence
thinking you can touch the sky
then view yourself across the plain
of that one day where you stood last
thanking the heavens for the gift they bestowed upon you
that they've taken back months later without explanation
Time has never been a favorite of mine
A life I thought I could turn around
but this different type of pain weighs me down
Going home, what's the point
What took 8 years to build, crashed and burned away
Can't you see in my eyes the sparkle that once shined
dead and gone with the stone that skipped across the flowing river
which now stands still
Is this a poem for me
I can't say it's so but I wish I was right
Only a poem for memories of days gone by
Only a few words that remind me I can't drown in gold
A poem for me, there could never be one
only a high priced gift I'd have to sell my sanity to obtain
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Edward Snowden
Edward Snowden's Moscow sojourn stirs rumours of debriefing by Russians
Rumours of debriefing by Russians swirl as Kremlin bides its time and Washington fumes
PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 25 June, 2013, 5:44pm
UPDATED : Thursday, 27 June, 2013, 7:45am
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Russian President Vladimir Putin gave the first official acknowledgment of the whereabouts of National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden on Tuesday and promptly rejected US pleas to turn him over.
Snowden, who is charged with violating American espionage laws, fled Hong Kong over the weekend, touching off a global guessing game over where he went and frustrating US efforts to bring him to justice.
Putin said Snowden is in the transit zone of Sheremetyevo airport and has not passed through Russian immigration, meaning he technically is not in Russia and thus is free to travel wherever he wants.
Russian President Vladimir Putin
After arriving on Sunday on a flight from Hong Kong, Snowden registered for a Havana-bound flight on Monday en route to Venezuela and then possible asylum in Ecuador, but he didn’t board the plane.
“Our special services never worked with Mr Snowden and aren’t working with him today,” Putin said at a news conference during a visit to Finland.
Because Moscow has no extradition agreement with Washington, it cannot meet the US request, he said.
“Mr Snowden is a free man, and the sooner he chooses his final destination the better it is for us and for him,” Putin said. “I hope it will not affect the businesslike character of our relations with the US and I hope that our partners will understand that.”
US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Tuesday that the US wants Russia to show respect for the rule of law and comply with common practices when it comes to fugitives from justice.
Video: US Secretary of State John Kerry called for Russia on Tuesday to hand over accused leaker Edward Snowden, saying Washington was not looking for "confrontation".
Putin’s staunch refusal to consider deportation shows his readiness to further challenge Washington at a time when US-Russian relations are already strained over Syria and other issues, including a Russian ban on adoptions by Americans.
“Just showing America that we don’t care about our relations, we are down to basically a cold war pattern: The enemy of your government is our friend,” said Masha Lipman of the Carnegie Moscow Centre.
Despite Putin’s denial, security experts believe Russia’s special services wouldn’t miss the chance to question a man who is believed to hold reams of classified US documents and could shed light on how the US intelligence agencies collect information.
“The security services would be happy to enter into contact with Mr Snowden,” Korotchenko said.
Russia also has relished using Snowden’s revelations to turn the tables on the US over its criticism of Russia’s rights record.
Putin compared Snowden to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has been given asylum in the Ecuadorean embassy in London, saying that both men were labelled criminals but consider themselves rights activists and champions of freedom of information.
Earlier on Tuesday, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov rejected the US push to turn over Snowden, but he wouldn’t specify his whereabouts, saying only that he hadn’t crossed the Russian border.
Kerry called for “calm and reasonableness.”
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Reader John Adams:
You're terribly naïve with this silly statement: "it's true , we (US) admit it, and you knew it all along."
If the US admitted to violating HK law by spying on our citizens, our Justice Department must enforce the law. It has no choice but to subpoena your NSA scumbags. Yes, we have every right to hold Snowden as material witness and deny extradition. While we have just cause to request extradition, will the US comply with terms bound by treaty?
In the end, it will be all about realpolitik, nothing more and nothing less.
russia should tell the us government to go and take a flying fuxk!!!
John Adams
“Ask yourself a question: Should people like that be extradited so that they put them in prison?” said Putin “In any case, I would prefer not to deal with such issues. It’s like shearing a piglet: a lot of squealing and little wool.”
It's good to know that Russians have a healthy sense of humor ! :-)
PS : If ... IF... only the USA had had the good grace to say : "it's true , we admit it, and you knew it all along ( see today's SCMP op-ed by Martin Murhpy) , and Snowden did nothing other but that to confirm what you always suspected. Naughty boy for breaking his word to BAH, but OK we forgive him " ... then we might respect the USA for its over- zealous efforts in the war against terror even though they snoop on our every email and telecon.
But the USA didn't say that , so they lost our respect, sad to say
hard times !
It sounds like this Big Brother is threatening the public of the world and any nations/places that dare to host /accommodate her so-called fugitive,Mr.Edward Joseph Snowden ( a name that some US departments misspelt !) who,if really committed a crime of stealing government properties---the information/files that he revealed to the whole world in Hong Kong that we,all netizens in the world have long been closey monitored/cyber-spied by the National Security Agency of America which intelligence complexes(thousands of government and priviate institutions) employ millions of employees besides the military-industrial complexes such as Boeing and MD and ...Snowden is just a criminal of conscience only-------committing crimes out of conscience and for the well-beings of his countrymen in America and elsewhere plus all netizens in the whole world by telling them that their messsages on the internet and smart phones are not safe enough since there are two large-scale intelligence agencies spying on them ------the NSA in Meade, America and the GCHQ in the U.K. with every electronic means.
Buying a ticket, but not using it, to throw pursuers off! Sounds like a colleague's story of how his father escaped Germany in 1939!
hard times !
Mr.Snowden is wise and smart enough not to board the planned flight to Cuba as there were so many journalists on board the plane.And as his schedule was widely-known,his security was at great risk indeed.As most people know,the CIAs are everywhere ! Now Mr.Snowden is the most wanted man of the Obama administration.It is wise for him to stay at the transit area of Moscow's airport---never stepping on the soil of Russia which has no extradtion treaty with the Big Brother----America and President Putin has no reason to deport him nor detain/arrest him as he has committed no crimes there (just as he was innocent in our beloved Hong Kong and was free to leave with a valid travel document----our Immigration Dept.never received a notification from the US government that his passport had been revoked !).Well done ! President Putin who never gives in to US pressure ! The world is watching you --how you face the challenge of the No.1 military power in the world !
Mr. Snowden has been to China, and **** Cheney said he is suspicious because China is not a country a man should go to if he is interested in rights and liberty. And now Mr. Snowden stops over in Russia. They blame Russia of alleged complicity. Why the US always play a blame-shifting game, while it's themselves who make the mess?
hard times !
it is so-called, 'the thief yelled," Stop ! Thief !" Right ? ha ! ha !
hard times !
it is okay for our leaker-hero as he has spent over a month hiding in Hong Kong at different places here.It is paramount that Russia won't hand him to his archrival---the arrogant Obama administration which is threatening Hong Kong,China,Russia and those countries which are considering offering a political asylum to Mr.Snowden. Shame on Uncle Sam indeed ! If Snowden is forced to finally stay in Russia,it will be the biggest nightmare for the NSA which up to thousands of files are in his hand---and we can expect more secrets to come out soon ! Just wait and see.
The design of built-in battery in all apple product makes it can be monitored by the US government 24 hours a day.
apple product must have been built in with all sorts of remote monitoring software.
USA = cheater
A cheater is going to fall
While a schoolboy at HK SJC, there were many things about religion I was afraid to ask.
One of God’s many attributes is almighty. No doubt, God could build the highest wall that none could leap over. By the same token, God could jump over any barrier. Could God then build a wall so high that He could not jump across?
In a college philosophy course, I finally summoned up enough courage to debunk many dogmas of my belief system, including Catholicism, Confucianism and the foundation of government of the great American Republic.
An intelligent man determines his own destiny with personal choices. Every rational choice involves contravening forces that require conflict resolution – an optimal balance between individual and group survival. Morality is a derivative of culture and incontrovertible Nature. What are Snowden’s?
Absolute speech freedom in Democracy is just as absurd as theological dogmas about God’s attributes. Indeed, theology has no place in epistemology.
Here is a list of myths that could not get pass the observations of an intelligent 16-year old: Democracy doesn’t make wars, it respects human rights and freedoms; only elections produce good governments, and on and on.
In Arrow’s theorem on social choice, no election excluding dictatorship could logically rank preferences given choice of 3 or more candidates.
No matter, Democracy has become cult and religion. The Snowden affair has many facets far beyond what provincial Hong Kongers could comprehend.
Snowden versus Obama:
How the narrative has changed. Obama the man with Hope and Change, a so called community organizer, a so called constitutional scholar, a so called Nobel Peace Prize winner, and now to me he’s Darth Vader. Snowden to me symbolize youthful idealism, fighting against evil empire, a quintessential Luke Skywalker, the Man from La Mancha tilting against windmill. Whether the ending will be Hollywood and happy or reality and sad remains to be seen. I wish him well.
No Scarecrow
As an American (not a U.S. Citizen, learn the difference) I believe Mr. Snowden is a hero of the American people, whether they know it or not. U.S. Citizens, claiming to be Americans, have been dumbed down by their government, watched by their government, lied to, misled, and are being misrepresented in Congress.
I pray for the fall of the U.S. Empire and a return of the American Republic. Too bad we don't have whistle-blowers in the banks to expose the fraud of the Federal Reserve and its war against the American people. Take a look through "Fruits from a Poisonous Tree" by Mel Stamper and learn the truth about the evil bankers and their take-over of the American Republic.
There is a paradigm shift coming and it will start in America, hopefully, but I'll be supportive of any people, in any country that begin to expose the truth that has been shrouded by the lies of U.S. and European bankers and lawyers from the last 100 years.
Thankyou whymak
for keeping me in touch with intersting ideas
I concur, if it's your suggestion
that it's easier to discuss goD than Snowden
Men create goD
No man no goD
Just like the question about a fallen tree
in a prehistoric jungle
whether it made noises or vibrations
Existence is alpha
Fate is omega
Life is a different matter
For a very long time
I've bought Tolstoy's idea
that the purpose of men
is to live for other men
Being a Chinese, from my linguistic perspective
when talking about human beings
I make no distinction between women and men
What about Snowden?
That has to wait while I'm otherwise preoccupied
here at Berkeley
I know right! Those phones with power cords are much better. Batteries are obviously an invention by the Pentagon to assist their plan for world domination.
I also hear that Facebook is actually a ploy to steal your soul. Read the Terms and Conditions, it nothing less than satanic. And did you know that GPS is just another way of making sure we all stay away from secret US military sites?
Now excuse me, I have to go find my tin foil hat.
You must have been a popular boy in kindergarten.
My goodness. Two full days in the transit area of Sheremetyevo. The ordeal.
I give it another day or so before he cracks, surrenders and begs for a transfer to a CIA black site in the Ukraine to be water-boarded.
I am so glad you appreciated the sarcasm of my remark.
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Talking Breeders, Tin Machine, and why he hates 'The Little Mermaid.'
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Bleachers' Jack Antonoff Photos by Jolie Ruben for SPIN
Puja Patel
Jack Antonoff's new band is all about revisiting his past. Raised in the suburbs of Bergenfield, New Jersey, the songwriter and fun. guitarist started his current band Bleachers while he was on tour for fun.'s Some Nights, taking cues from his first band's live shows to write for the second. "I was seeing things on tour, that made me want to go home and try different things," says Antonoff. "The way a hook would make a crowd physically rise and fall. I wanted to lift people up and bring them back down not just emotionally, but sonically." The end result of that impulse was Bleachers' Strange Desire, an album that came mined from the traumas of his teen years - the tragic deaths of a sibling and a cousin, 9/11, an illness and recovery - while drawing on the pop, soul, and rock influences of his childhood. Antonoff's new role as bandleader is working for him: Strange Desire's lead single "I Wanna Get Better," a lonely, self-analytical wallow disguised as a feel-good pop anthem, has emerged as one of the songs of the summer.
We invited the singer over to SPIN last week to play him music by famous side-projects and talk about the new record. Spoiler: He loves the Mountain Goats and hates The Little Mermaid.
1) Traveling Wilburys, "Handle With Care"
SPIN: Do you recognize this song?
JACK ANTONOFF: Green Day, "Warning?" Oh, no… Traveling Wilburys! My first thought is I loved the Jenny Lewis cover of this. Remember that? It was her, Conor Oberst, Ben Gibbard, and M. Ward. That may have been 10 years ago at this point, which is really sad. Probably for the both of us. [Laughs.] But Roy Orbison is one of my favorite artists of all time, so anything that came from him in anyway is unbelievable. I think "Handle With Care" has some of the best love lyrics ever. And Jeff Lynne is one of my favorite producers. He created one of my favorite sounds of all time, the wall of acoustic guitars, that blend of multi-tracked acoustics and 12-strings.
That "acoustic wall" vibe comes across on Strange Desire.
I wanted to mold together more progressive, electronic sounds with classic elements of songwriting. The whole idea behind the album is: "Can't we have both?"
2) Tom Tom Club, "Genius of Love"
This is… wait, what is this? Hold on. [Starts singing along at "With my boyfriend."] What is this? I know it!
Tom Tom Club's "Genius of Love"
Ah, yeah. It makes me think of a girl in high school I used to have a crush on. We never hooked up. Or maybe we did later. This was the dawn of the iPod: 2001, 2002. And she had an iPod that was like a brick. It was the size of a bomb. But it was the coolest thing in the world at the time. And the song reminds me of the music she used to play.
How is a fun. song different from a Bleachers song? How do you tour for one band while writing for the other?
I don't know, that part just seemed easy. It almost seems like you don't need to clear your head. I was fascinated by the bridge of "We Are Young" when we played it live, it jumps a full octave, then it goes back down. There's a weird key change that's sort of unorthodox. I could tell this very literal movement in key, which I hadn't really noticed before, that made the crowd lift, then when it went down, their bodies. I thought "Oh, how interesting. Maybe I could try that idea somewhere else and make it different. And maybe this idea that was one part of "I Wanna Get Better" could actually be a whole concept for a song—a song that lifts you up and takes you down. Not just emotionally or with instrumentation, but in the most literal sense. But to answer your answer more specifically, from playing live you see things and feel things that make you want to go home and try them in different ways.
3) Tin Machine, "Under the God"
[Gives up at opening riff, waits for first vocals.]
It's post-Labryinth Bowie as part of Tin Machine.
This is not the era of Bowie I connected to.
What was your era?
My era of Bowie is Young Americans, very early stuff, when it was spookier. I like that tour. I forget what era it was. But he did some tour, which I just saw some website recently it was voted the worst tour of all time. I watched the video, it was actually kinda brilliant. It looked like he was giving a corporate speech on Mars. There were podiums, and he had a wireless head mic, just walking around in an orange suit. It was very David Byrne-like the way he was singing, talking.
Labryinth was around '86.
I think so. I grew up with Labryinth.
Me too.
Remember the song he sang with the weird, little, tiny goblin people? Labryinth was weird, it had the makings of all great cult moments where it was this combination of songs and scenes you could weep 'cause they were so beautiful and then things that were so absurd that you could weep…because they were absurd. It was terrifying and janky. I remember when she was chasing him up all the stairs, that's a very seminal slash devastating part of our childhoods.
Bleachers, Jack Antonoff / Photo by Jolie Ruben for SPIN
I doubt that movie was ever really for children.
It seems like the world is doing a better job of making children's movies nowadays. I don't think you get many Bambi-type scenarios of dealing with the death of a parent in How to Train Your Dragon. There are also better messages in newer movies. A lot of old Disney movies—particularly The Little Mermaid —contain horrible messages for women.
There are all the weird gender stereotypes.
The lesson in The Little Mermaid is if you're a woman it's cool to falls in love with a man that she's never spoken to just because he's handsome. Then she betrays her family and gives up her right to communicate and have an opinion to be with this man. And then the only way she can solidify her relationship with the man and regain her right to communicate is to be physical and hook up with him. It's the worst lesson ever. How about, "Fuck him, you even know him. Stay with your family who loves you. Don't sell them out to your psychotic aunt."
4) The Breeders, "Cannonball"
[Identifies it instantly.]
No one sounds like the Breeders. There's this pedal I used called Fuzz Factory. And every day at soundcheck I go [mimics opening riff to "Cannonball"], I play the beginning of the song. The past 10 years I've done that, because it's very specific to that sound. I think of this video a lot. I was on the Jersey Shore. 1994, '95.
How old were you?
Ten, eleven. I would do three things every day: skateboard, clean the earrings I just got, and watch MTV. I watched MTV that whole summer, and it was "Cannonball" and Smashing Pumpkins and Green Day and Sponge and Weezer. It was the golden age of '90s music, Nirvana and Pearl Jam. MTV would go from a Smashing Pumpkins video into Salt-n-Pepa into Paula Abdul into Nirvana into Jon Secada. It was just a bizarre blend of music. And I kinda remember being into all of it.
5) The Postal Service, "Such Great Heights"
[Recognizes on the opening riff.]
Postal Service? "Such Great Heights"? I never got into the Postal Service the way my friends did.
They became famous because of Garden State.
That was the first sync moment that I remember. Everyone thought the record industry was dying, and everyone ran to do movie and TV syncs. Not long after that, Wilco put their songs in a Volkswagen commercial. Everyone was freaking out. I thought it was cool. I think the real pioneers were the Flaming Lips on 90210.
6) Panda Bear, "Last Night at the Jetty"
I don't know this one.
It's Panda Bear.
Oh, never heard of them. I like that snare sound.
It seems like you're revisiting a lot of your past from an adult perspective. Is that tiring? Is it cathartic?
It's both. I think that it's important to push yourself to talk about things that are hard to talk about. It's a whole cycle. If you're very honest with lyrics or tell stories that are very personal, and then you've made this thing that is so important to you and so intense. And then if you go out and play it live every day, you can't phone it in because you can't do an injustice to these very personal lyrics. So you're making a bed you have to sleep in if you're gonna go there.
The only way I've ever been able to write successfully—and I what I mean by successfully is to feel important and unique and saying something that matters—is to really just speak about things that I've been through, which is really something I learned from the Mountain Goats. I got that album, The Sunset Tree, which is one of my favorite albums. I got it at a weird time in my life where I was trying to be a lot of different things. That was a huge inspiration on me in general, but specifically on Strange Desire: John Darnielle's talking about all these things, his stepfather beating his mother, alcoholism, all these things I literally have no experience with. And it's like, Wow, he's giving so much, that it pulls you in. Then you want to give yourself back to the music. That's what I want to get better at: The verses read like a diary, and then choruses are for everyone.
Bleachers, Jack Antonoff / Photo by Jolie Ruben for SPIN
"I Wanna Get Better" is on my Summertime Sadness playlist.
So you think it's a sad song? I do, too. That was a big thing I got from the Mountain Goats also, you can put it all out there, and you can go all the way, but the music can still be exciting and bombastic, and there could still be a weird twist of hope.
Do you make playlists?
Yeah, well I run. 'Cause I had really bad pneumonia three years ago, so my doctor says I have to run every day, which I loathe. I hate running. I get no workout high. I just do it. 'Cause I like being alive and I like being healthy…or crying.
I have a playlist of songs that automatically brings me to tears. It's got Mazzy Star, R.E.M.'s "At My Most Beautiful," which is the song I'll just cry if I hear. It's got Red House Painters "Have You Forgotten," which is all about being a kid and it's devastating. It's got Billy Joel's "Lullaby," it's got Springsteen's "Secret Garden," which makes me cry all the time. It's got Tom Waits' "Martha." It's got "First Day of My Life" by Bright Eyes. It's got "Landslide" by Fleetwood Mac. A lot of it's very obvious, but it's just the stuff that kills me.
Then there's my pump-up playlist that has Kid Dynamite and Lifetime and Robyn. Actually that exists more in the playlist of "Cry-Dance," which is a cool thing to do. [Laughs.] Look at all the greatest…that's the ultimate. Beatles. Springsteen. Robyn. All of my favorite things. Mountain Goats. Dance or cry. You choose. It's the two ultimate things you can get from music: Music that's so good that it makes you physically wanna move your body in funny ways, be physical; and music that's so good that it makes you so emotional that you could cry.
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Britain urged to ape countries such as the US and Saudi Arabia and build farms housing tens of thousands of cows or pigs
Pig Farm
Some of the 1,200 sows and 400 piglets at a farm in Suffolk. The NFU wants to see farms holding many more animals than this. Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian
"The challenge of feeding everybody with the constraints of climate change and weather shocks is so great we'll need a complete rethink," said Kendall.
Although livestock farms in the UK have been consolidating for many years, Post's report, entitled Livestock Super Farms, found that typically the units held 100 to 150 head of cattle or pigs.
Even the biggest UK farms are dwarfed by the mega farms of other countries. In the US, farms with 10,000 pigs are not uncommon and Saudi Arabia has a super dairy with a herd of 37,000.
In Britain last year, there was a move to house 8,000 dairy cows at Nocton, Lincolnshire. This application from Nocton Dairies was withdrawn because of official concerns about water pollution and the animal welfare protest that took place at Westminster in 2010.
Two more scaled-up proposals are being considered. These are a farm for 2,500 sows and their piglets at Foston, Derbyshire, and another for 1,000 cows in Powys, Wales.
Last year, too, a government report on the future of food and farming stated that "the global food supply must be increased through sustainable intensification" to cope with population increase, climate change and other factors. Ministers are now waiting to hear from a working group on the subject.
Post records large farms in the UK, but perhaps because they have grown piecemeal, or been split between various land holdings, they have not attracted any high-profile attention from animal rights and environment campaigners.
Concerns about large-scale animal farming fall into four categories: of animal welfare; of super units destroying small farms and rural communities; of farms straining soil and water resources and requiring mass transport of chemicals, generating more greenhouse gas pollution; and of such units being unsightly and emitting foul smells.
Kendall said the UK was about 62% self-sufficient in the food it could produce overall and 40% self-sufficient with regard to pork – so there was "plenty of scope" for big producers while still leaving room for smaller ones.
At the heart of Kendall's defence of super farms is his belief that bigger farms are more profitable (or less loss-making) so can afford better equipment, more space and experts able "to protect the environment and animals".
He highlighted the Foston application, from Midland Pig Producers, which proposed building an abattoir near the farm so the pigs would not have to travel far to slaughter.
The plan was also to fit equipment to trap ammonia and other gasses to protect local residents and to generate "renewable" electricity and heat. The applicants had promised to achieve the RSPCA's Freedom Food accreditation for animal welfare.
Kendall argued that farmers running large units would generally be able to afford to employ veterinarians and other experts such as nutritionists, and to attract other operations to local areas, such as ethanol plants generating high-quality protein waste that could be used as feed.
"I want to make sure we're not importing food that's produced to lower welfare standards and therefore driving our farmers out."
He envisaged more farms on the scale of Foston or the Powys proposal. Much bigger operations, similar to the withdrawn Nocton scheme, could be tried out, he said, though he did not think that would become the norm, principally because it was hard to find locations far enough away from population centres.
"This is about a few experimental versions, so we can see whether it lowers greenhouse gas emissions, see whether it's welfare friendly, see what the impacts are on the environment."
Compassion in World Farming (CWF) said it was deeply uncomfortable about mega farms, particularly since they usually relied on animals being kept indoors.
Joyce D'Silva, CWF's director of public affairs, said there was "good scientific evidence" showing it was better for farm animals to go outside, and that it was harder for workers to pick out lame or ill animals kept in the thousands.
"We see each animal as an individual sentient being," D'Silva said. "The market would put animals in thousands: it's hard to treat them as individuals."
Farming in numbers
110: average dairy herd in the UK
8,000: cows in original application for Nocton super dairy
37,000: size of herd at a mega dairy farm in Saudi Arabia
148: average number of sows on a UK pig farm
2,500: pigs that would be housed in new farm at Foston
10,000: pigs at a US mega farm
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President warns Republicans he will not tie approval of oil sands pipeline from Canada to extension of tax break
Stephen Harper, the Canadian prime minister, turns to Barack Obama after their meeting
Stephen Harper, the Canadian prime minister, turns to Barack Obama after their meeting at the White House, where the US president ruled out approving the Keystone pipeline from Canada if Republicans agreed to extend a tax break for families. Photograph: Carolyn Kaster/AP
Barack Obama has warned Republicans he will not tie an extension of the payroll tax cut to the approval of the Keystone oil pipeline between Canada and the US.
"If the payroll tax cut is attached to a whole bunch of extraneous issues, not related to making sure that the American people's taxes don't go up on January 1, then it's not something I'm going to accept," Obama said after a meeting with the Canadian prime minister, Stephen Harper.
Obama stopped short of a veto threat, saying he did not believe Congress should let it come to that.
The leader of the House of Representatives, Speaker John Boehner, and other senior Republicans have pushed for Obama to approve the pipeline, saying it would create much-needed jobs in the US. They have suggested adding into the payroll tax cut bill a provision speeding up the pipeline's construction.
Payroll tax cuts are due to expire at the end of the year. If they are not extended the White House says the average family will pay an extra $1,000 in tax.
Keystone has become a heavily contested political issue for Obama, who risks angering environmental supporters and losing re-election contributions from some liberal donors if he approves it.
The state department decided last month not to decide on the pipeline until 2013, after the presidential election. The delay is intended to allow the project's developer to figure out a way around Nebraska's Sandhills, an ecologically sensitive region that supplies water to eight nearby states.
The delay was poorly received in Canada, which views the project as critical to its economy. Labour groups in the US, as well as Republicans, want the pipeline built to create jobs.
Obama denied the delay was tied to politics and said it was important for Canadians to understand the need to make sure all issues were covered, especially the environmental impact and the health and safety issues.
"I assured [Harper] we will have a very rigorous process to work through that issue," Obama said.
Harper is critical of the delay and has previously suggested that American politics may be at play. But standing alongside Obama at the White House on Wednesday, Harper was more measured, while showing no sign that their talks had yielded any progress.
"Barack and I have discussed that on many occasions. He's indicated to me, as he's indicated to you today, that he's following the proper process," he said. "I take that as his answer and you can appreciate that I would not comment on domestic politics on this issue or any other issue here in the United States."
The Keystone XL pipeline would carry an estimated 700,000 barrels of oil a day, doubling the capacity of an existing pipeline from Canada. The 1,700-mile (2,735km) structure would carry as much as 700,000 barrels of oil a day from tar sands in Alberta, Canada, to refineries in Texas, passing through five states.
Supporters say it could reduce US dependence on Middle Eastern oil but opponents argue it would bring "dirty oil" that requires huge amounts of energy to extract, as well as the risk of spills.
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AltaVista has confirmed it has made job cuts in Europe although nowhere near the scale of the redundancies announced last week in the US.
The dotcom would not say how many jobs would be lost outside AltaVista's HQ in Palo Alto.
AltaVista Inc spokesman David Emanuel told The Registe: "The reduction was across the board in terms of positions and geography.
"While the majority was in Palo Alto, there will be a minimal effect in Europe and other US cities [Europe is a US city? - Ed.] in which we have offices. We are not providing any further breakout."
According to Emanuel, Europe is still considered a growth region. Furthermore, expansion in Europe has not grown at the same rate as the US.
The conclusion from this is that there is little manoeuvrability for job cuts. But until AltaVista comes clean and says exactly how many people go the chop, we just won't know.
Last week, AltaVista announced it was to shed a quarter of its workforce - some 200 jobs - in a move which would "primarily" affect employees at AltaVista's headquarters in Palo Alto, California. No one who works for AltaVista UK is expected to lose their jobs as part of the restructuring. ®
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Re: Define Vulcan love. Sexual and Paternal.
I actually never understood, why Sarek and Amanda married. I can understand that Amanda was attracted to Sarek, but it seems illogical that a vulcan marries a human woman.
I am very upset with Sarek about the way he treated Spock. and I imagine Amanda must have been upset too.
Why would Sarek sulk, only because spock decided to join Star Fleet? That's an emotional reaction.
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KU student issued citation in Louise’s West accident
A KU student was issued a citation for crashing into the Lawrence bar early Sunday morning. Damage from the incident caused the establishment to close while it worked on repairs.
April 20, 2010
A KU student was issued a citation Monday night for her involvement in a car accident that forced a local business to close.
According to Lawrece police Sgt. Damon Thomas, officers received a call from someone who said they thought they knew the owner of the vehicle that ran into Louise’s West, 1307 West Seventh St. early Sunday morning.
Thomas said the owner had tried to report the vehicle stolen, but an investigation into the claim revealed it was not.
Police identified the driver in the incident as Brandy Fausnaught, 22, Lawrence. The woman had been driving her friend’s car, a silver SUV, early Sunday morning when the accident occurred.
Thomas said the woman was not arrested, but was issued a citation about 9:05 p.m. Monday for leaving the scene of an accident, reckless driving, driving with a revoked or suspended license and failure to report an accident.
CreatureComforts 4 years, 8 months ago
Picking the 5 biggest areas from which KU students hail does not a great mind make you...
bearded_gnome 4 years, 8 months ago
indeed, driver was almost certainly wasted!
once again, drunk driver on our streets gets off with barely a slap on one demure little wrist.
maybe Louise's should require the drunken/brat to perform service...perhaps she should be required to clean their toilets for a year.
dontcallmedan 4 years, 8 months ago
Seventh Street is a drunkard's highway through the neighborhood. Louise's West has sent their share of wasted patrons down that road, and this event seems almost like karma payback.
LadyJ 4 years, 8 months ago
Never thought I would see the day I actually agreed with One_eye. Judge McGrath is an idiot and let thiefs go free even though they admit stealing.
LadyJ 4 years, 8 months ago
Not my experience, let the three thieves that stole from me get off scott free.
tanaumaga 4 years, 8 months ago
How much revenue is lost due to the closure of west?...the driver needs to be hauled before the scene of the crime and have the ?#@$ slapped out of them....that will learn 'em.
emptymind 4 years, 8 months ago
She should be made responsible for repairing any and all damages caused by her stupidity. And cleaning toilets for a year is not a bad idea either.
LadyJ 4 years, 8 months ago
So I catch one of them hiding in my garage a year later and he gets a misdemeanor trespassing and a little fine. What did they think he was doing there?
whatupdown 4 years, 8 months ago
Drunks crashing into bars, that works for me.
rousseau108 4 years, 8 months ago
How about charging the vehicle owner with falsely reporting a felony, which is also a felony not just some wimpy citation.
iloveme 4 years, 8 months ago
I wonder if the person would have been someone other than a female, the outcome would have been different? I think had this been a male, the guy would have been arrested... How are the citations she received not grounds for being arrested?
Richard Payton 4 years, 8 months ago
How many more drunken establishments can she hit! Might just be mothers against drunk drivers new poster child. If they can't serve, they can't swerve could be the motto.
d_prowess 4 years, 8 months ago
Is it normal for the name not to be published? I know the LJW doesn't post the names of folks suspected of crimes, but this woman was issued a citation, so shouldn't her name be listed?
d_prowess 4 years, 8 months ago
I just read the story about this in the Daily Kansan and they reported that the police would be releasing the names later today. Thus, it is more obvious as to why they were not included!
RoeDapple 4 years, 8 months ago
Texting while on cell phone ordering K-2 with beer between knees. When everybody knows humans can only focus on two things at once . . .
smarty_pants 4 years, 8 months ago
What's Jimmy D going to do now? He won't have anywhere to start his binge drinking on Friday nights!! Scheit!!
Paula Kissinger 4 years, 8 months ago
Watch your proofing LJW guys...try to spell Lawrence correctly in your story...
Miss_E 4 years, 3 months ago
I love how people treat this as an unforgivable crime. This place does nothing but draw filthy and destructive people into that neighborhood to make people who live there miserable. I hope its condemned.
srjr 4 years, 3 months ago
I love how people who live in this neighborhood complain about West being a nuisance and bad for the area. It is one of the most responsible bars in town in that we clean up after ourselves, don't have music outside, and abhor serving underage kids (only been issued one underage drinking ticket in the past 15 years). Not to mention the fact that the bar predates all the apartments, most of the houses, and even the actual street it sits on. Now I can't be positive, but I think you'd be hard pressed to find anyone who has lived in seriously close proximity to West for 35 consecutive years, And hey, you moved within earshot of an existing and established bar. What did you expect?
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protecting nonunion workers from being forced to pay union dues. welcome to "america live," everyone, i'm allison cam rat to in for megyn kelly today. the bill could be signed by the governor as early as tomorrow. pro-union protesters responding with shouts of "shame on you" from the gallery as huge crowds mass on the state capitol grounds. we understand police are ready with riot gear in case things turn ugly. thousands of union supporters have been at the statehouse since early today stomping their feet, chanting, as you can hear there, one union boss saying, quote: we're going to take you on and take you out. nearby an angry confrontation breaking out. union protesters apparently storming the tent of the local chapter of conservative group americans for prosperity, tearing it down and then going after some right-to of work supporters -- right-to-work supporters. let's watch this. in -- >> shut your mouth! shut your mouth, i wasn't talking to you! you put your hands on me, see what happens. shut up! shut your mouth. [bleep] >> hey, hey! >>> lien -- [bleep] >> you guys are knocking the
will need space. >> the owner of a michigan construction co., preceded by a union member who works at a general mots plant. michig govrick sande signed legislation -- rick snyder right to work legislation into law. the president said that what they're talking about is giving you the right to work for less money. a right to work at state, michigan? >> it is incredible. the republican legislature has passed this. there are two institutions that greeted the middle class in america with of the 10 states with the highest per capita income, although one is a non- right to work state. the 10 states with the highest medical coverage for the workers, eight of the 10 are not right to work states. where workers have the right to organize and unions, and those can be effective marketing, it raises the level of living for all americans. that, frankly,he fastest- growing states -- three of the 20 are right to work states. that puts that to rest. it is a chance to destroy unions, undermined unions, or hurt them politically. no accidents, the " brother -- koch brothers finance to this. >> it worke
to the contrary michigan workers still tonight have the right to form and join a union. they still have the right to bargain, collectively. and what this law changes is forced union membership. i repeat, forced union membership. >> eliot: repeat it all you want no matter how many times you say it, it will still be flat-out wrong. federal law clearly prohibits unions from requiring membership. this has been made clear in a series of supreme court cases including 1963's national labor relations board v general motors. 195's pattern maker league v. national labors board. it states that workers are only required to pay a fee that covers collective bargaining and other actions from which they directly benefit and none of the unions political activities. just to make it clear mr. dobbs, they are not required to be a member of the union. mr. dobbs might not think so but facts matter. explore the lives of the famous and infamous who changed our world forever. experience the drama, back to back to back. of all the hours in all their da
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to wen a thermonuclear war with the soviet union long after there isn't one. we are still protecting germany, italy, england, and austria from staalin and his successors even though they are now strong enough to meet a threat which in fact doesn't exist. i just had my very able aid marcus rose check this for me. over the last ten years we have spent $3.8 billion in medicare. that's true. during that same period we spent $5.6 billion on the military. the military has been going up fast faster and it includes an awful lot of expenditure, unnecessary. we're reading today that canada is recoring whether they're going to buy the f-35. the f-35 is a very, very well conceived airplane that's proving to be a great financial disaster. if any agency, the decht housing, the department of education, the department of energy, had a disaster as remotely expensive to the taxpayer as the f-35 my conservative friends would be screaming. so yeah, i agree with them. ironically. that's one area where the republicans want to spend more, where mitt romney criticizes the president for not spending enough.
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on the municipality have been the deals the public unions have struck for their workers. we have seen it in places where the promises have been made where there i not the money to support. i there any question the administration -- that the president is open to the idea that the president is open to bail out these municipalities? >> there is no mention so far. but you are right to point out the union connect. president obama's reelect heavily supported by municipal unions and it's the pensions promised to municipal union workers, that is what is strangling many of the states that are in such dire straight. illinois and california in particular. will quid pro quo be called in by municipal unions like it has been called in by the municipal councilmember. martha: what happens if they don't get it. what happens if there aren't bailouts. >> detroit is bankrupt. other cities have declared bankruptcy. they are gone. it's debatable whether those union pensions are in pact paid. if you are looking over the cliff, the municipal debt and the state debt cliff, you are right on the edge of serious problem for
dues paying union members. perhaps you can clarify this on your show tomorrow. i'm proud to tell you george, we are union members. this is a union shop. here is my union card. >> here's mine. >> bill: i've been a member since 1981. we are a proud union shop and my brothers and sisters are here for you. ú [ ♪ theme ♪ ] >> bill: hello hello hello fellow americans! it is the "full court press" here on current tv. welcome, welcome thursday, december 13. great to see you today on a busy day in our nation's capital. congress scurrying around still trying to get something going on the fiscal cliff. and the latest poll shows that 2/3 of americans including a majority of democrats republicans and independents all say that congressional leaders meaning republicans should compromise so we can avoid going over the fiscal cliff. that means republicans must give up their insistence that the bush tax cuts continue for the wealthiest of americans because it ain't gonna happen. the president's not going to sign the bi
on the michigan state capital in lansing as apartment of a troeshlg union battle that's about to unfold. at issue, the so called "right to work." legislation is being pushed through the republican lawmakers that could come to a final vote as early as today. the law would might illegal to require an employee to pay union dues as a condition of their employment. opponents say the legislation threatens to weaken the influence of labor unions in a state that is home to the auto industry and has a long history of organized labor. during a visit to detroit yesterday where he intendeded to focus on the fiscal clivgs president obama waded head first into the union battle. >> what we shouldn't be doing is trying to take away your right to bargain for better wages. we shouldn't be doing that. you know, these so-called right-to-work laws, that i don't have to do with economics. they have everything do with politics. what they're really talking about is giving you the right to work for less money. you only have to look to michigan where workers were instrumental in reviving the auto industry to see how union
outpacing government workers. it seems that government workers still unhappy. unions upset with the new reality of coworker reform. alan wilson joins us and tells us why they should be cheering you right to work lou: michele obama saying that voter suppression was in full force. in so many states around the country. the first lady, however citing a specific, and it prompted judicial watch president to issue the following statement. this is obama's accusations about minority votes. it shows a dangerous disregard for the truth. we are aware of no evidence of voter suppression. by the way, we have not heard from the justice department one thing at all, mr. eric holder's historthat we certainly would have if there had been any incidents of voter suppression. our next guest defenses state's top voter id law. saying that it is a paramount issue of importance that we protect the electoral process and ensure that voter fraud is eliminated. joining us now is alan wilson, attorney general of south carolina. great to have you with us. what is your reaction to what the first lady hado sy? >> obviou
's success in, quote, forning a new majority to create a more perfect union. governor palin, your thoughts on that? >> the path towards a more perfect union is our constitution. i think that we have seen examples of our president not necessarily following the constitution. in fact, wanting to change the constitution because he sees it as a charter of negatives. and he has made statements in the past about his view of our constitution and that's -- you know, following it is a blueprint toward a more perfect union. but time magazine, i think there is some irrelevancy. their list of the most influential people in the country and the world, some who have made that list -- yours truly! that ought to tell you something regarding the credence we should give time magazine. >> that's an interesting concept. but it's funny, in looking at the president's choice, he was chosen before and first elected. but, you know, the thing that strikes me is that -- if time magazine says this goofy stuff about whatever their criteria is for seeking amid great adversity a more perfect union. that's not the presiden
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Pleasing Kobe Bryant isn't easy.
Somehow, the Los Angeles Lakers have managed to keep him happy—or relatively happy—for nearly two decades. That could change now.
Like, right now.
Lady Luck wasn't on Los Angeles' side at the 2014 NBA draft lottery. Instead of catapulting into the top three, like many hoped they would, the Lakers dropped down a rung on the ladder, nabbing the seventh slot overall. That's just how the ping pong balls bounce sometimes.
Moving up the draft board was always unlikely. The numbers were against the Lakers. Jumping ahead three or more spots would have been nothing short of a lottery miracle.
Yet it wasn't so much the math as it was the hope itself. Pining for that top-three pick, that first overall selection, bought them time, keeping Bryant at bay (for the most part).
Though he undoubtedly wanted to hear their plan, they were under no obligation to offer one. They couldn't map out their course without a starting point. The lottery was that starting point. Their draft position is that starting point.
Where the Lakers go from here is the product of this pick, and they can only hope Bryant is prepared to make the most of the cards they're holding.
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There was pressure on the Lakers to move up in this draft. Ignoring that would be absurd.
Bryant has come to expect nothing but the best from this team, and you can't really blame him. He has five championship rings that suggest the Lakers will find ways to win. He has numerous memories of them doing everything and anything in their power to cajole his ego. That two-year, $48.5 million extension he was handed will forever be evidence of their unwavering loyalty.
Put another way, what Bryant wants, the Lakers typically get.
And he wants another ring.
"But I think we need to accelerate it a little bit for selfish reasons, because I want to win and I want to win next season," he told ESPN's Darren Rovell during a "Sunday Conversation" segment for SportsCenter (via ESPN Los Angeles' Dave McMenamin.) "So, it's kind of getting them going now as opposed to two years from now."
Of course Bryant doesn't want to wait around. Pushing 36, the end is in sight.
If at any point he actually thought he could play well into his 40s, Bryant was gifted a reminder that no one escapes time this past season. He appeared in just six games, and there is no evidence that decidedly proves he'll return to form by 2014-15.
The time for Bryant to win is now. These next two years are likely all he has, and he wants to make the most of them at all costs. The Lakers ran the risk of angering him even if they won the lottery, even if they drafted Andrew Wiggins or Jabari Parker. Said risk is only greater now that their draft position doesn't reflect the best-case scenario, which is all Bryant ever wants.
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All hope is not lost. Bryant won't necessarily be sporting an unremitting scowl, snarling any time he's asked about the Lakers' playoff chances and their future next season.
Without a doubt, the monster in him will want the Lakers to flip their draft pick for a star. That would hold true if they had fallen inside the top three. He would prefer Kevin Love to Wiggins, Parker or Joel Embiid. Love could help him get what he wants quicker than some rookie, any rookie.
But the reasonable side of him understands Love is not on the way. Not this summer. Landing a legitimate luminary for a first-round pick—no matter where it was placed—and nothing else was never a real possibility.
On some level, Bryant has known the Lakers would keep their pick. Fortunately for them, he has also shown a willingness to play mentor:
Neither Wiggins nor Parker is en route to Los Angeles. But Marcus Smart could be. So could Julius Randle. Or Aaron Gordon.
Possibilities extend well beyond the top-three slots. This is a deep draft with plenty of talent. Picking seventh still gives the Lakers an opportunity to add someone that is worth Bryant's patience and—more importantly—his instruction.
Writing for Forum Blue & Gold, Darius Soriano described the Lakers' draft situation thusly:
Remember how Bryant clashed with Dwight Howard? Shaquille O'Neal? Heck, remember when he butted heads with Smush Parker?
Throughout his career, Bryant has been at odds with players set in their ways, who weren't up to his ridiculous standards. Think of what a formidable blank slate could mean for him. This is his opportunity to impart his ferocious wisdom on a young, impressionable mind.
Whomever the Lakers draft can be his project.
As much as Bryant likes to win, he also enjoys having his ego stroked. This is his chance to teach someone how to win, without it coming off as insulting, ludicrous or naive.
It's All in the Delivery
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Quite obviously, Bryant isn't stupid.
The Black Mamba's satisfaction is predicated on more than the Lakers' draft position. They have cap space. Lots of cap space. More than $20 million of spending power. He'll want them to bring in established sidekicks. He'll want them to bring back Pau Gasol. This is all going to factor in.
But the Lakers are also at the mercy of fate this offseason.
On numerous occasions, general manager Mitch Kupchak has suggested the team will wait until 2015 to attack free agency, like it's the Lakers' choice. To an extent, it is. They can head into July, flaunting blank checks and a history of winning. They can be aggressive.
Chasing free agents doesn't mean they're going to land a star, though. More likely than not, no matter how hard they try, there won't be a star to sign.
LeBron James, Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade aren't going anywhere. If any one of them decides to leave the Miami Heat, then the Lakers can feel free to get involved. Yet they won't. James isn't going to spurn Miami because the Cleveland Cavaliers were awarded their third No. 1 pick in four years. The Big Three aren't going to disband when they have a chance to contend for their fourth straight NBA title, or their third in five years.
After them, there's Carmelo Anthony. Bryant can recruit him if he wants, but it won't work. Anthony wants to win. One of the last things he'll consider is attaching his fragile legacy to a soon-to-be 36-year-old Bryant.
Same goes for Gasol. Sort of. He wants to play for a contender. The Lakers won't have to slight him. In all likelihood, he'll slight them.
And after Gasol, there's....well...um....you see, there's...
Not even Bryant will want the Lakers to overpay the likes of Luol Deng, Lance Stephenson, Kyle Lowry or some other mid-tier free agent. He's not daft. He knows they won't bring him a title.
The Lakers can play to that. In more ways than one, they've been buttering him up for this.
"The short answer is that yes, I'm hoping to be very competitive in a year or two," Kupchak told USA Today's Sam Amick in April, "but the key really is over time."
Taken the wrong way, Kupchak has been anti-Bryant. Talking about the future? About waiting? Bryant doesn't want to hear such nonsense.
Although he should.
If it's one thing we know about Bryant, it's that he rejects reality as it pertains to him. He is above the rule, the standard. He is his own exception. He'll think he can win no matter what.
Should the Lakers cater to his ego enough, he won't see inaction or moderate movement as signs of weakness. Looping him in on certain decisions—like modest free-agent signings—gives the impression that they simply believe he can still win, that he can still lead the Lakers to prominence no matter what.
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First pick, seventh pick, 57th pick—it wouldn't matter. The Lakers' draft selection will have no ill-bearing on his psyche. This is Bryant for crying out loud.
"I meet with him," Kupchak divulged to Amick. "(It's) not on a regular basis, but in the last two or three months we have met several times, and he gets it."
More importantly, the Lakers get him.
Pleasing him isn't easy. Never has been, never will be. But the Lakers still have enough to sell him, to promise him. Beyond the No. 7 pick, there's 2015 free agency and the pursuit of Love, Rajon Rondo and even James.
Most notably, there's Bryant himself, the warring superstar with a soft spot for doing what the Lakers will be asking him to now: flatten odds, topple expectations and prove everybody wrong.
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a compact electronic amplifier worn to improve one's hearing, usually placed in or behind the ear.
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a device for assisting the hearing of partially deaf people, typically consisting of a small battery-powered electronic amplifier with microphone and earphone, worn by a deaf person in or behind the ear
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The Gàidhealtachd ([kɛːəlˠ̪t̪əxk] About this sound listen , English: Gaeldom), sometimes known as A' Ghàidhealtachd (English: the Gàidhealtachd), usually refers to the highlands and islands of Scotland, and especially the Gaelic culture of the area. The corresponding Irish word Gaeltacht refers strictly to an Irish-speaking area. The term is also used to apply to the Gaelic-speaking Canadian areas of Nova Scotia and Glengarry County, Ontario.
The term the Gàidhealtachd is not truly interchangeable with the term highlands, as it refers to the language and not to the geography. Also, many parts of the highlands no longer have substantial Gaelic-speaking populations, and some parts of what is now thought of as the Highlands have long been Scots-speaking or English speaking areas: Caithness, Cromarty, Grantown-on-Spey, Campbeltown, etc. Conversely, several Gaelic-speaking communities lie outwith the Highland, Argyll and Bute and Western Isles council areas, for example Arran and parts of Perth and Kinross. Gàidhealtachd also increasingly refers to regions in Scotland where Scottish Gaelic is spoken as a native language by much of the population.[where?][citation needed]
For historical reasons, including the influence of a Scots-speaking royal court in Edinburgh and the plantation of merchant burghs in much of the south and east, the Gàidhealtachd has been reduced massively to the present region of the Western Isles, and the North-West Highlands, Skye and Lochalsh and Argyll and Bute, with small Gaelic populations existing in Glasgow and Edinburgh. The Highland Clearances of the 18th and 19th centuries also contributed to the decline of the language, as they reduced the population of the Scottish Highlands, which were predominantly Gaelic-speaking at the time.[citation needed]
Canadian Gàidhealtachd[edit]
Main article: Canadian Gaelic
The Gaelic speaking areas of Maritime Canada.
Scottish Gaelic has survived among communities descended from immigrants in parts of Nova Scotia (especially Cape Breton Island), Glengarry County in present day Ontario, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland.[citation needed]
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Residence Brooklyn, New York, USA
Style Judo
Maureen Braziel was one of the pioneers of Women's Judo competition. [1]. She has been thought of as being one of the top Judoka in the United States. [2], and within the 1970s. [3].
She won the silver medal heavyweight in the 1971 British Open, and bronze in the open division. [4]. She was the first female to place in international competition in Judo. [5]. As a result helped to make women's Judo a sport under the Amateur Athletic Union . [6] Maureen was the women's US National 1st place winner for the heavyweight division and the grand champion for the years 1974, 1975, and 1976. [7].
At a competition weight of 180 lbs, Maureen was strong enough to compete with men. [8]. She defeated Diane Pierce in 1974 for the National Championship. [9] Diane Pierce would later appear on the show To Tell The Truth claiming to be the 1974 National Judo Champion. [10]. Maureen won the gold medal in the 1975 Judo International championship for the heavyweight division in Switzerland. [11] She was the undisputed US Heavyweight Champion on the East Coast from 1967 to 1977. [12] . In 1976 she was part of the US Women's National Team under teach coach Rusty Kanokogi [13] She placed second in 1977, 1979 and 1980 for the Women's US Nationals [14]. She was the Amateur Athletic Union Most Outstanding Player Award in 1974 [15]
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Following competition she founded the PolyTech Judo Club. [16]. She served as the head coach for the Poly Tech Judo Club. [17] She would later serve as Athletic Director at Poly Tech. [18]. Even later she would serve as the athletic director for NYU-Poly. [19]. She would later retire after 30 years at NYU. [20] She served as the secretary for NYS Judo (circa 2009). [21] | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Braziel | dclm-gs1-239840000 |
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Software broadcasting is a way of delivering business software so that it can be accessed from anywhere, and on a subscription basis.
It allows a company's employees to access their data and software securely from anywhere with an internet connection, and the software that can be broadcast includes Microsoft Office, accounting software, and any other software including bespoke applications..
The phrase was termed first, in a Software-as-a-Service context, by Charles Black of Nasstar plc.[1]
The service operates much like satellite television services with all your software being broadcast from a central source. Software Broadcasting provides an innovative alternative to the traditional on-site local PC and perpetual license model of software delivery.
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What's a good adverb to indicate an attribute that cannot be improved upon?
I wanted 'untoppably' to be a word, but it isn't.
Optimally and its synonyms come to mind, but it doesn't really have the best fit for the phrase I have in mind:
I’ve thought up a pretty neat method for completely eliminating dynamic cell references. I wrote it down for later. You can look forward to an [untoppably] fast version whenever I get a free week to implement it. (Could be a month, could be a year)
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Close to what you mean, I like "sans-pareil." (Even though it's basically impossible to pronounce!) – Joe Blow Jun 28 '11 at 20:05
Yes well, being French, that's right up my alley! – Alain Jun 28 '11 at 20:51
In this context I wouldn't claim that it's impossible to optimize further. Just say it's optimized. "You can look forward to an optimized version whenever ...". – tenfour Jun 28 '11 at 22:24
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Optimally is probably the most accurate word in general, but a good fit for the phrase you give is unbeatably:
You can look forward to an unbeatably fast version.
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That's actually a very good fit! I'll give a chance for other answers to come in, but this could be the accepted solution for sure. – Alain Jun 28 '11 at 17:04
I think insurmountably would also be a decent answer.
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True, although it tends to have negative connotations. Something that is insurmountable is not generally regarded as "the best thing possible", it's regarded as "something bad that can't be overcome" – Alain Jun 28 '11 at 18:30
I think that connotation can go both ways. You can also say that someone has an insurmountable lead, which sounds like a good thing. In this case, if you simply place "insurmountably" in the test sentence you gave, I think it will do the job. – Connie M. Jun 28 '11 at 18:37
Good example, I'll hand out points for that. – Alain Jun 28 '11 at 19:49
Some more possibilities:
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The adverb I would use is insuperably. From the adjective insuperable. (not "toppable")
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I'm not fond of any of the suggestions. You have constructed a sentence where the only possible solutions are awkward sounding. That usually means you should go back to the start and try not to translate it as literally.
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Biology/Natural History: This snail, which is one of the largest to be found intertidally in the Northwest, is an active foraging predator on mud flats and sandy bottoms. When the animal is fully expanded out of its shell it is so large that it covers almost the entire shell and looks as if it couldn't possibly fit into the shell. Much of the expansion is due to the uptake of water, however, and if the animal is gently disturbed it will slowly release water from sinuses in the mantle and foot and contract into its shell, finally closing a horny operculum. It does not usually stay inside the shell long because it cannot breathe. It crawls across sandflats and mudflats with its huge foot partly extended in front of the shell like a snowplow, pushing through the sediments in search of clams. It may burrow at least 10 cm into the sand. Bivalve prey include Mya truncata,Tresus capax, Saxidomus gigantea, and Protothaca staminea clams but don't seem to seek out cockles Clinocardium nuttallii which are found in the same areas, probably because their shells are thicker. The moon snail can bore about 1/2 mm per day. Some clams are found with characteristic, "countersunk" drill holes through the shell made by the radula; while with others the snail seems to simply surround the clam with its enormous foot and wait until the clam suffocates enough to open up. Predators on Euspira lewisii include the sunflower star Pycnopodia helianthoides. It quickly withdraws its foot when it contacts Pycnopodia. Enteroctopus dofleini may be another predator, and the moon snails themselves may sometimes be cannibalistic. Eggs are laid in a distinctive gelatinous coil or collar shaped as if it were formed around the top of a canning jar. The egg mass is a firm gelatin with thousands of embedded eggs. Sand is also embedded in the mass, giving it a sandy texture. The coil is left on the sand. Eggs hatch into free-swimming, nonfeeding veliger larvae in midsummer. Males are smaller than females, and females can live up to 14 years.
Shells from these snails are abundant in shell middens left by native Americans. The species can become toxic if they consume toxic clams during a red tide. They are also a favorite shell for large hermit crabs.
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Lymphatic endothelial differentiation: start out with Sox - carry on with Prox
Friedemann Kiefer1 and Ralf H Adams23*
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1 Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Biomedicine, Department of Vascular Cell Biology, D-48149 Münster, Germany
2 Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Biomedicine, Department of Tissue Morphogenesis, D-48149 Münster, Germany
3 University of Münster, Faculty of Medicine, D-48149 Münster, Germany
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Genome Biology 2008, 9:243 doi:10.1186/gb-2008-9-12-243
Published:29 December 2008
© 2008 BioMed Central Ltd
The transcription factor Prox1 is the master regulator of lymphatic endothelial cell differentiation and its expression initiates the morphogenesis of the lymphatic vasculature in the early embryo. Two new studies now answer some fundamental questions concerning Prox1 biology.
The bodies of higher vertebrates contain two highly branched hierarchical networks of endothelial tubules. One comprises the blood vessels, which provide the conduits for the systemic circulation and transport cells, gases, nutrients and waste products to their appropriate targets. The second endothelial network, the lymphatic vasculature, carries the lymph - draining tissues of plasma, proteins, particles and cells that have actively or passively gained access to the extracellular space [1,2]. Although blood vessels and lymphatic vessels are often found in close proximity, direct contact is avoided, thereby preventing illegitimate shortcuts between the two networks. Two defined connections do exist. These enable lymphatic vessels to return their cargo into the venous circulation after having delivered potential antigens to the adaptive immune system en route, as the lymph percolates through the lymph nodes [3].
Despite being first described in the 17th century by Aselli [4], the lymphatic system until very recently remained the Cinderella of the vascular family. However, the discovery of positively identifying marker proteins for lymphatic endothelial cells (LECs), such as the homeobox transcription factor Prox1, and the generation of targeted gene deletions causing lymphatic defects in the mouse have led to unprecedented progress in our understanding of the biology of lymph vessel formation.
Initiation and maintenance of lymphatic differentiation
Endothelial expression of Prox1 is first detected in mice at embryonic day (E)10.5 in a dorsal subset of endothelial cells of the cardinal veins. Prox1-positive cells adopt a lymphatic identity and under the influence of vascular endothelial growth factor-C (VEGF-C) bud from the veins, migrate away and reorganize themselves in the primary lymph sacs of the jugular and mesonephric region [5]. Prox1-deficient embryos do not accomplish specification of the emerging lymphatic subpopulation and lack the subsequent upregulation of lymphatic markers. Endothelial cells bud from the cardinal veins but keep on expressing blood vascular markers and fail to organize into lymph sacs. The result is a complete arrest of lymphatic development [6,7]. The knockout therefore indicates that Prox1 serves as a master gene for lymphatic identity, a notion further bolstered by reports demonstrating that forced expression of Prox1 in blood endothelial cells (BECs) led to the acquisition of many lymphatic markers [8,9].
But despite the overwhelming evidence for the role of Prox1 as a lymphatic master regulator, it is still entirely unclear which molecular mechanism triggers the transcription of Prox1 during the differentiation of the first LECs and, equally important, how lymphatic expression of the transcription factor is maintained throughout life. With respect to the first part of this question at least, a study by Peter Koopman and co-workers (François et al. [10]) published recently in Nature adds an important piece to the puzzle, by elucidating the role of the transcription factor Sox18 in the regulation of Prox1.
Mutations in the gene for Sox18 are known to be responsible for the naturally occurring mouse mutants of the ragged allelic series [11]. Ragged mutations affect the coat hair and also cause vascular malfunctions that result in chylous ascites and edema. In humans, dysfunction of Sox18 is likely to contribute to the development of the hypotrichosis-lymphedema-telangiectasia syndrome [12].
Somewhat unexpectedly, targeted inactivation of Sox18 in the mouse failed to cause vessel defects, which has been attributed to genetic compensation by the related Sox family members Sox7 and Sox17 [13-15]. Whereas this knockout had been generated in a mixed 129/CD1 background, Francois et al. [10] now report that homozygous Sox18-deficient mice on a pure-bred C57/Bl6 background develop lethal fetal edema. Heterozygotes already display patterning and remodeling defects of the dermal lymphatic vasculature, suggesting an important function for Sox18 during lymphatic development. The absence of polarized Prox1 expression in the cardinal veins of Sox18-deficient embryos indicates that Sox18 is necessary for Prox1 induction during the first steps of lymphatic specification. In the cardinal vein, Sox18 expression precedes the onset of Prox1 expression by a whole day, also displaying the characteristic polarized expression pattern in a subset of endothelial cells within the vessel wall (Figure 1a-c). Furthermore, forced expression of Sox18 in differentiating endothelial cells results in the upregulation of lymphatic signature genes, most notably Prox1. Indeed, a proximal 4.1-kb Prox1 promoter fragment contains two Sox18-binding sites, which are both necessary for Prox1 expression in vitro and in vivo.
Sox18: just one day of fame?
The study by the Koopman lab raises the question of whether Sox18 is the ultimate lymphatic master switch. Clearly, Sox18 is part of an essential decision process upstream of Prox1. However, in contrast to Prox1, Sox18 is neither indispensable nor likely to act single-handedly during lymphatic differentiation, as is indicated by the normal lymphatic development in Sox18-knockout mice on an outbreed background. Here, the related transcription factors Sox7 or Sox17 might compensate for the loss of Sox18, and it could prove revealing to test the C57/Bl6 mouse for defects in one of these genes. Furthermore, François et al. [10] demonstrate abundant Sox18 expression in embryonic blood vessels and blood vessels of the newborn mesentery and skin. This pattern of expression indicates that Sox18 alone cannot be sufficient for the specification of lymphatic vessels and points to the existence of an indispensable, but as yet unidentified, ally of Sox18 during lymphatic specification.
Intriguingly, and in contrast to Prox1, persistent expression of Sox18 is not necessary for the maintenance of lymphatic identity. Obviously, both genes define two different classes of master switch during tissue specification. Sox18 appears to act as an inducer of the lymphatic program in the early embryo and apparently becomes dispensable thereafter. Prox1 rather exerts a sustaining function and its constant presence is necessary for the maintenance of the lymphatic program. The nature of the signals required for this later phase of Prox1 expression are unclear, but one possibility is that Prox1 might stimulate its own promoter either directly or via intermediate transcriptional targets.
Lymphatic endothelial cell plasticity
More recently, unexpected plasticity of lymphatic endothelial cells has been reported. Johnson et al. [16] used tamoxifen-inducible Cre-mediated, and therefore temporally controlled, inactivation of the Prox1 gene in mice to study the role of Prox1 in lymphatic vessels at various developmental stages. Loss of Prox1 from venous lymphatic precursors resulted in prominent edema and scattered blood-filled vessels at mid-gestation, reminiscent of constitutive Prox1-knockout mice [6] (Figure 1d). Similarly, targeting of the Prox1 gene during later steps of lymphatic development in the embryo led to the presence of blood in the superficial lymphatics of the developing skin and in the mesenteric lymphatics.
In keeping with the proposed function of Prox1 as a master regulator of lymphatic differentiation, loss of Prox1 expression was accompanied by the loss or downregulation of other lymphatic markers such as podoplanin, CCL21 (SLC) and Lyve1. Concomitantly, markers characteristic for the endothelium of blood vessels, such as endoglin or CD34, were upregulated, and perivascular cells positive for smooth muscle α-actin, a characteristic feature of blood vessels but not of lymphatic capillaries, covered the mutant lymphatic vasculature [3]. Previous work has shown that the endothelial cells of lymphatic capillaries (also termed initial lymphatics) are connected by discontinuous, button-like junctions, which presumably facilitate the uptake of cargo from the extracellular space [17]. Loss of Prox1 compromised the lymph-specific distribution of the junctional adhesion molecule VE-cadherin and consequently impaired the formation of button-like junctions. However, the continuous and zipper-like junctional pattern seen in the endothelium of blood vessels was not reacquired in Prox1 mutants, suggesting that LEC dedifferentiation in these mutants is incomplete or deregulated. Nevertheless, the sum of the findings argues for a change in vessel identity and the partial adoption of a blood-vessel-like phenotype by the dedifferentiated lymphatics.
Lymphatic endothelial cell plasticity in health and disease
The study by Johnson et al. [16] adds to the view that differentiated tissues may retain a surprising degree of plasticity. Continued expression of Prox1 is required for maintaining LEC differentiation even in the adult. Conversely, lost expression or dysfunction of Prox1 might be potentially relevant for certain human diseases such as hereditary lymphedema syndromes, in which malformed lymphatic vessels are seen [18-20]. Moreover, neoplastic endothelial cells in angiosarcoma and Karposi's sarcoma express both BEC and LEC markers and lack a clear identity [21-23]. Future work will have to address whether Prox1 plays any part in these or other disease conditions.
The physiological reasons for the remarkable plasticity of the lymphatic endothelium also remain unclear. Are there any circumstances during development, growth or tissue regeneration that might trigger the reprogramming of LECs and their incorporation into blood vessels? Equally enigmatic is the question of how the dedifferentiation of LECs leads to the presence of blood cells within the mutant lymphatic vessels. This defect is observed in a number of mouse mutations affecting lymphatic differentiation [20,24-26], and indicates the presence of aberrant connections between blood vessels and lymphatic vessels. An important issue to be resolved is whether such connections are formed by cell-cell interactions between now identically specified Prox1-deficient endothelial cells at sites of closest proximity. Alternatively, dedifferentiated LECs might respond to the same tissue-derived guidance signals as BECs, so that sprouts and growing vessels will make contact.
Owing to the availability of targeted mouse mutations and increasingly refined genetic tools that allow the timed and tissue-directed precise deletion of genes, the regulation of blood vessel specification and differentiation is slowly unfolding. Interestingly, endothelial differentiation appears to entail an unexpected degree of reversibility, which may be encouraging news for future attempts towards therapeutic intervention and regeneration.
We thank the Max-Planck-Society and the University of Münster for support.
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Is a style attribute on an HTML element equivalent in weight to an
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If not, what is its weight (in CSS1 section 3.2 terms)?
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I suppose that they are giving a total of 20 million to that organization out of the goodness of their hearts, without wanting anything in return.
3. nerd123456
I heard Obama has out raised Romney by a substantial amount. Doens't that mean that more crooks gave to Obama then?
4. Rafael Rivero
It should be illegal that a person can buy the Presidency of USA.
5. Crismn
This is obscene! And then he goes to open casinos in Spain...
6. Wire Palladin, S. F
Spread that Chinese Communist money around, Sheldon.
7. Jesse Ventura
Wow, what a waste of money. It probably would have been more productive to flush it all down the toilet; that way, at least some poor people might find it at the mouth of a sewer drainage pipe and have their lives changed....
8. trex close to a $100,000,000.00 to the gop, .....and expects ...NOTHING????? IN RETURN ?????
October 26, 2012 07:31 am at 7:31 am |
9. USMCJock
So, no more talk by republicans about George Soros; not when the GOP has the Koch Brothers and Adelson. Absolutely no more talk about George Soros.
October 26, 2012 07:34 am at 7:34 am |
10. quinLee
Guys like Adelson don't just give $20 mil away unless there is a clear payback. Couple this with the fact that Romney has been like a leaf in the wind on every issue. Where ever the wind blows so does he. Frankly, the possibility of Romney being president should scare the #2 out of most competent and honest individuals.
From day one, the Romney/Rove campaign has been nothing but in-your-face lies, quotes out of context, flip flops, et-cha-sketch, for it one day/min, against it another. I'm not saying Obama is anywhere near perfect, but you have to be pretty gulible or blinded by fear and hate to buy the BS the republicans are selling these days.
11. jungleboo
Uh Oh. So this is the direction our democratic republic is headed. It's time for a referendum on campaign financing.
12. iceload9
Most of the money at the federal level is off-set by the other side. And te press record everything the candidates do and say. But I imagine at the state level this guy is a king maker.
13. Edward
Something is terribly wrong in America since the SCOTUS ruled on Citizens United. Here in Canada we find it odd that your Supreme court can`t tell the difference between a person and a corporation or money and speech. Then again, you can`t even get on the Supreme Court of Canada unless you can tell the difference between a fish and a bicycle.
14. Tim
So what. I wish he would give more. Perhaps we should have presidential elections EVERY year to get the money of the wealthy out of their pockets and into the system where it helps the economy.
October 26, 2012 07:40 am at 7:40 am |
15. John
These two are trying to buy this election for Mitt Romney, and what do they want for over a Billion Dollar them have spend trying to get a Republican elected. You don't spend that kind of money for Nothing, Mitt Romney can't be trusted.
October 26, 2012 07:41 am at 7:41 am |
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I have searched around quite a bit but have not solved my problem.
I have a video tag running as follows:
src="{{ page | video_url }}"
poster="{{ page | video_poster_image_url }}"
I am using Jekyll for the urls. They work fine.
The site is live at swtizerlandllc.com. Click any video in FF and it shows an image and an X. Chrome and other browsers work fine.
If you grab the source of a video and load it in a new tab it plays fine. At least it does for me.
I have added:
AddType video/ogg .ogv
AddType video/mp4 .mp4
AddType video/webm .webm
to my htaccess file. I suspect that I don't need the .ogv or .webm
I don't understand why loading the video url will play the videos fine but loading the video into a video tag fails.
any ideas?
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Firefox does not support the MP4 format within its video tag. The main reason why is the royalty fee attached to the mp4 format.
Check out Media formats supported by the audio and video elements directly from the Mozilla crew or the following blog post for more information:
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Direct from the source: developer.mozilla.org/En/… – Sam Dufel May 7 '12 at 20:41
Thanks, I updated my answer with the link! – Josh Mein May 7 '12 at 20:45
I have seen this answer around but then why does the video play if you load the path in a new tab? – TJ Sherrill May 7 '12 at 20:55
I assume the issue is that in order to support mp4 in their video tag, the Firefox crew would have to pay for a license. Whereas, if the user just puts the link in the browser, they dont have to pay anything. – Josh Mein May 7 '12 at 21:01
@TJSherrill, it is probably playing because of a Firefox plugin (like Quicktime). This doesn't mean it will work in a <video> element. – MPD May 7 '12 at 21:24
Firefox 21 supports MP4 H.264 by default. Yay! Just try this video test - http://www.quirksmode.org/html5/tests/video.html
EDIT: FF21+ only on windows 7+ apparently. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/HTML/Supported_media_formats
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I can confirm that mp4 just will not work in the video tag. No matter how much you try to mess with the type tag and the codec and the mime types from the server.
Crazy, because for the same exact video, on the same test page, the old embed tag for an mp4 works just fine in firefox. I spent all yesterday messing with this. Firefox is like IE all of a sudden, hours and hours of time, not billable. Yay.
Speaking of IE, it fails FAR MORE gracefully on this. When it can't match up the format it falls to the content between the tags, so it is possible to just put video around object around embed and everything works great. Firefox, nope, despite failing, it puts up the poster image (greyed out so that isn't even useful as a fallback) with an error message smack in the middle. So now the options are put in browser recognition code (meaning we've gained nothing on embedding videos in the last ten years) or ditch html5.
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+1 "Firefox is like IE all of a sudden, hours and hours of time, not billable." – Geo Nov 6 '13 at 22:11
Which video type works? OGG, or WEBM? – Jackson_Sandland Nov 16 at 23:44
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I have a gen_server module that logs data to a file when a client process sends it data. What happens when two client processes send data at the same time to this module? Will the file operations conflict with each other? The erlang documentation is frustratingly unclear here.
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Every Erlang process maintains a message queue. The process will fetch a message and handle the messages one by one.
In your example, if two clients calls the gen_server at the same time, these calls will become a message in the queue of gen_server process, and the gen_server will process these messages one by one. So no need to worry about a conflict.
But if one process has to handle too many messages from other processes, you'll need to think about the capacity of the process and optimize the design, or else it will become a bottleneck.
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Thanks! I managed to find the issue. It turned out that it wasn't a concurrency problem at all (as you indicated), but rather it was a serialization problem. I wasn't using the Erlang bitstring syntax correctly to serialize my data, and so bytes were getting lost. – quanticle May 30 '12 at 15:17
The gen_server runs in a separate process from your client process so when you do a call/cast to it you are actually sending messages to server process. All messages are placed in a processes message queue and processes handle their message one-by-one. If a message arrives while a process is busy then it is placed in the message queue. So log messages arriving concurrently will never interfere with each other as they will be processed sequentially.
This is not a property of the gen_server as such but a general property of all processes in erlang, which is why no mention of this is made in the gen_server documentation.
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gen_server just handles requests in the order that they was done, not matter they was done from one process or many.
In case of writing to log there is no reason to worry about race-conditions.
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Fortunately, the source for OTP is readily available at github, but the short answer is that gen_server runs in a loop, answering requests in order received, with no priority of one type (handle_cast, handle_call, or handle_info) over another.
Using handle_call can potentially be an issue, as the gen_server process will have to return before it can deal with the next cast/call/info in queue. For example, in a handle_call, avoid gen_server:call with self()!
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This question already has an answer here:
I'm confused with Node.js function arguments object.
Suppose i have following code:
function x() {
return arguments;
console.log(x(1, 2, 3));
In chrome developer tools it returns as an Array:
[1, 2, 3]
But i got different result in node.js:
How come?
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Other objects like this are NodeList for example.
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Ok @Frits van Campen. I got it. I run this to check it's type: console.log(Object.prototype.toString.call(x())); Both return same result: [object Arguments] – user1725316 Mar 29 '13 at 15:10
Cool, I didn't know you could do that =) – Halcyon Mar 29 '13 at 15:13
very funny frits. LoL – user1725316 Mar 29 '13 at 15:21
var args = Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments, 0);
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This saved me doing work in node, where I assumed that arguments was an array. Silly js developer. Browsers are for kids. "intern-runner": { command: function(){ var cmdArgs = ""; var args = Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments, 0); if(args){ cmdArgs = args.join(" "); } return 'node node_modules/intern/bin/intern-runner config=app/intern-config ' + cmdArgs; } }, – httpete Sep 25 at 13:21
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Michels-Gualtieri decided to take a year off between high school and college. Her reason? She wanted to attend a circus school for a year, tops. But that year turned into a career. (Courtesy Kaely Michels-Gualtieri)
“And then we were like,
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0.069448 | <urn:uuid:abe6156d-854f-4edb-b59c-be19d5b71b22> | en | 0.937038 | Low tech solution if it is a battery powered flash - turn it on with fresh batteries, and leave it on at first without discharging the flash immediately.
I would suggest 20 minutes on standby, pop the flash once on manula, reduced power if there is a way at first, then shut it off and repeat this for a few days.
This is a low tech way to reform electrolytic capacitors.
I have a poweredful older line powerd studio flash, a Speedotron 2401.
With it you can actually hear little arcs and snaps from time to time for the first 20 minutes of conditioning, if the flash has not been used for a while.
I am not super diligent, but I do try to condition the studio flash pack every three months if it has been otherwise idle.
The power packed into the big caps in thia unit can leave a a lot of havoc behind when they blow. I have seen some fried examples at the repair depot over time. | http://www.apug.org/forums/viewpost.php?p=1553721 | dclm-gs1-240400000 |
0.020721 | <urn:uuid:1d02a732-de57-47ab-8c55-eee524a663e6> | en | 0.98627 | Freddie Sears and Gavin Massey secure Colchester United deals
Colchester United have extended the loan of West Ham's Freddie Sears until the end of the season and re-signed Gavin Massey from Watford for a month.
Striker Massey, 19, played three times for the U's during a spell in January and February.
And fellow frontman Sears, 22, has spent a month at the U's, featuring four times, but is yet to find the net.
"Staying until the end of the season is what I intended to do when I signed," he told BBC Essex.
"It's been good and the boys are on fire at the moment."
Colchester have lost just one of their last seven games, but former England Under-21 international Sears has only started three of those matches.
"I can't have any complaints, the boys have been flying," he said.
"You obviously want to play but at the minute I'm biding my time and waiting for a chance."
Boss John Ward is confident of keeping hold of Sears, despite the forward's lack of games so far.
"West Ham are fine. We're going to extend the loan," he said.
"As a football manager you're always trying to prepare for the unexpected and if I get an injury somewhere I know I've got a good squad."
Meanwhile, keeper Ben Williams has said he is considering the offer of a new contract.
"I spoke to the manager at the start of January with a view to what the club would be offering if they were offering a contract," said the 29-year-old.
"The manager's come back now, with the chairman, and it's a matter of looking over that and deciding where we go from here.
"I've expressed a desire that I'd like to stay. It's just whether everything stacks up. I'm at a period in my career now where it's not just about me, it's also about my young family." | http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/17391050 | dclm-gs1-240420000 |
0.027742 | <urn:uuid:72d3be9f-c778-42c7-89fe-a3687467afcb> | en | 0.947272 | Time to crack down on careless drivers
I am writing in regard to cellphone use and texting while driving. Your loved one lies in the morgue. That life is gone, and those close to the deceased are condemned to heartbreak and loss forever. Thousands of people per year are being killed or maimed as a result of stupid, indifferent and self-centered individuals behind the wheel. When does society say enough is enough?
Suggested corrective action: First offense: $1,000 fine, four points on the driver’s license and a 60-day suspension of license. Second offense: $2,500 fine, additional two points on the driver’s license and a six-month suspension. Third offense: $10,000 fine, one year in county jail and driver’s license permanently revoked.
The only way these steps will have a positive result is if the judge on the bench does his job and the cop on the street does his job. Without enforcement, laws are useless.
Regrettably, however, regardless of legal consequences, your loved one still lies on a slab at the morgue.
Kevin Dolan | http://www.buffalonews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20130408/OPINION/130409535/1119 | dclm-gs1-240480000 |
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0.018586 | <urn:uuid:308a78ef-0ed0-4a72-9ca4-f9b088ccdd79> | en | 0.978392 | UE students offer a taste of home at bazaar
Take chance to show off cooking, culture
University of Evansville student Ashley Whylly, who comes from Abaco, Bahamas, shares a house near the campus with two students from Bahrain and one each from Uganda, Chicago and California.
"We mix up who does the cooking," Whylly said.
Whylly's living quarters actually reveal a lot of about the culture of UE, which has students from about 50 countries in its total enrollment of about 2,900. On Friday evening, many of those students entertained their American peers and community guests at the 25th Annual International Bazaar in Eykamp Hall.
The event is a fundraiser for UNICEF.
Whylly, a senior studying organizational communications and psychology, said UE has long felt like home. But like all international students, she went through an adjustment period.
"It was definitely a culture shock coming here," she said. "The food wasn't what I wanted it to be. There's no ocean, and it felt strange being landlocked. And when the winter came and the sun went away, I got a little sad."
There was no sadness at the colorful, high-energy bazaar, which caps International Education Week activities at UE. Students on Friday celebrate their cultures with native attire, music and food.
Some international students got a taste of American culture before enrolling in college. Rino Matsui, from Tokyo, took part in an exchange program in high school and spent a year in Pennsylvania.
She and others said they came to UE because of scholarships and its reputation as a campus that's friendly to students from around the world.
Everything in Evansville, and in the United States in general, is still brand new for Suhrob Muratov, a freshman and UE's first-ever student from Tajikistan.
Muratov, who's studying accounting, often has had to explain to fellow students where Tajikistan is. But he's having a ball in college so far.
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Last Modified on Jun 21, 2014
What is Pulmonary Hypertension?
Pulmonary Hypertension -- basically high blood pressure in the lungs, or rather the vascular system servicing the lungs -- is a serious medical condition that be overall degenerative to your health and lead eventually to death. As blood vessels running between the lungs and heart become blocked or damaged, lung function is impaired and oxygenation of the heart and blood is reduced. This results in increased damage to the heart and lungs, causing fatigue and general ill health.
Symptoms of Pulmonary Hypertension include fatigue and dizziness, chest pain or pressure, heart palpitations, edema, and an inability to catch your breath that worsens over time.
Natural Cures for Pulmonary Hypertension
Quit smoking. Moderate exercise can improve cardiopulmonary efficiency. A heart-healthy diet can improve vascular health, and this may include natural supplements such as apple cider vinegar or ginkgo biloba.
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Mullein, Lobelia and Hyssop Tea 0 0
Posted by Krista (Lachine, Michigan) on 03/24/2009
I'm reading these posts and would like to know if this mullen, lobelia and hyssop tea would help someone with primary pulmonary hypertension? My mom has had it for about 6 years and has trouble breathing when she exerts herself, sometimes just making the bed is difficult for her.Or maybe someone has some other ideas? Krista
EC: Krista is referring to Jack's Emphysema remedies.
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Washington, Dc
No, your mother should be on a regimen of PDE-5 inhibitors, endothelin antagonists and prostinoids, the only demonstrated treatment for pulmonary hypertension.
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Regina, Sk
Does your mother smoke, or did she for many years, even decades?
Even if not, she could still have toxicity from heavy metals build-up over decades. If she did smoke, or still does, then the likely culprit is cadmium toxicity if the problem is a heavy metal. (Of course, the real problem could be something else entirely, not related to this at all. )
Anyway, once again to the orthomol site:
Click on SEARCH in the big molecule, then type "pulmonary hypertension" into
The searchbox.
First result, "Keynote Speech", from Page 5:
We must emphasize that low zinc aids cadmium absorption. And that cadmium, once in the body, may never leave it. Among the other cadmium-zinc disorders is probably pulmonary emphysema which is
Associated with pulmonary hypertension. Cigarette tobacco contains about 1 ppm cadmium, and the burning tobacco is hotter than the boiling point of cadmium. A pack a day may provide 2-4 ug to the body burden of 38 mg. In time this adds up to a lot, 33 mg in 30 years. Then there's this tidbit from Page 3 it would be good to be aware of:
EDTA causes an outpouring of zinc and has caused acute zinc deficiency in large doses although copper and nickel are more tightly bound by it. Obviously zinc in tissues is available for chelation and other metals less so. The Perrys showed this 14 years ago.
OR, Nutritional Treatments for Hypertension, Page 10:
Elevations in serum copper and cadmium have been found in smokers, which may be the reason why they have elevated blood pressure, according to Davidoff and colleagues (1978) and Kromhout, et al. (1985). Serum copper was inversely related to HDL level (Kromhout, et al. , 1985). Contraceptive pill users have elevations in serum copper and elevations in arterial pressure (Staessen, et al. , 1984). Patients who suffered from myocardial infarctions had decreased levels of zinc and iron but increased nickel levels (Khan, et al. , 1984). Hypertensive subjects that use diuretics have significantly higher serum copper levels. Increased serum copper has a role in primary or pulmonary hypertension (Ahmed and Sackner, 1985). Zinc lowers serum copper and may actually lower blood pressure (Ahmed, Sackner, 1985). Higher dietary zinc intake has been associated with lower blood pressure (Pfeiffer, 1975; Medeiros and Brown, 1983). Zinc is depleted by diuretics (Olness, 1985). Increased red cell content of zinc in essential hypertension has been found by Frithz and Tonquist (1979) and Henrotte, et al. (1985). Zinc is a well-known antagonist of heavy metals such as cadmium and lead (Pfeiffer, 1977), which even in chronic dosages has been found to elevate blood pressure. Hence, all our hypertensive patients receive zinc to lower copper, lead, cadmium, and manganese. So, if you want to push out heavy metals, it seems you want to make sure your Zinc levels are topped up FIRST (which itself will push out heavy metals) before trying EDTA for chelation, because the EDTA molecule preferentially binds zinc! There's many more Search results at this site you can read, and print out to make notes to ask your doctor or practitioner.
Ted's Remedies 0 0
Posted by Ted (Bangkok, Thailand) on 07/23/2008 | 685 Posts
The remedy for pulmonary hypertension may be quite easy. Instead of explaining this condition in complicated terms, I will try to do the opposite to explain it in a very easy approach to the entire condition. The cause is fat clogging up the veins, arteries, heart from plaque buildup, calcification and reduced elasticity of the blood vessels leading to pulmonary hypertension.
The diet here somewhat radical, but it is simply to avoid fats from either vegetable oils or animal foods. Animal foods has an amazingly high fats and cholesterol whether they come from beef, white meat chickens, ducks, or even seafood.
To make the remedy work fast and keep it as simple as possible, initially, a 100% vegetarian diet with little sugar, without flour and without vegetable oils is used. This is the simplest approach I can make it and some improvement will be noticed by the second week and clear improvement within three months.
To clearly explain how a fat can clog the blood vessels is quite easy. If I draw a blood and separate the fat from the rest of the blood after eating any food, I will always see fat on the top of the test tubes. These eventually clogs up the veins and arteries.
If those intake are reduced, from oily things such as ice cream, chocolate, corn oil, beef fat, french fries, oysters, potato chips, chicken, fish, etc. then the fat that I draw from the blood will no longer be there if those were avoided completely.
To make sure it works, flour, carbohydrates, sugar sometimes are converted to fat and therefore these are avoided generally speaking. If some were taken, then they should be burned after eating with at least a 1 hour exercise after eating, which should be more than enough to burn most of the sugar from the intake.
The dietary food that needs to be concentrated are the greens vegetables, beans, nuts, and some fruits, but no flour or wheat products. One thing that I think should be avoided in a plant based diet is the potatoes, which causes hypoglycemia, and has mycotoxins. Obviously under this plant based diet there is no cheese, lard, butter of any kind. Obviously fast food, smoking, dairy product, and alcohol are avoided. Once on the plant based diet, some multiple vitamins and minerals are taken, maybe two or three times a week.
It should be noted that vegetable oils, in particular the polyunsaturated fatty acids are responsible for 75% of the plaque in the heart. The other 25% is the saturated fat. Obviously both fats are avoided.
High fat diets will lead to more clogging of the arteries or veins, leading to pulmonary hypertensions. However at the same time reduce blood circulation also leads to angina, tiredness, breathing problems at the same time, which is characteristic of pulmonary hypertension. The narrower the arteries or veins in which the blood can flow, the higher the blood pressure.
It should take about 6 months for the blood vessels to improved noticeably with reduced pulmonary hypertension by just switching to a plant based diet, but avoiding white flour, excessive sweets, and cooking oils, whether they be from animal, fish or vegetable sources. Certain dietary fats may be needed so that the essential fatty acids is not lacking however, such as once or twice a week, omega 3 fish oil at the very least, in the initial phases.
Certain mineral supplements are helpful that will protect against lipid peroxidation, which means fats becomes oxidizes and hardens such as selenium yeast supplements, usually 200 mcg a day, certain supplements added such as granulated lecithin 1 tablespoon a day to 3 tablespoons a day. The fat emulsifiers such as lecithin will further help dissolve the fat increasing circulation, but at the same time lecithin will help normalize the cellular makeup of the veins to become more elastic also.
Another remedy that help is to remove heavy metals, which is responsible for lipid peroxidation of the fats, leading to plaques, clogged veins, arteries, and capillaries. Therefore cilantro, or chlorella, may be helpful, but it's usually taken once every two days, so that the body would not be overloaded with heavy metals and allow the gatekeeper, the kidneys to slowly remove out of the system, as the metal chelators line up to get out from the system via the kidney or sometimes the intestines. To further increase circulation certain herbs such as gingko and asia pennyworth is taken. These help rebuild the cappilaries and damaged systems. For the body to regenerate itself some aloe vera juice is occasionally taken, such as twice or three times a week.
The vegetables I prefer are primarily raw vegetables, either in the form of salads, soups, but vegetables should not be overcooked to preserve the enzymes and vitamins. In this instances some fruits, followed by a mild exercise to burn off the sugar is possible, but I think 30 minutes is the bare minimum after meals, but ideally 1 hour. A slow walk or other mild form of exercise can be done also. I believe some vitamin C is important in protecting pulmonary problems too but I prefer sodium ascorbate 1000 mg, usually once every other day day should be a reasonable dose.
The cirrhosis of liver that is one of the effects of pulmonary hypertension will also be reduced with the granulated lecithin, as well as the selenium which prevents further lipid peroxidation too. Magnesium supplements (without the calcium) such as magnesium glycinate, should tip over the excessive calcium found in the tissue.
Furthermore, the use of 2 tablespoon of apple cider vinegar with 1/4 teaspoon of baking soda in 1 glass of water, or a stronger alkalizing baking soda of 1/2 teaspoon twice a day will also help remove some excessive fats, as vinegar has a component which dissolves the fat, but the baking soda, because of its alkalinity, acts as a very weak soap also to remove the excessive fat buildup which may lead to pulmonary hypertension just the same.
Magnesium is also needed, and is a common deficiency will offset the excessive calcium deposits which might cause either arterial or venous inflexibility due to calcium deposits, leading to hypertension also. If calcium buildup did cause this kind of hypertension, then adding disodium EDTA for example, instead of calcium EDTA, of 1/8 teaspoon in one liter of drinking water should also remove excessive calcium buildup this way. This might be taken once every two days, for example. Magnesium will lead to reduce muscle pain as it relaxes both the muscles, but also the arterial blood flows. If these are more relaxed, then pulmonary hypertension are reduced.
However, in my opinion disodium EDTA is a bit too acid for it to work effectively so I might add 1/8 teaspoon of baking soda also, plus 1/8 teaspoon of potassium bicarbonate to the solution. Potassium is often low in a pulmonary hypertension so the ratio of sodium : potassium is just 1: 1, with baking soda at 1/8 teaspoon and potassium bicarbonate at 1/8 teaspoon also. It should be noted that free metal iron accumulates in the heart which may lead to heart disease, and it is some small amount of EDTA which will reduce this iron buildup protecting the heart against free radicals of free metal iron too.
It should be noted that whenever a vegetarian diets is used, that common table salt be avoided and replaced with sea salt instead, and some sea salt 1/4 teaspoon is added in one liter of drinking water, as vegetarian diets are generally potassium rich anyway and many people I have found may not adapt very well to high potassium diets and hence some sea salt is added just enough that the body doesn't end up with the lack of sodium, which can lead to another problem altogether, such as weaknesses.
Hopefully this remedy is simple enough, but it requires a major lifestyle changes.
Replied by Ivette
Zwolle, Overijsel, Netherlands
Hello Ted!
I found this site and is really great! 2 years ago...I had PPH acording with the doctors, after a week at the hospital with all the analysis including a CAT Right Heart. After that my presion was "normal" I had before 77 very hig one, without any symptoms...Now after 2 years I feel the symptoms...I am pretty scared...because they don't even have idea wich cause it.
Anyways today I started with your diet and after 3 months I will tell you how is going...I have a question... I can eat avocado? Or is also a vegetal oil? I can walk so after the breakfast with a bit of sweat fruit a walk like one hour but after that I feel so tired.
Anyways we will see. Thank's a lot for this idea, sounds so good to me.
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San Fernando, Luzon, Philippines
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Hi Ivette...Here is another suggestion that may well help your condition. It is based on the Linus Pauling Heart Therapy. It is a very cheap and easy approach to getting rid of arterial plaque which was proved by the research from Linus Pauling. Here is the protocol:
6 GRAMS of Vitamin C(as sodium ascorbate) per day
6 GRAMS of Lysine(an amino acid) per day
This is a daily protocol.
Best to split these large doses into 3 or 6 doses a day. You can purchase Vitamin C and Lysine at any health shop fairly cheaply. Put simply and without going into detail, the way this remedy works is that the Vitamin C helps to scrape off and get rid of the arterial plaque -- called or referred to as "Arterial Scurvy" by Pauling -- and the lysine just stops it forming again.
The reason you probably haven't heard of this heart therapy protocol is that it has been widely ignored and suppressed for the last 20 years by the drugs companies. They don't like the fact that people can cure heart disease so easily and cheaply, this robs the medical fraternity of the tremendous profits made from both their heart drugs and byass surgery.
But now, through independent researchers testing the validity and efficacy of Linus Pauling's research conclusions and therapy, more peer reviewed research are confirming Pauling's conclusions and therapy as a truly successful way to treat heart disease and arteriosclerosis. Here is an article that explains this well:
And here, in his own words, is an audio recording by Linus Pauling describing testimonials and results that he himself has obtained using his simple Vitaminc/Lysine therapy against heart disease and arterial plaque:
The Pauling Therapy with Testimonials -- by Linus Pauling (Audio recording)
(Taken from The Pauling-Therapy Website )
Pauling himself took between 10 - 12 GRAMS of Vitamin C and Lysine daily, and he lived into his nineties without heart problems.
From my own research of the testimonials, using this Pauling Therapy should give beneficial and noticeable results within 2 weeks to a month.
Replied by Ivette
Zwolle, Overijsel, Netherlands
Hey Bill! Thanks a lot...really is cheap and easy...I will give it a try...I'll keep in contact to tell the results...Blessings
Replied by Kathy
Chania, Crete, Greece
I have had PPH for the last 10 years I am now 38, and currently am on medication that is so so expensive. Though I never new about natural remedies, can I just do a 100% plant based diet, without vitamins? I read that if I take vitamins or herbs like Gingko or aloe vera, it can interfere with the medication. I so much want to get off this treatment, which requires a pump on me 24 hours a day every day. Can someone tell me from where to start? Thank you.... So much.
Replied by Michelle
Gettysburg, Pa/usa
Ted, have you done much research as to the causes of pulmonary hypertension, because it certainly doesn't sound like it. Fat build up is not the cause. Perhaps in some cases it may be... Possibly, but usually not.
To anyone out there who needs help with their pulmonary hypertension try phassociation.com instead. There are plenty of ideas from people who have been through this, know their stuff and can help. I was recently diagnosed with PH and, you're right, it is scary and difficult and discouraging. We all look for answers anywhere we can because we all want this to go away so we can feel normal and not exhausted and limited and just stressed. So far, the above site that I mentioned has brought me the most peace of mind. There are also links to financial assistance for expensive medicines and co-pays, of which I have successfully used. I hope everyone out there looking for answers for this disease will check the PHA site out and good luck to you all.
Replied by Alayna
Oak Creek, Wi
Hello!! In November I was diagnosed with pulmonary arterial hypertension. I'm going to try your diet, but is there anything else I should be doing? I do not see anything on this site about my specific condition. Please help. Thanks
Replied by Staceybee
Vancouver, Wa
Michelle mentions phassociation.com; it appears to actually be phassociation.org :)
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By Kevin Palmer
The best goals at the 2014 World Cup
SportsNation POLL: Rank your 14 best World Cup goals
Robin Van Persie's (Netherlands) Goal -- Header at 44'.
1. Robin van Persie: Netherlands vs. Spain (June 13 in Salvador)
THE GOAL: It is not often you see something in this game that has a stamp of freshness imprinted upon it, but the diving, looping effort Van Persie dreamed up to haul his Dutch side back into their opening group game against the defending world champions was a variation on headed goals few could find a comparison to.
It seemed as if the prematch script predicted by the majority of observers was about to play out as Spain took an early lead and had a glorious chance to double that advantage before the improbable, spectacular, thrilling Dutch adventure in Brazil was ignited by Van Persie's sensational equaliser.
"A work of art." That is how one commentator aptly described the contribution of Van Persie, as he timed his run to meet a deliciously floated pass from Daley Blind to perfection, launched himself through the air with grace and connected perfectly with a cushioned header that left Spain keeper Iker Casillas stranded.
Delight was mixed with amazement as the ball nestled in the Spanish net. Did that really happen? What had Van Persie manufactured on the biggest stage of them all?
The side tipped by many to reclaim their title on South American soil had been undone by a brand of long-ball football that took the often despised tactic to a whole new, wonderful level. Hup Holland Hup!
Van Persie's decision to run to his coach Louis van Gaal and offer a high five -- which turned out to be something of an aborted effort, as the hands of the two men missed their intended target -- might have been mistimed, but it mattered little. Brazil 2014 had its first iconic moment, as the Manchester United striker and the coach who had recently been confirmed as the next Old Trafford boss toasted their success.
THE PLAYER: Robin Van Persie: "It is the best goal of my career. It was a brilliant goal, even I have to say that. I look at the occasion, and this was one of the biggest so far in my career. It was a bit of a gamble, but I spotted Casillas off his line before the cross came in."
THE COACH: Louis van Gaal: "The pass from Daley Blind for Van Persie was fantastic, the finish was great. There was so much feeling. If you can make a goal in that way, it's great, really fantastic. He headed that ball with so much feeling. He knew it before. He saw the goalkeeper standing too far in front of his goal. It was a beautiful goal."
WORLDWIDE: This was arguably the first World Cup in which Twitter and other social networking sites became the first port of call for many supporters watching the action in Brazil from all corners of the globe, and the first explosion of tweeting occurred as Van Persie stooped to head home his sparkling opener against Spain.
#Persieing is a sensation -- even RVP's grandfather has caught the fever (via @adidasUSPRGuy):
The 'Persieing' craze quickly became something of a social media phenomenon, with young and old posing flat on their faces with their arms outstretched in tribute to Van Persie's goal against Spain. The tributes did not end there.
A limited edition coin costing 9.95 euros was produced in Holland depicting the flying Van Persie, with the initial mint of 6,000 running out in double quick time.
The World Cup glory Holland craved might have eluded Van Persie and his teammates, but his first goal at Brazil 2014 secured him a place in World Cup folklore as one of the most memorable strike's this famous competition has witnessed.
Goal! Australia 1, Holland 1. Tim Cahill's (Australia) left-footed shot from the left side of the box to the high center of the goal, assisted by Ryan McGowan.
2. Tim Cahill: Australia vs. Netherlands (June 18 in Porto Alegre)
What they said: "It just felt so right to hit it, and I hit it sweetly. This is what it's all about because everyone dreams of playing on this stage, and I want to leave a mark for all the kids back in Australia and around the world to be inspired by this today." -- Tim Cahill
Comparisons with Marco van Basten's famous strike against Russia in the Euro 1988 finals were not misplaced, as Cahill raced onto a high through ball and unleashed a stunning volley that instantly became a leading contender to be the best goal of this World Cup. The cleanness of Cahill's strike, the accuracy of his delivery and the explosion of joy that greeted the goal made for a classic World Cup moment. Cahill's delight was diluted, as his team ended up losing 3-2, but his dream of inspiring the next generation of Socceroos might just have come true.
Colombia's James Rodriguez scored one of the top goals of the World Cup to give his team a 1-0 lead over Uruguay.
3. James Rodriguez: Colombia vs. Uruguay (June 28 in Rio De Janeiro)
What they said: "It's historic, a dream come true. I always wanted to score in the Maracana, and now I have. For the goals to help Colombia reach the World Cup quarterfinals makes it even more special." -- James Rodriguez
Much was expected of Rodriguez as Colombia headed into this World Cup looking for a new hero to replace the injured Radamel Falcao, and the Monaco star delivered in the grand manner. The 22-year-old's three goals in the group stages confirmed his eagerness to make a mark at the tournament, then his 28th-minute opener in his side's round of 16 game against Uruguay usurped all that had come before. Taking the ball down, turning, shooting and scoring from 25 yards with a flash of wonderful brilliance, this was a goal to savour on the biggest stage of them all.
David Luiz's spectacular free kick put Brazil up 2-0 over Colombia.
4. David Luiz: Brazil vs. Colombia (July 4 in Fortaleza)
What they said: "I hit the ball at the exact right point. You can try to hit it like that, and it'll take you all day. I am so happy because I can help my team with this." -- David Luiz
How did he do that? That was the collective cry from the millions watching around the world as Paris Saint-Germain's newest acquisition continued his impressive personal World Cup campaign with a free kick goal that was as brilliant as it was bewildering. TV replays confirmed that Luiz's side-footed free kick in the 68th minute ballooned into the air, moved in two directions and then dipped under the Colombian crossbar with beautifully ferocious accuracy. This World Cup has not been notable for its succession of magical free kicks, but the quarterfinal winner for Brazil was the best of its type in the 2014 competition -- by some distance.
Germany's Mario Gotze put his team in the lead with a brilliant individual effort in extra time.
5. Mario Gotze: Germany vs. Argentina (July 13 in Rio de Janeiro)
What they said: "It's unbelievable. I scored, but I didn't really know what was happening. A dream has become a reality, and we are going to have a great party. It is absolutely sensational. It wasn't a simple tournament for me. I owe a lot to my friends and family. Every player in our team deserves to be mentioned here, and we're very proud to have won this trophy." -- Mario Gotze.
When the enduring significance and brilliance of Gotze's injury-time goal in the World Cup final is reflected upon in years to come, some might argue it was, in fact, the finest goal scored at Brazil 2014. The precision of the pass from Andre Schurrle, the calmness of substitute Gotze in controlling the ball and firing it past Argentine keeper Sergio Romero, and the celebrations that followed instantly made this one of the most iconic goals in the history of German football. Whatever happens from this point forward in the career of Gotze, he knows the defining moment of his career came on a famous night at the Marcana in Rio. What a legacy he will leave.
Lionel Messi's (Argentina) Goal -- Free-kick at 46'.
6. Lionel Messi: Argentina vs. Nigeria (June 25 in Porto Alegre)
What they said: "Messi came into this tournament under enormous pressure, with everyone saying he needed to perform in the World Cup, but he has been phenomenal. His free kick against Nigeria was just a classic strike. We haven't seen anyone quite like him in the game since Diego Maradona." -- Gary Lineker, BBC TV
Messi was named man of the match in the first three games he played at this World Cup, and each of his four goals was laced with the brilliance only he can provide. While his trademark surging runs and finishes against Bosnia-Herzegovina and Iran were spectacular, the accuracy of his delightfully floated free kick against Nigeria was a joy to behold. It might have been a routine effort for Barcelona and Argentina's main man, but he continued to take viewers' breaths away.
Jermaine Jones' (United States) goal at 64'.
7. Jermaine Jones: USA vs. Portugal (June 23 in Manaus)
What they said: "Two Shaka Hislops would not have saved that Jermaine Jones strike! What a strike that was." -- Craig Burley, ESPN FC TV
Portugal dared to believe they had cleared the danger from their box as Jermaine Jones collected a ball from a half-cleared corner, yet the Besiktas midfielder had other ideas. Not known for his goal-scoring prowess, Jones set himself for a strike that would go down in history as one of the greatest by any USMNT member at a World Cup. He unleashed a shot that curled perfectly into the far corner and exploded into the back of the Portuguese net. Although Portugal hit back later, Jones' goal proved to be of vital importance, as the U.S. advanced to the next round and sent Cristiano Ronaldo & Co. back home on goal difference.
Goal! Argentina 1, Iran 0. Lionel Messi's (Argentina) left-footed shot from outside the box to the bottom left corner, assisted by Ezequiel Lavezzi.
8. Lionel Messi: Argentina vs. Iran (June 21 in Belo Horizonte)
What they said: "Messi was very strong. He persevered, and with him, anything is possible. They made the game very difficult for us -- Messi was marked very tightly -- but he showed perseverance, patience, attitude and always looked for the goal. He never gave up. In the end, he finds the great goal again." -- Alejandro Sabella, Argentina coach
It seemed as if Carlos Queiroz's Iran side were on course to secure one of the most unlikely draws in World Cup history, with their rearguard action against a less-than-convincing Argentina side bringing them to the brink of what would have been a remarkable point. But Lionel Messi had not read their romantic script. "Give it to Messi and pray" was the advice of one UK television commentator as the Barcelona maestro picked up the ball and was allowed to cut inside and unleash a shot with his wand of a left leg. The end result was somehow inevitable, with Argentina's little maestro saving his team from an embarrassing draw.
Goal! Australia 0, Spain 1. David Villa's (Spain) right-footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal, assisted by Juanfran.
9. Wesley Sneijder: Netherlands vs. Mexico (June 29 in Fortaleza)
What they said: "Sneijder has become one of the fittest players of the Dutch team. He runs the most kilometres, he has this kicking technique, and I've known this for a couple of years now, so it doesn't surprise me that he is fresh at the end to score this goal." -- Louis van Gaal, Netherlands coach
As the clocked ticked down in the sweltering Fortaleza sunshine and a void opened up in the Mexican penalty area, Wesley Sneijder knew his first game-changing moment of this World Cup had arrived. With his team trailing 1-0, this was an opportunity that needed to be taken, and not only did he navigate a route to goal but he also did so with the panache, power and accuracy of a player who confirmed he still has match-winning qualities despite a dip in form in recent years. A stunning volley showed the 30-year-old isn't past his prime just yet.
Goal! Netherlands 1, Mexico 1. Wesley Sneijder's (Netherlands) right-footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner, assisted by Klaas-Jan Huntelaar with a headed pass following a corner.
10. David Villa: Spain vs. Australia (June 23 in Curitiba)
What they said: "I've always said that I love playing in the national team and that's what I've always dreamed of. I would play until I'm 55, but I'm aware that's impossible. It would be normal that it all finishes here, so clearly, it is nice to finish with a goal." -- David Villa
Spain's World Cup 2014 adventure was unexpectedly brief and painful, with the agony evident for all to see as the country's all-time leading international goal scorer was taken off 57 minutes into what is likely to be his final game as a national team player. Typically, David Villa went out in style, as a sweeping Spanish move was given a finishing touch courtesy of a back flick from this most prolific of scorers. It might not have been the most significant of his 59 goals, but it confirmed Villa would end his international days with something of a flourish.
Goal! Honduras 0, Switzerland 1. Xherdan Shaqiri's (Switzerland) left-footed shot from outside the box to the top left corner, assisted by Stephan Lichtsteiner.
11. Xherdan Shaqiri: Switzerland vs. Honduras (June 25 in Manaus)
What they said: "Xherdan Shaqiri is a player who can make the difference because he can decide games on his own. His first goal was very special. It is what we needed." -- Ottmar Hitzfeld, Switzerland coach
Switzerland were desperately looking for a lift after their 5-2 battering at the hands of France in their second Group E game, and Bayern Munich's Shaqiri provided that against Honduras. As Shaqiri waltzed across the edge of the box, it was not evident that the Honduran net would be bulging, yet the power, venom and accuracy of the effort he delivered took the collective breath away. The ball politely kissed the underside of the crossbar en route to its destination. It was delicious strike, one that sent the Swiss well on their way to the round of 16.
Andre Schurrle scored Germany's seventh goal in sublime fashion to further break Brazilian hearts.
12. Andre Schurrle: Germany vs. Brazil (July 8 in Belo Horizonte)
What they said: "I heard the crowd applauding my goal when I was on the field, and the guys were talking about it afterward. It's an incredible feeling. It's something I'll remember for the rest of my life." -- Andre Schurrle
It might merely have been the icing on a delicious German cake, as they cruised into the World Cup final following a sensational 7-1 semifinal rout of hosts Brazil, but the quality of the finish from the Chelsea attacking star brought generous applause from a shell-shocked home support. The deftness and vision displayed by Thomas Muller in the buildup to the goal were sublime, with the venom and accuracy of the finish provided by Schurrle's fizzing shot into the top corner of the Brazilian goal that capped a team display instantly installed among the greatest the World Cup finals had ever seen.
Giovani Dos Santos' spectacular goal put Mexico ahead of the Netherlands 1-0.
13. Giovani dos Santos: Mexico vs. Netherlands (June 29 in Fortaleza)
What they said: "It was a perfect strike. Giovani has given so much in this World Cup, and this was a good reward. The shame was it did not give us the victory." -- Miguel Herrera, Mexico coach
Giovani dos Santos might have displayed masterful chest control before he lashed an effort toward goal three minutes into the second half of Mexico's round of 16 game against the Netherlands, but it did not seem likely he would end his two-yeardrought for a goal on the international stage with what appeared to be a speculative effort. However, the cleanness of his strike and the accuracy of its delivery beat sprawling Dutch keeper Jasper Cillessen and sparked wild celebrations among a Mexican contingent that dared to believe they would make it through the first knockout round of a World Cup for the first time in 28 years. That hope was to be extinguished with a late Dutch flourish.
Goal! Argentina 1, Belgium 0. Gonzalo Higuain's (Argentina) right-footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner.
14. Gonzalo Higuain: Argentina vs. Belgium (July 5 in Brasilia)
What they said: "I was calm and relaxed. I knew the goal would come, and I was just doing my best for the team. The goal finally came in an important match, and that's why I'm so emotional. It has been a long time since Argentina were in the semifinals, so we have to enjoy it." -- Gonzalo Higuain
The mark of a quality striker is to take the first chance that comes your way in a game, and as the ball fell kindly to Argentina striker Higuain on the edge of the box in the eighth minute of his side's quarterfinal against Belgium, his World Cup moment finally arrived. Napoli marksman Higuain had played in all four of Argentina's matches in Brazil but had yet to trouble the scorers. Then, in his nation's biggest game yet, he connected perfectly with a fizzing shot that beat impressive Belgian keeper Thibaut Courtois and handed Argentina an advantage they would not surrender. The focus might always be on Messi, but the captain's supporting cast showed they could lift the side too. | http://www.espnfc.com/fifa-world-cup/4/blog/post/1923268/the-best-goals-at-the-2014-world-cup | dclm-gs1-240690000 |
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The prosciutto won't protect you! Photo: iStockphoto
Is this how it's going to end for mankind? Death by melon? We told you last week about the listeria outbreak that's affected the country's cantaloupes, and now the Guardian brings word that the outbreak — which has caused more than 70 illnesses and more than a dozen deaths, making it "the deadliest food outbreak in the country in more than a decade" — is only going to get worse before it gets better.
That's because "the incubation period for listeria can be a month or even longer." FDA commissioner Margaret Hamburg expects to see cases through October. How will you know if you've got a tainted melon? "The recalled cantaloupes may be labelled 'Colorado Grown,' 'Distributed by Frontera Produce,' '' or 'Sweet Rocky Fords,'" the paper reports, before adding, ominously, "but not every recalled cantaloupe is labelled with a sticker, the US Food and Drug Administration said." Sweet Rocky Fords, that's scary!
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A very messy changelog with a lot of the changes missing, I guess it's better than nothing, right? I will TRY to update it sometime soon.
Posted by trancemaster_1988 on May 10th, 2013
Vanilla Fixes
* Gave the Imperial Guards in Gnisis Imperial Broadswords instead of Imperial shortswords. This due to thier low skill in using shortswords.
* Added Centurion Archers to Vvardenfell's ruins.
* Guild chest added to Caldera Mages Guild.
* Added faction & rank to Imperial Archers
* Added missing attacksound to Ascended Sleepers.
* Some creature spawns have been relocated to avoid clipping issues.
* Removed Bonemold Tower Shield from Hlaalu Sharpshooters.
* Imperial Studded Leather/Imperial Silver Cuirass/Imperial Dragonscale Cuirass now counts as an Legion Uniforms'.
* Changed the name of "silver_staff_dawn_uniq". This staff's real name is Staff of the Silver Dawn, though it appears as Silver Staff in the game, corrected.
* Changed the name of "silver spear_uvenim". This staff's real name is Uvenim's Silver Spear, though it appears as Silver Spear in the game, corrected.
* In 'The Plan To Defeat Dagoth Ur' (bk_vivecs_plan), the line that reads "A mortal Kagrenac may then be destroyed by mundane means" should read Dagoth Ur instead of Kagrenac.
* A door in the Balmora Council Club were replaced by "in_hlaalu_door" instead of "rent_balmora_council_door".
* A load of Silver Weapons weren't properly marked as ”Silver Weapons.
* Skaal Guards' will now wear Nordic Shields.
* Draugr now counts as undead, not as creatures.
* Redoran Guards (female), will now greet you properly.
* Ebony/Daedric Towershields are now both heavier (5 ibs) and have a slightly higer AR (+5) then their regualar counterparts.
* Blessed Tower Shield now uses the correct "bodypart"
* Most NPCs' in the Imperial Guard Garrison, Ebonheart didn't have any weapons to fight with, or they used the wrong type of weapon compared to their assigned class.
* All House Dagoth members now have a random chance to drop Ash Salts.
* "Borwen", removed faction: "Ashlanders".
* "Shat gro-Shazog" & "Orbul gra-Lumob" have been given weapons to fight with.
* "Gulfim gra-Borbul" in Gorak Manor had no pants.
* "Rulfim gra-Ogdub", a prisoner in Buckmooth Legion fort had no clothes.
* Sirollus Saccus were supposed to provide training options, now he does.
* Black Arrow, Volume 1 -> Black Arrow, Volume I
* misc_dwrv_artifact30, weight 0.01 > 0.10.
* Horned Lily will now respawn.
* Holly Bush will now respawn.
* Changed Cell name (-6,17): “Ashlands Region” to “Druscashti”, as described in-game.
* "Gah julan" and "Teegla" are now wearing slave bracers.
* Removed "auto-calculate" from "Ungeleb" in Mournhold, Magic Shop.
* Scroll Of Element Frost/Fire had wrong font size, corrected to "2".
* Removed auto-calculate from Sjoring Hard-Heart since it messed up his stats.
* "Dul gro-Dush" in Gnisis, class warrior > guard.
* "Yakov" (the Altmer slave in the Suran Slave Market) didn't have a slave script attached.
* "Staada", a golden saint encounter were improperly set as a creature instead of daedra. Also marked "corpse persist".
* Removed soul value from all Spider Centurions.
* "Lich Barilzar" had a soul value of 30, which didn't seem right since he's such a powerful foe. 300 seem like the correct number.
* Spiggans now have a chance to drop Heartwood.
* Netch_Giant_UNIQUE, scale 1.0 > 1.2.
* Added missing spells/ingredients/abilities to several creatures.
* Adamantium pauldron, enchantment 100 -> 30.
* Iron Cuirass, health 2000 > 200.
* Netch Leather Tower Shield, AR 5 > 6 / health 100 > 120.
* Corrected a few weapons that used the wrong enchantment.
* Stendars Hammer, damage 100 > 160.
* King's Oath , fire damage self > touch.
* Hackle-Lo Leaf, value 30 > 3.
* Adamantium Ore, weight 50 > 5.
* Exclusive Frost Shield Potion, duration 30 > 60.
* Spoiled SlowFall Potion, slowfall magnitude 1 > 10.
* Fixed an enchantment error with the Ring of Equity where the player wouldn't be able to take use of the rings powers.
* Variner's Ring, weight 1 > 0.10.
* Expensive shirt Mournhold, value 1 > 15.
* Necromancers Amulet, value 240 > 2400.
* Heartfang, value 120 > 1200.
* Ten-Tongues Weerhat (Mournhold) will no longer sell "exquisite_shirt_01_rasha", which is a quest item.
* You will now be able to talk to the Ash Vampires (as intended by the developers) before you face them in battle.
* Her Hand's Shield had diffrent AR value than the rest of the set, corrected.
* Royal Guard boots and greaves had diffrent AR value than the rest of the set, corrected.
* Dwemer Coherer is no longer sold at Mebestian Ence's shop.
* "Brallion's Exquisite Ring" value 40 > 240 to match the rest of the exquisite rings.
* Corrected and balanced several weapon enchantments.
Normal Flame/Shard/Viper/Spark Enchantment: 1-4 damage > Iron Weapons
Cruel Flame/Shard/Viper/Spark Enchantment: 2-8 damage > Steel Weapons
Dire Flame/Shard/Viper/Spark Enchantment: 4-10 damage > Silver Weapons
Wild Flame/Shard/Viper/Spark Enchantment: 6-12 dmage > "Wild" Weapons
* Redoran Guards now wear a Redoran Shield and a Steel Katana.
* Sorkvild the Raven will now actually wear the Masque of Clavicus Vile in battle.
* The "Chiding Cuirass" held no charge, so it was impossible to use the enchantment.
* Dorisa Darvel were supposed to have books about the Nerevarine, but she didn't.
* Dagoth Endus had no sounds associated to him.
* The Nord Leg had a missing enchantment.
* "Ex_co_ship_trapdoorb" in Frostmoth docks have been replaced with "Act_Ex_DE_ship_trapdoor". "Ex_co_ship_trapdoorb" is scripted colony door and a part of Bloodmoon's mainquest.
* Gondolier's Helm were changed from ”Medium Armor” to ”Light Armor”.
11 bows and added a resonable amount of arrows.
* Some pieces of the Imperial Chain Armor set had the wrong AR value, fixed from 20 > 12.
* Removed
shields from High Fane Ordinators.
* A stair in Ald-Ruhn, Guild of Mages,
was missplaced.
* The Adamantium Axe were misspelled as "Admantium".
* Large Dwemer Goblet were misspelled as "Dewmer".
* The Slavepods in Sadrith Mora wasn't
locked as supposed to.
* Added a shrine to Molag Mar, Temple.
* Moved a lamp at the Redoran Smith, Vivec. Sometimes the player would get stuck in it upon entry.
* Sorkvild the Raven's body will now persist, as he's the bearer of the Mask of Clavicus Vile.
* Fixed a travel-marker in Sadrith Mora that leaves you stuck.
* Junal-Lei in Pelagiad had no AI-package.
* Angoril in Pelagiad had no AI-package.
* Madres Navur in Pelagiad had no AI-package.
* "Bound_Helmet" changed to "Bound Helmet"
Creature changes
* Many creatures have been buffed, especially Daedras, to make the game a greater challange for high level characters.
* All blighted creatures now have unique textures. This will make them easy to spot and avoid if necessary. Credit goes to ”PeterBitt”.
* Some significant changes to Atronachs.
- Removed "Reflect 20" from all Atronachs'.
- Atronachs' now emit light.
* Removed ingredients from summoned creatures.
* Skeleton Archers will carry 30 arrows instead of 60.
* Alit's now use their ability "Alit Bite".
* Added missing diseases to several creatures.
Setting changes
* Elemental shields were supposed to deal damage to enemies that hit you in melee combat, now they do.
* Players minimum speed is now a bit higher at lvl 1. Also reduced the max-speed so the player can't run super-fast at higer levels.
* 20% less chance to be knocked down during fights.
* NPC's will have much lower disposition if you have your weapon drawn during conversations (-15 points).
* Traders will be more suscpicious to you. You need a high personalty rating to get better prices.
* Your disposition will be harder to raise through bribing NPC's.
* NPC's won't greet you from a distance. You will now have to stand close to them.
* Doubled the amount of money you have to pay for committing a crime.
* 50 % chance to recover projectiles from bodies (From 25 %).
* You will no longer be able to survive jumping of buildings or cliffs.
* Guild cheasts will respawn monthly (From 3 months).
* Vendors will resupply their stash of gold every 72 hours (From 24 hours).
* Training is more costly (2x vanilla).
* 25 % harder to pick locks.
* Running will now drain 0.5 points less each second while running.
* Enchanted items recharge 50 % slower
* NPC's magica-pool will be a big larger so they actually will be able to throw the high level spells in their spell-list.
* It's now more costly to remove your bounty through the Thieves Guild Services.
* It's now harder to pick locks and disarm traps, some traps are also more deadly.
New Features
* You will now need Hospitality Papers to receive any services in Sadrith Mora from the Telvanni,
* You will now need a Muckshovel to "harvest" muck.
* You will now need a Minerspick to get glass, ebony & adamantium
* Now it will snow in the Hirstaang Forest (20% chance).
* You will now encounter Frost Atronachs' in Solstheim, Durzogs' in the West Gash, Centurion Archers in Dwemer Ruins and Liches In tombs
* New Imperial Travel Agents that will take the player to various destinations around the Island. They will also provide the player with diffrent types of maps.
* Shops and some other places will now close night-time between 8 pm/8 am.
* I've renamed the potions to make them stack better, it's now way easier to find that specific potion in the heat of battle.
- Common potions: Potion of/Name/Quality,
Example:(Potion of Light:Bargain)
- Restore/Fortify Potions: "Restore|Fortify/Name/Quality,
Example:(Restore Fatigue:Bargain, Fortify Health:Bargain)
- Resistance Potions: Name/Quality,
Example:(Fire Resistance:Bargain)
* All types of guards will now take use of standard health potions in battle.
* You can now buy "portable" campfires and bedrolls from various traders around the Island.
* You'll now take damage if standing in a fire or really close to it.
* All "practice dummies" will now be animated.
Weapon/Armor changes
* Tweaked the "reach" for all weapons. A spear should naturally cover a bigger radius than for example a sword.
* All enchanted weapons and armor now have the same stats as their vanilla counterparts (enchantments should be the only difference).
* Changed the name of a Nordic Silver Battle Axe to "Heartfang", as it was supposed to be an exclusive weapon.
* The Bonemold Long Bow was seriously overpowered with 400 enchantment points, changed it to 80.
* The Dwemer mace "Clutterbane" had an error which made it impossible to use its enchantment.
* Gave "Volendrung" an enchantment similar to the one in Daggerfall.
* Gave "Auriel's Shield" an enchantment similar to the one in Daggerfall.
* Gave "Auriels Bow" an enchantment similar to the one in Daggerfall.
* Gave "Foeburner" a fitting enchantment dealing fire damage.
* Stalhrim armor pieces and weapons were refered to as "Ice" in-game, changed to "Stalhrim".
* Dwemer weapons were refered to as "Dwarven" in-game, changed to "Dwemer".
* You will now be able to "hit" ghosts using Adamantium weapons.
* Made some changes to medium armor, which in turn should make medium armor more useful.
- Dwemer AR from 20 to 35.
- Adamantium AR from 40 to 50.
- Stalhrim AR from 50 to 55.
* New unique meshes for magic weapons.
* Tweaked most enchantments to either make them more useful or less powerful. Also tweaked the cost to cast these enchantments.
* Tweaked most spells to either make them more useful or less powerful. Also tweaked the cost to cast these spells.
* Reduced the value for most weapons/armor and misc items to reduce the overflow of money in the game.
* Most special characters/creatures and other types of enemies are now much stronger than in vanilla Morrowind.
* Summoned creatures have had their soul value set to 0. This mean that the player will no longer be able to exploit summons to get valuable soul-gems.
* Exclusive ingredients like pearls are now less likely to appear in the gameworld.
* Player made potions are now 50 % less valueable.
* Reworked leveled-lists so it won't be as easy to get hold of Dwemer, Ebony, Glass & Deadric items/armor/weapons.
* Reduced the amount of arrows carried by Imperial Archers, Telvanni Sharpshooters, Hlaalu Marksmen etc.
* Hundreds of doors, chests, desks etc have been locked in order to make it harder for the player to gain access to valuable items.
* Hlaalu, Telvanni and Redoran sharpshooters are now equipped with the traditional Bonemold longbow and Bonemold arrows.
* Many creatures, undead or humanoids had the wrong spells or resists which made them either too strong or too weak.
* You are no longer able to enchant items, armor & weapons with Chameleon, Invisibility & Sanctuary.
* New balanced equipment for Dark Brotherhood Assassins:
* Brown Bears, Guars, Mudcrabs, Cliffracers and Grey Wolves will no longer attack the player on sight, although they might attack if you get to close to them.
* Tweaked enchantment points for clothes to make them more useful for mages.
* Removed some very expensive soul gems from Balmora, Guild of Mages and replaced them by empty counterparts.
* You could find not only one, but two "Sword of the White Woe" in Balmora, I removed one of these. Also moved the remaining one to a more secure location where the guard can see it.
* Replaced the patroling Ordinators in all great house vaults with stationary ones. This will make it much harder to steal what's inside.
* Removed the Limeware platter from the Census Office, replaced with a Redware platter (no more exploiting!)
* Guild chests have less potions (cheap ones removed). Also removed the arrows/bolts from the Fighter Guild's Supply Chest, replaced them with something more apporopriate.
* Some skills are now a bit harder to raise, especially weapon skills, alchemy and athletics.
- Alchemy: I cut the progression rate by 75 %. I feel that Alchemy is probably the easiest spell to raise in Morrowind.
New Areas
Balmora Underworld, by "Fulgore"
Get lost within the depths of Balmora's Underworld. Take a walk through the sewers: let the Thousand Lanterns Market take your breath away or why not explore the abandoned canals? Witness criminal factions fighting against each other and common folks going on about their daily lives. Discover the way to access the massive cave system that lies deep below Balmora. If you're lucky enough, you may live to witness Bthumynal, the legendary lost Dwemer ruin and its secrets within. An epic adventure awaits you Outlander.
Outpost Renius, by "Fulgore"
"Somewhere in the Ascadian Isles, not too far from Pelagiad, on a hill overlooking Lake Amaya, there's an old small keep known as 'Outpost Renius'. Some months ago all contact was broken with the troops garrisoned there, a patrol was dispatched to check the situation. Everyone, from the pettiest prisoner to the highest ranking official, was found dead. After hearing sinister voices and steps, the place was sealed and abandoned. Do you have what it takes to venture inside and discover what happened to the people in there?"
Dren's Hidden Caverns, by "Fulgore"
Vvardenfell's bad guy just got worse. Explore what goes on in the caves below Dren Plantation.
The Deadlands
Travel through a Daedra Gate and face the ultimate challange in the Daedra Realm!.
New Armor
* Trollbone Set
* Colvonian Gloves
* Morag Tong Armor
* Adamantium Towershield
* Adamantium Round Shield
* Skull Shield
* Imperial Templar Shield
* Imperial Captains' Helmet
* Royal Guard Shields
* Thieves Guild Armor
* Redguard Headwraps
New Weapons
* Adamantium Dagger
* Falmer Longsword
* Falmer Shortsword
* Silver Katana
* Silver Battle Axe
* Silver Longbow
* Deadric Longspear
* Dwemer Longspear
* Dwemer Staff
* Dwemer Dagger
* Dwemer Bolt
* Ebony Halberd
* Ebony Dagger
* Imperial Dagger
* Imperial Longsword
* Glass Spear
New Artifacts
* Voidguard
* Queen of Bats
* Face Of Kagrenac
* Emperor's Defence
* House Hlaalu Royal Shield
New Creatures
* Armored Dwemer ghost
* 5 Riekling variations
* Daedra Seducer
* Fire Clannfear
* Clannfear Runt
* Flesh Atronatch
* Goblin Shaman
* Draugr Berserker
* Draugr Deathlord
* Stunted Scamp
* Swamp Troll
* Frost Giant
* Beholder
* Green Slime
* Treant (Unique)
* Frost Monarch
* Hill Giant.
* 3 new Dremora Lords
* 4 new skeletons
New Ingredients
* Wickwheat Muffin
* Atro Flesh
* Nether Salt
* Ore Essence
* Scrap Iron
* Troll Slime
* Telvanni Resin
* Void Essence
* Wind Salt
* Guar Meat
New Books
* Forging A Heavy Duty Blade
* Tale of The Devious Trader
* Sorkvild the Raven's Journal (2 Vol)
* Sword Components
* Blacksmithing Tools
* New models and textures for all trees in Morrowind (models and textures by Vurt). Animations have been added to these trees and some bushes, meaning that leaves will sway in the wind.
* New models for all rocks in Morrowind (models by Taddeus).
* New models for Dwemer ruins/buildings and other statics as chairs, tables, lamps and pipes. Credit goes to "ChampionOfHircine".
* New models for Telvanni buildings and other statics. Credits goes to "ChampionOfHircine".
* Removed the "multicolored" and unnecessary second handle on Telvanni interior doors.
* Fixes for a lot of issues with the Daedric tile-set. Thanks to "Slartibartfast1".
* Fixes for a mesh error in Imperial Houses. Thanks to "Kirlian Voyager".
* Golden Saints will have feminine walk instead of the default male one.
* Included a fix for the misscolored armor pieces in the Ebony set.
* Included a fix missing ring textures.
* Included a fix for removing some gaps found in the Nordic broadsword/Claymore.
* New optional main menu by "Say".
* The Steel Broadsword now has its own mesh instead of sharing that of the Imperial Broadsword.
* New Beast animations by Dirnae.
* Improved/fixed mesh/meshes
- Templar/Glass helmet (now fit orc heads)
- Comberry ingredient
- Nordic Mail Pauldron
- Katanas/Dai-Katana/Tanto
- Guarskin Drums
- Dwemer Crossbow
- Daedric War Axe
- Daedric Key.
- Dwemer weapons
- Steel Crossbow
- Iron weapons
- Dwemer armor
- Hackle-Lo
- Mudcrab
- Corpus Meat.
- Heather
- Scamp
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Petrenko May 10 2013, 6:01am says:
Wow. What a decent changelog!
+2 votes reply to comment
trancemaster_1988 Author
trancemaster_1988 May 10 2013, 6:35am replied:
And like i wrote in the summary..its not even close to the whole story.. :P
+2 votes reply to comment
Metalspy May 10 2013, 6:28am says:
I can't believe you're still working on this mod with such dedication. Amazing!
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TheUnbeholden May 10 2013, 8:54am says:
New animations? Since when did you start doing this..
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trancemaster_1988 Author
trancemaster_1988 May 10 2013, 9:17am replied:
I added the animations a long time ago. A lot of people doesn't know about the improved Beast animations by Dirnae and that's a shame since they're awesome. That's also why I included them in the first place.
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TheUnbeholden May 15 2013, 6:07am replied:
that is always appreciated, animations. I think I've heard of new animations used for NPC's but I can't remember what it was called.
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wikkid1 Jun 21 2013, 8:57pm says:
WOW! I don't even know what else to say... this is great work! Like somebody said on another page, I'm going to have to dig out and re-install Morrowind just to experience this. Previously I never got past the first couple of hours... maybe now I'll be able to. (Never knew of TES until Oblivion GOTY came out, but that time Morrowind wasn't exactly new. Didn't get around to it until after Oblivion was like second home.)
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trancemaster_1988 Jun 26 2014, 1:24pm replied:
Soon TM
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Action Race:
Adjectival Action:
T writes on the board an activity like "bush your teeth." She/He picks onestudent, they come to the front of the class. The T then shows the S a card with an adjectivewritten on it like "slowly" or whatever. The chosen student then does the activity in the way of theadjective. The other S have to guess the adjective. The one who guesses right gets a point andmimes the next action which the teacher writes on the board. To help them you can give them alist of options, if you think they need some help. (Submitted by Libby McArthur)
Airplane competition:
First, have your Ss make some paper airplanes. Stand the Ss in a lineand let them test fly their planes. For the competition, assign different classroom objects points(e.g. table 5 points, door 10 points, trashcan 20 points). Ask a S a question and if s/he answerscorrectly then s/he can throw and try to hit one of the target objects to win points. This works wellas a team game.
Apple Pass:
Have all Ss sit in a circle. Use a fake apple and toss it to one S. But you must sayone English word as you pass. The S then throws to another S and says a different Englishword. If the student you threw it to drops it, he/she is out. And the game keeps going until youhave one winner. It can be played with different categories, such as Food, Animals, Etc. Mystudents love it! (Submitted by Kim.S.).
Art Gallery:
This is a great activity for reviewing vocab. Draw enough squares on the board for each S to be able to draw in. Have the Ss write their names above their squares. T calls out aword and the Ss draw it (could be simple nouns e.g. "dog, bookcase, train", verb structures e.g."draw a man running, eating cake, sleeping") or adjectives ("draw a big elephant, an angry lion,an expensive diamond ring"). For each S give a score for his/her picture, and then move on tothe next picture. The S with the highest score at the end is the winner.
Call out commands such as: Attention, salute, march in place...stop, sit down, standup, walk in a circle, clap your hands...stop, run in place...stop, jumping jacks...stop, swim inplace....stop, etc. At first students will copy you but later they should be able to do the commandswithout you. (Submitted by Tania Bibbo).
Backs to the Board Game:
This one is good for higher level kids. Make two teams and standone S from each team in front of the board, facing away from it. Write a word or draw a pictureon the board (e.g. "hamburger") and the Ss have to explain that word to their team member (e.g.you can buy it in McDonalds, it's got cheese and ketchup in it). The first S out of the two standingin front of the board to guess the word wins a point for his/her team.
Good for reviewing target vocabulary (words or communicative expressions). Set a"court" into the classroom by placing a skip-rope tied up to two chairs. Make two small teams (theother Ss can be the crowd and or challengers). Give each S a flyswatter ("Racket"). Inflate aballoon (this will be the ball). Remember: the younger the Ss, the bigger the balloon must be(slower). Decides who serves and for every point one team scores, have the opposite team call
out the flashcard or picture card by the T shown. Lots of fun! (NOTE: For very active Ss becareful since they might hit the others' faces when playing). (submitted by Salvador Domingo)
Banana Race:
Children just love this! It is basically a QUIZ game in which you ask childrenquestions (Target Vocabulary) like: "What's this? What fruit is red and round? How many chairsare there in the classroom?" or the T simply draws items on the board, makes animal noises sothat they guess. You can work with Ss or split the class into small groups/teams if you have alarge class. The T draws on the board a race track and each team or S will be a BANANAwaiting at the Starting Line. They will approach the Goal line as they answer each question.Each right answer equals a step towards the Goal Line. The BANANA who arrives there first,WINS! (Submitted by Salvador Domingo).
Materials: Small peiced of paper, shoe box or coffee can. Write words on pieces of paper and fold them in half (sight words, vocab, blends etc.). Also add a few cards that say "BANG!".Ss take turns picking cards and if they read the word correctly they get to keep the word. If theydraw a BANG! card they yell BANG! and then return all their cards (except the BANG! card) to thecan/box. Very simple but the kids love it and there are many variations for the game! (Submittedby Heather Gilbert).
Ss take a shot at the trashcan/box/etc. First ask a question to S1. If s/he answerscorrectly then s/he can have a shot at the basket. If the S gets the ball in the basket then s/hewins 2 points. If the S hits the basket without going inside then s/he wins 1 point. The personwho gets the most points is the winner. This can also be played in teams.
Bet you can't:
This game can be played in millions and millions of different ways, and essentiallyit's just this: go to the toy store and buy toy money. Give each student the same amount of money at the start. Have the students bet each other that they can't do something - like this:make each S stand up and walk around. Have them say, "I bet you can't (e.g. count to 20, runaround the room 5 times, sing the ABC song. etc.)". Get the Ss to bet using the toy money.You'd be surprised how much even adult students enjoy this game.
Can be played with numbers, letters, pictures or even words. The winner is the first toeither get a line or or full house.
Blind Toss:
Have Ss sit down in a circle. Place a mat on the floor with numbers and a flashcard(target vocabulary) on each number. Taking turns, each S gets blindfolded and tosses abeanbag so as to hit a number. S/he must call out that word the same number of times as thenumber indicates. For example: 4-dog, then "Dog, Dog, Dog, Dog! and the S gets the equalpoints (4). At the end, the S with the most points wins! Good for memorizing vocabulary sincethey are repeating words. (Submitted by Salvador Domingo).
Blindfold Course:
Make an obstacle course in your classroom (use desks, chairs, etc.), put ablindfold on a S and help guide him/her through the course by giving instructions (e.g. walkforward 2 steps, turn left, take on small step, etc.). This is a good pair game.
Blindfold Guess:
Blindfold a S and give him/her an object to feel. The S must guess what theobject is. This works well with plastic animals as the are a little challenging to guess (I alwaysthrow in a dinosaur to spice things up!).
Blindfold Questions:
Put Ss in a circle, with one student, blindfolded standing in the middle.Turn the S around a few times. Tell the S to point at the person in front of him/her and ask aquestion (e.g. "How old are you?", "What's your favorite food?, etc.). After the reply theblindfolded S must guess the name of the S s/he is talking to.
Board Scramble:
T puts the whole alphabet on the blackboard in a scramble of letters here andthere, but low enough that the Ss can reach it. Have two teams and call out a letter. The personthat is able to find and circle it first wins a point for their team. To make things harder havecapitol and small letters. Even more challenging- have four teams all looking for the same letter.The kids just love it. You can do it with numbers and also words. (Submitted by Susie).
The Crucial Need for Building Language Arts Skills
Building language arts skills is fundamental for students, particularly during elementaryschool. A foundation for communication and lifelong learning, language arts are a vitaleducational component of a student's successful future. While some students may enjoythese studies, other children may struggle with the subject area.With this in mind, discovering ways to make language arts fun is important on manylevels – from keeping students who already like the subject challenged and engaged tomaking the subject more interesting and easier to comprehend for those who struggle.
Language Arts Games for the Classroom
Teachers can easily supplement theircurriculumwith fun language arts games in theclassroom. Obtain language arts game ideas from teacher forums or educational sites, oralter the format of a standard lesson to transform it into a fun game. Here are a fewexamples:
Dictionary Race: Great for elementary students to build vocabulary and familiarizethemselves with using the dictionary, this game requires that the classroom hasenough dictionaries for each student. The teacher gives a difficult word, and thestudents must race to find the definition. This game can be modified in manyways, such as giving points to students and having a final standoff among the topcontenders or testing the students to see how well they remember the definitions.
Alphabetical Order Race: Divide the class into two teams. Give each team a groupof identical index cards with words that need to be placed in alphabetical order,allowing one card for each person. As a team, have the students place the cardsin alphabetical order. The team that finishes first wins.
Think Pink: This is a fun language arts game for students to practice usingsynonyms and adjectives. Students take turns, saying "think pink" for singlevowel words or "thinky pinky" for words with two vowel sounds prior to their wordchoices. Other students must guess the correct set of words. For example: Hint:(Think Pink): Angry Father. Answer: Mad Dad. This game is also known as "StinkPink," and an online version can be found atHighHopes.com.
Name that Part of Speech: Either as a class game or in small groups, studentsmust identify as quickly as possible a given part of speech, whether verb, noun,pronoun, adjective, adverb, preposition, or interjection.
Missing Punctuation: Divide the class into two teams. Read a sentence aloud andhave one child from each team write the sentence on the board including thecorrect punctuation. The team who writes it correctly first earns a point. The teamwith the most points wins.
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Straight covers an impressive bit of social-historical ground despite being, true to its subtitle, a compact production. It runs 264 pages, including index and footnotes. There are no illustrations, lamentably, so let's start with the author bio. Hanne Blank is "an independent scholar," earlier the author of Virgin: The Untouched History, and her "work has been featured everywhere from Out to Penthouse"—a gamut that would seem to exclude both Oui and Playgirl. She is, on the evidence, a rigorous thinker. Tracing the history of the word heterosexual and homosexual—coined, in 1868, by a pamphleteer opposed to the laws against "unnatural fornication" being written into the Prussian penal code—she is calm and clear. Tracing the way those coinages and the ideas animating them radiated into general discourse—by way of Kraft-Ebbing and Kinsey and Freud—she is deft and nimble. Shuttling back and forth through time to chat about related issues—including matrimony and sodomy, the economics of nonsexual bed-sharing and the history of romantic love—she exhibits the handsome confidence of a popular historian. And dragging herself into it, she uses a light touch to make us question the pronoun she.
In the acknowledgements, Blank thanks her partner for "being such such a good sport about being made into a framing device for a history book." The author is a woman who claims "no deep personal attachment to labeling myself in terms of sexual orientation," and her better half is, in terms of sexual organs, a man. But does the manhood make the man? He is diagnosed with Klinefelter Syndrome, "one of the most common sex-chromosome anomalies," meaning that his DNA reads XXY. His looks are androgynous, and his testicles are no help to the perpetuation of the species, but everything's peachy … until you start wondering whether this couple's love would traditionally be allowed to speak its name.
It would be orthodox to say that he is a man and that their relationship is heterosexual, but Blank is most compelling when talking about doxa. One of her few resorts to jargon, it’s a necessary one. "When anthropologists talk about this 'stuff everyone knows,' " she writes, "they use the term doxa. Doxa comes from the Greek for 'common knowledge,' and that's a pretty good description of what it is: the understanding we absorb from our native culture that we use to make sense of the world. … We all create it, together, mostly unintentionally." The doxa of straightness was created by tribal leaders and trial lawyers, by old wives and Viennese witch doctors, and it is being created by me as I write and you as you read. Blank has some questions for us, and they originated, it seems, with an intimate inquiry she confronts at the health clinic when wondering which box to tick, "gay," "lesbian," "bisexual," "transgender," or "heterosexual."
Hanne Blank.
Hanne Blank
Courtesy Hanne Blank.
The book's impetus may be personal but its passions are strictly philosophical. One mission of Straight is to argue with people identified, with a Cornel West flourish, as "our right-wing brothers and sisters"—some of whom, mostly scarily those running for president, assert that heterosexuality is all about procreation. But Blank's argument isn't against them. Rather, it's an engagement with the whole system of thought that allows and encourages right and left wings to take flight.
If I fail to convey the book's central point, that is because the book has no center. It's possible that Blank isn't the tenure-track type because her prose style is too good for too many of the departments that go in for her kind of thing—too free of weedy rhetoric to take root in the groves of academe. But also, Blank, though eminently reasonable, is not committed to sustained linear reasoning. The book hops among a useful riddle about "marked categories" (if we say that prude is the opposite of slut, then what are we saying about the person who is neither?), some thoughts on a court case involving the jazz pianist Billy Tipton (a woman who passed as a man, which was news to his widow), and a consideration of the metaphorical "wide stance" of Larry Craig ("he straddled the border of what was permissible for a man in a position of power"). Elsewhere, there are mini-essays on the cultural shift from courting to dating, the Defense of Marriage Act, the advent of no-fault divorce. … It's all smart, and it's all over the place.
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They are not. That was team loaded v.good players. Not in the terms of star power but but they had decent player at each position, especially offensively- with a top5 passer in the NBA at 3 or 4 postions. Sacramento Kings also had a team like that 2000-2005 and were very successful, talent in such team build is just more diluted. 2004 Pistons they did not have a player close to Shaq and Kobe, yet they totally owned the Lakers at every other match up than starting SG and...
I agree, however talent wins games. If you significant talent gap you will lose majority of games even if all your players go out there and compete every night. So tanking is more on GM than on the players- example you trade all your valuable players for draft picks and sign 6 rookies.
well when I look at Howard that first Miami squad seems quite likeable in comparison
dunno while I despise Haren for his shameless flopping he is a great player imo, he would great in any era
imo that was a good interviewLin will never be a star because he doesn't have skills/talent of a star not because he speaks in generalities:D
^ yea i agree still I think Kobe takes some really forced and terrible shots, it could maybe better in long run if he tries to distribute more while they search for dleaguers who can make layups in the NBA. If he will pass more, they will move more.
yea this is good price for Ruday Gay
So Rose should live up to some retarded social paradigm instead of focusing on what he intrinsically wants? (that's assuming that he is 'soft' which is debatable anyways)
problem I have with that is that many are convinced Rose should give a flying fuck about their opinion about his health. He would be smart to have a cake and eat it, I would want that for myself so why would I judge him? I know some fans would love to see him on wheelchair after his career is over, maybe they would make them feel better, they be like "yeah maybe Rose made all his monies but look he can't enjoy it there's some justice in the world!"
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